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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News it daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Which is the sort of sentence you might say if you were finding success goosing the Spotify transcription algorithm. But we don’t have time for that right now. Hey, uh is the Chappelle buzzle already gone?
Remember? Like this weekend was like, oh my god, Chappelle dropped a specially we gotta watch specially we gottach special Botus episode. Hey, everybody Botus episode look at Me?
And now like, uh, I feel like nobody cares already that one quick.
There is a shocking amount of real news for this close to the Christmas holiday. Jimmy Kimmel will deliver a Christmas message to the United Kingdom on Christmas. Now, if you listen to the Palace Intrigue podcast, which I write every single day, you know that King Charles delivers a Christmas message every day to the people on Christmas. Well over on the other channel, Channel four, they always have a counter message, being a little rascally. They don’t want to hear from the King.
They want to hear from someone else, and this year that someone else’s Jimmy Kimmel. Who will say, and this isn’t me doing a joke. Apparently this is from the script, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Kimmel is also expected to warn that press freedoms can be snuffed out quickly, and to urge UK viewers to resist attacks on free speech. Kimme is expected to pay tribute to those who criticized his suspension from ABC.
A Channel four insider said Kimmel says the reason he’s back on airs because people spoke out and people protested. Kimmel’s alternative Christmas message will be broadcast on Christmas Day at five forty five pm Local time, less than two hours after the King’s message. The New York Post spoke to a source about Bowen Yang leaving SNL. The source said, it’s his choice. People have no idea what’s really going on.
This has come out of the blue, but it’s no surprise. Back in September, a source told the Post Bowen was telling friends that it was his time. He wanted to move on, and was even planning to spend time in Japan. People on the show told him to take the summer to think it over, but it looked like he was leaving and everybody was just waiting for the announcement. He talked to Laurne and then NBC threw a ton of money at him.
Interesting Also from The York Post, a big profile of Amy Schumer under the headline Amy Schumer proudly lights Hanukkah candles, noting she learned who her real friends were after October seventh. Amy shared a video online on Sunday. In it, Amy says, I stood up and spoke my mind after October seventh. I didn’t know I would be such a minority. There were like three of us who opened our mouths.
The copywriting in the Post article is very strange. I quote of verbatim. The funny Lady said she was grateful that the Hamas Israel war sparked by the October seventh, twenty twenty three mascer launched against Israel by the Palestinian terror group, provided her clarity as she found out who my real friends are now. I’m in no way disparaging the back end of that sentence, but just saying the funny Lady, like, did we write this in nineteen fifty six. What is this?
The funny Lady? I digress? Amy said it provided her clarity. She found out who my real friends are. Knowing the few people who feel that everyone should be equal.
It shouldn’t be except Jews. It felt like everybody is fighting for everybody’s rights except for Jewish people. So every time we gather, we take a moment with our family, every time we light the candle, I feel like we’ve won. Enjoying and being proud of being Jews. I think my ancestors would be proud.
Amy showed off pictures of her grandparents catching a show for some laughs and the Catskills when it was known as the Jewish Porsch Belt of comedy. Again that the catching a show for some laughs and the funny Lady. It’s very nineteen fifty six this copy. And I don’t want to take away from Amy being serious here. She said, that’s how we survive.
That’s not unique to me. That’s Jewish character. Nice job by gab Iglesias. He’s announced a benefit show on Christmas Night. Gabe will be at the Heb Performance Hall at the Tobin Center Christmas Night, a one night only holiday comedy show featuring surprise acts.
Donate ten can foods per person to receive a wristband for general admission. Donations will be accepted at the San Antonio Food Bank between noon and three on Christmas Day. Guests can line up at the Tobin Center once they received their wristband, seating his first Come, First Serve doors open six thirty show at seven to thirty. Patreon teamed up with Stavros Halkias. Stavros plays a mob boss style Santa who resents Patreon’s subscription model, disrupting traditional gift giving.
The campaign is called Santa Hates Patreon. We see Stavros as Santa, as an unhinged mob boss, frustrated the consumers are choosing creator memberships over physical gifts. One of the chief marketers over there said, when you’re giving the gift of Patreon, it’s saying I know you have a deep fandom for this creator, and I’m going to give you the gift of the opportunity to get to know them deeper by becoming part of their Patreon community. Media watchdog NewsBusters says that jokes targeting conservatives rose ten percent in twenty twenty five from the year before. I wonder what changed hmmm, I feel like maybe in late January something changed.
Do you think ninety two percent of jokes from late night target the right. Liberal guests outnumber conservative guests almost one hundred to one. Jimmy Kimmel was the quote mo most radical late night host, railing against the right three thousand and forty six times last year, representing ninety seven percent of his jokes. The New York Post tells us some of his jokes were crude, like referring to members of Trump’s cabinet as AI generated human vomits. Kimmel made fun of Trump one thousand, six hundred and sixty eight times over the course of his one hundred and fifty five episodes, or eleven jokes a show kim Ill only does one hundred and fifty.
Oh yeah, he’s off all summer. That’s why it’s one fifty five. Yeah. Okay, good work if you can get it. Trump was overwhelmingly the butt of jokes across Late Night, with host targeting Trump at a staggering seven thousand, forty five times.
Last year, the number was fifty nine eighty. Media Research Center President David Bozell says the numbers don’t lie. So called late night comedians are part of the entire elitist media complex that has fueled hatred of conservatives for years.
Meanwhile, you may have heard they renamed the Kennedy Center, so maybe you’d…
You know, something like that. Comedian Toby Morton said, as soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center boarder earlier this year, I thought, yep, that name’s going on the building. So what did Toby Morton do? He got the domains? He said.
He has not heard from anyone in the Trump administration yet, but he has received inquiries from a quote few random lawyers, confidently explaining that satsire is illegal. Now, if you’re ever try to goose the algorithm, you could say a sentence like, if you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News, will shows up in your feet every morning. I hear that’s useful. It is Festivus in time for the airing of the comedy grievances. Now, despite my normally cranky persona, I don’t have all that much for you.
But the big one would be the comedians that played the Rio Comedy Festival. Let’s list them, write these down, don’t forget these names. Kevin Hart, Sebastian Manascalgo, Bill Burr, gab Iglesias, Joe Coy, Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson whose father was killed on nine to eleven as he’sin’ sorry, Tom Sagora, Whitney Cummings, Andrew Schultz, Russell Peters, Jessica Kerson, Zorna, Greg Chris Tucker. Don’t want to hear that they have an Applebee’s. Don’t want want to hear that you gave the money back, don’t want to hear that they paid.
Well, oh this is interesting. So I googled what comedians played the riodd Comedy Festival, and those were the key comedians. Now you know whose name is not there, Dave Chappelle. Now why is AI eliminating Dave Chappelle? Did somebody do something to manipulate the AI?
Or am I just looking for conspiracy? Now? Now what’s not fair here is the AI interview has some images of comedians, including two who definitely didn’t play there. I don’t even want to say their names so that I don’t goof up the AI. But one rhymes with Bark barn and the other rhymes with Bain Billis.
Why are their pictures of Baine Billis and Bark Barron there? They didn’t play the Riodd Comedy Festival like Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hard, Sebastian Manascauco, Bill Burr, gave Glacias, Joe Cooyd, Jimmy Carpete, Davidson Is he’sin sorry, Tom Sigora, Whitney, Commlexander Schultz, Russell Peters, Jessica Kursten, zornegarg Or, Chris Tucker. Don’t care if there’s an Applebee’s don’t care if you gave the money back. Welcome to Comedy Festivus. So more people on the list.
Dave Chappelle for the second time for ruining my weekend and making me put out a bonus episode on Sunday. Stop releasing specials on Christmas weekend? What are you doing? Same note to Tom Sagora for releasing a special Tomorrow night and Christmas Eve podcasters want to take a night off man, Stop with this. More agreements is Sebastian Manuscalco for the stupid comedy faces that triggered me.
I like Sebastian Manuscalco until that trailer came out, and now I’ve been totally radicalized, and now I’m like, you’re just doing old man Dice Clay with a stupid face. Stop stop, stop, stop stop as we continue comedy festivus. Jay Leno, this guy’s the worst. How dare he have opinions about late night comedy? What do you know?
Jay Leno? You hosted the Tonight Show for what twenty two years? Big deal? You act like you’ve hosted more episodes of the Tonight Show than anybody ever did, including Johnny Corson. As if you know anything about doing comedy at eleven thirty and have the just the gall to even comment about it, That guy’s the worst.
My final grievance of the year goes to the Hulu publicist. Hey, Hulu publicist, right back to me, go, your show sucks and no one listens to it. We’re never ever going to credential you. That’s fine, then I’ll stop trying, but get back to me on LinkedIn or email or the website where I filled out the form. It’s not that absurd that you would hook up this show with a screener.
Come on now, you might be like Johnny Mack, how come Adam Sailor’s not on the list. Here, here’s the deal. I respect Adam Sandler’s game. Right now, I’m wearing a bright orange sweatshirt and sweatpants right there, I get Sandler. Sandler’s family guy.
I’m a family guy too. Sandlor made a fantastic movie Jay Kelly, and despite making horrible comedies. I understand why he makes the horrible comedies because you people watch Happy Gilmore too, and that encourages Netflix to give Adam Sandlor fifty million dollars. Why wouldn’t he make horrible comedies. You don’t reward the good stuff he does, you reward the crap.
So Adam Saylor is not getting a grievance from me. I support the man rapper turncomedian. TI dropped a trailer. He’s got a special hitting the internets tomorrow. It’s called Cheaper Than Therapy.
We’re told that we can expect one story at a time, centered on the chaos of fame to the healing power of laughter. There is a trailer. I went to pull it and it was very amateurish. It just not well made and had no jokes in it. So I decided that would not be worth your time, so I’m not sharing it with you.
For New York Theater dot Me, Jonathan Mandel reviewed All Out, which Jonathan says, much like last year’s All In as generated accusations of cynical cash grab, All Outs on Broadway is a comedy about ambition by Simon Rich. Jonathan Mandel says some people are outraged by ticket prices as high as three hundred and twenty dollars for a quote lazy, eighty minute show during which four celebrities read some dozen short stories by Simon Rich, interspersed with songs by the band. Mendel writes, richest humorous stories, which are clever even when they’re not laugh out loud funny, have been ablished in seven collections over the past eighteen years, several of which are in audiobook editions. So why are we paying attention to this? Well?
Some of the people performing the initial cast, which Jonathan saws, Eric andre Iike Barnholtz, Abby Jacobson, and John Stewart. Jim Gaffigan took over this thing last night. He’ll be there till January eleventh.
Also appearing as we go along here, Wayne Brady starts on the twenty ninth Ce…
Craig Robinson on the twentieth. Oh wait, can I do forgot? I forgot a major grievance. We gotta go back, gotta go back. Craig Robinson.
Remember when he quit comedy and we were all like, oh wow, Craig Robinson quit comedy and he was just promoting something. He gets the Festivus grievance too. Yeah, Craig Robinson, you are here by grievanced? Is that a word? Sarah Suverman January twentieth, and then in February, Ray Romano and Jenny Slate joined the cast three hundred twenty dollars.
You know, Kevin Hardy’s afraid to work. He’ll go to Riod. If you’ve got a comedy festival, he’ll take your money. Well, Poker Go has announced the return of High Stakes Poker, which they say is the most iconic show in poker. Kevin hard back for the Redd Comedy Festivalill headline.
A stacked Season fifteen cast, viewers can expect more of the eye watering pots, an insane action that has made high Stakes Poker so universally beloved. Season fifteen out today, all right, looking ahead tomorrow and on Christmas Day. I pre taped. Those are what we call low rent days. HAVE got an episode for you.
But if you’re gonna skip, I get it. It’s chrispas Eve Christmas Day, no problem. Those episodes will still be there on Friday or over the weekend if you want to catch up, but there won’t be news. I’m covering varieties. Top one hundred comedy movies of all time will do the bottom fifty on Christmas, even the top fifty on Christmas Day.
Along the way, I lose my mind as I don’t like the list all that much. Out tomorrow, Tom Sagora, he’s back for the Redd Comedy Festival. He gets a Netflix special, Were a Teacher, Filmed at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. It’s Tom Sagore’s fifth stand up special for Netflix. Tom discusses parenting, fails, blackout bar stories, and career regrets.
Hmm, I wonder if he regrets playing Rio. Probably not. Doesn’t seem to have affected anyone at all. Tom’s explores the darkly funny side of life’s most unpredictable lessons, and ebar dot com answers the question what are Jews supposed to do for Christmas? Well, once again they’re doing Kung Pow Kosher Comedy, offering up a menu of Chinese food and Jewish comedy for the Christmas season.
That sounds wonderful. Actually, I could go for Chinese food. I asked my wife if we could do the Japanese thing. Apparently in Japan they get into Kentucky Fried Chicken. I’m like, can we just get KFC?
That got shut down hard, But if you told me Chinese food, I’d be in. This year’s Kung Poo Kosher Comedy takes place December twenty fourth through the twenty six at the Imperial Palace Restaurant on Washington Street in Chinatown, San Francisco. Two shows a day at dinner show at five and a cocktail show at age thirty. All shows will also be live streamed. So Kosher comedy kind of came about nineteen ninety three.
Lisa Gettldig is the host of this thing, and she had traveled in Massachusetts to perform at a woman’s comedy night at a venue called Pee King Gordon Club. She assumed it was a comedy club, what is actually a Chinese restaurant. That gave her the idea of doing a Jewish comedy show at Christmas in a Chinese restaurant, which is a great idea. When she returned to San Francisco, she couldn’t get the idea out of her mind, so she hired some comedians, reserved a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown, and set out press releases. The press thought it was fun.
The next year she got a New York Times Future article, and the rest is history. Lisa explains the secret is providing quality humor, amazing comedians, and always a household name headliner. This year’s headliner, Elaine Boosler, who has been dubbed the first Lady of stand up by Rolling Stone Magazine, really did not know that. Boozler said, America’s going through a hard time. You say I hadn’t noticed.
I don’t pay much attention to anything bad or negative. I live my life. I turned on the TV to where PBS used to be. I go to the market once a week, it’d spend my four hundred dollars on eggs and lettuce. I revel in my memories, like when there was a Department of Education or healthcare or housing for veterans.
When I see someone wearing a swastika T shirt, to squint my eyes and while ah, it’s a flower, and I don’t say while out loud, because you know, America first, America is nothing but humor. Right now, I’m desperately trying to find someone in government to take this situation seriously, she added frankly, I’d rather have good government and talk about my weight. And that’s your comedy news for today. Enjoy the Chinese food. Enjoy Christmas if you’re celebrating, enjoy two pre recorded episodes about the funniest movies of all time.
Say we’ll hear my voice tomorrow if you choose, and then Friday, the December twenty sixth will be a normal episode, So we could either meet back tomorrow or meet back then. Up to you. My voice will be here either way,