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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack and I’m stupid. I came downstairs to record three days worth the podcast without a drink, and I had a handful of peanut m and ms before I started, So my throat’s already closing up. That was dumb. Joe Rogan had Kat Williams on the Media picked up on a bunch of things I have pulled the clips.
Topic number one, Joe Rogan asked, why do black people like menthol cigarettes so much? Let’s listen, Like, in California they made flavored vapes illegal. Can you imagine? Yeah, Strawberry missed is our number one? That was fine, but they let it also hurt black people in that it counted menthol as a flavor and hurt Newport.
So you can’t sell menthol cigarettes in California, right, they have their own cigarettes. Well, have non mentho on Newports. It’s terrible. Why do black people like menthol so much? About it’s a totally different type of cigarette.
You’re gonna get me canceled. Oh, this is very racist. This is conversation, even even though neither of us are just talking about just saying why do black people like Newport so much and a black and a black person actually getting ready to answer this. It’s terrible on all ends. I don’t think it is.
Well, I don’t think it is either, because we have a news. It’s like if you started asking me about spaghetti, I’m not going to get offended you started asking me about Italian food or why why are Italian people so loud? I’m not going not gonna get how many people have ever died of pasta related? A lot, a lot of fatos out there kicking the bucket. Bro, that’s not because of pasta over abundance of carbohydrates.
They were going to be fat wherever they live there. Maybe that’s delicious story food. They couldn’t stop it. People are addicted to food like they’re addicted to anything. If there’s a thing that I could ever be addicted to, it’s that, right.
That’s all of us though, all of us, And what a blessing. Yeah, we have so much starving people are addicted to anything, and they don’t have food related illnesses exactly. But back to where we were, Yeah, right, they ment all cigarettes. Oh that’s right, and the answer is we value strength in product. So there’s this whole thing with liquor and malt liquor, and the difference between the two and one is richer and stronger, the more potent version, right, and as a people, we tend to go with those products.
Topic number two. Kat Williams explains that twenty years ago he knew that transgenders was gonna be a thing. Let’s listen. Everybody’s like, oh, he keeps talking about people wearing dresses. No, it’s weird.
It’s not like that. Look at it from a different way. Look at it. Show me one person that ever wore a dress in Hollywood unsuccessfully. That’s how you understand what the ritual is.
So twenty years ago I knew that transgenders was gonna be a thing. It wasn’t because I was a prophet. It’s just I had gotten so much information that I understood the path. Things are secular. It’s topic number three.
UFOs especially, he tells your story and then you have independent people who also used to work for the government now becoming whistleblowers and saying there’s a crashed retrieval program. Crashed UFO retrieval program. It goes back to what I’m saying, Joe, these are this is how you say this without getting canceled. Look, you do think they’re doing something, don’t you doing something? We want to believe like nobody’s doing nothing.
Like no, no, we’re doing stuff like they’re doing something. So there’s three hours of that. I haven’t gone through all of it yet. The transgender stuff is interesting. Tomorrow I’m gonna play some clips from Jim Norton, who was on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast, a fantastic interview, and we’ll see another way to discuss that topic intelligently.
Richard Lewis’s wife tweeted using Richard’s account, saying, Hi, this is Joyce, Richard’s wife, thank you for your loving tributes. He would be beyond thrilled and so touched as am I. In response to the many queries, I know Richard would appreciate donations in his memory to the Los Angeles based charity Comedy Gives Back dot Com. Mark Marin shared his twenty eleven interview with Richard Lewis. I started talking about eighties Letterman, which is like one of my favorite things ever.
Eighties Letterman and Star Trek are probably my two favorite things. I learned a lot of valuable lessons to in these shows once early in the eighties, it was I did more Lettermans than almost anybody. And I actually the panel guest. You were the guy that I was like, I always look forward to you. Sitting down sound to me was a respectable thing.
Well, and Letterman was the guy who told me you’ll never do stand up on my show. You’re much better on panel. You’re too physical, right, and you engage too. You know, he can move you along. And because of him, it’s set a precedent for me back in eighty two, and I never even without a series, I said, no, Lewis doesn’t do stand up if you want me to just sit down, squirms in his seat, right, And that’s because of Dave.
That was a great thing. But two things. Let Himan. Let Himan really gave me my first real break. Yeah, and because I was on like every six weeks for years, and you know, I had endless amounts of materials, so that wasn’t a problem.
And the thing is, once I was talking about Hawaii and I said to the woman during the how he could ask me, I understand, you won’t know why, I said. The whole thing is so fraudulent to me, right, it just sounds fake and a fun clip here where Richard Lewis was I think getting ready to be on Carson and turned to Roddy Dangerfield and got a little nervous. Interesting stuff there had had a feel of Roddy Hey, uh yeah, yeah, it’s attitude. So yeah, I said, Rodney, I feel I can’t. I had.
I just wanted to go home and hear the tape and time it. It’s all I can for Carson. Yeah, I mean that Carson because David Brenna want to something when I was twenty three, says for one five minute spot on Carson is like doing the improv every night full house three shows a night for like he had an old figured out like eighteen years he had the math done. Yeah, he had to hear he was in maniac like, so I eighteen years, is it’s right? Ricky Gervais is interested in maybe perhaps possibly playing Herbie the Robot in the Fantastic Four movie.
Remember Herbie the Robot. When we were kids, there was a Fantastic four cartoon and there you had Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl, the Thing, and Herbie the Robot. Where was the human Torch? There was an urban legend that they were worried kids were going to sell themselves on fire. I’ve seen another version of that where there was something with the copyright.
There had been a fifties or forties version of the Human Torch comic book. People. You can let me know, so that might have been the reason. Anyway, So you had the Fantastic Three and Herbie the robot. Ricky Gervais interested in voicing Herbie if asked.
The Internet people have also suggested Bill Hayter, all right, that’d be a right Matt Berry done done in Matt Berry, anything is awesome. I don’t think he sounds like Herbie though, but then again, does Ricky Gervas sound like Herbie? I don’t know. I don’t remember what Herbie sounds like. Somebody else suggested tignets are, which is of course a terrible idea, more terrible ideas.
Bob Newhart and mel Brooks, they’re wonderful. They’re both in their nineties. Cheryl Hines is on Watch What Happens Live and was asked about Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s reaction to Larry David, saying that Larry does not support rfk’s a presidential campaign, Cheryl said, you know what’s so funny about that, We actually had dinner with Larry David that night and said it wasn’t awkward. Weirdly, it wasn’t.
Those two have been friends for so long, and I think when Larry said it, I think he was being Larry, like, oh, I support him, but I don’t support him. And I think Larry and Bobby were like, okay, and I’m just like, past the asparagus. This is a weird night, but okay. My former coworker, Jamie Fox, may be returning the stand up as on a side here. You’ll notice I often refer to Jamie as my coworker, and then I’ll refer to other people that I worked with it serious as my friends, like I would consider Larry the Cable guy to be a friend.
I always found Jamie to be nothing but awesome, but like I didn’t really know him well. He’s usually behind three velvet ropes and as an entourage and people around him, but it was always a cool guy. He posted a video from one of his past stand up specials on Instagram showing himself doing an impression of Prince. In the caption, he shared that he plans to return a performing comedy, that’d be awesome. Adam Sandler has been performing something that some people consider to be comedy.
He’s been doing a residency in Glendale all week, tuning up for his new special, The SFGate tells us, for most of the night, it seemed like the theater was out to get Adam Sandler. I like this theater. First, someone handed him the wrong coffee as he walked on stage. What’s the wrong coffee? Then the screens behind him, because of some incompatibility with his team’s gear in the venue, didn’t work for almost all of his more than ninety minute set, even though a lot of the show was supposed to have a video component.
Adam Sandler relying on video. Oh my goodness. When leaning into a song, the keyboard fell. The PNIS said there’s a hole in the floor. I think there was just a really really cool ghost.
Sandler said, there’s a hole in the floor. Can we get somebody out here to fix this? At PA and then a second PA ran out to prop the instrument back up. Sandler said, this doesn’t feel like a comedy show. Johnny Mack said, you are right, Adam Sandler.
Wait. At one point, a dog ran out to the stage. But the Gate tells us, despite Adam Sadler’s obvious frustration with the technical details of the evening and despite the fact that the early show came off more like a rehearsal for the evening second set, when once again a rogue dog made it onto the stage. Right now, I don’t think it’s such a rogue a dog. The show is still great.
Adam Saandler’s side, the sf Gate says, it’s proved a theory that it’s a great moment for stand up comedy in LA. All that time during the strikes gave comedians a lot of time to sit at home and come up with new material. Now they’re free to work again. A listers are popping up in showcases all over the city. Two weeks ago, I was at a showcase at the Comedy Store where Jeff Ross and Andrey Santino were the biggest names on the roster.
All of a sudden, Ali Wong stepped on stage. Days later, an email popped up in my inbox. Adam Sandler would be performing two shows a night in Glendale for a week. Anyway, awesome job, Ghosts. If you like what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee.
Dot com slash Daily Comedy News and throw somebody in the tip chart and know what I’ll do is not get a nice coffee and not bring it to the studio when I’m planning on recording three podcasts so that my voice can give out. Everybody is excited that Matt Rife is gonna play Indiana. This from the Indiana Daily Student. They quoted one of the college attendees who said, if Matt Rife’s willing to learn, then he should absolutely be welcome. But if he’s not willing to learn from what he said, then he has no business being on a campus like Indiana University.
We need to put our best foot forward, and that starts by vetting who we invite onto our campus. Talked about this recently. Comedians don’t want to do college campuses anymore because of this stuff. Another student said, if you’re trying to cater to men by making a joke about domestic violence, that’s how you know you should not be in comedy. Indiana University has the right to do whatever they want, but they need to also recognize they’re a host for so many different marginalized groups and that their students make up those populations.
Giving someone a platform that has said so many problematic things about women and other groups as well, it’s disheartening but not really surprising. A different student, who is the member of the Ladies’ Night Comedy group, said, I think real humor is humor that can make everybody laugh and not offend a group of people. That’s what makes a talented comedian, and Matt Rife can’t do that. Jimmy Kimmel is still thinking about what he might do if he walks away from Jimmy kim alive. I don’t think he’ll walk away.
He’s suddenly is what late fifties, mid fifties, he’s fifty six. Come on, what are you gonna do? Jimmy, sit home. You’re not gonna sit home. Do the show.
You have the summers off already. It’s fine. Do a Carson deal. Tell ABC you’ll do it three days a week. Let somebody else host Mondays and you can take the summer off.
That’ll work, Yes, Sarah, Sarah will host Mondays in the summer for you. She’s been looking for a gig. There you go. I just solved it. Everybody.
Kimmel says, I don’t know. What I’ll do might not be anything that anyone other than me’s aware of. I have a lot of hobbies. I love to cook, I love to draw. I imagine myself learning to do sculptures.
I know that when I die, if I’m fortunate enough to die on my own terms, in my own bed, I’m gonna think, oh, I was neighbor to get to this, so I was never able to get to that. I just know that about myself. Feared us got into it with an airline. He was not happy with airline indie Go. He went on Twitter and commented about a series of recurrent flight delays he counted while traveling with indy Go.
He questioned, when did Indigo turn the board you on time, but keep you on the flight and depart when you’re supposed to land. Airline like fifth time in a row this happened. Indigo has acknowledging inconvenience and responded to the tweet. They said, our inflight team also made the onboard announcement about the delay, rest assured we’re fully committed to enhancing our services. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
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