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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, you’re only hearing my calm on air Persoda, You’re not hearing all the F bombs un dropping as my equipment is giving me problems today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack. With their Daily Comedy News. Mark Merron opened up to Esquire about the whole John Stewart thing.
Maren said, when I was coming up, he was a smart, cute, Jewish guy. He said, Stuart fit into a category of people who have foresight and are disciplined careers, and they know how to understand their talent, harness it, and then figure out how to capitalize on it with their skill set on their terms. Maren said he himself never had any control over my talent as a younger person in the industry. That led him to resent John Stewart’s success. John Stewart hosted the Comedy Central show Short Attention Span Theater.
When Stuart left that gig, Mark Maron took it over. That show was canceled shortly thereafter. Maren said, I was just all in and like demanding a place in this world. Of so throughout my early career, John he was roughly my age. She was just everywhere.
It never stopped. You know, I remember when he did the MTV show and then he had the talk show and he had me on. But my envy of him was always I would just crap on him to his face, be like, who do you think you are? Now that’s interesting, right, because I played on Friday’s show. Both Mark Maren and Andrew Schultz said that about Mark Maren.
So that’s interesting now Mark Maron is saying that about Mark Maren. Maren continued, it was just consuming because I couldn’t get through out a week without him being on the cover of magazine. And for some reason I saw it as like, if I could only have my crap together, I could be more like that guy. Maren says, back then he was constantly comparing himself to John Stewart. I think I was definitely gunning for something else.
I don’t think I got in a comedy to be an entertainer, of have a job as a talk show host or anything. He was asked, all right, why did you get into it? Then Maren said, told my space and speak my mind. But I loved comedy and I thought I could do that in comedy. I saw it as a sort of noble undertaking the only rules of comedy.
The only text is you should be funny. But outside of that, you can do whatever you really want on the stage and you get the range. I was annoying him. Eventually he was like, I don’t need to take this from you and Screwmaron, but I get it. Ahead of the No Kings rallies, Joe Rogan claimed that protesters across the country were either losers, actors paid by liberal billionaire George Soros, or undercover federal agents.
Joe Rogan said this on Wednesdays, Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan said, all those people that are protesting on the streets, ninety nine percent of them are losers. The other ones work for the Fed. It’s FBI agents and losers. That’s all it is.
So if you were out yesterday, you’re a loser or an FBI agent or being paid by George Soros. Brogan continued, this is a guy with a van who’s paid by George Soros, and he’s got stacks of signs that were made of Kinkos. They’re not homemade at all. You can just pass those bad boys out In San Francisco, Camille on Gianni and Alana Glazer roptly withdrew from their scheduled performances at Dreamforce. Dream Force is the annual tech conference held by Salesforce.
Salesforce announced on Thursday that, due to unforeseen circumstances, Kamil Nanchi and Alana Glazer are no longer able to perform. They did not elaborate. They had been scheduled to headline the closing day festivities of the three day event, which drew forty five thousand attendees to the Moscone Center in San fran A source close to Salesforce told the San Francisco Chronicle that Nancianni became ill and couldn’t perform, prompting Glazer his scheduled opener to cancel as well. Interesting why didn’t she just perform? Well, some people think it’s because hours earlier, venture capitalist Ron Conway had resigned from the sales Force Foundation board.
Why did he resign? He said that the values of the CEO were no longer aligned. The CEO had expressed support for a notable politician who wanted the National Guard to be deployed to San Francisco. You know that guy. I’m trying not to be political here.
They keep making me do it so the board guys upset with the CEO guy, and Kamal Gianni happened to get sick, and Ali Glazer happened to decide she wouldn’t perform because the headliner wasn’t coming. Neither non Jihanni nor Glazer has addressed the reasons for their cancelations. Salesforce replaced both of them with David Spade the San Francisco Standard. While neither performer has publicly criticized the CEO or Salesforce, they’ve both been outspoken about unfair labor practices in the entertainment industry, anti immigration rhetoric, and the Israel Palestine conflict. The Standard ads that Origin Public Relations, which represents both non Jihanni and Glazier, did not respond to requests for comments.
Metallica did perform on Wednesday, and you may recall last year at this same conference, John Mulaney was your headliner. Here’s a story that I’ve bounced about thirty times in these last three weeks. I don’t know if you heard. There was Kimmelgate and then the Rion Comedy Festival. I never got to talk to you about David Letterman reacting to Cobert Gate Vulture Ascid Letterman how he felt about CBS essentially flushing away something you created, and Dave said, well, before we discuss something we started and created.
I’m not sure that’s accurate in my case. Remember Jack Rollins, who was my manager forever, one day saying to me, David, it’s like a paper cup. You have a drink of water, then you crumple it up and throw it away. And everything Jack provided for me in my life, that’s the silly thing that’s stuck with me. Try to hang on to that.
Everything changes, There’s a time and place for everything. So it didn’t even dawn on me when Steven announced that he was being taken off the air, that the whole franchise was gone. The more I thought of it, clearly was mishandled. It clearly was not always bleeding money. There are ways to make money, there are ways to hide money.
I mean, I spent most of my life hiding my money in Panama. You know, we all know that CBS could have figured that out and to unload him after they made a deal with the administration for sixty minutes it smelled bad. Let’s just take them at their word. It now, it didn’t smell bad. We’re losing money, okay, but find a way to make it not smell bad.
It just looked ridiculous, but it’s no surprise. I remember Jay Leno used to say to me when we were going ahead to add Nah, this plenty of room, this room for both of us, and I kept thinking, well, no, there’s not room for both of us. Then suddenly there were three shows and maybe more. But as we’re seeing now, there really isn’t much room left for anybody. The format will always exist, just for not a network TV any longer because it’s dirt cheap to produce compared to Brian Time programmings and half hour comedies and such.
Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube channel, It’s the best of Hit in America with Jodah Ray. Adam Sandler was seen at the University of Kentucky. He stopped by basketball practice, as he tends to do. Both the men’s and women’s team posted pictures of Adam Sandler talking to the players and coaches for both teams. Sandler was given a jersey by the men’s team.
He must have a ton of jerseys at this point. Sandler hooked up both teams with tickets to his show, So that means there must have been how many people on our basketball team fifteen twenty, Let’s say fifteen. Some coaches say there’s three coaches, so there must have been like forty unsold tickets to Adam Sandler’s show. The La Times both to comedian CP, who said, your jokes are like your wardrobe. Won’t you buy a shirt that’s your shirt?
You own that shirt until you basically get rid of it. Sometimes you might be a little big for that shirt. It doesn’t fit right. You need to work out. That’s how jokes are.
He was referring to a joke he first started to write twelve years ago. He works with Kevin Hart and said, when you first meet Kevi and he knows you’re already familiar with your work and understands your potential because he’s been there as someone with potential before it was realized. It’s actually easier to talk to someone like that and relate to them than most people would think. He doesn’t need to hate on anybody. It’s really like a proud of people like you in your position.
Here’s what I can do to help. CEP says, I want to be the comedian who takes it to the next level when Kevin Hart is ready to pass the torch too. Ma. Any comedians are free to say that or let that be the goal. We have to be honest about what we’re trying to do.
If you just want to be a comedian to get a couple dollars and get some attention, that’s one thing. But I see it as a thing where the sky is the limit. Style Wise, he says, I do the same show whether it’s two people or two thousand people. I need the reps. I need to know that I can do this no matter what.
Similar to someone who’s freestyle wrapping. If you don’t use that muscle, you’re gonna lose it. And today is Sunday, which means theoretically Bob’s Burgers is on TV. If you’re a longtime listener, you know where this is going to go. But a lot of new listeners have started listening.
Now, new listeners, I’m gonna ask you two questions. You’re gonna think these questions are crazy, but I want you to think them. Okay. Question number one, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t, No one has.
And here’s the really weird one question number two, have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? You have it now? Isn’t that weird? Because the show apparently has three hundred episodes now, and yet you’ve never seen it. You’ve never met anyone whos seen it.
Let me ask you a question. What time is it on? I know we all think it’s on Fox, but what time is it on? See? Here’s the thing.
The show does not exist. I’m a longtime comedy watcher. I’ve never seen it. I’ve never met anyone who’s seen it. Now, you’re like John, there’s clearly artwork, we’ve seen it.
Oh, there’s artwork, there’s merch, there’s a whole industry around the hoax. I get it, But there’s no such show as Bob’s Burgers. Does Fox promote it? Sure, they say it’s coming on after the Simpsons, but they know we’ve all stopped watching the Simpsons twenty five years ago. Now at this point, they probably make like four minutes of a new Simpsons episode, knowing we’re all switching over to NBC to watch football.
No one is watching Fox on Sunday night, So they just promote stuff, and then who even knows what’s on. If you remember tonight, switch over to Fox and let me know if Bob’s Burgers is there. It’s not, I dareia. Anyway, the Bob’s Burgers folks were celebrating three hundred episodes. Really three hundred Bob’s Burgers supposedly premiered in twenty eleven.
Now some of you, I got it. You’re like John, you sound crazy? Okay? Why don’t you google Eugene Merman hoax? Eugene Mermann supposedly a voice on Bob’s Burgers.
Eugene Merman hoax. The first thing that comes up the Eugene Merman Fake Comedy Festival. Then I get an AI overview saying the Eugene Merman hoax likely refers to a series of social media posts where Eugene Merman playfully discusses various hoaxes or conspiracies. So he’s a prankster. Why don’t you google Kristin Shall, who I got to know a little bit during my serious XM days.
You know how I first met Kristin Shall. She won the Andy Kaufman Award. And what is Andy Kaufman known for? Hoaxes? Put ons things that seem real that aren’t say, for example, perhaps possibly maybe Bob’s Burgers.
You see where I’m going here again? Have you ever seen the show? Have you ever met anyone who’s seen the show? Anyway, congratulations to Bob’s Burgers on three hundred episodes. M M.
This was actually episode one million of this podcast, so thank you for listening and I will see you tomorrow