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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Writer’s Guild has failed to come to a deal with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and TV Producers. That means there’s a writer strike. Initially, what you’ll see is the late night shows have gone jerk. At the time of this recording, it’s unclear what Saturday Night Live will do this week.
Guest host Pete Davidson keep an eye on that, so we won’t have late night jokes for a while. I’ve asked the chat gept to write some from the chatbot. The writer strikes causing a lot of tension in Hollywood. You can cut the tension with a knife, which ironically is one of the only things the writers are allowed to use. Now, that’s a good joke, but I’ll point out the strike is about using AI to write jokes.
But the a I just wrote a good joke, So I don’t know how this is going to play out here. One more, I’m not saying that relying on an AI to write my jokes makes me lazy, but I asked it to come up with some jokes, and it wrote, why did the comedian cross the road to avoid having to write his own material, Sam or else we did. Writers deserve more respect. People worship actors, but they’re nothing without writers. Writing is harder than acting.
There were child actors, there were no child writers. On the Shoe Rogan Experience. His guest was Dave Smith, and they talked about Joe Rogan’s comedy Mothership Comedy Club. Rogan discussed the naysayers. There’s a lot of people saying you’re not opening a club.
It’s BS. It’s all BS. I knew once it got like talk all this crap, because once this thing gets open, you’re all gonna want to come, and then once you can’t, a lot of fear missing out. He complimented Richard Weiss, the designer of the club, saying it’s pretty dope. Well it wasn’t me.
I mean it sort of was, but it was a lot of people and a lot of it. Richard Weiss, the architect and designer, he’s the man. He did an incredible job. Rogan said. The whole thing’s just very bizarre.
You know, if it wasn’t mine, I’d really be able to appreciate it. Apparently tickets are moving so fast that it’s bringing out the egos in comedians Rogan said. It’s been a problem though, because you know a lot of people want to come. Some of them are weird. They want a headline, and you know they’re not really a headliner.
Trevor Noah will executive produce and a mirror conversion of the British series Mock the Week. That’s a half hour program that combines elements from talk shows, stand up comedy sessions, and improv games. Two sets of comedians play each other in a bit to satirize current news and events and popular culture. Mock the Week has run in the UK for fifteen years. Production won’t start till next year.
The host will be announced at a later date, but Trevor Noah said, two things I’m most passionate about in life or paying my landlord and making people laugh. We could all use a little bit more laughter as we continue to navigate today’s crazy world. Conan O’Brien getting his own TV channel. This is one of those channels you’ll find on streaming boxes that place things in real time like in olden times with commercials, you know, linear TV. Kind of going on to Brian getting into the fast lane setting up an exclusive launch on Samsung TV Plus of a channel comprised of thirty minute compilations and other clips from his late night career.
This from Deadline. The twenty four seven Conan channel will feature footage from the TBS shows archives. Yeah you wanted the NBC ones met too?
Also, can we get this for Letterman, but only the NBC Letterman?
Can we do that? These TBS clips will feature Conan’s interviews with John Hamm, Ryan Reynolds, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Kevin Hart, Will Farrow, Lisa Kudreau, Kate mccannon, Justin Bieber and others. Cool, but I feel like there’s a better version of this to be had, meaning the NBC ones. Bill Hayder, it’s not going to sign your stuff. Here’s why.
From the Hollywood Reporter. I didn’t know that Bill Hayter. By the way, Barry this week awesome, say no more watch it. Barry was credited as a voice consultant for BB eight in Star Wars The Force Awakens. Really, Hayter said, I used to sign stuff, and then one time I saw somebody they had their kid come up to me to sign a BB eight thing, and it was three in the morning.
I was leaving the inside out premiere We went to an afterparty thing and it was super late, and this guy kept his kid up all night. He was like, go over there, so he’ll sign it and I could sell it online. And I was like, that’s messed up, and so now I just kind of blank it, like I don’t sign any of it. Jim Gaffigan talked to The New York Times about Deep Dish pizza. By the way, I was in Chicago last week.
I didn’t get the Deep Dish. Anytime I do a trip to Chicago and I don’t hit one of the main Deep Dish places, I feel like I wasted a trip but didn’t happen, which means next time, oh, it’ll happen. Gaffigan says, I have a long distance love affair with Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Me too. It’s got to be sausage deep Dish, me too, Jim.
They’re all good, but Luminatis delivers, and we’ve done that many times. Love Luminatis. Love it.
Also they have really good wins.
What’s confusing about Chicago Deep Dish pizza. I’m picturing somebody in Chicago will be like, Luminatis, are you kidding? We’ll na stupid tors I get it. I’m not from there. I don’t know.
Man does a Luminatis close to where my daughter lives, and I go there and it’s good now Tjordanos. The last time I went to Jordanos, it took so long for the pizza to arrive. I had to leave. I had to leave my daughter behind, so she had like all this food finally come I don’t know, seventy five minutes later because I had to catch my flight. And what the what’s the one downtown by the river.
It’s got like a graffiti Gino’s East, right, Gino’s East. That one’s really good too. Again, the locals probably like, you don’t know what you’re talking about, So tell me on the Facebook group. I’ll go to your place. Just telling you loses a couple of blocks from where she lives.
Jim said, what’s confusing about Chicago deep dish pizzas there’s always way too much of it. No one needs to ever eat more than a piece, but you end up eating more than a piece, and I’m ridiculously selfish with it. Good point there, Jim. Plus, I usually have, you know, a plate of wings while I’m waiting for the half hour for the pizza to bake, and by the time the pizza comes, I’m already full. But boy, I eat it.
Jim says, I will make sure there’s other pizza that’ll be given my children said, I can eat the deep dish because I’m not going to waste that on a kid. If you like what I do here, buying me a coffee at Buying Me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, It’s been a great week for the buying me a coffee. I telled you Kara would bought me three coffees. Thank you, Kara. You paid for today’s but I left it upstairs in the fridge.
I do have a bottle of water here if you want to hear me shake some liquid on the mic like I usually do. But thank you care for that. She also shouted me out in her newsletter. You know you can get that for free, right It’s the knock it off sub stack. Her most recent piece, called an open letter to Ronald Gladden name checks me.
Who’s Ronald Gladden? He’s the guy jury duty. I finished jury duty Monday night. Did I finish it really good? Really enjoyed jury duty?
My daughter and I were trying to figure out how you do that again? And the best way came up with was some version of a night at the Museum because we were walking around the Field Museum last week and they closed, and we’re like, what if we stayed?
And then what if Night at the Museum was like real?
And then we’re like, ah, that’s Jury Duty season two. Thank you for the shout out care and believe me, I’m trying to find a way to read the title an open Letter to Ronald Gladden and read it in a way that makes it sound a little dirty. Can’t figure it out. Best I can do is lean in on the word open and open letter to Ronald Gladden. You can make anything sound nought if you do that.
Also, speaking of Chicago and stuff, Becky, she bought me three coffees. Thank you very much, Becky. I’ll be in Chicago a few more times this summer. I will try and say hi, maybe I’ll buy you a beverage anyway, buy me Acoffee dot COM’s last Daily Comedy News. Isaac left a five star review on Apple Podcast.
Thank you Isaac. He wrote great show, good variety of news about comedy specialists. Thank you very much. Over on the Facebook group which is Daily Company News podcast group Always Happy when You Guys chime in. Becky commented on my thoughts about the Millany special.
Becky wrote, my thoughts in a particular order. Boy sober John Millaney talks a lot slower than strung out John Millaney. I appreciated his honesty and humility. He seemed humbled by his addiction. I hope he’s okay.
I also respect him for trying to change an image he’s outgrown or was never him in the first place. She also pointed out more clappter than laughter. Yeah, I noticed that one. Shannon wrote, I saw the live show twice, so most of them material was already familiar, so it couldn’t really be that funny. Milaney’s delivery is always fun to watch, though, and Michelle wrote, tie Nichelle, thank you for listening.
Michell wrote, you were right, it feels performative. I wish he talked about being a new father, because that’s where his heart is. It’s what he posts about on Instagram. And I thought about it more. I think what I’m picking up here is it felt more like a one man show, like a Colin Quinn show or a Mike Berbigley, A show than stand up.
I’m struggling to express what I’m picking up on this one. Again. It’s fine, it’s entertaining, it’s fine. I last twenty nine minutes. I’m not saying don’t watch it.
I am, in fact saying the opposite. You should watch it. Molini’s very likable. We all know this. I just didn’t grab me.
I was also reflecting on roy Wood Junior as I listened to more and more clips of him hosting The White House Dinner the other night. And I can’t give him the Daily Show. I feel like that’s going to be a swing and a miss. And I know he put in the work, and I don’t know not the choice, which reminds me I lost an article. I meant to put this in the script here.
It is from people. Roy Wood Junior says he’s ready if Comedy Central taps him to host the Daily Show. Roy Wood said, I had a lot of fun guest hosting. It’s been fun watching my fellow correspondence guest host as well. I don’t know how Comedy Central is going to play it at the end of the day, but my job is an entertainer.
It’s like athletics. My job is to be ready. So if Comedy Central makes the call, I’m ready. If they don’t, then hopefully somebody else makes the call, and I’m ready. So at the end of the day, it’s just about being as sharp as possible and as funny as possible, and the rest of it’s out of my control.
Either hemming hawing. You’re hearing my voice, Well, Joe Biden was funnier, So that’s not good. I’m laughing at myself because I was like, oh, yeah, you forgot to put the Roy Woods story in the script, And now I’m noticing, Oh, I have like nine tabs open in Safari with things I didn’t put in the script. Lewis Black does have a new special, the Tragically underpromoted Tragically I Need You. That’s on YouTube.
Maybe I’ll watch that tonight, and I’m going to watch another one that I am about to tell you about. So Lewis Black is out on YouTube and Tragically I Need You Lewis Black tells the world about his life. Since COVID, Who’s Black will be guest hosting The Daily Show in June. Boy, what is wrong with me? There’s like nine stories I didn’t put in the script.
Good news for me though weekend shows are almost done. Then all right back to the actual script here. I’ve been picking away at that Vulture article with Ryan Williams. He was the booker on James Cordon Show. By the way, James Gordon, nice timing there with the writer strike not affecting you.
Vulture asked, why do you think the other late night shows, with the exception of Cordon and The Tonight Show have scaled back and booking comedians? A great question, Ryan Williams. The book I said, when you’re bringing a stand up on the show, you’re really farming out five to seven minutes to someone else’s point of view. And if that’s not important to you, I can see why you wouldn’t want to give up that time to support someone else when you could be creating your own content. For us, we really wanted to make stand up a big part of the show.
It was important for us to prioritize elevating outside voices. But even from a production point of view, stand up is so valuable because it’s basically filling an act of the show where the writers don’t have to write anything. Oh okay, hey, guess what we’re going to see. On a lot of late night shows when they come back, so the right issues like will people cross picket lines? But usually what happens is one of the late night shows decides to come back and write their own material.
Conan came back early, Letterman came back earlier. I’m going to place a dollar on it’ll be Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, book some stand ups on a band and hey, we’re back. I mean they did the show string COVID. They’ll figure it out, all right.
Ryan Williams, where do you see stand up on Late night? Going from here? Ryan said, a stand up set for late night is a very specific animal. It’s almost like a poem or a commencement speech, where it has to be structured in a very specific way and you’ve got to put a lot of time into running it to get it right. I’m curious to see what’s going to happen with this at Midnight show.
I remember when it aired it put many hilarious people on my radar for the first time as a comedy fan. I think as an opportunity to do that again. If at Midnight is able to celebrate those voices and make people look good, it could be a real revolution in late night comedy, but also who wants to be associated with Twitter right now? I don’t know how they’re going to bridge that gap of just having an AT symbol in front of their name. Very interesting.
Okay. The other special I’m planning on watching tonight Greg Warrens the Salesman. This is the one produced by Nate Bergassy. Vulture reviewed it and made me really interested in it. The jokes apparently are all about peanut butter.
Greg Warren as a former Procter and Gammel employees who spent ten years selling Jiff peanut butter, and he remains devoted to the product. Spoilers and some specific jokes come up here. In three two one, Warrens showcases his continued loyally to the brand early on roasting rival peanut butter company Peter Pan. Their mascot’s a boy refused to grow up. Maybe he couldn’t grow up because he was malnourished because he was eating that garbage.
Peanut butter named after a cartoon character. See this is already fun. He pauses and says, listen, I’m going to talk a lot about peanut butter. Vulture rights. Warren has jokes about everything from the layer of oil and organic peanut butter, to the experimental peanut butter flavors he dislikes.
To the differences between crunchy and creamy, he says, I felt guilty because we charged the same for crunchy as we did for creamy. The crunchy we didn’t finish making that. The crunchy guys are probably getting off work at noon and the creamy guys are still smashing up peanuts at five thirty. That sounds like a lot of fun. I’m going to watch that one.
I forgot to look at Sydney yesterday. I realized it late in the afternoon. Here’s a show cashing my eye. It is titled The Racist Immigrants. The reviews are pretty funny.
Five stars. Go see the show. Attributed to Kenyan Slur, an hour of unabashed comedy. They’ll leave you crying with laughter and questioning everything you know about immigrants and cultures as it attempts to break all stereotypes. That’s a fun show, and I’m remembering now I liked it when it was at Melbourne too.
All right, you know what my tastes are. Move on. Rochester First, says a comedy about Buffalo bills fans has finalized filming in the Queen City. Unbelievable. We got to work on that title, guys.
Unbelievable was shot in the Queen City and it’s all about the ups and downs Buffalo Bills fans have come to know. They finished filming on Sunday at Salvator’s. The coat room was transformed into a casino betting window. The fictional comedy again, Unbelievable, tell us the story of one family with three generations of Buffalo Bills fans who’ve come together the watch of the Bills play in the biggest game in team history. You know they did go to four Super Bowls?
How is this one bigger? The filming schedule will be released this fall. Details on how you watch it still being finalized. All right that it’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube where if you get your shows see tomorrow.
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