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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Good joke from Jimmy Fallon. Lego just announced a new five thousand piece Lord of the Rings Fortress set that costs four uner sixty dollars. Anyway, if you’re looking for a line and a first date, that ought to do it.
As seth Meyer said, the makers of Oreos unveiled new packaging inspired by the Star Wars franchise. The way it works, the first three Oreos are pretty good, the next three are pretty bad, and the rest you eat just because he ate the first six. I love it. Quick housekeeping I talked about yesterday with the festivals kind of over in Memorial Day heading if you’ve been addicted to twenty minute episodes, so they’re going to shrink back down of the eleven twelve minute range for a little bit. If you didn’t listen this weekend, though they were both pretty robust.
There was this Chappelle story on Saturday and a Tim Dillon story on Sunday that just got a little longer than I thought, But those were pretty good episodes. Jimmy Fallon has started a podcast. It is a podcast version of the Tonight show. It features Fallons monologues, sketches and games, and extended versions of his interviews from the previous night’s episodes. You know, I never really listened to the Late Night podcast, and I like Late Night as a concept.
I mean, part of it is there’s only so many hours in the day. I can barely listen to my own podcasts someday because I have to make other podcasts, you know what I’m saying. But the summer’s coming, I’ll be sitting outside a lot more, half asleep, just listening to a six seven hours podcast while I sit under the umbrella. I’ve recented my Jimmy Buffett lifestyle. I had a couple skin scares.
I’ve got a couple spots that are pre cancerous and nothing too worrisome just yet. But you know, it’s the universe telling me, maybe don’t sit out in the sun for nine ten hours a day, which you know I did for half a century. I do believe I’ve been pretty good with lotion aside from my reckless behavior sitting in the sun. But you know, I think a lot of the damage was done in the seventies what we used to put on suntan oil. And remember you’d go to the beach and if your friend had something with a two on it, like you’re putting on two sunscreen.
And then the fours came out, and then I remember when eight came out, it was like eight, and then when fifteen came out, it was like fifteen. Same thing on thirty. Keep doing the bit. It’s not a bit, but if you have a certain age, you know what I’m talking about. I mean, we used to just go out and bake.
Remember people would sit with like the tinfoil reflectors to get more son on them. Remember when you thought it was like normal behavior, Like you’d get that like early summer burn, and then it would like crust off and then the second skin would tan properly. So I think a lot of my problems happened in nineteen seventy eight, I digress. Jimmy Fallon said, I’m excited to announce that I’m officially the last person on earth to start a podcast. Colbert’s Got One.
It’s the Late Show pod show and audio cutdown of his show with some extras. There’s the Daily Show. Of course. John Stewart has his new separate one from the Daily Show. I have to remember to add that to my podcast to Q just check that out.
Hopefully it’s better than the Apple one. HBO’s been putting out full episodes of Real Time with Bill Mahers podcast since twenty fifteen. I had no idea Jimmy Kimmel does not offer his show as a podcast. Sticking with Late Night for a second, John Mulaney is going to throw his what was that called Everybody’s in LA. They were planning to submit the show into the Scripted Variety category, where it would have competed against Saturday Night Live and John Oliver.
Oliver is gonna win because SNL led SNL season was so uninteresting. I haven’t watched the last five episodes. They’re all sitting on the DVR, but I’m just like, I just don’t care. However, Variety has learned that Netflix and the creative team feels the show is better suited for the talk series category and it will compete against Kimmel, Colbert, Seth Myers, and Jimmy Fallon. Last year, nineteen, the series were entered for Talk Series, which invited five nominees.
Variety believes they’re currently thirteen with their hat in the ring, including Kimmel, Colbert, and Fallon. Last year, Scripted Variety had twelve submissions. Variety right now is only tracking five. John Oliver snl Netflix’s The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman. What the what?
That’s a thing that happened? Did anyone see this? CBS is after Midnight and he now canceled Painting with John from HBO slash Max. What was that? I feel like I’m dreaming.
I just read five shows, two of which I’ve never heard of. As I explained recently, I don’t know everything about comedy, but like I do do this every day. I do, at least five days a week, go on Google and type in words like comedy and comedian, and I read articles I don’t just like sit here and go oh, let me make up twenty minutes of content. I do some research. What was Painting with John?
HBO has a FAQ’s website? Who is John Lourie? I am John Laurie. Thank you for asking? Who else appears in Painting with John?
Nesper? And Wolf has Scooched the Oucher and Mary James Leroy, Jacob and Rudolph the Man who sleeps in the Mango Tree. I’m asleep right like I’m just dreaming. There’s no such shows called Painting with John that’s nominated for an Emmy. Right, what is this part meditative tutorial, part fired side chant?
Musician John Laurie shares his philosophical thoughts while honing his water color techniques, and there’s three seasons of it? I’m sorry, guys, tell me in the Facebook group? Did I just like Mendela effect? Am I on now Earth two? Because on my Earth we didn’t have Painting with John?
That’s not a thing. What’s this Netflix Prank Show with Justin Willman. I’m convinced the alarm clock’s going to go off any second now, and I’m gonna be like, Oh, I had the craziest dream. I was hosting the podcast and I was talking about all these shows that I didn’t remember existed. Right.
The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman twenty twenty four to six episodes. In this irreverent comedy series, a magician stages elaborate pranks on unsuspecting targets. See this, I’ll believe exists. The other one on Max for three years. I don’t think that exists.
Per nomination procedures when categories have fewer than seven entrees why do I say entres? It’s not food entries. Leave it in why did I say andres? The submissions will be screened by the appropriate peer group for a nomination, any entry I must said entre again. Any entree that receives nine tenths approval will receiving nomination.
Think of it as a simple up or down vote, and then consider how difficult it can be to score ninety percent approval in everything rules. Further state, if none of the nominations receives ninety percent approval, the nomination with the highest approval receives the Emmy. The Dallas Cowboys put together a video for their schedule release. Apparently schedule releases are a big deal now and the teams are all trying to one up each other. While the Cowboys went with Shane Gillis, Sam Morrell, and Bert Krascher and a quick appearance by Joe Rogan, the video stars Jerry Jones, Post Malone, Dak Prescott, Michael Irvin, and Tim the Tatman.
They represent the Dallas Cowboys in what appears to be a team supergroup. They prank call their opponents fans via FaceTime. Shane Gillis represented the Eagles, who look to be answering a call during a cold plunge, featuring a brief appearance from his friend Joe Rogan cheering on Go Birds. Sam Morrell represented the New York Giants, who appeared to be utterly and comically annoyed to be hearing from the team with a process smirk, saying I don’t like this at all. Bert Krescher represented the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He appeared joyfully surprised and answered laughing, saying, am I getting drafted a lot of press for Nikki Glaser lately? But no buzz on that HBO special? Like, no buzz at all. She was on The Today Show with Hoda and Jenna. That’s like the it’s like kind of the Today Show, but not really like it has the Today logo, but it’s kind of like Aday hour fifteen or whatever it is.
I don’t know. I have nothing against them. I hate daytime TV. Like anytime you go to the dentist or Jiffy Lube or any of those, they always have daytime TV on usually ABC. You usually get subjected to what’s her face Kelly Rippa, and then you have to sit through the view either get that or sometimes like the dentist office.
They’ll have on like the local news twelve news channel. That’s like less annoying, except if you sit there for half an hour and you’ve heard the weather report five times, it’s just like, Ah, I digress. Nikki Glaser told the Today Show folks, I didn’t freeze my eggs. She says if she feels the pulled up children one day, she’ll consider a option. She noted the kids are hard work.
She wants to focus on her career, but the real reason, she said, is I’m scared to love something that much. She said something I would have said someone, which is a callback to a Robert Shimmel joke, which I’ll clean up slightly, but he does the pause. I’ll try and recreate it for memory. So he says, you ever just need a bang something someone? So yes, my two cents, your child is someone, not something.
I digress again. Jenna said, that’s why I think your comedy is so amazing, because at the center of it are real conversations women are having. I have friends that decided not to have kids, and there’s still some shame there. Nikki said, you see your friends wanting it so badly, genuinely wanting it, and you feel like, what’s wrong with me that I don’t want it? You feel kind of left out.
That’s what I’m struggling with more than just well should I do it? Because I’m kind of sure I don’t want it, but I’m like, what I want this thing that everyone seems to want. I feel like I can always adopt. Hoda jumped in and said, by the way, i’d like you to know adoption rocks. Hoda has two adopt a daughters, Haley seven and Hope five.
Galai just says, I have some time, and I really don’t care if the baby looks like me. It’s not really interesting to me. John, you’ve told us twice in a row that the episodes we’re gonna stop being twenty minutes long, and they’re gonna get shorter because there were no festivals and we’re all checking our watch here and these things are getting long again. I know, I know there’s a lot going on. Salon wrote about cancel culture, Bill Maherr and Bill Burr.
Salon, right, So, remember when Gilbert Gotfrid was fired from his Affleck deal for making tasteless jokes about the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. That was twenty eleven when the great evil was called outrage culture, largely generated by jokes like that, along with rape and sexual violence. The reason I called out Bill Burr’s observation Bill was on more recently talking about cancel culture, et cetera, is because we don’t hear from or about the people whose careers have actually been canceled. And this is let me drop all the snark in goof. Let me get a really flat raid here, because I think this is actually a really great point and important.
Like the five women who came forward in twenty seventeen to detail Luisik’s misconduct one quick comedy altogether, others like Rebecca Corey keep trying to move forward in a career they’ve been building long before they crossed K’s path. Corey, who was more than three decades of experience as a performance stand up, wrote a twenty eighteen Vulture essay describing the difficulties she encountered before her name became habitually linked with CKS, and spoke to Variety in twenty twenty two after K won that Grammy, She told Variety, why am I constantly being asked to speak on cancel culture. The joke that is the me too movement in ck every time he’s in the news cycle. I don’t care what that guy does. And of course cancel culture is real.
I’m living proof. The moment I was sexually harassed at my job, I was canceled. That’s how it works, kids. So let’s talk about what I’m doing and when my Netflix special is happening. There are people who have been doing stand up for five minutes, with comedy specials, another with multiple specials who sucks.
So when’s mine? I’m ready? When you are, Ted Sarandos, Netflix CEO. Yeah, I think the points getting lost in the weeds there. Should her career have been canceled?
No, of course, not separate from that, whether you ever met Luis c. Kir not. Not everyone gets a Netflix special people who have been doing stand up for five minutes. I’ll translate to that to be I don’t say, like Matt Rife, but Netflix is a business and they’re putting up there who they think is popular. And Robbie pra has been calling some pretty good shots.
It’s really hard right now to say Netflix has been giving specialists to people who suck. Now they air comedy shows. This is back to the whole specials versus hours thing. Things show up on Netflix that you know have a box. It’s a picture of a comedian and it’s a box, and the comedian is calling it a special.
But I would call in an hour. We’ve discussed that on previous podcasts. You know, So are there comedy programs on Netflix? Sure film one yearself and offer it to Netflix. They might say yes if the price is right in terms of the specials.
And I think we just saw what the Netflix Comedy Festival was. I think could be hard pressed to look at anybody at the Netflix Comedy Festival and be like, that person’s not in the top echelon of comedy. Back to Salon, Ellen Degen is sharpening her material for her Netflix special. Let me jump back in. I mean, it’s not crazy that Ellen has a Netflix special.
Many things can be true at once. Ellen can be funny. Ellen apparently can be jerky to coworkers. Both can be true. Rolling Stone took in her recent set at West Hollywood’s Largo at the Cornet Theater and characterized her means of addressing her partner shows downfall less processing, including copying to being an immature boss who didn’t know how to be a boss.
During a post show conversation, one woman asked Allan, do you think you’ll seek revenge for those who have wronged you? This was met by what the reporters described as a loud round of applause and cheers from every corner of the room. That’s your evidence of what famous people crying over suppose. Cancel culture is yielded, not justice or a new sense of fairness, but misdirected grievance aim towards less powerful people, ruining everyone else’s good time by exposing our favorite star’s misdeeds. Yeah.
I have been I call it showbiz adjacent for many years now, especially the years at Serious And it’s an ugly business. And I do my job. You do your job. If you go back to your hotel room and do lines and lines of cocaine, and I go back to my room and watch Star Trek, you do you, I do me. Nobody should be harassed, nobody should be bullied.
But does crappy stuff go on on show business? Yeah? And I don’t know how you’re gonna clean that up or whatever. I don’t know. Maybe as technology changes and people can reach audiences without going through the system.
There’ll be more decent people, but for every decent person, there’s going to be somebody who asks out a seventeen year old. So I don’t know, very complicated and that’s your comedy news for today. Load of comment at the end there, John, Yeah, see tomar