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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you watch the Big Joe Rogan Live Special on Netflix? What did you think? It was incredibly ordinary?
I have woken up on Sunday morning and I’m just not excited about it. I didn’t dislike it. You can find my notes in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. I found the first ten minutes borderline hacky. To be honest.
There were a couple of times I saw the twists and the punchlines coming, and that’s not a good thing. Most of the material somebody posted on one of the social media groups I’ve been bouncing between Threads and Twitter lately, and somebody wrote it was like Joe took the last five years of his podcast and distilled it down into an hour and just nothing surprising, nothing amazing. I didn’t feel like he had anything to say. The storytelling was fine. Again, not a miserable hour, but it was okay.
And I’m wondering if it hurt the Netflix brand. And I’m looking at this through a Netflix perspective. Maybe they knew that they didn’t have something good. I talked about during the week how there was no buzz on this. It wasn’t really being promoted, and maybe Netflix knew that it wasn’t that good and it wasn’t that good.
Also, of note, somebody pointed out on social media the captions were ahead of Joe, so maybe they pre captioned it from one of the rehearsal shows, or he was on some sort of delay, or there’s some aspect to technology. I don’t understand where the captions are ahead of the video, but the captions were definitely ahead of the video. Whatever that was about for a live special Cracked Road. Imagine if someone gave you a Joe Rogan Bingo card in advance of the live special. The card is all the usual topics he’d find it, a month’s worth of Joe Rogan experience podcasts, alien probes, fear Factor, COVID, vaccines, trans people, gay people, UFC, Fox News, Alex Jones, China, Elon Musk, the n slurr, the F slurr, the r slur and whether or not Joe Rogan is canceled.
Congratulations, your card just won the game horizontally, vertically, and diagonally over the course of his special tonight. And I think it was about an hour three, hour four. Rogan played every one of these greatest hits the person from Cracked Rights. As I watched Burn the Boats, I was already predicting headlines like varieties, Joe Rogan, slam’s COVID vaccines, come a trans people, and yep. Brogan provided plenty of individual lines to cherry pick, supporting any argument anyone wants to make against him.
But the special was way more toothless than you might think. When Rogan dished out punchlines that were met with awkward silence, he had already made retort, They’re just jokes, folks, No one’s getting hurt. The problem wasn’t lame material. It was people who were too serious. But for the most part, that wasn’t the problem.
The San Antonio crowd was at a whoop it up mood, roaring no matter which side of the fence Rogan straddled in any given moment. The Daily Beast wrote, Joe Rogan is keeping Austin weird, and not in a good way. Like Donald Trump and JD. Vance. Rogan needed his viewers to know that he’s not weird.
It’s the new reality that’s weird, arguing you can’t just put lipstick on Now you can poop in the woman’s room. When his fans cheered him on, he grabbed a drink of water and chuckled all of a sudden. It’s an eight rally. So while I added to my best of twenty four list, I have added it in the currently last position, seventeenth best. It’s watchable.
If it hadn’t been live, I probably would have bailed around the forty two minute mark. I kind of had enough of it. It’s a little too long again. It’s not awful, but it’s not really interesting at all. So I have it at seventeenth, behind Rachel Feinstein at sixteen, Taylor Thomlinson at fifteen, and take Nataro at fourteen.
We’ll see though, as the year goes on, I may pull that off list. I’m really wishy washy on this. I’m wondering too if it did some damage to the Netflix Hey Live special brand? Right, these have been all exciting so far and this one was kind of eh. And the damage it does there is if they announced comedian X live on Netflix, you’re now more a tempted to be like, eh, all right, those are okay, very curious to me that they didn’t promote it, and I think now we know why.
In other news, Molly Kearney is not returning to Saturday Night Live for season fifty. On Instagram, Molly wrote, that’s a wrap on my time on SNL, reflecting on the amazing two seasons I got in the show was such a dream come true. So incredibly grateful for this period of my life. So much love to my big hearted buddies behind the scenes who make the magic happen every week. So many bald caps, so a little time.
I’m not really a big loss from a viewers standpoint, Late Nighter points out, with the exception of the Police Don’t Destroy Guys, Kearney had the least amount of screen time in season forty nine, with less than twenty five minutes over all. Punky Johnson, who’s also leaving the show, had the next least amount of screen time at thirty seven minutes and thirteen seconds. So next up on the list of who wasn’t really on the show much Michael Longfellow thirty nine minutes, seventeen seconds. Season fifty premieres September twenty eighth on NBC. I checked in with Dan Buobletz Junior and I’m like, hey, did anybody throw an ax at you during your set?
Nobody did, which is a good thing. So congratulations to Dan and the folks at laugh Out Loveland. Conan O’Brien had on what’s her name? You should prep the story? Why don’t you redo this?
John? No, I’m just having a brain fart and I’m leaving it in. Nikki Glaser is who was on. I could have easily redone that, but that’s not fun. So there’s Conan and his guest.
Who is it? That’s right, Nikki Glaser. They started talking about Conan being on hot Ones. She was curious how Conan prepared for Hot Ones. His solution be a total a hole.
Conan said, my first thought was I don’t want to just taste the wings and talk about the wings. I have to go on and be a total a hole. Glaziers said, You’re not someone who drinks a lot, and you don’t lose control. You’re always in control, even if you’re seemingly out of control. And I felt like it was the first time I’d ever seen you maybe on the brink of losing control because you were in so much pain, but you were fighting it.
You still had it, and it was one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever seen. Conan says, it sounds crazy, but if I think something’s funny and it’s going well, the performance energy or whatever that just takes over. He told a quick anecdote. A car filled with big jackey guys backed over my foot about ten years ago, and I think broke it. I was having a good time, and rather than ruin the evening, I just decided, skirt, my foot isn’t broken.
So I went out and had a lot of fun with these people.
And then I woke up in the morning and my wife saw my foot and it didn’t look …
Colin Jost has a new TV gig. He is the host of Amazon Prime Videos upcoming Pop Culture Jeopardy. Pop Culture Jeopardy in case you don’t know what it is from the title is a brand new twist on the classic quiz shows answer and question format that combines the academic rigor of Jeopardy with the excitement and unpredictability of pop culture. I’ll take who Cares for two hundred The answer pop Culture Jeopardy ding what is something Johnny Max is not gonna bother watching. Contestants playing in teams of three will need to be experts in categories from alternative rock to the Avengers, Broadway to MMA and copyrighting, Rule of three gen Z to Zendeia as they compete in a tournament style event for the grand prize and ultimate bragging rights.
That’s right, ultimate bragging rights. You know who I am? I won pop Culture Jeopardy hosted by Colin Jost on Amazon Prime Video. That’s who I am imagine having that bragging rights. Wow.
Lauren Anderson is a suit over in Amazon and said We’re thrilled to welcome the multi talented Colin Jost as the host of Pop Culture Jeopardy. The New York posted a lengthy interview with Nate Bergiazzi. How lengthy was it? So lengthy? I saved some of it for an upcoming vacation day that’s not for months from now.
I’ve got a little folder and I’m like, ah, here’s some leftover Nate stuff. So months from now, when you’re like, hey, this sounds kind of generic, I wonder if this is the vacation day Johnny Mack was talking about back in August you’ll be right, Nate says, right now, I don’t have a new hour, So these final shows on my Be Funny Tour, I’m adding a few new things. The fun part is when you get done taping and you’re like, oh my god, what else is there to talk about? But then you find stuff and you get laughs on the new jokes. I have one about door Dash that I came up with right after the special, Nate told the Post after S and L I’d go to every town and say I met the Foo Fighters.
They with a musical guest on his episode, and then I’d say Dave Girls from here. Truth be told, I don’t know where Dave Girl’s from. You know that famous Georgia Washington sketch which is an all timer, and Nate said it almost didn’t make it to air when we did a table read. I wasn’t into it. My timing is based off crowd, so George Washington didn’t look like it was going to be a good sketch.
And then Lauren let me do it during the dress rehearsal. It was the last sketch he knew. I liked it, and it was like, yeah, let’s see what it’s going to be and it destroyed. Streeter Siddell and mikey Day wrote the George Washington sketch. I did it just as they wrote it.
It was written in my voice so well that people think I was involved with the process. That’s the first time I did anything where it was with words that I hadn’t written, which was new. That’s just how good they are to be able to do that, especially someone like me, who only does words that I write. Yeah, million years ago, when Jim Burrer was doing Afternoon Drive at Serious raw Dog Comedy, I would write promos in Jim’s voice, and I had it down pretty well. I don’t mean a half ass impression.
I mean writing words that would sound like words Jim Burer would say. Nate says, there was one sketch I liked that I wish could have gotten on, but didn’t even make it to dress rehearsal. It was about this assistant coach that keeps bringing up that he needs the team to pitch in fifty dollars for uniforms. Like, hey, I didn’t get all the money from everybody. Nate says, A fortunate to get asked back.
Maybe we’ll try that one he talked about the sing along Lake Beach. That was James Austin Johnson. He’s originally a stand up comedian from Nashville. Funny Nate said, all that wait for the next story, wait for it went out there. You had funny enough.
Our dads know each other from college. I’m older than him, but saw him when he first started Nashville. So that was a song that I think he was doing on the road. They asked me d sing and I was like, absolutely not. Then when they did the sketch at the table read I saw them do the song, I was like, Oh, I can do that.
I don’t have to be a Dell.
Speaking of James Austin Johnson and Nashville, James Austin Johnson spoke to…
I didn’t even do this on purpose, James said, I bought a truck and I’m doing the first round of a cycling that I promised everyone I would do as soon as I got a truck, because not having a truck was the excuse for not hauling anything, which was a good excuse to not haul anything. He loves Nashville. When I was coming up, it just didn’t feel like there was a path in comedy. This was pre podcasting, and many of the lanes in stand up felt just kind of frozen in time. I knew I wasn’t gonna be Killer Bees, that’s a famous Southern comedian.
And I knew I was going to be a guitar comic or something like that. So I looked around and I just felt like I was a bit impatient with what my path could be. His parents started driving him to classes and auditions. That path was two decades long. On that path, he met local comedy crew corporate Juggernaut, who brought in then up and coming comics like Pete Holmes and Kyle Kanaane James says, so God bless my parents.
They always supported me, even though they might not have seen what I saw. They might not have had the vision I had, But my sweet dad he drove me out to LA from my final semester of college. And I’ll always be fully indebted to them for the support that they could give. Tom Popat told Wtop my act is kind of the special place where I spent a lot of time making sure that you’re gonna laugh every ten seconds for an hour and a half. It’s evergreen.
You want stuff that’ll laugh, and people can go and tell this joke to their friends for the next five or ten years. Something that happens in the news, that’s for Colbert or Kimmel in those places. Those are daily shows, and that’s where that stuff belongs. What about the ballot, podcast, ballot, wherever you get your shows? Tom says, I talk a lot about family.
I talk a lot about mental health, talk a lot about the pets that are ruining my life. I find his comedy extremely relatable, really enjoy it. I talk about how my family’s always changing and evolving, how my parents came and had an insurrection in my house for two weeks. Matt Friend will be the celebrity host for this year’s KC Superstar Finals. When are they John Sunday, August twenty fifth, What is it?
What will he be doing? Well? As host of the event, Matt Friend will be charged with interviewing with all ten KC Superstar finalists throughout the evening. Hundreds of teen singers from across the region have participated in KC Superstar since its inception, and several competitors have continued to perform professionally. Case Superstar provides over twenty two thousand dollars a random number in scholarships to the top ten finalists who come from across the metro area.
Some publicists must have put out this sentence which got written. Friend has become a popular comedic figure on social media, stages in red carpets worldwide, earning praise from notable names such as Howard Stern, Jeff Goldbloom, Paul Giamati, Austen Butler, Doctor fauci Leev schreiber, Sebastian Maniscalco, and John Oliver for his spot on impressions. I doubt that the local paper came up with that on their own, but I could be wrong, because here’s another sentence. Friend’s passion for comedy and entertainment has propelled him to great heights, amassing over one million followers on TikTok, Instagram and other social platforms, and they got his handles in there. Friend is known for his impressive repertoire of over two hundred and fifty impressions, from Jeff Goldbloom to Timothy Schallamey to Stanley Tucci.
Tammy is a producer at Casey Superstar and says, we are so thrilled to have Matt Friend as our celebrity host for our finals. You can read between the lines in our last story, I didn’t say anything. Read the transcript back, I did not say a thing. According to Late Nighter, Punky Johnson will not be returning to Saturday Night Live. Apparently Punky announced this at a live comedy show at Union Hall and Brooklyn.
Someone at the show posted Punky is leaving SNL. She said this was fine a share online, so I guess Twitter is the first to know. Definitely wasn’t a joke either, Like she’s actually gone and she’s very happy about it. Other people at the event then operated the story. Not sticking around for season fifty is a curious move.
We’ll see whose choice it was. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. Don’t tell Matt friend about it.
He’s not gonna like it tomorrow.