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Caloroga Shark Media and Aaron Jay Mac would your Daily Comedy News. I do not like this first story, and I’m not throwing anyone under the bus here. I just don’t like how this shook out at all. Let me set it up for you. Olivia Munn, she’s married to John Mulaney, which is why we’re talking about this.
Stay with me. She was the cover story in the June fourth People magazine. The article was titled, Olivia Munn doesn’t let her kids watch Miss Rachel. Here’s why. If you’re not in the no, Miss Rachel is the host of a popular children’s show.
A few days after the cover story, People apparently pulled out a poll quote which is, I know kids love Miss Rachel, but the thing is, if I can’t watch it, I’m not going to spend the rest of my life going crazy. These kids shows drive me crazy, all right. Seems innocent enough. If your parent you know some of those shows, you know you might, Yeah, stay with me. That’s why I’m pulling my punch.
I don’t want to get I don’t want to get in the middle of this. Early People deleted the article on Thursday quote due to the violent threats that escalated towards the interview subject. In her family, John Mulaney has commented on this. Mulaney said, an innocent comment my wife, Olivia Munn made about what children’s programs we like, has somehow unbelievably been conflated with not caring about the deaths of children in Gaza. John posted this on Instagram and said, because of this, my wife and two kids are now receiving violent and threatening comments and messages in her DMS.
This is absolutely insane and needs to stop. The people doing this are so wildly out of line and so unhelpful to any conversation. You took a nothing comment to a dark and dangerous place. This kind of behavior is an activism now. Olivia had also said, Malcolm asked for blues clues and I don’t know who showed them the blues clues, but they’re on my crap list now.
I said, hell no, not in my house. Olivia had to explain in a statement to Miss Rachel and her fans, I hear in respect the passion behind your support. I never anticipated the media would single out on one small thing I said and distort it like they have. My comments were never meant to diminish the joy, comfort, and impact she brings to so many families. Every parent understands the importance of finding meaningful programming that helps us connect with our kids.
I don’t want something taken out of context to be a moment that steals even a minute of joy for anyone. Now, apparently under some new stories about Olivia, Miss Rachel wrote, who cares? I’d rather you cover me advocating for kids in Gaza who are literally starving, largest cohort of child amputees in modern history, thousands and thousands killed, no medical care, no education, no homes. Do better, not against her Olivia at all, and don’t care that she doesn’t want to watch the show. All my love to her and her family.
Disappointed in the outlets. Yikes, just yikes, what’s going on all right?
Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Desi Litik said, Yeah, nothing calms down a situati…
Desi again, you know, I’m beginning to wonder if Trump is intentionally trying to escalate the situation because more chaos allows them to portray blue states as centers of crime while positioning himself as the strong man that country needs to rally around. No that’s silly. I’m sure he’s just doing what’s best for everyone. Colbert Trump has sent thousands of troops into downtown LA. To quote what historians will remember as the Battle of that video of a burning waymod car they kept showing on cable news.
Greg Guttfeld said, California Governor Gaven Newsom and Mayor Karen Beast denounced the federal immigration raids, So now they don’t want California to have ice or water. All right, we’ll move out of the comedy part right now.
Speaking of late night, IndyCar owner David Letterman will be on this week CB…
Hey Mike from the Letterman Pod? Did you know that? Are you learning that from me? Yeah? Well good, you’re gonna want to tape that one.
But appear as they’re talking Indy cars. A Letterman will appear alongside Joseph Newgarten, Pado Award, and Mario Andretti. Knows that the Mariow Andretti from when I was a kid. Maybe he co owns the team. I’m not familiar with the other two.
So now, IndyCar fans, you come after me, I apologize. I don’t know everything I know you listen to the show and you’re like that Johnny macke knows everything, I don’t know everything and apparently have a week spot with IndyCar Staying with Late Night. Looking ahead to the Emmys this year, there will only be three nominations in the Outstanding Talk Series category. Here’s why there were only thirteen submissions, because there’s fewer late night shows now. The TV Academy rules say if there were between eight and nineteen submissions, the number of submissions will be divided by four and rounded to the nearest whole number.
So how do we arrive at three? Well, there were thirteen submissions for the category. Let’s do the math. Thirteen divided by four is three and change and we round to the nearest whole number and we get three. The submissions these are not nominations.
These are who submitted the Daily Show Mulaney, Heart to Heart on Peacock. Apparently that exists. I know that that exists, but has anyone ever mentioned that to you? I mean that might be the bobs Burgers of late night shows, CNN’s Have I Got News for You? Hot Ones, Kimmel, Seth Colbert, Midnight Snack with Julie Chan again, as I just copped to, I don’t know everything.
What is Midnight Snack with Julie Chan? Google paste and search. Okay, so several Google searches come up with the same exact phrasing, which is Midnight Snack with Julie Chan is the first late night talk show hosted by a Chinese American woman, Julie Chan. Now Here, I’m seeing a press release from September of twenty twenty four which tells us the first season of Midnight Snack has seven episodes, which sounds like a really low number. But we’re okay with nominating Malini for twelve, right, Okay, apparently you can watch this on Asian American Movies AAM dot TV.
Again, I’m just learning the show exists, so I’m not gonna say it’s good or bad. Might even win the Emmy.
Also nominated felon the dropout websites show called Very Important People, …
So those are your thirteen. The nominees come out July fifteenth. The Emmy Awards will air on CBS September fourteenth, out today on Hulu otsgar. So what Kotska has her second stand up special. This one is called Father.
I liked her previous special a lot, so I’m looking forward to watching this one at some point. It’s gonna rain again this weekend. Can I tell you I’m speaking to you. It’s eight twelve pm on Thursday evening. I usually don’t record at night, but yesterday was like the only nice day in a two week radius where I live.
So I took a beach day and it was beautiful. It was eighty four in low humidity. It’s sunny and just awesome. So I’m recording at night. I feel a little thrown off because I usually record midday early afternoon.
This is just weird to me. But it’s gonna rain this weekend, so I have time to watch Osco. She says her fans has just done calling her mother, but she begs to differ. She says, oh, no, I am father. In the trailer, we see that joke where she asked her husband how to turn on the Washington machine and that’s how he realized he’d been doing the laundry all these years.
She also jokes that she wants to grow her hair out, but she can’t because her current haircut is her brand. In The Special Father, she reflects on her relationship with her father, who lives in Japan and has been not really much part of her life since she moved to the States. She says telling her story on stage has helped heal her. What I found out about trauma is when you’re not going through it, you’re not going this is trauma. Now that I’m able to choke about it, I’m realizing I’ve sort of started to heal without even realizing it.
She talked about trying to pray her mom’s illness away when she was younger, and said, I became super Christian on my own. I think I needed something to believe in or something. It was community, all these things, and I was still confused about why we didn’t go back to Japan and my mom’s condition in the garage. That’s good, very seriously, to the point that even signed up for Jesus Camp on my own. I remember at the camp there were these prayer groups, and prayer meetings would break off into and one night it was like me and like thirty people in a prayer group, and I asked them to pray for my mom to get better, to be freed from the voices in her head and all these things, from the suffering from severe depression to the seizures, from feeling so isolated down all the time.
I truly thought it was going to work. I was in middle school, and I remember believing, oh my gosh, this is really different. I’ve prayed for this before. When I go home, she’s going to be healed. When I came home, I was super disappointed that she hadn’t changed, and feeling really down and hopeless because she still hears voices.
That’s on hool tonight. Looking forward to checking that out. Congratulations to doctor Colin Jost. He received the Honorary Doctor if Humane Letters from the College of Staten Island in recognition for his outstanding contributions to comedy, television and community service. What’s a little weird about this is he accepted it over video.
I mean, the whole point of us giving you the honorary degree is so you come and give a speech. Dude. What’s going on? Oh yeah, I love to go. Oh yeah, I’m filming a movie.
I can’t possibly How would I possibly get to New York City? How would I do that? Come on, Colin, what is he filming. Let me look this up from the Facebook page filming in Georgia. It says The Breadwinner is filming in the Atlanta area and Colin jos is in that film.
Colin Dude, bro, bro dude, Colin man, dude, you tell me you can’t get from Atlanta to New York City. You tell me you can’t do that. Come on, you can do that. I’m sure Nate would have understood. You could have been there.
Come on anyway, congratulations Collin Jost. A lot of big names in the show today. This is a lot of fun.
All right, here’s a big name.
Say a week ago, you were in Cambridge. You’re on the bus, your money, your own business. You know, you’re probably listening to my podcast while surfing the internet. You know, it’s a good combination. And you look up and you’re like, hey, that tall dude with the red orange hair, he looks really familiar.
Is that Conan O’Brien on a bus in Cambridge? Yeah? It was Conan O’briight, sack’s the bus. This apparently is like totally real and not a publicity stunt. Conan gave Craig, the bus driver, shot out, saying the best driver in Cambridge.
Right here, Craig says, I was driving along on Root seventy. All of a sudden I see this gentleman on the right hand walking. I saw the red hair and it kind of looked like Conan’s hair. So I said to myself, is that Conan? And it actually was.
He said, hey, let’s take it right away. I said, I’m not allowed to have a phone on the bus Conan, and he said, oh, that’s terrible. So he was just a great guy. That’s fun, all right. The Great American Comedy Festival is in Norfolk, Nebraska to night.
You’re five feature comedians River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and Chip Chantry. You’re headliner James Austin Johnson. Are you watching basketball? No, me, neither. There’s one person in the world watching this whole basketball series, and his name is Mike Epps, known a Pacers fan.
He’s like the one person who was like, should we put the Knicks in the finals so we get like twenty three million viewers? No, let’s put the Pacers through so we can get seven. Mike Epps spoke to website and Escape and he’s pretty big on Tyrese Halliburton. Now, I gotta say I was pretty impressed by mister Halliburton in the Eastern Conference Finals. The dude brought it.
Mike Epps says, Halliburton is an unpredictable player. That’s what I love about him because you don’t really know what you’re gonna get. That’s how he gives it to you. You can’t really predict what he’s gonna do and how he’s gonna do it, but he gets it done. That’s what I like about him.
Some players he’s just about to pinpoint him out. But this guy here is unpredictable and brilliant when it comes to playing basketball, no question, without a doubt. He reminds me of myself. That’s why can I relate to him because it’s his avant garde approach and it might not be pretty, but it gets the job done, all right, Mike Epps, what’s your earliest recollection of following the Pacers? Mister big time Pacers fan, Mike Kep said, i’d I’ve been a Pacer fan as long as I can remember.
You grew up in the city in Indianapolis as a basketball town, so I was a Pacer fan. Probably I was seven, eight years old. I used to go to a place called Market Square Arena where they used to play, and man, I was a Pacer fan before Reggie Miller was there, going all the way back to the Billy night days. All right, that’s some street cred. When you’re a fan, you’re a die hard fan.
You have a lot of ups and downs. Me I had times where I was like, oh man, why am I a Pacer fan? When you love a franchise and at your hometown, you can’t really find yourself rooting for anyone else. That’s what die hard means. All right.
Who’s your favorite Pacers player of all time? Reggie Miller, clutch player. And when you say Indiana Pacers, that’s how you think of Reggie Miller. He put us on the map. Game four is tonight at eight thirty.
If you’re curious, I’ll be watching Ots Goo And that is your comedy news for today. All right, I got a shower and get the sand off me. You see tomorrow.