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Caloroga Shark Media. Heidly Ho. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, and let’s talk about that greeting. Now. I’ve been doing that, think I’m channeling ned Flanders.
But it came up in trivia the other night and they asked, how does Ned Flander as a greed people? And I wrote down heidly Hoe. But no, no, no, Ned Flanders, apparently, says Hi Diddley Ho. So I didn’t get the point in the trivia game, but I got the Dave Chappelle question correct. I shared that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, Hi Happy Saturday.
Maybe, perhaps, possibly they’ve figured out what to do with John Mulaney’s show next week the guest David Letterman. Finally, Letterman also dropped an episode of his show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. His guest is WNBA star Kaitlyn Clark. It’s not what I want out of you, Dave. I’m not gonna watch that now.
Dave is, you know, mostly in retirement. He doesn’t care if I’m gonna watch or not. But I don’t want that. Can Mulaney interview Kaitlyn Clark and let Letterman screw around with a weekly talk show. Can we make that trade?
Because I would watch that great lineup next week David Letterman, Hannibal Burris, Leanne Morgan, Nicky Glazer, music by Randy Newman. Maybe he’ll do I Love La. So they are pulling out all the stops next week, Nikki Glaser, Letterman, LeAnn Morgan, Hannibal Burus, Fantastic. Everybody’s Live with John m’laney streams live on Netflix Wednesdays at ten East seven West. Because John opens the show with that very exciting it is seven oh two in Los Angeles, it is fifty nine degrees, John, take my notes, ask Dave how to do it?
Come out, tell two jokes and roll into the show. You’re not doing this right. And by the way, if you give me David Letterman, Nicky Glazer, Hannibal Burs and Leanne Morgan and Randy Newman, and you can’t hand in a good show, forget it. It’s not gonna get better than that. All you have to do is go hey, guys, what’s up?
And shut up. At an hour later, go all right, goodnight, everybody. That’s all you need to do with that panel. If you’re in the UK and you’re like, boy, I wish we had Saturday Night Live. Well, they’re making Saturday Night Live UK.
It’ll launch sometime in twenty twenty six on Skymax and the streaming service known as Now same format, guest host, musical guests, and a cast of British comics. The CEO of Sky Studios said, for over fifty years, Saturday Night Live has held a unique position in TV and and our collective culture, reflecting and creating the global conversation, all under the masterful comedic guidance of Lorne Michaels. The show discovered and nurtured to countless comedy and musical talents over the years, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lauren and the SNL team to bring an all British version of the show to UK audiences next year, all live from London on Saturday Night, Google tells me. In the States, SNL Studios is a production company founded in nineteen ninety seven as a joint venture between Louren Michaels and NBC Studios. NBC Studios is now Universal Television, the production arm of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
So some version of NBC’s got their hands in. Lauren’s gonna get paid a lot of money to be made out there. I hope this show in the States. A bunch of comedy specials coming up. Jessica Curson will have a special on Hulu on April twenty fifth.
Now I don’t know this because a Hulu publicists sent me the notes, because that would be too easy. No, I was on the internet and I stumbled across this, so I’m happy to tell you. Jessica cursons I’m the Man. Premiere is April twenty fifth on Hulu. Jessica tells The Daily Beast, I’ve been doing stand up for over twenty years, and this special is truly special.
My stand up has always stood out to the audiences I’ve performed for my fans, and especially to other comics. I’m the Man is me embracing everything I am, the crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I’m fearless on stage. Jessica says people need to laugh now more than ever. Is that some did? They did?
They pass out a pamphlet to all the comedians that you just have to say that in an interview. Is not every comedian saying you know people need to laugh more now than ever. Has there ever been a point in history where, like, you know, everything’s chill now, people don’t really need comedians, but you know, if you want to laugh, that would be fine. Everybody needs to stop saying people need to laugh now more than ever, Jessica continues, After everything we’ve been through these past few years, I wanted to create something brutally honest and authentic. I wanted the audience to know they’re not alone.
That I struggled too. I pride myself on being an entertainer. I wanted people to see a show nothing too much. That’s what people experience, a fast paced ride. I’m so proud of what I’ve created.
I can’t wait for the world to see it also, and I’m filled with fear now. I could play a clip here, except the Hulu publicists don’t get back to anybody. I don’t have a clip to play for you. I guess they don’t want you to watch their special. That’s fine.
I will not be stopped because I have found out that the next hilarious thing on May thirtieth is Ricky Smiley. His is called fool ish with a hyphen between the L and the Eye in fool Ish, taped at the Lyric Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. The special is said to be infused with his trademark humor, characters, and satire on life and pop culture. It’s his first special since twenty eleven, and Smiley said, as I knew after over ten years, I had offered something that was satisfy my fans. I’ve been through a lot of transformation and trauma these past few years, and I was determined to get through it and think that I’ll have a deeper connection with my audience.
From my experiences, we can find humor in so much of life. Fool Ish is for people of all ages, for those who grew up playing with etch a sketch, to those who were raised on iPads. Brett Goldstein. We have a date for his special on Max April twenty sixth. You can sit home and watch Brett Goldstein the second best night of your life.
Now, HBO does this annoying thing where they don’t release it until ten pm Eastern. You know, Johnny Max fallen asleep to ten Eastern? How about seven Eastern? Guys? If you’re like, who’s Brett Goldstein, He’s Roy Kent on ted Lasso.
Now you know who this is. I’ve even shared a trailer and it’s a big bag of okay. I had to make some medits here because there’s some naughty words we’re not going to use on this podcast, and overall I find the trailer okay. Cookie Monster is an addict. Bah, we are meeting him at the point of addiction where he’s still fun in a few months.
You don’t want to be hanging out with Cooky. Cooky is a nightmare very soon. My mom is really hot. Recently, I’ve been speaking to lots of couples in long term relationships, and I’ve been asking them about their sex lives because I am a pervert. I’m vaguely distracted by a child in the front run.
Are you a human child? Okay, We’re going to learn so much. Cameron Esposito talked about her new special with The La Times and says it’s meant to be art. Sadly, stand up comedy can sometimes just be goofing around, and it is, but also I wanted to feel like the experience of a manic episode, which is what the special is about. There’s meant to be three sections within the special.
The first it’s just the standard special that you’re used to, with more traditional camera angles. The second it’s one of the camera shifts to being almost up my nose, which is meant to sort of feel intense and a little panic inducing.
And then the third act is filming in front of an all white background where t…
I haven’t seen this one yet, but that sounds like a little too much for Johnny Mack. How about you stand in front of a brick wall and you tell some jokes. How about that the camera says, dropout. Let me build a fake stand up club. It would be cheaper to shoot at a regular club, but I wanted to be able to control the exact camera angles and where the audience was placed so we could pull off this idea of escalating energy and being on stage.
Part of the reason I chose this job is it being on stage also induces like a mini bipolar cycle. So literally being on stage floods the brain with those chemicals, like those very positive endorphins, like the feeling of working out or drugs. Because it’s also the same chemicals that happen when people take cocaine. What is going on with this special? Can’t we just stand in front of a brick wall?
So being on stage and all this chemicals being released and the excitement of that, I want people to feel that and not just feel it in the way when you’re shooting a special and there’s like a cream shot and it’s very far from the back of stage, and you’re getting this grand feeling of stand up, which is so sumportant to stand up biz, but stand up when you’re watching it. My favorite thing is being in the room, Cameron. I think that’s something that stands a test of time. Are those specials like Carlin that are really about this bigger question and they answer it with an arc. Bo Burnham has done a great job with this, Hannah Gatsby, all those specials.
I think we’ll have a lasting effect and change the art form. And these specials that are kind of like sermons, they have a point or hear me out, you stand in front of a brick wall. I was hanging out with some civilians. Now these civilians are my friends. We were at trivia night the other night and they started their own conversation about what comedy specials they were watching.
We usually talk about, Hey, what are you watching, Bill? What are you watching on Netflix? What’s good this week? Bill? Bill?
As soon as it comes out on Netflix, Bill has seen it. So I asked Bill, what should I be watching every week? So one of the guys had watched Bill Burr’s special and really liked it, and then the three of them were like, yeah, Bill Burn and I didn’t want to chime in and be like, excuse me, I’m a comedy snob. I think it’s actually Bill’s seventh best special years what I just went. Yeah.
They also talked about Nikki Glaser and found her to be a little graphic. They weren’t offended, they weren’t shy, but they’re like, oh my, I can’t believe she says such things personally, that’s not my style of comedy. And they were bored by Chelsea Handler. So that is three civilians at Trivia night reviewing comedy. You can agree or disagree.
Let’s hit gossip corner real quick. You might have been there in Adams County, Pennsylvania. You’re at the Civil War Museum and shop and in walks Matt Rife, Yeah, the Union drummer Boy shop. Posted on social media Matt Rife stopping by to check out some historic artifacts. It is unclear if he bought anything from The Guardian.
Australian comedian Alice Fraser not coming to the US after receiving legal advice that she could be stopped at the border because of Trump jokes really overreact much. Alice was going to apply for an one B visa, which The Guardian tells US permits comedians to live and work in the US if they demonstrate extraordinary ability in the arts. But after widespread reports of people being denied entry to the US and travelers being detained, Fraser sought advice from an immigration lawyer. Alice tells The Guardian, I asked the lawyer what I thought was a ridiculous question, that I do political sets are and have a fair few jokes floating around on Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and whether that be a risk. I thought I was being paranoid, but you said it might pose a risk and it almost certainly googled me are they doing that?
Which reminds me, by the way, Trump, Elon doing a great job. Nobody’s a bigger sport than me. Anyway, back to the show, she said, while the vast majority of people will be able to travel. It it out. They’re definitely doing increased scrutinizing.
Johnny Mack doesn’t want to go to the comedy Coulac guys is if this is a thing. I mean, I’m just recording stuff on the podcast. You guys are doing great, keep it up. If I didn’t have two children, I might be more open to taking a risk. But the vision of me being there with a baby strapped to me and held up in hassled or worse, I’m not up for that.
According to The Guardian, foreigners have had their devices search at the US border and been denied entry, including a French scientist who had messages on his phone critical of Donald Trump. Fraser says, I will go to the America that will have me when it’s no longer reasonable for a visa lawyer to say I should purge my social media before I go there because a joke about Elon Musk might be considered hostile to the nation. Are you at C two E two twenty twenty five. They’re in Chicago and they have a track for comedy fans this weekend. Patton Oswalt was there last night.
Second City is there tonight, Let’s see who’s at the various festivals. It is the final night of the Traverse City Comedy Festival. Three o’clock Funny Women of a Certain Age, three point thirty, Comikaze Comedy Show, five thirty Big Fun, Murder in Improv, Murder Mystery, A Next Up Comedy Showcase at five thirty. Six o’clock Mark Marin, WHOA, I love Mark Maren and it’s happening. At six o’clock, I could see a comedy show and being met by quarter to eight perfect seven o’clock Leon Lord.
Eight o’clock the Comedy Rumble with a it looks like I’m just skimming here, probably about fifteen comedians. That’s different than the Daily Doesn’t Showcase.
Also at eight a second a Mark Marin show at eight thirty, but I’ll be in bed …
At nine thirty the Out of Towner’s Comedy Showcase, ten thirty PM A Dirty Showcase, and at midnight Comedy Karaoke. Nice job, Traverse City Comedy Fest. I get to delete that tab until next year, and my browser fills up. Guys, it can’t keep everything open. In Nashville, Dan Cummins at five o’clock again My kind of Show.
Six thirty a Zany’s showcase for the Tonight show. That’s interesting. Dan commins again at Zany’s. At seven thirty Jay Leno at the Rhyme and at seven thirty eight forty five another showcase for the Tonight show. Ninety five pm Pete Lee and at ten forty five the Dark and Dirty Showcase.
And I don’t know if this is a mistake or they put it out of sequence. It says Saturday, April twelfth, four o’clock, Yakoff Smirnoff. But I’m gonna guess this is a mistake and this is actually Sunday. Let’s say no, it says April twelfth, all right, they put it out of order yakof smirnof at four o’clock. I’d probably be at that.
They have some more shows tomorrow, and let’s go down to Austin, Texas, where it’s all bro dudes with shaved heads and muscle t shirts and all the other stuff we hate as they ruin comedy in Austin, Texas. Those jerks, right, it’s not the current narrative. Four o’clock. Josh Johnson also at for Don reed Boy Saturday afternoon comedy is the thing. Huh.
Josh does another show at seven, Handsome Live with Tignataro, Fortune Femester in May Martin at seven, Ricky Lindholm at seven, Josh Johnson at nine thirty. Josh doing three shows in a row. I don’t know if you want to see that third show, Guys, and Alex Moffatt at nine thirty at the State Theater. Out of everything I just talked about, Mark Marin and Early Bed. How’s that sound?
It sounds great, Johnny Mack, I know. And that’s a lot for a Saturday, right, Yeah, let’s go do something else. Why are we’re listening to podcasts? It’s the weekend. See tomorrow.