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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you skip the weekends, the weekend was really good. Saturday, my hour long interview with Mark Malkoff, Sunday’s episode, and I’m the first one a cop to a lot of times on the weekend, there’s filler stuff. Yesterday’s episode was all new stuff that I had found when I recorded, and it’s really strong, including a fun Triumph story and a really fun Rob Schneider story.
So if you miss the weekend, check that out. And premium subscribers, boy, on Saturday morning, they were treated to three three and a half minutes of me talking to my phone as I drove home from the National Donuts Chain. I mean, what a treat that alone worth the four ninety nine for premium subscribers Today is good too. A late night joke from Jimmy Fallon. In an effort to boost the birth rate, Tokyo was launching the first government run dating app.
That’s nice. Apparently in Japan they have government benefits and government with benefits love it. John Mulaney profiled by Indie Wire he talked about that late night show. Mulaney said the pitch was Netflix wanted a show every night coinciding with the festival. They didn’t know what they wanted.
They brought it to me and said, would you want to produce this and be some part of it? And I was like that, we didn’t know what this is. Do you want to do it? I was intrigued by six live nights, the run of it, and the finite amount of time. Originally, Melanie didn’t even plan to host it.
I knew we wouldn’t be able to start until February, even in pre production, and I thought, Oh, that’s so fun. We’ll just get a staff together, get a lot of great people together, and then we’ll just have to go, go, go, and then it’ll be done. May tenth. I was kind of ripping off The Chris Rock Show. That’s Chris Rock’s nineteen ninety seven HBO series.
He had Johnny Cochran on, and I remember watching that as a kid and going, Oh, he’s having on who he thinks is interesting. I filed that away as like, oh, of course you do that. If you can get somebody interested in who would be really cool to an audience, everybody wins. And so I had Marcia Clark. All right, he has now addressed some of my concerns with the program.
Mlanie explained, you have Jerry Seinfeld and he’s sitting next to a coyote expert that was anorth star from the beginning, so the fact that that specifically came together was really great. When pitching the experts, Malanie assured them they weren’t going to be a punchline of the joke. I learned quickly you have to say, oh, we’re not making fun of you, which I would have never thought you have to say. But of course they’re saying it’s a comedy show and we’re comedians, and I was like, no, no, no, I’m much more interested in you than I am in the other comedians. Fan response to Everybody’s in la In particularly felt really gratifying because most of the comedy I’ve done, like Sack, Lunch Bunch or Oh Hello, is actually about external topics and not about my own life or psyche or whatever.
Was never about my personal life. To me, I mainly make fun of TV shows and random things I’ve seen. So this show, being entirely external in a way, in the end becomes the most personal thing you can do. I promise you, I think more about earthquakes and ghosts than I do my own life. All right, John Mulaney, are we getting more of this show?
M’laney said, I’m really not sure. I think what I loved about the show so much is that every sort of minute looked like it was about to get out of control in every possible way. M’lanie talked about the callers. Johnny mack has pointed out some of the callers were kind of killing the show. Mlanie said, but there was one story I won’t name, but I thought, are you kidding?
I was so bored, and I was like, you got to hold it together. You did invite the calls. My biggest takeaway was I feel like on Larry King Live or on drivetime Radio, people knew what a call in segment was. They hit the ground running and they go, yeah, I got three things to say about Lendy Dichster. But our callers tended to be younger.
I’d be like, hi, and they’d be like, so, I know, you talk about earthquakes. Get tell the story. You got to come in hot, exactly, John Mulaney. And that is why you need a producer. That’s what I’ve been saying.
Rob Schneider in the news again, this time international. The Daily Mail writes American comedian Rob Schneider slam’s cancel culture, claiming it has changed the world of comedy for the worst. He told Channel seven’s Sunrise that audiences are getting too upsight about what you could joke about on TV, which is why he prefers stand up comedy. Although if you’re doing a hospital benefit, be careful booking Rob Schneider, see yesterday’s episode for why people get uptight about stuff. That’s why it’s important I have a dark theater to perform in where people can hear things that they can’t hear on TV.
Schneider is currently touring Australia. The idea is to be able to express things and let it out. People can laugh at things. It’s not attacking anybody, although some people claim it is. It’s tough for now, But at the same time, anytime people get uptight about something is an opportunity.
You have to get it in a way the audience can laugh. Schneider was asked about Happy Gilmour too. He said, I think Sandler just can’t stop making movies. He doesn’t know what else to do with his life. I finally got around watching some comedy specials.
Joe Coy Boy, that review I read on Friday, it was on point. The guy was saying how it looked like a comedy special and there were no jokes. Boy, I agree my notes where Joekoy is all energy, stop cursing and tell a joke. It was just like all vibe. He’s very charismatic.
The energy’s there, but dude, do some material. It was five minutes fifty seconds in before the first solid joke land. I won’t spoil it. It’s very solid, but it was like, come on, dude, life’s too short. I bailed on that.
Sorry, Joe Coy, Life’s too short. I bailed on that one. So I switched over to Rachel Feinstein and the complete opposite. She gets right to it. I don’t even know if she said hello and immediately gets into the material.
Is it her special life changing? No, it’s a nice, solid hour of comedy. I’ve added to my best of twenty twenty four list all the way at the bottom, but it’s on the list. It’s fine. It’s a nice hour.
As I analyze it, are some of her stories exaggerated? Fake? Sure? Absolutely, but she’s doing characters and the voices of the various firemen she does in her act. I feel like I know these people.
I’ve met these people, so I like Rachel a lot. The Closer could have been a little stronger. The special just kind of ends, but it’s nice. The TV grim Reaper reported that although The Roast of Tom Brady did two hundred and seventy nine million minutes in its first live night, it averaged two hundred and thirty nine million minutes a day for the following week. Wow, a lot of people watched it after the fact.
I guess it had really good buzz. Last week Jimmy Kimmel had Kamala Harris on seems they made an edit and we didn’t know about stuff. A video shared on social media by an anti war group called Code Pink. They described themselves as a feminist grassroots organization working to end US warfare and imperialism and support peace and human rights initiatives. In their video, pro Palestinian activists of the audience at Kimmel can be seen interrupting the interview with Harris by shouting phrases like stop the genocide and you’re a murderer to Harris.
Kim Will tells the crowd, you’re interrupting my flow. Security personnel appear to remove the person disrupting the proceedings. Kim Will tells Harris, sorry about that, and then quips if anybody else has something to say, this is the time. The video then cuts to a different person interfering with the taping, a security officer and then is on the video saying you are under arrest at the moment for interfering with a live television broadcast. It is unclear if that person was Jimmy Kimmel’s security secret service LAPD or someone else.
Code Pink is now demanding the Late Night Show address and apologize for the un necessary use of brutal force. Yikes. The Washington Post had a large profile of Joel Kim Booster. Joel Kim Booster’s publicist, you earned your money this week. Boy.
This was a wax job. As a former coworker used to say, you know, that’s when you bring your car over to somebody’s house and they wax it down and make it look nice. That’s what that term means. The Post writs, for a while, Joel Kim Booster’s brand was oversharing. Joel says if I was feeling something, everybody online would know about it.
Now it’s just like if I’m feeling bad, I don’t want any of these lunics to know about it because they’ll just go for the kill. I’m very happy being a Dalist gay celebrity. I can’t imagine what it would be like if street people knew who I was. I have a very strict do not engage policy. I hardly ever spawned anyone’s sweets or comments publicly, or dms for that matter.
The Santa Fe Reporters spoke to Brian Reagan. Brian was an ECON major until his football coach suggested he switch. Reagan said, I took a speech class and for one of the speeches, we had to try to be humorous. So I wrote this speech and killed But not only did it feel good. Remember the teacher in the back, This woman was laughing like crazy, and I was thinking, I’ve never impressed a teacher in my life with anything that.
I remember walking back to the dorm after the class and I was on a cloud, thinking I don’t feel like this when I walk back from any of my other classes. So I was like, whatever that was, I know, I want that in my life. Has comedy changed since Brian Reagan started. Yeah, it’s like anything else that grows and evolves. In fact, if I were young now trying to get in to stand up comedy, I don’t even know.
I wouldn’t how to do it. When I started comedy clubs which just opening around the country, and the way you got on stage was going to open mic at a comedy club. Now a lot of comedy clubs don’t even have open mics. The Washington Post has been covering the DC comedy scene. Some comedians doing well there include Jasmine Burton, a practicing attorney.
Jasmine started in comedy a little over two years ago. My long term goal is to be a late night television show host like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Coberer or Trevor Noah. A lot of hosts get their start in comedy, so I thought it’d be a great way to get my name out there and start preparing me for the big leagues. I’m the perfect combination of West Coast and East Coast swagger. I’m known for my high energy, witty punch lines, and infusion of the law and my life experiences in a co When you see me.
I want you to feel like you are just like me, or have a best friend that is. I love to talk about law school at Howard University and my career now and how policy affects us in our day to day lives. Well, tell us about a time you bummed, Jasmine said. One time I was trying new material and was not going well. One audience member yelled keep your day job, and although they meant it as an insult, I actually found it to be extreme sound financial advice, so I thanked them for that.
That’s really funny, and that is your comedy news for today. My voice is shot. I recorded Sunday and Monday back to back. That half ass triumph impression killing me. Don’t do a triumph impression.
You’ll destroy your voice. See tomorrow