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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Saturday. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know what Arizon Saturday Saturday Night Live. It had been on a hot streak six point nine million viewers watched John Mulaney host, but last week when Bill Burr bombed Oh, I said that on threads and people got very upset with me.
They’re like, in Bob, you just didn’t kill fine. Anyway, people didn’t watch it, only four point four to two million. That is disappointing coming off the election, isn’t it. Charlie XCX doubles up tonight as both a host and musical performance guest. She will perform music when not hosting.
John Mulaney auditioned for Saturday Night Live before the two thousand and eight nine season, but didn’t make the cast and got hired as a writer. We know this from the GQ profile of John Mulaney. I’ve been talking about and I have shared with you in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Balani spent four seasons at SNL. His frequent writing partner, Simon Rich said, I remember very distinctly thinking, I really really hope that I get to write with this person.
Part of his genius is his precision and his absolute mastery of language. You never want to paraphrase a Malaney joke because they’re so perfectly constructed and crystalline. If you don’t get it word perfect, you’re not doing it justice. We’re like the post office yea haye es. But you love us.
At the end of the day, you go, look, they worked hard and got it done, but you’ve grown at our existence. I found out I’ll never need another topic to talk about. It’s like our World War two. At any event, any dinner I go to anywhere in the world, this look comes into their eyes. If you’re saying I’m an outlaw, Like, yeah, before this, I was a cowboy.
Rich estimates that he and Malaney wrote two hundred and fifty sketches, including frequently working on the host monologue. On the theory it was one thing that wouldn’t be cut. Jenny Slat appeared on Saturday Night Live. I’ve not brought back for a second season. Slade said, I think it’s so cool that I touched that dream.
I’m proud of myself. It’s almost magical in this weird way to think about it. There’s a lot of weird rewards that come from situations that we might think are more shadowy. One of the big rewards a belief in the long game, a belief in many, many options. It’s really important to believe that there’s like, actually twenty really cool, weird secret doors rather than one big, golden ornate legendary door.
If I hadn’t had that experience at the start of my career, I wouldn’t have understood how much is really up to me cracked ads. As recently scrapped cast member Chloe Troes pointed out last month, the names on the list of fired SNL cast members is perhaps even more impressive than the list of performers who were permitted to stay. And they write, it’s not like anyone would have cast Joe Piscopo in uncut Gems. I would watch that, And there are no billion dollar Marvel movies starring Jim Brewer as iron Man. Right.
Victoria Jackson remember her I bumped the story for a couple of weeks now, just there’s been a lot to talk about. But while we’re in SNL mode, she talked about her longtime beef with Alec Baldwin. The attention getting headline. Apparently Alec Baldwin called Victoria Jackson’s breast’s garbage cans. Jackson was on the Dana Carvey David Spade podcast.
Victoria’s said we got to talk about Alec Baldwin because he was on Fly on the Wall and he said my breast looked like garbage cans. Spaden Carvey asked her what he meant by that, and she said, that’s what I want to know. Apparently, Baldwin had said, the only time I ever cracked was when we did SNL. Victoria Jackson’s in there and they have her all dressed and her boobs are like two garbage cans sticking in your face. Spaden Carvey theorized they may have been complimenting her breast size.
Jackson disagreed. She also took issue with Xena Carvey telling Alec Baldwin in the episode that Jackson was trying not to fall in love with him. Jackson said, I don’t remember that way. She believes Baldwin took issue with what she wrote about him in her twenty twelve book is My Bow Too Big? An anecdote in nineteen ninety, Alec was sitting next to me on the set and he asked me why my boobs were so big.
That’s rude and it’s caustic and it’s inappropriate. I don’t know if he was flirting with me or he’s being mean. It was kind of a mixture, but I think he heard about the book and ever since, Alex’s been mean to me. Jackson thinks Baldwin probably targeted her because our political views are opposite. And I’ve also said that when he does an impression of Trump, he is hatred side of him.
So they probably read that Paul Riser’s got a special coming out this week? Is it this week or next week? Because today Saturday, the nineteenth, I guess that’s this week now, I know it’s the weekend, right, Where does the week not start tomorrow? Who cares? John?
Paul Riser has a special coming out soon and he tell the Irish Times. I started a little ahead of the boom. It was in the late seventies when I was in college. There were ready people who are on TV, who had big hit TV shows an year earlier. They were unknown.
Yeah, I remember Freddy Prinz, what a shooting star. They came out of those clubs. The people who open these comedy clubs realized there was an easy way to make money. They just get a brick wall and a microphone and can charge people twenty dollars to watch unknowns. We all flocked to it.
I would have aspired to be a comic if that path hadn’t been laid out. He talked about being in Ireland and said, we were there in the height of summer. I didn’t realize how late it stays. Light. Would come home from work at seven and then would say, let’s go to the pub.
Would sit with our guinness or two guinnesses and chatting with people and petting dogs. We don’t have that in New York. It’s a bar culture, not pub culture. In Ireland, they’re not watching the ballgame or CNN. They’re talking us.
The threeboot of Mad About You, where Paul and Jamie were empty nesters, people said, why’d you break up? They’re upset. We showed them that they separated for a bit because all marriages have bumps, but they ended up happily forever after and after a few years a whole bunch of shows were rebooting. We had that conversation. We thought, what story do they tell?
We can’t play newlyweds anymore. That ship has sailed. But we realized, if our kid has grown up, then these two idiots are all alone again, just like when the show started. I’m glad we did it. We had a great time.
All right, Let’s take a look at the comedy festivals for today. It’s the final day of the Flyover Comedy Festival out Saint Louis Way, and again I like their website. Tonight at eight o’clock the Sclar Brothers a smaller show at eight o’clock, an improv show called help Me I’m Drowning and Idiot Bitch. I kind of like that title. Oh no, here’s one at ten o’clock called S Show, and I can’t tell you what the S stands for, but whatever your guess is, you’re right.
And switching over to the New York Comedy Festival Saturday night in the Big City. I’m gonna have tons of headliners, right, yeah, I don’t know what’s going on this year. They don’t have the names I’ve had in the past. I’m scrolling down. I’ll read you the bigger names.
I’m nine shows in yet, and I haven’t seen anybody. You’ve probably heard of. If you’ve heard of Bill Maher the WTF Tour. That’s what you’re calling your tour? Are you just like completely unaware that Mark Maren has been calling his thing WTF for twenty years.
Bill Maher’s the WTF Tour. I’d love to hear Marin Steak on that. That’s at the Beacon at seven o’clock. I mean, it’s not like Maren owns WTF, but like, come on, man, you’re a comedian, you know Mark Maren is WTF. Matt McCusker is at Town Hall at seven o’clock.
Good name here, Time to kill a sketch comedy show at seven o’clock. Rachel Feinstein at the Bell House at seven thirty. Ali Colbert’s She’s on the Rise. Check her out to Union Hall seven thirty. Christian Finnegan remember him, You might remember his face from A Chappelle’s show seven thirty at Q E D.
I thought he was going to have a much bigger career than he has had. The stepfathers U see b At ten o’clock. Jason Zinnemann had some things to say about That’ll talk about that in a minute. Don’t Tell Comedy at ten o’clock at location TBD and that’s it. I mean, there are other shows, but those are your big names.
On a Saturday, Bill Maher on the second Saturday at the festival, this thing has taking a step down. No offense, but I mean there was a time when there were just huge names playing the festival. Jason is in him in front of the show, and he writes for The New York Times he recommends these Stepfathers at UCB, writes if you’re looking for something other than stand up. The Stepfathers were one of the best improv groups in the city for many years, with a pack weekly show at UCB. Then the organization shut down.
It’s returned this year in an attractive new space on East fourteenth and this is a good chance to see how the season troop ad just to new digs. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes that selly how it works. But if you’re on Apple podcast, there’s a banner and the banner says, I don’t know what does it say? Why don’t I just tell you?
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