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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I am Chenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a date for Ricky Gervas Armageddon on Netflix. That date is Christmas. Ricky Gervas said, for the next two thousand years, people will remember the twenty fifth of December as the day Army Geddon was released on Netflix.
Army Geddon, recorded at the London Palladium earlier this year, features Ricky Gervas talking about the end of humanity, political correctness, family weddings, funerals, and artificial intelligence. The show won Ricky a Guinness World Record for the highest gross for a single stand up performance ever one point four one pounds. Wow. And that was just one of eighty five arena dates he did on the tour. Back in twenty twenty, Ricky signed a reported forty million dollar deal with Netflix which included the third season of Afterlife plus an unspecified number of stand up specials.
So that’ll be a good one to watch Christmas night. I don’t know. If there’s a football game then I could look. Let’s look, Oh, there are three games on Christmas Day, the Raiders and the Chiefs. That’s not bad, Giants and Eagles, Giants a little rough, but the Eagles are a good team.
And the night game the Ravens and the forty nine ers, and I’m a forty nine Ers fan. I won’t be getting to Ricky Travas. On the twenty fifth maybe. On the twenty sixth, Bill Burr commented on was it last week or the week before? Remember?
Missus Burr showed up at the UFC and Donald Trump was there and she gave Trump wore perhaps Kid Rock or perhaps Stana White at a two fingers salute. Bill Burr said, I love my wife. You know where you stand with her. The guy walked in the arena, everybody cheered, she gave the finger. Nobody got arrested.
That’s why this country’s great. Everybody expressed themselves. Can we all be adults. I don’t know about you, but I came there to go to the fights. I didn’t know I was going to the Republican National Convention.
It’s like those Trump guys are always going you snowflakes, after your feelings and all that, and then you make fun of Trump and they’re like, oh my god, they’re so disrespectful. Send your letters to Bill Burr, Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Matt Rife. Believe me, I was trying not to mention Matt Rife.
And then I saw this headline Matt Rife accused of swiping jokes from Ralphie …
I was friendly. I almost said tight. I wasn’t tight with Ralphie May, but I was quite friendly with Ralphie May quite so I was like what Twitter user at really though, posted two stolen Ralphie May bits from the Matt Rife Netflix special so far and I’m halfway in. This is nearly a direct lift, at least to use a different cadence for plausible deniability. Embarrassing, really though, posted the clips back to back.
They’re a little too long for me to share. In the first clip, Ralphie is talking about a student he went to school with. He’s using the R word that has fallen quite out of fashion. Has cracked put it. Ralphie riffs on the special needs kid from the high school, who also happens to be extremely well endowed.
Then the Matt Rife clip, same thing, Crack says. If I give Rife the benefit of the doubt here, I’d say he and Ralphie simply shared a remarkable coincidence in their lives. Both comics went to a high school with a likable special needs kid who also happened to have a large endowment. Could happen? I guess button both bits, the comedians reference the other student wearing a helmet.
In both bits, the comedians observe that when God taketh away in one area, he giveth in another, and Krack says it’s not the first time someone has accused Rife of borrowing a joke or to Oh, I did not know this. Let’s do some more googling. What came up is a TikTok titled Matt Rife Steele’s erro or Joke from the Barcode Network podcast. I went to play on it and it’s a TikTok, and I’m not logged in, and I don’t feel like letting the Chinese have all my information on this particular computer. So let’s just move on.
Today one of the great days of the year. Why, Johnny Mack, Because it’s a day where we get a new Adam Sandler film, Leo, out on Netflix today. Cancel all your plans, stay home. In Leo, Adam Sandler voices a seventy year old lizard named Leo, who for decades has served as a class pet for a rotating group of fifth graders. One day, Leo learns he only has a year to live and plans to escape to freedom, but instead, twist spoiler, he has to rescue the students from their mean substitute teacher.
Listen to this? Uh who listen to this? Can you hear it? Can you hear me? Losing it?
Can you you hear me? Right? Sandler tells the Hollywood Reporter he was inspired to do a version of Are You Ready Grease for the last year of elementary school? Tap the brakes, Adam sailor Let’s not go, comparing this to Grease. Sandler stars of the voice cast, alongside coincidentally best choices for the voice acting his daughter Sonny and Sadie no one better wife.
Jackie, also one of the best voice actors in the business, is also in the film, But Sadlor says, don’t expect family projects from now on. They want to do their own thing too. Uh huh, Yep. I’m sure they’ll get a project, and I’m sure if we look at the credits, it’ll say executive produced by Adam Sandler. This will be one of those deals where Netflix is like, hey, we throw us a special and yeah, you can have two projects that we don’t care about happens all the time, and showbiz that will happen.
Write it Down, Johnny Mack, November twenty first, twenty twenty three, Write it Down. When it came to crafting the voice of Leo, Adam Sandler revealed that he channeled late manager and producer Bernie Brilstein, who helped launch SNL and served as manager to SNL stars including Adam Sandlor, Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Martin Short, and Lorn Michaels. Robert Smigel is part of this project. He himself also used to do an impression of Bernie Brilstein and remembered how he would give advice in a way that would suit the film’s wise lizard. Smigel recalled, Adam said, let me do Bernie for this one.
I thought he might do Peter Falk, but he said, I want to do Bernie for this one. Sandlor already had started to work on a movie set during the fifth grade. Sandler says it was a very different movie and it had a narrator who appeared two or three times and the last time it appeared, it was revealed at the very end of the movie that he was a snake at the back of the classroom. That sort of triggered this whole idea for me, Like, what if the class pet’s been stuck in this room for seventy years seeing every kind of fifth grader who was incredibly jaded, then finds out he has a year to live, and then he decides he’s got to go make more of his life. Then he ends up giving advice to kids.
Sounds great, Adam. By the way, I was curious and a googled lizard lifespan. Google tells me the lifespan of a lizard depends on the species of lizards. Take a guess. Well.
According to Google, geckos survive for about ten to fifteen years in a typical home, chameleons five to seven years, iguanas twenty years, and komodo dragons, the biggest of the reptiles, live for an average of forty years. So there could be some creative stretching here in Leo, but that’s okay. Adam Sandler says kids have such heightened anxiety about the smallest problems. Sometimes when they were that age, and I thought it was a really funny thing to put together. Kids with really tiny problems that are huge in their minds confided with a wise old lizard who has the lifespan of three to four times the normal lizard lifespan.
Bill Burr is in this thing as well. He plays Squirtle, who’s a turtle who shares the classroom terrarium with Leo. Burst said it was surreal to be in the booth with Sandler. He’s the greatest guy ever. Bill Burr goes song free, joking.
I’m actually disappointed they didn’t ask me. I’m one of the great bad singers of all time. Robert Smigel’s sons also coincidentally in the movie. They also are among some of the best voice actors of the business. Leo streaming on Netflix today, Hooray.
Also out on Netflix Today, The Old Man on the Pool Mike Burbiglia. The show is a take on life’s big questions, why are we here, what’s next? Exactly? How much chlorine are they putting on the YMCA Pool. The Old Man on the Pool on Netflix Today, Good SNL This weekend.
I saw Vulture didn’t like it at all. I thought it was probably the second best episode of the season because of the weirdness of Sarah Sherman and the greatness of Bow and Yang. They were both in a lot of sketches, and their sketches tend to stand out. Sarah brought the weird on Saturday Night, which was good. Now I was going to mention her anyway, and then I saw a Variety happen to profile her.
Good for me, because it’s a slow news week. We learned from Variety that Sarah has been working with colleagues for months on new technology that would make the act of pretending to throw up on stage a lot easier and more comfortable. You see, for years SNL cast members have relied on a tube tucked alongside their arm and usually inside a jacket’s sleeve, that spews out liquid approximating vomited blood. At just the right moment, The actor holds an arm close to their mouth and the vomit rig does the rest. Dan Aykroyd used this in nineteen seventy eight when playing Julia Child.
Sarah sh Sherman’s idea is an advanced vomit rig that’s hands free, kind of like Bluetooth style. She and mikey Day wrote a sketch that would have used it, but it was cut after dress rehearsal. Sarah says, just know that we have some of the most brilliant minds and special effects working around the clock to develop live gags. I’m trying every day to make great things. Talk more about Sarah later in the week.
It’s a pretty good profile. As the show wrapped up, you know at the end there where they all stand on the stage and the music plays out, Colin Jost was seen holding up a sign that read we love you Dana and Paula, a shout out to the couple whose son Dex Carvey died last week from an accidental drug overdose at thirty two. Dana posted on Instagram and Twitter over the weekend saying this is just to say thank you. He said he and wife Paula have been overwhelmed by the love, compassionate and personal stories that people have shared with them. We receive so many beautiful messages from people who knew Decks.
These touched us more than we could ever express in words. Dana added, I’ll be taking a break from work in social media, trying to figure out what life looks like now that we’re a family of three, well heal the best we can and carry on our darling Decks would have wanted it that way. Some more detail around the original announcement. Last Thursday, Carvey had posted twice about his son. Alongside a photo of Dex, he wrote, f the tabloids, this is my boy.
He also shared a snapshot of father and son teaming up on a project, saying, Dex and be working together. What a joy. Jim Gaffigan tagged it and said, what a great picture. Love the focus you’re putting on telling us about Dex. Such a lovely tribute to your boy.
Kevin Nalan commented love the picture, Dana. It tells so much. God bless you, Dex. That’s your comedy news for today.