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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Download numbers continue to be really strong. So I’d like to thank the FCC chairperson and of course the re Odd Comedy Festival for making it all possible. John Stewart was at the New Yorker Festival.
Several topics came up, including the Reodd Comedy Festival. Hey, I talked about bourbon all weekend. There’s only so much I could do here. These are the news stories. John was discussing comics like Bill Burr and Louis C.K.
Who both performed at the Reod Comedy Festival. John Stewart said, so like, it’s hard for me to watch that sort of thing. It was like, I don’t such other people’s money. It’s hard, man. I thought the only person who should have done it was Pete Davidson because they owe money.
I want to fix my house. I want to operate with integrity, but I don’t want to gate keep. I think a lot of comics who came out and really crapped on those guys. I know a couple of them, and I know they actually like to be like garbage humans. So it’s hard for me to watch that sort of thing.
I would prefer if they would have just come out and said it’s money and not like a way to start conversation, Like would you have started the conversation for twenty five hundred dollars? That’s the difference. Am I disappointed that Pete Davison did it, Yes, but at least he was honest about the reason. John continued, Look, I worked for Apple. There are a lot of people who believe that Apple is exploitative in a way that’s horrific.
Not me. I love my friends at Apple Podcasts, especially the editorial team that promotes podcasts great humanitarians, just want to say that. John Stewart, however, said, you know, we all have our lines that we’re willing to cross. None of us are diogeties. We get into a problem where we’re unforgiving in any way.
We offer no grace. And that doesn’t mean I don’t have lines that I draw, but that if people cross them, I won’t do. But I do try to not be so rigid in the way that I think society has become. The topic moved to Kimmelgate and Colbert Gate. John Stewart said the comedians are not the victims of this administration.
We are a visible manifestation of certain things. But the victims are the people that are struggling to have any voice and are being forcibly removed from streets by hooded agents. Those are the victims of this administration. Will John continue to host the Daily Show one day a week. His contract is up in December, he told the New Yorker Festival, We’re working on staying.
Stuart said he plans to keep fighting urges others to do the same. He says, you don’t compromise in what you do, and you do it until they tell you to leave. As for the Kimmel suspension, I think it rattled everyone to some extent, but it also presented great opportunity, and so I don’t know that we’ve had as much fun as we did that Thursday morning, coming up with all the super little stuff that you see, including gold pictures and red ties. You know, it gave us some purpose. As for Donald Trump, John Stewart said, there’s a reason Donald Trump came to power, and that is in the general populace’s mind, government no longer serves the interests of the people it purports to represent.
That’s a broad Bays deep feeling, and that helps when someone comes along goes the system is rigged, and people go, yeah it is. John struggled to name a national leader for the Democrats right now. Audience members suggested that leader could be John Stewart himself. John said, if we really got to that point, it’s also a function of frustration, a cry of disperation, other I’m none of the above. The Democratic parties right for what happened to the Republican Party in twenty sixteen.
But hopefully it’ll be somebody who uses that power for good and not for self a grant, and not for their own gentrification. He discussed the No King’s rallies. When seven million people show up in America on a weekend for anything, I mean, honestly anything. We’re not Russia and their history of autocracy or dictatorship. It’s an alien culture to us, and it’s uncomfortable, and that discomfort may be our saving grace.
I don’t think we’re gonna wear that well. And that doesn’t mean we’re not going to be in some kind of soft autocracy where news is controlled. But we have a lot of different avenues and suppression creates opportunity, and a populace that is thirsty for inspiration and leadership and morality and its egerity that’s fertile ground for that opportunity. John Oliver opened his show Sunday night showing images of the White House demolition project. John said those images are distressing, especially when you know it’s all to build a giant ballroom in a style best described as medspa ver Sai, and yet the demolition of the White House a metaphor that if anything is too on the news was just the tip of Trump’s iceberg this week.
Oliver then showed a news report where Trump was trying to get two hundred and thirty million dollars from the Justice Department. Oliver said, I should say Trump has said he’d donate any settlement to in his words, cheery or something. But incredibly we’re still not done because Trump also posted an AI video of himself dumping a crap on No. King’s protesters abandoned trade negotiations with Canada after seeing a TV ad he didn’t like, and authorized a twenty billion dollar bailout to Argentina to insure that their experiment with libertarianism works out. Oliver said the most shocking move last week was the military strikes against the fishing boats.
Oliver said, I’ve watched enough Jagg to know that the typical approach to drug boats is to intercept them and arrest the suspects, not murder them with no due process. And all of this is bad enough before you learn that Trump is planning strikes on cartels by land as well. He apparently plans to launch strikes on suspected drug traffickers in Venezuela without congressional approval, saying We’re just gonna kill people. They’re gonna be like dead. You know, the kind of chilling statement you expect to hear from a serial killer or the mastermind behind Panera Bridge charge limonades, but not ideally the president of the United States.
I’d be happy to talk about Berbon again. I just said there’s no more Bourbon stories, Jim, do some press. David Cross was asked by Vanity Face there’s a big David Cross article. I originally wasn’t going to do any of it today, but it kind of themes up here with what we’ve been talking about, so I’ll pull this part. David Cross, what do you think about Kimmel Gate?
And cold bear gate. Cross said, it’s awful, and it’s because there are a handful of people that want to make billions and billions of dollars and the president is so powerful that he can make life difficult, much like a mob boss might make life difficult for these people. And we’ve seen this time and time again. If you want to do this thing, then you better give me a piece quick pro quot stuff. Trump is the logical endpoint.
But something like this has been in place for a long time. It’s just people out morals or ethics, or I should say they have morals and ethics. They’re just very crappy. It’s about money, you know. It’s unfortunately a part of the country we set up for ourselves.
Again, the steps have been taken towards this, not just Trump. Trump’s just the right guy at the right time. David Cross was asked what can comedians, artists, every day people, what can you do? Cross said, you know what, I’ve been really emboldened by this No King’s movement. All the other stuff goes in one ear.
We don’t have the bandwidth process at all. It’s concentrame of outragious garbage and lies. No Kings cuts through all that. My hope is that people will start to wake up to the idea that all this crap on Fox News and Newsmax and America First or whatever saying these things that protesters or anti America and their terrorists. I mean, these are your neighbors and there’s no violence.
Its people from all walks of life going no, we don’t want this, We’re not going to accept this. It deflates the Trump administration in a real way. I had this whole podcast gate thing. I want to do, all right, I guess today’s going to be a long episode. I bounced this a few times already because there’s so much going on.
Me let me talk about this. So remember the Golden Globes podcast awards. So the newsletter Like and Subscribe looked into this. They say they emailed the Shots podcast Network CEO, who has worked with Theovon’s podcast and has been reported as his manager in reputable outlets. So that person was asked about this, and the newsletter said that person responded, I’m honored Theovon is mentioned by the Golden Globes, but I have no interest in engaging with them or commenting.
The newsletter says, several hours after the story was published, I heard from Vaughn’s publicist who said his client is still educating himself about the globes and its process, adding theovon does not have a manager and the person quoted is not authorized to speak on theo’s behalf, nor is involved with anything related to THEO submission. That’s interesting, the newsletter says. I also hear multiple podcasters are still willing to bother with the five hundred dollars fee to submit themselves for consideration before the October three first deadline. Then there’s the whole thing I mentioned last week where you know you might want to advertise. You know, it’s good to advertise podcast, the newsletter rights.
According to the sales deck slides I reviewed, an eligible podcast can pay twenty five thousand dollars to become a podcasting FYC Fest supporting partner, which gets the pod a spot on a variety moderated panel the Full Kit and Kabootle, a variety coverage, and social posts on a folk page color ad on the Variety f YC Fest Preview out November eleventh. Thirty five grand apparently gets you a custom fifteen minute variety moderated conversation and seventy five grand you’ll be awarded the Variety Creative Impact Award in Podcasting. Wait so if I just spend seventy five thousand dollars, I’m going to be a Variety and be like, Hey, Johnnie Mack, the Guy in the Basement wins the Impact Award Podcasting. Oh okay, fun paragraph here, the newsletter writes, the Variety playbook here echoes what my colleague Richard Rushfield the Ankler reported last year when the publication tried to sell a new program around the Golden Globes quote throwing an intimate little dinner for your candidate to which you can invite thirty to forty guests who happened to be Globes voters. Apparently that program was stopped.
Continuing, they write they can report, based on conversation with multiple sources, that this was in fact the second top twenty five podcast list after the first list inadvertently omitted several wildly popular podcasts. I believe Conan is still not on the list. Nicky Glazer will host this year’s Golden Globes Gossip Connor Whispers in the Street Gossip con probably Bopie Gossip conn Away. Are the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree gossip Connor Whisp business tree gossip, con probably bup gossip Cone Macto. Pete Davidson just back for the Riod Comedy Festival.
He went to see some New York Giants football. Right, He’s from Staten Island. Obviously he’d be a New York Giants fan. A guy his age should be a Giant. No, no, no, nope.
He was there to root for the Eagles. Yes. Pete Davidson, seen wearing a green Eagles winter hat, not only dressed Eagles, he made fun of the Giants by holding up a fake gravestone that had the words rip g men written on it. Pete did this during the fourth quarter of the game. Heete was seen on the field before the game taking in the warm ups.
Eagles thirty eight, Giants twenty. It was the second Eagles game Pete Davidson has been seen at this season. I guess a couple of recent Super Bowls helped Pete Davidson become an Eagles fan, But who knows, maybe he grew up an Eagles fan. A guy that age you think would like Eli Manning Era Giants and the two Super Bowls there. Why do I know?
Uh? Nate Berghatzy on Gossip Corner he was spotted in Chicago. He apparently stopped by Jake Melnick’s corner chap, which sounds like an awesome place. Apparently Nate was a server at Jake Melnick’s corner tap twenty years ago. On social media, they said, welcome back to Chicago, Nate and the Big Dumbies tour.
Got that hashtag in there. Good job, thanks for celebrating two jam Pack shows at the at United Center with US at year old stomping grounds. They tagged enough people that it made my radar so good job. Social media person at Jake Milnick’s corner tap did tell you that Nate was going to be on the College Football Show with ESPN on Saturday morning. He made his pick.
The undefeated Cougars were number eleven coming into the game against the Iowa State Cyclones. Nate picked BYU. He said, this is a business decision right here. I’ve got four shows in Salt Lake City BYU, Baby BYU forty one. Cyclones twenty seven out today on Netflix.
Mo A Maare his new special Wild World, his third for Netflix. I’ve liked his other specials. The New Hour includes a celebration of his Palestinian heritage, reflections on the birth of his son, and a critical look at the TSA. In Chicago, the night manager of the Laugh Factory was detained by federal agents on Friday. According to NBC Chicago, this happened outside the Laugh Factory of Chicago around nine to twenty am.
Chicago police responded to a call of a battery in progress. NBC News reports upon arrival, they observed federal agents engaged in a physical altercation with two individuals. There’s a video that shows a crowd gathering as masked agents in camouflage uniforms marked police russell with two people as Chicago Police officers stand nearby. The CPD said their officers did not make any arrests and left the scene once the area was cleared. An eyewitness said federal agents jumped out of the car and grabbed the manager while he was with his mother.
Border patrol said the individual was detained and turned over to the FBI for investigation. Another eyewitness said they didn’t do anything, and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow