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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big ratings for John Stewart returning to The Daily Show Monday night, the show drew nine hundred and thirty thousand viewers. That’s the most for the Daily Show since March twenty eight, twenty eighteen. Midway through Trevor Noah’s run, there was some simulcast on other Paramount owned channels that brought the total number to one point eight five million viewers.
Some comparison numbers. During Trevor Noah’s final ten weeks of host, he was averaging four hundred and sixteen thousand. Prior to the writer strike last May, the guest hosts were averaging three hundred and sixty nine thousand. When the Daily Show came back on October with no host, the average was under three hundred thousand. Ouch.
How else do we compare that nine hundred and thirty thousand slash one point eight five million viewers? Well, let’s see, NCIS had seven point three two million viewers on Monday night. The Bachelor had three point four nine million. John Stewart, capitalizing on the momentum, announced a small tour March first in Poughkeepsie, New York, on the fifteenth, York, Pennsylvania, March twenty ninth, Princeton, April ten, Stanford, Connecticut, and April twenty seventh in Wilmington. I was thinking some more about Trevor Noah versus Spotify and how Trevor had fallen out of the charts.
So here’s why that could be a problem. Let me walk you through how the sales works really quickly. Podcasts are sold on a CPM model, which means how much money do I have to give you to reach one thousand listeners? So I’ll keep the math simple. Usually a CPM number is around twenty dollars, So if a podcast has one thousand listeners, you’ll charge twenty dollars for an ad.
Rates may vary, but that’s simple math there, right. So if you have ten thousand downloads, you’re going to get two hundred dollars per commercial, et cetera. So Trevor launched really well, and I bet they were quite enthusiastic about the sales. And if he’s fallen out of the top two fifty, that means the numbers have likely gone down and you wind up in what I call make Good Hell. So what I mean by that is you’ve told the advertiser, Hey, we’re going to reach a thousand people, and then you don’t actually reach a thousand people.
You reach eight hundred people, and then the advertiser is said and you’re like, don’t worry, we’ll make it up to you, and you can make it up to them. But the problem is when you make it up to them, you’re tying up your commercial inventory to make up what you didn’t deliver in the first place. So you either have to add more and more commercials or you have to run a make good a freebie to make your advertiser happy because you missed the projection. Anyway, make Good Hell can get ugly really quickly. I’ll be curious to see what’s going on with Trevor No and Spotify.
All speculation on my part, but I do have some expertise on the subject. It’speaking of a podcasts. I noticed Weird al Is on Craig Ferguson’s podcast. I’d fallen out of listening to Craig, but I’m a big weird al fan, so I will check that out. Didn’t get to it yet.
I watched Taylor thomasin special on Netflix. It’s nice enough. It makes my end of the year list. The end of the year list right now is number one, Dusty Sleigh, number two, Taylor Thomason, nothing else is on it. Three didn’t make the list.
Pete Davidson, Jackie Novak, and Kevin James. I suspect by the end of the year, Taylor Thomlinson will be more in the like twenty one to twenty two range. It’s not going to be the second best special of the year. In no way. It’s fine.
I do have a note for Taylor. You don’t need the F bomb. She will drop an F bomb and it’s not really punching up a joke. It’s just I guess the way she speaks, and it was actually a little joring. She should drop that habit.
She doesn’t need it at all. I did find pretty deep in the special. Her constant hyper delivery was starting to wear on me. The specials probably fifteen minutes too long. But it’s nice enough.
Again. It made the list. Rolling Stone profile Taylor. She told them it’s the first time in her life she’s at an actual job. I have a badge.
I’ve never gone into a studio a lot with a badge. I’ve just been like, Hi, it’s me. Last name is Tomlinson, and they’re like, we don’t have you in the system. She also has a writer’s room, which feels like a luxury. She says, it’s so funny to me when everyone’s like, you’re so good at reading prompters, and I’m like, great, people wrote me great jokes that you just have to deliver.
I’ve been writing my own hour and a half of material I have to do from memory, Like this is awesome, what a sweet gig. Interesting take here by Taylor. She doesn’t want to hype this only woman in Late night thing, She said, I mean Chelsea Handler was very popular, Like what are you talking about? Sam be went on for seven seasons. I don’t get how everyone’s like, oh, it hasn’t gone well.
I don’t think that’s true. I struggle with the right balance of being like it’s very cool and also being like, let’s not make this a thing. Could she see her getting a bigger show in the future, say in eleven thirty, She said, I have no idea. I truly haven’t thought about that at all until you said it. Rolling Stone mentioned the other day Eric idle seems unhappy with John clees Clae was asked by a fan on Twitter, because we call it Twitter, not the other thing, Elon, and the fan tweeted, because that’s what you do, paraphrasing, Hey, John, I see the pythons are all fighting.
What’s going on? John wrote back, We always loathed and despised each other, but it’s only recently that the truth has begun to emerge. So I dug deeper because you never know. With John, I’m like, is he serious? Is he joking?
Apparently he was joking. That wasn’t that clear, but he did clean it up and he said, I just saw the Press Association release. They got it totally. My remark about loathing and despising each other one refer to all the members of the group two was a joke. I would have expected the Press Association staff to have one and understanding of irony to the sense of humor.
Kevin Hart is joining the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival. He’ll do Spokane Stadiums Sunday, August twenty fifth. A suit with the festival says having a comedian at the level of Kevin Hart choosing the Great Outdoor Comedy Festival Spokane stage to perform for his fans. I hate these press releases in the region after so many years, it’s really exciting with the already announced Tom Sigora Comes Together tour now Kevin Hart, in addition to what we’re working on for Saturday, really puts Spokane in a league of their own for comedy lineups. Bad news for Sarah Silverman.
By the way, before I get in to that, I just recorded a couple episodes of Five Good News Stories. That’s the podcast. It’s Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I’m the host and I just tell you either good news stories or stories that’ll make you smile. I just recorded a bunch so much fun five Good New Stories.
Number five Good New Stories. Wherever you get your show’s Bad news for Sarah Silverman. A federal judge has dismissed most of a lawsuit brought by Sarah and others against Open AI over the use of compyriting books to train its generative artificial intelligent chatbot. The district judges the authors failed to cite any particular output that is substantially similar or similar at all to their books. A bunch of new comedy specials coming out Kyle kaneen his hours called Dirt Napp.
It’ll be out on March fourth. Let’s listen. Last week I did a show in Montana and we spent Labor Day in Yellowstone National Park, and it was something like I’m sitting there watch it’s beautiful and watching old faithful go up look at this landmark, and I just shoulder to shoulder with people like let’s go Brandon T shirts and like don’t tread on me, hats and everything. Just people that hate big government and either hate socialism even more unironically enjoying a national park. I love Kyle.
A couple of years back, I had his special pretty high up. The list was that twenty two No. It was last year Kyle Kanane Shocks and Struts I had at number five and twenty twenty three. The top five were Gary Goman, Tod Berry, Shane Gillis, Tom Sigour, and Kyle Kanane. I’ve been thinking a lot about Shane.
I might watch that special again if I get a minute. Ivan Decker has a new special out on eight hundred pound Gorilla Media. It’s called Popcorn, a culmination and celebration of everything that has happened in Decker’s License is last special on Netflix, including stealing a baby from Whole Foods and attempting to raise at his own. He says, popcorn gives you a rush of serotonin and dopamine that’s better than any drugs, and that is why he titled the special. Rory Scovell, also on eight hundred Pound Gorilla, has a special called Religion, Sex, and a few things in between.
That one’s going to be out on Max, and I was pretty surprised. Rory Scovell is a good comedian all but I was like, Max, Wow, so how do you explain this. Conan O’Brien is behind This doesn’t mean Rory’s bad. I’m just like, oh, now it makes sense. Conan is vouching for Rory.
He was a good comic. There’s a recorded last November at the Gooddale Theater in Minneapolis. In the hour, we see Schoolville offering observations on disparate subjects such as religion, sex, mushrooms, vaccines, parenting an eight year old, and much more. Seventy minutes set. That’s fifteen minutes too long.
I wanted to play some clips for you, but too naughty, can’t do it. But here’s a trailer. I really liked Hannah Gatsby. It’s a multi comic special featuring gender queer comics from around the globe. It’s called Gender Agenda.
It’ll be March fifth on Netflix. The trailer is great. I’ve scoped it down a little bit here for both pacing and language, but I’m looking forward to this like. I like this trailer a lot. The last time Netflix brought this many trans people together was for a protest.
So my name is Jess Tom, I’m trans. Can you tell don’t answer that that was a task you’re passing? Am I Back when I was in school, kids you used to call me a butt pirate and I was kind of cute. I’m not. I’m really, although I will admit I do personally prefer Booty Bandit or bum Burglar.
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So unless there’s some mysterious curveball in my life in the next five or so minutes, I’m going to record it. That’ll be Saturday. Thank you Liz for the donation. Buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Madison Square Garden and the Garden of Dreams Foundation announced the return of Garden of Laughs, an all star comedy benefit that has raised more than six million dollars in the past.
This year’s show hosted by Steve Sharippa. I know Steve pretty well. Good guy. I’ve got some Shrippa stories. I’m always fun to work with.
Steve Shripper a really good guy. Say’s your hosts the comedians Bill Burr, Michael Jay Christas, Stefano, Jim Gaffigan, Heather McMahon, Sam Morrell, and John Stewart. This will be at Madison Square Garden March twenty seventh. Tickets go on sale Friday at ten am. All net proceeds go to the Garden of Dreams Foundation.
I did think it interesting that I named those comedians right, includes Burr and Gaffigan and Sam Morrell and John Stewart. And the person that got the quote from was Christa Stefano. Would nobody else text you back anyway? Chris said, it’s a Longside Knicks fan. I’ve always known about Garden of Dreams and how Garden of Laughs enables the Foundation to do its incredible work.
It could be more honored to be part of such an amazing lineup for a great cost. That sounds like something Chris would say, doesn’t it. Shrippa said, I’m so excited the Garden of Laughs is back. I’ve seen firsthand the monumental impact that the Garden of Dreams has on the young people and families it serves, and I’m honored to host an event that enables the Foundation to make an immediate an enormous impact on the community. Of Laughs was previously held in twenty thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, and nineteen.
All four previous events were sold out from Low Kick MMA, your home for comedy news, Howie Mandel was interviewing Dana White, you know, the UFC boss. According to the recap, now I’m telling you, I went to go pull the clip, and it pulled up a YouTube clip of an hour of a Howie Mandel podcast. Guess how many commercial breaks were in an hour of a Howie Mandel podcast. Fifteen? And I’m like, I’m not hunting through fifteen non skippable commercial breaks to find this clip.
Fifteen commercial breaks in an hour, even if they’re one second long. That’s annoying. What are you doing anyway? Low Kick MMA, your home for Comedy News, says that Howie was just complimenting Dana left and right, and then when it was Dana’s turn to talk, he said, thank you for all the kind words. I appreciate it.
I’m sof and tired of doing podcasts. I’m literally done with them. I’m not doing anymore. Then he left. I don’t know what that’s about, and I’m losing my voice.
I gotta save my voice for the Sailor episode. I need to record it today for schedule, so I gotta wrap up. I can do the Sandler episode that’s going out Saturday. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.
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