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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Thanks to Nichelle for sending this my way. Or you know Camp Patterson, the guy from Saturday Night Live that I think is one and done. Oh, he’s gonna be one and done several media reports.
I’m cripping here from Deadline. On the recent kill Tony Once Upon a Time in Texas, which you’ll find on Netflix, Cam Patterson talked about Saturday Night Live. Now, I understand he’s a comedian and he’s on stage doing time. However, I don’t know if this was the smartest career move. I will clean this up a little, Camp Patterson said, I’m gonna be honest.
I’m gonna keep it one hundred percent with y’all in the nicest way possible. It’s gay. It’s really gay. Dog, it’s gay. As f understand something.
I was on national television doing this. He then reenacted an animated hand gesture. Cam said, I’ve shot at somebody before. You understand me. You understand how great said that change in life is.
You know what’s crazy. I think people are more excited for me than I am for myself. Though people keep saying congratulations, good job, and that’s dope. But understand something, bro, I’m twenty six and I’m black. I’ve never seen the show.
I have no idea what the f I signed up for. Dog. I’m just kind of there and listen, this stuff is not for me. It’s for white people. Really.
They have on celebrities I’ve never heard of in my life. We had on Glenn Palett one point. I was like, who’s that and they were like, he’s in Top Gun. I was like, never seen it.
And then we had on Miles Teller and I was like, who’s that and they were like…
I was like, I’m on to you, fellas. So we’ll see how well that goes out. With Lorde Michaels. I mean, it’s not the worst thing anybody ever said. But you know, career wise, if you have to pick between Lorne Michaels, even at eighty years old, Lorne Michaels and Tony Hinchcliff, depending on what you want to do with your life, you probably pick Lauren there.
John Oliver was the guest on Trevor Noah’s podcast. The discussion went to Who’s going to buy Warner Brothers? John told Trevor, I think mergers are generally bad. I think you’re always hoping for the least bad option. I think the key thing for us is to act with enough aggression or confidence.
I will act assuming nothing’s going to happen. We’re not going to change, right. We’ve been behaving the way we’ve been beaving for long enough that you can’t really reason with us, so there’s no point doing that. Oliver continued, there’s gonna be question marks in all of this, right, because it’s very hard to justify this legally. Now, whether that makes it impossible for it to happen, that’s an open question.
I thought this was really interesting. This isn’t really news because this is from two thousand and eight, and the man who said it is long dead, but vice resurfaced this back in two thousand and eight. George Carlin said whenever someone would tell him about the latest must see comedian, George would get a little nervous, but then check them out. He had one of two reactions. One reaction was no threat there, but the other was I got to get back to work.
And one of that I got to get back to work. Comedians to George Carlin was Sam Kennison. George Carlin said, Sam Kennison, because he raised his voice literally to such an extent, it taught me something at the time, and it had helped fuel a slight change or a significant change in what I was doing. I said, oh, you have to raise your voice, and I meant it figuratively. He did it literally, but figuratively.
The culture was getting noisy. There was a din there was a lot of competition for people’s attention, and somehow that translated to me as I have to raise the stakes a little bit. You know. I talked to Kelly Carlin about this couple years back. Maybe I’ll pull that and tag it at the end of today’s episode Gardon and Gunn, which is just a wonderfully fascinating title for a website.
They profiled Nate Bergatzy’s Company. Nate told them, as a comedian, you’re afraid to take time off, at least for me, I very much believe I’m not owed this. The audience doesn’t know it to me to come, so it’s something I’ve got to go earn every single show. Every day. It gets exhausting.
Some days you can sleep on the bus and some days you’re riding in the middle of nowhere. And you know, my bus driver’s an amazing driver. But the roads of the roads, right, Nate said of the audience, I see the audience and it’s all different. You see different religions out there, you see different political like, whatever it is, it doesn’t matter. I want families to laugh at me.
I want them to feel safe when they go there and can all be together. You should be able to trust that I’m going to be that relief for whatever you need, Nate explanned. Nateland he wants to help younger comics get started. I want everybody to be involved on the road. It’s like, we should all be friends.
You know. We joke we got a couple guys. They’re younger, but they’re really big into anime. They wanted to watch an anime and the rest of us were like, I’m not watching it. But one day I needed to watch anime with them, just because Lucy Sinsheimer is the talent book of for Zenies in Nashville.
Lucy said most people at the highest level might be like, I don’t want to bother with being around lower level comedians. When he’s here, he’s generous with his time and his kindness for open micers and up and coming comics. Recently, we were doing a clinic with a bunch of comics and he happened to be recording the podcast next door. He came and talked to everybody for twenty five minutes, just giving advice. Psychology Today caught up with Kathleen Madigan.
They were curious. Kathleen once told a story to Jerry Seinfeld on Comedians and Cars where Kathleen’s parents said, we’re gonna watch this part of your show and then we’re gonna leave. Kathleen explained, Yeah, my dad asked, could you just put your new jokes at the beginning of your act? And she said, no, Dad, that’s not how it works. I can’t rearrange my whole act for you hooligans.
I don’t care if you’ve ever seen my act, you know. I’ll do it in the car fee on the way home.
And then he says to my mom, well you want to go, and my mom says, well, kind …
We’ll just come at the end. Pete Corielli the Gator describes himself as a beer and peanut guy. He’s returning to Long Island on January thirtieth for a show The Gator says, I’m not a fan of comedians to perform at you. I like being a version of myself on stage. I never wanted to be stuck in a character.
I just tried to be true to who I am. I always felt most funny when I was hanging out. That’s a trade I got from my father growing up in Long Island. He’s an everyday guy who made people laugh with the stories. I always latched onto that.
I worked with Pete for the better part of a decade when he was the number two chair on the Jim Brewer radio show back in the serious days. Corioli talked about getting into comedy at Hamburger harry Is in Midtown Manhattan in ninety four. After exploring acting, Pete joined an improv group. I did not know that. I cannot imagine Pete Coriolly having the patience for an improv group.
Wow, I can’t even fathom that. Pete explained, I went to an open mic that Jim Gaffigan and Judah Friedlander we’re at. I was listening to them talk about their bits, and it was love at first sight. From there, I never looked back. Pete says, I truly feel now there’s a comic of anything worth listening to until at least forty five.
Once you get older, you have a lifetime experience to look back on. Pete is the co host of Pete and Sebastian of Sebastian Madiscalco. He says, we have incredible similarities and drastic differences. Once we get on the cast, we just make sure we make each other laugh because we have the same sense of humor. But we’re like Felix Hunger and Oscar Madison from The Odd Couple.
I drive a Jeep Wrangler and he drives a Portie. He gets manicures, and I don’t. I wonder if that’s a new Jeep Wrangler, because Pete had a Jeep twenty years ago. Remember they stole his top. One day, Jimmy Carr said that being a vegan is the right thing to do.
Jimmy was feeling questions from the audience. One asked, Hey, Jimmy, you’re a progressive and thoughtful guy. How come you’ve knock one vegan yet. Car said, I was vegan forbit, and I know it’s the right thing to do, but also it’s just a fun fact that you might want to know that it’s possible to have a vegan diet, to eat vegan, and to shut the f up. That’s hilarious.
He tagged it with I’m not going to make jokes about vegans. It would be tasteless. Jimmy Carr is very funny. If you’re ever in Riodd sometimes he plays the comedy Festival over there. He should go see him.
Now that fascism is over and we can actually watch Scrubs on Hulu and ABC without having to go upstairs and get the DVDs, Scrubs is coming back a little over a month away. Now. People are curious, Hey, in all these promos, we haven’t seen Doctor Kelso or the Janitor. Now, I’ll point out to everybody that Ken Jenkins, who plays Doctor Kelso, is like eighty five years old, so aside from getting him to do the work, it really doesn’t make sense that Doctor Kelso would be around. So, if you’re curious what happens to these two characters, spoilers coming up at a second, Zach Braff says there are currently no plans for either to appear during season ten.
Zach says, the true answer is if we’re blessed to have a second season. Absolutely. The real answer for season one is we’re not really sure yet. Episodes eight and nine of the nine episode order are still being written. They’re both interested in doing it.
Do we have the band with in the first nine episodes to get to it all and surface the story that would be worthy of Ken and Neil? That might come true? At this point, I can’t tell you the answer, but most definitely, if we’re lucky enough to get a season two, that’s something we want to do. Jimmy Kimmel made an offer to Donald Trump he will give one of his awards to President Trump if the President pulls Ice out of Minneapolis. May have seen late last week that the woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize handed over the award to President Trump for some reason.
As others have pointed out, if Lebron James hands me over an MVP trophy, it doesn’t make me the best player in the NBA, Kimmell said Trump loves awards. Giving him an award is the only way to get him to do anything. And with that said, mister President, I have an offer I think you’re gonna find difficult to refuse. If you and only if you agree to pull ice out of Minneapolis and put them back at the borders where they belong. Kimmel then showed some of his own trophies, including a Daytime Emmy, a Cleo Award, a Writer’s Guild of America Award.
He tagged it with, or best of all, I’m willing to hand over my twenty fifteen Soule Train Award for White Person of the Year. The choice is yours. I personally deliver any or even all of these to the Oval Office in exchange for leaving the people of Minneapolis alone. We’ll go into the break here. Jonathan Kite does this wonderful, wonderful Anthony Bourdain impression.
I can’t get enough of this week. Anthony Boardaine went to the BUCkies, and here’s a little taste of that. No pun pickles produce pastries, sauces, snacks. If you didn’t gas up outside, you will in here. Behold the Jerky wall, a carnivorous curtain of beef, the only wall in Texas everyone can agree on.
At noon Eastern today, the reveal for who was eliminated for Week two of Comedy Survivor. There’s a dramatic exit in this week’s show at noon Eastern. You can start voting for next week in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, and in this very feed you will hear the week two elimination show Comedy Survivor Facebook group t O Sketch Fest, the Toronto Sketch They’re coming back. It’s their largest lineup to date, over seventy high energy showcases by more than seventy five comedy troops. I was texting the other day with Mike from The Letterman podcast.
Now I live in the United States and Mike lives in Canada, and we were talking about getting together and I’m like, I don’t know, man, if we invade Greenland, the border might be closed. I might not be able to hang out with Mike or go to the Toronto Sketch Fest. So some of the sketch troops, there’s a lot here. I’m not going to read them all, but let’s see some names that seem funny too. Draculus twenty four double B Sketch Troop names are always funny.
Bicycle jousting, big chick Energy, I like that, breen Frogs, Firecracker, department, grease trap, no vowels. That’s funny out of a whit. It’s funny, but it’s funny. Sketchy Broads, that’s a good one. That’s a good name.
And the Red Hot Silly Peppers Love It. Toronto Sketch Fest coming up in March. Tick Natara, she’s one of these people ruining Star Trek, but I guess not. Everything Tignataro does is horrible. She’s joining Mattel Lane to headline the Lambda Legals Stand Up for Equality Benefit, an event dedicated to protecting the rights of LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV.
This is March fourth at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. Stand Up for Qualities Designed is a moment of cultural unity, blending stand up performances, musical moments, and celebrity presenters into a shared space for laughter and advocacy. There are no plans for Dave Chappelle to appear at this time. Chris Red he wants to. I don’t know what’s going on with Chris Redd.
He’s sparing his soul lately, but he wants to make sure that when he had a fight back in twenty twenty two, it was not with Keenan Thompson. Okay, what’s the story. Johnny Mack TMZ published a clip from Chris Red that said that Keenan Thompson was not the person who punched Chris Red in the face outside of a Manhattan comedy club in twenty twenty two. Chris Redd said, no, Keenan did not hit me. People took it like Keenan hit me.
He didn’t hit me. No, a probe is still ongoing. No one has been taken into custody and connection with the attack on the comedian. According to the NYPD. Okay, listen, a probe is not still ongoing.
No one is looking at this. This is New York City. You think anybody at the NYPD is investigating the Chris Red punch in the face from four years ago. There’s zero percent chance that that’s happening. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to New York City.
I’m from New York City. Zero percent chance the NYPD is busy. Back in twenty twenty two, Keenan Thompson and wife Evangeline got divorced. Benjeline then was friendly with Chris Red. But Keenan definitely didn’t punch him in the nose.
And let me get the LIFs out of my voice because I’m serious here. I’m not doing the bit. This from the Daily Mail. Jay Leno last week in La appeared to have a swollen left cheek and a bruised fingernail while out and about in La. Daily Mail reported Jay was out grabbing lunch.
On the left side of his face appeared puffy, his middle finger seemed to have some redness to it, and a black nail was visible as he clutched a beverage. Now some people start joking that, you know, the mob is out to get Jay again. Remember he fell down the hill and burned his face with the motorcycle. And I had a couple like weird things going on. But much more seriously, I saw some people and I’m not saying this happened, but some people who are involved with Alzheimer’s said that sometimes people who suffer from Alzheimer’s can get physical, and that was one theory of what might have happened.
Again, no, little to my voice, not making joke here and being very serious, I’m not saying that happened. I have no expertise in Alzheimer’s, but I’m just sharing an alternate theory that I heard other than the mob is out to get Jay Leno. Don’t know what happened, just telling you what the Daily News reported, and that is your comedy news for today again coming up at newon Eastern today and this very feed Comedy Survivor Week two elimination show.
And then assuming I found it, the next thing you’re gonna hear is me talking …
See you tomorrow, Oh no, see at noon, then see you tomorrow. I was one of those yahoos at the turn of the century who listened to the I guess the last two albums is like George sounds angry and I have done a complete one eighty on that, and he is the great prof of the twenty first century. That stuff has aged so well. I go back and listen to it. Just prepping for today.
I was going back and listening to It’s the last bit on It’s Bad for You. It’s Coast to Coast emergency, and it sounds like you recorded it this morning. Yeah, no one wanted to hear it, including me. John was like, God, Dad, get over it. Can you do some bart jokes or something?
Please be goofy again, as he said, you scratch a cynic. Underneath it you get a broken hearted idealist. Yeah. He was a man who I think was just ringing the bell so loudly and saw what was coming, saw the writing on the wall, and nobody wants to hear that. While the writings, while the walls still look fine.
Ah so everything seems fine, but boy boy, did he see it all coming, even stuff thirty years old. He saw it coming. It’s just it’s amazing.