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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello. A lot of feisty stuff today, which is how I like it. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily common News, Quick quick housekeeping. So if you listen every day, you know, normally the A bloc I have like the more newsy things, and then the after the commercial, I get a little far afield.
Today, a lot of stuff that’s normally an A. I moved to B because A is only going to be feisty stuff and big, huge news which starts with Kat Williams. His special on Netflix. May fourth will be live on Netflix. It is called Woke Folk Saturday, May fourth, ten pm Eastern.
Now, I’m supposed to be in Cleveland on May fourth, and I would be driving back at ten pm. So if you’re in Cleveland and you thick up showing up, Hey news for you. I’m watching Kat Williams. Now I’ll be there. Somebody in Cleveland, just freak the hell out.
I’m coming. Relax so A no, true, Well, there is a trailer there, but it’s naughty, so I’m not going to share it with you. The very next night, Sunday, May fifth, That eight’s Eastern. The Roast of Tom Brady here’s a clip. The Man the Arena.
The Roast of Tom Brady Live on Netflix. No helmets, no mercy, no Brady Rule, no problem. The Greatest Roast of all Time, Tom Brady Live, hosted by me Kevin Hart with the lineup of surprise guests. We’re coming for you, pretty boy. I’m unroastable.
Let’s go now. If you were to watch that clip, which you cannot do here because this is an audio podcast, there is no visual component. To me, it looks like an AI generated Tom Brady visually, but that seems to be his voice anyway. Tom Brady The Greatest Roast of All Time at May fifth, eight pm Eastern on Netflix. It’s unclear who is participating yet other than Kevin Hart and Jeff Ross.
Guys, check the calendar. How’s this thing that book yet? Or are you just not telling us? I would hope somebody like Bill Burr, right, Boston comedian, And you don’t hope somebody like that’s going to be part of this, but we’ll see.
All right, Let’s move on to the feisty section.
Last Friday, fifteen audience members disrupted Chelsea Handler’s show. They were making pro Palestine comments. According to a spokesperson for the Richmond Police Department, about fifteen people in the audience showed up at the seven o’clock show, and they disrupted the show with comments described as pro Palestine. Additional officers were requested to the theater just before eight thirty pm. Those officers asked the group to leave.
One of the fifteen refused to leave. According to police, that person was then arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and removed from the theater. Chelsea Handler, you know used to date Joe Coy and Joe once hosted the Golden I’m not doing it. You want me to do it, I’m not doing it. I’m not doing it.
The afore mentioned Kevin Hart was on Sixty Minutes interviewed by Anderson Cooper. Anderson Cooper noted the GQ has reported Kevin Hart’s height as five to five. The La Times has it at five four, and Cooper said, and some other places said you were five to two. Heart joked, well that place is bs. GQ finally got it right.
I’m five foot five like well, a shoe on like a sneaker. Now if I put a boot on, I can get to five to five and a half. Kevin explained why he incorporates short jokes into his routine. He says, it’s talking about the things that you aren’t afraid to laugh about yourself. I’m really confident the laugh that I’m getting you’re not laughing necessarily at me, as if I’m a joke.
You’re laughing at the experience. I’m giving you an experience through a story that’s relatable. And more importantly, I’m saying things that other people just don’t have the heart to say exactly. The joke isn’t haha, Kevin Hart short, it’s just a generic short joke, like a Biden old joke is just a generic old joke, and Biden’s the mechanism to get us there. Anderson Cooper asked Vin Hard if he’s a billionaire, and the answer, none of your business.
So you’re trying to get me robbed. I think the better side to what I’ve done is to create and what can become the new norm for other people in the business of funny, for other people in the business of entertainment, right not just being part of the business, but learning and understanding how to be the business. Cooper asked Kevin Hard about the controversy a few years ago. You remember, Kevin was supposed to host the Oscars, but was forced to step down when some homophobic comments that he had made in social media and in his act had surfaced. One of those comments, quoting Kevin Art here, I’m not homophobic.
I have nothing against gay people. Be happy, do what you want to. But me, as a heterosexual male, if I can prevent my son from being gay, I will. Kevin Hart told Anderson Cooper that want of Pykes helped him realize the impact of his words. Heart told Cooper later on the understanding came from the best light bulb ever.
Wanda Sykes said, there’s people that are being hurt today because of comments like the ones you made then, and there’s people that are saying it’s okay to make those comments today based off what you did. It was presented to me in a way where I couldn’t ignore that in those moments of despair, great understanding and education can come out of it if you’re given the opportunity. None of that seems to include the word sorry, but that’s between Kevin and Anderson. In Australia, comedian ARJ Barker reportedly kicked out a breastfeeding mother from his show, Yeah, and the baby too. It would be weird if he kicked out the breastfeeding mother and left the baby there for the rest of the show.
That would be probably a worst not probably would a worse story. No, he kicked out the breastfeeding mother and her newborn baby. This at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The seven month old baby made a few gurgling sounds. The mom, Trish, told one of the radio stations, I was sitting there and she gurgled a bit, the equivalent of someone was coughing.
According to the mom, Barker stopped and acknowledged the baby before he correct a few jokes about the situation. Mom says at the end of the skit of a little baby in the room, he said, I speak baby, and she said, take me outside. At that point I was like, I don’t think he’s joking about that. Barker approached the mom for a second time due to the disturbance. The mom said, I was actually breastfeeding when he came and stood in front of me and he was basically telling me to leave.
People were laughing, and I don’t think he was joking, So I said to him do you actually want me to leave? And he said, yes, I do. A group of ten or twelve people, including one man, walked out of the eight hundred and sixty three seat auditorium over the humiliated mother’s departure. A relative of the mom went on Twitter and said, thanks to the countless women and one grandfather who left in protest. Are the countless?
So I guess they are because we don’t know if it’s ten or twelve. Let’s say it’s either nine to ten or eleven women. Not quite countless, but I digress. Thanks to the countless women and one grandfather who left in protest. Atrocious.
You’re in city of Melbourne at an international comedy festival. Have an ounce of respect. A woman has purchased a ticket for night out with her sister and her friend to laugh and enjoy herself, and you badger her and encourage her to leave and get a refund. The mom said she didn’t face an issue when she’s brought her baby to see Dave Hughes. Barker, in a statement This is Great said the show is strictly aged fifteen plus, as clearly stated on the ticket site.
I don’t know if he was yelling like I am, but it’s funnier this way. This show is strictly aged fifteen plus. Has clearly stated on the ticket site she had an infant with her. The baby was disrupting my performance on behalf of the other seven hundred people who paid to see the gig. I politely told her that baby couldn’t stay.
She thought I was kidding, which made the exchange a bit awkward. Feel bad about the whole situation, and stated this on the night more than once. I offered her a refund. Theater staff should not have seated baby in my audience in the first place. All right, this next one spoilers is gonna go sideways and kind of annoyed me.
From Vulture. Joel Kim Booster got to experience the power of the thumbs down this on four to twenty. He was headlining the Kennedy Center as part of Asian af and Asian American Variety show. Okay, we got the set up here. Now this is where I get annoyed.
While performing, Joel Kim Booster was heckled by an audience member who expressed his distaste by throwing out the thumbs down. A photo of the interaction was posted on Twitter that night, and the people on Twitter had fun with it. The photo told the story, says Vulture, with Booster appearing to be midfight with the heckler. Booster tweeted in response that night the fact that I have to deal with this crap at the Kennedy Center of all places. This is not community.
All right, let’s take a time out so we’re all outrage, right, Who is this jerk disrupting Joel Kim Boosters show at the Kennedy Center of all places. That’s ridiculous. But wait, and this is where I don’t want to encourage anyone. But if you turn on Joel Kim Booster now, I wouldn’t be like, Oh, I can’t believe you turned on Jewel Kim Booster. That’s not cool.
You see, the reality of the situation, according to Vulture, was much different. A video of the interaction surface the next day on April twenty first, revealing it had been staged by Booster himself. It was crowd work, Booster says on stage, I need someone in the front to stand up and pretend like you’re a heckler and wear in a fight. Booster then apparently tried out a few outrage poses that’s lame, dude, lame, lame, lame, lame, lame. And I’ve been at shows where there’s plants in the audience to move stuff around.
But if you do so, if you do that during your show, like I don’t know, I don’t know if he would do this, but Dan Booblet junior friend of the show. If I got a Dan show and he goes, hey, do me a favorite, get up and say you know I’m ugly, just so I can slam you back. I’ve been at shows where that sort of thing happens. But if you like, then take that fake clip and put it on social media and act like this is the thing that actually happened. That’s lame.
More feistiness comedian Elaine Boosler. Remember Elaine Boosler was the last time you heard that name? Anyway, She says she was handcuffed and nearly thrown in the slammer is the word being used after showing up to the Dodger game on Sunday. She said she went there to see Dodgers versus Mets, but was stopped by, in her opinion, a power hungry stadium security guard over her baseball theme purse. Have you been to a baseball game in the last decade.
Yeah, I agree, there are power hungry stadium security people. I don’t go to games anymore. Like I’m a Mets fan. You’re not allowed to bring a computer, Dude. I work in New York City.
I bring a laptop everywhere, and it’s not like there’s a good system for like, oh, I showed up at the stadium and I have a laptop here. Once you go to bag check or something not, you can’t bring it a bag. So I just don’t go to the games. Boozler said she was refused entry because the item didn’t meet the venue’s clear bag policy. She was told she’d either take it back to her car or throw it away.
I mean, they’re taking a back to your cars. Not the worst thing now here in New York City. If I went to a Mets game, I would take the subway from my job in Manhattan. There is no car. Boozler didn’t like this.
She felt she should get special treatment after all the free work she’s done for the team over the years, like singing the national anthem and participating in their celebrities softball games. She raised the stink. She was told she’d be arrested if she didn’t leave, and she replied, fine, arrest me. Boosler said she was cuffed and taken to the Dodger Stadium offices to be formally charged for trespassing. As she waited two hours to learn her fate, she made jokes that didn’t land well with the Dodgers police Gestapo whatever they wear.
Gestapo might be a little bit of a strong word there, Johnny Mack. Won’t you relax? Okay? Boozler said the officers were nice throughout the process, which she chalked up to white privilege. Boosler said she was told she wouldn’t have to go to jail she left the stadium, which she agreed to do.
She called a ride, all right, So now we know she didn’t have a car and got out of there. Boozler has called for the security guard to be fired. I wrote a couple substacks. The substack is free. The link is in the show notes.
What’s the substack, Johnny Mac? It’s a blog of sorts. I pontifica about the media. Mondays was all just honestly promoting the podcast company. Today’s is about streaming shows on Netflix et cetera, and a little bit about Taylor Swift.
Speaking about Taylor Swift, I listen to her new album over the weekend. Follow Taylor Swift Today wherever you get your podcast. They’ve been covering all the various deep dives on the Secret Messages. Now I have a theory about the song, Who’s Afraid of Little Old Media? Like that one?
That one stuck in my head. I think it’s about Joe Coy. You know why. One time Joe Coy host at the Golden Globe. But I’m not going there.
You guys don’t want me to do the joke. I’m not going to do the joke, not doing it. I had insomnia the other night and listen to a lot of podcasts. I really enjoyed Joe Rogan with Tucker Carlson. You thought I was gonna say Neil brnna know with Tucker Carlson.
Now, I am not a Tucker Carlson fan. I find Tucker Carlson to be the kind of guy that would chop in Springfield and try and sell them a mono rail. He seems like that kind of person to me. Never met him, but that’s how he comes across. Not a fan but when I have insomnia, I like things that aren’t loud.
And Joe and Tucker had a nice reasoned conversation. They talked about UFOs. I found it interesting. They talked about the homeless problem in Los Angeles and I thought some great points were made by both gentlemen. Then they got into what’s his name, the conspiracy guy, Alex Jones, and I was like, Eh, not really down on this section here, but it was a good listen.
I haven’t gotten a Neil Brandan yet. And at one point I forgot to pull it for today. Maybe I’ll pull it for tomorrow. Rogan started talking about joke thieves. I wrote a note to myself, I’ll pull that for tomorrow.
I’ll put it in the notes. Remind may Do that I’m behind on my Tim Dillon podcast listening. But the folks at OutKick has said that Dylan made fun of Disney adults, quoting Tim Dylon via OutKick. Apparently, Tim Dilan said, all the food in Disney World is bad. Like everything at Disney, it’s bad.
The rise aren’t even good. Nothing’s good. The reason you think it’s good is because you’re stupid. That’s why you think it’s good. Even if you have children, you should be rolling your eyes.
Your kids should be happy, should take a few photos. I’m not an artless person. The kid should be happy. The Mickey Mouse hugs your son or daughter, your non binary child, and you’d take a photo of them, and you’re happy. But that should last a few minutes, and then you should go.
It’s hots lines gross immediately. If anyone’s like, this is the most magical place in the world, anyone who says that, I want so far away from me. I also checked out whatever the new Lonely Island recap podcast with Seth Myers Whiz was It’s not good? I tried to listen to the episode of Lazy Sunday candidly, Seth’s not good at it. The Lonely Island eides might be great.
Seth is not good at hosting a podcast, so I bailed on that and unfollowed it. Conan O’Bryan apparently has Jimmy Carr. I’m guessing that because Conan tweeted at Jimmy Carr is one of the sharpest, quickest minds working in comedy today. So it was a pleasure to dig down deep in the mechanics of how a joke works and why the audience is a genius, and then Conan cheered a link. So that makes me think Jimmy Carr’s on Conan’s podcast, But I have not actually verified that with my own thumb yet.
We’ll keep an eye on this next one. George Lopez’s show over the Weekend at Ego, Man and Casino canceled due to a medical emergency. I tried to google a bit, couldn’t find out anymore. I hope you’re doing okay. George fern Brady’s new specials out on Netflix.
Here’s a clip. I love walking around at night after my gigs. I like to try and get my steps in. But if you’re a women who likes walking at night, I feel like every evening walk is tainted by thoughts of your own murder. He gets in the way of the distressing part.
I feel like you guys are like, no, we don’t think like that all the time. We just are normal, okay. Number one, There’s two reasons I feel frightened a lot when I’m walking around at night. Number One, I have a father who is unnaturally preoccupied with thoughts of my murder. I know that parents worry a lot, but hear me out.
Anytime I phone my dad on a walk, the first thing he says to me is, don’t get murdered and dream bigger and women in the audience. If you get nervous w to night, here’s a fact I comfort myself was and I’m always trying to comfort D with it, and he’s never comforted by it. Statistically, you’re so much more likely to be kelled by the guy you came to the gag weft tonight. So if anything, get your record and shoes on, get out of the door and get those steps in. That is fun.
The jokes are funny, but a long way to go for those jokes. Tighten it up a little bit from Fox News, your home for comedy news. Far left comedian and actor Michael Rappaport delivered a stern message to anti Israel college protesters and a social media post warning them they would help deliver former President Trump the election. In a video rap report said, you know it’s going to be great when D stained Donald Trump. Now I’m trying to figure out what D stained would even be.
D dash dash dash. I mean I have a guess of a four letter where it starts with D But what does that even mean? What is d stain? Am I missing something? When d stained Donald Trump gets elected and I ain’t saying voting for him, but when he does win and he’s gonna when the screaming and yelling that you F word, P word, A word, blow word, miserable, mother F word on college campuses are doing now, Michael, Michael chillax, Dude, that’s one, two, three, four, five words out of seven got bleaped.
You need to chill, he said. When the screaming and yelling that you people on college campuses are doing now, The screaming that you’re doing at Jews about free palace dying, the screaming that you’re doing at Zinus is nothing compared to the screaming you’re going to be doing come November when de stained Donald Trump wins presidency because of you, Because of you, that is Michael Rappaport via Fox News. Okay, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter that this Office reboot thing is actually happening. I suppose that they’ve cast two members of the ensemble comedy. One of them is Sabrina and Patchatory we know her from The White Lotus and Domal Gleeson from the Rise of Skywalker.
He’s General Hawks, isn’t he. Yeah, the redhead guy, that’s General Hawks. The wimpy guy. Well, he’ll be in the new, new, new office. It’s unclear where this will air.
It’s unclear when it will air. But it’s not like we’re back at dunder Mifflin. It’s a different office. Which is the way to do it, you know that way. I don’t know if you said in Scranton you happen to go to Kevin’s Bar.
You can do that kind of nonsense, but it should be its own thing. Oh my goodness, I just looked at the wraw time. All right, I’m dropping the final story. We’re done. I gotta go.
There’s a lot of content for not playing eighty five clips out of the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Okay, I’ll meet you back here tomorrow. How do I lock out? I can’t remember. I’m frenzied today.
What do I usually say here? See tomorrow? I guess I just say see you tomorrow, all right, see tomorrow.