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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see that Nikki Helly lost to Nevada to nobody? Late Night talked about her. We’re also talking about it on our political podcast that’s called Ballot.
Ellly got thirty percent of the vote, which was less than none of these candidates. Steve Colbert said, Nicki Haley’s campaign messages nobody’s better than me, and Nevada agreed. She also lost to Nevada candidates. Not feeling it today and gonna be a no from me, dog kibble. You know how they say you’re second and none.
She finished second and none. I like the idea that people took the time to wait in line a vote for the candidates and picked none of these candidates. It’s like going to Wendy’s and yelling nothing for me, thanks. Seth Meyer’s even worse. She actually came in third behind none of these candidates.
And no, seriously, not you, Nikki. My that’s fun? All right? Hey, Johnny Mack, what’s a special and what’s an hour? Well, I’ll tell you what’s a special.
Cat Williams Live on Netflix. I cannot wait for this May fifth, ten pm Eastern, Cat Williams will performed live at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. The special is unnamed, but I mean, come on going after that last interview where he trashed everybody, including you, listener, cannot wait for that May fifth Netflix Cat Williams Live Awesome. A weird one came out on Wednesday night sometime after six pm Eastern. Fortnite was like, yeah, Trevor ne Noah is producing a new comedy special in Fortnite and it’s on now now.
There have been mixed reports about this. In the end, Trevor’s not actually in this thing, he’s quote unquote producing it. That’s often industry code for hey, can we attach your name to something and give you money so we get more pressed for it and you don’t actually do anything. For example, watch Star Trek Discovery and count how many producers there are? Twenty one by my count.
Anyway, Trevor Noah is producing a new stand up comedy special Fortnite. Joke Night has launched. If you need the island code, it’s a six two nine eight two nine sixty five two four. I hope you had a pen in your hand. If not, that fifteen second rewind button comes in handy, or just go to the epic pic section of the discovery page.
It features performances from Matthew Brissard, Who’s Great Preacher Lawson, Scott Sase, and Marsha Belski a suit Who’s not Trevor Noah said. Each comedian delivers a motion captured performance delivered in a Fortnite outfit against the backdrop of a digitally rendered comedy club. Trevor Noah, in a statement supposedly said, with joke Night Royale, we’re blending two things my mom never wanted me to get into, comedy and gaming. I’m excited to step into this uncharted territory, breaking down traditional barriers and offering a fresh, dynamic way for fans to experience comedy. I think the idea is actually cool, but I’m old.
I’ll check in with my son to see what he thinks of all this. Fortnite has already done performances from the likes of Travis, Scott and M and M. Comedy’s an expansion of that. I like it. The av Club points out.
While the trailer announces the show and it drops Trevor Noah’s name, it doesn’t feature Trevor Noah. It doesn’t feature Trevor Noah’s voice, nor does it feature a Fortnite approximation of Trevor no Noah. So I got my wish. The Joe Rogan podcast is back available over the wall. You don’t have to use the Spotify app.
I was using pocketcasts and I enjoyed some Joe Rogan with Aaron Rodgers and men I shared in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Well maybe a year or two ago, Tim Heidecker did a parody of the Joe Rogan podcast where he and his crew were talking conspiracies. That’s what this Aaron Rodgers interview talked about. They were just running through the conspiracies COVID, RFK, Epstein Island, UFOs and just switching topics like three conspiracies a minute. I’m not exaggerating.
Listen to it. They’ll be in the middle of a UFO conversation and suddenly we’re on Epstein Island and then back to COVID. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t think there was a single question about football. Aaron Rodgers mentioned a couple times what he does for a living.
I think the word super Bowl was set once, but it is not a football interview. And I’m sure the Jets are thrilled that Aaron Rodgers is on the Joe Rogan Experience available wherever you get your podcasts. Mark Marin has John Oliver on I haven’t gotten a listen to that. I’m excited NBC got in on the Shane Gillis controversy. They write with Shane Gillis’s return SNL, Asians ask when they’ll stop being the punchline.
They quote one Asian American comedian is saying there’s an idea that Asians will take it and have to just be obedient and have a smile on our face. Dylan Adler in La based Asian American comedians quoted as saying there’s a feeling of it being swept under the rug anti Asian jokes being viewed as benign or not having real life effects and consequences on people when it’s not the case. I meant to tell you yesterday I saw the clip of Shane Gillis making jokes about Chinatown and I wanted to share it, but there’s just so many F bombs in it. It just I’d have to just machety it and it just wouldn’t translate at all. Now my take, I’m gonna be consistent here.
I think Shane is dropping into a character to illustrate how absurd the character is. It’s almost like Archie Bunker. So how do you do Archie Bunker without actually saying horrible things? At some point comedy’s comedy. I got a joke about something everybody.
NBC loaded their article Gillis, who’s been embraced by right wing viewers for his anti wo comedy. He was fired from SNL. We’ve recapped that. Just Tom, an Asian American stand up comedian and actor, said, from twenty eighteen ish to right now, casting has become more diverse, but because the image change, it allowed people like straight white men to believe that now they’re the alternative voice. They’re the little guy who’s punching up against the diverse powers that be.
Dylan Adler says, what comedy’s supposed to do is surprise you. When I hear that that isn’t surprising, it’s not interesting, it’s not nuanced. That it does feel lazy to me. For your point here, there’s so many talented, incredible Asian comedians and actors they haven’t had on the show yet. I can’t believe they haven’t had Margaret Show host the show or someone like Michelle Yo.
Michelle Yeo would be a good choice Marker show. Why would Margaret Show host SNL in twenty twenty four? Anyway, we’ll be talking about that one for another week and SNL in the news During a Taylor Swift Super Bowl week club Shayshay continues to make major comedy news. Monique is on the latest episode, and Men’s Journal recapt it and says Monique has not forgotten a twenty eighteen GQ interview in which Tiffany Hattish made comments about Monique when Monique accused Netflix of racial and gender bias after she was paid less for a stand up special compared to other comedians such as Dave Chappelle and Amy Schumer. Let me jump in there.
Yeah, you’re paid less than Dave Chappelle. I mean, at some point, please be realistic. Chris Rock’s gonna get paid better than Todd Barry. Let’s just be realistic. What are you talking about.
Tiffany Haddish at that time said my business run different than her business. I don’t live her life I don’t have that husband of hers. I’m looking at how Netflix open up so many opportunities for black females in comedy when my people are dying. That’s when you’re gonna catch me protesting. I’m not going to protest because somebody got offered, not the amount of money they want to get offered.
If you don’t like what they’re offering, you just no longer do business with them. That seems reasonable to me, based on what I just said. Monique question why black women continue to throw each under of the bus on the podcast, She said, well, I don’t do business like Monique do business, and I’m glad I don’t have that husband of hers. Monique responded to that and said, Tiffany, if you had a husband like mine, you might not have two DUIs. If you had a husband like mine, you may not be caught up in what looks like you could have been grooming a child.
A Men’s journal reminds us. The latter comment references a controversial comedy skit Tiffany appeared in alongside Aery Spears in twenty twenty two, titled Through a Pedophile’s Eyes. It led to a lawsuit. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed, Hadish apologize for the skit. Comeil nan Gianni opened up about the mental stress created by being in The Eternals.
He was on Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast and said, the reviews were bad, and I was too aware of it. I was reading every review and checking too much. It was really really hard because Marvel thought that movie was going to be really, really well reviewed, so they lifted the embargo early and put it in some fancy movie festivals, and they sent us on a big global tour to promote the movie right as the embargo lifted. I think there was some weird soup in the atmosphere for why that movie got slammed so much, and I think not much of it has to do with the actual quality of the movie. Was really hard, and that’s what I thought was unfair to me and unfair to my wife Emily, and I can’t approach my work this way.
They wore some stuff has to change, so I started counseling. I still talked to my therapist about that. Emily says, I do have trauma from it. We actually just got dinner with somebody else from that movie and we’re like, that was tough, wasn’t it. And He’s like, yeah, that was really tough, and I think we all went through something similar.
At the GRIE Awards, Kevin Hart recognized Eddie Murphy as one of the greatest comedians of all time. He said, the idea of performing in big venues came from watching you, from watching you on that lens of what the hell the stage is attached to a laugh and in a demand where this rockstar like idea was attached to comedy because of the work you did. You made it look good, you made it look cool and my time I wanted that, and you opened the doors for me to do a version of that. He also praised pioneering comedians, including Steve Harvey for his contributions in the original Kings of Comedy, Cedric d entertainer Bernie Mack and Diel. Kevin said The Kings of Comedy was such a dope thing for comedy.
We started to expand the lens of how comedy should be perceived. I swear to you, I’m thankful and humbled for what you guys have allowed me to do. The baton gets passed, then I don’t take it for granted. Jeff Die is recording his special Two Nights and Tomorrow with the Electric Gene in Nashville. You may know Jeff from the NBC show Better Late Than Never, where he follows Henry Winkler, William Shanner, Terry Bradshaw, George Foreman as Jeff Greats for them the adventure of a lifetime.
Shanner’s been a space hashtag six seasons and a movie. Donald Glover tells The Holly Reporter Dan Harmon told me what he wanted, and I was like, this sounds great. This is the community movie he’s talking about here. It’s a college reunion. But Abed is like this big director now and basically this is his magnum opus.
I’m like, this sounds effing tight. And I was very sad to see my friend Mojo Nixon passed away at age sixty six. You may know Mojo. He had a minor and novelty hit back in the eighties called Elvis Is Everywhere. A statement announcing the news on his Facebook page and this is so Mojo wrote, Mojo has left the building.
Mojo Nixon real named Neil Kirby McMillan Junior. I didn’t know that died after suffering a cardiac event during an Outlaw Country cruise in which he was a performed. The Facebook post reads, how you live is how You should die. Mojo Nixon was full tilt, wide open rock hard root hog corner on two wheels plus on fire, passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners, and a good breakfast with bandmates and friends. A cardiac events on the Outlaw Country cruise is about right, and that’s just how we did it.
Mojo has left the building since Elvis is everywhere we know. He was waiting for him in the alley out back. Hen’n help us all. Mojo was a good guy, larger than life, fun, always in a good mood. I just loved being around him.
I worked with him on blue Collar Radio a little bit. He hosted some NASCAR stuff for us. But you know, super awesome guy. Mojo Nixon was sixty six. See tomorrow