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His John again. So what this is. This is the normal episode for Friday morning. I had recorded this before any of the Kimmel news broke. So what I often pretay Friday during the fall because I teach a class on Thursday morning.
It just makes my life easier, and my rule is and if something happens, I’ll just do a bonus episode. So that’s exactly what’s going on. In case you missed it. Yesterday afternoon, sometime a little before four pm Eastern, I dropped a bonus episode where I talked about some Kimmel stuff, and then a little while after I dropped a second bonus episode that was a crossover with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast. So we talked for about an hour about Jimmy Kimmel.
This that you’re about to hear is the normal Friday episode, and then I’ll come back this afternoon and do another Kimmel bonus. So here’s regular Friday. Caloroga Shark Media. I understand you’re not supposed to tell a story at the start of the podcast. I’m Johnny Mack with your daily coming news, but I gotta find my fastball here.
You know, when you come down off an adrenaline rush. I just had a caper, and as I always say in my family, I’ll take a caper over a crisis. So long story medium, the dog doug a hole under the fence and got out. I found out because the other dog was crying. I couldn’t find the dog.
Was driving around doing loops and loops. About a half hour in, I ran into local PD and I’m like, hey, you happen to see a dog running around? He hadn’t, but he’s very friendly and he’s like, I’ll get the guys in on it. So basically, I live in a small town and thank you local police department. They were all super friendly, super helpful.
So I was doing a loop, but I came back to my house and they had found the dog, and there’s like three police SUVs in front of my house, all parked haphazardly. I’m sure the neighbors thought somebody was murdered. It did not look good at all. It looked like some serious stuff went down. But I’m coming off that adrenaline rush now, so I gotta figure this out.
A week or so ago, before all the news with the Emmys and and everything else that’s been going on, in the world. Vulture got David Letterman to sit down a very very interesting article, and I’m gonna pick away at it. Over the next few days and weeks, they started talking about Letterman’s ten am show, Remember that one. I barely remember it. I remember it being a failure, and I’ve only seen a few clips of it.
I wish that thing would get released. I’d love to watch it, Letterman said, looking at it now with age, that was a fascinating life experience. I left Indiana thinking everything that’s wrong with television and TV comedy. I have the solution, and as soon as I get there, hang on, if you folks can wait it out another year or two, I will solve everything that’s wrong with comedy on television. And we dropped it down I think at ten in the morning or nine in the morning across the NBC television network, and the producer of the show quit the friday before it was to go on the air because he didn’t get it.
We didn’t get him. We locked heads. It was nothing but screaming fights. We had no other guidance, no north Star except you know what, We’re sick of all these game shows. Just wait to get a look at us, And boy, so was that a huge lesson for me?
I realized, Yeah, you don’t really know what you’re talking about.
And then like a month and a half, sixteen weeks, whatever it was, we’re gone,…
The fact that they were able to keep me around and that year of not having anywhere to go except comedy clubs was a sad, sad experience for me because in show business, as with life, you get your one shot and if it doesn’t work, you go to the end of the line, and who knows how long that line is. So against my own ego, against my own bitter judgment, we had to sit down and it was a learning process, but boy was it tough. It was really tough because just the ego involved with the wait until you get to look at us was so misguided. Vulture points out, if you’ve seen clips of the morning program, a lot of the DNA of Late Night was there, including jokes about New York and segments like small town News. They were curious how Dave decided what to keep and what to change for Late Night.
Dave said, well, it was interesting because of the failure of the daytime show and the restrictions that were placed on us in order to protect our relationship with the Tonight show. It was nothing punitive, but there were certain restrictions. No monologue, no big orchestra. We couldn’t book the same guests they were booking. All those things actually worked in our favor.
We had a tremendous group of musicians. I wasn’t carrying a Johnny Carson monologue for ourselves, and the people he was booking would probably have no interest to us at that time. That’ll change, of course, but that helped us. Now. The other side of this, every second I was on the air, is waiting to get the hook because would come and gone so quickly, and the result of it was just darkness for a year.
I feared that some I’m torn between the two things. It didn’t work the first time. We have reasons now alter the show or to keep it the same way. But what the hell happens if this goes away? So the first two or three months, I think we’re all nervous about the outcome, But then again, you have to remember those days there was nothing on opposite us, so no offense you could have had a show that would have been successful.
Al dot Com Alabama dot Com caught up with Mark Norman. They were curious about his appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience. Always a good phrase to say in full for the Apple podcast transcripts. That’s right, I said, Joe Rogan Experience, Mark Norman. What’s something interesting behind the scenes of the Joe Rogan Experience.
Norman said, Well, famously, Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience turns down a lot of people. He actually wants to talk to you. He doesn’t want to have a guy on because he’s promoting a movie, you know. So I think that show’s in the show, which of course is called what That’s right, the Joe Rogan Experience. Whether you watch The Joe Rogan Experience or not, I know it’s a very divisive topic found with fastball, but if you watch it, it’s pretty genuine.
Watch No, it’s a podcast. We listen to podcasts, Mark Norman, we don’t watch them. If Joe Rogan doesn’t think it’s funny, he won’t laugh, which is painful for comedian usually. But if he thinks it’s funny to laugh, if he thinks it’s interesting, he’ll divulge. If he doesn’t, he’ll move on.
And it’s the opposite of a guy like Jimmy Fallon, who’s a sweet guy. But I mean, let’s be honest, he’s falling over slapping the desk over a mediocre joke, you know. Mark Norman was asked about the future of Late Night Company. Mark Norman said, I think there’s always gonna be talk shows. They’re just different formats.
It’s kind of like there’s always gonna be a Jenner, but one day it’s Bruce, the next day it’s Caitlin. Things just change. That’s a funny line. And I think podcasts have filled in the gap of talk shows. And so I did all the talk shows and those that were relevant and those that became a little more irrelevant.
So then you go, what’s relevant. Let me get on Bad Friends with Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee, or this past Weekend with Theo Vaughn or whatever the pod de jour. So it’s just morphs it. In five years, it’ll probably be a new thing. Thanks SEO friends, Caleb Heron has a special out on HBO Max Today or no, it’s just what are we calling it out?
Yeah, it’s HBO, Max. I can’t keep track of what you people call this thing. You know, the thing on your streamer that you call HBO. That button, click that one. Caleb Heron, model comedian Tonight nine Eastern, filmed in front of a sold out crowd at Constellation in Chicago.
Model comedian showcases Heroon’s ability to unpack life’s most absurd contradictions with his signature charm and razor sharp wits. I think I’ve pointed this out in the past. That’s the description for every comedy special copywriters. Step it up. You can’t just go oh yeah, you know, observations on things and he’s funny, Yeah, we know.
Thirty year old here On deploys’s generational Midwestern wisdom to solve most of the world’s problems politics, internet trolls, and learning that we’re not that different from our parents. See that’s good copy. That was good job there. All right. I bounced this yesterday.
The Toronto Comedy Festival actually kicked off Thursday night, But if you listened to yesterday’s show, I kind of landed in a soft place and was like, you should get out now, and I got up then. Plus the festival goes quite some time. It goes until the twenty seventh. Comedians appearing include Gave Iglesias, Sarah Millikan, Maria Bamford Out Madrigal Big, Jay Okerson, and Ron Funches. Now also mentioned here Gina Sheer.
If you heard yesterday show, she had some comments about Charlie Kirk. So we’ll see how that all shakes out. Well, let’s see who’s there tonight. Sarah Millican at seven, Ron Funches at seven, Jay Jorden seven, zarn A garg at seven, Safari Time live taping at seven, the JFL Live Sessions at seven, Dual Citizens at seven, Gave Iglesias at eight, John Mosten special taping at eight thirty, Britney Schmid at nine, more Sapory Time, more John Mosten, the Alternative Show with James Adomio and at eleven at midnight Mannus at eleven thirty. All right, if we were there tonight, just working backwards a Domian doing an all show at eleven o’clock, if I could stay awake that long, yeah, absolutely, Like Gabe is good, but we know what Gabe does.
That’s a bad use of the festival. The time I did the Toronto Comedy Festival is one of my favorites because you can really really bar hop in Toronto, and that is the best way to do things. I remember one time I saw Ryan Bellville and Kate River Wilson in a bar somewhere. They were just fantastic. So if you’re up at the Toronto Festival, don’t go see the people you’ve heard of.
Do some smaller things. I mean, you’ve heard of James Adomian, but it’s an all show. Do that. And for an early show, let’s see Jay Jorden. We could do what was the other one?
Funches Sarah Milliken? Maybe do Sarah at seven o’clock just or something different. Can’t stop talking about the Emmys. Amy Poehler weighed in her guest Benedict Cumberbatch, who said, if you can comedy, you can do anything. I really believe that.
Amy said, of course, you don’t have to tell me, babe. Every single year the Oscars, everybody in comedy gets blanked and all the serious people get up and except it’s some hot bs, because comedy’s not easy. And I gotta tell you both you and Olivia Coleman can do both. Yeah. I saw a bunch of people mentioning lately like there’s no best comedic actor.
One person who made that point is Jim Jeffries on his recent special Shockingly. I watched some comedy specials the other night. I started out with my friend Larry the Cable Guy, his special on Amazon. It’s fine. It’s Larry doing what Larry does.
I don’t think Larry would tell you I’m trying to do what Mark Maron did in his last special. It’s Larry being Larry, just up there checking jokes. I’ll tell you the punch line of one, but I won’t tell you the setup so he won’t see it coming. But his no fry zone joke is a real good joke. I did notice the theater was a little smaller than expected, so it’s not quite cozy, but it doesn’t feel like one of those big giant specials.
But Larry absolutely should watch that. Switched over to Andrew Santino, No, he’s in. I think it was the Chicago Theater, which is a big, proper theater where you know, it’s kind of what you’re used to a special looking like. And I was watching and it was fine, and then all of a sudden it clicked into me two things. One Santina was just reciting the material.
I noticed this a lot of times with stand up, and I get that the whole thing is a performance. I get that the whole thing is memorized, but sometimes when you’re watching someone, you can tell that they’re surfing the crowd and kind of feeling the moment. Santino was doing his act, not reacting at all to anything coming back from the audience. He was just like, and now I say these words he told them. Well, but I think he’s getting by on charisma.
I think Andrew Santino’s charisma is better than the material in this special. But it’s very watchable. People will like it, and I’m a comedy snob, I know that.
And then I switched over to Jim Jeffery’s Two Limb Policy, which is the secon…
Jim is on the surfboard. He’s riding it well. At one point he does react to the crowd reacting to him. I loved Jim Jeffrey special, So make that the next one that you watch that will be high up on my end of the year list. Comedy stock Market.
By the way, when you guys figure out who the voice of Comedy stock Market is, let me know. It’s a famous person. Let me know when you figure it out. Comedy stock Market. Every Friday we buy, hold or sell stock in comedians And Johnny Mack did you wrong last week?
I told you to load up on Nate Brighetzi, and boy, I cost us the house. Sorry about that. We all live in a camper now, boy Nate really ate it on the Emmys. That was a mistake by Johnny Mac. I thought he was gonna be well.
He did not, So we are selling all all of it. Nate. Let’s get out. That was the peak and he blew the peak. It’s all downhill from here.
Nate Brighetzi has peaked. You heard Johnny Mac declare it. Sell what you have of your Nate Brighezzi get out? Why you still can you know who we should buy? Jim Jeffries just will quietly gobble up some Jim Jefferies.
In the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, Dylan pointed out every Jeffrey special is good and day in, day out, he’s super reliable. So we’ll quietly gobble up some Jim Jeffries as we sell our Nate FORGETSI ahead of here earlier in the week. We should buy more Santino because he can keep a secret. If you heard the Taylor Swift story and you know it’s theoretical he could get invited to the Taylor Swift wedding even though he doesn’t think he will. So because of that, let’s buy some Santino.
Even though I didn’t love the special, the civilians will, We’ll buy Santino, will sell Nate, We’ll buy Jim Jeffries. And that is your comedy stock market for this week. Heading over to Gossip Corner, You’re not getting two songs in one episode, so we do Gossip Quarter without the catchy song. Delta Airlines has issued a response in regards to comedian Guy Brainham claiming another passenger elbowed him for being overweight on a flight from New York to LA What Delta Airlines tells TMZ, Delta sincerely appreciates the actions of our crew and customers for de escalating this situation. We apologize to our customers for the delay and thank them for their understanding.
I’d be furious if there was a delay over this, Delta’s customer care team is reaching out to speak directly with our customer as we look into his claims, said the guy sitting next to him on the Delta flight gave him an elbow to the ribs because he felt guy was too fat for the middle seat. Why is guy flying in a middle seat? You have to have some money. I have aisle seat money. And how big is guy?
Anyway? Guy Brandham, who perhaps possibly maybe wants some attention, posted video from the interaction as he’s in the middle seat, arguing when the man seated in the aisle wait, I gotta find this, then hold on. I had an exciting adventure on my plane flight today. Normally, when I got more money, I’ll fly business class because I’m a big guy. I don’t want to be in anybody else’s space.
And this time I got a comfort plus ticket. And you know I always get worried. You know, I’ve had people freak out at me before, and today it was a middle seat. Not great. A guy came down, a white guy in his sixties.
You’ll see, first he freaked out. Of a woman because she was putting something in the overhead compartment near his seat. Then He sat down next to me and immediately was just pissed off at me and asked me if I could move over, and I was like, no, I can’t. Then he just elbowed me as hard as he could.
And then I took this video.
Elbowed me because when fast sitting back, Wow, who would you go be? Black? Yeah? Wow, we could be happy about boding that. Well.
I’m not a lot of room here, right, I know I came for the seat. I paid for the seat as well. I think people want to be sharing on with Yes, we’re not showing the US right now. You were using the harvestuosity. I’ll want me to get out.
I’m not even on the armory. I’m not on the harvest, sir. How do you think I should solve this problem? You’re not gonna believe me? Yes, no, I’m curious you think that you think that should exists.
Different.
Also, let’s be fair, you are hardly stuff for yourself.
I’m a member of Wait one. Okay, Okay, I can show it on my prime Okay, and that is how I. In the head five minutes or so. Away. Do you think I have ever I think I have ever tried so this way, No, I’m just saying, I think I have ever tried so this way.
So I don’t know. I really think that I’m a fat person in this country, and I have never tried so this way. I don’t know. Okay. When a fighter saison came by, I told them that he had hit me, but I was okay to say in the seat if necessary.
He like went and complained that I was too fat.
And then people came and like observed to see if I was too fat, and and the l…
Delta. When they solve a problem, they’s und a red coat lady. And the red coat lady came, like pulled him aside and just greatly talked. Okay, I stopped it there because I don’t care anymore. It’s possible, perhaps maybe that the whole thing is a bit It seems a little sus that he’s filming this whole thing and the other guy’s doing comedy material back.
It’s also possibly perhaps maybe guy needs a little heat on his career because we don’t talk about him much. That’s possible. But what I think happened is this is just a terrible incident and poor guy had an awful time on the airline, and boy, we should feel bad for him. That’s how I feel. I definitely don’t feel that it’s a bit and he just wants attention.
While we’re on gossip corner, THEO Vaughn continued his quest to land a date with the mother of the Vanderbilt quarterback. You may recall the quarterback promised theovon he would set theovon up on a date with his mom if Vanderbilt defeated South Carolina. Of course, the final score Vanderbilt thirty one, South Carolina seven. However, now mister quarterback is saying, oh, there was another stipulation. THEO Vaughn has to set the quarterback up with Tate McCrae.
Get out of here. I mean, what is that I’m not handing in Saturday’s podcast unless you set me up with a date with Sidney Sweeney and my wife’s gonna be pretty mad about this bit. Get out of here with this Deo von did his best. He shared a screenshot of a DM he sent to Tate McGray on Instagram. On Tuesday, he sent a photo of the quarterback he captured it.
Hey, Tate my friend said, I could take his mom on a date, but only if he’s able to take you on a date. If you don’t want to go on a date with him, I can also take you on a date. And that is your comedy news for today. About some plenty of stuff. I’ve got a pretty robust weekend coming up, so don’t skip the weekend episode has got a lot to tell you about.
And I’ll see tomorrow