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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I love a good controversy and I’ve got a few today. Get a load of this. Crack dot Com writes, is Donald Glover complicit in the completely lame hoax at Mark Norman’s stand up show?
Oh boy? So I’m not going to say the name of the company that is looking for publicity. I will just call them brand X. You may recall the story from last week where Mark Norman was on stage, a man jumped on stage. The man was escorted out, and Mark Norman was escorted off the stage as if he were the President of the United States.
Norman and the New York Comedy Club issued Instagram explanations for the incident. They said the show’s producers staged the disturbance, identifying the group as brand X. So cracked dove in. They say brand X has also taken responsibility for some other viral incidents, including the heist of custom sneakers at an art exhibition and a Tyra Banks furry sandwich thing at a NETS game. Their byline, would you risk it all to have it all cracked?
Rights? Brand X appear to be a stupid, pretentious attempt at going viral perpetrated by a bunch of wannabe influencers, and they add well. Judging by Donald Glover’s recent Instagram stories, Brand X is actually a stupid, pretentious attempt at going viral perpetrated by one of the most powerful maked corporations on the planet, Cracked Rights. The whole scheme is just a promotion for Donald Glover’s Amazon Prime video series Mister and Missus Smith. The series is built off the premise that Donald Glover and Mayra Erskine play wannabe spies recruited by a mysterious organization they call brand X, which they named after the greeting the entity sends the two.
Donald Glover reposted clips from the Brand X Instagram page on his own story. I know I’m barely hiding it right. You’re gonna be able to figure out the Amazon part, but I don’t want to help here. Including videos of the normal incident. That’s a weird thing for Donald Glover to do.
I mean, I guess I did it too, but yeah. Glover also shared the court side furries and the sneaker boosters. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla website says they have found a website built for the brand X account called join brand x dot com. But you know not that I’m hiding the name. Stereo Gum says that brand X recruited people to perform stunts and mishes for prizes, and Amazon is mentioned in the contest rules.
Wow. Uh talking about backfire. I’m curious what Mark Norman will say about this. If anything, I’m curious what Joe Rogan will say about this. Why Joe Rogan because he likes to talk about comedy.
All right, next controversy, Saturday Night Live. I haven’t seen it yet. There were these football games, Go Niners. We’ll get to that. So I haven’t watched SNL.
But apparently at the end of SNL, who showed up on stage. Dave Chappelle Davy Club didn’t pull their punches, they wrote. The divisive, transphobic comedian popped up on stage alongside host to Coda Johnson, musical guest Justin Tiberlake, and a slew of others celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon and the Shark Tanks Mark Cuban. During the Goodbye segment of this Past week Ads SNL seemingly to the surprise of the cast as much as the audience. The AV Club says, this writer is no body language expert, but it seems clear that certain cast members weren’t too thrilled, etc.
Etc. That didn’t make this prize any easier for repertory players Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman, who seemed visibly distraught when they realized Chappelle had joined the group on the other end of the stage. The AV Club reminds us of some of the details of Dave Specials. David’s hosted SNL three times. AV Club reminds us back in twenty twenty two, although Chappelle’s reps denied it.
Page six reported at the time that some of the show’s writers boycotted his episode because they did not agree with his views. In that particular episode, the AV Club noted that Yang, Sherman, and Molly Kearney were notably absent from that night’s goodbye segment. HM next one, George Carlin, you know that lawsuit against the AI thing, Well, it appears that there may have been a pivot. So now it seems that the AI Carlan thing, as it’s been described, was not actually AI spokeswoman Daniel Dell to The New York Times, it’s a fictional podcast character created by two human beings, Will Sasso and Chad Culkin. The YouTube video I’m Glad I’m Dead was completely written by Chad Culkin.
So it’s not an AI special NAWL, So what is it? Carlin estate lawyer Josh Schiller told The New York Times the lawsuit would move forward. He said, we don’t know what they’re saying to be true. What we will know is they’ll be deposed, They will produce documents, and there’ll be evidence that shows, one way or another how the show was created. Wired analyzed this and said, while the special doesn’t present images of video of Carlin AI generator or not, the YouTube thumbnail for the video shows an AI generated image of a comedian with Carlin’s signature gray ponytail, looking out over an audience.
The lawsuit also cites numerous social media posts where Carlin’s name and image used to promote the special or the Dudzy podcast. According to the lawsuit, that creates an association between the podcast and Carlin that is quote harmful to Carlin’s reputation, his legacy, and to the value of his real work. If not curtailed. Now, future AI models may incorrectly associate the Ducy Special with Carlan, ultimately folding defendants knockoff version in with Carland’s actual creative output. I use AI a lot, and my non expert opinion is, yeah, that’s the thing that could happen.
I’ve seen it make up facts. I’ve seen it get confusedive things. I’m a big Star Trek follower, and I’ve seen it make up Star Trek things already. Because things are out there, Wired writes. The lawsuit asks the courts of forced Dudecy to remove, takedown and destroy any video or audio copies of the George Carland Special wherever they may be located, as well as pay punitive damages.
So as I understand it, the Dudcy version is down. But I just jumped on YouTube and I found a copy of it, and that file appears to be fifty nine minutes and twenty seven seconds long. I have not played through the whole thing, but it looks like then it is a copy of it. And here I see an episode of the Dudecy video podcast on YouTube. The thumbnail includes the image of someone who looks a lot more like George Carland.
Then the person looks like me where it looks like Taylor Swift. But I’ll let a jury decide. I’m just here to tell you what’s going on. So I was curious what happens if you ask chet Gpt to write a Carland joke, And I picked the topic of bagels, which I talked about on yesterday’s podcast. I asked it to write a joke in the style of George Carlin, and here’s what I wrote.
And I’ll do my really quarter asked George Carland impression. Why is it every time I would buy a bagel that came out of Jim Brew for some reason? Why is it every time I buy a bagel there’s a hole in the middle. I mean, what kind of business model is that? Selling food with a missing part?
Next thing you know, they’ll be selling donuts as bagels with extra air and charging twice the price. All right, there’s no way Kelly’s gonna think I’m representing myself as George there. That was horrible. Leave it in, Johnny Mack. So that’s what AI came up with, is Carlin.
But I think that’s a generic joke because I’ll do it as half assed angry Jerry Seinfeld, why is I retired? Buy a bagel as a hole in the medal? I mean, what kind of business model is that? Selling food? Or the missing part?
Next thing you know they’ll be selling donuts. Is bag old extra churning twice the price? Right? So that worked? Who knows?
Sorry, I can’t get gravelly today. I don’t know why. Bert Krascher actual, Bert Krescher has a deal to do two more specials for Netflix. This will be his fourth and fifth. The first will be shot in Saint Petersburg, Florida, on July sixth.
In case you thought he was filming it in Saint Petersburg, Russia, He’s not well. Actually, with Bert Krescher, that wouldn’t be crazy, right, that would you could see that happening? He’s the machine. Nope, the Florida one, Saint Petersburg, Florida, July sixth. Krascher will executive produce the new special, also getting a producer credit.
LeAnn Krascher Adam Sandler would be proud. Did you listen to Trevor Noah’s interview with Kevin Hart, Because it’s really good. You should listen. There’s a funny moment where Trevor asked, Kevin, you’ve ever done a half empty arena? Right?
So that’s the setup, and then Kevin answers kind of quickly. I’m pointing that out in advance so that when you hear what Kevin says, you’ll get it. So Trevor goess, you ever done a half empty arena? By the way, I’ve done one? Kevin, No, Can I tell you?
I should have said that so fast? That sounded really Ask me that question again. So Trevor backs up, but they left all of a sudden key. Have you ever done an empty arena? Half empty?
Kevin goes, ah, let me think. Have I done an empty arena? I don’t know. I don’t know if I have. I loved the transparency there.
I mean, I’d have to think about it. I’m quite sure it’s probably been some I don’t know. If I don’t know, i’d have to think about that. Love it more controversy. You may recall Kat Williams recently did an interview.
In that interview, he asked why earthquake not in movies sounded cooler in Cat’s accent. He can’t read, and they found that out when they gave him a show and then put the cards in front of him. Earthquake was on Charlemagne’s show and asked about these comments. Earthquake said, personally speaking, me and him was cool, So I didn’t know where that came from. Certain things he said about me, half was true, half was a lie, but to each his own.
I don’t even getting into that part of it, because see, I’m the type of person where if I have a problem with you, Charlemagne, I’m gonna call you out. We’re either gonna talk it out, We’re gonna duke it out. We’re gonna handle it man to man. Today it’s a lame edition of Gossip Corner. The headline from WIBX nine to fifty dot com your home for comedy news.
They went with no joke. Renowned comedian stops for cup of Joe at CNY coffee shop right CNY Central, New York. Renowned comedian. So you’re wondering who is it. Maybe it was Dave Chappelle or Bert Kraser, maybe Jim Gaffigan, maybe Earthquake, Kat Williams maybe came by for some coffee.
It’s a renowned comedian. And they even had a thumbnail where they blotted out the comedian’s face so that they would get their click. Well, they got a click out of Johnny Mack. WIBX nine to fifty dot com got their click for this one. Unica Coffee seems to be one hotspot and here’s the reveal.
This is the renowned comedian. Comedian Joe Gatto also stopped in for a cup a few days ago. Who excuse me? What renowned comedian Joe Gatto? What we just got done with?
What was the term they used yesterday for Bobby Lee? World famous Bobby Lee? Why don’t you go ask a thousand people who Joe Gatto is. I don’t know if Joe is good or bad. It’s probably an awesome dude.
He’s probably hilarious, but renowned. I don’t know if he’s renowned. The Internet tells me. Joseph Anthony Gatto, Junior is an American improvisational comedian, actor, and producer from the New York City borough of Staten Island. He was formerly a member of the tender Loins, a comedy troupe consisting of Sal Volcano, James Murray, and Brian Quinn.
All Right, Sal is known a little bit maybe Tenderloin fans, right, now are throwing their phone across the room, going, how do you know who Joe Gatto is? I mentioned earlier I watched football on Sunday? Did you? Of course you did. I still can’t believe my Niners came back.
The entire time during the game, I was texting my friend Pat. He’s a Chiefs fan, I’m a Niners fan. So we were kind of rooting for each other’s teams because we want to face off on the Super Bowl, and we got our wish. So when the Lions scored with two minutes of the game, I wrote, remain calm, play the entire game, and I kept texting him that. In the first half halftime, I was a little nervous, and I said, going to get my lucky hat, which is a real thing.
I did. My son got me a Niners cap for Christmas, and I went up and I got it, and I kept texting, remain com play the entire game, lucky hat, and boy, the Niners pulled it off. Which is all along way too long set up to tell you that Bill Burr was not happy with the coaching strategy of the Lions. If you watch the game, the Lions were a little aggressive instead of kicking field goals. Bill Burr tweeted, what do analytics say about the momentum shift of not kicking a field goal, going for an on fourth down and turning the ball over versus the upside of making the first down anyway?
Two weeks of Taylor Swift Talk. Can’t wait. That’s going to be good for our podcast, Taylor Swift Today. We’ve got plenty to talk about In Taylor Land, Jay Leno is seeking to become conservator over wife Mavis Leno because she has dementia. Jay filed court documents on Friday to ask a family court judge to grant the conservator ship so he can structure a living trust on other estate plans to make sure that seventy seven year old Mavis has managed assets sufficient to provide for her care should he die before her.
The petition reads, Unfortunately, Mavis has been progressively losing capacity and orientation in the space and time for several years. Jay is fully capable of continuing support for Mavis’s physical and financial needs as he has throughout their marriage. The court document said she was being treated for dementia and mood disorder. They’ve been married for forty three years. Just three shows at sketch Fest Today seven thirty Exploration Live with Shirley Bartley and Natalie Roder Lateman.
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Still not sure what that show is? All right?
Also at seven thirty Battle of the Wizards, Magicians Versus Mentalists and t…
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