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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now you know who went to the Laugh Factory to see a comedy show? People are really excited about this. Right, Sidney Sweeney went to see Matt Rife at the Laugh Factory last week, and boy did this make news.
The Hollywood Reporter says, Matt Riife got up there and said, anyone who gets offended by a joke in a comedy club is an effing R word. The Holly reporter says, even the choice of language seemed intentional to let the audience know what to expect. But that’s not actually the big story. The big story was who came to the show? Sidney Sweeney and Scooter Braun.
They showed up with a group of friends and they sat in the upstairs VIP section. The Hollywood Reporter tells us Matt Rife had two openers, Jackson McQueen and Eric Griffin. They covered subjects like broken engagements, new couples, h gap relationship, remember that part, the war in Gaza, and the ample amount of nudity on euphoria, specifically Sidney Sweeney’s topless scenes. McQueen started the show just after ten pm. He called the VIP section the groupon section.
He covered a broken engagement and entering the dating pool as a newly single guy. The Hollow Reporter says Sweeney and Braun held hands under the table and sipped on bottles of water. McQueen then brought Griffin up. Gryffin did a set about being a new parent. He joked about the unpredictability of toddlers and their wild nature, then shared a not safer work story about helping his wife out with a tampon.
Use your imagination. Then he joked about euphoria. You know the show with Sidney Sweeney. It is unclear to the Hollywood Reporter if Eric Griffin knew that Sidney Sweeney was upstairs, but he mentioned her name several times and joked about how her breasts are always out. He used alternate language.
Eyewitnesses say Sidney Sweeney doubled over with laughter at the bit. Then up comes Manife. He says he’s not going to do any politics, although he did a few light politics ish things. Holler Porter says Riife covered a range of subjects in his sexually charged sets, including impotence, self love, and a story about visiting Amsterdam’s Red Light District, where he and his best friend took in a show Use your imagination. Riife made several jokes at the expense of trans women and their vocal range.
He started doing a little crowd work with Matthew and Lily, who were in the front row. We’re told he got mileage out of the age gap. You see, she is forty three years old, he is in the mid thirties. This also is relevant because Scooter Braun is forty four. Sidney Sweeney is twenty eight, also an age gap there, remember earlier?
Don’t you to remember that fun fact? Now it’s back. The show went to midnight. Matt Riife ended his show with a standing ovation. By that point, Sidney Sweeney and Scooter Braun and their friends had rushed through the door to beat the masses.
One eyewitness said, she’s so gorgeous in person. He asked Wanda Sykes about Kimmelgge. Remember kim Olgate. Yeah, that was a big thing. We’re gonna talk about late night for a little bit here.
Variety asked Wanda Sykes that situation recirculated conversations about cancel culture. What do you think? Sykes said, before it was just a bunch of people who are upset that they couldn’t say stuff they wanted to say. Well, what do you want to say? Because you can say anything you want, but you got to deal with the fall out when people say, hey, we don’t like what you said and stop buying your tickets.
But what happened to Jimmy. That’s real. People online are losing their jobs for stuff they post. It’s not about what a comic says. Now the guy who works at the post office as something on Facebook and people jump all over him and what that person fired.
So now it applies to everybody. You can say whatever you want, but I want to know what is it you want to say? What is it? What’s the problem you want to say it? Just say it.
I don’t get it. They then asked Wanda Sykes about the re Odd Comedy Festival, which I haven’t brought up in this show. In what two three minutes? Wanta said, I’m sure it was a nice paycheck, and hey, these comics feel comfortable going there. I wouldn’t.
I’m a black gay woman. I have no business there. I wouldn’t feel comfortable with the treatment of the LGBT. But then again, I think Jessica Curson and she said she was going to talk about being a lesbian. I guess that worked for her, but I wouldn’t.
Wanda was reminded that Jessica gave her money away. Want to say to me, that’s anti comedy if you complain about cancel culture, but then you go and take the money to not say things I mean, and then it trails off. As for Jimmy Kimmel, who was at the center of Kimmel Gate, he was at Selena Gomez’s third annual Rare Impact Fund benefit. Kimmell did a joke that in theory is hacky, but probably worked here. He said, I’m excited to be here, Honestly, after the month I’ve had, I’m excited to be anywhere.
I was this close to starting and OnlyFans. Kim Ole discussed the President of the United States, saying, we have a very special event tonight filled with amazing stories from amazing organizations that the President wants to defund. Kimmel praised Selena Gomez’s Foundation for the progress the organization has made in the mental health sphere. The work the Rare Impact Fund does is needed now more than ever. It’s very painful to see what’s happening in this country right now, and we’re not even allowed to take Tailin off for it.
If you’re up late tonight, you can watch the tonight shows. During Jimmy Fallon, he will announce People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. Now I have some inside information about this. I don’t want to tell you how, but I know some people on the list. But on the tonight show to night, Jimmy will crown the sexiest man Alive.
The other guest, Jimmy Carr, who you never know, could be the winner. Maybe there’s only one guest. I’m curious about the conversation Jimmy Fallon is going to have with Jimmy Carr about the Reodd Comedy Festival. I’m sure that’s gonna be Fallon’s opener. Ladies, gentlemen, Jimmy Carr, everybody claps, Car walks out, he sits down, and Jimmy Fallon starts quizzing.
Jimmy carry he goes. Jimmy, you were recently at the Riodd Comedy Festival. A lot of people say that the government there is oppressive, and you took the money. That’s gonna be Jimmy Fallon’s opener, right, because but in the Late Night Wars, you know who’s winning. Stephen Colbert Late Night are saying that during the week of October nineteenth through the twenty fifth, Colbert average two point four to eight million viewers, beating Kimmel and Fallon combine.
Now, Kimmel was off that week doing reruns. Kimmel’s number down to one point one seven million viewers. That’s down seventy nine percent adults eighteen to forty nine, only one hundred and sixty seven thousand people. That is not a lot of people in the scheme of things, That’s really not that many more people than listen to this podcast. But that still was enough for second place.
Jimmy Fallon in third place, one point zero three million total viewers in adults eighteen to forty nine. One hundred and fifty eight thousand people. That is not a lot of people. Seth Meyers has a show for some reason, he averaged eight hundred and twenty five thousand total viewers, but in the eighteen to forty nine he had one hundred and nineteen thousand adults Starting to catch to Seth and on Fox Gutfeld three point one four million viewers and in the eighteen to forty nine two hundred and thirty nine thousand. Now, please remember the other show’s air at eleven thirty five East and west.
Gutfeld airs at ten East and more importantly seven West, so it’s a lot easier to catch that show without staying up. John Stewart is a little suspicious about this construction project at the White House. On The Weekly Show, John Stewart said, here’s what I think ultimately will happen. When his term is done, He’ll just stand up living there, and more than likely the Trump organization will rent down more a lago for whatever the new president is and they’ll have to stay down there. Nobody puts in a ninety thousand square football room for the next guy.
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I’ve never met Kenny, but we talk coffee on the side, and there’s one over in the downtown LA that I always think of Kenny. So I appreciate you supporting the show. It’s funny how I won’t mention a comedian for a while, and then all of a sudden they’re in the news a lot. Billy Gardell in the news Trip Live said Billy is recovered after pneumonia. Billy was in town for the Pittsburgh Steelers game a week ago.
He’d been feeling run down for a couple of days. He figured he had a cold. Then he woke up and he could barely walk. His wife convinced him to check out medical treatment. Instead of going to the airport.
Doctors ran Tess, Billy, you have pneumonia. On top of that, he was dehydrated and had atrial fiblaration. His heart was not pumping correctly. Billy Gardell, fifty six years old, said, the way they treated me, this young, beautiful staff, and when I say beautiful, I mean the way they do their job and the way they were so proficient in caring. I’ve got to give up so much love to the people of UPMC.
I think I’ve told the story on this show. You know why I started running. Every now and then I’ll humblebreg that I’ve ran a marathon or two. One day, I was at flag football my son was playing, and I had chest pain the entire morning and I felt like crap, to the point where I told my wife I wanted to go to the hospital because I don’t want to be stupid. And I went there.
And when you’re sitting there with your chest shaved and you have electrodes on, it makes you go, hey, want you try and get your act together. So that’s how I started running. I was thirty nine years old. Here’s the part they didn’t tell you. The day before, I was in Philadelphia and had two cheese steaks, because why would you have one cheese steak when you can have two giant, twelve inch cheese steaks.
So that was the nature of my chest pain. It was a cheese steak indigestion. But it was the wake up call to Johnny Mack to want don’t you start running a little bit? CBS caught up with Tracy Morgan. They were promoting Tracy’s new show, which happens to air on CBS.
It’s a spin off of the Neighborhood. Tracy Morgan plays Frank Crutchfield, a widowed father of two adult kids. They moved back into the family home in New York City’s Harlem. Tracy said, prepping my whole life, man, I got kids. My real wife Sabina, she passed away eight years ago.
I knew this role. I know this guy. I was with her in the hospital of the day. She closed her eyes and I said, I love you, I miss you, and please forgive me for any hurd have cost you, and I will see you again. Tracy says for him, it’s important not just to be funny, but he wants his work to have a message.
He says, if it doesn’t have a heart, I don’t want to do it. I need to be motivated. I got to say something. You gotta tell life how I see it. And Naples, illustrated, caught up with my former co worker and Tracy Morgan’s former co worker, Jim Brewer.
They were in the cast together. Jim looked pretty good. Whoever did this photo shoot? Brewer? If you’re listening and Jim’s gotta be I think Jim’s two years older than me.
He’s probably fifty eight. He’s approaching sixty. Jim, you look great in the Naples illustrated photos by Nick Sergio. Well, Nick Sergio did a great job. So when I worked with Jim, I really could do Jim pretty well, like not one of my usual half ass impressions.
I could actually do Jim because I would listen to him for several hours every day, and I would write the copy before him, and I would try and write in his voice, so I would have headfoys Jim Brewer. And the way I always get into my Jim is I remember the first time I met him. We were sitting at some high top tables at series. He was pitching the show, and he goes, you always have to get into the Jim Brewer thing by doing his all right. It shows me Pete Pete was Pete Coreley.
I tell stories all right, so I can tell now I’ve got my good Jim Brewer Today. Sinnaples Today asked Jim who and what do you find funny? Jim Brewer said, Shane Gillis cracks me up. He’s a guy makes me laugh. I like almost all comedy.
It’s funny. I’m dirty on stage. I don’t even curse, but I don’t care if it’s raw, pushing the edge or crossing the line. Well of different senses of humor, right, But I do believe some topics are off limits to me. These are the very dark, sadistic things of our society.
There are certain things, especially that happened to women and children, that are completely off limits. I don’t care who you are, no one is going to make that funny. Brewer was asked what are your thoughts about politics and comedy. Jim said, I’m not affiliated with any political party. In fact, I don’t like politics.
I think we should be able to laugh at what’s in front of our faces, especially when it comes to exploiting common sense and calling out the absurd. Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerilla website early access Rufot Guyev’s the Bad Rufot and that is your comedy news for today, now tomorrow. Okay, let me lecture you before we go tomorrow. You are going to vote. I don’t care who you vote for, but go vote.
I don’t want to hear about the weather. I don’t want to hear it’s raining. I don’t want to hear that you had to get up for work ten minutes to Really, you gotta go vote, vote for somebody. Whoever you vote for, that’s on you. If you don’t vote, that’s really on you.
But please go vote tomorrow. See you then,