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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Matt Riife surprised everybody he shared that he got baptized earlier this year. Rife was on the History Hyenas podcast and said I got baptized in August in a dude’s pool. Raife told Hosciannis Papas and Christa Stefano that he didn’t grow up in a religious household, but he’d occasionally attend church with friends a few times a year.
Rife said, I’ve never been a super religious person, but when my grandpa pasked away, something hit me that was like, I’ll never see this person again, so something has to exist. I skewed Christian so I started going to church a little bit more. But he says, I hate church. I find it excreminatingly boring. But I want to believe in God and it’s obviously a huge part of the process.
Matt Rife, if you’re listening, and I know you are, I’m gonna recommend Deacon Mike’s podcast. Deacon Mike’s podcast is called Question of Faith, and Deacon Mike and the crew they found a good way to like just be like normal person from the community who also attends church, Like they did a whole thing in the summer talking about the church softball league, so it’s not like preachy question of faith. Back to the comedy John, Nikki Glaser was on CBS this morning earlier in the week. She’s getting ready to host the Golden Globes on January fifth. Nicky’s right, a big wave of press right now.
Her PR team is taking on Nate Bergetzi’s a PR team in the or Super Bowl this weekend. Nate’s team put up three touchdowns yesterday. If you heard yesterday’s podcast anyway, here’s Nikki Glaser reached. Out to Ricky. He called me right away to give me advice.
Within like two minutes of me sending an email being like, would it be okay if you maybe copped on the phone for ninety seconds he called me. I’m like at an airport, ducked in a corridor being like, oh oh yeah, trying to hear his advice. And his advice was just be yourself. You’re not one of them. Don’t try to walk out there acting like you’re an a lister just because you’re invited.
You wouldn’t be if you weren’t the host, which is a very heals so real, it’s so real, and that’s really important. And he also wrote me and had great advice of you know, their advice that I chair so much that can only you would only get from someone who had done it was that the room is super noisy, they’re all talking. Don’t try to quiet them down because the audience at home can’t hear them. And I thought that was very valuable because I would have been out there. I’m not used to performing for a crowd of people talking.
Still, I would have been like, can everyone take your seats? The show has begune, you know, And now they just saved me from that moment, which would really possibly have been an awkward moment. Yes, if you’re a fan of me, I’m the guest today on the Letterman Podcast. Mike Chisholm and I talked to comedy for about an hour and a half The Letterman Podcast wherever you get your shows and if you’re too lazy to click on that, that will be the January first episode on this feed. But why don’t you give Mike the download no listening.
You can listen to my version, but give them the downloads. It feels good about himself. There’s also a video version of that. If you want to see how boring John sitting in the basement looks, you can go on YouTube and check that out. I wouldn’t your usual mental image of George Clooney sitting in a Chase lounge with a microphone recording off Lake Como in Italy.
That’s the image you should keep. You don’t want to see what this show actually looks like. There’s a reason this is an audio only podcast.
Speaking of David Letterman, he did an interview with GQ and we learned Dave …
Dave said, yeah, I do a little meditating. Sometimes I just meditate hoping I fall asleep. GQ was like, does that work? I can tell you firsthand it works, but Dave said, yeah, sometimes it does. Yeah, it’s pretty good.
When I was working, I would meditate. Because you’re doing five nights a week. You go out tired, sick, lonely, happy, scared. You gotta go out, Dave, you’re doing four nights a week. There was Friday Night videos for a while, and then I think when you went to five Days on NBC, one of the days was on tape and the CBS Friday night shows were clearly pre tape.
You doubled up one day a week, you gotta go out, and the meditation sometimes would give you a boost of energy. But I found when I did it religiously, it just gave me more energy to be angry. So I thought, well, this might not be what they’re talking about. Dave also said he took medication. Yeah, yeah, medication.
Doctor. The guy who saved my life begged me to go on an SSRI because he used to get so upset. And we had an office, an adjunct office, an office in the office, I’m sorry, a closet in the office full of telephones because if things went wrong, I pick up my telephone, yank it out of the wall and heave it across the room. And so we had to deal with Westinghouse, and people used to make the phones that have a regular delivery stops applying us with phone. So that was a cue that maybe I needed help, GQ.
And you don’t have that feeling anymore. I urged your hurl of phone, Dave. How have I been today, GQ? I haven’t seen him throw one phone? Davey retired?
Send me retired? What’s a deal? Dave said, retirement is a myth. Retirement is nonsense. You won’t retire.
The human mechanism will not allow you to retire. What do you do? Sit there and wait, give me the name of the show, Judge, Judy to come on. As long as you’re healthy, you still want to produce, and you’ll find ways too. Once I stopped doing the show, took me a couple of years to figure it out.
Ah, this is a completely different rhythm, and without the rhythm that you’re customed to, largely unsatisfying. So you gotta find something that’s important to you. Hello, Dave, Hi, I’m podcasting in the basement for that very reason. I understand. I’m on the back of my career now, I get it.
But I like doing this show. This show is a lot of fun, and it gives me a rhythm to my day. I hear you, David Letterman. Dave, do you think about the show in general these days? Dave said, from the day I stopped doing it till last night, two or three times a week I have an anxiety dream related to the TV show, and it’s maddening.
It’s just manning the dream is I show up and here I am I’m read do the show. I’m on the old show’s schedule. I’ve been a rehearsal, I’ve been a hair I’ve been to makeup. I come down and it’s people I don’t know looking at me, saying, Okay, we’ll get to it. But what about the audience.
I guess they’re here, So it’s me in the same mode everyone else is incomplete, and it’s anxiety. It usually wakes me up at a start. What does he think it means? I think, as it came to the college, dream of Oh I forgot where the English building is, or it could be some sort of psychosis Davis seventy seven. How much longer will he work for I don’t know.
Like I said, I’m surprised at the number that I’m still doing it now. I think if I start in the middle of talking to a world famous guest, I fall asleep. I was doing some show for Netflix a couple of years ago, and the schedule was ridiculous. We were doing three shows a night twice, and then three shows another night twice, and it was insane. And the stage manager came up to me between one of those shows and she said, you’re gonna have to sit up straight and look, I know you’re ehausted, can you sit up straight?
And I thought, ah, maybe that’s a sign. So does that mean he’s not doing anything more for Netflix? Interesting anyway, if you want to hear me talk about Letterman Letterman podcast. Today, the La Times asked Ronnie Ching, do you think comedy has the potential to become part of that extremist algorithm when it comes to how some people view the world socially politically? Ronnie said, yeah, but that goes both ways, politically right, some of that type of content can influence you to go left or right.
There’s comedy for everybody, so it can influence you in any direction. I think what’s sadder is guys, and I can speak to straight men because I’m a straight man sometimes have legitimate grapes that get kind of focused on and exaggerated by being on the Internet too much. It’s not even about politics, about losing your mind. It’s not about conservative or liberal. You could lose your mind as a liberal, you could lose them as a conservative.
I think just losing your mind is very scary. In the new special on Netflix, which is one of the top of the year, I will share my Top Specials of the Year list on the twenty seventh. But Ronnie in this special has a good, strong political chum. Hilarius has their second special out today, this one Alana Glazer. They don’t seem to be pushing this one all that much.
And that’s not me being catty at the Hulu publicist who won’t get back to me. I’m just not seeing much at all. This is Glazier’s second stand up special. It’s called Human Magic on Hulu today. The only press I had seen was with NPR, and even that wasn’t really about the special, but something interesting in that interview in PR asked are you good at knowing when something should end?
And Alana said, yeah, I am with broad City. We had signed a contract of seven seasons and then we both came to the decision and ended after five. Abby and I Comedy Essential was like, huh, but yeah, that’s something I would say is elegant about me knowing when things are at their end. CBS has picked up the pilot for Zorna Zarni Gorg’s multi camera comedy. The sitcom is called Zorna and in Zorna Zarna, Gorg plays Zarna, a pron immigrant woman who’s been raising her American born kids on Indian values, but now that they’re getting older, it’s time for her to focus on her own American dream.
Amy Schumer had a project called kind Of Pregnant, a comedy movie. It’s now scheduled for February twenty twenty five on Netflix. It follows a woman wearing a fake baby bump because she’s jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy, and leads her into awkward comedic situations. Amy Schumer has a producer credit, as does Adam Sandler. So you know it’s good.
I mentioned yesterday that I’ve pre taped a bunch. You know, Holiday’s Johnny Mac wants to take a couple days off, so you probably won’t hear me talking about all in Comedy About Love. That’s the Broadway show that’s starring John Mulaney. So you’ll see a lot of John Mulaney press next week. So if I don’t talk about it, it’s because I pre taped.
Malini said, I like every single thing about Broadway. I like that if you’re not on the crew that should move a chair, you can’t move a chair. I like that you run into everyone else doing shows. I like every single part of it. Malanie also talked to the Red Carpet about how fatherhood has changed his comedy.
Let’s listen to John and we’ll take the break. Oh it’s much less precise. Oh my god. There used to be limitless time in the day and tons of sleep to remember every little nuance and syllable of every little joke that’s gone. So I think in some ways it’s benefited from that ten percent less clever, but perhaps funnier.
Kevin Hart will tape his next comedy special Tomorrow and Sunday at the Adrian Orsch Center for the Performing Orts in Miami. Ian Lara is taping his special Lapo Swan Rouge. Did I get my friends right there? I’ll leave it in close enough? Who knows?
I don’t know. Ian Lara is taping his special Saturday at that place in New York City. Vince Vaughn’s Bad Monkey is getting another season from Apple TV. You know, I like the Apple guys. You watch one of their shows, and all their shows are actually pretty good.
They have a pretty good track record. Plus they renew things onlike Netflix, which you get into something and they’re like, eh, we’re not making any more of it, Well, like Shane Gillis’s Tires, Like that’s like ten minutes to make no offense to the writers, but that wasn’t like It’s not like they made an Indiana Jones movie. It’s guy sitting around a tire shop riffing, and they only made six of them, make sixteen episodes of Tires. Well yeah, anyway, bad Monkey, we’ll come back to Apple TV. It stars Vince Vaughan.
They got a tax credit, so they’re gonna film in California. I don’t know how that’s gonna work. It’s supposed to take place in Key West. Who knows. The Toronto Guardian caught up with Kyle Bergstresser.
He’s been told his comedy style is a mix of Rory Scovel and Pete Holmes, but describe it without referencing someone else. I’m like a guy who does so many stupid act outs that it’s basically sketch comedy. Some of his influences include some Canadians that I haven’t heard of. I’m gonna guess you haven’t either, Tim Gray Royan, Ashdana Smith. Right, you don’t know who those are?
Andy Samberg, Nick Kroll, Tim Robinson, Chris Locke, Maria Bamford, Tim Heindeker, Connor O’Malley, just anyone getting up there and being a crazy ass. Favorite comedian growing up, here’s a curve ball Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor. I knew I wanted to smoke cigarettes and be a truth teller just like them. And he says, now it’s embarrassing and weird, but my parents played it pretty safe. For the first comedy I’ve ever heard was a Jeff Foxworthy CD that was all about marriage and rednecks.
I listened to it like a thousand times and showed all my ten year old friends and we all somehow found it relatable.
Also, some cassette tape in my dad’s truck of a Christian comedian, what’s a …
He was like, ain’t our Lord and save your funny that way? And I was like, yes, Mark, and I’d like to do this someday. His favorite comedian now John Mulaney, which is tough because he showed his behind a little bit in the last few years. But I’ve decided that I don’t need my comedian to be coke free or great husband’s. As long as they’re not total monsters, I still love them.
Wait did you say that out loud? We’re not supposed to say that out loud. What’s your pre show ritual? Two iced coffees? All right?
I like it here, I’ll shake one for you by me a coffee dot COM’s last day like comedy is fift for five push ups? Not doing that, not even doing five push ups, not doing one push up, screaming to a bunched up sweater, do the happy dance, check the hair, quick granola bar, middle finger to the sky for all my dead friends, and never bothered to catch a show. Kiss my wife, put on my show shirt, big glass of sprite, dirt off the shoulder, dance wife gets another kiss, Give her the kiss she’s begging for more. Big fat sun is right there. She’s got a cool off.
He’s a very curious boy. I tell her she’s getting it later tonight. I kneel down. I tell my big Sanchi’s perfect just as she is. I shove him over to remind him who his boss.
Middle figure of the sky again for all the times God did not provide a shadow box. My wife shows me over a little playfight that gets it out of her systems. She’ll still get it later and out the door by seven twenty. The Toronto Guardian said, Okay, what is it? Really nothing?
I usually just get diarrhea. He’s funny, this guy. I have a joke about the joker and how seriously we take him. I think it’s a pretty good observational thing. But my favorite right now is a very stupid alternate reality bit about how I’m protesting Shopper’s Drug Mart for selling one kind of toy and a different kind of toy.
That’s like a flashlight. Either know what I mean or you don’t. I love what it says about a certain type of men’s right sky, and I love seeing long it takes for the audience to realize that I’m not actually like that. Sometimes they never do. How does you find new comedians?
You gotta go to live shows. There’s so much pausing and eye contact and references to earlier sets and slight adjustments to the vibe that you can’t put into recording. No one will ever be as good in an album or special or stupid forty five second clip as they are live. I like this guy a lot. He is Kyle berg Stresser.
Let’s keep an eye on him, all right. Christmas is coming up. Johnny Mack has pre taped a couple episodes, so put this one on your calendar. If you’re in San Francisco and you’re not doing the Christmas thing. On December twenty fifth, why don’t you go see Kung Pow Kosher Comedy.
They’re doing six shows from the twenty fourth to the twenty six at the Cantonese Imperial Palace. This year’s lineup includes Afira Eisenberg, Becky Bronstein, and British comedian Matt Kershin. There’s a five pm dinner show and an eight thirty cocktail show on the twenty fourth, twenty fifth, and twenty sixth an Imperial Palace in San Francisco. Seventy one to ninety six dollars in person. If you just want to sit home and watch this thing, thirty five to eighty one dollars YouTube live stream an eighty one dollar live stream Koshercomedy dot com.
I’m clicking on that link. I support you guys, but an eighty one dollars stream eighty one Are you gonna send food to my house? All right. Let’s say to watch Kungpound on the YouTube line stream, buy a ticket from the box office. Click on the YouTube link.
You’ll get a email. All right, I’m clicking on the box office. I gotta see what I’m getting for eighty one dollars. Guys, it just says purchase tickets. I’m gonna get one for the December twenty fifth Cocktail Show.
Purchase tickets. Click here to purchase YouTube live stream tickets. Purchase tickets. A lot of links here. Pay what you wish level four thirty five bucks, and then there are tiers.
Okay, so it’s a pay what you wish starting at thirty five, and the top tiers has suggested eighty one. At least that makes sense. I mean, if you want to be generous, great, But if we’re just charging eighty one dollars for live stream, that’s a little nutty. If you’re in Daton, you might want to check out the Kakaroo Comedy Competition Saturday at the Black Palette Art Gallery. Show begins at eight.
Tickets are ten dollars. Saturday begins the quarter finals of the competition. The winners will advance to the grand finale, which is January fourth, at Brickey’s Comedy Club located inside Star City Brewery there in Dayton. That’s your comedy news. I do want to talk about Yellowstone for a second.
So if you haven’t seen the Yellowstone finale, you don’t care, You could check out and I’ll see tomorrow. But for the Yellowstone fans who saw the finale spoilers coming up, what was that? I’m not even talking about like what happened to the Dutton ranch? Fine, kind of saw that coming for three seasons. Now, yah with shit with that.
But let me ask you this. So John Dutton was the governor and his death is mysterious. Then on the show, is it what three days day later? Four days later, the governor’s son, who’s also the attorney general, he’s missing. So if we’re the investigators who haven’t actually seen the show, we think the governor’s son has beaten up his sister and then disappeared.
Eventually they’re going to find that he’s dead. Now don’t you think the governor were dead and his son, the attorney general, were dead within three four days? Because I’ll remind you, we see John Dutton’s funeral, so it’s only been like three four days in the show. It hasn’t been like three months. I don’t think it’s a couple days later, maybe a week later.
The governor’s dead, his son is dead, the daughter slash sister, she’s all beat up and then leaves town.
Meanwhile, the guy that has openly been trying to acquire the ranch to build …
The son is dead, and the sister is beat up and leaves town, and this guy somehow controls the ranch. It sounds like a mafia thing, doesn’t it. No, we’ve watched the show. We know Rainwater didn’t do anything wrong. But if I’m an investigator, I’m looking at Rainwater going, wait, what what on here?
Your enemy is dead, his son is dead, the daughters all beat up, and let’s not forget about the drive by with the attorney who was shot in the car. Taylor Sheridan. I think he left some loopholes there at the end. Anyway, it was a good show till it wasn’t, and I enjoyed hate watching these last six seven episodes. What a mess?
Alright, see you tomorrow.