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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tim Dilan was on with Fox News Digital and goof Dan. One of my favorite comedic targets, and that is Megan Markle. Now, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigued podcast about the royal family, so I write about Megan seven days a week, so I’m very familiar with what everything’s going on.
And Tim said, I think she came to prominence at a time when there was a real cultural cachet of being a victim, and I thought it was a very funny way to be a victim, and she found a way to be a victim while living in a castle, and I always found that very funny. I think she’s a great comedic actress. I think there was a real currency in being a victim when she rose to prominence and she became a victim living in a castle, married to a prince with the royal wedding, and I thought that was really funny. It’s hard to pull it off. She did it to her credit.
You know, most people that were putting out that they were victims during that era were, to their credit, not members of the royal family. Tim then talked about Prince Harry and said, Harry seems like he’s kind of been let around and he kind of doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s probably all all adventure for him, right. I loved him, Dylon and you can follow along and kind of goofon the Royal Family. Listen to Palace Injurgue where you get your shows.
The Hollywood Reporter did a wax job for Seth Meyers’s car. I don’t know why. A lot of Seth Meyer’s press recently. They asked him about writing for SNL’s fiftieth Seth said it was funny because I wrote on the fortieth and I was very fresh from having left, and I felt right back into being a head writer this time. I felt like a guy trying to make a comeback in baseball as a fifty year old, and he’s kind of throwing his backyard and he’s like, oh, yeah, I still kind of got it.
But this current writing staff is really great. In the person I was most impressed with was Colin Jost. Seth says Jost wanted to make sure everybody was taken care of, which often gets overlooked at SNL. I mean, every good writer at SNL is always looking out for the cast, but to some degree you’re always like, well, there’s next week. But with the fiftieth, you don’t want people to get shut out.
I was at the table reading. It was one of those moments in life where you realize this is probably the last time this is going to happen for me. It was very special, and in the back of your head there’s an anxiety of like, am I doing enough of me adding enough value? Seth tells us for the fiftieth there was very little that was pulled at the last minute. Once so you ask Eddie Murphy to do a sketch, You’re not going to cut the sketch, by the way, nor will you ever be in a position where you think you should.
But in general was a really cool thing. Could they top this? Say there was a sixtieth anniversary at wich Lorne Michaels would be ninety. Seth said, yeah, this was a little bittersweet, and it might be the last great showbiz party. Again, we’re all aware we’re living at different times, but I didn’t feel like a single corner had been cut, and the after party was amazing.
I would say the only part and This was the other difference of ten years is at some point we realized the next day was Monday and we had to beat parents again. So my wife and I did great. I mean, we stayed out untill three. But the next day I was literally taking two of my kids to the Blue Experience. I wasn’t even hungover, it was emotional exhaustion.
And then I was at the Bluey Store, and every parent of the Blue Store is hoping there’s someone there that could talk to you about something cooler than Bluey. So the number of parents coming over like I can’t believe you’re out, and I’m like, yeah, me neither. They then go on to talk about late Night. Maybe I’ll go into that tomorrow. The Alice Observer had a wonderful, wonderful review of Rob Schneider’s show.
The headline Rob Schneider is you can do It Tour had us wishing he wouldn’t. The Observer rights the snl Alum show was a sad display of a comedian who now only knows how to pander to your Facebook uncle. Sounds like Lauren Upshaw did not have a good time at the show. She wrote about Rob’s move towards the right and his comedy special on Fox Nation. The Observer put comedy in quotes.
She writes, when we heard he was playing the Granada, we thought, maybe we’re missing something, maybe he’s grown as a person and his interesting insight in the time following the ascendancy of the Orange One, or maybe we just love a little bit of good cringe, And in that vein, we were truly not disappointed. The crowd was diverse in the sense that it was made up of seemingly older, rich white folks who had not seen Deuce Bigelow and the rest of the white people who definitely had seen it. The opening act was a Vegas performer who began the show with standards before pivoting midway through the set to croner versions of classic hip hop. The crowd loved it, and it was admittedly great, and so the last couple songs took a sharp turn, becoming a croon list of people to get ft. The first real applause during the set erupted when the singer said f oprah.
It was clear the crowd was there to see someone stick it to the libs, and early on it seemed that desire would be fulfilled. The second act gave us a revolting anti feminist tirade for about thirty minutes. Her jokes were typical conservative attempts at meme fodder, such as, don’t worry, honey, there’s no chance you’ll need an abortion because you’re so ugly, no one would have sex with you. Then Schneider came out. The theme of the night was free speech the observer rights.
The set was made strange by the fact that it didn’t seem to be based on conviction or even a desire to provoke thought. Instead, it came across like Schneider was just trying to use outlandish, buzzed words to claim victimhood, if not a grift. It was quite lazy writing at the best. I’m sitting on this one. I bounced this several weekends in a row.
Let me just clear this out. Variety did a big, big fluff piece about Rob mcallenny and Kaylin Olsen. We’re told how successful they are with two businesses, Linear TV and a UK foot We hear from Charlie Day you said it would be very impressive if just one of them was going on a run. But the fact is that both of them are stringing together a series of real successes. They’re out of tear.
Kaitln Olsen’s High Potential is a smash hit, one of the biggest shows on TV right now. Yeah, I guess. Let me see how that’s doing. And please understand I love kayln Olsen. From Variety on May thirteenth, they wrote for the network High Potential was its top rated freshman drama in seven years.
Craig Ierwick, president of Disney Television Group, says, I mean High Potential is truly the story of the year. If you look at the multi platform ratings this year, it does I think about double the ratings of Matt Locke. Wow. Impressive. It stands among the giants of shows that are on right now.
I think the momentum of the show will continue. According to this Variety article, High Potential Broadcast plus Streaming eighteen to forty nine gets a two point four to seven rating that is better than other shows like Abbott Elementary at two point twelve, The Rookie at one point seven zero, Shifting Gears, Tracker, Ghosts Survivor, and Bob’s Burgers at number nine, and that show doesn’t even exist. Then Variety gets onto Waxing Rob’s Car about Wrexham and how well they’ve done. We’re told how Caitlyn is on hecks. She is very good on hecks and don’t forget Sonny returns in July for its seventeenth season.
They’re also in business together as investors in the Philly bar Max Tavern. Glenn Howarden says Rob Ten’s to succeed. He’s very smart and humble on a collad of her person. I’m extremely proud of him and Kitlyn. I don’t know how she does it.
I mean, she’s on three different TV shows. What the f is going on? Man? If I want to do those, if I want to do what those two were doing, they’d probably be part of me that was jealous. But it all sounds very exhausting.
I’m too damn lazy to do all that stuff. It’s just too much happening. Boy, they publicist, you deserve one hell of a race for this fluff piece. They even got Danny DeVito to say he’s an oppressive guy. And I was always thought Caitlyn was the funniest one on the show.
She’s not only gorgeous, but as the timing and as a natural comedian. This is like the fluff job of fluff jobs I’ve ever seen. Rob is pondering a name change. He says, as our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I’m just going by Rob mack kylen Olsen said. The kids are really not happy about it because they have their last name, and so do I legally.
The fluff piece then goes on to the first year of Sonny. Rob said during season one he didn’t quit his job as a waiter. Sonny was paying him seventy five hundred dollars an episode, minus taxes and commission, and there was no guarantee the show would keep going, he says, of that season. That was our chance, and we’re very proud of those episodes. It was certainly unlike anything else on TV.
We knew we were betting on ourselves. John the FX’s boss, was very upfront with us, saying, we’re taking a risk on you. You came in and said you want to be the showrunner. You’re not even the head waiter at a restaurant, but I believe in you. That sounds like some retro storytelling.
Can you imagine you’re sitting in the office, and then the head of FX is like, you’re not even the head waiter. I don’t know, and I’ve run into some jerks, and the guy John Langraf does not have a reputation for being a jerk, so only think that story might be a little massaged. The piece then gets into Rob and Caitlin becoming friends and then more of a relationship. Glenn Howard and said, how did I not see this was happening? She would come over and then get too drunk and sleep there.
In retrospect, she wasn’t really that drunk. She was just using the aas excuse stayed out our apartment, and then Rob would disappear for a couple nights and I’d be like, what’s going on? He tell me he went out with some girl making stuff up. Charlie Day said, I thought, what’s the big deal? I think I remember Glenn was a little more thrown off.
Glenn responds saying I thought he was doing a bit because he knows. The stupidest thing you could possibly do is date your co star. You’re compromising the show on everyone’s job. If that goes south, you’re ft, and the whole show is ft and heft everybody. So I laughed and he was like, no, I’m serious.
Anyway, this thing goes on and on and on. I think there’s some storytelling here, A nice narrative has been created. And if you’re the publicist for Rob Mcalenni and Keaitlyn Olsen, you deserve more money. Screen Rant writes, I really hope Happy Gilmore Too is Adam Sandler’s first grade comedy in twenty seven years. See.
I agree with that, except I would phrase it, I really hope Happy Gilmore Too is Adam Sandler’s first grade comedy, and I wouldn’t put a time period on it. I agree with screen Rant when they write Sandler has undeniably started in plenty of great movies over the past few years. They’ve mostly been dramas on cut Gems, Hustle, Punch, Drunk Love are the best of the best of the best. Johnny Mack big fan of Adam Sandler, dramatic actor comedy not so much, and I thought this was interesting. They pulled the Rotten Tomato scores for Adam Sandler comedies after the wedding Singer water Boy critics thirty four audience is seventy one.
Big Daddy Critics thirty nine audience is seventy four. I’m just gonna do the splits. I’m not going to keep saying the words critics and audiences, Okay, Little Nikki twenty two to fifty five, Mister Deed’s twenty two, fifty nine, eight, Crazy Knights thirteen and fifty, Anger Management forty two and fifty nine, fifty First eight, forty five and sixty five, Spanglish fifty four and sixty the Longest Yard Critics thirty two audience is sixty two. The original Reynolds Fantastic Film, Click thirty four and sixty six, Chuck and Larry fifteen and of critics sixty nine audiences, Zohan thirty eight and forty five, Bedtime Stories and I Remember that twenty seven and fifty five grown Ups ten percent from critics, sixty two audiences, Just go with It nineteen critics, fifty nine audiences, Zoo Keeper fourteen percent from critics, Jack and Jill, the one that my kids still talk about. They wanted to rent it on pay per view one day, and I said, I’m just going to take the five dollars and light it on fire critics three percent.
Audience is thirty six, That’s My Boy twenty one and fifty one grown Ups two eight percent critics, fifty three audiences, Blended fifteen and sixty four, The Cobbler ten and thirty six, Pickls eighteen and forty six, The Ridiculous six critics gave it zero. Is that possible? Even I don’t give Adam Salor movies zero audience is thirty six, The do Over nine and forty two, Sandy Wexer Boy, This guy has put out a lot of stuff, hasn’t he? Twenty seven and thirty nine, The Week of twenty six, thirty five, Murder Mystery forty three, forty six, Hub Halloween another one I like to hate on fifty two out of critics, thirty eight audiences, Murder Mystery two, forty six and forty five. They right.
If there was ever a movie that seemed tailor made for Adam Sandler’s comedy comeback, it’s Happy Gilmore two. It would be great if Happy Gilmore two finally realize that Adam Sandler isn’t enough to make a film successful on its own. There needs to be a level of craft and writing ability on display that’s been missing for the rest of his filmography. I don’t disagree, and that is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow.