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Featured: Mark Maron, Nikki Glaser, Wanda Sykes, Leanne Morgan, Julio Torres, Hannah Berner, Bert Kreischer, Lori Kilmartin, Michael Jay, Stephanie McMahon, Paul Heyman
What’s in This Episode
- Hollywood Reporter Comedians Roundtable featuring five major comics discussing fears and comedy
- Nikki Glaser on performing dirty material versus working clean
- Mark Maron on talking to himself as comedy material
- Hannah Berner’s new Hulu special ‘None of My Business’
- Bert Kreischer’s health scare: blood clots and lung issues in January
- Bert Kreischer’s tour bus fire connection to his blood clot discovery
- Lori Kilmartin discussing Gen Z son and loss of in-person socializing
- Michael Jay interest in writing for WWE
Questions Answered in This Episode
Did Bert Kreischer have a serious health issue?
Yes, in early January Bert went to the ER with severe leg pain and was diagnosed with a blood clot behind his knee and additional clots in his lungs. He was placed on blood thinners and had to stop drinking.
What was the connection between Bert Kreischer’s health scare and the bus fire?
Bert’s tour bus driver pointed out that if Bert had been drinking as he normally would have been, he likely would have passed out during the bus fire and potentially died, since the bus caught fire in 30 seconds. The blood clot diagnosis forced Bert to stop drinking, likely saving his life.
When is Hannah Berner’s Hulu special releasing?
Hannah Berner’s Hulu special ‘None of My Business’ was released on the day of this episode, June 5, 2026.
What did Nikki Glaser say about female comedians working clean?
Nikki Glaser argued that all female comedians are pressured to work clean by agents and TV networks, but doing so is the ‘easy thing’ and she prefers to do what comes naturally to her, which is dirty material.
What does Lori Kilmartin find concerning about Gen Z?
Lori Kilmartin expressed concern that Gen Z kids primarily hang out online rather than in person, causing them to lose the ability to make small talk and experience boredom together.
Would Michael Jay write for WWE?
Yes, Michael Jay said he would love to write for WWE and called it a bucket list item, expressing admiration for wrestlers and personalities like Paul Heyman.
Full Transcript
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The Hollywood round Table. No, that’s not what it’s called at all. I’m leaving it in. I’m in a good mood. The Hollywood Reporter did a round table.
There’s no such thing as the Hollywood Roundtable as far as I know, But the Hollywood Reporter did a round table. They say, gather five of the most relevant comedians working today and ask them what scares the most, and the answers very complacency comes up, SODA’s cancelation. Mark Maron says, and sometimes people don’t hear comedy for comedy. They’re like, well, I don’t really believe that, And I’m like, good because it’s a joke. Stupid.
Who was on the round table, which took place in May at the fancy Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica. Excuse me, Mark Maren, Nikki Glaser, want of Psykes, Lean Morgan and Julio touris. There’s a crew and we are till to get your eye roll ready. Johnny Mac, are your eyes ready to roll. John.
Yes, they are all of whom I’ve released specials in the past year for a wide ranging oft in raunchy conversation about comedy, pothics, bombing, and yes, Glazer’s desire to be, as she puts it, effable. Oh nicky. As I went through this and I’ll pick out it today and tomorrow, I found Mark Maron and even Nikki Glaser interesting. I am finding Nicki increasingly annoying. I think that’s clearly leaking out into the show.
I found Wanda Leanne and Julio uninteresting. So I’m mostly going to quote from a Glazer and Maren chr asked, what was the last experience where we thought in the moment, well, at least this will make good comedy. Maren said, well, I’ve been talking to myself more than usual in the moment. I don’t think it’s very funny, but I’m starting to think this is an avenue that I can explore. I don’t know if that sounds sad or not, but I have three cats and I’m not talking to them.
They won They’re like, what’s going on. I’m like, no, I’m gonna keep this to myself. Bestween me and me chr Nicky. You recently said that stand up is like sex, Nikki Glaser, But I’m on stage. I believe in ways and say things that I would never say off stage, similar to sex.
I feel unbridled. I feel like I make different noises and faces and do things with my body that I would never do in front of my friends and family or the general public. Having to then hear feedback about anything I did on stage always feels to me like someone after sex being like, remember when you said that one thing? No, no, no no. I don’t want to hear what I said.
There’s a detachment for me, and I’m kind of embarrassed by that person. So I’m glad that everybody watches it, but I don’t want to watch it. I don’t want to hear what you think. They talked about working clean versus dirty, Nikki Glaser said, once you get agents and people who are weighing in and you want to be marketable, I get a lot of don’t be dirty, and not only because you can’t be on network TV talking like that, but it’s also what all female comics do, and so you’re doing the easy thing. I go, well, is it easy for other women to talk about their private parts.
Look like on stage, it’s easy for me, But why wouldn’t you want me to do something that comes easy to me? The hollered reporter was curious, who’s saying work clean? Maren said, book club owners Agents. Glazer added in and TV early on because of my stand up. I wasn’t chosen to do a lot of things on network TV because they’re just worried you might go off and talk about an advanced sexual thing, very advanced, very very advanced.
You even go on radio and they’re like, now, this is a show where families are listening, and I’m like, I know where I am. I preferred Maren’s answer, which is part of me is always a little dirty, just to keep those people away. And by that I mean success. But I’ve done clean sets because we all had to do them. If you’re doing Letterman, you had to be clean.
I could do it. And I don’t talk dirty stuff as much as I used to because I’m old. It doesn’t age well. And A Burner has got a special out today on Hulu. It is called None of My Business and it’s held variety.
After my Netflix special, I was like, I have to do that. Again. How many specialists they have to put out It’s crazy. I was really nervous about how I was going to make these jokes as good as the ones that are so tried and true and tested. But I also realized that my Netflix special wasn’t good because of the particular jokes.
It was good because I was being myself.
And now I’m better at writing jokes and better performing, and I’ve had more …
Being on stage is all about or on confidence, and you can’t help but get better the more you’re on stage. Stand Up comedy was healing from me after dealing with reality TV, which was a blessing. Stan up made me just feel so myself because even if something didn’t go well, at least I was authentically being myself. It made me want my voice to be heard. I felt like my voice was shrunk, and I wanted female voices to be heard in all their emotions.
If I wasn’t feeling that excitement to do that, I wouldn’t be crazy enough to tour for five years. You have to have a chip on your shoulder and be like, I’m getting a Netflix special, I’m getting a Hulu special. I have stuff to say. I can’t be quieted down for the new special, Hannah Burner says, I want it to be the people’s comfort show. I want them to be able to put it on when they’re feeling down, and to be able to watch it with their friends and to share clips that they can relate to want people to feel less alone in any of the tough times in life.
I hope this comedy special adds little brightness. Hannah Burner, none of my business Hulu today seems like Bert Krascher has seen the light. He was speaking to Fox And Now remember earlier in the year there was the whole bus fire thing. Well. Bert shared with Fox News that in early January, Bert had gone to the er after a severe leg pain woke him up in the middle of the night.
At the hospital, doctors found a blood clot behind his knee and discovered additional clots in his lungs. He was placed on blood thinners and had to stop drinking. Now back to the bus fire, Bert says, two weeks after it burned down, I got to go on my new tour bus with my same tour bus driver who was in the fire, and he says to me casually and did add affect me? At all. He goes, man, you’re lucky you got that blood clot.
Bert was like what, and he goes old school Birdie boy would have been drinking. He didn’t pass out in the back. We would have just let you sleep. Bus would have caught on fire Man, you would have been dead. That thing caught up in thirty seconds.
Bert said, I’ve realized how valuable life is. I realized how luckworks in certain ways. And you’ve got to see everything is lucky because all those things are real. Seven days Vermont caught up with Lori kill Martin. They were curious about her talking about her gen z Son in her comedy and what Laurie kill Martin finds disturbing ridiculous about the Zas.
Laurie said, I don’t know. I mean, I guess the only thing I’m sort of bummed out about is they don’t hang out together in person. They go online and he’s hanging out with his friends, but they’re not in person. They’re losing something. The ability to make small talk and just being bored with each other’s that kind of bums me out.
Wrestling in kids dot Com You’re Home for Comedy News spoke to Michael Jay about Wrestling. Jay was a guest on Stephanie McMahon’s What’s Your Story podcast? Would Chay like to write for WWE? Chase said, I would love to do that. That’d be a bucket list that could be really fun.
I’m a fan, you know. He then name checked a bunch of wrestlers I’m not familiar with. Chay’s a big fan of Paul Hayman, saying he’s one of the best people I’ve ever seen on television. Like he’s then on the short list of the people. I don’t know why he’s not a four time Emmy winner.
He’s so good on television. Every time he’s on, it’s like something cool or developing. I had a meeting with Paul Hayman once, very very likable, very likable guy. Wish I’d gotten to work with him. Star trek Ruiner Pat Oswald is mad about food bowls.
He was on the Snacks podcast. The Star trek Ruiner is upset with KFC’s famous bowl, the menu item that combines mashed potatoes, chicken, corn, cheese, and gravy into one container. Paton said, it’s clearly what stuff do we have left over? Can we jump into bowl and cover it in grievy. That sounds pretty good, actually, Doug the vulcan continue.
The reason I think bulls have caught on because now every place offers bulls is because half our time now we’re staring at a screen, and a bull is a way you don’t have to need to look at what you’re eating. He’s got a point there. We’ve got to stop the bulls. No more bulls. Comedy stock Market, Thank you, Bert Reynolds.
Every week in the Comedy stock Marker, we look at what comedians are overvalued and undervalued, and much like you would in a real stock marker, we try and make some money on the folks. You get how this all works. We’re gonna buy low and we’re gonna sell high. It’s been a very quiet week, you can tell from the stories that are making the podcast the last two days. Not much going on after the whole Stephen Colbert farewell thing.
So I’ve got two for you. Let’s buy some Tracy Morgan. There’s Tracy. He’s at the Knicks games. The Knicks are winning.
Everybody’s happy Tracy Morgan. Sure, why not? Let’s buy some Tracy Morgan. Plus the people seedn’t like that NBC sitcom and one sell for you. If we have any left, let’s just sell our Nate Berghetzy.
I mean that movie bombed so hard and I’m going to continue to first guess this theme park thing. What are we even doing? Nate, You’re making more money than anybody according to bill Board when you do the comedy tours. Just do a comedy tour, so a pretty simple one today. Buy Tracy Morgan, sell, Nate Brighetzi, Nuva dot Nat caught up with Guy Brainham.
He likes trivia now. I didn’t make trivia this week. Were between volleyball seasons, but Wednesday night was the Knicks, so I couldn’t go to Wednesday Night trivia. I had to watch the Knicks. The trivia guys won’t put the Nicks up on the TV.
They want their trivia questions up on the TV, so I had to stay home. Got the same issue coming up for Game four on Wednesday. I have to hope my volleyball game is at six thirty, seven thirty. I haven’t seen these schedule yet. Guy Brainham said, I think comedy and trivia come from the same place of wanting to be right and proving yourself that you have a mine that’s quick.
In the same way that I was growing up during the Golden age of comedy, I was growing up during the golden nature of jeopardy, and they’re both ways of learning about the world. Jokes tell you so much about the world as a kid you don’t understand, and so does trivia. When I was in college, I was on the quiz Bowl team, but at Berkeley I wasn’t good enough to travel. I only got to play when we were at Berkeley. Then I went to law school at the University of Minnesota, and one of the good things about it was they had a nice endowment, so we traveled a lot and I got to see the college towns of the then Big Ten.
It was a lot of driving around the Midwest, learning about the importance of steak and shake, and that one McDonald’s it’s on a weird bridge over the Highway on the way to Chicago, and which towns in Wisconsin were the best to stop for pie. I’m in on all that, and I had a pitch from the people at openmicx dot com. They have some data which cities have the most active open mic scenes, what stage time costs, now free MIC’s versus paid mics. Wh Thursday is a big night for open mic nights and what comics on the road can learn from city to city. Let’s call it the data on a slow news day and see what they got all right?
Thursday is the peak night for open mikes. Looks like there’s a barograph here. Thursday number one, Wednesday two, Tuesday, three, Monday, four, Sunday, five, Friday, six Saturday. According to twenty two hundred and sixty three published recurring open mic listings, open mics by states on open mic x Top ten states New York, California, at Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Florida, Arizona, Washington, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. Not surprised there, and the top venues and ticket sources for open mics Number one the NYC Comedy Club, followed by second city event, Bright Laugh Factory, Show Clicks, Leap Flappers, Allegiant Theater, Improv Tixer, TIXR, Comedy, Mothership, Zany Chicago.
And there’s a lot more here. And you can check all this out at openmicx dot com. And that is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget it’s June. So what are you doing you’re sharing the show with a friend.
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