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Where to even begin, Let’s start with this one. Jimmy Kimmel had John Mulaney on the show. You know, our friend Stephen Colbert is he’s only got weeks to live, you know, yeah, right, yes? And by live I mean on television? And is there any other better way to live?
I was looking at your Instagram and I’m not realizing I look at your Instagram too much, but oh I. Approached you about this. Actually, this is a message that you wrote last time you’re on the show. I can barely read that, but it says me, Stephen Colbert, David Byrne, the best, my last time at the ed Sullivan Theater with the kindest, coolest man in late night. Now right, well.
Last fat I just say, right now to the audience. Applause was not the reaction I was looking for. Now, kindest I could have definitely dealt with, for sure, even coolest on its own I for sure could have done the in and kindest coolest in Late Night really narrows it down, Yeah yeah, really narrows it down. To just a few guys. Yeah yeah.
And so then I sent this to you. Yeah, with the text that said, I let you live in my house, yeah, which which during a wayward a dressless period of my life, I lived in your house just for a while. Was there a period of time where you lived in Steven’s house for longer. Than I have to say? The man’s never invited me over.
But I think obviously, like what a position you’ve all put us in. You’re all getting suspended and fired constantly. That conan retires, we all have to talk so hyperbolically about all of you so often we’re out of words. The coolest who gives it? I mean, it’s psyche, he’s he’s off the air.
You gotta say something nice. If you had been full fired, not half fire, yeah, I would have said, this is the kindest coolest guy in Late Night. And I broke his bathtub once. While m’laney was in town, he sat down for this Better Be Funny with David Letterman special guest John Mulaney. Before bringing out Mlany, Dave brought out our good friend Paul Shaffer.
The capacity crowd greeted Paul Shaeffer with a standing ovation. Letterman has signed on to executive produce Say Hello to Our Good Friend to Paul Shaffer, an upcoming future documentary about Paul Shaffer. Recap says Dave and Paul traded quips like they did for years. Shaeffer came back to close the show ninety minutes later by taking a seat at the piano and performing Frank Sinatra’s That’s Life. So this sounds very similar to the Vancouver show that a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm, who hosts the Letterman Podcast, Mike could come on here to tell us about that one.
So it sounds like it was very similar when Paul shot up in Vancouver.
Also like the Vancouver show, Dave kicked off the La show with an opening tha…
Dave looked back on his early days, all the way back to childhood. Photos flashed on the screen showing a young David Letterman in his yearbook photo and on the basketball and track teams at Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dave recapped highlights of his career early radio and TV gigs, the time he was a weekend weatherman, or when he reported live for KTLA at the nineteen seventy nine Rose Parade. I’ll have to pull that clip someday. He played clips of himself on Mork and Mindy and the Mary Tyler Moore Hour.
That’s the variety show, not the famous sitcom. Dave talked about an early appearance at the Comedy Store, saying, I told a joke and nobody laughed, but I wasn’t discouraged because I was specified. You can’t be discouraged and petrified simultaneously. When I got off stage, there was a man there in the shadows, a man I recognized by the name of Richard Pryor. And Richard Pryor said to David Letterman, I really like that joke, Dave said, and I thought, oh my god, I can go ahead and pay the rent.
It was a huge moment for me. Blaney comes out. Dave and John spent some time talking about Malleini’s family. It sounds like Mullaney wents to stock material, which is kind of lame. To be honest, We’ve heard this before.
If you listen to this show, if you pay attention to John Mulaney, but the recap I see says that Mallani got lots of laughs for For the first thirty nine years of my life, I financially supported zero Vietnamese people. Now sitting in with you tonight, I have about ten on the books and to take cash app It’s weird when people like, oh, what’s your life like when you’re doing all these projects, But most of my day is texting with elderly Vietnamese people about if they got the money, if they need more, if I bought an appliance at a breaks. I don’t know if you know this, that’s on me. M’laney said it was one of the greatest things that’s ever happened to him, to have his life expanding that way, quoting Malleni, there’s just no comparison to being Vietnamese. Being Chinese Vietnamese is the smartest thing I ever did.
It’s remarkable. It’s remarkable. Letterman asked mullaney about some other stuff, like being the first comedian to play Wrigley Field, accepting an honorary patronage from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, taking Malcolm to Graceland, and becoming a part owner of years the famous non autum alcoholic beer brand. Dave asked Lane about directing Robbie Hoffman special. Dave was curious what it’s like to work with Robbie Hoffman.
He prefaced his question saying, I’ve lost my way in the world of contemporary comedy because I’m so smitten by you in a handful of other young men and women who I think have elevated this craft, this art beyond early expectation in the world. Mullaney called Hoffman a total original, likening her debut to Sam Kinnison. Quote someone who you’re like, I’ve never heard a comedian like this. I’ve never seen anyone this unafraid. You know, you throw Sam Kinnison in front of Johnny Mack and I was ready to say the phrase tap the brakes.
But I don’t think Mullaney’s crazy there, Malaney said when she opened for me in San Diego at an outdoor venue on the water with lots of couples of tables, she never adjusted her act for anyone. Tell you that’s gonna make for a nice pair on the Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one radio app. The app is free. The show is free, and over there I can play bits.
So I’m going to back to back some Robbie with some Kinneseson. That’s great. Mullaney said. He reached out to Robbie Hoffman because he had a deal to direct and produce specials for Netflix. As John tells it, she goes, what’s the money, and I go all told, you’ll net blank there’s a lot of expenses, and I have a small budget, and they’ll license it, and it’s a really interesting deal.
But I’ll just be up front. I take no fee to direct it, but you’ll probably only net blank blank thousand. She’s like, not very much. She came to the conclusion that was very good for her, but said to m’lanie, let’s be clear, it’s good for you too, because he seems street. When you do stuff like this, John, you seem street.
It seems like you’re plugged in, Mollini said. But I will say her prophecy came true. I am seen as cooler, I am street. A lot of people have been saying I see more Street. Now she’s one of those people that makes me excited to just stand up again.
Now this is an interesting change. Letterman asked Mullaney will he make more of the talk show. Mullany gave a non answer. He said, we have another season from Netflix. I’m on tour till January twenty twenty seven, so we shall see.
So it’s Schrodinger’s talk show. It’s both dead and not dead. Other conversation points they talked about Mullanie’s time on SNL and the new Michael Jackson movie. Melanie asked Letterman whether a Letterman would see it. Dave declined.
Mlaney said, I don’t think that program is for me. I don’t say this, by the way, some kind of stance, but just esthetically and as a film, it looks stupid and bad. I don’t think that was filmed. I wonder if that will come out on some form on Netflix. That sounds really amazing.
I would love to see that. Maybe it’s one of those you just had to be there, all right. It was the finals of Funny af that’s the Kevin Art comedy competition series, which I’m behind on. But I’ve been picking away at and I was like, you know what, this is a pretty good version of such a thing. I could give notes.
I think I have given notes, but just it’s like something I have on while I’m scrolling on Twitter to see what’s up with a hantavirus. It’s nice to have on in the background. Anyway, it was the finals. Here’s Kevin Hart. Viewers around the world have voted and the winner.
How funny af is? And why did you clip it there? Johnny was just about to tell us who won. Yeah, so the problem is Kevin Hart dropped an F bomb, and I try not to do that on this program. Your winner was thirty four year old Detroit Bourne comic Ron Taylor.
Taylor went out over at Caitlyn Palufo, Sama, Sidiki and Regg Thomas. Kevin Hart said, Ron is such an amazing talenty. It’s a strong voice, and I love his energy. He’s poised, polished and now position to be a face that will be seeing for quite some time. This competition was everything was supposed to be plus more.
The four finalists were all amazing. They did not disappoint. I’m blown away at Ron’s win and we’re all in full celebration mode. I got a high five Kevin Hart. There is gonna make a short joke, should I?
I got a low five Kevin Hart hack, But like I said, this was a good version of that, and you came away liking these people and rooting for them, and you got to see some newer faces. So it was a good job there. Taylor was crowned the winner during a taping on Tuesday night that aired live on Netflix. He will now get his own Netflix special, he said, he will title that special Elevate Now. During the semi finals, they did a roast and Nikki Glaser was there, and I was like, hold on, hold on, hold on Niki Glazer, and they’re like praising Nikki Glaser that she’s the greatest roast comic of all time, which will debate some other day.
Don Rickles and did Tony Hinchcliff write the jokes at the Brady Roast? But okay, fine, Nikki Glaser is the greatest roast comedian of all time. She’s in Los Angeles with Kevin Hart and on Sunday is the roast of Kevin Hart and Nikki Glaser the greatest roaster of all time? Isn’t doing the roast of Kevin Hart. The whole thing was weird, especially when Kevin Hart is just waxing poetic about what a great roaster she is.
Why isn’t she doing the roast of Kevin Hart. I mean, if you’re the greatest, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out. If you’re the greatest roaster of all time? Should I not be able to wake you up out of bed and you just slay? Wouldn’t that make you the greatest?
Right? I know? Niki said, oh, I need time to prepared jokes. Well, maybe you’re not the greatest. Then maybe you’re the best prepared.
I don’t know. The whole thing was weird. A guy named Chris grulan Comedy on three did a breakdown here. I have not confirmed this, but according to his threads account, he said, Osama time on stage six thirty five total laughs, fifty three laughs per minute, eights applause breaks, five, run time on stage six thirty two total lasts, fifty five last per minuted, eight point four applause breaks six. All right, very similar numbers.
Caitlin seven minutes twenty four sixty four total laughs, eight point six lass per minute, five applause breaks, and Redge got seven to twenty one on stage fifty eight total laughs, seven point nine laughs per minute, and seven applause breaks. Not sure what you do with that information, but it is interesting. If you follow me in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you saw me post Thursday Midday that like, hey, I just had to like get the machete out to cut down today’s script. I mean, check your watch. We’re this four in and we’ve got a lot to do even in the first half.
Dave Chappelle was on Michelle Obama’s podcast, Here’s Dave. It’s never really been quite like this before, where everyone feels like we’re on the precipice of some amazing change. And every day the new cycling is more appalling than the last day, and this doesn’t seem like it’s eving going to end. And every week I learned some new word like straight of her moves or blah blah blah. And it’s such an avalanche that it is fun even for me now to watch comedians contextualize this stuff.
Someone asked me about my transgender I say, say, you know, you got a lot of trouble for those transgender jokes, and I go, ah, the good. Old days. Now getting some pick up, and I suspect this is going to get more pick up, will become more of a thing because of some of the words of Dave Chappelle, some of the blowback he’s going to get, and that Michelle Obama was there and really didn’t comment on what Chappelle said. Dave was talking about trans jokes. Dave said, people would think it’s me versus the gay community.
I never looked at it like that. Oh, it was corporate interest and culture negotiating itself. So you know, most of these people who were critical of what I was doing didn’t seem like they were of it. It’s like they had their faces pressed against the glass commenting on what we were doing in there, but they weren’t there doing it. Every opinion you could think of is represented in a comedy club.
Every type of person you can imagine does stand up comedy, transgender stand up comics, black, white, Asian, every kind of perspective, and we all champion whatever opinion we champion. We would never think to silence one another. Dave said, being in the room for a joke is much different than a joke being read on paper or perhaps by some idiot in a basement reading your words on his dumb podcast. I if Dave Chappelle has that criticism of me, I think Dave Chappelle would be correct. Dave said, for a media outlet to speculate on a comedy show that they weren’t at or misinterpreted joke, nothing makes a comedian matter than reading his joke wrong in the paper, you know, And reading a joke is nothing like hearing one or being one.
And the intention of a comedy show is a very unique intention. We’re playing with whatever the culture is made of, and we break it down and we get it right or we get it wrong. But in all art, if it’s going to be good or even hopefully great, you gotta have a margin of error. I think that’s all very fair. And like I just said, if if if Chappelle or any comedian like hates when I quote their stuff, they’re right.
They’re one hundred percent right. In Yahoo or maybe it’s from them dot com, Matthew Rodriguez writes, come again. Many of Chappelle’s anti trans jokes were not in fact digested on paper, but were available and widely watched a series of Netflix specials that were available for all to see. And indeed, it is actually kind of hard to misinterpret the comedians saying he is Team Turf seems like one of those situations where you get exactly what it says on the tin.
Also from Yahoo, they were talking more about K’s show the other night.
They observe themes that stuck out in CK’s performance are ridiculous. Is the new materials interest in aging, death, wisdom, and regret. Take for instance the call and response bit where Ck said I’m so old and the crowd yelled how old are you? He named three increasingly bleak truths about approaching sixty, concluding I’m so old that I live in the present for the first time, not because of wisdom, but from because there’s too much of the past and not enough of the future. The thing about life that I’ve learned is that life is too long.
It’s way too long. It’s way too long because you again have a good life, but then you’re still live after that one.
And also you kind of figure life out, you figure out the world, and then it c…
Here’s the thing about getting old. I don’t feel bad for somebody that gets old, because you don’t have to do it. Getting old is what happens when you don’t die for a long time. That’s all it is. Uh.
That quote worries me a little bit, Louis, I hope you’re doing all right. Comedy stock marketine. Every week we take a look at what comedian stock we should buy and we should sell. Again. This is not a judgment on who’s good or bad.
It’s a judgment on value. Who’s overvalued, who’s undervalued. Let’s buy some Ron Taylor, right, I mean Kevin Hart backing Ron Taylor. Ron Taylor getting in a Netflix special. Let’s get in while it’s still low.
Let’s also get in on some more job. It’s Johnson. He’s got a new special coming to HBO. We’ll talk about that next week. It’s just way too busy this week to get to that.
I also did get to tell you about Larry the Cable Guy. Has got a cable show that’s ironic coming out this fall. So we’re gonna buy some Larry the Cable Guy. We’ll get all these stories. Another bye.
Johnny’s positive today. Vittorio Angeloni. I’ve seen him personally up in Montreal that has been buzzing him for a few years, and now playing out in la at the Netflix Festival. A lot of people getting to see Vittorio for the first time. Good buzz on him.
Mo Ammer. I always like what he does, and he’s now consulting to the Daily Show. That’s another buy. Jeff Currey, I thought looked pretty good on the Kevin Hard Funny AF shows. Let’s buy some Jeffic Curry and I got some sales for you.
Andrew Schultz, I got story in tomorrow. His co host is leaving the Flagrant Podcast. And let’s sell Louis C.K. For reasons well discussed to recap. We’re gonna buy Ron Taylor, Larry the Cable Guy, Vittorio Angeloni, mo Amer, Jeffic Currey, and we’re gonna sell Andrew Schultz and Louis C.K.
My dog is no dog knows it’s a nice day and wants to go for a long walk. Oh you just pulled up on the floor here, okay, dog is co hosting the show. Deadline had caught up with the Netflix folks earlier in the week. Robbie pra who heads up Netflix Comedy, said, you’re getting this huge community of talent to come in and all be in LA and not only comedians, but people who work with comedians, people from around the world who work in the comedy business. Having that for two weeks seemed unecessary, so that was probably the biggest pivot, turning it into a week Tracy Pacosta said, I also think what becomes a parent is the bigger comedy ecosystem that we have here at Netflix, So being able to be inclusive all that, whether it be the scripted shows, a lot of features, or talent does many different things here in flexus different muscles, So how do we best take pride in that and give our talent the opportunity to get involved.
Robbie said, that’s a good point, merging very popular podcasts with some of our biggest shows. I think that’s a real fun development this time around. I think we have more music and athletes in the festival, but God’s something that organically happened last time and we’re excited to do that. Deadline asked, what have you figured out in the last four years in terms of ticket sales and had his best structure a festival when you have so many big names. I’ll jump in here.
I know we saw some of the bigger names weren’t selling out, including c K. Robbie Pros said, I think as somebody who’s worked in the festival world for a long time, I’ll jump in again. He used to be the number two I think. At the Montreal Comedy Festival, Robbie said, ticket sales work a little bit differently. What we’re seeing from our consumer base right now is people waking up, seeing things all around town, saying the festival’s coming, and starting to pick the festival shows they want to go to, which is a little different than the typical behavior.
We have a touring comedian coming to town really just speaking to their fans. I think a joy about any festival, not just hours, is people experimenting. I’ll jump in again. Amen to that. I always tell you, if you go to a festival, go see the random shows.
Don’t only see headliners. Robbie says. People picking the thing that they know they love the most and then giving a shot to somebody maybe they heard is cool that they just want to try out to take advantage of this being in their hometown. Amen. We are getting along here, and the dog wants to go out, and so does John.
John’s been on the computer. What is it? It’s two o’clock at Thursday afternoon. I started at seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve one. I have another career for seven hours, and I’m a podcaster who works from home and it’s sunny out, I want to go outside.
Let’s see what’s at the festival. Two nights Hollywood Bowl seven thirty. John m’aliney’s Mister Whatever the Bad Friends podcast at the YouTube Theater at seven o’clock. What is this beautifully Broken Comedy Night hosted by jelly Roll that’s at the Greek Theater. That’ll get a click out of me.
Let’s see what this one is? Oh interesting show, they’re not marketing this properly beautifully broken Comedy Night is America’s foremost political commentator, Ata Schultz, Tony Hinchcliffe, Big Jay Oakerson, Adam Ray, Jeff Ross, and Josh Adam Myers. Hosted by jelly Roll. That’s a pretty interesting show and definitely has a vibe. At the Palladium Dave Chappelle Dolby Theater, seven o’clock, Low ticket warning for Hassan Hates Ronnie, Ronnie Hates Hassan.
That is Hasan Minhaj and Ronnie Ching Maximini sold out at the Orpheum, A good one if you want to go off the beaten path. Sam Campbell is at the Masonic Lodge at nine forty five if you’re in town and you don’t have tickets at one of the big shows, take a flower on that, trust me. At Largo tonight, Robbie Hoffman sold out at eight and ten thirty. Wow the Laugh Factory at seven forty five, says Legends of Comedy. I clicked on it.
They won’t tell you who it is. At the Preppermint Club, Michael Irvin and Friends Michael Irvin from the Dallas Cowboys, who are their friends? Headliners Michael Irvin featuring comedian CP. I’m sure it’s a wonderful show, but boy, there’s some other things to go see tonight. And I’m just scrolling down.
There’s a good thirty other shows I didn’t even tell you about. That is the Netflix is Joke Comedy Festival, just crushing it in Los Angeles this week. And that is your comedy news for today. All weekend normal episodes. I’m very open that I usually pretape the weekend episodes.
I haven’t touched Saturday, Sunday or Monday. I’m swinging here day today because I want to keep abreast of what’s happening out in LA. I don’t want to get too far ahead of things as I record this at two o nine pm on Thursday afternoon. Netflix has still not said who’s on the roast of Kevin Hart? Is that not weird?
I mean, let’s just play it out. Let’s just say that, like it’s amazing and they’re gonna keep it secret. So who’s gonna show up chappelle Ck, etc. Like, all right, is John m’laney gonna roast Kevin Hart? I mean, I guess is you know?
Is David Lettering gonna show up and do five minutes roasted Kevin Hart? I can’t imagine any of that. So why are you not telling us who’s playing the roast of Kevin Hart? Who knows? Maybe we’ll get Eddie Murphy, who knows?
You know what? No, I’m thinking about that. Eddie lives in town ish you know what I mean by town in Los Angeles. You know, Eddie doesn’t live ten hours from Los Angeles. He lives close enough.
Jamie Fox. I can see Fox showing up at this. This could be an event. I’m looking forward to the roast of Kevin Hart Sunday night on Netflix at eight Eastern after the next playoff game, and tonight we have a next playoff game. Go Nix see you tomorrow,