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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, Wow, I’m Shineck with your Daily Comedy News. This is the normal episode for Saturday.
Let’s talk about some other stuff.
Huh, if you want to talk Jimmy Kimmel. I dropped two bonus episodes yesterday. I’ll drop another one later today. But uh, you know, sometimes you’re at working you just need to like go outside and take a walk. This is the podcast equivalent of that.
Let’s talk about something else again. I’m really into the Kimmel thing, but it’s all I’ve been doing since Wednesday night. The Muppet Show is coming back for a one event special in twenty twenty six to coincide with the original show’s fiftieth anniversary. In this special, the Muppets returned to the Muppet Theater to produce a variety show. Sabrina Carpenter will guest star.
Have the Muppets listened to her lyrics? Seth Rogan’s got his hand in this somehow as an executive producer. The Original Muppet Show, created by Jim Henson, ran from nineteen seventy six to nineteen eighty one. Wait aren’t they owned by Disney? Now?
Oh, aren’t we boycotting Disney because we’re all mad about Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, Disney, Hulu, Marvel, Star Wars. You can’t partially boycott John. Why’d you lead off with the Muppets? You’re promoting Disney, you horrible person.
The Original Muppet Show, back when it was good and not owned by those Disney people, aired from nineteen seventy six to nineteen eighty one. I watched it all the time. Aired in one hundred countries. Featured guest stars including Elton John, Johnny Cash, Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, Gladys Knight, Elizamn, Ellie, Paul Simon, and many others. There were a lot of great people on that show.
I actually liked. A couple years ago they sort of brought it back. It was like, what if the Muppets did The Office? I thought that was actually pretty good. Greg Daniels, you know, the guy from the Office and the guy from the Paper.
He apparently at one time was trying to revive the Muppets. He told the Hollywood Reporter. I didn’t have a treatment, but I was trying to figure out what would be the next thing for the friend. It felt very baby boomer and millennial, but I was more of a gen xer and didn’t get where it fit. In two thousand and five, this was just before the Office, so I ended up getting that instead.
You know, I think should do it next Robert Smigel. He’d figure out a way to reinvigorate the Muppets and make it cool. I try to work with Robert on Space Force, but he always has a lot going on. Once we clear the current news cycle, All Eyes will be on Saturday Night Live. They have announced the first three hosts for season fifty one, up first October fourth, Bad Bunny Why.
I don’t know either. People seem to think he does a good job hosting. I mean his music school, but I don’t think he’s that good of a host. But he’s only hosting. He’s not the musical guest.
Doja Cat will make her debut. I guess we’ll be getting a lot of more solo Hernandez who does one thing and does one thing well, but he does one thing well. October eleventh. Amy Poehler musical guest role model Amy Poehler is hosting the show fifty years to the day of the very first episode of SNL. Some people have I wondered, why didn’t they just wait till October eleventh?
Why are they going October fourth? I don’t know, ask Louren Michaels. I’m a guy hosting a podcast in the basement. Lauren knows better than me. Sabrina Carpenter second mench of the Day.
She is the host and musical guest on October eighteenth. Have people heard her lyrics? I mean, these lyrics have words like horn and wet in them. At eleven thirty on a Saturday night, Okay, we might be wet on the Uppet Show, I’m not sure. I was so busy with the Kimmel stuff.
I got offered a screener to watch Friend of the Show Marco Serezi’s a new special, Thief of Joy, and I was like, thanks, publicist. And you could tell the publicist doesn’t work for Hulu because they actually offered me a screener and correspond with me. But I was like, thanks publicist, but I don’t have a free minute. I haven’t even had anything to eat. So I told her, I’m like, I’ll just wait till seven o’clock Friday night when Thief of Joy premiered.
You’ll find it on YouTube. Other friend of the show Jason Zinneman at the New York Times. Now, I almost reached out to Jason Zinneman, and Jason, if you’re listening, you could reach out to me. But I saw when kimmelgate broke out, I saw Jason tweeting that he was about to get on a plane for vacations. So I’m like, all right, I won’t bug the guy, but Jason, if you’re listening, I’d love to talk to you about all this.
A friend of the show, Jason from The New York Times called John Marcos special superb, marrying the flare and showmanship of a Broadway baby with the ruthless irreverence of a club comic. Zinneman writes about one of the particular bits, I will not spoil it for you, and that’s not a dig. Friend of the show, Jason Zimmon from The New York Times let us let you experience it yourself, but he wrote, the particular bit is a funny mix of cringe and cutting, tryhard and eye roll, lip biting emotionalism, and cynical snark. We tend to think of the stand up comic as the natural enemy of the theater. Kid but Cirezi makes them seem like old friends, a complimentary double act.
Jason writes, American comedians have increasingly stood up by shaping their jokes into a narrative arc, putting on solo shows that are more ambitious thematically and emotionally, sometimes at the expensive laughs. That’s not what Sirezi’s doing here. If anything, Thief of Joy represents a breakthrough for him because of its commitment to the craft of jokes. Eric idl in the news for two reasons. Of first reason, he was asked about Stephen Colbert.
He made these comments before Kimmelgate broke out, but this comment was about Stephen Colbert. Eric Idol said, there’s a reason Hitler and Trump got rid of the comedians. First, they hate being laughed at. I’ll suck her back to the second Eric Idol story after I tell you that. Andrew Colvett’s, an executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, said Charlie loved that he was featured in South Park and would have wanted the episode satirizing him to continue airing.
The August sixth episode of South Park saw Cartman do Charlie Kirk kind of thing. Comedy Central has pulled the episode from airing on television. I believe it’s still available on Paramount Plus. Andrew Colvett, that friend said, as someone who can speak with some authority on this, Charlie loved that he was featured on South Park. He told me many times he’d won the episode.
Right back to Eric Idol, he gave a health update. He was hospitalized twice in three days. Is eighty three years old, lives in Los Angeles. Jumped on Twitter and said he’s suffering from gastro in tritis and an inflammation of the stomach intestints, typically caused by a viral or bacterial infection. He said, so, I’d like to thank all the doctors, nurses and staff, and the Cedar Sinai La Hospital gi Ward for their kindness and helped to me today the second time in three days.
I love you people. Johnny macbot here he forgot to tell you about the Toronto Comedy Festival Tonight at seven, Ron Funches, Sarah Milliken at seven, Jay Jorden at seven, Al Madrigal at seven, Zarna Garg at seven, James Odomian’s Alt show is at seven to ten. John would probably tell you let’s go see Madrigal at seven and then have two beers and go to bed. So let me catch up on this story because it’s sort of apropos of the theme of the second half of the week. Anyway, Variety’s headline.
Again, this was before Kimmelgate. NBC bets Jimmy Fallon’s advertising antics will help ward off TV’s late night woes, and they talked about the episode Fallon taped in Detroit last Sunday that aired Monday. Ford Motor Company had a hard to miss roll in the program. The Detroit Opera House was filled with an audience of Ford employees and partners. Ford’s chief marketing officer said, what we like to do is tell stories, and Jimmy’s the same.
He does it in such creative ways that it really lands well with the audience. Variety got into the numbers of the late night business. In twenty eighteen, five late night shows, the two on CBS, the two on NBC, and Kimmel combined around four hundred and thirty nine million dollars, according to Guideline, who tracks ad spending. By twenty twenty four, that number was down to two hundred and twenty point six million, there’s no more twelve thirty on CBS. Soon there will be no more eleven thirty on CBS, and I don’t know if there’s an eleven thirty on ABC anymore.
Fallons Tonight Show brought in one hundred and four point seven million dollars in twenty twenty three seventy eight million in twenty twenty four. The article tells us that Jimmy Fallon maintains a relationship with the Ford CEO and meets with Ford X secutives regularly to find out what products and initiatives are on top of their minds. In the past, Jimmy Foun’s team created a video that had Jimmy raising a baby Bronco and another that spotlighted the Electric f one fifty. The CMO over at Ford says, when you have a partner who’s truly interested in co creating with you, the result is not cookie cutter. It’s not a one size fits all program, and that’s what we love about it.
Now we can all sit here and eye roll Jimmy Fallon, but this is what you gotta do. This is gonna work, and that is your comedy News normal episode for a Saturday morning. I’ll be back in a few hours and we’ll update you on kimmel See in a bit.