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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence that the transcription algorithms love. I saw a savage social media post from guy Brain on this on threads. I don’t know what you call it is.
It’s just called a thread. I like what you just called things a tweet, but whatever it is, it’s threads, and Guy Brainer posted the only thing sincere about Whitney Cummings is at her envy of Nikki Glaser’s career. Ouch.
Speaking of Nikki Glaser, Hulu has announced a date for Nikki Glaser’s upcomi…
It is titled Nikki Glaser Good Girl. It’s Nikki Glaser’s first hour long, hilarious special shot in front of a sold out crowd at the fabulous Fox Theater in Glazer’s hometown of Saint Louis. Now the hesitation you hear in my voice. I’ve pointed this out in the past. I don’t think anyone’s Peak special has been there Hulu special yet.
I think Hulu might be where you go when you’ve just crossed the top of the mountain and now you see the downside, has Nikki Glaser peaked, Will the hilarious special be the first step on the downside of the career? I hope to be wrong, Nikki Glaser said, I couldn’t be prouder of my fifth hour special, Good Girl. I put everything I had into this hour of material. Luckily for me, so did everyone who worked on it with me. I truly saved the best four to fifth.
Nicki explains, Good Girl was developed at home for two years on the road at over two hundred and fifty shows, and it was one of the best nights of my life to get to perform this show for the very last time in my hometown of Saint Louis in front of family, friends and fans. I already missed these jokes, so I can’t wait for them to have a second life again. In April, for some reason, we had to hear from one of the suits, David Jimmy. He’s from dun and Dusted, the production company behind the special, and he made sure he was in the press release because he gave a statement said we’re thrilled to be teaming up with the incomparable Nikki Glaser again. Nicki is the funniest, kindest, warmest, smartest comedian in the business, and we’ve put together an incredible team to create the platform she deserves to allow her genius to shine.
Every frame is gorgeous, every minute is hilarious. Now, David Jammy, I’ve done and dusted. I’m sure Nikki is wonderful, but I would be shocked if she is the kindest, warmest comedian in the business, because to do that, she’d have to pass Cable Guy, and then once she passes Cable Guy, she would have to pass Jeff Foxworthy. That’s no shade at Nicky Glazer. I would just be really shocked if we hung out with Nikki Glaser and we were like, Wow, she’s even nicer than Foxworthy.
Just saying Aperghatzy has something he would like to tell us. Hi, I’m nigh Burgatsy tonight. I’m on the road, but soon I’ll be in your living rooms with my new game show. Greatest Average American premieres February twenty fifth. Watch it on ABC, stream it on Hulu.
I can’t wait. ABC’s press release calls it a hilarious new game show that celebrates the pa of being perfectly average. Each round is packed with laugh out loud challenges and trivia as contestants try to guess how everyday Americans think and live. In the end, one lucky player will be crowned the Greatest average American and get the chance to win the ultimate grand prize, the average American salary of sixty seven twenty dollars. Several comments there are the prize of just short of sixty eight thousand dollars.
ABC is gonna make money hand over fist because they’re not paying the winners anything and it’s the chance to win sixty eight gram This is just print money and have commercials. My other thought here is, you know, I love Nate’s comedy and all, but is he going to be a good game show host? Like did you just listen to that piece of audio play and you’d be like, oh wow, that sounds really compelling. Nate clearly wants to stretch his wings. I’m not sure which show wards he hosted the Emmys?
Was it the Emmys? I’m not sure he was great at that. I don’t know. I don’t know about this one. Rooting for you, buddy.
Somebody I have total confidence in is Trevor Noah. He hosts the Grammys this Sunday. I’ll do a Grammys episode on Sunday. But looking ahead, Trevor Noah is here to answer the question, what if you could not only watch the twenty twenty six World Cup this summer, but also watch other people watch the World Cup. Trevor Noah will be hosting a YouTube show.
It’s a live World Cup watch Party during some twenty five matches in the tournament. Does that mean he’s doing twenty five of these? Trevor Noah will share a couch with friends, elite footballers, and top digital creators. I love the first two, and then the top digital creators makes me go oh no, no, no, no, not for Jotti back while watching and providing commentary and conversation on the games. I guess we have to multi screen there.
But what about the delay? Who knows? We’ll find out. Trevor Noah said. The only thing that’s more exciting than watching every World Cup match is watching it with my best friends and new friends.
Spidey says, tingling on even my enemies who choose to support the wrong teams, no suits, no stiff analysis, just full on fans watching the greatest show on Earth. Ola. Hmmm, So this sounds like you’re gonna sit down and be like, Okay, Trevor Noah and a famous soccer player and then there’s gonna be like a quote unquote YouTuber or a quote unquote influence and uh yeah, I’ll just live here on Old Man Mountain. Maybe skip that. And I love Trevor Noah.
Speaking of the EMMS, which I think Nate Brigassi hosted, I don’t even remember which oney host there is the EMMS, right, They are merging two categories starting this year the TV Academy Board of Governors. Boy, they sound important. They have merged the Outstanding Talk Series category with the Outstanding Scripted Variety Series category due to quote a reduced number of submissions unquote. Now, these two categories previously were one big category until twenty fifteen, when Outstanding Variety Series was turned into Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Talk Series. Now this sounds very complicated.
Nominees are judged individually on their own merits. Instead of Emmy voters selecting one nominee to win. Voters must answer for each nominee. Does this nominee merit an Emmy? Yes?
No? That’s like passing a note in fifth grade? Do you like me? Yes? No.
Any nominee who reaches a ninety percent yes receives an emmying the opportunity for multiple winners in the category. If no nominee reaches the ninety percent threshold, the nominee with the highest yes percentage receives an Emmy. That’s dumb. That’s really dumb. What are you doing?
That’s stupid. We don’t want multiple winners. That’s not how this works. I hate this. So, for example, hypothetically, the nominations are Last Week Tonight, which always wins, SNL, The Daily Show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel.
Are You’re not just going to give a yes to all of those so they’re all gonna win? What are we even doing? This is dumb? Hate it? Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it.
Star trek Ruiner. Stephen Colbert was on with Seth Myers There’s a Combination. Colbert talked about his feelings about the upcoming end of The Late Show. He told Seth Meyers seven viewers it feels real now. It did not feel I mean, I know it was real, but now there’s four months left.
What I really love is the people I do it with, and we’ve been putting together. I mean, these are people I’ve been working with. My shoemaker Tom Purcell, I’ve known since nineteen eighty eight and so we’ve all been together forever. Cobert said, sols and you could do comedy a lot of different places. There’s no place like the Edzulivan Theater.
No offense, but it’s really the people and that’s really what I’m going to miss more than anything. And we’ll do something else together. But it feels real now. I’m not thrilled with it. People who can really answer Ron Funches.
He was on the new season of The Traders, which I had a bail on. I couldn’t deal with Michael Rappaport at all. But people seem to discover Ron Funches and really liked him. I’ve seen a lot of good things on social media about Ron Funches. People were curious about his hair.
Ron Funch is posted he learned the lesson of not going on a big show during the shedding phase of a hair transplant, Otherwise you’ll get DMS calling attention to it. We are told the hair transplant shedding phase, also known as shock loss, is a normal and temporary part of the healing procedure. When transplanted, hairs fall out as a follicle’s reset for new growth. But in the next post, showing himself with a full head of hair, he wrote, but the comeback is strong. He added the soundtrack to Willis Smith’s Whip My Hair to that post.
He also shared an overhead back view of his current head of hair, which he captioned in case you thought I was hiding the back word about sixty percent of the time frame. But then he posted a throwback shot of himself and said, but found out bald me is beautiful, So who knows? Let me bounce on over to the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group and see how the voting is going. You have until the end of the day today to vote somebody off. Seeing some new names here.
There’s some ron white votes, there’s a blany vote, seth Meyers vote. That’s a good choice. Oh wait, I’m not supposed to steer anything. Sorry, take that back edit that out. Somebody John does the editing.
Taking the Taro could be in trouble. So what do you do? You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group You’re write down a name. Sometime on Friday, I will tally up the votes, and then on Monday, I will reveal who was voted out. I’ve been thinking of you guys every morning.
Longtime listeners know that I go to the National Donut Chain and I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. It has been so cold that I’ve been doubling up every day and getting a second coffee. I’ve been getting a hot coffee, and I’m normally not a hot coffee drinker unless I’m being all fancy and I’m in Italy sitting on the square somewhere after dinner. But normally when I hit the chain, it’s iced, but it’s been so cold I can’t take the cold anymore. Anyway.
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And apparently there are some folks who are popular on the interwebs called the Callogeris Sisters. I was unfamiliar with them, so I did at Google. They say we’re a sibling trio making fun challenge videos, adventure vlogs, pranks and social experiments. Okay, well, apparently they attended an open mic at the Hollywood Comedy Club. They were intending to perform stand up sets and film content for their YouTube channel.
The sisters are apparently openly displeased with the event. They chastised the audience for not laughing at their jokes. They argued with other comedians mid set, and criticized the organizers of the show in a video that has since amassed more than two million views. Now since then, things have gotten nasty. That wasn’t the nasty part.
It’s gotten nastier. The Hollywood Comedy Club posted an official statement on their website. The club reiterated its claims that the sisters misrepresented their experience with the club, filmed comedians without their consent, and demanded special treatment during the show, all while behaving disruptively and ruining the experience for other participants. Club owner Jang Summers, who’s a comedian, called out the behavior of the Callo Garris Sisters fans, claiming quote. Their followers responded by negative review bombing our small Asian women owned comedy club, resulting in near thousands of racist and sexist one star reviews and credible death threats.
After the event, they posted a YouTube video making false claims that they were forced to wait three hours that one male open my comedian who called their behavior out was our host, and that they were sexually harassed by our male comics. All untrue, right Summers. The comedian of color they misidentified has since been subjected to racial slurs and death threats, including being called the in word and told to slit his throat. This is all horrible, Summers said. This is not a place for entitled influencers to read cringing material off their phones.
Film comedians without consent, disrespect the art of stand up then falsely claimed sexual harassment for clout and greed because no one laughed. The situation has caused real fear for our staff and their families. We’re deeply grateful to the comedy community and patrons who understand how open MIC’s work and why respect and consent matter. Out on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla today. Josh Edelman’s The Jew Rogain Experience also out today on streaming platform Nebula.
It’s Chandler Dean’s season two of the comedy debate series Abolish Everything That’s also out today. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.