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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny mack back Live. I’m back from Antarctica. No really, I was in Antarctica. I’ll talk about that after the break, but let’s catch up Nikki Glaser on the Golden Globes.
I thought she was fantastic. I really enjoyed her monologue. It was a nice traditional I called it Johnny Carson style monologue, where you just call out the people in the audience and say something funny about them. Be the equivalent of me going and Scott Beckett is here. Scott’s excited about the Golden Globes because it means I won’t play the Joe Coy joke anymore, you know, that kind of harmless spanter among friends.
I thought she was really, really good. Nicki shared some details with Howard Stern, saying I got paid pretty I’m good with that. There was a past host who said how much he got in his monologue, and I got less than that. I’ll come back to that, but that’s okay. I’ll get more next year.
I feel well paid for what I do. I’m all right. I like cause she’s assuming she’s hosting next year. That said, it should be a great choice. Obviously, The speculation is she’s referring to Gerard Carmichael, who hosted in twenty twenty three.
He disclosed on stage that was paid half a million dollars for his hosting gig. You may recall the Golden Globes had to rebuild the ceremony was canceled in twenty twenty two after the controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s a lack of diversity. But I think even after last year with you know Who making the joke about you know Who, the Golden Globes are back. Baby, It’s a thing again. I think it’s a chair that people will want to host.
But Nikki Glaser did great and said if they’ll have me back for twenty twenty six, I’m all in the first time. You just want to prove yourself and I feel like I did that. She sure did. She shared with Howard some jokes cut from the monologue, some of them which she obviously would have told better. This is the last time all of you will be in the same room together until the Diddy trial.
That is a great joke, she explained. They had another Diddy mention that worked better, And you’re kind of accusing the people in the room of being involved in that, and they might turn on you. Another joke I loved conclave. It’s about choosing any poop. It was heartwarming.
It’ll touch you so much that the church will have to move to another theater. Hot tip. You don’t need ID to get into the conclave after party, She explained, we didn’t do that because there were Catholic joke pedophile jokes. We’ve all heard them. We don’t need more of that.
A tag to her joke about calling Adrian Brody a two time Holocaust survivor for his appearance in two Holocaust movies, The Pianist and the Brutalist, dropped from that joke was the tag if Adrian Brody could go back in time, he would thank Baby Hitler for his career. Nicki said, I love that one so much, but my assistant is gen Z and she was like, I don’t get it. Nicki explained, Oh, we’re gonna lose a whole generation on that joke, and then I’ve said Hitler for nothing. Another cut joke, only murders in the building is amazing. I think it’s so cool that legends like Steve Martin Martin short and Meryl Streeper all in it.
It just goes to show you you’re never too old to still need money. Why are you working so hard? What’s going on? Did you get caught up in the hawk to a crypto scheme? That’s a good joke.
Why don’t you cut that one? Glenn Powell’s nominated tonight for hit Man. Who would have thought you’d only be the second hottest hit man in America? This one probably a good cut. This is the only show where you can see the biggest stars in movies and TV joined together with a common goal getting out here tonight before Dak Sheppard asked them to do his podcast, another one good cut.
The Wild Robot is nominated tonight, and by that I mean Nicole Kidman after two white wines. Glazer interestingly said, I wish we could have done that. But if she makes a face. Yeah, you don’t want to make a joke about somebody and then they make a face. It could kill your career?
Or did it? We’ll talk about Joe Hooy on the weekend. Michael Keaton was so great and Beotle Juice and Alec Baldwin sadly did not come back to play a ghost because he was too busy making them. Wow, that’s a great joke, Nicky said, Please know that, I know it wasn’t nice. It’s such a great joke, but it’s just too mean.
Another great joke, here’s Ben Affleck. I can’t wait to see which Jennifer you try to ruin next. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the Golden Gloves producers. They asked why they thought Nicky was so successful and said, hard work. Putting in the work is very important.
And we’ve said it many many times. It sounds redundant, but she was doing literally four or five shows a night in la and other cities for three weeks to get ready for this, and she tested it out on a lot of the jokes and knew what worked and what didn’t work. And her team went to her and said, oh, that joke will work here. Maybe it’s too inside only of the people in the room. I get that the people at home won’t get it.
And she honed it down with the ones that work, and that’s why she did a great job.
And then she hit us with a couple of curveballs along the way, but that was f…
They wound up being funny like popular. So let me remind everybody Joe Cooy only got the job nine days before the Golden Globes. They didn’t have a host at all. So while we’re all killing Joe Koy for being the worst host ever, I mean he told that terrible joke about you know Who’m not going to go there today, Relax, Scott Beckett. He only had nine days.
Give the guy four months. You know, maybe somebody smiles at the joke. Who knows what happens. I still blame her. Bring it swifties.
The Golden Globes ratings were actually down. Initially, CBS reported that the ratings had jumped seven percent from last year’s show, claiming ten point one million viewers. However, Variety later released numbers from Nielsen that showed a dip of two percent in the ratings. With nine point three million viewers. Last year’s show, hosted by Joe Koy, was up fifty one percent from when the show aired on NBC in twenty twenty three.
That year got six point twenty five million viewers. Maybe Joe Koy should be the host after all? Catching up because I was in Antartica. We’ll talk about that after the break. Ali Wong.
Single Lady won Best Stand Up Special of the Year. The other nominees were Jimmie Fox, Nicky Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Rommie Yusef. Out of that group, I would have picked Adam Sandler, so that lets you know how bad the picks were. I don’t know who made those nominations, but I would have picked none of the above. And if I had to pick Adam Sandler.
People are mad a comedian Hannah Brenner for a joke Hannah made during that Netflix End of the Year special Thing Torching twenty twenty four. I have not seen it yet. I was in Antartica. Did I mention that Brenner joked she likes Luigi MANGIONI saying luigis so hot right now? Who knew besides Travis Kelcey you could become so popular with women by shooting loads into a billionaire.
That’s a naughty joke there when fan wrote not to be too woke, but that was wildly inappropriate. Relax everybody, It’s a joke. Kevin Nilan is getting a show on Fox Nation. His self produced talk show Hiking with Kevin will go to Fox News streaming thing Hiking with Kevin se’es Kevin Nielan joined by high profile celebrity guests including Nicky Glazer, Conan O’Brien, Rob Low, David Spade, Martin Short, and others as they hike through the canyons of La Malibu, Utah and elsewhere. I’ll let me jump in here.
I’m well aware of the fires. I hope everyone is okay. I don’t want to just flippantly make a reference about hiking through the canyons of La It is horrific what is happening out there. I hope everyone is safe. Clearly.
Neilan recorded this in the past. He said, when I hike with these people, they are really forthcoming. You’re outside, you don’t have an audience in front of you, you don’t have these bright lights, and you’re hiking. You become more casual and open and you have your endorphins going. Fox Nation has made ten episodes of Hiking with Kevin Availabel on a Fox Nation Hulk Hogan was booed in Los Angeles at WWE on Monday night they were making their debut on Netflix.
Gabriel Iglesias weighed in, saying it was a painful experience, but he thinks the WWE should have known better, given that the show was in LA and Hulk Hogan was a major Donald Trump presidential campaign supporter. Gabe said that was painful watching Hulk Hogan get booed. I’m like, yeah, wow, from great to hate that was ugly. That was ugly. But I mean, at the same time, they should have known better.
You know that Hulk Hogan’s been out there on this political train, trying to sell his beer and trying to be on the Trump train. So you take somebody like that and you put them in a blue state in LA, what else is going to happen? That might be the reaction? Hulk Hogan is out hawking a real American beer now an official partner of WWE. I have not yet seen Gabe’s new special.
I’m catching up on life. Did I mention I was in Antarctica? We’ll talk about that after the break. The Hollywood Reporter did a big profile of Gabe for this special. He said, I wanted to let everybody know, Hey, I’ve been around for a very long time, and I’ve seen a lot of things happen, and a lot of entertainers come and go, and if I’m still here after all these years, I shouldn’t have to deal with any of these issues that are amongst us right now about what you can and can’t say.
I’ve always felt, like I said, I’m coming from a good place. It should be okay. I’m trying to be diplomatic and cool about things, but also be like, come on, guys, I’m still gonna be here after this, so let’s just stop it already. In the special, he jokes about things like pronouns and says I’m leaning into it, but I’m not making an agenda to go out and just attack. I never attack.
I react. So it’s me sharing stories about going through certain experiences and how I to them, versus, hey, I want to talk about politics. The Hollood reporter was curious about, what do you mean. You’ve seen a lot of comics come and go. Is there a through line as to why many don’t make it?
And Gabe said, I think it’s pacing. There are a lot of entertainers out there that got the one thing that hits and next thing, you know, Gangham style man, and then you’re gone. I want to comment on that as somebody who’s been a comedy industry adjacent for two plus decades now. The people who last are what I call the brick wall comedians, the guys that tell jokes. The shooting stars are the gimmick comedians.
And I can go all the way back to somebody like Dice, these stylized comedians, you know, like Jim Gaffigan is standing in front of a brick wall telling jokes. Jim’s going to be around another thirty years. Then you’ll have other comedians. And I want to be positive today. I’m not going to pick on anybody, but like Dice had an act, and the act comedians tend to be shooting stars.
So that’s what means by Gangham style. Gabe said, it’s like, whoa, You’re on top of the world a minute ago. Where do you go? Being nice goes a long way. I think a lot of times people forget that and they start being a jerk.
He faces to people that eliminates people quickly and then being consistent with me, all the specials of branded everything is fluffy something you want to keep reminding people that that’s the brand. Sometimes people will say, well, that’s pretty excessive, and I go no, because all it takes is one or two years for them to start forgetting you. You have to constantly remind them and continue to put out what you’ve been putting out. I can’t just be doing a show that’s fun and friendly and then all of a sudden you go to this political rant about who you should vote for, because now you’re turning people off. The hollyd reporter was like, you refine this fluffy person over the years.
How’s he different from the real you? Gabe said, the guy on stage is just louder and talks more. So. Yeah, I went to Antarctica over the break. My daughter and I went flipping over all the cards here.
The last sixteen episodes of this podcast were pre taped. Now it was the holidays, so it’s a good time of year to be away. I can’t imagine another scenario where I would hand in two and a half weeks of pre taped shows because usually when I travel, I bring the laptop with me and just do the show from wherever I am. You know, I’m pretty open with you guys that’ll pretape a weekend or sometimes you know, wrap a weekend with a Monday pre tape. But for the most part, I do the show quote unquote live.
But yeah, it was a lot coming up with stuff for sixteen days of pretapes. Thank you Mike Chisholm for letting me rerun the interview on New Year’s Day, so that saved one. End of the year countdowns came in pretty handy in terms of the show. I want to pretape the weekend. I’ll give you quote unquote live shows through this weekend just to catch up.
I’m not gonna go back and do every story then I missed. You know, it’s Daily Comedy News, not daily comedy story. John didn’t get to two weeks ago, say John Mulaney on Broadway. We’ll just let the past be. I do need to catch up on my specials.
I didn’t see Nates, I haven’t seen Gabe, I didn’t see the End of the Year thing. I didn’t see Michelle Buteau and whatever else came out. But we’ll catch up here anyway. It is good to be back in the basement studio recording the podcast. But Antarctica, man, people are asking about it.
A typical day would be breakfast, You put on all your cold gear. You get in on a zodiac boat, which is like a big raft boat with a motorized engine, head over to the land, walk around, stare at penguins and seals. Come back, change out of your wet clothes, go eat lunch, go back to the room, put your wet clothes back on. Back to land again. Do that again for another two three hours.
Come back for dinner, pass out because you are exhausted. Repeat. It was amazing. It does take a minute to get there. On my way down, from leaving my home to JFKA Airport to actually checking into the hotel room was a thirty one hour trip.
So if you say to me right now, hey, you want to fly to Sydney, and I’m like, all I have to do is get on a plane in Los Angeles and watch moviees for sixteen hours, no problem, I’ll go. You may have heard of the Drake passage and the Drake shake. That is no joke. I was fine. My poor daughter has spent two days in bed twice.
It’s two days at sea before you get to Antarctica. And if you don’t like rocking boats, don’t go. But if you’re an adventurer, I highly recommend you go. I did an expedition cruise, so this wasn’t a big Disney cruise. This was one hundred passengers and forty crew on a boat probably maybe small than the Staten Island Ferry for New Yorkers, but definitely not a giant cruise ship.
And it rocked. But I had an awesome time. When I get some time, I’m going to make a podcast out of it, and I will share that with you when we get a little closer. All right, back to comedy. SNL is turning fifty.
Did you know that way? You should talk about that at some point. Will Ferralt, Tina fe and Andy Simberg are in a promo for Peacocks SNL fifty Beyond Saturday Night, which will celebrate the show’s fiftieth anniversary.
Also appearing in the special Dana Carvey, Tracy Morgan, Amy Poehler, and Jim…
Andy Samberg says, my first audition I threw up. One of the four episodes centers on the more cow Bell Sketch, one of the Alzheimer’s. Another episode focuses on the problematic Season eleven that came close to getting the show canceled. Jimmy Fallon says, this is beyond my wildest dreams that you’re making a documentary about the cow Bell sketch. Some other specials coming out January twenty seventh, NBC’s Ladies and Gentlemen fifty Years of SNL Music, and a live primetime special will be on NBC in peacock A February sixteenth.
Also, we have to monetize everything, so live from Sacks Fifth Avenue is some limited edition SNL inspired merchandise. Fans of the show can visit a dedicated landing page on the Sacks website which features the items available to shop. Should we do this? We should do this. I’ve been away for two and a half weeks.
We can go long today. All right. It took a couple of clips, but I found it, and I don’t get it. If you really want, you can get a Favorite Daughter baseball cab that’ over a new forty eight dollars. You can get a Favorite Daughter SNL Sport and Spirit cotton tote bag that over a new fifty bucks.
You want favorite Daughter SNL Auto five pocket jeans, those are only two hundred and forty eight dollars, and a tote bag that says favorite Daughter SNL Live from New York. That one’s fifty dollars if you’re looking for a more Cowbell T shirt that might actually be fun. Nope. The president and chief commercial Officer of SACKS says, We’re excited to partner with Saturday Night. I’m bringing together two iconic brands out of shape culture and delighted our respective audiences for decades.
This is being spun as saying SAX and SNL have a long standing relationship. You see their flagship store is across from NBC’s A thirty Rockefeller Plaza headquarters. Yep, okay, uh huh. The trailer is out for Amy Schumer’s new Netflix comedy feature Kind of Pregnant. In Kind of Pregnant, Amy Schumer plays a lady who wears a fake baby bump while feeling jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy and ends up meeting a perfect guy.
In the trailer, Amy asked, did you ever feel like such a big lie you don’t know how to get out of it? Some of the comments on YouTube include, this trailer makes me want to sit on my TV and watch my couch. Is it too late to replace Amy Schumer with another actress? And it seems like Netflix took a look at what Taylor shared in has been doing by appealing to regular Americans who just want a fun time and said, yeah, let’s do the exact opposite of that.
And then is your comedy news for today.
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