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Featured: Jon Stewart, Amy Schumer, Madonna, Jacqueline Novak, Kevin James, Jimmy Fallon, Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Jon Stewart to host The Daily Show again
• Amy Schumer joins Madonna on stage at Celebration Tour at MadisonSquare Garden
• Jacqueline Novak’s Netflix special ‘On Your Knees’ review
• Kevin James Amazon Prime special ‘Irregardless’ review
• Jimmy Fallon’s joke about New Hampshire primaries and Trump
• Natasha Lezie Instagram engagement and celebrity responses
• Madonna concert start time lawsuit from fans

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media, look at me. I actually noticed the mic wasn’t plugged in. Hi, it is plugged it now. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I like this joke from Late Night about the New Hampshire primaries.

I shouldn’t do it because I’m just going to annoy half of you, but it’s funny. Jimmy Fallon said it was a tense day for former President Trump. He spent all day wondering if he won New Hampshire or if the vote was rigged. All right, I sat down to watch TV. I watched two specials.

I watched Jacqueline Novak’s On Your Knees and I watched Kevin James irregardless, I’m going to talk about both of them. I’ll start with Jackie Novak. I feel like this is one of those specials that I’m supposed to like. I feel like the industry has decided, oh, this is important, and I gotta tell you I was done with it at a minute fifty five and the first minute of the special is Jackie walking on stage. I tried.

I was like, I gotta stay with this one. People are gonna get so mad at me. That I didn’t like it. I bailed at the four minute twenty mark I couldn’t. I’ll talk more about that in a second as we dive into the reviews.

So then I was like, all right, let me watch Kevin James. Irregardless. I kind of like the trailer. This one’s on Amazon Prime. I had to hunt for it, like they didn’t put it in front of me.

I had to go into search and type in k evn space J Before it even surfaced. Kevin comes out and does this weird dancing crap for a full two minutes, and I was like, WTF Without Mark Marin, what is going on? What are you doing? It just made me hostile towards the special, like get out and tell a joke. What are you doing?

Just awful? I was kind of playing on my phone. I made it to seven minutes and twenty seconds, but it’s just it’s lame, it’s hacky, it’s not trying. So just write that one off totally.

Let’s talk about Jackie Novak.

Tara Ariano writes for Cracked what If I Told You? Netflix also has a comedy special out this month that’s written, directed, and performed by women, and nearly entirely revolves around a matter of interest to women and others who sleep with men. It’s time for us to erase the sour memory of the Dreamer from Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervai’s Armageddon by making Jackie Novak Get on Your Knees the biggest comedy special in Netflix history. It’s certainly the most shockingly great debut I’ve seen in years. I’ll jump in here.

I suspect that women are going to like this special a lot more than I do, and that’s fine. All I could say about this is I’m me and ME didn’t enjoy it. It didn’t speak to me as for those other specials. Chappelle’s The Dreamer was terrible, Ricky’s Armageddon I liked. I got what he was trying to do.

I thought it was amusing. Tara writes, it diminishes Get on your Knees to compare it to any of Netflix’s worst special starring male comics. But good comedy on the platform only makes the bad comedy look worse. The Karen Craft evident in every frame of Nose makes me permanently pre sold for everything else Novak does between now and when one of us dies watch this show so she can make three dozen more or feeling that at least one more than Dave Chappelle. Yeah, I feel like already this is gonna be on everybody’s end of the year list.

And like I said, I just I’m not feeling it. I’m gonna read another review here from Sean McCarthy in Decider, who talks about one part of the special let just made me go, yeah, all right. Sean McCarthy on Decider writes, Novak is upfront about her presentation choices from the get go, and this is the part that I was like, what are we doing? Stopping to physically trace your steps back to the wings of the stage and then again to the microphone, comparing it to the moments during sex when a person moves down from the face past the torso to the pelvis bay, seeing even more attention on the phallic nature of the microphone and comedy the joke there, because the whole way there, everyone knows what you’re headed to do, but you’re not doing the thing. And I heard that choke and I was like, all right, this is what we’re doing here.

And that’s where she lost me when I said it. She lost me at the wooden Let me check my notes. What did I say? One fifty five? That’s when I was like eh, and I hung in there.

I just I’m not feeling this one. I’m sorry. I know people are going to get mad at me, Sean writes. Then there’s her stage presence, the way she handles the mic cord as she strides back and forth along the stage.

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And then Sean wrote this hack line about Chris Rock, almost like an early Chr…

Her delivery too, carries a breathless pacing, and she’s dressing a simple grade T shirt and jeans, so it’s not to distract her audience. Good joke here. I like to keep it moving on stage because I know, I know you people operate. I stand still too long. You see something you like, you take a mental snapshot.

Who knows what you’ll do with it later. So this is not me ranting about Sarah Cooper getting a Netflix special off pantomiming to Donald Trump videos. This is not that. This is not me going Adam Sandler movies are terrible, which they are. Oh, we’re going to talk about that a second.

We’ll talk about that in the second half. This is me going I didn’t like this special. That’s all this is. I’m continuing to monitor the biggest story in comedy, Natasha Lazio. I keep checking her Instagram and see if she posts a more photos.

Because she does, I want to be sure to tell you about them quickly. She did post that one. We’ve talked about that already and it got a lot of likes and thumbs up or whatever it is you do. On Instagram, Chelsea Handler wrote, this is an excellent update, Sarah Silverman wrote Queen. Margaret Chow wrote iconic in all caps.

Rachel Feinstein shared popping champagne bottles, otsko At Kotzka gave an appreciative ha ha ha, followed by a parade of applauding hands married to the salinger Alison Brie and Mary Lynn Rice Cup also shared their approval, So did Nick Thune, Rob Hubel and Mark normand Melissa via Signora said this rocks you rock. Rachel Brosnahan wrote funny way to propose, but yes. Beth Stelling wrote, you could always try to bang your opener and if they say no, unfollow them on social media. Madonna pulled Amy Schumer up on stage during nine two of the Celebration tour at Madison Square Garden. Amy helped the Madonna judge the performances of Madonna’s professional dancers.

Amy and Madonna sat on wooden seats facing the audience while Madonna’s scantily clad dancers showed off their skills. We are told that Amy and Madonna seemed more than impressed by the performances, holding up placards with ten printed on them. Some performers weren’t content just dancing, choosing to give them risque lap dances. What is going on with this podcast this week? We’ve got all kinds of situations.

Where’s there a story about Jim Gaffigan joking about toast? We’re told while Madonna wrapped her legs around one of the men, Amy Schumer was photographed in shock as a man wearing just a thong and knee high pants got up close and personal to you know, give her a show.

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Meanwhile, having nothing to do with comedy, but it’s interesting, two fans h…

In legal papers, fans are upset that Madonna started three shows at ten thirty, apparently despite promoters saying the show would begin at eight thirty. The fans claim due to the late start, it left them to struggle with work and family commit mints the following day. They are claiming false advertising, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices. I hope they win. I hate when you go to a concert it starts absurdly late, and I’m with these people.

I got stuff to do tomorrow. I can’t be out to one am on a Tuesday night. If you tell me the show is going to start at ten thirty, I won’t buy a ticket. You say eight thirty, Let’s do eight thirty. Don’t make me sit there for two hours.

Team fans, Well, look at this. Finally somebody listened to me. I’m so excited about this headline. John Stewart to return to the Daily Show as a host and an executive producer. I suggested that I can’t believe they listened.

John Stewart will host the Daily Show on Mondays starting February twelfth, will also executive produce the show and work with a rotating lineup comedians who will help in the program the rest of the Week Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Chris McCarthy, the big suit over there, said, John Stewart is the voice of our generation and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to help us make sense of the insanity and division rule the country as we enter the election season. John is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much needed clarity with his brilliant wit. John stopped hosting The Daily Show back in twenty fifteen. Matt Rife Wheels continued to come off from The Daily Mail. Scandal prone American comedian Matt Rife is slammed for unfinished Australian stand up show that left fans underwhelmed.

All right, what’s this? A woman who attended one of Matt Riffe’s shows in Australia posted a review on the Facebook gossip page tea Time, describing his set as unfinished and watered down. She says Rife was initially met with roars of enthusiasm, but fans quickly turned against him as he carried on with a set. She wrote, I’m unsure how comedians work if it’s new material, but this seemed unfinished or watered down. His jokes weren’t landing like usual.

The crowd was two thousand people and were overall pretty mellow. When the show ended, we were all walking out. People were not hyped. People were yelling out that it wasn’t good and what they thought it would be. That got some comments on comte, Well that’s your problem, you support Matt Rife.

Another wrote, I’d rather go and watch a use tampon be thrown against a wall a bunch of times than see that guy live. If I had a pit between those two, I would definitely go see Matt Rife. Now, if you said to me Adam Sandler movie or the other option, hmm, that’s a tough one. We’ll get to that. I touched upon this yesterday.

Hot ninety seven reports Kevin Hart is seeking a restraining order against blogger Tasha Kay. Hot ninety seven sources. The lawsuit is saying Tasha has an established history of posting defamatory and otherwise and proper content regarding celebrities. Art wrote, working in the entertainment industry, my livelihood depends in large part on my reputation in the public’s perception of me. That perception is of particular concern in the light of the fact that I’m involved in a number of family oriented projects such as the Jumanji franchise, Fatherhood, Captain Underpants, The Secret Life of Bets, and others.

I also endorse various national brands, and those endorsement deals depend in part on a public perception of my reputation, respectability, and character. The lawsuit claimed that Tasha attempted to blackmail Kevin Hart by saying an interview would not be released if he paid her two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I got a good chuckle when I woke up on Wednesday just checking my email and I saw that Liz m bought me five larged ice coffees. Thank you so much, Liz, and Liz writes, can’t wait to hear an entire episode of you saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. Hmm.

I have decided to accept this challenge, as I wrote back to Liz, you gotta give me like a week here. I can’t just do this off the top of my head. I’m gonna have to prepare for this one, so I have right now in my editorial calendar. Saturday February third, I will do an entire episode saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. Can’t wait, can you?

It’s gonna be amazing. So Liz, thank you for the coffees. If you’d like to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I was thinking of Liz this morning as I drove and actually I’m still wearing and comb my hair and I throw on this running cap.

I’m still wearing it as I record the show today. But anyway, I got a large iceed coffee with caramel and milk and a coffee roll by the way. So when I went for my physical, the doc was like, hey, your cholesterol’s a little high. And I’m like, eh, I’ve been going to town on the coffee rolls. I’ll chill out.

And then I looked coffee rolls, according to the website, have zero cholesterol. Hmm. Now, I don’t know where this cholesterol is coming from, other than I’m just getting up there a little bit. A couple of new podcasts we’re doing. We have the Top eleven.

Every week we pick a subject and cant down the top eleven. This week, the Top eleven movie villains, So check out the top eleven where you get your shows if you want to follow along with the elections. We have a new show called Ballot, give you a quick overview so you can keep up while you’re talking to your coworkers or the family at the dinner table, or the proverbial water cooler, which we’re all on zoom now, so I don’t know how that works, but you know what I mean. That one’s called Ballot. And we also started the Weekly Mac, which is sometimes I throw out these ideas, and I was like, what if we did a podcast about McDonald’s, And my business partner Mark was like, yeah, let’s do it.

And Mark put it together, and the Weekly Mac just talking about McDonald’s fast food is amazingly stupid fun. So check that out.

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Also, while I’m plugging everything, five Good News Stories is doing really w…

I guess it was a good idea to do all those Christmas stories at Christmas time because then a lot of new listeners jumped on there. So the number five good News Stories Monday, Wednesday, Friday, that’s me telling you five stories and they’re all good news. The eight hundred bound Gorilla told us about Aaron McGuire. I’ll comment here. I haven’t seen it yet, but they wrote Aaron McGuire has her debut comedy special, Baseline Presentable out on YouTube.

I’ll come back to that, and I’ve shared it in a Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Unless you’re up at three oh one in the morning, I think I scheduled the post for like no, I scheduled the post for seven pm tonight. You’re gonna have to wait a minute. But this gets back to special versus hour. So I clicked on Aaron McGuire’s release and it’s shot in a small club in Queen’s single cam.

That’s an hour. That’s not a special. That’s not the same thing as Chris Rock Live on Netflix. That’s an hour. It doesn’t mean it’s not good, it doesn’t mean it’s not funny, but it’s just not the same thing.

Eight hundred pound Gorilla tells us Aaron McGuire is a New York City based stand up and podcast host who’s been featured on Gotham Live and some other things. So that’s Aaron McGuire’s Baseline presentable. I will check that out next time I’m in Comedy Hour. Special mode from Gossip Corner. Russell Peter is just trying to sell his mansion in Andsino, six bedrooms, seven and a half bath house.

He purchased in twenty twenty for five point six million. He had it on the market for seven million. He had to cut it now to six point two. I look at the pictures. Looks pretty nice.

It was previously owned by Robert Kardashian, you know, father to Courtney, Kim, Chloe and Rob. It includes a dining area with an eighty four bottle wine rack, a chef’s kitchen, a sub zero fridge, three dishwashers, three, a cappuccino maker, and a steam oven. Upstairs, two primary suites, each with a private balcony and views of the San Fernando Valley. Both suites include sitting areas with fireplaces, spot bathrooms, and spacious closets. The second story also has an entertainment room with a two hundred inch screen.

Not bad. Russell Peters in Williamsburg, Virginia at tonight the Last Word Comedy Festival. Tonight, just one show at seven o’clock, the College Improv Showcase. This one kicks into gear tomorrow at Sketch Fest in San Francisco a robust lineup seven o’clock. Aaron Chen is sold out, seven thirty Josh Johnson is sold out.

Clara o’caine will record an album with an opening set by Eugene Merman at seven thirty, Jennif Friedman’s Not Funny at seven thirty, Scott Thompson his buddy Cole and King also seven thirty, nine thirty The Edinburgh is Spotlight, and then nine forty five a tap of San Francisco’s Sketch Fest. So if we were out there, let’s see, hmm, well, I’ll definitely do Edinburgh. I would want to check that out. How about Jennif Friedman for our early show. We can grab a beverage in between.

And that is your comedy news for today. As previously mentioned, you can support the show by going to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or if you’re on the Fountain nap you can throw some sants my way. Meet you here to morrow. Thanks

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Natasha Lazarro, Moshe Kasher, Gabriel LaBelle, Lorne Michaels, Kenya Barris, Richard Pryor, Mike Epps, Steve Harvey, Joe Coy, Kate Berlant

What’s in This Episode

• Natasha Lazarro performs shirtless at comedy show
• Shane Gillis performs in freezing Peoria Illinois
• Oscars 2024 nominees announced with Jimmy Kimmel hosting
• SNL 1975 movie in development with Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels
• Richard Pryor limited series ordered with Kenya Barris
• Mike Epps new Netflix special Ready to Sell Out
• Kate Berlant opens one-woman play at Pasadena Playhouse

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Seanni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m continuing to pay close attention to comedy’s biggest story. Natasha Lazerro was asked by a cameraman about taking her shirt off during her comedy set the other day. The cameraman told Natasha people were shocked by her show, to which she replied, is it because I have such huge breasts?

I clean that up a little bit. Most comedians don’t want to go shirtless, other than obviously bur Krasher. But she was trying to tell an important message to the crowd, she said. I was trying to make a point. Natasha’s husband, Mosha Kasher, fantastic comedian, joked, yeah, she’s not feeling her husband.

It’s a bigger story. Actually, I will continue to monitor that for any developments whatsoever. The Oscars announced their nominees. Nothing real comedy to tell you about. Jimmy Kimmel would be your host March tenth.

Oppenheimer thirteen nominations, Poor Things eleven, Killers of the Flower Moon ten, Barbie with eight, but the Razzies were announced. The nominees for Worst Picture of the Year expend four Bulls, The Exorcist Believer Mega to the Trench described as a fishy tail about a snarky shirk that flopped across all seven seas, Shazam, Fury of the Gods, and Winnie the Poop, Blood and Honey. PJ. Starr That’s a Website was paying attention to Shane Gillis, who recently played the Peoria Civic Center. It was quite cold there.

On Shane’s podcast, he said, I was in Peoria, Illinois, new number one on the power rankings of expletive town in the entire country. Peori, Illinois was That was hell, dude, Gillis said because of the weather, he had arrived a day early and had nothing to do. Just me and the bums were the only ones walking around outside minus four in Peoria. Sucks. Apparently a lot of people didn’t make the show.

Two inches of snow fell the night of his performance, adding to the eight inches already on the ground. After the show, Shane and his entourage walked around to Jim’s Steakhouse. Jim’s Facebook page posted Jim’s had the pleasure of hosting the comedian. Restaurant manager at Christen Comfort said Shane and his party arrived after the second show and enjoyed a leisurely meal, taking time to photos taken with staff members. She said the comedian was very kind, very polite, and we enjoyed having him.

Shane said he was pleased that Peoria had a restaurant like Jim’s. Long time listeners know that I’m now curious about the menu there, So let’s look fancy looking place there, Shane Gillis, whoa I’m not trust ride for this. Appetizers include shrimp cocktail, shrimpedy Jon, avocado burshetta, steak, Burschetta, Oyster’s half Shehell, Oyster’s, Rockefeller and kalamari, several steaks, kebab skewers, poultry, pasta salads. Entrees include your choice of baked potato, rice, oregano or green beans. And you know it’s a fancy place because they don’t have the prices on the menu.

Get back to the comedy John. Okay, you understand all the entertainment websites. We’re talking about the oscars right. They’re making a movie about the creation of Saturday Night Live. According to Deadline, gabriel LeBell you may know him from the Fablemans.

He’s going to play Lorne Michaels in Jason Wrightman’s upcoming film SNL nineteen seventy five, Based on a series of interviews conducted with all the remaining living members of the cast crew in Writer’s Room, the film will tell the story of the first ever episode on October eleventh, nineteen seventy five, from its conception to the precious minutes leading up to Chevy Chase’s inaugural Live from New York. It’s Saturday Nights. Cooper Hoffman will play Dick Eversoll or Rachel Senatz. She’s having a bit of a moment is playing Rosie Schuster. Eversall was NBC’s vice president of Late Nights.

Schuster was a writer on the show who was married to Laurn Michaels from nineteen seventy one to nineteen eighty. She also dated Dan Ackroyd around the same time. Wait what it is pointed out the actors are much younger than the characters they’re playing. Laurn Michaels was thirty one when SNL premiered LaBelle is twenty one in nineteen seventy five. Eversall was twenty eight.

Hoffman is twenty. That’s all weird Rachel sent out his twenty eight her character Schuster was twenty five All weird. Kenya Barris is working on the bio pick of Richard Pryor, but it’s no longer a bio pick. It is now a ten part limited biographical series that takes a look from cradle to grave, says ken You, following his earliest upbringing. He grew up in a house of ill repute and became a one point the biggest star in the world.

It’s my baby. I love it. He’s my comedy god, a super flawed guy. But with everything to this day, the comedy that we remember, even including Dave Chappelle, is derivative of what he started. I’ll jump in there.

That is so true. You can absolutely draw a line from Dave all the way back to Pryor and Eddie Murphy’s comedy is a complete lift. Ken You said that honest, reflecting, observational look at what the world is and the differences between us that actually make us more similar than we are. A part telling his story and letting people see things that they didn’t know about him is something and I’m super excited to bring to life. No idea yet who will play Richard Pryor.

Mike Epps has long expressed his desire to play Richard Pryor, and he did get to play Richard Pryor on the HBO series Winning Time. Now. If you remember that show from a few years back called I’m Dying up Here, it was about comedians in Los Angeles in the seventies. Andrew Santino was fantastic on that. They had Richard Pryor played by Brandon Ford Green, and I thought Brandon did a fantastic job as Richard Pryor.

As for Mike Apps, he’ll have a new special on Netflix on February twentieth. It’s his fourth special for Netflix. This one is called Ready to Sell Out. In it, he ponders where all of his money has gone in spite of a thriving career. There are also upcoming specials on Netflix, Jack Whitehall’s Settled Down on January thirtieth and Taylor Thomlinson’s Have It All.

February thirteenth, Golf News caught up with Steve Harvey. I don’t believe they asked Steve about Cat Williams. I’m not seeing the words cat nor Williams in the article. They did ask about Joe Coy, and Steve said, Joe Cooy is brilliant. He was outstanding at the Golden Globes.

Hollywood are the most arrogant popas people in the world. Sitting there, it’s all about them. They want to win, they want the spotlight on them. You can’t entertain celebrities. Hosting for Hollywood Awards ceremonies is the worst gig in the world.

You’re sitting there with a bunch of I mean, it’s all about me, and people have been clapping for them wherever they go. Now all of a sudden, they’re your audience, horrible audience. I’ve seen this guy, Joe Coy, He’s hands down one of the funniest people in the world today. I saw the Golden Globes thing and I knew what he was doing, but they weren’t going to get it because they’re not going to laugh at theirselves. They are celebrities.

A couple quick plugs if you want to follow the election cycle, We’ve got a new podcast called Batlets B A L l Ot wherever you get your shows. If the trivia guys are listening, I can’t make it tonight. I have to be on an industry panel. I actually have to be an adult tonight, so have fun without me. Trivia guys on Gossip Corner.

I’m not gonna do this item yet because I haven’t seen it from a major publication. But if you were to google the words Kevin Hart restraining order against it would turn up results. I’ll keep an eye on that story, and when I feel like I can go with it, I’ll go with it. But those are words you could google.

Meanwhile, and as Corner, Kate Berlant had a big time crowd on Sunday night a…

Some other people who attended Olivia Wilde, bri Laursen, Billy Eichner, Molly Shannon, John c Riley, Kamil Nan Gianni, Emily Gordon, Vanessa Bear, Bob Odenkirk, Chelsea Peretti, and Natasha Lazio. In the play, Kate explores the events of her life that have brought her to this moment, and bodying many characters in this tour de fource performance, she expertly morphs before our eyes and exposes the truth she has until now kept hidden. The show’s running through Febury eleventh, for Variety. Hannah Berner one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch. She’s going to record her first comedy special for Netflix.

It’ll be taped in Philadelphia at the Fillmore on March twenty third. Berner tells Variety, this is probably the coolest thing that has ever happened to me. I’m in love with the hour that I’ve been touring with for a while now, and I’m honored that Netflix wants to showcase my silly bits. I’m excited for my stand up to reach a larger audience and to celebrate the community of badass women and scared boyfriend’s mother and zaddies that got me to this point. Why the film war, she says, I remember the film wore being beautiful and the laughter was amazing.

The crowds are passionate, smart, loud, and know how to have a good time. Rick and Morty news it won’t return for season eight until twenty twenty five. How come there was that writer strike and it delayed production. However, we’re getting Rick and Morty the anime. There’s a trailer.

I watched it. I would share it with you, but it’s in Japanese. And I’m gonna guess you don’t speak Japanese. If you do speak Japanese, please yell at me in the Facebook group Daily Coming News podcast group. Be like, yo, I speak Japanese, don’t profile me anyway.

I read the phrase Rick and Morty the anime and wanted to hate, and then I watched it and I went, oh, Okay, this is gonna be a lot of fun. The anime is ten episodes. It stands on its own as an original work. At sketch Fest tonight, ooh, canceled Emily Wilson’s Fixed, I wonder why it was canceled. Nott’s canceled Kids in the Hall scenes.

They wouldn’t let us do and a different show talking Simpsons. Out of those, I would pick kids in the hall scenes. They wouldn’t let us do things pick back up tomorrow with a whole bunch of shows. But we’ll talk about that tomorrow. If you enjoy the program, you can go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’ll take your money and I won’t do a hang with it tonight. I gotta be on that big time industry panel, huh. Or if you want to use the Fountain app. You can throw some SATs in my way.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read the show notes all right, See tomorrow

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Featured: Natasha Leggero, Dave Chappelle, Katt Williams, Bert Kreischer, Eric Idle, Kevin James, Jackie Novak, Nate Bargatze, Jimmy Fallon

What’s in This Episode

• Natasha Leggero performs topless set at the Improv
• Dave Chappelle critiques Katt Williams on stage at the Improv
• Saturday Night Live spoofs Katt Williams appearance on Club Shay Shay
• Katt Williams announces posthumous Tupac album project with Cartier B
• The Daily Show to rely on guest hosts and correspondent-led format instead of permanent anchor
• Kevin James releases ‘Irregardless’ special on Amazon Prime
• Jackie Novak releases ‘Get on Your Knees’ on Netflix
• Eric Idle performs first show in seven years at Sketch Fest with Jeff B. Davis

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, busy one Today, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Latasha Laziro got everyone’s attention. I’ll cut to the chase. She did a topless set.

She was at the improv Bert Kreischer was up. Bert takes a shirt off during his sets. The audience loved it. So Natasha gets up and says, if the boys can do it, why can’t the girls, And she joked, I’ve also been thinking about trying to bang my opener, so I watched the video to do proper research for the podcast. You’ll see Natasha doing a sexy dance in front of the audience.

They have no idea what’s about to happen. She takes off her jacket, then strips down to her overalls and then her shirt, and then completely exposes her top parts. One guy in the audience screams holy s word. Natasha then throws her jacket back on before diving into her comedy act. I source the story on ta if you’re curious to learn more about it, and I’m sure you will.

Yes, they have pictures Dave Chappelle taking a shot of Kat Williams. I love all this back and forth, even if Dave Chappelle does not. Dave was at the improv on the nineteenth. I’m going to share with you what Dave said. He uses a lot of N words, and rather than me say N word fifty times, I’m going to sub in the word fellas.

Okay, Dave said, what part of the game is this? He ethered Fellas. He didn’t say anything about any of these white boys. None of these white boys function like that. Kat is one of the best painters in the game, So why are you drawing ugly pictures of us?

Stop hurt people. Hurt people. But I’m a hurt person that never hurt people, and he does it all the time. Time out, mister Chappelle, you have definitely hurt some people. They have made it quite clear that you have heard them.

Time in, Chappelle jumps into a Cat Williams impression and says, F this one, F that one, F this one, and then adds, but Fellas, I didn’t hear anything that you did wrong. Cat didn’t do nothing wrong. Kat was talking about that stuff that Fellas did to other Fellas, about anything that Fellas did to him. If I told my story would break your heart. I lost everything and never ever told on anybody.

And this fella is the arbiter of truth. Kat listen, I f with Kat hard but d Ray and he’s talking to d Ray Davis, who opened What part of the game f’s up another fella’s paper? What part of the game is about telling on another fella? Dave rejected the premise that what Kat did was good for comedy. That was an argument that d Ray Davis tried to make on stage.

Chappelle’s take. You know why I disagree because I put a special out the same day. It was fine, and then this fella came out and said, I read six thousand books. What the f is you talking about? I’m at war with the Illuminati too, but what part is ethering?

Cedric the entertainer. I’m gonna dismantle the Illuminati, and I’m gonna start with Cedric the entertainer said’s a cool dude, he’s old, he’s fat, Leave him alone.

Meanwhile, on Saturday Night Live, they made fun of Kat’s appearance on the C…

Ego Nuotam played Kat williams Ago as Kat says, three things are true about me. I’m five to three. I’ve never told a lie and I’m six three. Look, Hollywood made Kevin Hardy. Everyone knows Kevin Hart was made the same Factor where they make Teddy Grams.

The Cat Williams character insists he wrote obamas slogan yes we can before me. He was saying probably, probably, I think we might.

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Meanwhile, Cant Williams has revealed that he’s working on a posthumous TUPAC…

Kat says there will be eight artists contributing to the project that only be the best of the best. No more details about that, all right, new topic. We’re waiting to hear what the Daily Show is going to do. Here’s the rumor. Nothing.

According to three people familiar with the thinkings inside Comedy Central, they’re just going to keep doing guest hosts. They’re going to rely on a team of correspondents to lead each night. Chris McCarthy, who’s the Paramount’s global president, is said to have informed talent representatives of the network’s decision. According to people familiar with the talks, Chris McCarthy is saying the Daily Show will rely more heavily on a newsroom concept, with a group of correspondents leading the program. Executives may keep an eye out for possible solo hosts in month to come, but don’t feel ready to choose one at this time.

Dudes, you’ve had a year and change, there’s an election coming in November. What are you doing? This is a terrible plan. So I’m keeping an eye on the bookings on Taylor Tomlinson’s new show Tonight Otsko at Kotska, Josh Johnson and Doug Benson. That’s pretty good.

Tomorrow Guy Brainham and Lisa Gilroy. Thursday, Natasha Lazarro and Mosha Kasher also actor John Daily, and then Friday is a repeat that was quick. Kevin James Irregardless is out today. That’s on Amazon Prime. Kevin James, Irregardless takes on parenting, marriage and getting older.

I had shared a clip from the trailer while back. It seemed like it was okay.

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Also out today on Netflix, Jackie Novak’s Get on Your Knees.

I notice she’s the guest on Mark Marin. I haven’t heard it yet. In the hour, Jackie Novak discusses activities you might do while on your knees. Think about it. Nate Berghatzy played the Prudential Center in Newark.

Over the weekend, Jimmy Fallon showed up to do some material Spies Say. The new material included a bit about his parents and his over protective Irish upbringing.

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Meanwhile, Sketch Fest Eric Idol did his first show in seven years, two and a…

He talked about a musical he wants to write called Death. The musical it follows a writer who’s diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A few years after writing it, Idle got his own cancer diagnosis. It was pancreatic cancer. Luckily he beat it.

I didn’t know that. Wow, that’s a hard one to beat. Good for you. He shared that he has survived the four Seas, COVID cancer, Crucifixion and Clees. Idol brought out Jeff B.

Davis. They did a few songs from Death to Musical. The rest of the show was a combination of sketches, songs, and clips, summarizing a lot of Idol’s career, a lot of python. Davis revealed his favorite sketch was Nudge Nudge. Eric Idle dismissed the idea of performing the sketch, which became a running joke.

Finally Idle did the sketch. There was a big tribute to the Ruddles. That’s the Beatles parody. I’m a huge fan of that. And the show ended with the signature song always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

Two and a half hours not bad. Today at sketch Fest seven point thirty two shows Ask a magician, but the one I would have us go to as Kids in the Hall unplugged. Come see your favorite five favorite kids in the Hall and a night of singing, storytelling and simple scenes. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, you can go to buy me a coffee.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Country Wayne, Faison Love, Tracy Morgan, Amy Schumer, Bill Burr, Bob Marley, LeAnn Morgan

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart defends Dave Chappelle amid comedy scrutiny
• Late night jokes about Kentucky and Alabama cousin marriage laws
• Country Wayne and Faison Love feud over comedy respect
• Tracy Morgan’s controversial 30 children joke on podcast
• Amy Schumer’s Life and Beth renewed for season two
• Bill Burr performs drums at Avalon with rock musicians
• LeAnn Morgan discusses late-career stardom and comedy writing process

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Chenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Some good stuff from late Night last week. Seth Meyers said, a state lawmaker in Kentucky recently introduced a new bill and make it legal for person to have sex with a first cousin, while Alabama is making it mandatory. That’s good fallon a lawmaker in Kentucky, same set up, but later said it was a mistake, which can only mean one thing.

His cousin broke it off. Kevin Hart kind of sort of stuck up for Dave Chappelle. He told The Independent. We’re just at a time now where the microscope is significantly pointed in the direction of the comic and what the comic is saying. But you have the option of just not watching someone you don’t find funny or entertaining.

There’s something extremely simple that people are forgetting. As for himself, he says, I don’t feel like everyone should love me. I don’t feel like everybody should make him funny. It’s perfectly fine. Alana Blackstar, no joke.

Lately, you’re home for comedy news. They’ve been following the Club Shayshay podcast, which seems to be the hotspot for debating Catwey. Country Wayne is the latest comic to appear in Club Shay Shay Atlanta. Blackstar tells us that Country Wayne drags Faison Love for his alleged hates for other comedians. On an interview with DJ Vlad last October, Love Distwayne.

He was asked if he had seen Wayne’s Netflix special Country Wayne, A Woman’s Prayer. Love said I tried my eyelid said, come on, you got something else to do. Well. Country Wayne has shot back. He says Love has quote figured out the Internet.

He sounds stupid if I had his career and cry. If I’ve been doing comedy, comedy’s like a woman, it don’t want you. If you’ve been doing it that long, bro, it want you. Dog, also from Atlanta Blackstar, like I said, you’re home for comedy news. Lately, people are upset at Tracy Morgan.

Tracy was on the Connect the Dots podcast. He was asked how many children he really has. Tercy said me on the books are off. Everyone on the panel laught. Tracy said I got about thirty off the books and nobody said nothing to me.

No, I’m old school. I don’t pull out I’m like prison. When I come in, I come in, I make babies. So if you’re messing with me, talk to me, big chance you’re gonna get pregnant. And he said, I got Walmart money.

We’re good. Well. One person on social media said, this is not even funny creating multiple single parent homes and then you all sit here and throw insults at children who don’t have fathers, as if a child is control of not having a dad. But you got men out here doing this on purpose. A couple people responded, y’all can’t take a joke.

Relax people, He’s a comedian. Amy Schumer’s Life and Beth back for season two February sixteenth. That’s good news for this podcast because that means Amy will be doing press, and it means the Amy haters will be shooting at Amy and makes a nice circle of things because Amy doesn’t let it roll off her back the way say Kevin Hart does. She shoots back and then I get like five days of content out of this. I’m looking forward to Amy Schuber doing press again.

Good stuff for the pod. In season two, Beth and John begin to find their relationship growing more serious, while Beth begins to examine the possibilities of marriage and having a family as she and John seek answers for their communications problems. The show teases itself asking two questions. Is Beth’s traumatic history with men and people she trusted from her youth destined to repeat itself? And what is triggering her fears.

Beth does her best to keep her relationships alive while struggling in a sport, friends and family who are all facing their own problems while entering their fourth decade. Bill Burr has been working on the drums. Apparently it’s pretty good. There was recently a show at Avalon. It began with comedy sets from Dean Delray and Bill Burr.

Then it was followed by two hours of Bon Scott Era ac DC tunes. Wow, so not even like most of the ACDC that most people know. Bon Scott Era the Band, scott Ian from Anthrax, Dave Lombardo from Slayer, John Frees from Foo Fighters, Larry Laddon from Primus, Mike Inez from Alison Chain, Steve Gorman from The Black Crows, j Buchanan and Scott Holiday from Rival Sons, and Billy Rowe, Buckcherry and Bill Burr jumped on the drums pretty cool. Bob Marley spoke to the Rutland Herald. He says his show is inspired by his actual family.

As an endless supply material, he says, I just write stuff down. First started, I used to hide behind the material. I’d need a bit that was bulletproof, funny to the point where almost anybody could get up and do it and read it and they would get a laugh. But now I’m to the point where my act would be hard to steal because if you read it on paper, you’d be like, what is this? It doesn’t make any sense at all.

You need the characters and the voices. So that muscle really developed. He keeps notes on every show and that determines the upcoming shows. It always has the cast of characters, but it’s not the same show, he says, it’s my style. It’d be like saying, ah, I saw Bill Berr again and he’s still angry.

Well, that’s his act. Marley says years ago, comedians would travel around do the same set for years, and when I was living in la I’d come back to New England to do shows a lot, and I had to change my act all the time. So I developed that muscle now I changed the show every four months. Marley says, for up and comers, the most important thing in stand up it’s not the jokes, it’s what’s in between. It’s the connective tissue.

You need that novacane so they don’t even know that you’re switching topics. Sketch Fest is off today. We’ll pick up on that tomorrow. Gardenandgun dot com is a website. M I don’t even poke around it.

I just found this article about LeAnn Morgan, but now I’m curious what else is on Garden and Gun. Let’s see. The main article is the adoring Magic of the Angel oak Sidebar. Articles are five hotels that roll out the red carpet for the big Dogs, The Rules of fire Pit Season, a tour of Dolly Parton’s career spanning Closet, President Lincoln’s Cottage, The quietly powerful DC Museum. You might not have heard of Reed Drummonds Pickle Chicken Bites.

The Oklahoma Cooking Show host riffs on Chick fil A nuggets. This website’s pretty cool and a lot less guns than I was expecting. Oh, here we go. Sporting Life section, twelve international sporting lodges and a bird Dog, Trailblazer. Hunting’s not my thing, but it looks like a cool website and Magazina right anyway, they spoke to Leanne Morgan.

I like Leanne, but I feel like she’s giving the same interview over and over. Every interview seems to ask her about finding stardom in her fifties, and then she tells the same story. I’m not dissing her. I just feel like the interviewers need to ask her some different questions. She tells the story about selling jewelry for Mary Kay and she’d slip at big case and then she’d start talking about breastfeeding and hemorrhoids and people would laugh.

As for developing routine, she says, I feel like I’ve got natural timing, but it’s just storytelling. I’ll be running down the road or doing a load of wash and something come to me and I’ll think, oh, that’s funny, and now i have to write it down because of my age. But I’ve got to get out and live because if I go and do yoga, if I go to weight Watchers, things like that spark ideas. When I’m living in normal, everyday life, that’s when it’s the best. I agree.

A lot of times. I will quote unquote right when I’m out for a run, and I’ll come up with a lot of ideas. If I sit in front of the laptop and try to come up with ideas, I can’t. I have to free my mind up. There’s a great line in Madman where Don Draper says something like you have to let the creatives be uncreative until they’re ready.

And I really do believe in that. Leanne says, it’s never too late making it big of the fifties. I like that people see that in me and they want to see me win. It’s like, Okay, she’s us and she made it, she can do it. We can do it.

Dennis Leary now he’s part of that new Ray Romano show. It looks like he might be getting another show, a new single camera comedy series in the works. It’s titled Going Dutch. This is part of Dennis Leary’s development deal with Fox, which he signed in twenty twenty. I wonder if some executive inherited that and it’s like, why do we have this deal?

In Going Dutch, a decorated, hard ass colonel is tasked with running the least important US army base in the world located in the tulip hugging wine shugging Netherlands. Now I’m fifty four. How old is Dennis Leary sixty six? So he’s playing a sixty six year old colonel. Dennis could play a little younger, but this seems stretchy and uh well, let me know if it ever actually happens.

Apple TV has not renewed at Shmiga dun So that’s bad news for mac packer Keegan Michael Key. Although he gets plenty of work, He’ll be okay. Creator Sinkle Paul went on Instagram and said, I am sad to share that Apple will not be moving forward with season three of Schmigadoon. The season is written, including twenty five new songs, but fortunately we won’t be making it. Such as life, that’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Sarah Cooper, Paul F. Tompkins, Sam Morrill, Joe Koy, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Sarah Cooper doing stand-up comedy, moving beyond Trump TikTok reputation
• Paul F. Tompkins on improv, success, and the middle class of comedy
• Sam Morrill’s comedy influences and new special with story-heavy material
• Joe Koy’s writing process taking a year to craft new hour with 100+ shows
• Jay Leno giving up on political comedy, prefers non-political material
• Jay Leno stops at Safety Harbor pizzeria for slice of pizza
• Last ever Snowjam Comedy Festival in Sioux Falls, South Dakota ending

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Going to start with something different today. If you’ve been listening for years, you know that I gave Sarah Cooper a hard time. Anytime her name came up, I usually followed it with something like, you know the woman who pantomimes the Donald Trump videos on TikTok.

Well, Nichelle is a listener, and Michelle put a clip in front of me of Sarah Cooper doing actual stand up and you know what, this is really good. Let’s listen. I think I’m gonna just, you know, do things differently this time. I was in an interracial marriage. I’m black and my ex was a software engineer at Google.

He was white. He was hard h white. He was heartache, hardage quite. He was quite. His middle name is do Blanc.

And if you know French, you know what the blanc means. All lives matter. Good on you, Sarah, do that. Paul F. Tompkins spoke to the Last Laugh.

He’ll be live streaming his variety show riots Hopa on February tewod. Paul likes being on stage with a group. He says, if you bomb, you’re not alone. Part of the game is that you’re going to fail sometimes, and everyone understands that, and then of course there are the people that refuse to believe that improv is real. He talks about how people walk up and say, well, you must have written some of that, and he goes, no, that’s the whole point.

Paul says, there’s no one right way to do comedy. Paul F. Tompkins had an interesting quote about Patrese O’Neil saying someone had quoted Patrica’s saying a good joke leaves fifty percent of the audience laughing and fifty percent of the audience horrified. Paul said, what that’s insane. As for his own career, he said, when I was younger, I assume that success meant you’d be a household name, And then as I actually got into the business, I was like, oh no, there’s a whole other sort of middle class that you can be where you’re supporting yourself, doing what you’re loving and having a good time.

So I’m lucky that I enough of an audience that I can work. I can get enough work on TV to keep my health insurance, and I can be creatively free, which is all you can really ask for, and I’m not trying to be totally blithe about that. Of course, I’ve had moments of doubt and fear and buying into the invisible ladder of show business, like, oh no, I didn’t get to the next wrong. You know what, Actually it’s fine because I’m still here. It’s not like I lost my job as an entertainer.

Of course, there’s a lot of ego stuff that you have to go through. You have to deal with that. But I’m a middle aged dude and I’ve meted a lot, and I look around and realize I have a pretty great life. I’m also past the point where I have to worry about that kind of success. I’m at a certain age where it’s like, ah aah, I’m not gonna be the next shining bright face.

I’m into the second half now, so that’s kind of relief. And what I’m hoping for is that in ten to twenty years I’ll really come into my own as the funny old guy on a sitcom. That’s a fine life for me. The Miami New Times asked Samrell who influenced him coming up. He said, I love David Tell, I loved Greg Giraldo.

I loved Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Bill Burr, any of the obvious New York style people in terms of stand up, but you’re influence in other ways. Madam Saidler and Ronnie Dangerfield were my introduction to comedy, and I still love them both very much. Interesting tidbit that I don’t think i’d heard before. He said that Mark Norman and Sam are trying to make a movie.

Does he want to make a TV show? He says, I do, but I don’t want to be on NBC. I love Jerry Seinfeld and Ray Romano, but I’m not like them. To be true to me, it have to be more like my stand up, but have to be on an adult platform like Netflix or HBO. I emailed Louis C.K.

Two in the morning last night and I said, I’m rewatching Louis. It makes me so happy the show exists. Sam’s about to film a new special and he said, I think my style is changing. This hour is definitely more story heavy. They’re punchy, they’re not boring stories.

When you’re a brand new comic, you say whatever’s funny, even if it’s not completely you, because you’re like, well, I gotta laugh then, you get older and your type of humor is more like, Okay, this is something I would say to a guy to bar. Even if it’s still reminiscent of the style he started with, just feels more conversational. Joe Koy talked about his writing process when he’s on tour. He said, it’ll take me about a year to write an hour. But in that year, we’re talking about maybe one hundred something shows, maybe more one twenty five, and non stop working out and crafting it and just yelling at myself like why isn’t this coming together.

I love jokes I’ve been working on for like thirty shows, and I’m just like, ef it, bury it, and you give all your emotion and all your thoughts to a two minute joke just to be like, yeah, it’s not working.

And then there’s those nights where you stumble onto something and you’re lik…

Then you keep it and you work it and tighten it. Then there’s ideas where you say, oh, don’t do that again. That’s the process, and I love the process. It’s so crazy to me that people think this is easy. We all know the number one fear is public speaking, and that’s over skydiving, Like there’s people that would rather jump out of a plane with a nylon bag on their back than get in front of twenty five people in a coffee house and tell a joke.

Jay Leno tell The Hill he’s given up on touching politics in his comedy because it tends to suck the funny out of a stand up shows. He says, we live in an era now. I don’t do politics anymore. An audience is like an orchestra. You’re up there and you’re getting laughs.

Then you get into the political stuff and he goes, uh turns mean. They want to hear what the joke is, whether it’s about my guy or against my guy, but they’re not thinking of the joke. They’re thinking of the implications of the joke. So to me, I just don’t do it anymore. I just find it so annoying.

I find the audience likes it better. Hopefully they come to a comedy show to get away from politics. I think we get enough of everybody’s opinions. It’s nice to hear a singer just sing or comedian just be funny. Jay Leno is today’s item on Gossip Corner.

He stopped to grab a slice of pizza at a Safety Harbor pizzeria. Last Saturday, he went to the Nona Slice House right at noon. Owner Jimmy told the Patch, we had no idea it was coming by. It was actually at my house when my manager called and said jaylen was here. You need to get down here right away.

Other than it’s cool that jay Leto’s there, why do you need to get there? Like, we don’t know what to do. Jay Leno’s ordering pizza. What do we do right? J Probably just walked in and like, yeah, let me get slice.

It’s not that difficult. I just threw clothes on. I didn’t want to miss an opportunity. It was pretty cool. Jamie the manager tells us jay Leno was super super friendly.

It’s the last day of the last ever Snowjam Comedy Festival. That’s kind of sad. That was a cool festival. Five o’clock snow laughing matter ten comedians. If you want to get out and breathe the cold and see that, and then it’s seven o’clock, the last show ever at the snow Jam Comedy Festival ever.

Timmy Williams at Club at two twenty four. Your forecast for Soup falls South Dakota today a balmy high of twenty four at a low of seven. But it will be easy. That windshiw might be tough. Congratulations to Dan Bublets and the crew for putting on that festival all these years.

I’ve heard about this for a long time. I remember my assistant Rory at Serries telling me about it, so great job. I’m sorry to see that you guys aren’t continuing with it, but I get it.

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Meanwhile, today, at the San Francisco Sketch Fest at eleven o’clock Pacific …

I won’t read all the shows, Amber Ruffin at one o’clock, Doug Loves Movies at three, The pen Pals Podcast with Rory Scoville and Daniel van Kirk. At four, Thomas Lennon is a guest on that one. Five o’clock Dave Hills Caveman in a Spaceship, seven o’clock Stupid Songs with Kevin McDonald, the Benson Movie Interruption, Fast x Who. That’s a tough choice there, I’ll circle back at eight o’clock Triumph Hmm. Weird Al on that one too, all right, if we’re going to plan the day, obviously, at eleven o’clock we go see Moe Williams.

Then let’s hit Amber Rouffing at one o’clock. Might as well hit Doug Loves Movies at three o’clock seven o’clock. Do we do stupid songs on stories with Kevin McDonald or do we do more Doug Benson fast X That could be a lot of fun. I guess we’ll see how much fun the three o’clock Doug Benson was and make a decision there. Either way, we’re gonna leave one of those early because I want to see Triumph at eight o’clock.

No shows tomorrow at the Sketch Fest, but it picks up again on Tuesday. The Mary Sue writes few shows brought me the joy that the George Lucas Talk Show did at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Watching comedian Connor Ratleff run out every night to a David Bowie song, sitting down and saying I’m George Lucas was an experience I would not trade for the world. Have you ever watched this thing? It’s up on YouTube?

So much fun. The show was quirky, weird, often had people go into the box office asking where the actual George Lucas was. Well, there’s a documentary coming out. It’s titled I’m George Lucas, A Connor Ratliffe Story. It’s about the legacy that Ratliff and the show have left on the comedy scene.

It’s described as follows. For five years, comedian Connor Ratliffe has performed as filmmaker George Lucas and his monthly UCB New York cult comedy show, The George Lucas Talk Show. The show allows Connor to both exalt and poke fun at the vast world of Lucas, including Star Wars. However, Connor begins to question if the show should continue due to its ongoing stress with a little financial and career gain and sticking with Star Wars. Tarren Killheim spoke to a vultry about his time on SNL and they asked about the Undercover Boss sketch with Adam Driver as Kylo.

Wren. Terrence says, for whatever reason, all parties involved SNL lucasfilm filming side wanted that sketch to go as well as possible, so he’s wearing Kylo’s actual outfit that’s not a replica lucasfilm shipped out. I think mikey Day deserves the credit for the concept. That night, Bobby moynihan and I had already written a full sketch where we were the two maintenance guys working underneath the plankway where the dramatic Kylo Han scene takes place, and we’re mopping up the floor like, yeah, I don’t know, I’m hearing rumbles outside. I got time coming off, so you know.

Then you hear groan some and thud and Han Solo’s corpse lands in front of us. We’re freaking out, and then Kylo comes and checks on us and is saying, don’t tell anybody about this, nothing happen. You need to see anything. Mike was like, yeah, that’s pretty good. I think we can find something more fun for Adam to do, and then he pitched the one line undercover boss, start a stre They then segue to SNL’s upcoming fiftieth anniversary.

He says, my Eddie Murphy moment was pretty beautiful. There was a party of the night before at the top of the rock. I went from the Californian sketch rehearsal that we did that ended with David Spade doing his Bye Bye Guy. David and I went to the party together. As I was talking with him, We’re sitting at the top of the rock and he’s telling me of his experience of the look Mammy a Falling Star joke.

Then over his shoulder, Eddie Murphy walks in with Brett Ratner. I was like, dude, dude, dude. And the first person Eddie Murphy walked up to was David Spade. It was very gracious, a lovely exchange. Then I got to shake Eddie’s hand.

My first conscious memories of SNL are his best of tape. He is the best one to ever do it. The circumstances of what age he was, who he was, what he was capable of doing. The responsibility was on his shoulders as an ensemble member. Wow, that is a high praise and I won’t argue with the sentiment.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too. You never know. If you want to support the show, buy me a coffee, dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or use the fountain out there or some sets my way see you tomorrow,

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Featured: Taylor Tomlinson, Pauli Shore, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Richard Simmons

What’s in This Episode

• Taylor Tomlinson on taking the After Midnight job and personal growth
• Pauli Shore starring as Richard Simmons in Sundance bio pic
• Richard Simmons denies permission for Pauli Shore movie on Facebook
• Dana Carvey returns to Fly On The Wall podcast after son’s death
• Snowjam Comedy Festival in Sioux Falls with multiple shows
• San Francisco Sketch Fest programming highlights

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News and nice write up of Taylor, Thomlinson and Glamour in a really small font though it was on Glamor dot com and I had a hit control plus plus plus just to make the font legible. I’m old here anyway. Taylor’s having a good week of buzz and well deserved. And she said, look, the truth is, I couldn’t have done After Midnight four years ago, even three years ago.

What’s so interesting to me is when it came up, I was like, Oh, I think I’m at a place in my life where I could actually do that job, and I could do it well and I can enjoy it. Anyone in your twenties you don’t know who you are yet. It’s crazy how different I felt every year of my twenties. I feel like I’m finally stabilizing at thirty. I really do feel different.

Twenty nine was a really hard year, but also really good. None of that. I do feel like the best version of myself. Feels like things kind of locked into a place in a nice way. Taylor says being on the road is really fun, but it’s also really lonely.

Something that I talked about when I was interviewing for the job was I’d really love when I come back to LA to have a community. The idea of making something new every day with a group of people I really like sounds very fun and creatively fulfilling. Getting to see comedians more and getting to meet more comedians. She’s hoping she can create a fun comfort show for people at the end of the day. Always a good mission.

I agree with that. I’m excited to give stand up comedians a platform where they can be really funny and get these great clips that are not going to burn their material, which is why we’re all posting crowd work online. Really interesting twist there. She’ll probably do well if they let the comedians share the clips. That’d be smart to let them.

Paullie Shore is starring as Richard Simmons in a bio pic. The movie was going to premiere yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival. A trailer was auds. I went to pull some audio for it and it just wouldn’t work. In terms of this podcast, seems Polly listen to fan suggestions on his YouTube videos and social media, where people commented that he kind of looked like Richard Simmons, but according to Entertainment Weekly, Pauli Shore thinks the slimilarities are deeper.

He says, I am him. I like helping people. I like health, I like putting that energy out there. Through my mom and the comedy stores, she helped a lot of people, and it kind of got passed down to me. I helped comedians and people, So I really relate to Richard.

I’ve been going to the gym since I was a kid, and I think I’m a little over the top as well, So I feel like I connect with him. And I’ve known him for years. Back in the day I started in the nineties, I used to always see him, and I always giving him hugs and high fives and stuff. He says. In public, people would walk up to him and be like, Hey, what’s up.

I know you you’re Richard Simmons. Pauli says, that’s a compliment. By the way, he’s very handsome.

Also, his style and my style is very over the top.

It’s spontaneous, so that’s inherent in me. Already. All right, pay attention to this next part because it’s going to be important in a couple of minutes enter Timmy Weekly. He asked if he got to speak with Richard Pauli said. His people responded and they said that he loves me, and he loves my mom and the store and all that stuff, but at this time he just wants to lay low and not really be involved.

The film takes place in the early two thousands. Richard is getting ready to do the Yellen Show. There’s a bumbly kind of pa on the set and he’s a bit overweight and he’s kind of getting the way of everyone. Everyone’s yelling at him because Richard Simmons is there and it’s just very, very uncomfortable for him, and Richard sees this go down. Richard comes out and does his thing on Ellen.

Afterward, there’s this whole monologue that Richard has with his fumbling pa by the craft services table, where I shine some light on how beautiful he really is and how special he is and help him turn around a little bit. Kind of starts off fun, and then the last part is Richard’s message. As for Richard’s non involvement, my attitude is if we build it, he’ll come. That’s my hope. My hope is that he sees it.

It looks good, it feels good, it’s all right, and you might say I’m down. I’ll help you, guys. I’ll be part of it, and I’ll hold your hand now. Richard Simmons himself jumped on Facebook and wrote, Hi, everybody. You may have heard they’re doing a movie about me with Polly Shore.

I have never given my permission for this movie, so don’t believe everything you read. I no longer have a manager, and I no longer have a publicist. I just try to live a quiet life and be peaceful. Thank you for all your love and support. Dana Carvey has resumed podcasting again.

He addressed his family situation following the death of his son Dex. Dana said, it’s me and my wife and our son’s private journey. We’re all together and we do a lot of fun things. We hike, we go to church. We just want to make sure that you keep moving, he said.

Ge back in the swing of the podcast will be very healthy for me as I recover. I’m kind of on the pain train with about millions of other people on this planet, and you don’t know how long you’re going to be on it, or when it’ll stop, and when it will get better. But in the meantime, all this kind of stuff is very healthy. I thought about it over the holidays and decided to come back to the podcast because I think, you know, it’s a long day when you’re not working, you get in your head, and I think it’s going to be a great break, and I think it’s really cool to laugh doing this and riffing with you, David Spate is going to be very healthy for me as I recover, because I’m kind of on the pain train with millions of other people on this planet, and you don’t know how long you’re going to be on it, when it will stop, or when it’ll get better. But in the meantime, all this kind of stuff is very healthy.

The snow Jam Comedy Festival continues in Sioux Falls today. Oh. When I last looked, today’s low had been forecasted to be minus twenty one, but in the updated forecast just a low of minus twenty with a high of six, So it’s much better than yesterday. Congrats Dan Boublitz Junior and the crew at Snowjam. They have four events today starting at one o’clock.

It’s the munch Mic Come eat some delicious food while you watch from across the country, do new material, or maybe you sign up and try it out yourself. Five o’clock, It’s Hot Cocoa Comedy with two four five ten comics. Always good to see ten comics on a bill. Sean Jordan is your headliner. At seven o’clock, Shawn co hosts the popular podcast All Fantasy Everything.

And then at nine point thirty, it’s snow Time. Ten comics on the bill. Like I said, always good to see ten comics on the bill.

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Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Sketch Fest continues, and there are quite a bun…

I won’t read them all. Let’s say at noon the State Hits and Misses, David Wayne, Joel Thetruglio, Ken Marino and Gang. Four o’clock Celebrity Autobiography with Thomas Lennon Catches My Eye. Seven o’clock David Cross and Friends, The DESI Comedy Fest Sydney Washington’s had to Start a Fire.

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Also at seven, at eight o’clock, the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band with Ken Marino…

Also on that bill Thomas Lennon and Weird Owl Yanka Vic. That alone would get me there. We’ll say Sloan at nine thirty, Locals Only at nine forty five again I’m not reading them all. Oh, and also at nine forty five Exorcistic, the unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist. All right.

If we were at Sketch Fest would hit the state at noon, then we would have several hours to have some beverages. Seven o’clock. I would want to see something different. I would go, let’s go see DESI Comedy FESTI And he’d be like, now, I don’t want to go see that, and I’d be like, come on, man, and then we would go and have a great time. Then for the late show, I’d make you go see Locals Only, and then you’d be like, oh, that was a lot of fun.

I’d be like, yeah, trust me, I know what I’m doing at comedy festivals. Another comedy festival coming up is coming to Williamsburg January twenty fifth through the twenty eighth. It is the Last Word at Comedy Festival. It includes improvised Jane Austen, The Ladies of improvised Jane Austin tell it Tale on the Spot, the style of the most beloved nineteen century authorists. That’s fun.

Hitch Cocktails creates a full length thriller in the style of Alfred Hitchcock while we’re taking in beverages. That’s Friday the twenty sixth. It’s the same night as the Jane Austin, though I hope those don’t overlap. Then on Saturday twenty seventh, Clued In. Inspired by the works of Agatha Christi and the cases of Sherlock Holmes, this is an improvised murder mystery.

Sunday the twenty eighth Riff Chicago’s improv music party. This show takes the fast paced games of whose line Is It Anyway as energized by a full band in a wild musical comedy showcase. You can find the full festival schedule at last Word Festival dot com and if you’re in Northern Ireland, put this one on the calendar. This sounds awesome. It’s the Comedian’s Darts Tournament Saturday, March ninth, Americans.

Have you ever watched the Dart Championships. It is tremendous fun. It is so fast paced. These guys go up there and they just go whap, whap wap, and then they grab their darts and the next guy’s already as fast as I’m telling this story, going wap wap wap. Next, I’m up, okay, cool, bang bang bang, And the announcers they’re like lightning quick.

I guess they do it so often that they’re like, okay, needs two eighteens and a four. They just have all the nomber combinations memorized or computers helping them. I don’t know. This thing moves so fast. So you have the darts.

Then there’s the drunk audience. Just picture the let’s make a deal audience, except they’re drunk, so it is so much fun. I saw this one guy, he needed like an eighteen to close it out, and he totally showboted. He must have been up by a lot. He goes up and he goes, ah, I just missed.

Then he just missed the eighteen throws another one like half half force, and ah, I just missed again, and then he goes bang and then basically dropped the mic, and I was like, I’m the King. The announcers are like, this guy’s peacocking darts is a lot of fun. Check it out. They’re on YouTube. Just go on YouTube and type in darts championship.

Trust me, so much fun. Anyway coming to Belfast Saturday, March ninth, Comedian Darts. The lineup includes the sharp tongued Colin Gettis, the hilariously insightful Andrew Ryan, the comedic Dynamo, Deona Dherty, the pun Master, Sean Haggerty, the Irreverend Dave Elliott, the uproarious Connor Keys, the hilarious Aaron Butler, and your referee James mckegney. Audiences can expect an evening filled with comedic brilliance, unexpected twists, and possibly some poor door throwing. And that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. You know social media, share a link, be like, hey man, listen to this. You can also go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I will take your money.

I’ll drive right past the donut chain. They’ve been messing up my order lately. I’m going to go to the SMOOTHI Place and buy a smoothie. And if you know what podcasting two point zero is, go to the fountain app throw some SATs in my way. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can read the show notes and I’ll see tomorrow,

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Featured: Green Day, Jimmy Fallon, Bo Burnham, Paul F. Tompkins, Bill Maher, Matt Rife, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Green Day and Jimmy Fallon perform at Rockefeller Center subway station
• The Daily Show host search and potential candidates
• Bo Burnham social media wipe and January 17 death post clarification
• Paul F. Tompkins discusses negative experience working with Bill Maher
• Matt Rife starring in new movie ‘The Private Eye’
• Bert Kreischer named Grand Marshal of Gasparilla Pirate Fest 2024

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Caloroga Shark Media, Media County and Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Commuters were on the train, new Yorkers, just trying to get somewhere man, and there’s this annoying thing in the way. I’m just trying to get home. I’m a New Yorker. I have no time for Jimmy Fallon and Green Day performing in the Rockefeller Center subway station.

I know you out of towners think, oh wow, that’s so cool. Green Day’s playing in the Rockefeller Center subway station with Jimmy Fallon. As a New Yorker, I’m telling you get out of my way. No, seriously, As a New Yorker, I’m telling you get out of the way. I don’t care what you want to do.

I’m trying to get somewhere fast, don’t want to make eye contact with anyone, don’t want to talk to anyone. Get out of my way. Anyway. Green Day performed American Idiot and basket Case for the excited crowd. This thing’s gonna air on Jimmy Foun’s Tonight’s show at some point, if it hasn’t already today.

Green Day has a new album out, and the reason I know that is because I did some prep as the writer on the new Trivia show five Daily Trivia Questions, and today’s topic is Green Day. So if you’re some sort of Green Day expert, why don’t you finish listening to me and then switch over to five Daily Trivia Questions and see if you can answer the Green Day questions? Huh? Anyway, get out of the way, stop doing things in the subway. The Daily Show, specifically, Comedy Central put out a mysterious statement which says, we are grateful to the Television Academy for recognizing our incredibly talented team.

I want to take this week to honor them. Next week we’ll be sharing our plans for The Daily Show’s next chapter, Variety says. One person familiar with Comedy Central’s host search says the network remains supportive of the program, but notes that executives were keeping their talent choices close to the vest. There’s been some chatter that calp Pen could remain a candidate, or that producers might opt to go with Roywood Junior. After all, So my reaction to those if next week they go cal Penn to take over.

So so the Daily Show, I’m gonna go all right and never watch it. If Roywood Junior is in that pression, lease, I’m gonna go, oh, good for him. He put in the work and he’s going to be so happy, and I’ll be happy for him, and I’m never gonna watch it. Some of the other people who have filled in, does any of this excite you? Al Franken, Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, John Leguizamo, Hassan, who’s not getting the gig now, Marlon Wayans, Wanda Sykes, Chelsea Handler might be interesting, Dale Hugley, Michelle Wolfe.

Actually, Michelle Wolf would be awesome Jesus nice, right, I’m trying to remember he wasn’t good at it, right, And Charlemagne the God would be interesting as well, for whatever it’s worth, Comedy Central gave two chances behind the Desk to Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, Kalpenn and Charlemagne. They also experimented with having the correspondence host. I don’t know. I don’t have a solution for you over there either. I think Michelle Wolf would be a lot of fun.

Let’s go with Michelle Wolf, but they don’t seem to be anyway. Bo Burnham is not dead. Why are you bringing this up, Johnny Mac, why would we think Bo Burnham was dead? Burnham had previously posted on his website that he would die on January seventh, teenth, twenty twenty four, and he recently wiped his social media of any posts. In past interviews, he had said he had planned to die by suicide on January seventeenth, twenty twenty four, because his dog would die honor before that date and he couldn’t bear to live without his dog.

Newsweek has reached out to Burnham’s representatives buy email for comment. No word yet. So I guess it’s possible he’s dead, but I don’t think he is. Bo Burnham had posted an image on his website with text over it that read, I came out of my mother on August twenty first, nineteen ninety and I will die on January seventeenth, twenty twenty four.

Also, I have a dog named Bruce and I love him.

If he goes, I have to go. The interview asked, so you just estimated when your dog’s gonna die, and Bo Burnham agreed. Many fans speculate it is a sign he’ll be releasing new material. Paul F. Tompkins in that interview on the last laugh made it kind of clear he’s not a fan of Bill Maher.

Another of your really early running gigs was on Bill Maher’s show Paul Who Boy Yeah. Tompkins says, I was very hesitant to take that gig because it was not something I’d done before. It was not a political person. I didn’t do current events comedy. But I thought, you know what, Scott Carter, who was the executive producer, believes in me, and being afraid to do it is not a good enough reason not to do it.

So I said, Okay, I’m going to challenge myself. I’m going to throw myself into this, and my memory of it is it didn’t go well. I mean, obviously they didn’t have me back after the first season. I felt like it was something I could do better today, but at the time learned to do it well. The show was airing that it was difficult and not ideals.

I gave him my best shot. It was not a good fit for me, but I really tried. The follow up, would you go back and work with Bill Moore again? Paul said, oh no, I’m sorry, I couldn’t. I could do that type of thing better today.

I would never in a million years go back to working anywhere near Bill Moore. Firstly, I didn’t have any difficulties with him. I just don’t enjoy what he does and it wasn’t fun to be around. He’s not the friendliest guy in the world. And it’s not like he was ever actively rude or unpleasant to me personally.

But yeah, not an energy that I like. The last laugh said that Moore has evolved into being a leading voice against wool culture, etcetera, etc. Paul f said, I don’t think that Bill Moore has really changed at all. I think that his politics and you could say this for most people, to varying degrees, all six really are how does this affect me? Bill maher And so that’s why there’s certain things he doesn’t care about because it doesn’t extend past his bubble of empathy.

So things with kids or whatever, he doesn’t give a wood. He doesn’t have kids, he doesn’t want kids. He doesn’t like the idea of kids. But he likes animals, so animal things are very important to him. But an issue that affects somebody who has a lifestyle that’s different from his, he doesn’t really care unless it’s something that can eventually encroach upon his lifestyle.

Matt Rife starring in a new movie. It’s called The Private Eye. The trailer has dropped. I went to pull the audio for it, and in the context of my podcast, just me playing audio of that trailer just wasn’t going to work. So here’s the synopsis.

Private Investigator Mort Madison a name that somebody would have in real life. I guess Mort Madison, played by Matt Rife, has seen better days. Matt Rife is twenty eight guys. A mysterious woman. Michelle hires him to spy on David, whom he believes to be her lover.

In the detective process, Mort himself falls in love with Michelle decides the only way he could be with her is by eliminating David from the equation. Oh no. Mort hopes this will entice Michelle to run away with him and they live happily ever after.

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And then there’s a spoiler.

Why is there a spoiler here? I’m not telling you the spoiler at all, but boy, what a terrible spoiler. Private Eye in theaters February ninth. There you go, and you should go. I was excited for a second.

My eyes caught a name, but I’ll read it to you.

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Also starring in the movie Denzel wah Wittaker.

Yeah, for a second there, I was like, Ooh. Bert Kreischer will be the Grand Marshal for the twenty twenty four Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Fest on January twenty seventh. This was announced by Ye Mistic Crew of Gasparilla. The captain of Ye Mistic Crew of Gasparilla is Truett Gardner, and the captain said, there’s no better person who embodies the pirate culture and a love of Tampa than the one and only Bert Kreischer. What a delight of Bert service the twenty twenty fourth Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Fest Grand Marshall, all I have to say is, look out, Tampa Bay.

We look forward to Bert’s energy and hometown pride to lead this year’s festivities for a lively crowd along Bayshore Boulevard. Kraser and this year’s Onirari community hero. Who is World War two US Army’s Buffalo Soldier Roy J. Caldwood. How old is mister Caldwood.

He’s got to be one hundred, right, He’s one hundred and one. That’s awesome, So he’ll be there on a float with Bert Krescher. They’ll lead more than one hundred and fifteen parade floats, marching bands, crew members, and more on the four and a half mile parade route along Base Shore Boulevard, starting at two pm on the twenty seventh. Sticking with Florida News, Miami News caught up with Gianmarco Soresi Siresi, a Greek comedian you should check out. Gianmarco Soresi majored in musical theater at the University of Miami and said, I certainly did not take advantage of going to the University of Miami.

I was not a party kid. I was not a football kid. I was not a beach kid. I was not a Disney kid. He said his experience was much different than his of his younger sister.

Within a week of her time as a Hurricane, she sent him a video of Snoop Dogg passing her a joint lot of good buzz on after Midnight with Taylor Thomlinson. I was at trivia on Wednesday night and the trivia guys they were raving about the show and asked me if I had seen it. I had not but the trivia guys, they are best men trivia. If you want to check out their various socials they host the trivia then I hit most Wednesday nights. A team finished second this week because we’re idiots.

The question that we blew that we probably could have gotten the first place, actually two questions in the final round, a three pointer that we left blank. The capital of Tennessee has a spicy meal named after it, and we couldn’t remember what the capital of Tennessee was, and I was kind of thinking Nashvilla, Haunt Chicken is a thing, but we left that blank and we lost by one point. The other point we left on the board how many months of they’re in a trimester? We’re dopes and said four. Anyway, the trivia guys liked After Midnight, and they were two of the six hundred and eighty six thousand viewers who watched it.

In the final season, James Gordon’s show averaged eight hundred and six thousand live plus same day. So we’ll see if she picks up some additional viewers in the DVR realm. I don’t know she’s going to pick up one hundred and fifty thousand anyway, good buzz on it. She really liked it. Mark Francis, the host of Palace Intrigue.

He texted me about it and said it was really good. So check out after midnight, Taylor. I’ll talk more about Taylor tomorrow. Paste Magazine reviewed Dusty Slay’s special, currently the number one special of twenty twenty four and also the only thing on the list so far. Pete Davidson did not make the list.

That’s how bad Pete Davidson’s hour is. Following up in the conversation the other day hour special, I’m just going to use the word special because that’s what people call everything. So even if I don’t think it’s a special, I’m going to say special because otherwise I’m gonna have to do this rap every time all year. Jenny Mack is Dusty Slay’s thing a special or an hour? It’s an hour because he doesn’t have the body of work.

Even though I’m a big fan Paste Rights, Dusty Slay becomes an instant classic with his Netflix special. Working Man Dusty tweeted, all right, I always wanted to be a classic hits Paste Rights. Only a handful of comedians feel like an immediately classic stand up when you watch them, there’s just something about them, the way they care themselves, their jokes, the report of the audience that makes these comics enduring no matter where they are at their career. Dusty Slay achieves this enviable status handily on Workingman. Part of what makes Sleigh feel so classic as his style, both his manner of dress and his delivery.

Sleigh cuts a distinctive figure with a signature trucker hat, long hair, and big glasses. I’m glad they write this because I was gonna say, uh, you know, signature you might want to look at you to Freelander, but pays to address that. Yeah, I’m there’s definitely a similarity there. The Alabama Rays comics cadence on stage is so very much his own. He manages to both see him completely at ease yet throwming with nervous energy.

He’ll adjust his glasses, play with his mic cord such as nose, and rock from foot to foot, habits which he references in working Man. And it’s called working Man. I’m not dropping the g because I’m from Queen’s working Man with an apostrophe at the end of the working and yet you’re never in any doubt that Slay’s a natural up there. Yeah, he does rock. I kept staring that rock rock, rock, like he never stops movie.

He’s just left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. During most of Working Man, it feels like you’re watching a special that could have come out at any point in the last forty years. And that’s a compliment. Slay’s comedy is solid and relatable, not a fix to any gimmicks or topical bits that age rapidly. The only moments that take you out of his timelessness are some smartphone references and a very fun bit about weed getting stronger.

On the new podcast The Top Eleven this week The Top eleven Seinfeld episodes, What do you think number one is? Hmmm? I know because I listened to it. Will you debate the list? Do you think the list is stupid?

The Top eleven Where if you get your podcasts? On Gossip Corner, Jim Carrey celebrated his sixty second birthday with David Spade and Adam Sandler. Spade posted on ANSTA a picture of himself standing between Carrie and Sandler. He captured it. Happy birthday to Jim Carrey, who has made me laugh on and off the Field so many times, such a cool dude.

I really bust out the Keike emoji, but I will today. Jeff Ross separately posted at Instagram a group shot of entertainers who apparently also were out for Jim Carrey’s sixty second birthday. Not sure why this was such a huge event, but at the party Jimmy Kimmel, Howie Mandel, Bill Burr, Craig Robinson, Seth Green, and Ben Schwartz. Weird crew there. The Snowjam Comedy Festival continues two shows again tonight seven pm.

The Snowjam Comedy Fest presents the LGBTLL Showcase with Ryan Rodgers at Remedy at six one one or six eleven At that same venue at nine thirty, Snowjam presents The Hiring Crisis one, two, three, four, five, six, seventy eight nine ten comics on that show. I mean, it’s always great when you get see a bunch of comedians like that. The forecast in Sue falls for today a high of two, a low of negative twenty. Oh my goodness, that’s that wind chill. It’s not celsius.

It’s minus twenty, minus twenty. Oh my goodness. It gets worse tomorrow enjoy that. See falls, Dan Bublitz, I’d actually love to experience minus twenty. I’m from New York.

I don’t think I’ve been under anything, maybe like a minus four or some point. I don’t think we’ve ever had anything. We look that up. Well, the record low for New York City is a negative fifteen, but that was a nineteen thirty four. I missed that one.

I found this helpful website that has the yearly low. Let’s so I’ll go back to I was born in sixty nine, eleven, three, four, five, seven, six, fifteen, two ten zero one negative two in nineteen ninety four. Not too bad. I bet Dan Booblitz, who’s running snow Jam and is in Sue False, would kill for negative two right now. It is probably warmer in San Francisco, boy, I hope so otherwise that would definitely hit the news.

Sketch Fest kicks into gear seven o’clock Britannic Different Show, Joe Kimbooster, Different Show, Marie Fausten in Yuck, David Wayne’s World of Wonder that features Dulce Sloan and Kevin Pollack. Interesting Jepper Gay with Spike Einbinder. Jepper Gay is a wonderful title. We go through the whole list before we start picking. Seven to fifteen, A Tale of sketch Fest, Hilarious Habibes sold out eight O’clock’s at music show nine thirty Joel Kim Booster Again, I’m not reading everything here.

Nine forty five David Cross. Okay, so if we were at sketch Fest tonight, it’s seven o’clock, let’s do something different. Let’s go see Jipper Gay because that just sounds fun.

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And then we’ll grab a couple beverages and at nine forty five, let’s go see D…

Paul Danky has a new album out today. It’s called Mad River, recorded live at the Savage Henry Comedy Club, a venue he once accidentally set on fire. Oh No. Jokes include a take on the Donner Party, his enjoyment of road Rage, the aforementioned fire, and more. If you’re a collector, there’s also a limited edition seven inch vinyl that has two music tracks on it.

On Sunday, he’ll have an album release show at Permanent Records in LA that’ll be hosted by Eliza Skinner. Paul Dinky’s Mad River and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, don’t forget go check out the top eleven Seinfeld. Do you like the list or not? See you tomorrow

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Sudeikis, Taylor Tomlinson, Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Whitney Cummings, Kurt Braunohler, Paul F. Tompkins, Sophie Budtke, Carl Tart, Max Greenfield, Ike Barinholtz, Robbie Hoffman, John Oliver

What’s in This Episode

• Late night comedy jokes about arctic cold wave hitting the country
• Donald Trump wins 51% of Iowa caucus vote
• Jason Sudeikis likes tweets calling him a loser during Emmys
• Tina Fey expected to succeed Lorne Michaels as SNL showrunner
• Taylor Tomlinson launches After Midnight game show on CBS
• After Midnight premiere features Whitney Cummings, Kurt Braunohler, and Nicole Byer as first panelists

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I think my dog saved the days. Here’s what happened. Before I start any show, I always go check, check, check, and I tapped the mic a bunch of times like this to make sure the MIC’s actually plugged in and then I start. So I did about ten minutes, and then as I was doing the Taylor Thompson story that you’ll hear, my dog walked in and was like, hey man, I gotta go out. And I was like, all right, So I hit stop.

And then when I came back to your cord, I always checked the file, and somehow the mic had unplugged. So the first few minutes of this podcast today, the audio is a little walky. I used some tricks to try and bring it up. But after Taylor Thomason, I’m on my usual setup. Thanks Dog, Caloroga Shark Media.

It’s one of those days where all of a sudden there’s a bunch of stories out of nowhere. And I love days like that. And Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy. Knew his quick stop off at late night. Most of the country in a cold wave?

Is that a thing? Cold wave? Jimmy Fallon went two for three. This first one is pretty bad. But then he recovered fell and the entire country’s getting hit with an arctic blast.

It’s so cold in Times Square, the cooks over at Bubba gump Er warming their hands in the gumbo. That one’s lame, but I liked these. Next to today, I tipped to Katy was shoveling outside thirty Rock and he said, thanks, mister Fallon. I said, no, thank you, mister Ramaswami. That’s good Fallon again.

It’s so cold. Ron DeSantis is burning books just for the heat. New topic, and I’m not even sure why this is funny, but I like the punchline from Kimmel. Donald Trump got fifty one percent of the vote in Iowa. And even though it doesn’t mean much, you know, in twenty sixteen said Cruise won the Iowa caucus and now he lives at the bottom of an aquarium.

I don’t know why that makes me laugh, but it does. Jason Sidekas went on Twitter and he started liking tweets calling him a loser during the Emmys. Some of those tweets the bear sweeping at Jason sidegas You’re done. One simply called him loser. Another asked how could Apple TV and Jason Sadekas, screw this up so bad another Remember you’re not getting nothing, Jason Sidakis, I like that.

He liked all those. So it looks like Lauren Michaels is floating his successor saw a couple tweets about it, and Variety picked up on it. Lorn Michaels, who’s got to be upset that SNL didn’t win any Emmys. This kind of reminds me of Oh say it, Bill Belichick that had this awesome career in the last couple of years haven’t gone as well. I’m sure Lauren is gonna really want to make sure the fiftieth season is awesome, the forty ninth season been.

I mean last season was terrible. Anyway, Who will succeed Lauren Michaels when he retires. Lauren said it could easily be Tina Fay, meaning it’s Tina Fay. It could easily be Tina Fey, But you know, there are a lot of people who are out there. You know, Tina’s brilliant and great of everything.

She’s a very important person in my life. My take, she’s the right choice. She clearly understands the show, clearly understands comedy clearly has been successful, and she’s tight with all the stars who’ve been on SNL this century, so she’ll be able to call in the favors. I think Tina fe is a no brainer here. Tina joined the series as a writer in nineteen ninety seven before becoming head writer two years later, so she understands the writing.

After she left SNL, she became the showrunner of thirty Rock, which she also started. Obviously, SNL will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with a special in February twenty twenty five. Lauren says, I will definitely be there for that, and definitely be there until that, and sometime before that we’ll figure out what we’re gonna do. So it sounds like Lauren’s gonna do fifty and out. Tina Fey is the right choice.

Deadline covered the launch of Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnights. They say the decision to keep the after midnight premiere low key was by design. They want to allow the show to find its voice over the next few weeks prior to the Super Bowl. Probably smart, Like any show, including this one, it takes a while to figure out what to do with it. I was coaching the daytime job for podcasts.

Every podcast listen to the first couple. It’s not quite there yet. That’s also true of TV shows, so kind of smart to slow play it a little. Taylor came on and said, I’m Taylor Tolinson and this is After Midnight where three comedians enter, one wins and two will grant participating. We’re taking the Internet and desperately trying to make it fun.

It’s gonna be fun, right, comedians. You’ll be competing for the grand prize of my father’s approval. It’s rare but winnable. The First Comedians where Whitney Cummings a partner on Tula and Kurt Braunaller. Taylor asked the panel did they watch the Emmys.

Everybody was silent, and she said there was no obligation. It was on Fox. We don’t care here at CBS if you watched it. I was just making sure so nobody watched the Emmys. TV’s dead great.

Broun Aller quipped, this will do well on the Internet. Thomason said, I don’t even know what awards our show could possibly win because it’s kind of a talk show where there’s no conversation. It’s a game show, but the points are fake. It’s vanity project, but it somehow makes me look worse. Panelists what award went after Midnight went at the Emmys.

Kurt Brouneller buzzed in and said best female late night host. Sorry, only female late night host. Had a segment called chick Chopped Tomlins Send. The panelists riffed on terrible TikTok cooking videos. A game was called what I Can’t Live Without?

They were shown random products and asked to describe why they need it. Suburban Dictionary featured real slang, like Bussin asking the comedians he’s the word a sentence. Another segment to smash or not to smash? She had to pick between Mario or Luig, Patrick Starr or Sandy Cheeks Garfield or chun Arbuckle gritty or the Quaker oah, it’s mascot obviously gritty. And the elimination game Is this still cool?

They had to explain why or why not? Animal prints are still cool? Bron Aller said yes, but the lesser known animals. Non Turlis said yes because with climate change we could remember what they look like. That’s good.

Whitney Cummings as an aspiring cougar. I need animal print to be in style, and if you don’t agree, you’re not a feminist. Cummings was the first to be eliminated from the show and was asked to apologize for losing. In a segment called for the Wind, bron Aller and non Turli were asked to create new holidays. The audience voted on the winter, and bron Aller said, today is Harbor Day, a celebration of America’s harbor’s the parking lots of the sea.

That’s Harbor Day, not Arbor Day. Everybody knows what a tree is, so what as an arbor Day? Just shut the f up and go with Tree Day, sincerely, Harbor Day up partner Naturli said, Ashley Wednesday, it’s ash Wednesday for girls with bangs, nor Turlie won. I like that one. Deadline says it was a bit of a slow start as they were feeling the room.

Then everyone got more punchy and edgy, letting the bleeps start flying. That’s an interesting note, but I have to assume that did test shows right. They probably recorded a bunch of these and the booking falling off a cliff already Wednesday, Paul F. Tompkins, Sophie Bottle on Carl Tart. I’m unfamiliar with Carl Tart.

Wikipedia tells me he’s an American actor, writer, and comedian, best known for being a featured player on the twenty sixteen Fox Gets show Party over here. That’s show number two. Tonight’s guests Max Greenfield, Ike Brenholtz, and Robbie Hoffman. You know Max Greenfield from Veronica Mars and Ugly Betty. You know Ike from roles like Eastbound and Down and The Middy Project.

And you know Robbie Hoffman quote American Canadian writer, comedian and talk show host. Robbie’s known for her work on The Chris Gethard Show. That’s show three. I feel bad for the Bookers and now I’m on the proper Mike. John Oliver spoke to Deadline about his relationship with fellow late night host Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Myers.

They all hosted Strike Force five together. Oliver said honestly that and I had less to do with the podcast and more to do with the fact that the strike was so stressful. It was nice to be able to actually lean on each other a little bit, not even necessarily anything to do with the podcast, just talking to each other regularly. On Zoom, John talked about back in two thousand and eight when the late night shows returned on the air one by one, it was so fractured because the hosts hated each other, and it was really helpful to be able to just lean on each other during that difficult time. The most useful thing being able before and during the strike to constantly be in contact with each other and make sure that we were all on the same page and we could keep the shows off the air.

For that, it was massively useful. Oliver was asked did his American counterparts use the text chain to congratulate John on his latest Emmy wins? He said, of course. How does he feel about SNL being in their category and beating them? He said, I don’t think of it that way.

It just feels so weird to beat these events anyway, The whole thing just feels very confusing. TMZ found John Oliver and they asked him about Elon Musk’s recent shot at John. Elon had tweeted, because it’s called Twitter, Elon about John Oliver the reason he’s not very funny these days is because he’s too keen to pander to wokeness, which is fundamentally a lie, whereas great humor requires revealed truth. Oliver told TMZ, I cannot possibly pretend to guess what’s in that man’s mind at any time. He seems wounded.

He’s definitely sensitive. That is a biological fact. As for wokeness, Oliver said, I don’t know what that means. I don’t think he could explain what that means, and I think it means nothing. I don’t know literally what he’s talking about.

From Atlanta Blackstar t K. Kirkland has called out Cedric the Entertainer for stealing jokes Love this Stuff. Cedric made headlines earlier this month after Kat Williams claim that Cedric stole one of his jokes. Kirkland was on the Art of Dialogue podcast. He reacted to footage of late comedian Message Taylor and Cedric the Entertainer performing the same joke.

Kirkland was asked, I want you to tell me if he stole the joke or not. Kirkland said, that’s stealing. He saw bit and took it and flipped it, but he was supposed to flip it, but he did it word for word. That’s called laziness. He believes it’s okay to draw inspiration from other comedians as long as you change it up.

He says, you could take a bit and flip it to your I give an example. I can watch a football game. I can watch a basketball game and create a joke just like that. That’s the ability to have when people ask me, TK, when do you know you’re a good comedian? And I know this goes over people’s heads, but it’s like a monk telling another guy who’s teaching karate kung fu, he’s gonna be great one day.

The day you could look at a doorknob and make it hilarious. You know you’re funny. If you’re going to take something, at least change it to make it really you. Does that make said not a great comedian? Nah, it’s one joke.

I shared this one in the Facebook group. Paul F. Tompkins is on the Last Laugh podcast this week, and I’m gonna pick away at this interview the next few days. Paul was asked, do you feel like there’s a divide in this country where politically there are comedians on either side of the line. Paul said, like most things, I think that it’s always been there, but it’s really been set up by a crazy degree by social media.

Because before social media, when I was coming up, there were always dudes who want to tell you what real comedy was, and it was always one dude with a microphone. It’s a club comedy and that’s the way it is, and that’s the real comedy. And what we’re seeing now is that it’s just jacked up to one thousand people saying a comedian’s duty is to offend, and it’s like, what are you effing talking about? That’s not true. The idea comes from speaking truth to power, which has completely fallen by the wayside.

You’re pretending these people are in power, like trans people saying hey, I prefer you call me this, and they’re like, nope, can’t let this happen. It’s just bullying. You’re just being a troll. You’re not speaking truth of power. It’s all doubling down.

Like Ricky Gervais won that Golden Globe and the clip is him talking about his previous special. That’s what people are doing now. The comedy is all about me and my personality. My cult to personality. If you didn’t like me saying this before, now I’m gonna say more of it.

It’s just gonna get cheers from people, because the idea is that offends someone else or it hurts someone else’s feelings, and it’s a drag. It’s not all of comedy, but it’s the comedy that gets the most attention now, which is really unfortunate. I think there’s a thing where you get so wealthy that you don’t like anyone telling you that you’re wrong, and you have a platform, and you’re gonna make it all about telling people that you don’t get to tell me that I’m wrong and you’re worthless. And in the case of Ricky Gervais, it’s such diminishing returns from the office to now. It’s a great interview with Paul.

The Jervas special didn’t bother me. I kind of got what he was doing there. The Chappelle stuff. I just can’t figure out why Dave has now quadrupled down on it and this last thing that it released on New Year’s Eve. I mean, there weren’t even jokes in it.

I don’t know what that was. I’m guessing he owed Netflix a Special and it was New Year’s even time to hand in the homemark. I’m guessing because it was pretty subpar for Dave, but the you know, I’m on the record. I liked Ricky Special. I thought it was pretty good.

I was pretty busy yesterday, back to back bulletins on Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the British royal family. Kate Middleton had surgery and that got announced all of a sudden, and then we’re finding out Prince Charles and me in the hospital next week for prostate stuff. So pretty busy over at Pallace Intrigue, the podcast about the Royal family. Where we get your shows.

The snow Jam Comedy Festival kicks off today and Sioux Falls, South Dakota forecast high today and Sue falls seven degrees with a low of zero yikes. Two shows tonight, one of them the well titled Frostbite Comedy at eight thirty.

Meanwhile at nine o’clock the equally well titled Let It Snow.

Also kicking off today. San Francisco Sketch Fest, which is amazing. I had the pleasure of going out there. Oh it’s over a decade ago now. Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall said, it’s just a very great festival.

They take really good care of you, that is true, and there’s all kinds of comedy, improv, clown shows, stand up. It’s probably the biggest most diverse comedy show I’ve ever been involved in. A sidebar. I remember where we were in some theater Marxis High. The host on Sirius and I were getting ready, maybe with testing equipment, and suddenly from behind me, I hear a voice.

I clearly recognize it’s Jim Rash. You know him as the dean from Community. I really wanted to say hi, just because I’m a fan. I love his work. But when I’m in work mode, you got to be professional, and it’s just not cool to be like, hey, Jim Rash, I really like Community.

You can’t get to Shelfie. There are people who do that, but it’s not cool. Scott Thompson said, comedians are so often on the road if such itinerant lives, We’re all over the place, and these specials are really good when you get to connect with people you haven’t seen in a long time. The Kids in the Hall have two shows this year. One the Kids in the Hall Unplugged on the twenty third that will revisit favorite sketches from over the years.

Another one next day is called Scenes they Wouldn’t Let Us Do. Those are stage readings of sketches rejected by the networks and censors. Scott Thompson himself is doing a solo show on the twenty fifth called King that is in the persona of Gay Lounge Lizard Buddy Cole. Scott says, I always like when the five of us can get together, and I’m extremely excited about doing these sketches that we weren’t allowed to do. I’m really looking forward to performing these sketches and from an audience to see if they work.

I mean, I know the work, I guess. I’m just looking forward to vindication. The San Francisco Chronicle has an article ten mussy events at Sketch Fest.

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All right, let’s see what they picked tonight, Eric Idol, But Jeff B.

Davis talk about that one at a second. I’ll circle back to that. They have picked middle aged Dad jam Band with Ken Marino and David Wayne Tryumph, The Insult Comic Dogs, Let’s Make a Poop Scam got Us with Lacy Moseley Paul Giamatt’s Chin Wag. Paul Giaomotti plans to host a live taping of a podcast, We’re Deep and Riching Conversation The Only Goal, Redroom Orchestra tribute to Kyle McLachlan. The Fast and the Furious, a musical parody Love.

Michael Shannon and Jason Rducci play RIM’s Murmur That’s Different, Mosha Kasher’s Subculture, Vulture, and Evening in six scenes Mark Maren’s All in separately. The East Bay Times did their article twelve shows at Sketchfest you don’t want to miss. Well, let’s see. They’ve also picked Eric Idol, They’ve picked David Cross and Friends. The Slate Hits and Misses celebrity autobiography, comedy stars act out some of the funniest bits from celebrity memoirs, and this perennial festival favorite, Tinder Live.

Comedian writer and musician Lane Moore brings her hit show where she browses dating at Timber and audience phosts to whether she swipes left or right. That could be fun. Exorcistic Where Gasmick Go. Theater Companies unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist. Next up, we have Mo Willims and the story Time All Stars, Live Belove.

Children’s author Moe Williams teams up with a passel of comedy stars to act out some of his stories. W Comal Bell and Weird Owl will be on that show. All Right, Good One, an Afternoon with Amber Ruffin, Stupid Songs and Story with Kevin McDonald, some more kids in the Hall spin offs Triumph. The Red Room Orchestra plays the music of Twin Peaks and Puddles Pity Party. Luckily for me, there’s only one show tonight, because otherwise this podcast would be a full half an hour.

The one show is Eric Idle. It’s a show he spent two months working on with Jeff B. Davis. According to Eric Idle, the show will feature his favorite sketches, songs, film clips, sing alongs, and a Python premiere. He then adds, and maybe the last show I ever do.

Please come say farewell Wow. Eric Andre as a special tonight on Adult Swim tape to Terminal five in New York last year. This is Eric Andre’s first comedy special for Adult Swim. He says, we’re spilling ranch covered nightmares across America and now we’re entering your home thanks to adult swim and I let the dog out when I switched Mike, so she’s been out in the cold for ten to twelve minutes. Now I think i’ll go let her in.

So let’s call that your comedy news for today. If you like the show, you know what to do. Tell somebody about it se tomorrow

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Featured: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Bob Hope, Jim Gaffigan, Matt Rife, Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Joe List, Joe Koy, Taylor Swift, Steve Harvey, Kat Williams, Mark Curry

What’s in This Episode

• Defining what qualifies as a comedy special
• Joe Koy Golden Globes hosting backlash from Filipino audience
• Daniel Tosh critique of Taylor Swift’s Christmas song lyrics
• Mark Curry defends Kat Williams, accuses Steve Harvey of material theft

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Most of the news is related to the after parties at the Emmys. I’ll cover that in the second half. That leaves me some room for something I wanted to address.

Zach joined us on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. You are highly encouraged to join us. Just post something and I’ll approve you relatively quickly. We had to put up a gate because we were getting a lot of porn bots joining the conversation. We don’t want them.

But Zack’s not a porn bot. And he said, I have a question. I’ve been listening for a while. Maybe I missed an episode, but what makes something a special or not a special? And I loved this question, and I put some thought into it, and I posted a response in the Facebook group, but I wanted to talk about it on the podcast.

I do think there’s some subjectivity here. You know. It’s kind of like, I’ll just mention for the second time today, porn. You kind of know what when you see it, A naked statue is not porn. And at some point, I guess if you pose this, that’s you in a certain way, it would become born to ish.

So I started with what’s not a special? And I think the word special is being thrown around to mean anything where somebody is holding a microphone and telling jokes. The words being thrown around by comedians for anything that’s over ten minutes. You’ll see comics on social media. Go check out my special on YouTube.

And I think on a sliding scale, at some point we cross over from hey, my friend film my club set and I posted on YouTube. That’s at one end of the scale, and on the other end of the scale, Chris rock is live on Netflix addressing the slap right, so that’s clearly a special. And me going up with the chuckle hut and filming ten minutes on a single camera and posting it on YouTube not a special. So along that grade, where does it cross the line? I think we almost have to use a points system, and I’ll explain.

So the words special to me goes back to the eighties when HBO would be like, here’s a special, and it’s George Carlin at Carnegie Hall and it’s on HBO and you got to pay to get HBO, like that was a special, or even something like Bob hope doing four of them a year around the holidays. But it was on NBC and they promoted the heck out of it, and it was a big deal. Those were specials. A lot of the things that are out there now should probably just be called hours, all right, So what makes it a special to me? And you’ll have to assign some sort of points here.

It’s some combination of the theater and often a legacy theater in a town like the Fox Theater in Atlanta, or if say you did a show at the VIC in Chicago or the Chicago Theater like one of those Radio City So I think the theater factors in a stadium clearly would help make your cause for a special. The production values, How is it shot? Is it just a single cam at a club? Is it multi shoot? Did somebody put some work into it?

Possibly where it airs? I maybe unfairly take something more seriously if it airs on HBO or Netflix as opposed to just YouTube. But that might just be the old man in me, and things are changing. That said, I think if YouTube went all in and said, hey, Jim Gaffigan has a live special at eight o’clock on Saturday night on YouTube, I think that would be a special, and add to this some subjective ranking of how established the act is. So the examples I use in the Facebook group, if you told me Jim Gaffigan Netflix, Fox Theater in Atlanta, that’s a special.

Matt Rife on Netflix that might be more of an hour because he doesn’t have the body of work. I’ll give you an opposite example. If Jerry Seinfeld did an hour and it aired on Netflix and he filled it in my garage, that to me would be a special. Is my garage a legendary venue? Not yet, but I think because it was Ooh, Jerry Seinfeld filmed something in a garage that would make it special.

Dave Chappelle in my backyard would be special. Joe List in my backyard, that’s an hour. Great question, Zach, appreciate it and I’m not saying I’m right, And I’d love everyone else’s thoughts on this again. Join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. The South China Morning Post got in on Joe Coy.

Seems some Filipinos have turned on Joe after the Golden Globe’s fiasco. One Twitter user said, my grandma stervived World War two and she’s never seen a Filipino bomb this hard. That got eight thousand likes. Another said Jokoy brought her deep Filipino shame. Another user declared Joe Koy an embarrassment to all Filipinos.

Why because he made a joke about TV covering Taylor Swift at football games? Really, or turn on this guy? I thought he was a hero. A post on Facebook got one hundred and thirty two thousand likes for Joe Coy’s got Cajone’s made of iron to accept that hosting responsibility. That alone deserves a round of applause.

Another influencer on Facebook set accepting the task in the very first place, displays Jocoy’s Filipino courage. Courage is a little strong too. Like I said, I’ll host the Golden Globes cold call me twenty minutes before I’ll throw on a baseball cap and I’ll read the cute cards and you guys can tell me I sucked. I’ll take the gig. I don’t think it’s brave.

Athena Presto is a sociologist at the University of the Philippines. Athena says Joe koy success comes from the fact that Filipinos want representation, especially because of our colonial history. For the longest time, some Filipiinos have been finding it hard to think about a distinct cultural trait that we can call our own. So any affront to Joe Coy is seen as an affront to one’s identity. Cal Fabe, a comedy magician, said Joe Coy was out of his death saying where some of his jokes inappropriate, Sure, but that never stopped people like Ricky Gervais before.

Edward Chico is a Manila based lawyer and a stand up comedian. Edward said, to a certain extent, Joe Coy was responsible for mainstreaming point of view comedy as Filipinos prefer insult based and slapstick comedy. Because of Joe Coy, it’s now easy for stand up comedians like me to find an audience. He paved the way, and I’m thankful to him for that. Daniel Toash commented on Taylor Swift.

This was in December, this before the Golden Globes. Tosh said, here’s what bothers me about Taylor Swift. I love everything about her business, savvy, all of it. I think she’s a genius. But What I want to say is her song, the one song where she goes, we can leave the Christmas lights up till January.

I’m like, that’s only effing five days after Christmas. It’s not a big deal. Five days after Christmas is not worthy of a lyric. Can you believe it? They left their Christmas lights up until January?

Second, he’s referencing her twenty nineteen song Lover. Mark Curry is on Team Kat Williams. Mark was on the Willie d Podcast. At first, he didn’t talk about Steve Harvey by name, but he was addressing a people stealing material. Mark Curry said, if you steal his material, I’m a step to you.

If you’re stealing my crap, fu, I stepped to you. That doesn’t mean it has to be a physical thing. Then he named names and said, take the Steve Harvey thing. It’s a B word move. Maybe he’s not stealing my material, you know, and maybe give him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe one of his writers did it, but they know we all know whose material it is. It ain’t about the money. Steve Harvey’s got enough money. So it looked like you want some of me, you want to be me? Therefore you ain’t got enough money.

I look at it like, all right, I’m a g in the game. You want to be me, you want my style. In twenty twenty, Steve Harvey told Mark Curry then he needs to grow up and quit with the accusations. Harvey said at the time, Mark Curry needs to grow up. Steve Harvey ain’t been on stage since twenty fifteen.

He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s making stuff up. So I’m in peace. The only reason I’m commenting is because he keeps running his mouth. Grow up.

Never stole a joke in thirty five years. Come to me like a man and tell me what the joke is. Mark Curry is currently booked on Cat William’s Dark Tour. That’s Fun, Here’s a weird one. Joy Bayharr was on the view.

Joy Bayharr said she was approached to play the role of Ted Lasso’s mother, and she said she passed on the gig because she didn’t want to travel to London during her heat wave. Joyce said, it was too hot. You remember there was a heat wave going on at the time, like one hundred degree weather, and I have to get on a plane and go to in the middle of the heat. No well. Jason Sidekis and Brendan Hunt were asked about this.

Sadaikas went Joey Bayhart from the view. Brendan Hunt said, respectfully, it’d be news to us. We just worked there, so I’m gonna claim I’m trying to get in a fight with everybody. I was asked to play ted Lasso’s older brother, but I declined it. It was too hot in London night didn’t feel like getting on a plane.

In filming, Jelly Roll has started a train for a five K. He says, I’m in the woods walking every morning. Why are you bringing it up, Johnny Mac? This is the five K that Bert Krascher and Tom Sagora declared. They’re actually doing this.

Michelle Wolf is in. She said I could get my crap together for five K. Stavros Halkius said, I want to get back in the zone. I’m going to be healthy. Louis C.K.

Said, I’m gonna tell you that I’m gonna do it, then I’m definitely not gonna do it, and he calls the five K by the name. This is watch Bert Die. Jelly Roll is trying to get Zach Bryan to join the five K. Zach Bryan said, We’re all here with you, brother. If I’m not playing, I’ll be there.

Netflix has released the trailer for Adam Sandler’s upcoming sci fi film. It’ll be out in theaters on February twenty third, and then on Netflix March first. It is directed by the guy who directed Chernobyl Chernobyl’s Terrific, But I think director Johann Rink is slumming here. I have shared the trailer in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’m gonna play an excerpt here.

I have scoped this down, meaning I made some edits so that it doesn’t drag, because there’s a lot of very lofty sailor dialogue followed by some pensive shots that’s just music. So I scoped this down a little bit to give you the feel of the excellent dialogue in Adam Sandler’s upcoming film. On behalf of the Eurospace Program, one hundred and eighty nine days into your solo journey, Commander Prahatska, how are you feeling? What I’m doing is for everyone back home and that makes me very proud and your wife Lenka, of course, I’m looking forward to having your home safe and found. Six months of isolation, you’re start thinking, good morning, I’m getting an appearance.

I did not intend to frighten you, skinny human. Do not be afraid I’m losing my mind. You wish to know if I am real. I’ll like you an explorer. Your loneliness intrigued me.

A are you here? I might be of help. I wish to assist you in your emotional distress. I don’t ease your help, but you too. In space, man Adam Sandler is six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the Solar System.

He realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his life, he’s helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. The mysterious creature works with Jacob to make sense of what went wrong before it’s too late. Really all right, let’s look at the Emmys. People noticed when The Daily Show was winning the Emmy and Trevor Noah was speaking, Roywood Junior was behind him and mouthed please hire a host.

He later responded it to post on Twitter, saying, chill fam, I was trying to do that. In the low he included several laughing symbols. The Hollow Reporter tracked roy Wood Junior down after the show, and he said, I was saying, please hire a host. I probably shouldn’t have done it, but it’s been going on too long. Get it together.

But I’m so happy that Trevor won. Trevor said when they announced that we had won, I was like, Ah, Who’s going to replace me? It’s the second thing I thought of as well. I’m still thinking about that and I will continue to think about it as I celebrate this amazing achievement. Does Trevor have any regrets?

He says, when I see everybody here in the same place, I’d gladly come back and work with everyone. However, when I see what my schedule is on Wednesday, I wouldn’t do it. Joel McHale and Ken Jung had some fun at the Emmys at Joe Coy’s expense. Joel McHale joked that the former doctor Ken Jung left his medical career not for acting, but because he’d killed a patient was still facing a lawsuit over it. Ken joked back, the instruments that almost killed that dude were the ones the nurses left in, Okay, the ones that saved his life for the ones I left in.

And besides, I only had the gig for ten days at that point. There’s some debate about the bait. The Bear swept all the comedy awards. I’m a big fan of The Bear, and you know, I’m thinking about it. It’s not a comedy.

Might be the best show on TV. I’m a big fan, but it’s not a comedy. Maybe we’ve gone full circle here to the beginning of the post, and I have to declare, all right, what makes something a comedy? I would say to be a comedy, you have to at least be attempting to make jokes. Like Adam Sandler’s work is terrible, but he’s at least trying to be funny.

I’m not sure The Bear is even trying to be funny. Ivan moss bacharak one supporting actor in a comedy series for the show, and he argued, quote, these ideas about comedy and drama are a little bit outdated. No they’re not. No, they’re not, like, you can’t tell me like True Detective is a comedy. It’s not, he suggested.

We’re all just trying to reflect the mess of being human, which is deeply hilarious, and we’re all suffering. Yes, but that’s not a comedy. Like I’m not about to tell you a story about murders. It’s not what we do here anyway. Your comedy news for today.

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If you want to buy me a birch beer. Buy Me Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. If you enjoy trivia, we’ve got a new podcast. It’s called five Daily Trivia Questions. Monday through Friday, there are five at Trivia Questions.

Nice quick way to start your day after this program, in and out, play along, check that one out. It’s a lot of fun. See tomorrow

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Featured: John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Jo Koy, Jeremy Allen White, Quinta Brunson, Chelsea Handler, Taylor Tomlinson, Kevin Hart, Dusty Slay

What’s in This Episode

• John Oliver wins Emmy for Last Week Tonight in new Scripted Variety Series category
• Trevor Noah wins Emmy for The Daily Show after 13 months away from host chair
• Emmy Awards ceremony hosted by Anthony Anderson with viral bit about his mother
• Critics Choice Awards winners including The Bear and Abbott Elementary
• Jo Koy addresses Golden Globes criticism, calls audience ‘marshmallows’ at Saint Louis show
• Taylor Tomlinson’s rising comedy career and new special After Midnight
• Kevin Hart’s Netflix heist film Lift receives positive take from Johnny Mac

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny mag and it’s halftime in my world of Eagles Bucks and there seems to be enough Emmy’s News that I can now hit record. If somebody gets up later tonight and slap someone, I’ll do a bonus episode. But pretty quiet from the host chair. Anthony Anderson seems to be doing a good job.

People seem to really dislike the bit where if you go too long, Anthony Anderson’s mom chases you off. That’ll come into play in a second. Congratulations to John Oliver. Some background. Both Saturday Night Live and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver came into the Emmy Awards on a winning streak.

Oliver’s show switched categories this year and knocked off SNL, which had been on a six year streak. This is a new category Scripted Variety Series. The category was created last year. There was a rule change that group last Week Tonight with shows like SNL and A Black Lady’s Sketch Show. The change move last Week Tonight out of the talk show category it had dominated.

And then I’ll also come to play in a second anyway, So John Oliver won, And I told you about the bit with Anthony Anderson’s mom, and I’ll let John Oliver take it from here. I am not leaving without getting played off by Anthony Anderson’s mom. So I’m gonna start reading off the names of the Liverpool football team in goal Alison Becker. Then you got Trent Alexander Arnold’s. Then you got Virgil Van Dyk obviously, oh she’s not here.

I can get through the whole team then, baby, I’d like to thank Jesus and my family thing. Okay, the category switch opened the door for the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. I mentioned yesterday I was rooting for Trevor to win because he hasn’t been in the chair in thirteen months. Good for you, Trevor. And I really like Trevor.

I’ll play a lot of his speech here. He’s just so charismatic, good jokes at the beginning and the end. He gets a little serious in the middle. I told you we would beat John Olive it if he wasn’t in our category. We did it.

We got rid of John Oliver. Yo really quick. I’m so glad everybody’s coming up here. Can I just say this story has been so long, It’s been so crazy it’s been so wonderful. I stopped by thanking the crazy Africans who followed me to this country.

David Kibuka, Joseph Opiel, thank you so much, David Meyer, my partner crime, and then the writers and the team, Roywood Junior from the very beginning, Jordan Kleppo, who’s flight got canceled, the showrunner of Jen Flans, this woman rode with me through the trenches. Thank you so much to the team, to everyone who gave us an opportunity, and honestly the person I always think because he’s just a crazy genius for think of it. Hey, John Stewart, where where are you are? My friend? Thank you for calling me up, thank you for asking me to come and join you on this crazy journey.

And thank you to everybody else in this category. Thank you to these people. We did it, baby, we did it. It was really good to see Roy Wood Junior on stage behind him. The award was presented by the crew from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Rob mclaney had cracked me up.

Around eight oh five or so, he tweeted a picture where you saw Rob at the Emmys holding a phone watching the Eagles game. And the caption was something along the lines of who scheduled the Emmys up against an Eagles playoff game. Winner of Best Comedy Series, Abbot Elementary Quinton Brunson wins Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Jeremy Allen White Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

Also, there was a scene where the cast of Cheers reunited, Ted danceen Ria Pe…

Some wondered why Shelley Long wasn’t there. I don’t know.

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Meanwhile, over the weekend, the Critics Choice Awards Best Comedy nominees A…

The nominees Abbots, Barry Missus, masl Poker Face, Reservation Dog, Shrinking on Apple TV. What We Do in the Shadows the winner The Bear Best Actor in a Comedy Series. The nominees Hater Steve Martin Kevin Novak for What We Do in the Shadows, Drew Chart for the other two tofarow Woonna’s high for Reservation Dogs. The winner Jeremy Allen White for The Bear. Best Actress in a Comedy Series the nominees Rachel Brosnahan for Mazel, Quinta Brunson for Abbott, Bridget Everett for Somebody Somewhere That’s on HBO Max Max Max Max HBO HBO Max, Tovary Jacobs for Reservation Dogs, and Natasha Leone for poker Face.

The winner, io at a Berry for The Bear, The Bear Sweeping a Lot of things here. Best Talk Show the nominees The Graham Norton Show on BBC America. I didn’t even realize they were still showing that Jimmy Kimmel, The Kelly Clarkson Show, seth Colbert the winner, John Oliver. Best Comedy Special the nominees Berbiglia for The Old Man of the Pool, Alex Borstein for Corsets and clown Suits. John Early is now more than ever.

Trevor Noah, Where was I Wanda Sykes, I’m an entertainer. Trevor should have won, but the winner was John Mulini’s Baby Jay. The host of the Critics’ Choice Awards was Chelsea Handler, the ex girlfriend of Joe Coy. She told a joke that got some laughs and said thank you for laughing at that. My writers wrote it.

Chelsea and Joe dated for one year between September twenty one and June of twenty two.

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Meanwhile, Joe Coy himself was back on stage in Saint Louis.

He was greeted with a lot of applause, and he went, holyes right, this big hug that he gave me is all I need, swear to God effing whirlwind. Prior to his arrival on stage, the report says, the crowd had been warned, no heckling, you were interrupting the show for everyone. Just don’t do it. Heckler’s will be removed from the venue. Coy addressed the Golden globes and said, lots of marshmallows.

Man, They’re delicious, but they’re soft. I just came from a different time. I see the changes that are happening. I get it, But can we effing laugh at ourselves. One spectator, who apparently didn’t need the warning, yelled out fham on Netflix today Dusty Slay’s new special working Man.

I think Dusty is fantastic. I hope the special is as good as I hope, and I hope you check it out and enjoy it as well, Taylor Tominson’s and it’s not at Midnight After Midnight. The new title of that show After Midnight debuts tonight. Jason Zinneman, who writes for The New York Times, apparently followed her for ten months. He spoke to Dustin Nickerson, a friend of Taylor Tomlinson, and said, if you want to make yourself feel sad, compare your career to Taylor’s.

Watching her this past year has been watching someone become a celebrity. Hannah Einbender described Taylor as the voice of our generation and then and this is going to keep happening because of the first name and their relative ages, before calling her the Taylor Swift of comedy. It’s such a lazy thing to do. I get it, her name’s Taylor, but like really, she talks about universal experiences, relationships, love, but in a new way. She’s the most of off comic out there.

She’s for everyone. Mind Bender pause and said it’s hard to be for everyone. Nickerson said that Taylor’s the kind of person who wants to get invited to the party but won’t attend. When asked when she’s happiness, he molded over and said, when she’s making a connection with one person. I did watch Kevin Hart’s Lift.

I think the reviews were unfair about it not being funny. It’s not trying to be funny. It’s Kevin Hart basically saying I want to be Vin Diesel and make a fast movie. It’s a heist. There are definitely some aspects that seem a little convenient and unrealistic.

I mean, he’s got this super team that can I don’t want to spoil it, but they’ve got some magic gadgets that are just so impressive. But it was watchable. I told a couple of people to watch it. Not amazing, it’s fine. If they make heist too, I’ll watch it.

It’s you know. In Netflix movie Honeymooner’s actor Joyce Randolph, who played Tricksy, passed away over the weekend. Age ninety nine Natural Causes. Jeff Dunham has announced his eleventh special, this one called I’m With Cupid. It’ll be OUs February third, John, What do you think of the title?

It will be February, John, Really, what did you think of the title? Bushwhacking their way through the topics of love, relationships and all things Valentine’s in the special are Jeff Dunham and his beloved dummy Corportz, Walter Bubba, j Panuts, Jose Halipano and he suspiciously familiar new guy Achmedes, Greek god of keeler love. Here’s a clip you I’m Walter, damn it. How’s your first dake? Go clean?

Dues in the lac seat of the car, your car on the squad car. Jeffs Donham said, if you hate Valentine’s Day, you’re really going to hate this special. Watch it with someone you love or alone with someone you hate with a beer. This was filmed in Tampa. It is the third and a three special deal with Comedy Central.

I wonder if Comedy Central will keep pumping out specials or if this is just a relic from a previous regime. If you’re in a Jeff Done A mood, they’ll show all over the map at eleven o’clock on the nineteenth, then Unhinged in Hollywood on the twenty sixth at eleven, and Jeff Done on Me the People on February second at eleven. Not sure how comedy this is, but it’s amusing. There was an auction for the props from Succession. You may recall, there’s an episode where cousin Greg brings his girlfriend Bridget to a party.

She’s not really accepted. Tom says it’s because she brought a ludicrously capacious bag. Greg. It’s mantros, it’s gargantua, and you could take it camping. The bag inspired an Internet meme and now was auction off for eighteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

A costume warned by cousin Greg in the first season that of a goofy knockoff mascot for the Roy’s family theme parks went for seven eight hundred change. You could have also been on the dead Scorpion paperweight, fake Forbes and New York Magazine covers with Roy family members, and a framed ATN News poster. The most expensive item the pink index cards from Roman Roy’s eulogy of his father. Those won for twenty five thousand dollars. Really, Twitter is having some fun with Kat Williams.

One person wrote, Shannon Sharp and Ocho talking Cat Williams claim that he can run a sub four five forty sprint is the comedy sketch of the year. The length of a basketball court is less than thirty two yards. To prove Kat’s claim, R and B icon Lil Moe posted a video on her Instagram page showing Cat Williams run from one side of a basketball court to another at two am. One person wrote, while a basketball court is actually only thirty yards, he runs way faster than I thought. Evan Hart made a related comment, not about that video, but this is about Cat Williams.

He said, you don’t entertain the circus. You watch it when a lion comes out and rides the bike. You don’t think about it too hard. You just go, Okay, that’s crazy, the lion’s riding a bike, and then you go home and enjoy the rest of your day. Just for laughs.

And CBC have Russell Peters Irresponsible Ensemble, an eight episodes stand up series featuring Russell Peters alongside a fresh lineup of comics. Each week. You’ll find that on the CBC Tuesdays at ten thirty pm. In the UK, Radio four announced a bunch of new comedy shows, among them one of my favorites, Phil Wang. Phil and Susie Dent will challenge guests to help create the new Ultimate Dictionary on Unspeakable that’ll layer on February eighteenth, and Randy Feldface, who’s a puppet, has a new series about what we can do to speed up climate change and bring a sweet end to life on Earth as we know it.

That is funny. You can find Randy videos on YouTube if you hunt around. I say it like it’s hidden. Go to YouTube and type in Randy Fildface. It’s not like you have to go be Indiana Jones to find this thing.

It’s not hidden, but there’s a bunch of the videos up there. They are fun. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, buy me Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna go to the smooth Place.

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