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Featured: Will Ferrell, Paul McCartney, Chris Rock, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Ringo Starr, Lorne Michaels, John Lennon, Jeff Ross, Kevin Hart, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• SNL with Will Ferrell hosting and Paul McCartney as musical guest
• Chris Rock’s Tupac Shakur dating history revealed on Fly on the Wall podcast
• Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr duet ‘Home to Us’ on new album
• Potential Ringo Starr appearance on SNL during Paul McCartney’s episode
• Rolling Stones new album ‘Foreign Tongues’ with Paul McCartney guest appearance
• Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Real People, Fake Arms’ bit featuring Mick Jagger
• Kevin Hart and Michelob Ultra World Cup 2026 Final fan opportunity contest

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Kalaroga. Shok Media got a pretty big Saturday Night Live tonight. We’ll see if Louren Michaels is saying goodbye. I don’t think so. And I’m still buzzing about Letterman on Colbert.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now people are wondering is there more to the Will Smith Chris Rock thing. Yeah, that’s back. I didn’t expect that to be back. Today, Chris Rock was on the Fly on the Wall podcast with Spade and Carvey.

Rock was asked to name his five favorite rappers. During that Chris Rock said that he had beef with Tupac Shakur because they often dated the same woman and Tupac usually won out. Now, why is this interesting? Tupac Shakur’s most famous girlfriend was Jada Jata aka Jada Smith, Will Smith’s wife. Over the years, Jada has denied dating Tupac Shakor, saying they were platonic soulmates.

In twenty twenty three, Jada revealed that Chris Rock had asked her out on a eight years ago. She claimed that Chris Rock called her saying I’d love to take you out. According to this version of the story Chris Rock was taking a shot because he thought she was getting divorced from Will Smith, who knows very interesting. Tonight Saturday Night Live, is it Lauren Michael’s final episode? Some people are speculating that it’s a good time to get out.

I think we would have heard something. I don’t think Lauren’s just gonna suddenly walk away on a random Saturday in May. Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell’s your host. Paul McCartney is your musical guest. Oh my god.

Well, we’re so excited to have you here with Yeah, we’re big fans. Gosh, you guys. Thanks, I’m really excited to be back. Hey, Andrew, need you do me a favor and get off the stage? Okay, thanks God.

This place looks exactly the same. Yeah. I don’t think they’ve changed it much. Yeah, they even kept this. It’s very funny.

I was delighted by that joke. Get off the damn stage. So do you guys have any sketch ideas? Uh? Tell him about SpongeBob is a Circle now?

Oh, I can’t wait to see that. Okay, I see your showing off for Chlory and Sarah. I’m gonna give you a little show off my own. I’m gonna give you the beating of a lifetime in front of the’s gorgeous town and ladies. How’s that’s the stage?

How’s the stage? Yikes? That wasn’t Andrew? Who was it Paul McCartney? Oh sorry, Paul, you can stay on the stage.

You guys are gonna have to find a new host. Just start bowing, Just start bowing, okay? Late night or among those of us wondering, could Paul McCartney finally bring a Beatles runion to Saturday Night Live? Obviously John and George can’t be there. Paul’s already there.

Could Ringo come by? Paul’s promoting his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane. On that album is a song called Home to Us. Build is the first true duet between McCartney and Ringo and the first song since the Beatles broke up to feature two members alternating lead vocals. I like the song.

It’s a little cheesy, it’s a little catchy, which kind of is what McCartney does, kind of what Ringo does too, So I like it. Their guys in their eighties relax. Maybe the vocals artists good as they used to be. You be of the Beatles now. Ringo himself just had an album called Long Long Road.

He is not on tour until May twenty eighth. Ringo has only appeared on SNL once, hosting an episode nineteen eighty four, and that was when Lorne Michaels wasn’t there. I think that’s just a coincidence. You may recall the story in nineteen seventy six, Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles cash to reunite on SNL. Lorne Michael said, all you have to do is sing three Beatles songs, and he offered them three thousand dollars.

Now, what’s great about the story is John Lennon revealed that he and McCartney happen to be hanging out that night at John Lennon’s apartment at the Dakota, and they considered going down to show up and collect the three thousand dollars. That would have been amazing if you’re not familiar with New York City, just between the Dakota and Thirty Rock, not a lot at all. They could have jumped in a cab. By the way, mentioned Lennon and McCartney jumping in a cab, but it’s in New York City that stuff used to go on, so we will see if they show up. Now.

We learned from Jeff Ross that the roast of Kevin Hart maybe perhaps could have been the roast of Paul McCartney. Jeff told Variety, we did ask Paul McCartney at one point. To me, that would be a fantasy roast. Paul McCartney doesn’t eat anything, but a Paul McCartney roast would be good for the world. Would be so funny to me because he’s so loved.

That’s a good segue to some stories that I didn’t get to all week. I’ve been holding on of these. But we’ll go from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones. The Stones have a new album coming out. Their last album, Ackney Diamond’s in twenty twenty three, was pretty good.

The first two songs from the new album are decent. The new album, Foreign Tongues, includes guest spots from people like Paul McCartney, not like actually Paul McCartney, Robert Smith of The Cure, and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Rolling Stones joined Conan O’Brien in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ronnie Wood told Conan that Paul McCartney was checking items off his bucket list and wanted to appear on the album. Said now I could say I’ve played with the Rolling Stones. Conan described hosting the conversation as the gig of a lifetime.

Conan said that the vocals on the new album didn’t sound a lot different from the vocals from nineteen sixty eight. Mick Jaggers said, well, I was taking a lot of drugs in sixty eight. Conan joked he was actually there to stage an intervention. The new record will be out July tenth. The Rolling Stones were also hanging out with Jimmy Fallon.

Fallon brought back a bit called real people, Fake Arms and did this with Mick Jagger. The bit originated with Will Ferrell, who’s on SNL tonight. This All’s coming together, John Well done Total Accident. Back in twenty ten, Jimmy Fallon and a celebrity guest act out a scene from the fictional nineties Canadian soap opera Jacob’s Patience. The running gag, one of the actors insists on using manneqin arms instead of their own, no matter how observe the situation while the other tries and fails to carry on as if everything is normal.

In the Jagger Peace, they were in a jewelry store called Hackney Diamonds again the name of the Rolling Stones twenty twenty three out, which is pretty good. Mick Jagger greets Jimmy Fallon and says, please to meet you. Hope you guess my name. Ron Wood was on Wednesday’s Fallon. Keith Richards was on Thursday’s fallon.

John You never mentioned Kevin Hart. I know Kevin Hart has teamed up with michelob Ultra. They are going to pay one soccer fan ninety thousand dollars for ninety minutes of work at the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six final. My question of the winner is how are you gonna get there? You’re gonna pay one hundred and fifty dollars train, you can’t park at the stadium and there’s no ride shares.

How are we supposed to get to this game? The selected fan will be the Superior Player of the Match Chief Trophy Officer. That fan will be responsible for delivering the Superior Player of the Match trophy on the field during the World Cup Final. In addition, to the ninety thousand compensation package. The recipient will receive two tickets and access to the championship match at the Stadium here in New Jersey on July nineteenth.

Again, O doun’t on how they’re going to get there. Kevin Hart, you never from him said this really might be the best job in the world. I mean, it’s so good. I even tried applying for it. To go from being a fan at home and end up at the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six final matches, something most people can only wish for.

Remember, like ten major stories ago, there was Kevin Hart funny af and the winner was Ron Taylor. Ron Taylor won a comedy special on Netflix. Does he have a time limit on that? Ron Taylor told AV Club about a week ago. I haven’t got any of details about that, at least not yet.

I’m still kind of wiping crust out of my eyes. But the way I’ve been thinking about it is that’s next month. So every month I’m gonna say I have to shoot this hour next month. That way I can be working on it diligently and intently to where it’ll be ready whenever it needs to be ready. A right Ron Taylor, How are you gonna use your new found visibility?

Ron Taylor said, it’s interesting. Kevin Hart has given a good blueprint of what I think most comedians would like to do when they think about life outside comedy before. A good blueprint could have been like Steve Harvey doing different shows and stuff like that. But I think Kevin has done everything. He’s got his own shoe.

He’s a comedian that’s not very tall, and he’s got his own athletic shoe. He’s got movies, books, he’s even got a music deal. He’s got a rap alter ego Chocolate Droppa he does. I didn’t know that. Is that a thing?

I’m googling? What do you know? There’s a tiny desk concert on YouTube. Oh, we will get to this some other day, like July fourth week, when I’m like, how am I going to fill the time? We’ll get into that.

I’ll just add that to the notes for a slow news day. We got too much of this week, Ron Taylor said, I want to use this momentum to work as much as I can. When you’re coming up and you’re trying to make things happen, you can’t just go to a comedy club and say, hey, can I have a weekend here? They’re like, can you put butts in seats? If not, get out of here.

President Obama teased his upcoming HBO Max show that one feature is comedian Larry David. You know that guy. It is titled Life Larry in the Pursuit of Unhappiness. Obama set up sat across the table from some of the world’s most difficult leaders and wrestled with some of the globe’s most intractable problems. Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David.

I’m just a producer on the show, so I don’t have to deal with them day to day, but still it’s a lot. Larry David then walks into the video goes hey forty four. Obama says yeah. Larry asks can I put you down as my emergency contact? Obama says, why would you do that?

Larry says, well, if they see your name, they’ll be more inclined to help Life Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, HBO. June twenty sixth NBC picked up the paper for season two on Peacock That’s the Office spinoff. I was kind of enjoying it. And I think I got I don’t know, maybe seven of the ten in I’m not sure I finished the season. Maybe I did, can’t remember.

It’s fine. NBC is also renewed Reggie Dinkins, starring Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe, for a second season. The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan as a former football star whose career ended in a gambling scandal. Apparently someone’s watching that. Prime Video signed up Brett Goldstein for an eight episode, half hour single camera romantic comedy in es Courted a divorce dad, presumably Brett Goldstein accidentally becomes a male escort and I’m pretty sure it’s Brett Goldstein in this romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.

Goldstein said, I’m so excited to bring a wholesome show about condoms, co parting and cosplay. Amazon the place where I actually buy my condoms, like a real circle moment. Last weekend, like you know, like eight days ago, maybe fifteen days ago. I bumped a lot of stuff this week. John Stewart was down in Philadelphia playing drums for his band Church and State.

This was at the Singer’s Home festival. John Stewart learned how to play drums during COVID. He said, it’s been such an incredible gift to sit around guitarist Andy Bova’s basement like a group of proper fourteen year olds and write songs. Who’s up for some indie old man emo? Not a Jeanreyette, but it’s coming.

The band is led by singer songwriter Rick Berry, who’s an Asbury Park musician. If you’re not hip to Asbury Park, New Jersey, there’s a thriving music scene down there, always a great place to catch a show. Boba’s father, Jim, plays bass. Church and State’s YouTube page has forty eight subscribers. We had to get them some more forty eight and they’ve posted three videos from past shows.

John Stewart said, the feeling you get when desparate limbs locking and moving away they never have before. You can feel new neural pathways opening up, lighting up. It feels like the opposite of death. And John was playing drums for The Very White Stripes. That is the band that appeared the other day with Codin O’Brien on guzar.

Jimmy Kimmel on I don’t know, some sort of woodwind I don’t remember. I’m doing this story from memory and some lovely young lady on vocals and they just shared another clip which I just grabbed. So we’ll let that take us out and I will see you tomorrow. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, go on Apple Podcasts. Click on the show.

There’s a banner it says uninterrupted listening. You click that. Then for thirty days no commercials asterisk, and then after that it’s five bucks a month. Great way to support the show. Now, what’s the asterisk?

John? I have to do this manually. Take it up with my hosting company. They will not add away from me to automate this. Every other hosting company has this, but the one I use just won’t do it, no matter how much I nag them or shame them publicly like I’m doing now.

So what happens is John gets up in the morning and has to grab the show and upload it a second time, which is not, you know, torture. But I’m also not doing that at three oh five in the morning, So you get the commercial free episode at like seven something, only by seven fifteen. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: David Letterman, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• David Letterman returns to Ed Sullivan Theater for Late Show appearance
• Letterman and Colbert banter about theater history and CBS ownership
• Letterman discusses emotional connection to Late Show through his mother
• Throwing CBS property off Ed Sullivan Theater roof

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. My, oh my, we are having some fun now. Oh my god, I’m so emotional. I just watched the eclipse of David Letterman on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Now, my original plan was for this to be the top of Saturday’s episode.

Actually recorded everything on Saturday but the Letterman part. But no, we are doing a bonus episode. This is a bonus episode for Friday. If you missed it, there was a very robust twenty minute episode for the regular Friday episode. Please go listen to that.

But we got to talk about Dave. Dave returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater on top of his game. I’m gonna play a lot of clippage here. I am so excited about this. This was just so nice to see Dave come home.

And it wasn’t what I’ve referred to in the past as establishment David Letterman. This was my Dave came back. You will see extremely nice banter between the two. I have made some edits for pacing, but here’s David Letterman with Stephen Colbert. So, Dave, how.

About ball in the band? Later? I’m a little and come a long way. Why is it so cold in here. Why do you keep this theater so.

Cold so your beard won’t make you sweat? Dave, thank you very much. I don’t know. I came very close to being teary about that, So thank you everybody. Oh, thank you boy.

You know what happened backstage? I’m standing backstage. A guy comes over and he says he’s from CBS, and then he fired me. I’m sorry, cat astray. What is going right over there?

I will say, And I have every right to be pissed off, so I’ll just I’ll be pissed off here a little bit. Because this theater. You folks wouldn’t be in this theater if it weren’t for me, and Stephen wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for me, and we we rebuilt this theater, and then Stephen came in and look at this. It’s like the Belagio. But listen as well as we are.

What is wrong them? Nothing’s wrong Dave. As we as we all understand, you can take a man’s show, you can’t take a man’s voice. So that’s the good news of me. Thank you, sir.

There you go. Oh that’s very kind of you. You know what, I’m really worried about. What What I’m really worried about is what will become of the Jimmy’s. I don’t know.

Are they going to be all right? We’re We’ve got a plan to put them in a captive breeding program. Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard that phrase. That pretty good, Yes, sir. Really great banter between the two.

So Steven invited Dave back. I won’t spoil it. Listen, is this the last show? By the way, I was told it was the last show. It is the last show of this week?

Next week is the last show? Oh, so I’ll come back. Of course, You’re welcome anytime. Why don’t you stop by Friday? That’s mean?

What you’re so mean? But now is the will the Pope be here? The Pope? I’m still angling for the Pope? I still I listen.

I’m a devout Catholic. I’ve talked about it on TV. I think that’s got to earn me some points, right, Vatican works. Anytime you talk about something on TV, you got to be right in there. Buddy.

You had you would have your own office in Vatican City. You’re talking about it on TV. I’m be good, But you never had the Pope, did you six seven times? Oh? Wow, JP two.

We always I get a kick out of you. Bring in the big hat now, but seriously, but all of this is fantastic. This is not hotel stuff. This is beautiful, all custom made, all custom made, dave really expensive. It looks like from Is this from Wayne and Schuster?

Is that where this comeshm? Yes, it’s from Socco and Vanzetti’s. Pw off a van Who owns this stuff? And what do you have? It’s all this is an Eames like a very expensive probably fifteen hundred Pronouncedames.

I don’t know, man, I don’t know. You’re fancier than I am. But that’s certainly not true. Okay, but all this was. Custom made by when we when we renovated, owns it is what I’m doing, owns everything.

Oh this is CBS prop All belongs to the paramount CBS Corporation. Now wait a minute, are they affiliated with sky Dance? Yes? I believe we are all sky Dancers now yeah. Yeah, this is nice to be ashamed of.

Something happened to it. It would be it would be the same day they were BA. Where I’m talking about Gene see the Jane Crest yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, guys pointing, all right, welcome back. So I was, what’s happening here, Dave?

You know, you know, we know what to do? You know what we got to Ohio. So at that point some guys came out and took away the two guest chairs and Steven’s chair. We will get back to what was happening there. So now the guys have nowhere to go, and they go sit in the audience for a little bit.

The memories are infinite coming back here, more so this time than I was on. You were nice enough to invite me on a couple of years ago. That was a big emotion packed moment as well. The memories now because this thing has come to a screeching halt by other hands. And I guess the connection to my mother through the Late Show.

She and I had a well you know what mothers are like, right. Uh. And I think my mother and I only really finally became close when she was part of the Late Show production and we sent her to Norway. That’s right. And people to this day, like that fellow, that misguided man back there, always tell me they loved my mother more than they did me on the show, and That still pisses me off.

And I think the reason. We were not so close earlier in our lives is because she was named American Miss American Taciturn ninety years in a row. Here’s a conversation that I used to have with my mother, David, that’s not funny. We sent her to Norway and when she got back, I said, Mom, did you see any of the Fjords? Yes?

They were beautiful. Yes.

And then I said, well, what about Chevy’s?

Did you see any Chevys?

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Now here’s a memorable, all telling conversation.

And I don’t want you to read into this all negativity, because I’m sure. It was good fun I get a call at the house. My wife and I are. It’s a Saturday, and we’re making Saturday evening dinner. The phone ringers, It’s hello, David.

It’s mom. Oh, hi, Mom? What can I do for it? Well, we’ve finished our estate planning and you’re not in the will. And friends.

Let me take the break here, but let me tell you, sometimes, if you live long enough, you get everything you ever wanted. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will continue with Dave Letterman right after this. All right, we are back at the Ed Sullivan Theater. We are on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater. One might call it a five story tower.

Up on the roof are the moving guys from before, the two guest chairs and Steven Cole Bear’s chair, And here we are at the top of a tower. What might possibly happen? Let’s listen, Dave, Could you. Mind telling the folks out there watching TV where we are right now? This is like being back home for me.

We are on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater building and I couldn’t be happier. It’s a beautiful view from up here. Would you share with the people why we are on the roof of the Ed Salton right now? I thought maybe tonight’s occasion would be a little sad, being the end of your run here, but this brings true joy to my heart. We are up here for the wanton destruction of CBS property.

Now I know for many years I enjoyed this as a viewer. You can throw things off the Ed solved Right building. This is a true story. When I first got this gig, one of the. First things they told me before we even moved into the offices is that I would not be allowed to throw anything off of the roof of the ed Solivant building because.

Evidently there was a problem with a previous tenant. Yes, I’m so excited about this, so am I? All right? So I was never allowed to do this, but we get. It in all the time.

I never did it. But we’re at the end here, so all bets are off.

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Let’s get to it.

Let’s go all right, this is These are the guys did the heavy workfuls cripple Jean. Yehi, guys, guy, thanks. For helping you. Guys will verify that this is actually CBS property, right, Okay, anytime you’re ready. Stephen all right, Oh my guys, before we do this, Dave, I think we should have a target, don’t you.

Right down there? My friends, I think circular like there, Yeah. I got the target. Here is the CBS ie logo. I have shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group.

But this is just amazing. Let’s go back to Dave and Steven. It’s all fun until somebody puts out an eye. That’ll do. Then we go get ready.

Oh my god, yes we missed the target, but still. That don’t worry Dave. We brought a spare. This is OK. Let’s think about what happened last time.

Yeah, you got to a guest of the road. Yeah you just don’t drop. I would, I wouldn’t. Yeah, I would just go straight down. Let’s show ye’d be ashamed of Wait this man on the island.

What’s your advice, I’d say, just look out for the wind and keep it closer to the bill. Watch the wind. Yeah, here we go. Yeah, it’s unwell, Melisabeth Levan, can we see that again? At swim?

Will conclude. Out we have what dave do you want? Do you want to do this? One? Me is a little lighter, and now this is yours.

This is my desk chair. All right, we’ll say it by my friend. All right, how many hours of you and your ass spin in that chair? Oh uh? One thousand, eight hundred and ten shows.

Here we go, Here we go.

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All right, let’s give it a go.

One a little my way. There you go, one, two, three? Oh you know, I’m sorry, we’re up here. Bring on the melon and now we’re getting somewhere. All right, stee, if you go.

First, it’s not the fourth of July, so you drop melons. Thank you, same to you. I think it’s better if we miss I don’t break my heart. Pam here. Yeah, let’s let’s ignore the target.

Ready, yeah go yeah, oh my grin. It is like the fourth of July. It’s a thing of man we’re doing all right, I get it. I’m gonna go high. You’re gonna go high out?

You mean, yeah, far out? All right, I’ll join. I’m gonna go for the manhole cover. Okay, God hopes there’s not a maze there. Two three?

Yeah, Oh, I mean it’s like fireworks, isn’t it. Galileo would be proud. All right, the network I sent over. One last thing. Oh, this is both of us, thoughtful of them.

Yeah. The Late Show nineteen ninety three to twenty twenty six. So how many years is that? No way of knowing? All yours, my friend?

Yeah. The aerodynamics of wedding cake not to be believed. WHOA what a day for a walk? Well, Dave, yes, sir, Hey, thanks so much for creating the Late thirty three years ago. It’s been a pleasure having you back to the prom stuff.

The pleasure is all mine. I enjoyed destroying stuff. It’s great, great fun. Thank you for everything you’ve done for our country. Oh feelings, Mittell, Dave, thank you, anything you’d like to save the audience before we go, Well, not necessly.

SAI late for the audience, making the folks CBS and the words of the great Ed Murrow. Good night and good luck mother, Dave. Lederman, everybody, We’ll be right back with the strokes. And boy, what emotional farewell from David Letterman. You can hear it my voice.

This is all the feelings, absolutely fantastic, and that is your bonus episode on a Friday. As I mentioned earlier, there’s a normal episode for Friday earlier the feet. It’s about twenty minutes long, and I will catch you back in the morning.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert, Kevin Hart, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Michael Che

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien to host 2027 Oscars for third consecutive year
• Stephen Colbert’s final Late Show episodes and emotional reflection
• Colbert’s kissing guests tradition during final week
• CNN documentary ‘The Last Laugh: Stephen Colbert’ announcement
• Michael Che pulled from Kevin Hart roast due to SNL scheduling
• Kevin Hart roast lineup shuffling and last-minute changes

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Johnny Mac, you never talk about the roost of Kevin Hard. I know, right, We’ll get to that in a second, but I gotta tell you Conan O’Brien will return to host the Oscars for a third year in a row. Now.

Surprisingly to me, the reaction on social media was kind of man, people are like, oh, Conn’s back. They did not seem excited about it. I think Conan did a fine job and just roll it back. The Oscars are heading to YouTube, so you know, when it goes to YouTube, they’re gonna have like somebody like mister Beast hosts the things. So while it’s still on ABC, let’s just do a proper show with a nice, solid host.

Conan O’Brien will host the ninety ninth Oscars March fourteenth to twenty twenty seven. I’ll have to stay up late that night. Craig Erwitch, president of Disney Television Group, said Conan has created remarkable energy around the Oscars. His singular comedic voice makes Hollywood’s biggest night one of the most entertaining celebrations of the year. We’re proud to welcome him back and look forward to what he and the producing team deliver next.

Interestingly, I’m not seeing a statement from Conan O’Brien. I also thought the timing of that was weird. I guess it was tied to the ABC upfronts. Maybe that’s what the timing was. Yeah, that would make sense now to that I’m talking as I think, but just with all the Stephen Colbert noise, just seemed an odd time to announce it.

The Strike Force five guys did put out another podcast. The Strike Force Five are Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon. A lot of people think that the first four are pretty tight, and Jimmy Fallon is an add on. Colbert talked about how he’s feeling with just a few late show episodes left. He said, it’s super real.

I’ve sunk it into it. Actually, what I’ve said is the rising tide of emotion has reached my chin, and now the only thing to do is take a deep breath and swim like l of H twenty. First, he said he feels a little like a college senior, but he isn’t too sure about his future plans. He says, the show takes all of my mind, like ninety five percent of my mind every day to do the show until it’s over, I don’t really know. I’ve had some really nice meetings with people like we want to be in the Stephen Colbert business, and I’m like, that’s wonderful.

What is that? Can you tell me please? Colbert said that the staff has to almost immediately leave the show’s offices as soon as the finale airs. Looking ahead next Friday, they’re not even airing one last rerun. They’re going straight to Byron Allen’s thing on Friday night.

Colbert said, no one’s got a job after that night. I think the next day everyone’s fired. I think maybe the crew has some time to clear out the studio, but the staff has to be all gone. I think they’re going to start tearing things out immediately. I know my staff is not paid the next day, like they’re out.

I’ve already packed my office. Colbert said he will miss working with young people who are good at their jobs and who you met when they were first out of college. John Oliver asked Steven how many times he’s had a guest and then vowed to never have them back on the show. Colbert said the number is probably not double figures. But without naming names, Colbert said he interviewed a former Bush administration official on The Colbert Report who only spoke negatively about George w when the cameras were off.

Colbert said, I said, why didn’t you say that on camera? That’s why you’re here, and he goes, well, I got to get a job in this town. That’s the first person I ever said. That person can never come back. Kim All asked Colbert if there are any guests he found distractingly attractive.

Colbert said he didn’t know what to do with my eyeballs when Michelle Williams was on. He also seemed to like Rachel Wise, Rebecca Ferguson, and Andrew Garfield. Seth Meyers joked, by the way, we’re going to keep doing this podcast without you, and it won’t be the same. Colbert has been kissing people all week. On Monday night, when the Strikeforce five games were on, the group was asked, have you guys ever made out with a guest on camera?

Colbert looked at Jimmy Fallon, who asked, why would you look at me like this? Colbert said, because I think you’ve made out with guests on camera. Fallon said, no, I think you just want to make out with me. Colbert then pulled Jimmy Fallon in for a kiss. Colbert shared that he has kissed Sally Field, Helen Mirren, Alison, Jenny, Jeff Daniels, and Andrew Garfield at one point or another throughout his CBS program.

Then, on Tuesday night, Julia Louis Dreyfus was on the show. She said she wanted to join the list of guests that he has kissed. Julia said, no, one’s watching, it’s just between us. Colbert said, what harm is that, Julia Nunn? What could possibly go wrong?

Then they kissed. That got cheers. Colbert said, well, the interview’s going great so far. Why don’t we do another take. Then later in the same episode, Pedro Pascal came by and they kissed.

Pascal said, I got jealous. If you can’t get enough Stephen Colbert, CNN is cashing in this weekend with a CNN flash doc called The Last Laugh Stephen Colbert, It’ll be on the CNN app today at Lair Sunday at eight pm Eastern. We’re told, for more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has sat at the center of Late Night, where comedy, politics, and culture collide. As he prepares to take the desk for the final time, the Last Laugh turns its lens on both the show and the man, etc. Etc.

Sounds like a pretty generic doc Radar online shading Stephen Colbert. They randomly dusted off this story. Apparently when Steven’s appendix ruptured in late twenty twenty three, he feared guest hosts might overshadow him. Now, even David Letterman last week told I think he told Bill Simmons that Letterman didn’t like the idea of having guest hosts because he never wanted to get up the desks. So let’s not throw Colbert under the bus here.

Who’s the last person that’s sat in for Jimmy Fallon? Huh, Jimmy Kimmel seems a little more secure. Oh, I keep forgetting to mention. Let me get this point out here. Maybe I said this is I keep thinking of This is Jimmy Kimmel insane if he takes this summer off because the Colbert people are going to want to go somewhere, and I think the most likely landing place is Kimmel’s show, and then Kimmel usually takes July and August off, and you’d have guest hosts.

I think he should probably work this summer. Now. I know that’s a big ask. Johnny Mac doesn’t like working in the summer. I get it, but boy, to capture that audience, maybe don’t take two months off and do fresh shows and try and get the former Colbert people to like you.

You could be the king of Late Night, make a lot of money. I know they keep talking about Jimmy might walk away, and I don’t see it. He’s roughly my age. I think he should work. We’ll see what happens.

Anyway, back to Colbert and guest hosts, an insiders told Rater Online, Colbert’s decision to stick with reruns highlights a deep level insecurity. Steven is not a exactly I passed the Baton type of person. There’s no chance of him handing over the reins to someone who might want to push him. Handle the way too, and at this point it’s a moot point. Michael Chay has weighed in on the roast of Kevin Hart.

Two sources involved in the production tell Variety that Michael Chay was supposed to be on the roast but had to pull out because of SNL scheduling difficulties. Ardy says Chay was not alone. Sources say the roast lineup had undergone quite a bit of shuffling, with several last minute editions and dropouts. That’s interesting. Michael Chay went on Instagram and commented on the roast, I’m gonna swamp out the N word and I’ll use the word fellas just to keep the rhythm of what he wrote.

White guys and black people joke different. Black guy’s a roast like look at this fellow’s shoes. White roast are like slavery, MAT’s lane teen sex crime, slurs, family secrets. White guys don’t give an f about the shoes. Chay, in a separate post, wrote, let’s do a roast celebrating the career of the most successful black comic in the last ten years.

I love that. Who should we get to write it? On the next slide, he included a photo of the five joke writers hired by Shane Gillis, all of whom are white. Variety pointed out the telecap had seventeen credit writers, quote, several of whom are black unquote. Many of the comedians hired their own team of writers, including Tony Hinchcliff and Chelsea Handler.

Pete Davidson’s writing partner Dave Cyrus, listed several jokes he said were cut from the roast. I’ll do my best here. In one of the jokes, Kevin Hart was called the Michael Jordan of Baseball of comedy. Kevin’s in superhero shape. He could start in Wakanda four to eleven because next one’s pretty good.

This about Kevin Hart’s car accident. Kevin got drunk and hit that tree so hard he had to stop making cookies at it. New topic, Draymond Green. Draymon is probably four to five years from being in the Hall of Fame and forty five minutes from being in Chelsea Handler. That’s a good joke, All jokes aside.

Chelsea Handler is a killer, especially if you believe life starts a conception. Chelsea f fifty cents. So long ago, the magic stick was what they called a musket. Yes, Chelsea aborded a feed us and easier tonight Jeff Ross, take a bow. Oh man, I’m going to hell for that one.

Chelsea. Anything else you want me to say to your kids while I’m there? More jokes? You may know Tony Hinchcliff from walking through his mouth Tanter Amusement Parks. That’s really good if you get it.

That’s very, very clever. It might be too deep. I first met Big Jay when I was sixteen years old. Jay, it must be finally nice to hear those words outside of court room. Uh.

Tiffany Hattish, who was in attendance at the roast, told TMZ she didn’t hear the George Floyd joke said by Tony Hinchcliff. She told TMZ the roast was so much fun. I think it should have been shorter. The show was too long. I didn’t hear the George Floyd joke because I had a piece so bad.

I was a glorified seat filler and I was tired. Sometimes political correctness does not fit in comedy. Freedom of speech is alive and well, and It’s alive on Netflix. Riday had asked Jeff Ross why was Tiffany Hattish on the dais but not even referenced in the roast Jeff said, I invited Tiffany. She’s a good friend of mine.

She’s co starred with Kevin a couple times. We just wanted to populate the Dais with his friends and make him feel comfortable. I wanted him to feel like Frank Sinatra surrounded by the rat pack. Lorell Howery weighed in on all this. He posted a three minute video on social media.

Howary said, what I’m annoyed by and I’m just keeping at one hundred, y’all, I don’t understand. It’s one thing to roast people that’s there. It’s one thing to roast the people who may be the audience, roasting someone number one that’s dead, number two that’s not there, number three that the implications of why you shouldn’t joke about that Tony hinchcliff joke about George Floyd didn’t make effing sense to me. It was no reason to bring George Floyd into this. It was just disgusting.

The audience was okay booing Draymond Green every time his name was mentioned. Y’all could boo, but you don’t boot Tony Hinchcliffe. Right after that, I get it, man, I’m okay not being part of this click bs that’s going on in comedy. I one hundred percent would have booed that mfor and probably walked out. That’s all I’m saying.

How he concluded, Why can’t we just agree that bringing up George Floyd the way he did was fed up and not funny and not needed. It wasn’t even needed. I ain’t like that. Comedy stock mark as thank you. Bert Reynolds’s voice of the comedy stock market.

Every week we take a look at what comedian stock we should buy and what comedian stock we should sell. We’re not saying these people are good or bad. We’re just looking to see who’s overvalued or undervalued. Why don’t we buy some Tony Hinchcliff. Now, I know some people are like, whoa Tony Hinchcliff, But you know what Hinchcliff is reliable.

You put him up there, he does deliver. Yeah, some controversy comes with it, but that’s okay. He stays in the mix. Kill Tony’s sailing along. We’ll buy some Tony Hinchcliff.

Let’s also throw deep here. Let’s buy some Ian Carmel. Why, John, remember I told you the other day he’s gonna be co hosting that FIFA show, the World Cup show, so he’ll get in front of people and maybe that’ll up his profile. So let’s buy really low on Ian Carmel. Maybe they will cash in on that.

I was looking at Kevin Hart at one point I had it as a cell and then I upgraded it to hold because I’m looking at the cast of the movie that’s coming to Netflix in a month, and it’s him and the Police Don’t Destroy Guy and Marcelo Hernandez, and I just feel like people are gonna like that movie, at least in a Netflix low bar universe. So let’s hold Kevin Hart and I’ve got two cells for you. Let’s sell Cam Patterson. I assume this will be his last appearance on Saturday Night Live. I don’t see him coming back.

I’ve said that all year long. I think he’s one and done. He’s also in the Kevin Hart movie, by the way. But despite that, let’s sell Cam Patterson and let’s sell Nikki Glaser. What is Nikki Glaser right now?

Career wise? So Conan’s coming back to host the Oscars. So despite the soft campaign, she’s not getting the Oscars. She didn’t show up at the roast so she’s no longer like the killer roast comedian. So Nicki is what a solid guest on Kelly Rippa and the View.

Okay, sell, Let’s sell Nikki Glaser, sell Cam Patterson, Buy in Carmel by Tony Hinchcliffe. Hold Kevin Hart. That’s your comedy stock market for this week, and we are long. I’m gonna leave you with this. I’ve been bouncing this all week.

The Flight of the Concords did do their reunion. You may recall their famous song the Robots Are Dead. Jermaine Clement has updated the lyrics in the voice of a frustrated robot. The lyrics are now. Humans invented artificial intelligence, and they had us doing really stupid stuff with it.

Brett Mackenzie added, They gave us all the knowledge deep learning, gave us the power to solve complex scientific mathematical equations. Then they just asked us questions like how do you cook an egg? The Guardian gave the show five stars. They said Mackenzie and Clement were clearly enjoying themselves and their musicianship was on full display as they harmonized and played an array of instruments, including guitar, bass, keyboard, flute, and various digital devices. Clement’s voice was particularly rich on stage.

The records haven’t always done it justice. There were a few mistakes along the way. One song suffered from extensive lyrical confusion, but the band embraced those moments to cheers. They played most of their hits, including business Time, The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room, Bowie, and Space Carol Brown, in which Clement lists all the rhyming ways as exes have left him, a sort of fifty ways to leave your lover in reverse. Mackenzie said, we’re not really playing new songs, but they’re new to us because we can’t remember them.

That’s great. Other highlights include eight appearances by Rhys Darby, who played the band manager of Murray on the show. Kristin Shall played obsessive fan Mail. There. Arch Berker, who played the band’s friend Dave, was there.

Arch opened up the night with a stand up set This Sounds Fantastic. Jerby appeared on stage to conduct a raffle for an on stage VIP experience with the band who won Mel played by Kristin Shawl. She was offered the opportunity to touch both men for thirty seconds. Oh so much fun. The duo.

We’re backed on some songs by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, which was a single cellist named Nigel Collins. And I’m going to end with a clip. I’m not sure this is the best audio and it’s kind of long, but I’m gonna play it for you. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, you go to the Apple podcast app.

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Featured: Jeff Ross, Kevin Hart, Cat Williams, Tom Brady, Cheryl Underwood, Pete Davidson, Tony Hinchcliff, Chelsea Handler, The Rock, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• Jeff Ross discusses real tension behind Kevin Hart roast
• Cat Williams surprise appearance at Hart roast
• Tom Brady’s edgy opening spot criticized for sequencing
• Cheryl Underwood wins the roast with standout performance
• Production secrets of Comedy Central roast including fake dressing room names
• Potential future roasts including Drake and Stevie Wonder

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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In a bit uh from Variety, Jeff Ross talked about the real tension behind the roast of Kevin Hart. The rose continues to be the big topic and that’ll get us through this week and the next week is Colbert Week. Lot going on in comedy. Jeff Ross was asked if anything hurts his feelings, like when somebody says you look like the inside of a clam. The Roastmaster General said, if the joke is funny and well crafted, it doesn’t hurt my feelings.

It makes me proud. If the joke flops, then I’m insulted. Like write a better joke for me. I’m the roast master. If you watch the entire roast.

At one point, Kevin was making fun of Jeff, but Jeff was in the bathroom. Jeff said, I was panicking because the bathroom next to my dressing room was locked. I thought I had a time where I could make it back for that part of his speech. Imagine literally peeing while I’m hearing the audience laughing jokes about me. It was one of the most surreal roast moments of my career.

I really did him dirty, and I did apologize after the party. I should have been in my seat, But by the time he and the rock plug the tequila brands for the second time, I whispered to Pete Davidson and said, all right, I gotta go pee. Ross talked about the after party. I think everybody was there. The vibe was over the moon.

Kevin seemed like he was on cloud nine. Was there any real tension behind the roast? That’s the million dollar question, Jeff said. The only real tension I felt was when Cat Williams appeared out of nowhere and started going in on Kevin. Kevin definitely looked a little tense, like these guys may not have seen each other for a long time.

But Kevin asked for the hatchet to be buried, and immediately the tension turned into celebration. Whose idea was it to bring Cat? Jeff Ross says, Kevin’s a great comic, but he’s also a really smart producer. He loves to follow the discomfort. If something’s making him uncomfortable, it’s going to be great TV.

I would say it was a group brainstorm of who would be a funny person to bring into this thing, and Kat Williams was game. He came out with a cape like a villain, and he left like a friend. I don’t believe they actually talked until he came out on TV. Jeff shared a joke of his that did make it into the roast. He would have told it better, but it goes like this, Kevin, your dad sold crack, and you literally sell everything except crack.

From his comedy to s tequila to his chain of vegan fast food restaurants, Kevin is always looking for new ways to make people throw up. Ha ha. Friddy says, at least inside the room, Cheryl Underwood crushed. Jeff said, I remember at some point flopping on the floor when she was on. That’s how hard I was, falling out of my chair.

She had one of the best sets of the night. She’s a pro. She used to walk on stage with her person in her hand. We worked such dumps together. She didn’t trust the staff or the other comics with her purse in the back, She’s the real deal.

Good question here by variety. Where is this roast rank in terms of crossing the line? Jeff Ross said there were definitely some lines crossed. The jokes were super edgy. When Tom Brady came out and started talking about Kevin’s personal life, right out of the gate, I thought, this truly is a revenge roast.

That’s how I actually approached Tom about it. We were at a party in Las Vegas and I said, Tom, I got another one percolating. He said, I’m never coming back. Why would I come? And I said revenge?

He goes? Who you got? I whispered Kevin Hart and his next question was when he needed a reason to come back. Those jokes were super reggie, and I could feel the tension in the room. Even though it was funny, there was a realness to it.

I will weigh in here. I think having Tom Brady in the laid off spot was a mistake. I wrote about this on my substack, and I think I talked about earlier in the week. I think the move might have been open. With the shaker of Kat Williams and having confidence in Cat to be funny.

I think that would have prepped the room a little bit. Tom just not being a comedian, I don’t think warmed up the room well enough, which affected a lot of the first half of the show. When I finally watched the whole thing, I think the second half was a little stronger, mainly because of Tony Hingecliff and Kat Williams. So I’m not sure they sequenced this thing right. Roddy was curious what was actually off limits.

Jeff Ross said, people always asked that. Kevin never once said to me, please don’t do this, Please don’t do that for me. There’s a sportsmanship to it. I want to scratch the skin, but I don’t want to break it. Nothing was off limits.

I don’t think there was a single topic from Kevin’s life that didn’t get brought up. It’s really just a question of how avert you want to be. Do you want to be subtle or do you want to smash them over the head with a dollhouse. I don’t know anybody could look at the roast and call it water down. Roddy did a good job with this.

They asked, you know, the show’s very tightly produced. There are writers in rehearsals. How do you balance that with the element of surprise. Jeff said, I gave a lot of the credits to my partner, Casey Patterson. Joe put fake names on dressing room signs.

The scripts don’t circulate to the entire staff. The crew doesn’t read the comics material. I don’t know what Chelsea’s speech is going to be. She doesn’t know mine. Kevin doesn’t know what’s coming from anybody that keeps it real, you are genuinely messing with somebody live on television.

There’s a lot that goes into that side of it, and I’m only surprised. Another good follow up, There were a lot of times when people would skip a joke they had on the teleprompter. What goes into the decision to edit yourself in real time? Jeff Ross said, I’m careful not to let that happen because I hate going skip it. It looks so written.

But sometimes in a live show, it’s inevitable that people want improvise, or maybe the joke was too similar to the joke that was made earlier in the night and doesn’t seem funny anymore. Is sometimes the non comics get cold feet on a certain joke. Honestly, the most important job in that entire show is probably the teleprompter operators. That’s a high wire act. You get all sorts of deliveries.

Some people are mumbling somemmer rushing, and those operators stay right with us the whole time. It’s remarkable. Two more. Will you be able to get another goat in a couple of years, Jeff said, I think so, Kevin do. It opens it up to almost anybody whos at the top of their game wants to show the world they’re a good sport.

All right, Who do you want to roast next? Jeff’s aid a pop star or a rock star would be great. A rapper would be great. I could see Drake getting roasted in being a great one. One of my all time favorite ideas is Stevie Wonder.

I always say the roast of Stevie Wonder. You got to hear it to believe it. Vulture had the headline how Cheryl Underwood won the roast of Kevin Hart. Despite being one of the least recognizable faces on a dais that included celebrities like Chelsea Hanler and Pete Davidson, Underwood had consistently been the target of some of the Knight’s sharpest barbes, adding to the weight of the moment. Underwood followed Tony Hinchcliff, but when Underwood got on the podium, the room’s atmosphere reset.

Her set was a triumph, in part because her energetic delivery injected life in the proceedings after the show had slipped into a monotonous rhythm halfway through its bloated, nearly three hour runtime. There were only so many times one could see Handler called a horror or heart marked for his height before it grows tedious. And an event that featured surprise appearances from Venus and Serena Williams, Heart Enemy Cat Williams and The Rock, no one got ovation like Underwood following her set. Boy, I just looked at the we are going to be long again. I got like seven stories of been kicking since Monday.

Remind me I said that when it’s July fourth week and I’m googling George Lopez Tacos to fill some space all right. Radar Online is a gossip website. Their headline Jimmy Kimmel pushing himself out the door at ABC. How cost A Comics shot himself at the foot with dead Trump gags. I don’t believe the story at all, no offense.

Radar Online. One of the reasons I say that is because ABC had Jimmy Kimmel host the Upfronts. But anyway, Radar Online says ABC executives are allegedly reconsidering Jimmy Kimmel’s future after backlash over his Millennia Trump joke. They remind us the Kimmel repeated the joke on a show and said critics overreacted, and network insider said the original joke was already viewed internally as reckless, doubling down turned it into something potentially costly to the network. They can’t be too concerned because they had Jimmy host the Upfronts.

Jimmy Kimmel’s all the Upfronts audience. I didn’t think i’d see you guys again either. Yeah, the bad boy of Data and Measurement Solutions is back. I’ve been through so much BS this year it actually made me appreciate this BS. You know, usually in order for ABC to pull you off the air, you have to throw a cher at your Mormon boyfriend.

Yes, the President tried to get me canceled over the last six months. That’s one way to look at it. Another way is you could say I’ve generated unparalleled engagement across a variety of platforms. Luckily, thanks to our partners in Washington, we’re up twenty five percent among viewers. It’s a big deal to have your numbers go up nowadays.

But that said, if Johnny Carson woke up one day with my ratings, he’d have gone straight under the sink and chugged all the DRAINO Oh, Kimmel had more. He said, I cost our company a lot of money this year, billions. It’s very possible that no employee in the history of any company has caused their employee more than hiring me twenty four years ago. Just from a purely mathematical standpoint, it was the worst personnel decision that Disney Corporation has ever made. Not even the captain of the Exxon Valdiz did more damage.

Jimmy said, this will be the first Super Bowl on ABC in twenty years, and we’re gonna milk the but Jesus out of it. We’re gonna spend the whole year promoting what’s already the most popular thing on earth. And as if the country isn’t divided enough, we put the game on Valentine’s Day just to be dicks. Let me tell you what the Havetime Show was going to be this year. The whitest stuff you’ve ever seen.

Goodbye, bad Buddy, Welcome back, Oh Town. Jimmy talked about his appearance on Colbert the other night. As you know, CBS is turning eleven thirty five PM into the least time slot, least likely to fend the president, with a rerun of Byron Allen’s comics on Leash from two thousand and seven, featuring Paula Poundstone and Andy Dick. Poor Steven. It’s bad enough to lose your job, imagine getting replaced by the owner of the Weather Channel.

So I look. Jimmy was on fire. He said, you know, in the past, I’ve come here to mock the other network shows. Was all very competitive, but now we’re like a bunch of dirty, starving little chihuahuas under the table waiting for a chicken leg to drop. For the first time of think ever, I’m rooting for CBS.

They’ve got a lot of great returning shows, and they’ve got some great news shows. Ncis New York answers the question what if LLL coolj partnered up with another white guy in a different city. They’re also doing the Prices Right at Night now. Oh we tagged this with a dirty pun. The price is right at Night on the nighttime version instead of a flat screen TV, the winner gets something men like in an alley behind the studio, Naughty Jimmy.

For the first time in eighteen year, CBS was not number one in total viewers. NBC is number one, and they’re saying they’re number one. Are you allowed to brag about being number one when you had the Olympics in the Super Bowl? Only if you have them again next year and you don’t.

Meanwhile, poor Fox was in last place again and their big plan to turn that a…

This is a reboot for those who watched the first eleven seasons of Baywatch and thought, but that can’t be the whole story. As for us at ABC, except for all the domestic violence, we’re really doing great. Dancing with the Stars is hotter than your grandma’s underpants at a Michael Boublaz show. The Rookie was among the most streams shows among viewers under eighteen. Young people love The Rookie and do you know why I’m actually asking?

Does anyone know why this is happening?

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Meanwhile, over at NBC, Seth Meyers hosted their upfronts.

Seth Meyers said, we have taken down CBS, referring to for the first time in two decades, NBC will take the broadcast crown for total viewers in the TV season. He tagged his premise with, well, the Ellisons did, but I’d like to think we helped. Seriously, what’s going on over there? They’re so in the pocket for Trump that I heard next year Survivors in the strait of her moves. Not bad?

Seth Again, CBS didn’t not holding upfront presentation this year because CBS Upfront just describes how they paid Trump to drop the lawsuit. Seth Myers made fun of Paramount’s winning bid to buy Warner Brothers, joking Comcast actually made a bid too, but no one thought we were actually going to get it. It was kind of like that one friend who always pretends to reach for his wallet after the check comes. No, no, no, Comcast, you get it next time. So, speaking of the merger that would join Paramount Plus on HBO, Max, Seth Meyers said, so now you get all your favorites in one place.

Speaking of streamers, Comcast sat on its most recent earnings call that Peacock is approaching profitability in the same way Kevin Hard is approaching seven feet tall. But it’s an exciting time for Peacocks. He’s an eight of Love Island USA cent Mirror in June, So please get the HPV vaccine. More Seth. NBC Universal poached Yellowstone creator Taylor shared in last year from Paramount and a deal worth a reported one billion dollars, which means I’m finally going to get a call from my dad asking what channel’s NBC on.

NBC has the Emmys this year? Well, they’re airing here. HBO is the one that’s actually going to have them. Some more random jokes, I’m seth Myers, or as the FCC calls me. Next.

Netflix is hosting It’s Upfront on a pier on the Hudson River, because once a Netflix show hits two seasons, that’s where dumps its body. NBC is turning one hundred years old, which means right now it’s watching CBS. James Cordon is returning the Late night I know, are you so excited? He was at the Fox Upfronts with Michael Strahan. They announced FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six after Hours on Fox with James Cordon, whereas we’re going to refer to it Cordon.

James Cordon, the host of FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six After Hours on Fox with James Cordon, said it’s gonna be me former England soccer captain Rio Ferdinand and one of my favorite comedians on Planet Earth, Ian Carmel. Every night after the games, we’re gonna be trying to have a lighthearted look at the World Cup, talking about the games, talking about anything that may have happened that day. The World Cup takes place at June eleventh two July nineteenth in the United States of America, Canada and Mexico. If you live in New Jersey and you want to take the train to the game, because they’re not allowing this is real. This is a big thing in New Jersey.

So you can’t park at the stadium, Okay, you can’t take a ride share to the stadium. There’s a train. For a while that they were charging one hundred and fifty dollars for the train. Yeah, and now they’ve cut that to like I think like one hundred and ten dollars a summer. It’s still over one hundred dollars to go basically a mile and a half, but there’s no other way to get to the stadium.

I’m so annoyed the World Cup finally comes to basically in my backyard and there’s no way to get there. I might get down a Philadelphia for a game. I digress. James Cordon, the host of FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six. After Hours on Fox with James Corden, said soccer is a massive part of my life.

It really feels like now is an incredible time for North America to be hosting this tournament, and we’re really going to try and have some fun. Michael Strahan asked Cordon why he wanted to work for Fox. Cordon said, because they got the rights of the games. I can’t stress this enough. If they didn’t have the rights of the games, I’d do the show on the network that did.

Boy, the amount of stuff I’m bumping from this program lately. Let’s check in with a friend of the show, Jason Zinneman. He writes for The New York Times. He was out in la and caught John Mulaney and wrote John Mulaney’s New Hour range from kids’ birthday parties to sweeping takes on our political mood. I played do that RFK impression the other day.

Zinniman rights, there’s a sarcastic register in John Mulaney’s toolkit that is deepened with age. In his New Hour, he’s often lingered in this rye voice, building arguments with it, adding absurdity upon absurdity, and so the ironic distance seems to shrink, and his tone became less smirky than coherent and righteous. It’s one of the many small miracles of form that explain why John Mulaney is setting the pace and stand up right now. As a precocious performer, he could seem older than he was getting laughs of that incongruity. Now he is a distinctive age appropriate voice as a persicone, cranky and aloof Dad.

Milani is in a topical of personal comic, but he dabbles in both getting laughs out of hot takee premises like why old people shouldn’t vote, quoting m’lini, why would you order for the table if you were about to leave the restaurant? But his greatest strength here is as a sharp, hilarious cultural critic. Zinneman also wrote about rising stars at the festival, pointing out they tend to be hungrier, harder working, and funnier. Friend of the show Jason Zinneman was impressed by Megan Gailly, who opened for Anthony Jesslinik. Gailly made a case for Charles Barkley as the Democrat’s best hope for president, and had a funny joke about men who won’t shut up about their colonoscopies, which makes me laugh because I, uh, earlier today was atty whatever the colon oskwey doctor is called, and my friend called and I texted her back and I’m like, can’t talk.

And then on the way home we were talking colonoscopies, So yeah, I feel you. Megan Zenneman also liked Sophie Buttle at the Hollywood Improv. Jason tells us Sophie waited into a joke that mentioned transgender people, then pause to wonder if it would be amusing if she became as obsessed with the subject as Chappelle is her quote, I’m not famous enough to have opinions that crazy, but if I get famous, I’m gonna start an even bigger fight with an even smaller group of people. Oh and we are getting so long today, let’s wrap this up, John, Okay. Heather Shaw has announced her debut special, all Right Sea, We’ll come out on YouTube today.

In all Right Sea, Heather Shaw tackles everything from gay bars and Caitlyn Jenner to pop culture and more. That’s Heather Shaw’s all Right Sea Out Today on YouTube. Friend of the show, Dylan from the Facebook group has probably watched it twice by the time I even get out of bed. If you like this program without commercial interruption, open up the Apple podcast app. Click the banner.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Madison Sinclair, Shane Gillis, Tony Hinchcliffe, Chelsea Handler, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart Roast Cut Jokes Controversy
• George Floyd Jokes at Roast Backlash
• Tony Hinchcliffe Roast Criticism
• Late Night Television Future Defense
• Strike Force Five Panel Discussion
• Cheryl Underwood Defends Roast Comedy Standards

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Boy, it’s busy. I thought I’d lead off with Strikeforce five today, but nope, the roast is still the hot topic. We will get to Strikeforce five in a minute.

Starting with the roast. There were many many stories about jokes that were cut from the roast for one reason or another. I will do my best to share them with you. Variety caught up with writer Madison Sinclair, who was one of the writers hired to make jokes for the various actors, musicians, and comics who participated in the roast of Kevin Hart. Variety has these broken out by topics.

Is unclear who hypothetically would have said the joke about the subjects, so we’ll do it by subject. For a subject as Draymond Green, someone might have said, Draymond Green is a lot like Megan Feet Stallion. They’re famous for letting other people shoot, and he hasn’t been the same since Klay Thompson Laft. Draymond is so cute. He has that thing where his mouth is always a little open.

That’s one of the things he and Chelsea have in common. That’s pretty good. Actually. New topic. Lizzo Lizo broke barriers when she danced as a stripper and hustlers, mostly because they weren’t properly enforced.

That’s funny, funny. New topic Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis only lasted two weeks in basic training. The closest he’s come to becoming a veteran is his views on Asians. Now, that’s very funny, but it would assume general knowledge on the audience as to why that is funny if you don’t know.

Shane Gillis was hired to be on SNL and they dusted off some jokes from his podcast, and then he was unhired from SNL way back when another one not as good. Shane turned down doing the Rion Comedy Festival because he has integrity and he can’t go forty eight hours without a drink. New topic. Tony Inchcliff. Tony has the license plate I Roast, which is what we all hope for every time he gets behind the wheel.

Wow, Tony is like Milania. The only thing relevant about him is that he opened for Trump once. That’s a great joke. New topic, Chelsea Handler. You might know Chelsea for being on e for over a decade.

She also had a famous talk show for a while. See that’s good, that’s a nice harmless. That’s great, that’s a perfect joke. I like these. New topic.

Kevin Hart. Kevin is one of the few comedians without a single allegation. When he found out about the me too movement, he was shocked. He was like, people are saying no to things. Fantastic joke.

Did you know that Kevin actually has a nonprofit for organ donation called Heartless. That’s not true, but doesn’t that sound like some dumb stuff he would do. If Kevin can make a pun with the word heart in it, he’ll spend millions to develop a crappy business around it. Kevin, thank you so much for being here tonight. I know you have such a busy schedule with stand up movies sitting on that shelf every Christmas.

Kevin, I was so disappointed when you did the Rion Comedy Festival because on a human rights level, no one should be forced to listen to your comedy sober. I love these, Kevin. You are so talented, but you are the worst cheater with your bild. I assumed you’d be better at sneaking around. Kevin Hart is such a sellout, even his sex tape at commercial breaks, Kevin Hart is always on the worst platforms Quibi Toby, the ones he puts on when he argues with his wife.

Kevin said he was only joking what he said. He would throw a dollhouse at a gay child. But we invited Tony Chcliff here tonight just to make sure. Kevin, why are always hooking up with women in cars? If you wanted to cheat and get away with it, you should have gone somewhere desolate and no man’s land, somewhere no one would ever go by any means necessary, like Harthouse on Librea fantastic.

Let’s give a nice plug to Madison Sinclair, who will be at the Looney Bin in Tulsa on May fourteenth and May sixteenth at the Dallas Comedy Club. Now, a lot of people on the internet are upset about some of the jokes at the roost. I don’t think they understand what a roast is. On the Charlie Kirkshow, producer Blake Neff weighed in. He said on today’s show, we discussed Pete Davison’s joke about Charlie’s death while roasting Tony Inchcliff might take.

I didn’t like it, and I’m glad the audience wasn’t into it. But there were other jokes we’ve seen that are clearly a lot more hateful and intent than Pete’s, and a few bad taste jokes about Charlie. At the price we have to pay for how iconic he has become an American culture TMC. He reports the family and friends of George Floyd were upset at the Floyd joke that Tony Hinchcliffe made. TMZ says, George’s family and friends feel like Kevin Hart should have told Tony to stay off the topic of nothing else, and they’re baffled and disgusted by Tony’s apparent obsession with telling George Floyd jokes.

During the Tom Brady roast, Hinchcliff joke that Rob Gronkowski looked like the final Boss in George Floyd the video game, TMZ says quotes were told. George’s family and friends feel Tony is a quote racist comedian unquote double unquote, and they’re wondering how Kevin would feel about these jokes if one of his friends died instead of George. Cheryl Underwood was on TMZ Live. She defended the Rock’s use of the R word, arguing that Rose comedy has its own rules. She said the context brought the room together, especially given past discourse about the Rock’s identity.

She emphasized that political correctness doesn’t always fit in with comedy, noting roasts or spaces to tackle uncomfortable issues with humor. More about the roast tomorrow. All right, the Strike Force five guys. They are Sai Myers, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Stephen Colbert. They were all on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Steven said Late Night is in a bit of a weird spot right now spoiler alert, and people are questioning its future. He then asked the other host to make a case for Late Night. Jimmy Kimmel said, I would say, I look at the figures and the fact of the matter is more people are watching late night television now then, and I know everybody gets crazy than when Johnny Carson was on. Obviously, Johnny Carson had a lot of people watching one show, but we have a lot of shows with thirty thousand people watching each one. It adds up.

People watch us on YouTube now, and people have a lot of different opinions, and yet they still keep coming to us. Kimmel and John Oliver then asked why would that question even be asked. Kim Will asked, Colbert, like Ryan Seacrest doesn’t get asked about the Wheel of Fortune or whatever the hell he’s hosting. Oliver agreed and said I would actually like to hear Ryan SeaQuest defend Wheel of Fortune. If someone’s next to me saying defend Wheel of Fortune’s right to exist, I’m going to be leaning forward waiting for what he says.

Jimmy Fallon waited in and said Late Night is one of those things that’s been around our whole lives where it kind of is just part of our lives. I never thought it was a job when I was growing up. I just thought Johnny Carson came with the television set. People want to go to sleep, having a good laugh and go to bed happy. Kim Will jumped on that and said, but not before Seth Fellon agreed, wake back up for Seth’s show.

Then Seth Myers said, if I were making my case for Late Night, it would be that the leaders of the free world are watching it when it airs with all the hosts there, Colbert joke John Stewart is the designated survivor tonight someone asked to survive for the President to be mad at great joke, Colbert said, would it be great if John had to do all our eulogies? Some other jokes. Kim Will said, I figured out why you lost forty million dollars, Steve, and there’s too many in your band. Colbert wondered if he would get kicked out of the Strike Force five if he doesn’t have a show. Seth Meyer said, you’re out.

It’s Strikeforce four. It breaks our heart, but it’s like jerrymandering. Nobody likes it. But once the court’s rule. Kim Old tagged that with don’t worry, give me a few months and it’ll be Strikeforce three.

Kim Old talked about when he had his own troubles and said, I’ll tell you when I got knocked off the air for a few days, people canceled Disney Plus. He then turned to the audience and said, why are are you people canceling Paramount Plus? Oh? Because you didn’t have it in the first place. John Oliver stood up for his potential new bosses and said, Jimmy, until a deal goes through, I could just do a counter to that.

Paramount Plus might have some good programming, unless it doesn’t go through, in which case you can go f itself. There will be a new podcast episode of Strike Force five out today. I had to put the feedback on my phone. I had cleared that out. Episode thirteen will benefit Chef jose Andre’s World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit that provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate and community crisises around the world.

On Late Nighter dot Com, Bill Carter wrote, the affection among this group was on utterly convincing display Monday Night. The group long ago shattered the old Late Night President that competition had to resemble Game of Thrones. The banter was funny and charming, but a little concern about the future was always haunting the conversation, Bill Carter writes, And as these five talented men traded drives in stories like old college friends, drawing laughs from the audience and from one another, it only underscored how separate, sadly separate, Trump and his entourage are from some of the best time people can have watching television. Late night shows are entertaining. They always have been, They still are unless you literally can’t take a joke.

Send your letters to Bill Carter. Gossip Connor whispers in the street gossip con probably buppy gossip conn Aware the rumors meet with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. Gossip Connor whispers this tree, gossip Corn probably gossip Cone. Where the rooms me with Johnny mactowy a tree? Real question?

Do you ever find yourself singing that? I find myself walking around the house with that stuck in my head. It is super catchy. On Gossip Corner? Is Carrie Underwood mad at Nikki Glaser?

People think there was tension on the set of American Idol when Nikki Glaser recently showed up. One person on social media said, Carrie, no matter how talns it, ever since I saw her on American Idol, I picked up a really cold vibe. Another person said the tension between Carrie and Nicki is killing me. Mary Underwood said there is no beef between the pair. She says, I think Nikki did such a great job because it’s not an easy thing to come sit behind that desk and try to think of constructive things to say.

And I don’t know. I feel like she did everything wonderfully. But no, there’s no beef. I have no beef. Johnny Mac, you never mentioned Kevin Hart.

I know Kevin Hart. This is going to shock you, guys. He’s got another gig. He’s making yet another movie. Famous director Mick Gee has teamed up with Kevin Hart for a high concept action comedy.

This will be for Netflix. In untitled project, two rival spies cross paths at a lama’s class as their wives become friends. With their double lives colliding in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways, the two men are forced to reluctantly become confidants and partners on the roads of fatherhood. Are you looking forward to untitled movie? Yeah, well, there’s also a we’ll talk about this later in the week, another Kevin Hart Netflix movie, and that also stars Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing.

Well. It’s called seventy two Hours. That’ll be on Netflix July twenty fourth. My friend Larry the Cable Guy’s got a new show. It’s called American Mayhem, a new first run syndicated series that will launch this fall.

In American Mayhem, Larry the Cable Guy brings his signature Heartland humor to a fast paced collection of the funniest and most relatable clips from across the country. With his blue collar sensibility and deep roots in American culture, Larry the Cable Guy brings instant authenticity and comedy to every clip, turning every day chaos into a celebration of real people, real places, and copyrighting rule of three Real American Mayhem. From backyard mishaps and weekend DIY disasters to pets stealing the spotlight and celebrations that don’t go quite as planned, Larry Guy’s viewers through the lighter side of life, turning everyday moments into shared laughter. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, If you use the Apple podcast app, there’s a matter there.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Kevin Hart, Kat Williams, Pete Davidson, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Burr, Steve Trevino, Nikki Glaser, Ali Wong, Sarah Silverman, Noah Wyle, Adam Sandler, Josh Johnson, Dan Soder

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s RFK Jr. impression at Night of Too Many Stars
• Night of Too Many Stars benefit concert featuring celebrity band performance
• Kevin Hart Roast reactions and lack of star power
• Kat Williams roast performance and Kevin Hart beef
• Matt Rife homophobic material controversy at Night of Too Many Stars
• Josh Johnson HBO special announcement
• Dan Soder first Netflix comedy special announcement
• Pete Davidson Netflix show with John Mulaney guest appearance

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hitter. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Company and Hews. We’ll talk more about the roast of Kevin Hart later in the front half of the podcast.

Let’s talk about John Maliney.

He was at the Night of Too Many Stars and busted out an impression of RFK Junior. I will share with you a couple out its here for both pacing and the language. Five and a half years sober. I was very excited about that, very nice. I’m still not allowed to have more than two hundred dollars cash on me at any time.

Two hundred dollars is an agreed upon a mount between my wife and I after a lot of trial and error. Thank you all for coming to a Night of Too Many Stars. How what this is is the best benefit I’ve done since Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s river Keepers benefit ten years ago. Robert F.

Kennedy Junior was in charge of a group called the Riverkeeper. If you don’t know Bobby, and I know him at Bobby, that’s how much he shouldn’t be in the government. I know him. He’s comedy adjacent. You know he’s married to that woman from Curb Your enthusiasm and cheets on are like a dog, but he likes to be around comedy people.

Sorry for the pearl clutch here the West Side, people who know exactly what I’m talking about, trying to drop that public domain information on the Hollywood Bowl. Robert Kenny was in charge back when I lived in New York. He was in charge of a thing called the river Keepers. They were in charge of keeping the Hudson River clean. That was his job.

That’s how good he is at jobs. His old job was. Keeping the Hudson River, whose native fish is tied off used condom clean. I’m in charge of your bones and your dummy. Your thing can’t be of measles?

Did you get the measles? Did you read the cardiffs from me? Do you like having the musals very much? You don’t? No, Bobby Jr?

What have we gone? Oursevenjo? My father was in public service. Father’s not a good word for you, dude. Try dad anyway.

My father was a good man, and I’m a very bad man guy. Look at my gatorade, green eyes, my skin like snake. Can I be in charge of the way you feel in your body? Welie Entertainment had somebody at the Night of Too Many Stars, they said. The one sour note of the evening was Matt Rife’s homophobic material about a time a sewer he believed was attracted to him hu the collective Eyeroll, they write.

Among other things that happened at the Night of Too Many Stars was a band of sorts Conan O’Brien on guitar and vocals on Stewart on the drums, Jimmy Kimmel on the bass clarinets, and Star of Love on the spectrum, Abby Romeo on vocals. They performed as the Very White Stripes. I’ll give you just a little bit of it because it’s a little hard on the years, guys, But here’s what that sounded like. Night of Too Many Stars also featured appearances by Bill Burr, Steve krowt Ron Funches, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Hattish Lee and Morgan, Bob Odenkirk, Matt Rife, dramatic actor Adam Sandler, Comedy Survivor winner Sarah Silverman, Ali Wong, and dramatic actor Noah Wiley. Interestingly, I haven’t seen anything about the Chappelle shows from the Netflixes of Joe Comedy Festival you know, three shows, nothing out, no clips, nobody’s writing anything about it.

That’s a little odd. Pete Davidson recorded his low budget television show for Netflix his guest John Mulaney. They discussed being girled ads. Pete Davidson said his five month old daughter, Scottie Rose is quote so cute and chunky. Catching up on some items from last week.

It’s been super busy. I am excited for this one. Josh Johnson will have a special on HBO May twenty second, Josh Johnson Symphony will err on HBO Max at h pm. HBO says the special highlights the comedian’s unique point of view and signature creativity, as Josh Johnson reflects on strange childhood experiences, the perils of being labeled nice, challenging family dynamics, and navigating life’s most awkward moments, leading the audits to laughter the way a conductor guides musicians relax. Josh Johnson Symphony showcases the comedian’s humor, warmth, and relatability to offer a truly original and unforgettable experience.

Josh Oshel puts out an hour of new stand up material every Tuesday on his YouTube channel. Dan Soder is getting his first Netflix comedy special. He will tape a June thirteenth at the Throckmorton Theater in San Francisco, OH Variety tells us Soda is a comics comic whose sharp, observational style and affable demeanor has earned him a strong reputation on the club circuit. You may know Dan Soder from the TV series Billions. Okay, onto the roast.

I’m still reflecting on it, and there’s a good thread in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. When I posted my thing on Sunday night, I was like, I wonder if people are gonna say like I was just wrong on it, But it seems like I’m not. It seems like people agree with me that the roast could have been better. I’m still stunned at how lack of star power. That’s not good English, but how lack of star power the roast of Kevin Hart was a few people did show up after I went to bed.

One of them, Kat Williams. Kat said, I’m surprised they invited me. That’s how little star power you have. They had to start inviting your enemies. I said, I hate him, and they said, come anyway, there’s a joke in there, but there may be some truth in there anyway.

I mean just stunning that people like Where’s Chappelle? And I was pointing out in the Facebook group, maybe Nikki Glaser was smart to run away from this thing. Here’s a quick clip of Cat. But I want to be clear, just because Kevin went to didty parties does not mean he did something wrong. The fact that he gets all flag when you bring it up, that means he did something wrong.

Now, please understand, I can’t just like play endless audio here, So I’m gonna tell you some Ofkat William’s jokes. Both you and I would rather hear Kat Williams tell these jokes. I get it, But just understand, I can’t just sit here and be like, and here’s Kat Williams said, Here’s Pete Davison said, it doesn’t work that way. My phone would ring. Some of the jokes Cat Williams said, which were obviously told way better by Kat Williams.

Kevin, You’re gonna hear some things tonight. Those are called punchlines. Fantastic writing there. That is great. Is this the best the industry could put together?

I’m not sure if the Illuminati is real, or if this is the junior for our City version. But for those of you just joining us, Kevin and I have beef, and I’ll tell you what because privately, this mfor stole everything from me. Before he saw my act. He was a six foot three white man, great writing, fantastic Next. Yes, I said some things I’d like to take back.

Some things were misunderstood. I said Kevin was a Hollywood puppet. What I mean was the head of Netflix literally had his hand up Kevin’s ass telling him what to do. One word Kevin doesn’t say in his act, which starts with an N. No.

I could go on all night hating on Kevin Art. I’ve perfected it. But the end of the day you have to look in the mirror and say, do I really want to have beef with the rabbit Snowball from the Secret Life of Pets two? Yes? I do.

The few It goes back to twenty twenty four. Cat Williams accused Kevin Hard of being an industry plant and stealing movie rolls from him. Cat told Kevin Kevin, I’ve won an Emmy Award, but this is going to be my best acting tonight, Is I pretend like you’re a goat for the people at home. You’re wondering, why’s the cat man doing this for the money? Bitch?

This is my Riyadh Comedy Festival, only one with a soul. Kevin Art responded and said, Kat, I can sit, I can watch, I can laugh because I’m a fan first. Cat, we have an opportunity, in real time, this is live television, to put our beef behind us. I’m offering you an eye olive branch of peace. I want to be a brother, I want to be a friend.

Cat. I want to move on. Can we move on from Pete? Davidson said again, I can’t just play like eight minute chunks of everybody. Pete went after Tony Hinchcliff, saying, Tony Hinchcliff’s here looking like both the child molester and the doll they give the child the show where he touched them.

Pete in a little bit of hot water over this one, Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk and then he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat. Here’s some audio from Tony Hinchcliff’s set. I’ve made a few edits for language and taken out a couple jokes because I don’t want to get canceled. Everything got to go in context, and I can’t just let this roll. Like Bill Cosby, Hart is a black comedian from Philadelphia, and like Bill Cosby, women don’t know when Kevin is inside of them.

You’ve done good, though, Kevin. The black community is so proud of you. Right now. George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard that he can breathe. The Rock showed up and said Kevinhart’s wife deserves an Academy Award for pretending she likes to clean it up have sex with you.

Some people were paying attention to the dunam between Chelsea Handler and Shane Gillis Parade Magazine, which is like as mainstream as it gets. Shane said, Chelsea Handler went to dinner Jeffrey Epstein’s house in twenty ten. Look it up the articles. It wasn’t like it was a big party. There were like seven people there was like Prince Andrew and Woody Allen were there also in his set, Shane said Chelsea as a Zionist.

When Chelsea got up, she said, Shane, just you know Judaism and Zionism are two different things, just like how Chinatown and Koreatown are two different things, but your favorite slurware works in both places. You may recall the clip from Shane Gils’s podcast where he used some anti Asian slurs, leading him to be fired from SNL. Remember Shane Gillis was going to be in the SNL cast. Now. As for the Epstein accusations, Chelsea has addressed this herself in the past.

She told Rob Low on the Rob Low Podcast. I did go to dinner a Jeffrey Epstein’s house. I didn’t know who Jeffrey Epstein was. I went with Katie Couric, Woody Allen and Sunny Previn were there. Charlie Rose was there.

Oh yeah, Prince Andrew was there. One social media user said there was some serious animosity between Chelsea Handler and the entire roast cast hmmm on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube page. Today, Nish Kumar’s Nish Don’t Kill My Vibe. Netflix has announced that Ali Kats, the new original fifteen minute adult animated comedy series from Ricky Gervais, we’ll premiere on Netflix August seventh. The series cast includes Ricky Gervais and Diane Morgan some leftover news.

Comedian Bill Bailey had good things to say about King Charles underestimated skills. Bill Bailey was receiving his MBE and praised King Charles wit and comedy. You may recall the King was pretty entertaining when he visited America recently. Bailey said, the comments were witty, was beautifully measured, and it sort of shows that actually comedy is a way of getting under the radar a little bit. It’s got a mercurial quality to it.

I think King Charles is underestimated as a speaker. I think he’s always been a great speaker, but I think the state visit really showed off that side of it was very well conceived and thought through. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll catch you tomorrow.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Shane Gillis, Tom Brady, Jeff Ross, Chelsea Handler, Pete Davidson, Lizzo, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, David Letterman, John Mulaney, Bruce Hornsby, Ricky Gervais

What’s in This Episode

• The Roast of Kevin Hart review and analysis
• Kevin Hart’s media company Heartbeat facing layoffs and restructuring
• Strike Force Five reunion on Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• Stephen Colbert’s final two weeks as Late Show host
• David Letterman guest appearance on Late Show
• Bruce Hornsby’s Indigo Park album praise from John Mulaney
• Ricky Gervais donates to donkey charity

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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, I guess we only answer to you why they didn’t promote the lineup for the Roast of Kevin Hart. I am Johnny Mackam recording this at nine pm, where I just turned the Roast off during Lizzo. Now, if the rest of the night was amazing and there were surprises, then they didn’t structure the show correctly because that first hour. Boy, I feel tired from watching it.

I kind of wanted to turn it off half an hour ago. Maybe it got better. I got some notes for you here. Shane Gillis came out. Shane’s material probably better than the crowd reacted to.

It a tough room for Shane. He wound up eating it a little bit. He opened up and did about a minute or so. I did pull some clips. Now, just assume for any clip that I played during today’s podcast that I have made edits for language, lots of F bombs, and we don’t like to do that on this program.

But here’s a little bit of Shane Gillis. Welcome to the Roast of Kevin Hart, live in Los Angeles. Where we’re yeah, where we’re here to celebrate a guy we used to like in a city that was once important. Kevin will be out in a minute. I’m sure he’s backstage shadow boxing or doing a group prayer or whatever he does.

I’m your extremely white host, Shane Gillis, Yeah, white hosts pick up laws. All right. I’d just like to thank Netflix for choosing me to host this celebration of black excellence. Look, I’m not saying there’s a lot of black people here tonight, but backstage, a production assistant asked me what color drank I want in my dressing room. Chose purple.

You can even hear in my deliverism doing the podcast, Like, I just don’t have the energy to be excited about this at all. So after Shane Usher came out and sang Kevin, it was just like overacting, like fake outraged. It was almost like wrestling, like, oh, I can’t believe you’re bashing me at the roast, Like yeah, no kidding. It just felt very very lame. Kevin Hart got up there and said it would be better than the roast of Tom Brady.

That ain’t true. I’m gonna tell you right now, it’s gonna be way better than the Tom Brady, gross, way better, way better. The reason why is because I’m not a bitch. Tom is a bitch. Tom sat there in the.

Whole time with the white man face, went on radio stages after what anything me? I gat believe, and then in the leadoff position, Tom Brady came out. I thought that was a weird choice. Here’s a little bit of Tom Brady. I do have a few words for you before I returned to my affairs in Las Vegas.

Oh wait, I’m talking about affairs in Las Vegas. Was that off? I’m not supposed to talk about affairs in Vegas. I think I broke another rule. One line I did like was Brady ripped the dais saying it wouldn’t be a Kevin Hart project unless it was a crappy sequel.

I mean, no star power at all. Chelsea Handler and Pete Davidson, Tony Hinchcliffe and those were the big names. I mean, I’m just not feeling this thing at all. All right, Shane comes back out, does a longer set here, and I think he kind of ate it again. But I did like this line.

We’re all here to honor Kevin Hart, and what a better way to do that than to take a paycheck while pretending to have fun. Shane did get in some good shots about Kevin Hart playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Shane said he himself turned down the Riyadh Comedy Festival to honor the brave firefighters who lost their lives that day, Right, Pete, that was kind of a nice job. Jeff Ross comes out, it’s already eight twenty six and the energy’s out of the room in my opinion, by the time Jeff Ross comes out. He came out dressed in an Eddie Murphy’s style red outfitted to the music of axel f.

Here’s a little Jeff Ross. We’ve been friends a long time, but the world first fell in love with you when Michael Jackson dangled you over that balcony. Jeff had a couple quick riffs, he said, Kevin put the elf in Philadelphia. He also called him Eddie Smurphy. Jeff’s set was pretty strong.

He also had a joke about Pete Davidson only banging nines and eleven’s. I like that one a lot. The next person up was Niam Win, not exactly a household name. Mister Wynn explained he has a show on bet thought the material was pretty good, but it was already eight thirty seven at that point, and I hadn’t been really laughing all that much. I was just kind of like, okay, Winn did ask where Dave Chappelle was good.

Point Chelsea Handler was next. She was good, but I thought her set was really long, and then Lizzo came out. During Lizzell, I was like, you know what, I’m tired. I’m not feeling this and I don’t feel like chasing this thing to eleven o’clock. Sometimes you just have to punt.

So maybe you all disagree. Maybe the rest of the night got more amazing, and I’ll be eating crow on Tuesday’s podcast. But as I speak to you at nine five pm Sunday night, not feeling the roast of Kevin Hart at all. Very interesting though, that, like who didn’t come? You know, some of those names that I had thrown out speculating on Sunday’s program, and you know, and people not showing up for Kevin.

I don’t know what to make of that. Another thing that caught my eye on Sunday, Bloomberg dropped an article just like I saw it on social media, like an hour before the roast of Kevin Hart. The headline inside a year of chaos and conflict at Kevin Hart’s media company. Now to drop this on a Sunday is a choice. Please understand that that’s a choice, Lucas Shaw writes.

When Kevin Hart announced in January that he’d licensed his name to Authentic Brands Group, the popular comedian was silence on a key detail, the future of his name’s media company. Skipping around the article, Heart’s employees say they worry that the deal marks the beginning of the end of Heartbeat. Once valued at about six hundred and fifty million dollars, Heartbeat has shriveled over the past few years. The company enacted its latest round of job cuts in December, firing the heads of its scripted TV division, as well as employees working across marketing, social media, and brand partnerships. The article then walks through several acquisitions and people leaving the company.

The article ends telling us about an email sent by Kevin Hart’s assistant, in which Kevin Hart says, I know the past few months have been tough, and Kevin apparently added that for too long the company had been too dependent on him. The email was said to be signed by Kevin aka boss Man, as I said, interesting timing to drop that on a Sunday afternoon. That is a choice. Stephen Colbert, now into his last two weeks, Tonight should be a really good episode. He will interview Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers, and John Oliver.

That’s right, Strikeforce five is reuniting. You may recall those gentlemen during the sag AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes did the Strike Force five podcasts together. Proceeds from that podcast went towards supporting the crew members of the respective shows. I guess it all works out. Kimmel Intown for the upfronts, Jimmy Fallon already in New York City, Seth Myers, and John Oliver already in New York City.

So should be a good Late Show tonight. The original host of The Late Show, David Letterman, will be Stephen Colbert’s guest on May fourteenth, which is Thursday. From jimbands dot Com, You’re home for Jimband News. John Mulaney calls Bruce Hornsby’s Indigo Park the best album of the year. Now, if you’re listening to the other day, when my dog came by and the dog wanted to go for a walk.

I went for a walk and listened to Indigo Park. Based on John Mlanie’s suggestion, it’s not the best album of the year, but it’s pretty good. It is sonically interesting. I kind of like that Bruce Hornsby under sings it. The first two tracks the last track are really good and there’s one with North Carolina in the title that are really good.

The rest of the album is hit and miss, but it really goes for it. A donkey charity has named a newborn fall after Ricky Gervais. Ricky Gervas donated one hundred thousand British pounds to help Safe Haven for Donkeys. Save Haven for Donkeys was one of twenty two animal charities that benefited from Ricky Gervay’s Christmas donations over two and a half million British pounds. Save Haven for Donkeys cares for working donkeys in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Egypt.

They’ve been treating thousands of donkeys in the Gaza strip, where a lack of fuel has forced people to rely on donkeys as their main form of transport. A tiny foal named Jervaise was born at the charity sanctuary in Israel on April nineteenth. Jervy’s mother, Deborah, was found abandoned in southern Israel in September and was around two years old and was seven months pregnant when found. A local woman contacted Safe Haven for Donkeys. The charity transported at Deborah to their sanctuary in Israel.

Andy Foxcroft is the chief executive of Safe Haven and said, Jervaise the donkey is full of life at already showing off her first teeth. She’s brought so much joy to the team and as a tiny symbol of hope this world Donkey Day, Debora could have given birth alone after being abandoned. Instead, she was safe, watched over and cared for in Jerves has had the start every full deserved. Now some more donkey facts. The sanctuary team had hoped that Theodora, another rescue donkey and a companion of Debora, might act as an aunty to the new arrival.

You see in the wild, new mothers sometimes accept help from another female donkey. Theodora initially stayed close by Zebra and Jervase. However, Debra seems to prefer caring for Jerves on her own. Billboard put out the list of top comedy tours for March twenty twenty six. Great Davies at number five, seven shows, thirty seven seven hundred tickets grossed two and a half million dollars.

Number four John m’laney did fourteen shows, thirty one thousand, three hundred tickets, three point one million gross. Bert Kreischer thirteen shows, fifty four thousand, six hundred tickets, grossed three point seven million. Number two Naprighatzy off of number one. This month he was number two. Eight shows grossed four point six million across fifty six thy nine hundred and who’s He’s making more money than anybody.

You can hate all you want. Matt Raife did seven shows, sold ninety three thousand, three hundred tickets and grossed eight point three million dollars. Here’s an email I say from a week ago. Remember I told you that just for laughs, decided to announce a bunch of shows during Netflix week. Not sure that was the best strategy, but hey, I love those guys and we can get to it now.

They’ve added a second show by Jerry Seinfeld. He’ll be at the Place day Arts, which is how you pronounce it. The six thirty show is sold out. The nine to thirty show has been added. Chris Fleming at Late National That’s how you pronounced it at seven o’clock, also on the twenty third Wow.

The twenty third’s where it’s at. Dan Soda will be a club Soda. That’s a good club. Been in it myself. Did I have a soda?

No? I had a beer. July twenty fifth, seven o’clock. Joel Kim Booster you know him from Scrubs now He’s also there on the twenty third seven o’clock at Studio TD. Two of the galas are sold out.

Otsko at Kotzka July twenty fourth at the Placed at Arts and Gabe Iglesias’s got La same venue on the twenty fifth are sold out to Jerry de Gala still tickets and the Mike Brobiglia Gala not yet sold out on the twenty fourth at six thirty. Hashtag Team Gianmarco Soresi Aresi snl UK has been renewed for season two. It’ll be back this fall and early twenty twenty seven, so more of a traditional schedule there. Twelve episodes have been ordered. Snl UK executive producer Loren Michaels said, I’m incredibly proud of our team in the show.

It keeps getting better every week. I’m grateful to Dana Strong and Sky for believing in and supporting snl UK. I’m excited for the season ahead. Diana Strong is the Sky CEO. The series started with two hundred and twenty six thousand viewers for episode one, hosted by Tina Fay.

Jack Whitehall had the lowest numbers of the season up until the time of this recording, with one hundred and nineteen thousand, five hundred and forty viewers. Boy, that’s like Seth Meyers Territory. Seems like the show settling in at around one hundred and forty thousand. However, on social media, the Prince Andrew cold open from episode two has two point four million views, and a cold open with King Charles and Queen Camilla has one point seven. Royal Family is where It’s at.

Everybody, good time to plug the Palace Intrigue podcast. We talk about the Royal Family twice every day and I’m the writer on that. Check that out. Diane Morgan, who some people think I have a crush on and I was thinking about this the other day let’s say I had a crush on Diane Morgan. Now, first of all, I’m married, But putting that aside, well, what do you even say to Diane Morgan?

Hi, I really like when you do kunk and I host a podcast in my basement. I have no game. Diane Morgan, who some people say I have a crush on, is getting ready for a BBC comedy Anne Droid, an n new word Droid get it, no premier day yet, but Anne Droid tackles AI in everyday life, exploring how far society will go and replacing people with tech and droid centers on an elderly woman and a humanoid care robot. You see, Sue’s husband David passed away eighteen months ago and her only son, Michael, is moving out to try and fix his marriage. But the good news is he got Sue a surprise to help her live in independently.

And that is a second hand Anne Droid Z fifty eight slash one hundred Basic elder Care robot played by Diane Morgan. Android is an overly attentive socially in pain in the arse, says the British copy, but she soon works out that she can use the Droids her benefit in settling scores and doing the things her son never gets around to. Diane Morgan is ann droid. I’ll watch. James Austin Johnson will be touring right after SNL wraps up the new season this weekend with Will Ferrell and musical guest Paul McCartney.

Is it Lauren’s farewell or is it just a really good host and a really good musical guest. We’ll find out. James Austin Johnson playing New York City, Dallas, Uncasville, Connecticut. That’s a casino, Red Hook, New York, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, four shows in various North Carolina’s, Philly, Indianapolis, Chicago, Richmond Heights, Missouri, Pittsburgh, and wraps it up in Nashville. I cannot imagine he will not be back for the new season of SNL.

Emily, she was a guest on this program. She’s gone viral. A video of a nurse springing into action when a patron passed out at Emily Canilano’s show has gone viral. In the clip, Emily Catilano asked an audience member what their occupation in ann Arbor was. The audience member said they were nurse.

Seconds later, a man passes out and falls to the ground. The nurse offered medical advice and called nine to one to one. Emily Catilano moved to the side, and the social media clip has added music from TV series The Pit to make it more dramatic. Catilano joked, I hate when people steal the attention away from me. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, gossip corn, probably about Pete.

Gossip conn where the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. Gossip Connor whispers this tree gossip cone probably gossip gone where the room is meeting with John mccot’s always a tree. Gossip corner is about Pete. Pete Davidson. Boy, I’m starting to think if you want to invest in stuff, don’t listen to Pete Davidson.

He’s trying to sell this house in Westchester. Reelzer dot com says Pete has decreased the asking price again. Weeks after elicited it for two point seven million dollars, He’s now dropped it by another one to twenty five. So if you would like to buy Pete Davidson’s home, it is now going for two point one point five million dollars. Fox is holding their upfronts today.

Bad news for Dennis Leary. Going Dutch was the lowest rated entertainment program at Fox. According to Deadline. However, Dennis Leary is well liked internally, so they thought about renewing the lowest rated entertainment program at Fox. But Sanner has prevailed and no more Going Dutch.

You may recall, or you probably don’t, because no one watched this thing. Dennis Leary played US Army Colonel Patrick Quinn, who was reassigned to the Netherlands, where he was punished with a command position at the least strategic army base in the world. Of course, it worked out that his daughter, Captain Maggie worked there. Shockingly, not renewed. To better news for Joel McHale, Animal Control will come back.

If you’re joning for comedy festivals, The Boston Fringe Festival kicks off tonight. Forty acts around the city during this week. Not just stand up, they will also be clowning, magic and musical parody. Co founder Debbie Jondie said, Boston is such a huge comedy scene in comedy community, but we do allocate space for musicals and specifically for like variety shows, magic or something that’s different. Comedy is the most specific slots, but we did make sure to keep a variety, so we’re not just doing a comedy festival.

The co founder said they haven’t seen any of the acts except for the two that they’re doing, so outside of those two, we have no idea what’s coming that’s fun. I’m still picking away. At this Deadline interview with the Netflix of Folks, I saved some of the stuff that was not a festival related for this week. Deadline asked head of Comedy Robbie pra why we’ve seen a dwindling of projects like Verified stand Up, which served as a showcase for young stand ups. Robbie Pros said, the honest answer is it’s tough to get the viewership.

When we did the stand ups the first season of it, I think it’s eight or nine year years ago, the numbers were massive and if you look who was on it, it was Naperghatzy, Nikki Glaser, Fortune Fimester, Dion Cole. But we quite frankly stop seeing great numbers for that. We want opportunities like that to be really winning for stand ups and if they’re not going to work on other ways of finding the opportunities. We ended up doing more freshman specials for people like Derek Stroup, and that’s how we’re getting it done now, less in the multi comic way. I think that’s all fair.

Deadline asked what’s the importance of comedy to the company. Robbie pro said, the festival is a great example of a manifestation of that because you have people who maybe they did a Netflix special four years ago, maybe the last specials on YouTube or Hulu or Amazon or Hbo, but at the festivals, these things are still playing on Netflix. So I think it feels great that even when folks do projects somewhere else, to a lot of these artists, this still always feels like part of their home, which is a pretty cool thing. Deadline asked do you have any predictions for the comedy marketplace in the next three to five years. Robbie Pross said, I think it’s going to continue to be really strong.

We’ve seen the artists that are emerging. It’s pretty exciting. We used to talk years ago about is this a boom? I think comedy is just part of the culture. I think things ebb and flow.

I think comedy movies are going to come back in a big way. And that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Ron Taylor, Angela Johnson, Shane Gillis, Nikki Glaser, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, The Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx

What’s in This Episode

• Mystery guests for Kevin Hart Netflix roast special
• Netflix executives explain Kevin Hart selection for roast
• Funny AF comedy competition winner Ron Taylor interview
• Ron Taylor’s social media growth after competition win
• Ron Taylor’s material strategy in competition rounds
• Angela Johnson’s new special ‘Ugly Baby’ release

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians on the comedy industry. Now, I did tape this one Friday. It’s eleven forty nine am on Friday. There is no information about who is performing at the Kevin Art Roast, which is tonight.

I’ve checked the Netflix page, I’ve check Kevin Ort’s instagram. There is nothing. So I’m gonna wildly speculate here. Might we see some of the following people? The Rock?

I can see the Rock coming by and crushing. Could we see Eddie Murphy? Is that possible? Chappelle, Chris Rock? Right?

I think we would. I think Chris Rock. If Chris Rock did the Funny af Show, I think Chris Rock is possible. Jamie Fox Nikki Glaser said she wasn’t gonna do it, so all right, that’s on tonight. Johnny Mac will stay up late and cover that.

On Monday’s program, Deadline asked the Netflix executives, how did you land on Kevin Hart as your roast subject. Tracy Pecosta from Netflix said, I mean, look, Kevin is somebody who we clearly love it Netflix. He’s been part of the Netflix family for a long time and it just felt right and fun and different. Have Kevin be roasted this year at the festival. Robbie Prau, who heads Netflix Comedy, said, at a certain point when we were thinking about it, we were just like, Okay, we have this comedy festival.

Every single comedian is doing it and listen. Of course, we’ve had other ideas and other conversations over the last year, but when it came to it, when we finally had to make the final decision, we were like, which comedian can we ask? Kevin was the first person on our list on that front, and we were lucky to have said yes. And they’re just pairing that with Shane Gillis. We’re starting to look at some of the scripts and I think it’s magic and the people doing the roast.

It’s also going to be phenomenal. It’s also going to be a really special day. Let me just chime in again as my brain is just thinking about the list, like, I haven’t even seen that Jeff Ross is attached to this or Tony Inchcliff. I mean, they have to be right. I’m not sure why they’re going for the mystery.

The other explanation would be that they don’t have confidence in the events, so they’re not trying attention to it. I mean, we’ll know in a couple hours. Deadline talked about Funny AF Robbie Pros said, as somebody who came from the Just for Last Festival, that’s the sort of the world I lived in watching this show work and these comedians having an opportunity. You’re right, it’s very difficult in that landscape for that to happen. And quite frankly, back to your first question of why Kevin Hart, it’s because he’s singular in that way.

He came to us and was like, I want to do a show that gives comedians this opportunity, and even as you see the way that we approach the roast, it’s very stand up for it as well. The Coast has said, I agree when you say the discovery piece has been missing, giving the audience the opportunity to discover somebody, to get super passionate about them and watch that grow over time. When I watch Kevin on that show, you could sense the passion for it and a much who loves it. And I do think it’s contagious even for people that might not think they like watching that type of show. As I’ve said all week, I thought that was a very good version of such a show.

The winner was Ron Taylor, who did a lengthy interview with Vulture. How do you feel, Ron Taylor? Ron told them I don’t know. The dust hasn’t settled at all, but I can tell you how it feels right now. It’s pretty amazing.

I didn’t think it’d be as validating as it’s been, especially being able to do the competition then leave and go to the festival and be the comedy stores around a body, a bunch of friends. Everyone’s like, oh man, I always knew, and I’m like, that’s crazy, because I didn’t. The whole competition was very competitive. If this was a race, I stumbled quite a few times, and I was shocked when I recovered losing, not doing well, not getting the trophy. I’m used to that.

Everybody’s used to that. Winning was the part that I wasn’t used to. I’d planned for everything except winning. Good question. Have you seen your social media blow up because of the show?

Definitely. When the show first aired on Netflix, everybody in the competition’s followers went up and the longer you were in the competition, the more your followers continue to go up. I’ve had people I’ve followed for years I’m a big fan of reach out and chop it up with me, like we’ve known each other forever. They’re like, oh, man, I’ve been a fan of your work, and I’m like, really, I didn’t know you knew who I was. Good question.

Were you trying to save your best material for later rounds or did you think you had to do your best stuff at every step. I’m going to guess the latter. I haven’t read this ahead. Ron Taylor said, I feel like there were some people who blew out their best stuff early on, and there were some people who held onnesome stuff. I guess I felt more of the amp of holding on to stuff.

But that wasn’t my strategy, all right, I was wrong. I travel a lot, and I’m normally doing sixty minutes, so the time constrained of having five minutes made it hard to squeeze everything in. There were two times in the competition where I’d planned out three jokes and I was like, that should be about five minutes, but I didn’t get to my third joke, which was my closer, But when that happened and I moved on, I still had that joke. So coming in the semifinals and finals, I had these two great closures that have actually meant to do already. So I would have been the person to blow their best stuff early in the competition, were not for my poor time management skills.

Deadline did a good job on this interview. Next question, did do you approach your sets differently during the semifinals and finals knowing the public would be voting live? That is really smart, Ron Taylor said, I did. Actually. Throughout the whole competition.

We had appealed to the judges who’d been doing comedy forever. This is so smart. They were judging stuff like your approach, your confidence, your originality, how much they learned about you. But the people don’t care about any of that. They just want to laugh.

See my previous comments about comedy snobbery, Taylor said, we saw whoever got the most laughs seemed to be the people who moved forward to the finals. So coming in the finals, all right, I’m just doing the funny stuff. Of God. It might be dirty, it might be nasty, it might be low hanging fruit, and some of it is, but my job is to take low hanging fruit and put a smart twist on it. I was like, I’m just gonna say the wall of stuff I can which was the hardest round the roast by far.

I agree with that as a viewer because it was the only one for practical purposes that wasn’t stand up. Another great question, considering how much of your material you used on the show, do you have an hour ready to film or do you need to go work on it now? Great question, great Ron Taylor said, I definitely have to go work on it now, but that was part of the package of winning. I talked to Kevin after the show and he said, I’m gonna give you the opportunity to get on the road and get as many shots as you can in the gym so you can work this hour out and away. You couldn’t before the competition, so I’ll have the space and ability to create the best hour I can.

Now, even if I did an hour that was ready, I wouldn’t want to just turn around and throw it out there. I want to take the time to build this up the right way. Angela Johnson’s specialists out today. It’s called Ugly Baby. The La Times asked Angela, who’s the ugliest baby You’ve ever seen?

She said, Oh, I can tell you. A face popped into my head, but I’m not going to say it. I mentioned the show too, and every time I do the joke, I could see people in the audience got upset, and you see faces shift, you see people get uncomfortable. It’s like you’re not supposed to say certain things, and it’s not even that bad a thing to say some babies are ugly. She talked about joking with her family and does she ever run a material by her family.

She says, you know, I’ll try it first to see how I feel in my body doing said jokes, and if I start to feel little guilty, then I’ll run it by them, like, hey, I’m doing this joke about the one time you did this, and are you okay with it? Sometimes you’re like, yeah, say whatever, and it’s a green light. I actually can’t think of a time when anybody said no. Usually my family’s like, do it. That’s funny.

I will say in this hour, I do a whole piece on my mother in law, and I’ve talked about my mother in law and past special. She loves it. She laughs. She’ll even leave comments on the video. But for some reason, I’m nervous about this one.

I think she’s getting older and maybe a little more sensitive. I don’t want to think I’m making fun of her, because I’m definitely not. I’m just highlighting her little isms. Congratulations to Sinbad, who has returned to comedy for the first time since his stroke in twenty twenty. Sinbad data show at the Comedy ice House on April twenty nine.

He is another show tonight. On social media, Sinbad explained, I can’t walk since the stroke in twenty twenty, I haven’t been on stage. It’s just the beginning of me coming back. I’m so looking forward to these shows. I got so much to talk about.

I’m gonna be talking more trash than I ever did. His daughter is opening for him, and he’s excited for that because she talks more trash than I talk. Gossip. Connor whispersins changing gossip. Con probably gossip cone Quaver with me, Johnny mag salling the tree.

There’s a website called Naughty but Nice that I’m familiar with for my work on the Royal Family podcast Palace Intrigue, and they get a little out there but this caught my eye, they wrote, Naughty but Nice wrote, Jimmy Fallon strange Miami Grand Prix weekend had insiders whispering the same question, What was really going on? Naughty but Nice writes, Yes, the moment caught on camera Fallon biting the foam cover off Martin Brundle’s microphone during a chaotic Formula one grid walk was bizarre enough, but according to horses on the Ground, that awkward viral clip was hardly the full story. Insiders tell Naughty but Nice, the late night host had been acting off all weekend. Erradical late, usually tense, and increasingly difficult behind the scenes, an insider said it wasn’t just the mic incident. There was the moment everyone saw, but all weekend Jimmy was acting strangely.

He was off his game, running late, distracted, jumping, and hard to manage. Another source said people laugh because it looked like classic Jimmy clanning around, but behind the scenes people weren’t laughing. Something felt off. One minute, he was charming and switched on the next he was scattered and impossible. It made everyone uneasy.

Hmm. I quote unquote worked with Jimmy Fallon a few times back in the day, he’d come up and do Brewers Show and maybe some solo stuff too. Was always good. And have I shared this before, And maybe I have. It’s been a long time.

So at one point, someone use your imagination. Someone was sending me clips from Jimmy Fallon’s twelve thirty show and saying, go ahead and play them on the series channel. And I would get these clips from someone and I don’t know, I’d put him on a flash drive or something and tell my guys, you can play this once during the live show, and I would never enter at the computer. And I was totally confident that nobody from the twelve thirty show was going to ask me why we were playing clips from the twelve thirty show because of the source, because someone was sending them to me directly. Anyway, I’ve worked with Jimmy found a few times and always enjoyed him.

At the Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival Tonight, five o’clock, La Time, eight o’clock live on Netflix. It is the Roast of Kevin Hart, hosted by Shane Gillis. Who’s performing who knows I guess he was not performing? Is Nate Berghetzi because he’s performing at the Intuit Dome at that the exact same time.

Meanwhile, at eight West at the Greek Theater, it’s the Flight of the Concords.

Oh yeah, today’s the big Morselo hernandez show. He is headlining the biggest Spanish language comedy show ever to greace the Hollywood Bowl. The La Times asked Marcello, how do you think your family influenced your sense of humor? Marcelo HERNANDEZU, in my opinion, does one thing well, says I think you gotta be funny if your parents are divorced to my parents, getting divorced made me grow into an adult quicker. All my friends have divorced parents have a funny thing about them, because what’s more childish than being like, I can’t be with you anymore.

I’d call my dad like a grown up, pick me up at seven well of dinner, and then you’ll return me to my home because I have school in the morning. Marcelo, do you ever consult your family before writing jokes? He said? I think I did. My time, I earned the ability to say the stuff.

We’re always together. I would never want to make my family look bad for laugh. I don’t think that’s a smart way to play it. My mom has always gone on my shows and been like, what’s he gonna say? Now?

We have a great relationship. Something I love about immigrant families is that we have a pretty good sense of humor. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, because some parts of life are very serious. Skipping ahead, Marcello said, I’ve met a lot of famous people who are really successful but also super nice, generous and caring and inspires you to be better. The La times were like, who are those people for you?

Marcelo Hernandez said, Pedro Pascal has been a life changer in many ways. With that first sketch we did on SNL. I think Keenan Thompson was always so unreasonably helpful with me in the early days. Colin Jost was always really nice to me. Ago Nuodham was like a big sister to me on the show.

Kevin Hart also had big brother energy with me, and as the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival wraps up, you can go see more solo Hernandez at the Hollywood Bowl at seven Kevin Hart roasted five Nate Bergetzi at five Flight of the Concords at eight And those are all the shows tonight, no smaller shows as the festival wraps up. And that is your comedy news for today. Johnny Mac has to stay up late, but I will tell you Johnny Max is gonna record Monday’s episode with everything but the Kevin Hart stuff because I don’t like to stay up too late. Nick’s at three thirty today. Oh and Happy Mother’s Day everybody.

See tomorrow

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Bill Simmons, David Letterman, Stan Lathan, Matt Friend, Seth Rogen, John Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Eddie Murphy

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle’s Hollywood Palladium Netflix special and production chaos
• Louis C.K. return to comedy and ticket sales resurgence
• Matt Friend’s controversial Instagram posts from Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos’ star-studded comedy brunch
• Hilarity for Charity benefit show at the Greek Theater with Seth Rogen, John Stewart, and Sarah Silverman
• Seth Rogen and John Stewart’s criticism of Kanye West and his Hitler song
• John Stewart roasting RFK Jr. and LA politics at the benefit show

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Caloroga Shark Media, and are I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians, on the comedy industry, A sentence the algorithm loves, even if I can’t figure out how to get the crowd noise right in my new mix here. A couple of weeks ago, I cleaned up my computer and I accidentally deleted some stuff. And I’ve been trying to rebuild the way it used to sound, and I can’t figure it out. I digress. David Letterman was a guest on Bill Simmons podcast.

An unnamed Canadian Letterman expert texted me on the side, and I’m gonna violate the guy’s privacy right now, and he says, good stuff, builds it a good job. I will have to catch up with that at some point over the weekend. That’s David Letterman on the Bill Simmons Podcast. Page six took us inside Dave Chappelle’s epic Hollywood Palladium Netflix show, where even his closest collaborator didn’t know what Dave might say. Ooh, scary all right.

Page six tells us it was no small miracle that a show even happened. Given the climate of chaos and the days leading up to the big night, I don’t know what happened. Sources tell Page six Hollywood that no one, including Dave Chappelle’s longtime collaborator Stan Lathan, knew what material Dave Chappelle was going to perform. Page six says last week Chappelle tested material at pop ups in New York and before that in Chicago. A source says, Dave is really proud of these specials.

He wants to get the stuff right.

Meanwhile, Oh, do I have my phone?

I want to read you this now. I left my phone upstairs. Hold on, I got to I could just re record this, but no, I gotta tell you. James Adomian on Thread’s uh kicked Matt Friend in the face. Here it is.

James posted congratulations to Matt Friend for wrestling the championship Belt of Least Funny Personal live from the longtime title holder Elon Musk. Now I thought this was a little weird. The headline impressionist Matt Friend takes fans inside ridiculously star studded comedy brunch at Netflix CEO’s house. So Ted Sarandos had a bunch of comedians over and Matt Friend took pictures and post it on Instagram. Now, I’m just a loser recording a podcast in a basement.

But there was a time when I was around a lot of celebrities, and I don’t have many pictures of me in celebrities because that’s not what you do. You play it cool. I remember at some point, at some where along the way, I was at some sort of after party with Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman. I don’t have any pictures of it. You don’t go, hey, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, can I take a selfie?

You play it cool. So I’m kinda surprised that met Friend was taking pictures when you have the likes of Eddie Murphy and Jerry Seinfeld at the party. In a selfie video, Matt Friend scans the crowd and says, this is crazy. Oh my god. Behind him, dramatic actor Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy are shaking hands.

Behind him, also as he pans, Kevin Hart, John Malini, Chris Rock, Hade Hudson, Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, John Stewart. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong do these people want to be? In Matt Friend’s video. Matt Friend then cuts to Bert Krascher, and Bert says, I feel incredible, but maybe I’m wrong. Photo shared by the official Netflix’s a Joke Instagram page showed more folks including Dave Chappelle, Jelly Roll, Will Forte, David Spade, Ken Jung, and Britney Snow.

I don’t know, it just seems like, again, maybe everybody was cool with it, but I could see people like icing Matt Friend because he’s that guy. Maybe I’m wrong. The Hollywood Reporter posted their winners and losers for the week, kind of like Comedy stock Market, but different. And I’m not accusing them of ripping me off. I’m just saying it’s kind of like they say, who won the week, Louis C.K.

It’s like that line from the Rise of Skywalker. Somehow, Louis C.K. Returned, that’s pretty good. They dusted off the quote from Robbie Praul the other day. That quote.

Part of the job of my team as we listen to the type of stand ups people want to see, but we also spend a lot of time looking at who’s selling tickets all around the world. The Hollywood Reporter opines an honest reply might be nearly a decade has passed, he’s really popular. Nobody can agree on the consequences for certain mistakes, and we estimate blowback will be minimal. But hey, my team just now noticed this Louis K guy sells tickets is also an answer. Vanity Fair weighed in on Louis C.K.

Their headline the Curious, Uncomfortable, and perhaps inevitable return of Louis K. They talked to some fans, Now, I to do the story right, I have to get vulgar here. If you listen, you know, I try and keep the show clean. But I don’t want to pull my punch here because I think these quotes from the people who went to the show really nail it. Vanity Fair quoted these people.

The first person they quoted was Richard, who is thirty four years old and told Vanity Fair after the show, here comes the vulgar quota. You’re ready, Richard told Vanity Fair he’s officially uncanceled. Netflix platformed him. His friend Julian, who’s thirty two years old, was there and gave Vanity Fair quote his quote. Quote.

Richard says, it’s okay to whip your dick out in front of women. Vanity Fair says the crowd skewed overwhelmingly mail no Way. They observed a smattering of gen Zers and attendance. It was predominantly millennials and members of jen X. Most of the women appeared to be with their boyfriends or husbands.

A man who identifies himself as a huge fan of ck joked that the comedians admitted sexual misconduct made him a bigger fan and then was like just kidding, just kidding. During the week at the Greek Theater, it was a benefit for Hilarity for Charity. Seth Rogan was your host for the evening. The lineup included John Stewart, Nick Kroll, Eric Andre, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, John Gadd, Michael Booble, Buster Rhymes, and magician Justin Willman. The sort of people you could see Matt Frienn taking selfies with.

Seth Rogan was not happy with Kanye West appearing at the festival. Seth said he had a song called Hyle Hitler and He’s back. What’s funny is I’ve said critical things about Jewish people. I think I got more trouble than Kanye West did, I got a lot of crap for what I said. I have no number one albums.

I sometimes think what Adolf Hitler would think of the Kanye West song Hyle Hitler. I bet he’d be torn. That’s a great joke. At that same show, John Stewart weighed in and mused, how Kanye thinks we fed up as Adidas deal, but seriously f that guy. He was like Hitler, we miss understood.

We’ve got to forgive Hitler, and I’m like, I don’t think I need to listen to anybody who thinks Hitler needs to be forgiven but is still mad at Pete Davidson. John Stewart began roasting RFK Junior, asking if the crowd was made of MAHA supporters. Zen your letters to John Stewart, who asked, I don’t know how fed up Los Angeles is. I know you’re pretty fed up. I know you had a fire and a mut slide and you were like, nah, fit, let’s let the guy from the Hills fix it.

So I assume you’ve given up. That reference is Spencer Pratt, who was running for LA mayor. John Stewart said, how are you gonna lect someone from the hills and not have it be Lauren Conrad. Come on. John Stewart then made fun of the President of the United States.

A plane flew over during that joke. John said it was the Secret Service yelling tell him Kimmel’s house is over there. This has nothing to do with me. I’m on basic cable. Trump doesn’t even get the package.

Sarah Silverman taunt at RFK Junior during her set. She read the poem that RFK Junior had sent to reporter Olivia Nuzzy during their alleged romance. Is it an alleged romance? I’ll keep it safe? Alleged romance?

Silverman’s I couldn’t make this up. It’s so eff engross, but I feel like you should get an audience here, and like, I don’t want to king shame anybody, but f this guy. He like brought back the measles. Nick Carle joked about shooting the comedy Get Him to the Greek and mentioned the cast Jonah Hill the Wonderful Russell Brand Diddy at a number of other alleged sex pests. He remembered a moment during rehearsal when a pyrotechnics went off and said and I swear to God.

Unfortunately, nothing happened to Russell Brand. The folks from Consequence went to see the Pee Wee Herman show. I’ve got a pee Wee Herman story. I’ll tell it at the end of this one, they tell us. There were surprisingly few tears shed at Netflix As a Joke’s fortieth anniversary celebration of Pee Wee’s Playhouse on Monday, despite the weight of nostalgia and the sad absence of the dealy departed Paul Rubins.

Clips from the show were heavily featured, including an opening montage that laid into Kate Pearson of the B fifty two’s performing the pee Wee theme with the house band. Members of that band included a guy from Devo on stage. The simple set featured a few large pieces emulating the show’s original production. Our truck ruiner Pat and Oswald called out how during rehearsal for the show, every performer was excited to walk through the signature of Zigzag padded red door. Five of the original Playhouse puppeteers got to show off their talent as performers with a puppet free number.

Huddle’s Pity Party came out in full clown regalia to show off his incredible singing voice. Sounds like that was a lot of fun, all right, My pee Wee story, so, way back at the serious XM days, we would do these pop up radio channels to salute people, and we had some sort of deal to promote Pee Wee Herman. I don’t remember what it was. I never was into pee I’m a little too old for it and just never really got it. But the younger guys of my staff were all into it, so they were doing this thing.

I’m not throwing them under the bus, but in terms of things that we worked on the creative on, I was less involved with this one. I’m not shading them at all because I think this story I’m about to tell you is ridiculous. So you know, you have a radio station and we were trying to figure out, all right, what is the excuse for playing various clips from the Peewee Show, And one of the guys came up with an idea for a slot machine, so you’d hear a slot machine effect, you know, dddddd ding, and then it would go like chunk, chunk, chunk, and then whatever subdivision of Pee Wee’s Playhouse would come up that would be that the clip you would play, and it sounded great and we mocked it up and everything, and then it got sent over to mister Rubens camp and the whole deal fell apart, and we were like what and are you like what? So, what’s the problem with the slot machine? Apparently that Camp, possibly mister Rubins himself, I don’t really remember, thought that the slot machine was us making fun of the incident with mister Rubens in the adult theater.

So maybe something with pulling a lever or something he thought, I swear on a Bible that was not our intention at all. Sometimes a slot machine is just a slot machine. Anyway, the whole thing fell apart and we never did pee wee playhouse radio or whatever we were going to do a million years ago. We are along again and I’m bumping five six stories. Let’s get the break in.

We’ll come back. Gossip Conner, whist business change, Gossip con Problem, Gossip God were with me, Johnny magtoll in the tree. Let’s start with this one from TMZ. Comedian Akila Hughes has fired shots at Manpacker Keegan, Michael Key’s wife. In the video, the comedian claims that Key’s spouse has been a detriment to Key’s career.

TMZ says the story is bs quoting TMZ, here’s the deal. During Aequila’s stand upset, she uses a not so clever code, lock and banana. You see lock is like a key in a banana appeal. You got out lock and banana. Many people think when she jokes about lock and banana, she’s joking about Key and Peel.

Quoting TMZ, she says she and Kamka pitched and sold a show around the time of the pandemic, but it got up ended in the eleventh hour because Keegan Michael Key’s wife, Ellie, caused too many waves as an executive producer. This gets nastier. Akila also claims she was warned about the Kmka’s spouse by Peel’s wife, quoting TMZ, allegedly likening her to Phil Hartman’s wife Brynn, who fatally shot Phil Hartman in ninety eight. TMZ says multiple sources connected to KMK and Li tel TMZ a Kila’s stand up narrative is outlandish and fabricated nonsense. There’s also a theory floating around that the whole movie get Out is about Key I don’t know man.

Also on Gossip Corner, Wayne Brady feuding with Bill Maher. Wayne Brady was on the America Who Hurt You Podcast and said of Bill Maher, he’s racist and I don’t care Bill Markinson have all these black friends that took Dave Chappelle recently saying something Apparently in a twenty ten CNN interview, Bill Maher said, quote, I thought when we elected the first black president. As a comedian, I thought that two years in I’d be making jokes about what a gangster he was, and not that he’s president. Wayne Brady, you know, I thought we were getting shook night. Amy Schumer likes when people talk about her, So what did she do?

She showed off pictures of her new home, sweeping Central por views much be nice. The home features a spacious living room, a dining area with a bold red light fixture, an ample seating for entertainer. Schumer previously sold her Brooklyn townhouse for eleven million dollars after splitting up with her husband, Chris Fisher, in a series of photos shared to Instagram. Because you have to do that, you can’t just keep your personal life private, she thanked interior design firm Ash Leonardo for helping bring quotes my dream home to life. Amy Schumer said, I’m grateful every single day beautiful and filled with love.

I know, I know, but it’s true. I never dreamed I would get to live somewhere like my home. Late Night had some good jokes during the week from Spirit Airlines. Stephen Colbert said Spirit announced their immediate closure in a statement saying all flights have been canceled and customer service is no longer available, which coincidentally was also Spirit’s motto. Kimmel, I’d have to say the announcement is particularly a bitter pill for those of us who host late night talk shows.

Spirit being terrible with something every person got immediately and that’s hard to replace. We’re taking applications. I’ve got my eye on you, allegiant. Jimmy Fallon said they heard Frontier Airlines, was like, oh no, were we the worst airline? Now?

All right? Netflix? Is that Joe keeps going The La Times is excited to see Otsco at Conska at the Orphium at seven o’clock. I recently saw the hour she’s doing. It is very good.

Also, this morning you probably missed it if you’re listening to me. Maybe not. I don’t know how early you get up at seven thirty am. It was the Two Bears of five K that at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Boy, I hope you listen to the show at like five am and hopped in your car.

If you’re too lazy to even walk the five K, We’re told there is or was plenty to entertain you between cheering, including a DJ, food and drinks, and rubbing elbows with fellow Superstar participants. Deadline is excited to see Moe Ammer at the Orphium at seven and let’s take a look at the schedule. I was scared for a minute. The schedule’s blank. Now the problem is because of the event at seven thirty am, everything’s all the way over to the side.

I was like, this is pretty light for a Saturday night, right. Nate Berghatzi is at the Intuit Dome Concords at the Greek Theater that is killing me Chappelle again. He’s at the Palladium as on on Ronny Chieng of a show, Brett Goldstein, Sex, Death and Small Talk seven o’clock at the stab in Theater, Pete Davidson with John Mulaney at The Will Turn and that’ll wind up on Netflix as what Netflix calls a podcast. It’s clearly not a podcast. It is a low produced television show.

Todd Barry is sold out. He is at Dynasty, Typewriter at seven, I’ll go smirnov at seven at the ice House Sticke. It’s still available, and no joke, probably forty other shows that I’m not reading to you. Just you can go to Netflix as a joke dot com slash schedule. Click the rectangle that says Saturday, May zero nine for more information.

And that is your comedy news for today. Pretty busy for a Saturday that I didn’t even pre tape. We’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, Robbie Hoffman, Richard Pryor

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney appears on Jimmy Kimmel show
• David Letterman special with John Mulaney and Paul Shaffer
• Mulaney’s Vietnamese family sponsorship and financial support
• Mulaney directs Robbie Hoffman Netflix special
• Letterman reflects on early comedy career and Richard Pryor mentorship
• Mulaney’s upcoming Netflix season and tour through January 2027

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. Hey, crazy busy. We continues. Hello, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on standup comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves.

Where to even begin, Let’s start with this one. Jimmy Kimmel had John Mulaney on the show. You know, our friend Stephen Colbert is he’s only got weeks to live, you know, yeah, right, yes? And by live I mean on television? And is there any other better way to live?

I was looking at your Instagram and I’m not realizing I look at your Instagram too much, but oh I. Approached you about this. Actually, this is a message that you wrote last time you’re on the show. I can barely read that, but it says me, Stephen Colbert, David Byrne, the best, my last time at the ed Sullivan Theater with the kindest, coolest man in late night. Now right, well.

Last fat I just say, right now to the audience. Applause was not the reaction I was looking for. Now, kindest I could have definitely dealt with, for sure, even coolest on its own I for sure could have done the in and kindest coolest in Late Night really narrows it down, Yeah yeah, really narrows it down. To just a few guys. Yeah yeah.

And so then I sent this to you. Yeah, with the text that said, I let you live in my house, yeah, which which during a wayward a dressless period of my life, I lived in your house just for a while. Was there a period of time where you lived in Steven’s house for longer. Than I have to say? The man’s never invited me over.

But I think obviously, like what a position you’ve all put us in. You’re all getting suspended and fired constantly. That conan retires, we all have to talk so hyperbolically about all of you so often we’re out of words. The coolest who gives it? I mean, it’s psyche, he’s he’s off the air.

You gotta say something nice. If you had been full fired, not half fire, yeah, I would have said, this is the kindest coolest guy in Late Night. And I broke his bathtub once. While m’laney was in town, he sat down for this Better Be Funny with David Letterman special guest John Mulaney. Before bringing out Mlany, Dave brought out our good friend Paul Shaffer.

The capacity crowd greeted Paul Shaeffer with a standing ovation. Letterman has signed on to executive produce Say Hello to Our Good Friend to Paul Shaffer, an upcoming future documentary about Paul Shaffer. Recap says Dave and Paul traded quips like they did for years. Shaeffer came back to close the show ninety minutes later by taking a seat at the piano and performing Frank Sinatra’s That’s Life. So this sounds very similar to the Vancouver show that a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm, who hosts the Letterman Podcast, Mike could come on here to tell us about that one.

So it sounds like it was very similar when Paul shot up in Vancouver.

Also like the Vancouver show, Dave kicked off the La show with an opening tha…

Dave looked back on his early days, all the way back to childhood. Photos flashed on the screen showing a young David Letterman in his yearbook photo and on the basketball and track teams at Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dave recapped highlights of his career early radio and TV gigs, the time he was a weekend weatherman, or when he reported live for KTLA at the nineteen seventy nine Rose Parade. I’ll have to pull that clip someday. He played clips of himself on Mork and Mindy and the Mary Tyler Moore Hour.

That’s the variety show, not the famous sitcom. Dave talked about an early appearance at the Comedy Store, saying, I told a joke and nobody laughed, but I wasn’t discouraged because I was specified. You can’t be discouraged and petrified simultaneously. When I got off stage, there was a man there in the shadows, a man I recognized by the name of Richard Pryor. And Richard Pryor said to David Letterman, I really like that joke, Dave said, and I thought, oh my god, I can go ahead and pay the rent.

It was a huge moment for me. Blaney comes out. Dave and John spent some time talking about Malleini’s family. It sounds like Mullaney wents to stock material, which is kind of lame. To be honest, We’ve heard this before.

If you listen to this show, if you pay attention to John Mulaney, but the recap I see says that Mallani got lots of laughs for For the first thirty nine years of my life, I financially supported zero Vietnamese people. Now sitting in with you tonight, I have about ten on the books and to take cash app It’s weird when people like, oh, what’s your life like when you’re doing all these projects, But most of my day is texting with elderly Vietnamese people about if they got the money, if they need more, if I bought an appliance at a breaks. I don’t know if you know this, that’s on me. M’laney said it was one of the greatest things that’s ever happened to him, to have his life expanding that way, quoting Malleni, there’s just no comparison to being Vietnamese. Being Chinese Vietnamese is the smartest thing I ever did.

It’s remarkable. It’s remarkable. Letterman asked mullaney about some other stuff, like being the first comedian to play Wrigley Field, accepting an honorary patronage from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, taking Malcolm to Graceland, and becoming a part owner of years the famous non autum alcoholic beer brand. Dave asked Lane about directing Robbie Hoffman special. Dave was curious what it’s like to work with Robbie Hoffman.

He prefaced his question saying, I’ve lost my way in the world of contemporary comedy because I’m so smitten by you in a handful of other young men and women who I think have elevated this craft, this art beyond early expectation in the world. Mullaney called Hoffman a total original, likening her debut to Sam Kinnison. Quote someone who you’re like, I’ve never heard a comedian like this. I’ve never seen anyone this unafraid. You know, you throw Sam Kinnison in front of Johnny Mac and I was ready to say the phrase tap the brakes.

But I don’t think Mullaney’s crazy there, Malaney said when she opened for me in San Diego at an outdoor venue on the water with lots of couples of tables, she never adjusted her act for anyone. Tell you that’s gonna make for a nice pair on the Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one radio app. The app is free. The show is free, and over there I can play bits.

So I’m going to back to back some Robbie with some Kinneseson. That’s great. Mullaney said. He reached out to Robbie Hoffman because he had a deal to direct and produce specials for Netflix. As John tells it, she goes, what’s the money, and I go all told, you’ll net blank there’s a lot of expenses, and I have a small budget, and they’ll license it, and it’s a really interesting deal.

But I’ll just be up front. I take no fee to direct it, but you’ll probably only net blank blank thousand. She’s like, not very much. She came to the conclusion that was very good for her, but said to m’lanie, let’s be clear, it’s good for you too, because he seems street. When you do stuff like this, John, you seem street.

It seems like you’re plugged in, Mollini said. But I will say her prophecy came true. I am seen as cooler, I am street. A lot of people have been saying I see more Street. Now she’s one of those people that makes me excited to just stand up again.

Now this is an interesting change. Letterman asked Mullaney will he make more of the talk show. Mullany gave a non answer. He said, we have another season from Netflix. I’m on tour till January twenty twenty seven, so we shall see.

So it’s Schrodinger’s talk show. It’s both dead and not dead. Other conversation points they talked about Mullanie’s time on SNL and the new Michael Jackson movie. Melanie asked Letterman whether a Letterman would see it. Dave declined.

Mlaney said, I don’t think that program is for me. I don’t say this, by the way, some kind of stance, but just esthetically and as a film, it looks stupid and bad. I don’t think that was filmed. I wonder if that will come out on some form on Netflix. That sounds really amazing.

I would love to see that. Maybe it’s one of those you just had to be there, all right. It was the finals of Funny af that’s the Kevin Art comedy competition series, which I’m behind on. But I’ve been picking away at and I was like, you know what, this is a pretty good version of such a thing. I could give notes.

I think I have given notes, but just it’s like something I have on while I’m scrolling on Twitter to see what’s up with a hantavirus. It’s nice to have on in the background. Anyway, it was the finals. Here’s Kevin Hart. Viewers around the world have voted and the winner.

How funny af is? And why did you clip it there? Johnny was just about to tell us who won. Yeah, so the problem is Kevin Hart dropped an F bomb, and I try not to do that on this program. Your winner was thirty four year old Detroit Bourne comic Ron Taylor.

Taylor went out over at Caitlyn Palufo, Sama, Sidiki and Regg Thomas. Kevin Hart said, Ron is such an amazing talenty. It’s a strong voice, and I love his energy. He’s poised, polished and now position to be a face that will be seeing for quite some time. This competition was everything was supposed to be plus more.

The four finalists were all amazing. They did not disappoint. I’m blown away at Ron’s win and we’re all in full celebration mode. I got a high five Kevin Hart. There is gonna make a short joke, should I?

I got a low five Kevin Hart hack, But like I said, this was a good version of that, and you came away liking these people and rooting for them, and you got to see some newer faces. So it was a good job there. Taylor was crowned the winner during a taping on Tuesday night that aired live on Netflix. He will now get his own Netflix special, he said, he will title that special Elevate Now. During the semi finals, they did a roast and Nikki Glaser was there, and I was like, hold on, hold on, hold on Niki Glazer, and they’re like praising Nikki Glaser that she’s the greatest roast comic of all time, which will debate some other day.

Don Rickles and did Tony Hinchcliff write the jokes at the Brady Roast? But okay, fine, Nikki Glaser is the greatest roast comedian of all time. She’s in Los Angeles with Kevin Hart and on Sunday is the roast of Kevin Hart and Nikki Glaser the greatest roaster of all time? Isn’t doing the roast of Kevin Hart. The whole thing was weird, especially when Kevin Hart is just waxing poetic about what a great roaster she is.

Why isn’t she doing the roast of Kevin Hart. I mean, if you’re the greatest, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out. If you’re the greatest roaster of all time? Should I not be able to wake you up out of bed and you just slay? Wouldn’t that make you the greatest?

Right? I know? Niki said, oh, I need time to prepared jokes. Well, maybe you’re not the greatest. Then maybe you’re the best prepared.

I don’t know. The whole thing was weird. A guy named Chris grulan Comedy on three did a breakdown here. I have not confirmed this, but according to his threads account, he said, Osama time on stage six thirty five total laughs, fifty three laughs per minute, eights applause breaks, five, run time on stage six thirty two total lasts, fifty five last per minuted, eight point four applause breaks six. All right, very similar numbers.

Caitlin seven minutes twenty four sixty four total laughs, eight point six lass per minute, five applause breaks, and Redge got seven to twenty one on stage fifty eight total laughs, seven point nine laughs per minute, and seven applause breaks. Not sure what you do with that information, but it is interesting. If you follow me in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you saw me post Thursday Midday that like, hey, I just had to like get the machete out to cut down today’s script. I mean, check your watch. We’re this four in and we’ve got a lot to do even in the first half.

Dave Chappelle was on Michelle Obama’s podcast, Here’s Dave. It’s never really been quite like this before, where everyone feels like we’re on the precipice of some amazing change. And every day the new cycling is more appalling than the last day, and this doesn’t seem like it’s eving going to end. And every week I learned some new word like straight of her moves or blah blah blah. And it’s such an avalanche that it is fun even for me now to watch comedians contextualize this stuff.

Someone asked me about my transgender I say, say, you know, you got a lot of trouble for those transgender jokes, and I go, ah, the good. Old days. Now getting some pick up, and I suspect this is going to get more pick up, will become more of a thing because of some of the words of Dave Chappelle, some of the blowback he’s going to get, and that Michelle Obama was there and really didn’t comment on what Chappelle said. Dave was talking about trans jokes. Dave said, people would think it’s me versus the gay community.

I never looked at it like that. Oh, it was corporate interest and culture negotiating itself. So you know, most of these people who were critical of what I was doing didn’t seem like they were of it. It’s like they had their faces pressed against the glass commenting on what we were doing in there, but they weren’t there doing it. Every opinion you could think of is represented in a comedy club.

Every type of person you can imagine does stand up comedy, transgender stand up comics, black, white, Asian, every kind of perspective, and we all champion whatever opinion we champion. We would never think to silence one another. Dave said, being in the room for a joke is much different than a joke being read on paper or perhaps by some idiot in a basement reading your words on his dumb podcast. I if Dave Chappelle has that criticism of me, I think Dave Chappelle would be correct. Dave said, for a media outlet to speculate on a comedy show that they weren’t at or misinterpreted joke, nothing makes a comedian matter than reading his joke wrong in the paper, you know, And reading a joke is nothing like hearing one or being one.

And the intention of a comedy show is a very unique intention. We’re playing with whatever the culture is made of, and we break it down and we get it right or we get it wrong. But in all art, if it’s going to be good or even hopefully great, you gotta have a margin of error. I think that’s all very fair. And like I just said, if if if Chappelle or any comedian like hates when I quote their stuff, they’re right.

They’re one hundred percent right. In Yahoo or maybe it’s from them dot com, Matthew Rodriguez writes, come again. Many of Chappelle’s anti trans jokes were not in fact digested on paper, but were available and widely watched a series of Netflix specials that were available for all to see. And indeed, it is actually kind of hard to misinterpret the comedians saying he is Team Turf seems like one of those situations where you get exactly what it says on the tin.

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Also from Yahoo, they were talking more about K’s show the other night.

They observe themes that stuck out in CK’s performance are ridiculous. Is the new materials interest in aging, death, wisdom, and regret. Take for instance the call and response bit where Ck said I’m so old and the crowd yelled how old are you? He named three increasingly bleak truths about approaching sixty, concluding I’m so old that I live in the present for the first time, not because of wisdom, but from because there’s too much of the past and not enough of the future. The thing about life that I’ve learned is that life is too long.

It’s way too long. It’s way too long because you again have a good life, but then you’re still live after that one.

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And also you kind of figure life out, you figure out the world, and then it c…

Here’s the thing about getting old. I don’t feel bad for somebody that gets old, because you don’t have to do it. Getting old is what happens when you don’t die for a long time. That’s all it is. Uh.

That quote worries me a little bit, Louis, I hope you’re doing all right. Comedy stock marketine. Every week we take a look at what comedian stock we should buy and we should sell. Again. This is not a judgment on who’s good or bad.

It’s a judgment on value. Who’s overvalued, who’s undervalued. Let’s buy some Ron Taylor, right, I mean Kevin Hart backing Ron Taylor. Ron Taylor getting in a Netflix special. Let’s get in while it’s still low.

Let’s also get in on some more job. It’s Johnson. He’s got a new special coming to HBO. We’ll talk about that next week. It’s just way too busy this week to get to that.

I also did get to tell you about Larry the Cable Guy. Has got a cable show that’s ironic coming out this fall. So we’re gonna buy some Larry the Cable Guy. We’ll get all these stories. Another bye.

Johnny’s positive today. Vittorio Angeloni. I’ve seen him personally up in Montreal that has been buzzing him for a few years, and now playing out in la at the Netflix Festival. A lot of people getting to see Vittorio for the first time. Good buzz on him.

Mo Ammer. I always like what he does, and he’s now consulting to the Daily Show. That’s another buy. Jeff Currey, I thought looked pretty good on the Kevin Hard Funny AF shows. Let’s buy some Jeffic Curry and I got some sales for you.

Andrew Schultz, I got story in tomorrow. His co host is leaving the Flagrant Podcast. And let’s sell Louis C.K. For reasons well discussed to recap. We’re gonna buy Ron Taylor, Larry the Cable Guy, Vittorio Angeloni, mo Amer, Jeffic Currey, and we’re gonna sell Andrew Schultz and Louis C.K.

My dog is no dog knows it’s a nice day and wants to go for a long walk. Oh you just pulled up on the floor here, okay, dog is co hosting the show. Deadline had caught up with the Netflix folks earlier in the week. Robbie pra who heads up Netflix Comedy, said, you’re getting this huge community of talent to come in and all be in LA and not only comedians, but people who work with comedians, people from around the world who work in the comedy business. Having that for two weeks seemed unecessary, so that was probably the biggest pivot, turning it into a week Tracy Pacosta said, I also think what becomes a parent is the bigger comedy ecosystem that we have here at Netflix, So being able to be inclusive all that, whether it be the scripted shows, a lot of features, or talent does many different things here in flexus different muscles, So how do we best take pride in that and give our talent the opportunity to get involved.

Robbie said, that’s a good point, merging very popular podcasts with some of our biggest shows. I think that’s a real fun development this time around. I think we have more music and athletes in the festival, but God’s something that organically happened last time and we’re excited to do that. Deadline asked, what have you figured out in the last four years in terms of ticket sales and had his best structure a festival when you have so many big names. I’ll jump in here.

I know we saw some of the bigger names weren’t selling out, including c K. Robbie Pros said, I think as somebody who’s worked in the festival world for a long time, I’ll jump in again. He used to be the number two I think. At the Montreal Comedy Festival, Robbie said, ticket sales work a little bit differently. What we’re seeing from our consumer base right now is people waking up, seeing things all around town, saying the festival’s coming, and starting to pick the festival shows they want to go to, which is a little different than the typical behavior.

We have a touring comedian coming to town really just speaking to their fans. I think a joy about any festival, not just hours, is people experimenting. I’ll jump in again. Amen to that. I always tell you, if you go to a festival, go see the random shows.

Don’t only see headliners. Robbie says. People picking the thing that they know they love the most and then giving a shot to somebody maybe they heard is cool that they just want to try out to take advantage of this being in their hometown. Amen. We are getting along here, and the dog wants to go out, and so does John.

John’s been on the computer. What is it? It’s two o’clock at Thursday afternoon. I started at seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve one. I have another career for seven hours, and I’m a podcaster who works from home and it’s sunny out, I want to go outside.

Let’s see what’s at the festival. Two nights Hollywood Bowl seven thirty. John m’aliney’s Mister Whatever the Bad Friends podcast at the YouTube Theater at seven o’clock. What is this beautifully Broken Comedy Night hosted by jelly Roll that’s at the Greek Theater. That’ll get a click out of me.

Let’s see what this one is? Oh interesting show, they’re not marketing this properly beautifully broken Comedy Night is America’s foremost political commentator, Ata Schultz, Tony Hinchcliffe, Big Jay Oakerson, Adam Ray, Jeff Ross, and Josh Adam Myers. Hosted by jelly Roll. That’s a pretty interesting show and definitely has a vibe. At the Palladium Dave Chappelle Dolby Theater, seven o’clock, Low ticket warning for Hassan Hates Ronnie, Ronnie Hates Hassan.

That is Hasan Minhaj and Ronnie Ching Maximini sold out at the Orpheum, A good one if you want to go off the beaten path. Sam Campbell is at the Masonic Lodge at nine forty five if you’re in town and you don’t have tickets at one of the big shows, take a flower on that, trust me. At Largo tonight, Robbie Hoffman sold out at eight and ten thirty. Wow the Laugh Factory at seven forty five, says Legends of Comedy. I clicked on it.

They won’t tell you who it is. At the Preppermint Club, Michael Irvin and Friends Michael Irvin from the Dallas Cowboys, who are their friends? Headliners Michael Irvin featuring comedian CP. I’m sure it’s a wonderful show, but boy, there’s some other things to go see tonight. And I’m just scrolling down.

There’s a good thirty other shows I didn’t even tell you about. That is the Netflix is Joke Comedy Festival, just crushing it in Los Angeles this week. And that is your comedy news for today. All weekend normal episodes. I’m very open that I usually pretape the weekend episodes.

I haven’t touched Saturday, Sunday or Monday. I’m swinging here day today because I want to keep abreast of what’s happening out in LA. I don’t want to get too far ahead of things as I record this at two o nine pm on Thursday afternoon. Netflix has still not said who’s on the roast of Kevin Hart? Is that not weird?

I mean, let’s just play it out. Let’s just say that, like it’s amazing and they’re gonna keep it secret. So who’s gonna show up chappelle Ck, etc. Like, all right, is John m’laney gonna roast Kevin Hart? I mean, I guess is you know?

Is David Lettering gonna show up and do five minutes roasted Kevin Hart? I can’t imagine any of that. So why are you not telling us who’s playing the roast of Kevin Hart? Who knows? Maybe we’ll get Eddie Murphy, who knows?

You know what? No, I’m thinking about that. Eddie lives in town ish you know what I mean by town in Los Angeles. You know, Eddie doesn’t live ten hours from Los Angeles. He lives close enough.

Jamie Fox. I can see Fox showing up at this. This could be an event. I’m looking forward to the roast of Kevin Hart Sunday night on Netflix at eight Eastern after the next playoff game, and tonight we have a next playoff game. Go Nix see you tomorrow,

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