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Featured: John Mulaney, Monique, Kyle Kinane, Nate Bargatsky, Jay McBride, Jim Jeffries, Horry Conabollo, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Theo Von, Bill Burr, Pete Davidson, Kieran Culkin

What’s in This Episode

• Writer Strike Impact on Late Night TV Production
• ChatGPT-Generated Comedy Jokes About King’s Coronation
• Comedy Central Guest Host Strategy for The Daily Show
• Pete Davidson Supports Writers on Picket Lines with Food
• Vulture’s Best Comedy Specials of 2023 List Critique
• Johnny Mac’s Personal Top Comedy Specials of 2023
• SNL Season Finale Cancelled Due to Writer Strike
• Dave Chappelle Real Estate Acquisitions in Yellow Springs Ohio

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark deck. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy name as late night is dark due to the writer strike, but we have late bought, and the late bots says, hey, did you see the King’s Coronation? I saw the King’s coronation portrait. It looks like he’s already preparing for his next job as a villain in a Disney movie. I heard the coronation took weeks of planning.

In preparation, It’s like planning a wedding, but with more swords and less open bars. I could see Jimmy Kimmel telling these jokes. The chat bot wrote them. I could see these happening. The coronation was so grand.

Even the pigeons on the street were wearing top hats and monocles. Queen Camilla got a new hat for the coronation. It was so big it could double as a parachute in case of emergency. Those aren’t bad, and those were written by the chat chief pt not bad. I was thinking, do you think maybe one of the reasons I’m serious here that Comedy Central didn’t hire a new host for the daily shows because they knew the writer strike was coming.

So hear me out. Anytime you change hosts on one of these late night shows, it takes the new host a little bit to find their feet. And you know, it’s only May eighth. If he had brought somebody in at the beginning of the year, they would have had what counts on his fingers trainer fareymore shape for four months to kind of get in there.

And then if you have a six month strike and you come back in twenty four and …

Plus presumably, and I’m not an expert in contracts, you’d be paying this host to not host the Daily Show because you’re not producing it because of the writers. So maybe Comedy Central was doing that, and now the guest host thing makes a lot of sense to me. What do you think? Yes, maybe Pete Davidson was showing his support for the writers. He brought some pizza pies.

Why did I say pizza pie? I’m leaving that in. Where are you from, John, You’re from New York? What do you mean pizza pies? I’m leaving it in because sometimes I hate myself.

Pete Davidson brought some pizza from Spomoni Gardens. To delighted writers on the picket lines in Brooklyn. He was asked, hate Pete Davidson, why you dropping off food, and Pete Davidson said, got usport the writers. No shows without the writers. Man.

So, as I was putting together the show on Sunday morning, I clicked on this and I really didn’t react to it well, and I thought i’d go back and read it live. I don’t want to come across as a negative Nancy. Sorry Nancy, but I just didn’t agree with it at all. From Vulture, the Best comedy Specials of twenty twenty three so far, by Katherine Van Aaron Donk, who does a great job over at Vulture. Enjoy her stuff.

We will agree to disagree. But here’s the list. I remind you comedy subjective. Katherine may like what she likes. I like what I like, You like what you like.

But I looked at this list and I was like yeah. The article notes all specials are listed from newest to oldest, beginning with John Mulaney’s Baby Jay. I don’t even have this on my twenty twenty three list. Look, we all love John Mulaney charismatic, funny, great body of work, but I watched that new special and it felt performative. Maybe I’m just too familiar with the material because I do this every day, and I read about it and I feel like I had kind of heard it, but I was just watching and I was like, all right, it felt like a Colin Quinn or a Micro Bigley, a one man show more than a stand up special.

And it just didn’t grab me. Not on my list. Next up, Monique. I read you an article last week that was describing Monique Special as nothing but horrible. That person who wrote the thing last week had nothing good to say about this thing.

May Martin Special, same thing. I watched it. It didn’t grab me. Fourth on the Listen, we’re doing this by reverse release order. Kyle Canaan’s Shocks and Struts of that actually I have at number one right now, so we agree there.

You’ll find that one on YouTube. I highly recommend you watch it. Marlon Wayain’s God Loves Me another one of those specials that I got, I don’t know, four minutes into and I was like, hey, not grabbing me. Am I that much of a comedy snob? At this point?

Mark Marrin’s From Bleak to Dark, Same thing, I don’t have it on my list. It’s fine, it’s fine, Mark Marrin, but it didn’t do one thing for me. So that’s the Vulture list and I just have I just lost it. So here’s my list. Number one Kyle Cana, Number two Nate Bergatsy is fantastic.

Why is that not on your list? Katherine Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl. You’ll find that on YouTube. Wonderful Jim Jeffries on Amazon came out in February. Wonderful.

Horry Conabollo special, really strong, especially the first two thirds that’s on YouTube. Chris Rock. Remember Chris Rock had a special Vulture. I’m not gonna mention it. No, okay, you can make fun of me in the schooly yard for number seven, the Roast of mister Peanut.

I’m telling you, and probably every time I mentioned it, you’re like, he’s crazy. Go on YouTube and find the full version of the Roast of mister Peanut. The full version, not the thirty second commercial, the full version. Watch the Roast of mister Peanut. And number eight in this will probably get knocked way down the list as more specials come out.

Big Jokerson I put on my list, It kept me nice company not on my List, Melaney Lewis, black Mark Marin Andrew Santino special, Bert Kreischer’s special Not on My List, and the Greg Warren and special from last week. Again, that one really turned me off. What do I know, it wouldn’t surprise me. Some people seem to agree that possibly, perhaps maybe who knows I wasn’t in the room, could have been. They added some laughter to it, and it really turned me off to it.

All Right, Am I just cranky? Have I lost touch here? Should I just stop the podcast and never do it again? The funniest thing of the year, by the way, is Kunk on Earth on YouTube Watch Kunk on Earth wonderful. We lost some good stuff because of this writer strike Kieran Culkin from Succession.

He was going to host Saturday Night Live this upcoming weekend and for the season finale, the Foo Fighters would have been the musical guest. So now that the seasons in the bag, I’m going to rate it as one of the worst SNL seasons of all time. And I’ve liked the last It’s been a good run, like since Kate McKinnon came on, and I know she has been on the last couple of years. It was a really really good run basically from the start of I guess Trump running is when they hit their groove until this season was just awful, like really bad. Am I just cranky today?

Should I not do a podcast anymore? Have a completely lost touch? What’s going on? John? I don’t know?

It’s the topics. Here’s the headline, Yellow Springs versus Dave Chappelle neighbors slam Trump like comedian for buying properties amid shortage. This from the website meaw meaww dot com. Okay, you’re not familiar with meow or perhaps hosting a podcast, and not even entirely sure that that’s how they pronounced their website. They right, It’s not difficult to locate America’s most isolated comedian.

Like any other Yellow Springs, Ohio citizen, Dave Chappelle goes out in the city center, buys coffee and shops in the midst of an ongoing debate regarding the multimillionaire comedian’s real estate acquisitions. Dave Chappelle has been compared to Donald Trump by at least one citizen of his Ohio hometown for his propensity to incite hostility. This comes after Chappelle started purchasing land in the thirty seven hundred person town in twenty twenty. Today he owns twenty structures, including homes, businesses, and old fire station and a former school. Residents are fiercely divided over whether or not he’s operating in the best interests of the community.

Meo writes off the record, Locals of a variety of ages and racial backgrounds claim that Chapelle is a force that’s churning us into the place that we’re all trying to stay away from. Another citizen said, Dave’s gotta be the biggest contentious thing that I’ve ever seen. Put neighbor against neighbor. If you close ranks and then decimate anybody that speaks against an idea you have, then how does that inform community or build community, or has that save a community. One of Chappelle’s most recent acquisitions is a former fire station, which he plans to convert into a comedy club.

He also paid four hundred and eighty thousand dollars for the historic Union School House, with the intention of converting the eighteen seventy two structure into the headquarters of neighborhood radio station WYSO. I don’t live there. Why is that bad? I don’t know if you’re local. I’m happy to be getting more educated on this.

To me, it sounds like a guy is taking old buildings and turning them into thriving businesses. Again, I may be under educated on this. Back in twenty twenty, Day was on SNL and he joked about how his time in Yellow Springs would go to Dave’s joke, Honey, come quick, come quick. The guy from the gross stores on TV. Chappelle then changed his gears and says, no, you big dummy.

The guy from TV’s at the grocery store. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Edmonton. Nice lineup, they’ve announced some names. You’re ready for these names? Edmonton July fourteenth and Sunday the sixteenth.

The first night, the headliner Theo Vaughan.

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Also at the festival, Sam Morrel.

And on Sunday your headliner at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival, Bill Burr. Interesting note from the AV Club Jury Duty. If you watched Jury Duty, it’s on free V. When you can’t figure out how to get free V, just go on Amazon Prime and they’ll stick it under your nose. The creators of Jury Duty are going to submit it not as a reality show, but in the scripted comedy category.

Now, what makes that extra interesting is that Ronald Gladden, the guy that didn’t know it wasn’t real Jury Duty, he could get submitted for a comedy performance. He didn’t know he was giving. This next topic little ikey and probably a little sensitive, especially in the States due to some recent news time opics shootings involved here. So I’ll give you a beat to click off the podcast if you’re not in the mood for this. From the Manchester Evening News, Britain’s Got Talent comedian slammed over jokes about shooting his daughter.

Comedian Marcus Birdman joked, kids are the biggest source of joy you’ll ever have. Trouble is, they tend to ruin every other source of joy overhead. All right, good premise, reasonable, he continues. I hear other parents say I’d take a bullet from my child. Would you would take a bullet from my child, put it in the garden and shoot her?

That did not go over well, nor did a joke about being a two time a stroke survivor. Marcus said a couple of years ago. I had a stroke. That’s what happened. People don’t always believe me.

I perhaps don’t look like a stroke survivor to you, what you feel I appreciate is I’m twenty three. Marcus explains he’s done a lot of work with the Stroke Association. Said you’d think as a two time stroke survivor, I’d be able to make jokes about surviving strokes to other stroke survivors. Nope. At one point someone stood up and went stroke victims and feelings too, mate, and I went, I know, but only down half the side of their bodies.

Some on social media did not react well. One tweeted after me, joking about shooting kids is not comedy. A different person tweeted, jokes about strokes are not funny. My dad had one, was paralyzed on his right side, was confined a wheelchair. You should be ashamed.

Judge Alicia Dixon said everything you said tonight on stage, I hold at I’m glad I’m wearing my big knickers. Hanasoi dot Com sent somebody to one of the showcase shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival. They write, we were promised the best up and comers from Australia and around the world. Mc mickey Bartlett had some astute observations about Sydney characters, particularly businessman on scooters and King Street crackheads. Jesse Fuchs kicked us off.

She gave us a lot to think about. No details there other than that. Helen Bauer kept the cringe humor going or CrowdWork was right us and no men were safe from her confident charm despite the US accent. Moses Storm gave us an honest and daring look into his childhood. I’m not sure what the problem with the USX and is Fresh face Olga Kotch.

Her quick wit was almost Aubrey Plaza esque and she had a big presence. She effortlessly carved out her niche between her self deprecating humor and cool girl vibe. She gave us and ernest looking into her dating life and assortest that if we like bisexuals, will like her show Just Friends. Arguably to start of the night, Alfie Brown, his UK accent compounds his dark humor and his delivery just flows. The highlight was his entry on the stage where he spotted somebody eating a crisp in the front row.

He then proceeded to narrate that excruciating awkwardness of eating a crunchy food in a quiet space, extracting it out of the foil pocket, moistening it on the roof of your tongue, and subsequently regretting the whole experience. If you’re a comedy newbie, you’re indecisive about who you want to see. The festivals showcases the perfect way to sample a variety of little tasters. I agree. The Sydney Comedy Festival is dark on Tuesday.

New Zealand’s International Comedy Festival has some shows including Ann Edmonds Why is my Bag all wet? I remember talking about her at Melbourne. Bobby wood show is called if you met My Mom You’d understand and as a great picture of him and his dog looking grimpy, and yes, his dog looks grumpy, so I’m clicking on this. Bobby Wood is one of those rare comedic gems untarnished by the modern excesses of high speed internet, package meet and introspection. His show includes the damaging downstream effects of witnessing your mother forcibly restore a proleps Cow Award winning grass Fed stand up Bring Him voted best Newcomer at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in twenty twenty one.

Get out on top, John, that’s your commedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See at a worrow.

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Featured: Dusty Slay, Dustin Nickerson, Nate Bargatze, Brett Goldstein, Harry Connabel, Jason Segel

What’s in This Episode

• Dusty Slay returns to Blue Room Comedy Club in Springfield
• Dustin Nickerson’s golf story with Nate Bargatze at Circling Raven course in Idaho
• Brett Goldstein discovers Muppets Magazine and its celebrity interviews
• Harry Connabel discusses growing up in Queens and New York vs LA comedy scenes

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I am running out of time to come up with a birthday president idea from my wife from the Late Bot. Buying a birthday president for your wife is like trying to solve a rubekscube blindfolded. You have no idea what you’re doing, and you just hope it turns out okay in the end. I asked my wife what she wanted for a birthday, and she said nothing.

I have everything I need, Yamp, and she always says that to me too, So I got her a box of nothing. She was not abused. Dusty Slay is at the Blue Room Comedy Club today and tomorrow. He’s loyal because they used to book him when he wasn’t as famous as he is now. Back in twenty sixteen, he played the Blue Room.

It was then known as Billiards because it was a pool hall. Dusty and the owner, Chris hit the streets trying to recruit a Springfield audience by asking patrons want to catch a comedy show for free. That didn’t go so well. A homeless man took up the offer, but he didn’t even bother to stick around. Dusty said there weren’t many people and was the first time the Blue Room was doing Sunday shows.

It was so new that many things weren’t even set up yet. Now Dusty is I don’t know if he’s big time, but he’s definitely medium time. And Chris, the owner, says, it’s kind of sad because this may be the last time we get Dusty for a long time. Now. When Dusty comes to Springfield, he’s placed at the Hotel Vandervoort, the city’s only triple A four diamond rated hotel.

Dusty said, it’s a nice place, kind of illuminati looking. I like to go to a bass bro when I’m in town, walk to mudhouse to coffee and a record store. Dustin Nickerson told a story about playing golf with Nate bergantcy this from the Athletic. This is great. Dustin said, we played this place in Idaho called Circling Raven just to this day, one of the most incredible courses I’ve played.

I’m nervous because Nate’s spending a lot of money to have me out there. We went to the driving range first on a kid. You not, it looks like I’ve never played golf before in my life. Like, I’ve never tried anything athletically before. I’m shanking the ball.

I’m missing the ball one time. I missed the ball three times. Time out. Maybe once a month I’ll head over to top golf with the boys. Boy the last time I went, I was mis see.

I was just I couldn’t even hit the ball. I don’t mean I couldn’t hit the ball, well, I mean I couldn’t hit the ball. It was embarrassing. Luckily, my friends were cool, and they probably wait until I left to make fun of me. Dustin said, I’m missing the ball one time.

I missed the ball three times, only three. Stop braining, bro. It’s like when you bring a little kid out golfing and you’re going eight feet at a time. I think Nate seeing all this was so so bad. And so the first hole we get up there and I hit it two hundred and ten yards in the middle of the fairway.

The next SHOT’s about one hundred ten hundred fifteen yards and it gets within five feet of the pin. I burdie the first hole and has a reverse effect on Nate, who says, why’d you play so bad? Are you trying to hustle me? Dustin shot in the lower nineties, He says, for that course, very good. I’d like to think it was like angels in the outfield.

They straightened my swing on that first hole. That allowed me to relax the rest of the game.

And now I can still work with Nate, thank god.

Brett Goldstein spoke to Variety about the Muppets, and he said there’s a lot of great stuff in the Muppets. They asked him, did he ever subscribe to Muppet Magazine as a kid? Brett said, no, I didn’t know there was a thing. Now I feel ashamed to see some issues. Yes, please, the writer said, for decades, I’ve held on the copies of Muppet Magazine.

It was a monthly magazine that really existed and featured Kermit as editor in chief. I don’t know how to break it to the writer here. It probably wasn’t actually Kermit, because there is no Kermit. Statler and Waldorf wrote about movies and TV, Miss Piggy pend and advice column. This sounds amazing and one issue Fozzy Bear interviewed Henry Winkler.

Oop Google time, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Google, Fozzy Bear, Henry Winkler, Please come up, Please come up, Please, come up, rats, I just didn’t edit there and spared you. My internet search, I saw it definitely happened. I have seen covers of its. People have been selling this on eBay. So on the cover we see a young looking Henry Winkler with his hair growing out.

This from nineteen eighty three, so it’s got very nineteen eighty three part in the middle of hair. He’s wearing a red sweater as if he’s mister Rogers. Fozzy of the Bear is hanging over his left shoulder, and Kermit on Winkler’s right. Boy, I would love to redo that article, but I can’t find it interesting. My Internet search a lot of Japanese links to Muppet Magazine with Henry Winkler anyway.

The writer shows Muppet Magazine to Brett Goldstein, who goes, whoa, whoa. This is quality stuff, solid, thoughtful, subversive, funny. This is why you’re here. The Muppets brought us together. Goldstein says he would love to do something more with the Muppets, and Jason Siegel wants to see him do that.

I gotta try and connect with Harry Connabel, who he talks about queens a lot and from the parts of Queens. He talks about. I suspect he probably grew up right around we were in Queens that I grew up. Although Harry is younger. How old is Harry?

He’s forty, so I am thirteen years older than him. We might have lived in the neighborhood at the same time. Yeah, Harry Connabolo grew up in Jackson Heights, Floral Park and then Jamaica. I’m from Jackson Heights. It’s probably a twenty year old version of me walking past Harry when he was a little kid.

Yeah. Here I see on Instagram a reunion in Jackson Heights, Queens. Oh, I gotta get this guy on all right. I gotta reach out to him for sure. Y’all who asked him, Harri, how do you think growing up in New York City has informed your comedy?

And he says, I see the way people talk about what they fear the country is going to become with multiple languages and a mix of different races. All they’re describing is where I grew up. That’s what Queen’s New York is. That’s what New York City is. It’s every language, every culture, every mix.

If you’ve been being so it’s frustrating because it’s like you like to visit, but you don’t like to stay. That’s what I’m hearing. You like to come here and look, but you don’t want to live in it. It’s such a beautiful place to grow up. It’s not to say it’s perfect and there isn’t racism or homophobia or all the stuff that comes with any place, but everyone’s represented here and present away that you don’t get in other parts of the world.

I feel really privileged, and I feel like it colored my view are he had as the comedy scene in New York compared to LA, and he says, I think New York is a stand up city. There’s so many shows in New York and there’s a tradition of it. Not to say there aren’t great comics who come out of LA, and the LA scene isn’t a healthy one, but I feel like New York you get your butt kicked there and you become a better comic. And I don’t know if that’s the same for LA. I know with New York you go through fire, you become tougher, you come sharper.

I think you see where the bar is when you’re on the road, having started in New York. The road feels so much easier because even through one of the hardest places to play, LA has a great scene. Laurgo’s incredible. You see beat tradition. Obviously, it’s a great all scene there.

It really has a great history, and there’ve been great comics that have come out. You’ll see more comics in LA. You clearly just want to be on TV and do acting work, and they build a material for the purpose of that, which, look, that’s the way to do it. But New York is New York. I’ll jump in.

Yeah. I always felt like the New York City comedians, if they were banned, they’re like the Rolling Stones. I get the Rolling Stones are British, so the analogy is a little flawed, but like you know, the Rolling Stones, we’re gritty rock band. We got a great drummer, our guitarist, a smoking cigarette, and our singer. Yeah, I don’t know what his deal is, but boy, he’s really talented.

Whereas the LA comedy scene, I always felt like, is Devo really good, really entertaining, just not doing what the Rolling Stones are doing? Did I explain that, Well, no, you didn’t. John Harry, do you have a favorite city or venue to perform in. He’s says, it’s either Seattle or Oakland. I recorded in my first album in Oakland.

It feels like Oakland audiences are as smart at San Francisco audiences, except they’re more expressive. It isn’t just like, oh, I get the joke, It’s like I feel the joke. It has resonated with me on more than just one level, and I’m gonna let you hear it. That’s incredible. I started in Seattle, so I always have a loyalty due to that city, and the Neptune Theater is one of my favorite places to play, A beautiful theater where I recorded in my first Netflix special, and that is, without a doubt, one of my favorite venues.

If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I don’t know if you can tell my voice is giving out. Why I recorded Friday, Saturday, and Sunday back to back to back, and yeah, usually when I get around a third one, my voice gives out. So I need a drink and I don’t have a coffee, even though Kara Wood and Becky bought me six coffees this week.

You think I’ll bring one down the studio now, but I have this bottle of water here. I’m gonna take a sip that hit the spot. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Rich Schneider wrote about Chard Belzer for Vulture and said Richard was admired and respected by so many of us, a true comics comic, but that crown could be crushing Outrage wasn’t the marketing tool and brand it has become today, But it made Richard a legend while he was still in his thirties and broke.

I heard where he grew tired of watching lesser comics swim like dolphins while he was fighting the undertow. Whatever the reason, the bells made a strategic shift in his nineteen eighty six HBO special Richard Belzer in concert, and he decided to play nice as crowd work was easy going, even friendly. He showed vulnerability, and it needs to connect with material about his abuse of childhood and a violent encounter with an idiotic Hulk Hogan. Richard still wore the tinted glasses for the crowd work, but they came off for the rest of the performance. He even dropped his standard black suit, white shirt and tie for a sweater and from Forbes the premise phone free policies like Dave Chappelle’s opened the door for better comedy.

Yeah, m Gnome Jorman. He owns the Comedy Seller and says his club’s no cell phone policy was implemented about a year and a half before COVID. He said, Chappelle started doing it, and I had a feeling was to become an industry standard, and I try to get ahead of it. But it didn’t become an industry standard, Thank goodness. He says, many comics we should had.

If you go to the seller, you’re given a padded envelope for your phone and smart watch devices are sealed in the envelopes. Customers keep them in their possession during the shows. It may be a nuisance, but it hasn’t hurt business. Gnome says, we don’t get complaints about it. I don’t think they love it, but they’re aware of it before they get there.

Very few people are surprised by it. Judy Gould tells a story about being on stage at The Fat Black Pussycat about ten minutes twelve minutes in, I’m thinking, Wow, What a great audience. Everyone’s so engaged, and I looked around and realized, Oh, it’s because they don’t have phones. And I almost started crying because it was like the old days where the audience was a unit, where everybody was there for the same reason. They came there to laugh.

And that is your company news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows see here tomorrow. Who doesn’t like vacations? Do you need some inspiration for your next road trip? Are you excited to get out there and explore the world again?

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Lewis Black, Scott Aukerman, Hasan Minhaj, Andy Daley, Paul F. Tompkins, Harris Wittels, Hank Azaria, Jason Reitman

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle offered role of Bubba Blue in Forrest Gump, turned it down
• Lewis Black turned 75, reflects on legacy and career longevity
• Lewis Black missed from Daily Show guest host lineup despite 27 years on show
• Scott Aukerman on creating Comedy Bang Bang podcast format and evolution
• Harris Wittels discusses The Problem with Apu documentary and public backlash
• Harris Wittels on relationship with Hank Azaria and Simpsons influence

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck Chunny Mack with your daily comedy to News late Nights on strike from the Late Bots. I tried to sneak into the Kentucky Derby without a ticket, but I got caught. The security guard told me I can’t just horse around like that. That is awful, late Bot. This is why we need writers.

One more, I saw a horse at the Kentucky Derby wearing a boat tie. Then I read his text messages and was like, oh my, that one’s not bad. That one was half late Bot, and I kind of punched it up a little. Dave Chappelle could have been in Forrest Cump. Now.

The first time I read this story, I was like, wait, Dave Chappelle could have been Forrest Gump. What no, no, no, no, he could have been in Forrest Gump. Totally different story. This from Looper. Chappelle was offered the role of Bubba Blue.

The folks at Comedy Hype posted an old stand up set by Dave Chappelle. In the set, Chapelle explains that his agent wanted him to take on the role of Bubba, thinking the opportunity could land him an oscar. Chappelle read the script and immediately wanted to turn down the role in the upset. He says his decision was racially motivated. His joke, who could be dumber than Forrest Gump?

His black friend? That’s who Lewis Black was on the Last Laugh podcast. As recapped by The Daily Beast, Lewis turned seventy five this summer, and he said I had never considered myself old until the pandemic. Then I was told I was old. He doesn’t think about his legacy.

He never had children, so all he will leave behind is his work. And he says, I don’t know if it matters anymore. I got more successful than I ever expected, So I find myself at this point wondering if I’ve stayed too long at the fair, is it’s time to wrap it up. I’ll stick with it as long as I can learn from the craft. He was scheduled to guest host The Daily Show, but you know, writer strikes, so I don’t know if that’s going to happen now.

Lewis said to be honest, when they first started saying they were gonna have guest hosts, I literally said, I want to be on. Can I sit in that chair? Once I’ve been on the show twenty seven years, can I please sit in the chair. As soon as I started talking about how they we have guest hosts, I was pretty ticked at that that he wasn’t on the list. He said, none of us were, none of the correspondence, and I just thought, come on, guys, throw a bone.

And it really undermines, too, something that I felt about this show for years, which is it undermines the importance of the writers on that show. So it’s not just who’s sitting in the seat, it’s the guys and women in the back room. We’re pumping out all sorts of stuff on a daily basis. Obviously, they started with some big names and that was probably part of the plan. But now it’s great seeing the correspondence in there, Roy with Junior, Jordan Klupper.

I thought it. Roy did a terrific job. Jordan did a terrific job. They’re all gonna be really good. I’m not gonna be good, but they’re gonna be terrific.

Samantha be apparently was surprised nobody reached out to her, Lewis said, which I don’t get. They reached out to Hassan Minaj and I’m not disparaging having these folks on. I think that’s great. I just think they should have started with us. But I’m thrilled to be able to do it, and now he’s not gonna be able to do it right.

Strike Here’s what’s interesting. Lewis does not write his stuff for the Daily Show. He doesn’t even choose the topics for Back in Black. He said, no, they took it for me early on because a couple of producers on the show didn’t feel like I belonged and they didn’t feel I was funny. They wanted to punchline rather than an attitude.

But part of what’s been my bread and butter as a comic is my attitude. The attitude gets the laugh. My initial reaction has always been confrontational when it comes to the workspace. I’m always like, I’m not going to take this stuff, and I’d walk away, and then I thought, I can’t walk away. What am I thinking?

I’m not gonna walk away from this? You want to write it go ed. What I had to do was take what they were giving me and putting it in my own voice. So it was like an acting gig. No all of them know my voice, so it’s never a problem, and I love the way they write.

Pace Magazine spoke to Scott Ackerman. He’s been doing a little tour for his book and his eight hundredth podcast, and he said, when I started podcasting was in its nascent form. The only podcast I knew were comedian hangout shows like Jimmy Parto or Ricky Gervais. I thought my show might be that in the first week, and then I pivoted into interviewing comedians, sort of a proto WTF. Then after the third week, the programming director said that that show was boring and he always thought I’d be doing comedy instead of talking about comedy.

I was like, okay, that’s a good note, so I swung into approaching it. I’m like how Conan O’Brien would do a panel, but on a podcast, I’d have comedians on doing their jokes and I would set them up. That was me not having incredible confidence in my own abilities. But I knew everybody’s act really well, so I knew how to be a genial host who could throw to them. Around the tenth episode, Andy Daley was on and he was doing a character.

We got into a weird side conversation about a code he had bought, and for me, that’s when it came to life. It was less wrote and a little less prepared, and he’s such an incredible improviser he was able to roll with it. So I left that show going okay, that was really funny, and it gave me more to do. Around the same time, Paul ef Tompkins started doing characters, and he’d email me bullet points and what he’s going to talk about for the first year, so that could be prepared anytime would go off on a tangent. It seemed like the most fun to me.

That’s where the show kind of landed. The Charleston City Paper spoke to Horry Kunda Buloo. He spoke about the pros and cons of releasing his film The Problem with a Pooh Or. He said, I feel like the conversation I had to start was useful to a lot of people. The documentaries used in college classrooms and high school classrooms.

It is a value I certainly didn’t anticipate when I made it. It certainly made a bigger imprint than I expected, So I’m grateful for the fact that I contributed to a conversation I value and that it really resonated with people. But at the same time, I’m not particularly happy with a kind of negativity I still get around it, especially from people who haven’t seen it. It was just another thing they could bring up to say everybody’s two sensitive, everybody’s a snowflake, as opposed to watching the thing and coming up with reasons to disagree with it. Harry spoke about his relationship with Hank Azarian said, the conversation I’ve had with Hank is very different from the conversation that’s happening publicly, and that’s because he’s put a lot of work into thinking about the issues that I brought up.

People also missed the fact that I’m a Simpsons fan. It’s one of the big influences on my comedy. The idea that I don’t get the show or I don’t know what it’s about. It’s like, no, that’s the thing. I try to make a nuanced this from the perspective of somebody who loves the show and also feels weird about the fact that the character really kind of painted what my community looked like for the longest time.

Harry said, if he could go back in time and tell his younger selves. Some advice it would be to develop a thick skin. When you’re going out there and trying to be honest about how you feel about the world. It means that a lot of people will disagree with you, and it’s completely worth it because the laughter you get and the joy you bring by far outnumbers the feeling you have when people are being terrible. Every time I’m on stage, it’s still this wonderful feeling that I’m performing for a bunch of friends I haven’t met yet.

That’s what it feels like. We’re not friends yet, but I feel like we’re gonna be friends because we’re resonating. Jason Reitman is directing a film that follows the first night of Saturday Night Live. The film is set October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. The night of the SNL premiere that week, the show’s host, George Carlin informed the show that he wouldn’t do any sketches.

Instead, he just do four stand up monologue scattered throughout the show. Billy Crystal was supposed to do a bit on the show, and that was cut between dress rehearsal and air due to the show not having enough time for the routine. There were also the adult muppets created just for that show. Yeah, that was a disaster a filmed by Albert Brooks and not much for the cast members to do unless you were Chevy Chase. One of the memorable bits from that premiere episode the legendary Andy Kaufman Mighty Mouse Routine.

Today on the UK is at Channel five unless you’re watching the Coronation of King Charles. It’s Faulty Tours fifty years of laughs. That’ll be on Channel five at nine fifteen pm. Overt Palace Intrigue. We’ll be covering the coronation.

Johnny Max gotta work on a Saturday. Porn me. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, Bowen Yang, Pete Davidson, Edie Falco, Adam Sandler, Tracy Morgan, Duster Nickerson

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney turned down Daily Show hosting offer in 2014
• Jim Gaffigan compares gardening to stand-up comedy writing
• SNL season canceled due to Writers Guild strike
• Pete Davidson and Edie Falco on HBO’s Bupkis
• Will Ferrell golf comedy with Adam Sandler reprising Happy Gilmore role
• Faces of Death horror remake with Jermaine Fowler
• Tracy Morgan cast as Easter Bunny in Santa Claus reboot
• Late night staff extended pay and healthcare during strike

Questions Answered in This Episode

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News late Night on Strength, So Late Bot says, Sick of a Miles a great day to remember the bravery of the Mexican soldiers who defeated the French army in eighteen sixty two. Or you know, drink tequila and pretend you’re a Mexican wrestler. Your choice. I could see Jimmy Kimmel telling that exact joke.

It’s also a day to break out half ass Mitch Hedburg impression hit the bass guys on sick at a Mile, I’d like to celebrate the Mexican Army’s victory over the French by eating tacos. It’s a lot easier than trying to pronounce a poet Black correctly. Sick of a Mile is the only day of the year where I’m allowed to put tequila in my coffee without being judged. It’s like a fiesta and a mug, all right, that’s ridiculous. I like to think a sig at a miles a day with a guacamoli flows like water, and the margharitas flow like margharitas.

Thank you, AI, half as Mitch Hedberg, John Mulaney wishes he would have been asked to host The Daily Show five years after he was. Millaney said, it was shortly after the SNL fortieth anniversary, so that’s nine years ago. I guess I had a sitcom on Fox. Oh yeah, I remember that existed. Nobody watched that thing that bombed hard.

Milaney said that aired all thirteen episodes, but it was canceled. It didn’t do good numbers, but at least critics were viled it, so it was a fun time. John Stewart was leaving The Daily Show and Kent Alterman, president of Comedy Central, asked Millany if he wanted to take on the hosting role. Mullaney said, I was extremely flattered. I sensed they would be big shoes to fill.

I think I was also gun shy from putting myself out there after the Fox run, and I sensed all eyes would be on whoever came after mister Stewart. It wasn’t the right thing at the moment, but I remember saying to Kent, I wish it was five years from now, and he went, yeah, but it’s not well, John Mulaney, how about now. He’d be a great fit. John, You could you know, you wouldn’t have to travel. You can make a lot of money.

You could kind of stay home. It’s right in New York City where you used to live. Anyway, where does he live now with Olivia? Or are they buy Coastal? I can’t remember what their deal is, but John Mulaney Daily Show they can’t afford him.

Jim Gaffigan spoke to The New York Times. He said, in a strange way, gardening is similar to writing stand up and acting. Yeah, yes, he says, in that every day you know what the task is, but the outcome can be different. So you might know that you’ll be able to grow some cucumbers, but what do you do to facilitate growing cucumbers or help it be different? Every day you have some control, but not all control.

The trial and error of gardening and the meditative time you spend doing it is really coming and it reminds me of writing stand up and building a character for a movie. Bowen Yang is disappointed that SNL was canceled this week. He said, we had a few good shows left. I think we all came back rested and ready to work on Monday. Beat Davidson was very excited a host, even though we knew there was a big astres gone the week and there was a looming possibility it might not happen.

I think we’re all ready to give it her all for the next three weeks before the season ended. Oh yeah, the season is three way all right, So SNL’s done for the year. It’s not coming back. They’re talking to the strike might go all the way to November. So I hope you enjoy late bot behind the scenes here.

I’ve been using chat GPT for that and it doesn’t always come up with good ones. I was trying to get it to do some Kentucky Derby jokes for tomorrow, and it just it was spitting out garbage. So maybe we do need writers.

Speaking of Pete Davidson’s CNN’s headline, I don’t want to even bother with …

She spoke to The Daily Beast and they asked about the appeal of Pete Davidson. She said he has a magnetic personality. The kid is as alive as a person as I’ve ever seen. I imagine he must sleep, though I’ve personally never seen it. He just has an energy that’s contagious.

He had an excitement about making the show that was sweet. And he’s adorable, and he’s self deprecating and humble. He has a lot of very attractive qualities and it pulls people in. I mean, he’s got all kinds of people to be on this thing. Apparently, the first scene of bubb Kiss is quite naughty.

I don’t want to describe it to you because I read it and I was like ick. They asked Edie Falco about Pete’s BTE reputation, which again recently Pete shared average. But as for the energy that comes with the average, Edie said, Indeed, when I started doing the show, I started hearing more of this stuff. I started wondering, like, maybe I should find out what all this stuff means. I have my sources.

I found out she didn’t come it. Hey, great news. Remember that Will Ferrell golf comedy that’s coming out. Guess who’s gonna be in it. They’re talking to Adam Sandler.

Adam Sandler would reprise his Happy Gilmore role. Oh Goody. One way to support the show has become a premium subscriber on Apple podcast. So you open up that purple podcast appen. They’ll look at like a banner ad in front of you and be like, hey, premium subscription, huh, And then you click on that, and then what they’ll do is it’s five bucks a month.

In the first month’s free, so you could try it out see if you like it. If you don’t like it, it goes away. Then you’ll get the episodes commercial free, and you get them early, usually around four pm Eastern, the day before the show is officially released. And I mentioning this on Friday, because on Friday you wake up and you already have the weekend episodes. Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are hooking up their staff.

Employees of both their shows will continue to be paid for at least three weeks of the hiatus, two weeks funded by NBC in an extra week funded by Fallon and Myers themselves. Healthcare coverage has been extended until September. If you were a teenager in the nineteen eighties, especially if you were a boy teenager, remember faces of Death. So if you don’t know what this was. It was a like greeny VHS that like your friend’s cousin’s older brother had a copy of and you made a dub of it and you passed it around, and it was supposedly footage of real people really dying.

It was one of the great eighties vhs is, along with Porkys for obvious reasons, and an underrated one the movie version of mash there’s a scene with hot lips where if you freeze framed it just right and you were thirteen, you could convince yourself you were looking at a naked lady. Too much information Sean Faces of Death coming back in the new version. A content moderator whatever that is, stumbles across a group that’s recreating the murders from the general Faces of Death, but this time the question is are the murders real or fake? Jermaine Faller is part of the cast. That’s why I’m talking about it to see he’s a comedian.

It’s Daily Comedy News, by the way, Daily Comedy News number one in Zimbabwe. I shared the screen grab in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Zimbabwean’s no where to get their comedy news. If you’re listening in Zimbabwe today, say hi, will you you know that reboot of the Santa Claus. They needed somebody to play the Easter Bunny in season two. Who did they ask?

Tracy Morgan? Of course, Duster Nickerson spoke with The Athletic. He started stand up when he was twenty seventy. Said, I’ve been married for nine years, I had two kids. Who was the first time they did stand up?

It was not only a late age start, it was a late life start to be that old and established as an adult and start something as ridiculous as stand up. He thought he wanted to be a sports writer. Then he was a youth bast He moved to San Diego. He’s working at a rec center and he thought, I always wanted to try stand up. So he headed down to the Mad House for an open mic.

Did three minutes to one story, got two laughs, and he said, I finally found the thing. I spent the next two hours asking other comedians how it all works. Friend of the show, Dan Booblitz Junior told me about the Chief Comedy Festival and train tour. It’s today and tomorrow the headline train hoop your way to Trinidad for an epic weekend of comedy Mayhem and Southern Colorado. All right, what’s the deal here?

My, what a robust schedule. Let’s see hey five o’clock today they’re recording the Art of Bombing podcast. You know who hosts that, Dan Booblitz. I think he mind tricked me into promoting his piet I love Dan. All right now, the barta Bombing is at five o’clock at the Chief Comedy Festival.

A lot of shows here. If you want to blow Dan off, head over to the Trinidad Lounge. Those show at five o’clock. Your headliner, doctor Kevin Fitzgerald. But go see Dan.

Some of the performers this weekend, Emma Arnold, Ron Lynch, Rachel O’Brien, Tay Clay, J C. Anderson, Doctor Kevin Fitzgerald, who’s got a picture of himself with a chihuahua. Apparently if you own a chihuahua or your youth pastor get into comedy. M and picture of Dan Boublitz. I feel like he might tricked me into promoting him.

Today Kelly Bugbee, Ag Matthews and a whole bunch more and I see this thing is a touring comedy Festival, and there’s a train involved. Pretty neat All aboard the Comedy Train. Trinidad, Colorado’s annual Comedy Extravaganza returns. This year’s festival will once again be bringing top tier comedians from Chicago and LA to Trinidad on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief Train. Pretty neat the Chief Festival dot com if you want to check out more about that.

Jennifer Wong must be doing well at the Sydney Comedy Festival. She’s playing there on Saturday. She’s added another show in Daily Said, a quick flowing hour of self deprecating, hilariously absurd situational stand up. Let’s listen. Hello, I’m Jennifer Wong.

My new stand up comedy show is called Jennifer Wong has no peripheral vision. It’s because I have a genetic eye disease called rittenitist pigmentosa, which is Latin for please don’t drive. Some people don’t see race, some people don’t see color. I didn’t see edges. When I’m at a restaurant, I only order entrees and mains.

I never order sides. I can’t see them. These jokes are just going to get corneia, So please come to my show and I will see you there if you’re in front of me. Oh my god, I love her. I’m getting on a plane right now.

Can I make Sydney by the time of her show tomorrow? Probably just barely. I’ll be wiped. All right, I’m get going.

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Your all stars are Marcus Birdman from England, Danny O’Brien from Ireland, Scotland’s Ray Bradshaw and New Zealand Zone been early one two hour show. Early booking is recommended as this will sell out. I can’t make it. I’m on my way to Sydney and that it’s your comedy news for today. Hey, tomorrow Coronation of King Charles.

Don’t forget to subscribe to Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the Royal Family. I’m the writer. Big day tomorrow on Royal Land. All right, follow this show wherever you get your podcasts, Apple, Spotify, YouTube.

See tomorrow. Once in the generation, a new you British Royal dynasty tastes shape. I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, a daily podcast about the royal family and the only place you can get all the news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace, from Harry and Meghan in California to Kayton William in the UK, along with King Charles Quinkermill and Prince Andrew and the whole cast of characters. This coronation will be one for the ages and we’ll bring you every detail, on every moment in just a few minutes every day. Get a Palace Intrigue on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jon Stewart, Pete Davidson, Lewis Black, Big Jay Oakerson, Greg Warren, Jay Leno, Jimmy O Yang, Brett Goldstein, Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, Conan O’Brien, Bobcat Goldthwait

What’s in This Episode

• WGA Writers Strike impact on late night shows
• SNL episodes canceled due to strike
• John Mulaney and Jon Stewart cancel FYC promotional events
• Jay Leno supports writers with donut delivery at Disney studios
• Greg Gutfeld continues production with non-union writers
• Lewis Black special review
• Big Jay Oakerson Dog Belly special review
• Greg Warren special review
• Jimmy O Yang Guess How Much special trailer
• Brett Goldstein podcast joins Big Money Players Network
• Lost Hans and Franz Movie podcast with Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon
• Pete Davidson’s Bupkiss receives poor reviews

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News with the writer strike, We’re not gonna have late night jokes for a while, and I kind of like having them at the top of the show. So Luckily there’s chat cheept Now and the Late Bot. So when you hear me talking about late Bot and the upcoming shows, that’s what I’m talking about. Late Bots, says Tucker Carlson’s text are like a train wreck. You don’t want to look, but you can’t help yourself, unless, of course, you’re a Fox News viewer.

Tucker Carlson’s text were so offensive they even made Fox News executives blush. I guess they’re not used to seeing anything that’s not white and conservative. I hope Tucker Crosson’s text have taught us all a valuable lesson. Never trust a man who wears a boat’s eye. Tucker Carlson’s texts have been called juicy and explosive, which is exactly what you expect from a guy wears a boat tie in twenty twenty three.

Those aren’t terrible. They’re not great, but they’re not terrible, and I think the writers are justified in being a little worried about the Bot because remember, and people keep explaining this about AI. This is as bad as AI is going to get right. AI is only going to get better. So imagine Late Bought a year from now, when it’s really tuned up.

One more from Late Bot. Kevin Costner is getting a divorce. I guess he finally found out that Field of Dreams was a warning. If you build it, they will come, and if they come, they’ll leave. Saturday Night Live will not produce any episodes for a while.

Again the reason the strike. That means the episode with Pete Davidson has been canceled. They’ll be in reruns till further notice. We’ll talk about Pete Davidson the second half of the show. Jay Leno showed up to pick it outside the Walt Disney studios in Burbank, and he began handing out donuts.

Jay was warmly met by union members with cries of thank you and we love you. Jay. John Mulaney has canceled his FYC events which were to promote Baby j Mullaney ready w GA strike rules which forbid promotional events. The WGA’s f a Q says you should let the company know you were prohibited from making these promotional appearances about your work until the strike concludes. For the same reason, John Stewart canceled an FYC event for second season of the Problem with John Stewart.

According to Deadline, Stewart was scheduled for a conversation about the show next week, but there is one late night show still in production. Gutfeld he didn’t cancel, the Daily Beast, says an anonymous source told The Daily Beast it’s part of a larger anti union trend at the network. Gutfeld has quote some writers, but there quotes all non union like everyone else who works there. Are interesting. I watched three comedy specials.

Let me tell you about them. I watched Lewis Black’s Tragically I need you. It’s fine. I just didn’t care. It’s Lewis Black doing Lewis Black.

Lewis Black doing Lewis Black is fine. I’ll remind you. I’m an admitted comedy snob. If you’re a new listener, I run serious XM comedy for ten years, So what did I do there? Among other things, I had a radio on my desk playing stand up comedy for ten straight years, all day, every day.

So my brain is really numb to a lot of this. So Lewis Black special, It’s fine. I just didn’t care. Thirteen minutes and I’m like, all right, what else? I was really excited to watch Greg Warren.

I told you about Greg Warren and the peanut butter jokes on yesterday’s podcast. I was so excited for it, and I think, now, I don’t know this personal opinion. In my opinion, it sounded like they added a laugh track. Was one of those comedy specials where every single sentence he said had a laugh and an unrealistic laugh, and it didn’t sound like a normal human being laugh. Greg Warren, You’re on my suspect list really didn’t sound natural, and that turned me off to it.

I was like, get me out of here. Then I felt bad. I was like, oh, I had this big plan. Let me tell the listeners about comedy specialism.

And then I remembered I hadn’t watched Big Jay Oakerson’s special also on You…

I was never all the way into it, but I was entertained. I was kind of second screening Big Jay and I was playing on my phone on Twitter and check an email, and you know you have a phone. You know what you do with John. Why are you explaining what people do on a phone? You know what you do on a phone.

I was doing that. But Big Jay Special was nice company in the background. As any snob, I really appreciate the crowd work. It shows that he’s naturally funny and doing a lot of material in the moments. Yeah, and he’d go back to stuff he clearly had in his back pocket.

But the crowd work was wonderful and it reminded me of how much John Mulaney’s special. It just felt like a performance with a capital P some solid laughs in there. I wrote down in my notes chunk food. You know sometimes you just want a twinkie or half a box of Oreos? Who would do that?

So? Big Jay it’s the half a box of Oreos of comedy specials. Is it amazing? No? Well, it makes the end of the year list.

That’s a good question. The other two I mentioned or not? Let me look at my list here so far number one Kyle Canade two, Nate three, Jay McBride four, Jim Jeffreys five, Harry six Chris Rock. Is Big Jay’s Special better than Chris Rock? No?

Is it better than the roast of mister Peanut. No, but should it be on the list, I’m gonna say yeah, let’s add it right now. You’re hearing this live typing and being at Ja Okerson now at number eight Live list updated POI are you glad to be download the podcast today? Isn’t that exciting? When I have not seen yet?

And I love this guy so can’t wait for this one. Jimmy O Yang his specials called Guess how much You’ll find that on Amazon? And guess how much? Jimmy O Yang gives props to the old Asian lady in Chinatown has been wearing a mask since nineteen ninety five. She’s not random, She’s a trailblazer, he says.

Everyone followed her fashion lead. She’s the Kendall Jinner of Chinatown. Let’s listen to the trailer. It’s never been a better time to be Asian. I mean, come on, we got BTS now even white people know BTS now, that’s progress.

I’m moved to this like boyfriend stuff right. My girl asked me, she was like, what’s your love language? I’m like what. I was raised by Asian parents. Their love language is verbal.

Appears Jimmy O Yang guess how much looking forward to that. It’s out now on Amazon. Brett Goldstein’s Wonderful podcast Films to be Buried with Switching Networks, joining Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players Network, upcoming guest Ted Lasso, co star Hannah Wattingham, Chappelle’s show writer and comedian A Neil Brennan, and a bunch of others. So that’s cool. If you’ve never heard the podcast, Brett Goldstein brings on guests to discuss the films that have most impacted their lives, based on the premise that they recently died.

Meanwhile, in podcast land, Dana Carvey and Kevin Neilan. Back in the nineties they were going to do a Hans and Franz movie that would have co starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie fell through, however, the scripts survived and will now be a podcast called The Lost Hans and Franz Movie featuring Dana Carvey, Kevin Neil, and Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel, who co wrote the original script. That one will be out May seventeenth. That should be fun.

Hey, if you want Bobcat Goldway to sign your police Academy poster. He has a surprise for you till the laugh button. I’ll let you in on a secret if you give me a police Academy thing to sign. I haven’t spelled my name correctly in years on a police Academy thing. I’m running behind today in my real life, been a very busy day, So by Meacoffee dot Com, Slush Daiey comedy news.

You know the rap. There. Beat Davidson’s Bubkiss is out and the reviews are not good, and Pete Davidson is very likable and the media enjoys rooting for Pete Davidson, and Pete Davidson usually gets very favorable press. So if they’re writing Bupkiss isn’t that good, that tells me that it’s not good. Haven’t seen it yet, but the av Club did and they said each installment feels like the pilot for a different and frankly inferior show.

Yikes. The first episode chases shock value, while the second plays like a melancholy flashback on an f extramity. Then there’s the one with Charlie Day, which is the most sitcomedy of the gang.

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Yikes. In a series highlight, Pete Davidson sits down with John Mulaney, who’s playing John Mulaney TV’s John Mulaney says, your life is fascinating. I don’t know what it’s like to live it, but boy, we do have fun watching it. It’s a good time. Davy Club says, bupkiss is not necessarily a good time, and a lot of it isn’t good period.

Yikes. Hey, hope my former co worker Jamie FOXX is doing okay. They remember he’s been in the hospital. He’s still in the hospital, and TMZ said it was serious enough that family members who were out of town came to the hospital. One source told TMZ he’s communicating now and that’s good news.

His upcoming film, Back in Action, resumed production with Doubles playing the role of Jamie fox Jamie was scheduled to host a game show called Beat Shazam that’s now going to move forward with a replacement host. Again, I hope he’s doing well, but if they’re moving on a replacement host, that tells you something. Friday, The Sydney Comedy Festival. It’s May fifth aka Sinco to Mile. Are they celebrating now?

Dave Thornton has added another show to his chatter, so he must be doing well and good news for me. There’s a clip. Let’s listen, guys. You know, and he found out about this recently. Did you know that there’s fully grown adults out there and they don’t drink coffee?

Did you know they exist? Yeah, there’s always one, isn’t there? Looking at your smile and gun, I just get up with motivation. But there’s more of a public service announcement than anything for people out there who don’t drink coffee. I just want to let you know in the morning, when it’s early, when the rest of us normal people are getting a coffee.

And I say this with all sincerity, I mean this with love. Get out of the way, just because I found myself in a situation pretty early in the morning. I was in the cafe. I’m behind one guy and he just said this with all the confidence in the world. He just said it’s to the guy behind the counter.

He just said he can make Can I just get a takeaway hot chocolate? What are you doing? We need to get a coffee. You need to go to the supermarket and get some Coco pops. That’s not an adult’s order.

You know, I need Choky and me Tom Tom Yo. I’m yah, he’s Deve Thornton. Right. That was fun. I could critique the piecing a little bit.

Let’s get to it. And I had to get rid of a couple of words that started with F. But that was fun enough. Now you know what starts Friday in New Zealand, the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Some of you were like John, A month of Melbourne, now Sydney, now New Zealand.

We don’t live in the Southern Hemisphere where you stop Australian Beast. Japanese comedian Takashi Wakasugi will be forming his show it’s called Welcome to Japan, And I have a question Austaria. I went to supermarket to get egg right, and there was no free round jag. It’s solded out. The only Kjaggs was there.

Right. The question is can I buy that KJK in the situation I tried to get but that makes me worry. Maybe someone see me and then might think, oh this Asian guys through buying kJ get out it’s not good before the Asian community, right, So I got it. I got it, but I coup up my kJ by other products. Then people cannot see my kJ I caged KJK.

The New Zealand Herald has some good questions for him. First question, what are your strongest memories from the first overseas trip you ever took? Takashi said, I don’t know why people don’t have to dress up in planes, don’t wear skinny jeans when you have a long flight. Worst trip you have ever been on the Gold’s Coast of Australia. The beach was beautiful and I had a super tough comedy gig drunk ausee bogan audiences.

Yes, I love the word bogan when it shows up. Any tips for packing for an overseas strip, always remember to bring a gift. One destination we should see in our lifetime Okanawa, Japan, it’s beautiful interesting. The New Zealand Comedy Festival kicks off tonight, runs through May twenty eighth. One of these years this podcast will be big enough that I’ll somehow be able to go to Melbourne, then Sydney, then New Zealand.

Have the podcast pay for it and you guys, are gonna explain to my wife where I’ve been for three months? Hey, I had to review the show, didn’t I. That’s your comedy is for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcat Oh, Big Coronation Saturday? Are you listening to Palace Intrigue?

King Charles swearing him in whatever they do over there? Alice Intrigue wherever you get your podcast Daily Comedy News back in the morning. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you then, Once in the generation a new British royal dynasty tastes shape. I am Mark Francis, host of Palace Intrigue, a daily podcast about the Royal family and the only place you can get all the news, gossip and updates from inside and outside the Palace, from Harry and Megan and California to Cayton William in the UK.

Along with King Charles, Quinkermill and Prince Andrew and the whole cast of characters. This coronation will be one for the ages and we’ll bring you every detail on every moment in just a few minutes every day. Hear Palace Intrigue on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Dave Smith, Trevor Noah, Conan O’Brien, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Hader

What’s in This Episode

• Writers Guild strike and late night show impact
• Joe Rogan’s Mothership Comedy Club opening
• Trevor Noah executive producing American Mock the Week
• Conan O’Brien launching 24/7 channel on Samsung TV Plus
• Bill Hader stops signing autographs for resale
• Jim Gaffigan discusses Chicago deep-dish pizza

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Writer’s Guild has failed to come to a deal with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and TV Producers. That means there’s a writer strike. Initially, what you’ll see is the late night shows have gone jerk. At the time of this recording, it’s unclear what Saturday Night Live will do this week.

Guest host Pete Davidson keep an eye on that, so we won’t have late night jokes for a while. I’ve asked the chat gept to write some from the chatbot. The writer strikes causing a lot of tension in Hollywood. You can cut the tension with a knife, which ironically is one of the only things the writers are allowed to use. Now, that’s a good joke, but I’ll point out the strike is about using AI to write jokes.

But the a I just wrote a good joke, So I don’t know how this is going to play out here. One more, I’m not saying that relying on an AI to write my jokes makes me lazy, but I asked it to come up with some jokes, and it wrote, why did the comedian cross the road to avoid having to write his own material, Sam or else we did. Writers deserve more respect. People worship actors, but they’re nothing without writers. Writing is harder than acting.

There were child actors, there were no child writers. On the Shoe Rogan Experience. His guest was Dave Smith, and they talked about Joe Rogan’s comedy Mothership Comedy Club. Rogan discussed the naysayers. There’s a lot of people saying you’re not opening a club.

It’s BS. It’s all BS. I knew once it got like talk all this crap, because once this thing gets open, you’re all gonna want to come, and then once you can’t, a lot of fear missing out. He complimented Richard Weiss, the designer of the club, saying it’s pretty dope. Well it wasn’t me.

I mean it sort of was, but it was a lot of people and a lot of it. Richard Weiss, the architect and designer, he’s the man. He did an incredible job. Rogan said. The whole thing’s just very bizarre.

You know, if it wasn’t mine, I’d really be able to appreciate it. Apparently tickets are moving so fast that it’s bringing out the egos in comedians Rogan said. It’s been a problem though, because you know a lot of people want to come. Some of them are weird. They want a headline, and you know they’re not really a headliner.

Trevor Noah will executive produce and a mirror conversion of the British series Mock the Week. That’s a half hour program that combines elements from talk shows, stand up comedy sessions, and improv games. Two sets of comedians play each other in a bit to satirize current news and events and popular culture. Mock the Week has run in the UK for fifteen years. Production won’t start till next year.

The host will be announced at a later date, but Trevor Noah said, two things I’m most passionate about in life or paying my landlord and making people laugh. We could all use a little bit more laughter as we continue to navigate today’s crazy world. Conan O’Brien getting his own TV channel. This is one of those channels you’ll find on streaming boxes that place things in real time like in olden times with commercials, you know, linear TV. Kind of going on to Brian getting into the fast lane setting up an exclusive launch on Samsung TV Plus of a channel comprised of thirty minute compilations and other clips from his late night career.

This from Deadline. The twenty four seven Conan channel will feature footage from the TBS shows archives. Yeah you wanted the NBC ones met too?

Also, can we get this for Letterman, but only the NBC Letterman?

Can we do that? These TBS clips will feature Conan’s interviews with John Hamm, Ryan Reynolds, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Kevin Hart, Will Farrow, Lisa Kudreau, Kate mccannon, Justin Bieber and others. Cool, but I feel like there’s a better version of this to be had, meaning the NBC ones. Bill Hayder, it’s not going to sign your stuff. Here’s why.

From the Hollywood Reporter. I didn’t know that Bill Hayter. By the way, Barry this week awesome, say no more watch it. Barry was credited as a voice consultant for BB eight in Star Wars The Force Awakens. Really, Hayter said, I used to sign stuff, and then one time I saw somebody they had their kid come up to me to sign a BB eight thing, and it was three in the morning.

I was leaving the inside out premiere We went to an afterparty thing and it was super late, and this guy kept his kid up all night. He was like, go over there, so he’ll sign it and I could sell it online. And I was like, that’s messed up, and so now I just kind of blank it, like I don’t sign any of it. Jim Gaffigan talked to The New York Times about Deep Dish pizza. By the way, I was in Chicago last week.

I didn’t get the Deep Dish. Anytime I do a trip to Chicago and I don’t hit one of the main Deep Dish places, I feel like I wasted a trip but didn’t happen, which means next time, oh, it’ll happen. Gaffigan says, I have a long distance love affair with Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Me too. It’s got to be sausage deep Dish, me too, Jim.

They’re all good, but Luminatis delivers, and we’ve done that many times. Love Luminatis. Love it.

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What’s confusing about Chicago Deep Dish pizza. I’m picturing somebody in Chicago will be like, Luminatis, are you kidding? We’ll na stupid tors I get it. I’m not from there. I don’t know.

Man does a Luminatis close to where my daughter lives, and I go there and it’s good now Tjordanos. The last time I went to Jordanos, it took so long for the pizza to arrive. I had to leave. I had to leave my daughter behind, so she had like all this food finally come I don’t know, seventy five minutes later because I had to catch my flight. And what the what’s the one downtown by the river.

It’s got like a graffiti Gino’s East, right, Gino’s East. That one’s really good too. Again, the locals probably like, you don’t know what you’re talking about, So tell me on the Facebook group. I’ll go to your place. Just telling you loses a couple of blocks from where she lives.

Jim said, what’s confusing about Chicago deep dish pizzas there’s always way too much of it. No one needs to ever eat more than a piece, but you end up eating more than a piece, and I’m ridiculously selfish with it. Good point there, Jim. Plus, I usually have, you know, a plate of wings while I’m waiting for the half hour for the pizza to bake, and by the time the pizza comes, I’m already full. But boy, I eat it.

Jim says, I will make sure there’s other pizza that’ll be given my children said, I can eat the deep dish because I’m not going to waste that on a kid. If you like what I do here, buying me a coffee at Buying Me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, It’s been a great week for the buying me a coffee. I telled you Kara would bought me three coffees. Thank you, Kara. You paid for today’s but I left it upstairs in the fridge.

I do have a bottle of water here if you want to hear me shake some liquid on the mic like I usually do. But thank you care for that. She also shouted me out in her newsletter. You know you can get that for free, right It’s the knock it off sub stack. Her most recent piece, called an open letter to Ronald Gladden name checks me.

Who’s Ronald Gladden? He’s the guy jury duty. I finished jury duty Monday night. Did I finish it really good? Really enjoyed jury duty?

My daughter and I were trying to figure out how you do that again? And the best way came up with was some version of a night at the Museum because we were walking around the Field Museum last week and they closed, and we’re like, what if we stayed?

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And then what if Night at the Museum was like real?

And then we’re like, ah, that’s Jury Duty season two. Thank you for the shout out care and believe me, I’m trying to find a way to read the title an open Letter to Ronald Gladden and read it in a way that makes it sound a little dirty. Can’t figure it out. Best I can do is lean in on the word open and open letter to Ronald Gladden. You can make anything sound nought if you do that.

Also, speaking of Chicago and stuff, Becky, she bought me three coffees. Thank you very much, Becky. I’ll be in Chicago a few more times this summer. I will try and say hi, maybe I’ll buy you a beverage anyway, buy me Acoffee dot COM’s last Daily Comedy News. Isaac left a five star review on Apple Podcast.

Thank you Isaac. He wrote great show, good variety of news about comedy specialists. Thank you very much. Over on the Facebook group which is Daily Company News podcast group Always Happy when You Guys chime in. Becky commented on my thoughts about the Millany special.

Becky wrote, my thoughts in a particular order. Boy sober John Millaney talks a lot slower than strung out John Millaney. I appreciated his honesty and humility. He seemed humbled by his addiction. I hope he’s okay.

I also respect him for trying to change an image he’s outgrown or was never him in the first place. She also pointed out more clappter than laughter. Yeah, I noticed that one. Shannon wrote, I saw the live show twice, so most of them material was already familiar, so it couldn’t really be that funny. Milaney’s delivery is always fun to watch, though, and Michelle wrote, tie Nichelle, thank you for listening.

Michell wrote, you were right, it feels performative. I wish he talked about being a new father, because that’s where his heart is. It’s what he posts about on Instagram. And I thought about it more. I think what I’m picking up here is it felt more like a one man show, like a Colin Quinn show or a Mike Berbigley, A show than stand up.

I’m struggling to express what I’m picking up on this one. Again. It’s fine, it’s entertaining, it’s fine. I last twenty nine minutes. I’m not saying don’t watch it.

I am, in fact saying the opposite. You should watch it. Molini’s very likable. We all know this. I just didn’t grab me.

I was also reflecting on roy Wood Junior as I listened to more and more clips of him hosting The White House Dinner the other night. And I can’t give him the Daily Show. I feel like that’s going to be a swing and a miss. And I know he put in the work, and I don’t know not the choice, which reminds me I lost an article. I meant to put this in the script here.

It is from people. Roy Wood Junior says he’s ready if Comedy Central taps him to host the Daily Show. Roy Wood said, I had a lot of fun guest hosting. It’s been fun watching my fellow correspondence guest host as well. I don’t know how Comedy Central is going to play it at the end of the day, but my job is an entertainer.

It’s like athletics. My job is to be ready. So if Comedy Central makes the call, I’m ready. If they don’t, then hopefully somebody else makes the call, and I’m ready. So at the end of the day, it’s just about being as sharp as possible and as funny as possible, and the rest of it’s out of my control.

Either hemming hawing. You’re hearing my voice, Well, Joe Biden was funnier, So that’s not good. I’m laughing at myself because I was like, oh, yeah, you forgot to put the Roy Woods story in the script, And now I’m noticing, Oh, I have like nine tabs open in Safari with things I didn’t put in the script. Lewis Black does have a new special, the Tragically underpromoted Tragically I Need You. That’s on YouTube.

Maybe I’ll watch that tonight, and I’m going to watch another one that I am about to tell you about. So Lewis Black is out on YouTube and Tragically I Need You Lewis Black tells the world about his life. Since COVID, Who’s Black will be guest hosting The Daily Show in June. Boy, what is wrong with me? There’s like nine stories I didn’t put in the script.

Good news for me though weekend shows are almost done. Then all right back to the actual script here. I’ve been picking away at that Vulture article with Ryan Williams. He was the booker on James Cordon Show. By the way, James Gordon, nice timing there with the writer strike not affecting you.

Vulture asked, why do you think the other late night shows, with the exception of Cordon and The Tonight Show have scaled back and booking comedians? A great question, Ryan Williams. The book I said, when you’re bringing a stand up on the show, you’re really farming out five to seven minutes to someone else’s point of view. And if that’s not important to you, I can see why you wouldn’t want to give up that time to support someone else when you could be creating your own content. For us, we really wanted to make stand up a big part of the show.

It was important for us to prioritize elevating outside voices. But even from a production point of view, stand up is so valuable because it’s basically filling an act of the show where the writers don’t have to write anything. Oh okay, hey, guess what we’re going to see. On a lot of late night shows when they come back, so the right issues like will people cross picket lines? But usually what happens is one of the late night shows decides to come back and write their own material.

Conan came back early, Letterman came back earlier. I’m going to place a dollar on it’ll be Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, book some stand ups on a band and hey, we’re back. I mean they did the show string COVID. They’ll figure it out, all right.

Ryan Williams, where do you see stand up on Late night? Going from here? Ryan said, a stand up set for late night is a very specific animal. It’s almost like a poem or a commencement speech, where it has to be structured in a very specific way and you’ve got to put a lot of time into running it to get it right. I’m curious to see what’s going to happen with this at Midnight show.

I remember when it aired it put many hilarious people on my radar for the first time as a comedy fan. I think as an opportunity to do that again. If at Midnight is able to celebrate those voices and make people look good, it could be a real revolution in late night comedy, but also who wants to be associated with Twitter right now? I don’t know how they’re going to bridge that gap of just having an AT symbol in front of their name. Very interesting.

Okay. The other special I’m planning on watching tonight Greg Warrens the Salesman. This is the one produced by Nate Bergassy. Vulture reviewed it and made me really interested in it. The jokes apparently are all about peanut butter.

Greg Warren as a former Procter and Gammel employees who spent ten years selling Jiff peanut butter, and he remains devoted to the product. Spoilers and some specific jokes come up here. In three two one, Warrens showcases his continued loyally to the brand early on roasting rival peanut butter company Peter Pan. Their mascot’s a boy refused to grow up. Maybe he couldn’t grow up because he was malnourished because he was eating that garbage.

Peanut butter named after a cartoon character. See this is already fun. He pauses and says, listen, I’m going to talk a lot about peanut butter. Vulture rights. Warren has jokes about everything from the layer of oil and organic peanut butter, to the experimental peanut butter flavors he dislikes.

To the differences between crunchy and creamy, he says, I felt guilty because we charged the same for crunchy as we did for creamy. The crunchy we didn’t finish making that. The crunchy guys are probably getting off work at noon and the creamy guys are still smashing up peanuts at five thirty. That sounds like a lot of fun. I’m going to watch that one.

I forgot to look at Sydney yesterday. I realized it late in the afternoon. Here’s a show cashing my eye. It is titled The Racist Immigrants. The reviews are pretty funny.

Five stars. Go see the show. Attributed to Kenyan Slur, an hour of unabashed comedy. They’ll leave you crying with laughter and questioning everything you know about immigrants and cultures as it attempts to break all stereotypes. That’s a fun show, and I’m remembering now I liked it when it was at Melbourne too.

All right, you know what my tastes are. Move on. Rochester First, says a comedy about Buffalo bills fans has finalized filming in the Queen City. Unbelievable. We got to work on that title, guys.

Unbelievable was shot in the Queen City and it’s all about the ups and downs Buffalo Bills fans have come to know. They finished filming on Sunday at Salvator’s. The coat room was transformed into a casino betting window. The fictional comedy again, Unbelievable, tell us the story of one family with three generations of Buffalo Bills fans who’ve come together the watch of the Bills play in the biggest game in team history. You know they did go to four Super Bowls?

How is this one bigger? The filming schedule will be released this fall. Details on how you watch it still being finalized. All right that it’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube where if you get your shows see tomorrow.

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Featured: President Biden, Roy Wood Jr., Pete Davidson, Kenan Thompson, John Mulaney, Bill Cosby, Hasan Piker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chase Sui Wonders

What’s in This Episode

• President Biden’s White House Correspondents Dinner comedy performance
• John Mulaney’s new special and loss of his dog Petunia
• Bill Cosby attempting comedy tour comeback
• Pete Davidson hosting SNL and discussing the difficulty of the show
• Hasan Piker’s public apology to AOC over old text message

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The shark deck. President Biden brought the funny at the White House Correspondence Dinner on Saturday. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The President said, I believe in the First Amendment, not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it. Look, I get that age is a completely reasonable issue.

It’s in everybody’s mind. And by everybody, I mean in the New York Times headline, Biden’s advanced age is a big issue. Trumps, however, is nuts. They say I’m ancient, I say I’m wise. They say I’m over the hill.

Don Lemon would say that’s a man at his prime. That one’s really good. I want everybody to have fun tonight, but please be safe. If you find yourself disoriented or confused, it’s you’re either drunk or mortary. Taylor Green Wow, President said, it’s great.

They’re the cable networks are here tonight. MSNBC owned by NBC Universal, Fox News owned by Dominion Voting Systems. Last year, your favorite Fox News reporters were able to attend because they were fully vaccinated and boosted this year with that seven and eighty seven million dollars settlement. They’re here because they couldn’t say no to a free I your host, Roy Wood Junior. These are hit and miss, but I’m sure he told them better than I will.

Real quick, mister President, I think you left some of your classified documents up here. I’ll put him in a safe place. Roy said, I’m well aware that not everybody in this room knows who I am, So let’s address the elephant in the room. Half of the room thinks I’m Keenan Thompson, and the other half thanks, I’m Louis Armstrong. President Biden thinks I’m the daddy on family matters.

He joked about Don Lemon. How funny is it that you work in the news, then watch on the news that you get fired from the news. Sucker Carlson’s out of a job. Some people celebrating, But to Sucker staff, I want you to know that I know what you’re feeling. I work at the Daily Show, so I too have been blindsided by the sudden departure of a host on a fake news program.

Fox claimed that Dominion conspired with the Democrats to rigg the election. The Democrats should be flattered that they thought y’all were smart enough to rigg an election. He dressed Ron de Santis and said, Ron, everybody knows how to do politics. This is America. We don’t pass laws.

You make a promise to voters and then you don’t do it. That’s what the great leaders in this room understand. This one’s pretty good. When the retirement age went up two years ago to sixty four in France, they rioted because they didn’t want to work till sixty four.

Meanwhile, in America, we have an eighty year old man begging us for four mor…

Good stuff, all right, awkward transition. I have sad news to begin the program today. John Mulaney mourning the loss of his beloved dog Petunia. John Mulaney shared a photo on Instagram on Friday, saying, Petunia, I loved you from the first moment I saw you. Rest in peace.

Thank you for being my little shadow. I did watch John Mulaney’s special on Sunday, and I didn’t come here to be negative. I will just share my experience. I was watching it, I’m like, this is fine, and around the twenty nine minute mark, my desire to go watch the night agent outweigh my desire to see what Mullaney had to say for the rest of the show. So I bailed.

It’s not bad at all. I’m sure you’ll watch it and be like, wow, there’s really funny. Johnny Mac must be in a bad mood. Totally get it. It’s not going to make my end of the Year list, but it’s not bad.

I just there’s nothing remarkable about it. And I reflected on this last night, and I think I came away feeling like John Mulaney was doing a performance. I understand all stand up comedy is a performance. It just didn’t feel I didn’t feel connected to it. Even though the guy is bearing a soul and telling a stylized version of what happened to him, it just didn’t connect with me.

So I just wasn’t feeling that one. Hope you enjoyed it. I know a lot of people did. The reviews were very good. Radar Online took a look at Bill Cosby’s upcoming tour.

They wrote, disgraced sex past Bill Cosby eighty five, We’ll still get redemption with a new comedy career. As Radar Online is told, promoters are begging the actor to tour, despite reports that say otherwise. There were some rumors going around that comedy clubs were not willing to book mister Cosby. His representative Andrew Wyatt told Rader Online, Unfortunately, when we announced the summer tour on the Scott Spears radio show last year, alleged accusers and I think radar I Online pointed out that there were six alleged accusers. Alleged accusers came out of hiding in order to create a distraction without having any proof facts or truth, I can emphatically state that mister Cosby is not having a hard time locking down venues.

We’ve been contacted by at least ten promoters is wanting the tour him, as well as many nonprofit organizations requesting for mister Cosby to perform slash host private events. Pete Davidson will host Saturday Night Live this upcoming Saturday. He was on Fallon Show and he choked that shows hard. I had a weird little gig there because I would do my thing once in a while and they’ll let me do whatever. But I was like, you guys work really hard.

I was like, I’m going to be in more than one sketch. That’s crazy. Keenan Thompson said it’s like a week off for us. Because Pete knows how to do the show, we don’t have to handwalk him through every single part of it. Usually the host come with ideas too, so a quarter of the show is almost already done.

Just a fun, easy week for us. He’s a good kid. He’s done a lot of work in a short amount of time at a very high level. So we’re all just proud of him and want to support him. I did see he was hanging out with Chase Sweet Wonders.

No, not Keenan Thompson, Pete Davidson, clarify who you mean by he Johnny get in trouble at the Pronouns was hanging out with Chase Sweet Wonders. So they didn’t take pictures together at the Little Oppressor last week, but they were hanging out this weekend. Hary Condebolo has clear the air with Representative Alexandria Okazio Cortez. You know her as AOC. If you have watched this recent special Vacation Baby on YouTube, you know the setup here.

If not, you should watch it. I’ll try and condense it. Back when before she was famous, he got a text from her saying they should collaborate, and he kind of blew her off, and he tells a funny version of that. AOC had texted him, if you ever liked to collaborate, let me know my door is open, and Horry said, and I replied, I’m pretty busy right now. When I get back to me next year, and then tagged it, thanks for doing what you do.

Alexis Hory then says I’m reading a scroll at the bottom of the screen. It says Alexandriocazio. Oh shoot, was that the lady shamelessly the Nights Sheet. Wan I finally wrote back, Oh my god, you did it. I knew you’d win.

So last week Harry issued a public apology to her. AOC wrote back, I gota belitely and totally understand. This is hilarious. Harry wrote, Oh, thank god. You know we should totally collaborate sometime.

If you like what I do here, go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Common News. Now you hear this. Now I’m emotionally torn about this. I woke up on Monday and I opened up the app for the National Donus Shane.

The National Donus chain was like, Hey, if you buy anything on Monday, we’ll give you a free medium, and I’m like, well, that’s awesome, but I kind of want a large. Can I take the free medium and give you an extra two bucks and you give me a large? Nope, it’s a free medium or pay for one yourself. And I’m like, it’s like, I feel bad that they gave me this free coffee, but it’s not big enough fortunately for me. Kara, would you know herr?

She’s got the book The Power of the Street, and she’s got the newsletter called Knock It Off. Told you about that yesterday. Well, apparently she appreciated my live read yesterday. I did some wordplay in there. I didn’t actually say anything read the transcript.

I didn’t say a thing, but I did put some spin on a couple of the words and got a good chuckle out of a bunch of people, including Kara Wood. So she bought me three coffees that buy meat Coffee dot com slash Daily Commune is. Apparently I made her giggle while she was driving to work. Karen, thank you for the coffees. I’m gonna take your five bucks out on the National Donus chain and I’ll get a large ice coffee like I want, not this little small one.

But it’s free. It’s like, hey, Jenny Mack, they gave you a free coffee. Why don’t you shut up but appreciate it? I know, right. Scott Ackerman has hit episode eight hundred of the comedy Bang Bang Podcast.

Bridey asked will he wrap it up, and he said, I don’t feel creatively stifled by it, And in my mind sort of things approaching, like the one thousandth episode or the twentieth anniversary, you always kind of go be interesting to end on a nice round number. Then you check in with yourself, do you even want to end it? You don’t have to end on a nice round number. I’m semi worried about passing away before I decide to end the show and having the last episode ever be a clunker. So I’m really interested in recording a final episode that we keep on the vault in case I pass away.

But at this point now I’m still in it, still enjoying. It feels weird to be doing anything at my age, but it’s something that I still love doing. Kind Of like that idea, maybe I’ll record like an episode about Adam Sandler or saying nice things, and I’ll schedule it for I don’t know, twenty ninety and then those of you who are still around will magically get an episode one day, although who’s paying for the hosting? Never mind? Hey remember that article in Vulture with the guy who booked the Late Late Show Comedians.

His name is Ryan Williams. Very good article in the Facebook group Daily Comedy to News podcast group. Last week, Welt asked Ryan Williams the book or Hey, any young comedians you feel particularly proud of? Championed early on, Ryan said, I feel like I got on the ground floor of the Otsco at COSTCA train. She’s incredible.

It was another one of those moments where I watched the clip and I got so excited about the possibility of putting that person on television. She’s got a unique vibe, kind of a childlike innocence with a really intelligent, cynical take wrapped up in it. Yeah, I’d love her all right. Ryan, was there a set where you were like, this is unique, I gotta put this on TV? He said, I’m really proud of the Maria Bamford set that we had about a year ago.

I got an email with the original which was focused on her mother passic away and dealing with that grief of that in a charming way. That’s exactly the type of thing I would normally try to steer a stand up comedian away from. I’d say, this is incredible and thoughtful and brilliant, but maybe not the best hit for our audience. But she was kind of gracious enough to send over another set that wasn’t sort of focused on death and morbidity, and comparing the two of them, it took the wind out of my sales. I was like, we have the choice to put this really emotionally riveting set on air.

I think we have to go for it. The response to Maria’s set was really strong and positive, and I think that kind of gave us the green light for the past year or so to be a little more daring. He also talked about the censors. This is interesting, he said, you’re usually able to find a compromise with the comedian that preserves the integrity of the joke. But there are moments of silliness.

You can say erection, you can’t say hard. It’s that kind of stuff where, for some reason, the very clinical, almost more repulsive names where things are fine, whereas the more colloquial slang terms gets shut down my standards and practices. Try and get to more of that article tomorrow. Really good and again I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Community was Podcast group. Another really good read was from the Huffington Post.

Lawrence Ross wrote it take summarizing how a generation of comedians are kind of reaching their end. I’m sharing the lead there because I don’t want you to think that he was just beating up on Monique. But he did beat up on Monique. Lawrence Ross f Huffington Post writes, Monique’s much anticipated Netflix special My Name Is Monique is bad as it not good, double plus, ungod, terrible, A profane therapy session without the funny introspection that comes from projective vomiting your pain, an aimless screed that masquerades is human, a comedy special foreshadowed by the legitimate social issues of pay equity, colorism, fatphobia, and Jim Crow Hollywood, and it fell short of any sense of being a validation of her protests. But you know what, Monique ain’t alone, Lawrence Ross writes.

Marlon wayains God Loves Me was awful, Chris Rock selective outrage was pitiful, and Dave Chappelle now does sort of an unfunny black libertarian stick that hughes embarrassingly close to the homophobia of right wing nutcases. Why why are these iconic black gen x comedians not funny in twenty twenty three? Easy? They don’t have anything relevant to say anymore, and that scares them more than anything else in the world. The Black gen X comedy scene hit right during the Bill Clinton era the nineties, just as hip hop move from niche music to a global phenomenon.

Black gen X comedians perfectly represented hip hop and the attitude of Black gen xers, the children of the movements in the sixties and seventies, Black gen xers with the beneficiaries of a new open world that created complications and problems integrated schools, bussing, segregated schools, reagonomics, the AIDS crisis, the crack epidemic, firmative action, the suburbs. Pop culture, black music, and white music are all represented by the average de la soul joints that was Black gen x in a nutshell, and when it came to comedy, they were the children of parents who played red Fox, loppy White Franklin Jay and Richard Pryor Abbs and corny stuff like Bob Newhart that just happened to be on the shelf, so you played it too. When HBO was black Twitter before black Twitter, def comedy cham was our communal comedic church. The observational comedy of Rock Chapel, Mac Harvey, Monique and Wayins was so abiquitous in our lives the way we say Rock Chapel, Mac Harvey, Monique and Wayans by one name. They were tapped into the black zeitgeist.

They understood us. Flash four to thirty years later, What has changed well a lot is a really good article. Ross writes, many of the black gen X comedians struggle to recapture that piece of the blackness of today that made them seem relevantly the past. Does money and fame remove you from the humanity that’s struggling up and coming comedians see is you’re protected by your tinted windows and the security crew. Or maybe ego makes you think you’re being deep but you’re not.

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Featured: Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Bobcat Goldthwait, Tom Kenny, Tim Kazarinski, Victoria Vincent, Adam Burke, Jay McBride

What’s in This Episode

• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 16 premiere date and plot details
• Glenn Howerton discusses the show’s approach to envelope-pushing comedy
• Rob McElhenney addresses blackface controversy in Lethal Weapon episodes
• Pete Davidson rebranding as Peter Davidson for Taco Bell campaign
• Bobcat Goldthwait album release show at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago

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The Shark Deck. I am shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. Did you catch the end of Sunday’s episode? Got a little awkward and I could have taken it out, but like I said yesterday, that’s no fun. All right?

It’s always sunny in Philadelphia is back for season sixteen June seventh. It’ll be out and we are told this year alone. Mac battles with allergies and long distance dating, Charlie takes on his long forgotten sisters, d fights for rent control and women’s athletics, Frank wrestles for his gun, and Dennis struggles to improve his mental health. Up Rocks had recently spoke to Glenn Howarton, who plays Dennis. Glenn says the show doesn’t push the envelope just for the sake of it.

The way the show’s talking about it’s is if that’s our goal, or that our goals to push the boundaries of what’s decent or whatever, and that’s never the goal. That being said, what the goal is is to make people laugh and oft in order to do so, you kind of have to shake them up a little bit. The best jokes to me are slightly a cerviic and make you, Oh, can you say that that’s just what I like because I like to be provoked. I like to be poked at by art. For me, it’s more about raising questions, forcing people on any side of particular issue to sort of face wood is often absurd about their point of view or the reasons behind their point of view, poking fun at the extremes on any side of any given issue or argument.

I mean, that’s just what the show has always been about. Rob mcillennie, who’s like Hollywood’s Darling now, especially since the soccer team got promoted it, admitted the show may have gone a little too far by putting his character Mac in blackface in the tradition of tropic thunder. He did that as part of a lethal weapon hearty. Netflix removed that episode back in twenty twenty one, that was over ten years after the original air date. At the time, mcillenny addressed the controversy, saying, I find that my broometer is off for what’s appropriate sometimes in situations, because like we’ve spent fifteen years making a show about the worst people on the planet, because it’s satire.

We leaned so heavily into the idea and then we were always like right on the razor’s edge. That’s the only way sat Hire works.

And then I go and do something else, and I’m pitching something and I realize…

Mac addressed it on the show in the episode The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon seven. In that episode, Mac apologizes for wearing black face in Lethal Weapon five, and the other is remind him that he wore black face and Lethal Weapon six as well, a detail that’s slipped by the Netflix sensors. This article says Howardson said, back at twenty fifteen, by the time we got to season three, I remember having a specific conversation with the guys where our attitude was like, any minute, the show is going to get canceled. So Evitt, let’s see how far we can go with these characters. Let’s see how far we can push them.

Pete Davidson doing more taco bell ads. We’re going to see a lot of Pete Davidson articles this week. In the new campaign called Breakfast with Peter. Pete Davidson is being referred to Peter rather than Pete. Peter is a morning talk show host.

The character says, good morning, I’m Peter Davidson. None Pete, because before eleven am. I like to keep it toned down and simple, just like Taco Bell breakfast.

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Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner, Pete Davidson and girlfriend Chase Sweet wonders…

Page six says Pete was wearing an oversized hoodie and chocolate brown ugs. He completed his look with a denim duster. The Chicago Sometimes had a great review of bobcat Goldthwaite’s show in Chicago last Wednesday that I mentioned this on Friday’s episode, Becky, the listener was there, Hello, Becky, thank you for your note. Sometimes right, it’s on a chilly Wednesday night in late April. Yeah, I was in town on Tuesday.

My original plan was to hit the Cubs game, and then I saw the forecast was in the forties and I’m like, no Cubs game, and I changed my flight and I came home Tuesday night less than one hundred comedy fans politely moved from the bar at the Lincoln Lodge in Bucktown into the theater. They talked about how Bobcat no longer really does love that thing and said a more measured into Muror Glthwaite step to the mic at the Lincoln Lodge celebrating release of his comedy album Soldier for Christ. By the way, I played that on The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. You can get the app and listen to The Weekly Comedy Thing for free on the Live one amp.

Golth Weight was sporting dark rimmed glasses, a Havana style for Dora, cozy flannel shirt and a T shirt and blazon with a penguin. His opening line, you don’t look the same either. Love that joke that was his previous album’s title two. The evening’s lineup was stacked Eugene Merman, whose credits include something called Bob’s Burgers. Now, let me ask you two questions.

One, have you ever actually seen Bob’s Burgers. I know you’ve heard of it, I get it. I know you’ve seen the merch. I know you’ve seen the promos. I know you’ve heard Joe Buck talk about it for years during Fox football games.

But have you ever actually seen Bobsburgers? No? More importantly, second question, have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? That answers also no, and that’s very curious, I digress.

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Also on the bill, Victoria Vincent credits Just for laughs, Adam Burke credit…

Amy Schumer also encourage you to watch Jay McBride’s special on YouTube, which is fantastic. Surprises included Tim Kazarinsky credits, Police Academy two through four and Saturday Night Live forty years Ago Somehow and voice actor Tom Kenney, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rick and Morty Goldthwaite’s performance, which was made of jokes that didn’t make the album, skewed towards the ravages of aging. His doctor chastised him for smoking cigars, and when he points out that Gratcho, Marks and George Burns lived very long lives, as doctor returned with, well they were famous comedians. As a great joke, the Mr Right technician knew Goldthwaite and did an impression as the procedure started. While receiving shoulder replacement surgery, Goldthwaite was asked if he preferred a cadaver’s shoulder or an artificial one.

He chose an artificial one, of course, because he didn’t want to have to ask where was my shoulder? On January sixth, says like the sporting acts were good too. Victoria Vincent laughed at her younger days spent writing fan fiction about the band A good Charlotte. Adam Burke joked about kidney stones as like a healing crystal, but the opposite. Oh I get those?

Yeah, man, you don’t want that, You really don’t want that. Tim Kazariski embraced his dad humor vibes by reading a bad Russian translation off a box of instant rice and telling two jokes. One might find an dirty Joke book. How old is Tim Kazarinski now? Seventy three?

Wow? Jay McBride, a trans woman in case you’re not familiar with Jay, but it’s relevant to the joke, joked about her breast being as the best ten thousand pacos I’ve ever spent the suntime said. The pinnacle of the show occurred when Kenny joined Golthwaite on stage for the final act. They’ve been friends since elementary school and started out in comedy together. Kenny is the one who originated the Bobcat nickname.

They did two songs together, and Golthwaite admitted to being more nervous singing about a duck than he was descending naked at a Nirvana show. Today’s Daily Comedy News is brought to you by the power of the Streak. I’ve told you about this on and off. This is Kara Wood’s book about how you should stay consistent with exercise and keep motivated over time. I need to read this thing again.

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Go to knock it off dot substack dot com. Carowood, thank you for supporting today’s Daily Comedy News. I am planning on going for a run today now tomorrow. I gotta take my mom to the doctor Saturday of an excuse from morrow, so I should run today. The Daily Cardinal caught up with Drew Lynch.

You know him from America’s Got Talent, and The Daily Cardinal said, those who know you from America’s Got Talent likely know of your stutter. What’s happened with the stutter since twenty fifteen? How do you feel about the fact that it’s improved. How would you say it affects your comedy? Now, that’s a very good question, Drew.

As some may know from AMGT, I had a softball injury. It was a ground or to the throat and then I fell and hit my head on the ground. I had concussion. The concussion was something that I went to sleep on the next day, I woke up and I had to be rushed to the hospital because my motor skills and speech were off. I was twelve years ago.

It’s been a long journey of not only trying to remedy it, but also living my life with it. There’s some days where there’s certain triggers or things you get stuck on. I’ve been a speech therapy, seeing a neurologist, chiropractors and physical therapists and rehabilitation. I think ultimately it’s been something that I’ve learned to not make such a big deal about, and ironically it’s become less less a thing because of my own lightning up. I always used to think everything was an attack or people thought less of me because of the stutter.

Fortunately, my career makes me able to be very self deprecating by being aware of it. But for the most part. I’m glad I don’t use it as a crutch. I don’t want it to be something I need to have to do comedy I always wanted to be about the things I’m saying, not the way I’m saying them. Tuesday is another quiet day at the Sydney Comedy Festival, basically the same lineup as yesterday.

We can go to the Sydney Comedy Festivals Happy Hour or the Still Showcase or let’s just hanging out a Bandai beach again. From The Guardian Diane Forrest. She’s eighty eight and says she’s the world’s oldest female stand up comedian. Diane was sixty eight when she first stepped on stage as a stand up in two thousand and three. She says, I’ve never set foot in a comedy club before.

I’ve always put a performer or a singer after a musician. But then all came to an end. After nine to eleven, I live in New York and we watched the twin towers fall from my apartment building. For a year afterwards, nobody wanted to go out or be entertained. It was then that I started to think about comedy.

I realized people need to laugh, and I thought, with a little training, I could do it. I took a few classes, try to work out a routine, got the courage. Went up on stage the first time was terrifying. No idea what the audience would make of me? All right, fast forward to today.

My first line is hello everybody, I’m eighty eight, three quarters years old. I’m telling you that in case I don’t make it all the way through the show.

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And then people laugh.

Diane says she’d makes some jokes people would consider risque. She jokes about not having the energy for sixty nine so my and it adds. People are surprised to hear an older person talk about sex. Yes, she says, I’m more of a period in real life, but I have an onstage persona. After a show, people young and old come up to me saying, what an inspiration I am.

One thing that surprised me is the number of young men who hit on me after a show. I might make a joke about being a cougar and they’ll hang out outside afterwards waited to talk to me. Guys who are such horndogs. They often ask me out and it’s not my brain there After all right, you go tie in met your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Vince Vaughn, James Corden, Ryan Williams, Ray Romano, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, Trevor Noah, Eddie Izzard

What’s in This Episode

• Vince Vaughn Dodgeball sequel announcement
• Late Late Show with James Corden booking process and legacy
• James Corden final episode with late night hosts cameos
• Ray Romano relationship advice and favorite things interview
• Harry Knowles discusses cancel culture and comedian accountability
• Eddie Izzard adds Susie to her name, discusses gender fluidity

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The Shark Deck. Vince Vaughn has a terrible idea. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Vince Vaughn will return and star in a sequel to Dodgeball. Dodgeball came out in two thousand and four.

Who’s in it? Who knows what’s the plot? All we know is it will continue the story of Vince Vaughn’s prize winning Jim owner Ross and Marshall Thurber wrote and directed the original film You Know back in two thousand and four. In twenty twenty one, Thurber told Deadline you know what, never say never. I never thought about Dodgeball as a series, but that might actually be fun.

I’m really proud of Dodgeball. Terrible idea, I don’t do it. Great article on Vulture which I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group about the comedy book or on The Late Late Show with James Cordon. Vulture gives credit to The Late Late Show as being in an early showcase for people like Jackie Novak and exposing Americans to popular British acts like James A. Castor and Remesh Rag and Nathan.

Ryan Williams was the book on the show, and Vulture asked him, Hey, before coming to that show, you worked as a booker for both Letterman and Fallon. How is your approach different here? Ryan Williams said, the one thing that every late night show has in common is that a lot of what you’re doing is tailor till the host’s taste. James came from a place where he wasn’t a stand up comedian. He definitely a taste and people he loved.

But to begin it was pretty much about showing off American stand ups to James and trying to find people who tickled his fancy. As time went on, I was able to branch out a little bit, all right, What was the booking process? Like? Ryan says, most of the submissions came via email from people’s agents and managers, a lot of times to get referrals from stand ups who’d been on the show. Those are the ones that get the most excited about when a stand up was here, did really well and clearly got what was all about and let them know.

Hey, as you’re going about the world, keep me in mind. I’d love to hear about folks that you see are ready and have solid sets, especially pre COVID. I was at the club’s lot more often than I am now, trying to go to different industry showcases and dropping in at hot Tub when that was a thing, hot Tub being the weekly variety show hosted by Kurt Ronoller and Kristin Shawl. Some of the people who performed at hot Tub you may have heard of them, as hecent sorry, Eugene Merman, Jeanine Garoffalo, Reggie Watts, t J. Miller, Dmitri, Martin, Patton, Oswalt, Kevin Meaney.

I digress, Ryan, what were you looking for as you went through the submissions? He told Vulture. It’s very much about balancing out an interesting point of view that’s also very palatable to a mainstream audience. I ways trying to keep in mind of the folks showing up to watch a late night talk show taping aren’t necessarily the same folks who would show up to a comedy club. I’d avoid more challenging material for the most part, with a few exceptions.

Vulture asked when Ryan looks back in his favorite sets, what comes to mind? Ryan said, the first one that comes to mind is Jacqueline Novak, who’s super funny. I think we were her late night debut here. She was one of the first more creative bookings. We had someone who was going after exciting, interesting points of view and maybe people don’t necessarily fit the standard traditional late night moult.

She had a really funny set and has gone on to do great things. More from that article tomorrow. On Corton’s last show, he had a great pre recorded segment that featured Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and David Letterman. In it, they wake up Cordon in the middle of the night and they want to make sure that Cordon does not give away their secrets, including the fact that they don’t always watch the projects that the guests are promoting, and they try to convince them stick around. Colbert says, James, have you thought this through?

What other job will allow you to break in a song and dance every night. The segment then jumps ahead six months as James, Cordon and Trevor Noah are competing on the Masked Singer. That’s pretty funny. There was also a joke about how James will have to grow a long beard, and that sparked the Letterman cameo, which made me Smile. Baride magazine caught up with Ray Romano.

Hey, Ray, you’ve been married since nineteen eighty seven. Do you have any pearls of relationship wisdom? Hey, who doesn’t want marital advice from Ray Romano? I’ll take some, Ray said, oh boy, well this came from one of many many therapists have had in my life. That’s a great start.

And his quote was, pretend you’re not a narcissist. What he means is pay attention, get out of yourself once in a while, and make sure you show them that they matter. Not that I don’t do that, but when you’re in the business, you’re sometimes so wrapped up in yourself that you’ve got to remember it. All Right, Ray, let’s go over your favorites all time favorite movie, he says, Rocky the first one. Favorite pizza place in Queens Lillian Pizzeria in Forest Hills.

Oh, listen to me. I’ve lived in New Jersey for a while, I said Forest Hills, didn’t I I’m from Queens, Forest Hills, Forest Hills. Hey, let’s head over to Forest Hills. Wow, I can’t believe I did that. Forest Hills.

I’m sure, Ray said Forrest first comedy album. He doesn’t remember, but he says it was Cheech and Chong go to hobby playing poker. You’ve got to be willing to go all in or they’ll push you around. Secret talent Ray Romano has. He says, I can aim any capital of any country in the world.

I’m not kidding, but it doesn’t mean I’m smart. Favorite early celebrity encounter he said, I delivered a futon to Larry David in the eighties. That was before Seinfeld, but I knew him from that TV show Fridays. Remember Fridays. Yeah, I asked him what I’m with Fridays and he goes, eh, enjoy what I do here?

Head on over to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. As usual, when I get around and recording the show, there’s not much coffee left. Let’s say, you know how the National Donut chain has the cups. They’re skinny around the bottom so they fit in your cupholder and then they get thick. I only have these skinny part left, so you can buy me a coffee.

And buy me coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There are five bucks of the tip jar. You know what I’ll do with it? Yahoo asked Hurry Knobolu Hey, as a comedian, do you feel like cancel culture is a true threat. Everybody has to ask every comedian that question.

Why not? Hurry said, not really. I feel like who really gets canceled? Luis c K won a Grammy last year. There’s comics who fill out huge stadiums or at least a thousand seat theaters.

Saying you can’t say anything anymore would help them. Excuse me, kind of clear my throat there, like you can’t say anything, you can’t say anything more, and when you’re in front of a thousand people, when you’re on TV and specials. So I don’t think cancelation is a real thing. I think criticism is real, and I think people, particularly comics, aren’t used to accountability. Look, I’ve had people call me out.

I don’t like it. Either nobody wants to be told that was ridiculous or that’s offensive. But that’s how it works when you throw your ideas into a public sphere. Stand ups always complained that nobody cares about us, we’re never heard. Where the workhorse is the entertainment industry, and then somebody actually values the words that out of your mouth and you get upset.

Well, it doesn’t work that way. People love you because of what you say. That also runs the risk of you stumbling and saying something you might later regret. The Guardian caught up with Susie Eddie Izzard and they were asking Susie Eddiezzard, all right, what do we even call you these days? The artists are formerly known as Eddie Iszard recently announced she was adding Susie to her name.

Iszard told The Guardian, I think stay with Eddie because that’s my public name and I’m gender fluid. I don’t want to lose Eddie. What I don’t want is Susie. Eddie Izard said that she’s using Susie on food delivery apps. They don’t say anything when they give you your order except there you go, but you can see it on your phone.

Susie, your food is on its way. The Sydney Morning Harold caught up with Dylan Morne, who said, the jig is up with our own b s. We see that we’ve been living because we’ve had the net for twenty years. I’m in my fifties and I have that retrospect to flow. But now we’re thinking.

We definitely had a better time. We cared less about everything, We were less neurotic, we were less frazzled. At the time. You wonder what could we have done. We didn’t know.

They told us things were good, and we rocked along with it and we were dumb about it. Seems suspicious to me because it went on for so long. You’re thinking, Jesus, where’s the war. There’s usually a war. Well, now there is, and everybody hates everybody, and the Cold War is not golden anymore.

It’s definitely above room temperature by now. He talked about posting his ramblings on Instagram and said, I don’t spend too much time on it. They’re practical aspects, but there’s zero relational nutrition in it. It’s not going to make you feel anything real. When TV first came out, people said it was an invention for lonely people, and it’s obviously true with this too.

We’re in an epidemic of people feeling isolated, being alone together. It’s a machine dialogue that you’re in. It’s weird. Do you want to be in a machine dialogue? Or do you want to live your effing life as an organic human?

Being It’s like a sex dollar. It’s so far away from reality. People complain about being alone, but what they really mean is they’re frightened of finding out what it is to be a person, to walk around the grounds of their own mind. They want instead to be given guided hoards of bs to distract them before they get a chance to do that. We’re giving away the best of ourselves to tech companies.

We need to reclaim ourselves. There’s an opportunity now to be honest. What is it you want? We’re carry on moaning for the rest of your effing lives. Dylan morn shows called We Got This.

He’s at the State Theater in Sydney until May eleventh. Let’s see who else is at Sydney on what’s today Sunday? You’re recording this on Friday? Joan, Yeah, Monday. Let’s see, it’s Sydney on Monday, May first.

How did that happen already? All right? Apparently the Sydneyans take Mondays off. All we really have is the Sydney Comedy Festival, Showcase at the Bondai Pavilion and the Happy Hour. So I’ll tell you what.

I would head over to Bondai because that’s where Bondai Beach obviously is. And I’ve been there and I had a great day. It’s my number two raked beach in the world. San Sebastian Spain at number one, but Bondai Beach fantastic. We should just hang out of the beach and blow off comedy today and by today I mean tomorrow.

This time zone stuff gets so confusing. Are you in Toronto? Well tonight Joker’s Wild, a triple X roast battle strip show. It’s in the comedy bar Ossington. Here’s the details.

Comedians bear at all for your laughs at Joker’s while to show the combines explosive roast battles with poker. Okay, seven o’clock. How does it work? Toronto’s best comedians exchange vicious barbs and whoever doesn’t land has to take off a piece of clothing. So think about it.

Say you were there and Jeff Ross, the roastmaster, was there and he was having an off night, you might be able to see Jeff Ross naked? Is that not attractive to you? Come on? So I’m trying to think of who are some of the best roasters looking for lists? Here here’s one from twenty eighteen, where Vulture had the best Rossetts of all time, Right, Jeff Ross We’ve already visioned him naked Drew Carry for roasting Hugh Heffner in two thousand and one.

Imagine Drew Carry was there and lost a trip poker. You got to see him naked. Sarah Silverman, I don’t want to get creepeal move on, Todd Barry Patton Oswal Yeah, Whitney Cummings, this could easily get creepyat John Why don’t you bail on this segment and just shut up? Okay, good advice. Why didn’t you edit that out?

Because that’s not fun? Where were we? Oh? Yeah, the comedians were roasting each other and if you don’t land a joke, you take off a piece of clothing and you can imagine the people I just discussed. The show was created by Toronto’s Sebastian Fazzio, known professionally as Roastmaster, Bash Jokers, Wild Comedy, bar Ossington seven o’clock.

You should go comedy Naked People? Why not that your companies for today? Why didn’t you edit that out? Follow a show for free on Apple podcast Spotify, you too, where we get your shows? See you tomorrow.

Who doesn’t like vacations? Do you need some inspiration for your next road trip? Are you excited to get out there and explore the world again? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac. My podcast is called Travel is Back.

Travel is Back is travel for regular people. Hop in the car with like coach views or miles. We eat at normal places, we stay at normal places. So what I do is I hop in the car and I grab my portable recorder and I go somewhere. Season three kicks off of a road trip to Key West.

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Featured: Roy Wood Jr., Seth Meyers, Cecily Strong, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien, Ray Romano, Paula Poundstone, Hasan Minhaj, Jay Pharoah, Harry Kannabalu, Brian Reagan, Angela Johnson Reyes

What’s in This Episode

• Roy Wood Jr. hosts White House Correspondents’ Dinner
• Tucker Carlson fired from Fox News
• Ray Romano reflects on Everybody Loves Raymond legacy
• Comedian pre-show routines and nervousness
• Angela Johnson Reyes sixth comedy special on YouTube
• Sydney Comedy Festival coverage

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck, Johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News to nice is the White House Correspondence Dinner your host? Roy Wood Junior. Roywood Junior told The Birmingham Times the Correspondence Dinner is different from hosting the Daily Show because ain’t nothing could prepare you for it. Previous host of the Dinner and Seth Meyers, Cecily Strong, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brian, Ray Romano, Paula Poundstone would say, as I take it as an honor to basically be a voice for the voters, you have to come in and swing the big stick. The difference between the Correspondents Dinner and the Daily Show is the studio audience is not interested in laughing.

In DC, I can’t toss it to a break. If a joke bombs, I have to live with it now. Earlier in the week, Sucker Carlson got fired and Hasan Minhaj tweeted, pretty sure Roywood Junior is updating his remark slash roast for the White House Correspondents Dinner now, would reply and wrote, updating, Man, I gotta throw out the whole damn script. Roy was also on Sam Sanders podcast, as recapped here by Vulture, Roy said, people are like, well, what are you gonna say who you’re gonna go after? And I’m like, go after them?

And then what are they going to resign the next day? You’ve got a bunch of Clarence Thomas jokes, but I don’t imagine I have one that’ll make them resign. I could joke about Clarence Thomas getting flown around the country like an Instagram model. The whole thing could be Clarence Thomas jokes. But there’s a little bit of c ort we need to get into.

There’s some Desanta’s versus Trump we need to get into. There’s some Democrats filipbustering the Republicans police reform bill. We need to get into that. That’s the thing. There’s questions to explore.

But then you have to wonder, Okay, am I here to make a point or am I here to be funny? I’m here to be funny. Nobody in the room is my ally. I’m for the people. Comedians are for the people.

Make no bones about it. I’m a black American raising the American South, and there’s certain truths about that experience that we need to change, and I’m not here to camouflage that. I wasn’t hired to give a speech, but I was hired to give a little bit of truth. I’m not to Gregory. I don’t have the ability to oscillate between humor and anger, effortlessly and indignation.

I don’t think I possessed that. But I think there’s a way to talk about the black experience. I do know we’ll have a conversation about reparations somewhere up in there. You think I’m going to be, as a Black American on the biggest stage in front of the most powerful people and not tell I’m to consider reparations. Who else will have the opportunity to have the undivided attention of lawmakers?

Is he nervous? And he said, yeah, it’s a challenge. I remember earlier in my career walking through Time Square profusely sweating because I had to go on David Letterman. I could do that with my eyes closed now, but this yeah, I’ll be walking through the National Mall sweating. Salon talked to Jay Farrow and he said, you gotta put the work in.

You have to have a team. You can’t do without a team. Everybody is a team. Even people you think, like Michael Jackson had a team. Prince, Well, Prince is the only one who could do by himself.

Okay, he’s the only one. Everybody else they need a team. Prince was just like, I don’t care. I play every instrument. I don’t need anybody.

And he didn’t. He played twenty two instruments. Jay said, can we talk about the time I was on Family Feud and they were asking the biggest pop stars of all time? And I said Prince and it wasn’t even on the board. Even Steve Harvey said that don’t make no sense.

Everybody leave, Everybody leave, We’re walking out of here. Everybody just got up and walked out. Yahoo asked, Hurry Kanaboloo, Hey, Harry Kannabulu. Do you have a pre show routine? Harry said, yes.

I paced a lot. I talked to myself, especially if it’s the first show of a run, like if I’m doing a bunch of shows, the first couple of were I’m the first nervous. I’m always pacing. I’m always thinking about getting the joke order right. Remember the new jokes I added to an old joke.

I don’t like it when other people in the room talking about when I’m pacing, I want it to be quiet. I just want it to be in my head. I hate when the bathroom isn’t in the green rooms. If I have to pee, have to be with the general public. It ruins the illusion because all of a sudden, it’s like, ah, yeah, that guy I just saw pee, he’s on stage.

Parade asked Ray Romano, Hey, Ray, do you think everybody loves Raymond has received the respect it deserves? And Ray said, well, Raymond’s not hipster and young and sexy. It’s not friends or Seinfeld. It’s a little more of a family values thing. But actually think people appreciate it now in a way they didn’t even five years ago.

And I’m a glass half empty guy always finds the negative, but it holds up. Parade followed up and said, well, how can he tell IFU said, come holds up? And Ray said, look at the Honeymooners. That holds up. And it’s just two couples.

There’s something about the acting and the writing, and it holds up through time, and even as cultures change, the basic core the family stays the same. I’m not comparing our shot of the Honeymooners, but that’s basically what a show is about, and maybe that helped it stand the test of time. Will Ray do another sitcom? He said, I knew I didn’t want to do another traditional fourcamera sitcom. Raymond was my legacy in that genre.

I was drawn to something with a little more dramatic substance to it. Maybe not in tenth street drama, but I wanted to try and test myself but having someone cast me and that proved to be difficult because when you see somebody for nine years in a rold, it’s hard to see them in anything else. I ended up co creating men of a certain age. I’ll jump in. Ray was really good in that I’ve seen Ray and a few things that I’ve been like, Oh, I really like him in things.

Ray said. I was on parenthood for three years. People saw me again in a different role. The Sydney Comedy Festival continues on Sundays. Some of the names we might know Daniel kits In, we talked about him in Melbourne.

Ed Gamble is also playing Moses. Storm is there and a show called two Hearts New Zealand. We’re Pregnant and the Baby is Music reminds me of my daughter was telling me her boyfriend was like, ah, he made me watch some show. It was like twenty years old. It’s like two guys or like Australian or New Zealand or something, and they play music.

So I jump in, I go fly to the Concorde. She goes, yeah, I hated it. I’m watching it. I’m like, that’s a dad show. Dad probably likes that.

And I’m like I do. She’s like, yeah, I could stand out. I’m like, you don’t like the hip Hopopotamus. She had no idea what I was talking about. The pitch, KC got up with Brian Reagan.

Hey, Brian Reagan, do you feel like there are different types of audiences that you encounter when you’re performing. Brian said, well, what I think it’s interesting about an audience is that everybody thinks they’re reacting like from their own individual selves. What they don’t realize is they’re being influenced by everyone around them. From my perspective, I try to make the audience one thing, and then I try to get this one thing laughing. I’m not naive.

I know that it’s a bunch of individuals, but the individuals out there think I think this guy’s funny. They don’t realize that. It’s more like, we think this guy’s funny. Audiences are like those big giant flocks of birds with like a million birds, and they’re all moving around. Is one It’s bizarre to look at it and go, well, is that one thing?

Or are they all different? Angela Johnson Reius will debut her sixth comedy special, this one called Say I Want. It’ll be on YouTube May fourteenth. She produced the special herself and owns it fully, which shot at the Rheman in Nashville. Now what I like about this article from Pollstar is it gives us some hard numbers.

So in case you’re wondering how much dick comedians make, here’s some actual numbers. Paul Star reports the special performances that the Riemann sold thirty eight hundred tickets and grossed one hundred fifty six thousand, one hundred ninety four dollars according to Pollstar’s box Office. Other highlights from that shore the show in Charlotte two thousand, three hundred twenty four tickets for one hundred thirty four thousand, two hundred and ninety three dollars. The show in Atlanta twenty four fifty nine tickets, one hundred and twenty seven thousand, three forty six San Jose forty nine eighty tickets gross to two hundred and fifty one thousand dollars in change. Now that’s gross.

So who knows what happens after everybody takes their cut and expenses and accounting and I don’t know making you pay for the potato chips and the green room out and how it all works. But those are some numbers. Pretty interesting, right. Oh. As an aside, Happy ninetieth birthday to Willie Nilson.

Yeah, my mom loves Willie Nilson. Willie Neilson ninety years old. One way you could celebrate his birthday. Check out the podcast The Best Song Ever. This week it’s called the Best Song Ever This week, host Scott Frampton does a quick dive and a song and what makes it special?

And there are two Willie Nelson themed episodes you’ll find near the top of the fee. There’s one new episode, but the two below what are both about? Willie Nelson. Happy birthday, Willie. I’ve seen Willie live Foo three four times.

Fantastic. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows, and I’ll see tomorrow. Who does like vacations? Do you need some inspiration for your next road trip?

Are you excited to get out there and explore the world again? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac. My podcast is called Travel Is Back. Travel is Back is travel for regular people. We hop in the car and with like coach views or miles, we eat at normal places, We stay at normal places.

So what I do is I hop in the car and I grab my quarterable recorder and I go somewhere. Season three kicks off on the road trip to Key West. You can check out the back catalog. There are popular episodes covered Chicago, Nashville, Vancouver, Seattle, a whole bunch more. Travel Is Back road trips for regular people.

Follow show on Apple podcast or wherever you get your shows. These are quick, these are casual, and it’s for regular people like you. Travel is Back

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