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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Kimmel, Louis C.K., Jim Gaffigan, Patton Oswalt, Lewis Black, Chris Redd, Alex Moffett, Melissa Villaseñor, Trevor Noah, James Corden

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle wins Grammy for Best Comedy Album
• Fight breaks out at Dave Chappelle’s Perth Australia show
• Netflix password sharing crackdown jokes
• AI-generated Seinfeld parody banned from Twitch
• Moroccan comedian Talis apologizes for offensive World Cup joke
• Lewis Black postpones multiple shows
• SNL comedians perform at Rochester campus show
• Trevor Noah discusses leaving The Daily Show

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

The Shark Deck. Jimmy Kimmel joked about Netflix cracking down on shared accounts. I’m Jonny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy said, it’s gonna be a huge blow to Nick Cannon. This could cost him millions of dollars.

Kimmel tag don. Some people may have to go back to stealing Netflix the old fashioned way, sitting with binoculars in your neighbor’s tree. Catching up on the Grammy’s Dave Chappelle Best Comedy Album of twenty twenty three for The Closer. You remember The Closer. Some people did not enjoy the transgender material.

I expect we’ll see a little flurry of Dave Chappelle articles this week. Dave beat out Louis C.K. For Sorry, Jim Gaffigan’s Comedy Monster, Randy Rainbow’s a Little Brains, Little Talent, and Patton Oswaltz. We all scream, this is Chappelle’s fourth Grammy. Last year’s winner, it was Louis C.K.

Insert article here about comedy and cancel culture. Dave was not at the Grammys. He’s down in Australia, where news reports were that there was a fight in the crowd during a show in Perth. It actually interrupted the show, but one onlooker said, I was most impressed with how quickly Dave Chapelle got the crowd back. Chapelle showed me he’s the goat and Perth tonight and an absolute professional.

Shame. Some bogans in the crowd decided to have a fight halfway through a set. Bogan is a great word. Let’s get a proper description of what a bogan is. Bogan Australian slang for person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behavior are considered unrefined or unsophisticated.

Love it. Let’s start using that word up here. No, there’s a shame. Some bogans in the crowd decided to have a fight halfway through a set. Seems that there was some loud swearing, some yelling at a tussle before the arena staff shut things down.

There are no videos that we know of, because you know, pouches and all that yonder nonsense, and Chapelle thinks he’s going to do stuff on stage and we’re not going to find out about it. We found out about it, Dave. Let people bring in their phones. Will speaking of transgender material in your comedy an AI generated Seinfeld parody is in trouble. Let me catch you up here.

There’s an AI generated Seinfeld parody called Nothing Forever. Their creators are trying to show that a show can generate entertaining content forever. Nothing Forever was launched on December fourteenth. It’s been broadcasting since. It’s got blocky, kind of minecrafty versions of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer.

And they hang out in a brightly colored, slightly reconfigured version of Jerry sitcom apartment and they talk in cliptrobotic sentences. I watched a couple seconds of this before getting quickly bored, but I appreciate it. And there’s a laugh track that punctuates lots of not funny lines of GPT three generated dialogue. Hey, I hate people who do that. I did that last week.

Anyway, Nothing Forever has been banned on Twitch. Why The Jerry of Nothing Forever said he was thinking about doing a bit about how transgender is actually a mental illness, or how all liberals are secretly gay and want to impose their will on everyone, or something about how transgender people are ruining the fabric of society. Again, it’s the computer writing this material. What makes the computer write this material that I don’t know, but nothing forever banned for fourteen days should be bad. Ten eleven days left by the time you hear this story.

Meanwhile, from Morocco worldnews dot com, You’re home for Comedy News. A Moroccan artist and comedian who goes by Talis, has apologized to Moroccans, particularly women, saying that a joke he made was spontaneous and that he had no intention of insulting Moroccan women. What happened here He was at a ceremony hosting the Moroccan national team’s historic achievements at the twenty twenty two World Cup. Remember they did really well, Talis joked. What I like most about the national team during the World Cup is that whenever they win, I gets to hug the girl next to me.

If they qualified to the finals, I would have made the girl next to me pregnant. Moroccans deemed his joke inappropriate. He presented his apologies in a recent interview with Al Jazeera. He was asked if he wrote his jokes down before the performance. He said, now, I just got excited on stage and didn’t expect it would cause a stir be taking the wrong way.

He went on to apologize for any slip of the tongue and for any insults he might have caused. He insists that that he never intended to hurt or attack Moroccan women play an important role in society. Lewis Black had a saw a bunch of shows over the weekend. He was supposed to play Utica and Troy, New York. He put out a statement saying, and once again find myself having to apologize, which sucks for you and me.

But due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to postpone a number of shows so far this year. Nothing upsets me more, is it, No doubts upsets those of you purchased tickets expecting for me to show up. I do not like to postpone, slash cancel shows, and I rarely have in the thirty five years or so I’ve been performing. I deeply appreciate all of you who bought the tickets, and all those shows will be put back on the schedule. You’ll be given notice as soon as possible.

Thanks for your patients and sport. For many of us, this has been a bleeping year and it’s just a month old. Hopefully enough is enough. Lewis did not elaborate on what he means by being a bleeping year, why he’s missed a bunch of shows. Hope everything is okay there, Lewis.

Let’s stay in upstate New York. The Campus Times caught a comedy show in Rochester where students headed over to Kodak Hall for a night of comedy featuring Chris Red, Alex Moffett, and Melissa Va Senor. That’s good we know them all from SNL. Chris Red, Joe, I don’t even know where I am right now? What the F is this place?

Towards the end of his set, he shared some of his failed SNL pitches ready. One was called the Black Batman, where a white woman gets robbed in an alleyway in the nineteen sixties and refuses help from a black man dressed as batman, saying she wants to wait for a white batman to help her. Another sketch idea was Jamison Bond, which asked the question what if James Bond couldn’t handle his liquor? Melissa Vias Signora got up next. She shared her disappointment that during her six years on SNL she never hooked up with any of the hosts or musical guests.

Her closest encounter was a rumor that she was dating Jason Momoa, which to herds May her manager shot down. She did some impressions of Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo, also saying summer Nights from Greece, and she did both Sandy and Danny, while also impersonating a potential suitor who watches simultaneously interested and turned off. Alex Moffett was in the clean up spot. He entered speaking German gibberish with a few English words that confused the crowd. After switching over to English, he revealed that he’d be ends all of his shows like that and says usually the better the bit goes, the shorter goes, the worse it goes, the longer I’d do it.

At a recent show, he noted the German thing was going so poorly. I did it for twenty five minutes. Trevor Noah was on with James Cordon explained leaving the Daily Show and said everything comes to an end in life. Every journey has to come to its conclusion. There’s always going to be the moments you miss anything you enjoy doing well, You’re gonna miss certain elements of it, and then there are gonna be new parts of life.

You discover things he didn’t know you could do, things he didn’t know you wanted to do, waking up with your mind in an almost completely different dimension in a strange way. Now I read the news. When I want to read the news, I’ll be like, oh, maybe I won’t read it in the morning, Maybe i’ll read it in the afternoon. Sometimes I read two days of news and one day I skipped one day. And you might ask me something and be like, hey, have you heard about that, And I’ll be like, no, I haven’t, but in a week maybe I will have.

I’d totally relate. At one point, I was the program director of at Tawker Radio station, and when I got let go and I could get in the car and just listen to the radio the way you probably listen to the radio, like, oh, I listen to this, not I have to listen to that. It was very refreshing. Same thing. After I left Serious x Am, I did take a comedy break.

I just needed to get away for it for a while, and I really wasn’t watching comedy related programming at all. I would go home and I would watch The Universe on what was that on the Science Channel, you know, Neil de grass Tyson telling you about Mars, and I would just watch that stuff and kind of zone out. Clearly I’ve gotten back into comedy, I would hope. So four years into this podcast, right, Trevor on his Instagram mentioned he was in Mexico recently. Airport security there confiscated his afrocomb.

He shared with a photo afrocomb confiscated by airport security. They said they didn’t know what it is. Over the weekend, I saw that The New York Times profiled Sarah Cooper. You may remember Sarah Cooper. She was famous during the pandemic for pantomiming to Donald Trump videos on TikTok.

I was quite frustrated with the media who anointed her as like the next great thing in comedy, and I would sit here in the basement be like, she’s pantomiming to Donald Trump videos on TikTok. She’s not George Carlin. She then got a Netflix special and then has I don’t know, not quite had George Carlin’s career yet. Anyway, she must have a great agent because she got a profile in The New York Times. Again they remind us she signed with an agent, William Morris Endeavor, one of the biggest talent agencies.

Yeah, I suspect that’s at work here. Starting her own Netflix special created by Natasha Leone and Maya Rudolph. Remember that special came and went and adapted one of her books, How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, into a pilot that did not get picked up. She is also part of Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, the Pop Tart story that’s in post production. She’s now making her professional stage debut into The Wanderers, which is a drama by Anna Ziegler.

It’s in previews off Broadway the Roundabout Theater. Times asked her, it’s been three years since your first Trump video. How do you see that chapter of your life? Sarah Cooper said right away. I was very scared of just being known as the Trump girl and felt like I wanted to distance myself from it.

But I meet people just call up to me and they go, you made me laugh when it was so hard to laugh. Just made me appreciate it a lot more. Those deals help so many people and they also help me, so I’m thankful for it now, even though I know that if I die right now, my obituary would have the name Donald Trump in it, which is not great. But what are you gonna do? Is she ever attempted to do it again?

Sarah said, people ask me to do it all the time. I have no desire. I like the idea that expose the meaninglessness of his words, but I think now that it’s been exposed, there’s nothing left to do with it. Times asked, You’re not going to turn it into a cycle of other characters. Sarah said, I notice, I’m very good at lip syncing, so I’ll never say never.

But right now I’m enjoying acting, which is really what my childhood dream was. Does she miss Trump in twenty twenty? He said some brilliantly stupid things. You can’t write that stuff. The stuff he said it was goold, so I don’t want him back.

But making those videos was a lot of fun. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Meet you back here tomorrow. I’m Melissa McKay, star of the new podcast The Royals, of Malibu.

I play Ella, a sex worker just trying to survive. When I get swept away to the wealth and the drama of Malibu, you know you can like something without touching. You have made the biggest mistake of your life. Elli Sinclair, you are a total of psycho. Will Ella find it happily ever after ending or will these rich kids destroy her?

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Jim Jefferies, Josh Johnson, Dan Aykroyd, Roy Wood Jr., Jim Belushi, Trevor Noah, Dale Godboldo

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer roast coming to OnlyFans on April 1st
• Jim Jefferies new special ‘High and Dry’ on Valentine’s Day
• Josh Johnson special ‘Up Here Killing Myself’ premiering on Peacock February 17th
• Dan Aykroyd hosting Fox Nation series ‘A History of the World in Six Glasses’
• Roy Wood Jr. to host White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 29th
• State of the Union late night comedy coverage and Biden classified documents jokes
• Josh Johnson’s popularity with Comedy Central audience and Daily Show hosting consideration

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The State of the Union is tonight. I asked the AI chatbots, I write some late night style jokes. They come up with this one.

I like it. President Biden stayed up late preparing for the State of the Union. I hope he didn’t forget to turn the oven off late night itself, the actual late night no robots involved, I don’t think so. They were talking about the documents again. Jimmy Fallon said, first they searched near Biden’s corvette.

Now they’re searching his beach house. I’m starting to think Biden created this whole scandal as a humble bragg Why don’t you check my infinity pool. Maybe there’s something behind the picasso. Jimmy Kimmels said, Biden’s attorneys found documents at his main house in Delaware, and the president has a beach house in Delaware. I don’t know.

How’s that a vacation. Can you vacation from Delaware to Delaware. They didn’t find anything classified, but they did find a nineteen eighty two Zenith TV and three boxes of part Cheesy. I love the joke. When is the last time you even thought about cheesy or played it.

If you’re of a certain age, you surely played it. I don’t think I’ve played it this century, have you. Jimmy Fallons beaking of Biden, the White House announced that he will get his annual physical on February sixteenth. It’s gonna be crazy after Biden’s colin oscopy when the doctor says, there’s no easy way to tell you this, but we found more classified documents. Regular listeners, No, I’ve been in the basement with the door closed and hanging out on only fans.

What do you do? And Johnny Mac that sounds very suss Nope, I’m researching comedy, guys. I don’t know what you guys think I’m doing down here. Bert Kreisher is joining only Fans. Yeah.

The Roast of Bert Kreisher featuring Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donnel Rawlings, Tony Hinchcliff, Jim Norton, Tom Sagora, and the person they put first was Trevor Wallace. I’m not that familiar with mister Wallace. I thought it was odd that they put him first, because it doesn’t even make sense alphabetically anyway. The Roast of Bert Kreisher on Only Fans Free April First, I’ll be in the basement with the door closed. Jim Jefferies has a new special coming out Valentine’s Day.

It’s called A High End Dry with an N in the middle. I didn’t just slip into a queen’s accent there. In High and Dry, Jim Jeffreys talks about everything from stone koalas, his dad’s vasectomy, confusion, choosing between his hair and his sex drive, and more. Peacock has a special from Josh Johnson, which is a shame because it’s on Peacock, which means nobody is going to use it. Hey, guys, if you want to buy some ads, I’ll start pretending that everybody loves Peacock, but in the real world nobody has Peacock.

I’m sorry. However, Josh Johnson’s comedy is fantastic. I was prepping for the show this morning. I was playing some of his clips. He’s really, really good.

This one is called up Here Killing Myself. It’ll premiere February seventeenth. Josh Johnson, who is a writer on The Daily Show, transforms an hour of talk therapy about his relationships with money, his father, and a stalker into an hour of stand up the pressure, Lease says, and this shocked me. Josh Johnson is Comedy Central’s most watch comedian ever with forty million views. Well, he’s in the demo give him the day show?

What are you doing? Why are you wasting time? You’re ready rights for the thing? And if he’s super popular with your audience, why isn’t he hosting the show? Josh said via press release.

In my session that turned into the special, we talked about family, my feelings towards money, and just random thoughts that I didn’t feel like it could tell anyone else. The subject matter didn’t immediately jump out to me as funny. In fact, some of it was hard to make jokes about. I hope to take away from this piece is that you’re never alone. Everyone’s going through something and it’s important to be kind to one another because we never know what that something could be.

This is my way of opening up about my journey. Thanks to dr who shared this one on the Facebook group which is daily coming to this podcast group. Dan Ackroyd will be hosting a series on Fox Nation about drinking. Fox Nation First to Roseanne bar Special, Now a dan Ackroyd Show. What’s going on over there.

This one is called A History of the World in Six Glasses. Johnny Mac, why are you mentioning this well? The guests are comedians Kevin Neil and John Lovitz, George Went and Jim Belushi. I’ve mentioned this before. Jim Belushi.

I know everybody goes, oh, Jim Belushi. Jim Belushi’s a cool guy. And I remember one time we were putting together a special for the Blues Brothers with Dan and Jim got to spend some time with both of them, and I was stupid. One morning. I thought I was calling Jim’s office and I called Jim’s cell phone, and also I forgot about time zones, so I called Jim’s cell phone at six thirty Pacific or wherever he was.

I clearly woke him up, and he was totally cool about it. I fell in my sort of oh my gosh, I’m such a jerk, and he was like, totally cool. But I still feel bad about that. Jim Belushi, cool guy. The History of the World in Six Classes will chronicle the history of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, soda and their respective impact on the world.

The Fox Nation president said, I laughed out loud watching every episode and learned so much about the cultural impact of these iconic beverages. So it’s already in the can, but it will premiere in January twenty twenty four. Why are we waiting eleven months to release this thing? Fox Nation? Very suspicious.

Dale Hugley hosted The Daily Show last week. He told Complex how the current landscape leads to uncomfortable yet necessary conversations. Deal said, we don’t like to be uncomfortable, and comedy is a way of informing and satiating a need for knowledge, but without making people feel attack. When you do it right, I think it’s the only time people listen. Comedy has always been the way to have conversations that people wouldn’t necessarily like to have in an open forum.

He commended Trevor Noah for stepping away when it felt right. Anytime someone has done what they can, it’s better to leave through the front door than the back. He left on a high. He felt like he’d contributed all he could and was leaving on his own terms. Anytime someone does something like that, you can’t help but be happy for them.

You gotta know when to walk away. You don’t want to be Tom Brady. You don’t want to stay too long. Trevor left after his Super Bowl, which is the way to go out on top. Roy Wood Junior he would like to host The Daily Show, but they’re making him wait while we turned through.

Chelsea Handler and saur Silverman again, wonderful comedians, but they’re too old for the demo that Comedy Central wants. I don’t see either one of them getting the show. Give it to Josh Johnson, give it a roy Wood Junior. Roy does have a gig. He’ll be the host of The White House Correspondence on April twenty ninth.

He said, it’s an honor to be part of a long running tradition of celebrating those members of the media who works so hard to uncover the truth and hold our governments accountable. It’ll be a great night that we’ll go down in the history books or not, depending on which state you live in. The presidents of the White House Correspondence Association said, roy Wood Junior brings a journalistic eye to his comedy. He’s hilarious, but we also make sure his audience are thinking as they laugh. If you want to support the show, a lot of things you can do one on Apple Podcast.

They’ll put the premium option in front of you, so for five dollars a month, and the first month is free. If you want to test drive this whole concept. You’ll get the episodes early. By early, I mean like I’m around four pm Eastern the night before as soon as I clean up the edit and I publish it, I usually release it four pm the day before the weekend. Episodes are usually available for you Friday morning.

All those episodes are also commercial free. I know the show has been commercial free and general lately as I’ve changed some things behind the scenes. Trust me, it’s going to make sense long term. But you can do that, or you can go buy meacoffee dot com, slash Daily Comedy News. There are a couple of bucks in the tip jar, buy mecoffee dot com, slash Daily Coming News, all the options that are on there.

Nathan had told me to listen to Howie Mandel with Weird Al I did. It was a really good episode, Nathan, thank you for putting that on my radar. How he’s a pretty good interviewer, and they got into a story. I guess everybody knows. It had never hit my radar, and I went back and I looked, this happened in April of two thousand and four.

So I just started at Serious Satellite Radio running comedy then. And I know the first six months at Serious, the entire comedy department was just me, and all I did was load CDs because there weren’t enough CDs in the system to really run comedy channels with any sort of depth. So that’s why I think I suspect we didn’t do anything about this other than I probably saw it, but I don’t remember the story at all. What are you talking about? Johnny Mac for The New York Times, April eleven, two thousand and four.

The parents of Weird Alankovic were found dead on Friday in their home, apparently victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. Al talked about this with Howie Nick. Yankevic was eighty six, Mary Yankovic was eighty one. They were found dead by relatives who were worried because they hadn’t seen the couple in a while. A wood fire had been set in the fireplace.

Local sheriff said the house was full of smoke when they opened the door. The relatives have found the flue to the fireplace closed awful. Al tells the story that he found this out and he still went on stage that night, and he explains like he didn’t want to let the audience down. It was a distraction for him. What else are you gonna do?

Oh my goodness, can you imagine going out especially you’re going out there to be funny and you’re doing parody songs after that? Wowow. So it’s a really good interview with Howie Mandel. Let me tell you what the podcast is properly called. It is called Howie Mandel Does Stuff.

So listen to the weird Al episode. At the time, Al put out a statement that said, going up on stage in front of thousands of supporter of fans is a cathartic and somewhat therapeutic experience for me right now. I don’t know if I could say that the concerts really take my mind off the tragedy, but at least they give me a break from sobbing all the time. Wow. Starred Tribune took a look at James Adomian.

He does a really good trump. James Austin Johnson kind of has the most famous trump right now thanks to SNL. But there was an album Trump Versus Bernie that I used to play a lot on the Slacker Radio Live one show that I host, which is called the Weekly Comedy Thing. Adomian is a really good impressionist. He had to cancel a couple of shows because Jimmy Kimmel needed him in LA to do his impression of Mike Lindell.

But James made it out to Minneapolis, showed up at the Acme Comedy Club and he did some impressions, one of them Jesse Ventura, and he explained how it’s like a typical Midwest accent that spend too much time in the oven. The Star Tribune rights one of the reasons James isn’t as well known as other impressionists is because he favors obscure celebrities. One of the highlights of Thursdays sold out show was his reimagination of a homophobic Sam Elliott being interviewed on Mark Marin’s podcast as Hounds Hilarious. He also did BBC narrator David Attenborough time out. That reminds me.

Speaking of David Attenborough, have you watched on Netflix Unk on Earth? Is that what it’s called? Yeah? Sorry, I forgot to put that in the notes. I was watching that late last week.

It’s if you like Eric Idol, and especially when Eric Idol would do the news reporter walking around and absurd things would happen behind him. Picture five hours of that. It’s basically the history of humanity going from cavemen to today, but done in that really dry British sarcastic style. Diane Morgan stars as Philamina. Kunk highly recommended Netflix put it right in front of me and I devoured it.

Not for everybody, but if you like dry British humor and if you like Python specifically, Kunk on Earth is for you anyway. James Adomian did David Natonborough Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Howell and the Munchkin corner from the Wizard of Oz. He also apparently does Tom Selleck. NBC has renewed Night Chord for a second season. Hey, it’s doing the numbers that the World series does, so why not an NBC You said, it’s so rewarding to have audiences respond and return to a show which they have such incredibly warm feelings.

And more broadly, it’s a testament to how broadcast is still a huge driver of communal viewing. No, it’s not. Lisa Cat’s president of scripted content, and you know it’s not. This is an outlier. Nobody’s watching network television.

Sorry, but hey, if you buy ADS and NBC Peacock, you’re the same company. I will sit here. I’m a shill. I’ll be like, oh my god, Peacock. It’s great if you listen regularly.

You know, I like deep diving on Overseas comedy. And I saw a headline on Indulge express dot com which was New Zealand comic Sam Wills makes his debut in India, and I’m like, that’s randomly random. Let me click on this. Sam Wills is better known by stage name tape Face. Am I bad that I didn’t know about tape Face?

Apparently tape Face was on America’s Got Talent in twenty sixteen, so a lot of you were like, dude, America’s Got Talent one of NBC’s fine shows, which you could probably find on Peacock. See I can shill anyway, tape Face was apparently on AGT Who knew I missed it. I know what I was doing. But he does silent comedy and he is tape over his mouth. He says.

I call it stand up without talking. I’m using all the normal stand up comedy writing styles but applying it to a silent character. The show involves everyday objects as I like the idea of getting audiences to see things differently. It sounds like a lot of fun. Hey, tape face, what are you looking forward to in India?

He said, I’ve always wanted to take the show to all parts of the world, and when India came up, I leapt at it. He’s looking forward to the food. I can’t wait to eat good Indian food. I can understand that I enjoy some good Indian food myself. All right, who are you inspired by?

At the beginning of my career, I really like comedians like Jimmy Carr and Joey Delaware. I don’t know Joey Delaware. But then once I started going down the silent comedy road, I discovered a whole new world of comedy sight gags. All right, what are we going to see in the show? He says.

I’ll bring back John Lennon, I’ll fight Darth Vader, and I’ll even have a shootout. That sounds cool. All right. What’s the best and worst thing that can happen during the tour. Best we sell out.

You guys have a good time. Worst thing, I get food poisoning or get attacked by bees. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free, Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

Did you know you can name a cockroach after your ex lover and have it fed to the animals at the zoo? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with Five Good News Stories. It’s a podcast twice a week where I tell you five good news stories, five fluffy stories. I just want to make you smile to start your day. I can tell you about a cat and a rabbit that fell in love, or I can tell you how Porto potties are about to be a lot less horrible.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Pete Davidson, Colin Quinn, Brian Possehn, Patton Oswalt, Tig Notaro, W. Kamau Bell

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah’s Grammy Awards hosting monologue criticism
• SNL’s spy balloon sketch opening
• Pete Davidson shaves head, spotted at Knicks game and Pro Bowl
• Colin Quinn on stand-up comedy advice and cultural changes in comedy
• Brian Possehn discusses Mr. Show and career opportunities
• Tig Notaro Guardian interview
• W. Kamau Bell criticizes Bill Cosby tour announcement

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah hosted the Grammy Awards last night. I like Trevor Noah a lot, but Ouch, that was not good Trevor. The word hack even went through my mind.

Trevor praise Beyonce well deserved and asked what was more culturally significant, the renaissance or Beyonce’s renaissance. I think that same joke appears on Kunk on Earth on Netflix. We’ll talk about that later. You should be watching that. Trevor also referenced the spy balloon and said, my job is to be your eyes, your ears.

I’ll be floating around this Sam Radio. Think of me like a Chinese spy balloon. I thought I was gonna have a lot more to say about Trevor Noah, but I don’t. Not good man. You know what was good?

Saturday Night Live and they opened with a segment about the spy balloon, and great job out of them because that story was only, let’s say, dude, like seven hours old by the time SNL air and they crushed it. In the opener, Bowen Yang dressing up as the spy balloon. Very very funny. It’s also a fantastic game show sketch about movies. If you haven’t seen it, I shared it on the Facebook group page Daily Coming News podcast group Spoilers.

The big joke there is nobody can name any movies or movie stars from the last five years. I watched it and I was like Wow. Shared it with my wife, who was like, wow, really good and let’s stop off at gossip Corner. Pete Davidson, he’s bald now. Over the weekend, he showed up at a Knicks game with John Stewart and Hasan Minhaj.

Interesting company there. Pete was wearing a sturdy gray shacket according to Yahoo, what’s a shack at shirt jacket? I guess, and shielding his eyes with black Aviator sunglasses. Then he attended a screening of m Night Shamalan’s latest thriller, Knock at the Cabin. He was wearing a New York or Nowhere baseball cap, but under the baseball cap he has shaved his head.

Pete was also at the Pro Bowl. Busy weekend for Pete Davidson. Detroit Lyons wide receiver I’m Honray Saint Brown, apparently a fan of Pete Davidson. Saint Brown showed Pete Davidson his number one fan tattoo. It’s unclear if the tattoo real or not, but Pete said, oh, dude, that’s so dope.

Thank you man, that’s amazing. I hope it comes off. ABC caught up with Colin Quinn. Hey, Colin Quinn, many comedians revere you. Do you ever give them advice?

Colin said, I couldn’t give advice. They know better than me what they need to do. They’re the ones that are cutting up clips and throw them out. I’d be like, hey, try to get on Letterman and they’re like, what, he doesn’t have a show anymore, or hey, try to get a sitcom. The only advice I could ever give is if you’re not writing new stuff a lot, you’re gonna stagnate.

It’s almost like the opposite of musicians. Musicians, with a few exceptions, the first couple albums are their best, and then they just can’t really capture the magic. But stand up, you can’t rest. Nobody’s gonna say play your hits, you know, very rarely, so you have to keep writing. The more you do it, it gets easier to know what direction to focus.

On when you’re writing, but you have to keep working at the same pace your whole career. There’s no coasting and stand up all right, Colin has well culture affected your company? Colin Quinn said, there’s so many subjects that people will not laugh at. So if you even identify, not just make a stereotype, if you identify anyone’s ethnicity, the room tightens up a subtle areas, some good, most bad. In my opinion that it affects it’s not all of comedy, but it’s definitely had a big effect.

You know. One more, Hey, Colin, your friends with Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer. What’s it like when you go out to dinner? Colin said, nobody’s really fighting for tension, but everybody’s being funny the whole time. I mean, it’s our thing, you know what I mean.

So what we do it’s hard to really say what it looks like, but we did a few weeks ago. It was just hilarious, and Amy’s baby son was their gene. It’s like a throwaway line. It’s not big and gregorious laughs. It’s more like a series of sarcastic or snotty remarks to each other.

NBR had on Brian Post Sin Yeah, he was talking about his work on Mister Show. He said it opened up a lot of doors for his career. He said, I owe everything to those two dudes. It really got me out there, adding that the right people who know comedy saw the show and his work. That’s how I got on Big Bang Theory, and that’s how I got on Just Shoot Me, and that’s how I got all these other shows.

It’s because the writers were fans of Mister Show and knew what I could do. He was asked if he could meet anyone in the world that he’s never met before, and he said, forget that, he wants to meet Rush again. He said, if I could be in a room with Rush again and actually meet Alex and Getty and just talk to them like human beings and not as a screaming fan. I had a moment with them and I got to take a picture with them, but I botched it so hard. I called Getty search twice.

In the same sentence, he also told a story about twenty years ago when he and Patton Oswalt met Don Rickles. They were there to offer advice to Don Rickles. I did not misspeak. They’re not getting advice from Don Rickles. They were giving advice too Don Rickles, who was about to do a college tour.

Ryan said’s ridiculous, like how could we have anything to give to him advice wise? But we still took the meeting. Pat and I were both like, this sounds so dumb, but let’s go and meet the man. You know. It was one of the greatest hour and a halves in my life.

He made fun of the way we were dressed. He told Pat and I, Hey, if you kids come on the house, why didn’t you dress up? All right? My wife will think give the gardeners like you kids, but where’s the rake? And we were just losing it.

The Guardian interviewed Tignataro tick seems like she’s no fun. I’ve heard her on podcasts and she gets kind of frosty. And look at these short answers. Here again from the Guardian, here’s the question who’d you look up to? When started out?

First answer? All right, a really answer, tig and he opened my comedy scene. I was coming up in I Love my friends, Maria Bamford, Zach Golfin, I guess, Chris Fairbanks, Martha Kelly and a million others. The professional comedians I was into prior to starting stand up would have been Richard Pryor, Stephen Wright, Paula Poundstone, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Ellen DeGeneres, and Joan Rivers. Great answer, but here we got, Guardian.

Can you recall a gig so bad it’s now funny? Tig the first two years of my career, Guardian. Do you have any pre show rituals? Tig. I like to not think much about the show.

I go about my day or evening like I would any other just show up and walk on stage. Guardian, best heckle. Tig can’t say I’ve ever been impressed by a heckle, nor if I ever been really put off by one either. Guardian, you recently have said you’re bad. It’s staying note opportunities.

You’re becoming better at it, Tig. I always think I will. Then I’m here saying yes to this interview. Guardian. What are you excited for now?

Tig? Spending some more time at home, hoping to learn to garden and golf and mostly go on our summer family vacation. Guardian. Eddie bugbears from the world of comedy, Tig, the world of comedy is such a microcosm of the entire world these days, it’s just so divided. I think the negativity starts to really get me down.

I try to gravitate more towards nice or sillier people in vibes that’s coming across in this transcript. I’ll tell you that best advice you’ve ever been given, Tig. Tig said, there’s two. The best gift you can give anyone is a well lived life of your own, and no one thing will make or break you. Worst advice you’ve ever been given, she said, go to business school.

W Kamal Bell is having none of this. Bill Cosby on tour business, he said, it’s clear to me there are people around Bill Cosby who feel the need to keep his name in the press. He’s eighty five years old. I don’t know a lot of eighty five year old comedians on tour, especially with his history. I know that my name’s forever going to be tied of Bill Cosby because of this project, and I’m proud of the work I’ve put into it, and I stand by it.

But I won’t be buying tickets if he goes on tour from the Crimson You’re home for comedy news and a newspaper from Harvard. Karen, she classes seventeen fancy. She’s a comedic big Dog, or at least that’s what a co workers call her. How’d she get the name? She said, Oh, I give myself the nickname.

They had written my phone number down incorrectly on a contact sheet at work, so when I went to correct it, I asked him to ease also write my name as Karen big Dog che So she now works on late night with Seth Myers, and her co workers call her big Dog. Great nickname. She describes herself as a bit of a square, and she has a daily to do list that consists solely of making chocolate chip pancakes, finishing a book, and doing a puzzle. But the name has stuck. Her default zoom user name is now big Dog.

She her hers. She says, Seth Myers is a man with a demeanor that she compares to the friendly neighborhood dad who coaches the local soccer team. It’s great, Genuinely, I’m a big Seth Myers fan outside of work, but I don’t need to say that. We don’t need his ego to explode. And from Yahoo one woman on TikTok had enough of bad dates.

She drafted up a ghosting exit survey to send to somebody who rudely ghosted her, comedian Stephanie Dagastino. She’s at steph dag on TikTok. She said, So, I recently got ghosted by guy who I didn’t even like. So it’s devastating. I emailed him this ghosting exit survey to fill out.

All right, hear the questions ready. Question number one, please provide a one to two cents. It’s example of why you did it. For example, you were intimidated by my beauty, You hate yourself, You’re broken, I’m too good for you. I’m going to play along here.

So I’d been married for twenty five years the last time I ghosted somebody who was probably thirty years ago. Why did I ghost her? I was just dating someone else that I was clicking with better. Question number two, please circle if I am more cute, hot, sexy, or pretty? Can and must circle all four.

I’m gonna stop answering case my wife downloads the podcast. Question number three, please explain why you did not write in smart for the last question. You misogynists love it From there She digs even deeper, asking the mysterious Ghoster to provide the names, emails, and phone numbers of at least two of their exes, as well as their birth mother. She even asked for his Social Security number. Last, but not least, Agostino gives the guy the option of choosing one form of compensation or relieve her of all her emotional distress.

They include a series of hilarious ridiculous things, ranging from buying her mama condo in Florida to giving her all of her streaming passwords. And that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on app, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. Buy meacoffee dot com, Slash Daily Comedy News. My voice is cracking, ah, and I’ve only got this much left see tomorrow.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Beyoncé, Nate Bargatzel, Tiger Woods, Joe Walsh, Tom Hanks, Ringo Starr, Ellen DeGeneres, Taylor Tomlinson

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah hosts the 2023 Grammy Awards
• Beyoncé nominated for nine Grammys
• Nate Bargatzel’s new Amazon special
• Nate Bargatzel makes Tiger Woods laugh
• AI chatbot writing Mitch Hedberg-style jokes
• Ellen DeGeneres profile and career retrospective
• Taylor Tomlinson on touring vs. recording specials

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The Shark Deck. Oh man, I just did something. I’m so excited about it. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You’ve been listening this week, you know, I’ve gotten obsessed with the AI chatbot writing some jokes, so I asked it to write some Mitch Hedberg style jokes, and all it did was give me back actual Mitch Hedberg jokes.

So then I’m like, all right, write some Mitch Hedburg style jokes about helicopters. Wow, these are pretty goods. Let me bust out my half ass Mitch that I haven’t done in a while. And here we go. The helicopter is like a flying staircase, but much more thrilling.

Helicopters are like giant Bubba bees, but with much more attitude. I used to have a fear of helicopters. Then I realize, what’s the worst it could happen? They crash, that’s just like falling with style. And here’s the one that’s really just doing a cover version of a Mitch joke.

But helicopters are like elevators, but with blades. They could take you up, damn or spring you around. All right, that’s ridiculous. Love the chatbot. The Grammys are tonight.

Your host is Trevor Noah. He says, I have a lot of free time these days. That’s part of it, he told the Holly Reporter. Moments that you have backstage with the performers, you’re just walking around, You’re seeing Billie Eilish and she’s having a moment with another artist. You don’t get to see that anywhere else, and you get to experience that level of joy.

For me to be part of that is truly, I guess now it’s a three times a lifetime opportunity. I never take it for granted because all these people are the soundtracks to our lives. He’s very excited for Beyonce, the most decorated woman in Grammy history. She’s nominated for nine Grammys. At tonight’s show, Trevor said, I can think a few artist who are more deserving of holding that title.

In that position, and without disrespecting any of the previous holders of that title in any way, it’s safe to say that Beyonce has truly done more than many to shape not just the music, but pop culture, the perception of black women, black people in general, connecting the diaspora in the way that she creates her music at defining dance moves. I mean she’s left an indelible impression. Oftentimes people have amazing lunces is on music or in culture, and then we’ll say, oh, it would have been great if they were celebrated. It’s wonderful that Beyonce gets her flowers well, said Trevor told CBS. The nerves come in because you’re standing in front of not just some of the best, but some of the biggest performers in the world.

Nerves are part of what I do every year. I noticed that I develop a different rapport with the people in the room that opens up to a few more jokes and a few more conversations in a way where people understand the context of who you are in relation to them. Means you get to have a little fun without anybody feeling like you’re dunking on them. Desert News talk to Nate Bergatsy. They asked him, what’s different about this new special?

By the way, as I’ve been mentioning that special is fantastic, you’ll find it on Amazon. I had a deep dive a little bit. Amazon didn’t put it right in front of me. Actually to type in Nates AND’s higher name for it to surface, but go find it. It’s really good.

Nates said, You’re always kind of changing as a comic. You’re always kind of changing as a comic just because of the older you get. I’m very very happy with this so hour. I talked about growing up I have a little bit and there about growing up Christian, talking about my family. This hour was very fun to tell, and I had a lot of fun telling it.

People laughed a lot. I enjoyed touring this hour, but I’m excited to have it on tape. Amazon is doing a comedy Bush where they’re going to do a lot more at stand up and he gets to go and kind of be the face of That’s a giant deal and I’m excited to be an Amazon. All right, Nate, who’s the most famous person you’ve ever made? Laugh?

His answer, Tiger Woods. I don’t think I got a laugh. I think I was bombarding him with too much where he didn’t know to laugh. He also said, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, he saw me perform, and then I performed at his seventieth birthday party. And you know who else was in the crowd, Tom Hanks.

So there you go. They laughed and enjoyed the show, so that was a big one. Ringles Starr was there as well by and see him laugh. Yahoo profiled Ellen degenerous, and they flashed back to a New York Times article from nineteen ninety four when Ellen got her sitcom, and Ellen said, I was laughing out loud when I read the script. I knew what I could do with it.

I wanted to do a smarter hipper version of I Love Lucy, only don’t take it so farth that I’m in a man suit with a mustache, trying to fool Ricky that I’m not his wife. I wanted to show that everybody could talk about the next day. During the height of Ellen’s popularity, she came out in real life and on the show. ABC cancel the sitcom just a year later, as ratings dipped. Palm Springs Life asked Taylor Thomason, Hey, Taylor Tomlinson, what are the best and worst parts of being on Sword?

Taylor said the best part being in different places, getting performed for different types of audiences, different crowds, but trying hard to be more present, spend more time in cities I go to as opposed to just flying in, doing the show and leaving. The worst part irregular sleep patterns. Travel is hard on your body, so it requires a lot of self awareness and making sure you’re taking care of yourself physically and mentally.

Speaking of travel, I was recently down in Key West and I recorded a lot from…

I have to assemble that audio, and that takes a little more work than just riffing a comedy stories here. So I’m hoping to start a new season of Travel is Back in March. But in the meantime, you can listen to back catalog episode Travels Back where you get your shows. Then they asked her about workshopping material when you know you’re not going to be recorded, as opposed to say taping a special. Taylor said, it’s hard because people aren’t supposed to record shows, but there’s always a possibility.

When I was younger, it wasn’t so much of a I love Taylor Thomason, What is she like twenty six? Saying when I was younger, oh, she’s twenty nine now. Yeah, I remember way back in the twenty tents when people didn’t have phones. What are you talk about? When I was younger, there wasn’t so much of a thing.

You just said whatever you wanted, and you were like, that’s never going to leave the room.

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And also nobody cares.

I’m not a well known comedian, but that’s the responsibility that comes with being more successful. It looks hard to me to be a really famous comic and a workout material. I know people are very interested in it, even if they don’t record it. They might write it down, might put it online. Then some jerk in his basement reads it to you third hand on his dumb podcast, paraphrasing there stuff.

Because to get to the good stuff, the best jokes in the most vulnerable places, you do have to slog through those rough draft sets. And your rough drafts are in front of people. I was thinking about that when I was listening back to Thursday’s podcast, where I had the AI write the Andrew Santino style proctology bit. I want to move the Columbo part to the front of the set up, and the way I did it, I have at the end. I’m not actually comedian.

I’m not going to rework the bit, but I should have put the Columbo. Oh, just another thing at the top. Go back and listen to the episode of You Knows About Taylor said, it’s really special to feel like you’re in a room of people where you’re like, oh, this isn’t gonna happen again. Like if you have cool crowd work or something, you’re like, oh, this was just for us, this was just for the collection of people at this time. This night, specials feel more polished.

They’re like, Okay, this is all the stuff that I want to live somewhere forever. It is the final day of San Francisco Sketch Fest. One o’clock Bruce McCullough and Kevin McDonald. Four o’clock John Hodgeman, seven thirty Dumb People Town with the Sclar Brothers and Kyle Knane. I would hit that one up.

I’m a fan of all of those, actually, everybody I’ve mentioned. I’m a fan of eight o’clock Riff up Aloza, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy and some others. You might know those guys from Mystery Science Theater three thousand, at least one of the incarnations of that, and that’s hit for this year’s Sketch Fest. The New York Times reviewed Sam morrison show Sugar Daddy. In Sam Marrison’s show the grief comes out and laughs.

The Times writes, In some cultures, keening over casket promises cathartic release. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word keening, keening, k ee ni n g the act of wailing and grief for a dead person. He learns something new over down Daily Comedy News. In some cultures, keening over casket promises cathartic release for the writer and performer, Sam Morrison, a self identified anxious asthmatic gay diabetic Jew, Vocalizing his pain means barreling through punchlines at high speed, pumping the brakes every so often to split his heart open. That’s Sugar Daddy, now running at the Soho Playhouse.

He’s twenty eight. He calls himself an old queen by New York standards, and admits that the recent death of his boyfriend of three years is all he can think about, well that one other thing. The jokes sad gay men are objectively the hornies people in the world. Sugar Daddy through February seventeenth, That’s Soho Playhouse runs an hour and five minutes. The Guardian reviewed Vitscorio Angelone that shows called Translations.

They called it an eye catching stand up debut from Vittorio Angelone, although three stars out of five. Vittorio is an Irish Italian comic who was nominated for Best Comer at the Edinburgh Fringe. The Guardian says he does try a bit too hard to be all things to all people. It’s a smooth and thoughtful hour of comedy, riffing on the relationship between England and Ireland as experienced by an immigrant from Belfast to London. There’s also material on his Italian immigrant family and some throwaway stuff about clicktivism.

This one from the Houston Chronicle. So the rest of the world, Texans are usually thought of as cowboy boot wearing individuals who ride horses everywhere, listen to country music, and love to eat barbecue. But are those stereotypes actually true? We don’t ask the chetbot. They won’t let you make those jokes.

Ara Holliday h O. L y Day is an eighteen year old comedian hailing from Texas, and it’s proving the jokes are not too far off the mark. He’s on TikTok, giving glimpses into his daily life as a native Texan. Like any typical Texan, Holliday rolls out of bed with his cowboy boots and a ten gallon hat already on, starts off his day by gargling with a shot of warm lone Star beer out of a cowboy boots shaped glass. He follows up by pledging allegiance not to the Texas flag, but to the state’s favorite brands h EB, Bluebell, Waterburger, and buck Ease.

I’m not from Texas. I don’t know what those are. What’s buck Ease? Texans are like you, stupid Yankee. Buck Ease is a chain of travel centers known for clean bathrooms.

Love it. Once he’s finished with those, he changes out of his pj’s that include a Texas longhorned T shirt and into his workwear, which is a pinstripe button down with black leather cowboy boots and a black cowboy hat. At nine am, I’m on my eighteenth glass of sweet tea. By the end of the day, I’ll have consumed the Texan standard of twelve gallons of sweet tea. He then practices his yeehaws outdoors after lunch.

He looks out the windows solemnly as he takes a few minutes remember the Alamo and he also completes his daily task of jacking up his pickup truck a few more inches. Holidays at TikTok has been viewed more than five point seven million times one point one million likes. He also has over eleven point four thousand cumments. Sounds like a funny bit and that’s your comedy news for today. Follows for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Leslie Jones, Wanda Sykes, Chelsea Handler, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Foxworthy, Mike Vecchione, Greg Warren, Joe Zimmerman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Brian Regan

What’s in This Episode

• Biden ends coronavirus pandemic emergency declaration
• Daily Show guest hosts including Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman
• Nate Bargatze’s Hello World special on Amazon and clean comedy approach
• Clean comedy comics gaining popularity in Salt Lake City
• Jeff Foxworthy book announcement We’re All in This Together
• AI chatbot limitations generating Jeff Foxworthy-style jokes
• Technology enabling comedians to build audiences independently

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The Shark Deck Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Seth Meyers said, President Biden informed Congress that he will officially end the coronavirus pandemic emergency, which means that everybody can finally stop wearing their mask A year ago. Colbert, take that COVID, we beat you. Shoved that up your nose and rotated five times. Colbert again, It’s been a long time coming. I wish you could see the smiles on the faces in my audience, and I wish I could too, because they’re all still wearing masks.

I noticed there didn’t seem to be any buzz about deal hugely hosting the Daily show During the week, Ali reporter caught up with Trevor know who said, I think it’s been amazing to see the guest host. I love Leslie. I remember Leslie Jones and I working together way back in the day before either of us was on American TV, and this was us doing comedy clubs in and around the US. I was chatting to her and telling her how proud I am and enjoying it for her. Wanda Sykes as a legend, so enjoying her seeing herself expressing herself.

I’ve been loving all of it. This week’s guest host Chelsea Handler and then Sarras Silverman. The Desert News did a long, wonderful interview with Nate Burgancy. If you have not watched Hello World on Amazon, that is a fantastic, funny special. Hey Nates, at what point in your career did you realize you’d been discovered by the people here in Utah?

Nate said, you always heard Gaffigan and Brian Reagan could go there. You heard if you’re clean, you could do really great in Salt Lake City. First time i’d go there, I’d go to the comedy club. Wise guys Keith stubs over there. He’d book you.

Every time I went there, It’s like the next time was a little more crowded than a little more crowded than slowly kind of going. I actually now have a lot of close friends that live in Salt Lake City and I end up there. A lot good question here, what comics do you think people should be aware of? Who were the comics out there who are doing good work? Nate said, I’m doing three specials Mike Vickione, Greg Warren, and Joe Zimmerman.

Those are the three guys. They come out with me on the road. They’ve been doing comedy for fifteen plus years. Mike is someone who wasn’t necessarily clean. He was always close enough to be clean.

I was like, look, if you could do a special being clean, I’m willing to get behind it. You see dry bar comedy. There’s a lot of great comics who are clean comics. But I have a lot of friends who were in New York and they’re amazing comedians, and some were basically clean but have edgy stuff. And I’m like, look, if we cannot do this stuff, then I’d like to put it in my special when I produce it, and do it if you like my comedy.

It’s along those lines, just giving an audience more to choose from, especially from a comic who has really learned on the road and learned in New York City and has the chops of New York City. When I take these guys on the road, they’re not openers, they’re headliners, but I luckily get to play in some really big places. You can tell when they’re destroying in front of the audience. You’re like, man, they’d be a great fit. And they’re the guys who can all work clean.

I’ll jump in here, and I’ve told the story before when I first met Jeff Foxworthy, he explained to me he too used to have a little naughtiness in his act, and he realized if you work clean.

And then he stretched out his hands and he said, you get the older people, an…

And he demonstrated how much bigger his audience got by cleaning it up. I’m a fan of clean comedy. I’m not a prude, but I think if you can work clean, it works for you. That’s said. I think there is something said for occasionally punching a joe with a good f bomb or an expletive for attention sake.

I try and work clean on this podcast. Sometimes I have to use synonyms or made up words like stuff in case my use of stuff confuses you. That’s the S word, the crep word, but I say stuff anyway. The Desert News ass Neapor Gatsy. Why is this whole like clean comedy thing important to you, Nate said, I just want people to watch comedy.

It’s hard to watch stuff with your family. With my shows, when people come out, it’s all ages. It’s grandmother’s to nine year olds bingo. That’s what Foxworthy said. It’s not like I’m trying to do comedy for anyone group.

I don’t want to just be a children’s comic. I want to do what I do. But I love that I can appeal to this many people. There’s just not a lot of things that families can go do together. Everybody wants to.

I’ll have a dad come out with his teenage daughter and he’s like, there’s not much we agree on for entertainment except when we come to Your show means a lot to me. We all went and watched Jerry Seinfeld in two thousand. My entire family went and watched that, and it was an awesome experience that we all got to have. And I still remember it. And it’s a night where everybody gets to laugh, and I know you don’t want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

It’s not Papa. I used to open for Jerry Seinfeld. He has a new book. It’s called We’re All in This Together, So Make Some Room. This one will be out in June sixth It’s Papa’s third book.

Tom says, we are truly not alone. We’re all told we’re unique snowflakes. But when we’re all polite together, you can’t tell us apart. Tom said the options available to today’s comedians are bringing more people into the fold to share their own observations. Technology has changed the ways that performers made the leap to reaching national audiences.

Tom said, it’s all in your own hands. Before someone from the Tonight Show how to tell you you’re worth listening to. Now you can record it yourself. The only thing stopping you is you. There’s a lot more voices, There are a lot more people who can get out there and build an audience.

Comedians now have a lot of smaller demographics. The gate’s been opened and all these funny people can get an audience. I have been obsessed with chat gpt generating jokes. I asked to write some jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy comparing the chat bot to a redneck, and the chatbot gave me a lecture saying, I’m sorry, but it’s not appropriate, respectful to make jokes that’s target a specific group of people, including those who identify as rednecks. Jokes that perpetual eight stereotypes or marginalized individuals can cause harm and are not in line with open ais values of inclusiveness and diversity.

Sorry, Jeff Foxworthy. Actually good news, Jeff fox Worthy. You cannot be replaced by a chatbot. You have found a niche and comedy. You’re going to work forever chatbot at it.

Instead, Let’s focus on humor that is kind, creative, brings people together. So I simplified it. I said, write jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy about the chat gept. And here’s what it did. And let me break out my half ass impression.

If you’ve ever asked chat cheept a question and received a response and under a second, you might be talking to a language model. This is so stupid. If you’ve ever asked chat cheept to tell a joke could received a funny response, you might be talking to a language model. I have now typed in write some jokes in the style of Jeff Foxworthy about NASCAR and wives. Wow, chatbot’s uptight.

I’m sorry, but it’s not appropriate to make jokes that can be considered sexist, derogatory incentive towards any group of people, including NASCAR drivers or their wives. Okay, let’s try again write some jokes about NASCAR. Will you do that for me? All right? These aren’t bad.

You might be a NASCAR fan if you know what Rubbin’s racing means. If you think a caution flag is what you get for speeding, you might be a NASCAR fan. You might be a NASCAR fan if you’ve ever said, I don’t care what you say. I like it when they go around and round. Let’s see U said.

Sketch Fest Tonight Comedy Psychos. What’s that? Eight o’clock canceled The Perfect Stranger’s thirty fifth anniversary. Oh No, four o’clock not canceled. Bruce McCullough and Kevin McDonald seven thirty.

I’m only reading some of the shows. Dinosaur Improv reuniting friends and improvisers from the famed and former Facebook Improv show. Due to change in schedule, Rob Hubert and Paul Shear are no longer appearing. It’s going on sketch Fest today eight o’clock. The Groundlings Cooking with Gas.

That’ll be a hot show. They have another one at ten thirty, and I like this title killer lineup Daniel Van Kirky, Alminiqa Saunders and some others. I’ve got one more day of sketch Fest. Tell you about tomorrow SF Sketchfest dot com to check out the schedule. NBC is throwing a birthday bash for Carol Burnett.

It’s a special. Carol Burnett Ninety Years of Laughter will air Wednesday, April twenty six. That is the dates of Carol Burnett’s ninetieth birthday. I mets Carol towards the end of my run at Sirius XM. We did a special highlighting her.

I think we were promoting DVD releases anyway, but she was there at Tim Conway. Was there Amy Schumer. That was the one time I engaged with Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer acted as the host. That was really cool special that we did.

Some of the guests on Carol Burnett ninety Years of Laughter include Amy Poehler, Good Choice, Bill Hayter, Shaer, Ellen Kristin Wig, Lily Tomlin, Sophia Vagara, Steve Carrell, Vicky Lawrence of course also met Vicky that day, and others and from lad Bible, a comedian stopped the show. An audience member says she walked in on her friend having sex with her mom. Wait what. Eric Newman was doing some crowd work and asked a guy in the crowd if the woman with him was his girlfriend or his lady, and at which point the lady said he had sex with my mom. Eric Newman got quite distracted and sold the crowd shut up so they could all listen to the story.

As the story goes, the encounter between the man and the woman’s mom came after the pair went abroad together, with the woman explaining we were just abroad and he met my mom in and then she makes a smacking sound. The comedian Eric Newman asked, wow, how old is your mom? The man revealed he was twenty at the time and the mom was forty nine. The younger woman then said I walked in on it. Newman said nothing was going to stop that, told the audience good night, and said, quite frankly, nobody could follow that stuff.

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Featured: Chelsea Handler, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Sherman, Colin Jost, Dan Cummins, Michelle Wolf, Brad Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Chelsea Handler’s dubious story about not knowing sun and moon were different until age 40
• Chelsea Handler guest hosting The Daily Show in February
• Vulture profile of Sarah Sherman’s grotesque comedy style and SNL background
• Sarah Sherman’s controversial performance art and shock comedy methods
• Dan Cummins discusses his comedy origins and upcoming camping event in the Poconos
• London comedy shows announced featuring Michelle Wolf and Brad Williams

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The shark deck name Jenny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. Chelsea Handler told the story to Jimmy Fallon that I guess we’re supposed to believe and go along with the joke, but honestly, I don’t believe it. It got a lot of headlines. Chelsea told Jimmy Fallon, I didn’t know until I was forty years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing. Really, Jimmy played along.

I found this hard to believe. What are you talking about? Handler said it was shocking to me as well. Chelsea was on with Fallon promoting her appearance last weekend on the Critics Choice Awards, and she is openly campaigning for The Daily Show hosting gig and she’ll be guest hosting that in February. Anyway, her story is she was on a safari in Africa.

She told Jimmy, my sister and I were riding on an elephant and there was a man riding an elephant for us because we don’t know how to ride an elephant. My older sister, Simone looked up at the sky and said, Chelsea, look up. It’s not often you get to see the sun on the moon at the same time, you know, except like once a month if you’re up at like six thirty in the morning and the moon is setting in the west and the sun is rising in the east. And I see this all the time, she teld Jimmy. I was like, scooby doo.

I’m like, whoa, I said, wait, but they’re always together. As soon as I said that, my sister turned around. She goes, what did you say? She said, I need you to tell me what you think is happening between the sun and the moon. Chelsea said, I was like, honestly, I just assume when the sun went down, it popped back up as the moon.

The man riding the elephant spoke into English and went and he’s like another time American, you know, all right? Okay, So, first of all, I don’t believe that you thought the sun in the moon were the same thing. I just don’t believe you’re that stupid. Second, why did the man riding the elephant go? If he doesn’t speak English, how did he know what you were talking about?

Maybe he understands English but doesn’t speak It. Is that what you’re saying here? I call hogwash on this entire story. There’s no way, You’re that stupid. Vulture had a fantastic profile of Sarah Sherman under the headline a beautiful mind.

For Sarah Sherman, comedy is all about putting on a show and being absolutely disgusting. I shared this on Tuesday No Wednesday on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I also shared it in the subreddit which is Daily Comedy News, Walter writes. In May twenty twenty one, shortly before being cast on SNL, Sarah made a video called the Sara Vaccine, in which she made a concoction of gasoline, juice and the special ingredients urine. I’m cleaning that up for you.

She used a nasty version of the P word anyway, it’s gasoline, juice and urine, and then drank it. She said, I did a show in Portland and my friend Tammy had to walk out in the middle of a puke in the parking lot. Sarah considers that an accomplishment. She’s known for playing a version of herself on Weekend Update in which she goads Colin Jost. An example, she asked Colin Jost why there are no Jews at SNL.

Colin says there are Jews on the show, including her. Sarah then turns to the camera and says, in other news, local wet blanket Colin Jost is keeping track of the amount of Jews at SNL. I like when she does that bit a lot of fun. She knows what people expect to hear about her past, and she bristles at it. Sarah said, I think a lot of people like to romanticize comedians, being outsider romantic losers.

She grew up on Long Island. She was odd but not off puttingly, so she had her Miss Vaughan April Fool’s Day. She claimed the date was not intentional, just to gift from God. She sent invitations in the form of snakes in a can. A member of the high school improv team, she’d always been attracted to the grotesque.

One time she painted a picture of a baby bottle full of intestines. If she were a character on Glee, she would have been Slushy. In real life, she ran track. She said, I had friends as well liked us funny. I’m a comedian, so I needed people to like me.

I have a deep, dark desire within me to be accepted by others. I also have a desire to make things that are insane, but the part of me that wants to make things that are insane still des really needs people to like it. She adopted the stage name Sarah Squirm, inspired by a high school nickname. A couple of her friends ran a record label and booked her for gigs as a comedian alongside a bunch of quote noise musicians. Sarah said, I was doing basement shows with bands literally called and I’m cleaning it up here.

You’re in your in eurin moan moan moan. I was like, it can’t be blood liquor. You’re in ear neurin moan moan moan. And Sarah when she started her own Noise and Come Many show Hell Trap Nightmare, the poster included an illustration of, as she describes it, a uterus, where the eggs were eyeballs, the smile was an open vagina, the lips were made out of intestines, and there was a severed finger as a tampon. At it all righty fun article if you want to check it out on my socials.

The spokesman called up with Dan Cummins, he talked about when he started at comedy said it was a forgettable sports bar season ticket had what they called a club inside it called Laughs. It was a little spot in the sports bar, plywood painted black laughs and wasn’t much at all, but it started me on his current tour. I’m going to address the current polarization we’ve had over recent years. We’ve become so divided, and everyone sees that. Over the last few election cycles, everyone has gotten so tribal.

Most are either on the left of the right. There’s a lot more choices. The spectrum is huge. Would people ignore that I talk about heavier subjects like abortion. I talk about the lack of critical thinking.

There’s so much to go on about. So I’m reading the story. I’m now flashing back. I went bowling with Dan Cummins. Was that much?

All? Was that Chicago? I think it was in Chicago, just for last Chicago anyway, I vaguely remember having a few beverages and bowling with Dan Cummins at like one thirty in the morning or so. Yeah. Anyway, He says I wasn’t a comedy nerd as a kid, and I’m still not a comedy nerd.

I love George Carlin, but I’d rather read David Sedaris’s books. I wasn’t that in the stand up growing up. I like sketch comedy more, but I was in high school. I never dreamed of comedy as a career. In September, he’s going to host a camping event where he’ll be performing this in the Poconos.

He says, it’s our second year of doing this. It’s a unique situation for fans of my Comedy End podcast. We have a camp on a four hundred acre spread with a heated pool and some cool amenities. We’re hoping five hundred two thousand people come out. I’ll be putting together my own production.

We’re just gonna have fun. That’s gonna be great. But right now I’m focusing on my tour. Hey, if you want to support the show, you can go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I wasn’t planning on doing the plug today, but to commodate my schedule, I’m recording three of these podcasts back to back to back.

This is the third one and my voice is giving out, so I’ve been sipping the ice coffee right next to me, so you can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw five dollars on the tip jar, and what I’ll do is I’ll take your five bucks. I’ll drive down into town, hit the local donuts chain and I will get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk, and then I will shout you out on the show. You got all support the show by joining the two dollar Club. That’s just a monthly two dollars membership as they call it, and every month two of your dollars will make its way to my wallet.

Just a nice way to join the club, and I will of course shout you out and thank you. So it’s buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Just for last, London has announced some more shows. Chortle with the recap. The new shows include stand up from US comedians Michelle Wolf and Brad Williams.

Both are fantastic. Those are major ads. There a cabaret lineup gig affronted by Jordan Gray and this excites me. A UK incarnation of the New Faces showcase. Wow, that’s awesome.

Also more details for Max and Ivan’s the wrestling. I’m fascinated by this and I need to educate myself more on but apparently comedians fight. Phil Wang, who I think is fantastic, has joined along with Alex Horne, Glenmore and Abbie Clark. Joe Lysat will be acting as Moore’s manager, while Greg James and Nish Kumaro have joined Ashling b on the commentary desk. Sue Perkins will be hosting a panel event called Comic Relief Proud every Day, talking about how the charity helps LGBTQ plus projects Just for Laughs London March second through the fifth, and during the week the movie Half Baked turned twenty five.

Cracked spoke with director Tamara Davis. She said Dave Chappelle and Neil Brandon were like twenty three at the time they were the writers. Dave had so much energy and he was so excitable. Dave felt by making this movie it would allow him to smoke weed wherever he wanted. He was so fun and he was game for anything.

There was so much hopefulness and promise in both him and Neil. It was my job to make sure I got that energy on film. Chapelle was set as the star funding the other guys, which tricky. We wanted people Dave could really work with, and we wanted people up and coming in comedy. Jim Brewer came from SNL and he was solid, all right.

So how high was everybody on the set of Half Baked? Tamer said, you can’t really work and be high. I mean some people can set the rogue and can, but generally I don’t think you can. As for the actors, if they were flubbing their lines and everyone knew it was because they’d smoked weed, would be considered super unprofessional. All that being said, there were two times that there really was weed on the set.

I didn’t know it then, but I heard later that they got high before doing the flying scene. Then there was the cameo with Snoop dog We were shooting on the Universal lot and we had fake weed and Snoop said, no way, I’m gonna really smoke weed. There was no way to tell Snoop you couldn’t smoke weeds, so we lit up a joint. Then I saw security coming over and I was like, oh no, we’re gonna get shut down. Security started surrounding us.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Mark Norman, Jeff Dunham, Sam Morrell, Gabriel Iglesias

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s kids getting into comedy and his parenting approach
• Gaffigan’s 17-year-old son Jack performing and opening for him
• Mark Norman and Sam Morrell’s podcast ‘We Might Be Drunk’ and Bodega Cat Whiskey special
• Comedian action figures ranked by eBay price
• Sioux Falls Snow Jam Comedy Festival lineup and schedule

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The Shark Deck, a local comedy podcast, are recorded a twelve minute podcast and realized he forgot to unmute his microphone, resulting in none of the podcasts being recorded. Sources say the episode spoke about Jim Gaffigan, Mark Norman, and Jeff Dunham, but was lost to time due to the incompetent behavior of the host. Welcome to Take Two, Tampa Bay’s at Night Guide caught off with Jim Gaffigan. Hey, Jim Gaffgan, A lot of the content you do is focused on your home life and family. How do your kids feel about that?

Gaffigan said, Yeah, it’s so interesting because you know, being a comedian is similar to every stage where you have children. There’s a point where they’re like, they don’t know what you do. They’re may be impressed at some point and then they’re like not impressed. But I would say they’re an endless source of material. And if you’re not complaining about your kids, you’re not president enough, you know what I mean.

Jim is making me laugh here because my kids have no idea what I do. I just I call it. I go down to the basement and I talk to myself and it’s probably from them, They’re like, why is dat and home all? What is he even doing all day? Because it looks like I’m goofing off on the laptop all day.

But you know, I have to write these things, I have to edit them, I have to post them their social media. I’m not saying I’m a construction worker out in one hundred degreee heat. I’m not complaining at all, but I could see my kids being like, what do you do all night? Did Tampa Bay Date Night Guide? Which is your home for comedy?

I forgot to mention that, said to Jim, your seventeen year old son, Jacket Gaff again, it has performed before and even open for you at one point. Is that something he wants to continue doing? Will he following your footsteps? Jim said, Granted, my son is seventeen, but you never have an idea of how long this interest is gonna last. You know, a kid could be really in a buzz Lightyear, so he convert their room and a buzz Lightyear thing, and then they’re like, I don’t like buzz Lightyear anymore.

I also want to encourage them, but I don’t want to force him to do it. He’s done it a bunch, but I’m also very much in the approach of letting him bring it up to me when he wants to do it. Good parenting. Jim gaff again, what about the other kids, Jim said, they’re all kind of funny. You know, it’s weird.

Sometimes even in parents teacher conferences, the teacher will be like, your child’s very funny, and I’m like, I want them to learn to read and write. So it’s one of those things you know, you’re just falling along seeing where it’s going to happen. Mark Norman and Sam Morrel do a podcast called We Might Be Drunk, in which they drink, talk about the comedy world, and ramble through random recommendations and observations. Out of that, they’ve released a special label Booze called Bodega Cat Whiskey, who reflects on their lives in New York, where there are bodega’s on many corners. Sam Morrell said, there’s something special about the bodega experience, like the weird little guy behind the counter who knows way too much about your life.

He sees you at two am, and then he sees you again at ten am. He sees you making the mistake and then he sees you paying for the mistake the next morning. Cracked as an article. Eleven comedian action figures you can find on eBay, ranked by how much they’re going for. Are you ready for these?

First up, ninety three will get you Dan Ackroyd as Beldar the cone Head, Number ten the blue collar Comedians for seventeen bucks. Now as part of the licensing deal, it’s just Jeff Lowry and Bill ron White apparently did not get a doll.

Also, the description says, squeeze their ample beer bellies and each one’s b…

Now Larry, Yeah, Larry’s got a bit of a belly, Jeff Foxworthy does not, and Bill Angwall does not. I’d actually describe Jeff Foxworthy as skinny. Been in the room with all three of these men many times, so I don’t know why the Jeff Foxworthy doll would have a beer belly. By the way, Accordity listenings, Bill and Larry the Cable Guy need new batteries. I guess people didn’t play with the Bill Angwall one that much.

Next up for twenty bucks, John Belushi in his Animal House persona with the College shirt. Twenty nine dollars and twenty six cents would get you a boar At, but only the head. It’s a custom made bore At one sixth scale head to direct from Kazakhstan by way of China. To description is brand new and high quality, very nice. The next one for thirty two bucks Colin Quinn, Jay Leno, and Robert Klein.

It’s a set Krack says. Maybe you want to recreate a lost nineteen ninety three episode of The Tonight Show or raise money from the homeless by putting on your own comic relief thirteen Avin Castell Hello, a set for forty nine ninety five gibe Kaplan looks like it’s in the original Welcome Back Cotter packaging fifty seven twenty nine. If you want to play with mister Cotter, it’s been almost fifty years, I’d leave that in the packaging. At this point, a custom Bill Burr will run you one hundred dollars. This is not a Mandalorian figure.

This is Bill Burr as a comedian in a blue shirt and some black pants. Comes with a microphone, and it’s on a faux back canner card that looks like a Star Wars backing card, but it is not as a custom The third one is someone named Eggashira, who was unfamiliar with apparently a Japanese comedian, and as I mentioned on the opening, this is the second time I’m doing this list, and it wasn’t that interesting the first time, so skip it. Move along. Number two Rob Schneider San Francisco Giants Edition, two hundred bucks. This is Rob Schneider and plaid pants wearing a San Francisco Giants jersey.

Not sure why that exists, but Crack points out they’re thirteen of them. On eBay. You can buy the one for two hundred dollars, but somebody else is selling it for seventeen ninety seven. And the one that boggles the mind is a signed Gabriel Iglesias Funco Pop going for four thousand dollars Cracked Rights. For some reason, Funco has released countless editions of Fluffy figures.

There’s Tapetillo, Fluffy Stadium, Fluffy Away Stadium, Fluffy, Fluffy with Dogs Day the Dead Fluffy, all more or less with Iglesia’s accurate body types. But if you want to splurge, this four thousand dollars Signed Pop Comedians Edition is for you today. It be snow Jam Comedy Festival or you in at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. If you are, I hope you’re at the festival. If not, what are you doing?

Kicks off today at eleven am. Intro to Improv with Improv falls. Eleven am is awesome. I like to go to bed at night and eleven am show. I’m there.

That’s a boss comedy club Jackie Kation. She’s recording the dork Forest Live podcast. That’s happening at one o’clock at the Spellbound Magic Shop and Theater. That sounds like a fun place. Let me look that up.

Spellbound Magic Shop resides in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They have a pop up bad that offers you ten percent and messes up your flows as your trying to read some copy for your podcast just pops up and it blocks the scent that you’re trying to read. We have a small shop full of beginner magic to advance routines. We offer classes and have our very own private fifty seat theater for parlor shows and variety acts. Looks like a good time at five o’clock.

Awesome start time again. So cool. The Snowflakes Comedy Showcase Ten Comedians. Love a ten comedians showcase. I really truly enjoy that type of show because you get to see so many new faces and get turn on a new comedians.

Plus it’s at five o’clock, so I could bang out ten comedians and a host and then go to bed. Who love it at seven thirty? Still nice and early The Hot Coco Comedy Showcase. This one also features ten comedians from around the country, but not the same ten boy back to back. If I could see twenty comedians and be done by nine pm, go back to my room, watch the football game tonight?

Who love this festival?

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She’s playing at ten o’clock at Bosses Comedy Club the snow Jam Comedy Festival. Nice job of folks. If you want to check out some information Snowjamcomedyfest dot com. Decider was asking Jeff Dunham about how the puppets get made. He said, I really seriously didn’t get into the dummy making until the mid eighties when I was in college.

Back then it was plastic, wooden, fiberglass, and those are the mediums that I used until like ten to twelve years ago. I still sculpt them in clay. However, I do have a digital sculpture now that helps me. Every once in a while, I’ll give them notes and he’ll come up with something digitally and we put it together, won’t I have time. I make them out of clay, then I do a three D scan, and then I build a shell of dummy with a three D printer.

So yeah, there’s still a little human element in there. I like this next part. I hated doing the fiberglass stuff. The walter that I use now I made out of fiberglass, and after getting high in the garage not meaning to, I thought it was a horrible thing. Apparently fiberglass makes you high.

So I would give the sculpts to somebody else and he would make the fiberglass head for me. But I got out of fiberglass as fast as possible. That is for people who have air filters. How that’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify YouTube.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Chance the Rapper, David Koechner, Aubrey Plaza, Sam Smith, Michael B. Jordan, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Jason Sudeikis, Billy Crudup

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle’s gay joke at Black Star Line Festival in Ghana and Chance the Rapper’s defense
• Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ bill and its impact on LGBTQIA+ community
• Gilda’s Laugh Fest in Grand Rapids Michigan March 8-12 with Tig Notaro, Pete Holmes, and others
• David Koechner’s Office trivia show tour in Springfield Missouri and Big Slick charity fundraiser
• SNL ticket lottery changes for 2023-2024 season and standby card distribution
• Ted Lasso season three announcement with Jason Sudeikis and Nick Mohammed as rival coaches
• Apple TV Plus new series Hello Tomorrow starring Billy Crudup

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The Shark Deck. Hey, I’m Jenny mackwe your daily community. It was real quick. I’ve been very happy with the show this week because I’ve been able to get into different topics. Today is no different.

The headline from Yahoo Chance the Rapper defends Dave Chappelle’s gay jokes comment in Ghana. This was at the Black Star Line Festival in Ghana on January sixth. Dave Chappelle apparently made some waves. Dave’s joke was I bet gay jokes go over so well here. Apparently everybody laughed about it.

Chanced the Rapper explains, I think it’s something that Dave was actually shining a light on. That’s where the conversation came from. Dave was making a comment about the comedy scene in Ghana when he said, I bet gay jokes go over so well here, to which everybody laughed about. And he was making a point to saying, Ghana, you can make jokes about things that are about gay people, about trans people, about a lot of social constructs, just about anything in the world, but you can’t make a comment about the government there. That’s not funny and that’s not respected, and it can be dangerous.

It’s the complete opposite where we come from. Where we can speak about the government all we want, I can’t really all the way speak for Dave. I don’t want to say what he thinks or what he feels. But what I think I know about him is that he loves everybody, especially as people meeting black people, meeting black people that are trans, black people that are gay, black people that are general nonconforming people, period. And I think in that space, I would say I don’t believe that he bashed trans people are gay people at all.

Throughout the entire conversation, Chance also talked about apparently there’s some kind of bill that Chance labeled one of the most destructive things in Ghana’s future. Chance said it gives police license to target anybody, especially LGBTQIA plus people, based on something as simple as the clothes that they wear, how they self identify, or how that officer identifies them. And it’s anthetical to what I’m trying to do. I was giving Dave the opportunity to speak about who we are as a community because he was taking so much pride in the fact that he was respected as a black man in Ghana. But I don’t know he would be respected that much if he were a gay black man in Ghana or if he were trans in Ghana.

Meanwhile, from Ghana, Webb Dave Chappelle himself has shared his historic visit to Ghana with the rest of the world on Dave’s social media handles. Dave has documented his trip from when he boarded his flight to Ghana. On a voiceover, we hear Dave Chappelle saying, it takes many people a lifetime to make this one journey. Any single son or daughter that comes from the legacy of Africans who left these shores. Anytime one individual makes it back here, it defies the odds.

Also on the video, Dave Chappelle conveys how sad he was by the story he was told when he connected with the walls where the slaves had walked, among others, that is known as the door of no return awkward segue here. Guilda’s laughest returns to Grand Rapids, Michigan in twenty twenty three. The festival this year March eighth through the twelfth. Who’s Performing Pretty Good List Tig natar O, Pete Holmes, The Clean Comedy Showcase, DJ Demers, Mike Vecky, own bunch of others. There will also be something called kara jokim is Dennis Leary performing the material of Bill Hicks, Oh cheap Shot, Johnny Mac ouch.

I wonder what kara joke is. Kara jokie. It’s a comedy with a chorus, showcasing comedians performing a stand up set and then immediately singing a karaoke song selected by you. I see, so stand up then karaoke. It’s not that Carlos Mincy is going to show up and do material.

Who another cheap shot? Jutty back? Come on, you’re laughing. We’ll keep an eye on Gildless laugh Fest as we get a little closer to that this weekend. David Keckner, you know him from lots of places, including the office, which will be relevant to this story.

He’ll be in Springfield, which one the Missouri one, and he’s bringing in his office trivia show that he hosts as Todd Packer for seventeen magazine spoke to David Keckner. He likes getting back to Missouri. One of the reasons is the annual The Big Slick charity fundraiser that takes place in Kansas City. It’s a charity for Children’s Mercy Hospital. He hosts it along with Robiggo, Paul Rudd, Jason Sadakis, and Eric stone Street.

That’s always in June. He also gets back for one or two Chiefs games as well. Convenient for you that you happen to be in Missouri Chiefs Jaguars tomorrow? Are you going David Keckner? He said, last year I had a pretty intense tour schedule.

I couldn’t get back to a game. How did he get to where he is now? He said, I was always a fan of comedy ever since I was young. I was the class cut up that I always enjoyed watching old comedies with my dad, Avin Costello, the Marx Brothers. That solidified it by the time I was thirteen, SNL debut and that’s when I decided that’s what I’m gonna do.

All right? What can we expect from the office trivia nights? He says, It’s not just a trivia thing. It’s a show because I tell stories of how I got the show, stories about the show, stories about my career, anecdotes, and I do Q and A. So it’s a unique experience.

It’s not going to be a regular Trivia Night. That’s why it’s hosted by the real Todd Packer with a blast doing it. And at the end of the show, the top two teams come up and they get to do a scene with the real Todd Packer right there. That’s a good time.

Speaking of a Saturday Night Live, new episode tomorrow, Aubrey Plaza’s your …

Jordan and musical guests A Little Baby. SNL has announced that they’ve changed the way standby tickets are going to work. Before we get to that, the ticket lottery for the current season is now closed. The ticket lottery for the twenty twenty three Slash twenty fourth season will open at midnight on August first, so write that in your calendar. To enter that lottery, send an email to SNL Tickets at NBCUNI dot com.

You may only send one email per person. Submissions entered before or after the ticket lottery window will not be considered, so don’t do it now. As for the standby cards, they will be distributed at twelve zo one am the Saturday of a show day, so you have to like be there at midnight as Friday turns into Saturday, get a standby card, then come back and hope you get in later that night. Or you can just sit home and watch them on TV, or hear me out, go to bed on Saturday night, wake up Sunday morning and watch the clips, or maybe watch the episode on your DVR. That’s what Johnny Mac does.

Ted Lasso is back for season three. We all knew that Apple TV Plus had a big to do, and they were like, Hey, ted Lasso’s coming back. That’s nice. What’s the date. They didn’t share a date, yet, they did share an image.

We see Jason sidekiss ted Lasso and Nick Muhammad’s Nates facing off now as rival coaches. That seems to be the driving story of season three. They also put out a trailer for something called Hello Tomorrow. I watched the trailer. I was entertained.

Hello Tomorrow is a rito futuristic vision of the future, so it’s like the nineteen fifties version of the future, so flying cars and robot vacuums and that kind of stuff. Billy krut Up stars as Check, a salesman of great talent and ambition whose unshakable faith and a brighter tomorrow inspires his coworkers, revitalizes his desperate customers, but threatens to leave him dangerously lost in the very dream that sustains him. This thing’s on Apple TV Plus February seventeenth. Look like it was pretty entertaining. I don’t know how funny it is or not, but the world that created looks pretty cool.

I’m not even sure it’s a comedy. Why did you mention it? I don’t know. I was doing the ted Lasso thing. I saw the thing, and now I told you the story, and now I realized, oh, maybe it’s not even a comedy.

Chelsea Handler announced her tour. I think comedians need to start running The tour names past me little Cocky by Baby, but she’s calling her twenty twenty three tour the Little Big Bitch Tour. Yeah, is that what you want to do? All right? The Little Big Bitch Tour kicks off April thirteenth in Peoria, stops in Boise, Las Vegas.

It’s also Memphis and more, before wrapping up in Atlantic City on June tenth. Of the Borgata, Chelsea says, because it’s been so much fun returning to stand up, I figured the more time I’ve been with my fans the better. It’s time to give people a little insight and how I turned into what I am today. The Little Big Bitch Tour is the sequel to her recent Vaccinated and Horny Tour, Snow Jam Comedy Festival, Sue Fall, South Dakota Today tomorrow. Get out there, hop on a plane.

What are you doing? Let’s check out today’s lineup? Wait, Dan Booblitz, did I mess this up yesterday and say you were doing your thing yesterday? Oh? Man, I hope you didn’t fly to South Dakota just to see Dan Booblitz at one o’clock because it wasn’t actually yesterday.

It’s today, Dan Booblige Junior. Building a better ePK for your success. Hey, it’s still good and you miss it. How about a plane you got till one o’clock? What time zone in South Dakota you can make it?

Do it? I don’t know if you could do it now, I’m curious. All right, South Dakota time zone. They’re in Mountain Okay, all right, so let me get a flight from Newark to South Dakota to Sue Falls. Let’s see.

Well for me from Newark, I don’t know where you live, but for me from Newark Airport. It’s eight hours and thirty five minutes with a connecting flight. So if you downloaded the podcast as soon as they’re released it at three or five am, you listen to it. We’re a few minutes in. So say it’s like three fifteen in the morning, you’ve got eight hours.

That make it eleven o’clock. You get two time zones back. You can make Dan boob what’s this thing? If you want to six o’clock snow Laughing matter. It’s a comedy showcase.

Talked about this yesterday. I love ten comedian shows. That one’s at six o’clock the big show tonight Miss Shannon you know her from nick Mom’s Night Out and Laughs on Fox eight thirty at the Spellbound Magic Shop and Theater. Then at eleven o’clock, Jam’s keeping me up late tonight eleven o’clock. Another one of those ten comedian showcases.

I love ten comedian showcases. The Snowtime Comedy Showcase ten comedians from around the country. Among the comedians, Reva Riley, DC based comedian who got her comedy start in London where she performed at Downstairs at the King’s Head. What a great name for a place. She was also a semi finalist in the UK national competition, So you think You’re funny.

She’s also performed at the North Carolina Comedy Festival snow Jam previously and the Boston Comedy Festival, also a great fest. Mike Hammick is also on the bill. His submitted bio says, Hey, I’ve been a comic for ten plus years. I currently run the new talent program at three E’s in Colorado Springs. I featured for Nick Thune, Tommy Davidson, Taylor Thomason, Nicka Stephano, Alex Moffett, Vinnie Montez, Chris Katan, Monte Franklin dot dot dot.

That is a nice resume there, snow Jam Comedy Festival. Check it out SnO Jam Comedyfest dot com. Maybe you’re not gonna hop on a plane right now, but they’ll do this festival again next year. Put it on your radar, plan and advance. That nineties show came out on Netflix.

Did they cancel it yet? Because they cancel everything. That’s why I don’t start shows on Netflix. They’re gonna give it one season and cancel it. Hopefully I’m wrong.

The Hollywood Reporter said, for every well considered wonder years, there’s a stilted How I Met Your Father, And this is the approach chosen by Netflix’s seventies show. Spent off that nineties show. No one is likely to describe the new sitcom as a bold take on the source and material, or praise its originality and bravery. It aims for nothing much more ambitious than recreating the low key charm of its predecessor, but it hits its target with enough confidence consistency to become a treat in its own right. All right, that’s not a bad review, right, one of those things not really aspiring to be anything other than what it is.

Dav Club called this version basically a xerox version of the original, only now we’re anchored by Eric and Donna’s daughter Leia, who decides to spend the summer of nineteen ninety five with her grandparents and learns in the process that she’s well suited to spending her days getting high in the basement while pining away for a cute boy and bonding with her next door neighbor, Gwen. If you grew up watching the seventies show, you’ll likely have no way of assessing whether that nineties show works on its own. Maybe it can’t, and maybe it doesn’t even want to. All right, those are fair reviews. That doesn’t sound horrible and from Deadline.

Michael Lair was a sketch, improv and stand up performer. His credits included The Second City. He has died of complications from als he was forty four. Lara kept performing even after his twenty seventeen diagnosis, appearing in Austin clubs in a wheelchair. He talked openly about his struggles with the disease on stage and on the comedy podcast Killed Tony.

Lair was selected as a new face of comedy at the twenty fourteen Just for Last Festival. On his last night at the Second City, he hired a tattoo artist to give him a tattoo of a brown line L train on his back. During his final improv set. Michael was terminally ill and chose to end his life with the assistance of a doctor. His life partner and caregiver, Collette Montague, said Michael died with dignity on his own terms medical aid and dying was the hardest decision he ever made.

Joe Rogan said on Instagram the urge this man had to do stand up while battling a dability hitting disease was insanely impressive and though he struggled to get words out, man he would kill on stage. He was a real legend and I’m gonna miss him very much. Lair himself joked, he said, I have als one question where they f did all that ice bucket money go? Michael Lair was forty four, And that’s your company news for today. Did you hear about the border collie who recycles trash and when he’s out on his walks, or how about the bear that stole so much Chick fil A?

But good News left the salad behind. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of five Good News Stories. Don’t worry. I have stories about humans too, Like there’s a woman who makes a living because she looks like Jim Carrey. It’s my podcast.

It’s five Good News Stories, Five Good News Stories the number. Five good news stories twice a week. Five Good News Stories. Oh, and Shamrock shakes her back too, good News Five Good News Stories. Wherever you get your shows

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Leslie Jones, Greg Gutfeld, Trevor Noah, Norm McDonald

What’s in This Episode

• Late Night comedians’ Tom Brady playoff jokes criticized as weak
• Leslie Jones hosts The Daily Show with explicit MLK statue material
• CNN considering late-night comedy show with potential hosts
• Gutfeld’s opinion piece on CNN’s comedy ambitions and network criticisms
• Norm McDonald’s classic OJ Simpson jokes from 1995

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark deck. I can’t tell if Late Night has just gotten worse, or maybe the og writers have retired, or maybe the Trump era was just funnier. Late Night is in a slump high. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The topic Tom Brady’s lost the other night, and these are I’m tempted to not even do them, but I just want to illustrate that jokes have gone downhill.

Jimmy Fallon. The Cowboys knocked Tom Brady in the bucks out of the playoffs. Yeah, now fans want to know, will Tom Brady retire or retire? Then immediately unretire and that’s like the best of the jokes. Fouland again.

Yeah, after the game, Brady was thinking about retiring, but then he saw the price of eggs and was like, I can’t retire now, Jimmy Fallon again. I don’t know what else Brady wants to accomplish, though. It’s kind of like Jeff Bezos playing Mega millions. It’s like, you already have all the money, Let’s try Kimmel. He was seven and oh against Dallas lifetime.

Now he’s seven and one. Brady was reportedly so upset after the game, he ate a carb. No, one’s all right, Seth Meyers. According to a new reboard, three NFL teams are considering pursuing quarterback Tom Brady when he becomes a free agent, not to mention about a dozen Bocci leagues. Leslie Jones hosted The Daily Show.

We’re gonna get just a touch naughty here. So I try and keep the podcast clean, but I’m going to have to talk about what Leslie Jones talked about. So what did she talk about? And how can I keep it clean? All right?

Say you were really in love with a woman and you wanted to bring her great pleasure, and you would give her a kiss, maybe not on the mouth, like maybe somewhere else. You with me? Okay, that all right. We’re gonna use a code word. We’re gonna use a safe word together for this.

I’m looking at my water bottle. I’m just gonna say water bottle. She said something else to describe thing I just awkwardly tried to not describe you with me. Okay. My next question to you as you listen to this, is this what we want from the Daily Show?

Like, are you really going to hand Leslie Jones? The Daily Show and turn the Daily Show into this. Are you ready? Yes? She showed an image of the doctor Martin Luther King Junior statue that was unveiled in Boston the other day.

To just see this one. I don’t even know how to describe it. If you haven’t wanting to pass the podcast and google it. Okay, you’re back. Great.

Leslie Jones stared at the sculpture for a few seconds. And the sculpture is supposed to picked King and his wife Coreti Scott King in a loving embrace. Leslie Jones had one question for the audience, and here’s our code word coming up. Ready, has anyone in here ever been water bottle? That’s a pretty dirty joke for the Daily Show.

I’m not sure that’s what I want out of the Daily Show, she continued, because they’re celebrating you right now in Boston. Listen. I know doctor King went down in history, but this is not how you show it. Hey, she did a little word play there, then I’m not gonna at such. She then turned to a different camera to speak for a moment directly to any white people watching at home, and said, white people, you don’t need to say stuff about this statue.

You need to sit your ass in the back of the bus for this one. This is a civil rights icon.

And then she added water bottle his wife.

You show some damn respect. She then turns back to the first camera, puts her heads in her hands, and says, Okay, black people, what the f we’re gonna do? You know, it’s messed up when black people and the Proud Boys hate the same statue. See that’s a good joke. Do that.

She added, you know people hated the Eiffel Tower when it first went up. Maybe it’s just a matter of time, and in time we’ll see the statue for what really is Martin Luther king water bottle with his wife? She says, I can’t unsee it. Little too dirty from my taste. All right, this next topic Gutfeld.

I have been accused in the past of not talking about Gutfeld on this podcast. I like talking about Gutfeld. There’s just never any Gutfeld stories. You may recall the other day I told you CNN is thinking about getting into Late night, maybe hiring John Stewart, or in their wildest fantasy is Trevor Noah, who’s never gonna do it. I’ll tell you right now, there’s a better chance.

I’m serious here, I’m one series here. There is a better chance of Trevor Noah guest hosting this show that you’re listening to right now than doing the CNN show. And here’s why. If I got to Trevor Nooh and I was like, hey, you want to host Daily Comedy News. You can do it from your hotel room and I’ll have my staff clean it up.

You just got to risk some headlines for five eight minutes, there’s like the slightest chance that he would go that’s fun. Yeah, I’ll do that. There’s no chance he’s going to CNN and sitting in a desk for two hours, four nights a week, five nights week. Zero chance. Hey, Trevor, if you’re listening, I’ll be happy to take a week off if you want to do it anyway.

Gutfeld. He had an opinion piece on the Fox News website. I will read it to you, Gutfeld says. Turns out, thanks to the smashing success of this show, Gutfeld, which happened because of our awesome fans and my Razor wit and my Washboard abs. Other networks don’t want to hit comedy show of their own.

According to the new site Semaphore, CNN is reportedly considering higher comedian host one of it’s primetime shows. That makes sense. The network is still a joke. That’s mean. Apparently some floated names that included Bill mar Trevor Noir or Seneol Hall and John Stewart.

What Noah Lane Boosler, Elane Boosler, Elaine Boosler. I’m just going to say it, Elaine Boosler anyway, But if they really want comedy, they should relaunch Sann. Plus, that tobacco made me laugh far more than the Dead Crow staple to Chris Wallace’s scalp. But isn’t at the point. Really, CNN was already funny, and they went ahead and they nailed.

And I’m talking, of course about the golden aged comedy Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, Brian Stelter or is there known in the business the Three Stooges? Those were the days, right, I’m sure he did this monologue better than I’m doing it now. Everything’s ruined. Chris lost his gig after trying to help his brother Andrew fend off a sexual harassment scandal, which is like having Alec Baldwin to teach you gun safety, all right, legitimate joke in there. Skipping ahead a little bit, he said Stetler, sadly for us, took time off to spend more time with his hogies.

Do you know he gave blood last week? That’s how they make Alfredo sauce so disgusting. I know it’s gross. Yeah. He then referenced Norm McDonald to see if I can dust off my Norm impression here, Guttfeld said, take the late great Norm McDonald.

After OJ Simpsons acquittala at ninety five, he said, well it’s officials. Finally if murder is legal in the state of California. The audience roared because they knew it was true, but they also laughed because Norm was saying something. He got the feeling he wasn’t supposed to say, Rumors World. That’s some execs at ABC didn’t want him doing OJ jokes.

Time out. If you want to just lmao, as the kids say, go on YouTube and type in Norm McDonald OJ jokes. There are montage of these things. They’re like forty minutes long, and it’s just Norm riffing OJ jokes and they’re fantastic. You know what, Now that I dusted off my half ass Norm McDonald impression.

Let’s go on lark. I have found on funny one one five dot com some Norm McDonald OJ jokes from February ninety five. Norm McDonald said is buck. Ojay Simpson says that he would have taken a bullet or stood in front of a train for Nicole Man. I’m going to tell you add of some bad luck when the one guy who would have died for you kills you.

That’s probably you don’t get worse luck than that. From January of that year, According to the National Transportation Safety Board, sleepy chuckers are responsible for one thousand deaths a year. In second place, O J. Simpson at two deaths a year. That was so funny.

I couldn’t keep a straight phase of reading it one more And the impression is very half ass. Today I’m aware I’m not nailing it. You don’t have to write me a letter. It was revealed today that OJ Simpson told police that Nicole Brown Simpson used to beat him up. He also claimed that chian Ron Goldman killed him.

There’s a lot of these, all right, This might be the new when I don’t have enough stories, filler thing that I do back to Gutfield. Take the late great norm MacDonald. After OJ simpsons acquittal in ninety five, he said, well, it’s official. It’s finally official. Murder is legal in the state of California.

The audience reared because they knew it was true, but they also laughed because Norma is saying something. You got the feeling was supposed to say. Rumors swirl that some execs at ABC didn’t want him doing OJ jokes. He was willing to break the rules to tell the truth, So how could a network do that while calling Mom’s pregnant people? In order to be effective at comedy, you’ve got to rely on truth, not ideology.

And then the next sentence, I’m going to share it, but it bothers me. This next sentence, I kind of don’t want to even verbalize it, but I want to share it because it think it gives you an overall picture of what Godfeld is doing. So I used to work at a big radio company that you’ve heard of and you’ve heard me mentioned. So when I was there, I would have the staff couple times a year. I’d get together and remind them of the rules.

You know, we were comedy channels, but we were trying to have fun, not insult people or not hurt people, and we’re always, always, always careful about hate speech, and I think this next thing I would have flagged for the staff and be like, don’t do that. What are you doing? Don’t do that? All right, I’m going to back up one sentence them going to read the thing that is chiming my bells Gudfeld. So how can a network do that while calling Mom’s pregnant people?

In order to be effective a comedy, you’ve got to rely on truth, not ideology. CNN is sort of trans in that way, meaning they identify as truthful. It’s a weird joke, Greg be better. Hey. You know how every now and then, I tell you, when I started this podcast, I thought I was going to talk about tours and how many specials and stuff, and then every day it seems to wind up in these horrible places.

Oh and there’s one more horrible story to come, but that’ll be in the second half of the podcast. Let’s do what I thought this podcast was going to be. Nate Burgatzy, He’s got a special coming out soon and the trailer is out. Nate Brigatzy’s Hello World will be released on Amazon January thirty. First, a new trailer for the special shows Nate in his elements.

He’s on a three hundred and sixty degree stage at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. In the trailer, he tells the joke, I’m the firstborn. We show up. Our parents aren’t ready, they don’t have any money. The youngest just show up in Their parents are trillionaires.

It’s like what’s in upstairs. That’s like a home on top of a home. These special Wild tackled topics like growing up in the eighties and nineties, the hardest part of a marriage, and saying dumb things. And Madonna has released an homage to her nineteen ninety one film Truth or Dare. In this one, we see her playing a salacious round of the game Truth or Dare with some of the biggest and most current names in comedy.

Yes You’re right, that is weird. On is doing a music tour. It’s called the Celebration Tour. She has not become a stand up comic, but in her trailer for her music tour, we see Jack Black Judd appets how Amy Schumer, who once toured with Madonna and some more ALTI comics like Eric andre kpe Rollant, Larry Owens, Bob the Drea Queen, and Megan Statler. Let me talk about what’s going on behind the scenes of the podcast for about a minute.

If that boors, you skip ahead, So in the next few days you might encourage some weirdness. Maybe the feed doesn’t work for like an hour or so. What’s happening is the files are just moving from like that hard drive over there to this other hard drive over there. Why are you doing that, Johnny Mac, I have a deal where where how the commercials are handled are changing. The end goal of that, in full transparency, is so that this podcast can generate more money.

So it’s just moving from company A to company B and then hopefully a company B can sell more. They’re called host read, so it’s me reading the copy as opposed to say the commercial for the Casito that you hear nine times a show and thank you Casino. I really appreciate it. So you’ll start to hear more of that as time goes on, and as we moved the wires from here to there, something weird might happen in the next day or two. But if that does just you know, give it a beat and then come back and download the episode.

Should be fine, and then in a worst case scenario, your phone’s gonna download all previous episodes and you’re gonna want to kill me. Hopefully that doesn’t happen anyway. So that’s what’s going on there. Got a note from Kenny. Kenny is one of the og listeners of the show.

I’ve been listening for quite some time and a monthly member on buy Meacoffee dot com. We sometimes treat emails about coffee. He’s always trying to get me to go to that place with the green logo, and I always go to the national Donus chain. He told me at the Green place, I hear the new pistachio Cream cold brew as a hit this season. All right, I’ll stop by when I’m driving by.

Because Kenny buys me a coffee every month. Least I could do is honor his wishes and try the new pistachio Cream coldbrew. And if you’d like to support the show, like Kenny, go to Buy mea Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and file the instructions on the screen. But the real reason for Kenny’s note is he told me he was listening to five good news Stories. So that’s the podcast they started right around Christmas time.

Low key. You’ve heard the promos at the end of this podcast of five good news stories. It’s five stories and they’re all kind of good news. While we’re backstage, let me tell you. So, I’m trying not to have the show devolve into, Hey, someone’s lost dog came home after six months.

There’s tons of those stories. They’re all great. I’m a big dog person, but I don’t want the podcast to be that every day. I also, I don’t want the podcast every day to be somebody was sick and now they’re not also great news, but I want the podcast to be varied. So I’m mixing in what we call in radio kicker stories.

So a kicker story is when I’m going back to the nineteen nineties when we actually used pieces of paper and stuff, so you would put together a package for your host of you know, here’s the stuff we could talk about today. And the kickers were things you could use or not depending on if you were running short or long. So if you’re running short, you could pull something out, you know, as a smile story is another way to call it and if you didn’t get to it, you didn’t get to it. Now, a lot of those are smiles stories. They’re not necessarily good news, but they’re quirky thing Like there’s one in an upcoming episode of Five Good News Stories about a guy who ordered every topping from a local pizza chain, so he got like a pizza with everything on it, like I mean everything.

So it’s that good news. I don’t know, but it’s fun. So that’s that show Five Good News Stories where if you get your podcast. And he was asking me if Travel is back, we’ll have another season. Yes it will.

I’ve mentioned I have some upcoming travel. On the upcoming travel I’m going to record a whole bunch of things. Got a cool little trip coming up. So those are the podcasts Five Good News Stories and Travel is Back. Those are some other things that I do.

I’m also the Right Around Palace Intrigue and we’ve had a great month, all right. Today the snow Jam Comedy Festival kicks off. Let’s see who’s playing, you know, the snow Jam Comedy Festival. It’s in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It’s it’s eighth year.

Early in the day, Dan Bublitz, friend of the show, comedian and dude who I’m working on this partnership with. He’s hosting building a Better ePK for your success. That’s at the Spellbound Magic Shop in theater if you’re not in the is And ePK is an electronic press kit. That’s pretty cool. I gotta have Dan on one of these days.

That topic interests me a lot. Dan listens every day. Dan, let’s talk on the side about that. Six thirty PM. Tonight Remedy at Frostbite Comedy Good Name Tonight, six thirty Remedy At six eleven.

Ten comics hit the stage, including Lisa Rossi. So Snowjam army with these bios. So let’s just randomly. I haven’t pre read this, I scam did I looked at the homework. Don’t send me a note, Dan, I did look at it.

I didn’t memorize it. I like doing these things cold. You know that. So Lisa Rossi is one of the performers. She explores the mysteries of marriage, Midwestern life, and why she loves shorten a and French fries so much.

See that’s fun. She’s also played the Omaha Comedy Festival Laugh Riot in La and the name of a comedy festival in New Orleans. I can’t even pronounce. See who else is on that show. Jenny lou Roussy Warner in Ohio Brood in Alaska is her bio.

She began her career at Pierce Street Annex and Alaska Honeder Comedy Chops at the Cleveland imperorv recent winner of the Rivercade Comedy Competition. Credits include real stories of the Highway Patrol. So that’s a six thirty show, and I like a nice early six thirty show, all right, So that’s today ten comics. Then at nine o’clock we let it snow Comedy Showcase, ten more comedians. I love ten comedian shows.

Noah cop fur Let’s check out his bio. He has two specials out on YouTube that’s cool, a full hour titled Deep Breaths and a mini special produced by Don’t Tell Comedy. He’s one of the ten. So is mel Mackie. Melanie Mackie is a quote overwhelming ball of energy from Des Moines.

She used this comedy to pursue her constant need for a tension. I’m digging it. With a background in theater, improv, cheerleading, and gymnastics and a full time job planning weddings. She just wants everyone to have a good time. So that shows at nine snow Jam Comedy Festival.

You guys are bringing it. I mean for me, I meet my buddies at like five, we’d grab a beer or two. Hit the six thirty show. Ten comics dropt down, some notes. Hit a nine o’clock show.

Ten different comics dropped down, some notes. Go back to the room, knock out a podcast, My kind of comedy festival. Nice job, Snowjam Comedy Festival. I’m running along today, all right. Joe Rogan, he’s at the Creek in the Cave in Austin tonight.

He’s also the guest on this week’s Kill Tony. I haven’t listened to that yet, but I have. It’s saved for a long drive I have coming up. Hey, remember the other day it’s talking about Justin Royland. He’s one of the creators of Rick and Morty and Solar Opposites in Koala Man.

That guy. It’s also the voice of Rick and the voice of Morty. So if you like Rick and Morty, he’s kind of cruised to that show. So do the other day that it came out that he was charging twenty twenty with one count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, or deceit. The Hollywood Reporter picked up the story.

Royland’s attorney called the media coverage of the charge’s inaccurate, adding to be clear, not only is just an innocent but we have every expectation that this matters on course to be dismissed once the District Attorney’s office has completed its methodical review of the evidence from what I gathered. The point of the hollywo Reporter’s article was to observe that Adult Swim has so far declined to comment on the news, adding the show isn’t even halfway through a seventy episode order. Commissioned by the channel in twenty eighteen. The series is consistently the most watched on Adult Swim. There recently completed sixth season average five hundred and sixty thousand viewers for its initial airings.

Meanwhile, on Hulu, Royland plays a main character on Solar Opposites. I’ve actually been workshopping a half ass corvo impression. I’ve almost gotten down. I got to nail the voice little more. But I’ve figured out how you do a corvo.

If you watch Solar Opposites, it’s basically rant, rant on same topic and then a left turn. So it would be like, and I don’t have the voice yet, but it would be like if he were complaining about AstroTurf and baseball, it would be something along the lines of why don’t they play on real grass? And why is the grass green anyway? And whatever happened all Star voting. I liked punching those ballots that, but I don’t have the voice yet.

Not a half half impressions today should just finish up as half ass Jeff Foxworthy. Royland also executive produces and does voice work on Koala Man. He also has a video game company. My son turned me onto. The company is called Squatch Games, and they put out this game in December.

It’s on Xbox Game Pass, which is how I got it. Yes, I’m a big kid. It’s called High on Life. It’s a first person shooter, but it is l O l LMAO, like truly truly funny. So you’re holding a gun, but your gun speaks to you, and the gun speaks to you in ninety nine percent the Morty voice.

The humor is very Rick and Morty. Aid’s basically a Rick and Morty game. But you know, totally not totally legally to stink, this isn’t Rick and Morty at all. What are you talking about? One of those?

The game is a lot of fun. It’s called High on Life. You’ll find out on Xbox Game Pass. It’s seriously funny. Can I spoil a little bit of it?

All right? I’m gonna spoil the games good, bad, thirty seconds. I’ll do it real quick. Spoiler. So, at one point during the game, your character gets a computer virus and like fake ads keep popping up on your screen, so you’re trying to shoot stuff but you can’t see because there’s ads.

Very funny spoiler over all, Right, we’re too long today. That’s your companies for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows tomorrow. Did you hear about the border collie who recycles trash and when he’s out on his walks, or how about the bear that stole so much Chick fil A but good News left the salad behind. Hi.

I’m Johnny Mac, host of five good news stories. Don’t worry. I have stories about humans too, Like there’s a woman who makes a living because she looks like Jim Carrey. It’s my podcast. It’s five good news stories, five good news stories the number.

Five good news stories twice a week. Five good news stories. Oh, and Shamrock shakes her back too, good news. Five good news stories. Wherever you get your shows

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Featured: Chelsea Handler, Joe Rogan, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Sam Morrill, Dave Chappelle, Mike Epps, Bill Maher, John Stewart, Trevor Noah

What’s in This Episode

• Chelsea Handler Critics Choice Awards jokes
• Joe Rogan says Will Smith deserves forgiveness
• Sam Morrill defends Dave Chappelle against cancellation claims
• CNN considering late-night comedy show with major comedians
• Mike Epps brings attention to Jackson Mississippi water crisis
• Mike Epps discusses his cocaine past and comedy evolution
• SnowJam Comedy Festival in Sioux Falls January 19-21

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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The Shark Deck. Hey Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Quick joke from Mark Norman, who said the book of Henry Ford’s life, Now that’s an autobiography. Chelsea Handler hosted the Critics Choice Awards. She said, the cast of The Bear is here.

Awesome show. They showed us how grueling and absolutely miserable working in the restaurant industry can be. And they didn’t even have to wait on James Gordon. It’s not good. None of these are good.

She joked about badass Viola Davis training for her critically acclaimed to film The Woman King her joke. As part of Viola’s training in the film, she was given a DNA test to determine the best workout regiment for her genetic makeup or right Good premise, which also coincidentally revealed that she’s Nick Cannon’s daughter. That was pretty good. Actually, when I first read it, I didn’t like it. Now I’m like, all right, that joke’s pretty good.

And the movie tsar Kate Blanchett portrayed iconic lesbian whose career is affected by her toxic behavior, and she didn’t even have to host her own daytime talk show. All right, Dummer became the third highest viewed show on Netflix, with a combined watch time of one billion hours, which apparently is the same amount of time we’re going to have to listen to Prince Harry talk about his frostbitten penis. You know what I warmed up to those? I apologized, Chelsea. Those were good jokes.

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I kind of get it, and I’m kind of like you guys are dreaming here. CNN boss Chris Licht is contemplating adding some sort of like comedy type show to CNN from nine to eleven pm every week night. This from Radar Online. One insider said they’re looking for their version of John Oliver. Okay, again, not the worst idea.

Two hours a night is a lot, and here’s their wish list. John Stewart, Bill Maher, Trevor Noah and Arsenio Hall. All Right, first off, let’s cross off Trevor Noah. Trevor Noah did not give up the Daily Show to do two hours a night on CNN. No chance, Arsenio.

I could see that happening, because what else is our Senio doing John Stewart? Is John Stewart going to host the news for two hours on CNN every night? And what happens when you know something horrible happens and John Stewart’s on the air, is you’re going to have to suddenly be the anchor guiding us through the horrible storm, plane crash, terrible thing. I don’t know hard division Bill Maher, I could actually see Bill Moore doing it, although same issue of what happens when the bad stuff happens? Do you like have Anderson Cooper just hang around eleven o’clock every night in case he needs to throw him on the air?

To Bill Maher might make sense because he already works for Warner Brothers Discovery, the parent company of CNN. Billmore has the show on HBO. I could see that happening. But again, does Bill Moore want to work ten hours a week plus the prep? You know, you don’t just show up at eight fifty nine and sit down.

Joe Rogan says it is time to forgive Will Smith. He said, thinking about the situation, I’m like, that guy has to be forgiven, Like he clearly has deep remorse for what he’s done, and he’s also clearly living in a world where he was given nothing but adulation and praise for most of his life, and then all of a sudden he has this one, in many people’s eyes, unforgivable moment where he does something just so stupid. He’s a human being. You just got to forgive him, you know. And I think the person who has to forgive him if he wants to is Chris Rock.

Sam Murel compted it on Dave’s Chappelle and said, you know, the guy who attacked Dave Rappelle. That was awful. But when people were talking about Dave being silence, I’m like, I feel like Netflix is one week away from live streaming him taking a dump. I think it’s much to do about nothing. What are we talking about here, He’s not being silenced.

He’s performing an arena’s it’s the narrative of the shock jocks us. Oh, they’re coming for us. I’m like, why don’t you show them where you live? You’re not canceled. Mike Epps was down to Jackson, Mississippi, trying to bring attention to the water problems down there.

Before entertaining a crowd in a weekend comedy show, Mike Apps handed out water to Jacksonians and said, it’s no laughing matter, and the rest of the country don’t understand how bad it is to come here and see how resilient these people are here in Jackson. Jackson’s always been a great city in America, and I think as a country, in a government, we need to support them. Philadelphia Weekly had somebody at one of Mike Epps shows, presumably the one in Philadelphia, not Jackson. They write, Though Epps is now drug free quote save for weed unquote, his cocaine days are regarded with fondness and fearlessness. Not only did he joke about being coked up while filming movies like All about the Benjamin’s his joke there look at my eyes, he poked fun at the women in his life during his cocaine habit, and post cocaine you could tell I was on the powder by the look of the woman I was with at the time.

There was a lot of reminiscing and recollection within the body of Mike epps long set, and much of it tied to similarly misogynistic, but funny and certainly self deprecating elements of his nineteen nineties and earlies two thousands past. Women approach him differently now than they did in his comedic youth. The children he has with self damed baby mom as approach aps differently too. One more day until the snow Jam Comedy Festival January nineteenth through the twenty first in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Let’s take a look at some of the comedians who will be performing.

Shiloh Blake is out of Minneapolis. She was a finalist in the twenty twenty two Funniest Person With a Day Job House of Comedy. Billy Joe Gillespie is an out and proud marine veteran, bringing high end and a unique perspective to the stage. For eleven years, her hilarity has kept the crowds laughing at the adventures of farm life, the challenges of military service, and veteran life as a woman. Christian Williams handed in this bio On a cold night December nineteen ninety four, a little round mound of chocolate was born by the name Christian Williams.

Christian then slowly grew into an average sized chocolate man who’s also an improv and stand up comedian. His humor can be described as lighthearted and silly. I love it Coldy Ulrich during comic from Denver. Cody hosts the wipe athetical podcast Nice So that kicks off tomorrow the snow Jam Comedy Festival Shoe Fall, South Dakota. Looking forward to this one got a nice note on the Daily Comedy News subreddit.

Tall Wrongdoer forty two ninety nine wrote, thanks Johnny Mac, and I was like, oh, I’ll click on this. The tall Wrongdoer writes, I’m your age and like stand up specials an awful lot. But when I watched the classics from Ourage generation, I often get the side eye from my kiddos. Times change comedy changes all good. I’ll jump in here.

Yeah, why don’t you put on Eddie Murphy’s Delirious and play his opening bit? You know the one that’s titled on the album A word that starts with F. Play that one that one has an age So well, times change comedy changes all good at your recommendation. I watched Cheng Wang and otsko Akosco with them and both were hits. So thanks for helping me find comics the Bridge the generation gap and made us all laugh.

That’s awesome. Thanks Tall Wrongdo. I really appreciated that. Note there anybody in Manchester if you’re in Manchester wanting your head on over to Bert Kreisher’s show tonight. By the way, fantastic Bert Kreischer article in The Guardian.

I’m saving that for the weekend so I can record the weekend in advance, but I did share it on the subredits Daily Comedy News and on the Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’ll find that on Facebook if you want to read that, or just you know, google Bert Kreisher and the Guardian article will pop up anyway. He’s in Manchester in the UK. Tonight Chortle Rights the US Party. Ging comedian and podcaster Bert Kreisher, known for performing shirtless on stage, begins a short run of UK dates at his new Tops Off World tour at the Apollo The stand Up.

Is also known for hosting the Go Big Show featuring large scale entertainment such as monster Trucks on America’s TBS network. I’ll tell you as the host of Daily Communus, he’s not known for that. It might be something on his resume. It might be something he does, it might be something you even watch, but he is not known for that. Night Court It’s back.

Did you watch it? I didn’t really watch the first one, so I’m not going to watch the reboot. But the Hollywood Reporter did, and they wrote, over its nine season one hundred ninety three episode run, you know, you see a number like one hundred ninety three episodes, and now we’re living in the twenty twenties where seasons are like eight episodes long. The idea of a show having one hundred ninety three two hundred episodes is insane. But over its nine season, one hundred ninety three episode run, NBC’s Night Court the original had many things going for at the Manhattan courtroom setting presented an array of cases that let the show shift from the outlandish to the topical, the ridiculous to the borderline sincere.

One thing it didn’t have going for it was consistency. The broad humor could veer in a hackiness, the attempts at candor could strain to mawkishness. Shifts within the sporting castment that the writers were constantly trying, not always successfully, to taylor new parts to new actors, knowing they could always beat behind John Laraquett and punchlines and Harry Anderson in screen time. The inconsistency was especially pronounced. I’ve experienced Night Court.

If so many viewers did, primarily in syndication, one episode would lead you to think this is one of the best shows of its era, and the X would be pure drivel. All right, what about the new one? The Holli reporter says. The new one swings back and forth between somewhat promising and thoroughly embalmed. It’s part of the joke that Abby, Abby’s the judge now, and what a coincidence.

She’s the daughter of Harry Anderson’s character. What a coincidence. She’s taking up residence in a facility that hasn’t been renovated in decades, which lets her occupy what is basically her father’s old office and preside over what is basically her father’s old courtroom, producing all sorts of visual references to the original series for a fittingly nostalgic blandness. The writers have generally picked new cases which would fit in with the old, like the woman who insists she’s a werewolf, but more frequently. The cases here are used to make character driven points, like various times Abbet’s hambur early worries she might be too soft or sentimental, only to be reminded that sentiment is her family’s core judicial superpower.

All right, let’s finish up on gossip corner. Olivia Munn and John Mulaney. They have a son, Malcolm. They treated Malcolm to his first trip to a local Asian market. We learned this from Olivia Mun’s Instagram.

She shared a video decaption first trip to the Asian market. The Daily Mail writes the X Men Apocalypse star forty two years old, stepped out with her boys, looking fabulous in skin spe blue jeans at a red sweater. The pant’s had a freed high water style that help show off her black heeled boots. At one point, young Malcolm mun mulaney turned and pointed to the various fish and shellfish that had already been packed and put on ice. How cute.

That’s your comedy news for today. Fall the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow,