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Featured: Mindy Kaling, Seth Meyers, John Mulaney, Andrew Santino, Joe Rogan, Bert Kreischer, Connor McGregor

What’s in This Episode

• Velma HBO Max spinoff critical and audience reception failure
• Seth Meyers monologue joke about Trump and North Korea
• John Mulaney performing in Belfast
• Bert Kreischer meets Connor McGregor at Dublin pub
• Andrew Santino discusses LIV Golf on Joe Rogan Experience

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. Hey, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News quick one from Seth Myers. This reminds me of an old Letterman style joke, Seth said. According to a new book, then President Trump discussed in twenty seventeen the possibility of striking North Korea with a nuclear weapon and then blaming it on another country. Even weirder, he wanted to blame it on Belgium.

Now I pictured Dave mocking for the camera and Paul Schaeffer doing a musical sting there.

Let’s talk about Velma.

I’m wondering if Mindy Kaling has actually done damage to her career. Velma is not being received well at all, like at all. I’m recording on Sunday to commodate my schedule. I had some traveler yesterday. I’m on rotten tomatoes.

From critics, Velma has a fifty three percent rating from viewers seven percent, and there are quite a few articles from the marys dot com. The headline what is Vilma with this awful means huge joke? The mary Sue dot com writes, Vilma the HBO Ma’s adult cartoon about the best detective and mystery ink seems to pride itself on having a more adult, cynical take on the gang of teenage crime solvers. However, that adults in nature has led to some horrifically tasteless jokes. In the second episode, Velma makes a truly bizarre comment to Daphne, claiming, I spit the truth without a filter, like every comedian before me too.

The Mary Sue writes genuinely, what the hell? I will try to be fair to the series, it does seem that this version of Velma is meant to be self involved, the judgmental to the point of short sidness. The early episodes established Velma as the type of girl who’s not like the other girls and who gets challenged when she and Daphne rekindle their friendship. The line also occurs in the middle of a discussion when Daphney accuses Vilma of believing her snap judgments of other people who always be correct, meaning that much like those supposed truth spinning comedians, Velma is not acknowledging other people’s experiences because they don’t fit into her personal perception of the truth. But that line seems designed almost entirely for shock value, with almost no self awareness.

Or acknowledgement of how out there it is. It’s hard to imagine how it appeals to anyone other than people who are still fans of Louis C.K. To be honest, though, that also summarizes the show, which appears to be going through an identity crisis regarding whether it wants to be an edgy adult take on the characters of Scooby Doo or genuine exploration of those characters flaws. Forbes headline is Vilma is so bad it spawned PSI up conspiracy theories. Velma currently has the lowest audience score I’ve seen for an HBO or HBO Max production, a seven percent.

To get that low requires not just review bombing, but your show also likely has to be genuinely bad, and it is. Vilma is very, very bad. Forbes rights, Velma is so bad, in fact, that it’s spawning conspiracy theories that creator Mindy Kaling made what is essentially a parody of what the right wing thinks left wing comedy is like, as in a show that not just recast most roles with new races, but also features loads and loads of white guys am I right jokes. The idea is that Kaling is a secretly conservative force in media, trying to make the Left look bad by making a cringey adult cartoon full of this rich white guy has a small dung jokes that the right can point too. Is everything wrong with race created, social justice influenced media.

Velma is not defensible by any stretch of the imagination. It’s just bad. I love this from Forbes. Making progressive jokes is fine as long as the jokes are good. They’re not good.

I heard the show describes somewhere as a series written by TV writers who only ever talk to other TV writers. There’s a world where this concept might have worked. I can see an adult Scooby Doo series where you just have an overlooked Velma attempting to clawback credit from a privileged Fred, the leader of the gang. And yet here it’s not just jabbing a Fred for being an overconfident white dude. It’s literally he’s such a whiny white man baby that his mommy cuts a steak and he hasn’t finished puberty.

Ce is a small penis like just no remote hint of subtlety or nuance or anything that can make the progressive humor work. The Scottish Daily Express went with Scooby Doo spinoff Vilma isn’t funny and is openly racist against white people. Wow. They write, the one white member of the gang, Fred seems to always be the butt of the joke. In one clip, Velma publicly humiliates him based on his class and race.

We’re then shown Fred hilariously failing to cut food using a knife and fork, because who’s ever heard of an upper class white person being able to use cutlery? That was the exact scene that made me bail on the show. I was kind of in the first eight nine minutes and when they got to that, I was like, I hate the show and I’m never going back. Seems like I’m not alone. These Scottish Daily Express rights the basic premise of the humor doesn’t make any sense, part from an adherence to the white man bad mantra of wokeism.

At one point, Velma slips him a copy of the feminine Mystique and inspires his great awakening and new obsession with the gender pay gap. Classic cartoon laughs. Glenn Howarden said, clearly a big part of the show is the sad’s heart of it, and I just think that Fred was just a perfect vehicle to satirize white mail, entitlement, privilege, all things that are part of the social conversation right now. I think he was just too perfect of a vessel not to do that. It’s not really the thread that we know, but I think you can look at the thread that we grew up with and go, I can see how that guy used to be that guy.

I also saw an industry trade observed that HBO Max didn’t pre promote the show. Remember I mentioned last week like, hey Velma suddenly out. I didn’t miss something. They didn’t promote it at all. They were just like, oh yeah, Velma’s out today.

So it seems like HBO Max knows that they have a dud on their hands. Over the weekend. It was prominently featured when I logged in, But I don’t know. It doesn’t look like this one’s too popular. John Mulaney is in Belfast.

Tonight short all went with this line which caught my attention. Belfast classy American comedian John Mulaney, the former SnO writer with several acclaim stand up socialistic name is John Mulaney Classy. He dresses nice because these are short haircuts because they add the show plays against the positive, easy going image he had, at least until his marriage publicly collapsed as he began dating actress Olivia Munn with dark stories of drug addiction and rehabilitation. I’m not saying he’s not classy. I just classy isn’t the first word that comes to mind for me?

With John Mulaney again, yell at me in the comments, I’m fine.

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Also overseas Bert Craisher, he was spotted alongside Connor McGregor in Conn…

Connor owns the Black Forge Inn. Graisher had just played The Three Arena in Dublin popped on over to the Black Forge. They took a picture together. And get out your Daily Comedy News bingo card because I’m going to talk about Andrew Santino again. He was on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

He was asked about his views on Live Golf. You know this is the controversial rival golf tour that the Saudis are behind. Santino told Rogan love it, absolutely love it. He understands that people love the preservation in the history of the PGA tour, but his take the PGA particularly is mad because they’re looking something in the face that’s threatening them. They’re more mad about business interests.

Santino says the PGA tour doesn’t appeal to the younger players. I want some more freedom and fun. I want something different. He loves the idea of a competing golf tour and said, why do you need a monopoly of one league. As much as he loves to live golf, he says, it’s not going to be bigger than a PGA, but it’s an alternative that’s fun.

Nola dot Com caught up with Sam Morrell and they talked about the two times Sam left Tulane University. The first was right after he arrived on campus for his freshman year. It was days before a hurricane Katrina. Sam said, that was my introduction to New Orleans immediate evacuation. He went up spending that semester New York City.

I went to Columbia that semester. I wore my Tulane hat and everybody was like, you poor thing. I was like, really, I just took a flight out that got me way more sex than I deserved to get as a freshman. The second time he left, he transferred to Nyu that was less about a degree, but he wanted to get into comedy. He said, there was no stand up in New Orleans.

There was one open mic. It wasn’t a place I could grow, So it was hard for me. I had a strong feeling that I wanted that there was one open mic, but it wasn’t a place I could grow. The article also has a good point about how Sam puts together his comedy. They talked about a bit Sam has about sleeping Beauty not being all that appropriate on the concept of consent.

Sam says, I’m on the right side if you want to break that joke down. That joke was just another one, Like just go on the ride with me. There’s a lot of punch lines along the way if I’m going anywhere that’s in some people’s eyes, pretty offensive. I go really silly with it. When people say they’re dark jokes, to me, they’re light.

Maybe the subject matter is dark, but I’m going light with it. You have half an ounce of whiskey and then like six ounces of seltzer. A lot of this is about placement of jokes. Maybe that joke is shocking, so I have to earn it and put that fifteen minutes into my set. I’m sick of doing fifteen minute comedy sets in New York at the Cellar.

The first five minutes I have to prove that I’m funny. Then I get in the groove. Then at minute nine I try a new joke and I lose them. He prefers performing on the road because he gets to do an hour instead of doing four fifteen minute sets. The snow Jam Comedy Festival kicks off Thursday night.

Thirty comedians from around the country are traveling to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Of what the forecast is, let’s look Thursday high of twenty four, low of fourteen Friday twenty four and thirteen, Saturday twenty six and seventeen. I guess not too bad. Some of the comedians performing there. Lee bruns Lee is a reformed motorcycle addict, special Olympics coach, a longtime fan of both dogs and cats.

His humor comes from a perspective of exhaustion and deep regret. Stephen Taylor is going to be there. He was from Louisiana moved to Kansas City to escape his traditional Southern roots. He’s a fast rising talent who’s worked with Theo von Carlos Miller and Mark Norman, combining his unique perspective with some sweet Southern charm. Stephen headlines and features of your favorite clubs, bars, and colleges across the country.

Thomas Nichols will be there. He’s out of Dallas. He jokes about everything from cartoons to politics to pineapple. Fanta. Is there Pineapple Fanta?

I toward Spain a few years back. I really got into Fanto when I was over there, Like orange Fanto was my joke. Yeah, Fanta Pineapple two eighty nine on door Dash? Should I order one dollar seventy four at Walmart? I’m on Fanta dot com now and they say Fanta Pineapple.

It’s a bold, confident never settle flavor high score you do you and don’t apologize for leveling up your eight bit love of pineapple things. It’s caffeine free and it’s pineapple flavored. Other Fanta flavors Greepe, Pina Colota, strawberry, and orange. This is not a commercial. I’m just telling you about comedian Thomas Nichols.

He’s out of Dallas, and he jokes about everything from cartoons to politics too. Pineapple Fanta sweet snow Jam Comedy Festival. January nineteenth through the twenty first Let’s a Gossip Corner, Olivia Munn was on Instagram. She shared some adorable footage of her and John Mulaney’s baby son, Malcolm. They’re eating Grandma Kim’s homemade ramen.

Malcolm appeared in Oz he watched John Laney spice up his ramin bowl with a gooey red chili sauce and also on Gossip Corner. Celest bar is an Australian comedian who has gained worldwide fame and nine point four million followers on Instagram thanks to her hilarious body positive post comparing herself to other women in the entertainment industry. She did a photoshoot from Marie Claire. She’s on the cover of the February issue. She revealed on Instagram she shot the photos while having a broken tailbone, joking.

In the caption She’s professional, we see Barbara leaning against a beach ball and standing on a paddleboard holding on a trapeze rings no details on how she broke her tailbone, and some of Northern Ireland’s top comedians are going to quote knock the ballocks out of each other in a charity boxing event. Pattie McDonald, Mickey Bartlett and Shane sod are among the comics taken to the ring and the Valentine’s Day Massacre Ulster Hall February eleventh. It follows a similar event in twenty sixteen when English based comics took part in a series of bouts. And there’s something over there called the wrestling where apparently comedians wrestle. They’re going to do a version of that at Just for Laughs.

In March, Kyle Humphreys told the Belfast tele Graft they’ve been inspired by YouTuber Jake Paul’s boxing. He said the stand up scene is really well sported here, but seeing people out of their comfort zone, which we all are, just add something different. After the bell we can share a joke, but in the ring, in the heat of the battle, there’s no time for that. That’s your comedy needs for today. Father show for free on Apple, Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever get your shows.

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Royal sources are jumping at the bit. The in laws just can’t stop. The UK tabloids are about to burst, Americans can’t get enough, the kids can’t get any cute to the press can’t get any uglier. And Wills and Kate, well, they just wonderful. Get your daily dose of gossip and news from the world’s most royal family.

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What’s in This Episode

• Late night comedians riffing on Biden classified documents discovery
• Jim Gaffigan filming new comedy special in Tampa
• Kevin Hart’s Yas Island Abu Dhabi ambassador job competition
• Beer throwing incident at New Jersey comedy club with fine and ban
• Justin Royland facing domestic battery charges from 2020 incident

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. Hey, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News late Night. Still having fun with President Biden and those passkey documents. Seth Myers with a winner here. The White House announced that President Biden’s aids found classified documents at several locations inside his Delaware home, and he’s had them for a while because a lot of them have to do with the Louisiana purchase.

That’s great. There’s a bunch of bad ones again, as always, I’ll qualify the professional comedians tell them much better than I do. But I don’t know what is going on with the writers. Colbert, I know your retirement age. Are you starting a collection?

They’re classified documents, not spoons from the Delaware Train Museum. That one’s okay. James Cordon, this is awful. You’ve heard of Mara Lago. This is Carlago.

Oh my goodness’s terrible fallon. Apparently presidents lose classified documents the way we lose air pods. It’s just terrible. Unless that’s like the ninth joke in his sequence Kimmel one, okay one awful, the okay one, which is more dangerous. Joe Biden having classified documents in his garage or Joe Biden having the keys to a Corvette’s That one’s okay.

This one’s awful. He calls it stud force one. Kimbell, that one’s so bad. I’m surprised, Falandon say it. From Tampa Bay Date Night Guide, Boy, Jenny Mack, you’ve been just throwing fire these last three four or five shows.

Yes, I know. By the way, I’m recording this on Friday, and I got a note from a friend of the show who told me that he knows the guy. If you listen. On Friday, there was an article about a comedian and I’m not here, and I wasn’t there to beat up on that particular comedian. It was just that the article had a lot of comedian generalities, like, hey, Springfield has the best audiences, and the Chuckle Hut is the best club.

Was that kind of stuff. Friend of the show told me he was LMAO about that piece. So that’s good because the point wasn’t to pick on the particular comedian. And that’s why I’m saying particular comedian’s name today. That’s not why I did it.

So thank you friend of the show. From Tampa Bay Day Night Guide. You’re home for a comedy news They say Jim Gaffigan has been a household name. Now I wonder why they say has been a household name. I would say Jim Gaffigan is a household name, except he’s probably not.

I mean for you and I. You listen to the show every day, and how was the show? We know who Jim Gafgan is. I’m not sure everyone knows a Jim Gaffican is, but who cares? And he’s bringing his latest tour, the Dark Pail Tour, to Tampa February ninth through the eleventh.

Not only will guests be treated to his hilarious antics about dealing with life’s crazy challenges. See this just to beat the dead horse. That’s the same kind of generic comedy article that I was making fund of on Friday, Jim Gaffigan’s hilarious antics and dealing with life’s crazy challenges. But one of the story, Johnny Mac is Those two shows will be filmed for Jim Gaffigan’s newest upcoming comedy special. Nice, the CEO of the building, said, I love Jim Gaffigan’s work and his comedy interesting.

He must be a fan of Jim’s acting traps to put it in that order. I’m so impressed that he’s chosen to film the Dark Pail Tour here. It speaks for who these strass is, the stras is the building. Then we got some boilerplate from Jim, let’s read it. I’m super excited that I’m filming in Tampa because of a couple of factors.

You know, I’ve obviously performed in Tampa numerous times and always had a great time. But I also feel like Western Florida has a lot of Midwesterners, and so being a Midwesterner, there’s a feeling of familiarity there too.

Also, I lived in Tampa for a year after college.

Some far from an expert on Tampa, but I know a little bit. I was in some apartment complex that was on South Bay Shore, So what’s this set like. It’s a little darker than some of my previous materials, But I think audiences like that. You know, you develop a relationship with people that come to shows, and you know the expectation that’s going to be funny, and you know that’s the most important thing, but also that it evolves. It’s not the same joke from pr Newswire Dateline Ambu Zambe United Arab Emirates.

Kevin Hart CIO of Yes Island Yas Island has just announced that applications are upen to the public for the world’s best job. Are you’re curious what does Kevin harts and it’s that Kevin Hart. Yes. What does Kevin Hart Cio Yas Island say the world’s best job is? According to this press release, Well, the world’s best job is a chance to become Yes Island Abu Dhabe’s next ambassador.

The chosen candidate, if deemed heartworthy, stands a chance to win an unbeatable package including a one hundred thousand dollars salary. Now salary is in quotes, So I don’t know. I guess you’re just winning and you don’t have to do anything. A hundred thousand dollars salary, a luxury hotel stay, exclusive world class entertainment experiences across the Yes Island Abu Dhabe and much more. You dear listener, can apply right now, go to hire me dot Yes Island dot com.

A jury will select a shortlist of five entrance by January twenty six, says the press release. Those keen to be shortlisted will simply need to film and upload a video of themselves and answer one simple question, how will you make Yes Island heart to beat? That’s heart to beat Yes. To increase their chances, applicants are advised to share and upload their savvy submissions on social media. Hmm, I’m no expert in contest rules, but I’d run that one pass somebody if it were me.

But I’m not running the contest. I’m just reading a press release with no shortage of exhilarating experiences in store Yas Island, Abu Zabe promises the winner one hundred thousand dollar prize to start. In addition to a business class flight to Abu Dhabe, the winner will get to call the fabulous Suite at w Abu Dhabe Yas Island home for sixty days and have access to delightful spa and dining experiences at the coveted hotel. To get around the island, the Ambassador will ride in style in a luxury car courtesy of Yasa Marina Circuit. The winner will be able to satisfy their need for speed through karting sessions and the Formula Yas three thousand driving experience on the world famous Formula one track.

What’s more, the winner, we’ll see the sixty day club membership at Yasa Links golf package complete with golfing sessions to help perfect their swing. This is not a commercial. This isn’t me actually doing the story because I’m amused by it. From New Jersey twelve, a video of a man throwing a full can of beer at a comedian in Point Plaisant Beach went viral last fall. Remember that, Yeah, you remember that well.

The person who threw the beer at comedian Amoriel Elias was fined five hundred and eight dollars. I wonder why it’s five hundred and eight five hundred and eight dollars, and has also been banned from the club. New Jersey twelve says besides losing club access, the person in question may have lost some friends from the stunt. According to a handwritten letter sent to Uncle Vinny’s, the letter reads, in part that poor Coma could have been in the hospital of coma disgusting behavior. We will never hang with them again.

The owner of Uncle Vinni’s, whose Dino Abelli, said, we got a bunch of anonymous letters in the mail. One really hit me hard. It was like, we were there that night with him. We’ll never go out with him again. He gave me his name, his address.

Oh snitches in New Jersey. I watched TV. I want no part of this. We’re moving on and this next story sucks. Justin Royland, co creator of Rick and Morty, is reportedly facing domestic battery charges.

This story is breaking as a record this on Friday. NBC News says the chargers are stemming from a twenty twenty incident that started in January. The initial criminal complaint being filed in May. Jane Doe, a pseudonym, is charging Royland with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace of violence, fraud, and or deceits. Royland is the co creator of Rick and Morty.

He voices Rick. He is also the voice of Corvo on Solar Opposites. He’s also one of the creators of Kowala Man that debuted on Hulu last week and I watched the first episode and made it ten minutes in and was like, Eh, Snowjam Comedy Festival coming up January nineteenth through the twenty first Have you been this Snowjamcomedyfest dot com slash sponsors You should if you go down. It’s a pretty snazzy logo. They’re under the Bronze sponsors right next to Experienced to Fall.

South Dakota and the Dave Holly Tour is a go for Daily Comedy News. That’s right. I’m one of the sponsors of the snow Jam Comedy Festival. Why aren’t you going? Kicks off on Thursday?

You want to go? Snowjam Comedy Festival back for its eighth year, The vice president of the board, Emily Wilson said, South Dakota in January. You must be joking, No, we aren’t. You’re gonna laugh your snow pants off. I’m more snow pants in a long time.

When’s the last time more snow pants? I guess when I went to Iceland. Iceland is awesome. You’re gonna laugh your snow pants off, but you won’t feel the cold because your heart will be so warm. Tickets ten to twenty five bucks, Gold and Platinum three day all access passes range from fifty to seventy five dollars.

Jackie Kation is this year’s headliner, and as we get later, into the week. I’ll start talking about the individual shows and I’ll do the Hey, if I were there, what show would I attend? So, Johnny Mac, if you’re talking up the snow Jam Comedy Festival, how coming you’re not going? Here’s why I have to visit my daughter next weekend. She has a performance and Dad is going to be there for her.

So since I can’t be in two places at once, you have to go to Snowjam Comedy Festival on my behalf and report back to me. Right, that’s your homework. You better do it. Snowjam Comedy Festival, SnO Jam Comedy Fest dot com. Check it out, man.

You know who else goes to comedy shows sometimes? Prince Harry. Did you hear he has a book? I don’t know if you heard about it, and nobody’s really talking about it. Apparently in Prince Harry’s book Spare which if you can’t get enough Prince Harry, don’t forget to listen to Palace Intrigue wherever you get your podcast.

That’s the show about the royal family. I’m the writer. We make fun of Prince Harry almost every day. When Harry was in the army, he said we were taken to a comedy show. Attendance was quasi mandatory.

Whoever organized it had good intentions, a bit of levity after a tour of hell, and to be fair, some of us did laugh, but most didn’t. We were struggling and didn’t know we were struggling. We had memories to process, mental wounds to heal, existential questions to sort. We’ve been told that a padre was available if we needed to talk, but I remember no one going near him. So we just sat at the comedy show in the same way.

We sat in the VHR tent. That’s the very readiness tent where they’d wait on alert for missions. We sat in the VHR tent in a state of suspended animation waiting. Harry says, I felt bad for those comedians one tough gig. He did not reveal or remember which stand ups were on stage that night.

Get out your Daily Comedy News bingo card, because I’m about to mention Andrew Santino again. Yeah, it’s funny how comedians go on little runs. Santino’s coming up every day. Coincidentally, he just had a new special funny how that works out. But this time I’m talking about Andrew Santino, who’s a fine, fine, wonderful comedic actor, and he’s on Dave and Dave Bird’s comedy series.

Dave is coming back for season three. It’ll be back Wednesday, April fifth, tenies to ten West on FXX, stream the next day on Hulu, which is how I will watch it. In season three, Dave Bird is headlining his first ever tour and looking for love along the way. But as he and his gang criss cross America, they discover firsthand how diverse the cultural landscape of the US really is and how often theme puts pressure love and friendship. Oh no, Lilton, my voice aside, Andrew Santina’s very good on that show.

In other TV news, Mo Mo amorous show. It did get a seconds and final season. If you get two seasons on Netflix, that’s a miracle. So many things they put up for one season and then they’re like, like Blockbuster, They’re like, but Moe’s getting his seconds and final season. Most pretty good.

If you haven’t watched that. I put on Velma for ten minutes or so, and it was interesting. I was emailing my cousin about it, as I tend to do when I’m watching TV. And I was telling him that it’s not bad.

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And then Glenn Howarden, who plays Fred, had a scene and Glenn Howard, and wh…

He’s probably my favorite cast member. He chased me. I didn’t like at all what they did with the character of Fred, nor did I like Glenn’s portrayal of Fred. And I was in the middle of emailing my cousin and then Howarden came on his friend and I was like, you know what, I don’t think I liked this show, so I bailed. I’ve got the remote in my hand.

This year, you got ten minutes. It’s not working. I’m out. Let’s hit gossip corner from The Daily Mail. Guess who was walking their dogs together, Louis C.K.

And Chris Rock. Yes, the Daily Mail says Chris Rock was all smiles as he joked around with Louis C.K. The Daily Mail phrase it like this comedian. Rock wore a padded blue jacket joggers and trainers, paired with a woolen hat and shades while strolling with Lewis, who became embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal in twenty seventeen. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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All right, here’s the pitch.

Five stories. They’re all good news. It’s called five Good News Stories. No negative news, just kid news. Nice easy way to start your day, hopefully smile.

Hi, I’m Johnny Mac, host of five Good News Stories. So you get the premise. There’s five stories and they’re all good news. So the number five good news stories. Five good news Stories.

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Featured: Joe Yurrell, Genie Godly, Ralph Barbosa, Kumail Nanjiani, Rory Scovel, Bo Burnham, Otsko

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Yurrell’s wheelchair comedy and foster care background
• Comedian Genie Godly touring Scotland while battling stage three ovarian cancer
• Ralph Barbosa’s viral TikTok critiquing George Strait’s ‘Take Me to Texas’ lyrics
• Kumail Nanjiani on pre-writing comebacks for racist hecklers post-9/11
• Kumail Nanjiani’s absence from stand-up since February 2020 and comedy career evolution
• Otsko’s viral success with grandmother on social media

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Full Transcript

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Let me do some different things here today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. If you listen to Thursday’s pod, you heard me get the giggles out at the end. I kicked two stories, so I’m gonna pull those up to the front here and just mix it up. Instead of leading with the headliner is let me lead with the back end stuff today.

If you’re a new listener, pick a different episode. If you listen every day, you know my vibe. But here’s some stuff that I wanted to get to and didn’t get to during the week. From the La Times. As a stand up comedian with several pausy, he uses a wheelchair.

Joe Yurrell might have the hardest profession when it comes to being a person with disability. When it comes to telling jokes, he sees his unique traits as a way to lift himself above the crowd. I love the writing here. First joke. I don’t want people to feel bad for me because I’m in a wheelchair, because if I wasn’t in a wheelchair, I’d be stealing cars.

And I know that because I stole this wheelchair. Love it, Love the pause, love the kicker. Awesome next one. I was born in Coco Beach, Florida. When I was ten, my birth family put me in foster care.

I was adopted by a family in Huntington Beach when I was well. My mom adopted sixty kids with her nonprofit kind of a hoarding problem from Yahoo. Comedian Genie Godly has vowed to quote go out with a bang. She’s sixty one and was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer. She’s refused to cancel her tour of Scotland after her cancer returned.

She told TV’s Lorraine on the very first day, I got chemotherapy and I go straight from the cancer clinic in Glasgow, straight into the tour van and straight on stage. I genuinely can’t wait to see people have a laugh and talk about something that isn’t the symptoms of cancer. I want to be able to have a laugh and I’m excited. Ovarian stage three cancer is treatable, but it’s not curable. It never goes away, and it’s always there.

It’s always going to come back, and I’m always gonna have to keep fighting it. I don’t know how long I’ve got, but like a mayfly, I’m gonna enjoy it. While I can. I’m gonna go on tour, and if I’m gonna go out, I’m gonna go out with a bang. I love your attitude, Genie.

Best of luck to you. From my San Antonio dot com HBO posted a TikTok of comedian Ralph Barbosa. He was born and raised in Dallas. Orbosa explain that he doesn’t really vibe with country music, as most of his beers in Texas too. He said, it’s not my thing, but my friends are like, na, man, you don’t like country because you haven’t listened to George Street.

They’re like, George Straight is one of the greatest of all time. He’s from Texas. We’re from Texas. He makes these badass songs. Barbosa says his friends played him Straight song take Me to Texas the joke.

There’s a lyric that says, take Me to Texas two hundred years ago. He then pauses and raise an eyebrown says, I don’t know, man, I could see how some people might like that song, but it’s not from me. The full lyric by George Straight, take Me to Texas two hundred years Ago, where pride rose from the ashes of Santacinto still beats in every heart the reference. On April twenty first, eighteen thirty six, Sam Houston and some eight hundred Texans defeated Santa Anna’s Mexican force of approximately fifteen hundred men at the Battle of San Jacinto, shouting Remember the Alamo. Barbosa’s joke got four point eight million views more than five hundred and eleven thousand likes.

Many people in the comments are defending George straight, saying he’s a legend who loved Mexico. Catpad thirteen eighty nine said George loves Mexico. He embraces the whole culture. Camail nan Gianni said he only got in a stand up because he wanted to write jokes. He said it was a necessary evil.

I hardly performed before nine to eleven, and afterwards things suddenly shifted. I found being on stage miserable. People felt okay yelling racist stuff at me, and it kept throwing me. I had a pre write specific comebacks to take control so I wouldn’t lose the rest of the audience. Wow, he teld Fast Company.

I make jokes in real life often I’m still a person who’s trying to find the funny side of things for sure. When it comes to specific use of the comedy skills, like say, stand up that does get rusty, and it’s very rusty right now. If I got on stage right now, I don’t know how it would go. I’d need a few sets to really get back on it. Will he return to stand up?

I haven’t really done stand up since February twenty twenty. It’s the single toughest challenge. It’s the hardest thing. It’s the thing that falls away first because everything else on the schedule, and stand up can be whenever you wanted to be. In twenty twenty, I was like, this will be the year I get I can stand up, do a tour, and then suddenly the world changed.

I couldn’t do it, but what I have done it for sure if we didn’t have COVID, I can’t say for sure. There were a few years where I was doing stand up where I felt like, oh, I’m good at this. I recorded one special referring to Beta Mail his special from twenty thirteen. I like the special. I’m proud of it, but I feel it’s still not me at my best.

When I was doing my best stand up and I know it sounds a little arrogant, but I’m not at my best right now, so I feel okay saying that a previous version of me was good at something that I’m now rusty at. A few ways you can support the show. One go to buy meacoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Several options there. One thing you can do is you can join the two dollar club and then once a month, buy meacoffee dot Com will ding your credit card and two dollars minus a service fee will make its way to me.

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And Kenny who’s always trying to get me to switch coffee chains. How you doing, Kenny? Thank you all so much for supporting the show. At buy Meacoffee dot com, slash Daily Company News otsko at Kaska, Well, she’s really popping right like people are into her. I can almost say her name correctly without having to check my fonetic spelling like I did last year.

And that’s not a joke. She was talking to the report about her grandmother and said, my grandma’s going with the flow finally in life. She’s been a caretaker most of her life. She still takes care of my mom most of the time. She’s eighty seven.

She raised three kids on her own. She lost her husband when she was twenty eight. Then she had to raise me when my mom couldn’t. I started making silly videos to post online would make people feel really good, and that made me feel good. One day, Grandma was like, can I join you in one of the dances.

It’s her having fun for the first time and allowing herself to play too. When I tell her things like that video we did has twenty million views, all that to me sounds made up. I don’t have many zeros. That is off the top of my head. I think any older person already has a hard time grasping what fame or exposure means.

When we taped our special in New York, I got to fly her first class, and I think then she really saw this is where comedy has taken you. I get to lay down flat, I’m eating beef, I get champagne. The Holly reporter said, you have such a unique style of delivery. She sure does, and I love it. Do you have any comic inspirations?

Listen to this answer. I grew up watching Scooby Doo. I feel like I’m sort of a cartoon character. In the way that I express. I’m also a proud immigrant.

I speak in weird cadences, I make weird noises with my mouth. I grew up watching Lucille Ball and Charlie Chaplin because I didn’t know English, it had to be physical humor. Yeah, I was gonna jump in there and’d be like, wait, Charlie Chaplin is influencing your stand up, but does that work? But she clearly read the next tent that’s John. Calm down, stop jumping to conclusions.

And then when I finally got to know the language, the first person I saw stand up was Margaret Show. That was mind blowing to realize all these things I was watching as comedy, which were more physical and cartoony, She’s able to express in just words. I was like, oh wow, that’s its own art form. That was a pivotal moment for me when I realized stand up comedy was a job.

And then tig Nazara was my other idol too.

Rory Scovell spoke to the Houston Press gave a shout out to someone he’s admired from the sidelines for years, Bo Burnham. I also earlier today saw an article about Patton Oswalt really waxing the car of bo Burnham. Bow’s got a lot of fans. Scoville called bou Burnham a savant. He knows exactly what to do and or even know how this set operates or what the language is.

He somehow ready completely knows and understands it. So to see him explore the way he has, I think inside does one of the most genius things I’ve watched the longest time, From top to bottom. I just loved every element about it. Just to know it’s so vulnerable and real and him is the best. I just love it.

The genius that’s coming out of that. I witness that forever ago. But now to see him at full control and know that he can really do it is really cool. It’s really cool to see. And I don’t know if he would take this as a compliment or an insult, but to see this awakening of his own that he sees he can do this, make this version of the thing that I know how to make it, especially now because comedy specials are so oversaturated in the market.

Yes there’s a new special every week, Yes, where people walk out on stage and say things. I’ve always found it to be more fun to be at the event, to feel the power in the fun of it. Not that we can always be at the events, but for Bo Burnham to make the version that it is, that version is the better version. You’d never want to be at that and you couldn’t. It’s impossible.

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Featured: Michelle Wolf, Nate Bargatze, Joe Kim Booster, Kristen Silvis, Kamail Nanjiani, Ari Shaffir, Dave Chappelle, Mike Birbiglia

What’s in This Episode

• Washington Post article on climate change jokes by comedians
• Kamail Nanjiani discusses return to stand-up after Eternals filming
• Kamail Nanjiani’s SNL hosting experience and spotting Steven Spielberg
• Dave Chappelle reveals Jay-Z’s Ghana property investments
• Ari Shaffir on comedy’s continued relevance and Pittsburgh comedy scene
• Mike Birbiglia on rejected CBS sitcom pilot and career trajectory

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From the Washington Post. Comedians made some hilarious jokes about climate change. Were they right time, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Well, let’s see this one from Michelle Wolf. Climate change is a real big deal, and everyone says Mother Nature.

And I do believe Nature is a woman, because she’s trying to kill us in the most passive aggressive way possible. It’s not some sort of immediate fire or flutter cool explosion. She’s just like, what, I raise the temperature a little. Oh, are you comfortable? Maybe I wouldn’t have if you’d taken out the recycling like I asked.

I’m fine. That’s from twenty seventeen. The Washington Post then said a two degree fahrenheit increase over the past one or fifty years may sound inconsequential, for research shows the incremental heating were experiences pushing climate weather events to more extremes. I love what they did with this article. Nate burgatcy I looked up a list of what you’re supposed to do for global warming.

Is an individual, just talk to your friends and family about it. Think about how far it goes. I had a great aunt and uncle Phis fight each other at a wedding. Let me get the middle of that fight. Any chances fights about global warming, because I’d just love to get that conversation rolling.

That’s from twenty nineteen. Sis say people need to talk about climate change more, but Brigatsi describes how hard that task is. He’s not wrong. A bit of a stretch there, Washpo Joe Kim Booster from twenty twenty two Psycho Sexual. He has a couple in the crowd if they plan to have kids, they say yes, Joel says, so he don’t believe in climate change.

Wow, what an interesting way to learn that. I do think if you’re having kids knowing everything we know about the way the world is going, It’s sort of like when you’re at a party that you know is dying down. You get a tax from my friend. They’re like, Hey, should I still come to the party? Yeah?

Jump with that uber. I’m sure it’ll be fine. I’m sure there’ll still be ice at the party by the time you get here. When what you should be doing is calling them immediately being like, don’t come here. Somebody put on a podcast.

Party’s over. But The Washington Post points out, if the US meets its goal to cut emissions by half by twenty thirty and zero by twenty twenty. A child born today would have less of an environmental impact per year over their lifetime. Let me jump in here. I have that lilt in my voice when I’m amused by an article.

I’m actually if you know me in real life, I talk about the climate emergency a lot, So I don’t want to diminish this article. I’m just enjoying it as host of Daily Comedy News. The jective position between these jokes and these like serious points in between, that’s what’s making me laugh here. Interesting note from the author. I don’t know if Booster knew the carbon footprint of having a child when writing this joke.

Disclaimer I opened for him on his tour about a year before special and don’t remember talking specifically about climate change or hearing this joke. Kasha Patel is your author and also a comedian. Kristen Silvis, climate change is crazy. They got me scared about property at this point. I don’t want to pay for flood insurance.

I don’t even have car insurance. Like Silvis jokes flood insurance premiums or another cost that can be challenging to answer everyday expenses. Silvis told the Post comedians have always been vessels for change. Why not make use of that platform and humanize big issues like this? Well done, Washington Post.

Kamail nan Gianni, Hey, Camail, do you think of yourself as a comedian? If I were to say comedian actor Kamail nan Gianni, what part of you would think actor comedian Kamil na Gianni or actor writer Kamale This from the Good One podcast. On Jianni’s answer, it was a moment earlier where you said you were a comedian and that hurt my feelings. I was like, this, Emma, are over here. I definitely consider myself still a comedian.

I love doing it. I just haven’t done it all since February twenty twenty. That was the year I just finished shooting Eternals, and I was like, this will be the first year I do stand up and then you know, it didn’t happen. The hardest thing about coming back from breaks is for some reason, the jokes you’re doing before stop working, so you need new jokes. But it’s very hard to get into the gear of writing new jokes if you’re not used to being on stage.

So there’s always the tricky thing for me, The big barrier to coming back is having the time to do jokes and test them out. And do jokes and test them out. It’s a commitment. Like getting ten great new minutes would take me a while. Weird Q and A here Q, remember when you hosted SNL A, yeah, I do remember I hosted SNL so weird.

I was so nervous for it. But it’s really not a nerve wracking experience. It’s really more than ending an exhausting experience. The week is so busy, you’re going, going, going, going.

And then I went up and did the dress rehearsal and I went great, and I was li…

I have to do that again. When I was asked, I was like, oh, I want to write a good stand up set. I hadn’t been doing stand up a lot, and I just wrote this new seven minute set. That was the last time I was really like trying to build a stand up thing beforehand. They just told me just you know, sometimes Steven Spielberg comes and watches a student my set, and I looked over and he was like that far like row seven I’m talking.

Suddenly, I was like, oh, that’s definitely Steven Spielberg. If you watch it, you can see the moment I spot him and I stumbled for a little bit. You will know exactly what moment it is. I take a deep breath and I look away, and then I go back to it. From Ghana, Webb Dave Chappelle has revealed that jay Z has made some investment properties in Ghana.

According to a report from Ghana, Webb and Chapelle made the diclosure at a private event at the University of Ghana, saying that jay Z showed him pictures of the properties when he informed him about his plans to visit Ghana. The Jewish Chronicle caught up with Ari Shaffier. He said, superstars on TV are done, but there’s so many guys who owned houses, and that wasn’t a possibility before you were either Ray Romano or a road life or barely getting by having an apartment and dying at seventy with a heart attack. He says comedy is as big as it ever was, despite those that protest. Comedians and hosts quoting Ari, podcasts and comics are the only ones making rape jokes anymore, or age jokes and really going for it and being dirty when you can’t get it anywhere mainstream because someone might lose their job, then they come to us.

He was also looking forward to playing Pittsburgh. He appreciates the city for its casual acceptance that everyone is fat. It’s like donah, yeah, yeah, French fries and garbage on top of your salads. And he noted Pittsburgh as a cool city like Nashville or Austin, but without the street cred. He Mike bur Biglia, you booked David Letterman show at twenty four?

Did you realize this a big break? Then? That is a premise floated to Mike Greer Biglia by the Hollywood Reporter. But big said, I think so. They’re out my twenties.

Every article is about me. This guy’s the next big thing. Same with my thirties. Now in my forties, I’m the veteran of comedy. People don’t know how to position me because I’ve never had it happened to me and they signed Feldian or Ray Romano.

Way, it’s who. Ray Romano mentions in today’s podcast, if he had Ray Romano and Daily Comedy News bingo, you won. That’s not how bingo works, Johnny Mac whatever. That was Ali by choice. When I was thirty, I got a CBS sitcom pilot, Greenlit.

Nick Croll and Bob oden Kirk were in it with me, but it didn’t get picked up. Oops, CBS executive. And that moment it hit me like a ton of bricks. I don’t want to be a sitcom star. And it’s not like they don’t still call I’m everything that networks think they want.

Because I smile a lot. They’re like, oh, we can mold this person. This is perfect for us. I had to come to Grips with the idea that the endgame for me is not being rich. The endgame is making something that makes me proud.

Good follow up here, the Seinfeld Romano sitcom path is gone. But is there a biggily a version of Barry or Rammie that’s appeling ber Big said, I love Barry Rami and Moa Mayer’s show, but no, I don’t like serialized storytelling. I’m obsessed with the ninety minute story. Everyone’s like it’s the golden age of TV. Who is the time in ninety minutes or two hours?

I want to meet characters, understand a world, go on a journey and land somewhere that’s slightly different from the beginning. I want to feel something and laugh and walk away and talk about it with my wife. That’s it. Another good question, if you took money out of the equation, would you prefer to release your work as film specials are comedy albums? Berbig said, when it comes to stand up I’m most interested in the audio.

The imagination could do a lot of work. If you listen to a Steve Martin record from the seventies, there are visual gags, but you get a sense for it. I Here Glass taught me this about radio over the years. Audio is so intimate you feel like you’re with the person. To be clear, theater is different.

It’s the sign that we’re all there together. And has he noticed anything about his audience since pin chaiting for Jimmy Kimmel earlier in the year, Rubig said, you realize when you do something that mainstream and wide reaching, the legitimacy that a network platform still gives you. People came out of the woodwork. Certain people were treating me like I had made it. They were like, you know, you could do this and I’m like, no, no, no, I do this other thing.

That’s your comedy news for today. Follow a show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais, Drugg Carmichael, Tim Minchin, Stuart Lee

What’s in This Episode

• Late night jokes on Biden classified documents
• FAA outage comedy coverage
• Kevin Hart on Dave Chappelle pushing him and Chris Rock
• Ricky Gervais York show ticket scandal with Via Go Go
• Drugg Carmichael vs Ricky Gervais Golden Globes hosting debate
• Golden Globes ratings decline in 2023
• HBO Max Velma series premiere

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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I am all kinds of comedy snobby this week. If you’ve been listening, you’ve heard it, You’re gonna hear it more again Today. I’ll start with late night jokes, a bunch of good ones and then some bad.

Let’s just use the word bad. Why are you pulling your punches, Johnny Mac, They’re bad. Let’s start with the good. Jimmy Kimmel was having fun with Biden and the classified documents, and he joked America is one episode of Storage Wars away from finding out who killed JFK. Staffords for Joe Biden are now searching everywhere he could have possibly left documents.

His knapsack is Peel organizer under the arch at the nineteen o four World’s Fair. I love the Biden old jokes because they’re harmless, but they’re hilarious. Kimmel again. They could be in a birthday card he sent to his grandkids next to a crisp two dollar bill. No one knows.

And of course, at anytime documents are mishandled top secret documents, it needs to be taken seriously. That’s something Republicans Democrats believe, although Republicans have only believed it since Monday. Now the bad jokes, and these are terrible. The topic the FAA outage the other day. Jimmy Fallon.

Yeah, zero flights took off, but somehow everyone’s luggage still ended up in Pittsburgh. Yeah, Kimmel, this one was a little better. The system went down, resulting in an awful morning for travelers and a great morning for Southwest Airlines. They were like, wasn’t our fault this time? All right, Colbert, Well, this is what happens when you run your entire aviation system off a boingo hotspot.

Colbert does a lot of weird jokes like that that I don’t know. Again, I’m sure he tells them better than I do. I just don’t feel like they land fallon with this hackey one. Yeah, no one could fix the computer glitch. One guy at the FAA said, I don’t know, maybe unplug it and plug it back in.

But Jimmy Fallon saved himself. This last one is good.

Meanwhile, the outage happened while some planes were in the air.

If there’s one thing you don’t want to hear from your pilot, it’s at tension passengers, do yourself a favor and stay off Twitter for a little bit. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Kevin Hart. Now the transcript of Kevin, I’m having a little trouble following it out. This is not a dig at Kevin. I’m really interested in the story.

But what you’re hearing right now is my third attempt to do the story because I keep tripping over the way the transcript reads Kevin’s words, so I’ll read them verbatim and see if you could follow along. Kevin said, Dave Chappelle has made me and Chris Rock feel stupid at times when it comes to our choice and material. All right, great topic. That’s why I’m interested, Kevin says. We have watched Dave in our earlier stages of just working on our set.

We would spend time at the seller and one would come and we would all go and Dave would go up, and me and Chris had just went up and we were happy about our material. That’s the sentence that isn’t working for my brain. Kevin continued. There’s been times where we’ve looked at each other and we bought our papers up and said we got to start over. We got to start over, not because if jealousy or envy, because we challenge each other.

We want the best for not only each other, but for ourselves. Love it. Kevin was on Jay Shetty’s pod and he said, the biggest drug, it’s not cocaine, it’s not heroin, it’s fame. Anything you want, everything you want, it’s the thing. And if an analyst thing, the consequences attached or severe, you know you undre you okay with you?

If you’re not, it’ll break you. By the way, for Monday show, I’ve got a bizarre Kevin Hart story for you. Ricky Gervais has shared his quotes frustration after fans were turned away from his show in York the other night. Why Apparently they had purchased tickets from resale site via go Go. Hundreds of fans reportedly refused entry to see Ricky Gervais after duplicate tickets the previous evening led to overbooking.

Oh. Maxine Gordon was a reporter for The York Press and was quoted by the York Press. Maxine said, when me and my husband turned up at the York Barbican, that’s the theater at seven twenty for the seven thirty show, there were hundreds of people still queuing to get in. Well time out get there a little earlier, man, what are you doing? There were still hundreds of people queuing to get in, as well as a very long queue for the box office, again unusual.

I thought the delay was because they were being extra thorough checking bags, but as we got nearer the entrance, the bouncers and ticketing staff were shouting that they were only accepting Ticketmaster tickets and not via go go, which are the tickets from a resale site. Lots of people are asked to leave as my ticket was checked. I asked, what’s going on? I was told the night before lots of people are turned up with via go go tickets, but duplicates, all for the same seats, so they weren’t accepting any last night. Ricky Gervais, who said that particular gig was his favorite of the tour, told angry fans he didn’t know anything about it until after the show.

He said, I’ve sent all this to the promoter at Live Nation. He’s looking into it. I have no idea why this happened tonight. Apparently in the past, comedians Stuart Lee and Tim Minchin have previously denounced Via Go Go for artificially inflating ticket prices and ripping off fans. In twenty twenty one, Tim reportedly called them cheating scumbags.

It’s being a Ricky Gervais. Newsweek took a look at Drug Carmichael versus Ricky Gervais fans debate who was better Globes host. They went on social media see what people were tweeting. One tweeter said, Drug Carmichael is a boring host, so much dry and stupid jokes. He’s trying so much to be Ricky Gervais, horrible Golden Globe host.

Ever, I believe that Twitter dropped a word there. It happens, I do it. On the other side, somebody wrote Drug Carmichael is giving a master class and how to evolve what made Ricky Gervais a great host, while maintaining that he’s still punch up. I’m sure the Globes of want to wait to see the ratings, but I’d sign them to a multi year contract if I were them. Well, second tweeter, you’re just wrong.

Drug Carmichael was terrible, and as for those ratings and that multi year deal, you just hand it out. Who How about this headline from the year post woke Golden Globes tanked ratings historic low in twenty twenty three. I’m just gonna keep moving. I don’t know why the Post had to throw a woke in there. I’m here for the ratings.

Six point three million people, according to Nielsen, watched it. For comparison, in twenty twenty one, the broadcast drew six point nine million, while twenty twenty boasted eighteen point three million viewers. Let’s see who hosted those years. The twenty twenty was Ricky Gervais, the twenty twenty one was ten Fa and Amy Poehler. The Golden Globes.

If they want this to be a thing, and NBC wants this to be a thing, back up the truck and get Ricky back in there now, the Daily Mail says. Last year, Ricky Gervais revealed that he told bosses never to ask him again for fear he’d cave in and say yes to hosting. Ricky said, the Golden Globes could offer me ten million for ten minutes work, and I’d be an idiot. I’d be a liar to say I wouldn’t consider it, but at the moment, given I’ve done it five times, it got better and better for me. I enjoyed them all, but it got better, and I’m planning to never do it again.

I’ve asked them not to ask me because I could be persuaded. That’s true. You know it’s not a principle. Good honest answer, Back up the truck. I’m still disappointed Chris Rock isn’t hosting the Oscars.

That was totally the move. Come on, it’s entertaining people. We all want the side show. Let’s all be honest, we all want the sideshow. Chris Rock hosting the Oscars was the move.

HBO Max has dropped the first two episodes of Velma that suddenly showed up yesterday. I don’t think anyone was expecting it from what I’m reading on the interwebs. So this is the Mindy Cave Scooby Doo ish series. It’s like Scooby Doo. My cousin says it’s a prequel.

I guess a couple tweaks. The characters are a little different. We now see the show through the eyes of Velma, voiced by Mindy Kaling. Fred is voiced by Glenn Howarden playing Fred is kind of pompous, white, good looking jackass character. You’ve seen this in movies?

Yes. The one I can’t figure out is Shaggy is now named Norville. That’s like one of those things from the seventies when you’d watch cartoons and you’d be like, wait, why is Mutley now mumbly? Like that kind of thing, like why is Shaggy now Norville? Why can’t he be Shaggy.

Shaggy also has a completely different personality from the trailer that I watched, and it doesn’t do all the zoing stuff. Now you’re like, is there a Scooby Doo? Nope, no dog at all. Pretty good cast. We mentioned Mindy Kaling and Glenn Howard and also Sam Richardson plays Norville, who’s not Shaggy for some reason, Constance who was Daphne.

Other cast Jane Lynch, Wanted Psykes, Russell Peters, Melissa Famero, Stephen Roots, Fortune Feamster in a cal Buyer, and weird Al Yankovic. Are you psyched for the snow Jam Comedy Festival? We’re just a week out January nineteenth through the twenty first snow Jam back in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for its eighth year. It’s mission celebrate comedy and snow while in rision community by supporting nonprofit organizations in South Dakota. This year’s headliners include Jackie Caation and Miss Shannon from Nickelodeon’s nick Mom’s Night Out.

The festival also feature a live Dork Forest podcast recording with Jackie and a special guest. This year, the charity partners of the Compass Center, whose mission is navigating the journey to healing for all affected by sexual, relational and family trauma, and also the Transformation Project, whose mission is to support and e power transgender individuals and their families while educating communities in South Dakota and the surrounding region about gender identity and expression. Nathan Halts, He’s president of the board. He said the festival it started as a joke. Let’s bring people to the best place on earth at the worst time.

Joke was on me. It’s the best thing I’ve ever been part of. Check out the schedule, get some tickets Man Snowjamcomedyfest dot com SnO Jamcomedyfest dot com Snowjamcomedyfest dot com. You got a week January nineteenth to twenty. First get out there.

I’ll be talking about it all next week. This next story comes to us from Gazette dot com and it was a good headline, second cleanest comedian in the States to headline Colorado Springs Comedy Club. And I’m like, I love that second cleanest comedian thing because that gets me curious. Okay, who’s the most clean comedian? You got me?

And I read the article and then I didn’t react well to it because it’s like generic comedian interview. We’re promoting a Mark Masters comedy show. I’ve never met mark I have nothing against some work, but now I’m in comedy snob territory. What’s the show like Mark Masters? The answer, In those travels, I run into a lot of funny situations and comedic things happen.

That’s like every middle tier comedian’s interview ever. Everything from marquane household items to funny family stories of personal stuff about me and my family will make up a Mark Masters comedy show. All right, I could let that go. But another thing you’ll see in all these releases, for like touring comics in Middle America, everybody is always attaching their vague credits. You know, appeared on serious radio meeting Johnny Mac played your record fourteen years ago once or my favorite is the worked with masters, a headliner on the Pro Comedy Tour, has worked with comedians from HBO, Comedy Central, and Netflix.

So have I. And I’m sitting here in the basement. I’m not a stand up, but I have worked with Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White, Jamie Fox, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim gaff Again, Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy. I’ve worked with them all. I’m practically the fifth blue collar no no.

But here’s what really set me off, the part of the article where you kiss up to the town in the club. I love Colorado’s Springs, Olympic City, USA. They’re the best, great audiences. That’s right. Hey, welcome to the stage, Johnny Mac.

Hey, thanks, Let’s give it up for the guy who introduced me. Yay, yay, yay, Hey Colorado Springs, give it up for yourselves. Hey, great, I’ve just done fifteen seconds of the worst stand up you’ve ever heard. Now I’ll go into my proctology bit. Yes, I’m still on my high horse of Andrew Santino.

Yes, I went to the doctor right and he was like, take you off your pants. I was like, whoa, Now I’m not doing that bit. Mark Masters says, I’m thrilled to be back in three East Comedy Club, which is a beautiful space. They get incredible acts, but it’s really an honor to be a headliner. Mark Masters, If you’re listening, I didn’t come to beat up on you at all.

It’s just I’ve seen this article. It’s like comedian mad Libs and I could just plug in. I’ve actually seen this particular person who I’m friends who are friendly with Jim Norton. I’ve seen him and be like, yeah, hey, I’m playing the Chuckle Hutt in Springfield. Chuckle Hut’s a great place.

It’s great stage. Springfields always great crowds. Everybody does that. Why speaking of it? Andrew Santino Whiskey Riff dot Com say it with me.

You’re home for comedy news. They report comedian Andrew Santino, you know the guy who does a rectal exam bit. Nine minutes into his hour on Netflix, that guy, Comedian Andrew Santina recalls Patrick Mahomes drinking the venue out of corps light. Apparently Santina was on Pardon My take, this week and said of Patrick Mahomes, he came for the first show and he was like man, so fff and fun.

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And then he goes all right, well then what he wants us to do now?

And I Andrew Santina was like, I’ll see you. I’m gonna go do the second show. You guys go out fun and I’ll see him whatever. And he’s like, no, I think we’re gonna stay for the second show. I Andrew Santina was like, oh, okay, I left for sure he’d dip in, but he was like, no, I want to stay.

And the server comes up to me and she’s light, that’s your party, right, And I was like, yeah, whatever, I’ll take care of the bill whatever it is. She’s like no, no, no, we’re comping everything anyway. I just want to let you know that we have someone that’s gonna go get more Corps Light because mister Mahomes has finished all the Corps Light. According to Santino, I’m not kidding when I say this, maybe thirteen the first show and maybe ten the second show, and then we went out. I have no knowledge at all about Patrick Mahomes drinking twenty three course lights.

In fact, I’m going to say, it’s possible that it’s not true at all, and this is just a comedian having some fun. I imagine Patrick at home studying the playbook for the playoffs. Let’s stop off at Gossip Corner. Emily Radikowski, Huh. She was on her podcast and was talking about people she’s dated in the past.

You may recall she recently dated Pete Davidson. She didn’t say who she was speaking about, but she said, they’re like, you know, you’re special, you’ve done it, but then they get slowly emasculated and they don’t know what to do with those feelings, and they resent you and they start to tear you down. I’m not sure she said it quite like that, but I liked my dramatic read. A source says, although Radikowski didn’t mention Pete Davidson by name, there’s no doubt who she was referring to. The source says Emily didn’t appreciate being tossed aside, and she’s not one to remain silent about how she feels.

Expect her to have more to say about this in the future. Oh, please do, because I enjoy doing Gossip Corner. Pete Davidson’s mom Amy Waters Davidson has been hoping her son would settle down with quote a nice girl. A source said, Mom would like to see him settle down and find a nice girl who’s marriage material, not some fame hugging celebrity. Again, I’m not sure.

Amy Waters Davidson said it exactly that way. That’s my dramatic recreation. That’s your communy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, rerevergate your show see 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?

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