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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Which is a phrase you would say if you were training the Spotify algorithm and have successfully gone from eleven percent to fifteen percent of downloads from Spotify. But we don’t have time for that right now, because comedian Rosie Jones has told Ricky Gervase and Jimmy Carr to shut the f up? All right, Oh, what do you know?

Rosie Jones has a new show. It’s called out of Order. It’s on the UK Comedy Central, and she was up promoting it. Funny how that works. Rosie said, it’s your Ricky Gervase’s Jimmy carrs.

It’s just your privileged CIS white straight men who open their newspaper and go, oh, people are talking about trans people. I can know a bit about that without experiencing it. All to those boys that say, with respect, shut the f up. And she actually said the F word. I assume she’s annoyed at Ricky because of his comedy specials.

For Jimmy Carr. The speculation is that on October tenth, Jimmy Carr praised transphobic father Ted creator Graham Lenihan, saying that he admired Graham’s bravery. Jones offered some advice. Rosie says, before you tell a joke, you need to analyze it, and that comes down to three things. First, who are you?

Do you have a lived experience or experience close to you. Second, who is your joke about? What is your intention? Is it positive or negative? Are you punching up or punching down?

And third, why are you telling the joke? Are you asking a question to open up a conversation and make people think differently, or are you saying it simply to be controversial? See, I think she’s leaving something out. One thing that could be funny is repetition. For example, I’m not trying to make a point at all when I point out that one time Joe Coy told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

Here, let’s listen on. The Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I’m not punching up or down. Maybe I’m punching up a Taylor there, but it’s just funny. The Critics’ Choice Awards are a thing, and Chelsea Handler was your host.

She mocked Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, by the way, over the weekend, I watched that one battle after another movie. Kind of fun. Chelsea mocked Leo for spending New Year’s Eve aboard a quote half billion dollars super yacht with one of the richest men in the world. Chelsea joked, Leo almost didn’t make it tonight because he was trapped on a boat in Saint Bart’s.

It was just like the Titanic, but worse because Jeff Bezos was there. DiCaprio was shown laughing at the jokes, which is something you could do. You know, somebody’s hosting an award show and somebody makes a joke. You could just laugh at the joke. Tailor It’s okay, reminds me, I forgot to google Nikki Glaser as part of the show prep.

Here. Here here’s how the show works. I go to Google and I type in Nikki Glaser, and I type in this news tab and I find this story. On the fly. Nikki Glaser reveals which joke she’s avoiding while hosting the twenty twenty six Golden globes and exclusive from people.

Okay, I’m doing this on the fly. Nicki says, there’s lots of joke about this year, and the star power in the room is going to be bigger than ever. I mean, it’s bigger than last year. I kind of have to keep wrapping my head around the kind of people that are going to be in the room. I mean, Leo’s Vappen is going to be there.

So excited to see that. There’s going to be some big, big gaters in the room. And there’s podcast this year, which is also going to be a hilarious thing to joke about. Nicky says, Leo is at the top of her list of what to avoid. I don’t think I’m gonna go with the Leo jokes he for twenty five times.

I think we’ve heard all that and that’s been done enough. My goal is always to not do what’s expected, only to try to challenge myself to not say things that people are gonna expect and try something else. She said. Hosting twenty twenty five was, without a doubt, the most fun I’ve ever had in my career. I can’t wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from the White Lotus, who will finally recognize my talent and cast me in season four as a Scandinavian plate’s instructor with a shadowy past golden globes.

This Sunday at eight pm Eastern, which means Johnny Mack has to work late on a Sunday night life is rough. I’ll have to watch football with a laptop out and pull clips on the fly, and then during halftime record the first four minutes of the Daily Comedy News podcast for Monday, and then add in what I had already pre taped. Who Podcasting is a tough business, my friends. Anyway, Nikki, whatever you do, don’t make a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. I digress.

We were talking about the Critics Choice Awards. Remember that Chelsea Handler was hosting it. Remember that like three minutes ago. Yeah, Lets focus on the comedy parts. Best Comedy, The Naked Gun, Best Comedy Series, Hollywood loves to pat themselves on the back, the incredibly Overrated the Studio.

Best Actor in an incredibly overrated comedy series, Seth Rogan, Best Actress Comedy Series, Gene Smart Hacks good Pick, Best Supporting Actor in an Incredibly Overrated Comedy Series, Mike Barenholts for the Studio Best Supporting Actress Comedy Series, Janelle James for ABBD Elementary Best Animated Series, South Park Best Talk Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Best Variety Series, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Best Comedy Special, SNL fifty The Anniversary Special. As for Jimmy Kimmel, he had this to say. I want to thank our President, Donald Jennifer Trump, without whom we would be going home empty handed tonight. So thank you, mister President, for all the many ridiculous things you do each and every day. It’s been a banner couple of weeks.

We can’t get way to get back on the air tomorrow night to talk about them. Thank you everyone. Two of the presenters, Sebastian Maniscalco, teamed up with Marcelo Hernandez quote putting on a comedy clinic unquote are you kidding me? Listen to me, You’re very seriously here for a second. We have a drug problem in America and people are taking crack and then they’re reviewing things.

This is the thing. I know. This is shocking, and hopefully the President of the United States will focus on the crack problem, which is just increasingly affecting the comedy review community. Now I have a clip for you in terms of star power, name power. There was a universe where I would have let off with the Sebastian Maniscalco or Solo Hernandez clip.

However, it’s so bad I knew that I would lose listeners. So I had to bury it here seven minutes into the podcast because if I put this at the top, any casual listener who came by would be like, this podcast is awful. Now we all know the podcast is awful, but it’s not this all here. Let’s listen. Hello, Hello, everyone, This is very exciting, right.

The fashion on the red carpet was on another level tonight. A lot of fashion tonight. A lot of fashion, a lot of filler. Matter of fact, we just got word backstage Los Angeles is completely out of filler. And I’m like, don’t change your face.

I like your face. You got a good face. Why would you do that? You know myself. It’s a beautiful evening to.

Be here with everybody. Great actors here tonight, fantastic all right, A. Few of you have won, a lot of you have lost, and everybody’s got a winning speech, but nobody’s got a ready to lose face. All right now, Marcello, do you have a ready to lose face? Yeah?

I think if I was nominated and I lost, I would think I would probably do something like I don’t even care about this. I don’t care. About I mean, that’s brutal. Some people are smoking cracking going on social media. One person said, I love them together.

Please make this a regular thing? Off that clip? What do you love there? Another, possibly perhaps maybe smoking crack jumping on TikTok, wrote, they need to host the Oscars. You want Sebastian Manuscalco and Marcelo Hernandez to host the Oscars?

Are you kidding me? What happened to Conan O’Brien. Was he hit by a meteor? Was Jimmy Kimmel deported? Is Nikki Glaser unavailable?

Is Joe Quoy not around? Marcelo Hernandez the what are you insane? Marcelo does have a comedy special coming out this week. It’ll be on Netflix tomorrow. Usually Netflix puts out specials on Tuesday.

I don’t know why they waited to Wednesday on this one. Maybe they wanted everybody to settle back into work so they could do the press. I’m not sure, but twenty four years from now we’ll be able to see if Marcelo Hernanez could do anything other than Domingo and variants on Domingo and possibly sort of doing Sebastian Menscalko impressions. Marcelo was on the Red Carpet. He was asked about Saturday Night Live.

He said, I’m having front. Bro. It’s a crazy job and you get to meet so many crazy people and I love it. As for Bowen Yang’s departure, I look at it like sports. You know, there’s a guy that put up numbers.

He had a distinct voice and everybody loves them, and it’s for a reason. He’s a hard worker. I saw him behind the scenes grinding every week. That’s a guy to learn fro him, for sure. Bowen Yang has yet another gig.

He and Matt Rodgers will host a fifteen episode Winter Games edition of Las Culturistas as part of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage. WWE plans to maintain its relationship with Tony h Cliff. According to fight Full Select your Home for Comedy News. This despite the cancelation of the Summer Slam late night show that was scheduled last year. You may recall Tony Hinchcliff was set to host the late night show during Summer Slam weekend August second.

However, the event was canceled about a week before it was supposed to take place. He did host the controversial roast of WrestleMania in April, which I don’t think they aired right. Sources within the WWE say they plan to collaborate with Tony Hinchcliff again at some point, although the specifics of the collaboration are currently unknown. Hannah Burner will get a hilarious special in twenty twenty six. No title or synopsis yet, but I’m sure the Hulu publosist will get that information out there.

Hula’s really really good about promoting their specials, so I’m sure I’ll have something in my inbox any second. Twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year John Marcos SIRESI Should I just start calling him that and see if I’m right? Should I just do that? Like all year, like wired to wire? Just always say the full phrase?

Twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year John Marco Sirezi should I do it well. The twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, John Marcos AIRESI is heading to Tokyo. Oh No, I forgot how time zones work. He’s in Jokyo. He’s probably actually performed by the time you hear this because of the way time zone works.

Timeout dot Com asked twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year John Marcos AIRESI, what can people expect from this tour, and the Comedian of the Year said everything from Thief of Joy’s retired, so it’s gonna be some material that have been fine tuning for the last couple of years. Eighty percent of the show will be really polished material, but there’s gonna be some CrowdWork as some new topical stuff too. Since I’m traveling to a continent I’ve never been to. That’s why I’m going to Tokyo for two weeks before the show, so I’ll have time to soak on the culture and take in new jokes. John Marco’s hoping to film a special this year.

If you’re in Tokyo, He’s at the British pub Good Havens on January seventh. The Comedian of the Year till Timeout dot com, I know a couple comedians have been in Japan, and from what I’ve been told, I’m sure it’s gonna be a different experience in terms of the way audiences respond or how they do CrowdWork. I watch the subtitle versions of other countries local stand up, and I know in some ways that stand up is new there. I think the key to good crowd work is to have legitimate curiosity. I think I’m going to really have that when I’m talking to locals there, and it usually creates fun comedic moments.

He talked about scaling up, explaining touring internationally is not easy. When I went to Europe for the first time, it was like, can we do this? How are ticket sales going to be? I think what’s different now is that he built a company and I finally have an infrastructure. So I could have waited a little longer.

But I think you grow so much as an artist experiencing a different culture and seeing how you jokes play out, and I want to have an international reach. That’s why the tour is ambitious. Comedy Survivor Week one is underway. Join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Find the Little Cartoon of comedy survivor.

In that thread, give the name of the person who want to vote off. I don’t want to steer the conversation, but last time I looked to Amy Schumer, Jay Leno and Joe Koy had received some votes. Voting continues until end of day Thursday. Here’s a new movie. It’s called Doctor Jekyl and Mister Shark.

Yes, an indie horror comedy. The story centers on Doctor Jekyl, a broken and isolated man shattered by the loss of his wife, verments with an untested drug called shark open I love this already. You see, Sharkopene is an untested drug that warps his body into a bloodthirsty man shark. Now driven by madness and love from beyond the grave, Jekyl prowls the streets, says Marcelo Hernandez as funny and hunts anyone who threatens his twisted relationship with his long dead bride. Doctor Jekyl and Mister Shark out January twenty if looking forward to that.

Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, and she went on Instagram and shared a collection of makeup free photos taken before and during a recent getaway and included many images of Amy Schumer modeling bikinis and other swimwear from a particular brand. Schumer captured the post my mom took these photos of me while I was packing for a trip. In the last photo, I’m on the trip. This year is about self care and self love. Let’s all appreciate our health, our families, our friends and have the best year of our lives, moving forward with no regrets, just love and The Toronto Guardian wrote about comedian Blair Williams.

Blair’s influenced by folks like Don Rickles, Robin Williams and Richard Pryor. Blair going a little old school his style Blend’s personal stories with resilience. Larry uses a wheelchair and says I like to challenge perceptions using humor to disarm and educate the audience while keeping things light and funny. My comedy influences go way back to when I was a kid watching Rickles, Carson, Pryor Carl and Tim Conway, Robin Williams, Red Skelton and Eddie Murphy. In my teenage years, I gravitated towards Mike Myers, Chris Farley and Adam Sandler.

I like this guy like a second ago. Now I have fine inspiration of the styles of Bill Burr. You know Bill Burr played the Comedy Festival, And if you remember that Joey Diaz, who some people say is the worst person on the planet. Yeah, I’ve heard people say that if you ever run it to Joey Diaz in real life, he’s the biggest a hole you’ll ever meet and just a horrible, horrible person. I’ve heard people say that about Joey Diaz.

I digressed Shane Gillis, Tony Hinchcliff Mark Norman, and Adam Ray Blair. Williams says, I also have to give a big shout out to Josh Blue and Jared Nathan, who continue to shape my comedy journey today. Rickles had sharp wit, Curlin’s boundary pushing insights, and Robin Williams’s incredible energy and improvisation all had a huge impact on me. I’ve gravitated towards Josh Blue for years because I believe his philosophy of using self deprecation leads to strength. As for Jared Nathan, I discovered him while stuck in bed with COVID during the pandemic.

I came across his appearance on Kill Tony and was immediately stuck by how much fun he was having on stage. It reignited my passion for comedy and I started writing again right away. They asked him his favorite bit bit of a spoiler here. My favorite bit has to be the one where I talk about how I got hurt and what that caused. I use a mix of misdirection and shock with a dark punch line at the end.

What I love most about is the versatility. I’ve got multiple endings for the same setup, so I can keep the audience on their toes and surprise them every time. It’s rewarding because it always gets a big laugh, and I love watching people’s reactions when they realize where the joke is headed. All right, Blair Williams, Where do you find new comedy these days? Blair says, I wait every Monday to watch Kill Tony.

It’s a blast watching new comics get their shot and seeing what they bring to the table. Beyond that podcast, Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, and Shane podcasts are a great way to find new voices and get to know comics on a personal level. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, go to the Facebook group vote for Comedy survivor you’re voting someone off the island. The group is a Daily Comedy News podcast group.

See Tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Welcome to episode one of Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mack. You’ve seen the logo, you’ve heard the promos.

Now it is time to vote. Here’s how this works. There are sixteen comedians on Comedy Island. This week, one gets voted off by you. A reminder, this is not about who’s the funniest, It’s about who survives the vote.

How the voting works. You vote for one comedian that you want to eliminate. That’s it. You write their name down. If you want to say why you’re voting them off, that’s fine.

You’re voting someone off the island. One vote per person. Voting will run every week from Monday through Thursday. That way I can produce these episodes on Friday. Then every Monday at noon Eastern you’ll get a new episode of Comedy Survivor telling you who was voted off the island and who remains.

And then we’ll do this again and we’ll find out who is the Comedy Survivor. If there is a tie, I will use chat GPT to break the tie or reminder the contestants on Comedy Survivor are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Mickey Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Osco at Coska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tignets, Harrow, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Kreischer. It is now time to vote. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and you write down a name. Now, remember we’re not debating who’s the funniest.

We’re trying to figure out who people feel strongly enough to protect them and make them the Comedy Survivor. I worked with chi chat chpt to analyze everyone’s game. Let’s take a look. Adam Sandler enters with goodwill, multi generation appeal, cultural nostalgia, a reputation for loyalty. His challenge will be whether or not voters think he’s funny.

Next up, Jay Leno. Leno’s case is longevity and discipline. His risk some people think he’s the worst person who ever lived. We’ll see how long Jay Leno lasts on Comedy Island. Joe Cooy one time, he hosted the Golden Globes but I don’t have time for that right now.

Will the Swifties jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group and vote off Joe Cooy because he one time he told that horrible mean joke. We will find out Jim Gaffigan. Jim could go deep yere one of the safest early contestants according to AI, clean, prolific and widely respected. Almost no one actively dislikes him. I like how chat gpt wrote almost no one h who do you mean?

Could be a major advantage for Jim Gaffkin in the early rounds. Nicky Glazer, she’s hosting the Golden Globes pretty soon, so she’ll probably go a few weeks here. I don’t think she has any chance of being voted off unless somehow the Golden Globes go sideways, which it’s been known to do. Seth Myers is on the Island, respected by many, apparently has a show at twelve thirty. Will President Trump jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group and vote Seth Myers off?

I mean, that would not be the most shocking thing the President has ever done, so it’s possible. Kevin Hart likes to work. His risk is backlash. Will people be like enough with Kevin Hart already? We’ll find out Amy Schumer.

She likes us to talk about her. We should keep her on the island. We could talk about her for four months here. Or are people looking for Amy Schumer to go away? Or some people like Amy stay the hell off the internet?

There are people like that. Maybe they want Amy Schumer out of this. John Mulaney who doesn’t love John Mulaney? Could he take this whole thing? Hmm, OT’s go at ktska.

Now. I don’t think anyone’s gonna go out of their way to vote dots go off this week, right. I think she’s going to go deep and just kind of hang around until we get to the nitty gritty and there’s like three or four names left and we’re like, hey, she’s still here. Sebastian manascalgo the Ai wrote, some voters see performance over writing. Will people like the performance or will people like the writing?

Time will tell? Tig Nasaro. Her risk is niche a peel quiet. Comedians sometimes struggle in popularity votes despite admiration, Soara Silverman. Her strength is longevity and influence across eras of comedy.

Her danger is that She’s been part of multiple cycles, and not all voters state with her through each comedy cycle. Hmm, good analysis there, AI. Leslie Jones brings visibility, energy, and cultural presence. Her vulnerability, says the AI, is that her recent identity is more ensemble and acting based than stand up focus. Ron White.

Ron’s advantage is consistency in a very loyal fan base. His risk is the demo what if you guys are younger? I think Ron White’s going to go deep in this thing and Bert Krascher his fans are loud and active. His risk is backlash from voters. Voting is open in the Daily Comedy News podcast group, one vote per person.

Why don’t you go vote. I’m gonna take a break here and I’m going to tell you the AI’s Week one analytics who they think is likely to be voted off and why very interesting be right back Comedy Survivor. The AI said their analysis is based on how the Facebook group actually behaves, So this is on you, guys. They say the group tends to be emotional and fast, and that overexposure and unfamiliarity are punished early. So here’s who the AI thinks is the highest risk.

This week. Again, I’m not sure I agree here, because you have to actively vote someone off, so you’re gonna have to go to a Facebook group and be like I want this person off, So that takes some effort there. Now, the AI thinks otsco at Cotska might go. They say, from an analytics standpoint, this is the most vulnerable position. But see, I disagree.

I don’t think anyone’s gonna write her name down. I think she’s gonna be here twelve weeks from now. Leslie Jones, I could see people voting Leslie Jones off, just going, Oh, this sounds like fun. I’m gonna jump in. Let’s say, out of these sixteen Leslie Jones, eh, yeah, who cares?

And Amy Schumer, I could see people getting rid of Amy Schumer. Amy tends to be polarizing. I’m going to observe that the AI, not John. The AI picked three women. Don’t know what that means, but that’s what the AI said.

They have for medium risk, Bert Kraser, Joe Coy and Seth Myers. For Seth, they write not disliked but not protected instinctively could be collateral if the vote spreads out. AI puts in the lower risk tier that these people are very unlikely to get voted out this week Sandler, Gaffig and Mulaney, Sebastian, Ron White, Leno, Sarah Tig, Kevin, and Nicky. I think that makes sense. I don’t think it’ll be any of those the AI says most likely to go this week ots go at Cotska, which I totally disagree with.

It won’t be her. I won’t tell you who I think it will because I don’t want to put my thumb on the scale, But it won’t be her. Campaigning is allowed, Arguing is expected, Explaining your vote is optional, and remember not voting doesn’t help your candidate, because we’re voting people off. And that is Week one of Comedy Survivor. Heads to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group looking forward to this and we’ll be back in the morning with a normal episode.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, it’s one of the worst days of the year. It’s back to workday. I’m so glad I worked for myself. And hello, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is a sense that you would say if you are successfully seeing increases in your Spotify downloads as you’re trying to goose the Spotify algorithm, that’s just a pro tip there.

Hopefully the comedians get back to work. It’s getting a little thin out there. I’ve got enough for you today, especially as we catch up on New Year’s Eve. Bert Kreischer’s New Year’s Eve special. Not sure it went too well.

I’ve been looking for recaps, haven’t seen any that were good. People on social media did not like it, and CBS had a technical snaff who they lost the broadcast of New Year’s EV Live Nashville’s Big Bash for twelve minutes. Again, I’ve been working in radio since nineteen ninety two. Twelve minutes is an eternity. If there weren’t some emergency conference calls on New Year’s Day, there’s a meeting today I used to work with a guy named Frank.

Frank would be holding a meeting this morning, going how did this happen? And how does this never happen again? So to all the Franks out there, enjoy your meeting. A twelve minute gap. So what did they do, Johnny Mack?

They started running Mattlock. Can you imagine You’ve got this big New Year’s Eve show, You’re trying to take on Ryan Seacrest and it drops to the point where like you don’t know what to do, so you throw on matt Lock. That is a technical disaster, and that’s just you know, it’s New Year’s Eve, you’re having a party. You’re not gonna leave matt Lock on. Everyone’s going to turn that off.

The interruption came about fifty minutes into the five and a half hour special. I had no idea that special was that long. That’s crazy. So what happened was at about eleven to fifty pm Eastern, which is exactly what you don’t want this to happen. Laney Wilson was in the middle of a song when suddenly was interrupted.

Shortly thereafter, a voice mentioned technical difficult. Does a network still have the live announcer in the booth, sitting there all day. They probably do just for this. So CBS cut to a string of commercials. Been there, done that.

That’s what you do when something goes sideways, you just clear out all the spots. Then they threw on Mattlock that appeared to start in progress. So they were probably dead rolling as the term dead rolling Mattlock in case such a thing happens. So during a live show you might run something in the background. Another reason you would do that is to keep your automation systems on time.

That’s my guest there. So somebody who was dead rolling Mattlock ran out of commercials or hit the panic button, was like, hey, I don’t know how to get this back up. Well it’s like midnight. So are you calling the CBS boss? Whoever’s making this call me like, hey boss, we don’t know how to get Chrysler back up.

What should we do? Should we run the Mattlock tape? So somebody had to make that decision. Oh, the meeting today is going to be amazing. Can I sit in on it?

Can you guys invite me to the meeting? I just want to sit in on it cause these are much more fun when You’re not the one explaining what happened. You don’t understand. This is a whole stress point. You know what I did on my tenth anniversary, Well, my tenth anniversary was in the middle of my week’s vacation, and my boss told me I had to come into New York City to sit at my desk to monitor just in case the broadcast of Jamie Fox’s show from the Democratic National Convention went down.

The DNC was not was not New York City, so I had to come in to an office, sit there, blow off my wife on our tenth anniversary, and just sit there miserable till like eleven thirty at night, just in case the thing dropped. It did not drop. So I can’t imagine the meeting they’re having today. I want to sit in on it. After about twelve and a half minutes, Bert Krasier and Country Singer Party came back on and apologized for the interruption.

Gretchen Wilson and to this stage, oh that sounds wonderfully horrible.

Also on New Year’s Eve, Stephen Colbert was on Anderson Cooper and Andy Code …

Apparently their whole hey Let’s get drunk on the air thing got a little little out there. This was weird. Is that really the best idea? Guys, Hey, let’s get our host drunk on the Is that really the best look for CNN? Anyway?

Stephen Colbert told Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen don’t trust billionaires. They don’t get rich by finding that money on the side of the road. Brother, These last five months of Stephen Colbert’s TV show might get a little interesting. So there I was. It was New Year’s Eve.

I was watching the Knicks. So while watching the Knicks, I was also playing on my phone. And let me get serious here, it is nice to have friends in this world. And this has I’ve been thinking about this for days and it made me happy, and it made me a little sad. So normally on Wednesday nights, more often than not, you’ll find me at trivia over at the brewery, unless it’s volleyball season.

See, my guys, We’re of Beach Volleyball team, a bunch of guys. I’m like the young one and I’m fifty six. And I’ll tell you the name of our team. Name of our team is We’re Old, so relaxed.

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And now the reason it’s called We’re Old so relaxed.

Is so when you twenty somethings show up with the spike in your facers, you go, who we playing? Oh, we’re playing and we’re old, so relaxed. That’s weird.

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And then we show up when we’re all in our late fifties plus and you go, oh, I…

We’re just there to have fun. It’s suburban Morristown, New Jersey, volleyball relax. So that’s what I do in the summer, but in the winter I go play trivia. You gonta understand Morristown, New Jersey on New Year’s Eve is a zoo. And my dog better stop barking.

You can hear the dog. Hopefully the noise reduction got the dog. Dog. I’m trying to be serious here for a second, stop barking. You know what the dog’s barking in.

I’ll tell you what it’s barking at. As I record this, it’s three oh one pm. The robovac goes out at three o’clock. Three times a week. The robovac goes around the living room to clean up the dog.

Here. We do this every other day, and the dog just like girl, where was I? Normally I go to trivia, but I didn’t want it to go with Morristown, so I stayed home. So I’m playing on my phone and watching the things and Jeff. Jeff is one of the quote unquote trivia guys.

There’s Bob and there’s Jeff. They’re both really cool and sometimes Johnny Max had one beer too many and argues the points on the questions and they go all right. Normally he’s not a total a hole. We’ll let him go on this one. I’ve learned over the years.

Just stop arguing. You’re gonna win a sticker. Calm down. Actually there was a gift certificate if you finished first. Pretty good one too.

Anyway, there I am. I’m playing on my phone and I go on Facebook and I see from Jeff, who’s one of the trivia guys. And Jeff, seriously, dude, bro, this meant so much to me, and this made me just made me feel loved and also guilty that I stated, boy, I wish I had been there for this. I really wish i’d been there. I’ll ask the audience the question that Jeff posted, question five the topic.

Shout out Johnny Mack the question and I’ll answer it after the break. The Daily Comedy News podcast reported that Billboard reported that this comedian’s Big Dummies World Tour was the top grossing comedy tour of twenty twenty five, grossing fifty six point seven million dollars on six hundred and seventy seven thousand tickets sold. That was a trivia question. I would have gotten that one right, although for laughs, I would have dumped that on Glenn and made him stress, and Glenn would have went, I don’t know, so Jeff, Thank you so much. Jeff, one of the trivia guys.

They’re best men Trivia if you were. I don’t know how far these guys go. They come to Morristown, New Jersey, and I know they do a bunch of things. If you draw, I don’t know, I’m making this number up a twenty mile circle round that. Jeff might be throwing his phone across the room going, we’re not going twenty miles.

Or maybe it’s like I’ll go two hundred miles. I don’t know. Ask them best men Trivia. They were on a really nice show to super Pro. I’m usually home by nine point thirty.

Again, I’m fifty six years old. That’s a bonus, Jeff. Thank you so much for that. I’ll reveal the answer after the break. Amy Schumer likes somebody talk about her, so she went on Instagram on New Year’s Eve.

She posted Happy New Year hashtag sensual photo. People magazine describes a picture as featuring the newly single Shumer sitting alone on a sofa in a dimly room. She wore a loose fitting T shirt underneath the black hoodie and was makeup free, with her hair and a bonytail. She also crossed her eyes and made a funny face while holding on to a container of spaghetti. Amy, why don’t you take a time out from social media?

That’s just some free advice. Just want you chill out for I don’t know a month, figure out what’s going on with your divorce, get your life together, and then come out with a new special. Okay, just stay off Instagram. Just trying to help. Now, you know what today is?

Today’s the kickoff for Comedy Survivor. So at noon Eastern today there’ll be a bonus episode explaining Comedy Survivor. The short version. Here sixteen comedians on a hypothetical island. You guys are going to vote someone off.

You’ll go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ll tell you the contestants and all that in the bonus episode out at noon today. If you’re listening between seven am Eastern and noon Eastern, voting is already live. You go to the Facebook group and you could vote someone off. If you voted off Amy Schumer.

Hey, that’s up to you. I’m not saying as host, it wouldn’t be cool for me to suggest who you vote off. That’s not cool at all. I’m the omniscient toast. You know, Jeff on the Survivor shows, not trivia Jeff Jeff Probs.

Jeff Probes doesn’t show up and be like, you know, if you wanted to vote Boston rob off, I wouldn’t be the wepsete about that, like he wouldn’t do. I love Boston Roup. Can I tell you how much I love Boston Roup. I love Busting Rup. Anyway, bonus episode coming out at noon today.

Now over at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. You know what they did. They sent me publicity. You know how I complained about the Hulu publicist, that the Hulu publicist will not engage with me. The eight hundred pound Gorilla people are the opposite.

They’re like, hey, new special and I was like, oh, what’s this new special. It’s a new CrowdWork special from Jen Marco Siasi. Three time guest and Friend of the Show John Marco hasn’t gone all Jim Gaffigan Honus No Friend of the Show comes on his best CrowdWork moments from twenty twenty five, from messed up family stories to theater kid confessions and unhinged overshares, Jen Marco successfully turns chaos into punchlines. I shared a link to that in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group and don’t forget Comedy Survivors there And if you voted off Amy Schumer, I mean that’s on you. You pick who you want to vote off.

The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival announced its lineup for its sixth year as one of North America’s premier destinations for live comedy. That’s code for Canada. Matt Rife will headline across all six GOCF weekends Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary, Spokane and Vancouver, bringing his magnetic stage presence, razor sharp crowd work and viral appeal to outdoor venues. Throughout the summer. Comedian, actor, TV hosts and host of The Golden Globes, Nikki Glaser will headline in Halifax, closing out the weekend alongside Fortune Fimester and Steph Tolev with more twenty twenty six lineup reveals to come.

So here’s what we know so far. Edmonton Friday, July seventeenth, TBA, Saturday, Rife Sunday TBA. Then in Winnipeg that same weekend Friday, TBA, Saturday, TBA, Sunday Matt Rife and Friends. Okay, interesting how they’re having simultaneous ones in Edmonton and Winnipeg. Halifax.

You guys got to wait till August sixth, Thursday Night, Matt Rife, Friday, More Matt Rife, Saturday, TBA, Sunday, Nikki Glaser, Fortune Feaster, Steph Tolev. Then at the end of August in Calgary Friday night, August twenty eighth, Matt Rife, Saturday and Sunday TBA. Then, because that’s in North America, they come all the way down south to Spokane, Washington for Friday, August twentieth, TBA, Saturday the twenty ninth, Matt Rife and Friends and on the thirtieth, TBA, Boy, TBA might be Comedian of the Year. And if you’re in Vancouver or the suburbs, I don’t know where you live. In Stanley Park, which is an awesome park across from Stanley Park.

When I was there, it’s fifteen years ago. Now there was a bike rental shop. It has to still be there. I wanted to just give up my life, move to Vancouver, buy that bike shop and just rent bikes to tourists. I don’t know anything about BIC schools, or how to operate a shop, or how you move to Canada and own a business.

I don’t know how that works. But boy, I loved Stanley Park. And if I’m there on Sunday, August thirtieth, I’ll see Matt Rife and maybe I’ll rent a bike and ride past him. All right, chucking a driving today, getting a pretty decent show. Actually bounced a couple stories, which is a luxury if you’re me again.

Comedy Survivor begins today. They’ll be a bonus episode at noon Eastern Vote one person off now through end of day Thursday. Voting will be over when I wake up on Friday. Why John, Because John wants to record these on Friday. That’s why.

Oh and I forgot to tell you the trivia answer when I was on a proper microphone. I’m dropping this in as part of the edit. The answer to the trivia question was, of course, Nate Burghetzi. Jim Brewer spoke to The Christian Post. I found this really interesting.

I worked with Jim Brewer when he had the radio show at Series. We were there together for ten years, traveled with Jim. I’m very fond of Jim. We had a lot of real conversations, and everything I read here really is in line with what Jim is all about. So Jim tells them a story that it ran into a young woman at a camera store who had recognized Jim from Saturday Night Live and told Jim about her intention to move to la to make it big in the entertainment business.

When Jim realized how excited she was just to see Jim Brewer, he began to feel a paternal instinct to protect her from the industry. That is very very Jim. As Jim told The Christian Post, all you think about is like, if this kid goes to California and she’s this excited for me, I’m a nobody. I’m not a producer. If you go out to LA and you’re putting yourself out that hard, these demonic monsters they see you coming.

Jim said he had a forty five minute conversation with the girl and explained how predators in the entertainment business will chew her up and discard her. That is very Jim, and Jim’s not wrong. I got honest with her. I talked about people I know, I got sucked up by this industry drugs. I got so honest and real with her.

By the time it was over, she was like, wow, I never thought of that stuff. I went, No, nobody, does you need to know these things? So I’m telling you right now, I can tell you willing to listen to anyone, and they will take advantage of you and they will target you. Trust me, and that’s exactly I Again, I know Jim pretty well. He would have slowed down and he would have said, trust me, you know what, let’s get out on that one today.

That’s your comedy news for today. Comedy Survivor coming up at noon Eastern, and a normal episode tomorrow. See you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today we’ll take a look at who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five. I decided for the weekends in January. I want to try out some different things.

January tends to be quiet. I’ve done this in the past, especially during the pandemic. I kind of spread my wings on the weekends a little bit, and I’ve got some things i want to talk about.

Also, one of the things I did the other day I recorded two and a half hours w…

And we’re hoping to do a lot of that this year as it goes along, just trying to mix it up a little bit and keep it interesting. But today, let’s take a look at who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five. The big winner in twenty twenty five. If I had recorded this a month ago, this would have been slam dunk, hands down, no doubt, nothing to talk about. Only great.

One hundred out of one hundred five stars. Conan O’Brien had a fantastic year. Butt and let’s start with the butt the horrible murder of the Reiner family taking place after the Hiners were at Conan O’Brien’s party.

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Now here’s what I’m worried about.

I assume there’ll be a trial. I assume the defense attorney will try to keep the accused out of jail. And I’m not a lawyer. I’m a guy in a basement recording a podcast. My fear is that said lawyer will want to ask questions about what went down at the party, because we’ve heard there was some shouting.

There have also been some anecdotes that, as the story goes, some people wanted to call nine to one one and Conan said, no, please, don’t do you know, we’re having a party here. It’s okay. And I could just see Conan getting dragged into a trial. And I’m not sure Conan’s going to have an awesome twenty twenty six. He was having a pretty good twenty twenty five, so let’s focus on that.

His year capped with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, putting him in some really really good company there. And boy, it was just like the industry going, Conan, we love you. A listers coming out doing funny stuff. Conan just looking great. Multiple generations of comedians and writers, it was just saluting Conan.

Nobody was like Conan O’Brien, that’s crazy. It just consolidated his legacy and the respect everyone has for him. And he also crushed hosting the Oscars and immediately got invited back to do next year. So the back to back of the Oscars and the Mark Twain Prize. Just Conan O’Brien just was the winner of comedy.

I fear rough seas ahead, but he was the winner of comedy in twenty twenty five until one awful night in December. Nikki Glaser had a great year. The year before she was part of the Tom Brady Roast and people went, oh, who’s that?

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And then she hosted the Golden Globes and crushed it.

Got invited back to host the Golden Globes coming up, you know, about a week, not about a week, John in a week. I better write that down before I pre tape a weekend and be like, oh, yeah, he probably should have mentioned the Golden Globes. A right. I just added that to my list here, so we’ll see. I mean, she had a great twenty twenty five.

Now are we at peak Nikki Glaser? Or is there more to come? And I think we’ll find out a lot more a week from tonight when she hosts the Golden Globes. But congratulations to Nikki Glaser in a year where he transitioned from successful stand up to trusted industry utility. Interesting words.

There another big winner this year, Mark Maren. Congratulations to Mark Maren, take that victory lap. He walked away from his podcast on his own terms and had the special of the year. If you listened to yesterday, Mark Maren’s special Panicked You’ll fund It on HBO was the best comedy special of the year. It just put Maren into this statesman role.

He was one of the critics of the Riod Comedy Festival. Other comedians took shots at Maren, which put him in the comedy zeitgeist. He took all the slings and arrows, kept his honor shifted from a commentator to a reference point inside comedy. That puts him at the top of the game. So Mark Marin one of the winners of comedy in twenty twenty five.

Another winner, despite some rough seas, was Jimmy Kimmel. You May recalled Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air for a little bit, but then he came back and just seems to have the win into sales right now. The show extended another year. There’s talk that Kimmell wants to walk away in May of twenty twenty seven. I’ll believe it when I see it, because I think when Colbert’s show ends, that audience is going to go somewhere.

Some of the audience will just go away. Some of the audience will just stare at whatever CBS puts on anyway, whether it’s a new show or the Byron Allen thing. But some of the late night people, I think we’ll pick Kimmel over fallon. So Kimmel’s numbers are going to go up. And I had a conversation with Mike Chisholm about this, and I’ll share it on one of the weekend episodes coming up this month.

You know, Kimmel’s my age, and if you’re not doing that, what are you doing? The oscars are heading to YouTube. He’s not going to be the YouTube post of the Oscars. So, Jimmy Kimmel, you’re in your mid to late fifties, you could work another twenty years, like a you know, it’s nice to have money and sit on the beach, but you need something to do. What would you do?

Tour? Stand up? A Netflix show? So I don’t see why he would walk away. Now might he arrange his schedule?

He already doesn’t work summers? Could you cut down to three days? Do the late period Johnny Carson thing? Someone else host Monday and Kimmel shows up Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and does I don’t know, thirty four weeks a year and takes the summer off and a long break at Christmas. Why not do that Jimmy Kimmel.

So I’m not sure Jimmy kim was gonna walk away, but he had a great year. Other winners of twenty twenty five Adam Sandler, despite my personal opinion, happy Gilmore too. People seem to like it. Cast a big check, also helping my argument. People have come around and realized, oh, Adam Sandler a great dramatic actor.

He was great and Jay Kelly, what a great film. You should watch it. Let’s all reward Adam Sandler with an Academy Awards. He goes, hey, I’m an Academy Award winning actor. I should do more of that and less stupid songs.

So Adam Sandler had a great year. Robbie Hoffman went from who to everybody’s talking about Robbie Hoffman. If you haven’t watched that Netflix special, it’s fantastic. Another winner of twenty twenty five. As I sat down and really thought about this, Roy Wood Junior.

So just about everybody, including me, liked his comedy special a lot. Now it’s a year ago now, so it’s not as fresh in your mind to say Chappelle, but people really like that special, and people seem to really like the CNN show. I’m not sure Have I Got News for you? US version has a massive cultural zeitgeist, but it seems a reliable show, and it’s regularly picked up in the press. And most importantly, Roywood Junior bet on himself when he didn’t get the Daily Show Cheer.

He went, Okay, I gotta go do something else and figure something out. And he went and did something else and he figured out. So good on you, Roywood Junior. You’re one of the winners of twenty twenty five and another winner this year. Now I’m not sure he won the year, but he might win twenty twenty six is Friend of the Show John Marcos SARRESI three time guest, his special really resonated.

Critics are noticing, mainstream press is noticing, and I think John Marco’s going to have a really big twenty twenty six and good for him because he’s fantastic. Those are your winners. Will come back and we’ll talk about the losers of twenty twenty five. All right, Johnny Max who lost comedy in twenty twenty five? I feel very strongly about this.

The big loser in comedy in twenty twenty five. The comedian who lost the year is Bill Burr. Bill Burr, you lost the narrative. Let me remind everybody a year ago. Early in the year, he was doing a lot of media appearances and he was getting criticized for his tone.

He was defensive and a lot of interviews it just wasn’t a good look. Some people are down on Monday Morning podcast that it’s low energy and he’s just talking about sports. Maybe that was always true.

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And then he played the Reodd Comedy Festival, and his defense of playing the …

Pete Davidson, for all my problems with Pete david said, at least I can respect Pete Davidson going they paid me a lot of money. I can at least respect that because it’s honest. But Burke came away like, yeah, you know, they’ve got an Applebee’s over there, and we’re all like, can you just admit that they paid you? Well? Like stop.

Burr kind of changed his persona this year. You know, he’s letting go of the young, angry Bill Burr. We’ve now got the try and avoid a loaded word here, but we’ve got the more thoughtful Bill Burr.

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And then if you point that out, he gets very defensive about it, and it just …

Maybe Bill Burr and his audience are heading in two different directions, and that’s fine. But I’m not sure Bill Burr had a good twenty twenty five. In fact, he’s the big loser of twenty twenty five when it comes to comedy. Now, after I made my list, I saw this on crack dot com their headline this comedian had humor’s worst heel turn in twenty twenty five. Now again, I saw this after I made my list, And if you listen back to previous episodes.

I’ve been kind of dropping not even hints, but breadcrumbs about how I felt about Burr’s here Cracked Rights. Back in February, Bill Burr went on Monday Morning podcast and declared that the billionaire class who’s so division and exploit suffering among the masses are rabbit dogs that need to be put down. But that was before he talked to their booker. Wow. Wow, if this was a boxing match, We’re fourteen seconds in and Keegankelly and Crack dot Com just hit Bill Burr in the chin, unblocked.

What a shot at a good one? Cracked Rights. In twenty twenty five, Old Billy Blood Money went from the top voice of anti billionaire anger in America to the court gesture for literal slavers. Considering how Burr reveled in the aftermath of the violent death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, shouting his support for the accused shooter Luigi on every talk show and podcasts that would have him, Burr’s fan base was by far the most inflamed of any re odd comic upon returning to the US, and of course, Burr’s imprudent handling out of criticism didn’t help his relationship with his listeners. Even now, months later, the Monday Morning podcast fandom is still an open revolt against the host.

Every new episode immediately faces a barrage of dislikes and negative comments. Just under one video that they shared, one of the top comments reads, You’re just not funny anymore. Selling out to murderers just seems to interfere with my laughter. Bill Burr, the big loser of twenty twenty five. Some other losers, Pete Davidson, not just for Riot.

I think Pete had a bad year, did a couple movies, not sure anybody cared about them. He’s out there sort of touring, takes breaks, seems like he’s okay. Then he seems like he’s not okay, seems like he’s all over the place. So the net of that, and again he’s open about his mental health challenges, and I hope he finds himself in a good place. But from an industry standpoint, when you’re making a project, you look back at him walking away from Bupkis, So you’re not gonna hand him a show because you’ll be afraid that he’s going to just walk away from it.

You hire Kevin Hart, because you know, Kevin Hart likes to work and is going to show up for work. Kevin Hart has made it clear he’s going to show up for work. But with Pete, you know, you walk away once and all the other stuff that surrounds you. It’s just if you’re making a project, let’s just pick somebody else. I think Pete Davidson’s one of the losers of twenty twenty five.

The other big loser of twenty twenty five. Now, the man’s not a loser, but he is one of the comedy losers of twenty twenty five. Stephen Colbert, And I mean it’s crazy, right, Hey, my job is to host Late Night and I have the number one show, and I’ve kept the Late Show franchise going for a decade and everything’s great. Well, CBS disagrees, so we can all love Stephen Colbert and he does a great job and he’s a good guy, and I think he’s short for president. But you lost the show maybe through no fault of your own.

Hey, I’ve been fired for no fault of my own. But that makes for a lousy year. And Stephen Colbert one of the losers in comedy in twenty twenty five. He might be one of the winners in twenty twenty six. So much like we saw all the love for Conan in twenty five, we probably will as Colbert takes this not victory lap, but final lap.

I think we’ll see a lot of outpouring of love for Stephen Colbert. So he’s probably prime for a great year, but just as I analyze twenty twenty five, he’s one of the losers. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow’s Monday three, a normal episode than at noon episode one of Comedy Survivor. I think I scheduled the Facebook post for seven am Eastern as when voting opens, So look for the Comedy Survivor logo and then go in there and vote on Comedy Survivor and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Today, a final look at the best stand up specials of twenty twenty five. There were a lot of big time releases in December. As I mentioned previously, I had to put out my list December thirteenth to hook up the publicist, which left off a few specials that didn’t exist yet. But now that they exist, we can finally rank them again.

As I talk about any of these lists in my list, your list, someone else’s list, they’re all valid. It’s all just opinion, it’s just something to talk about. But for me, number one was easily Mark Maren’s Panicked. Maren had a great year. Now tomorrow on this very program, I’m going to talk about who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five.

One of the winners, for sure, Mark Maron walking away from his podcast in a stunning move on his own terms. But Maren had his best stand up special the last one I didn’t love. The one before that was pretty good, But Panicked was just Maren doing Maren and doing Maren very well, and his joke about nagging people into fascism just captured the Zeitgeist Mark Meren the best stand up special of the year number two, and I could see people disagreeing with me, and that’s fine, it’s just a list. But I thought Kevin Hart’s acting my age was funny. He’s just shocking jokes.

But boy, I was laughing, and I’m a comedy snob, and if you get me to laugh, I’m gonna give you a high ranking. I just thought Kevin Hart’s special was fun and funny, and I’m a guy sitting on a couch and he made me laugh, so that’s good enough for me. Robbie Hoffman’s Netflix special at number three, that was one of them that wasn’t on the original list just because of timing. But boy, a lot of buzz on Robbie. Like I said, the trivia guys talk to me about Robbie when I’m over there with the brewery people talking about Robbie Hoffman in the Facebook group.

What a fantastic special. I considered bumping it up to number two, but I think I laughed a little bit more at Kevin Hart’s special. But Robbie Hoffman fantastic and also one of the winners of twenty twenty five at number four, again. Some people will be irate and throw their phone across the room. But Matt Riif’s Christmas crowd Work Special again.

You’re sitting on a couch. Are you entertained? Are you laughing? Is it funny? Yes?

Is it crowd work? Is it fake CrowdWork? Is it controlled crowd work? Is it heavily edited CrowdWork? Don’t know, don’t care, don’t care, don’t care, don’t know, don’t care.

I’m laughing. It’s funny. Dave Chappelle’s a Netflilix special that dropped out of nowhere to complicate everything. As I’ve said before, I compare it to a baseball pitcher. When Dave first takes the stage, it is shot well, it looks well, it feels big time.

I’m looking at this thing and Dave is just on fire. He’s like Dwight Gooden. It is prime, throwing strikes, mewing down people with the curveball, and I’m like, this guy’s gonna throw a perfect game tonight. And that’s how it felt for the first four innings. An hour later, I was like, ah, that was pretty good.

I didn’t think Chappelle’s closer was as good as Chappelle thinks it is. And I mentioned on Friday’s podcast how some of the details of Chappelle’s monologue there fall apart, but did I laugh. Sure, some of the riodd stuff was very, very funny. Dave Chappelle comes in at number five. Jim Jeffries Two Limbs.

I know I crutch a lot, and I’ll just say comedian doing comedian named things. But that’s how I feel about Jim Jefferies. You kind of know what you’re gonna get. He’s very good at it, and two Limbs is a good Jim Jeffery special. Laughed at a lot.

This next one I didn’t see on anyone’s list but mine, But I really liked Justin Willman’s Magic Lover that was on Netflix in June. Now, if you go into the reddits, some people will be like that was fake. This is fake. Just turn your brain off and just go for the ride and let Justin Wilman entertain you. However we get there, much like I said about Matt Riith, however we get there, are you not entertained?

And I was very entertained by that one. I think I just threw that on one night because I was bored. What’s this number? Eight. Jen Marcos Sareisi’s Thief of Joy.

Longtime listeners to this program, I’ve heard me talking about Jen Marco for several years. He is a three time guest on this program. But with this special, people noticed, if you’re into comedy, he’s no longer a who’s that never heard of him? Now most people on the street, if we walk down the street, will probably go maybe ninety nine out of one hundred. I don’t know who that is.

Maybe if we go you know the guy that did this, maybe we’ll pick up a couple more people. He’s not a name yet, but boy, keep an eye on him. For twenty twenty six, Mo Amer’s Wild World Netflix special. Boy, Netflix had a lot of great specials this year, didn’t they. He had something to say.

He was making political points in a very funny way. I loved his special. Lot one of the top ten of the year, Moe Ammer’s Wild World and rounding out the top ten, Dusty Sleigh. I just like what Dusty does. He gets in a vibe.

He keeps you there. It’s his catchphrase, we’re having a good time. That nails it. Love Dusty Sleigh. The last new entry on the list, Ricky Gervai’s Mortality just came out this week.

I liked it. I didn’t play on my phone. He kept me engaged. Whatever part of your brain that lights up when you watch comedy was lit up. Made me laugh out loud a couple times.

So I’m a psychopath and I just analyzed comedy and rarely laugh. But he got a couple chuckles out of me. When I woke up the next day, I was like, that feels like empty calories, where it’s like Robbie Hoffman Special stuck with me, Chappelle’s Special, stuck with me, Maren Special, stuck with me, Ricky entertaining funny but empty calories. So I don’t know. I didn’t like it as much as I liked the other ten, but I liked it.

It’s also not Ricky’s a best special. Oh No, one more late comer to the year, Kamel Non Jihanni’s Hulu special. It was fine. The people who were saying this is the greatest special of the year are of course crazy people, and I’d be curious to see if they ever got any checks from anybody involved with Hulu. I’m just saying that there’s no way.

Come on, Gianni special is the best of the year. It’s good, it’s fun. I think I have a bias that I know he’s just popping into stand up comedy because he was bored or something. But he’s not coming back to stand up comedy, so I don’t know why the special even exists. He’s going right back to acting.

But you know it’s fine. Best of the year. Yah, that’s crazy talk.

Also in my top tier, number thirteen, Bert Krascher is Lucky from Netflix.

Brett Goldstein. Brett Goldstein I have at number fourteen. Now, as I’m doing this list for the seven millionth time, I’m looking at that and I’m wondering, hmm, you may have Brett’s special way too low, Johnny Mack. Now, I have it at fourteen, So that’s the official I had it in the homework. I have it at fourteen.

But as I’m looking at this, I probably like Brett better than Bert and better than Kamel, better than Ricky, maybe not more than Dusty. So maybe Brett should be number ten and a half, but I have him at number fourteen. That’s a really good special. On HBO fifteen and sixteen, Michelle Wolf and Sarah Silverman kind of pair up because I have the same note on both of them. Nice hour, not all that funny, but a nice hour and nice company.

And I liked both specials a lot. I particularly something about Sarah’s special really stuck with me, even though I have heard sixteen of Michelle at fifteen, but Michelle’s is slightly funnier. Again, as I said, these are just listen. How do you rank anything? Who knows both are nice company?

At seventeen, I have Matt McCusker. The audio is not recorded all that well, but it was way funnier than I thought. That was one of those nights when I was like, Oh, I’m watching comedy specials tonight. What else could I watch? And I clicked on that.

My note continues to be poor Man’s Shane Gillis, which makes sense because they do the podcast together. But yeah, good special. Number eighteen. I have Mateo Lane’s Al Dente that was on Hulu back in May. I have that same note I had with Michelle and Sarah that maybe it’s not hilarious, but it was real nice company for an hour.

And then at nineteen Tim Dillon I’m your mother. If you like Tim Dillon, you’ll like I’m your mother. If you don’t like Tim Dillon, you’re not gonna like I’m your mother. The other things that absolutely must be mentioned, they’re not stand up specials, but they are the funny things from the year I have. Number one by a mile was the Mark Twain Prize given to Conan O’Brien.

That’s even better than Maren Special. That is the comedy event of the year. That’s this year’s Tom Brady Roast. If you haven’t watched the Mark Twain Prize, I mean just a who’s who on this Appearances include John m’laney who absolutely crushed it. This thing well, Pharaoh, Nikki Glaser, Bill Burr, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert was great, Adam Sandler was pretty good for Adam Sandler, David Letterman and Triumph thesl comic dog.

I mean, how could he go wrong there. I’ll have a lot to say about Conan tomorrow, but the Mark Twain Prize was the event of the year.

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Also really strong, not a full special, but Shane Gillis’s sb’s monologue whe…

I’m not sure the audience liked it. As much as John on the Couch did, But John on the Couch I loved it. Shane Gillis’s SBI monologue Number three, Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts. I didn’t love his special. I should probably mention because that came out and I didn’t want to redo my entire list again again again.

But I have Sigura and Sarah Sherman, I should mention, all right, So here I kind of fell into it. So in the first half I did the top specials of the year. Then I have the middle tier, which includes Mike Kaplin, Tina du aaka Gerrod Carmichael, roy Wood, otsco At costka Ian Edwards. Then I have Sarah Sherman and Tom Sigora. So for keeping track there, that would put them at let’s say, Sherman at the twenty sixth spot and Sigur at the twenty seventh spot.

Again, I didn’t want to go that deep. Sigora Special’s fine. It’s just fine. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate It’s just fine. But bad thoughts.

Oh, I love that. Please bring that back in a hurry. I love it so much. It’s naughty. My son is a young adult and he would find it funny, but I’m not going to be like, hey son, you should watch this because it’s quite naughty.

He can discover that on his own and we shall never discuss it. Did you watch last one Laughing UK? So they locked a bunch of comedians in a room and the comedians had to make each other laugh and if you after you got voted out of the room. Jimmy Carr was the host on that thing. It is hilarious and it’s one of those shows you can play along at home because you sit on the couch and you see if you cannot laugh.

And I got voted out of the room a couple times myself. That was really good, my jam. The thing that I can’t get enough of is Jonathan Kite’s Anthony boardeen. And you’ll find Jonathan Kite doing Anthony Bourdain on social media. I follow him on threads, he’s on Instagram, and he doesn’t increasingly great Anthony Bourdain.

So a year ago he was just doing the voice, but now he’s got the hair, and he’s got the walk down, and he’s got the wardrobe. And Jonathan Kites Anthony Bourdain takes us to such exotic places as cracker Barrel, and Costco. I can’t get enough of it. Highly recommend Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Bourdain and Shane Gillis’s sitcom Tires. It really reminds me of the Office at its peak times.

It’s really great. I’m remembering I have a couple episodes I didn’t watch because I thought the season was like six episodes, and then there were more. I was like, oh, But then I get busy and I start playing video games. I’m all into the NBA two K video game right now because I’m a Nick’s front runner. My son got mena the Knicks, and I’m a big time Knicks front runner, which reminds me I have a commercial to record for next week.

I better do that next before I forget. But Shane Gillis’s Tires, I love it. So there you go. Best Special of the Year, Mark Maron Best Thing of the Year the Mark Twain Prize starring Conan O’Brien. Tomorrow on this very program, we’ll talk about who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five.

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Caloroga Shark Media hither. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve been trying to stay away from the Chevy Chase documentary. I just I don’t know why. I’m just not interested in it.

But there’s controversy involved, and Johnny Mack likes to talk about controversy. One of the things that is notable is that nobody from the cast of community talked to the documentary that screams volumes and now we are hearing from a vet Nicole Brown, or rather not hearing from a vet Nicole Brown. She posted on Instagram. There are things I’ve never spoken of publicly and perhaps never will. Anyone currently speaking four or about me, and she put four and about in caps four or about me with perceived authority is speaking without ever speaking to me about the things they claim to know about.

They actually don’t know me at all. They actually don’t really know me at all. They also have no knowledge of my relationship with anyone I’ve worked with, and can not credibly speak on any current or previous issues. I hate that all this had to be said in East Cleveland speak. Keep my name out of your mouth.

Wow, I mean, that’s the kind of phrase that somebody says when they’re about to slap Chris Rock. So she seems pretty upset. So, according to this new CNN documentary, which is called I’m Chevy, Chase and He’re Not, nobody from the community cast wanted to speak, and according to the doc Chase felt ostracized by the tight knit cast. Chevy also clashed with Dan Harmon, the creator of the series. Apparently, Chevy arrived with his family to a rap party and found Dan Harmon leading the room in a chant of Fu Chevy Wow.

We are sold the incident that led to Chevy’s firing from the show involved a scene in which Chase’s character Peers, performs a puppet show in which the hand puppet character performs a blackface. As the story goes, there was a discussion about the appropriateness of the scene between Chevy and event Nicole Brown. Some say during that discussion Chevy used the and Brown stormed off the set that wouldn’t come back unless Chevy apologize. As the story goes, we are told Chase did return to the set but didn’t apologize. The episode director says, Chevy goes, you know me and Richard Pryor I used to call Richard pryor the N word, and he used to call me the honky and we loved each other.

And I’m like, I know, man, I love that bit. And I said, you know, can we just have a little apology? And he goes for what that reference is to a pretty famous Saturday Night Live bit that I’m not going to share with you for obvious reasons. After this incident was recapped on The Hollywood Reporter, apparently Chevy had a full meltdown and worried that his career was ruined. Now concurrent to that controversy, Saturday Night Lives, Terry Sweeney has weighed in.

Terry Sweeney was SNL’s first out cast member during the nineteen eighty five eighty six season. I saw Terry’s name come up in the news, and I didn’t remember him being a cast member. That’s neither here nor there. It’s just my own personal lack of recollection. I was like, who.

But apparently, way back when Chase and Sweeney didn’t get along. In the CNN doc, director Marina Zenovich reminds Chevy Chase of the joke that offended Sweeney, quoting her, you said something to Sweeney like, oh, you’re the gay guy. Why don’t we ask if you have AIDS? And every week we weigh you burn. Michaels says, I think Chevy was just being chevy.

He would say things that were funny, would assume you were comedy people. He could speak that way. You know, we would say terrible things because that’s what would make us laugh. In the documentary, Chevy says Terry Sweeney, he was very funny. This guy.

I don’t think he’s alive anymore. Well, Terry Sweeney disproved that by both being alive and speaking to the Hollow reporter. He told the reporter, don’t you think he’s saying this and making himself look more like they ass he is. In the SNL oral history book Live from New York, The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Sweeney recounts Chevy entering his dressing room and apologizing for the AIDS group, but was furious that he apologize. Chase responds, my memory is that he’s lying, and that’s my memory.

He’s not telling the truth. This is it’s not who I am. And if I am that way, my life has changed because I have to live with that now. For the rest of my effing life. Sweeney says, if Chase’s comments to the dock, it all reflects rightly horribly on him.

Boy, you know, at some point, Chevy, it’s you like the rest of the world is like this guy’s a jerk. It’s up pointed to you. Dude, are there coming for John Stewart? Did you get your talking points about why you’re supposed to be mad at John Stewart? Here?

Write this down so you’re on the right side of righteousness. You’re supposed to be furious at John Stewart. Currently on The Weekly Show with John Stewart. On the December eleventh episode, John Stewart made fun of people who still wear masks. John’s comments did not go down well with people who still are cautious and wear masks.

I wear masks on airplanes. I’ve been a germophobe way before COVID. Ask people who work with me and serious. If you had a cold and you were on my staff, I wouldn’t let you in my office. On social media, one person wrote, Hey, John Stewart, were you under the impression that people who are still taking COVID seriously and wearing masks need your bs on top of everyone else’s, isn’t part of your brand being a decent guy who thinks Another said, Hey, John Stewart, joke about wearing masks aren’t funny.

Would you ask someone why they wear corrective eyeglasses? Well, masks are no different. I mean, can we talk about a non controversy here again? I wear masks. My wife’s a physician.

She often wears masks when things are spiking a little bit, like this week where there’s a lot of flu going around in New Jersey, so she’s masking up. If John Stewart wants to goof on us and go, hey, look at the fat guy on the plane hosting a podcast as basement, What a loser wearing a mask? I don’t care. Just get the name of the show, right, Daily Comedy News. Just John, do twenty minutes on me?

Please do? Someone else wrote, John Stewart has some absolute effing nerve to be making fun of long COVID survivors and people still masking. He’s seen up close to the government to ie healthcare and resources for nine to eleven survivors who breathe in toxic air and suffering decades later. Anyway, that’s why we’re canceling John Stewart A little more serious here. Jimmy Kimmel is said to be quote unquote spiraling and feeling quote beaten down after the death of his best friend Clido Escovedo, who is the bandleader on The Jimmy Kimmel Live, a source told Raider Online, which again tends to be a little more gossipy but doesn’t mean they’re incorrect.

But the source told Rader Online, Jimmy is spiraling. He’s known Cleto since he was just a kid, and he never expected him to be gone this soon. It’s got Jimmy facing his own mortality and questioning everything. He’s in a very dark place. The same source says Jimmy’s not really over the brief cancelation there.

The source says, Jimmy got back on the air, so a lot of people assume that he’s moved past this and he’s feeling like a champ. But that’s not the case. The too Much TV substack wrote about Dave Chappelle’s special, they right, for the most part, stand up coming. He’s a young man’s game. Sure, you can keep telling stale jokes until you dropped dead while at the mic at some random casino and then they get this dig in, which is likely the way jay Leno’s life will end.

Should I just go there again? Like, I understand that you’re upset that Jay Leno took to tonight show back. Okay, he’s the worst guy ever, But other than that, why they hate for Jay Letto? He just it’s fine. It’s fine.

Mike Chisholm, who hosts The Letterman Podcast, which I’m the guest on today, by the way, so when you’re done here, go listen to the Letterman Podcast. We got onto the we got into this a little bit, the whole jay Lenell hate. I’ll share that clip in an upcoming weekend episode of Daily Comedy News if you don’t want to listen to Letterman Podcast. But just I don’t understand they hate for jay Letto anyway too much TV or about Chappelle rights. But like songwriting, great stan up requires a focus and unhealthy competitive compulsion that is much easier to pull off a twenty two than it is at fifty two.

However, staying relevant comedically also requires reinventing yourself to reflect both the change in your life and the changes the society. Comedians can go from super hot too unwatchable and a heartbeat. Dave Chappelle is fifty two and from what I can tell, over the past few years, has reinvented himself as a bit of a comedy troll. He consistently says things he knows will upset some people and channels their anger into a self righteous mocking that has become his preferred style of comedy. It’s a reflection of that new persona that when I tell people Chappelle had a new Netflix special, their first question was always did he do any trans jokes?

I think that’s true of Ricky Gervais. So I did watch Ricky’s new special. Ricky is clearly doing the thing where he’ll say things that he knows will upset people and then is like the well, why are you getting upset? I mean, that’s Ricky’s entire act. Chappelle, I feel, is trying to make bigger points, and like, if you look at the recent special where there are quote unquote trans jokes, you know part of it is like, hey, I no, you don’t want me to do this, but I’m doing it anyway.

But I don’t think he was trolling on this one too much. TV rights I have no idea what Dave Chappelle really thinks of trans people. I know what he says about them and how much he revels in his ability to tell jokes that would damage someone else’s career while writing the controversy to bigger successes. I half suspect it’s all just a giant troll. They then recap the special, skipping ahead, he begins that forty minute comedic Touri Force, which opens with a thoughtful take on how he’s feeling and how he thinks the audience is feeling in twenty twenty five.

But the part of Chappelle’s closer that is getting the most attention is also filled with the most historical inaccuracies, Although it makes for a solid bit those in act. Yes, Saretha Franklin’s funeral and McCain’s lying in state did happen on the same day, But McCain was not the only vote against the MLK holiday in the Senate. The final vote was seventy eight to twenty two, and McCain wasn’t even a senator. In Chappelle’s version, it’s ninety nine to one with a Senator McCain voting against it. So again, inaccurate and inaccurate.

McCain did vote against the bill as a congressman. Too much. TV asks the very good question why tell this complex web of lies at all? They suspected Chappelle’s way of entertaining himself and showing just how easily people will believe stories that sound real, even if they don’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny. In fact, social media is filled with clips with the McCain story, with people taking the entire story at face value.

The problem with this approach is that it becomes hard to take anything he says seriously. I think that’s very, very fair.

Speaking of Ricky Gervai’s there were, of course the reaction articles.

I feel like they were pre written. I feel like the newspapers were like, eh, it’s Christmas week, nobody feels like working Ricky. He’s going to do a special and people are getting upset, so let’s just write the reaction piece in advance. The Mirror wrote one such piece, they did the quote people on social media thing. One person wrote, Ricky Gervay’s claiming victory over the elites while cashed out on a massive Netflix check is the ultimate safe space rebellion.

He spent a decade whining about being canceled from the center of the world’s biggest stage. It’s not edgy to mock things everyone already hates, it’s just profitable. Ricky shot back and said, I’ve never moaned about being canceled because I’ve never been canceled. I’ve moaned about nurses and teachers and office workers being canceled for stating honest opinions under certain authoritarian trends. Though luckily we’re coming out of that face though.

Thanks for watching. So, as I mentioned, I did watch it. I liked it. It’s good company. I woke up the next day thinking it was empty calories, so I watched it, watched it.

I wasn’t playing on my phone. My brain was tickled. I laughed a few times, and I’ve discussed in the past about how a psychopath with Emperor of Rome syndrome and don’t really laugh more analyzed comedy special. So you know, two three times I laugh laughed, which is a good sign. But when I woke up the next day, I was like, oh, yeah, that happened, and it made no impact on me.

On tomorrow’s show, I’m going to do the final Best of twenty twenty five list, and I’ll tell you where Ricky comes up on that. But it’s a good special. It is by no means his best though. All Right, I’ve got more controversy for you. I’ve been trying to stay away from this one as well.

I don’t know if you’ve been following the Russell Brand saga more charges against Russell. Comedian Katherine Ryan spoke out about her experience of working with Russell Brand on the UK version of Roast Battle. Katherine Ryan has a new stand up special on Sky called Katherine Ryan Firstborn Daughter. She didn’t name Brand during the special, but dropped several unsubtle clues. During the special, Ryan says, I was invited on a panel show and I was so excited to do it, but then I found out if I went on, I would be sat next to a man who I firmly believe but can’t prove to be a C word.

And that’s the lawyer’s choice of words, not mine. Initially I turned the job down. Then I thought, well, he’ll be there and is unnecessarily tight jeans, won’t he He’ll be there doing naughty things to Tucker Carlson, or doing differently naughty things to a Tibetan monk for views. Whatever he does now, I thought I’ll go on the show, and I made a moral decision. Her decision was that she would confront Brand, but in a fun way.

Ryan said. Brand was fine with it for a while, until he eventually had a hissy fit and threatened to quit the show. The channel got upset. They didn’t want him to leave, and they issued him a new contract, which he waltzed into my dressing room and threw under my nose. The next day he said, look, you’re not allowed to be meaning me anymore because I don’t consent.

Earlier in the week, UK police confirmed that there are two new charges against Russell Brand. The new charges include one count of rape and one count of sexual assault. The UK Metropolitan Police, in a statement said the women who have made reports, including those connected to the two new charges, continued to receive support from specially trained officers. The METS investigation remains ongoing and detectives urge anyone affected by this case, or anyone with information to come forward and speak with the police. Russell Brand is already facing five charges announced back in April, which involved four women, including two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and two counts of sexual assault.

Russell Brand is a scheduled to appear in court on January twentieth in connection with the new charges. Russell Brand has previously said to statement, I was a drug addict, a sex addict, and an imbecile, but what I never was was a rapist. I’ve never engaged in non consensual activity. Some quick housekeeping, Monday Comedy Survivor begins. I’m going to do the Comedy Survivors as bonus episodes on Mondays at noon.

So on Mondays at three am, you’ll get the normal episode. Then at noon I’ll drop the Comedy Survivor episodes. Part of that is so I can produce them in advance. So how is this going to work? In the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, you will vote someone off the island so telling me, hey I really like so and so that doesn’t matter.

You’re voting someone off. Whoever gets the most votes off will be voted off. If there is a tie, I will ask chat cheap et to break the tie. So you’re going to go to the Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’re going to see a big cartoon image of Comedy Survivor, and in that thread you write down a name.

We’ll vote from Monday through Thursday, so that on Fridays I can record the Comedy Survivor episodes, which we’ll publish Monday at noon. Looking forward to that one. As we’re hitting January here, I’m going to use January weekends to play around a little bit. So this weekend tomorrow I’ll do the final list of the top specials of the year, and then on Sunday, I’m going to do who won and Lost Comedy in twenty twenty five. As we get deeper into the month, Mike Chisholm and I spent two and a half hours chatting the other day, and I’m going to chop that up into a bunch of things.

And I think Mike and I are going to do some conversation episodes where we just kind of talk about stuff and I’ll put raps on them. So I’m going to drop those in and then I’ve got some other things i want to do about comedy. So as you listen on the weekends in January, because January tend to be late, I’m going to play and try some different ideas and hopefully you’ll dig them. As I was doing some research for that, I ran the stats on twenty twenty five and I was like, oh, what do people like and what don’t people like? You know what episodes do well?

What do people like? And I guess I know this deep down in my soul. But it’s the negative things, the controversies, the fights, the cancelations. So that partly informed how I approached today’s show. If you go back and litle the first half, it’s negative, negative, negative, negative, negative.

I don’t really want to do a negative show, but that’s where the clicks and the downloads are, so hopefully I could tackle the controversial subjects but stay upbeat myself.

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Also, while I were a housekeeping remember Sarah Cooper.

If you’re a longtime listener who’ve been with me since the pandemic, there was this woman, Sarah Cooper, who got pandemic famous. She was pantomiming on TikTok to Donald Trump. So she would play Donald Trump video and then she would just mouth the words to Donald Trump. She didn’t do makeup or anything, and for some reason this caught on and it fried my brain because it was just stupid. But people were like, this is the greatest thing ever.

Okay, fine, so you’re popular on TikTok. Then there were articles that like, Sarah Cooper was the next greatest thing in comedy. Here she is doing some research here. Here she is in Vulture’s twenty twenty Comedians. You should know, she got a development deal, she had a Netflix special, and like people are like, oh my god, Sarah Cooper, and I’m sitting here in the basement going what she’s panamiming to Donald Trump?

Anyway, she got bored pantomiming to Donald Trump, and then we didn’t hear from her anymore. And the reason I’m bringing her up is I noticed the other day it’s popped up on social media. You know, a couple of years ago, buying the career is not so hot. Guess he was pantomiming to Donald Trump again. That’s right, Sarah Cooper.

Sarah Cooper, welcome back. I mean, boy, talk about hype.

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All right, let’s hit the comedy stock Market.

Comedy stock Market. It was a slow week, it was a holiday week, and I don’t have a lot for you here, So rather than force the segment, let’s just get in and out. I’ve got to sell recommendations for you. Let’s sell our Tom Segora stock. Tom had a good first half of the year.

I thought his sketch comedy show was hilarious. The new Specials is kind of like, eh, so let’s get out on Tom Sigora. Maybe we’re getting out high and we can make the little money we might buy back in. And the other person we’re gonna sell is Bert Kraser. I feel like this upcoming Netflix show is just r rated Kevin James, and my problem with it is I don’t think it’s gonna be cool enough for the bro dude so like Bert, and I think it’s gonna be too naughty for the sitcom audience.

So I don’t know who this show is for. So that’s it. Just two recommendations this week. Will sell Tom Sagora and we will sell Bert Kraser. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her because otherwise she would stay the hell off the Internet and just figure out what’s going on with you and take care of your kid and find have a career.

But Amy wants us to look at her, so she went on Instagram and showed off her new slim figure, rocking a body hugging bodysuit from Kim Kardashian’s Skim’s brand. Amy appeared makeup free and had her hair pulled back into a ponytail. So there you go, Amy, We talked about you like you want and if you’re looking for something to do tonight in Las Vegas, it’s roastal Mania, a wrestling themed verbal battle that ignores the idea that comedy should be polite, quiet, or even seated. Roastal Mania is a live roast format comics face off and curated pairings. Sean Reddy is the co producer and said, if you’re in the wrestling world, you have the baby face and then you have the heel.

I’m the heel judge, so I kind of dig into them. His persona is called the trash Man and comes complete with a prop trash can and a crowd that chants on cue. Audience participation is not just encouraged, it’s necessary. Mike Krasner or the other producer, says, you go to comedy shows and they tell you not to heckle. Here, it’s like wrestling.

When you tell a joke, if it doesn’t land, they’ll boo you. They yell trash Grassner jokes If you can’t be the best, you gotta be the worst. It’s Rostalmania nine tonight at the Wise Guy’s Comedy Club, a nine thirty show that sounds like a lot of fun. And that is your comedy news for today. Boy, I don’t know what the edited down on this is, but it’s raw.

It was thirty two minutes long episode for a holiday week. A lot to talk about, but that’s always good. All right, tomorrow at the final top specials of twenty twenty five, and then on Sunday, who won and lost comedy in twenty twenty five. We’ll see you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media have a new year. I’m Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Which is a sentence you would say if you were goosing the spot on fy Algorithm. But I don’t have time for that right now, because I want to share with you deadlines twenty stand ups to keep an eye on in twenty twenty six. Yes, we have made it to twenty twenty six, and we must keep an eye on these twenty stand ups according to Deadline.

Now, before I look at the list, just want to point out Deadline is an industry trade. And I’m saying that because along the way I noticed that they wanted to let you know which agent represented which comedian, which I don’t care about at all, like zero, no interest in that. But this is an industry trade. So I’m not saying the list is bad, but I am saying it is possible, perhaps maybe that it could be possible hypothetically that Deadline has a relationship with these agencies, and you know, agents were on the phone be like, hey, you know who somebody you should keep an eye on is Joe schmoe like, it’s possible if you understand an infinite universe, right, there’s just an infinite combination of things that could happen, And if you understand how infinity works, in one of the multiverses, that could have happened, and we might be in that multiverse. Now, mathematically, this is a straight up list where the agents didn’t influence the list at all.

But mathematically, if you understand infinity, there is a statistical chance that we are in the one multiverse where that took place. I’m just saying now that we’ve established this deadline rights. As was the case last year, our focus was on strong joke writers with original voices. Well that’s good at a time where there are plenty of incredibly successful digital creators in comedy who also do stand up. We chose to focus on artists who are stand ups before all else, all right, I like it.

We considered neither comedy groups nor comics who have had the benefit of a game changing opportunity like Saturday Night Live. We also tried to avoid stand ups who have featured repeatedly on other lists, because what’s the point of regurgitating? All right? In alphabetical order, they list Vittorio Angeloni. I’m going to say, great pick.

He is one of two killer Irish comics who have made the list. I have cn him with my own eyes. Now, I’ve been keeping an eye on him because I’m of Irish descent, so I always find Irish comedians interesting. Plus he’s Irish and his name is Vittorio Angeloni, not exactly Seamus. O’Reilly, you know what I’m saying.

So he’s been on my radar. Plus I saw him up at Montreal last August last year. As they say, Now that’s twenty twenty six, a twenty twenty five JFL new face Angeloni. He grew up in Belfast and began working as a stand up after moving to London after a period training as a classical musician. He’s really good.

You should check him out. Mary Beth Barone, all right, she’s been on our radar. We talk about Mary Beth Barone sometimes. Deadline says a multi hyphenate on the rise. If you understand how infinity works statistically, in one of the multiverses, an agent would have said, yeah, you should call her a multi hyphenate because she is a multi hyphenate on the rise.

Mary Beth Barone ain’t a deal for Netflix to release her first hour long comedy special, Galaxy Brain, which she’ll tape in New York City on March nineteenth, happens to be ripped by the same agency as Vittorio Angeloni. That’s weird, all right. Raffi Bastos, I’m not familiar with Raffi, a Brazilian American stand up considered a pioneer of his home country’s modern comedy movement. Raffi Bostos is ready for his breakout state side after hitting YouTube with unfamiliar territory. Actually, I think we did talk about him, but it was twelve months ago.

I can barely remember what I had for breakfast. Once recognized as the most influential person on Twitter by the independent research film Twittaalizer currently has a follow up nearly eighteen million across social platforms. I have to look that up because I’m gonna guess that the President of the United States is pretty influential and is on Twitter. But let me say oh interesting. In twenty eleven, the New York Times named him the most influential person on Twitter.

That’s fifteen years ago. Has he been on the part of Twitter that I never see because I’m on the part where we’re talking about the Mets and the Knicks. It’s fifteen years ago. All right, whatever, move on, John. He has a different agency than the first two comedians.

Ryan Davis is a Charlotte native who debuted his latest stand up special, under Rated, on the YouTube channel of comedian Ali Sadiq in October, racked up two point three million views. Bo Johnson, I know, Bo, I tell you a secret. I recorded a whole interview with Bo and the audio was bad and I couldn’t fix it, and I really tried. I used every trick I know. I felt so bad.

I just called up here. I see the file, Bo dash Johnson, nine eleven, twenty four dot wave, I still have it here. You want to hear a little, or I’ll pull a little for you. When I was starting, or even found stand up was like everyday life humor and Mitch Hedber is first comic. That’s Bo Johnson.

Wish the audio was better to play the whole interview. He was really cool. I really liked him a lot. Alright, Who is he John? He’s the Seattle native with a compellingly low key delivery.

Yeah, I watched a bunch of his sets. In prep for the interview, I thought he was fantastic. Deadline said they were gonna mention different comedians that haven’t been on every list. Jay Jorden, He’s been on lists. This is not an unknown person.

Jay recently released a strong debut special and Yes Ma’am, a fast paged, punchline filled love letter to what it means to be black, Southern, and queer. Produced by Comedy Dynamics. It premiered on Hulu on November seventh. Next up, we have Oriyan Levine named a new face It Just for Laughs comedy in twenty twenty two. I can’t remember if I went that year, and I can’t remember if I saw Oriyan in his Friday night live show Read the Room, Levin and a Tarot card reader help answer life’s burning questions from audience members and celebrity guests.

Who has sold out audience? Oh, he’s got that same agency that a lot of the others have him. Interesting. Yesmeil Loofti, we’ve definitely talked about him. He’s got two Don’t Tell comedy sets, a lot of don’t tell comedy on this list.

That’s interesting. He was a writer on After Midnight Rami Yusef’s animated series Number one, Happy Family USA. Remember that happened? Because I forgot that happened. You remember that happened?

And Netflix’s Patriotic Act with Hasan Minhaj named a new face in twenty sixteen. Wow, Laura Peak has emerged from Nashville’s comedy scene was named a new face for twenty twenty two. Now I’m convinced I didn’t go in twenty twenty two. I love this. I love this phrasing again.

If you understand how the multiverse works, this may have been fed to them by an agency. Here’s the line. She has been seen on the road with Taylor, Tomlinson, Fortune Fibster, and Theo Vaughn. Okay, I’m gonna give you my credits. I’ve been seen on the road with Jeff fox Worthy, Bill angvil Learry the Cable Guy, Ron White, Jamie Fox, Jim Brewer, Pee Corielli.

Let’s see Master Bronni been seen on the road with him. Weird phrasing, all right, Mike Rice. The other Irish comic on the list is Mike Rice, roommate and collaborator of Vittorio Angeloni. Apparently they host a podcast Together, Mike Invitorio’s Guide to Parenting, his first special in twenty twenty three in Irish Disgrace and what do you know? He’s got the same agency.

That’s weird. How far down this list? Am I? I lost track? Looks like there’s a lot left.

Let’s see how four we get all right? Red Richardson is an English stand up writer and actor with a looking style not quite like any comedian Deadline has come across. He’s also from Don’t Tell Comedy HMM, a regular performer at Ricky Gervais’s live shows under the banner of Ricky Gervas and Friends. Richardson has also appeared in numerous comedy sketches with Ricky Gervas and is affiliated with Ricky’s vodka company, Dutch Born. See That’s what Jim Gaffigan needs to do the Jim Gaffigan Bourbon Tour where Jim gets a bunch of other guys to do stuff and then Jim shows up and does like five minutes and tricks of bourbon.

There’s money in that, Jim do it. Erica Rhodes, Deadline says Erica Rhodes is one of those comics who’s been working for a long time, but never gets enough credit for how good she is. Currently, she’s on her Call Me Crazy tour, also has a Don’t Tell comedy set. I’m seeing a trend here. She was a finalist on NBC’s Bring the Funny, where Jeff Foxworthy praised her is the best defined comic voice of the competition.

When was NBC’s Bring the Funny? When was that? Did I erase that from my brain? I remember last comic Stanning because I hated that. Because I was running the comedy channels at Series sexem at the time.

People will be like, how can we not playing so and so. I’m like, because so and so has eight seconds of material, which you saw at NBC last night. That’s why Bring the Funny aired July ninth is September seventeenth, twenty nineteen. That’s just when I had started the podcast too. Huh.

You learned something new every day hosting the show. Next up, Leah Rudick A right, we’re up to the RS. I guess that’s one way I could tell how far I am down the list. She began her comedy career in New York with her sketch duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting That’s a Great Name, and co wrote and co starred in both web series Made to Order and Sweet Parents. We Are to keep an eye on Leah Rudik in twenty twenty six.

Rachel Scanlon, LA based stand up host, writer, and podcaster Originally from Minnesota. She regularly opens for the likes of Eliza Selessinger and Fortune Feimster. She’s appeared on After Midnight, Eliza’s Locals and Comics Unleashed, which is what’s gonna pass for late night shows pretty soon? Owen, what do you know? She’s got the same reps as a lot of other people in the list, Britney Schmidt.

She’s been seen opening for the likes of Feo, Vonna Chris Read. Schmid’s rise has been fueled not only by the strength of her comedy, but also by the spacisivity of her voice. In her act, she speaks scantily about sobriety, relationships, womanhood, sexuality, the strange, darkly funny corners of personal transformation, and more. She’s got different representation interesting. Usama Sidiki a Bengali American stand up writer and actor based out of New York City.

Usama’s jokes ranged from growing up Muslim in Texas, to dating misadventures and even a story of getting kicked off. America’s Got Talent has opened for the likes of Hassan Minaj and Morgan Jay, winner of the Laughing Devil Cup Comedy Festival, the Yonkers Comedy Festival, and the Make Me Laugh Albay Comedy Festival. A massive force in the areas near New York City, but not within. Carolyn Hurst shouted him out as a comic to watch at the twenty twenty five New York Comedy Festival. Jenny Tian a regular on the comedy circuit in Sydney, Australia.

Jenny recently relocated to New York and completed her first tour of the States scene opening for Hannah Gatsby, Nish Kumar and Ronny Chieng. I feel like we checked out some of her clips during one of the Sydney comedy festivals on this very podcast at some point. Next up TJA stand Up. Born and Raised Dan Haiti. TJ learned English by watching George Carlin stand up and John Stewart on the Daily Show.

After the devastating Haitian earthquake in twenty ten, TJ realized life was too short not to pursue his passion and did his first open mic in a basement in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. TJ has opened for Colin Quinn, Janelle James, Maria Bamford, and Sean Patton. Aaron Weber fixture of the Nashville comedy scene, regular performer at the Grand Ole Opry, one of the co hosts of the Nateland Podcast. You may know some of the other names on the Nateland Podcast. They include Brian Bates, Dusty Sleigh, and Nate Berghetzi.

So yeah, if you’re hanging out with Nate all the time, you’re definitely somebody keep an eye on. We might as well add Brian Bates to this list too, and we already know about Dusty Slay. Aaron Weber released his first half hour special signature dish with the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. But we have more ws Brent Weinbach. Brent’s been around no deadline rights.

While Brent Weinbach is a veteran of the all comedy world, he nonetheless needs to be looked at much more closely by the town. I assume the town is Los Angeles. He’s someone you could see breaking out not only as a stand up but also in film and TV with the right vehicle. Known for his absurdist style, experimental delivery, meticulous joke writing, and highly original impressions, Brent Weinbach was described by The New York Times Jason Zenniman, we know him as akin to the nation Fielder of the stand up world, all right.

Also recipients of the Andy Kaufman Award.

And those are your stand ups to watch in twenty twenty six, according to Deadline. And that is your comedy news for today. Happy New Year. Tomorrow on this program some thing. Hopefully someone will make some comedy news otherwise, Mike Chizen, where are you?

I gotta have a conversation to fill some time. Let’s record something I don’t know. There’ll be a podcast tomorrow, there always is. Don’t worry to see you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnnie Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is a sense that you might say if you were retraining the Spotify transcription algorithm. But we don’t have time for that because Bert Kreischer is hosting New Year’s Eve on CBS tonight. Social media star Haley Bailey will handle the East Coast celebrations. Then it’s off to Nashville and Bert Krascher, who would do midnight Central Time.

I will be asleep by then, but I’m sure it’ll be wonderful. Dusty Slay is also part of tonight’s telecast. Some other things you could watch tonight On CNN, It’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. Your guests include Stephen Colbert, Sarah Sherman, Leanne Morgan, and bj Novak. Over on NBC, It’s The Exciting Toast To twenty twenty five.

Guest appearances include Jim Gaffigan, Tom Poppa, Rob Riggle, and Wanda Sykes. If you’re in Los Angeles, Pretty Good Show at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood for New Year’s Eve. Now, I saw an event Bright pushing tickets on Tuesday as I recorded this, so apparently this is under sold. It’s New Year’s Eve with Nicky Glazer, Eliza Selessinger and Patton Oswalt. Actually it’s called New Year’s Eve with Nicky Glazer, Eliza and Patton Oswalt.

I assumed it’s Eliza’s Lessinger, but it doesn’t actually say that. It says Nicky Glazer, Eliza, Patton Oswalt, Todd Glass and Moore eighteen and up a two item minimum. Doors open at five. Parking is just three dollars with validation, and the listing says line up always confirmed, but subject to change. I wonder why we’re keeping Eliza’s last name a secret.

Has she rebranded and I missed it? Patton Oswalt, Nicky Glazer and Eliza last name can’t sell out on New Ye’s Eve? That’s odd. Ricky Gervais, he’s got a new special ad on Netflix. He says he would no longer make jokes at the expense of disadvantage people and would do things differently on the office.

If you could go back in time. Ricky was on Radio four and said people understand most power struggles. They understand why racism, homophobian misogyny are wrong, but they’re very disparaging about the working classes. It’s the one thing that it seems to be fine to take the mickey out of with no blowback at all. As for the office, he would change things.

He has no regrets. He says, you’re a product through your toime. You do make things for people of your time. I’d put trigger warnings on things, but I wouldn’t go back and change anything. Do I regret anything?

No? What I do things differently now? Probably Ricky Special has always create controversy. He told the one show most offense comes from when people mistake the subject of a joke with the actual target. So it starts and they go, what’s he going to say?

And I tell the joke and they laugh. It’s like a parachute joke. It’s scary, but then you land and it’s all okay. And I think that’s what comedy’s for getting us over at taboo subjects. They’re not scary anymore.

So I deal with everything. Did you watch Ricky’s Special on Netflix? Yet? I did not. I had to watch USC football last night.

Saving Ricky for New Year’s Eve, filmed at the London Palladium. Spoilers, Ricky Gervais says, it’s great to hear the sort of laughter again because you probably don’t notice it as much as comedians. But we had a really weird ten years where we’re really second guessing jokes. People find anything offensive, but we push back and we won so f them until the next time. They haven’t gone away, they’re just looking their wounds.

They’ll be back with something matter, But remember who it is next time. Right. It’s always these sort of educated, middle class, privileged elitest sort of people telling ordinary working class people what they can and can’t do and say and laugh, not realizing how important comedy is to ordinary people. Ricky Gervais, who’s just a regular working class blow key, as an estimated net worth of one hundred and seventy million dollars. You may recall he co created the show The Office, which has had numerous international adaptations, including one on NBC in the United States.

Ricky one time played the Hollywood Bowl and made one point seventy five million dollars for that one performance. So he’s just a regular old working class guy. Ricky says, there have been numerous attempts to get him canceled over the past fifteen years, including from fellow comedians who criticize him for punching down. Ricky says, they’ve always failed. I’m too old now not to say what I want.

I want to say and do what I want all the time. I want to do my favorite thing all the time. He explains the rise of cancel CLD were saying there’s still two ways you can raise your status in society. One be competent in something like, oh he’s a good hunter, go with him, He’s good for the tribe. The other way, you can raise your status to have virtue, like, oh he’s not a great hunter, but he’s wiser kind of whatever.

And then with the advent of social media, people suddenly discovered they could just say they were virtuous, no evidence, no proof, just loads of flags in their bio. Ricky says he is not going to attend the Golden Globes. He says it’s too far to go and I prefer to stay at home with his girlfriend Jean and their cat. Ricky, of course a notable former host of the Golden Globe’s. Other famous former hosts include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and of course that one time Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes and told this awful, mean, horrible joke about Taylor Swift.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go to here? Sorry about that who unbelievably harsh, No wonder she gave him the stare down.

I mean, how could you even Joe like that? After she walked through the room, arriving late somehow and then distracting everybody as she walked from the far side of the room to her table, and then Joe Koy drew attention to her. Ugh um, cool dude on Rob Shooter’s substack, which tends to be a little gossipy, not incorrect, but tends to be gossipy. I’m just familiar with it because I write for the Palace Intrigue podcast about the royal family and Shooter comments on them a lot. It tends to be gossipy.

He’s saying, Jimmy Kimmel’s renewal is for one year and then Jimmy’s done it, said Jimmy signed the one year extension on purpose. It wasn’t advertised that way, but everybody at ABC knows exactly what it means. This is his last lap. Full stop Shooter says network executives want to give Kimmel a graceful, celebratory exit after more than two decades of late night dominance. Another sore says the audience has shifted to streaming, ratings have changed.

Jimmy knows its time. Internally, they’re calling it is good bye year. Everybody expect him to finish big. That would leave the Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon as the last show standing. Everything old is new again.

Now I’m I’m not sure I believe this next port. You know who Jimmy supposedly wants as his final guest. A source said he thinks ending with Trump would be the ultimate finale, one last laugh, one last headline. According to ABC insiders, May twenty twenty seven will be the end of Jimmy Kimmel’s show. We’ll see Sarah Sherman told people that Bow and Yang liked her special and said this is so you, Sherman said, you know what I mean, that’s all you could ever hope for is you’ve created a project with all these amazing people who are also talented.

As for ESNL, it’s a really intimate job. You get to know people really, really well, but you’re creating work that fits a certain type of specific show, so sometimes you don’t get to see everybody’s true artistic selves. You know people inter personally pretty well, you know people’s comedic voices really well, but I don’t know the extent sometimes of people’s full artistic visions. And so much of the specials like I’m a living cartoon, and maybe that’s a little bit of what the Sarah Squirm character is. It’s like a living cartoon, but she’s very much alive and made of flush bones and skin and guts.

And yeah, that’s another thing, the relatability of the special I’m talking about things that everyone can relate to. I don’t have some gross disease that one center of the population has. I have the gross disease of having too much body hair. Tiffany had to stop midset and turned on the lights at her recent comedy show. Tiffany shared a clip on Instagram.

She heard a woman in the crowd call out to her, asking if her remember her. The woman yeeled out, I don’t know if you remember. My name is Colletta Lewis. Tiffany went to the edge of the stage and said, turn the lights on. Tiffany said, you saved my life.

I’m where I’m at right now because of you. Tiffany said Lewis encouraged her and was among the first to believe in her comedy career. Hattish said Lewis gave her two choices for the summer after she was getting in trouble at school. Those choices psychiatric therapy or the Laugh Factory comedy camp. Tiffany said, Colletta, I am forever grateful God made you and you never gave up on me.

Thank you. Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis were speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience the discussion of the President of the United States comments about Rob Reiner. Rogan said, the Rob Reiner things not funny. Look, there’s no justification for what Trump did that makes any sense in a compassionate society. It’s no different than people that were celebrating when Charlie Kirk got shot.

It just shows you how crazy it is the way Trump thinks and talks. It’s just like the guy got sliced up by his kid. You know, anybody doesn’t see that and go f man Cameil and on Jehanny. I’m noticing on threads that he’s getting frusted by people. I don’t think Kamil is all that popular with the comedy community anyway.

Kamail was on Caleb Hearn’s podcast and discussed the rumor, which I’ve never heard before. But what do I know? My guy in a basement recording a podcast. Apparently there was a rumor that Kamail and a Jihanny was having an affair with Michelle Obama. Is this a rumor that everybody knows except me?

Okay, fine, I accept your premise. Anyway, Camel, who was promoting a comedy special, one out of his way to address this rumor that he was having an affair with Michelle Obama and said he’s never met Michelle Obama. As for the rumor, I was so excited. My friend, our mutual friend, pulled Emily aside and was like, hey, I heard the Kamail and Michelle Obama are like doing it. And she was like, not even upset, but multiple people brought it up to me.

So, as the story goes, a mutual friend went up to a couple and was like, Hey, I hear your husband is shagging Michelle Obama? Like do you do that to your friends? Is that a thing people do? Like you go up to married couple and go, hey, I heard your husband is shagging Jill Biden? Like is that something that people do?

Anyway? Come on, A Gianni confirms he has never met Michelle Obama, which implies that they’re not having an affair. I don’t know if you could have an affair if you’ve never actually met. Not an expert in such things. I’m not having an affair.

I’ve never had an affair. I’ve also never met Michelle Obama. I’ve been on a phone call at Jill Biden, who I’m not having an affair with. I just want to be clear. And I really was on a phone call at Jill Biden.

I was producing an episode of a podcast called pod is a Woman. You can find it somewhere. I digress. Kanye West made an appearance at Dion Cole’s comedy show at the Hollywood Improv At that show, Kanye West revealed he’s working on a new album. Dean Cole shared the moment on Instagram, captioning it about last night, what a great time, laughter in love wins again Hollywood improv.

In the video, Dion Cole invites Kanye West of the stage asked the crowd to give it up to a good friend. Cole asked, you got anything we could look out for? New music? No shirts, sweaters, some boots. Kanie West said, new album, which drew applause from the audience.

And that is your comedy news light as it was for today. I will see you tomorrow. Oh, Happy New Year, have a great night. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Calaroga, Shark Media. Busy one. Today We’ve got Chappelle, Sgora Krasier, Sheen, a lot of the big names out there today with your Daily Comedy News. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians, on the comedy industry. A sentence you would say if you were trying to goose these Spotify algorithm, But we don’t have time for that today.

David Dreamin, you may know him. He is the front person for Disturbed. He has publicly reached out to Dave Chappelle. David took to Instagram and posted, Dear Dave Chappelle, I say this with the utmost sincerity and humility. Myself and many other fans of you who happen to be Jews are having a hard time right now Israel, aside, which I’m more than happy to discuss with you at length.

You mentioned your words are indeed powerful and have massive reach. Jews all over the world are being attacked in mass. Would your final joke be quite as funny slash edgy if it led to the slaughter of more innocent Jews? The insinuations made by you could lead to such evil, God forbid, give us hope. Dialogue is always the key.

World is violence enough. Let’s try to diffuse things instead of lighting another match. The invitation is open and without condition. The joke in which Dreaman refers to is Dave Chappelle’s closer. I’m going to paraphrase here a little bit for language.

In the special, Chappelle says, my voice has become more powerful than I intended it to be, and I can’t let these people do me like Charlie Kirk or even worse than that. What if these people trip me up somehow, quat me and then make me say the things that they want me to say, Well, we can’t have that. So just in case we need a code, it’s got to be something that I can’t say that if I say it, you know that these people got me and don’t listen to nothing I say after those words, But don’t tell anybody what is. But it’s got to be something that you know what I mean that I would never say, Oh, I know what the code is. The code is I stand with Israel.

Dave then thanks the crowd and says good night. One person on social media wrote, Dave crapped on a guy who was killed for public speaking, referring to the Charlie Kirk segment of Chappelle Special. Then defended Dinny for half an hour and never thought he’d lose me, but he did. Hey listener sent me this from the Chappelle Reddit. People were criticizing some accuracy in Dave Chappelle’s special.

One of the complaints is about Dave Chappelle voting against Martin Luther King Day becoming a holiday. The complaint seems to be about Chappelle referring to Senator McCain. John McCain was actually a congressman when that vote took place. He did vote against it at the time, later regretted it.

Also of interest, a big part of Chappelle’s Closer is about the boxer Jack Jo…

As was pointed out by the listener and in the reddit, Jack Johnson was pardoned posthumously by President Trump. In Britain, every year the monarch makes a Christmas Day message and over on Channel four they do the alternative message. The alternative message this year was by Jimmy Kimmel. Here’s a clip. I can tell you that from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year tyranny is booming over here.

You may have read in your colorful newspapers. My country’s president would like to shut me up because I don’t adore him in the way he likes to be adored. The American government made a threat against me and the company I worked for, and all of a sudden, we’re off the air. But then, you know what happened. A Christmas miracle happened.

It was September. It was a September miracle. But the holiday does seem to come earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it. Millions and millions of people stood up and said, no, this is not acceptable. People who never watched my show, people who were on record saying they hate my show, spoke out.

They marched. He did this all to support the right to a free expression of speech. And because so many people spoke out, we came back. Our show came back stronger than ever. We won.

The president lost, and now I’m back on the air every night, given the most powerful politician on Earth a right and richly deserved bollocking. That’s a word, right, I used it properly. Kim Oll went on to say, you know it’s funny we Americans are very proud of not having a king. It’s kind of why we left. Earlier this year, tens of millions of US marched protests called no Kings.

And just for the record, we have nothing against your king. I mean, I don’t know if you know this, but his son lives here in the States. We just well, some of us just have a problem with the guy who thinks he’s our king. Kim Oll closed with no one knows better than you that were always just a little bit late to the game, but we do come through in the end. Maybe give us about three years.

Please, thank you for your patience, but thank you for Spider Man. Merry Christmas and happy Holidays. Right before Christmas, the President of the United States was on truth social and wrote that Stephen Colbert has actually gotten worse since being terminated by CBS. Stephen is running on hatred and fumes a dead man walking. CBS should put him to sleep now.

Some people on social media, most notably Keith Olberman, had problem with the put him to sleep language. The President hosted the forty eighth Kennedy Center Honors. The program averaged around two point sixty five million view That was a thirty five percent decline year to year. In twenty twenty four, when the President of the United States did not host the Kennedy Center Honors, that broadcast drew in four point one million viewers. Joe Rogan has had some pretty good guests.

In back to back episodes, he had Shane Gillison Tom Sagora. On the Tom Sagora episode, Rogan said, there’s nothing nuttier than the plaques underneath the President’s Have you seen these things in the White House they put up like the U It’s kind of like the Baseball Hall of Fame except for presidents, and some of the captions are just not presidential. I don’t want to bog down on that today, but it’s like, dude, what are you doing? You’re just just whoever the next president is is just going to have to come in and take this stuff down, Like what are you doing? You’re just wasting money, and it’s just it’s so immature.

Even Rogan has said the White House should be more like a museum and feature neutral, factual information about the presidents. Rogan said, you can’t just let someone effing fully swim in it like that. He needs a right hand man. Tom Segura suggested that the antics were evidence that the president was mentally quote unquote losing it. Rogan replied, I think everybody does when you get to a certain age.

Tom Sigor was on Netflix during their NFL broadcast on Christmas Day. Sigor did a segment with Michael Irvin and man, is this tryhard? I have a new special out. It’s called Teacher. It covers a lot of stuff.

Okay, we talk about family relationships, race, not like Steve Bannon jokes, but like fun stuff. You know, crazy nights, the stuff that’ll make Charles Haley blush weird crazy nights, you know, nights when I black out and wake up next to somebody who looks like Coach Belichick. Things like that. Tom Sigor is special. Teacher is Out.

I watched it, and I kept noticing the clapter. I’m very, very sensitive to clapter. I think there were six clapter reactions in the first twelve minutes. I wrote clapter three times in the first twelve minutes, and then I posted a second time. Six in the first twenty It’s not a good thing for comedy show.

Yeah, so if you’re new to all this, when you’re comedian, you’re trying to get laughs and sometimes you get applause, which is not hey, that was really funny. That’s oh, yes, you made a good point. We agree with you there. It’s not a good thing for comedy show. I like Sigora a lot, just the special just didn’t click.

He was a good company, nice to listen to, but funny, I’m not sure it was funny. Now I’m recording this the day after Christmas, and I’m in a really good mood. I mean, it was Christmas, we had a fantastic Christmas. I’m not cranky at all today. And I’m just sharing that because I don’t want you to think, like, oh man, he’s in a mood.

He’s just negative today. But you know, I wasn’t feeling the Sigora thing.

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And then Bert Kreischer was also part of the NFL broadcast, and I just watche…

This is a good version of what this is supposed to be. He’s very natural in an unnatural way, like he’s good at TV. But none of this feels genuine, if that makes any sense, Like he’s just a natural performer. But like the whole packaging of this just doesn’t feel genuine and I watched this and going, oh, I see Bert, You’re I don’t want to use the phrase selling out, but your following the money. Here’s Burd Krasier on Netflix NFL.

I am so excited to be here. I am about to eat and. Drink my way through this entire parking lot. That’s my goal today, and my goal is to find the two best tailgate foods I can find, then take those two people march time in front of the stadium where me and Anthony Anderson will judge them competition style to find our winner. But I got to tell you the real reason I’m here today is to let you know my new series, Freebird is streaming January twenty second on Netflix.

We just pump the trailer on all socials. It is a hard art family comedy. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, set a reminder January twenty second, Free Burk. I’m taking my shower off.

Let’s go, Let’s go left go. So, since the trailer is released, I went to pull it and share it with you. It is very rated R and I watched it and I’m like, so, do you just want to be like dirty? Kevin James is that what we’re trying to do here. I don’t know this show.

I mean, it seems somewhat watchable from the trailer, but I don’t know. I don’t know who it’s for this series, because it’s going to be too corny for the dude brose who want to party, and it’s going to be too naughty for the sitcom people. So I don’t know if this will have an audience. We’ll see. In the trailer, Bert Kreischer is asked the whole shirtless thing, where does it come from?

And then there’s like the uptight principal type character whoever the character is, is like, you know, you should you ought to wear a shirt. Free Birch stars Bird Krascher as Bert Kraser, who sees himself in uncharted territory when his daughters are accepted to an elite Beverly Hills private school. Then there’s a scene with the daughters going to the school and people making some comments that I find age interpropriate, and I was like, I don’t know about this. Arden Myren plays Bird Kreischer’s wife Leanne in this one, and the mother of the two daughters. Ava Ryan plays daughter Georgia, who’s the target of Cyberbilly Free Bird is out to January twenty second.

We’ll see how that goes out. Today on Netflix, Ricky Gervais the final major comedy special of the year. We’re looking forward to this one. Ricky has on veil all day statue paying tribute to the dog from the Netflix series Afterlife, Vislaura and Tilly, who was the dog that played Brandy. A statue of Antille was erected in Hemel Hempstead, where the comedy drama was filmed.

Ricky explained in a video, I’m here to unveil this beautiful statue of Antille the Wonderhound, or Antie to her friends, or Brandy as she was portrayed in Afterlife, and she’s going into the square next to the Afterlife bench. So yeah, this is too Anti from Afterlife, my favorite co star. She was a very good girl. I told her about twenty times a day, even when she wasn’t a good girl. Sometimes she forgot the lines and she didn’t have many, but she was still a good girl.

So you can all come along and such her nose for luck. She really is beautiful and come and say hello, good girl. Still a good girl. Untill He passed away in January at age thirteen. Bill Maher has shared that he and Larry David are no longer friends.

Bill Maher had called out Larry David for critiquing Bill Maher’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the year mar was being interviewed by The Free Press. The host asked Bill Moore if he’s ever said anything that has publicly cost him, invites friends, or anything of that nature. Mar said, f yeah, I mean Larry David certainly is not really my friend anymore. The sports business journal Will shared a report on viewership of the FedEx Cup playoffs. That’s golf, and they are giving credit to Adam Sadler for Happy Gilmore two for increasing the ratings.

The FedEx Cup playoffs took place just after Happy Gilmore two came out. The championship got seven hundred thousand views compared to five hundred thousand last year. Obviously, the only person you could credit for that is, of course, Adam Sandler. Alonzo Bowden was speaking to K and PR about Las Vegas drivers, except these drivers, they’re kind of fascinating how bad some people drive. One day, I saw a truck pull out of a driveway and it was a right turn only, so he just drove over the media and made it left and I was like, oh, we’re just making our own rules.

Alonzo actually had some thoughts on politics. He wondered Donald Trump’s ear grew back. We’re still trying to figure out how how did the year grow? Evander Holyfield deserves to know how you grow back in ear. As for the other side, he said, the Democrats completely disappearing is funny.

There’s nobody who can surrender a fight quicker than the Democratic Party. It’s amazing. You pick a fight and they’ll lay down. Send your letters to Alonzo Boden and that is your comedy news for today. You have a great day.

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Caloroga Shark Media either Johnny Mack with Your Daily Comedy News. This is a sequel to yesterday’s episode. It is the rest of the list from Billboard dot com. They have listed the top twenty five stand up comedians of the twenty first century. In yesterday’s episode, I covered twenty five through sixteen.

We were up to Ricky Gervais. As usual, when I do these list episodes, I don’t like to look at them in advance because I want to just react and I’m really really curious and fearful what we’re about to find out here, all right? Scrolling down number fifteen is Mitch Hedberg. Good, good pick. I have to remember to add him to my list, which I’ll probably do as tomorrow’s episode Mitch Hedburgh one of my favorites.

I’m glad that they included him here, as Mitch passed away at age thirty seven and two thousand and five, so didn’t have all that longer career in the twenty first century. Billboard writes, Hedberg’s time among comedy’s top ranksted less than ten years, ushered in by a breakthrough in nineteen ninety six on David Letterman’s show Edberg left behind just one comedy special, two albums, plus the posthumous third album, and an indelible legacy. Time magazine suggested in nineteen ninety eight that Heedburg could become the next Seinfeld. Number fourteen Dave Attell great pick and if you listened to yesterday’s episode, I explained who has put together this list for Billboard, and I really respect the hell out of them. Billboard writes, if you never experienced in New York in the nineties, check out a tell.

The gritty, economically strapped, crack and crime infested city at that time runs through his DNA. The scruffy beard, dark worn jacket over gray hoodie eccessorized with a similarly colorless beanie or baseball cap, screams nineteen ninety two Afternoon Bar regular, But make no mistake, utel Mey look old scale, but he’s just as hilarious in this century as he was the last one. A great pick. Number thirteen. Oh my god, I’m not even doing a bit here.

I just scrolled down and I’m like, are you effing serious? Adam Sandler seriously absolutely not, no, no, no. They talk about his movies, but this is a stand up list. Billboard writes he’s not to be underestimated as a stand up comedian. The Brooklyn born New Hampshire Race Sandler finished number nine among Billboard’s box score Top grossing comics of twenty three and twenty four The Sandman as a master storyteller with an acrobatic voice.

Sandler also does musical comedy. Well, I will absolutely disagree on that. Boy, that is just a terrible pick. If you listen to the show, you know my opinions on Adam Sandler comedy and no, absolutely one of the top twenty five. Absolutely not a right Number twelve Nateprighatsy.

I think this is way overrated. I mean, he’s nice, but I don’t know. When I finish my list, I’ll see if he makes it. But twelve is absurdly high. You’re gonna tell me Nate is better than Hedberg.

You’re gonna tell me Nate is better than Dave Attel. You’re gonna tell me Nate is better than Jim Gaffigan. No, No, and no, absolutely not. Crazy talk. Number eleven even more crazy talk?

Are you serious with this list? Billboard? Sebastian Maniscal. My current opinion is Sebastian is just doing a version that I call old man Dice Clay. Like if Dice turned sixty and decided I should curse a little bit less, you’d wind up with whatever Sebastian’s doing right now.

That’s a horrible pick, all right. Number ten Robin Williams. Interesting. I wouldn’t have thought about Robin, but let’s say what Billboard has to say. Robin williams last stand up tour took place in two thousand and eight, and the HBO special that resulted, Weapons of Self Destruction came in two thousand and nine.

Williams passed away in twenty fourteen. See, I would think of him more as a twentieth century stand up I don’t think this pick is ridiculous. Robin Williams was really good on stage. I don’t think I’ll include him on my list. Number nine Maria Bamford.

Now this is really interesting. The people that like Maria Bamford, love Maria Bamford, and the rest of us are like, yeah, she’s fine, not gonna make my list again. The people who love her right now are throwing their sneaker at the wall, going, Johnny Mack, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve seen her live and it was fine. Okay, next up, Number eight, really interesting pick here.

My initial reaction to it is negative and thinking this is kind of crazy. I know people love this guy, but number eight. Norm MacDonald eight above Jim Gaffigan. Billboard rights, the comedian, who died in twenty twenty one at the age of sixty one, is revered as a comedy warrior whose deadpan comedy style and storytelling, like his extended joke about a troubled moth, were as fearless as they were unique. See I think of him more as great on the desk doing appearances on Conan.

He’s got a wonderful comedy album that I love, but it’s more sketches with There’s the Gambling Sportscaster and the Fantastic Four sketch and a Superman sketch all on that one album. I’m not sure the body of work is there. Billboard all right. Number seven Kevin Hart hard to argue. We can argue a replacement, but not crazy nine specials, thirty movies, more TV shows than that, and multiple streaming partnerships.

Johnny mcoay says the man likes to work. Billboard writes, so when heart reconnects to his power base, as he did in his recent Netflix special Acting My Age, which I had high up on my list this year. It’s a bracing reminder of what’s driving all that activity. Relentless jokes and stories that seem like conversational observations but are in fact owned by years of restless roadwork. Not crazy all right.

Number six Jerry Seinfeld. Now in the twenty first century. I saw Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock on back to back nights at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, and Chris Rock was way better than everybody else until the next night when Jerry Seinfeld went up and was way better than Chris Rock. I do associate Seinfeld with the nineties. But let’s see what Billboard has to say.

Where this list compiled at the end of the twentieth century, Seinfeld would almost certainly have topped it. Because it’s twenty five years into the twenty first century, Seinfeld will have to settle for being the wealthiest comedian. And make no mistake, Seinfeld is still Hella funny and his comedy has grown. No Moss has been on AI, which includes a refund why Frankenstein wore a sport coat in the original Universal Monster Movies is a beautiful thing. So we’re up to the top five, which seems like a good time to take a break, and boy, I’m scared continuing bill Board’s Best Comedians of the twenty first century.

Number five Bill Burr not absurd, although I think his last special is a bit of a fall off. Hey, that happens to everyone, including all the great home run hitters. And I guess Bill Burr is doing just fine. After playing the Reod Comedy Festival earlier this year, he apparently is the fifth best stand up of the twenty first century. Really solid.

Who doesn’t like Bill Burr’s comedy? Can’t nitpick that one? You know, with all of these we can pick placement, but not absurd.

Also not absurd at all, And a really strong pick is John Mullenie at number f…

All right, So if mullanie is at four, I’m just thinking off the top of my head. So c K’s left, Chappelle is left? Who else is left that I’m not thinking about? This is going to be interesting, Okay? They right?

Malani has made the combination of the extraordinary, unusual and extraordinarily funny sort of his thing, whether he’s wrestling with a bunch of fourteen year old boys on the Netflix show or plotting the death of a non essential grandparent to get the attention to Craves in elementary school in Baby j Perhaps most fascinating is the four plus minute been on Donald Trump’s first administration from the twenty eighteen special Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, which never once mentions Trump’s name. All right, number three, Louis C.K. All right, so Chappelle’s gonna be up there? Who’s the other one that I’m forgetting? I know you’re screaming at your phone right now, going, how are you forgetting so and so?

But all right, Louis C.K. Just back from Riodd Millboard writes, you may have arguments about CK’s behavior and its consequences, but no one ever accused him of not being funny. His behavior derailed a career of women comics, and eventually his own career was derailed in turn canceled. Not so much. Do you learn anything from it all?

Insert shrug emoji here, very very fair, All right, I’m just curious here because Chapelle’s gonna be one of the last two. Who am I forgetting here? Let me scroll down two. Chris Rock. Oh, of course, I’m so stupid.

Have you been screaming at the wall for the last ten minutes? I was afraid they were gonna like throw out like Amy Schumer or something like incredibly absurd? Of course, Chris Rock. I even name checked Chris Rock five minutes ago as the second best side felt Okay, yeah, of course Chris Rock. Yeah, duh, I’m sorry.

I’m really sorry. If you’ve been throwing things for the last five minutes, I’m stupid. Sometimes. In two thousand and four, Chris Rock titled his fourth special Never Scared. In his most recent special, twenty twenty three, Selective Outrage, he looks around and finds he’s the only unafraid person left standing.

Rock and lay claimed in the mantles of both Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. His work is personally and politically charged the way priors was. But he’s also a mainstream star on screens both big and small. Most of all, he’s a no hold barred stand up in comedy. No one and nothing is safe.

All right, great, pick I feel so stupid or I’m gonna scroll down here. It has to be Chappelle, right, I’m not gonna scroll down or they’re gonna be like Tony Hitchcliff is the best comedian and I’m gonna like lose my mind. Right, this has to be Dave Chappelle. I’m scared. Number one is Dave Chappelle, who I was scary there for a second.

Billboard writes, like the Marvel superhero Daredevil, Chappelle is the man with no fear. His critics might say that also, like the Marvel superhero, he’s blind, so that her anger he to the trans community. Looking strictly through the lens of comedy, however, Chappelle is the greatest comic of the century so far. Some say he’s the goat, and that may prove true, but that’s for another list. Good pick let me fly through the whole list for you again twenty five, John Stewart No.

Twenty four, Billy Connolly No. Twenty three, Trevor Noah twenty two, Jim gaffikin Way Too Low twenty one, and Gabe Iglesias twenty, Sarah Silverman nineteen, Ali Wong No. Eighteen. Patrese O’Neal didn’t like him, but he was good seventeen. Wanda Sykes No.

Sixteen, Ricky Gervais fifteen, Hebberg fourteen to Tel thirteen, Sailor is insanity, twelve Naite Berghatzy is kind of crazy. Eleven Sebastian is even more crazy. Ten Robin Williams nine, Bamford eight, Norm seven, Kevin Hart six Seinfeld and then Burr Mulaney, c K, Rock, Chappelle. That top five is super solid. I’ve been scrolling down some names here.

I haven’t ranked this at all, just names that I’ve thrown in my word document. I’ve written the words Chappelle, Burmulaney, c K, Trevor Gaffigan, Sarah Goleman, Gary Goldman, Hello, Kyle Kanaan, Jimmy Carr, Matt Rife with a question mark. Think about it. He’s the body works better than you think. Dane Cook, Hello everybody, twenty first century, Dane Cook.

I kind of want to acknowledge the blue collar guys and maybe Foxworthy, because that tour was huge and started a whole thing from which Nate Brighetsi’s even benefiting these days. How about George Lopez, We forgot about him, Hebburg, Hotel, Kevin and Rock. But I’ll see what I wound up putting together, and you know, I still need to think about this a little bit more. All Right, nice job, Billboard. That could have been a lot more screen Ricky.

And that is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.