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Featured: David Cross, Hannibal Buress, Julio Torres, Charlie Day, Joel Kim Booster, Takashi Jagasuki

What’s in This Episode

• David Cross new special ‘The End of the Beginning of the End’ shot in intimate club settings
• David Cross discusses shooting specials in music venues vs theaters and audience relationships
• David Cross on shielding his daughter from his film roles while preserving childhood experiences
• Hannibal Buress on music as a writing format and emotional range beyond comedy
• Julio Torres Interview Magazine Q&A on dealing with haunted apartments
• Charlie Day cast in new film ‘Golf Trip’
• Joel Kim Booster on intermittent fasting and healthy snack alternatives
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival highlight: Takashi Jagasuki’s ‘Wabi Sabi Comedy’ show

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. And Air, and Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians on the comedy industry. A sentence I can’t remember unless I write it down, but the algorithm loves it. David Cross as a new special. It’s called the End of the Beginning of the End, and the La Times was like, what does the end of the beginning of the End mean?

David Cross explains, Well, you could look at it a couple different ways. To me, it signifies the beginning of the end has occurred, and we’re now at the end of the beginning of the end. And from where you go with that, that’s up for you to decide. The La Times likes that this special shot in a club. Cross that I’ve shot specials in theaters and it’s just different, not that one’s better than the other, they’re just different.

You have a different relationship with the audience. When I first started touring, I’d go to music venues and I’d have a band open up for me. Then I’d just go up and pretty much perform as long as I could until I had to pee, sometimes out of a band, playing sometimes two bands, then I’d go. I did that a couple times and stopped doing that, and then did theaters, and I decided for the last two specials, want to shoot it, I’ll go to a music venue. I was at the forty Walk Club in Athens last time.

I was at the Metro in Chicago before that, both places I played on earlier tours. And you know, it’s not seated. People are standing there at the stage, and I preferred it’s more fun. It’s not as lucrative, but it’s a more fun show to do. Cross talked about his movie roles and if his daughter has seen anything.

He said, I don’t actively shield her, but I don’t introduce her to anything. So I was a little bummed out and I got over it pretty quickly. But when I found out she had seen a little bit of Alvin and the Chipmunks, and only because I didn’t want to spoil the enjoyment of what movies are and what kids’ movies are and how things work, and I feel like that would introduce an element of reality that I just want her to be able to enjoy these things without. She’s seen Kung Fu Panda when she was younger, Like I don’t know three four, five times. That has no idea that I’m in that my voice is there.

She knows how you stand up. She gets that now. When she was younger, she’d say, daddy’s silly for a living. I’m just trying to ride the balance of letting her have those childhood joys and experiences. I thought this was interesting.

Cross said, I still get excited to watch specials by some of my favorite comics, but there’s there’s a quality that’s missing. And these are all stand ups I love, and they’re not that great. They’re not bad, but they’re not special. You know, I don’t know why that is. I mean, there’s still funny stuff, but I don’t ever want to get to that place where it just feels a little phoned in a little bit.

That’s why these last two specials were shot in the orient, mid setting that feel special. As they said, the energy is different, it’s a little bit different, and it’s less slick. You’re in the moment. You don’t need a million dollars to shoot a special. You don’t need twenty eight camera angles.

It just bs and it takes something away. Independent Rhode Island caught up with Hannibal burse Hannibal dabbles in music when he’s not doing comedy. As for music, Hannibal said, it’s really writing in another format. If you’re a writer, you can write stand up, you can write a sketch, you can write for television, you can do copy for somebody, you can ghost write for somebody else, or you can write music. Music just another way to write stuff, and it also necessarily it doesn’t have to be funny at every moment.

It can be funny, but it can have a range of emotions. So there’s ideas that I’ve touched on in my stand up that have also brought into music and stories that I’ve told him both where I’ve been able to approach it in a different way. In music, you can focus on small details and things like that in a story, but every moment doesn’t necessarily have to be funny, and stand up every moment doesn’t have funny either, with the setup and everything. But it’s good to have an arsenal of both formats where you can examine any idea and see which format goes in best. Julio Tores was in Interview magazine.

He fielded some questions. One of the questions was, hey, Julio, I think my apartment is haunted, but the rent is super cheap. How can I expel the ghosts? Great question, Juliosaur says, your rent is super cheap because your apartment is haunted. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Okay, if you expel the ghost that means you’re expelling the decease, are making your rent cheaper because you’re a subletter of the ghosts. Now, how can you get rid of them? E victim Them’s not on the table. I think you have to learn how to coexist and make this the best you can. Or if it feels like it’s untenable because they’re eating your food or whatever, I would just find a new apartment.

Charlie Day has been cast in the new film Golf Trip. Golf Trip follows three longtime best friends who reunite for their annual golf getaway. What begins as a relaxing escape quickly unravels when they are unexpectedly paired with the universally dreaded single golfer. As tensions rise and personalities clash, the trip spirals into a series of increasing chaotic and comedic misadventures. GQ caught up with Joel kim Booster.

He’s on the current season of Scrubs, which I’m enjoying the heck out of. We learned that Joel kim Booster is a no breakfast guy. Joel tells GQ, I don’t eat my first meal until late in the afternoon. My body is incredibly used to it. At this point, I find the most effective way for me to eat what I want without necessarily tracking every macro and stuff like that, and still maintaining some of the ratio to body fat to muscle that I have.

Joel, do you have any go to snacks? He says. What I try to do is only have available stuff in the house that is reasonably good for you to some degree. I’m big on fried chicken skin as a low carb chip. Substitute fruit leather instead of candy, protein, ice cream, stuff like that.

So it tricks you into thinking you’re being bad, but in fact you’re actually being bad in a more contained way. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival continues. I pulled some clips. Takashi Jagasuki’s show is called Wabi Sabi Comedy. Now.

He’s got a show tomorrow at three thirty in the afternoon. So if you’re in Melbourne on a Sunday afternoon comedy, go see Takashi. As for the title Wabi Sabi Comedy, we learned that wabi sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty and imperfection in permanence and incompleteness. Waka believes the concept of wabi sabi is the great way to make people happy, and he thinks it might connect and adapt to his comedy. Here’s a clip just to make sure everybody gets the joke, plus or minus the accent or the references the material here is talking about.

In Milbourne they have in like a super awesome trolley system and you have to tap your card when you get on and you have to tap your card and when you get off. Okay, so he’s talking about tapping your fair card here. I’ll let him take it from here. I have a question, Melboum. Do you know Mikey Cobb like trans potation Melbourne?

Right? The question is do you top when you take Trump? Are you reasoning? Are you no use? Shoot?

Why? But so many people don’t rise? And I found there’s a ranking there Merrybourne and Trump happiness ranking. I found that so you don’t have to agree with me, but just please listen. So number one to number four.

So number four worst Merlbourne and Trump trip is when you didn’t tap your card and inspector came to check. That’s the worst because you have to pay the fine so expensive. You feel worse. That’s number four right. Next number three, number three is when you tapped your card and the inspector didn’t come to check.

It sounds normal. It sounds normal, but you may think, oh, I didn’t have to tap. That could have been free. I could have saved money for the coffee. You feel like you’re wasting money, feeling it’s not happy?

Number three right, And next number two, Number two is when you didn’t tap your card and inspector didn’t come to check. It’s just normal, luckly free tram right and you are happy. You are happy, but you have to get scared all the time in the tram. You have to check if inspector come or not from the window. Because half happiness and how anxious.

That’s why number two and then number one happiest Melbourne Trump trip is when you top the card and inspector came to check. It’s the happiest. Do you think because you feel the extra achievement ex distrugivement, and you proud yourself so much because you know you just made the best decision in your life, tapping card and then you are so confident. You are so confident, and inspector came ask you can I just get my key card and you said, well, yes, of. Course, yes you can check everything about me.

You are so cold because you top the car right, and I know you can add extra happiness and industuation, extra bonus happiness industuation. So you topped the car. Inspect that came. You’re so happy and confident, and then you saw someone have to pay the fine in the truck. That’s extra bonus happiness.

Do you think I like him a lot. He’s Takashi Waga Sugi. And that is your comedy news for today see tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Dan Soder, Pete Corelli, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Brewer, Byron Allen

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser Hulu special trailer and release date
• Nikki Glaser on Armchair Expert discussing beauty standards and aging in Hollywood
• Dan Soder’s first Netflix comedy special taping in June
• Pete Corelli interview about clean comedy and Sebastian Maniscalco podcast
• Pete Corelli releasing new stand-up special on Patreon
• Byron Allen CBS late-night time slots deal

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caalorokashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. We have a new trailer from Nikki Glaser. Nikki Special will be out on Hulu on April twenty fourth. In her special, Nikki Glaser delivers a brutally honest take on aging, beauty, and fame, confronting what it means to stay relevant, desirable, and real in a culture that never looks away.

Here’s the trailer. I think the material is actually better than the trailer. I think they edited the trailer too tightly. Let’s listen. Thank you for being here, every single person in here.

You mean so much money to me. I am cleaning up tonight. I’m forty one. My career is going great now, but I know eventually Hollywood is going to kick me out because I’m gonna do something horrible like age Naturally, that’s me too. For women, every single woman loves good Girl, and guys don’t want to say it because they’re like, it sounds like I’m her dad, and it’s like, exactly, okay, just be my dad.

Down on your nies. It’s not a good sign when you tell your therapist something and they go to madge. I have sympathy for ugly people. I see you, and I don’t want to perfect go well. I do wonder sometimes because of my thoughts.

I’m like, am I a sociopath?

And then Chatchipt is like, no, queen, you’re perfect, and I’m like, you’re m…

Nikki was on Armchair Expert. She says having the means to change your appearance can make it harder to opt out. She says, I’m kind of obsessed with this thing of like looking a certain way gets you stuff in life, and how it’s unfair if you’re not just born gorgeous. But then now there’s this whole thing that you can become gorgeous with enough money. Now I was going to editorialize, and I guess I am right now that boy, that sounds horrible, But Nikki Glaser continued, said, this sounds so horrible, and I would hate listening to this if I were not financially doing so well.

But there’s a burden that comes with the money that you could do whatever you want to look the way that you’re like, I’m feeling because I’m not doing the BBL and the facelift and the lasers. This does not read well. Let me pull the clip. I’ll be right back. We got to hear Nicky say this, because this does not read well.

Hold on, okay, I’m back. I’m sorry. I tried. So. Apple Podcasts has transcripts, but you can’t search the transcript.

And this episode is one hour fifty four minutes. I just skinned it, and I can’t find the quotes to let you hear Nikki say it herself, but I can tell you as I scrolled through the transcript, it looks like it’s a pretty interesting conversation, so I’m looking forward to actually listening to it. Jumping back in, and Nicki said it’s hard not to wonder what more she could achieve if she met those beauty standards more fully. Nikki Glaser said, if you were prettier, think of what you could get. Because I don’t think my career and my success is based solely on my talent.

It’s based on looking good on TV too. Nicki said it’s unrealistic to ignore how much looks matter in the industry, because it works the hotter you are, the more you don’t have to work. That is true. I keep talking about this in the podcasting industry as we all debate the video podcast and all. And you’re listening to me right now, and I appreciate that you like it.

But at the end of the day, even if I like trick out a set here, I’m still a fifty six year old man somewhere between Troll and George Clooney reading comedy headlines. It’s not that visually interesting. And right now I’m wearing a gray hoodie, and what kind of baseball cap am I wearing today? I gotta take the headphones off to tell you I’m wearing my Tigers hat that my daughter got me when she visited Detroit one time. You know, so, NICKI glazers a little easier on the eyes than I am, especially this morning.

I digress. Dan Soder will have his first Netflix comedy special. He will tape it June thirteenth the throck Morton Theater in San Francisco. It is SODA’s first full Netflix special. He did have a thirty minute set on The Stand Ups in twenty seventeen.

He has a few other specials released on other platforms, not special on Comedy Central. Son of a Gary on HBO, Dan Soda on the Road on YouTube, so this is his first one on Netflix. The Chronicle caught up with the Gator Pete Corielly. I knew Pete pretty well. He was the co host of Jim Brewer’s radio show back in the series XMDS.

Pete hates the nickname the Gator, but I’m sticking with it. Jim Brewer gave it to him because Pete’s got big teeth and you never know when he’s gonna bite you, which is just the best description of the Gator. Pete said, I’m clean in the sense that I don’t talk about any kind of filth sexually, nothing offensive like that. But I’m gonna adulto drop an F bomb here and there just because I’m an adult. So I’m clean in the way most people are clean.

But you know, I curse. What am I gonna stop? It’s like these comics that don’t curse on stage, well, they stay at home and they’re stubbing their toe. They just go ouch, get the bleep out of here. I love Pete.

Pete’s fun guy, but he is the Gator. He will buy you. Oh, I’ll tell you a story I heard from listener, Chris. Chris likes when I tell the story. So we’re out in Aspen and we were staying at the comedy condo, so staying together.

It’s Me Brewer and Corey Ellie. Now we all know Jim’s public persona back in the day as a Storner, which is accurate. It’s Pete also enjoys some stuff and Johnny Mac lives clean. And Pete asked me to hold for him for a little while and I was like, all right, you know, I’m a cool guy. I could do that for you.

And then He’s like, nah, I was just testing to see how cool you were. So that’s Pete. Love Pete. He talked about Sebastian Manascalgo. Pete opens for Sebastian often, especially last year on the arena tour.

Coreyell He said, Sebastian’s fame is so beyond the podcast. It’s like sometimes when we’re playing arenas and he posts about the podcast, most of his fans don’t even know he has one. It’s the exact opposite, whereas all of my fans are podcast fans. When we started, he wasn’t famous, but he was getting popular. So doing all with him obviously put eyes and ears on me, which helped me in a lot of ways, because I’m not so great at self promoting.

It’s like not my thing. But through the years and the fact that we kept doing it, which is like fantastic, the podcast has become so much more. It’s a way that we come up with bits from talking to each other, and it’s almost therapy. Affecting so many people in so many different ways. It’s kind of mind blowing.

Pete will soon, if he hasn’t already, released a new stand up special on his Patreon. He said, I’m gonna put it out there first for free for all the loyal listeners, and then I’m gonna work from there. But truth be told, I didn’t even shop. It’s all these streamers anymore. Everyone in the industry has been telling me very few people watch a full special anymore.

They watched the clips. So the specials coming out, but more importantly, the clips will start dropping like hot flies soon, the guy recently said to me, and I thought this really summed it up. Bottom line, you go see Pete Coreley do a stand up comedy show. You’re gonna laugh all night long, have a good time, and no one’s gonna be offended, Pete said. I was like, oh perfect, I’ll tell you people are really wigged about this.

Byron Allen deal at CBS sold the eleven thirty and twelve thirty time slots to Byron Allen for his uh what is it even called? I don’t even care. No one’s gonna watch it and no one can. CBS doesn’t care. Instead of losing money at eleven thirty, they’ll make some money.

They don’t have to worry about it. Byron Allen fills two hours a night. Byron Allen is a smart dude. He’s made a lot of money in TV. He owns the Weather Channel.

He figured out how to make money whatever that comedy thing is called. It doesn’t matter who watches it. He’ll turn a profit on it. CBS makes some money. It’s all good.

You don’t have to watch you can hate. Has TV gone to hell? Yes? Has CBS gone to hell? Yes?

A CBS News gone to hell? Yes? Is the country crazy? Yes? So don’t worry about it.

Star trek Ruiner, Stephen Colbert Show is ending. Watch Folin or Kimmel, or watch Letterman clips on YouTube. Just don’t worry about it. People, continue to be upset that Louis C.K. Is headlining the Netflix as a Joke Comedy Festival, and we’ll have a special on Netflix.

Eliza Skinner wrote a piece I will use her headline, which was famous dix or just a tip of the problem. Eliza writes, I don’t know what to tell you. Should I tell you about the headliner who told me my breasts were too hot to be funny before even set a word, Or about the host of a comedy club who told the audience he’d love to smell my area after I got off stage. Should I tell you about the accompaniess you followed me home twice? Or the comedy theater that refused to stop booking us together.

Because these things always seem to happen to you, Eliza, Should I mention I was the only woman there? Should I tell you about the friend who got shoved in a wall by her boyfriend backstage in front of a crowd of silent onlookers, Or the friend who was told she was too unbangable. I’m cleaning us up to get past industry speak for being promoted through the tears of the clubs. Should I start with the friend who went public with her domestic abuse story while her male peers muttered about it helping her career. Or the friend who has been the victim of years of targeted harassment for simply talking about being a lesbian too much in her act, Isa Skinner continues, I fear none of the stories matter because none of them have famous penises in them.

But they are all part of the same, and I definitely want you not to lend me your interest to the famous penises. Look past the famous penises, They’re just the tip of the iceberg. Pun Fully intended. Skipping ahead, she writes, I’m angry for the women we’ve lost and whose work will never see. I’m angry with myself for every time I listen when someone called another woman crazy or difficulty, even though I knew it was code first she didn’t do what someone wanted.

I’m angry about all the times I’ve been called difficult or crazy by men who later privately apologized while doing nothing to help repair my damage reputation. I’m angry about all the things I didn’t know happened. I’m angry I have to think about this and to fight about it, and all I want to do is make jokes. Louis C.K. Headlining the Hollywood Bowl is part of the Netflix as a Joke Comedy Festival.

May fifth, dn n’t dn’t dn’t dn dn’t dn’t dnt dn’t Comedy stock Market. Wait, John, what happened to the comedy stock market theme? Well, dear listener, that is a great question at this particular minute. Now, hopefully I have a backup on the computer somewhere, but in this session that I use all the time to record Daily Comedy News, the track labeled stock is blank. Now I could go find it and put it in, but that’s not fun.

This is much more fun, all right, every week on the Comedy stock Market. Here is how this works, and I really need to do the disclaimer up front so you understand how this works. Much like on the real stock market, we try to find value. We buy low and we sell high. Because I’m gonna have a controversial stock pick in a second.

Here, we buy low, we sell high, we buy low. The idea is to find the value. We are not saying that these people are good or bad, and we are definitely not saying these are the most honorable people that we’ve ever met. Have you figured out where we’re going here yet, but we’re just trying to find value. So I’ve got to sell and three buys for you.

My sell is Nikki Glaser. I think we’re at peak Nikki Glaser, and I just feel there’s a track record of the Hulu specials not being so awesome. Maybe there’s a little value to be found as Nikki starts doing a lot of press for these next two weeks. But I feel like we should sell our Niki Glazer. If you want to scoop some up and sell it in a couple of days.

I don’t think you’re crazy, but I think I’m gonna cash out on Nikki Glaser’s stock. And here are my buys. Do you want the awful one first? Or third? Should I just get it out of the way.

All right, let’s get it out out of the way. We are going to buy louisk now, stop throwing tomatoes at me. It’s the comedy stock market. We find value. We’re at the bottom of ck and Netflix has decided it’s okay to bring him back in the fold, and he’s going to play the theater and we’re going to get a lot of press about him, and there’s gonna be think pieces saying how awesome he is.

There’s gonna be some think pieces seeing how horrible he is, and this is when you scoop up the value. So we’ll buy some Louis c. K. Let’s also buy some Dan Soder now that he’s got a Netflix special. If you know Dan, you know he’s fantastic.

He’s been around for a while. But there’s just something about that Netflix brand of the they’re just bigger than the others. And they put somebody in front of everyone and then everyone’s like, hey, do you know this Dan Soder guy, and the rest of us are like, yeah, for twenty years, but welcome to the party. Bell. So let’s buy some Dan Soder, and let’s buy some Gator.

Let’s buy some Pete Corioli. I like what we’re hearing from Pete’s and hopefully his new special and his clips do well. And he’s got a Sebastian Maniscalco halo around him, all right, So we’re gonna sell Nikki Glaser, We’re gonna buy Dan Soder, We’re gonna buy Pete Corey Elly, and you can get mad, but we’re gonna buy some Louis C.K. Jenny Zigrino is going to be recording a live taping of after Birth, her solo show described as an unflinching, darkly funny exploration of what it means to be an old self and painfully messily bring a new one into the world after Loss. She’s recording at the Brooklyn Improv May thirteenth, two shows, seven and nine thirty PM.

Have you been watching Jury Duty? Two company retreats. I love Dury Duty. The second one just feels like bad episodes of the Office. I tried two three times.

I just can’t get into it. So one bonus episode is The Reunion, hosted by James Marsden. The other is called The Meeting, which features season one’s Ronald the Guy that didn’t Know It was a show, and season two’s Anthony, the Other Guy that didn’t know it was a show, meeting up in an LA coffee shop for candid conversation about their unique shared experience, which is what you have at a coffee shop in LA where there are just happen to be cameras and lighting. It’s totally natural as the only two people have lived through this social experiment. They exchange personal stories and perspectives on how the experience has impacted their lives.

This reminds me to mentioned l uk I did finish it. Didn’t love the ending, to be honest, you had a week. But I do really love that show. And I keep playing around in my mind with what l ol USA would be like, and I just you know, it’s gonna be like Bert Krascher, And you know if they had a film with today, it’d be all the cool kids. It’d be like Mark normand Nicky Glazer now she’s too cool to do it now, Robbie Hoffman.

Robbie Hoffman will be in there. Then you need to like Wayne Brady just to like randomly mix it up and sing some songs and get people to laugh on that. Someday they will make lol USA. There’s a new comedy club in New York City, the green Point Comedy Club. It’s opening weekend kicks off at eight pm with a live comedy show followed by an opening party.

Were promised some of the coolest comics in NYC. And that is your comedy news for today. Catch it tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Jeff Foxworthy, Jeff Foxworthy, Adam McKay, Robbie Hoffman, Jeffrey Curry, Matt Rife, Jacqueline Novak, Joel Kim Booster, Mark Marin, Kathy Griffin, Roy Wood Jr., Howard Stern

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix is a Joke Festival ticket sales concerns and split between high-performing and struggling comedians
• Sold-out shows at Netflix is a Joke Festival including John Mulaney, Matt Rife, and Jackie Novak
• Moontower Comedy Festival Austin April 7-18 featuring national and local comedians
• Howard Stern lawsuit by former assistant Leslie Kuhn over hostile work environment and firing

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. Deadline wrote about the Netflix is a Joke Festival, and the subheader Who’s selling and Who’s Struggling caught my eye. They point out were less than a month out now from the Netflix as a Joke Festival, which kicks off May fourth.

Deadline quotes one high level comedy insider as saying they’ve been underwhelmed and they don’t feel a lot of buzz yet from the public. Deadline Rights depicting the year is a quote story of the haves and the have nots unquote. They observed that the comedians who seem to be doing the best fall in one of two categories. First, you have white heart artists like The Flight of the Concords. That was one of the shows.

I was considering going out to see the shows I’m interested in at the festival, and I was willing to go as Civilian Day Tuesday, but then not till like Sunday. And you know, eight days in la is not cheap anyway, white hottersts like a flight of the Concords. We’re selling tickets like hotcakes.

And then you have those who are underplaying, who are selling out by jumping …

Any artist not falling into those two categories quote may have a steep hill to climb. The insider says, there’s still a significant number of tickets to be sold in some venues more so than others. There’s a lot of competition in the marketplace, a lot of shows people fighting over the same dollar in a tough economy. I don’t think gas prices are helping people to be able to afford tickets, and people are pulling back a little bit. I didn’t even think about the gas thing.

I mean part of my calculation. I already talk about the time. I don’t trust the airports right now. On any given day, you wake up and the airport’s are fine. You wake up five minutes LA and you’re like, oh yeah, there’s nineteen hour delays.

I mean, the world is so chaotic right now. It’s like, I’ll just stay home and my kid goes to school in California, so believe me, I’d love to go out there. And hang out. But so you know everything considered it it is not easy. Deadline tells us gaging ticket sales a month from showtime varies, but the insider says, but I’d probably feel the most comfortable if I had twenty percent of the house or less to still sell.

Oh, this is cool. I hadn’t read this ahead. One of the high achievers of the moment is friend of the Show Gianmarco Soresi. Siasi has sold out a pair of headlining shows as well as one of his theater adult shows at the Regent Theater. Good for him.

Gianmarco Soresi will also participate in a show called an Emergency Board Meeting Slumber Party alongside Adam McKay and Robbie Hoffman. Jeffer Curry has sold out a couple of headlining shows at the Palladium. Robbie Hoffman sold out too at Largo. Matt Rife sold out too in the main room of the Comedy Store. Jacqueline Novak has added a show May ninth of the Masonic Lodge after selling out her May fifth show.

Joelkomb boosters same thing, adding a May fourth Tubidour show after selling out May eighth at the Allegion. The sources called all that a subgenre of comedy that’s really high right now. They also say podcasts are doing well. So according to Deadline, some of the shows that are sold out. Let’s see Gianmarco Soresi, Jim Jeffries, Mark normand Riife, Eliza Slessinger and Bert and the Show, Jack CrowdWork Show, Natalie Palomides, That’s Cool, Rees Starby Joel Kimbooster, Jeffery Curry, Bamford, Jeff Hillar, Jackie Novak, Maximini, Nurse, John Morgan, Jay and some others there.

We’ll keep an eye on that festival. The Moontower Comedy Festival has kind of sort of kicked off. I’ll do more of my coverage next week. I was looking at the schedule and there’s scattered shows here and there this week, and then you know it’s officially kicked off, but it really doesn’t kick in until the fifteenth. First started fifteen years ago, the Moontower Festival.

I feel like it’s longer than that, because I haven’t been at serious now since when did I leave the beginning kind of of twenty fourteen? Was it? And it’s twelve year all right? Maybe maybe maybe my fifteen years ago fits in that window. First started fifteen years ago, the Moontower Festival has grown into one of the biggest comedy events in the country, spanning a dozen venues and running from April seventh through the eighteenth.

This year features nationally known acts like Mark Marin, Kathy Griffin, and Roy Wood Junior. I keep forgetting Roy I’ve been all into the Artemis mission and I was watching the launch and like, for some reason they went to celebrities, which was straight out of the serious XM playbook, Oh my goodness, anything we ever did there? They’re like, can we ad a celebrity to it? So I’m sitting there and it’s like, all right, the astronauts are on the pad or about to launch, and let’s check in with Roywood Junior. And I’m like, oh, big boss in the corner would have loved that nonsense.

And I’m like, can we just not? I love you Roywood Junior, but I don’t care what you have to say about Artemis. What are we doing? Moon Tower also makes an effort to highlight non traditional acts and Austin comedians like Angelina Martin, who says, I’m super excited. I love moon Tower so much.

It’s always been such a huge part of the Austin comedy scene in the national comedy scene in general. Martin runs several shows around Austin, and one of them, called Slide in the DMS, was added to this year’s lineup. She explains her show, comedians and local celebrities share strange messages they’ve sent to receive, then a cast of improvisers build a scene based on the messages. That’s fun, Martin says. It’s not all really dirty stuff.

Sometimes it’s weird in a different way. One time we had a guy who had set the comedian messages that we were showing on screen. He was in the audience that he stood up and took credit for his weird messages. Love it my former co worker Howard Stern In the news, Howard and Beth Stern’s former personal assistant, Leslie Kuhn, has alleged that she was fired by Howard and Beth Stern and experienced a quote hostile work environment. Now, if you were a younger radio personality, fair being fair, you would go in after Howard after this, because forty year old Howard would have gone after you.

Asked John de Bella, the Philadelphia zookeeper, how that goes. So I’m curious. I don’t know if there are any radio personalities left or who would go after Howard, but boy, there was a time, like if Opie and Anthony were still around, there was a time. Leslie Kuhn says the Stearns presented her with confidentiality and non disclosure agreements before and at the time of her firing. Her attorney claims those are fraudulent and unenforceable.

In the complaint, Kuhn says that the Stearns requested the she moved to Southampton to work at their mansion. According to court documents obtained by Peoplehole magazine, Kuhn claims she was first hired as an office manager for the Howard Stern Show in September of twenty twenty two. Less than two years later, she claims she became Howard’s executive assistant. Then, in May twenty twenty four, she alleges the couple requested that she moved to Southampton to work at their mansion. Kuhn alleges she was instructed by Beth Stern, who’s fifty three, and Howard Stern, who’s seventy two, that Kuhn would offer Beth quote assistance with such things as managing the staff of the mansion, setting staffing schedules, completing staff payroll, and managing general household operations, including Beth’s extensive at home feline rescue and fostering operations.

That all, according to the complaint viewed by people, were then told. In December of twenty twenty five, Kuhn claims that she received a letter from Howard’s production company one twelve, thanking her for her work, confirming she would receive a monetary bonus, and informing her that she would receive a raise in twenty twenty six. More back and forth there. As you can imagine, the tabloids will have fun with this page six as the headline Howard Stern’s bizarre rules for staff revealed in wrongful termination lawsuit. According to the page six, the non disclosure would have banned Koon from disclosing the Stern family’s daily activities and personal habits, even down to their food preferences, sleeping habits, and hobbies.

She would also be barred from discussing their use of consumer products, choice of restaurants, hotels, or other establishments, entertainment preferences, political affiliations, and quote any other matters affecting or relating to the company and its business, and the personal and business affairs of the company page six as. Other off limits subjects include the location or contents of residences and other properties, as well as their travel arrangements. I imagine we’ll hear more about that. Hacks is back today. Gene Smart revealed she was shocked when she learned how Hacks ends.

It is the fifth and final season premiering on HBO. You may recall, at the end of last season, gave up her late night talk show to stand with her head writer and friend Ava Daniels. Geene Smart said, I don’t remember ever picturing or even imagining an ending. I knew there was gonna be pretty much five seasons from the beginning, but I didn’t ask. I was like, I’ll be surprised when I did find out.

At first, I was shocked and unsure about how I felt. It was not remotely anything I could have imagined. But then I realized, now it don’t work out because they’re writing it and they’re amazing, and so I went okay. Lrae Newman’s daughter Hannah Einbinder, spoke of her character Ava and said, I feel like Ava is so committed to realizing Debra’s dream into contributing to all of the various things that she wants to accomplish, whether it’s the first Dan Up Special or the late Night show or the Madison Square Garden. But I do think that through all their trials and tribulations, they share this legacy and it’s a really beautiful collaboration that I feel like they both get to own.

Lrae Newman’s daughter, Hannah Einminder, also is annoyed people who use ai Anna apparently said the people who make this stuff for losers. They’re not artists, they’re not creative, and they’ve wanted their whole lives to be special and they’re not special. They’re trying to rob real creative people of our gifts and you can’t. And even if you’ve tr you will never be cool. You guys suck.

No one likes you, anyone who’s near you is because they crave power and access over any ethical standard. You are a loser. You will never be cool, and you probably had a roly backpack in high school. I want to put your head in the toilet and flush. And an Einbinder is the daughter of Lorae Newman at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Go see Henry yen Henry Show’s mama wants a girlfriend for me. Now, I want you to play along. As you listen to this clip, imagine Mitch Hedburg doing this material. So as you listen to Henry do this funny material, imagine Hebburg doing it. And it’s very easy to imagine.

But I like Henry. Here is Henry yennepy. This is going on TV. I love you, Mama and Papa. Any shoutouts man fair enough the biggest gig of my life.

I thought I’d start off by mucking around. I’m almost a pretty big deal. I’ve got a comedian nickname. People call me the Library because I’ll make it silent. I also feel like moving around.

See if I’m bitter over here. I’m also a bit of a gangster. But it’s hard sometimes because you know, if I’m trying to like hustle someone on the street, Like if I go up to you and I’m like, oh, give me your money, most people are just like, oh, what organization are you with? My name on the street is UNI see, but you know what my name in the sheetsays? The library.

He’s Henry Yann.

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Now let’s check out Jenny Tian when Life Gives You Oranges.

I think she’s really good. Listen to this. Wow, you guys are such a lovely audience. You are. I have to say this because like, not all audiences are this kind.

Like I did a show once and someone came up to me afterward and they went, you know, your English is actually quite good. And see, I just found this so condescending because it was my mum. Full on. I’m currently at this stage I’m twenty nine, where I’m realizing that my parents were people before they were parents. Like I asked my mum what she did before having me, and no, lie, she said, she used to be the hedge doctor for Chairman Mao.

And if you don’t know who that is, that is the ex dictator of China. That’s insane. That’s like finding out your parent does it for Vladimir Putin.

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And now when I look back on my childhood, it makes so much sense because she …

And I’m not saying that she’s censored me or anything, but I will say my mom is the best mom. She is. That’s a praying mother. Oh, I just blacked out there. But get this in our living room.

She’s even got this giant picture of just herself, a reminder that big mother is watching. And I got to warn my friends about this. Every time they come over. I’m like, look careful, when you walk in, you’re gonna see a giant picture of my mum on the wall. Even with that warning, they see the picture and they go ooh, And I have to say, I know, it’s terrifying.

I told her to keepe her top on. She’s Jenny Tann. At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Scott Ackerman announced his long running podcast, Comedy Bang Bang, will be touring. It’s the ground Beefing Tour. Now.

I will tell you of all the comedy shows I went to back in the day, going to festivals, hanging around with one of our hosts, Mark says Hi, Mark and I went to a lot of shows. The only show we ever walked out of ever was Scott Ackerman. We were sitting there and we were waiting for each other to say it, and Mark finally looked at me and said, should we go? That’s how bad the show was the only one we ever walked out of. But if you want to go see Scott Ackerman, he’s touring.

He’ll be joined by Paul F. Tompkins, which is cool. The tour kicks off May twenty fifth in Toronto and wraps up in Portland, Maine, on June twenty ninth. Comedy Bang Bang, Scott Ackerman, If that’s something you want to do, and that is today’s Daily Comedy News, I’ll catch you tomorrow.

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Featured: Louis C.K., Patton Oswalt, Stephen Colbert, Byron Allen, Chloe Fineman, Leslie Jones, Eric Duggan

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. Netflix special and comedy festival booking
• Patton Oswalt new special ‘Ruining Star Trek and Scotch’
• Stephen Colbert Late Show ending, CBS late-night transition
• Chloe Fineman camp counselor story controversy on SNL
• Leslie Jones interview on traditional wife lifestyle

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily Briefing on stand up comedy comedians, on the comedy industry. A sentence the Algorithm loves Margaret Joe posted Louis C.K. Should have just had an OnlyFans so people could just pay to watch him, you know, do ck stuff instead of subjecting female comics to it. Missed financial opportunity.

Eric Duggans on Substack ask the question does Louis C.K.’s new Netflix special and high profile concert appearance signal Hollywood has turned its back on the me too movement it once championed. Case you missed the headline, Netflix has invited Louis C.K. To headline a show at the Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival. Louis will also have a special on Netflix later this year. Eric Duggans rights.

Some people have suggested that it’s difficult to know how to handle someone like Louis C.K. Who was still relatively young and capable of creating a lot more projects. He’s been away from most mainstream metricy it for years, They might say, isn’t that enough? Eric writes, For me, it’s much less about how long they’ve been gone than what they’ve done to earn their way back into mainstream show business. Besides proving how much money they can make someone Eric, I will tell you right now, that’s always the answer, like always welcome to show business, Eric Wrights.

Has c K fully admitted how he’s harassed women in the past. Did he apologize directly and publicly to them? Has he helped any of the women who spoke honestly about what he did and saw their careers atomized afterwards. Hollywood prefers to avoid the kinds of admissions which can bring lawsuits and morals classes. Instead, the big business of entertainment would much prefer situation where store stays underground until the social blowback has passed, emerging with a tale of redemption and renewal just in time to sell tickets, streams, memberships, and more.

Already, Luis c K has won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in twenty twenty two, and it’s a sure bet will be a contender when these new Netflix special gets released as an album. By turning up blind eye to all the rumors about him, all these gatekeepers created a situation where women harassed by him speak out publicly and loudly, just to force the industry to handle it. The too Much TV substack ads as if there were ever a booking that was more on brand for Netflix, it’s headlining a guy who is admitted to doing stuff in front of female employees and co workers, because, as he put it in recent performances, when you’re really good at something, you want to show it off. They write, it’s just the latest example of Netflix’s decision that it’s nearly impossible for comic to be so unpleasant, so racist, so misogynistic that it might cost them a shot on a worldwide streaming platform. Star Trek Ruiner Patton Oswalt has announced a new special.

It is called Ruining Star Trek t and Scotch. It will be ru on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla’s YouTube channel eight pm Eastern Time, Tuesday, June ninth. T and Scotch offers new takes from Patton Oswalt on parenting, living with a caatecies, ghosts, yard cleaning videos, artificial intelligence, and more. Patton Oswalt is tall deadline. I’ve never felt more overwhelmed, terrified, and desperate, so of course my material is the funniest it’s ever been, we’re reminded that Patton Oswalt is an Emmy and Grammy Award winning comedian, actor, writer, and producer.

Oswald has been working as a stand up since the late eighties and the decades since. He’s released ten specials and helped to ruin Star Trek by playing Doug the Vulcan. Patton Oswalt will soon be starring alongside Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller in Apple’s pick aball comedy The Dink, which comes out July twenty fourth.

Speaking of Star Trek ruiner, Stephen Colbert’s show is coming to an end.

Stephen Colbert helped ruin Star Trek by voicing the computer on that horrible, horrible Starfleet Academy show. We now know what CBS will do with the eleven thirty five PM slot. They’re not even going to run one single rerun of Colbert. Colbert ends on Thursday May twenty first. That very next night, Friday May twenty second, at eleven thirty five PM, if you put on CBS, you will see Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed, the comedy panel show Byron Allen created in two thousand and six.

It will move from twelve thirty seven AM on CBS to eleven thirty five. So What’s gonna air? Twelve thirty seven? Another program from Alan Media, this one called Funny You Should Ask. I had to look this up.

It’s got a five point two rating on IMDb. That’s out of ten, and you can watch it for free on two B. Well, it’s twelve thirty seven Funny you Should Ask, Future’s former extra correspondent John Kelly hosting a comedy game show that features a panel of comedians interacting with two contestants who have a chance to win cash if they can read between the lines of the comics jokes. For example, you could have watched season nine, episode forty eight, which aired February twenty seven, twenty twenty six, that starred Jamie Kennedy, Cheryl Underwood, Adam Carolla, Byron Allen, Natasha Lazio, and Jimmy Walker. Cheap to produce?

Yeah, why not? I don’t know. I just find it all also disappointing. You know, I’m a broadcasting guy. I grew up in radio.

I caught the last five minutes of the Golden Age of radio. I worked with people who worked in radio during World War Two, So like I appreciate all this stuff, and it’s just like, yeah, whatever, let’s just run Byron Allen Crab who cares. I mean, it’s even more disappointing than if they had totally punted and we’re like, yeah, let’s just run CSI reruns, like at least. I don’t know. I just this doesn’t sit well with me.

I’m just old. Chloe Fyneman started talking about a job she had once been fired from. As I understand things, Chloe Fyneman said, when she was sixteen, she was working as a camp counselor. She was fired after pulling down the pants of a young camper during a hike. She explained the child had repeatedly lifted her shirt as a prank.

She decided to retaliate. I’m told. As she told the story, her castmates, which included mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padia, Jane Wickline, and James Austin Johnson, appeared visibly uncomfortable. Chloe said the child was around six years old and admitted the situation escalated what have became obvious he wasn’t wearing underwear. The criticism comes from many viewers arguing the anecdote was presented too casually for something involving a child and a humiliating public incident.

So after I recorded that section you just heard, I found the clip and I have learned that Vanity Fair has pulled the clip down. But let’s listen to the clip that I just explained to you. I think it’ll give you a lot more context. And because this is an audio podcast, what you won’t see are the faces of her cast mates. And the faces are real bad.

Everybody’s face is like, what are you doing? Stop talking? It’s really bad. But here, let’s listen to Chloe Finneman. No.

I was fired as a camp counselor for hitting on the camp is no pants a boy? Oh honey, I think you’re on a list. And he wasn’t wearing underpants.

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And then a giant school bus drove by and they were like, you can’t because he…

And it was Berkeley. How old was the child? He was like six? No, it was a different time. Like he would he would be like, hey, can I hug And I’d go to hug him and he like lift my shirt like a dick.

And then I was like I’m going to get back at you. And so we were on a hike and I was like, hey, Ollie. Go look over there. It’s a hawk. He looked, and then I yanked his pants down.

He wasn’t wearing underwear. His little dingling was out.

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And then these two twins were like, oh, I didn’t really you didn’t wear wear,…

Jones made some headlines after appearing on z Way’s podcast. Ze Way asked Leslie Jones if Leslie could ever embrace the traditional wife lifestyle. Leslie Jones said, absolutely not, because that’s not who the f I am. And my dad he didn’t raise me like that. My dad used to literally say that to me.

I didn’t raise you to be somebody’s wife. Jones continued, saying, most of the people that I know have gotten married or divorced. Now I think marriage is legalized slavery. Ze Way asked for more about that. Jones said, especially if he’s expecting you to be a tradwife, it might as well pull out a whip and chain.

I don’t think it’s beneficial for a woman at all. Don’t get married. I thought this week’s snl USA was terrible, Like really really bad. I didn’t even make it through a update. The UK one was way better, Peacock finally posting the episodes in a normal hour.

I watched both episode three and episode two on Sunday night. There’s a lot of good sketches in there. If you watch the show, you know the way one would watch SNL with the full rhythm of cold open, credit monologue, pre recorded sketch. You know how SNL goes. Yeah, I think the week spot on SNL UK is actually the news, but it’s only been three weeks.

My tip there to the two newscasters pick up the pace a little. I was playing a bunch of video games and catching up on my podcasting What were you playing, John, We’re curious. Let’s say I was playing MLB the show. I played a bunch of games of NHL twenty six, mostly those two, and I was listening to Joe Rogan’s interview with Theovon. As I’ve said on the podcast before, and I will say again, I like Joe Rogan’s podcast because I’m a smart person.

I understand what Joe Rogan’s podcast is. It’s just a conversation. I don’t think it’s an education at all, and I also like that volume wise, it’s usually pretty even. There’s not much yelling on the Joe Rogan Experience, which I like. I don’t like these podcasts that are all over the place volume wise.

But one takeaway I really had from listening to that episode Joe Rogan’s not smart. And you know who’s even less smart than Joe Rogan? Theovon. I mean, I just listened to this thing, and I’m like, is this a real conversation? I think part of it is Rogan does zero prep.

At one point I was listening and he was like, how many astronauts are going around the moon? Ten? Ten? Joe? Did you really think ten astronauts are going around the moon?

But theovon he listened to theo Von, this is just like whoa. THEO got a lot of backlash for his appearance on Rogan’s podcast. He jumped on social media and said it was very hard for me to be angry and talk at the same time. Some people were upset by comments made by theovon, which I’ll clean up here. THEO sat approximately, I’m sick of rich people not putting their fing kids over in these wards.

Put your and he used a pejorative for white people kids up there. Let them go shed some effing blood. That got some backlash. THEO went on Twitter and wrote, I mean the elites and the politicians that are leading us into these wars might make different choices if it was their children. I’m thankful to our troops who serve and are far braver than me.

Also, wtf do I know? In a separate post, he wrote, I was angry and kind of scared. I wouldn’t even have the freedom of speech if all types of people braver than me hadn’t sacrificed for it. Fassi fun in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby, Gossip Conna, where the meeting with Johnny. It’s as a tree.

We haven’t been on gossip Corner in a while, but here we are. And yes, Gossip Corner is about Pete Davidson, who has put his North Salem, New York property on the market, reportedly for two point two seven million dollars, according to Mansion Global. He purchased the four bedroom, three bathroom home, located about ninety minutes from New York City, in twenty twenty three for one point nine to five million dollars. It’s on six acres of property. I’m from Queen’s.

I don’t know how much that is. Is that big sounds big? Ay? He tells me. An acre visually is about seventy five to nine percent of an American football field.

All right, so Pete’s got say five football fields worth of property up there. Pete had previously said about the property, it’s literally like living in paradise. The thing I hated about living in the city all the time was I’d wake up to so much noise, whether it be garbage being picked up, or people fighting, or your neighbors or whatever’s going on the street. In North Salem. I would wake up naturally and I wouldn’t feel a thing.

It was the most special feeling. Pete added a guesthouse, movie room, pool, hot tub, cold plunge tool, sauna, and screened in porches to the property. He has also sold his condo in Saint George Staten Island. Pete Davidson is renting a Brooklyn brownstone. He also co owns a ferry.

While on Gossip Corner, Chris Rock spotted doing some PDA. That’s right. The paparazzi were out and they saw a sixty one year old Chris Rock a photographed with a woman identified as Simone. In photos, Chris Rock and Simone were walking side by side for a daytime stroll. They even stopped to share a kiss while sitting on a park bench.

Kevin kellem as a special out. You may know Kevin if you’re out of Chicago, he’s there on Q one oh one. In his new special, Kevin pours his heart into mutually shared anxieties, being the Black Sheep and what it’s like to experience heartbreak when you’re lying on the air. Filmed during the Windy City Comedy Festival at Lincoln Hall. You’ll find Kevin callems special on YouTube and band camp.

Let’s chick in. On the Melbourne Comedy Festival, The Scoop went to see Hannah Gatsby’s show The Evening Muse. Described as a talk show wrapped in a comedy show wrapped in an existential crisis. Hannah’s show got four and a half stars out of five. The Scoop says Gatsby’s performance is chaotic and self aware, blending razor ridge wit with disarming vulnerability.

We’re told few comics mind discomfort, intellect and absurdity, so masterfully The Merlin Theater at Melbourne’s Waalds House Theater complex is lovingly decked out with an aesthetic similar to the Tonight Show. Comfy couches a desk for the host, complete with an Emmy an old school applau sign. The first half of the evening takes the form of a stand up show. Gatsby refers to that as the bulk Chat. The second half morphs into a talk show meets quiz show.

Hannah Gatsby brings fellow comedians, in this case Abby Howl’s and Emma Holland onto the stage. I believe the guests change every night to your stories and tackle trivial pursuit questions. The Scoop says what follows is delightful pandemonium, utterly unpredictable and wildly whimsical. And The Guardian collected stories from performers at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Rich Hall told one you may remember Rich Hall if you’re ancient like me.

Rich Hall was on Saturday Night Live. Remember that guy? Remember sniglets. If you’re old, you do. If you’re young, you’re like, what are you talking about?

Yeah? Rich Hall doesn’t make the anniversary specials rich told The Guardian. I was part of the great debate a town hall. The topic was money is the root of all evil. At some point I invoked the biblical metaphor from Matthew quote it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man enter heaven.

On paper looks dicey, but I figured we should at least give the camel a stab at it. I love this. The director, who never met a comic challenge he didn’t like, made a few calls and secured a camel. They coasted it into the town hall. The camel pronated, I climbed on his back.

The camel stood up. I think my head touched the roof. Someone held a needle in front of the camel’s nose. Rich Hall said something like gideup. The camel did not pass through the eye of a needle.

Rich Paul says it looked a little ticked off, to be honest. Turns out Matthew was pretty accurate on this one. And that is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. We’re down to three.

Who will be the comedy Survivor? Will it be Nikki Glaser, John Mulaney or Sarah Silverman. It’s up to you. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There you’ll find a picture of me and last week’s eliminated comedian.

Yes I phrased that correctly, Sebastian Manascalgo in that thread, you write down a name, You vote somebody off The Island. Comedy survivor Daily Comedy News Podcast group meets you back here in the morning.

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Featured: Judy Reyes, Bill Lawrence

What’s in This Episode

• Scrubs Season 10 Episode 7 ‘My Best Friend’s Barbecue’ recap and review
• Carla’s character importance to Scrubs ensemble dynamic
• JD and Carla friendship dynamics in the revival
• Scrubs Season 10 viewership numbers and renewal status
• Elliott character arc struggles in the new series
• Turk mentoring younger interns on delivering bad news

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Caloroga Shark Media. Scrubs, Season ten, episode seven, My Best Friend’s Barbecue. Original air date April first, at twenty twenty six. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac. I loved this episode.

No sorry, the recap is out a little late. With the Easter weekend and the family was over. We didn’t get to this until Sunday night, and on Monday we play Comedy Survivor, so I don’t want to put out three episodes in one day. So here you go. Season ten, episode seven, My Best Friend’s Barbecue.

While JD is upset not to be invited to Turk and Carla’s annual barbecue, JD takes the opportunity to nurture whose friendship with Carla.

Meanwhile, Turk teaches the surgical interns how to deliver bad news.

This one gave me all the feels. With one asterisk, You’ve got great JD and Churk. We really see how important to the dynamic the Carla character is. Judy rays to the ensemble. Hopefully this show gets picked up.

We’ll talk about that and she’ll be in hopefully all the episodes of season two. But boy, when she’s back, you realize what a huge part of the ensemble. She is. Let’s deep dive on the plot a little bit. JD is talking about doctor face and how sometimes you have to give bad news to patients.

That’s one of the themes of the episode. He explains how his doctor face has gotten better over the years and nothing can rattle him until he learns he’s not invited to Turk’s barbecue. Apparently he’s been going to Turk’s barbecue every year. This year, he’s not invited. JD asks why, and Churk tells him that Carla wants to invite Elliott and Elliott’s new boyfriend, Captain Wes over this year.

JD asks best friend Turk to fight for him. Churk says he’s not strong enough because Carla is going through menopause. One of the themes throughout the episode is how warm Carla is and how she’s always trying to cool off. I can’t tell you why I found that really really funny. Let’s just leave it there.

Move on, John, that’s right, Elliott tells Carla. She and Wes are excited about the barbecue. He’s bringing something called Pilot’s Booty. West explains that’s first class warmnuts mixed with coach pretzels. Carla gets at a quick jokes that says you can just bring ice, which cracked me up.

My wife missed the joke and I was like, that was really good. Now we have a subplot with a patient who is drinking a lot of ranch dressing that really goes nowhere. The other plot is Turk telling Deshauna she has to tell the Garcia family that their loved one has passed away. She says, I’m not good at this, and Turk says, and this is one of the clutch moments of the episode. You’re just like me.

And we see a couple of times Turk reflecting about his cocky younger self and that is something I do all the time, but for years been self aware that boy, you were a punk ass kid in your twenties when you first got in a radio and over years, although I knew it at the time, when is it serious? I could be an a hole. I used to say to my office mate, I hate this person who sits here with you every day. The series brought out the worst in me, so I was relating to everything Turk was giving. Here.

The younger cast, they all have their various adventures, all the little subplots are fine, but I want to stick with the senior cast. Carla gets mad she finds out that JD has cut back her patient load. Turk goes to see Carla, asks how she’s doing. Carla says, your wife is dead and some agent incompetent witch has taken her place. The job was always hard, but it was fun.

Now it’s just hard. I can’t keep up. Turk says, finally, You’ve always been smarter than me and stronger than me, but you always at my back. Now I get to be there for you. JD pops up out of nowhere and says you two will always have each other, but I might die alone.

Carla says, you’re still not coming to the barbecue. This all wraps up at the end. Carla’s telling JD. If I keep inviting into things so you can be comfortable, you’re never going to grow. She says, I can read your doctor’s face.

You’re scared, and if I keep caddling you, you’ll never be able to move on from Eliot, and we get some reflection back to the days of when he was bamby. She mentions, I was here on your first day and it just really really is awesome. So we’ll take the break here, we’ll come back, we’ll talk a little more Scrubs. The episode got a three point zero four million viewers, which sounds like a lot for a modern television but in the time slot it finished third. Chicago Med won the half hour Survivor was second.

However, in the eighteen to forty nine demo, which is where the money is, Chicago Med drops down and it was Survivor then Scrubs. I do think at three million viewers they will renew this thing. I’m kind of surprised they haven’t yet. I thought it was the best episode of new Scrubs yet, very funny, very touching. The character beats were all on point except one.

The newer characters are all fine, Like when they come on, they’re just fine. You’re not like, oh I get rid of these people. They’re fine. I do think the show doesn’t know what to do with Elliott. The Scrubs has always been focused on JD except for the d Ken and I season nine, but the Elliott character seems like she’s just kind of out there on her own show.

You know, she’s got the boyfriend now, but as one of the big three they’re gonna have to figure out how Elliott fits into all of this. I don’t think her arc is working yet. We see what I mentioned this in the beginning, what an important player Judy rays as Carla is, and again the nice emotional callbacks to when JD was Bambi. And as I was watching it after the episode, because I’m a big sap, I said to my wife, how weird is it that twenty five years have gone by and here we are back to an empty house because the kids are home for the weekend, and then they left, we put on Scrubs. Here we are twenty five years later, it’s just the two of us again, and we’re watching the same show.

Screen Ran wrote, There’s never been any doubt in Scrubs that Carla is a badass nurse, and no one knows it more than she does. However, in season ten we see here slowly losing that confidence. It becomes clear in Scrub season ten, episode seven that Carla still struggles with one of the same challenges as in the original series. She wants to be everyone else’s rock, but isn’t quite willing to accept help herself, just as JD learned to look to Carla for help back in the day. Carla learns in this Scrubs episode that it’s okay to let Bambi help her out.

While JD looked to doctor Cox as a Carlo was his true guiding force in the hospital. Over the years, the relationship shifted, and both JD and Carla found they could be themselves around each other in ways they couldn’t even with Turk or Elliot. It’s relief that the Scrub’s revival has recaptured this dynamic after all these years, and it’s especially impressive since Judy Rays isn’t a primary cast member on the new series. Scrub Season ten, episode seven, my favorite of the new season. If you are enjoying this, stay the heck off Scrubs read it.

Some maniac posted something in the headline I’m not even gonna dance with the Devil. I’m just gonna tell you. I saw a headline. I was like, come on, dude, there was no reason to put that in the headline. We have a word.

It’s called spoiler. What are you doing? So? We have two episodes left in season ten and again, ABC, what are we doing here? Let me do one last quick here?

Maybe they picked it up as I’m recording. Quick Google of Scrubs Nope, not yet has a record this on Monday morning. I need more of this. It’s really good and it’s just it’s hitting a warm spot in my life than nostals are point. I feel like these people are from and their characters and their back and if they can get another season and work some more people into the ensemble, we’re back into the ensemble.

I think it’d be great and the new characters are fine, and boy, please keep this thing going. I like Scrubs. See you in the morning.

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Featured: Louis C.K., Shang Wang, Rommie Yosef, Joe Rogan, Theo Von

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. announced for Netflix special ‘Ridiculous’ and Jest Fest headlining
• Jezebel critique of Louis C.K.’s return and cancel culture narrative
• Shang Wang Netflix special ‘Herpol’ directed by Ali Wong
• Rommie Yosef HBO special ‘In Love’ on April 17th directed by Chris Storer
• Joe Rogan and Theo Von discuss Trump administration’s Iran war on podcast

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Caloroga Shark Media. From the Lake House him Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. That’s right, I’ve left the basement as we begin to get into warm weather mode. This is the first time I’m recording in my new space, so I have to get used to the audio. It’s a bigger room.

It’s not my little bit corner of the basement, so my voice is echoing. I’ll have to learn how to modulate my voice in this setup, and we’ll see if the audio sounds any different. You don’t care about any of that.

Let’s talk about Louis C.K.

Jezebel Rights. Everybody crying about cancel culture for the last decade can shut up, because apparently the diagnosis does not take that long to wear off, as evidence by well, pick any crappy man of the last decade. They are, of course, commenting on the announcement that Louis C.K. Will headline a show at the Netflix as a Joke Festival, and we’ll have a special on Netflix titled Ridiculous Jezebel Rights. This mark CK’s first major streaming deal since his quote unquote cancelation aka when he got fired for being a creep.

They re litigate that part of CK’s biography. I went over that on Friday. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s all water under the bridge. Let’s get this creep back up on the homepage. Great idea of Netflix.

A more fitting career trajectory for Ck would have been banishment to the depths of the podcast only men listen to either that or a lifetime residency at the Rion Comedy Festival. Just begune. He played the comedy festival, so he’s not gonna be mad at you for saying that, Jezebel writes. More importantly, can men stop acting like women are out here ruining careers by coming forward with their stories of sexual misconduct? The narrative is tired.

Unfortunately it has never been the case. There’s literally a rapist in the White House. So let’s collectively agree to stop pretending cancel culture was or is real in any meaningful, permanent way. Because if I recall, it only took about a year after c K’s cancelation for him to be back on stage, receiving standing ovations and joking about how he lost thirty five million dollars in an hour. Thing out today on Netflix, Shang Wing, I like Shang a lotta.

I’ve got a trailer for you in a second, and it reminds me of how much Shang reminds me of Mitch Hitburg. I’m feeling pretty good. I’ve been trying to eat more berries. I’m real passionate about those antioxidants. It’s weird.

I don’t even know what oxidants are. I just know that I’m against them. It seems like whenever you eat something that’s yummy, there’s some oxidants trying to bring you down. Right. So after I eat like a steak and some martinis, I call on my berries.

I send in the antioxidants. I’m like, hey, man, go handle that make it look like an accident. Sometimes I eat the berries before the dinner. I lay a trap. Directed by Ali Wong, the new special Herpole delves into what it means to be a grown up.

Sheng Wang explorers ordinary life moments, sharing prize berriers with your friend’s kids, cooking with shallotts, and braving the ghosts in your house. Herpol was filmed at the Warner Theater in Washington, d C. Great venue there We also have a trailer for Rammy Usef’s special that’ll be out on HBO on the seventeenth. This trailer is fantastic. I did edit out a chunk that’s a little too naughty for what I want to do on this particular program, but this is a strong trailer.

Rommy Usef is back in his third HBO comedy specially, he’s the most famous comedian to not do the Saudi Comedy Festival. I didn’t do that because I wasn’t invited. My wife, whole family’s in Saudi. I go there anyway. I’m the only guy in Hollywood that loses money going to Saudi Arabia.

He’s got the solution to AI. You ever see what’s happening on grap any picture of any woman they’re turning it into. I mean I thought of. One defense, you know. I mean, really, the only thing that could help would be if all women kind of were just all black, but only through the eyes.

For years, I’ve been going, why do they make them wear that?

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And now it’s become clear.

I mean this was a prophecy. I mean, you know, sell them. I will never let them rock you. And He’s got thoughts on being a man. Any guy I know who should be married is married.

Any guy I know who’s singles should be who single? These guys are crazy, the single guys. None of them got a job, phone, always dead, one hoodie. It’s hard being a guy. And that’s what we’re talking about tonight, Fellas.

Yeah, this one is for the boys. Bro Rammy Yusef in Love. Rommi Yusef in Love, HBO, April seventeenth, Filmed at The Hideout in Chicago, directed by Chris Storer. Now you may not recognize the name, but he is the creator of the Bear. Robmi Usef playfully engages with the audience as he approaches a vast spectrum of personal topics, both hilariously relatable and genuinely serious, all while doing so with the belief that he can find light and hope in all things if you just try to see them through a lens of love.

Whether it’s his marriage, being a dog parent, AI, or religion, Robmi comes at everything with his own brand of heart and humor. HBO Executive vice president of Late Night and Specials Programming, Nina Rosenstein, in a statement, said Rommy’s third HBO special feels like a homecoming for him and for us. He has this rare ability to make a room feel like it’s just you and him, and then use that closeness to say something that catches you completely off guard. Filming inside a small Prohibition era bar in Chicago only deepens that intimacy. It has a lived in, timeless quality to it, and the result is a special that feels completely and unmistakably romy.

Joe Rogan experience making some news he had on guest Theovon, I try not to get too political on this program, so I will read you verbatim what they wrote in The Independent. Quoting The Independent, they write, quote influential podcasters Joe Rogan and Theovon, both of whom supported President Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election, have expressed their dismay at the war in Iran. Theovon sat down with Rogan the day after the President delivered that twenty minute televised national address. Remember that one? Did you watch that one?

Theovon asked Rogan, what do you think is going to happen? You think we’re going to be okay? Joe Rogan said, I hope, so, of course, I don’t know. I’m confused. I can’t believe we went to this war and we started bombing Iran.

I was like, this can’t be true. Theovann jumped in and said, what about Lebanon. Joe Rogan said, well, they’re supposedly trying to stop the terrorists. Theovonn laughed and said that’s crazy, though, you’re the effing terrorists. You know what I’m saying, Like, if you want to stop them, effing stand in front of the effing mirror and start there.

I have a little audio for you from the Joe Rogan experience. It just seems so insane based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right, and he ran on no more wars and these stupid, senseless wars, and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it. Another section is making the news. People seem a little concerned about Theovonne after this exchange.

Particularly Joe Rugan seems concerned about Theovann. I have made several edits here for swear words. It’s all just a cat and mouse game. People are like, well, like the Democrats next time, It’s like, but it’s all the same. Shit has been happening forever.

They haven’t been helping anybody forever. They’re letting politicians slurp on kids. All of our money goes to Israel and they’re using it gets to genocide people. It’s like everybody is scared out of their wits right now. It’s like our religious leaders are afraid to speak out, and it’s like it’s a time where it’s like Satan is amongst us and our religious leaders are talking about bullshit at the poll.

It’s just like, what is going I don’t know, man. You got to get you up at the present sun. You’re losing your marbles. You think I am come hang out with us? Just chilling them here, and the topic went on to aliens.

The Ovon asked Joe Rogan, do you think these upper echelon people have met the visitors and there’s some other thing going on, because there’s something it feels like something’s going to happen soon. Broguess said, the idea that the aliens come down here and they’re like, who’s the leader of the people. I highly doubt they give an f if they talk to Trump. He’s out there building a ballroom and they’re like, leave that guy. Alone.

I’m not interested in him. Rogan predicted the aliens would visit military establishments, like if they find a nuclear weapons base, maybe I’d go to that because they probably know the signal of nuclear armament. They probably know the signal of these weapons. They’d probably visit those places. But would they interact with the people on the ground.

Perhaps maybe they would if they could be assured of their safety. Maybe it’s possible. But I don’t think we’re alone. I think the idea that we’re alone is silly. Send your letters to Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn, or perhaps to John Stewart, who had some thoughts about the President of the United States on The Weekly Show.

John Stewart said, the thing I get most frustrated with that I think is happening with Trump right now is is we all point to, well he got convinced or his mental acuity. This is who he’s been from the get go. Like when people say, well, I’m upset with him now and I regret my vote because he lied them in and he came down the escalator through the It’s the largest inauguration that’s ever been seen in history. There is nothing fundamentally different about his decision making process about the manner in which his add pushes him from lurching from one endeavor to another. Stewart referred to Trump as a movie star president, saying he doesn’t have the stamina to sit through the whole movie.

He’s just the trailers. And right now the Iran War. The trailer’s done. Now what do I do? It so frustrates me that all these people on the right are like, well, this boy really pushed me over the edge.

I’m like, this is the same effing thing we’ve been dealing with for twelve years again. Send your letters to John Stewart. Eugene Merman was on social media. He posted a photo of himself with a bandaged right hand holding a sign that said life is an adventure. On social media, Eugene Merman said, I am extraordinarily thankful to the heroic people that pulled me from the car, and to the warm, kind and talented staff at the hospital that cared for me and got me on the mend.

I am thankful beyond words to be here and doing relatively a right all things considered. In case you missed the story, Eugene Mermann pulled from a fiery car crash Last week, Devin Walker had some comments about Saturday Night Live. There was a promotional piece in Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair’s instagram showed a post featuring mikey Day, Chloe Fyneman, James Austin Johnson, Ashley Padia, Jane Wickline, and Sarah Sherman. Devin Walker commented, loll I forgot everyone on the show is right now the nineties is beck.

An SNL fan account shared a screenshot of Walker’s comment, noting SNL used to have Devin Walker. Walker responded to that, saying no respect to the homies. I got a lot of love for them, but there’s an institutional trend to play that is very underdiscussed. In my opinion. Late Nighter points out.

Season fifty one’s cast includes Keenan Thompson, Michael Chay, and Camp Patterson, as well as Marcelo Hernandez, none of which were involved in the Vanity Fair shoot. They also have counted some screen time. Hernandez and Thompson are seventh and eighth out of the seventeen players on SNL in terms of screen time. Michael Chay rarely appears outside weekend Update. He’s number eleven.

Camp Patterson is in last place in screen time. I will jump in there, not to undercut Devin Walker’s overarching point. But Cam Patterson, I’ve been saying since week one, I don’t see him having a place on the show. In no way think he will be back. I never thought he fit the cast well.

Marcelo Hernandez, I’ve said several times does one thing and does one thing well, so you know you can only do Dimingo once an episode, guys. But as to Devin Walker’s larger point, I don’t want to be dismissive of that at all. If it really simplify the argument, you think Keenan Thompson could be in the photo shoot? Not unfair. Sticking with U SNL, Colin Jost has a new gig.

Peacock is developing a drama series about dentist turned drug lord Larry Lavin. Now, if you were like, who could I cast as a dentist? You might think Colin Jost, Well, how about a dentist turned drug lord? Sure, Colin Jost. The currently untitled series is based on season one of the true crime podcast Wolves among Us.

We are told by day Larry was a respect did Ivy League dentist and family Man by Night, the East Coast most elusive Cocaine Kingpin, who of course would be played by Colin Jost. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival continues taking a look at some of the shows on Wednesday. Daniel Kitson’s show is called Work in Progress. I love it the description Daniel Kitson is working on a new show. He’s hoping, as per usual, to make something funny, maybe a bit sad, intimately thought provoking, slightly audacious, and at fall possible, largely unfathomable.

He started properly thinking about it in the middle of January and it needs to be properly finished by August, so that should give you a sense of how far through the process these particular shows are likely to be in terms of the lump of stone to finish sculpture ratio on the upside that been priced accordingly and will last no more than ninety minutes. Love it and the festival ads. Please note all copy provided by Daniel Kitson. Let’s say how much tickets are twenty five dollars Australian and the show’s at six pm. Check our conversion rates twenty five Australian dollars is seventeen dollars in twenty three cents USD depending on when you made your currency exchange.

That’s not bad, right for an in progress show. Seventeen bucks from a good comedian. Yeah, that works. The Guardian caught up with ruben K. He’s touring his Hard to Swallow tour, in which he explores the creep of fascism, Nazism and techno feudalism.

Wonder who you mean there? He recalled a mourning back in twenty twenty three when police dogs swept through sniffing for explosives. Well, what had happened was people are upset at ruben K had received some death threats for a religious double on tendra he had made. He said he and his management team had to meet with counter terrorism police. He explains, there were fifty sixty men, far right Christian thugs marching up and down in Moore Road and outside my agent’s office, all with their faces covered, chanting the Lord’s Prayer.

He then said, sometimes I think neo Nazis cover their faces so no one can recognize them. Off grinder. So what he started doing was greeting the audience in the lobby with hugs to let everyone know is a safe space. Security in the police were not happy about it. He explains.

My in was I’m going to show this audience how much I truss them, and I’m not afraid. So even if someone’s going to pull a stunt or hurt me, the first thing they see is me saying, Hi, I’m here, I’m hugging you. I’m a human being, You’re a human being. He explains. One of the most disconcerting things that’s happened to him recently was he was on a cruise shape performing and an audience member got upset.

Cayse says, I mentioned Charlie Kirk in a song. This guy stood up in the middle of the number and started screaming and shouting, and I replied, I don’t know you want me to do. I’m working. I’m just doing my job. Ruben kay is hard to swallow at the Atheneum Theater through the nineteenth and Lucy Arnez is working with the National Comedy Center.

Part of her work there is preserving the work of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, her parents. Of course, she says, I’m thrilled we’ve been able to make some people happier with some of the things we’ve been doing with the legacy they left behind. She said. After her parents passed away, she had to start going through their stuff and explains, no one wants to be saddled with all the things you’re saddled with when your folks die, But when it’s Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, I was in the process of saying, what on earth do we do all this for one reason or another valuable material. Lucy Arnez is thrilled about the success of the Comedy Center.

Lucy said, build it and they will come. My mother was right. I just took a while to figure out how to do it. She’s there every day taking credit for all of it. She loves this.

I guarantee you there’s a spirit of my mother. You will feel her. She is there. The National Comedy Center is in Jamestown, New York. And that is your comedy news for today.

And I’ll catch you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Maniscalco

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor Week 14 elimination results
• Sebastian Maniscalco voted off Comedy Island
• Final three comedians announced
• Listener voting via Facebook group
• AI analysis of voting patterns

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Caloroga Shark Media outbit outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Over three months ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on Comedy Island to determine the Comedy Survivor. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac. We were down to the final four of Nicky Glazer, John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, and Sebastian Maniscalco.

The listeners went to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, where they voted. It’s time to tell you the votes. Michelle votes for Sarah Silverman, Mike C votes for Nikki Glaser, Lee votes for John Mulaney, one vote for Sarah, one for Nicky, one for John Mulaney. Richard votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. Andy votes for Sebastian Maniscalco.

Dylan votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. That’s three votes for Sebastian Maniscalco, one vote for Sarah Silverman, one vote for Nikki Glaser, one vote for John Mulaney, Andrea votes for Nikki Glaser, three vote Sebastian, two votes Niki Raffi votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. Mary votes for Sebastian Manuscalco. Mike Dee votes for Sebastian Manuscalco. That’s six votes now for Sebastian Manuscalco.

Matt votes for Sebastian, Aaron votes for Sebastian, Barb votes for Sebastian, a von A votes for Sebastian, Janet votes for Sebastian, and Cheryl votes for Sebastian. That’s twelve votes for Sebastian Manuscalco. The listeners have made it very clear Sebastian Maniscalco clearly eliminated from Comedy Survivor. We’ll take the break, we’ll come back and we’ll see what this. As I do every week, I had the AI analyze the results, and the AI called this an assassination of Sebastian Maniscalco.

That’s pretty harsh, but boy it was not close. This leaves us with the final three. They are John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, and Niki Glazer. Let’s start with Nikki Glaser. She’s had some votes here and there.

The AI suspects that perhaps some of those votes were just to make things not looking animous. I don’t know about that. Sarah Silverman may be the most interesting finalist. She’s never really accumulated I think maybe one vote here or there. I don’t remember if she ever got two votes and she’s sailing along, could she somehow take this thing?

And then John Mulaney, he’s never been in danger the entire time. A couple votes here and there, but there’s never been a movement against him. So who will win Comedy Survivor? As we go down to the final three? John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, Nicki gle Here’s what you do.

You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. There you will find a picture of me and Sebastian Manaskauco, probably making a stupid face, and in that thread you will vote someone off Comedy Island. Who do you want to go? Is it? John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman or Nikki Glaser Vote one off and the other two will be in next week’s finale.

See you guys in the morning.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Kevin Hart, Jerry Seinfeld, Bert Kreischer, Seth Meyers, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser declines Kevin Hart Netflix roast
• Nikki Glaser’s ‘Good Girl’ special coming to Hulu April 24
• Lucille Ball Comedy Festival in Jamestown NY August with Seinfeld, Kreischer, and Meyers
• David Cross interview on crowd work and comedy spontaneity

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Acent is the Algorithm Loves. Nikki Glaser will not be roasting Kevin Hard. She is sitting out the roast of Kevin Hart part of the Netflix is a Joe Comedy Festival.

Niki Glazer said, I do not have the time right now in my schedule to commit to giving it what I want to give it. I love it, and when I work hard at it, I kill it. But I just don’t have the time to work hard at it. And I just recently roasted Kevin Hard at the Golden Globes. I roasted him at the Tom Brady Roast.

I’m coming up short with short chokes, if you know what I’m saying. Nicki has a special coming out on April twenty fourth. It’s called Good Girl. It’ll be on Hulu. And you know my opinion on Hulu, that’s where you go when you’re slightly past peak, watch out for the Curse of Hulu.

There, Nikki Glaser and everyone’s welcome to go through the list of Hulu comedy specials and point out where I’m wrong, but I’m not sure I am, Nicki said. I’m terrified for it to come out because it has a lot of jokes I’ve told on the road for years. It’s always fun to do these jokes in front of a crowd that’s not recording, and you feel free to just say crazy stuff. But then they go, we’re gonna put it on tape, and you go, that’s great. Then you watch it in the edit and you’re like, wait, everyone’s gonna see this and there’s gonna be comments on this.

I love doing it and I’m crazy and while in the moment and uninhibited, but then afterwards, I don’t want to talk about it. I want to hear what it sounded like. I don’t want to hear what I said or what I did. This is reminding me. I’m going to right now leave myself a note for Friday.

For Comedy stock Market, we are going to sell I’ll tell you right now, we are gonna sell Nikki Glaser. Not that we don’t love Nikki Glaser, but we don’t trust that Hulu comedy brand. So the comedy stock Market, as you know, is where we try and find value, and we might want to sell high on NICKI. You know what I’m saying. I might have to head up to Jamestown, New York in August.

That’s where you will find the National Comedy Center and the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival. This year’s headliners Jerry Seinfeld, Bert Krascher, and Seth Myers. Jerry the headliner Thursday, August sixth, Bert on Saturday eighth, Seth Myers on the ninth. So what’s happening on Friday the seventh, John, It’s the stand Up Showcase, featuring a lineup of talent from across the country. Former guest on this program Jerrenny Gunderson.

She’s the executive director of the Center and said the National Comedy Center’s museum and archive were established to celebrate the art forms, distinct voices and contributions throughout time, and this year’s festival brings together the artists who represent distinct approaches to the craft. Let’s see Jerry Seinfeld, Bert Krascher, They’re doing two very different things. Seth Myers, you know, it is not like Burt at all. Is more like Jerry than Burt. But yeah, okay.

Additional artists Scheduled to appear include Carol Leefer, whose writing credits include Seinfeld and Kerb, Gina Brillan, Jenny Zigrino, and Drew Dunn. The festival will feature more than fifty live events over four days, including late night comedy, block parties, live music, and more. Now I thought it was interesting they shared the bios for the headliners. Not that you don’t know who Jerry Seinfeld is if you’re listening to me, but let’s just see what Jerry Seinfeld’s bio is here in twenty twenty six. Seinfeld saw his comedy career take off after his first appearance on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson in nineteen eighty one.

Eight years later, he teamed up with Larry David to create Seinfeld, Widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential comedy series in television history. The show ran for nine seasons, earning numerous Emmy, Golden Globe, and People’s Choice awards, and was later named the greatest television show of all time by TV Guide and the best sitcom ever in a sixty minutes Vanity Fair poll. We’ll have to debate that sometime. It’s in the conversation about best sitcom ever. Is Seinfeld the greatest television show of all time all genres?

I don’t know about that, But if it’s not that, then what I’ll just make a quick case for the tonight show. Bert krisis bio tells us Bert has evolved from Rolling Stones number one party here in the nation to one of the top grossing stand up comedians the world and a powerhouse entrepreneur, actor, producer, content creator, and entertainment brand. Hey Bert Preischer, people, you don’t want to describe anyone as an entertainment brand like that. That just makes you uncool, like I know Kevin Hart does that. You’re not an entertainment brand.

You don’t want to be that. You want to be a man of the people who doesn’t wear a shirt. You don’t want to be an entertainment brand. Let your agent say that on the side when they’re doing deals, but don’t publicly describe yourself as an entertainment brands. It’s a It’s not that it’s not cool, but it’s uncool.

No, uncool means like you’re being jerky. It’s the opposite of cool. Put it that way. Kreischer has parlayed his signature comedy and authenticity into a dynamic media empire. You’re trying too hard with this bio.

Back this down, the Seth Meyers bio tells us. Seth Myers is an Emmy Award winning writer, New York Times best selling author and host of Late Night with Seth Myers since twenty fourteen, watched by hundreds and hundreds of people. Seth Meyers began his career on Setriday Night Live, where he spent thirteen seasons as a cast member, including nine seasons as head writer, in eight seasons as anchor of Weekend Update. He has earned thirty three nominations for his work in television. He has released two acclaimed stand up specials, Lobby Baby and Seth Meyers Dad Man Walking, and continues to perform stand up nationwide.

Myers also co edlines a residency with John Oliver in New York and collaborates on multiple podcasts with The Lonely Island Guys.

Now here’s some fun behind the scenes.

I don’t know what happened here in my script that I’m working off. I’ve got the information from the National Comedy Center. We just did. I also have an interview David crossed with the La Times. Now, what I can’t explain is whatever my document did, it mixed the two.

So as I’ve been scrolling down here telling you about the festival, every other paragraph has been from the David Cross thing. It is the weirdest thing like here. So if you were reading my script, it says David Cross, Jamestown, then the Jerry stuff, and then after mentioning Bert Kraser, it goes into David Cross saying, my thing’s never been about crowd work. This is the most confusing thing, but I’ll deal with it. Could I edit this?

I could, but that’s not fun. I like to share with you guys what’s going on. David Cross until the La Times. My thing has never been about crowd work. I like engaging with it.

It’s kind of a nice distraction from the set that you’ve been doing one hundred times, one hundred and fifty times at that point. So it’s always fun to have the thing happened and that feeling of spontaneity. If it were scripted, it wouldn’t have been as good. The guy had talked to you during his new special about hiking Machu Pichu with Bob Odenkirk that’s Chef’s kiss.

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And then the next paragraph is back to the National Comedy Center, so I don’t…

You guys have this long relationship. I don’t know what happened to this document. This has never happened before, so I got to scrawl to audio. So the question is about working with Bob Odenkirk. David Cross tells the La Times before there was even Mister Show what would ultimately become Mister Show, when we got together to write sketches for this bigg kount of Comedy collective thing, and the shows would do with each other for each other, and the stuff would write together was like real good, easy writing, one person adding this thing, one person saying here’s a switch, yeah, and another person adding this thing in.

It was fun. It’s cool. Still is one thing Bob doesn’t get enough credit for is he’s a really decent human being. And with all the awfulness in the world that’s magnified, every sense is bombarded with it, just good to be hanging with somebody whose energy is a good person, a decent person, and an equitable nice guy. So that’s good as well.

The Only Times asked David Cross, what are your thoughts on what a comedy special is nowadays or what it should be? Great question. David Cross agrees because he said, I mean that’s a great question. He says, I think anybody who plays with the form, whether I think it’s funny or not, is different. But I’m happy when anybody kind of tries to at least play with a form.

I just went to Rory Skoles taping last week of his latest special. I don’t know when that will air, but if you’ve seen the beginning to his first special, stuff like that where you’re like, wait, what’s happening, what’s going on? I love stuff like that. It’s giving ahead. Cross said, I don’t know, O, can eighteen thousand people in arena really relate to a billionaire talking about how they’re gonna get canceled?

I mean that’s the thing. I guess. Well, we’re gonna find out if the Netflix is a Joe comedy all. If nothing else, go see. Luisi ke Grass said, these other big, slick specials that are shot in like a thirty two hundred seat, thirty five hundred seed theater just feels like Oh, this person’s up there and I’m listening to their jokes.

There’s nothing wrong with that. They’re often very funny jokes, but it doesn’t go beyond that. It’s just like, all right, tell me your joke. It might as well just be an audio thing, you know. Let’s check in at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

I’ve pulled four clips for you today. On a Monday, I thought we could play a bunch of a stand up comedy. Now I think what this illustrates is the different things you can see at a comedy festival. These four people I’m going to play for you are not household names, are not famous here in the States. Perhaps the mileage will vary if you are from down Under, and as we’re about to hear, varying degrees of subjective opinion quality.

And for me, when you go to a comedy festival, always go see smaller shows. Not everything’s gonna be awesome, but sometimes someone is, and those are the moments that you will treasure. All Right, I’ve got four clips. My favorite one is the fourth one. My second favorite is the first one.

So that is the sequencing here for the roller coaster ride. We’re about to go on First Up, here’s Rachel Hornbuckle. Her show is called Skin Deep and Meaningful. And it’s Rachel. I’m from Queensland, so if I say anything you don’t like, fair enough.

I’m from a small country town in Queensland called Brisbane. And while we’re on bad things about me, I’m a real bad driver. I recently got into a very bad car accident, completely right off the other car. Mine’s fine, No, I did write off both cars. But I was into womber at the time, and I took it to a mechanic and he told me he could fix it, and he kept calling me love, so I was like, yeah, I trust him.

But now this car breaks down all the time. All the time. This car’s breaking down. Most recent things started leaking oil, so to take it to a new mechanic and I couldn’t unders dan what he was saying to me. And I really wanted him to man explain to me.

And I could tell he wanted to as well, but like you can’t, and he was like, that’s your transmission oil. I was like, oh, that sounds like an essential oil, right. I would have to be run off the next to lavender or seedar wood or something and he was like, sorry, do you not know what transmission means? I was like, yeah, of course I do. I’m an ally.

Next up we have Jordan Barr. Jordan’s show is called Choir Girl. I went to drama school. Just pretty cool. That’s a yeah, great place to go if you want dirty feet in an eating disorder.

Better, No, I do. I love cacao nibs so good. But I did enjoy being immersed in like drama. There was such I was a little wanka. I loved it.

I kept calling myself a thespian. I was like, I’m a thespian now I drink soy lattees.

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And then I left drama school and realized that I was actually a lesbian.

Difference. Uh there. Then my partners, my partner has recently come out as non binary, so they then pronounce it’s full circle, baby, I’m a thespian again. Now I thought that was kind of a hack joke. But back to how I set up this segment.

You go to a comedy festival, you never know what you’re going to get. That wasn’t the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. Next up, Abby Howell’s show is called The cave and I’m gonna warn you we’re gonna go a long way for a joke. Here. As I was pulling this audio, I was like, is this going anywhere?

And just being a comedy snob, I’m like, this has to go somewhere unexpected, because otherwise this is just an awful story. So maybe I’ve spoiled it, maybe not, but we’re breaking down comedy. I’m telling you how all this works. So here’s Abby Howel’s from the Kiev, And like I said, we’re gonna go a long way for a punchline.

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And then you could tell me if this pays off.

I thought I would spend my set listing some interesting things about myself so you get to know me a little bit of Okay, Fact number one may not come as a huge surprise, but two years ago I was diagnosed with autism and my first thought was, dang, shouldn’t have got that vaccine. Like number two, I would be humiliated if anyone saw my social media presence, not because it’s like freaky or anything like that, but because it is the opposite. You would see that all that I do is comment on this one woman’s tiktoks, and this woman she lives in the north of England and she makes milkshakes and she’s like, it’s milkshake Monday.

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Two is like it’s quite nice. Actually it’s always. Just quite nice. And I don’t know what it is about this woman, but she has bewitched me body and soul, and I just do the lamest comments like yum, and like looks good girls save some for me, and liked kindo surprise next humiliating. So I think I need to mix it up.

And how I’m gonna do that is interact more with porn online. But I’m just gonna do the same comments, just be like Yum, looks good girls save some for me, like do kindo surprise next, and the CIA agent who’s like moditoring me will be like kinder supers. I’ve never even heard. Of that six position before. Abby is a freak.

In next up. My favorite of the four clips today, Lloyd Langford’s show is Okay, I believe you. I saw a poster in Melbourne the other day and it said are you aware that a tram weighs the same as thirty rhinos, and I was like, no, I’ll be honest, I’ve never once contemplated the weight of the tram, pullly in terms of the rhino, but I am aware that a tram is heavy. If I’m crossing the street right and there’s like a tram coming towards me, I’m not thinking I reconologist, dip the shoulder and then just carry on my merry week. I’ll be honest with you.

Right, if there’s one rhino a sol right, you know, a Lorne wolf, right, you know, heading for me, I’m moving out the way. I’m like, on your gold mane, I think you have right your pottage here. However, thirty rye, Nos, I’ll tell you what. Right I’m stopping. I’m getting my phone out of my pocket and I’m taking some photographs.

Now. As I listen to that, I hear a lot of Craig Ferguson, and I was curious because it’s the Melbourne Australia International Comedy Festival, but note the word international in there. So I looked up Lloyd Langford, who I was unfamiliar with, and I learned that Lloyd at Langford as a Welsh comedian not that Craig Ferguson is Welsh, but okay, you know it’s not like Lloyd Langford is from New Jersey for example. Anyway, I’m hearing a little similarity there, but I like Lloyd a lot. One more before we go, romy Yusef has announced a special.

It is called Ramy Yusef in Love, his third hour long HBO original comedy special. It to be out April seventeenth. That’s a Friday night at nine o’clock. So HBO, I thought we were building a brand where like the weird stuff appears on Friday. Oh, did we ever talk about what is his name?

Julio Turis? Did I ever talk about that? I don’t think I did. That was the special where I thought they had added a lot of laugh track to the trailer. I think they added a lot of laugh track to the actual special.

I couldn’t even make it like, I don’t know. I was out on that really early. I was like I wanted to like this. My brain was lit up for like, okay, I’m in the mood for weird and just no hard pass on that one. That was rough.

So I thought HBO was making Friday Night quirky night. Because we had Sarah Sherman and Chris Fleming and Julio Tauris. But now Rommy Yusef doesn’t fit into that box. So I don’t know. Friday Nights on HBO is Random Comedy Night.

I guess I digress Rommy Usef in Love, filmed at the Hideout in Chicago. Rammy Useff playfully engages with the audiences. He approaches a vast spectrum of personal topics, ranging from marriage to AI, religion, and being a dog parent. Now, the first time I did that, I took it out. I made an edit for once, so they didn’t put in an extra comment there.

So I read it as ranging from his marriage to AI, religion, and being a dog parent. Maybe it is about his marriage to AI. I don’t know who he’s married to. I didn’t do the homework anyway. The premise is you can find light and hope in all things if you just try to see them through a lens of love.

Coming up at noon Eastern the Results of a Comedy Survivor. We’ll see if Sebastian Manascalpo made it out alive or not, and then we’ll be down to the final three. So come back at noon Eastern for comedy Survivor and I’ll meet you back here then

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Featured: Pete Holmes, Jerry Seinfeld, Nate Bargatze

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Holmes’ perfect Sunday itinerary in Los Angeles
• Pete Holmes’ vegan food choices and Girl Scout cookie obsession
• Pete Holmes’ LSD experience at Donut Friend
• Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bargatze discuss breaking the one-hour standup barrier
• Nate Bargatze on corporate comedy work and touring schedules
• Jerry Seinfeld on the parallels between standup and surfing
• Jerry Seinfeld’s new bit about miniature golf

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Easter. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Pete Holmes talk to The La Times about a perfect Sunday in Los Angeles. Pete Holmes tells us here’s what you do.

At eight am. You visit a coffee shop with a sense of humor. Pete says, I like drinking espresso by itself. Val likes oat milk lattes, and his daughter would get a steam milk because she wants to feel like grown up. It’s very cute.

Then at ten am, you go read at least seven children’s books at Skylight. He says, I can tell you from experience. They’re incredibly generous with allowing you to read your kids seven books without any trouble. On principle, I’ll buy at least one of the books on the way out, because that’s exactly what people are talking about when they’re like shop local. Then at eleven you drink a terrible dark green juice.

He says. We’ll walk to punch Bowl and I get a terrible dark green juice that nobody wants. It would make a goat go blind. I love it because I’m forty six now and I eat almost exclusively for how It’s going to make me feel so very uncool, But that’s what I’m doing. My wife and daughter are going to get a smoothie called the honey Bee, which is very sweet and delicious.

Then at noon, you get a pancake for the table at Kitchen Mouse. He said, it’s really hip. The last time I was there, ran into Phoebe Bridger’s. Literally, rock stars are at Kitchen Mouse, and there’s a little kids area where my daughter can play with a little fake hamburger and a child she just met. I get the same thing every time.

The breakfast sandwich had a snicker Doodle pancake for the table. If you and I went to breakfast together, I would never ask do you want a pancake for the table? Because I don’t need you to be my accomplice. I know you want a pancake for the table because guess who wants pancakes everyone. This is going to reverse the juice that I just had earlier, but it’s going to be worth it.

At two o’clock, you eat an angry Samoa donut at the park it sounds like I can hang out with Pete Holmes. We’ve already had coffee, a smoothie, a pancake, and now a donut. Are we gonna get ice cream later? And this sounds awesome? Hete says.

We take a walk to Donut Friend and eat the donuts of the little park nearby. The park has giant bugs and it’s tube slide when you’re forty six and have kids sitting down as your heroin not to keep mentioning veganism, but Donut Friend has a really good vegan donuts. You gotta get the Angry Samoa, which is a girl Scalp cookie. My wife she comes by and she’s like, hey, I got your Girl Scout cookies. And I’m like, did you get twenty boxes?

She’s like, no, I got one box of samoas last I don’t know, two Knicks games, maybe three. Come on. One year I ordered the Girl Scout cookies that I ordered twenty boxes. She made the March Simpson face, as I like to call it. They did last the bulk of the year.

Maybe it was too many, I digress. Pete Holmes said, I once went a Donut Friend when I was tripping on LSD. I think it might have been my birthday, and I was coming down not a crazy person. I just couldn’t believe there was another person standing there with all the donuts in the world. It felt so overwhelmingly lovely that they were, like, which donut can I give you?

I was just floored by the generosity. I was probably making an ass of myself, like laughing in that sort of hippie way, not I get a drunk way, but like a benevolent alien who couldn’t believe that this planet had donuts. They gave me one, and I wish I could have seen myself eating it. Four o’clock. You feel fancy at the Huntington.

Now, he didn’t explain what the Huntington is, and I’m from New york’ so I have to look this up now. Obviously he means the Huntington Library, art Museum, and botanical gardens see New Yorker. I don’t know these things. I wanna play that game, Pete, all right, meet me at the Apple. Pete also says we’ll stop at the Chinese Garden get noodles there, because every step of the way there’s this constant eating seven pm vegan food.

Done right. He says, if we’re just Valerie and I, I’d go to the Crossroads Kitchen. I love it to death. When the pandemic happened, they would text us and ask if if we were okay, and if we needed food. We were like, what do you got?

And the manager brought it over. At nine o’clock, you go see whatever’s playing at Largo. At eleven o’clock, you eat at Norms. How much food are we having, Pete Holmes. He says, you get a milkshake, or you get some fries.

It’s open twenty four hours. I think La gets a bad rap for not having diners. Granted, in New York, they’re everywhere. It doesn’t matter what time we get home. We have to watch at least one episode of something thirty rock or right now we’re watching Black Rabbit.

It’s a busy day. Jerry Seinfeld n Apergasey spoke together in Forbest. Jerry said to hey, you told me you were having trouble getting pasted an hour. He had a sixteen minute barrier. Nate said, I think about it every day every show.

I’ve got myself to sixty two sixty three, I’m there. I’ve had that one at like sixty eight. I like to think I keep it tight. I can add stuff to make it longer. Your timing’s based on the audience.

You can do a sixty minute set in a corporate setting and do sixty minutes of a material in fifteen and it can go vice versa. Sounds like teaching. If I have a good class, I’ll leave class when it’s over and have an hour of stuff left.

And then when I have a bad class, two and a half hours of material shrinks do…

So I guess teaching college is like corporate work. Jerry was like, why do you still do corporate work? Nate said, it’s not a ton, but you know, Nate said, why do you go out every week? Your schedule’s been in this dude, I’ve been trying to get you to come out and hang with me one weekend, and every weekend I look at you. You work everywhere.

Jerry said, it’s the most fun thing I have in life. I find everything else is kind of okay, but working on a bit and hanging out with a comedian and I love hotel rooms. Well, Jerry probably stays in pretty nice hotel rooms.

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And then I think about that a little more.

Jerry said, it’s such a guy last night he was a surfer. He was older and surfs every day. I thought, but if I could have done that and just been a surfer, because nobody knows you’re doing it, Nobody really cares if you’re doing it well or not. Just this thing you love. I think stand up and surfing are similar, and that the ocean is always stronger than you.

The audience is way stronger than you. But for the short period of time, I’m going to do a dance in this wave, and that’s what stand up is. I look at surfers. That’s the only way of life I envy or admire, just you and that energy. Nate said, I think golf is like that.

Golfers at the same schedules as us. They’re like a Thursday to Sunday schedule. Those guys get on the road, they drive through these things, see if they can make any money doing it. It’s a pure love of it, you understand. It becomes a mentality more than anything, where you got to be able to just handle it.

Jerry was curious, Nate, would you have been a golfer if you could have? Nate said, yeah, would have loved it. I mean, I love stand up too much. I love it. Jerry said, love is while you’re so good, people always ask me why do you keep doing it?

That’s the only answer. It just love of it. I have a new bit about golf about how they realize the game is too big, if we need a car to get around. Then somebody said, well what if we miniaturize it? What if we take this whole thing and miniaturize it.

See, that’s already a funny premise. Then Nate worked on the bit and said, well, now you date it too much because it’s like a mini golf. There’s got to be a middle ground. Where do you go? I’d like to walk a little bit.

I mean it should be in a parking lot where you’re walking ten feet. Jerry said, that’s funny. We’re gonna miniatureize. We’re going to miniatureize the pencils. Joe Coy and Gabe Iglesias are friends.

They were calling the time. Joe Cooy turned to Gabe down. Gabe says, remember when I was gonna take you on the road, And he said, no, how dare you any joint interview, the topic of playing Rhoda came up Gabe made the point, I’m willing to play by the rules. Want to do a corporate event here in America. Don’t make fun of Google, don’t talk about the CEO, don’t talk about his shoes, don’t make fun of his wife.

There’s always rules no matter where you go. Since it’s he stere, Let’s catch up with Jim Brewer, who spoke to The Advocate and said he put out a series called Funny How God Works. It’s on YouTube. They’re very powerful stories, healing and stuff like that, and all true stories. Jim talked about his podcast, said, when I first started it, I hit more with what I call the noise, and to me, the noises news and politics and your face and all that.

Then after a while, it’s extremely exhausting and it never feels good. It’s all energy to distract us from the everyday importance of talking to someone you love, helping someone helping a neighbor. At the end of the day, if I’m here to help you, I don’t care what you’ve voted for. I feel it’s way more important than these times for us to get as united as quickly as possible and to turn off that noise and realize They’re all bad. All of them are bad.

There’s no left right, there’s no Republican Democrat, just people taking our money and controlling our lives. They asked Jim about the physicality of his act. Is he worn out after a show? Jim said, always worn out. I’m so tired after show because I just put everything out there, and you know, twice it’s cost me some serious physical things where I blew my calf out on stage, I pulled hamstrings out on stage, I pulled my back out, I sprained my ankle on stage.

I just go all out. I can’t help it. I remember when I first went out on the road with Jim when he had the radio show, and he grabbed me and he said, look, I don’t want you to think I’m in a bad mood. Before the show. I go into the zone and I focus.

I’m not mad at you. I’m just gonna go quiet. And he explained after the show he’s tired. Don’t read anything into it. I was appreciated that he did that, because I could be paranoid at times.

Kathleen Madigan, can we teach a person to be funny? She told Psychology Today, you’re on for comedy news. No, not even close. If a person’s already kind of fun wanders into a comedy class, that may actually help them. But the idea that we could teach someone to be funny, I don’t think that’s true.

Psychology Today, asked Kathleen Madigan. Do you think humor helps people cope with life? She said, if you look at groups of comedians, it’s the underdogs, Black comedians, Jewish, Irish Catholics, Asians, they’re made fun of every day of their lives. As an Irish Catholic, I’m not sure we are made fun of every day of their lives. Kathleen may have had a different experience, perhaps just because she grew up in the West, I believe, and I grew up in New York City, where there’s a lot of Irish Catholics, or at least there were in the seventies and eighties.

I digress. Kathleen said, humor is a huge coping mechanism for wherever your people come from. There was nothing funny about the potato famine in Ireland, but somehow it ended up funny. My grandpa would say this thing about coping, which was one hundred years from now. Nobody’s going to know the difference.

He’s right, nothing really matters. He might as well have fun while you’re here. The Buddhists would say, let’s meditate to get to a higher plane, and we would say, yeah, no, let’s get to that higher plane with a shot of fireball. Psychology Today said it was fun talking with you. Kathleen said, well, no one wants to talk now.

In the old days, HBO people would come to the mill Rose Improv and you met them. They were alive, and then they went back to work in that building on Sunset Boulevard. Now the children have taken over. They like email. They just don’t want to talk at all.

For the Netflix show, I’ve never met or spoken to anyone, never been in their office. I used to go to New York and meet the Comedy Central people and then you’d audition. They tell you to your face, yes or no. Now you send a link and a form letter comes back, yes or no. That’s your comedy news for today.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Steve Carell, Bill Lawrence, Nate Petgetzki, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Nealon, Cheech and Chong, Ali, Donal Rawlings, Charlie Murphy, Chris Fleming, Randy Jackson, Charlie Burns

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr Saudi Arabia controversy and Facebook backlash
• Rooster TV show review with Steve Carell
• Nate Petgetzki on clean comedy and past controversial jokes
• Jim Gaffigan keynote speaker at NACDS Foundation dinner
• Kevin Nealon on staying in character during SNL
• Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie coming to Paramount Plus
• Ali’s daily routine and best day ever in Houston
• Donal Rawlings reflects on Charlie Murphy’s passing
• Chris Fleming’s HBO special features hat shop clerk Randy Jackson
• Jeffrey Epstein’s networking with comedians

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. I’ve kind of given up on Rooster. I liked the first episode, Episode two was not as good, and then the third episode last week made me give up on the show. My wife agrees with me.

Robbie Hoffman now on the show, she says she botched every interaction she had with Steve Carell. Robbie explained, I botched it every time he said hi to him because it’s impossible not to be starstruck with him, and he’s such a classy man. I have my brother going to jask about the office? Did you ask? And it’s like, I can’t really just be asking about the office.

But finally I asked about the office. I literally had to say, Hey, my brother loved you in the office. I’m sad that I don’t like it because I like Corell, I like Bill Lawrence, I love McGinley. Just didn’t work for me. Nate Pergetzi famously a clean comedian.

He said he didn’t always surround himself with a clean comedian. He said, it’s kind of like school, you just find your group that you’re kind of going to be with. Really, my group, I was the closest to with the dirtiest comedians, Big Jay Okerson, Louis J. Gomez, Dan Soder was the dirtiest. I’d open for them, he explains, though my mind didn’t go the root of writing that kind of way, and I never wanted to make someone feel bad in the crowd.

He recalled one time he made a joke about prostitutes getting murdered by a serial killer in New York. He said, it worked very much on a young comic. It works very much in those rooms.

And then I didn’t put it up on YouTube, but it got put up on YouTube.

A prostitute saw it and was upset. Nate said, look, I’m so sorry. I didn’t know it was going to go up. I won’t do that joke again. Jim Gaffigan will be the keynote speaker at the NACDS Foundation.

They’re holding their twenty eighth Annual Foundation Dinner August fifteenth at the Omniboston Hotel at the Seaport. The event gathers industry leaders to support the foundation’s mission of advancing public health and promoting healthier communities. Kevin Nealan was in the headlines kind of bragging that he never broke character on SNL. He said, I knew much time the writer’s putting all those scripts. You don’t want to be the one who throws it off.

Michael’s doesn’t like when the cast breaks. Even if the audience laughs, it doesn’t work for the sketch. If you want to example that, watch the famous more cow Bell sketch TIV follons kind of losing in the background. Chiechin’ Chong’s Last Movie will be added to Paramount Plus on April twentieth, four to twenty. If you’re in the know, Cheiach and Chong’s Last Movie follows two of comedy’s best buds on a long, laugh fill drive to a place called the Joint.

Along the way, they reflect on their lifelong friendship from childhood to the heights of their careers in the sixties through the eighties, and beyond their breakup, and exploring how their counterculture stoner humor evolved in a brand that stands strong over fifty years later, with the catalog of movies, pack concerts, platinum selling records, and even a mobile game. Interspersed is archival footage, moments from the do, on screen and on stage, animations, interviews and more. I got to remember, I’ve been talking about how I’ve been reflecting on people I’ve met over the years. I met these guys. I’m going to add them to my little note here that I’m making, just as I randomly remember that I’ve met people.

I’m just putting them in a notepad on my MacBook. I don’t know what I’m doing with this, but I just like to keep lists. The Eastern Chronicle caught up with Alid the topic how to have the best day ever in Houston. I’ve never been to Houston, so I can’t comment on this. Seven thirty in the morning, he runs a few miles, at least three miles at Tom Bass Park.

If we’re not doing the full six and a half miles, that’s a good solid run. At eleven fifteen he starts taking phone calls and meetings to start the day. Now, what happens between seven? So if he runs six and a half miles at a reasonable clip, and he starts at seven point thirty, he would be done by nine o’clock almost definitely sooner than that, I guess he goes home and showers. Then eleven fifteen he starts taking phone calls and meetings to start the day.

At one o’clock, he visits the reggae bodega. At four o’clock, you go to the grocery store. At six, he hugs his daughter after school. At eight thirty, he goes to see his mom. He walks the dog.

Mom lives down the street. All right, that works out. At nine to thirty, he eats dinner with his wife and kids. He hopes his wife is making enchiladas. If she’s making enchiladas, I’m all in.

My wife is great enchiladas. We have a late day, and at midnight he passes out on the couch for a little while watching sports. So if I’m getting this right, you get up and you run, you have some menchaladas, and you pass out on the couch watching sports. We’re more alike than I realized. What do you say?

We hit Bill Burr’s Facebook page and see what’s going on. Oh, here’s a post. Bill is posted live at south By Southwest is available now on YouTube. Okay, let’s see what people are saying in the comments about Bill Burr. Jonathan wrote, Billy Blood money is all gas, no brakes.

Keith roat my jokes are paid for with blood money. Dave says bonesaw, Bill has some observations. Paru said bagdad Bill is on fire. Eric said it’s Billy Burka. Gabriel got right to it and said go back to Saudi Arabia, you ef ing sellout.

Now, that’s not Gabriel Iglacias. It’s a different Gabriel. Jared posted Bill, I was very disappointed at the North Korea show. Can you please respond to my refund email? Bill Burr did not help his career going to Riyadh.

A lot of comedians went nothing happened, but Bill Burr, for some reason of everybody, seems to have taken on the most damage of that. Donal Rawlings became emotional while reflecting on the loss of Charlie Murphy. Donnelle was on the Wei in Miami podcast. He was asked about Charlie Murphy passing away in twenty seventeen. Donnelle said it was very difficult because it was like the big brother that I never had.

He also shared an anecdote, the only time I ever saw Charlie show any emotion other than being a super hard tough guys. When he was losing his wife, he cried on the phone with me. I’ve never seen him emotional, vulnerable or anything. It was weird. Charlie’s wife, Tisha Taylor Murphy, passed away of cervical cancer in December two thousand and nine.

From The Times Union, a Saratoga Springs hatshop interaction became a standout moment and Chris Fleming’s HBO special, turning former clerk Randy Jackson into an unexpected character. Jackson until The Times Union Chris Fleming was unfortunately correct. I’m definitely sort of an old lady trapped in a young man’s body. The jazz age, flapper of it all has never left me. On the day Chris Flemmings special premiered, Jackson woke up to a message from a high school classmate.

The mess told Jackson that Chris Fleming had dedicated a length excitement of his new special to an interaction he had with the hat salesman. Jackson said, it was so funny. Jackson reached out to Chris Flemming over Instagram to let him know he love the biddy said I found him, and I said, I’m the ancient hat boy, I’m the Ancient Demon. Charlie Burns will perform at the twenty twenty six Lumberjack World Championships. Athletes from around the globe will compete in twenty one events that test strength, agility, balance and precision.

Spectators can expect thrilling competitions including log rolling, boom running, shopping, sawing, ax throwing, and speed climbing shoecasing the elite skills of professional timber sports athletes. The New York Times under the headline at dinners over jokes with comedians Epstein, Yeah, that Epstein honed his networking. They dove into the file and apparently Jeffrey Epstein sought relationships with comedians. The New York Times reports in twenty fourteen, Jeffrey Epstein wanted a bunch of comedians to join him for dinner at an Italian restaurant on the Upper east Side. Chris Rock was high in his list.

David Brynner was it, probably then a yes, then ultimately in no. He was under the weather. Lewis Black was not to be invited. Apparently Jeffrey Epstein had not found Lewis Black funny when he had come over a year earlier, Chris Rock said no because he had plans with his daughter. Bobby Slayton emailed Jeffrey Epstein ahead of the dinner and said, now the pressure’s on me to carry all the funny unless Woody decides to chip in.

The Woody believed to be Woody Allen, The New York Times reminds us none of the comedians have been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, and nothing an email suggests that meeting women was part of the rationale for the gatherings. The New York Times further reminds us Epstein was an earnest fan of comedy who attended shows in Manhattan, Palm Beach and Montreal. Jackie the joke Man Martling is quoted here as saying, Jeffrey Epstein told Jackie over a meal, anybody that’s really smart loves jokes because they’re little problems and the way they work themselves out. Further reporting from The Times. After one dinner in twenty five fifteen, Jeffrey Epstein emailed Nick Depolo, writing, thanks for coming last night.

If okay with you, I will contact you on my return to New York. Topoulo wrote back, give me a little time to process that last part. As you know, you’re a bit of a controversial guy. I mean no offense by that at all, l ol. The Time says to Polo did not reply to request for comment, Neither did Rock Allen, Lewis Black, or Jackie Martling.

Times further says Lewis Black, Slayton, and Jackie have said in interviews that they never saw Epstein hanging out with underage girls. Layton told a Daily Beast reporter he felt obliged to visit and let’s not wrap up on that story. Let me get a little silly here. I’m worried about Tim Meadows. Why worried about Tim Meadows?

Johnny Mac Well. Tim Meadows says his funniest friend is Adam Sandler. Why why there’s nothing funny about the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler. How do you find him funny? Tim Meadows?

Who? Again, I’ve never met Tim Meadows. What I’m worried about you now? Tim Meadows said it. I know a lot of very funny people, but Sadler, I think for me is the funniest because I’ve known him so long.

We have a really good friend. We have bits that we do with each other from thirty years ago. Then you create new bits whenever you hang out with them. He loves to laugh and he loves to do bits. I think he’s one of the funniest people I know, just in terms of talking and hanging out.

We can be ourselves with each other, all right, So maybe he’s like really funny in person. That just doesn’t translate to anything on say Saturday Night Live or movies. All right, that makes sense. I’m less worried about tim Meadows now. I wait, I should have kept reading.

I’m worried about tim Meadows again, he said. I always say there’s very few people from SNL I would drive across the country with. But David Spade is probably in my top three or four people that I could do that with. To each their own. And that is your comedy news for today.

I’ll see tomorrow.

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