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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy and he was. Tomorrow on this program, I will reveal the top twenty five stand up specials of the year, not including the five major ones still to come out later in the year. But that’s tomorrow’s program. It is a quiet day at the end of a quiet week as the comedy industry seems to have gone into hibernation.

Let’s take a look at the late night jokes. Steven Colbert was talking about the cold. He said, it was the kind of weather today that makes you wish you were someplace tropical, like on a boat in the Caribbean, but not near Venezuela, which is a great joke. Jimmy Fallon getting very edgy for Jimmy Fallon, he said, yeah. First when Trump heard it dipped into the teens, he was like, what Epstein file did they release?

Now. Kimmel joked about how they want us to work out of the airport. Now, he said, that’s one idea, or hear me out, maybe just try to have the planes leave on time so we don’t need to come up with fun ways to hang out at the airport all day. Last weekend, Trump hosted the Kennedy Center Awards. Jimmy Kimmel said he’s been boasting about hosting, saying, we’ve never had a president host the Kennedy Center Honors before, which, yeah, why do you think that is?

We’ve also never had Neil Patrick Harris order a military strike on a fishing boat before. Among the five major specials that are not on my list because I haven’t seen them tonight, Sarah Sherman is on HBO tonight. Now my HBO is back. My son did go to the phone store and argued with them and successfully lobby to restore my free HBO. I was able to catch up on The Chair Company.

Good show, you should be watching it. I felt like a senior citizen last night. I felt like I turned to my mom. I was watching the most recent two episodes and I was like, I don’t even know what’s going on. How did we get to the scene.

But it’s such a roller coaster ride. Watched The Chair Company. I don’t know if America is ready for Sarah’s squirm. The New York Times caught up with Sarah and they said, somewhere in Sarah Sherman’s apartment is a prosthetic eyeball that once peered out of her grandmother’s skull. You see when Sarah was a child, Grandma liked to remove its iris and start off with one milky white orb.

Sarah said it was terrifying but also really funny. After Graham, I’ll pass away. Sarah Sherman inherited the eyeball and sometimes wears it as a necklace. Sarah Squirm Live Plus in the flash HBO Tonight the Time, says Sherman enthusiastically repulses her audience while counting on her material to keep them in their seats. Sarah says, I like getting screams of terror and groans.

I like playing with how far I can push people and then bring them back with comedy. Sarah talked about her heroes Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller talk about the same stuff that I talk about. They were just funnier and I have images and props. As for my concern that America’s not ready for her, she said she never considered toning it down. Telling the Times, even if people hate the special, I’m like, this is what I’m really good at.

Before in advanced screening in December, workers handed out barf Bags.

Also out this weekend, Robbie Hoffman’s special that’s on Netflix Sunday Night.

And I think the Sunday Night football game is a dog, right, so this might work out. Well. What’s Sunday Night football this week? Oh no, it’s Cowboys Vikings. That’s watchable, all right.

I often blow off Sunday Night football. It’s like too much. It’s like, all right, I watched seven hours of sports already, need to do something else. Plus there’s that hour between the late games and the eight o’clock Maybe I’ll get in there. I’m excited for Robbie Hoffman.

When I saw John Mulaney was producing her special, which he did, I brushed up on Robbie Hoffman as part of what I do for a living, and I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I’m excited for this one. Robbie told Gaiety dot Com. I’ve been very slow and steady wins the race. I’ve been working a long time, but steadily chipping and enjoying. Congratulations to John Stewart.

He will receive the Walter Crunkite Award. They have a new category. It is Comedic News and Commentary. Stuart will be recognized for his work on The Daily Show, well earned, but are there enough people to give out that category every year? So you’re going to wind up giving it to Oliver and Seth Myers and Roywood Junior and then who, I guess that’s a problem for five years from now.

Wow, John Stewart’s sixty three years old. Now I guess I’m fifty six, So I guess. Wow, All right, we all got old. Everybody. The Cronkite people said John Stewart redefined satire as a student insights based on solid research.

They lauded Stewart as a master of his class, saying he remains relevant, bringing five valuable facts to light, advancing public discourse, and using civic action awesome. Yusef said, when the revolution in Egypt broke out, I did the one thing that made sense to me. I left medicine and became a comedian. He was at the Bridge submit in Abu Dhabi and said, I’m in this very peculiar position where I’m a comedian, but my name is associated with wars, revolutions and human tragedy. For some reason, people take my jokes more seriously than they should.

We live in a world where a TikTok video gets more engagement than a UN resolution, and where a comedian’s Instagram post about Gaza gets more traction than a fifty page Amnesty International report. I’m invited to political forums, hard talk interviews, and serious events, but I don’t know if this says more about how seriously people take comedians or how much of a joke serious discourse has become. Is it because comedians are brilliant, absolutely not. Is it because somewhere along the way the circus became more trusted than the Senate and gestures became more credible than the journalists. People have found more truth in comedy clubs than in the outlets of the free press.

As I mentioned, tomorrow is the top twenty five stand up specials of the year, so I won’t have an opportunity to wish Dick van Dyk a happy one hundredth birthday, so I will wish it to him in advance. Vandik told People Magazine. I’ve always thought that anger is one thing that eats up a person’s insides, and hate, and these were things I didn’t like, people I don’t like and disapprove of, But I was never able to do a white heat kind of hate. He says his brighter outlook is one of the reasons he’s made it to ninety nine slash one hundred. He also credits his wife, or Lean and says, without question our ongoing romance it’s the most important reason I’ve not withered away into a hermetic rouch.

Arlene is half my age, and she makes me feel somewhere between two thirds and three quarters my age, which is still saying a lot. It is less season. Friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann in The New York Times put out something on Thursday called Best Comedy of twenty twenty five. Jason has Roywood Junior’s Lonely Flowers as his best special under a category called best Auturist Special is Cameron Esposito’s Four Pills, and says Esposito patient Lean Worf’s a swaggering act about dark subjects, including divorce, rehab, a relationship with a clown into something fractured, emotional and stylish. The best parenting comedy is rosebud Baker’s The Mother Load and George severest a Sense of Urgency.

I don’t know George’s special. Let’s say George wonders whether he should join his gay friends and having children. Before concluding he would like to skip the diaper’s phase and go right to the port where his daughter’s of bohemian playwright. Best YouTube special goes to John Marco Serrasie Thief of Joy. None of us can argue with that, and people who listen to this podcast now, I’m a big fan of John Marco.

Three time guest Best Range Chris Fleming. Jason and I are aligned here. We really like Chris Fleming. One of the loudest comedy audiences I heard this year was when Fleming performing at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Right Zi him In imagined a drawn out fight between the Fresh Air host Terry Gross and Adam Driver.

What was more impressive is two days later at Carnegie Hall, he took the same at Ceial below to his fiscality and did just as well. He has Mark Marin’s special listed under Funniest spoof of the Right, quoting the killer line from Maren’s special, you do realize we annoyed the average American into fascism. Best Lineup went to the Mark Twain Awards. I will talk about that over the weekend, and Best Year and Surprise he gave it to Jim Gaffigan’s Bourbon Special Live from Old Forrester. According to Zinneman, in a fragmented culture where many specials feel padded out, it’s a savvy move to go deep and narrow, a labor of love that comes off as a little holiday gift.

Comedy stock markets. Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Again, I will remind everyone the comedy stock market is where we find value to make hypothetical money off comedians who are undervalued, and then we try and sell high on comedians who are overvalued. This is not saying anyone is good or bad. We’re just looking at relative value, how they’re valued in the mainstream media these days, and where we can find some value.

I got a recommendation from one of the listeners who sent me a cover art for Nikki Glaser promoting the Golden Globes, and let me open up my phone here so I can describe this to you. We are going to sell Nikki Glaser. Here. We see Nicki. Now, the first thing that draws your attention are her boobs, because she’s showing a lot of boobs here.

Minimal dress on the top here covering the extra naughty parts. But we’re seeing a lot of boobs, your eyes go straight to the boobs, and then your eyes are drawn over to the phallic ish trophy and Nicki looking longingly after the phallic like trophy while her boobs are hanging out. I like comedy, I like sex. I like the golden globes. I don’t need to mix all three.

We’ll sell Nikki Glaser. We’re also gonna sell Sarah Sherman. Now. Again, this is not good or bad. I’m really excited for Sarah Sherman’s special.

I really like Sarah Sherman. I’m prepared for Sarah squirm. I don’t think America is I think people are gonna be like, oh, it’s the nice, weird lady that makes fun of Colin Joe’s from Saturday Night Live. Let’s check her out, and they’re gonna be horrified by this. So let’s sell Sarah Sherman right now, while all the press is out there, before people actually watch this thing.

So this is an example of we’re getting good value if we sell today. Conversely, let’s load up on Robbie Hoffman. I know last week I told you to buy Robbie Hoffman. Let’s double down on Robbie Hoffman before that special comes out, and especially that’ll be on Netflix and people will be like, what’s this? Let me hit play on this and they’ll be like, oh, that was really good.

So I think we’re getting really good value on Robbie Hoffman. Looking ahead to twenty twenty six, let’s sell Marcelo Hernandez stock do we even have any Well, maybe we’ll short sell it. He’s got a special on Netflix, and I’m convinced he does two things well, one a Sebastian Maniscalco impression, so that’s good for thirty seconds that you’re special, and he does Domingo and things that might as well just be called Domingo. I don’t know if he’s got an hour in him. We’re gonna find out on Netflix in January.

But I’m gonna sell Marcelo Hernandez and we probably should buy some Jimmy Kimmel extended for another year, and you’re probably like, well, Johnny already extended. So where’s the value here? Here’s the value? When Colbert’s show ends? Where are those people going to go?

Like the people like my mom, they’re not going to switch over to Jimmy Fallon. I think they’ll go over to Kimmel. I think Colbert’s audience is more aligned with Kimmel than Fallon, and the late night audience has to go somewhere. Some of them will just fade away because like my mom would just leave on CBS, and you could put this show on CBS and should stare at it. I think Kimmel is going to pick up a decent amount of audience.

So this is long term buy here. Let’s buy some Jimmy Kimmel. Right, So we’re selling Nikki Glaser, we’re selling Sarah Sherman, we’re selling Marcelo Hernandez, we’re loading up on Robbie Hoffman, and we’re buying some Jimmy Kimmel. Let that’s your comedy stock market for this week. An update on Andy Dick from TMZ.

TMZ says Andy invited a TMZ photographer into his La home on Wednesday to talk about the incident I reported yesterday. Andy apparently told the cameraman he’s one hundred percent fine, and then he changed his answer to one hundred and ten percent fine, as TMZ tells it, Our cameraman then asked what happened on Tuesday. Andy let one of his friends take center stage, the dude starts talking about the day and then Andy cuts him off. When the convo turns to one of his other down on his luck friends, Andy said he sat down next to the guy who whipped out some crack, and from that point forward everything went downhill. Andy said he need a little bit of that meaning crack.

And then it’s told quote that TMZ is calling stunning. I don’t mind doing some crack every now and then. I hope you’re okay, Andy Dick. I’m not sure you are. Brad Williams was on Jacksonville Radio.

He found out about the minor league baseball team and said, how am I not a fan of a team that are called the Jumbo Shrimp. That’s amazing. I’m four foot four. I should be wearing Jumbo Shrimp merchandise wherever I go. I will literally fly out from California.

I will leave my hot Chinese wife and my wonderful daughter just to be out there throughout a first pitch for a Jumbo Shrimp game. Let’s make this happen, all right, Mitchell and Webb are not helping. We’ll get a second season from the UK’s Channel four. That’s great, Charlie Perkins is head of Comedy for Channel four and mister Perkins said, they said sketch was dead, but the success of Mitchell and Webb are not helping with audiences on linear streaming and social proofs otherwise making a hit on top of having the ability to showcase so many incredible new writers and performers alongside David and Robert has been an immense honor and joy. Thank you so much to our exceptional Series one ensemble.

We’re looking forward to offering more brilliant writers and performers the opportunity on series two. Long Live Sketch Comedy will stay in the UK. They say to be working this week. The US is not so much. They’ve made a change to the judging panel on BBC two’s Great British Menu.

Phil Wang will replace Ed Gamble as one of the judges. I like Phil’s comedy a lot. Phil said, I’m so excited to be the new judge on Great British Menu. I’ve been an avid food lover all my life. I’m thrilled about this opportunity to taste food from the most creative and skilled chefs in the country.

Can’t wait to put my mouth where my mouth is Ed Gamble said, I can think of no better person to pass the Golden Spoon two than my dear friend and frequent dining companion, Phil Wang. He’s hilarious, great company, and crucially matches my appetite more than anyone else I’ve met. I’ll miss everyone on the team, but I know they’ll forget about me as soon as they start chomping with the Wang. And that is your comedy news for today. Alright tomorrow Top twenty five stand up specials of the Year Sunday is other stuff that was funny, for example, the Mark Twain Awards, Tires, things like that, and all the other specials that didn’t make my list and my reasons why.

And I’ll see you here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny mack if your Daily Comedy News. David Letterman was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and I gotta tell you him a mixed thoughts here. On the one hand, it felt like the old Dave. But on the other hand, I kept thinking that Dave’s appearance was the kind of guest that used to drive Johnny Carson nuts because Dave sits down and just starts doing shtick and isn’t really having a real conversation anyway.

Let’s listen. I’ve edited this down for pacing. I love man. I love him more than Chinese food. That’s right.

I love him more than Valet Parking. I love him more than that cars for Kids song. I just that’s really good. Yeah. Yeah.

People are aware of the fact that you are the leader of the resistance. I’m gonna suck up to you because I feel like if I kind of tag along with you, I’ll be glorified in retrospect. I know. It’s kind of like you just sit there. If the now this is irrespective of a party or political ideology, irrespective part of your political ideology.

If the leader of the free world is a fool, the leader of the free world, then should expect and examine every bit of ridicule he received. Kim Al asked Letterman if you ever missed hosting Late Night, and Dave said, people used to know who I am and now have to wear a name tag to get anything going. I’m so glad to be out from under this mess because people like you, and people like Stephen Colbert and people like Seth Meyers do such a masterful job of this defending democracy. Thank god for you they got for others SNL and everybody else. I think it’s the way things need to be in a democracy that seemingly this crippled Andy Dick was apparently discovered unresponsive in Hollywood on Tuesday.

Reports suggested it was an apparent overdose. Photos obtained by TMZ show Andy Dick slumped over while sitting on some stairs. The only male reported that. Witnesses at the scenes said Andy Dick’s friends rushed over to him and shouted wake up. Others called nine to one one.

Some others say that Andy cried out for narcan, which is a medication that is used to halt and reverse the effects of opioid use, including in the event of an overdose. Hope Bowl is okay with Andy Dick. Interesting. Taylor Thomson’s story surfaced yesterday. Now apparently she put out a video on November eighteenth.

Check your calendar this so this has been around, but I only first saw any whiff of this yesterday. In the November eighteenth video, Taylor Thompson said, as you guys know, I had to move some shows because I got sick. And if you went to a few of the shows in the weeks before, you know I was sick for a little while, and unfortunately I’m still sick and dealing with that. Luckily, I have a great team and a great doctor, and I’m trying to follow their advice at the moment. As a result, I’m not going to be able to finish out these last cities on the Save Me Tour.

This is not an easy decision to make. It’s not when I want to make. Now this is really interesting, and maybe I’m putting two and two together and getting seventeen. But you may recall that after Midnight had been renewed, and then Taylor said she didn’t want to do it, and then they unrenewed it, and then somebody, possibly perhaps looked at late night in general, and got rid of Colbert. As I’ve said in the past, I’m not blaming Taylor, but she may be the butterfly that flapped their wings anyway.

Taylor Toman said, I haven’t been one hundred percent for a while now. I’m really bad at prioritizing my health, and I think it’s just caught up with me, and I need to prioritize that at the moment and focus on getting healthy, not just like good enough to work, which is what I usually do.

And also like I don’t want to keep rescheduling on you guys, She explained, i…

She’s also worried that if the tour dates were postponed until after her special is released, people will think we could just watch this at home, So she says, I just want to refunder your money. This sucks. Life happens, and this is where we’re at right now. I love you and appreciate you think for understanding. She did not clarify what her illness is, and again it’s unclear to me what she means by for a while now.

If that’s after the twelve thirty renewal, or perhaps even before and again, I might be adding two and two and getting seventeen here. I hope you’re doing okay, Taylor Tomlinson. Sarah Sherman Special is out on HBO on Friday. Oh good news. My son came home to get his new phone and he knows I was a little frost about the HBO thing, so he went down to the phone company store and who’s like, hey, Dad, it’s not happy with this.

And apparently he found a cool customer service rep who’s putting the HBO back. So I’ll be able to watch Sarah Sherman without having to stand out in the cold looking through someone else’s window. Great news. I also get to finish the Cheer Company. I had one episode left, I mean, come on, Nylon asked Sarah Sherman, Hey, you’re on your fifth year at SNL.

Wow is it five years already? How you feeling about this season? Sarah said, I was editing the special kind of right up on a going back to work. So Shifting Gears has been whiplashy and startlaning, but also kind of fun. The show is forced me to be like, hey, you actually have to write a joke.

You can’t just be screaming about poop all the time. And I feel like the show’s made me more grounded. I know it’s funny after watching that to think of anything being grounded that I ever do. But I’m in drag at work. Basically, they put me in a lot of blonde wigs.

I’m a normal woman who’s like, hey, grandma, whatever, All right, Sarah Sherman, how do you want people to feel away walking from this special? She says, I don’t even know how I want them to walk away. I want them to walk towards it. That people wi see the post and be like, oh, this isn’t for me. This is for bisexuals in Brooklyn with gay little haircuts.

But I promise there’s something I did for everyone. There’s jokes, there’s stuff to look at. It’s definitely not boring. I hope people walk away not bored. And she’s reading the room.

They asked her, all right, what about people that only know you from SNL any warnings? She said, do not eat while watching Oh my, I’m looking forward to this one. Michelle Wolfe is on the Good One podcast. She says being on stage is like a tiny vacation and now that she’s a mom. I’ve become a much more efficient joke writer because I have a limited amount of time to write jokes.

Now I feel like I have an actual personal life to talk about. Although you do see reviews from people that are like another comedian at a kid another time about being a parent, and it’s like, yeah, one of the most relatable experiences a human can have. A good one asked her if she could have gotten where she was in her career if she’d become a mom earlier. Michelle said, as a stand up, between touring and working at night and all that stuff, it’s nearly impossible to do it without an extensive support system. In order for me to go on a tour with a baby, it’s a nanny, which means more flights, more hotels.

You’re just spending a lot more money. And earlier in my career, I wasn’t making that much money. I would have been spending at least what I was making just to do the shows. So the kind of grind that you have to have and stand up, I don’t think I would have been able to do it. And even right now, I’ve got my eye on that private jet money.

At the moment, I know everyone can roll their eyes about rich people right now, but I’ll tell you what, if I can travel on a jet with two children, I’ll post my feet on OnlyFans for a little bit. The conversation changed to the Rio Comedy Festival. Michelle was offered it and turned it down, and she said, I didn’t have to make a decision. The decision was made for me. The show they offered me was on October fourth, My due date was September twenty ninth, So whether I wanted to do it or not really wasn’t part of the question.

It would have been literally impossible, and it had it been a different time, I really would have had to weigh the pros and cons of it because they were throwing crazy people and then in your head you’re like, well, maybe this opens up a whole new market for me. But I do think anything paid for by a government, that’s a hard one to do, and a lot of countries like this, everything’s paid for the eye of the government. You can travel to America and do a lot of things that are not sponsored and paid for by the government. If I had decided to do the festival, I would have done jokes like the ones I’ve released are very similar to them. I would have been like, I got to throw at least one or two of those in there.

So I think it’s best for everyone that I didn’t do it. But I think a lot of people like Jessica Kerson, who people got really angry with, but she said, I’ll only do it if I’m allowed to be an open lesbian on stage, and they were like, okay, And I do think that’s important. I think what she did was a big deal. I think was very brave of her. There were probably a ton of people who had never heard of lesbian new comedy, and I feel bad that people got angry about that, because I think she’s breaking a barrier.

Mike Apps got a Netflix special in January, so as we head into late January, the nominees for Best stand up Special of twenty twenty six will be either Mike Epps or Morselo Hernandez. The special is called delusionalan to be out January twenty seventh. It is Mike EPP’s fifth for Netflix. In it, he discusses how a little delusion and a lot of hustle made him a star. There was a Nikki Glaser item in the News I feel like we knew this already, but Deadline reported it like it was real, So maybe I’m just crazy Anyway.

Nikki Glaser, Fortune Fimester, and some others will join Kim Kardashian in the Netflix comedy The Fifth Wheel. The film follows a group of best friends from high school who attempt to reconnect during a weekend jaunt to Vegas. When a hot outsider, Kim Kardashian, crashes the weekend, they’re forced to face their messy lives, bad decisions, and unraveling friendships. Anthony Jelinek wrote a guest piece for Vulture about books. Anthony writes, as I’m writing this piece, I’ve read fifty one novels that were released in twenty twenty five.

I choose what to read either based on the description written by the publisher or because I recognized the author’s name and enjoyed their previous work. For the past five years, I’ve kept the list of everything I’ve read, and then gone back through and created a top ten list of novels I’ve read from that year for social media to admire and or make fun of. This year, I’ve graduated to publishing my lin Vulture behind a paywall. His number one pick of the year is Perfection by Vincenzo Letronico, translated by Sophie Hughes. Jalnik tells us this one is tough to describe without using some version of the word perfect.

It’s about a young couple of digital creatives who can work from anywhere in the world. They choose Berlin at a time when living in Berlin was the coolest thing anyone could possibly do with their youth. It’s not just the only novel I read twice this year, but the only one I read in one sitting, riveted by the vivid description of a life many of us consider, but few choose to pursue. Jim Gaffigan released a clip on social media. Now, I gotta be honest.

I went into this cynically, going okay, he was only on social media to sell us something, But no, he didn’t sell anything in this clip. The material is really strong here. If you can imagine this with a crowd, a lot of these jokes would have landed as it is. It’s just Jim talking into the camera, laying down some I guess extra material he needed to get out of his system. I did cut this down.

The original piece, which we’ll find on Jim social media as a minute forty two, which is kind of long to excerpt. Tier. Let me give you a taste into the break. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Really, is it the most wonderful?

Have you been outside seeing the crowds, the traffic, ever go through security in the airport in December. I’ll tell you one word that doesn’t come to mind, wonderful. Gossip Conna stood in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby, gossip Conna with Johnny Mage. It’s always a tree. Pete Davidson spoke to People magazine.

Pete is excited about his new baby. He says he’s just excited to meet this little thing. And as for a name, he explains, for a while, we were like, should we do that weird Hollywood thing where it’s like a color or something, And I think now we’re more into Staten Island normal among the considerations, Mikey, Johnny, Tommy, mar Amy, Bridget, Maggie, something like that. I missed that. Remember when you were growing up, you knew like seven francs.

Although he says we were thinking the middle name could be a little more fun Pete apparently is getting a Honda Odyssey. This from the Autopia in your Home for comedy News. Pete said, I’m about to be dad, so I figured it was time to drive something practical but not boring. I’ve always used eBay to find just about anything, like classic TV Memorabilian sneakers, so of course that’s where I found my van too. I used to have a Hanna Odyssey.

I loved it. Pete Davidson’s custom Honda Odyssey includes a changing table, a power bank for the vacuum cleaner, a bottle warmer, and a refrigerator. They’ve also added a VHS. They found a new one on eBay, unused from nineteen ninety one. Guy named Angelo delivered the custom van to Pete Davidson and asked Pete what videotape he wanted to use to test the vc or The answer he put in the first episode of The Sopranos in the VHS.

We watched the Sopranos, joked around a ton, and we went through all the features of the van. I showed him everything. He’s quite a bit taller than I am. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Boy. What an exciting night in Newark, New Jersey. Governor elect Mikey Cheryl was there. The Governor elect promised the entertainment event of a lifetime at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and Jay Pack and who were there.

It was an evening with Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert. Hope they found something to talk about. Of course they talked about late night. I don’t know if you heard this, Stephen Colbert show is coming to an end. Conan O’Brien said, I’m sad about the form, but I’m a fifty two percent optimist, and I believe that humans find a way and really find people who are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, twenty twenty five right now are going to use what’s available to make beautiful, hilarious, funny things.

I have to believe that it will not look the same way as our path. It will not be the same path, but it’ll more or less be the same idea. Addressing Colbert directly, one of the first things I said to you when this news broke There isn’t a person on this planet. Who’s worried about Stephen Colbert. These shows are a way for Stephen Colbert to relate to people, but they are not the only way.

There are so many different things that you can do, and you’re going to do that. They’re gonna give you enormous amounts of pleasure and you’re gonna be great at it. You’re just not there yet. You haven’t begun that yet. Conan said, there’s no better person I could be sharing the stage with right now.

The world is your oyster, and double down. Whatever Colbert does next is going to be amazing. Now, ABC has some news. I have news for your paying attention. I’m lifting the embargo on Hulu.

Aside from their not so good hilarious comedy special, that’s a whole other thing. But if you want to just push the green button on your moat and watch Scrubs on Hulu, go ahead, Because ABC Disney has made it clear they are not supporting fascism. Okay, why Johnny Mack. They have renewed Jimmy Kimmel, which is sure to make certain people unhappy, But go ahead. You don’t have to walk three flights of stairs to watch the Scrubs DVDs go ahead and push that button, which is good news for the Scrubs reboot.

I mean I was gonna have to stand out in the cold outside somebody’s house, peering through the window while they watched Scrubs, which is sometimes how I watch Knicks games because YouTube TV doesn’t have MSG less. I’ll stay out the street and somebody else is watching the next game and I watch it through their window. Kim Oll commented on Donald Trump hosting the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday night. The President had said that if he couldn’t do it better than when Jimmy Kimmel hosted, he might have to give up being president altogether. Kimmell, of course, has never hosted the Kennedy Center Awards, which kim Oll pointed out, but he welcomed the idea of a talent competition matching his own skills, which are apparently jokes drawing and playing the clarinet, against Trump’s ability to golf, spank a porn starre and run a country.

The reveal came when kim Oll was talking about how apparently the President did not enjoy sixty minutes this week. Kim Olds said, I’m sorry you feel that way about sixty minutes, and the last thing I want to do is upset you at this sensitive time. But I have one more bit of entertainment news to share. I have decided to extend my contract here at ABC for another year. Our show has been renewed until May of twenty twenty seven, or until the world ends, whichever comes first.

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tonight, your guest is Taylor Swift.

Speaking of Scrubs, Bill Lawrence has a new show coming to a We’ll have to pa…

It is titled Rooster. It stars Steve Carell. One of the co stars John C. McGinley, you know him as Doctor Cox. Ten episodes.

Rooster is a comedy set on a college campus, centering on an author’s complicated relationship with his daughter. A lot of good pedigree there that should be good. Of course, I won’t be able to see it because my son went to the AT and T store and got a new phone and they got rid of the free HBO that I had, So I’m not happy with my son or the AT and T store. I’m gonna have to stand out on the street looking through somebody else’s window while they’re watching HBO and Hope the Rooster’s on very upset about my FREEHBO going away, like very very upset. Oh the Boiler’s back.

Yeah. I called him and I begged him like, will you please come? And they came. Man, it was cold here. Sarah Sherman has a special on HBO on Friday.

Again. I wish I could watch it, but you know, hope my son enjoys his new phone. She’s doing a lot of press. I’m saving a lot of the press for Friday when the special comes out. But one of the interviews she did was with Nylon dot Com and they said, I imagine people watch this special and be like, is she okay?

Yeah. I’m concerned that people are gonna be like, oh, Sarah’s so funny on Saturday Night Live, and I have no idea what they’re getting into when they watched this one. Sarah said, it’s funny. I did a show a couple weeks ago when the merch table was in the room, so the merch guy saw the whole show. I came up to him after the show and he’s like, oh my god, I thought you were gonna be root and mean, but you’re nice.

I would have hoped that in real life, I’m a lot tamer, but the show’s an expression of some very Jewish neurosis. Embodied some spoilers for the very opening Okay spoilers here, I’m not ruining the special for you, but apparently the opening sequence. Sarah says, so many stand up specials start with the comedian being backstage getting ready, and they’re in the green room. My version is that I’m not in a green room. I’m in a crypt and my bones and gour forming.

That’s my version of getting ready a right, so that sets the scene for what this thing’s gonna be. Sarah said, the show is really intense and loud and in your face. It’s almost like a total sensory experience. So me and the director were just like, we don’t want that to be flatten when people are watching it on their phones on the toilet. Sarah, how long does it take you to make a special?

She says, A really long time. I’ve been touring for ten years and this is my first specials of the material has been coming together for a while. Jesus prosthetics and said, pitching it to people and being like, I know this sounds crazy, but we need a little bit of budget to do something because stand up specials are cheap, and we’re like, but what if it wasn’t cheap? That’s funny. The guys from Please Don’t Destroy they have teamed up with White Claw Please Don’t Destroy has created the Roast Host Collection, a new line of holiday essential merch inscribed with various tongue in cheek roasts you see.

The collection was inspired by a recent White Claw survey that found that friends who regularly roast each other are nearly twice as loyal as seventy eight percent, saying roasting feels playful and friendly. The Royal Host Collection includes a serving plotter with You’re so brave for speaking before thinking, a set of four dinner plates also sold individually with lines like you couldn’t read a room if it had subtitles and unsolicited advice is your love language, as well as a serving bowl of napkins with equally hilarious inscriptions. Kevin Brady is the vice president of marketing for White Claw and said, the holidays we’re all about laughter, connection and maybe calling out your friend who makes the group chat go silent, and we love them for that. We’re raising a claw of the good natured bonding that makes the best friendships feel even funnier and hangs more memorable. The roast Ose collection of Albot white Claw dot com slash Holiday another merch drop coming out today, very exciting.

Meanwhile, Ricky Gervas is out howking his vodka for some reason. When he does it, I find it funny, And when Jim Gaffigan does it, I don’t know. I think it’s that Ricky is just blatantly telling you he’s trying to make money off this thing. But here’s Ricky Gervis will take us into the break. Thanks to everyone who’s subscribed to Dutchbarn dot com.

If you haven’t go there, you go into a draw every month someone wins a year’s supply of vodka and if you buy Ginger spiced, we help donkeys. I’ve also been tying up the money I’m going to give to animal charities from the tour through a little press release like that next week. So yeah, Dutch Barn Mortality Donkeys Very Christmas. Out today on the eight hundred pound Gorilla Channel. Luke Higgy’s tip Rat some more details out of Canada about that.

Dave Chappelle appearance. I scolded Mike from the Lehman podcast on the side. I was like, I thought you people were polite. Why are you being rude to Dave Chappelle? And it just he apologized because that’s what Canadians do.

Mike feels bad for the entire country being mean to Dave Chappelle. Anyway, CETV spoke with one person who says she was at the show. Let’s hear what she has to say. I have made some edits to this for pacing. Dave just shut down.

He said, like, I’ve done a million shows and this is the first time. I can’t wait to be off stage. Three quarters of the way through. That’s when the crowd kind of got a little rude. I’ll say, yeah, rude.

He just stood there and he looked at his watch and he’s like, I could stand here for the remainder of the show, for like the next ten minutes that we have and like, you guys can just scream at me and be ignorant or you know. Shane Gillis is a Notre Dame football fan. You may have heard that Notre Dame didn’t make the college football playoff and they were like you know what, we don’t need to play in any stupid bowl game. We’re good. Shane was appearing on the Film Guy Network and the Notre Dame topic came up.

Shane said he set an alarm to make sure he didn’t sleep through the selection show. He was convinced Notre Dame would be in then after Alabama showed up with the nine seed. According to Shane, once you see the number nine come up and it’s Bama, that was worse than watching Notre Dame lose a game that was terrible. That hurts. Gillis believes there is Bama bias, pointing out that Alabama didn’t lose any ranking despite losing to Georgia twenty eight to seven in the SEC title game.

Shane said, I understand not penalizing a team for being in the conference championship if they’re competitive or at least don’t have minus three yushing yards. But I don’t know if Alabama was competitive at all. It’s the SEC, it’s the best conference. Technically, Notre Dame didn’t really beat anybody. But I’m a fan.

I want Notre Dame in there. If you’re not to college football. Notre Dame is an independent they’re not in any particular conference. Gillis said, it’s finally catching up my whole life. Everybody’s been like, join a conference, and he said if Notre Dame does join one the Big ten or the SEC would be awesome.

Never the ACC after they were trayed us this year, Notre Dame got screwed. Whatever, We’ll be back watching that selection show and having your team left out that hurt. My day’s ruined. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The eighty third Golden Globe Ceremony will air on CBS Sunday, January eleventh. You may recall two years ago Joe Coy hosted it and told it’s just a terrible, mean joke about tailor shift, but I don’t have time for that today. This year’s host is Nicky Glazer, and let’s take a look at some of the comedy nominations will begin with Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy on Television.

The nominees are Bill Maher for is anyone else seeing this? And I think the answer there is no. I haven’t seen anyone talk about that special all year.

Also nominated Brett Goldstein The Second Best Night of Your Life.

I like that special lot, Kevin Hart acting My Age, which I have as my number two special. And again I’ll put out my list on Saturday. Kamil nan Gianni’s Ninth Thoughtsparently people seem to like this one where his press people are good. A lot of buzz on that one. It’s coming out on Hulu later in the month.

Rick Gervai’s Mortality and Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, which was really good, or I’d out of Mark Goldstein, Hart, Kamal, Ricky, Sarah. So I think artistically I like Sarah’s the best, but in terms of just my ranking, I have Kevin Hart top of this group, I guess would have to give it to Kevin Hart. I kind of want to give it to Sarah, but that doesn’t make sense if I have Kevin ranked higher than Sarah. How do you judge that? Are we just going by funniest or should I go by the art, Because if I go by the art, Sarah did it.

Of course. The entire thing is madness that Mark Maron is not nominated. But maybe he didn’t submit himself for an award, which seems like a very Mark Maron thing to do. I don’t know how it works. The nominations for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, Abbot Elementary, The Bear Hacks and nobody wants this, only Murders the Studio The Bear is clearly not a comedy.

I’d say hacks out of that group. Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Music or Comedy Adam Brody, nobody wants this. Steve Martin for Murders Glenn Powell, Chad Powers, Seth Rogan, The Studio, Martin Short Murders, Jeremale and White Bear, which is not a comedy. The industry loves fawning over themselves and they really like the very very overrated The Studio. Seth Rogen will win there.

If I had to give it to somebody, I don’t even have a pick. Best performance by an actress in a TV series Musical comedy, Kristen Bell, nobody wants this. I Adebe The Bear, which is not a comedy, Selena Gomez Murders, Natasha Leone, Poker Face, Jenna Ortega, Wednesday, Jean Smart Hacks. I’d give it to Gene Best podcast, Dak Shephard, call Her Daddy, Amy Pohler, the Mel Robins podcast, SmartLess, and Up First, And as I posted on LinkedIn, hey guys, this is a TV show I actually listened to Up First most days. They’re not gonna like get nine point thirty on CBS, be like and here’s the guys from NPR.

Up First. Amy Poehler is gonna win this one. If she doesn’t, Dak Sheppard will. The Carol Burnett Award will go to Sarah Jessica Parker bill Board put out their list of the top twenty five comedians of the twenty first century so far. I’m going to rip off that idea and do my own version.

Later in the month, Ricky Gervais posted on social media, this is so American centric. I’m generally surprised to be on it at all. But to be fair, it’s a pretty fine listen and I’m a fan of most of the people above me, so it’s all good. In a social media clip, Ricky Gervais talked about his tour and his special. He also talked about his vodka.

But I’ll play the Voka part tomorrow. But here’s Ricky. Hello, Ricky Dumas here. I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who bought a ticket to my Mortality tour and everyone who tried. It’s probably my favorite tour so far.

The special drops on Netflix on the thirtieth of December. So if you like the show, or if you like my previous shows, then you’re gonna love the special. It’s more me than ever. If you didn’t like my previous shows, you’ll hate it. You’ll hate it more than don’t watch it.

It’ll make you sad and angry. Don’t even watch the trailers because they’re make you. Oh, you’ll post something about them. No one to care and how makes you sadah and angrier? Watch something you do like and talk to your little friends.

Dr Who you love that, Watch Doctor Who. David Letterman will be the guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tonight. Make twelve thirty great Again. The team behind the British version of Saturday Night Live have slightly tapped into Seth Myers to help them out. Seth told Graham Norton, I doubts about it at first, but having spent a week here meeting potential writers and cast, it’s very exciting.

There are so many young, funny people and a great comedic skill set here, I think it’s going to be great. Chortal reports. A transcript of Seth’s comments released to journalists initially said that Seth Myers had explicitly said quote I am involved unquote in the UK project. After several hours after, Trotter reported that a publicist for the show said the transcript was inaccurate. Interesting.

A briefing from the Sky Channel has asked cast and writers to be available from mid January to early April. That suggests a time table for that. The President of the United States, who’s doing nothing about Star Trek. Have you seen this trailer for Starfleet Academy? Oh my god, just mister Trump, you gotta do something about this.

He’s out there hosting TV shows. He was hosting the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday night, and he compared himself to a previous host of the event, saying, Jimmy Kimmel was horrible. If I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don’t think I should be president. Interestingly, Jimmy Kimmel has hosted the Kennedy Center Awards as many times as I have. We are tied at zero.

The President told reporters, We’ve never had a president hosting the awards before. This is the first. I’m sure they’ll give me great reviews, right, you know, they’ll say he was horrible. He was terrible. It was a horrible situation.

The President was confident, said, we’ll do fine. I will take a break from comedy for a second to talk about a dramatic movie. Jay Kelly, George Clooney, and the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler I absolutely loved the movie. Among the reasons I loved it, it’s a movie movie. It’s not what I call The Avengers, where everything’s a two second fast cut in a lot of special effects.

This was like a movie, like, you know, like v Onenheimer was like a movie. This is a movie movie. And here in the middle of the decade, it’s very refreshing when someone makes an actual movie. Adam Sandler, of course really good in it. And as I published in my sub stack on Monday, there are now officially six good Adam Sandler movies.

The best Adam Sandler movie J Kelly. That is now the best Adam Sandler movie. It is not Adam Sandler’s best performance. His best performance is the second best Adam Sailor movie, which is Uncut Gems. I like J.

Kelly even better than Uncut Gems. So we have J Kelly, Uncut Gems, Basketball Movie, Space Movie, and the two with Drew Barrymore. Those are the six good Adam Sandler movies. Every other movie Adam Sandler in is complete garbage. But he’s good in J.

Kelly. Although minor spoiler there’s a scene where he has to act sad. He’s not good at sad. He’s just good at normal. If he’s just like a normal dude in a scene, he’s good, but he has to play sad at one scene, not good at that.

Marcelo Hernandez does two things really well. One is invariance on that character. The other is a Sebastian Maniscalco impression. We’re gonna find out just how funny Marcelo Hernandez is. He’s getting a Netflix special.

It’s titled American Boy, to be on Netflix January seventh, so that at one point will be the best comedy special of twenty twenty six. We’ll see if I can hold the title. Filmed in Miami, the special seas Marcelo Hernandez musing on his experiences growing up as a first generation American. I hung around to the end of Saturday Night Live to watch the credits. Remember a couple of weeks ago, we’re talking about how Nikki Glaser kind of got iced by the cast during the Good Nights.

Well, Melissa McCarthy did not get iced. I saw people hugging her. Good episode. Colin Jost was really good in it, both as Pete Hegseth and during the news. Sarah Sherman also did well, and then during the Good Nights I saw Cam Patterson standing there and I was like, Oh, I don’t think you were in anything this week?

Are you even on the show? I think he’s been on the show about six minutes more than I have this season. I did see a thread on the Threads social media app, which is really good for comedy. It’s actually better than Twitter ACX for comedy these days. But I saw somebody raving about Cam Patterson saying he’s got superstar talent, and people were tagging that, going yes, So I guess that’s what Lorden Michael sees.

But whatever everyone’s seeing, it’s not appearing on SNL. Maybe he’s an awesome stand up but it ain’t happening on Saturday nights. My boilers still not fixed. It is freezing here, so I have to cut this little short. I’ve got a space heater in the basement.

And then the quote unquote studio is a room also in the basement, but it’s a separate room without a space heater, and my feet are freezing, even though I’ve only been talking to you for about ten minutes. If you missed it, yesterday around noon Eastern, I dropped the Comedy Survivor selection show sixteen comedians one Comedy Survivor. You can go back and listen to that one. We’ll start playing that game in January. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, it’s Nicole Buyer’s an evening of crowd work.

Let’s talk about friend of the show. Jason Zenneman from The New York Times back to back days over the Thanksgiving holiday or so, he had written a piece called Ian Comedy is Back, this time without the judgment. He focused on comedians like Nate Perghetzy, Lean Morgan, and Dusty Sleigh. Jason Wright says an alternative to the coasts, the stand up scene that gets the most attention these days is Austin. But Nashville, I’d argue, is the more important comedy city.

It has a large industry footprint. He mentions the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, which I mentioned a few times a week and is a major destination for podcast guests. That’s where theol Voon tapes his show. But most important, Nashville has emerged as the center of a resurgent, clean comedy scene. Zenneman writes the extent of the Nate Berghezzy phenomenon may not be entirely clear because he doesn’t show up in the discourse, he doesn’t beef with other stars, and steers clear of controversy.

His excess stems from the insight that audience has still wanted, but weren’t getting the kind of escapist, broadly likable comedy that was a regular part of the cultural diet on network television in the nineteen eighties and nineties. So to me, this is Foxworthy theory. I’ve told the story before. I sat in a room with Jeff Foxworthy many years ago, and I asked him to explain his brand to me. And he was sitting across from me, and he held up his hands and he said, I realized if I stopped cursing, I picked up the kids and the grandma’s And then he held his hands wider, indicating a larger audience.

Now I’ll push back on this one. Jason wrote about Nate and Dusty. They are Southern comics with accents. They were lightly and they don’t play the country rube the way the stars of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour did in the early two thousands. Cable Guy, Yes, absolutely Foxworthy, somewhat but I think Foxworthy is overshadowed by his trademark you might be a redneck bit.

Other than that, I don’t think Jeff really leaned into that too much. Bill Angvall did not, and Ron White did not. Anyway, good stuff is always from Jason’s innam in. I won’t go w camal bell on you. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Sixteen comedians, one island, one survivor this January on Daily Comedy News. Outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack and welcome to the Comedy Survivor selection show.

Here’s how this is going to go. Today, I will give you these sixteen names of the comedians we are putting on the legally distinct parody of famous TV show Legally Distinct Parody. It’s a joke, guys. Relax, Okay, We’re putting sixteen comedians on an island. Every week in the Facebook group, you’re going to go to the Facebook group.

You’re going to find the Comedy Survivor drawing that I’ll have the AI make and you’re going to vote someone off the island, one person off the island every week. You’re familiar with this concept. How this is going to work? Yes, we’re going to do that. Now.

Remember it’s not about who wins. It’s about the journey. It’s about the jokes. It’s about what we can set up. So we’re gonna have fun with this thing.

That is the idea. Last week in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. I asked the listeners to nominate some folks, and nominate they did. We wound up with a group that is six women and ten men. I had to go in a little bit and go, Okay, here’s all these nominations, who should we do?

And I didn’t want it to be runaway white males, which it very, very very easily could have been, so I tried to keep it at least somewhat diverse. Interestingly, nobody nominated Dave Chappelle, so he is not part of this. I only went with names thrown out in the group, and there were a couple of places where I had to use my brain to do some tiebreakers. But here are your sixteen comedy survivors. Are you ready?

First up on the island, if you need a drink, Jim Gaffigan will be there to sell you some bourbon. He will be happy to do it. Next up our second comedy survivor. She’s hosting the Golden Globe, so she’ll be in the news. That makes this more fun.

That’s kind of how I put my thumb on the scale here. I want people who are in the news that we can talk about. Nikki Glaser, Welcome to the Island, our third Comedy Survivor. A nomination for Mary who gets the bit she has nominated? Seth Myers, No, no, no no, Seth Meyers, Are you crazy?

Make twelve thirty great again? All right? Seth Meyers on the Island, joining Nikki Glaser and Jim Gaffigan. Next up, a man who’s never afraid to take a gig and if this thing were real, you know he’d want to work on it. Yes, it’s Kevin Hart.

Kevin Hart. He announces a new project every day, might as well announce this one. Kevin Hart. Welcome to Comedy Survivor. Our next Comedy survivor is someone who always likes being talked about, So talk about you we will.

Amy Schumer, Welcome to the Comedy Survivor Island. Next one up. A couple nominations. Couldn’t leave this guy off. One of the top in the game right now.

John Mulaney, Welcome to Comedy Survivor. I like this nomination a lot. She’s one of my favorites. Maybe not the biggest comedian out there, but nice in the mix. This could be a sleeper pick.

This person could go all the way ots Goo at Conska. Nice pick. There next up again, you guys get it. Let’s get some materially out of this. Sebastian manescelgo, okay, sure.

Our next Comedy Survivor is could be another sleeper pick. Tig Nataro good solid pick. There a few people nominated. This next person quite surprising late in his career, still pretty popular, and you’ll probably find him over next to Jim Gaffigan drinking the bourbon. It’s Ron White, someone who the more I look at her career she might actually be underrateds are consistently great.

She is Sarah Silverman. Welcome to Comedy Survivor. Another from the nomination pool. A bit of a. Wild card pick here, what if it expected this name?

But when I saw it, I was like, oh, that’s fun. So let’s see how far Leslie Jones gets in Comedy Survivor. One more from the nomination group, Bert Kreischer makes it onto Comedy Survivor. I was kind of a toss up between Bert and Bill Burr, but since Bert has the Netflix thing coming out, I figured he’d be in the news a little bit more. Bill Burr would have been a solid pick for this, and again we are not picking best Comedian in the world or anything like that.

That’s not what this is. This is just comedy survivor. We’re throwing out sixteen names. Let’s see what happens. So that’s the last one from the nomination committee.

And then there were the initial picks that I threw out there because this is a bit. They are former host of the Golden Globes Joe Coy. You remember he hosted the Golden Globes one time and told this horrible joke about Taylor Swift. You don’t remember here, I’ll play it for you. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. That’s how that bit works.

Also, on the island, the worst person who ever lived, he’ll probably be first…

This guy is so horrible, taking care of his ill wife and doing charity events and occasionally commenting on Late night how dare you jay leto Welcome to the Island. And of course no bit would be complete without having a great dramatic actor on the island. So we have fifteen comedians and one great dramatic actor. Welcome to Comedy Survivor, Adam Sandler. Okay, how’s this gonna work.

We’ll wait until the holidays are gone. First week in January. I will post this every week on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. You guys will go in, you will vote someone off. Whoever gets the most votes, they’re out of the competition.

If we have a tie, I will just pick, and I will pick. I’ll tell you right now, based on where I think the most humor can be. Do not take this too seriously. This is a bit, This is fun. This is just something for us to argue about the Facebook group and have a little fun with the show.

So here are You’re sixteen comedy survivors. They are Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Otsko At Kotska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, Bert Kreischer, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Adam Sandler, sixteen comedians, well, fifteen comedians, one dramatic actor, one island, one comedy survivor. There’s a post in the Facebook group now and you can start arguing about it, and I’ll see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m actually recording this one on Saturday. Still no boiler. It’s forty seven degrees in the kitchen, and you may hear my voices a little blown out from screaming over the DJ at the wedding of Friday night.

But all is good here in the basement studio. Later today, around noon Eastern, I will release a bonus episode with the Comedy Survivor selection show. The executive committee, which is me, has met and named the sixteen comedians that will take place in Comedy Survivor coming to this feed in January. We’ll talk about that at noon. Leading off today, Marcelo Hernandez in the news.

Now he does two things well, one of them is Domingo and variance on that, and the other, of course, is a Sebastian Maniscalco impression. He got dragged into the White House’s battle with Sabrina Carbenter. Sabrina was unhappy that the White House had used some of her songs in a post celebrating the work of Ice. They deleted that post, and then they posted a new clip of Sabrina Carpenter doing a commercial for her recent SNL appearance, with the audio overdub so that she appears to be calling cast member Marcelo Hernandez illegal instead of hot. In the original clip, this is just you know, I’ve been doing the bit about the president, and I disagree on some of the issues, one of them mis Seth Meyer’s been doing that bit, but like, come on, guys, what are you doing here?

The original SNL commercial Sabrina still alongside Marcelo and said I think I might need to arrest someone for being too hot. Hernandez said, oh well, I turned myself in. In the White House version of the clip, the over dubbed audio now has a voice like Carpenter saying too illegal. The caption reads, PSA, if you’re a criminal illegal, you will be arrested and deported.

All right, let’s take a listen to what these idiots did.

I think I might need to arrest someone for being too illegal. Oh well, I turned myself in. You’re under arrest. I mean, it’s not even a good edit. It like it’s just what are you doing?

Just what are you doing? From Wreussell Talk your Home for Comedy News, Tony Hinchcliff said he turned down a WWE writer role earlier in his career, Hinchcliffe was on Rogan’s podcast. However, the role would have required Tony Hinchcliff to move to Stamford, Connecticut, which would have made commuting for his comedy commmits rather annoying. Hinchcliffe said, yeah, it was only a couple of years into me doing stand up, like seven nights a week at the comedy store all the time. Someone’s like, hey, I have a friend at WWE.

If you want to have a meeting with them and just talk. I went in with trade up ideas like the Undertaker’s brother comes back again. I can’t even remember any of them, it’s been so long, but I went in with the whole thing and the guy’s like, this is crazy. You just did this, and I’m like, yeah, I found out a couple of days ago. We were going to talk.

They offered him the gig, but he said, I would have had to move to Connecticut and take a train in New York every night to go do stand up, and that would have been exhausting. If it was anywhere else other than Connecticut, it kind of would have made sense. If it was New York City, it would have been a no brainer if it was in La definitely w Camal Bell is not happy with Friend of the Show Jason Zinneman. Bell wrote on his substack hate New York Times Louis c. K doesn’t need your help subheading when a newspaper has only one stand up comedy critic, they actually have none.

This is a lengthy substack post from Bell. I’ll pick away at it. He writes, The New York Times only has one dedicated stand up comedy critic. When they first hired him in twenty eleven, I thought, yay, the New York Times has taken comedy seriously. But more than a short period of time, I came to realize that a newspaper that only has one comedy critic only has one sense of humor.

This is a problem because comedy is as diverse as a discipline as any other art form. It would be like if The New York Times only had one music critic. We all know that would be ridiculous because the classical music critic has no business reviewing pop music. When you google New York Times music critic, you get a bunch of different names. Only one name comes up.

When you do the same with the phrase New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinnamon all right, I’m gonna jump in there. If you’re a regular listen to this program, you know Jason’s been on several times, and I’ve had lengthy hour conversations with them. I’ve never met any conversation we’ve had. You’ve heard ninety eight percent of it on this podcast, other than you know, the hey, I’m gonna hit record now part of our discussions. Seems like a really cool guy, seems like a level headed guy.

As I often say, I know more about comedy than say, ninety eight percent of the general population, and then the people that know more about comedy than I do know a lot more. And Jason’s in that second camp. I also believe, and I’m gonna fact check this here as I talk and type, I believe his title is critic at large, not so much specific comedy critic. So I’m on ny Times dot com right now, and Jason’s byline says, I am a critic at large for the Culture section of the New York Times and write a column about comedy. Jason’s own words here what I cover, skipping down to the second paragraph.

Since becoming the paper’s first comedy critic at twenty eleven, I focused on stand up specials, but I also keep an eye on improv, sketch podcasts, plays, musicals, TikTok accounts, and any other forms in which jokes are made. As a critic at large, I also like to write about movie theater and books, but never seem enough time to do it now. As someone who puts this show together every day, and and I’m a paid subscriber to The New York Times, I believe and I could kind of prove it here. Other people write about comedy for The New York Times. I just typed in search query comedian, and as I record this on Saturday morning, it is ten thirty eight am the time, just telling me.

Six hours ago Hannah Ziegler posted an article in the Arts section and the headline bouble for a day, but he can’t sing, And there’s a little resemblance subheader. Dan Permlan, a comedian, looks and sounds nothing like Michael Boublay, and for some reason he was hired to impersonate the Crouner at a birthday party. The next one that surfaced is from August and Zennaman, then one from September twenty eighth, Also in the arts section, Mark Marin and other comedians rebuke Piers in Saudi Festival. That’s from Derek, Bryce and Taylor. I guess, to be fair to mister Bell, that’s commentary and not a critic piece.

But you get where I’m going, and I don’t want to bog down in this. There’s plenty here. Bell rights. While I do occasionally read Zinneman’s work, I read it because it concerns my industry, not because I need his particular critics eye. And yes, a big part of the reason I don’t seek him out is because when he found space to mention me, it was clear he was not a fan.

Here’s the time he squeezed a short review of my Netflix special Private School Negro into one of his columns. Belle then quotes Zinneman is writing Bell’s new special seems a little tempid. His stand up was never danced with punchlines. But Private School Negro veers further from a tight club set toward a mix of storytelling, jokes and arguments. It’s a rambling, sometimes overly familiar hour.

Again, I am friendly with Jason Zenman, so I admit I come with a bias here, But I don’t think that paragraph I just wrote to you is like absurd. Getting back to what prompted this piece from Bell. On November twenty one, Zinneman reviewed one of Louis C.K.’s recent stand up shows at the Beacon Theaters. Zenneman’s lovingly crafted prose describes in detailed the current evolution of Louis’s career. See Jason is concerned that too few people know that Louis still a great comedian.

This concern seems particularly bizarre and unfounded because Louis in the middle of a comedy tour that’s mostly sold out. It’s not like Louis playing small clubs. Louis playing at the kind of venues you play when you’re a super successful touring act. But you don’t want to play the enormo done in the town, so instead you play a bunch of shows at the giant theater in town. In other words, Louis is literally living the stand up comedian dream.

Louis doesn’t need Zinnemen’s helps writing his word, but Zinnamann does it anyway. Why again, I’ll let Jasus speak for himself as an observer here. I think Jason went to Louis C.K. Show during the New York Comedy Festival and thought the stand up was good, and he wrote about it, because that’s what he does. Bell, quoting Zinnamon Zinnaman writing, in the seven years since c K admitted to sexual misconduct, the comedian has produced four different hours of comedy.

It’s a large, under examined, formally audacious body of work that represents a break from the past, but also continuity. Bell writes, under examined, mister, Zinnamon, A, you’re trying to make us feel bad for not keeping up with Louis C.K.’s work after his admission, et cetera, et cetera. Are you saying that CK’s work is somehow so good it’ll make us forget that he did the thing he did, et cetera, et cetera. Louis C.K. Doesn’t own anything from the public.

His work isn’t under examined. It is utterly discarded by the audience who thought he could trust him. Interesting. I mean yes to all this. I see what Belle saying.

I think Jason Zinaman went to a show and is also pointing out CK has put out a bunch of things that people haven’t seen. I mean, if we want to nitpick the word under examined, especially the examined part of it, I mean, sure, here in the basement where I have no boiler, I’d just like a good comedy fight a lot more from Camel Bell on his substack. If you want to check that out. If you listen to yesterday show, I told you Vulture has Night Thoughts as their number one comedy special of the year. There’s now a trailer for it.

Based on this trailer, I don’t see how this is possibly the number one special of the year. But again I haven’t seen it. But this is a year in which Mark Marin’s special came out, and I don’t see how this is going to be better than that. So let’s listen to the trailer. Watching your movie made me want to get therapy.

Oh that’s good, that’s clever. Do not get weird about the muscles. These muscles can’t hurt you. These muscles are decorative. Never been in a fight for because I’m super good at apologizing.

I am an immigrant. Are there any other immigrants here? Okay? What you can’t do is point at someone else. I thought I was happy, and then every now and then I’d.

Get very angry out of nowhere. I watched Bananas in the stake. Anyone remember what it was like buying marijuana before it was legal. You had to go to a guy’s house, pretend to be friends with a guy. You had to like, watch a little bit of the Matrix with him.

You guys get night thoughts when you’re laying in bed in the middle of the night and you can’t sleep, and your brain’s like, here’s something new for you. To worry about, or. You hadn’t thought of that. It’s because you’re a little bit stupid. Night thoughts are like day thoughts, except they hate you.

This was really keeping me up at night. White people, there’s more. And for some reason it is bothering me. The voice that Kamil Nan Johnny uses during his stand up Now, to be fair, my friend Larry the Cable Guy does an exaggeration. Sebastian Manaskalko does an exaggeration, and I right now am doing an exaggeration.

If I’m at the bar at trivia night, I’m not like Glenn, would you like a beer? I’m like, hey, you want to get another beer? My normal speaking voice would be something like that, like Hey, I’m gonna have a sip of my coffee right now. So this is a performance, and I’m up in my Johnny Mack delivery that my children make fun of. So maybe I’m being unfair.

But in Kisha Curius, here is Kamail Nanjihanni on the Michael Rosenbaum podcast. Fun fact, Michael is my former intern. That’s right, way back in the twentieth century at WR Radio. Michael Rosenbaum was my intern. And I got to give props to Michael when he was the intern making copies.

He said he was going to Hollywood to become an actor and that he did, so I plot him. Anyway, here is Kamil Nan Johnny’s normal speaking voice. You know, well, I did stuff that should have been a home run, and then it wasn’t like eternals. You know, it was Oscar winning director, one of the craziest casts. You know, you had like legends, You had Salma Hayek, you had Angelina Njoli, you had new people who are amazing Brian Tyry Henry Barry Kiogen, who have both been nominated for Oscar.

You thought it was just a slamm. Dum based on that Vulture list that I mentioned I did watch Ian Edward special. It’s a nice club set. There are some individual jokes that are really strong. But if Variety thinks that’s like one of the top ten of the year, as we used to say in Queen’s I think Variety is on crack.

Now Variety is not an individual person, but someone who was on crack that doesn’t write for Vulture might think that Ian Edwards is one of the top of the year. So I’m really suspect that kamel On Gianni is the number one special of the year. It comes out December nineteenth. It won’t make my list because my publicist wants my list this weekend so she can publicize it, so that’ll be Saturday’s episode. Oh, I did record the Billboard Top twenty five.

The rest of the list is out. I looked at the list. I’m saving my reaction to it for some episodes. Right after Christmas. I could take a couple days off, you know, Christmas Day.

I don’t want to be sitting at the basement talking about comedy and plus, there won’t be any news anyway, like any list. Some things I went, oh, good pick and some other things I went, that is crazy town. If you’d like to hear my thoughts now. It is released as a bonus episode for the paid subscribers, So for five bucks a month you get this show commercial free, plus the extra episodes that they occasionally sprinkle in. I owe you guys at DCNA.

It’s been a super busy month. But you can hear my reaction to Billboard’s list in there right now. Otherwise get it for free on December twenty ninth, how are we doing on time? Oh my? The combination of I have no voice and the clock says, let’s take a break out today On the eight hundred Pound Gorilla Rosie Jones triple Threat.

On the Joe Rogan Podcast, Joe Rogan called President Trump a kid and revealed President Trump’s text habits. Rogan said, he makes the text go big like USA is respected, respected all caps, and it makes the text in large. That’s fun. I’ve never received a text from President Trump. Hannah Gasby will have a new show set to debut in March at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

The Evening Muse is described to be like a Tonight Show, but hosted by Hannah Gatsby, so it isn’t anything like you’d expect. The Melbourne Comedy Festival runs from March twenty fifth through April nineteenth. Always fun to cover here in the basement. One of these years I will have to go Love Melbourne. Melbourne is a great city.

For its fortieth anniversary, the twenty twenty sixth festival will include a one night only spectacular, The Big Four to Oh, celebrating the milestone, bringing together standout comedians from this year’s program and legends from across the four decades. A bunch of local legends will be there. I don’t think you would recognize any of these names unless you’re, like, you know, extremely into Ozzie comedy. International stars hitting the festival include the UK’s Sam Nickeresti, who won the twenty two twenty five Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, Ian Smith, Chloe Petts, Joe Kent, Walter, Is Luke McQueen, Phil Wang, He’s Great, Scotland’s Connor Burns, Daniel Sloss and Larry Dean, and Ireland’s David o’darty and Joanne McNally. From the US, Sam Jay, Abby Govinan and Zana Johnson.

There are also international comedians from Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Denmark abbreviated d NK for some reason. Sophie Hawgin of the d NK will be there, Takashi Wakasugi from Japan and Tarag Hardikar from India. It’s the Melbourne Comedy Festival coming up. Patton Oswalt who’s out there ruining Star Trek with his really awful Doug the Vulcan character, and the President has done nothing about this. I mean, the President is nothing but disappointing me today.

Mister President, please make Star Trek great again? Have you seen the teaser art for Starfleet Academy, Mister President? Holy cow? I mean, I just want to say words that sound a lot like Jesus that have a JC in it, But you know I don’t won’t offend anybody, but boy, this Star Trek poster awful. And Paton Oswald has Dug the Vulcan ruining Star Trek.

He was talking about AI and he said, AI is not going anywhere. We can’t wish this stuff away because we invented it, So how do we find ways to work around it or make it more human? I like the rewards, but the rewards are only fun if you got it. It’s almost like getting away with it. I got all the success from making things up from thin air.

There’s something beautiful about that, getting to sit down and come up with a joke out of nothing. It’ll never get old for me. I’ve always set them and showed this for the money and the anecdotes. I want some really amazing stories, and when every part of the canvas covered, I want to be able to explore every corner of it. It changes you when you experience all this stuff.

I would I have the Severdas story. Been meaning to get this one in. He was on social media talking about Mumbai’s worsening air quality. He said it’s reached a point where coughing has become redundant as his lungs have adapted. He was on Instagram.

He filmed it in his living room and added a smoke filter for effect. Did He posted, Oh you think this is outside, No, this is what’s happening inside you. Apparently Mumbai’s air quality index has now touched the severe category. That’s your comedy news for today. All right back around noon Eastern with the Comedy Survivors Selection Show.

While I’m recording, I’m arguing with the AI to make new artwork. It has made artwork. You’ve seen it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. But I’m like, can you revise it? And the AI was like, no, I can’t do that, and I’m like, you just did it.

Ah yeah, but that was before I discovered the policy. All right, well this is a parody. Can you do it? And just it’s so annoying sometimes the AI. Maybe Patton Oswalt is right, except not about Star Trek.

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Calorokashock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Is gonna lead off today taking a look at Vulture’s best comedy specials of twenty twenty five. I usually don’t agree with them. It doesn’t mean that I’m right and there wrong, or they’re right and I’m wrong.

It’s just a list. My list is just a list. I will have my list for you on Saturday if you’re new to the show. When I do these list episodes, when I’m commenting on other people’s lists, I don’t look at them in advance. I like to react in the moment to things so twofold from my own list.

I want to make sure I didn’t forget anything. And a good way to make sure you don’t forget anything is to look at someone else’s list. So we’ll jump in the pool here. There are so many comedy specials I clearly, and if you listen to your list, I don’t see them all. If you include the YouTube quote unquote specials recorded to the chuckle hut, forget it, you’d never get through it all.

I do try to watch the majors on the bigger streamers. So let’s see what Vulture likes here, and they probably got some screeners that I haven’t been able to get access to. I tried to reach out to the HBO people to get a couple things and just couldn’t get anywhere. It’s so hard to even get through to a human. There was one website I was on.

It was like, who’s recommending you to even log into this press website? I was like, all right, relax, relax. Vulture writes many of this year’s best comedy special share a reflective sense of mid career reconsideration. The most striking of these is from Kamil Nanjianni, whose special Night Thoughts allows him to reassess his career and relationship with comedy after more than a decade away from regular stand up. Okay, here’s a perfect example of what I’m talking about.

It’s on Hulu and it’s not out till December nineteenth, and as we all know, the Hulu publicists will not get back to me. So that’s a good example of something that’s on a list that I haven’t seen. Apparently it’s pretty good, according to Vulture, they write for other comedians. The retrospective meditation is about grappling with existential dread rather than non Gianni’s focus on the trap of his external public persona. They name check specials by Berbiglia, Maren Cameron, Esposito, Bill Burr.

Then they write Otsko at Kotska’s Father on Earthquakes, joke telling Business are also reflections on their comedic identities, but they operate without the same wistful existentialism.

Meanwhile, Steph Tolev’s filth Queen and Jordan Jensen’s Take Me with You, or…

Let’s jump in all right, they have at number ten Jordan Jensen’s Take Me with You from Netflix. They write, no other comedy special this year accomplishes quite the same mixture of emotion that Jordan Jensen’s does. Jordan’s appeal is how transparent she can make the glass while peering into her own brain, and there’s no question that what’s going on in there is darker than most other comedians work right now, up to and including Bill Burr’s lengthy thoughts on death. Now I’m checking my notes. I feel like I had hit play on this and bailed on it.

But I also have in my best of list. Personally, I have a section called not on list, and I don’t see that I wrote this down. I do think I hit play on it and wasn’t feeling it again, these are just list so vultures. Number ten as Jordan Jensen’s Take Me with You. I’ve added it to my list of things to put eyes on.

At number nine, they have earthquakes joke telling Business. I did not hit play on that. You’ll find that on Netflix. Just earthquakes not really my thing. They write catchphrases or a high wire act.

They deliberately swim upstream against the current fashion for naturalism and stand up sets. But the catchphrase in Earthquakes Joke Telling Business is really canny. As he talks about his family, black fatherhood, marriage and immigration politics, he keeps inserting the same pivot line between each section. These ain’t jokes. Number eight Ian Edwards untitled on YouTube.

Okay, see, I’m glad I’m doing this list. This was not on my radar at all. Great and I love this description. Ian Edwards reinvents no comedy wheels in untitled. This is a YouTube special shot at the comedy store where a guy stands next to a stool tells jokes about relationships hotel check in lines and gender reveal parties.

I will add that to my checkout list. Good job so far. Vulture. Number seven, they have Bill Burr’s Drop Dead Years. Absolutely no, it’s Bill Burr’s worst special.

I’m not even going to couch. It is not his best, it’s his worst. This is a bad pick. This is one of the specials that makes me say, Hulu is where you go to do your comedy special when you’re on the way down. So that could be a warning for Kamil Nan Johnny as well.

I can’t agree with you here on Bill Burr Vulture Road. Is there anything better, sharper, more ticklish, or more thrilling than Bill Burr doing comedy about he’s slowly realizing that he and everyone else will eventually die. Yeah, I can name twenty five other specials this year that’s better than that. Sorry, I normally like Bill Burr specials. When that one.

Number six, they have Otsko at Kotska’s Father on Hulu. I think I have that one in my middle tier. I mean check, yes, I have that as number two in my middle tier. And again I’ll do my list next weekend. It’s on Hulu.

I liked Otsco’s previous special better than this one. That seems to be the theme that I find with Hulari’s specials. They did pull out the best joke in the set, which always seems to get pulled out. Otsco tells it better, but she says, I asked my husband how to turn on the washing machine, and that’s how he realized that he’d been doing the laundry all these years, which is a great joke. And I got to take a break at some point, so halfway seems to make sense.

Be right back. Taking a look at Vulture’s Best comedy Specials of twenty twenty five, at number five, they have Mark Maren’s Panicked, which I’m I’m gonna have at number one. I don’t see what’s going to pass this. This is peak Mark Marin was an HBO special. Vulture Rights.

It’s not exactly Mark Maron’s fault that he’s become such a great comedian for this moment in history. At another time, a perpetually anxious comedian who can’t keep from ranting about his paranoid worries about the end of the world probably would not feel like such a helpful guide to life. Maren’s new special speaks to a national mood better than anyone else this year. I wonder why they have this so low. Number four, Cameron Esposito has Four Pills.

I do like Cameron a lot, but this one is on dropout and I don’t have dropout, so I haven’t seen it. Vulture says, calling Four Pills a special about the pandemic is unfair. Cameron’s New Hours about marriage, divorce to Spare ag retrieval’s mental health, and what it’s like to discover things about yourself after the age of forty. Number three, they have Mike Birbigli as the Good Life. I don’t really dig what Birbiglia does.

I do have it in my middle tier at number five, and I wrote civilians will like it. I’m a comedy snob and I don’t really like these shows that Birbigley does. It’s just not my style of thing. I get that people like it. These are just lists, but this will not make my top ten, Vulture says, given Birbiglia’s track record, it’s not exactly a surprise to turn a New Hour and discover a painstakingly crafted meditation on the meaning of life.

But it’s still a magic trick every time it happens, and by embracing a more casual mundanity, the good life sneaks its way into the top tier of Verbiglia’s work. See I think that magic trick line. They’re saying it as a compliment. That’s my problem. I just feel like it’s a performance.

And I understand all these things are a performance. But like when she and Gillis gets up there and I understand these are written jokes and he’s performing them, well, I just feel like he checking and driving these of the room. I always feel like Berbiglia is performing a stage played. It’s very, very crafted. It’s just not my thing, but fine.

On number two they have stef Toolev’s Filth Queen. You’ll find that on Netflix. I have that in my personal not on list section. The title gives it away. It’s just not my thing.

Vulture rights. Filth Queen does exactly what it says on the tin. It is proudly and thoroughly gross. Steff Toolev catalogs the many horrible qualities of the human body with the care and consideration of an obsessive collector. Each fort is treasured for its own uniqualities.

Et cetera, et cetera. Not my thing, not interested in that. And they have number one Kamil Nanjianni’s Night Thoughts again on Hulu December nineteenth. Haven’t seen it, Who’s not going to get back to me? Who knows Vulture rights?

He probably could have rolled up to an hour long standup special taping, delivered a half hearted life update, and walked away mostly on scathe. Instead. Night Thoughts slices deep into his last decade, carefully excavating how fame in the public eye have changed how he sees himself. Vulture has some other how many highlights from the year. They have listed Brent Weinbach’s Popular Culture on YouTube, Rosebud Baker’s The Mother Load on Netflix, and Roywood Junior’s Lonely Flowers are the other three they spotlighted.

Now, if you’re relatively new to the show, I could totally fairly imagine you right now going, John, do you even watch comedy specials? Because I mentioned I didn’t see a lot of the ones that Vulture liked, I’ll fly down my list really quickly. Right now. I have it as Marin, Kevin Hart, Riife, Jim Jeffries, Justin Willman’s Magic Lover, John Marco, Moe Ammer, Dusty Slay, Kreischer, Brett Goldstein, remember that one was real good. Michelle Wolf, Sarah Silverman, Matt McCusker, Mattelane, and Tim Dillon would be my fifteen top right now, and then I’ve got nine more in my middle tier and a whole bunch on my no thank you list.

But again, I will do that next week. It’ll be out on my substack, and it’ll be an episode or two in this feed. And that is your comedy news on a Sunday. Have a great day.

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Caloroga Shark Media from the basement where it’s literally fifty degrees. My boilers are not working. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I am all discombobulated. It is freezing in the house like cauld as.

I have this space heater and can kind of heat up one room. It’s just it’s awful. There’s supposedly coming on Sunday. Yikes, So I’m a little messed up here. Billboard did release the top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century, if you want to check that out on Billboard dot com.

I was hoping that today I would be able to record my thoughts on it and put it out as a bonus episode for the paid subscribers, and it would be in the regular feet at the end of December. But not going to get to that today. Johnny Mack is running late. And you know I mentioned I had the wedding last night, so as I record this, it’s before the wedding. But I have to shower, shave, and put on real clothes.

It’s one thing to sit here dressed like Adam Sandler recording a podcast. It’s another to look like an adult and then people like, hey, is that George Clooney, And I’m like, no, no, no, no, I get that all the time. I did record the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that’ll come out as a bonus feed in the middle of the day Monday. So Monday, I’ll give you a regular episode which I haven’t recorded yet. And the Comedy Survivor Selection Show that came out really well and put a lot of work into that.

One had fun with that, all right. Today’s news, Kevin Hart was on Diary of a CEO, and Kevin said, if life ended today, I could cross my legs comfortably and be okay. I made sure I applied myself to the best of my ability. I tried my best to put those I loved in a better position so that they could see more and do more. My last name and my family name is much stronger today than it was yesterday.

The idea of the world is that something I was able to live and understand better because I was blessed and fortunate enough to travel in meat. I was an energy and source of good to bring people closer together through all the things I’ve done, so it all connects and I’m okay. I’m okay. If it stopped, it stopped. What I’m not okay with is w well.

I have the bandwidth of good health, great mind. I can go, I can do it. I can get there. I’m not okay with wasting that time. Those are good smart words by card If you haven’t watched his special, it’ll probably unless something surprises me this week wind up as my number two special of the year, Very very funny.

Gary Golman was asked what’s the worst and most illogical state abbreviation and why is it MO for Missouri. Gary said they must have gone in alphabetical order and got to Michigan and Mississippi before Missouri. Then they got to Missouri and the next non s letter was Oh, that must be how they did it. It’s not intuitive at all. They should have based it on population.

Gary was asked to talk about the Chicago comedy scene. He says, I’ve been really impressed over the years. There were a lot of good comedians in the eighties, white guys from Chicago who reminded me of Boston comedians, but with a different accent. The thing I noticed in Chicago’s on the top five for this The closer city is to university. I couldn’t have gotten into the better my act does.

It never fails the further I go from a good college the harder I bomb Chicago has a Northwestern University of Chicago and others. It’s not about me being smart. It’s about how I try to sound smart, and it’s appreciated there. I found there were more comedians trying to sound dumb. You spend five minutes watching them and you think that person’s not dumb.

Those jokes that you clever, you’re insulting my intelligence. Billboard asked Josh Johnson if there were any challenges making the transition from writer to correspondent to anchor. Josh shedd it’s probably hitting refresh after each show. It’s not a bad thing, but you could be on cloud nine after you do a show. Right after the rap, there’s an element of okay, but do we have to come back tomorrow and start again.

At the end of a week, you get to enjoy everything that you did and be like, wow, that’s a great experience. Day to day, hitting refresh is sometimes a challenge, although I’m used to it from doing so much stand up on the road. You’re in West Palm Beach one day, Jacksonville the next day, and maybe Tallahassee the next I feel the same way about my YouTube channel, where I post every Tuesday. Variety was focused on Morgan Jay, and they wrote, Morgan Jay is not your typical stand up comedian. Variety rights.

Armed with an acoustic guitar and autotune drench microphone, Morgan Jay sprints down the ass of the theaters in which he performs, bantering with his fans and leading them in song. He pours tequila shots into women’s mouth straight from the bottle, convinces his couples on first dates to give each other a smooch, and push his wheelchair bound audience members across the venues, recruiting bad ease to sit on their laps. All the while he stairs directly into the lens of a roaming camera that follows him around and projects his face onto a JumboTron. He’s got a health and fitness regiment equipped for a pop star. That regiment running every other day, jim every other day, yoga, twenty minutes of stretching a day, vocal exercises every day while I’m touring.

No alcohol, no weed, no smoking whatsoever, and no meals after eight PM. Now. I love that because right when I was reading vocal exercises every day, my voice cracked and I’m leaving it in. And I worked out five days in a row, and then I had to teach Thursday morning, and then Friday I had to record this and go to a wedding and not watch Adam Sailor Jay Kelly and Today’s Saturday. I’m not going to get to work out either, because I didn’t do the weekend shows yet.

Uh, this is how you wind up fat well that in the seven thirty Am cheeseburgers I ate when I was twenty four years old producing morning radio in New York City. That’s a story for another day. Morgan Jay says, it’s an investment for people come to the show. I’d hate not to be able to give my fans the best show I can give them. Variety did some math.

Ticket plus parking plus merch plus two drinks plus hotel can easily tell them more than five hundred dollars, so you don’t need a hotel go home. Jay sett of minds two things that comedy purist might scoff at, music and crowd work. People get so upset about the crowd work. Did you watch Matt Raife special? It’s funny Variety really waxed his car, They wrote, Just as Bo Burnham might be the quintessential comic to rise from YouTube, Morgan Jay embodies comedy’s TikTok era.

He posts about one crowd work clip per day to his nine point four million followers, asking people where they’re from, who they’re with, and whether they will sleep together after the show, all while talk Singing into a pitch corrected mic, he says, crowd work, It’s only the first twenty minutes of his set. The rest of his show follows a more rigid structure, with pre written songs and interludes, a traditional stand up comedy, and no, the autotune is not always on. Interestingly, after college, Morgan Jay was an intern on NBC’s Tonight Show when it was hosted by Conan O’Brien. He explained Conan would have three or four pages of jokes for the opening monologue, and the interns were asked to come down and watching rehearse so he could get a live reaction. He’d read the jokes immediately go no, no, no, yes no.

He wasn’t precious with the material. After the Tonight show Mortgage Jay was a bike to our guide plugging his own show to tourist cycling around Central Park. Then he got a job hawking iPhones. He said ninety percent of working at the Apple stores resetting passwords. That’s funny.

He started doing the autotude crowd work during the pandemic, but says they did do a grind. When I started going viral on TikTok, I had ten years of experience and a backlog of material. Or people will blow up on TikTok who don’t have twenty minutes of material. People see me as this TikTok comedian. There are a lot of other sizes of myself.

I’d like to show. These. Glar brothers talked about being twins and said being twins, even from an early age, was an attention getter. Back when we were born in the seventies, it was rare to see twins. You rarely saw a double wide stroller.

I think as we got older, there was a lot of attention on us. We love getting laughs and being connected to people. When we started out, it was hard to live in Saint Louis and give yourself a lot of opportunities in the Comedy World. We went to the University of Michigan for college and really started to develop our comedy chops. Then we had a choice either go to New York or la if you really wanted to try and make a run at this business.

So we chose New York because we love New York and the energy there. I worked with those guys a little bit. They are cool guys. Gave them a show on serious as most of the stories I tell you. I couldn’t get anyone to give me any budget for it, and it was not a lot of money, but you know, you got to give people some money.

So many missed opportunities. We tried to give Amy Schumer a show before she super popped, but no money. Chang Wang caught up with Cincinnati dot Com sincey dot Com wrote, that’s understandable in a club where there’s fifty one hundred people, but if a thousand people are in the line, you’d be in the lobby twice. As long as you’re on stage, Shang said, I try to keep it moving. It’s quick, photo quick.

Hello. Charging feels weird to me to just say hello to people. It feels so nice that people will express how excited and happy they are for the show, the topic they are charging for meet and greets. A lot of comics do that. Shang said, I love seeing generations of a family have a reason to spend time together.

Someone in Milwaukee thank me because they get to spend an hour and a half with their mom and they rarely get to laugh and spend time together like that. I might not hang after shows forever, but right now it’s touching and sweet to me. Fun interview here Cincinnati dot Com doing their research said I ran across a wedding page that said you’re marrying Rachel Rowlands next summer in Oh Yeah. I don’t know how many Sheng Wang’s are out there, but it seems like a singular name. Comedian Shengwan said, you know, I saw that recently.

I don’t know what that is, but it feels like a scam. There’s no photos of who they are. Since he said, it says please send presents to Rachel Shen Wing said, exactly, that’s such a good scam. At the University of Southern California, you can minor in comedy. You can take classes in stand up improv, magic, and medical clowning.

About fifteen to twenty undergrads complete the minor each academic year. The La Times took a look at this program. I found this interesting. Launched in the fall of twenty fifteen by the School of Dramatic Arts. Some of the students are seeking careers as actors.

Others are just in careers in medicine, science and engineering. For them, comedy offers a chance to develop skills that could be useful in their hope for professions and their daily lives. There’s an intro to stand up class that’s also the medical clowning one, in that students learn how to interact with hospital patients. Along the way, they’re taught how to juggle and perform magic tricks. The professor of the said, some of the students have gone on and graduate from medical school.

That’s fun. One of the students, Malaya, who wants to be a doctor, said, at first, my dad was like, why am I paying tuition for this? I have a college aged daughter. I encourage her to take fun elective. She actually took a sailing class, which was really great.

Paris Sachet is on Vulture’s list of comedians You should Know and Will Know and ask two questions Best comed advice worst comedy advice. I always enjoy these answers. Worst women aren’t normally funny, so be grateful. Every time you get booked on a show, make sure you stand out because they didn’t have to book a woman. Best comedy advice was if you’re nervous, and no matter how big the room is, if you look straight to the back, it’ll look like you’re looking at the entire room.

It’ll give off that you’re making eye contact with the entire crowd. That is a great tip.

Also, be funny on stage, but’d be likable off stage.

Roy Wood Junior advised her don’t leave any meat on the bone when it comes to a topic. He said, rather than talking about ten different topics, you can literally talk about one topic until you get everything out of that one topic that you can also on that list. Ismail Lufti Best comedy advice, Worst comedy advice. Best when I was starting out in Florida and older comics on me performing one night and said, you give a hoot, Keep giving a hoot. Worst.

I once wrote for CBS’s After Midnight. Other than writing games and stuff, one of the duties of the writers was to serve as a Shirpa for the different comedian. Guess who’d come on One day, I was working with a pretty huge comic. He came in Stone out of his mind and refused to wear shoes. Eventually we sort of bonded away, look me dead in the eye and said, if I can give you any advice, Islam not my name, it’s this be undeniable.

Then he stared at me completely serious, as if he just blew my mind. Then he won on TV and took off his shirt. It was the stupidest moment of my life. I’m talking to a barely sentient, half naked blob who’s parroting something Jim Gaffigan famously said earlier, as if he came up with it himself. Who do you think that is?

So? Who would show up at after midnight? So it can’t be a huge comedian if they during after midnight and the person took off their shirts. So we’re all thinking Burt Krescher, But it’s not gonna be Burt Krescher here. So who showed up Stone and did a poor man’s Jim Gaffick?

And that is a good question. Let me know what you think about that. In the Facebook group Daily Company news podcast group Ishmael, do you have any advice to others? None of us deserve success selling out tours, writing jobs, pilots, Netflix specials. I’ve held insurance through the writer skills.

Am I so good at writing that I deserve to go to the doctor while other comics don’t? Of course not. It’s a brutal, unfair, unsustainable scam. If you’re experiencing success, you’d better be humble. If you’re struggling, take solace in the fact the rich shall not enter the Kingdom of God.

That is your comedy news on a Saturday. Have a great day.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you’re a parent and you’re listening with children for some reason, why don’t you hit stop? There’s some news in the second story. I don’t want to ruin Christmas for everybody, Okay, so hit stop.

You know what I’m saying. Yeah, okay. Dave Chappelle’s Edmonton show was interrupted by hecklers There’s Davies on stage at Rogers Place Wednesday night. The Edmonton Journal reports many and attendants took to social media after the show to complain about the behavior of others in the crowd. Some posts on social media.

One said Edmonton needs to learn how to watch a comedy show. The hecklers and yellers just wrecked everybody’s night out. Another wrote, Edmonton outright embarrassed themselves tonight in front of Comedy Royalty. Feels so bad for Dave Chappelle’s sound quality was terrible and it had to have been pushing thirty degrees in there by showtime. I believe they are talking Celsius there and it was hot in the arena.

Do wrote comedy the rest was the worst show experience of my life. Troy wrote, the first three acts of Dave Chappelle and Edmonton were loud and boisterous, but I didn’t even know wtf happened halfway through Dave set But even sitting in row one in section one eighteen, it was hard to hear him, and the crowd behind me let him know it. Ture sounded like a tech issue because it went loud to quiet. One more. Dave comes here and the crowd couldn’t keep quiet, constant yelling, garbage comments and loudmounts who ruined the show for everyone.

Chappelle deserved better. Sorry, Dave Chappelle. Matt Rife is catching some grief. All right, parents, you turn this off. Last warning here.

Okay, Matt Rife often in controversies. I think this one is not matt Riffe’s fault. Folks are complaining that when they open up the Netflix app, it starts playing an auto preview of Matt Riffe’s Christmas Special. Okay, you know, maybe you don’t like Matt Rife and that annoys you. Oh No, The issue is he makes a joke about Santa Claus possibly perhaps not being real, which, of course we all know Santa israel I did tell you to hit stop.

Matt made a joke that changes everything when you find out your parents are Santa, which of course they are not. Social media is flush with comments, says TMZ from upset parents who are ripping Matt’s and Netflix for ruining Christmas over their kids. I seriously doubt Matt Rife has any say whatsoever on what auto plays when you open up the Netflix app that is on Netflix. One parent wrote, thanks for ruining his childhood ouch. Anyway, the Matt Rife Special.

I know people love to hate on Matt Rife. I’ll tell you what. It’s the third best special of the year. Kevin Herts is slightly funnier, but Matt Rife’s special, and I may flip my order here. Matt Rife’s special is really really funny.

Now, if you’re uptight and you can’t joke amongst friends about we all come from different backgrounds. If that sort of material upsets you, you’re going to cancel me. But as a guy sitting on the couch, I found it funny. The people in the audience found it funny. I recommend on Matt Rife’s Netflix special.

And Matt got the wax job from the Hollywood reporter, Matt said, crowd work is always so much fun. It’s why I continue to do it personally. The onny stigma about me is I just do crowd work. I took a tour around the world and do twenty thousand seed arenas. It would be impossible for me to do that night after night.

If I’m on stage for an hour and fifteen minutes, maybe ten of those minutes or CrowdWork, because it’s fun and spontaneous to try and navigate. It’s a new experience for every single show, and that’s what makes the night exciting. He does open up. I clocked it. He does six minutes of non crowd work at the start of this CrowdWork special, and that six minutes is tight.

It’s funny. Matt explained. I was supposed to film my newest material special about two or three months ago. I don’t know why, but the thought of Christmas got stuck in my head. Maybe it was a yearning for my favorite holiday, and I just thought, you know what I mean, it would be really fun to do a seasonal or holiday based theme for my next CrowdWork special.

It’s a skill set that I’m blessed to have. I can kind of do it anywhere at any time, so why not hone in on this specific topic. I didn’t feel a rush to put out a new material special because I’m in the middle of a tour right now and the show’s only going to get better the longer I work on it, so we went for a seasonal special for my favorite holiday. As for that next special, I’m aiming to shoot it early summer next year. I’m still trying to pick where I want to do it exactly, and that’ll help determine when.

But I would like the material special to be out by next August or sometime around then. I don’t want to wait too long. Almost every comedian will tell you as soon as you film a special, if you continue to do that material for a couple weeks, you’ll always find extra things that make you go rats. If I had only waited a little bit longer a lot of Netflix. Today, Netflix put out a first look at Free Bert, the upcoming six episode scripted comedy series starring Bert Krescher finds himself in uncharted territory when his daughters are accepted to an elite Beverly Hills private school.

When Bert Krascher’s unbridled antics turn his family into outcasts. He decides to put on a shirt and stifle his true nature to better fit in. I don’t know. I want to say it doesn’t sound bad, but that might actually sound bad. I like Burt a lot, but I could see this being really hacky, cheesy and almost being like something Kevin James should start in.

But we’ll see. I’m expecting today for Billboard to release the rest of their top twenty five Comedians of the twenty first century so far. Now. The reason I’m not sure or is they said they would release it on Friday, December sixth. There is no such date this year, but I’m guessing it would be weird to put it out on a Saturday, so probably out today.

They have released twenty five through sixteen. I have commented on that, so if you’d like to hear my comments now, I have released it as a bonus episode for the paid subscribers. For everyone else, I have recorded it and scheduled it for the December twenty eighth issue. Let’s be Frank. Johnny Mack wants to hang out on Christmas, so it was a real easy thing for me to record, and as soon as they release fifteen through one.

I will record the December twenty ninth episode and also release that early as a bonus episode. So, Johnny Mack, how do I get these bonus episodes? Okay, here’s what you do. You become a premium subscriber to the show. How do I do that?

I open up the Apple Podcasts app. There’s a banner it says uninterrupted listening. You click that, and then for five bucks a month, you get this show without commercials, and you can access the bonus episodes, and you get other things on the network ad free, including five Good News Stories, which I host in five daily Trivia Questions is pretty popular. So you can access all that. And if you’re like, hey, Shohnny Mack, you’re just try and ate us up for five bucks, take the free trial.

It’s a thirty day free trial. It’s on you to remember to cancel it otherwise I’m going to get five bucks. But if you want to hear that episode, now sign up, listen to it, wait for me to drop the other one, and then cancel it. No problem, I can’t speak today. You guys are not going to hear all the edits that I’m going to wind up making but boy, I can’t speak.

I think my brain is broken. I was at trivia the other night. I think it was personally just for me, not my team, just me, my worst trivia outing. I sat there one round. I didn’t know the answer to one of the eight questions and there were multiple choice questions and I was like, I have no idea and that doesn’t happen.

Also, I wasn’t drinking. I’m not a big drinker. If you hang around me, you’ll hear me say two beers, not eight. So usually a trivia I’ll have one beer, sometimes two. But this week Johnny Mac needs to lose weight, and as I’ve been joking with a family, I need to lose.

By the time you’re hearing this, I have about three hours left before my physical to lose twenty five pounds. So I was like, eh, I’m not going to drink and I’m not going to get Wednesday Night Chief Steak with the guys. So I just sat there and drank my water. Is my brain superpowered by brewery beer? Because I knew nothing and I can’t speak today, and the boiler’s not working again today.

It’s no joke. Fifty eight degrees in my house I may have to actually use the fireplace as a fireplace. It’s that cold. Maybe that’s why my brain’s not working. I quite digress.

Where were we? Roywood Junior is getting a holiday special. It is titled a CNN Special Event colon Roywood Junior is very very very merry Holiday Special. This will be on CNN Sunday, December fourteenth at eight pm. I’ll be watching football.

You’ll be claiming that Bob’s Burgers is on, which it’s not not going there today. The special, hosted by Roy Wood Junior, will be from Washington, d C. He’ll be joined by surprise guests from across comedy and music, as well as the US Air Force Band. Now I’ve been doing this for a while. If they’re saying surprise, guess it means this show’s not booked yet.

They think they know who’s coming, but they’re not confident enough to put it in a press release. It’s very interesting. Can’t get a kidder? Been doing this a minute, see, and you don’t have anyone booked. Roy Wood Junior said, I was hoping the White House ball Room would be done by then for us to shoot the special, but I’m understanding constructions A little behind.

Nonetheless, I’m excited to celebrate the holidays while honoring our troops and our government workers, and also having an opportunity to rewar my nice green jacket from the Peabody Awards, but this time with a little red in it. David Letterman. He’ll be on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday, December ninth. It’ll be Letterman’s seventh appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, is first since March twenty twenty three. Eight.

Boy, I hope they find something to talk about. I’ve been texting on the side with Mike from the still titled Letterman Podcast. We may jump in the studio. I have to watch the Sandler Letterman thing, and then this Kimmel thing will give us a lot of Letterman to talk about, so that could happen next week. Johnny Macleck’s a good fight now?

Is this one real? Is this a put on slash film? Says Tim Hideker hates Kyle Mooney a least that’s the impression you would get if you watch any of the pair’s recent interactions, which have been so awkward and tense that many fans are warnering just what Mooney has done to stoke the ire of Tim Highdecker. They wonder are we witnessing one of the best long running bits of the last few decades, or perhaps not. On November twenty first, Kyle Mooney posted a video for his new song Missus Claus is Getting Down.

Tim Highdecker commented corny as hell. Back in twenty twenty three, Kyle Mooney was on the Office Hours Live podcast and Tim high Decker mocked him for two hours. Afterward, Tim spoke about people contacting him to ask what was going on. Apparently Michael Showalter reached out and was like, is everything cool here? Then on Kyle Mooney and Beck Bennett’s podcast, he terribly named what’s our podcast?

Tim again belittled Kyle Mooney, suggesting that he and Beck Bennett create a new podcast, interrogating why they haven’t become huge stars. In the wake of SNL, fans said they were bummed out by Tim’s appearance, thinking it was too real. Is this real or is it calf manesque? Who knows? I have to go to a wedding tonight otherwise and I’m not doing a bit.

I really do have to go to wedding tonight, and for real, otherwise I would be watching Netflix tonight. It is the debut of j Kelly. Now this isn’t really a comedy item, so you forgive me for straying into drama. But the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, who we talk about a lot on this program, he is in this and apparently really good. How could he not be?

He is a great dramatic actor, and he’s not doing comedy here, which is what Adam Sandler should be doing with his time on the planet, acting and never doing comedy. Sandlor and George Clooney, who I’m often confused for, especially now that I’m dieting. People all the time are like, are you George Clooney? Why do you have Adam Sandler in your movie? And I’m like, hey, he’s a great dramatic actor, and b no, I’m not George Clooney, the real George Clooney.

Adam Sandler did a round table with The New York Times. Colooney asked Adam, how many auditions did you go on before you got a gig? Sandler said, over and over. Never got hired. It never got in my way.

Cloney said, it did not deter you, Sandlor, because I was young. I was like, all right, I keep going go until it happens. Clooney explained, for most people that first know is devastating. The difference in what we do for a living is that the goods that you’re selling is you. So when they say no, thank you, it’s personal.

You have to be tough skinned enough to say I’m going back in there. And he was curious when did people start to know Adam Sandler by name. He said, probably the third season of SNL. When you start, you just one of the guys on the show, then all of a sudden they say your name and you get excited. Sandler talked about being recognized in the public and said, sometimes you feel like you’re supposed to react a certain way in public because of who you’re perceived as being.

So if I have a moment of not handling something right, it’s an extra long look of what the hell happened. I didn’t think Adam would behave that way, right, Like, if I met him and he was funny, I’d be like, whoa, Adam Sandler’s funny? No way that would throw me. Got a lot of news today. Let’s just check the clock.

We’re going along here. But I want to tell you about Kat Williams. He was on Michelle Obama’s podcast, Yeah Kat. Told a story about stepping into parenthood when his son’s mother, who lived in another state, faced an addiction crisis, her children landed in an orphanage. Cat Williams thought he had no connection to the kids, but he said, they’re the siblings of my son.

I did all the research, and I knew that it takes a million dollars to raise a child. He adopted chen children, and he said, am I gonna have ten million dollars to take care of ten kids? Fine, let’s do it. I’m in, Let’s go. Sounds like that was pretty interesting.

Leanne Morgan was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast. Leanne Morgan talked about meeting Morgan Wallen, the country superstar, early in his career. They did some sort of local charity event. Leanne Morgan told THEO Morgan Wallen and I did a show together when he got kicked off the voice. He had mowing equipment.

We both got asked to do a charity thing. I think they paid us two hundred dollars. If they paid us anything, I can’t remember. And he sang and we were in the back, and I promised him a cast role because I thought he was so sweet and darling, and he goes, I’m gonna try and make it in country music, and I thought, how’s that gonna go? Not that I didn’t think he was talented.

We also learned that Morgan Wallen had taken Leanne Morgan’s daughter, Maggie So Maggie Morgan on a date several years ago, but Maggie Morgan realized she wasn’t Morgan Wallen’s type. A lot of Morgan’s in this is very confusing. Leanne Morgan says he was into wild girls that liked to keep cars and fight in the yard. Now, he did take Maggie on a couple of dates, but she said, I think he likes wild girls like to keep cars. And you see, my children went to a Christian school and we’re told not to.

But she said she thought he was darling. And she said, this a long time ago, before you had a big He liked girls that like to fight in the yard, and that’s okay. There’s pretty girls in Powell. They were all from Powell, Tennessee, and he was a baseball player and mode I get it. Comedy Stock Market.

Thank you, Bert Reynolds. I’ve only got three picks for you this week on the Comedy stock Market. Let’s buy some Matt Rife. I’m a couple of things here. This new special is very, very funny, and I remembered I really liked his previous special.

I went back and looked and I had that on my best of I think it was twenty twenty three list. And as I’m putting together the top comedians of the twenty first century my version, I might put Matt Rife on it. I know right now some of you are throwing your sneaker at the wall, going Matt Right. He’s not funny, but he’s funny and people like him. Maybe he makes the list.

I haven’t worked on the list yet, but he’s in consideration. Actually, a trivia the night, a friend of mine said, have you heard of Ralphie May? And I took out my phone because I love doing this, and I showed him Ralphie May’s a contact from back when Ralphie was alive, and I’m like sure, And that made me realize, oh, Ralphie should be on this list as well. He was fantastic, right, So let’s buy some Matt rife. Let’s sell some David Letterman.

Dave, you gotta start throwing watermelons off towers. You’ve lost your way. Let’s make twelve thirty great again. So we’ll sell David Letterman, and a little more seriously, let’s sell our Amy schumerstock if we even have any. I’m just looking at what was going on this week on Gossip Corner and I just don’t have a good feeling about any of it, starting with the Instagram, Like, I’m happy that you’re feeling healthy and you’re feeling good about yourself, of course, but there just seems to be I don’t know, why are you doing this in the press, Why are you doing this on social media?

What is going on? I just have a really, really icky feeling every time time Amy Schumer comes up in the news. Right now, So we’re gonna buy Rife, sell Letterman. I can’t believe I’m saying that phrase, and we will sell Amy Schumer on the Comedy stock Market. Prince Harry was on Stephen Colbert’s Late show on Wednesday night.

Harry mocked the President of the United States, claiming America had elected a king that got some friendly booze from the audience. They were apparently booing President Trump and not booing Prince Harry. By the way, if you want some real comedy, here’s what you do. Go to Google, click the NEWSTAB and google the phrase Megan Markle Holiday Special and read the British tabloid coverage of it. Oh my goodness, hilarious.

We’ve been covering that on Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the royal family that I’m the writer on. They destroyed her and it was the funniest stuff I read all week. During some jokes described as awkward, Prince Harry criticized CBS for settling a baseless lawsuit and claims that we’re obsessed with royalty. I actually had forgot I had pulled the audio here.

Let’s listen to some of it. You’re America, are obsessed with Christmas movies, and you’re surely obsessed with royalty, so why not hold on, hold on? Look, Look, I wouldn’t say we’re obsessed with royalty, really, I hud you elected a king. That’s a fair point. Now he’s got a point.

Rolling Stone reporter that last weekend Thanksgiving weekend, John Stewart was on the drums again. John is in a band called Church and State. Apparently, Stuart was on the drums at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. A great place if you’ve never been. If you ever make it that way, absolutely walk in.

Tracy Morgan presented his annual Nursing Excellence Award to Gilbert Recto, an assistant nurse manager at the Breen Trauma Unit at Hackensack Meridian JFK. Johnson Rehabilitation Institute. Sure it’s a great place. I think we could shorten that name a little bit. Tracy Morgan said, this is for you, my friend, continued to do the work you do.

You may recall several years back, Tracy Morgan spent several weeks recovering at that same facility after a pretty bad car crash. Well, I was back in twenty fourteen. That is a long time ago, Tracy said. The truck was doing seventy five miles an hour when it hit me. I thank the Lord for people in my life that helped me.

I could stay with them all day. And congratulations to Vlad Ilich vladd Is, the British Comedian of the Year. Originally from Macedonia, Vlad became a British Citizen earlier this year and won the live final night at the Comedy Store in London. The British Comedian of the Year contest is open to comedians of all levels. It has one of the biggest prizes in comedy ten thousand and one British pounds.

That is one British pound more than the Edinburgh Comedy Awards main prize. Congratulations to vlad Ilich. All Right, the plan for the weekend tomorrow normal episode Sunday. I’m going to start off looking at Vulture’s top twenty five comedy specials of the Year. I haven’t looked at it yet, but I want to look at it to see if I have forgotten any to put on my life.

My list will be published in the Feed on Saturday, December thirteenth, going a little early this year because my publicist wants to get the list out there and help publicize the show. So I have to look at the greater good and it makes more sense to put that out a little early, so maybe we can get some press pick up rather than putting that out December thirtieth or so. But once we get on the other side of Christmas, I’ve got some list episodes. The twenty eighth and the twenty ninth will be Johnny Mack commenting on Billboards list of the top twenty five of the century so far, and then I’m going to rip that off and share my own with you. So we got plenty to talk about.

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media make twelve thirty great again. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News David Letterman, who’s on the wrong side of all the issues these days. You know, he’s supporting Seth Myers, whereas the President and I are aligned that NBC twelve thirty could be a lot funnier. Letterman also out there letting Adam Sandler believe he’s the least bit funny. You know, I don’t know what to do with this.

I’m actually getting increasingly mad with Mike from The Letterman Podcast, and I’m in his ear that he needs to rebrand his show as The Conan Podcast and celebrate the true greatness of twelve thirty comedy now that Dave has just lost his way. And you know, I don’t know what Jimmy Fallon did on that show and Seth forget about it. So Mike the Conan Podcast think about it. I think you need to consider it. David Letterman is still out there putting out work.

Dave has announced another season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, season December sixteenth. Michael B. Jordan is the guest and my wife has the haunts for Michael B. Jordan, so I’m not gonna tell her that episode even exists. Then I find this interesting mister Beast, and then they tell us mister Beast’s real name is Jimmy Donaldson.

I thought your guest needs no introduction. Hmmm, which is it? David Letterman and Jason Bateman will be the final guest of the wopping three episode season. For some reason, the Saandler episode not part of the official season. I don’t know how many of this works.

I don’t care. Dave, come back home, Dave, you want to press me. I don’t care about the return of Eddie Murphy. Here’s what I want Dave to do. David Letterman, I’m calling you out.

I want you to find a tower somewhere and throw a watermelon off it. Just one watermelon. That’s all I need out of you, Just to know that my David Letterman is still in there somewhere now. The original five story tower has been torn down, but I’m sure we can find another five story tower if you want. If you want to come over to my house and throw a watermelon off the house at me, I’ll let you do that as long as I can record the audio.

You know, in these trying times where some things are getting worse, some things are getting better, Sesame Street has found its fastball. I’m really excited about this. You know, Sesame Street is on Netflix right now. Yeah, no more PBS. It’s on Netflix and they’re doing a cross promotion to promote this knives Out movie that I think it’s out today.

If you’ve ever seen a knives Out movie. Daniel Craig plays ben Wan Blanc. Well, he plays Benyet Blanc on a knives Out parody on Sesame Street. Let’s listen, someone e’t me tripleberry pie? Ha ah, No one touched my sardine pie.

This a mystery only the world’s greatest detective console. What have arrived to this street of Sesame on a sunner day? Turn cloudy? We have a culinary culprit in our mites, and to solve this confectionery conundrum, we must look right in front of our googly eyes at cookie Monster. Oh we’re not doing that whole gasp thing.

It makes sense. Cookie Master does love silm chills. Yeah, yes, now that was pretty good, and like most things on modern Sesame Street, it got ruined Byomo. I mean that is just the story of him. Well, President Trump, why don’t you do something about Sesame Street?

You know, I don’t know what you’re doing all day. Appreciate you helping to make twelve thirty great again, and I applaud your efforts there. You and I are not aligned on all the issues, but you’ve done nothing about Patton Oswalt and Star Trek so far, and I think you need to do something about Sesame Street. Sesame Street in the seventies was wonderful, and then Elmo came along, and you should do something about that, mister President. I digress.

Some people want Knives Out filmmaker Ryan Johnson to make an official Muppets version, which would be epic. This probably as close as we’ll ever get. Johnson had the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter podcast that respects both the Muppet movies and Knives Out to mix them. He says that now come back in twenty years when he needs a paycheck. He says, the reality is, if you put Muppets in a Ben wa Blanc movie, it would feel totally wrong because they would be getting murdered.

The alternative is just to stick Ben Wy into a Muppet movie, which admittedly would be very fun, but will kind of break the reality of what Blanc is, which is to say, I’d love to just do a regular awesome Muppet movie. No no, no, no, no, no no. Look, it’s a movie. We can all handle it. We can all understand that there’s no reality to this thing.

We can handle it. Make this President Trump, get on that. Burt Kreischer. I like what Burke Kreischer is doing here. He will headline the first Full Throttle Festival during the Daytona five hundred weekend.

Have you ever been to Daytona. I got to go twice. I got what’s called a hot pass. What a hot pass is is you can be on pit road during the actual race. So I would be standing at NASCAR races.

The series had the rights to a NASCAR and I got to go to a bunch of races as part of the cross promotional Blue Collar Radio. I found myself in Talladego one day with Jeff Foxworthy. But you’re standing there, and because you have a past that says the word hot on it, you have all access. It’s like sitting in the dugout in the World Series. So I was there and I was like, I appreciate this.

But I know I’m not appreciative because I was looking at all these people in the stands and I’m like, oh, boy, if those people who like truly appreciate you know, I’m from Queens. I didn’t grow up a NASCAR. Those people, boy, if they could be in my spot, they would lose their mind. Again, I thought it was really cool, and I was thankful, but I was just like, boy, this is the equivalent of me sitting in the Mets dugout in the World Series, Not that the Mets would ever be in the World Series, but you know, I could fantasize. I had a great time I met this dude.

I’ve got a great picture. He was dressed head to toe in Budweiser gear. I guess he was a Dale Earnhardt junior fan, and he had a cooler. And the other thing about Daytona an hour before the race, you’re allowed to sit on the track. I’ve got a picture of me sitting on the track drinking a Budweiser an hour before or the race of Daytona five hundred.

So I love the Daytona five hundred. I have digressed again. Bert Kreischer will headline the first Full Throttle Festival during Daytona five hundred weekend, held February fourteenth, Happy Valentine’s Day, Honey at the Ocean Center. The festival will include barbecue, beer, and NASCAR themed attractions. This sounds awesome.

Tickets start at seventy five bucks. Full Throttle Festival dot com touted as an all night party that brings together live music, stand up comedy, beer and barbecue under one massive roof. Kraser will be joined by Leonard Skinnard and renowned DJ producer and former Daytona Beach area resident Diplow seven pm to one. Am Bert Kreisher said, Race Weekend in Daytona is the super Bowl of speed, and for me that means going absolutely massive. So I figured, why not partner with Nascord build the biggest, wildest, greatest pre race party ever.

We’re bringing a rock show, country show, comedy show, and the kind of barbecue and beer that would make a pit crew chief proud. Love it so much fun and to wash all this down, as if this wasn’t fun enough, the Great American Beer Hall will feature an expanse of craft beer program and domestic favorites with signature cocktails, available at bars in the venue. Tickets to the Daytona five hundred are not required to attend the festival. Sounds really cool. Paul F.

Tompkins has weight in on cake versus pie and says cake will always be superior to pie. Yeah, the truth hurts pie people. Cake will always be superior to pie for one very simple reason, frosting. You all forgot about the frosting. Every once in a while I get some pathetic little pie person say something like, well, you could put whipped cream on a pie.

Whipped cream. Don’t make me laugh. You’ve embarrassed that both of us with that answer. You put whipped cream up against frosting. Love it.

Here’s how good frosting is when you eat it directly out of can you feel shame must be. It’s pretty good because you’re not supposed to eat it that way. What are you gonna put pie filling up against frosting? Patton Oswalt, who is helping to ruin Star Trek with his awful dug the Vulcan character, President Trump, please get on this. Forbes asked Patent why the title of his special Black Coffee and Ice Water does not appear in the special and Patten said that he never puts them in the special, and I was like, Yeah, who does that?

Nobody does that? Do people do that? I hope not? Batton explain, And it’s kind of the overall mood at the title is more of the mood, but you never hear anything with the title in it. Batton explain.

I usually generate about an hour and a half of material every year, and I’d just done a ton of films and TV shows, including Ruining Star Trek, and a lot of traveling, and my life wasn’t focused on stand up for a while, maybe a little less Dug the Vulcan and a little more stand up, just saying and along with that was how hallucinatory and logical the world has been coming around us. And as a comedian, how do you take a step aside away from that and go, I’m gonna go make fun of this thing that’s already kind of comedy proof in a weird way because it’s already so messed up. So there’s a lot of that feeling in this. And on top of that, this was not a visual special, that’s right, this is an audio special on Audible. I was so much freer to perform and just have it being the material.

We’re doing a special. All you think of the camera angles, the wardrobe lighting, how does it look? You have all that in mind. It’s everything but the material. But this is just me.

People are gonna hear my voice and hear the audience and how we’re both relating. Being that stripped down and that simple for me, it was just fantastic. Get your nominations in for Comedy Survivor. What we’re going to do in January is every week we’re going to vote one comedian off the Island. So I need your nominations for who should be on Comedy Survivor.

And again, remember the point isn’t who wins, it’s the journey. So give me good names so I have material to work with. Go to Facebook Daily Comedy News podcast group and three names in. I’ll reveal on Monday who’s going to be on the Island. Comedy Gives Back as a nonprofit that acts as the safety net of the comedy world, they’ve announced a new annual fundraising effort, the Very Good Person Year End Giving Campaign.

Donations will address the challenges faced by comedians, including mental health struggles, physical health, and financial instability through various initiatives, including therapy grants, financial assistance programs, recovery meetings, and educational workshops. The org aims to ensure that stand ups at all stages of the career receive the support they need. Zoe Friedman is the organization’s executive director and co founder. As Zoe said, people know the Kevin Harts and the bird crisis of the world, But for every household name, there are hundreds of working comedians you’ve never heard of who are grinding it out to bring laughter the world. Those are the comedians Comedy Gives Back exists to support.

Zoe was a guest on episode one hundred and eighty five of the still titled Letterman Podcast Again. I’m hoping Mike will rename this the Conan Podcast and accept the greatness of twelve thirty. And you know, sometimes I got to leave people behind. There was a time when Rudy Giuliani was America’s mayor and everybody in New York City loved him. A couple of years went by, things change.

Giuliani started supporting Adam Sandler comedies and saying Seth Myers was funny, and you know some other stuff.

And now people don’t like Juliani as much as they did, say, you know, in the …

I mean times change. So Mike, please rename your podcast to the Conan Podcast, and you know, give you some other stuff to talk about. Comedy Gives Back has granted one million dollars to over one thousand working comedians experiencing hardship since twenty nineteen. Nice job there, folks.

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Tracy told people he has donated more than two hundred thousand dollars to support vulnerable households through his work with the Hacketsack Meridian Health Foundation. Tracy says, it’s fun to get the love and support, but it’s better when you give it back. That’s what I want to teach my children more than just a great education. I want Maven and her brothers to be empathic. Tercy has a great point of view.

He says, at this point in my life, spending time with my children, that’s it. I don’t care about nothing else in the world. Listeners to this program know that Marcelo Hernandez does two things. Well, those two things are the character he does on SNL. Every single sketch he appears, it’s I mean, you can call it Domingo, but it’s all the same character.

And his Sebastian Manascalco impression. Well, now we’ll see if Marcello has a third thing he can do. He’s going to be in the cast of Shrek five. He’s going to play Shrek and Fiona’s son, Fergus. Now, Fergus is a Scottish name, so I assume Marcelo Hernandez is going to break out some sort of Scottish accent, right, that would make sense.

Shrek five out June thirtieth, twenty twenty seven. The cast includes Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz reprising their roles a Shrek, Donkey and Fiona. And that is your comedy news for today. Make twelve thirty great again. See you tomorrow.