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Featured: Tom Segura, Joe Rogan, Nikki Glaser, Jennifer Aniston, Patton Oswalt, Dean Obadallah, Bill Maher, Derek Stroup, Nate Bargatze, Bill Burr, Rick Ferguson, Margaret Cho

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura on Joe Rogan Experience discussing LA’s decline
• Nikki Glaser networking for Jennifer Aniston collaboration
• Nikki Glaser not invited to Taylor Swift’s wedding
• Patton Oswalt on Bill Maher’s relationship with Trump
• Rick and Morty movie in early development
• Derek Stroup on relocating from Alabama to New York for comedy career
• Nate Bargatze on staying clean comedy despite industry pressure
• Rick Ferguson choosing personal stories over political comedy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Jenny Mack with You’re Daily cow Many News. Tom Sagora was the guest on the Joe Rogan Experience. Oh, I keep forgetting to mention. I’ve been watching Bad Thoughts season two.

I really like that show. The writing is so crisp, with the production is pretty impressive too, Like, the show looks great, but the idea is that Tom Sagora has come up with for Bad Thoughts just fantastic. I really enjoyed the sketch Black to School anyway. Yeah. Sagora was on with Rogan the topic the perceived decline of Los Angeles.

Eli is it’s crazy. I’m so fascinated by the people because I you know, we both have a lot of friends. There a lot of people, and there’s this There’s two types now, the ones who acknowledge that this is different and then the delusional ones. Because people are I know a lot of people who are like, yeah, of course it’s different. You’re like, hey, you can see it.

You could see this as a different place than it was several years ago.

And then there’s people who are like, no, man, everything’s fine.

You’re like, you’re not in reality right now. Well, they probably had seven or eight boosters, so maybe they’re not thinking so straight. Established comedian Hollywood insider Nikki Glaser says she’s not invited to Taylor Swift’s wedding. No way, No, Blazer told Entertainment Tonight, of course, not me. No should be smart not to invite me.

Honestly, I look forward to the greeny helicopter pictures that I see of it eventually, but that’s all I should get.

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Meanwhile, the Star tells us Nikki Glaser is networking like crazy hoping to …

A source sells Jen is very aware of Nicky’s publicly professed admiration of her, and she knows she has to pass the baton of being America’s rom com sweetheart to somebody. Oh please, who in Glazers camp plant it that quote? Yeah, Jennifer Aniston is passing the baton of being America’s rom com sweetheart to forty one year old Nikki Glee Stop. But Jen is also realistic about what it takes to forge a decades long career in the spotlight while keeping up a solid fan base who will follow you and your work anywhere. The Star reminds us Glazer got her big break at twenty twenty four at the roast of Tom Brady.

If you heard Friday Show, I shared some comments with Nikki Glaser, who I don’t think wants to be a roast comedian. The source says, if Nicki keeps pushing herself out of her comfort zone, She’s gonna have a cheerleader and a potential co star in Jen. With the balls in Nicky’s court right now, as she makes the first steps towards translating her comedy and award show fame Stop Award Show, fame, the Golden Globes twice stop It’s Joe Koy has hosted the Golden Globes once. Do I need to remind you that I have a clip? I can play the clip?

It is something bigger, like starring in major films, which is Nicki’s goal at the moment. No Way, No. In October, Variety announced Nikki Glaser will write and star in an edgy romantic comedy. The sore says, Jen is watching with great interest to see how Nicki handles this challenge and rolls with the punk. Nobody’s more aware than Jen that the road can get bumpy and if Nikki shows real resilience in staying power and she navigates a changing Hollywood, only then is she going to get Jen’s full endorsement and potential collaboration.

Who is putting this out of the universe? Oh my goodness, such nonsense. Star Trek R Winner Patton Oswalt was discussing Bill Maher sucking up to the President of the United States. Here’s Patent speaking with Dean Obadallah. The reason that Trump is turning on Bill Maher is because Bill tried to, I’m sure, with good intentions, tried to placate him, and you can’t do that with him by defying Trump.

This is gonna sound kind of weird. Colbert and Kimmel, Yeah, Trump hates them, but he hates them because they don’t love him. He wants them to love him, and then the minute they love him, he has zero respect for them because deep down he hates himself. So you just have to stick with your guns and just go, yeah, this guy sucks. You know, in the long run, it will it will pay out, And anyone, anyone who does business with Trump, you would just think basic greed would make you want to defy him, cause anyone that does business with him, you get destroyed.

Send your letters to Paton Oswald. Rick and Morty might become a movie. I still haven’t watched the last season. The first season after they changed the voice of Rick was kind of flat. Though it was a while.

You could have ingested that show into my veins. And I still haven’t watched all of last season yet, or any of last season yet. And I think there’s a new season about to come out, or might even be out now. I don’t know. I’m talking about making a movie version of this why lot details I’ve not been shared for the film that is in early development.

In twenty twenty three, series creator Dan Herman told The Hollywood Reporter, my philosophy would just be take a Rick and Morty adventure and spend a bunch of extra money on it and make it ninety minutes long, not to try to earn its future status by virtual of canonical dramatic tone shifts or anything like that, but rather just make it a super badass episode of Rick and Morty. Derek Stroop to WRIF why he lives in New York City despite being from Alabama, Yrk said, I mean it was truly just a business move. I mean, can you imagine if I said it was for quality flying. I mean, that wouldn’t make it any sense. Like I said, when you have this accent and life on stage, people try to put you in a box all the time.

They think he got pretty pins. So I lived in Denver for nine years and then I moved here to New York City just to show people that I’m not doing some pitchfork and overall type of comedy. I’m like Bill Burr, raised in the woods. He’s had to fight the perception of being a Southern comic. And you know, I am a Southern comic.

I’m a country dude. But that’s not my whole story. I’ve got the type of comedy that people from anywhere can enjoy. It’s not like I can get up there and do a bit about gardening squash and lose the crowd. You know, it’s pretty down the middle stuff for everybody.

He’s been a comedy mentor to Nate Berghatzy. Now Nate Burghatzy discussed his own comedy mentor. Nate said, I remember seeing Bill Burr when I first started. He was a little older than me, and I watched him get Letterman and all these check marks. I was starting comedy and he was seeing this guy and it was so funny, and then the world was figuring out how funny was Because Nate think being clean hindered his career.

He said, when it was starting to come up in two thousand and eight, everything was going that edgy or rude. I thought, if I was a comedian in the eighties or nineties, I probably would have had a quicker assent as I fit in with that era. Being clean out auditioned for an R rated comedy, think I’m not gonna feel comfortable doing this. That was hard, because you want to do those movies. I did struggle with it.

I was very tempted, but then I thought, let me stay in my lane and if anything comes, I’ve definitely got some lines. I wouldn’t cross cursing anything sexual in my standup. Even though it’s clean, it’s adult topics. I could ride this line. Rick Ferguson said he made a decision to build an entire show around comedy and personal stories rather than in politics.

He told the View, I’m sick of people that I agree with, never mind people I don’t agree with. I’m just like let’s take an hour and a half. I’ll go on stage. I’ll tell you a bunch of jokes, do some stuff, tell some stories. The end of it, all the stuff you’re angry about is still there.

You can have it back. I’m not taking it from you. Was a choice I made for myself, like could I do it? Could I fill a whole show with no politics? And it turns out I can’t.

Margaret Chow says, I hate Donald Trump. I hate how stupid he is. I hate how stupid. We made the most important job in the world, which is the presidency. We allow for this idiotic, incompetent, incoherent, incontinent narcissist to side every day whether we should live or die.

It’s a nightmare. We as a world are forced to be led by this monstrosity. It’s really funny to me.

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Also, it’s really horrendous.

The greatest hope is that he’s impeached, removed, and then imprisoned. I do see a way of that happening. Send your letters to Margaret Show from The Toronto Guardian. Their Tragedy Plus Time, a series where they speak to local comedians. Today it’s David Seely David practices old school, authentic, unfiltered and honest comedy shaped by folks like at Red Fox, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappelle.

Could have left Eddie out of that. Eddie’s a Richard Pryor cover actor as great as he is. Favorite comedian growing up, Eddie Murphy. I get it. Then you get a little older and you watch Richard Pryor sets and you go, oh, I see what Eddie is doing.

Favorite comedian right now, Dave Chappelle, what do you like about Toronto? Toronto is at all from legal weed on every corner, at least five different kinds of pink eye, and a hockey team that’s been practicing social distancing with the Stanley Cup. Ali Sadik talked about crowd work. He is at not a slapstick and I do do crowd work, and you have to be able to follow storylines on I don’t. People can do it.

That’s how I know Game of Thrones is so big. People watch movies. If you’re coming to see a shows, be on time. That’s the biggest thing. The later we start, the shorter my show gets for you.

And I prefer to do anywhere from an hour to an hour thirty. Dean Cole told the La Times about crowd work. He said, if something happens while I’m doing my stuff, then fine, But I’m not going to create a crowd work environment. If it happens, it happens, but I’m not going to purposely create it. And I mean teach his own to do that.

And there’s some people. We are very funny at it, and there’s some people like what are you doing? And for a lot of audience members, I feel like they’re being tricked a lot of times because a lot of comedians they get up there and they’re doing a meet and greet. Hey, what’s your name? What do you do for a living?

How many kids you got? Do that at the meet and greet? Why are you standing up here for forty five minutes getting to know everybody? Four? Where are your jokes?

If people like it, you know, what do you do about it? But I’m old school with the craft. I like written comedy. I like storytelling. I like hearing something I’ve never heard before.

I don’t like sitting in the audience laughing at somebody’s name or what they do for a living, or who they’re with. My brain isn’t learning that way. I mean, people love it. It’s a younger audience that I think really love it. Even though older people love it, don’t get me wrong, but the majority, I think it’s a younger on Granted, there’s an audience for that.

You can give me a crowd work. Let’s hear about you. Who are you? What happened to you today? That’s what’s funny.

While of the great comics got sitcoms, why because you can listen to their jokes and see the show, and then they go create the show off what they were talking about. You can see this. So when you have a comic and they leave and you go, who was that person? You can’t remember the comics name, you know what I mean. I think it’s just let people know who you are, because that’s what makes you unique.

You can’t just go out and tell joke after joke after joke. Anybody could tell jokes, but it’s who’s telling the joke that makes it great. That that’s your comedy news for today. If all the show on Spotify, click on notifications so you never miss an episode. And if you’d like to comment on anything in today’s show, there’s a little comment section there on Spotify, and you can chime in there, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Katt Williams, Josh Johnson, Marlon Wayans, Dave Chappelle, Patton Oswalt, Amy Schumer, Pete Holmes

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart and Katt Williams reconciliation after years of conflict
• Josh Johnson breaking the standard comedy special format on HBO Max
• Marlon Wayans defending friendship with Dave Chappelle while supporting his trans son
• Patton Oswalt sharing comedy influences he watches with his daughter
• Amy Schumer shares vacation photos and weight loss journey
• Pete Holmes discusses edgier material and the evolution of clean comedy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. All right, Kevin Hart, what’s the deal with you and Kat Williams? Kevin Hart was on the Breakfast Club and dropped a lot of fbombs. So Johnny Mac has made some edits for language.

No, man, Cat have been we’ve we’ve reconciled. How long prior? No, probably like maybe eight months ago? What bought? Maybe?

How did that happen? Because everybody knows the infamous club station if you plus you’ve been taking a shot at you for years? Right? What happened? Kat and I had a conversation, conversation, a private conversation between me and Kat.

But the baseline was like, we’re older. This is years and years and years of there’s no reason why we shouldn’t like figure out a world of compromise where we can get along and we can give the fan base something different with us, something that’s unexpected, and figure out a way to work together, right, figure out a way to frame the comedy minds that we both have and put them at the table. Cat thought it was time to do it, as did I. Shook hands. Great conversation, great dialogue, The first thing that came up, of course, was the rose.

When the opportunity for the ross came up, reached out the cat. It’d be dope if you did it, Kat said. We just got in a good space. KeV. If I do it, I’m gonna do it.

I said, have ad it. Cat had ad it. And our conversations are private. Like. That’s another thing too, man.

I’m not big runningto the microphone and telling personal business the an adult, Go call the person, go call whatever, whomever. Have a conversation. After that conversation has had, that’s your all business. I think Kat’s business is ours. We are in a good spot, thankfully, finally, and it’s a good feeling when you can say like you’ve put the problems of old behind you right once again.

Forty six I mean fifty soon. That’s half your life, man. Josh Johnson talked with the Extra instead of his recent special. I think for this one, my overall concept and the way that all came together feels very different. It’s something that’s never happened before.

For the level of support that I have in the amount of time twenty six seconds that we have to come up with something really unique. I mean, I can’t say enough, like the straight up support has been very special, very thankful. What does it take to do, especially, says I mean, at first you have to have an hour’s worth of things to say that would help.

And then in this case, I worked on the concept with the director for the spec…

Like it’s kind of a miracle that it all came together. I feel very strongly that the future of the form is breaking free from a standard model, and I think we did that with this, and I look forward to doing it in the future. How does it come up jokes? I just don’t do anything else. I think it’s mostly just the things I find interesting were the things I think that other people might skip through the day, Like I’m fascinated by things that are mundane and pretty boring, which has been good for the most part.

It’s been good for that fodder because it’s all something we share and there’s sort of a universal aspect there and you can pull from it endlessly because we all engage with some of the stuff differently. For example, I don’t know when’s the last time you took the bus, but the bus now versus the bus before the war’s very different. Like initially when you were taking the bus before the war and Iran, you were just taking the bus, and now you’re taking the bus with people who know they have a car but can’t afford gas right now, so it’s a much angrier bus. Josh Johnson Symphony is on HBO. Max Marlon Wayne’s explain how he’s able to remain friends with Dave Chappelle while also supporting Marlin’s trans Son Kai Way instead of Chappelle.

Dave’s intention isn’t to punch down Wayne’s sold variety. I wouldn’t hang with Dave if he was full of eight I don’t hang with people like that. I know Dave’s heart, and his intention is not to punch down. Dave wants to freely tell his jokes, and if you’re gonna be anti comedy, then he’s going to keep attacking you, so you learn to have a sense of humor. He’s just standing there and defending his front line as a comedian.

As a comedian, I respect his journey, and as a friend, I respect his journey and for my child. I respect their journey, and as the father of my child, I could appropriate my feelings toward my friend and my feelings toward my child, and how we could put those two things together and I can explain both sides on between them, so I can explain both sides to each other. All my kids are gifts and our love is the wrapping paper. I’m not here for hate. Transphobia is a form of hate.

Homophobia is a form of hate. Racism is a form of hate. Although small hearted, simple minded people, there’s a hell for you. And if you think you’re going to bully my child, go somewhere else. It’s not gonna happen.

I won’t stand for it. Star Trek ruiner Patton Oswalts shared with Variety what Patton Oswalt watches with his daughter. He did not mention Star Trek, which he helped to ruin. Some of the things they watch includes stand up comedy. Star Trek grown her.

Patent Oswalt said there’s certain comedians like Mitch Hedberg and Ria Bamford. I’ll show her bits of online this summer. I’m going to watch the original Richard Pryor live in concert with her just to show how a true master the form a person staying with just a microphone can create words in your head. Patton said, I’m gonna take her to see weird Al this year. His daughter was friends with weird Al’s daughter, who has now graduated college, but they first got together when they were little.

That’s nice. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her. She of course, shared some photos of her boating vacation on Instagram. The photos were captioned travel. Amy shared twenty pictures showing Amy Schumer jet skiing, paddleboarding, and soaking up the sun on a yacht.

Amy Schumer wore a red sweatsuit and black life vest and is sharing her weight loss journey of over fifty pounds. Upworthy caught up with Pete Holmes. Some people thought Pete Holmes is a little edgier than he used to be. Up Worthy was like, so you feel like it’s not you’re making a choice to be edgier, You’re just doing you. Pete said, oh, yeah, that’s how material shows up too.

I always liking to it if you ever got an Amazon package on your doorstep and you don’t even remember what it is. That happens every day in my house. That’s how the material shows up. I’m not trying to be a flashy artist like, oh, I’m just the vessel. I’m just saying I’m living my life and certain things come up right down.

I perform them, people like them, and then you have about an hour and ten minutes of that and you have a show. As for clean comedy, the line has moved. Pete Holmes said, I think it’s very possible that someone does what’s considered clean comedy, meaning they’re not talking about their penis or sex or about drugs, and they’re not swearing, they’re not saying the seven words, right, and that comedy can be toxic, it can be ugly, it can be encouraging really backwards thinking and harmful ideologies. Right by the way, I’ll defend someone’s right to be able to do that. I’m just saying what I see sometimes, and I think it’s quite possible to talk about drugs and your penis and the existence of sex and say all the seven words and do a joke that’s really beautiful.

In fact, I think that’s part of the message. I’m not ashamed. I don’t choose my thoughts, I don’t choose my feelings. I’m here to report on them and laugh at them and thereby take away some of their power. Now, did I say F Yes, But if that’s your line in the sand, whether or not, a comic says, f that’s fine.

That was me for the first twenty eight years of my life. It’s not my line anymore. And I’m happy to say there are lots and lots of people that are nuanced, that are lovely, compassionate, generous, interesting, interested people that aren’t turned off by the full human experience. By the way, I love clean comedy too. It’s just like, I don’t think clean necessary.

That early means it’s going to be mean or ugly or somehow harmful. I don’t think ugly means you swear. Radar Online says Bill Cosby is so desperate for money. How desperate is he? Bill Cosby’s so desperate for money that to pay off a massive civil judgment granted to one of his victims, he has slashed the price on his New York City townhouse by more than seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to track buyers as quickly as possible.

A source tells Radar he’s desperate to raise money and clearly willing to do just about anything necessary to do. So, you should volunteer for a roast. Can you imagine, boy? That would be amazing? Sourza said, is once estimated four hundred million dollar fortune had shrunk to an estimated one hundred and twenty eight million dollars.

In March, at California court ordered Bill Cosby to pay fifty nine million dollars to a former waitress who a LA jury determined he’d attacked in nineteen seventy two. The townhouse originally went on the market for a price tag of six point nine to nine million dollars. It’s now at five point nine nine million dollars. Someday Bill Cosby will pass away and I will tell a story on this very program. The Toronto Guardian does a wonderful series called Tragedy plus Time when they talk to local comedians, one of them Shanil Patel.

We are told Shanil Blend’s sign Feldian observations with Larry David level of frustration, balancing clean, clever premises with the occasional unhinged detour. Mittel says, I mostly joke about my marriage and securities, frustrations and brownness. People tell me my delivery is smug and lethargic, but apparently not in a bad way. Favorite comedian growing up, Rowan Atkinson is mister Bean. You don’t see that answer a lot.

Favorite comedian right now Nate Berganzi Josh Johnson impresses me the most pre show ritual pacing while trying to remember my joke. Order. Favorite bit you’ve written, Bettel says, I’ve been working out a bit about learning French that I’m proud of because it’s clean. My other favorite new bit is one called Grandpa’s penis Mold, which is less clean. And that is your comedy news for today.

You can follow the show on Spotify. Click on notifications so you never miss an episode, and Spotify is a little comment section there if you want to weigh in on any of this, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Tony Hinchcliffe, Pete Davidson, Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, Matt Rife, Nate Bargatze, Colin Jost, Camille Nanjiani

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart Defends Tom Brady Roast Controversy
• Tony Hinchcliffe Responds to Social Media Backlash
• Nate Bargatze’s The Breadwinner Movie Review
• Nate Bargatze Theme Park Plans Announced
• Nikki Glaser’s Experience at the Roast

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Did we not do a roast of Tom Brady last year? Do people really not understand what the roast is? Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I thought today it was going to be all about Date Berghezzi and the Breadwinner, but Kevin Hart and people had other ideas.

Kevin Hart went on the Breakfast Club and spoke with the Charlottmage, the God and Crewe have a few clips from Kevin Hart himself. Here he is discussing the joke about George Floyd. Yeah, the Joyce flore joke. It wasn’t a tasteful joke to our culture, to our audience. But our audience that’s watching the roast.

If you’re watching the roast, you get why they’re doing it. You get why the racial humor is is on the table. Like it’s not. I wasn’t shocked, Like that’s what they do. Go and look at the Tom Brady one, like that’s what they do.

It’s it happens every year when they do a roast. It’s not new. This isn’t a new it’s not a new agenda. It’s not a new approach to comedy. Do you feel like Tony Hinchcliffe went too far when he made that joke about George Woff.

It’s Tony Hinchcliffe, Like, I don’t like I don’t expect less, I don’t expect more. I feel I feel like you’re saying going too far as the point I don’t know if it was, yes, I mean, that’s why you’re there. Kevin’s response did not go so well on social media. When person said things can be zero percent your fault and one hundred percent your responsibility. Another said wow, yeah, Kevin, you lost me with this one.

You could have been honest and said, yes, he went too far with that joke. Kevin said, Tony Hinchcliffe arguably had the best set or one of the best sets. Pete Davidson had a great set too. But that but not even just that joke. I don’t like when people joke about violent tragic death.

I like Pete sitting and I was like, you have to say, I mean Pete, Pete went. Pete had a great set too. Pete had a Charlie Kurk joking Like would I tell those jokes? No? But do I get why they’re being told?

Yes, Like I’m not looking at Pete crazy I’m not looking at Tony like that’s what. I know what you’re going to do. I know your style of comedy. Kevin said, whatever the dialogue is, my rebuttal is simplicity. Remove me from it.

I didn’t say it. If you’re upset that the night went on, that’s a different conversation. It’s nothing I could do. It’s a production. Tony Hinchcliff discussed the roast unkilled Sony, so I’m edit’s here for language.

Evan Hart was something else. Huh, it’s the first time I’ve been called a Nazi multiple times in just a few hours. I guess that’s what la writers’ rooms, all these a lot of mentally ill liberals out there that somehow, with all these blacks and Jews and Mexicans around me, I guess I’m a Nazi somehow. I guess the guy that pulls names out of a bucket, giving everybody an opportunity is a Nazi. Isn’t that something?

And I got called a Nazi, gay, a racist, and over again. I’m none of those three things. A little fun fact, but they are what they are, fat ugly black Jewish. Everything I said was real about them, just a reminder. And Tony doesn’t seem none too pleased with Chelsea Handler.

There’s news articles because the news isn’t real. Nothing is real that say that I got lit up by Chelsea Handler, which is very, very funny because that’s not what happened at all. You can’t believe anything you see or read on the news anymore. You have to actually watch the thing for yourself. She was a bit of a coup, I’ll tell you that.

She just kept she just kept coming at me over she said, I went took the Saudi Arabia money. She was like wrong about things. The writers just didn’t do her any justice. But then and then the teleprompter. The fun fact the teleprompter h only went down during my set, and and it gave me a lot of opportunity to remind Chelsea Handler what she looks like and where her life.

Is Hollywood inside her established comedian Nikki Glaser, whose career was made by the Tom Brady Roost Wade in and Uh, you can hear the coolness sucking out of the room for Nicky Glazer, establishment comedian. I loved watching it. I love anything that’s like watching a live comedy event. It’s so the stakes are so high. It’s I was glad to be watching it not doing it, because it’s just like it’s nerve wrecking and it’s like it really sends your nervous system through a lot of trauma to do one of.

Those just got a little PTSD watching. Honestly, I was like so nervous for everyone. But I honestly had a great time. And you know, there was some stuff that I didn’t love, and there was other stuff that I thought was great. You know, like people have so many opinions about it, and I’m going to keep my opinions to myself and just keep talking about them in my group chats with by other comedian friends about who what we think about it, And I’m not gonna make a public okay.

But tell me who’s on that group chat, what other comedian. Just like the funniest people I know in town. And you know, oh, just I’ve talked to every comedian about it. Everyone’s talking about and that’s the good thing, you know, like Netflix did a good job of making something that is And the thing about like I don’t believe that jokes can’t be made that are racist jokes, ironically racist jokes, though the problem is not that it’s racist. Is that it’s like sometimes you got to find a way.

If you really want to do a joke, you got to find a way to make it make sense. You can’t just like say it and out of nowhere just be like this, you know. I think that’s the thing that I feel like. I think that’s what people are having a problem with. Is not like the nature of the jokes, because I do love roast for how anything can be said in all all bets are off and but you but that’s not so easy.

You have to make it palatable. Matt Rife was at the ACM Awards on the red carpet. He was asked, did you watch the Kevin Hart roast. Matt Raife said, I didn’t get a chance to the entire thing, but I mean my feed is obviously filled with clips from it, and I think everybody on there crushed it. Dude.

It was brutal, but as a roast should be. The interviewer was like, but so some people have complained about parts of it. Matt cut them off and said, shut up, then don’t watch it. It’s a roast. Everybody there is gonna be made fun of.

It’s supposed to push the boundaries of all forms of comedy. For a roast, it’s supposed to be mean spirited, but you don’t actually mean it. Everyone there loves each other. Now our other topic today, Nate Bergazzi’s The Breadwinner is out. You’re probably listening to this while online.

Outside the theater. There’s probably lines around the block. People can’t get enough of it. Variety has their review, their headline The Breadwinter Review. Nate Berghazzi bumbles through a domestic comedy that thinks incompetent dads are still funny.

Spoilers The film’s second echoes a little like this. Nate trips on the stairs while doing laundry. Nate burns the toast during breakfast. Nate crashes the car while distracted during school drop off. An array of familiar comedy phases clog up the film’s periphery, including Colin jostas Connor, the town seemingly only others stay at home, Dad and Cameil Nanciani Jesus Peyton, a competing Toyota salesman.

Both funk essentially is extrastential fluff. Jose leans on his punchable persona as Connor, while non Jehanny’s running joke hangs on Peyton’s muscle bound physique. The big problem with The Breadwinner isn’t its sense of humor, but it’s confused message. The film begins with the division of labor that, however much it resembles a mid century sitcom, appears to work well for both Nate and Katie. So why during Nate’s inevitable third act moral of the story speech, does he insist that his month at home has been the best of his life.

Meanwhile, I’ve been sitting on this one until today. The Wall Street Journal wrote about the theme park. Now, before we even get into this, I pulled some clips here. Here’s what people on the internet are saying about the theme park idea. At Captain Kathleen wrote, does anybody beside Nate actually want this?

That’s how I feel about this drink. Jena Aide said, I was okay with it until he named it after himself. Sorry, no, Jennifer Sturger wrote, plays roller coaster Tycoon once dot dot dot Chris Ramirez Ford takes some real narcissism to build your own nameland, to chronicling your life. Let’s see what the Journal learned lear from Nate Brighetzi about this, the journal tells us. To help make Nateland happen, The comedian convince his neighbor to be a chief executive.

Felix Vertigius was a partner at consulting firm KPMG before Nate poached him. They hired a lobbyist and started wooing wealthy and powerful people around Nashville for support. They contracted with Storyland Studios, a California firm filmed by a lums of Disney Universal Studios in Legoland to design the park. Nate’s team picked a site in the Nashville metro, secured most of the land through an investor, but declined to make the location public before negotiations are complete. Tax incentives have been identified for the project, which has state and local support.

According to authorities involved, they’ll start raising capital this summer.

All right, here’s the still evolving design.

Are you ready for this? You’re not. Visitors would enter through a nineteen nineties style mall. You heard me, I didn’t misspeak. The area, based on Nate’s local lore, would include coasters and a donkey dive ride inspired by one of his jokes.

The New York section Ooh tell me more. Would have street performers, live shows, and a ride through a simulated Times Square with the New Year’s eve Ball drop something I can tell you, actual New Yorkers hate all of those. You’re taking the worst of New York City and making a theme land about it. Okay. The third section would have stunt performances and interactive shows.

Nate wants to taper down from his arena tours and hopes Nate Land will switch up the transaction with audiences coming to him mistake, Nate says. The win for me will be when people go to Nateland and maybe don’t even know who Nate is. Good luck, sir. Mandy Moore is the co star of what is this The Breadwinner? Yes, it’s called The Breadwinner, She said.

I love this sort of celebration of moms and mom kind of being an entrepreneur and getting this incredibly unique opportunity in its own way. It’s like dad kind of switching roles and recognizing how much mom really does contribute to the house and keeping the ship righted. So I loved all of that. I don’t have that exact same experience in my life. I feel like my husband’s like a really good partner and a great dad and could pivot and figure out things in a way that I don’t worry about the kids or anything like that.

Heate said. The movie is go back to the classic family comedy movies that we all love. I think there’s a lack of entertainment that has made for entire families. There are so few movies where everyone of all ages can have a good laugh, so I decided to create one myself. This is a movie with characters everyone can relate to, and it gives families and friends a great reason to go to a theater for an excellent night out.

That’s not gonna happen. Man. People will watch this on streaming because he is popular and it’s mindless stuff you could throw on. You know, hey, wife, what should we watch to night?

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All right, let’s watch this fine.

It’s one of those things no one will love but no one will hate. Nate gets that party says, you want us to have that ted Lasso effect where it’s a feel good story you can go back and watch again. We’re never gonna watch this movie twice, and that’s not happening. We’re gonna watch it once on streaming. Four months from now, Nate, the thing I think will help me with movies is now that I’ve traveled all over the country, I’ve done these jokes everywhere.

I’ve got a really good feeling to be like, hey, I think this will work. Because I’ve done a version of this everywhere, I kind of know what I feel like the country wants. You start realizing everybody’s a family, everybody goes through somewhat of the same things. He discussed the difference between acting and stand up comedy. Let’s stand up.

I very much prepare what I’m going to say and how I’m gonna say it, but you’re doing it live and doing SNL is the same aspects of doing a movie. I love the structure of being like you got to be here at this time, and this time you have someone telling you where to go. I really enjoyed that is untitled twenty nineteen TV pilot was not picked up. Nate said it was very frustrating. Steve Martin would always say, you gotta be undeniable that let me go down this path and be a stand up comedian.

I think what happened with the TV show is I talk about my family so much in my comedy was probably hard to recreate that. I don’t know if that show could have been as funny as what I talk about. I was frustrated during those eight years. But now, in hindsight, maybe they did have a point. Box office theory thinks this movie will make about sixteen million dollars this weekend high projection twenty three million.

Comedy stock Markets. Thank you, Burt Reynolds. Every week on the Comedy stock Marker, we take a look at the comedians. We try to find some value. Much like when you make money on stocks, we try and buy and sell high.

I don’t feel too strongly about anything this week. I’m wondering if we should sell Nate. Is this thing gonna work? I mean, part of me is scared that, like, people are gonna go out and see this thing, But I don’t know. It just doesn’t seem cool at all.

But maybe I’m a cool elitist to New Yorker sitting at a basement in New Jersey. I don’t know. Let’s sell Nate Pergatzy. We gotta be bold here. We’ll sell Nate Progatzy.

Let’s buy some Tony Hinchcliff. I think to use Nate’s word tony Hinchcliff is undeniable. I understand why some people don’t get it or choose to hate on Tony. But Tony’s just doing his kill Tony thing. He gets up on the roast, he kills.

He’s got a money making operation. It sells along just fine. Why not buy some Tony Hinchcliff and then two sells? All relates to the roast. Chelsea Handler is having just the worst two weeks.

Chelsea stopped talking the idea that a joke is worse than rape. I mean, listen to yourself, it’s a joke. It might be the worst joke ever told. It might be the most horrible thing ever said by anybody, but it was still a joke worse than rape. Sell Chelsea Handler, and let’s sell Nikki Glaser.

I just feel like all the cool is coming off Nikki Glaser. I think we all get who Nikki Glaser wants to be Amy Schumer, and she’s just going to keep going down that road. And I think she’s gonna shed some of the people who liked her in the past that I’m not sure Nicky’s gotta to pick up new people to replace those that she sheds. All right, So We’re gonna sell Nate buy, Tony sell, Chelsea sell NICKI. That is your comedy stock market for today.

I’m doing this one live. I haven’t looked at this at all at all. This was an email I got the other day. JFL Montreal sent out some more stuff. Let’s see Ashley Gavin’s gonna be a clipsode on the twenty fourth.

We have official dates for New Faces of Comedy Stand Up July twenty second and twenty third. That yep, as usual. That’s a Wednesday and Thursday. So if you’re looking for me, I’ll probably be in Montreal on the Wednesday night, if not. Both New Faces of Comedy characters on the twenty third.

Oh, this is interesting. New Faces of Comedy Stand Up Encore on the twenty fourth and twenty fifth. Maybe I go to that and then I can hang around for the free Weird Al show. That might be an interesting way to do things. We’ve also announce shows from Matty Kelly, Mark Watson, Janine Harooney and some local Montreal folks.

I’m looking forward to that. Just back off the London. I’m still dusting myself off, so I needs to plan my life a little bit. W Comal Bell has another podcast. This one is called Who’s with Me, inspired by his substack of the same name, Come Out.

Bell’s latest podcast features conversations designed to educate and drive change. Belle says, when everywhere we look feels like the powers that be want to push us apart, I wanted to create a space where curiosity and empathy lead the way and conversation actually moves us forward. In each episode of Who’s with Me, Belle will open with a monologue addressing the current cultural and political landscape. He’ll don’t have a guest. Guests will include Ted Danson of course, a musician, dav Diggs, and restaurants for are Eddie Wang Okay, Betulein, Maria Bamford and Marcaret show interesting lineup.

Samb’s got a new gig for the CBC. She will start in The Ambassador. Sam b plays an actor turned diplomat in Bulgaria working inside an embassy to uncover new business opportunities for Canada. Was Adam Sandler unavailable? Was Kevin James unavailable?

Was an Aperghezzie unavailable? That’s Sambe in The Ambassador, an actor turned diplomat in Bulgaria working inside an embassy to uncover new business opportunities for Canada. Okayn’t your comedy news for today? Follow the show on Spotify. You can comment on Spotify about anything you heard here on the program.

And I will be back tomorrow. I got a lot more Kevin Hart stuff

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Featured: Ben Gleib, Pete Davidson, John Mulaney, Josh Johnson, Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Ben Gleib launches ‘Goodnight with Ben Gleib’ YouTube late night show
• Pete Davidson and John Mulaney discuss SNL hosting challenges at Netflix as a Joke Festival
• Josh Johnson releases first HBO comedy special ‘Symphony’
• Josh Johnson discusses weekly YouTube sets and hosting philosophy
• Tom Segura interviews about Two Bears Five K fitness event and training regimen

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News is tonight at the start of the new era of late night, It’s Goodnight with Ben Gleb making its YouTube premiere. I’m not sure this will have the same impact as say, a four day a week eleven thirty five network show, but who knows Goodnight with Ben glee will become the first late night type show launching on YouTube, made exclusively for YouTube, we are told Glebe’s weekly series is designed to evolve the traditional celebrity focus late nights base, offering chats with the usual suspects, while broadening in scope to include top thought leaders, creators, experts, entrepreneurs, wellness and financial experts, relationship coaches, AI futurists, and psychologists. Shows a tape of the night before as in Last Night, and we’ll debut on YouTube every Thursday at ten Eastern. Not sure why they pick that time.

There’s a live studio audience, a wall of screens showing the first global virtual studio audience. Bill Carter said. There will be a band, and each week we’ll also feature a post show after party episode where glebe dives deeper with his guests and additional curated invitees, often over drinks and candid conversation. All right, I come with an open mind. We’ll check that one out.

Pete Davidson and John Mulaney talked a little bit about how some people hosting Saturday Night Live aren’t that good during the Netflix as a Joke Festival, John Mulaney reflected on his time as a writer and he said, when I was twenty five, I’d tell Oscar winning host I’d right there monologue. I’d be like, yeah, I got to say all that, it’s got to go great, and then that tank eight times out of ten. Pete david said laughed and said he too would tell hosts they crushed it even when they didn’t. Lene said, they’ll have actor face. They sort of don’t get it because they’re just an actor and they’d be like, hey, was that good, and you’re like, no, do you have ears?

Pete said, it off and tell the hosts you’re really performing for the people at home. Lane added, play for the camera the audience. They’re just there to help you, but they’re not going to laugh a lot. Pete and I don’t always go their chores. They wait outside they try to win a lottery.

Half of them probably don’t even speak English. They do, they’re big fans of the show. They camp outside. Mlaney recalled an instance when a very big comedy star bombed, saying it was the comedy store’s own fault because it was very difficult writing the monologue. But when the famous comedy star checked in, when Mlaney, m’laney said, it’s bad acoustics, Melanie, that’s pointed out it’s famously one of the best Mike sound studios in the world that used to be the home to the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

Speaking of symphonies, Josh Johnson Symphony was I did this by accident. I just I didn’t plan this at all. These two stories is happen to be in this great back to back Josh Johnson Symphony his first ever HBO comedy special. He wanted it to be timeless, he told Emmy’s dot Com. No interesting that Emmys dot Com interviewed Josh Johnson.

HM keep an eye on that when the Emmy nominations come around. Josh told Emmys dot Com, I really want people to be able to look back and enjoy this thing I’ve done with HBO for years and years and years. That’s why I didn’t make any topical references. I’m just talking about things that feel particularly universal, at least to me. I haven’t gotten to it yet, as I’ve mentioned a couple times on the shows in London last week and now that they are Knicks games, and then four as a Horizon six came out and at James Bond video game, So you know, I haven’t really been in TV mood.

In Symphony, Josh comes out and he takes a moment to look at the audience. D Emmys were curious, what are you doing, Josh said, He’s trying to form a connection with them. It’s also taking a second to take stock of what’s happening. Let’s say you’re fully locked in. You could just run out there, start doing your first joke and be thinking about outlands, thinking about last per minute and everything, where you could take a quick second to stop and not just enjoy, but really respect the fact that these people are all here together for a reason.

I think it takes the moment of noticing to really make yourself present and fully respect everyone was there. Josh talked about his career. He’s been doing stand up since twenty twelve, but says I was pretty happy. We’re gking at the grocery store and doing stand up at night. In a sense, I couldn’t imagine doing what I’m doing now.

If you have a real love and curiosity for something, then you can’t help but give it a shot. When I moved to Chicago, I landed and almost immediately try to find an open mic pressure Billio’s in Chicago. That was the first open mic that I did. I had five minutes and I didn’t mention time well. I told two jokes in a story and then kind of finished.

I really want to respect the light. Because I was new, I didn’t want to make enemies or anything. Emmy’s was curious about the sets Josh puts out on YouTube every Tuesday. How do you handle that? Josh Johnson said, I’ve always written a lot, a lot, a lot a lot.

While some things can be very funny and topical, they’re just not gonna be relevant forever. To me, it makes the most sense to share those things so that those who couldn’t make it to the show get to enjoy it. It also helps build some community. There are people who tune into the live YouTube show every week and we chat in the chat and I’m very thankful to the people that made a ritual out of it. As for hosting the daily show, Josh has said in the past he compares a too boring of friend’s car.

You want to return it without any damage. Josh spoke more about that and said, I think it’s important to consistently feel that way. That’s not the way that anyone has made me feel. It’s the thing I do out of respect for what I get to do. I hope I don’t lose that feeling, not even for a little bit, because it’s what keeps me as intentional as possible.

Muscle and Fitness caught up with Tom Sigoura around the time of The Two Bears five K. Sigura said, what makes that event work is probably two middle aged fat guys not known for being fit decided to do this, and that inspired a lot of other people had never done it to try it. I wish we had started eight years earlier. Zagora admits that he takes the physical side of the event much differently than his partner Bert. Bert’s more of a winged guy.

I can’t do that, so I started getting my miles in months in advance. I kind of hate it, the running, but I slowly start to embrace it as it gets closer. I need to start up again. I’ve been really bad. It was also four degrees all winter, Sigora said.

I’ve made physical health a priority. It also makes me listen to my body in a way I never did before. I’m more into mobility and circuit training now more than ever. I don’t think about big lifts like when I was younger. It’s so mental.

We’re all capable of more, but you have to have the right mindset to prepare and go through with it. I wake up around six thirty seven and go to the gym most mornings to run a mile and have a workout that’s more circuit based lately, so I get cardio and resistance in. I take days off as I feel any of them. I don’t plan for them. That was the same way when I was running a lot.

Yeah, sometimes you just need that one day off and then you feel a lot better. Eating clean isn’t that hard, says s Agora. Sleep can be a real challenge with travel on the kids, but you can’t perform well in any physical activity if you don’t prioritize sleepe, don’t overthe g it, just get it done. It doesn’t have to look good for it to count. Do all the little min Dane stuff.

You think it’s a waste of time. It’s a difference between making a full recovery and having lingering issues on race day. I think we all want to beat each other. We’re also old enough to know we could hurt ourselves and after the race drinking poroso straight up then cold plunge. All right.

Bill Board put out the list of biggest comedy tours for April. Number five, Berg Kreischer twelve shows, twenty five nine hundred tickets, grows two point one million dollars. Not bad. Now. I don’t know what this one is.

It’s the We Them Ones Comedy Tour. They did three shows and gross two point three million. Apparently this tour is Mike Epps, Carlos Miller, DC, Young Fly, Chico Bean, Mojo Brooks, Tony Roberts, TK Kirkland, Just Nash, fab Munroe, Jski and Nev Green. They’ll be at the win Trest Arena in Chicago on Saturday. If you want to go, say how much tickets for this thing are?

Section two one row. J o’r on you ninety dollars eighty five cents. Number three. Peter Kay did five shows and gross to four million dollars. Matt Rie did ten shows and grossed at nine point one million.

And the King of the World and we’ll be talking about him a lot later this week because he’s got a movie coming out. Naprighatzy fifteen shows gross to eleven point two million dollars. Let me say that number again. He grossed eleven point two million dollars. That’s a gross.

It’s not net, but still eleven point two million dollars. Wow. From The Guardian, the Department of Homeland Security has circulated a be on the lookout alert to law enforcement nationwide. All right, who are they looking for? They’re looking for a comedian.

The subject of the alert is Ben Palmer, the national based standup comedian and prankster who has created a parody anti immigration tip website. I’ve shared some of his calls before. If you’re not hip to this, His revealing videos of calls with members of the public who thought they were reporting immigrants to US Immigration and Customs enforcement. You know them as ICE, have garnered millions of us on TikTok and YouTube. I made a website for reporting illegal immigrants, and sometimes people end up on the website thinking that it’s real.

And somebody wanted to report a man that they suspected to be an illegal immigrant that lives in their neighborhood. So I reached out to see if I could help. There is one person who comes and he’s non speaking, non English speaking, and he will come possibly, oh see, maybe maybe you’ll see him two weekends out of the month. And it’s not even for a complete weekend. It’s you’ll come Saturday like a thief in the night at ten, ten thirty, eleven thirty at night, and then leave Sunday and he’s gone.

Okay, it’s just very very suspicious while he is here. When he pulled into the driveway. Yeah, and the lights always on. They’re using electricity in the home, yes and yes, and that is definitely suspicious. Yes.

And they’re also using the the driveway right. And the light is always lit in the garage when he comes, light stays on. We cannot see the basement section from our kitchen window. We can only see that there’s a light lit, and that’s the garage window that we can see the light lit. Yeah, and so just not being able to not being able to see what the resident is doing inside their own home, that’s what raises the suspicions.

The bulletin was issued by the DHS Nashville Field Office in February, about a week before The Washington Post profiled Palmer after a kinderdgarten teacher reported one of her students’ parents to Palmer’s supposed tip page. And it looks like they have a child who was born in New York, which makes them an American citizen. Yeah, so we’re looking to deport the parents and leave the child. Right. Like I said, I don’t know if they’re here illegally.

I just think it’s odd. You know, it’s very odd. What did you say was odd? It’s just odd for them even me here. Like I’m a teacher at a school.

Schools. I know the whole law about schools. I mean, they seem like nice people or whatever. But I looked them up. In our files and I was like, oh, she.

Was born in Honduras and he’s born in Alzabad or so right there. It’s like, Okay, maybe I’m on the right path. You know, they drop off their kid every day. So their kid is their kid a student at your school? Yes?

Yeah, okay, so now you want to get his parents deported. Well, I’m just saying, if they’re taking up resources from our county not into illegal people being here. Then the be on the Lookout was shared by the Illinois State Police to a distribution list of state and local law enforcement agencies. The alert on Palmer was obtained by the nonprofit Injustice Watch. It’s not immediately clear how many other law enforcement departments around the US may have shared the federal alert to be on the lookout for Ben Palmer.

At the bottom of the Bee on the Lookout alert, the dh acknowledges that the comedian does not pose a danger. At this time. There appears to be no direct threat to life or infrastructure. A DHS spokesperson said there is no investigation into this individual. This document is an internal memo shared for awareness purposes only, adding that law enforcement and civilians should be aware of potential websites and individuals impersonating federal law enforcement.

Palmer said he found out about this from Injustice Watch. He called it a badge of honor to be honest. For me, it’s the best of both worlds. I don’t get arrested, but I still get to say that the Department of Homeland Security created a document about me, which is in my line of work. I was looking at these things more like certificates, badges of honor.

The government wastes a lot of time and SAX dollars for sure, but when you have your own little section on that, I kind of feel honored. HBO Max has confirmed the premier date of a new six episode Australian led comedy series called Make That Movie. I love the two people in this They are Sam Campbell and Aaron Chen. I recently played some clips from Aaron on this program and Sam Campbell you may know from Luk. Created by Sam Campbell, Make That Movie follows a chaotic, high concept premise.

A self assured filmmaker travels across the country searching for everyday people with ideas for future films, before attempting to bring those ideas to life in just three days. Sam Campbell starts as the fast talking director. Aaron chen plays Sebastian, an intimacy coordinator. They’re all fab I think that’ll be good. A partner Naturla talked to Joy sauce.

They were curious if she needs the audience’s approval. Apart I said, even if it feels like a one way conversation, it ends up being a dialogue. Some audiences may be more or less receptive. Whatever you’re bringing to them is fully in your control, and you can adjust your material based on what lands or whatd feedback you get. The best part of stand up comedy is you don’t have to fit someone’s version of how you need to show up.

You can show as much or as little of yourself as you’d like. Personally, I approach comedy from the inside out perspective versus outside. In her recent hour on Dropout called hopeful, Potato was informed by the break I took from stand up at a time spent writing my book, as well as the pandemic. Now I’m in my forty, he said, it’s a time when women start experiencing mental, emotional and physical shifts. It’s a reckoning with yourself and a second adolescence.

If you’re at a place where half your life is done and you’re lucky half lies ahead, what do you want to do with that time? And I will I ask myself that question every day, sometimes to take a four hour train ride to Scotland. Culture had caught up with BJ Novak, you know him as Ryan from the office. They did some rapid fire BJ. What’s something people get wrong about you?

He said? I have no idea what they think about me, and whatever it is, they might well be right. If anyone’s wrong about me, it’s probably me. I’m too close to it. When’s the last time you laughed hysterically, Bj Novak?

He said, The fact I can’t remember tells me I need to change my life, and for that I generally thank you. Cultured magazine questionnaire will keeps you up at night? Bj? The coffee I drag at three pm? And who do you call the most?

He said? Call my parents every Friday. Everyone else I text. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show on Spotify and click on that notifications badge so you don’t ever miss an episode.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Jack White, Byron Allen, Eminem, Steve Buscemi, Jeff Daniels, Tim Dillon, Chelsea Handler, Kevin Hart, Ben Gleib

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s ‘Only in Monroe’ return to community access TV the night after Late Show ended
• CBS issuing copyright takedown notices on Colbert’s Only in Monroe episode and subsequent backlash
• Late Show series finale viewership numbers compared to David Letterman’s finale
• Times of London comparing Tim Dillon to Stephen Colbert as new face of late night comedy
• The viability of late night talk shows on streaming platforms versus traditional TV
• Chelsea Handler backlash over criticizing racist jokes at Kevin Hart roast
• Ben Gleib’s upcoming ‘Good Night’ YouTube show and the future of topical comedy on streaming

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey here, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Back in the basement. Back to normal episodes and no more pre tapes. Let’s catch up Stephen Colbert.

The night after his show ended, he returned to television. Did you see this? He showed up on public access television he hosted only in Monroe, a community access program in Monroe, Michigan. Here’s Stephen Colbert. Hello, Also welcome, It’s time for another edition of on LIA Monroe.

I’m your guest host Stephen Colbert. Long asime viewers of OLYA Monroe may remember that back in July of twenty fifteen, I filled in for the usual hosts Michelle Bauman and Kailanie Ray Rafco Wilson. Still not sure how many people that is since I was last here in Monroe, Michigan, and I spent eleven years as the primary host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, which came to an end last night. It’s been excruciating twenty three hours without being on TV. So I am grateful to be able to be here on Monroe Community Media before they also get acquired by Paramount.

Truly a joy to be back in Monroe, Michigan. I had such a great experience the last time I was here to take a micha gander, that I just had to come back Michigan. Plus, legally speaking, Monroe is the only place in the world where you can make the show only in Monroe. It’s just like how champagne must be made in France’s Champagne region, or Milwaukee’s best must be made in Milwaukee by drinking an actual beer and then peeing it into a can. Are they sponsors?

Only in Monroe? Covers the happenings of Monroe, a town of about twenty thousand people roughly forty miles southwest of Detroit. The show’s regular hosts Michelle and Kai where his first guests, Jack White, who grew up and Detroit, served as the musical director, playing songs on a boombox. Stephen called Byron Allen and got him on the phone. He made an appearance, and so did Eminem Eminem, also from Michigan.

Steve Bushemi made a cameo and what he called a public service announcement for a local restaurant, Buschemy’s pizza and subs no relation. Colbert Taste tested Monroe style chili dogs and made peanut butter, potato chip and barbecue sauce sandwiches with the actor Jeff Daniels, who lives in Michigan. This is pretty elaborate to have happened the night after the Late Show wrapped up. Now. Interestingly, Colbert has hosted Only in Monroe before, he hosted it in twenty fifteen, a few months before taking the Late Show over from David Letterman.

That time, he also interviewed the host of Only Monroe and had Eminem on the show, who he called a local Michigander who was making a name for himself in the competitive world of music. So how did CBS react. They put up takedown notices and boy, they just looked so petty and lame, and people made fun of them on the internet. I don’t think anybody at CBS cares about anything. It was also last week the last broadcast of CBS News Radio.

H boy, CBS, what have you done to your brand? So as soon as Only on Monroe showed up on YouTube social media, onlookers noticed that Paramount Skuidance, the parent company of CBS, and I will point out Star trek Ruiners, had issued takedown claim citing breach of copyright. CBS had to react to this. A spokesperson told Variety Stephen Colbert’s return to Monroe in the Only on Monroe episode was financed and produced by CBS Studios and was posted on Stephen Colbert’s YouTube channel in collaboration with Monroe Comedian Media and the Late Shows YouTube channels. As is our regular practice, we send copyright notices to unauthorized websites that post copyrighted content from CBS and our network slash studio talent, such as Stephen Colbert.

The network set had decided to waive further enforcement of what it called a standard industry practice. The series finale of The Law drew six point seven to four million viewers on Thursday night. That is up from the Q one average of two point six nine million viewers. When Colbert premiered in twenty fifteen, he had six point five to five million viewers that night. Times have changed, but as a comparison, the final episode of Late Show with David Letterman drew thirteen point seven to six million viewers.

In a Facebook group, a regular contributor Dylan asked he was curious what I thought of the finale, and I don’t think anything of it. It just had no impact on me. You know, it’s clearly a big thing, but like Colbert’s entire tenure on The Late Show, I didn’t watch it, didn’t hate it, wasn’t interested in it. And again you hear me host the show every day. I clearly like the idea of Late Night.

I’d probably seen fallon I don’t know twice Kimmel. I don’t think I’ve ever watched an episode of Kimmel. Maybe I’ve clearly seen clips and excerpts, but I don’t think of that actually ever put Kimmel on. So Colbert, I mean I watched the clips while I was in London. I had taped the whole thing on the DVR, and like, I don’t even feel motivated to watch the whole thing, Sorry everybody.

So yeah, and from what I’m seeing online, people were just kind of like, yeah, it was okay.

Speaking of London, the Times of London put out this headline why Maverick co…

I want to say, tap the brakes, but they may have a point. Their subhetter. As the Late Show host makes his eggsit a new crop of comics. It’s poised to replace him with a modern brand of humor fit for the Internet age. They recapped a recent Dylan episode.

I listened to a few episodes of Tim on the Plane. I think the show’s not quite as good as it was two years ago, but it’s still When Tim’s on, he’s on. I just find that he’s on less often. The Times rights for this episode. It was not a late night talk show monologue.

It went on for an hour, seemed to come straight off the top of his head, and was posted on social media rather than broadcast on TV. Donnie Zoldan, I know Donnie. I know him personally. He owns stand up in New York. He’s quoting this thing he said.

The Daily Show, they do their take. Bill Maher does his thing every week, John Oliver does his thing. Tim Dillon does it his own way. It’s quite different from anyone else. Jeffrey Cole as an upcoming book called Disruptors at the Gate colds all the times younger people aren’t watching late night TV.

They may see clips on YouTube. Cole said, we know the traditional format hasn’t worked on streaming yet. Chelsea Handler did a show similar to her talk show, it didn’t work. The article also name checks the Apple TV version of The John Stewart Show. Cole said, we’re going to see innovation, but it’s gonna have to be something different than just the band and the Johnny Carson studio.

Just having a band is probably three million dollars a year. The article also quotes Jimmy Kimmel from last year’s Bloomberg screen Time conference, where kim Will talked about YouTube and said YouTube pays nothing. YouTube gets to sell it and keeps half the money. It’s quite a deal for them. It really is.

Coming up later this week is good Night with Ben Gleib on YouTube. Bill Carter said of Glebe show, it will have a band and we’ll have guests. It’ll be on YouTube. They’re saying, we think there’s life in the genre. They have an audience that’s growing enormously.

I think it’s of the viability of doing a show that is topical. Chelsea Handler not the most popular person these days. The headline Chelsea Handler faces backlash after criticizing racist jokes at Kevin Hart Roast mentioned this the other day while standing on a street corner in Scotland. By the way, shout out to Ryan. Ryan lives in Edinburgh and is a listener and when he heard me on a street corner, he reached out to me invited me out for a drink and I wish the show was live because I was already back in London by the time I got the email.

But Ryan, thank you was great connecting with you on the side, and if I make it up that way again next year, I will definitely reach out to you. I was in London for a podcast conference last week and I shot up to Scotland for the day on Friday. Most people like are you insane? And like, I, look, I’ve been to Australia and I’ve been to Antarctica. A four hour train ride with Wi Fi does not scare me.

Chelsea Handler had called out Shane Gillis and some others for their jokes at the Kevin Hart roast. Chelsea apparently completely unfamiliar with what as is. She was on Dion Cole’s podcast with the just terrible hackey name funny knowing You, get it, get it. See it’s you know, it’s funny knowing you and it’s comedy and it’s a Dion dude that is a terrible name. Let me read this sentence verbatim quote.

Handler called Gillis’s lynching joke, Kevin is so short you’d have to lynch him from a bonside tree. Worse than reap. That’s right, that joke is worse than reap, according to Chelsea Handler. Chelsea Handler told Dion Cole she’d received messages on social media about Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliff from their alleged former partners. That’s interesting.

Handler was asked what these is alleged former partner said, Andler said, just everything. We know that they’re racist, that they’re bigots, their sexist. Gillis had told The Hollywood Porter, this is a big moment for Chelsea. I’m glad she’s capitalizing. Good for her.

We’re all rooting for her anyway, Come see me. July seventeenth, at the Football Stateium in Philly, there was a New York Post opinion piece, and that columnist Kristin Fleming took a shot at Chelsea Handler a q Chelsea Handler of trying to become quote, the new white savior who speaks for all black people. Fleming’s theory is that Handler felt upstaged and wrote the abrasive abortion enthusiast has deputized herself the head of the joke police. How rich is that? Fleming then added that Chelsea’s shtick about being a liberated motherless, alcoholic, loose lady is getting old.

Comedian Steve Byrne weighed in. Steve burn said, I personally know Shane and Tony aren’t racist. In fact, I don’t think Chelsea’s racist. Sure, she’s got a long history of promise. Quie in Affinity for Day Drinking publicly stated she’s prescribed a healthy dose of antidepressants, rumored to be awful to work for or with, has a punch card to a plastic surgeon, accused of punching down in her comedy, never been married and had kids and lives alone in her fifties.

Had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein. But come on, gang, she’s not racist. Wow, And we are long this morning and especially during quiet week, But I’ve got more controversy for you. Robbie Hoffman hit with backlash over controversial comments about Celiac disease. Robbie Hoffman went on Alex Cooper’s podcast.

Cooper proposed a game in which she would give Robbie Hoffman a scenario, and Robbie Hoffman would decide whether it qualifies as great or deserving of jail. The topic went to people who are allergic to gluten. Robbie Hoffman apparently said, quote, is it real, Like I want to see the outbreak? I want to pick up a role. We’re having roles tonight, just a bag of rolls.

I don’t care if it’s the Hawaiian roll, whatever role. Okay, I don’t care if it’s a dinner roll. Butter it up and let’s see. Hoffman then explained she expects a person with Celia Act disease to have a reaction similar to Will Smith in the two thousand and five comedy Hitch. Hoffman said, if it’s not Will Smith blowing up in Hitch, I don’t know.

Alex Cooper agreed, saying it does seem kind of recent. No one was allergic gluten in our classes growing up. Hoffman said, it’s just I got to see everyone is suddenly celiac by the way they’re coming for us, And fine, I believe you. I’m also joking. That’s what I want to know with these people.

Is it an analogy or preference in case you don’t know. Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition where the immune system reacts to gluten, sometimes causing damage to the small and testin. I can tell you it is real. One person on social media wrote, really loved the part where Robbie Hoffman says the disease destroying my intestinal lining isn’t real. Gossip Conna whispers in the street, Gossip con probably repe gossip Conn where the rumors meet with Johnny Mac.

It’s always a tree. Gossip Connor Wlis Business tree, Gossip Cone, probably gossip cone where the rooms meeting with Johnny macsoll in the tree. Kevin Hart spotted in Las Vegas over a Memorial Day weekend. TMZ says Kevin and wife we’re living it up at the Omnia Day Club, Las Vegas. The couple was spotted leaving the wind before making their way over to Caesar’s Palace.

DJ Fisher had the place going nuts with booming party tracks, drinks flowing NonStop, and crowds packed shoulder to shoulder. TMZ says Kevin was super friendly with fans, chatting and happily interact with people who came up to him.

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Meanwhile, Adam Sandler being spotted a lot in Vancouver.

Dwayne Notice is a guard playing for the cebl’s Vancouver Bandits. He also co hosts the Scene DMS podcast. He said, after practice, our president Dylan Kolar came over to me. He was like, I actually got invited to this run with Adam Sandlor, but I can’t make it, and he asked me that you want to do it. It’s right now.

I sped over and when I went there, it was pretty cool. Man. Notice then teamed up with a dramatic actor, Adam Sandler for a three on three run around. Notice said, Sandlor has a high IQ. He’s throwing me lobs, He’s throwing me bounce passes, he’s throwing behind the back passes.

He’s funny man like, he’s got a real nineties baller in him. After he won each game, he’d be like, yo, like losers off. Who’s next? Is like damn, you don’t even want a water even I was getting a little tired. Notice played with Sandler last Wednesday and again Thursday afternoon.

Why is Sandler in Vancouver? He’s filming his latest movie, Time Out, a psychological thriller, a remake of the similarly titled French film from two thousand and one.

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Meanwhile, John all of Her was in Baltimore.

Hi, there, it’s John Oliver here at campdend Yadd’s me and my kids just came down here. Pete Alonzo was nice enough to say hello before the game. Were the fantastic time. Let’s go hose and Drew Carrey is getting in on the LA mayoral election. He is not happy with candidate Spencer Pratt.

He called Spencer Pratt a serial scammer. Mister Carrey suggests anyone who votes for or endorses Spencer Pratt from mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their ass. I understand being angry, slash unsatisfied, but at least get behind someone competent and add some serial scammer without a soul or moral compass. F this guy already. Send your letters to Drew Carey care Of The price is right and that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Mandy Moore, Jerry Seinfeld, Derek Stroop, Jeff Foxworthy, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin James

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze’s ‘The Breadwinner’ Movie Release and ‘Nate Rate’ Ticket Discounts
• AMC Theaters Supporting Discounted Pricing for Comedy Films
• Clean Comedy Success and Derek Stroop’s Arena Tour Sellouts
• Jerry Seinfeld’s Car Collection and Electric Vehicle Resistance
• Family-Friendly Humor in Comedy Films

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. No matter how many years they do the show, I will never learn the lesson of don’t eat a handful of M and m’s before jumping on the mic. The Peanuts close up your throat a little bit. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Boy, what an exciting week?

Are you ready for Friday? I don’t have to tell you what Friday is. That’s right, Nate Berghatsi’s The Breadwinner is out. Now. You might be saying, John, did Kevin James turn down this movie?

And I think that’s a reasonable question if you’ve seen the trailer in case you’re not familiar. In The Breadwinner, Nate Berghatzi stars as salesman Nate Wilcox. Mandy Moore plays Katie, who’s the ultimate mom. But you see when Katie’s household invention leads to a once in a lifetime deal on Shark Tank and takes Katie on a prolonged business trip, wacky dad Nate has to figure out how to keep the house from falling apart because you know what’s dead, So, yeah, we don’t know how to make dinner or do laundery or anything. Kids soon learn that while he may not do it like Mom, he can figure out how to do it his way.

Now, Nate’s got friends in high places, including the Hollywood Reporter, who we’re getting the message out that Nate wants to make The Breadwinner affordable for everyone to watch in the theater. That’s right. You’re not just gonna sit home and watch this on Netflix. You’re not just gonna wait, I don’t know six weeks till it’s out on digital. You’re gonna leave your house and go to the theater to go see The Breadwinner this Friday.

Now, while studios can’t dictate pricing, the Hollard Reporter tells US cinema operators have indicate they will treat The Breadwinner the same way they supported discounted pricing for showings of eighty for Brady. And we all know how well that did. How well did that do? Look it up? John Okay, will boxofficemojo dot com reports eighty for Brady Domestic made a thirty nine point four million, did another one million internationally.

Anyway, AMC Theaters has announced the Nates rates. They did this on Instagram. Cinema theaters, meanwhile, may discount prices buy as much as twenty five percent. Pricing and availability will vary. You know what, I’m gonna go on like fendango right now and see if I can book a ticket for this thing.

Hold on now. To be fair, I am doing this on May fourteenth. I don’t know if you knew it was a holiday weekend. Sometimes I record in advance. Okay, Friday, May twenty ninth, I’m going to go seat at my local AM theater.

There are shows at four and six forty five pm. Nothing later.

All right, let’s do the standard reserve seating close caption recliner seats…

Let’s say click, and it appears, if I’m looking at this map correctly, it appears they have sold two tickets in advance to the six forty five showing Friday for the Breadwinner. Now again, I recorded this like fifteen days ago, so it’s quite possible that it’s sold out by now. I’m gonna click on F six and F five. Oh no, no, no, no no. I was looking at a gap, but I’m going across.

I can buy one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. It appears zero tickets have been sold. If you can buy seats F five and f six for eleven ninety three. We are told the prices and feeds include estimated at tax per ticket. But I’m not actually going to go see The Breadwinner.

Nate Pergatsi posted on Instagram. It said, hello, everybody, My movie The Breadwinner is coming out on May twenty ninth, and I’ve got something very exciting that i wanted to let you know. So the Nate rate is a special kind of lower ticket price because we want everyone to come out to this movie. And John has discovered some theaters have sold zero tickets. This movie is for your grandparents, grandkids, aunts, uncles, friends, sister, anybody, your dog, cats I think would love this movie specifically, anybody that wants to come out.

Nate did a screening for The Breadwinner in Nashville. Nate said, I used to come to this theater a lot. There’s an Applebee’s right next to here where I met my wife. We’re living in Nashville in this movie. This celebrates Nashville.

I grew up here. I think we get a joy when more people move here in a way that keeps the fabric of what made Nashville a city very exciting. The Breadwinner stroop credits in Aperghatsey with influencing his embrace of family friendly humor. Now interesting. I came home from volleyball the other night.

My wife was on her phone. She goes, do you know comedian Derek Stroop? And it wasn’t like do you know him? It was like do you know who that is? And I’m like, yeah, I thought it was interesting that Derek Stroop said nabrigazzy.

He took me under his wing just a couple of years ago. This guy’s out here selling out four shows in one weekend at an arena. It’s twenty thousand and eighty thousand tickets in a weekend. But because he’s completely clean, and he’s not edgy, and he’s not up there starting a revolution with a microphone in his hand, he doesn’t get the outside love. Clean comedy is the way to go by far.

I preach it to everybody that’ll listen. These young comics, I try to save them. I will tell a story I’ve told it before. When I first met Jeff Foxworthy. He sat in a room with me.

He explained his philosophy. He held his arms out I don’t know, like say shoulder length, and he said, I used to do comedy and curse, you know, like everybody else does.

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And then I realized, if I work clean, I pick up the older people.

And he stretched out one arm and the younger people, and he stretched out his other arm and implied how much bigger his audience got. Derek Stroop said, nobody’s ever come up to me after a show and went, those jokes were really good, man, but if you would occur a little bit, you could have sent us over the top. Everybody goes thanks for being clean. It was a really fun show. That feels good to have a product that travels, and everybody’s excited to see now.

You know, if you listen to this show, you know I try and keep it clean. Sometimes with the clips, I have to let a naughty word or two through, and I kind of don’t like to do that, but sometimes this is just to keep the integrity of what was said. But myself, I try not to curse on the show, and you’ll hear me use words like stuff. I also teach my college students who are younger producers, putting yourself in that box is a better creative way to go. I always quote mister the Rock, Queen the Rock at Johnson, I will use a pseudo swear word here.

The Rock doesn’t call somebody an asshole. The Rock calls somebody a Drabbroni. Hey, that guy’s a jabbroni, And Jabbroni is just a much funnier word than just saying that other awful word that I just said. So I think that’s always a good thing to do. Jerry Seinfeld said, I don’t enjoy that many things, you know.

I like watching baseball games, and I like driving cars, and I like comedy, and that’s about it. He was speaking to Airman about his car addiction and why Jerry will never get an electric car. Jerry, how many cars do you have? I don’t know. I always say it’s an amount that if you looked at you would not say this makes sense.

Air Mil asked Jerry. I don’t know about you, but as I get older, I wonder who needs so many cars? Jerry said, Well, we could spend the whole segment discussing that word need, which is really difficult to define. It’s an interesting word in terms of a car collection. Only really crazy car guys.

We’ll talk about do I need one of these? And the other guy knows what they’re talking about. It’s interesting to me that there are quite a few cars that I’m totally emotionally attached to, and there’s quite a few that I’m not. I still like them and I like having them. But some of them you bond too, some of them you don’t.

Jerry says his car collection began around nineteen ninety one, when my TV series was picked up for its first very small order. Was that nineteen ninety one. I’m not gonna say that feels like five minutes ago to me, but uh yeah, that’s college Boy time flies, Jerry said. I think four episodes. Jerry, you know was four episodes?

Don’t say you think you know how many episodes? Come on, dude. That was when I first acquired some money I did not need. I bought annineteen fifty eight Porscha three fifty six speeds are out of Wichita. I didn’t really know anything about older Porsches, but I just thought, well, this car is a nice line.

So I also thought, I’m sure you could never drive a car like this on the street. It must be ridiculous, And I ended up using it as my daily driver in LA for years on end. Really sorry, I sold it. I believe there’s no car you’ve ever owned that you don’t regret selling that. If you could have every car back, assuming it was financially possible, you would do it.

You’d want every single one. This is a good interview because it’s, you know, different stuff. You don’t hear Jerry talk about this stuff. He said, I remember the very first time I became aware of the Yoshido Matsuda collection in Japan, two hundred cars. I saw this and went, this is one insane human being.

I got the book of his collection, and then I became that guy. I never really had any problems with addiction except this. Selling cars can be very exciting too. It’s pretty clear that cars coming and going seems to stimulate some receptor in the brain. For people that are genetically inclined, it’s powerful stuff.

As for electric cars, Jerry said, I’m not interested in electric cars at all. Anybody else wants to do it, that’s fine. I think it’s a big stupid virtue signal. Look at me, I’m saving a planet. Yeah, what about the lithium, it’s all bs.

What about automated self driving cars? Dray said, I always tell my kids that their kids will say to them, you mean, when you grew up, they would let people just drive at any speed and steer the car themselves. Didn’t they just crash and kill themselves constantly. This is fun. Ken Jung is getting involved with Shark Week.

It’s K Pop Shark Heroes. You see. You take Shark Week and you drop K Pop Demon Hunters on top, and you get K Pop Shark Heroes. The special stars Ken Jung and the woman who is the singing voice of character Zoe Casehanot, a big K Pop Demon Hunters fan like me, I’m not at all I just learned as I’m telling you the sentence, Ken Jung voices Bobby, the agent manager of the K Pop Demon Hunters, who knew the official description for K Pop Shark Heroes is after a recent series of shark encounters off the Korean Peninsula. Actor and comedian Ken Jung, We’re just dropping the doctor part.

The guy went to medical school. I’m gonna revise your copy. Actor and comedian doctor Ken Jung is determined to reshape the perception of sharks across East Asia and around the globe by Zoe. Ken is on a mission to launch a bold, one of a kind public awareness campaign that educates, empowers, and shifts the narrative around these oceanic creatures using the power of K pop. I Love It Oh.

Like most press releases, there’s credits here. Jung is best known for playing Leslie Chow in all three The Hangover movies, as well as Ben Cheng in Community Hows six Seasons in a movie Coming Along Everybody by the Way. His other prominent credits include Knocked Up, Crazy, Rich Asians and The Mass Singer, on which he’s served as a judge since season one. In twenty nineteen, to entertain myself, the Golden Globes have updated the eligibility if you want to win a Golden Globe for stand up comedy performance on television. Here are the rules.

Are you ready? Rule number one, Performers are eligible for performances of traditional stand up comedy of at least thirty consecutive minutes aired other than roles in television series, limited series, anthology series, or motion pictures made for television. I’ll roughly translate that your special has to include thirty minutes of stand up okay. Rule number two. Television includes works released by broadcast, basic and premium cable streaming and pay preview cable.

To be eligible for a Golden Globes’ award, television programs must be released on a recognized media platform. Individual social media accounts do not qualify, all right, So translating there, it’s got to be on like real TV. You can’t just put it on like Johnnymack dot com and submit it. Okay, that’s fair enough. Number three.

Only programs first aired or made available for viewing on demand in the United States during the qualifying year are eligible. Interesting first aired, so like I don’t know, say you were Ricky Gervais and the BBC gave me a lot of money. It has to air in the US first to be eligible for a Golden Globe. That’s weird. I don’t really care.

I just find it weird. And that is your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Jimmy Kimmel, Eugene Mirman, Ja Rule

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle Gift Shop opens in Yellow Springs Ohio
• Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David discuss favorite Seinfeld episodes on Rushmore podcast
• Seinfeld pilot received smallest episode order in TV history
• Jimmy Kimmel plans game show career after late night
• Eugene Mirman recovering from car accident and new special Here Comes the Whimsie
• Bob’s Burgers longevity and Gene amnesia crossover concept
• Ja Rule embraces Christianity and releases rap album

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Happy Memorial Day. From the basement, it’s Johnny Mac and his dog. Sometimes the dog hangs out in the studio. I don’t know why she’s here, but she is. From ysnews dot com, your home for Yellow Springs News.

Dave Chappelle has opened a gift shop. It’s Dave Chappelle’s local merch shop, dubbed the Chappelle Shop. You’ll find it a two to twenty one Zenia Avenue in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for sale or Dave Chappelle branded apparel including socks, pants, shirts, Thermoses lighters, Final Records, and more. Store manager Joe Harworth told ysnews dot Com it was a pop up that ended up lasting four and a half years. The front of Chappelle’s shop faces Keith’s Alley.

Keith’s Alley is named after longtime Yellow Springs News editor Keith Howard. Store manager Joe Harworth said that was intentional. The Chappelle Shop is directly visible from Dave’s comedy club, The Firehouse, over on Corey Street. Arwitz said the building can really work with the club. The ideas all these people can line up, look over their shoulder and see us doors are open seven days a week neon to six.

When there’s a show at the club, the store stays open well into the night. Arwith tells us there were shirts with the classic c but there’s also a lot of stuff that’s loud and speaks to culture. On the back of one hoodie is the image of a lion with the stenciled word unstoppable, which also was the name of Chappelle’s twenty twenty five special. Underneath that is a quote from Chappelle’s mother, Sometimes you have to be a lion so you can be the lamb you really are. That HOODI will run you seventy five dollars.

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David were on the Rushmore podcast and they started talking about the classic television show. Seinfeld Larry David said the show’s first episode order four episodes, was the smallest order in the history of television. The money came out of the same budget NBCUS for variety specials. When Seinfeld received the four episode order, it became someone else’s responsibility to tell Bob Hope he wouldn’t get a Christmas special that year. Wow, you gotta understand Bob Hope was a giant at NBC.

That must have been an awful meeting to have. They went over the famous reaction of the pilot. There was a memo that noted no segment of the audience was eager to watch the show again. They called Jerry’s life boring, George a loser and said Jerry needed a better backup ensemble. They were sold the show wouldn’t be picked up, Larry David said, and I was thrilled because he felt like I had no more stories to tell.

He said he had that same feeling after every season of Seinfeld and every season of Kerb. Now, if you’ve seen the pilot, and you probably have, Aline is not in the pilot. There’s a waitress at the restaurant who was decided they needed a lady in the group. Jerry said, we were single guys. We couldn’t write relationships.

We didn’t know anything about it. Larry David shared he had dated Monica Yates, daughter of author Richard Yates, and that the Alaine character was based on Monica Yates, and Jerry said if the character was an axe, it eliminated the element of will they or won’t they. They also talked about the origins of some of the show’s iconic things. As for the close Talker, Larry David said, their to them, they were two hundred in this audience right now. As for the Soup Nazi, that idea came from writer Spike first In, who shared a story about a hostile man selling soup in New York.

Larry said people around us would just be talking and not realize they had a storyline for the show. Jerry said a single regret as Larry David not allowing him to work the phrase Oi the Vaults, a play on Eugevelts into an episode. Jerry Seinfeld’s favorite episodes the Contest, The Soup Nazi, The MERV Griffin Show, and The Marine Biologist. Larry David said the Contest to the opposite, the puffy Shirt and the pen. As for the Contest, Larry David had the idea in a notebook for two years before pitching it, figuring no one would want to do it.

He was shocked when Jerry told him he loved the idea. Larry was so convinced NBC wouldn’t let them film the script he was ready to quit on the spot. However, that directive never came. It’s sold after the table read the ad sales team went nuts. As for the boyfriend episode, that’s the one with Keith Hernandez, Jerry said it was one of the biggest thrills of the series.

It was a long speech and I knew would get a lot of laughs if I got it right. That speech the conspiracy of the second Radar Online, which tends to be a little gossip, he says. Jimmy Kimmel has big plans for life after Late Night. Insiders say Jimmy Kimmel can’t stop bragging about he’s going to be the next Merv Griffin, who was the mastermind behind shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. An insider says, as Kimmell looks at the declining and contracting talk show world, Jimmy is preparing for what’s next.

With the right idea, game shows can be very cheap to produce, and Jimmy also sees these projects as potentially employing a lot of his family members and longtime staffers. Should Jimmy kimmelive and its run in the next few years, his talk show is important to him, but Jimmy’s now wants to prove to his bosses that he can be useful in many other ways beyond just hosting. He’s been helping to create interesting shows and unique formats for going on thirty years. Eugene Merman told Ner Trompolis that he’s recovering well after his recent accidents. He says, I’m feeling pretty good.

I’m healing and recovering and doing all right. He explained that if you saw the images of the wreck car, it looked terrifying, but the car is quite destroyed. But I was pulled from it before that it fully happened. All the very kind messages from everybody have obviously been very sweet and heartwarming. He’s got a new special.

It’s called Here Comes the Whimsie. You’ll find that on YouTube. In that special, he jokes about a club with bizarre rules about jackets and shoes. Merman said, you get the feeling they’re almost like, we’re so sorry, but someone from two hundred years ago insisted on this rule. He talked about Bob’s Burgers.

Now, longtime listeners to this program know that I am hip to the hoax that is Bob’s Burgers. If you’re new, let me ask you two questions. Have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is no. And have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer is also no. No. I understand this artwork. I understand you used to hear Joe Buck promote coming up after the Cowboys game there’s a new Simpsons and an all new Bob’s Burgers, but you never actually saw Bob’s Burgers because you switched over to NBC and watched Sunday Night football. This is a hoax.

Think about the types of comedians, Eugene Merman, Kristin Shawl, These are the kind of people that would do such a hoax. Kristin won the Kaufman Award. I mean, how many clues do you need ask for the hoax? Eugene Merman said, I never expected a cartoon to exist for this length of time. I Dora making a comedy that’s both a family comedy but all so idiosyncratic in its own way.

People are like, oh my god, that’s my family. Merman says. The cast frequently records scripts has written before, experimenting with alternative deliveries, improvisations, and fresh joke ideas. He says, well recorded is written, and then sometimes it’ll be like, can we try this? He has an idea for Bob’s Burger is crossing over with the equalizer or the born identity.

The idea is Gene has amnesia and he’s like, why am I so good at making tacos? And slowly he remembers. Jay Farrow has a renewed embrace of Christianity. He said, I had a lot put on me early and pretty much had access to whatever I wanted. But I found out that that never makes you happy.

He is expounding on his philosophy in a new Venture, a rap album. One of the tracks is called life is Good when You’re Rich. One of the verses is I’m telling you how I’m rich. I said, I’m rich with my family, I’m rich with my friends. I’m rich for the love of God that will never end.

Jay Pharrow said recently, a pastor drove from Tennessee to Columbus, Ohio to attend a show. He came up to me after the show and he goes, God told me to give you this. It was a blue Bible with my name on it. The Bible is book marked at the exact mark that I had stopped reading on my Bible. App took that moment as a sign to get myself together, he said.

The Lord is real. He is real. Tiffany Hattish is on the cover of the twenty twenty six Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Tiffany said preparing for the shoot helped her reconnect with her physical strength and discipline after years of injuries and personal challenges. She said the cover opportunity stem from a dream she had when she was young when she competed in track and field.

She said she later began intentionally visualizing herself appearing on Sports Illustrated and eventually pursued the goal more seriously. The Swimsuit issue is on newsstands tomorrow and Good News from the New York Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York. Mel Brooks has donated his archives to the museum. The archive comprises nearly one hundred and fifty thousand creative in production documents and over five thousand photographs, and it offers an unparalleled record of brooks creative life and the development of works that transformed American comedy and culture, including Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Producer’s Silent Movie, History of the World Part One, and Spaceballs. The archive begins with mel Brooks earliest handwritten comedic notes, creating during his service in the US Army during World War II.

It then moves through his work with Sid Caesar on TV shows like Your Show of Shows. In a statement, mel Brooks said, I’ve always been proud to say that I make people laugh for a living. So knowing that my work will have a home at Comedy’s National Archive and continue making people laugh leaves me with a deep sense of pride. I’m honored that my contributions will be preserved for future generations at the National Comedy Center, especially because it’s a place that was meaningful to my best friend Carl Reiner, who believed in the importance of preserving comedy’s history. I know he’d be happy with our work that’d be run for the next two thousand years or maybe more.

Other comedian estates, including John Ervins George Carlin, have donated their files to the Comedy Center. Jereny Gunderson said of this collection, it’s as big as it gets in the way he so fearlessly satirizes the darkest moments of humanity in the post World War two era. And with that, let’s go have a hot dog or something. Enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend, and we’ll meet back here tomorrow

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Featured: Tom Segura, Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa Kudrow, Shane Gillis, Mike Ward, Leanne Morgan, Nate Jackson, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle, Hasan Minhaj, Ronny Chieng, Tony Hinchcliffe, Adam Ray

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts Season 2 premiere on Netflix
• Jerry Seinfeld claims Friends owes its existence to Seinfeld
• LA Times reviews Netflix Is A Joke Comedy Festival highlights
• Shane Gillis headlines Hollywood Bowl with veteran comic lineup
• Dave Chappelle three-show residency media blackout at Netflix Is A Joke
• Hasan Minhaj vs Ronny Chieng debate show at Dolby Theater
• Kill Tony at Netflix Is A Joke featuring Adam Ray as Tony Hinchcliffe

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Caloroga Shark Media may the I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Are you people really sitting home Memorial Day weekend and watching television? Netflix seems to think so. Tonight is the premiere of season two of Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts six episodes I loved season one. Bad Thoughts follows Tom Sagora as he navigates unthinkable situations and fantasies within a cinematic world.

I laughed out loud at season one. Netflix describes the series as a collection of hilariously disturbing stories that push boundaries of decency in ways only Tom Sagora could imagine. Tom Sagora said, it was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and harrifi audiences with our very own bad Thoughts on Netflix. We’re all so excited to push things further. Bad Thoughts on Netflix tonight.

Jerry Seinfeld has made the claim that without Seinfeld the show, there would be no Friends. Jerry said this during the New Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival. But there was this roast of Kevin Hart and Stephen Colbreer week and sometimes stories get to sleep for a holiday Weekend. You know what I’m saying, Jerry said. I think NBC was watching my show and they said, hey, this is working pretty well.

Why don’t we try the same thing with good looking people. Apparently Jerry has had this chip on his shoulder for years. In twenty twenty two, Lisa Kudro told The Daily Beast she ran it to Jerry Seinfeld, who told her you’re welcome. Kudro said, thank you, what and he said, you’re on after us in the summer. You’re welcome.

In twenty twenty four, when promoting the movie Unfrosted, Jerry joked about when people steal your ideas and do whatever they want with them. Seinfeld said, you mean like Friends. I don’t know about that, Jerry. I don’t know about any of that now, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Sure, Friends was on after Seinfeld? When was Seinfeld on between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three?

It was on nine thirty on Thursdays? What was on at nine o’clock? Cheers? So Jerry, next time we run into Ted Danson, say thanks Jay times as a very good boy boyd look at John take a shot at Jerry Seinfeld, But come on, man, lead In’s work. That’s why we do them.

Nobody was watching Seinfeld at first, except crazy people like me who knew Jerry Seinfeld as a recurring comedian on the Wonderful Late Night with David Letterman show. There were two guys that we couldn’t get enough of, Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno. So when I heard Jerry Seinfeld was getting a sitcom, I watched it from episode one, but nobody else did. Show almost got canceled. So yeah, I went on after Cheers.

That’s how you build a network.

And then they moved Seinfeld up to nine and they threw on a show they believe…

Not once. Sorry, I don’t know why I’m riled up about this. I don’t even like Friends. I don’t care. The La Times has a very robust comedy section.

They wrote an article we watched everything we could at Netflix’s joke. This is what stood out. I thought this would be very interesting to take a look at, they wrote. Considering the amount of comedy that was dropped on La the idea that anyone could see it all is laughable. Yet, of course, like fools, once again, we tried try and fly through this Shane Gillis show at the Hollywood Bowl, Commanding a solid roster veteran comics including James McCann, Sam Jay Ron White, Dan Soder and Jim Jefferies as a pretty good lineup, Gillis took on the role of a grizzled and playfully perverse football coach, hosting the night and telling funny stories about his days as a very average high school football player on crappy all white teams before he blew up.

In comedy, they liked Mike Ward at Dynasty, typewriter, record breaker and a master of storytelling in French. Mike Ward did not disappoint with his all English crossover, covering everything from his legendary Supreme Court of Canada case to teenage lust, dating after marriage, attempting generosity and trunk love. Ward mentioned jokes translating from friends to English and how that hit. But he was definitely in his element. That’s great.

They went to see Jerry Seinfeld featuring Leanne Morgan Leanne, I hope you said thanks. The Eli Times wrote, blending the big city humor with hilarious Southern comfort. Might sound like an odd pairing, but somehow the combo of Jerry Seinfeld and LeAnn Morgan just works. Yes, we love a good rant about the terrors of technology from a comedy legend like Seinfeld, but his crotchety comedy On a Whole Night at the Greek Theater was complimented by Morgan’s ability to add warmth and sweetness to her smack talk about being a small town cheer mom and the world of competitive cheerleading, which he described as the Olympics meets honey booboo. That’s great.

They liked. Nate Jackson at the Laugh Factory Hollywood. The La Time says it’s a skill for comedian to be able to sit in the pocket of a crowd’s energy and keep a room full of people laughing and on their toes at the same time. Try doing it for six shows back to back. In Jackson’s case, that meant delivering some third degree burns in the front several rows of the crowd known as the roast zone.

Jackson prefaces every show the same way. Rule number one. If I look at you and you don’t want no smoke, look away. That is the rule in the standard I do not get people unless they lock eyes and give me consent. As a matter of fact, this is called a roast zone.

If anyone is accidentally down there, it’s time to get the f out, because rule number two is if I look at you and you look at me, and I start and you don’t like what I decided to talk about, looking away, will no longer save you. Wanda Sykes at the Adobe Theater, Politics, family, inflation, racism, wait, gain, and greed were among the multiple topics. Kill Tony at the Inn, to a Doom on the Panel, Harlan Williams and Gabriel Iglesias. The Legends bucket made it sway to the Arena in La. The polls were Ron White, Jode de Rosa, and Tony’s number one favorite comic, Tony Hinchcliff played by Adam Ray.

Oh that sounds amazing. Oh, I got to find a clip of that. Let me see if I can find something quick. Maybe somebody grabbed that. I didn’t know that happened.

Makes some noise for Brian redband everybody, and makes some noise for the best goddamn band in the land. Oh my god. On the leave a bald who’s ready for the best and out of their lives. Oh yeah, oh my god, we’re really doing it Red Band every Monday. We’re doing it live.

All right. That was fun. The visual definitely helps, but boy, that’s fuzzee. I like hosting the show, and that’s why I don’t read these things in advance so that I could react like that Tony Hitchcliff played by Adam raygeow the crowd exactly what effortless and absolute merciless veteran comedy looks like Dave Chappelle. Now this is interesting.

The La Times Rights were not allowed to say anything about what went on at the Dave Chappelle three show residency other than the fact it was an evening of music and comedy per usual. They locked up the crowd’s phones to see a show, But why aren’t they allowed to say anything like couldn’t somebody as a civilian go to the show? It’s been very weird. I’ve seen nothing about that Chappelle three Chappelle shows. Nothing, nothing has come out.

Very strange. Hasan Minhajs versus Ronnie Ching at the Dolby Theater. They challenged one another to prove who’s better suited to fix a broken America, Asians or Indians, never mind that Indians or South Asians. The two comedians got plenty of laughs backing up there absurd arguments with flow charts, graphs, curated news clips, an ai Bot called Nieri, and plenty of racist rhetoric that sounds like a fun show. They broke the down the debate in the categories Who’s better at academics, business, in the economy, cuisine.

Ronny Chieng argued that Asians are better at sports. With a list of Olympic gold medal wins over the past three Summer Games. He won’t use all of Asia, he said, just China. The result the country had over one hundred gold medals India had just won. Hasan Minhaj wondered aloud, for people who love gold so much, why is it so hard for us to win one?

Sounds like a good show. Otsgo at Coska. The La Times said her show at the Orphium is the result of a brand new hour she’s been performing on tour and includes plenty of jokes about dinosaurs and her love of Jamaican dancehall choreography. I’ve seen the show. All that is very very funny.

If otsgoes around go see it. It’s a great hour. Before she got on stage, she got blindsided by the appearance of two comedy titans, Margaret Show and Trevor Noah. Wow, that’s a nice bonus. Who came out to deliver punchy, political driven opening sets that got loads of laughter and set the tone, and she announced to her next special will be on Netflix.

In twenty twenty seven, Australian born comedian James McCann at the Hollywood Improv Top the Bill’s Saturday Night high energy was the vibe m looking flawless, poems and tow and dark humor, Dialed two and eleven. He questioned LA’s homeless crisis may have questioned the audience a bit too much and tore through his thoughts on a census overhaul, the insanity of the TV show Survivor, the glory days of drinking, and having visions of finally being successful enough to hire his dream team. The La Times also hit the Two Bears five K They tell us whether you kicked off the Magical day of athleticism and a Downward Dog with Ari Shafir, if he went straight for the starting line with Bert Kreischer, Thoms Agora and jelly roll. They were stretching, pacing, sweating, and rejoicing to be had a bunch of comics on hand. The finish line led runners directly into the Rose Bowl, where there were plenty of poor osos, flowing snacks, interactive games and recovery stations, and a live taping of Two Bears, One Cave.

Sunday, May tenth, Marcelo Hernandez, they didn’t really say too much. You’re gonna think I’m doing a bit here, they wrote on Saturday Night Live, he plays a Latin lover named Tomingo. But at the Hollywood Bowl on Mother’s Day Sunday, headliner Marcello Hernandez riffed on his real life as a mama’s boy growing up in Miami and duly invited out his mom is Isabelle, who has met with the standing ovation. Then they discussed the roast of Kevin Hard. I think we’ve covered that enough, And then at the Greek Theater, Flight of the Concords, looking a bit more like silver foxes than young birds that made the timeless chuckle inducing tunes like robots, The most beautiful girl in the room hurt feelings in business time Land with even more impact as the crowd enjoyed some long awaited nostalgia.

Did they forget a few of the lyrics, miss some solos, mess up in sire songs. Sure, With a dose of Kiwi banter and the ability to laugh at themselves, the mistakes only made the show funnier and a reminder of why they’ve missed them. You can find of that show on YouTube. Don’t tell anybody, and I want it to disappear. I enjoyed it, all right.

It’s a holiday weekend. Let me get you out of here. Let me tell you one more thing from the BBC. Hundreds of comedians have reportedly gone unpaid after the Lesser Comedy Festival. The festival attracted around a hundred th spectators and featured more than five hundred acts, including Stephen Frye, Sarah Pesco and Rosie Holt.

Organizers said performers were expected to be paid after the event, which ran in February, but payments have been delayed because of cash flow problems. Comedian Benjamin Alborough said he was owed just short of two thousand British pounds. It’s very frustrating. I got bills to pay like everybody else. Between festival registration fees and travel and accommodation and production costs AFT to invest several hundred pounds per individual show.

I want the Lester Comedy Festival to succeed because it’s a brilliant thing. But in order to do that, everyone needs to get paid. Artists needs to be paid money. Canadian comedian Zoe Brownstone said she was owed around two hundred and twenty five US dollars. I guess they did a conversion here.

I’ve done a few festivals, this, by a mile was the most prepared. People donated more for tickets. Leaving the festival, I felt great. I never felt so positive. It’s astonishing to me that a big organized festival can’t pay me at the end of the day.

Michael Harris Wakelam, chief executive of the nonprofit organization Big Difference, which runs the festival, said it’s a case of the cash flow problem. But we’re trying to communicate with the artist is this is a case of a small delay rather than you won’t be paid. He said the organization was still waiting on money from sponsorships, third party ticket sales and commissioned shows, and was exploring bridge financing with banks. That is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Robbie Hoffman, John Mulaney, Sarah Sherman, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers

What’s in This Episode

• Current Affairs article ‘The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon’ by John Greenaway goes viral
• Johnny Mac’s personal encounters with Jimmy Fallon on set
• Trump’s criticism of late night hosts excluding Fallon
• Robbie Hoffman Guardian profile and tour announcement
• John Mulaney quote praising Robbie Hoffman
• Sarah Sherman Newsweek profile and SNL experience
• Jimmy Kimmel taking the summer off

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Caloroga Shark Media. Wow, I’ve been sitting on this first one. Hello, I’m Juddy Mack with your daily comed news. So you know, it was kind of cold Bear’s week, so I didn’t think it was a good time to share with you This one that’s been making the rounds on social media. From Current Affairs dot Com.

The headline the banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon, John Greenaway writes, there’s a distinctive, deeply uncanny horror to the way Jimmy Fallon laughs. I’ll jump in right there. My wife recently stumbled across a Fallin bit. And by the way, just to show you how much the normies don’t pay attention to things, she starts telling me a story and she says she was watching a clip with Jimmy Kimmel and she said he seems really fake, and I went Kimmel or Fallon, and then she realized she meant Fallon. So she’s even mixing up the Jimmies.

I digress. John Greenaway writes, there’s a distinctive, deeply uncanny horror to the way Jimmy Fallon laughs. Look it up. There were literally hundreds of videos showing him breaking out into laughter at the slightest provocation. It is not a reaction.

He sometimes won’t even wait for his guest to get to their carefully scripted punchline. Rather, it is a performance. A sudden corporeal convulsion. Fallin leans in his chair as if pressed back by some unseen force. It’s accompanied by the ritualistic slapping of the desk.

You can picture this right as this guy nailed it. A sound that echoes like a gavel in a courtroom watching the Tonight Show in the deep hours of the night, beaming out from a phone screen or laptop. Wait, who’s watching the Tonight Show on a phone or even a laptop? You people are doing this. There’s an unshakable impression that this is not really entertainment but a desperate kind of ritual.

Fallin acts as the high priest of a terrified optimism. His rictus grin What is rickdus? I’ve never seen that word in my life. The Cambridge Dictionary says rictus is an expression in which someone shows their teeth and a smile, but looks strange or in pain, rather than looking appy and relaxed. Okay, good use of words, sir, His Rick Grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the reel.

Now, does this guy just know the word rictus? Or like, was he like? How do he describe? I’d love to know how he even came across the word rictus. Again, I’ve never heard this word in my life.

I think it’s the perfect word for that sentence. I just want to know which came first, the chicken or the egg, His rictus grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the reel. Here in the sanitized, overlit art of the American culture industry, there is an inescapable horror. But it isn’t a monster lurking in the shadows. It’s in the manic, unblinking insistence that actually there are no shadows at all.

If the Gothic tradition of fear teaches us that the ruins of the past haunt the present, the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon offers the inverse a present so forcibly flattened, so aggressively quote unquote fun that it has exercised history entirely, leaving us trapped at a sterile, eternal loop of viral games and celebrity limp singing while the world slides into climate collapse and fascist politics. We are just getting started. And when I do these articles, I try not to read every word. But this is just amazing. Again, this is in current affairs, and you’re going to look for the banal horror of Jimmy Fallon.

A typical episode of Falence Tonight Show has the usual staples of the late night format, the ones introduced by Steve Allen and perfected by Johnny Carson. An opening monologue, couple celebrity interviews, and musical performance closed out the evening. But what’s made Fallon so popular has been his use of endless, repetitive, shareable games. Night after night. He invites you to watch people you know from other shows on TV, or who just coincidentally have a movie or an album to promote.

Play pictionary, watch them lip sync battle? All right? I mean yes, but what do you want them to have? Who’s supposed to have on? People that aren’t promoting anything.

People aren’t going to do that. I have celebrity friends. I only ask them to come on when they’re promoting something. Skipping ahead. Watching the Tonight Show as an exercise in cultural deja vu.

It’s the endless repetition of the already familiar. It is setting that’s designed to gain our attention, but makes no other demand upon us as a viewer. The familiar cry I’ve let people enjoy things might come in response, but this, this is what we’re supposed to enjoy. Fallon presides over his rituals of play like a vampire feeding not on blood but on enthusiasm. Boy, this is brutal.

I have said the fast I work with Jimmy a couple times, the share of story. Recently, someone used to send me some bits from the twelve thirty show. I don’t say I know Jimmy Fallon, but I’ve been in the room with Jimmy Fallon two three times. No, I’ll call it three hours. Over the years he was his public persona very easy to work with.

John Greenaway writes he doesn’t really converse with any of his guests. They all know what they’re there for. Rather, he extracts, he demands relatability from them, draining the authenticity from the interaction until only the husk of a viral moment remains. The horror lies in the repetition, the feint, shock, the hysterical laughter at unfunny mishaps the relentless golden retriever energy. It is a performance of joy so excessive, so desperate, that it reveals the void it attempts to cover.

Again, let me remind you there’s only two eleven thirty shows. Now, it’s this or Kimmel, and Kimmel’s taking this summer off. It is the logic of the assembly line applied to human connection. What Fallon offers is a standardized production of quote unquote fun that feels increasingly like a desperate plead to ignore the crumbling world outside the studio walls. Now do you see why I waited till Colbert was over to do this article?

It skipping ahead. Fallon doesn’t do politics, or if he does, he wants to keep his head down, because we hit both sides equally. Telling Lee, Donald Trump has called for the firing of almost all the other late night hosts. Colbert came all even Seth Myers, but excluded Fallon from his hit list because Trump recognizes that there’s nothing about Fallon’s empty banality that could be anything close to a threat. Fallon is so desperate to keep the real world out in his interviews he barely seems to be listening to his guests, waiting for them to finish speaking so his rituals can begin.

Anew boy, not totally unfair, but boy. The Guardian caught up with Robbie Hoffman. They quoted John Mulaney, who said, once in a while you get to see a legend at the absolute top of their game. By the way, that was the first time I was able to go into a half assed Millennie impression without having to do to my French nighter set up. It’s as big as a whale.

Robbie talked about a tour and said all of us are going to live the life of happiness, pain and suffering and joy and all of it. I just don’t think it’s my job to spare anyone of anything. Necessarily. My job is just to be me. I’m trying to allow myself to be as me as possible.

Sarah Sherman got a big time profile in Newsweek. Sarah said, Sarah squirm is obviously the thing I’m most comfortable with, and I think that sometimes comes out on SNL. But it’s also a less vulnerable persona. I don’t know if I would out of a career out ofside of doing bar shows as Sarah Squirm. Whenever I’m in a blonde wig on SNL, my friends call it Sarah normal activity because for people watching the show at home, that’s more what a human being looks like.

Even though it’s alien to all my friends. SNL is a really hard job. I always feel like it’s the first day of the job every day. So if anyone’s pitching me anything, I’m so open minded, which pushes me in an area as I necessarily would have thought of myself. I’ll send Lewis, the head of special effects makeup of Crazy Drawings, and say, can you make my eyeballs look like this?

And then in like five seconds he already as a clay sculpture of my head with eyeballs bugging out. I feel like my range is so limited that anything that can help me expand my range is welcome. Even getting fangs for no sparatu. It made me change my and my physicality. That’s why I love hair, makeup, costume props so much, because they give you new things to play with it you wouldn’t have come out of the gates with.

As for being a shocking stand up, she said, I’m in an interesting position because I deal with a lot of repulsive subject matter, So I’m purposely repelling people away from me, whether it’s talking about my butthole or looking like a freak. My form of artistic expression is repulsion. But also miam a comedian. I want to be a comedian my whole life. So it’s a black, bottomless void inside of me that needs constant validation because when I’m on stage, I do need to hear an audience laugh or I’m gonna slice my own head off.

Wow. The sf Gate caught up with Ashley Paedia. She talked about working at a movie theater while a teenager and said, I was a very bad employee. I didn’t know that schedule was like your schedule, that was more of a decision on your own behalf. I was lost as hell.

My mom was like, you’re pretty funny. You could try, you know, taking some comedy classes. That led her to the UCB and the ground links. We all want to laugh, and my form of comedy is like laugh at me. I’m an idiot, so I love performing kind of a dumbass.

I think that makes people all overlaugh. That got it’s not really niche to California, or New York. It’s just like you, a person who has experienced embarrassment, then you’ll love this from Vanity Fair. The headline read all over in the Trenches with LA’s comedy Comrades. They talk about Joel kim Booster doing a fundraiser for an LA City Council candidate who’s been endorsed by the LA chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Joel kim Booster said, hopefully you’ll laugh, but ultimately we need to make our bit of money. Other folks on that show Zanab Johnson, Nordy Reid, and Chris Estrada. The sf Gates says, the tone of the show was unmistakably left. Joel kim Booster asked a guy in the front row if the straight community ever says the word orgy. He asked the guy ever been to one.

The straight dude said no. Joel said, then let someone cool answer you, nerd. That’s pretty funny. And at another point, Joel kim Booster said straight male flight attendants aren’t allowed to be rude, only the gay ones we were told. Both jokes killed, and the SF Gates says after the show ended, Johnson drove off on a black Porsche Cayenne as a plump rat scurried by the venues entrance.

I’m curious how much such a Porsche runs. Oh, this is fun. You’re gonna love this answer. I don’t know what number was in my head two seconds ago, but it was not this number. So again, let’s just recap this story here.

This was a fundraiser for the LA City Council candidate who’s been endorsed by the LA chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. The sf Gate tells us Zanam Johnson was one of the performers and that Johnson jumped into Porsche Cayenne. I am now on finder dot Porsche dot com, slash us slash a bunch of things. A twenty twenty six Porsche Cayenne chromite black metallic goes for are you ready? One hundred thousand, five hundred ninety five dollars excluding taxes and fees estimated dealer fees nine hundred ninety five dollars.

That is the price at Paul Miller Porsche in Parsipity, New Jersey. So perhaps your dealer has a better deal, and that seems to be the low end. The hybrid goes for one thirty five. The Cayenne s coop goes for one forty three, but maybe it was a used to Porsche Cayenne. Who knows.

So I’m here on Edmunds dot com. I get a twenty seventeen Porsche Cayenne for sixteen nine and eighty five, so maybe she was driving a nine year old car. The sf gate was unclear, and I want to be fair here, a twenty twenty three used one A is going for ninety nine five ninety nine, but you can get a twenty fourteen for just eleven one ninety nine, So who knows what she was driving? I drove a ninety two Civic for thirty years, and I’m not kidding anyway. I don’t know what today’s show was, but it was different that your company news for today, Holliday.

Wait, get everybody see tomorrow

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Paul McCartney, Shane Gillis, Chelsea Handler, Tony Hinchcliffe, Kevin Hart, Sheryl Underwood

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s Late Show finale at the Ed Sullivan Theater
• Paul McCartney as the final guest on Colbert’s Late Show
• Chelsea Handler criticizing Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe over Kevin Hart roast material
• Shane Gillis’s lynching joke controversy at the Kevin Hart roast
• Tony Hinchcliffe jokes about Sheryl Underwood’s late husband
• Johnny Mac broadcasting from Edinburgh, Scotland during the Podcast Show in London
• Edinburgh Fringe Festival headquarters sighting on the Royal Mile

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Caloroga Shark Media from Scotland. I’m Johnny Mac with a catch up episode of Daily Comedy News. As I mentioned on Friday’s episode, I am traveling. I’m coming to you from Edinburgh, Scotland. But let’s catch up.

Stephen Colbert wrapped up the Late Show and let’s have fun with today’s episode. I’m doing this from a street corner. I haven’t actually listened to these clips I’m about to play. I’m gonna pull them from the hotel later. But Stephen Colbert hosted the final episode of the Late Show and apparently he said.

This, folks, we have done over eighteen hundred of these shows, and most nights I come out here and I talked to the audience beforehand, and tonight I thought I’d talked to the audience in here and the audience out there at home. This show I want you to know, and you to know, has been a joy for us to do for you. In fact, we call the show the joy Machine. All right. Lewis stole it from us and we are currently in litigation right now.

You better lawyer up, buddy. We call the joy Machine because to do this many shows, it has to be a machine. But the thing is, if you choose to do it with joy, it doesn’t hurt as much when your fingers get caught in the gears. And I cannot adequately explain to you what the people who work here have done for each other and how much we mean to each other. So I will just say I would just say to them, I would just.

Say to them, you are all the great Achilles whom we knew. Now. On night one of the Colbert Rapport back in the day, I said, anyone can read the news to you. I promised to feel the news at you. And I realized pretty soon in this job that our job over here was different.

We were here to feel the news with you. And I don’t know about you, but I sure have felt it. Oh and that wasn’t all Stephen Colbert had to say. Apparently he said this too. Welcome, Welcome, one and all to the Late Show.

I’m your host, Stephen Colbert. Set out. If you’re just tuning into the Late Show, you missed a lot. Tonight is our final broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theater, where no, no, we were lucky enough to be here for the last eleven years. All right, that was can’t take this for granted.

So actually, technically our first show back in July of twenty fifteen, was from a public access station in Monroe, Michigan, for an audience of twelve people, and show business being what it is these days, it’s probably where you’ll see me next. There is so much history here in the Ed Sullivan Theater, and we’ve been honored to have been just a small part of it. Nichols and May played on the stage. The Beatles made their American debut here, and. This is true.

This is true. Backstage, Elvis used the bathroom and didn’t die. We’ve had so much fun in this theater, so many great segments. I’ll miss doing first drafts, where I show the final draft of a green card and then show the playfully wrong first draft. So we made one for tonight.

It’s this. One’s pretty nice. This is this isn’t goodbye, it’s see you later. Yes, but the first draft said this isn’t goodbye. How do you start an OnlyFans?

The final guest on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show who turned off the lights was the Pope? It was not. It was Sir Paul McCartney. Same same say hello, hello, I don’t know say goodbye. I don’t know bye Hell.

When I get back home, I’ll do more of a recap on Colbert. The other thing I see brewing is this thing with Shane Gillis and Chelsea Handler. I don’t know if you saw this one. Thank you for AI for pulling this together because that I mentioned. I’m on a street corner in Scotland.

Comedian Chelsea Handler kicked off a pretty major comedy world argument this week. She blasted Shane Gillis and Tony Hingecliff over material from the roast of Kevin Hart. Chelsea was on Dion Cole’s podcast Funny Knowing You. She called some of the roast material gross, racist, sexist, and bigoted. We’ll get into this in a second, specifically targeting Shane Gillis’s lynching joke about Kevin Hart and Tony hingchecliff jokes about Cheryl Underwood’s late husband.

Handler said jokes involving lynching across the line and argue comics were leaning too hard into anti woke shock humor. Shane Gillis responded online with a statement He said he was happy that Chelsea Handler is capitalizing on the moment, and then plugged his upcoming stadium show in Philadelphia. Cheryl Underwood said some jokes did go too far, especially references to George Floyd and Lynching. She noted that comics had contacted her before the roast regarding jokes about her late husband Johnnie Mack. Always likes a good controversy, so we’ll keep an eye on that one and I’ll recap it a little better than that when I get back.

Let’s just hang out. This is just an extra episode. I’m on the Royal Mile now. I just left Edinburgh Castle. The reason I’m here at all is this week was the podcast show in London, so US professional podcasters all mets, and that’s why I had to tape a few episodes there.

But I missed you guys. And I was walking down the street here and I saw the headquarters of the Edinburgh Fringe and heard the guy playing the bagpipes and I’m like, oh, you have a afordable recorder. Why don’t you use it? But hey, that is your catch up episode live on tape from Scotland. Somewhere in the feed.

There’s a normal Saturday episode and a normal Sunday episode. Do you know what to do? You’ll figure it out and we’ll catch up on stuff next week. Seea