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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Rogan, Andrew Schultz, Theo Vaughn, Dave Chappelle, Tony Hinchcliff, Jackie the Joke Man

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Fallon and Tommy Mottola pasta sauce deal falls through due to Epstein Files connection
• Jimmy Kimmel proposes rebranding Epstein Files as Trump Epstein Files
• Comedian and podcast host cooling relationships with Trump administration
• Podcasts as vectors for political influence and parasocial relationships
• Andrew Schultz and Theo Vaughn’s public breaks with Trump administration
• Trump Epstein Files references to podcasts and comedians including Joe Rogan Experience and Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast
• Joe Rogan clarifies he was mentioned in files for declining Epstein meeting

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence you’d think I’ve memorized by now, but I have not. But the algorithm does love it. Apparently numbers are up new listeners.

Thank you Today is political, not because it’s President’s Day. Just as I put the show together the same way I put the show together every day. Almost all the stories are political. Sold try and start with a fun one. I saw this headline.

Deal between Jimmy Fallon and Tommy Mottola falls through. Apparently they were going to work on a pasta sauce together. What could have possibly gone wrong? Seems that Tommy’s name is in the Epstein files. Page six says representatives for Jimmy Fallon did not comment, nor did Tommy spokesperson.

A source familiar with the pasta sauce plans tells page six nobody wants to be within fifty feet of anyone in the Epste files. Obviously, the Epstein Files are not funny, but the pasta aspect of this story is funny. Jimmy Fallon has escaped Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel has proposed a new nickname for the files. Kimmel has proposed rebranding the Epstein Files as the Epstein Trump Files. Kim ll explained Trump wants everything to be named after him, including the Kennedy Center, Dulles International Airport, and New York’s Pans Station.

Jimmy said, I mean, if that’s the way to keep them happy. I have another suggestion for something we could name after him, and it’s big, and I think you’ll like it because it’s something everybody’s talking about, something that he actually, unlike almost everything else he wants named after him, deserves to be a part of. And I propose that we should think about adding his name to the Epstein Files. This is hilarious and that is the point of comedy. You can find laughter and anything like.

Again, it’s serious for a second. I write for Pallace Intrigue about the British Royal Family, Epstein Files, everything. Some of the stuff that I have clicked on these images are in my head. I don’t even want to verbalize out louds some of the things have come across that are just horrific. So I don’t make fun of the files at all.

But from a comedy standpoint, what Kimmel’s doing here is hilarious. The idea that a Jimmy fallon pasta sauce deal went sideways over the files, that is kind of funny. So Kimmel said, with your cooperation and the cooperation of others, will be known as the Trump Epstein File. So now he’s flipped it there as an ice ring to it. Why not put his name on the outside of the files too.

On Thursday Night, Jimmy is Monologue noted that he has trademarked the phrase Epstein Trump Files. Kim Will explain jd Vance has been very weekly defending his boss in the fact that Trump’s name is mentioned more than a million times in what are now known as the Trump Epstein Files. We’re getting that trademark, but if you can spread it around, feel free. The Hollywood Reporter had a big piece titled why Mega Boosting comedy bros or turning on Trump? Subheading from Joe Rogan Andrew Schultz.

The bromance between bright coded comics and the president is quickly cooling off. The Hollywood Reporter reminds us, with their tens of millions of subscribers manosphere show a circle of pals that includes such Trump amenable comics as Tony Hinchcliff, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schultz. Are not a cultural footnote. That reminds me last week Theovaughn had on two guests. He had on Kevin James and the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.

Kennedy Junior. If you want to catch up on THEO. Vaughn Show, Kevin James always great, listen. I’m sure I digress. The hollowd Reporter says Hinchcliffe, Rogan, Vaughn, Andrew Schultz are not a cultural footnote.

They are an infrastructure map. You know, that’s sentence structure. There is very AI. I use a lot of AI. It’s very AI there copywriters at The hollod Reporter Sidney Demetz, a fifth year PhD student at the University of Washington who studies podcast networks and misinformation, described the medium’s advantage less as a media theory than a statement of physics.

Sidney says podcasts are incredibly persuasive because they induce the parasocial phenomenon and trigger a lot of feelings of intimacy and trust. Hopefully that is true. Hopefully people are walking around and saying the phrase great dramatic actor Adam Sandler Fell Sydney is right about this, She says. The listener does not merely consume content. The listener builds a relationship.

After enough hours, disagreement feels like betrayal. Right, so like, yeah, you’re gonna be sitting there, you’re gonna be watching Happy Gilmour three, and you’re gonna be like, this sucks. Johnny Mac is right. See, that’s how this works. Thhr writes, this is how political influence arrives disguised his personality.

Roguod show rarely sounds like ideology. It sounds like a shaggy, melancholic tenderness or fuse. It will be pinned down Schultz. A show is never doctrine, but it does sound like swagger. They don’t tell all their audiences what to believe, so much as they suggest what is acceptable to laugh at, to dismiss, to view as performative, order regard as just the media doing its predictable thing.

Skipping ahead, Vaughn’s recent rupture with the administration is instructive because it’s less ideological than existential. When DHS posts that a deportation themed video that used to clip a Vaughan without his consent. He objected publicly. Schultz’s retreat has been much louder. Talking to Charlemagne the God on January thirty first, a rattled Schultz said the fatal shooting of Alex Pretty by Ice agents in Minneapolis was his breaking point.

It’s giving ahead. Trump can survive contempt from newspapers he survived for years. What he cannot easily survives contempt from the people who made him feel to millions of listeners like a permissible choice. The hangover is spreading. Not a sudden moral awakening, but a curdling, a fatigue, a clawing sense that the joke kept going long after it stopped being funny.

Now that reminds me. Over the weekend, I was watching the movie Diehard. Bruce Willis. Have you seen this movie? It’s pretty good.

I like that line where Bruce Willis says, welcome to the party, pal. You know, Bruce is just like frustrated that the cops aren’t paying attention while he’s screaming in the window. I like that. See I digress. Let’ll get back to comedy here.

Dave Chappelle will be in Minnesota today to stand with community Dave’s at the Grand Casino Arena. Be curious to see what Dave has to say as he performs in Minnesota. From pod News, which is a fantastic newsletter written by James Kridlin, who I’m friendly with. It covers the podcasting industry. He had an interesting report on Friday about the Trump Epstein Files and how podcasts appeared in them.

Now, I haven’t searched for Daily Comedy News in them. I hope I’m not in the Trump Epstein Files, but in some of the back and some people recommended to Epstein that he listened to The Dan Bengino Show.

Also recommended episode eleven sixty nine of The Joe Rogan Experience.

The guest I think on that one was Elon Musk.

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Also recommended Gilbert Godfrey’s Amazing Colossal podcast, specifically the…

Now we don’t know who recommended that Epstein listened to Jackie the joke Man. That came from a redacted contact, but somebody was like, hey, check out Jackie the joke Man. Now I’m worried because I’ve had Jackie the joke man on this show. I better not be in these things. Joe Rogan found out that he was mentioned in the files on last Tuesday’s Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe said he never once considered meeting Jeffrey Epstein. Rogan’s guest was Cheryl Hines. She’s married to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior. You may also know her from the television show Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Joe told Cheryl, I’m in the files for not going. Jeffrey Epstein was trying to meet with me, and I was like, what, Like, no, thanks. Cheryl Hines asked, are you glad? Joe said, It’s not even a possibility that I’ve ever won. Especially after I googled him.

I was like, what the eff are you talking about? This was like twenty seventeen. One of my guests was trying to get me to meet him. I was like, are you high? Like, what the eff are you talking about.

Rogan added that some people get intoxicated by being in a circle of rich and powerful people, even if they don’t have any ambitions of being one of those people, they just want to be around them. Yeah, that’s called los Angeles. Rogan described Epstein’s networking is very clever, saying that Epstein was getting all these very powerful and very respected people together, and you’d figure, like, yeah, Clinton’s here, how could this be bad? You know, he’s a genius. On a different episode, Rogan talked about the Epstein files and said it’s crazy.

The whole thing is crazy because like, why have you protected people? He then got into some of the stuff I don’t want to get into on this program. This is the stuff that’s in my head that is like, yikes, yikes, yike’s skipping ahead. Referring to President Trump’s claims that the Epstein files were part of a Democrat inspired hoax, Joe Rogan said, it looks terrible for Trump when he was saying that none of this was real. This is all this is not a hoax, Like did you not know?

Maybe he didn’t know, and if you want to be charitable, but this is definitely not a oax. And if you got redacted people’s names and these people aren’t victims, you’re not protecting the victims. So what are you doing? And how come all this stuff is not released? Fun show today?

John, I know Pete Davidson, he has that television show that Netflix was calling a video podcast. Well, sag After has weighed in on it, and they apparently have signed an agreement with Netflix that covers the Pete Davidson Show as a quote video podcast. After Pete’s inexpensive television show was announced, sag After I reached out to Netflix to be like, you know, hey, Well, last Thursday, the Actor’s Union announced that it had struck a podcast agreement. A rep for the union set in a statement to Variety sag After a Netflix have executed a podcast agreement covering the Pete Davidson Show. They did not say the terms.

Variety says, typically the union’s podcast agreements have less stringent requirements than TV agreements do. Whereas TV contracts require payment of residuals, podcast contracts generally do not. In addition, TV contracts have relatively strict rules regarding a production safety protocols, working hours, breaks, and travel, which are often simplified in podcast agreements. I hope Pete Davison isn’t working in an unsaved garage. Christella Alonso was scheduled to bring her Midlife Mixtape tour to the Charlene Macomb’s Empire Theater on April eleventh.

However, she has announced she is now trying to change the dates for her visit to Alamo City. Now, why does she want to change the dates? Christella explained a lovely follower mentioned that there was a show playing literally in the theater next door that’s based on a podcast that honestly, I don’t want to be around. She did not mention what that show is, but everybody else assumes she’s referring to The Killers of Kill Tony, that live comedy podcast a schedule to play San Antonio on April eleventh at the neighboring Majestic Theater. Christella said, the majority of my followers are Latino, and in the time that we’re in right now, I don’t feel comfortable having my people around a demo that includes people that support the atrocious things that are happening to my community.

So I’m looking to change dates for the San Antonio show that will ensure that my people have the best time and where I don’t have to cross paths backstage with anyone I don’t want to, Christella said. When she booked her San Antonio date to Kill Tony Folks hadn’t been confirmed, she said, Had I known it was playing there, I would have picked a different day. I know some of you might not understand my motivation, but I’ve had a really difficult couple of months and I don’t want to put myself in a space like that. I’m rescheduling asap and we’ll let y’all know. Thank you to those who understand, sorry of those who won’t.

I just refuse to be in proximity of that world if I don’t have to be. The Milbourne International Comedy Festival has launched a podcast. It is called The Callback. I have added it to my increasingly long podcast queue. There’s been so much sports.

There was a Super Bowl, now these these Olympics, so I’ve been watching more TV than usual and less podcast. It’s also been four degrees out, so I haven’t been out for runs or long walks with the dog. But eventually I’ll get to The Callback. Hosted by beloved comedian and broadcaster Claire Hooper, The Callback dives into the defining moments that shape comedy careers. Claria said, comedians are entertaining on stage, but it’s backstage where the chats get really good.

Let’s see what’s happening in JFL Vancouver Today. Now, is this the thing? I got to check in with Daily Comedy News Canadian consultant Mike Chisholm. You know how like in the United States of America the calendar week starts with Sunday. Well, on JFL Vancouver’s website it goes from Monday to Sunday.

So every time I go to do this little segment, I click on the wrong day because in my brain, Monday should be the second box, but on their website it’s the first box. I’m gonna have to ask Mike about this. Looks like there’s only one show tonight, Rashid Baduri, The Tale of the Syrian Dragon, that’s at the Review stage at seven o’clock. If we were in Vancouver, we would go do that and then probably have a nice meal on some beverages. Actually I like to go to bed.

We would have a nice meal in beverages at like four forty five, hit the show and be in bed by like nine to thirty. Oh sounds lovely. Coming up at noon Eastern today the results of Comedy Survivor. We’ll let you know who’s voted off Comedy Island. As I speak to you right now, I have no idea who was sent home.

I haven’t looked at the Facebook page in a couple of days and haven’t recorded the episode. So come back at noon Eastern today for Comedy Survivor. If you would like to take part in Comedy Survivor, check out the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. After twelve Eastern today, there’ll be a picture of me and some comedian being voted off the island and you can take part in the conversation there. Hey, remember that guy Ben Bankas.

He’s the quote unquote controversial comedian. This is the guy that made the jokes about people being killed by ice agents. He was scheduled to play some sold out shows at Kitchener’s Conrad Center for the performing arts community said no thanks. The Conrad Center is a city owned venue. Bankas’s team has said due to overwhelming fan response, both Ben Bankers’s show on March seventh and had moved to Elements Nightclub.

The City of Kitchener confirmed the news, saying the event rental has been relocated. All ticket purchasers have been notified. Bankers’s team issued statements to five seventy news radio. The statement says, to the people who are calling the venue to complain and are angry over something they haven’t seen. They don’t need to watch or support it.

The people accuse Bankus of hate speech are sorely misinformed about the satire and humor laws in Canada, which fully cover and making satirical comments about current events and other sensitive subjects. Bankas said, clearly, the people making these comments haven’t even seen me perform a set live. Maybe we should give them a free ticket they can see for themselves. The Waterloo Region Record has an opinion column titled Ben Bankas is a controversial comic. If you don’t like the jokes, don’t go to the show.

Luisa Demato writes, Bancas’s jokes are blunt, often bigoted, and deeply hostile to progressive values of the people who hold them. He has mocked land acknowledgment and said he is glad that Renee Good, a mother an activist in Minneapolis, was shot and killed by an Ice agent. Luisa Demato writes, here’s a sample from a recent performance captured on his social media. All these efforting liberal women, I say we keep the Mexicans and send the liberal women send them a Guatemala see how they like. It just drop off in a jungle and be like, yeah, try to get back borders closed.

I’m sure he told it in a much funnier way than I just did it. Luisa says, here’s some advice. If you don’t approve of bank Is coming to Kitchener, then don’t go to the show stand outside the theater without blocking the entrance with a sign explaining why don’t think his commentary is worth listening to. Even talk to people going in if they’re open to hearing from you. Otherwise leave them alone.

And we did find out what was going on with Matt Rife and the band The Red clay Strays. Remember they had hinted they were doing something with Matt Rife. Well, the Red clay Strays on Friday dropped their newest single, If I Didn’t Know You, and there’s a music video and its stars Matt Rife. Rife has praised the band, calling them music for the soul and that is a very very angsty Daily Comedy News for today. Now, I say for tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be fun. I’ll tell you in the leadoff spot right now, I haven’t written the episode yet, but right now, in the leadoff spot, the first sentence right now is Adam Sandler said he once performed music on the streets of New York City after he was fired from three jobs. So if you’re a regular listener, you know what I’m going to do. So tomorrow will be fun. I understand today was very serious.

I didn’t stack the deck today. That’s just what the news happened to be. And that is your Daily Comedy News on an angsty Monday back at noon Eastern for Comedy Survivor Meets You here. Then

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Featured: Drew Lynch, Marc Maron, Howie Mandel, Louis C.K., Bill Burr, Lachlin Patterson

What’s in This Episode

• Drew Lynch’s origin story and neurogenic stutter from softball injury
• Drew Lynch’s America’s Got Talent appearance and validation as a comedian
• Drew Lynch appearing in Marc Maron’s television show
• Just for Laughs Vancouver festival featuring Drew Lynch at the Vogue Theater
• Differences in comedy career paths: traditional vs. social media-driven success
• The value of long-form comedy writing and craftsmanship in stand-up

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. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Today’s guest is comedian Drew Lynch. You may know Drew from America’s God Talent, or you may know him as the stuttering comedian from America’s Got Talent. He’s got a really interesting origin story.

He explains, I was playing softball and a hard hit ball took a bad hop and struck me in the throat. I fell and smacked my head on the ground. That led to my career as a stand up Yeah. Apparently he had a traumatic brain injury from it, which created a neurogenic stutter. Kind of messed up his career.

He’s up for some roles. His agent dropped him. He explains, I got the cold shoulder and I realized that I want to control. I rehabbed and that’s what I discovered stand up. Three years after the injury, he appeared on America’s Got Talent.

He said that validated him as a comic. It was an amazing experience and I can’t tell you how great it was to get such great feedback from Howie Mandela. I have so much respect for Drew. Will be part of just for Last Vancouver, the big comedy festival up there in Vancouver. He’ll be at the Vogue Theater on the nineteenth.

The festival continues through the twenty second. Now, as I prepped for my interview, if you listen to every interview with him, if you read every article about him, it talks about his origin story, and I chose not to go there, and being candid, I think I may have thrown him by not asking him about it. And a couple other notes on what you’re going to hear today. What’s crazy to me is in the recording session, he was on what I call an open mic, like he wasn’t holding a microphone and I was. However, I was on someone else’s recording session, not my recording session, and as I got the audio back, it sounds like my microphone didn’t pick up and it may have been using my laptop microphone.

So like as you hear me now, I have some processing on my voice. That’s what you hear on a normal episode. Sometimes you’ll hear an episode where I do an interview or the conversations with Mike Chisholm on The Letterman podcast, which is using his setup. Here I’m processing and whatnot. But as I listened back to this, I’m like, Drew sounds really good, and I sound like I’m on a laptop, which is just funny to me because I had my microphone out neither here nor there.

Also, I want to be transparent. I re sequenced this interview. This first part I’m going to play is from later in the interview, but I wanted to lead with this part because it’s so good. Listen to Drew Lynch channel Mark Marin. Here he channels Mark Maron.

It’s he’s not doing an impression, but he channels his inner Mark Maren. It is fantastic. Here’s Drew Lynch. You spent some time on the Maren sitcom. I feel like weird using the word sitcom with Maren show, the television show How is Mark?

Is Mark? What we think Mark is in real life? Mark is exactly the way Mark is in real life. And and you should you should be comforted by that fact. He is And I’ve told him this.

He’s a he’s a He’s just a. He’s just a. He’s a he’s a he’s just a brouchy guy. He’s not I mean, not grouch, but he’s just a he’s a hard guy. You know, he’s just like I feel that way.

Oh yeah, okay, well that’s well that’s weird. Or you know, he’s like, you know, he kind of like, uh, just a he likes to kind of scrutinize and just kind of get in it. And I love that about. Him because he’s that’s where that’s where his comedy is. He’s but he’s begrudging all the time, and that’s hilarious, Like it’s just like that’s my Yeah, that’s my uncle who lives in my attic.

That’s who he is. You know. He’s like, yeah, he’s I guess he’s coming down for a soda. But he’s upset because because the handle on the fridge is broken and he doesn’t want to he doesn’t want to try to put his nails into the side and open it that way. He and Mark’s going to talk a lot about that.

You know. It’s frustrating. Why is the why is the bottom of the fridge? Why is why is there heat coming from the bottom of the fridge but the inside of it is cold? You know?

And these things used to be an icebox? Should I just get an icebox? Like I’m talking in the voice of Merrion right now. But that’s how well, that’s how well I know, yeah, how well I know how he goes, you know, and he’s like, you know, and then he and then he goes in for a soda, and then he’s and then he’s and then he pulls out something and he’s looking. He put he sees it.

He finds a protein bar in the drawer, and he’s like, you know, oh, what is it with these protein bars? There’s so much sugar. It’s like it’s I’m not even getting what is this you because you mashed up a date and you put some Joe Rogan pills in a thing that I need to like. This is this is the way Mark is. I could just watch him.

He’s like an angry cat. You’re just like, okay, just keep going. I guess, Bud, that was amazing. I was just trying to hang back and not step on you. Boy.

You channel him really well. Well. I think it’s just because at my heart, I’m probably just as much of a grouch, but I just I have a softer face or all American good looks if you if you read the review Journal in Las Vegas from twenty years ago. But but yeah, Maren is uh, we all have a maron inside of us. I saw you did in an AGT showcase.

Are you just part of the AGT extended family? Is there a pay it forward aspect to that? There? Definitely is. I mean that show is very rewarding and they’re also very demanding, you know, and I mean that in a professional way.

They just expect a lot because they give a lot. So you know, take that for what it is. And I don’t mind being part of the of the u of the of the the family or the alumni or or whatever. And I’m all for for advocating for other people to find their opportunities on that show. You know, like I was doing the show, I was at the showcase, and like, you know, like they want to kind of they want to kind of like say like, oh and we got we got these people here who did the show, these alums there’s there.

Look at where they are. You know. There’s a comic that was on the show just showcasing. His name’s Lachlin Patterson. You probably know him.

He’s a Canadian comic and he has been doing it for almost thirty years and he is in every sense of the word, like just a bro and he is so good and he’s so funny, and it’s like he I mean, no one’s above anyone, but just this idea that they’re gonna, you know, they’re gonna be like and look at this guy who we found and it’s like, yeah, I mean he’s been doing it for longer than television, you know. I mean, like, what are we talking about? He’s so funny and so you know, like, I don’t know, it’s just so interesting. It’s just the world is just the world of our world stand up and navigating whatever your path is is all so different and you just never know. I mean you look at like the Louise of the World or even the Bills, where like it’s like these guys were twenty eight, twenty nine years thirty or twenty five years in and then showtime was like okay, and they’re like and then what It’s like what all right?

And then like maybe the best comedians ever Okay. So I don’t know. Maybe it’s supposed to be more of that, and it’s definitely less of that because people have tiktoks and they have thumbs and then they get to decide what I guess, maybe what happens quickly is what happens is where there’s tremendous value, And for me is someone who’s a student of what it is that we do and has such appreciation in seeing it done well. Dude comics who can write down and just write for eight minutes and ten minutes and twelve minute bits on one thing. It’s just my favorite.

And I hope that that’s not going anywhere because that’s a part of this art form that I really fell in love with. Yeah, it’s changed. Pre pandemic, there were all these people that oh, so and so came out of nowhere, but like you said, they’d been doing it for fifteen years. They just finally got the light shown on them. In the age of social media, maybe some people have accelerated in a way that you just couldn’t do in nineteen eighty five.

I know, as just a guy sitting on the couch, I just look at it as I hit play on something on Netflix, and did I laugh that that’s my entire barometer. And if you’re good at social media or people think you’re handsome or whatever, we want to knock a comedian for because they didn’t do it the right way. You didn’t do ten years at the cellar did you laugh? And I think that’s the good civilian. Test, right right, And that’s part of why it’s so you know, it’s so accessible now in today’s plying that you can you can be much more in control of what gets distributed and how people maybe find you.

So it is it’s in that way, it’s it’s great, But in another way it you know, we’re not dealing with gatekeepers, but those gatekeepers were there for a reason to hopefully kind of that maybe quality and you might have to sift a little bit to find whatever it is your your interpretation or or what it is you value is quality. Growing up in Indianapolis, you’re a Colts fan. You guys had quite this season. Come on, John, we’re having such a good time. Why does it have to be this You had a good season?

We did, and then we had the rest of the season and it was it was good. Then tell this and then until the midpoint of the season. You’re heading to Vancouver for just for laughs. You’ll be at the Voga Theater on the nineteenth. Have you been to Vancouver before?

Oh? Yeah, many times. I love it. Great place. Do you find it?

Festival? Is that it’s your fans or is it Sometimes I find it festivals it’s just whoever happens to be playing when we want to go out on a night and we’ll go see whoever. Is it your crab going to see you? Or is it just festival fans comedy fans. I think it’s I think it’s a healthy balance of both.

And I think it’s it’s artists specific for sure, but the festival, I mean, what I think they do a good job of is people do just are like, yeah, they do just commit to just going out, and that’s kind of cool because you’re just going in blind and be like, yeah, I don’t know, we’ll check it out. So I think it’s a healthy mix. As you got your comedy career started, America’s Got Talent, how was it pulling out? How long were those segments? I feel like you’re doing like two minute.

Chunks, sometimes even less. I think I did ninety seconds my first first audition, and then like the second round was like two minutes, and then like the next round was like a minute forty five or two. It’s not much. And it’s weird because comics are also almost given like less time, like a song is, like you know, as long as like two and a half minutes, or sometimes a magician thing will be eight minutes, you know, like a whole thing. You know, like they get all this time to kind of like set up.

And I know that that sounds like I’ve got ill will towards towards magic. I don’t. I just mean like they need a longer, They need a much longer, Like they need more time to be able to have something kind of unravel and set it up, and it’s you know, it’s it’s a different pace. So I don’t know. My struggle was that I was already on a time budget and I stuttered.

So it’s like, you know, how do I get out jokes for a minute when I get barely a minute? You know. So it’s that was definitely a challenge trying to navigate that. It’s gotta be hard because you can’t really just storytelling. You have no time to set up a callback.

You just kind of have to come out and read. A tat tat, Yeah exactly, which is why I think comics who have like one liners, you know, Tom Cotter, you know, Taylor Williamson, you know, like you know, even my buddy, like he’s got great jokes too. He just he fills in the space with big energy too, you know. And so it’s like it’s everybody’s kind of got their own approach. But it does feel like comics who are very one minery.

You know. Erica Rhoades, she did the show and she’s she’s really really great at that as well as strong writer. All right, let me get the break in here. You’ve seen my heating bill right, Oh my goodness, Johnny Mac, I hate the commercials. I get it.

I get it. If you want them to go away, become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts five bucks a month and liw with that. We got to pay the heating bills. So we’ll take the break. I want to come back.

I’ll ask Drew Lynch about coming off America’s Got Talent and getting respect from his peers. Drew Lynch is my guest. He’ll be at JFL Vancouver at the Vogue Theater on the nineteenth. As you got deeper into it, I see that you are well respected in the comedy community. I can tell by which podcast we’ll have you on as a guest, and you’re part of the mix.

Did you run into in the early days, any pushback from the comedy snobs of oh he’s from the TV show, or did anyone accuse you of the stutter being a gimmick being a gimmick comic? Yeah, oh yeah, I got that a lot, you know, and I’m sure I still do. I think it’s uh my, my big, my big projection onto the onto. The situation also didn’t help, like me like feeling like, you know, I don’t deserve to be here, you know, because my path was different and I was I came from a family friendly show, and then I went through a period of time where based on the influence of maybe maybe maybe what other comics said or maybe what I thought other comics were saying, was that I felt like I had to be edgy, or I had to swear, or I had to go through a period where I was here to prove something. And that’s just not I mean, that’s just not really authentic to who I actually am.

So I got I kind of got away from from from a lot of that, And it does hurt when when when people are saying, like, you know, like oh, well, he only got this because of this because I work very hard, like I if anything, I probably work harder than I am like to have skill or talent, you know. I just I’m someone who I’ve always had a drive, and I think you kind of need that in order to keep up with the frequency of what the demand of comedy and content is, especially in the current climate. And I’ve always done things to try to protect myself when it comes to uh, you know, my own fragile I guess, like ego or perception. But comedy is like being willing to get rejected and reevaluate and reassess and go back in and do the work and look at and look at the weakness and expose it over and over and over and it never ends. So this this healthy balance of not taking it personally and trying to navigate who you are, your own authenticity and not leaving your center and the processes is has been something that it’s uh that it’s tawmy.

Was there a point in your career where you said, okay, I’ve made it, now I’ve dead. This is working. I don’t know that any of us ever feel that way. I mean, and you shouldn’t feel fear, but you definitely should never feel fully stable. And that’s like that.

Margin is so thin you can’t even if it was Google Maps, you’d have to do this so many times to try to find that tributary on the freakin’ on the on the on the dividing line of one place to the next. Because some comics. Feel like I meet people who there they couldn’t be less happy with everything that they have, And I’ve met other comics where everything is all bravy, like this is incredible. I just get to be here doing this. This has insane and the energy that comes from each of those is is something that I think is is maybe to be learned.

You know, you can, you can learn from both. So I don’t know. I don’t know that the answer is ever yes, because it’s an ever moving, breathing thing. As you’re traveling the country. You’re not a political comedian.

Do you feel you need to avoid it? Do you feel you need to on any particular day. There was a weekend a couple of weeks ago, and I’m not going to get into that, but you know, there were topics in the news where a lot of people are very passionate about it. Do you feel you need to address any of these things or is it more of the That’s not why we’re here. I used to feel like I can write a joke about it, so I might as well.

And I sometimes feel like that does more harm than good because people are so sensitive right now. And there’s some comics who are like, well, but for the sake of comedy and for the purposes of comedy, we should be able to say this and it is this, and people should be able to and you know what, I agree. I agree we should for in the name of what the art form is. Yeah, we should. But these are kind of unprecedented times, and they’re certainly trying times.

And if I can try to have some grace for the situation or maybe for the fact that people feel very personal or very close to some of these things for reasons that I don’t understand. I try to understand that there are things that I don’t understand, and that is very difficult to account for something that you can’t see, or that’s something that you don’t know or that isn’t tangible to you. So as it applies to trying to navigate a very hostile and volatile and maybe toxic sort of political social environment, I have always found it to be better if I can just make myself the target and try to have people try to maybe forget their lives or forget the pressures of whatever that climate feels like. And that’s hard because there are some comics who are like, well, it’s our job, and there are even people who who are like who say, like, we have a bigger responsibility as comics to get involved and stuff and maybe, but I’m just trying to do my and maybe Andy and maybe Bill Maher and maybe John Stewart or Trevor or like there’s there’s there’s you know, there are a lot of people who I think could do it really well, and I can. I feel like I can write that really well.

But does it make me feel uncomfortable knowing that I’m making people uncomfortable? Yeah, And maybe that’s because I’m I. I don’t know, I’m just I have to maybe a little too much compassion, or I’m orm or I’m sensitive or I’m weak or whatever. Next week, Chappelle’s heading to Minnesota, and I can’t wait to hear what he says. But conversely, j Leto is very adamant about I don’t do politics in my acts.

So if I go see Jay Leno, I understand what I’m going to see so I think it’s a tough road, but I think he explained that really well. You know, like Nate I think does a great job, you know, Sebastian I think does a great job. You know. Like if I go see Marin, I would expect Mark to talk about the elephant in the room, but that’s what he does. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, like he leans into that.

I mean, he he he uh, he pursues it. I’ll let you go before I get the light. But I just wanted to ask you, in spirit of paying it forward as you travel the country, who’s a comedian out there that we should know that maybe is off our radar? Who are you into with that? You’re saying, oh, oh, well, Lachlan’s a great example.

Lachlan Patterson. He’ll probably be on this season of America’s Got Talent. I hope he goes so far because he’s so freaking funny and he’s got just endless amounts of material. There’s another guy named Orian Levine. He’s so funny.

Emma Willman, she’s kind of getting her her flowers now. She’s super funny. I’m trying to think, like, who else is just like you know, Steve Fury He’s. A guy who makes me laugh. Jason Cheney, Uh yeah, Like these guys are all just like so you know, so so fresh, im ed Barucha.

There’s I mean, I could I could, you know, I could go like endlessly. Anny Liederman, Uh yeah, I don’t know. Man, Like these these I advocate for so many of my friends. They’re all they’re all so funny. I hope, I hope, I hope they all succeed.

Nate Bargatzi, if you don’t know who that is, he’s He’s kind of coming up the ladder right now. He’s doing okay for himself. He’s still a Grand Marshal at Daytona. Yeah, yeah, I’m not surprised. Drew Lynch.

He’ll be at the Vokee Theater at JFL Vancouver on the nineteenth. Thank you for your time today. This was awesome. Thanks John, appreciate it. And that’s Drew Lynch.

Catch him at JFL Vancouver. He’ll be at the Vokee Theater on the nineteenth. The JFL Vancouver Comedy Festival continues through the twenty second and I’ll see you back here tomorrow.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Nate Bargatze, Jeff Foxworthy, Anthony Mackie

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer headlining Full Throttle Festival pre-race party at Daytona 500
• Nate Bargatze named first comedian Grand Marshal of Daytona 500
• Nate Bargatze’s feature film debut ‘The Breadwinner’ releasing May 29, 2026
• Johnny Mac’s personal NASCAR racing experiences and observations
• Nate Bargatze’s NASCAR fandom and Nashville roots

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shutting back with your Daily Comedy News. This weekend is the sixty eighth annual Daytona five hundred, and who’s going to be there. It’s Bert Kreischer. He’s headlining the inaugural Full Throttle Festival Good Name, a night of comedy, music and barbecue the pre race bash at the Ocean Center Convention Center in Daytona Beach.

Leonard Skinnard will be playing and Bert Kreischer will do a performance that’s exciting. Bert Kreischer said, Race weekend in Daytona is the super Bowl of speed, and for me that means going absolutely massive. So I figured, why not build the biggest, wildest, greatest pre race party ever. We’re not just having a party. We’re bringing a rock show, a country show, a comedy show, and the kind of barbecue and beer that would make a pit crew chief proud.

We’re stuffing all that, the fun, the laughs, the meat sweats inside the Ocean Center of the night before the Daytona five hundred. It’s my ultimate dream at NASCAR Tilgate come to life, and I cannot wait to see Daytona go full throttle with us. There will also be an expansive craft beer program and signature cocktails for those at twenty one and older. Bert Kreischer told OutKick, I’m so ready for the festival. I live my life by rewards, like I inventize things, and this is my treat.

I’ve been on the road for twenty five days straight, and I end my tour and I see my wife in Daytona. I cannot wait. Bert talked about attending at DAYTONI said, Tom Sigor and I went. We brought our tour buses and so the event of parking in the infield and experiencing the three days leading up to the actual race, you know, all the races that are going on, all the trials, everything is a blast. It’s so welcoming that I feel like it’s got to be what it feels like if you go to Germany for Octoberfest and you’re like, oh, so this is Germany.

Like a German if they come over, they should go to a NASCAR race, But camp out, get an RV and camp out, get a ton of cold beers, get a bunch of barbecue, set up a grill. Because that camaraderie that happens at these events, that’s what really draws me to it. I got to go to a lot of NASCAR races when I worked for Serious and Bert is nailing it now. I’m a boy from New York City. I didn’t know anything about NASCAR the first time I went down there, and I saw everybody just walking around in head to toe Budweiser gear.

I remember seeing one guy dressed in a Kellogg’s, you know, racing suit, much like I might wear a Mets jersey. They would wear the outfit of their favorite driver, and I’m like, Kellogg’s, okay, But man, was everybody nice. I’ve got a picture of myself sitting on the track of the Daytona five hundred an hour before racetime. They let the civilians on the track, which I can’t believe because I know I could have been a jerky face and taken out a chisel and just put a hole in the track, but they just let everybody kind of hang out. And I’ve got a picture of me and this dude dressed head to toe and bud gear.

I guess he was a Dale junior fan, and we were drinking buds out of his cooler and it was just the greatest experience.

And then I had a humbleverrag flex.

I had what’s called a hot pass, so I could hang out on pit road during the race. And I’ll tell you I was standing there and I was super appreciative, but I knew I did I appreciate it, and what I mean by that it would be like, I’m from Queens. I’m not a NASCAR fan, so would be like somebody who’s not a Mets fan sitting in the Mets dugout during the World Series. It was the equivalent of that. So like, I’m like, this is an amazing experience, but I kind of felt guilty because I’m like, there’s somebody across the road there in the stands who would like kill to do this.

But it was super awesome. I did a bunch of races and nailed it. As I would walk around the infield with our host and Mark says high, people would offer us food and drink and everybody was super friendly and super cool. If you’ve never been to a NASCAR race and you have an opportunity to go, you should go and bring ear plugs because you’re going to wind up paying ten bucks for your plugs if you don’t bring them yourself. It is loud, and I know you think you know it’s loud, You have no idea it’s loud.

Whatever you think, I’m telling you, it’s louder than that. And the cars go by so fast that unless you turn your head and follow the cars along, if you just stare straight ahead, all you see is just and you don’t even your eyes don’t even lock on an actual car. So I am a NASCAR fan, and I’m a big fan of NASCAR events. Another time I went down to Talladega. Jeff Foxworthy was the Grand Marshall.

So I went down and Talladega’s kind of in the middle of nowhere. So I flew down on a Saturday night State at Atlanta, got up early, drove to Talladega, hooked up with Foxworthy, recorded some stuff, stayed for most of the race. I was parked on the infield and I was like, all, I’ve done NASCAR racist before and I’m not that big a fan. I’m going to leave twenty laps early so i can get out of here. But they had actually closed off the area and I couldn’t get to my car.

You weren’t allowed to walk under the tunnel under the track. You were allowed to drive under the tunnel, but you couldn’t walk under it. So I actually offered a local couple to a car. I’m like, we it was like the apocalypse. I offered them twenty bucks to drive me basically I don’t know thirty feet and they were like, sure, hop in.

And then the wife said to the husband, don’t take the guy’s money. So, whoever you were a couple twenty years ago, I appreciate you. Talladega was awesome and Talladega so big. You have to see it if you’ve never been in there, the tailgating area. I said, it looked like a small city had been evacuated because of nuclear scare or something, and everybody was told to go here.

It’s just this huge, tense city, but everybody’s cool. I digress, Get back to it. John all Right, Tomorrow’s grand Marshall is Nyprighatzy. Nate was on the Backstretch podcast. He said he’s been a NASCAR fan for a long time now.

Nate is from Nashville, so that makes sense that tracks. Nate said racing was an inevitable part of his childhood, but it was only in his late teens that he really got I know it and he said, then you start doing comedy, get busy, and it’s a mix of like how do you do everything with sports? But I’ve always been a NASCAR fan. I love it when someone just kind of goes out on their own and just sees if it works out or if they get crushed and go back talking about racing and pacts there. As part of my prep, I came across these five things to know about Nate Berghatzy before the Daytona five hundred.

Number one, Nate Brigazzy becomes first comedian to be Daytona five hundred Grand Marshal. We’re told there have been actors and athletes, musical artists and wrestlers, former race car drivers, even a President of the United States, but never has a comedian Marshall for the Daytona five hundred. Congratulations Nate Bergazzy. Last year’s Grand Marshall Anthony Mackie. You may know him as Captain America.

Number two thing you need to know about Nate Bergazzy. Nate Pergazzy has huge comedy career. Thanks ratcle Writer. They worked hard on that one. Number three Nypergazzy’s first feature film coming in twenty twenty six.

Oh yes, this is The Breadwinner, which hits theaters May twenty ninth. If you’ve seen the trailer, perhaps you feel the way I did. I asked, was Kevin James not available? It does not look good. Nate created, co wrote, produced, and starred in The Breadwinner, So if it sucks, we know who to blame, and if it’s good, we know who to give credit to.

It also stars Mandy Moore, Colin Jose and Kamil Nanjiani. For some reason. Fun fact Number four Nate Bergazzi roots for Vanderbilt and the Tennessee Titans. Did I mention he’s from Nashville? And number five fun fact Natepergatzy has NASCAR history.

The fun fact is he was the honorary pace car driver for the Ally four hundred at Nashville Superspeedway back in June twenty twenty three.

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Also happening this weekend, tomorrow, Fox will air episode eight hundred of …

In episode eight hundred of The Simpsons, it is titled Irrational Treasure, and Marge Simpson takes Santa’s Little Helper to Philadelphia to enter Santas Little Helper in a dog show. Homer Simpsons stows away on the trip, and soon they are embroiled in a national treasure like conspiracy. Guest stars include Kevin Bacon. Creator Matt Greening says, one of the great things for me is we’ve done so many episodes that I can watch earlier episodes and not remember a single thing about them. Every time we do a new episode, it seems another episode because out of my brain.

The Simpsons had a party at the Fonda Theater in LA At the anniversary parties, they have the joke tagline almost halfway there, and they said that seemed funny. At the one hundred and fiftieth episode party, the two hundred to four hundred th and eve of the six hundredth, no one thought the show would go that far. But now that they’ve hit eight hundred, they want to see if they can hit episode one thousand. Fox has renewed The Simpsons through season forty. Greening says, I think that’d be an honorable thing to shoot for.

I would do it for two hundred more or more. Once in nineteen ninety five, check your guild. There’s a reporter asked me, how long can the Simpsons go on? I say, we’re probably closer to the end of the beginning, which I thought was very elegantly vague. But the headlines with that I was saying the Simpsons was canceled.

I’ve learned to say, no end in sight. Do you want to do the math? It’ll take them another ten years to get to episode one thousand. Tomorrow, on this very program, comedian Drew Lynch stops by to promote his appearance at the Vancouver Comedy Festival, And because of that, I’m going to tell you who’s at the Vancouver Comedy Festival both today and tomorrow. Let’s start with today, Valentine’s Day.

If you’re in Vancouver, grab your loved one and be like, hey, want to see some comedy shows. I listen to this guy does a podcast in the basement. He’s telling us we should go see rosebud Baker at the Review Stage at nine pm. We might see the Alternative Show hosted by Mark Little, that’s an eleven PM show at the Review Stage, and some other people that I’m not all that familiar with. Again, my general advice at a comedy festival is feel encouraged to go see some people that maybe you haven’t heard of.

All Right, Sunday Night, No Brainer at seven o’clock Ismo. Did you hear Ismo? He was the guest last Sunday, So go see Ismo at seven o’clock on Sunday. Rosebud’s got another show, James A. Caster got a show at eight.

You’re gonna go see Ismo. Mary Beth Barone, she’s really good. She’s got to show at eight. But you’re gonna go see Ismo in the Alternative shows at nine o’clock. So that would be what I would do.

I’d do Ismo and then the Alternative show at the Vancouver Comedy Festival, but I didn’t go. I’m home in New Jersey and I will leave you with this. Film director Roger Avery was on the Joe Rogan Experience. The Joe Rogan Experience is a pretty popular podcast. You may have heard of it.

And the conversation turned to Star Trek and my ears went, hmmm, star Trek, if you’ve been listening, I’d take my Star Trek very seriously, and so do Joe Rogan and Roger Avery. Let’s listen. Alex Kurtzman comes along and just like craps all over and I mean I went in and met with the guy. You know, I was like Hey, I will write Force for Scale. You know, I’ll write on your new show.

I’d like, I just want to be part of it, just as an opportunity to work on Star Treks. And he was, and I basically found out he didn’t want anybody who had any kind of fondness for the original show. He wanted to do something new and to create something new. And this latest thing that he that they’ve made, this Starfleet Academy. Now it’s still ongoing.

Maybe it rights itself at some point. His company is called Secret Hideout. I think he’s going to need a secret hideout after all these like after destroying star Trek for like this latest generation are we talking about the newest one? The one with take Nataro, that’s the new Starfleet Academy is an abomination. I could not I could not get Yes, I could not get through three episodes of Discovery, and I mean they’re just like it is just awful, awful storytelling.

Well it’s also clunky dialogue and bating. So comedians, take Nataro, Patton Oswalt, genius sheer, Stephen Colbert, I’m watching you. That is your comedy needs for today, Drew Lynch Tomorrow Normal episode and comedy Survivor on Monday. See you then,

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Featured: Taylor Tomlinson, Mason James, Dave Chappelle, John Stewart, Jimmy Carr, Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Mike Birbiglia, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Taylor Tomlinson’s Netflix special ‘Prodigal Daughter’ trailer release
• Mason James comedian compared to Nate Bargatze
• Dave Chappelle and John Stewart benefit show in Yellow Springs, Ohio
• Jimmy Carr parenting advice from audience Q&A
• NBA All Star Weekend Celebrity Game with Keegan-Michael Key
• Adam Sandler story about sending Kathy Bates The Waterboy script

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Meck with Today’s Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. But I better stop talking this way. Mike Birbiglia will write my name down. I am having fun with this old Burbiglia, Mulaney, Gianmarco Soresi, and whoever else thing.

I was hoping to stir it up some more, but it seems like they’ve stopped talking about it, so I will too. If you don’t know what I’m talking about. Listening to the February tenth episode of this podcast. But while I was seeing if I could cause some more trouble, I found a discussion about a comedian named Mason James, who I was unfamiliar with until half an hour ago. Some people think Mason James is perhaps, possibly maybe influenced by Nate Berghetzi.

Here’s Mason James from a year ago doing a show for Don’t Tell Comedy. My name is Mace. It’s great to be here. Some big news in my life. Me and my wife just had our first baby, so very very fun stuff, very very fun.

Don’t worry about clapping. Just a miracle, No big deal. It’s fine, very fun having a baby. The baby has made me realize I have to lose weight because he’s ten months old and he’s trying to breastfeed me a lot. I didn’t know what to do.

I spanked him. I spanked him, said you do not breastfeed dad. That makes dad sad. I am trying to lose weight right now. Anybody trying to lose weight here so awesome.

Sell you guys walk in more. People should be responding right now. They’re in the same ballpark. But I don’t get wigged about that. Like I’ve said a million times, I think Eddie Murphy is just doing Richard Pryor.

But I was what fourteen years old in nineteen eighty three, so I loved Eddie Murphy’s comedy. But he’s clearly doing Richard Pryor, including the outfit. But I am picking up on one particular verbal tick in Mason James delivery. Let me just play the last four seconds. Listen to how he hangs the words right now.

This is very Burgetsian. Saw you guys walk in more. People should be responding right now. But again, we all have influences. You may hear me sometimes on this program, say one, I’m forward promoting tomorrow on this very program.

Blah blah blah. That is a complete, utter, conscious lift from David Letterman. Stole his phrase, and it’s why I’m doing it. You want to call it an homage, I don’t know. I just like saying it that way.

If David Letterman wants to go off and say that I’m ripping him off, please do Dave. Nothing would make me happier that if David Letterman thought I was ripping him off. I wish I were one one millionth as good as David Letterman. And the other tick that I consciously do is I will do a yeah, in the middle of resetting a story, I’ll just make up something ridiculous. I’ll do something like this, A chicken was crossing the road.

Yeah, apparently it wanted to get to the other side, so that yeah, in the middle. There. That’s a Conan O’Brien tick that I deliberately do. In Yellow Springs, Ohio, today, Dave Chappelle and John’s Stewart will do a show together. It’s a benefit for radio station WYSO.

It’s part of the WYSO After Dark series. Now I’m laughing at this. The after Dark is cracking me up. Earlier today, I got a random email from Disney Plus saying that Mom’s account has been updated to what is it, mature Audiences whatever they call it m and I just texted the whole family. I’m like, apparently Mom is watching Mickey Mouse after Dark, which I don’t even know what that would be, but just I thought it was funny to get mature audiences warning from Disney Plus.

But Wyso after Dark features Dave Chappelle and John Stewart in conversation seven thirty pm to night at Dayton’s Benjamin and Marion Schuster Performing Arts Center. Taylort Solison will have a comedy special on Netflix on Tuesday, February twenty fourth, not too far away. It is her fourth for Netflix. Prodigal Daughter was filmed at the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I remember telling you about that filming last summer.

We’ve all almost lived long enough to actually see the special. I hope we all make it, but we’ve at worst made it to the trailer. There’s a trailer. It’s long, it’s good. It’s like the best trailer I’ve heard in a long time.

And being very very serious. It’s going to take a minute change here, but here’s Taylor Tomlinson’s really good trailer. I really appreciate you guys coming to this new hour of material because I know it’s a lot of God stuff and a lot of gay stuff, and my agents are nervous. I started doing stand up in churches. They called it testimony, but I was getting last.

Easter. There’s a better story than Christmas, in my opinion. It’s where all of our merch is from. You’ve seen it. Christmas is not as good a story.

It’s just a long walk to a barn. Jesus is barely in it. He comes in right at the end. He does zero magic. Jesus is basically the post credit scene in a Marvel movie.

It’s if you have depression. You have a pretty complicated relationship with death. You sort of look at death like it’s the Phantom of the Opera. You’re like, oh, that’s scary, But then sometimes you’re like, I mean, that’s side. His face is kind of hot.

Coming out as bisexual at thirty feels like saying to a waiter, by the way, it’s my birthday, and they’re like, cool, send to yourself. You’re a grown woman. So I started dating this girl who was so hot. I was like, oh my god, am I Pete Davidson. When I started dating women, it was the closest I’d come to feeling religious in a long time.

My friends would complain about their boyfriends and husbands, and I was like, have you heard the good news? You don’t have to live like this now? Some of that content bothered. You send your letters to Taylor Thomlinson. I’m just dosing a podcast in the basement.

The official description from the Netflix is Taylor Thompson returns to her roots with a tight new hour about deconstructing your faith, processing religious trauma, exploring your sexuality, and confronting your fear of death. It’s NBA All Star Weekend tonight. It’s the Celebrity Game. In the Celebrity Game, Mac Packer Keegan Michael Key will take the court. That’s on ESPN at seven pm Eastern.

Jimmy Carr was giving out some parenting advice. An audience member yelled out to Jimmy Carr, what’s your advice for parents with toddler’s Carr gave a serious answer. He said, well, practical advice. You can half asset, get an iPad and Netflix subscription, and you’re off to the races. They’ll be very happy.

The crowd laughed at that, but Carr said, you want serious advice. The woman said yeah. Carr explained hard choices now easy life. Later that got applause. I bet you love your kids, but you’ve also got to love who they could be.

So it’s kindness, isn’t it. You want to be really kind to your children, but just not kind in the moment. What a kids want. They want to watch TV and not read books. They want to eat junk food, not vegetables.

If you give in to that, if you’re kind in the moment, you’ve got fat, stupid kids. That’s no good. You’ve got to be a little bit mean in the moment. At another recent show, a woman asked Jimmy Carr how she could deal with kids who were bullying her eleven year old son. Carr did a bunch of silly jokes and then got serious and said, speaking as a parent, you can’t helicopter parent.

You cannot pave the jungle. You can just teach him to get through it. It’s a very tough thing. On the upside, your kid is being bullied. That’s terrible, I imagine heartbreaking for you.

But at least he’s not the bully. Tell him from me, you can’t have an easy life and a great character. You can’t have both. It’ll make him stronger and better and more compassionate in the future. You know the actress Kathy Bates, I think she has really, really good taste.

The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was recently at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and Adam Sandler told a story about sending Kathy Bates the script for horrible Adam Sandler comedy The water Boy. As Sandler told the story, I remember we sent Kathy Bates a script for The water Boy to play My Mama. I don’t know if I have the story one hundred percent right, but apparently she kind of read the first page and threw it in the garbage. See. I love Kathy Bates, genius talent, Kathy baits.

Unfortunately, Kathy, back in those days, surrounded herself with terrible staff. Sandler said. The guy who works with Kathy picked it up and read it and said, Kathy, I think you should read that script. It’s pretty funny. So obviously the staff member has no Jason comedy.

Kathy read it and decided to give it a shot. From there, she met with Adam Sandler and enjoyed spending time with him, which I could see. I think I would enjoy spending time with Adam Sandler, Like right now, I’m wearing a purple sweatshirt and totally non matching gray sweatpants. I could see Sandler being like, hey, bro, cool outfit. Kathy Bates, who has good Taste, told a similar version of the story on the Drew Barrymore Show back in twenty twenty four.

According to Kathy’s version, she made it to page twelve before she threw it in the trash right next to my bed. On this very program, see stole that from Letterman. On this very program. On Sunday, comedian Drew Lynch joins us, Drew is appearing at Just for Laughs Vancouver. He’s going to stop by Tomorrow’s show.

Is in more or less a normal episode. We’ll look at what’s going on at the Daytona five hundred. Bird Krascher and Nate Pergetz hearing to be there at JFL Vancouver tonight at Gambles at the Rio at seven Yakov’smeir and Off seven o’clock at the York Michael Longfellow’s at the Rio at nine, Wally Barham at the York Theater. Any leader has two shows at House of Comedy. She’s doing seven thirty, nine, fifteen.

If we were at the festival tonight, if I were hanging out with Mike from the Letterman Podcast and I was like, Hey, Vancouver is a hell of a town, let’s go see some comedy shows, I would actually pick Yakov Smirnoff, just to see what’s going on there. That would be my pick. At seven at nine o’clock, I think we go see Wally Barram at the York Theater. I like what I’ve seen out of Wally so far. It is Friday.

It is time for the comedy stock market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds. Comedy stock Market. Now. So far in twenty twenty six, the comedy stock market activity has been quite limited.

But I’ve got a lot for you today. Let’s start with two cells. We’re gonna sell John Mulaney. We’re gonna sell Mike Probiglia. Do I need to tell you?

Why? Do I need to tell you what team I’m on in this little fight. We’re selling MILLENIU and we’re selling Forbiglia and in support of the twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, Gianmarco Soresi SIESI, let’s even more stock. Eventually, we’re gonna own all the stock at Gianmarco Soresi. I am all in on this guy who did not rip off John Mulaney in the least.

So we’ll buy some Gianmarco Soresi. Let’s also buy some Chris Fleming. With that HBO special coming out soon. I’ve been a fan of Chris for a few years. We’ll see how the rest of the country reacts to Chris Fleming.

Let’s buy Taylor Thomlinson. That trailer from earlier in the show was really, really good. There’s nothing not to like about her, very personal, very funny, looks great. Her specials on Netflix, not that other service that you do your special on when you’re on your way down. So Taylor Thompson, let’s scoop up some more Taylor Thomason, and let’s buy some Mason James again.

Half an hour ago, I didn’t know who that was, but I thought that clip was pretty funny. Throw a couple bucks on Mason james career. We’ll check back and we’ll see how we do Zel Mulaney, Selber Bigley, a Bye, Gianmarco Soresi, Chris Fleming, Taylor Thomason, Mason James. That’s your comedy stock market for this week. Reese Darby, you know him.

He was one of the guys on Flight of the Concords and you know him from what was it called Our Flag Means Death? Well, he’s going to be in the CBS comedy pilot Regency. Regency is a multikam comedy and it’s a historical spin on the classic multiicam family sitcom centered around the upper middle class Tilbrooks as they navigate life, love, and scandal in nineteenth century England. Okay, ree Darby will play Arthur Tilbrook, the head of the family home. Arthur is heir to a cheese empire, but prefers to think of himself as a guy’s guy.

This is kind of funny. He will go to great lengths to prove his masculinity. That was a privileged upbringing reveals itself every time. Now we talk about networks, so clearly chuckle the premise. I like Reee Darby, but it’s on CBS, so at the end of the day, it’s a CBS Sitcom.

If you told me this one was going somewhere else FX Streamer, I might be a little more into it. Not Netflix. If it was on Netflix, I’d assume it’d be six episodes and canceled. That sounds like it could be funny. OW Today All Access Comedy hosted by DJ de Meerz, It’ll be on AMTV.

All Access Comedy is a stand up special with comedians from the disability community coming together to celebrate their unique outlook on life for a packed audience of all abilities. Comedy comes from such topics like what’s the appropriate reaction when someone bet your guide dog. I’m familiar with DJ’s comedy. I play him a lot on The Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live One app every week. The show is free, The app is free Live One.

Look up the Weekly Comedy Thing. In fact, I think in this week’s show, I’ve got some DJ demers if you want to hear what he sounds like. And congratulations too. Joe Koy, Yes, Joe Koy had his hand in footprints enshrined in cement at the Hollywood Chinese Theater. Joe was supported by friends.

I assume they’re friends, or maybe they just wanted their mention in Daily Comedy News. But regardless, Tiffany Hattish, Martin, Lawrence Gabriel Iglesias and some others showed up to support Joe Koy at the event. Now you might be like John, Joe Koy, remind me who that is again. I’ll remind you one time Joe Coy hosted the Goal Globes and he just told this horrible, horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift that Taylor did not appreciate. Here, let’s listen.

As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. When that is your comedy news today, All right, Tomorrow Daytona Sunday, Drew Lynch stops by. Catch you here tomorrow

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Featured: John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Gianmarco Soresi Siresi, Mike Feenie, Mike Epps, Nicki Minaj, Michael Che

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney act comparison allegations with Mike Feenie and Gianmarco Soresi Siresi
• Mike Epps apology to Nicki Minaj over offensive comments
• Michael Che shuts down fan sketch pitch about Epstein Island with children

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. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, A sentence, and that the algorithms like me to say every single day for some reason. So I shall you know, doing this show is kind of like pitching a baseball game, And today it was one of those days that ten minutes ago I thought I had nothing, and then I’m like, eh, let me see if I could stir it up with this. Barbiglia, Mullaney, Gianmarco Soresi Siresi thing incasion missed it. Go back to the February tenth episode where I played some clips John Mulaney was on Mike Berbiglia’s podcast.

Birbiglia floated an idea that perhaps, possibly maybe there’s a comedian who was ripping off John Mulaney’s act. That I played a separate clip in which Gianmarco Soresi Siresi thought they were referring to him. It is unclear who they were referring to anyway. So I went on Reddit and people think it might be a guy named Mike Feenie. Now I was unfamiliar with Mike Feenie.

Half an hour ago, but some clips. I’m going to play you three clips here and I’ll let you be the jury, and I’m trying to make the clips relatively even. So. The clips from Feenie and Gianmarco Soresi are on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. I couldn’t find John mullany on the Tonight Show.

I did find a cone and clip that was too far back, and I didn’t want to play anything current because these days there is mullanie mania. He could just walk up on stage and say hello and he’ll get a big Did I just rip off John Mulaney? Oh, I’m big. It’s gonna be mad at me. I’ve told you this before.

The secret to a half asked John Mulaney, is you have to do the B fifty two s Fred Schneider going big as a whale, And that’s how you get into your mullany. It’s just in the sing song Noss. I mean, it’s a half assed Millenie. But maybe I’m stealing from John mllanie. I digress.

So the Feenie and the Gianmarco Soresi are from the Tonight Show, and I’ve pulled a clip of John Mulaney on HBO’s Night of Too many stores. This clip is John Mulaney from eight years ago, which I think is before mullanie Mania. I’ve tried to make all the clips around a minute ten. I’ve tried to include the intro so you hear the comedian getting into it, and then around minute ten we’ll get out of the clips. But first up from eight years ago, here’s John Mulaney.

I’m John Mulaney, finally a name on this show. I had a great day. I hope you’re all well. I’m flattered to be here. I was walking downtown today.

I was on West twelfth Street. I was downtown. I was walking towards this guy. He’s walking towards me. He’s on his cell phone.

We’re both downtown. We’re on West twelfth. As he walks past me, I hear him say no, no, no, I can’t. Meet right now. I’m way uptown.

And then he looked at me and he winked, and he kept walking. That guy should be declared mayor of New York City. I don’t care if he’s had a scandal automatic mayor, and he probably has, if that’s how he conducts himself on a day to day basis, If he’s lying about his whereabouts At two o’clock on a Saturday, while I high fiving random guys on the street. I was glad I noticed him. I normally don’t notice people.

I zone out conslate. Have you ever zoned out for a few minutes. I’ve been zoned out since two thy and fourteen. I just all day long. I wander into traffic, walking like Charlie Chaplin, listening to a podcast while thinking about a different podcast.

Next up, a three year old clip from The Tonight Show, storing in Jimmy Fallon. Comedian Mike Feede takes the stage wearing a suits and again John mulaniy known for wearing a suit. Right now, I’m looking at a picture of George Carlin performing in a suit in the sixties. Is John mulani stealing from George Carlin? Obviously?

He is get your own wardrobe buddy. Anyway, Mike Feoeney, here you go. Oh my gosh, thank you so much, everybody. Wow, I appreciate that I have exciting news. I just celebrated seven years of marriage with my wife.

Yeah. Yeah, we’ve been married seven years. We’ve been dating a total of seventeen years. Though I had to make sure and if i’man honest, she’s one of my favorite people right now. But when you’re in a relationship that long, a lot of times after shows from men, they’ll come up to me and they’ll be like, seventeen years.

I mean, my god, I must have gotten so stale in the bedroom by now, right, And every time I have to explain to them, I’m like, no, it hasn’t gotten stale, it’s gotten efficient. That’s how I would, yeah, like our sex life. As I go into a Billy Joel concert at this point, you know, we’re just playing the hits, no new stuff. Everybody’s happy, yea. And our third clip from four months ago, the twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, Gianmarco Soresi.

He’s not wearing a suit. He’s wearing a pretty loose shirt. It’s a little wrinkled actually, so it’s a look. He didn’t accidentally go on the Tonight Show in a renkled shirt. And he is much more animated than mister Malaney and mister Feenie.

Here is Gianmarco Soresi Siisi, thank you. I appreciate it real quick. I’m going to talk a lot about my girlfriend tonight, and I just want to be careful, because I think what happens with a lot of male comedians is they’ll notice something about their girlfriend, and then when they’re on stage they act like that specific trait applies to the entire gender. So I just want to be clear. All the jokes tonight are about my girlfriend, and I don’t want to use her real name, so let’s just call her women.

Women. Hear me out, please please please. Women are Jewish and mine is no exception to the rule, and it’s fine. I’m also Jewish, although I was raised more culturally Jewish, which means I have all the anxiety of regular Judaism, but without the comfort of God. So I don’t know who Duberbigs and the Laney mean.

We’re gonna have to ask them. Mike Ebbs has issued an apology. Apparently Mike Epps had made some comments about rapper Nicki Minaj after Nicki Minaj recently appeared with the President of the United States in a comedy routine. Mike Ebbs had suggested that Minaj had engaged in a group sex activity with the President and others joke that perhaps Nicki had done some favors in exchange for help with her US citizenship. Fans of Nicki Minaj did not like that.

Mike Epps has posted on Instagram. Y’all know, I’m mister accountability. You know, I say stuff and do stuff, and then I go to bed, wake up the next morning, having prayed on and thought about it. I just want to apologize to you, Nicki Minaj for saying the stuff that I said. I want to apologize to your husband, your kids, all that for saying what I said.

I’m a comedian. Sometimes I get on that stage. You know, I have a little drink and I go wild. I’m nonfiltered, not explaining myself. But I am mister accountability.

I love apologizing, something a lot of people don’t know how to do. I just saw this one. As I walked into the basement. I took one last look at comedy threads, and I see from the Daily Beast, Michael Jay shut down a fan who suggested a sketch. The sketch suggested by the fan was about Epstein Island with actual children, and the fan thought that would be a hilarious idea for Saturday Night Live.

Chay apparently mocked the pitch in a series of now deleted Instagram stories, even sharing a screenshot of his DMS with the fan. The Daily Beast says the fan had written to Michael Chay, if SNL had any balls, they’d do an Epstein Island sketch like it was a joke, but just have it be reality and of Trump and Elon et cetera, et cetera, partying with actual children. Have Elon try and explain electric cars to a fifth grader over cocktails, etc. Jay wrote back, that’d be funny to you, beato reenactments with actual kids. You think the audience would be laughing at that.

I guess I just don’t understand comedy audiences anymore. I get so much criticism that starts with if you had any balls, and now we do we just stay on Channel four and this is really funny. I wonder if ice T gets messages like show penetration on SVU cowards. The Garden of Dreams Foundation and MSG Entertainment have announced Garden of Laughs, coming to Radio City Music Hall on April thirteenth. Nice line up here.

Headliners include John Oliver Andrew Schultz. Oh we the press should ask Andrew some questions if he’s taking any questions. Ronny Chieng Zarna garg Josh Johnson, Analyza Slessenger. You may recall Andrew and Zarna played there od Gomedy Festival, so their career is doing quite well. Steve Sharippa of Sopranos fame will return as the host.

I know Steve worked with him on The Wise Guy Show. It’s serious, a really good guy. Uh drove around Vegas with him one day and had a nice timeout. Steve said the Garden of Dreams Foundation has impacted the lives of one hundreds of thousands of young people and their families in the Tri state area over the last twenty years. At it’s incredible events like Garden of Laughs that helped make that possible.

That dude’s a pro and awesome to work with. Got a lot of New York City stuff. Today. If you’re on the subway and you’re like, is that Ronny Chieng, it is Ronny Chieng. He is the latest entertainer to lend his voice to public service announcements for the New York City Subway.

Now see, I’m old school, I grew up in Queen’s New York City. When I get on the train and they have these like pre recorded announcements that are crystal clear, like ooom, next up times Square. I’m like, as the kids say, g TFO. Back in the day when Johnny Mac was a young lad listening to Howard Stern on a walkman, the announcement sounded like this, and you dealt with it, and that’s how it was, and there was graff feiti everywhere. Oh sorry, I almost ripped on John Lane there.

Sorry, I’m entertaining myself. Ronnie Ching affects a frustrated voice as he reprimands writers for various subway faux pause. One message ses can he please move into the train so other people can get on? Thank you, Cursey counts. Now, I have found myself on threads.

I’m in some sort of New York City conversation about who’s a real New Yorker and newbies asking for advice from real New Yorkers. Listen to me, I’m not moving in. If you’re from New York City, you understand, and you’re like, of course, I’m not moving in. People are like, why is this jerk not moving in? Here’s why I’m not moving in because I have my own space.

Welcome to New York City. If you can’t handle it, go somewhere else. I’m getting on, and the second I get on, I’m turning sideways and I’m leaning against the metal railing. When the door is closed, I’m leaning against the door. I have space.

I’m not standing in the middle holding on a railing. If you want to give me a seat, I’ll sit down, I’ll get out of the door. But I’m not standing in the middle. I’m blocking the door. More advice from Ronny Chieng, the PA announcer.

Unless it’s old school hip hop, nobody wants to hear your music, your phone, call your headphones on. Oh boy. And the people at the airports with the TikTok videos, yeah, they got to stop too. Ronny Chieng said he was honored to record the new messages and then said, wait, does that mean I work for the MTA now New York or Pete Davidson. He’s got that TV show that the delusional people at Netflix think it’s a podcast.

It’s not a podcast, it’s a TV show. And the Union might have some questions for you people. Pete was having a conversation on his inexpensive television show with Machine Gun Kelly. We learned Pete Davidson’s happy place. He said, mine was this deli that’s near my house.

It’s not the best deli in the world. It’s just clean. It’s like really clean, and you feel really good about buying produce and like meats from there. Now you’re like, what’s it called. Well, eventually Pete Davidson revealed the place is called Bagels are Us in Great Kills.

Pete says, it’s phenomenal. While you’re in New York City taking the subway, block the doors. It’s everyone else’s problem that they’re trying to get on the train. They should have gotten on the stop before like I did. But if you’re on the train and you’re like, is that George Clooney, it’s too fat to be George Clooney.

No, it’s not George Clooney. It’s me and I’m blocking the doors and we’re on our way to Williamsburg for the sixth Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio aka the Ambies. They will be hosted by comedian Wyatt Sanak. Why It said, podcasting has become one of the most exciting places for ideas and storytelling. I’m looking forward to honoring the creators, keeping the energy up and helping make the night feel as vibe and engaging as the podcast themselves, plus as a New Yorker doing this in Brooklyn just makes it hit different.

Keenan Thompson is going to be part of a new action comedy based on the podcast Unwanted. Unwanted centers on two degenerates who attempt to claim a one million dollar reward by capturing an escaped, convicted murderer, but that plan quickly unravels as they find themselves dangerously unprepared for the chaos that follows. Golf enthusiast Kat Williams is on the new episode of the PGA Tours Studio’s Mindful series. Kat Williams opens up on how the game of golf has impacted and shaped him in an overall sense and congratulations too, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, who for some reason is in this Spress release called the comedy ike us on that must be a typo. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers you know them as ASCAP, announced that songwriter, movie star, and comedy powerhouse Adam Sandler be honored with the ASSCAP Founder’s Award, recognizing his contributions to music and songwriting across comedy, film, and popular culture.

Are we really doing that? Are you sure? Asscap? Can we give him an oscar for Ray Kelly? Don’t reward the silly songs?

What are you doing? Sandler will accept the ward at the twenty twenty six ASSCAP Experience that’ll be at the Scriball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Today. The ASSCAP Chairman of the Board and President, Paul Williams said, Adam is a giant of comedy and so many of his most hilarious on screen moments are based in music and song, from Operaman to the Hanukah song to Grow Old with You. Adam’s genius ability to seamlessly blend comedy and music helps us all appreciate the wonders and absurdities of life and love.

ASSCAP is honored to recognize Adam Sandlor for his singular contributions to the comedy music cannon. Previous recipients include Paul McCartney, Oh Boy, This press release is Gonna Kill Me from his famous SNL classics like the Thanksgiving song, Lunch Lady Land and Red Hooded Sweatshirt, Who Can Forget That One? To newer songs like as Chris Farley Jam and No Sailor skit is complete without a song to send the audience into fits. Oh it says sorry, fits of laughter. Adam Sandlor has released six albums, two went double platinum, and Sailor has earned three Grammy nominations.

We got to stop with this. Give the man an oscar. You’re rewarding the wrong part of this guy’s career. Cut it out, boy. This show’s a lot better than it was an hour ago.

I’ll tell you that this really came together from late nighter. They pulled the ratings for the late night talk shows. Let’s see, I’m reading this cold. Star Trek ruiner. Stephen Colbert in first place, but January was down five percent from December.

And now hopefully that’s because people realize that Stephen Colbert is part of the problem. He is one of the horrible, horrible people destroying Star Trek. And this is why I am aligned with the President of the United States that Stephen Colbert’s talk show must end. If you’re going to do that to Star Trek, I’m going to come at you. Stephen Colbert.

Tig nataro genius here Patton Oswalt two point six five million total viewers is down five percent from December. Johnny Mac takes Star Trek very seriously, Jimmy Kimmel in second with two point four to six, up three percent, and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon third place one point two two million viewers. Wow, so he’s got half of Kimmel’s audience. Fallon was down eleven percent. Let’s look at the young people.

Eighteen to forty nine Kimmel an average of two hundred and thirty one thousand viewers. So Kimmel had two point four to six overall. So if we subtract two thirty one, that means of the viewers two point one million of it call it or under eighteen or over fifty. Yikes, And I’m over fifty and I still say yikes. Colbert two twenty five fall one hundred and fifty six thousand viewers, down twenty two percent month over month.

Wow. At twelve thirty Late Night with SETH Myers nine hundred and sixty eight thousand viewers overall, down two percent. Guess people weren’t watching Late Night in January. Huh, eighteen to forty nine’s SETH Myers has one hundred and twenty six thousand viewers. That is within Frisbee range of this dopey podcast, and this one’s a lot cheaper to produce.

I’ll put it this way, I’m a lot closer to Seth than Seth is to Colbert Big shout out to your friend of the show, Jason Zenneman of The New York Times. He did a nice retweet for this program on his very popular threads account. Seemed he was interested in the Berbiglia Melaney Gianmarco Soresi discussion Jason had posted on his threads account, which is zennamon j comedy is middle school, even down to the secretive handwritten notes. Of course, so is everything else that is true, my friend. Now, right before I hit record today, I wrote back to Jason.

Some folks were saying Mike Feeney, who I was unfamiliar with. Will Noonan has chimed in and wrote feoene as a saint in this house. End of story. Just for last Vancouver kicks off, Let’s take a look at today’s lineup. I really thought about going, but it’s a little far The show I wanted to see David Letterman was on a Wednesday.

If Letterman was on a weekend, I might have gone for it, but thanks to the Just for Last Vancouver people who gave us some great guests. We’ll have Drew Lynch on this program on Sunday. And if you missed Ismao last Sunday, he was fantastic. If you’re in Vancouver, say hi to my Chisholm from the Letterman podcast. You might see him standing on a street corner.

He’s gonna be doing some field reporting for this program. Joe List is at the Rio Theater at seven, and then Joe List is at the Biltmore at nine. If you want to see Joe List back to back in different rooms, that’s different. I don’t think I’ve seen that in the Comedy Festival before. At Gamble is at the Rio at nine.

Okay, so we’re just getting started. I guess if we were at the festival tonight, I would just stay at the Rio and I would see Joe List and then I would see Ed Gamble, which would be a actually really good night of comedy. Today’s Thursday, so it’s the final day of voting for this week’s Comedy Survivor. I haven’t been on the Facebook group yet to see what was going on, but last time I checked, there were a lot of single votes. I think this week’s game is wide open if you’re new to all this.

We put sixteen comedians on Comedy Island and we’re playing Comedy Survivor, a legally distinct parody of whatever you think we’re parodying. It’s legally distinct, totally different. Did I mentioned as a parody? So what you do? You should go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

You’ll see a drawing of me and Jay Letto there, and then there’s a thread and I’ll tell you who’s still on the island and who you can vote off, and I’ll share the results on Monday. Congratulations to Adam Ernest piccard. Where is it Pickard? He doesn’t spell it like the Starfleet Captain. He spells it pic k Ard, so maybe it’s Pickard Anyway.

He is the Captain of Puns. He’s twenty two years old and he won the UK Pun Championship show with this pun. The song Greensleeves was composed by Henry the Eighth. Play some of it here, but it’s not royalty free. Congratulations Captain Pickard, and I’m gonna leave you with this one.

Sometimes the podcast just to amuse myself at google the word comedian, I see what comes up, and I learned that an ad agency has partnered with KFC Arabia to bring comedic chaos to the launch of the Korean Barbecue Twister. Apparently they gave comedian Juan Ho Chung free reign over the creative messaging recipe, antics and culturally aware storytelling. That’s right, KFC Arabia has launched the Korean Barbecue Twister, and they want to know what happens when you give a bilingual comedian full creative control over your menu launch. The answer chaos, deliciously culturally aware chaos, and I have some audio for you. Have’ve clipped it a little bit, but you know, let’s let this run.

Wondering how things between KFC and one Ho ended up like this, let us explain. We made a Korean menu with everything drenched in barbecue sauce. Then we signed the only Korean guy on the planet who speaks Arabic. I have a knew well that logic didn’t last long. From day one, one Hot started improvising, showed up wearing this wig, which by the way, isn’t even Korean.

So he tried his own thing on design and even put his touches on the recipe. At some point we completely lost him over one Kentucky Fried Chicken bother Korean right chicken. He named the podcast one ho On Barbecue Wow, just wow, and then he went on to build the toy line. Man, we aren’t the ones with toys. Suddenly we found out about this arab K pop hit.

Song, canes be not a wideo for it? Who approved this? He might ask? Nobody? Of course, Yeah, we kept going in circles and circles.

What else could we do. It’s Kentucky launching a Korean menu with an Arabic speaking Korean. It just made sense. And fun stuff from one who y young there who wants to rebrand KFC as Korean Fried Chicken. That is your comedy news for today.

All right? If you got a thought about who’s ripping who off? There’s the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. But I didn’t do a post for it, but what if you could start a post. You’re allowed to talk about things on your own, but to be curious who everyone thinks is ripping someone off?

All right? I see tomorrow

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Featured: Katt Williams, Bob Saget, Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel, Chris Fleming, Pete Davidson, Adam Carolla

What’s in This Episode

• Katt Williams Netflix special and Club Shayshe podcast appearance
• Katt Williams describes Diddy parties and Hollywood Hills shuttle system
• Bob Saget documentary in development
• Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel friendship conflict over politics
• Chris Fleming HBO Max special at the Palace Theater Chicago
• Pete Davidson Show Netflix series debate over podcast classification

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. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence that the transcription algorithm seems to really like. Kat Williams has a new special on Netflix.

You know Netflix, can we not do this on Tuesday? I feel like Tuesday’s just, for some reason, the worst night to watch comedy specials. You think i’d be home, but I was watching The Knicks last night, so I didn’t get to this yet. But on Big Boy TV, he said, let me explain something to you. I’m not scared to say nothing.

I’ll say it. He was talking about his appearance in twenty twenty four in the Club Shayshe podcast. You may remember that Cat Took No Prisoners. He said that that appearance was carefully planned, designed to provoke a reaction without fully detonating careers. Kat explains the knockout punches were taken out.

Kat was asked about p Diddy parties. Kat said, people, indeed, do you ask, how do you know goes on at the PDDY party? If you weren’t at the pddy party, they would have these parties in Hollywood Hills, and they’d have a parking lot where they would shuttle people up, so everybody would meet in this parking lot. They would send shuttles down. I was never invited to the parties, but I was invited to the parking lot because I knew the people who were on the shuttle service.

I’d go to the parking lot. I’d watch them all go up there, and I would just be on the car having a grand old time, smoking and laughing, watching everybody going. I would see all these big time Hollywood men that I just watched go up there. They all came down off the shuttle, looking sad in their eyes, all of them wearing Sean John and looking oily. Their shoelaces were always untied.

Then they’re getting their car and they would drive off standing up. Okay. Then Bob Saggitt getting a documentary. The Bob Sackett Documentary explores the duality of a man known to millions as America’s Dad on TV while simultaneously being a raw and unfiltered stand up comic on stage, built from intimate access to family and fellow comics, Rare home videos and ever before seen footage The Bob Sacket documentary will reveal the complex life, devastating losses, and enduring kindness behind the laughter. No date yet.

Wow, Saggot is going on four years already. That is stunning to me. I feel like that news just happened not too long ago. I met Bob once. He was super cool.

He came up to visit us, and it’s serious, and he needed to make a phone call and I let him use my office. So I have just this wonderful memory of me, you know, killing time in the hallway talking to some coworkers about the Mets and seeing Bob Saggett sitting at my desk using my phone. Cool guy Bill Maher is upset that his relationship with Jimmy Kimmel has gone sideways. You may recall that Bill Maher slammed Missus Kimmel. Missus Kimmel had revealed that she had lost family relationships over their politics.

On the Club Random podcast, Bill Maher said, Kimmel is quote very mad at me. Mar said to his guest Adam Carolla, I know you’re close to him. I hope you tell him that you know. I’m sorry that they got bent out of shape. I don’t think I did anything wrong.

Weekend of Disagreements, Moore insisted it’s Kimmel who was in the wrong. According to mar my tribe is supposed to be the left, but these are the people who just can’t talk to you unless you’re exactly there. Jimmy, I’m sorry. I think this is one of the nice guys that did a meacopo when we exchanged emails. Not about what who’s complaining about.

We’re just saying sometimes a little brash when they compare me with the other late night guys. I’m like, I’m not like you guys. I’m not You could all exchange your monologues, all of you and no one would know the difference in tune, whereas me, I’m not there. I just don’t buy into the left wing bs. I never stopped making fun of the right wing bs at all.

If that’s not good enough for you, then I think you’re the a hole. And I don’t think Jimmy’s an a hole. I think he’s a great guy. And it bugs me that because of what the latest thing was. You know, we may never talk Chris Fleming getting an HBO Max special, so I think this is a Max special I’ve talked about this in the past, HBO, that you’ve totally confused your brand, which Netflix is going to do with these quote unquote podcasts.

By the way, you’ve totally confused your brand. So to me, Living on Old Man Mountain, Something on Saturday is an HBO special. Something on Friday is a Max special. Chris Fleming, who I love, is getting a Friday special. It is called Chris Fleming Live at the Palace.

It will premiere ten pm East and West Friday, twenty seventh. Live at the Palace was filmed where everybody say with me, the Palace Theater, That’s right, the one in Chicago. We’re sold. Chris Fleming bounds across the stage, sharing his takes on masculinity, conga lines, Trader Joe’s oreos, NPR, dog Breeds and more. Now I’m fascinated with the timing.

So is the Friday night slot when you get Chris Fleming and Sarah Sherman and the quirky stuff, which is fine because that would be a brand. I would be totally down with Friday’s at ten being the quirky stuff. Don’t go throwing Nate Perghetzi on Friday Night at ten. He’s Saturday Night at ten. You know what I’m saying.

Yeah, Chris Fleming said, I hereby decree, my first HBO special will soon be available for you to consume. Please enjoy, and feel free to dance along. Thank you and thank you HBO to exclamation points. Nina Rosenstein is HBO’s EVP programming Late Night and specials and pr people loved difficult from the executives, So Nina or someone in Nina’s name came up with this sentence. Chris brings it full force to this special.

Once you’ve seen him, nothing else quite compares. His jokes are exquisitely precise, and his physical comedy is so borderline acrobatic that you discover something new to laugh at every time, whether it’s a perfect compression of a crab walk or an intricate joke about Tillamook cheese. His work is a masterclass in and of itself. I wonder how long they worked on that quote. In The Atlantic, David Simms writes, Pete Davidson’s charm is working against him.

David Simms got into one of my favorite current topics, which is the Pete Davison Show, which say with me is clearly not a podcast, Simms writes. The first question to confront when considering The Pete Davison Show, a new Netflix series that the streamer is calling a video podcast, is what is a podcast? Sims says, I would argue that podcast should always involve a dedicated feed you can listen to on your phone. The Pete Davison Show does not have that. A cynic might wonder if branding the Pete Davidson’s Show a podcast is just a way for the streaming empire to avoid paying for the kind of unionized cruise and production staff at talk show demands.

Anyway, once we get over that, let’s review the show. David Sims says of Pete Davidson as a host, He’s casual to a fault. He’s prone to slouching in his chair, ripping a thousand of cigarettes, and reminiscing about various awkward interactions he and his guests have had at parties over the years. David’s inexperience becomes obvious when seated across someone much better versed in the medium. Episode two features Charlomagne the God, a season radio personality whose comfort and facility with the format forces Davidson to keep up.

Sims writes, maybe Davidson can grown to the gig. Very few hit podcasts emerge from the gate fully formed. But the Pete Davidson Show, which I’ll point out, is not a podcast. It’s a television show on Netflix. I’ll let the union fight their own battles, but it is not a podcast.

Sims rights, the Pete Davidson Show is a particularly rough lump of clay. The garage setting riffs on Maren’s format, but the space is devoid of any notable physical objects for guest to bounce off. Nothing like Maren’s frequently remarked upon Chachke’s or guitars, Davidson’s Chat with Kelly has no structure, no segments, and no particular gimmick. I’ve been there. That’s some executive telling Pete Davidson you could do whatever you want me.

I’ve been down this a zillion times about ah. You know, we don’t need a format, we just talk about it. You have to put a format on things or you just have a mess. I’m telling you, I’ve been doing this for thirty plus years. You have to have a format.

This show has a format. Have you noticed I do the big stuff up front, take a break, and then I do esoteric stuff. That’s a format. You just need a format. I don’t open up the show going Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

The Topeka, Kansas Comedy Festival feature seven people you’ve never heard of. I don’t do it that way. There’s an order to things. You have to have a format. Sims seems to agree.

Writing some sense of organization can help shape an otherwise unformed snippet of conversation. And I like this last sentence from David Sims, who writes, perhaps Netflix is video only podcast experiment. David, it’s not a podcast, it’s a television show. Let me clean it up for you. Let me make an edit on David Simms what the sentence should say.

Or perhaps Netflix is TV show experiment will go the way of many other such clones in this medium, which never took on board the lesson that podcasts require more than two microphones and a garage to actually be interesting. You can actually do it with one micro phone in a basement. I’m opening up the Netflix app and I’ll see if the Pete Davidson television show is trending now they keep changing the interface. Here, I’ve clicked on new and Hot. They want me to watch Gordon Ramsay and Mission Impossible and Ironclaw something about dinosaurs.

Well, that doesn’t seem to be chirts. We are shirts in Netflix. They used to just have a big top ten there, So here we go. Top ten shows in the US today. This is twelve forty five pm on Tuesday, Wrestling, Lincoln Lawyer, Bridgerton unfamiliar, Jeffrey Epsteins something his and Hers which I liked at the beginning, and they got terrible.

Is it cake? You people need to get a life alone, Free Bert doing well at number nine and The Way Home. None of that is the Pete Davidson television show. Interesting. I’m a bad host.

Yesterday I did this wonderful rant about Mulaney versus Jen Marco, and I forgot to thank a listener. No listener said, you can just say listener. But the listener sent this to me or I wouldn’t have caught it. So thank you listener for putting that. I still want to get a posse up, but I don’t hear it at all.

In case you missed it, seems mister b Bigli and mister Mullaney are not quite accusing Gianmarco Soresi Siresi of ripping off the act. They didn’t say who they think is ripping off Mullaney, but people seem to think they’re implying that it’s Gianmarco Soresi. I don’t hear it at all. Comedy Survivor join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I was checking out the voting earlier today and there’s a lot of like single votes all across the board.

I don’t know who’s going this week. Some people are hanging back until end of day Thursday to get their votes in late and see if a little late rush can eliminate someone. No idea who’s going. Late night waged in. On the super Bowl halftime show, Greg Gutfeld telled this joke.

President Trump posted that bad Bunny had one of the worst halftimes ever. I disagree. The worst ever was the four years of Joe Biden in between Trump now now Gutfeld. Obviously I didn’t tell that one well at all, because that did you hear those words? That is a hilarious joke.

The worst halftime ever was the four years of Joe Biden in between Trump. Hilarious? I mean Gottfeld told it properly, got a huge laugh. I just didn’t tell it well, but boy, that that is just a well crafted, not at all hacky joke from Greg Guttfeld. Eddie Murphy, we’ll team up with Evangoria in a new comedy movie being made by Amazon MGM.

It is called Attachment Parenting. We’re told attachment Parenting has a vibe that throws back to another era of studio comedies. The project tells of a psychologist couple whose parenting philosophies put to the ultimate test when they’re forced to counsel the crime boss’s dysfunctional family while being held hostage at a hotel. Okay, Kevin Hart he likes to be in business with stuff. He has invested in Burn Bootcamp.

The owners of Burn Bootcamp met Kevin Hart through mutual connections. CEO Morgan Klein said, we could just since there was a lot of shared values amongst one another. It was very clear that he didn’t want to be as person and that’s not what we were seeking. He wanted ownership. Kevin has made a financial investment in Burn boot Camp and will own a franchise in California.

Kevin in a YouTube video apparently said Burn stands for what I believe in, structure, accountability, and results. My kids don’t listen to what I say, but they watch what I do, and I want them to see discipline, commitment and strength. Tops Baseball Cards have come out with a Jerry Seinfeld Mets card. It’s Jerry Seinfeld wearing a Mets jersey and an off brand Mets hat and he’s on the phone, presumably calling the bullpen. It’s autographed.

Tops said it was the biggest signing of the off season. Collectors can buy a whole bunch of packs and hope one of the packs has an autograph card of Jerry Seinfeld. And The Traverse City Comedy Festival has announced their lineup. The festival is April sixteenth through the eighteenth. It’s their fourth annual event.

Headliners Megan Statler, Sarah Sherman, Roywood Junior, Gary Goleman, and Jodovito. Nice lineup, gang. It will be comedians representing three thirty three states and Canada, which if the President will get things done and let’s get going on this, I’ll be able to just say representing thirty four states, right, I’m skimming the names here. The headliners are pretty good. The other folks, I’m not sure any of these names you would know unless you’re really, really a comedy snob.

The festival will feature multiple improv and specialty programs. Show titles include Kamikazi Comedy, Big Fun, Murder, Planet Ant, and that thing you pull when you want it to stop. It’s also a roast Battle and a Comedy Rumble. What’s a comedy rumble, John, you’re the one who hosts the show. I know.

Let’s see. Here’s a comedy rumble that gives eight comedians the chance to battle for progressively longer stage time across three intense rounds. Wait, this is fun. It sounds like a good time. And that’s your comedy news for today and catch it tomorrow.

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Featured: Mike Birbiglia, John Mulaney, Gianmarco Soresi, Pete Holmes, Shane Gillis, Kat Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Che, Colin Jost, Marcelo Hernandez, David Letterman

What’s in This Episode

• Mike Birbiglia and John Mulaney podcast discussion about comedians copying Mulaney’s act
• Gianmarco Soresi responds to accusations of ripping off John Mulaney
• John Mulaney Super Bowl commercial commentary for Best Thing Ever campaign
• Michael Che and Colin Jost sports gambling commercial backlash
• NBC’s 100th anniversary video montage excludes David Letterman
• Kat Williams releases new Netflix special ‘The Last Report’
• Jim Gaffigan cast in period thriller film ‘New England Toys’
• Jim Gaffigan Father Time bourbon whiskey review

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. Settle up your horse, because I’m putting together a posse. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. But I don’t have time for that because I am ticked off.

Mike Birbiglia has a podcast. His guest is John Mulaney. Listen to this crap. I’ve edited this for pacing, but listen to this. What do you think when people like rip off your voice in your style?

Dude, I’ve heard they do, but I don’t. I can’t think of anyone that does. We know who did? I don’t. Actually, you want to write it down?

I write the first letter. Oh I’m not that familiar with that person. Okay, but I I’ll check it out. I just watched it the other day. I was like, come on, interesting, Okay, what are we doing?

That’s cool though, I guess, of course it’s cool. Okay, how’d you feel about people that ripped you off? Well, there’s two or three. Do you like it? That’s fine?

Yeah, it’s fine, all right, John Mulaney and Mike Brobiglia who are we accusing of stealing John Mulaney’s act. Now they didn’t name names, but one comedian thinks it’s him. Let’s go to Friend of the Show and twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year Gianmarco Soresi SERAISI. This clip has some salty language, and I’ve trimmed it a lot for pacing. But let’s let Gianmarco Soresi way in on this.

There is something that we need to talk about. I don’t I don’t want to name names, so I’m gonna I’m gonna write it down on a piece of paper and and uh, let’s so there’s a person I want to talk about. Oh, how about a big ass p to quote my fa favorite comedian John Mulaney. I when I when I first started a stand up, like when I really like made that decision, I saw micro Biglia did a show at the Bellhouse and it was this. It was so cool because it was him working out new material like he he hosted it and then he had comments going between who were doing like the Real Killer, like just set and then he came out and was working on new material.

In fact, I would say that was very much inspiration for my my silver lining show. So I’m stealing from you too, buddy. I I wish I could go back in time to that Bellhouse show and just whisper in my ear one day one of those comedians on stage is going to talk shit about you to another one of those comedians on stage on a podcast. So so I I was on a plane. Great, that’s a great place to get news that hurts your feelings on a play.

Just perfect. And I think it was two weeks ago, maybe Pete Holmes I went on on Working it Out for Bigli’s podcast, Working it Out I believe that’s what it’s called, which I’m subscribed to. Yeah, And and people said, hey, Jamarca got a shout out I’m working it Out and you go, oh cool, cool cool, and Pete Holmes was talking about just good JFL sets and and and mentioned Shane Gillis and and me, and it was very nice.

And then I went on the Patreon just to make sure all the episode, the new epi…

It’s someday. Once once every cast member of SNL has made an appearance. I’m so excited. And and it was it was basically they were talking about shit talking and Bigliy was like, well, people, how do you feel when people rip you off or copy you? And and he said, he said, oh, there’s one person, and he said, you know, write it down.

And so he took out a piece of paper and wrote a name of someone who’s who he says, ripping off uh milleniey and showed him.

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And now let me just let me just say, because someone planted it in my ear, li…

If who else could it be? Who else is ripping off John Mulaney more than me? Gianmarco Soresi ripping off John Mulaney, as the kids say, GTFO with that. The only time I ever put in a Lane and Tron Marco together in my brain was when Gianmarco Soresi was on this show and slipped into a Millenie impression when he was deliberately doing mulleni Yes, he was doing Mullenie, but day to day I don’t hear it at all. Mike Provilian John Mlaney again, GTFO with that noise Speaking of John Mulaney, he was part of the Best Thing Ever Creative Platforms campaign during the Super Bowl.

Apparently this came and went. I didn’t catch win of it until I was putting the show together. John Mulaney was providing commentary on Super Bowl commercials in real time and shared on social media. Here’s John Mulaney commenting on the Polar Bear commercial. Kraft Mac and Cheese is better than commercials with Polar Bears.

We’re ready to enjoy in ten minutes. Those Polar Bears show up eight hours before rolling to get into hair and makeup. Then they have their squads, all the people that hang around them. You have to get a trailer for them, and not a half trip. You’ve got to get a full banger.

Then they’re going to go over the contract midway through the shooting bill. I didn’t agree to scarf read of sunglasses. It’s a nightmare. It’s why I left the Bins, Craft Back and Cheese. Best thing ever?

Wait, was that, Gianmarco Soresi Sarasi, No, it wasn’t. You know how I know because it wasn’t funny. Get out of here for Biggs and Malini. Get out of here with that. Michael Chay, He and Colin Jost were in a commercial.

People are upset at them that they were promoting sports gambling. Michael Chay on Instagram posted, look, I got a mortgage, which I get. I also have heating bills. You guys can hate on the commercials all you want, but I got I Have you seen my heating bill? This I’m not doing a bit, Holy cow, and February is gonna be worse.

I can’t take the cold anymore. Man, It’s gonna end at heart. I’m Jimmy Buffett. All right, while we’re on our horses, while we’ve got a posse together, let’s keep riding and head on over to NBC headquarters. I saw this on the Facebook group of the Letterman podcast NBC’s turning one hundred.

They did this video montage of all the great things that ever happened on NBC. You know, things like Marcelo Hernandez, he’s in the video. Things like heroes, Yeah, heroes out of one hundred years of NBC. You’re picking heroes that made the video. You know who did not make the video?

David Letterman, are you kidding me? You put Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing one thing, well but one thing only in this video, and you don’t put David Letterman GTFO. As the kids say. On Netflix today, Kat Williams as a new special. It’s his fourth for the streamer.

It’s titled The Last Report. In The Last Report, Kat Williams delivers bold takes on conspiracy celebrities in the world at large. Looking forward to that one. Jim Gaffigan’s got a new gig. He will be in a movie called New England Toys.

New England Toys is a mysterious period thriller that has already started filming in Buffalo, New York. It is unclear what year or decade of the film takes place in.

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Speaking of Jim Gaffigan, the folks over at Breaking Bourbon dot Com reviewed…

Now, I was like, what’s SRP? That brought me to SRP whiskey dot com. I’m sorry if the rest of you are like John, everyone knows what this is uh, for the one person who doesn’t. SRP Whiskey is a base platform where visitors to the site can review retail pricing for most whiskeys on the market. All right, so Gaffigan charging two hundred and thirty bucks for this thing?

Yeah. Breaking Bourbon tells us Nose Orange, Zest, Summer Fruits, peacht medicinal undertone, the palette, stewed fruits, kettle corn, raspberry jam, brown sugar, baking spices on the back end, the finish raspberry, honey, orange, rined, dried apricot, and lingering spice, which I almost misread as linger a spice, which would be differently interesting. Breaking Bourbon tells us for their fourth release in the series, Father Time, Precious Batch, Bourbon, Empty Nester Strength, fourth and long great title Jim is a solid release from a celebrity brand that is just getting started. Gaff again is planning five releases in this series. Wait and or up to number forty.

Think he’ll stop. I don’t think he’ll stop, with each release representing one of his five children, though they are not personally identified with each release, As Gaffkin states, while I was thrilled to know a new child was on the way, a fear of uncertainty overtook me like a football team facing fourth and long. Parenting is hard, raising three kids is exponentially harder, but much like going forward on fourth down, when you make it, there’s a feeling of invincibility. The same principles that inspire the previous versions of father Time have also guided the creation of our new release, Fourth and Long. The endeavor is still just me and stew tasting barrels and putting together a smooth and delicious bourbon.

Each bottle is personally signed by me, which was a pain in the ass, but totally worth it. Much like Fatherhood. Maybe that explains the two hundred and thirty dollars breaking bourbon tells it’s it’s refreshing to see his bourbon brand from a celebrity who not only enjoys the spirit, but is actively involved with its creation at the ground level. Based on this, I’m excited to see what Father Burban does next. The sample use for this review is provided to us at no cost courtesy its respective company.

We thank them for a longest review with no strings attached. This next story is sad. I’m going to drop a bomb in you to just be prepared, and then the story after it. I have a very fun story. Okay, so but this is about to get really sad.

Just you’ve been warned I should not do this story. This story is not fun at all. It’s not funny at all. It’s not even comedy. But it’s core to who I am.

As I tell people who know me, there’s just like a handful of things you have to know about me that explain everything about me. One of them which I’ll share with you right now. Again, nothing funny here. This is about to get really sad. Actually, when I was a young boy, like four years old, my first dog did not live very long and that has affected me my entire life.

So I am bothered by this story from the puppy Bowl. To just see this story from the puppy bowl, this is heartbreaking and I can’t shake it, and I have to talk about it to get it out of my system. One of the puppies was Teagan. Teagan I was born with neurological issues and a severely curved spine and almost died from pneumonia shortly after arriving at Connecticut Animal Sanctuary. Perfect Imperfections Rescue, And here’s all these clips and they’re on social media and you see this dog and like, you can’t look away.

And I kept looking and I was like, oh God, bless you dog. So I wake up on Monday, all right, this is I’m going to drop a bomb on you. Hit stop. I’m about to drop a bomb. I learned from the New York Post.

Tigan the puppy died three months ago before the Puppy Bowl or Tigan, whose life was hard enough anyway, became severely ill with pneumonia. The sanctuary said in a Facebook post it will be bittersweet to see her on TV. So I see this on Monday morning and I’m like, yikes. I realized this is supposedly a comedy podcast. So I don’t know what to do.

There’s a sanctuary called Perfect Imperfections Rescue. I’ll probably make a donation, and I donate to several several animal charities. Again, I was unfamiliar with any of this until like four pm on Sunday, but I have it open here and I see you can make some donations, and I’m actually going to do that. So some good comes out of Teakan’s short time on this planet. Okay, now, how do you get out of that.

John, Let me tell you about Adam Sandler. Remember last week I told you a story and as the story goes, Adam Sandler’s daughter was there trying to buy a handbag and the people were mean and all that. Well, Adam Sandler has commented on this. Adam Sandler was at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and he went out of his way to say, by the way, there’s something on the internet talking about that dumb thing. I’ve been hearing about this thing, and I saw it and it’s just insane.

It’s just this made up, weird thing that people ask me about and I’m just like, I’ve never heard of this in my life. That story was one hundred percent insane and made up, and not a word of it is true. Sandler said he was sent the TikTok video by a friend who asked him what happened. Sandler said that video’s nonsense, but other videos of him getting in and out burger late at night were true. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so to talk about her, we shall.

She was on Instagram posted some more pictures. In one of the captions, she addressed her increased social media presence and admitted that it’s due to her feelings wrong and beautiful. Finally, the success of her health and weight loss journey. Amy Schumer wrote, picks of Yourself when you’re finally feeling strong and beautiful or not a cry for help. They’re a celebration of life and health.

Love to the single moms out there. Verdaz commenting on Twitter about Bad Bunny, I thought Bad Bunny was fantastic? Did the people who were upset about Bad Bunny were crazy to begin with? Now? Do I normally drive around listening to Bad Bunny’s music.

I don’t, But in terms of a halftime show, I thought it was fantastic and I was highly entertained. Verr DAEs posted, It’s kind of weird to complain about not knowing the words to a Bad Bunny song and saying it’s soun American when most of you don’t know the words to the Second Amendment either. Ouch. Remember the comedy club from like two weeks ago, maybe it was at this point there was a comedian who had said jerky things about the two people in Minnesota who were murdered. Well, Camp Barrs Laugh Camp Comedy Club has announced the benefit show featuring local comics aimed at covering losses for the staff who didn’t make any money because of the six canceled shows.

Club owner Bill Collins tells Bring Me the News that tonight’s benefit aims to cover lost wages and tips for staff, which includes bartender’s tech and box office crew. An The extra will go towards helping the club recover from potential legal fees and approximately eighteen thousand dollars that the comedian’s management company CAA says the club needs to pay for the canceled shows. Club owner Collins says comedians quickly reached out with offers to perform the benefit show. The lineup for tonight, which promises a few surprises I’ll come back to that includes Kadisha Cooper, Pierre Douglas, Maggie Farris, Ben Katzner, Rick Logan, Pearl Rose, sent Thel Regis, Karen, Tommy Ryman, and James Stanley. Now, I was hoping one of the surprises would be Dave Chappelle, but Dave’s not scheduled to be in town until the sixteenth.

The Moontower Comedy Festival announced more people to the lineup. Newcomers to the schedule include Meg Statler, Sarah Sherman, Lucy Dorling, Jennifrieman, and Murray Hill Moontower ten plus venues in downtown Austin from April seventh through the nineteenth. Many people already announced, I’m not going to read you fifty names, so let me just roll here and see some names you might know. Bet Stelling, Blasochi, Brad Williams, Carolyn Ray, Cristella Alonso, Deborah g Giovanni, Doug Benson, milwakem Greg Warren, Guy Brenham, Ivan Decker, Jason Sklar, Which means both Sclares will be there. They don’t do solo shows.

I don’t think I’ve never heard of one of the Sclars doing a show. And we’re going alphabetical by first name, so I’m assuming we’re going to get to Randy Scalark, Jay Jorden, Katherine Blandford, remember that name, She’s fantastic. In fact, we have Mike from the Letterman Podcast on assignment at the JFL Vancouver Comedy Festival. Go see Katherine Leslie Jones, who could be in Comedy Survivor Trouble. Oh I didn’t tell about Comedy Survivor Jay Leno voted off.

Yeah, we had a tie this week, and as per the rules, the AI had to decide who was going home? Was it Leslie Jones or Jay Leno? And the AI sent Jay Leno home. Leslie Jones survived Comedy Survivor. If you’d like to take part in Comedy Survivor, go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

You’ll find a little cartoon there me and Leno and in that thread to vote someone off the island. All right, Leslie Jones is going to Austin, Mark Marin, Matt Broger, Nish Kumar, Randy Scler, Sarah Sherman talked about her already veered Asen Yakov Smirnoff. Fantastic And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jay Leno, Leslie Jones, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor Episode 6 elimination results
• Jay Leno voted off by AI tiebreaker
• Legacy comedian targeting pattern
• Week 6 voting opens for Comedy Survivor

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mac and this is the elimination show. For Week five of Comedy Survivor, sixteen comedians were stranded on an island, and every week the listeners vote one person off Comedy Island.

You do that by going to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and you write down one name still in the game. Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Otsko at Kotzka, Sebastian Manascalco, Tick Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Bert Krascher. But now it’s time to tell you the votes. Mike D. Votes for Bert Kreischer, Sure Mike C.

Votes for Seth Myers. Rob votes for Jay Leno. Matt votes for Jay Leno. That’s two votes for Jay Leno. Heather votes for Leslie Jones.

Aaron votes for Seth Myers. That’s two votes for Seth Myers, two votes for Jay Leno, Andrea votes for Sebastian Manascalco, Scott votes for Tig Nataro, Michelle votes for Nikki Glaser Von votes for Otsco at Coontska. Todd votes for Leslie Jones. That’s two votes for Leslie Jones, two votes for Seth Myers, two votes for jay Leno. Dylan votes for j Leno.

That’s three votes for j Leno, Andy votes for Leslie Jones, three votes Leslie Jones, three votes jay Leno. Roppie votes for Leslie Jones. It’s getting very interesting. That’s four votes for Leslie Jones. Cheryl votes for j Leno, four votes for j Leno, Barbe quotes for j Leno, five votes for j Leno, four votes for Leslie Jones.

And the final vote comes from Mary, who votes for Leslie Jones. We have a tie. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, all ties will be decided by Spruce the AI Spruce, can you read back the votes to make sure there was no mistake? Of course, let’s double check the votes. I’ll read them in order of who voted and for whom.

First, Mike DeLoach voted for Burt Kreischer. Next, Mike Chishom voted for Seth Myers, Rob Kates voted for j Leno. Matt Palmer voted for jay Leno. Heatheraza Jones voted for Leslie Jones. Aaron Lublowitz voted for Seth Myers.

Bar Bames voted for Jay Leno, Andrea Pascal voted for Sebastian Manasklco, Scott Beckett voted for Take Nataro. Michelle Stevens voted for Nikki Glaser. Yvonne Kelly voted for Rotsuko at Coska. Todd Smith voted for Leslie Jones. Dylan Thominson had an image vote for Jay Leno.

Andy Luck voted for Leslie Jones. Robbie Levoby voted for Leslie Jones. Shril Wonko voted for j Leno, and Mary Rye voted for Leslie Jones. That gave us a tie five votes for jay Leno and five for Leslie Jones. No mistakes there.

Okay, Spruce. Under the rules of Comedy Survivor, you get you cast the deciding vote. Who are you sending home? Are you sending home Leslie Jones? Were Jay Leno?

And please tell us why? All right, since I’m casting the deciding vote, let’s break it down. Both have been on the radar, but I’d lean towards jay Leno. Why He’s had multiple weeks of the votes and represents a legacy target that people keep circling back to. Strategically, Removing him might shift the dynamics and force people to reevaluate their next moves.

So in this round, I’d send jay Leno home. Wow. AI sends j Leno home. J Leno, the AI has spoken, We’ll take the break and we’ll come back and we’ll analyze that vote. Wow.

This is so much fun to do. Every week. It’s a lot more production with the music beds and grabbing the AI voice and all that, but it’s so much fun to do. And I’m terrified I’m going to miscalut the votes, but you heard the AI. Check my work.

The AI analysis says legacy targeting is no longer theoretical. So far voted off Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, JOKOI, Ron White, and now Jay Leno. That’s a pattern. This was the week two strong coalitions formed one group to finish what they started and get rid of jay Leno with some Leslie Jones movement this week, and interestingly, tig Nataro stayed pretty safe this week. AI says Leslie has now appeared multiple times and multiple weeks with different voters for different reasons.

That’s dangerous territory, but she did escape this week. Jay Leno, his name has been around for weeks. People kept talking about voting him off later and later has arrived. Looking ahead, the AI analysis says, these people seem safe, but you never know what happens in Comedy Survivor. But the AI thinks Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Nikki Glaser, Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, and Sebastian Menscalco seem pretty safe.

Who might be in trouble? Leslie Jones, tig Nataro keeps being mentioned as a target, Osco at Kotska and the I don’t know who that is vote and maybe, just perhaps people are going to get sick of Bert Kreischer still in the game. Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart to John muliny, Osko at Katska, Sebastian Manaskalko, tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, and Bert Krascher. Week six voting is now open. It will continue until end of day Thursday.

Here’s what you do. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. You will find a photo of me extinguishing the torch of Jay Leno, and in that thread you will vote for one comedian. You are voting someone off the island, one vote per person. Make it clear I am voting off Joe Schmoe.

We don’t want a controversy. That would be terrible. Jay Leno eliminated from Comedy Survivor. This is a lot of fun. I will see you in the morning with a normal episode.

Go vote

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Featured: Pete Davidson, Matt Rife, Craig Ferguson, Steve Trevino, Gabriel Iglesias

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Davidson’s Netflix show classified as podcast but argued to be television
• Netflix using podcast designation to potentially avoid union obligations for talk shows
• Matt Rife collaboration with Red Clay Strays band teased on social media
• Craig Ferguson hosting CNN’s America on Purpose for US 250th anniversary celebration
• Steve Trevino claims Hollywood blacklisting conservatives after Netflix special success
• Gabriel Iglesias performs comedy shows for US Army in Japan

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. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm really likes. Pete Davidson’s got a new thing on Netflix. They’re calling a podcast.

Johnny Mac says, in no way, whatsoever is that a podcast. Vulture has weighed in on this. They write, though, build as a Netflix podcast, the Pete Davison Show doesn’t feel like a podcast in any conventional sense, and they go on to write, you know, it’s got some stuff in common with a podcast, as a host and a guest and their chairs are vaguely facing each other and they’re just having a conversation. Some people think that’s what a podcast is. Culture writes, but is the Pete Davidson Show actually a podcast?

I’ll answer no, But they say, well, it’s podcast ish in that it nominally invokes the medium’s familiar tropes, But that doesn’t answer the ques question. A simple thought experiment helps. If the Pete Davidson Show had been produced by a different entity and distributed elsewhere, it would register as a good looking, high end celebrity podcast. But as a show produced by and distributed exclusively on Netflix, it’s difficult to beat the chargers. The Pete Davison Show is less a podcast than a piece of cheap television, and it should be judged on those terms.

But here’s the crux, and here’s where this is going to get interesting. Forget about what Johnny Mackfield’s a podcast is or not. And you could read my substack it’s free link in the notes. I write about this every week. But Vulture gets to the point.

As cheap television, the Pete Davidson Show offers Netflix a path towards producing more content at a far lower cost. Okay, fine, but stay with me. Largely independent of the entrenched Hollywood systems that have developed over time to protect the below the line workers who traditionally work on talk shows that compete in this space, it’s hard not to view the Pete Davidson Show as some kind of trial ballunacy. If anyone notices or cares Vulture rights for what it’s worth, Netflix’s shenanigans with the original podcast labels not going completely unnoticed. According to this article, a union rep told Pucks at Matt Beloney sag Netflix continue to have discussions regarding the Pete Davidson project.

Vulture calls that a notably diplomatic way of saying the Union is working to figure out what this thing is. Whether Netflix is using the podcast designation to sidestep obligations it would otherwise have for a talk show built around a Hollywood talent who makes movies and series with Union labor. Very very interesting. We’ll keep an eye on that. Are you familiar with the musicians the Red clay Strays.

A lot of comedians are into them. They went on social media and let people know that something is coming soon, and the something has something to do with Matt Rife. There’s a teaser and we see Matt Rife sitting on a bus. Everyone’s like, what’s Matt Rife doing on the bus? In the teaser?

Fans are mixed. One wrote Matt Rife and the Red clay Stras I’m in. Someone else wrote I love the Red craz Strays but not sure what to make of Matt Rife. Why him? No one knows?

Will it be your music video that features Matt Rife? Stay tuned. Craig Ferguson is going to tour the United States of America he’ll be working with CNN celebrating the USA’s two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Boy, time goes fast. I remember Crystal clearly sitting in Battery Park, New York City with my mother on July fourth, seventeen cent not seventeen seventy six.

I’m leaving that in nineteen seventy six. I’m not that old. I’m leaving that in nineteen seventy six, me and Mom July fourth, nineteen seventy six. I had my July fourth frisbee, which sadly I lost in the eighties, lost at the Sherton Pool and I don’t know what happened to it. Wish I still had it.

But anyway, Mom and the cute kid with the frisbee, we were on the local WCBS Channel two news. I digress. That’s fifty years ago, that story John, and it wasn’t that good. I know. Craig Ferguson he’ll be hosting America on Purpose, in which Craig Ferguson unpacks the country’s chaotic triumph and controversial two hundred and fifty year journey of independence.

We’re told Craig Ferguson exploits the identity of the country he now calls home after becoming a proud citizen in two thousand and eight, digging into its freedoms, contradictions, and cultural quirks. The journey takes him from monster truck rallies to Ellis Island and beyond, combining American history with his signature wit and playfulness. To meet the moment of the nation’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, Craig said, any chance I get to remind my fellow Americans that we are still the best idea for a country anyone has ever had, I’m going to take it. My eagle is still bald and my banner is still spangled with stars from Fox News, comedian Steve Trevino thinks Hollywood has turned its back on him because of his conservative values, including his promotion of family, faith, and country. With all due respect to mister Travino, I think you’re wrong here, but let’s hear him out.

He was on The Like a former podcast. Steve Travino questioned why he was not offered another Netflix deal after his twenty twenty four special Steve Travigno Simple Man. Steve said, Hollywood not like us. Hollywood does not want anything to do with us, and it’s unfortunate, right, I was top five numbers wise, I beat thirty five of them. I believe that refers to thirty five other comedy specials.

All the ones I beat are getting offers. Again, I did not get another one. Travino were called in experience with Amazon Prime Video. He claimed in that he was asked to remove a moment from a project in which he thanked US military members. According to Steve, they said, can Steve not thank the troops at the end?

It’s too political? And I’m like, how is thanking the men and women who serve political? See after water? Is it because I’m conservative? Is it because I love this country?

Is it because I promote family? Is it because I promote God? Now I’ve been in the media for thirty How long is it now? Thirty four years? Professionally?

Cheez, I’m old. I’ve never ever run into anyone who said you can’t thank the troops. In fact, I was talking about this with my friend Bill at the brewery the other night during trivia and I we finished fourth. By the way, you know why, hey at trivia guys, you guys listening, you know why we did well, you guys didn’t have those Ariana grande questions. You asked a lot of old man questions.

It was like history questions in there. That’s why the old guys did. Okay, we would have finished third, but Johnny Mac said, let’s gamble on one of the answers in the fifth round there, and we got it wrong, so we didn’t win. Plastic sunglasses or whatever. I digress.

I’ve never run into the media conspiracies. I’ve never had Hey, you can’t talk about that. I’ve never seen the great conservative conspiracy. I’ve never seen the great liberal conspiracy. I’ve never run into the don’t thank the troops people.

Maybe I’ve just been fortunate. Anyway, Steve Trevino says, stand up, pay us the bills, and if Netflix doesn’t want to give us another offer, we’ll figure it out. We always do.

Speaking of the troops.

Gableglesias was just over in Japan. He did a series of shows for the US OH Army. Dot Mill tells us. During his hour long set, gab Iglesias rifted on familiar topics like family and food, but he also had humorous, slightly off color bits tailored to his host nation. Audience, whether expressing his amazement and how nice Japanese toilets are or counting his memorable experience says at airport customs and local Roman spots.

Gab Iglesias used his loud and energetic delivery to punctuate each story with his signature brand of punchlines. Sergeant Gage Casino is a self professed comedy enthusiast. He said, I’ve been watching him since I was a kid. To see him live as an honor, and I think everyone can agree he was a good time with good laughs. Sergeant Casino, he’s with the nine oh one Military Police Detachment.

I thank you for your service, both genuinely and to prove there’s no conspiracy against thanking the military for their service. Sergeant Ramar Downer, who I will also think, called the show hilarious. Sergeant Downer said, I really appreciate that they put on shows like this for us because it’s great for the troops. Sergeant Downer is assigned to the eighty eighth MP Detachment. It shows that they support the soldiers.

Was also great to hear the comics thanking us throughout the show. Gab Iglacias said, I’m here because I want to be here. I love performing for the military and look forward to coming back. Oh my voice is wearing out. At that Super Bowl preview, that long episod so from Saturday.

I did that one right before this one. And I still have to record Comedy Survivor, which is coming up at noon eastern today. We will find out who was voted off the island. I don’t know. I haven’t recorded it yet, but the Comedy Survivor elimination show will be in this very feed at noon Eastern today.

I also have to record The Weekly Comedy Thing, which is a show I host on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. That show is kind of like this, except I can play stand up comedian bits like in full like I can go here’s a story about Gabe Iglesias, and then I could play at Gabe Glaciers clip. You know. I can do that kind of thing over there.

So I still have to record that. It’s called The Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s on the Live one app if you want to check that out. Matt Friend has a new gig. He’ll be on the red carpet for the Academy Awards.

He’s very excited about it he’ll have a spot for talent interviews. Matt Rif’s career seems to be going okay, just like his impressions. Ron Funches was a part of the cast of this season of Traders. I’m going to spoil Traders. If you’re not caught up, you might want to bail here.

Ron Funches has been sharing some stories about Traders during his stand up shows. Okay, everybody who’s still here, you’re going to be spoiled. He explains, I approached the game as if I was a detective. I wanted to come from a data driven approach. Once I arrived, I realized I only knew one or two people, which I thought to be a detriment socially, but as far as being impartial is the best way to be.

Because I didn’t have any knowledge or love for any of the people, I’d look for things that look like inconsistencies in their work. I then thought about being more direct with people who I would try to accuse of being the trader, But after that point it became more of defending myself. Any accusations I had were based off people being like, prove to us that you’re not the trader. Who do you think it is, and I’d be like, well, I heard light footsteps, so it might be the smallest girl here me myself. I wouldn’t have considered that enough evidence.

But if you guys are going to force me to say something, I’ll say something. Ron Funch has said. The only thing I would have done differently is I wish I hadn’t cursed Eugene Merman. He’s part of that Bob’s Burger’s conspiracy. You know this one where people pretend Bob’s Burger’s is a show.

If you’re new to the show I’ll quickly explain it to you here. Let me ask you, new listener, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is no, right, yeah, Okay, I understand there’s artwork. I understand there’s merge. I understand that Kevin Burkhart will say after this football game, it’s an all new Bob’s Burgers.

But Kevin Burkhart and Fox and Eugene Merman and everyone else in this conspiracy knows we don’t stay on Fox. We switch over and watch Sunday night football. This is all just a gag, and they’ve been doing this for over a decade and a half. But What does exist is Eugene Merman’s new comedy album, Here Comes the Whimsy, that’s out on PGF Records. There’s also a special on Veeps.

Here Comes the Whimsy was recorded live in Summerville. Merman shares a series of mild grievances through anecdotes from fatherhood, insights from travel, dress code trauma, rental car disputes, and more. And I’m seeing a lot of good buzz on Jury Duty too. Remember Jury Duty a couple of years ago, the guy thought he was on jury duty, but it was all fake. They’ve made a new season of that, but this one is called Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat.

Three episodes will be out on March twentieth on Prime Video. Company Retreat will follow a corporate offside event at a family owned hot sauce company from the perspective of Anthony, a recently hired temporary worker. Unbeknownst to Anthony, the entire experience of staged. Every colleague around him is performing a role in each moment, whether in conference rooms during downtime, has been meticulously orchestrated. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Now, speaking of jury Duty, I’ve been invited to be on jury that’s coming up in a couple weeks. That’s not good. I have podcasts to record. Kind of stressed about that one, and it’s district court. I have to call like two weeks in a row, guys.

I got stuff to do, So let’s hope the jury duty guts are cunnd to Johnny Mac and that is your comedy news for today. Back at noon Eastern for Comedy Survivor, which I’m about to record right now, so I gotta save my voice. I’ll see you guys in a couple minutes, I guess

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Featured: Ismo, Ralphie May

What’s in This Episode

• Vancouver Comedy Festival February 12-22, 2026
• Ismo’s Perseverance Tour and Vogue Theater performance
• Ismo’s viral Conan set about the word ‘ass’
• Ismo’s back injury from dune buggy accident
• Ismo’s rally driving career in Finland
• Ismo competing in World Championship Rally event

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. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. My guest today is the comedian Ismo. We’ll get to him at a second. For ten years, just for last, Vancouver has been Western Canada’s biggest comedy festival.

The festival is bigger and better than ever this year February twelfth through the twenty second and Ismo will be performing there on Sunday, February fifteenth at the Vogue Theater. It’s part of his Perseverance tour. Now, if you don’t know this guy yet, you’re going to love him. I suggest maybe hit pause now and go watch on YouTube. He did a set about the word ass.

He did this on Conan, So just search Imo Ismo Conan and it’ll come up on YouTube. It is brilliant. He does a lot of wordplay. You’re gonna love this guy. Ismo is an internationally acclaimed comedian, author, rally driver we get into that, and master of wordplay.

Globally recognized as the voice of all second language English speakers, Ismo is one over audiences in person online with his sharp takes on language, culture and life’s absurdities. In my prep, I learned he had an accident in which he heard his back. I let off with that, and that got us into some other things, and eventually here we get into a discussion of comedy in general and his comedy. I loved talking to this guy. Here’s ismo how is your back?

My back, It’s it’s almost back to normal, but it’s I still feel it, but it’s yeah, I did break it, but the end of August, so it’s yeah, I’ve been trying to exercise it now. I’m sure the bone has finished boning. No, that’s not the word boning. In Finland, we say the bone is boning when it’s like becoming more bone. But yeah, but I think the bone is fine.

It’s just that I yeah, it’s just the muscles are tight and they’re still like eggs sometimes. What happened. I jumped on a dune. Buggy atv or a motocross track and a jump went way too far and I landed from like I don’t know, thirty feet. I don’t like.

It was just like it was like, yeah, yeah, that I broke one vertebrae, A piece broke off. Is that an activity that you do or was that just a one off? Hey, let me go out and do something crazy. I started to drive rally a couple of years ago, so I’ve been doing some motorsports and I’m surprisingly good at rally driving, which is insane because I started in my forties. So but.

That was a dune buggy, so that was a different event. That was like I’ve never really driven that thing, so that was crazy. But so but yeah, I do like motorsports and I’ve always been kind of a speed freak. Where do you go rally driving in the state, so fascinated by this, This sounds awesome. I’ve rallied draven in Finland so far.

So last summer I did three competitions and I’m going to do three competitions. I’m actually going to do like the World Championship Rally too. In it says like one like the biggest rally event in Finland. It’s in August, so I’m going to do that also now. And so yeah, just yeah.

Raley driving is like it’s like on regular roads they closed them off and it’s like it’s I love it. It’s crazy, it sounds amazing. It sounds like one of those things that you know, like you alluded to, you get a couple of years on you and you start to do these more adventurous things that you’re like, I should have done this when I was twenty. Yes, I wish, I like I was. I was a big rally fan, like rally of course, like in America Canada, people don’t.

I don’t know if there’s a big rally scene in Canada, but like Americans don’t even know what a rally means other than a politician giving a speech, which is not days it’s so it’s yeah, But in Europe it’s huge, like because you close off roads and then you like and it’s I was a huge fan of rally when I was a kid and always wanted to drive it then try it, But now it took like four years to finally do it. So I’ve been faking it as a dumb American. I don’t know what it is either. So you said you’re doing the biggest ones. There was a civilian.

I assume you’re not like an elite. I apologize if you are an elite’s rally driver. So can anyone do this? How does this work? It is like levels, like I guess any sports.

So but I’m actually participating in the big. Actually world championship event. But my car is of course not gonna be the one that the top driver driving. But it’s like there’s Rally one is the best, Rally two is the second best. So I’m going to drive Rally three, which is still good, but it’s so I’m actually competing.

But it’s like, of course I’m not expecting to win, but I’m hoping I’m not last either. So I guess it’s kind of sort of not quite. I’ve ran the New York City Marathon and theoretically I could have won. Yeah, well exactly, yeah, so I’m definitely not expecting you to do. But the thing is that, like last year, I did.

It, Like I was in a few competitions, and I was so happy that I started to do this like two years ago, and I still beat some people with a similar type of car that have been doing their lives. So I was like. Really like people were like they couldn’t believe that it’s a comedian driving the car. Let’s say that, like it was. I was better than I thought or anybody thought, but of course I’m still not gonna win anything.

You are more famous over there than you are here. Are you a celebrity driver over there? Are you just on the down low and no one really knows because you mentioned that, Oh, comedians in the race, how is that playing out? It’s like, oh, we gotta beat this guy. Well yeah, I’ve heard that some of the guys who are like, well, if this comedian is gonna be and I’m gonna sell my car, and then I hope they are now selling their car.

But so but yeah, it’s like, yeah, people, most people. In Finland know me. So it’s and I’m sure they rally organizers are happy that I’m participating because I’ll bring some publicity to it. But but yeah, so I’m not hiding that I’m a comedian, but also I’m actually there to race. I’m not there to joke.

So much fun? Is there TV coverage because then as a producer type, you would be of an interesting story that we would want to package. Yeah, that was like even in the smaller rallies I did last year, there was some TV coverage a little bit in Finland. But now this is going to be the international event that’s like the biggest motorsport event in Finland every year, so that there’s gonna be a lot a lot of coverage for that. So let’s see how it goes.

It’s great. As I was diving on your resume, I saw that you opened for Ralphie May for a little bit. So when I when I was at Serious Radio, I got to know Ralphie a little bit pretty well. I just wanted to spend a minute just talk about what an awesome guy he was. I just had a look up.

I can’t believe he passed away in twenty seventeen, but just for my listeners, can you just share some Ralphie adventures. I actually opened for him only once, so and that was like years and years ago. It was so long ago. He was doing a show in Finland. I lived in Finland back then, and the organizers asked me to open, and I was like excited to do it.

And I was actually doing my set in Finnish because it was in Finland, because that was like so long ago that I didn’t even do much. English stuff yet, So I think I was. I think I was doing finish. But then we had some talks and I always remembered that he said one thing to me that he said that whatever you. Have, just put it all online.

And I didn’t listen, and I wish I did, because like I’ve been putting way more stuff later. But like, but then I didn’t even have much English stuff. That was long ago. But I I’ve only recently, like the past few years, I’ve started to put way more stuff online and that has made a huge difference. So he gave me the best advice that I didn’t listen to.

Do you find it a pain in the neck to you have to feed the beast of social media? Are you doing crowd work for crowdwork’s sake? Are you on stage going, oh, this could be a clip? Or are you just doing your thing and letting your team figure that out, because I know there’s like this whole devil of you got to just constantly put things out now? Yeah?

Yeah, And that has been a like I think for most comics it has been like so Goose comics, how often like perfection is when it comes to putting stuff out and we’re always like not that. But then I some years ago I hired a team and they are basically not even asking me. They are just putting stuff out. Every week, and it’s been hugely great because if the comedian is like deciding what to put out, it’s going to be like one clip a year. But like, do we always like, yeah, I didn’t like the way I said that one part, or I did like we think it, we overthink it.

So it’s really good that there’s a separate team of people who are just cutting all my shows and just putting them the clips and putting them out. So that has made a huge difference. And I would recommend that to all comedians just hire somebody else to do it, because I mean, I’m sure there’s some comics who are like really good at that, like editing and putting stuff out, but like most comics are not. So that was the best decision of my life to hire that like a team to do it. And I don’t really do that much crowd work.

Sometimes I do when we do post that, but I don’t really do it for that. So I like tons of old stuff that we can post, and sometimes we post new stuff too, but of course I don’t want to have too much stuff of the current stuff I’m doing live online. But there can be a few few that but so, but I was I was kind of a late late adapter of social media adopter. Adapter that’s not an adapter adopter, I don’t even know, because adapter is the one you use for electricity, but adopt. So also you can adapt to social media, but you can also adopt social media.

Okay, those are funny words. But yeah, I’ve never been like, really that has been hard for me, but I’ve studied. In the past few years, I actually started to enjoy the social media a little bit. But before that it was just something that I was just like, I knew you have to do it, but I was not like, not that adoptive. But now I’m.

Actually finally starting to do some podcasts and like to do lots of other content that we’ve been shooting some sketches and scenes and stuff like that, so so like doing like other stuf also online, and that’s been really great. So yeah, it’s funny how things change. If you go back twenty years ago, all the what I call the brick Wall comedians, they were all hating Dean Cook because he was just a social media comic. He’s just on MySpace, and Dane is talented and just happen to figure out that part of it first. It’s funny how everything’s just come around.

That’s like, that’s like I wish I would have like figured this out way sooner. Like it’s that’s the way the world was going a long time ago, and the early early adopters definitely they got they really they nailed it. And yeah, every profession, I’m sure when something new comes and things change, people resist it and yeah, so yeah, I wish I would do that or would have done it more. Now I’m doing it way more and it’s it’s working. But yeah, I’m sure like some comedians are like so purist purists that they are like, yeah, you can only do it in certain way.

But I think the only rule is to people have to laugh, don’t steal jokes and make people laugh. That’s the only only two rules. Yeah, yeah, that’s how are you finding audiences? I know. One of the topics that kept coming up last year was the helpful audience member that I’m going to set you up, mister comedian, so you can have a crowd work thing and I’m going to help you do your act.

Are you running into that or is that kind of calm down? I don’t run do that that much. Like sometimes yeah, I get sometimes like heckles, and sometimes they’re actually kind of funny, but I don’t get heckled that much. I mean analyzing it sometimes because I have an accent I don’t know if you notice that I have a kind of a strong accent. Kind of sometimes I was thinking that maybe there’s a joke in it, Like heckling a second language comedian is kind of like tripping somebody in the Special Olympics.

It’s like people whould feel like they don’t want to heckle me, but they of course sometimes do. But I sometimes see other communies getting way more heckles than I do. So as your style has developed, you do a lot of wordplay, a lot of commentary on English language. Was that something you deliberately set out to do or did that just develop over time. I’ve always like been hugely obsessed with language and wordplay, even when I was a kid, and then I was in Finland when I started to do come out in Finnish.

A big chunk of. That was wordplay too, Like it’s never been only wordplay, but a big chunk of it has been wordplay in Finnish.

And then I explained it to English, and then turned out that like I was comin…

Had, I didn’t. I was kind of assuming that I’m sure there’s a bunch of comedians who’ve already thought of all this stuff, but turns out now in many I’m the first one to figure this out, which is kind of blowing my mind sometimes that like, I can actually come up with lots of like new language observations about the language that’s not even my first language. So I’ve been excited about that. And I think it also helps that it is my second language, because then I can see the forest from the trees, or like I can, I can see the things that most native speakers wouldn’t see. I’ll recommend to my listeners if they haven’t or ready, to watch your somewhat famous Conan set, which has some wordplay there.

I won’t spoil any of it. I appreciate the ratitat style, you know. I guess i’d put you more in that coategory than the storyteller. One of the things I talk about on the show is one hundred percent of the time, if I put a comedy special on, my wife will show up thirty eight minutes into it, stand there and say is this guy funny? And I find myself explaining, well, you see what he just said he set up fourteen minutes ago.

That’s called the callback.

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And then Dad and she just and so what she came by yesterday on the laundry run.

You were just in the middle of just boom boom boom boom boom and got the laugh and she came and went, So I’m like, all right, I like this. It’s awesome. Oh yeah, yeah, if you like yeah, that makes sense. So I do have callback sometimes, but it’s mostly like quick stuff and take one subject and just milik it till the end. And well, I’m glad that she enjoyed it.

Now, your stage persona is set. You’re in real life too, is so charismatic. You just have this whole vibe of hey, we’re having a good time and we’re all in this together. It’s great. No, thank you, thanks.

I’ve yeah, that’s that’s nice. I don’t hear that word often, but I guess that’s nice. I’m like, I like to now, I like to think myself as carriages madic it just like I don’t know, I’ve always just think of the jokes and the delivery, just kind of the rhythm and the delivery. It just comes naturally. I don’t really think of it that much, but I have got some comments sometimes that like people are really like paying attention to every every detail, and it’s because but yeah, I’m glad that, I’m glad you see it like that.

That’s yeah, it’s always like, that’s all. We’re just talking actually with somebody earlier that like that. Most comics are like really insecure about themselves and their own stuff. I think it’s only the good comics that are insecure. The shitty ones are like they think they know everything, so always questioning.

And I’m not a comic in case you can’t tell, but as I understand the art of it, you’re always looking for economy of words and trying to tighten a bit and see if you can get one more tag in there. So right, like, for a lot of these things, the work’s never finished. Yeah, exactly. And that’s why we don’t like putting stuff out because we never feel it’s completely finished. But that’s the great thing, which also media, you can put the same thing out later when it’s finished.

But that’s the thing is that it’s really hard to me to understand. It’s hard for me to understand how people make like comedy movies or plays and stuff. When you first write the whole thing, and you do the whole thing, and then you show it to people, because with comedy, we like we work it with the crowd to make it better so that you always can tweak it. And often the word economy like I know this. Sometimes I’m like take words out to make it tighter.

But often I end up that I have to add words to get people, to give people more time to think so it’s not too fast because the rhythm has to be just perfect. So often I end up saying the setup twice so everybody kind of really gets it, and then I do the punchl like I like to sometimes think. Sometimes I feel like I have to add stuff, or I have to add long palsies or but sometimes I have to just tiden it and it’s always that rhythm sense. I’m kind of I’m happy that I kind of have the sense of the when the laughter is gonna come. If you have the like exactly the right amount of time before the information hits you and then the punchline hits you.

Let me get a break in here. Have you seen my heating bill gotta make somebody at podcast? He’s isma I’m Johnny McBee right back. His most Perseverance tour takes into Just for Last Vancouver he’ll be there on Sunday the fifteenth, playing at the Vogue Theater. Are you thinking and writing in English or are you thinking in Finish and translating.

I take turns, like now I was in Finland for a month during the holidays, and then I was also be thinking and writing in Finnish. But now I’ve been here for a month and now I’m just thinking and writing in English, so it kind of it changes. But yeah, and I end up talking Finish every day, mostly on the phone call or somebody finished in here. But there was like one time in my life where I didn’t speak any Finish for like three weeks, and that was like then I think I started to dream all in English and it kind of switched. But no, that was just one time in my life.

But that has never happened since because now I’m always, of course like communicating with Finnish people, if not daily, almost daily, and then I’m never like in the fully that I kind of just one hundred percent thinking in English, but I don’t translate. Well, I’m while we’re having this conversation, I’m definitely not even thinking Finish at all, like I’m just thinking and speaking English. I think I’m thinking in English. Maybe I’m thinking in pictures. I don’t know.

Yeah, I’m I can barely get home from the airport if I had to speak Spanish. But when I do that, I think in Spanish. And as I’m doing this, so I’m in my Johnny Mac persona. The guy who holds the microphone is Johnny Mac and the real guy in real life is john and I when I’m in this mode, I tend to think as Johnny Max. So one of the questions I would have is, if you’re home and you’re thinking in Finnish, say does your bring kick in?

And go? Oh this this goes into an English language set, I’ll keep this for the finish set. Or I’m just curious about that whole process. Yeah, yeah, that is like interesting, and I’m like, I’m definitely wherever I am. Sometimes I get an idea that’s a finish joke that only it’s a word finished wordplay or some Finnish culture thing.

That I know it’s not going to translate. So then I just write that down and finish, even though I’m wherever I happen to be. But but but. Then there’s there’s lots of stuff that can be translated to both languages. But it’s kind of like, now when I’m here, I’m going to be in America or like in mostly like yeah, mostly in North America now and until like May, so I’m gonna I’m gonna just mostly just think and write in English.

But then I am doing a new tour in Finland in August September, so in the back of my head I am like like finding stuff for that too, And when I go to Finland in the summer, I’m gonna definitely like spend the day looking at all this new stuff that I’ve written in English and see which can be translated to Finnish.

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And now, when I did a bunch of new stuff in Finland just before I left Finlan…

And then now I’ve been here, i’m here, I’ve been like trying to figure out which one of those I could translate to English. So it’s kind of so. If I run out of new ideas in either language, I can just go to the other language material and try to fun stuff there. So it is kind of great. And sometimes it surprises me that a joke that I first wrote in Finnish is actually funnier in English or vice versa, or sometimes it kind of translates in theory but not in practice.

And yeah, it’s and sometimes you just don’t have a word. It’s just like it’s just like I had this whole long bit about like in Finland about like I don’t really know what a word is. I guess a hobo would be the word in English, but like it’s just such a different word because in Finland it’s kind of not a bad it’s kind of a nice word for like a guy drinking all day in a park bend. It’s like kind of a nice word. It’s not like a bad word.

But in English there’s not a nice word for that.

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And then that whole bit is like the energy is different.

So sometimes there’s just no words that like there’s like some great words in Finnish that like the English language just doesn’t like like everyday life, every day life, like you know, like just the basic everyday normal life. That’s like there’s a word for that, like a simple word for that in Finnish, and it’s a great word, but there’s no every day life. That’s three words that all have other but in Finland, we have this one word that like summarizes all that and it’s a great word, and you guys need that. There’s so many other words that like Finnish has but English doesn’t.

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And then there’s some words the other way around that Finnish doesn’t have, s…

I know when you’re over here, you don’t do politics. I’ve listened to other interviews with you where that’s not really your thing. Is there anything to be mined in the other direction? Performing in Finland As somebody who’s been in the United States at a time where things have been a little more colorful than they have traditionally. Been, there’s lots of people always in Finland like like, oh, like you’re probably talking all about this stuff, and I’m like, no, there’s enough comedians doing the political stuff.

There’s saw much of them and like online and everywhere. So I just decided years ago that I’m not going to touch it. But actually recently I have been trying to write a joke about just trying to understand the American politics, and I think that’s going to be a good joke. So it’s not like a political joke, but it’s like just trying to understand because and the whole premise is kind of like there’s two parties, like it makes like in Finland we have eight parties and I still don’t like any of them. How could I pick from two?

Like it’s like it?

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And then there’s the whole thing about all these subjects.

So I was thinking that I want to because I do think of that stuff sometimes, but I don’t want to be a political comic. But I could write a bit about trying to understand politics, and I think that would be a good angle for it. That would be kind of like a unique And because I don’t want to, I’m always trying to go for something that’s like hopefully unique or something like an inside. It’s not like I’m just like trying to like preach or preach to the choir or whatever. Sure, So the reason we’re speaking today is you were performing at the Just for Last Vancouver Comedy Festival.

I was checking out the Vogue Theater where you’re going to be playing. It looks like a real nice old style movie theater that they converted into doing live shows. Do you like that kind of room. Or to an old movies. I don’t know if I’ve done that before.

I don’t think I’ve done that before. Yeah, yeah, I’ve done some that have been like old movie theaters and. Yeah yeah, it’s one of those you know, two levels balcony. And yeah that I normally like, at least the similar ones I’ve always loved, Like it’s you can hear a pin drop, Like it’s like when it’s it’s not like a there’s a bar in the back and there’s noise, it’s like, really everybody’s focused, and I love that. Does it make you change up what you might do if you were in a smaller club you have to work harder to play the back of the room.

Not really. I I the big bigger venues when they are shaped and like formed good, they are even better. Like sometimes a bar type of comedy club to have a show can be like that’s what comedians I used to and that’s what we like do all the time. So then theater might feel like overwhelming. But I’ve kind of I think I just realized years ago that like it’s just it’s just just play like you normally do, and just if you don’t see the back road, then perform to the front.

Row just sometimes look into the darkness because you know people are there. But yeah, I actually I do like I think a size like that is like really. Perfect, perfect for comedy. That’s like a thousand seeds. So I just did my biggest show ever was eight eight, seven hundred sixty five people in Finland, which is actually the exact the amount of hours in one year.

That was crazy the amount of tickets I saw. That was the record of comedy like standby comedy tickets in Finland ever, and it was exactly the amount of hours in a year. That’s like a really weird go is this? But anyway, that was like really awesome, Like I haven’t done like a long set to a big crowd like that before, and. That was in Finland.

I do some songs too, and those songs were like I was I felt I was actually singing. Well, that was so awesome. Yeah, I saw your dambling in the music. Do you play an instrument? Are you the singer or how is that manifesting?

I play guitar. I’m like I wanted to be a musician before comedian.

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And then like in Finland, I’ve always done like these parody songs and I ofte…

Done those in English yet. I don’t know. I don’t know when I’m gonna do that. I don’t trouble with the guitar in outside of Finland, so I just I haven’t done. It yet in English.

But let’s see. I’m working on some songs here, but I don’t know yet. It’s so interesting. There’s an old saying that the comedians want to be actors, the actors want to be singers, and the singers want to be comedians, and you tend to see a lot of that. I guess I can see the relatively straightforward from performing into a microphone is similar to performing into a microphone in front of a crowd, So I guess that makes sense to it.

Yeah, there’s definitely like I’m sure like many comedians, well many comedians want to be musicians too, and also actors for sure, and then lots of actors and musicians want to be comedians. So yeah, it’s a good like. And because we are actually making this great music producer friend, and we’re doing some like songs, like also working on some like actual songs. I’m going to do a band that’s like not even called ism or anything. It’s just like a separate thing.

And it’s some of the songs are funny, but some are not. But so I’ve always kind of wanted to do music, and I’m doing it now a little bit more. And there was this big insight we were talking about, like musicians have to be a little naive and cheesy because they have to be like excited about like a song. But comedians are the opposite. We are like cynical and sarcastic and we’re like yeah again of like we’re just making fun of things, not taking anything seriously.

But musicians have to be like so emotional about a song. And it’s really hard to go on that. So and I think comedians would benefit to try to like emulate musicians, and musicians would benefit to emulate comedians a bit, like because you have to be like more naive as a musician, and in comedy comedy it’s like kind of the opposite. And the crazy thing, as you know, is if you were a musician, you could just close your show with the ass bit for the next forty years instead of oh yeah, we know that one already. What do you what else you got, mister funny.

Man, Yeah, yeah, I haven’t told the ass bit in years because like everybody who comes to my show has definitely seen it. So it’s like, yeah, is that true with a festival crowd, like so, I you know, I get if you’re touring, we’re going to see you. But I find sometimes at festivals it’s who’s playing on the night we feel like going out. Yeah that’s like yeah, yeah, so that’s definitely I’m sure whatever show I do, there could be a few people who haven’t heard it.

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And then if it’s like a if I’m just doing a club spot or a festival spot or s…

But it’s still like that Jo had a good run. So I just don’t even remember how to tell you anymore. But that’s the thing also with with I guess some mutuners to get sick off their heat. So, but comedians definitely like telling the same joke over. I know there’s some comedians who have told the same joke for thirty years.

I don’t get how they get excited about that, because like, I think that the greatest comedy as they have a new set almost if not every year, every other years, like it’s just like we want to. I still believe that the best jokes I’ve done I haven’t done yet, Like I haven’t written my best jokes yet, so I’m always like aiming for something new. So you’ve been very generous with your time. I want to be respectful to you and the people who put this together. SA ask you one more and then I’ll let you go.

But this has been great. What’s the long term dream? You know? Back in the day, it may have been, Oh, I want to host a talk show at eleven thirty? Do you want an NBC sitcom?

Do you want to be George Carlin? Or where do you want this whole career to take you? If I have to choose between Carlyn and sitcom, I’ll definitely do Carlin. But now it’s yeah, the comedy go yeah. I guess most comedians they wanted to have a talk show or a sitcom or and then what’s the other option?

Well, specials of course and stuff. But now it’s be more like podcasts and online presence and all that stuff, And it’s changing and I’m kind of trying to find some new things also, like what like I’m kind of I haven’t really locked a goal because the world is changing so fast that I think the biggest thing might for me might be some art form that hasn’t been invented yet. So I’m really trying to be open. I’m not gonna lock anything down. So now I’m actually the most excited.

I’m like experimenting on stuff. Like we for example, when we started to shoot these sketchies, we don’t want to see them as ketches. We want to see them as movie scenes and make them look like a movie scene and then eventually they will turn into a movie maybe or some of them. And like just and even even like the short form is just so powerful now that you don’t even have to have a movie, Like you can do just movie scenes without a whole movie, and you can do you can I started to do a fake podcast first, like a podcast clips that is the real podcast is no, but that’s just clips.

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And now we’re actually starting to do a real podcast.

But we were like practicing with just clips and stuff. So just experimenting on lots of different stuff. So I’m not really like, I don’t I’ve never really had a solid goal. I’ve I was going to be a physics teacher. I didn’t even want that, but like I just I ended up being a comedian, and then I ended up moving to America.

I didn’t plan to move here, Like it’s things just happened. So I’m just trying to be as open as possible for new things and just do whatever is the thing that really calls me at the moment. And the great thing is that now I have this great guy with videos, this Finnish guy who is also a music producer, but he’s the best video guy ever. And whenever we have an idea, we just shoot it right away. And that’s kind of a that’s kind of a new new We’re just like, yeah, we’ve been doing lots of new stuff, and we’ve been doing this whole week.

We’re gonna just shoot like new content that we’ve never done before. And so it’s just like and like I kind of decided a while ago that I never want to pitch again. I don’t want to go to a TV network and try to pitch a show. I just want to do it and then do a little bit of it and see if it takes off or not, and then do the next one. Like it’s just there’s no read to pitch anymore because you can just put everything out there anyway.

And I think that’s how Tom Segura sold his Bad THOUGHTSCT show. You know, he had enough in with Netflix that they gave him some rope, but I think he just started filming these on his own as proof of concept. Oh yeah, yeah, I’m sure that. Yeah, because that’s like, really that’s something that the only thing good about if somebody buys a show, you actually have to do it. But then because then if you just it’s if it’s up to me, I might not end up doing it.

But now at least I have a team big enough that we are actually going to make it happen. So it’s that’s exciting. There’s like because we had this thing about like whenever we come up with something, we’ll do it right away, and then just two days ago in actually let’s first do it and then come up with it so we can even just so just do whatever and do it right away. I’ll let you go. I hope we can do this again sometime in the future.

You were fantastic. Thank you for ch well, thanks for having medal. This is great, boy, wasn’t he great? I asked for fifteen minutes and I hit thirty five minutes raw. We talked a little before and after.

Boy, he was super awesome. He’s one of my favorites. There’s a recent Netflix special up two from the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. I watched that one recently. Highly recommend that as well.

He’s ISMAO. I’m Johnny Mac. I’ll see you guys tomorrow.

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