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Featured: Weird Al Yankovic, Adam Sandler, Dave Chappelle, Nate Bargatze, Bad Bunny, Michael Costa, Stephen Colbert, Ben Stiller, Andy Samberg, Keegan-Michael Key, Danny McBride, Marcelo Hernandez

What’s in This Episode

• Super Bowl halftime show comedian speculation
• Turning Point USA alternative All American Halftime Show with Kid Rock
• Super Bowl commercial previews and funny reactions
• Instacart commercial with Ben Stiller about bananas
• Hellman’s commercial with Andy Samberg as Meal Diamond character
• Insurance commercial with Keegan-Michael Key and Danny McBride
• Wells Fargo banking app commercial with Marcelo Hernandez

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians, the comedy industry, a freeze which helps the elder the room. Today is the super Bowl preview episode. One topic that seems to come up every year is, hey, they ought to let a comedian do super Bowl halftime. Now I don’t think that will ever happen, but let’s say it did.

Who should play super Bowl halftime? Now, my vote, which I think will be awesome, will never ever happen because he’s not quote unquote cool enough. Is weird Al. But I do think if they named weird Al and everybody went in on it, and there would definitely be ways to work in non comedic musicians to a weird Al halftime. But can you imagine how epic that would be?

And it would just be fun and weird Al would be great to be put in front of the press and there are no weird Al scandals and nothing horrible is gonna happen, and everyone could just have a good time and he could play eat It and white Nerdy and we could have a good time. But that’s not going to happen. Another name that comes up, and this may surprise you that I don’t think it’s crazy, would be Adam Sandler. People really like Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler has no known enemies except possibly me, and even I like Adam Sandler.

I just don’t think his comedy is funny, but people like those dumb songs. He could come out and do some opera man or make up a super Bowl song and do that Farley song. And I’m sure Sandler could do some sort of musical thing at halftime that people would enjoy. Another name that I think is interesting Dave Chappelle. Now that would be edgier.

Also, these things tend to be pre recorded, so I don’t think you could have Dave Chappelle pantomiming previously recorded stand ups. So you would have Chappelle with a live mic in the middle of a super Bowl. Who knows what would happen. But Chappelle is also friendly with several cool musicians, so I think there’s a way to somehow do a Dave Chappelle halftime that would certainly get talked about. And another name I saw this week that I don’t think is exciting, but maybe America would get behind Nate for Forghetsie halftime, but his particular energy.

I don’t know if that works for super Bowl halftime. That might just be weirdly awkward and set us back fifty years ever having a comedian at halftime again. If Bad Bunny is not your thing, get over yourself, but you can change the channel turning point. USA is going to have an alternative to the super Bowl halftime. It’s called the All American Halftime Show.

On The Daily Show, Michael Costa joked that only the radical wol communists who hate America are excited to watch a performance by the most popular musician in America, Bad Bunny. Stephen Colbert said, according to the press release, the show is called the All American Halftime Show and a font that is called T shirt on a quite angry dad at Disney World. Colbert had some fun with the names of the musicians. Steven said, as you may have noticed from the poster, Kid Rock is not rocking this one alone. He’ll be joined by country singers Brentley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett, and Lee Brice powerhouse lineup.

He’d tagged that with also appearing our a Gary Lee Grant Ghibli, Brantlett, Daily, Barrett Tandley, Brakeboard, Billy Giddy, and Baby. Bilbo Costa said, man, that’s a real who’s who of who. Golbert Russel joked where you could watch the alternative halftime show. He said it would be on TBNDW Plus Charge and Rumble, which are real platforms. He also said Crunch, Cramble, Hunkle, Krompus and Paramount plus.

I Spot did some research of the fifteen Super Bowl ad previews that they researched. Twelve triggered quote funny reactions from viewers. Spoilers for the commercials coming up right, So the rest of this episode, I’m gonna spoil the commercials. So if you’re like John, you ruined the super Bowl for me? Okay, you should punch out and I’ll catch up with you tomorrow.

Everybody else who’s still here spoiler. The highest funny score went to the commercial four Instacart that features Ben Stiller. They have a musical performance about choosing the perfect banana mac packer. Andy Samberg will be meal Diamond in a Hellman’s commercial. We’ll talk about that.

Some more fanatics who had a terror terrible week on the Internet, people notice that fanatic sports jerseys aren’t the best quality. A lot of complaining, especially on Twitter. This week they have an ad with a candle jinner mocking the Kardashian curse, the Internet conspiracy, the dating members of the family, ruins an athletes game. Novardes has an ad with NFL players telling viewers to relax your tight end and get a blood test for prostate cancer. I see what you did there.

Marcelo Hernandez, he does one thing, and he does one thing really well. We’ll see if he could do another thing. Well. He’ll be in an ad for Wells Fargo. Their new campaign is celebrating every win.

We’re told that showcases how the banking app helps customers achieve personal finance. Blah blah blah blah blah. We are told Marcelo Hernandez brings humor and authenticity as he pays tribute to everyday financial wins like growing savings or sticking to a budget. Marcello shows up complete with confetti, music and dancing. His comedic presence reinforces the message the success looks different for everyone.

Another macpacker, Keag and Michael Key. He’ll be with Dyana McBride In an ad Keagan Michael Key told USA Today someone said a long time ago, generality is the enemy of all art, and that specifically is what makes art good. The challenges how to do something specific that is universal. At the same time, I feel like he just said a lot of words that I love. Key, He continued, it sounds like they’re diametrically opposed, these two concepts, but that’s very often what people out an ad agency have to do.

How do you reach the most amount of people with the most interesting, most salient material possible. I embrace that challenge. In the ad, he and Danny McBride are insurance agents, hoping to reassure Haley Stanfield that their insurance agency is on the level. In the commercial, they launch into a rendition of John bon Jovi’s Living on a Prayer. Key says, it’s working multi generationally because you’re talking about anathem.

Everybody knows it’s a perfect song, because it’s one of the few songs where everybody in our society knows the song. Keag and Michael Key calls Jake from State Form one of the most iconic figures in the ad space. I guess that’s true. But I don’t know, so was Jared, and we don’t want to go there. Don’t go there, John, Okay, move along, Okay, I’ll keep going, he said.

I’m excited. I’m nervous, but I have to tell you I feel very confident about this piece of content. Matt Kacker Andy Samberg teamed up with Helman’s Samberg breaks apart Sweet Caroline to build a mythology of Meal Diamond. Meal Diamond is a man born in a deli who communicates almost entirely through sandwiches. Samberg said he build out the character.

He said, we were weird aling ed, as they say, it takes a real skill to do it in a way that it’s actually funny. For me on this one, it was finding a way to make it a different character who had his own life backstory. The joke started with just the name Meal Diamond, Samberg turned it into a fully fledged person. He explains, we’re essentially dealing with someone who was born in a deli and has never left it and is therefore using the joy and love of sandwiches to reach out to connect with people. It paints a nice picture of this character.

The Kiva Schaeffer helped out on it, Samberg says, the process we usually have is to start with the premise, then you start recording. You see if it’s making you laugh. If not, you bail and you try something different. Some line stuck immediately. Sandberg said, I love the line I’ll squirt you while I’m walking by.

That made me laugh the most. I’m intrigued. Now let me see if this is online already as I record on Friday. Oh, I think I found it. I was born in this Delai.

My best friend was that boloney. That is until live bad you touching Ham, touching Gee, touching. You sandwich time many so cool. This is how I make friends. I’m get mad.

I live in the wall sometimes wonder my favorites. I’ve never been outside. These are my only clothes. So good? Can you marry me?

The carts is broken and I can leave? Thank you? Yes? Oh my goodness, that is so epic. I was sitting here capturing the audio with a big smile on my face.

I almost wanted to like talk as I recorded it. I love that so much. That is so catchy. We may have to play that a second time at the end. Wow, so much fun, Sandberg said, I hope they just smile or laugh.

You got it, buddy, That’s pretty much my goal with almost everything I work on, says Andy. Even just a giggler smirk, I’d settle. You got a big smile out of me, and I’m a comedy snob. Mikey Day as a spot making fun of is It Cake. In the ad, we imagine a world where people are wearing a new crim de Pistachio cash Weir body missed and they are mistaken for cake makeup and beauty brand e l F the Stars Alissa McCarthy.

She learns how to roll her rs in order to prepare for the world’s biggest Reggaetons show that won by Bad Bunny. The halftime show, McCarthy realizes she doesn’t speak Spanish, she crashes her car. She wakes up in a telenovela titled Melissa and bow and Yang is making one of his first major appearances since leaving Saturday Night Live. In this ad, we see bow and Yang settling into his new life. He’s lounging on a tropical beach.

He’s planning a party and snacking on salty crackers. He speaks to a friend through a shell phone and promises not to call the friend perscutto.

Also in the ad, Scarlett Johansson and John Hamm boy no offense to Bowen, Who…

But like, personally, if I were at a commercial with Scarlet Johansson and John Hamm, I would look like an unbelievable hideous troll. Like I have a photo of me and Bruce Campbell. You know Bruce Campbell, the actor. He’s a handsome mad and I’m in this photo with him, and I’m like, ill, yuck, who’s the ugly guy with Bruce Campbell? So I would not want to be in a commercial with John Hamm and Scarlet Johnson.

Anyway. In the ad there’s John Hamm and he says another day, another Ritz party. Why then they invite us? Owen says, well, we’re salty and we hate parties and mingling and yapping. John ham says they do have Ritz crackers though, let’s go for five minutes.

IBB Online writes comic actor Tim Robinson as many things quirky, yes, daft, also yes, but evil that’s perhaps a step too far. In an ad for Rippling, Tim Robinson appears to have fumbled his way into the leadership of a particularly villainous organization. In the spot, Tim’s vengeful Simpleton is attempting to airdrop a monster called baby Breck into the city via helicopter. Unfortunately, the mayhem cannot commence because Baby Breck is a new employee and hasn’t been onboarded. Oh yeah, that is corporate hell, I’ve been there.

Oh there’s more. This is one hell of a Super Bowl preview. You know, I’m the one that put it together, and I had no idea it was going to be this long. We’re not even at the halfway mark yet. Brian Baumgarner, you know him, Kevin from the office, that guy.

Yeah, he’s throwing the world’s largest tailgate tomorrow. He’ll be at the Fort Mason Pavilion. From there you can see the Golden Gate Bridge from ten am to twelve thirty pm local time, San Francisco time on Sunday. He thinks there will be potentially one thousand lookalikes. The pitch is to organize a physical manifestation of the pregame commercial that has resulted in a tailgate party in San Francisco.

Says Brian, Let’s bring all the Ryans together and see what it looks like to multiply myself one, hundreds or thousands of time over. Brian himself will arrive with a crew of ten Brian clones, but the public is encouraged to attend dress like Brian, meaning Kevin from the office. But I guess they can’t say it. Some people were able to pre order bald caps, probably too late for you by the time you’re listening to this. The lookalike voted most bombgartner like will get two tickets to see the Super Bowl with Brian.

He notes that it’s to embody him. You don’t necessarily have to look like him, but I know there’ll be a lot of bald caps. They’re offering free shavings if you can’t make it. There’s even a virtual version of this at brian’shair dot com. The event will be live streamed also part of Super Bowl Weekend.

Tonight, Dave Chappelle has two shows. He’s got the Big Fancy Show. That one’s sold out at the Chase Center, but Dave also announced an intimate late night show at the Chapel in San Francisco. I bet that’s gonna be even harder to get into. So we’ll see what Dave has to say Chiefs Wire caught up with Rob Wriggle.

Rob is a big Chiefs fan. I guess they had this all lined up and then it was like, oh, yeah, Chiefs suck this year. All right, Rob, what are you eating? He said? Chips and guak.

No brainer on that because it works for everybody. All the ladies like quak, the kids like quak. Grandma likes squawk. I just the other day my wife was like, you want chips, and I go, there’s no salsa. She says, we have guawk.

I go, I hate walk. So I’m sorry, Rob Wriggle, I hate walk. I’m a salsa guy. You know Deacon Mike that I talk about. So thirty years ago, when we worked at a radio station together, we used to sometimes go get nachos for lunch.

Yeah, I when we were in our twenties. That was lunch. What do you think of fat? I’ll tell you why I’m fat because I produced the morning show for a while and we used to have this fourth meal. Fourth meal was a cheeseburger and fries at seven thirty in the morning.

You don’t understand get up for work every day at three thirty in the morning and go do nineteen nineties era Times Square at four something in the morning for a radio show that starts at five am. When your friend Bobby looks at you and goes cheeseburger at seven thirty in the morning, you go, yeah, but here’s the cash. That’s not breakfast because then the rest of the morning crew around eight thirty, he goes, hey, we’re getting bagels. So then you have like a bagel with butter an hour after your cheeseburger. That’s how you get fat.

That and sending deacon Mike. He wasn’t a deacon yet. It was just Mike to go get the nachos. Now, everybody else would come back with, you know, nachos and cheese and salsa. He comes back with Guawk.

One day. We were like, what, we hate quak, but Rober Egel disagrees and I digress. Rob says, everybody loves squawk. So that’s when everybody likes chips and quak. Can’t go wrong there.

Now, you know, I’m a KC man, so I gotta throw some barbecue in there too. Right now we’re talking no one, do you know. Coincidentally, Rob Wriggle has teamed up with avocados from Mexico. They have an interactive experience that allows consumers to access up to date predictions through guac Guru Wriggle. Funny how that worked out.

So the Avocado people and Rob Wriggle are making three predictions for the Big Game. If all three predictions come true, one fan can earn sixty thousand dollars plus free avocados for an entire year, which for me would be none, no, thank you. Rob Riggle’s predictions are a team scores exactly twenty points and a player shows off an eating gesture as a celebration, and announcers use the word guacamole during the broadcast. What happens if we go er for three? Do we win anything?

Riggle had some more Super Bowl tips other than the chips and guac. You gotta have some charcoutery, which is a word I don’t think existed till like five years ago. Everyone says I’m nuts. I think at some point I jumped universes and the universe I’m from. There was no such word as shirt couterie.

Suddenly there is and it’s everywhere now. But like, but prior to the pandemic, that word didn’t exist. But he wants you to have some of that. Maybe some cheese and vegetables, some honey to dip in size are critical Cole’s law. You gotta have a potato dish.

No, you don’t. You don’t have to know this. You know what I’m doing here. I’ll tell you what I’m doing, and this is do this. Perdue makes quote unquote air fryer wings.

And I know it’s all in the marketing, but you get those, you throw those in the air fryer, and then you get Frank’s hot sauce and you throw that on top. Done, You’ve got delicious buffalo wings. That’s all you need to do. My wife did get the salsa. I got chips and sausa, So I’ll do wings kind of early.

Then I’ll munch on the chips and salsa, have two beers and that’s it. Now, I don’t have a super Bowl party. I used to do the Super Bowl parties. But here’s the thing. I like football.

I want to watch the game. I don’t need Deacon Mike talking to me about nonsense. So I don’t need to hang out with Deacon mic during this game. I like to just hang out by myself. Are you an only child?

John, I am? I digress again. Rob Wriggles says, you gotta have a coslaw, No you don’t. You gotta have a potato didditional fries. You gotta have some mac and cheese, No you don’t.

Some means maybe maybe you gotta have a big screen. Of course, I’ll be in front of the seventy in shumblebeg flex and you gotta have a lot of places to sit. And that’s it. Once you got that, you’ve totally won. And we do have to do some politics.

An interview with the President of the United States will air during the pregame. Jimmy Kimmel had some thoughts about it. I have cut down Jimmy for pacing. I have not edited the portions with President Trump speaking. But here’s Jimmy Kimmel’s thoughts about tomorrow’s interview with the President of the United States.

President Trump sat for an interview with NBC News that will air in its entirety during the Super Bowl pregame show. And I don’t know if he. Decided to go all out because of the big Super Bowl audience, but this one was a bacon double dementia. Burger with cheese. This is even for him.

This one was nuts. I mentioned last night that seven hundred ICE agents are being withdrawn from Minneapolis. Well, they just. Added some new tour dates that might be coming to a city near you. Which cities are you headed to next?

Uh? We have five cities that were looking at very strongly. But we want to be invited. They want to be invited. I want to be invited.

Isn’t that the plot of the movie Sinners? You have to invite the monsters in. After the shooting of Renate Good, you said Ice made some mistakes. What were the mistakes? Well, look, I’m not happy with the two incidents.

It’s not you know, it’s both of them. Got one or the other. Uh. He was not an angel and she was not an angel.

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And now they.

They literally are angels. Thanks you? What is what he was? The age he was the first of all, you don’t know anything about those people. How dare you weigh in on what they were what they weren’t?

Keep your stupid thoughts in your diaper where they belong? On this subject, I said, while we’re identifying angels, Jeffrey Epstein was your best friend, So maybe leave angels out of the conversation.

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And then because that wasn’t already disgusting enough, he made it worse.

You mentioned Renee Good and not out and Alex Pretty’s not being angels. Do you think any of that justified what happened to them? Though? No, it should have not happened. It was a very sad to me.

It was a very sad incident. Two incidents, and you know they mentioned the one, now they don’t mention the other. Well, I think they were both said, and you know who feels worse better than anybody? The people of ice, right right. A lot of people would think it would be the parents, or the spouses or the children of the victims.

And that is your comedy news for today. Let’s once again it was so much fun. Let’s let Andy Samberg take us out and enjoy the game tomorrow on this is very program Comedian Ismo, he’s fantastic. I got at Super Bowl Sunday, but find some time maybe on Monday to listen to the interview with Ismo, because it’s really really good and he’s a lot of fun. All right, Neil Diamond, take us home.

I was born in the Stella. My best friend was that bology that is until li mad you Ham touching Ham, touching cheese, touching you. Lease sandwich time A man makes it tastes so good. This is how I make friends.

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Featured: Will Arnett, Andrew Schulz, Charlamagne tha God, Chevy Chase, Joe Rogan, Kathy Griffin

What’s in This Episode

• SmartLess podcast kicks off famous comedian
• Andrew Schulz’s changing views on Trump
• Schulz criticizes Trump’s constitutional violations
• Schulz demands release of Epstein list
• Kathy Griffin criticizes Joe Rogan for platforming right-wing content

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence which the algorithm really likes. Because we don’t say it, the numbers go back down. If you missed yesterday’s episode, or if you balled and you’re like, I don’t care about Kermit the frog with this episode sucks.

The last story in yesterday’s episode is so much fun. Make sure you go back and at least listen to that one. Today will be a little more serious in a second, as we get into Andrew Schultz. But let’s start with this story. You may have seen it.

This hit the mainstream press. From the SmartLess podcast, Will Arnett revealed that a quote very famous comedian that Arnett describes as an fing rank a hole was kicked off SmartLess. Arnette said, we cut him off after ten minutes and said thanks so much and ditched him. He joked, you’ll be blown away by who it is because you’ll be like, how did you get Bill Cosby? It’s not Bill Cosby.

People are speculating on who it is and the timing of it. The internet is speculating that the answer would be Chevy Chase, that Chevy would have been recently promoting his documentary, and Chevy does have a reputation. Again, I don’t know Ornette didn’t say, but the internet seems to think Chevy Chase. That’s not a bad guess. Andrew Schultz seems to have some evolving opinions on the President of the United States.

Got a few articles discussing mister Schultz evolving opinions on the President of the United States. But let’s hear from Andrew Schultz himself. He was a guest on Charlemagne’s podcast. There is some salty language in this clip. Not not too bad, but some salty words that I normally don’t use on the podcast, but in this case, I’m gonna let them go.

If you don’t like salty language, you’ve been warned, but I’m pretty confident you can handle it. Here’s Andrew Schultz talking to Charlemagne. Look, I know I had Trump on the podcast, you know, and I’m away explaining that, but let me let me just clarify, because I think it is important to say, like, I know how I had him on the podcast, and like, so I when I’m talking out about this. I’m not doing it to like, you know, get people to be like, oh, you’s a good guy or whatever like that, or trying to get anybody on my side. I understand that this is a horrific event that happened.

I objectively want to talk about it. I’m not trying to like win anybody over in this. You understand, you know, it just me right and wrong right, wrong. And there’s a difference between like respecting and honoring the Constitution, the backbone of our country, and then completely shredding it. And this is completely shredding it.

And now they’re realizing that people have noticed it, and now they’re. Trying to backtrack it. But by the way, he’s been wiping his ass with the constitution. Sure, and I’ve been on a record a million times saying, like whenever when he said we should terminate the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election, she liked, that got to be disqualifying if you run O for president. So here’s a for example.

So it’s like, I know that there are people sounding the alarms about this. When I saw these last few weeks in minnesot I didn’t think this was possible. Happen in United States in America. I’m being one hundred percent here to white people, no, to anybody, but you’ve seen it happen to black people. Yes, yes, to white people no, no, no, it is no.

I don’t I mean, I didn’t know that this was possible to happen in the United States of America when I’m specifically talking about with this situation here and like not only this one, but also what we’ve seen ICE doing, like entering homes without warrants, like arresting people. It is unconstitutional. And they’ve done this weird thing where like they have like a federally administrative warrant, which is some bullshit. It doesn’t even allow you to actually have access into a home. Yeah, they’re trying to find ways around the system.

And what that says to me, when you’re willing to shred the constitution to preserve your it’s not only your power, but your ideas of what should happen is incredibly Unamerican. The Daily cos rights mega broadcaster Andrew Schultz seems to have reached an epiphany. He’s realized that Trump is a liar, that ICE are a pack of unconstitutional goons who have tried to break into people’s homes and viciously shoot down American citizens in the streets. Well, they execute their First and Second Amendment rights. Shockingly, he doesn’t like it.

The Daily Cos rights this conversion presents us with several questions. How do weeds Democrats react to this? Option one? Do we openly embrace it and welcome to the land of the sane and rational? The coz gets into some previous examples of things mister Trump has said, and they asked the question why didn’t Andrew and other magas realize that he meant that stuff back then?

Option number two? Do we continue to flog Andrew Schultz for his previous Trump support? Option three? Do we demand that Andrew Schultz grovel, genuflect and apologize for his past transgressions? The Cos writes they were willing to sell out their fellow Americans to gain a larger piece of the pie for themselves.

Do we need them to explain that themselves and admit they were wrong? Because if they don’t, won’t they likely to follow the same circus trick again? Option four? Do we ignore Andrew Schultz? The COZ writes, does it even matter what we think of him?

Does he really need a warm embrace and a wet kiss from the already existing anti Trump crowd. If he’s insincere, he’ll soon jump on the next bandwagon. There’s nothing we can do to stop him. If he means what he’s saying, he’s going to still feel that way whether we embrace him or not. He’s a grown man.

He can make up his own mind. And it’s nice that he finally broke in our direction, But we weren’t the ones who finally convinced him to do that. And option five is do we use Andrew Schultz writes the codes their premise? On the other hand, could Schultz as an influencer be a potential gateway to leading other magas out of the wilderness, regardless of how we feel and react to him. Could he be a pied piper directing many others away from the evils of mega madness?

Should we encourage this because many more megas are more likely listen to him questioning and leaving the cult rather than listen to us. I know this is heavy. I’ll remind you I did ten minutes on Kermit the Frog yesterday. Andrew Schultz, on his own podcast, was discussing the Epstein list. Schultz said, if you bring up another fing pedophile about deporting and you’re not releasing the Epstein list, just shut the f up, all of you.

Yeah, I don’t want to hear anything else about Oh hey, we got to deport the pedophiles. They’re right here, there’s a list of them, and you’re not exposing it. Corract writes we shouldn’t punish Andrew Schultz for turning on Trump, but that doesn’t mean he gets a pass for his part in Trump’s resurgence. Their premise, schultz way too recent epiphany naturally has the Internet ragging on him and reminding him of his throated an endorsement of Trump during the last general election. But does the anti Trump fashion of the comedy community really want one of the most successful and influential podcasters in the country running back to the other side.

Kathy Griffin called out Joe Rogan for platforming right wing people and pushing conspiracy theories. I’ll remind you I did ten minutes on Kermit the Frog yesterday. Okay, just go back here. Listen. Kathy was in Your Dreams with Owen Feel Apparently that’s a podcast and Kathy Griffin recounted an interaction with a critic on the street.

The critic on the street tried to convince me of all Joe’s conspiracy theories and all of his weird supplements and his popping veins. I knew Joe back in the day when he had hair and was a comic, and I liked him and he was nice, and now he’s turned into this really powerful very much, but he doesn’t say it right wing guy who platforms right wing people, and bros really believe him. The straight bros. They’re not getting vaccinated because of doctor Joe Rogan. All right, John, make this fun, okay, switching gears completely.

Heidi Gardner explained she was fired from Saturday Night Live. She was on Mike Birbigley’s podcast. Birbiggley was riffing with Heidi Gardner and said the thing would crush me is if I worked on something and then someone was like, you can’t do it. Gardner agreed that getting sketches cut was hard and said I ended up getting cut. I feel like more than anyone in the world when I was doing it.

After a while, you get to a point where you’re like, well, I’m comfortable here I’m good, I’m comfortable, like I get just have fun. But no matter what, you’re always stressed. It’s high stakes and you care so much. It was always like the worst thing that could happen, or the worst thing that could happen was not getting to do your thing that week, And it was just there were so many worst things that could happen. At least one of the worst things would always happen.

Now people are looking at Heidi’s quote where she said, quote, I mean comma, I ended up getting cut. Now, as I read that, I’m taking that to mean her sketches were cut. However, The New York Post had reported that Gardner’s contract was terminated. Dana Carvey had previously said that he’d heard Gardner was not asked to return for The New York Post had quoted an anonymous insider who said Heidi’s contract was not renewed. Quote, it’s time for a new cast, which reminds me the internet has decided, and I agree.

Ashley Padia is the new star Saturday Night Live and she’s not even main cast yet, but she will be. She’s the breakout star. Snl UK has a premiere date this from Late Night Er SNL UK will premiere Saturday, March twenty, first airing on Sky streaming on Now you’ll find me in international waters if you know what I mean. I want to check this out. Season one is just six episodes.

The cast has been revealed. I don’t recognize any of these names, but I’m sure they’re wonderful. SNL UK lead producer James Longman, who used to work for Cordon and said the UK is absolutely packed with incredible comedy talent right now. In this cast represents the freshest voices we have. They’re bold, exciting and of course incredibly funny.

Same format as SNL USA live study, audience opening monologue, sketches, live music, and some version of weekend Update this weekend on this very program. Tomorrow super Bowl preview a lot of comedians doing funny commercials. At least I hope they’re funny. We’ll talk about the tomorrow and then Sunday I have an interview with comedian Ismo. He’ll be at the Vancouver just for a Laughs Comedy festival.

He’s really cool. Talk to him for about half an hour. I SMO. If you’ve got a minute, google Ismo Conan. He’s got a bit about the word ass, which is brilliant.

And then he’s got a full Netflix special up from eight hundred Pound Gerilla that I watched that last Sunday, very very funny. He’s Ismo, and I think you’ll come out of Sunday show going Hey, I like that guy. It is Friday. It is time to hit the comedy stock market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds comedy stock market.

We will keep it simple this week. Two recommendations for you. We’re gonna buy some Dave Chappelle. I feel like Dave Chappelle. He’s back, not just from the Rion Comedy Festival, No, he’s totally back.

He’s going to do that show in Minnesota. He’s paling around with John Stewart. These are times when we need someone who is good with the words. And I think the time is right for Dave Chappelle to come out of hiding. Let’s buy some Dave Chappelle stock before he hits Minnesota.

And the other person we’re gonna buy stock in is Ismo. I just told you why. He’s great. So Dave Chappelle and Ismo are our comedy stock market picks for this week. We’re not gonna sell anybody, will keep it positive from page six.

Industry insiders say they keep seeing Adam Sandler on the Fox Lot. That’s where they film the mask singer. Is Adam Sandler going on the mask singer? They don’t think so. It is believed that Adam Sandler has moved his Happy Medison offices from the Pacific Palisades to the Fox Lot.

Sandlor’s company had been in Palisades Village, which is one of the rare stretches of land that escaped last year’s fires. Sources say Adam Sandler did not want to subject his staff to the toxic fumes in the area.

Also, and this is a real thing.

There’s nowhere to get lunch and I’m not saying that Flippandtly, a source close to Adam Sandler says, you live seven minutes from the Fox Lot, and he asked his employees is this closer for you? He would have gotten a free deal over at Netflix, but he wanted to make sure his employees are closer to home and having an easier ride. Adam Sailor is a good guy, a family man. I love the way he dresses. Right now, I’m wearing sweatpants, a yellow hoodie and a Knick’s hat.

So I’m sure Adam Sandler and I could be friends. We only disagree on one thing, and that one thing is he is terrible at comedy, but he’s a great dramatic actor and a solid guy. Ben Bankis, that’s the guy that made the jokes about the fatal shootings in Minnesota. He’s joked about both of them. Do you want to go see his comedy?

He’s up in Rochester tonight. He’ll be at the Carlson Right off Blossom Road. Two shows tonight, seven and nine, two shows tomorrow, seven and nine. Thirty bucks. I’ll get you in.

And Bill Cosby in the news. This is the story is about a week old, but I just saw it. Bill Cosby’s longtime representative, Andrew Wyatt, is speaking out after Bill Cosby allegedly confessed to refilling his colude prescription in hopes of using them on women. Wyatt told Us Magazine, I’m hurt and disappointed. He was like a father to me.

Broke my heart when I saw this today. The saw this as referring to a TMZ report on January twenty eighth. That report from TMC says that Cosby admitted under oath that he had a recreational prescription for queludes and refilled it seven times with the intent of drugging women to have intercourse with them. Andrew Wyatt said, I was the only one who visited him in prison. I was the one who walked him out of prison, not his attorney.

I truly believed in his innocence. I believed in what he was telling me. Someday I will tell you some Bill Cosby stories. You’re gonna have to wait for mister Cosby to pass away for me to tell them to you. But I have Bill Cosby stories for you, and someday I will share them.

That is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow super Bowl preview, and Sunday Ismo drops by. You have an awesome weekend.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Jim Henson, Seth Rogen, Maya Rudolph, Andrew Schulz

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr Saudi Arabia controversy and show announcements
• Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Epstein files release
• Kermit the Frog voice actor controversy in new Muppet Show
• 50th anniversary Muppet Show special Disney production
• Comparison of classic vs. modern Kermit voice performances

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A phraeze that apparently if you stop saying, your Spotify numbers go down. Apparently that phrase works, And I’m gonna try and keep it light today. I’m looking ahead to tomorrow’s script.

I’m gonna dive in tomorrow about Andrew Schultz a little bit. So tomorrow’s gonna get a little political. I’ll keep it silly today. I want to dive into this Kermit gait. Have you heard Kermit the Frog’s current voice.

We got a whole problem with that. We’ll get to that in a second. Briefly political, you know this Epstein stuff is pretty serious when Jimmy Fallon is cracking jokes about it. Fallon said, well, guys. The fallout from the latest Epstein files release continues, and President Trump’s Justice Department said that it’s not a crime to party with Epstein.

Falon said, did years to come up with an excuse, and that’s what you went with. If someone said that to you, what a super Bowl party? And slowly back away and call the police fallent again in a Trump impression, said partying with Epstein doesn’t make me a criminal. The thirty four criminal convictions do fallen s data, and this one’s a little hacky, but on point. Yeah.

They said it’s not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein, which is pretty much like saying it’s not a crime enough brunch with Jeffrey Dahmer. Jimmy Kimmel said, that’s right. It’s also not a crime to borrow a bottle of baby oil from Diddy.

Our first story today, I’m doing cold.

I came down to the studio right around noon and check my phone and I had a note from one of the listeners who told me I might want to check out Bill Burr’s Facebook page, and I’m like, hmm, I’m intrigued. Well, it seems here that Bill Burr has announced some dates he’ll be playing some shows, and I was told to check out the comments section. Let’s see common number one, how many Saudi princesses will be there for the show bill Someone posted Bill Burrd did the math. I figured it would be worth losing ten million dollars to make one million dollars. Dennis posted, sure, hope they have a Chili’s near these venues.

That’s very good, Dennis for the win there. Peter, after he did his free Luigi on a chat show, a call was made and he hasn’t been the same since. Dave went with bonesaw Bill coming at you get your tickets. Ray wrote, I’ll bring my Saudi funded nine to eleven shirt. Liam called him the Prince Harry of comedy.

I like that one, and Matt went with Texas Are you sure? Bill Burr may have had the worst year of any of the comedians of twenty twenty five. Our big topic today is Kermit Gate. I can’t decide if this is either going to be the thing that gets more downloads than any episode I’ve ever done, or if I’m making a total mistake. A lot of new listeners joining on this week as I’m running some advertising.

Hello new listeners, I appreciate you, hope you stick around. But this Kermit thing is bothering me. Have you seen this. There’s a new Muppet show and someone is doing the voice of Kermit the Frog. I brought some audio.

Let’s go all the way back to nineteen seventy one. The original voice of Kermit the Frog Jim Henson. This is very early in the Kermit the Frog universe. Jim Henson, here is a guest on Dick Havevitt’s TV show. I just want to share this with you quickly, and I want you to remember this when we get around to Kermit the Frog on Jimmy Kimmel’s show some forty five years later.

But here’s Jim Henson performing Kermit the Frog. Hell yeah, hi, oh yeah, well how do you do? It’s nice to be here, you know, and hello out thereon you left. But he’s his whole body has changed a great deal since you know, the early one. Why did it change?

Is it a matter of diet or yeah, well it’s not really diet. No, same matter of progressing, you know, in the direction of you know, better looking frogs. I suppose. Get a little bit more modern. This is the Kermit the Frog in your head if you were of a certain age, say fifty six years old, recording a podcast in your basement.

This is what Kermit the Frog sounds like. This from the nineteen eighty six oscars I Got I Got You? Yes, Unless or not. Animated short films weave their magic unrestrained by the limitations of human actors. True, an animated character can defy the laws of gravity.

Mmmm, move from place to place without regard to space or time. Woo, and continue to amuse generation after generation without growing older or asking for a raise. Yeah. In short, and we are animated characters, and these short films, they appear and can do absolutely anything the imagination can conjure. Sadly, Jim Henson passed away in nineteen ninety, Kermit the Frog did not.

Kermit was voiced by others. And I’ll get back to that. Here is two thousand and two. S it’s a very very Muppet Christmas movie. And this still kind of sounds like Kermit the Frog.

Jay, I could sure do with a little star power around your triumph. Here’s any way you can help me out. Muppet movies are always debased. You mean, not for me to pop on. Right right?

You got me again? Uh huh, bye bye.

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And now here’s Kermit the Frog in twenty twenty six.

Listen to this disaster, and I will say to you, as a master of half ass impressions, most people’s half asked Kermit is better than what you’re about to hear. If I walked up to you right now, and said, do Kermit the frog. Your kermit would be better than this one. I don’t have a kermit. I know I have all my half assed impressions, but I don’t do a kermit.

I’m not attempting a kermit. You cannot bully me into doing a kermit. Unless you want to come to the brewery and buy me a couple beverages. Then maybe, but I’m not doing a half ass kermit for you now. If you want to hear a half asked kermit, here is official Kermit twenty twenty six, speaking with Jimmy Kimmel.

Thanks for having me. It’s great to have you, and I’m excited about the new project. Wondering how this happened or like you, was it difficult to get the other muppets together to come back? No, no, not at all, okay, I knowing you know what. They couldn’t wait to do them up at you again.

But then again, there’s not a big demand for a pig who sings, ain’t bear who tells jokes, and a bunch of dancing raps soue. Okay that’s there now. What were they doing though? During all this time? What were the other muppets up to.

Oh, well, not much involving a bait check. But you know, I was trying to get the special off the ground, which you know, it took a while. Jimmy. You know, it turns out that a lot of people in Hollywood say yes when they actually mean no. I have experienced that myself, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But you know, as far as the others go, Miss Piggy, she was on vocal rest, which actually we were all kind of okay with. That is unacceptable. They need to do something about that. The New Muppet Show is out. The Guardian watched it.

They gave it three stores out of five. Their subheadlines says, this story half hour anniversary special captures the spirit of the original TV show at points, but Kermit’s voice takes him getting used to. It’s the fiftieth anniversary of the Muppet Show. Disney, which now controls of the Muppet Show, got the old gang back together and added guest appearances from Suprise a Carpenter, Seth Rogan, who happens to be the executive producer, and Maya Roodolph for a one off half hour special. The Guardian writes, God bless everyone involved.

They’ve tried. You can feel it. They want to make it good for us. They know we deserve it, They know everybody at the moment desperately needs a brief, shining moment out of the darkness. But as Thomas Wolf so rightly said, you can’t go home again.

Look, it’s fine if you’ve never seen the original. It’s probably even good if you have. There are still moments that tease it taste and memory. But the bits in between their drab the script, including and most obviously Statler and Waldorf’s heckles, is begging for a polish Is this despite the half centuries notice they had a rush job, Or has the show’s time simply passed and no one can carry off exuberant silliness anymore. Well, let’s get to the point of today’s podcast.

There does remain the nagging problem of Kermit’s voice Your Mind is Henson played until nineteen ninety. Veteran muppeteer at Steve Whitmyer inherited the role and played it until he was dismissed by Disney for what they can called quote unacceptable business conduct. Matt Vogel now plays the character, and our dearest Frog sounds jurrently different to anyone born before Vogel’s tenure. It puts the magic even further out of reach, but maybe only to us and we’ve had our time. You’ll find all this on Disney Plus now.

Steve Whittmeyer, who was the second voice of Kermit the Frog, has a blog. Steve wrote, Kermit as Jim created him contains years of depth and growth without default attention to that. Do you really believe it’s Kermit just because it looks like him? Kermit is at the top of the Muppet pyramid, the spoke in the middle of the Muppet wheel around which all things Muppet revolve, and without Kermit being fully intact, there is no future for the Muppets, no new directions, no exploitative reboots, nothing that nurtures the historical connection to you, the audience. That connection as it was originally established, is vital.

Whitmeyer continues viewing the Muppets primarily as rolls began as soon as Jim was gone and altered the perception from seeing them as individual entered who exist on our own world to being a corporate owned puppet character franchise with people hired to play them skipping ahead. Corporate thinking goes that all the years of interior development done by an originator can be replaced by simply auditioning someone who could lip sync approximated voice and focus the eyes, even if that person has no true understanding of the reasons behind why the world has a solid and loving connection with the character. But I want you to know, from day one throughout nearly three decades, not once did I ever have the notion to make Kermit my own. On the contrary, was absolutely vital to my process to make certain that any egotistical notion of marking territory never happen, so that Kermit remained based solely upon Jim’s foundational original Kermit Gate Everybody, I love it. Dave Chappelle and John Stewart will appear together at a benefit for Yellow Springs Radio Station WYSO.

This benefit February thirteenth, that’s like a week from now. The general manager of the radio station says, we see them as aligned, even though they’re very different. They’re two of the most important voices calling out how dangerous it is that First Amendment rights are being trampled, that we’re seeing censorship of important voices and legacy media capitulating to the Trump administration. We are told the evening with Chappelle and Stewart will have a talk show Vibe. The GM said Chappelle has a list of friends he likes to collaborate with, and John Stewart is on the list.

In John said yes immediately. Jimmy Kimmel told his viewers during one of his monologues this week that he will demand to host the Oscars in twenty twenty seven if Milania ends up nominated in Best Documentary category. He said, mark my words right now, if Malania gets nominated for an Oscar, I will host that show. Whether they asked me to or not, I will insist on it. We’ll let Conan know.

Bobby Slayton is in the Epstein files. This from Syracuse dot Com, who report Bobby Slayton was regularly sending messages with Jeffrey Epstein. According to screenshots of text messages and emails, Bobby Slayton’s name appears in more than two thousand documents. I’ve done two thousand episodes of this podcast. I think I’ve mentioned Bobby Slayton twice, including dis mention some of the correspondents.

Thanks Jeffrey Epstein for letting Bobby Slayton stay at a New York City apartment while on tour. Now this caught the attention of Syracuse dot com, not for the reasons you’re thinking. Apparently upstate New York sticks up for itself. They are focused on September twenty fourteen correspondence in which Slayton wrote, wish I was in NYC having dinner with you and Woody in Rochester in the depths of comedy hell send Woodman my best. We are getting along here, but I left myself a note here that says, don’t bump these next two stories.

So okay, Johnny Mac from the past, I won’t. Craig Ferguson was talking about his podcast and says he’ll still do interviews, but only if they’re in person. Ferguson explains, I think I’m probably as good as anyone who does zoom call interviews, but in person, I think maybe I’m a little better than most people who do it. So I kind of feel like played your strength. I enjoy it much more when you’re in a room talking with someone.

So what I do now with the podcast is if I’m away on work, I’ll just record a half hour of me answering questions from people who watch the podcast, and then that’s the podcast. If I can’t have a guest in the studio, and I’ll just talk directly the people who watch it. Craig’s tour begins today. See that’s why I can’t bump. The story begins today in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The tour is called Pants on Fire. He’s not sure if he’ll make it a special. Craig says, I don’t know if I want to make any more stand up specials. I made one a couple years ago and it turned out okay, and I was happy with it. But the thing is about making special I always think you do it, and then if you ever look at it later, you go, ah, I could have made that better by doing that.

Jay Leno, who some think is the worst person who ever lived, Craig did not comment on that or not. Jay Leno has never made a stand up special in fifty years, and I don’t think he ever will. I kind of get it. I like the doing of stand up. I don’t know that I need to film it.

Maybe I will, I don’t know. I hope somebody jokes aside. I hope somebody has at least captured some jay Leno material, so that someday, one hundred years from now we could see what a jay Leno concert look like. Here’s another story that passed. Johnny Max says, I’m not allowed to bump.

British comedians Rob Beckett and Remesh Waggonnathan have tried their hands at Bob’s letting with Team Great Britain. Yes, it’s the Robin Ramesh first Team GB Winter Special in that the comedians squeeze into Bob’s lay suits as they get a taste of life in Bob’s lay. The two part special follows them in search of their very own winter sport. I have this dream that someday I’m going to hit up the Republic of Ireland and see if me and some friends of mine can be their beach volleyball team. I haven’t done anything about this, but someday I will.

Lance Corporal Taylor Lawrence, who was training for second Olympics, posted about the experience on social media. He said filming with SkyTV and Rob Beckett and Ramesh Reagon Ethan was a lot of fun, although I don’t think they should give up their day jobs. Great guys to be around, and jumped in with both feet. I see what you did there, bumping a lot of stories on the fly today. It’s always good when that happens.

That makes me happy. Tomorrow’s show, like I said, we’ll get into the Ander Schultz of it all a little bit. Then. Of course, it’s Friday, so Comedy stock Market. Saturday will be the super Bowl preview.

A lot of comedians doing commercials. I’ll talk about that someday. I have a fantastic interview with comedian Ismo. Ismo will be playing the Just for Last Vancouver Comedy Festival. I had a lovely half hour conversation with him the other day, So that’ll be Sunday’s episode.

Looking ahead to Vancouver. Friend of the show Mike Chisholm, you know him from the Letterman podcast. He’s going to act as the Vancouver correspondent. The nice folks at Just for Laughs hooked Mike up with some tickets. He’s going to hit some shows and report back to us.

Plus he’s going to see David Letterman. And I told Mike if he can come up with a David Letterman interview, I will send him one Canadian dollar via Venmo. Get it done, Mike. It’s been such a busy week. I really haven’t commented too much on Comedy Survivor.

Now, if you’re a new listener, we’re playing Comedy Survivor. We put sixteen comedians on Comedy Island, and each week the listeners are voting off one comedian. What you do is you go to the Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’ll find a picture. This week’s picture is me extinguishing the torch of Ron White, and I love that.

The listeners are like, hey, you should have had Ron have a cigarette, or you should ad him some potato salad, and like, Okay, I don’t know how much time you guys think I spend on these bits. Voting ends at end of day today so I can record the episodes on Friday. The results of Comedy Survivor come out Monday’s at noon. Easter. And let me just skim here and just see how things are trending.

I see one vote for somebody whose name hasn’t come up before. H This seems to be a couple of votes for Jay Leno. Leslie Jones’ name seems to be yours. I scrolled down. Okay, looks like it’s a tight one.

Some people are hanging back to see which way. The group is going to see if they can help vote someone out or perhaps steer the conversation away from someone they don’t want to vote it out. Very fascinating. Comedy Survivor. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

Write down the name of somebody you want off. Please make it super crystal clear so I don’t write like I was kind of thinking maybe somehow I’ll vote off Joshmo. Let’s just write Joshmo out that way. It’s nice and easy. We don’t need a controversy over Comedy Survivor.

The last thing I want to get is like a note from Dylan in the Facebook group on the side, be like, hey, bro, you said Schmoe had six votes, it’s actually seven. I think we’ve got. That’s a last thing I want for this bit. This has kind of scary From Reuters, a Russian stand up comedian was convicted of inciting hatred and jailed for nearly six years. This over a joke the comedian made about a legless war veteran Artemi a stan.

It has been sentenced for five years and nine months, also fined three hundred thousand rubles that’s around thirty nine hundred dollars. I’m no expert on the law, but it seems to me like the fine and the jail time are very out of sync. Astanin was also convicted of offending the feelings of Christians with an off color joke he made about Jesus, which angered Orthodox nationalists. The crux of all this show last year in March, the comedian joked about how an impoverished war veteran who had lost his legs after being blown up by a mine was now forced to get around on a skateboard, and the crux of the joke being that the veteran had run over the comedian’s foot. Apparently, there is video of the joke’s punchline, which shows fellow comedians remaining straight faced and the sound of several audience members laughing.

A stun In tried to flee Russia last year, but was arrested by police in Belarus and returned to Moscow to face charges. He was asked by the judge on Wednesday if he understood his sentence. A stun In is quoted as saying, to hell with your judicial practice. No, I don’t, and I’m gonna leave you with this one, because we could all use a laugh this week. This has nothing to do with comedy.

This is just I’m on the internet all day and I’m looking up stories for this and for Palace Intrigue, the podcast I write where we cover the royal family. And you know, I’m just on the internet all day because this is just it’s what I do. I saw this one again, has nothing to do with comedy, but it might make you smile. From the Daily Mail, a man sparked an evacuation at a French hospital after doctors discovered an eight inch long live World War One artillery shell in the man’s rectum. That’s right, the man was in the hospital.

He had an eight inch World War One artillery shell in his rectum. The twenty four year old man was described as being in a state of extreme discomfort. Emergency surgery was carried out to identify the large object in the man’s rectum. They figured out it was an artillery shell dating back to the First World War. But here’s the money quote quote Worse still, it had not exploded, so bomb disposable experts had to be called in to diffuse the shell.

With the fire brigades standing by. Explosives are no jokes. Staff and patients were evacuated from the hospital. A security perimeter set up around the accident in emergency unit. The man is set to be interviewed by police.

They are investigating the charge of handling Category A munitions And here is I’m gonna read it verbatim. I’m gonna read it from the article and I’m trying not to laugh. I’m gonna just try and read this. This is from quoting directly from the Daily Mail article, and they wrapped it up with there was no I can’t this is too funny. Oh, let me try again.

I could edit this out, but I want you to hear that. I think here, okay from the Daily Email. The final sentence of the article is I can’t. Let me have a sip of my iced coffee here, m okay, try this again, John, and I could edit this up. That’s no fun There was no Oh boy, I might have to go record another episode and come back just to do this tag or have the AI do it right?

Why more try. There was no initial explanation as to why the shell ended up in the man’s body, but local media speculated that it might have had something to do with his social life that as she copy news for today Bye,

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher, Gianmarco Soresi Areisi, Jackie Fabulous, Chris Spencer, Some More, Kat Williams, Kevin Hart, David Letterman, Paul Shaffer

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze named Grand Marshal of Daytona 500
• Nate Bargatze wins Grammy Award for stand-up special
• Nate Bargatze film ‘The Bread Winner’ releasing May 2026
• Dave Chappelle performing in Minnesota on February 16th
• Bill Maher responds to Dave Chappelle’s Saudi Arabia free speech comments
• Jackie Fabulous special ‘You Can Leave’ debuts on Hulu
• Chris Spencer special ‘Goat Adjacent’ debuts on Hulu
• Some More announces Netflix special ‘Chandelier Fly’ for February 17th
• David Letterman to executive produce Paul Shaffer documentary

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Very busy one today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Daytona Beach. The new Grand Marshal of the sixty eighth running of the Daytona five hundred on Sunday, February fifteenth will be Nate Brighetzi. Nate’s publicist stayed on top of Daytona with this fancy press release.

The Grammy Award winning number one touring comedian in the world in two times Saturday Night Live host is now making the jump to the silver screen this spring with his first feature film. He created, Corote, produced and stars in the family friendly comedy The bread Winner for Tri Star Pictures, schedule to be released theatrically on May twenty nine, twenty twenty six. None of that mentions date Zona. The press release also gets in Widely known as the Nicest Man in stand up, Burghetti has become one of America’s most beloved comedic voices. Blah blah blah.

Is he widely known as the nicest man in stand up? I mean he seems nice. I’m sure he’s lovely, but see widely known as that. It is through the phrase into Google. The Atlantic in twenty twenty one had the headline Nate Pergetzi’s the nicest man in stand up.

Now. I’ve never met Nate, but again, I think that Jeff Foxworthy is very, very nice. It seems everything’s going back to that article and they are running with it. Anyway. We are told that his clever and wildly relatable storytelling has made him a favorite among fans of all ages, qualities that align perfectly with the excitement, tradition, and national spotlight of the Daytona five hundred.

Frank Kelleher is president of the Daytona International Speedway and he said Nate Pergetzi’s nationwide popularity, family friendly, humor, and authenticity and body the same spirit with a style that resonates with all. He’ll bring a memorable spark to the command, amplifying the emotion and excitement of one of the biggest moments in motor sports. All the public’s got it done. They want us to know. His most recent Netflix Specially Your Friend Nate Pergetzi is currently the most watched dan up special on Netflix in the past fifty two weeks.

His Big Dumb Eyes World Tours set a record for biggest one year gross by a comedy perform in history and has broken over forty total arena attendance records. In addition to giving the command to fire up the engines, Nate will also participate in a fanned Q and a session in the fan zone that morning. I did Daytona a few times. I had a hot pass from serious xam. I’ll wait till Daytona day to tell those stories because we have a lot to get to.

Nate did win the Grammy and as part of the story they’re selling us this week. During the pre show premiere ceremony, Nate was lounging on the couch under a blanket when he heard that he won his first Grammy. A video happened to be rolling as this announcement happened. Nate is covering his hands in disbelief. He seems so shocked that he doesn’t even say anything during the video.

After the ceremony, Nate posted the video that shows him reacting. Good thing somebody was rolling at camera. Nate said, I am honestly blown away and as surprised as the video shows. Thank you to all that I’ve ever been to a show or watch A special thank you to every comedian that’s been part of my life. I love stand up comedy so much and so excited to see how stand up is exploding.

Thank you to my family who’s been so supportive of me, especially my beautiful wife Laura and our wonderful daughter Harper. God has truly blessed me with so much love and support around me. Now, I don’t want you guys to think that I don’t like Naperghazzi. I just overreact to press release e press releases, and boy, the publicists to earn their money on that one. What a yarn they are selling there.

I’ll give you an early hint for this week’s comedy stock Market Dave Chappelle. Dave’s going to return to Minnesota to quote, stand with a community. He’ll be doing a performance at the Grand Casino Arena on February sixteenth. The announcement describes Dave’s decision as an act of solidarity with a community. Quote at the center of events that you denied all Americans in defense of civil rights, human dignity, and the principles we claim the hold sacred, Amen, Dave.

The press release says Dave’s appearance reflects a quote decades long commitment to showing up for communities and crisis and using comedy as a force for connection and solidarity. I like this move a lot now. Interestingly, in July of twenty twenty two, Dave was scheduled to perform at First Avenue in Minneapolis. That’s the place Bruce Springsteen showed up at last week. That show was moved to the Varsity Theater in an apparent reaction to Dave’s transfer material.

You may also recall that in twenty twenties, that long ago, Netflix released a special titled eight forty six, which featured Dave Chappelle talking about race in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Eight forty six refers to the length of time George Floyd was pinned to the ground by a Minneapolis police officer. Daves announced a couple other shows to tell you about those later in the week, one with John Stewart and a second one in San Francisco this weekend. But we’ll get to that. Bill Maher shot back at Dave Chappelle on Friday’s Real Time.

Bill Maher asserted that he was right to mock Dave Chappelle for suggesting Saudi Arabia has freer speech of the United States. Mar said Dave Chappelle lashed out at me last month because I called him out for saying there was more free speech in Saudi Arabia than here. Well, I was right. What he said was stupid. Maer argued that the United States is a far different place than Saudi Arabia regarding free speech, quoting Bill Maher.

If you don’t believe me, try opening a lesbian art gallery there, or wearing a T shirt that says Jesus is the one True God. Ricky’s right meeting Ricky Gervais. Celebrities don’t know about the real world. I feel terrible. I’m a terrible, terrible host.

I forgot to tell you guys for two days. I meant to tell you this when I recorded the Sunday Grammy segment. Anyway, Gianmarco Soresi Areisi released a short fourteen minute set. It is on YouTube. It is called Shelf Life Volume two.

I feel awful the publicists sent that over. I knew in advance and I just forgot to actually voice the story. Sorry, publicist. You know I love you. You know I love Gianmarco Soresi.

Gianmarco Soresi has been named a Deadline comic set to break out into twenty twenty five. I think that happened, and he’s been named by me twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year. I wrote that back to the publicist and she was like, wait, who said that. I’m like, oh, I did. She encouraged me to keep doing it.

All right, let’s hook that up with some views Shelf Life volume two. Jackie Fabulous has a new special on Hulu Today. In the special, titled You Can Leave, Jackie Fabulous tackles topics ranging from ex husband and diet pills, to menta pause and what people do. The Drive You Nuts.

Also out on Hulu Today, Chris Spencer’s new special, Goat Adjacent, presented…

Spencer touches on everything from marriage and family, aging, race, and his Jamaican roots. Some More has announced a Netflix special that one called Chandelier Fly that’ll be out February seventeenth. So it looks like Netflix is starting to roll specials out again because Kat Williams is out on the tenth Tuesday specials are back. Baby. Some More is a special Chandelier Fly, filmed at the Gordon Theater in Detroit.

She shares her takes on untimely death, celebrity scandals, and cell phone companies learning to mind their business. David Letterman will executive produce a Paul Schaeffer documentary. It is titled appropriately Say Hello to Our good Friend, Paul Schaeffer. David Letterman, in a statement, said, Paul Shaffer is a show business friend who became a real friend. A comedic partner who’s quickness in timing saved me night after night.

A composer, arranger and performer with endless range. His vast knowledge and list of collaborators in music make him a living rock and roll Hall of Fame. There’s no one more worthy of an examination of his life and work. You may recall, Paul Schaeffer was the sidekick on Late Night with David Letterman, which launched in nineteen eighty two. We just missed the anniversary.

I forgot to mention it. Paul was the leader of the World’s Most Dangerous Band. Then in nineteen ninety three, after those meetings at NBC gave the Tonight Show to the Worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno, Dave headed over to CBS to host the Late Show. Paul went with him, and Paul was the leader of the CBS Orchestra. Paul Schaeffer said, any contribution I’ve been lucky enough to make to the world of music and comedy has only been possible thanks to my working alongside David Letterman.

That’s why worldwide pans joining to help tell my story as a dream I cannot wait to share with all of you. Conan O’Brien returns to host the Oscars on Sunday, March fifteenth, seven East four West. It’ll be live on ABC and Hulu. Last year’s Oscars were very well received and the reason for today’s new story is the producers want us to know one hundred percent of the writers and producers are back. Full writing team is back, and plus they added former Conan writer Todd Levin.

Pandora has settled with comedians in a legal dispute over spoken word content licensing. Nine comedians and their heirs, including George Lopez, Lewis Black, and the estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin, had been fighting since twenty twenty two to increase the royalties paid when their comedy is streamed on Pandora. There has been a confidential settlement. The comedian’s lawyer said we settled amicably. Mystery Science Theater three thousand being revived again.

I stumbled across this on my own as a civilian. I wasn’t even doing show prep. I was just watching YouTube and I saw the announcement for the kickstarter. They want to produce four new episodes. The kickstarter in the first twenty four hours generated one point one to seven million dollars.

The original goal of the kickstarter was to raise twenty grand. In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of riff Tracks, Shout Studios now owns the rights to MST three K. Shout has teamed up with Rifftracks to produce new episodes of the show that will see Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett return, both in front end behind the screen. The four movies that will be featured will be revealed over the course of the campaign.

Nelson, Corbett and Murphy have been performing under the riff Tracks banner since two thousand and six. They often do Rifftracks live screenings, so it’s nice to see that they’re back involved in the MST three K verse. There was that weird Netflix season out there. Forget that ever, happened. Let’s get back to the main continuity.

MST three K launched on a Minneapolis the UHF station in nineteen eighty eight. Joel Hodgson previously revived the show via Kickstarter campaign in twenty fifteen. Was it that long ago season’s eleven and twelve yeared on Netflix? It’s ten years since the Netflix version? No way, I would have guessed like three wow, and then it was a thirteenth season on the online streaming platform.

The gizmo Plex totally missed that Eddie Murphy’s son and Martin Lawrence’s daughter are having a baby. Eric Murphy and Jasmine Lawrence announced the news. They posted thank you Jesus for the greatest gift. One person commented having Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence as your godparents is life. Another comment said that maybe gonna be talented and funny as hell?

All right? An item on Gossip Corner. I’m not playing the song because I do want to be serious here. I’m seeing this on a lot of social media. There is an alleged Jelayne Maxwell email asking famous sitcom star and comedian.

So think of a famous comedian who had a sitcom? So, whoever you’re imagining now. Well, apparently Julne invited famous sitcom star and comedian to the island. The email was shared as a screenshot in a Reddit community and has gone viral. In this post email, Jelayne Maxwell writes to Jeffrey Epstein, also, famous sitcom star and wife are going to be sailing around Saint t twenty six slash twenty seven.

Can I organize for them to come to the island for lemonade? Jeffrey Epstein writes back, Yes, there is no proof that the famous comedian accepted the lemonade invitation or dinner, or had ever been to the island. That’s just out there. John Stewart’s name does appear in the Epstein files. On Monday’s Daily Show, John said, of course, to get out of the story.

I’m also in the files. We all searched our names, right, you. Guys in search your name? All right? Well, I yeah, no, I know whatever I am in the files.

All right, this is actually true. I take you to the scene. It is midnight, August twenty ninth, twenty fifteen. Jeffrey Epstein lies wide awake, his mind turning with ideas. He juts a quick note to a producer named Barry Josephson, saying, I suggested to Woody.

Y’all know which Woody. Right see Epstein Files. It ain’t Harrelson, all right or the Cowboy Toy story, you know Rich Moonty returning quote, I suggested to Woody that he do an exclusive new stand up routine for either Apple TV or Amazon. Oh, Jeffrey Epstein always had his finger on the pulse of what America was clamoring for in twenty fifteen. But Barry Josephson, thinking like the out of the box television professional that he was, pitched this idea, this is true quote, make a true biographical experience with his stand up being the kapper.

Somebody like John Stewart could host, slash narrate the biographical part. Excuse me, I am offended. Somebody like John Stewart, Poor John Stewart. My point is, do I have the offer or is this an audition. With the big document dumb?

All the late night hosts have weigh in. John Stewart said, there have been consequences for none of these dudes. They’ve been on the plane, they’ve been on the island, they’ve been to his house, they’ve given creepy cards with pubic care. They’ve been accused by a multitude of women of multitude of wrongdoings and nothing has happened to any of them. I gotta be honest, I’m just not sure anyone’s going to be held accountable for any of this.

Oh except Prince Andrew. Oh, Prince Andrew stripped of the title Prince. W Ooh, such a penalty. I guess here I’ll plug. Uh.

Yeah, We’ve been talking about that a lot on Palace Intrigue. Palace Intrigue and the writer for that, and we talk about the royal family every day, and Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and keeping me quite busy. Back to comedy, Stewart said, Look, man, we always knew that the people at DJ releasing these documents weren’t on a fact finding mission. They were running interference. And the guy that the running interference for seems very satisfied with these results.

Jimmy Kimmel, I think we’ve done like eight or nine hundred Monday shows. I don’t know that we’ve ever had more madness to go through. There’s so much. I’ll start with what we know on Friday morning, the ironically titled Department of Justice release about half of the Epstein files. They’re supposed to release all of them on December nineteenth of last year.

That obviously didn’t happen. They claimed they needed time to redact the names of the victims, but whether intentionally or as a result of incompetence, or a combination of both, they released thousands of files that did not have the names or photos of many of the victims redacted. But they did do a pretty decent job of redacting the names of the victimizers. There are many disturbing accounts of questionable activity and emails, notes, text messages, et cetera, and about a lot of famous people, including Bill Gates, Steve Bennon, Richard Branson, and of course Donald Trump. It would seem that some other famous people, including Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, may not have been telling the whole truth about their actions with Jeffrey Epstein.

It is clear that Prince Andrew is royally, which is you know, it’s a term you hear a lot, but rarely when it is literally true. And most of all, it is so. Bananas that the guy who’s in charge of releasing all these files and redacting all this evidence is Donald Trump’s own personal defense attorney. You know, when Trump was convicted of thirty four felony council fraud, Todd Blanche was his lawyer. Now Todd Blanche is the gatekeeper to the Epstein files and the woman who could give us clarity on who did what.

Julane Maxwell is now doing yoga in a country club detention center because Todd Blanche moved her to one for reasons that he still hasn’t explained to anyone.

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And then there’s all this other stuff going on, busting into the election hea…

My head is spinning. I guess that’s the point, But my gud, remember when Trump was threatening to invade Greenland. That was not even two weeks ago. We’re living in dog ears now and it’s only going to get nuttier.

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And now that this new batch of Epstein files is out, the Distracto Mattock is…

Up Stein Vilbert did a lengthy monologue. Here are excerpts from it. I have made some edits to this four pacing. Because on Friday morning, the Justice Department released its largest batch of Epstein documents, which totals over three million pages. Three million.

Is a lot of pages, and it’s three million pages of just terrible stuff. Folks out there are still slogging through all the files, but they implicate a who’s who of powerful men, including everyone from tech titans to Wall Street power brokers. Yes, there’s one prominent guy who is in there, prominently because President Donald Trump is mentioned more than one thousand times, and the New York Times found fifty three hundred files with references to Trump and more than thirty eight thousand references to Trump, his wife and Mara a Lago thirty eight thousand references. That seems low, Frank, Obviously, this is the biggest story imaginable. But for some reason it isn’t what is detailed in those three million pages or allegations of some of the cruelest, most depraved crimes against women and kids involving some of the most powerful men on planet Earth.

Seth Myers said, we’re living in magas warped world where everything is upside down and nothing matters except who has power and who does not. They hail violent January sixth rioters as heroes and call peaceful protesters domestic terrorists. The government rounds up children and families and citizens and claims they’re going after the worst of the worst, while at the same time they cover up for wealthy and powerful elites named in the emails of a guy who was actually the worst of the worst. Late Nighter points out that even Saturday Night Live was mentioned in the Epstein files some quick hits there in twenty sixteen, the day after SNL aired a cold open in which Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump was visited by John Goodman’s Rex Tillerson and Beck Bennett’s Vladimir Putin. Epstein appears to have emailed a Variety article about the sketch to billionaire Tom Pritzker.

Twenty eighteen, Fred Armison portrayed Michael Wolf. Epstein filed off an email to the real Wolf with his review SNL was great. Late Nighter recaped several other SNL mentions in the files and from the Washington Post. Donald Trump told some jokes the Washington Post tells us Trump was addressing the Afalfa Club. Some members of the club are known to be in opposition to the president.

The president’s jokes included and of course he told them better than I will. So many people in the room I hate most of you. I like, who in the hell thought this was going to happen. The President joked he might have to cut the speech short because he needed to watch the invasion of Greenland, joking, We’re not gonna invade Greenland, We’re gonna buy it. It’s never been my intention to make Greenland the fifty first state.

I want to make Canada the fifty first state. Greenland will be the fifty second state. Venezuela can be the fifty third. Currently, the President pointed to Kevin Worsh, nominee to be the next FED chairman. The president joked, if he does a lower interest rates, I’m suing his ass off.

Trump took a beat for timing and jagged it with I’m kidding. Later in the day, the President was asked by reporters about the comments. The President explained, it’s a roast, it’s a comedy night. Apparently, the president joked that he thought Conda Leeza Rice would be the first female president, and his joke never in a million years when I’ve thought Joe Biden would beat her to it. The President also told reporters I had the nastiest, most vicious joke about John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

If you think I’m going to tell that joke, you can forget it. I’m going to kiss his ass for a long time. That’s your comedy, is for it today? Oh boy? All right, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Donald Trump, Nicki Minaj, Joe Coy, Bad Bunny, Ricky Gervais, Nate Bargatze, Bill Maher, Pete Davidson, MGK, Kat Williams, Ron White

What’s in This Episode

• Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over Grammys joke
• Nicki Minaj responds to Trevor Noah Grammy joke
• Grammy Awards 2026 hosting criticism and review
• Pete Davidson Show Netflix debut
• Kat Williams new Netflix special announcement
• Comedy Survivor voting results

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hy There, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The President of the United States has threatened to sue quote unquote talentless Grammy Awards host Trevor Noah for quote unquote plenty dollar signs. Apparently the President of the United States did not like one of the jokes. The President took time out of his very very busy schedule running the country to post on Truth’s social the Grammy Awards are the worst, virtually unwatchable.

CBS is lucky not to have this garbage litter their airwaves any longer. Next year, the Grammys will air on ABC. The President reacted after this joke from Trevor Noah. That is a Grammy that every artist wants, almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense. I mean, because Epstein’s Island is gone.

He needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton. So, oh, I told you it’s my last year. What are you gonna do about it? Oh? The President had more to say.

The host, Trevor Noah, whoever he may be, is almost as bad as Jimmy Kimmel at the Low Ratings Academy Awards. Noah said incorrectly about me that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. Wrong. I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false, intfamatory statement, have never been accused of being there, not even by the fake news media. I don’t even know what to say to that one.

Never been accused of being there, The President continued, Noah a total loser. Better get his fact straight and get them straight fast. It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless dope of an MC and sue him for a plenty dollars sign Ask Little George Slapadopolis and others how that all worked out.

Also ask CBS get ready, Noah, I’m gonna have some fun with you.

Someone else who did not enjoy Trevor Noah is Nicki Minaj. You may recall this joke. We got John Letgend in. The house, Oh man, Every single person John Legend, Finnis Phineas Nicki. Minaj is not here.

She is not here, Um. She is. She is still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues. Actually Nikki, I have the biggest ass. I haven’t.

Everybody’s saying it, Nicki. I know they say it to you, but it’s me. Wop wop wop. Look at it. Look at it, baby.

Nicki minaj on X posted Trevor refuses to come out of the closet when everyone in the industry knows his boyfriend dot dot dot allegedly. In another post, she wrote, as they do their ritual tonight, God Almighty will reveal themselves to them. The ritual will backfire on them. God will not be mocked. Blessed is the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Every tongue that rises up against me in judgment shall be condemned and put to shame. Watch You may know Nicki Minaje from such songs as Super Freaky Girl. In the Hollywood reporter Daniel Feinberg, who’s one of my favorites, wrote, Nobody’s going to come away from the Grammy’s telecap remembering any of Noah’s monologue speech because there was no monologue speech. There were barely any jokes. It was really just Trevor Noah running around the floor gushing about the talent.

In a very small portion of the audience. Really, Noah got to like three tables, enough time to shake a few famous people’s hands and say are you kidding me? Seemingly a few dozen times. It was an enthusiastic chummy thoroughly vapid. But if the point was for absolutely nobody in the audience to feel even slightly offended or amused, he achieved that goal.

Yeah, you gotta be careful because one time Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes and told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Yeah, I mean, so, Trevor’s smart to play it safe. You don’t want to make a Taylor Swift level joke and have the Ice Queen make a face and basically wreck your career.

You don’t want that to happen, Daniel Finberg writes. And the truth, of course, is that for many viewers, Trevor delivered exactly what they craved, a hollow, cheery escape from everything happening on the news, an insulated celebration of super officiality that was then punctured by the awards and the recipients. Finberg writes, sure, I want things to be political if you don’t bully for you, But in lieu of political, I would have settled for funny or purposeful or not bothering waste ten minutes just starting the show. This was none of these. It was just enthusiastic.

Daniel then goes on to speak about how the artists were not as blanned as trivor specifically Bad Bunny. I’ll call out because Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl halftime show this upcoming weekend, and I suspect he will be in the news. Bad Bunny, during his speech, said ice out. We’re not savages, We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.

Got some more politics for you later, or we’ll do that in the second half. I do try to keep it light. Ricky Gervais waited in during the awards, as he has done in the past. Ricky shared an excerpt from his infamous twenty twenty Golden Globes monologue in which he told the actors of the room not to turn their acceptance speeches into political calls to action. This time, Jervas used a crying emoji and wrote, they’re still not listening.

You may recall in twenty twenty. He said, if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Nate Berghatzy went on Bill Mahers show.

Bill Maher said, you and I we could not be more different. You met your wife at an Applebee’s. Nate Pergatzy was curious and asked Bill Moore, when was the last time you were at an Applebee’s. Morris said never. I don’t think it existed when I was poor and now I’m effing rich.

Pete Davidson debuted is not at all a podcast? The Pete Davidson Show on Netflix. Did you watch it? I don’t think too many people did. I was checking all weekend to see if it made the top ten.

It did not. Bert Kreischer’s Thing is in the top ten, but Pete did not. I lasted about two seconds with it. It was not for me. Pete Davidson sat down with MGK.

They discussed the importance of bidazz. Yes, I don’t know what you were watching all weekend. Maybe the Grammys, but you could have been watching Pete Davidson and MGK discussing bidezs. Pete Davidson refuses to use the bidet he has on the Japanese toilet in his home because quote, I’m afraid I’ll love it, and I don’t be able to, you know, go anywhere else because I can’t shoot water up my place. Let you shoot water up.

They got a little more serious. Pete said, I think we both thought we were going to die pretty young. I’m equally impressed by both of us and been able to keep it going, which it’s now past that point where it’s like, yeah, we’ve had troubles while sober, and you’re like, yeah, it’s fine. MGK said their bipolar has synced up. Every time I’m having a manic episode, you’re good.

Every time you’re having one, I’m good. It goes back and forth. Pete said, thank god, because we’d be dead for sure. Then they shared some stories about various drugs and I’m just not interested in any of that. Cant Williams will have a special on Netflix.

It’s his fourth. It will premiere February tenth, one week from today. It is called The Last Report. In it, Kat Williams delivers his take on conspiracies, celebrities, and the world at large. I went to pull the trailer for you, but he’s Kat Williams and I like to keep this podcast clean, so it didn’t work.

But I’ll tell you he joked about buying a farm and he bought all the animals that were delicious, like cows, pigs, and chickens, and that he hasn’t killed a single animal yet. I’ll save the joke part for a week from today when Kat Williams new specials out on Netflix. Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. Ron White voted out week four. A pretty shocking result there.

We’ll see who goes out this week. So what do you do? You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You’ll find a cartoon image of me and Ron White in that thread. Vote someone off the island.

Just make a crystal clear vote. I’m voting off. So and so. It’s been a lot of fun and the group is having fun. Alliances are starting to form.

I think that’s good. If you’re at the comedy store in La tonight, really good. Lineup. They had a Jim Norton to a lineup that was already David Spade, Andrews Santino, Whitney Cummings plus more. That’s pretty good.

Gossip Connor spoons in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby, Gossip Conna were with Johnny magg It’s as. A tree and welcome to Gossip Corner. Now, this first one is completely unconfirmed, but I’ve seen a lot of chatter about this as the story goes, assuming when this even happened. Sadie Sandler, the daughter of Adam Sandler, was in a Chanelle store in Beverly Hills. As the story goes, one of the workers supposedly, perhaps maybe judged Sadie Sandler for her casual outfit while Sadie Sandler was perhaps possibly maybe looking at a classic flat bag, which goes for twenty eight six hundred dollars.

There is a widely shared TikTok video in which Sadie Sandler supposedly enters the Chanelle boutique. She stressed in an oversized hoodie, basketball shorts and trainers boy. She is her father’s daughter. As the story goes, a sales associate dismissed her interest and suggested the item was intended only for serious buyers. If the story is true, in this version, Adam Sandler himself shows up question the staff about judging customers by appearance, and then buys something himself.

It’s unclear what Adam Sandler has bought. If this story is true, The story is being reposted across multiple social plotfs. There are no photographs, surveillance footage, or eyewitness accounts from inside the store so far. The TikTok video also does not specify an exact date or time of the encounter. Did it even happen?

Who knows? Fun story sure.

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Also on gossip Corner, Radar Online says Amy Schumer is being bothered by onl…

If even this gets mocked, it shows you can’t win no matter what she does. Bill Board put out the top touring comedians for December. John Mulaney leads the pack six point one million dollars fifty one thousand tickets sold over fifteen shows. Must be nice your top five. Number five.

Dave Chappelle grows two and a half million, sold eighteen thousand, three hundred tickets. Fourth, Jimmy Carr grows two point six million and sold forty one thousand tickets In third place, Matt Rife grows four to four and so old fifty nine thousand, six hundred tickets. Nate Brigetzi, who’s off in number one he was number two, grows to four point nine million, sold one hundred and seventeen thousand, and again John Mulaney fifteen shows, six point one million dollars fifty one one hundred tickets. Page six says that Tim Dillon hopes to film his next special on skid Row. A source says that’s what he wants to do.

I think he just thinks it’s a funny thing to do. On his podcast, he joked, LA should think of skid Row as an asset. Let’s be proud of it. Let’s say we are the top homeless destination in the world. I take friends now when they visit to skid Row, and I’m proud of it.

I’m like, there’s ten thousand people here right now. Jokes aside. I listened to the newest episode of Tim Dillon’s podcast. He was pretty serious for the entire episode. I think I can tell when he’s joking and not joking, and I think he was serious this week.

I did pull a clip. Here’s Tim Dillon. They’re censoring your post on TikTok. Anyone who’s not criticizing this, anyone who’s not calling this out, I cannot trust that. I don’t know why they’re not calling it out.

I don’t know if there’s a fine ancial benefit to them not calling it out, or if they feel that one side’s already one and they want to be on that side. I don’t know if they are fearful of something or other. But if you’re not calling this out, if you don’t think this is wrong, if you make a living speaking, if you’re a comedian, podcaster, journalist, whatever you are, doesn’t really matter. If you are a YouTuber, if you’re a social media personality, if you make a living using your fat mouth, and you don’t think this is a problem, You don’t think getting a group of billionaires that are ideologically aligned to go buy an app and then start censoring the content on the app. It was a problem when it was being done during COVID, and it’s a problem when it’s being done now.

And if you don’t care about that, and if you think that’s not going to affect you for whatever reason, I can’t trust you, and I can’t listen to what you say. You don’t have any credibility. And we started with politics, will end with politics. I wonder if we’re losing the country. The FCC chairman says fake news won’t qualify for the equal time rule exemption.

In case you missed it, two weeks ago, the FCC’s Media Bureau issued new guidance on the Equal Time rule, which requires that broadcasters who feature qualified political candidates on the airwaves provide time to rivals if requested. News had been exempted from the rule, and in recent decades it was assumed the rule also applied to daytime and late night talk shows like Say Jimmy, Kimme Alive, or Colbert. However, new FCC guidance has signaled to those talk shows that they should no longer believe they would be exempt. At the FCC meeting a Commissioner. Carr said that a determination on whether a show is exempt would come down to a number of factors, including whether there was a partisan motivation in featuring a political candidate as a guest.

He said that congressional lawmakers were worried that TV programmers would brought take advantage of trying to claim they were bona fide news when they weren’t. But if you’re fake news, you’re not going to qualify for the bonafide news exemption. Back in two thousand and six, the FCC determined that the Tonight Show with Jay Leno was exempt from the equal time rule. Carr said that assumption in light of the ruling was that every single late night, every single daytime show must be bonafide news, and he says that assumption is not right. So we’ll see how that affects bookings as we head into the midterm elections.

You know, sometimes the late night talk show is just a late night talk show, and that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ron White, Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Joe Koy, Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Tig Nataro, Leslie Jones

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor Week 4 elimination results
• Ron White voted off the island in shocking upset
• Organized voting blocks influencing elimination outcomes
• Legacy comedians vulnerability in the competition
• Tig Nataro emerging as recurring target with save campaign
• Week 5 voting predictions and analysis

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 Week four elimination show for Comedy Survivor. We placed sixteen comedians on an island. Every week, the Facebook group at Daily Comedy News podcast group votes one comedian off comedy Island.

So far, Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, and Joe Koy have been eliminated. Still in the game, Jay Leno, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Otsko At Kotzka, Sebastian Maniscalco, tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Kreischer. The listeners have gone to the Facebook group and they’ve voted. I’m now tally the votes. Mike votes for Ron White.

That is Ron White’s first vote of the season. A Vaughn votes for Ron White. That’s two votes for Ron White. Scott votes for tig Nataro, Mike votes for Seth Myers, Dylan votes for Tignataro. That’s two votes Tignataro, two votes Ron White.

Barb votes for Ron White. That’s three votes for Ron White. Michelle votes for John Mulaney. That’s John Mulaney’s first vote of the season. Matt votes for Jay Leno, Andrea the votes for Tignataro.

That’s three votes tag Nataro, three votes for Ron White. Marty votes for Jim Gaffigan. That’s Jim Gaffigan’s first vote of the season. Andy votes for Leslie Jones with the hashtag save tig Raffy votes for Leslie Jones. That’s three votes for Ron White, three votes for Tignataro, two votes for Leslie Jones.

Richard votes for Ron White. That’s four votes for Ron White. Lindsay he votes for Otsko Atkotska, Lee votes for Tignataro. That’s four votes for Tignataro, four votes for Ron White. Aaron votes for Ron White, and Cheryl votes for Ron White.

In a shocking out of nowhere vote, the Facebook group has a line to vote off Ron White. Ron White went from zero votes to being voted off Comedy Island. No one is safe. We’ll take the break and we’ll come back and look at the analysis. Wow, what a stunning result.

The votes are in. Ron White eliminated. He had no votes coming into this week, and then you guys are like, he’s out of here. I’m also fascinated by the save Tignaitaro contingent. Well, they’ve become a voting block and a lot with whoever the trendy pick is to save.

Very fascinating. I’ve seen some people hanging back until later in the week to use their vote strategically. So much fun. Ron White six votes four, Leslie Jones two, A bunch of others got one. The AI says Tignataro is now officially the recurring alternative and that the backup target often becomes the main target the following week.

However, will people sacrifice Leslie Jones to save tig Nataro? Very very fascinating. Legacy comics are vulnerable so far. Who’s gone out? Or Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Ron White and Joe Coy one time, most of the Golden globes, So I don’t have time for that, The AI says, once the name of pears, it keeps appearing.

So that’s interesting because we had a few first time votes today. Organized blocks win. You don’t need the room, you need your people, According to the AI, who looks safe right now Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Manaskalco. But I’m looking back to last week’s AI analysis and the AI said Ron White was safe and thought the front runner for being in trouble this week was Tignataro. Not too far off the mark.

The AI’s guessed at who is in trouble this upcoming week Tignataro, Leslie Jones, Jay Leno. If the group finally decides it’s time to pull the trigger on Jay and we keep seeing Strevos for Osco at Conska, here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go to the Facebook group. It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group. You’re going to find a cartoon image of me extinguishing the torch of Ron White in that thread.

Vote someone off. Please make it super clear that you’re voting someone off. All the side commentary is fine, but a nice clear sentence, like my vote is makes it super easy for me and the AI to check my work. The last thing I want to do is have a voting controversy off a silly once a week bit where we’re just having fun on Facebook. So let’s try and avoid that.

Do Crystal clear votes Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. This is so much fun to do. I love putting it together. I don’t like look at it and kind of trend it. You know, I likely look at it during the week just to be like, oh, look a couple of Ron White votes.

But I’m not keeping an unofficial tally until I actually record the show in real time as you hear it. If you’re new to all this, I’ll give you the names real quick so you can play along at home. Out Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Jokoy, Ron White. Still in the game, you will vote someone off from the pool of I’m gonna read it in the opposite order today, Bert Kreischer, Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, Tig Nataro Zebastian Maniscalco, otsko At Kotzka, John Mulaney, Kevin Hart, Seth Myers, Nikki Glaser, Jim Gaffigan, or Jay Leno. That is your comedy Survivor for week five.

Back in the morning with a normal episode. Stay warm,

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Nate Bargatze, Catherine O’Hara, Macaulay Culkin, Seth Rogen, Pedro Pascal, Michael Keaton, Mike Myers

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah Grammy Awards hosting monologue recap
• Nate Bargatze wins Best Comedy Album Grammy
• Ben Bankers’ canceled shows in Minnesota and CAA dispute
• Catherine O’Hara death and tributes from comedy world
• Rob Schneider and Patricia divorce announcement

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, I psych. Hi, I’m Johnny Mag with your daily coming news. Why you psych, Johnny Mag? Because Trevor Noah got it done.

I was texting with my son. I’m like, I hope Trevnoa does a tight monologue and it’s done and I can record the show during halftime. And Trevor wrapped it up with twelve seconds in the first half as the Knicks played the Lakers. So high from halftime, as I’m recording, Trevor Noah just took the stage at the Grammys. I love Trevor.

I just think he’s a really good host, very comfortable. You can trust him with a show. Nothing amazing out of his monologue, but it was fun and upbeat, and you know he’s setting the stage for a party. He did go a long way for this first joke. Uppatah is actually inspired by a Korean drinking game right where you stack your hands on top of each other.

Someone shouts a number, you count up, and then if your hand hits that number, you drink. Yeah. That’s way more complicated than the drinking game we have in America. In America, every time you turn on the news, you drink ah pta ah pata. See you may be wondering, all right, is Trevor going to get pointed at all?

A little bit of here with this one? Oh and the one and only Miss Lauren Hill will be performing on that stage tonight, which is insane when you think about it, because the last time Lauren Hill performed at the Grammys was in nineteen ninety nine. I understand that you understand how long ago that was. Back in nineteen ninety nine, the president had had a sex scandal, people thought computers were about to destroy the world, and Diddy was arrested. Boy, how times have changed.

And then, really the closest thing to a political joke in the monologue was this one. We got John Legend in the house. Oh man, every single personally here, John Legend, Philly Alis, Phineas, Nicki Minaj is not here. She is not here, she is she is still at the White House. With Donald Trump discussing very important issues.

Actually, Nikki, I have the biggest ass. I haven’t. Everybody’s saying it, Nicki. I know they say it to you, but it’s me. Wop wop wop.

Look at it. Look at it baby. The Grammy for Best Comedy Album went to Nateperghetzi for your Friend Nateperghetzy. I didn’t think that was Nate’s best special at all, but okay, fine. He beat out Bill Burr’s Dropped Dead Year, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, Ali Wong’s Single Lady, and Jamie fox Is.

What had happened was Jamie, who, as longtime listeners know, I used to work with. He’s sitting pretty close upstage wearing a very big hat, like a hat that’s saying hey, look at me, and sunglasses, and I wonder if that particular look is perhaps, possibly, maybe somehow related to the stroke. I just found it an odd fashioned decision. Anyway. I hope he’s doing well.

Now. For today’s show, I’m flipping the order a little bit because I recorded the second half earlier. So usually I do the Newsy News in the first half and some of the more esoteric stuff in the second half. So that’s kind of flipped today just to accommodate the production. Remember I told you I think it was in yesterday’s show by the comedian Ben Bankers, the guy who had made jerky jokes about Renee Good.

Bankers addressed the cancel shows in a video he’s shared on his Instagram on the twenty ninth, and the clip he tells an audience, I just found out my shows were canceled in Minnesota FM. He said he was working on a new venue and dates for the fine people of Minnesota. The owner of the club who had canceled the shows told The Tribune that CAA, who represents Ben Bankers, is insisting that the club fully compensate Bankers for the canceled shows due to the fact that he was willing to perform fair enough. The owner also says that CIA will not allow any of its other clients to perform at the club until the matter is fully resolved. That would surprise me if CAA is ice club, And I did want to talk about the passing of Catherine O’Hara, who died Friday in Los Angeles at age seventy one.

The Toronto native began at the Second City as an understudy to Gilda Radner from Second City, the famous Canadian sketch show SCTV, where she did fantastic work and if you’re of a certain age like me, that’s where she got on your radar. Later playing the mom in the Home Alone Movies, McAuley Culkin posted, Mama, I thought we had time. I wanted to sit in a chair next to you. I heard you, but I had so much more to say. I love you.

I’ll see you later. In the Home Alone films, the family rushes through Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. The Airport posted thank you Catherine O’Hara, Forever our legendary missus McAllister. More recently, O’Hara was on Apple TV’s The Studio. Seth Rogan wrote on Instagram, We’re all lucky we got to live in a world with her.

She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous. She made me want to make our show good enough to be worthy of her presence in it. Pedro Pascal, who shared the screen with her in the Last of Us, wrote, the is less light in my world. This lucky world that had you will keep you always. Brooke Shields wrote what an honor it was to be spoofed by Catherine O’Hara on the old SETV series.

Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, wrote, Canada has lost a legend. Over five decades of work, Catherine earned her place in the Canada of Canadian comedy. From SETV to Shit’s creek. She was an ambassador for Canada and the truest sense, brilliant, fearless, deeply original. It’s so full of humanity.

She made the world laugh, but she also made people feel seen. Mike Myers wrote, it was a very sad day for comedy and for Canada. She was one of the greatest comedy artists in history and inspiration for millions and above all, very elegant lady. Setting much love and condolences to her family. Michael Keaton wrote, we go back before the first beadle jew.

She’s been my pretend wife, my pretend nemesis, and my real life true friend. This one hurts, man. I’m going to miss her thinking about bo as well. Jernny Gunderson, executive director of the National Comedy Center, in a statement, wrote, Katherine O’Hara was one of the rare performers who could disappear completely into character and somehow make that character unforgettable shape what comedy acting could be, blending precision, humanity, and originality in a way that felt effortless. Her work will continue to inspire generations of performers and audiences.

So, like I said, to flipping the order around a little bit today, we’ll take the break here and we’ll come back and do more of a normal second half. Coming up at noon Eastern today the results of Comedy Survivor Week four. Looking forward to seeing who was voted off Comedy Island. Remember back on I think it was Friday show, maybe it was Thursday’s show. I had reached out to Deacon Mike.

I was curious about Stephen Colbert’s use of Faith leader. Stephen Colbert is a Catholic. I’m a Catholic and growing up Catholic, I never really heard that term. Deacon Mike said, his guest is, that’s a personal term from Colbert that would be all encompassing to be more inclusive to all people of faith. And you know, getting a vibe for how Stephen Colbert rolls when he’s not ruining Star Trek.

That makes sense. So appreciate Deacon Mike for getting back to me. He did to get back to me. I know in your world it’s like four days later. He got back to me about ten minutes after I finished recording the episode.

But thank you. Deacon Mike. Got some items from Gossip Corner. I’m not gonna play the song because the spirit of the show is not quote unquote dancing on people’s graves. I don’t want people to be miserable.

But in the news, Rob Schneider and his wife have announced that their marriage is coming to an end. Thirty seven year old Patricia has filed for divorce from her sixty two year old husband, Robert Schneider. The divorce summary is requesting the court to keep the documents confidential. The couple has two daughters, age thirteen and ten. They first met in two thousand and seven on a TV project.

Rob Schneider was forty four, Patricia was nineteen. They got married four years later. Staying on gossip corner, Raider Online has the headline Amy Schumer goes goopy over divorce love Lauren comic, using Gwyneth Paltrow as an inspiration for her conscious uncoupling. A source told Rader Online Amy is obsessed with controlling the narrative, really with controlling everything. She seems convinced that if she and Chris can have this perfect divorce, I don’t want her so much.

That’s why she wanted to get everything totally handled before making the news public. All the houses are getting sold, the money’s divided up and they’ve agreed on custody. There won’t be any fights or drama, which is very important to Amy for her son’s sake and for Chris. She’s very focused on protecting them both. These source ads no doubt Amy’s image is part of this too.

She knows it’s going to be picked apart, and she wants to give people as little ammunition as possible. As much as she claims not to care what people think, she actually does care a lot. Amy’s telling people she wants to stay friends with Chris, and they were even going to get each other’s advice on who to date, which strikes a lot of people as bizarre. I’m glad the source said that, because I was about to editorialize there, like and just say that’s weird. The source continued.

She’s also adamant that this has nothing to do with her suddenly getting skinny, but the timing of her weight loss does have a lot of people questioning if she’s being fully transparent about that. Now, while I was prepping the show, actually let me check this again. Hold on, okay, I was going to tell you there was a dead link for a day. There was a dead link under the headline Amy Schumer thought she’d be flooded with interest to mid divorce news, but it hasn’t happened. This on the National Inquirer dot com as a recording this on Friday.

The link it seems to have come back to life. An insider says Amy really thought she’d be flooded with interest, more dates, more tension, but it hasn’t happened. Another source says she’s not chasing anything. If a date happens, great, If not, she’s totally fine being on her own. Maybe she could date Rob Schneider.

I thought this was weird, a weird decision by The Daily Show. They used Whitney Cummings as a correspondent last week and Whitney Cummings in the Daily Show just don’t go together in my mind. If you spent a lot of time, especially on comedy threads, Whitney is not all that popular on social media, and without doing any research, I would guess Whitney Cummings is not that popular with many fans of the Daily Show. I just thought it was weird Whitney Cummings took over the shows in my opinion desk for commentary aimed at liberal voters and their tendency to demand perfection from Democratic presidential candidates. Whitney said, I’m here to talk to you as a liberal and acknowledge sometimes her politics have been misread.

Some people think got right wing just because I look and sound exactly like Kimberly Gilfoyle. But I’m a liberal. She went on for seven minutes, and the point of her thesis is if you keep holding out for mister Wright, we’re gonna end up with mister alt right. Pete Davidson was on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. He talked about being a dad.

He said, the reality has set in. We had a moment last week we were like, oh, she’s here, She’s like staying. Now it’s real. He also said about babies, they crap so much. They crap while they’re crapping.

The best advice I got and I hate it’s so name dropping, but Eddie Murphy gave you great advice. The best advice is no advice. You can’t tell another man how to raise his child. Jason Kelsey and ESPN will not pursue a second city of they call it Late Night with Jason Kelsey. Remember Jason Kelsey had a Late Night show that really nobody watched.

When I saw the phrasing, Jason Kelsey will not pursue a second season if they call it late night. My line on Threads was, I’ve decided not to continue pursuing dating Sydney Sweeney. I have the same chance. Here’s the spin. The decision came from Kelsey, who wanted to explore there are other opportunities during the off season rather than commit to another run of the show.

Dude, they did five episodes last year. Five. ESPN is supportive of continuing the program. Uh huh. Last year, Jason Kelsey hosted five episodes.

The show aired on late Friday nights. The debut episode got two hundred and ninety thousand viewers. Even Seth Myers is like, really, dude, more people watch my show. At the time, the ESPN president told The New York Times that the network wasn’t focused on ratings for the five episode experiment and said that the decision about the show’s future would be a little bit more art than science. But again, we’re being told that Jason Kelcey wants to explore other opportunities.

Isn’t that usually what you say when you get fired from a job. They like so and so has left the job to pursue other opportunities. Is and that we usually say, I’m calling hogwash there, Jason Kelce, and that is your comedy news for today, right at noon Eastern Comedy Survivor and Normal Episode in the morning. I’ll see you then

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Featured: Andrew Schulz, Joe Rogan, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Bill Burr, Ali Wong, Jamie Foxx, Nate Bargatze, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Late night hosts joke about Melania Trump documentary premiere
• Andrew Schulz criticizes Trump administration’s response to Minneapolis ICE incident
• Joe Rogan explains why he didn’t submit for Golden Globe nomination
• 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony hosted by Trevor Noah
• Trevor Noah Best Comedy Album nomination history and final CBS hosting year

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am so cold. I’ve had it. Hi, I am Johnny Mac with your daily coming your news. I’ve got the space here on in the studio.

Today we’ll test out the noise reduction. I thought I was gonna do a Grammy’s preview today. Surprisingly surever Noah, I don’t see that he did any press for this. Very very interesting because I’ve got a normal episode for you today and there’s plenty to talk about. Let’s start with late night, they were making fun of the Milania movie.

Jimmy Kimmel made fun of the red carpet and who was there. It included former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who did not have the best of deportres, doctor Oz Todd, and Julie chris Lee rfcage Kimbil said it was either a movie premiere or season thirty five of Dancing with the Stars. Colbert said the premiere was attended by members of the administration like Peek egg Seth Christy, Noah, Marfkay Junior, and Cash Mattel, as well as several former NFL players and UFC fighters, which means a bunch of people with brain damage sat next to NFL players and UFC fighters. I like that a lot, But the best jokes actually came from Fallon. He was excited.

It was a big weekend for the movies. Yeah, you got the Milania documentary and you have the new Rachel McAdams film Send Help, which fun fact, was actually the original title of the Millennia movie Fallin Again. Right now, Trump is encouraging everyone to see it in imax so his hands look regular size. But critics are saying the film isn’t great. I’m not saying it’s bad, but after the movie, Trump took his name off the Kennedy Center.

That’s fantastic. Andrew Schultz is quote continuing to distance himself from President Donald Trump. On The Flagrant podcast, Andrew Schultz said, let’s talk about what happened in Minneapolis. Ice murdered an American citizen in cold blood, and then the Trump administration called him a domestic terrorist. That’s it, like plan and simple.

I see the administration trying to spin it, and it’s effing disgusting. The editorial points out Schultz made a mistake confusing the Customs and Border Protection agents who killed pretty with immigration and customs with Ice. Schultz continued, they didn’t even have a moment where the like, we’re reviewing the footage, we’re trying to see what’s really happening. All of them, Trump and all the cronies put out collective statements that immediately blamed an American citizen that was exercising his First and Second Amendment rights right. He has the right to protest, he’s the right to carry a firearm.

There’s no question about this whatsoever. And the administration immediately comes out and they try to gaslight the public, which you can’t do when we have fifteen different videos of what happened. Andrew Schultz, you may recall two things are true. One, before Biden was the president, you know, it was president of the United States. This is a fun fact.

President Donald Trump was president for four years.

And then last year during the election cycle, Andrew Schultz had former Presi…

Mister Schultz seems surprised and how this administration has turned out. Schultz said, there’s no question about this whatsoever. And the administration immediately comes out there and they try to gas light the public, which you can’t do when we have fifteen different videos of what happened. Schaltz acknowledged that he had Trump on the podcast, adding I don’t think any of us are having this conversation to like curry any goodwill or get people to like us or something like that. This is something that is undeniably abhorrent and should be called out, simple as that.

It’s disgusting, as Detective John McLean said, and die Hard Welcome to the party. Pal Joe Rogan, he’s not wigged that he didn’t win a Golden Globe. He explained, I didn’t submit. They asked me to submit to be nominated for the Golden Globes, and he had to pay five hundred dollars, and the five hundred dollars just for paperwork or whatever, and I said no, like, I don’t care. I already won.

You can’t tell me I didn’t win. I’ve been number one for six years in a row. All of a sudden, you’re gonna have a contest in front of all these people wearing tuxedos, and you’re gonna say, now, I’m not number one, f off. I don’t care that I’m number one, but I am, in fact number one. So all of a sudden you have a contest to decide who’s really number one amongst us?

Like that’s amongst you. You’re allowed of your opinion. You like Amy Pohler better than me, that’s great. Rogan said he’s never seen Amy Poehler’s podcast. He gave it to a famous person.

Would you know in that world, that’s what they do. You give it a Amy Poehler amongst their circles, it’s not gonna have any criticism. I don’t know if amongst her group, if I listen to all of them, I would decide that hers is number one. But I just know I didn’t submit. I don’t want to be part of that.

I don’t care. You just a group of people that just decide all of a sudden’re gonna give in a war out. You gotta you get a trophy. F off.

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Speaking of award shows, the Grammys are on tonight on CBS eight pm Eastern T…

Again, Johnny Mac fought Trevor Noah would do some press and would be talking about that today, but he really didn’t do too much press. This is the third year in a row that Trevor Noah is both the host of the telecast and a nominee. Trevor Noah is nominated for Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording four Into the Uncut Grass. In twenty twenty four, he was nominated for Best Comedy Album four I Wish You Would, and in twenty twenty five for Where Was I. Six years ago, his album Son of Patricia was a finalist for Best Comedy Album.

Trevor Noah lost to Dave Chappelle all three times he was nominated for Best Comedy Album. This year’s nominees for Best Comedy Album are Dropped Dead Years by Bill Burr, post Mortem by Sarah Silverman, Single Lady by Ali Wong, What Had Happened Was by Jamie Fox, and your Friend Napergatsy by Nateprig to me, you got to give it to Sarah Silverman there, but we’ll see what they do. Recording Academy President Harvey Mason said he had a hard time convincing Trevor to come back. Mason said, it was the longest I’ve ever waited for text to come back in my life. But Trevor’s been so instrumental in the success or the recent growth of our show.

He set the tone for us who we are and what we do on this night. So smart so thoughtful, so funny, and he’s just a music guy. Trevor not expected to return next year when the telecast moves to ABC, Executive producer Ben Winston told reporters last week. After last year’s show, Trevor said, look, I’ve done a great five years. It’s time to hand the microphone off to somebody else and move on.

It got to December and we hadn’t found anybody that we absolutely loved. You guys should have asked Joe coy. Winston said, I sent Trevor a video and I was literally I was on my knees in the video and I said, please look at this incredible lineup that we’ve got on the show, and the only thing missing is you come back and do one final year. It’s the last year on CBS. Let’s make it your last year too.

Trevor texted back, Sure, let’s do it. See you there, can’t wait. Mason added, He’s been a big part of the evolution of our show, of our organization, to be honest, because he presents so well the gravitas, the sensibility, the emotional intelligence that he has and his interactions with the artist really has changed the tone and the tenor of our show, so we’re extremely thankful for his five now going on six shows. I’m looking forward to seeing what Trevor does tonight. In terms of commentary, last year, Trevor commented about Donald Trump returning to the presidency.

He made the joke there’s been a few changes in Washington. So I’m going to enjoy tonight because it might be my last time I got to host anything in this country. It’s a tough spot tonight, but you really can’t ignore the elephant in the room, unless, of course, you’re Saturday Night Live or Jimmy Fall and then you can. But to be fair, it’s also not why people are at the Grammys, So like you got to address it, but you can’t dwell on it. Tough spot.

I think Trevor’s up to the task. Bert Kreischer was on the Club Shay Shay podcast. He said he did receive an offer to perform at the Riyadh and Comedy Festival for a lot of money. Bert’s explanation, they wouldn’t let me perform shirtless, so I passed. He was asked if he would ever return to Russia after his famous experience as the Machine.

Kreischer said never, here’s the deal. After the whole Rion Comedy Festival debacle. If Putin hits me up and he wants me to do a private show, I think pr wise it’s not a bad look. I’d be terrified, but it’s another story. But come on in.

It’s a special right shirtless on a horse with Putin, I’d watch that. From the Guardian, they want to see Louis C.K. Quotes a comic who leaves a sour taste. It was the first of Louis’s three nights in the Apollo Theater, they write. He’s named the show ridiculous.

But with all this talk of friends dying or growing apart, or moving his eighty nine year old dad to a care home where the peripheral role his two adult daughters playing his life mortality might have suited it better. Seam Ricky Gervais got there first. The Guardian writes. He remains such a master craftsman that every complaint is always a clear component of a joke. He starts his hour on stage with a flourish, a mock confession about an AIDS test that flirts with the obvious, then pulls the rug out from under you.

He does the same as he applies philosophical routines about the fruitlessness of hope and the way God never ran is our prayers laughing Yet actually a lot of this goes down really well well a sold out crowd three stars out of five. One way you could support this program is you go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There are a couple bucks in the tip jar. I’ll tell you this morning at the National Donus chain, it was really warm and I was like, I wish I had brought my laptop.

I would have just worked out of here, Like it was really really warm. I’ve been so cold. I can’t take this gold anymore. Another thing you can do a different way to support the show is become a premium subscriber on Apple Podcasts. You click that banner it says uninterrupted listening, and then for five bucks a month you get this show and a bunch of others on the channel without commercial interruption.

There is a thirty day free try with that if you want to see what that’s like behind the scenes. I can auto publish the normal episode at three five am Eastern, which is what I usually do. I can’t auto publish the commercial free version, which drives me nuts, and I can’t do it until the regular version is up. So in reality, the commercial free version goes up usually around seven fifteen am in the morning. Believe me, I wish I could go up four hours earlier.

Drives me nuts. A comedian is facing a backlash and had some shows canceled after making a series of jokes about Renee Good during a set in Poughkeepsie. You may recall Renee Good was fatally shot in Minneapolis by Ice. Ben Bankis made some comments at the Laughing Up Comedy club inside Mahoney’s Irish Pub on the Poughkeepsie Waterfront. He did this on January tenth, just three days after Renee Good was fatally shot by Ice.

The quote from bankas, I’m going to read it without inflection. Her last name was Good. That’s what I said after they shot her in the face. He then went on to say he believed she should have been shot earlier and made a derogatory reference to her sexual orientation.

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And then from the recap, I’m seeing used a word that’s considered a slur agai…

A venue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, canceled six sold out performances by the comic after the comments. Bill Collins is the comedy club owner that said the cancelation were about ensuring the safety of the performer and the audience. He told the Saint Paul Pioneer Press that people threatened to boycott his venue and pick it outside the show. He told the newspaper, I’ve never had anything that happened like this before. It’s not the first time Bankus has had shows canceled over a controversial material.

This is the guy you may recall this story that had performances canceled in Canada after he joked about indigenous people and residential schools. Not my cup of tea, sir.

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Meanwhile, in Greenland, the capital of NUK has condemned as stunt by a Germa…

The German comedian attempted to raise an American flag in the capital city of Greenland. The mayor said Greenland is currently under intense international attention during a time of genuine anxiety and uncertainty for our population. In this situation, your choices, your jokes, and your methods are not harmless. They have consequences, real consequences for real people. The comedian Maxie Schaffroth had been filming in Nuok for his satirical program on a German public broadcaster.

He attempted to raise the US flag outside a cultural center, but was stopped by an employee. A spokesperson for nd R told Politico the editorial team is already apologized to several of those affected, as well as to local media, and has also sought to make contact with the mayor. Mister Shaffroth apologized to staff at the cultural center as well as to local media. Stephen Colbert was on Seth Myers. He told Seth’s seven viewers who would like the final guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to be the Pope?

The American Pope. And on Gossip Corner, Keenan Thompson’s former landlord says that Keenan Thompson may have broken the lease on an LA property. Keenan is being sued by the landlord for more than thirty four thousand dollars after allegedly terminating a year long lease on a rental property in LA. The Daily Mail says the documents suggests Thompson would still be responsible for rent until a tenant filled the vacancy. The lawsuit says that clause is consistent with California law.

The landlord claims he refused Thompson’s request to end the lease early, meaning Thompson would stuff to pay the rent. Monthly rent was ten h thousand, two hundred fifty dollars. A replacement tenant was found to reside at the place for the remaining nine months at eighty five hundred dollars a month, and some back and forth on money, including a late fee, a broke fee without legal fees. That is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow normal episode of three five am Eastern, and then at noon Eastern the results of Comedy Survivor, which, in my world I’m about to record.

I haven’t looked at it yet, don’t know who was voted off. I’m looking forward to finding out. So catch up with you guys tomorrow. Stay warm,

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Featured: Lewis Black, Conan O’Brien, Mark Marin, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Jason Bateman, Neil Brennan

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy podcast audience analysis using Reponic data
• Engagement patterns in comedy content – conflict vs announcements
• Daily Comedy News positioning within comedy podcast ecosystem
• Listener preference for established comedian personalities over formats
• Podcast analytics showing shared audiences between talk-based comedy shows

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mack, and today I gotta talk about some other stuff as I’ve been talking about for the weekends of January. I just wanna just do some other things, experiment with the format a little bit. I was running the stats from twenty twenty five to see what was resonating or not. I’m always trying to grow the show and get more listeners in.

I ran this through AI, and the AI tells me based on episode performance. Conflict driven stories outperform announcements. Comedy intersecting with politics, money or elite institutions drives engagement. Comedy intersecting with politics goes to both Colbert and Kimmel. Intersecting with money is the Rio Comedy Festival, and elite institutions is things around the White House or perhaps the Kennedy Center.

The secondary episodes are comedians responding to comedians. So if I can find a story where you know, comedian calls out comedian, why those do really well and actually outperform the original event, that’s interesting and what underperforms is neutral coverage. So you guys like me like a good fight, which brings me to today’s topic of comedy neighborhoods. I use this website called refonic r E P h O N. I see.

It’s a podcast analytics platform that aggregates and models listener behavior. They pull it from the Apple podcast data. But what they try to do is visualize relationships between shows. They create this like really cool graphic where you’ll see, like if I type in daily Coming News, they’ll be lines connecting to other shows. So they kind of map it out the way they map out a star chart on your favorite science fiction show.

So here in the middle, I see Daily Comedy News, and then there are lines to different shows, so I see like a direct line. One of the closest things is the Last Laugh podcast that makes sense. Lewis Black’s Rant cast to the Netflix is a joke podcast. Then some longer line things like Conan O’Brien and Club Random and the Weekly Show even to Late Night with Seth Myers. There’s an overlap between people who like the Seth Meyers podcast and me.

Now that’s funny. If we zoom out, we go deeper into the universe. Out past the Seth Myers orbit is the Cobert orbit. If you go out far enough, you’ll go to pot Save America. That’s interesting.

But then even within these if you zoom in here, now here is what they call a neighborhood. And I have tenuous connections to some of these shows, but all living in what they call the same comedy neighborhood are Two Bears, One Cave and Bad Friends and Whiskey Ginger, Bill Burr, Tosh Are You Garbage? So like you could see all those shows kind of sharing an audience, and I only somewhat share an audience with them. So as we break this down, and again, I was looking at this because I’m always trying to grow the show, and I wanted to figure out, all right, people who like this show also like what show? Maybe I should talk about that stuff a little bit more.

And you can go to this thing. It’s rafonic dot com. Just look up comedy neighborhoods and it explains that each line represents shared subscribers. Distance matters. Shows that appear close together share a higher percentage of the same listeners.

Clusters form when many shows share overlapping audiences. So that list I just gave you of like Whiskey, Junior and Bill, They’re all sharing an audience together. And I’m a little further away from them. So what did Johnny Mac learn AI and tells me? The first clear observation is that Daily Comedy News does not cluster with stand up comedy feeds, Joe compilations, improv podcasts, or TikTok driven comedy properties.

Instead, it sits inside a dense cluster of talk based, personality led legacy comedian podcasts. The closest and most consistently linked shows include Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. The show emphasizes extended conversation, recurring co hosts, and minimal topical urgency. WTF with Mark Maren, known for introspective interviews, long run times, and a focus on creative process SmartLess I should probably talk about those guys a little bit more. While lighter in tone, it is structural, similar long conversations, familiar hosts and minimal emphasis on topical comedy.

And Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade, which interesting enough talk about rhads not taken. I was with Cadence thirteen when they did that deal. I still don’t know why they didn’t ask me to produce that. It’s fine, I’m not upset, and my mom was pretty sick at that time, so that might have been the choice that maybe my head wasn’t totally in the game. That could be the reason.

And I don’t mean that as a dick. My boss was very very very very very I can’t say very enough times, very very very kind. It gave me a lot of rope and a lot of space to just do what I needed to do at that time. So it could have been that that they didn’t want to burden me with having to produce another show. Because I do play hard, so if you give me work, I will do it so as I do out loud therapy here.

That might have been an act of kindness. But on paper, I’m the person you know, age wise or resume wise, I’m the person you probably would ask to produce such a show regardless. We share an audience to Daily Comedy News and Fly on the Wall, a nostalgia driven interview show. Now it’s interesting here is Maren’s older than me, Carvey’s older than me. How old Spade he’s older than me?

Right? Yeah, Spade’s sixty one. I’m fifty six. In case you’re curious, I think Jason Bateman is my age. Bateman is fifty six might be fifty seven by the time you hear this, depending on what I deployed it.

January fourteenth, nineteen sixty nine is his birthday. Happy Birthday, Jason Bateman. So yeah, all right, So it makes sense that people who like dudes in their fifties and sixties like other dudes in their fifties. Does that all makes sense to me? Like, I don’t expect the TikTok comedian fans to dig what I’m doing here.

As I was talking with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast recently, I was like, you know, we’re sitting here talking about a show that came out forty years ago. AI tells me, also appearing within the cluster or shows like Rob Low, Good Hang, and other personality led conversation podcast that prioritize familiarity and low conflict listening. The data indicates that listeners who subscribe to DCN are the same listeners who’s subscribe to those shows. That implies a set of preferences to this is you guys. You guys subscribe to hosts, not formats.

Thank you. I take that as high compliment. They value continuity over novelty. They tolerate long run times in conversational pacing. They’re comfortable with analysis, reflection, and repetition, which reminds me one time, Joe Quoitnaw, I’m not going to do that today.

Oh this is interesting. This cluster skews heavily towards comedian and entertainers whose primary career breakthroughs occurred before the rise of social media comedy discovery. These are not emerging voices. These are established figures using podcasts retain and monetize existing audiences. Very interesting.

I’ve got more analysis after this break. Continuing our look at the Daily Comedy News comedy neighborhood where I find myself, AYI tells me. The map shows adjacency to a second, smaller cluster focused on comedy as process rather than performance. Shows like Block That’s Neil Brennan’s Pod and Good One appear as secondary neighbors. These podcasts explicitly analyze how jokes are written, how bits evolve, and how comedians think about craft.

They’re not built for casual listening. Their presence in the Daily Comedy News neighborhood suggests that a meaningful portion of the audience is interested in how comedy works, not just consuming it. That makes sense to me. I would imagine that is one of the reasons you pick this particular program. A third nearby grouping consists of comfort oriented conversational podcasts.

Again, I will take that as a compliment. I’m just trying to keep you company here. I’m not a comedian. I’ve never performed comedy. I don’t claim to be a comedian.

I don’t claim to be funny. Hopefully I’m amusing at times. There seem to be some recurring bits that people like, but I’m obviously not here shucking jokes. The AI says these are low stake shows designed for passive listening. Their connection to DCN reinforces the idea that this audience values predictability and routine.

Finally, at the outer edges of the cluster, remnants of legacy late night television ecosystems appear. Podcasts tied to the daily show, late night hosts, and political comedy are connected, but with weaker overlap. Equally important is what does not appear near Daily Comedy News. This is interesting. There’s little to no proximity to stand up album feeds, short form comedy podcasts, or personality driven, shock or argument based shows.

Those live in separate neighborhoods with different listener behavior. The data suggests that Daily Comedy News serves an audience that uses comedy podcasts as contextual media, not entertainment first content. These listeners are tracking an industry, not chasing laughs. Some good analysis here by the AI. This data indicates that podcast subscriptions, unlike social media follows, are conservative.

Listeners are reluctant to commit time to unfamiliar voices unless trust has already been established elsewhere. In effect, discovery has moved out of podcasts. Short form video platforms now handle discovery, podcasts handle retention. That division explains why comedians who break on TikTok or Instagram often struggle to translate that audience into podcast subscriptions, while legacy comedian maintain strong audio audiences even as their television relevance declines. Another conclusion from the cluster structure is tone tolerance.

Listeners in this neighborhood tolerate introspection, repetition, and even periods of low energy Hi I’m Johnny Mac. What they do not tolerate is chaos. Podcasts built on confrontation, outrage, or aggressive performance styles are structurally absent from this cluster that makes sense. I’m not a yeller and screamer. The dominant cluster around Daily Comedy News reflects listeners who likely aged out of appointment television and high energy stand up consumption.

These listeners still on comedy, but in a format that integrates into daily life rather than demanding attention. Interesting stuff there, and that’s today’s episode of Daily Comedy News. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Frank Calando, Hank Azaria, Matt Friend, Jay Leno, Nikki Glaser, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Catherine Ryan, Jason Sudeikis, Royce Young

What’s in This Episode

• Frank Calando’s John Madden impression and impressionist techniques
• Hank Azaria discusses Simpsons voice work and AI concerns
• The Simpsons 800th episode featuring Quinta Brunson and Kevin Bacon
• Jay Leno performs at In the Spirit of the Game charity event
• Ted Lasso season four renewal with full cast returning
• Stephen Colbert discusses possibility of running for public office
• Royce Young to host 78th Writers Guild Awards

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media are there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Frank Calando, there’s a name you don’t hear as much as you did, say twenty years ago. He was red hot for a while there when I was back at Sirious. He’s in Naples, Florida’s to Night doing a couple shows if you want to go see him.

Kalando said he heard that John Madden never liked Frank Callando’s John Madden impression. John Madden might be the only person who didn’t like it. Calando said, I finally met him at a Super Bowl in Dallas. They were at a four Seasons hotel, and Kalando said it made Madden’s grandchildren laugh, but Madden got it somewhat. Kaliando says it helps to have a deep voice to do impressions, adding that some voices take years to perfect.

Some voices are similar, like Leonardo DiCaprio and John Malkovich, or Kermit the Frog and Fozzy Bear. Calando explains, it’s just kind of manipulation of those muscles or whatever it is. In your throat and having the muscle memory to go back to it. He also studies the eyes of celebrities because the eyes tell you the way the person thinks. For example, Jeff Goldbloom has eyes to dart back and forth like a painting in a haunted house.

Callando promises clean comedy and impressions of famous people from Madden to al Pacino to Morgan Freeman. Says, I’m PG at the dirt Calliando says, I’m PG at dirtiest. There’s no f words. I’m real team. If you’re in Naples, Florides at the Off the Hook Comedy Club tonight and tomorrow speaking with impressionists, I just moved the story up.

I originally didn’t have these two period, and I’m like, oh, these go together. Hanka’saria says he is contracted to voice characters on the Simpsons for three more years. He told USA Today about the Simpsons, I’m not announcing the end of it. We might go beyond that. That’ll make season forty.

Every year, I think a new crop of tweens discover the show, and that keeps us relevant. Back in February of twenty five, Frank Azaria till the New York Times. I imagine that soon enough artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than one hundred voices I created for the characters on The Simpsons over almost four decades. It makes me sad to think about it. Oh hey, I no doubt could do that.

The conversation turned to impressionist Matt Friend, who does Howard Stern, Stanley Tucci, and Michael Boublay. Matt Friend first did an impression for Hank Azaria when Matt was fifteen. Turns out Hank Azaria was college roommates with Matt Friend’s father, Bill. That’s wild. As for that first meeting, Azaria said, I had never heard anyone at any age be more brilliant vocally than this kid.

And he asked me for advice, and I give him a lot of advice. He really did take it. And I think Matthew’s so talented he would have made it no matter what. But I think I probably said to him a lot of time in telling him what to do and what not to do. You need to have plastic vocal cords, you know how some people like cilantro and for some people taste like soap It’s kind of like that, you can either do it or you can.

With Matthew, some he got right away and some he’s developed over the years. Same for me. The Simpsons is coming up on its eight hundredth episode next weekend. They’ve announced the guest stars for that episode. They include Quinta Brunson, Kevin Bacon, and Questla, also stars of The pitt Noah Wiley, Catherine Lanassa, and Taylor Dearden will play medical personnel in the episode music by Boys Two Men, Sure Why Not?

In Irrational Treasure, the Simpsons travel to Pennsylvania, hence all the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh icons lending their voices to the episode. Boys to Men will sing a new version of the Simpsons opening theme. They’ll also provide a new version of the end to title music. Here’s the plot. Marge’s crusade to get the family dog in better shape leads to her entering Santa’s Little Helper in canine agility competitions and a trip to the National Dog Show in Philadelphia.

There, Homer suddenly find themselves and the dog mixed up in a historical conspiracy adventure worthy of a National Treasure movie. Episode eight hundred Sunday, February fifteenth. Now that’s also the day of the Daytona five hundred, which is also on Fox, and the daytone of five hundred has a tendency to get it either rain delayed or otherwise delayed. So set your DVRs carefully. I gotta scroll back up here.

I did the stories out of order that I originally planned. Hey, you know that guy, Jay Leno, Yeah, he’s the worst. I know, dostn’t know what he’s doing. Now he’s taking part in an all star comedy lineup for the In the Spirit of the Game charity Awards dinner and auction that takes place tomorrow at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood. It will benefit youth baseball players.

The event is co hosted by Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis and MLB Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman. Now you’re like, Jay Leno, that guy’s the worst. Well, you know who else is doing this event? Quote unquote breakout superstar Nikki Glaser. Oh yeah, now it’s cool right now Nikki Glaser is doing it.

Now you’re like, oh, that sounds like a really important thing. It was dumb five minutes ago. In the Spirit of the Game, Awards, dinner, and auction benefits the Perfect Game Believe In Baseball Foundation, which provides financial assistance to deserving young players, helping them with costs associated with travel baseball, which could include coaching, training, or educational opportunities. There’s cocktails on a silent auction at five thirty, dinner awards, and comedy performances at seven. It’s at the Laugh Factory tomorrow.

So just another example of Jay Leno being the worst person who ever lived. Hey, Ted Lasso coming back for season four. The Gang’s all back. They convinced Jason Sadagas to do it. Hannah Waddingham is back, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift.

They’re all back. In season four, Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet, coaching a second division women’s football team. The log line is throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learned to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would. Roywood Junior will host these seventy eighth Annual Writers Guild Awards at Manhattan’s Edison Ballroom on March eighth. Royce Done all right, for himself, betting on himself leaving the Daily Show, Royce said, it’s an honor to again be trusted with leading a night of celebration, as we honor one of the most important components in creating the content that gives us either an opportunity to escape or to learn more about the world we all share.

Seth Meyers asked Stephen Colbert about running for public office. In the past, I would have supported a Stephen Colbert candidacy, but now that he’s gone out of his way to ruin Star Trek as the voice of the announcements at Starfleet Academy, I do not support anyone who destroys Star Trek, Colbert said. I mean, that’s something I have discussed with my faith leader and my family. Colbert is Catholic, right, I find it atypical I’m Catholic that he keeps saying faith leader. I went to Catholic grammar school.

I went to a Jesuit high school. I never really heard the term faith leader. I just find that interesting either here nor there. I’ll ask Deacon Mike about it. Let me text him.

Hold on, all right, I have texted Deacon Mike. We’ll see if he gets back to me before we’re done recording. Today, Catherine Ryan did a one off show in Los Angeles. While she was out there, I hooked up with the La Times. They asked her about this whole Beckham thing.

You saw this The Beckham family is all fighting. We talked about this the other day. Catherine Ryan said, it’s a wonderful reprieve from fascism. Ice in Greenland. Finally just some light family draw that everyone can kick back and enjoy.

I feel like Victoria Beckham is such a treasure in the UK, and I’m quite good friends with several Spice girls. I went to Mailb’s wedding earlier last year. I’m not close with Victoria Spice, but obviously I’m a woman of that generation where I learned to shake my booty to the Spice Girls in nineteen ninety six, so I have undying loyalties to her. There’s this very interesting NEPO conversation to be had, and her son, Brooklyn, was one of the original ones. He was born at a time when in the UK we were obsessed with celebrity.

I was a posed to now when we really hadn’t figured out yet how damaging it might be. To take an infant and follow his entire life and commodify it as though he was our own. But I’m definitely enjoying all the memes and jokes. A lot of fans, myself included, have been downloading Victoria’s single on iTunes. We decided it was a national travesty that she never had a number one hit because all the other Spice girls have independently had number one singles, and just yesterday victoria single Innocent Girl got to number one on iTunes.

The Eliot Simes said. So as the controversy made Posh Spice feel more relatable, Catherine Ryan said, I think it actually has been an incredible vehicle for her. This is the most relatable she’s ever been. Vicky b drunk on the veno, being inappropriate at the wedding. We love it.

I think that the Beckhams have been almost like royalty and quite untouchable. This has made her really relatable. Having her son lash out at her like this so publicly. I know in LA you really validate everyone’s mental health. I hope this is the end of mental health.

I don’t want to talk about it anymore. And this very privileged little boy claims to have mental health problems and anxiety over his mom dancing with him at a wedding. Comedy stock Markets, thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every Friday we take a look at the comedy stock market where I make some recommendations about which comedian stock we should buy, which comedian stock we should sell. No sells this week, but I’ve got to buy recommendations for you.

The first one, Buy some Ron Funches. I think that Trader’s appearance did really well for him, and he picked up a lot of new fans. He’s fantastic and I see nothing but praise for him on social media. So buy some Ron Funches stock. And let’s buy some Trevor Noah stock.

Ahead of the Grammys. You know, there’s been some things in the news this week, and Trevor, I think is the right guy to say it. He commented last year about deportations, and I don’t think Trevor will pull his punch now. It’s a tough spot because it’s the Grammys and it’s not why anyone’s there. But I think Trevor is savvy enough to nail the middle there.

So let’s buy some Trevor Noah and let’s buy some Ron funches and we might have to sell stock in Deacon Mike, who has yet to text me back yet. I mean, if we were watching football, he would have gotten back to me seven times already. TV Insider asked Bert Kraser, what does the Kraser family think of how their characters are portrayed on Free Bert where it said, listen, it’s weird when someone uses your name and uses your likeness and misrepresents you to the point where it never really happened. Then you’re like, wait, I’m sure that has to be a sensitive area. At the same time, these are fictitious takes on nonfiction parts of my life.

I’m hoping everyone’s going to be on the same page and see the art for what it is. At the same time, it’s their names, likeness. If they’re not happy, I’ll deal with it. Then he discussed the opening scene minor spoiler where Rob Low appears. It’s a little set up for the show.

Rob Low asks him to just take a shirt off again. Bert addressed it’s saying, I think we wanted to show that some people only see me as the guy who takes off his shirt. We tried desperately to make sure there was a fair representation of how people see me outside looking in, and that’s why I feel the way I do on the series. That was drawn specifically from a period in time in my life where I did a corporate gig for Hedge Fund. They said, yo, put the shirt back on, take it off, and tell the machine, and I was like, Wow, this is what I am to people.

Then I think the question Rob posts is the internal question for me, which is would they show up if you didn’t take your shirt off. Once you get to that question, then what’s my worth? Was it easy to get Rob Low to do it? Oh? It was awesome.

Rob is so easy. I sent him a text and he asked if we could shoot in Santa Barbara and I was like, yep, he was in and he gave us so much extra time. He didn’t need to give us. He was just the man. TV Insider asked Bird Krascher, how was it doing scripted as opposed to what you do on stage?

But it said it’d helped that I kind of wrote the script, so I’d put it the way I’d say it anyway. There were certain scenes where it was hard. I’m obviously not an actor, but at one of the podcast companies, I work. Sometimes they would ask me to do some lights voice acting would be very generous, but they had some script and he needed somebody to voice a cop and I like struggled trying to stick to the actual printed words because I was like, I don’t speak this way, and I would always ask if I could do an alter to take and phrase things the way I phrase them. I don’t know what they actually wound up using, so respect for Bert here who said there were certain scenes where it was hard.

There was a scene where I was apologizing to the Vanderthal family. I’d just say the same sentence four different ways. That was a tough one because you can’t repeat an improv because you’re saying the same thing but differently. That was a tough one. Then some of the more emotional scenes were tough for me.

I think it was good as long as we’re moving fast. The listening was tough. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, Deacon Mike did not get back to me, So maybe sometime next week I’ll backsell this story. He’ll eventually text, come on, Deacon Mike, what are you doing all right tomorrow?

On this program? I had recorded some January weekend fillers, So if you’re a new listener, especially this time of year, the news is little lights, so sometimes I do weekend filler that is tomorrow. What I did was there’s a website where you can take a look at a particular podcast and see the audience share between that podcast and other podcasts. I ran Daily Comedy News through it, and it shows what you guys are also listening to, and I just thought it was interesting. So that’s tomorrow’s episode.

Tomorrow’s a little light.

And then on Sunday, Trevor Noah hosts a Grammys, so I’ll do a Grammys episode…

But Monday will be a normal episode with Grammy stuff up top.

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And then Monday at noon, Easter and the results of Comedy Survivor Week four.

Hopefully the sun will come out at some point it’ll be warm again. But then eat the forecast right now. Stay warm, folks, See you tomorrow.

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