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Caloroga Shark Media. I am psyched and feeling good today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Why you’re so happy, Johnny Mack. If you’ve been around me lately, you’ve heard me say things like I don’t want to talk about politics all day.

I just want to make fun of like Jim Gaffigan. Well, good news. Jim Gaffigan did a lengthy interview about his Bourbon project on tomorrow’s show. I’ll lead off with that so I can put my feet up, take it easy, and goof on, Jim Gaffigan. That’s what I want to do.

But today there’s some actual news that we do need to cover. But let’s start with late night jokes. Did you see someone’s knocking down the East wing of the White House. Now hold on, now, if you’re like John you just said you want to do politics, This isn’t politics, This is just silly jokes. Jimmy Fallon said, Guys, a lot of people are angry at President Trump because it was just announced he’s demolishing the entire East wing of the White House to build his new ballroom.

Yeah, the entire wing is gone. Normally, if you hear that you’re flying front to your airlines. See that’s not a political joke, that’s a clean joke. Seth Meyer said, this is the first thing aliens do in movies to announce their evil. They blow up the White House.

Trump is just cutting out the middle man of invading aliens. Love it. And if you’re a long time listener, remember during the pandemic, I had to create and rely on the late Bot. Well, late Bot is back, Baby late Bot says the east wing used to be where the first Lady’s office was. Mulaney is reportedly thrilled she’s finally getting her wish.

She doesn’t have to be in the White House. Officials say the ballroom will fit a thousand guests, which is great because that’s just enough room for Trump’s lawyers. As I’m sitting here recording just in. John Stewart as commented on the ballroom on his weekly show podcast. John said, just make mar Alago the new White House and Palm Beach the new capital.

That’s fiscally responsible. That’s somebody looking out for the debt.

Speaking of John Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel gave an interview and said that ABC sh…

John and I have the same manager, James baby Doll Dixon, and James was about to close this deal for John to host the show. The ABC chairperson watching my tape and he was like, I think this might be the guy. And he brought the tape to Bob Iger and Iger said, yeah, this might be the guy. It was a very strange thing because James was in the difficult position of having to tell John Stewart, You’re not going ABC, but Jimmy’s going ABC. That was a mistake.

By the way, they definitely should hire John. If I’m in that position, There’s no question I hired John one hundred times out of one hundred. Kim Mill said he was confused over winning the gig. He remembers saying, I was like, why, this is quite a leap you guys made. I was on The Man Show.

I was doing football picks on Fox NFL Sunday and Iiger goes, well, you were cheaper, and everybody laughed, but I knew he wasn’t kidding. Kim O’ll recalled the early days of the show were rough. I think my vision of hell is being forced to watch my first year of shows, because it’s just as painful as anything could get for me. It took us a long time to figure it out, and we’re very fortunate to get a long time to figure it out. Somehow we wound up getting good ratings.

I still don’t know how that was, but they were good enough to keep us on the air, even though I was causing trouble. Every like two and a half months, some major thing was happening. Something came out of my mouth, you know, and caused a whole thing. It was tumultuous. Kim Will has asked about Colbert Gates.

You know, it was a little quid pro quo make the famous politician go away. What the merger through, Kimmel said, we don’t know for sure. What I do know for sure is that some of the information that’s been released by the people who let him go can’t possibly be true. There’s no way he’s losing forty million dollars a year. There’s no way it’s even close to that.

I know how finances of late night television shows work, and it’s just ridiculous. It doesn’t make any sense at all. So when you hear things that are obviously lies, you have to assume that there are more lies behind it. And that’s what I think. John, How you do and not being political today, It’s going great, guys.

Nikki Glaser, she’s got the right agent. Hollywood has decided we’re gonna put Nikki Glaser in front of everybody. That is not a backhanded comment about Niki. They do that with people every so often. The next person you’re going to see everywhere is Rachel Sennott.

Write that down. We’ll come back in two months. You’ll see what I’m saying. Nikki Glaser is going to starve and produce a new film that Judd Apatow will produce for Universal Pictures. It is described as a modern, edgy romantic comedy.

That’s all we know about that. Nikki Glaser will host the Golden Globes this year, which brings me to the next story, which has me very upset. Netflix. You know they made that movie Jay Kelly with George Clooney and Adam Sandler, the great gramatic actor, Adam Sandler. Yeah, they’re putting it in the comedy categories.

For the Golden Globes. Now, why does this bother you, Johnny Mack? Because everyone is saying, Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, is fantastic in it, and why wouldn’t he be. He’s a great dramatic actor. Now, if you nominate this as a comedy and he wins, he’s gonna think he’s a good comedian, which he’s not.

Guys, put this in as a drama. They’re planning on nominating Adam Sandler for a Best Supporting Actor. But don’t call this thing a comedy? What are you doing? Obsessimately whole plan.

I thought I had this figured out, that we were gonna convince Adam Sandler, you know what, rest of your life you do drama. Jake Kelly in theaters November fourteenth. It’ll be on Netflix December fifth. The Golden Globe nominations are out to say eighth. In the Chicago Tribune, Christopher Burrelli writes, we are currently entering a new Sandler season, one of those brief, occasional windows of time where we are reminded that, hey, you know what, life’s too short.

Everyone likes Adam Sandler these days. He makes some bad movies. Yes, and he makes some smart movies. We might even root for him to win an oscar for j Kelly. That’s right, we would.

Would he wear a hoodie and jogra State Academy Awards, we would hope. So let’s see what am I wearing right now on the Sandler thing. I’ve got a pretty nice looking gray sweat zip jacket. That’s pretty good. But I am wearing my traditional podcast in gray sweatpants.

So if I jump on a zoom call, you’ll think I’m dressed nicely, But then waist down, I’m all Sandler today. Barelli talks about walking into the United Center to see Sandler’s stand up tourney. Writes, says, I waited across the street. I listened to a pair of traffic cops get into a confusing but somehow relatable argument about what’s actually endearing about Adam Sandler. One cop said he’s a good actor.

The other cop said, I think all these people here because he’s funny. Yeah, Adam Sandler the comedian, Well he’s a good actor, but I don’t know what’s funny about him. Am I a cop in Chicago? Is this like an HBO series where I’m leading a dual life and like, in the daytime, I’m a podcaster in the basement and at night I’m a traffic cop in Chicago. Because that sounds like this guy overheard a conversation with me.

And by the way, this is what I want the show to be. I don’t want to talk about Therion Comedy Festival. This is more fun this piece right. Sandler’s new shows are titled You’re My Best Friend, and as Alan quarters that sounds, it’s a pretty spot on way of describing a show so driven by the audience’s warmth and goodwill, it transcends what we typically expect of a performer. To put it bluntly, Sandler is not a particularly funny stand up and he has never been.

Thank you, Christopher Borelli. Oh my god, I might have to reach out to this guy and have this guy on. Where was I he was telling us to put it bluntly, Sandler’s not a particularly funny stand up and he has never been. Yeah, you can’t say that enough. I know, I repeated it.

He paces and arrives at jokes that sound half from membered and talks in a speedy mumble. I would say about half the people seated around me. Never laughed out loud. Once you preach, Christopher Brelli preach, but they were smiling. Saandlor is almost nothing new to say about the topics he’s been talking about at fifty nine and growing old, surviving teenage daughters, stumbling through married sex, and somehow it still kind of works.

The New York Times that a big, big profile of Stavros Hockey as the premise Stavros Hockey has wants a career, well, his fans let him have one. This thing is really long. The person who wrote it really knows Stavus’s career. They wrote, If you think he recognize Halkias, you probably do. At five seven and three hundred pounds, he has a ninety five percentile body type that he does not try to hide.

His wardrobe centers on loudly powdered shirts and European tracksuits. All right, so so far today, I’m definitely dressed better than Stavros, and I’m probably tied with Sandler unless we’re on a zoom, in which case I’m in first place because of my nice gray is Zip hoodie. I digress. They talk about Stavros’s last which people often accuse him of faking, but which burst forth so often that if it was ever an affectation, it seems to have become natural long ago. A high percentage of the people who approached him and Madison turned around after hearing this laugh.

Then the next section is a long recap of his career. Starvos says, I don’t really like being famous. I don’t really like seeing people like stopping me on the street. He said he might have to adopt a more discreet look. The question of Halkius’s performance on Tires and he’s really good in that.

That’s a great show. You know, I think I haven’t watched like the last four. It got distracted. Thank you for New York Times reminding me have to go back and watch that on Tires. Is any indication he’s not disappearing into his roles like many comedians who transition acting.

He seems to have been hired to play himself on a TV show, a thrill for fans who previously knew him as himself on a podcast or himself on a stage. Every comedian is to some degree trap by what their audience has come to expect, asked Jim Carrey. But the podcast comedian who’s invited into listeners’ homes, cars, and ear canals for multiple hours each week is especially likely to evoke a sensation of familiarity as people he has not met. These people may not want their imaginary French to change. Good stuff.

Leslie Jones her new specials out today on Peacock. It is called Leslie Jones Life Part Two. Leslie Jones tackles aging relationships, fame, and life’s unexpected to us with a kind of honesty and fire. Only Leslie Jones can. Bring comedy stock marketine.

Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every Friday we take a look at some comedians and we talk about buying proverbial stock in their careers. We try and sell high, we try and buy low. To the point, I’m tempted to buy some of the comedians who appeared at the Riod Comedy Festival, but on principle I will not. All right, some recommendations this week, let’s buy Stavrel’s hockey has I mean, you got to see the length of this profile in the New York Times.

This is a major, major thing and that doesn’t just to happen, Which makes me think, as I said earlier in the show, Hollywood decides somebody’s going to have a moment, Nikki Glaser, Rachel Sinnott. Somebody’s pushing Stavros, so let’s keep an eye on that. I bet we see a lot of Stavros press now. Will buy Stavros Hockey as before his stock is expensive. Let’s sell Joe Rogan.

Not that the Joe Rogan articles have been pretty positive this year, but they’re increasingly negative, and Joe is getting increasingly dragged into the political rabbit hole, and I don’t think that’s a place he wants to stay. Let’s sell our word Joe Rogan stock, and let’s start to accumulate some more Sandler. The buzz on this Ja Kelly thing is really good, and he is, of course a great dramatic actor. Why would you not want to support that. Let’s buy some Adam Sandler.

That’s your comedy stock market for this week. Out today an audio album. I always like that. It’s Luke Haiggees have that also Outsiday on audio mal Halls. What are we doing today?

Becky Robinson will self release her debut stand up special. It is called Becky Robinson entitled It’ll be on her website today in this hour Becky Robinson dives into the chaos of coming out as a lesbian during the pandemic, the pitfalls of being way too friendly as an adult in her unapologetic love for Taco Bill. But that night wouldn’t be complete without an appearance from her character, the entitled Housewife. There’s not just a Special. Becky Robinson will release a thirty minute documentary offering a behind the scenes look at its creation.

From The Japanese Times, your home for comedy news, the headline a Japanese comedian walks into an Australian bar and stays there. Takashi Waka Wakasugi stop by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in the Shibui Award. Waka had just gotten back from Edinburgh performing his show Comedy Samurai. He opened his set at the Tokyo Comedy Bar saying I live in Australia, so that’s why my English is a little craiky. This was Waka’s first time back in Japan’s it’s moving to Australia in twenty eighteen.

He says, toilets are always a reliable bet for laughs. I also like to make fun of Ozzie people. From a Japanese viewpoint, and they love that. They love Japan, he said. Australian audience says know a lot about Japan.

Edinburgh was more of a challenge. I told them Japanese people make things better. Toylet’s we fix that whiskey. We fixed that for you. They hated that joke.

He says. His writing approach is planting a seed and digging for oil. Both take time, but they’ll pay off if you’re patient. He says, I love doing four minutes one joke, adding the longer approach works better with live crowds than on the internet. Yes, he’ll do language jokes and one bit.

A misheard word sends him spiraling into a series of imagined meanings. For example, the slang term yolo for you only live once. He spun that into a joke about Buddhism’s belief in multiple lives. That sounds like a great premise. What he loves about Western stand up is how personal it is, unlike in Japan, where comedians often play exaggerated characters.

Takashi wagga waga suki. And that is your comedy news for today. Fun show. We’ll see tomorrow. We’ll talk about Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon can’t wait.

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Caalarogashock media, buckle the bleep up. Yesterday I gave you a show with no politics. Today politics my friends, and Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ben Stiller said, we live in a world we’re taking chances with comedy is more challenging. You’re seeing that front and center in our country.

But I think it’s important that comedians keep doing what they’re doing, speaking truth to power and being free to say what they want. That’s the most important thing. Steeler said. I’ve had people reach out to me and say you should edit Donald Trump out of Zoolander. But at the end of the day, that was a time that existed, and that happened Andrew Schultz was on Joe Rogan’s show.

Now the media is just catching up to this. This has been out for a while. I haven’t listened to it yet because when I listened to Schultz’s own podcast last week, I was like this, I can’t with this show. So I was not any mood at all to listen to Schultz and Rogan. Let me see when that one came out October eighteenth.

Yeah, so it’s been out for a while. But anyway, the media started to pick up on it, correct wrote, There’s no way I can in good faith recommend to you. The sprawling three and a half hour long conversation between Andrew Schultz and Joe Rogan, it was by and large not very enlightening, as most conversations that run that long tend to be, But at nearly the three hour mark, the duo finally got to talking about something significant, their decision to both interview Donald Trump. Schultz told Rogan, I do think in general, like us just having politicians on and even going to the rally, what’s happened is that we’ve politicized ourselves and brought ourselves into the game of politics, which is the ugliest game. Schultz said.

It’s the ugliest game because it’s that zero sum stuff that we were saying earlier. It’s just like people really believe it’s life or death. It’s really life or death. I don’t know if you follow the headlines, Chultz continued, Dude, I was pushing my daughter in a stroller, right, and the lady goes, hey, didn’t you have Trump on your podcast? And I was like, I already know what’s going on.

I’m like, yeah, yeah, he was on the podcast, and She’s like, well, I hope your daughter has a good life, and Scheltz was like, I’m like, b word, you live in Tribeca, you know what I mean? Like, what do you think is happening over here? The Canadians are upset. So Schultz told Joe Rogan that he found the concept of indigenous land acknowledgments funny. I don’t know if you’ve run into that, and you will find that at many theaters these days, especially if you’re at a college.

Scheltz said, I find it funny when governments do these things like enforced care, and anytime I’m performing in Canada and I’m in an indigenous area, they make me do a land acknowledgement. I remember the first time they told me. I was like, you want me to do? What? I remember telling it to the chief of the tribe, like brother.

That kind of seems like I’m bragging. I’m going up there and being like this used to be yours, but the boys came in and you all got the f out of here. You want me to remind everybody what happened before the comedy show. Brogan tagged it and said, yeah, we stole it, but it’s ours now. Sorry.

The thing is the people that go along with that are the same people that want no borders and think no one is illegal being anywhere, Like Christopher Columbus is the only immigrant they hate. There’s no borders, no illegal and yet these people shouldn’t have been here. Fox News picked up on the part of the conversation about Kamala Harris. Joe Rogan said she was on stage with Kara Swisher and Kara Swisher was kind of like ragging on her a little bit. She was like, you know, some people said that I was the most qualified person ever run for president.

Like who said that? And like who said that? Rogan points out, you’re literally running against a guy who was already president, So if you’re going based on your resume, you’re not more qualified than Biden. Biden was the vice president of the United States for eight years. You may recall Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily taken off the air.

Well, people did not support fascism. I know you don’t. I know, when you’re watching Scrubs, you go upstairs and get the DVDs. You are definitely not just watching them on Hulu plus every night because you do not support fascism. You are one of the roughly three million Americans that canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions.

Yeah, a new report from the research firm Antenna says roughly three million Americans canceled Disney Plus in September. The previous three month average was one point two million people canceling. The Times points out another way to look at the data is four percent of the subscribers canceled in July, eight percent in September for Disney Plus. Over on the Hulu side, five percent in July and ten percent in September. None of this bothers Jullying Summers.

She will premiere her first hour comedy special What Specie Are You? That’ll be on Hulu November eight. Now, you won’t be able to see it because you’ve canceled Hulu and Disney Plus. You are one of the three million strong who do not support fascism. The Hulu publicists out there promoting fascism all across the country anyway.

Joll Yang Summers was named one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch, and this special sees her dissect what makes us different, what brings us together, drawing from her life as a Chinese American first generation immigrant. She tackles topics like cultural clashes, immigrant identity, and motherhood. I didn’t know this about her. She is an Asian Hall of Fame inductee who recently became the first Chinese comedian in headline in the Apollo Theater. Former Miss China also owns and operates the Hollywood Comedy and the Pasadena Comedy Clubs.

Margaret Show through a Rock in the direction of JK. Ralling over the weekend on TikTok, Margaret Show said, I hope that when you face metopause you have to take a lot of gender affirming care, as I do. And when you’re taking these hormones, they make your pubes go out so thick and hard. It’s like steel wool. And if anyone does something that a woman might enjoy, they get a face full of scars.

Feisty show today. All right, you think that’s ficy, Let’s get to Michelle Wolf. We’ll start with the easy part of the Michelle Wolf News. TV Insider asked her what was her reaction when she found out Stephen Colbert was getting canceled and then Jimmy Kimmel yanked off the air. Does Michelle Wolf support fascism.

Michelle said Late Night has been a tough landscape for a while now because nobody is watching TV like that anymore. A part of me is not surprised if the purse strings are a bit tighter or ratings aren’t as high as they used to be. I do think you can’t cancel someone because the government wants you to. It’s one thing to cancel show because the ratings aren’t good and the budget isn’t there. If someone from the government specifically says they don’t want them on TV anymore, I think that’s the time everybody, regardless of if you agree with them politically or not, should be like that’s unacceptable.

It’s a really scary place to be. That was one of the things I thought if Trump got elected, he’s not gonna let people make fun of him. At some point a presidency, he’s going to say you’re not allowed to make fun of me anymore. There’s a real quick downhill from there. They were curious if she got to do the White House Correspondence dinner again, what would happen.

She said, I would go even harder than I went. I thought my jokes were actually pretty team. I would definitely go harder at both the government and the media. I think a lot of it was talking about whatever articles I feel like. Now it’s at a point where could get really threatened by the government.

You hire a comedian to tell some roast jokes, you do exactly that, and I could put you in some political trouble Right now, it’s a pretty precarious position we find ourselves in. Now. She had done some sets. I’ve gotta play a bunch of clips here the premise, and you’ll hear these are from four different dates. I’m trying to figure out what this room is.

It’s clearly somewhere where she’s working out. The crowd is low energy, she’s low energy, and in the video she’s clearly working off a laptop. So this is a workout room. And what I’m about to play are some clips from four different weeks. These are jokes.

I’ll let her set it up. She was talking about the Riodd Comedy Festival and jokes she might have done there. I have done some editing for piacing, but I want to let you hear her thoughts as she’s going through these, and I’ll leave the pacing of the actual jokes intact. But some of the setup, I may have trimmed down a little bit.

All right, here’s week one.

So there’s this gonna be this comedy festival in Saudi Arabia. They asked me to do it, and I would to debate it over doing it, but I had to say no because it’s supposed to be like five days after I’m having a baby. So I had to say no. But now I keep thinking of all these jokes I would have told. If I had gone, I mean, I definitely would have been kushow beat and by that I mean murdered by the government.

Okay, so this is I would have started with, sorry, I’m late. I drove here. It’s nice to be in a place where women still have a leg up on gay men or I don’t know, whatever body part they’re cutting off. We have this phrase in America, you’re only a stones throw away, which means you’re close. I don’t think it means the same thing here.

I think it’s more like you’re only a stones throw away from learning that lesson.

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And then a week later, I only thought of one Saudi.

Joke this week, but I think it’s pretty good. So this is the joke I would have used in the festival this week. This one, really I think I would have had to get airlifted out immediately. This festival is sponsored by the Saudi government, so of my set doesn’t go well, if I crash and burn, you could just call me flight ninety three. That’s really good.

Why are you groaning? Are you groaning because a bunch of people died? That’s fair. I gotta tell you. Twenty four years later, that flight ninety three joke, I’m still like, too soon.

As fun and as easy it is to poke at Saudi. Let’s not pretend America is perfect. Yeah, so maybe Saudi financed nine to eleven. What did America do in response attack a different country that has less oil and even less weapons of mass destruction? If Saudi was acting as the bank for nine to eleven?

We all know America thinks banks are too big to fail, but the Iraqi people are just the right size. My other joke for Saudi this week is they offered me a good amount of money to do the festival, but when I heard what they offered. Men, it was way more. And if you had seen my face when I found out, you would have wished we still had to cover our entire heads it’s a pretty good one. I think actually both of those I would have stayed alive before.

I think I think maybe not the funding of nine to eleven. That might have been a bit. Yeah, you’re right, and one week after that. I do have one final Saudi joke for this week as we’re you know, in the festival in the moment, I’m sure they will never ask me to go. Now, in a time where free speech is being tested everywhere, it’s nice to be here in Saudi, where neither a comedian nor a journalist has been killed since oh June anyway, so nice to be here.

I love all your hats. Kober still has a way to go at eleven thirty, but something’s going to air at eleven thirty Byron Allen. He’s the guy that has his comics on lease show that’s on CBS at twelve thirty. Now, he says he’d like eleven thirty. Said, let me be clear, if they’re looking for a show, my hands already up fifty years.

I’ve been waiting for this moment, and definitely I’m going for it. I said, mathematically, you’ll never beat this show. Why would you spend thirty five million dollars on a television show at that hour. I will happily produce the show and you can save that thirty five million, forty million and spend it elsewhere. Day one, I said, this show is to be evergreen.

No topical humor, no political humor. I don’t want anything that is racist, homophobic, anti Semitic. I don’t want any of that. The thing I said to the comics wasn’t TV you don’t have to be the funniest, you have to be the most likable. Leslie Jones and Hannibal Burse who’s just back for the Riog Comedy Festival, would be part of the ten Thousand Laughs Comedy Festival now and it’s thirteenth year back tonight through the weekend.

Wendy Wigger overseas laugh at and says it’s gotten a lot harder. The reality is the comedic talent that it’s available to us is not at the same price point it was fifteen years ago when we started, so we’ve adjusted. They’ve cut down from what was originally ten days of programming. When if the organizer says, since he launched ten thousand lasts and twenty eleven, he’s only personally pocketed five thousand dollars. You can make more money than that talking about comedy in your basement.

Out today on the eight hundred Proun Guerrilla YouTube channel, Jacob Samuel’s Big Talk and let’s leave with something fun. Right Today was all angst and politics and gerr Conan O’Brien was talking to the Seattle Times about his affinity for Seattle, and he said a secret about me. I don’t think people realize. My dad was working in Seattle and living in West Seattle with my mom, and I’ve done the math. They were living there when my mom realized that she was pregnant with me, so I was created in Seattle.

It’s also strange that all these years later, I meet and fall in love with this woman who’s from Seattle, and I end up going there and I’m immediately comfortable the second I get off the plane. I like everything about the place, and it took me a bit to realize, wait a minute, this is where I’m from. Not your comedy news for today. We’ll see what tomorrow brings. The news has been a little bit slow, but everybody seems to be hiding out and not announcing things right now.

It has been a quiet week, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings, and I’ll see you there

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Caloroga Shark Media very angsty today. It’s been a warning of distractions and aggravations of Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy new So I’ve decided no politics today. We all need a break from the politics. Now. I can tell you tomorrow.

There’s already three stories with politics, but those can wait. Ben’s Diller comments. I saw him talk about that tomorrow. Let’s do happy things today, but first a controversy, and Johnny Mack does like a controversy. There seems to be some kurf fluffle with the Golden Globes.

I read several stories about it, and I didn’t really understand the story. So I asked AI to summarize this and explain it to me so I could explain it to you. So hopefully this information is correct. So the AI wrote, here’s where it gets messy. The Golden Globes are owned by Penske Media.

Penske Media owns Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline. Penske also owns Lumini eight, which is the analytics company that supposedly created the list of the twenty five eligible podcasts for Golden Globes. Okay, so we’re going to give an award Illuminate made the list. They’re owned by Penske, And then there are the three main trades, Variety, Hollywood, Port, and Deadline, also all owned by Penske, which is a fun fact that most people don’t know. The AI wrote, the Globes had said an outside company would determine the list, and technically they weren’t lying.

It’s just that their outside company is another company they also own. But then came the real bombshell. Penske Media is reportedly selling marketing packages for up to seventy five grand, basically for your consideration, ads to help podcasts promote themselves to Globe voters. So if I’m understanding this right, you’re being encouraged by an ad in one of the three trades to promote yourself to Globe voters for an award controlled by the people who are selling you the ads, right, the AI wrote, So to recap, Penske owns the awards, owns the data company choosing Who’s eligible, owns the media outlets covering the wars, and is now allegedly selling ad packages to the very people who want to win those awards. As George Carlin said, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

One industry insider said, the Penske thing is out of control. They said an outside company would handle it. It’s all a racket. All right, We’ll keep an eye on that one. Let’s check it in with Dane Cook, who’s fifty three years old now.

He spoke to Cincinnati Magazine. I happen to reference Dane Cook in my college class on Monday night. None of them knew who Dane Cook was. It goes fast. I was doing it in context.

I was teaching them about how I program radio stations and what something in the A category would be. And there was a time when Dane Cook was it. He was the superstar in comedy and he was an a in your music programming library. Twenty something years later, the kids don’t know who he is, but he was a superstar for a while. Dane said, I think that anything goes in stand up comedy.

Part of stand up is the pinprick and the release of how everyone is feeling. Sometimes what they’re feeling might be uncouth, but the reality is everyone’s laughing at this one thing because we’re sort of feeling the same thing. That doesn’t mean it’s right. Sometimes we’re laughing at the most wrong thing possible. He says, there are limits if you don’t fel malice from a comedian all topics are in play.

You don’t get laughs when audience starts sensing the meanness. Dane said early in his career he learned how he could let the ship leave the shore even if his jokes went pretty far. I’d still have old ladies pinching my cheek after the show, and I’d say some pretty wild stuff, especially in my New York years, where I was like, let me see how far I can really go. I had this epiphany early on that I liked comics and performers who were brash. I don’t know what’s gonna make you laugh until we’re all laughings.

I love this idea of going on stage and expressing myself in fooliship, certain irreverent ways. He realized he’s a storyteller and not a set up punch comic. It’s not my strong suit because I have this physical element. I just happen to say something on stage a few months ago that you might say is a vintage set up with a punchline. I didn’t write it ahead of time just happened on stage.

It was like click, click, boom, set up punchline. I loved it. Maybe there’s more of that to come, he said. Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show taught him a comedian didn’t have to be one kind of funny. Johnny would have a terrible moment his monologue and you’d be talking about that the next day, and not one of the great jokes he landed, like when the Q cards fell on the floor and he didn’t know what to do.

Whenever something like that occurs and real I met Dane once in my travels, A cool guy. I remember going to the place we would get sandwiches to go get him some sun chips. I forget the particulars. I think that was just one of the requests that he had coming in and sure, I’ll go get you sunships. I probably expensed them.

Cat Williams going on tour. It’s the Golden Age Tour to kick off in January. January twenty third, Ontario, California. They’ll swing through the South Philadelphia in April, wrapping up in Chicago on May TEWI now I caught my eye on the press release was the about cant Williams boiler played paragraph Let’s check it Out. With a career spanning over twenty years, cant Williams has earned a worldwide reputation as one of today’s top entertainers, et cetera, et cetera.

In two thousand and two, Williams made his on screen debut as a guest star on NYPD Blue. Did we know this? I didn’t know that? Did you know? My dream?

As I wanted to be an extra on NYPD Blue. I wanted to be guy on other shift. Now when that show was on, I was in my early thirties, and you know, Irish American kid from New York City. I looked the part. I didn’t do anything about this.

This was just my dream. But you know, just imagine if I was in enough episodes, eventually they would let me say hey, Andy as I walked down the stairs while Sippowitz walked up the stairs. Didn’t happen. Didn’t do anything about it. I could have been in the episode in two thousand and two with Kat Williams, who subsequently landed his first feature film role as Muddy Mike Friday after next.

His extensive filmography includes notable roles. Here are some notable roles. Are you ready write this down? Notable roles, Kat Williams. Here are the notable roles, father Figures, Norbit, Scary Movie Five, Epic Movie, Bastards, The House next Door, Meet the Blacks, Cats and Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Oh yes, very notable, The Boondocks, Wilden Out, and a guest role on Atlanta, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. All right, that’s a good credit. The National Comedy Center announced that the National Comedy Center is now the home of the career archive of Stellar and Mira Ben’s parents. That’s cool. The archives bands more than five decades of creative collaboration, documenting the evolution and impact of one America’s most enduring comic partnerships.

What a coincidence. Ben Steeler’s new documentary about his parents’ lives and legacies debuts October twenty fourth on Apple TV. Throughout the film, materials from the archive or features he can check that out. Ben said, Knowing my parents’ body of work is preserved at the National Comedy Center means a great deal, because the material they left behind was not just to give for my family, but for anyone who wants to understand comedy’s creative process. That’s great.

The center’s doing really great work. I got to get up there. I like long drives. I got to get up to Jamestown. At some point.

Ben’s had some other things to say, but they involve politics, and we’re not doing that today. We’re just chilling out today. You hear in my tone today, I’m not ranting, and Raven were going easy. That’s what we’re doing today. Not tomorrow, totally different, but today taking it easy.

Friends. Tim Heidecker is going to store as a late night talk show host in the Comedy Hour. The Comedy Hour follows a beleaguered late night host forced to produce a show through femin and fire and play. The network saddles him with a robot co host. An audience start to like the sidekick more than the host.

The Comedy Hours written by Colby Day. Now Colby Day scripted Adam Sandler’s Spaceman movie, which, as you know, is one of the five good Adam Sandler films. So that’s some good pedigree there. Heidecker’s character is named Jimmy, which is fun. This next story gets from Jacobin dot com or Jacobin dot com not Trey pronounce that.

But Benjamin Fong asked the question, what is Tim Dlon doing? I agree, I am starting to lose interest in Dylan’s show. I prefer when he’s just solo and vamping on the news, Benjamin Fong writes, wavering between irony, outrage, and hallucination, the Tim Dillon Show presents the same question that any viewer of Mulholland Drive must ask, what am I watching? It’s right wing, but not straightforwardly so it’s ironic, but also strangely, sincere Dylan doesn’t leave much daylight between performance and intention, it’s easy to lump him in with most right media, either because he’s just that guy, or because he he’s irony poison himself into functionally participating in that sphere. I think that’s what happened.

The whole point of Dylan’s persona on the show is to be vile without remainder so self serving, cynical, and bleak that no rational nugget can be on Earth. After the La fires, he explained that he was lying about losing his home to get sympathy and money. Near the end of a recent episode, He claimed he would do a set at the Riodd Comedy Festival and the blood of someone who just got beheaded. Jamarco Siresi spoke to Current Affairs dot Org. He talked about performing overseas.

He said, honestly, being an American comedian and American comedians can’t complain to any other comedian in the world because our media is so shoved down everyone’s throat that I was able to make jokes about RFK and Milan. No Italian could come to a normal American audience and talk about Georgia Maloney. I went to Istanbul and I was like, what can I say in the booker said, you can say anything you want. And he said there’s going to be a Muslim call to prayer in the middle of your second show. And I said, can I joke about it?

And he said, yeah, joke about whatever you want. I was like, you’re saying I can say whatever I want and he said yes, and I did and it was great. Then I told him I was going to post a video and he was like, do not post a video. If you ever want to come back to Istanbul again. Jermarcus said, okay, I’m learning.

Basically, it’s okay in instant ball, it’s not okay outside. My girlfriend is always telling me please don’t go to jail for a joke. How we doing today? Kind of chill. I don’t even have my good voice today or my creative fastball, just very angsty day, and I don’t want to get angst into the show.

Chattanooga’s Lookout Comedy Festival is back at baby thirty plus comedians. Starts tonight, goes through the twenty fifth, officials said, with notable headlining performers from all over the country like Tricks with Two Exes Joe Zimmerman, Nick Murphy, and Casey Balsham. This year’s four day festival’s proof the Chattanoogas comedy scene is filled not only with fun, but burgeoning opportunities for comics and audiences alike. Out today on Comedy Exports YouTube channel. Sean Walsh back from the bed.

Celebrity Jeopardy is switching services. It’s moving from Amazon to Netflix. Colin Joe’s toasted the first season. It’s unclear if he will return. That reminds me I lost I had in the notes, say Colin Jost Ferry story.

Let me pull that up to be in the script The New York Times, so the major story the headline Colin Jose, Pete Davidson and the Staten Island Ferry Fiasco. Nearly four years after they bought an out of service ferry boat for two hundred and eighty one hundred dollars, their plans for a floating event space maybe running aground the Times Rights. When they looked at the twenty one hundred ton hunk of metal, they envisioned a floating event space with two restaurants, six bars, a concert venue and hotel rooms with private sun decks on a former Staten Island ferry. Josetas called the acquisition the dumbest and least thought through purchase I have ever made my life. Pete Davidson, who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, described it as a lifelong problem for me and Colin.

No wonder Pete’s playing riot. He needs money. Launched in nineteen sixty five, the John F. Kennedy was the oldest vessel in the Staten Island Ferry fleet at the Times Rights and the auction listing the agency did nothing to sugarcoate at seaworthiness. The boat was in quote poor condition without a working engine, it had to be towed.

There were thirty zug boat companies in New York Harver which we’ll transport your ship for around seventeen hundred dollars an hour. Then they had to find a place to tow it too. That’s the best. April eleventh, twenty twenty two, the JFK was towed three miles. All right, so that’s five grand skimming down this very lengthy article.

Then we found there’s asbestos in the ship. The Times quotes a ship expert who says, the thing about as bestos is it’s not an issue until you go to take it out. It has to be done, and it has matt gear. You’re looking at salty numbers to do asbestos remediation. All right, Once they solve that, where do you put it?

The Times points out, you know a good place would be saying up here on the East River. Problem is those aren’t cheap. Another expert points out large boats block sunlight, which can damage marine ecosystems and kill aquatic life over time. All right, maybe we should scrap the thing. Tommy O’Toole is a partner at Compass Maritime that handles ship sales.

He did some math. If you wanted to scrap it, he said, let’s say something weigh two thousand tons. If it’s worth one hundred and fifty dollars a ton of scrap, that’s three hundred grand. If the tow cost you three hundred fifty thousand dollars, you’d have to pay someone fifty grands. Kevin Hennessy is the former captain of the JFK.

He told The Daily News in twenty twenty two that the boat had a serious cockroach problem. He said, this was an impulse buy with two guys with a lot of money who don’t know anything about maritime vessels. And that is your politics. Free comedy news for today, See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. So I really am trying not to turn this into a political podcast at all. The reality is all the news continues to be political. I actually deep dove today to try and find some other things.

Didn’t find much, but I did find this one from the National Enquirer, remember them. They spoke with an insider from the Seinfeld camp. The insider says Jerry turned his annoyances into a gold mine with his comedy performances and TV show, but the complaining used to be a secret weapon, and now it just gets on people’s nerves. This is one of the most successful people in the history of show business financially and artistically, but he’s almost allergic to counting his blessings. It’s not a good look for a man at retirement age with more money than he could spend in ten lifetimes.

I mentioned in the Facebook group recently Daily Comedy News podcast group. I teach a college class. None of my students had any idea who Hary Seinfeld is and weren’t familiar with the sitcom Seinfeld. Then I teached you college is that? At the other class, I told them about the first class and the second class was like, that’s insane.

They all knew Jerry was, so who knows. The insider says he’s very upset about the Israel situation and his twenty twenty four Netflix movie Unfrosted was a struggle to get made and then terribly received. I thought it was pretty good. The thing that could snap Jerry out of his rut would be a fun new project or challenge that he could really sink his teeth into, like the way his old friend Larry David is launching a new TV show with Baraka Michelle Obama’s production company. The problem is, Jerry’s not really on the hunt for anything like that right now.

As far as he’s concerned, He’s done at all, and people still don’t appreciate him enough. Interesting. Theovaughn went to see the Vanderbilt Commodorees take on the LSU Tigers. While he was there, he ran into the folks from OutKick the Show and they asked him about baseball. Theovaughn had this to say, Shia Tani, like, will we ever see another?

We’re not going to get as many shows anymore because of the tariffs to take down the tariffs and get us more slight edits there for language, all right, I tried as long as I could. Joe Rogan on his podcast said that he disagrees with President Trump’s approach to talking about his adversaries. Rogan commented when at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, the President said I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them, Rogan said, I don’t agree with any of that. He’s a nuts.

Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom is trying really really hard to get Joe Rogan to book…

He keeps poking at Rogan on social media. Rogan said if he interviewed Newsom, he would cook himself. In response to that, Gavin Newsoen tweeted a chicken emoji alongside the words buck buck at Joe Rogan. Last week, Newsom’s press office went on social media in the President Trump all caps style and wrote, Joe Rogan is a snack sized podcaster who can’t stop talking about me. Obsessed crush, no thank you, but he’s too scared to have me on.

Brian Callen was at Camp Pendleton on Saturday. It was the celebration of the US Marine Corps. There is a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Brian Callen warmed up for Vice President J. D.

Vance. Callen praised President Trump for bringing peace to the Mideast for the first time since Moses had a parting of the ways with Pharaoh. Unfortunately, there was some news on Sunday that the peace might not be lasting. Johnny Mack is pro peace. Kat Williams got an honorary doctorate from Miles College.

President Bobby Knight said, it’s not every day that people get an honorary doctorate. It’s because of you and what you’ve done, and we just want to show you how much we appreciate you and recognize you for all the work you’ve done. Kat accepted his doctorate in Human Letters and said, in a very short period of time, no one could deserve this more than me. It was going to take a mighty fine institution to recognize that I serve a god that insists that my cup runneth over and those smiles that I sell for a living, those have Miles right in the middle of it. So you get it.

It was Miles College. Yeah, I had to go back and check. I had forgotten already too. Kat Williams is building a studio in the local area. He recently told GQ, it’s not just fair to put all that pressure on Tyler Perry.

He can only do so much. Did you watch Saturday Night Live? People on the internet were not happy about it. The episode generated several topics. Let’s start with this one, since everything is political now.

During the news, Colin Jost told a joke. The setup involved the US sending more than forty billion dollars to Argentina to help bail out their economy. Joe said, if history’s any guide, a lot of Trump officials will end up fleeing to Argentina. People in the audience didn’t seem to get the joke. In case you are not familiar, many Nazi war criminals fled to Argentina after World War Two.

The joke got barely any laughter. Joe said, hey, one clap. People on social media were not amused. One person tweeted Colin Jose needs to be fired effective immediately for his sickening comments last night. Another said Colin Jost is a sellout hack and doesn’t deserve to be married to Scarlet Johanson.

Wow, we’re not only canceling him, We’re going to get him divorced. Bowen Yang was not on the live show, although he appeared I believe in some recorded things. He was in Los Angeles to receive the Vantage Award. The show opened with a Domingo sketch. A lot of people were surprised they didn’t do something political.

Others were surprised at how unfunny the sketch was. Johnny Mack will continue to say, Marcelo Hernandez does one thing well, and he does one thing repeatedly. Then during the news Marcello showed up again and did a totally different character, the movie guy who’s not like Domingo at all. It’s a totally different character, just awful. One person on Threads, who user named three x one minus one wrote, convinced that Lauren is in the Epstein Files, and Marcelo knows, and Lorn knows he knows.

It’s the only thing that explains the weekly recurring Domingo nightmare. Sierra Cascadia wrote, if SNL were an NFL team right now, it’d be the Jets shows off for a couple weeks. Miles Taylor will host on November one. Musical guest Brandy Carlysle November eighth, Nicky Glazer is the host. Her agent’s getting it done.

She will have a Hulu special in twenty twenty six because she supports fascism. Did she not break up with them after the Jimmy Kimmel thing. You’re not supposed to do business with Hulu or Disney? Remember musical guest Somber November fifteenth, Clint Powell is your host. Olivia Dean musical guest.

I also saw some comments about James Austin Johnson’s Trump continuing to not hit the mark. I’ve been commenting that since last year it is drifting. People are pointing out that James is still doing the twenty sixteen Trump and not the current slightly older Trump that you might want to do. But what do I know. I don’t do impressions.

I do half assed impressions, and as a listener, you know how good those are. Jamarcos Arazi talked to Current Affairs dot org about crowd work and said, you never know a lot of times it goes sideways. The person’s trying to be funny and it messes up, or they lie or someone interrupts, So you’re only seeing the times that it works. Sometimes people write he never misses and I’m like, well, well, I don’t caption the misses. I don’t send those to my editor and say let’s get these up on YouTube asap.

It’s always a risk, there was some days I’m feeling riskier than others. In other days I’m like, whether the audience is too far away or it’s too dark ago, it’s not going to work. And the other times the story just falls in your lap. And even though I’ve never served, I equated to what that must feel like. You’re on a flow, you’re on a balance beam, and you’re like, I can’t believe I’m still up here.

I’m still walking, and you decide when do I need to jump off. Every once in a while, when you’re up there, you’re like, oh my god, I’ve been up here for twelve minutes. It’s cool, it’s exciting. It makes me feel alive. Some people are curious about South Park, so all of a sudden last week South Park was like, yeah, season twenty seven’s over.

This is season twenty eight, and people are like huh. Some wondered is this some way to fulfill some sort of contractual obligation? That was my guess. Others thought maybe the talent of season twenty seven was going to do more with the Charlie Kirk stuff that appeared earlier in the season, and then they were like, eh, we shouldn’t do that. But a representative for the show said season twenty seven was never meant to be ten episodes.

The showrunners planned all along for seasons twenty seven and twenty eight to be five episodes each. Comedy Central told The Hollywood Reporter. No announcement was made regarding how many episodes would be in season twenty seven. Anyway, season twenty seven is five episodes long. Then they took a three week break, and now the season twenty eight premiere.

Meanwhile, some people are upset with the Simpsons. They’ve sort of reset the timeline again, and now Homer and Marge are millennials. The season thirty two episode Do Pizza Bot stream of Electric Guitars featured a flashback of Homer as a nineteen nineties routine. The season thirty seven premiere had Lisa cashing in on nineties nostalgia by wearing the old clothes of Marche, who was a nineties kid. Show Runner Matt Sillman told Entertainment Weekly, the options are we don’t do flashback shows ever, and we don’t mention the past ever, which creatively handcuffs us.

Or we’re playful and silly, which is the DNA of the show, and we have fun with whatever generation the show’s airing in. If the show only took place in the present with a kind of vague nineteen seventies high school homer and backstory, it seems increasingly impossible. That would be much worse for telling good stories. Simpson’s scholar The Real Gyms, pointed out that the show had already been subtly changing the characters’ birth years throughout the classic era. Then in the middle run and there’s a million seasons here, so I don’t know, throw a dart and say, like season seventeen or so, the show avoided flashback episodes.

Then in two thousand and eight an episode called That Nineties Show, which had a whole new backstory for Homewer and Marge. Selman argues, part of telling stories is people are remembering things from their youth, their childhood. Everyone’s childhood is directly responsible for how they behave as an adult. You can’t ignore childhood if you’re going to be a storyteller. So We’re not ignoring childhood.

It would have been interesting as an experiment to just lock into the seventies and have them be like, well, Lisa, when I was a kid the seventies and just have it all be about the seventies, even though we live in the post apocalyptic future now. Someone says, I would also like to point out that no way we’re saying that the beloved other flashbacks didn’t happen. We’re not saying that it’s just a silly little show. Everything happened with the same level of historical veracity. I’m not worried about messi with the timeline.

I feel like story and characters should come first, and the cinematic universe rules of a show that has none should come in a distant second. Sound like it’d be a good show Inner for modern Star Trek. Gossip Connor Whispers in the Street. Gossip conn probably about Pete Gossip conn Away, the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. I’ll be singing that all day and today.

Gossip Corner is about Pete Davidson, who recently performed at the Odd Comedy Festival, and Pete Davidson’s father was killed on nine to eleven. Pete surprise is pregnant girlfriend Elsie Hewitt with a private jet date to go see Paul McCartney in concert. On Friday. Elsie posts that on Instagram, Pete is taking me on a surprise date. Pete Davidson sat across from her on the private plane.

So if you’re like, hey, why would you play the Reo Odd Comedy Festival, because then you have money to take a private plane to go see Paul McCartney. They took the plane to Minnesota to attend Paul McCartney’s show at us Bank Stadium. Now it’d be fair to Pete Davidson. McCartney does not have any current tour daate scheduled anywhere near Staten Island. I know this because I would go see Paul McCartney and I just checked on the website.

He would said that was like a really special little bucket list moment for me. Paul is pretty much the one person I’ve always wanted to meet. Do I have the sweetest, most thoughtful boyfriend or what?

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Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian was on a podcast and talked about her romance with …

She recalled how her ex husband Kanye West taunted Pete during a music video in twenty twenty two. Kim said, that made me feel really sad. That really wasn’t fair for him. The NBA is back tonight. Now.

I had noticed this and I can’t forgetting to mention it, and I finally remember to put it in the notes. NBC is going to air basketball games at eleven PM. Now, why that’s interesting is because, well, you can’t play basketball in thirty five minutes, which means the Tonight show either gets preempted or delayed. And I checked the schedule this week. The Tonight Show is scheduled for one am, so they’re going to produce new episodes, which guests on the West coast will still air at eleven thirty, but on the East Coast, the Tonight Show is going to be airing at one am on Tuesdays.

I haven’t seen this reported anywhere, but that’s interesting, isn’t it? And that probably won’t be good for Jimmy’s ratings. Jimmy was in Scotland and some Scottish soldiers hosted him for a special dinner. Jimmy had been touring the grounds of Balmoral Castle. I know about that place from writing the Palace Intrigue podcast, which cross promotion.

I don’t know if you heard the whole Prince Andrew thing. It’s actually let me get the littles out of us. It’s really, really horrible. Earlier today I sent Mark Francis, who’s the host of Pallace intric I wrote the scripts and I sent it to him and I was like, dude, this is nothing but horrible and my stomach is going to turn. I don’t even want to talk about it on this show.

Just horrible, horrible, horrible. Anyway, Pallace Intrigue, where you get your shows. Jimmy Fallon was at Balmoral. One of the soldiers recognized him and invited him to the barracks. He was greeted with kilts and bagpipes by soldiers from fifth Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Jimmy signed the visitors Book. I had Victoria Barracks in the village. He then saw a small ceremonial guard of soldiers rehearsing for the King’s departure. Major Thomas Blair said what started as a chance meeting near Bellmoral turned into a brilliant evening It’s not every day you get to meet a Hollywood A lister, and we were delighted to welcome him to Scotland in true Scott’s style. That made me ponder for a second.

Is Jimmy Fallon an a lister? I guess he is. He does host the Tonight Show, but is like Seth Myers an A lister? I don’t know if Seth Myers is an A lister. Mel Hall will premiere his debut special what Are We Doing Today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube channel.

Filmed in San Diego, Mel Hall delivers his take on the chaos of millennial parenthood and the wild ride of raising kids in a world where gen Z is judging your every move, from choosing the right words to parent with to surviving Costco on a Saturday. He finds humor in the everyday madness. Yeah. I’ve got a college age child and I regularly get canceled just for speaking the way someone my age does. I come in peace.

I get canceled all the time here in my house, No Hall said, this special represents not just where I am today, but the fifteen plus years of shows that got me here. The great outdoors Comedy Festival announced to some of the lineup for next year. Matt Rife will headline six weekends at Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calorie, Spokane and Vancouver. Nikki Glaser will headline in Halifax.

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Also on that show, Fortune Fimes, Stern, Steph Tolev more lineup reveals to c…

And that is your comedy news on a Tuesday. Hope you have an awesome day and I’ll see you here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media Haby Monday. I am Johnny Mack with your nearly comedy news. So as I put the show together, if you notice, then there’s like two thousand episodes you can check my work. I put the big name comedians up to the front, and then as we get further along, it gets a little more esoteric. And I’m aware of the tone of the show lately, and I’m trying to be conscious of it.

Believe me. I would like to sit here right now and do two minutes making fun of Jim Gaffigan, Hawking Bourbon. I would like to make fun of Adam Sandler, but that’s just not what the news is. And as I pull the cards out of the deck, I only have political options for you. That is where comedy is right now.

Joe Rogan last week on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, shared some frustration about some of the President’s recent moves. He was discussing some of the actions by Ice. Rogan said, I didn’t never anticipate seeing that on TV on a regular basis, ripping parents out of their communities. I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals. Rogan’s segment was that voters had felt there was a crazy thing happening where the border was wide open.

But does that mean you support everything that they’re doing now where they’re kicking people out. No, they’re storming into the home depot and arresting people. Rogan added the militaries in the street. I think that’s a dangerous precedent. You know, in some ways, beginning to lose Joe Rogan is comparable to LBJ losing Crunk Kite in a modern way.

When it comes to the media. John Marco Serraisi tild Curt Affairs dot Org. I think edgie comedy sometimes gets conflated with having hateful views. I think people have passed off hateful views as edgie comedy for a while, And in my mind, edge comedy is just talking about things that make you uncomfortable.

And then within that, I want to make a joke.

I think that joke comes from my own point of view. If it comes from my point of view, which is generally a leftist one, the joke will reflect that without even being preachy. Someone will go, oh, you did a trans joke, and it’s like, no, I didn’t do a trans joke. I did either a joke about a specific transperson I know, or I did joke about how I deal with, for example, something people have made a million jokes about pronouns. For me, I would like my pronouns joke to be when I put he him.

It feels limiting to who I am sometimes and I wish I could add a little asterisk to it, and then I lay out what that asterisk is. So it is a pronoun joke, but it’s different from the hacky normal one because I’m talking about something very specific to my own feelings about me using it as opposed to some grand statement. There’s a new documentary Anxiety Club. Mark Marin says his relationship with anxiety has changed throughout the years, but has never gone away. Maren said, there’s a lot of things I don’t give a hoot about that I used to.

There were big anxiety producing things. I think with age and certainly with money, a lot of that stuff is just sort of null and void, and its relief. Then you start getting into deeper issues like why am I still not enjoying myself? Why am I still feeling less than or uncomfortable in certain situations? What is this about?

Also appearing in Anxiety Club, are Tiphony Jenkins, a partner, Inchurla, Mark Norman who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, Jill List, Eva Victor, and Baron Vaughan. The synopsis of Anxiety Club is what a mix of stand up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life experiences, they candidly share their personal struggles with anxiety, the world’s most prevalent mental health condition. Chris Rock was talking to The New York Times about Ben Stiller. Chris Rock, Who’s sixty Now, you know I do that, and then I remember how old I am. Now, Oh boy, the numbers just get scary so quickly.

Chris Rock, sixty years old. He’s not like nineteen. Chris Rock, sixty years old, called Ben Stiller one of the greatest comic actors to ever live. I’m trying to get wherever he’s at. It’s so farhad, I can’t even see it.

He also committed Ben Stiller and his wife for managing to reconcile after their separation. Chris Rock’s had a marriage. Getting back together is harder to do than a six hundred million dollar movie. Sebastian Maniscalco, He’s back from the ridd Comedy Festival. Johnny Max a hypocrite and will tell you a story about Sebastian that was in Southern Living, where Sebastian Maniscalco shared what marrying a Southerner taught him.

Sebastian said, the hospitality and how nice people are is extremely foreign to me, just because I don’t necessarily see that in Los Angeles. You know, when I’m stunned about in the South, there’s a lack of urgency to do anything. You get a bagel in New York, they’ll rip through thirteen people in no problem. In the South, it’s like, you know, they’re talking to you with a register and they’re really getting to know you. But it takes an hour and fifteen minutes to get a cream cheese bagel.

See. It’s funny because I grew up in New York. When I go to LA, I feel like there’s nowhere to see out there. In New York, if you’re not going one hundred miles an hour by seven thirty one am, you’ve blown the day. In LA, it’s like, oh, let’s have a meeting, all right.

You want to meet at the Coffee Bean at eleven You can send me letters from La. I like it out there, believe me. I think you guys have it right New York. We’re crazy, Sebastian says of his wife. She’s turned me on a barbecue, which I never really used to eat prior to meeting Lana.

So anytime I go to the South, whether it be Tennessee or Austin, I got to get good Southern barbecue. I definitely try to get a rib or a brisket or what have you. You can see how the Rion Comedy Festival has effected Sebastian’s career. Doing fluff interviews like this one. Sebastian has toyed with the idea of going to culinary school told Southern Living, I just want to know the basics the sauces had to cut or how to chop all that stuff.

So I don’t know, maybe a future in the culinary arts moving forward if this stand up thing doesn’t work out. And there are some comedians who there’s just always angst around them. There are some comedians who every time their name comes up, it’s never ever ever, Like comedian X had a nice day and it was sunny out, there were flowers, and the comedian Petted a puppy and Sunshine and Rainbows. One of those comedians that every story is just angst is Kathy Griffin, who was recently escorted out of a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. So, first of all, let’s talk about relatable Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton.

I’m in my basement recording my podcast, dressed like Adam Sandler. I don’t know what it would take to get me to a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. I think if I got an invite later today, Hey, do you want to come to Paris Hilton’s house, I’d probably be like, no, right, why would I go? Kathy tells a story Chris Jenner. See this is already insane.

Chris Jenner had gone in a room behind some curtains, and I went on the other side of the curtains and started tapping on the glass. Think it would be funny to act like it was a zombie. Then security physically removed me. Kathy talked to People magazine and how her recent life has affected her set. In the past eight years, she had a pill addiction, a suicide attempt, a lung cancer diagnosis, and a divorce from her husband.

Kathy said, I talk about some heavy stuff, but I got so much feedback from my audience as saying I’m glad you went there. I have had a bit of difficulty since the Trump photo, but one thing after another taught me, Okay, you may not see the comedy when you’re living in it, but at some point it would be funny. There’s comedy in everything. Shout Studios has signed a pact for Conan O’Brien’s fifteen hundred episode TBS run, which they had the NBC run. But okay, Conan did fifteen hundred TBS shows over eleven years.

You know, I have the controversial stance. Talked about this with Malcoff recently. I know everybody loves Sat Conan. I get it, I get it, I get it, but nobody cares about that TBS run. I’m sorry, Saint Conan is based on the NBC run.

Nobody cares about the TBS. I’m sorry. Hope Shout Studios isn’t mad at me. Jeff Pische, SVP of Programming and New Business Development at Radio, said, Conan O’Brien is widely regarded as one of the most original and enduring figures in American comedy. His influence as shaped modern comedy, and his work continues to resonate with audiences across generations.

We’re excited to continue his extraordinary late night legacy by allowing fans to watch his decade long series on streaming platforms. I kind of want to push back on that. Is Conan one of the most original figures in American comedy? Where is Conan walking in the steps paved by David Letterman? You can send me a letter.

I like Conan. The lawyers can get in go. Most originals say yes, he’s one of the most seven million original people. And I’m not here to dump on Conan O’Brien. I just think mister Pische may have overstated a little bit the quote.

Again. Conon O’Brien is widely regarded as one of the most original len enduring figures in American comedy. His influence has shaped modern comedy. Is that true if we take Smigel out of the Conan years? Is that true?

Or has Smigel shaped modern comedy? And believe me, love, Conan didn’t wake up today going what are you besh? Conan? It’s not why I’m here. I’m just reacting in the moment to this quote.

Anyway, if you want to watch the TBS run, you’re gonna be able to watch it. Conan O’Brien briefly hosted The Tonight Show, which was hosted for a few years by Johnny Carson. Johnny used to walk out from this iconic rainbow curtain. A section of said curtain is up for auction via Heritage Auctions. This particular curtain was on Carson’s finale May twenty second, nineteen ninety two.

The listening says the auction lot includes two pairs of curtains that made up the backdrop, the shimmery polyester rainbow curtains with bands of blue, orange, gold, lavender, and peach, as well as the set’s blue and gray curtains with crosshatched diamond patterns with alternating panels of inset bejeweled adornments and horizontal silver stripes. The listening knows that the curtain show signs of production use, handling, an age, including stains, toning, thread, and other expected indications of stage use. So if you’re hoping to hang these in your living room thinking hey, these will be nice curtains, I don’t think you understand why you would be buying these. There’s a similar set of curtains at the National Comedy Center’s Johnny the Immersive Experience Exhibit in Jamestown, New York. Last check, the curtain bidding was at fifty five hundred dollars.

The auction closes Friday, October twenty fourth. This week would have been Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday and ten at TV and Doc Severnthson the adjoining forces to honor the King of Late Night to mark Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday. On October twenty third, TV will present Johnny Carson’s one hundred Birthday Party, a week long celebration airing tonight through the twenty fifth at eleven East eight West. Each evening will include fresh reflections from Doc Seventhson, and Doc is up there at this point, hold this, Doc, I’m gonna just wildly guess I have no idea. I’m gonna guess as I google this that he’s eighty eight.

Ooh. Doc Severnson is ninety eight anyway, And there’ll be recollections from Doc who said that Johnny was a master creator, the basis of his personality and His style was class. He was class personified. The week long tribute will feature some memorable moments. Guests include Burt Reynolds, who is the voice of Comedy stock Market, or at least as AI is, Robin Williams, Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, and Olivia Newton John.

Now normally a sentence, now I will throw Robin out. But normally when you’re going like Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, and you’re not expecting, like Olivia Newton John in that sentence, are you? I don’t expect something I don’t know. Sammy Davis Junior maybe would have completed that sentence all right. Tonight’s episode Burt Reynolds, Richard Lewis from February nineteen eighty two, then Tuesday, Michael Landon, Carowayne, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, Freddy Prinz from nineteen seventy four, Wednesday, Jackie Gleason and Jim Stafford from October eighty five.

I’ve have Thursday, Buddy Hackett, Burt Reynolds again, Don Rickles again, Dean Martin, Carol Wayne. That’s from nineteen seventy three, and that’s a ninety minute episode Friday, Robin Williams and Gene Marsh from nineteen eighty one, Saturday, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, Olivia Newton, John David Jansen from nineteen seventy six a ninety minute episode, and Jimmy Fallon, who currently hosts The Tonight Show, said Mike Trico told him to stop talking during the twenty twenty four Olympics coverage. Guest Jason Bateman on The Tonight Show said to Fellon, talk show hosts are the greatest guests ever, because you know what you need. You need people to talk. Fallon said, the opposite is I got to be a commentator at the Olympics last year in Paris.

Mike Tarico got me on there and said I talked way too much and sounded like an idiot. Fallon explained he was trying to fill the airtime. I was like, uh, Mike, they’re in the swimming pool and they’re swimming in the pool and he’s looking at me, going stop. He actually grabbed my hand at one point He’s like, stop talking, chill out. Dude.

Said sorry, Mike Rico. He’s a good dude. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, you’re only hearing my calm on air Persoda, You’re not hearing all the F bombs un dropping as my equipment is giving me problems today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack. With their Daily Comedy News. Mark Merron opened up to Esquire about the whole John Stewart thing.

Maren said, when I was coming up, he was a smart, cute, Jewish guy. He said, Stuart fit into a category of people who have foresight and are disciplined careers, and they know how to understand their talent, harness it, and then figure out how to capitalize on it with their skill set on their terms. Maren said he himself never had any control over my talent as a younger person in the industry. That led him to resent John Stewart’s success. John Stewart hosted the Comedy Central show Short Attention Span Theater.

When Stuart left that gig, Mark Maron took it over. That show was canceled shortly thereafter. Maren said, I was just all in and like demanding a place in this world. Of so throughout my early career, John he was roughly my age. She was just everywhere.

It never stopped. You know, I remember when he did the MTV show and then he had the talk show and he had me on. But my envy of him was always I would just crap on him to his face, be like, who do you think you are? Now that’s interesting, right, because I played on Friday’s show. Both Mark Maren and Andrew Schultz said that about Mark Maren.

So that’s interesting now Mark Maron is saying that about Mark Maren. Maren continued, it was just consuming because I couldn’t get through out a week without him being on the cover of magazine. And for some reason I saw it as like, if I could only have my crap together, I could be more like that guy. Maren says, back then he was constantly comparing himself to John Stewart. I think I was definitely gunning for something else.

I don’t think I got in a comedy to be an entertainer, of have a job as a talk show host or anything. He was asked, all right, why did you get into it? Then Maren said, told my space and speak my mind. But I loved comedy and I thought I could do that in comedy. I saw it as a sort of noble undertaking the only rules of comedy.

The only text is you should be funny. But outside of that, you can do whatever you really want on the stage and you get the range. I was annoying him. Eventually he was like, I don’t need to take this from you and Screwmaron, but I get it. Ahead of the No Kings rallies, Joe Rogan claimed that protesters across the country were either losers, actors paid by liberal billionaire George Soros, or undercover federal agents.

Joe Rogan said this on Wednesdays, Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan said, all those people that are protesting on the streets, ninety nine percent of them are losers. The other ones work for the Fed. It’s FBI agents and losers. That’s all it is.

So if you were out yesterday, you’re a loser or an FBI agent or being paid by George Soros. Brogan continued, this is a guy with a van who’s paid by George Soros, and he’s got stacks of signs that were made of Kinkos. They’re not homemade at all. You can just pass those bad boys out In San Francisco, Camille on Gianni and Alana Glazer roptly withdrew from their scheduled performances at Dreamforce. Dream Force is the annual tech conference held by Salesforce.

Salesforce announced on Thursday that, due to unforeseen circumstances, Kamil Nanchi and Alana Glazer are no longer able to perform. They did not elaborate. They had been scheduled to headline the closing day festivities of the three day event, which drew forty five thousand attendees to the Moscone Center in San fran A source close to Salesforce told the San Francisco Chronicle that Nancianni became ill and couldn’t perform, prompting Glazer his scheduled opener to cancel as well. Interesting why didn’t she just perform? Well, some people think it’s because hours earlier, venture capitalist Ron Conway had resigned from the sales Force Foundation board.

Why did he resign? He said that the values of the CEO were no longer aligned. The CEO had expressed support for a notable politician who wanted the National Guard to be deployed to San Francisco. You know that guy. I’m trying not to be political here.

They keep making me do it so the board guys upset with the CEO guy, and Kamal Gianni happened to get sick, and Ali Glazer happened to decide she wouldn’t perform because the headliner wasn’t coming. Neither non Jihanni nor Glazer has addressed the reasons for their cancelations. Salesforce replaced both of them with David Spade the San Francisco Standard. While neither performer has publicly criticized the CEO or Salesforce, they’ve both been outspoken about unfair labor practices in the entertainment industry, anti immigration rhetoric, and the Israel Palestine conflict. The Standard ads that Origin Public Relations, which represents both non Jihanni and Glazier, did not respond to requests for comments.

Metallica did perform on Wednesday, and you may recall last year at this same conference, John Mulaney was your headliner. Here’s a story that I’ve bounced about thirty times in these last three weeks. I don’t know if you heard. There was Kimmelgate and then the Rion Comedy Festival. I never got to talk to you about David Letterman reacting to Cobert Gate Vulture Ascid Letterman how he felt about CBS essentially flushing away something you created, and Dave said, well, before we discuss something we started and created.

I’m not sure that’s accurate in my case. Remember Jack Rollins, who was my manager forever, one day saying to me, David, it’s like a paper cup. You have a drink of water, then you crumple it up and throw it away. And everything Jack provided for me in my life, that’s the silly thing that’s stuck with me. Try to hang on to that.

Everything changes, There’s a time and place for everything. So it didn’t even dawn on me when Steven announced that he was being taken off the air, that the whole franchise was gone. The more I thought of it, clearly was mishandled. It clearly was not always bleeding money. There are ways to make money, there are ways to hide money.

I mean, I spent most of my life hiding my money in Panama. You know, we all know that CBS could have figured that out and to unload him after they made a deal with the administration for sixty minutes it smelled bad. Let’s just take them at their word. It now, it didn’t smell bad. We’re losing money, okay, but find a way to make it not smell bad.

It just looked ridiculous, but it’s no surprise. I remember Jay Leno used to say to me when we were going ahead to add Nah, this plenty of room, this room for both of us, and I kept thinking, well, no, there’s not room for both of us. Then suddenly there were three shows and maybe more. But as we’re seeing now, there really isn’t much room left for anybody. The format will always exist, just for not a network TV any longer because it’s dirt cheap to produce compared to Brian Time programmings and half hour comedies and such.

Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla YouTube channel, It’s the best of Hit in America with Jodah Ray. Adam Sandler was seen at the University of Kentucky. He stopped by basketball practice, as he tends to do. Both the men’s and women’s team posted pictures of Adam Sandler talking to the players and coaches for both teams. Sandler was given a jersey by the men’s team.

He must have a ton of jerseys at this point. Sandler hooked up both teams with tickets to his show, So that means there must have been how many people on our basketball team fifteen twenty, Let’s say fifteen. Some coaches say there’s three coaches, so there must have been like forty unsold tickets to Adam Sandler’s show. The La Times both to comedian CP, who said, your jokes are like your wardrobe. Won’t you buy a shirt that’s your shirt?

You own that shirt until you basically get rid of it. Sometimes you might be a little big for that shirt. It doesn’t fit right. You need to work out. That’s how jokes are.

He was referring to a joke he first started to write twelve years ago. He works with Kevin Hart and said, when you first meet Kevi and he knows you’re already familiar with your work and understands your potential because he’s been there as someone with potential before it was realized. It’s actually easier to talk to someone like that and relate to them than most people would think. He doesn’t need to hate on anybody. It’s really like a proud of people like you in your position.

Here’s what I can do to help. CEP says, I want to be the comedian who takes it to the next level when Kevin Hart is ready to pass the torch too. Ma. Any comedians are free to say that or let that be the goal. We have to be honest about what we’re trying to do.

If you just want to be a comedian to get a couple dollars and get some attention, that’s one thing. But I see it as a thing where the sky is the limit. Style Wise, he says, I do the same show whether it’s two people or two thousand people. I need the reps. I need to know that I can do this no matter what.

Similar to someone who’s freestyle wrapping. If you don’t use that muscle, you’re gonna lose it. And today is Sunday, which means theoretically Bob’s Burgers is on TV. If you’re a longtime listener, you know where this is going to go. But a lot of new listeners have started listening.

Now, new listeners, I’m gonna ask you two questions. You’re gonna think these questions are crazy, but I want you to think them. Okay. Question number one, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? You haven’t, No one has.

And here’s the really weird one question number two, have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? You have it now? Isn’t that weird? Because the show apparently has three hundred episodes now, and yet you’ve never seen it. You’ve never met anyone whos seen it.

Let me ask you a question. What time is it on? I know we all think it’s on Fox, but what time is it on? See? Here’s the thing.

The show does not exist. I’m a longtime comedy watcher. I’ve never seen it. I’ve never met anyone who’s seen it. Now, you’re like John, there’s clearly artwork, we’ve seen it.

Oh, there’s artwork, there’s merch, there’s a whole industry around the hoax. I get it, But there’s no such show as Bob’s Burgers. Does Fox promote it? Sure, they say it’s coming on after the Simpsons, but they know we’ve all stopped watching the Simpsons twenty five years ago. Now at this point, they probably make like four minutes of a new Simpsons episode, knowing we’re all switching over to NBC to watch football.

No one is watching Fox on Sunday night, So they just promote stuff, and then who even knows what’s on. If you remember tonight, switch over to Fox and let me know if Bob’s Burgers is there. It’s not, I dareia. Anyway, the Bob’s Burgers folks were celebrating three hundred episodes. Really three hundred Bob’s Burgers supposedly premiered in twenty eleven.

Now some of you, I got it. You’re like John, you sound crazy? Okay? Why don’t you google Eugene Merman hoax? Eugene Mermann supposedly a voice on Bob’s Burgers.

Eugene Merman hoax. The first thing that comes up the Eugene Merman Fake Comedy Festival. Then I get an AI overview saying the Eugene Merman hoax likely refers to a series of social media posts where Eugene Merman playfully discusses various hoaxes or conspiracies. So he’s a prankster. Why don’t you google Kristin Shall, who I got to know a little bit during my serious XM days.

You know how I first met Kristin Shall. She won the Andy Kaufman Award. And what is Andy Kaufman known for? Hoaxes? Put ons things that seem real that aren’t say, for example, perhaps possibly maybe Bob’s Burgers.

You see where I’m going here again? Have you ever seen the show? Have you ever met anyone who’s seen the show? Anyway, congratulations to Bob’s Burgers on three hundred episodes. M M.

This was actually episode one million of this podcast, so thank you for listening and I will see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media Jess. When I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. No, this is a different episode. This isn’t Friday again. Hello, it’s Saturday and I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

So here’s what happened in real life. I recorded Friday’s episode and then you have to do what’s called the bounce where it takes all the individual tracks and it shrinks it down, and then later I edited. So during the bounce it takes like a minute. I pulled out my phone and I had a message from Well it was a DM you know who you are. Somebody from the Facebook group sent me a video by an artist called crack Amco.

The title is re Odd Money featuring Bill Burr. I had no intention five minutes ago of putting this in the script, but here in the video, I’m going to play clips now. Most of these words said in this video I want no part of. But as part of this ongoing topic of where are we with all these people, crack Amiko went after these folks hard. There’s a lot of photo shopping here.

I’m staring at an image of Bill Burr wearing something that I’m not sure Bill actually wears. It’s a sort of garb you might wear in a desert climate. The lyrics in crack Amiko’s video very very edgy, at times inappropriate. So I’m going to do many many a machete edits here Esse you can get a feel of what’s going on in the comedy community. You’ll find this on YouTube if you want to watch it.

Crack Amco’s re Odd Money featuring Bill Burr heavily edited by John Yo. It’s Billy Burke. Yeah, we get read money, baby? Whoa christ Stephano, Chris. I had to let you know this festival might rest your Sola Conan and the Eskimos.

To have the soldier drop must not be making no sense. Just the roastmaster general demoted to lieutenant. I’m the lord of this landa. I’m evicting these chot tenants who didn’t expect Tommy Buns to take the Saudi funds. Probably fall Rolex.

He don’t give the kids a Mommy nun Assez needs this. I’m ruined for him in the yen because how could you get canceled for being a horny Indian. I can’t believe what I’m seeing is Pete David c made a lot of money, but I guess he ain’t for saving none. Never forget well, I guess he forgot now he performing for the animals that took out his pot. Helen Lewis in The Atlanta wrote about going to actually see a show at the Riodd Comedy Festival.

Helen writes the Louis c. K gig was held in Riond’s Entertainment district. The Boulevard, a glorified parking lot that’s also home to a WWE Experience in e sports arena, a numerous stores selling comic book figurines. Last year, the district hosted a pop up Harry Potter World, allowing Saudi Arabians to imagine they were playing qudditture drinking non alcoholic butter beer. It’s giving ahead to promote the comedy festival.

The entire place was decked out with an expansive pho neon, signs of ungrammatical menace, you weren’t laugh from this way and ha ha ha, and statues of the festival’s mascot, a giant smiling microphone with arms and legs I walked past made for Instagram, street furniture and a professional photographer taking a picture of a smiling family dad, two kids, and a mom in a full face veil, skipping ahead. I had worried about attracting attention by taking notes during the show, and so instead of a reporter’s pad, I had brought a pastel pink gratitude journal, which I’ll expense. The crowd was mostly male, just like it is at American comedy nights, and the much shorter female security line was staffed by brisk women’s covered and I believe the pronunciation is nie cobbs. I was unfamiliar with the term. I’m looking it up here a face veil covering the lower part of the face up to the eyes.

She talked about the lineup. The opener Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell. Maxwell, followed by Ibraheim al keh Ralla, a Saudi comedian who this article in The Atlantic tells us is big on Arabic language YouTube. Then Jimmy Carr bounded on stage. Helen Lewis writes about three quarters of cars usual materials based on the premise that he’s a sex offender, this event was no exception.

He made a joke about how his rape fantasy is someone goes to jail for rape. He riffed about euthanasia, saying we wouldn’t let a dog live like this, and yet people are allowed to go on living. In what can only be described as pause for timing, Yemen were told the audience gasped. Jimmy carry asked any lesbians here tonight. We’re told they were silence.

Jimmy paused for effect and then said, of course not. It’s a comedy show headliner, and Louis C.K. Came out, got a lot of cheers. But interestingly, I don’t have any information about what CK’s set was about, so I’d love to tell you I don’t know. Tig Nataro in the News, she was on Breaking Bread with Tom Poppa and said Cheryl Hines was one of my favorite friends to be ridiculous with, and we made each other laugh so hard, and I love documentaries, and it was fun to watch a documentary every week.

They used to do a podcast together, Tig and Cheryl True Story. So Tig said, it was fun to watch a documentary every week, but we also took the pressure off because we’d talk about other things, like who are attracted to in this documentary? But Cheryl’s married to Bobby Kennedy Junior. When he was announcing his run, I felt like I needed to step away because there were beliefs that were like a nant on the arm years ago that were getting further into the spotlight. Kathy Griffin catching some attention she made a claim that Donald Trump did not win a free and fair election last year.

She said this on her own YouTube show. I’m going to point out that Donald Trump did win a free and fair election. I’m also going to point out that four years earlier, Joe Biden won a free and fair election, despite what some other people might think, and four years before that, Donald Trump won a free and fair election. Texas Representative Troy Nils was one of the one hundred and twenty seven GOP lawmakers who objected to Arizona’s electors during the Electoral College certification process in twenty twenty one. That was the election that Joe Biden fairly won.

He was critical of Kathy Griffin’s election denialism. He wrote on Twitter that Kathy Griffin is the face of Trump de arrangement syndrome. Right wing account of TikTok posted Kathy Griffin is now denying the results of the twenty twenty four election. I was told that denying election results is a threat to our democracy. Literally shaking right now.

And that’s just where we are in comedy right now. I know I’ve been super out of character political lately, but you know, hey, that’s where we are. Current Affairs dot Org are going to talk to John Marco, Sirraisi, commenting on Tim Dillon, Dylan is starting to lose me as well. His episodes lately I find are less and less compelling. John Marco said, I think Tim Dillon, who half the time I get ticked off by what he does.

There are other times he’s the one who’s willing to say something so critical allbeit and aroundabout way, that it gets him disinvited. I think there’s a real honor in a comedian getting disinvited from the political thing, and to go to the political thing and be so subversive or so critical that they do what Michelle Wolf did at the White House Correspondence dinner, where they canceled it the next year. I say, put her in the legends of comedy, because that’s what you do. Now, maybe I’ll be mistaken. Maybe one of these comedians will go to the Reotcom festival.

It’d be so punchy that they put him in jail and it becomes the whole thing. And you know what, if that happens, I’ll go okay to Shay No, that did not happen. Furthermore, if they are subversive, if they do even one koshogi joker, one nine to eleven joke, ultimately they’re being used to present the government there as kind of chilling fun and engage with us, and there’s nothing weird going on here. It’s one thing to perform in a country, and it’s another thing to be hired by the government as part of an explicit propaganda project. John Marco points out comedians were never meant to have this much money to begin with.

The Court Jester was never supposed to have a cheer next to the king. That’s kind of where we’re at. Listen, I want money. I live in a capitalist world. I want comforts.

There’s something beautiful about the way I make the majority of my money. There are a number of people who want to see me. There’s a middle man, of course, but they’re kind of paying directly to see me. There’s an exchange of goods for money in this particular realm. The government is using money so they can use your face for their own purposes.

The show doesn’t matter to them. You can bomb You still aren’t making a statement. They’re using your face and they’ve been using it for the past month to be like, hey, we’re cool, don’t worry about those things we did. And speaking of money, here’s how Johnny Mack makes a living. Broadway’s funniest writers, actors and composers are coming together to share how they keep audiences laughing.

It is punchline and power ballads. Broadways Funniest Artists the first ever Broadway panel to be part of the programming at this year’s New York Comedy Festival that’s just like three weeks away now, the country’s biggest and longest running annual comedy festival. Wow, yeah, I guess that is true. It hasn’t been going on that long. Rachel Dratch, We’ll chat with a lineup of writers and actors from Tony Olivier and Emmy Award winning and nominated hit comedies Broadway Comedy Club Sunday, November sixteenth, six thirty pm.

Adam Gilbert was asked the best comedy advice and the worst comedy advice he ever got, he said, best advice probably the time Tim Northern said let a joke take you places. I’ve thought about that phrase so much over the past decade. It’s a great piece of advice. You aren’t forcing a joke somewhere, You’re trying to find it and use the audience as a metronome. Worst advice, dude, you gotta go on kill Tony.

Oh that’s harsh. Ah. The Monty Pythons are fighting again. John Cleese said, very upset to see that Rick Idol is once again attacking Holly Gilliam. I want to make it clear that Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, and I are totally satisfied with Holly’s work.

Holly, I guess has been managing the company. Eric Idol commented, I don’t think the company has been as well looked after as it might have been. I always want an older manager, someone who’s wise and not related to Terry Gilliam. Wow idle set of John Clees. We don’t disagree about comedy.

This is only about money. I mean, a fool and his money are easily parted six of us much more quickly. Clees has endorsed Holly’s management, calling her very efficient, clear minded, hard working and pleasant to have dealings with. And that is your comedy news on a Saturday. All right, meet you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Jess. When I thought I was out, hey, pull me backing. Hello. Oh I’m Johnny Mack and I know that’s a hackey clip to play, but that’s how I feel.

Oh and welcome to today’s Daily Comedy News. You know, Thursday had a nice, normal show. Got to talk about some other stuff. But nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, We’ve got to talk about the Rion Comedy Festival and all the spill back and all of it. Let’s start with Joe Rogan.

His guest is Brian Callon. The discussion goes to Mark Maren because you remember Maren called some people out, and as we’re going to learn today, some comedians seem to have problems with Mark Maren. Alrighty, this first clip I have made edits for language and for pacing. I have left some s words in or the clip just won’t work. It’s just the way Joe Rogan speaks.

So if you’re offended by the S word, go do something else. But you’re probably a okay with it. Here’s Joe Rogan, Mark Marron, don’t say it. I mean, I don’t get it. You know, I’m like I don’t know.

I get it. He’s sad. He’s sad. He wants other people to hurt. That’s what it is.

It’s just not well. It’s also he’s patho logically jealous, like he’s been path he’s like literally mentally ill. Like do you understand Mark when he first started, when he was just first coming up, was friends with Mitch Hepburg, and then Mitch Hedberg hit and he couldn’t be friends with him anymore. Really, yep, stop being his friend. Same thing with Louis C.K.

Louis C.K. And him were tight. Louis blew up, Mark didn’t. He he had to hate him, and he turned on him, talked shit about him, talked about him openly, and then he became successful. And the years where Mark was successful were the best years of Mark because Mark was fun.

Like I’ve had ups and downs with Mark. I’ve gone through this with him, like three or four different times where we he gets upset at me and then we talk and then are we good. We’re good. Like he likes to do that. He likes to talk shit about you and then you confront him and he says, you’re right.

Joe, and then talked about when his own podcast began to take off. And with me, Mike, my relationship with him was really complicated because when I was an open micer, I was twenty one years old and I was just starting out. Mark gave me a compliment once that really helped me. He came up to me in gainsay, Man, you’re really funny. He just keep doing what you’re doing.

Don’t listen to anybody else, just keep doing what you’re doing. I was like, Wow, thank you. That’s his best side. That’s a good side, and. He’s not all bad.

And he was a young guy back then, right, so he was just being cool.

And then over time, obviously I became more famous than him and more successf…

He hates that. And the only time we were cool was Mark was number one. So Mark the podcast took off, and you got to realize it took off when he was deep into his forties, right, and it was the number one podcast in the country, and he was on Rolling Stone magazine, and you know, he had his own show on IFC, The Marin Show. And he was great. He was cool to hang with.

He was fun because he didn’t have to compare himself to anybody anymore because he was a success, like he could look at his own success. He was doing a television show, he had his podcast. Everything was great and we were cool, like we’re friends. And and Rogan got into the trump of it all. I started getting more successful, and then my podcast passed his.

Then my podcast became number one, and then the Spotify deal, and that’s when he started talking about me. So he started talking about me long before all this Trump stuff. This Trump stuff is just the most recent iteration of this bizarre thing that he does with people. And the first thing was he had decided that I was an asshole, like just because the podcast took off, but it was not a big deal. It was like I’d heard people say that he was saying things.

But then after the Spotify deal, the Spotify deal was a real problem, and that’s when he started coming after me. And it was about vaccines, Like so he was talking about me on stage about vaccines. Shout out to Dylan from the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us. He let me know that.

Andrew Schultz talked about the Red Comedy Festival on The Flagrant podcast for about forty minutes. Now, I went to pull clips and boy, Dylan, I don’t know how you do it. I get that this show is popular, but I find these guys really really annoying to listen to.

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And also, uh, Andrew and co host guy, could you please get through one senten…

You’re adults, learn how to speak. They discussed Bill Berg catching grief for playing the Reod Comedy Festival. Lots of edits here, all caps, lots of edits. So if Schultz and Frantz think this is an edited clip and I’m throwing them under the bus, I’m not throwing you under the bus. But yes, I made many edits to this clip because you guys can’t get through a sentence without an F bomb.

Well, that’s the reason why we don’t have any pushbag, barely any pushbag, is because we’ve never been the virtue signaling type. We’ve never been the ones out here like there are people that are getting pushed back and like based on some shit that they had said in the past. I kind of get it, Like I’ll be honest, you know, like Berger’s getting all his pushback and he’s like the first time I’ve seen his career, him not like aware of why it’s happening, like as I’m on Cone and again it’s a clip, so I don’t want to take clips out of contest. But he’s like, all these people are like sanctimonies. Bro, you did say that Beyonce sold out for blood money for going to like an oil state.

Yeah, and then you went to an old state. So like, now the criticism for that comes from other things. They’re just using this as as a as a tool of leverage against him because they’re upset at him for other things. But they’re not wrong. That is hypocritical to call Beyonce one thing and then you go do the same thing.

So at the end of that clip, though, he goes, but if I got the offer, maybe I’d do the same thing exactly. So that’s if they cut it out, Like oh really, yeah, I’m almost positive that’s the clip I heard. At the very end, he’s like, yeah, but who knows. If they gave me that, we’ll see. Then they too talked about Mark Marin.

Apparently they are not fans. Mark maren come on this pod, let me chop you up. You asked, you asked him, wud come on? But he would never come on, no. I asked him nicely.

Now come on, I’ll chop you up like you Jamalka. Come on, come to the embassy. Yeah. Yeah, if you’re intimidated by don’t worry. I got you.

That is. I know you’re probably not used to talking to people of color at your shows, but. Just come talk to one.

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And then we’ll handle Mark Marin acting like he didn’t also have a president …

Oh but I’m sure he asked him about the y I’m sure he asked him about drawn strikes. All the con do fact check this. But I’ve heard Mark Maren hasn’t had a single trans person on this podcast. Oh my god, those people. He cares so deep.

But you’ve been doing this pod. Maren don’t care about nobody but himself, and anybody inside comedy knows this. It’s the people outside of comedy. They are like unaware of it. Yeah, but like the whole ship with John Stewart, oh yeah, they had.

Now let’s have fun, so it looks fun while we’re talking shit, because he’s been going on every pod talking shit. John Stuart to Mark Maron in New York decades ago were like comedy purists hated all kinds of shit, like they were like, we love stand up, we love this. Johnsward gets a job with MTV hosting a show. Mark Maron is like, fuck you like to his face, makes John feel so bad about it affects their relationship. John ends up leaving the show for whatever reason.

I don’t remember if it was a moral thing or he had not. You get the opportunity to do like I got a better opportunity to guess who takes over that show. No, Mark Maren not Mark the principles Oh, Mark the principled guy.

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And then he tried to act like nothing happened with John.

John was like no, no, no, you don’t get to be my friend after that. Then decades later, they try to chop it up, or they try to patch it up, and John is like Marcus like, hey, I would love for you to come on the podcast and talk about this. John is like, look, if you want to mend the friendship, I’m moving to it, but I’m not doing it to give you podcast stuff like let’s just talk person and we’ll have it out. Mark Maron never contacts him again. Exactly, but it’s like, and I understand why outsiders wouldn’t know this about him, but like anybody on inside.

Knows, Amy Pohlar catching some grief, she had a z’s I’m sorry on her podcast. She apparently did not ask disease anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival. As I mentioned the other day, I have not listened to the episode. I have no plans to listen to it. But I searched the transcript for the word Riod, the word Saudi, and the word festival.

Only the word festival came up, but in context of a film festival. But that makes me think that my search was fair, and that Apple podcast transcript search was working, and that Amy did not ask Asease, I’m sorry about the Odd Comedy Festival. Amy shares her podcast on YouTube. One comment I wrote, man, you think a comedian would know a thing of two about signing. Many people said they would be skipping the unsorry episode.

If you google the words polar and a z’s as a combination, you’ll find all kinds of things. The Daily Mail called it Amy’s tone deaf. One comment I wrote, I’m going to assume this was recorded months ago for neither of you to have mentioned Saudi Arabia, but you should have at least done a quick insert at the start of the pod stating how you feel about it because you all should have known every one of the comments we’re going to be speaking about it. I understand that he’s your friend, but friends should be held accountable for their fops. Another wrote, love you, Amy, but having guests willing to take money from that saudy butcher is incredibly tone deaf.

Not watching this garbage. Cracked dot Com asks the question does Amy Poehler deserve blaam for not grilling Aseasin’m sorry? Subheader good hang will never be the place for tough questions? The not so canceled ase’s and sorry now he’s not so canceled twice now, just so we’re keeping track. And some people think he’s a douchebag.

You’ve heard me mention that on the podcast. Some people think of he’sin’ sorry’s a complete douchebag. He was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast again. I used Apple Podcasts transcript search. I searched for the words riod, Saudi, and festival.

Those turned up nothing. I searched for the word comedian to make sure search was working. That did show up. I did not listen to THEO yet and kind of burnt out on THEO. As I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, this is Hollywood doing what they do.

It’s a big club. Like George Carlin said, it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. The celebrities, they all take care of each other, go along to get along. If you take shots, you’re Mark Maron and you’re out there on Mark Maron Island, and he seems fine on Mark Maron Island, but you go along to get along. But these were all Hollywood people with the right agents.

Theovant slightly an outsider, but he’s in the club now. I did listen to Bill Burr’s appearance on Conan O’Brien once it went out from Beyond the pay Wall. Well discussed go back and listen to some previous episodes. But Bill Burr does sound very defensive and not very likable in the episode. I also have some production notes for Team Coco there one.

The audio was terrible for the first twenty minutes, I mean just unacceptable, Conan sounding hollow. There are ways to fix the audio. Send me a note if you need tips on that. I can tell you how to fix the audio. I don’t know how you guys put that out and to some producer needs to tell ConA next time you do a live event, you can’t have Sona on Mike.

She cackles during the entire bill segment. And it’s too much. It’s too much Sona and the other guy you know, in small doses during a live read. Sure, ConA needs to talk to somebody at the beginning of the end of an episode. Sure, but when you’ve got Bilburr there for half an hour and she says, cackling, that was misproduced.

Coming to Broadway All Out Comedy about Ambition by Simon Rich. It’ll be at the Neederlander Theater in New York City starting December twelfth. Much like they did last year, this will have rotating groups of comedians and others in groups of four over a twelve week limited run. The groups will read Simon Rich’s laugh out Loud stories, this time tackling ambition, ego, envy, greed, and, as the official press release jokes, basically just New York is in general.

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All right, here’s who’s going to be doing this, Get out of pen.

You’re gonna know these names. First group Eric Andre, Abby Jacobson, John Stewart and Jim Gaffigan. They all start December twelfth. They exit at various times, so there’ll be some overlaps in different groups, but that’s the initial group Stewart, Abby Jacobson, Gaffigan and Eric Andre. Then some of the people that will sub in Ben Schwartz on December twenty second, Wayne Brady and Cecily Strong.

On the twenty ninth, boy Cecily and Wayne on stage together. That’s a great combo for Bigley on the thirteenth, Then on the twentieth, it looks like we got a full swap Heidi Gardner, Jason Manzukas, Craig Robinson, and Sarah Silverman. I kind of lost respect for Craig Robinson after that, I’m quitting comedy stunt.

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And then February seventeenth, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park and Ray Romano wil…

And it looks like this wraps up on March eighth, Comedy stock markens. Does it ever reveal to you who that voice is? Okay, I will tell you now. It is a fit licensed Ai Burt Reynolds. Yes, yes, so one of the services I use made Burt Reynolds available, I’m like, okay, I’ll use Burt Renolds.

That’s fun. On the comedy stock market. If you’re a new listener, what we do is we try and make some hypothetical money by selling high on comedians at their peak and buying low on comedians on their way up. And you know, we get some seals and some buys in the mix. Here this week, pay attention, we’re going to buy Tim Robinson.

Have you watched The Chair Company on HBO? Why don’t you hit pause right now on this podcast and go watch The Chair Company and then come back. I have a feeling that is going to be a very buzzy show. The first episode is fantastic. So we’re going to buy Tim Robinson.

We’re also going to make a long term buy here. We’re gonna start scooping up stock in the Sprubs reboot. I have been watching Scrubs, of course on DVDs. I don’t support fascism. I do not watch Disney Plus or Hulu.

I support Jimmy Kimmel. I’m against fascism. I go upstairs and I get the DVD and I put them in the PlayStation, and that’s how I consume my Scrubs anyway, they’re working on the reboot. It’s definitely happening. I’ve seen pictures of the cast at a table read, and I’ll tell you, for a comedy snob like me who has the Emperor of Rome syndrome where I don’t laugh, I’ve been laughing out loud at Scrubs.

It has aged fantastically. I cannot get enough of John c McGinley as Doctor Cox. Let’s buy some scrub stock, only one cell this week. We’re going to sell Whitney Cummings for her just tasteless, terrible. How dare you comment saying that some comedians would be happy if a Fox journalist were murdered?

Just how dare you, Whitney. I’m I’m truly I’m not doing a bit. I’m truly truly offended by her comment. Let’s sell all our Whitney Cummings stock and that is your comedy stock market for this week. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was in Columbus.

He stopped by the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Why to shoot some hoops, It’s what he does. He was there visiting Ohio State. He spent some time with the Buckeyes and their home Arena, took some photos with coach Diebler. He did a brief inter you with the local paper after his show, and he said, tell everybody I love them.

I love Columbus. Eric Idol has dropped one of Monty Python’s most controversial songs from his upcoming farewell tour. Idol said, sometimes I’ll ask my daughter or a goddaughter. I’ll say can I say these things? And they’ll say, yeah, that’s okay or not.

But I don’t worry about being canceled. I’m not saying terribly controversial things. I’m just trying to make them laugh. They don’t laugh, and that’s a failure. Eric Idol says, you can’t sing some of my songs now.

He points out particularly you can’t sing I Like Chinese. You can’t do that anymore. So there’s one or two songs. But I write new ones, which is quite a nice challenge. Now what do I do here?

Do I tell you what the offensive lyric is and get myself canceled? Or can I do this under the guise of news. I Like Chinese is from nineteen eighty and it contains a lyric pair I Like Chinese. They only come up to your knees. Eric Idol is no longer performing that song out today.

Audio version of Craig Ferguson’s I’m So Happy out today. Audio version of Luke Hegge’s Have That also out today. Audio version of Ki Humphrey’s Mischief also also out today. The hour long special, Downey wrote that on Peacock, Downey wrote that dives into the sketches, contributions, and enduring influence of one of the most impactful comedy writers in the history of Saturday Night Live, Jim Downey, described as the show’s behind the scenes comedic architect for over three decades. He was actually in the cast in nineteen eighty.

That’s the season Nobody talks about. Some folks in this special include Fred Ormison, Dana Carvey, Daryl Hammond, David Letterman, Lovett’s Seth Myers, Garrett Morris, John m’laney, Loraine Newman, Conan Odin, Kirk, Laurence O’Donnell. For some reason, Maya Rudolph Molly, Shannon Martin, Short, Smigel Spade, Ben Stiller, Keenan Thompson, and Lauren Michaels. He didn’t think this thing was happening without Lauren Michaels plussing, did you are you in Cincinnati? Why don’t you go hit?

Fun Filled the twenty four Hour Comedy Revival. It starts tonight at nine o’clock. It goes until tomorrow night at nine o’clock at the Hofner Pub. Fun Filled will showcase nearly two dozen local improv and entertainment acts like comedy, sports, smoke and queers, burlesque, and the members of Holy Canoli. They are hosting this and they were also the twenty twenty four winners of the Cincinnati Improv Competition.

So in last year’s competition, the group’s final surprise challenge was to perform until five thousand dollars was raised for charity, or for twenty four hours straight. Craig said, when we first did it, we had no time to plan with something. We were told like, last minute, this is what you’re doing. And we’ve been planning at this point, planning for like two months and we still have it months ago. So we were like, all right, what if we could do the twenty four hour challenge again, but at three months to actually really really make it something special.

Proceeds for the event will go to the Esperanza Latino Center. Sounds like a fun event. Tiffany Hatish announced a show at the Orpheum Theater in La Saturday, December sixth. We’re told it is the first program of its kind fusing live entertainment and impact. Echo Entertainment is proud to stand at the intersection of culture and climate action.

See that’s that’s interesting. I’m a big climatista, and that is your comedy news on a feisty Friday. Tomorrow is going to be a little political, some political stories and put them all together back to back to back. And I don’t know what Sunday is yet, but let’s meet back here in about twenty four hours after you listen to me, right now, come back around then and there’ll be an episode. See then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreiser compared Fiji to Arizona. He said Fiji was drier than he expected. I guess I wouldn’t expect Fiji to be dry.

Bert told the Drop a Pin podcast that although he enjoyed being on a boat, scuba diving, surfing and catching fish, it felt dry. It didn’t live up to expectations. He said, when you hear Fiji, you think of jungles, forests and a more lush place. No, I actually think of being on a boat, scuba diving, surfing and catching fish.

Speaking of being dry, Variety tells us if you see John Malani having a beer,…

They were talking about his new partnership with Years. That’s the alcohol free beer I told you about a week ago, maybe two weeks ago. At this point, there’s a commercial we see John m’laney lounging pool side while recalling a time when his wife, Livia Munn thought he may have been drinking again when she spotted him downing several cans of non alcoholic years. However, ma’laney said that never actually happened. She’s well aware of my enjoyment of years non alcoholic beer.

But I have best friends who’ve been like I didn’t want to say anything, but Ma’lanie tells us it’s sold a Wrigley Field. It’s that exact Midwestern pilsner that I like. Other people make a light non alcoholic, but most of them taste like a drink trying to taste like one versus just being a pilsner or a pale ale that just isn’t fermented. Now he’s joking. He wants to take on Tom Holland to see who is the king of non alcoholic beers.

You see the Spider Man star has his own non alcoholic beer brand. Biro Molaney says, it’s a cage fight, like a physical fight like UFC, because you know, I fought three fourteen year olds on Everybody’s Live? Will he fight Tom Holland? I’d fight three fourteen year old friends of his. What does John Mulaney love most about being sober?

He says, when I go to the doctor and I have problems, we don’t have to kind of tiptoe around the minefield. It’s like I say, I’m urinating a lot at night. I have some numbness in my left hand. We then don’t have to discuss whether it’s all the cocaine, adderall opioids or alcohol. They’ll take you much more seriously at the doctor.

Blainey says he would like to see Anthony Hopkins in a commercial. I know Anthony Hopkins is something like sixty five years of sobriety. I think it’d be a natural. He could play an acting student mine. He goes, you’re such a good actor.

You were on the Bear, not many other things. And I go, that’s true.

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And then I say to him, you’re getting better, sir, and then I hand him one fr…

Ricky Turvay’s shared on social media. I’m working out every day now, tennis waits running, et cetera. My resting heart rate is really good, and I train at quite a high rate too. So my question is why am I still effing fat and exhausted? All the sea word time, Well, I’ve never heard the sea word used in that way.

He used it the way someone like me might use a e fing time. He said, seaword time. Interesting. Well, luckily, The Indian Times caught up with doctor Syriac Abby Phillips, who, as you know, is popularly known as the Liver Doc. The Liver Doc said, it’s the alcohol, Ricky, It’s the alcohol, not the food.

Like people blaming the responses, enjoy your food. Good advice from the liver Doc. The New York Times asked Mark Maron about white guy comics with podcasts becoming influential, name checking Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, and Andrew Schultz, who was just at the re Odd Comedy Festival. Maren said, these guys have proven that their fan bases can be tribalized in something that I think is fundamentally dangerous. Still in their parameters free speech, you can do whatever you want.

And if you want to be used by the dominating propaganda arm of a fascistic momentum against democracy, well, I hope you’re happy with your show. Some Times asked Maren if he thought his success came too late in life. He started his podcast in his late forties. Been there done that? Maren said, Now, if you’re honest with yourself, I think a lot of time success didn’t come because you weren’t ready for it.

When I auditioned for a Saturday Night Live. I wasn’t ready for that. By the time the podcast started, I’d let go of the other dreams. When they started it happen, I felt like, Okay, I’m ready for it. Now I could show up and do the work in a way that I wouldn’t have been able to do previously.

I’m not mad that my success came when it did. I’m just glad that it came, because it would have been a much sadder life if it hadn’t. Current Affairs dot Org guest John Marcos arasi, what’s it like out there in America now? John Marco said it could be really tough, because my shows have a joy that I don’t think is in America right now. Especially when I’m in the South.

I find that’s one of the audiences. How would I say it even more visibly queerer than in the city. I just did a show in Hattiesburg, and I think in Hanniesburg I was probably the gay hang of the night. Sometimes people say they come alone of the show, and I hope they come alone and leave with someone. It’s meet and greet.

When I go to my shows, I always tell them, if only the people in this room voted Jill Stein would have had a shot. That’s a great joke. There’s a joy there. America itself just feel as bleak as f and I’m starting to accept and understand my role. That’s even if I talk about current affairs.

There’s a degree of escapism. I’m saying, hey, let’s go in here for an hour and a half and just laugh at how fed up it is. It is so nice to see people discovering him. He’s having a moment right now. He’s kind of the it comic right now, which is really great.

Jamarco, how do you take the political temperature of your audience? He said, Honestly, one of the benefits, and I think one of the detriments of modern day comedies. Our fan bases are so curated via social media, so in a way, I probably feel a safety at my own shows that will someday bite me in the ass when I forget I’m at someone else’s show or just a comedy club, and I’ll have to be ready. I just feel like the harder shows were the early years. That’s when i’d be in Florida and I’d look at the men in the audience and esthetically they had copied Trump.

They had orange faked tans. They looked like they were on the waitlist for Mara a Lago. That was more nervous racking than it is now. But that’ll be the challenge. I think as you get comfortable in your own space, you expand, you push yourself to be sharper and follow your views to even more biting punchlines.

And then do you have the hood spot to do it when it’s on a TV show? Or I guess if you’re gonna do the re On Comedy Festival which I wasn’t invited to. Phoebe Robinson was on The Last Laugh podcast and took a shot at Rogan Theo and others who she says helped humanize a monster for millions of young male listeners. Phoebe said, the same guys who build platforms on mocking women and minorities are suddenly shocked Trump is doing what he always said he would. You have to live with what you did.

You know who you voted for, own it. Third Coast Review asked Gary Golman, ay, you have so many bits that you spice up with strategically placed antiquated freezes like ne’er do well? Where do you pull those from? Gary said, it’s from reading so much. I read more than just about every other comedian.

I think I’ve read sixty books already this year, and I’ll probably finish close to one hundred. And that’s been every year that I haven’t been sick. I also listened to a lot of books. I had a friend who sadly passed away, but he was very literate. He was an English teacher and a comedian, a high school English teacher, which is really hard.

He was so well read. He said something to put words to what I knew. Intuitively, people love to hear words that they forgot they knew. That’s when I realized I had been doing and I try to continue to do it. But there’s a sweet spot.

It comes from trial and error. Try this word, to try that word. Sometimes you get to the stage you’re about to say a word and you think, oh, they’re going to groan because this because it’s way too written. See dial it back, smart smart smart. But if you spend as much time as any writing out the sentences and switching the words so many times, you remember which word was the second least obnoxious, you go to that it’s a trial and error, but after thirty years he build up instincts as to what will land and what won’t, what will sound too written.

I don’t want to be the comedian who the audience is silent for. That’s painful, but I don’t mind if every once in a while a word doesn’t land with the audience, because when I do it on TV, it finds people who think I got to see this live because he gets me. I forget who said it. I think it was a British comedian who said, if you could find a thousand people who go to every show when you’re near them and buy every album you put out, you can have a nice career. So if you were one of the newer listeners who jumped on board during Kimmel Gate and Riod Gate, again, thank you welcome on board.

I think today is pretty representative of like a normal episode. You know, there’s not always a major controversy, and believe me, I love a major controversy. I welcome the next one. But you know, this is kind of like, this is how the show goes on a normal day. So hopefully you’re enjoying today.

You must be if you’re still here ten plus minutes. But this is a normal episode. Doctor Demento has wrapped up his radio career. Real name Barrett Hanson. See, I didn’t know that would be good Trivia.

The Trivia guys listening now, no one will get that one. You’d have to phrase it like Barrett Hanson, known for his wacky radio show parody songs, is better known by this name. You’d have to go at it that way. I’m telling the Trivia guys how to do their show. Hi, Trivia guys.

Johnny Mack hasn’t been at Trivia a very very busy October, hoping to get there soon. Anyway, I digress. Doctor Demento wrapped up fifty five years on the air. Eighty four years old. He started on KPPC Pasadena in nineteen seventy.

The Doctor Demento Show was nationally syndicated from seventy four to twenty ten. I have a vague memory of stumbling across that, probably around the same time Weird Al caught on. Couldn’t tell you what radio station, couldn’t tell you when it was actually on, or how you’d find it, but I feel like I heard it every now and then. Doctor Demento’s final show aired for three and a half hours was a countdown of the most requested show during the fifty five year run. Countdown included longtime favorites like fish Heads, the famous They’re coming to take Me away haha.

Shaving Cream a nineteen forty six recording credited to Benny Bill with Paul Wynn on vocals. I’m familiar with Uncle Floyd used to do that one. That’s a fun song. If you don’t know that one, let me put the lyrics of that one. It’s a wonderful example of a naughty song that’s not naughty at all.

I won’t say for you. I know you’re disappointed, but I’ll read it in Cadence lyrics to Shaving Cream, I have a sad story to tell you. It may hurt your feelings a bit. Last night, when I walked into my bathroom, I stepped on a big pile of shaving cream. Be nice and clean, shave every day.

You’ll always look keen. You see. You get how it gets. So you basically you set up the rhyme of a word that ends an it, and you get to the shaving cream and you go into the coorse. It’s a fun, naughty song.

Comedians Joe Wilkinson and David Earl are reuniting for a new show called Joe and David’s Magical Sitcom Tour. The aforementioned Ricky Gervais has been confirmed as a guest star. It’s a three part series airing on You and Gold, blending travelog, buddy comedy and retrospective elements. Each excursion is themed around a beloved British sitcom. Expect episodes dedicated to shows like The Office, Porridge and Faulty Towers.

Ricky Gervais will reflect on the Office. The personal treasures of comedy icon Richard Lewis being auctioned today the Abball Auction Company. They will present from the personal collection of Richard Lewis. Some of the things you can bid on include a twenty eleven photograph of Richard Lewis taken on the set of the Snickers Super Bowl logging commercial. We’re told that’s a rare treasure.

The VP over there at the Apple Auction Company said, Richard Lewis not only changed the face of comedy, but also curated a deeply personal collection that reflected his passions and influences. Bidding starts at ten am Pacific time, Live online bidding if you want to jump on there. Adam Sandler, a great dramatic actor, does he have any advice to the star of Happy Gilmore to Travis Kelcey. Travis Kelcey recently got engaged to a famous singer. Sandler said, he’s all good.

He loves her more than anything, just like I love my wife more than anything. That’s where they’re at, and that’s where me and my girl are at. Adam recently told Travis Kelcey that anytime Taylor Swift is laughing with you, my whole family is high fiving different Adam Adam Durretz from Counting Crows is going to receive the Bob Saggett Legacy Award at this year’s Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine Benefit and Wednesday, Novem twelfth in New York City. Jeff Ross He’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival. He’s gonna host the event, which will also feature Reod Comedy Festival performer Hannibal Burris and some comedians who were not in Riodd, including Kelsey Cook, Jim Gaffigan He’ll probably try and sell you a bourbon, and Nikki Glaser also appearing.

Broadcaster Katie Couric, I don’t know why either, And David Letterman talked about that guy, Jay Leno. You know, Jay Leno is always popping off about late night comedy like he knows anything about it. Vulture asked David Letterman, do you speak to Jay Leno? In all these days? A lot of time has passed into competing against each others for the ratings.

Dave said, the last time I spoke to Jay, or maybe we just texted, he said his face had caught fire or something, and it sounded hideous. I mean, of all things that might catch fire, perhaps the last thing he’d want to be is your face. So it was alarming. I think we’ve changed sentiments about good luck and be careful something like that, but I haven’t spoken to him in a long time. We rubbed each other the wrong way.

I don’t know. I don’t know any regrets about our relationship, and I don’t think he has any regrets about me either. But God, just really, even at this point in his career, probably still the best. Just tremendous, just hilarious, just NonStop, as funny as you ever gonna get. So that’s a good thing about Jay.

We rubbed each other the wrong way. I don’t know. I don’t have any regrets about our relationship, and I don’t think he has any regrets about me either, But God, he just really, even at this point in his career, probably still the best. Dave also commented on how the current late night guys get along. How did that happen?

Because when it was me and Jay was the Late Night Wars, there was bloodshed, we hated each other. But now every day they have lunch together. I don’t get it. Love David Letterman, and that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Things starting to settle back into normal. Hey, do you support fascism? Or did you cancel Disney Plus and Hulu like you were supposed to when they took Jimmy Kimmel off the air?

You canceled, right, you don’t have Hulu, Well, then you’re not going to be able to see Sebastian Maniscalco’s upcoming special. Now. Sebastian’s career apparently has not been too damaged by his choice to play the Riod Comedy Festival, because Hulu has announced that Sebastian Maniscalco’s it Ain’t Right Boy he works hard on those titles. His new special is going to premiere Friday, November twenty first on Hulu. The special takes its name from Maniscalco’s recent tour spanning twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five.

He played places like Chicago and Riod, but this hour was filmed at the United Center Arena in Chicago, and we’re told the commite goes all in on family chaos, aging, killing journalists, and the little things that drive us all nuts. Oh sorry, mister that family, chaos, aging, and the little things that drive us all nuts. I should edit that, shouldn’t I? Yeah, the humble brag here tells us a Sebastian Menascalco ranked among the top twenty five global tours overall, was named one of Billboard’s top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty twenty four, and was the only comedian to appear in Pollstar’s top twenty global concert tours of twenty twenty five. So you can see his career terribly damaged by appearing at the Riod Comedy Festival.

Another comedian who appeared at the Reod Comedy Festival is Bill Burr. I just now saw that he did put out a Monday podcast late on Monday. I just skimmed the transcript. I don’t think he talked about Riod at all. He talked mostly about football, going to see the USC game, and a little bit about New York City.

But I didn’t see anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival, so I think he’s moved on from that. I’m sure his career was terribly hurt. I did see, as as recording that Amy Poehler’s podcast The Guest Is azi’son’ Sorry, which I think last week a lot more people realized azi’son Sorry he’s a douchebag. I mean, I’ve been hinting at that since I started this podcast, but I think last week everybody went, oh, that guy’s a douchebag. Well, Amy Polar apparently doesn’t feel that way.

They were co stars on Parks and rec of course, and she had him on the podcast. I just did a search on Apple podcast transcripts. I searched for the word re Odd. It does not appear in the transcript. I search for the word Saudi.

It does not appear in the transcript. But I did search for the word festival to make sure the search function was working. And there is a mention of a Z’s at a film festival during the podcast, so it appears Apple podcast transcript search is working, and they did not discuss Razi’s going to the Riodd Comedy Festival. But I haven’t actually listened to Aidmy Poehler’s episode, and the chances of me listening to an hour of Amy Polar with A Z’s I’m sorry or zero, they’re actually zero, so you’ll have to tell me. On Netflix announced that there Eddie Murphy documentary called Being Eddie Well airon Netflix Wednesday, November twelfth.

The log line tells us it goes without saying, that there is only one Eddie Murphy. No other teen comedian shared a stage with Jerry Seinfeld at seventeen and joined the cast of Saturday Night Live right out of high school. No actor has ever played a cop, a doctor, and a donkey. Oh right. I was like, Eh, somebody must have played a cop and a doctor, but a donkey.

You might have me there and dominated every facet of Hollywood. He’s touched fewer. Still have been an a less celebrity for over four decades and never succumbed to its darker side. I don’t know about that latter part. You could google Eddie Murphy and all sorts of things will come up.

Maybe just because I’ve been entertainment adjacent for three decades that I know stuff. For example, I typed in a phrase I will tell you what I typed in, but surfaced a story from Yahoo from twenty seventeen when Eddie Murphy was stopped by police with dot dot dot, And you can do your own Google search for that phrase and see what comes up. So let’s not make it sound like Eddie’s been at church for forty years anyway. Being Eddie explores the unusual combination of explosive chrisma, folks to ambition, raw talent, and deep set circumscision that put Murphy in a league of his own. Appearing in the documentary or Senni O Hall, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, who was just at the Reod Comedy Festival, Jamie Fox, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Michael J.

Pete Davidson, whose father was killed a nine to eleven. Pete was recently at the Riod Comedy Festival, and Tracy Morgan and a bunch of others. John m’laney is going to direct Robbie Hoffman’s debut Netflix special. They first met when Robbie Hoffman guessed that on Everybody’s Live this will be filmed next week at the Masonic Lodge. I was just in front of that building.

Why didn’t you film that while I was there? I could have gone. It will mark Hoffman’s first comedy special in nearly seven years and her debut for Netflix. Mlanie announced this on stage during his tour he was in San Diego. Brought Robbie Hoffman on stage and said she’s one of my absolute favorite comedians and friends alive.

The next day on Instagram, Malini confirmed it, writing I’m very excited to announce I’ll be directing Robbie Hoffman’s new Netflix special. Malini told a story about Hoffman’s outdoor set on Sunday night, was interrupted by her own car alarm. Gary Goleman until the Third Coast Review was hard to build material for the first twenty years. The main reason was how difficult it was to get on stage from more than five or ten minutes. Whenever I did, I didn’t want to try something brand new, so I’d add something that had already worked.

Sometimes the story’s true parts had been explained, and then you had to start hitting it from different angles to make the joke longer. He explains how his Trader Joe’s joke is about a woman cutting me in line, but then it becomes about imagining her life outside Trader Joe’s. The story itself was basic. There were some older women around me, and I made an ass of myself. But it’s interesting how your compass can be.

This story is different than other comedians. I don’t hear anyone else talking about abbreviating the states. It’s fun to tell that should be the compass. No one else is doing it, and it’s fun, then you won’t give up on it. It’s like when you think of a sentence and it’s already on a website or in a play.

Thinking of something original that you can’t find online that no one else is doing. That’s a really good aim. It provides pride. You see dozens of comedians doing versions of Patrise O’Neil or David Tell or prior or Carlin. I forget who said it, but imitation is like suicide.

You’re killing yourself in a sense. But it comes back to not getting a lot of stage time and needing to use it efficiently. That’s where my low self esteem being attached to how the joke went actually helped. I was afraid a new joke would bomb, so I didn’t want to take the chance deal. Hughlee spoke to The Daily News online about crowd work and said, I used to be really famous for that.

I love CrowdWork, but after a while you want to show people you’re tapped in what’s going on. I don’t do it as much as I used to the older you get, the more you’ve been around, he rely on other things. He explained why they never did a sequel to the original Kings of Comedy. Some of the reasons include Bernie Mack passing away in two thousand and eight and Steve Harvey a hosting family feud and retiring from stand up. Deale said, we didn’t do a sequel.

We let it rest. Nothing approximates your first kiss. Nothing is quite as dynamic as that one. Thinking of the chores, like flipping through your wedding album. It’s a fond memory, but not something top of mind.

I’m still very proud of what we did. Then cool article on Vulture It is the twenty twenty five TikTok survival guide for comics who want to get paid. They shared some stats. The average video length on Matt Rife’s one hundred and ninety three tiktoks posted in twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. The average video length of rice one hundred ninety three tiktoks was two minutes twenty seconds, which is over double the supposed industry best practice of quick hitting clips.

That’s interesting, right. The average length of his ten most viewed TikTok’s three nineteen, his ten most liked three point thirty six, his ten most shared four forty two. Emily Watson posted her entire special fixed on TikTok, where it received three times as many views as it did on YouTube. Viewers save the full video returned to it, and she still carved out a dozen additional videos to clip up and monetize separately. That guy, Jay Leno, he’s the worst.

He was talking about why he got a watch nerve of that guy. Yeah, he was at Los Angeles’ premier watch collectors gathering, the Neighborhood Watch Club. Haha, very plenty title there Watch Officionados, and Jay Leno was there. He was wearing a Buruguette Classique sobscription twenty twenty five And I probably didn’t even pronounce that right, jay Leno snob. We’re told that watch reduces the timetelling process to a single blued steel hand set against a white enamel background with bruge numerals.

Wow, fancy schmancy. It’s a stunning tribute to both the company founder and as well as the brand’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries. So if you want to walk around while you’re popping off thinking you know anything about hosting a late night television show and you want to look sharp. Yeah, you get one of these watches. That guy.

Jay Leno said, It’s amazing that something designed two undred fifty years ago still looks the same. It’s basically the same watch. It sounds like something he would say, right, especially because it’s a direct quote. Does sound like something he was You’re losing the bitch on Bridge was more of an artist as well as a mechanical genius, said j Leno. Luckily they asked him what draws you to a watch?

Jay said, I know when I see it, something stands out. I like classical design using modern techniques. There’s a lot of science and a lot of technology, but it still looks classical. I know I have to go home and wind my watch. I enjoy that.

It’s the same with cars. They require a certain amount of me and it’s it’s an emotional connection. You either get it or you don’t. Geleb Beard spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about narrowing down what stories made it into his special Caleb said, there’s a lot of things that got left on the cutting room floor. Every part of it calls for a different thing, Like when you’re moving from something political, sometimes want to get a little more political right after that, and sometimes you want to veer into something that’s a palate cleanser.

You’re thinking of it in fifteen to thirty and sixty minute chunks. You want to think of the holistic piece, but also the experience from five minutes to five minutes. That’s really smart and really it’s not just looking the whole body at the first hour. It’s like, Okay, every joke I’ve ever told is technically on the table for this, except maybe what I’ve done on Comedy Central, And you go, okay, what fits? What makes a full compelling picture here?

What feels like a piece and not just some guy rambling, although I think parts of it is just some guy rambling, which I’m okay with. But part of making those selections is just going, what is the piece asking for? What does it need right here? See? This is really smart, really well thought out.

And I saw this one. I thought the spin on this one was a little ridiculous. Press release, I guess for Data Vault, they announced the development of its joke token technology, designed to safeguard comedic content and establish copyright protection for comedians. Okay, They showcased this at a live event over the weekend. The system uses blockchain and AI to me unique digital tokens for original jokes, while recording audience laughter metrics as proof of authenticity.

So I guess you’re up on stage and you’re doing your set and Robin Williams is there, but luckily you recorded your set and the technology goes, oh, no, john just did an original joke. Robin Williams can’t steal it, and we’ll add blockchain and digital voodoo to it so that when Robin Williams does my joke at the laugh Factory, we can be like, hey, that’s Johnny Max joke. Something like that. The technology addresses copyright infringement issues common in the comedy industry by creating immutable records of jokes and enabling monetization through smart contracts. So they got professional comedian Karen Fihn who were told Isa Beard on Netflix in Comedy Central.

Karen Fihann said, the technology gives me an automated means by which I can make an immutable record of the jokes I create. I love that she parodied back the legalies of I could make an immutable record of the jokes I create and the copyright protection to which I’m entitled. Is that a real quote professional could You didn’t care and fee and sounds like somebody had a decent words and said, hey, do you mind saying you said this? But what do I know? I wasn’t there, And that if your Caddy Comedy News on a Wednesday, AH see you tomorrow.