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Featured: Amy Schumer, Jay Leno, Adam Sandler, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Nicky Glazer, Sebastian Maniscalco

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor Week 1 elimination results
• Amy Schumer voted off the island
• 16 comedians compete in voting game
• Week 2 voting predictions and danger zone analysis
• AI analysis of voter motivations and strategy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media, outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor and I’m Johnny Mac. Welcome to Comedy Survivor. One week ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on an island. Listeners went to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and they voted one comedian off.

As a reminder, the contestants are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, otsco At Katska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tick Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Kreischer. It’s time to tally the votes. Dylan votes for Amy Schumer. That’s one vote. Amy s Nachelle votes for Joe Coy, one vote Amy Schumer, one vote Joe Coy.

Sean votes for Jay Leno, one vote Amy Schumer, one vote, Joe Coy, one vote Jay Leno. Jeff votes for Jay Leno. That’s two votes for Jay, one for Joe Coy, one for Amy Schumer. Aaron votes for Joe Coy. That’s two votes for Jay Leno, two for Joe Cooy one for Amy Schumer.

Rovi votes for Leslie Jones, Brad votes for Spassion Manascalco, Mary votes for Adam Sandler, Andrea votes for Amy. That’s two votes for jay Leno, two votes for Amy Schumer, two votes for Joe Coy, Mike votes for Seth Barb votes for jay Leno, three votes for jay Leno, two for Amy Schumer, for Joe Coy, Mike votes for Sandler, three votes for jay Leno, two for Amy Schumer, two for Joe Coy, two for Adam Sandler. Matt votes for Adam Sandler three votes, Adam Sandler three votes, jay Leno, two votes, Amy Schumer. A Vaughan votes for Osco at Kotska, Cheryl votes for Bert Kreischer, Gary votes for Amy Schumer. That’s three votes Amy Schumer, three votes, jay Leno, three votes, Adam Sandler two votes, Joe Coy, one vote for several others, and the final vote from Dan goes two Amy Schumer, Amy Schumer four votes, Jay Leno, three votes, Adam Sandler three votes, Amy Schumer.

The Facebook group has spoken. We’ll take a break, let that settle in, and then come back with analysis, and I’ll look ahead to week two of Comedy Survivor. All right, what did you think of the results? I didn’t even rig that. If you could go and look at the Facebook group, I just went in order from top to bottom.

That’s how the vote’s laid out. I didn’t stage it for like an amazing comeback or anything. Amy Schumer voted off Comedy Survivor in week one. It is now week two. What you will do is you’ll go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

You’ll find an image of me putting out Amy Schumer’s torch. In there, you will write down a name who you want voted off the island this week. Oh my goodness, this is so much fun already. So to recap, Schumer had four, Jay had three, Sandler three, Joe Koi two, Leslie Jones, Sebastian seth Otsgo and Bert all one. Amy Schumer is eliminated.

I ran this data through the AI. The AI says the group is voting on overexposure, personal taste, and who they feel like arguing about. They’re not voting on craft. The voting on emotion. AI says Amy Schumer’s elimination signals that polarizing figures are vulnerable, loud opposition beats quiet support, and week two will be more strategic.

Okay. Looking ahead to week two, the AI says in the danger zone Jay Leno that three votes is not noise. There’s a block forming and some members clearly want Jay Leno out early. BAI says Adam Sandler, same count as Leno. That’s meaningful.

People may be testing the idea of taking out a giant early. Two votes puts Joe Koy on the board. As for who’s looking safe right now, the AI says Gaffig and Malaney Glazer, Ron White, Sarah Silverman, and Tig Nataro are safe. The AI predicts this week the elimination will come from Leno, saidlor Leslie Jones or Joe Cooy. We will find out.

Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, find the cartoon. Vote there back in the morning with a normal episode. Boy, this is fun.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, George Clooney, Leo DiCaprio, Taylor Swift, Michael B. Jordan, Adam Sandler, Gene Smart, Seth Rogen, Kevin Hart, Wanda Sykes, Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, Brett Goldstein, Kamil Nan Gianni, Sarah Silverman, David Letterman, John Mulaney, Bowen Yang, Mark Maron, Amy Poehler

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes hosting performance and monologue jokes
• Golden Globes Best Supporting Male Actor snub of Adam Sandler
• Golden Globes Best Stand-Up Comedy Award won by Ricky Gervais
• Wanda Sykes presenting stand-up award and comments about representation
• Bowen Yang weekend controversy
• John Mulaney ICE decision
• David Letterman news

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh my god, Golden Globes, you’re killing me. Lady. Give out the stand up comedy war till ten twenty pm. I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

We actually have some pretty big stories about Bowen Yang and John Muliney and David Letterman. We’ll do that after the break. But the Golden Globes a nice job Nicky Glazer. The crowd there clearly likes her. She’s both one of them but enough of an outsider that she can still land jokes.

And I thought she just did a great job on the monologue. It was a buy the numbers monologue, and what I mean it was just a very old school you take your time, and you go and George Clooney’s here, and camera switches to George Clooney, and you tell a George Clooney joke and you have some fun with that and you go and it’s great to see so and so. And she did that, and she had the timing down and the jokes were well tested, really really good. She opened up with a pretty fantastic joke about a listers. I cannot believe the amount of star power we have in this room tonight.

It’s insane. There’s so many A listers, And by A listers, I do mean people who are on a list that has been heavily redacted. But yes, and the Golden Globe for Best Editing goes to the Justice Department. But the joke that everybody’s talking about is this one. I won’t even spoil it.

Here’s Nikki Glaser. And the award for most editing goes to CBS News. Yes, CBS News America’s newest place to see BS News. Now, something was going on on the internet last night because normally with these things, I can grab like a lot of clips on the fly, and I don’t know if the Golden Globes police were shutting them down. Clips were a little hard to come by last night.

So I don’t have a lot of Nikki’s monologue for you. At one point she made a joke to George Clooney about having trouble with her an espresso machine. You may recall George did an Espresso DS at some point and George laughed at it. And again I keep coming back to Joe Johan Taylor Swift and was like, all you had to do, Taylor was smile at the joke, which is what Looney did.

And now everyone’s having a good time and we move around.

We’re also some good jokes about Leo DiCaprio. Now, Nicki had said that she wasn’t going to make Leo jokes, but she did. Let’s listen. You’ve worked with every great director, You’ve won three Golden Globes, an Oscar and the most impressive thing is that you were able to accomplish all of that before your girlfriend turned thirty. I mean, it’s just insane.

Liam. I’m sorry I made that joke. It’s cheap, you know what. I tried not to. But like, we don’t know anything else about you, man, Like there’s nothing else like open up serious.

I look, I searched. The most in depth interview you’ve ever given was in Teenbeat magazine in nineteen ninety one. Is your favorite? Is your favorite food still pasta? Pasta and more pasta?

Look it up, that’s real. Leo did smile at them again, Taylor Swift, just smile at the camera and don’t kill the room. As I was prepping the show was interesting. I was sourcing everywhere the British tabloids were writing and this is not true. I was watching the TV.

The British tabloids said that the CBS news joke and the A list joke got mixed reactions in the room. I don’t think so at all. I think the British coverage of the Golden Globes is a little loaded there. I think the room really liked Nikki. During her monologue, she did a joke about Michael B.

Jordan. I don’t have the clip, but she made a good joke about Jordan playing two brothers in the movie and then said, am I allowed to say that?

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And then she said playing twins and then tagged it with I can’t believe we go…

When I saw that, I was like Nicky b Jerkin because that was awesome. That got Michael B. Jordan’s mother can on camera making a face. On to the awards, Adam Sandler robbed, I’m so upset at this Best Supporting Male Actor in a Motion Picture went to stellin Scarsguard, not Adam Sandler for his wonnerful performance in Jake Kelly. Now listen to Hollywood industry.

We need to reward Adam Sandler if he’s going to be good in things like Jake Kelly and uncut gems. We need to reward him or he’s just going to make Jack and Jill two. Okay, please give Adam Sandler an award Oscars. Are you listening? This is very important.

Gene Smart wins Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. It’s her third win out of four nominations for Hacks. Seth Rogan won Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series Musical, Comedy or Hollywood celebrating themselves. No surprise, Hollywood loves the studio, so of course they’re going to give it to Seth Rogan. As the telecast moved on, if you watched it, there were announcers, so not just Nicki hosting, but in and out of the commercials or when the winners were walking up, they were announcers.

So one comment on the internet, Kevin Fraser and Mark Malkin are not snappy or funny enough to be additive, and they’re also too awkward and bland to feel like a meaningful way to get more information across to the view where they have no point of view. What’s the purpose of them? I think that review nailed it. Kevin Fraser was okay. Mark Malcolm was awful.

As they headed into the Best Podcast Award, there was a bit about podcasts, the crux of the joke being the podcast of a lot of commercials, and my friend Mark texted me he thought it was funny. I thought the bit was completely flat. We see Nikki Glaser in her car listening to podcasts and Mark Maren makes an appearance. Shocking. Actually, I can’t believe they got Maren to do that.

And Maren like knocks on the window or something and tries to sell her something like a podcast ad. I can’t believe they got Maren to do that. The people in the room, the Hollywood elite us with the thirty thousand dollars gift bags, listen to Saturday Show if you missed that. They didn’t seem to like that podcast was an award. Like when they gave out the nominees, it was half clapping.

Probably people went to the bathroom. The winner, Amy Poehler for Best Podcast. No, I thought this was fun. Around nine thirty three PM, I texted Mark and I wrote, the show’s dragging. If I’m producing this, I’m grabbing the Best Stand Up envelope and I’m running Kevin Hart and presenting that award next to get Kevin up there to give some energy to the show.

Well, they didn’t quite take my note. But at nine thirty eight pm Eastern, the next presenter was indeed Kevin Hart, and I was excited. I’m like, oh, Kevin Hart, but he didn’t really bring any energy to the stage. But finally, finally, at ten twenty pm, Wanna Sykes came up to give the award to Best Stand Up. The nominees were Bill Mahers, Is anyone else seeing this?

Brett Goldstein’s The Second Best Night of Your Life? Kevin Hart’s Acting, My Age, Kamil nan Gianni’s Night Thoughts, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, and Ricky Gervai’s Mortality. Now, Wanna gets up and she kind of annoyed me. She made a comment that people would be ticked that a black queer woman was doing the job of two mediocre white guys. Who’s saying that?

Wanda like, who’s actually saying that? Who is actually sitting home going you know? Uh JC and throws their mote across the room. I can’t believe Wanda Sykes is presenting an award who’s actually doing that? Wanda Sykes like, I did not appreciate that comment at all.

Then, as she read the nominee, thanked Ricky Gervas for not being there, because if Ricky were to win, she would get to accept on his behalf and then she would have Ricky, thank God, and the trance community, which was kind of funny. And the winner is Ricky Gervais, which was totally anti climactic because he wasn’t in the room. So all I was at ten twenty pm, I’ll share on tomorrow’s show what Ricky Gervas had to say. We’ll take the break here and then we’ll come back. We’ll talk about Letterman and Mulaney and oh and the whole Bowen Yang thing.

This was the whole thing over the weekend, all right, be right back. Coming up at noon Eastern today, Comedy Survivor Week one results and we’ll start off week two. As of neon Eastern. You’ll be able to vote in the Facebook group. You’ll find a cartoon of me eliminating the torch of the person who has been eliminated.

I mean, of course you go the Facebook group before that and just count the vote yourself, but that’s not fun. So the reveal is at noon today in this very feed. Okay, there was a big thing over the weekend. People basically canceled Bowen Yang. I went out for like two hours on Friday afternoon, and I came back and I saw Bowen Yang had been canceled.

I’m like, what even happened? And I’m still not entirely sure. So as I’m reading this news article, the Lost Culturist’s podcast host had discussed various politicians. Matt Rogers ripped into Gavin Newsom, saying that Newsom needed to get vocal surgery if he wanted to run for president. And I think it was Rogers who said he was turned off anytime a politician is making it too obviously about themselves.

That led to a conversation about Representative Jasmine Crockett, who is running for Senate in Texas. The Lost Caltesa’s host apparently urged their listeners not to donate to kroc Us senate campaign. Rogers said, quote and don’t waste your money, sending to Jasmine Crockett, do not do it. Don’t do it. You’re gonna waste your money.

Bow and Yang apparently agreed, saying money was quote hard enough to come by. Rogers then pivoted the conversation back to Newsom and that it just blew up the internet. The gist of the criticism was that they were putting down a black woman in an already hostile political environment. This got heated enough that the Boy’s backpedaled. Matt Rogers posted, transparency and candor matter to me, especially on the podcast.

I’m a very progressive person who cares deeply about winning these elections. But my phrasing was not right. I will be more thoughtful exclamation point. I really do promise. I have great respect and admiration for Representative Crockett, and I regret that my words suggested otherwise.

Bo and Yang said that he himself should not have waited on this and promised that he would use his platform more responsibly moving forward. Now. Once they apologize, then the conversation online. People seem to be mad now that the show’s called Lost Culture Teresa’s because neither host is Hispanic. And so I looked at this up Lost culturesas has been around since May of twenty sixteen.

You had time. If you were mad about the name, you had time to bring it up before this weekend. It’s just called lost culturesas come on people. David Letterman went on that barbar gaines thing he does sometimes when he feels like saying something but doesn’t feel like producing is something proper. He had some thoughts about the President of the United States.

Let’s talk a little bit about Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah, I love Jimmy Kimmel too. Here’s the thing what people don’t understand is Jimmy Kimmel single handedly brought the people at Disney and all of those other network television owners to their knees. Jimmy Kimmel single handedly. Made them critics a critic show, made them seem and appeared to be the fools they are, and continues to call attention to the plight.

And also Seth Myers, he’s very good, and I’m telling you we’re running out of places where you hear these voices. And Stephen Colbert in that franchise audios, and let me just say one thing. If we had a president who was a Republican I’m sorry, who was a Democrat. Let’s just say, if we had a president who was a Democrat and behave the way this Republican president is behaving, Jimmy would be attacking the Democrat president just as much as he attacks, So it’s not like it’s all politically driven. It’s driven by the behavior of the person in the office.

David Letterman was also not kind about CBS. By the way, what about those idiots at CBS. The CBS News is a record bill just gone CBS News for decades, going back in the world World War two. Before World War Two, they would be ed Murrow would be broadcasting the Blintz of London from the rooftop of buildings in London than for CBS Radio. And it was that mentality that drove the integrity of CBS News that has been trampled on, pissed on, and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.

And I’m at a point now where it really is hurting my feelings because I’m sick and tired of people saying, oh wait to those midterms kids. We’re far downstream of the midterms having any effect on this. And I’ll tell you if it weren’t ten thirty seven PM on a Sunday night. And by the way, Johnny Mac had to do an airport run at six thirty am on Sunday. I would probably have a lot more to say about David Hdman, but I’m getting a little tired, so let’s add for home here.

John Mulaney postponed his shows in Minneapolis over the weekend. This is another thing that when I’m awake, I should probably discuss properly. On Tuesday show, John Malani canceled his shows in Minneapolis over the weekend as protests continued across the city condemning the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole good by an Ice agent road on Instagram. What’s happened in your city is heartbreaking. I hate to postpone shows in a town going through such awful challenges and such grief because it feels unfeared of the audience.

I’m sorry anyone who is disappointed. I know a fun stand up show could be a nice distraction, but it doesn’t sit right with me to put anyone at risk. Tickets for the shows will be honored at the rescheduled dates April tenth through the twelfth. Again, when I’m a little more awake, I’ll deal with that properly. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, Hannah Gatsby’s woof is available to watch it.

And that is your comedy news. Sorry, Comedy Survivor coming up at newon Eastern and normal episode Tuesday morning. I see you then,

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Sebastian Maniscalco, Ricky Gervais, Shane Gillis, Dave Chappelle, Andrew Dice Clay, Dane Cook, Bill Burr, George Carlin, Kenny Chesney, David Letterman, Adam Sandler, Jimmy Buffett, Chris Elliott

What’s in This Episode

• State of stand-up comedy in 2025: growth and fragmentation
• Billboard’s Top 25 Comedians of the 21st Century list
• Dane Cook’s legacy and omission from comedy rankings
• Division between clean comedy and edgy comedy in the industry
• Netflix’s impact on comedy’s commercial success
• David Letterman’s ‘My Next Guest’ Netflix series and recent content output
• Evolution of David Letterman from edgy host to established interviewer

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mackin Mike Chisholm, the host of The Letterman podcast, and we are friendly and sometimes we do crossover episodes. Mike and I recently did a session where we talked about things for like two and a half hours, and I chopped it up into pieces, and here Mike and I were discussing the state of comedy as twenty twenty five came to an end. It’s been an interesting year in all sorts of areas, but in comedy, I don’t know, man, I just feel like the genre and the industry that is stand up has never had a bigger, more successful year. But in that it’s also felt never’s felt as divided as it’s felt.

But you’re the guru when it comes to this stuff. What do you think about that assertation? Yeah, it’s interesting. I just saw a piece on Vulture suggesting that comedians need to get more angsty and fight more and believing as a pot cast host, I love when the comedians are battling. You know, you and I should start award just for the for the clicks.

But let’s do it. You know. On the other hand, if you look at it, what’s really working is the Nate Berganzis of the world doing the clean comedy, family stuff. You know, Sebastian manaskalgo that style of comedy. But then at the other end you’ve got the the canceled of Ricky Gervais and Shane Gillis and Dave Chappelle.

They’re all canceled and they’re never going to be able to speak again. They’re selling out Arenas. Ye, you’ve got that other wing of austin Ish and the Chraysiers and the Rogans and the Sigoras. You’ve got all that going on, so it’s sort of fractured. It’s tremendously successful.

I’m all over the place. When they did the Top Communities of the Century, Dane Cook wasn’t mentioned. Has everyone forgotten what a huge comic Dane was and Dane selling out the Garden was a statement with three exclamation points. But now you know, I love them, But we’re all sells out the Garden. Everybody sells out the Garden, so you know something has changed there.

The business is bigger than ever. A lot of that is Netflix driven, for sure, but yeah, it’s just a weird time. But there’s comedy for everybody. Right, Oh, definitely, Like, but thank you for mentioning Dane, because I remember back in the day. It’s interesting that you talked about all the different facets of comedy, and I remember how big of a deal it was when dice Clay sold out Madison Square Garden, Like that was a huge, huge, when when when dice Clay was, oh my god, Andrew dice Clay is doing an arena, you know, and then you know, you’d hear about it every once in a while.

But then you got Dane who comes in in the early party and I okay, fine, the Billboard list was of the twenty first century, the top twenty five comics of the twenty first century. Well, I’m sorry, but if there was a guy that brought in comedy and elevated it at the beginning part of the century in the early two thousand, it was Dane. It was a big deal, the tour that he went on, that run he went on, and I mean, you know, it’s different than Kennyson, but it’s similar to Kinnyson in the sense that there’s this huge thing that happens and it inspires all of these people, and then a couple of years later, you know, the star fades and it goes across and and and and and now we’re here in twenty twenty five and we’re debating whether he should be even be on the list. Well, to me, of course he should be on the list, but some people have short memories when it comes to this stuff. I suppose I have a strong opinion on My theory is that the stylized comedians and Dan Cook did have a style to him, the physicality and the way he spoke, you know, maybe not full on character like a dice, but it’s the brick wall comedians that tend to last.

The Bill Burrs, the Dave Chappelle is just a guy talking in front of a brick wall. We could put an arena, we could do with theater in the round shore, but it’s the traditional George Carlin esque stand up of I’m gonna stand here and just tell you what’s on my mind. Where some of that stylized stuff we’ve seen shooting stars over the years and they come and go and they’re they’re white hot, and they have that three four years and then they kind of go away. I’m not sure Dane is full on stylized comedian to use the term. But you know, he was just a monster, a quote unquote rock star there for a while, good looking guy, really lighting up crowds, people quoting his material, and you know, you go about twenty years later and it’s like he’s forgotten somehow.

It’s weird. Now, Yeah, it’s crazy that he wasn’t on that list, like like, like, as far as I’m concerned, he ushered comedy into the twenty first century by making it more, you know, talking about the MySpace stuff and the way that he would use the Internet, not just in his act. I mean, of course his act was very very you know, it talked a lot about the Internet and things like that, but the way that he built his community was a blueprint for what I imagine if podcasting existed back does now. I mean, he would have been one of the first people with a podcast. He really really saw where the puck was going and led an entire genre in that direction.

I just so yeah. But that being said that, the Billboard list was interesting. I really love I recommend everybody to go back and listen to the Daily Comedy News podcast episodes where where Johnny goes through the Top twenty the Billboard Top twenty five Comedians of the Century. It’s it’s it’s very very good. You split up in two episodes.

Again, bite sized, really really simple, not like this behemoth of a show where it’s long form. I really really like the bite size aspect of of what it is that you’re doing. And boy, you’ve got lots of stuff to talk about, and we could do separate shows. And we are going to do separate shows when it comes to this, because there is so much to talk about. But the guy who brought me into this podcasting game, David Letterman, has put out in the last month a whole bunch of new content.

In fact, more content in the last month than I think if you add up all the rest of the months, I think you might be pretty close. Have you watched any of the new My Next Guests yet? I started to watch the Sandler episode, okay, and I really struggle. So I’m stealing from Jimmy Buffett fans here. There was a group of Jimmy Buffett fans who created Church of Buffett Orthodox Yes, And what their premise was was that at one point Jimmy Buffett was about, Hey, let’s hang out at the beach and have a good time, and over the years, it became about product and knockoff Corona beer and restaurants, and I kind of want to form Church of Letterman Orthodox who believe in the I got to have a self trouble here the Testament of the twelve thirty.

We might read the eleven thirty, and then the later works of David Letterman just aren’t our thing. And boy, I just so just where my mind is. I was on YouTube the other night and I almost sent this to you, but then the clip went sideways. But the first few minutes of the clip were guys throwing stuff off a bridge onto a frozen lake, and I was like, yeah, that, I want more of that. Why isn’t anyone doing that?

Dave? Can you throw something off a bridge on a frozen lake? I want to watch that? And this Elder Statesman Letterman, I don’t take away anyone’s enjoyment of it. I don’t take away your enjoyment of it.

I’m glad Dave somehow has gone from a guy in a bad mood that doesn’t interview people to the great interviewer. That’s an interesting transformation. But those of us in the Church of Letterman Orthodox, I just want to throw stuff off a five story tower and have Chris Elliott do something weird and make fun of the whole thing not being that funny, making it funny. And as I’ve called it over the years, Establishment Letterman just isn’t my thing. I feel bad saying this out loud, especially off this show that’s you know, maybe some of your fans will be like, yes, Church of Letterman Orthodox, I want to sign.

Up, Oh gosh, yeah, And I mean there are you know, I like the fact that our show is the size that it is because I can kind of look into the people who support the show, and you can see the different I can still see everything. It’s like it’s it’s like when a musician is still playing in a in a venue that’s like maybe under seven hundred people, they can kind of still kind of see everybody that’s in the audience as they’re playing on it. And it kind of feels that way. Certainly, there is a huge contingent of people who tolerate this show because every once in a while they get a beautiful itch scratch talking about the late night show that they enjoy enjoyed so much. The Church of Letterman or the Orthodox Letterman Church would Yes, there certainly would be a lot of members.

But that being said, the he did transform, and I would I would submit that the long form, you know, skills that Dave has has is now showing us. Really at the end of the day, I think it took a career to build the skills that he has done. When it has has gotten when it comes to this stuff, I see him interviewing Sandler and it’s it’s an interesting thing. We’ll do an entire episode once. I want to wait till you watch the entire episode if you can stomach it.

Because one of the things that you talk about is the idea about how strong a dramatic actor Adam Sandler actually is as opposed to being a comedian or being a funny man. And and and I love the reoccurring bit that that appears. Whether it’s a bit or not, I guess remains to be seen on your show where you talk about that. They certainly talk about it in the in in Dave’s long form interview with them, But more so I think back to the days you were talking about, and I can remember Adam Sandler’s first few times on Late Night, and it’s really cool to watch Dave go back and talk to some of these people that he has had a TV or a showbiz relationship with for so long, and they can talk about some of those early days and things like that and add that as an element to the to the conversation. So you and I can go really deep on the Adam Sandler one and that’ll be a lot of fun.

But they’re all good. The Mister Beast episode is good, really good in fact, especially for people who don’t know who Miss Beast is, you know, biggest broadcaster on the planet. A lot of people still don’t know who who he is. I didn’t know who Mister Beast was other than his name, so it’s interesting to hear Dave kind of come from the curiosity standpoint with him. The Michael B.

Jordan episode very very good as well, very strong. I put that up there with some of the other episodes of people who I didn’t know who they were, very very very very well, like they weren’t super familiar with me, and and then you get a whole bunch of insights and now you look at the body of work and some of the things that this person has done, and it adds dimensions to it. And Michael’s did that with me. But for me, the highlight of all of them was the Jason Bateman episode. I mean that that episode to me was absolutely perfect.

By the way, it’s not throwing stuff off towers, but Dave is doing silly things a little bit. In some of these episodes. He goes to a hat shop in London. He smokes a cigar for the first time ever. I smoked cigars because of David Letterman, so I thought that was really really interesting.

And then of course at the end of the Bakman episode there’s an arrested development thing with Ron Howard in the whole nine yards, and it seems fun big time is what it felt like to me. So anyway, there’s a sum up of how I feel about that. We’re gonna do post mortems, Johnny and I will do a post mortem on Adam Sandler. We’re going to do post mortems on the other three episodes with the appropriate guest as well. Thank you for letting me monologue there for a second, my friend.

I appreciate It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so I needed to get that out. Thank you. Oh no, I feel bad. So I started to watch the Sandler one, and you know, it’s fine. It’s just that this is all about me and my sensibility.

I was recently thinking about. So I’m going to drop a name that you know, unless you lived on the East Coast at some point that I’m not aware of, you’re gonna have no idea what I’m talking about. But a section of your viewership is going to know the name Uncle Floyd. So Uncle Floyd had a uhchf show in the eighties when you know, we didn’t have cable and Queen’s so you played with the other knob and you one night you come across this Uncle Floyd show an editor at six o’clock and it’s this dude from New Jersey with a puppet with a lower budget than we’re using right now, Like at least you have a backdrop, right, you know, maybe my setup with this stick on the window. Maybe that was the budget of the Uncle Floyd show.

And he had a puppet and a couple other guys from Jersey and they did pardon my French, half assed sketches and a viewer mail type thing and it was hilarious because it was just so anti and that’s what appeals to me. And if I go back to twelve thirty, especially once God bless my godmother gave me, maybe for my fifteenth or sixteenth birthday, a VCR, so I didn’t have to stay up till one o’clock every night. But you know, you hand me an episode of Late Night with David Letterman and you know from New York insert joke here, it’s Late Night with David Letterman, tonight’s guest Jason Bateman and you know, quirky guest on the back half. I probably would have watched the opening, the Paul segment, the desk piece, fast forwarded through the guests, and then caught the middle weirdness when Chris Elliott came out and did something and then bailed on the opp So that was how I consumed the show. But that that’s not a ticket, Dave.

That’s just how I. That’s where my head is at, and that’s one of the major influences on how I approach everything creatively. Like that was formative in my brain that things like Floyd on how you do all this, like don’t do don’t try and do Johnny’s Tonight Show. Johnny did that already, Right, Let’s deconstruct this whole thing and do something crazy yep. Yeah, and and and they they not only again we talked about Dane at the beginning of this how he kind of created a blueprint.

Well that’s what Dave did, David company. They created a blueprint for you know, that would influence all of entertainment and comedy and how we view it and how we look at it. They added that element of cynicism, which I just absolutely I’m an optimist. I’m a natural optimist. I’m a positive guy.

Uh but I do have this cynicism streak in me and it was given to me by David Letnerman, by by pro wrestling as well. But but both of those things, I thought that was a knee addition to that was something that they brought to the table, that the idea of of of kind of not trusting leadership a little bit in a different way. Now, of course, it has ballooned into you know, I think I think most people are are are mostly cynical now or a lot of people are mostly cynical now. But adding a little cynicism to the to the comedy, I think was a phenomenal thing to do.

And then again, the celebration of failure.

You know, you talk about Floyd and and and what he did well well, really, at the end of the day, the idea of let’s give a bunch of hooligans at television studio and see what happens. You know, that’s a that’s a that’s a fun premise right there. Who knew that that that that the guy who did it would probably turn into or would turn into who is probably known as the you know, the greatest broadcaster, uh, that we’ve ever seen. That’s how I see him anyway, you know, I don’t think anybody could have predicted that. But yeah, it changed a culture.

It really did. The kids in college watching you know this show. Don Giller told me a story and then and then a few of the writers, uh you know, confirmed it the first time the show went up to California. You know, when they when they when they took it, they basically they were just kind of doing the show. They had their heads down and everybody was just trying to make stay on the air, make the best show that they could make.

And then at some point they said, okay, let’s take the show to California. And when they took the show to California and the crazed lineups for tickets for people to get in the the the the insanity of what was going on, lineups around the block and things like that, and the staffers were just baffled by it. They had no idea that they were taking an entire generation of of you know, late baby boomers, early early gen xers and and kind of steering what their comedic sensibility would be, you know, for the next quarter century. It’s it’s remarkable what they did. And uh, anyway, I’m just preaching to the choir when it comes in.

Well, also, the box that Late Night was put in. The things you can’t do because Johnny does those you can’t use those, Yes, forced some creativity there. You can’t do a ten minute monolog all right, Well we got to fill an hour. We got to come up with something, and you know, all those little things just added up to magic. Then when you get to eleven thirty in the box, isn’t there anymore?

You can wear an o’mani suit and wear shoes and look like a grown up, you know, and we all age I guess, well, no, I mean I’m wearing a hoodie. But you know, you know, you start to take that step towards establishment. Letterman as I call it. Now the Netflix show is Elder Statesman Dave and again I just want to throw a watermelon off a tower. More with Mike chishom in a second.

He hosts The Letterman Podcast, which you should check out. Be right back, continuing my conversation with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast. In this segment, we discussed some of the factual inaccuracies in Dave Chappelle’s recent special. That’s interesting how the people are calling him out for some of the factual inaccuracies. Now, you don’t hear that happening to stand up very often.

Now. I guess the notable one was Hassan Minaj, And you know that’s a weird one. Here’s a guy that just seemed like the next daily show host, right. It was just perfectly cast and probably would have done a good job. And for some reason people took his stand up special seriously and it went sideways, so that you know, that whole thing was weird, you know, nitpicking Chappelle.

Nitpicking Chappelle about Representative McCain versus Senator McCain, I don’t think is a big deal. I do think Trump being the one to pardon Jack Johnson is interesting and left out of the story. But these were all just, you know, choices we make. We edit on the fly doing the podcast. Every day, I edit on the fly and just I don’t talk about things that just don’t interest me, or I don’t want to go there.

Just top of mine. As we’re recording this, there’s a Russell Brand story in the news, and I just don’t want to go there. I try and stylize my show as something fun to listen to, especially in the morning, and some of the Russell Brand stuff, I just I just don’t want to go there. It’s not censorship, it’s just choosing differently. Yeah, oh yeah, which is, by the way, what freedom speech is all about.

Be able to just make a choice and say no, I’m going to leave that and everything’s going to be fine. They can have that. I can have this right and yeah, that’s well. Even like about the name of my show, Daily Comedy News, Yes, you know, it’s not The New York Times. Jason’sinnimon has accused me of being a journalist, which I reject.

Jason to him, I’m not a journalist. I’m a dude in a podcast, just talking to a microphone, and he goes, now, I’m a journalist and I’m and is no like am I talking about things in the news. Yes, but like I don’t consider myself any sort of you know, not the Dan rather of comedy. It’s just I don’t know. Here’s some stuff.

I go, well, and I’m going to riff about it and kill twelve to twenty minutes and go home and hope you had a good time. And you know, some of it has said lighthearted and you know, like we’ve talked about it, it’s all real. I don’t actually I don’t enjoy Adam Sandler comedies. As I’ve explained to my audience repeatedly, I don’t walk around all day going I can’t believe you made her get more to them. So I met like, I just don’t care.

I’m not going to watch it. The story where I forbade my children from renting Jack and Jill and said that I would rather light the five dollars on fire is a true story. That’s not even having to for effect. I could none of I could turn home right now. I could bring them in here and they’ll tell you that that’s a thing that happened.

So that is how I feel about Sandler comedies. But do I play it up? Of course, I play it up, just like the Joe Coy bit or the Jay Leno bit or anything else. These are just recurring Touchsdownes back to that lettermanesque sense of humor of We’re all in this together, and if I’m doing the show right and I’m building a community, you know where I’m going to go before I go there, and that’s part of the fun. Yep, where did Chappelle end up on your list for the year?

I have it like maybe like five. So my takeaway on the Chappelle special was I compared it to you sit down and watch a baseball game and your starting pitchers just got it today, and you’re like, oh, my goodness, he’s just untouchable today. And we’re four innings in and it’s a no hitter, and he struck out nine guys in the first four innings, and wow, this is just gonna be unstoppable.

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And then you know it, hit happens and then the starting pitcher leaves and gi…

And that’s how I felt about Chappelle, Like, right, a hit play. It looks great, it looks like a major special. And Dave comes out and he commands the stage and he’s got something to say, which is very important to me as a comedy snob. I want you to have something to say, and he’s got something to say, and he’s saying it. He’s presenting it at as very thoughtful and I’m hanging on every word and for the first warnings, Holy cal this is the special.

And by the time I got to the end of it, it was really good, but just didn’t sustain the same way. So I still have Mark Maron as the top special of the year. Yeah, I think Maren that. I think that’s peek Maren, and Maren had something to say and said it very well. I have Kevin hard at number two, which is just silly fun, just joke jokes.

Robbie Hoffman special is very good. It’s very good. I watched it. I watched it as a I hadn’t it had n’t my radar at all, and listening to you talk about it, I watched it and I was like, oh my god, Yeah, it was very very good. You know, So those are.

There’s plenty of fine specials. And again, I am a comedy snob because of what I did for ten years just listening to Everybody’s a material, the versions that they chose to release, listening to that all day, every day, I can see the matrix. I can see what you’re doing. I understand why doing. I get why people think it’s funny.

But like if you, if you make me watch Sebastian Maniscalco’s new special, I totally understand why a random couple from suburban Philadelphia is going out and having a good time at that show. I get it, But I just I’m watching it. I’m like, oh stop, I mean, just can you not make the ridiculous faces? Can you tell a real story here somewhere? But you know, Chappelle again and keeps saying the phrase he’s got something to say and that’s why he’s at the top of the game.

Sebastian to me, and I love him, love him. But to me, you go back to whichever special it was. I want to say, it’s like twenty fifteen, maybe is the one where you talked about company the company did? Do you remember that? To me?

He looked at himself back then and decided to turn the volume up to eleven on the character of yes, yes, that Since then, it was nice when he had like a little bit of the you know that that act, that mob, the affict whatever you want to call it, the affectation, thank you, that’s perfect. Now it’s just like he’s just he lives in it, and it’s it’s it’s it’s lit up to ten. It should be back at four. It should be a little more subdued. I think, I don’t know, that’s just that’s just my It’s just more of the same, right, And I don’t know why I have a problem with Sebastian doing it.

Whereas my friend Larry the Cable Guy Dan Whitney. You know, here’s a guy that if I called him right now, who do my podcast like, you know, yep? Do we hang out every day? No, But he’s a friend. He’s not somebody I know.

He’s a friend. And I’ve been backstage talking to Dan Whitney.

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And then he slips into the Larry character, who speaks a little differently a…

And I think we all understand the Larry the Cable Guy character. First of all, it’s called Larry the Cable Guy. It’s not ladies and gentlemen Dan Whitney going up and doing that material. It’s it’s something called Larry the Cable Guy that doesn’t wear sleeves. And I don’t know if it’s because Sebastian Meniscalco has evolved from being Sebastian Maniscalco Italian American comic to Sebastian the Italian Guy.

Maybe it’s that right, Maybe it’s that mm hm. It’s gonna be interesting to see what Gervas’s special does to the list. Ricky knows what he’s doing. He’s trying to trigger people. He successfully triggers people that he doubles down that he triggered you, and it’s your fault that you’re triggered.

He understands what he’s doing. But he’s really good at I mean, Chappelle’s doing the same thing, and people just get really irate at Ricky Gervas’s specials. But they’re pretty funny and I can sit on the couch and understand what I’m watching, right Like, I get what he’s doing there. He’s gonna make some points and he’s gonna push some buttons along the way and hopefully we have a laugh, and we go home, and then he goes and donates two million dollars to the animal charity. So, you know, much like Jay Leno.

I’m not sure Ricky Gervas is the worst person who ever lived. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and that’s your daily coming for today again, check out the Letterman podcast. Mike is the host, a really good guy. I always enjoyed chatting with him.

And I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Ricky Gervais, Taylor Swift, Kevin Hart, Sarah Silverman, Dax Shepard, Amy Poehler

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser hosting the 2026 Golden Globes on CBS
• Nikki Glaser’s SNL hosting experience and lessons learned
• Golden Globes monologue preparation and balancing roasts with appreciation
• Erosion of monoculture and making jokes about lesser-known celebrities
• New podcast category at the Golden Globes
• Golden Globes comedy special nominees including Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, and Sarah Silverman

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, The Golden Globes, Arizon, CBS, Sunday night at eight pm. Your host is Nikki Glaser. Nicki got a flowing a cover piece from The Hollywood Reporter. They asked, Nikki, what’s the most interesting or surprising feedback you’ve gotten in the year since you first hosted.

Nicki said that it was all positive. It kind of tripped me up. Usually you do something, there’s a couple of people who don’t like what you did, or a couple flaws they could find, and it was universally appreciated and well reviewed. I’m not used to that. I don’t like that.

It only sets me up for failure. She’s gonna have a great weekend, huge weekend. And I avoid watching it again because I lived it. But I just went back and watched it two days ago to remind myself of what I liked, what I didn’t like. Well, damn, I kind of nailed it.

It scares me because that was kind of lightning in a bottle. I got really lucky with some of the nominees. Everything worked out, so it’s a high barm kind of screwed. Now she was almost immediately renewed. The Hollywood Reporter was curious when did she first write down an idea of something she might include this year.

Nikki said, honestly, I didn’t allow myself until December first. I take my special at the end of October. Then I went right into SNL after I needed to take the month off and just breathe. December first, right after Thanksgiving, we got right into it. The nominees don’t come out until December eighth, so that’s when you really get cooking.

She talked about her SNL hosting gig and said, what was remarkable to me is that they treat each show like as the fiftieth anniversary. I felt like everybody was excited as I am. And when I learned from how I usually do things is that I had to let go a lot. I had to realize I don’t know better than any these people, and I can suggest things, but in the end, just let go and don’t be scared to be foolish. So much of stand up is looking cool and being yourself.

I don’t get too much into characters and making myself look silly, and I felt like that was a really great opportunity to try stuff I hadn’t done before and admit that I’m kind of a novice in this world and that’s okay, and I can’t wait to do it again. I don’t know she’s getting get invited back. We talked about in The Good Nights. It seemed like the cast none of them walked up to her, and that led to me and some of the listeners analyzing The Good Nights every week and some of the other guest hosts got a lot of hugs and it just seemed like they iced Nicky wasn’t in the room. Don’t know what’s going on, but someone had picked up on that and put it in my brain.

And then I went back and looked at the clip and I was like, Yeah, NICKI talked about imposter syndrome being embedded in her soul. I think more people should have it. Though we’ve all been so lucky, anyone who’s made a career in this has made an extreme amount of luck. Just knowing the right people, let’s say that fifty times. Just knowing the right people For anybody trying to get into this, just knowing the right people, that’s what matters.

Get the right agent impressing the right people, making good impression in a moment where they didn’t know it mattered. So instead of thinking I don’t deserve this, I’m trying to turn my imposter syndrome into I’m so grateful this is my life. I just watched this clip by Ricky Gervais. He wanted to remind himself he’s like the court jester. The court jester is allowed to make fun of the King and Queen because he’s so clearly not the King and Queen, and they know he’s not.

He’s one of the plebs. It’s good to know I’m not one of these A listers and I don’t feel like I’m one of them. That gives me license to me fun of them a little bit more. The Holly reporter said, didn’t they execute court jesters? Nicky said, I look forward to that.

Die young, as long as I look good with my head rolling down to whatever. The Holly reporter asked her about her homework. Have you watched everything? Nicky said, you can’t watch everything, and you certainly can’t listen to all the podcasts. It’s like six podcasts.

You can listen to six podcasts. Then the Hollywood Reporter spoiled one of the movies that I haven’t seen yet. Why would you do that. I’m not gonna spoil it, fee you’re safe. But they just blatantly threw a spoiler in the middle of this article.

What are you doing? The article is not about the movie, so it’s not like I clicked on an article about the movie. They’re talking about the Golden Globes in one of the nominated movies, and they threw out a major spoiler. What are you doing? Come on, stupid Hollywood reporter jerks.

They talked about the erosion of the monoculture. Nicky said, people don’t know what the hell Jake Kelly is. They know George Clooney, so you wind up making a lot of jokes about the advertisements and the endorsements these people do. People might not know Kevin Hart’s special, but they know he’s talking about DraftKings. You have to find what everybody knows.

Honestly, there isn’t anything that everyone watches. There was Wicked last year, Wicked for Good, not as many people saw, so there’s not as much to say about it. I did a Venezuela reference at a show last night, and half the crowds like, what does that mean? It’s not showing up. People aren’t even getting news man, it’s depressing.

Parade asked Nikki Glaser. When you’re doing your monologue, how do you toe the line between roasting and toasting? I see what you did there. Nicki said. The most delicate balance to strike is giving the audience at home what they want, which is seeing celebrities get taken down a couple notches.

But people sign up for roasts and they’re asking for it. This is not a roast. I want these stars to feel safe and appreciated. A lot of the jokes I want to do will be on the cutting room floor. Parade asked her, what’s up with a new podcast category?

Nicki said, I love podcasts. I owe all lots of podcasts, but it’s a shock that you know we’re honoring podcasts before documentaries. I’m excited for next year’s YouTube nominees being best. Muckbang. Now, I had to look up muckbang.

Maybe I’m the last one I know about this, but I googled and I’m told muckbang is a popular online trend originating in South Korea, where host eats large quantities of food on camera, often interacting with a live audience, combining eating with entertainment, social connection, and sometimes these video broadcasts feature hosts consuming everything from spicy noodles and pizza to seafood boils, either prerecorded or live on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. Any parting words, Nikki, she said, watch the Golden Globes. I’m gonna need the audience at home to laugh because the audience of the room might not get some of the jokes. Yeah, I mean, if Taylor Swift’s there, stay away. That’s all I’m gonna say.

The woman cannot take a joke. The Golden Globes. There on CBS from eight to eleven pm Eastern, Johnny Mac will be double screening because there’s a football playoff game. Then, uh, probably around halftime, I’ll come here into the studio and record Monday’s podcast for you. Monday morning will be a recap of the Golden Globes.

Monday at noon will be the kickoff of Week two of Comedy survivor some comedy related nominees for the Golden Globes Best Special, Ricky Gervai’s Mortality, Bill Maher, Is anyone else seeing this? Britt Goldstein the Second Best Night of Your Life, Kevin Hart’s Acting, My Age, Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem, and Cameil Nanjianni’s Thoughts Now Adam Those I have Kevin Hard as my number two Special of twenty twenty five, but I want to give the award to Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem. I think from an award standpoint, that is the best one. The nominees for Best Podcast Armchair Expert with Dak Shepard, Call Her Daddy Good, Hang with Amy Poehler Slam Dunk Amy, you might as well start walking up to the stage now, the Mel Robbins podcast SmartLess and Up First. Celebrity presenters this year include George Clooney, He’s in that Jay Kelly movie with Adam Sandler, The Great Germanic Actor Ope, Adam cleans Up, Jennifer Gorner, Jod Appatow, Julia Roberts, Catherine han Keegan, Michael Key from the Macpack, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Hart, He’s just back from the Red Comedy Festival, Miley Cyrus, I’m not reading everybody, Snoop Dogg, Want of Sykes, Will Arnett, Zoe Kravitz.

If you are a winner or a presenter, at the Golden Globes, you get a swag bag. The rob Report curates these and calls them the Ultimate Gift Bag. Last year, people got things like a five day yacht charter through the Coral Triangle in Indiany, Asia, as well as a Nordic Trac treadmill worth fifteen thousand dollars. Does anybody have the clip from George Carlin saying it’s a big club and you ain’t in it. So while all these celebrities are up there acting like they’re just normal folks like you and I, yeah, let me know.

When you went a five day yacht charter through the Coral Triangle, One participant received a wine tasting and dinner experience in Bordeaux, France, valued at two hundred and seventy two thousand dollars. This year, your bag is an Atlas Bespoke signature Duffel Bag. The bag comes with the Ultimate Gift Book, which helps recipients review and select offerings tailored to their personal interest. Jeez, this is a whole other world, all right. Some of the things you can get a Bow Domain skincare set that runs you two hundred and seventy three dollars.

Well, It doesn’t run you anything. You just get to click of box and you get this. The cell Cosmet skincare set valued at four forty five. Current body skin led hair Growth Helmet valued at eight sixty Which celebrity is gonna go? Yeah, can use some help with my hair.

The Elysium Health one year basis supplement subscription valued a five one cent of choice from Perfume Head valued at six point fifteen a southeast by Bernadeaux Porcelain La crem I’m sure I pronounced that right, valued at six forty The Trunk Luxury spa box leave it in four sixty five. The Signet twenty two and seventy seven bottle set with Martini and Rocks glasses five hundred dollars. So far, the only things I’m interested in are the yacht and the treadmill. I don’t want any of those other things. Oh here’s another yacht.

I spoke too soon, The Celestia Fincy five day luxury yacht charter through Indonesia, valued at sixty grand. I’ll take that please. Now this next list are offered to some winners and presenters. Now I wonder how that works? Are they?

Like? All right? Who won? George Clooney. Okay, so offered George Clooney the Casa Belamore Beach Fund via Stay at San Jose del Caabo, Mexico.

That’s valued at twenty five grand. That’ll go to five recipients. Okay, who won best podcast? Oh it’s the guys from Up First. Yeah, let’s non invite them to hang out with George Clooney at Cosa Bella Moore.

Give them some of the perfume, like, does that had this works? That has to be how this works? Right? Three recipients will get the conradt Co Samui royal Va Stay. Hey, should we invite the up First guys and want to invite Justin Bateman?

Oh okay, how about the Conrad Maldive’s Rangali Island Ocean Pavilion Stay. Five recipients will get that. That’s valued seventy thousand. I was thinking to give you that to the guys from up First. Should we invite No?

No, I want you invite Sandler to that one. Okay? The Conrad Singapore Orchard Premium Sweet Stay, valued at twelve grand. Three recipients get that. How about we hook up the up First guys with that?

Swegetive nan and what do you see if ab Polar wants to do that? Oh okay, the flock Hill Rokai Minarets at New Zealand Luxury Lodge Stay goes to one recipient thirty one, three hundred and seven dollars. I like how they runted that off? Should we get that to the up first guys? Nah, because you know we only have one and they are a whole team, so let’s not offend them.

Oh there’s more. The Fully Entertainment Group New Zealand Estate Stay and Private Winemaker Dinner twenty recipients. That’s valued a fourteen four fifty. Now how does this work? Do We all go to the after party and it’s like, hey, what did you get in your bag?

And you’re like, oh, I got the uh Mandappa Ritz Carlton Reserve in Bali. I heard three of us got that. It’s probably a fifty eight hundred. How about you? Oh yeah, I got the Natural Hotel in Austria.

Five of us got that for eleven thousand and five hundred. How about you, Johnny Mac? I got a rock? Like? Is that how this works?

Hey? Up first guys? Oh yeah, I got some perfume. Oh yeah, I got that too, but I also got the Roberport twenty twenty seven vehicle test drive at the Concourse Club. One recipient got that and that was me.

That’s probably to thirty one thousand, four hundred. I mean, listen to this. Do you hear how out of touch any of this is? So when you’re watching the Gold and Globe Sunday Night anything, any of these people are normal. They’re not.

This is what they’re doing. They’re getting a bag, and one recipient’s bag will have the Roundhill Rotel and VS stay in Jamaica, valued at thirty grand, and six other people will have the reserve at Grace Bay Beachfront v in Turks and Caicos, valued at fifty grand. How long have I been reading this list? This is insane? Oh my god, I’m scrolling that.

I can’t even continue this bit. There’s so many here, I’m gonna fly through it. Bali Panoramic view, Waldorf Astoria, Bangkok, Waldorf Astoria, Maldives, Behind the scenes, WEC race access and private jet incentive, A dog Pound, private gym rental experience seventy five hundred g thanks for the bag, the Wellness Spelled Time Together Massage experience, twenty five recipients four hundred and eighty bucks. Hey guys from up first, enjoy your massage. The Massan Devereux Golden Circle Annual Membership in Herecare Set twenty one thousand for three recipients.

The robber Port re Well Wellness Retreat passes go to two people for twenty grand six seventy two NAPA Valley Wine Club membership three hundred. Hey up first guys, here you go, Thanks for coming. Sorry you lost, Amy Pohler. The Isle of Harris Distillery. Six bottle whiskey case, Jim Gaffigan, Here you go.

It’s worth ten eighty thirty five people getting that. One liber Potter nine ultra rear bottles of French wine. One recipient. It’s valued at two hundred and ten thousand. Here you go, mister Clooney, another Bordeaux.

There’s more outlcohol. Jeez okay boy, Now, if you’re feeling left out, No Boo is giving fans a chance to feel like one of these elitist Hollywood people with their Golden Globes inspired menu for a limited time, you regular folk who listen to a podcast by a guy wearing sweatpants in the basement you. Why am I picking on you? You’re nice? You listen to me.

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You get out, you can get yours to go, and your to go plate includes everything that’s on the actual plate that served to real celebrities. That includes Noboo’s signature yellow tail with jalapeno, a caviar cup, and lost Or salad with spicy lemon dressing. The Golden Globes to go menu is priced at one hundred and twenty five dollars. It’s a menu you’d expect the White Lotus cast to be eating the Golden Globes Tomorrow night on CBS. Tomorrow, on this very program, Mike Chisholm and I will discuss some comedy topics.

Is a rather a long episode, more like in the forty five minute range, But we’ll be doing that on the weekends in January. All right, Enjoy the Gold Globes. I do think Nikki Glaser is gonna have a big night. But when you’re watching the show, think about those bags, all right, Just think about it, think about what’s really going on. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Taylor Swift, Joe Coy, Jeremy Strong, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Joan Rivers, Kamail Nanjiani, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser preparing to host Golden Globes for second year
• Nikki Glaser considering targeting unnamed celebrity in Golden Globes monologue
• Nikki Glaser avoiding Ozempic and plastic surgery jokes at Golden Globes
• Golden Globes host preparation and writer’s room process
• Joe Coy’s controversial Taylor Swift joke at previous Golden Globes
• Nikki Glaser’s path to becoming three-time awards show host

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A phrase you say to train the Spotify algorithm, But we don’t have time for that. I have so much I want to get to today. This Chris Gethard interview is just I wanted to lead off with that, but I know how SEO works.

So I have to tell you about Nikki Glaser, which I’m equally excited about. She is going to have a huge weekend. But listen to this. She was on Kelly Ripke’s podcast Pay a Lot of Attention here, Okay. Glazer said that she’s considering targeting a specific celebrity during the Golden Globe’s hosting gig, but she anticipates the star in question might not take too kindly to her jabs.

You don’t suppose it’s you know who? Do you? Nicky said there’s someone that might come this year, and I was thinking about what their reaction would be because I don’t think they have a good sense of humor. I don’t want to review who said Nikki Glaser, And I’m sorry to talk in vague terms, but picturing this person looking angry about the joke I’m making. I never want to make anyone uncomfortable.

Now, try and imagine a situation where someone is hosting the Golden Globes and tells a joke and the person the joke is about makes an ice face, basically murders the person career, except the person sells out arenas right. Remember that one time jokoy till that horrible mean joke about Taylor Swift and she made the face? Could NICKI be talking about that? Now? I see no reason Taylor would come to the Golden Globes.

I don’t believe she’s nominated. She’s not listed on the presenters, so why would she go? NICKI did not reveal who the person is, but says this person I feel I can kind of take it and not deserves it. But I’m almost annoyed. They wouldn’t have a sense of humor about it, as opposed to like, oh, that was mean and I shouldn’t have said that.

This person maybe takes themselves too seriously. Who do you think it is? She can’t eat Taylor? Can’t she Why would Taylor go to the Golden Globes? Who knows Nicki did a lot of press.

She spoke to USA Today about jokes she won’t do. She says there’s no appetite for jokes about weight loss drugs this year. In twenty twenty five, as she called it, Ozempic’s biggest night this year, she says Ozempic’s been done some jokes, is just not a unique way to do them anymore. She also want to do plastic surgery jokes, explaining, going back to the fifties and sixties, you could make fun of people getting faceless. Now it’s so normalized, it just seems like I’m coming for everyone.

It almost feels like body shaming. I’m not sure I agree with that. I mean, I was recently watching what was I watching what’s it called Fallout? Fall Out on Amazon, and I couldn’t stop staring at Kamil Anjiohni’s chin, And then that made me google Kameil Nanjiohni’s chin interesting reading if you’re ever on Ready, and that made me google John Mlini chin. So I don’t know, everybody looks fake to me.

I think you could make fun of it. It’s okay, Nikki here, this is fine. I just asked Latebot. Can you make a joke about Kamail and Anjiohni’s chin looking different. Here’s what the late Bot writing staff came up with.

This is really good. Kamil Nanjiohnny showed up looking great, and right now you pause and you let everybody clap, and the camera switches to Kamail and then you tag it with but his chin looks like you got a separate agents. That’s great. Here’s another one. This is good.

Camel Angianni’s chin now has the confidence of someone who’s been through three Marvel movies and a lighting upgrade. That’s great. Let’s see what it could do to Mlaney. These are okay. John Mulaney’s chin now has the confidence of a man who’s been through Rehabit still insists on wearing a suit.

I don’t know what Mlanie did during his time away, but his chin definitely did some emotional work. That’s not bad. As told better by Nikki Glaser, that would work. Mulaney returned with a new outlook on life, a new chapter, and a chin that says I’ve seen things. Those are good jokes.

I digress USA today, says Nikki Glaser worked through the Christmas Holidays with a team of comedy writers who knocked down her attempts at facelift joke. Lazier said, I’m like, but I’m gonna get a face lift. I’m on the right side of this. Is there way to spin it that? I asked for advice and she said it’s too convoluted.

I just can’t make fun of face to work anymore now again, she worked through the Christmas Holidays. I’ll remind you Joe Coy he once told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. But I do have time for that. He only got the job nine days before hosting the Golden Globes because no one wanted to do it, and then he told that horrible meme joke and then Taylor made a face. I recently rewatched Joe’s monologue.

It’s pretty good. One of these weekends, I’m gonna break it down and do a whole episode about Joe Boy’s monologue. It’s way better than anybody gives a credit for. Glazer and her team watch the red carpet cameras to see the stars arrive, and they write or cut jokes on the fly. As she told USA Today, she explained last year, Jeremy Strong was dressed like a turtle who deals cocaine, but we didn’t want to make fun of him.

We pulled back because we were like, Jeremy Strong takes himself very seriously, as he should, and this isn’t the night to mock him. Nikki is back for her second year. She’s hoping to come back for a third year. Three time hosts include Ricky Gervais and the team of Tina fe and Amy Poehler. Nicki says to be in the pantheon of award show hosts, you got to do at least three.

I feel like I’m getting started. It’s a great gig. I love it. It’s perfectly suited for my talents or Lacverev. I think she’s gonna have a really big night.

The mainstream press is just loving her, nothing but glowing reviews, and this one is a total wax job from Parade magazine. Glazer was on Zoom and said, I’m feeling really good about everything. I’m really calm and feel like this is going to be really fun. I’m confident in the jokes and the material, and like George Clooney and Julia Roberts may be familiar with me now, and this is the wax Job, And this is not a dig at Nicki. This is just me analyzing the media, going Wow, they really like her.

Okay, so Nicki said, Clooney and Roberts may be familiar with me now and parade rites as well. They should be. Since arriving on the comedy scene more than a decade ago, the lanky, forty one year old blond has become one of the most provocative and prominent voices in either by doing it all podcasts obviously, reality shows, Sure and Whereminded. She’s appeared on Last Comic Standing, Masked Singer, Dancing with the Stars, Selling Sunset, and hosted f Boy Island and Blind Date. The wax Job continues off the mic.

Glazer is surprisingly wholesome. Raised in Saint Louis, she still lives in the area to be close to her parents and far from the NYC LA grind. Nicky says, I forget that I’m even into business when I’m walking around. She jokes that before she hosted SNL, I told people and they were like, oh, that’s fun, Like I was going to a wedding parade, asked Nikki, what don’t people understand about the life of a versioning stand up comedian Nikki said, everyone’s always like, oh, it’s so tough, and you’re on the road, you’re a different club every night, and you’re staying at crappy hotels and you’re dealing with gross guys. But I loved it.

I guess the most difficult thing for someone to understand about stand up is that it’s fun and cathartic. The hardest part is nobody wants your greatest hits. You’re constantly writing new material. NICKI, when did you feel like everything was clicking. I had a podcast that was getting a lot of attention that led to an MTV show, and we did that for two seasons.

Then I had a Comedy Central show and then a Comedy Central special, and I started doing specials on Netflix. But then I saw the Jone Rivers documentary and she said that she says yes to everything, so I followed her rule for a while, Like I didn’t think I was too cool for anything. I got asked to do Dancing with the Stars in twenty eighteen, and that was terrifying to me. I never danced in my life. I did the mass singer and game shows too.

As for being voted off Dancing with the Stars, it was a rejection like I’ve never faced in my life, and it was public and it was on live TV. I really wanted to stay on the show and really cared about it. To get rejected not because you’re a bad dancer, but because the public doesn’t even care to you continue. I was humiliated, But now people don’t remember I was on it, So it taught me the lesson of like these big moments that I think are catastrophic or just blips, you can recover. The worst that can happen is that you’re embarrassed for a few days.

Well, it does look like Nikki will be safe on Comedy Survivor again. A Monday morning’s episode will be a Globes recap Monday at noon a bonus episode with the results of Comedy Survivor at week one. Voting is now closed so that Johnny Mac can count and produce the episodes. Tomorrow on this program a Golden Globes preview, and then Sunday, Mike Chisholm and I talk comedy for a while. Here’s a fun story that’s not fun if you’re the people involved, but it’s a fun story.

Tom Sigora and Christina Pizitski are stuck in the Caribbean. Why John, remember when we invaded Venezuela last weekend and they shut down all the flights and people got stuck places. Two of those people apparently are Tom Sagora and Christina Pazinski. Sigora, in a social media video said, we’re stuck in the Caribbean. Do you remember how the US went in and captured Maduro in Venezuela and he was brought to justice in New York.

They’ve shut down a lot of airspace, so we spent days here. We can’t go home. We’ve been stuck for extra days. Airspace becomes open and then closed. It’s fun, I’ll tell you.

The fun part is that you go to the airport and they tell you you’re gonna leave now, and they go, just kidding, you’re not. Every day’s just a mystery. Will we get home? Christina p added But we’re still doing our thing and stuff like that and trying not to get a duy. We’re doing it all anyway.

Happy New Year, We love you and we’ll see you next week. Sigora’s comedic partner, Bert Krasier revealed that he started monzorro and is down twenty pounds in two weeks. He told the Dumb Blonde podcast that his sparkle is gone in his life because he can’t eat any more. Bert says the side effects are aggressive. I got into a huge blowout with his nineteen year old daughter and Leanne, his wife, like a three way fight.

They were in the car. She’s just a talking head for Leanne. Whatever Leanne says. She goes, you gotta listen to mom. She has all the answers Dad, and I’m like, she does not have all the answers.

Bert also said that Manzarro incited a physical illness in him. I couldn’t tell if I was making myself ill or if was the medicine making myself ill. I’ve always had a weird thing about my throat closing. I threw violently in LX. I don’t think it was a moncero.

I don’t know what it was. I’ll tell you, I’m looking at all these Hollywood people on this stuff. You know, they go through a phase. We’re like, oh, yeah, so and so looks pretty good. They lost weight, and then they stay on it and they all look like skeletons.

It looks unhealthy. I wonder what the long term effects of this stuff would be. I’m just a guy in a basement. I have no scientific knowledge. You do you, but I’m looking at pictures of people and I’m like, you think that looks good?

Now. I wanted to lead off with this one. Chris Gethard went on The Good One podcast. Hit stop on my podcast at about thirty seconds and I’ll tell you why, and go listen to The Good One with Chris Gethard. It’s going to be one of the best podcast episodes of the year.

I couldn’t get enough of this one. What a great conversation. The episode title is the Death of the middle Class Comedian, and Chris Catherard, who’s had decent success, is very transparent about how he had to get a day job. He has a day job in his struggles getting insurance. In this first clip I pulled, he talks about whether or not Netflix translate into money.

I have edited this for pacing, but take a listen to this. You can be on some of the biggest platforms in the world and you’re not actually making money because all the production costs come out of your end. Hey, you got a special on Netflix. This is a big shot. You want to hang back and save some money for yourself.

Well, what if it doesn’t sound right, what if it doesn’t look right, What if you didn’t rent the right venue? So all those costs come out of your end. Some of these platforms, you will find people who have actually lost money putting a special up. On platforms that the public regards as the biggest platforms in the world. You get hand an artist hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the actual cost of making the special is pretty close to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Chris Gethard also talked to The Good One podcast about social media clips not translating into ticket sales. So everybody, and I’ve been screaming about this in the podcast industry, everybody’s making all these videos, all these videos, and I’m like, yeah, but you gotta have a video team. And like, meanwhile, Andrew Schultz is talking to Trump, and there’s a couch and a fig plant, and everybody’s lit this thing and they’re spending all this money and you know, a guy in a basement, I don’t have those resources. If you want to have a good hour long thing, maybe it is not actually true that what you need to be doing is training your audience to go one minute at a time. So it sounds like everybody’s making all these social media clips but not selling tickets off them.

What are we doing everybody? Now? Elsewhere in the interview, I thought I had flagged a time stamp, and I went back and tried to find it, and even in the Apple transcript, I could find the text, but I couldn’t match it up to the audio. So I just moved on with my day. So I’ll just read you what he said.

This is very interesting, throwing some shade there. Chris Gethart said, you and I know the stories told in the comedy world of some comics who are very very wealthy right now with their ten million faceless followers, who the story goes, and this is conjecture, this is hearsay that they have actually said. I’ll say a bunch of stuff I don’t believe. I know it’s going to pop off, but you’re hurting the world. You’re platforming stuff you don’t believe in, saying it out loud and telling people watch this work, and then it does.

No wonder. I’m so wary of the system. No wonder. I hate it if it’s a game you can play to the detriment of your own values exchange for money. Get the f out of here with that stuff.

We’ve all heard stories, and I’ll let people guess. Some of them will guess correctly. I’m sure some of them incorrectly, but you’ve heard those stories. Now. He didn’t say who it is, and I was thinking about it.

I’m like, hm, who might be saying things they don’t believe and just taking the money. Do you have any guesses? I try to think about it. The closest I could come up with was a guy named Andrew Boltz, who is not a famous comedian. I don’t know if you know Andrew Bolts, but that would be my guess.

Chris Gethard said it was someone famous, and Andandrew Boltz is not a famous comedian. He’s a guy that plays a comedy club in Woodside that I go check out sometimes. So I don’t think he meant Andrew Bolts, But you tell me who you’re thinking. I’m not sure. Two comments about Late Night from Johnny Mac.

Now, Originally I was just prepping the show and I saw Jimmy Fallon jokes about Greenland, and I’m like, these are like pretty toothless. Jimmy Fallon, who told it better, said yeah, Trump’s buying properties and seizing boats. He’s pretty much playing monopoly in battleship, okay, and the other one was at this point, the only way to get Trump away from Greenland is convincing him that’s where vegetables come from. I almost dropped to JC there. I mean, Jimmy, come on, man, come on.

Now. I had that originally as a standalone story, but then as I prepped the show, I saw what Stephen Colbert did to open the Late Show, and I’ll do that second because the Colbert story led me to Jimmy Kimmel addressing the Ice incidents. I imagine by now you’ve seen the video, Kimmel said, Now I saw this video. It didn’t look like anybody got run over. To me, it looked to me like a woman got scared, try to drive away and they shot her.

That’ll be for the court to decide. Kimmel then played a clip of the mayor telling Ice to get the f out of Minneapolis. After that clip, Kimmel came back and held up a T shirt with the phrase get the f out of Minneapolis. I pulled the audio but didn’t make sense. It was just easier for me to tell you.

And then Stephen Colbert opened the late show with a cold open. I’ll play the Stephen part, and then he threw it to Governor Walls, but I’ll play the Colbert part. Hi, everybody, we have a comedy show for you tonight, And normally we start these shows with a cold open, but sometimes we don’t do that, especially if there’s been a shocking tragedy, and there’s been another. This morning in Minneapolis, a thirty seven year old woman was shot and killed by an ICE agent in front of her neighbors. Homeland’s Security Secretary Gnome claimed the slain woman committed an active domestic terrorism and says the agent act in self defense.

The Mayor of Minneapolis watched the videotape of the killing and said that claim is and I quote both. So once I pulled those two clips, I was like, all right, let me see what Jimmy Fallon did. I want to be fair to Jimmy Fallon. Maybe he did some jokes. Now I’m recording this on Thursday, so maybe he did the jokes Thursday night.

But as I record this at one fifty nine pm Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, January eighth. A Google of the phrase fallon ice turns up a Rolling Stone article with the headline Kimmel Colbert hit out at ice killing in Minneapolis, and the other result for fallon ice. Google ai says fallon ice most commonly refers to fallon on Ice, a seasonal outdoor ice skating rink in downtown Fallon, Nevada that operates from November to February. It also might refer to Ben and Jerry’s The Tonight, though, a flavor associated with TV host Jimmy Fallon Deep Sigh from Johnny. Mack Comedy stock Markets, Thank you.

Bert Reynolds in. One of the tenants of the Comedy stock Market is we try to find value in the comedians. I think this week pretty simple. One buy one cell. You can probably guess both of them.

Our bye this week. I don’t think right now, this second, this moment in time into this weekend, I don’t think we can acquire enough Nicky Glazer stock. She’s going to have a huge weekend. So while it’s still Friday, buy some new Glazer before the civilians go. Who’s hosting nic Goolden gloves this year.

Oh who is she? She’s really funny. Get in on the Nikki Glaser stock while you still can. We might sell it at peak value a week from now, but right now, buy Nikki Glaser stock the cell. I think it’s pretty easy.

You can’t say Marcelo without saying sell. Boy, that’s hacky. Leave it in, sell Marcelo Hernandez. Nobody seems to like the special. I haven’t seen it yet.

There doesn’t seem to be any press on it, so I don’t know how interested Marcelo Hernandez is in his own special. But I think we’re finding out that Marcelo does one thing, one thing well, and one thing only. Marcelo Hernandez is your seal. Nikki Glaser strong By, that’s your comedy stock market. Johnny Max is getting up on his soapbox.

People who are in control of star Trek right now, please stop, please please stop. There’s this new series, Starfleet Academy. Don’t get me started on it, but since that’s not comedy, I won’t go there. But I’m very upset that it exists. The comedy Starfleet Academy writer and co producer Tawny Newsom, who, by the way, if you see the trailer for Starfleet Academy, the new cruise there and there’s big board behind them, and it has all the heroes of Starfleet over the years.

If you look at the board, you see Ambassador Spock and Admiral Leonard McCoy. And if you look on the right side, Towny Newsom put her own name up there. It says Admiral Tawny Newsom, and it’s like, go hose yourself. How dare you Johnny Max serious about a start Trek? Okay?

So, co producer Tawny Newsom has updated the world on her idea for a live action Star Trek comedy. Please don’t, please don’t, please don’t. The concept is Federation outsiders serving on a resort planet set in the twenty fifth century after Star Trek. Picard. Newsom says she has turned the scripts in and is waiting for someone to decide.

Hopefully they decide. No, Tony said, the conversations I’ve had is, yeah, we finished writing it and everyone said, yep, we love it, and then we turn it in and that was Christmas. This business is an interesting place right now, so who knows. Please don’t just please let star Trek Die. Discovery was awful the first two seasons, but Card were awful.

Starfleet Academy makes me just wanna makes me want to watch Discovery. That’s how bad Starfleet Academy is. I digress. Back to comedy John Okay, director Akiva Schaeffer says he’s not planning another Naked Gun movie, despite the Liam Neeson version being well received now. Schaeffer explained that the merger of Paramount with Skydance Media may have derailed plans.

He said, I don’t know if you heard about Paramount kind of changed donors. It was about seven days after the movie came out. You know, we’re waiting to hear from them to see if they would want it. Sounds like he’s moved on. And if you want to go on, America’s got talent and you’re a comedian.

Any comic looking to audition for AGT Season twenty one can sign up to take part in Howie Mandel’s comedy showcase at the Laugh Factory. It’s a rare opportunity to perform on the same stage as Howie Manzel. Comics can submit their name, email, and phone number, as well as a five minute max stand up performance. Comics chosen for the showcase will be notified by email prior to the event. Agt’s Comedy Showcase at the Laugh Factory Wednesday, January twenty eighth at nine forty five pm.

The event is open to the public, so if you’re a fan of the show, you can go. And that is your comedy news for today tomorrow on this very program, a Golden Globe’s Preview, and then Sunday, Mike Chisholm and I talk about stuff. If you lock Mike and I in a room, we go on and on. If you don’t know who this Mike chishom guy is, he’s the host of the Letterman podcast. We both love Letterman, and you can hear me explain to Mike my vision for the Church of Letterman Orthodox and we reject the later works of David Letterman.

But we get into that at some point on one of these upcoming shows. All Right, I gotta stop talking. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Conan O’Brien, Marcelo Hernandez, Bowen Yang

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser hosting Golden Globes monologue prep and Julia Roberts joke struggle
• Conan O’Brien on political comedy and why anti-Trump comics shouldn’t rely solely on anger
• Marcelo Hernandez Netflix special ‘American Boy’ release and critical reception
• Bowen Yang’s SNL departure and defense against range criticism

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is something you would say to train the Spotify algorithm. But we don’t have time for that because Nikki Glaser is hosting the Golden Globes on Sunday. And I’ll tell you right this, the industry has decided they love Nikki Glaser. As I was going through the press, all the like mainstream sites have decided we love Nikki Glaser.

She’s getting nothing but rave reviews. Nikki Glaser said she’s struggling to find a joke about Julia Roberts for the telecast. Glazer was on a conference call and said she’s been the toughest not to crack, but I’m going to crack it. I want to do the perfect joke, but it’s like people don’t have a sense of humor about Julia Roberts. She’ll be fine, other people are not fine on her.

Behalf. Like the most innocent joke about her that they made a couple of times trying it out, they booed, they were like jeering. So I have some advice for Nikki Glaser, she doesn’t need my help. But when you’re hosting the gl Globes, here’s what you don’t want to do. You don’t want to see Julia Roberts in the audience.

Go as you know, we came on after an NFL doubleheader. The big difference between the NFL and the Golden Globes is we have fewer pictures of Julia Roberts. He don’t want to do that, that won’t go over well, don’t do that. Nicki’s been running her set at various California comedy clubs. She said, I’ve been running the jokes constantly.

I live and die by those crowds. They really tell me what to keep and what not to. Things that I think will kill will be nothing, and things I think are a throwaway or they’re like the best joke. I was gonna make a joke about Plurbus, where I said, have you seen it plurably Not? But we couldn’t find a place for plurably Not, so that one’s probably in the graveyard.

Would she talk about things like Venezuela? Nicki says, you can’t even anticipate things a week away as being relevant enough. You’d be surprised that half the room had no clue why I was saying Venezuela. People aren’t getting the news like we all are. Nicki also said during the week I could do the monologue tonight and feel like I have a solid monologue, but I still have five days to write more so if you count.

She said that on Tuesday. So I’m looking forward to what it becomes. There’s a lot that can happen, and in the final moments, when the writing team and I are all kind of drained of any creativity, that’s when it starts to get loopy and weird. I’m exciting for what comes out of that. Nicky also got the the nice Hollywood reporter, big splashy piece that famous people get from time to time.

She got the good version of that. I’ll save that for Saturday. Looking ahead to the weekend, Saturday will be a Golden Globe’s preview, and Sunday I’ve got some stuff I recorded with Mike Chisholm that’ll be this weekend. Conan O’Brien was interviewed by The Oxford I’m leaving that in why did I say Oxford Oxford Union say it with a normal accent. John Oxford Union.

Anyway. He was interviewed for an hour by the Oxford Union. You’ll find it on YouTube. He was asked about political comedy. Conan O’Brien said, some comics go the route of I’m just gonna say F Trump all the time, or that’s their comedy.

And I think, well, now you’re being co opted because you’re so angry. You’ve been lulled. It’s like a siren leading you into the rocks. You’ve been lolled into just saying F Trump, F Trump, F Trump, Screw this guy. And I think now you’ve put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you’ve exchanged for anger.

And that person or any person like that would say, well, things are too serious now, I don’t need to be funny, and I think, well, if you’re a comedian, you always need to be funny. You just have to find a way. You just have to find a way to channel that anger into a way because good art will always be a great weapon, will always be a perfect weapon against power. But if you’re just screaming and you’re just angry, you’ve lost your best tool in the toolbox. Good advice from Codin O’Brien.

There Conan also talked about tearing down the East wing of the White House to construct a ballroom. Conan said, I’m really going on a limb here saying that’s his greatest crime. I think he’s hurt political comedy by being so outlantish himself. I think the January sixth thing is a blip compared to how much he’s heard comedy. Marcelo Hernandez has a new special on Netflix.

Did you watch it? It’s called American Boy, which reminds me. I prepped this whole show for like over an hour, and not one Marcelo article came up without me googling him. I did find this review I was about to roll into, and that reminded me, Oh yeah, let’s see if there’s any interviews with this guy. No, he did no press.

Isn’t that weird? Very strange?

Also strange that Netflix released a special on a Wednesday.

On a Tuesday, the Daily Beast they watched Marcelo Hernandez is American Boy. Let me lead with their last sentence before I read the review. They say, if you’re one of the many SNL fans who believe that Hernandez lacks comedic range, you know the type his debut next Felix special probably won’t change your mind. Oh that excites me to watch this. If you’re a new listener, I might have mentioned once or twice that Marcelo Hernandez does one thing.

He does one thing well, but he does one thing. That thing is Domingo, and I guess lately we’re giving him credit for a half ass Sebastian man Scalho impression. If you like half ass impressions, you’ve come to the right podcast. I’ll tell you that much. All right, So I’m scrolling down this review here, and all they’re doing is quoting his jokes.

I mean, what would be worse than me secondhand telling Marcelo hernandez jokes. There’s no way that’s going to be interesting. So you watched a special and we’ll let Marcelo Hernandez tell his own jokes. The Daily Beast writ’s most notable in American Boy are the connections to Hernandez’s recurring protective mom sketch, which joked about Latina not sympathizing with her believing their kids’ mental health problems. Ultimately, American Boy makes for a fun introduction to Hernandez’s comedy for those who don’t regularly watch SNL, sounds like it has one thing and does one thing well.

Bowen Yang was on his own podcast, Los Culturistas and explained his decision to leave SNL. Bowen said, the current entertainment ecosystem is so turbulent that people have completely valid reasons for staying longer. In a lot of cases, don’t have the privilege of staying as long as they would have liked to. I have this very beautiful thing where I got to say that I stayed on exactly as long as I wanted to. I was maybe unsure about going back in the summer, and I’m so glad I did now.

Yang had talked about criticisms that he has no range. I’ve never seen such criticism, and I’m like, what are you talking about? Who says Bowen Yang doesn’t have range? Yang said, I feel like I was really bogged down the entire time I was there about the idea that there was no range in anything I did. I knew I was never going to play the dad.

I was never going to play the generic thing. In sketches. It’s a sketch show. Each thing is like four minutes long. It’s short and collapsed by necessity.

So therefore it plays on archetypes. Is really interesting, he explains it. These archetypes are also in a relationship with generic things, and there’s a genericism in whiteness and in being a canvas to build upon. I came in pre stretched, pre died. People had their overdeterminations on which I was.

Oh, that’s the gay Asian guy in SNL, So anytime I woul try and work outside of that, it got completely ignored, or it got collapsed to, oh, he’s being gay and Asian as always. Now he’s Boon Yang. So his feelings about how bone Yang is perceived totally valid. As a guy sitting home, I never felt that way about his characters. I was loved when he was on, and if he had played the data in a sketch, I don’t think I would have thought twice about it.

He was a good jd vance, wasn’t he. I mean, you know, it’s called acting. Chris Red has released a six minute and Instagram video addressing the rumors about his departure from SNL. Late Night I recapped it and Chris Read said he was dealing with pill problems and claims that he sometimes supplied pills to others at Saturday Night Live, but he sure at his former colleagues. I’m not gonna snitch on you all, mf ers.

Chris Red also addresses his relationship with Keenan Thompson’s ex wife. He called that situation an emotional double edged sword. Red says he and Thompson discussed the situation privately and continued working together for more than a year. Red says he’s not trying to settle scores, but he’s trying to be more transparent about mistakes he said he made while spiraling out emotionally in the video. He says, this wasn’t meant for laughs.

I find myself lately getting really annoyed at comedians. Here’s another one of those stories that just made me go really dude, okay. From greenpointers dot com. Greenpointers dot com is reporting that Isola Brooklyn, a Williamsburg comedy club operated by Hannibal Burris, has shut down and according to a city marshall’s notice left on the door, it’s been a long time coming, greenpointers dot Com writes, quote a King’s County Civil Court judge offered a warrant of eviction in September twenty twenty five, legal filings revealed that Isola Sessions, LLC currently owes listen to this number three hundred and twenty one thousand, three hundred and eighty six dollars in eighty seven cents. So just put the number three twenty in your mind for a second.

We’ll come back to it. Green Pointer says. The monthly rent was thirty one thousand dollars. The warrant was stayed upon partial payment, but was executed as of December fifth, twenty twenty five, green Pointer says. In an affid David Hannibal Burris cited the effects of the current climate for small businesses currently.

A quote from Hannibal says, Unfortunately, like so many other small businesses, the current rental climate in New York City nearly destroyed our business, forced extended closures, and caused us to fall behind in rent. We did everything we could to survive and catch up. We made it a priority to always try to work with a petitioner and their agents. Okay, now remember that three twenty number. Let me remind you of this story from December twenty twenty five, one month ago, the Miami New Times reported the City of Miami will pay two hundred thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit legend one of its police officers falsely arrested comedian Hannibal Burst in twenty seventeen on a bogus disorderly intoxication charge.

Okay, so there’s two hundred thousand. Now. You may recall earlier in the year, Hannibal Verus played the Riyadh To Comedy Festival. Now, I have no idea how much Hannibal was paid to play the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Five seconds of research didn’t turn anything up.

A Time magazine in September. Performers have reportedly been paid between three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and one point six million. We’ve also heard that three to fifty number. Out of Tim Dillon’s mouth. Let’s say three fifties the low end.

You got a manager and an agent in the three fifties off by twice. So let’s say one hundred and seventy five. So if you got two hundred from Miami and one seventy five from Riyadh, that adds up to three seventy five. Now, if you subtract three hundred and twenty one thousand dollars I don’t know. I don’t have access to real figures.

I’m just a guy in a basement who knows. I’ve never operated a comedy club. I’m not an account to don’ta know how any of this works. Interesting language here. Stephen Merchant has revealed he is leading a separate life from Ricky Gervais.

Makes him sound like Amy Schumer is something. Merchant explained that he and Ricky realized they couldn’t compete with the office, so that they should work a part. Steven Merchant told The Times, We’re not in such a great deal these days, but even at our closest we were living quite separate lives. Ricky used to joke that he was thirteen or fourteen years older than me, and so I was just discovering my favorite nightclub and he was discovering his favorite comfortable chair. I feel you, Ricky.

An update in the Nick Reiner case. I will talk about the case from time to time as we head forward, because it is comedy adjacent and I suspect, as I’ve discussed on the podcast before, that I think Conan will get dragged into this because of the shouting match at Conan’s party. Nick Reiner’s defense attorney Alan Jackson until the court on Wednesday that he’s withdrawing from the double murder case. A public defender, kimber Lee Green, has taken over Reiner’s defense. Reiner only spoke once he was asked if he wanted to postpone his arraignment to February twenty third.

He said, yeah, I agree. Outside of court, the now stepped down defense attorney that he wouldn’t be able to explain his reasons, but attributed it to circumstances beyond our control and more importantly, circumstances beyond Nick’s control. My team and I remain deeply, deeply committed to Nick Reiner and to his best interests. Jackson said, what we’ve learned, and you can take this to the bank, is that pursue it to the laws of this state. Nick Reiner is not guilty of murder.

We wish him the very best moving forward. The LA District Attorney Nathan Hockman spoke to the press outside court and said, we are fully confident that a jury will convict Nick Reiner beyond a reasonable doubt of the brutal murders of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer. Reiner and will do so unanimously. We’ll keep an eye on that one. All right, awkward segue here to the last item before the break.

This has nothing to do with the previous story, but just actually Real Time with Bill Maher has been renewed for two additional seasons. That’ll keep Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO through twenty twenty eight, and depending on how the Landscape goes, that’s kind of around when seth Meyer’s contract expires and Colbert will be gone, And there’s rumors that Kimmel’s done in twenty twenty seven. So is the late night race going to come down to Jimmy Fallon versus Bill Moore go Fallon. Today is the last day to vote for Week one of Comedy Survivor. What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

You find the cartoon image of a Comedy Survivor in the threads they are the comments. You write down the name if you want voted off. You’re voting people off. You’re not telling us who your favorite is. You’re voting people off.

It’s Comedy Survivor. You know how this works. Today’s the last day to vote on Monday, I’ll do a bonus episode at noon Eastern that’ll be a separate episode from the main episode. Monday morning won’t be Golden Globes recap, and then Monday at noon. Survivor Week one results in some analysis as we head into Week two, Comedy Survivor.

Here’s some letterman ask humor for you. SF Sketch Fest on the Rail, presented by BORT that’s the train people, in partnership with the Citywide Comedy Festival, is bringing the region’s first ever stand up show on a moving train. That’s right, this is January twenty fourth. That’ll run you twenty bucks. SF Sketch Fast on the Rails two to four thirty pm.

Brent Weinbach, Britney Carney, Natasha Vinnick, and Hunaud Shakur are all slated to perform via a setup like a silent disco, with audience members given headphones to listen to each of the fifteen minute sets. The event starts and ends at the twelfth Street Oakland City Center Station. Fifty cent is making fun of TI’s attempts to be a comedian. In a since deleted Instagram post, fifty shared a clip of Ti bombing on stage. Fifty caps the clip, which some suggested was remixed to drown out the crowd’s laughter, but the caption read damn it man, it looks easy, but it’s not easy at all.

Lol. Fifty then posted a second clip of Ti getting booed back in twenty twenty two at Brooklyn’s Parkley Center and from the Hong Kong Standard, You’re home for comedy news. A Hong Kong stand up comedian has sparked an online debate after attempting a zero dollar meal. The comedian goes by the name sixty nine Ranch, started a new social media account. He announced a challenge in which he would spend one Hong Kong dollar at a Japanese sushi chain for every new follower he gained.

As it was a new account, he had no followers, so the challenge meant he would spend no Hong Kong dollars. At his first visit, comedian sixty nine Ranch was seen ordering only complimentary items including pickled ginger, pepper to pour, a dipping sauce, children’s tableware, a straw, and a beer glass, all of which cost zero Hong Kong dollars. He mixed the commiments together calling it a zero Hong Kong dollar called ginger salad, before pouring hot water into the beer glass and drinking it through the straw. After finishing, he asked the staff for the bill. The staff was like, well, no food had been ordered, so there’s no bill.

Some viewers criticized the stunt as embarrassing and warned to could encourage copycat behavior, where leaded restaurants to introduce minimum spending requirements. I think the brewery I hang out with needs to do that. On trivia night, there’s a lot of people just drinking water. You got to support the business, like at some point, this is a business guys. You know they’re bringing you the trivia guys.

So you come in, you drink some beer. That’s how this works. I don’t know if some of you Morristown people understand how this works. You’re sitting there drinking your water, and if you come by Johnny Max’s table, you’ll see I bring a water because I like to stay hydrated. But next to that water, you’ll see a beer.

And please remember tip your boar tenders, not your company us for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Donald Trump, Nikki Glaser, Joe Rogan, Marcelo Hernandez, Bert Kreischer, Rachel Feinstein, David Spade, Martin Short, Tim Robinson, Chris Fleming, Jim Norton

What’s in This Episode

• Late night comedians mock Trump’s Venezuela intervention operation
• Trump hosted lowest-rated Kennedy Center Honors telecast
• Jimmy Kimmel Live reducing musical guests to twice weekly
• Joe Rogan’s Austin comedy club protested on New Year’s Eve
• Nikki Glaser hosting Golden Globes second time
• Nikki Glaser announces Stunning Tour across North America and Europe
• Bert Kreischer discusses sex life and intimacy on Dumb Blonde podcast

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Johnny Mac is Grouchie Today and Hello, I am Johnny Mac with your daily Comedy Newsy Daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the company industry, which is a freeze. You might say, if you were retraining the Spotify algorithm, but we don’t have time for that right now. I don’t know if you’re aware. As we head to twenty twenty six, there are new rules for podcasters, and podcasters must broadcast all statements from the President of the United States.

So let’s get that out of the way, ladies, a gentleman, the President of the United States. All amigos, Joe sois sinolo precidento and Senor Donaldo. Jay Trumpell, your Expresidental Signor Maduro is no longer your Presidental. Anyway, we’re gonna make Venezuela grande again, Muca grandell, bigger, yell, better than ever before. Late Night had a lot to say about that, Jimmy Kimmel said, after months of escalation, Trump decided Maduro how to go, And yeah, he’s a criminal and a dictator who’s driven his entry into financial ruin while he and his family of line their own pockets.

But Madorio’s no saint either. Great joke. Colbert said, Oh, Venezuela, evidently when he says in America first, he means alphabetically Jimmy Kimmel again, he can’t even run the country he runs. This is like if J. C.

Penny decided to buy Sears. Kimmel, if you’re wondering how bad the Epstein files are and turns out there invade Venezuela bad. Great joke. Fallon said, Yeah, the news took everybody by surprise. When I heard there was an operation to extract a president.

I just assumed Trump got stuck at his tanning bed. Fallin again, yep. Trump ordered the operation without getting congressional approval, and he watched it from a Mara a Lago situation room, which means there’s a chance Vanilla Ice knew about the mission before Congress did. The President and I don’t agree on all the issues. One of the issues we do agree on is make Late Night great again.

And here’s some more Kimmel versus Trump stuff, But on this one, I’m going to side with the President, and I’ll tell you why. Kimmel was talking about the ratings for Trump hosting the Kennedy Center Honors, Kimmel said, after boasting what a great host he is and how much better he is than I am, and how huge his ratings would be. Trump hosted the lowest rated Kennedy Center Honors telecast of all time. Let me tell you something. I’d hate to be the White House intern who had to tear that headline out of all the papers and eat him.

You know, as I recall, he would step down if this happened. He said, if I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel, then I don’t think I should be president. Well, hey, deal’s a deal. Back to MORLOCKO you go.

Now here’s where I sided with the president.

Jimmy Kimmel has never hosted the Kennedy Center Honors, so, as far as we know, Trump is indeed better at hosting the Kennedy Center Honors than Jimmy Kimmel is. Jimmy, You’re gonna have to host the thing and see if you can beat him. Team Trump on that one. We’ll get out of Late Night in a second. But Late Nighter did report that Jimmy Kimmel Live will only host the musical guests twice a week.

I’m not a regular watcher of that show. Were they doing bands every night? That’s crazy? Why would you do that even twice a week? Seems crazy.

Back in the days of Late Night with David Letterman, I didn’t like what he had bands on. Kimmel backstage at the Critics’ Choice Awards said there will always be late nights shows, but discuss the evolution. There are some shows that are called late night talk shows that aren’t late night talk shows, that still have the same format, and maybe we need a different term for them. But it seems to me it’s one of the cheapest forms of broadcasting. CBS might disagree, and it would be very surprising to me if it went away entirely.

CBS might disagree. Maybe it won’t be as big, Maybe there won’t be a big band welcoming the host of the stage, maybe there won’t be fifteen writers. But I think there’ll be some version of late night talk show, and in a way, maybe it’ll be better because maybe there’ll be more opportunities for more people of various backgrounds and ages and niche programming that I think it’d be a lot of fun to watch. New topic from my San Antonio Dot com They got my attention with this headline. A unicorn, a cow, and an Eric Cartman impersonator walk into a bar or protest outside a comedy club.

It seems people down in Austin, Texas are not enjoying Joe Rogan operating a comedy club, and they’re all wigged about it, and this is how they spent their New Year’s Eve protesting the existence of Joe Rogan’s comedy club. Reddit user apologize to the Bees posted a video of a crowd of peace people gathered outside Joe Rogan’s comedy club, decked out in costumes with anti Rogan signs. The protesters were joined by people wearing a South park At Cartman costume, a Unicorn costume, and also an inflatable cow at Connor Cage twelve wrote funnier than anything inside the building. Another redtour wrote, I hated these a holes from out of state. Rogan moved in and claimed the entirety of the Austin comedy scene.

The dude owns one comedy venue, not all of them. A different user encourages us to suport venues like Cold to Town and Camp City, adding keep Austin funny without Diet Alex Jones out today on Netflix. Marcelo Hernandez American Boy. At this point in the script, I would tell you some stuff about Marcelo Hernandez, but there didn’t seem to be any advance press about it, and I did. Look, we’ll see if Marcelo did anything today.

There was a profile late December in the New York Times that was kind of boring. I’ve looked at it three times and can’t find any interesting to pull out of it. Anyway, Marcelo Hernandez on Netflix today, I’m sure you’re looking for that. This weekend, Nikki Glaser hosts The Golden Globes, her second time hosting the program. Last year, she did not make any terrible horrible jokes about Taylor Swift.

Who’s NICKI finding funny these days? She told Upworthy, as of late Rachel Feinstein, David Spade, Martin short Is, Jimmy Glick, Tim Robinson, and Chris Fleming could pick on Chris Fleming there, I also love Jim Norton’s latest special on YouTube, Unconceivable, Upworthy asked Nikki Glaser, no matter how popular you get, is there one thing about you that will never change? Nicki said, I don’t think people really ever change. I try. I’m always holding out hope that I’ll somehow conquer my imposter syndrome and overall low self esteem.

I know some artists and comedians argue that it serves their work to be depressed or anxious, but I feel like I’ve already mind all my insecurities for material in the first two decades of my career. I like to change it as someone who’s more confident. But don’t we all. I don’t want to ever think that I’m better than anyone else, but I’d like to lose the core belief that I’m worse than others. I think Nicky’s going to have a good weekend with the Golden Globes In this week’s Comedy stock Market.

She has announcedate tour. The Stunning Tour will take Nikki Glaser around North America as well as Paris, London, and Dublin. Kicks off the sixteenth at the Coliseum Theater at Caesar’s Palace, then off to Paris, London, Dublin and Atlantic City. Imagine going through Paris, London, Dublin and then Atlantic City. That’s a bit of a letdown, I’m telling you.

The tour wraps up in December. On the second at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. I’m getting old. I don’t know what we’re doing anymore. There’s too much media out there.

Bert Kreischer was on the Dumb Blonde podcast speaking to Bunny Xo. Chryser’s fifty three, so he’s not that much younger than I am. Bert just started talking about his sex life. He said, Leanne’s gonna kill me, but I told her. I was like, Yeo, porn wasn’t doing it for me.

I think it’s because she’s so authentically her and the things that she has turned me on. I said, hey, I need close up pictures of your body parts for me. So I’ve a hidden folder and they’re just pictures. You can’t see Lean’s face, but they’re pictures of her body parts. You know.

Amy Schumer might disagree, but some things in a marriage are just between the people in the marria. You don’t have to go into podcasts and tell us that. Bert said, I didn’t think I was going to be attracted to someone like Leanne. When I got naked with her for the first time, I’d never experienced that feeling. I don’t know if it makes total sense, but it felt like she was sharing a cecar with me.

I felt like she didn’t get naked with a lot of people. That energy I liked. I think we’re past peak Chriser now. I just have that sense. As we all know, Kevin Hart likes to work, isn’t afraid of finding a way to make money.

Well, listen to this one. Kevin Hart announced a deal with Authentic Brands, giving Authentic Brands the rights to license Kevin Hart’s name. Heart and ABG will co manage the quote Kevin Hart unquote brand, bringing it to new verticals and business areas, including consumer products, digital platforms, and live experiences. Kevin Hart, in a statement, said, this partnership is about acceleration, growth and diversification. I’ve spent years building businesses and creating opportunities, and joining Authentic gives me the platform in global infrastructure to take my brand to the next level.

Becoming a shareholder allows me to co own some of the most recognizable IP of all time while building my own brand legacy. Kevin Kevin, Kevin, listen to yourself. You’re talking about IP and brand legacy. Listen to yourself, dude, all the cool just went out of the room. It’s gone.

You have enough money. This might actually be worse than playing Riyadh. At least Riyadh. You’re doing a comedy show and you’re getting paid. What are you doing here?

Kevin said, I want the Heart name to live on for generations to come and be something that my grandkids and their grandkids will be able to be proud of. Then there’s some quotes here from the city. I can’t even with this. Ugh. Actually I was gonna bounce this next one, but it fits very nicely here.

This was an opinion piece on Vulture. They wrote, remember the Riyadh Comedy Festival back in September, It was all anyone interested in comedy talked about. There was David Cross’s blog post calling out Riyadh performers like Dave Chappelle, Luis c K, Bill Burr, and Jim Jeffries Cross asking how can any of us take any of you seriously? Again? Andrew Schultz firing back at David Cross by referencing an instance of David Cross using the N word.

Bill Burr’s rant on Conan o’brine needs a friend, where we refer to people criticizing festival performers as sanctimonious sea words who don’t give a hoot. This piece then gets into other beefs, Mark Maren calling out the Rogan verse while promoting his new special, Andrew Schultz going after Andrew Santino on Rogan for simply saying he didn’t like the Austin comedy scene. A video called Mark Norman’s Problem with Eric Andre has four hundred and thirty thousand views. Schultz labeling Maren an ahole on Rogan by telling a story about Maren being mean to John Stewart in the nineties, a story Maren himself has been sharing freely and openly since twenty thirteen. Vault Writ’s.

One of the most memorial reactions to the Riyadh Comedy Festival came from twenty twenty six as Comedian of the Year Gianmarco Soresi Serresi, who posted a stand upset which he said, I hope the one who gets in trouble is Gabriel Iglesias. He’d be like, you can’t be head me my next two Fluffy. I think Chappelle’s performing there tonight. I think it’d be funny if he got in trouble because he wouldn’t stop talking about trans people.

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And then, of course, on December nineteenth, Dave Chappelle released a Netfli…

I was going to bounce this one too, but it fits the theme, Mark Maron, talking to Consequence of Sound, he asked if Joe Rogan still a comic or is he some sort of lifestyle show that deals with information. Maren said, I’m not some radical progressive out in the world ranting about political impropriety. I’m a comedian. So when I said what I said about what was happening in Austin around the sphere of comics in that audience, was to make a point, because they’ve created this audience of what was primarily not comedy fans and created this new breed of, you know, pseudo radicalized comedy fans around anti woke comedy. What’s interesting about comedy and what’s great about it is there’s an expansive bunch of voices, both vulnerable and angry.

And there was this thing that was happening where they were assuming the last word about what comedy was, and it was a fairly unnuanced and very hackneyed repetition of two or three ideas that were primarily right wing talking points. So that’s why I did that. It was for comedy, not for me, not for the left. It was for comedy. Okay, maren Ah, here’s one I bounced a couple times last week, but it fits the theme of where we’ve landed in this particular episode.

So there’s Robert de Niro and he’s sitting near Rob Schneider during the fiftieth anniversary special. Schneider told The Epoch Times that he did see DeNiro two rows of Adam, and he didn’t want to ruin de Niro’s evening because Schneider supports President Trump. However, they did run into each other. Schneider said, I bump into him and he turns around. He has that particular expression that I think everybody knows, and he says, Agony supports that guy.

I’ve cleaned that up a little. Schneider said, you could choose not to have conflict and instead of getting into a political debate, he said to Robert de Niro, I love you. I’m still grouchy, not over yet. On the Facebook group, you can vote for Comedy survivor a lot of people voting. I’ll talk about the voting in a second.

But Mike posted this thing. Mike’s all into this. He posted an analysis. He said he asked Jim and I AI to help build a narrative to help him vote off a comic weekly. It broke them into tribes, which Mike says he can’t argue against.

You will find this all of the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. But here’s what the AI came up with. Tribe number one The Titans Too Big to Fail, Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, Sebastian Maniscalco, and Jim Gaff Again. As for Gaff, again, the AI analyzed everybody likes him. He’s unproblematic, reliable, and has a new Bourbon special.

He will float to the final three. If you aren’t careful that that’s good analysis there. Try two The Roasters, High Risk, High Reward. The Roasters include Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Sarah Silverman, Ron White, and I like this line. Ron White is threatening to retire and quit the game every week, but he never leaves.

Try three The wild Cards. The chaos agents include Bert Kraser, Joe Coy, Leslie Jones, and Amy Schumer. Tribe four the Storytellers, John Mulaney, Otsco, At Kotzka, Tig Nataro, and Jay Leno. As for Otsco, the AI says she’s the sweet player who will stab you in the back of the final tribal council. Very good analysis there, Mike, Thank you for posting that again.

It’s in the Daily Comedy News podcast group. Andrea was wondering why Nate Pergatzy wasn’t on the list when we did the nominations. Nobody nominated Nate. See how the voting is going so far? Sandler Sandler, set Sebastian Sandler, Leslie.

All right, I don’t want to tip the scales. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Scroll down. There’s a cartoon image of Comedy Survivor in there. Vote someone off the Island.

Voting continues until end of day Thursday. I’ll record an episode on Friday, which you won’t hear until Monday. That’s how that’s going to work. Production wise, I want to do these things on Friday. Publication wise, they’ll come out Monday’s at noon as their own separate episodes.

Amy Schumer does like when we talk about her. The New York Post has obtained property records that show that Amy Schumer quietly purchased a corner condominium on Central Park West for six point two five million dollars a year ago, buying the three bedroom, three and a half bath apartment under a trust. The deal closed roughly three months before she listed her Brooklyn Heights townhouse property. The post sess she would ultimately sell out a loss amid her divorce. Last One Laughing UK has announced the cast for season two.

Great, great cast. If you haven’t seen Last One Laughing season one, you should watch it. It’s really funny and it’s a fun game. You could play along at home because you sit there on the couch and you try not to laugh yourself and I couldn’t do it. It’s very funny.

I don’t know all these names, but I know many of them. They are David Mitchell, all right, right there, it’s already great. Diane Morgan, you know, Kunk Awesome, Romesh Ranga, Nathan Amy, Gledhill, Mazy Adam Mel Gidroy Hope. I said your name right, Mel. I haven’t seen Mel’s name in print before.

Alan Carr, Gabema, Sola Ikamello, Sam Campbell, who’s fantastic, and Bob Mortener last One Laughing, in which a brand new set of comedians uses any means necessary to try and break their opponents, but well, they do it all with a straight face. Jimmy Carr returns as your host. Over the course of the season, the comedians will use every answer their comedic talents to try and break their opponents without cracking up. The show is packed with comedy cameos, format twists, and surprises design to elicit laughs from both players and viewers alike. No date yet, but that should be really good.

I keep trying to imagine whether US version of it would be, and maybe my brain is really small. I keep picturing like it would be like the Chrysier Segura type guys like I could see like Andrew Santino and Mark Norman there. I think it would be more of like that kind of scene. But still Jimmy Carr hosting. Hopefully they’ll make it someday.

The twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, Gianmarco Soresi s Areisi, is in Japan. It’s doing a cool tour after Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and India, he told at Japan Time. Social media has destroyed the fabric of society in so many ways, but it’s helped me a lot personally. There was a time when as an American comedian you have to be Chris Rock or at that level to come to Asia. Gianmarco Soresi says he tries not to overload on information and instead gets a feel for a place once he arrives.

I often find there’s a lot of humor in just sincerely learning about something, whether it’s government or a custom or some strange food that you tried. For crowd work to be good, you have to sincerely be curious, and I’ve always found the further away I am from home more curious. I am, so I don’t need to put it on for Japan. It’ll be a lot of fun, he said. He was talking about the trip with Otsko at Kotzka, who will be in Japan while Tremarco is there.

He said, we plan to go to karaoke. That’d be amazing. He asked at Japan Times is there anything I’m not allowed to say in Japan and explained he was advised to curse lesson Singapore and his poster was deemed to be too homo erotic for India. He said, I love being a little edgy. I love having some teeth, but those teeth vary depending on the country.

What I might think is teeth might not even be funny. It could be hacky. That is your comedy news for today. All right, I’m still kind of grutchy. Sorry, it’s Wednesday.

It’s trivia night. I gotta go see the trivia guys. Hopefully he has more questions about comedy this week. There won’t be if they did that last week. This week’s gonna be about Ariana Grande and like the stuff.

I don’t know. My team’s just gonna fish twelve. They’m not even gonna try. I’m gonna have the next game on my phone. All right, See tomorrow.

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Featured: Rosie Jones, Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, Leonardo DiCaprio, Seth Rogen, Gene Smart, Mike Barrenholtz, Janelle James, Jimmy Kimmel, Sebastian Maniscalco, Marcelo Hernandez

What’s in This Episode

• Rosie Jones criticizes Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr on trans comedy
• Critics’ Choice Awards comedy coverage
• Nikki Glaser hosting Golden Globes 2026 and avoiding Leo DiCaprio jokes
• Best Comedy and Talk Show winners at Critics’ Choice Awards
• Sebastian Maniscalco and Marcelo Hernandez present at Critics’ Choice Awards

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Which is a phrase you would say if you were training the Spotify algorithm and have successfully gone from eleven percent to fifteen percent of downloads from Spotify. But we don’t have time for that right now, because comedian Rosie Jones has told Ricky Gervase and Jimmy Carr to shut the f up? All right, Oh, what do you know?

Rosie Jones has a new show. It’s called out of Order. It’s on the UK Comedy Central, and she was up promoting it. Funny how that works. Rosie said, it’s your Ricky Gervase’s Jimmy carrs.

It’s just your privileged CIS white straight men who open their newspaper and go, oh, people are talking about trans people. I can know a bit about that without experiencing it. All to those boys that say, with respect, shut the f up. And she actually said the F word. I assume she’s annoyed at Ricky because of his comedy specials.

For Jimmy Carr. The speculation is that on October tenth, Jimmy Carr praised transphobic father Ted creator Graham Lenihan, saying that he admired Graham’s bravery. Jones offered some advice. Rosie says, before you tell a joke, you need to analyze it, and that comes down to three things. First, who are you?

Do you have a lived experience or experience close to you. Second, who is your joke about? What is your intention? Is it positive or negative? Are you punching up or punching down?

And third, why are you telling the joke? Are you asking a question to open up a conversation and make people think differently, or are you saying it simply to be controversial? See, I think she’s leaving something out. One thing that could be funny is repetition. For example, I’m not trying to make a point at all when I point out that one time Joe Coy told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

Here, let’s listen on. The Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I’m not punching up or down. Maybe I’m punching up a Taylor there, but it’s just funny. The Critics’ Choice Awards are a thing, and Chelsea Handler was your host.

She mocked Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, by the way, over the weekend, I watched that one battle after another movie. Kind of fun. Chelsea mocked Leo for spending New Year’s Eve aboard a quote half billion dollars super yacht with one of the richest men in the world. Chelsea joked, Leo almost didn’t make it tonight because he was trapped on a boat in Saint Bart’s.

It was just like the Titanic, but worse because Jeff Bezos was there. DiCaprio was shown laughing at the jokes, which is something you could do. You know, somebody’s hosting an award show and somebody makes a joke. You could just laugh at the joke. Tailor It’s okay, reminds me, I forgot to google Nikki Glaser as part of the show prep.

Here. Here here’s how the show works. I go to Google and I type in Nikki Glaser, and I type in this news tab and I find this story. On the fly. Nikki Glaser reveals which joke she’s avoiding while hosting the twenty twenty six Golden globes and exclusive from people.

Okay, I’m doing this on the fly. Nicki says, there’s lots of joke about this year, and the star power in the room is going to be bigger than ever. I mean, it’s bigger than last year. I kind of have to keep wrapping my head around the kind of people that are going to be in the room. I mean, Leo’s Vappen is going to be there.

So excited to see that. There’s going to be some big, big gaters in the room. And there’s podcast this year, which is also going to be a hilarious thing to joke about. Nicky says, Leo is at the top of her list of what to avoid. I don’t think I’m gonna go with the Leo jokes he for twenty five times.

I think we’ve heard all that and that’s been done enough. My goal is always to not do what’s expected, only to try to challenge myself to not say things that people are gonna expect and try something else. She said. Hosting twenty twenty five was, without a doubt, the most fun I’ve ever had in my career. I can’t wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from the White Lotus, who will finally recognize my talent and cast me in season four as a Scandinavian plate’s instructor with a shadowy past golden globes.

This Sunday at eight pm Eastern, which means Johnny Mac has to work late on a Sunday night life is rough. I’ll have to watch football with a laptop out and pull clips on the fly, and then during halftime record the first four minutes of the Daily Comedy News podcast for Monday, and then add in what I had already pre taped. Who Podcasting is a tough business, my friends. Anyway, Nikki, whatever you do, don’t make a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. I digress.

We were talking about the Critics Choice Awards. Remember that Chelsea Handler was hosting it. Remember that like three minutes ago. Yeah, Lets focus on the comedy parts. Best Comedy, The Naked Gun, Best Comedy Series, Hollywood loves to pat themselves on the back, the incredibly Overrated the Studio.

Best Actor in an incredibly overrated comedy series, Seth Rogan, Best Actress Comedy Series, Gene Smart Hacks good Pick, Best Supporting Actor in an Incredibly Overrated Comedy Series, Mike Barenholts for the Studio Best Supporting Actress Comedy Series, Janelle James for ABBD Elementary Best Animated Series, South Park Best Talk Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Best Variety Series, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Best Comedy Special, SNL fifty The Anniversary Special. As for Jimmy Kimmel, he had this to say. I want to thank our President, Donald Jennifer Trump, without whom we would be going home empty handed tonight. So thank you, mister President, for all the many ridiculous things you do each and every day. It’s been a banner couple of weeks.

We can’t get way to get back on the air tomorrow night to talk about them. Thank you everyone. Two of the presenters, Sebastian Maniscalco, teamed up with Marcelo Hernandez quote putting on a comedy clinic unquote are you kidding me? Listen to me, You’re very seriously here for a second. We have a drug problem in America and people are taking crack and then they’re reviewing things.

This is the thing. I know. This is shocking, and hopefully the President of the United States will focus on the crack problem, which is just increasingly affecting the comedy review community. Now I have a clip for you in terms of star power, name power. There was a universe where I would have let off with the Sebastian Maniscalco or Solo Hernandez clip.

However, it’s so bad I knew that I would lose listeners. So I had to bury it here seven minutes into the podcast because if I put this at the top, any casual listener who came by would be like, this podcast is awful. Now we all know the podcast is awful, but it’s not this all here. Let’s listen. Hello, Hello, everyone, This is very exciting, right.

The fashion on the red carpet was on another level tonight. A lot of fashion tonight. A lot of fashion, a lot of filler. Matter of fact, we just got word backstage Los Angeles is completely out of filler. And I’m like, don’t change your face.

I like your face. You got a good face. Why would you do that? You know myself. It’s a beautiful evening to.

Be here with everybody. Great actors here tonight, fantastic all right, A. Few of you have won, a lot of you have lost, and everybody’s got a winning speech, but nobody’s got a ready to lose face. All right now, Marcello, do you have a ready to lose face? Yeah?

I think if I was nominated and I lost, I would think I would probably do something like I don’t even care about this. I don’t care. About I mean, that’s brutal. Some people are smoking cracking going on social media. One person said, I love them together.

Please make this a regular thing? Off that clip? What do you love there? Another, possibly perhaps maybe smoking crack jumping on TikTok, wrote, they need to host the Oscars. You want Sebastian Manuscalco and Marcelo Hernandez to host the Oscars?

Are you kidding me? What happened to Conan O’Brien. Was he hit by a meteor? Was Jimmy Kimmel deported? Is Nikki Glaser unavailable?

Is Joe Quoy not around? Marcelo Hernandez the what are you insane? Marcelo does have a comedy special coming out this week. It’ll be on Netflix tomorrow. Usually Netflix puts out specials on Tuesday.

I don’t know why they waited to Wednesday on this one. Maybe they wanted everybody to settle back into work so they could do the press. I’m not sure, but twenty four years from now we’ll be able to see if Marcelo Hernanez could do anything other than Domingo and variants on Domingo and possibly sort of doing Sebastian Menscalko impressions. Marcelo was on the Red Carpet. He was asked about Saturday Night Live.

He said, I’m having front. Bro. It’s a crazy job and you get to meet so many crazy people and I love it. As for Bowen Yang’s departure, I look at it like sports. You know, there’s a guy that put up numbers.

He had a distinct voice and everybody loves them, and it’s for a reason. He’s a hard worker. I saw him behind the scenes grinding every week. That’s a guy to learn fro him, for sure. Bowen Yang has yet another gig.

He and Matt Rodgers will host a fifteen episode Winter Games edition of Las Culturistas as part of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage. WWE plans to maintain its relationship with Tony h Cliff. According to fight Full Select your Home for Comedy News. This despite the cancelation of the Summer Slam late night show that was scheduled last year. You may recall Tony Hinchcliff was set to host the late night show during Summer Slam weekend August second.

However, the event was canceled about a week before it was supposed to take place. He did host the controversial roast of WrestleMania in April, which I don’t think they aired right. Sources within the WWE say they plan to collaborate with Tony Hinchcliff again at some point, although the specifics of the collaboration are currently unknown. Hannah Burner will get a hilarious special in twenty twenty six. No title or synopsis yet, but I’m sure the Hulu publosist will get that information out there.

Hula’s really really good about promoting their specials, so I’m sure I’ll have something in my inbox any second. Twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year Gianmarco Soresi SIRESI Should I just start calling him that and see if I’m right? Should I just do that? Like all year, like wired to wire? Just always say the full phrase?

Twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year Gianmarco Soresi Sirezi should I do it well. The twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, Gianmarco Soresi AIRESI is heading to Tokyo. Oh No, I forgot how time zones work. He’s in Jokyo. He’s probably actually performed by the time you hear this because of the way time zone works.

Timeout dot Com asked twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year Gianmarco Soresi AIRESI, what can people expect from this tour, and the Comedian of the Year said everything from Thief of Joy’s retired, so it’s gonna be some material that have been fine tuning for the last couple of years. Eighty percent of the show will be really polished material, but there’s gonna be some CrowdWork as some new topical stuff too. Since I’m traveling to a continent I’ve never been to. That’s why I’m going to Tokyo for two weeks before the show, so I’ll have time to soak on the culture and take in new jokes. Gianmarco Soresi’s hoping to film a special this year.

If you’re in Tokyo, He’s at the British pub Good Havens on January seventh. The Comedian of the Year till Timeout dot com, I know a couple comedians have been in Japan, and from what I’ve been told, I’m sure it’s gonna be a different experience in terms of the way audiences respond or how they do CrowdWork. I watch the subtitle versions of other countries local stand up, and I know in some ways that stand up is new there. I think the key to good crowd work is to have legitimate curiosity. I think I’m going to really have that when I’m talking to locals there, and it usually creates fun comedic moments.

He talked about scaling up, explaining touring internationally is not easy. When I went to Europe for the first time, it was like, can we do this? How are ticket sales going to be? I think what’s different now is that he built a company and I finally have an infrastructure. So I could have waited a little longer.

But I think you grow so much as an artist experiencing a different culture and seeing how you jokes play out, and I want to have an international reach. That’s why the tour is ambitious. Comedy Survivor Week one is underway. Join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Find the Little Cartoon of comedy survivor.

In that thread, give the name of the person who want to vote off. I don’t want to steer the conversation, but last time I looked to Amy Schumer, Jay Leno and Joe Koy had received some votes. Voting continues until end of day Thursday. Here’s a new movie. It’s called Doctor Jekyl and Mister Shark.

Yes, an indie horror comedy. The story centers on Doctor Jekyl, a broken and isolated man shattered by the loss of his wife, verments with an untested drug called shark open I love this already. You see, Sharkopene is an untested drug that warps his body into a bloodthirsty man shark. Now driven by madness and love from beyond the grave, Jekyl prowls the streets, says Marcelo Hernandez as funny and hunts anyone who threatens his twisted relationship with his long dead bride. Doctor Jekyl and Mister Shark out January twenty if looking forward to that.

Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, and she went on Instagram and shared a collection of makeup free photos taken before and during a recent getaway and included many images of Amy Schumer modeling bikinis and other swimwear from a particular brand. Schumer captured the post my mom took these photos of me while I was packing for a trip. In the last photo, I’m on the trip. This year is about self care and self love. Let’s all appreciate our health, our families, our friends and have the best year of our lives, moving forward with no regrets, just love and The Toronto Guardian wrote about comedian Blair Williams.

Blair’s influenced by folks like Don Rickles, Robin Williams and Richard Pryor. Blair going a little old school his style Blend’s personal stories with resilience. Larry uses a wheelchair and says I like to challenge perceptions using humor to disarm and educate the audience while keeping things light and funny. My comedy influences go way back to when I was a kid watching Rickles, Carson, Pryor Carl and Tim Conway, Robin Williams, Red Skelton and Eddie Murphy. In my teenage years, I gravitated towards Mike Myers, Chris Farley and Adam Sandler.

I like this guy like a second ago. Now I have fine inspiration of the styles of Bill Burr. You know Bill Burr played the Comedy Festival, And if you remember that Joey Diaz, who some people say is the worst person on the planet. Yeah, I’ve heard people say that if you ever run it to Joey Diaz in real life, he’s the biggest a hole you’ll ever meet and just a horrible, horrible person. I’ve heard people say that about Joey Diaz.

I digressed Shane Gillis, Tony Hinchcliff Mark Norman, and Adam Ray Blair. Williams says, I also have to give a big shout out to Josh Blue and Jared Nathan, who continue to shape my comedy journey today. Rickles had sharp wit, Curlin’s boundary pushing insights, and Robin Williams’s incredible energy and improvisation all had a huge impact on me. I’ve gravitated towards Josh Blue for years because I believe his philosophy of using self deprecation leads to strength. As for Jared Nathan, I discovered him while stuck in bed with COVID during the pandemic.

I came across his appearance on Kill Tony and was immediately stuck by how much fun he was having on stage. It reignited my passion for comedy and I started writing again right away. They asked him his favorite bit bit of a spoiler here. My favorite bit has to be the one where I talk about how I got hurt and what that caused. I use a mix of misdirection and shock with a dark punch line at the end.

What I love most about is the versatility. I’ve got multiple endings for the same setup, so I can keep the audience on their toes and surprise them every time. It’s rewarding because it always gets a big laugh, and I love watching people’s reactions when they realize where the joke is headed. All right, Blair Williams, Where do you find new comedy these days? Blair says, I wait every Monday to watch Kill Tony.

It’s a blast watching new comics get their shot and seeing what they bring to the table. Beyond that podcast, Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, and Shane podcasts are a great way to find new voices and get to know comics on a personal level. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, go to the Facebook group vote for Comedy survivor you’re voting someone off the island. The group is a Daily Comedy News podcast group.

See Tomorrow.

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Nicky Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Osco at Cotska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tig Nasaro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor interactive voting game launch
• Nicky Glazer hosting Golden Globes
• AI analysis of 16 comedians’ survival odds
• Voting mechanics and contestant vulnerabilities
• Early week elimination predictions and risk assessment

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Welcome to episode one of Comedy Survivor. I’m Johnny Mac. You’ve seen the logo, you’ve heard the promos.

Now it is time to vote. Here’s how this works. There are sixteen comedians on Comedy Island. This week, one gets voted off by you. A reminder, this is not about who’s the funniest, It’s about who survives the vote.

How the voting works. You vote for one comedian that you want to eliminate. That’s it. You write their name down. If you want to say why you’re voting them off, that’s fine.

You’re voting someone off the island. One vote per person. Voting will run every week from Monday through Thursday. That way I can produce these episodes on Friday. Then every Monday at noon Eastern you’ll get a new episode of Comedy Survivor telling you who was voted off the island and who remains.

And then we’ll do this again and we’ll find out who is the Comedy Survivor. If there is a tie, I will use chat GPT to break the tie or reminder the contestants on Comedy Survivor are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Mickey Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Osco at Coska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tignets, Harrow, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Kreischer. It is now time to vote. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and you write down a name. Now, remember we’re not debating who’s the funniest.

We’re trying to figure out who people feel strongly enough to protect them and make them the Comedy Survivor. I worked with chi chat chpt to analyze everyone’s game. Let’s take a look. Adam Sandler enters with goodwill, multi generation appeal, cultural nostalgia, a reputation for loyalty. His challenge will be whether or not voters think he’s funny.

Next up, Jay Leno. Leno’s case is longevity and discipline. His risk some people think he’s the worst person who ever lived. We’ll see how long Jay Leno lasts on Comedy Island. Joe Cooy one time, he hosted the Golden Globes but I don’t have time for that right now.

Will the Swifties jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group and vote off Joe Cooy because he one time he told that horrible mean joke. We will find out Jim Gaffigan. Jim could go deep yere one of the safest early contestants according to AI, clean, prolific and widely respected. Almost no one actively dislikes him. I like how chat gpt wrote almost no one h who do you mean?

Could be a major advantage for Jim Gaffkin in the early rounds. Nicky Glazer, she’s hosting the Golden Globes pretty soon, so she’ll probably go a few weeks here. I don’t think she has any chance of being voted off unless somehow the Golden Globes go sideways, which it’s been known to do. Seth Myers is on the Island, respected by many, apparently has a show at twelve thirty. Will President Trump jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group and vote Seth Myers off?

I mean, that would not be the most shocking thing the President has ever done, so it’s possible. Kevin Hart likes to work. His risk is backlash. Will people be like enough with Kevin Hart already? We’ll find out Amy Schumer.

She likes us to talk about her. We should keep her on the island. We could talk about her for four months here. Or are people looking for Amy Schumer to go away? Or some people like Amy stay the hell off the internet?

There are people like that. Maybe they want Amy Schumer out of this. John Mulaney who doesn’t love John Mulaney? Could he take this whole thing? Hmm, OT’s go at ktska.

Now. I don’t think anyone’s gonna go out of their way to vote dots go off this week, right. I think she’s going to go deep and just kind of hang around until we get to the nitty gritty and there’s like three or four names left and we’re like, hey, she’s still here. Sebastian manascalgo the Ai wrote, some voters see performance over writing. Will people like the performance or will people like the writing?

Time will tell? Tig Nasaro. Her risk is niche a peel quiet. Comedians sometimes struggle in popularity votes despite admiration, Soara Silverman. Her strength is longevity and influence across eras of comedy.

Her danger is that She’s been part of multiple cycles, and not all voters state with her through each comedy cycle. Hmm, good analysis there, AI. Leslie Jones brings visibility, energy, and cultural presence. Her vulnerability, says the AI, is that her recent identity is more ensemble and acting based than stand up focus. Ron White.

Ron’s advantage is consistency in a very loyal fan base. His risk is the demo what if you guys are younger? I think Ron White’s going to go deep in this thing and Bert Krascher his fans are loud and active. His risk is backlash from voters. Voting is open in the Daily Comedy News podcast group, one vote per person.

Why don’t you go vote. I’m gonna take a break here and I’m going to tell you the AI’s Week one analytics who they think is likely to be voted off and why very interesting be right back Comedy Survivor. The AI said their analysis is based on how the Facebook group actually behaves, So this is on you, guys. They say the group tends to be emotional and fast, and that overexposure and unfamiliarity are punished early. So here’s who the AI thinks is the highest risk.

This week. Again, I’m not sure I agree here, because you have to actively vote someone off, so you’re gonna have to go to a Facebook group and be like I want this person off, So that takes some effort there. Now, the AI thinks otsco at Cotska might go. They say, from an analytics standpoint, this is the most vulnerable position. But see, I disagree.

I don’t think anyone’s gonna write her name down. I think she’s gonna be here twelve weeks from now. Leslie Jones, I could see people voting Leslie Jones off, just going, Oh, this sounds like fun. I’m gonna jump in. Let’s say, out of these sixteen Leslie Jones, eh, yeah, who cares?

And Amy Schumer, I could see people getting rid of Amy Schumer. Amy tends to be polarizing. I’m going to observe that the AI, not John. The AI picked three women. Don’t know what that means, but that’s what the AI said.

They have for medium risk, Bert Kraser, Joe Coy and Seth Myers. For Seth, they write not disliked but not protected instinctively could be collateral if the vote spreads out. AI puts in the lower risk tier that these people are very unlikely to get voted out this week Sandler, Gaffig and Mulaney, Sebastian, Ron White, Leno, Sarah Tig, Kevin, and Nicky. I think that makes sense. I don’t think it’ll be any of those the AI says most likely to go this week ots go at Cotska, which I totally disagree with.

It won’t be her. I won’t tell you who I think it will because I don’t want to put my thumb on the scale, But it won’t be her. Campaigning is allowed, Arguing is expected, Explaining your vote is optional, and remember not voting doesn’t help your candidate, because we’re voting people off. And that is Week one of Comedy Survivor. Heads to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group looking forward to this and we’ll be back in the morning with a normal episode.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Stephen Colbert, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Laney Wilson, Gretchen Wilson

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s New Year’s Eve special technical disaster on CBS
• 12-minute broadcast outage during CBS New Year’s Eve Live Nashville
• CBS airing Matlock during technical difficulties
• Stephen Colbert appearing drunk on Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen’s New Year’s Eve show
• Top grossing comedy tour of 2025 trivia question

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, it’s one of the worst days of the year. It’s back to workday. I’m so glad I worked for myself. And hello, I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry, which is a sense that you would say if you are successfully seeing increases in your Spotify downloads as you’re trying to goose the Spotify algorithm, that’s just a pro tip there.

Hopefully the comedians get back to work. It’s getting a little thin out there. I’ve got enough for you today, especially as we catch up on New Year’s Eve. Bert Kreischer’s New Year’s Eve special. Not sure it went too well.

I’ve been looking for recaps, haven’t seen any that were good. People on social media did not like it, and CBS had a technical snaff who they lost the broadcast of New Year’s EV Live Nashville’s Big Bash for twelve minutes. Again, I’ve been working in radio since nineteen ninety two. Twelve minutes is an eternity. If there weren’t some emergency conference calls on New Year’s Day, there’s a meeting today I used to work with a guy named Frank.

Frank would be holding a meeting this morning, going how did this happen? And how does this never happen again? So to all the Franks out there, enjoy your meeting. A twelve minute gap. So what did they do, Johnny Mac?

They started running Mattlock. Can you imagine You’ve got this big New Year’s Eve show, You’re trying to take on Ryan Seacrest and it drops to the point where like you don’t know what to do, so you throw on matt Lock. That is a technical disaster, and that’s just you know, it’s New Year’s Eve, you’re having a party. You’re not gonna leave matt Lock on. Everyone’s going to turn that off.

The interruption came about fifty minutes into the five and a half hour special. I had no idea that special was that long. That’s crazy. So what happened was at about eleven to fifty pm Eastern, which is exactly what you don’t want this to happen. Laney Wilson was in the middle of a song when suddenly was interrupted.

Shortly thereafter, a voice mentioned technical difficult. Does a network still have the live announcer in the booth, sitting there all day. They probably do just for this. So CBS cut to a string of commercials. Been there, done that.

That’s what you do when something goes sideways, you just clear out all the spots. Then they threw on Mattlock that appeared to start in progress. So they were probably dead rolling as the term dead rolling Mattlock in case such a thing happens. So during a live show you might run something in the background. Another reason you would do that is to keep your automation systems on time.

That’s my guest there. So somebody who was dead rolling Mattlock ran out of commercials or hit the panic button, was like, hey, I don’t know how to get this back up. Well it’s like midnight. So are you calling the CBS boss? Whoever’s making this call me like, hey boss, we don’t know how to get Chrysler back up.

What should we do? Should we run the Mattlock tape? So somebody had to make that decision. Oh, the meeting today is going to be amazing. Can I sit in on it?

Can you guys invite me to the meeting? I just want to sit in on it cause these are much more fun when You’re not the one explaining what happened. You don’t understand. This is a whole stress point. You know what I did on my tenth anniversary, Well, my tenth anniversary was in the middle of my week’s vacation, and my boss told me I had to come into New York City to sit at my desk to monitor just in case the broadcast of Jamie Fox’s show from the Democratic National Convention went down.

The DNC was not was not New York City, so I had to come in to an office, sit there, blow off my wife on our tenth anniversary, and just sit there miserable till like eleven thirty at night, just in case the thing dropped. It did not drop. So I can’t imagine the meeting they’re having today. I want to sit in on it. After about twelve and a half minutes, Bert Krasier and Country Singer Party came back on and apologized for the interruption.

Gretchen Wilson and to this stage, oh that sounds wonderfully horrible.

Also on New Year’s Eve, Stephen Colbert was on Anderson Cooper and Andy Code …

Apparently their whole hey Let’s get drunk on the air thing got a little little out there. This was weird. Is that really the best idea? Guys, Hey, let’s get our host drunk on the Is that really the best look for CNN? Anyway?

Stephen Colbert told Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen don’t trust billionaires. They don’t get rich by finding that money on the side of the road. Brother, These last five months of Stephen Colbert’s TV show might get a little interesting. So there I was. It was New Year’s Eve.

I was watching the Knicks. So while watching the Knicks, I was also playing on my phone. And let me get serious here, it is nice to have friends in this world. And this has I’ve been thinking about this for days and it made me happy, and it made me a little sad. So normally on Wednesday nights, more often than not, you’ll find me at trivia over at the brewery, unless it’s volleyball season.

See, my guys, We’re of Beach Volleyball team, a bunch of guys. I’m like the young one and I’m fifty six. And I’ll tell you the name of our team. Name of our team is We’re Old, so relaxed.

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And now the reason it’s called We’re Old so relaxed.

Is so when you twenty somethings show up with the spike in your facers, you go, who we playing? Oh, we’re playing and we’re old, so relaxed. That’s weird.

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And then we show up when we’re all in our late fifties plus and you go, oh, I…

We’re just there to have fun. It’s suburban Morristown, New Jersey, volleyball relax. So that’s what I do in the summer, but in the winter I go play trivia. You gonta understand Morristown, New Jersey on New Year’s Eve is a zoo. And my dog better stop barking.

You can hear the dog. Hopefully the noise reduction got the dog. Dog. I’m trying to be serious here for a second, stop barking. You know what the dog’s barking in.

I’ll tell you what it’s barking at. As I record this, it’s three oh one pm. The robovac goes out at three o’clock. Three times a week. The robovac goes around the living room to clean up the dog.

Here. We do this every other day, and the dog just like girl, where was I? Normally I go to trivia, but I didn’t want it to go with Morristown, so I stayed home. So I’m playing on my phone and watching the things and Jeff. Jeff is one of the quote unquote trivia guys.

There’s Bob and there’s Jeff. They’re both really cool and sometimes Johnny Max had one beer too many and argues the points on the questions and they go all right. Normally he’s not a total a hole. We’ll let him go on this one. I’ve learned over the years.

Just stop arguing. You’re gonna win a sticker. Calm down. Actually there was a gift certificate if you finished first. Pretty good one too.

Anyway, there I am. I’m playing on my phone and I go on Facebook and I see from Jeff, who’s one of the trivia guys. And Jeff, seriously, dude, bro, this meant so much to me, and this made me just made me feel loved and also guilty that I stated, boy, I wish I had been there for this. I really wish i’d been there. I’ll ask the audience the question that Jeff posted, question five the topic.

Shout out Johnny Mac the question and I’ll answer it after the break. The Daily Comedy News podcast reported that Billboard reported that this comedian’s Big Dummies World Tour was the top grossing comedy tour of twenty twenty five, grossing fifty six point seven million dollars on six hundred and seventy seven thousand tickets sold. That was a trivia question. I would have gotten that one right, although for laughs, I would have dumped that on Glenn and made him stress, and Glenn would have went, I don’t know, so Jeff, Thank you so much. Jeff, one of the trivia guys.

They’re best men Trivia if you were. I don’t know how far these guys go. They come to Morristown, New Jersey, and I know they do a bunch of things. If you draw, I don’t know, I’m making this number up a twenty mile circle round that. Jeff might be throwing his phone across the room going, we’re not going twenty miles.

Or maybe it’s like I’ll go two hundred miles. I don’t know. Ask them best men Trivia. They were on a really nice show to super Pro. I’m usually home by nine point thirty.

Again, I’m fifty six years old. That’s a bonus, Jeff. Thank you so much for that. I’ll reveal the answer after the break. Amy Schumer likes somebody talk about her, so she went on Instagram on New Year’s Eve.

She posted Happy New Year hashtag sensual photo. People magazine describes a picture as featuring the newly single Shumer sitting alone on a sofa in a dimly room. She wore a loose fitting T shirt underneath the black hoodie and was makeup free, with her hair and a bonytail. She also crossed her eyes and made a funny face while holding on to a container of spaghetti. Amy, why don’t you take a time out from social media?

That’s just some free advice. Just want you chill out for I don’t know a month, figure out what’s going on with your divorce, get your life together, and then come out with a new special. Okay, just stay off Instagram. Just trying to help. Now, you know what today is?

Today’s the kickoff for Comedy Survivor. So at noon Eastern today there’ll be a bonus episode explaining Comedy Survivor. The short version. Here sixteen comedians on a hypothetical island. You guys are going to vote someone off.

You’ll go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’ll tell you the contestants and all that in the bonus episode out at noon today. If you’re listening between seven am Eastern and noon Eastern, voting is already live. You go to the Facebook group and you could vote someone off. If you voted off Amy Schumer.

Hey, that’s up to you. I’m not saying as host, it wouldn’t be cool for me to suggest who you vote off. That’s not cool at all. I’m the omniscient toast. You know, Jeff on the Survivor shows, not trivia Jeff Jeff Probs.

Jeff Probes doesn’t show up and be like, you know, if you wanted to vote Boston rob off, I wouldn’t be the wepsete about that, like he wouldn’t do. I love Boston Roup. Can I tell you how much I love Boston Roup. I love Busting Rup. Anyway, bonus episode coming out at noon today.

Now over at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. You know what they did. They sent me publicity. You know how I complained about the Hulu publicist, that the Hulu publicist will not engage with me. The eight hundred pound Gorilla people are the opposite.

They’re like, hey, new special and I was like, oh, what’s this new special. It’s a new CrowdWork special from Jen Marco Siasi. Three time guest and Friend of the Show Gianmarco Soresi hasn’t gone all Jim Gaffigan Honus No Friend of the Show comes on his best CrowdWork moments from twenty twenty five, from messed up family stories to theater kid confessions and unhinged overshares, Jen Marco successfully turns chaos into punchlines. I shared a link to that in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group and don’t forget Comedy Survivors there And if you voted off Amy Schumer, I mean that’s on you. You pick who you want to vote off.

The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival announced its lineup for its sixth year as one of North America’s premier destinations for live comedy. That’s code for Canada. Matt Rife will headline across all six GOCF weekends Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary, Spokane and Vancouver, bringing his magnetic stage presence, razor sharp crowd work and viral appeal to outdoor venues. Throughout the summer. Comedian, actor, TV hosts and host of The Golden Globes, Nikki Glaser will headline in Halifax, closing out the weekend alongside Fortune Fimester and Steph Tolev with more twenty twenty six lineup reveals to come.

So here’s what we know so far. Edmonton Friday, July seventeenth, TBA, Saturday, Rife Sunday TBA. Then in Winnipeg that same weekend Friday, TBA, Saturday, TBA, Sunday Matt Rife and Friends. Okay, interesting how they’re having simultaneous ones in Edmonton and Winnipeg. Halifax.

You guys got to wait till August sixth, Thursday Night, Matt Rife, Friday, More Matt Rife, Saturday, TBA, Sunday, Nikki Glaser, Fortune Feaster, Steph Tolev. Then at the end of August in Calgary Friday night, August twenty eighth, Matt Rife, Saturday and Sunday TBA. Then, because that’s in North America, they come all the way down south to Spokane, Washington for Friday, August twentieth, TBA, Saturday the twenty ninth, Matt Rife and Friends and on the thirtieth, TBA, Boy, TBA might be Comedian of the Year. And if you’re in Vancouver or the suburbs, I don’t know where you live. In Stanley Park, which is an awesome park across from Stanley Park.

When I was there, it’s fifteen years ago. Now there was a bike rental shop. It has to still be there. I wanted to just give up my life, move to Vancouver, buy that bike shop and just rent bikes to tourists. I don’t know anything about BIC schools, or how to operate a shop, or how you move to Canada and own a business.

I don’t know how that works. But boy, I loved Stanley Park. And if I’m there on Sunday, August thirtieth, I’ll see Matt Rife and maybe I’ll rent a bike and ride past him. All right, chucking a driving today, getting a pretty decent show. Actually bounced a couple stories, which is a luxury if you’re me again.

Comedy Survivor begins today. They’ll be a bonus episode at noon Eastern Vote one person off now through end of day Thursday. Voting will be over when I wake up on Friday. Why John, Because John wants to record these on Friday. That’s why.

Oh and I forgot to tell you the trivia answer when I was on a proper microphone. I’m dropping this in as part of the edit. The answer to the trivia question was, of course, Nate Burghetzi. Jim Brewer spoke to The Christian Post. I found this really interesting.

I worked with Jim Brewer when he had the radio show at Series. We were there together for ten years, traveled with Jim. I’m very fond of Jim. We had a lot of real conversations, and everything I read here really is in line with what Jim is all about. So Jim tells them a story that it ran into a young woman at a camera store who had recognized Jim from Saturday Night Live and told Jim about her intention to move to la to make it big in the entertainment business.

When Jim realized how excited she was just to see Jim Brewer, he began to feel a paternal instinct to protect her from the industry. That is very very Jim. As Jim told The Christian Post, all you think about is like, if this kid goes to California and she’s this excited for me, I’m a nobody. I’m not a producer. If you go out to LA and you’re putting yourself out that hard, these demonic monsters they see you coming.

Jim said he had a forty five minute conversation with the girl and explained how predators in the entertainment business will chew her up and discard her. That is very Jim, and Jim’s not wrong. I got honest with her. I talked about people I know, I got sucked up by this industry drugs. I got so honest and real with her.

By the time it was over, she was like, wow, I never thought of that stuff. I went, No, nobody, does you need to know these things? So I’m telling you right now, I can tell you willing to listen to anyone, and they will take advantage of you and they will target you. Trust me, and that’s exactly I Again, I know Jim pretty well. He would have slowed down and he would have said, trust me, you know what, let’s get out on that one today.

That’s your comedy news for today. Comedy Survivor coming up at noon Eastern, and a normal episode tomorrow. See you then,

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