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Caloroga Shark Media. On social media, Donald John Trump posted, I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next has even less talent than Colbert. Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the more on on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mack. This is the Friday afternoon bonus edition of Daily Comedy News. This episode is entirely about Colbert quick housekeeping. The normal episodes will come out at the normal time Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and those are Colbert less, although I can tell you in the Saturday morning episode, I pointed out that Colbert didn’t have any good monologue jokes this week. I recorded that before the news dropped around that I’m going to do these Colbert specific bonus episodes.

There will be another one of these on Saturday. There will be another one of these on Sunday, and we’ll take it from there. For this episode, I’m going to capture all the reactions. Let’s start with the Writer’s Guilds of America. They put out a statement on July second, Paramount agreed to settle a baseless lawsuit brought against sixty minutes in CBS News by President Trump for sixteen million dollars.

On July fifteenth, during a regular show of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert went on air and called the settlements a quote big fat bribe unquote in exchange for a favorable decision on the proposed merger between Paramount and Skydants, a charge currently under investigation in California. Less than forty eight hours later, on July seventeenth, Paramount canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a show currently performing first in its time slot, giving vague references to the program’s financial performance as the only explanation. For ten years, the show has been one of the most successful, beloved, and profitable programs on CBS, entertaining an audience of millions on late night television, on streaming services, and across social media. Given Paramount’s recent capitulation to President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the Writer’s Skill of America has significant concerns that the Late Show’s cancelation as a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump administration as the company looks for merger approval. The statement continues, cancelations are part of the business, but a corporation terminating a show in bad faith due to explicit or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a democratic society.

Skipping ahead, the Writers Guild of America calls on New York State Attorney General Letitia James, no stranger to prosecuting Trump for illegal business practices, to join California and launch an investigation into potential wrongdoing at paramount. CBS had a statement. It reads, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May twenty twenty six, at the end of the broadcast season. We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire the Late Show franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home.

He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television. Now, let me pick that statement apart. Okay, so why are you bringing up if this is about finances, why are you saying we consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable. Stephen Colbert is replaceable. David Letterman was replaceable Johnny Carson was replaceable, Jack Parr was replaceable.

Stephen Colbert is replaceable. But if you’re ending the franchise over money, why you’re bringing up that there is no franchise with which to replace him unless you’re suggesting or your words are ahead of your brain, and there’s it was a scenario where you had the Late Show without Stephen Colbert, perhaps possibly maybe who knows, for political reasons that you wanted Colbert out? Maybe so your deal gets through. Perhaps possibly maybe I don’t know. I don’t work for CBS or Paramount or Skydance.

I don’t know, but we consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and we’ll retire the Late Show franchise at that time. Why are you bringing that up? Very strange. Latenighter dot Com will be a great resource during all this. Bill Carter is the author of The Late Shift, quite possibly the world’s foremost expert in late night television.

Bill Carter rights on Late Night Er under the headline CBS sites costing Colbert cancelation. The timing tells a different story. Bill writes. Trump has a long standing animist toward Colbert. Last September, he called him a complete and total loser, not funny, and all caps very boring.

He literally called for CBS to quote terminate his contract unquote. He also has a history of threatening the licenses of broadcast networks with late night hosts who make fun of him. That didn’t face Colbert, who has shown no signs of tempering his nightly puncturing of Trump. He returned from vacation this past Monday and labeled the CBS to ole to pay Trump off instead of fighting the sixty minute suit a big fat bribe. For all those reasons, it’s hard to accept the stated reasoning behind today’s announcement at face value.

Bill points out that at the start of the twenty four to twenty five season, NBC reacted to economic pressure by dropping one night of The Tonight Show from five to four and eliminating the band on the Seth Meyers Show. Bill Carter writes, but CBS didn’t try any of those cost saving moves, or any cost saving moves at all. It’s simply cut off the franchise of the neck. It seems especially a considering that CBS earlier this year had quietly renewed its twelve thirty five AM show after midnight and only reversed course when Taylor Thomlinson quit the show. All of which is to say, as it’s just a few months ago, every indication was that CBS intended to maintain its two hour late night block into the foreseeable future.

Something happened to change that. Did the cost situation become completely untenable or was it Colbert’s Trump centric comedy that became completely unacceptable. Separately, I’ve seen Bill Carter quoted in the Washington Post as saying, if CBS thinks for people just going to swallow this, they’re really deluded. Some reactions from around the internet. Joe Scarborough said, it’s terrible because you had the settlement with Donald Trump, and then you had Colbert and John Stewart criticizing that decision.

Then a week later they’re saying, oh, unfortunately, we don’t have the money to continue this. You can make that economic argument, but that economic argument should have been made weeks before this, or should have been made a couple months down the road. This just makes it look completely connected with the sixty minute settlement. Senator Elizabeth Warren said CBS canceled Colbert’s show just three days after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its sixteen million dollars settlement with Trump, a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Severance actor Adam Scott posted, love you, Steven. This is absolute BS and I for one, I’m looking forward to the next ten months of shows. Ben Stiller tweeted sorry to hear CBS is canceling one of the best shows they have, wishing all the people who work so hard on that show all the best. Anderson Cooper on CNN said Stephen Colbert is smart, and he’s funny and has actual conversations with people on his program XCM and reporter Jim Acosta commented on the story with the image of Marsha Brady from The Brady Bunch doing the shore. Jan Judd Apatow on Instagram, My admiration and appreciation for you is bottomless excited to see what other brilliants who put into the world.

Katie Couric said, I’m so upset about this. I need more information. Rachel Ziegler said, I am extremely sad. I adore you, Steven. John Patiste, who used to lead Colbert’s band, called him the greatest to ever do it.

On Instagram, author Stephen King said Colbert canceled, Please tell me it’s a joke. Jamie Lee Curtis was on the Red carpet and was asked about it, and she said it’s bad. They’re trying to silence people. John Cusack shared a clip of Stephen Colbert on social media and wrote, he’s not groveling enough to American fascism. Larry Ellison needs his tax cuts, doesn’t need comedians reminding people they’re not cattle.

Bernie Sanders said CBS’s billionaire owners paid Trump sixteen million dollars to set all a Bobus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to sky Dance. Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent, the most popular late night host, slams the deal. Days later, he’s fired. Do I think this is a coincidence? No?

All caps. Andy Cohen said it’s a sad day for late night television. I think it’s a sad day for CBS. I think Stephen Colbert is a singular talent. He’s going to have an incredible next chapter.

I can’t believe CBS is turning off the lights at eleven thirty after the local news. I’m stunned he’s one of three late night shows deep worthy enough for an Emmy nomination. He produces a brilliant show. Bill Burr posted on thread sad news about Colbert, but I’m sure it’s purely a financial descis It’s not like CBS whatever, cancel a comedy show for political reasons, and he included an image of the Smothers brothers below that. Jimmy Fallon said he was just as shocked as everyone.

I really thought I’d ride this out with him for years to come. Seth Meyers said, for as great as a comedian host he is, Colbert was an even better person and joke that Colbert can no longer use the excuse that he’s too busy to hang out. Jimmy Kimmel went on Instagram and wrote, love you, Stephen, f you and all your Sheldon’s CBS. The New York Times writes executive stressed in the announcement that the cut was purely a financial decision. The Times asked, is that the truth or merely truthy?

They then talk about the settlements and write many legal experts said the deal was an unnecessary concession and a frivolous case. At minimum, it undermined one of TV journalism’s most accomplished independent voices, that being sixty minutes, talk show hosts have bit in the hand that signs the contracts. Before Lutterman needled NBC and it’s then parent, General Electric. But back then the issues didn’t involve conflicts with a press. Is it willing to pull any necessary levers to punish and influence media outlets?

Now? Paramount wants to assure us that the cancelation of one of the president’s most famous critics is totally coincidentally business, and sure it absolutely could be. The Independent wrote that they understand Colbert’s program had become costly to run over the years, and it was potentially a dream on the network’s bottom line, but many people working at CBS don’t fully believe the narrative. One senior staffer at CBS told The Independent that no one at the network is buying that it’s a financial decision, adding that the demise of the flagship left everyone stunned, including famous comedians that the source said they knew. Another staffer told The Independent how that they had been told the show had been on the chopping block for a few years because it was very expensive to produce, but at the same time didn’t think that was the reason for the sudden announcement.

A staffer said, many of us think this was part and parcel of the Trump shakedown settlement. USA today wonders if Colbert can’t survive this this landscape, it’s not clear if anyone can. According to Late Nighter dot Com, Late Show was leading the pack in ratings with an average of two point four to one to seven million viewers for the three months that in June. Kimmel and Fallon were far behind, averaging one point seventy seven and one point nine respectively. Well, tonight, youoent third place, but discuss that at a different time.

Cnn I talked about the financial picture. They quote Guideline and add data firm that estimates that the network at late night shows earned a four hundred and thirty nine million dollars in AD revenue in twenty eighteen and only two hundred and twenty million in twenty twenty four, decline a fifty percent. CBS had been worried about the dynamics for months, even the last few years, according to two people familiar with the situation, While Colbert was officially told Wednesday. Apparently, executives have been talking about the costs for several weeks, now holding off on final judgment to allow Stephen Colbert and the staff to enjoy the July fourth hiatus. Variety says.

One of the sources say executives didn’t want to force a pay cut or call for trims, and couldn’t look away from declines and ad support for the entire format. They point out CBS treated Colbert a lot like his predecessor, Letterman wasn’t always eager to take on product placement projects or produce sitcoms or game shows, and CBS respected the decision because of his standing. They felt the same way about Colbert, and yet rivals were picking up many more of these projects, like a bar sponsored by Anheuser Busch and Heineken that had a prominent place on Cordon. Kimmel has long embraced doing commercials in show. Fallon takes part in an ad deal with Ford Motor Company.

Those extras help the network and make the host more of a full time ambassador, according to one person familiar with the mechanics of late night television. Variety points out people familiar with the matter, say, the Colbert CBS relationship was never a tense one, and no Colbert eagerly took on whatever extra duties the network suggested. He helped launch a comedic sports special built around pickleball, and took a hand in producing After Midnight and promoting Taylor Tomlinson. And this is very interesting. While the decision may look like blowback for Colbert’s commentary, executives weren’t prepared to make a move in May when they could have used it to win extra ad support in the industry’s annual upfront ad sales.

More and they didn’t want to make it without speaking to Colbert directly, something they didn’t want to do while he was on vacation. But they couldn’t wait, say, till the start of next TV season. Late night writers and producers typically signed one year deals August to August. When contracts tied to the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six programming cycle went out to agents, they would only keep people employed through May. CBS executives knew the news of the decision would leak and quickly, so they had to make the move.

My take all right, loudly and clearly. I’m on Team Colbert and all this. This is terrible. It’s a shame that the Late Show franchise is ending after thirty years, really terrible. I like Colbert.

He seems to be a good guy. I’ve only heard great things about him, never met him, But I’ve never seen one bad word about Colbert. Of the timing, Yeah, it does seem suspicious. On the other hand, I’ve been a longtime media executive, and I’ll talk about this more over the weekend. There are some bonus episodes coming about this topic.

If the show’s losing like forty million dollars a year, why wouldn’t you just error prices right rerun? I mean, seriously, it’s a busy this at the end of the day that many fewer people going to watch a you know, they’re on a Seinfeld rerun, they’re on a Big Bang Theory rerun. It probably won’t do all that worse. And the other one, I’d have to ask everyone, when’s the last time you watched The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Now, maybe for you personally listener last night might be the answer.

I think for me, and I like the guy, and I like the idea. I think, honestly, the last time I watched The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was his first night. It’s just I don’t watch. As much as I love Late Night, I don’t watch any of it live. I’m not up at eleven thirty, and if I am, I’m not watching live TV.

So you know, times change. This is very painful for all of us. But and again I am suspicious. My spidy sense is screaming like everyone else. But that aside, it’s not the craziest idea to just, like I said, just to air Price’s right reruns.

All right, that is your bonus episode for Friday afternoon. Like I said, normal episode in on Saturday morning. I won’t talk about this at all. Was already recorded before any of this news break Saturday afternoon. At some point there’ll be another bonus episode.

I’ll schedule it for noon Eastern. So at noon Eastern, you’ve got a Saturday bonus episode Sunday morning, a normal Sunday episode already in the can. I won’t talk about Colbert at all. Sunday at noon, another bonus episode about Colbert. All right, appreciate you listening.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, Shane Gillis crushed it. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I will do the late night stuff tomorrow instead of the usual Friday, because I really want to cover this Shane stuff.

I thought he was fantastic. There are some mixed reviews on the internet, which we will discuss here, but I think it’s the number two comedy thing of the year. That Mark Twain Conan O’Brien thing is number one, But Shane’s monologue here fantastic. Now understand the crowd. You’ve got a bunch of famous athletes who are you trying to act like their Hollywood And you can see the vibe is should we laugh at that?

Or are we allowed to laugh at that? Yes, laugh at it. It’s funny. Got a bunch of clips for you. Let’s start with the political material.

You’re Shane Gillis discussing the news of the week. Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn. The last time he staged a fight in DC, Mike Pens almost died. You don’t have to do that. Who’s fine.

I didn’t write it. Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here. But. As it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right, probably never existed. Actually, let’s move on as a country and ignore that.

Uh all right, that’s very very funny. Come on, everybody, lighten up here. In this next clip, Shane kind of loses the crowd with a very solid Shadoor Sanders joke that’s not for nothing on point. Then in the second half, Shane it reminds me of Letterman or maybe even Carson on a night where Johnny Carson knew that the monologue wasn’t quite working, but he would win the crowd over by almost switching to the audience’s side, going yeah, I know these jokes are bad, but let’s just roll with it. Can you hear Shane shift gears here?

And I think he nailed it. And there’s two jokes about Kaitlyn Clark in this segment. I’ll play the first joke about Kaitlyn Clark, which is a home run joke. You people need to lighten up. Snorg Sanders had his jersey number retired at Colorado this year, and people are saying it’s because of nepotism, because of his father, and it’s not it’s because he went thirteen to twelve over his career and he almost won the Alamo Bowl.

Definitely not nepotism, right, all right, it’s a big year for the WNBA. I love Kaitlyn Clark. Kate Yeah, hell yeah, same man, Kaitlyn Clark. She and I have a lot in common. We’re both whites from the Midwest who have nailed a bunch of threes.

And here’s the second Caitlyn Clark joke. This one sourced from Better Audio, and this one seems to have people in a little kerfluffle. When Caitlyn Clark retires from the WNBA, she’s going to work at a waffle house so she can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women. The setup for this next clip, we’re rolling out of a show. Hey Otani joke.

If you’re not into sports, there was a whole betting thing in the Otani universe a few years back. So that’s the setup into this joke. And I won’t spoil where it’s heading, but it’s solid. Picture. Hitter and Bookie.

A bookie is what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime. They do. They read the very Horny Caterpillar The Little Engine that Could but needed a pill first, and of course the classic good Night Boobs. That’s my favorite one.

Also, I’m not trashing Bill Belichick.

First off, he’s seventy three years old. He’s dating a hot twenty four year old and people are criticizing him. What happened to this country? He used to be a great country. He won six super Bowls.

Yeah, he’s dating a hot twenty four year old. Maybe if you guys won six super Bowls, you wouldn’t be sitting next to a fat, ugly dog wife. They let me do it, I don’t. This is Disney. They allowed that, and a nice move by Sheen here at the end.

I don’t think the audience had any idea what he was doing here, which is why it went flat. But this is a tribute to Norm MacDonald. I shared that joke the other day Norm McDonald at the sb’s and I think this is word for word what Norm said, but here it is performs by Shane Gillis. There’s one thing I want to say before I get out of here, and this is a dumb joke. You guys aren’t even like it, buddy, it was It’s just a Norm McDonald joke that I loved Dwen Eos to the SBS.

I’m gonna do it now. Travis Hunter won the Heisman Trophy this year. He’s the first defensive player since Charles Woodson to win the Heisman. Congratulations Travis Hunter winning the Heisman. That’s something they could never take away from you.

How you kill your wife and a waiter, in which case they could take that away from you. Well, see a lot of you don’t like me, and that’s. Okay, okay. If you listen to this podcast, you’re probably some sort of comedy fan. You’ve heard the jokes.

What did you think? Pretty good? Now, well, let’s look at the reviews from People Magazine. Shane Killis struggles for laughs in twenty twenty five SP’s monologue as he mocksim Owned Biles Comma Jordan Hudson. Some crowd members booed as Gillis struggled through his sb’s monologue, telling the crowd at one point to lighten up.

I think I have that clip. We will get to it. The controversial comedian again with that? What is he controversial for? For the SNL thing?

How many years ago? Is that? Now? I got news for everybody. Shane Gillis has arrived.

Shane Gillis is super popular. You can keep writing controversial in your articles because everyone else is writing that. But Shane Gillis has arrived. The controversial comedian thirty seven, who hosted Saturday Night Live in March, took to the state blah blah blah, but largely Gillis’s performance appeared to fall flat. At one point, several crowd members booed from the mezzanine, and another point, the comedian defended a joke that didn’t land by saying, I didn’t write it.

That’s just a comedy move. Relax, Relax, it’s an award show. USA Today headline Kaitlin Clark jokes during Shane Gillis sb’s monologue met with mixed reactions, as Shane said, line up a little, it’s not serious. Awful, announcing reports that the monologue didn’t go over well with former ESPN reporter Sarah Spain. Apparently on social media, Sarah wrote, in a year of crazy growth for women’s sports, choosing an sb’s host who doesn’t even try to make clever jokes about women athletes, he at least attempted for the men he goes with Hackey, no one knows the WNBA bits.

Okay, you want to go there and say it’s hacke to say nobody knows the WNBA. Here’s Shane Gillis, four. Time WNBA All Star, Britney Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittany, everybody, I’m uh, I’m joking around. That’s my friend’s wife.

I knew none of you knew WNBA players. That’s crazy. You clap for that, uh boy? Four time All Star, four time All Star. Brittany Hicks got a big ovation there.

Too bad she doesn’t exist. The woman that was shown on camera is the wife of Matt McCusker. As for the quote drawing jeers from the balcony, I believe this is the clip. The first word here in the clip I’m gonna share is his upcut is what we call in the industry. He’s talking about Joe Rogan.

So if you’re like, what was that first word, the first word is Rogan. Brogan actually wanted me to be here to host this award show so that I could capture Adam Silver because Joe thinks he’s an alien, and Donald Trump wanted me to be here to capture Juan Soto for the same reason. It’s an alien joke. You bowed up there, dude. Shut up.

From pajeeba dot com, Shane Gillis bombed as host of the SBS, Dustin Rolls writes, I am not a fan of Shane Gillis for political reasons. His politics are garbage. I don’t like bro humor or racist jokes. And he’s an albeit somewhat still smarter than Joe Rogan. But that’s not why Shane Gillis is a bad comedian.

He’s a bad comedian because he has no idea how to tell a joke. Oh, you’re wrong. He knows how to tell a joke. He knows how to work a room. His body language tells you that we’re all just having a good time.

His body language tells you these are just jokes. Lighten up. Dustin Rolls in Pajeeba, who writes Gillis doesn’t know how to play to a crowd unless they’re already on his side. He folds in front of a neutral audience and flat out crumbles in front of a hostile one. He lacks timing, confidence and basic delivery skills, qualities that separate actual comedians from hacks yelling crappy punchlines into a void.

Dustin, I suggest you go and watch some Johnny Carson monologues. When Johnny is quote unquote bombing, those are his best performances, and I see that in sane. Yes, I just compared Shane Giles to Johnny Carson. Write it down. Dustin Rolls writes, that’s why both of his Saturday Night Live monologues bombed, and like a true hack, he blamed the audience.

I’m sure he’ll do it again after face planning as host of the SP’s because once again he bombed. It wasn’t just the material, though, yes, the material is bad. The guy can’t land a joke. He stutters, he second guesses, he telegraphs the flop before the punchline even arrives. Say what you want about Ricky Gervais and his garbage, transphobic bits.

At least he delivers them with the confidence of a garbage, transphobic white guy. Gillis.

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Meanwhile, the flex blame to his writers or throws up a red flag before the j…

No, Shane, A room full of professional athletes probably isn’t going to laugh about the President deporting one of them. That’s the one Soto choke, one grown one boo, and his confidence shatters. Michael Jay he thrives off that energy. Gill Us, he flinches. Even his rare decent line he had won about his Epstein joke being deleted was mangled in delivery.

And when a joke actually lands, like as Caitlin Clark bit the one with the punchline Bunch of threes, he scolds the audience for not laughing more. Now, look, I know he idolizes Norm MacDonald, but aping Norm’s material and rushing through it like you’re trying to get off stage doesn’t make you Norm. What are you talking about, dude? Norms deadpan, misfires, classes and comedic subversion. Gillis just bombs, shrugs, and says, well, I see a lot of people here don’t like me, and that’s okay.

I think this is best summed up by The New York Post saw somebody in social media who wrote, if you were offended by Shane Gillis’s sb’s monolog, I can assure you that no one likes to hang around you. Amen. All right, let me get out the machete because I’m already long here. I just get two good stories, all right, But I got to get to Pete Davidson on gossip Corner. TMZ reports Pete Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt are expecting their first baby together.

Back in March, People reported that Elsie and Pete were seen on a date in Palm Beach. They were seen swimming in the ocean and sharing a smooch in the water. In May, a source told People Pete and Nelsie had been living together in New York for the past few months. They’re splitting their time between Pete’s house and Upstate New York and a brownstone they recently started renting in Brooklyn. They’re so happy together and doing great well.

We will get confirmation directly from Pete Davidson. I guess he will be the guest on The Tonight Show. On Tuesday, July twenty second now, Elsie Hewitt posted on Instagram, well now everybody knows we had sex and captioned a collection of photo that included herself, Pete Davidson, and a sonogram. Pete Davidson is not on social media these days. Pete is out promoting his new horror film The Home, which is out on July twenty fifth, So we’ll be hearing a lot from Pete Davidson in upcoming days.

While we’re on Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler and famous Hollywood actress Sonny Sandler were seen in Cranford, New Jersey. Apparent lay crew from Happy Medicine Productions were set up in a parking lot in Westfield, New Jersey, where on stage theater camp is taking place, and some of the campers were excited that filming was taking place in a house near their own rehearsals. A nice thirteen year old young lady, her mom, and some friends decided to follow the signs from base camp to the set. The young lady said, we were just chilling on the sidewalk with like me and ten other people maybe, and we just kind of waited there until they called for lunch.

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And then outside one of the houses, Adam Sandler like just out and everybody …

Then he came and he took someone’s phone and he took a group picture with all of us. Famous actress Sonny Sandler, who started in you were so not invited to my bot. Mitzvagh also came out and signed the things for her fans, and we are now one week away from Happy Gilmore too. I may have to leave the country. I mean, I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to put up with a week of Adam Sandler press, especially if people are pretending that Adam Sandler comedies are good.

No word yet on Happy Gilmore two, no buzz.

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Meanwhile, the Naked Gun people are putting everybody out there letting you k…

I’ll get into that in a couple of days. But the buzz on Naked Gun is really strong. The buzz on Happy Gilmore two and Adam Sandler comedy I’m not hearing any. So Happy Gilmore Two’s out Friday the twenty fifth. Reports our Netflix is taking Happy Gilmore one off Netflix on July thirty first, So get your Happy Gilmore in while you still can.

We’re another way to look at it is the universe will be slightly better in August that it wasn’t July. I mean, yeah, I Veer does. His new special is out on Netflix today, this one called Fool Volume and on substack. W Kamala Bell has a substack, so do I. There’s a link to mine in the show notes.

Actually I started a second one. I haven’t talked about it on here. I started a second one called Daily Comedy News, and it’s basically the show notes for this show. I think if you listen to me every day, honestly, you don’t need to subscribe to that substack. I’m doing that to try and get more people in by using the substack engine and embedding the show.

But if you listen to me every day, you really don’t need to subscribe to that one. But my one called media Thoughts, you may want to subscribe to that anyway on substack. W kamal Bell this spoke to me. I even commented that it spoke to me, and I got a thumbs up from Comel Back. He wrote in New York City with my fourteen year old, teaching her the difference between a corner store, a convenience store, a drug store, and a badega.

That speaks to me. Boy, we are long again. Remember those two weeks where there was nothing to talk about? And this week is all twenty minute episode. I already recorded Sunday Sunday Strong.

Saturday is going to be strong, and I can tell you as we’re quote unquote live here. I’ve bumped up couple things that are going to go into Monday, so Monday is going to be strong as well. As you’re listening on Friday. Hopefully I’m at the beach. That was the plan because I can’t go to the beach this weekend, and the forecast was nice for today, so hopefully I’m out there somewhere not recording podcast.

No offense. Now I’m trying to tell you what’s at just for laughs tonight. New owners, you got to make it easier to sort the website by date. The only way I seem to be able to do that is to go into pretending I’m buying tickets. Okay.

As I pointed out before, they’re doing plenty of French language shows, which I think is a fantastic but as an English language podcast, I will focus on the English language ones. At seven o’clock, the Nightly Culture Show.

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Also at seven o’clock Best of the Fest, eight thirty the Montreal Show hosted…

Guessing that is local comedians. Again, because I’m on the ticket website and can’t click. You guys had this, the previous owners had this a little better. Not for nothing, I can’t even forget how to search for it. I’ll assume it’s local Montreal comedians, another Montreal show at ten o’clock in, another Nasty show at eleven fifty nine, and midnight Surprise at eleven to fifty nine.

If you were new to the festival or airline industry, you don’t schedule things at twelve zero zero because people get confused as to what that means. AMPM, Is it today? Is it tomorrow? So you either do things at eleven fifty nine or twelve oh one. So that’s why the eleven fifty nine shows, it’s just a lot more clear.

We all understand what Friday means sometimes, so I go, hey, let’s go on Friday night and meet you at midnight. That could get wonky. It’s eleven fifty nine. I have looked ahead. Believe me, this is really going to pick up.

I was prepping for next week because I may leave the country if they’re going to put out an Adam Sandler movie. So I wanted to record some shows before I abandon y’all. So I was looking at the schedule for next week, and it’s it’s strong.

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This is not a commercial, This is a news item. So if you want to check out the Daily Friday podcast, that’s the thing that exists. This weekend, the Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy is inviting fans to a weekend full of laughter and nostalgia. It is the second annual Red Skelton Comedy Convention in Vincenne’s. This year’s theme, Clem Goes to Hooterville, celebrates rural comedy.

Activities include guided bus tours of Red Skelton’s hometown, landmarks, film screenings, guest talks, and the twentieth annual Red Skelton Shrine and Clown Parade through downtown Saturday at eleven. Comedian Bob Nelson will perform Saturday night at seven point thirty, and Pratt, who’s the executive director of the Red Skelton Museum, said, not as many people got to see Bob Nelson last year as I really wish could have, because he’s so funny. A meaning tire place was literally laughing, so our stomach’s hurt. He’s that funny kind of reminds you of Read Skelton. Any Great Comedy Outdoor Festival hits Edmonton this weekend and Kinsman’s Park.

This year’s lineup includes Martin Short, kameiln on Gianni, and Fortune Fiemester No website. Edifhi Edmonton caught up with park ranger Donovan, who was offering a preview of what to expect. Ediphi was curious what does Donovan do as the park ranger. Donovan said, I personally welcome everybody at the gate. Then I go through the park before the event, make sure everybody’s happy and answer questions.

After that, I go on stage, make some jokes and do all the housekeeping before the show starts. Then at the end of the night, I pop out of the gates again and I thank every single person for coming to the show and hope to see them next year. He has a raccoon companion named Rudy. Donovan explains, I’m a really nice guy, but Rudy can say terrible, rude things. I wonder if that’s his name.

Rudy is the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival at Mascot and I’m miss Handler, so we’re like Yogi Bear and the park Ranger. However, Rudy doesn’t come out all the time because sometimes when people get a little drunk they get handsy and I could take it, but Rudy can’t. All right, park Ranger, what was your favorite moment from last year? Uh? Oh, he’s people gonna get mad at this.

His answer was Shane Gill went on stage and was like, oh my god, I don’t have a belt. My pants are gonna fall off. So I whipped out my belt, my shorts fell to the ground, and I gave Sen Gillis my belt so you could perform. At the end of the night, he rolled it up very nicely with a little note that said, thank you so much for saving the day. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. All right, bonus episode. The headline Late Show with Stephen Colbert is coming to an end, but let’s just catch our breath and catch up here. So it’s around eight o’clock Thursday night. I’m minding my own business.

I’m watching the season premiere of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, which was really good, by the way, and it’s just been a fascinating day. Let’s do the Colbert story and then I’ll catch you up on everything else that’s been going on. Thanks to Mike, who stuck this in the Facebook group where it probably wouldn’t have seen it until tomorrow morning. The News, in a shocking move, reports CNN CBS is ending the Late Show with Stephen Colbert next year, and probably getting out of Late night altogether. The cancelation takes effect May twenty twenty six, at the end of the normal broadcast TV season.

Industry experts are raising an eyebrow because the Late Show is typically the highest lighted show in late night. CBS, in a statement said quote, this is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night is not related in any way to the show’s performance. Contents or other matters happening at Paramount. Colbert shared the news during Thursday evenings taping, So if you happen to catch this episode Thursday night, I guess watch Colbert tonight at eleven thirty. Stephens said next year will be our last season.

There were audible booze heard in the studio audience. The network will be ending our show in May. It’s the end of the late show on CBS. This is all just going away. Colbert said he found out about the decision Wednesday night and said, I do want to say the folks at CBS have been great partners.

I’m so grateful to the tifty network for giving me this chair in this beautiful theater to call home. And I’m of course grateful to you the audience who have joined us every night in here, out there and around the world. Colbert took over for Letterman in twenty fifteen and said I wish somebody else was getting it after Colbert now of note. On Monday’s show, when Colbert returned from vacation, he condemned the Paramount’s settlements. They had settled a lawsuit with the President.

Colbert likened it to a big fat bribe, I mean, very very interesting. Colbert has been a frequent critic of the current administration. People will also now have their eyes on The Daily Show with John Stewart. There had been speculation that the Daily Show could be canceled or John Stewart acts as part of this whole paramount CBS negotiation thing. A lot of money going around, So we’ll see how this develops.

All right, just to catch you up transparency, It’s the summer and on Friday, I want to go to the beach because I can’t go to the beach this weekend. So I was like, all right, I’ll tape Friday and Saturday. So my normal pattern I usually do this. I don’t do this seven days week. I try and do it forour So on Wednesday, I recorded Thursday show, and I recorded a Sunday show, and then I do Friday Saturday back to back, and sometimes Friday Saturday Monday.

Also industry wise, usually news, the kind of news that makes the trades drops by ten am Eastern, Like if you’re going to put something in the Hollywood Reporter of Variety one of those, it’s by ten am Eastern.

Also a rule of thumb, you don’t release news on a Friday.

You definitely don’t release good news on a Friday, and you don’t do that in the summer because people take beach days. You do sometimes release bad news on a summer Friday. Say you’re canceling your late night franchise. That’s something you might want to put out on a summer Friday. So I did my normal noon ish recording session today and banged out a bunch of episodes, and I was editing them.

Variety frankly annoying the heck out of me. They announced a whole bunch of stuff. I’ll tell you what the stuff is. I’m not going to do it now. I’ll probably do it on Tuesday because against transparently.

Oh, I just open up the Variety to tell you what the articles are, and I see right top story Colbert canceled. Let’s see what Variety’s doing this. I’m doing a very casual episode here, as you can tell. This article says there’s been growing speculation of both Colbert and John Stewart each could be under growing scrutiny from the executives. That’s the Finance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central, and I’ll editorialize the people that have ruined Star Trek.

Although the season premiere was pretty good. It was the first good episode of Star Trek in quite some time. But that’s not why you’re here, So I won’t go on a Star Trek rant anyway. The other stories that dropped today already knocked off the front page of Variety. Wow, that was quick.

So they dropped all this. I know them all over the place. They dropped all this around one forty five. Not working with a script. I’m just free forming.

At one five, Variety released the Comedy Impact Report subheader how Conan O’Brien Sarah Silverman on the Daily Show News team set the tone for What’s funny in twenty twenty five. I will get to that on Tuesday. So here’s why. Like I said, I already taped the whole weekend, and to go in and redo it, there’s a flow like I’m setting up. I’m being very transparent.

I’m setting up some Adam Sandler jokes. There are callbacks I have date specific today at the Montreal Comedy Festival type segments and to just go in and READO all that would just be a ton of works. I figured, let me just do this very casual bonus episode and again I will get to the Comedy Impact Report on Tuesday, although I suspect this Colbert thing is gonna be huge. Oh by the way, and in the morning, listen to the Shane Gillis episode. Shane fantastic, absolutely fantastic.

I thought the material he crushed it. I thought the audience decided from the second he walked out that we’re not gonna laugh at this man. But the material was great. I digress. So if Ridy put out the Comedy Impact Report, they also put out the Variety ten Comics to Watch Now The Why that came out on a Thursday afternoon and not last Monday or maybe even next Monday.

I don’t know why. On the list Friend of the Show, Gianmarco Soresi Ciresi real Quick, also Mary Beth Baron, Mojo Brooks, Joe Dembrowski, Robbie Hoffman, Nate Jackson, Sorry right up in about Nate in the La Times about two weeks ago, Morgan, Jay, John Marco, Joe Yang Summers, Steph tolev Interesting and to Kara Williams. All Right, I’ll get into that on Tuesday as well. For reasons already discussed.

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Also also to annoy Johnny Mack, Variety put out today a big profile of Nikki …

We all thought I was going to die. That will also go into Tuesday show, maybe even Wednesday show, because there is just a lot going on. So the upcoming episodes, they’re all long, they’re all meaty. You’ve heard me talk for several days about how much is going on, even this bonus episode. I’m looking at the clock here.

The raw recording is approaching the ten minute mark as I babble. So it’s not like I did filler all weekend. I was catching up all weekend. So you’ve got tomorrow Shane Gillis, and they’ve got Saturday, Sunday, Monday, And I don’t know if if I have to do bonus episodes about this Colbert stuff, I will do bonus episodes about this Colbert stuff. But just wow, I’m kind of shocking and well not really given the current environment.

I see Mike from the Letterman podcast just posted about this on his Facebook page. Maybe I should catch up with Mike I mean, part of this is I’m planning on heading to the Montreal Comedy Festival, so I do need to work in advance, and don’t know where I’ll find an hour to record with Mike. But let me see, because this is really just really big news. Wow. So Mike, thank you for putting that in the Facebook group, or I might not have seen it till I probably would have been sitting on the beach going, oh geez, why did they do this now?

And I’m not home. All right, that’s a very casual, babbling bonus episode of Daily Comedy News Back in the Morning with Shane Gillison. I’m not going to mention this at all. Oh and just let me say I know for a fact because I did the late night jokes in the Saturday Show and I took a shot a Colbert for not having good monologues. So when you hear me take a shot of Colbert for not having good monologues, and I don’t mention this story at all.

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Caloroga Shark Media. That sound you Here is all the coolness oozing out of Jim Gaffigan’s body. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan announced he will perform and film a whiskey focused stand up set in Louisville and October. Jim, Let it Go, Let it Coach Jim.

We’re told the shows are twenty one plus and three sets are scheduled over three days October seventh through the ninth. All three shows, titled Jim Gaffigan A Bourbon Set, comprised new material for the comedian on social media, Jim Gaffigan Set. It’s a bourbon set. If you’re a whiskey fan, you’ll definitely want to check this out. Jim’s been howking the whiskey for the last year or so, and uh yeah, let me cut to John Oliver here.

I think sums it up cool. Jing Gillis hosted the SPS last night. It was volleyball night and then I went to the bar, so I will recap that for you tomorrow. Prior to the sb’s he caught up with the Athletic and they were curious how much of the sb’s would just be Notre Dame in Eagles highlights, Jane said, if I have any control over it, that’d be great. If I could pick the highlights, it will just be the Eagles, Notre Dame in some Phillies.

That would be nice. Shane, why did you want to host the SP’s, He said, The reason I wanted to take it on was Norm MacDonald. He’s the best ever, and he did it, and his monologue was one of my favorites. I can meet a famous actor or a famous comedian and I’m usually pretty relaxed about it, but then I’ll meet Michael Phelps on a plane, I’m like, oh my god. The first time I met Aaron Judge, I couldn’t talk.

I don’t know why I get starstruck by that. I didn’t think Caitlin Clark was going to get starstruck. I was, which was pretty funny. Steph Curry, that was awesome. But there’s another thing.

Once you get to know these guys, you start feeling like you’re less of a fan as far as like, I’m not going to ever sit around and be like that guy sucks. I hate that guy. Before I would say that because I didn’t know anybody. Even before the Steph Curry thing, I was like, I don’t like Steph Curry. Then you meet him, You’re like, oh, Steph Curry’s incredible.

So there’s a little bit of it. You’re going to make fun of this athlete. Probably not gonna make fun of somebody who’s dedicated to life to something. I’m not going to go up there and say you stink the athletic asked Shane Gillis, is there anybody you haven’t met that you want to? Tom Brady would be cool to meet.

I just recently met Charles Barkley. That was awesome. He was the one I always wanted to meet. And why is Shane’s the one of sports? I was just raised that way.

My dad watched sports every day, and what else is there to do? I don’t get it, we’re watching sports. Patton Oswalt has recorded what is being referred to as an audio only special that’s known as an album. Patton Oswalt, we used to have these things called comedy albums. What you do is you would record your comedy material and release them via audios, sometimes on vinyl, sometimes on cassette, sometimes on compact disc, sometimes as an MP three file, But Patten has invented the Audio Only special, this one called Black Coffee and Ice Water.

He filmed it last week into New York City. He told CBS Mornings, it’s a combination of experience my sadness and experience my confusion. The times are so rapidly insane right now that there are times as a comedian where you’re like, this insane story that I’m gonna tell in a month is not gonna seem insane anymore based on what people are going through. The Audio Only Special, which totally is not an album, also talks about raising a teenager and the inside Oh, she either got that from me or some of this is inborn. How can I change this?

How do we make this better? Sounds like Patten has a great relationship with his daughter. He said, I don’t have the teenager that doesn’t want to hang out with me. She actually digs hanging out with me and my wife. But we do have a teenager who’s always slightly disappointed in us.

We’re hanging out and we’re having fun. Then daddy realizes what a goofball he is, or I’m realizing, oh wait a minute, I would get embarrassed by my dad at this That’s what she’s doing right now now. He was asked why he wanted to release Black Coffee and Ice Water as an audio special. Patton said, I miss the times when comedians would put out an album all my specials. I’m doing a thing now where I’m going back.

I’m putting them out on vinyl. It’s about ego. There’s this less physical media being made. You could release it, you know, as an album, but nope, It’ll be out on audible as an audio only special. Black Coffee and Ice Water.

November twentieth, Ronny Chieng and Hassan Minaj are touring together. The name of the tour Hassan Hates Ronnie, Ronnie hates a so on, That’s fun the official log line. During these divided times, many people believe that open dialogue and discourse are the only tools to mend to divide a nation. Comedians Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng believe the opposite, hatred is the answer. At each of the nineteen scheduled performances, the duo will face off over race, war, the economy, immigration, presidents, family, and dating, taking the stage only to rip each other apart.

That’s fun to our kicks off October third in Seattle. They’re also hitting Houston, Tampa, Atlanta, Philly, d C, Toronto, Minneapolis, Chicago, Miami, Austin, Dallas, Boston, New York City at the Beacon December second, So that’s after the festival San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco and wrapping up December twenty sixth in Vancouver. Sarah Sherman is recording her first comedy special this summer. She’s taping two shows August twenty third at the Bell House. She’ll be in North Adams and Massachusetts on the nineteenth, three shows at Helium in Indianapolis, next week, three shows at Helium in Philly and August, and the two Bellhouse shows.

Ron White has added two shows to his tour to help raise money for the flooding in Texas. Ron White, a Texas native, announced on social media all proceeds from the shows in San Antonio and Austin will go to the Guadaloupe Love Fund. The money will assist fire departments impacted by the July fourth floods. Ron said in the video, We’re going to raise money for a couple of fire departments that suffered major losses in this tragic event and cannot sustain without them. Every penny you spend on tickets, we’re gonna go buy some fire trucks or something.

We’ll find a way to spend it those shows or August eighth and August ninth, This one I saw into the weekend, and it’s been quite busy, and then I forgot to put it in the notes. So let me just point out Dusty slayh shared on Instagram like Friday Afternoon, two full albums out today. Listen while it’s hot on iTunes. Camill nan Gianni has joined the cast of Oh Mary as Mary’s husband. Now that’s interesting because Oh Mary is about Mary Todd Lincoln, an alcoholic, aspiring cabaret singer in the weeks leading up to the sixteenth President’s assassination.

So kamaille n Jeohnny is Abraham Lincoln. That’s fun. Ralph Barbosa will have a special for Hulu. It is titled Ralph Barbosa Planet Bosa. Ralph shares his adventures in dating, controlling his temper, working on cars, and his views on current events that went out Friday, August eighth.

Page six asked Colin Jost how he feels about his wife, Scarlett Johansson repeatedly kissing Jonathan Bailey on red carpets. Jost said, I guess in Jurassic Park terms, the attack always comes from the raptor you never thought was there. Of all the threats out there, wasn’t thinking it was Jonathan. Mister Jos pointed out that Bailey didn’t seem like the biggest threat to his marriage because Bailey is a quote out gay man. I think it’s going to be okay.

Jose joked about closing the loop by kissing Bailey. Bailey was asked about this and said, I believe in being able to show love in all different ways, and if you can’t kiss your friends, life’s too short. Not too On gossip Corner, Amy Schumer had to cut the listing price of her five bedroom, three and a half bathroom Brooklyn Heights dwelling. She had purchased it back in twenty twenty two for twelve point twenty five million dollars. They’ve now cut the listing to twelve point seven five million dollars.

Life is rough. Amy Schumer joke to The Wall Street Journal that their son got into a good school and we’re too lazy to commute forty five minutes to take our son to school every day. We loved what we moved into, but we’ve definitely made it our own. Some of the changes they apparently made were an overhaul of the backyard just for laughs. Day two.

Nick Briseo is the head of programming. He was asked how much talent it will be at just for laughs, and he said, how do you measure that? Is it by weight? In that case, there is one point twenty six tons of comedy. Getting a little more serious, he said, we’re doing a lot of different programming to have something for everybody.

If you have any kind of funny bone in your body, we have something for you. The galas are really the crown jewel of the festival. Someone isn’t sure what chose to check out. Your safest bet is to go to a gala. It’s like a tasting menu of the best comedy out there today.

We have classics from festal past, and our calling card is the new faces of comedy for those who want to know the stars of tomorrow. You’ve heard me talk about that for years on this podcast. It’s such a rite of passage and all the greats have done it, from Kevin Hart to Amy Schumer. We put a lot of work in a scouting those comedians, and then we even have programming with YouTubers and content creator stars. I’m surprised the new Faces list still not out.

You know, we’re under a week now, Guys, where is it? Nick pointed this out, and he’s absolutely right. He said, if you’re in a comedy club anywhere in North America and even across the world, it’s the festival is referred to as Montreal, but they mean just for laughs. I have to remind myself to say just for laps, because I’ll tend to just call it the Montreal Comedy Festival, or like Nick says, people just go Montreal. Are you going to Montreal?

If you say that to me, I know exactly what you mean. Are you going to Montreal? Yeah? I think I hit Montreal this summer. Nick says, I think any good comedy festival and any good event really embodies the DNA of the city in Montreal is a city unlike any other.

There are a few festivals in the global footprint like Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, but I think Canada being such a Comedy Home in Montreal, all being such a renowned stand up place the comedians want to go now. It’s part of the zeitgeist. Just for Lass, i’d been catching some strays in the press about I guess not being as awesome at video as some think they should be. Well, they just inked a twenty million dollar deal. I don’t know if those are Canadian or US dollars.

Either way, it’s a lot of money. Fifty hours of programming are part of the deal. It includes Roast Battle Canada season five, a bunch of French shows on some French language networks. The CBC will have Roywood Junior, Michelle Btchau, Fortune Fimester and Mikey Day Galas. That’s pretty good programming right there.

All right, let’s see what’s going on tonight on a Thursday. Plenty of French shows. I will focus on the English shows for the duration of the festival this summer. This is an English language comedy podcast. I totally supported the French comedy, but I don’t know how to pronounce the words.

Just for last Culture Show at seven o’clock, Best of the Fest also at seven o’clock, the Sketch Show at eight thirty and The Nasty Show at nine to thirty. I already forgot what I said. I want to see if we can do Best of the Fest and Sketch Show. Best of the Fests at seven and Sketch Show was what eight thirty we could do that? That would be tonight’s plan.

Where are we in Montreal? But we are not in Montreal, but I hope to get up to Montreal. I don’t have a timetable yet. I’m negotiating with the family. Apparently people were like Dad’s around, Dad will handle it, and Dad’s like Dad was planning on being in Canada.

So I have to figure out that whole thing while I’m thinking of it. If you need something to listen to, Craig Ferguson’s podcast, which is called Joy. The episode with Jim Rash, you know Jim is the dean from Community, was a lot of fun. Took them a minute to get rolling, but once it clicks in and that’s a lot of fun. If you need something to watch, a half hour stand up comedy special presented by the Are You Garbage Podcast is on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla tonight seven o’clock Central Time.

Also out today on Vive says Eddie Peppertone’s new comedy special, The Collapse to This One, produced by Patton oswall Well, Paton said, Eddie Pepatone is the Pixies of modern comedy, working class but aching for utopia, quiet and then loud, and then quiet again, willing to take the twistiest route to the most uncomfortable, hilarious truth. His audiences don’t just laugh, they are upt in cackling disbelief that Eddie sang the things he’s saying that out on beeps today It’ll be a comedy album. On August fifteenth, the Television Critics Association nominated some shows for Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk or Sketch. The nominees are The Daily Show, Mulaney, Hot Ones, Kimmel, Seth, Colbert, Last Week Tonight, SNL separately, SNL fifty, the Anniversary Special. The TCA Awards will be presented virtually later this summer.

In twenty thirteen, two comedians started arguing in the parking lot of the Comedy Store in LA Two comedians broke up the argument and said they should do the insults before a crowd. It was an instant hit and roast battle was born. The next week, people came back thinking was going to happen again, and then over the course of time, any two comedians who had an issue with each other or even friends would just go at each other and we kind of staid, wait, this could be something. Roast Battle was picked up by Comedy Central in twenty sixteen with Jeff Ross’s host. There’s a UK version from twenty eighteen with Jimmy Carr.

There’s one in Japan, one in Montreal, Vancouver, there’s one in London, there’s one in Australia. It’s everywhere, including tonight at the New York Comedy Club on twenty fourth Street the tenth annual Roast Battle. Two comics will take turns, dishing a total of thirteen jokes per round for total of three rounds, and if you’re in plano six to four singles dive back into the dating pool with a little help from stand up comedians. This show is called The Big d I’m gonna resist any twelve year old jokes and just tell you that’s what the show’s called. Believe me, I am tinted.

Julie Golden is a stand up comedian and a single divorced mom. She created the Big D in October and said, I was told that Dallas is known as the Big D not just for Dallas, but also for divorce. Get your mind out of the gutter, everybody, so perhaps I’m in the right city. During the show, three comedians will interview each of the contestants for five minutes, then they will be matched. After that, each couple answers a series of dig card questions during their five minute first date on stage, the audience votes who they think is the best match.

That couple with the most applause wins one hundred dollars and maybe a second date, or if that doesn’t work out, they get fifty bucks each and never have to see each other again. This is at Mike Drop Comedy seventy three oh one lone Star Drive in Plano. Thirty seven bucks to get in a great Gutfeld, Yah, we’re long again today, Greg Gutfeld. Let me quote this directly via The Daily Beast. Okay, Johnny Mack is quoting Greg Guttfeld.

These are not the words of Johnny Mack. Johnny Mack is quoting Greg Gudfeld. Are you ready? Greg Gutfeld apparently said, you know what I’ve said? This before.

We need to learn from the blacks the way they were able to remove the power from the N word by using it. So from now on, it’s what’s up my Nazi? Hey, what’s up my Nazi? Hey, what’s hanging my nazi? Co host Kennedy blurted out, nazi please.

Greg Guttfeld said, thank god you did a hard eye there. And that’s what’s happening on Fox on Gutfeld in case you want to watch that, that is your comedy news for today. How does let that Gutfeld story Stanford itself see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Crazy one today and I am fascinated by the jousting Montreal Comedy Festival that kicks off tonight. But what do you know? The New York Comedy Festival dropped their lineup to steal the press spotlight. And there’s a massive riade festival which includes Bruce Hills.

Who’s that? That’s the guy that used to run the Montreal Comedy Festival. All this news out at once, plus the Emmy nominations. Plushing gillis host the SPS tonight. So much going on after two weeks of nothing.

Guys, can we spread the comedy news out? Please? And hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start with the New York Comedy Festival. As the New York Post put it.

Comedian Louis C.K. Is set to headline two nights of the New York Comedy Festival later this year, marking one of his first high profile stand up accents. Being accused of sexual misconduct by five women back in twenty seventeen, I’m pretty sure mister c K admitted to such things, a quote from Louis in the New York Post. These stories are true. So I don’t think they are allocations at that point.

At that time, I said to myself what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my thing without asking first, which is also true. The power I had over these women is that they admired me, and I will died that power irresponsibly. Let me get the lilt out of my voice. So anyway, nobody is really canceled in this world. Caroline Hirsch, who runs the festival, said, We’re thrilled to unveil this year’s incredible line up, a dynamic mix of global headliners and rising voices that reflect where comedy is right now and where it’s headed.

We’re proud to continue to bring in New York City the very best of the best in a constantly shifting landscape. We stay committed to spotlighting new voices, championing fresh perspectives, breaking form, and shaving a festival that sets it’s the standard, both creatively and commercially. Louis will perform his special Ridiculous at the Beacon Theater in November fourteenth and fifteenth, also headlining Stephen Colbert, Amy, Sidaris, Pete Holmes. Now I looked at the initial lineup I’m not blown away here. This feels smaller than it has in the past.

Again, we have so much to get to today. Let me go quickly here. Friday, November seventh, Ryan Long and Nurse John. Those are two different shows. The shows on Saturday, November eighth at seven o’clock a celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the cancelation of Strangers with Candy with Stephen Colbert, Paul Denello and Amy Sedaris at town Hall.

Okay, Ryan Long. Two shows Trevor Wallace and Hannah Berner. Sunday the ninth istmo at town Hall. Then nothing on the schedule that I’m seeing until Thursday to thirteenth. Johai Spaondor at town Hall, Morgan Jay and The Basement Yard which is a podcast and the Basement Yard is Madison Square Garden.

Wow. That Friday Michael blax and Pete Holmes and Louis C.K. That’s Saturday the fifteenth, Alex Edelman, Michael Blaxon, Margaret Choe, c K and Chris Fleming. Yeah, I guess. I imagine they will announce more as we get a little bit closer.

That one’s in November, So I thought the timing on this was really interesting. Deadline had an exclusive the re Odd Comedy Festival. Now why this really catches my eye. Is attached to this is Bruce Hills. Now, Bruce is the guy I worked with at Just for Laughs Montreal.

Bruce is a good guy. Bruce knows comedy, Bruce knows how to do a comedy festival. I just thought the timing was fascinating that Deadline had this on Monday, and this is also the week of the return of the Montreal Comedy Festival, which Bruce is no longer attached to. Could be a coincidence, could be some fun sjousting. I don’t know, just found it interesting.

But this Reodd Comedy Festival taking place in the Saudi capital this fall. Again, I don’t know why it had to be announced on Monday, July fourteenth, anyway, but listening to these names, Kevin Hart, Tom Sigora, Pete Davidson, Russell Peters, Jim Jeffries, Whitney Cummings, Zornagarg and Jessica Curson are all quote in talks to perform at the inaugural Reod Comedy Festival. That in talks is interesting. Again, the Deadline went with this makes me think it’s quite likely, Deadline says. While no deals have been finalized, reps for WME, which is consulting on the festival, confirmed ongoing discussions with several top tier acts.

Turkey Alashiki is the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority. In May, Turkey had posted on x the best fifty stand up comedians of the world are coming to the Riad Comedy Festival from September twenty sixth to October tenth. Deadline reports. Sources say the festival will feature multi comic showcases and solo shows. A company called Sella, the largest live events company in the Kingdom, will produce alongside Bruce Hills, described in this article as a legendary comedy producer who’s spent nearly four decades at Just for Laughs, hoping to turn it into the largest and most prestigious comedy festival in the world.

Again, I only have great things to say about Bruce and I continue to find the timing fascinating, Deadline says. A source familiar with comedy touring noted that there’s big money to be made by comics of the Middle East, up to millions or tens of millions, depending on the profile of the artist. They said, many the top stand ups are happy to be wined and dined by the Saudi government, which has come to recognize the power of comics as the cultural icons of our time. Deadline rights. Of course, there are also significant drawbacks or at least factors to consider in performing in the Middle East.

For starters, Saudi Arabia is known for limiting freedom of expression when it comes to the arts, typically dictating on the offer sheheet per multiple agents what cannot be set on topics like religion, sex, and the Saudi royal family. Deadline ads, while the kingdom is known for its discrimination against the LGBTQ plus community. Sources were particularly curious as to how many female comics will be appearing, given that they’d have to perform out of the constraints of Sharia law in a country considered even more conservative than the likes of Abu Dhabi or Dubai. Sources say organizers are currently in talk with Cummings, garg and Curson, among others. Art Davidson, Segura, gorg and Curson are all with WME.

Sources say it’s unclear how many marquee names not repped by WME will make the trek. At least one top commedian that fills Arenas has declined to attend. Very very interesting. I’ll do Montreal in the second half of the podcast because I want to talk about the schedule as well. Let’s look at the Emmy nominations.

Naperghetzy is the host of the twenty twenty five Emmys, and he also was nominated in the Outstanding Variety Special category Netflix specials. They include Your Friend, n Aperghetzi, Adam Sandler, Love You, Ali Wong, Single Lady, Sarah Silverman, Post Mortem One, I’m Gonna Skip On Purpose, Come Back To and Hulus Bill Bird Dropped Dead Years. So if the nominees are Bill Burr, Sarah, Ali Wong, Sandler, and Nate Bergatzy. Out of those, I would pick Adam Sandler. Believe it or not, I think that was the best of those specials.

However, the one I skipped and the No Way This doesn’t win unless you guys are insane also nominated Conan O’Brien the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. If that doesn’t win, I don’t know what we’re doing the nominees for Best Comedy Series, Abbott The Bear, which is not a comedy, Hacks nobody wants This is an American romantic comedy TV series created by Aaron Foster, starring Kristen Bell, Adam Brody and some others on Netflix. Hmm, you learn something new every day, only murders, Shrinking the Studio, and what we do in the shadows. If I had to pick, probably Hacks. Best Talk Series.

I talked about this before. Only three nominees because of the way it works in the Math. The nominees are The Daily Show, Kimmel and Colbert. You got to give that to The Daily Show. Best Actress in a Comedy Series, Huzzo, Aduba for The Residents, Kristen Bell, nobody wants this.

Quentin Brunson, Abbotts, I at a Berry, The Bear, Geen Smart, Hacks. I would give it to Gene. Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Adam Brody, nobody wants this. Seth Rogan The Studio, Jason Siegel Shrinking, Martin Schwert Murders, Jeremy Ellen White The Bear, which is not a comedy. I don’t have an opinion there.

I will abstain Best Supporting Actor in a comedy series. Ike Baron Holds The Studio, Coleman Domingo, The Four Seasons, Harrison Ford Shrinking, Jeff Hiller Somebody Somewhere even while Spockerrock The Bear, which is not a comedy, Michael Uri shrinking, and Bowen Yang for SNL. I don’t have an opinion SNL. You can get best Supporting Actor in a comedy series out of SNL. That doesn’t seem right.

Don’t give it a Bowen. Best Supporting Actress in a comedy series. Eliza clonezais the Bear. She’s fantastic, but that’s not a comedy. Hannah Einbinder Hacks, Katherine Hahn The Studio, Janelle James Abbott, Katherine O’Hara The Studio, Shiryl Lee, Ralph Abbott, Jessica Williams Shrinking.

I don’t have an opinion. Best guest Actor in a comedy series, John Bernhall The Bear, Brian Kranston The Studio, deve Franco the Studio, Ron Howard the Studio, Anthony Mackie the Studio, Martin Scorsese the Studio. I would give it to Ron Howard. We’ll talk more about the studio in a second. Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Olivia Coleman The Bear, Which is not a comedy, Jamie Lee Curtis, The Bear, Which is not a comedy, Cynthia Rivo Poker Face, Robbie Hoffman, Hacks, Zoe Kravitz, The Studio, Julianne Nicholson Hacks.

I don’t have an opinion, but don’t give it to any of it from The Bear. Not that it’s not a great show, it’s just not a comedy. Best Writing for Comedy Series goes to the teams from Abbott Hacks, the rehearsal, somebody somewhere, the studio, and what we do in the chef I kind of like what we do in the Shadows. Only two nominees in Outstanding Scripted Variety. They are SNL and Last Week Tonight.

Are we giving it to SNL for the fiftieth anniversary stuff or for regular SNL? That’s my question. I guess it’s all one big thing if it’s just for the recent normal season Last Week Tonight, But if you’re going to include all the stuff from the fiftieth, they’re going to give it to SNL. SNL has thirty one nominations, and they do indeed include specials like SNL fifty, the Anniversary Special, SNL fifty, the Homecoming Concert SNL fifty Beyond Saturday Night. Lauren Michael’s already held the record for most Emmy nominations for an individual, has added six to the count, putting him at one hundred and eighteen nominations total.

I’m a one hundred and eighteen time Emmy nominee. Wow. Late Nighter points out that After Midnight, which no longer exists, got a NOD for Outstanding Technical Direction and Camera Work for a Series. They had submitted their February twenty fifth, twenty twenty five episode featuring guest Juniray, commil Anjohanni and Emily Gordon for consideration. Okay, this next one, I feel really strong about.

It’s Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. Two of the nominees are Kristin Wig and Adam Sandler. Now listen to me. We cannot give Adam Sandler an Emmy for a song that will encourage him to do more terrible songs. And we can’t have that.

You guys should have given Adam Sandler the Academy Award for Best Actor for Uncut Gems which is what he wanted, and then he would have become a dramatic actor and made great movies. Instead, you keep rewarding him for crap, and then we get things like Opera Man as Terrible, Adam Sandler songs Go. Adam Sandler’s song fifty Years from the SNL fifty Special wasn’t bad in terms of like in the Adam Sandler canon. It was probably one of the better ones. But we cannot, we cannot, absolutely cannot reward Adam Sandler for his musical comedy.

No, do not do that. Kristin Wigg has an original song from Will and Harper called Harper and Will Go West Time Team Christ. All right, the studio Now, I watched it. It’s fine, but Hollywood loves Hollywood. A lot of buzz from social media, but all seems to be industry people.

I don’t see anybody in like quote, the real world talking about the studio. But boy, it received twenty three Emmy nominations. That’s the most ever for a comedy series in its first season. The New York Times points out John Mulaney did not get any Emmy nominations. Again, You’ve heard me say many times.

Love John Mullanie that late night show did not work. Okay, Gang, I may have to double break you today. Here’s why. If I don’t take the break, the automation forces a break. There’s just behind the scenes stuff that, like the commercial break will have to happen.

So let me take one here and I’ll come back and we’ll talk about Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis hosts the sb Awards tonight. He was on Jimmy Kimmel on Monday Night.

Now for some reason, Christis Stefano is guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Why. I don’t know either, and I’m being facetious. I think I figured it out. Christa Stefano repped by w ME, Jimmy Kimmel rep Bysea with me and everybody on three one two three WME. Listen, that’s how Hollywood works.

Anytime anything doesn’t make sense, look at the agents and that will always tell you what is going on there. So somebody’s doing somebody a favor because Christis Stefano are hosting a late night talk show. Yeah, anyway, Jane Gillis was the guest, and let’s listen. I’m excited about it. Uh, we got I still got a lot of work to do.

I got to figure it out. The jokes were killing, the jokes are they I’ve never done a thing where they at somebody else’s writing right jokes and they just like they hired writers and they just they’re like, here’s the jokes we can and they’re like self deprecating for me. So like I’ll be at home, I’ll get an email and it’s like, Hey, I’m Shane. I’m hosting the thirty third sp Awards. I’m a big fat dumbass who wrote this which one of you guys wrote that one.

Yeah, I’m not saying that. The sb’s air live tonight from the Adobe Theater in Los Angeles at eight pm Eastern and Pacific stream live on ESPN plus US. If you’ve cut the court like me, you can either visit your friend who lives on the ship, if you know what I mean, or it’ll be on Hulu tomorrow. This is the thirty third annual SP’s. Some of the categories best Athlete men’s Sports.

You know how many is Josh Allen from the Bills, Saquon Barkley from the Eagles, SGA from the Thunder or Tany from the La Dodgers. Boy, that’s tough. This thing’s in LA. Right, give it to show. Hey, Best team?

How about this the Florida Panthers, or right, they’ve won two in a row. The Dodgers, the Ohio State Buckeyes, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Philadelphia Eagles, the North Carolina Tar Hills women’s lacrosse team, or the US women’s national soccer team or the University of Connecticut Husky’s women basketball team. Who are you picking there? Best NFL player Josh Allen, Saquon Barkley, Lamar Jackson from the Ravens, Patrick’s thirteen from the Broncos. Got to give that to Saquon.

Best baseball player, Freddie Freeman, Aaron Judge, Shohey, Tarik Skuball, you got to give it a show. Hey, And I’m gonna take another break here. I feel you know it’s annoying. But if I don’t, I’m telling you just the way the system works, because I’m doing a long show today. If I don’t, it’s going to drop a commercial break mid sentence.

So I’d rather properly place the break than have a drop at mid sentence, because I have that’s a major pet peeve of mine, don’t forget. If you would like the show without any commercial interruptions, you can go to Caliroga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re an Apple podcast click in the matter that says uninterrupted listening. Five bucks a month you’ll get this show and a bunch of others, including five Good News Stories, which I host three days a week. I mean, Showley comes out three days a week and I always host it. I’m making it sound like somebody else, like Krista Stefano does it on Tuesdays.

No, no, no, no, that would be insane. We don’t have the same agent. Gave you a little bind scenes here. So normally I record the show on the early afternoon. Right now it’s seven twenty six pm.

Why because I went to the beach all day and then I was like, all right, I’ll do the show when I get home, and oh my goodness, my kids will not stop texting me. But I can’t get mad. I can’t be like, first of all, you don’t want to you know, it’s nice that your kids want to check in with you. But also you can’t be like, oh I recorded my podcast. Sound like a jerk.

Anyway, I’ll click the matter, This says n editor of the listening and he got the show commercial free. One more break and then we’ll talk Montreal. Just for laughs. Montreal Comedy Festival is back, baby. I got my note yesterday.

They gave me creudentials planning on heading up there at some point. That should be a lot of fun. Deadline has that new podcast where they talk about comedy. I didn’t bring my phone down. Oh no, here’s my phone.

Let me tell you what that’s called found it. It is Deadline’s Comedy Means Business. The other day they had on Sylvan Bodard, he’s the new boss ed, the reconstituted. Just for laughs, he says they’ve sold over one hundred thousand tickets. Think about that number.

That’s a lot of tickets for the upcoming festival, and said that the festival will not lose money this year. He already knows that and says it’s the first step in his grand vision for the festival. A touring agent tell Deadline it’s more than a transition, it’s like a rebirth right. I think as an industry of reps, we all want it to be there, and I think cautious optimism right now would probably be the overwhelming sentiment. A manager told Deadline she’d heard mixed things about how people are feeling going into this year, A good amount of enthusiasm, a little skepticism.

But I don’t think anyone’s rooting against the festival. I think we all wanted to succeed because at the end of the day, it’s a great avenue for clients to get discovered. How noble of you, Yeah, we don’t want the festival to fail because we can make money off it. Here’s some quotage a manager gave to Deadline, calling it zombie JFL back from the dead. I think I’ve used those exact words in different combinations.

That manager said, breaking out of jfl’s new faces used to mean comics would be a thing forever, but that’s no longer reliably the case. They said, that is a historic lack of digital strategy on jfl’s part. Now, if you listen to the Deadline podcast, they got into the digital strategy and it sounds like they have a really good plan for it this year. I mean, I’ve been. Involved in comedy for twenty years.

I don’t I don’t know. I kind of reject what that manager’s saying. I think new phases is a good thing and still means something now interesting to me. We haven’t seen the list yet. I’m surprised that’s not out yet.

I was kind of expecting that to come out on Monday. It clearly this close that people must be solidified on the line up, but we haven’t seen a list yet. Now, that manager tells Deadline they predict companies will send quote less people to cover the festival than in the past, between slash travel budgets and uncertainty. That same person said some my greatest acts were definitely helped by just for laughs. I think the power of new faces isn’t as big as it used to be, but I still think it’s a nice notch on your belt and a credit that people still value.

I like those guys at JFL, and I think they’ve been able to showcase talent incredibly well. One manager said the success of this year’s festival will be reflected in people talking about it afterwards, new faces walking out with new representation conversation. Yeah, I think that’s fair. The manager says, you look at Netflix as a joke, and those new face introducing people are getting somewhere between ten to one hundred thousand views on their YouTube channels. I’m curious to see what jfl’s views look like.

Also fair Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mack to be a Just for Laughs, they’re going to receive the Generation Award.

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Also getting an award is George Wallace.

His award will be presented by Roywood Junior. Roy will present George Wallace with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Benito Skinner, known for his online persona Benny Drama. We’ll receive a Breakout Comedy Star of the Year prize from Mary Beth Baron. The Rising Comedy Star of the Year award will go to Hannah Burner.

Is Hannah rising. She’s got a huge podcast. But okay, all right, let’s look at the line up starting tonight. A few French shows early the evening at seven o’clock, the Just for the Laughs Culture Show that used to be the Ethnic show. That’s at Club Soda, Good Club Boy.

A whole lot of French shows tonight. I think that’s great. Nine point thirty, The Nasty Show, also at Club Soda. So you know, that’s kind of how I would roll. I would if I were up there tonight, I would just head over to club Soda and do the back to back and get home at eleven thirty and go to bed and record a podcast.

So those are the two English show tonight, but I skipped maybe twelve thirteen French language shows. Again week one, the Wednesday night, this thing will totally pick up, So don’t judge the festival by tonight’s lineup. That’s just the first night. The head of programming is Nick Brazio. He’s worked for JFL for sixteen years.

He used to report to Robbie Prau, who went on to head Netflix’s live comedy division. Nick says, I gave up stand up to get on the production side, to get a closer connection to the world class comedy scene, and that satisfies a lot of the reasoning I gotten a comedy in the first place. Nick said about fifteen months ago, there was concern that just for laughs could disappear, but the opportunity to bring everything back has been so uplifting. So many great memories have been made over the four decades the festival has been around. Now we have the opportunity to make more.

Here’s Nix’s eight picks for the festival. Number one, Chay Darrina host of The Nasty Show. Chay is a viral Canadian comedy sensation with over eight million followers on social media platforms. Number two a se If Ali, host of The Culture Show. Three Nick Muhammad You know Nick Muhammad from Ted Lasso.

Okay, not a bad pick. Nick will be doing a seventy five minute show on number four. Mary Beth Barone, one of the stars and writers of Over Compensating and a repeat guest on Jimmy Fallon. This marks her first performance in Montreal, but definitely not her last. Yes, I could see her breaking out.

That’s a good one. On number five stamp Town July twenty third through the twenty fifth. The Club Soda a full on fever show hosted by the unforgettable Zack Zucker and featuring some of the most energetic, over the top comics from around the world. It is totally bananas, raunchy, and chaotic. Nash shows have included the likes of Neil Patrick, Harris, Richard Kine, May Martin, David Cross and Sarah Sherman.

That’s awesome. Six Rhys Derby you know him A legend indeed is this comic from New Zealand who cracked up audiences, big Time in Flight of the Concords and unbelievable Italian. He’s unique. Get a Delight. Seven.

Kat cohen Us bas but known around the world for festival and TV appearances, as well as her two Netflix specials and number eight. Andrea Jin is a featured performer at the Culture Show. Originally from Shanghai, she grew up in Vancouver and is now based in la and is a former New Face of Comedy. I’ve got more. We’re not done yet, all right, so don’t get mad at that second commercial break there.

I’m jam packed today. Out today on YouTube. Luke Kegy have that comedy Exports YouTube premiere at five pm Central eight am Aest. I’m pretty sure that’s Australian time, all right, So that’s one to check out.

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And then this has come to my attention.

I don’t know anything about it, but apparently this exists. Okay, you’re ready, You’re not ready for this. Sean Hannity and Jimmy Fayla have a comedy special on Fox Nation. Now. The good news is it’s on Fox Nation, so almost nobody will see it.

Whew, a Sean Hannity comedy special. If we weren’t over a half hour to the show. I would do ten minutes on this. I can’t think of anybody and I’ve met the guy. I can’t think of anybody less funny than Sean Hannity.

I looked for clips, haven’t found clips again. Busy Show. I didn’t dig that hard. All I can tell you is the description. It was a night of liberty, laughs, and a whole lot of winning only on Fox Nation.

So if you’re like boy a Sean Hannity comedy special Fox Nation.

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And also, we cannot ignore Elmo.

On The Daily Show, John Stewart told Daily Show viewers Monday night that his original, well designed, articulate episode had to be scrapped because Elmo had lost his bleeping mind. I don’t know if you saw the Elmo Twitter account was presumably hacked. Some very very terrible things came out of that account. John Stewart said, this is what happens when you go too long without tickling Elmo. Elmo was the guest on The Daily Show.

Elmo admitted, I’m not going to do a half assed Elmo here. John Stewart did in the bit Elma wasn’t ACKed, it was Elmo, but Elmo was radicalized by the manisphere. Elmo was part of the male loneliness epidemic. You see what happened was Elmo was doing his own research on flu shots. Six hours later, because of the algorithm, Elmo was moderating the QAnon discord chat and building homemade bombs.

John Stewart told Elmo, don’t blame the algorithm. Elmo said, are you canceling Elmo? Once again the so called tolerant left policing speech that’s inconvenience of their Wolke Dogma. Who’s the real puppet now, John, Oh boy, that is a very long episode of Daily Comedy News for today. Now Tomorrow is all the stuff that I didn’t even put in today’s show.

I could record tomorrow right now and do twenty minutes, but I’m not going to because I’m tired. See you tomorrow

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Full Transcript

Callarogas Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with a very busy Daily Comedy News. As I mentioned yesterday, the comedy Dearth is over. It’s busy. Shane gillis making the rounds because he’s hosting the sb’s on Wednesday night.

The Emmy Award nominations will be revealed today at eleven thirty a m. Eastern time. Just for laughs. Montreal is back on Wednesday, so plenty to talk about. Ah, but let’s start with some politics.

Okay, this is the part where Johnny Mack makes people mad. I’m just telling you what’s going on. I pulled my punch yesterday. I’m trying not to chase people, but that one comedian whoo dude? Really anyway, Shane Gillis has commented on the Epstein Files Matt and Shane’s Secret podcast.

The conversation turned to Epstein. Shane said, you know, Epstein is innocent, but Cusker. Turns out the guy was just a regular guy struggling in the world, just like all of us. They joked about the situation have been and Shane Gillis shared his thoughts about the president and said, it’s like Trump duck, It’s tough not to point some fingers. He got killed when you were president.

You were there. I mean, there’s so many photos of them chilling. The cope on Trump’s innocent, the cope is pretty intense. Yeah, he did go to the island. You just hang out with the staff.

The staff said that was the staff twelve. What’s pretty funny. McCusker said they were never going to release it. Meeting the files, Shane, did you see somebody brought it up in a meeting and Trump was like, are you still talking about Epstein? That’s crazy.

There’s so much other stuff going on. I can’t believe you’re still bringing up Epstein. Are you serious? Get a life. You guys are obsessed with this.

Nobody cares. It was so long ago. The guy killed himself when he was innocent. What the hell? Big story?

Over the weekend you probably saw Trump threatened to take away Rosie o’donnald’s citizenship. Who do I root for in this fight? To catch you up on Saturday night when you were probably doing something fun, Trump went on in truth social and posted because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interest of our great country, I’m giving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship. I feel like doing this is half as triumph. She’s a threat to humanity and should remain in the wonderful country of Ireland if they want a god bless America.

All caps exclamation point. Rosie responded on her Insta saying, the presidents of the USA no caps at all. There has always hated the fact that I see him for who he is, a criminal, con man, sexual, abusing liar, out to harm our nation to serve himself. This is why I moved to Ireland. Still no caps.

He’s a dangerous, old, soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy, compassion, and basic humanity. I stand in direct opposition all he represents. So do millions of others you with you get a deport all who stand against your You are evil tendencies. You’re a bad joke who can’t form a coherent sentence. No apostrophe in the cants, no capitals at all as far as I can tell.

Rosie followed that up with a post of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and wrote, you lie, you steal, you degrade, eye nurture, I create, I persist. You are everything that’s wrong with America, and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it. You want to revoke my citizenship, go ahead and try King Jeoffrey with a tangerine spray tan. In case you’re not hip to that orfe King Joffrey is the bad guy on Game of Thrones. King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan.

I’m not yours to silence. I never was. Rosie O’Donnell currently lives in Ireland. Under the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, birthright citizenship is protected and cannot legally be revoked by the president. Rosie is in the process of getting her citizenship in Ireland.

Tim Dillon also had some thoughts on all this, but I’m gonna let you listen to Tim Dillon’s podcast. I don’t want to encounter any men in suits wearing sunglasses, so I’m not going there. Tim said some stuff. Check it out. Andrew Schultz is getting ripped for being like I can’t believe Trump didn’t do what he said.

No way, Andrew, really, no way. Johnny Mack doesnt stuff for fools again, vote for whoever you want, But dude, really, you look stupid. Andrew the Pretenders made a surprise appearance at Bill Burr’s comedy show in London last week. Pretender is singer Chrissy Hines shared the news on Facebook, saying that Bill Burr had asked the Pretenders to join him for a few tunes at his show at the Hammersmith Odeon. One of the songs they played was of Course Wrong Motorheads Ace of Spades, because Burr had seen Motorhead play Ace of Spades at the same venue forty years ago.

The Pretenders also covered how do You Get Your Money, Honey by ACDC and Judas Priests, breaking the Law, Setless dot Femsa at the end of the night with the Pretender’s classic Don’t Get Me Wrong. Bill Burr got behind the drum kit for the performance. Chrissy Hines said, I was thinking he could tell jokes, but can jokes play drums? The answer is yes they can. Bill nailed it.

The performance was the first by the Pretender since May. They currently have no other shows on the schedule for twenty twenty five. Did you watch It’s Always Sonny? The first two episodes are really strong. Episode one, the Abbot Crossover, very very funny, and there’s a clip on social media, making the rounds that I won’t spoil for you, but if you see it, click on it.

Rob Mack told The New York Times his initial vision for the show was like Bizarro Friends. He said, if the theme of Friends is I’ll be there for you, friends that are with each other thick and thin, no matter what the circumstance are, then Always Sonny is about the idea of friends that would never be there for each other, that would sell each other out at a moment’s notice, and we’re always looking out for themselves well before they were looking out for anyone else. A group of people so detestable all they have is one another because no one else will be friends with them. I think you could be friends with Charlie. Charlie’s a little weird, but I think he could be friends with Charlie.

Ronny Chieng is joining the cast of King of the Hill. He will take over as the voice of Khan. Toby Huss voiced the character during the initial thirteen seasons from nineteen ninety seven to twenty ten. Season fourteen begins airing August fourth, or so. They say.

This could be like The Bob’s Burger’s Conspiracy by then there’s exhibition football on, so Fox might be like, yeah, it’s a brand new King of the Hill and another season of Bob’s Burger’s on tonight at eight o’clock and we’re all watching the Cowboys over on CBS or something, and how this goes. The US version of Have I Got News for You comes back to CNN on September sixth. However, Michael Ian Black is getting a podcast spin off of it. It’s called Have I Got News for Your Ears? Somebody’s been paying attention to the Daily Show Ears edition, I think, although maybe the British podcast was called this and maybe the Daily Show ripped them off.

Johnny Mack to your research, Willy who knows? This podcast features Michael Ian Black, joined by a rotating cast of guests and behind the scenes players to break down the week’s headlines and offer a peek into the inner workings of the show. Think of it as the backstage pass version of the TV show Less buttoned Up, more unfiltered. All right, that’s fun. The debut episode as michae Ian Black teaming up with the show’s executive producer for a no holds barred rip on the news of the week.

Followed by an interview with Jimmy Mulville. Who’s that. He’s the creator of the original UK version. New episodes out on Wednesday. Uh oh, it’s going to get canceled.

You know why? Oh no, don’t take this curse on. You know who? The guest is Andy Richter, Killer of shows. Andy Richter almost killed Conan O’Brien and the second time successfully did kill Conan O’Brien tonight’s show.

Don’t have it Andy Richter on anything? Look up the IMDb, folks. Should we do it? Sure, let’s do it. He’s got a zillion credits on AMDB.

I’m on his wiki. He was on Late Night with Conan O’Brien for seven years, leaving the show May twenty six, two thousand. He said, after seven years of being on the show, I got itchy, and that’s when Late Night got good. He got a show on Fox, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, canceled after two mid season runs. His next Fox sitcom, Quintopletz.

Remember that one? No, you don’t lasted one season two thousand and seven, Andy Barker, p I remember that one? Co written by Conan O’Brien. Richter played an accountant who couldn’t attract clients. Remember that show, No You don’t.

It aired on NBC. It was canceled. Entertainment Weekly called it one of the top ten shows of two thousand and seven. Then Andy Richter joined The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. We all know how that went.

In twenty ten, Andy Richter was considered to be the host of Pyramid, not picked up by the network. In twenty thirteen, Richter signed on to host a game show called Step Up, ordered by Fox. Remember that one me, neither, I don’t think it happened. In twenty seventeen, he hosted Big Fan on ABC. Remember that one me neither.

You get the idea anyway, Michael ian Black, don’t do it. This a curse. Avoid the curse. Speak of Michael ian Black. Did you see The New Superman?

It’s really good? Go see The New Superman. Whoever marketed The New Superman did a terrible job. They made the whole interview scene with Lois Lane look like something it isn’t. They made the dog annoying and the trailers the dog’s awesome.

One of the best parts of the movie The New Superman is the bomb. You should go see it. Michael ian Black has a sub stack, so do I Mine is linked in the show notes. Michael ian Black’s is not LinkedIn the show notes. Black says, here’s the thing.

I’m in the New Superman. It’s a tiny part. I play Cleavis Thornwaite, who is basically Tucker Carlson, only with the initial CT instead of TC. I think that was pretty obvious as I watched it. James Gunn, the director, offered me the part, which was extremely kind of him, considering we didn’t know each other or anything.

He just asked if I wanted to be in Superman. I said, do I play Superman? He said I did not. I accept. Nonetheless, the reason I bring this up is to acknowledge, for a moment, how strange it is to play even a small part in a summer blockbuster, writes Michael ian Black.

My whole career has been spent making obscure television shows and movies that very few people ever see. Michael was on the Wonderful Show Ed, starring Tom Kavanaugh, who is one of the founding members of the Macpack. I really hope someday Ed comes out on DVD or Blu ray or streaming or something. I would love to watch that show again. I do have MP three files on one of the laptops here, but you know, that’s like an effort.

I just want to like play, Black says. Every now and then, something I do corners a teeny bit of mainstream attention, but for the most part, it’s been thirty years of shall we say, less than mainstream. Fair after so many years in show business, it’s unusual to have a new experience. This is a new experience. I’ve already noticed a huge uptick in social media engagement.

People are messaging me text from folks I haven’t heard from in a while. It’s nice. Oh that happens, Michael Ian Black. You’re in show business. You know that.

When you’re hot, suddenly everybody’s your friend, and in between gigs nobody knows your name. You know how that goes, Black says. Contrast that with the engagement I normally get when I appear in something, which is almost total silence. Not because people don’t like the stuff I make, only they’ve never seen it. Fair Enough, I’ve long grown accustomed bring in the basic cable comedy minds.

All right. The Emmy nominations out at eleven thirty Today. Nate Berghanzy is this year’s Emmy host. Out today on the eight hundred pound Gorilla YouTube channel at seven Central. Ariel Elias, a Jewish star.

Also Ariel will be in the live chat if you want to hang out.

Speaking of Nate Bergazzy, one story ago and leave it in.

There was that big celebrity golf tournament over the weekend. Nate Bergazzi spoke with RGJ dot com. He compared playing golf to being on stage, saying, you learn to get comfortable out here. Once you get comfortable with everybody out here, then it’s a lot of fun. It’s all on you.

So when it goes bad, it’s all on you. No one’s coming to rescue you. I think that’s why comics tend to like golf, because of that, you just by yourself. He didn’t realize his sn L appearances would change everything. He said, I didn’t think it would go what it did, but it changed everything.

If he goes back, he says he will do a third Washington sketch. Colin Jost was also golfing, and he’s also in the upcoming Nate Bergazzy movie, The Breadwinner. Nate said I try to make sure it wrapped before this tournament. I think it’s gonna be a great movie. It’s funny and I look forward to doing more.

Nate was paired with Charles Barkley and Larry the Cable Guy on Friday and with Joe Buck and Justin Geeth Gee on Saturday. Charles Barkley said, me and Larry the Cable Guy like twin brothers. Now. I play with Larry every year, me and Nate. I got to spend some time with Nate.

But you think about it, I get to play with those two guys are amazing on what they do in their life. Normally I wouldn’t get to play golf. I get to play golf with some superstars for three days. Rob Riggole got in on this convo and said, they’re all laughing, go Cable Guy, We’re not afraid you can do it. And he’s like, well listen to me.

I beg him to move and they don’t. Then he puts a hotline drive right into the gallery and he always feels terrible. Larry said, I was the only celebrity that week to make the Golf Channel and Core TV on the same day. A lot of people have names for their drivers. I call mine exhibit A good joke.

Larry Brian Baumgardner from the office said, there isn’t a fair way that I’m walking down. We’re a green that I’m walking off of where somebody doesn’t mention something about chili to me. If you know you know, we’re twenty minutes saying, I can’t explain that one to you. If you know you know. Cable Guy says he always tells his laying partners to brace themselves.

You’re gonna hear get or done about seventy eight hundred times. During the course of the round. Ray Romano his goal was to break eighty. He said, if you ask around, they’ll tell you I’m the most anal with rules. Everything counts, everything goes on the whole.

No gimmes, no mulligans, no nothing. So when I break eighty, it’s for real. In twenty ten, Romano had to make a three foot putt to finish with a seventy nine. Comedian Tom Dressen gets on the loudspeaker. Ray said he got the loudspeaker till the audience.

Romano’s about to break eighty and I missed the putt. Ray said, they don’t think we take it seriously. But I can guarantee you everybody in the tornament, even though it doesn’t show, they’re taking it seriously. It’s not life and death, it’s not your living. But we want to perform.

We want to beat the next guy. We want to look at the standings at the end of the day and see we have a respectable score. And that’s your comedy news for today. And I bounce stuff too. I could already pretape the weekend.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We are out of the summer loll. Things have picked back up. There was a lot of news on Friday.

We’ve got just for laughs this week, Anemy nominations later this month in Adam Sandler movie, and then a Mark Maren special on August first. So’ll there be plenty to talk about. Let’s start with Maren. That special is called Panicked, and it was shot in New York City in May. HBO has released the trailer for it.

Let’s listen. I have made a few edits for language. I know the world we’re living in. It’s difficult and it’s scary. So I said to myself, Mark, why don’t you just be entertaining?

People need entertainment. I’m not sure I got into this to be entertaining. Progressors have really got to figure out how. To deal with this buzzkill problem. You did you realize we annoyed the average American into We had these big fires in Los Angeles.

There were mandatory evacuations. So I’m like, we’re doing this now. I’ve got three cats and one carrier. That’s not a porno movie. It’s my life.

I don’t know if I know the difference between I’m happy and this is good coffee. I don’t know. If my brain rests for even three seconds, some other part of my brain goes, you want me to open the worry folder. I’m intrusive, catastrophic thinking. There’s an argument to be made that if you think the worst is gonna happen, anything shy of that is a victory.

But I don’t know if all I’m doing is mining for gold in a river of panic. I thought there was a strong material in there that was a better trailer than a lot of trailers that come up.

All right, let’s talk about Andrew Schultz.

Boy, I’m trying to pull my punches here so that I don’t lose half the audience. But Andrew, dude, come on, really, Andrew Schultz is surprised that President Trump didn’t do exactly what he promised he was going to do. On his podcast, Andrew Schultz said, there’ll be people that do me like you see what your boys do, and you voted for this, and I’m like, I voted for none of this. He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I’ve voted for. I want him to stop the wars he’s funding them.

I want them to shrink spending, reduce the budget he’s increasing it. I already expect positians to not do most of the stuff they say. I don’t want to be too cynical, but now I’m getting to the point where it’s like, can they do anything? When you feel like the status quo will do nothing and change nothing, you have way more of a longer leash for the outsider’s ideas than you do for the status quo’s ideas. And I think that was the idea with Trump, Who’s like, maybe he’ll stop these wars.

No, maybe we’ll see what’s up with the Epstein stuff. No, they again, vote for who you want. But like Andrew, come on, Scrubs is coming back. It has received a straight to series order from ABC. Donald Faison and Sarah Chalk now on board, joining Zach Braff.

All three get executive producer credits. The official description j D and Turk scrubbing together for the first time in a long time. Medicine has changed in terms of change, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Character is new, and all navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter at Heart and some surprises along the way. Now, I wonder what they’re going to do with Sacred Heart.

You may remember in the original series they switched hospitals for the final season there and they were like new Sacred Heart, which was like a teaching hospital. Or are they going to use that set? I guess, because if I remember correctly, the hospital they used for the original eight seasons was knocked down, so they can’t even use that if they want. I mean, I guess they could build sets that look like the original series and just kind of ignore season nine. Who knows, we’ll find out.

Judy Rayes, who played Carla, is a series regular on ABC’s High Potential. However, there apparently are good conversations between the two shows that they hope Judy rays can pomp into new Scrubs. They’re both on ABC. The Lawrence at a statement said, Scrubs means so very much to me, so excited for the chance to get the band back together. I’ve mentioned in the past, my wife is a physician.

She was an intern at the time at JD and Turkuer Interns, and she found it to be extremely realistic, obviously, not the campy elements or the daydream elements, but just the ins and outs of hospital life. She found out to be the most realistic show until The Pit came along. That is now the number one most realistic show according to doctor mac Laurence and Visions. Scrubs two point zero is a hybrid between a revival and a reboot, bringing back the original concept with new surgical interns. Lawrence had said in October, We’ve been talking about it a lot, and I think the only real reason to do it is as a combo.

People wanted to see what the world of medicine was like for the people they love, which is part of any successful reboot. But b I think the show always worked because we get to see young people dropped on the world of medicine, knowing young people that go there are super idealistic, and doing it because it’s a calling. There’s no cliche rich doctors playing golf. That’s not what it is anymore. So I think that no matter what it is, it’d be a giant mistake not to do it as a combo of those two things.

I think he’s right. The Office spin off, The Paper has a release date, it will debut. This to me seems like they just want to burn it off and make it go away. This is very strange. They’ll drop four episodes on September fourth.

Now, how does that factor in a Labor day weekend? When is Labor Day this year? All right, Labor Day looks like it’s Monday the first, is that right? That’s a bummer, So Thursday the fourth. Johnny Mac doesn’t like September one Labor Day because that means, you know, summer abruptly ends that it’s still only September second.

I like when Labor day’s like the sixth. Anyway, four episodes on Thursday, September fourth, followed by two new episodes every Thursday through September twenty fifth. This all on peacock. Is nobody learning about the binge model? Like, for example, Squid Game.

Remember everybody who was in a Squid Game came and went. Nobody talked about season three. The Bear came and went. Nobody really talked about the bear. A friend of mine texting me, He’s like, did you watch the Beery?

And I’m like no, and we stopped talking about it. I mean, back in the day, I always come back to lost. I remember sitting around the office for a week going What do the numbers mean? What does the polar bear mean? What does this mean?

What does that mean? Now? It’s like watch it, no, don’t talk about it, and we don’t talk about it anymore. So go ahead and drop four episodes of the Office on Thursday September fourth, which is probably up against an NFL game, isn’t it. Oh yeah, the Dallas Cowboys.

You know that little football team. They play the world champion Philadelphia Eels. Yeah, nobody’s going to be watching football on Thursday September fourth. They’re all going to be watching the Paper. What are you doing?

Don’t do this? Push it back a week and drop one episode a week. Why are you rushing through this? Dumb dumb, dum dum dumb. I’m feisty today.

The Paper is set at a Midwestern newsroom trying to revive its status. Larry David is coming back to TV a new six episode sketch comedy about American history, this one produced by the Obamas. The description President and Missus Obama wanted to honor America’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary and celebrate the unique history of our nation on this special occasion. But then Larry David called. In a statement, President Obama said, I’ve sat across the table from some of the world’s most difficult leaders and wrestled with some of our most intractable problems.

Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David. Larry David said, once Curb ended, I celebrated with a three day foam party after a violent allergic reaction to the SuDS. I yearned to return in my simple life as a bee keeper, harvesting organic honey from the wildflowers in my meadow. Alas, one day my bees mysteriously vanished, and so is with a heavy heart that I return to television, hoping to ease the loss of my beloved hive. Six episodes, presumably next year, to coincide with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States.

It is said to feature some Curb actors and quote noteworthy guest stars. One of the directors said, the characters Larry is playing didn’t change history. In fact, they were largely ignored by history, and that’s a good thing. The Home Run Derby is Tonight’s GQ asked Roy Wood Junior about the Home Run Derby. He said, what I like about it is how carnival like it is.

Look at these strong guys who found let’s see how far they can hit a baseball. Every other sport has skill competitions. Hockey, they put the targets up on the goal. They got to go top shelf through an eighty bitty hole. But baseball’s like, no, we don’t care about the other skills.

I’m going to my first derby this year. I imagined it to be such a choice and fun thing. You just get to sit there and watch them do all the things we love, Roy, You’re going to love it. When I worked at the old Place, I had credentials for the home run Derby at least twice I think maybe three times, and then I went as a civilian with my son when the home run Derby was at City Field. It’s just fun, especially if you could sit in the outfield and the home runs are coming at you.

That is fun. Roy. Do you have a favorite home run ever? He said, nobody’s ever asked me that. Shoot.

Favorite home run ever is Joe Carter in the nineteen ninety three World Series. Even though I paid for Mitch Williams as a Cubs fan, I’m gonna give my answer. I was at Opening Day when Gary Carter made his Mets debut and he hit a home run. That was an exciting day at Shay Stadium. Roy said, I always understood why good players left because the Cubs as an organization just never got it together in the early nineties.

Greg Maddox left, everybody left. I think Sammy Sosa was the only one that joined the team in the middle of that BS So I have conflictions about the Joe Carter home run because of my love for Mitch Williams. But the joyousness of Joe Carter rounding the bases, it’s exactly the essence of baseball. You know what. I will save more of this for tomorrow or Wednesday.

I’ve got a lot in tomorrow. Script already stick to sports. Okay. Over the weekend there was a celebrity golf tournament. I only found out about it on Friday afternoon, or it would have dropped it into one of the weekend episodes or mentioned it on Friday.

They waited pretty late to promote this one. Anyway. The Times did a big profile. They caught up with Larry the cable guy, who said he used to hate golf. He was on a tour bus and another comic made the mistake of switching all the TV screens to the masters.

Larry, it’s all the times I go. Who watches golf on a Sunday when the braves are playing? Are you nuts? But around twenty ten, a cable guy befriended PGA tour player Bob Weekly and tagged along for eighteen holes. Larry said, all I did was riding the cart with a megaphone and tell jokes for about four and a half hours.

Then they thought, man, I better learn how to play golf rather than riding a golf guard for four hours. I’m running out of material. He grabs some clubs and he was instantly hooked. He’s a lefty, he claims thirteen handicap. It is now a regular charity tournaments.

Ray Romano and other celebrity golfer said, the crowd’s there to have fun. They’re not there to see Ray Romano play golf. They’re not there to enjoy how good I am as a golfer, because we all know we’re all amateurs, but they don’t realize how much we’re grinding inside. We try to make it entertaining, especially the comedians. We got to put on a smile, tell a joke and try to be funny.

But when you hit a bad shot and then you got to try and be the clown, it’s not easy.

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I want the Golf channel at some point to go. Man, you believe this, Larry the Cable guys in eighth place. You have dreams of hearing those things. But yeah, sometimes you can’t wait till the round is over, so you can just get back to your room, say a couple of prayers and pay somebody to come smother you with a pillow. It’s really not hard to let your motions show on golf, but you got hold it in.

I’ll try and to see if I can get a recap of this into Morrow Show. Ray Romano said, well, you want to beat Charles Barkley. Seems like Pajeeba dot Com had the same reaction to Craig Robinson that I did. They wrote, that’s not how you quit comedy, That’s how comedy quits you. As no one learned anything from years of big announcements and fake reunion teasus before the Super Bowl.

The inevitable letdown always irritates the hell out of people. This is what happens when Peacock cancels your surprisingly solid snake hunting showing out today for Breezio Capano from the Future. It is his debut English language special, available for early access at the eight hundred pound Gorilla eight hundred PGM dot com. Now that is your comedy news for today. If you’re still enjoying the program after my Andrew Schultz editorial, I appreciate you.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daly comedy news The La Signs, which has a great conception. By the way, They caught up with Danny DeVito and Charlie Day. They’re out promoting season seventeen. If It’s always sunny in Philadelphia.

Danny DeVito apologized for sounding like he had just come out of the salt mines. He said, I did a lot of yelling this week. Danny talked about joining the show and said, I knew lots about the show already. I was going in because I was friends with the president of the network at the time, John Langraf, sent me the first eight shows and I watched it with my family. He was saying he was talking about these really talented guys that he was working with, and John was building a network over there.

I can’t remember exactly where we met, but when we met, it was weird. It was the first thing. Throw me a little bit. Do you remember where it was? Charlie said, yeah, we had a lunch.

You meet Robin Glent on Beverly Boulevard. We didn’t have an office. We were writing the second season. You’d agreed to the show and you came in, like your character from Get Shorty. You started ordering for all of us, and you told us some crazy story about your father having a box full of tea and watches, and we’re just taking notes.

I think we pitched a couple different character names. I think you shot down a few of them, but you liked Frank. Charlie Day said Danny, I know that I went and spent maybe a whole week rewatching almost everything he’d ever done. I watched every episode of Taxi. I watched almost every single movie I could find, just studying a fighter you’re going up against, and it was Get Shorty that really kind of locked in for me.

A lot of people, what have you do that Louis de Palma thing over and over again. You’re so great at that. But there was something so idiosyncratic about to Get Shorty character and unpredictable that we were like, oh, if we could tap into that. I think it took us a couple of seasons to do it, And then it felt like Kissmith that he sort of came in a meeting like that. Guy.

Divido talked about Frank and Charlie’s relationship and said, I like the idea of the scheming and everything that everybody else does, and they do it in a normal way. They want to make money, they want to get ahead, they want to be famous, they want the bar to succeed. They want this that Whenever Charlie does something, it titillates Frank. The Times of London spoke with Taylor Tomlinson. Now something driving me nuts here.

First of all, I really like Taylor Thomason, but I just think this copywriting is so lazy. The Taylor Swift of stand up talks about oversharing it. Why is she the Taylor Swift of stand up? Because their name is Taylor, because they’re both blonde. Taylor Thompson looks more like Taylor Swift than I do by a lot.

But is she the Taylor Swift of stand up? Like? What does that even mean? They’re both named Taylor. Okay, Joe Coy has never made a mean, horrible joke about Taylor Thompson as far as I know.

Taylor Thompson has never iced Joe Coy’s career by giving him a dirty stare instead of just laughing at the joke and going ha ha. Anyway, I digress. The Taylor Swift of comedy said, I’ve been a full time comedian for ten years, and it’s been NonStop. Before that, I was working two jobs and in college. I think after this tour, I’m going to take some real time off because I’ve been burning the canile.

It both ends for a long time. My career is everything I’ve ever wanted. There are certain aspects of my personal life that could certainly use some time and attention. Taylor grew up in a religious family. She began a question her of faith at age eight after her mother died from cancer and her father, who she no longer speaks to, remarried ten months later.

Tomlinson said, I’ve had to work through a lot of my guilt and shame around sex and leaving the church. When there’s a significant part of you that’s being repressed because you were raised a certain way by certain people, I don’t think it’s possible to talk about that without a lot of anger and resentment release. It wasn’t for me. Coming out as bisexual was the final piece. Look, I’m not an atheist.

I’m not ruling anything out or judging anybody’s choices, as long as you’re not using religion to scare, manipulating, control, people, so it’s just been many years of sorting through all that. Sometimes it’s funny to make jokes about something you’re really angry about, but it also could be detrimental if you try to talk about something too soon. Some of the jokes I’ve done about my mom dying, I tried when I was twenty and I hadn’t been in too much therapy, and I think you can tell when someone’s not doing well. It’s similar to going on stage and knocking over the mic. It just makes people nervous if they feel like you don’t have full control over yourself their jokes I wrote for this tour, then I ended up cutting because I was like, I don’t think I’m ready to talk about that yet.

It would feel icky and like I overshared because I was talking about things that aren’t resolved for me emotionally and are still very much affecting me in a complicated negative way. Mack Packer Andy Samberg says that Liam Neeson’s upcoming Naked Gun reboot is good. That’s stunning. I’ll trust Andy Samberg, now, let’s all be fair. The Naked Gun is directed by Akiva Shaeffer, who’s the frequent collaborator with Andy Samberg, both from The Lonely Island and The Wonderfully Terrific.

What is the jose Ca and Seiko Mark Maguire thing? What’s that called? Oh my god? I love that thing. So either he’s stating out with his friend or you know, Akiva.

Schaeffer’s got a pretty good track record. When I saw the trailer, when I saw the original idea, I was like, yeah. But Andy Samberg says The Naked Gun is pure joy, saying that Schaeffer crushed it. Samberg says everyone who’s seen the film loves it, and the film is all jokes. Wall A Wall.

Everyone I’ve seen it with walked out saying the same thing, which is like, I didn’t realize how much him is that feeling of a pure silly comedy that’s all jokes. Wat a Wall in a theater, Me and a Kiva are always involved in each other stuff, and I think he just crushed it. Liam is so funny at it. He’s so good. Pam Anderson is so good at it too.

I’m really excited for them. I hope everybody goes and sees it because it’s super funny album. Hopefully, The Naked gun is out. August first caught this one in Vice. I didn’t write this article.

I’m just telling you about it. The headline in Vice is, these guys watch Adam Sandler’s Click, the most demoralizing film ever made. Every single week. I’m telling you I didn’t write this. Wece wrote ever have the misfortune of seeing Adam Sandlor’s Click.

I put it on to ease a hangover sometimes in two thousand and eight, expecting a brain numbing, heartwarming rump, abiding by the same two word arc that all Adam Sandler films abided by. That point, idiot prospers. In case you’re wondering, it goes a little something like this. Adam Sandler’s character finds a magic TV remote in a warehouse that can fast forward time itself. He rejoices because he can now skip all the boring parts of his life, arguments being ill, eating dinner with his family, and go straight to the good stuff like promotions and pay hikes.

But then the magic TV remote learns Sandler’s preferences, and it goes rogue, choosing for itself which parts of his life to fast forward. Soon, Adam Sandler’s hurtling towards the grave, powerless to stop the remote. One minute, his kids are toddlers, the next day have gray hair, His wife marries their swimming coach. His dogs keep dying until one attacks, and when he’s a pensioner and the doctor’s find out he has cancer. This year I came across the Twitter account click Thinks, ran by two anonymous Australians who’ve been watching the Adam Sandler movie Click every week since twenty twenty, and will continue to do so for the rest of linear time.

One of the anonymous fans said, we started an online movie night during the pandemic. We didn’t think too hard about our first pick. We just landed on Click. Then the next week came around, instead of something new, we just watched Click again. Five years on, we’re still watching Click every week as if it’s the only thing holding reality together.

It’s like a dare that nobody backed out of. I like that it feels like a play with a clear two act structure. For the first half, it’s the kind of humor that Sandlor fans would expect. But then as the film transitions into its second act, it pulls the rugout from under you. Suddenly it’s no longer about the comedic possibilities of a TV remote, but about the devastating consequences of prioritizing the wrong things in life.

This guy has over one hundred and fifty physical versions of Click. He says his favorite is the Japanese version, which translates to if you could choose yesterday. He’s got a Korean VHS tape. He’s working on a rare Russian VHS copy. The Click fan said, the film encourages us to reframe how we see our daily lives, not as filler between big events, but as the core of our human experience.

Today is comedy auction. Comedy auction is part stand up show, part fever, dream yard sale. Audience members bring weird, wonderful, or cursed items from home. Two comedians auction them off. Greg Berman ish your host.

Each item comes with a story, Each bid comes with a punchline. All proceeds go to a local nonprofit. If you’re in Portland, Oregon, it’s at Kickstand Comedy today. Check that one out that sounds fun. Over in the UK, Channel four is getting all involved with YouTube now they’ve started something called a comedy thing.

So two points Aam’s gonna report on this anyway, and then b when I saw they called it a comedy thing, I was like, hey, you know, I’ve been hosting something called The Weekly Comedy Thing for over a decade. Now, new episode out today on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. What is the Weekly Comedy Thing? The Weekly Comedy Thing is like this, except I can actually play the bits, you know, royalties and stuff rules.

I can’t just be like and here’s a six minute clip from George Carlin. Podcasting doesn’t work that way, but on the Live one app, I can do that. It’s called The Weekly Comedy Thing. New episodes every Sunday, and a new one out today anyway. The really differently titled Comedy Thing by Channel four will publish weekly long form programming for YouTube plus content on TikTok and Instagram.

It launches with a cast of seven up and coming comics who have emerged from YouTube, including Victorio Angelone, Finlay christi Oga, kach Emi Oladipo, Mickey Overman, Mike Rice, and Dan Tiernan. Channel Four’s philosophy is that YouTube is not the enemy, but is a distribution platform, and that is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercials or other interruptions five bucks a month. Go to calirog dot com slash Plus. If you’re an Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening.

Oh out today a new podcast, Crown and Controversy that is a spinoff of the Palace Intrigue podcast. So Crown and Controversy, the elevator pitches what if the TV show The Crown kept going? So we picked up right where they left off. So this season of Crown and Controversy is the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, So check that out. That’s out today.

Also out today another series from US alligator Alcatraz, so you can check those two out. I’ll be back tomorrow with another edition of Daily Comedy News.

And now stick around for this.

Interview our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that’s great, thank you, that’s so generous of you. Car that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic.

She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out. Of the room. And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected. Oh my god.

So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work. So that happened.

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And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then it was a long process for me to come around to that, but that’s what…

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get.

Well they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect. And I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward and give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you.

And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn’t have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy?

What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time.

And so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter.

They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, off awful story.

So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that, and I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I’m leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it.

Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it because I say we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now? And they did it. And it wasn’t the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy.

And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people they are traveling all over the …

They’re in Tahiti right now. They climbed killamungarratt. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead and this brought us back to life.

Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it could be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that it sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have?

How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness.

Do you you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice.

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And then talk to people about it.

Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, Lutionary Way to Increase Happiness.

Carl, where could people find the book. Wherever books are sold, And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan.

It’s been fun.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This is the final weekend where I can actually enjoy the summer before I start freaking out that summer’s almost over. I know I’m a crazy person, but like today, I can go to the beach. We’ll be like, gohs plenty of summer left.

Starting next weekend, which toly nineteenth, I’ll be like, oh, it’s only two left in July. That’s August, and I gotta start teaching again. That’s limbord. Oh, I got I’m a crazy person. I’m good from like Memorial Day till today and then I got crazy.

Naprigassy looks like he’s jumping in another movie. Deadline reporting the Amazon MGM studios have acquired Fantasy Camp. Fantasy Camp follows a group of friends at a make or break moment in their lives, as they had to Dwyane Wade’s Fantasy Camp in Miami to relive their basketball dreams. But what starts as fun becomes a battle for pride, purpose, and one last win. Is Kevin James not available?

This sounds terrible anyway. Nprighassy is looking to star in it. With Nate Land Entertainment producing Nate Nate, Nate Nate. Don’t mess it up. You got it going good.

You gotta go do SNL once a year. Learn from Alaney, do sn OL once a year. To your Christmas special. Do stand up. You got it good.

You’re gonna mess it up here. I’m telling you, We’re gonna come back in ten years and I’m gonna be doing a story going. Remember when Aprigatsy was going to build an amusement park in Nashville. I see this coming. You got it good, don’t mess it up.

Roywood Junior spoke to GQ. They were curious how Roy got the baseball bug. Roy said, f word, bro, that’s a good question. When I was in Memphis, my mom put me in baseball and I took to it. I thought it was fun.

I wasn’t good at it. I was very terrible at it, but I liked it. Then we got to Birmingham in the fourth grade and I joined the Little League. It was with a lot of my classmates. I had the right coaches, and I became excited about it.

At the same time, I was going after school care like I did in Memphis. I got to walk home, the Cubs came on at one or two in the afternoon. I would come home and sign to see that little last bit of the Cubs game. Bro. I’d sit there, no homework, no nothing, just sitting there with a Rice Crispy treat watching Andre Dawson.

I just fell in love with it, man, right down to the broadcast teams and all that.

And then I hit a second wave when I became a parent.

Yeah, I remember when baseball. The Cubs were on everywhere, the Braves were on everywhere. There were day games. The World Series sometimes played in the afternoon, and kids could see it. They even chased me.

I was a big baseball fan, and they just kept playing. Like remember the Cubs finally won the World Series, but there was a rain delay, and that happened at twelve thirty in the morning. I couldn’t even bother to stay up for that. Now, you know what they should have done that night. They should have called a suspended game and then come back the next night to play the tenth inning in primetime at like eight Eastern with a Cub That would have done a monster rating.

But baseball doesn’t know how to market anyway. I digress. GQ was curious, what’s the scouting report on roy Wood junior. Royce said, great locker room guy, lot of heart, first baseman. They can’t hit for Bauer, but will ouhustle anyone on the field.

Fairly slow, excellent glove man. The ball wasn’t getting past me. I could, scoop. I could do all that on my best day. I’d be a late inning defensive replacement when we’re defending a one run lead in September during a Pennant race.

I’m defensively dominant, but a liability at the plate. Sounds like the eighty six Red Sox could have used him too soon. GQ was curious, could you play corner outfield if you need to? Roy said, I don’t know, man, I’m not getting a no gappers, I don’t have the wheels, and my horse can’t get there. I thought this was interesting.

He says, my son’s not playing organized baseball. I’m not forcing him in any sports, but we do a little bit of batting practice, playing catch. But to me right now, baseball, much like chess and legos, is a tool to teach what I believe is very pertinent life lessons. The main one in baseball is the idea that you can’t do it alone. But a lot of time it’s just up to you, and sometimes you’re just gonna suck.

Sometimes that picture your face is going to be way better than you and there’s nothing to get you about it. Ah. I wish I were in LA this weekend. I have some family out there and they’re not out there this weekend. If I were, it, head over to LA Live for Belly Laughs.

Belly Laughs is celebrating Asian American culture by combining food and comedy. Take a look at the lineup in a second, but they liners include Hasan Minhaj coming on on Jehannny Margaret Show, Joe Kimbooster, and Cherry Kola. More than thirty comedians, three stages, two days. But there’s also a food lineup featuring food from twenty restaurants across LA. Remember during the pandemic, when you know there wasn’t anything to talk about, and I’d wind up going on these deep dive reading menus to you.

Remember I used to do that sometimes. That was because George Lopez opened to George Lopez Tacos. I remember George Lopez Tacos. He was all in about that and I kind of forgot about it. I don’t even think the url is still alive.

I think I checked this one other time. Let me do that now, George Lopez Tacos. It’s coming up on next bite. Let me click. That’s taking me to visit the restaurant website.

Yeah, now this is taking me to Somebody has gotten a hold of Lopez Tacos dot com. And apparently the text on the website is in Thai. I had to throw it into Google Translate to see what it even says. And apparently what it says on Lopez Tacos dot com in Thai language translated to English. Driving on the road today, no matter how careful drivers are, how much they prevent accidents or unexpected events, even though it’s a good thing, there’s still a chance that accidents are unexpected events will happen as usual because they may come from fellow road users or events that you cannot control.

So George Lopez is so far in on Lopez Tacos that he didn’t even bother to keep the url. Apparently, I digress. Johnny macbot here, John forgot to record the lineups. Forgive my pronunciations, after all, I’m an Ai Today, Hasan Minhaj Kumeil Nanjianni, Zarna garg Nimesh Patel, Johnny Park, Andrea Jin, Jason Chenni, Irene Two, Dylan Adler, Kieran Diol, Sabrina Wu, James, Tom Tien, Tron, Robin Tran, Tatiana Gucci and Di Loo. Tomorrow Hassan minhadj Margaret Cho, Bobby Lee, Joel Kim Booster, Hari Kondabolu, as If Ali, Joe Wong, Jenny Yang, Helen Hong, Fumi abe is My Alutfee, Aaron chen Nori Reid, Paula Gatta, Beautie shit Yarma, and Vicky Wang.

Now back to human Johnny mack el eight Simes caught up with Kamail nan Gianni about the Belly Laughs Festival. He’s happy returning to stand up after doing some films. He said, I miss being good at something I wasn’t good at anymore. I used to have so much confidence in this. Now it feels like I’m a different person, and so in the strikes, the Hollywood strikes, I was like, I want to try and see if I still love it.

Cherry Cola says, I find being a stand up comedian as a superpower stepping on to a set for sure. I think because we’re good at crowd work. We have a quickness that on every actor has. Cherry Cola says that after being the subject of racial jokes for decades, the best way to counteract the sting of the stereotypes is for Asian comedians to write jokes about their cultures that help their communities laugh. She says, I don’t know if it’s just society trying to define us or put us in a box, but it’s almost like we just recently got permissional laugh at ourselves because we’ve been the punchline for years in the media, and now it’s a chance to exale because this is a safe space.

It’s kind of what Belly Laughs is giving. Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Pete Davidson. I know well. The UK festival fright Fest has revealed its twenty twenty five lineup. The event will open with the Pete Davidson horror film The Home Freight Fest August twenty first through the twenty fifth.

Vulture has some spoilers for the plots for the rest of the season of It’s Always Sonny in Philadelphia, So if you don’t want to know what’s coming Skip ahead. I can probably do this in under a minute, so I want you to hit skip skip anyway. The rest of the season, according to Vulture, includes the Gang seriously engineering strangers, objectifying women, hosting an orgy, breaking up a happy family, and harassing Cricket and the waitress. And later in the season It’s always Sunny. We’ll cross over with The Golden Bachelor.

Broadway World reported on a cast and call for an off Broadway show called Not Ready for Prime Time. This set backstage at SNL’s early days. That sounds pretty cool. The SNL movie it was really good. The production self describes as a play about an American institution run by people who belong in an institution.

They’re looking for people to play Lorne Michaels, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushy, Chevy Chase, Jean Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Lorraine Newman, and Gilda Radner. Late Nighter points out since Bill Murray is a character in this that it will take place in a bigger timeline than the Saturday Night movie did. Broadway World says Not Ready for Prime Time will debut October fifth, scheduled for a limited run through December fourteenth at a yet to be announced theater. Staying with SNL. Apparently people are making SNL Lego.

There’s a website called Lego Ideas. On it you can pitch potential Lego sets that are voted on by Lego officionados, and sometimes Lego makes one. A new submission is called Live from New York It’s Saturday Night. It’s actually the second Saturday Night Live themed Lego. This new design includes seven Lego minifigures representing the original cast from nineteen seventy five.

The creator says a detachable staircase could be used to pose your minifigures, as in the Face Name Is cast photo taken on opening night, eighteen hundred and thirty five pieces. The set includes glowing the dark elements to simulate studio lighting. If you want to support the idea and get Lego to actually make this thing, go to the Lego Ideas site. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like to program without commercial interruption or feed drops or other stuff, become a Premium subscriber.

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I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that’s that’s great. Thank you. That’s so generous of you, Carl. That’s great.

But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room. And I thought, well that’s not what I expected. Oh my god.

So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not. Going to work. So that happened.

And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial statements and I had more money ain’t there than I was really using. It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people.

So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now, why should I wait until I die? Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then, you know, it was a long process for me to come around to that, but …

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest.

So it was a chunk of money that they were going to get. Well, they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect. And I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you.

I don’t want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but the most important plans you can get and it doesn’t have to be very complex.

What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and …

I saw all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier. And so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did so that they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter.

They were totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. It would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story.

So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that. And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I’m leaving it open.

So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it, because if we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now. And they did it and it wasn’t the money. Interesting Now, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind set from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again.

We don’t deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking that mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people.

They’re traveling all over the world. They’re in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killamungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change that is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life.

Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have, you know, when you’re in those depths. It’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you if it sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book?

What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy?

And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is a but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.

I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold? And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will.

Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan. It’s been fun.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey air, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Good news, the comedy dearth is over. I’ve got plenty for the next few days, as I’ve been doing lately. On Friday, I like to take a look at the late night jokes.

I’ve got to tip my cap to the writers of Jimmy Kimmelive. They’ve been teeing up Anthony Anderson with some great ones. But let’s take a look at the week. Ronny Chieng on The Daily Show commented on the Epstein files and said, that’s it. You’re not releasing any more information.

I’ve never been ghosted by a conspiracy before. Ronnie again. The Attorney General said the client list was on her desk. Let me guess your desk also hung itself. Runnie again.

Pam Bondy was supposed to release the pedophile list. If we wanted an attorney general to cover up sex crimes, we would have stuck with Matt Gates. That’s a great joke and same topic at this point. The only way we can learn who’s a certified pedophiles if Kendrick Lamar makes a song about them. Wow.

Ouch. Anthony Anderson said Trump has been riding high after Congress passed his Big Beautiful Bill. This bill gives one hundred billion dollars to ICE, kick seventeen millions off their healthcare, and cuts food asistants for kids. At this point, the only bill that’s effing more young people is Belichick. On the topic of Benjamin Netton Yahoo nominating Donald Trump for a Peace Prize, Ronny Chieng said, Yeah, Peace Prize nomination from Nettan Yahoo is very meaningful, right up there with a Husband of the Year nomination from O.

J. Simpson. Anthony Anderson, Pope Leo is reportedly taking a six week vacation. Hold on, he’s taking six weeks off? Who the hell’s he think he is?

Jimmy Kimmel, that’s great? And one more from Anthony Anderson, who had a really good week at the White House. Today, President Trump met with leaders of five West African countries. Things got off to a rough start when he congratulated them on winning the NBA finals. Bill Burr is all upset about the AI generated music.

Have you seen this thing? The quote unquote band The Velvet Sundown. I actually wrote about them on Monday on my sub stack link in the show notes. The Velvet Sundown is an AI project created using the Suno app. Bill Burr not happy about it.

He said, these f in nerds have taken over the music industry. People can’t even play instruments and computers and find thingg bands it don’t exist writing songs and then they bots listen to them and they get like five hundred thousand views and then people think this is a real band and it isn’t. What eff in world are we living in here? It’s unbelievable, these fen people, they can’t make enough money, wasn’t enough to be screwing musicians the way they have unapologetically just fing them over. The ‘shire existence of the music business.

They’ve done nothing but absolutely bend over and f musicians. And if that isn’t enough, now the other band they’re writing music, This like Fleetwood Mac meets fucking Delec with just a dash of Brian Adams and then they just put it in the thing. It spits it out. Wait, so the AI comedians go along, Bill, you know that’s coming. Sarah Sherman has signed on board with a new film project.

She will store in the new Netflix film Roommates. You know that one that’s the one they’ve been working on in New Jersey, where Adam Sandler has been seen. It also stars Natasha Leona Nick Kroll. Roommates centers on a budding friendship that turns sour when two college freshmen move in together.

Also starring in the film famous actress Sadie Sandler.

HBO Max. Wait, is that what we’re calling you? I lost track? Yes, it’s HBO Max. Now they just changed the name back this week.

I’m not being coy. I just I started to read the copy and I was like, wait, what are they know? Yeah, but it’s HBO Max. They announced a Big Bang Theory spinoff. It is called Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.

Now, buckle up, this gets pretty complicated, but it sounds interesting. Chuck Lorie, creator of the franchise, said, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which we’re already abbreviating as sft STU, which trips up my brain because it looks way too much like st FU, which means something else entirely sf T STU. We’re not calling you that. Let’s say, what can we call this thing? Stuart fails to Save the Universe.

We could just call this Show Stuart now, because then you’re going to think Daily Show, all right, fails to save the universe. Wow, John, you took one word off all right. I don’t know we’re calling this thing anyway. Chuck Laurie says it’s trying to incorporate science fiction, fantasy, and comedy and will feature extensive CGI. STU is set in the future.

See even that sounds like I’m reading like a CSI or a Law and Order spin off SFT STU set in the future after the events in Big Bang. In It, comic book store owner Stuart Bloom is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse armageddon. Apparently Sheldon and Leonard worked on this device after the end of the original series. Stewart is aided in his quest by his girlfriend Denise, his geologist friend Burt played by Brian Possain, and quantum physicists all around Pain in the Neck Barry. Along the way, they meet alternate universe versions of characters we’ve come to know and love from the Big Bang theory, and, as the title implies, things don’t go well.

I already forgot what this show is called I’ve said it five times, it’s called Stuart fails to Save the Universe. Okay, so it’s sliders. But the Big Bang Theory is that what I’m getting here? Chuck Lorie said, I wanted to do something radical that would take me out of my comfort zone, something that characters on The Big Bang Theory would have loved, hated and argued about. All right, that’s fun, all right from the near post.

I want to make sure I get this one right. This gets all kinds of convoluted. Apparently, Kamala Harris gave an interview before the election that was so quote confusing and weird that she and the host both agreed it shouldn’t air. Apparently, Harris was on Subway Takes, an online series hosted by Kareem Rama where guests admit their favorite hot take. It was filmed in the summer of twenty twenty four.

Rama told Forbes her take was really confusing and weird, not good, and so we mutually agreed we shouldn’t publish it. All right, what could this possibly have been about world peace, the economy? Nope. Rama tells us her take was on bacon as a spice. Well, there’s More, according to the story, Harris’s team had told the producers that Kamala’s hot take would have been taking a stand against removing her shoes when on an airplane, but when the interview started, Harris apparently surprised Rama with a different hot take, which was bacon is a spice.

The New York Times apparently has the unpublished video, so this seems like it’s real. Rama told Forbes her take was really confusing and weird, not good. Rama, who’s Muslim and does not eat pork, responded, I don’t know, or stubbles down and says, think about it. It’s pure flavor. She explains how bits of cooked bacon could be used to enhansome meal like seasoning, said.

Rama asked, could ease bee for turkey instead, and then paused the interview and said he doesn’t eat bacon. He then asked if they could do the segment on taking shoes off on airplanes instead. Harris decided instead to declare her love for anchovies on pizza. After speaking to an advisor, wrapped it up and said, well, I’m one hundred percent I’m sure on both of those. The post says Harris’s office did not immediately respond to request for comment.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is back out. Minor spoilers for the new season. I personally haven’t seen the new season yet because I keep forgetting. I don’t have cable TV right now. I got rid of it for the summer because I like to be outside and I don’t watch all that much TV.

I’ll get it back come September so I can watch the football. So, yes, It’s Always Sunny came out, but I’m like, oh, I gotta wait until they posted it to FX. Plus, the new College Football Game is out, so if I am in front of a TV, I’m going to playing the college football video game. I’ll get to It’s always funny anyway, Minor spoilers coming up. Charlie Day spoke to The Hollywood Reporter.

He explained why episode one spoilers It Won’t Kill You. Why episode one was the conclusion to the crossover with Abbott Elementary. Charlie explains, because their episode was the last time we saw our characters, we thought, let’s just jump in with our version of it. Now. This is interesting.

Charlie says it could possibly be the end after the already renewed season eighteen interesting. They talked about writing this season’s season finale, and they asked Charlie did he think of it as a season finale in that sense? Charlie said, I mean it, I did. I mean, I knew there was an offer for season eighteen as well, and I knew that we’d all discussed likely wanting to do it. But I personally went into the writer’s room last year as if it was my last chance to be in the writer’s room.

Fortunately, I think we’re lining up everybody and we’re going to come back for season eighteen. Beyond season eighteen, I don’t know, it could quite possibly be the end, but I think there was something about writing this season and having David and John chernback in the writer’s room, and having Robert Zelle and David Hornsby in a little bit of the old gang back, and then having some of the episodes work so well was exciting in a way that reinvigorated everybody. So we’ll see how long we can keep it going. But one season is but one season at a time, The Hollow Reporter said. Recently, on social media, people were sharing the new messaging that comes up before watching Rush Hour.

I talked about that this week, I think yesterday blah blah blah. Do you think your show’s aged well, Charlie said, I think for the most part, it’s age really well. From the beginning. We always set out to make a show that was satirizing bad people behaving badly, And when your intention is to highlight the bad behavior and comment on it, that’s sort of an evergreen message. In terms of a disclaimer before an episode, I’m neither four or against it.

I think it’s better than just getting rid of, say rush hour. Let people make up their own minds. By the way, we’ve always had a disclaimer before episodes. It’s always said, hey, this is TVMA or X or whatever, lookout, watch out. But the thing that really mystifies me in our culture is how completely accepting we are of extreme violence in our content.

People getting shot and killed and murdered horrific ways. But a couple of dirty, little naughty jokes seemed to really throw everybody from a loop on gossip Corner. I guess whose name I’m gonna drop. That’s right, Pete Davidson once again TMZ saying Pete and his girlfriend Elise Hewett apparently had a nice fourth of July, Elise posted some Instagram snaps seventeen photos, some of which show off what TMZ refers to as her toned bikini body. Apparently Pete and Elise are living together.

Good luck to the couple. The laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival is back for its third year. Friend of the show Dan Bubletz Junior putting this one together to downtown Loveland July thirty first through August third. Laughout Loveland dot com for the info. It’ll bring thirty comedians from across the country to perform at various venues.

Dan says every year the festival grows. This year is no exception. In our first year we had seven shows with six headliners. This year we have nine headliners and ten shows. Headliners for this year’s festival include Andrew Overdaal Hayden, Crystal Movida, Al Gaviy, Mike Stanley, and Matt Cobos.

Festival feature some of Colorado’s up and coming comedians along with comedians from across the country. We’ll take a look at that as it gets a little closer, but that’s a solid festival out today. Greg warrens The champ as an audio album. I’m always in favor of audio releases for comedians. So nice job, Greg Warren the champ, and that is your comedy news for today.

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It’s great ways to support the show. It’s just five bucks, it’s less than your coffee. Why wouldn’t you? All right, see you tomorrow and now stick around for this interview our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now.

And he said, oh wow, that’s great, thank you. That’s so generous of you, Carl, that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.

And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically to do it right, otherwise it was not. Going to work.

So that happened.

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And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then, you know, it was a long process for me to come around to that, but …

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get.

Well they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect. And I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to and give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you.

And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn’t have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy?

What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and …

I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people or to see what they did so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally.

They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later, and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I’m I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that and I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it.

They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I’m leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it because I said, we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now?

And they did that. And it wasn’t the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be.

You can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people they’re traveling all over the w…

They’re in Tahiti right now, they climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heart felt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life. Because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life.

Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have?

How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness.

Do you you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice.

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And then talk to people about it.

Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say Look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness.

Carl, where could people find the book? Wherever books are sold, And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan, it’s been fun.

Our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that’s great. Thank you. That’s so generous of you.

Carl, that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room. And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected.

Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not. Going to work.

So that happened.

---

And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

---

And then, you know, it was a long process for me to come around to that, but …

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get.

Well they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I. Sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can magnect and I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you.

And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So so you know, nobody. Has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn’t have to be very complex.

What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

---

And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and …

I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did, so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally.

They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that, And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it.

They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I’m leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and so they said, okay, we’ll do it.

Because I said we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now. And they did that. And it wasn’t the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy.

And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be. You can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

---

And now you cannot believe what these people they’re traveling all over the w…

They’re in Tahiti right now, they climbed Kiliman Garrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead and this brought us back to life. Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have.

You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book?

What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy?

And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and. Then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise.

And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold?

And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan. It’s been fun.