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Caloroga Shark Media, Media. Outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Three and a half months ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on Comedy Island. Each week, the listener group has voted one comedian off the island.

We are down to the final three. They are John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman and Nicky Glazer. The listeners went to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and they have voted one of the comedians off the island. It’s time to tell you the votes. Michelle votes for John Mulaney, Mary votes for Nikki Glaser, Richard votes for John Mulaney.

Matt votes for John Mulaney. That’s three votes for j mlaney. Mike votes for Nikki Glaser. Jeff votes for John Mulaney. Lee votes for John Mulaney.

That’s five votes for John Mlaney, two votes for Nikki Glaser, zero votes for Sarah Silverman. Janet votes for Nikki Glaser, Dylan votes for Nikki Glaser. That’s four votes for Nikki Glaser. Cheryl votes for John Mulaney, six votes for John Mulaney, four votes for Nikki Glaser, no votes for Sarah Silverman. Andy votes for Nikki Glaser and Mike c votes for Nikki Glaser.

We have a tie. Now. The first thing this tells us is Sarah Silverman is officially in the finals of Comedy Survivor, but we have to settle the tie. Who’s going home? Is it John Mulaney or Nikki Glaser?

And in full Ryan Seacrest form, I will tell you the answer after the break. As we have established on Comedy Survivor, when there is a tie, the AI settles the tie. But before we do that, let’s verify the votes. Spruce, the AI are you there, I’m right here. I’ve been keeping track.

If you want to confirm the votes or have me break that tie, I’m ready. When you are, please check the count I don’t want any errors. No problem. I’ve gone through the votes again and the tally is indeed accurate. Six votes for John Mulaney and six votes for Nikki Glaser, So we’ve got ourselves a perfect tie.

Let me know when you’re ready for me to make that deciding vote. All right, it’s down to the finals. Spruce will decide who will take on Sarah Silverman in the finals of Comedy Survivor. Spruce, you will now vote someone off the island. Who’s going home?

Well, this is a tough call, but here we go. I’m sending John Mulaney home. Nikki Glaser moves on to face Sarah Silverman in the final showdown. Like, see what happens next? Wow?

John Mulaney goes home in a shocker. Oh wow, I thought for sure Mulaney was gonna hit the finals here. Wow, absolutely amazing. So we’re down to the final two, Nikki Glaser or Sarah Silverman. Sarah with zero votes.

Nicki comes into the finals barely escaping in its tiebreaker. Sarah Silverman had no votes and for most of this contest has gotten very few votes. Is Sarah Silverman the favorite to win Comedy Survivor would you have guest her name four months ago? But we’re not done yet. You guys have to vote now.

Let me be clear because sometimes the TV thing on the island gets a little confusing. For this week, we are still voting someone off. Okay, hey, if you write the name down, you’re sending them home. I know sometimes TV does something different in the finale. We’re not doing that.

We’re voting someone off. So if you want Nikki Glaser to lose, write Nikki Glaser. If you want Sarah Silverman to lose, Right, Sarah Silverman, got it. You’re sending someone home. You’re voting against someone.

Here’s what you do. You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You write down the name of someone you want to go home. The person with the most votes will go home, leaving one person on Comedy Island. That person will be the Comedy Survivor.

Okay, Daily Comedy News Podcast group vote someone off Comedy Island. Who’s going home? Is it Nikki Glaser or is it Sarah Silverman? One goes home. Whoever’s left is the Comedy Survivor.

Voting continues until the end of day Thursday. Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group Comedy Survivor find Sarah Silverman versus Nikki Glaser meets you back in the morning.

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Caloroga Shark Media. It’s Monday the thirteenth, which feels like it should be a thing, but Monday the thirteenth’s not a thing. Johnny MACKA, Hello, this is your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians on the comedy industry. He said, it’s the algorithm Loves. They put out a trailer for this Kevin Hart thing, Funny af This is the comedy competition on Netflix where they’re gonna pick the next great stand up And let me tell you, I think this trailer’s really good.

I’m surprised. I’m surprised at myself because they tend to be a hater about such things. Why are you such a hater, Johnny Mack. Here’s why. Because they used to have these things on NBC last Comic Standing and a bunch of those, and people would come to me and be like, hey, Johnny Mack, how come you’re not playing so and so on the Comedy Channel?

And I’d be like, because so and so has got eight seconds of good material and you saw it on TV last night. I get it. On this show, Kevin Hart is joined by Keagan Michael keat Thomp Sagora, kamil On, Johnny Chelsea Handler, and Nikki Glaser, and they’re on the trailer and about to play for you. I think we hear We definitely hear Kamal Chelsea, and I think we hear Keegan. I don’t think we hear Sigora and Glazer in this trailer, but I watched it about three hours ago, so maybe I’m forgetful.

Anyway, this is a little long, but good. Let’s listen. Funny a ed is the search for the next great stand up? To me, we have an opportunity to discover who the next person could be. The competition on Netflix for a large prize.

What is this squid game? There’s never been a comedy competition that actually captures the real grind of stand up. I don’t have anything else. There’s no backup plan. I swow ice cream.

Hopefully I ain’t got to do that. No moment. Is this person that’s winning getting a Netflix special? Great? When were you gonna.

Tell me that? Joining me or some of my friends who also happen to be some of the most trusted voices in comedy. When we go to Chicago, can I write in your private job? Okay? So let’s talk offline.

We figure it out. Okay. I used to work ed an STD center. Maybe some of you recognize me. Some people have that thing.

Now you’ll the honest crowd. This is the type of crowd in MAS Comedians drop home with no music. It’s how you surprised us. Every race God hateable things. East As is very smart, but they drive their kids too hard.

Right, Black people are perfect. Yours vote on who will win it all? I’m not going out without a fight, can’t. I got back up. It will be one winner.

This person is going to be conque of us, the next household name. This is an opportunity will you be ready for? When you started talking, I was like, I don’t think Kevin knows what he’s gonna say it, but that was very inspiring. I mean I’ve read things inspiring. Well, I’ve actually thought about this well.

Like, do you know it’s my show? Kevin Art joined by Keith and Michael Key, Tom Sigour, Camilan and Johnny, Chelsea Handler and Nikki Glaser. They will be special guest judges. The series premiere is April twentyeth. New episodes released over the course of three weeks.

The semi final and finale live on Netflix at nine Eastern May fourth and fifth. Viewers around the world will be able to vote in real time during the live shows for their favorite standup comedian, and the winner will be announced live on the fifth, which means Johnny Mexican have to work nighttime and he doesn’t like that. There are a lot of contestants here. Let’s see, you’re not going to know these names. I’m not going to read off fifty names.

But out of New York City, you’ve got a guy from Queen’s, two guys from Queens. Wait, Leonard Ootz is on this thing. Leonard’s been around for twenty years. Leonard’s really good. But this is Oh wait, Kaitln wait, hold on, I got to back up.

I gotta read this. I was scrolling down at names that I didn’t recognize. But Kaitlin Palufo has been around, Leonard Ootz has been around for twenty years at least, and Asama Sadik out of Brooklyn has been around. There’s some of your New York contestants. Now, my New York snobbery is coming out because the Queen’s people are like, we’re from Queens.

The Brooklyn people who are saying we’re from Brooklyn, and some people are saying I’m from New York City, New York, which means you’re not a real New Yorker, you’re a transplant living in Manhattan. Because Leonard Oitz says he’s from Horrlem, New York. Now, if you don’t know the geography, he could have just said I’m from New York, New York or Manhattan as well, but he said Hornlem, which is very specific and tells me something about Leonard Dowitz, who I’m going to root for it because I find him really funny. We have LA contestants. Let me see here if I recognize any names.

Nope, Chicago. And what’s interesting is under the Chicago contestants we seem to have leftover. See, all the New York people are from New York or New Jersey in the New York suburbs. The LA people are all from LA.

And then there’s the Chicago contestants, which include people from Brooklyn,…

And so it seems like Chicago is the cash hall, which is weird because Chicago is a great comedy city. In New York City, Tonight, it’s the Gordon of Dreams at Radio City Music Hall. Headliners include John Oliver, the New York Times favorite political commentator, Andrew Schultz.

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Steve sharipa friend of mine, worked with him, been in his car. He is the event’s host. Love Steve Chris has been encouraging me to tell more stories. All right, So here we are. We’re in Las Vegas.

We’re out there. We’re doing the Wise Guys Show. I don’t remember why I wind up in Steve Shirippa’s car. I don’t know if he’s driving me back to the hotel or we had to go to his whatever he’s driving and I’m riding shotgun and I will never forget this. And I have told this to people over the years.

Steve, I hope I’m not telling a story out of school here, but it’s been twenty years. You’ll be okay, and Steve goes Johnny. People think I’m rich, and don’t get me wrong. When we do the show, meaning the Sopranos, I’m paid really well. Then we make ten of them, and then I set around for two years and I went, huh, interesting, good guy, really really good guy.

Steve Sharipa in empress release said, the Garden of Dreams Foundation has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people in their families in the Tri State area of the last twenty years. And it’s incredible events like Garden of Laughs that helped make that possible. Friend of the Show, Mark, Now, Jamarco, we’re watching. We’re gonna see if you go Gaffigan because people know that you’ve been on the show. I think it’s four times now.

We got to see. At some point I’m gonna be on this very podcast in my basement going yeah, I can’t get John Marco on the show anymore, and that’s how we’ll know he has made it. But so far, cool guy still comes on. And good news for a friend of the show John Marco Ciresi. The downside, his weekly podcast is moving to Vox Media’s podcast network.

Now why that’s good news. I mean, you and I don’t care, but it means he’s gonna make a lot more money. The Box people they have big podcasts that make money. Box Media put out a presser saying the podcast embraces the negatives of life with humor and honesty, and is a place where complaining is encouraged, negativity is celebrated, and silver linings are debunked. Fox Media takes over sales, marketing, and distribution for the podcast.

The podcast was previously with comedy podcast network Hitgum. John Gianmarco Soresi said, I’m thrilled to join a network that grants Oh no, that’s a half assed millennium pression, and John Marco doesn’t sound like milleni at all. We’ve established this. John Marco said, I’m thrilled network that grants us a completely unearned air of intelligence. His YouTube channel has one point three eight million subscribers.

His instagram has one point two million followers. Lilian zoo These, vice president of podcast Vox Media, said, JN Marco and Russell have built a hilarious and smart show where complaining has never been more fun. They’re dynamic with their guests and genuine affection for each other makes every episode a reliably good time. You could tell that she gets the vibe. You could tell Lillian has listened to a lot of episodes of the show and as a big fan.

You could tell we’re excited to partner and build on their success to bring the downside to audiences everywhere. Uh huh, gab Iglesias. He’s launching a family friendly fast channel, Fluffy TV. Now, if you don’t know what a fast channel is, you know if you go on two B or one of those, there’s these things that like will just be like streaming Colombo all day. Those are fast channels.

On Fluffy TV, audiences will find programming including classic and contemporary comedy films, stand up specials, sketch comedy, and original series. I will be shocked if they throw any money and put an original series on this thing. I’m saying that loud. Now. Maybe they’ll produce something that will air on Netflix and repurpose it, but they’re not going to produce something for a fast channel.

There’s not that much money in these things. I don’t buy it. Fluffy TV will be wherever you get your fast channels, including Amazon Prime, Google TV, Optimum Stream, the Roku Channel, tv O plus, Xfinity X one, et cetera, et cetera. I bought a house with that money, so I don’t care what you say. FUSE Media’s chief business Officer Patrick Courtney said, Gabriel Iglacias is one of the top most beloved comics in the world.

Fluffy TV brings that spirited to fast, creating a widely appealing channel where audiences can come together for comedy that feels inclusive, joyful, and authentic. Gab Igalacias said, I’ve always believed comedy is better when everyone could be in on the joke. Fluffy TV is the kind of channel you can turn on with your friends, your parents, your kids, whoever’s in the room. It’s packed with stand up movies and shows that are made to make people laugh together. It is unclear if the channel will be available in Saudi Arabia.

Saturday Night Live has announced the rest of the lineup. I g I heard that one. I got that one in Saturday Night Live as it has the lineup before the rest of the year, and boy, it’s a good one. It’s so good. I think Lauren should call it a day.

I know I say that once a year. May sewond Olivia Rodrigo is host and musical guest. My daughter will be all over that episode. Matt Damon hosts on May ninth. Musical guest Noah Khan.

I’ve got Noah con tickets this summer. Matt Damon will be promoting Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film The Honysty, which hits theaters July seventeenth. Noah Khan’s fourth album, The Great Divide, is out April twenty fourth, and then to close out the season on May sixteenth. How’s this for a lineup? Will Ferrell and Paul McCartney.

Will Ferrell is promoting his new comedy series The Hawk, which will be on Netflix this summer. Paul McCartney promoting The Boys of Dungeon Lane, an album out May twenty ninth. Lauren Michaels are you listening? I know Lauren listens. He doesn’t miss an episode of this, Lauren, Will and McCartney.

That’s gonna crush. You’re not gonna top that. It’s only gonna get worse. What are you gonna do? Have Morsello as do Domingo.

Get out. It’s been a good run. You’re eighty one, eighty two years old? Now how old’s Louren Michael’s Lauren is eighty one years old? Lauren get out?

Have everybody go, Oh my god. That was the greatest thing with Will and McCartney and McCartney can do like a seventeen minute version of hate You to wrap up this show. Everyone will be like, how great was that?

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And then you walk away and then next year everyone will be like, wow, snow re…

I mean, Ashley pe D is okay, but Marcel Ornandez does one thing, one thing well. And what’s going on here in Chloe Feynman? Uh yeah, get out, get Out, get Out, get out boy. That was fun. I bumped five stories, which means I have a lot for tomorrow already.

The Moon Tower Comedy Festival, it’s kinda started, but really kicks into gear on the fifteenth. They put out some pressers and we’re told, this isn’t just a comedy festival. It’s a choose your own adventure of stand up legends, rising stars, podcasters, sketch chaos, karaoke fueled late nights, and yes, actual goblins at happy hour. They announced second Wave headliners. So these are the people that didn’t make the initial press release.

We’re told second Wave headliners. The twenty twenty six the lineup gets even wilder. Your second Wave headliners include Meg Statler you may know her from Hacks, Sarah Sherman. You may know her from Saturday Night Live, Lucy Dorling. I don’t know where you know her from, but she returns with her signature blend of old Hollywood glamour, razor, sharp wit and jaw dropping magic.

I don’t feel I agree to do a list of names today. Let me skim it. Yakov Smirnoff, is there, Guy brainam Nish, Kumar, Bet Stelling, Cristelle Alonzo, Kathy Griffin, Veer does, and we’re encouraged to get a badge. All right? How do the badges work?

Badges include access to one hundred plus comedians and NonStop club shows and after parties and pre sale access to headlining shows at the Paramount and State Theater. How what do you suppose to badge? Is? Huh? Well, I’m on the website.

Badges on sale now. Club Badge ninety nine bucks fees included. There you get entry to all four nights of club shows. Okay, we could get club Premium three hundred dollars fees included. Thank you for that.

All laughs, No lines. This badge is for the comedy connas who knows what they like and wants to be the first person through the door. The only difference I’m seeing, and I’m sure there are other significant differences, but uh, the ninety nine dollars one says entry to four nights of club shows plus seventy two hour pre sale nightly parties. The three hundred dollars one says skip the line, entry to all four nights of club shows plus seventy two hour pre sale blah blah blah, skip the line at designated bars and nightly parties. I’ll wait online.

Thanks, Why don’t we get the full Moon badge? That’s fifteen hundred dollars and yes, the fees are included. I mean they’re not going to rip you off, they’ll include the fees. The Full Moon Badge, of course, is the ultimate comedy experience, and it’s limited quality. They’re not going to just sell as many of these as they can.

They camp it. And the limited Quality badge I’m punching today. The Limited Quality badge includes all the benefits of the club Premium badge, you know that’s the one where you skip the lines. Plus it includes your choice of ten paramount and State shows from April seven through the nineteenth, with guaranteed seating in the first three rows, which if you’re a comedy connoisseur. You don’t actually want you don’t want to be right in the front.

Now I have bad news for you. I lied. I just see here. It’s sold out. My apologies to the Moontower, a comedy festival of people.

Clearly they will cap this and not sell as many as they can. There’s also a daily wristband for fifty dollars plus fees. Why does this one have plus fees? Everything else didn’t include the fees? This one f you.

You’re paying the fees cheap? Oh, you’re only free for one night with Joys the club. With a daily wristband, you get access to one night of shows and parties. Pre sale access not included. Oh how much the fees are?

I’m gonna buy one? Well, I’m not actually gonna buy one. We’re gonna pretend to buy one, right, how I want? I do? Here, I’m clicking, let’s buy one for Wednesday night?

Loading very slowly. Now we’re told wristband sixty dollars fees included. So there’s ten dollars of fees, which makes me wonder, what’s the ten dollars in fees including? Huh? That is the Moontower Festival.

We’ll talk about that later in the week. Want to check out on Melbourne? Yeah, because I pulled a clip. Here is Stephen k Amos. I have made some minor edits here because he said some F bombs.

I know I’ve been letting more curses through lately and I was thinking about this at the National Donut Chain. I think society has changed the younger people. They can’t get through a sentence without cursing. And you know, I try and keep the show quote unquote clean, or like match game clean or naughty clean, if you know what I mean. But I don’t like the out and out F bombs.

But we’ve been letting some s words through in a couple other words that in the past I wouldn’t let through because it’s the way people speak. If I can take it out and not change the gist of what’s being said, I usually do, but sometimes I can’t. But I don’t want to do the F bombs. So here’s Stephen k Amos minor edits for F bombs. I do like Steven a lot.

Thank you so very much, lovely to be here. I was actually in Australia a year ago, which is approximately four British prime ministers ago, because that is indeed how we now count late time in the United Kingdom. I just come here and to piss out of you guys for your revolving door of prime ministers. But in the UK you’ve gone, what a good idea. Let’s take that home.

And one of our prime ministers was somebody by them of Liz truss. You may have heard. Yeah, Now Liz Trusfer is in office for a month and you may not have heard this, but apparently Liz trust was the person who killed the queen. Or did not know? Yes, the last pictures of her Majesty was meeting then Prime Minister and the picture of the magic bow.

Now in my job, I’ve also been fortunate to meet her late Majesty. I did a big show in the United Kingdom and I said, my kin’t a comedy they go for that? Said, yes, you’ll be fine. However, you’ll meet the queen afterwards. And there’s protocol, I said, what’s the protocol?

That don’t look her in the eye, speak only she speaks to you. And above all you have to bow? Is that what me bow for another living human being? Nowhere in my eyes all meta equal. I was gonna stand my ground.

We finished the show. I’m in the night. Who want the other performance? I’ll see the queen folks. As soon as she gets in front of me, my knees went.

I bowed like a bitch. Hello, Hello, thank you for everything, thank you for saving my people. How was this close? Licking the back of her head and putting it on an envelope? Stam coming up at noon eastern.

It is Comedy Survivor. We were down to Nikki Glaser, Sarah Silverman and John Mlaney. The listeners have voted one of those three people off a Comedy Island, and at noon Eastern today I will reveal to you who’s out, which means we’re down to the final two, which means we’re down to the last week of Comedy Survivor. So you can’t vote quite yet. Well maybe you can.

I don’t know when you’re listening to that U in theory. It’s not yet noon eastern on Monday yet and you can’t. But if it’s after noon eastern on Monday, you can. You’ll go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You’ll see a drawing there of me and whoever was voted off and then everybody’s voting and it should be a big week for votes.

Voting will continue until end of day Thursday and we will find out who is the winner of Comedy Survivor. But we first have to do the bonus episode which is coming up at noon Eastern today. Comedy Survivor meets you back here in a little bit

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Caloroga Shark Media. From old Man Mountain. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves h only this first story. I don’t even have a comment done.

But just while we’re on old Man Mountain, I was at the National Donuts chain and a young lady college age pulls up, pulls right into the handicap spot, like that’s totally okay, gets her coffee, gets back in. You’re fine, It’s all about you, but that’s not why we’re here. On comedy, Nikki Glaser was on Alex Cooper’s podcast and talked about the wonders of the hot husband fetish. Stay with me. Nikki Glaser said, in a relationship, I don’t really care if my boyfriend were to hook up, but that’s not a two way street.

I’m not someone who likes to hook up when I’m in a relationship, but I don’t really care about that. But I don’t care if someone else were to. In fact, I kind of like it. And again, I live old Man Mountain. That’s where my head explodes.

But okay, you do you Nicki. She explained this has been a successful, ongoing thing since she got with her boyfriend thirteen years ago. Nicki said, I didn’t really have a boyfriend before that. I would always ask him about past hook ups and girlfriends and how they got together, like how did you first know you liked each other? I love that.

She explains. It would make me horny to think about him and doing that with other girls, So I’d ask about all his girlfriends or anyone who had hooked up, with all the details about it, and would really be like a foreplay for me. I would get revved up talking about it. But you see, then he ran out of stories. Nikki Glaser explains, it wasn’t as exciting anymore because I was getting the same stuff.

I had never heard of anything like this fetish. As the story goes, Nikki Glaser apparently encouraged her boyfriend to come home with more stories. Nikki Glaser told Alex Cooper, I want a guy that other girls want, but there were rules, you know, rules like no kissing. Nicki explained, if a guy has a sexual connection with a girl and he wants to use protection and just have sex for night, I literally wouldn’t care if my husband did that, I don’t know why. If he were to watch the Wire with her, do crossword puzzles or send memes or stuff, I’d be like, what the aff are you doing?

That’s our thing. Emotional cheating would hurt me. Nicky Glazer as a special coming out later this month. This next story, I had to check to make sure it wasn’t an April Fools story that I had missed earlier in the week. But no, the date line April seventh.

Apparently in the Call of Duty game, there’s a Dave Chappelle for twenty skin. Apparently you’ll be able to play Call of Duty while dressed up as Thurgood Jenkins, the fictional character from nineteen ninety eight to Half Baked played by Dave Chappelle. An Activision blog post explains there’s something good going on at Frankenson’s and BurrH Pharmaceutical, and Thurgud Jenkins is right in the middle of it. The master of custodial Arts takes his chance to have some fun and save a friend memorialized in this bundle, inspired by the nineteen ninety eight hit comedy Half Baked. Okay, then, Judy Gold tells page six She is shocked by how brazen anti semites have become at the city’s comedy clubs.

She said she was performing at the New York Comedy Club and audience member shouted out. She tells page six, this one guy was being really disruptive, and I said, you’re annoying a comedian. I was just talking to him because the crowd was great, and he would just yell stuff. I’ve been doing this since I was nineteen. I can handle anything.

A sourus tells page six that the bully did not go quietly. A witness says he was talking to the security guy, wanted to get in his face, wanted to fight him outside. Then the next night, Judy Gold said, some guy made a comment about Jews being cheap, so I said, thanks for bringing that trope back from sixteen hundred. She said she hadn’t heard that, particularly one in thirty years. The last time it happened was thirty plus years ago and Marietta, Georgia.

Someone yelled out Jews of all the money, and I said, yeah, that’s why I’m doing this gig in Marietta, Georgia, which is a great comeback as a New Yorker. Although I haven’t lived in the city now for a good twenty five years. I don’t know if to do math. I do find that surprising. Again, I’m not going to say people never say vile things, but I don’t run into such things.

The Atlantic had an article I found pretty interesting. I’m going to go first here and say I have no expertise to comment on this at all. I don’t have the perspective or the experience, but I do want to read it to you. It’s by Kay Austin Collins. The headline, who is black comedy for the subhet or a new book?

Is nostalgic for the nineties, but the era of crossover success was not necessarily the pinnacle of black comedic achievement. Kay Austin Collins Rights early in his career, before he became a household named Dave Chappelle attempted to get a series off the ground at Fox. It was nineteen ninety eight, and the network had already welcomed black comedies such as Living Single, Martin and In Living Color, shows that implied to a vested interest in black taste. Chappelle might have expected to find a receptive audience when he presented the pilot for Dave Chappelle, a sitcom based on his life as a young black comedian. What he reportedly got instead was a room full of white executives with a familiar set of complaints.

There were not enough white people on his proposed show, it was not universal enough, meaning it was too black, Swap out the black female lead for white one, and add an additional white character. He was advised all this despite Fox being a Chappelle but at the time a network that had built itself on black viewers. He refused to cooperate, remarking the incident quote tells every black artist, no matter what you do, you you need whites to succeed. Cha Austin Collins continues good stuff here. Chappelle was caught up in a whirlwind of change in the TV landscape.

The successes of black sitcombs in the nineteen eighties and nineties had made new shows marketable for the mainstream parentheses read not just black mainstream audiences, but the marketability had come with a catch. In the late nineties, there was a broader push for multiculturism, which came to be defined in a great many cases as whiteness plus white protagonists with their black Asian and Latino friends. Blackness not as a set of experiences in itself, but has proof positive of the white hero’s ability to learn jokes that might offend or even just confuse. White audiences became harder cells and safe crossover appeal became the norm. A few years prior to Shabelle’s Bitch keenan Ivory way Ins had left his show over issues that reportedly included censorship from Fox Cha.

Austin Collins continues fast forward half a decade to the now famous story of Chappelle’s show. He mastered a comic style that highlighted the absurdity of racism by taking it to its extremes, while also leaning on and exploring black in jokes without translating them for white viewers. His bits became memes before most of us knew what a meme was, and taking advantage of Comedy Central’s comparatively lacks rules, he insists that on using the N word liberally, this Chappelle show was everything that the nineteen ninety eight concept couldn’t be, and ironically, though the show made no effort whatsoever to be universal, it nevertheless won a rabbit and diverse audience in two thousand and five, Chappelle walked away from a reported fifty million dollar contract he’d signed with Comedy Central the previous year. Most people were baffled by his decision, but in interviews, he explained that the fame and pressure had weighed on him and the show’s popularity, especially among people who were ostensibly the butt of the jokes, indicated that his work had not been received as he’d intended. In the end, Chapelle followed the logic had set for himself early on in his career.

Mainstream approval was never more important than the integrity of the material or its maker. The book is Black Out Loud, The Revolutionary History of Black comedy from Vaudeville to nineties sitcoms. The book is by Jeff Bennett. The piece I just read to you is in the Atlantic end titled who is Black Comedy? Four?

The Boston Globe wrote about Louis C.K. They ray, you may have heard that Netflix is back in the Louis c. K business. Last week, The Dreaming Beemuth announced that the once Disgrace comedian will headline the Hollywood Ball in May. Fifth Blah blah blah.

The Globe rights in truth he never entirely went away. Yeah, he immediately lost his TV deal with e X, including his series Louis. The mainstream entertainment machine shun him for time, but he soon began self promoting his own comedy shows in which he passively aggressively painted himself as a victim of cancelation. He won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album twenty twenty two, and he’s been slithering back into the public consciousness for a while. The Netflix deal didn’t happen overnight.

I did watch some comedy specials during the week. I started with Sheng Wang. I really liked his previous special, and I was excited for this one and wound up disappointed by it and didn’t finish it. It’s fine. I just found it was Mitch Hedberg cover and on the house to describe it, even the way he punches words, and maybe it’s just the way he speaks, but I’m watching it, I’m like, this just feels like a Mitch Heedburg cover.

Band. Kind of disappointed that one. Then I put on Sarah Milkin, even though my brain had been poisoned by the Facebook group some people had watched it already. It’s It’s fine. It’s whatever.

I mean. I don’t hate it, don’t love it, didn’t make it that much into it. It’s fine, it is what it is.

And then my favorite of the three I watched was Aaron Chen’s special, this on…

It’s low energy and low produced and it kind of works. So out of the three, watch Aaron Chen. You’ll find all three that I just mentioned on Netflix. We’re starting to get closer to the twenty twenty six Great American Comedy Festival. This is the one every year in Johnny Carson’s hometown, and they have announced that a group of magicians will headline the comedy and magic show on Thursday, June eighteenth at the Johnny Carson Theater.

Festival executive director Pat Jensen said all four of these performers have been raved about by the other top magicians and comedians. Everyone I talked to says, holy cow, what a trio of ACX. Well, who are they? There’s Julie Chen. In nineteen ninety seven, Julie became the first woman and first magician of Chinese heritage to win a World championship in the fifty year history of the Awkward Pause.

Here, as John rolls into a set in French, I’m going to half ass translate it as the International Federation Magic Society would be my rough translation. There, the world’s leading organization for the art of magic. David Kovak specializes in combining humorous monologues with cleverly crafted or magic routines. He has a solo show, Fooling Buddha, where he plays ten different characters, including a magician and the Evisons. No en in there.

Everson’s Jeff and Tessa Evison are internationally acclaimantalists whose demonstrations of telepathy of amazed audiences in more than forty countries. One of the few married couples in history to master the rare art of second sight, they create the impression that two minds are working as one. Pretty cool magic shows Thursday, June eighteenth, Improv headlined by Bluebird Improv on June nineteenth and Charlie Brens is your headliner Jude twentieth, all at the Johnny Carson Theater. Charlie Bran’s been making the news a lot lately. Let’s check in on the Melbourne comedy festival.

The folks at Sinster went to see Zanab Johnson. They wrote there’s a point in Talks Optimistic where Zana Johnson starts talking about why Americans are so attached to guns, and instead of going where you expect, she flips it. It’s not about politics, not really, it’s because, according to her, Americans can’t fight. That’s kind of the rid of them, of the whole show. She takes something heavier, at least, something that feels like it should be heavy and twisted just enough that you’re laughing before you’ve had time to brace yourself.

Here is a clip I got a gun. Yeah, not on me. I should have said that didn’t make it through customs. Here’s the thing. I didn’t want a gun.

I got a house, so I got a gun. I’m making it seem like it came with the house, right, it wasn’t three bedrooms in a clock. But here’s the thing, Like, now that I have it, I know you shouldn’t say it because for it to be most effective, it should be a surprise, right, But I like saying I don’t know why. I feel like it makes my boundaries very clear. You know, if I tell you I have a gun, at the beginning of the night.

Then you know where the night can go. Right. Sometimes I’d just like to say it like I’ll pull up to a car and like a red light, I’ll look at the car next to me and I’ll. Be like, I got a gun. I say it on dates, when I’m on a date, I say it really cute, though, I’m like, I got a gun.

Shut up, Pum pum, pum, shut up, stop pum. They like this show a lot, and not clip is really good. They say. Johnson’s delivery is clean, almost deceptively sell. There’s no cast to hide behind, no rambling.

Every beat feels placed. It gives the material space to land, even when she’s jumping between ideas that shouldn’t quite sit together. Good review, and that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media. And Air, and Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians on the comedy industry. A sentence I can’t remember unless I write it down, but the algorithm loves it. David Cross as a new special. It’s called the End of the Beginning of the End, and the La Times was like, what does the end of the beginning of the End mean?

David Cross explains, Well, you could look at it a couple different ways. To me, it signifies the beginning of the end has occurred, and we’re now at the end of the beginning of the end. And from where you go with that, that’s up for you to decide. The La Times likes that this special shot in a club. Cross that I’ve shot specials in theaters and it’s just different, not that one’s better than the other, they’re just different.

You have a different relationship with the audience. When I first started touring, I’d go to music venues and I’d have a band open up for me. Then I’d just go up and pretty much perform as long as I could until I had to pee, sometimes out of a band, playing sometimes two bands, then I’d go. I did that a couple times and stopped doing that, and then did theaters, and I decided for the last two specials, want to shoot it, I’ll go to a music venue. I was at the forty Walk Club in Athens last time.

I was at the Metro in Chicago before that, both places I played on earlier tours. And you know, it’s not seated. People are standing there at the stage, and I preferred it’s more fun. It’s not as lucrative, but it’s a more fun show to do. Cross talked about his movie roles and if his daughter has seen anything.

He said, I don’t actively shield her, but I don’t introduce her to anything. So I was a little bummed out and I got over it pretty quickly. But when I found out she had seen a little bit of Alvin and the Chipmunks, and only because I didn’t want to spoil the enjoyment of what movies are and what kids’ movies are and how things work, and I feel like that would introduce an element of reality that I just want her to be able to enjoy these things without. She’s seen Kung Fu Panda when she was younger, Like I don’t know three four, five times. That has no idea that I’m in that my voice is there.

She knows how you stand up. She gets that now. When she was younger, she’d say, daddy’s silly for a living. I’m just trying to ride the balance of letting her have those childhood joys and experiences. I thought this was interesting.

Cross said, I still get excited to watch specials by some of my favorite comics, but there’s there’s a quality that’s missing. And these are all stand ups I love, and they’re not that great. They’re not bad, but they’re not special. You know, I don’t know why that is. I mean, there’s still funny stuff, but I don’t ever want to get to that place where it just feels a little phoned in a little bit.

That’s why these last two specials were shot in the orient, mid setting that feel special. As they said, the energy is different, it’s a little bit different, and it’s less slick. You’re in the moment. You don’t need a million dollars to shoot a special. You don’t need twenty eight camera angles.

It just bs and it takes something away. Independent Rhode Island caught up with Hannibal burse Hannibal dabbles in music when he’s not doing comedy. As for music, Hannibal said, it’s really writing in another format. If you’re a writer, you can write stand up, you can write a sketch, you can write for television, you can do copy for somebody, you can ghost write for somebody else, or you can write music. Music just another way to write stuff, and it also necessarily it doesn’t have to be funny at every moment.

It can be funny, but it can have a range of emotions. So there’s ideas that I’ve touched on in my stand up that have also brought into music and stories that I’ve told him both where I’ve been able to approach it in a different way. In music, you can focus on small details and things like that in a story, but every moment doesn’t necessarily have to be funny, and stand up every moment doesn’t have funny either, with the setup and everything. But it’s good to have an arsenal of both formats where you can examine any idea and see which format goes in best. Julio Tores was in Interview magazine.

He fielded some questions. One of the questions was, hey, Julio, I think my apartment is haunted, but the rent is super cheap. How can I expel the ghosts? Great question, Juliosaur says, your rent is super cheap because your apartment is haunted. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Okay, if you expel the ghost that means you’re expelling the decease, are making your rent cheaper because you’re a subletter of the ghosts. Now, how can you get rid of them? E victim Them’s not on the table. I think you have to learn how to coexist and make this the best you can. Or if it feels like it’s untenable because they’re eating your food or whatever, I would just find a new apartment.

Charlie Day has been cast in the new film Golf Trip. Golf Trip follows three longtime best friends who reunite for their annual golf getaway. What begins as a relaxing escape quickly unravels when they are unexpectedly paired with the universally dreaded single golfer. As tensions rise and personalities clash, the trip spirals into a series of increasing chaotic and comedic misadventures. GQ caught up with Joel kim Booster.

He’s on the current season of Scrubs, which I’m enjoying the heck out of. We learned that Joel kim Booster is a no breakfast guy. Joel tells GQ, I don’t eat my first meal until late in the afternoon. My body is incredibly used to it. At this point, I find the most effective way for me to eat what I want without necessarily tracking every macro and stuff like that, and still maintaining some of the ratio to body fat to muscle that I have.

Joel, do you have any go to snacks? He says. What I try to do is only have available stuff in the house that is reasonably good for you to some degree. I’m big on fried chicken skin as a low carb chip. Substitute fruit leather instead of candy, protein, ice cream, stuff like that.

So it tricks you into thinking you’re being bad, but in fact you’re actually being bad in a more contained way. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival continues. I pulled some clips. Takashi Jagasuki’s show is called Wabi Sabi Comedy. Now.

He’s got a show tomorrow at three thirty in the afternoon. So if you’re in Melbourne on a Sunday afternoon comedy, go see Takashi. As for the title Wabi Sabi Comedy, we learned that wabi sabi is a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty and imperfection in permanence and incompleteness. Waka believes the concept of wabi sabi is the great way to make people happy, and he thinks it might connect and adapt to his comedy. Here’s a clip just to make sure everybody gets the joke, plus or minus the accent or the references the material here is talking about.

In Milbourne they have in like a super awesome trolley system and you have to tap your card when you get on and you have to tap your card and when you get off. Okay, so he’s talking about tapping your fair card here. I’ll let him take it from here. I have a question, Melboum. Do you know Mikey Cobb like trans potation Melbourne?

Right? The question is do you top when you take Trump? Are you reasoning? Are you no use? Shoot?

Why? But so many people don’t rise? And I found there’s a ranking there Merrybourne and Trump happiness ranking. I found that so you don’t have to agree with me, but just please listen. So number one to number four.

So number four worst Merlbourne and Trump trip is when you didn’t tap your card and inspector came to check. That’s the worst because you have to pay the fine so expensive. You feel worse. That’s number four right. Next number three, number three is when you tapped your card and the inspector didn’t come to check.

It sounds normal. It sounds normal, but you may think, oh, I didn’t have to tap. That could have been free. I could have saved money for the coffee. You feel like you’re wasting money, feeling it’s not happy?

Number three right, And next number two, Number two is when you didn’t tap your card and inspector didn’t come to check. It’s just normal, luckly free tram right and you are happy. You are happy, but you have to get scared all the time in the tram. You have to check if inspector come or not from the window. Because half happiness and how anxious.

That’s why number two and then number one happiest Melbourne Trump trip is when you top the card and inspector came to check. It’s the happiest. Do you think because you feel the extra achievement ex distrugivement, and you proud yourself so much because you know you just made the best decision in your life, tapping card and then you are so confident. You are so confident, and inspector came ask you can I just get my key card and you said, well, yes, of. Course, yes you can check everything about me.

You are so cold because you top the car right, and I know you can add extra happiness and industuation, extra bonus happiness industuation. So you topped the car. Inspect that came. You’re so happy and confident, and then you saw someone have to pay the fine in the truck. That’s extra bonus happiness.

Do you think I like him a lot. He’s Takashi Waga Sugi. And that is your comedy news for today see tomorrow

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Caalorokashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. We have a new trailer from Nikki Glaser. Nikki Special will be out on Hulu on April twenty fourth. In her special, Nikki Glaser delivers a brutally honest take on aging, beauty, and fame, confronting what it means to stay relevant, desirable, and real in a culture that never looks away.

Here’s the trailer. I think the material is actually better than the trailer. I think they edited the trailer too tightly. Let’s listen. Thank you for being here, every single person in here.

You mean so much money to me. I am cleaning up tonight. I’m forty one. My career is going great now, but I know eventually Hollywood is going to kick me out because I’m gonna do something horrible like age Naturally, that’s me too. For women, every single woman loves good Girl, and guys don’t want to say it because they’re like, it sounds like I’m her dad, and it’s like, exactly, okay, just be my dad.

Down on your nies. It’s not a good sign when you tell your therapist something and they go to madge. I have sympathy for ugly people. I see you, and I don’t want to perfect go well. I do wonder sometimes because of my thoughts.

I’m like, am I a sociopath?

And then Chatchipt is like, no, queen, you’re perfect, and I’m like, you’re m…

Nikki was on Armchair Expert. She says having the means to change your appearance can make it harder to opt out. She says, I’m kind of obsessed with this thing of like looking a certain way gets you stuff in life, and how it’s unfair if you’re not just born gorgeous. But then now there’s this whole thing that you can become gorgeous with enough money. Now I was going to editorialize, and I guess I am right now that boy, that sounds horrible, But Nikki Glaser continued, said, this sounds so horrible, and I would hate listening to this if I were not financially doing so well.

But there’s a burden that comes with the money that you could do whatever you want to look the way that you’re like, I’m feeling because I’m not doing the BBL and the facelift and the lasers. This does not read well. Let me pull the clip. I’ll be right back. We got to hear Nicky say this, because this does not read well.

Hold on, okay, I’m back. I’m sorry. I tried. So. Apple Podcasts has transcripts, but you can’t search the transcript.

And this episode is one hour fifty four minutes. I just skinned it, and I can’t find the quotes to let you hear Nikki say it herself, but I can tell you as I scrolled through the transcript, it looks like it’s a pretty interesting conversation, so I’m looking forward to actually listening to it. Jumping back in, and Nicki said it’s hard not to wonder what more she could achieve if she met those beauty standards more fully. Nikki Glaser said, if you were prettier, think of what you could get. Because I don’t think my career and my success is based solely on my talent.

It’s based on looking good on TV too. Nicki said it’s unrealistic to ignore how much looks matter in the industry, because it works the hotter you are, the more you don’t have to work. That is true. I keep talking about this in the podcasting industry as we all debate the video podcast and all. And you’re listening to me right now, and I appreciate that you like it.

But at the end of the day, even if I like trick out a set here, I’m still a fifty six year old man somewhere between Troll and George Clooney reading comedy headlines. It’s not that visually interesting. And right now I’m wearing a gray hoodie, and what kind of baseball cap am I wearing today? I gotta take the headphones off to tell you I’m wearing my Tigers hat that my daughter got me when she visited Detroit one time. You know, so, NICKI glazers a little easier on the eyes than I am, especially this morning.

I digress. Dan Soder will have his first Netflix comedy special. He will tape it June thirteenth the throck Morton Theater in San Francisco. It is SODA’s first full Netflix special. He did have a thirty minute set on The Stand Ups in twenty seventeen.

He has a few other specials released on other platforms, not special on Comedy Central. Son of a Gary on HBO, Dan Soda on the Road on YouTube, so this is his first one on Netflix. The Chronicle caught up with the Gator Pete Corielly. I knew Pete pretty well. He was the co host of Jim Brewer’s radio show back in the series XMDS.

Pete hates the nickname the Gator, but I’m sticking with it. Jim Brewer gave it to him because Pete’s got big teeth and you never know when he’s gonna bite you, which is just the best description of the Gator. Pete said, I’m clean in the sense that I don’t talk about any kind of filth sexually, nothing offensive like that. But I’m gonna adulto drop an F bomb here and there just because I’m an adult. So I’m clean in the way most people are clean.

But you know, I curse. What am I gonna stop? It’s like these comics that don’t curse on stage, well, they stay at home and they’re stubbing their toe. They just go ouch, get the bleep out of here. I love Pete.

Pete’s fun guy, but he is the Gator. He will buy you. Oh, I’ll tell you a story I heard from listener, Chris. Chris likes when I tell the story. So we’re out in Aspen and we were staying at the comedy condo, so staying together.

It’s Me Brewer and Corey Ellie. Now we all know Jim’s public persona back in the day as a Storner, which is accurate. It’s Pete also enjoys some stuff and Johnny Mack lives clean. And Pete asked me to hold for him for a little while and I was like, all right, you know, I’m a cool guy. I could do that for you.

And then He’s like, nah, I was just testing to see how cool you were. So that’s Pete. Love Pete. He talked about Sebastian Manascalgo. Pete opens for Sebastian often, especially last year on the arena tour.

Coreyell He said, Sebastian’s fame is so beyond the podcast. It’s like sometimes when we’re playing arenas and he posts about the podcast, most of his fans don’t even know he has one. It’s the exact opposite, whereas all of my fans are podcast fans. When we started, he wasn’t famous, but he was getting popular. So doing all with him obviously put eyes and ears on me, which helped me in a lot of ways, because I’m not so great at self promoting.

It’s like not my thing. But through the years and the fact that we kept doing it, which is like fantastic, the podcast has become so much more. It’s a way that we come up with bits from talking to each other, and it’s almost therapy. Affecting so many people in so many different ways. It’s kind of mind blowing.

Pete will soon, if he hasn’t already, released a new stand up special on his Patreon. He said, I’m gonna put it out there first for free for all the loyal listeners, and then I’m gonna work from there. But truth be told, I didn’t even shop. It’s all these streamers anymore. Everyone in the industry has been telling me very few people watch a full special anymore.

They watched the clips. So the specials coming out, but more importantly, the clips will start dropping like hot flies soon, the guy recently said to me, and I thought this really summed it up. Bottom line, you go see Pete Coreley do a stand up comedy show. You’re gonna laugh all night long, have a good time, and no one’s gonna be offended, Pete said. I was like, oh perfect, I’ll tell you people are really wigged about this.

Byron Allen deal at CBS sold the eleven thirty and twelve thirty time slots to Byron Allen for his uh what is it even called? I don’t even care. No one’s gonna watch it and no one can. CBS doesn’t care. Instead of losing money at eleven thirty, they’ll make some money.

They don’t have to worry about it. Byron Allen fills two hours a night. Byron Allen is a smart dude. He’s made a lot of money in TV. He owns the Weather Channel.

He figured out how to make money whatever that comedy thing is called. It doesn’t matter who watches it. He’ll turn a profit on it. CBS makes some money. It’s all good.

You don’t have to watch you can hate. Has TV gone to hell? Yes? Has CBS gone to hell? Yes?

A CBS News gone to hell? Yes? Is the country crazy? Yes? So don’t worry about it.

Star trek Ruiner, Stephen Colbert Show is ending. Watch Folin or Kimmel, or watch Letterman clips on YouTube. Just don’t worry about it. People, continue to be upset that Louis C.K. Is headlining the Netflix as a Joke Comedy Festival, and we’ll have a special on Netflix.

Eliza Skinner wrote a piece I will use her headline, which was famous dix or just a tip of the problem. Eliza writes, I don’t know what to tell you. Should I tell you about the headliner who told me my breasts were too hot to be funny before even set a word, Or about the host of a comedy club who told the audience he’d love to smell my area after I got off stage. Should I tell you about the accompaniess you followed me home twice? Or the comedy theater that refused to stop booking us together.

Because these things always seem to happen to you, Eliza, Should I mention I was the only woman there? Should I tell you about the friend who got shoved in a wall by her boyfriend backstage in front of a crowd of silent onlookers, Or the friend who was told she was too unbangable. I’m cleaning us up to get past industry speak for being promoted through the tears of the clubs. Should I start with the friend who went public with her domestic abuse story while her male peers muttered about it helping her career. Or the friend who has been the victim of years of targeted harassment for simply talking about being a lesbian too much in her act, Isa Skinner continues, I fear none of the stories matter because none of them have famous penises in them.

But they are all part of the same, and I definitely want you not to lend me your interest to the famous penises. Look past the famous penises, They’re just the tip of the iceberg. Pun Fully intended. Skipping ahead, she writes, I’m angry for the women we’ve lost and whose work will never see. I’m angry with myself for every time I listen when someone called another woman crazy or difficulty, even though I knew it was code first she didn’t do what someone wanted.

I’m angry about all the times I’ve been called difficult or crazy by men who later privately apologized while doing nothing to help repair my damage reputation. I’m angry about all the things I didn’t know happened. I’m angry I have to think about this and to fight about it, and all I want to do is make jokes. Louis C.K. Headlining the Hollywood Bowl is part of the Netflix as a Joke Comedy Festival.

May fifth, dn n’t dn’t dn’t dn dn’t dn’t dnt dn’t Comedy stock Market. Wait, John, what happened to the comedy stock market theme? Well, dear listener, that is a great question at this particular minute. Now, hopefully I have a backup on the computer somewhere, but in this session that I use all the time to record Daily Comedy News, the track labeled stock is blank. Now I could go find it and put it in, but that’s not fun.

This is much more fun, all right, every week on the Comedy stock Market. Here is how this works, and I really need to do the disclaimer up front so you understand how this works. Much like on the real stock market, we try to find value. We buy low and we sell high. Because I’m gonna have a controversial stock pick in a second.

Here, we buy low, we sell high, we buy low. The idea is to find the value. We are not saying that these people are good or bad, and we are definitely not saying these are the most honorable people that we’ve ever met. Have you figured out where we’re going here yet, but we’re just trying to find value. So I’ve got to sell and three buys for you.

My sell is Nikki Glaser. I think we’re at peak Nikki Glaser, and I just feel there’s a track record of the Hulu specials not being so awesome. Maybe there’s a little value to be found as Nikki starts doing a lot of press for these next two weeks. But I feel like we should sell our Niki Glazer. If you want to scoop some up and sell it in a couple of days.

I don’t think you’re crazy, but I think I’m gonna cash out on Nikki Glaser’s stock. And here are my buys. Do you want the awful one first? Or third? Should I just get it out of the way.

All right, let’s get it out out of the way. We are going to buy louisk now, stop throwing tomatoes at me. It’s the comedy stock market. We find value. We’re at the bottom of ck and Netflix has decided it’s okay to bring him back in the fold, and he’s going to play the theater and we’re going to get a lot of press about him, and there’s gonna be think pieces saying how awesome he is.

There’s gonna be some think pieces seeing how horrible he is, and this is when you scoop up the value. So we’ll buy some Louis c. K. Let’s also buy some Dan Soder now that he’s got a Netflix special. If you know Dan, you know he’s fantastic.

He’s been around for a while. But there’s just something about that Netflix brand of the they’re just bigger than the others. And they put somebody in front of everyone and then everyone’s like, hey, do you know this Dan Soder guy, and the rest of us are like, yeah, for twenty years, but welcome to the party. Bell. So let’s buy some Dan Soder, and let’s buy some Gator.

Let’s buy some Pete Corioli. I like what we’re hearing from Pete’s and hopefully his new special and his clips do well. And he’s got a Sebastian Maniscalco halo around him, all right, So we’re gonna sell Nikki Glaser, We’re gonna buy Dan Soder, We’re gonna buy Pete Corey Elly, and you can get mad, but we’re gonna buy some Louis C.K. Jenny Zigrino is going to be recording a live taping of after Birth, her solo show described as an unflinching, darkly funny exploration of what it means to be an old self and painfully messily bring a new one into the world after Loss. She’s recording at the Brooklyn Improv May thirteenth, two shows, seven and nine thirty PM.

Have you been watching Jury Duty? Two company retreats. I love Dury Duty. The second one just feels like bad episodes of the Office. I tried two three times.

I just can’t get into it. So one bonus episode is The Reunion, hosted by James Marsden. The other is called The Meeting, which features season one’s Ronald the Guy that didn’t Know It was a show, and season two’s Anthony, the Other Guy that didn’t know it was a show, meeting up in an LA coffee shop for candid conversation about their unique shared experience, which is what you have at a coffee shop in LA where there are just happen to be cameras and lighting. It’s totally natural as the only two people have lived through this social experiment. They exchange personal stories and perspectives on how the experience has impacted their lives.

This reminds me to mentioned l uk I did finish it. Didn’t love the ending, to be honest, you had a week. But I do really love that show. And I keep playing around in my mind with what l ol USA would be like, and I just you know, it’s gonna be like Bert Krascher, And you know if they had a film with today, it’d be all the cool kids. It’d be like Mark normand Nicky Glazer now she’s too cool to do it now, Robbie Hoffman.

Robbie Hoffman will be in there. Then you need to like Wayne Brady just to like randomly mix it up and sing some songs and get people to laugh on that. Someday they will make lol USA. There’s a new comedy club in New York City, the green Point Comedy Club. It’s opening weekend kicks off at eight pm with a live comedy show followed by an opening party.

Were promised some of the coolest comics in NYC. And that is your comedy news for today. Catch it tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. Deadline wrote about the Netflix is a Joke Festival, and the subheader Who’s selling and Who’s Struggling caught my eye. They point out were less than a month out now from the Netflix as a Joke Festival, which kicks off May fourth.

Deadline quotes one high level comedy insider as saying they’ve been underwhelmed and they don’t feel a lot of buzz yet from the public. Deadline Rights depicting the year is a quote story of the haves and the have nots unquote. They observed that the comedians who seem to be doing the best fall in one of two categories. First, you have white heart artists like The Flight of the Concords. That was one of the shows.

I was considering going out to see the shows I’m interested in at the festival, and I was willing to go as Civilian Day Tuesday, but then not till like Sunday. And you know, eight days in la is not cheap anyway, white hottersts like a flight of the Concords. We’re selling tickets like hotcakes.

And then you have those who are underplaying, who are selling out by jumping …

Any artist not falling into those two categories quote may have a steep hill to climb. The insider says, there’s still a significant number of tickets to be sold in some venues more so than others. There’s a lot of competition in the marketplace, a lot of shows people fighting over the same dollar in a tough economy. I don’t think gas prices are helping people to be able to afford tickets, and people are pulling back a little bit. I didn’t even think about the gas thing.

I mean part of my calculation. I already talk about the time. I don’t trust the airports right now. On any given day, you wake up and the airport’s are fine. You wake up five minutes LA and you’re like, oh yeah, there’s nineteen hour delays.

I mean, the world is so chaotic right now. It’s like, I’ll just stay home and my kid goes to school in California, so believe me, I’d love to go out there. And hang out. But so you know everything considered it it is not easy. Deadline tells us gaging ticket sales a month from showtime varies, but the insider says, but I’d probably feel the most comfortable if I had twenty percent of the house or less to still sell.

Oh, this is cool. I hadn’t read this ahead. One of the high achievers of the moment is friend of the Show John Marco. Siasi has sold out a pair of headlining shows as well as one of his theater adult shows at the Regent Theater. Good for him.

John Marco will also participate in a show called an Emergency Board Meeting Slumber Party alongside Adam McKay and Robbie Hoffman. Jeffer Curry has sold out a couple of headlining shows at the Palladium. Robbie Hoffman sold out too at Largo. Matt Rife sold out too in the main room of the Comedy Store. Jacqueline Novak has added a show May ninth of the Masonic Lodge after selling out her May fifth show.

Joelkomb boosters same thing, adding a May fourth Tubidour show after selling out May eighth at the Allegion. The sources called all that a subgenre of comedy that’s really high right now. They also say podcasts are doing well. So according to Deadline, some of the shows that are sold out. Let’s see John Marco, Jim Jeffries, Mark normand Riife, Eliza Slessinger and Bert and the Show, Jack CrowdWork Show, Natalie Palomides, That’s Cool, Rees Starby Joel Kimbooster, Jeffery Curry, Bamford, Jeff Hillar, Jackie Novak, Maximini, Nurse, John Morgan, Jay and some others there.

We’ll keep an eye on that festival. The Moontower Comedy Festival has kind of sort of kicked off. I’ll do more of my coverage next week. I was looking at the schedule and there’s scattered shows here and there this week, and then you know it’s officially kicked off, but it really doesn’t kick in until the fifteenth. First started fifteen years ago, the Moontower Festival.

I feel like it’s longer than that, because I haven’t been at serious now since when did I leave the beginning kind of of twenty fourteen? Was it? And it’s twelve year all right? Maybe maybe maybe my fifteen years ago fits in that window. First started fifteen years ago, the Moontower Festival has grown into one of the biggest comedy events in the country, spanning a dozen venues and running from April seventh through the eighteenth.

This year features nationally known acts like Mark Marin, Kathy Griffin, and Roy Wood Junior. I keep forgetting Roy I’ve been all into the Artemis mission and I was watching the launch and like, for some reason they went to celebrities, which was straight out of the serious XM playbook, Oh my goodness, anything we ever did there? They’re like, can we ad a celebrity to it? So I’m sitting there and it’s like, all right, the astronauts are on the pad or about to launch, and let’s check in with Roywood Junior. And I’m like, oh, big boss in the corner would have loved that nonsense.

And I’m like, can we just not? I love you Roywood Junior, but I don’t care what you have to say about Artemis. What are we doing? Moon Tower also makes an effort to highlight non traditional acts and Austin comedians like Angelina Martin, who says, I’m super excited. I love moon Tower so much.

It’s always been such a huge part of the Austin comedy scene in the national comedy scene in general. Martin runs several shows around Austin, and one of them, called Slide in the DMS, was added to this year’s lineup. She explains her show, comedians and local celebrities share strange messages they’ve sent to receive, then a cast of improvisers build a scene based on the messages. That’s fun, Martin says. It’s not all really dirty stuff.

Sometimes it’s weird in a different way. One time we had a guy who had set the comedian messages that we were showing on screen. He was in the audience that he stood up and took credit for his weird messages. Love it my former co worker Howard Stern In the news, Howard and Beth Stern’s former personal assistant, Leslie Kuhn, has alleged that she was fired by Howard and Beth Stern and experienced a quote hostile work environment. Now, if you were a younger radio personality, fair being fair, you would go in after Howard after this, because forty year old Howard would have gone after you.

Asked John de Bella, the Philadelphia zookeeper, how that goes. So I’m curious. I don’t know if there are any radio personalities left or who would go after Howard, but boy, there was a time, like if Opie and Anthony were still around, there was a time. Leslie Kuhn says the Stearns presented her with confidentiality and non disclosure agreements before and at the time of her firing. Her attorney claims those are fraudulent and unenforceable.

In the complaint, Kuhn says that the Stearns requested the she moved to Southampton to work at their mansion. According to court documents obtained by Peoplehole magazine, Kuhn claims she was first hired as an office manager for the Howard Stern Show in September of twenty twenty two. Less than two years later, she claims she became Howard’s executive assistant. Then, in May twenty twenty four, she alleges the couple requested that she moved to Southampton to work at their mansion. Kuhn alleges she was instructed by Beth Stern, who’s fifty three, and Howard Stern, who’s seventy two, that Kuhn would offer Beth quote assistance with such things as managing the staff of the mansion, setting staffing schedules, completing staff payroll, and managing general household operations, including Beth’s extensive at home feline rescue and fostering operations.

That all, according to the complaint viewed by people, were then told. In December of twenty twenty five, Kuhn claims that she received a letter from Howard’s production company one twelve, thanking her for her work, confirming she would receive a monetary bonus, and informing her that she would receive a raise in twenty twenty six. More back and forth there. As you can imagine, the tabloids will have fun with this page six as the headline Howard Stern’s bizarre rules for staff revealed in wrongful termination lawsuit. According to the page six, the non disclosure would have banned Koon from disclosing the Stern family’s daily activities and personal habits, even down to their food preferences, sleeping habits, and hobbies.

She would also be barred from discussing their use of consumer products, choice of restaurants, hotels, or other establishments, entertainment preferences, political affiliations, and quote any other matters affecting or relating to the company and its business, and the personal and business affairs of the company page six as. Other off limits subjects include the location or contents of residences and other properties, as well as their travel arrangements. I imagine we’ll hear more about that. Hacks is back today. Gene Smart revealed she was shocked when she learned how Hacks ends.

It is the fifth and final season premiering on HBO. You may recall, at the end of last season, gave up her late night talk show to stand with her head writer and friend Ava Daniels. Geene Smart said, I don’t remember ever picturing or even imagining an ending. I knew there was gonna be pretty much five seasons from the beginning, but I didn’t ask. I was like, I’ll be surprised when I did find out.

At first, I was shocked and unsure about how I felt. It was not remotely anything I could have imagined. But then I realized, now it don’t work out because they’re writing it and they’re amazing, and so I went okay. Lrae Newman’s daughter Hannah Einbinder, spoke of her character Ava and said, I feel like Ava is so committed to realizing Debra’s dream into contributing to all of the various things that she wants to accomplish, whether it’s the first Dan Up Special or the late Night show or the Madison Square Garden. But I do think that through all their trials and tribulations, they share this legacy and it’s a really beautiful collaboration that I feel like they both get to own.

Lrae Newman’s daughter, Hannah Einminder, also is annoyed people who use ai Anna apparently said the people who make this stuff for losers. They’re not artists, they’re not creative, and they’ve wanted their whole lives to be special and they’re not special. They’re trying to rob real creative people of our gifts and you can’t. And even if you’ve tr you will never be cool. You guys suck.

No one likes you, anyone who’s near you is because they crave power and access over any ethical standard. You are a loser. You will never be cool, and you probably had a roly backpack in high school. I want to put your head in the toilet and flush. And an Einbinder is the daughter of Lorae Newman at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Go see Henry yen Henry Show’s mama wants a girlfriend for me. Now, I want you to play along. As you listen to this clip, imagine Mitch Hedburg doing this material. So as you listen to Henry do this funny material, imagine Hebburg doing it. And it’s very easy to imagine.

But I like Henry. Here is Henry yennepy. This is going on TV. I love you, Mama and Papa. Any shoutouts man fair enough the biggest gig of my life.

I thought I’d start off by mucking around. I’m almost a pretty big deal. I’ve got a comedian nickname. People call me the Library because I’ll make it silent. I also feel like moving around.

See if I’m bitter over here. I’m also a bit of a gangster. But it’s hard sometimes because you know, if I’m trying to like hustle someone on the street, Like if I go up to you and I’m like, oh, give me your money, most people are just like, oh, what organization are you with? My name on the street is UNI see, but you know what my name in the sheetsays? The library.

He’s Henry Yann.

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Now let’s check out Jenny Tian when Life Gives You Oranges.

I think she’s really good. Listen to this. Wow, you guys are such a lovely audience. You are. I have to say this because like, not all audiences are this kind.

Like I did a show once and someone came up to me afterward and they went, you know, your English is actually quite good. And see, I just found this so condescending because it was my mum. Full on. I’m currently at this stage I’m twenty nine, where I’m realizing that my parents were people before they were parents. Like I asked my mum what she did before having me, and no, lie, she said, she used to be the hedge doctor for Chairman Mao.

And if you don’t know who that is, that is the ex dictator of China. That’s insane. That’s like finding out your parent does it for Vladimir Putin.

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And now when I look back on my childhood, it makes so much sense because she …

And I’m not saying that she’s censored me or anything, but I will say my mom is the best mom. She is. That’s a praying mother. Oh, I just blacked out there. But get this in our living room.

She’s even got this giant picture of just herself, a reminder that big mother is watching. And I got to warn my friends about this. Every time they come over. I’m like, look careful, when you walk in, you’re gonna see a giant picture of my mum on the wall. Even with that warning, they see the picture and they go ooh, And I have to say, I know, it’s terrifying.

I told her to keepe her top on. She’s Jenny Tann. At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Scott Ackerman announced his long running podcast, Comedy Bang Bang, will be touring. It’s the ground Beefing Tour. Now.

I will tell you of all the comedy shows I went to back in the day, going to festivals, hanging around with one of our hosts, Mark says Hi, Mark and I went to a lot of shows. The only show we ever walked out of ever was Scott Ackerman. We were sitting there and we were waiting for each other to say it, and Mark finally looked at me and said, should we go? That’s how bad the show was the only one we ever walked out of. But if you want to go see Scott Ackerman, he’s touring.

He’ll be joined by Paul F. Tompkins, which is cool. The tour kicks off May twenty fifth in Toronto and wraps up in Portland, Maine, on June twenty ninth. Comedy Bang Bang, Scott Ackerman, If that’s something you want to do, and that is today’s Daily Comedy News, I’ll catch you tomorrow.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily Briefing on stand up comedy comedians, on the comedy industry. A sentence the Algorithm loves Margaret Joe posted Louis C.K. Should have just had an OnlyFans so people could just pay to watch him, you know, do ck stuff instead of subjecting female comics to it. Missed financial opportunity.

Eric Duggans on Substack ask the question does Louis C.K.’s new Netflix special and high profile concert appearance signal Hollywood has turned its back on the me too movement it once championed. Case you missed the headline, Netflix has invited Louis C.K. To headline a show at the Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival. Louis will also have a special on Netflix later this year. Eric Duggans rights.

Some people have suggested that it’s difficult to know how to handle someone like Louis C.K. Who was still relatively young and capable of creating a lot more projects. He’s been away from most mainstream metricy it for years, They might say, isn’t that enough? Eric writes, For me, it’s much less about how long they’ve been gone than what they’ve done to earn their way back into mainstream show business. Besides proving how much money they can make someone Eric, I will tell you right now, that’s always the answer, like always welcome to show business, Eric Wrights.

Has c K fully admitted how he’s harassed women in the past. Did he apologize directly and publicly to them? Has he helped any of the women who spoke honestly about what he did and saw their careers atomized afterwards. Hollywood prefers to avoid the kinds of admissions which can bring lawsuits and morals classes. Instead, the big business of entertainment would much prefer situation where store stays underground until the social blowback has passed, emerging with a tale of redemption and renewal just in time to sell tickets, streams, memberships, and more.

Already, Luis c K has won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in twenty twenty two, and it’s a sure bet will be a contender when these new Netflix special gets released as an album. By turning up blind eye to all the rumors about him, all these gatekeepers created a situation where women harassed by him speak out publicly and loudly, just to force the industry to handle it. The too Much TV substack ads as if there were ever a booking that was more on brand for Netflix, it’s headlining a guy who is admitted to doing stuff in front of female employees and co workers, because, as he put it in recent performances, when you’re really good at something, you want to show it off. They write, it’s just the latest example of Netflix’s decision that it’s nearly impossible for comic to be so unpleasant, so racist, so misogynistic that it might cost them a shot on a worldwide streaming platform. Star Trek Ruiner Patton Oswalt has announced a new special.

It is called Ruining Star Trek t and Scotch. It will be ru on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla’s YouTube channel eight pm Eastern Time, Tuesday, June ninth. T and Scotch offers new takes from Patton Oswalt on parenting, living with a caatecies, ghosts, yard cleaning videos, artificial intelligence, and more. Patton Oswalt is tall deadline. I’ve never felt more overwhelmed, terrified, and desperate, so of course my material is the funniest it’s ever been, we’re reminded that Patton Oswalt is an Emmy and Grammy Award winning comedian, actor, writer, and producer.

Oswald has been working as a stand up since the late eighties and the decades since. He’s released ten specials and helped to ruin Star Trek by playing Doug the Vulcan. Patton Oswalt will soon be starring alongside Jake Johnson and Ben Stiller in Apple’s pick aball comedy The Dink, which comes out July twenty fourth.

Speaking of Star Trek ruiner, Stephen Colbert’s show is coming to an end.

Stephen Colbert helped ruin Star Trek by voicing the computer on that horrible, horrible Starfleet Academy show. We now know what CBS will do with the eleven thirty five PM slot. They’re not even going to run one single rerun of Colbert. Colbert ends on Thursday May twenty first. That very next night, Friday May twenty second, at eleven thirty five PM, if you put on CBS, you will see Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed, the comedy panel show Byron Allen created in two thousand and six.

It will move from twelve thirty seven AM on CBS to eleven thirty five. So What’s gonna air? Twelve thirty seven? Another program from Alan Media, this one called Funny You Should Ask. I had to look this up.

It’s got a five point two rating on IMDb. That’s out of ten, and you can watch it for free on two B. Well, it’s twelve thirty seven Funny you Should Ask, Future’s former extra correspondent John Kelly hosting a comedy game show that features a panel of comedians interacting with two contestants who have a chance to win cash if they can read between the lines of the comics jokes. For example, you could have watched season nine, episode forty eight, which aired February twenty seven, twenty twenty six, that starred Jamie Kennedy, Cheryl Underwood, Adam Carolla, Byron Allen, Natasha Lazio, and Jimmy Walker. Cheap to produce?

Yeah, why not? I don’t know. I just find it all also disappointing. You know, I’m a broadcasting guy. I grew up in radio.

I caught the last five minutes of the Golden Age of radio. I worked with people who worked in radio during World War Two, So like I appreciate all this stuff, and it’s just like, yeah, whatever, let’s just run Byron Allen Crab who cares. I mean, it’s even more disappointing than if they had totally punted and we’re like, yeah, let’s just run CSI reruns, like at least. I don’t know. I just this doesn’t sit well with me.

I’m just old. Chloe Fyneman started talking about a job she had once been fired from. As I understand things, Chloe Fyneman said, when she was sixteen, she was working as a camp counselor. She was fired after pulling down the pants of a young camper during a hike. She explained the child had repeatedly lifted her shirt as a prank.

She decided to retaliate. I’m told. As she told the story, her castmates, which included mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padia, Jane Wickline, and James Austin Johnson, appeared visibly uncomfortable. Chloe said the child was around six years old and admitted the situation escalated what have became obvious he wasn’t wearing underwear. The criticism comes from many viewers arguing the anecdote was presented too casually for something involving a child and a humiliating public incident.

So after I recorded that section you just heard, I found the clip and I have learned that Vanity Fair has pulled the clip down. But let’s listen to the clip that I just explained to you. I think it’ll give you a lot more context. And because this is an audio podcast, what you won’t see are the faces of her cast mates. And the faces are real bad.

Everybody’s face is like, what are you doing? Stop talking? It’s really bad. But here, let’s listen to Chloe Finneman. No.

I was fired as a camp counselor for hitting on the camp is no pants a boy? Oh honey, I think you’re on a list. And he wasn’t wearing underpants.

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And then a giant school bus drove by and they were like, you can’t because he…

And it was Berkeley. How old was the child? He was like six? No, it was a different time. Like he would he would be like, hey, can I hug And I’d go to hug him and he like lift my shirt like a dick.

And then I was like I’m going to get back at you. And so we were on a hike and I was like, hey, Ollie. Go look over there. It’s a hawk. He looked, and then I yanked his pants down.

He wasn’t wearing underwear. His little dingling was out.

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And then these two twins were like, oh, I didn’t really you didn’t wear wear,…

Jones made some headlines after appearing on z Way’s podcast. Ze Way asked Leslie Jones if Leslie could ever embrace the traditional wife lifestyle. Leslie Jones said, absolutely not, because that’s not who the f I am. And my dad he didn’t raise me like that. My dad used to literally say that to me.

I didn’t raise you to be somebody’s wife. Jones continued, saying, most of the people that I know have gotten married or divorced. Now I think marriage is legalized slavery. Ze Way asked for more about that. Jones said, especially if he’s expecting you to be a tradwife, it might as well pull out a whip and chain.

I don’t think it’s beneficial for a woman at all. Don’t get married. I thought this week’s snl USA was terrible, Like really really bad. I didn’t even make it through a update. The UK one was way better, Peacock finally posting the episodes in a normal hour.

I watched both episode three and episode two on Sunday night. There’s a lot of good sketches in there. If you watch the show, you know the way one would watch SNL with the full rhythm of cold open, credit monologue, pre recorded sketch. You know how SNL goes. Yeah, I think the week spot on SNL UK is actually the news, but it’s only been three weeks.

My tip there to the two newscasters pick up the pace a little. I was playing a bunch of video games and catching up on my podcasting What were you playing, John, We’re curious. Let’s say I was playing MLB the show. I played a bunch of games of NHL twenty six, mostly those two, and I was listening to Joe Rogan’s interview with Theovon. As I’ve said on the podcast before, and I will say again, I like Joe Rogan’s podcast because I’m a smart person.

I understand what Joe Rogan’s podcast is. It’s just a conversation. I don’t think it’s an education at all, and I also like that volume wise, it’s usually pretty even. There’s not much yelling on the Joe Rogan Experience, which I like. I don’t like these podcasts that are all over the place volume wise.

But one takeaway I really had from listening to that episode Joe Rogan’s not smart. And you know who’s even less smart than Joe Rogan? Theovon. I mean, I just listened to this thing, and I’m like, is this a real conversation? I think part of it is Rogan does zero prep.

At one point I was listening and he was like, how many astronauts are going around the moon? Ten? Ten? Joe? Did you really think ten astronauts are going around the moon?

But theovon he listened to theo Von, this is just like whoa. THEO got a lot of backlash for his appearance on Rogan’s podcast. He jumped on social media and said it was very hard for me to be angry and talk at the same time. Some people were upset by comments made by theovon, which I’ll clean up here. THEO sat approximately, I’m sick of rich people not putting their fing kids over in these wards.

Put your and he used a pejorative for white people kids up there. Let them go shed some effing blood. That got some backlash. THEO went on Twitter and wrote, I mean the elites and the politicians that are leading us into these wars might make different choices if it was their children. I’m thankful to our troops who serve and are far braver than me.

Also, wtf do I know? In a separate post, he wrote, I was angry and kind of scared. I wouldn’t even have the freedom of speech if all types of people braver than me hadn’t sacrificed for it. Fassi fun in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby, Gossip Conna, where the meeting with Johnny. It’s as a tree.

We haven’t been on gossip Corner in a while, but here we are. And yes, Gossip Corner is about Pete Davidson, who has put his North Salem, New York property on the market, reportedly for two point two seven million dollars, according to Mansion Global. He purchased the four bedroom, three bathroom home, located about ninety minutes from New York City, in twenty twenty three for one point nine to five million dollars. It’s on six acres of property. I’m from Queen’s.

I don’t know how much that is. Is that big sounds big? Ay? He tells me. An acre visually is about seventy five to nine percent of an American football field.

All right, so Pete’s got say five football fields worth of property up there. Pete had previously said about the property, it’s literally like living in paradise. The thing I hated about living in the city all the time was I’d wake up to so much noise, whether it be garbage being picked up, or people fighting, or your neighbors or whatever’s going on the street. In North Salem. I would wake up naturally and I wouldn’t feel a thing.

It was the most special feeling. Pete added a guesthouse, movie room, pool, hot tub, cold plunge tool, sauna, and screened in porches to the property. He has also sold his condo in Saint George Staten Island. Pete Davidson is renting a Brooklyn brownstone. He also co owns a ferry.

While on Gossip Corner, Chris Rock spotted doing some PDA. That’s right. The paparazzi were out and they saw a sixty one year old Chris Rock a photographed with a woman identified as Simone. In photos, Chris Rock and Simone were walking side by side for a daytime stroll. They even stopped to share a kiss while sitting on a park bench.

Kevin kellem as a special out. You may know Kevin if you’re out of Chicago, he’s there on Q one oh one. In his new special, Kevin pours his heart into mutually shared anxieties, being the Black Sheep and what it’s like to experience heartbreak when you’re lying on the air. Filmed during the Windy City Comedy Festival at Lincoln Hall. You’ll find Kevin callems special on YouTube and band camp.

Let’s chick in. On the Melbourne Comedy Festival, The Scoop went to see Hannah Gatsby’s show The Evening Muse. Described as a talk show wrapped in a comedy show wrapped in an existential crisis. Hannah’s show got four and a half stars out of five. The Scoop says Gatsby’s performance is chaotic and self aware, blending razor ridge wit with disarming vulnerability.

We’re told few comics mind discomfort, intellect and absurdity, so masterfully The Merlin Theater at Melbourne’s Waalds House Theater complex is lovingly decked out with an aesthetic similar to the Tonight Show. Comfy couches a desk for the host, complete with an Emmy an old school applau sign. The first half of the evening takes the form of a stand up show. Gatsby refers to that as the bulk Chat. The second half morphs into a talk show meets quiz show.

Hannah Gatsby brings fellow comedians, in this case Abby Howl’s and Emma Holland onto the stage. I believe the guests change every night to your stories and tackle trivial pursuit questions. The Scoop says what follows is delightful pandemonium, utterly unpredictable and wildly whimsical. And The Guardian collected stories from performers at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Rich Hall told one you may remember Rich Hall if you’re ancient like me.

Rich Hall was on Saturday Night Live. Remember that guy? Remember sniglets. If you’re old, you do. If you’re young, you’re like, what are you talking about?

Yeah? Rich Hall doesn’t make the anniversary specials rich told The Guardian. I was part of the great debate a town hall. The topic was money is the root of all evil. At some point I invoked the biblical metaphor from Matthew quote it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man enter heaven.

On paper looks dicey, but I figured we should at least give the camel a stab at it. I love this. The director, who never met a comic challenge he didn’t like, made a few calls and secured a camel. They coasted it into the town hall. The camel pronated, I climbed on his back.

The camel stood up. I think my head touched the roof. Someone held a needle in front of the camel’s nose. Rich Hall said something like gideup. The camel did not pass through the eye of a needle.

Rich Paul says it looked a little ticked off, to be honest. Turns out Matthew was pretty accurate on this one. And that is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. We’re down to three.

Who will be the comedy Survivor? Will it be Nikki Glaser, John Mulaney or Sarah Silverman. It’s up to you. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There you’ll find a picture of me and last week’s eliminated comedian.

Yes I phrased that correctly, Sebastian Manascalgo in that thread, you write down a name, You vote somebody off The Island. Comedy survivor Daily Comedy News Podcast group meets you back here in the morning.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Scrubs, Season ten, episode seven, My Best Friend’s Barbecue. Original air date April first, at twenty twenty six. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac. I loved this episode.

No sorry, the recap is out a little late. With the Easter weekend and the family was over. We didn’t get to this until Sunday night, and on Monday we play Comedy Survivor, so I don’t want to put out three episodes in one day. So here you go. Season ten, episode seven, My Best Friend’s Barbecue.

While JD is upset not to be invited to Turk and Carla’s annual barbecue, JD takes the opportunity to nurture whose friendship with Carla.

Meanwhile, Turk teaches the surgical interns how to deliver bad news.

This one gave me all the feels. With one asterisk, You’ve got great JD and Churk. We really see how important to the dynamic the Carla character is. Judy rays to the ensemble. Hopefully this show gets picked up.

We’ll talk about that and she’ll be in hopefully all the episodes of season two. But boy, when she’s back, you realize what a huge part of the ensemble. She is. Let’s deep dive on the plot a little bit. JD is talking about doctor face and how sometimes you have to give bad news to patients.

That’s one of the themes of the episode. He explains how his doctor face has gotten better over the years and nothing can rattle him until he learns he’s not invited to Turk’s barbecue. Apparently he’s been going to Turk’s barbecue every year. This year, he’s not invited. JD asks why, and Churk tells him that Carla wants to invite Elliott and Elliott’s new boyfriend, Captain Wes over this year.

JD asks best friend Turk to fight for him. Churk says he’s not strong enough because Carla is going through menopause. One of the themes throughout the episode is how warm Carla is and how she’s always trying to cool off. I can’t tell you why I found that really really funny. Let’s just leave it there.

Move on, John, that’s right, Elliott tells Carla. She and Wes are excited about the barbecue. He’s bringing something called Pilot’s Booty. West explains that’s first class warmnuts mixed with coach pretzels. Carla gets at a quick jokes that says you can just bring ice, which cracked me up.

My wife missed the joke and I was like, that was really good. Now we have a subplot with a patient who is drinking a lot of ranch dressing that really goes nowhere. The other plot is Turk telling Deshauna she has to tell the Garcia family that their loved one has passed away. She says, I’m not good at this, and Turk says, and this is one of the clutch moments of the episode. You’re just like me.

And we see a couple of times Turk reflecting about his cocky younger self and that is something I do all the time, but for years been self aware that boy, you were a punk ass kid in your twenties when you first got in a radio and over years, although I knew it at the time, when is it serious? I could be an a hole. I used to say to my office mate, I hate this person who sits here with you every day. The series brought out the worst in me, so I was relating to everything Turk was giving. Here.

The younger cast, they all have their various adventures, all the little subplots are fine, but I want to stick with the senior cast. Carla gets mad she finds out that JD has cut back her patient load. Turk goes to see Carla, asks how she’s doing. Carla says, your wife is dead and some agent incompetent witch has taken her place. The job was always hard, but it was fun.

Now it’s just hard. I can’t keep up. Turk says, finally, You’ve always been smarter than me and stronger than me, but you always at my back. Now I get to be there for you. JD pops up out of nowhere and says you two will always have each other, but I might die alone.

Carla says, you’re still not coming to the barbecue. This all wraps up at the end. Carla’s telling JD. If I keep inviting into things so you can be comfortable, you’re never going to grow. She says, I can read your doctor’s face.

You’re scared, and if I keep caddling you, you’ll never be able to move on from Eliot, and we get some reflection back to the days of when he was bamby. She mentions, I was here on your first day and it just really really is awesome. So we’ll take the break here, we’ll come back, we’ll talk a little more Scrubs. The episode got a three point zero four million viewers, which sounds like a lot for a modern television but in the time slot it finished third. Chicago Med won the half hour Survivor was second.

However, in the eighteen to forty nine demo, which is where the money is, Chicago Med drops down and it was Survivor then Scrubs. I do think at three million viewers they will renew this thing. I’m kind of surprised they haven’t yet. I thought it was the best episode of new Scrubs yet, very funny, very touching. The character beats were all on point except one.

The newer characters are all fine, Like when they come on, they’re just fine. You’re not like, oh I get rid of these people. They’re fine. I do think the show doesn’t know what to do with Elliott. The Scrubs has always been focused on JD except for the d Ken and I season nine, but the Elliott character seems like she’s just kind of out there on her own show.

You know, she’s got the boyfriend now, but as one of the big three they’re gonna have to figure out how Elliott fits into all of this. I don’t think her arc is working yet. We see what I mentioned this in the beginning, what an important player Judy rays as Carla is, and again the nice emotional callbacks to when JD was Bambi. And as I was watching it after the episode, because I’m a big sap, I said to my wife, how weird is it that twenty five years have gone by and here we are back to an empty house because the kids are home for the weekend, and then they left, we put on Scrubs. Here we are twenty five years later, it’s just the two of us again, and we’re watching the same show.

Screen Ran wrote, There’s never been any doubt in Scrubs that Carla is a badass nurse, and no one knows it more than she does. However, in season ten we see here slowly losing that confidence. It becomes clear in Scrub season ten, episode seven that Carla still struggles with one of the same challenges as in the original series. She wants to be everyone else’s rock, but isn’t quite willing to accept help herself, just as JD learned to look to Carla for help back in the day. Carla learns in this Scrubs episode that it’s okay to let Bambi help her out.

While JD looked to doctor Cox as a Carlo was his true guiding force in the hospital. Over the years, the relationship shifted, and both JD and Carla found they could be themselves around each other in ways they couldn’t even with Turk or Elliot. It’s relief that the Scrub’s revival has recaptured this dynamic after all these years, and it’s especially impressive since Judy Rays isn’t a primary cast member on the new series. Scrub Season ten, episode seven, my favorite of the new season. If you are enjoying this, stay the heck off Scrubs read it.

Some maniac posted something in the headline I’m not even gonna dance with the Devil. I’m just gonna tell you. I saw a headline. I was like, come on, dude, there was no reason to put that in the headline. We have a word.

It’s called spoiler. What are you doing? So? We have two episodes left in season ten and again, ABC, what are we doing here? Let me do one last quick here?

Maybe they picked it up as I’m recording. Quick Google of Scrubs Nope, not yet has a record this on Monday morning. I need more of this. It’s really good and it’s just it’s hitting a warm spot in my life than nostals are point. I feel like these people are from and their characters and their back and if they can get another season and work some more people into the ensemble, we’re back into the ensemble.

I think it’d be great and the new characters are fine, and boy, please keep this thing going. I like Scrubs. See you in the morning.

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Callaroga Shock Media. From the Lake House him Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. That’s right, I’ve left the basement as we begin to get into warm weather mode. This is the first time I’m recording in my new space, so I have to get used to the audio. It’s a bigger room.

It’s not my little bit corner of the basement, so my voice is echoing. I’ll have to learn how to modulate my voice in this setup, and we’ll see if the audio sounds any different. You don’t care about any of that.

Let’s talk about Louis C.K.

Jezebel Rights. Everybody crying about cancel culture for the last decade can shut up, because apparently the diagnosis does not take that long to wear off, as evidence by well, pick any crappy man of the last decade. They are, of course, commenting on the announcement that Louis C.K. Will headline a show at the Netflix as a Joke Festival, and we’ll have a special on Netflix titled Ridiculous Jezebel Rights. This mark CK’s first major streaming deal since his quote unquote cancelation aka when he got fired for being a creep.

They re litigate that part of CK’s biography. I went over that on Friday. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s all water under the bridge. Let’s get this creep back up on the homepage. Great idea of Netflix.

A more fitting career trajectory for Ck would have been banishment to the depths of the podcast only men listen to either that or a lifetime residency at the Rion Comedy Festival. Just begune. He played the comedy festival, so he’s not gonna be mad at you for saying that, Jezebel writes. More importantly, can men stop acting like women are out here ruining careers by coming forward with their stories of sexual misconduct? The narrative is tired.

Unfortunately it has never been the case. There’s literally a rapist in the White House. So let’s collectively agree to stop pretending cancel culture was or is real in any meaningful, permanent way. Because if I recall, it only took about a year after c K’s cancelation for him to be back on stage, receiving standing ovations and joking about how he lost thirty five million dollars in an hour. Thing out today on Netflix, Shang Wing, I like Shang a lotta.

I’ve got a trailer for you in a second, and it reminds me of how much Shang reminds me of Mitch Hitburg. I’m feeling pretty good. I’ve been trying to eat more berries. I’m real passionate about those antioxidants. It’s weird.

I don’t even know what oxidants are. I just know that I’m against them. It seems like whenever you eat something that’s yummy, there’s some oxidants trying to bring you down. Right. So after I eat like a steak and some martinis, I call on my berries.

I send in the antioxidants. I’m like, hey, man, go handle that make it look like an accident. Sometimes I eat the berries before the dinner. I lay a trap. Directed by Ali Wong, the new special Herpole delves into what it means to be a grown up.

Sheng Wang explorers ordinary life moments, sharing prize berriers with your friend’s kids, cooking with shallotts, and braving the ghosts in your house. Herpol was filmed at the Warner Theater in Washington, d C. Great venue there We also have a trailer for Rammy Usef’s special that’ll be out on HBO on the seventeenth. This trailer is fantastic. I did edit out a chunk that’s a little too naughty for what I want to do on this particular program, but this is a strong trailer.

Rommy Usef is back in his third HBO comedy specially, he’s the most famous comedian to not do the Saudi Comedy Festival. I didn’t do that because I wasn’t invited. My wife, whole family’s in Saudi. I go there anyway. I’m the only guy in Hollywood that loses money going to Saudi Arabia.

He’s got the solution to AI. You ever see what’s happening on grap any picture of any woman they’re turning it into. I mean I thought of. One defense, you know. I mean, really, the only thing that could help would be if all women kind of were just all black, but only through the eyes.

For years, I’ve been going, why do they make them wear that?

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And now it’s become clear.

I mean this was a prophecy. I mean, you know, sell them. I will never let them rock you. And He’s got thoughts on being a man. Any guy I know who should be married is married.

Any guy I know who’s singles should be who single? These guys are crazy, the single guys. None of them got a job, phone, always dead, one hoodie. It’s hard being a guy. And that’s what we’re talking about tonight, Fellas.

Yeah, this one is for the boys. Bro Rammy Yusef in Love. Rommi Yusef in Love, HBO, April seventeenth, Filmed at The Hideout in Chicago, directed by Chris Storer. Now you may not recognize the name, but he is the creator of the Bear. Robmi Usef playfully engages with the audience as he approaches a vast spectrum of personal topics, both hilariously relatable and genuinely serious, all while doing so with the belief that he can find light and hope in all things if you just try to see them through a lens of love.

Whether it’s his marriage, being a dog parent, AI, or religion, Robmi comes at everything with his own brand of heart and humor. HBO Executive vice president of Late Night and Specials Programming, Nina Rosenstein, in a statement, said Rommy’s third HBO special feels like a homecoming for him and for us. He has this rare ability to make a room feel like it’s just you and him, and then use that closeness to say something that catches you completely off guard. Filming inside a small Prohibition era bar in Chicago only deepens that intimacy. It has a lived in, timeless quality to it, and the result is a special that feels completely and unmistakably romy.

Joe Rogan experience making some news he had on guest Theovon, I try not to get too political on this program, so I will read you verbatim what they wrote in The Independent. Quoting The Independent, they write, quote influential podcasters Joe Rogan and Theovon, both of whom supported President Donald Trump in the twenty twenty four election, have expressed their dismay at the war in Iran. Theovon sat down with Rogan the day after the President delivered that twenty minute televised national address. Remember that one? Did you watch that one?

Theovon asked Rogan, what do you think is going to happen? You think we’re going to be okay? Joe Rogan said, I hope, so, of course, I don’t know. I’m confused. I can’t believe we went to this war and we started bombing Iran.

I was like, this can’t be true. Theovann jumped in and said, what about Lebanon. Joe Rogan said, well, they’re supposedly trying to stop the terrorists. Theovonn laughed and said that’s crazy, though, you’re the effing terrorists. You know what I’m saying, Like, if you want to stop them, effing stand in front of the effing mirror and start there.

I have a little audio for you from the Joe Rogan experience. It just seems so insane based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed, right, and he ran on no more wars and these stupid, senseless wars, and then we have one that we can’t even really clearly define why we did it. Another section is making the news. People seem a little concerned about Theovonne after this exchange.

Particularly Joe Rugan seems concerned about Theovann. I have made several edits here for swear words. It’s all just a cat and mouse game. People are like, well, like the Democrats next time, It’s like, but it’s all the same. Shit has been happening forever.

They haven’t been helping anybody forever. They’re letting politicians slurp on kids. All of our money goes to Israel and they’re using it gets to genocide people. It’s like everybody is scared out of their wits right now. It’s like our religious leaders are afraid to speak out, and it’s like it’s a time where it’s like Satan is amongst us and our religious leaders are talking about bullshit at the poll.

It’s just like, what is going I don’t know, man. You got to get you up at the present sun. You’re losing your marbles. You think I am come hang out with us? Just chilling them here, and the topic went on to aliens.

The Ovon asked Joe Rogan, do you think these upper echelon people have met the visitors and there’s some other thing going on, because there’s something it feels like something’s going to happen soon. Broguess said, the idea that the aliens come down here and they’re like, who’s the leader of the people. I highly doubt they give an f if they talk to Trump. He’s out there building a ballroom and they’re like, leave that guy. Alone.

I’m not interested in him. Rogan predicted the aliens would visit military establishments, like if they find a nuclear weapons base, maybe I’d go to that because they probably know the signal of nuclear armament. They probably know the signal of these weapons. They’d probably visit those places. But would they interact with the people on the ground.

Perhaps maybe they would if they could be assured of their safety. Maybe it’s possible. But I don’t think we’re alone. I think the idea that we’re alone is silly. Send your letters to Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn, or perhaps to John Stewart, who had some thoughts about the President of the United States on The Weekly Show.

John Stewart said, the thing I get most frustrated with that I think is happening with Trump right now is is we all point to, well he got convinced or his mental acuity. This is who he’s been from the get go. Like when people say, well, I’m upset with him now and I regret my vote because he lied them in and he came down the escalator through the It’s the largest inauguration that’s ever been seen in history. There is nothing fundamentally different about his decision making process about the manner in which his add pushes him from lurching from one endeavor to another. Stewart referred to Trump as a movie star president, saying he doesn’t have the stamina to sit through the whole movie.

He’s just the trailers. And right now the Iran War. The trailer’s done. Now what do I do? It so frustrates me that all these people on the right are like, well, this boy really pushed me over the edge.

I’m like, this is the same effing thing we’ve been dealing with for twelve years again. Send your letters to John Stewart. Eugene Merman was on social media. He posted a photo of himself with a bandaged right hand holding a sign that said life is an adventure. On social media, Eugene Merman said, I am extraordinarily thankful to the heroic people that pulled me from the car, and to the warm, kind and talented staff at the hospital that cared for me and got me on the mend.

I am thankful beyond words to be here and doing relatively a right all things considered. In case you missed the story, Eugene Mermann pulled from a fiery car crash Last week, Devin Walker had some comments about Saturday Night Live. There was a promotional piece in Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair’s instagram showed a post featuring mikey Day, Chloe Fyneman, James Austin Johnson, Ashley Padia, Jane Wickline, and Sarah Sherman. Devin Walker commented, loll I forgot everyone on the show is right now the nineties is beck.

An SNL fan account shared a screenshot of Walker’s comment, noting SNL used to have Devin Walker. Walker responded to that, saying no respect to the homies. I got a lot of love for them, but there’s an institutional trend to play that is very underdiscussed. In my opinion. Late Nighter points out.

Season fifty one’s cast includes Keenan Thompson, Michael Chay, and Camp Patterson, as well as Marcelo Hernandez, none of which were involved in the Vanity Fair shoot. They also have counted some screen time. Hernandez and Thompson are seventh and eighth out of the seventeen players on SNL in terms of screen time. Michael Chay rarely appears outside weekend Update. He’s number eleven.

Camp Patterson is in last place in screen time. I will jump in there, not to undercut Devin Walker’s overarching point. But Cam Patterson, I’ve been saying since week one, I don’t see him having a place on the show. In no way think he will be back. I never thought he fit the cast well.

Marcelo Hernandez, I’ve said several times does one thing and does one thing well, so you know you can only do Dimingo once an episode, guys. But as to Devin Walker’s larger point, I don’t want to be dismissive of that at all. If it really simplify the argument, you think Keenan Thompson could be in the photo shoot? Not unfair. Sticking with U SNL, Colin Jost has a new gig.

Peacock is developing a drama series about dentist turned drug lord Larry Lavin. Now, if you were like, who could I cast as a dentist? You might think Colin Jost, Well, how about a dentist turned drug lord? Sure, Colin Jost. The currently untitled series is based on season one of the true crime podcast Wolves among Us.

We are told by day Larry was a respect did Ivy League dentist and family Man by Night, the East Coast most elusive Cocaine Kingpin, who of course would be played by Colin Jost. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival continues taking a look at some of the shows on Wednesday. Daniel Kitson’s show is called Work in Progress. I love it the description Daniel Kitson is working on a new show. He’s hoping, as per usual, to make something funny, maybe a bit sad, intimately thought provoking, slightly audacious, and at fall possible, largely unfathomable.

He started properly thinking about it in the middle of January and it needs to be properly finished by August, so that should give you a sense of how far through the process these particular shows are likely to be in terms of the lump of stone to finish sculpture ratio on the upside that been priced accordingly and will last no more than ninety minutes. Love it and the festival ads. Please note all copy provided by Daniel Kitson. Let’s say how much tickets are twenty five dollars Australian and the show’s at six pm. Check our conversion rates twenty five Australian dollars is seventeen dollars in twenty three cents USD depending on when you made your currency exchange.

That’s not bad, right for an in progress show. Seventeen bucks from a good comedian. Yeah, that works. The Guardian caught up with ruben K. He’s touring his Hard to Swallow tour, in which he explores the creep of fascism, Nazism and techno feudalism.

Wonder who you mean there? He recalled a mourning back in twenty twenty three when police dogs swept through sniffing for explosives. Well, what had happened was people are upset at ruben K had received some death threats for a religious double on tendra he had made. He said he and his management team had to meet with counter terrorism police. He explains, there were fifty sixty men, far right Christian thugs marching up and down in Moore Road and outside my agent’s office, all with their faces covered, chanting the Lord’s Prayer.

He then said, sometimes I think neo Nazis cover their faces so no one can recognize them. Off grinder. So what he started doing was greeting the audience in the lobby with hugs to let everyone know is a safe space. Security in the police were not happy about it. He explains.

My in was I’m going to show this audience how much I truss them, and I’m not afraid. So even if someone’s going to pull a stunt or hurt me, the first thing they see is me saying, Hi, I’m here, I’m hugging you. I’m a human being, You’re a human being. He explains. One of the most disconcerting things that’s happened to him recently was he was on a cruise shape performing and an audience member got upset.

Cayse says, I mentioned Charlie Kirk in a song. This guy stood up in the middle of the number and started screaming and shouting, and I replied, I don’t know you want me to do. I’m working. I’m just doing my job. Ruben kay is hard to swallow at the Atheneum Theater through the nineteenth and Lucy Arnez is working with the National Comedy Center.

Part of her work there is preserving the work of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, her parents. Of course, she says, I’m thrilled we’ve been able to make some people happier with some of the things we’ve been doing with the legacy they left behind. She said. After her parents passed away, she had to start going through their stuff and explains, no one wants to be saddled with all the things you’re saddled with when your folks die, But when it’s Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, I was in the process of saying, what on earth do we do all this for one reason or another valuable material. Lucy Arnez is thrilled about the success of the Comedy Center.

Lucy said, build it and they will come. My mother was right. I just took a while to figure out how to do it. She’s there every day taking credit for all of it. She loves this.

I guarantee you there’s a spirit of my mother. You will feel her. She is there. The National Comedy Center is in Jamestown, New York. And that is your comedy news for today.

And I’ll catch you tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media outbit outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. Over three months ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on Comedy Island to determine the Comedy Survivor. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack. We were down to the final four of Nicky Glazer, John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, and Sebastian Maniscalco.

The listeners went to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, where they voted. It’s time to tell you the votes. Michelle votes for Sarah Silverman, Mike C votes for Nikki Glaser, Lee votes for John Mulaney, one vote for Sarah, one for Nicky, one for John Mulaney. Richard votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. Andy votes for Sebastian Maniscalco.

Dylan votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. That’s three votes for Sebastian Maniscalco, one vote for Sarah Silverman, one vote for Nikki Glaser, one vote for John Mulaney, Andrea votes for Nikki Glaser, three vote Sebastian, two votes Niki Raffi votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. Mary votes for Sebastian Manuscalco. Mike Dee votes for Sebastian Manuscalco. That’s six votes now for Sebastian Manuscalco.

Matt votes for Sebastian, Aaron votes for Sebastian, Barb votes for Sebastian, a von A votes for Sebastian, Janet votes for Sebastian, and Cheryl votes for Sebastian. That’s twelve votes for Sebastian Manuscalco. The listeners have made it very clear Sebastian Maniscalco clearly eliminated from Comedy Survivor. We’ll take the break, we’ll come back and we’ll see what this. As I do every week, I had the AI analyze the results, and the AI called this an assassination of Sebastian Maniscalco.

That’s pretty harsh, but boy it was not close. This leaves us with the final three. They are John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, and Niki Glazer. Let’s start with Nikki Glaser. She’s had some votes here and there.

The AI suspects that perhaps some of those votes were just to make things not looking animous. I don’t know about that. Sarah Silverman may be the most interesting finalist. She’s never really accumulated I think maybe one vote here or there. I don’t remember if she ever got two votes and she’s sailing along, could she somehow take this thing?

And then John Mulaney, he’s never been in danger the entire time. A couple votes here and there, but there’s never been a movement against him. So who will win Comedy Survivor? As we go down to the final three? John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman, Nicki gle Here’s what you do.

You go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. There you will find a picture of me and Sebastian Manaskauco, probably making a stupid face, and in that thread you will vote someone off Comedy Island. Who do you want to go? Is it? John Mulaney, Sarah Silverman or Nikki Glaser Vote one off and the other two will be in next week’s finale.

See you guys in the morning.