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Featured: Dane Cook, Joe Koy, Diane Morgan, Sean Haggerty

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s brother theft scandal and ‘Funny Money’ documentary film
• Joe Koy’s sixth Netflix special ‘Blue in the Face’ September 15th release
• Stand-up comedians pivoting to text-based social media instead of video clips
• Harassment incident involving man in AI glasses confronting Diane Morgan on set
• Sean Haggerty’s Nostalgia Room retro museum opening in Ireland with Ghostbusters appearance

Questions Answered in This Episode

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From Pool’s side on Johnny maclay Your afternoon Daily Comedy News Update. We’ll talk about the Landscapers in a minute. Believe me, I’m excited about Dane Cook’s trailer. He’s got a movie coming out. I just watched the trailer for this thing.

It was awesome. The headline for people Deane Cook’s brother Daryl stole millions from him. Can you hear me over the Landscapers. That’s one of the things I have to check because I’m not using my proper microphone set up here. Deane Cook’s brother Darrel stole millions from him, hid cash and spaghetti sauce, and disappeared.

It is called Funny Money, The Deane Cook Story. It’ll be out video on demand September twenty ninth. I’m looking forward to this. This looks pretty good. People tells us that Dane’s brother, a former corrections officer, was ultimately arrested Spoilers in two thousand and eight and charged with stealing twelve million dollars from Dane Cook while acting as his business manager.

He pleaded guilty to larcene investment in forterye and twenty ten and was sentenced to five to six years in prison. He was also ordered. To repay the twelve million dollars to Dane Cook funny Money The Dane Cook Story. Now, what I think will be great about this is it’ll like we reignite people’s interest in Dane. I think people have forgotten, it’s been twenty years now how huge Dane Cook was.

Dane was selling out the Garden when that wasn’t that ball common. The guy was a rock star as a comedian. Went a nice looking guy. I know my female co workers really enjoyed him, but he was huge for you know, a good decade there. He was the top comedian and you don’t hear about him much at all.

So looking forward to the Dane Cook Story video and demand September twenty ninth. I’m also really excited. If you listen to the audio podcast, you know I love this bit. I’m excited Joe Coy has announced a new special Why John you see? And this is what the bit is.

Joe Coy remember he oose of the Golden Globes and he told a joke about Taylor Swift and she kind of made a stoneface about the joke. All the landscaper stopped good And I love doing the bit about one time Joe Coy he told his horrible meat joke about Taylor Shift and that I played on the audio podcast. So that’s a lot of fun. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL on the Goldie Gloves.

Yeah, fewer cariber shots of Taylor swept anyway. Joe Koy it’s his sixth Netflix special, Blue in the Face, Netflix, September fifteenth. And there’s an interesting article in the New York Times under the headline, some stand up comics are pivoting away from video. I finally start making video and now we’re pivoting away. Great, so is what the comedians are doing.

Instead of posting jokes, they’re doing kind of slide shows with texts. So it’ll be like a one two three, almost like a comic strip where it’s one two three set up punch. A comedian Eric Walsh explains, some people just don’t want to watch clips at work and stuff like that, and so the fact they can just scroll through the pictures it makes it way easier to consume and distribute. Another comedian said, text jokes. Work because you don’t have to have applause if you have a dead room that makes sense.

I also want to lightly touch upon this one, and I don’t want to make fun of anything other than on the audio podcast. I have said several times some podcasters have a crush on Diane Morgan, but don’t do this. The headline man wearing Perfect Glasses films himself harassing famous female comedian Diane More. Just want to be clear, not me. I don’t harass people.

Just talk about my crush on a podcast anyway, Diane’s out on a TV shoot. Some dude named Mark posted a video rising uncunk counk as the character that she plays. Mark asked Ian Morgan, excuse me? Can I get your phone number? Some of the crew come over and they’re like, hey, dude, dumb where we’re shooting here?

Can we get some space? Apparently Mark says, don’t ever touch me. We’re gonna have a problem. Okay. Another crew member said, we’re working, We’re in the middle of shoot.

This is what we do for a living now. Apparently this man was wearing what’s been known as the. Perfect glasses, the AI glasses that record people anyway, don’t harass people, and one more. I thought this was cool. A comedian, Sean Haggerty in Ireland has created the Nostalgia Room.

So my question to you will be, what would you like a nostalgia room. His retro room has stuff from his childhood in the eighties and nineties. It opens up on Saturday with a special appearance by Ghostbusters Northern Ireland famous Ghostbusters trooped. But I assume he says, in my retro everything has been carefully selected, collected over years, a lot of stuff I’ve had since childhood. It’s like a beautiful interactive museum you can touch, use and play.

Guests can expect old crttvs, a VCRs, a DVD player with DVDs, old comics and magazines, toys, posters and cassette tapes, retro consoles and much more. That’s what I would want. I would want an a Toury twenty six hundred, and believe me, I have one. I have a vintagitory and I also have one of those you know, modern fake kataris that’s just easier to hook up to the TV. I have both of those, and I would want Star Wars figures.

What would you like? Tell me in the comments, You guys think I’m doing a bit with the landscape is on the main show, right, Well, here’s the pool, so we are pool side. Yes, I know, it’s little green. We talk about the. Mantles and here is just can you see back there?

The relentless landscaping. It never ever ends. I mean, I need them to call over here and pick up my bird thing and actually cut my grass, and don’t. Worry, I’ll get to it one of these videos. We’re going to follow this guy around easier to clean up the leaves.

There’s one of the leaves you to get. To yet, And here’s the leaves, and yes, I know the pool great believe I’ve been being with it back in the morning with an audio episode. Again, if you’re listening to this on the audio feed, I’ve been doing quick three or four minute videos on YouTube in the afternoons. That’s what you’re listening to. And if you’re staring at me right now, I know.

And if you’re staring at me right now, this is really an audio podcast that comes out in the morning and those episodes are more like twelve minutes long, and catch it then

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Matthew McConaughey, Nate Bargatze, Jo Koy, Steve Gerbin, W. Kamau Bell

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis beer brand controversy at Austin FC game
• Shane Gillis’ Netflix series ‘Tires’ season three success
• Nate Bargatze called ‘controversial’ by Parade magazine over Trump UFC event
• Jo Koy announces new Netflix special ‘Blue in the Face’
• Shane Gillis SNL firing and career comeback

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media friends, this show will not be stopped. Every landscaper in the Tri State area is in my neighborhood right now. There’s a guy blowing leaves behind me. There’s a guy mowing the lawn to the left of me. But it is seventy nine degrees sunny and dry out.

So we are doing a poolside edition. Come hell or high water. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We will test out my noise reduction capabilities on the MacBook. Shane gillis a little kerf Fluffle’ll been talking about this on the Quick Afternoon episodes, So just real quick, if you’re catching the three minute things I’ve been posting in the afternoon, I’m doing those for YouTube, So if you’re finding the show on YouTube, those are the videos.

And if you’re a regular audio listener that we’ve been doing this for eight years, nothing changes here, but that’s what’s going on with the afternoon episodes. I talked about this lightly, but there’s a Shane gillis kurf fluffel. Shane was at the Austin FC soccer game against Dallas on Sunday. Interesting choice. He was there with Matthew McConaughey, and on screen you saw McConaughey, and you saw Shane and on Shane’s right hand, and the cup holder was a dos Eki so which you know, a perfectly fine beer.

Everyone enjoys a good dos Equis unless you’re Shane Gillis and you’re a spokesperson for bud Light. Now, all of a sudden, you see somebody hand Shane a bud Light and he said, what what? Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And what’s making this even funnier now is TMZ is trying to clean this up, And TMZ reports a source close to Shane says the comedian wasn’t committing brand betrayal. You see the dose Eki sitting in the cup holder in Shane’s chair wasn’t his right.

It belonged to the girl sitting next to him, who wasn’t in her seat, just as the cameras shot Shane Gillis and Matthew McConaughey, Because why would you want to see the pretty blonde girl drinking a dose Egi’s Now, TMZ is really trying to clean us up, they say. In a different video, you could see McConaughey’s on Shane’s left and a blonde is on his right. In that clip, Shane’s can is in a woozy and she’s empty handed, but you could see a bit of a butt light peeking out from Shane’s grip.

Meanwhile, on the Wall Street Journal, Shane got a nice tire rotation from th…

They wrote about the new tires show a very favorable article towards Shane Gillis. They reminded us of how he was fired from Saturday Night Live in twenty nineteen. Oops. Shane said, I was doing stand up that night, like while I was getting canceled, I thought it’s the one thing I can do as for tires. The character of Shane, played by Shane Gillis is learning the big funny guy bit isn’t working so well anymore.

He is a vision of his own mortality. While eating chicken wings, he pictures an instant family with a freshly divorced woman he once had a thing within high school. My character’s a lot like me in real life. It’s kind of time to grow up. I’m almost forty, so I don’t know how much long I can do this whole frack guy thing.

Not that that’s what I’m ever going for, But you know that’s the perception. At least Shane is self aware of the perception. I was texting with my son the other night. Did you see the thing with what do they calling this kid out at Penn State? Pablo pledged Scobar.

Did you see this thing with the college students in the cocaine? Look it up anyway? I texted tom My son, what is the frat doing? Why don’t you guys just drink bud light and pretend to be Shane Gillis while you’re trying to be cocaine dealers? I digress.

So apparently Shane and Crewe were pitching Tires to Quibi, remember Quibi, which was short vertical videos, which in retrospect was the right idea. They just tried it seven or eight years too early. If they try that idea again in twenty twenty seven, it’ll probably work, The journal tells us. After Shane’s SNL firing, Quibi didn’t want him involved in Tires, but his friends refused to make the show without him. Shane made some money in twenty twenty three off the Netflix special Beautiful Dogs, and he decided, hey, let’s just make it ourselves.

Nobody was gonna buy our show without a proof of concept, so they made it themselves. Tires premiered on Netflix in twenty twenty four and went to number one. They ordered more, and now we’re into season three. I’ve been watching several episodes a night. I had to catch up in season two.

Not that I didn’t love season two. I just got distracted. You know, sometimes there’s just too much on TV. Like right now, haven’t watched Reacher at all. How to make time for It’s always Sonny in Philadelphia, which was great.

How do you hear the leafblour? How much leaves are there? It’s August stop. This is why I do the show pool Side. I like the distractions and the randomness.

Steve Gerbin, who co stars on Sire’s, had been working as a paralegal. Wow. He said, for Shane to have the success he had and then come back for all of us is something I wish I could say that I would do if I were in but I don’t know if I would. The other thing cracking me up I talked about this is on the short YouTube live shows, this whole thing with Nate Brighetzy, And you know, I’ve been doing the bit. You know me, I love a recurring bit.

So I’ve been leaning into the mega comedian in Aperghetzy, which is how the Daily Beast keeps referring to Nate. Well, apparently it’s getting sticky Parade magazine, you know, Parade magazine like your grandmother reads that. Remember that that’s still around. It’s pretty mainstream. They are now calling Nate Brigetzi controversial their headline and I shared it on the video yesterday.

Controversial comedian Nate Brighetzy. What is controversial about this guy? I mean, okay, he went to a UFC fight once. We’re going to cancel him because he went to a sporting event at the White House. Stop don’t be And I’ve talked about this, as you know, the President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues.

But if he wants to come on here, he can get sit poolside. The Secret Service can clean the pool. While I’m interviewing the President, I’ll ask him about Saturday Night Live and comedy and what comedians he’s into. I’ll start talking about Seth Myers and how we have to make twelve thirty greet again. By the way, we’ll get into that tomorrow with there’s a good Chris Fleming article.

But I would have the president on, you know, and if the President advites me to UFC fight, I’ll go anyway. Nay, Brighetzy controversial comedian. It is just so ridiculous. So here’s what Parade wrote. Although Burgetzy has become the highest grossing stand up comedian, making an astounding seventy seven and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five, his career hasn’t come without controversy.

After a photos surface of Burghetzie attending President Donald Trump’s You Have Ce Freedom two fifty fight blah blah blah. W caamau Bell criticized Burgetzy, saying, don’t be in a photo with fascists. Send your letters to w kamau Bell or n A. Berghatzy. I don’t care what side you’re on.

Oh, the landscapers are getting closer. Thanks guys. Here’s what I’m really really excited about. Joe Coy. Joe Cooy has announced a new Netflix special.

It’s called Blue in the Face. It’ll be out September fifteenth, which means we’re gonna have a lot of Joe Coy press, which means I’m going to be able to do my favorite bit. What’s your favorite bit? John? Hey, remember that one time Joe Coy told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

Here, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh, I am so happy that that bit is back film before a sold out crowd at Stockton Arena.

Joe Coy’s new hour seems him relive a wild dental disaster, recount getting fired from McDonald’s, and celebrating his veteran stepdad. Oh, there’s a trailer. I forgot to pull the trailer. By the time you hear this, I will have pulled the trailer. Here it is.

I assume dogs live on a different energy. They’re on another frequency. Ever you ever, you ever bring someone to your house for the first time and your dog’s ever met that person, and right when they walk in, your dog’s like, who is this? Who are you? Who are you?

Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? Whoso who are you?

Who are you. Who are you? Who are you? Stop it? Stop it?

Who are you? Dude? Here? You due? Wore you dude?

Who are you to get over there? Get on? Looked at? Who is this car? Who is this car?

Who is this car? Who is gonna sit out? Oh? I didn’t make an edit there the landscapers stopped. Do you hear how quiet is?

I don’t know what you can hear it out with the noistroduction, but oh my god, as I say that, so it’s the guys on the left. Stop. The guys behind me just started up again. Please stop. This has been going.

I’ve been It’s one twenty one as I’m recording, I’ve been out in the yards since ten am. It’s been three and a half hours of landscapers. Because I do have to write the shows before I record the shows, you know, I have to look this stuff up by digress. Once again, you’re a little loose today, John, Yes, that’s why we’re poolside. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her, so we’ll talk about her new project, which I just look at this and I just wonder about the decisions some people make.

Maybe it’s just because I’m a reserved person, but Amy Schumer’s new movie is called Best Divorce Ever. Feels a little soon to me, but what do I know? Best Divorce Ever follows Amy Schumer’s character Clarissa and Franklin, who, after twenty years together, decide they’re done with marriage, but not with each other, determined to pull off the world’s most amical divorce. This sounds familiar, Amy Schumer amical divorce, trying to get along. I feel like I read that in the news several times.

I wonder if Clarissa takes bikini shots on a boat and post them on Instagram. I digress once again. Determine to pull off the world’s most amical divorce, they throw an untying the non party and eagerly embrace their newly single lives. But when disastrous dates, suspicious children, and spectacularly misguided attempts at conscious un coupling throw their perfect glen in a chaos, Clarissa and Franklin discover that getting divorced is the easy part. Figuring out how to stay a happy family is where things get complicated.

There is a lot of news today. Robbie Hoffman is putting out an album of Robbie Hoffman Special Weak Up produced by John Mulaney. This is the special that aired on Netflix last December. Now it is an album from legendary indie label Secretly Canadian. I was unfamiliar with them until I saw this new story, but I’m sure they air Legendary.

The album will be available in a digital format as well as a limited run of signed vinyl. Robbie Hoffman said, I come out very rockstar like. It’s almost like this old Andrew Dice Clay way of doing comedy. On tour, I’m in a lot of historic music venues and we’re bringing the house down with comedy instead of music. Our fandoms have really collided.

She’s excited to sign albums, she said, you always see those pictures of artists signing stuff. They want me to do that now, so I’m going to do that. I’ll take a picture and then press release. Robbie Hoffman jokes that putting out a physical album is the only way her mother will finally hear the special. When Robbie got started in comedy a decade ago, her mother started sending her comedy records.

Now, Robbie hits record stores in towns. So far, she’s got about fifty records she said, his mom’s been sending me Carlin and Joan Rivers. There’s a lot of Carlin. She says, she also has some Bill Cosby. Seems like her mother doesn’t know the latest news with Bill Cosby, and then mom is going to be quite surprised when I finally tell my Bill Cosby story after the death of mister Cosby at some indeterminate point in the future.

Can’t tell that one yet, folks. She says her mother doesn’t pay attention to pop culture to know anything about what’s going on. She just knows the work. It’s actually a great way to live. When I got into comedy, she’d be like, Oh, you should listen to Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason, and I used to think those people were hacks.

Right then I went back and I’m like, those guys are awesome. She’s totally right. So much news that this is like the eighth story. Today, the New York Comedy Festival has added more than one hundred shows to the lineup, which is good because I wasn’t impressed with the lineup so far. The ten day celebration of Comedy takes place in New York City November sixth through the fifteenth.

The new editions joined previously announced headliners including Mark Maren, Alana Glazer, Jordan Jensen, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman and Patty Harrison. That’s One Show, Daniel Sloss, ze Way, Ben Bankis, Mojo Brooks, and a bunch of others. Caroline Hirsch said, we’re through to continue building out this year’s near A Comedy Festival lineup with an incredible range of shows, et cetera, et cetera. I still don’t see, like, like, who’s the A lister there, Marin. I mean, it just feels like a drop off from the past.

All right, real quick. I gotta be better about promoting my other show. I also a show called Five Good News Stories. Here’s how it works. It’s me and I tell you five stories and they’re good news, right.

So it’s like cute stories or smile stories or world records or dogs coming home after seven years being lost like that kind of stuff. No politics, no outrage, Just search for five good News Stories wherever you found this show. It comes out four times a week. One of the four days is Thursday, so you’ll find a new episode in your feed right now, and if you like it, there’s like four hundred you can go back and listen to. Brett Goldstein is touring.

It is the Sex, Death and Small Talk Tour. I thought his last comedy special was actually really strong. I might actually go see him. John, You’re gonna leave the house, I know right. It kicks off October twenty third in Madison, Wisconsin.

Let’s see where he’s near me. I could drive down to Philly and see him at the met Philip Day Elia on December third, which actually from where I live is easier than going to Venue TBA in Brooklyn, New York. On December fifth, the tour wraps up in Boston and November sixth. He’s got a website. You can check this out.

This one I’ve wanted to get to all week. I’ve mentioned in the past. Some podcasters are known to have a crush on Diane Morgan, and this headline caught my attention. Man wearing Perver glasses films himself harassing famous female comedian. That famous female comedian is Diane Morgan, which some podcasters have a crush on, but do not harass people nor wear Perver glasses.

So some social media user named Mark filmed himself annoying British comedian Diane Morgan. In the video, we see Mark asking a taken aback Diane Morgan, excuse me? Can I get your phone number? This was uploaded to social media. I don’t want to promote the video, but the title is rizzing on Kunk.

If you’re not hip to it, Dian Morgan plays filhmina Kunk on some very funny videos. Mark said, I saw the cameras on you thought you wereked gorgeous. A crew member said, hey, can we get some space. Mark apparently says, don’t effing touch me. We’re gonna have a problem.

Okay. Another crew member said, we’re working. We’re in the middle of a shoot. This is what we all do for a living. One social media user said, I don’t know how you filmed that video.

Watch it back and decide. This is how I want to present myself to a globally connected population. Leave Diane Morgan alone. If you have a Crushunner host a podcast on Gossip Corner. Pete Davison has taken his upstate New York home off the market, two months after he slashed the asking price.

Pete initially purchased the four bedroom three bathroom house for one point nine five million dollars in twenty twenty three. In February decided to sell it. Listed the home for two and a half million. A few weeks later he dropped the price to two point twenty seven and then in April dropped it to two point one five million. It is now back off the market.

Perhaps Pete likes living there and I’m not the only person who likes to be pool side. Apparently Kevin Hart was pool side. This came out of an African newspaper. They were very excited. Kevin went viral after a clip surfaced of Kevin Hart and moving to the I’m Gonna butcher all the words here ampiano track Whozizwa Kanjohn was shared on social media by the Hype channel.

They captured it Kevin Hart vibing to Uzizwa Conchon song. In the clip, we see Kevin Hart dressed in an open white linen shirt, shorts, sunglasses and sneakers in front of what appears to be a breezy beach front. Backdrop me I’m dressed like Adam Sandler and that is your comedy news for today from poolside. All right, it’ll be back in the afternoon with the quick video version of this, and then back in the morning with the full audio version of Daily Comedy News. See you then

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, W. Kamau Bell, Joe Rogan, Matthew McConaughey, Ricky Gervais, Jane Fallon

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze ‘MAGA Comedian’ label controversy
• Nate Bargatze UFC White House event attendance
• Shane Gillis beer brand controversy clarification
• Ricky Gervais marriage and tax strategy announcement

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We’re at the lake today. I keep thinking about this Aperghazzy thing. The idea that he’s controversial, obviously is absurd. The guy works clean, he hosted the Emmys. There’s not a scandal about him except he went to a UFC fight at the White House.

And the Daily Beast, if you’re not him to this, here’s what’s going on. The Daily Beast for some reason started referring to him one hundred percent of the time as Maga comedian in Aperghazzi, which is hilarious, right, So I’ve been using that in the podcast, but now I’m seeing in print everywhere, specifically Parade Magazine, which again is hilarious. But Parade Magazine is pretty darn mainstream and like your grandmother probably reads it. So now they’re gonna be like, who’s this Nay Burghecy guy? Is he controversial?

And out of worrying if Nate’s gonna have to somehow do damage controllers, people are going to have to get this out there because this is becoming a thing. I find it quite quite hilarious. So let me read you the Parade piece because it is funny. Although Burghezzi’s become the highest grossing stand up comedian, making it a stounding seventy seven and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five. His career hasn’t come without controversy.

After photos surfaced of Burghatzy attending President Donald Trump’s UFC Freedom two fifty fight, the comedian became the subject of conversation between fans and celebrities alike. In a substack essay, comedian W. Camel Bell criticized bergainst he saying, don’t be in a photo with fascists again. Send your letters to w comeout Bell or Nateperghatzy, whatever side you’re on, leave me out of it. I’m just having fun with the non controversy controversy.

One fan wrote on threads, Nate Berghetzy was by far the most shocking a disappointing attendee for me. One of my favorite comedians had a genuinely decent guy. Dude should have known how bad it would look. Shane Gillis was at this thing. He seems fine, Rogan seems fine.

I don’t know. Someone else wrote, Napergazzy can support Trump, Nate Berghazzy can attend Trump’s White House UFC party, and Aperghazzy can pose for photos with political figures.

Speaking of Shane, I got to clean something up from yesterday.

Shane’s people apparently went to TMS. There are some people who accused Shane Gillis of drinking a dosakie. No no, no, no, no no no, he was drinking a bud Light. Yes, A source close to Shane tells TMZ the comedian was not committing a brand betrayal. Love the copywriting there, the source tells TMZ the dose EQI sitting at the cup holder next to him.

It belonged to the girl sitting next to Shane Gillis, who wasn’t in her sy. Just as somebody shot a video that happened to go viral with the Dosakis in it, which totally was not Shane’s, of course, because Shane one hundred percent of the time drinks bud Light as well. Know the folks, let TMZ know that. You can see in a different video that Matthew McConaughey is on Shane’s left and a blonde is on his rate. In the clip, his can is in a koozy and she’s empty handed, but you can see a bit of bud light blue peeking out from Shane’s coozy I love this.

This is so silly. TMZ has reached out to Shane Gillis’s rep at this time no word back. I will keep you updated on this. This is important. Ricky Gerveys is saying he will get married eventually.

He’s been with Jane Fallon for forty four years. Why would Ricky Gervas do such a thing to reduce his tax pill? I did a big interview with Saga magazine. I’ve got it scheduled in the audio podcast for Sunday, so we’ll cover this on Sunday at length, but real quick. Ricky Gervas said that taxes are a good reason to marry, and said, and that will be the reason I marry because if it wasn’t for that, why how more married can you be?

We share all our money. We’ve been together for forty years. Some marriages don’t last a year. He makes a good point, all right. If you’re catching these on the audio feed, I’m doing these short videos for YouTube just to try and promote the show a little bit more.

Nothing’s changing on the audio feed. On the other side, if you’re catching these on video, there’s an audio podcast that comes out at three oh five am every morning, and come back tomorrow at three oh five am Eastern. There’ll be an audio podcast to see you

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Featured: Christina P, Stavros Halkias, Theo Von, Zayquin Jang, Chelsea Handler, Bill Maher, Kara Swisher

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Dating Show at Comedy Mothership featuring Christina P
• Stavros Halkias discusses performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival and ethical concerns
• Theo Von criticizes U.S. military presence in Iran on This Past Weekend podcast
• Chelsea Handler incorrectly claims Attorney General Todd Blanche will overturn Roe v. Wade
• Bill Maher argues immigrants must assimilate to American values including LGBTQ rights and free speech

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Caloroga Shark Media. You here, I’m shiny Nack with your Daily Comedy News. Maybe I’m just getting to be an old man, or maybe I’m from a different time. I don’t know. You know what’s happening in Austin tonight at the Comedy Mothership, which, as you know, is the popular club in Austin owned by Joe Rogan.

The Comedy Mothership is hosting the Comedy Dating Show, and the show promises the comedians will quote shoot their shot with Christina p for a chance at love. Now. Everyone should find someone to love, and you know, I wish Christina the best. This just feels soon to this old man recording a podcast in a basement. Christina filed for a divorce from Tom back in May.

They only recently confirmed it on the most two recent podcasts, So sure, go ahead and live your best life. It just feels a little a little soon to me. We’ll also talk about Amy Schumer tomorrow. She’s got a new movie about divorce that also feels a little soon. We’ve got a lot of other stuff to cover today.

Starvro’s Halkius was on the Popcast. I spent Saturday sitting on the beach boy, Saturday was one of the all time great beach days. It was like seventy nine, super sunny, super dry. The ocean was as warm as it ever is going to get in the New Jersey area, and it was wonderful. And I listened to podcasts and the popcast and Stavros started talking about one of my favorite topics.

The Riyadh Comedy Festival edits here for pacing, and quite many edits for language. And this is somewhat a long clip, but here’s Starvro’s Halkias taking the money. I kind of understood and understood, but I could see a way where these people that don’t really think about you know, they get a lot of these all and look, oh, let’s be honest, we’re at the top. You think that’s the most evil place some of these guys have performed. You don’t think they’ve gone Northrop Grumman, but you know what I mean.

Like and by the on record, I would never do any of that. But I think when you’re at the highest levels, you probably you start to get a little comfortable with you’re evil, because when that’s where all the money leads, right, anyone is successful, it’s like there’s no you can’t wash your hands of this if you exist in this society, and the more successful you get, the more the closer you get to whoever the illuminati is right like, and so I think there’s a there’s I could see how it just becomes normalized. It doesn’t make me doubt myself at all, because I know it was wrong to do that. I don’t care what those counter arguments are. And I’ve heard people like, well, we’re bringing freedom.

It’s like no, it’s like and they’re like, well we’re evil. It’s like, yeah, America is where we are the we really there’s our foreign policy since World War Two has what’s has been ruining the world. I mean, there’s no way to look at it any other way in my opinion. But I’m just saying like, like, yes that I see their point, where, well, you perform in America, but it’s like, but I’m not performing for Donald Trump and his kids, you know what I mean, Like, I’m not like. And the criticism is that it’s culture washing that it allows exactly.

It would be like doing an ice benefit, you know what I mean. It’s like, like I get that there’s good people in Saudi Arabia. I understand that, and I understand there’s people want them comedy, right, and I want that, but it’s like I don’t want them. By the way, how many of those people were there really is another question I have. My guess is it’s probably the upper class.

But again I don’t know. That’s pure conjecture. I would love it if there was a public. People. Yeah, and this idea that you could say, no, you couldn’t say what you tell me, you could say whatever the Saudi king was had was more lax than like, like you know.

This was Chappelle’s argument. This was Chappelle’s bit about it was he was like, actually I had more freedom there than I did. That’s not where I can’t theovonn. Is getting critical of the President of the United States. On the This past Weekend podcast, the Yvonne asked, why are we putting our troops there there?

Being Iran? It doesn’t seem like we have a real interest. I know, there’s rumors of weapons of mass destructed. Again, there’s rumors of nuclear weapons held by Iran. But I think people a lot of people feel like we’ve fallen for that trap before in Iraq and Kuwait.

It could just be the same sort of fools errand again. THEOVONN then added, you can send your letters to theovon.

Also, Trump, our president, said that we would not go to war with Iran.

It seems that theovugh has noticed that sometimes the president says something and doesn’t follow through. For example, remember when gas was going to be two dollars and fifty cents a week ago Monday, Yeah, that didn’t quite happen. Vaughan was interviewing geopolitics expert Zayquin Jang, which I don’t know, just makes me feel like maybe THEO was out of his depth here. Mister Jeng said, everyone’s looking at Donald Trump. It’s like the war’s lost already.

Just make peace with Iron, just get out of there. And what Trump is doing, he’s doing taco. If you’re not familiar with this, some people say taco means Trump always chickens out. Mister Jang continued, saying, like one day he’s like, we’re gonna end your civilization. The other day he’s like, let’s make peace, guys, let’s just be friends.

And the next day he’s like, now I’m gonna nuke you. Now next day he’s like, oh, you know what, I didn’t really mean that it’s just weird. Theovaugh said, the war feels pointless and bizarre, continuing our theme of maybe perhaps possibly comedians are not the sharpest people out there, like it’s possible they’re not the most well educated people, the most knowledgeable people. Chelsea Handler was upset, Chelsea No, not this time about Joe Rogan making eighty two million dollars. Chelsea was on Kara Swisher’s podcast, which isn’t exactly a podcast for the regular people.

If you’ve ever listened to Kara, Kara might be a little out of touch with the regular people, but I digress. Chelsea Handler shared her concerns about Attorney General Todd Blanche. Chelsea’s concern is that Attorney General Todd Branch might overturn Roe versus Wade.

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Roe versus Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in twenty twenty two. Chelsea Handler said about Attorney General Todd Blanche, We’re going to get Todd Blanch. He’s going to be confirmed, and he’s going to overturn Roe versus Wade. We’re all sitting around. All these men who have these powerful platforms are sitting around and watching this happen to women, to communities that you could instead be supporting.

You don’t have to like turn over a whole new leaf. It’s just about being a decent human being. Well, here’s the thing about all that the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Weight in twenty twenty two. It was a big deal. You know how much of a big deal it was.

Jlsea Handler was filling in for Jimmy Kimmel and talked about it, as I said, comedians might not be the smartest people we are political today, Johnny Mac, I know. Bill Maher on his program, argued that immigrants must assimilate to American culture and accept certain fundamental values like gay rights, women’s equality, and free speech, saying those principles are quote not white values unquote, but liberal ones. Continuing to quote Bill Maher, he said, if you want the American dream, you have to take the American values. Biden’s policy of open doors and then Trump’s policy of broken windows. Now I’m on the page of America doing what it used to do so well, stealing hard working, talented immigrants from around the world and making them Americans.

Bill suggested things have changed, quoting Bill again, Now most immigrants still want to assimilate. But I have this other attitude of melting pot. If you you melt. Look, you don’t have to love everything about America. We don’t, said Bill Moore.

That’s why yelp was invented. But you know, if you do get past ice, America is actually pretty cool. We say, you do you eat the food your grandma cooked, speak another language at home, celebrate religious holidays. We welcome your food, your art, your fashion, your first ladies. That’s a good joke.

But you have to answer one question. Do you like Western civilization? Because that’s what we are. That’s not negotiable. Dave Chappelle was upset about people.

I think Dave needs to start reading the contracts when he does shows, because this is not the first time Dave Chappelle has been upset about a curfew. Sometimes you play a venue and there’s a curfew. Dave, you should know this because I feel like once the summer there’s a story like this. Dave was one of the attendees at Lauren Hill’s Diaspora Calling Festival in England, where the headlining set from the Fujis was cut short by producers after an hour. Dave Chappelle was upset that Lauren Hill’s microphone was disabled, as though we’re attempting to address the crowd in regard to the noise ordinance, quoting Dave Chappelle, you’re effing up his you turn the mic off on Martin Luther king Man, you all fed up.

I’ll never forget this. Tell them whoever’s in charge. At the end of the show, a message appeared on the screen reading, thank you everyone. We’re sorry for the abrupt finish. As part of our license, we are legally required to finish the show at eleven PM and cannot continue beyond this time.

On social media, He’ll said to the surprise guests who came ready to rock with us but didn’t get their moment because we hit curfew, We’re gonna have to do this again and make sure the audience gets all that we had planned for them to me and I wasn’t there. It sounds like like is there were what’s the opposite of a curfew? Like are you allowed to start earlier? Like it just feels like this was just misproduced, Like you know how long ish your set’s gonna be back time from there? Maybe don’t take the stage at ten o’clock and be surprised when you can only do an hour and Dave Chappelle, calm down, dude, just calm down.

Congratulations to mega comedian Naprighatzi. He has set a Guinness World record what’s it for Sean most tickets sold for a stand up comedy tour, surpassing the record held by who did you listen to the Monday Ups? I did from the pool? That’s right, Jeff Dunham. Nate sold the two point zero one six million tickets, beating Jeff Dunham’s one point nine to eighty one million tickets.

But it sounds like Maga comedian Nateperghatzy blue Jeff Dunham out of the water because Jeff sold the one point nine million tickets across three hundred and eighty six venues over thirty five months and eight days. Magga comedian Nateperghatzy’s Big Dumb Ice tour, and you can tell how much going to a UFC fight ont of the White House Lawn is hurting Nate’s career. He crossed two million after just sixteen months and ten days and across only one hundred and twenty eight venues and of course, he is now the record holder and does not work with puppets. Despite going to a UFC fight at the White House along the way, Nate broke eighty four venue records. According to his reps, I put the spin on the word his, as if the reps are lying having fun with you, Nate.

He became the only comedian to sell out three consecutive performances at Nashville’s Bridgetone Arena in a single calendar year, a feat matched only by comedian Taylor Swift and comedian gorth Brook. The Maga comedian was crowned by Pollstars the highest grossing stand up comic, with seventy seven and a half million reported twenty twenty five alone, and he still, for some reason, wants to build a theme park called Nateland. I am having fun today. I think it’s because everyone else is home, so I have the door closed to my tiny studio, so there’s probably no oxygen in here. I probably have carbon dioxide poisoning, which is why I’m a little loose.

I do want to remind you I do host another podcast. It’s called five Good News Stories. Here’s how it works. There are five stories and they’re all good news. So I’m never gonna come on and tell you about like murder or horrible things of the war.

It’s all fun stuff, like lost dogs that return home after seven years. We’re Guinness World Records. There’s a lot of those. Just fun stuff. Comes out four days a week.

It is called five Good News Stories. Wherever you get your podcasts, Where have you got this podcast? You’ll find it there. Out yesterday, Danadute has a new stand up special. It’s called Yes I Am Falafel Phil.

That’s out with Comedy Dynamics. They waited until late Monday to announce this. I don’t know why. They were like, oh yeah, tomorrow, we’re putting out a special, Like dude, release these things, like the nice folks behind James Austin Johnson’s special. He’ll have one out August thirty.

First. It is called heal Yeah, not hell Yeah, heel Yeah, which is going to confuse everyone. It will debut on Gorilla Comedy Plus and then be on YouTube proper September twenty second at five pm Pacific, a very very specific time of release, September twenty second at five pm Pacific. In Heel Yeah, we see James Austin Johnson performing at a variety of venues, including The Den Theater in Chicago, Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco, Zenie’s, and Nashville. The trailer tells us James Austin Johnson is one year no wait one hour to change comedy forever, or he will be chemically castrated.

There is a trailer, and I got to tell you I hate this trailer. I think this trailer is awful. I think I can see by watching the trailer that’s a good special in here. But as trailers go, this is terrible. Let’s play a little of it.

I’ve clipped it down for pacing, but here’s some of it. You ever been playing a video game and your guy gets into some fire? Okay, so this is a video game guy burning alive. A pretty crazy show I got planned for you, guys. I’m going to talk about my life a little bit, some social commentary for a little bit.

All of this was pre written down to the blocking. Maybe the health is going down by two for some reason. When will you be in golf? Y’all? Ever think about if the president is going to start talking about you specifically, he’s he’s so you know, my stuff was always more roots kind of roots, Maraicana kind of root, more new grass than bluegrass, but definitely old time.

Definitely in that old time jam sort of feel. Oh brother, We’re Art Thou soundtrack kind of by way of Cold Mountain soundtrack. Heel yeah. On Gorilla Comedy Plus August thirty. First, I need to go walk my dog.

So that’s your comedy needs for today. I’ll be back with one of those afternoon episodes later today at a normal regular episode every morning. That’s kind of what I’m doing for now, doing the video thing. They’re like three minutes long to see what happens on YouTube. But I’m not going to stop doing this, just trying new be where the kids are.

The kids are on the YouTube, so that’s what that’s about. Hope you’re enjoying those, and if you hate them, if they’re clotting up the feed, let me know. I have no ego here. I’m just trying to figure this all out. Tell me on the side.

My email is in the show notes, or you can do it publicly in the Daily Common News Facebook group. And I’m not offended, just trying to get this right. See tomorrow

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Featured: Robby Hoffman, Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, Kelsey Cook, Stavros Halkias, John Mulaney, Chad Daniels, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Robby Hoffman vinyl album release on Secretly Canadian label produced by John Mulaney
• Daily Beast calling Nate Bargatze a controversial comedian
• Shane Gillis new show praise and beer swap incident at soccer game
• Kelsey Cook Netflix special and upcoming wedding to Chad Daniels
• Stavros Halkias criticism of Riot Comedy Festival and Dave Chappelle on podcast

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Hey, what’s up today? We are at high Point State Park in New Jersey, the highest point in New Jersey. You can see the Obelisk rade there. We just hiked two point one eight miles uphill. As you can see.

I am sweaty, but quick a check in. I’m going to turn around so you can see the view. Robbie Hoffman is releasing her new album on vinyl. Robbie Hoffman Wake Up, produced by John Mulaney, will drop as a vinyl tomorrow from the legendary indie label Secretly Canadian Love. That title available in a digital format which.

Is not a viol at all, as well as a limited run of signed vinyl. In the press release, Robbie Hoffman jokes that putting out a physical album is the only way her mother will finally hear the special. My mother, who’s a musician an avid record collector, probably has ten thousand records. Robbie says she hits Ricket stores in towns when she tourist. She’s got about fifty.

Mom’s been sending me Carlin and Joan Rivers. There’s a lot of Carlin and adds that she has some Bill Cosby. Okay, now look at this controversial comedian makes history. I told you about this yesterday. This is a Nateprighatzy like.

I’m joking with the Magga comedian Nate Pergazzy thing, because I think that who is a Daily Beast is just absurd with that Nate Pergazzy controversial comedian. Are you kidding me with this? Catching up with some stuff. Shane Gillis Tires is really really funny. I am enjoying the heck out of that show.

And there’s a new episode of It’s Always Sunning at Philadelphia and out he let me walk you around a little bit. There’s a funny story with Sane Gillis. He was caught I think it was at a soccer game and he was drinking a dose Ekies and then he realized he was on camera and somebody quickly swapped out the beer for a bud light. So that’s a funny video making the rounds. How’s it out on Netflix?

Kelsey Cook’s a new special. I didn’t realize that she is getting married to Chad Daniels this weekend, but that’s a pretty big week in her life. So check that out as well. The other thing and we’ll cover this on Wednesday’s audio podcast, Stoppers hawkis if you haven’t listened to him on the popcast yet, really interesting. He got into my favorite topic, the Riot Comedy Festival, and basically was not too kind to Chappelle, specifically called out Chappelle and some of the other comedians who appeared there, paraphrasing starv Ros like, I get it’s about the money, but it’s not about the money.

So that’s pretty interesting there. That whole thing was a good listen. He really mixed it up. So if there’s something you want to listen to this week, the podcast What’s star Ros haukis and that’s a short version of DCN Live for Today from High Point and again we’ll have a normal episode in the audio feed on Wednesday. Enjoy your Tuesday

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Ari Shaffir, Mark Normand, Stavros Halkias, Mike Birbiglia, John Mulaney, Kelsey Cook

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis avoids White House VIP photo at Trump UFC event while Nate Bargatze attends
• Joe Rogan discusses crypto and Trump’s involvement in crypto business dealings
• Stavros Halkias criticizes comedians for becoming too political and wealthy-focused
• Mike Birbiglia cancels John Mulaney tour dates for unnamed dream project
• Kelsey Cook’s Netflix special ‘Happy Hour’ acquired after self-financing

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man. The Daily Beast doesn’t like Nate BRIGHATSI, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Joe Rogan had on Shane Gillis, Ourry Shafir and Mark normand the Daily Beasts listened to it and their headline was Mega friendly. Comedian Shane Gillis may have been willing to attend Trump’s UFC birthday cage fight at the White House, but he also drew the line being photographed inside his VIP room, unlike Nate BURGHATSI, all right, here’s the gang.

In discussing this on the Joe Rogan experience, I have clipped it for both pacing and language. He was at the White House. Yes, so was I. So was Shane. You know what I’m saying, Like, that’s the problem.

To go in the VIP rome. I said, no, I. Went in there. Photos are gonna be taken and were in there, I know, and that I stood outside in the rain. I was like, I’m not getting my picture taken.

I took zero heat for that event. But you took with Trump a couple of years back a photo that was. Great photo where you were wearing the Pablo Escobar shirt. A lot of things. That’s true.

That’s pre pre world record. No no, no, not me personally. I mean. Back then when I was taking that picture, I was like, this guy is going to release the Epstein files and. It was a killing Americans.

On that episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, we also learned that communism is gay. Some mean needs to look into how gay communism. But it isn’t crazy that it’s making a comeback. Yeah, it always does. It’s a cycle.

There’s a cycle. Is if we cannot call it communism. If we get free health care, that. Would be a good move. That would help a lot.

We’re calling everybody communist. Pre health care is cool. We should have that. It’s normal. That’s not communism.

You should treat the entire country. Look at the community. If you have a community, would you want the sickest person to die, who could be very valuable if you could like take care of them, and do you have the resources to take care of them. You should take care of exactly what the library. This is the problem with don’t feel like the community with This is the reason why people turn on all these billionaires.

They turn on them because they why do you have so much when people have so little. But it’s because it’s the game. It’s the game that they’re playing, and you’re playing the game too, you’re just not playing it at that level. Joe Rogan, who I’m going to point out before this clip, seems perfectly healthy. He doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that’s suddenly gonna drop out of a heart attack.

You know, it looks very very healthy. Takes care of himself anyway. He has some thoughts about crypto that I’ve clipped for pacing in language. The crypto stuff’s nuts. It’s like Trump has made billions in crypto, like, and then you got his sons, and his sons are involved in all these weird business deals where the business deals have to do with some things that Trump put and then the sons are involved in these businesses, and like there’s a lot of money flowing that you could dig in and start arresting people.

Another good listen is Star Wars Hockey Is. On the pop Cast podcast, he discussed comedians getting political. A lot of stand up comics happened the last couple of years to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth. And they are my friends and I’m like, all right, guys, can we talk about this. When you look back at twenty twenty four, in the run up to that election, you saw how the right was activating or maybe in some cases weaponizing, totally comedy in the podcast space.

Were you having behind the scenes conversations with those folks about what was happening, and did you at all feel like you have to issue some kind of corrective in what you’re doing. I do kind of resent it because I do feel like they’ve forced a lot of my contemporars have forced me to be explicitly political in a way that I’m not interested in doing. Even something I said today, it’s like, I don’t want people to know I know who Muhammad most said that was. The brand. No, no, I want I don’t want them to know how to polycide degree right, Like the most charitable reading is uh, some people thought their platform was important enough to host either the President of the United States, the vice president whatever, and they want to do a public service.

And I think that is that was naive. It’s either you’re either naive, which some people think were, or you’re so arrogant that you think that’s true. I think it’s either that or it’s cynically again part of the problem of wanting to be as famous as possible and being like, well, just this will get clicks, or they thought culture was going to go to the right and they’re like, we want to I want to get out in front. And by the way, I do think it did feel that way. And I do think if the trub administration hadn’t gone full blown fascist right out of the gate, I think that is the way things would have gone Cultruly, I do think there’s whatever the answer is.

I think it was a mistake. On the podcast also called out how wealth and fish or changing a list comics. The New York Times went out of their way to do an article just on that point. The transcript reads as Stavro saying, people just want to be as successful as possible. They want to play arenas for arena’s sake.

They want to be the kind of guy like they want to be on a private jet that sucks. I really want adversity because nobody gets funny or on a private jet. At one point, do we have like a responsibility? Isn’t that the whole thing? But stand up?

Isn’t speaking truths of power? Which I found corny. Isn’t that theoretically part of it? I don’t like that we’re trying to get as famous as possible. Mike Birbiglia has canceled some of his shows that he was doing with John Mulaney.

You think they’re backstage going, Hey, you know that guy, Gianmarco Soresi SIRESI he’s ripping you off, John, which Gianmarco Soresi is not. That is just absurd. I like making fun of the idea that Gianmarco Soresi is somehow doing Mullany. He’s not. I digress.

Birbiglia has canceled a bunch of shows to pursue an unnamed quote unquote dream project. So if you were planning to see him at the Great Outdoors Comedy of Them Calgary, or perhaps in New Hampshire or some other dates, check his website. I’m not going to read a list of canceled dates. Burbiggs said, I wanted to let you know that a dream project of mind came together for the September, which is great, like really really great. I can’t wait to tell you more.

I think you’ll love it, but I can’t tell you yet. That says I’m no longer able to perform Some dates on the John Mulaney mister whatever tour. As you know, this is something I always try to avoid, but in this case, there’s no way around the schedule overlap. So go see John’s show. It’s epic.

It’ll be John’s best special. In my opinion, you will love it. Love in all caps. Top of his Game out on Netflix today, Kelsey Cook has a new special. She shared that she was on the phone with her agent.

He was just being casual and said, by the way, Netflix is buying your special. Kelsey said, I’ll never forget that moment. I was on cloud nine. She financed Happy Hour herself, hoping to sell it to a streaming platform, but knowing she could always upload it to YouTube or whatnot. It took a few months and now Happy Hour is on Netflix.

Filmed in the Twin Cities. How does that work? Did she film half of it in Minneapolis and half of it in Saint Paul or did she just film it in one of the Twin cities? I like to nitpick language. Cook said, I wanted to make sure that this, especially because I was hoping it would go on Netflix, would be like anybody who watches it can feel like there’s something for them sometimes if you do too much local stuff at a special, it can feel not quite as interesting and you want to open so strong.

In Happy Hour, she talks about her fiance’s road rage, pooping in airplane bathrooms, sobriety, depression, and her mother’s experiences with dementia. Putting the special together, she said, you’re always trying to find that happy medium between feeling confident in the joke. You’ve gotten to the point where they feel ready to shoot, but you also haven’t run on them in the ground. We were really sick of telling them. Did you watch Rory Scovell’s special out on Netflix last week?

It is the number two special of the year, in my opinion, the only one better so far as Chris Fleming, I thought Rory’s was fantastic. He was asked how he would describe the market for comedy specials today. Skoll said, for me, it’s like where do you get the eyes? And it’s probably in Netflix or YouTube. My last one was on HBO and that felt so cool because as a kid, it was like, oh, here’s HBO.

And also they don’t do one hundred a year. They’re very selective. But in terms of globally, who has access to stuff. YouTube is probably the best, Kui, dude, dude, shut up, turn up, you shut up. You’re messing with Netflix.

Take the Netflix money. It’s just such a gamble because now you’re hoping you make ad money, and if you do and it hits, as we’ve seen, you can really explode. It can change your life. Netflix is probably up there as well in terms of, hey, we press a button and now everyone has access to it, and if that works, then good. But I think word of mouth is still the strongest force in me.

When I hear someone tell me that I should see something or read something or check something out, that is so much more weight to me than anything that I get served. Honestly, if I get their own something too much on my phone and this goes against my own publicity efforts, I’m like, why are you trying to talk me into this? Yeah, dude, just take the Netflix money and let their algorithm put into the big box and people click on it. Do you see this? Notf people watch on Netflix.

Don’t mess with YouTube, take the Netflix money. Say good things about Netflix. Netflix rules, right, Yeah, we don’t know Netflix rules. Rory talked about leaving LA. He said, yeah, we got out we were there for fourteen years, and I do love this job, but I was like, I got to be around less people.

Not that it’s affordable anywhere, but I need more affordable. It’s also fun to live in a place like Colorado where there’s not so much industry of one kind, and it feels good. I feel very inspired to want to create more, as though it will be seen. Rory discussed the business today, said, I guess I’m most excited that it seems to be a landscape that keeps changing. And that really used to frustrate me because I thought, no, we’re all supposed to do this, and the next happens.

And I think a great lesson in revelation for me and probably a lot of comics when I started, was Hey, everything that you thought you needed to do, maybe that still works for you, but it isn’t necessarily going to get you attention. Now, this is interesting, Rory said. And someone had just started who figured out this other format of showcasing their humor is already crushing it and selling more tickets. And it’s frustrating. It makes you feel like someone’s cutting in line, even though that’s absurd.

But I’ve come to the realization of well, it’s actually easier to get an audience now. The frustrating thing is it gets oversaturated. But if you do come out the other side, you’ve gained an audience. You’ve really proved that what we have is a valuable product. I just hate having to work that hard.

Having to work hard is frustrating. However, people keep showing up, and I’m fortunate that Netflix we want to show your special and that only leads to more eyeballs and bigger and better things. I hope, and I can’t really be upset about any of it. I’m in a spot where if you’d told me when I started that i’d be here in twenty two years, I’d be like, well, that’s the goal. They were curious how his merch sales are going.

If you know, you know, and if you don’t, it’s just a question about merch sales. Goebal said. If people buy the shirts, one hundred percent will go to charity. So I’m hoping that people just lose their mind and really want the T shirts. One of them has this dope picture of my dad.

I did ask my siblings, like, are you guys okay with me putting Dad on a T shirt, because I think it would be really funny if this thing caught on a lot of random people have our dad on a T shirt. That is funny. All right, I’ve sat on this, but you had a week to watch Rory Scholvill. I mean even I watched it, and you know I’m always late on watching comedy specials. Vulture had their spoiler laid in reviews, so spoilers ahead, you had a week.

The hour’s opening section says Vulture is an optical illusion of guy yelling about politics. Goebel’s not sincerely trying to sell himself as a guy with right wing viewpoints. It’s all a set up of right wing brorage baiting, but he continues to toy with the reversals. The game of it is how quickly he switches back and forth. They say, show must go on is a legitimate achievement for Skulvill.

You’ll find it on Netflix. Late Nighter did their weekly recap of the Late Night ratings. Who won the week? Jimmy fallon both in total viewers and adult eighteen to forty nine. Now, the Kimmel Show was in repeat, so we got to grade this on a bit of a curve.

But again, as Johnny Max said at the beginning of the summer, I think Kimmel should have worked this summer. You’re letting Fallon in the door. Jimmy’s working, And again, believe me, I like summers off. Right now, as I’m recording, it’s eighty and sunny outside, but the landscapers are out. As much as I like the bit of un recording pool side, it’s too loud to do that.

I had to come inside. I’m sitting in a windowless basement, and to be honest, I wanted to go to the beach today, but I have to record my other show, Five Good News Stories, because I have no episodes left, so I actually have to work. Sometimes you have to work, right, Jimmy Fallon, That’s right, right, Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel says, no, we will see. The tonight show average one point five six one million total viewers, up a bit from the week before, eighteen to forty nine two hundred and twenty six thousand viewers.

Kimmel repeats of guest host repeats averaged one point zero zero six million. Wow, that’s a pretty low number for that particular show. Again, you know, it’s a repeat, and it’s not even a repeat of Jimmy hosting it. The Late Show at Stephen Colbert had zero viewers because CBS got rid of it. Comics Unleashed averaged six hundred and fifty four thousand viewers, down two percent week to week, and sixty seven thousand whole people eighteen to forty nine, which isn’t even a good number for a podcast.

At twelve thirty seven of funny, you should ask to average about four hundred and thirty thousand viewers and in the eighteen to forty nine forty six thousand. Yikes. Seth Myers is in repeats for seven weeks for some reason. So that got seven hundred and forty thousand viewers down twenty two percent, and he’s got one hundred and nine thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. We’ll see what seven weeks of repeats does to that show.

Out today on the eight hundred pound Guerilla, Reese Darby’s specials called twenty five Years coming to Netflix soon. Second City Television better known as SCTV, all six seasons will be on Netflix September first. Now that should be interesting. We’ll see if that show catches on with the youths. I haven’t watched that in a million years.

It’ll be nice to just have it right in front of you. I think that will be great, And I got some other stuff, but like I said, it’s nice out that can wait for tomorrow. Let me know if you’re enjoying the little three minute four minute things I’ve been doing pool side. So part of that is I’m just trying to get more eyeballs on YouTube. You know, the youth today are all on the YouTube, so I’m just trying to record some casual video there, and while the video exists, I’m ripping the audio.

So hopefully I’m not cluttering up your podcast feed here or you’re getting annoyed with it, but you can let me know. My email is in the show notes or jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I’m also finding it’s a way to quickly comment on things, both casually and more timely. As I do record the long form audio podcast ahead sometimes, but the short YouTube things I can just jump on and get something out in a matter of hours. So let me know.

If you hate it, I can stop. If you like it, I can do more. And that is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow

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Featured: James Austin Johnson, Dana Dude, Christina P, Tom Segura, Amy Schumer, Nate Bargatze, Jeff Dunham

What’s in This Episode

• James Austin Johnson ‘Heliah’ Special Announcement
• Dana Dude ‘Yes I Am Falafel Phill’ Special Release
• Christina P Comedy Dating Show at Comedy Mothership
• Amy Schumer ‘Best Divorce Ever’ Movie Announcement
• Nate Bargatze Guinness World Record for Comedy Tour Tickets

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I just watched James Austin Johnson’s trailer. I hated it. Now I think the special is going to be good, but the trailer I hate. I will play for you on the audio podcast at some point this week, but boy, I really can’t stand this when they just announced it. It will be out August thirty.

First, it’s called Heal. Yeah, with the apostrophe there. I’m just checking on my screen to make sure that that’s not like a crumb. But it’s not Helliah. It’s Heliah.

And in Heliah we see James Austin Johnson performing at a variety of venues, from the Den Theater in Chicago to Cobbs in San Francisco, to Zenies and Nashville. The trailer says James Austin Johnson has one year, no wait, one hour to change comedy forever, or he will be chemically castrated. They also announced this from Comedy Dynamics. I don’t know why they waited till Monday afternoon to announce that Dana Dute has a special coming out on Tuesday. But there you go.

Yes, I am a falafel. Phil will be on Prime Apple TV wherever you get your stuff tomorrow In Yes I Am falafel Phill, Dana Dude talks about post break up, fitness, foody culture, dating, family, and the absurdity of becoming a minor celebrity to children as he chases adulthood and Hollywood validation. One Disney Channel role keeps following him fulfilled from the show Kicking It. I must be too old for that one. I’m sure some of you are like, yeah, everybody knows kicking It.

I have no idea what we’re talking about, but I’m been familiar with Dana Dude’s comedy for twenty five years, so the big one, and maybe I’m just getting a little old mad about this. Christina pee and again, I wish you and Tom Siguori, who wish you both well. But here’s what Christina Pea has decided to do. The Comedy Mothership on Wednesday is hosting the Comedy Dating Show. The show promises that comedians will quote shoot their shot with Christina pe for a chance at love.

I don’t know vantishes to me. It feels too soon. I get how comedy works, I get it. This just feels a little soon.

Also feeling a little soon is the title of Amy Schumer’s new movie Ready for …

It’s called Best Divorce Ever. Yikes. In Best Divorce Ever, we follow Clarissa played by Ammy Schumer and Franklin, who, after twenty years together, decide they’re done with marriage, but not with each other. Determined to pull off the world’s most amical divorce, they throw an untying the Not party and eagerly embrace their newly single lives. It sounds like they’re making the Christina and Tom Zigura move.

Oh boy, congratulations to Maggi. Comedian Nate Praghatzy, as the Daily Beast loves calling him every single time. He has set a Guinness World Record for most tickets for a stand up comedy tour, breaking the record held by who. You won’t guess. I’ll tell you in a minute.

So whose record did Nate Pergetzi break? I’ll tell you in a second. Nate’s Big Dumb Eyes tour has sold approximately two man six and fifty four tickets. So you can tell the Daily Beasts hole Maga comedian thing is really really hurting Nate’s career. People are just so offended that he went to a UFC fight at the White House that he’s nuts.

He I mean, come on, all right, the previous record was held by who, Jeff Dunham. You wouldn’t have guessed Jef that I could give you three hours. You’d never come up with Jef Dunham. Jeffdunham sold one million, nine hundred and eighty one thousand, seven hundred and twenty tickets across three hundred and eighty six venues across thirty five months and eight days. Nate’s tour across two million, just sixteen months and ten days, across only one hundred and twenty eight venues.

So we’re comparing red apples and yellow apples or something. I don’t know, but anyway, congratulations to Magnet comedian Apraghassie. He’s got the new record. And yes I did get an aircut all right, audio podcast every morning, and I’ll keep doing these little casual things in the afternoon until life gets in the way. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Tom Segura, Christina P, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Alex Honnold, Jay Leno, Joe Rogan, John Lovitz, Adam Sandler, Jimmy Carr

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura speaks on Christina P divorce
• David Letterman season 7 of My Next Guest needs no introduction with Jimmy Kimmel
• Jay Leno’s Law 2.0 smog exemptions for vintage cars
• Jay Leno on skipping Trump coverage if still hosting Tonight Show
• Joe Rogan comments on President switching planes story
• John Lovitz on Adam Sandler casting him as perverts
• Amazon Prime Last One Laughing Halloween special announcement
• Jimmy Carr new book On Jokes coming in October

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We have heard from Tom Sagora about his divorce from Christina p. He did this on his podcast. I did clip this down a little bit.

The co host was Ryan Sickler, who kind of stepped on Tom when Tom was getting like serious and emotional, so I tried to take that part out. But let’s hear from Tom. So Goora, all right, we are back, and this is my first podcast here in a while. I know that a lot of people obviously heard the news and saw last week’s episode where Christina hosted it, and I don’t feel a need to like say a lot to people, but it bothered me that a lot of people were like, oh, I can’t believe you would make her go address this alone or like do this on her own, you know, which which couldn’t be further from the truth. The truth is that, like we have been recording separate episodes for a long time now, because everything that people know is is not new to us.

It’s you know, it’s been many many months, so this is not like brand new to us. It was many months and we record separately. So her episode was first after our return, so she addressed it first. It was never like, hey, you go handle this, you know, it was just kind of the timing of how that worked, and we both decided to record separately. That’s just what we’re doing.

It’s been horrible. It’s a horrible experience, so I just wanted to let people know it’s privately. It’s horrible. It’s a long experience. It’s emotionally a roller coaster.

Your emotions change often many times in a day. If anyone’s ever been through it or knows anyone, it’s like, it’s not you don’t feel the same all the time, and it’s really tough on you, like personally, it’s really tough going having it be public is it’s awful, you know. I can only tell you that it’s awful. Tom went on to say that the pair are non combative and they talk every day. Tom said, our focus, as you would imagine, it’s just on our children.

We’re just trying to provide the best life we can for them, and we’re trying to take care of them. I’m going to be focused on what I do and, like I said, taking care of the kids. Christina and I will continue to do that. We talk to each other. We’re fine with how things are moving along.

As disappointing as it is, it is what it is in that regard. David Letterman coming back for a seventh season of My Next Guest needs no introduction, now, Dave, I’m not sure about the premise of your show. Sure we all know who Matt Damon, Julia Robertson, Jimmy Kimmel are a pretty good guest list there, especially the Kimmel episode that should be all kinds of interesting. And the fourth guest of season seven of My Next Guest needs no introduction. I think alex Honold needs an introduction.

I was like who. I figured it was an influencer or someone I had to google. Alexander J. Honald is an American rock climber best known for his free solo assense of big wall climbing routes. So, if you’re throwing your phone across the room right now, going, how does Johnny McNatt know who that is?

Sorry, dude, Dave’s friend of me. The worst person who ever lived. Jay Leno is involved with Leno’s Law two point zero Send It Bill thirteen ninety two would extend smog exemptions to cars manufactured between nineteen seventy six, which is the current code off year, and nineteen eighty six. Jay Lenil said, for most people, this is a second, third, or even fourth car that was their grandfathers or their dads, and they’re trying to keep it exactly as it was. They’re not making the car more dangerous.

Under current law, cars over thirty five years old may also be exempt from specific portions of the smog test as long as they’re legally classified and ensured as collector motor vehicles. Under Leno’s Law two point zero, you would qualify if he did one of these the car was at least thirty five years old, insured as a collector motor vehicle, and driven less than a thousand miles a year, two a historic vehicle, or three a special interest vehicle. The law would also grant full smog exemptions to vehicles manufactured before nineteen eighty one that fit the definition of a collector motor vehicle. Jay said, there’s not even enough of these old cars around even make a difference, and as time goes on, more and more of these cars go off the road. You’re making criminals out of people wouldn’t do anything but just hold on another car a little too long and take care of it, which I think environmentally is actually better than buying a new car.

Jay Leno was also on the Awards Chatter podcast and said if he were still hosting that tonight show, he’d probably skipped Trump entirely. That’s interesting, Jay explained. The trouble is the fun thing about doing politics is he exaggerated, that’s the big laugh with Trump, alright, be sleeping with a stripper Stormy Daniels. Where do I go with that? I mean, what do you take?

That’s the reality of it. Jay also said when you don’t like someone starting to make fun of them, with George Bush, I could always go, you know, I don’t think President Bush quite understands, and people would smile, and you know they’re gonna give him a little jab. Times have changed now people are invested in this. It’s very tricky. People.

They go, it must be great. Don’t you wish you were doing it now? No, because I’m not a Trump fan. I don’t like him. I know if I’m gonna say stuff, it’s gonna be meaner than it is funny, you know.

Send your letters to Jay Leno. Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan experience, which is a freeze, you might say, for the AIS to pick up. Joe Rogan waded in on the president switching planes. Did you see that story last week where the President apparently hid in a catering truck. Well, Joe Rogan weighed in on that, and I have made edits for both pacing and language.

So if they flew him out because they were worried they were gonna try to take down Air Force one, and they took the press, the press dies so sad. Oh my god, you just get more pressed. That’s wild. If that’s true, that is so wild that he didn’t even tell them, Hey guys, uh, we’re not really gonna get on this plane. No one’s getting on this plane.

You guys, get out of here, go take American Airlines home. No, He’s like, hop one, Yeah, it’s air Force one. Guys. My gift to you take air Force by enjoy it. There’s food up there, sandwiches on there.

Enjoy yourself. John Lovetz was on the Tonight Show, currently hosted by Jimmy Fallon. He was there to promote Don’t Say good Luck, which John Lovett is in, and of course stars famous Hollywood actress Sonny Sandler. The movie coincidentally produced by Adam Sandler. John Lovettz asked Adam Sandler why he’s always been cast as perverts?

He made the list and wedding singer was a sleez bag, little nicky. I’m a peeping tom grown ups too. I’m a janitor that takes over Jim class with women and then gets them to do all these you know, sexual exercises. And I said, Adam, while you always casting me as a pervert? Adam Sandler apparently said, yeah, I think it’s funny.

Lovet’s praised mister Sandler, saying he’s the best and he’s just nice to you the rest of your life. What if you bash his movies every time you mention him on your podcast? What is your relationship with Adam Sandler? Then? Just a question.

Amazon Prime is bringing Last One Laughing back for a Halloween special that’ll go up October thirtieth. It is called Last One Laughing Halloween. Jimmy Carr returns as host. Let’s see who’s in this one? Tom Allen, Daisy May Cooper, Jack d Phil Wang who had like a lot louse Sanders who had like a lot Rhys Sheersmith and Harriet Dyer.

This time you get kicked out if you laugh or scream since it’s a Halloween special. Jimmy Carr has got a new book coming out is called On Jokes or Why Everything you Know about comedy is wrong The Hidden Mechanics are Funny. It’s pretty long title. It’ll be out in October. The book by Amanda Baker, Abby Grant and Jimmy car wll offer a fully unified theory on making jokes funny.

Jimmy Carr explains more about the book in this clip. Comedy has a simple guiding principle is it funny? Because the question is so simple it makes people think, well, you’ve either got it or you haven’t. I should be good at this straight away. The truth is, anyone can be funny, but until now, no one’s put together a universal theory on how to do it well.

Until now. Director Amanda Baker, comedy writer Abby Grant, and me Jimmy k We’ve written a book. It’s called On Jokes and Who reveals the hidden and genuinely new mechanics of how to make people laugh. If you think I’m funny, you should read this book. If you think I’m not funny and You’re funny.

You should definitely read this book. Comedy is the best tool I know for looking critically out the world. Good comedy stretches the boundaries of what people can talk about. It pushes the edges of the norm and changes the conversation. It fosters free speech and free thinking, not just in the people doing it, but also in the people watching it.

Master the skill and comedy can be magic on jokes. It’s available to pre order now. If that’s not enough comedy books for you, how but one from Wayne Fetterman. He’s got a new version of the History of stand up from Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle, now expanded and updated four twenty twenty six, one hundred and eighty pages, tracing the arc of American stand up from pre Vaudeville monologists like Mark Twain an Artemis Ward to the streaming era. It is a standard text in comedy courses at Yale, USC and Emerson College.

Wow. The new chapter adds stand Ups Chaotic twenty twenty one to twenty twenty six Boom, when a single crowd work clip could launch a career, When a top comedian could gross eighty two million dollars in a year. I assume that Sjuir Morgan. And when a festival in Riyadh split the comedy world over money and speech. Wayne Fetterman said stand up is primarily a generational art form, most of it ages like fine milk.

Yet one constant links all these performers across time, a human being standing on a stage alone, trying to spark laughter. Jason Zinnemann, comedy critic of The New York Times, called the previous edition backs so much In such a slim book, smart and deeply research should be required reading for comedy types. Star trek run Or Patton Oswalt said, absolutely riveting chronicle of stand up’s history. This book has it all. A sad note.

Lucy Davis, she played Dawn on The Office UK. She has announced she’s diagnosed with stage four breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body and metastasized into her bones. She explained on social media, specifically to my spine right hip in my ribs. The cancer is incurable, too late for chemo. As of now, I’m trying to live out whatever it might be left of my life, been as fun as a way as I possibly can as some of you know, the pain can be really something else.

Standing and walking for too long of a time can be hard, and I need to use wheelchairs sometimes. She focused on the positive. She’s being comforted by her dog, Greasy. Greasy passed away in twenty twenty four. Lucy Davis said, I’m not scared of whatever comes next.

I’m at peace with it. I’ll see my gracy sooner than expected. And for me, leaving my physical body just means going home. Any and all grieving is for my family. It’s far harder for them than for me.

Lucy Davis is fifty three years old. I wish you well, Lucy. Tiffany Hattish has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor alcohol related to driving charge stemming from her twenty twenty two arrest in Georgia. She was sentenced to twelve months of probation and has to complete a substance abuse e valuation. She will not face additional jail time after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor alcohol related driving charge.

Mary Beth Barone’s Galaxy Brain is coming out as an album August nineteenth on all streaming platforms. It is the same audio of the Netflix special. Jared Freed will get another comedy special for Netflix, this one called The Family Plan. In it, Jared Freed keeps his issues quote in the Family, joking about everything from vacationing with his parents to a Karen video that hits close to home. That’ll be out on September first.

SNL UK has a date for its second series, Saturday Night Live, September twelfth. The show’s entire cast will return twelve episodes, up from eight in the first year. The season once again will be split into two halves. First half runs out October twenty fourth, then the other half in twenty twenty seven. Interestingly enough, the September twenty sixth installment airs the same night that Saturday Night Live USA premieres its fifty second season BBC’s Celebrity Traders.

By the way, BBC Traders is much better than the American version like Night and Day. So for the second season of BBC Celebrity Traders, Rob Beckett will be on. You may know him from last one laughing he is a very funny person. Other comedians on this season Rare Meshwagon, Nathan Joe Last and Joanne McNally. That should be good comedian Charlie Barns is trying to fight the data centers.

There was an event at the or Doc Brewing Company. Charlie said, I’m basically like a big dumb billboard, like a clown saying come here and pointing to the experts. There really is just an off balance of information out there right now, and it’s just trying to even the playing field. It’s good that people are coming together on this, whatever side they’re even in on it, just to be in the same room together and connecting. That’s a huge thing that we started to lose to.

Had a little levity hopefully helps because people are understandably angry, frustrated, and just broken down by this. You’d like more information, check out the Northern Michigan Alliance for Responsible Development. North Jersey dot Com caught out with Ben Bankis. Ben said, you have to put out a lot of content. You have to be willing to burn it and have faith that you come up with something else.

A joke about FIFA, for example, stay in his act for two weeks while soccer dominated the news, I got a few million views and now short shelf life. Ben said, if it’s something that’s happening right away, like the wildfires, that I did a joke about to post it. If not, I’m not going to keep that for a year and a half, then post it. He says, he doesn’t force the process. It’s funny or not.

There has to be something funny about it right away, or it just wouldn’t do it at all. How does he tell if the show was working. I want have fun because then everybody else has fun. That is your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Rory Scovel, Kevin Hart, Stav Mallos, Hannah Burner, Page Disorbo, Bert Kreischer, Gabe Liedman, Morgan Magga, Nate Pergamatzy, Nimesh Patel, Kelsey Cook, Mary Beth Baron

What’s in This Episode

• Rory Scovel’s new Netflix special and his approach to political comedy
• Netflix comedy series slate for 2026-2027 including A Hundred Percent, Dad’s House, and Dang
• New animated comedies on Netflix including Deals and Living the Dream
• Scooby-Doo live action reimagining for Netflix
• Hannah Burner and Page Disorbo untitled NYC relationship comedy series
• Upcoming Netflix stand-up specials from Kelsey Cook and Stamp Town
• Netflix comedy specials in development from Bert Kreischer, Gabe Liedman, and others

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Caloroga Shark Media Tyler. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Netflix dot com. Actually, from What’s on Netflix dot Com. Netflix comedy series Late for twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven and beyond, What’s returning and What’s New. A comprehensive guide to every returning hit and upcoming comedy series heading to Netflix.

Thought would take a look at this. I’m looking at this for the first time returning Netflix comedy series. I’m not going to read everything here, just the ones that interest us. Free Birch will be back Funny af with Kevin Hart Leanne season two in August in twenty twenty seven. Eight hundred Percent cast Vanessa Bear, Nick Kroll, Diane Lane, Jason Mazukas, Sam Richardson, Tiffany Booon, and Lisa Gilroy.

We’re told, if you’ve ever rolled your eyes at influencers pushing the perfect five am morning routine, this upcoming workplace comedy Staler made for you A hundred percent follows a group of friends employed with the Thought Leader Industrial Kompleat, while their self help books, podcasts, and curated wellness lifestyles are designed to help the rest of us live perfectly away from the screens and microphones. Their actual lives are complete and utter disaster. Single camera ensemble comedy that looks like it could be. Okay, we have another adult animated comedy, this one called Dad’s House. Set in small town suburban Australia.

Dad’s House follows Sean, who’s thirteen and spends every second weekend with his laid back but incredibly well meaning Dad. Ian not excited about that. One more animated comedy, this one called Dang expected later this year. This half hour animated comedy follows a brother and sister duo living their best, messy lives in New York City. However, their kaoto a fun comes to a screeching haul when their absolute worst nightmare comes true.

Their highly successful, high achieving older sister shows up out of the blue and actually wants to hang out with them. No thanks, more cartoons, What is going on? This one is called Deale’s a brand new, supernatural workplace comedy that follows the bizarre, eclectic staff of a local big box store whose roster includes a so vaant salesman, a gentle gladiator, a quiet virtuoso, a summiter of the divine, and naturally, the poor soul will actually hire them. No thanks, I’m scrolling down here. I’m not reading everything, but apparently Stavros Algias is in Living the Dream.

Another animated series, Geez, What Is going On? This one centers on London best friend’s desen ray, two guys who are deeply convinced they should have made a big by now Scooby Doo origins Oh no no no, no, no, no no no don’t no no no no. Mystery Inc. Is heading back to live action for Netflix, but this time with a fresh, slightly darker modern twist. Just Don’t, Just Don’t.

Set during their final summer at camp, this eight episode, half hour reimagining follows old friend Shaggy and Daphne as they stumble into a haunting mystery involving a lost Great Dane puppy who may have just witnessed a supernatural murder. People are gonna watch that too. Oh my daughter will like this one. Untitled Hannah Burner and Page Disorbo comedy series’ set New York City, the single camera relationship comedy will star Hannah Burner in page two. Sorbo is fictionalized versions of themselves.

The series follows the two ultimate Wrider dies as they navigate city life, help each other, share their emotional baggage, and emerges the people they’ve always wanted to be. That reminds me so. My daughter’s in her mid twenties, and she obviously knows I host the podcast. She went out her way to tell me how much she like Mary Beth Baron’s special, and I’m like, yeah, that totally tracks. It’s not for me, it’s for you.

And since it’s for her, woman in her mid twenties, she liked it. I forgot to tell you that all week now, Netflix, is it really close to the vest with the stand up specials on Wikipedia? Here we are expecting Kelsey Cooks Happy Hour on August eighteenth and stamp Town on August twenty fifth. Nothing else actually on the schedule. They’ve announced in development untitled Bert Krascher Special, Gabe Leanne Morgan Magga, comedian Nateperghatzy, and Nimesh Patel.

No dates or any information on any of those. Earlier in the week, Rory Scolvel’s special came out. He got the big fancy interview with the Hollywood Reporter. That means his agent’s got it done and it means someone in high only what has decided it is Rory Scovell’s turn, which is why we bought Rory Scovell stock in the Comedy stock Market on Friday. We are told by the Hollood reporter the Mary, Dad and Sissy’s never come up with new material as swiftly and easily as he did in this special.

Rory says, it just kind of came together. He said, there was one brief period in the process where we watched the special, and of course I hated it, but that was before the edit. In the end, he’s proud of what he was able to pull off because it’s tighter and in his estimation punch here that is prior work. Rory says, it’s insane that it took me twenty years to learn how to edit, but better late than never. I am trying to avoid spoilers for the special.

Yeah, I’ll just stop talking there some I’m skipping some stuff. I don’t want to ruin it for you. I’ve read a few articles that have ruined it for me, so we’ll skip parts about the content. The Holid reporter asked Rory Scovell about the era of stand up where now Rory said, I think political identity is such a thing now in what we do, and I don’t know, it’s kind of like everybody’s got to pick a side to play to. I don’t necessarily love that people would go, oh, this is a liberal comic, or this guy, well it’s liberally so these will be his opinions or his takes.

I’d rather be me going, well, no, these are my takes, and whatever category they fall into is what they fall into. But I don’t want anyone to think I’m intentionally playing the left. It’s almost impossible for me to intentionally play to the right. It’s just not my soul to do it. But it isn’t like I sit here going I think the left is great, there’s nothing wrong with it.

I’d rather be like red and blue or all under a spell. So with this hour, it feels like I tiptoed in that a little bit to figure out how to do it in a bigger way in the future. There’s some political stuff in the special, Rory says. I know there’s gonna be a lot of people who turn it off, and there’ll be a lot of people that give me crap about it. But it’s like, well, if you can’t indle that you have no curiosity about what led me to that, I’m probably not your flavor anyway.

Minor spoiler. In the special, Rory jokes it’s good to be in a blue state, Washington, even if red states are more fun. Hother reporter guests, that’s a joke rooted in some truth. Rory said, I should maybe rephrase what I said. It’s not like I want to go in and be contentious.

What it meant is I didn’t want people to think, oh, you do it in a blue state because that feels safe. I do the same show wherever I am, and my expectation is that they should laugh at it because I think it’s really funny. But other people who do get offended or hate the show because of the politics, because they can’t look pass certain topics and opinions. And that’s why I addressed it in the show. I say, you’re gonna act like liberals, and I can’t tell jokes because that’s who we all say can’t take a joke.

I could tell you what it feels like when parts of the room don’t like it, and I tend to look in that direction a little more just to see maybe my energy needs to play to them, but what does it look like. Well, some people would get up and leave, which I get. I did the show in Wilmington, North Carolina, at a comedy club before I really started the tour, and I got ackled. I said something about Trump, and this guy goes, you really think Biden was better for us? And the whole audience goes, yes, he just got to watch this.

One guy be like, wait, everyone really does think that, and then the table got up and left on their own accord. Afterwards, someone was like, yeah, it was a convicted jan sixer at that table for real. I was like, that’s just proof that anyone will come to a show. They don’t need research. They’m gonna be like, Oh, what’s the comedy flavor?

It’s so baffling to me. Another minor spoiler, Rory jokes in the special comics we have to go red to make a little green, which is clearly a reference to the manosphere, says the Holly Reporter. Rory said, I don’t know if I have a relationship to it, and I think it was like, oh, there’s a lot of comics. I didn’t know we’re so politically on the rightabouts up until the atmosphere shifted, and I think that’s why it seems like a lot of them shifted towards that, because there was money to be had in it. Whether that’s true or not, I couldn’t tell you.

But if it is true, there’s just no integrity in that. I think I’d rather not gain some sort of massive audience and not make millions of dollars and retain my integrity, mainly because the rather my kids see that version of me a lot more Rory Skolhl stuff. I think we’ll save all that for at least tomorrow. The Mike Apps Festival is back for a third year. Hosted by Mike Abbs, the three day festival promises to bring live music, comedy, health and wellness to Indianapolis August twenty through the thirtieth.

Epp said in a statement, Indianapolis has supported me throughout my entire career. This festival is my opportunity to give back to the city that made me. It’s about bringing people together through comedy, music, culture, and community while creating opportunities that can make a lasting difference. Baranka Slowkowska, you know her from SNL and Shane Gillis Tires. She is going to start in Stephanie Bride to Be.

In Stephanie Bride to Be, Stephanie played by Slowakowska, is at her proposal party, which becomes a slow motion melt down while she waits for her boyfriend to arrive and pop the question. As Stephanie scrambles to keep the night for falling apart, she must gettend with her flighty parents played by Amy Sedaris and Michael Imperioli, which when I first read that, I was like, Wow, Michael Imperioli is playing a dad, And then I realized, oh, I’m a dad. Like, I don’t know why I feel like Michael Imperioli is too old to play a dad. I’m a dad. I have children in their mid twenties.

How was Imperioli now he’s sixty. Michael Imperioli is sixty. Do you feel old now because I just told you Michael Imperioli is sixty? Goes fast, people, Boy, it is really hot in the basement today. I gotta get a fan in here.

It’s a summer Sunday. Let’s do one more and go outside or something here will do this. When a stand up comedian says he’s confident he has a second world record. He’s trying to be verified for running the fastest half marathon while dressed as a microphone. Tan Hudson ran thirteen point one miles.

He already holds the record for fastest marathon by a man dressed as a microphone, but for the half he did it in one hour forty eight minutes. Not bad, he joked. I actually had the world record for fastest marathon dressed as a microphone, and I had to take that record off someone as well. I saw the half marathon on the calendar, I thought, eh, let’s do that to be a great one to try and get the world record, to be really crazy, not to take the double and get the fastest half marathon. The costume was made by a fellow comedian for him.

The run was documented by a friend who rang alongside him. Hudson said, sometimes someone will be running next to you for like twenty seconds trying to get my attention. I’d be like, oh, Hi, what do you want? He admits, my legs are always a bit sore after race like that, but I’m kind of used to it. It’s I can’t complain.

That is your comedy News on a summer Sunday. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Ralphie May, Sam Kennison, Dad Fan, Jerry Lewis

What’s in This Episode

• Ralphie May’s life and comedy career
• Last Comic Standing Season 1 competition and outcome
• Ralphie May’s death in October 2017
• Comedy Workshop Houston and black comedy rooms
• Sam Kennison’s influence on young comedians
• Weight bias in comedy industry and competition voting

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac and on Saturdays this summer, I’ve been doing comedy deep dives. Today we’ll take a look at Ralphie May, who was a friend of mine. Two days before he died, Ralphie May won Casino Comedian of the Year at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. He was performing a residency at Harris.

Ralphie was also sick. He was battling pneumonia. He had to cancel a few shows. He went to the ceremony anyway, accepted the award and posted about it on social media with the hashtag no apologies, which was close enough to a personal philosophy for Ralphie May that it functions as his epitaph. Two days later, October sixth, twenty seventeen, he was found dead in his Las Vegas home at forty five years old.

The way Ralphie May died, having just been honored for a career built in casinos and clubs rather than on streaming formers or podcast empires at age forty five is a summary of a career that didn’t get the recognition it deserved when it was happening, and it has gotten even less since had Ralphie been around now with streaming and podcasts, the guy was amazing. Ralphie doesn’t come up in the rotation of names when people talk about the great comedians of his era, and I’m going to talk about those folks for the next few weeks. Let’s start at the beginning. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, raised in Clarksville, Arkansas, and by age sixteen, had been in a car accident serious enough to put him in a coma for ten days and leave him with multiple broken bones. At age seventeen, he won a radio contest that gave him a chance to open for Sam Kennison.

Opening for Sam Kennison at seventeen, Perhaps if you’re younger, you don’t understand the power of Sam Kennison. Sam was one of the most combustible and important comedians of that era, a former preacher who turned his entire religious background into fuel for one of the most ferocious stand up styles anybody had ever seen. And No, Jesus was never married. Guy never had a wife. No one I was never married because no wife would buy this story.

In one hundred years, the disciples will, the believers will, No wife would buy this story. Good luck, good luck with this story. First of all, he leaves on Friday afternoon with twelve other guys. He’s gone. He’s gone for three days, no message, no way to get in touch with her.

He comes home Monday afternoon looking like he has a slapped It seems like he’s partied out. Man, Missus Jesus just waiting. Well, I’m glad you can find your way home, Sada. Where’s your twelve friends? Won’t get a job?

How are the Yeah Disciples? My hash? They’re loser. The first time you saw Sam Kinnison, you were absolutely like Wow. Sam was playing in big rooms and generating controversy.

The comedy world was paying attention, and a seventeen year old kid from Arkansas opened up for him. That time, Sam was the hottest comic in the country. I mean it was like def Leppard coming to town. It was huge, and so I entered the contest. I won the contest.

On the way over, Sam was like, hey, kid, are you nervous. I’m like, no, I’m not nervous. Kid. There’s going to be thirty five hundred people there to night, and nobody paid to see you. That kid, Ralphie made did well enough that Sam referred him to Sam’s home club, the Comedy Workshop in Houston.

But the Comedy Workshop a close by the time Ralphie could get there, so Ralphie wounded up at the Comedy Showcase of Houston club that catered primarily to black audiences. It was at the Comedy Showcase where Ralphie May learned how to perform.

And now that you have that nugget, if you’ve seen Ralphie’s performances, you…

It was a white kid from Arkansas playing a black room, developing timing and crowd work skills in a context that’s more demanding and more direct than most of the rooms where white comedians of his generation were cutting their teeth. He talked about what that did for him. He said, you can’t hide in that room. The crowd tells you immediately and honestly whether something’s working, and the standard for being genuinely funny rather than technically competent was higher and less forgiving. Then in two thousand and three, Last Comic Standing, that’s probably where most people first encountered Ralphie May.

If you don’t remember that show, I hated it. It was NBC’s attempt to do for stand up comedy what American Idol had done for singing, a competition format with a live audience, real comedians, weekly eliminations, the whole thing. I’ll progress for a second. Why I hated it is there were people doing well on that show because they had a good twenty seconds. They had a good minute.

That’s different than having five or eight or an hour. And I was programming the comedy channels that’s serious, and people would walk down the hole and be like, Hey, how come you never play so and so? And I’d be like, because so and so has twenty seconds of material. I was not a fan. Ladies and gentlemen, how about a big round of applause from Houston, Texas for mister Ralphie May.

Hey, what’s up. My name is Rolfey May. I’m from Houston, Texas. I now live in a place called the Hood. I like living in the Hood.

And my resolution this here, because I’m living in the Hood, is it was not to lose weight, because at this point, screw it, you know what. I mean said, this is more than a diet coke fixed. You know what I’m saying. Kids? My thinging this year was to.

Be correct, not politically correct anymore, Okay, because I’m tired of it. You got to think about what group, and it’s too much. It changes all the time. I just want to be correct, Like I don’t say African American, okay, because I don’t say European American for white people. I say black folks, right, what you’re right?

Right? Plus I live in the hood. I ain’t never met black people. Hear any y’all been to Africa, That’s what I thought, Morgan Dame, yacht or someplace. Y’all being like Compton Americans, right, Inglewood swap me to American Vietnamese New Salon American.

Ralphie was an audience favorite. He was funny every week. He was likable. Note had more than twenty seconds. But who won?

Dad Fan? You remember Dad Fan? Right? Okay, come down here. I want to pack joke for you.

We’ll got to do it right now here we’ll go. I’m just gonna speak English. I’m just later her parents. Hey, don’t want to do that. My mom’s like, fang, that’s not funny.

Do you want to make fun of us? You want to find it? You wanna make fun of ancient time? Do you want to be a smock Iley? Do you want the smock check?

And a PA’s a beil. Like mom, chill out? I know to you, I know, chill that fang. Don’t tell me what to Q. I do want to want to che I till now because I want.

To chew I kill you. See this is what I’m saying about that show. Remember dad Fan? Have you heard of dad Fan? In twenty years?

No? Dad Fan? Vietnamese American comedian from San Diego, who’s fine. He has said in interviews since that he was as surprised as anyone that he one. The audience vote didn’t go to Ralphie.

Ralphie thought his weight was a factor that audiences at the voting stage made a calculation about who they wanted to be the face of the show, and the fat guy from Arkansas lost that calculation. Is that right? Is it wrong? Who knows? But Ralphie finished second.

So a random memory of Ralphie that I have was I was watching the Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon which I’m actually gonna do a deep dive on that as well. And my father loved that thing, and I remember putting it on late at night Millanite, and on comes Ralphie May, and I can’t believe the clip is actually online. I’m gonna play somewhat for you now. I want you to pay attention here. So this is not a Ralphie May crowd, right, this is whoever’s at the telethon late at night and outwalks this comedian.

So it’s not his people. And if you listen here, you’ll listen to him. This struggles a bit of a word. But like the crowd’s not like hooting and hollering. They’re not really reacting early on here he’s not really getting laughs.

But listen to the laughs as he just fights through it. I can’t believe this clip exists. And here’s Ralphie May on the Jerry Lewis Telethon. Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to laugh. We welcome Ralphie May.

Thank you for having me, and thank you for almost applauding till I got my big ass to the microphone. Appreciate that. Thank you, Thank you everyone watching at home the vampires on the East Coast, thank you for watching the telethon instead of the girls going wild Info Marshall one handed. Appreciate that trying to make the wad a better place. You know what I’m saying.

I’ve had a great week here in Vegas. I had a great time at the South Point Casino. It’s hilarious here. It’s I’m from the South, so for me, the amount of mullets that are here are tremendous. There are a lot.

Oh my gosh. I set up at Dearstown, not in front of the South Point Cassina away for him to come in. I haunt the mullet Ida, I’ll call him. I’m like Mala Mala, Mala, Mala, Mala Mala Nascar, Nascar, Nascar. I sprinkle little crystal math on the ground.

They’ll come right to you. They really well. If you work with them and build up a trust, they’ll take the tobacco right out of your hand. It’s awesome. They are tremendous.

Now about slipping into a bit of a naughty joke there on Labor Day, that’s great. His debut album Just Correct in two thousand and five went platinum. That doesn’t happen. It happened for Richard Pryor and Steve Martin a handful of others, and it happened for Ralphie May in two thousand and five, then Comedy Central specials Griffa a Nation in two thousand and six, Prime Cut in two thousand and seven, Austentatious in two thousand and eight, too Big to Ignore in twenty twelve. Four full hours for Comedy Central in six years.

There were also two Netflix specials, Unruly in twenty fifteen and Imperfectly Yours in twenty sixteen. It was named one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch in two thousand and eight. We do have to talk about Raffie’s weight, because that is part of the story. At one point he weighed as much as eight hundred pounds. He talked about his body on stage constantly and brilliantly.

The self deprecation was genuine rather than performed. Some think the comedy industry, at its gatekeeping levels makes esthetic judgments about who gets to be taken seriously, who gets the premium booking, who gets talked about at festivals and industry events as the future of comedy. Ralphie may, by any objective measure of audience size and the quality of his output, belonging to those conversations, but never really broke through. His crowd work was extraordinary probably the best of his generation at the specific skill of taking what was going on in the room and turning it into comedy in real time. But crowd work back in those days didn’t make the highlight reels.

I’m telling you, I saw this guy perform live more than once, and every time I saw him, he killed. He was amazing. The casino years are the most misunderstood part of his career. Ralphie May, for roughly the last decade of his life, built his career around casino residencies and theaters markets that the prestige comedy circuit doesn’t prioritize. The casino circuit done right is one of the most demanding and lucrative ways to build a sustainable stand up career.

You’re performing for large rooms multiple nights a week, you’re developing material at a big pace, and you’re reaching an audience that’s not the usual comedy club crowd, which means you’re actually doing harder work in front of rooms than aren’t. Automatically in your corner, you know, somebody goes, hey, here’s two tickets to go see the comedian. They’re not necessarily going to see Ralphie May. They’re seeing a comedian who happens to be Ralphie May and Ralphie was good at it. I knew Ralphie personally.

At one point we were doing some radio shows on Serious and I hung out with him in La I’ve told the story on the main podcast a few times, but I will tell it again here today. I know at some point I was hooking up with them. Maybe you picked me up at the hotel. I don’t really remember. I do remember that we were driving around in his car and we were eventually going to go to the radio studio, and he asked if I minded if we got some food while he got his car detailed, and we did exactly that.

We went and got his car detailed, and then we got Mexican food somewhere, and just like an awesome guy, cool guy to hang out with. I always enjoyed my time with him.

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And then every year at Christmas time, he would send me a bottle of dom and a…

I would have played his stuff on the air whether he sent me something or not, but I was appreciated that he appreciated that his stuff was being played, and it was genuine It wasn’t some sort of hey, let me butter up this guy so he plays my stuff for Ralphie. Was not like that at all. It was a genuine thanks after I parted ways with Sirius, just as an example of the kind of guy he was. Now I’ve talked about this before as well. In show business there are people who are you know, your actual friends.

I’ve called out Larry the cable guy many times on this show. He’ll come on here. He doesn’t need to do this show. He’s doing it because we’ve been friends for twenty something years. So when I left Sirious and I started working at Slacker, we wanted to do some stuff with comedians being guest DJs, and I called Ralphie and asked him to do it, and he said sure.

They went over to the studio in Nashville and did it again, just favor for a guy he knew that was definitely a situation where that was gonna help me a lot more than it helped him. But sure, no problem, John, happy to do it for you. That’s what kind of guy Ralphie was. I think of him often and I do miss him. He was a really really good comedian and a really really good guy.

Ralphie may back tomorrow with a normal episode.

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