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Featured: Jim Norton, Patton Oswalt, Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, Mark Maron, Jimmy Fallon, Gary Krueger

What’s in This Episode

• Kill Tony on Netflix – pacing and format issues
• Patton Oswalt in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Bradley Cooper’s film ‘Is This Thing On?’ about John Bishop
• Green Day comedy road trip film ‘New Year’s Rev’
• Mark Maron documentary ‘Anxiety Club’ and 16 years of his podcast
• Jimmy Fallon’s new advertising competition show ‘On Brand’
• SNL toxic environment history and Devin Walker departure

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. Hello there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Norton tweets Cracker Barrel is going to keep their original logo, The old Man is staying on the logo. Holyes, what a victory. Take a moment to give yourselves a round of applause.

No joke there, but it was good to hear from Jim Norton. I just watched Kill Tony on Netflix. I have some notes, but I’ll start with the Jim Norton part. I thought Jim was pretty funny. I thought the material was better than what the audience gave him back.

I did have a visceral reaction. Now, I’ve worked with Jim both at Sirius Exam and then on the UFC podcast, and as I looked at Jim and went out, Jim looks like ten years older, and I realized I probably looked ten years older too. But I haven’t actually seen or been in a room with Jim Norton in quite a few years. At this point, I have come to the conclusion I like to Kill Tony podcast a lot, because when I listened to the Kill Tony podcast, I’m listening at two point three speed and I have thirty second skip at my disposal. As for Kill Tony on Netflix, I don’t think it’s working.

If they’re going to do it as a Netflix special, they can’t just do the normal thing. Even if they’re at Madison Square Garden. It needs a producer. Here’s my note. So I watched the most recent episode on Netflix and it was seven and a half minutes before a comedian took the stage.

That’s an eternity. We don’t need all the intros and all that.

And then the first comedian that they picked out of the hat was terrible, So …

Kill Tony doesn’t need my notes. They’re doing just fine. They were selling out Madison Square Garden. But in terms of a Netflix show, it needs a little help there. That sound you heard last night was me screaming at the TV.

In the new episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Patton Oswalt too normally. I really like Patton Oswalt played a vulcan. The Vulcan’s name is Doug. If you understand Star Trek, you a don’t write for Strange New Worlds, and B understand why I’m annoyed. If you don’t understand Star Trek, just trust me, it’s really really annoying.

Maybe I’ll dive into Star Trek next week on the DCN eight Bonus Episodes. Bradley Cooper has a movie coming out. It is the story of how John Bishop got into comedy. It is called Is This Thing On? I will be curious as it gets closer to see how real life comedians nitpick the movie’s depiction of stand up comedy.

They usually have a problem with that. The film is directed by Bradley Cooper. It is based on John Bishop’s story of getting in a stand up after his marriage broke up. Will Arnett plays Alex, who seeks a new life in the New York comedy scene. Laura Dern plays the wife.

Comedian Chloe Radcliffe, who plays a stand up comedian in the movie, said, I think Will and John sat next to each other at a dinner ten years ago and Will heard a story and was like, that rules I want to do that someday. So anyway, that’s the movie. Cooper’s in the film himself, playing Will Arnett’s character’s best friend.

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Also appearing in the movie Peyton Manning Why I don’t know Green Day or putt…

They’re working on a wild road trip comedy titled New Year’s rev Green Day Promises. The movie is packed with your favorite Green Day songs as well as quote loaded with mischief unquote. Some of the stars of the film include Fred Armisen second mentioned in Two Days, Jenna Fisher from The Office, Angela Kinsey from the Office, comedian Bobby Lee. The film will make its world premiere September twelfth at the Toronto International Film Festival. The description is a garage rock trio gets the opportunity of a lifetime to open up for Green Day and hit the road across America and make the gig.

The only problem is they didn’t realize it was a prank. Johnny Mac, you never mentioned Mark Maron. I know rights he caught up with people. Maren is a beginning to do promotion for the documentary Anxiety Club. Maren said, there’s a lot of things I don’t give a hoot about that I used to do.

There were big anxiety producing things. I think with age and certainly with money, a lot of that stuff is just sort of Nolan Void and it’s a relief. In the documentary spoiler, Maren reveals that his anxiety stopped him from having children. Maren said, I’m not sad about it. My panic and worry level operates in just such a way that it just seems like a nightmare to me.

He has accepted his anxiety, saying, what do you think we’re gonna do? Like, if you’re incapacitated and your life is unmanageable for whatever reason, yeah, you should fix that. If you’re uncomfortable, but you’re okay, that might just be you. The podcast turns sixteen years old on Monday. Sixteen years It’s a long time.

It’s a long time doing anything, And certainly I’ve said recently while I’m living it and I don’t feel like time is passing by quickly, But all of a sudden you’re old and you realize you’ve been doing something for a long time. Jimmy Fallon has yet another gig, and I think as lame as this idea is, this gets into Fallon does a lot more things for NBC than Colbert did for CBS. I don’t know if Colbert was unwilling, perhaps CBS never asked, but factually Fallon does a lot of these things. A new show on Brand with Jimmy Fallon places Jimmy Fallon at the head of his own advertising agency. He’s joined by Chief marketing officer Bozoma Saint John, who I’m supposed to know who that is.

Apparently she’s someone on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hill. On brand, she’ll act as mentor and judge, guiding contestants, so I’m wondering what Jimmy Fallon does on the show. The competitors will pitch to companies, including a famous rum company with a pirate on it, at National Donuts chain that I sometimes go to, and some others. The show’s winner will receive one hundred thousand dollars, which sounds like a lot of money, except I looked up from website Simul Media. They say NBC gets two hundred thousand dollars for a thirty So if we show one ad, we’ve paid off the grand prize.

I know we did this production company costs and write ups, and Jimmy Fallon salary and the nice lady from Real Housewives of whatever I said. They all got to get paid. But two hundred thousand AD is the low rate for NBC if you want to advertise on Sunday Night Football, Simul Media says that will cost eight hundred and eighty two thousand dollars for a thirty Anyway, when you win this show with Jimmy Fallon, you’ll receive one hundred grand minus taxes, a feature and adweek, a VIP trip to the can Line’s International Festival of Creativity, and the title Innovator of the Year. I’ve got a must read for you, Gary Krueger. If you’re of a certain age, remember Gary Krueger from Saturday Night Live.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of you were like, who, well, he’s got a substack, so do I. My link is in the show. No, it’s Gary Krueger and have tipped a late nighter for putting this on my radar. Gary Krueger was reacting to the Devin Walker departure notice, and Krueger said, when I was at SNL from eighty two to eighty five, women struggled unfairly to get material in the show. The show, by nature is competitive and egos are equal parts fragile and inflated.

Every week and feel like your career was just made or just sank to a depth no rescue vehicle can reach that can create a toxic ripe environment. Now I’m going to point out that was during the Dick Ebersol years, not the Lorne Michael’s year. So apparently it’s been a toxic environment at least more than once, according to people on the show. Gary Krueger writes, I have few regrets, but I’d be lying if I say I’m okay with the fact that producer creator Lorn Mikel treats the Dick Eversoll years when I was with the show as if they didn’t exist. I agree with Gary there, they do act like those years mostly didn’t exist, and he makes some great points here coming up.

I believe that Cold Shoulder is rooted in the same toxicity Walker refers to. It’s an imbalance of perception that starts at the top, not because of any public or industry reverence for the Eversol years, but because of a shortcoming in Lorne Michaels, who ignores the fact that others have contributed to a show. I have no relationship with Lorne Michaels, and I’ve never met him. I’ve passed him in the hall at SNL reunions, and then Gary drops the bomb and he goes, No one, not even Michaels, can overlook the fact that Eddie Murphy emerged from a show called Saturday Night Live when Lauren was not at the helm. I’ve never heard that point made before that Gary Krueger is a great bleeping point.

Gary goes on to say who else was on the show? Julia, Louis Dreyfus. Gary writes, Lauren doesn’t even include five years, one hundred shows as part of his SNL package. Very rarely does anything from that aeroshow up in a reunion retrospective, but the stars are asked participate in the live portions. I’m always a little surprised in fact that I get a ticket to the gallery unions every five or ten years, But I do, I think because other people involved with the show and NBC do care.

The staff always treats me another second or are we third? To your cast members? Very well, fans of SNL and podcast revolving around the show regard the eversol years is simply that particular era, but not a different show. They love and this is a good list, and that was the SNL I got into I was a little young for the original cast, and even that Gene de Mounion what is her name? That season, the really awful season, but go I was watching the Gary Krueger years and Gary says, people like me love Joe Piscopo, who I think has just been totally overlooked and deserves better.

Joe Piscopo, Tim Kazerinski, Robin Duke, Mary Gross, Brad Hall, Christine Ebersoll, and even Gary Krueger. And he asks why no respect from Loren Michaels. Just In as I’m recording the show, Emil Jakeim has announced he’s leaving SNL. I don’t even have this in my script. I’m reading it off my phone.

On it Instagram, he posted I won’t be returning to SNL next year. He was a gut punch of a call to get but I’m so grateful for my time there. He did one season one and none for him, and I feel bad for the folks at Late Nighter dot com who thought they were taking this week off. No, you’re not getting a little long here. I wanted to tell you about Joe Coy.

He’s probably really excited about Taylor Swift getting engaged he may recall one time Taylor Swift was too cool for school and couldn’t possibly smile at a Joe Cooy joke. I won’t play it for you right now because we’re getting along. You probably know the story if you’ve listened to this podcast before. But I feel bad for Joe Coy. He’s up in Canada and he said, I’m a coffee guy.

I love it. I can’t function without coffee. I love the adventure of finding like a real coffee shop. But I don’t want to go to a chain. I don’t want to go to Starbucks.

I want local. And he’s got a story about going to see Ozzy Osbourne’s last show, but I will bounce that to tomorrow because I want to tell you what the worst person in the world, Jay Leno, is up to. You know that guy, I mean the nerve of that guy’d have an opinion about late night comedy. What does he know about doing comedy or or hosting a late night show?

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And then he chimes in on the whole subject.

And that’s why everybody he’s mad at Jay Leno, who is the worst person who ever lived. Apparently, Jay, if you’re listening, it’s not how I feel it’s a bit On the most recent episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, which you can find on YouTube, he was at with Jeff Dunham, you know, the Puppets guy. They took a tank for a test drive on southern California streets. Jeff Dunham, who’s sixty three now, jumped in the driver’s seat of the tank to learn how to handle the tank. It’s apparently steered by using two levers and a foot operated transmission.

Jay Leno, who’s seventy five, highlighted some of the features of the tank, including the seventy six millimeter main gun, the smoke grenade launchers, and the periscope used for driving when the hatch is closed. It is a nineteen seventy two Alvis Scorpion, a light duty tank capable of reaching fifty one miles an hour. One social media comment or said about the worst person in the world. I knew Jay just loves about everything with a motor and wheels as much as anyone, But this is a dude is living his best life in retirement. The President of the United States took to social media two in the morning and wrote, there’s a sick rumor going around that Fake News NBC extended the contract of one of the least talented late night television hosts out there, Seth Myers.

He has no ratings, talent, or intelligence, and the personality of an insecure child. So why would fake News NBC extend this dope’s contract. I don’t know, but I’ll definitely be finding out. And is what the president is up to these days? Beck Bennett told a story about the President to The Last Laugh podcast.

He was talking about the time the president hosted SNL and said, at the table read, Trump was having a little bit of trouble reading. At one point, Trump apparently interrupted the table read to take a phone call that seemed to be bad news. Trump hung up the phone. Leslie Jones said, how much money did you make on that phone call? Beck Bennett said, everybody laughed, but Trump, who said he just found out his book went to number one on the bestseller list.

Everybody clapsed. But it was like, really, it didn’t sound like you were dealing with the news that your booked went to number one, But okay, Bennett says. Trump didn’t like getting notes or getting corrected. Quoting back Bennett, he’d be like, no, that’s what I said, But he’s just kind of loafing around and was just a lot to have him there. But he wasn’t particularly awful Beyond that, I don’t think as far as having billionaire personalities come on the show, Elon Musk was a lot more offensive.

That was harder to deal with. He had very odd ideas and he was very rude and less predictable to perform with in a way. Trump was a little bit more like, you’d tell me where to go and what to say, and I’ll tell you if I’m okay with it? Are you? In Indianapolis, the Let’s Fest kicks off tonight.

The group Let’s Comedy is producing the fifth annual comedy and music festival. Appearing at Let’s Fest, Ron Funches, Robbie Hoffman, Carmen Christopher, and Joe Para is there. Nouveau caught up with Joe Parra. They asked, Joe, a lot of your work seems to come back to the topic of sleep. How’s your sleeprou teem Joe Parra said, it’s fine.

It wish it was better everybody does. I feel like the older I get, the harder it is, especially as your life gets busier. Touring is an ideal for sleep. But I’ve also learned that when you’re up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep, it’s best to not worry about it. Just really go in the kitchen, eat a banana with some peanut butter.

Don’t waste your time trying to fall back asleep, and be okay with being up in the middle of the night. That’s what Johnny Mac does. I listen to a lot of podcasts around two AM until I drift back off. Joe Parraw what comes to your mind when you think about Indianapolis as a city. Joe said, truly, I was shot by how big the pork sandwiches were last time.

That is your comedy news for today See tomorrow.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Reginald Carol, Katt Williams, Devin Walker, Rosebud Baker, Beck Bennett, Colin Jost, Michael Longfellow, Casey Schernima, Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher

What’s in This Episode

• Reginald Carol shot dead, connection to Katt Williams Heaven on Earth tour
• Onyx Owl Clothing Line evicted following shooting incident
• Devin Walker leaves SNL after three years
• Rosebud Baker exits SNL writing staff after four years
• Michael Longfellow and Casey Schernima screen test for Update desk
• Colin Jost hosting T Mobile Breakfast at Bethpage for Ryder Cup
• Beck Bennett discusses nervousness about Putin parody on SNL
• Marc Maron criticizes Netflix and Dave Chappelle, calls business relationship fascism

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. Should I even bother? Jahar? Taylor Swift got engaged to Travis Kelsey. I mean, is anybody gonna care about anything else for the next year and a half?

Hi, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Got kind of a big story brewing here. At the end of yesterday’s podcast, I mentioned that comedian Reginald Carol had been shot dead at age fifty two. This seems to be bubbling up now. I saw several stories about it that caught my eye.

The first one from Fox thirteen. They’re reporting that a company that bills itself as the official site for Cat Williams merchandise was evicted following the death of Reginald Carol. As I understand things, Fox thirteen went over to visit Burton Lane. The location they found a letter titled fourteen day notice to quit for criminal activity. The letter states, according to the report, you are being given this notice due to criminal activity that occurred on or about the premises and violation of your lease agreement, specifically on August twentieth, twenty twenty five, the following criminal activity occurred.

It then cites a shooting where an arrest was made by South Haven police officers. The online store for the location sells Cat Williams merch and displays a picture of Cat Williams on its website. The website reads, the Onyx Owl Clothing Line was designed for and by the urban street, celebrities and famous creatives who appreciate fashion that reflects their lifestyle. With a focus on style and quality, The Onyx Clothing Line provides trendy, celebrity approved clothing for men and women of all races. From stylist t shirts to hats and accessories, The Onyx Owl Clothing Line is sure to have something for everyone.

As next piece of the puzzle, I found on a website Delta News, and the Internet tells me Delta News is a broadcasting platform that provides local news coverage and updates for the Greenville, Mississippi area. According to that report, Carol was traveling on Cat Williams Current Heaven on Earth comedy tour. Three independent sources tell Fox thirteen that the man accused of killing Carroll was on the tour as security, and then from Vibe dot Com, comedian Billy Currells has called out Cat Williams and is asking Cat Williams to speak out. Cirell’s apparently said, and I may have to paraphrase a little bit here for language. We’re not gonna act like cat.

You ain’t know who Reggie Carroll was. Kat Williams, you’re the truth teller. You’re the master of being able to tell everybody else this stuff. You got of war, You ready for anything? Right?

You the guy you said, my team versus whoever else. I did try and find the audio for this, and I didn’t find anything that I was convinced is the accurate audio. I’ve seen several reports of this transcript that I’m reading you, apparently, mister Currell’s continued, Well, I know you love Reggie. We all did. Reggie was a solid fella.

He didn’t pick sides. So Cat Williams, tell me why Reggie Carroll died outside your house. Tell us what happened to Richie Carroll. Cat. Again, I tried to find the audio.

Anything. I’m finding as people talking over stills and commenting on it. So let’s keep an eye on that story. It looks like that one’s going to bubble up what I thought would be the lead. Today, Devin Walker has announced he’s no longer with SNL He shared the news on Instagram.

He apparently has mixed feelings. On one slide of the post, a screenshot of a note wrote, me and the show did three years together and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell, but we made the most of what it was. Even amidst all the dysfunction, we made an fed up little family. It is unclear whose choice it was for him to leave the show.

At the top of the computer, a note says weight did he quit or did he get fired? So Walker’s having a little fun with that. Walker also shared a screenshot of him texting someone with the words I’m out, paired with an emoji of a face wearing a party hat and a photo of Joe Biden appearing to trip on a staircase. Walker captured the photos me and Baby broke up. His full statement to me, jobs in the industry feel like a bunch of little marriages.

Some of them last a long time if we’re lucky, but most of them are fleeting, permanent until they’re not. That’s the deal. You know what it is when you sign up. Me and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell.

But made the most of what it was and missed all the dysfunction. We made an fed up little family. More than anything, just really happy I got to do it with Gary and Alex Fellows. Really went from running a bar show to working together at thirty Rock. It’s a beautiful thing.

And I look caked up in that picture, and I feel like it’s important for people to know what I got going on. Anyway, I am about to go to Japan. When I get back, I’m going to try and be in a prestige drama, ideally something with Julianne Moore. Hope y’all staying hydrated and getting some money today. That’s pretty interesting if I had to guess, if you made me guess, sounds like he was disinvited.

Rosebud Baker, who’s been a writer on the program, she is leaving the writing staff after four years Latenighter dot Com. They were trying to take the week off and it’s not working for them. I’m going to guess, between me recording this and you hearing this, that there are going to be a bunch more departm It sounds like the folks or abandoning ship. And my take after SNL fifty that is the time to get out, so Late Nighter, says an insider told them that cast member Michael Longfellow and SNL writer Casey Schernima taped a screen test at the Update desk last May. At that time, Jos and Chay were widely presumed to be leaving SNL.

Many thought they would announce it on the season finale. They did not announce such a thing. Lauren Michaels recently has said that SNL fifty one would be bringing a lot of changes and a reinvention. Casey Schernima has been writing on Weekend Update for three years. Prior to that, she was a new face at Just for Laps In twenty twenty two.

She also wrote for Stephen Colbert’s Tuning Out The news is Colin Jos coming back? Well, he does have a gig this also from Late Nighter. He will be hosting the T Mobile Breakfast at Bethpage, a live pregame show from the first Tea at the Wryter Cup September two, twenty sixth, and through the twenty eighth. It is built as an alternative pregame show. Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions is behind this thing.

It will stream on Peacock More SNL News. Beck Bennett said he was nervous to parody Vladimir Putin on SNL. Beck was on David Spade and Dana Carvey’s podcast. Spade asked him where you’re scared they’d be after you. Bennett said, oh yeah, and he said a clip of his Putin impression was on Russian TV at one point, and I was like, he knows about it.

At the same time, I’m like, it’s silly that I get nervous. It never come for me. That’d be stupid even if he wanted to. There was definitely a couple of months like should I be doing this? Is this weird?

He’s known for poisoning. Beck pointed out that he did a deep voice for the character and that the man’s real voice is higher. Bennett enjoyed doing Putin as a macho characterature and explained that you don’t have to do an exact impression, just capture the essence and have fun with it. Oh yeah, we’re this far end of the show. I didn’t even get some Mark Marrin.

He was on pot Save America. It was really good. I saw a thread someone posted their favorite podcast. Right now is Mark Maron going on everyone Else’s podcast and asked if we could have that in one big feed. I think that’s a great idea.

I talked yesterday about how Maren had called out Bill Maher. Maren also took a shot at Netflix. They’re in business with Dave Chappelle. Maren said, fascism is good for business Netflix. You know, they’ll co opt anybody that could take that algorithm.

I used to do a joke about it. Netflix can become right Flix very quickly. When they had pushed back from the trans community about Chappelle, they realized after several days that community wasn’t going to affect their bottom line at all, and they cut them loose. That’s how fascism works in business. John love It pointed out that Netflix has lots of LGBTQ plus content.

Maren said, but ultimately, who’s getting the big deals which shows stay on the air. You know what do they keep repeating? That’s them saying we got this other stuff. We know this a few of you, but we’re throwing you a bone. So shut up, boy.

We are at peak Maren right now. His special was great. I love outspoken Maren’s He’s landed on the New Continent and he’s burning the bridges and he’s leaving the podcast behind. And he just burned the bridge with Netflix. This is a very, very entertaining.

We got to talk about that guy, Jay Leno, you know, the worst guy that ever lived. That guy. Apparently he’s helping Harrison Ford build a toilet seat. I know that sounds like something I just made up to be funny, but no. Harrison Ford was on NPR and said, jay Leno has three D printers and I had this toilet seed from a toilet that’s not in production anymore, and the toilet set had discolored in a way that’s really unattractive.

There’s an image. I can’t find the toilet seat anywhere. I tried for years, and I’m sitting around one day saying, can I three D print this? Ah? Jay Leno.

Harrison Ford said he first learned about three D printing from Jay Leno showing him around his garage. Harrison Ford says, of the worst person who ever lived, he embraced the project in a way that I never could have imagined. Good news for fans of dramatic actor Adam Sandler, as you know, he’s a fantastic dramatic actor or will he’s got that upcoming movie Jay Kelly, where he co stars with George Clooney. It’s coming out even earlier than expected, Isn’t that exciting? Jay Kelly has been confirmed as the Cunard Gala of this year’s BFI London Film Festival that runs from October eighth through the nineteenth in London and festival venues across the UK.

Jay Kelly will premiere Friday, October tenth. The movie follows famous movie actor Jay Kelly played by George Coooney, and his devoted manager Ron played by dramatic actor Adam Sandler, as they embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey through Europe. Along the way, both men are forced to confront the choices they’ve made, their relationships with their loved ones, the legacies they leave behind. That’s exciting. Deli Boys renewed for season two at Hulu.

That is a fun show. If you haven’t seen that. Fred Ormison joining the cast, I’m not sure I feel about that. Fred Ormison’s character is described as a legendary gambling savant with an uncanny ability to read people like cards. His casino Empire’s global, but his crown jewels in Philly.

He’s uniquely brilliant and deeply unhinged, a deadly combo if you cross him. My struggle with fred Ormison is fred Ormison always comes across as Fred Ormison enroll. Hopefully he can surprise me. Sharon Stone has a dream role. She says she wants to play Phyllis Diller, very very badly.

She and I were close friends. Phyllis made little paintings for all my kids. She cooked me there and a lot of times the woman could cook. I told her I wanted a play her, and she sat down and taught me her laugh. She made me practice her laugh.

I would watch that. And from The Independent, David Mitchell for Mitchell and Webb says the term mansplaining is unfair. He told the Sunday Times, I’ll come back to the Independent to stay with me. But Mitchell told the Sunday Times, I feel like there’s an unfairness to the term man’splaining, which is taken to be men explaining things and a boring way to women because they do it to each other and then they take turns. That’s what men call a conversation.

Then the article in The Independent ends with man’s plaining is a phrase use to describe men explaining something to a woman. Is The Independent being deliberately hilarious there? Or are they completely clueless? That is my question for you, and then us your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Bill Maher, Jim Jefferies, Theo Von, Matt Rife, Jay Leno, Pete Davidson

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron criticizes Bill Maher’s tone and desperation on Pod Save America
• Jim Jefferies alleges Australian military cover-up in nephew’s helicopter crash death
• Bill Maher discusses militarization of US cities on Real Time
• Matt Rife defends Sydney Sweeney against internet backlash over jean ad
• Jay Leno explains how he secured Tonight Show hosting gig on Mark Maron’s podcast
• Pete Davidson struggles to sell Miami condo, reportedly short on money

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Thank you Mark Maren for killing off what is traditionally a slow newsweek. Helloo, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Mark Maron went on Pod Save America and he took some shots at Bill Maher. Maren said, I can’t do it.

I always had a problem with his tone, like I feel with Bill, and there’s this, and it happens with some other boomers. There’s this desperate chasing irrelevance that changes somebody’s mind in terms of how they approach what they do, and it also kind of makes the whole undertaking feel desperate outside of his ideas, primarily I think wokeness. I don’t know, it’s just not for me. Maren said. Moore has good joke writers who know how to write for his tone.

I can’t see past the desperation of what he’s willing to do to stay in the conversation on Real Time on Friday, Bill Mooher was concerned about the militarization of US cities. Bill Maher said of the President, He’s creating an army in the nation’s capital. I just think the presence now of this army in Washington is going to have its toll taken when the next election comes around. Jim Jefferies was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast and as accused the Australian government of a cover up involving the death of Jim’s nephew during a defense training exercise in July of twenty twenty three. Lieutenant Max Nugent and three fellow soldiers died when a helicopter crashed into the water.

Jeffrey said, within a manner of a couple of weeks after the crash, Australia decommissioned the helicopters, took them apart and buried them in the desert. Ukraine said we’ll take them in. The Australians but no, no, no, no, don’t worry about that. There was an inquiry. Jim said.

The test pilots stood up and said the helmets they were wearing were defective and would end in industrial manslaughter. It’s like watching a few good men like talking about the military and the government trying to cover its ass. Other countries didn’t go out on patrol that day. They said the weather was too bad, the soldiers were too tired. One of the soldiers said they were so tired they couldn’t fly the aircraft, and then my nephew stepped in.

Commonwealth prosecutors had said charges wouldn’t be laid against the Defense Department over the deaths. The ruling that the Defense Force couldn’t be prosecuted came just five days before a two year statute of limitations to fill a civil suit was due to expire. Jeffrey said, who was fivefing days to get a lawyer? They dragged it out on purpose. This was a war game.

There were things that weren’t followed. There’s literally helicopters that have been buried. If you want to find an Australian taipan effing helicopter, you need a treasure map. An aviation safety investigation found human error to blame. That investigation said the cause of the crash was spatial disorientation, described as when a pilot is unaware of their actual orientation and relation to the Earth’s surface and the surrounding environment.

Jeffrey said of his nephew, we were proud of him. When Australia goes to war, that’s the first bloke we sent in. We sent in the planes and the helicopters. That’s the first bit of assistance. Jim also said Australia doesn’t get enough credit for being one of the few Allied nations that has stood by the US for many years.

Jeffrey said it’s like Trump slapping tariffs on Australia. I’m a bit like, what the efre you’re doing there? Man, We’re one of you guys. We buy three times more stuff from you than you buy from us. The big example they gave was, you guys buy twenty six billion dollars worth of Australian beef and we buy no from you.

And it’s like, why would we What do you really buy from us? You buy sheepskin, red wine, beef and gold. It’s not like we’re manufacturing happy meal toys in Australian factories and like those jobs could go to Americans. You can hear Jim Jeffries on THEO Vaughan’s podcast. Matt Rife has commented on this whole Sydney Sweeney thing.

You may recall Sidney Sweeney appeared in an ad for Jean’s. Rife said, I keeps seeing people mad at Sidney Sweeney for nothing. He dragged out the nothing in his tweet. She’s learning that the internet is full of absolute garbage losers who will twist anything you say into a misinterpretation. People are awful.

You know who’s awful is the worst person who ever lived, That guy Jay Leno. Boy, people hate that guy. He was on Mark Summer’s Unwraps and explained, I got the tonight show because there was another manager that handled everybody that guest hosted. I think it was Bernie Brilstein. I think he had David Brenner and all the guys gar shaling everybody.

And he calls me and he says, we’re gonna go in as a team because each of us was guest hosting. We’re gonna get twenty five thousand dollars a night to host. Jay he opted not to take part in it. Jay recalled the stewart. I said, you know, Bernie, I’m doing it for five hundred twelve dollars a night, which a scale.

I mean, I appreciate it, but I’m happy doing it for five twelve. Leto explained his logic. I knew Johnny on the show, and at the end of the month, he’d say, what did we spend on guest host? Two hundred and eighty grand? And when Leno hosted twenty five hundred.

Why don’t we go with Leno? They’re all getting the same ratings. I mean, it seemed like common sense to me. Jay first guest hosted in nineteen eighty six. A year later was named a permanent guest host, So I guess his gambit worked.

Jay took over for Corson in nineteen ninety two, which feels like yesterday to me. Jay said he enjoyed guest hosting for Carson. I enjoyed doing it. Any job I would do for free. I don’t argue about money.

The sad reality is the worst comedian in America makes more than the best teacher. Don’t worry about it. If you’re any good, you’ll do okay. Boy. That Jay Leno was something.

He was up in Elmira on Friday night and he was playing at the Clemens Center. And listen to the listen to the gall on this guy. This is what he said about the Clement Center. It’s fun. It’s a great old theater.

I love these nineteen twenty five old vaudevilleaus’s. So many of them got torn down, but so many are preserved like this one. It’s really terrific. It’s really fun. It makes it kind of interesting and adds a subtle antiquity to it.

Boy, the nerve of that guy. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, Gossip Conn, probably about Pete. Gossip Conn. Where are the rumors meeting with? Johnny Mackett’s always a tree?

Gossip Connor whisp business tree. Gossip Corn Probably gossip Cone with room with me? Johnny Maczol’s a tree. Yes, Gossip Corner is indeed about Pete. Pete apparently having trouble selling his condo.

According to s I Live, the condo, purchased by Pete Davidson in twenty twenty one, originally for one point two million dollars, was last on the market for one point zero seven million. According to The US Sun, The US Sun or the folks that were starting the Howard Stern rumors recently, the condo fifteen and ninety two square feet. Pete was selling it because he wanted to move to Brooklyn. A source with ties to Pete Davidson tells The Sun he’s blown through a ton of money and it isn’t coming like it used to. Pete has spent a lot of money on this place, renovating it over the years and making it perfect, and it’s been a big dream.

We’re told Pete has the condo he bought his mother, a place he also rents a Brooklyn Brownstone, owns a house in upstate New York.

And then there’s the whole Ferry thing.

A real estate listing tells us the condo has a sleek, modern open concept featuring enormous windows which provide natural lighting from dawn till dusk. Two bedrooms, three bath, a break custom kitchen that opens to a spacious family room optimal for entertaining. It also has panoramic views of near a harbor and the Manhattan skyline. The master bedroom suite has a private bathroom with a custom shower and a highly coveted, glamorous walk in closet. Massive glass doors lead to an exclusive terrace on the seventh floor, which provides those views of the city skyline.

Pete Davidson’s condo is also pet friendly, has twenty four hour security, a clubhouse, a health club, a tennis club, an indoor playroom, and an outdoor playground. If you’re in the market for a place on Staten Island, contact Pete Davidson in the feed. You’ll find a new episode of DCN eight. So what is that? I wanted to do something extra for the paid subscribers, but I also didn’t want to siphon off comedy stories because I didn’t think that would be cool.

So DCN eight is Johnny Mac talks about other stuff, and this week I’m going to tell you how much I like the show All the Lazarus Project on Netflix and how the latest Mission Impossible movie is unwatchable DCN eight So what do you do? If you’re on Apple Podcasts? Click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. You click that, you become a premium subscriber to the feed. You’ll get Daily Comedy News without commercials, and you’ll get access to the other shows of the network, including five Good News Stories, which I host, also without commercials, and that’s just five bucks a month.

All the shows come with the same five bucks, and you’ll get that new episode of DCN eight. Rain Wilson was at Fan Expo in Chicago over the weekend. I thought this was funny, he said. He’s it’s not very much like Dwight, although there’s some mannerisms. Because I played them for over two hundred episodes over nine years.

But one thing that’s great, and maybe notice this, is that Dwight has a little bit of a jerky face, and rain is a little bit of a jerky face. Having played Dwight allows me to be a jerky face to people and people laugh. I can be kind of an a hole and people are like, isn’t that charming? So it’s one of the benefits of playing like Dwight. Rain Will says.

I talk to Jenna Fisher, who plays Pam. She can’t tell any really edgy jokes because people are like, Pam would never say that, So Jenna has to kind of keep her dark, raunchy sits of humor and check because people really recoil from deadline amid monster viewership Gilmore Too, that’s on you people. I did everything I could to stop that, and you guys just blew the stop sign and didn’t care and watched that thing. Happy Gilmore Too had Netflix’s biggest US opening weekend ever. Well now, because if people like you, Adam Sandler’s Happy Medicine Productions are making even more movies.

They’re developing the novel Dad Cam. In the novel Dad Camp, we follow John a devoted father. Hey, I could play that who finds his once cloned spond with his daughter Avery unraveling as she enters her preteen years. I wouldn’t be good at that. Desperate to reconnect before she starts middle school, he signs them up for a week long father daughter retreat at a Rundown summer camp, where he’s forced to confront both his fears of losing her and the evolving nature of their relationship.

Here’s my prediction. Adam Sandler will play John and whichever Sandler daughter is the younger one will play the aged up version of the daughter that’s a preteen in the novel. That’s my prediction there, But that would probably be more dramatics. Maybe we would get good Adam Sandler, who knows. In other development news, also from Deadline, Paramount has acquired The Island, described as an R rated comedy based on an idea from Trevor Noah.

The Island tells the story of two polar opposites, one a successful alpha businesswoman and the other a hopelessly dedicated male high school teacher. They’re the sole survivors of a play crash on a deserted island, and after rely on each other to stay alive. Sources say Trevor Noah was inspired by COVID for this idea. Congratulations to Sam Nicoresti. Sam is the winner of the Edinburgh’s Best Show at the Fringe.

Sam Show Baby Boomer is based around a humiliating experience in a department store changing room out Today to hear Moore’s special Aging Out, It’ll be on album form wherever you listen to comedy things. In this self roasting, brutally honest hour to Hear More takes his audience on a wild ride through topics like the zombie apocalypse, fancy toilets, naps and aging out Today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, Chelsea Lynn’s Trailer Trash Tammys Pontoon Party. That is a wonderful title. And we’ll wrap up today on a very sad note. Comedian Reggie Carrol was shot dead in Mississippi.

Police say they got a call about a shooting. When officers arrived, they found Reggie suffering from gunshot wounds. Police and first responders started performing life saving techniques. Reggie did not survive the injuries. South Haven Police have his suspect and custody, who has been charged with murder in Reggie’s shooting death, one of Reggie’s colleagues, Monique, said she had nothing but good times with Reggie, especially when they were on comedy tours together.

Reggie Carroll was fifty two. Not your comedy news for Today,

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Featured: Jay Leno, Rosie O’Donnell, Lorne Michaels, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, James Austin Johnson, Shane Gillis, Ralph Barbosa, Ken Jung

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno responds to Rosie O’Donnell criticism
• Lorne Michaels discusses late night TV landscape and SNL Season 51
• SNL UK revival announced for 2026
• Kill Tony Netflix special with Jim Norton and Matt Rife
• The Office spinoff ‘The Paper’ dropping all 10 episodes September 4th
• Shane Gillis stars in new Bud Light commercial
• Ralph Barbosa discusses comedy and immigration themes

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Shoonni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You may recall last week Rosie O’Donnell took a shot at the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno. You know that guy. Yeah, she took a shot at him for something he did with a guest with one of the biggest losers.

Jay Leno has responded and outrageously said, I don’t dislike Rosie, She’s a funny comedian. Jay added, I don’t know where Rosie’s coming from these days, and said when he hosted The Tonight Show for twenty two years, which makes it outrageous that he would even have opinions about how late night television should go or not. I mean, who are you, Jay Leno, to say what late night is or isn’t. So you beat David Letterman and they had to bring you back to rescue Conan O’Brien’s failing ratings, I mean, what do you know? I like this bit.

Jay said he would meet with guests before filming to discuss what would be happening during their segment. Jay said, I’m pretty sure I asked beforehand if it would be okay. If not, we wouldn’t have done it. It’s why we got stars who wouldn’t do many other shows. In Puck, Matt Bellany caught up with Lorne Michaels, who was asked what was Lauren Michael’s reaction over Colbert Gate.

Lauren said, I was just stunned. I’m on the side of the people who do shows. But there’s two audiences now. There’s the audience that is watching on TikTok and YouTube, and there’s a linear audience. Both Seth and Colbert are heirs to David Letterman.

You know what I mean. Conan O’Brien as well. Yeah, I mean they all have shows that David Letterman used to host. If you’re gonna draw a line from David Letterman to Seth Myers Late Night, it’s gonna be a little crooked in my humble opinion. But what do I know.

I’m recording a podcast in the basement. Lorden Michaels has been on SNL forty six out of fifty one seasons. They like to pretend that those other five years didn’t happen. Lauren hasn’t been with SNL for fifty years. He took a break there.

Look it up Johnny Mac. Now you’re killing Lorden Michaels. No, just pointing it out where were Lauren said, They’re going to be that type of late night show, just as I’m still doing SNL as if everybody’s watching that night. But Jimmy Fallon does a lot of stuff you can watch all day podcast. Do you think that Colbert cancelation was political?

Lauren said, I don’t think any of us are ever going to know that. He talked about the Smothers Brothers thing back in nineteen sixty nine. That happened before I was born, so I mean, you know, I guess it’s t gentally related. Good question here. Have you been assured by comcasts that the Jimmy and Seth shows are safe for the foreseeable future?

They’re both signed through twenty twenty eight. Lord Michael said, yeah, I think the CEO who I’ll be working for for the rest of my life has integrity. But at the same time, everybody has broadcast licenses, everyone has, you know, but I don’t really believe that we affect things. Interesting answer onto SNL, Lauren, do you feel pressure to reinvent it this season? Yeah, for sure, it’ll be announced in a week or so.

This article came out late last week, so it may have even happened this morning. Will James Austin Johnson be Trump? Yes, I personally hope James Austin Johnson goes back and listens to his original Trump depression. It has really started to drift last season. Lauren didn’t want to talk about retirement, but Puck asked, are you going to give anyone in particular on your team some added responsibilities this season?

Good phrasing there, Lauren said, that’s already been happening in the past year or so. More people are involved in the choices and in the decisions. But I’m not worried about AI because AI won’t guess what I’m gonna do between ten and eleven on show nights, because I have no idea. There’s a lot of people in that room with opinions. I make the final decision, obviously, but it’s not as if people don’t let me know how strongly they feel.

I guess I’ll pull up this story. I actually had it in the second half last week, Sky revealed plans about bringing SNL to the UK. Sky’s executive director of Unscripted Originals, Phil Edgar, Jones said it’s exciting a bit scary as well. Edgar Jones spent some time embedded with Lauren in the SNL USA team. He has confirmed that James Longman, the executive producer of The Late Late Show with James Cordon, will become the showrunner of SNL UK.

Edgar Jones hopes the show will be true to the American original, but quote has to be a very British thing if it’s going to resonate with audiences in the UK. The Sky UK SNL will launch in twenty twenty six. There have also been remakes in China, Germany, Italy and South Korea. Out on Netflix today, kill Tony guests include Jim Norton, Mark Norman, Matt Rife. Boy you combined kill Tony, Tony Hinchcliff and Matt Rife.

The Internet’s gonna explode. There’s gonna be a whole set of comedians. We’re not gonna be able to deal with that. Guys. It’s just a show.

Just watch it. It’s fun. Slate had done a big article probably ten days two weeks ago now about kill Tony. Slate writes, some veterans stand ups find themselves wondering if kill Tony is less of a comedy exposition and more of a vindictive freak show. James Adomian said there’s a visible through line here back to shows like Opie and Anthony.

He describes such shows as occasionally funny but mostly just offensive. Kil Tony on Netflix today, Shane Gillis he’s appearing in another bud Light commercial. This one is titled Vender Voices. You see Shane Gillis shouting across Darryl k Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Shane is wearing a Texas Longhorns polo shirt.

He’s attempting to get the attention of a vendor. They go back and forth, Hilarity ensues, then his friend spoilers for the Budlight Commercial’s friend comes back from a successful beer run. This is interesting. The paper that’s the office spin off. Remember I told you they were gonna put like four episodes out and then do like two, two and two and burn the whole thing off in September.

Well, Peacock has changed their mind, but not the way I recommend. They’re now dropping all ten episodes on September fourth, when we’re all watching Cowboys Eagles, and that means you know sits like av Club Involve. Sure they’ll have reviewed the entire thing before you and I even have a chance to watch it. Like I’m a podcaster who works from home. I can’t watch the paper at six thirty in the morning before a review of ten episodes of something drops.

You gotta give me a minute. I think NBC Peacock is making a mistake here. I think they should do a weekly thing and get some buzzing around it and get people talking about it. The ten episode drop makes me think they don’t have confidence in it. I have seen some internet chatter from people who have seen it who said it’s actually pretty good.

But I don’t know. This is just really weird. Why would you drop all ten? On September fourth, Ralph Barbosa spoke to the La Times after his special came out, and he said, now I’ve got about ten minutes worth of jokes to my name. I’m broke comedy wise, I’m broke.

He grinned and said it’s the funniest place to be. The Times asked Barbosa about the perspective he brings as the next generation of Latin comedian. Ralph said, I don’t necessarily think it’s important to get my voice out there. But I do like making jokes about ice in immigration because it’s like the only way I know how to bring attention to it. I’m not a big political dude or anything like that, but yeah, I’ve made jokes about things like immigration stuff, I stuff.

I feel like there’s certain topics, certain subjects you can’t avoid. After a certain point, we should talk about it. We should at least put it in the faces of the people who aren’t going to talk about it. Like, if you’re not going to talk about it, that’s fine too, but you got at least hear about it. Congratulations to Ken Jung.

He is receiving an award from the fifteenth Annual Catilina Film Festival on September twenty seventh. The award the King of Comedy Award the King of Comedy Ken Jung, presented by the Catalia Film Institute. The King of Comedy trophy is given to a performer who has mastered the craft of comedy and uses it to uplift, inspire, and bring joy. Jung’s credits include Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Role Models, Right Along Too, Transformer, Stark of the Moon, Tom and Jerry and of course his roles in the Hangover trilogy and as Senior Chang on Community. The New York Post was catching up with Eddie Peppatone and they pointed out your IMDb list two upcoming projects.

Can you spill any details? Eddie explained, untitled Neil Brennan project was filmed a bunch of years ago and never went anywhere. Neil was working on a pilot for Fox and they passed on it, and I don’t know why it’s up there like that. He’s also working on Dead, an indie film where he plays a rabbi. The story is about a young woman’s dad who becomes a ghost and won’t leave until there’s something settled, and Eddie Peppertone’s character oversees a quote Jewish exorcism.

Tony Rock, comedian, he has a brother named Chris. Tony was doing some crowd work at a recent show. A video clip has gone viral. Rock asked a man in the audience, you want to fight m effor. It was all in good fun, but the man got up and took off his glasses, seemingly prepared to fight, and Tony Rock said, you better sit down.

I ain’t Chris m effor the crowd laughed at the joke. Tony Rock high five to his audience member, Hey, you know what happens when you pull an SNL story up to the first half of the podcast. You get to the second half and you realize, oh, you don’t have any stories left. Hah. What you don’t know is I had bounced this Mark Maron story because I thought the first half was getting long, but nope, now it’s going into today’s show after all.

Newsweek asked Mark Maron, what do you think about the current state of podcasts. Maren said, at the beginning, it was sort of the wild West. It was an open format. You could do whatever you wanted done on like comedy, but with more production, especially what it was all just audio. And I think at the beginning there was sort of a movement.

Was this kind of populous and that everybody thought they could do it, And it’s the same with comedy now. A lot of people do it for a lot of different reasons. Some people are doing it just because their brand will enable them to have another cash flow by capitalizing on who they are, whether they’re good at it or not. But ultimately it’s created a lot of yammering, and once everybody went to video, and once old school mainstream show business started to collapse in on itself, people were really able, through bubbles and tribalization, able to build their own show business empires. And I think podcasting facilitated that, and that’s good.

I think in another way, podcasting help people get their voices out there and niche markets and really do it interesting stuff, but also lower the bar for entertainment in general. I think you have as much, if not more, unique and interesting content with interesting personalities and talent. But then you have a much larger portion of two to three white guys sitting in front of microphones talking about the last time they crap their pants as adults. So you have this large contingency of like afternoon drive radio that seems to speak to a lot of it, which I think lowers the bar. Then you do the other stuff.

But I think it open doors to people having more control the type of show business they wanted to do. And I think it brought a lot of people that might not have thought they had a profound amount of talent, but at the very least could sit and talk to other people. I can’t tell you whether it’s a good or bad. There’s a lot of both, and probably more bad than good. Mark, what advice do you have when a young comic comes up to you and says they want to start a podcast?

Mark says, well, that timing is great, and you’re gonna be up against a lot. I’m too old to know what it really takes. I’ve never really been a guy who produces content for content’s sake. We live in a sort of post publicity world in terms of the other tried and true ways of getting you and your being and brand out there, and it’s all on you. So if you’re going to do it, seems I wouldn’t want to do it now to what you have to do to sort of serve this is a full time job before you even get to the podcast.

In terms of social media, in terms of creating content that grabs people enough to bring them to you, and I think we lose that, and again it’s lowering the bar what these art forms were, what these broadcast forms were, because of this desperate need to somehow grab people’s attention and hold it for long enough, to keep it for long enough for you to turn a buck out of it. So I’d say go ahead, I guess, do what you can. But it’s not the world I grew up in. It’s not the world where people spend a lot of time trying to create interesting and provocative content or some sort of hyper personalized, well articulated comedic voices. I mean, everyone’s chasing what their freedom of speech may be.

It’s all now kind of boxed in by social media platform expectations. So how free are you? What are you doing there? You know he’s not wrong. At the end of last week, Howard Stern was accused of manufacturing all the recent Howard Stern controversy.

A source till the Daily Mail the rumors actually came from inside Howard’s camp. The source claimed they’re desperately trying to make this thing go viral to boost his numbers for his return. The stunt was designed to make people tune in to see what Howard’s going to say about getting fired from Serious because his numbers are quote pathetic.

Also at the end of last week, there was a rumoring inside radio they were sou…

We’ll see at the time of this recording. They had not announced that, and late in August would be a weird time to announce that. I still think, and maybe I’m wrong by the time you’re hearing this, I still think they’ll announce it in December and milk this thing for all the publicity it’s worth. I would. It’s a lot of fun.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption, go on Apple Podcasts. There’s a banner it says uninterrupted listening. You click on that and you’ve got this show without ads. You’ll also get five good news stories without ads.

Assuming I actually remember to edit the episodes. I recorded a whole bunch of them yesterday, but I have to actually edit and publish them. But I know myself. I’m pretty confident the episodes are actually there. And you have a good day.

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliff, Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, Conan O’Brien, Andrew Schultz, Matt Rife, Danny Frinkel, Paul Elia, Augie Smith

What’s in This Episode

• Hollywood Reporter’s 44 most powerful players in podcasting 2025
• Tony Hinchcliff’s controversial joke at Trump rally and Kill Tony podcast
• Joe Rogan’s influence on politics and Trump endorsement
• Theo Vaughn’s podcast rising to #3 on Spotify
• Matt Rife on social media strategy and algorithm challenges
• Social media platforms for comedy ticket sales analysis
• Big Sky Comedy Festival submission tips and best practices

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It is a summer Sunday, one weekend left after this. I’m getting depressed anyway. Summer Sundays are a good time to catch up on articles that I hadn’t gotten to.

Here’s one from the Hollywood Reporter. It is, of course, the forty four most powerful players in podcasting in twenty twenty five. Let’s just skim down this and see what they say about the comedians. Do we count the SmartLess guys? I don’t think so.

I believe these are in alphabetical order by last name, which brings us to Tony Hinchcliff, The Hother Reporter tells us. A former staffer on the Comedy Central Roast series, Hinchcliff helped usher in America’s post woke era when at a trip rally he told that joke, you remember that one about the floating island of garbage. That one. The next day, on his popular Kill Tony show, he said, I apologize to absolutely no. Tony was asked what his current favorite podcast is.

He said mine, not Johnny Max. He meant Kill Tony. I thought I had missed something here they have on the list Michelle Obama with Craig Robinson. I was like, wait, Craig Robinson is doing a podcast with Michelle Obama. Well, a man named Craig Robinson is.

But it’s not that Craig Robinson, not the guy that quit comedy as part of a stunt, not him, a different guy. That would have been very interesting had I missed that one. I’m going to pay attention to that. Amy Poehler on the list. Joe Rogan listened as talent on The Joe Rogan Experience.

The Holland Reporter says in the past year, the long time self proclaimed centrist waded deeper into partisan politics and demonstrated the influence of the medium over which he reigned Supreme Rogan’s three hours sit down with then candidate Donald Trump last October and his subsequent endorsement were credited with boosting Trump’s re election campaign. Matt Rodgers and Bowen Yang run lists for Las Culturistas. THEO Vaughn listed as talent this past weekend with THEO Vaughan. We are till at Vaughan’s podcast has risen to third on Spotify’s chart. That’s a random pull whych you pull Spotify’ chart on the strength of the host every man blend of humor, vulnerability, and straight talk, which makes disaffected dudes see him as there Mark Twain and powerful men across the ideological spectrum.

Trump, Van Sanders, Zuckerberg want to sit with him. The born and bred Louisiana and a touring stand up comic and sometime actor, recently garnered headlines for his commentary about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which he’s called a genocide. That paragraph was all kinds of loaded. Wow. Conan O’Brien on the list.

A lot of this list is not perform with. It’s a lot of executives and suits and friends of the Hollywood Reporter, et cetera about under Conan were told In May, Conan o’briany’s friend began to release full video episodes. It worked. Team Coco’s views increased seventeen percent from the prior year. Andrew Schultz listed as talent the mustached, fast talking comedian who yaps opposite Charlomage the god on the Brilliant Idiots, hosted Donald Trump on his ascended cultural commentary showcase Flagrant just before the election for a talk that went among Schultz’s key demo of postpartisan young men.

But by July he’d had his Howard Beale on air moment. You do you younger sisters even know what that means? I know what it means, but I’m ancient. Howard Beal is the guy in the movie Network that yells, I’m mad as hell. I’m not going to take it anymore.

Do you even know what that is? He may have seen it as a meme anyway, breaking with the President about a variety of grievances, from policy issues to the Jeffrey Epstein betrayal, mirroring an apparent broader shift in the president’s coalition. They asked Andrew which podcast completely changed how you think about the medium? His answer, Joe Rogan experience that has defined and redefined the genre over and over again. Honestly, I don’t even think it gets enough credit.

That’s it. In terms of comedians on the list, Deadline had done a lengthy article about social media these days, starting with Matt Rife. Matt has often asked what advice he’d give to those looking to make a mark online. Matt Rife says he has no idea. He says, my only advice is you’re so eft, there’s nothing you could do whatsoever.

It’s so one million percent sent out it for your control. Now the algorithm changes so much. You can build a fan base on social media. It’s great, but it’s getting harder and harder and harder to do, and you can’t just rely on it. Rife admits he was super lucky to have been discovered broken through found my audience before doing so became harder.

I’m not sure if this article was a paid piece or a partnership. Why I’m confused is they had a big logo that’said powered by punch Up Live, So I don’t know if it was a paid piece. But in the piece regardless, they quote Danny Frinkel, the CEO of punch Up Live. He says ticket sales by way of Instagram have increased nearly fifteen percent as punch up has expanded to host more and more comics. He said, I think going into this survey they did, you would have expected that YouTube would play a significantly larger role because everybody’s putting all their company specials there, and you would have expected the TikTok would play a larger role because that is or was a bit of the talk of the town, and I think now everyone is unclear on exactly what’s happening with the long term of TikTok and what’s happening in the short terms, and are people still investing in it.

Comedian Paul Elia said, I look at Instagram as the portfolio app where you put the best of your best. Facebook is where old people go, and that’s where you just put all the whatever stuff. TikTok is for kids. You can have a massive TikTok following, but it doesn’t translate to ticket sales because all your fans are thirteen, so no one is going snapchat same thing. Instagram is probably the most tried and true app for sure.

If you’re following on Instagram as strong, people know you, and those people on Instagram have money to buy a ticket Facebook, I’d say the same thing anyway. We’ll find that in the Comedy Means Business newsletter, The Deadline has a very long piece. Hey, thanks to Adam for sending this over. Augie Smith had posted this on Facebook. Hey, comedians, I’ve spent much of the last week watching submissions to the Big Sky Comedy Festival.

I love stand up comedy. So this is one of my favorite parts of the festival producing process. Here are a few tips for submitting to festivals. Okay, comedians, you’re paying attention, Augie Smith says, try to keep your tape between four and six minutes. Remember that festivals are watching a lot of submissions, and sending something that’s over fifteen minutes is completely and totally cuckoo bananas.

Think of it as a late night set and hit as many punch lines as possible. Get to the first joke quickly unless it’s your whole act. Don’t do crowd work. There’s no reason to use notes in a five minute set. I know it’s always an easy thing to do, but the actual quality of the tape is important.

If the sound is so hollow it’s hard to hear you, it makes it difficult to judge your set fairly, let me jump in. I used to give similar recommendations in my radio career to people who wanted to be talk show hosts, and then to comedians who would send things in. So here’s what happens as a media executive. I mean, well, I really want to get to stuff I would have back in the day. Depending on the year, A pile of cassette tapes, then CDs, then a folder with digital submissions.

Anyway, I would intend to someday get to it, and then every now and then on a Friday, I’d be like, oh, it’s the end of the week, all the work’s done. Let me go into the pile. Once I hit play for talk shows, you have two seconds to get my attention, because I would do what’s called distracted listening. So undistracted listening is, as a radio exec, you get in your car and you drive somewhere and you park like in a parking lot, and stare at trees and just focus on the audio, and you have your phone off. Distracted listening is you hit play in the office and then your coworkers coming and distract you and ask what we’re ordering for lunch, and you and the phone rings, and you answer the phone, you get distracted by an email.

That’s distracted listening. I do distracted listening because that is how people consume media. So like, right now, are you sitting in the dark only concentrating on my voice? Maybe are maybe you’re one going to sleep or are you driving a car in like kind of half listening? And that’s fine.

So that’s distracted listening. So when you send a tape in, I’m gonna hit play and you got to be really good, really quickly.

Also, I would tell people I don’t want your best of tape.

I’m glad you had on the President at one point. I want to hear Tuesday Hour two. I want to hear what you are on a normal, boring day. Oggie Smith writes, I know this sounds obvious, but send a set where you did well, even if the jokes are good. If the crowd is digging you, that affects my view of your act.

All right. The fringe is wrapping up. The Guardian said the Edinburgh Fringe has almost four thousand shows. What does it take for a stand up to stand out? Alfie Peckham writes, the fringe is in full swing and I’m looking for my posters, which, given the function of a poster, doesn’t bode well for the marketing of my stand up hour.

Johnny Woolley is co founder of the clown Ensemble Stamptown. Wooly has some opinions on posters and said I’ve always had a pet pee for comedians doing funny faces on their posters. It’s always been a turn off for me. Yes, I hate comedian headshots with the dopey face. Just take a nice picture.

You don’t have to make your wacky face face stop. Woly said. When I started making posters nearly a decade ago, no comedy posters look cool, and I was really influenced by album mart movie posters. There are so many posters of comedians sitting on the toilet. I’m interested in trying to make art for the posters.

It feels like it could be a more long standing representation of that show. Jordan Gray said, I like having a stupid title and a picture that makes you think that I’m very, very serious about this. That lack of self awareness is quite funny. Adele Cliff was at the Fringe Voicemag caught up with a deal. What advice would you have for an artist considering bringing a show to the Fringe.

Her advice, stay out of my way, nerds. I love it. If you had the power to change one thing about the Fringe, what would it be wrong? Finally a different answer, She says, I would make the Edinburgh Fringe artists pass universal so it’s accepted at all venues. To fill empty seats artists get to see the shows and fill up the space.

Two birds, one stone, everybody wins. Look at that, You thought she was going to complain about how much it cost us stay at the thing, and that is sure comedy news as it was on a summer Sunday. Let’s get some beach in this week. Oh my goodness, I’s just the worst day of the year is the Tuesday after Labor Day. That is absolutely my least favorite day of the year.

My favorite day of the year is Friday afternoon. Well that’s not a day, but Friday into Memorial the weekend. You have the whole summer in front of you, wide open skies for so much possibility. Once we get to Tuesday after Labor Day, it’s just like, ah, winter is coming. I have to work more because they teach, can’t go to the beach minside all the time.

How depressing. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jay Leno, Hulk Hogan, Roy Wood Jr., Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Jeff Ross, Kevin Hart, Bowen Yang, Billy Crystal, Tinnitdou Unaka

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno vs Hulk Hogan 1998 Tonight Show incident
• Roy Wood Jr. on Stephen Colbert’s post-CBS future on YouTube
• John Oliver discusses anxiety and creative freedom at Last Week Tonight
• Jeff Ross Broadway show stamina and vulnerability compared to roasting
• Jeff Ross Broadway show banana giveaway budget
• Tinnitdou Unaka on Kevin Hart’s Hulu comedy special series
• Bowen Yang discusses JD Vance impression process

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I don’t mind me. I’m just scrolling down. I lost the file. Why don’t you do it again?

John? Because that’s not fun. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I still didn’t find story number one.

Here? Can you tell? It’s the weekend in the summer. Here we go. Jay Leno, you know that guy, that horrible guy.

Some people think he’s the worst person who ever lived. He hosted the Tonight Show for what twenty two years and got ratings and beat out David Letterman, and then Conan O’Brien couldn’t hack it and they had to bring Jay Leno back, and then Jay Letto thinks he knows something about late night television and commented on it. He was a guest on the Mark Summer’s Unwraps podcast, the topic Hulk Hogan. What do you think he was going to talk about? Now?

The wrestling fans is gonna be like, oh hey, Jay Leto, he’s the worst. So I’ve erased this from my brain. Back in nineteen ninety eight, Hulk Hogan and the WCW, remember that was the other Wrestling League Circuit Championship whatever. Hulk Hogan and WCW president Eric Bischoff appeared as guests on the tonight show. The appearance turned into a hostile takeover, as Hogan and Bischoff shoved Jay Leno’s bandleader, ran down jay Leno, and brought out other members of the nWo to hijack the program.

You know what, this probably appeals to a lot of people, the idea of Jay Leno being chased and then jostled by wrestlers. People would probably like that these days, because he had the audacity to comment on late night television as if he would know anything about it. So then there was the WCW Road Wild pay perview in August of nineteen ninety eight. I was getting married that month. That’s why I don’t remember this at all.

I was busy for that event. Jay Leno teamed with Diamond Dallas Page to face the team of Hollywoodhulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff. Jay said to this day, people go, man, look, Jay, I know wrestling is fake, but I could tell man, you were ticked. I go, no, I wasn’t. I could tell.

Now you can’t. Don’t you understand it’s not real? When he threw him down, you were mad, I go, No, wasn’t mad acting While we’re talking about a Hulk Cogan. Mister Summers told a story that Hogan’s deal anytime he did a personal appearance, he had to have a yellow Rolls Royce. One time, they’re going to the airport in the yellow rolls Rooye and Hulk.

Cogan said, I hate being recognized. Slummers said Hogan was also wearing his signature bandana at the time. Roywood Junior was at the Edinburgh TV Festival. He’s excited about what might happen for Stephen Colbert after CBS. Roy said when he’s running rampant on YouTube like Don Lemon, that’ll create a bigger issue for this administration in twenty twenty six if he builds an audience.

If the Trump administration were smart, then leave us alone. Let us tell our jokes. God bless whatever Stephen Colbert does next with no network pressure to give him notes. The Hollywood Reporter asked John Oliver, when was the last time a Last Week Tonight’s segment made you genuinely anxious? Oliver said it there’s always a lotw life anxiety with every story.

I’d argue a healthy level of anxiety, and it’s only about whether people are going to be willing to listen to us talk about something because it’s so superficially dry or contentious that you’re not sure if it’s something people want to hear, and then you’re practicing force feeding. But that’s part of the joy of having this show, the ability to show people things they might not necessarily think on their face they want to see. Just a few weeks ago, we did a long piece on juvenile justice, and that’s the kind of story where we think, I’m not sure people want to hear this, but I think that’s the absolute point of having a show like this. The hollod reporter asked Oliver if they got any corporate interference over the years. This interview was a few weeks ago, so I guess theoretically he could have gotten some interference this morning, But as of a few weeks ago, John Oliver said, we’ve not experienced interference, and I refuse to worry about something that hasn’t happened yet.

My tolerance level would be zero. This would be over real quick. John said, I try to pay as little attention to what’s happening outside of our show as possible. Because it feels like wasted energy. The moment it intrudes on our show, I’ll react very badly to it, but it hasn’t.

So yeah, I try not to angry about things that aren’t happening to us. Lariday asked Jeff Ross does it require a different kind of stamina to perform eight shows a week as New Broadway show compared to touring as a comedian, and Jeff said, I don’t know yet. Billy Crystal told me I’ll be a new kind of tired, but I enjoy waking up in my own bed as opposed to adding the JFK or Newark Airport normally is a comic. It’d be Friday in New York, Saturday in Detroit, Sunday in Cleveland or whatever. So there’s a real charm to the idea that I’m home and I can have dinner and walk my dog by ten thirty.

Good question here, what’s it like to be vulnerable on stage when people will know you for roasts? Jeff Ross said that board’s generally terrifying because as a comedian you want to have some swagger. You don’t want to let them see you sweat. I had to drop that on top of it, I had all these stories about my mom and dad were in rehearsals and the tech people were like, all right, let’s take it back to the beat where your mom dies. And I’m like, that’s just a cue and someone cheat.

But for me, it’s a very vivid memory. I have to go. He didn’t mean it that way. He just wants to get the lighting rate. Another good question.

Are people surprised to find out you have a serious side? Jeff Ross said, I walked through the airport and people go roast me. People treat it like it’s a porty trick. But there’s a person in there. If I does that meat all the time, I doubt any friends and survive.

In show business, spoilers, Okay, I’m gonna spoil something. Everybody leaves the theater with a banana. The other reporter was curious, what’s the banana budget. Jeff Ros said, it’s significant. It’s in the thousands per week.

Bananas aren’t cheap with the tariffs, it’s a whole thing. Someone has to pass them out. Check them for fentanel. Now I’m kidding, but it was a big discussion. I pushed really hard.

Tinnidou Unaka caught up with The La Times about his special on Kevin Hart’s Thing There on Hulu, and I thought the special was really good. Trinitdou said, shout out to Kevin for even putting vehicles like this out there, because he doesn’t have to, and it’s not the first time he’s done something like this before. I worked with him when he was booking comedians for his LA Network to go tape for just for laughs. His people reached out to my people like, we love tinnitdoo do this for us. They paid us, they put us up, they flew us out.

So to work with him again on something similar but on a bigger scale was definitely like a dream come true, especially respect to Kevin as an artist, but then also to his work ethic and how he goes about business.

And now he’s just very forthcoming and helping the younger generation get eye…

Seeing how much attention to detail they took to it versus it being a rush job, it felt dope, just the way it looked. All those Kevin Art specials then on the Hulu series, those all look great, They filled the room. Everything about it felt actually special. So to have an opportunity to be one of the comedians selected was incredible and I’m happy that I was ready for it.

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And then it went well.

We basically had one shot to tape it two. I think I got it right. Bowhen Yang talked about his JD Vance impression. He said, I was pretty resistant at first. After a few more conversations, I acquiesced and then I went about it in the most child of immigrants way, where I hired a dialect coach and I requested a screen test where I tried out different contact lenses because I felt like so much of JD Vance’s sort of visual eeriness was in his eyes and I was like, we have to get that down.

And then we tried facial hair options and I took it as a serious charge, which may or may not have been the right way to go about it, but it’s been an interesting journey. Hasan Minhaj is a spokesperson for Share the Meal, a program founded under the UN World Food Program that aims to make fighting hunger accessible. A video circulating on Instagram shows Hasan Minhaj calling for it increased aid in Sedan. He describes how conflict within the country has resulted in the world’s largest hunger crisis, and then asked for the viewer support through donations to share the meal. Michael Palin revealed that he’s made some end of life arrangements.

He says, I do think about death, and the family are rather wonderful about it. Have you made a will? Can I be in your will? I’ve made my will in all that my family and my children know where to find what they need should I die. He’s even given all his passwords to his three children in case I get run over by a bus.

However a fit you are, anything might happen. But I don’t dwell on mortality. It’s well on life. Eric Idol told the PA news agency that his wife is worried what would happen to Eric Idol’s image once he dies. He told PA, I think it’s a very interesting point.

We ought to have protected ourselves by copyriting our images. I know my wife’s very concerned about that. She’s going to coprate my image. I won’t be there, so I don’t really give a hoot. He talked about AI and said it’s actually not bad at copying work, but it can only copy and not create.

He said, I was with Professor Brian Cox the other night he asked it to write a Python sketch and it was crap, completely unfunny. It mentioned a few things which obviously picked up from Python, but it couldn’t put them together in a new and funny manner. And I think that’s the weakness with AI. I don’t think it makes much difference with a lot of American TV because that’s just churned out. I think it can’t be Robin Williams.

I think it can’t be Billy Connolly. I don’t think it can be Spike Milligan. Cult following uncovered Jim Carrey’s cover of The Beatles. I am the Walrus. I was curious.

I clicked on it. I didn’t think it was that good, but one fan said, Wow, he is good. You can tell he put a lot of work into that and want to do it right. Another said, holy, s he sings rather well. A third Wow, mind blown and apparently insane person said I can’t listen to the Beatles version anymore because I enjoy Jim Carrey’s version much more.

The Stockton Latin Comedy Festival takes place today at the Adventist Health Arena. The Unite includes performances by more than twenty top comedians, including Carlos Mencia, Joey Medina and the event is was scheduled to honor Paul Rodriguez with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Now, Paul’s been in the news lately. It’s unclear to me if the award is still happening or not. And I hope Paul is okay.

The Toronto Guardian was profiling some comedians, one of them Toronto comedian Ben Albert, who got to start in comedy by driving eight hours to perform at Yuck Yucks in Ottawa. All right, Ben Albert, and how do you describe your comedy style and why am I coming at you with such an aggressive tone? Ben said, my comedy style would probably be described as a storytelling type. Being from northern Ontario, it’s crucial you know how to tell a good story. There’s nothing else to do.

AI Ow, who’s your favorite comedian? Growing up? He said? I was always a big fan of Kevin Hart and Jamie Fox. I liked how they would tell a good story while using their whole body as an expressive tool.

Oh yeah, well, who’s your favorite comedian now? Ben Albert said, I’m a big fan of Shane Gillis and Luisi K. What’s your pre show ritual? I text my buddy and call him a loser so I feel more confident. Hey, that is your comedy needs for today.

If you would like the program without commercial interruption, you go to apple PADCA. You click the banner. It says uninterrupted listening. It’ll tell you what to do. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Patton Oswalt, Mark Maron, Kamil Nanjiani, Dusty Slaight, Chris Hardwick, Jay Leno, Elon Musk

What’s in This Episode

• Patton Oswalt Defends Dave Chappelle on Transphobic Jokes
• Mark Maron WTF Podcast Ending, Graphic Novel Coming
• Kamil Nanjiani Says Elon Musk Criticized Silicon Valley
• Dusty Slaight Compares Comedy Bits to Songs
• Chris Hardwick Relaunches Podcast as I Think You’re Overthinking It
• Jay Leno Performs Live Stand-up in Elmira, New York
• Comedy Stock Market: Sell Maron, Buy Kyle Kinane and Hinenu Wanaka

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. No late night jokes this week. I didn’t forget. Just everybody was off other than Tiffany Hattish sitting in for Kimmel, so we’ll skip that.

Patton Oswalt has once again defended Dave Chappelle, saying that the transphobic jokes that got Chappelle in hot waters do not make Chappelle transphobic. Patton says Chappelle is reacting to some things that happened to him when he was young. Patton is the guest on the We Might Be Drunk podcast with Mark Norman and Sam Murrill. Patten said, I thought the jokes were lazy. I don’t think he’s transphobic.

Chappelle is brilliant. I came up with him. He’s a friend, but we disagree on this one effing thing. I don’t agree with a stance on this one thing. Comedians fight about stuff all the time.

Patton got in trouble with some folks back in twenty twenty two. On New Year’s Eve, he posted a photo with Chappelle on Instagram and capture the image. I ended the year with a real friend and a deep laugh. Can’t ask for much more. People got upset at Patten.

The next day, January first, twenty twenty two, he posted, while Chappelle is a comic is the funniest I’ve ever met. Patton wanted you to know I support trans people’s rights, anyone’s all caps’ rights to live safely in the world as they’re full of selves. For all the things he’s helped me evolve on, I’ll always disagree with where he stands now on transgender issues, but I also don’t believe a secret like him is done evolving learning. You know someone that long see the struggles and changes, it’s impossible to cut them off. Paton added, I’ve said plenty of crap on my early albums that I now know better, explaining that comedy does not age.

We should hold and accept that and kind of roll with it. But at the time, I have a lot of friends, I have family members who are trans, who are transitioning, and I talk to them and they’re terrified right now. And it’s exact same thing back when black people would say the cops beat us up all the time, and it’s like, ah, this is all bs, this is fear mongering.

And then we put cameras on cops and low, behold, there’s footage of cops beed…

Listen to the minority group. If they’re telling you they’re scared, they’re not making stuff up. Patton said, one of the gifts of comedy is to evolve at the times. You can talk about whatever you want, but it’s your job to find a way to make it funny. If you’re a comedian and enough people are saying, hey, I’m coming to you because I’m not a skull, it’s just like, this is really harmful, and this is why just go I’m sure I can find another way to say this.

I’m a comedian. You can’t go no, that’s the way I wrote it, and I can’t change it. Well, then, how the f for you and show business? That’s very interesting. WTF the podcast is ending.

However, you can look forward to WTF the graphic novel. Sure why Not. Mark Maren is working with graphic novel publisher Z two. The graphic novel will span the period between two thousand and four and twenty twenty five. Maren launched WTF in two thousand and nine.

Maren said, this is a fantastic way for friends to relive the entire run of the podcast without needing to listen to thousands of hours of material. The graphic novel is already funded, but a Kickstarter will launch on September fourth to allow listeners to pre order the book and gain access to WTF memorabilia. I love Maren, and Maren’s on a hot streak here. You know what, I may have to update comedy stock market. We’ll see in the second half of the show.

But this is feeling a little Jim Gaffick and Bourbon to me. I could do an entire episode on Mark Maron. There are so many Mark Maren articles, and you know, if you listen to the show every day, I like to mix it up. So that’s enough Maroon for today. But there’s a big Newsweek article that I’ll pick at as the next week.

So we’re now switching from press about the HBO special to press about the documentary, and then we’re gonna get press about the end of the podcast, so there’s gonna be a lot of Mark Maren. I should probably have the AI make a Mark Maren song. Kamil Nanjihanni was on Mike Berbigley as Working It Out podcast, and Kamal said that he got a bad review from Elon Musk. Elon didn’t like Silicon Valley. Apparently Elon didn’t like the series twenty fourteen opening episode, which featured kid Rock performing at a tech party while seven nerdy dudes stood by with no one paying attention.

Kamel said Elon was upset. He was like, well, the parties I go to are much cooler than these parties. Non Giohanni thought, yeah, man, you’re one of the richest people the world. We’re like losers on the show. Of course, your parties are better than my parties.

What are you talking about. Dusty Slagh says he finds a lot of common ground between music and stand up comedy, saying, I think in a way, comedy bits are like our own little songs. They are our own little poems. When I do a full comedy special, I almost think about how someone would put out an album. At least the older albums where an album would be complete, might have some themes from an earlier song to come back in a later song and it ties the whole thing together.

He says, these days we’re in a phase of comedy where everybody wants clips. We all want likes, we all want to go viral. When I think about a special, I like to have a full on, complete special that feels like I’m going in and out of little songs. Chris Hardwick is back. You know, Maren gets a lot of credit for broadcasting.

Chris Hardwick absolutely had a huge podcast for years. He was with Nerdict, then it became ID ten T. It is now a comeback, rebranded as I think you’re overthinking it, but Jeeva says, it’s essentially the same podcast that’s always been. Recently, he had James Gunn who showed up to talk about the upcoming season of Peace Easemaker. So that, yeah, that sounds like an episode that would be perfectly comfortable on nerdicst.

And if you’re in Elmira tonight, watch out. You know who’s in town. The worst person who ever lived, That horrible scoundrel Jay Leno, who dared once make a comment about late night comedy. What a just awful person. And listen to this, Jay says, my point is to get laughs.

I don’t try to inflict my views on people. I don’t try to do politics anymore. He even commented on Late Night a scoundrel. He said. It has to do with the nature of television.

They all have way more commercials than they used to. If I see Jake from State Form again, I’m gonna shoot myself in the head. This guy Jay even said, I love being a live performer. I like a live audience and the idea of connecting with actual people. And he says it’s a lot of fun.

How dare you, sir? Tickets for an evening with Jay Leno are still available seventy eight to one hundred and nineteen dollars with service charges included. Elmira, New York. Comedy stock Market. That’s right, it’s comedy stock Market.

Every Friday, we take a look at the comedy industry and I recommend some buys or sell, sometimes even a hold. And you know what, I think it’s the time we sell some Mark Maren stock, not all of it, but let’s take a profit. I think we’re at peak Maren value. If he’s making graphic novels and getting into Jim Gaffigan bourbon territory, we’re at peak Maren and it’s gonna be downhill from here, I think. So let’s sell half our Maren stock and cash out.

High. So what should we do with our money. Let’s buy some stock in hinnadu unaka. Have you caught his special on Hulu? Really fantastic.

Let’s also buy some Kyle Kanaan. Why. I just have a hunch, Like I said earlier in the week, I think he’s low key, quietly maybe perhaps possibly the best comedian in the game right now. So let’s buy some Kyle Kanan while nobody’s looking. Let’s also buy some Patton Oswalt because he has that Amazon special coming up.

It’s an audio special only, so he’ll be doing a lot of press. People will be like, oh yeah, I like Patton Oswalt. So we’ll buy Pat and by Kyle by chinnadou wanaka sell Maren. Let’s also sell all of our fringe stock. The fringe is over and people are just miserable.

You’ve heard me do that store every day, so well sell our fringe stock.

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And then I’ve got one more buy recommendation for you.

Jonathan Kite has been doing these wonderful, wonderful Anthony Bourdain impressions on Instagram. I’ve pulled some audio here from one. I mean, check this out. This is just amazing. Costco.

We start with the legendary hot dog, the last honest bargain left in America, inflation proof at a dollar fifty. This symphony of salt, fat and don’t ask too many questions is truly a tube of edible chaos. Costco customers consume over two hundred million hot dogs a year, which is almost as many as Joey Chestnut and Bonnie Blue. And we have the pizza available in cheese and pepperoni. Finally, a two slice solution that everyone can agree on.

And finally, gasoline, because at Costco they proudly pump fuel into both you and your vehicle. You haven’t truly lived the suburban American dream until you filled your suv with Kirkland Signature petroleum and your face with twos pick mystery meat and complimentary cubes of cheddar. They say go big or go home, but at Costco you can do both. That’s Jonathan Kite doing Anthony bourdina I Love it Out Today, Fortune Feimster’s audio album for Good Fortune.

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Also on audio today, David Spade’s Dandelion.

Also today, you can save Mark Marin’s Panicked as an audio album and get an exclusive single. John Christ pre save his album, Emotional Support, access an exclusive single and also pre save Mike Vecki Own’s Low Income White and access at exclusive single, All That from the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, whose publicist sends me stuff unlike the Hulu publicist and see I’m happy to talk about the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. Hannah Burner is part of the lineup for the first ever Hall of Fame Celebrity pro Classic presented by the International Tennis Hall of Fame. That event is today coming up to September, it is the return of the Columbus Comedy Festival. This year’s festival includes multiple comedy magic shows featuring homegrown talent including Michael Kenton, Chris hanniwell a lot of showcases and thematic shows to help audience members discover new performances, including an All Asian and Asian American showcases, one show That’s All crowd Work, and a roast battle show.

Some other popular shows returning our Female af and All Women lineup, Drunk power Point described as a hilarious slideshow presentation of topics and Chicago showcase hosted by viral sensation Chad the Bird. Chad the Bird is a puppet act with some NSFW hot takes the Columbus Comedy Festival Thursday, September fourth through Sunday, September Seventh’s It’s Fun Fringe is almost over. I better get these articles cleared out. I’ve been bouncing them every day because the podcast has been long. Voicemag and caught up with Ishmael Loofti.

Ismael’s show is called Heavenly Baba, centered around a period of my life where my father was actively trying to convert everyone in my home state to Islam by painting the most insane Islamic slogans and mantras on his car. He says, my father instilled an extremely black and white worldview in my head, and nothing is more black and white than stand up. You either kill or your bomb. There’s very little nuance in comedy, which made it attractive to me. My show started out seventy percent stand up, thirty percent story.

After working on it for a year, I gradually took out as many stand up jokes as I could and replace them with story beats and accompanying slides. Influences David Cross, John Stewart, Al Franken, best worst or weirdest review you’ve received. He says, nobody reviews comedy in the States, which is maybe why American comedy’s gotten so crappy. So I don’t know how to answer this. This is a good interview.

Is there a question you wish interviewers would ask you but they never do? He said, yes, what’s your favorite empire from history? The answer the Ottomans. They took a ragtag group of nomadic horse orcherds and conquered a fifth of Europe while wearing the biggest turbans in human history. And he invent that some of the best food on earth.

Kind of dropped the ball in the twentieth century, but that’s life. Heavenly Baba is at the Assembly George Square, Studio five at six pm. But the festival’s over this weekend, so get on a plane unless you’re already in Edinburgh, and which case, just walk down the street, maybe rent out your spare room. You probably make some money. And I found this exchange pretty fascinating.

Some UK TV executives were at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The topic David Mitchell’s show The Outsider You know David Mitchell for Mitchell and webb Well. Outsiders has been shelved after three years after David Mitchell said he’s too busy to film it again. In Outsiders, comedians are thrust into a post apocalyptic scenario where they must see if they have the survival skills to live outdoors. It aired between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three.

Mitchell said his role on the show was to be a slightly befuddled, irrascable and indecisive leader. You know the part that caught my eye other than I just like David Mitchell. Executives at the Fringe said, it is not currently returning and we have announced that. What a weird way to freeze it. It’s almost as if like English is hit their first language.

It is not currently returning and we have announced that. That’s like very German. Matter of fact, the executives continued, Would we look at the show again in the future, maybe not currently. He loved doing it, We loved working with him. He is quite a difficult man to get a lunch appointment with.

We never say never. Absolutely. That’s your comedy news for today. If you like the program without commercial interruption Apple Podcast, you click a banner it says uninterrupted listening and then you read the instructions, and I get three fifths of five dollars eventually, and then I splait it with my partner Mark, so I get like a bucket a quarter, but you get the show commercial free, so that’s kind of fun, all right, See tomorrow

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Mark Maron, Jay Leno, Rosie O’Donnell, Tony Hinchcliffe, Theo Von

What’s in This Episode

• Happy Gilmore 2 production pumps $152M into New Jersey economy
• Mark Maron discusses political commentary in his new comedy special
• Rosie O’Donnell criticizes Jay Leno for reading death threats to Biggest Loser contestant on Tonight Show
• Tony Hinchcliffe’s Kill Tony Netflix special from Madison Square Garden dropping Monday
• Theo Von show incident: fan ejected from Honda Center performance in Anaheim

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now. I don’t know why you people hate on Adam Sandler. The guy just put one hundred and fifty two million dollars into the New Jersey economy.

That’s where I live. Yes, The filming of Happy Gilmore IWO a fine film, you should watch it pumped a record breaking one hundred and fifty two and a half million dollars into the New Jersey state economy over sixty four shooting days. How can you not love Adam Sandler movies. Happy Gilmour two averaged two point three million dollars in daily spend, including six point four million dollars on extras and one point two million dollars on lodging. Some of the places this was shot golf courses in Bedminster, Bloomfield and Montclair, private homes in Irvington and Billville.

Some of the backdrops included Newark Liberty International Airport, where I was just this morning, and Fairleigh Dickinson University where I work. Adams and Tandler and I work at the same place sometimes. Tim Sullivan is the NJE DACO and said New Jersey has become a happy place for filmmakers. He credits the state’s competitive tax credits, local talent, base and location diversity. Can we get some tax benefits for basement podcasters?

Is that a thing? Should I like, stop recording and look this up? Maybe it is. John Crowley is the executive director of the state’s Film Commission and says, from golf courses and universities to airports and beaches, New Jersey has everything a production company desires, and thank you Adam Sandler and Happy Madison Productions. They’re already filming another project here in New Jersey.

It is the teen musical Don’t Say Good Luck? And how could that possibly be terrible? It is filming in Cranford, Livingston and Ridgewood. Newsweek caught up with Mark Marin, who’s the most popular comedian right now? Unofficial survey seems.

They were curious, you don’t hold back in this special on Trump, Progressives, etc. What made you not hold back? Maren said, I don’t know that I ever have. I also know my audience to a degree, though I did make choices around the tone of the stuff. I do comedy three four nights a week, sometimes at the Comedy Store in LA and I see people up there not talking about it, and I’m like, what are we doing?

It used to be like, hey, do you have to talk about politics? As politics? Really that funny. I’ve always talked about it, but I do think it’s beyond politics now. Used to be you’d be lucky if you saw the president on TV like four times a year, and that wasn’t that long ago.

So now it’s like twenty times a day. So if you’re paying attention, you have to reckon with even just that fact. And I think this is an arc to the special, and there has been to my other specials. I feel like over time, especially the last two specials, there’s really almost a three act structure to it. And I thought, look, let’s get this out now.

My people are generally liberal people, but I take them to a task bit too. I really shifted the tone of the opening thing to be kind of what’s happening opposed to the BS, so I could bring people in. Obviously I’m not going to bring people in who are cult like believers, but I was very conscious of the tone to be like what’s going on, you know, as opposed to UFS. So that was all choice. But I think to answer your question.

It was like, well, let’s deal with this now and then we’ll get to the other stuff. News Week asked Mark Maren do you think comics have responsibility to address the current political situation? Maren No, absolutely not, and I don’t think it’s everyone’s cup of tea. Look, comedy’s a beautiful form where you and only you can decide what you want to do and dictate how you want to do it, and have complete control and a lot of room to really decide who you want to be up there. It’s a beautiful thing.

So now only a few people can do political humor. I happen to be a person that is culturally sensitive and relatively sophisticated in terms of politics in terms of being able to talk about it. So it’s always been kind of a component. But I think now things are meshing, and I think some things had to be dealt with in terms of how comics are being used or choosing to use their comedy as platforms for some sort of very unsavory stuff. I don’t pull any punches on that stuff because for me, it’s always been part of the cultural fabric.

If you go into a cultural commentator, which I am only half of what it used to be. Then everybody’s fair game, including comics, politicians or whatever. So no, I don’t think it’s the comics responsibility to do anything but be funny. I kind of wish they had asked Mark Maren, how do you handle a mosquito in your basement studio? But maybe Mark doesn’t have that problem I do right now.

So Mark Marin is the most popular comedian right now. The least popular comedian right now is, of course, the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno. People are really upset with Jay Leno. All right, who are you going to pick in this fight? Because Rosie O’Donnell took a shot at Jay leto.

You gotta pick. Are you on team Jay or team Rosie? You have to pick. No, you can’t say no, I’m not picking. No, you have to pick.

You can be on team Rosie or you can be on team j. You pick. Rosie from her home in Ireland, as she has abandoned the United States, went on Instagram. She was watching that new Netflix docuseries Fit for TV, The Reality of the Biggest Loser? Have you seen this yet?

Those Little Letterman moved there? Mike chishmem you paid attention. I just did a little dave there. Yeah, that was for you. In one Instagram post, Rosie O’Donnell, who lives in Ireland, shared her disappointment with jay leto the worst person in the world who hosted The Tonight Show successfully for twenty two years.

She’s not happy with his behavior towards the Biggest Loser contestants. She captured her post, j Leno is a meana dot dot dot dot dot. I’m going to guess it rhymed with a glass moole hashtag Biggest Loser documentary. Apparently in the documentary, which I have not watched, one of the contestants recalled appearing quote on a live taping of The Tonight Show. Interesting phrasing.

There did jay do live for live taping? So just say taping or episode live taping? Get out here on a live taping of the Tonight Show where jay Leno read her death threats aloud. I don’t have any additional details there for you see what else happens if I google jay Leno. Yep, a lot of Rosie Ah.

The Independent tells us. In the clip, jay Leno read the death threats. One message threatened to hit the contestant with a card, to which Jay Leno, comedian hosting the Tonight show, said she wants to kill you, but she won’t use a swear word. The contestant has now said, I didn’t know I was a villain until the show aired. Rosie said Jay Leno is a mean a hole.

Again, I’m not sure people understand what the show is and what the job of the ho Don’t worry Jay Leno. By this time next week, you won’t be the worst comedian in the world. That will go to Tony Hinchcliff. Once kill Tony at Madison Square Garden airs on Netflix on Monday. The guests Jim Norton, Mark normand Matt Riche.

The comedy establishment will get mad the Tony Hinchcliff’s kill Tony even exists. I’m mad because I actually have to teach my college class over at Fairley Dickinson. Maybe Adam Sandler will be there, I hope so. And by the time I get home after teaching the college students and lecturing for two and a half hours, I’m exhausted. On Monday Nights, TMZ has video of a woman getting thrown out of a Theo von Schow THEO is playing the Honda Center, home of the Anaheim Ducks.

Apparently a fan got too disruptive. TMZ reports the woman is in a revealing white top as she goes up the stairs, reveling and the crouch jeers with her arms raised above her head. She seems to fake laugh at one of theo’s jokes on the way out. My witnesses told TMZ the woman appeared to be intoxicated and was repeatedly approached by security, who asked her to get off her phone. Eyewitnesses said she was yelling and arguing with security.

We’re trying to be discreet. Sources say THEO stop performing twice to ask what was going on, then politely request did she leave. Sources say THEO even offered to have his assistant refund her ticket if she just left, but she didn’t leave, so security helped her leave. Friend of the show, Dan boobletch Junior shared on Facebook, Hey did you see this? And I hadn’t?

What hadn’t I seen? Helium Coomedy Records are selling their sound recording copyrights. You can find this information on secure dot songvest dot com. The subheadline twelve hundred sound recordings from comedy label Heliumcomedy Records. You can buy these sound recordings right now as I record.

The prices four hundred and fifty thousand dollars if you would like to get into the comedy recording business. The site says the offering contains over twelve hundred sound recordings from spoken word comedy label Helium Comedy Records, featuring such performers as Mary’s Anta, Dustin Nickerson, and Tyler Fischel. Titles are listed via the link below. Now what caught my eye as I looked at the links below. It’s assorted by performers.

I’m sure you see Mary Santora and Dustin Nickerson. I have to make the font bigger. Can’t read these tiny letters. I see Shane Gillis here, who in twenty twenty apparently got sixty six dollars worth of royalties. That’s interesting.

And see who else is on this list that you might know. Sean Patton Ali said, if you’d like to learn more about royalty, there’s all sorts of breakouts as to who is paying what what is being paid. Even if you want to see the top title, which was Caleb Sinan’s Being Poor, I’m trying a new mix. Today, I dropped my daughter at the airport and I was listening back to yesterday’s show, and I thought the show sounded a little basie. Every time I go on a zoom call, the zoom program resets all the levels on my computer.

So what happens here is I have a session so that what you’re hearing right now is now labeled Session DC August twenty twenty five, replacing a similarly named one with July in the title. And I use the same session over and over, so the show sounds the same. But I noticed whatever was going on, the theme music had gotten a little low. My voice has gotten a little basy. I didn’t tweak anything, but I think the zoom did.

So I went back in today and I boosted the music levels a little bit, added a little more high end to my voice, so hopefully it sounds better. I also, when I make the show, I edit on a program called descript, and sometimes that during thing adds some processing. Then I run the whole thing through a program called Aphonic, so that the levels are all over the place, of the highs and lows are kind of even out. And by the time you do all that and you run it through a phone and cart play and you’re driving on a highway. You never really know what it sounds like until you actually hear it.

That’s why when I go get my coffee in the morning, I listen back to myself just to hear how the show sounds. But hopefully this one sounds good. I won’t actually know until tomorrow. If you missed yesterday’s show, I’m now doing an eighth show for the paid subscribers. It is called DCN eight.

It is in the Apple podcast feed. For premium subscribers five bucks a month. You get Daily Comedy News and almost all the other shows on the network ad free. This couple episodes, you don’t get the Plant Lady. We didn’t have a deal with the Plant Lady.

That’s what the deal is there. But everything else commercial free and now in the Daily Comedy News subscriber free. Not only get Daily Comedy News ad free, you’ll get DCNA to where I talk about other stuff. I’m not bow guarding any comedy. I explained that yesterday, I’ll be You might want to check that out.

Over at the Fringe, they have announced the nominees for this year’s Festival Best Comedy Show The nominees are Dan Tiernan’s All In at Night, You Old Mucker, Ian Smith’s Footspa Half Empty, John Totthill, This must be Heaven, Katie Norris, Go West, Old Maid, Sam Jays, We The People, Sam Nick Rossetti’s Babydoomer and Creepy Boys Slugs. They also shared the best Newcomers Now the combination of people being newcomers at the Fringe and listeners to my podcast. I’m gonna guess that then diagram is pretty small, so I’m not gonna read you fifteen names that you don’t know. If you do listen every day, you understand that the Fringe apparently is the worst place on the earth. The Guardian’s headline today the hell of staying in Edinburgh during the Fringe Festival.

Why does anyone go? Victoria Richards wrote, God, how I craved a hotel. But a hotel in Edinburgh in August for two nights was well over one thousand pounds. It wasn’t gonna happen. Student digs might not be so bad, a reasoned, But then I got there and my god, I’d forgotten the smell, that unique odor, the pervasive scent of teenage boy of unwashed socks and unaired rooms, and mold and badly ventilated showers and block toilets with suspiciously wet floors and basement flats without windows.

And I didn’t know you had to actually clean the carpet. This gets even funnier, and I haven’t pre read this. This is great. I just saw a word out of the peripheral vision. Not wishing to spend more than a minute longer inside my damn cell than I had to, I launched myself at the fringe.

The only trouble was Oasis or playing in Edinburgh that weekend. Ohay, sis, you guys ruined the whole comedy festival, You jerks with ther world tour, she writes, which makes the words of one Scottish man even more pertinent. He said locals need to get past too, you know, And look, I get it. I hated English people being in Edinburgh as much as any local, and I was one of the main offenders. Unsightly swarms of summer tourists descending on the city in troves not only drives out the prices for everybody, but it makes walking in the street the simplest of acts, the only one that doesn’t cost a fortune unbearable, if not downright impossible.

Yes, Okay, so listen, lady, don’t come to New York City between October first and February first, because that’s how we feel about the tourist in Times Square. Do you have any idea how much non sidewalk walking I do in New York City that time of year. I’m walking in the street alongside the park cars. I’m a gold medallist jaywalker. Okay, because you guys walk so slow, get off the sidewalk, keep moving.

Why did you stop? Ugh? I Deke rist A Dean McQueen is performing at the Fringe. Voicemag dot co dot UK caught up with Aidan, a stand up comedian from Ireland and a woman who’s been through just enough therapy to monetize her emotional chao. Her one woman show is Waiting for Texto, a play about heartbreak, grief and healing in the age of WhatsApp, yoga and passive aggressive self help memes.

Okay, I’m gonna ask you my daily question, dear listener, are you paying attention? They asked Aidan, if you had the power to change one thing about the Fringe to make it better? What would it be? What do you think? She said, one guess?

You only got one guess correct. She wants subsidize accommodation for artists. It’s the biggest barrier to access and it’s exhausting to make meaningful, radical art. While sharing a damp cupboard with a mime troop, Chortle went to see Jess Robinson show called Your Song. They say the premise cannot be simpler.

A woman of a thousand voices sings the greatest hits of Elton John in the style of various Divaschortle says every track is a banger, but now given a new interpretation. Shakira’s take on sorry seems to be the hardest word as a hit, as is Amy Winehouse’s Tiny Answer and Kate Bush’s Goodbye Yellowrick Road. It’s a little wacky. Yeah, I guess that’s enough for today. That is your comedy news for today.

If you like the program without commercial interruptions, open up Apple Podcasts. Click at the banner. It says uninterrupted listening. You push that and then some stuff will happen and it’ll explain it to you. See tomorrow

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Ryan Murphy, Henry Winkler, Andy Samberg, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien inducted into TV Academy Hall of Fame
• Conan says late night television as known since 1950 will disappear
• Stephen Colbert’s Late Show ending on CBS
• Jimmy Kimmel disputes report of Colbert show losing $40 million annually
• Late night viewership debate: YouTube views vs. traditional TV ratings
• Jimmy Kimmel calls for Colbert Emmy win as statement
• Colbert denied tenth anniversary special on CBS

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. Uh oh, it’s August twentieth. You know what that is. That’s the two minute warning on Johnny Mac’s summer. I’m gonna panic and have to go to the beach ninety five times in the next ten days to Labor Day.

And Labor Day is a pesky Monday, September first, So all of a sudden, it’s gonna be like, hey, back to school. Uh. Conan O’Brien, Oh Hi, I’m Johnny Maack with your daily coming. He was. Conan O’Brien says Late Night TV is going to disappear, but quote people like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away.

I put the spin on light there. I think he said it as a compliments, and I’m not taking a dig at Kobert. I just noticed I put some spin on the sentence that I didn’t need to. Conan talked about all this while being honored at the TV Academy Hall of Fame ceremony. He was inducted as one of the six new members into the Hall of Fame, joining Ryan Murphy among others.

Macpacker Henry Winkler.

Speaking of macpack I’ve been oding on Bash Brothers, the Andy Samberg thing …

It came out like five years ago, and I put it on last week. It’s on Netflix. I’ve been watching it about once a day and playing the soundtrack endlessly. Just go check out Bash Brothers. It’s amazing.

Anyway, Mac Packer, Henry Winkler’s in the Hall of Fame. Now Conan’s in the Hall of Fame. Conan said, you know, people say that television is dying, but I want to ask you, if our industry was really in trouble, would we be gathered right now for our greatest night in a downtown Los Angeles Marriott on a weekend in August. No, Conan O’Brien joked, things are changing fast. I don’t claim to know the future of our beloved medium, but I know this, Getting the privileged to play around with an hour of television has been the great joy of my professional career.

We’re having this event now at a time where there’s a lot of fear about the future of television, and rightfully so. The life we’ve all known for almost eighty years is undergoing seismic change. But this might just be my nature. I choose not to mourn what is lost, because I think, in the most essential way, what we have is not changing at all. Streaming changes the pipeline, but the connection, that talent, the ideas that come in our homes.

I think that’s as quotent as ever. We have proof here tonight the elephant in the room CBS ending the Late Show with Colbert Conan said, yes, late night television as we have known it since around nineteen fifty is going to disappear. But those voices aren’t going anywhere. People like Steven Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away. It’s not going to happen.

He’s not going anywhere. Steven is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he controls completely. I had an idea that’ll never happen. It was recently the anniversary of the Larry Sanders show What If Colbert, And remember in the past, Colbert played a character called Stephen Colbert. What If Colbert went to HBO and did a new take on the Larry Sanders Show.

So it’s about what happens to quote unquote Stephen Colbert as he gets a quote unquote late night show on streaming. That could be fun, but that’s not what he’s going to do. That was my idea. Jimmy Kimmel is calling a hogwash on this insider report claiming that Colbert’s Late Show was losing paramount forty million dollars a year. Kimmel pointed as ever, said, there’s just not a snowballs chance in hell that’s anywhere near accurate.

All Right, that’s pretty clear he has more. The idea that Steven Colbert’s show is losing forty million dollars a year’s beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders who supposedly analyze the budgets of the shows. I don’t know who they are, but I do know they don’t know what they’re talking about. I would imagine Jimmy Kimmel has pretty good insight into the finances of a late night show.

Maybe the real estate New York versus LA is different. Maybe Colbert’s show has eighty five times as many staffers who have even better benefits. You know, could be stuff like that. But if Colbert is saying forty million dollars a year is not realistic, he’s gotta be in the ballpark. Right.

Kimmel explained AD revenue is only one way shows make money, and that affiliate fees can also make a show profitable. It’s really surprising how little the media seems to know about how the media works. Yeah, like, if you want to be an ABC affiliate, you got to like sign up and I guess pay some money to the ABC’s I recently saw some TV stations stopped being affiliates. Let me see if I can find that story real quick. Yeah, here’s from the Hollowood Reporter in March.

Disney said the Thursday in March that WPLG, the South Florida TV station owned by Berkshire Hathway for the last eleven years, would be losing its ABC affiliation later this summer. That I think has now happened more from Kimmel. Suddenly he’s losing forty million dollars a year. I’ll tell you, in the first ten years I did the show, they claim we weren’t making any money, and we had five times as many viewers on ABC as we do now. Who knows what’s true.

I have to say, if Joe Biden had used his muscle to get Sean Hannity kicked off the air. You may be surprised to learn that I would not support that. In fact, I would support Sean Hannity in that situation because I thought one of the founding principles of this country was free speech. But people don’t seem to care about protecting it unless you agree with them. Kim Well declared this.

I don’t know about this, Jimmy said. More if people are watching late night television than ever before, including during Carson’s era, our monologues get between two and five million views, sometimes more. Every night. Seth Meyers gets two million on YouTube alone. We’re not even talking about Instagram or the other platforms.

The show John Stewart on a Monday night, we’ll get five million views. Then you add in the TV ratings. So the idea that late night is dead is simply untrue. Yes, but the idea that an eleven thirty show losing money is dead, that is true. I mean, if you guys want to just sit home and stream monologues, sure you’ll get views.

And what’s the monetization on a YouTube video versus network television. Jimmy, I mean, I’d pro late night here, but I do understand you have to be realistic about the money and to say like, oh, people are watching Seth Meyers on YouTube. Yeah, that’s nice. Kimmel wants you to vote for Colbert instead of Kimmel for the Emmys. He told Variety, it seems like voting for Steven is the least we could do at this point, and I think it’ll be a nice statement if he does win.

Obviously, awards don’t mean much, but every once in a while they do, and in this case that they get will No, it won’t. The headline will be Stephen Colbert wins Emmy, and then there’ll be articles like haha, CBS, your stupid faces, see what you did. And the show is still canceled. It doesn’t matter at all. All that said, sure, let’s give Stephen Colbert an Emmy.

Seems like a good guy. I’ve previously said if I were the Democrats, I’d get on the phone and call him. But the show’s not coming back. It’s done. It is an X show, it is deceased.

It is no more Late Nighter. Reports Kobert will not get a tenth anniversary special on CBS. That makes sense to me. It’s a dead show walking again. If you do a tenth anniversary special, No one’s gonna go, oh, those guys at CBS are cool.

They’re just gonna say, look at those idiots at CBS and now they’re doing a tenth anniversary special. What jerks they are? So yeah, you’re not getting a ten anniversary special. Sorry, all right, Enough with the late night Friend of the Show, Jen Marcos Soireesi. There was a podcasting expert quote unquote expert who wrote a big article about how you’re not supposed to say friend of the show or friend of the pod.

Why not? Why not? Gianmarco Soresi’s been on twice, seems to like me. His publicist definitely likes maybe treat notes all the time, So sure, Friend of the Show. Gianmarco Soresi Soiressi is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of his first full length comedy special, Fief of Joy, that’ll be on his YouTube channel September nineteenth.

Thief of Joy blenched on Marco’s signature theatrical flare with deeply personal storytelling. Drawing from his life as a theater kid turned to theater major. He weaves together intimate anecdotes about his relationship, career, and parents divorce, all delivered in the animated style the New York Times called silkly feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation. Was that you, Jason Zinneman who wrote that phrase? I’m pretty sure if I google that exact phrase, that’ll come up right.

Let’s see who wrote that? Yes, that was Friend of the Show. Oh, I said Friend of the show again. I’m going to get a note from the podcasting expert Jason Zinneman. December one, twenty twenty three, New York Times.

Yep says here comic who alternates between silkily feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation. Love it. See I’m not good enough for the New York Times. My review would be like, Yeah, he was really funny. That’s why I’m podcasting in the basement.

Friend of the Show third time, Jason Zinneman. He’s writing for the New York Times. People who went to see Shane Gillis says Shane has a new opening video montage. It features clips of the Philadelphia Eagles defeating the Kansas City Chiefs. The montage includes a hit to the face of Patrick Mahomes.

Interestingly enough, the Chiefs and Eagles played each other week two. A lot of Pete Davison stuff lately, all coming from his interview with Charlemagne. What’s making headlines this week is Pete talking about how I canceled buck Guss and I got in trouble for it because I didn’t I love that show. I love doing buck Guss at a blast. Just got to a point where I really got tired of my whole career just being my personal life and living through that is sort of traumatic.

Not to be lame, but it’s traumatic to live in your own crap all the time. Pete said the show’s direction changed when a new collaborator stepped in. Pete says, this new person came in and was like, I think Pete should be banging Martha Stewart this season. I think Pete should have more mental issues. And I was like, oh, but I wouldn’t do that.

And then we’re like, well, Pete the character would, and I was like, I can’t do this. I was like, if I want any shot and being in real movies being seen a certain way, I just can’t play myself all the time and be this sack A at NBC react, they were not pleased. Have you seen me in any NBC Universal projects? Since they were upset, I cost people jobs, and I took care of the writer’s room and anyone who to get paid that needed to. I took care of it, which also hurt.

But it’s funny you work for company over a decade. Pretty sure. I brought in a lot of money, worked hard on the show as a good boy, like promoting it and whatnot. Made me realize. Yes, everything I’m about to tell you that Pete said, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, It made me realize about the business.

No one actually cares about you. Studios, networks, they don’t really care about you. They want you to do the thing, which I get. And that’s all good. But there was a time when it wasn’t.

Seems like the New York Comedy Festival took my note. I mean, this was probably the plan already, but the original lineup, I was like, that’s it. Eh. Well, the new headline twenty twenty five New York Comedy Festival ads one hundred plus shows featuring Chris Gethard, Mitel Lane, Hannibal Burrs, Erica Rhodes, John Goblecan and Moore. Now now even that the one hundred plus show sounds cool, even those five names Getherared Matteo Hannibal Erica OWDs, John Goblcan those are not like you know, you know, I’m not reading you.

New York Comedy Festival ads Jim Gaffig and Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, Shane Gillis, and whoever else you want to said like they’re nice and they’re leading with Gethard, Who’s nice. Highlights include Right Now with John GOBLECN on November seventh, The Magicians of Magic November ninth and tenth. These are the highlights of the New York Comedy Festival. By the way, I didn’t write the press release they did that show hosted by Chris Gethard November twelfth, New York’s Funniest Stand Ups on the twelfth, Comics to Watch, Jay McBride does a half hour that’s the title of j McBride show, Jays Fantastic Mateo, Nick Smith on the fourteenth, Monsters of Tokyo on the fifteenth, Hannibal Burus and Friends on the sixteenth in Brooklyn, Rika Rhodes Pushing Up Daisies at UCB on the sixteenth, and Ricky Valez on the sixteenth. Previously announced headliners for this year’s festival include Hannah Berner, Michael Blaxon, The Not So Canceled, Louis C.K.

Margaret Show, Alex Edelman, Chris Fleming, Pete Holmes, Morgan Jay Ismo, Ryan Long, Nurse, John Joheyesponder, Paul Denello and Amy Sedaris and Trevor Wallace. So let me just summarize this. So basically, the New York Comedy Festival is Louis C.K. Pete Holmes, and then who were putting third Hannibal burs Oh Strangers with Candy with Stephen Colbert’s on this one? Okay, so rephrasing this year’s at New York Comedy Festival is what Stephen Colbert, Louis C.K.

Pete Holmes, and Hannibal Burris, A bit of a drop this year in Saint Louis. Now, now here’s a lineup for you. In Saint Louis, they’ve announced the Flyover Comedy Festival. We’ll be back. Flyover is in November thirteen to the sixteen, so that’s probably right after New York in Saint Louis.

It features more than one hundred and fifty comedians across ten stages. Headliners include The Not So Canceled Disease I’m sorry, and somebody who I think might actually low key quietly be sailing along who right now might be the best comedian in the game, John did you just say that about who you didn’t name yet? I did you know who might really, low key if you pay attention, be pound for pound the funniest out there right now. And it’s also one of the headliners of the Flyover Comedy Festival. You know what name I’m going to say to you, and I want you to ponder it over the break.

Kyle Kanaan, Did you ponder mi Kyle Kanaan declaration? Think about it? He’s really good? Wyn’t you comment? The Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

Hey, Johnny Mac actually watched some comedy specials? I know, right? Yeah? Was this? Was it Friday night or Saturday night?

After I went tubing? Was some night I was too tired to do anything. Let’s see what did I put on first? I think I’d put on Devin Walker’s special because the buzz was good and I watched it. I think he’s a writer.

I think the materials there. I don’t think he’s a good stand up comedian performer, says the guy recording a podcast in his basement about the guy on Saturday Night Live. The Chris Rock joke, which we’ve previously talked about, is fantastic, But I don’t know. The special just didn’t feel like it was there when I switched over to Ralph Barbosa on Hilarious And by the way, what happens too Hilarious when it merges with Disney’s It’s still hilarious or is it going to be dislanarious? Not my problem because the pulp says won’t tell me anyway, Barbosa, this is one of those specials that I think civilians are gonna be like, oh, that was good, and comedy snobs like me are like, eh, it was fine.

Like I didn’t dislike it. I think I liked it better than the reviews I had seen about it, you know, because I went in there going O, everybody said this wasn’t good, and I thought it was better than that. But like, it just wasn’t. There wasn’t anything special, and I’m a snaps. I moved on and then I put on Chinnadoo Auka.

He’s part of the Kevin Hard Lol whatever on Hulu. That specials good. He’s really funny. Let’s keep an eye on him, and he might show up on Comedy stock Market this week. Out of the three I just mentioned, I really like that one.

Haven’t watched Jim Jeffries yet because I really like Jim Jeffries and I have high expectations going in and I was just tired, and then I wanted to check out the new Alien show, which brings me to new thing. Okay, give me a minute here and then we’ll get back to the comedy. I started a new thing. It’s called DCN eight. What’s that?

So you hear me from time to time trying to upsell premium subscriptions to Caloroga Shark Media, And you know what, it’s doing pretty well for us. You get this show and a bunch of others, including five Good News Stories, which I host, and Palace Intrigue, which is our big show, and you get those commercial free for five bucks a month. So for like five bucks a month, you get just about everything on the network ad free. There’s like a minor exception. There’s like one thing.

It doesn’t matter. If I was speaking casually, I would use the word all, but technically it’s not all, But like you know, anyway, I digress. Five bucks a month. It’s all commercial free. So I’m like, you know what, I want to just give the people who do that something extra, and I’m trying to figure out what it is.

So I dropped an episode yesterday of DCN eight. What I don’t want to do is I don’t want to be a jerk and be like, hey, I got a cool comedy story, but I’m not doing it unless you give me five bucks. So all the comedy stuff stays exactly how it’s been for seven years now, not changing it. I’m not going to be like, hey, I’m going to tell you my favorite specials of the air, but you got any five bucks. That’s not what this is.

That’s not at all what this is. So I dropped an episode and I talked about my trip to Niagara over the weekend, my tubing trip. Then I went to Niagra Falls, some stuff I did there. Then I talked about Taylor Swift, Alien Earth and Star Trek Strange New Worlds. So, like I’ve said four times, I’m not siphoning off comedy stories.

I don’t want to do that. But it’s just something extra and hopefully another reason to encourage you to be like, all right, I’ll spore the show five bucks. I’m on the commercial free it’s in the feed. I’m not putting rules on it. I don’t know what I’m going to talk about on it yet.

It’ll find its voice, like any new project, give me like a month and I’ll be like, oh, that’s what this should be. But I just was yesterday. I jumped in the pool. It’s got a cool, new snazzy theme song that I like. It’s like an inexcess vibe.

So to get that on Apple Podcast, click the bander that says uninterrupted listening. If you have already done that, you can find the show in your feed. And if you just want to try it out, there’s a thirty day free trial. So if you want to try out this commercial for everything, take the free trial. But I’m telling you today’s August twentieth.

It’s on you to remember, like September eighteenth to nineteenth, to cancel the thing if you don’t want it to renew, because if it renews, Johnny Mac gets five bucks. Actually Johnny make gets three bucks. Apple gets two bucks. But that’s a whole other thing. Okay, So that’s dcnight.

If you’re on Apple Podcast and you’re a premium subscriber. You’ll find it in the feed. Jordan Jensen, we’ll get a Netflix special on September ninth, her first hour specials called Take Me with You. In a statement, Jensen said, being a person is humiliating and grotesque. I’m not sure why we’re all pretending it’s adorable or palatable in any way, but that sounds hilarious.

Out today on the Comedy Exports YouTube channel at nine a m. Central Time, Love the Randomness and a three pm British time. It mentions Kai Humphries Mischief is out. Cherry and Spoon were at the Minnesota Fringe. So this isn’t the horrible Edinburgh one where you’re like, why am I even here?

Hotels are so expensive and nobody comes to my show and Oasis ruined everything. No, it’s not that one. This is the Minnesota one where people are probably Minnesota nice. Terry and Spoon went to see The Gentleman’s Pratfall Club summary. An actor tries to learn how to fall down for his audition to be TV’s new Captain Clumsy.

Love it the description There’s really nothing funnier than watching the comedy suitcase guys throw their bodies around the theater in the service of comedy. This reviewer says, it’s the hardest I’ve laughed in ten days. Why is it? The people falling down are so funny somehow, even more when it’s on purpose. The plot of the show is that Walter is a struggling actor going for one last edition for a show is not even into He just thinks it’s a good way to go on TV.

There were slaps, trips, getting tangled up in chairs. It’s good old fashioned physical comedy. That’s funny in any era, for all ages. That sounds fun It’s the gentleman’s prat fall Club.

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Meanwhile, over in Edinburgh, where Everybody’s miserable fringe voice caught…

Andy’s one man show, Baxter Versus the Bookies, recounts the fluctuating fortunes of a down trodden horse raiding tipster who pits his close up knowledge of horses against the flashy statistics of the online bookies, comedy and pathos. Hopefully Andy’s approach to the fringe. He said, I used to drink at the Penny Black till five am and still do two shows nowadays. My doctors told me to give up smoking and drinking or die. So this will be my first totally sober and nicotine free festival.

It’s going to be crystal clear. The Horror. Top advice for an artist considering the Horrible Fringe where everybody’s miserable, He says, like with betting, only do it if you could afford to lose. Edinburgh Festival is criminally expensive. Now if you listen every day, see if you can answer the question before I tell you the answer.

They asked him, if you could change one thing about the festival, what would it be? Do you know what I’m going to say? Do you know what he said? That’s right? No search pricing on accommodation or travel during the festival.

Why do people go? All? Right? That is your comedy news for today again, if you would like to program with that commercial interruption Apple podcast banner on a interrupted listening and now you get DCN eight with it. So check that out, SAE tomorrow

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Featured: Dusty Slay, Jeff Ross, Des Bishop, Brad Williams, Pete Davidson, Rob Beckett

What’s in This Episode

• Dusty Slay on tipping culture becoming obligatory rather than appreciative
• Monty Python drama: John Cleese disputes Eric Idle’s communication claims
• Jeff Ross opens Broadway show ‘Take a Banana for the Road’ on August 19
• Des Bishop discusses returning to New York and comedic influences
• Brad Williams on 21-year journey to overnight success at Palace Theater
• Pete Davidson on unintended tabloid fame and sexualization from SNL era
• Rob Beckett crashes Mick Jagger’s 82nd birthday party via Jimmy Carr

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media preach Dusty Sleigh. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News on Twitter or x whatever it is. Dusty Sleigh wrote, I worked for tips on and off for over a decade. I love tipping, but tipping is out of control now. I’ll stop right there.

Yes, I mean yes, you live in America, right, or maybe don’t live in America. But if you live in America, you go anywhere you go get fast food, like, can we have a tip? I buy a smoothie, like can have a tip? No, Dusty Sleigh rights, When I go to a restaurant, I tip because that’s how they make their living. Everywhere else, I tip to show my appreciation for someone’s hard work.

But now tips are expected everywhere and it no longer shows appreciation if it’s just out of obligation. I don’t have the answer here. I’m just at the airport again. I got coffee in the water and it costs me ten bucks. I tip twenty percent and that’s two dollars.

Then I got food and it was twenty dollars, and I tipped five dollars because that guy did a lot of running around for me. The coffee shop worker barely did anything. I don’t mind tipping, but it just seems like every purchase I make a tip is expected. I would love to give tips, but when it’s expected, it’s not even appreciated. On the same Twitter timeline, the very next tweet was from John Clees The Python’s not getting along again.

Clees tweeted Eric Idol’s been complaining again that Python communications to him have been delayed. Fans may be interested to know that this could be because he refuses to accept any communications that are sent to him except through his lawyers. That slows it down a bit. Jeff Ross made his grand opening last night with Take a Banana for the Road. His Broadway show previews had begun on August fifth.

Last night was the proper opening. Take a Banana for the Road was named after his grandfather’s advice for traveling. The one man show follows Jeff Ross’s upbringing in New Jersey before earning the nickname Roastmaster. General Friday says Jeff uses humor and song to reflect on many not so funny topics, like losing his parents at a young age, as well as losing Bob Sackett, Gilbert Gottfried and Norm MacDonald in quick successions. In recent years, he’s accompanied by a giant led screen and a two piece orc.

Jeff said, I always want to do something extra. I’ve seen some Broadway shows that felt like breakfast and lunch, but I didn’t quite get dinner. I wanted this to feel like a full meal. I need a little schmaltz in my life. Before the first preview performance, Jeff said, I couldn’t sleep the night before, which was a good sign, but I wasn’t nervous.

There was a guy on the front row with his feet on the stage and his wife was on her phone. Her phone went off, and I’m like, oh, this is like any other gig. No phone’s gonna throw me off. Des Bishop at Oldhampton’s dot com. I spent most of my career in Ireland, so now that I’m back living in New York full time, it’s been fun to flip the outside of point of view I had in Ireland and throw that glance at the US.

Plus I get to explore the nostalgia of my childhood in a way I couldn’t in Ireland because those references wouldn’t have resonated with them. His influences. He says, when I first became aware of stand up, it was because of the popularity of Eddie Murphy. My friends and I watched Delirious and Raw on repeat and could recite the jokes to anyone who would listen. I think those of us at a certain age could probably do half of Raw off the top of our heads.

Like seriously, Des says, when I started stand up, I was really into Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and Chris Irish. Comics that people over here wouldn’t be as familiar with, like Dylan Moran and Tommy Chounan also inspired me in my early career. Now I just enjoy good bits when I see them. Social meeting is a blessing and a curse in our world, but one of the great things is the broad amount of people you get to see that I would never have been exposed to in the past. Brad Williams spoke to The Daily Gazette and said, people might think I’m gonna go on stage and say I could take a bath in a thimble, and that’s weird.

The audience will laugh, but think he’s not gonna be anything much beyond that. I would say having good sets and showing people that I’m a good name. It’s only taking me twenty one years to become an overnight sensation at the Palace Theater in Alby. There are really smart comedians out there that talk about what’s going on and of really intelligent, insightful jokes about the whole situation. I’m not that one.

My job is to tell jokes and make everyone come together and realize we’re not all that different. You’re sitting there watching my show. Everyone’s laughing. No one cares about race. No one cares you voted for, No one cares what race you are.

We lay down with you right too, no one. No one worries about that. Everyone’s at the same place at the same time. All of us have the same thoughts. Wow, this guy is funny.

Soup Connor whispers in the street gossip Conn, probably about Pete gossip Conn. Aware the rumors meet with Johnny Mac. It’s always a tree gossip. Connor whispers this tree gossip corn, probably Pe gossip Cone. Where the room is meeting with Johnny mags all in the tree and gossip corner is probably about Pete.

Pete Davidson was on with Charlemagne, the God and talked about bringing pop culture to SNL and making it a quote tabloidy trendy thing unintentionally. Pete said, I was embarrassed by it because no one talked about any work I was doing. They were just like, oh, there’s the uh F stick and that hurts so much. Urla Maine was confused and was like, you were banging a lot of hot chicks and had a ten inch you know. Pete says on paper that might sound great, but in reality he wasn’t happy with being sexualized by the public and was uncomfortable and explains he’s not the most handsome celebrity out there.

Quoting Pete, Pete said, it’s embarrassing because you know, it’s Hollywood. Everyone haves. Ever, why are they focusing on me. I don’t want to victimize myself in any way because I’m cool, but the sexualization of me. If that was a girl, people would be like, there’d be a march for it.

Seriously, you’re just talking about my thing all day. He was asked how the big energy started. Pete said, I’d think it was like the New York Times or something when I started dating someone that I guess they considered it out of my league, which I think everyone is out of my league, but you know, they were like this guy must have big energy, and then someone confirmed it, like not to be lame, but it’s traumatic to live in your own cramp all the time.

Also on Gossip Corner, Rob Beckett, you know him from was it l Last One Stand…

What was that? The Amazon show that I liked? You think i’d know the name of it? That one? Rob Beckett revealed he was quote frog marched, had of Mick Jagger’s eighty second birthday party.

Here’s some name dropping. How did Rob Beckett get to Mick Jagger’s eighty second birthday party? He was Jimmy Cars plus one and they had just left the Oasis concert. We’re told Rob Beckett had enjoyed several dreams and found himself partying with Ronnie Wood, you know from the Rolling Stones, at swanky Chelsea night club, the Rex Rooms. He told the Parenting Hell podcast.

It was a tiny little back room and Mick Jagger was there, obviously a lot of his ex wives and children from his ex wives, Sasha Baron Cohen, Ronnie Wood. It was really nice. They were really chatty and hospitable. The music was quite loud. I said hello to Mick Jagger.

I didn’t properly chat to him because there was another separate room that had him in it with Sasha Baron Cohen. Then I was like, I’ve had six pints of lager, two espresso martinis, and I’d say a bottle and a half of rose and just been to the best gig of my wife and I’m there with a Vakan soda. After being on a motorbike chatting to Ronnie Wood and Sally Wood and Jimmy Carr and I’m just talking about absolute to crap, rob decided to leave and was helped on his way by four security guards. He said, I got like frog marched out by four people that were holding on to me. Maybe I got kicked out.

I don’t know. They were walking me out. They’re like extracting me like I’m a rolling stone and there’s ten thousand people trying to grab me. He woke up in the morning to a text from his new friend ron Wood and said, that was one of the most mental nights of my life. All right, that one was fun.

This next one on Gossip Corner kind of serious from NBC four Los Angeles. They reported Paul Rodriguez was arrested at a Burbank restaurant on suspicion of misdemeanor narconics possession. A woman was arrested on suspicion of drug possession, and after searching the car, police arrested Rodriguez on suspicion of misdemeanor possession of narconics. Law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles that police found xanax and suspected fentanyl in the car. Rodriguez denied that the drugs were his, according to police.

NBC reports. Jail records indicated Rodriguez was cited and released on the next morning. Now back in March, Rodriguez had been arrested at a traffic stop near Victory Boulevard in Burbank. He was a passenger in a car in which the Burbank Police said narcotics were discovered. Rodriguez told TMZ the drugs did not belong to him.

In November of last year, a friend of Rodriguez died at his home in a drug rotate fatality. The cause of death was due to the effects of fentanyl. Sounds like a very very serious situation and nothing to joke about. On the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube channel seven pm Central Time. It’s TJ Miller the Philosophy Circus.

I like TJ. TJ’s comedy is a lot of fun. There’s been some colorful things on his personal resume, but his comedy’s fun. And kind of hung out with him in Chicago million years ago one night, I think, especially at a show. I think we hung out.

After my memory gets foggy, but I feel like I was at a show and TJ was up there with the guy who played the janitor on Scrubs. He was in a show. Anyway, I digress this Fringe man, What is going on with the Fringe? From the scotsman? Barry Ferns, who’s been performing at Fringe for twenty five years, why do you keep going if it’s so terrible, wrote in an open letter to the organizers that there needs to be fairness in the awards, pointing to the difference between performers with teams of ten technical staff, producers and marketing budget and solo artists.

Barry, can you write the same letter to the podcast industry? Thank you? The awards, which according to this article are known as the Oscars of Comedy. Not sure I’ve ever heard that phrase before, but what do I know? Have four categories including Best Comedy Show, the Victoria Would Award, the Best Newcomer Award, and the Comedy Hall of Fame.

Nika Burns Is, the director of the awards, wrote a response saying whether an act is unrepresented or represented is not a consideration. Mister Ferns wrote, mister Ferns is just funny because it makes me think of mister Burns. Mister Ferns wrote, one of these two acts a show for to the start line, fresh and focus. The other ask to run to the stadium just to be allowed to compete. And when they finally get there, they discover it’s not the one hundred meter sprint everyone else is running, but the hurdles, and they’re still expected to be just as fast.

They’ve been flying their own path through the city and the rains, Sorting their own press releases, funding the whole thing from savings or debt, without the hope of selling enough tickets to recoup it even if they sell out. Designing their own poster is, finding and managing their own flyers, booking their own venue, often collapsing into bed each night, too tired or we work a joke, let alone pitch to a journalist. Don’t go this sounds horrible. Every single day I’m reading you, folks an article about how the Fringe is a nightmare. Why does anyone do it?

Fern’s show is called My Seven Years is Lionel Richie. It’s about how performing at Fringe over decades left him bankrupt. What are we doing? Chortle wants to go see Dusty Creases Dance your Life Away. They wrote this could be an introvert’s worst nightmare and personally not my first choice for a fun time.

Well, there’s a review. Dusty Creases presents an hour heavy on physical participation, in which you’re asked to jump to your feet every few minutes to join in the moves. The dance teacher character just demonstrated, no, I’m with the reviewer. I just want to sit there. I don’t want to get up.

That show’s at the Pleasant Stome if you want to go. Voice mag has been speaking with some of the performers there. One is Jos Norris. Jozz’s show is called You Wait, Time passes. In it, I will finally unveil my life’s work, my secret project, which I’ve been secretly working on for thirty years.

I’ve done nothing but imagine this moment for three decades. What will it feel like? How will people react? What treasures will they heap upon me when they realize that’s what I’ve been sitting on this whole time. They asked him about his approach to the fringe, same message here.

Why are we going? Jaws says, It’s not possible to treat the fringe lightly anymore. It used to be possible to go up, not spend much money, experiment a bit, and come away having learned a lot. It’s now much more of a place where you invest in your career by showcasing a product. Because of that, I no longer think of it as doing the fringe.

I now think it’s a secondary concern, and the main focus is to make good work you’re passionate about, and to make that in its own time and its own pace.

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And then when a thing you’re making is good enough to go okay, maybe it’s tim…

That results in taking a show up every two to three years rather than annually. If you had the power to change one thing about the Fringe, what would it be Reduce the rents. We hear this every sale article. What’s the best, worst, or weirdest review you ever received? Just said I made a show years ago which started with me frying a plastic gag.

It ended with me dressing up a sharp and floating out to see. Halfway through it, I urinated skittles into a jar. One review described the show as being unrelatable, and it really made me wonder what they thought I was going for, as though they thought the skittle bit, I was secretly thinking, hope other people have had this experience too. That is really funny, Josh Norris, You wait, time passes at the pleasant Stome And since that’s a good laugh, let’s get out there. That is your comedy news for today.

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Everybody’s talking about Taylor Swift today. Five good news stories which I better record some right now where that show’s not going to exist at all. I have none left in the can. That’s the very next thing I’m doing right now. What else we got?

Trivia five Daily Trivia Questions, Palace entry, talk about the Royals, Megan Markle all that uninterrupted listening banner on the Apple Podcast app. See tomorrow

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