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Featured: Maz Jobrani, Bob Oden Kirk, John Oliver, Jennifer Friedman, Michelle Wolf, Sam Jay, Josh Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Colbert Gate and late-night show cancellations
• Comedians’ role in political satire during Trump administration
• Border security incident with political comedian Jennifer Friedman
• Future of late-night television and comedy platforms
• John Oliver on weaponized attention and immigration anxiety
• Iranian-American perspective on religion and politics in democracy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, they’re Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Master Brownnie caught up with the ABC, you know, not the American Broadcasting Corporation whatever, the Australian one is called that ABC, and they started talking about Colbert Gate, and Mos said, I love Colbert. I get my news from Colbert. He makes the news fun. I knew that Trump was gonna come after the late night talk show hosts, but I didn’t think it was going to be this way, where their own companies can them.

I thought Trump would maybe send the irs out to audit them or something, just make their lives hard. Because Trump, unfortunately doesn’t have a sense of humor. He doesn’t have to take a joke, which is what dictatorships usually are like. The job of the comedian is to reveal the emperor has no clothes. I think we need to keep doing that.

If we don’t, we’re gonna lose our democracy. I always say, the whole point of America is I can make fun of the president in America. I couldn’t make fun of the president of Iran. That wouldn’t work. We’re slowly seeing, maybe even fastly seeing, the American democracy crumble, and I think now it falls on our shoulders more and more as comedians to make fun of Trump and poke at him.

For my entire life in America, I’ve had to explain Iran. I just try to find funny ways to explain to people what I’m feeling. Like I say, I wish it were Swedish, because you were Swedish, you wouldn’t have to explain anything, right, you just talk about a Kia and Abba. Being Iranian has been a challenge, but it’s also obviously giving me plenty of material because I’ve been able to try and present people from Iran and other people from that part of the world, hopefully in a positive light versus what you see when they show us in the news. I worked with Mas at the Montreal Comedy Festivals.

All my stories now fifteen twenty years old. Yeah, boy, it’s got to be fifteen. Cool guy. I really enjoyed my time with him. Ma says, I grew up in America, so I always say that I’m not in Iran, but Iran is in me.

I feel an affinity towards the country of Iran. I feel an affinity towards the Socrates when they play I feel an affinity towards the people. The Iranian people are some of the most hospitable people. It is a place in my heart. Iran is a cautionary tale of what happens when you mix religion with politics, and currently living in America, we’re moving closer to becoming the Christian Republic of America is the Islamic Republic of Iran.

When I do a show, I have people of all backgrounds, all religions in the room. We’re laughing together and we’re humanizing each other. You get a room, We’re have a Palestinian, you have a Jew, you have a Muslim, people from different backgrounds and we’re laughing together, and then people realize, oh, he’s human. I’m human like Maz a lot. Good guy.

Bob oden Kirk is optimistic about comedy’s future. He tells Din of Geek, I’m not that worried. With the Internet and YouTube and all the streamers. There’s more comedy than there ever was, and there’s more platforms and opportunities than there ever was. They tend to pay less, but then they pay something and there’s more of them, so that’s good.

I think the biggest challenges can make a very good show now and almost nobody sees it because there’s too much to sample. The industry kind of does this journey of expanding and contracting, expanding and contracting. So possibly we’re going to contract a little bit. But I love how many platforms there are and how much variety we can see. As for Late Night, he says, some version of Late Night will continue.

It’s terrible what happened with Colbert, but I also feel I understand it. There’s a lot of late night shows that are very similar to each other, and I can see how much is online now. A lot of my viewing is online, so I understand that it’s going through these changes. I’m okay with it. There’s gonna be a lot of opportunity for us.

John Oliver was on Monica Lewinsky’s podcast last week. John said, with all these stories going on, it brings something out of you, like it’s there that anxiety that I thought i’d moved past the day I got my citizenship. John feels like attention is now being weaponized and that he himself can get sent back to the anxiety he felt for a very long time, very quick. It’s not far from the surface, and it does feel personal. It’s one of the things I get really mad about, and therefore I want to use our show to show Americans who may have heard things like come in the right way, just do things the right way, and not fully understand just how antithetical that is to the process that actually exists.

Weirdly, in the Trump administration’s defense, they said all this out loud. I think it’s very convenient for people not to believe it, because then it feels like you could vote for them and think, yeah, sure, I voted for you, but I didn’t vote for that. For people being chased across fields. Well, no, you did, though, because they again I can’t believe I’m defending them. They did say this, they said all of it.

You just chose not to believe it. The Guardian caught up with Jennif Friedman, Michelle Wolf and Sam Jay. They’re at the fringe. The headline in The Guardian it felt like a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale. US comics on the dangers of political satire.

You now, before we get into the story, whatever you think of the politics of the story, that is the perception of the United States around the world right now. Again, the subheader US comics on the dangers of political satire. In The Guardian, they dusted off a story I told you about earlier in the year from Jennif Friedman. I’ll fly through it quickly. She’s in the Vancouver airport.

She’s heading home to the US. Someone she thought worked for airport security asked about her visit. She said, I was doing comedy. Then he asked, what do you joke about. I lightly flirted with him and was like everything other than airport’s security.

He didn’t react at all. Then I realized he was border control. He asked again, what did you joke about. I froze because I’m a political comedian I know to say. Then he said, do you joke about politicians?

The Guardian rights she made it home, but the incident stuck with her. She tells The Guardian it did feel like a scene out of The Handmaid’s Tale. I’m a blonde, white woman who looks like a Republican’s wife, and I have an American passport. But what if I had said, yes, don’t we want to live in a country where you can joke about politicians, or we can joke about anything. Michelle Wolfe lives in Barcelona.

These days, We’re told she’s yet to encounter border trouble, but with reports of people with green cards and citizens being detained, she says, I’m keeping an eye on it. She says, I feel like I have to address the whole America and Trump thing. People expect me to say something about it. I don’t like making it a large part of my set because it bores me. There’s always something crazy happening, but it’s hard to come up with creative angles other than that.

Can you believe this? Sam Jay says? How did we get here as Americans? Of course, I think race plays a large part in it, and how did these race relations get to the way they are? Not just blaming white people, but exploring the type of white people we’re dealing with and why they might be the way they are their roots in England.

She says, of Trump, he’s the symptom of this, not the cause. This is a result of years and years of us doing it wrong. It’s been building for a long time and a lot of different reasons. Sam Jay says, the mood in America chaos. There’s no way to keep up.

People are also very desensitized. Stuff just keeps happening in more extreme ways that people are losing a metric for it. The Guardian asks what does the future hold for US comedians Jennifer and says it’s too soon to tell, but I think everybody exercising the US First Amendment in a way that’s funny disarming is really important right now. I feel that article is a little alarmist. The BBC asked Josh Johnson or the things about the Internet that were you in terms of yourself as a comedian.

Josh said, I think as lot as I stick to the attitudes I have now and the things are doing now, I don’t have much to worry about. At some point after you realize what is yours and what is not. When you’re becoming known for the first time, you might trick yourself into thinking it’s just because of you, but really it’s a moment. I think that what you do with that moment is very important. If you handle it well and carry yourself well, then you can establish yourself for a long time.

It’s not as if the most popular comedians we reference when we think about stand up comedy were flashing the pan. We think about the people who stayed. I think they stayed because of what was built around them and what they did with it. In Los Angeles Today, the Brody Stevens Festival of Friendship a benefit in honor of the late to Brody Stevens, who passed away in twenty nineteen. The event raises money and awareness for comedy gives back at the Comedy Store tonight at eight o’clock.

Bill Burr, Robbie Hoffman, eleanor Kerrigan, Dean Delray, Dan Levy, and Doug Bentson all confirmed to attend. Paul Reiser is getting a sitcom with Fox untitled. The comedy series follows the dysfunctional fallout after the family has failed to launch twenty something. Sun is forced to work alongside his father, Paul Reiser in the less than glamorous New Jersey damaged goods business that sounds terrible. Just show a football game, guys.

Bob Newhart will be honored in September. North Sheridan Road between Ardmore and Thorndale will be renamed for Bob Newhart. He used to live in a condo over there. Friday September fifth, which would have been Newhart’s ninety sixth birthday. Bob Newhart born in nineteen twenty nine.

In oak Park, attended Saint Ignatio’s College Prep and Loyal University, where theater bears his name. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, Gossip conn probably Bopete, gossip conn awhere the rumors meet with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. Gossip Connor whisp business Tree, Gossip I have gone Probably gossip Cone wethers with me with Johnny Mactoe in the Tree. I really do walk around my house singing that song. It is Jorn Catchy on gossip Corner.

Did Kathy Griffin have plastic surgery? Did she have a face lift? We asked Kathy Griffin why I didn’t, but somebody did. Kathy Griffin said, you guys, I had a face lift. That’s right.

I talk about it now. I know it’s not the most exciting thing. I just think it’s funny that I’m even having one, because it’s not like I’m known for my face. You talked about the doctor who did it and said he just looks at you and he’s like, yeah, you got a lot of problem areas. I can’t fix that.

You have to live at that part. But okay, I can do this. We’re gonna move this around and who did your last one? She says, they get really competitive about who did the last one. By the way, this is my third.

Jimmy Kimmel still off this week, and Colbert’s off for three weeks as well. That’s interesting. Tiffany Hattish will host Kimmel’s show. She replaces come Out on Gianni, who was originally announced a host this week. It is believed he has opted out because of scheduling conflicts for reels.

He’s in broad Way previews for his debut in Oh Mary, a dark comedy. If I were working on cbs L’sbeth, I would get my resume ready because they are taking on the Curse of Andy Richter. In case you don’t pay attention, if Andy Richter appears on your show, it gets canceled. Even Conan O’Brien was unable to survive the Curse of Andy Richter. Andy will appear on Elle’sbeth.

He will play the sidekick of Stephen Colbert’s Scotty Bristol character. Andy Richter will play Mickey Munks, the hilarious but long suffering sidekick on Way Late with Scotty Bristol. That sounds hackier than hack out. Today on The eight hundred Pound Guerrilla available for early access, Moe Welch’s Hollywood Forever, and Johnny Mac. You never talk about Howard Stern, I know in GQ, Vince Mancini, right, So Howard Stern went from shock jock to centrist cat dad.

If his audience couldn’t follow him, that’s not his fault, Vince writes, I’ve been a loyal Sternee since he first became available to those of us on the West Coast in the late nineties. He never struck me as all that shocking. Despite everything that made it infamous, the show was more like comfort food, a way to be part of a conversation even when you were alone. When Stern moved to satellite, he immediately shelled out for a serious subscription that I probably couldn’t afford, And with the show’s replayed throughout the day, I could listen to them almost any time I wanted. It’s easy to recount the hits, but good bits don’t do much to pinpoint the actual appeal of the Howard Stern Show, which would broadcast for almost four hours every day well back in the day, I CARO could be four plus it started six and go to ten something.

The show was a running hang that I can imagine myself being part of, and that sounds much easier to pull off than it actually is. It did. Yeah, I totally it felt like a hang you could imagine yourself being part of. I definitely, back in the day would have dreams that I was just like on the show, as like sixth Guy. These people felt like friends.

I get it, Vince, who writes, I also haven’t listened to Stern for probably fifteen years. I’ve been throwing that fifteen year number around myself. There’s had nothing to do with this famous turnaway from cheap gags and casual sexism, is increasingly therapy influenced introspection, or his gradual slide into normy liberalism and dramatic like that. It just so happened that the explosion of podcasts, which we’re free at first seem to coincide with my not having a car for the first time in my adult life. With so many different versions of a similar thing so widely and more easily available, my need for the Stern Show suddenly it didn’t seem so pressing.

I can’t honestly say that I upgrew him. Had it been a more frictionless transaction. I might have stuck around, but I got out of the habit, and suddenly it seemed less important. Now. Part of getting out of the habit was when Howard cut down to three days.

I still listened to him in the serious years, and like when the show was what did they do on Friday? Best of? Or like shuffling the stuff from early in the week. You know, you stop listening, you take enough vacations, you find something else to do. That’s why I like, for example, I make sure the show always goes out.

Do I pre tape? Absolutely? Did I pre tape today’s show? I did because I took a vacation day today. Did you notice until just now?

Possibly not? Does it matter? Really doesn’t. As Stern as aged and softened, his world seems to have gotten progressively smaller, not because he sold out or gone woke, or any other dramatic reasons his critics sight, but for more understandable reasons, like the fact that he’s a hypochondria near billionaire with OCD who’s seventy one years old and has been getting up at four am for most of his working life. His latter day career is proof that if nothing else.

Evolving with the times looks a lot more dignified than trying to be the exact same person you were in two thousand and two. No, I get it. You know, at seventy one years old having young women in the studio and doing the sort of things he used to do. It’s super creepy, you know, not a good look. But to pretend it never happened, that’s my issue with Howard.

To pretend that stuff never happened. Where are the clips? Why can’t we watch the clips? We all know what happened. I’ve got some cassette tapes of the old Howard Stern show.

We know these things went on. No, you do have to age gracefully. I totally get that. But to pretend the other parts didn’t happen, that’s the part that bugs me this whole. Howard Stern was the great interviewer.

That narrative, that’s nonsense. Howard Stern was the great shock shock and then the last ten years of his career decided to interview people. Just stop with the revisionist history. That’s the part that annoys me. And that is your comedy needs for today.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Joe Rogan, Andrew Schulz, Theo Von, Matt Rife, Nikki Glaser, Leanne Morgan, Sarah Silverman, Pete Correlly, Sebastian Maniscalco, Charlie Day, Jim Breuer

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron criticizes Joe Rogan, Andrew Schulz, and Theo Von for anti-woke agenda
• Elf Cosmetics faces backlash for Matt Rife partnership over domestic violence joke
• Nikki Glaser discusses eating disorder struggles and path to comedy success
• Leanne Morgan’s accent and journey to late-career fame in her fifties
• Pete Correlly and Sebastian Maniscalco’s 12-year phone call podcast partnership
• Charlie Day shaves beard for It’s Always Sunny Season 17 renaissance

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Don’t go calling what Mark Maren does an interview show? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with a robust Sunday edition of Daily Comedy News. More from Maren with the Hollywood Reporter. Maren’s as it’s not an interview show.

I needed to be in that show, and it was instinctial to insert myself into the conversations. It took some people a little time to adjust to that. They were used to interview shows, and I’ve never ever seen it as an interview show. They asked if Maren envies any of the one hundred million dollar plus deals that some other folks have gotten. Maren said, we did all right, definitely, well enough for us to live the rest of our lives.

But those kind of deals come with extreme responsibility. Why would I want to start scrambling now? The Holly Reporter writes he’ll mock the podcast industrial complex, but Maren’s also happy to play the mayor. Between a meeting in July and a phone call two weeks later, Maren guessed that on no fewer than nine podcasts, the conversation changes to you unnamed podcasters. But the Holly Reporter says, there’s little doubt he’s talking about Rogan Schultz and THEO Vaughn.

Maren says, how they became the orbiters of what comedy shood or shouldn’t be as an effing nightmare. This anti woke idea around free speech with comedians is bs. Whether they knew it or not, they were being used by the right to push this anti woke agenda which is now disassembling every progressive policy. They’re responsible. I can’t let them off the hook for that, even if some of them are kind of backpedaling now.

As for the future, maren says, my social life has really been the podcast, mostly in comedy clubs. I’ll probably go back to AA meetings for a bit of support to not spiral out with the isms, as they call it. But I don’t do dinner parties. No one invites me anywhere. I don’t vocation with friends.

I need to nourish more relationships. Does he want to be invited out more? Yeah? I won’t want to do it, but once I’m there, I’ll be good. I think that some people like to have me around.

Maybe this is all the change talking. Maybe I’m just an old man yelling at the burning sky helf. Cosmetics is catching heat for including Matt Rife in their latest campaign. People are bringing up Matt Rife’s domestic violence joke from his twenty twenty three Netflix special I will be honest here. I had forgotten about that joke.

People on social media are mad at ELF Cosmetics for including Matt Rife, who they claim does not respect women. One person wrote, bruh, not matt Rife. I love y’all as a brand, but Matt Rife is not a good person. Nikki Glaser told Variety that society glamorized not eating. Nicki said, the most notable thing you could do was to not eat or follow diet, and I was like, Okay, finally I’m good at something.

But it started killing me. This next part’s pretty serious. In college, she said, I didn’t want to get better. I didn’t have any reason to because I was like, my life sucks. I kind of went off to college to die.

Was my path to suicide pretty much, because I look so freakish. I just turned my personality up real high because I needed to make friends. I was more funny, more outgoing and always telling stories. I was louder than I’ve ever been in my life. She started to get feedback about how funny she was.

There was a poster for a stand up showcase. A friend took the sign and ran into my dorm room, slammed it on my desk and said, you’re doing this. She started doing research, came across Sarah Silverman. Glazer said, she gets to be yourself and you want to be friends with her, and she also seems like a nice person, but then she gets to say these really weird, out of context, terrible things, and he still like her. That fascinated me.

She eventually winds up on Last Comic Standing and says, I thought I had arrived. I thought things were starting to come in, and they didn’t. I had to move back home with my parents. She did smaller rooms, appeared on some podcasts, started participating in roasts and said I didn’t want to do another roast because I was approaching forty and I don’t want to get called an old horse faced horror over and over. It hurt my feelings every time I did a roast previously.

Then she heard about the Tom Brady roast and away we go. She pitched herself as the Tom Brady of roasting and says, I don’t even know what that meant, but I stand by it now because as I researched Tom Brady, I learned how he was kind of underrated. He was good, but like the one hundred and fifth draft pick. But he trained perfectly and optimized every moment of his life to make sure that when he stepped down on the field he could be as good as possible, and he didn’t take any shortcuts. I always thought that talent was something you were born with or not, but I’ve learned you can be great at things if you just work harder than anyone else.

Not sure that’s true. Part of it. You got to have the charisma. I got to have the look. I’m not sure I agree there, Nikki Glaser.

Nicki says Tom Brady changed my life. The next day I started seeing headlines, started being recognized everywhere. Things went back to normal within three days. But it was twenty years to being an overnight success. Yep, you hear that a lot with comedians.

Glazer says, there’s a lot more interest in me from the industry over the past couple of years. Now I’m in a position where people want to develop things around me. One of her dreams is to be on White Lotus. Leanne Morgan tell’s time people want authenticity and they want to learn who somebody really is. I think that’s my advantage.

People accuse her of doing a fake accent because they can’t pinpoint where it’s from. Her first husband had suggested she get diction lessons. She says, I know it’s thick, but I think it’s made me stand out. Nate Pergetzi says her accent is her accent, and that adds the flavor. As recently as twenty eighteen, club owners were turning her way.

She says. Club owner said, we love her. She doesn’t get drunk and fight in the parking a lot, but we’re not having her back. She can’t sell a ticket. She’s happy that she got famous in her fifties, but I’m too tired.

Something awful. Billboard talked to Sebastian Manascalgo about Pete Corielly the Gator. Pete hates that nickname. Jim Brewer had tagged Pete with that nickname when Pete was the co host on Jim Brewer unleashed paraphrasing here, it’s because Pete has big teeth and he would all of a sudden come out of nowhere and bite you with. He was like a sniper on the show.

Jim would tell ten twelve minute stories and Pete would come in and say one line and get the bigger laugh. Pete’s fantastic, Sebastian said, we’ve been doing the Pete and Sebastian Show about twelve years. We started it out of the sheer enjoyment of calling one another on the phone and laughing. I said, you know what, we should record these phone conversations because if we’re cracking up, I’m sure other people would crack up. Pete’s more of a beer and peanuts Neanderthal, and I’m more of a wan and cheese guy who likes the finer things in life.

That’s a great description of Pete Corielly. At first we were just doing audio. He’d be in a car inside of Starbucks, ripping Wi Fi off the Starbucks, and I’d be in a hotel room in Denver. It’s not guest driven. We’ve had maybe twelve or thirteen guests on our show over the course of twelve years.

It was just two guys talking. We’re not making a dime, but it’s always been a passion project for us. Yelly Times talked to Charlie Day about shaving off his beard for a gag in the current season, it’s always sunny. It’s having a renaissance. It’s like they turned back time.

This feels like a vintage season. I don’t know what happened. A lot of people think it’s because they did the podcast and it got them revisiting the earlier seasons. But you know, I wonder what we have to season seventeen, the Ireland season was off but COVID and last year was okay. There were a couple funky seasons, but this season’s On point of shaving, Charlie Day said, it was horrible just to see how old the man is under the beard.

Once you take off the eyebrows, that’s when it really starts to look freaky. We had that idea, and we knew we had to shoot at last, because if I was gonna shave, that’d be the last thing we’re gonna shoot. Right after we wrapped, I went on a little vacation with my wife and son and I rarely got recognized, which is funny. Every now and then people were fans of the movie Pacific Rim because I didn’t have a beard in those movies, they’d be like, Hey, where you been? Were you not working?

The funny thing is I couldn’t unlock my cell phone with that look because I look so different.

All right, let’s click on this.

Vulture did a list of the best comedy specials of twenty twenty five so far. This was last updated on August six. Let’s just fly through it real quick and see what they’re into. Mark Maren Panic. Yep, but I have that at the top my list for this year.

Steph Tolev’s filth Queen didn’t do it for me. Let’s go at Kotska’s father was okay. I liked your previous special better, Mike Berbiglia The Good Life. I just don’t enjoy the Mike Berbiglia specials. I liked it twenty five years ago when he just did stand up.

But I get if people like Burbiglia, Brent Weinebox popular culture is on YouTube, I’ve not seen that one. Vulture writes for every new cohort of clubby Punchline comedians and truth telling trauma explorers, somewhere a weirdo rises. In this case, it’s Wineboch doing a bizarre smattering of impressions. With no coherent design except that they’re all odd mashups and off center angles, regularly designed as setups with little payoffs. That sounds like my kind of special.

I will have to get to that. I also have to watch Borbosa. I also have to watch Jim Jeffries on Dropout, Cameron Esposito’s Four pill I haven’t seen that because it’s on Dropout. I do like Cameron. They have Bill Burr’s Dropped Dead Years on Hulu.

I didn’t think that was good at all. Rosebud Baker’s The Mother Load on Netflix. I didn’t enjoy that one because of the back and forth between the two different sets. I get the gimmick, but it didn’t do it for me. Roy Wood Junior Lonely Flowers.

That’s way back in January. That one was pretty good, right all right? So that’s Vulture’s list of the best so far. I might as well open up mine real quick, since we’re talking about it all right ready. Top Tier, Mark Twain, Price Cut On O’Brien, Shing, Gillis, ESPN Monologue, Tom Sigorre Bad Thoughts, Mark Marin, Four Tires five, Justin Willman, Magic Lover, Dusty slay Bert Krascher, Brett Goldstein, Sarah Silverman Voice Mag’s been talking to folks at the fringe.

Susan Harrison said the fringe has definitely gotten bigger and more expensive as the years have gone on. That means my approach has been to wait for six years until I could afford it again financially, but also in terms of energy and time spent preparing and self producing. I keep saying this every time I do these fringe stories, inches sounds like a nightmare. Why does anyone go? It just sounds terrible.

You’re staying in like hovels, spending all your money. I don’t get it. For what I mentioned on the back end of a summer Sunday Daily Comedy News episode, is it worth it? Her show? Is?

Should I still be doing this? At the Gilded Balloon Appleton Tower PIP at seven point forty, Eric Idols spoke to The Guardian. They think in the Python TV shows and movies he seems to be enjoying himself the most. Eric Idle said some things in Python were very enjoyable and some were not. Holy Grail was cold and miserable sometimes that makes it funny.

One of the worst things you could have in comedy is enough money. Python was quite a lot of arguing and fights, and good work is often like that. The best thing about show business is when it’s over. I think if you’re enjoying yourself, then you’re non acting or giving. You’re just having a good time.

Well that’s not funny. What was his favorite project? The Ruddles and spam Alot were both just fabulous times. One of the things I talk about in the show I call mock and roll because we’re all the same generation. The art school kids went into music when we went into comedy.

My theory is that Python is the first group of mock and roll because we ended up in the Hollywood Bowl just like the Beatles. And I think the second group in mock and roll was SNL. On the first show I hosted, John Belushi, impersonated Joe Cocker to his face. They sang together, there’s something magical about that. Eric Idol, are you happy to be captured by AI for posthumous performances and royalties?

Idol said they don’t pay royalties. I always felt we ought to protect our images. After I saw that tacky commercial with Fred Astaire and the vacuum cleaner, feel very bad about that. So I felt that the pythons ought have done something to protect our image in a way that’s appropriate. But I don’t think there’s a way that’s appropriate.

I have had my image done on one of those extraordinary machines where forty cameras captured from every angle, was for a film they wanted to make. But it worries me. I don’t trust AI. I mean, look how many times you have to correct a word it completely misreads you. Chat GPT writing essays really bothers me.

The point is to find out what we think, not what the machine thinks. And that is your comedy news for a summer Sunday. If you’d like the program without commercials. If you’re on Apple Podcasts, click that banner. It says uninterrupted listening and for five bucks a month, which is like seven eighteen cents a day, and listen Scott Beckett, I know you’re too cheap to give me seventeen cents.

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliff, Kim Patterson, Casey Rockett, Stephanie Robertson, Mike Gleeson, Brian Garr, Sebastian Maniscalco, Josh Johnson, Chris Rock, Kevin James, Ray Romano

What’s in This Episode

• Slate article on Kill Tony’s cult following and life-changing impact on comedians
• Kill Tony success stories: Kim Patterson and Casey Rockett’s career trajectories
• The brutal consequences of bombing on Kill Tony and public humiliation
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s stance on being called a foodie and his cooking preferences
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s trip to Sicily with his father after bypass surgery
• Josh Johnson on how comedy careers have changed in the streaming era versus Johnny Carson era
• Kevin James on initial skepticism about Ray Romano’s sitcom success

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Slate caught my attention with the headline the Cults of Kill Tony. Luke Winky writes under the headline Tony Hinchcliff’s fame skyrocketed after he made a joke that spooked even Donald Trump in Texas. I watch how he became the most powerful comic in America.

Luke writ’s doing well on the program can be genuinely life changing. Kim Patterson, an affable storyteller with a thick Florida accent, was working on a golf course when he first passed through the Mothership in twenty twenty three. He crushed his set two years and five hundred thousand Instagram followers. Later, Deadline reported that Kim is part of the upcoming Kevin Hart comedy seventy two hours.

Meanwhile, Casey Rockett was living in his car when he moved to Austin after …

He’s now admit a nationwide tour. On the other end of the spectrum, bombing on Kill Tony can leave a burgeoning comedy career in tatters. For every Patterson. There are scores more overmatched stand ups who crack under the immense pressure of the moment, punch lines or botched pacings, muffed flop, sweat beads on foreheads, and those sixty seconds begin to feel like an eternity. Hinchcliff smells blood in the water.

The post interview morphs into a brutal heezing. The subject then SLINKs back through the enveloping curtains at the rear of the stage, smarting from an uncoverable psychic wound, broadcast for the whole world to see. Stephanie Robertson is a comedian who on the Dose of Reality podcast said that was the worst moment of my life. We all bomb in comedy, but everybody has access to my bomb. I was like, my life is over.

I’ve humiliated myself. The piece then walks through how kill Tony works in the history of Kill Tony. I imagine if you listen to this podcast, you are familiar with most of that story. Mike Gleeson, a forty five year old comedian from Chicago, till slate. He moved to Austin with the specific intention of getting on Kill Tony.

Gleason said I needed to find my audience, and I feel like this is my audience. Every other aspect of comedy show out edgy voices. It’s more mainstream. Everybody wants to get on TV. I had no interest in getting in the Tonight Show.

I think Kill Tony is better than the Tonight Show. A good episode of Kill Tony is better than the Tonight Show. A bad episode of the Tonight Show is better than a bad episode of Kill Tony. If that makes sense. That’s my opinion there not.

This late piece, Brian Garr talked about the change in the Austin scene. It was night and day after COVID. You could immediately tell who was new. They were all young, they’d all moved here from Io or whatever, and they all had a trans joke, all of them. It was like a signifier for them.

We could tell immediately it was here to get on Kill Tony. It’s a bunch of kids in their twenties trying to impress a bunch of dudes in their forties. Comedy establishment does not like that Kill Tony exists. All right, maybe I’ll pick it that some more tomorrow. Sebastian Maniscalgo, speaking of a billboard magazine to discussed whether or not he’s a foodie.

He apparently hates the word foodie. Sebastian said, I wouldn’t say one of those guys who’s like, ah, there’s a nineteen sixty nine Portel that you gotta have, or this wine has notes of cedar. I just know what I like when I drink. My wife and I got married in Napa, and I was introduced to one about fifteen years ago through my father in law, who’s a big wine guy. When it comes to food, I like to cook.

I’m not doing any castronomy over here. I’d like to make steak. I like to make chicken. We do taco night for a kid, so I’m always trying to perfect the taco meat. My daughter, who’s eight, I made burgers for last night and she said, Danny, I like it, but it’s got too much oil on it.

I had put a little oil on the bun and then put him down on the grid toe him a little bit. I overoiled it, which I knew, and she picked it out. I was like Jesus, eight years old. Eight years old, I didn’t care what I was eating. But apparently my daughter is Bobby Flay Sebastian, have ever gone back to Sicily to see your father’s origin?

Sebastian said, I took my father about twelve years ago. My father and I always wanted to go back to his hometown. He never took us when we were kids, and then later in life, I said, we got to make a trip. Then he goes down with quadruple bypass surgery. He comes out of that and I go, listen, We’re going to Sicily before he died.

It’s got to happen. So shortly after he had the surgery, me and him took a journey to Sicily, to the Amalfi coast and in Rome. I got to see where he grew up. It reignited his passion to go back to his hometown and reconnect with old friends. It’s nice to see that he’s fallen in love with where he came from because he was so worried about work.

My father came to this country and that’s all it was work. Hey, this whole mentality. If you left too long, people are gonna forget him, which I have too a little bit. In comedy nowadays, you feel like you’ve constantly got to be out there touring on on Instagram. Then I talked to Chris Rock and he’s like, you can’t make an entrance if you never leave the room.

That’s great advice, Chris Rock. I took that to heart. I think I’ve established a fan base where if it did take some time off and wasn’t constantly out there, I’d keep them when I came back. So I’m trying to take Chris’s advice. Josh Johnson a lot of buzz on Josh.

He spoke to the BBC about the Johnny Corson era and how things have changed in comedy. Josh shed Now it’s sort of direct to consumers posed before we had the TV networks that worked as sort of the buyer. Back then, it was a sort of one size fits all approach. That’s why so few people could break through and why breaking through to the masses was this instant success. But there’s only a golden era of each thing.

There’s only so long that something gets you something before everyone’s trying to do it, and then it doesn’t do what it used to do. I look at trajectories and how to advance a career in the same way I look at stock tips. By the time I find out it’s too late. By the time someone can give you a template of everything to do to get where you want to go, that thing’s probably outdated. I can’t necessarily speak to what everyone’s career was like in the Johnny carsoner Jay Leno era, but I imagine that audiences stuck with you because of the moment they got swept up in when you were being created.

I think with the Internet that people that find you now are staying with you because of who you are. Josh continued, there is something to be said for old systems continuing to still be good for you. There’s this idea that being on TV sort of isn’t what he used to be, right. I think that’s just because with the Internet, people have more options. But that doesn’t mean that these platforms that are either legacy names or have a very wide reach aren’t incredibly influential to a person’s career.

I think there’s this idea that independent creators and independent media will one day take over everything. I don’t actually think that’ll be what happens. I think independence will gain more market share in the future. But I also think that you cannot understated when people get out of traditional TV, traditional movies, traditional news and everything. As much as we like to think they make bad decisions, I think we still like the idea that there’s a big thing a person could do.

Kevin James told DW he didn’t think Ray romano sitcom was gonna work. He said, I couldn’t believe it. He’s such a low energy guy. Sitcom guys to me were like big, wacky characters. I’m like, this is death.

It’s not gonna happen. The first few years of going with Ray, even when our shows came out, would go to CBS functions and things like that red carpet. Things were so rough because they knew him. But my SHOWO had just come out, so they’re taking a thousand pictures of Ray. I’m just kind of standing there.

Nothing’s clicking. When he would attempt to get closer to Ray Romano, the photographers would ask him, could you move over? He says it was tough. Kevin James said he learned everything from Ray Ramono on how to do a sitcom. One tip was how to underplay a scene.

Romano was so good on his sitcom and the way through things away. I was like, wow, we have to watch him and learn from him because I’m going to be too big on cameras. So even in the King of Queens when I see episodes now, I’m like, throw it away, kid, what are you doing? I’m like, gee whiz. I wish I could go back and redo it.

Steve Martin is heading to Chattanooga. He will be co hosting the International Bluegrass Music Associations Bluegrass Music Awards It’s Complicated September eighteenth that Memorial Auditorium. Steve said, I’m thrilled to be hosting with Alison Brown and connecting with all my bluegrass friends as opposed to my kind of dumb comedy friends and now for something completely different. The Briton Royal Mail has issued stamps celebrating Monty Python. Ten stamps celebrating things like Nudge, Nudge, Know what I Mean and the Lumberjack Song.

Other stamps include the Spanish Inquisition, I Didn’t Expect That, the Ministry of Silly Walk’s Dead Parent, and the Nude Organist. Four more stamps honor the fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python on the Holy Grail, including one showing the Black Knight insisting it’s but a scratch. Michael Palin said he was very glad to share a stamp with the nude organist. Boy, that’s a lot of fun. Just for Laugh Sydney is coming back in November thirteenth edition.

Good to see the Just for Lass people are rocking. This year’s confirmed performers include Eddie Zord, John Bishop, Ashley, Gavin, Rob Beckett. You Yanks may have noticed Rob on last one laughing, Reggie Watts, dre le Eth Reagan and a bunch of names that you may not recognize at this point. Now, I know you’re listening every day, going Jenny Mack, stop talking about the Fringe. I’m not going to Scotland.

You keep telling me these shows are playing. How do you really expect me to go to Scotland and CdSe shows? Well, friend, listen to me. I’m here to tell you about fringe at home. Shortlist dot Com put together a list of the comedians which I would be reading to you now, except my browser just froze as I started to scroll down the page.

Now, why don’t you edit this out, John, because that’s not fun. It’s still not responding. Apparently shortlist dot Com does not get along with the Safari browser. Let me open up Chrome if you’re a new listener. We’re a little more casual on the weekends around here.

Ah. Yes, on the Chrome Responsive website. Some shows you could watch. Patrick Spicer’s Pivotal you’ll find that on YouTube. Jeff Innocence Smart Casual also on YouTube.

In his words, he became an overnight viral sensation after doing comedy for twenty seven years. Sarah Milliken’s show Chatterbox is on YouTube as well. Short list tells us she’s a cornerstone of British comedy for a reason. If you want to dissect the world of fashion, exercise, cake and relationships, this one is worth the watch. Vittorio Angeloni Translations.

Okay, he was one of Montreal’s new faces. He was fantastic. Why don’t you watch this? Dylan from the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feelingcouraged to join the group, Dylan, are you listening? Dylan?

You’re gonna watch Vittorio Angelone’s Translations full stand up special on YouTube? Okay? Because why am I calling out Dylan before I even have breakfast? Dylan has watched three comedy specials every single day. I don’t know if he stays up later, I don’t know if he gets up earlier, but like Jim Jeffries, straps a special on Netflix, Dylan’s watched it by six thirty am.

Anyway, Victoria was really good at New Faces. Shortlist tells us we could watch joe Lycettz. I’m about to lose control. Tom Houghton’s the honorable. You’ll find that on shortlist dot com if you need the list.

And now you don’t have to go to Scotland and complain because they were always complaining about the Fringe. Here’s a guy, Drew Cripps. He wrote on The Scotsman. I truly believe the Fringe used to be like a playground. I remember sitting her in a circle listening to Bob’s Owner of Heroes of the Fringe regale such allegories to me and fellow wide eyed alternative comedies of the future.

We listen to stories of comedians, mishaps and adventures at the fringe, tales so wild I can’t share them here in the print. Just take my word for it. The Fringe used to be more punk rock, more of a playground, more truly fringe. Now things have changed. I understand when a comedian sinks eight grand just for the privilege of standing on stage.

They need to justify that cost by transmuting it into some three and a half star review from a student reviewer, The Fringe today is just about mucking it up with your mates. It’s about awards, recognition and careful social maneuvering. The introduction of awards only made it feel more competitive, but I’m not doing any of that. I’ve set things up so I can actually enjoy it. I’m very lucky I’ve met someone who could provide me with free accommodation.

Last year, all my props got destroyed. I asked the venue if they had a bag for my props. They give me a bin bag and put everything inside it stored in the container. Unfortunately, at the venue thought it was a garbage can with garbage in it, including coconut milk and half eaten sandwiches, which ruined all my gear. So I had to improvise a new show.

People really enjoyed, and I sold out my half run, extending it to the full Fringe due to popular demand. This year, I’m going in with no props. I’m hoping one day the Fringe can return to that legendary playground it once was a place where comics can be lose, have fun, and truly play until then doing my best to keep that spirit alive with a few other idiots. That is your comedy news at for today. If you’d like to program without commercial interruptions, if you’re on Apple Podcast, click that manner.

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Featured: Taylor Swift, Joe Coy, Marc Maron, Conan O’Brien, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Dax Shepard, Kevin Hart, Devin Walker, Will Smith, John Oliver, Zarna Garg

What’s in This Episode

• Taylor Swift making same joke Joe Coy made about NFL camera shots
• Marc Maron feature in The Hollywood Reporter discussing podcast success and career reinvention
• Marc Maron declining Hillary Clinton interview for WTF podcast
• Marc Maron ending WTF podcast over distribution deal concessions
• Kevin Hart’s new Netflix comedy competition series with eight episodes
• Devin Walker’s Hulu special with risky SNL alumni joke
• John Oliver tour dates on sale
• Zarna Garg on comedy as business model versus art form

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with Today’s Daily Comedy News, and I’m here to call out Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift, how dare you with this clip? I mean the idea of somebody making fun of Taylor Swift being shown at sports events. You’re gonna make fun of that now here.

Let’s listen. I think we all know that if there’s one thing that male sports fans want to see in their space isn’t on their screens, it’s more of me, Taylor. You might remember Joe Coy made a totally harmless joke and you didn’t laugh at it. You didn’t smile, You just stonefaced him. Let’s listen.

The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Taylor, you made the same joke. Swifties, feel free to call me out. Just make sure you guys download the podcast.

While I’m getting in trouble with the Swifties. I appreciate it. Mark barn was feature piece in The Hollywood Reporter. I shared that in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us.

Conan O’Brien said of Maren, sometimes the complete artist is there, they just need to find the medium. He was very funny on television, but for whatever reason, he needed to be in the wilderness for a while. The podcast was the perfect place for his freak flag to fly at full mast. Maren tells the reporter things are better before everybody had a voice. Now there’s just hundreds of groups of two or three white guys sitting behind Mike’s talking about the last time they crapped their pants as adults.

We live in a world of mediocre afternoon drive time radio. He’s not wrong, I say, as I podcast solo from the basement. Bobby leeas Mark became the light showing you where to go after Hollywood closed the door. Once Matt CV was canceled, things weren’t clicking for me, so I followed his footsteps. He taught me the ropes that it reinvented in my career, Maren says, out of a persistent insecurity or spite, I just compare myself to people that are more successful than I am, or people I’ve decided are more successful.

I don’t always understand why I’m not more secus, so I’m starting to We also learned that after Obama came to the garage, a lot more people asked to be on Maren’s show, one of them Hillary Clinton, who was turned down. Producer Brendan MacDonald recalls telling Maren, you’re the guy to do this. He adamantly disagreed. Maren said, the success rate of getting to a candid place with politicians is very small, and I think this is somebody Clinton who’s divisive and controversial and has a history that’s somewhat sortied, not by any fault of her own, but I just didn’t see where I could go with that. As somewhat of a podcasting expert, I thought this part was interesting.

It says the decision to end WTF came in October, as they entered the final year of their distribution deal with a cast, knowing that taking the podcast further with any partner would involve concessions they weren’t willing to make. Quote more advertising and the pressure for spinoffs or among his reservations, but particularly offensive to Maren is the industry wide expectation to put everything on camera. Maren says, a lot of yammering and makeshift studios. That’s lowering the bar for everything. The Hollywood Reporter brought up dak sh Shepherd a specific episode in twenty nineteen in which Maren suggested podcasting might be becoming a cancer.

Maren said that was before he sort of became me. The Hollow reporters like, what do you mean by that, Maren? I have a model that I established. There are certain people that work within that model, and I think Dax is one of them. I opened up his zone within this medium just before it became really viable.

That’s what I think. I’ll pick more of that on Sunday. This next item is going to be a nightmare for me. Kevin Hartz, who’s never afraid to work, He’s got a new gig. He’s teaming up with Netflix for a new comedy competition series eight episodes.

A quotes, Unfiltered, Uncensored, and unapologetic comedy Rule of three competition that we’ll pull back the curtain on the gritty, hilarious, and off an unpredictable path comedy Rule of three of a stand up career. Contestants from all across the nation will face rigorous tests that mirror the real life journey of a comedian from Brutal Open Mike’s Bomb sets rewrites on the pressure of big stage performances. The competition will give viewers an unvarnished look behind the curtain of comedy’s darkest corners. These are annoying. They’re comparing it to Last Comic Standing, And when I was running serious comedy, Last Comic Standing was a nightmare because I’d walk down the hall and they’d be like, Hey, did you see so and so, And then’d have to explain, if you listen to this podcast, you understand comedy.

And I would have to explain, yeah, so and so killed. But do they have five minutes? They have eight minutes, so they have half an hour. Do they have an hour? No, they have thirty seconds.

And then I would get asked, why didn’t play these people because they have no material? I’d be like, why am I not playing somebody from TikTok because they have no material. Late Nighter wrote about Devin Walker’s special, which is produced by Kevin Hart’s production company Heartbeat. Walker covers family ex’s life at SNL and the phenomenon of people expecting him to be funny on command. That one’s out on Hulu today.

This one is at thirty minute set. Walker says there’s one joke in there specifically that was brand new, which is something I like to do sometimes I want to do tapings. He won’t tell us what the joke is, but says for people watching, maybe you’ll be able to tell what the new one is. He also says there’s a joke in the special that’s risky to do. It might ruffle a couple feathers in the industry.

It may fun of a certain comedy star and alumni of SNL. Hmm. He never says the name, says Late Nighter, but the contact leaves little doubt. Walker says, sometimes you gott have lunch with your hero really kind of feel their whole vibe. At the end of that, you get to be like, man, I see why will Smith hit you?

Gee? I wonder who it could be. Walker says people have asked me if I was hesitant to include it. I feel like we’re at a time where people feel really comfortable saying negative things about groups that already have it hard. There’s so many people punching down on marginalized groups and people who are having an ft up existence right now.

Why can’t we get back to our roots, which is making fun of rich and famous people, the people who are doing fine ultimately. That joke in particular is one that’ll probably have a couple of people looking at me a little weird at certain parties. But to me, stand up is the best when you’re being as close to the truth as possible. Stand up is always gonna have some embellishments, some half truths to accentuate the story. To me, the closer you can get to who you really are and how you really feel, the better the work will be.

So I try to stay as honest as possible. He also riffs, I’m gonna wait for the next white celebrity getting broiled in a racial controversy. They’re going to need to make it seem like they’ve got a black friend, and for the right price, that could be me. This is really funny lol. Live with Devin Walker tonight on Hulu.

That’s Cool Today at ten am. John Oliver’s tour goes on sale ten am local time. I know one of the shows is New Year’s Even Philadelphia. The CBC caught up with Zarna Garg. Zarna said, people like, why are you doing a comedy business at all?

There’s no money in comedy, and I realize there’s no money in comedy the way American people do it. They set it up like an art form. We do it like a business. The Indians, I put my practical hat on. I was like, people want to laugh, I want to trash my mother in law, let’s go.

You have to be serious and build your own life. I’m a very vocal, outspoken supporter of women, in particular using the m word money because somehow women and money together have been considered vulgar or crass, as if we don’t need money to live. I learned very early in life they have to be serious. You have to deliver value to people if you want to build something real, and luckily I learned how to monetize my trauma. Zarn has been added to Just for Laughs Toronto this in September in Toronto.

The World in Canada also adds the lineup Abby Govinden Govinden. I don’t know how Abby pronounces her surname, but she is a stand up comedian and writer based in New York. And we are told a stand up show and solo act in one, How to Embarrass your Immigrant Parents is a biting and irreverent storytelling experience that explores a pertinent universal theme wanting to understand your parents but struggling to see eye to eye. They’ve added Amanda Montel, the New York Times bestselling author and host of the Sounds Like a Cult podcast for the Big Magical Cult Show. Big Jay Ogerson previously announced he’s their September twenty first two shows at six and eight thirty.

The eight thirty show is new, so that’s the news. There also added Chloe Radcalfe, column Tyrrell, Corey b Jacob Balshan, James Adomian at the alternative show That’s Cool, Josh Mosten, Toronto based comedian originally from Scotland. Late Bad a party variety show full of carefully curated comedians and surprise special guests in town for the festival. The stage is covered in balloons filled with prompts for the performers to play off, as well as thirty second dance parties and promptu challenges, games, and so much more. Laugh Sabbath a different show every week featuring a rotating ensemble of radical and exciting comedians.

Matthew Bursardi He’s been a guest on the show he’s very funny. Mojo Brooks, brook z Z, Pat Thornton, Patty Harrison, Sabrina Wu sun thar V, a globally touring comedian who blends sharp storytelling with cultural wit, performing in both Tamil and English, and Zorna Garg Johnny Mac, you never mentioned Howard Stern. I know right. The satellite radio company started airing a promo. The Aller reporter says.

The text of the promo is the tabloids have spoken Howard Stern filed canceled? Is it really by by Booie? Chaos is swirling at the Howard Stern Show. Did staffers talk to the press or writers withholding their best jokes? Nobody knows what’s going on or who to trust.

Howard Stern will speak Tuesday, September second. This is what I’ve been saying, folks. We’re talking about Howard for the first time in fifteen years. This plays to his strength. He’s going to drag this out all the way to December, at which point he will announce he’s staying with serious exam and doing a farewell tour.

Write it down. I have zero doubt. I have listened to Howard for forty years. This is how this plays out.

And now this place to his strength, and he will get his fastball back because…

He’s really good at it. Much ado about nothing. I’ll tell you that Taylor Swift does me so upset. I forgot to do the late night joke segments. President Trump in Alaska meeting with Vladimir Putin.

White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt described it as a listening exercise. Jimmy Foun said, as we know, listening and exercise or Trump’s two favorite things. So this should go well. Jimmy Fallon joked about Taylor’s new album and said, following the announcement, Taylor’s website immediately crashed and then out of habit, so did ticketmasters. That’s really good.

All right, it’s Friday. Let’s hit the comedy stock market. Comedy stock market. We have a bull market today, no sells, no holes. We are gonna buy bye bye.

We’re gonna buy some more. Mark Maron, We’ll buying a little high. But then in about a month We’re gonna sell real high. People are buzzing about Mark Maron. Buy more Mark Maren stock.

We’re gonna buy low on Howard Stern. Everybody thinks Howard’s down and out, he’s canceled, he’s not coming back. But we’re smarter than that. We’re gonna buy low. We’ll sell high sometime this fall by Howard Stern.

Buy Jimmy Fallon stock. The cool kids are bashing Jimmy Fallon because he had gut felt On and that episode did the best ratings in years. Jimmy Fallon plays it safe, he plays it smart. You can hate, but the man makes money. Buy Jimmy Fallon.

We’re gonna buy stock. And Josh Johnson Dylan from the Facebook group put this idea in my head, and he’s right. Josh is just crushing it and I don’t think he’s quite broken through yet, so let’s get on that early. On a similar note, let’s buy Sarah Sherman stock just a hunch. I feel like she’s going to be the breakout this year on SNL.

Still no word on the cast changes yet, but we’ll see what happens there. And one more by recommendation before the Emmys. On September fourteenth, Let’s load up on Nateprighatzy stock. I know you know about Nate. A lot of people watch SNL know about Nate, but I feel like the average American does not.

And once they get a whiff of Natepergatzy, he’s going to be at a peak high. And so we’ll sell right after the Emmys. But let’s buy Nyberghazzy stock. And that’s today’s comedy stock market. Josh Johnson, whose stock we are buying, was asked by the BBC is social media a blessing and a curse for comedy.

They were curious about the algorithm. Josh said, potentially, but I think that only happens if you get obsessed with numbers. I hold two things very top of mind when I think about any form of audience or influence. One, nobody owes me anything. Just because you came to show or watch the video doesn’t mean you have to watch the next one.

I work as hard as I can to make it so you would want to, but you don’t have to. The second thing is that if you’re focused on the actual practice for what you’re doing, you’ll make better things to put online. At the end of the day, and the most important thing is the show that I’m doing that night and the people that are there. Then I put things up online for the people who didn’t make it to the show. But whether a million people watch it or a thousand people watch it, the fact that the people to show at the best time possible, that’s the most powerful and beneficial relationship as far as the audience goes.

In San Francisco today, the Desi Comedy Fest, America’s largest South Asian comedy festival, back for its eleventh season. This year features a lineup of stand up comedians with roots across the subcontinent, offering sharp, honest, and hilarious takes on identity, family, immigration, and modern life in America. Founder Abbe and Ned Carney says Desi Comedy Fest isn’t just about comedy. It’s about building community. It’s about building differences through laughter, breaking stereotypes, and reminding people that humor is universal language.

Could check out the festival tonight at seven thirty the Improv Comedy Club sixty two South Second Avenue in San Jose, and then Sunday at Cobbs Grade Comedy Club Cobbs nine to fifteen Columbus Avenue in San Francisco. That is your comment. Any news on a summer Friday, normal episodes all weekend. I’ve got plenty, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: George Carlin, Marc Maron, Andrew Dice Clay, John Oliver, Gary Owen, Pete Davidson, Jim Carrey, Matt Ruby, Andy Kindler, Louis C.K.

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron compared to George Carlin’s criticism of comedians punching down
• John Oliver discusses HBO YouTube strategy and Emmy protection
• Gary Owen proposes Black vs White NBA All-Star Game format
• Pete Davidson recalls bombing SNL sketch with Jim Carrey
• Matt Ruby on Mark Maron’s role policing hack comedy in the industry
• Howard Stern’s fall from relevance
• Stephen Colbert’s ratings spike

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, let me give you a loaded headline. Is Mark Maren ripping off George Carlin? No, of course he’s not. But Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News on Threads.

Somebody surface this clip from nineteen ninety. Here is the great profit of the twenty first century, George Carlin back in nineteen ninety. The comedian he’s discussing here, I assume is Andrew dice Clay, But boy, this could be Maren this morning, here’s George Carlin. I would defend to the death his right to do everything he does. The thing that I find unusual and it’s you know, it’s not a criticism so much, but his targets are underdogs, and comedy traditionally has picked one people in power, people who abuse their power.

Women and gays and immigrants are kind of, to my way of thinking, underdogs. And you know, he ought to be careful because he’s Jewish, and a lot of the people who want to pick on these kind of groups, the Jews are on that list. A little further you women, gays, gypsies, the moment and suddenly you find Jews and yeah, so you know, I mean obviously he should do what he wants, and uh, why does. He get away with it? Do you think then he has never laughed that jokes about.

Well, he’s appealing. I think he’s appealing largely. I think his core audience are young white males who are threatened by these groups. I think a lot of these guys aren’t sure their manhood, because that’s a problem when you’re going in through adolescence. You know, am I really am?

I? Could I be? I hope I’m not one of them? And the women who assert themselves and are competent are a threat to these men, and so are immigrants in terms of jobs and and and so that’s why we as an audience then will laugh you say we I don’t think you’re me, but I think you’re actively. I think that’s what what is at the core of that experience that takes place in these arenas.

There is a certain, uh you know, a sharing of anger and rage at these at these targets. And I’m sure Andrew isn’t that angry at that. I’m sure he’s playing it as a comic. What a great clip boy. I’ve said this before when George put out his last few albums, I at the time incorrectly was like, George just sounds angry and I feel like he’s lost his way.

Those albums, those last few have aged so so well and sound like George recorded them this morning. He is the great profit of our time. The Holly Reporter caught up with John Oliver, who was happy that HBO went back to letting Oliver release full segments of the show on YouTube the day after airing. There was a time when I didn’t have HBO I now get it quote unquote free asterisk through my cell phone provider. But there was a time when I used to watch those segments there.

Although I tend to bail on those segments, I actually liked the first segment, where Oliver is basically doing the daily show. Almost always the narrative segment loses me. About five seven minutes in, Oliver told The Holly Reporter, I think they wanted to see if moving it back on YouTube had an effect on our ratings. I didn’t think it would, which is why I was against moving in the first place, and I was massively grateful of that. Upon looking at it, they realized it wasn’t having a negative enough effect to be worth doing again.

In the difficulty of the media environment that we’re in. I try to be as cognizant as I can that HBO is still a fantastic place to work. The other reporter’s like, and yeah, you make a lot of jokes about a Emmy stop you from getting canceled. Oliver said, I mean two things can be true at the same time. It’s a fantastic place to work while we’re insulated by golden armor.

If that stops, we might be going away. It’s not entirely a joke. I think it’s objectively, very very helpful of one Emmy’s with the show. I think it’s helped us keep our independence and keep the show on the air. So yeah, I think there’s a utility to it and something I know has always been important HBO.

So I’m massively grateful that we’ve won them, and long may that continue. Please, I don’t want my theory tested from OutKick. Comedian Gary Owen has an idea for the NBA All Star Game. Stay with me, I’m giving you Gary Owen’s idea here. His idea is, rather than have captains choose the team, rather than splitting the rosters by East or West, rather than pitting the United States against the world.

Comedian Gary Owen suggests the league have the black stars play the white stars. He told the would trip in podcast that would draw numbers. Podcast co host Richard Jefferson try to just ignore the idea, oh and double down white and black. That would draw more numbers than Europe VERSUS America. Then they started to take the idea somewhat seriously.

What about people of mixed race? Gary Owen joked, Jason kid gets to coach one team. Jefferson proposed the thought that black versus white would separate US. Comedian Gary Owen said, no, black and white would bring everyone together. We get too caught up in people saying we can’t do it.

I say the numbers would do it. In the first half, we play nothing but jelly Roll. In the second half, we play nothing but Kendrick. You’d watch Don’t Knock like you wouldn’t watch, you would watch. Pete Davidson was on Hot Ones and he talked about the time a sketch with him and Jim Carrey bombed Too High Heavens.

Pete recalled, my first real sketch on SNL was for an episode Jim Carrey was hosting. I was so excited because he’s Jim Carrey, one of the legends, and we wrote the sketch where it’s like a zombie apocalypse. I’m his son, I’m clearly a zombie. The sketch which bomb to high Heavens, and it’s a long one. It’s like six minutes on substack.

Matt Ruby writes under the headline why Mark Marin versus the bro podcasters Matters. Good piece by Matt Ruby, who writes the thing about hack is it works. That’s why comedians used to police hackness internally, would call each other out. At Mike’s shows and in green rooms. There was a whisper network about your act.

Andy Kindler would mock the worst offenders at his JFL State of the Industry addresses. The message it wasn’t just about killing, it was how you killed. When social media took over, we lost a lot of that. This reminds me I meant to bring up. I noticed after the fact JFL Montreal resurrected version didn’t do a state of the Industry address.

Kidler had done that for years. I’m not sure. I mean, he would get a lot of industry attention once a year I’m not sure it helped his career at all. Jessica Curson did the last one. If my memory is not faulty, that one did not have any buzz on it.

The Kindler one used to have buzz on it because he came out swinging anyway. Matt Ruby, who you can find on social at Matt Ruby Comedy, he says, of hacks, that’s why it’s nice to see Mark Marin resurfacing that ethos. And he’s one of the few people that can do it, since one he’s respected to stand up vet yes, and two he already has a massive platform. Plenty of other comedians feel the same, but don’t have the audience or keep mum because they hope to guess it up on one of those shows he’s attacking. After all, those shows are doing for a lot of comedians what the Tonight Show did for Stantems back in the eighties.

There probably weren’t many comedians attacking Jenny Carson publicly back then, either, you know, Matt Ruby continues. Industry gatekeepers used to play a role here too. They recognized and filtered out crappy comics. The collapse of quote unquote the industry has been great in a lot of ways. But it’s also put a spotlight on how much those suits served as curators.

They were remote between hacks and the masses. Is this all coming off as elitist? Fine, I’m sick of everyone crapping on the elites. Without elites, we’re just idiocracy. Someone’s got to stick up for taste, well, said Matt Ruby.

Skipping ahead, Matt points out Luis had discussed why ck is okay with tackling hacked topics years ago, quoting Ck, I never thought of hack subjects as bad to talk about. If you think any subject is hacked, go to YouTube and watch j Leno’s appearance on the Old Letterman Show. There are a ton of them and they’re amazing. He was so effing good, and everything he talked about was quote unquote hack. He did airplane Humor and at least five different segments on the same show.

He never let it go, just kept hammering and hammering at it. But with such beautiful precisions, such energy, gorgeously worded bits. To frown on them because of the subject matter is to be a self serving idiot, preach Louis C.K. Johnny Mac, are you on team Louis C.K. I guess I am, because he’s right about Jay Leno, who apparently is the worst person who ever lived, because last month he had an opinion on late night television, what a terrible guy.

But go back, there’s compilations on YouTube. Go back and watch Jay Leno’s appearances on Letterman. He was fantastic. I used to really look forward to him. And as I’ve talked about with Jay and with Jimmy Fallon, please understand what the Tonight Show is.

You’re not guest hosting for Howard Stern. It’s the Tonight Show. Do you think Jimmy Fallon is gonna come out tonight and be like, hey, you know, instead doing the monologue, I want to address Gaza for ten minutes. That’s not what the Tonight Show is. We have other things.

John Oliver does that, John Stewart does that. It’s okay. Jimmy Fallon is just hosting the Tonight Show. Speak of Howard Stern. Larry O’Connor in The Spectator writes, Howard Stern disappeared years ago.

He became the very thing he always raged against. I’m glad more people are saying this because I’ve said this, publicly for probably a year now on the Substack. I’ve said it on the podcast. I’ve definitely said it in real life for a long time, Howard writes, Larry O’Connor became the very thing he always raged against. For many of us, particularly those in jen X who came of age during his prime, the future started a long time ago because of the Howard Stern we grew up on.

The one we admired, feared, laughed with, and sometimes fought with has been gone for you years. I was a teenager in the eighties and a driven, hard working young professional in the nineties. Same here. I didn’t just listen to Stern. I studied him, his timing, his fearlessness, his command of the mic.

He was chaos on order, raw instinct and precise control. Every segment was a masterclass in real, unscripted, unfiltered entertainment for anyone who dreamed of a life behind the microphone. He was the guy. Amen, preach brother. I have said this, Howard Stern’s not a once in a generation talent.

He’s a once in two generation talents. He’s been around for a while. But yes, he became everything he hated. Larry O’Connor, the Spectator writes, he wasn’t trying to change the world. He was just trying to tell the truth in the most outrageous, hilarious, sometimes jaw dropping way possible.

Then he changed what happened. The decline of Howard Stern tells us a lot about the larger cultural shift we’re all living through. It’s a story of rebellion traded for comfort, danger traded for safety, authenticity traded for approval. Boy, this is a good piece, and Larry gets it here. I don’t want to steal his thunder.

Let me tell you what he wrote. What made Stern so electric in the nineties in the early aughts was the tension. He was always pushing a line, towing the edge of what was allowed. Now, when I teach my college class about Howard Stern, I will act like I’m walking up to the edge of a cliff, and i will spin my arms like I’m trying to not fall over. Howard would walk up to the line.

Now, ohpiing Anthony, they would drive past the line off the cliff, and that’s why they got fired several times. But Howard watched that line, walked right up to it, didn’t go over. Continuing with this piece, he was always pushing the line, towing the edge of what was allowed. Working within those boundaries and constantly fighting them gave his show its fire. There were consequences to his words which made them dangerous.

The danger was thrilling, and when he went behind the cerrus XMPA wall, all that was gone. He wasn’t risking anything anymore. The danger was gone, and so was the edge. Once he became the highest paid broadcaster in history, there was no more fight. He had won.

He didn’t have a boss anymore. He was the boss, and with no one to battle, there was no more friction, no more fire. Suddenly, the guy who once ranted about bureaucracy, bad management, and corporate nonsense was no longer punching up. He was the system, and a show, once anarchic and unpredictable, became safe, soft, comfortable. Worse, it became celebrity driven.

The guy who once ridiculed Hollywood phoniness was now sipping wine with Jimmy Kimmel and kissing up talent degenerous. Then Trump broke his brain. The guy who made his name being the most politically incorrect man in media suddenly became a skold, a hall monitor, a voice of sanitized to lead approved opinion. The man who used to mock everyone and everything was now in lockstep with the Manhattan elite he used to detest. The King of media lost his crown, not because someone took it from him.

He gave it away.

All right, let’s check in on Colbert Gates.

No surprise, Steve of Colbert had a good July. Jimmy Kimmel’s show, which was not hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, did not. No shocker here. A Late Nighter reports The Late Show with Stephen Colbert averaged two point nine nine nine million total viewers across eleven first round episodes. Nobody could find like two more people to push that over the three million work, okay, a twenty nine percent gain from June, in the show’s highest monthly audience since February of twenty one.

No shocker, But, as I said on last week’s comedy Stock Market, let’s sell high on Colbert. I don’t think anybody actually cares. Jimmy Kimmel Live quote fell hard in July. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was off, dropping thirty percent to one point two three six million viewers, Jimmy Fallon with the Tonight Show flat at one point one three five and the eighteen to forty nine demo Colbert up forty four percent, Fallon up nine percent, Kimmel down forty seven percent. Yikes, anybody watching?

Seth Myers flats at eight hundred and eighty nine thousand and up eight percent in the demo, So the competition went away and nobody switched over to Seth Myers. Really, uh, If Lauren offers you the chair, Seth, say yes, Okay, are you listening? Seth? If Lauren offers you the chair, you say yes, that’s your next twenty five Gutfeld getting three point two one two million viewers. Some people like to point out that Gutfeld airs in prime time on the West Coast.

Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerilla’s YouTube channel at seven pm Central Time. Jimmy Carr’s Laughing and Joking. The Blue Whale Comedy Festival kicks off today in Tulsa for its tenth year. This year’s lineup includes some pretty good people Hannibal Burst, David Cross, Robbie Hoffman, He’ll Say, Sloan, Brett Weinback, and Tommy Brennan Blue Whale is bringing it. They’re doing a new show called The Next Wave, which is a top comics to watch, a sort of show four day festival at six venues across the Tulsa Arts District.

Over at the Fringe, Troutle went to see a Milia Hamilton’s Forget Me Not, a rap based show about someone calling Hamilton that’ll never be a hit. Amelia Hamilton takes to stage with suitable swagger, boasting of her talent and insisting I don’t need your permission. You’re gonna sit up and listen. She’s got a clear skill for comedy, raps or It’s turtle, but translating such talent into a sixty minute show isn’t always easy, as others have found. Oh She’s decent at it.

Voice Mag caught up with Carolyn mcavoys over at the Fringe. Her show train Man is a stand up storytelling show about growing up with her younger brother who loves trains and getting his own way. She explores themes of sibling rivalry, disability, full time care, and also horoscopes and Disney princesses. Her strategy for surviving the Fringe is I’ve decided I’m not going to drink alcohol for the month. I think staying sober will help me get better sleep and make me less anxious over all.

I’m in my thirties now, and I don’t think I could face trying to perform my show with a hangover. I loved this question best or worst review you’ve ever received, she said, I’ve actually never officially been reviewed. Well, she’s at the Assembly Roxy at one twenty pm every day until August twenty fifth. That is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, and you’re on Apple Podcast, click that matter that says uninterrupted listening, it’ll cost you five bucks a month.

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Featured: Taylor Swift, Jo Koy, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Joe Rogan, John Oliver, Steven Colbert, Howard Stern, Kate Smurthwaite, Oasis

What’s in This Episode

• Taylor Swift new album announcement and Jo Koy’s Golden Globes joke controversy
• Jimmy Kimmel obtains Italian citizenship amid political concerns
• Late night hosts support Stephen Colbert during difficult time
• Howard Stern contract negotiations and potential career moves
• Howard Stern’s evolution from anti-establishment to celebrity sycophant
• Oasis reunion tour impact on Edinburgh Fringe performers

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, are you excited? We’re getting a new Taylor Swift album, The Life of a show Girl Taylor Mede. The announcement on Instagram at twelve twelve a m. And I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

Now, all this reminds me of that time Joe Coy who’s just got a reputation for being so so mean. That’s his reputation, isn’t it. I’m pretty sure it is. Remember at one time he was hosting the Golden Globes. Taylor Swift was at the Golden Globes and Taylor must have gotten stuck in traffic or something and had to make a big dramatic entrance.

Remember she walked across the room and everybody was staring at Taylor Swift, remember those particular Golden Globes.

And then she sat down, and then boy, Joe Cooy just told this horrible, horrib…

I hate to even play it for you, but just for context, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Gloves in the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer Camber shots of Taylor Swift. I swear, I mean, I mean that is vicious to go after Taylor Swift like that, And of course she correctly reacted by just totally stone facing Joe Cooy and then helping to create the narrative that Joe Cooy was not funny hosting the Golden Globes and well deserved, Joe Cooy, you have been picking on Taylor like that awful.

After the show, Joe Coy spoke to Entertainment tonight and the tone deaf Joe Coy said, Oh man, it was cute. It was cute. I was just saying it’s less cutaways, that’s all. Dude, read the room. Johnny Mac’s a bit of an SEO whore today forcing Taylor Swift in such a title.

Hey, I need downloads. Here’s a question making the rounds. Is Jimmy Kimmele preparing to leave the United States? You see, he’s a citizen of Italy now and he might leave the country because of a certain politician. Let me answer now, Jimmy Kimble is not going to leave the United States.

You sound crazy, You sound stupid. Kim Ole was on the podcast of his ex girlfriend Sarah Silverman. Sarah said a lot of people I know are thinking about where they’re going to get citizenship. Dis In reaction to a famous politician, Kimmel said, I did get Italian citizenship. What’s going on with that politician is as bad as you thought it was going to be.

It’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable. I feel like it’s probably even worse than he would like it to be. Kimmel then discussed Joe Rogan, saying, now you see these clips of Joe Rogan saying why is he doing this? Why are you deporting people?

And people go fu. You supported him. I don’t buy into that. The door has to stay open. If you want to change your mind, that’s so hard to do.

If you want to admit you were wrong, that is so hard and so rare to do. You’re welcome to do so. John Oliver spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about how the late night hosts get along, and John said, well, the stakes are just lower. Noil, there’s no point in being in a war. You’re not fighting over any meaningful territory.

We’ve been in contact as a group since the strike that’s the famous Strikeforce fod podcast, which was fantastic. So as soon as the news broke about Colbert, we were all checking in with Steven and the chat, and then he came up with the idea and asked us to come, and of course we’re all going to do it. You want to be able to support him and his staff in a horrible, horrible time. The New York Post wrote about all this Howard stern silliness. They say reports of these shows impending in have re energized Howard Stern, who insiders say wants to prove he’s still one of the best interviewers around.

See now, I wish it had said Howard wants to disprove he’s one of the best around, But that Howard wants to prove that he’s still one of the best interviewers around proves the whole point that Howard has lost the narrative. The source tells the Post he’s going to bring it on mindframe. The source tells The Daily Mail if he signs with Serious again or anyone else, it will be his last contract. That makes sense. The man is seventy one and has a ton of money, and as Johnny Mac has loudly said, he’s going to do a farewell tour on Serious Exam by the way, I will add, but the source told The Daily Mail, if Serious doesn’t sign him, he’ll have a backup plan.

He’s not going to allow anyone to be the reason for the end of his career beside himself and what he wants to do. That source speculated Howard might move to HBO Max. Know he won’t. They have no money or Netflix. I guess maybe.

I don’t think Howard was ever that good at television. See the Channel nine show. I guess the E show was all right. I mean, would he just do a fake radio show that’s not on the radio and film it like a radio show and stick that on Netflix? I guess possibly, perhaps that’s possible.

The source said Howard likes what he likes and that we could be bitter on how things are going. It is anything new to him. He also isn’t blaming things on his age. The world has changed, he has changed himself. If he didn’t, he would have been gone a long time ago.

He still wants to figure something out to stay, especially for his team that would be mostly affected. As I said in my commentary, renewed for less work less. That’s the solution everyone, and they will take it. Barrett Media wrote about Howard and is a ligne with the way I think that Howard has changed over the years and forgot what made Howard Howard. But Barrett Media correctly points out Howard, who universally held disdain for the white collar elites in New York City, was making huge money.

He had a reputation as a bit of a recluse who avoided the fancy parties in New York City. Getting the right invite is like winning the lottery, and Howard was never seen at those gatherings. He went through a divorce and eventually remarried a remarkable woman named Beth. He bought a place on the Hampdens and began attending the very parties he once criticized. Barrett Media says, my theory is that the Hampton’s party circuit was important to his new wife.

If you’re dining with the very people he once loathed, your show will change. Howard began to team down his interviews. Howard Stern has become the sycophant he once claimed to hate. His antics became his team as a sleeping puppy. The show lost his edge as Howard kissed up to the powerful and famous.

It is disappointing that Howard will not ask pampas celebrities tough questions anymore. It’s purely because he wants to be their friend, not the friend to his longtime audience. I’ll chime in and point out we’re talking about Howard Stern for the first time in like fifteen years. I’m going to play a clip for you. Could this possibly be real?

Kate Smurthwaite had a show at the Fringe and posted in a video Oasis should be more considerate. Apparently the reason no one showed up at Kate’s show is because Oasis fans are not interested in her show. Now this is the Fringe. Maybe this is some sort of awesome kaufmanesque bit. I played it.

I think she’s serious. Here you listen. So I’m here at the Banstee Labyrinth, still in costume, twenty five minutes after my show should have started. Under this is the Oasis effect. So I did a couple of hours flying as I usually would.

That would usually get me a good crowd, and I could tell it wasn’t working. Big groups of people in Oasis shirts coming past no interest in hearing about my show or anybody else’s show that was out there advertising My children’s show. This morning also counseled due to zero audience members showing up. And I’m also aware of performers losing their accommodation because landlords have suddenly realized that they can make more money by renting the space out to Oasis fans. I think it’s absolutely heartbreaking to be canceling shows.

The first time I’ve done this in ten years at the Edinburgh Fringe, literally pulled a show because no one showed up. I think the Fringe Society should have seen this coming and done more about it. And I think a band like Oasis should be more considerate of their fellow performers when they decide where and when to put their. Shows on Kate, are you serious or is this brilliant sketch duo? The Mayor and his daughter are playing the Fringe and they caught up with a voicemag dot UK.

They say they’ve made it their mission to repair the fractious community of modern Britain using professional sketch comedy. What’s their advice for the Edinburgh Fringe? They say, our producer Rosie recommends that you shower, do laundry and sleep in whatever accommodation you’ve booked. You paid good money for it, why not use it? All?

Right? What’s their show about? They say it all starts with a question, what unforeseen events may occur during a comedy show for which we must immediately rehearse the audience. It naturally follows, for example, that an audience must be prepared if a demon came on stage and started performing comedy. Therefore, we’ve built a show around educating and informing our followers about the nature of demons.

You’ll find them at the Assembly Roxy Snug Bar at four to ten until August twenty fourth. The Times not big fans of Joe Tresini’s show at the Fringe. They called it a lecture with laughs rather than a stand up act three stars out of five yikes. The Times wrote, normally, when fringe comics give themselves a title such as ten Things I Hate about Me, you know they’ve vamped up their anxieties for larity. Joe was here to find a sunny way of describing depression, drug addiction, loneliness, paranoia, compulsive lying, suicidal impulses and a heart attack.

At the age of twenty three. It’s not an easy task. He pulls off the difficult balancing act of firing out awful yet funny stories. An example the time he had his appendix had as a child, rather than admit he had been lying to his mother about the stomach ache, he used to keep himself out of school. Wow.

Yet it’s a comical confession, a lecture with laughs rather than a stand up show. That’s at the underbelly Through the twenty fifth they also did not like Rosie O’Donnell two stars at of five the times rights in common knowledge are commandingly told, yet sentimental Edinburgh fringed abut you, The Irish American actress and talk show host Rosie o’ donald tells us all about fleeing Trump’s America to move to Dublin this year with her twelve year old child. This is storytelling rather than stand up, flecked with wit, but steadier and more presidential than anything her nemesis quote the Orange Menace unquote tends to offer from the White House. O’Donnell is self aware enough to puncture her own pretensions when she gets too earnest, But there’s also something self regarding about this story so much that it’s very much a famous person’s show for their fans, not a way of making new ones. We’ll stay over in the UK today, Catherine Ryan is going to host a podcast in which two comedian guests write erotic stories about each other.

It’s called Write Me Dirty. Each story will be triggered by a ridiculous prompt, and after both tales are aired, Catherine Ryan will crown the weeks Erotica Champion based on sexiness, funniness, and creativity. What might a prompt be? An example? Apocalypse must include a zombie and a can of beans.

Catherine Ryan said. When they asked me if I wanted to host a show about sex erotic in fiction, I’d have to think twice. Said absolutely not. When I realized that I have a front seat is comedians squirmed through the awkwardness of reading aloud the erotic fiction they written about each other for a prize I reconsidered. Chris red is doing a new scripted audio comedy called Headcase.

Described as a satirical take on the hip hop industry, It takes on topics like the Drake Kendrick lamar feud.

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You will find that on audible and it bounced this one a couple times. Let’s do this one. The headline, joking about her abusive husband launched this Chinese comedian to stardom. The authorities aren’t laughing. From CNN, Fan Chuneley looks every bit the middle aged woman from rural China among a crowd of youngster is vying to become the next breakout start.

In one of China’s most popular stand up comedy contests, she stands out. When the fifty year old takes the mic. She beams with life and drips sarcasm, unloading jokes about her abusive ex husband that brings the audience into a mix of laughter and tears. Footage of her routine went viral than officials in the eastern province of Xixiang issued a warning saying such jokes are quote catalysts that provoke gender conflict. They didn’t directly name Fan or the show only alluded to a newcomer dubbed an industry gem, which was the nickname given to her by the show’s judges.

The local government’s Political department wrote on Chinese social media platform we chat, the content of some talk shows is gradually deviating from the nature of humor, simplifying gender issues and repeatedly making a fuss about the opposition between men and women. Any discussion of gender issues should be rational. I’m not sure they understand how comedy works, and that is your comedy news for today. Howard Stern’s not going anywhere, neither of mi I. I’ll be back tomorrow see then.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Jen Kirkman, Theo Von, Joe Rogan, Andrew Schultz, Kamau Bell, Sean Ryan Shark, Alice Waterland

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron trending on Threads for calling out ‘edge lord’ comedians
• Marc Maron’s HBO special bit about Theo Von having Hitler as a guest
• Jen Kirkman’s past blackballing and harassment compared to Maron’s current platform
• Comedy divide between observational/introspective comedy vs. ‘protein shakes and peacocking’
• Austin comedy scene and alleged influence of Joe Rogan-aligned comedians
• Marc Maron as the new ‘sheriff’ calling out Trump-friendly comedians

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey the Aaron Johnny Mac with another commentary episode. I’m not gonna start doing this every day. I just had two things on my mind yesterday afternoon. I dropped one about Howard Stern.

Today is about Mark Maren and I’ve become just fascinated on comedy threads. It’s like people discovered Mark Maron exists. He’s the talk of Threads. You know, he’s been around. He’s had a podcast for sixteen years.

You could have listened. One of the interesting side effects of all this says people are rallying behind Mark Maren. I keep seeing tweets like this one. You like Mark Maron, now good, It’s deserved, but rewatch them. Jen Kirkman, she was basically blackballed for saying the same stuff over the years.

Another one, Mark Maron is great for calling out Edge Lord’s, but Jen Kirkman deserves way more credit. I mean fine. I know personally, I did a Jen Kirkman c K story once and she blocked me. So I don’t know w come out. Bell has a substack.

He wrote, there’s a new comedy sheriff in town. If you’re a comic, Mark Maron needs to know if you’ve been in the vicinity of Donald Trump love it. Bell writes about the bit from Maren’s current special about if Theovonne had hitler On as a guest. I don’t know if you’ve seen the special yet. It is fantastic.

Bell writes, that’s what I thought. This is it the resistance against fascist comedy finally goes mainstream. And it’s true. I’ve seen other like minded comics aka comics with minds celebrate Maren’s bit about THEO. As I type this, Mark Maren is a trending topic on threads.

Yes he is, he has been. Let me just see what’s going on right now. I’m gonna just search Mark Maron and see what people are saying here in top all right, just to bring this all together. And again, no script today, I’m just talking off the top of my head. Somebody named Sean Ryan Shark came at Jen Kirkman and wrote, thrilled you could make one of the most important moments in social media history about yourself, whoever you are.

Jen Kirkman wrote back, yes on my page, what a sin, sir. Please go back to your male lonely epidemic. You do not have the critical thinking skills for my post. Mark is a friend of mine and he would agree with me not you enjoy your weekend, whoever you are. Apparently my post is doing well where I wrote It’s a shame Mark Maron only started podcasting last week.

People seem to like what the guy has to say. If you’re on threads, I’m at Daily Comedy News, Jen Kirkman again. Sorry, I’m all over the place again. No script today? Was I blackballed?

I don’t want to spread false things. Maybe definitely harassed into PTSD better now and I’ve learned how to talk stuff online and make it fun. I honestly think I was mostly just ignored. But I do think Mark makes a bigger impact because he’s more in the clubs with those guys. I always avoided them, so no one wants to hear from the chick who never occupied the same literal space.

Mark Maron has a pretty big podcast and he’s out promoting a product on HBO. That’s why people are paying attention. Sean of Killy Posts. Mark Marin is arguably the inventor of comedian interview podcast and the dude going scorched earth on a lot of the people he influenced, but who’ve used the medium in the worst hackish way on the way out is kind of awesome. Jennifer right, smart man is right.

Comedy used to be observational, introspective, and rooted in real emotion, bringing relatability and catharsis to the masses. Now it’s protein shakes, peacocking and prepubescent punchlines for clicks. Alice Waterland, comedian posted, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Mark is doing his thing with an A, but being vocal about this stuff has probably negatively affected my career and has certainly affected my mental health.

And now everyone is having a much needed conversation we’ve been begging you …

It’s the way it works. I wouldn’t change a thing I ever said or did anyway. W camal Bell posts Maren has specifically chosen comedy podcasts that are friendly with the Trumpedians. He then plays a clip from Bad Friends. I played that same clip on the main show the other day, but since I have it here, I will play it.

He’s talking about somebody in Austin. Some people think it’s Joe Rogan. As he’s running half the planet out of Texas. Yeah, he’s got a tight hold on the enlightened me, said. Dude, Maren’s disdain.

It’s not a it’s reasonable criticism, reasonable criticism. Ye, what do you think the Austin shelf life is going to be? Well, you don’t know, Like I think that it’s so effectively tribalized at this point it really comes down to material I mean, at what point, like, at what point it’s like whatever they represented in terms of policy, and it’s not a stretch. It’s like they won trans people are frightened. They have no ability to get healthcare anymore, and they’re afraid of being alive and have no freedom left.

So that’s done. When do you stop with the jokes unless you’re a hack bell? Right, So, I’m old enough to remember the East Coast Rappers versus West Coast Rappers beef of the nineties. This feels like that, you know, I think he just kind of nailed it. Comedy comes in all forms, and some people like Maren, some people like Rogan.

I like both. I’m also a free thinker. I listen to things and I go, huh interesting, where I go that’s stupid? And I decide for myself personally, I thought Mark Marin Special was really funny. I thought the theo Vaughn Bitt was really good.

As I’ve talked about guys like Andrew Schultz being like, I can’t believe Trump lied. Yeah you think. I mean, I know, I’m supposed to go down in the middle myself and you’re not. At l and A. People want to hear Schultz say that.

I’m just like, really, dude, Bell writes, Maren is the perfect person to take on the Trump Medians and the entire Rogan sphere. No one can question Mark’s comedy bonafides. He started a stand up career in the late eighties and he take no prisoners comedy scene of Boston. If Mark Maron wants to be the sheriff of America’s twenty twenty five comedy scene, then we’re lucky to have him. That’s it, no real conclusion.

I’m just fascinated by everyone just being like, oh, this Mark Myron guy has a lot to say, you think, uh yeah, And you know, Mark’s wonderful. I’m going to miss his podcast. I’d love to get him as a guest someday that I have no chance right now. If he’s doing the top shelves. But maybe you know, in eighteen months after he’s been on a little while and he’s doing something quiet, or maybe get down a movie junket or something.

I would love to talk to him just in general what I would I didn’t want to talk comedy with him. I’ve listened to him. I speak on his own podcast about living in Queens. That’s what I want to talk to him about. I did throw deep one day.

I have an old email from my days. It’s sirious, and I just was like, hey, gonna take a shot here. I did not hear back. All right, that’s a little extra commentary for today. Back in the Morning with a normal episode.

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Featured: Marc Maron, Jim Gaffigan, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Amy Schumer, Hasan Minaj, Ronny Chieng

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron and Jim Gaffigan discuss the future of stand-up comedy
• Satellite radio’s overlooked role in saving stand-up comedy in the 1990s
• Marc Maron performs Taylor Swift song from his Netflix special
• Dave Chappelle documentary screened at Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival
• David Letterman praises Dave Chappelle as gold standard for comedians
• Amy Schumer undergoes back surgery recovery
• Hasan Minaj and Ronny Chieng add fifth show to Beacon Theater run

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. In case you missed it. Yesterday afternoon, I dropped a commentary episode about this Howard Stern rumor that is just ridiculous. I said my piece there.

You can listen to that later today. I’m going to drop another commentary episode about Mark Marin. That won’t be a thing that I’m going to do every day. I just had two things on my mind back to back that I wanted to talk about.

Speaking of Mark Marin, he had on his podcast his visit to the ninety second …

Jim asked Mark Maron about the future of comedy. Now, I realize, as I’m putting this together, I listened to podcasts at least two X speed, and when I pulled the audio, I pulled it at two X speed. So if you’re listening to me at two X speed, you’re gonna have to listen to Jim and Maren at four x. But neither one of them speak very quickly. I think you’ll be able to follow here.

The question for Mark Marin is about the future of comedy. I have trimmed it for both pacing and language, and it’s at double speed. What do you think it’s going to happen in the next five years? And stand up? Well, sadly I believe about podcasts and stand up think’s happening because of the fragmentation of media and the kind of you know, contraction of mainstream media and gate keepers which some people are good they’re gone, like is it?

So what happens ultimately with social media platforms and the kind of uh malignant spread of podcasting is that you know, people will adapt to anything, and if that becomes the primary you know world of entertainment, you know, the people eventually just adapt to it. So what has quality and what is elevated and what is produced proberly, well it will just you know, seem not necessary. So I think at of what’s happening in stand up in terms of you know, crowdward clips and just you know, gunning for the hits. So you can you know, you know, get a job where people know you from a three minute peace where you talk to a couple about their kid, you know, and then you can fill a room and do more of that. Uh, I could get lowers the bar for everybody.

So I think what will happen is that you know, well produced, well crafted, you know, thoughtful people that have chops and and a real you know, uhh, entertaining, grounded, you know, high quality stuff. Well, it just will become more and more unimportant, you know. But you know there is also no there is you know, it’s you know people. I believe that people value their time even more than their money. And so like those clips, you know, like those people that do the crowd worker make fun of someone shirt and all that, and they don’t have the stuff.

They’ll go once, but they won’t go back and see that person again. I mean, I have a large thory I always been in the next one who does that, they’ll go see that. I really want to believe you, But boy, people are dumb.

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Also a double speed.

And I was thrilled to hear this. You’ve heard me, if you’ve listened for years, you’ve heard me slow burn about people named Jim Gaffigan. I’m not gonna pull my punch about Jim Gaffigan. You know, people that we were really good to in the early days of satellite radio, and then when they got a little more famous, they didn’t know how to return calls or wouldn’t come up anymore, got a little too big. Here is Mark and Jim talking about and I never hear this.

You always hear about how Netflix helped comedy, and it has gotten a race from history. Satellite radio helped stand up comedy. Please understand that both serious satellite radio and XM radio, led by the late Sunny Fox, we helped stand up comedy. Okay, please understand this. This has somehow gotten erased.

It goes like straight from the homedy boom of the eighties and the cable TV shows, and then it skips straight to Netflix and everybody skips that decade there. So I was very happy to hear Jim Gaffigan and Mark Maron talk about the paychecks they got from satellite radio. Let’s listen. I used to describe it as you would because it was after this eighties comedy boom collapse. Yeah, it was essentially going into phonograph repairman as an occupation.

It didn’t make sense and it wasn’t like, oh, I forth, you know, saw that it was gonna you know, that cable was going to you know, the simultaneously. You know, it ended up being a joke on The Simpsons, how bad stand up was, but it was an outlet. That was My first TV appearance was on Caroline. But I had no expectation that, you know, satellite radio would send you a check every you know, a couple of most. Things to firstart to come in.

When I got an email from sound Exchange, I’m like, this is a racket. Sound Exchange and I talk too of comic contuity. You better sy not cause I got money for you the one and you always any get the resgual from Sattle. I’m like, Wow, you’re welcome, Jim, call me back sometime. As I mentioned, I will have a bonus episode about Mark maren later today.

Mark Maron really likes that Taylor Swift song that he used in his recent special, to the point where he performed it live. Let’s take a listen. That is not bad at all. Mark Maron out on Netflix today. Jim Jeffries Two Limb Policy is the sixth special for Netflix.

I had mentioned late last week that they were going to screen Dave Chappelle live in real life at the twenty third Annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival. That did indeed happen. The Holler Reporter says the film chronicle Dave’s Cornfield comedy shows during the pandemic. It was originally titled Dave Chappelle This Time, This Place and originally premiered at Radio City in twenty twenty one during a Tribeca festival. The Holly Reporter says fall out over trans jokes reportedly derailed distribution.

In response, Chappelle did a special tour featuring the dock at a comedy show. The documentary remains unavailable to the general public. The Holler Reporter says audience laughs and cheers were frequent during the screening of the feature. The film feature candid glimpses of Chappelle’s interactions with John Stewart, Bob Saggett, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Tiffany Hattish, and David Letterman. It also reveals Dave Chappelle’s role as a mentor to Michelle Wolfe, who lived with the Chapelle family during the pandemic.

As the credits rolled, the Holly Reporter says, Chappelle, dressed in a suit no tie sneakers, took it on stage and awkwardly discussed the documentary, noting that he didn’t know about the scheduled open form because I didn’t read the for sure. I just showed up from the stage. He shouted out to David Letterman, who was in the audience. He told Letterman, I love you so much. Bro.

Dave was handed a microphone and shared that Dave Chappelle is the gold standard he cites when advising young comedians in and around his native Indiana asking whether or not they should go to La Letterman says, if you’re not going to be as good as Dave Chappelle, there’s no need to leave. Quoting Chappelle here, I’ve gone on and get snubbed by the Grammys and the Emmys because someone thought it was a good idea to tell trans jokes. Dave is doing Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp in Yellow Springs, Ohio again this summer. There were shows this weekend and then the weekend of August twenty first through the twenty third, and that’ll be a wrap for the summer. Amy Schumer revealed she is recovering from back surgery.

She was on social media posing with a walker. Amy Schumer explained, since my surfing injury back in the day, my l five has been killing me today. I got a laminectomy. It’s a short recovery and when I’m feeling better, I will buy a bra in the day. Amy had posted a selfie from the hospital with a caption about overhearing that pickleball really keeps this place in business.

Hasan Minaj and Ronny Chieng are doing well. They’ve added a fifth show to their run at the Beacon Theater December second, third, fourth, and fifth. They’re sold out. They’ve added a ten pm show on December second. I can’t stab that lady, You’re crazy.

Pete Davidson gave an update about the Staten Island ferry. He said, when me and Colin got the call, they were like, we should at least bid on it. We had no idea, no one else would. Now we have a couple of things I don’t even know if I could talk about yet, but we have a couple of brand things coming out and some cool stuff. Seth Meyers said, when I saw the size of the ferry, I laughed so hard.

It was ten times what I thought you guys had bought. Pete said, it’s a five thousand seater, it’s four floors. It’s insane. We rebuilt one floor, and then you know, we’re using that for now, and then once we accrue some more, we’ll do some more. Seth made fun of that and said, I love when you guys try to flip this.

You’re gonna be like and there’s four more floors, and they’re like, can we see it? And you’re like, no, you can’t see the other floors. Eddie Murphy worked with Pete Davidson on that movie that came out on Amazon last week and said, I love Pete. He’s an interesting mix, talented and funny, with great chemistry. We have a lot in common.

We both started a stand up comics really young. We were both on SNL really young. We both lost our dad’s really young, and we both have a connection with women. The comedians usually don’t have ICEO. Weated there.

Eddie Bill Hater revealed the reason he skipped the SNL fifty. He told Seth Myers that Andy Samberg called him about a digital short where everyone at SNL has anxiety. Hater said he didn’t want to be in it because I’m anxious, But when Yang wound up playing the part that Samberg had conceived for Bill, Hayter Peter said of his time on SNL. It was really shaky and everything. I was really anxious.

He said he would often get migraines. His vision would go out on the Christmas Show. During his first season, he got a migraine right before going on stage. He explained, my vision goes, we had to go out there and I had to hold on to Jason Zadaikas just trying to figure out what my line was. Matt Rife getting into cosmetics.

He’s making his debut for Elf Cosmetics. Rife appears in a commercial that’s a parody of a legal firm commercial called the Law Officers of Alfino and Schmarn’s. Rife and his partner crack down on overpriced beauty products while spotlighting ELF’s commitment to clean, cruelty free, and high performance products at jaw dropping prices. On the list of cool things, where at one end we have I don’t know, John Mlaney’s book club, and then we had Jim Gaffigan Bourbon on there. This is way further down the list than Jim Gaffigan Bourbon.

Just in case you’re keeping track, Mitchell and Webb getting back together. I am psyched for this now. If you don’t know who Mitchell and Webb, Are you do there’s a comedy clip, a sketch that makes the routines. It’s two Nazis and one of them asked the other, are we the baddies? Those guys?

That’s Mitchell and Webb. If you are a little more hip to comedy, you are familiar with their various sketch comedy shows and their sitcom peep show. They’re coming back for Channel four with Mitchell and Webb, are not helping a brand new sketch series No premiere in September. Six episodes featuring Mitchell and Webb leading a new generation of comedy talent and a chaotic blend of sharps, sat tire, dry wit and it’s a real silliness comedy rule of three there. In a statement, Mitchell and Web said, when Channel four asked us to do another sketch show, we were startled, bemused and available.

It’s a perilous time for the industry, and so it’s our hope that relaunching the trickiest genre of comedy is a brilliant piece of counterintuitive commissioning. We’re looking forward to working with our brilliant new cast. Despite their youth and talent and would like to encourage viewers to watch the commercial breaks carefully and do their best to buy something. It doesn’t have to be a car, but you know, a box of chocolates or an app or something. Channel four is head of Comedy, Chirleie Perkins said, and this is an actual quote, sketches back Baby.

We’re so honored to be working with David Robert and their contemporaries, alongside an exceptional collective of newer voices. Blah blah blah ah. But nothing on the internet can be liked. Some people found the teaser unfunny. On Reddit, somebody posted absolutely love these two, but I hope the show’s better than this sketch.

Another said I hate to say it, but I didn’t even smirk. More than anything, it just felt very dated. Hopefully it’s a blip, but this worries me if this is the clip they’ve chosen to preview the series. Another not gonna lie. That was a pretty unfunny sketch.

I don’t go traveling a lot, so maybe I don’t get it. But if that’s a sketch they’re leading with, yikes, Mitchell and Webb are not helping. September Channel four gossip Conna whispers in the street gossip con probably Mopie gossip Conn Aware the rumors meet with Johnny Mackett’s always a Tree. Gossip Connor whispers the tree gossip conn probably gossip Conne. Where the room with me with Johnny macs always a Tree.

I’ve been walking around my house singing that song. It is very catchy on gossip Corner. Nate Bergatzi has adopted a dog. He shared this with the crowds at his two shows stop in Philadelphia over the weekend, Nate introduced his new dog. The dog is named Philly.

Nate brought the dog out and explained that the Pennsylvania SBCA had rescued Philly from quote bad, bad conditions and added on Facebook, Philly will always hold a special place in my heart and now in my home. Nice job, Nate. Shelter dogs are always the way to go. This one Margaret’s show ripped Dean Kean. I don’t know if he saw Dean Kin announced that he was joining ICE.

I don’t want to debate that, but she wrote, You’ll never be white. Why would you join ICE and encourage people to join ICE when your ancestors were interned in World War Two, and it was at that point for the first time in my life, I even pondered Dean Kaine’s ancestry. Apparently he was born Dean George Tanaka. He was born in nineteen sixty six. His mother later married Christopher Kean, who adopted Dean Tanaka and his brother and changed their last name.

I always just looked at the guy and went, you know what, he’s a good superman. And Jay Leno, who as you know, is the worst press in the world because he commented on what Late Night should do or not. He showed up at a meeting of Toyota enthusiasts. Jay was driving a brand new Ford Mustang GTD. Jay was not invited.

A bunch of Toyota Supra owners were getting together. Ja pulls up and goes, it’s super day. I’m out superd The fellow car enthusiasts were impressed by the GTD. Apparently it has a supercharged V eight with eight hundred and fifteen horsepower and six hundred and sixty four foot pounds of torque. Did I get that right?

Car? People and people took photos with Jay, and I don’t think anybody gave him a hard time about having an opinion about late night comedy. The National Comedy Center waited till about four forty five pm on a summer Friday to announced that the Joan Rivers Joke File Exhibit would open on Saturday. It has indeed opened. The centerpiece of the exhibit is Joan Rivers Legendary Joke File, a collection of nearly seventy eight thousand original jokes created by Joan and organized into hundreds of categories, from parents, hated me and cooking to weddings and airlines.

When I worked with Joan on her radio show, while she worked with twot writers, and they would scribble something down, and like we just had like regular old notepaper, and they would scribble something down, pass it to Joan and she would deliver it, make it fun. Sometimes I’m not even sure she knew what the reference meant, because it was like a young guy to keep her like cool and hip. But you could pass her anything and she would read it and nail the joke. The immersive design at the museum allows guests to hear and see Joners performing jokes pulled directly from the file. Viewers can view original joke from the file up close and even brows.

There were a curated set on their own. Among the files three hundred and ninety jokes about New York, five hundred and thirty eight on guys I dated nine hundred and eighty nine, on politics, fourteen hundred and thirty four. On aging under weddings, Joan wrote, I was left standing at the altar so long my bouquet took root under edgar. She wrote, my honeymoon was a disaster. The next day he screamed, don’t tell me you can’t cook either, and under cooking if the Lord wanted me to cook out of aluminum hands.

These hands were meant to hold church cards out Today. Alfred Robliss crowd Work Special on the eight hundred Pound Grillis YouTube channel at seven pm Central Standard Time. Now. They wrote, CST. You don’t mean CST, you mean CED.

We’re on daylight time. If you do mean CST, you’re just confusing everybody. So if you’re in Central Time, trust Johnny Mac seven o’clock East Mountain, Pacific do the math. Blond Medicine and Ben Katzner announced the release of his debut comedy special in album. They are both called Supple Harlot.

The video version is out now. The audio version will be out Friday, September twelfth. Ben uses observational humor and skilled storytelling to discuss everything from his own adoption to reading romance novels in a desperate attempt to connect with and understand the world around him. Voice mag has been catching up with comedians at the Fringe. Edie Hurst is there.

Edie’s show is Edie Hearst’s wonderful discovery of Witches in the County of himself, a tale of the Lancashire Witch Trials, the Vinga Boys, and absolutely nothing else that’s complicated. He explains. At the start of each show, I try to flop out of a giant cauldron.

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But I think what I’m most looking forward to is showing the world how the Vinga Boys greatly made a concept album where they learn to circumnavigate the globe. Okay, sounds like a show that’s a little bit out there.

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Also at the Fringe, Luigi the musical.

This thing’s got some buzz on it now. Luigi’s heading over to the Fringe. That show will be at The Tonic August nineteen, twenty twenty one, twenty two into twenty three, and that is your comedy news for today. If you check the clock, you see how long we are. That’s why I’ve been splitting out the commentary episode.

So later today I’ll drop some words about Mark Marin and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow. Well, no, i’ll meet you back here later. I want you to listen to the commentary episodes, so listen to that, and then we’ll also get back together tomorrow morning for a normal episode. See Yah,

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Featured: Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Stephen Colbert, Alex Cooper, Joe Rogan, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney

What’s in This Episode

• Howard Stern contract renewal rumors and cancellation speculation
• US Sun report on Stern’s Sirius XM deal ending in fall 2025
• Alleged conflict between Howard Stern and Alex Cooper at Sirius headquarters
• Howard Stern’s potential farewell tour strategy
• Economics of Howard Stern’s original Sirius XM deal in 2006
• Accuracy of Howard Stern listener numbers and ratings reports

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac. My phone is blowing up with people asking me about this Howard Stern story. So I thought, let me just record a commentary episode. I’m not working off the script.

I’m just talking off the top of my head. In case you missed it, the US Sun was the original source of this The US Sun last week. Let me pull up the proper headline, just to get it right. The Howard Stern Show to be canceled after nearly twenty years, right, So, canceled is a loaded word in twenty twenty five the US Sun, And I’ll let you for yourself decide where that is in terms of reporting, somewhere between the New York Times and Daily Comedy News. Whatever you think of the US Sun, this is from the US Sun.

An insider said, Stern’s contract goes up to the fall, and while Sirius is planning to make him an offer, they don’t intend for him to take it serious. And Stern are never going to meet on the money he’s going to want. It’s no longer worth the investment after you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert. It’s just like they can’t afford to keep them going. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

So once we say the word cancel, now we’re also talking about Stephen Colbert. Forget about the Stephen Colbert of it all. But that totally to the side. This has nothing to do with this. The source claims.

If Sirius isn’t going to give Stern a good offer, I don’t think I would have anything to do with his ratings. It’s more likely everything to do with the political climate. Now we’ll see some more nonsense articles talking about how many people are listening to Howard, and I will get into that as well. Listen to me. Here’s the premise of everything I’m going to say.

And I say this as somebody who was already listening to WNBC as a was I even a teenager. Yet when Howard first came to the WNBC, I was already a listener to the station.

And then this guy named Howard Stern started doing afternoons.

I followed him to k Rock. I was at Serious Satellite Radio when the deal was announced. I was in Los Angeles the morning it was announced. I was there when Howard came on board, and we had fewer than one million subscribers. If I remember the numbers correctly, and I will tell you this.

There is zero chance I’m not leaving the door open a crack, zero chance, zero chance that Howard Stern is gonna come back from summer vacation and be like, Yep, that’s it, Robin. We’re doing nine ten more weeks and that’s it for my career. No way. Okay. I’ve heard people refer to the Derek Jeter farewell tour.

That’s what you’re gonna get. Remember when Johnny Carson. Maybe you don’t because I’m ancient, those of us who remember when Johnny Carson stepped down, you’re going to get that. I always predicted Howard would do a two year farewell tour, and I’m still not sure that he won’t. I guarantee you he does at least a one year farewell tour.

Now write this down because people are just being stupid. Write this down. Okay. Howard has not really been in the news for like fifteen years, and now everybody’s talking about him every day. He loves that.

He absolutely loves that. Here’s what’s gonna happen. He’s gonna come back in September off the summer break, and he’s going to lightly talk about the rumors. He’s gonna dangle. He’s gonna say phrases like I don’t know what’s going to happen, Robin.

He’s going to joke about how they’re getting to the end. He is going to milk this for the entire fall, and on the very last day into Christmas break. So I’m not sure how late into the month Howard works these days, But maybe Thursday December eleventh, maybe Thursday December eighteenth, if I have to pick, I’m going to pick Thursday December eleventh, Howard and serious announce, Oh yeah, we’ve extended a deal. Now will he get one hundred million dollars reportedly this time? I don’t know.

I have seen in the entertainment industry people renew for less and do less work. Now, I don’t know how much less work Howard could possibly do with the summers off in the three day weeks. But both sides are going to want the farewell tour. They were going to want every celebrity coming in, Lady Ganga, Paul McCartney, all the greats coming in and telling Howard how wonderful he is as he tries to cement this legacy that he’s not the shock jock, he’s not the person that did the ted dance and sketch. He’s not lesbian dial of Date guy, he’s not Beast Reality dial a day guy.

He’s the respectful great interviewer that he’s been trying to spend these last few years. There will be a farewell tour. The idea that Howard Stern is just quietly going to go into the night, no way, and conflating this with Colbert that’s just nonsense. So more nonsense going around is this nonsense that Howard Stern has an enemy at Serious XM. Again, the source on all this the US Son.

I’ll let you determine how much you enjoy the writing of the US Sun. So this version of the story, which got amplified by page six. Who are sourcing the Sun? Is that Serious XM executives have to take pains to keep Alex Cooper and Howard Stern from running into each other. Now, please understand the geography of the Serious headquarters in New York City, where I worked for ten years.

Now. I haven’t been into building a ten years, so maybe perhaps possibly there’s been a major change. But I do know some former co workers and no one has mentioned this to me. When I was there, Howard was off in his own compound. You couldn’t get into howard Land unless your key card would let you into howard Land.

Mine did not. And you never ever, ever, ever saw Howard Stern, except if you happen to be in the lobby when he was leaving for the day, walking from Howard Land to the freight elevator, which he would take down because you don’t want to write a civilian elevator. You might run into some civilians. You didn’t see him in the hallway, you didn’t se him in meetings, he didn’t see him in the bathroom. He’s off in howard Land.

So this idea that I don’t know he’s going to run into the hallway and see Alex Cooper. Even if Alex Cooper happened to be standing in front of the freight elevator, it would be a six second encounter. An insider told the son, she’s the one that bugs him. She gets hundreds of millions of hits. She has this mega one hundred and twenty five million dollar deal, and he hates that this young bubbly woman is the new thing.

They have to keep Howard away from her. They have to keep Howard away from when she comes to New York, so he’s there three days a week. I don’t know how often she’s there. This is a non story. The source claimed.

It’s completely turned Howard’s world upside down. He’s been in radio forty years and this change has really shocked everyone. Alex and Joe Rogan. These massive podcasters have traditional radio guys stunned. This is all silly.

I am also a college professor, and I have walked people through the math of the Howard Stern deal for over a decade. Now. Serious these days has a trillion different plans and I try to look into it and I don’t understand it. But the math, the way I used to teach it when I worked there, Serious was thirteen dollars a month. Okay, Now, how many people do you think came over for Howard?

When Howard came over, we had around a million subs. They’ve eventually got up to thirty million subs. Do you think one million people came over for Howard Stern in two thousand and six? Is that an absurd number? Let’s use that number.

So if a million people came over and paid thirteen dollars a month for twelve months a year. That’s one hundred and fifty six million dollars. You give a hundred million to Howard, you make a fifty six million dollar profit. If the number’s not one million, if it’s two million, now you’re making some serious change. I saw a report the other day that said Howard’s audiences down to only one hundred and twenty five thousand listeners.

I don’t know where someone would get that number from. When I worked there, you had no way to know who was listening to what on the satellite radios. You could look at Internet data and extrapolate it from streaming. Maybe the newer radios have some two way capabilities that I’m not aware of. Maybe somebody did a survey with Nielsen Audio.

I don’t know, but fine, I’ll accept your number. If we multiply one twenty five by twelve, by thirteen, we would reach nineteen million, five hundred thousand. So if the value of Howard Stern at that calculation is a nineteen and a half million, then you wouldn’t be able to pay him one hundred million dollars, but you could pay him twenty million dollars. Get the Howard halo effect. Do the farewell tour and what you’ll get from him is twenty million dollars worth of work.

So whatever he’s doing now, you’d get a fifth of that. And in the end, we used to joke when I work there, you don’t actually have to do the show. You just need press release to go out. So, as I wrote in my sub stack link in the show notes, Howard could work. I don’t know, fifteen days next year, as long as it’s the right fifteen days and it’s the maybe the January Birthday party, the big farewell event.

Could Howard sell out the Garden once? I think he could. If weird al can, I think Howard Stern can. Maybe you do a big event there. You do a couple of farewell things.

Paul McCartney comes in, Lady Gaga comes in, Tom Hanks comes by. You do fifteen of those. Here’s twenty million, Howard. That might be enough. No, I’m not saying he’s gonna do fifteen shows, but maybe he’s gonna make a little less work a little less.

But the idea that Howard Stern is just going to come back and be like Robin, We’ve got nine weeks left. It’s been a great forty years. Zero chance. And that is some bonus commentary for today. I’m going to do another bonus commentary tomorrow about Mark Marin.

I do not intend on doing this every single day, but I just had two topics on my mind that I wanted to share with you back in the morning with a normal episode

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Featured: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Tom Segura, Mark Maron, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Bill Burr, Matt Rife

What’s in This Episode

• George Clooney praises Adam Sandler’s dramatic acting in ‘Jay Kelly’
• Tom Segura involved in surf fight over a wave
• Mark Maron discusses Austin podcaster on Bad Friends podcast
• Late night hosts launching book clubs (Fallon, Colbert, Mulaney)
• Bill Burr on political candidates appearing on podcasts
• Matt Rife becomes youngest comedian to sell out two nights at Madison Square Garden

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now George Clooney. You respect George Clooney, don’t. Yeah, I’m often mistaken for him on the street.

People will be like, hey, you’re that guy, and I’m like, yeah, Daily comedyis and they’re like, no, no, you’re the guy from Er George something, and I’m like, no, no, that’s not me. But we’re often confused for each other. He spoke to Vanity Fair about wonderful dramatic actor Adam Sandler, and I respect the heck out of George Clooney because he speaks the truth here and I’m excited. Clooney is working with Sandler on a film called Jay Kelly, and Clooney says of Sandler’s performance, this film, more than any film Adam has done, shows what a beautiful, heartfelt, soulful actor he is. So we’re getting more dramatic Adam Sandler, which I love.

I think he’s one of the best. He’s terrible at comedy. All his comedy movies are really awful. But dramatic actor Adam Sandler, I’m in. Clooney said it, kept telling the cast don’t call him Sandman.

Don’t talk to him like he’s just some goofy comedian. He’s actually a really beautiful, wonderful actor. And I agree, no sarcasm. You’ve heard me say this before. Now this next paragraph.

I’m reading the text here, and it depends on the spin. Stay with me, Coloney said, because of what his paycheck is, which is doing big goofy comedies, when he does these other beautiful, uncut gems kinds of movies, it reminds people of that. And in the phrase, I don’t know where to put the verbal spin on it. I would read it as he’s not just a good comedian, but I suspect Coloney said it he’s not just a good comedian. But no anyway.

Jake Kelly in Theater is November fourteenth, streaming on Netflix December fifth. From surfer dot com You’re home for comedy news, Tom Sigora apparently was in a surf fight. The source for this Tom Sigora, who says I got into a surf fight, pretty good source. He explains. It was over a wave.

I was going to take a wave and this guy was like, that’s mine. I go, what are you talking about? I go to paddle out to it, and he flipped out. He pulled out a swim blade. He swung at me with it, scraped the side of my face.

I hit him. I don’t think he surfed away. He kind of floated for a minute, and then I left. Wife Christina was wondering if the guy’s dead, so Gore said, I guess I didn’t see anything in the paper. He had a switchblade in his shorts.

Did this story happen exactly like that? I don’t know. Mark Maron was on The Bad Friends podcast with Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. Maren started talking about somebody from Austin, Texas. I don’t know who he could have possibly meant, maybe some sort of podcaster, perhaps a guy that likes Mma.

Who knows who he was even talking about, because Maren did not say who he was referring to, So let’s see if we can parse Maren’s words here on the Bad Friends podcast. Maren on his own feed last week dropped that appearance at the ninety second Street Y with Jim Gaffigan. At the time of this recording, I’m about halfway through it. Listen to it while walking the dog the other night. Maren was great and Jim is fine.

But I’ve brought this up before, especially when he’s hawking the bourbon. Jim on stage performing written material clearly funny. Any other environment, Jim’s not that funny, and he doesn’t even sound that much fun Listen to him with Maren. You can hear Maren. I think you could wake up at three in the morning and Maren’s just funny.

I’m not sure if you woke up Jim at three in the morning, he would nail it. It’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that. It just is. And I’m observing it because I have a podcast. I’m in the basement.

So we’ve got Jim Gaffigan super cool bourbon thing, the John Mulaney book Club, which is even more cool.

And now Jimmy Fallon is bringing back his book club, which is called Fallon b…

They worked on that for hours to come up with that title. Fallon went on social media and posted Fallon book Club is back and I’m looking for your suggestions comment below hashtag Fallon book Club. Now. Fallon started his super cool book club back in twenty twenty one, so John Mulaney’s is a total ripoff. Back then, fans voted on a final pick from a list of six contenders.

In June, Stephen Colbert, whose show was canceled probably because of this, launched the Late Show book Club. I wouldn’t get too attached to the Late Show book Club because I doubt CBS is going to keep that around. Mlanie’s book club is titled Malanie Reads, which is somehow an even worst title. I almost had a breakdown there my computer. All of a sudden, it was like audio in put not working and the mic wasn’t working.

So I restarted the computer and then I brought this file back up that you’re listening to now, and it was blank. And I was like, are you kidding me? Because I just did six minutes and now turn out at Bilt Burr, Come on, computer, you gotta work. Anyway, the file was still there. That’s the six minutes you just heard.

This is session two. Bill Burr was on Vulture probably two weeks ago now, and I’m still picking away of that. Such a good interview. Bert said, one of the funniest things ever is that so many of my bits are online, which is great promotion to sell tickets, but the names of the jokes they name them like, that’s not the name of the joke. That’s not the perspective of the joke.

I’ve seen people teach comedy classes saying, you see what he’s doing here. Bothered me at first. Then I’m just like, you know what, what I care? The songs I listened to for forty years and I thought they were about something. To hear the artists go like, no, wasn’t.

I just saw something. I don’t know if it’s true, but that Buffalo Springfield song that goes, stop children, what’s that sound? Everybody thought it was about Vietnam and the band goes, no, it’s just sort of about this little rock club in LA, And it’s like, oh, I thought your song was about what I cared about the topic turn Two political candidates appearing on podcasts first said, I remember the first time I saw President go on the Tonight Show. I thought it was cheapening the office. They never did that.

They used to run for office that have the debates, and they wouldn’t even go and meet the press. But now I feel like everybody is a camera, so it’s all over the place. I think the landscape of it has changed. All I can say is personally, I’d never do it. I’d never have somebody come on, who’s running for president?

Now? With my intelect I’m not going to sit there and be like, so, what’s your foreign policy. I’d be like, within three minutes, dude, what’s your favorite super Bowl?

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And then people watch it go I like that super Bowl too.

I’m going to vote for that guy. It’s just so far behind my wheelhouse. Somebody once said to me, Bill, you’re a really smart guy, and I go, yeah, it is a sports bar. You put me in a sports bar and you want to talk to me about seventies and eighty sports. I’m scoring very high.

He put me in that forum where I have to interview somebody who’s gonna run for president, and then, as the sports bar guy, you’re gonna say, yeah, this guy did go to summer school a lot. Matt Rife, you’re the youngest comedian to sell out two nights at Madison Square Garden. Any thoughts Billboard was curious? Rife said, a lot of times, these kind of accomplishments and accolades are art to process in the moment because everything’s been happening so fast. A lot of the shows at broken records and venues, and I go, oh, that’s really cool, But not until two or three months later to go, wow, that happened.

When you’re first starting out on an open mic, the dream is the Garden. So to get to play twice sold out before the age of thirty, it meant everything to me. I’m so grateful for my fans, my team, my friends, and my family and everybody who’s helped me get to this point. Right now, it feels very surreal, you know. I know it’s trendy to hate on Matt Rife, but his special is funny.

In every interview I read with him, he seems like he’s a cool guy. Sorry if he looks nice, and that makes some people annoyed. He’s got a thing going on. Doesn’t seem like a jerk man. How would you grade your Garden run?

He said, Oh, that’s a tough one. To give them both an A, not a plus, but A. I really had a good time at those shows, and I felt like the audience did as well. That’s not always the case. Sometimes I feel like the crowd had a good time and I didn’t.

For some reason, they’re bringing back t J Hooker, remember that one the other William Shantner show. He was a Policeman ran from nineteen eighty two to nineteen eighty six. Netflix is bringing it back. The thought is it’ll be kind of a goof the way twenty one. Jump Street was not sure why we’re making that, but okay.

Chance the rapper is finally putting out his album star Line, and he said he got advice from Dave Chappelle, who said to approach the project as representing a moment in time. Chance said Dave told them rap albums they’re like yearbook photos. It’s not the full story of who you are. It’s just who you are in the moment. It’s important to take that snapshot and put it out there so you have documentation of what that moment felt like.

The album will be out August twenty second, out today early access on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla. TJ. Miller is the philosophy Circus. TJ. Miller recently spoke to The Spokesman Review and spoke Hanne.

He gave them the business about what they named their restaurants. He said, the city’s like a functioning alcoholic with restaurant names like twenty four Taps Burgers and Brews, or Soulful Soups and spirits. TJ said, do you understand that looks insane? Anybody who doesn’t live here. You don’t seem to.

You’re totally okay with it. He shared a conversation he had with Amy Schumer. Amy asked TJ if he was working on a special. TJ said, I think one’s coming together, but that’s not my directive because I like improvising. He asked Amy if she was working on a special.

She said, no, I’m just trying to love the time that I’m spending with the audience. Miller said, I thought that was wonderful. You’re never going to see me and go, well, I guess I’ll see all this online. Everybody’s gonna even go wow, that was just for us. He says he wants every night of his current Crowd Sorcerer tour to feel like that.

TJ says, my whole focus is trying to keep it light now more than ever, more importantly, I’m trying to have the audience walk away every single show saying, no one’s ever going to see that. That was very, very unique. I understand what you mean there, but things cannot be very unique. They’re either unique or not. Pet peeve of mine.

We are getting long here, all right, So I’m kicking four stories to tomorrow.

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Let’s talk about the trailer for the paper, The Office semi spinoff.

People seem to like it. I’ll be honest, I didn’t make it to the end of it. Let me tell you about it. The paper is a mockumentary from Greg Daniels and Michael Korman set in the same universe as the US Office, which I guess is set in the same universe as the UK Office, right because we saw Ricky in the hallway. Anyway, the documentary crew that made the dunder Mifflin documentary now they’re at a newspaper, a Toledo newspaper called The Truth Teller.

I kind of hate that they called it the truth Teller and not like the Toledo Tribune, Toledo Sun, Toledo News Gazette or something. The Truth Teller just seems hacky to me. But okay, so I’m all Gleeson. You remember him. He was the cartoonish villain in the Star Wars sequels, not Kylo Wrenn, the other guy that worked for the Empire.

Well, Gleason’s doing an American accent as Ned Samson, who’s hired as the struggling paper’s new editor in chief. We see a trailer. It looks a lot like the UK office. The way it’s shot and even the font they’re using it feels like the office. The co lead I forget her name.

It’s the woman who worked the desk at the Italian season of White Lotus. A lot of the jokes are coming in, at least in the trailer, coming from her not speaking English as well as maybe somebody else does. That’s not my kind of humor. I don’t hate this thing. I’m sure I will watch it, but I also didn’t make it to the end of the trailer, so I wasn’t like, oh, my goodness, this is great.

I also don’t understand what Peacock is doing with it. I’ve talked about this before. It’ll premiere September fourth, with four episodes on Peacock Up against the Night one of NFL, and it’s not like you can’t watch it later. But I’m pretty sure there’s an NFL game the first Friday as well. I feel like the Chiefs or somebody are in Brazil, and then Sunday, of course, is all NFL.

So I don’t know why they put it there, it might get lost, and then they’re doing two episodes every Thursday through September twenty fifth and then we’re done. So even if this thing is it’s like, oh have you seen the paper, It’s amazing, it’ll be come and went in three weeks. Why would he do that? Why didn’t you just put out one a week for ten weeks and get some water cooler going. Yeah, no, I guess not.

Gossip Connor whispers in the street. Gossip con probably MOPI gossip conn where the rumors meet with Johnny Mac. It’s always a tree. Gossip Connor whispers tree, gossip con probably gossip Conne were the room with me with Johnny Mac doling the tree? Thank you AI songmakers on Gossip Corner.

From the Daily Mail, we found out how much money Jimmy Carr is making. They say accounts File that Companies House have revealed that his firm R and I Futures Limited made four point eight million pounds in the year two September twenty twenty four. I’m not sure the structure of that sentence, what exactly that means. Whatever the timeline four point eight million pounds, The Daily Mail says, Jimmy set the company up two years ago and is earning nearly one hundred thousand pounds per week. Not bad.

Good news too. Last One Laughing, which I loved, is coming back for a second season, Jimmy said him so pleased people had as much fun watching the first season as we had making it. Can’t wait to bask in the reflected glory of the next ten comedy legends taking on the challenge.

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Speaking of Jimmy Carr on the fourteenth, Jimmy Carr Laughing and Joking is o…

That’s cool now, as people have been saying, as you know, Jay Leno is the worst person in the world because he had an opinion on late night television. Yeah, what a terrible guy Jay Leno is, which makes it even more shocking that he raised seventy thousand dollars for the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Community Center. The donation came from Jay Leno’s July ninth through the twelfth performances at a brewery. Heather Hoole Strout is the executive director of the MLK Community Center and said, we are thrilled with this donation. Jay Leno, who you know is the worst person in the world, Well, because he had opinion on late night television.

I mean, what does Jay Leno know about late night television? Right? Jay Leno and Newport Craft presented an incredible opportunity for our community to support the MLK and our community shut up in full force. The funds will support the center’s food pantry and mobile food pantry, stock vegetables for the weekly Protos to the People program at the center. The money will also sustain wellness programs, including free yoga, chi and cooking classes.

Director Strout said, Jay who you know, was the worst person in the world because he had opinion on late night TV? And who’s Jay Leno to talk about hosting eleven thirty show? What does he know about it? Jay cave his time and talent for four sold out shows. Jay Leno doesn’t just live in Newport, he shows up for Newport.

This generosity will help in so many ways. We’ll help keep our food in our pantry and mobile food pantry and more stock veggies, et cetera, et cetera. I told you about that already. Nice job, Jay Leno. Friend of the Show, Dan Boobletz Junior and Big Laugh LLC have announced Live in Loveland, now streaming on tub filmed at the two the Five’s taproom and Lounge.

Dan said, it’s a great feeling knowing that a project that was filmed here in Loveland will be seen across the world. Words can’t describe how good it feels to have a hand in highlighting comedy in Colorado and beyond. The comedy special features comedians Luke Gaston, who’s a regular at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Cam Kiernan, Thomas Nichols, who was a finalist at the Seattle International Comedy Competition, and of course for end of the show, Dan Boobletz Junior. Live in Loveland available to stream free on the two. B app Nice job there.

Hey, I’ve got a follow up that Michael Rappaport story I told you the other day. It turns out it was a beautiful day and he went for a walk in the park and petted some Golden Retriever puppies and had a great Oh no, no, it wasn’t that at all. Bruce Errs, who’s the founder of the comedy club Stardome, which canceled Michael Rappaport’s shows, told al dot Com the venue had received a flood of messages and emails urging organizers to cancel said performance. Aerrs says after discussions with Rapp Reports management team and the Hoover Police Department, he decided the best thing to do is to cancel the show. He said, I’m not taking sides.

That’s just trying to book a comedy show. I didn’t want a big protest outside and somebody getting hurt. I’m here to do comedy, make people laugh. There’s nothing political about it anyway. I was just trying to put on a show.

We take us for the show. There’s some people that really wanted to come. It’s just unfortunate the way it came down. And you know what, as I record this on Friday afternoon, it is like seventy nine degrees, the humidity’s like zero, and the sun is out. So I’m gonna wrap it up here because some other day it’ll rain and I can tell you these other stories we didn’t get to today.

That’s how the show is made. But check the clock. You got a full show and it’s free. Well, unless you went to Apple Podcasts and clicked that banner that said uninterrupted listening in which case you get this show and a bunch of others, including five good news stories which I host in Paranormal Aliens that crazy Guy. You get all those four free for five bucks a month.

So even if you only listen to Daily Comedy News, let’s say there’s thirty one days in August, so five divided by thirty one. So if you feel ripped off by today show, if you’re like, hey, man, I clicked that banner, I gave you five bucks and today’s show is only like twenty minutes long, what’s going on with that? You were ripped off for sixteen cents and I apologize sixteen cents a day. I gotta start using that math. I mean, in September, there’s only thirty days, so the show will be even more expensive.

But if you want to support the show, sixteen cents a day, that’s a great way to support the show. Is that math? Right? That doesn’t sound right? Is that all it is?

I’m not even doing a bit sixteen since times thirty one is four ninety six. Okay, yeah, so it’s like sixteen. Let’s call it seventeen cents a day. Great way to support the show. Apple Podcast click the Banner uninterrupted listening.

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