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Featured: John Mulaney, Eliza Shlesinger, Jack Black, Adam Sandler, Sommore, Jay Pharoah, Leanne Morgan, Tim Daly, Roseanne Barr, Conan O’Brien, Henry Winkler, Mac Packer

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney describes himself as ‘gentle, listless, soulless wooden boy’ in Hollywood Reporter roundtable
• Eliza Shlesinger’s minimal joke-writing process and Emmy campaign push
• Joan Rivers’ comedy writing process with index cards from 2001
• Jack Black receives King of Comedy Award at 2025 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards
• Sommore and Jay Pharoah headline 2025 Because They’re Funny DC Comedy Festival
• Leanne Morgan discusses her new sitcom ‘Leanne’ and kissing Tim Daly on set
• Roseanne Barr injured by tree branch accident on her Hill Country ranch
• 2025 Television Academy Hall of Fame inductees announced

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney, in that Hollywood Reporter roundtable was asked what would a John Mulaney type be if someone were casting a John Mullini type. M’lanie said, when it has come up, it means like a gentle, lilliss, soulless wooden boy who’s fast on his feet. John adds, I’m much less nerdy than people think.

Whatever that means, I feel a little more weight in my feet when I walk around. Eliza Selessinger had her proverbial car waxed by Billboard. There is just a massive campaign going on trying to get her an Emmy. Billboard said, I was blown away when I learned you don’t write out your jokes except for a few key words. Have you always had that ability, Eliza said, I guess so.

I never questioned it or thought about it. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve been asked about it. I figured everybody had a little list of words. I know, people like Joan Rivers had a whole card catalog, but what I do as ephemeral. I’ll talk about Joe and I worked with her and her radio show in two thousand and one, sit there with two writers.

There was like the young guy who would have the hip references and the older, more established guy. Joan was amazing because these guys would write down jokes on a card, pass them to Joan and she would deliver them in her style, in her voice. And you know, some of the younger references, she might not even have known what the reference meant, but she knew how to tell a joke and would nail it. It was really great she and you know every night there were a ton of index cards which we threw out, and here twenty five years later on the fly, I’m thinking, oh, I probably should have taken those out of the garbage. That would have been pretty valua.

But I have now, twenty five years later, not that I’d sell them. I would just donate them to the Comedy Museum. But anyway, that was the thing that happened back in two thousand and one. Eliza said, I’m only using the material for about a year, and anything that I don’t use gets jotted down as a word or a sentence or two. I don’t have a library, and maybe that’s stupid.

Maybe I forget punch lines that I could have used. I have a famous bit among my friends. It’s about Las Vegas. I did it on the road for a year. I never wrote it down to this day.

My husband’s like, why don’t you do your Vegas bit? And I’m like, I can’t I remember it. So after a lie on random friends and my husband to remind me, what was that I said about curly irons by the pool.

Also, I write so much material.

I believe the good things stick when I’m creating that hour. To me, that’s the litmus test. It’s also a great way to fight off Alzheimer’s. It’s normal to do with joke two thousand times and then on the two thousand and first time, you’re like, wait, what was the punchline? But for me, that’s where the craft and practice come in.

I go up a lot, and I love doing it. And I’m always running and rerunning and fine tuning. Because when I do my special or go out on the road and people spend a lot of money to see me, I want them to see a polished product, not me sifting through a notebook or being drunk on stage. More from the Emmy campaign billboard was like your production value is a polished and sophisticated Eliza said, I appreciate that Homi old school. I like a shiny floor.

I like a high production value. Low fi production for sure has its place, and we’ll live in a world where people are getting famous off at TikTok clip from the Giggle Hut. But there’s something special about getting to create a special I agree there. I like the show business of it all. I want people to feel like they’re watching something of quality, and I believe what I create is of quality.

Well, guys, if you listen to this podcast, I don’t have to tell you who the King of comedy is. You know who the King of comedy is. Obviously, the King of comedy is Jack Black, because he’s going to receive the King of Comedy Award at the twenty twenty five Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards. Jack Black is the second person to receive the award King of Comedy. Now, obviously, who would be the other king of comedy if not Jack Black?

Only one name comes to mind, the Great, hilarious, all his movies, fantastic, his act is, and stupid at all. The King of comedy Adam Sandler. Of course, given the honor back in twenty twenty three. Jack Black will accept the Silver Blimp on stage on June twenty first. I know you’re looking forward to this.

It’ll be on Nickelodeon teen, Nick Nicktoons, Nick Junior, MTV two who apparently still exists, and CMT eight Eastern five Pacific. Put it on your calendar. So Jack Black the King of Comedy. But if you listen to this podcast every day, I don’t have to tell you who the Queen of Comedy is, do I know? Of course not say it with me some more, of course him more the Queen of Comedy.

I got this press release here from the upcoming because they’re Funny DC Comedy Festival, and they included this paragraph. Hell does the Queen of Comedy some more? Celebrated for razor sharp wit, trailblazing stand up specials, and unforgettable roles in films such as Friday Afternext and Soul Playing. Anyway, the Queen of Comedy Samoora and Jay Farrow or the headlining acts at the third annual. Because they’re Funny DC Comedy Festival.

It is not until October, but they’ve had a pretty nice lineup the previous two years, so looking forward to that one. Leanne Morgan spoke a little more about her upcoming sitcom Leanne. In Leanne. Leanne Morgan plays Leanne, whose life is upended when her husband of thirty three years leaves her for another woman. Starting over when you’re a grandmother and in menopause isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but with the help of her family, she will navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity, and jello salad comedy writing rule of three.

But she wants people to understand this is fiction. She explains, The premise is not based on my real life. It’s based on my comedy, but it would be too weird to be about me and real life husband Chuck Morgan and my real children. It was Chucklriie that came up with the premise of my husband wants a divorce and does it over email and has had an affair with a younger woman. Here, I am a grandmother.

Blah blah blah, I just did all that. Tim Daly plays her new love interest in the show, and she had to kiss him, something she asked her real life husband about beforehand. She explained, I had to say to you real life husband, Chuck Morgan. I’m kissing Tim daily in this episode, and I go, does that bother you? Leanne said it doesn’t bother her husband because Chuck Morgan wants me to make money.

Roseanne told Fox News Digital about having an accident with a tractor that left her with quote several injuries recently while working on her hill country ranch. I had this one tree, I guess it was two nights ago. I knocked at it and a big old branch fell right on my head and trapped me in my tractor. Roseanne said. It took an hour to move the tree branch, which she described as wingh one hundred pounds.

I was like, oh, I’m seventy two years old, but I just said, my mighty prayers always work. I said, come on, God, I’m seventy two years old, and I just want to be able to harness all this strong Russian energy. And I know he’s still having me if you’re with me, And then I flipped it. She told Fox News. The one drawback from the artwork is I don’t clear the trees as good as I should, and I’m always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me on the head.

Okay. Her son told US magazine that Roseanne splits her time between Sexist and Palm Beach, Florida. She’s been busy writing scripts and that she may make a return to TV. The Television Academy has revealed the Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty five, many people getting in, including Macpacker, Henry Winkler, and Conan O’Brien. The twenty seventh Hall of Fame class will be inducted in LA on August sixteenth.

Congratulations to those guys and the others. Brett Goldstein caught up with the rap and said he’s been a comedian for like two decades, but I’ve done seventeen years of stand up and there’s no proof I could be lying. I’ve always resisted filming. I never put stuff I did online. It’s about the live experience, and I feel that quite strongly.

There’s a pack to make with the audience, which I love. The exchange happens at a room with an audience, and when you take that out of context and stick it on the internet for people to weigh in on, I sort of think, yeah, this wasn’t for you, It was for the room and where we did it. He had that pretty darn good HBO special recently, and he said it became a challenge of how do you make it work on screen? I know it worked in the room, but how do you edit stand up? How do you frame it?

Where do you cut into a joke? Thank God I work with brilliant people who knew what they were doing, because I was constantly like, how do we make sure this is funny on screen? I don’t know what people were expecting when they came to see me. It amazed me that they bought tickets not knowing me as a stand up. I think it probably worked in my favorite because their expectations must have been pretty low.

Maybe they thought I was going to come out and kick a ball and say f off and leave and that would be enough. But instead I came out and did stand up as myself. In a way, it’s helpful because I’ve promised them nothing and their expectations are low, so when I’m a competent stand up, it seem like I’m really good. Bob oden Kirk is starting to wrap up press for Nobody Too. He spoke with Esquire and said most movies don’t work.

They just don’t. Out of one hundred movies, there’s like two classics in there. There are twelve worth seeing. There’s another fifteen that are fine, and then the rest are a mess. More advice from Bob Odenkirk.

If you don’t want to take risks is don’t be in this business. You know people will make their work too precious and take too long to put it out. I always say, what do you think you’re making? Last week I told you about the Stephen Colbert Book Club. Probably the coolest thing going well.

Keenan Thompson is now putting out a book. What is going on? I guess he saw Jimmy fallon making children’s book money. So Keenan Thompson is releasing his first children’s book, this one called Unfunny Bunny. Unfunny Bunny follows Unfunny Bunny.

As Unfunny Bunny embarks on his first day of school, determined to be the class cut up when his jokes fall flat, Unfunny Bunny learns about unexpected friendship and pursuing your dreams. The story contains thirty unfunny jokes throughout, with illustrations by Tony Neil. Margaret Show went on social media, listing the fillers, injections, and cosmetic proceidures she’s had on her face. She said this is a fifty six year old woman. She revealed that her chin is fake, stating the whole chin is filler, and added she’s indicted sculpture, which sounds like a science fiction villain, like, oh, we got to stop sculpture.

Nope. Sculpture is an injectable that stimulates collagen production. She’s injected the sculpture into much of her face, which sounds like something sculpture would do. Right. Sculpture wants to capture you and inject stuff in your face.

That’s what sculpture would do. Margaret Chose says her lips are natural, although she once had filler there but not recently. She also said she’ll entertain the idea of a face lip, saying I’ll lift whatever. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption or fee drops, there’s a link in the show notes, or go to calaruga dot com slash plus. If you’re on Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening five bucks a month. All that stuff goes away and you get nothing but your Daily Comedy News. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Theo Von, Shane Gillis, Druski, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Seth Rogen, Mel Brooks, Taylor Thomason

What’s in This Episode

• Druski releases trailer for ‘The Diggers’ film with Theo Von and Shane Gillis
• Jim Gaffigan discusses parenting teenagers and bourbon business with People magazine
• John Mulaney shares ideas about Chief Brody prequel concept in Hollywood Reporter roundtable
• Parallel thinking between Johnny Mac and John Mulaney on Jaws prequel ideas
• Mel Brooks to appear in ‘Spaceballs 2’ releasing in 2027
• Taylor Thomason steps down from CBS show, cites unsustainability of touring and hosting

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You know who’s a crazy person, Johnny Mac. It’s June sixteenth. I’m already freaking out that summer’s half over.

Part of that is it never stops raining here in the Northeast. Drewski has released the official trailer for The Diggers. The Diggers co stars Theo Vaughn and Shane Gillis. The movie he tells the story of Brandon Digger, a young man who inherits a funeral home upon his grandfather’s death. And see his name is Digger.

I see what you did there. However, Brandon finds himself in a bit of family drama as he learns that his brother in law played by Theo Vaughan, also inherited a stake in the family business and his father’s wealth. They come to terms in their new partnership. Drewski and Vaughn’s characters struggle to keep the family business afloat, and then they run into Shane Gillis’s character, who is the medical examiner. Now this is interesting.

I haven’t tested this out yet, but the trailer caption says, the Digger’s funeral home is open for business. For questions or general inquiries, please call us. And they gave a phone number. Should I give you the phone number? All right, you’re on your own if you call this phone number.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I don’t know if you’re gonna get something fun. I don’t know if you’re gonna get porn. I don’t know if a Hitler is gonna answer the phone. It’s probably a promo for the movie.

But you’re on your own here. If you call six six, two seven, three three zero one zero four, let me know what happens. If people are unsure what’s going on here. THEO Vaughn teased the release back in October on his podcast. At that time, he had said, me and Drewski did a fake movie.

It was like a fake movie that we made. So we’ll see what’s up there. Pretty interesting. Theovon Sheen gillis project that’ll get noticed here on Daily Company News for sure. U Jim Gaffigan caught up with People magazine.

He said, I feel like getting teenagers out of the house or out of bed on a weekend is a game in itself. So the game is like do you blackmail, do you motivate, do you inspire? Or do you just go full crazy? Here’s what you do, Jim. I’ll leave him alone.

Jim admits the task of arrenting teenagers is such a minefield, and for me, there’s the balancing act of you don’t want to lose your mind, but you also have some sense of self respect, you know what I mean. People also asked Jim about his rituals. The last thing he does before he goes on stage, he drinks coffee and says, I’m such a slow talking Midwesterner. The pacing of a show is faster than I speak. The last time he scored.

Husband points he brings his wife Jeanie, coffee every morning, but considering I travel constantly and she does ninety percent of all the things for five kids, it’s very imbalanced. It’s the least I can do. His last to do it yourself project. I’m not that handy. If the TV doesn’t work, I just don’t watch TV.

My wife’s like, why don’t you just unplug it and plug it back in. I’m like that would mean standing up. And Jim’s last obsession, he’s still pushing this bourbon. Jim nobody cares, but he did the hit for people, so people waxed his car, and we’re told Jim’s current precious batch is called middle Child Mystery. And as you’re drinking bourbon, don’t you want to drink something called Middle Child Mystery?

I mean, is there anything cooler than that? I mean maybe the Cold Bear Book Club is slightly cooler than Middle Child Mystery bourbon, but those have to be one and two. Limited quantities are available m HMM home delivery of thirty seven states, and you get in the stores in Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I had this in Friday’s show, and then it got bounced because of the horrible Mulaney story I told you about with the death threats. So that was terrible.

But Malanie was part of a comedian roundtable with the Hollywood Reporter. John said, I’ve learned that before someone can start giving notes, ask them questions about what they think you should do. You know, like, we have an astrologer coming on. Should I bring them on in the first act and have them sit there and we can bring out Gary Coleman and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Where do we bring the astrologer out?

In the third act just start to give them ownership over something that isn’t even in significant And John was asked what he can’t believe he got away with on the show. He said, it’s not so much getting away with it, but I really respect that they’ve had me have so many big music performances on because they have a lot of data about how music does on TV and it doesn’t do as well as you might think. I’m dealing with a very data driven company that’s kind of interesting to learn, just like where the gas and Break is of people tuning in and out, and it doesn’t really color what we do, but it’s interesting information to have. I remember Jim Brewer a million years ago when he had the afternoon show on Sirius Raw Dog and I was the program director of that station. He was like, don’t we have ratings?

And I told him, I’m like, Jim, you don’t want ratings. The last thing you want is me coming to you and being like, you know people are tuning out during this segment. I’m like, enjoy the creative freedom you’re getting paid. You don’t need numbers anyway. Seth Rogan’s part of this round table and was curious if Netflix tells Malaney about the stats and Lannie said, yeah, tune outs completions things like that.

Like, I get it. You know, the stats are a good thing, but you look at them too closely, it can definitely interfere with the orts. I thought this was interesting too. You know, you hear about comedian theft and stay with me here. This is a total parallel thinking.

So if you go on my threads feed maybe two weeks ago, you’ll see I posted this. I was watching and Or the Star Wars thing and there was an actor in it who kind of looked like a young Roy Scheider, So I grabbed a screen grab of him and posted it and joked about my idea for Jaws zero, which is about a cop in the Bronx who’s like had it and is debating should he take a job as a sheriff in a small town up in the Cape cod Right, So that was an original thought I had. Now Mullaney in this Hollywood reporter thing, and I can’t say this loadly enough. John Mulaney did not rip me off. I’m not accusing John and Mullaney of stealing my joke, but I think it does illustrate parallel thinking, John Mulaney said, you know who I’d love to play is Chief Brody from Jaws, but in a prequel about his life in New York as a cop before he got to Amity Island.

But I don’t have the rights of the book, the movie, any piece of it. I’m putting that into the world because I don’t want to do the legwork of running down any of the rights. But it’s out there. I’m not sure mulaney would be right for that role, but I like the idea. It’s a ridiculous idea.

Here’s an idea that I think is terrible. Mel Brooks, who turns ninety nine this month, will appear in Spaceballs Too. That’s not the official title, that’s the working titles. Spaceball’s two will be in theaters in twenty twenty seven. We’re told Brooks will reply as the role of Yogurt in the follow up to the nineteen eighty seven cult classic comedy spoofing Star Wars and other films of the era.

I mean, it’s just not a good idea. No love mil Brooks. But if you want proof of why this isn’t a good idea, remember like two years ago we did History of the World Part two and it was awful. Right, there’s no way Spaceball’s two is going to be good. Here’s a starter.

John Candy’s dead. Yeah, don’t make it. Oh yeah. Joan Rivers was in it as the not quite c three po. Joan Rivers is also dead.

Josh Gadd is scheduled to be in this one. I don’t know. Just don’t make it. Taylor Thomason wrapped up her show. She explained why she chose to step down and said it was just not sustainable for me, so I guess touring pays better than CBS.

It was my dream that I get to finish out the season and hand it off to a new host. I really wanted CBS to replace me because I think there were so many amazing comedians who would have done a great job with the show. I bet if we live long enough, we’ll see a third version of at Midnight. It’s a relatively inexpensive format to make. Jerry Seinfeld has extended his residency at the Beacon Theater ten new shows October twenty four and twenty five, December nineteen and twenty January nine to ten.

Nice gig if you’re Jerry Reeltar dot Com tells us. In nineteen ninety eight, Jerry purchased a duplex apartment just steps from the American Museum of Natural History in Central Park, a nice part of town if you can afford that, and if you’re listening to this podcast, you can’t. But if you were to walk from Jerry’s apartment to the beaconputer, that’s an eleven minute walk according to Google. It’s a seven minute drive according to Google. But if you’re a real New Yorker, there’s no way you’re picking a seven minute drive over an eleven minute walk, because in New York City, a seven minute drive could easily become a thirty five minute drive.

If you can do it on foot, do it on foot. Shout out to Mark, who listens to the show every day and was kind enough to send me a note on the side, a little QC quality control issue. You know, sometimes Johnny blows an edit, sometimes things happen, and Mark was kind enough to hit me on the side, be like, hey, you might always take a listening around a minute thirty five to one of the recent shows, So I appreciate you, Mark, Hope you’re doing well. Let’s hit gossip Corner. The Animal Rescue League of Iowa shared a photo on social media of Matt Rife and puppies.

I bet that got a lot of likes. The post said, these puppies got a fun night out this weekend. They got to meet comedian Matt Rife. We got a request to schedule a cuddle break for VIP ticket holders at Matt’s Des Moines tour stop, and we’re happy to bring these little ones out. The puppies enjoyed lots of cuddles from VIP ticket holders.

They got to go backstage and hang out with Matt. They had a great time getting love and giving kisses. One pop even dozed off in Matt Rife’s arms. Thanks for having us, Matt Rife. Las Vegas Weekly wrote about the Las Vegas version of the comedy seller You’ll find this one in the rio, We’re told when they opened that location in twenty eighteen, they had a challenge, how do you bring the field to the newer club to Vegas without losing its edge and soul.

I agree that is a mighty challenge. Owner known to Warman says in New York, most of our shows are sold out before we even announce the line up because they trust our brand. If somebody’s funny in New York, they’re funny in Vegas. It’s very challenging to run a place the way I like to run a place from twenty five hundred miles away, which has a lot of attention to service and customer satisfaction. I decided it was the wisest thing to really partner with a casino.

They’re in the hospitality business and would take care of the day to day challenges that I would risk if I were not able to check in on out myself. That’s smart. A lot of our crowd comes in knowing what they’re going to get. Sometimes they’ve never even been to a comedy club before. It takes them a couple of minutes to go, oh, we can laugh at that.

If they’ve only seen comedy on social media. They’re pleasantly overwhelmed by the live experience. It’s much more visceral than seeing it on a phone. They do nightly shows at seven and nine thirty, and that is your comedy news for a Monday. Summer’s almost over.

I’m freaking out. It’s got to stop raining. I need beach days. See tomorrow

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Joe List, Brad Williams, Camille Non Gianni, Tony Hinchcliff, Harry Connick Jr., Louis C.K.

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan on SNL 50th season and redefining success
• Joe List’s new special filmed at multiple venues
• Brad Williams on performing in larger theaters without changing style
• Comedian debate over political material and cancel culture
• Tony Hinchcliff joke controversy discussed
• Harry Connick Jr. on heavy themes in comedy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. June Gaffigan caught up with Las Vegas Weekly, and although it seems like Jim has accomplished everything in the comedy world, he says, there’s stuff I want to do, but I guess I learned a long time ago that it’s the creed of fulfillment I should focus on. It sounds corny, there’s nothing better than coming up with a new joke. I realized this when I finally appeared on Letterman, which was such a huge goal of mine, and after that I was kind of confused.

What do I do now that I achieved this goal? Made me reevaluate what I really love about it. Jim spoke about his kids. They’re ages twelve to twenty one, so when we’re all together it’s usually around the holidays. They consistently have no interest in attending my shows, but when they were little, we threw them on the bus for a month.

They’ve explored the world a little bit. Jim spoke about doing S and L during the election cycle. It was bizarre, is what you would think. But also I was usually done after the cold Open, so it was gearing up for two minutes of work as somebody who does stand up for like an hour. I kind of missed some of that longer process, but it was an opportunity I could never imagine just so amazing, and doing the fiftieth season was so incredible.

If anything, it really surprised me because it was the first time I’ve done something where I felt like most people saw it. Maybe they didn’t see the show, but they saw a clip of it. So it was the first time I was involved in something like that. There are very few people who were like, what’s snl. I laughed at the New York Post.

They said, exclusive interview with Joe List, and I’m like, all right, but it’s not like you got I don’t know Taylor Swift. It’s Joe List, no offense, work with Joe, good guy. But you know, yeah, well from the exclusive interview with Joe List, Joe exclusively, he tells The New York Post. Every time I finish a special, I can’t believe I did it again. You know, you’re doing an hour on stage and you’re like, how am I gonna write material again?

I’m not gonna have this much stuff?

And then you do it.

Feels like a miracle every time. I feel like this special is better than the last one based on audience reactions. Plus, it’s the first one I’ve done that wasn’t filmed in New York at the Village Underground. It’s the first time I’ve cut together two different nights in two different venues, so it’s a lot of first for me. I think it’s very good.

I could be wrong. As for the time, Well, small Ball Joe List exclusively tells the New York Post I was opening for Louis C.K. Nine years ago and we did the LA fourm, which is a huge, sixteen thousand seed venue. I didn’t really know him at the time. Then we all got on a private jet and he was like, what a night.

That was the best show. Joe List playing small Ball at the LA Forum. I’m a big baseball guy, and I just like the metaphor of drawing a walk and bunding a guy over because he sees so many specials out of a crane shot and it’s at a stadium or an arena. The guy comes at the stage and it’s some sort of big act out, which is fine forever’s doing it, but for me, it’s just like I’m standing here. I’m not going to move around a lot, but I’m gonna get the job done.

It’s not gonna be too flashy. I like this part too. Joe List exclusively tells The New York Post the number one comment I get after shows is that audience members didn’t think I was tall. I’m very tall, six like an athlete. But I’ve had crooked teeth and glasses of most of my life and a bad jaw on I’ve been around Joe List, especially when a podcast company I worked at shared the studio with where they would tape Tuesdays with stories Joe and Mark Norman.

I don’t remember thinking that Joe List was tall. I don’t remember thinking anything Joe said. People think that I’m gonna sci fi. I’ve never read a Harry Potter. I’m horrible at math.

I’ve never seen Lord of the Rings. I don’t play chess, and I get laid a good amount. I’ve had no formal education whatsoever. I went to zero college. The other thing is I like foreign films, but I’m also obsessed with hockey, so you know I’m a complex guy.

Brad Williams spoke to the Independent about playing larger venues. Does he changed his style at all? Brad said, the show has always been sort of high energy. I’ve un told many times that the show was meant for theater, and maybe that’s just an over compensation for my size where I’m trying to make it as big as possible. So this show, other than the material, in terms of the energy in the scale, doesn’t changed much.

It’s not like a Garth Brooks Chris Gaines situation where I’m a completely a different person. If you like my show, you’ll like this show. No politics. I don’t fancy myself a political comedian. I don’t want to be a political comedian.

I don’t think I’m smart enough to be a political comedian. So no matter who you voted for, you can have a good time at my show. I want everyone just to have a good night out and no matter who you voted for. So I wanted to forget about the things that are going on in the world. I want you to put down your phones and not doomscroll for two hours about headlines.

I have very strong opinions about certain topics, but even when I bring them up with my show, the last thing I want you to do say hey, you think this way, you’re stupid, or you voted for this guy, you’re dumb. I think it’s really dismissive. We all want the same thing. We all want success. We want safety, security for our friends, for our neighbors, for our family.

Then to be able to advance in our careers and be able to do that. It’s what literally everyone wants. We have different thoughts on how to achieve the goals, but my job is to entertain anyone who buys a ticket. That’s my job. Well, said Brad Williams.

Cameil Non Gianni. He said, when I started doing comedy, the whole thing was in Chicago doing open mics. Was like, I have to talk about stuff no one else is talking about. But now how many guys are talking about the exact same thing. Cancel culture, anti trans stuff, whatever the f it is, it’s exactly the same.

Gianni said. It’s really weird to go up after someone who did a bit about how interracial dating is wrong and did pretty well with the crowd. Is that a thing? Is someone actually doing that as material in twenty twenty five? If I’m not familiar with such a set, but I will listen to Camille Camille said such comedians aren’t even committed to their own philosoph They say two things simultaneously.

We’re like street level philosophers, and it’s just a joke, and depending on what the attack is, that’s a defense. Oh, it’s just joking. But also what we do is important. We’re speaking truth to power. Both those things can’t exist at the same time.

Verbiglia, on a similar note, said the decontextualization of sound and video in the last decade has given anyone who speaks in a microphone a certain new level of self consciousness. It’s like, what does this paragraph sound like? What does this sentence sound like? What does this word sound like? You start to isolate everything, and I’m not free of that.

I do think, Oh, could this be cut out of context? Forbigs defends Tony Hinchcliff the infamous joke there, Burbig said, you can like the joke or not, but it was a joke. The ever so serious Harry Connoboluh said, my stuff has always been heavy. That’s always what I found most interesting. Racism and sexism, or wealth and disparity.

And none of this stuff is new. They’ve been around since the founding of this country. So to me, I’ve always wrestled with the dark stuff. I’ve always found that the most absurd. That’s the kind of stuff my hero has talked about.

If anything, I’ve been trying to get lighter. The stuff that’s heavier has more impact when it’s surrounded by things that are lighter, and also allows the audience they get to know me outside of just somebody who has beliefs. When the audience feels like they like you, like they know you, when you give them the stuff with the weight, it digests better. It’s like the difference between a random person sharing their personal beliefs versus a friend. When it’s a friend, I like this person.

Now he’s telling me this thing, it makes me more likely to listen. I feel like that’s how I’ve been approaching it, having these conversations. It definitely opens you up. Bill Burr spoke to The New Yorker about the cable news networks and said they’re trying to turn my brain a mush and I’m helping them. Every night, Debt’s scrolling on Instagram and need start reading again.

Then every election it just comes down immigration and the other usual five or six talking points. It’s like how we go through another election. No one’s talking about the complete out of control greed. Most amazing thing for me during the pandemic, other than the fact that a virus got politicized, was the fact that if you had a three hundred thousand dollars house and you were trying to sell it, it was difficult. If you had a forty million dollar house, they couldn’t keep them on the market.

I was thinking, where are they getting this money? How about this? How about Democrats haven’t been able to decide who they wanted for their Democratic nomination for three elections. Sanders wanted both times, and they said, nah, so why I have the primary? They didn’t want them because he was gonna go after the stuff that’s paying all the corrupt people.

These are liberals.

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And then you see all the stuff that the right wing people doing right now, pa…

It’s like you guys are doing that four or five years ago. If you look at the news, well they show when they show a Trump are they just show the dumbest person they could find, going Donald Trump’s a genius. That’s what the jay stands for right now. To show a liberal. They show that woman crying when Trump first got elected.

That’s not an accurate patorial of either side. These are crazy people. And meanwhile Democrats Republicans all got on the same page as greedy. They can’t be tried for inside of tradings like what that are we doing here? One of the most divisive things in this country has been Hollywood Awards shows these idiot actors.

They tuck down a red states that never been to the exact same way idiot rednecks talks about California. I ain’t to get the other side of here your opinion. We just insult them and don’t listen to them. It’s like people on the right, what are you a liptart? That’s the Internet?

The Internet? As you start your polling off with a f ed? Who’s listening after f ed? Send your letters to Bill Burr. Happy Father’s Day.

Roy Wood will release his first book, The Man of Many Fathers Life Lessons disguised as a memoir. It’ll be out this fall. Crown Publishing says the book will delve into the lessons and values a Roywood junior is distilled from the unexpected figures who shaped his life after his father’s passing. Roy lost his father at the age of sixteen. Those father figures have included a variety of people’s encountered, from teenage friends to Trevor Noah, which is interesting.

Trevor no was forty one. Roywood Junior is forty six. The Man of Many Fathers due out October twenty eighth. It’s Fringe season, so we’re going to get another run of articles about the Fringe is too expensive? Get this every single year.

I’m sure it is expensive, but this is not a new thing. The Guardian got into it. Nish Kumar told The Guardian. I don’t have any family connections in common or television. My like up was that I went to a post university that had this relationship with Edinburgh.

The review go into the Fringe created so many opportunities for me. There’s nothing anywhere in the world like it. For all it’s problems, I still see that it has this ability to change people’s lives and teach people the job of being a comedian. Kumar says performing every day for a month improved his writing. Plus, you get a certain comfort that means you’re not having a full blown physiological panic attack every time you stand one that confidence never leaves you.

Comedian Annie McGrath says Edinburgh has already become widely unaffordable for so many acts and punters and landlords have a lot to answer for. It’s really sad as it could wipe out a generation of new talent. It also means there’s a lack of diversity in what’s being created if only the wealthiest acts and the bigs names are able to go. Kumar says comedy is one of the things we still do well in this country. Not providing funding for it is insane.

I’m sure we’ll hear a lot more about the expenses. Reese Darby spoke to The Guardian and they were curious, what is one of the strangest encounters with a fan you’ve had? Luckily, Rees Dartby at a story ready and it goes back in the day. I said, I was the freestyle dance champion of a small town called Hokun in New Zealand. So someone needed me a woolen jacket that had dance champion on the back.

Also, someone made a small bust of me once. I remember with the flight of the Concorde. Jamaine Clement once received a plaster impression of his lips. I don’t know how they did it, but to present something to you that he’s of you is insane. Luckily, no one’s given me a Folclay model of my nose or anything like that.

He looked back fondly on the Flight of the Concords days and said, we were young, and it was our first time in the States making something with their money and their brilliance. We got caught up in it. We just concentrated on how we could be so funny that we’re cracking each other up. And when after redo the scene we had some control of the show, we could improvise and do seven or eight takes, and that was really the key, because I got funnier every take. I know that for a fact.

I still say that to people when I do shows. I say, give me a couple more because I’ll peek on the sixth take. Some people say, you went from being that guy in the Flight of the Concords to a sex symbol with our flag means death. What was that like? Rees says, I’m a comedy guy, not a sex symbol.

My character wore some very attractive attire, but it’s still a very insecure, bizarre weird little Man was to try to find himself. The character was perfect for me because I liked dressing up being the captain, and I do overcompensate with authority because I really have no idea what I’m doing. There were definitely some similatteries there, but I was not expecting anything. On a sexual note from fans, the audiences are amazing. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Michael Ian Black, Matt Rife, Brad Williams, Ziwe Fumudoh, Kevin Pollak

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan and Michael Ian Black discuss parenting at Tribeca Festival
• Matt Rife’s crowd work and nearly 50 shows per month touring schedule
• Brad Williams on starting comedy as defense mechanism after Carlos Mencia
• Ziwe Fumudoh’s New York Times profile on self-care as South Asian woman
• Kevin Pollak on never getting nervous and joining Tulsa King as series regular

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. For some reason, the Tribeca Festival locked Jim Gaffigan and Michael ian Black in a room together to talk to the audience about parenting. Okay, Michael was curious how Jim’s perception of being a father has changed over time. Gaffigan said, I would say twenty years ago, I mean, I have a twenty one year old, but I was much more of the view that I’m kind of befuddled by parenting and I’m not equipped for it.

And my viewpoint now is that children are evil. I joke around and say parenting is the most important thing I’ll fell out, and there is something to that. But I think if human beings remembered how difficult and complicated and impossible teenagers are, the species would cease to exist. I think we forget that parenting is similar to the entertainment industry. Wait, by that, does he mean that, like, if you help somebody around their career, you stop calling them back.

Does Jim not call his kids back? Is that what Jim is saying there, that as twenty years goes by, he doesn’t call back people. Sorry, I digress there you could figure it out between the lines. Jim said, I think that we forget that parenting is similar to the entertainment industry, filled with enormous amounts of humiliation and you’re biting your tongue a lot. When kids are younger, there’s a cuteness to it, and when your kids are teenagers, they’re not conscious of it, but there’s a cruelty that you’re exposed to.

The Houston Press wrote about Matt Rice’s crowd work. Rice said, there’s just something kind of unique. It’s either unique or not language snob and special to my show that I just do for fun. On top of the prepared material. I’ve been so lucky it’d be so many people’s introduction a comedy, view the success I’ve out online and the people who have found it.

But it’s easy for people to think that’s all it is. But there’s so much work that goes into the preparation and the crafting of material, and they should in no way expect that from every comedian, honestly, not even myself. I don’t force situations. I can’t guarantee a certain amount of the show will be crowd work, but it is something I personally like to do. The sponsoredaity of it makes it new and re freshing to me.

That does rife find time to write new material, he said, that’s the hardest part, especially over the last year and a half. We’re doing forty to almost fifty shows a month, sometimes NonStop. You have to find some time for your life. When life happens, that’s when material happens. But I don’t really have time to sit at a desk for six hours a day and go, hmm, pin to Pat, how do I read a joke about this?

Let’s write a joke, premise, set up, punchline. That’s not my creative style. Things happen, something will happen in my life that sparks humor in me, makes me laugh. Then I think, now we’re onto something, We’ve got the foundation of something, and now I can take pen and paper to etch this out. My brain has locked on the almost fifty shows a month, all right, So a typical month has say thirty days.

Let’s assume he takes one day off a week, so those are six day weeks, so that would be twenty six days of work. So is he doing two a days Friday Saturday? So I could do the math here, right, So if there’s twenty six days, and then if you did two shows on the Friday, that’d be four more, so it’d be thirty And if you did two shows on Saturday, that’d be thirty four. If you did two shows on the Thursday, thirty eight. I can get to forty.

I can’t get to fifty. I’m sorry, Matt Rife. I’m gonna ask Chatchpt to help me out here. Let me look at Matt Riffe’s actual touring schedule and see what I come up with. Sorry, I am digressing here, but my brain is totally locked on this.

Does Matt Rife not have a website? Matt Rife Official Shows here? We go? Okay, So he’s got a show June twenty first in South Carolina. There’s a wait list.

There are tickets available for June twenty second, there’s one show. Then July fifth in Hawaii there’s one show and tickets still available. Yeah, I don’t know. I’m looking at this. I don’t know how you get to fifty.

Let me ask chat Shept to help me out. I have typed in. Comedian Matt Rife says he plays forty shows a month. What would a schedule like that look like For a typical comedian, Chat says, forty shows a month is an ambitious schedule that would involve a high level of travel and consistent performance. Here’s an example of what it might look like.

If Riife does forty shows month, that averages out to ten shows per week. That would mean two to three shows per day for three to four days a week. Here’s a sample itinerary. Again, this is all made up by the AI, but I’m obsessed here. Monday would be a travel day and then a show at seven and nine thirty.

Tuesday you do shows at seven and nine thirty, then travel to the next city. Wednesday do seven and nine thirty, have some free time, get up. Thursday, travel to the next city, do two shows, then do two shows on Friday and maybe a third show at eleven thirty pm on the Friday.

Also three shows on Saturday and then a show on Sunday and then travel.

So that’s no days off. So I don’t know. That seems a little high. But I’m not a touring comedian. I’m an idiot in the basement with a podcast.

I digress. Let’s get back to it, right, said I. Forget every single day that I have the recognizability I have Now, I’ll wake up and think no one knows me at all, thinking I’m right back where I was five years ago. I can’t go at any restaurant or store without someone giving me a compment or giving thanks to the videos I post online from the laugh at It’s very surreal, man. I’m very lucky in I’m very blessed for people to find what I do funny and find me at whatever time they need to find me in their life.

It’s a very giving job. Brad Williams told Macon dot com he started making jokes as a defense mechanism, realizing he could never be the quarterback, but I could be the funny guy. At age nineteen, and Brad was brought on stage by Carlos Mencia after Carlos made a joke about people with dwarfism. Mencia had noticed that most of the crowd laugh with the people sitting near Brad didn’t laugh, and then he saw Williams. Mencia wanted to ask him questions.

Brad answered questions honestly, not meaning to be funny, but the crowd laughed. He asked me what I did for a living at the time, and Williams said, not a joke. I just said, I work at Disneyland, and I heard some people chuckle and I said, shut up, I’m not one of the seven, and that made them laugh again. That’s when I thought, oh, maybe this comedy thing could be a lot of fun. There’s no greater compliment than someone who comes in is kind of unfamiliar with the work and then enjoys it.

Zanagar got a big profile in The New York Times. In it, she shared that I have a complicated relationship with self care. If you’re a South Asian woman, you’re taught that self care is be ye, it’s selfish. If you want to look good, why you’re already married, It’s about your kids. Now.

As her entertainment career took off, she grew motivated to take better care of her appearance and said it’s not helping anybody for me to stand up on stage and not look put together. It’s just distracting. Kevin Pollack spoke to the Pitch k C. Kevin says he doesn’t get nervous about anything. Yeah, it might be signs of a sociopath, but nothing’s ever made me nervous.

Including sitting on Johnny Carson’s couch the televised one. Ever since I was ten years old and started being a natural born ham in front of an audience, I’ve always felt excited. It’s like Christmas Morning. Kevin’s going to be in Tulsa King. He said, yeah.

Drops in September, I’m a new series regular. The next couple of seasons came out of nowhere, and I was shocked at how much fun it was. Sometimes they make it fiscally irresponsible to stay on the couch and it doesn’t really matter if it’s quote unquote fun. But every now and then it’s incredibly fun, and then this ridiculous bonus. And that’s what Tulsa King has been.

That’s a good show. Jennif Fisher told The Fly on the Wall podcast that it was Molly shann And who changed her life. She said, I’m a huge SNL nerd. The greatest part about being on the Office and being on NBC was that I got to breathe the same air as SNL people. I was a total groupie, Fisher explained.

Before being cast as Pam on the Office, she worked as a typist. She’d attend TV critics Association events. As a transcriber, she heard about an upcoming event dedicated to SNL and said, I wanted it more than my little new heart in La could stand. I started pretending like I didn’t feel good because I was going to make an excuse that I was sick so I could get off work on time, and then sneak into this party. She sneaks in.

I can’t even tell you. It was amazing Norm MacDonald. I’m looking at him in the flesh. I can’t My mind has blown. Then I see Molly Shannon.

I think I’m gonna do it. I’m going to say hi to Molly Shannon. She looked at me, took me by the shoulders, looked me deep in the eyes, and said, don’t give up. Whatever you do, don’t give up. It took me ten years to get on SNL, and my best advice to you is just no, it’ll hop and eventually if you stick with it.

Sticking Office Ish Donald Gleeson is the lead in the paper, which is the office spin off of Sorts. Gleason hopes people will find a reason to love his character. He told people, I don’t think my character is like Michael Scott at all. I think if you’re trying to compete with what Steve did, with what Ricky Gervais did, I think that’d be a massive mistake. We made a whole new character and it’s a whole new sort of setup.

But I hope people will find a reason to love him as well, just in a different way than they did the guys before and long the heads of the Fall the Columbus Comedy Festival, They’ve got a pretty decent lineup. Heear September fourth through the seventh. This year’s festival features Polly Shore, The Second City, Sam Talent, Mo Welch, and some others. The lineup will include a mix of stand up comedy, improv, sketch comedy, live podcast recording, variety, slash, alternative shows, game shows, industry mixers, and more. Several fan favorite shows that were turned including Female af and All Woman stand Up Lineup, Drunk power Point, You Can Figure Out What That Is?

And Chicago Showcase five Chicago Comedians hosted by viral sensation Chad the Bird. I’m not familiar with Chad the Bird. Back to Google. Chaddbird dot Com luckily has a link that says what’s a Chad Bird? Chad The Bird has been Chicago’s laziest journalist and only avian op ed columnists for fifteen years until I got drunk and joined TikTok when viral traveling get up early.

He’s even got a podcast, The Bird Cast. I’ll have to check that out, all right, cool, I’m going to check out the May tenth episode called We’re Not going to Talk about Star Wars. The description is in which I discuss new details that have emerged about the birthplace of Plato and totally not Star Wars. I’m in now in the next episode is about Pinball City. This is right up my alley.

All right, that’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, Miss Rachel, Desi Lydic, Stephen Colbert, Greg Gutfeld, David Letterman, Osca Shrap

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney responds to death threats against family over Olivia Munn children’s programming comments
• People magazine pulls Olivia Munn article due to violent threats
• LA federal immigration raids and Trump’s military deployment
• David Letterman appearing on CBS Sunday Morning with IndyCar owners
• Emmy nominations for Outstanding Talk Series category with only 3 nominations from 13 submissions
• Osca Shrap releases second stand-up special ‘Father’ on Hulu

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Caloroga Shark Media and Aaron Jay Mac would your Daily Comedy News. I do not like this first story, and I’m not throwing anyone under the bus here. I just don’t like how this shook out at all. Let me set it up for you. Olivia Munn, she’s married to John Mulaney, which is why we’re talking about this.

Stay with me. She was the cover story in the June fourth People magazine. The article was titled, Olivia Munn doesn’t let her kids watch Miss Rachel. Here’s why. If you’re not in the no, Miss Rachel is the host of a popular children’s show.

A few days after the cover story, People apparently pulled out a poll quote which is, I know kids love Miss Rachel, but the thing is, if I can’t watch it, I’m not going to spend the rest of my life going crazy. These kids shows drive me crazy, all right. Seems innocent enough. If your parent you know some of those shows, you know you might, Yeah, stay with me. That’s why I’m pulling my punch.

I don’t want to get I don’t want to get in the middle of this. Early People deleted the article on Thursday quote due to the violent threats that escalated towards the interview subject. In her family, John Mulaney has commented on this. Mulaney said, an innocent comment my wife, Olivia Munn made about what children’s programs we like, has somehow unbelievably been conflated with not caring about the deaths of children in Gaza. John posted this on Instagram and said, because of this, my wife and two kids are now receiving violent and threatening comments and messages in her DMS.

This is absolutely insane and needs to stop. The people doing this are so wildly out of line and so unhelpful to any conversation. You took a nothing comment to a dark and dangerous place. This kind of behavior is an activism now. Olivia had also said, Malcolm asked for blues clues and I don’t know who showed them the blues clues, but they’re on my crap list now.

I said, hell no, not in my house. Olivia had to explain in a statement to Miss Rachel and her fans, I hear in respect the passion behind your support. I never anticipated the media would single out on one small thing I said and distort it like they have. My comments were never meant to diminish the joy, comfort, and impact she brings to so many families. Every parent understands the importance of finding meaningful programming that helps us connect with our kids.

I don’t want something taken out of context to be a moment that steals even a minute of joy for anyone. Now, apparently under some new stories about Olivia, Miss Rachel wrote, who cares? I’d rather you cover me advocating for kids in Gaza who are literally starving, largest cohort of child amputees in modern history, thousands and thousands killed, no medical care, no education, no homes. Do better, not against her Olivia at all, and don’t care that she doesn’t want to watch the show. All my love to her and her family.

Disappointed in the outlets. Yikes, just yikes, what’s going on all right?

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Desi Litik said, Yeah, nothing calms down a situati…

Desi again, you know, I’m beginning to wonder if Trump is intentionally trying to escalate the situation because more chaos allows them to portray blue states as centers of crime while positioning himself as the strong man that country needs to rally around. No that’s silly. I’m sure he’s just doing what’s best for everyone. Colbert Trump has sent thousands of troops into downtown LA. To quote what historians will remember as the Battle of that video of a burning waymod car they kept showing on cable news.

Greg Guttfeld said, California Governor Gaven Newsom and Mayor Karen Beast denounced the federal immigration raids, So now they don’t want California to have ice or water. All right, we’ll move out of the comedy part right now.

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Speaking of late night, IndyCar owner David Letterman will be on this week CB…

Hey Mike from the Letterman Pod? Did you know that? Are you learning that from me? Yeah? Well good, you’re gonna want to tape that one.

But appear as they’re talking Indy cars. A Letterman will appear alongside Joseph Newgarten, Pado Award, and Mario Andretti. Knows that the Mariow Andretti from when I was a kid. Maybe he co owns the team. I’m not familiar with the other two.

So now, IndyCar fans, you come after me, I apologize. I don’t know everything I know you listen to the show and you’re like that Johnny macke knows everything, I don’t know everything and apparently have a week spot with IndyCar Staying with Late Night. Looking ahead to the Emmys this year, there will only be three nominations in the Outstanding Talk Series category. Here’s why there were only thirteen submissions, because there’s fewer late night shows now. The TV Academy rules say if there were between eight and nineteen submissions, the number of submissions will be divided by four and rounded to the nearest whole number.

So how do we arrive at three? Well, there were thirteen submissions for the category. Let’s do the math. Thirteen divided by four is three and change and we round to the nearest whole number and we get three. The submissions these are not nominations.

These are who submitted the Daily Show Mulaney, Heart to Heart on Peacock. Apparently that exists. I know that that exists, but has anyone ever mentioned that to you? I mean that might be the bobs Burgers of late night shows, CNN’s Have I Got News for You? Hot Ones, Kimmel, Seth Colbert, Midnight Snack with Julie Chan again, as I just copped to, I don’t know everything.

What is Midnight Snack with Julie Chan? Google paste and search. Okay, so several Google searches come up with the same exact phrasing, which is Midnight Snack with Julie Chan is the first late night talk show hosted by a Chinese American woman, Julie Chan. Now Here, I’m seeing a press release from September of twenty twenty four which tells us the first season of Midnight Snack has seven episodes, which sounds like a really low number. But we’re okay with nominating Malini for twelve, right, Okay, apparently you can watch this on Asian American Movies AAM dot TV.

Again, I’m just learning the show exists, so I’m not gonna say it’s good or bad. Might even win the Emmy.

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Also nominated felon the dropout websites show called Very Important People, …

So those are your thirteen. The nominees come out July fifteenth. The Emmy Awards will air on CBS September fourteenth, out today on Hulu otsgar. So what Kotska has her second stand up special. This one is called Father.

I liked her previous special a lot, so I’m looking forward to watching this one at some point. It’s gonna rain again this weekend. Can I tell you I’m speaking to you. It’s eight twelve pm on Thursday evening. I usually don’t record at night, but yesterday was like the only nice day in a two week radius where I live.

So I took a beach day and it was beautiful. It was eighty four in low humidity. It’s sunny and just awesome. So I’m recording at night. I feel a little thrown off because I usually record midday early afternoon.

This is just weird to me. But it’s gonna rain this weekend, so I have time to watch Osco. She says her fans has just done calling her mother, but she begs to differ. She says, oh, no, I am father. In the trailer, we see that joke where she asked her husband how to turn on the Washington machine and that’s how he realized he’d been doing the laundry all these years.

She also jokes that she wants to grow her hair out, but she can’t because her current haircut is her brand. In The Special Father, she reflects on her relationship with her father, who lives in Japan and has been not really much part of her life since she moved to the States. She says telling her story on stage has helped heal her. What I found out about trauma is when you’re not going through it, you’re not going this is trauma. Now that I’m able to choke about it, I’m realizing I’ve sort of started to heal without even realizing it.

She talked about trying to pray her mom’s illness away when she was younger, and said, I became super Christian on my own. I think I needed something to believe in or something. It was community, all these things, and I was still confused about why we didn’t go back to Japan and my mom’s condition in the garage. That’s good, very seriously, to the point that even signed up for Jesus Camp on my own. I remember at the camp there were these prayer groups, and prayer meetings would break off into and one night it was like me and like thirty people in a prayer group, and I asked them to pray for my mom to get better, to be freed from the voices in her head and all these things, from the suffering from severe depression to the seizures, from feeling so isolated down all the time.

I truly thought it was going to work. I was in middle school, and I remember believing, oh my gosh, this is really different. I’ve prayed for this before. When I go home, she’s going to be healed. When I came home, I was super disappointed that she hadn’t changed, and feeling really down and hopeless because she still hears voices.

That’s on hool tonight. Looking forward to checking that out. Congratulations to doctor Colin Jost. He received the Honorary Doctor if Humane Letters from the College of Staten Island in recognition for his outstanding contributions to comedy, television and community service. What’s a little weird about this is he accepted it over video.

I mean, the whole point of us giving you the honorary degree is so you come and give a speech. Dude. What’s going on? Oh yeah, I love to go. Oh yeah, I’m filming a movie.

I can’t possibly How would I possibly get to New York City? How would I do that? Come on, Colin, what is he filming. Let me look this up from the Facebook page filming in Georgia. It says The Breadwinner is filming in the Atlanta area and Colin jos is in that film.

Colin Dude, bro, bro dude, Colin man, dude, you tell me you can’t get from Atlanta to New York City. You tell me you can’t do that. Come on, you can do that. I’m sure Nate would have understood. You could have been there.

Come on anyway, congratulations Collin Jost. A lot of big names in the show today. This is a lot of fun.

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All right, here’s a big name.

Say a week ago, you were in Cambridge. You’re on the bus, your money, your own business. You know, you’re probably listening to my podcast while surfing the internet. You know, it’s a good combination. And you look up and you’re like, hey, that tall dude with the red orange hair, he looks really familiar.

Is that Conan O’Brien on a bus in Cambridge? Yeah? It was Conan O’briight, sack’s the bus. This apparently is like totally real and not a publicity stunt. Conan gave Craig, the bus driver, shot out, saying the best driver in Cambridge.

Right here, Craig says, I was driving along on Root seventy. All of a sudden I see this gentleman on the right hand walking. I saw the red hair and it kind of looked like Conan’s hair. So I said to myself, is that Conan? And it actually was.

He said, hey, let’s take it right away. I said, I’m not allowed to have a phone on the bus Conan, and he said, oh, that’s terrible. So he was just a great guy. That’s fun, all right. The Great American Comedy Festival is in Norfolk, Nebraska to night.

You’re five feature comedians River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and Chip Chantry. You’re headliner James Austin Johnson. Are you watching basketball? No, me, neither. There’s one person in the world watching this whole basketball series, and his name is Mike Epps, known a Pacers fan.

He’s like the one person who was like, should we put the Knicks in the finals so we get like twenty three million viewers? No, let’s put the Pacers through so we can get seven. Mike Epps spoke to website and Escape and he’s pretty big on Tyrese Halliburton. Now, I gotta say I was pretty impressed by mister Halliburton in the Eastern Conference Finals. The dude brought it.

Mike Epps says, Halliburton is an unpredictable player. That’s what I love about him because you don’t really know what you’re gonna get. That’s how he gives it to you. You can’t really predict what he’s gonna do and how he’s gonna do it, but he gets it done. That’s what I like about him.

Some players he’s just about to pinpoint him out. But this guy here is unpredictable and brilliant when it comes to playing basketball, no question, without a doubt. He reminds me of myself. That’s why can I relate to him because it’s his avant garde approach and it might not be pretty, but it gets the job done, all right, Mike Epps, what’s your earliest recollection of following the Pacers? Mister big time Pacers fan, Mike Kep said, i’d I’ve been a Pacer fan as long as I can remember.

You grew up in the city in Indianapolis as a basketball town, so I was a Pacer fan. Probably I was seven, eight years old. I used to go to a place called Market Square Arena where they used to play, and man, I was a Pacer fan before Reggie Miller was there, going all the way back to the Billy night days. All right, that’s some street cred. When you’re a fan, you’re a die hard fan.

You have a lot of ups and downs. Me I had times where I was like, oh man, why am I a Pacer fan? When you love a franchise and at your hometown, you can’t really find yourself rooting for anyone else. That’s what die hard means. All right.

Who’s your favorite Pacers player of all time? Reggie Miller, clutch player. And when you say Indiana Pacers, that’s how you think of Reggie Miller. He put us on the map. Game four is tonight at eight thirty.

If you’re curious, I’ll be watching Ots Goo And that is your comedy news for today. All right, I got a shower and get the sand off me. You see tomorrow.

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Theo Von, Mark Maron, Joe Rogan, Eliza Shlesinger, Donald Trump, Bono

What’s in This Episode

• Tim Dillon’s Hot Ones appearance and commentary on suburban life
• Tim Dillon’s Netflix special ‘This Is Your Country’ and its reception
• Tim Dillon and Theo Von now considered part of the comedy establishment
• Mark Maron’s blog post expressing regret about podcasting’s role in spreading fascism
• Mark Maron and Joe Rogan’s opposing positions within podcast ecosystem
• Eliza Shlesinger’s Emmy nomination campaign and new special ‘A Different Animal’

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily Common You news. Tim Dillon’s from Long Island. I’m from Queens lived on Long Island for seven years. I understand Tim Dillon and he used to listen to conservative talk radio.

I’ve heard him talk about it on his podcast. He probably listened to some things that I produced back in the day. Don’t try and put me in a corner. I’ve worked on both the Bob Grant radio show in New York City and on Pots of America, so you don’t know where I stand. Although if you pay attention, you’ll know when I think certain people are ridiculous.

I’ll leave it at that. Send your letters to Johnny Mac anyway. Tim Dylan was on Hot Ones. He believes Long Island’s greatest contribution to the American culinary scene is the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. Two eggs over medium bacon, American cheese, salt, pepper, and ketchup on a roll.

And you eat that in the morning around one thirty PM. Think about it to coach your stomach. It absorbs that anxiety that would either push you to the gym or do a job or in a good relationship or in a jog, an anxiety would push you to become a better person. You can actually absorb all that with the sandwich and then go right back to bed. Yeah.

I used to like my mop up food. Two in the morning. There was a bagel store in Sunnyside, Queens and I’d go get two bagels onion bagels, probably with butter. I would actually get off the subway stop stop before where I lived, so I could get the two bagels and eat the two bagels while walking home and just kind of like the fresh air and the calories and the fat, and you know, in the cold especially, you’d feel a little more awake when you got home. Shake off some of those Bruce Kis.

You know what I’m saying. Yeah, Jim Dilan said, long Ah, there’s a place of comfort like the suburbs. The food is bad, people would riot. There’s nothing else. There’s no culture, there’s no real intelligence, nothing is really interesting.

There’s no sense of history or community or family. There’s no real athletics. I know, we used to have the Islanders. It was great. I used to leave my house and be in an Islanders game in like twelve minutes.

Was amazing. It’s not especially pretty. I’ll disagree with that. There’s no national or local meaning or feeling of purpose. It’s kind of a vacant landscape of nothing, a suburban indianess that closets you until you finally fill yourself in with bagels and nyochi or fentanyl.

The conversation turned to Tim Dillon special This is Your Country that was the Jerry Springer type special, and said, you know who didn’t like it as much? Netflix? Now, I’m kidding. They’re great people there. We love them, but they don’t love talk formats, and I think they were nervous about it.

I think we all need daytime trash TV that’s not hyper political. I think we all need to coalesce around realizing that we’re all garbage people and exploiting that. Nobody was talking about tariffs on Ricky Lake. That’s what I remember was great about the nineties. People just want to do as much damage to each other as they good for entertainment value, and that’s what I was trying to do.

So were we now in the era of establishment? Tim Dillon? Do I no longer have to say I really liked to podcast, But someday when he cancels himself, I’m gonna disavow and say I never told you that. Is he now part of the club. I think he’s part of the club.

He’s getting on cable networks hot ones is a lot more mainstream than you’d think, like a lot more, Tim. I think you’re now establishment, Tim Dillon over there with your friend establishment, theo vant who’s interviewing the vice president. What has happened all you rebel outsiders? You lived long enough and the establishment brought you in and you didn’t even realize it. Tim Dillon also defended whole milk, saying whole milk from America’s heartland, dairy farmers with whatever needs to be in it, whatever hormones are in it, need to be in it.

Hands off rfk. I’ll have my milk the way I like it, genetically engineered. He also shared what he thinks is the most influential fast food item, the mcgriddle, because the mcgriddle married the sweet and savory in a way that now everybody does it, so media pick up on something Mark Maron wrote. He put out a blog post that’s similar to his comments from last week when he said he was ending the podcast The headline now is simplifying it. Maren has Rogan regret basically the blog post.

Mark Maron writes, we weren’t the first, but in terms of making it a viable medium, we were certainly one of the ogs. We changed the world. Literally, we showed the world was now possible to create a specific type of show on one’s own terms. We helped unleash an exciting type of delivery system for pure self expression. Sadly, on some level, we also unleashed a format that’s been used for dubious means, propaganda and pure evil.

But hey, it’s not the atomic bomb. On a recent WTF, Mark said, it’s just interesting to me in the big picture of what’s happening and what the medium is unleashed, that me and Joe Rogan were both in the system, two ends of the spectrum of podcasting coming from the same source, and a now truly apocalyptic landscape. In October of twenty four, Maren said podcasts have become a medium that normalizes fascism. He called out quote comedians with podcasts for having shameless self proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show. All it does is humanize and normalize fascism.

When someone uses their platform for that reason, they’re facilitating anti American sentiment and promoting violent autocracy. Maren didn’t call out anyone by name, but those words came three days after Rogan had released an episode with Donald Trump. By the way, uh Trump with Bono really enjoyed it. I’m a huge G two fan. You can profile me.

I’m fifty five years old from Queens, New York, and my last name is mc dermott. Of course I like you too, and it was very good, Maren wrote last October, and this is timely. I don’t know if you’re paying attention to the news this week. Are you going to the parades Saturday? Yeah?

That looked that up, Maren said. Fascism is good for business, if you tell the line. Popular podcast became tribal and divisive years ago. Now they might be in the position to become part of the media oligarchy under the new anti democratic government. All right, it’s so Senil learns to me, Mark Marion, Joe Rogan and whoever else.

So Tim Dillon to send him a letter. Eliza Selessenger has been doing a lot of press and I don’t know why. Actually I do know why. I have. There seems to be some sort of pr campaign to get her an Emmy nomination.

That seems to be what’s going on. I’ll talk more about that tomorrow because I saw a note in Billboard that pretty much said as much. But Eliza has been doing a lot of press, which is well, I just said what she said. You certainly don’t know when a joke or new hour is done. This was in a sit down chat for deadlines at Prime Experience.

But Eliza says, but you have to tape it at some point, and then the heartbreaking part is the next week when you go on tour, continue touring to find all these things you should have said. It’s almost like you have to tape an hour to know how much better your hour could be. That’s interesting. I truly believe stand up and I hate I’m saying this is like a bottle of wine and I think I’m stealing it from Sideways. But it’s an ever evolving thing.

Her latest hour is titled A Different Animal. She says there’s forty five minutes of material that never made the final cut. I believe an audience deserves a polished product, and people should expect that from Stand Up comedy.

Also, this is corny.

The title isn’t just a nod. Remember, the title is a different animal. The title isn’t just a nod to her creative evolution. It’s also an acknowledgment of the fact that what she delivers with both her material and her delivery is unique. Eliza says, I’m a different animal now than when I started comedy.

Material is different, and I’m a different person than I was when I started writing, a different animal. So I think it really speaks to the idea that what you get when you watch my stand up something completely different than people expect from comedy as a genre, or from me from what you’ve seen before. My former coworker Jamie Fox says he wants to mix comedy with quote funny church stuff and is creating an experience that celebrates both his humor and his spiritual roots. Fox went on Instagram and a video. He said, I got some funny stuff that I want to do.

I’m a church boy, so I want to do some funny church stuff. So when I come to your city, I need you all to pull up on me and play along. He’s searching for gospel choirs in every city to join his upcoming tour, so rather than a house band of sorts, so it would be a local choir. Fox has yet to share official guidelines on how this works yet, but he wants a different gospel choir in each city. Bert Krascher was on the Drop a Pin show and he proclaimed which of the American states is the best?

Are you ready? What’s your guess? Bert Krescher proclaimed that Ohio is the greatest state of America has to offer. Not only does he love the quote big cities, but he thinks that people are very understanding as opposed to other states. But it said, I think Ohio is the greatest state in the Union.

I argue that because I’ve traveled everywhere. Its topography is gorgeous. It’s the perfect political place to be where they get your personality. They welcome everyone, but they’re not lunatics. You get weather, you get on the water.

No state has the big cities that Ohio has. I think it’s the best state in the Union. Yeah, I mean, okay, weather, water, sure, No state has the big cities that Ohio has. No California, Texas, nobody’s big cities like anything else. This got mixed responses on social media and from some losers recording a podcast in their basement.

One social media user said, horrible take. It’s Wisconsin going away. The Great American Comedy Festival is back. The headliner Yakov Smirnoff. Yakov’s been doing some press this week.

He was going to do Fellon. That may have happened by now, but he’s the headliner on Saturday. James Austin Johnson headlines Friday Night. Part of the Great American Comedy Festival is honoring Johnny Carson, who would have turned one hundred this year. Festival executive director Pat Jensen said, Johnny Carson was a comedy legend, and certainly SNL isn’t that same pantheon.

If a member of the current SNL cast during the same year that we recognize Johnny’s one hundredth birthday, just feels so perfect. I heard me drop the g in that sentence. The Queen’s Accent’s coming out today. I heard it. I’m leaving it in Hit your ten second, rewind it happening during the word during.

The festival kicks off tonight with the traditional family comedy Magic Show. The festival opened in two thousand and eight to honor the legacy of Johnny Carson. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is launching its own book club, and I know you’re thinking, wow, that sounds really cool, and I’m with you, Yeah, really cool. Stephen Colbert jumped on the social media and said, we’ll be highlighting wonderful books that are worth your time that you’re not putting into watching this show. The first book in the super Cool Late Show book Club is called Orbital.

That’s a twenty twenty three sci fi novel. Colbert says Orbital is a beautiful novel about six astronauts on the International Space Station going about their daily tasks and pondering the meaning of life. It won the book a Prize, and it won the even more prestigious prize of being my first book club pick that actually sounds like a book I would like after I’ve totally made fun of the book club, but come on, Late Show book Club. Jacob Samuel has an album out today. He spoke to streight dot com.

He said one of the problems he had breaking into comedy is I’m not a good storyteller. I was never a naturally charismatic, schmoozy guy. I always thought, don’t want to do comedy writing. I didn’t really want to perform, but then you realize that to even start down that path, you need to be performing if you want to make inroads in the comedy communities. His style is observations of modern day life and quick hits of twelve to fifteen seconds.

He says, I love that joke structure where he had a little clue and then some people get it, then more people get it, and you’re bringing everyone in slowly. An example which I’m sure he told better than I will. It’s about dating apps. He said. I’d see some women write in the profile, I just love life, and that’s great because that tells me you have zero life experience.

Another I’m a jazz lover, and I don’t mean I love jazz, I mean I make love like jazz, because the way I make love is not very popular. That’s a good joke. His first album, Horsepower forty five minutes, when the twenty twenty one Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year. This new one is called Big Time. He says, sometimes you put in a lot of work and it results in nothing.

He told a story I had to cut a joke on my special that I’ve been doing for five years because the week after I recorded the special, Nate Bergetzi he came up with the same joke on the fly on his podcast. It wasn’t the exact same wording. I think mine was better because I had worked on it, but he figured out the same concepts. I’m like, wow, I can’t put that out there because the hottest community in the world just did it, and who’s gonna believe me? That sucks?

He says. One of my favorite jokes in this specials It’s one of the first jokes I wrote to rebuild my act. I dropped it for a while because the wording was a bit clunky. Then I posted on social media. Did really well.

The joke is about the Honda Odyssey. It’s a weird name for a vehicle because if you know anything about the Odyssey, you know it didn’t go well. That’s funny too. Big Talk is the name of the special, and he is Jacob Samuel. It all sounds pretty good and congratulations to Nina Yankovic on graduating college.

Her dad Al went on Instagram to announce that Nina had graduated from college. Al posted a photo of him and Nina, saying, my daughter Nina graduated from college today. Sorry, this is the most recent picture I could find of her. It was, of course, a picture of them at the graduation. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Seth Meyers, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Taylor Tomlinson, Stephen Colbert, Jim Jefferies, Patton Oswalt

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien returns as guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers
• Just for Laughs Montreal Off-JFL festival programming announcement
• SNL cast members considering departures including Ego Nwodim
• Jamie Foxx emotional at BET Awards accepting Ultimate Icon Award
• Kevin Hart hosts BET Awards with jokes about after parties and government names
• Taylor Tomlinson on late night comedy and serious news topics
• Jim Jefferies hosts new Fox game show ‘The Snake’
• Patton Oswalt joins Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast as Vulcan

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Max with your Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien returns to Late Nights, not just the concept of the Late Night, but the actual NBC Late Night with Seth Myers. It is his first time as a guest on the Seth Myers incarnation. He made a cameo appearance early in Jimmy Fallon’s run That’s tonight at twelve thirty seven am.

If you want to stay up late, I am sure someone will share social media clips in your favorite podcast. Here, we’ll recap it for you. Got some information for the Just for Laughs in Montreal, Rebirth Festival JFL has announced the programming lineup for off JFL, the festival’s unique edgy sibling that has been a launch pad for the next generation of artists. This year’s off JFL features Russell Howard, Jen Marco Ciresi, a Kay, Trevor Wilson, Emil Wakeem Nish Kumar, Robbie Hoffman, Ivan Decker and some others. This is some real good names there.

I got to drop the website into English. I can sort of quote unquote read French, but not in a way where I can quote unquote read it and explain it to you as I’m doing the podcast here live ish. So this is not the main festival, but let’s see what we got here. July seventeenth, the Sketch Show, Friday the eighteenth, the Montreal Show, a couple of midnight surprises in there. Sunday Night improv.

I’ve been deck around Wednesday the twenty third, that’s in the middle of the festival, proper cave. Treva Wilson that same night, Nish Kumar that same night, and I think that’s the night of New Faces. Boy, that’s a pack night. Maybe I’ll go up there that day. So decided I finally found a contact for the new press people.

I need to reach out to them. Jay Jorden on Thursday the twenty fourth, in front of the show Marco SOIRESI on Saturday at ten o’clock. Good to see the festival back and starting to come together. Now, that’s good. Waiting for the big announcements and the new faces and all that.

Agunwotum is the latest to flirt with the idea of leaving SNL Goldderby dot com, which suddenly is reporting a lot of comedy stuff that’s hitting my google anyway. Ego was at an Emmy’s FYC event and said, I want to create something that feels like it’s mine. I want to showcase some of my other talents now that I’ve done so much on the show. But I love the show, so there’s no telling what happens there or doesn’t bo When Yang said, this is kind of what everyone’s negotiating. It’s a nice sort of collective check in for everybody.

I don’t think any of us is really at the foresight and what life would be like afterwards, and now that we’re on the other side of it, I think we’re all kind of assessing mighty. Gardner said, I think I’m looking for open doors. I found that sometimes the easiest things that come to me are the most fulfilling ones, so that’s what I’m looking for. Interesting. I think we’re going to say massive cast turnover, but time will tell.

My former coworker Jamie Fox, got emotional while accepting the Ultimate Icon Award at the BET Awards on Monday night. Jamie struggled to hold back tears during his speech. He thanked God for giving him a second chance following his health emergency. Jamie said, I don’t want to make this whole speech about that. You can’t go through something like that and not testify.

I cannot even begin to express the love that I feel from everybody out there. I gotta be honest. When I saw the in Memoriam, I was like, man, that could have been me. Kevin Hart was the host of the BET Awards. He had some really strong material here, which obviously he told better than I will recount to you.

But Kevin said, I’m shutting down the idea of after parties. No after parties tonight, none take your asses home after this. That’s why I did this on a Monday. People gotta go to work tomorrow. No after parties.

That’s where stuff gets slippery at those after parties. We’re learning a lot about people, aren’t we. We’re learning a lot. Take your asses home, and people assumed that was a commentary on the dedde Combs trial. One of Kevin Hart’s other rules for the night was he wanted to keep things classy and he would only refer to attendees by their government names, no nicknames, no rap names.

He gave a shout out to Dwayne Michael Carter Junior aka Lowayne Calvin Cortizor brought us Junior, that Snoop Dogg and Gloria Hallelujah Woods. Kevin Hart said a lot of people expected to see a big church in the back selling fish plates. Nope, that’s Glorilla. Kevin also joked that he’d gotten the audience self driving Waymo cars to take the audience home. The event took place in Los Angeles.

Taylor Thomlinson addressed these situation in LA on her soon to be over a late night show and said late night shows aren’t funny anymore. We’re just the news now. I don’t know. I just have a hard time talking about any of the stuff because I don’t think it’s funny. I can’t imagine being somebody whose mom or dad, or brother or sister got abducted by ice and you turn on TV and it’s just some dumb B word and a ponytail saying Trump’s just being silly.

I don’t know how to make it funny. It’s not funny. She then joked, how are the day laborers at home depot possibly hurting Americans? Have you gone a home depot? Literally?

All they do is offer to help. Stephen Colbert said there’s been some pelting of police and ice agents with rocks and garbage. For example, people began throwing objects at law enforcement and protests that started when demonstrators took over the one oh one, although locals were quick to point out they should have taken over the four O five to the five and saved at least ten minutes on the road to fascism. That is a wonderfully, wonderfully crafted joke. Good j job.

Stephen Colbert’s left Stephen Colbert writers seth Meyer said, Also, if you’re against property damage and protesters flying un American flags, you guys would have hated January sixth, Hey, did we know Jim Jeffries has a new show on Fox? I host this thing every day. I feel like I would have mentioned it. Maybe I raced it from my brain, but apparently he had a show on Fox last night called The Snake. The Snake features fifteen contestants leveraging their unique skills and relying on their powers of persuasion.

Throughout the game, a snake is chosen to juggle the fate of their fellow competitors, all trying to compete for the grand prize of one hundred thousand dollars, which is, you know, kind of a lot of money, but not a lot of money. The feds are gonna take their cut. You’re gonna go home with maybe sixty grand. How much is Fox getting for one commercial on this show. Yeah, sounds like a lot until you look at the math.

Jeffrey said, there is no backstabbing you in this game. People are stabbing you in your front. What makes this show different from other shows is once you win the challenge, you get to become the Snake. You get a Snake Medallion, the most coveted character in the game, and then we have a saving ceremony, not an elimination ceremony, where the Snake decides either going to save first, then that person decides to save another person, and that person decides to save another person until we get down to the final two players, and then the Snake decides who gets to live and who goes home. Patton Oswalt is joined the cast of Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

He plays a vulcan in season three. That’s terrible casting, like really really terrible. Love Patton Oswalt, but there’s nothing about Patton Oswalt that is vulcan. He doesn’t look like a Vulcan. He doesn’t act like a Vulcan.

Even if he’s a world thespian, He’s still going to look like Patton Oswalt and Hobbit makeup. This is a terrible, terrible idea and I’m a big tricky and it gets worse Star Trek fans. During the brief interaction, Spock tells Patton Oswalt’s character to give him five. Oswalt’s character gives Spock a high five. Then Spock says, now go down low and lowers his hand.

Before Oswalt’s character can make contact with Spock’s hand, Spock pulls his hand away. Uh, I almost dropped a JFC there. I’m a big treky. The current regime at Star Trek is just awful. Patton Hoswald Star Trek character says, why would you do that?

Spock says, because you are too slow? Oh my god, what are you people doing? Just leave Star Trek dye in piece. Some fellow nerds said they hope Patton Oswalt gets more Vulcan episodes. He would have to appear in three episodes to pass Sarah Silverman, who appeared in two episodes of Star Trek and of course, Dignataro was in several seasons of The Horrible, Horrible, Horrible Star Trek Discovery.

You don’t want to start me on that topic. If you ever meet me in person and you say Star Trek to me, you’re gonna regret it. Caleb hearing And is getting an HBO special. It’ll tape in Chicago. Little debut this fault, you know.

Rosenstein, the executive vice president of HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials, said, we’re thrilled to work with Caleb on his first comedy special. He’s wildly funny and has kind of an emotion, a ledge and honesty that it feels totally his own. This special captures everything that makes him such a fresh and fearless voice in comedy. How do you know it hasn’t recorded yet? Hmmm?

Caleb said, thank you to HBO for the opportunity. I look forward to seeing what the platform will be called in the fall. That’s good. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Nate Bargatty, Sebastian Maniscalco, Shane Gillis, Steve Gerbin, Andrew Schulz, Joe Rogan, JD Vance, Theo Von, Elon Musk, Steph Curry, John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, James Austin Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Billboard mid-year touring report: top 5 comedians by gross revenue and ticket sales
• Shane Gillis on Andrew Schulz Flagrant discussing Masters trip and Notre Dame NIL pledge
• Tires season two episode two review and Office comparison
• JD Vance appearance on Theo Von This Past Weekend during Elon Musk Epstein tweet controversy
• NBA Finals ratings decline and lack of Knicks participation
• Steph Curry voice acting role in animated basketball film Goat
• John Mulaney and Olivia Munn People magazine feature on fatherhood
• Prediction on John Mulaney’s Everybody talk show return via Netflix Festival 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johny match with your Daily Comedy News. Billboard has put out its mid year touring recap. We’ll take a look at the top touring comedians. In twenty twenty two and twenty three it was Kevin Hart at the Midway, and twenty four it was Nate Bergatzy All right, who do you think are the top five touring comedians of twenty twenty five so far?

Now, don’t forget to be on the list. You’d actually have to be on tour. The dates covered here are from October first, twenty twenty four to March thirty first, twenty twenty five. Midyear charts are based on figures reported to Billboard box Score. At number five, Jeff Dunham has grossed thirteen point four million dollars and sold two hundred and fourteen thousand tickets across forty seven shows.

At number four, Joe Coy grossing fourteen point six million dollars two hundred and four thousand tickets across fifty three shows. Maybe, if you ever host Golden Globes, don’t try and stare him down to ruin his career, because it’s not gonna work. Joe Coy. Number four, he’s doing fine. Taylor.

Number three Gavi Iglacias twenty million dollars two hundred and seventy five thousand tickets fifty shows. Number two Kevin Hart twenty eight point three million dollars two hundred and sixteen thousand tickets, sixty one shows. Kevin likes to work, doesn’t he? And number one I’m not sure I would have guessed this person, but once you say this person’s name, I’m like, yeah, okay, I could see it. Sebastian Manuscalco thirty five and a half million dollars, three hundred and sixty one thousand tickets sold, thirty shows.

Somebody do the math there? How much as a ticket to go see Sebastian Maniscalco seems pricey? But he plays two Mainstream America, So I get it from Golf Digest, your home for comedy new Shane Gillis was over on Andrew Schultz a podcast. He was joined by Steve Gerbin, and they were promoting season two of Tires, which I’ll talk about in a second. The conversation talked to Gerbin and Gillis’s trip down to the Masters in a browl.

Gillis told Andrew Schultz, this is what I do for this guy. I took him on a private jets of the Masters. I don’t give an f about golf. So we’re at the Masters. It was dug crap.

It sucked. It was awesome. It’s like beautiful Augusta National. You know, it’s the fing Master. So you go in, you walk in, You’re like, this is awesome, and then after an hour you go, ah, sephan golf.

You can’t see a thing. There’s no phones, you’re not allowed on a phone, so you just gotta look at the scoreboard that somebody’s like, manually, they’ve got a two on that last one, and you go, oh nice.

Meanwhile, Shane was on Joe Rogan’s podcast and said, I pledged a million dol…

That’s the licensing thing so that the college players can get paid. Now. I haven’t done one single thing. I was at the FFing Championship game watching Ohio State win, and I was going, Notre Dame needs a defensive tackle. I’m gonna give them a million bucks, and they were like, hey, you want to give us that million bucks.

I was like, no, Gillis told Schultz he wanted to play football in college, but never applied to Notre Dame because they were too good for him. So he tried to play for Army because Army would play Notre Dame that year. Gillis explains, I was like, I would play there in their stadium. In fact, my senior year would have been Notre Dame Army and Yankee Stadium. That would have been cool.

Would have gotten killed by Notre Dame and it would have been an honor. No turns out, I sucked. Grandpa and cousin played for them. It was my old family. I went to a Catholic school in Pennsylvania, so everyone that was Catholic like Notre Dame.

If you’re a Protestant, you liked penn State. Tire season two is hilarious. Tire season two, episode two. I was laughing out loud, which I’ve talked about my Emperor rome syndrome that doesn’t happen. That one had me guffawing.

My son. I watched it separately. He came down because I texted him, I’m like, oh my god, season two, episode two, you gotta watch it, and he had already seen it, and he said something that I was thinking but hadn’t verbalized it. He said it reminds him of the Office’s Diversity Day episode, and I don’t think they’re hiding it. I think they’re going for that.

Even if you watch the way the credits for at least season two. I don’t know what these season one credits, I don’t remember what they look like, but the season two credits, the way it’s shot and the music it’s deafly reminds me of the UK Office anyway. Shane Gillis season two of Tires, You should watch it, episode two. Highest recommend Welcome to the Era of Establishment. Theovaugh So the Establishment.

Theovon this past weekend with Theovon podcast had on the Vice President, and while the VP was there, Elon Musk put out that tweet suggesting that the President is in the Epstein files. Vance said, okay, wow, I haven’t even seen this one. He explained he was on a plane when mister Musk and mister Trump were changing Barbes Online. Vance said, first of all, absolutely not. Donald Trump did not do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein.

Whatever the Democrats and the media says about him, that’s totally bs. A clip was posted on Twitter of Van saying he hoped Trump and Musk had become friends again. Musk tweeted, cool, nobody’s watching the NBA Finals because nobody listens to Johnny Mac hey refs call some fouls. Put the Knicks in the finals. You’d have three times the amount of people watching, but instead we’re getting some of the lowest rated finals of decades.

And that’s a shame because the NBA is cool. NBA superstar is Steph Curry is taking on his first major acting role in Goat. Goat is a basketball themed animated feature. It’s set in an all animal world and it follows Will, a little goat with big dreams who gets a once in a lifetime shot to join the pros and play roar ball. Currently, roar ball is a high intensity, co ed, full contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.

John, why are you talking about this other than being bitter about the Knicks? Well, Batton, Oswalt and Nick Kroll are some of the voice actors in this thing. Olivia Munn has a big feature piece in People magazine. I’ll stick to the John Maliney parts, and she said, I really had no idea what kind of father he would be, what kind of friend he would be to me? But the day Malcolm was born, John’s whole world just lit up.

Malcolm looks just like John. He’s just changed his whole little life. Not to be two Sacharine. But looking at John, looking at Malcolm, I could see all the healing happening. It occurred to me over the weekend, this whole Netflix Malaney thing.

Here’s how they’re gonna get out right, write this down so when they actually say this and I do my I told you so dance, you can go. Okay. Johnny Mac said this on the June tenth episode of Daily Comedy News. He was right, here’s what they’re gonna do. They’re going to announce that everybody’s live will come back, but not until the Netflix Festival.

All right, that’s my prediction, because during the Netflix Festival, they can knock out six of them in a week and they’ll have a level guests and it’ll crush and everyone will be like, oh my god, it was amazing. Plus it helps hype the festival. That way, both Netflix and Malanie could say, yeah, we always said it was coming back, here it is, and then they don’t have to do the pesky twelve week thing that none apparently not too many people were watching, and uh, you know, I’ve said my piece about it. So that’s my prediction. The next time you see The Malleni Talk Show will be d twenty twenty six at Netflix Comedy Festival.

Write that down. James Austin Johnson said, the cold opens in season fifty of SNL, we’re pretty crazy. I’ve done a few of those before, but the added pressure of the fiftieth and the added pressure of my comedy out being up there with some of us on those sketches. It was just Bowan and I looking at each other, like, look at us with all these stars, and made me want to raise my game and match their level. That’s what the whole season was about for me.

I want to find the path to be as good as these people have looked up to in the end and how they’re sharing the stage. You know, I mentioned a few times I like James, but I feel like his Trump impression really drifted this season. It was better when he first started doing it, and you know, Shane does a better one. James said this season was the first where he took out three new cast members, to give them a rundown. He said, this was the first year I cared about another living soul.

I came to SNL with my wife, who was pregnant at the time, and I was so wrapped up in our internal drama. This season was the first one where I thought I could do this. I know this, and I want to share that data with the new guys. And they’re all geniuses. They’re also ready.

I was blown away by all three of them, Ashley Pada, Emil Wickim and Jeane Wickline. They’re such naturals. That’s pretty cool. That’s good to pay it forward like that. In this next story, I had seen buzzing around, but I was only finding it from South American new sites that I was unfamiliar with, and I couldn’t tell if this was a hoax or a real thing.

But now only Washington Post has written about it, so I believe it’s real. A comedian is facing eight years and three months in prison. So here’s the story. Leo Linz is doing a set in mid twenty twenty two. He warns the audience he’s not going to hold back.

He says, I make jokes about everything and everyone. What show could be more inclusive. I even hired a sign language interpreter just to be able to offend the death mute. That set went viral and has over three million views on YouTube. During the set, he made fun of black and indigenous people, obese people, utterly people, gay people, Jews, Northeastern Brazilians, evangelicals, disabled people, and those with HIV and is now facing eight plus years in prison.

The sal Pallo State Criminal Court last week convicted him of practicing or inciting racism and religious prejudice, as well as discrimination against people with disabilities. They called his comedy bigoted and discriminatory against minority and vulnerable groups. The judge wrote in her decision freedom of expression is not out solute nor unlimited. When there’s a confrontation between the fundamental precept of liberty and expression of the principles of human dignity and judicial equality, the latter should win out. Linz responded on his YouTube page and said this video is not a joke.

This is Leonardo de Lima Borges Linz, not the comedian Leo Lenz, a comedic character created over many years that makes a servit jokes. He said Brazil was going too far with rulings based on emotion, in which no one wants to hear the person next to them, but to convince them of their own truth. In twenty twenty two, a judge had ordered Linz to pay around eight thousand dollars to the mother of an autistic child he had offended. He was involved in another controversy by joking about a child with hydrocephalus that is a disease believed to be associated with ZEKEA virus. The audience laughed at one of his jokes, and he said, I like this crowd.

You’re complicit in a crime. I’m going to use you all at trial. Very very interesting. We’ll keep an eye on that one. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Mo’Nique, Theo Vaughn, John Mulaney, Robbie Prap, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle Summer Camp 2025 dates announced
• Dave Chappelle and Mo’Nique discuss Netflix deal and creative pressure
• Mo’Nique addresses Palestinian representation in Season 2 writing room
• Theo Vaughn calls Gaza conflict a genocide on his podcast
• John Mulaney late-night talk show status unclear despite Netflix deal
• Robbie Prap dodges questions about Mulaney show renewal
• Late-night talk show format and production comparisons

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Caloroga Shark Media been air. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle is doing his hometown summer shows again. Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp is a summer tradition. It’s back for its fifth year.

He’ll do three summer weekends at the Weird Pavilion weekend of July second to third and fifth, so no show on the fourth, and then August fourteen, fifteen sixteen, and August twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. The Hollywood Reporter put Chappelle and Moa. Mayer together for a conversation. Dave says, of Mo, we spent all the summer of twenty twenty together doing shows. The best comedians of the world flew in Ohio and we had a blast.

Moe recalls it was so nerve wracking because everything was so unsettling. It was COVID, it was civil unrest, it was my own personal stuff, and every one of my writers was juggling things emotionally. He was really overwhelming, But you, Dave, really saved my life. I’m sure that a lot of people fell that way because we weren’t working. You gave us an outlet so the story here.

Moe was invited to participate in Actors on Actors, and he suggested speaking with Dave Chappelle. Chappelle said, as you know, I notoriously don’t like to do press, but I wouldn’t have missed today because it’s used. So Dave flew from Ohio to LA and said, there’s an elephant in the room. You got a deal at Netflix to produce a show, and then Riser’s starting production on season two October seventh happened, and this is something that you’re going to have to address artistically or not. And I was curious about what’s the process of going through that.

By some weird accident, you found yourself being a solo Palestinian voice at a very critical time in human history. Moe explained. I started writing season two in April of twenty three. Then the writers Guild went on strike. We came back in October six days later.

All hell breaks loose, and particularly my writing room. Since the show centered around a Palestinian family and impacted it significantly, it caused us to have a tremendous amount of debate in the writing room itself. Chappelle was curious where the pressure comes from family, friends, bosses, most said more so from the fans of the public said I’m the only guy that’s Palestinian. It was a show that centered around the Palestinian family. The pressure around that was a minute.

There were so many phone calls and people pressuring me to speak right away. Literally October eighth, I noticed everybody was yelling at each other. No one was actually listening to one another. And I think it’s really important to understand what’s happening before you speak out. It’s really necessary to know what you’re talking about.

I’ve aween my art form as a refuge what it allows me to be myself and express myself. Outside of that, it feels unnatural to me at the moment. I had a long conversation there along those lines while we’re solving a peace in the Middle East here on Daily Comedy News, THEO Vaughn has also addressed Palestine on his podcast. He called it a genocide. There’s a clip going viral.

It’s from the May tenth episode of this past Weekend. In it, THEO says, feels to me like it’s a genocide that’s happening while we’re alive. You see all these photos of people just children, women, people body parts, just putting their kids back together. I just can’t believe we’re watching that and that more isn’t said about it. I didn’t set out today to wait into any of this.

As I put the show together and he could check the back catalog. Whoever the biggest comedian is, that’s who gets the first story. So when I went into the Chappelle thing and saw that THEO, who’s pretty big and would have been in the three spot today, was on the same subject, I put those two back to back. Had THEO spoken about something else, the number two story would have been this whole John Mulaney thing. Now, I had pointed out on this show, I’m getting up on my soapbox and doing the Hey, Johnny Mac told you I’m doing it.

Hey, remember I told you this. Remember a couple of weeks ago, Robbie pro the head of Netflix Comedy, was like, yeah, Mallenie, yeah yeah, but like never said it was actually coming back. Then last week Mulaney was on Mark Marion’s podcast and you know, said we’re working things out. Late Nighter poked at this. Robbie Pra told Late Nighter Robbie again is head of Netflix comedy Every Wednesday for the last twelve weeks has been my favorite Wednesday.

I think John is absolutely brilliant. That’s nice. My ex girlfriend from college has nice hair. That’s it. She’s nice hair.

So Late Nighter didn’t accept that dodge and asked it, you know, are we gonna get any more of this show? Robbie prot says, I have nothing to elaborate on at this time, which is not yeah, we’re working on season two right now, or yeah, twelve more episodes come out October twenty fourth, or yeah, we’re working it out. John’s touring this summer, which is trying to figure out the dates. You could have said any of that, but Prau said quote, I have nothing to elaborate on at this time. Prau also points out mulaney is an extremely, extremely busy man.

It sounds like everybody has figured out that that show didn’t work my opinion, and they’re laying the groundwork to everyone to get out gracefully. I could see a future in which it’s like, you know, working with John was great, but yeah, you know, he’s got this sixteen month tour coming up, but he’s got two young children and he’s in a lot of demand and he might host some awards show how about you know, we love him here at Netflix, and we always have the door open for an upcomings, you know, that kind of spin that’s coming. What’s incredible to me about John is how quickly we saw the evolution of the show. To put on a program that feels different from Show one to Show twelve. In the old world of late night, that would be what two and a half weeks.

I can’t really envision who else could pull that off the way John did. Well, that’s not really a fair comparison. You kick, pare twelve weekday shows to twelve weeks. You have to comp we are twelve weeks to twelve weeks, because if you’re doing a daily show, like all right, we’re done taving at six thirty and we have to get to work, and we have twenty three hours to put out another show, not one hundred and sixty seven hours to put out another show. So that’s not a fair comparison at all.

Robbie Prau, who I’ve worked with back at Just for Laughson, is a good guy. More from pra Vi e Late Night Er, which is a great website. I mean, we’re calling it late night, but it’s on streaming so it’s available all the time. So to me, it really seems like a hybrid. It’s a talk show.

Part of it feels snl E. No it doesn’t. I mean he wrestled fourteen year olds. That feels Andy KAUFMANI yes, he did the hype bit the night Letterman was on. That felt lettermany.

Yes it did. The fact that he was out there doing these ten to twelve minute not topical monologues and that they’re strong as they are is something mokes folks don’t understand the level of difference and specialness. You have to have to achieve that. Sure, but I will tell you this, Give Jay Leno a week to come up with twelve minutes, he’ll do it. But he did a show five days a week.

And let’s not pretend people don’t have writers for us as The idea of producing the show live around the world wasn’t necessarily a strategy to differ the show. To be honest, I don’t think it’s the thing that makes the show great personally. It’s certainly exciting that it’s live in the moment, but it really stands out as a great variety hour either way, That’s how a lot of our members engage with it. You may recall Jimmy Kimmel Live was called Jimmy Kimmel Live because Jimmy Kimmel was Stay It with Me Live. The Holly Reporter caught up with Seth Meyers, who somehow has been hosting Late Night for eleven years now without really having any impact on society.

They were curious, Seth, do you have a sense for what differentiates your show? Seth says, One thing I love hearing as I’ll come backstage for first time guests and they’ll say, everybody tells me this will be really fun, and that’s great. Defeedback, I think is people like doing the show because they feel like it’s a conversation. We don’t ask some of them. It’s just come and talk.

It’s a loose, good vibe. Host isn’t in a suit. We have a nice green room. Well, I mean, if that alone isn’t a reason to watch the show, they have a nice green room, says The one thing I was most wrong about is I thought politicians would be more interesting. I think it’s very interesting to talk about politics.

It’s less interesting to talk to politicians and We’ve built a show where if the conversation’s good, it’s good TV, and it almost doesn’t matter who it’s with. Honestly, I think it’s better to have a good conversation with an author than a bad conversation with an A list star. But that said, is it if more value if you have a good conversation with George Clooney? Of course, But if we realize there’s someone who’s a giant star is maybe better at being a giant star than they are being a talk show guest, that’s great. We don’t need to chase that person.

In Carmel spoke to GQ about his weight loss and said, you know what the big difference for me was, I joined a gym. I can walk to the whole idea of getting in the car and finding parking and in LA often paying for parking. I took away as many hurdles as I could. There’s a gym that’s like a twenty five minute walk for me. Perfect it’s podcast time.

Maybe he listens to this podcast. Hi, And I also drink so much water because the other thing I feel with cravings is you have to try telling them and know in as many ways as you can throw whatever you can at them. I’m probably like a three to four apples a day guy. Doctors will tell you to keep it to two, but listen, it’s that or Lasagnas. I’m doing the apples and I love blueberries.

For me, that’s a top tier berry. I think it’s the most consistently good. I don’t think it’s the best berry at its best, but it’s the best berry on average. Forgot to mention earlier. Seth’s doing a lot of press and why I don’t know why he’s doing so much press.

Conan’s doing a lot of press too. At Eliza Slessengers doing a lot of press. I’ve noticed that aproprobe nothing just thought a chair doing comedy podcast and these things come to mind when I put the show together. At the ATX TV Festival in Austin, Brett Goldstein talked about his early collaboration with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence. That was a project called spaced Out, also in that Donald Faison from Scrubs.

It was basically a space themed workplace sitcom. Wheret Goldstein said, it was my second pilot season in la I’d gone and done a pilot for HBO the year before. There was really good, but didn’t get picked up, and then it came back in an audition for Bill’s new show. I love Bill because of Scrubs and I was excited to had Donald in it. The show was about a working class genius trying to integrate with a team of scientists building a Mars rocket.

Goldstein said it was basically Scrubs set in a rocket factory. We called it space Turk. Laurence said it was not called it was canceled. Brett says, the thing that’s awful about making TVs, we all felt on the set the pilot was really special. This is a thing so much that when Bill’s producing partner, Jeff said goodbye to me, because you do the pilot and then you start shooting the rest of the season in August, he said to me, see you in August.

So I started packing out my house. I sold my place in England, don’t know.

And then a month later it’s not happening.

I was like, where do I live? Yeah, I don’t do that. That was a rookie mistake there, brick Oldstein. Years later, Bill Lawrence calls him about this show called ted Lasso. He called me completely out of the blue, and he said, I’m gona do this football show.

You want to come right on it? And I said no, I’ve got a big stand up show booked. He said it starts next week and I was like, but I’ve got these stand up shows. Brett spoke to comedian Nish Kumar, who told him cancel the show. Cold Scene had another concern.

He had developed a show, Soulmates for AMC. The Soulmates got picked up and I was like, ef Bill Lawrence said he was running Soulmates and we hired him as a writer on Lasso. He didn’t know he was also going to be Roy Kent, but that was all Brett. We were writing. The party filmed an audition on his own.

He sent it to us and he absolutely killed. Yeah, we’ve heard that story before where he just asked, Hey, can I just be Roy Kent and they said yeah. That’s how I started hosting the show on Live One. The weekly comedy thing, by the way, I should plug that new episodes every Monday, kind of like this, except I talk a lot less. But I can also play comedy clips from comedians because of licensing and all that.

So that’s the weekly comedy thing on Live One. So when we were putting that show together, I was inspired by Phil Collins from Genesis. I’ve gone sideways here, let me back you up. So Peter Gabriel, musician Peter Gabriel, you’ve heard of him. He was the original singer for the band Genesis, and then he left and Genesis was looking for singers and they auditioned a bunch of people and then one day Phil Collins, who you’ve heard of, said can I just do it?

And they were like, yeah, sure. So we were auditioning people for the weekly comedy thing and I was writing it, but no one was quite nailing the voice. And I eventually said can I do it? And I totally had Phil Collins stuck in my head for that, and they were like sure. So I started hosting that and then I had all these extra stories left over, and I’m like, I got to do something with these stories.

So I created this podcast and here we are, and like anything else in life, I’ve been talking into a microphone almost every day for don eleven twelve years now, and you get better things. So thank you for listening. I digress. But that was the end of the Brett Goldstein story. Oh, I definitely want to stop off at Gossip Corner before we Go.

Page six reported that Jeff Gorlan was scheduled to headline a comedy dinner at the Calabasas Country Club in SoCal last week. However, he allegedly walked out after discovering he’d be paid by check. Gorlan was reportedly promised listen to this number eight hundred dollars in cash, and was unhappy to learn at the venue intended to compensate him with a check instead. Let’s just stop off there. So say you were on curb your enthusiasm for eleven years, You’re going to headline a comedy dinner.

How much do you think you would get paid? Apparently the number is eight hundred dollars. Wow. An insider told the Post the crowd was ticked, most of them come to see Jeff. Approximately forty people at the show.

According to Calabasa’s country club schedule, they frequently host events such as comedy nights and bingo. The Post says it’s unclear why Garland walked out. A different source in form Page six that he likely didn’t walk out due to financial reasons. They said, Jeff can be a very neurotic guy. You can get hung up on things, so who knows.

I think I have it in my brain somewhere. I feel like when I was at Serious XM, I feel like we were talking with Jeff about maybe perhaps doing something I may have And again, I might just be making up this whole thing. I feel like I was on a call with Jeff and I haven’t filed away in my brain that sometimes you jump on calls with people and you can tell people really want to do something and then we’ll figure out the money later.

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And then sometimes you’re on a call with someone and you feel like, oh, they …

And it’s more about the money than the idea. And I haven’t filed away this conversation with Garland that I might just be imagining, but I think it happened, if I’m remembering correctly. I think I left that call going, oh, this isn’t column B, that this is just like, hey, I heard this is the thing. When podcasting heated up a few years back, oh boy, a lot of people were out. Yeah, I’d like to do a podcast.

All right, what do you want to do? I don’t know, whatever you guys think, And it was like, you just want to be paid anyway. That’s your comedy news for today, see tomorrow.

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Seth Meyers, Colin Jost, Eddie Murphy, Rob Schneider, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlyn Olsen, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton

What’s in This Episode

• Tim Dillon on Meghan Markle and the Royal Family
• Seth Meyers writing for SNL’s 50th Anniversary special
• SNL 50th Anniversary behind-the-scenes details and Colin Jost’s leadership
• Rob Schneider’s ‘You Can Do It’ tour receives scathing review from The Observer
• Rob McElhenney and Kaitlyn Olsen’s success with ‘High Potential’ and other business ventures
• Kaitlyn Olsen’s multiple TV commitments and career momentum

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tim Dilan was on with Fox News Digital and goof Dan. One of my favorite comedic targets, and that is Megan Markle. Now, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigued podcast about the royal family, so I write about Megan seven days a week, so I’m very familiar with what everything’s going on.

And Tim said, I think she came to prominence at a time when there was a real cultural cachet of being a victim, and I thought it was a very funny way to be a victim, and she found a way to be a victim while living in a castle, and I always found that very funny. I think she’s a great comedic actress. I think there was a real currency in being a victim when she rose to prominence and she became a victim living in a castle, married to a prince with the royal wedding, and I thought that was really funny. It’s hard to pull it off. She did it to her credit.

You know, most people that were putting out that they were victims during that era were, to their credit, not members of the royal family. Tim then talked about Prince Harry and said, Harry seems like he’s kind of been let around and he kind of doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s probably all all adventure for him, right. I loved him, Dylon and you can follow along and kind of goofon the Royal Family. Listen to Palace Injurgue where you get your shows.

The Hollywood Reporter did a wax job for Seth Meyers’s car. I don’t know why. A lot of Seth Meyer’s press recently. They asked him about writing for SNL’s fiftieth Seth said it was funny because I wrote on the fortieth and I was very fresh from having left, and I felt right back into being a head writer this time. I felt like a guy trying to make a comeback in baseball as a fifty year old, and he’s kind of throwing his backyard and he’s like, oh, yeah, I still kind of got it.

But this current writing staff is really great. In the person I was most impressed with was Colin Jost. Seth says Jost wanted to make sure everybody was taken care of, which often gets overlooked at SNL. I mean, every good writer at SNL is always looking out for the cast, but to some degree you’re always like, well, there’s next week. But with the fiftieth, you don’t want people to get shut out.

I was at the table reading. It was one of those moments in life where you realize this is probably the last time this is going to happen for me. It was very special, and in the back of your head there’s an anxiety of like, am I doing enough of me adding enough value? Seth tells us for the fiftieth there was very little that was pulled at the last minute. Once so you ask Eddie Murphy to do a sketch, You’re not going to cut the sketch, by the way, nor will you ever be in a position where you think you should.

But in general was a really cool thing. Could they top this? Say there was a sixtieth anniversary at wich Lorne Michaels would be ninety. Seth said, yeah, this was a little bittersweet, and it might be the last great showbiz party. Again, we’re all aware we’re living at different times, but I didn’t feel like a single corner had been cut, and the after party was amazing.

I would say the only part and This was the other difference of ten years is at some point we realized the next day was Monday and we had to beat parents again. So my wife and I did great. I mean, we stayed out untill three. But the next day I was literally taking two of my kids to the Blue Experience. I wasn’t even hungover, it was emotional exhaustion.

And then I was at the Bluey Store, and every parent of the Blue Store is hoping there’s someone there that could talk to you about something cooler than Bluey. So the number of parents coming over like I can’t believe you’re out, and I’m like, yeah, me neither. They then go on to talk about late Night. Maybe I’ll go into that tomorrow. The Alice Observer had a wonderful, wonderful review of Rob Schneider’s show.

The headline Rob Schneider is you can do It Tour had us wishing he wouldn’t. The Observer rights the snl Alum show was a sad display of a comedian who now only knows how to pander to your Facebook uncle. Sounds like Lauren Upshaw did not have a good time at the show. She wrote about Rob’s move towards the right and his comedy special on Fox Nation. The Observer put comedy in quotes.

She writes, when we heard he was playing the Granada, we thought, maybe we’re missing something, maybe he’s grown as a person and his interesting insight in the time following the ascendancy of the Orange One, or maybe we just love a little bit of good cringe, And in that vein, we were truly not disappointed. The crowd was diverse in the sense that it was made up of seemingly older, rich white folks who had not seen Deuce Bigelow and the rest of the white people who definitely had seen it. The opening act was a Vegas performer who began the show with standards before pivoting midway through the set to croner versions of classic hip hop. The crowd loved it, and it was admittedly great, and so the last couple songs took a sharp turn, becoming a croon list of people to get ft. The first real applause during the set erupted when the singer said f oprah.

It was clear the crowd was there to see someone stick it to the libs, and early on it seemed that desire would be fulfilled. The second act gave us a revolting anti feminist tirade for about thirty minutes. Her jokes were typical conservative attempts at meme fodder, such as, don’t worry, honey, there’s no chance you’ll need an abortion because you’re so ugly, no one would have sex with you. Then Schneider came out. The theme of the night was free speech the observer rights.

The set was made strange by the fact that it didn’t seem to be based on conviction or even a desire to provoke thought. Instead, it came across like Schneider was just trying to use outlandish, buzzed words to claim victimhood, if not a grift. It was quite lazy writing at the best. I’m sitting on this one. I bounced this several weekends in a row.

Let me just clear this out. Variety did a big, big fluff piece about Rob mcallenny and Kaylin Olsen. We’re told how successful they are with two businesses, Linear TV and a UK foot We hear from Charlie Day you said it would be very impressive if just one of them was going on a run. But the fact is that both of them are stringing together a series of real successes. They’re out of tear.

Kaitln Olsen’s High Potential is a smash hit, one of the biggest shows on TV right now. Yeah, I guess. Let me see how that’s doing. And please understand I love kayln Olsen. From Variety on May thirteenth, they wrote for the network High Potential was its top rated freshman drama in seven years.

Craig Ierwick, president of Disney Television Group, says, I mean High Potential is truly the story of the year. If you look at the multi platform ratings this year, it does I think about double the ratings of Matt Locke. Wow. Impressive. It stands among the giants of shows that are on right now.

I think the momentum of the show will continue. According to this Variety article, High Potential Broadcast plus Streaming eighteen to forty nine gets a two point four to seven rating that is better than other shows like Abbott Elementary at two point twelve, The Rookie at one point seven zero, Shifting Gears, Tracker, Ghosts Survivor, and Bob’s Burgers at number nine, and that show doesn’t even exist. Then Variety gets onto Waxing Rob’s Car about Wrexham and how well they’ve done. We’re told how Caitlyn is on hecks. She is very good on hecks and don’t forget Sonny returns in July for its seventeenth season.

They’re also in business together as investors in the Philly bar Max Tavern. Glenn Howarden says Rob Ten’s to succeed. He’s very smart and humble on a collad of her person. I’m extremely proud of him and Kitlyn. I don’t know how she does it.

I mean, she’s on three different TV shows. What the f is going on? Man? If I want to do those, if I want to do what those two were doing, they’d probably be part of me that was jealous. But it all sounds very exhausting.

I’m too damn lazy to do all that stuff. It’s just too much happening. Boy, they publicist, you deserve one hell of a race for this fluff piece. They even got Danny DeVito to say he’s an oppressive guy. And I was always thought Caitlyn was the funniest one on the show.

She’s not only gorgeous, but as the timing and as a natural comedian. This is like the fluff job of fluff jobs I’ve ever seen. Rob is pondering a name change. He says, as our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I’m just going by Rob mack kylen Olsen said. The kids are really not happy about it because they have their last name, and so do I legally.

The fluff piece then goes on to the first year of Sonny. Rob said during season one he didn’t quit his job as a waiter. Sonny was paying him seventy five hundred dollars an episode, minus taxes and commission, and there was no guarantee the show would keep going, he says, of that season. That was our chance, and we’re very proud of those episodes. It was certainly unlike anything else on TV.

We knew we were betting on ourselves. John the FX’s boss, was very upfront with us, saying, we’re taking a risk on you. You came in and said you want to be the showrunner. You’re not even the head waiter at a restaurant, but I believe in you. That sounds like some retro storytelling.

Can you imagine you’re sitting in the office, and then the head of FX is like, you’re not even the head waiter. I don’t know, and I’ve run into some jerks, and the guy John Langraf does not have a reputation for being a jerk, so only think that story might be a little massaged. The piece then gets into Rob and Caitlin becoming friends and then more of a relationship. Glenn Howard and said, how did I not see this was happening? She would come over and then get too drunk and sleep there.

In retrospect, she wasn’t really that drunk. She was just using the aas excuse stayed out our apartment, and then Rob would disappear for a couple nights and I’d be like, what’s going on? He tell me he went out with some girl making stuff up. Charlie Day said, I thought, what’s the big deal? I think I remember Glenn was a little more thrown off.

Glenn responds saying I thought he was doing a bit because he knows. The stupidest thing you could possibly do is date your co star. You’re compromising the show on everyone’s job. If that goes south, you’re ft, and the whole show is ft and heft everybody. So I laughed and he was like, no, I’m serious.

Anyway, this thing goes on and on and on. I think there’s some storytelling here, A nice narrative has been created. And if you’re the publicist for Rob Mcalenni and Keaitlyn Olsen, you deserve more money. Screen Rant writes, I really hope Happy Gilmore Too is Adam Sandler’s first grade comedy in twenty seven years. See.

I agree with that, except I would phrase it, I really hope Happy Gilmore Too is Adam Sandler’s first grade comedy, and I wouldn’t put a time period on it. I agree with screen Rant when they write Sandler has undeniably started in plenty of great movies over the past few years. They’ve mostly been dramas on cut Gems, Hustle, Punch, Drunk Love are the best of the best of the best. Johnny Mac big fan of Adam Sandler, dramatic actor comedy not so much, and I thought this was interesting. They pulled the Rotten Tomato scores for Adam Sandler comedies after the wedding Singer water Boy critics thirty four audience is seventy one.

Big Daddy Critics thirty nine audience is seventy four. I’m just gonna do the splits. I’m not going to keep saying the words critics and audiences, Okay, Little Nikki twenty two to fifty five, Mister Deed’s twenty two, fifty nine, eight, Crazy Knights thirteen and fifty, Anger Management forty two and fifty nine, fifty First eight, forty five and sixty five, Spanglish fifty four and sixty the Longest Yard Critics thirty two audience is sixty two. The original Reynolds Fantastic Film, Click thirty four and sixty six, Chuck and Larry fifteen and of critics sixty nine audiences, Zohan thirty eight and forty five, Bedtime Stories and I Remember that twenty seven and fifty five grown Ups ten percent from critics, sixty two audiences, Just go with It nineteen critics, fifty nine audiences, Zoo Keeper fourteen percent from critics, Jack and Jill, the one that my kids still talk about. They wanted to rent it on pay per view one day, and I said, I’m just going to take the five dollars and light it on fire critics three percent.

Audience is thirty six, That’s My Boy twenty one and fifty one grown Ups two eight percent critics, fifty three audiences, Blended fifteen and sixty four, The Cobbler ten and thirty six, Pickls eighteen and forty six, The Ridiculous six critics gave it zero. Is that possible? Even I don’t give Adam Salor movies zero audience is thirty six, The do Over nine and forty two, Sandy Wexer Boy, This guy has put out a lot of stuff, hasn’t he? Twenty seven and thirty nine, The Week of twenty six, thirty five, Murder Mystery forty three, forty six, Hub Halloween another one I like to hate on fifty two out of critics, thirty eight audiences, Murder Mystery two, forty six and forty five. They right.

If there was ever a movie that seemed tailor made for Adam Sandler’s comedy comeback, it’s Happy Gilmore two. It would be great if Happy Gilmore two finally realize that Adam Sandler isn’t enough to make a film successful on its own. There needs to be a level of craft and writing ability on display that’s been missing for the rest of his filmography. I don’t disagree, and that is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow.

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