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Featured: Conan O’Brien, John Mulaney, Eliza Shlesinger, Mark Watson

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien’s travel packing tips and carry-on strategy
• John Mulaney discusses best cities for stand-up comedy
• Eliza Shlesinger on comedy advice and career longevity
• Mark Watson performs at Prague Fringe Festival
• Mark Watson’s new show about AI and technological change

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Wirecutter caught up with Conan O’Brien about how he packs when he travels. I just found this fascinating. A conin opened up with a joke, telling Maria Adammant, who writes for Wirecutter, that he does travel with fake beard’s, fake mustaches and a weird don Keyxote costume.

Those are props that gets sent ahead. But more seriously, when Conan travels alone, it’s carry on or bust my kind of guy. Conan pro tips from Conan O’Brien underpack, bring versatile and comfortable, multipurpose clothes, stick to a singer color palette. Pretend you’re Steve Jobs. He suggests two pairs of jeans, one blue, one black, that takes care of ninety five percent of the situations you’d be in.

According to Conan, his favorite brand makes stretchy pants with a dash of krag. Conan says, you could do yog in these, but they look just like regular jeans and they’re incredibly comfortable. That’s a good tip. Conan was even wearing one during the interview. He pairs his jeans with a classic T like his favorite dark blue T shirt from sun Spell.

He explains it’s not a cheap T shirt, but they hold up pretty well over time and they don’t start to look ratty. They actually look kind of nice. Conan also brings a dark blue cashmere Brunello zip up hoodie, which he’s had for years and explains, I’ve noticed you can wear that with anything. It can go to almost any climate. You can just wear it.

You can wear that and be a chill, relaxed dude headed down to the gym, or you can wear it underneath an overcoat. You know, you look like Sting. On his way to the Grammys, Conan says, though you don’t need a luxury version, literally could get something similar at Banana Republic.

Also in the bag a versatile dark blue suit from State and Liberty.

He likes it because it’s made with a light stretching material and says he can attend a funeral, we’re under a jiu jitsu tournament, and neither way you’re set. He always travels with a good pair of black running sneakers. If you’re squinting, it kind of looks like a shoe. That’s my go too as well. I’m actually you hear that.

I’m wearing black sneakers that kind of look like a shoe right now. You know, if you’re wearing dark pants, it’s cone and no one’s really banging attention. You can also walk for like twenty miles. You can go to the gym if you’re crazy enough to go to the gym while traveling.

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Also, you’re Conan O’Brien’s and nobody’s gonna be like, eh, I don’t know it …

You know, It’s not like he’s going for a job at the bank. He wears glycerin GCS twenties from Brooks. I have a pair of those, not in black. My black ones i’m wearing are Nikes, but my current running sneakers are Brooks. Wow, all right, Conan, get it done.

I like this next part about his toilet trees. He says, I always make sure the containers are approved by the Heathrow Airport website, but as even so, the bottles will still be thrown out in front of me by a delighted TSA employee from Manchester. I followed every single rule that he throw has, and they still hold it up in front of me like it’s rat feces and dispose of it. They then get into there’s a lot of Aaron wirecutter, if you want to read it. They get into which razor he brings.

He talks about adapters, has been here, done that. I always like to bring the wrong adapter for the country I’m going to. It’s the correct adapter for the country I previously went to. And that’s true every time, and I’m not even kidding. Don’t cover your passport, Conan said, I used to think it was cool to have a little cover for your passport.

Don’t do it. Everybody in every country treats it with disdain. They make you remove your passport for a little cover. They had the cover back to you like, here’s your affectation. He uses an air tag and his luggage.

It tells you that your luggage is in these zories, but no way helps the situation other than that. The air tag is just a way of laughing at you, mocking you. It’s like a kidnapper who says we have your relative and you’re never getting him back. You’ll find that in the New York Times wire Cutter, that’s pretty good. During a recent episode of the Town with Matthew Beloney, matt asked John Mulaney what cities he thought were best for playing stand up.

Mulaney said Dublin and then switched to Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was just great. I just walked around. My son was probably twelve months old. I was pushing him around the city and a stroller, and Everybody’s like, we’re coming to the show tonight, And then everybody was at the show.

It was that kind of town. Golderby dot com, you’re home for comedy News asked Eliza Selessinger. What’s some great comedy advice should pass on? She said, honestly none. I hear about comics have mentors when they start, but I never had that.

After take years, I thought I knew everything, but then you realize how much you don’t know. The biggest thing is that comedy, and really any career was a marathon, not a sprint. You have to keep working, keep evolving, and be grateful for the chance to create a body of work over time. I want to look back and see my audience growing with me and not be a flash in the pan who in the comedy world inspired you, Eliza Selessener her answer, Adam Sandler was huge for me growing up. I always loved sketch comedy, which shaped my storytelling style.

Wasn’t until much later I realized how much that influenced me. Often on the weekends, I’ll do international stuff, and I’ve got a whole bunch of international for you here. And if none of that interests you, you are dismissed. I understand. I’ll see you tomorrow.

Mark Watson gets a lot of buzz. He was recently enjoying the Prague Fringe and spoke to English radio dot CZ, which normally would get tagged with your home for comedy news, but I already used that joke. He liked Prague. Two of my kids have been to Prague separately. They both loved it too.

Mark Watson said, there’s a kind of owe the architecture in the history and how relatively unspoiled it feels. There’s a real grandeur. Two I’ve been too, slightly similar central European cities like Vienna, and it even reminds you Munich. There’s certainly a joy for a British person with the space, with the big city squares, and also all the colors. It’s lovely to look out the window and feel so far from home.

It’s a very nice city. Mark’s show is called Before It Overtakes Us. What’s it about? He says, I suppose it’s a little bit ominous. The show’s inspired by a conversation I had with what was supposedly a customer service person but proved to be a chatbot in AI.

That was last year. The first time I’d ever been successfully condonent as you’re talking to a non human believing it was human. Made me think a little bit about the changing face of humanity faced by all this technology. I’m forty five. I’ve seen twenty years of relentless technological change.

For most of it I felt slightly behind the pace, but not in a way that’s too much of a problem. Now it does feel as if it’s getting away from me, and I can feel the next generation is starting to do things I don’t understand. Welcome to Old Man Mountain, Mark Watson. Interesting topic here performing in English, where that’s many people’s second language. Mark says, it’s a British person.

You get complacent about that. I’ve performed in the Netherlands and Denmark, and yesterday I had performed a late night’s show after my show and there were people on the bill from India, Russia, Romania, all them performing to each other in English. Were really spoiled. As anglophones, you can pretty much take it anywhere. Of course, in other countries, I can and would try to speak a little bit of German and Germany and French in France.

Now I’ve tried to do snatches in those languages. Here, I’ve had very little time to adapt to the local language, so I’m going to once again rely on any checks there to be fluent or fluent enough.

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Meanwhile, an Australian disability campaigner has hit out at an English come…

Carmen is a Type one diabetic and was appalled when comedian Paul Foot went into a ten minute stretch on diabetes at his show at the Moth Club in East London about ten days ago. In the chunk, Foot quote made fun of people unquote who wear continuous glucose monitors. That’s a device that diabetics used to keep track of their blood glucose levels. He then apparently mimiced a diabetic having in an episode shaking on stage before were suggesting that the person in the sketch died after suffering a heart attack. Carman shared footage on TikTok where she could be heard booing and calling out the comedian.

She yelled out, that was a crap joke. I have Type one diabetes. That was extremely insensitive and misinformative. Foot shot back and said he didn’t think he was being insensitive, continued to set Carman yelled back, I don’t think it’s up to you to decide if it’s insensitive or not. I’ll remind everyone this was happening at a comedy show.

Foot said, due to the failure of you to grasp with that civil intellectual point, then went on to argue that comedy is subjective, and due to the failure of you to grasp that simple intellectual point, the show’s ending in an awkward way. Congratulations to Sean Patrick, who won the Not So New Comedian of the Year award. Kind of like this. This award is aimed at ax who’ve been doing it for a while but of yet to have a big break. Was previously known as the Old Comedian of the Year, but they switched that around Julia Rayside wrote an opinion piece that I found on MSN.

Julia is upset that the BBC’s new comedy lineup is full of white men and says we’ve gone back in time. Julia writes, the latest late of BBC comedy commissions announced recently features almost entirely programs by white men. A great white side of testosterone is set to wash over our screens. I had read to you some of these shows, how about a week ago. Remember Mackenzie Crooks in One and Michael Palin’s in one.

Julia Wrights. Women writers have been almost entirely sidelined. The one exception is Diane Morgan’s Android. They said, come about a humanoid robot design to keep the elderly company. But we’re back to the days of one woman on the bill.

A single female is on one side of the seesaw while the football team of white men weighs down the other end. The Christmas one off Stuffed Dust are the only non white man Guz Cohn, but it’s written by Andy Milligan, another white guy. And Crackt wrote about the biggest gatekeeper in comedy, which is a piece of computer code. Eli Youwdon writes, AI has already taken over comedy, but just from the booker’s office, Eli writes. At the current moment in AI has a massive influence over the world of stand up comedy.

It’s not writing material and it’s obviously not performing it. What it is controlling, and heavily is if you ever see the material. I’m not looking to really togate for the thousand times how Instagram is effected the quality of comedy. For Instagram to exist and for the comics well suited to get famous off it more power too than when I can’t stomach is success or failure on a singular platform being used to gatekeep the entire pursuit. What set me off was a post on Instagram by comedian Charles Gould.

The post was a bit resulting from a meeting with an agent where he was told in plane terms that until he had at least one hundred thousand followers, the door was closed. It irked me, especially because the job of agents and managers and maybe my childish mind is to find talent and then help that talent find an audience. That’s a good point, and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please Tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Ian Carmel, Andrew Schultz, Joe List, Eliza Shlesinger, Harry Condobolu

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart’s LOL Live premieres on Hulu with ten 30-minute comedy sets
• Ken Flores’s first long-form special released posthumously on LOL Live
• Ian Carmel GQ profile discussing weight loss from 420 pounds and mental health
• Andrew Schultz reflects on cancel culture shifting, discusses Matt Damon promo
• Joe List’s new special ‘Small Ball’ filmed at Chicago comedy clubs
• Eliza Shlesinger interview on evolution from dating comedy to validating women’s perspectives
• Harry Condobolu discusses selling out concept and hosting Netflix’s Snack Versus Chef
• Beetlejuice the musical returning to Broadway

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now Kevin Hart, he’s got more side hustles than anybody. He’s not afraid to work, and he’s always got a new business going on. Well.

Now he has partnered with Hulu, and the Hulu pul says may have tried to keep this away from me because you know they definitely don’t get back to May. But I found out anyway about LOL Live, which will feature ten thirty minute sets from a range of comics. It comes from Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat Production Company and premieres today. Comedians include Devin Walker, Chico Bean, Brandy, Denise Chinado, Unaka, Dethnique Springs, Justin Silva, Leah Sampson, Malik b Sidney Washington, and the late Ken Flores. Flores’s performance is the first long form special ever taped by Ken, was filmed shortly before he passed away in January at the age of twenty eight.

Hulu will roll these out two at a time. Floras and Springs kick off the run today, Bean and Unaka on the eleventh, Walker in Washington in August at Denise Milik, be In September and Silva and Simpson on October third. The sets were filmed last summer during Heartbeat Weekend at resorts in Las Vegas. GQ did a lengthy profile of Ian Carmel and Ian’s weight loss. We learned that Ian eats a lot of apples nowadays and he looks a lot different than he did at his peak weight, which was four hundred and twenty pounds.

Interesting discussion here, GQ. With dating, there’s always the feeling of uh oh, this person that I’m attracted to also thinks that I’m attractive. Something’s wrong here. That feeling never goes away. I and said, yeah, I thought you were cool, but you like me, you must be an idiot.

There’s that trap you get stuck in. People say it takes work, It takes therapy, it takes self examination, It takes a lot of being actively aware. It’s a lot like eating in a lot of ways when you find yourself spiraling. A lot of what therapy and self examination can do is it doesn’t stop it from happening, but it does let you recognize it. Maybe it gives you some tools to try and slam the brakes on a little bit.

If you could stop it and call it out doesn’t make it go away. It’s like when you’re standing in front of a fridge sheating your six spiecet pizza without having tasted it. But you have the tools to be like, oh, you’re binge eating, stop, go for a walk, you know what I mean. They got into a story where Ian thought he was having an art attack, but he went down to the street to call nine one one because he didn’t want anyone to carry him out. Ian said, that was my last straw.

It was the entire event. What struck me after looking back on it was I was so effed up in the head and desperate not to be one of those quote unquote fat people. I can never accept myself as who I was. I was like, oh, I don’t smell like other fat people. I have a job address well, not like other fat people.

I want the paramedics to be like, no, I didn’t even notice he was fat. It was another act of apologizing for myself. It turned out to be a panic attack. But panic attacks and heart attacks currently feel very similar at first, which is effed up and not a thing that makes you have less panic attacks, by the way, and the moment where I realized I wasn’t having art attack. I went back upstairs and I scheduled a telehealth appointment.

The Hollow Reporter talked to Andrew Schultz about a TED talk he did in twenty nineteen where he talked about how sensitive and politically correct the culture was. Their premise, the pendulum has swung the other way. Schultz said, yeah, it’s like cancel culture and all these things. It’s over. I mean, people could still get canceled, they still say horrible things about people.

That still happens. So people try. You can make whatever joke you want. The Promoi did with Matt Damon one of the lines that we did, but cut with him going what do you do for your specially? You gotta complain about cancel culture in a sildun arena.

It’s like we can’t cry about it when we’re selling out. Joe Liszt told No Film School that his new special, Small Ball, is not totally unlike his previous specials, and that it’s an hour of him doing stand up at a comedy club. The big difference is this is the first one that hasn’t been shot in New York City, specifically The Village Underground. This one we shot at Chicago and two different comedy clubs and two different nights, one Zanies in downtown Old Town Chicago and the other at the Rosemond Zanies out in the suburbs. Then we cut together two shows and I think I came out really well.

I’m very excited for people to see it. I hope they leave saying, man, that was fun as hell and Joe List is a damn good comedian and I’m glad he finally fixed his teeth. Eliza Selezenger spoke to gold dot com You’re home for Comedy News, and I was thinking about Eliza. She is somehow outside the mainstream. Like I feel like, you know this like this like line of comedians that are all kind of circling around each other, Like Nikki Glaser’s like in the middle of that, and Mlanie’s in the middle of that, and I feel like Eliza should be in that crew.

But she’s off like doing her own thing. You never like see stories of her like interacting with the other comedians, you know what I’m saying, neither good nor bad. I just was like, oh, yeah, she’s just kind of like out there, not in the mainstream for some reason. Eliza said, I started doing stand up at twenty one, and then I became a professional around twenty four. My specials started maybe in my late twenties or early thirties.

Now I’m forty two and a mother of two’s and my jobs to analyze life and call life as I see it. I began as a young woman talking about dating, back when the Internet wasn’t everything, and opinions on society weren’t so constant. Over time, I’ve evolved to have a more concise opinion, from commenting on women to advocating four and validating why we are the way we are, to telling other women they’re not crazy. Now people show up to hear that hot tap, reverent or serious as it may be.

Speaking of serious, the ever so serious.

Horry Condobolu spoke to the Houston Press, but I think he made some really good points here. Harry said, one big thing is the idea of selling out and how that doesn’t really mean anything anymore. For me. It’s the idea of what integrity means when you have a kid, Like, what’s your focus? Is it this idea of artistic integrity, which is this vague notion or is it that the kid needs to eat.

I gotta work, and what would you do for work? At this point, he talked more about selling out and talked about co hosting the Netflix food composition series Snack Versus Chef, which I don’t remember. Apparently was a thing in twenty twenty two. I was hosting this podcast that summer. I don’t remember talking about that at all, but Harry said maybe in my twenties, I wouldn’t have done it.

It’s not who I am now. It’s kind of like, I don’t care. It’s a fun show. And the one thing I’m trying to find a way to talk about is selling out is an ancient concept. Like everyone’s on social media.

I feel like so many people have gotten famous from the Internet, and when you’re doing something on the Internet, you’re immediately doing stuff through corporations, whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, these are all big companies. Every single artist has a public presence, and that public presence means working with public companies. So before there was this idea of the indie artist making zines or word of mouth and the album gets passed around. Those days are done. So the notion of selling out, I think this is a generation who doesn’t know what that means, because from the get go they’ve been trying to create content for this corporate entity without even thinking about it.

Selling out is the only path, Like, if I’ve heard of you, you must have sold out. Beetlejuice the musical coming back to Broadway. Yes, I saw this before the recent run closed. It’s fantastic. You should go see it and believe me, I’m keeping track of how many times I’ve said the name of the musical so far only once.

You’re not going to trick me into saying it three times. Anyway, that particular musical, we’ll do a thirteen week engagement October eighth through January third. Beetlejuice That’s two originally ran at the Winter Garden Theater from April twenty nineteen. Initially had low ticket sales, and then there was traction on social media and a successful Tony’s performance. However, theater owners announced plans to force the show out of the theater to make room for The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman.

How did that go? Those plans got delayed by the pandemic, but a show in question had to move. They went to the Marqui Theater where it ran from April twenty two through January twenty three. That’s when I saw it and where I saw it, with a return of most of its cast, including Alex Brightman, who plays the title character who I’m not going to say his name, but he was very good as that character. Casting for the new version of a show that shall not be named not yet announced.

David Cross has taken part in a new climate crisis video. He co stars with environmental scientist Michael Oppenheimer, and Cross says, you got to speak to people in a way they can understand. Humor, as I think it has been shown over centuries is a very effective way to get people to absorb information. In the video, Oppenheier plays the straight man, saying heat records are being broken all over the world. In fact, last year was the hot year since the industrial era began.

David Cross interprets that message for lay people, saying translation, the crap is hitting the fan and the fannas on maximum. The video released by the group Climate Science Breakthrough has made videos with the UK comedians like Nish Kumar and Joe Bran in an attempt to help climate science breakthrough to many more people. And unlock action. Ben Carrey is one of the videos producers and says we’re aiming to reach beyond the converted and depolarize the debate. Mike Burriigley has spoke to Vanity Fair and says the only thing he veers away from currently is politics.

Her bigs told Vanity Fair John Stewart always said everything he did on the Daily Show is disposable, It doesn’t live on. There might be a certain point in my life where I’m going to go all in on politics or culture. But if I’m gonna do it, I’m going to go all in. He was asked who he trusts to critique his jokes, he said Hasan Minhaj is one of his favorite guests on his podcast. Pete Holmes, who’s great, is one of our favorite guests.

Is Pete still doing his podcast? That thing has gotten invisible. I haven’t that used to be one of the big ones, along with like Marin and Nerdis. But I haven’t heard a thing about Pete Holmes. And well, I’m sure he is just opening up the app here.

Yeah, it’s still coming out every week. I’m just seeing Michael Costa a few weeks back. Harland Williams, Deana Gould Sclar Brothers. I guess he just hasn’t had an a lister to get that show. Some impressed anyway, you made it weird with Pete Holmes, a podcast I’ve carently forgotten about, is a good podcast.

I digress. Pete Holmes is one of our favorite guests. He also is his brother’s wife and Ira Glass as people that he trusts in. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Adam Sandler, Travis Kelce, John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Robert Smigel, Conan O’Brien, Roy Wood Jr.

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis Tires Season 2 Netflix release
• Happy Gilmore 2 trailer announcement and cast details
• Just for Laughs Montreal 2025 lineup and hosts
• Rick Mercer Stand Up for Canada Comedy Tour
• Robert Smigel new podcast Humor Me
• Conan O’Brien PTSD response to HBO’s Hacks

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Caloroga Shark Media. He there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Season two of Sane Gillis’s Tires out on Netflix today. If you haven’t watched season one, start with season one. The episodes go super fast, super bingeable.

And it’s not like the NBA wants us to watch them tonight, or they would have told the refs, Hey, refs, call some fells against the pacers, will you? But nope, the NBA wants to have pacers. Okay, see, I’m not watching I’ll be watching Tires bitter much. Sure. In season two of Tires, after the unexpected success of their big marketing idea, Will and Sheen rush to grow personally and professionally without fully realizing the cost of doing business.

Okay, Netflix announced a whole bunch of things and they shared a trailer for Adam Sandler is Happy Gilmore IWO with Premiere’s July twenty fifth on Netflix. I think we’re about to see a lot of press. Netflix had their Too Dumb presentation on Saturday, which did not go over well on social media. People were saying that it sucked, but appearing at it, Adam Sandler, Christopher MacDonald and Julie Bowen were introduced by sports commentator rich Eisen. The trailer showed Sandler breaking in another new Caddy, this time played by Bad Bunny.

On the stage, the kids who play Sandler’s children in the movie joked, is there anyone actually under sixty in this movie? I heard somebody commenting that they just took the roles played by Carl Weathers and Richard Keel just made the characters the kids of the original because the original actors have passed away and it’s just like whatever, it’s a Sandler movie. Who cares go with the jokes. Other cameos on stage and in the movie include John Lovetts, Wow, how’d they get him?

Also in the movie famous actresses nobody better to cast than Sadie Sandler a…

They must know somebody. Professional golfers John Day, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory McElroy are in this one. Us Kelsey’s in it Market Qualley and other Nepple Baby, She’s fantastic, but still an apple baby. They’re all in Happy Gilmore two, Adam Simdler till Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show that Travis Kelcey is a nice guy. You guys would love him in real life.

What a big, handsome guy, funny and cool as hell. He’s a stud and he’s so funny. Happy Gilmore too. July twenty fifth. It’s more details about the new version of Just for Laughs Montreal.

Roy Wood Junior and Mikey Day announced as the gala hosts. Roywood on July twenty fifth, Mikey the next night. So new shows announced Ralph Barbosa on the twenty fifth, Joe Jumbroski in the twenty fourth, The Nasty Shows back two shows July twentieth and twenty fourth. Just for the Laughs Culture Show on the twentieth and twenty third, New Faces of Comedy on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth. I might have to get up there for the twenty fifth and catch that one.

I haven’t been able to make friends with the new press people because my former press contact up there is now working with Bruce Hills, who used to run Just for Laughs. She sent me a press release and I’ll read it. Paying attention JFL publicists, paying attention to Hulu publicists.

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All right, let’s see what we got here.

MRG Live and Bruce Hill’s Entertainment announced Rick Mercer’s Stand Up for Canada Comedy Tour with twenty one stops across Canada. Thank you for sending things over. I will include your notes in the show if you actually send them to me. John Mulaney commented on this whole thing about why isn’t Mike Birbiglia more famous. Mulanie’s take, Birbiglia does want to be famous.

I think everyone wants to be famous, but he thinks Birbiglia is already famous. It’s kind of relative the question of fame because he’s had successes that maybe some more household names haven’t. I don’t know anyone with as much respect in the theater, stand up, film, and TV world all at once. He made deliberate choices about having a much more interesting career than pursuing one of the agreed upon mainstream roots. That’s all fair.

I was thinking about that verbig special. I feel like the media really liked it, the Bverbiglia special. I feel like the media really likes Burbiglia. Verbiglia’s PR team definitely got him on a lot of big shows. I don’t know if that had any impact in mainstream American society.

And I’m not sure. In you know, regular folks like go down to the bar and go hey Mike Burbiglia, Like go down to the bar and ask your buddies like, hey, did you watch Mike Burbiglia and see if they actually know who he is. I’m not sure. I’m not here to bash. I’m just I give my take on how I see things, and I’m not sure that special cut through Despite a lot of press last week, Robert Smigel has got a new podcast called Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends.

On Humor Me, Robert Smigel and his guests, who will be a line of professional writers and comedians, will help listeners write all kinds of prepared remarks, from a speech to a toast, to a eulogy, to a presentation or application essay or a thank you note. We’re just slamming someone online. His online announcement suggests things like letter to a Congressman, letter of Santa, letter to a longtime crush, or if you’re Conan O’Brien and Oscar’s monologue, Michael says, we thought it’d be entertaining the showcase funny people writing. So here’s this no word on a release date yet. This will be produced by Big Bunny Players, which is Will Ferrell’s podcast network and a partner of iHeartMedia, so that’ll get pushed pretty big.

Speaking of Conan O’Brien, he said that Hacks triggered PTSD symptoms for him as he watched the fourth season. Conan told Hacks co creator and writer Paul W Downs the show delves into late night this year, which was fascinating for me because there are things you cite in the show that I’ve lived through, and so I’ll get a little bit of PTSD from watching it. But it’s also really funny and apt, you know, like getting notes here, this is what we heard about you, you know, in the early days of my late night show research and what are people saying and what do we need to adjust? Let me chime in there. I was really into HBO’s Entourage and had to stop watching it because it was at a point in my life where I was working closely with the Foxhole Jamie Fox’s comedy channel and doing la things that you know, Jenny Mack from Queen’s normally would be doing and never felt quite comfortable.

So then I’d watch Entourage and they were doing the same kind of things like going to parties on yachts and stuff like that, and I was like, this is too close to where I can’t and I had to just stop watching it. I really liked the show, but it was just giving me kind of the same feeling Conan was getting, Like, I just this is making me excited. Even talk about it now, fifteen years later, I don’t want to go there. Remember being at a super Bowl party one night and the Big Boss was mad at me, so I was there to make sure that the broadcast aspect of Live from Jimmie Fox’s super Bowl party went well. Again, listen to me, Oh poor you.

You were Jimmy Fox’s super Bowl party. Yes, but everybody else was partying and I had to stay in manager mode. And I remember a nice young lady who thought I wasn’t having enough fun and she was encouraging me to have more fun, and I just I felt like such a loser. First of all, you know, I’m married, so I’m not going to do anything with a nice young lady anyway. But I just remember being like, yeah, I got to just stand here and look like a suit.

It sucked. Conan said, it was all stuff that just felt impossible. So I’m kind of reliving it a little bit through your show. But you guys are doing a very good job of hitting a bunch of the nerves, which means you’re getting it right. Conan brought up a scene from the show where late night hosts are arguing over a celebrity guest appearance.

Debora Vance is trying to get Kristen Bell on her show. Jimmy Kimmel confronts her and says, you don’t get Kristen Bell because she always says my show. I sort of got possession of having her after conanbur died. Conan thought it was funny that in that universe that Conan died. And what I loved about it is no one questions it.

It’s just like since Conan died. It’s just like I get her after Conan died. It’s just understood. And I’m laughing because no one questions it. That is funny.

Oh you see, now I should head for a break there, But I didn’t end on a down inflection. Remember I lectured everybody about this yesterday. So I’m going to do one more story in the A block so that I can properly throw things to break like you’re supposed to. In Canada, they’re making a Canadian spin off of the Prices right now, You’re like why, I don’t know either. Are Canadians like yeah?

You know that True Carry version is way too American for us. We have a Canadian hosting America’s got talent. We don’t get upset. Maybe we should do something about that. What is Trump doing about that?

Why is a Canadian hosting America’s got talent? Why doesn’t Drew Carry host America’s got talent? A good at old fashioned American marine. Let’s get that campaign going. Send your letters to me.

I guess I opened that cat of corn there. I’m just shucking a joke. Relax, it’s a joke. How we Mendelican host America’s Got Talent because he’s also hosting the Canadian The Price is Right? This one has a working title of The Price Is Right Tonight.

See it’s totally different. HOWI Mandela, a press release said, I’ve been a fan of the Prices right my entire life, so stepping into this PS iconic role is an absolute thrill. The Price Is Right Tonight will bring a fresh, high energy twist to everything people love about the original Big Games, lots of laughs and fun surprises. I can’t wait to say, come on down to a whole new generation of Canadian fans and remember everybody heading into a break and on a down inflection. All right, well, the stupid NBA wants us to watch PACER’s OKC.

We’re not doing that. Call some fowls, refs, what are you doing? You know the right ping pong ball comes out of the thing every year during the NBA draft. You know that seems to magically work out for wherever the hot rookie should go. Somehow that works out.

Nobody can call some fowls against the Pacers. What are you doing? You left a lot of money on the table. No one’s watching Pacers OKC. Sorry from Celtics Wire, you’re home for comedy news.

Former Celtics Ford Blake Griffin said some NBA players are pretty funny. Jamal Crawford is hilarious. I think one of the funniest guys is Jeff Tigue. He’s hilarious. I could listen to him tell stories all day.

As for Blake’s own comedic influences, he says, when I was younger, jud Apatow comedies were right in my wheelhouse. I was in high school when those were coming out. I love Seth Rogan. I love Dana McBride. I’ll watch Danny McBride planning character.

I think he’s awesome. You have Shane Gillis, his stand up is phenomenal or mind Blake Griffin Tire season two out today. I like how guys are just starting to get funding and shooting shows and selling it because they can make exactly what they want and they don’t have to adhere to a bunch of notes. Those are some of the people who are doing the best in comedy right now. An interesting story, it’s behind him paywall.

I’ve tried every trick to try and read this story. The headline from the Philadelphia Inquirer, and I’ll just tell you all I know is the headline says, a junk fee is no laughing matter. According to a new class action lawsuit against Helium Comedy Club. The lawsuit requests damages for Helium Comedy Club customers in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Missouri over the inclusion of junk fees at checkout. I tried googling to find out more about this lawsuit.

I can’t find anything. I just find the headline interesting. I’ll try and keep an eye on that. Seth Myers told a crowd in Austin that he can’t picture a world in where he would stop doing Late Night. I found from the very beginning of my career in this business, you just have to focus on the day you’re doing the show.

There’s no version of me getting ahead of what twenty twenty eight it’s gonna look like that’s going to be even close to right now, Seth’s ratings should sort of more or less double right once Taylor Thompson shows go away and twelve thirty seven to himself, you know, maybe go up one point five x. That should make the show more profitable for NBC and keep Seth away. You know, I’ve been fascinated by Late Night with Seth Myers. I feel like it has zero impact on the universe. It just exists, Seth said.

It’s an industry that’s constantly facing challenges, But I don’t think anybody on a network thinks I’m going to be the one smart enough to solve the problems of like how to fix TV. Myers has a contract to host Late Night through twenty twenty eight, which is an eternity in current television. Who knows what TV will look like in three years? Here is a terrifying fact. On July nineteenth, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast, put on your seatbelt before I tell you this next sentence.

On July nineteenth of this year, Seth Myers will pass David Letterman for second longest tenure as host of the Late Night franchise. Seth would have to hang out until August twenty twenty nine to break Conan O’Brien’s record for longest tenure of the Late Night franchise, and in fourth place, Jimmy Fallon. Josh Gonoman announced his latest hour of material, Positive Reinforcement, will premiere on the Blonde Medicine YouTube channel on June twenty seventh, and in album for Him on July eleventh. Now what I like here is let me read it back to you. Joshleman has announced that his latest hour of material, somebody has found a way to not use the word special.

I like it. Oh no, but here in the second paragraph in the special in Brooklyn. Oh sorry, rats, I thought somebody had figured it out. I could edit that out, but I’m not going to. Gonoman details his attempts to adapt to changing times despite being born in the previous century.

I Feel You. He covers topics arranging from novelty big goods to proper pronoun usage and creative retirement planning, all while wearing a very nice sweater and a clean pair of sneakers because he knew there would be cameras there. Josh Gonoman Positive Reinforcement Blonde Medicine YouTube channel. June twenty seventh. If you are in Chicago, today is the Kids Above All’s annual Stand Up for Kids comedy Night.

Seventy five dollars. Tickets include beer, wine, and appetizers he can get Raffle tiktets. All Proceeds benefit the children and families in the Kids Above All programs. Comedians include Patty Vasquez, Chris Bourns, Kimberly, KB Marion, and Paul Farivar. Proceeds benefit the young people in families and Kids Above All programs supporting early childhood learning, safe housing, and counseling services for youth who have experienced trauma in the city of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

Today eight pm at the Den Theater on Milwaukee Avenue and That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Marc Maron, John Mulaney, Jimmy Carr, Mike Burbiglia, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• WTF with Marc Maron ending after 16 years
• John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show Everybody’s Live uncertain future
• John Mulaney declined Oscars hosting offer
• Joe Rogan podcast with Jimmy Carr on hecklers
• Conan O’Brien praised for Oscars hosting performance
• Netflix comedy special payments declining

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media boy. There is so much going on with podcasting and comedy high I’m Johnny Mac in a busy Wednesday with your Daily Comedy News. Is all right? The big one? Mark Maren kind of shockingly announced that WTF with Mark Maren, his podcast that’s been around for sixteen years, will end this fall.

On Monday’s episode with John Mulaney and I did pull some clips, Maren said, WTF is coming to an end, and it’s our decision. He made it quite clear that this was a co decision with producer Brendan McDonald. He was very very clear about that. Maren said, we’ll have our final episode sometime in the fall. The podcast turns sixteen years old on September first.

More than sixteen hundred episodes. Probably the most notable one was Barack Obama in the Garage. I actually use that to teach my college students on this is how you do it. I’m going to miss the show a lot. I find Maren very easy on the ears, the conversations always good.

There are a lot of weeks where Maren has the same guest as someone else, for example, John Maliney and the Maren version of it is just better. Maren explained. It wasn’t some kind of difficult decision necessarily, neither me nor Brendan. We’re the only people in charge of this operation at every level. We both realized together that we were done.

All right, let’s listen to Mark Maren explain it. And this started, you know, the old garage, the you know, just no one knew what a podcast was. I was coming out of a horrendous divorce. I was wanting to figure out how to continue living my life. Things were not looking good for me.

Brendan MacDonald my producer who I’d worked with for years on other things radio and streaming related. And when Brandon and I started this saying, all we knew was we were going to do it every Monday and Thursday, and there was no way to make money. There was no way that we knew how to build an audience or anything. And it was crazy. We were doing it in a garage at the beginning that was just a garage.

It was filled with junk, and it slowly evolved into the show that became what you listened to twice a week. Sixteen years we’ve been doing this and we’ve decided that we had a great run and now basically it’s time, folks, it’s time WTF is coming to an end, and it’s our decision. We’ll have our final episode sometime in the fall. Now, I remember listening to the show. Podcasting has had kind of two waves.

The second wave everybody puts around twenty fifteen with Cereal, But there was that earlier wave when we all first got phones and you would actually have to connect to your phone to iTunes and manually download a show. Before we left the house. He had something to listen to, and I was out running, and I remember Maren and Nerdiced were like two long form pods that you would grabs. You would just have stuff on your phone to listen to as your bran. Maren said, we’re tired, we’re burnt out, and we are utterly satisfied with the work we’ve done.

We’ve done great work. Doesn’t mean I’ll never have, you know, talks like I do here or some kind of podcast at some point in time, but for now, we’re just wrapping things up. It’s good that he gets to go out on his own terms. Maren said, it’s okay for things to end. We started the show on our terms.

We grew it on our terms. We’ll end it on our terms. It’s the right decision for me, it’s the right decision for Brendan. It’s okay, it’s okay for things to end. It’s just time, folks.

But again, we’ll have a few more months, so don’t get all bummed out. Let’s just enjoy it. The world is on fire. I have the people I want to talk to. We’ll find a little joy, We’ll find a little connection, We’ll find a little solid in each other’s company.

Also, notably, he never did video, and that’s the big thing in the industry right now was, oh, you gotta have a video, and this has always been an audio podcast. Maren Show actually debuted a month after the Adam Carolla Show and three months ahead of Rogan, and then he got into the interview with John Mulaney, which was separately noteworthy. Now what rang my ears? Listen carefully to John Mulaney commenting here, Maren asks him will there be another season of Everybody’s Live? And I had pointed out on this podcast a few weeks back Robbie Prau, who heads up Netflix Comedy, gave some sort of quote that made me go, huh, this isn’t the slam dunk we were led to believe.

Now, listen to m’laney here, I’m not sure this show’s coming back. Listen Have they said we’re doing more yet we Yes. There was a plan to do more and we’re figuring it out. Yeah, yeah, are you gonna U? I never know what to say to that.

I also like this clip from John Mulaney. He’s almost defiant that if if something works, he’s going to stop doing it. Fair enough, respect the mindset, but it’s why the show doesn’t work. But here’s Mulini. Anytime you say they’re figuring it out not a bad set, a side of me comes out, you know, like they’ve they’ve found their groove.

No, we haven’t. I’ll do it blindfolded.

And also when they say things like they’re figuring out, it’s just a diplomat…

Good, Oh, I think they just say it’s not good when they don’t like yeah, I think we’re no longer living in the decent era of uh, well, they’re figuring out. I think people want the best for you, John, Oh, that’s it. Molini also talked about being offered the oscars he did confirm that it was offered to him. He said, I was very flattered. They came to me.

Must have been last summer, and I knew Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t going to do it, and they offered it, and it was honestly, they had a lot going on, and it’s months and months of work. Both he and Maren praised Conan. Malini said he came out and was not only funny, but he elevated the show to the point I almost convinced myself that I’d seen these movies and I han’t seen one of them. Mary makes some good points that Conan will sometimes self erase when he’s floundering, and in the first few seconds of the Oscars, you could see Conan was almost heading towards a flounder and then found himself. So it’s a really good listen Maren and Malaney.

But I have plenty of more podcasts for you to listen to. Joe Rogan had on Jimmy Carr a very good three hours. I can listen to Jimmy Carr talk about comedy all day every day. Here he talks about Heckler’s and. Then I’m trying, but then I’m trying to I’ve got a good fastball, and then I’m trying to work on the other bits.

But that’s kind of what I love about the industry because. It’s it’s everything. You go, yeah, I can get good at that, and then I can I can do you like twenty minutes of fastballs, and then do I’ve start About a year ago, I started putting. I started working with a videographer and putting stuff out of like Heckel videos and people talking to me, yeah, I’ll and you go. It’s just such a joyful thing because it’s almost like doing the stuff when you go, just hit me whatever you want.

I’ll do anything. It’s like seeing magician do real magic, because you kind of go, right, yeah, I’ve worked this muscle hot enough I can. I’ll write jokes life for you now. Jimmy Carr is also the guest on kil Tony. Haven’t gotten to that one yet.

The podcast The Town had on both Mulaney I’ll maybe talk about that in a few days and had on Mike Burbiglia. The clip I pulled here Mike Burbiglia sounds to me like the Netflix money isn’t what the Netflix money used to be. Here’s for bigs. Are they still paying top dollar though? Are you?

I mean, you don’t have to give me numbers, but like they’re still treating you well because I’ve heard some pullbacks. I think there have been. I don’t look at other people’s papers that much, but. I mean it’s fine. I mean it’s fine.

I’ve never, honestly, I’ve never made a ton of money from comedy specials. A lot of it is just like marketing. Getting well, yeah, and it’s getting like, look, I do a really specific thing, like I consider myself the luckiest person in the world to have found Netflix. I shouldn’t even say this on record because it’ll make my negotiation for the next cringe exactly, but it’s it’s like Netflix is the best thing that ever happened to me, because look. I was like, I Mike Berg would turn this off.

I make shows that are combination of Broadway shows, theater, storytelling, and sinup comedy, like nobody before Netflix. Nobody was like, we got to get that on Comedy Central. And I just now before I started recording, walked the Dog for an hour and listen to Diary of a CEO with Guess Jimmy Fallon. I really enjoyed it. It was nice to hear Jimmy Fallon in real person mode.

But boy, the way he tells the story he was obsessed and convinced he would be on SNL by age twenty five. It almost sounds like hogwash, but you listen to him say it over and over and he believes it. The host even asked him, well, what would happen if you didn’t get SNL by twenty five, and Fallon like, can’t even entertain that as a premise of like, what do you mean? Of course I was going to get it very interesting. There one thing that was a little fun.

It got cleaned up at the end, But in the first half of the podcast, they were making it sound like by phrasing it this way that Fallon replaced Letterman, I mean kinda sorta, But that’s like saying Jay Leno replaced Jack Parr, I mean kinda sorta. Later on, Fallon said that he replaced Conan, which is factually accurate. A note to everybody in the podcast industry, this is my number one pet peeve, but I’m specifically calling you out Diary of a CEO guy. So in the middle of the podcast, Jimmy Fallon is talking about dying, about what it will be like when he dies, and it abruptly cuts to a live read of the Diary of a CEO. Guy trying to sell us an iced coffee.

It’s a train wreck. People. You have to place these commercial breaks. It’s very easy. I do it on this podcast every day.

If you notice what I will do is I will leend a story in a down inflection and I leave a nice little hole there and that’s where the commercial goes. It’s very easy to do, and I don’t know why people can’t do. Whether there’s so many train wrecks. The worst train wrecker of all is Tim Dillon mid sentence train wrecks. Joe Rogan is awful.

Plus the reads come mid sentence. Spotify do better anyway. Diary of a CEO very very good. Listen with Jimmy Fallon. Fallon talks about the highs and lows of his career and auditioning when he was in his twenties.

He says he wasn’t the greatest, and I’m a pretty positive guy in general, but I think it was probably my lowest moment. I remember like trying to see what therapy was or if I could afford a therapist. I wrote a letter of my best friends, like I’m losing it, dude. I think was something on the point of like I’m losing it and I don’t know if I can make it. Jimmy talked about his obsession with SNL.

I became so obsessed in high school that I really couldn’t hang out with anyone. I watched the show. People are like, can’t you tape it? I can’t tape, but I have to watch it live. I said, if I do nothing else in life, that’s all I wanted to do.

And like, even if that, if I could go for one season or one episode, then I could do whatever I want. Really really good conversation. I think Fallon is better than the interviewer Stephen Bortlett. And I’m not sure Steven is the greatest host, but he’s got a pretty successful podcast there and I’m sitting here in the basement, so what do I know. But I think Fallon is really good there.

Also, catching my ears is Jimmy does kind of what I do and swallows the syllables on the first word of SNL. I’ll often say sat Night Live or Saturday Night Live or something like that unless I catch myself and over an unciate. Jimmy a few times says something like Saturnight Live if you pay attention across my ears continuing are very busy Wednesday and busy a block. Ricky Gervais last week on Friday, got his Hollywood Walk of Fame star. He said he was humbled and that his success was a mix of luck, persistence, and a little bit of pushing against the tide.

Ricky said, I’d love to claim that it was due to my unrival genius, but truth be told, it’s a cocktail of luck, persistence and a little bit of pushing against the tide. You know, you’ve got to polarize. I think you need to know if you’re gonna do anything of any worth. As many people hate you as love you. But the ones that hate you shouldn’t affect you.

The ones that love you, they buy your house, so I’d like to thank them. And we’ve had a few weird years of cancel culture, of people telling you what you can or can’t laugh at or talk about. But we push back and we won until the next time. My former co worker Jamie Fox was at the comedy store. He started talking about Diddy and called Diddy a nasty mff or.

Jamie then got into some of the stuff that allegedly happened that I can’t even make a clean version here. There’s no way to clean up what allegedly happened, So I’ll just move on interesting that Jamie’s out doing stand up And if you’d like to follow a Didty trial, we do have a podcast for you. It is called Diddy Did He Do It? Wherever you get your shows?

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And now let me teach everybody how you do this.

As I head for the commercial break, I will end on a down inflection. Late Night had some fun with the notion that Joe Biden had been replaced by a clone and or robot. Have you heard this story? John Stewart said, you’re saying that the Joe Biden, who doesn’t even know where he is, is actually an incredibly advanced cloned robot. How much Kenemine are you on?

Jimmy Kimmel said, And by the way, whoever built that Joe Biden robot is very bad at building robots. I mean, if anybody was replaced by a robot, a clone, it’s Melania, right, Gus Corner, Fortune Fiemester posted on Instagram about the call to end her marriage. She made it clear the split was amicable. In a joint note signed by both her and Jacqueline, they said they’re parting ways with love, looking back fondly, and wishing each other nothing but the best moving forward. Andrew de Simuks got married.

According to a Late Nighter, Andrew has married fellow comedian Ellie Dixon this past weekend. Married somewhere in the Santa Monica Mountains. Dixon captioned a photo saying, no offense, we just got married. Horrible story. King of the Hill voice actor Jonathan Joss murdered.

The voice actor was shot and killed on Sunday. According to police, authorities were dispatched to a shooting in progress around seven. They found Jos lying near the roadway. They tried life saving measures while waiting for ems. Joss was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers quickly detained a suspect who had fled the scene in a vehicle. That person has now been booked for murder. The investigation still ongoing. Joss was best known for his voice role as John Redcorn and King of a Hill. Joss was set to return the newly announced revival of King of a Hill cent premiere in August, had already begun recording.

Just hours before his death, he had posted on Instagram talking about how the reboot is up and moving. Jonathan Joss was fifty nine. Nick Offerman jumped on social media, hitting back at a social media user who had used a doctored clip from Parks and rec to spread a homophobic message. A man had shared a clip depicting nick Offerman’s Parks character Ron Swanson throwing a rainbow flag into a dumpster. This happened on Sunday, the first day of Pride Month.

The person captioned it just wanted to post how I feel about Pride Month. Offerman himself commented and said Ron was the best man at a gay wedding. You dumb f hashtag happy Pride. Seth Meyers gave the commencement speech to choate Rosemary Hall’s class of twenty twenty five in Wallingford, Connecticut. That sounds up, but he doesn’t it.

Yes, it is a private Connecticut boarding school with Seth Myers sounds very very uppity. He joked that the smartly just teenagers holding roses plus the bagpipes made him feel like he was on his way to a human sacrifice. Seth said, I went to a public school. We used fewer fancy words. For example, we didn’t have a head of school.

We had a principle he asked us to call him head of school if someone would have thrown a battery at him. Not only did my school not of trustees, there was barely anyone you could trust. Seth continued. Nothing that is wrong in the world today is the fault of people under twenty. And yet you hear adults all the time saying we’re doomed because they’re getting their news from TikTok.

I’m not saying you should get your news from TikTok. You should get it from late night talk shows. And today it is the Women of Comedy Emmy Showcase. Eliza Slussinger soshirs Amada will join host Whitney Cummings for the Emmy season celebration. Whitney will moderate candid panel conversations with the featured performers.

They’ll talk about the comedian’s creative journeys, influences, and the evolving landscape for women in the comedy industry. Writing rule of three, fancy schmancy, It’s a Decrescent Theater in Beverly Hills. Invite only, excuse me, welcome reception at four two panels. The event is presented in partnership with Comedy Gives back the safety Net for the comedy community, offering financial crisis relief, mental health and substance abuse treatment sponsorship. So I hope the people that are paying for those invite only tickets are donating a heck of a lot of money.

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Also today Loons on the Lake.

The Loons on the Lake Comedy Festival in Minneapolis blends new and upcoming talent with experienced top name comedians. Starts to Toay goes through the seventh headliners Jamie Kennedy, Emo Phillips, some others who you probably aren’t that familiar with unless you’re very much into comedy. There is also a comedy competition with ten thousand dollars up for grabs forty comedians. You get to do an eight minute set top ten events in the next round, then the top five compete for the five thousand dollars grand prize. I wonder what happens to the other five?

Where’s that going? That’s your comedy needs for today? All right, I’ll see tomorrow,

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Featured: Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Shane Gillis, Hannah Berner, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Jerry Lewis, Vince Vaughn, John Lovitz

What’s in This Episode

• Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel trade Emmy campaign attack ads
• Tires season two release on Netflix with premiere event in Austin
• Shane Gillis comments on NBA Wingstop commercials
• Hannah Berner booed by Celtics fans during New Hampshire performance
• The Day the Clown Cried: Jerry Lewis’s unreleased concentration camp film
• Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura appear on WWE Raw to promote Bad Friends

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This first one is so much fun. Last week, Seth Myers was the guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live. They’re both trying to win the Emmy for Best Late Night Show, and they traded attack ads.

Kim Well started the fun, pointing out that Seth was only in LA to campaign for the Emmy nomination. So Kimmel played an attack ad making fun of Seth Myers not wearing a suit. People love Seth Myers, but do people really know Seth Myers. It’s time for a closer look. Yes, Seth, it is time for a closer look at you.

Real late night hosts wear suits and ties. You know who else never wore a suit or tie? Oh, Sam have been lucking Seth Myers wears nephew clothes. Shout da win an Emmy in what category? Getting drunk on the job.

Tell Seth Myers to go to alcoholics al Qaeda mess Jimmy Kimmel, clean sober American. I’m Jimmy Kimmel and I approved this message. Seth Meyers combatd that with his own ad. He accused Jimmy Kimmel of using unforced foreign labor, specifically Guillermo Let’s listen. Jimmy Kimmel says he’s American.

He claims to be made in the USA, but is his show Jimmy Kimmel uses forced foreign labor. Jimmy Kimmel kidnap me from Mexico and he’s been torturing me ever since. As that was Carrie, I hate snakes, he mos so sometimes I think he’s trying to kill me. Jimmy King human trafficker. Seth Myers for your consideration, I’m Seth Myers and I’m not a murderer.

Kimmel ebernt. They had more clips. Seth meyers brother Josh Regular, appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live as California Governor Gavin Newsom. Then Meyers shot back with an ad with Kimmel’s wife Molly McInerney revealing Jimmy Kimmel’s messy at home habits. Then a fifth ad two of Jimmy Kimmel’s real life children, alongside a group of actors playing Seth Meyers kids railed against their dads, wanting Emmys more than they want us.

The kids said, would you give a Trophy to a dad who doesn’t care about anything else. Say no to deadbeat daddy. So much fun there. The voting period for Emmy nominations begins June twelfth. Nominees announced July fifteenth.

The Emmy Awards will air on CBS Sunday. September fourteenth. Should be another good week for Shane Gillis is the worst I hate that guy articles. I don’t get it, but okay. Season two of Tires is out this week, which is fantastic.

If you haven’t seen season one, it’s really enjoyable. You’ll get through it really quickly. You can just binge the whole thing. There’s six short episodes, a lot of fun. Season two Netflix this week June fifth, Thursday.

However, if you’re in Texas, you can get a sneak peek at the first two episodes on the fourth. It’s part of the Dad Sick Premiere event. Head to tickets dot Austin Theater dot org. The Dad Sick Premiere event will include an introduction from the Tires creators, including Shane Gillis. They’ll screen the first two episodes of season two.

We also learned season two features an exciting lineup of new cast members including Thomas Aiden Church, Vince Vaughn, John Lovetts, Ron White, Steph Tolev So if you’re in Austin, go check that one out. And if Shane Gillis is in Austin, I bet he’ll be on the Joe Rogan Experience if he hasn’t already. Between the time I voiced this sentence and you listen to this podcast on Matt and Sheen’s Secret Podcast, Gillis told the NBA playoffs to chill on the commercials. You no, I’m going to play the clip here, so I don’t get myself canceled. Here’s Shane else?

Need to chill on the commercials. What are they doing? Bro? They they are targeting the African American community with intensity, Like every single commercial is catered to black people. Got you?

But it’s like almost like wingstops taking up a bunch of reps. NBA spread it out and put one on the PGA tour on off a little. It’s crazy that the wingstop commercial isn’t racist because it’s just a black wingstop commercials. The most racist commercial I’ve ever seen is a cool black guy. Just you describe it.

I can’t even describe the wingstop commercials. There’s a new wing stop commercial where it’s a base I think it’s supposed to be an NBA player. Shane continues, I think it’s supposed to be an NBA player. And he’s doing the whole fashion walk through that they do, and he hops in a limo and just crushes chicken, and every white guy on Earth goes, I know what they’re doing. I know what’s going on with those cool limos.

It is believed he’s referring to the Jalen Green Wingstop commercials. Send your letters to Shane Gillis. Hannah Berner said she was booed during a performance in New Hampshire after celebrating the Knicks because the people in the audience were Celtics fans. The Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs by the Knicks. Berner said on the Gigly Squad podcast, the Knicks are playing while I’m on Okay, you know I’m being silly and being goofy on stage.

I go and anyone know the Nick score? Seventeen hundred girls start booing me because New Hampshire. I forget, I’m a dumb New Yorker. She said she lost the crowd for a second and apologized, praise Larry Bird and joked about Bill Belichick’s girlfriend to win back the room. I’m excited about this.

Do you know about The Day the Clown Cried? Jerry Lewis’s never released film, It’s infamous. It was shot in nineteen seventy two. It is believed to exist only an incomplete frat I’ve seen some fragments. A few years back.

There were the fragments plus a recreation of it. Well. Swedish producer and actor Hans Crispin is saying I have the only copy. I stole it from Europea film in nineteen eighty and copied it’s a VHS in the attic where we used to duplicate films at night. I’ve kept the copy in my bank vault.

The Day the Clown Cried has never seen the light of day. There’s allegedly been like some secret screenings in Hollywood over the years. Jerry Lewis one of the thing to never be seen. I should probably tell you what this says. It’s a concentration camp.

Jerry Lewis plays a clown. He makes some kind of deal with the Nazis that he’s going to entertain the children while they’re led off to I don’t even want to go there. You know what happens. In twenty fifteen, Jerry Lewis donated a copy of the film to the Library of Congress on the strict condition it could not be screened publicly for at least ten years. And I do the math.

Twenty fifteen plus ten is twenty twenty five, though speculation is that there could still be copyright complications and the estate complaining about it. Jerry Lewis never was comfortable with the final product. He made it clear over the years he regretted the whole thing. He said it was a mistake and would never be shown. Jerry Lewis said there’s some rough cuts floating around, but the movie was never really completed.

I hope this sees the light of day. I would love to see this. A week ago, Bert Krascher and Tom Sigora were on WWE Raw. This was on Memorial Day, not the one last night. Wrestling fans were upset because Sigora had insulted wrestling fans in the past.

Sigora showed up with Bert Kreischer to promote bad thoughts, which is just amazing. I just I love that series so much. I wish six more would come out right now. I would watch them in a second. So there’s a clip Sigore is backstage with Bert Krascher and the war Raiders, as you will hear hear Bert at one point will walk away and meet up with the war Raiders.

Let’s listen yet, cool. I’ve here comedians Tom Suport and Bert Kreischer. Bert, great to see you back. And Tom, You’ve been a. Little critical of WW in the past.

So what brings you out tonight? Oh? Well, yeah, I’ve said some stupid things in my life. But you know, we had Cody Rose on our podcast and it was an amazing podcast, a real eye opener.

And then my buddy Bert had a blast at the show he went to, so he told me I ha…

So I’m here to just have a good time and watch the show. Yeah, Bert, I know you had a great time. We were actually interrupted last time when you were talking about your special. So I figured give you the chance to plug it now. Yeah, it’s called Lucky.

It’s on Netflix. Watch it. Talk about bad thoughts. I’ll hear it back. The attention span on that one.

So you also have a show on Netflix, Bad thoughts. Tell me about that. I have a new series. It’s on Netflix. It’s a comedy.

It’s a wild show where we have basically a sketch show meets faces of death. It’s outrageous, it’s crazy, it’s it happens every time. Here. Take a look. Take a look.

It’s like no brothers, It’s like looking. In the mirror, right, fire floor. Show. Hey, hey they’re gone, they left. How much does that hurt?

Am? I read a little? Yeah, I feel a lot. Scuarterer seats. Yeah, maybe they have a.

Medic and one of the wrestling fans so upset about In twenty twenty, on his podcast, Tom Sagura made fun of wrestling fans. He called wrestling effing fake and called the fans effing r words.

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The Hollywood Reporters headline John Mulaney’s fight with the three fourteen year olds was a bit of a letdown. Am I allowed to say that? To see? That’s really interesting because you’ve heard me talk on the podcast not feeling the Mallini show at all. But it seems like in the establishment media, we’re all supposed to be like, hey, John Mullane’s Reinvigorator late night, Right, Yeah, isn’t it great?

Isn’t the show great? And the show’s not great, so it’s interesting. The Holly Reporter broke ranks. Tony Maglio writes. The rules for the final segment were pretty straight up.

No punching, no kicking, no gouging, no biting. Headlocks were legal as long as the arm is encircled. They got intros from Adam Sandler and Richard Kind. The kids were the fan favorites. M’lini got booed by members of his own audience.

The four fighters took their shoes, socks, watch his rings and ties off. Mulaney went straight for the heaviest kid, who did most of the work, while the other boys assisted here and there. Once they dumped Mulleni face down on the mat, a legal headlock was applied and m’lini tapped out. It was over in fifty seconds, the Holly Reporter writes. With Netflix’s lawyers almost certainly in m’lanie’s head, if not directly in his ear, the payoff to this month log setup could only be a disappointment, and so it was Indy Wire did a quote very serious athletic analysis of John Mullaniy’s teen fight night they broke down the opponents Ben five eight one hundred and forty pounds, Jacob twenty six Adarsh five six one hundred and nine trained in taekwon do.

After consistently going for Malanie’s legs, Ben succeeded. He had a plan and the treo was able to bring down their elder millennial opponent, who’s spent a few seconds trying to crawl out of this predicament before realizing it was impossible. Malini tapped out to roucous applause before a final musical performance by Bone Thugs and Harmony.

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Speaking of Adam Sandler, I’m sorry I missed this story.

They in Portland. They had an Adam Sandler costume party in Cathedral Park. Raizah Antonio was the organizer. She was going to go with a happy Gilmore said, I’ve been feeling, like many people, the weight of everything going on in the world, the heaviness, the instability, and I kept coming back to this feeling and people need connection right now. We need to be reminded that We’re not alone, even in our hardest moments, She says of Sandler, he’s goofy, always has ben and I think that’s part of his charm.

Even now after taking on more serious roles, he still comes across his genuine That kind of authenticity really sticks with people. Adam Sandler did not show up, but a bunch of people did dressed as Adam’s. Eddie Murphy has confirmed that his son and Martin Lawrence’s daughter, are officially married. The Murphy’s and Lawrence’s are now in laws. Murphy told Jennifer Hudson, Actually, they got married like two weeks ago.

They went off. Everybody was making the big wedding plans and they decided they want to do something quiet, just the two of them. Of Martin, he says, yeah, we’re in laws, and he doesn’t have to pay for that big wedding now. Netflix has shared a first look at Leanne, the new sitcom starring Leanne Morgan, created by Chuck Lorie That’s the guy with all the big CBS sitcoms over the years. All sixteen episodes of Leanne will hit Netflix July thirty.

First, did they really expect us to sit home and watch eight hours of Leanne, Spread them out? What are You Doing? In the series, Leanne’s life takes an unexpected turn 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. With the help of her family, she’ll navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity and jello salad.

See comedy rule of three. There see the jello salad. He knew that was coming. Leanne said, I can’t believe her childhood dream has come true. When I started comedy twenty five years ago, my goal is to be part of a sitcom.

It just goes to show you it’s never too late and dreams do come true. I’m a grandmama from Tennessee and now I have a TV show with Chuck Laurie Netflix. What in the world? Chuck Laurie said, If you’ve seen even ten seconds of Leanne Morgan’s stand up, then you know what a unique comedic for she is. The theme of starting overs universal and I can’t think of anyone better to combine heart and comedy than Leanne.

I knew I had to work with her and I’m excited to bring this story to Netflix. Ryan Styles from Whose Line Is It Anyway? And The Drew Carey Show plays Bill the guy that left Leanne for another woman. That’s an interesting casting okay? There?

From Strike Back Studios. Laugh at Forward a new stand up comedy series showcasing the freshest voices in comedy. The first episode hosted by Jimmy O Yang and drops today. New episodes weekly throughout this month. The initial lineup of presenters include Rob Riggle, Jay Farrow, King Bach and Lisa Ann Walter.

The series is available on VOD Video on demand if you want to check that one out. And this kind of sucks, I wish this person well. Australian comedian Magda Sebanski has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. The sixty four year old posted on social media she had begun treatment for stage four mantle cell lymphoma, a quote fast moving form of blood cancer. She said, I won’t sugarcoat it is rough, but I’m hopeful.

I’m being lovely cared for by friends and family, and my medical team is brilliant and I’ve never felt more held by the people around me. Some famous people sent her well wishes. Kylie Minogue replied on Instagram, sending all the love. Jurassic Park star Sam Neil, who himself had a rare type of non hodgkin LYMFOM in twenty twenty two, wrote right there with you, darling xx. She said the cancer is only discovered after she requested blood tests after feeling unwell for quote ages and says the takeaway is get tested and listen to your body.

I hope this guys are right for you. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you guys tomorrow

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Conan O’Brien, Oscar Isaac, Rob Riggle, Conan O’Brien, Brad Williams, Jim Jeffries, Paul Hogan

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis blamed Gen Z for bombing SNL monologue
• How comedians should handle poor crowd reactions
• Oscar Isaac’s BBC travel guide to LA comedy scene
• Rob Riggle memoir ‘Grit Spit and Never Quit’ coming fall 2025
• Conan O’Brien on ridiculing Trump during second term
• Brad Williams discusses disability comedy and mental health benefits
• Jim Jeffries on Paul Hogan’s ‘Crocodile Dundee’ knife line legacy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. But we’ve had a little run of what I’m describing as angry comedy articles, and I’ve had fun sharing them. Here’s another one from Pajeeba. Seane Gillis blame gen Z for him bombing his SNL monologue.

Andrew Sandford writes, you don’t tell people you’re performing for that you lost them, nor do you start making excuses if you do. The great and powerful Conan O’Brien talks about that all the time. He’s mentioned that during his years as a talk show host, anytime a guest would turn to the audience says something the effect of this isn’t going well or I lost you guys, it would signal the interview’s death. Even if you think things aren’t going well, you lead with confidence. You don’t start blaming the audience.

That doesn’t strictly apply to being a late night talk show guest either. I was part of the New York City stand up scene for a bit, while that didn’t end up working out. I’ve seen a lot of bad stand up. More often than not, when a comedian starts blaming the crowd for their poor performance makes things a million times worse. I’ve seen comedians whose whole act insists of intermittently telling the audience.

I guess that was too much for you guys, or everyone here is so sensitive tonight it’s bad form. I do agree with that, that is a good point, but we’ll get to the Shane Gillis part. Shane perform a monologue about Trump wanted to buy Greenland and how white guys want to know if their girlfriends have slept with a black guy. Surprised it did not go over well. He then pivoted to a joke about the Civil War, and by that point the crowd was pretty checked out.

Even commits the cardinal sin and jokes about losing the crowd, even when he hasn’t fully lost them yet, it was bad to be even slightly fair. Of course, so likely mostly liberal New York City crowd wasn’t going to go for Gillis’s stick, but he should know that he should pivot. You don’t have to change who you are, just tell more jokes that may work where you are. But Gillis doesn’t take the blame for any of that, as he explained on a recent episode, of SmartLess. It’s the young people’s fault.

He didn’t do well, but it was not Shane Gillis’s fault. You guys so much just of Sheen Killa. I don’t get it. I think he’s funny. It’s got a goofy smile that telegraphs that he’s just, you know, a guy shocking jokes.

Just have a good time taking Toataro. We’ll headline the twenty twenty five Eureka Springs Pride Festival coming up on June fourteenth, that’s next Saturday. Already, ticket price has caught my eye, sixty eight fifty to one, sixty four to fifty. There’s also VIP meet and greet tickets in case the one sixty four to fifty wasn’t enough for you. The BBC, for some reason did a travel guy to la with Osco at Kotska.

Somebody in London’s like, h I want to go to La. I wonder what Oscar has to say. The part that catches my eye is about the comedy clubs. Osco says, the comedy scene in la is pretty diverse. We have everything for you.

She suggests dipping your twos into the scene by visiting theaters, it’s a little more artful than a comedy club. The allegioned theater is her recommendation.

Meanwhile, Largo is her go to for music enthusiasts if you like seeing musici…

Musicians joined the lineup so you can be watching stand up comedy the same night Beck is doing a set. She also recommends places you’ve heard of, like the Comedy Store in Hollywood Improv. As for the Comedy Store, it has a pretty diverse lineup in the audience is true comedy lovers.

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Meanwhile, the Hollywood Improv a list lineups are the norm, she says.

The Comedy Store in Hollywood Improv are two places I perform at a lot. Those are places I really feel at home. I love that the place I’m working at feels like a second home. Rob Wriggle will have a memoir out this fall. It’s called Grit Spit and Never Quit, a Marine’s Guide to Comedy in Life.

I worked with Wriggle a few times, really enjoyed his company. Just like a cool guy, you know what I mean. Wriggle tells People magazine, I hope people will be able to identify some of what I went through and it would be a service to them on their own journey. The book tells stories from his twenty three years in the Marines, plus his time in movies and TV. Rob says, I like to think of it as a motivational memoir.

I hope people will be able to identify with some of what I went through and it would be of service to them on their own journey. Wriggle retired from the military in twenty thirteen as a lieutenant colonel. That’s no joke, he says. They pushed me beyond my perceived limits. So whatever I thought it was capable of, the Marine said, actually you can do a whole lot more when pushed, and they were right, and it opened up my mind a lot too.

If I could do that, maybe I can do this. I started to actually believe myself and say, you know what, I’m going to bet on myself and so that’s when I finally got the courage to gopher it with regard to comedy and acting. So I give them Marine Corps especially a lot of credit for that. Wriggle learned the hard way. You need to embrace the suck and never give up if you want to get anywhere in life.

The description concludes with he’s jumped out of planes and he’s become one of the most recognizable comedians in the country. But at his core, Rob was a regular guy from Kansas with grit, spit and the will to never quit. The Boston Gloto bast Come out Bell, is it harder to ridicule Trump now than it was during his first term? Come out and said you can still make fun of him. I joked that my New Year’s resolution was to be more petty.

Bell says, the president is still surrounded by bumbling fools, but they’re bumbling fools that could turn us into North Korea West. That’s not a joke. The reason to make fun of it is so we don’t give all our power away to them. The more we can look them in the eye gives you the juice to figure out a way to go there and hopefully save the country. Send your letters to w pmal Bell.

Brad Williams spoke to k e Yt. Brad was born with a chondroplasia. The primary feature of that is dwarf Ism. Brad found himself bullied at a young age and says his dad equipped him to handle it. Brad told k e Yt he and I would write comebacks together, would write retorts to common things he thought kids might say.

And it was so great because when it happened, I wasn’t hurt by it. I wasn’t shock with it. I was just trained for this. Most of it isn’t based in cruelty. Most of it’s based in ignorance.

Like a lot of discriminatory practices, a lot of people that don’t like and don’t accept certain types of people just haven’t been exposed to those types of people. The first thing a lot of people notice. Sometimes people come up to me after a show and go, hey, man, thanks for talking about disability and difference. I get it. As for comedy, it’s a positive effect on mental health for me personally because that’s my therapy.

That’s how I get it out. And just to laugh, you’re releasing these joy chemicals in your brain, serotonin, dopamine. You feel good about yourself, and if you have a physical ailment like a sort of Bruce drm, you go laugh a lot. You’ll notice, hey, I’m not hurting right now. Jim Jeffries was talking about the iconic line from Paul Hogan’s Crocodile Dundee, you know that’s not a knife, that’s a knife for that one.

Jim said, that famous and iconic line by Hogan, to me is really what we’re all about. There’s a little bit of that Hogan line in all of us. I feel like when I travel on land at airports filling out the customs form, WHI says occupation I get to write comedian? How cool is that? You get to the desk and the guy behind it says, say you’re a comedian?

Are you? And they want you to tell a joke. But I’m like, if you had just told fourteen year old me that one day I’d be writing comedian on my customs form, what a blessing. Jim said, there were world class comedians who rarely for got to perform outside of Australia because it was too much of a hassle. It takes all those years to conquer Australia, so why would you bother going to another country these in the days before say streaming platforms.

I just consider myself a lucky man who’s got a few opportunities. I had a lot of luck in my career and I took advantage of it. He has a small role in the Jordan Peel sports horror film Him, which will be out in September. Jim says, it’s a couple of scenes. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but when we were making it, I knew it was going to be awesome and the trailer for it was killer.

The film is about American football, so it’ll come out once the NFL season begins. But Stand Up will always remain my first job. It allows me to control my destiny and pick where I get to go. CBS announced what’s taking over the Taylor Tomlinson twelve thirty seven slot, and it is Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen. Comics Unleased had aired in that time slot, filling the four month gap between the end of Cordon’s show and the premiere of After Midnight.

CBS will air two episodes of Comics Unleashed back to back each night. In twenty twenty three, the run on CBS consisted of reruns and never before seen episodes, all of which were shot prior to twenty twenty three. The belief in the trades and on social media is that these will be older episodes as well, So don’t get too excited about comics Unleashed. Hasan Minhaj during that Hollywood Reporter Comics roundtable I’ve been picking away at talked about I remember when we thought he was going to get the Daily Show and then didn’t because people looked at his comedy special. Remember that happened, Hassan Sai.

Yeah, I had to go through a comedy audit by Turbotext, which is its own thing. Make sure you file everybody, bring your receipts. But also there’s a critique aspect to it that’s very new. One of the first jokes that came to me was when I called a buddy and I was like, how bad is it? And he was like, the article’s bad, but the photos are good.

I was like, that’s hilarious. It’s also very funny to fail so bad that you bring back Jon Stewart. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Featured: Jimmy Carr, Phil Wang, Nick Muhammad, Michelle Wolf, Andrew Lawrence, Mark Marin, Joe List, Mark Normand, Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, Jamie Foxx, Colin Jost

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Carr launches The Big Pitch podcast with Netflix
• Andrew Lawrence’s show canceled after Liverpool parade crash joke controversy
• Anxiety Club documentary featuring Mark Marin and other comedians releasing August 15
• The Pickup movie with Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson coming to Amazon Prime August 6
• Good Fortune film with Keanu Reeves and Aziz Ansari releasing October 17
• Jamie Foxx discusses comedy comeback after stroke on Hollywood Reporter roundtable

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was very excited that Jimmy Carr decided to put out a podcast. All of a sudden, there it is The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr. On that show, Jimmy invites a celebrity guest to pitch an idea for a film based on one of the super niche subgenres on Netflix, from steamy crime movies from the seventies to Australian dysfunctional family comedy starring a strong female lead.

Guests pitch the plot, their dreamcast, the marketing stunts, and everything in between, and it’s up to Jimmy Carr whether it gets made. This is in partnership with actual Netflix. From the press release, where does Nick Muhammad’s mind go when asked to make In Everybody’s Home for the Holidays film? What’s the narrative arc for Ramesh Wagon, Athans BRB Crying Tear Jerker? What on earth would Michelle Wolf’s Coming of age Animal Tale look like?

Find out On The Big Pitch. Phil Wang is the guest on episode one, so I’m doubly in. I love Phil and I’m a big Jimmy Carr fan Car said, by night I’m a stand up comedian, but by day I have a proper job in real show business. I commissioned movies for Netflix, so if you’ve ever seen a movie liked on Netflix, you’re welcome. This podcast gives a glimpse behind the scenes of the rigorous pitching process and also a good excuse to mess around with some very funny friends.

Jimmy might be the British Kevin Hart. Jimmy Carr also not afraid to work. This guy’s always got stuff going on. One of my favorites, maybe actually my favorite comedian right now. Ten episodes every other Wednesday, but the first one is already out.

Jimmy was also recently a guest on Joe Rogan. As I speak the sentence, I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but it is queued up for one of my dogwalks. Let’s stay across the pond for a second, as they say, this one not funny at all. A comedian who joked about the Liverpool parade crash had a show canceled following a social media backlash. This from the BBC in case you missed it at least six twenty five people were injured.

On Monday, a car crashed into the crowd which had gathered for Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade. Comedian Andrew Lawrence on social media boasted he would drive through crowds of people to get out of the city. People did not react to that well. His comedy gig was canceled. Lawrence said he was disappointed the venue had lost their courage after being bombarded with abuse and threats of violence from online trolls.

A spokesperson for the club said we send everyone impacted by the tragic events in Liverpool our support and prayers. Lawrence described the cancelation of his gig as understandable but disappointing. I will reschedule for later in the year at a different venue in South End. Sorry for the inconvenience, Have a great day. The BBC reminds us that in twenty twenty one, one of Lawrence’s stand up gigs in Hampshire was canceled after racist comments he made about England’s black footballers.

Mark Marin is part of a documentary coming out in August called Anxiety Club. Anxiety Club behind the scenes, content and commentary from fellow comedians about how mental health impacts their daily lives and the trailer, and Maren says, most of what reacted to with something your brain is making up. My anxiety stopped me from having children.

Also appearing Tiffany Jenkins, Baron Vaughan upon an Atula, Mark normand Eve…

The opening scene of Anxiety Club shows Mark Normand doing a rooftop gig. He says, I love a roof gig. This goes horribly, I could just jump right off. Joe List is then seen in a comedy club making jokes about how many times his thoughts about his parents dying or him being diagnosed with cancer across his mind every day. The press release says all of the comedians in Anxiety Club have created stand up or sketch material about their mental health that’s not only funny, but uniquely relatable and disarming two audiences.

Anxiety Club arrives on Jolt August fifteenth. Eddie Murphy will start in the pick Up. Pete Davidson also in the Pickup. It will be on Amazon Prime Video August sixth. In the Pickup, a routine cash pickup takes a wild turn when two mismatched armored trucks drivers Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson, are ambushed by ruthless criminals led by a savvy mastermind with plans that go way beyond the cash cargo.

As chaos unfolds, the unlikely duo must navigate high risk danger, clashing personalities, one very bad day that keeps getting worse. Do You Not So Canceled? A z’son Sorry is part of the cast of Good Fortune, stars Keanu Reeves. This is a movie which will be in theater’s October seventeenth. Good Fortune introduces Kano Reeves as Gabriel, a well meaning but rather an ept angel who decides to intervene in the lives of a struggling gig worker played by a zizin Sorry, and a wealthy venture capitalist Seth Rogan.

Do You not so canceled? Azason? Sorry? Told Entertainment Weekly, I’m not buying this. This sounds like Hollywood stuff.

When Reeve’s name came up and casting, I’m sorry, wasn’t so sure? Right? Yeah? No, I don’t want to be in your movie. No, not at all.

Told Entertainment Weekly that guy Reeves just seems like he’s on a different planet, you know what I mean. Doesn’t seem like would be able to interact when they finally met, I’m sorry, was awestruck to the point, and sorry was nervous not only about working alongside a Hollywood giant he grew up watching, but also directing him. I was like, hey, man, we got to hang out a few times, so I’m not freaked out about being around you, you know what I mean. So he was like, I get what you mean. So he hung out, and he came over to my house and I made him Indian food and we hung out for a while and he told me all these stories, and then we went to dinner a couple of times, and I tried to really spend time with him, to get to know him a little bit so I could become comfortable around him.

Mm hmm. Good job, publicist, Good fortune, October seventeenth, in theaters. More from that Hollywood reporter around table with various comedians. My former coworker Jamie Fox said, I had a special deal for a long time, but I had nothing to talk about. What was I going to talk about?

I was rich, I was behind my gates. I remember seeing Eddie Murphy at his house. This was around coming to America, and he says he’s going to go and try and do stand up and I say to him, you can’t. He says why, and I say, this ain’t funny. Your house is too nice.

Whatever that scent is. He had a scent, you know, the stuff that pumps through the house. And I said, what does that smell? And he said it’s pomegranate. And I said, the fact that you know what that is tells me you ain’t funny.

Bro It was too perfect, and that was me. I was living in that, so I didn’t have anything to talk about. Then this stroke happened, and I’m like, oh, this is a platform, but I don’t want to have another stroke, even though we have a deal for another hour. As it’s the beginning of a new month, let me thank the supporters of the show. They’ve gone to buy me a Coffee dot Com and thrown some money in the tip jars.

Much appreciated, deb and Tom Andrea, Gary Shannon, Mike Kenny, appreciate you all. And that is one way to support the show, going to buy me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Another way, take that same five bucks become a premium subscriber to this show, and you’ll get this one and a bunch of others on the network, including five Good News Stories, which I host three days a week. You get the shows commercial free and no feed drops. If you’re on Apple Podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening.

If you are on another platform, go to calibrog dot com, slash plus, or check the link in the show notes. But supporters, thank you very very much, appreciate it. The Atlantic had written a piece about Colin shows, saying the Weekend Update host and knows exist exactly what he’s doing. Good take by The Atlantic, They say, when Joe’s first took the job as a weekend Upday co host in twenty fourteen, he came across as a cocky prep school kid, doomed to discover that the rest of the world does not share the high opinion he has of himself. Some armchair critics and social media users sigh that, of course, Lorne Michaels had given the show’s most prestigious job to another bland white guy.

But eventually Joe seemed to find that he could win the public’s goodwill by acknowledging its disdain leading into his unlikability gave Jose a distinctive comedic energy, and funnily enough, made him a lot more likable. Jose found his groove by appearing to accept that many people were eager to tell a guy like him off. He didn’t exactly shed his entitled persona, but he settled into a role as sort of a pressure release valve, a way for others to process their cultural anxieties. For example, Sarah Sherman is his greatest tormentor. Sherman demonstrated a talent for nimbly turning every innocuous thing Joe said against him, at one point insisting that he kissed Michael Chay and accused him of being a homophobe for refusing, and when he finally agrees, accusing him of now mocking the queer community by pretending to be gay.

Hers depict him as representative fairly or not, of an antiquated mindset the Sherman’s open minded peers are perpetually butting up against. But she also paints Jose as someone who can’t win because he’s unable to keep up with the speed of her humor, and the more she piles it on, the funnier. The exchange becomes and in this one just just I’m leaving all that in. You could see it fried my brain. I don’t know what to make of this.

Tiffany Hattish and the CEO of Fanatics, the sports Apparel Guy, they were on CBS this morning’s and for some reason, Tiffany Hattish is involved with Fanatics veest. The Fanatics guy said they had seventy thousand fans show up at last year’s Fanatics Fest, So what could they do to make it next level? Well eight sports them to challenges. First place wins a million dollars, second place a five hundred thousand dollars Ferrari. Don’t forget you have to pay Texas in that Ferrari, and third place gets a two hundred and fifty grand lebron James Rookie trading Card.

Confirmed participants include Tom Brady, Kevin Durant, Kevin Hart, Rob Gronkowski, and quarterback Russell Wilson. Now why Tiffany Hattish was part of this, I don’t know. Is she hosting this? The article didn’t tell me, But Tiffany said, I’m very athletic. I was all city in high school, shot put, I run fast, jump high, and throw hard.

So anyway, Fanatics Fest is coming up, and I guess Tiffany Hattish is going to be there, but I’m not sure. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too. We already talked about how to get a commercial free, so I’ll just stop talking and I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Mike Birbiglia, Lana Del Rey, Tom Segura, Kevin Hart, Roy Wood Jr., Hasan Minhaj, Jamie Foxx, Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, Chelsea Handler, Howie Mandel

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser receives criticism from Lana Del Rey about dirty comedy material
• Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’ Netflix series with Garth Brooks parody character Rex Henley
• Kevin Hart discusses rejection as positive force in his career development
• Hollywood Reporter comedy roundtable on unpopular opinions about comedy
• Comedians discuss how well they predict audience reactions to their material
• Jamie Foxx discusses using ‘enhancements’ before performing stand-up
• Howie Mandel on differences between America’s Got Talent and his live comedy shows

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jennie Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Nikki Glaser was on Mike Birbiglia’s podcast, Nicky’s Agents Getting It Done. Bir Bigley was the IT comic this week. Sure, so she made an appearance there.

What a coincidence? Nicki told Mike she learned that Lona del Rey was not a fan of Nikki Glaser’s jokes. According to Nicki, a friend of hers was at a party and met whom they described as a gorgeous woman. They started to share details about their lives, the friend writes for Nikki Glaser. The gorgeous woman walked away.

Another partygoer approached Nikki Glaser’s friend and said, what were you talking to Lonna Delray about? Apparently the friend heard from Hanna del Rey or a friend of Lonna del Rey’s. I like Nikki, but I wish she wasn’t so dirty, Glazier said. I was sad because I love Lonna del Rey. I thought she would have been into that stuff, and now I’m like, oh my god, it was helpful advice.

At first, I was like, how dare she?

And then I was like, I’ve got some notes too for her.

She’s one of the best brilliant artists ever, and yet I’m entitled not like things of hers. There are songs that I’m like, eh, So she’s a lot to be eh about me. I took the note and I’m working on it. Nicky says she took the criticism seriously, not just to appeal to her, but to appeal to people who like her, people that I could be sharing my message with, but are turned off because I hear she’s too dirty, and I just don’t want to hear that. Some people are deeply uncomfortable by it.

It’s not even like they’re prude. It’s like, ew, it’s grosse. Are we going to see some sort of major comedic pivot by Nikki Glaser? Seems to be a week four angry articles. I enjoyed this one from Savingcountry Music dot Com.

Apparently they didn’t find the totally not Garth Brooks segments of Tom Sigora’s bad Thoughts as hilarious as I did. I had commented I could watch Sigura do totally not Garth Brooks all day, every day. If Sigura wants to turn that into a one hour week series, I’ll watch it saving country music com long story short toms Agora loves to poke fun of Brooks and what many perceive as Gortz over the top persona. It’s been a favorite topic of Sigora going back to twenty eighteen. At this point, the whole where are the Body’s Garth thing has been used for so long it’s grown pretty stale.

Oh no, it hasn’t, not at all. No, no, no no, But Tom s Agora decided to take the joke to its ultimate conclusion by portraying a very Goarth like character in the short run Netflix comedy series called Bad Thoughts that debuted on May thirteenth. I feel like the short run is trying to be a dig there. It was just a six episode series. You know, it’s not crazy that something on Netflix is only six episodes.

Is not nineteen eighty four anymore. Throughout the six episodes, toms Agora portrays multiple dark characters in unthinkable situations and fantasies. One such character as a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans and forces them to live with little food in an old Western like town to help inspire him to write and hit songs. You can hear me cracking up. I’m just thinking back to the sketch I love.

Though the character’s name is Rex Henley, it’s clearly a goof on Garth Brooks saving country music dot com. Right. So, as a country fan, a comedy fan, and maybe even as a Garth Brooks fan, you were hoping this could result in some fun last But unfortunately Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts doesn’t deliver. And forget the time into the country music universe and Garth Brooks. The series of six to twenty minute or so episodes really just isn’t that funny at all, except for infleeting moments.

Oh I disagree, it is hilarious. I can’t get enough of Bad Thoughts. It’s only the first few episodes were the Rex Henley characters seen, and despite the insane premise, it might be some of the most tame moments of the series. That is true. I want to tell my adult son to watch it, and I don’t have the courage to tell my adult son to watch it because it’s naughty.

Perhaps if you’re a Tom Sigora fan and get his comedy, it helps, But if you’re a country fan who loves to poke fund at Garth Brooks yourself. Just don’t bother Garth Brooks offers more comedy inadvertent, okay. Kevin Hart spoke to You Fortunate about his rejections over the years and said, I can’t narrow it down to one not getting into comedy clubs early on in my career, and not getting chosen for comedy festivals, not getting movie roles that I thought were perfect roles for me, not getting SNL and I thought SNL was the biggest and best thing for me. There are so many things that if they would have happened, my career wouldn’t have shaped up into what it was today. You later discover those moments were some of the best for you, that made you work harder.

Kevin Horret’s mindset is rejection can be an asset. Without it, you don’t have anything to learn from or anything to adjust too. If things were easy, it’d be stupid. It’s supposed to be hard. You’re supposed to understand the reason for hard work and putting one hundred percent to a craft is because of what you want to get out from it.

The Hollywood Reporter had a comedian round table. The question at hand, what’s an unpopular opinion you hold about comedy. Roy Wood Junior said, it’s hard for me to go, well, I don’t like this or that. It’s probably because I can’t do it, Like I’m not good at crowd work. So yeah, I hate on it, but it’s what the streets have chosen.

Hasan Minhaj said the art form is bigger than ever, so when people critique it, I’m like, there are more com means doing feeders and arenas that ever is. So take the good with the bad. My former co worker Jamie Fox said, and it’s two worlds. There’s the two hundred and eighty one comics, so we think is the whole world, and then there’s Joe Coy selling out arenas. Roy Wood Junior said, it’s Shane Gillis.

Chelsea Handler said it’s a medium that’s been pretty unscathed by cancel culture. You get to say whatever you want, however you want to say it, and it’s up to your audience whether they’re coming for it. Next question, how good are you all at predicting how your comedy will land? Sarah Silverman said, I’m always surprised what specials the last two I did. The first night we shot.

You’re just excited you got it. The second night feels magical because you’re not in your head anymore, so you go, we’ll just use the whole second night, and then the editors like, now, I like the first night. Seth Meyer said, same thing happened to me. I think it’s the precision of being in your head. The butterflies actually help you focus.

Fox. I learned that when I took some enhancements to go on stage. I thought, since Richard Pryor did in enhancements. Chelsea Handler asked, what are enhancements? Silverman like cocaine?

Fox? Some people call it cocaine, some people call it enhancements. Roy Wood Junior, No one calls it enhancements. Fuck is pr instinct kicked in and I’ve been in the room with him when I’ve seen this happen to him when he’s having some fun and then realizes that he’s Jamie Fox and people are going to quote the things he says. Jamie says, I want to go on the record to say I hate cocaine.

I just like how it smells, and then laughs. The Saint Pete catalyst asked Howie Mandel. Howie Mandel does America indeed have talent. They should have said got talent, no whatever, how he said, yes, yes it does. I’m trying to sell tickets to my show.

So if America didn’t have talent, why would you buy a ticket to see me? I think there’s talent everywhere, it’s just that it’s not everybody’s taste. But yes, America’s got talent. That’s why you should come see me. Although the people who are fans of America’s got talent shouldn’t bring their children in my live show because America doesn’t always have editing.

My show is very improvisational and in the moment, anything can happen, and it’s not like what I do on AGT. Has Howie seen it all in his fifteen years on that show. Every time I think I’ve seen it all, I realize I ain’t seen nothing yet. When people will ask me what I look for, I look to be surprised. It’s anything and everything and things I haven’t even thought of.

I like the opportunity. In my own mind go WTF, Like what are you doing? What is that? How’d you even come up with that? Brett Goldstein spoke to Interview magazine about the most challenging parts of stand up and said a pitying silence is the worst.

It feels like dying on stage because you came to connect with people. When it doesn’t work, it’s like, oh my god, am I even here? Do I exist? What’s happening? And what’s so weird about stand up is that it’s so objective.

If someone were to go you’re not funny and no one’s laughing, it’s like, yeah, I can’t argue. I can’t say that last night they laugh loads, because right now I’m a ghost that isn’t funny. Molly mcinnerney is the head writer and executive producer of Jimmy Kim Alive, also his wife. She spoke to Late NIGHTERR about whether or not Jimmy will stick around. She said, I do think we need him.

I’d love for him to stay, but I also want him to be able to relax and fly fish and not listen to Trump every day. So I want whatever’s best for him. But yeah, I selfishly want him to fight the good fight as long as he can. When you wake up in the morning and it’s like Donald Trump wants to put people on appuature as you’re like, oh, I don’t think we should do the funny bit on the bull of today. We want to deliver these funny bits, and these things can take people out of the news.

But when you’re so overwhelmed by the news, you’re like, wait, we got to call him out on a thing he just said today. Jimmy Kimmel’s contract runs through next fall, the twenty five to twenty six seasons, so we got another year of him at least. Might take. Just negotiate now, dude, you already got the summer off, stretch out the Christmas break, do the permanent guest host thing on Monday and tell them you’ll host Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and let the Friday be a rerun er. I don’t even know what’s on Friday.

And that’s it. Learn from Shohnny Carson. Let someone else hose Mondays stick around. It’s a good gig. It pays well, it keeps you in the public eye.

I understand we’re all getting older. You want to work a little less. Been there, done that, doing it, So yeah, just negotiate. ABC will say yes, take a pay cut if you have to. It’s okay, you got the money.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption or feed drops, how you can do that as If you’re on Apple Podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted podcasts. If you’re not on Apple, check the show notes.

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Featured: Clint Eastwood

What’s in This Episode

• Eastwood Reloaded podcast series announcement
• Clint Eastwood’s directorial legacy and filmography
• Clint Eastwood’s acting career from Rawhide to present
• Clint Eastwood’s cultural and political influence
• Analysis of Eastwood’s iconic films including Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, and Million Dollar Baby

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You know, the silhouette, the squint, the whisper of a voice that somehow cuts like a blade. Clint Eastwood isn’t just a movie star. He’s a myth, a mayor, a director, a cultural fault line, and maybe the last great American icon. This is Eastwood Reloaded, a new podcast series that tells the story of Clint Eastwood, one chapter at a time, through the films, the failures, the politics, and the quiet chaos that followed him from Rawhide to cry mancho Each ten minute episode breaks down a piece of the legacy, a fistful of dollars, the good, the bad, and the ugly dirty Harry unforgiven, million dollar baby American Sniper, the hits, the flops, the ones you forgot existed, and the moments on and off screen that turned a man into a myth. Because legends aren’t born, there built Eastwood Reloaded, where cinema meets rebellion.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jack Shepard, Doug Gordon

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais receives Hollywood Walk of Fame star
• Ricky Gervais on comedy boundaries and offensive humor
• Nick Kroll discusses organizing John Mulaney’s intervention during pandemic
• John Mulaney’s talk show criticized for unfocused conversations
• Debate over NYC bike lanes effectiveness

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, JIMG with your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gervase gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today. It is the twenty and thirteenth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame sixteen twenty eight Vine Street. If you want to go, if you’re in LA, won’t you head on over.

It’s today at eleven to thirty Pacific. If you’re not in LA, or maybe you’re in LA, just don’t feel like leaving the house. I understand it’ll be stream live on Walk of Fame dot Com. The La Times caught up with Ricky gervas. He also is playing the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday.

Cool place to see Ricky. His last appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in twenty twenty three earned him the Guinness World Record for highest grossing single stand up performance. The La Times asked Ricky, Hey, you’ve spent your career pushing comedy boundaries as there have been a moment where we thought, oh, I’m gonna have to defend this one. Ricky said, no, it all comes and goes. It’s cyclic.

People get nervous and that’s just always been there from day one. People get worried, and I say, well, this is why it’s okay. Sometimes it’s an executive producer or a broadcaster just want some ammunition to defend it. But sometimes they don’t know whether it’s okay or not. They just don’t want to get complaints.

If I can go okay, listen, this is why it’s okay, then they often trust me because I can defend it. It’s not me sitting in the room going what’s the most offensive thing I could say to get the BBC burned down? There’s always a point to it. Offence comes from people mistaking the subject of a joke with the actual target, and they’re not usually the same real smart by Ricky there. We’re human, so we react to buzzwords and we’re cautious of taboo subjects.

That’s why they’re still taboo, because we’re cautious of them. I do that on purpose as well, particularly with my stand up where we talk about contentious issues and taboo subjects, because I do want to take the audience to place they haven’t been before. I do want them to reflect on it, worry about it, think about it, and then I’ve got to misdirect them. It’s like I take them by the hand through a scary forest. But it’s okay because they always laugh.

If we’re going out there and saying things that were really offensive and no one was laughing, well that would be odd. That’s what politicians do. Politicians say awful things and they mean it and no one laughs. Comedians say things they don’t mean. Everyone laughs, and they get the same treatment.

I don’t go out there to try and ruin the audience’s evening. I go out there and I make a joke and it’s crafted. We’re human, though, and we take things personally. But you shouldn’t because I think comedy is at best in intellectual pursuit. You should go well, that’s a bad subject and I don’t agree with the punchline, But does it work comedically?

It’s a magic trick, it’s formula. You can’t argue with chemistry. No one goes well, I know, I laugh, but I don’t agree with it. Well, it did what it does. That’s the joke, and I’m not going to change the joke or the meeting.

I think the only form of censorship as an audience is your right not to listen. You just don’t have to watch. You could leave, not buy my stuff, not buy my tickets, and that’s absolutely fine. You can turn your TV off, but what you can’t do is make other people turn their TV off. That’s the difference.

And then people complain about something you’re doing in the privacy of your own home, even though if they had to go up to their attic and stand out a step ladder and look through binoculars to see it, they’ll find it. People sometimes seek out the offense, and that’s actually where people can get addicted to being offended. They like it, it makes them feel live. The news even picks it up. They say, oh, fans weren’t happy.

Three fans weren’t happy. Good stuff. Maybe a little more from that. Tomorrow. Nick Kroll was on Armchair Expert with Jack Sheppard.

Kroll explained the process of trying to organize John Mulaney’s intervention. Kroll said it was so scary and brutal to go through because he was in New York. I was in la who was at the height of the pandemic, So it was incredibly stressful to be in the midst of the pandemic trying to literally coordinate and produce an intervention, bringing a bunch of different people together friends from college. Kroll’s wife was about to give birth, and I was shooting don’t worry Darling, which there was no stress there. That was a very controversial filming that I don’t have time to get into.

You can google it. Krol said. Then John was running around New York City like a true madman. I was so deeply scared that he was going to die, and I was trying to orchestrate all this, combining all the elements, the going of these things, like the intervention person, where he was going to go, who was going to be at it. You’re all of a sudden going back to being like, oh, that’s why I’ve been an inconsistent friend for the last X amount of time.

This explains that, And so it gives you both empathy for them an also tremendous amount of anger because they’ve been lying to you. Kroll talked about being on the film with Malaney and said, both of us crying, me just being like, I’m so scared you’re going to die. And so I felt him feeling the same way, but also just like yay New York Streets blogs, Doug Gordon is mad at John Mulaney. He was commenting on the Millennie episode from ten days ago, and said if that one was the only episode you’d ever seen, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the show was shot live at a community board meeting in New York City. After all, the conversation, which featured some of the most accomplished people in entertainment, quickly to send it into a competition to see who could most gratuitously equate Big Apple bonafides with complaints about all the ways in which bicycles have ruined New York.

I’m gonna jump in before I get more into this. Okay, I’m from New York City. I’m also very, very very pro bike lane. Understand that I’m very pro bike lane. If you want to see bike lanes work, go to Chicago, where bike lanes work.

If you want to see where bike lanes work, go to Montreal where bike lanes work. If you want to see how bike lanes work, go to Vancouver, which even has side streets that are biicles only. It is fantastic. Love a good bike lane. New York City bike lanes it don’t work at all, especially in Manhattan.

Too much chaos doesn’t work. They’re not really They’re more often than not not protected bike lanes, and when they are protected bike lanes, it pushes out the on street parking so that if you’re driving a car, you have to like creep out through the bike lane and then passed where the cars are parked and you can’t even see the oncoming traffic.

And then add in Manhattan pedestrians like me who jaywalkt will it’s complete…

Bike lanes Manhattan do not work. The Gordon writes. The stated theme of the program was is uber good? Setting aside that The Evening’s question has been known for more than a decade, it’s a resounding no, at least for people who care about congestion, carbon emissions and public transit ridership. Only an he barely bothered engage with the Walker.

The editor of torched a new site focused on the infrastructure changes and policy choices being pursued by Los Angeles as it preps for the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. Yeah, I don’t know if you know this, Sir Mlanie’s talk show is just chaos and he can’t focus on it doesn’t work. Respectfully disagree with the friend of the show and the Great New York Times writer Jason Zinnemann Millenie show does not work. I’m sorry, does not work. The topics do work.

I don’t know why we are the least bit surprised. John Mulani could not hold a meaningful conversation about Uber, so Gordon Wright’s after Walker offered one reason why Uber is not good because of the congestion and the undermining of public transit. Mullenie asked Walker how she got to the studio. When she answered that she took the bus on the train, Mullaney seemed positively shocked. This is a dystopian nightmare, he explained.

Walker never got a chance to defend the La Metro. I went downhill from there. From the perspective of public transit, Amy Sidis and Sigourney Weaver offered pure windshield perspectives, so Daris By mentioning that she takes ubers to visit her godchildren in New Jersey transit accessible Maplewood, New Jersey, and Sigourney Weaver emphasizing that she prefers yellow cabs fine enough. Natasha Leone joined the panel. Mulaney asked her about Uber, but Leon turned to the conversation of where it was perhaps always destined to go plastering her classic New York accent so thick that she should be forced to go before the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission.

Leon stated, but I don’t like his bicycles in New York. I think we need to shut down the bike lanes that allows Sigourney Weaver to knock cyclists who don’t use the bike lanes anyway. Richard Kind chimed in and said, and get rid of the electric bicycles. They’re the worst. They’re killers.

Fact check from Doug Gordon, they are not killers. Comedy show guys. Comedy show Walker suggested the bus should have a lane, the bike should have its own very wide lane, and there should be a wider sidewalk. Natasha Leone said, that’s insane. It’s Manhattan.

We don’t have the space. Doug Gordon writ’s classic windshield perspective. Leon clearly was not able to see. It’s all the uber black Axls and Cadillac escalades, faring celebrities and other wealthy New Yorkers that are taking up all the space. Walker gets it until Doug Gordon it’s a comedy show.

I’m not even sure this is truly what these people believe and again if you want to hit rewind Johnny Max said he’s very pro bike lane. They work great in Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, other places they don’t work him in Httan. You want my real solution, I have suggested this. Let’s take Park Avenue away from the cars and make Park Avenue. And if you’ve never been to New York Park Avenue, it has a park down the mill.

Very nice. Let’s make that bike lanes and more. John Mulaney, he was at an event hosted by PAP. He was asked if he would like to replace Lorne Michaels once Lorne Michael steps away from SNL. The question if someday Laurna is hit by a bus and they say, you know, John Mlaney, you have to take over the show, no excuses.

What’s the first thing you change mulane? He deflected and said he’s lived in New York for fifty years. You don’t think he knows that to dodge a bus. Hng Wing talk to twenty seven East and said, there’s a future of stand up that you might not have an other forms of creative expression. There’s an audience there in the moment giving you an immediate or direct response.

If you’re a painter or a photographer, you might have a gallery show, but unless you’re there with whoever’s looking at it, you don’t really know how they’re responding to it. Would stand up. They’s sort of an advantage that levels the playing field, and it’s based on some sort of meritocracy. It’s a very binary thing. Do they laugh or not.

It’s an everyday thing. You look at your notes, you try to sit down and write some new ideas. You tinker. It’s kraft and you hone it habitually. Then you got open mics and test things out.

It’s like you’re working the lab, making things better. He says growing up, he didn’t want to be a comedian. He was doing things like hanging outside playing basketball friends or hanging out of the bayou catching tadpoles. No one was ever like he’s the funniest guy in class. I was never seeking attention in group settings.

I was more of a one on one friendships kind of guy. He says. The most joyful thing is writing a new joke. And from the Hartford Current. Bob gil wrote the screenplay for the original Back to the Future films and was a producer of Back to the Future the animated series in the nineties, plotted the stories for the Back to the Future comic book series, and now works on the Back to the Future musical, which I saw and loved, and it’s coming to Hartford and you should go see it.

All right, How did it come about? Gail said, we start the process by saying, there are certain things we can do with this material in the theater, and there’s certain things we can’t do, like we can’t have the terrorist chase, But what else could we do? The problem we’re solving there is that doc dyeing motivates Marty to go back in time. It could be something else, so we made it spoiler radiation poisoning. I didn’t just ruin the musical for you, trust me.

The musical does not contain the film skateboard Chase. Having seen the musical, I didn’t even notice. Gail said, it’s just too dangerous. Marty already has to sing, dance and be funny. We’re gonna make him do skateboard stunts too, and staid we’ve got to chase through the school lunch room, which accomplishes the same thing.

Gale things, changing it up a little makes it more fun. I don’t want people to say I should have stayed home watched the movie. Some of the show’s completely nuts. He insisted on keeping four songs Johnny Be Good, Earth, Angel, Powerful Love, and Back in Time. You can’t go see Back to the Future Without those four songs.

People would tear up the seats. Back to the Future the musical at the Bushnell one sixty six Capitol Avenue, Hartford performances June fourth through va. If you should go, It’s a lot of fun.

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