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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Gaffigan, Andrew Schultz, Tracy Morgan, Amy Schumer, Hilaria Baldwin, Bert Kreischer, Nate Bargatze, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver

What’s in This Episode

• New Pope elected from Chicago and late night jokes
• Amy Schumer vs Hilaria Baldwin memoir controversy
• Tracy Morgan on Knicks excitement
• Bert Kreischer’s 55-pound weight loss on carnivore diet
• Nate Bargatze invites Jimmy Fallon to open at Madison Square Garden
• John Oliver calls for Iowa Cubs name rebrand

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. We have a new pope, and Jimmy Kimmel says, we have an American pope and a Russian president. Isn’t incredible? Dosi Leidik said, but the votes are counted and the Vatican doesn’t have a January sixth, so there’s no going back.

Stephen Colbert said, Holy Father, you had me at jd Vance is wrong Kimmel again, you gotta think about this one. This must have been what it felt like when they opened the first Olive Garden. Some funny stuff on threads. Griggs posted the new Pope is from Chicago, which means I probably taught his Level three improv class. David the Stella writes, American Pope sounds like a nineties comedy movie where due to some random paperwork, era dude named Steve has made the pope.

Mark Stevens Comedy says the new Pope is from Chicago, which means his reign could last anywhere from twenty five or six to four years. Several people had the joke. I’ll credit Josh Barrow, who’s the first one I saw posted Chicago Pope Tuesdays on NBC. There’s also a CBS very into that joke. Sebastian Manascalgo checked in.

All right, here’s the deal. Pope’s from Chicago and I’m getting calls? Do you know the Pope? Why would I know the Pope? He’s sixty nine years old?

All right, where do you think I met the Pope at seminary school? I don’t know the Pope. I’m happy he’s from Chicago. All the blessings to new Pope Leo. By the way, why don’t they use the real name of a guy.

I think his name is Rob. Why isn’t it just Pope Rob? Why do we got to change the name up? I’m sure I could chat sheeap, you tee it or google it, but I thought i’d ask you guys, because you’re so smart. Good luck, Pope.

I found it odd that there was no comment from Jim Gaffigan when I looked at Friday at ten twenty five am, but he had posted about his bourbon twenty one hours earlier. I did some maths, so ten twenty five plus twenty one hours would have been when in eleven twelve one five pm Jim knew about the Pope. I find Jim social media to be pretty disingenuous. Anyway, It’s just about telling you his stuff. Andrew Schultz declared, New Pope went to Villanova Knicks in four Here in New York City, it is Nick’s town.

People are very excited. One person who’s excited is Tracy Morgan. Let’s listen. Subscribe New York City. This subscribes Nicks and everything in it, the Freedom Tawa, all of that.

We New York. We very resilient. We don’t play we scrappy. So this team represents us. This is what New York is about.

This is where King Kong died. The Warby is a film here, son of Sam was born here. You know where they filmed The first ghostbus is here? Do you understand that the marshmallow Man walked through here? I’m gonna holler at you later.

The just for laughs lineup is out. I will do that tomorrow because I want to talk about this historian people. The headline is Amy Schumer, the unnamed celebrity stranger that Hilaria Baldwin calls out in new book. Hilaria talks about a mystery celebrity in her new memoir am Manuel not included, and Hilaria writes, I don’t need to use her name and I don’t want any problems with her. No matter what, I hope I never meet her.

No people think it might be Amy Schumer. Schumer has previously called Baldwin a sociopath. In her comedy Special Emergency Contact, Hilario writes about a famous person, someone I’ve never met, who’ said nasty and untrue things about me and my family and that she even tried to bait me and Alec via Instagram. We didn’t engage with her, and I guess I’m proud of that and made me mad at the system. But here in this book is where I can talk about it.

I don’t need to use her name, and I don’t want any problems with her, and I’d like to be left out of any articles that mention her because she has nothing to do with me, A total stranger. In Amy twenty twenty three Special Emergency Contact, Schumer said, I’m not trying to bullie a sociopath. I have a point. My point is that all evidence points to this woman since she met her husband, has straight up pretended to be from Spain. People tells us in December of twenty twenty, Schumer posted some of Hilario’s family photos on her own Instagram page, later deleting them and apologizing to Hilaria, who spoke out after receiving negative comments.

In twenty twenty one. Schumer told Entertainment Tonight she deleted the posts after Hilaria quote seemed a little bit upset. I was just like, I don’t want to be mean, and she seemed like maybe it hurt her feelings. I took it down. She’s amazing and I wish her and her family the best, and I hope she gets to visit Spain as much as she wants.

Look, she’s a mom. I don’t want them to be going through a bad time. But also, you can’t just pretend you’re from Spain. Now. If you google is Hilaria from Spain, things will come up.

I’ll source here from Vox. They seem pretty reputable. They write the idealized Hilaria was born in New YORKA speaks with an accent. Doesn’t know the English word for cucumbers, jocks are fun, does Flamenco love speedboats, drinks hamp milk, eats lentils in Paea, and does a plethora of workout classes. Then they had Hillary was born in Massachusetts, went to NYU and has a brother named Jeremy Fox.

Source is somebody named Tracy Egan Morrissey, who looked into all this back then in a series of Instagram stories. Morrissey explains that Hilaria’s Spanish origin story again from Hilario, stating in multiple features with Ola that she was born in Spain and Spanish was her native language. Baldwin’s bio on her CAAA speaking engagement site states that she was born in mayerca. Hilaria also had stated in a previous interview she moved to America at nineteen to attend to NYU. Morrissey debunks the claims, pointing out that Hilaria is actually Hillary Hayward Thomas, who graduated high school from the Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, mass And there’s also a video where the mother seems to stumble over her own daughter’s name.

Anyway, that’s a lot of fun. I hope Amy Schumer jumps back in and That’s why I’m gonna cover JFL tomorrow. Bert Krasier explained how he lost fifty pounds Men’s Fitness on the case they covered it. Graysier said he did it by just eating three things. Okay, what are the three things?

Steak, eggs, and spinach. Bert says, I went to carnivore all ever eight eggs, Rebbi saw Tate spinach. Dude, I lost like fifty five pounds. Inflammation went away. I felt so clean, No booze, no nothing.

Nate Bergatzy was on Fallon, I’m a little NATed out this week. Nate is playing Madison Square Garden in September. Nate told Fallon, as everybody who has followed my career knows that tonight show has meant a lot to me because I was just doing stand up to now doing it Madison Square Garden, So I thought it would be very nice would you come over and do the shows with me at MSG. The audience approved. Fallon appeared hesitant, arguing that he hasn’t done stand up regularly in a decade and doesn’t have an act.

Nate pointed out that Fallen opened for him before. That is true. Fallan opened for Nate and Albany and Syracuse last year. Nate said, you know it works in Syracuse and Albany, so now it’s time to take it to the big top. Fallon has accepted, but was curious, what do I do you want me to do?

Impressions. John Oliver wants the Iowa Cubs to change their name. For a little bit. He was making fun of some of the crazy minor league team names and then got into Iowa Cubs and said, they’re pretty disappointing because in not embracing the glorious eccentricity of the magnificent league they belong to, they’re kind of leaving money on the table. That’s where we come in.

We are willing to use all our resources and stupidity to give one minor league baseball team a total rebrand. We’ll give you a new name, a new mascot leaving through you with theme night. If the Iowa Cubs aren’t interested, other teams can reach out at John Oliver at buntstuff dot com. I wonder what happens if you go to bunt stuff dot com. Let’s find out.

Apparently the domain is parked, but they have the email account. I guess these Saint Paul Saints jumped in on social media and said they have already contacted John Oliver’s team and they are prepared to accept the offer. On Gossip Corner, Monique was on Shannon Sharp’s podcast and said, I’m grateful I’m not fifty six and trying. I’m looking right at you. I ain’t backing down.

You better take your old butt and get someone to love you. You don’t need no twenty six year old girl. You don’t need no thirty six year old girl. You’re trying to hang out with these young b words. You can’t do it, Shannon.

Remember HQ Trivia. Remember Scott the guy that used to host it. Remember that guy? Yeah, well he’s got a new gig with Trivia Works, a corporate entertainment and team building vendor specializing in customized trivia events. Scott will lead corporate and private event audiences and hilarious, high energy team trivia competition.

You can get customized questions and entertainment between trivia rounds, and of course Scott’s trademark sharp wit. That is your comedy news for today. Hey, if you’re into this whole Pope thing, I’m working. We got a podcast called White Smoke where we’re covering this. Today’s episode is about the whole Villanova Nix angle.

So Tracy Morgan will dig that and we find out if the Pope is a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. I’m not gonna tell you, I did a lot of work. I want your download, So go download White Smoke wherever you get your shows, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Featured: John Oliver, Seth Meyers, David Cross, Jimmy O Yang, Howie Mandel, Hannah Berner, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• John Oliver on why UK version of Saturday Night Live is a bad idea
• David Cross touring and performing on Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy season 4
• David Cross appearing in Broadway’s All in a Comedy about Love
• Jimmy O Yang performing at Hong Kong Coliseum on June 14
• Howie Mandel on whether everyone should try stand-up comedy
• Hannah Berner transitioning from reality TV to stand-up comedy
• Bill Burr on political landscape and news networks in The New Yorker profile

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna deliberately do some different names off the top of here today. I feel like all week I’ve just been talking about Nate Brighetsi and Bill Burr. It’s gonna work in some other people, although we’ll get to those guys. John Oliver says a UK version of Saturday Night Live is a terrible idea.

John told Seth Meyers, it just sounds like a bad idea. We’ve had sketch comedy before, and it just feels like Saturday Night Live is such a unique group. It’s a cult. I’m trying not to say the word. It’s a cult, and I don’t know how you can impose that cult on the UK.

Seth Meyers asked John to identify the most cult like thing about SNL. Oliver said, what night is it? You stay up all night? Meyer said Tuesday night. You stay up all night and Tuesday.

Oliver said, that’s ridiculous. I’m saying that’s the kind of a thing a cult leader would make you do. We stay up all night on Tuesdays. By the way, John continued, I think it’s been proven that SNL is the outlier. It does don’t have to be dictated to the day that you must not sleep on that day or the great Leader will be irritated.

I’m looking forward to Snluk gives me more things to talk about. David Cross will be at Bellingham’s Mount Baker Theater tonight. He explained touring and said, it’s what you do. You work up a bunch of material and you take it on the road, you shoot a special and when that airs, you work up new material and then you go out again. This set, though, is not quite as topical or political as it usually is.

That’s surprising, isn’t it. You’d think you’d have something to talk about right now because the first half of the set, with one exception, is just a true embarrassing situation. I found myself in another difference about this tour. Cross stopped in the middle of the tour to go to Broadway as part of All in a Comedy about Love. Remember that show?

It had the rotating cast. Cross said it was a limited ten week run or something like that, and they asked me to be part of it. It was great. It was really a feather in my cap. Cross is doing all sorts of things He’s also on season four of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy.

He played Zi Grossman and said, I don’t think I’ve worked on a show quite like that, especially with the reach that one had, and I’d never seen it before. I got the offer and it was one of those things where it was like, if you could do this, you need to fly out. On Monday. I shot a couple scenes and then I went back and started watching it with my wife and we immediately got hooked. Don’t worry about David quitting a stand up, he says to me.

It’s just what I do, and I’m doing stand up if I’m not working on a project or TV show, movie, whatever the thing is. But I’m always doing stand up. I’ve never stopped doing stand up. How did he get a podcast, he told the Bellingham Harald. I woke up one day and checked the mail and there was a thing saying it was my time to do a podcast.

It was required by the government, and my number came up, so I went down to the studio and just started doing it. Jimmy O Yang is going to do a show in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong press was all excited about this. My comedy trackers were like, oh my goodness, Jimmy O Yang is doing a show in Hong Kong. He will play the Hong Kong Coliseum on June fourteenth. Time Out reminds us Yang can speak Cantonese, Shanghai’s and Mandarin Chinese, so they are guessing some of the material will be in Cantonese at the Hong Kong show.

Now, at first, I freaked out at the ticket prices, which I saw as three hundred and eighty, five hundred and eighty and seven hundred and eighty dollars. Now, love Jimmy Oyang, but seven hundred and eighty dollars is a lot. But then I learned I was not aware there is currency called Hong Kong dollar, so the prices are in Hong Kong dollars. And as I record this, Google tells me seven hundred and eighty Hong Kong dollars is one hundred US dollars. So that’s not too bad.

That’s reasonable to see Jimmy Oyang, and those are the price he seats. I mean, if we want to get the three eighty HK dollars, that’s just fifty bucks. Tickets on sale today at two pm, which time zone that I can help you with for HSBC credit Card Priority bookings only. So if you’re like, I gotta go see Jimmy Oh Yang in Hong Kong, I suggest you start looking right now. There’s also a kluk pre sale on May twelfth at noon.

Klook, what’s that? I don’t know either, but I’m the one hosting this thing, so I guess up to me to figure out what kluk is. Google tells us on Kluk you can find discounted attraction tickets, tours with unique experiences, and more. They seem to purvey in theme park tickets and airport transfers and other things. Kluke Time Out reminds us the Hong Kong Coliseum, which sounds like you would be this huge building, right you think Jumio Yank’s playing the eighty thousand people know the Hong Kong Coliseum only seats twelve five hundred people.

We’ll see if he adds a second show. Isn’t this fun? I haven’t mentioned Naperghetzi or Bill Burry yet. Howie Mandel was on with Nestor from Baltimore Positive. Nestor was curious if everyone should try stand up comedy at one point in their life, Howie said, I think if everybody got up Benet’s stand up, it’d be a huge crowd on stage and one or two people in the audience.

That’s funny. I love an audience. I think you should be an audience member. I think people should sit comfortably in the theater and just watch one person on the stage try to regalue with humor. I look at it like a giant party, and I’m just trying to be the center of attention.

As for working Clean, Working Blue, how He says, obviously, after all these years in the business, I have many hours of prepared material, but I love to be reared off, whether it be because of something that’s happening in the moment, technical problems, something else or whatever. I don’t have an edit button. I’m just a human. Hannah Berner got one of those big profiles by the Hollywood Proforter. I’ll zero in on the stand up comedy part of it, and they were curious if Hannah finds it odd to find herself on TV doing stand up instead of reality TV.

Hannah said, these stand up specials my therapy. Reality TV was one of the ways I was put on. So I’m grateful for it, but I can’t watch reality TV anymore. I do think reality TV, as I saw, is that everyone was put into characters, and you’re pretty much putting a box. The rampant misogyny.

It gave me this chip on my shoulder to be like, I want to be seen as me. When I say me, I mean all the sides of me. I want to put out the vulnerability, the mistakes I’ve made, the confidence I have, the anxiety have. If I’m going to be judged, I want to be judged based off at least a human rather than an archetype. I do think I always emphasize just how women are so multifaceted, and I try to in my comedy say things that maybe women were afraid of or insecure about, so they can say, Hannah just said it, so it can’t be that bad.

Alright, I’m editing on the fly here in my a block. Here, I’ve got leftover Burr and Nate. I’m a little NATed out. Want to take a Nate break. Let’s do Burr.

This piece in The New Yorker a really good profile with Burr where he got political. It is behind a paywall. But if you’re good at the internet, like really good at the Internet, you gotta have like internet skills, you can get to this one, or of course, pay for a subscription to The New Yorker like I did. Bill said, why is there Fox News? Because there were CNN.

No president has allowed to be president since the first Bush. So what he’s saying there, because I’ve read ahead, is that the news networks give every president a hard time. Here are some examples, Bill Burr. Once they went after Bill Clinton for lying about you know, the thing with the intern. Let’s not go there.

Everybody else. George W. Bush, he stole the election. Obama, he’s not from here. Trump everything that he did.

Joe Biden, let’s get something on him. We can’t get something. Oh, his kid does cocaine. As it helps if a certain percentage of the president’s stays deal with the other side trying to take him out and peach him, which is never gonna happen. Burr, who was there to promote Glengary Kelen Ross, said to the interviewer, are we gonna talk about the player?

Am I just gonna come across as the political guy? We’ve gone out three times do you want to go out? I’m recording a podcast, but I’m recording the podcast. But I just let you out. Okay, I guess I gotta take a break.

Boy, where were we? The dog does not understand that Johnny Man’s got a lot to do today. She just snuck back in. I had closed the door for a reason. All right, she left.

We’ll see how far I get here. There was a good discussion on Threads. I’d asked the question just like it did on the podcast. Is Jay Leno a good guy or bad guy? Yeah, there’s the Conan thing, but he seems like a good guy.

That’s when I was reading the stuff about Mavis and yet nobody ever seems say good things about him. I got some good responses here. Megan responded on Threads, as I’m at Daily Comedy News, Howard Stern has nothing good to say about him. After reading the War on Late Night book, it sounds like he’s a backstabber who also wants everyone to like him and no hard feelings after he betrays them. Someone named Deva V.

Wrote when I lived in LA in the late nineties, one of my roommates worked on The Tonight Show as a page and then eventually as a writer. From what I heard, Leno’s a great guy to work for, and I was able to see his real comic self, which is much more cerpic and funny than what he was like on the show for obvious reasons. Yeah, I’ve talked about this. If you watch the old Late Night with David Letterman Jaylenel appearances, you got the edgy Jay Leno, you know, not that he was you know Tim Dillon or Andrew Schultz or someone like that, but he was a lot edgier than the Tonight Show persona. And like I’ve talked about with Fallon, when you host the Tonight Show, that is a particular shade of yourself that you have to do because that’s what the Tonight Show is.

John Roy, comic who writes for Vulture, said, when I did his show, he was very cool and hung out in the green room telling comedy stories. He also knew my act, which is rare for the host. No other host I worked for did either of those things.

And then Ford probably had the best take.

He wrote, Jay is a guy like all other people. There’s some good and some bad in all of us. And I did not react well to this. Somebody came at me and wrote, how would you pair off? All your readers were asked the same question about you.

Also, why are you holding him up for a public referendum? You can let us know your record, so I did. Here’s what I wrote. Seriously, Okay, I ran SERIOSXM comedy for ten years out of a thirty year radio career. My reputation is that I’m a nice guy.

I’m sure someone out there doesn’t like me, because we’re all humans and all comments on that. My reputation in the industry is that I’m a nice guy. Like I wrote to the person back, I’m sure someone thinks I’m a jerk fase and I can be a jerk fase, and I’m sure people who are reading my substack are like, this guy’s a jerk phase. But I admit I’m writing the substack a little jerky for attention to promote the podcasts. So I’m sure people that don’t actually know me and only read that are like that guy is a d and I would get it and I would totally understand.

But people have actually worked with me. My reputation is that I’m pretty cool.

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And then, because I was highly offended, I wrote and then I explained the spi…

Anyway, I thought that was an interesting discussion. A real quick let’s hit gossip corner. Graham Norton is selling his New York City crash pad. Must be nice to have a New York City crash pad. Listen to this crash pad.

He’s selling it for five point six million dollars. The murray Hill carriage House on Sniff and Court, which is a private gates muse Now I grew up in New York City. I’m like, where is Sniff and Court? And apparently it’s this little street that is gated in Manhattan’s murray Hill neighborhood. Sniff and Court has just ten residences.

The homes were built in eighteen sixty three and eighteen sixty four. It’s horse stables. At the turn of the twentieth century they were converted into single family townhouses. I looked at the pictures, which you’ll find on the rob Report. Pretty nice looking place.

The great room has fifteen foot ceilings, a fireplace, there’s a dining room. The second floor guest bedroom has a marble bathroom. The third floor has the primary suite. There’s even a rooftop. Not bad.

Five point six million dollars if you got the cash. I don’t. I wish I did, because the place looks pretty dorn, snazzy, and for a place in New York. It’s just that it’s even on the market. If you’ve got five point six, grab this thing.

I’m not a real estate agent. Make your own decisions, all right, And thats your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re finding me on YouTube again, I’m old.

I don’t know. I’m not a YouTuber. I’m a podcaster who’s on YouTube because that’s what you’re supposed to do. So smash the bell and like and all that stuff. Whatever the kids tell you to do, do that.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Sarah Silverman, Conan O’Brien, Jessica Williams, Taylor Tomlinson, Nate Bargatze, Javier Bardem, Taika Waititi

What’s in This Episode

• Sarah Silverman’s Netflix Special ‘Post Mortem’ releasing May 20th
• Conan O’Brien Must Go On Season 2 debut on Max
• Conan O’Brien hosting Oscar-related conference panel in Vegas
• After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson final episode June 12th
• Nate Bargatze’s Esquire interview and criticism of Disney leadership
• Nate Bargatze’s NateLand theme park project updates

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Calarogashock Media. Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Sarah Silverman’s next special Netflix, May twentieth. It is called post Morte Men. She put out the trailer.

Let’s listen. My dad and my step mom Janie both died last May, nine days apart. And oh that one needs work. And my dad was my best friend, and they both gave me so much, and most recently about an hour of new material. So let’s do this.

And this seems like a good time to mention. I do have merch this tour, but I just really feel like my parents would want me to monetize this.

Meanwhile, out today, Season two of Conan O’Brien must go on, Max.

Now you may recall they did some like funky things where they shortened the season, and I bet they regret that now that there’s been the Conaissance, I mean, there’s like a continual conaissance. But I don’t know why they had cut back the order. Anyway, We’ll see Conan in New Zealand with Taike awaititd. Javier Bordem joins Conan in Spain. Conan will also visit Austria in this season.

Max had tweaked the schedule after Conan was tapped to host the Oscars. They shortened season two to three episodes, but they gave the series a renewal for a six episode season three. So maybe I have it all wrong and they just wanted to get something out there quickly. Anyway, it is on Max today while we’re talking Conan. I had seen this thing as I was prepping the Palace Intrigue podcast because my Prince Harry news tracker caught that Harry was going to be at this thing in Vegas today.

But Conan is there as well. You’ll find Conan at the Venetian in haul A Level two from ten to eleven Pacific. Join Conan O’Brien and Jessica Williams as they the role of improvisation and comedy in leadership. Together, they’ll discuss how humor and embracing spontaneity builds trust, leads to innovative thinking, and sharpens adaptability. Sounds like a nice paycheck for Conan.

Now. This thing is called Knowledge twenty twenty five. It has been a convention of shorts all week. Individual pricing started at twenty one to ninety five twenty one hundred and ninety five dollars gets you a full conference pass for all the learning, inspiration and networking. You could even see Conan O’Brien if you wanted to.

A one day pass if you want to head out there today is only nine hundred and ninety five dollars if you want to see Codin O’Brien, who’s also on TV tonight. Nice money if you can get it. Late Night are reporting. The final date, Four After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson will be Thursday, June twelfth. All week, I’ve been talking about Nate Prighetzi.

They are coming for Nate. The Industry Trades pulled a particular quote and I share this screenshot in the Facebook group, even though the article has been out for several days. What’s coming up if you google Daytzy is Nate Pergatzy on Disney and Variety, Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Rap all pulling up with Nate Bergatzy says Disney head doesn’t care about the audience. The poll quode from Nate. Now, Disney is run by a guy that’s just a businessman.

Well, that guy doesn’t care about the audience. Now that this has come up, as I was doing the Nate stuff this week. I was coming away a little bit like he seems less likable off this interview. I’m not sure this Esquire interview helped him at all.

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And now I’m feeling more strongly about that.

I’ve always liked Nate, He’s been on my radar for at least a decade. But this Esquire article, I don’t know a little funky. Esquire asked Nate about his influences. He listed four people, Jerry Seinfeld, Judd Apatow, Walt Disney, and Adam Sandler. And this is where the Disney stuff came into Esquire writes, recording in to Berghatzy.

Walt Disney, the man, not the brand, loved everything he made and cared about his customers. The quote, Now, now Disney is run by a guy that’s just a businessman. Well, that guy doesn’t care about the audience. Burghetsy cares deeply about his audience. He sees himself as their servant.

None of this happens without them, he says of his career, I think one thing that came out in this interview is some frustration by Nate that his career took longer than maybe he thought, Now, there are a lot of eighteen year overnight sensations in this industry. Just about everybody you’ve heard of other than the TikTok comedians have been doing this for a while, So I don’t know. It seems a little at a pace with his peers. Here, Esquire writes, while he was still grinding it out, lost in relative obscurity, he’d see his peers or mark on a controversial issue, often something political. Quoting Nate, they would skip a bunch of steps.

Now they’re mentioned everywhere because they said something crazy. Now Netflix called them and they got a special burgets. He was tempted. He considered going that route, but he resisted the urge otherwise he might lose his audience’s trust the more I dive into this. This is just a carefully created, a friendly harbor piece.

In Esquire, Nate says, the hardest thing to do is stay that past because it’s not as flashy. You just got to sit in it. You just got to keep going.

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And then he get to the point where I’m at Now, I’m frustrated by an entire sy…

He talked about nate Land, which would be built on the site of the former opry Land theme park, and Nate says, I’ll be honest with you, I bet we’re closer than people think, but it’s still a little ways off. Apparently he’s in the market analytics phase of the project. Another weird take here, and before I even saw the rest of the media put up, I have in my notes here I wrote the other day when I split up this article. Weird take. Nate says, I don’t think anybody’s even trying to make stuff everybody.

Esquire writes to illustrate his point, BRIGETSI brings up Succession. You know HBO Succession. Nate says, I did not watch Succession. I know it’s the greatest show to ever exists. I’m not a mora on.

Everybody understands is the greatest show in the world. I want to watch it. There’s nothing to do with the show, but no one watched it in the grand scheme of things, so yes and no like. It clearly had buzz. But Forbes here is pointing out the Succession finale hit a series high two point nine million viewers, which Nate is correct, that is not a lot.

If you want to go back forty years, the Mash finale had one hundred and six million people watch it. Okay, that was a different time, if you want to go back, still a long time ago, but the Seinfeld finale had seventy six point three million viewers, again at different time. The pit on Max apparently averaged ten million plus viewers, and according to website USTVDB, the ratings as of Thursday May first Tracker on CBS at seven point six million. So if we want to find something on par with succession, if we went down to two point three million, basically as popular as Let’s make a Deal on CBS, which did two million, three hundred and five according to this website. So Nate’s not wrong there about succession.

Nate says, everybody has lives, everybody has kids, everybody has stuff to go do. They don’t want to sit and worship your art. There’s got to be a balance of appreciating succession and appreciating king of queens. Those worlds have to exist together. Now you have too many successions.

There’s nothing that’s a palide cleaner. Maybe the successions are a little bit easier to make because you’re making it for such a specific audience. You get the runway to make it for five six years because it’s cool. What if no one watches it doesn’t matter. I think there’s no one trying to do it.

People still go to concerts. I do shows in front of fifteen thousand people who are laughing and paying attention for an hour. I see it in every single city. People want to go do something. You’re not just giving them something to go do.

Very interesting article. We’ll see if there’s more blowback during the week. I also wanted to pick a little more at this Bill Burr piece in The New Yorker. Burr said, my thing is, I wish we could go back to if you work forty hours a week, one hundred and sixty hours a month, you can live comfortably. You can pay your rent.

I don’t think anybody should be able to argue with the fact that if somebody works one hundred and sixty hours a month for you and they can still pay their rent, you’re not paying them enough. And this thing, when they have to go out and get a second job, spend time away from their children, that’s going to hurt this country and It’s also an incredibly callous and cold thing to do, somebody knowing that because you want a bigger pool, they’re going to miss out on the greatest thing ever, which is watching their kid grow up. You’re stealing those moments away from them. Had a friend of mine, he told me the story. Right out of college.

He got this job with a big corporation who’s living in New York. He gets the job, he crushes it, and then they place him in San Francisco. So he got to know somebody in HR and they’re having a beer one night and he goes, you know, I don’t understand. They have offices everywhere, live in New York. Why they place me all across the country.

And the other guy goes, ah, they do that on purpose. They want to move you away from all your family and friends, so you’re less likely to quit because you have no options. And I always just want to be in that meeting because you know, they talk around it. Did you ever see what was that movie a few years ago, Zone of Interest? The way they were talking about putting people in ovens.

They were talking about it like it was cargo, and they were dressed nice, and they were clean, they were having their little coffee, and they’re talking about the most evil thing ever, like the person who came up with that got rewarded for that, breaking up families and moving someone away from and that goes back to slavery. It’s terrible. They’re constantly demonizing people with no power, like the food industry. When they saw the heroin addicts, they were jealous of heroin. They go, I wish people were in our food like that.

So what they call it is we want our food to have a certain amount of creveability. It’s beyond evil. But because it’s legal, and because politicians are so underpaid and they’re taking the money from that, they don’t do anything. A lot more there. I’ll pick up on that either tomorrow or Saturday.

Adam Sandler has got a movie he will co star with George Clooney. It is called Ja Kelly. Will hit theater is November fourteenth, before it streams three weeks later on December fifth. So maybe we’re getting the dramatic Adam Sandler here. And I’m a big fan of Adam Sandler dramatic actor.

I think he’s one of the best dramatic actors comedian. He’s terrible, but dramatic actor. I dig Adam Sandler. We don’t know anything about the movie other than George Clooney plays Jay Kelly. Adam Sandler plays somebody named Adam Doherty.

If you’re up near Jamestown, New York and you want to meet Gabe Iglesias, he’ll be at the National Comedy Center. He’s there to open the newest exhibit featuring his iconic nineteen fifty nine Volkswagen Bus from his record breaking stadium Fluffy Special. Gabe will be there to officially unveil the display. The vintage VW bus from Gabe’s personal collection is a fan favorite centerpiece of his historic Dodger Stadium show. Admission to the Comedy Center is free all day.

I wish I had known about this earlier. I would have I bet they would have hooked me up. I’m friendly with them and and I’ve worked with Gabe in the past. I I only saw this on Wednesday. If I known a little earlier, could have planned my life.

You know, you got to pre record. Sometimes you’re going to disappear for an entire day. Oh well, anyway. Admission is free to the Comedy Center’s museum all day. There’ll be a fan photo op after the ribbon cutting at four thirty.

Attendees can RSVP at Comedycenter dot org, slash Fluffy and did you see who’s back? Father Guido Sarducci weighing in on the pope stuff, he was on Colbert. You haven’t seen Sarducci in a long time, Serducci told Colbert, while I predict, I think it’s fixed. Benedict the sixteenth is gonna be the pope again. That’s my prediction.

Colbert reminded Guido that Pope Benedict is dead, and Father Sarducci responded, that’s what you think. It’s a rumor. It’s like Elvis. It’s a conspiracy. Colbert said, but we saw his funeral, and Sarducci said, yeah, but no one has seen him since his funeral.

If you would like to keep up on all the latest things, paople, don’t forget. We’ve got that podcast, White Smoke. I’m working on that one personally, and we are doing daily updates about the conclave and hopefully, well I mean not hopefully, but if they’ve picked a pope between me recording this and you hearing it, well that’s what happened. Big. Netflix plans they’re going to overhaul the homepage design.

The new layout is more clean and modern, featuring visual elements for shows and movies, while also managing to cram in more relevant information. Titles will receive callouts that highlight popularity, awards, or other features. They’re also tweaking the recommendation engine to be more responsive to your moods and interests in the moment. There will also be a TikTok style vertical video feed featuring clips and trailers from its shows and movies. Users can click and be taken to the full episode or movie that’s designed for mobile viewing on the go.

The tiktokization of the world continues.

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Also, Netflix is partnering with the AI people on an AI search tool.

One of the suits that Netflix says you could type in I want something scary but not too scary and also maybe a little bit funny but not like haha funny. Oh so like an Adam Sandler space movie. I get it. There’s a festival today, the Toledano Street Comedy Festival in New Orleans. Founder Andrew Stevens wanted to organize the festival like many music festivals, where attendees get a day or week in pass and I have a bunch of shows to choose from.

That is always a good model. The JFL Toronto had that, and I really like that. This takes place in New Orleans at various venues around Toledano and Magazine Streets today through the eleventh tonight at Sports Drink. Is a rolling show as more than thirty comics rotate through short sets. Andrew Stevens, the organizer, says, it’s like the funniest open mic.

You can have lots of comics. We’ll do a quick set we can film on a nice camera. Everyone does a three minute set and it’ll be a long, continually rolling show. This weekend’s lineup includes New Orleans native Sean Patton, He’s fantastic, Shane Torres, Dulse, Sloan Langston Kerman, and some others. Pretty good, mister Stevens said.

Kyle Kanaane said comedy is best performed in places that violate the fire code. While we don’t violate the fire code. We love pushing up on it. It sounds like a really good time and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. If you’re on YouTube, Look, I’m an old man. Do what the other cool channels are telling you do, like hit the bell, like and smash and all that stuff that the cool hipsters tell you about. Just do that stuff, all right, Help the old guy out see tomorrow

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Featured: Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Nate Bargatze, Jim Bell, Robbie Prat, Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr New Yorker profile on fame and handling celebrity
• John Mulaney’s Netflix show struggling in viewership rankings
• Late night TV advertising revenue decline from $439M to $220M in five years
• Netflix uncertainty about renewing John Mulaney show for third season
• Nate Bargatze Esquire profile and SNL hosting debut
• Nate Bargatze’s approach to avoiding political commentary in comedy

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, another busy one. There is a big profile of Bill Burr in the New Yorker under the headline bill Bird does not want to talk about politics? Or does he? I’ve shared the link in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

The link his paywall. But if you know your way around the internet you can probably figure that out. Bert told The New Yorker in my business, you can lose your way. You know, people blow smoke up your ass, gets start to believe it, start carrying yourself a different way. One of my favorite things to watch is when even your circle of friends becomes a career move.

You and I are cool, and then I get an inch ahead of you, and then I’m looking for the inch ahead of you. Friends, This business is brutal. When nobody knows who you are, you have this loneliness laying in bed going, oh my god, am I the guy who doesn’t make it? Then you do get somewhere, and then you have to learn how to handle that. And I find the way to handle it is to disengage with it.

Try as much as I could do to just do what I always did, and I find if you act normal, people act normal. It’s a law of attraction. If you show up with three stvs, people want to see who it is. Yeah. I always found that.

On the other side, you know, as somebody running radio stations or being a suit. Anytime I worked with somebody in entertainment, act normal and they act normal back. I mean, there are people in the industry we used to call them star efforts who would be like, oh, Bill, Burt, can I get a selfie? And like they’d make up some crap that it was like, you know, hey, can I get a picture and I’m gonna sell it on eBay and raise money for charity. And it was just about.

It was just about, like I don’t know, collecting a portfolio. I very rarely took pictures with anybody back in the day. It’s like Bill said, just act normal. First said, I consider what I do to be a job, and my idea of what the purse of the job is changed over the year. My thought now I look at it like somebody had a tough week or somebody had a great week, and they had an all right week.

It’s my job. Remember kind of week you had to make either you forget about it or make it a better week because you’re laughing for an hour. My job is just to make fun of things. One of things I’m most proud of is the people on the right thing I’m liptard and my wife writes my jokes, and the people on the left think I’m a trumper. And for that reason, when I go to a red state, I go extra hard making fun of the red guys.

When I go to blue state, I just go off on liberals because selfishly it’s a fun thing to do. But I also say, if I’m in a red state, I’m making fun of red people, and then I hear the Blue people go woo, then I go after them. More from that article tomorrow.

Also big article week this week the New York Times.

Under the headline is this late night TV’s last Gasp. The focus here John Mulaney and by the time we get to the end of this article very interesting. Mulaney describes his weekly Netflix show as a throwback. In some ways, it’s almost like the way you might remember a bunch of shows from the past, but it’s not exactly what they were like. No element is new, but the way they’re being laid out might feel a little bit.

We learned more about the origin of the show. You may recall during the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy festival last May, they asked John to host the show. Mulaney said it was originally envisioned as a show that would be a bit like MTV. The host would serve as a VJA introducing one comic and then the next. Laney decided he could host it himself, and before long the concept started to morph into the current show, Laney explained, and it became like, well, people can come out and I’ll talk to them, and then they’ll sit there.

Then I’m interviewing people and we’re doing bits like we couldn’t have backed into it in a more convoluted way. I was like, what kind of show do I want to watch? And it is not a topical could you believe socio political story of the day show, because that ground is well covered by Greek people, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Daily Show, et cetera.

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Now here’s where it really caught my eye.

Robbie Prat, who is Netflix’s VP of Stand Up in Comedy, said that Netflix had not initially been looking or aspiring to do another talk show, but they were interested in being in the John Mulaney business because John is so singular. We’ll come back to praw on a second. The Times article quotes Jim Bell, former show runner for The Tonight Show, mister Bell said, of all the legacy broadcast day parts, morning shows, evening news, late night, late night might be the first one headed for the wood chippers to make, tough to monetize and no longer appointment viewing. It’s still got cultural juice, but from a business standpoint, it’s the most vulnerable. Some stats from the Times.

As recently as twenty eighteen, the five broadcast network late night shows Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Cordon and Seth drew in around four hundred and thirty nine million dollars in advertising, according to Guideline and advertising data firm. By twenty twenty two, that four point thirty nine had become two hundred and seventy seven million. Guideline said last year it was down to two hundred and twenty so that’s half in five years with Covid in the middle there.

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Now, let’s pay a lot of attention here because this echoes something that I h…

The Times rights It’s not clear how the show is performing. Millenis show, but critical attention has been more muted this season. The first episode appeared in Netflix’s daily ten most watched TV series in the US, but the show has not returned in the subsequent seven weeks. That’s what Johnny Mac has been saying. Now listen to this.

Robbie Prat said that Netflix was not prepared to announce anything yet about a potential third season. Now that caught my eye because I was like, but didn’t they announce that this was a two season pickup? And I went and looked that up and yep. Deadline had reported mulaney received a two season order from Netflix, which greenlit the show last year. So were they now, like, eh, maybe not.

Robbie Prau is quoted as saying, every show we’ve ever done, we want more people to watch. So it sounds like Netflix is a little iffy here, and they do tend to cancel things. And if it went from you know, being in the top ten to not being in the top ten, maybe they sense that there’s no buzz on this thing. I thought it was misproduced. They finally produced it correctly.

The week Letterman was on and let Letterman have Space two himself and brought out the guests one person at a time. But the uncontrolled chaos that John went for, I don’t think it worked, which is a shame because I really liked the LA series last year. All Right. More from that, Napri getsy article in Esquire, a major profile on Nate. His book came out yesterday.

We pick up where Nate hosted SNL for the first time, and Eschoire writes one of the top searches on Google that week was who is Nate Brighezzi. Nate explains, I knew I had to destroy in the monologue. I knew it was a welcoming a hello. Jimmy Fallon apparently is the one who pitched Nate to Lorne Michaels, Fallon telling Michaels, I think he’s the guy. I know he’s kind of an unknown, but I’m telling you he will score.

Nate then talks about doing politics in his actor not doing politics. If I want to give you my opinion on who I voted for, who’s that for? It’s for me, really, because I want you to know that I’m smart. I don’t think it’s really helping an audience. You don’t think they know who to vote for their living life.

Once you run out of celebrity’s opinions on politics, maybe I’ll jump back in. But right now I just want to do the opposite. He talked about his style of comedy. I need you to be able to trust that when your kids are in the car, you can play my album and you’re not having to think. Let me make sure there’s nothing I don’t want to have a conversation about right now.

There’s a trust interesting quote from Mark Maron in the Eschoire article. Maren says Nate’s coming at a time when comedy in some ways is in trouble. You have these very tribalized camps of comedy, the anti woke crew, bravely speaking power to truth, and he sort of transcends that. I don’t know what to make of that comedy is not in trouble right now, unless Maren’s coming at that from an art form and buying into this thought that Man of Sphere Rogan Bros. Have taken over comedy.

I mean, comedy goes in waves, and there are different styles, and I’m looking at who the streamers are putting on. They’re not putting on the man bro sphere stuff. But the man bro sphere stuff is selling tickets. I think there’s plenty of comedy to go around right now, So I’m not sure what Maren’s getting at there. You have these very tribalized camps of comedy, the anti woke crue bravely speaking power to truth, and he sort of transcends that.

Okay, Nate jokes about hosting the Emmys, quoting Nate, why did they pick me to do it? Well, the election probably helped God Hollywood executives asking who doesn’t live in LA and who’s available. Back to Maren, who comments on that and says he bigger than what’s going on socially because of his talents, point of view, and the way he does comedy, which is truly unique. He would have been a big star and no matter where the culture is. I don’t know what to make of any of that.

I have shared the entire article in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. An interesting story out of Late Nighter dot Com. Apparently Paramount has pumped the brakes on a daily show branded civic participation initiative. According to the article, this is out of concern that the partner organizations on the project might prove to be controversial. The project, called Take a Seat had apparently been in the works for months.

The goal to encourage people to run for local office by connecting them with organizations that could provide them with resources to mount a political campaign. Now, as part of this there were apparently a left leaning group called Run for Something and a right leaning group called the Women’s Public Leadership Network. But the report says Paramount delayed the project after it became concerned that partnering with organizations would carry quote too much risk. Airmount is currently trying to go through a merger approval. You may have seen the sixty minute story in the news, so an interesting development there, and Variety did a profile with the new owners of Just for Laughs.

So Van part Badard is the head of Comedy Ha or Kamitah. I still haven figure that out. That’s the company that acquired Just for Laughs last year. Merging the two brands seems like there’s a little back history there. He told Variety, I wanted to launch Just for Laughs in Quebec city, but the former owner told me it was impossible, so I launched my own festival and then continued with all the respect I have for the old owners, you do not manage a creation company with a finance ideology.

When I met the CEO of Just for Laughs in twenty eighteen, I had the phone number of every stand up comedian, their management, their agent. He did not have won but he had the phone number of the bank, He had the phone number of the sponsor. He knew nothing about comedy. We learned a little more about the festival. Just for Laughs as partnering with Rob Mceleenny and more better p actions on an initiative geared to writers.

Will Arnett and the Electric Avenue Banner will work on a shorts and pilots platform, and YouTubers Smash will have a program for social media creators. Spencer Griffin, head of Development, says, we want to be additive. We want to introduce artists to the industry at the festival and then actually help them succeed in the industry. Whereas the old company just said good luck, now, we want to say, here’s how to take the next step together. Friday quotes one comedy manager as saying, a lot of pipelines have disappeared in this industry in terms of building your career.

I mean, is that true? Do we not have social media now? Or are you’re not able to just go on YouTube and create your own thing. I’m not sure I agree with that comedy manager. Having a respected institution like Just for Last backing you and guiding you is actually exciting, all right.

I am looking forward to the festival coming back. I think I’m going to head up there. I haven’t thought that far out yet. Plus, they haven’t announced what the lineup is. Are they doing new faces?

I hope they’re doing new faces. That’s my number one thing to go for. So we will see what happens when jesser Last returns this summer. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, John Mulaney, Nikki Glaser, Bill Burr, Kamil Yildirim, Sarah Silverman, Adam Sandler, David Letterman, Nate Bargatzel, Colin Jost, Scarlett Johansson

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien Mark Twain Prize on Netflix
• Nate Bargatzel’s new book ‘Big Dumb Eyes’
• Nate Bargatzel’s plans to retire from stand-up comedy
• Colin Jost and SNL speculation
• SNL cast member appearance records
• Nikki Glaser’s career momentum and UTA representation

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The comedy gods must have heard me, because after a week of nothing, there is a lot this week. But let’s start with the funniest thing of the year so far by a mile. If you have not yet watched Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Award on Netflix, absolutely go watch it.

It is hilarious right out of the box. John Mulaney crushes the opening monologue. Other people that I wrote down notes about Nikki Glaser’s set is pretty strong. Bill Burr, you know, he was okay, And I thought that the set ended abruptly, and I started to post in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, hey was there an edit here? And I quickly got my answer because they cut to Kamil Nanjianni, who was already mid set.

But Kamil was also very very funny, sour silverman with a bit that I’m still thinking about day later. I don’t want to spoil it at all, but just trust me. For me, it proved once again, Adam Sandler not funny. Adam Sandler a fantastic dramatic actor. Go see him in Uncut Gems, in the Basketball Movie and the Space Movie.

He’s pretty good at os, but comedian not funny at all. And I know right now you’re like Johnny Mac, but he’s Adam Sailor. Watch the Mark Twain Awards. You tell me Adam Sandler’s funny, he’s not.

And then the King David Letterman at the end.

That was fantastic. Nate Bergatsy has a book out today. It is called Big Dumb Eyes, Stories from a Simpler Mind. And there’s a full court press happening, and I will talk about that at the end, but a big, big shiny profile in Esquire, the theme is basically, Nate has waited for his turn, and now that he’s getting his turn, he’s gonna let you know that he’s a little ticked off. The edit to wait, They opened up with the headline we keep seeing that Nate is going to step aside from stand up comedy.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Nate tells Esquire two more tours. I got this tour I’m about to go out on, and I want to do one more. Nate figures he will wrap up his stand up career in five years. He even knows the closer.

For his final set, he will deliver the joke and then say thank you, good night and leave the stage forever. As for that theme of having to wait for a while, Nate says, I never got to do letterman. I got told I was too mundane. I had to look the word up. I didn’t know what it meant.

Wasn’t good. He talked about Hollywood. They have a system. I like their system. I try to be in their system, and then I keep getting told no.

So I had to go create my own thing. I wanted to be great at stand up. I’m not trying to say him great, but I just knew I needed to figure out how to be great at this one thing and then the rest will come. That’s what’s happening now. You get a lot of stuff.

You either make it at twenty or forty. No one makes it in the middle. The Esquire article quotes Julian McCullough, an old friend and comic who MCEs Nate’s arena shows. Julian says Nate has a gift of camouflage. He’ll be sitting in a room because of the way his face looks and the way he talks, people think he’s not picking up on everything.

No one is more aware or observing people’s behavior more than he is. He’s like one of those stick you can’t believe it’s a bug because he’s watching the whole time. Nate discusses giving up alcohol in twenty nineteen, explaining I did not have a control on it. I’d go too hard with it, but I knew if I want to go to where I want to go, then this is the way. Does he miss it drinking?

Nate says, I think I missed the relief of drinking. But these days golf helps. I tell a lot of comics. If you want to do something, you’ve got to really obsess over it. That’s not always fun.

I mean that means you wake up to go pee in the middle of the night and you’re thinking about comedy. If I’m going to be obsessed over something, then I’ll use it to my advantage. The profile, which again thorough, and it’s going to take me three days to get through it. Here on the podcast, and Nate talks about incorporating his family into his material. His daughter is now twelve.

Nate says, I’ve backed off a lot on my daughter. She’s at the age where kids are going to pick on her or say something that is a good decision by dad there. As for wife Laura, Nate has a strategy for writing marital material. You’ve got to show love. If I want to talk about my family, you have to believe that I love them, or I’m the worst person ever.

The audience needs to know this is a happy couple. That’s a typical fight. So, as I said, I’ll pick it that for the next three days, and there’s going to be a ton of Nate’s articles this week. My sense here is this is a big push by the Hollywood people. We’ve talked about how Nikki Glaser has been being pushed.

Oh I forgot to mention that during the The Conan set, Nicki’s people got that done. How did Nicki get on that show? I mean, the rest of the bill was just at a level above Nikki Glaser. She was probably the least successful comedian up there. And I’m not dragging her at all, but you know, the other people were Adam Sandler, despite my opinion, and David Letterman and Bill Burr, and so Nicki’s people getting it done.

So behind the scenes here, stay with me here. I’m not complaining at all. But a year ago, when I saw the book was announced, I reached out to the publicity people and I was like, Hey, can I get on the listen. They’re like, yeah, check back in like a while. So all right.

So I checked back in a while. And the vibe I got from the publicist because I’ve been around the media for thirty years now and I kind of can read between the lines, I got the vibe from them that the book publicity is not being run through the book publicity department, that someone else has their hands in it. So I think this is coming straight out of Hollywood or wherever Nate’s team is. Yeah, it looks like Nate is with UTA, the United Talent Agency. Curious who Nicky Glazers with?

Nicki’s also with UTA. Okay, I’m onto something here anyway. So I don’t think I’m going to get an interview with Nate. He seems to be doing the Today Show and Esquire and things like that, And that’s fine, I tried. If you want to see how much of a push this thing is, let me read the credits for the Esquire article.

This is a print article that credits photography by Jeffrey Leeman, styled by Alfonso Fernandez Navaz, hair by Eric Miller, grooming by Katie Kendall. Production by Catherine Prado, Tailoring by Jason Jarrett, Visual director James Morris, Executive design director Martin Hoops, Entertainment director Andrea Cutt. This is for a print article. This isn’t Nate jumped on Zoom with Johnny Mac in his basement Anyway. More of that over the next couple days.

As the comedy Dearth is over, Thank you Comedy news gods. Hey is Colin Jost leaving SNL? People are thinking that I’ve talked about that in the season finale, Colin’s wife, Scarlett Johansson is the guest. However, Scarlett Johnson’s also in a Jurassic movie this summer, so it’s not absurd or random that she is the final guest host of the year. I saw some chatter over the weekend that some people thought Michael Longfellow might be next up for the guest Some of the chemistry between Jost and Michael during SNL this weekend and made people think that Michael Jay is now in fifth place for most appearances as an SNL cast member with two hundred and twenty, he is eight episodes behind Colin Jost.

Next up on that list Seth Meyers at two fifty three, Darryl Hammond at two sixty seven, which does not include Darryl as the staff announcer, and Keenan Thompson at a probably uncatchable at this point, four hundred and forty one. SNL makes between eighteen and twenty two episodes a season, let’s call it twenty, So to catch Keenan’s four forty one, first of all, Keenan would have to stop doing it, and then Joe ster Chay at twenty episodes and being around two hundred behind, would have to stick around another ten years. That’s if Keenan stops doing it.

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Speaking of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez got what a coworker of mine used to call a…

He got his car waxed by Rolling Stone. This was a big fluff piece and the interviewer clearly a big Marcelo Hernandez fan. We learned that Marcelo is working on a Netflix special which he’s been writing. During breaks from SNL, Marcelo was at Helium and did three sets back to back to back, playing with the order and adding little bits here and there. Marcelo told Rolling Stone, you’re exploring because those are good crowds.

Jerry Snifellow, he said, good crowds help you explore, and tough crowds help you edit. So this was a very exploratory weekend. Now what do I mean by got his car wax? Let me read you this paragraph of bait him. Part of Hernandez’s lure is precisely that he seems so approachable.

He gives off supreme kid brother vibes, or, as one Vogue writer put it, golden retriever energy, and at the same time channels the class clown every girl had a crush on in high school. When I tell a few girlfriends I’m interviewing him, the news is met with some version of a squeal heard only a dog frequencies. He’s five feet eight and stocky. He was an snl short king ambassador for nothing, with curly hair that seems to get wilder than more energetic. He gets like an ECG for chaos, and although he considers every question seriously, hardly ever breaking eye contact, there’s always a twinkle of anarchy somewhere past his retinas.

When the waiter comes by, it off for drinks. Hernandez grabs my phone and presses pause on my recording, declaring his cocktail order off the record. It’s a secret for now, but people should know he had two of them. Sounds like somebody is a big fan of Marcelo Hernandez. Boy, this is exciting.

I actually bumped three stories after a week of nothing. The comedy gods have brought the news back. It is so nice. I shared a few things in the Facebook group, including the nay thing that I’m picking away at. There’s also a fantastic Bill Burr article in the New Yorker.

I’ll start picking away at that tomorrow. I shared the link. It’s paywalld. If you’re good at the Internet and you know how to get to things, you can read it. There’s also a New York Times article about late nights and specifically Malaney.

I’ll talk about that tomorrow as well. So I’m reacting to last week here. I didn’t want to go, oh my god, there’s so many things and do a twenty seven minute episode today and then wake up tomorrow and be like, oh, there’s nothing to talk about again. So I am squirreling away things because of how slow it was for the last week. It’s great to have news again.

I was also looking at the podcast numbers and the April numbers were down, and I was like, why are the April numbers down? Why doesn’t anyone like me anymore? And I got all sad, and then I looked the numbers in April have been down the last three years. So there’s something about April and comedy. Do people go on spring break?

Do people stop listening because it’s Easter. I don’t know what’s going on, but May usually rebounds from April, so I will calm down. Mike Myers and Colin Mockery are going to do a charity comedy show in Toronto. Mike Myers will do stand up as part of It’s Always Something Open Mike at the Second City in Toronto on May twelfth. The event is being hosted by Gilda’s Toronto, a charity named for Gilda Radner and a headline I saw from Australia ausie comedian left stunned as NBA superstar delivers sixty thousand dollars active generosity to a stranger.

It was Australian comedian Brett Blake he was filming a commercial in the United States with Shaquille O’Neal, the famous basketball player. Blake said it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my life, and while on set, he witnessed something he’ll never forget. As Blake tells the story, a lady rocked up to the set and her car broke down along the way. So Shaq bought her a brand new sixty thousand dollars Chrysler and just handed her the keys. Now I’m not sure how that works, so like, hey, excuse me, can you guys help me?

My car broke down? And Shack, I don’t doubt that check bought somebody a car, But like, was there a Chrysler dealer next door? Did he go come with me, We’ll go next door. And he wrote a check or put down his credit card, And like, you can’t just like buy somebody a car on the fly. It takes at least an hour, doesn’t it.

Blake says the worst part I was technically homeless at the time. I was living in a camper by Roastbud Beach. I was like, Shack, buy me a house anyway. Fun story, and that is your comedy news for today. I will meet you back here tomorrow.

I can tell you off the bat we’ve got more Nate and the Bill Burr and the Malaney thing. So we’ll see you then

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Nicky Glazer, Amy Poehler, Matt Rife, Shehan Wang, Ali Wong, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan podcast chart position and revenue analysis
• Vogue’s funniest female comedians list and Nicky Glazer’s omission
• How podcast charts work and their limitations
• Matt Rife appearing on Discovery Channel’s Ghost Adventures
• Shehan Wang discusses community and friendship in comedy with Ali Wong
• Jay Leno’s Conan O’Brien rivalry and personal life with Mavis

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Jennie mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now I’m recording Sunday and Money back to back. So I just in my life thirty seconds ago did that list of the funniest women comedian? How is Nicky Glazer not on that list?

She’s like the ind comic right now. I feel like she should be on the list. When was that list from? And case you missed it. At the end of yesterday’s podcast, I dove in on an article from Vogue that was called twenty of the Funniest female Comedians of All Time from March of twenty twenty five, So I’m thinking about that more.

I mean, the list was okay, but should Nicky be on it? It’s our silverman. Do we want to go down the SNL rabbit hole? I mean, Kate McKinnon’s pretty funny, Amy Polar, Tina Fey, No, yes, Allen was a pretty good stand up, Sandra Bernhard is a pretty good stand up. Taylor Thompson’s pretty funny.

So I don’t know. It’s an odd tide list anyway. That was at the end of yesterday’s show. It continues to be slow on these parts and you know, I was trying and lead off with a big name comedian in the A block because it allows me to throw a big name comedian into the episode title and then hopefully I get some drive by people sampling the show. That’s how this works being transparent here.

I got pretty far deep into the script today and I was like, I don’t have something for the A block. So I typed Joe and Rogan into Google and found this article from Newsweek which asks is Joe Rogan losing his mojo? I’m gonna answer no, but they say. Spotify charts show that Rogan’s podcast dropped from its usual top position to second place in January, overtaken by The Sean Ryan Show. It fell again to third place in February, behind Fall of Civilizations and The Midas Touched Podcast, before reclaiming second place, this time to Amy Poehler’s news show Good.

Hang, okay, let me explain podcast charts to you. I’ll start with the Apple podcast charts because I’m more familiar with how they work. There’s a recency bias based upon how many people have subscribed recently. So, for example, if you can get two thousand of your friends to suddenly subscribe on this podcast in the next hour, I will have the number one podcast in the country for at least a short while. Now, as you guys accelerate me to number one, what will happen is other people will go what’s this and hit subscribe or follow on Apple Podcasts the nomenclature, and then my podcast will stay high up in the charts for a bit and hopefully a bunch of people stick around, and then suddenly I’ll have a top two hundred podcast.

That’s how that works. So sometimes if you look at the charts at like weird times, like go on at like Sunday morning at like seven am, and you’ll see something random at number one, and people know how the system works and they’ll game it and people will get a flurry of subscribers, and some people known to pay people to hit subscribe. So I think with the charts you kind of have to look long term, and you know, Rogan’s always there at the top. So the recency bias is part of it. There’s total downloads, how much of an episode people consume, all that goes into it, but the big factor is recent downloads.

Anybody in the industry will tell you that Joe Rogan is number one by a lot. It’s not close. I’m not saying if you don’t look at the charts like I’ll look right now as I record this on Friday, So right now, Apple has it Polar, Mel Robbins, Rogan, And I’m not saying Polar is not super popular. I am not saying Mel Robins is super popular. What I am saying is no, Joe Rogan hasn’t lost his mojo.

The Spotify charts, I don’t know exactly how they work. I assume they’re similar. But also understand, despite what you read, most podcasts audio podcasts are consumed on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify is number two, and the Spotify charts can be a little wonky, and Spotify tends to promote their own things. For example, Amy Poehler’s for The Ringer, which is owned by Spotify. Again, not saying Gami Polar’s not good, not saying Amy Polers not number one on the Apple podcast which Spotify does not owner control.

But you know that kind of thing factors into it, so don’t oversteer it to the charts. Joe Rogan had fifty one and a half million downloads in February. Now let me walk you through some numbers in podcasting, a live read, you know, a host read you hear me? Do those sometimes for the gambling website is sold on a CPM model. Let’s do lazy math.

Say you get twenty dollars for CPM. These days, you’ll get more like twenty three twenty four. If somebody wants to be in a premium environment, they’ll get more. But let’s do lazy math. So at twenty dollars CPM means if I want to reach one thousand listeners and ad would cost me twenty dollars.

Okay, So by my account, Rogan had sixteen episodes STROP in February, and we’ll accept the fifty one and a half million downloads number, and we’ll accept my made up twenty dollars CPM. Fifty one and a half million downloads across sixteen episodes means three point two million people downloading each episode. At a twenty dollars CPM, that would mean each live read is sixty four thousand dollars. If he runs three per episode, that would be one hundred and ninety three thousand dollars per episode. And if you do that sixteen times, just in commercials, the show would gross three million dollars.

Now we do that twelve months a year, that’s thirty six million dollars a year. And I’m going to guess the numbers are higher because Joe Rogan was reportedly paid one hundred million, So my CPMs may be low. There may be more than three commercial per hour. I haven’t listened, but just to give you a sense of is Joe Rogan struggling? Now?

Matt Rife is going to be on the Discovery Channel’s Ghost Adventures. Yeah, Wednesday, ten pm Eastern. Yeah, we’ll have to pick between Ghost Adventures or Malany, Which will you pick? The Ghost Adventures crew head to Nevada to investigate the recently shuttered Whiskey Pete’s Hotel and Casino, a sprawling historic property marked by murder, mystery, and unexplained activity, and is believed to be haunted by the notorious bootlegger for which it’s named Whiskey Pete. Joined by special guest investigator, comedian and paranormal officionado Matt Rife, the team is immediately affected by the dark energy and ominous activity within the buildings.

Sounds scary. Shehan Wang was one to get public broadcastings Where We Live podcast. They were curious how important it is to have friends like Ali Wong to go through the journey with the journey of comedy. Shang said, I think it’s tough for immigrant kids to be doing stuff like this. I mean it might be a little different now, but I think pursuing a craft like this can be full of potholes and doubts and bumps on the road, you know.

So when we have friends that do it together with it makes all the difference. You know, little community, it really helps a lot. It’s kind of the whole reason you do it because at the beginning it all seems like what’s the point. You know, you’re just doing open mics at random places, from like empty rooms to launder mats, wherever you can put a microphone on a speaker. The whole way.

There’s always moments where you’re gonna doubt yourself. That Jay Leno interview he gave to Graham Benzger, it continues to pay off if you’re trying to fill your script for your daily coming to News podcast. Jay did not deny which Joe got under his skin. It is the one in Conan’s Final Tonight Show monologue when Conan said much funnier than I will tell it. I just want to say to the kids out there watching, you can do anything you want in life, unless Jay Leto wants to do it too.

That’s a great joke I mentioned yesterday, trying to get a feel for is Jay let know a bad guy good guy? I think he’s a good guy. I explained yesterday ConA thing aside a little more. This is from a different interview where Jay talking about his wife Mavis. Mavis has Alzheimer’s disease.

Jay says, I just try to get home every night. That’s the only difference. The plane weights and I come right back. I used to stay out three or four days. I just stay out one day now two days.

Most. I enjoy it. I like taking care of my wife. I don’t mind it. It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but it’s okay.

It’s not like she’s in any pain, screaming or anything. She smiles and I can see when she’s pleased with something. You know, it is what it is. I’m glad it didn’t happen when we were forty. You have forty good years and you have five.

Kind of tricky ones, that’s okay. Do I wish it never happened? Of course, You’ve got to find a humor in it. It’s like a test. I’m glad I passed.

I’m very comfortable with it. Jay has kept up his tradition of making Mavis dinner and then they watched TV together, although he says Mavis is almost totally bit written and she can’t remember what happened from one episode to the next. Jay says, it’s really the same thing. You just can’t have a discussion or talk about things. Somehow, I’ve become the patriarch of the family.

He pays eleven thousand dollars a month each for a brother in law and an uncle and nursing facilities. Those are real numbers. I had my mom in one, and not by choice. You know, that’s something I would have never thought that I would have ever done. And you know, I like throws your curve and you wind up doing that.

But yeah, it was twelve thousand dollars a month for us. Jay says, there’s a lot of people affected by this. Technically I don’t have to go out on the road, but to keep a sense of normalcy, he does. Leno says a nurse comes in twice a week to check her vitals, and a dentist has regular house calls to clean her teeth. Jay says, I don’t know how people who are school teachers or policemen or nurses who have regular jobs do.

And I’m glad I have the position I’m in so my lifestyle doesn’t change dramatically. I don’t have to get a reverse mortgage or anything like that. As for his recent incidents, you know there’s the motorcycle accident, falling down a hill, whatever that was, Jay says, that’s a great thing about being over forty. Once a man goes over forty, you can’t teach him anything you never learned by your mistakes.

All right, let’s check in on the Sydney Comedy Festival.

Lift pulled three comics once again and Alex Ward’s show is called clip Clop. Don’t stop the description Alex is really good at talking. She has to be because people want to do it with her all the time, strangers, neighbors, her parents, the gall the age says the show is studded with punchlines. Let’s listen, okay, I want to talk about the social media ban on kids in Australia. It’s very divisive.

I’ve spoken to people who are for it, and I’ve spoken to people who are against it. Interestingly, I actually don’t have an opinion on it because I don’t have kids. But what I do have is a mom who I just spent three weeks with. And I’m just throwing it out there. But if we’re going to ban all people under sixteen, yeah, I think maybe we could look at some other age groups as well.

I like her. I think that’s fun enough for a little long to get to it, and I was going to play a little more, but it takes even longer to get to the second joke. But I wrote nice company, which for me, the comedy snob is a high compliment. I like her a lot. So that was Alex Ward.

Next up, Emma Holland. Emma’s show is called Don’t Touch My Trinket. The Age gave it four stars. I think they do four out of four and said Holland is an expert at pulling out the rug from beneath her audiences. I like this clip a lot.

Let me give you the visual here. She rides out onto the empty stage in a scooter like you know, the stand up scooters that the kids have today. And so she’s on the scooter and she’s wearing a helmet. Takes the helmet off, walks over to the microphone and we’ll pick it up from there. Same one.

He like Facebook, marketplace, A couple of fans down the front. What’s the best thing you’ve ever found a marketplace? A pair of earmuffs? Pair of ear muffs, virgin, best thing I’ve ever found a marketplace. Get this for a deal?

Thirty dollars for a treadmill. It’s good, right, it’s a good deal. Long story short. It was a belt sander and now I’m three centimeters shorter. But it lays I’m ripped.

I’m trying to get massive. I’ll fight you count spell Emma without Mma. I love her. I thought that was fantastic. Emma Holland next up.

And I hope my pronunciation is close here. Hey Hwang Hay’s show is called white Man’s Burden. The description are you ready to learn how to be whiter? Don’t worry, this is a safe space. Chinese superstar Hey Huang, We’re turns and character as Christopher Rice in an outrageous satshire on white culture.

The clip I have here is not from that show, but from a traditional stand up show. I found Hey to be very funny. I did have to skip the first ninety seconds because the punchlines for every joke in the first ninety involved F bombs, and if I take the F bomb out, the joke gets castrated. So I found a different chunk. So here is like two or three minutes into the set.

Australia has so many different types of Chinese living here, and I’m a Chinese from a modern China’s family. To be very specific, my family are I’m gonna use the sea word communist, not the ausy Sea word you guys expected. Yeah, if you go to my grandparents’ house, you will literally see a lot of reflags. Like to my grandma, any flag that’s not red is a red flag. I’m the product one child policy.

Have you guys heard about this policy? Yeah, it’s very brutal and heartless policy. But on the other hand, us survivors of one child policy, a lot of us are pretty spoiled. I mean my myth I’m doing this for a living and I don’t have any other backup plans. Eventually, my parents have to support me because they don’t have any other choice.

Very very funny there, and that is your comedy news for today. Hopefully there’ll be some sort of controversy, like, I don’t know, David Letterin get into a fistfight with Jay Leto and cameras could catch it, or Dave Chappelle say something, Somebody do some controversy. I’m tired of the slow news days every day, all right, see tomorrow

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Tim Dillon, David Spade, Sarah Silverman, Jerrod Carmichael, Mike Birbiglia, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Will Schreiner, Caitlin Olsen, Shang Wang, Josh Jones, Russell Brand, Shane Gillis, Dave Chappelle, Bo Burnham, Chris Rock

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix comedy special drought in May 2025
• Conan O’Brien Mark Twain Prize for Humor on Netflix
• Jay Leno discusses awkward surprise visit to David Letterman’s house
• Caitlin Olsen explains improv techniques on SAG-AFTRA Foundation
• Shang Wang discusses daily comedy writing habits
• Josh Jones interview about new tour and lottery fantasy
• Russell Brand court appearance on sexual assault charges
• Debate on greatest comedy specials of recent years

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron’ Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It continues to be a very suspiciously slow time of the year, and as I’m looking at it, I think a big part of that is because Netflix seems to be in a gap between doing comedy specials. A lot of times they have one every week, and they seem to be taking a month off here. The last Netflix major release was Tim Dillon on April fifteenth, and we only really had two other specials other than you know, there’s a YouTube special every five minutes.

But Hulu had Curson on the twenty fifth and Brett Goldstein on the twenty sixth, and nobody’s out really doing press looking Ahead on Amazon May sixth, so that’s Tuesday, right, David Spade’s Dandelion is out, Then another ten day gap Matteo Lane on Hulu on the sixteenth. Finally Netflix gets back into the game on the twentieth with Sarah Silverman hbo Is, Jerrod Carmichael on the twenty fourth, and then Mike Birbigley on Netflix on the twenty six So it’s a slow month coming up here. Fortunately, Netflix gave us something to watch Today in the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. Conan O’Brien had accepted the prize on March twenty third, and they filmed it. It’s funny who gets spotlighted and who doesn’t.

On the Netflix page, it says cast Conan O’Brien, John Mulaney, Will Ferrell, Bill Burr, Camille On Jeohnny, Paul Rudd, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert, Tracy Morgan, Reggie Watts. I personally would have mentioned David Letterman, but that’s just me anyway, that’s out on Netflix today.

Speaking of Letterman, Jay Leno was talking about Dave recently.

Leno had that big interview on the Graham Benzinger podcast, and Jay told a story about being out on a motorcycle with comic Will Schreiner. They decided to drop by Letterman’s house. Leno recalled, thinking, Hey, let’s stop in Malibu and see Letterman. Let’s just surprise him at his house. Letterman was apparently thrown by the visit.

Leno says it was the most awkward thing. Dave was like, huh, okay, come on in. Leno said, We’re like, oh, this was a mistake. It was just so awkward because you have nothing else in common other than comedy. Really, I’m assuming this took place in the eighties, when Leno was a frequent guest on David’s show, and not in the post Tonight Show era.

Benjader was curious what would it take to see Leno and Letterman reunited. Jay said, I have no idea. Dave’s a quirky guy, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. Believe me. If Dave wanted to do something, I would do it.

But I tend to get my hand bitten when I instigate these kinds of things. Yes, you do, Jay, I can’t get a sense of is Jay a really good guy or is he a bad guy? I know there’s the whole cone of thing. I get it. And when NBC went to Jay and said, hey, you want eleven thirty back, he could have said no, absolutely.

So there’s that. But going back to the eighties, you know, Jay was the Monday guest host for the Tonight Show. Somebody offers you the Tonight Show, you’re gonna say yes. There’s all the stuff with his wife that I think I have a story for that. In tomorrow’s script.

He seems like a good dude, I don’t know, never met him. Comedians don’t seem to like him. The guy was on the Tonight Show for years and at the number one show. Somebody likes the guy, you know. But I do agree with Leno when he says, but I tend to get my handbitten when I instigate these kinds of things.

I don’t mistrust Dave. I like Dave. I think he’s great. He still makes me laugh more than anyone else. The Sag After Foundations shared an Instagram video featuring Caitlin Olsen explaining improv.

When you’re doing improv, just listen, listen, listen, listen. You don’t have to talk much, especially if you’re in a scene with a bunch of people who know what they’re doing. Listen, let them be funny. And when you have something to say, go ahead and go for it, and don’t be afraid to fail because not everything that comes out of your mouth is going to be home run. And that’s okay, it’s not supposed to be.

Shang Wang was on the Where We Live podcast. Shang says, as a comedian, you’re not writing eight hours a day. You just have to sit down once a day. It could be ten minutes could be two hours. But the idea is make it habitual and make it a daily part of your life, just like anything else that you want to pursue.

Seriously, you can’t cram it all in a one day, right, so it’s helpful to come back over and over to your ideas and to give yourself time to think of new things. Josh Jones spoke to The Pink News you’r home for Comedy News. Josh’s new tour is called I Haven’t Won the Lottery, Here’s another tour. But what if he did win the lottery? Josh says, I want new paving.

I’ve been deweeding. It’s getting very boring. He currently lives in the city but would like somewhere with a garden. He doesn’t do current affairs in his act because people are paying for a night out and I just want to entertain them, so I try and keep it light. I just want them to have the best night, not the best night, you know what I mean.

I’m not abba, but I’m pretty good night out. Josh was picked on in school growing up, and he tells the story I remember telling my mom I was getting picked on instead of being like all right, I’ll speak to their mom. My mom taught me how to uppercut properly. She was like, if you uppercut them, they lose their balance, and then while they’ve lost their balance, to start hitting them. So I did that and it worked.

People kind of stop picking on me, because no one wants to get battered by the gay guy. I’m going to take the break here and when we come back, adults situations. If you’re listening with kids, hit stop, hit a checked, be right back, okay. As I mentioned before the break, serious topic here. If children are listening, hit stop please.

Russell Brand appeared in court on Friday. Russell is facing multiple charges of sexual assault, including two counts of rape. He was in court for fourteen minutes. This one month after British prosecutors had charged Brand with one count of rape, one of oral rape, two counts of sexual assaults and another of indecent assaults. Brand stood inside a plexiglass box in the courtroom, wearing a shirt opened to show his chest and holding a pair of gold rimmed sunglasses.

I’m going to just refrain from editorializing there and I will just continue. Mister Brand confirmed his name, date of birth, and British address, then listened without showing any visible emotion. Brand has denied all of the charges. He was granted bail. The judge of the actor was free to go.

Mister Brand said thank you and left the courthouse without speaking to reporters and jumped in a black Mercedes Benz. The judge referred the case to a higher court called a Crown Court. That hearing is scheduled for May thirtieth. Any trial might be like a year from now because of a backlog of cases in Britain’s judicial system. Switching gears.

Anticipating a slow news day, I asked the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, you got any topics, guys? Dylan jumped in and floated, what was the last truly great special, meaning one that people still talk about a few years later. There hasn’t been one in the last two years. Dylan floats Shane Gillis live from Austin in twenty twenty one, Tompsigora’s Ballhog, Bo Burnham’s Inside and Dave Chappelle’s eight forty six the last great special. Now, I am an admitted comedy snob.

I gotta think about that. My brain is already going back to like Chris Rock from like twenty years ago. Let me just google here all time comedy specials. I’m doing that and anything that I find comes from twenty twenty three, So that doesn’t answer Dylan’s question. Let me go back.

I actually have my list. Let me see my Best of twenty twenty three. That year I gave number one to Gary Goleman. I don’t think we’re still talking about that one. Tod Barry, we’re not talking about I do have Shane Gillis at three and Sigur at four and Canane at five for Best of twenty twenty four, the Roast of Tom Brady.

We are still talking about that. That might be the answer, Dylan. I know that’s not really a stand up special. I also had a tell triumph Onnie Chang David Cross a Doomian. So yeah, it’s been a minute.

If I have to pick, and I’m not going to pick something from twenty years ago, I think I’d have to go with maybe one of those Chappelles. It’s been a minute, though, you are right now, Erin. I sent a link to Vogues twenty of the Funniest Female Comedians of All Time, and she couldn’t remember if I’ve done this one or not. And I couldn’t remember if I’ve done this or not, but hey, let’s do it. I’m doing this cold now as I scroll down here, I haven’t even seen the list, but there’s a picture of Gilda Radner, and Gilda is a great choice for this list.

And you know, other than the obvious, you wish Gilda were still around. Had she been part of SNL fifty, she would be up there in the pan antheon. But because she has passed, she’s not visible, and I don’t think she gets talked about, and she would have had a very visible year in twenty twenty five with SNL fifty. All right, I’m gonna fly through here now. The first name is Moms Maybley, which wants me to editorialize.

If I don’t have something to say, I’m just going to move along. I’m not really familiar with Moms Maybley’s comedy. I back in the day programmed some of her records a few times, but it’s just from another era, so they didn’t play well on the radio, and then we stopped playing them. So I don’t really have anything to say about Moms Maybley. But sure, why not Gilda.

Joan Rivers. I’ve talked about it many times. I knew Joan worked with Joan, was in Joan’s apartment, one of the greats. Definitely still talked about Wanda Sikes. I guess Margaret Show now.

Johnny Mac admittedly oversteers against Margaret Show. Here’s why. When I first started It’s serious, a person representing Margaret Show called me an idiot for not hiring Margaret. And that’s not a good way to get me to do a deal with you. That’s not how to come at me.

So I did not hire Margaret. And you know I’ve got a little buyas there. Melissa McCarthy, Okay, Sure, Tiffany Hattish. I mean, I don’t know who else is on this list or not. That seems a little high.

Jenny Slats. People really dig Jenny’s slate. Sure, Patty Harrison. I’d like to think I know a lot about comedy. Maybe I don’t.

Vogue wrote, I don’t think there’s a comedian working today who makes me as consistently sick to my stomach as Patti Harrison, whether she’s guest starring on I think you should leave. Getting banned from Twitter for impersonating Nila Wafer’s singing nonsense songs in her stand up back or delivering a perfectly improvised line in theater camp Hey, Netflix, when is her special dropping? Leslie Jones? I think Leslie is more fun than funny, more attitude than material. Tig Nataro, Sure, fantastic.

Who doesn’t like Tig Nataro? Nicole Bayer? I hear Nicole every day as I listen back to this podcast. She voices a commercial and I hear her every day. Michelle buttell Yeah, Michelle’s a lot of fun.

Absolutely. Ali Wong has a couple great specials. Sarah Sherman one of my current favorites. Interesting pick on the list here, Maria Bamford. Sure, I think Maria works better in person than in clips.

If Maria comes to your town, definitely go see Maria Eightye Bryant, Amber Ruffin, Catherine Cohen, let’s go at Cotska one of my favorites as well. She’s just squirky and fun. I like her specials a lot.

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Okay, what do you guys think erin? Who do you think should be on the list? I’d love to hear from you daily Common News Facebook group erin already knows that, and we’ll leave on a downer. We found out on Friday that Ruth Buzzy had passed away at age eighty eight, best known for her time on laugh In playing a matron who wields her purse. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Yikes. Oh yeah, Ruth was on Sesame Street. That’s kind of how I know her from. Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, I remember Ruth. Old people like remember her on Sesame Street.

Yeah, I totally forgot that was the thing, all right. She also appeared in Freaky Friday, the Real One from nineteen seventy six, the famous movie The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again nineteen seventy nine. I’m not making fun of the movie. If you’re of my age, you remember that movie. You know that list I just read Ruth Buzzy should be on it.

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow.

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Featured: Tom Segura, Christina P, Garth Brooks, Theo Vaughn, Jimmy Fallon, Bert Kreischer, Jelly Roll

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Netflix series ‘Bad Thoughts’ featuring serial killer parody character
• Tom Segura’s long-running Garth Brooks serial killer joke and its origins
• Two Bears Three Bears Five K running event in Florida
• Jimmy Fallon becomes investor and brand partner in tortilla chip brand SoChil
• Sydney Comedy Festival updates

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Johnny Mac, Yesterday, you promised us you were gonna lead off with a Tom Sagora story. This Tom Sagora story better be good. You talked about it a lot yesterday. Hello, I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

In case you missed it. I held back a story because I wanted to tape today and yesterday back to back, and it helps me to have an A level comedian story in the A bloc. So let me tell you that Tom Sagora is apparently going to make a lot of fun of Garth Brooks on his new TV series Bad Thoughts, coming to Netflix. In each of the six episodes of Bad Thoughts, Sagora is said to portray a dark character in quote unthinkable situations and fantasies. One such character, Garth Brooks, is a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans.

Sorry, the lawyers want to say, totally not Garth Brooks. This character is not Garth Brooks. I misspoke there, you miss on derstood me. It’s definitely not Garth Brooks. One such character is a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans and forces them into depressing situations to help inspire him to write new songs.

If you see the picture of who Tom Sagori is dressed up as I could see where, you might think it’s Garth Brooks, but it’s definitely not. Now if you’re not hip to this, so Goora has been goofing on Garth for years. You may occasionally see the internet comment where are the bodies Grth? This goes back to Tom Sigora and Christina p They’ve been joking about this since twenty eighteen. In twenty eighteen, Garth Brooks was previewing a big stadium tour, Sigora and Christina made fun of Garth Brooks for his everyman stick and always being awkward on social media.

Then, on the November twenty eighth, twenty eighteen episode of Your Mom’s House, episode four seventy six, if you want to go here it yourself, Sigora first alluded that he jokingly thought that maybe Garth Brooks was a serial killer. Sigura, way back then jokes, what he’s thinking about is all the bodies he’s got stacked in his craze in his yard. For sure, He’s probably killed two hundred to three hundred people in his life. Sigora once told Theo Vaughn that Brooks is well aware of Segura and the impact he’s had on his social media presence. He noted that the joke originally stemmed from the conspiracy theory that missing person cases would often align with many of Gorth Brooks’s tours.

Rolling Stone profile Tom Sigora back in twenty twenty three, and Sigura then said, I woulds like to point out that these are alleged accusations and that some very savvy detectives online have managed to point out the dots between these people have gone missing and his tour dates. I know there’s an FBI task force investigating this, that’s been confirmed, and I know he has a lot of land, so that would be such an arduous endeavor if they’re trying to find anything on his property. But I do think it’s right of him or his camp to at least address this. The fact that they don’t address this has been a huge mistake and it’s just gonna grow from there. The legal department here a Daily Comedy News wants us to remind you that this is all joke and parody, and of course Garth Brooks is not a serial killer.

That’s absurd. This is all just you know it was doing a bit speaking of Sgora today is the two Bears actually three bears five K in Florida, Bert Kreischer, Tom Sigora and Jelly Roll. All participants not only get the opportunity to party with the Bears, but will also receive a finisher medal, a beer and a shirt. And they add unless your Bert, we already know he won’t wear his so faques, can I walk? Is there a time cut off?

There is no official course cutoff, but participants should be aware that there may be road closures to accommodate the event that may reopen at a later date. So before I get into this next thing, I shared in the Facebook group the other day which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us there. I did share a video of Jimmy Fallon doing Jim Morrison from the Doors the Doors performing the reading Rainbow songs from a few years back. Fallon is super talented.

I mean everything about that bit. They captured the music of the Doors, They captured the way that Jim Morrison would start screaming as courses got repeated, and it’s a pretty good vocal impression of jim Morrison. I’ve met Jimmy twice found them to be cool. So I have good things to say about Jimmy Fallon, But this next thing a little cheesy, no pun. Jimmy is becoming a brand partner and investor in tortilla chips and salsa brand so Chill.

Now. I’m glad so Chill told me how to pronounce so chill because I would have never gotten this right. Let’s spell so Chill together. Are you ready? X?

You didn’t expect me to say X did you know? X O c h I t L. You can’t even remember that, so it’s so Chill again x O c H I t L. And I guess if you have a wacky brand name, you hire Jimmy Fallon, who explains it’s like so Chill or so Chill Media, so Chill Network, so Chill distortion. It gets easier the more you practice it.

I agree with that, Jimmy Fallon, So that’s my first job, and then once I get that out there, they’ll probably give me other assignments. On this slow news day, we are told so Chill is America’s largest independent tortilla chip brand. I’m trying to make a show here, folks, but it is still lesser known than your grocery staples on their tortilla chip shelf. As full national distribution, it’s looking to Jimmy Fallon for mainstream boost. Hey, you got super cool podcast influencers in their basement talking about so Chill chips.

I mean this is working. Matt Leeds is the chairman and says, as a brand looking to emphasize warmth, authenticity and shared experiences, Jimmy Fallon’s funny, approachable and family friendly persona aligns well with us and our brand strategy. That’s right. Fallon says, I’ve been offered my own whiskey, my own tequila, and all that stuff. I just don’t want to be out there boozing it up with the golf course selling bottles of stuff.

Yeah, you might look super uncool, like Sayin did last summer. I want to do that, Falan said, what am I doing? I don’t know anything about that, but this tortilla chips I can get behind. It’s on brand for me, and I have no problem selling this and standing behind it. Falon said.

The dude from so Chio called me up and I said, wait, I actually know what you’re talking about. I had no clue how it’s pronounced. He kind of gave me a rundown of where the business is, and I thought this sounded like a fun opportunity. I love business stories, I love marketing stuff, and I’d love to help see something grow and become giant. Financial details of the deal we’re not disclosed, but Falan said this has the chance an opportunity to really grow.

When a brand is already massive, then I’m just doing a commercial or something. It’s paid gig. It’s all good. You do the commercial and you hope it’s funny. But with this, I’m a partner and an investor, so if it works out, I might actually see some dividends.

I’ve got skin in the game. How much do you get paid hose to Tonight Show, let’s say fail and salary. Ay I says Jimmy is paid sixteen million dollars a year, which a different site breaks down he makes eighty two, nine hundred and one dollars and fifty five cents per episode of the Tonight Show. Not bad, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also invest in chips. I get it.

Jimmy says, one of my jobs at the Tonight Show is to always be selling everyone else’s stuff, which is great. I love it. It’s my favorite jobs and now I’m like, why not do it for myself? And I agree Jimmy and I think the important here. Let’s recap what we’ve covered on the show today.

So far, we’ve covered that Garth Brooks is definitely not a serial killer and Jimmy Fallon is selling tortilla chips. But if you check your watch, I somehow killed off half an episode with not much to talk about, so all things are good here. Let’s see what’s happening down in Australia at the Sydney Comedy Festival, which has been going on. I haven’t talked about it much yet because things were a little busy for a bit.

And also in past years they’ve posted a lot of clips of the people performing…

But I took a minute to put together the show and I found three. Let’s start with Cam Knight. Cam is performing on May seventh. Cam’s show is called Unbothered, Moist Eyed, Happy, in My Lane, Focused flourishing, the description of camp shows. We’re all doing our best to get everything turning in the right direction, usually around New Year’s but it’s momentary.

We might get halfway through a self help book like Atomic Habits. I think we’ve clocked it. We may even pay a lot of money to a Balinese bomb reader for some guidance, because it seemed to work for Julia Roberts. A few things have happened to us, and I plan on talking about them and my usually hilarious self deprecating fashion being one of those people who says everything’s fine, or this too shall pass. Let’s take a listen.

The Adelaide Advertiser gave it five stars out of five, and I have made some edits here for f bombs. We try not to do f bombs here on this podcast. Hello, how’s this for serendipity? On this day twelve months ago, I completely snapped my achilles tendon. Yum.

Oh. Most normal people who rupture their achilles do so taking part in high impact sport, you know, like sprints or squash perhaps for the adventurous little bit of park all. I did mine jogging towards a trampoline. I didn’t even get on the sweet tramp like I did it on Launch. I was at a playground with my eleven year old nephew.

I heard it go crack. I thought the little trip meet right, And there is nothing more emasculating than crumpling to the ground in front of your eleven year old nephew screaming, get your mom. It’s I couldn’t. I couldn’t run around with my kids for months, right, And so everyone, all my friends and family members ended up buying my kids heaps of toys to overcompversate. How’s that I’m the one injured?

They get the gifts right, It’s so spoiled. How’s this? My eldest last Christmas? He was given three kites, three of them? Like nobody needs that much Kaytrie in their life, do they?

Plus I’ve only got two kids. There’s a kite spare do the math? Look who’s go to get involved in the show? I don’t really like you know what caught flying is vagan fishing TI. So that’s gam knight.

He’s good. Let’s take a listen to Ben Hunter, who’s performing on May tenth and eleventh. Ben says, in this my sophomore stand up comedy Shelby speaking about how the world has gone totally mad, I maybe only fifteen or sixteen. I don’t know if that’s a joke or not. I think it’s a joke.

But I could put on a comedy show that is very least on part with my contemporary some of whom I’m told her up to double my age. So this clip is a bit of a slow burn. And I talked about this earlier in the week. I know my comedy tastes are different than the mainstream. I like the quirky alt stuff, so this takes a while to get going.

But as I watched it, I thought it was really funny. Now you’re probably gonna be like joining back. The clip was, I don’t get it, but I find this very funny. Here’s Ben Hunter. Hey all go.

Do you guys know Florido the rapper Florida? You know this guy apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur any bells. I won’t give away the whole song, but it wasn’t just some of the club looking at her. Let’s just put it that way. It’s the whole place, all right.

But you don’t know who I’m talking about? Really? WHOA Sometimes i’d get a good female. Yeah this guy gets it? Yeah?

Right, you could leave I guess I. Got that’s Ben Hunter. All right, I’ll play you something a little more traditional and faster paced. Dan rath show is called Tropical Depression. I like that’s how a lot.

Dan Rath performs at the Sydney Comedy Festival on May fifteenth. The description of this show is I can’t focus. I don’t know if it’s the microplastics long covid or because I pay five hundred dollars a week to live in a mold experiment. I went to a rally dressed as Boba Fett and was bashed by both police and protesters. I formed a parasocial relationship with a door dash chatbot.

I lost all my crypto trying to buy a Mermaid skeleton. Here’s Dan Rath. I have made edits here for both content. My psychiatrist said that anxiety can lead to depression. I wish it would hurry up anxieties.

Why worse. It’s like a sushi train, just different dishes every day. Shashimi, betrayal, Taraoky, Brian cancer. Me so I skit and you just. Up free in the morning, texting all your friends were cool.

Just depressions. Why better you’re in your pajamas, drinking Costad out of the box and a Xanax. It’s relaxing. Usually my care is tasing me by Naw’s she’s doing karaoke the bitch, but that’s her. She was asking if I wanted to go to an escape room.

I’m like, no, I can just eat buffalo wings without a napkin and try and turn a doornob. That’s Dan Wrath. This show is called Tropical Depression, and that, my friends, is how you kill off a Saturday when you got nothing. This was pretty good for nothing. This was pretty good.

All right, we’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Nikki Glaser, Bill Belichick, John Mulaney, Sophie Buttel, Nate Bargatze, John Stewart, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Julian Edelman, Rob Gronkowski

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle honors Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday at Lincoln Center
• Nikki Glaser comments on Bill Belichick’s girlfriend acting as his publicist
• John Mulaney plans to fight three 14-year-old boys on season finale
• Sophie Buttel discusses writing monologues for Taylor Tomlinson’s show
• Nate Bargatze announces plans to focus on movies after comedy tour
• John Stewart plays drums in cover band Church and State at New Jersey bar
• Fake Golden Girls remake image circulates featuring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
• Great American Comedy Festival announced for Norfolk, Nebraska in June
• Dubai Comedy Festival returns in October with international lineup

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle was at Lincoln Center. They were celebrating Duke Ellington’s one hundred and twenty fifth birthday. Now you might be like, why was Dave Chappelle there.

You may recall he attended Duke Ellington’s School of the Arts in Washington, d C. And they were honoring him a few years back. Chappelle said of Lincoln Center, man, you never thought you’d see me an event like this, But he talked about the school and said that school profoundly, profoundly, profoundly changed my life. Duke Ellington was a guy who traveled all around the world just based off his talent and his kids. We knew that it was possible, just because his energy was in the air.

The New York Times says Chappelle mostly stuck to the teleprompter, but threw in a few ad libs, including you can’t get one of the greatest comedians in the world to just read a teleprompter.

And then he talked about a certain politician and said, it’s up to us.

We got to keep this tradition alive. This is one of the best things we got going in America here saying I got to make jazz great again. To send your letters to Dave Chappelle. I’ve been mentioning a few times during this admittedly slow newsweek that Nikki Glaser is the gift who keeps on giving. If you need another story, you type Nikki Glaser into Google and you never know what shows up.

She weighed in on this whole Bill Belichick girlfriend thing, because of course she did. But what’s even stranger to me is she was responding to an Instagram post by the Dudes on Dudes podcast, which I didn’t know Nikki Glaser was a fan of the dudes From Dudes on Dudes are two guys that used to play for the Patriots, specifically Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski. Even if you’re a casual football fan, you’ve probably at least heard of Gronk. These are like some serious Patriots, so they would know Bill Belichick, Edelman said of Belichick’s girlfriend, she was jumping into that conversation during the interview, just like any PR person would jump in when there’s an unnecessary question that they probably didn’t go over in the pre production meeting, Gronkowski said, Yep, she’s become his rep on top of being a girlfriend. Nikki Glaser chimed in on the instagram in the comments and said one percent this she’s acting as his publicist.

Publicists do this during interviews. People are out for blood. A strange note from John Mulaney’s show has made the news. Have you seen this thing on social media all week? Could one hundred men fight one gorilla?

It’s been going around online, Mulaney said had prompted a debate and our writer’s room about whether three fourteen year old boys could beat up me John Mulaney. Mullanie has now vowed to fight three fourteen year old boys. On the season finale on May twenty eighth, Mlani asked, is this legal so far? We think so. It’s not assault.

We know that, and we’re vetting every step of it. I’ve been led to believe that it’s for TV. It’s a lawful practice. Now, Millennie doesn’t seem like the toughest guy in the world, but then again, he also didn’t seem like he had a drug problem, So maybe he’s secretly ripped and secretly tough. Now.

I don’t know if you’ve raised any suns. Three fourteen year old boys could be quite physically imposing. I’m going to bet a dollar on the three fourteen year old boys beating up John Mulaney if they actually do this thing. Sophie Buttle talked about writing monolog for Taylor Tomlinson’s show. During the audition process, they apparently told Sophie the monologu should be about a page, and if it takes you more than an hour or two to write a page, you’re wrong for the job.

Sophie said, I banged it out really fast, and Taylor and I went and hung out. As plan. The next morning, I flew out to a comedy festival. When I landed, my manager has scheduled a zoom. I got to the hotel and we had a meeting with the head writer, the EP some other folks.

They decided they wanted to hire me. I had to leave the comedy festival early so that I could start that Monday. She explained how long it takes to write a first draft. Technically, our day starts at eight thirty am. We get a research packet with a bunch of online trends and options to write jokes about, and I have to be done with the draft by ten.

On Wednesday, they taped two episodes. Hey, that’s the thing, people do. I know one guy who’s taping Friday and Saturday in this session right now. Wednesdays is our double tape day, so I have to do two monologue drafts between eight thirty and ten, and those are much harder. I use the full amount of time on single tape days, so it feels like a truly great feed of human willpower to get two done.

Nay Brighetzi told The New York Times, I don’t plan on touring doing stand up forever. I want to make movies. People can think if you get too big, are you’re gonna change? The audience is very much in mind with everything that I will make again, I try not to do it for me. It’s for you.

I want them, the audience, to be able to trust that keep coming and see that I’m trying to do something a little against the green right now. When I started in comedy, some comics would be like, well, I’m not for everybody, and I’d be like, well, why do you want to not be for everybody? Nate has been saying the next special will be on Netflix, and I could see maybe one more special after that. I don’t want to overstay my welcome. I also want to get out of the way.

I need to let the next wave comedians come up. I got this tour and then maybe one more. We’ll see. I’ll believe that when it happens. John Stuart, he’s in a band, and the Asbury Park Press said they play it on Monday night, Church and State TM is Rick Barry on vocals, Andy Bova on guzar, Jim Bova on bass and John Stewart on the drums.

Apparently they were at Georgie’s Bar on Monday night. Stuart joked from the stage, we know almost eight songs tonight you get to hear seven of them. John was also confused and said, you guys, don’t put the Daily Show on at eleven. I drove here straight from the show. This is embarrassing.

Tina Fay worries that people actually believe she’s remaking The Golden Girls with Amy Poehler and told those folks go to a hospital now, no offense. Tina fe and Amy Poehler, it’s actually a great idea. You guys would crush it. Can’t you make like eight of them? For Netflix, just do it and be done.

There’s a fake image floating around. It features Amy Pohler, Maya Rudolph, Lisa Kudro and Tina Fay as the Golden Girls. Tina told Entertainment Tonight, Oh, I didn’t know about this. I liked that it was fooling people like, why would we ever take a picture where Amy and Lusakudro in costume? But we are not.

If this fooled you, you might be a boomer. And if you’re gen X and this fooled you, go to a hospital. The Great American Comedy Festival comes to Norfolk, Nebraska, Friday, June thirteenth. They’ve announced the headliners River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and host Chip Chantry. Night will end with your headliner James Austin john And The festival began in two thousand and eight to honor Johnny Carson, who grew up in the area.

Meanwhile, the Dubai Comedy Festival is back, Baby, this one not until October. It’s his fifth year, featuring international and regional stand up stars at various venues including the Dubai Opera and the Coca Cola arena. So, who’s there, John, Tom Sagora? Who we’re going to talk about tomorrow fun store I’m sitting on. I needed a headline.

I told you I’m taping two. I told you I admitted it. So I saved the Tom Sagora story to Schoogle. Tom sigorat Garth Brooks. If you can’t wait, But that’s tomorrow’s leadoff store.

You know, you know tap of Friday and Saturday back to back. What do you want for me? Sigora will open the festival on October second, then on the fifth, ohmid Julily. On the seventh, it’s Irish comedian Joanne McNally, who previously appeared at the festival in twenty twenty three. Morgan Jay, La based comedian and musician Morgan Jay, who’s been coming up a little bit on the show lately, makes his Dubai debut on October sixth at Dubai Opera and your closer for the festival on October twelfth that Coca Cola Arena.

Indian comedian Zakir Khan Cohn is performing in Hindi. The festival overall will feature shows in several languages, including English, Arabic, and Hindi, as well as interactive experiences across the city. Out today a new comedy album, Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy, recorded live in Montana. Simon Gibson took the stage with high Kicks before sharing several hilarious personal stories, including his time working as a customer service rep, a fancy coffee artist, and deli server, plus his weight gain slash weight loss journey, his hobbyist dad’s homemade magic wands, and more. Simon Gibson is described as Chris Farley meets Sam Kinnison.

Love it. Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy out today from a Special Thing Records, And I’ve got one more John Clees thing that I saved because you know, you like like a little fun, kicker story at the end of the podcast, leave everybody with a smile. It’s kind of the format works, right. It’s the format is like big names at the front, then talk about like some comedy festival overseas, kind of in the middle. At the end, I try and leave it with a smile.

Let’s how this works. You’ve caught onto this, yes, John Cleese. It’s an old brade magazine. The Third Wife got two properties. One was in London and one was in New York, and we had to sell the other three.

What’s the difference between a famous singer and a famous comedian? About two hundred million dollars. If you lose your nest egg at seventy, there’s not much alternative to constantly working. I could have married somebody rich. And that is your comedy news for today.

Boy, I bet you can’t wait to hear that Tom Sigoris story. I know you can’t wait. Well, I’m about to read it, but you can’t hear it until tomorrow because I pre tape Saturday. See yep.

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Featured: Tom Segura, Christina Pozitski, Conan O’Brien, Pete Davidson, Jordan Klepper, Bowen Yang, Matt Rogers, Dave Thomas, Brian Cranston

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Netflix series ‘Bad Thoughts’ premiere May 13
• Conan O’Brien receives Mark Twain Prize
• Pete Davidson Axe deodorant commercial and Instagram Q&A
• Jordan Klepper Daily Show special on young Trump voters
• The Lost Culturistas Awards moving to Bravo
• Dave Thomas creating Ukrainian Freedom Fund video campaign

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigor is beginning to promote his new Netflix series Bad Thoughts, and he tells Variety Bad Thoughts as everything, prosthetic, genials can join, twins, deep fakes, and one horrified Peruvian mother. Sigora said, we had to watch a few episodes at a private screening room with hidden cameras. She told me, give the money back.

You can’t air this. I’ll never see my friends again. Bad Thoughts is six episodes. It starts May thirteenth, and it’s described as grotesque, stylized, and brazenly absurd. Variety describes it as black mirror by way of David Cronenberg, if Cronenberg were tripping on mushrooms.

Sgora tells Variety, I always wanted to make movies, and this felt like the first step. I’m trying to be Jordan Peel with penises. It’s interesting how this came together. It started as a few short films that Sigora wrote between tour stops. He pitched them to a director, They did an eleven day shooting.

Then they had enough material to convince Netflix to order the full series. Tom said, I told my wife what we were filming, and she goes, I’ve non here for twenty years and these have been in your head the whole time. The show was produced while Tom Sigora’s wife, Christina Pozitski, was battling cancer. Tom said she was diagnosed in June last year. I told her I’d pause production.

She said, no, go make your show. She was home recovering surgery while I was in full prosthetics acting like a sex crazed mutant. The only note they got from Netflix involved the N word. He also says in South Korea they may have to blur some of the penis shots. Apparently, if it looks too human, it’s a no go.

Brian Cranston almost joined, but Tom says he liked the script, but he didn’t work out. So I just played the part of myself. That’s show bizy, you know. Tom Sagora, Brian Cranston. Bad Thoughts will also compete at the Emmys for Outstanding Short Film, Comedy, Drama or Variety Program.

Bad Thoughts on Netflix May thirteenth, and it’s May already not too far away. This weekend, the Mark Twain Prize Conan O’Brien remember that was the thing that happened. Well, they released a trailer and it’s really strong. Let’s listen. Thank you all for coming, and shame on you for being here.

Conan was like, don’t be cynical, and then collected fifty million dollars. You are the richest underdog in this town. Can you prove that? Not only can you meet your heroes, but when you do, he’ll flirt with your mom. Look, I know this is your knight, but you look like an idiot right now.

You just look at him. You know, the poor bastard never had a chance. I’m a comedian because of you. So after this you’ll be facetiming my parents to apologize. We have five wings here, each hotter than the last.

Oh, this one really saw Yeah, he introduced us to a bear who masturbated through a nightmare. History will show this will have been the most intertaining gathering of the resistance ever. Dam me. David Letterman is still alive today. At four Eastern, Pete Davidson takes over the axe Instagram paid which Pete will host an Axe Me Anything.

I see what you did there? It is a Reddit style ask me Anything. This one focused on confidence and Underdog wins. Pete is also headlining a commercial four acts. It is called short Kings.

In the commercial, Pete Davidson gives a pep talk to a young man insecure about a relationship before spritzing him with his favorite axe sent Pete commented on dating apps, He’s like, it’s just like no, yes, no, it’s so rude, like you don’t even know the person you know. So I really feel bad for this crop of people because I have anxiety, and when I grew up was just flip phones. It was pretty awesome. But the kids today, I don’t even have a shot. So I just hope it changes and other people revert backwards a little bit.

Since Pete is out hawking deodorant, he was asked about deodoran and said, I mean in high school, Axe was a shower. I went to an all boys school and it could be awkward when you’re using the gym, and showering in a school when you’re growing up could be tough. So I always had axe and was just spray it all over and then shower when I got home. Reminds me of growing up and playing basketball outside and having a normal life. My fragrance was Phoenix.

It’s the blue one. I just remember vividly going to CVS with my mom every two to three weeks and getting new bottles. I hate to say this, but it’s kind of how like prime sports drinks are now. Where you collected it was cool to have like four of them on your dresser. There was just something reassuring about it, and you knew that even if you smelled like crap, you’ll be fine if you have it.

So it really brings me back to my childhood. Don’t miss the Axe Me anything. Today at four, Jordan Klepper will do another special for The Daily Show, this one with the really complicated title The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation. Yes there are three colons in that title. In The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation.

Jordan Klepper will dive into the pocket of young voters who turned out for Trump during the election. Klepper’s travels take him everywhere from college campuses to MMA octagons. It is Jordan Clepper’s sixth Daily Show branded special. So you might be saying, well, why don’t they just give the Daily Show to Clupper and you are reminded. Oh yeah, remember he hosted the Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was in the post Daily Show spot at one point.

So I don’t know if he’ll get another at bath there anyway. Clipper’s Mega the Next Generation special Monday May nineteenth, eleven thirty pm on Comedy Central will be on Paramount Plus and The Daily Show YouTube channel the next day. The Lost Culturista’s Awards are getting more serious this year. They’ll be on Bravo. These are the awards given out by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.

The Lost Culturista’s Culture Awards recognized culture’s most iconic and consequential moments of the year through musical performances, special guests, and over one hundred award categories. The awards will be taped in La July seventeenth, will air on Bravo August fifth, I will stream the next day on Peacock. This next story is just fascinating. Dave Thomas from Second City Television remember him now stay with me here. He says that a close call with death in twenty twenty affected his worldview.

He told the Canadian press, I had sepsis and my arms and legs were twice their size. I was in the hospital, I was actually in hospice, and I thought I was basically done. I look back in my life at that time and I thought, you know what, I’ve got no regrets. I had a good run. But he got out and thought, what am I going to do with the rest of my life?

He is seventy five years old. How do I put some meaning into this life before I kick the bucket? So he has headed off to Ukraine. He’s creating a video campaign for the Ukrainian Freedom Fund, a Key based US registered charity run by one of his friends. The Ukrainian Freedom Fund aims to provide non lethal equipment to outgun Ukrainian forces.

Now I love this paragraph from the Canadian press. I’m going to read it verbatim deliberately because I can’t believe they put this all in the one paragraph. Okay, you ready quote. I looked at the situation the Ukraine and I thought, well, this is terrible and I should try to help, says Thomas, whose credits include nineteen ninety three’s Coneheads, the two thousand and one film Orre at Race, and ninety sitcom Grace under Fire. Why did you have to put his credits there?

Anyway? Dave says this might sound cornery, but I hope in some small way what I do might help raise money that I’ll least suffering, maybe remind people that one person can make a difference if you decide to. You can’t make a difference if you try. Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. This from Entertainment Weekly.

I’m not sure. Chloe Feiyeman realizes what words came out of her mouth. Okay, there’s a TikTok video. Chloe Fineman says she was scolded by a rude restaurant manager in New York while exchanging pleasantries with Demi Moore and to me’s dog, pe Laff. Fineman says she walked into an Italian restaurant on Madison Avenue.

A server led to them the table right away. Fineman explains, there’s several empty tables and I sat down. Then I look up and there’s the dog and Demi Moore and I was like, oh, hi, we met once or twice, and I’ve held Peeloff because Peloff was backstage at an SNL show. Fineman’s sister says, and she said hi back.

Also, Chloe continues, the manager sees me, I don’t know, maybe I had no make…

Did I not look legitimate enough for this empty room at the restaurant? And the guy’s like, what are you doing here? Come with me? And I guess I didn’t realize you had to talk to another Italian guy to get a seat, even though there’s like a thousand empty tables. It’s very confused.

And here’s the part where I think she doesn’t realize what words came out of her mouth. Chloe Feineman said, I was a calm down. I’m not nobody. I’m on SNL. Dude, calm down.

Just because you’re on SNL, you’re not in some extra tier. Chloe says. He was like, I don’t care who you are. I treat everybody the same. Yes, good job, mister restaurant guy.

I don’t care that you’re on SNL. We have rules here at the restaurant. Follow the rules. You can be on SNL all you want. You don’t get special class.

Fineman recalled, and I was like, you’re being rude, and he’s like, you’re being rude anyway. I don’t want to get into details. Well, let’s say a personality of mine started to come up that I don’t love. I took myself out of the situation. You could call it a caring moment.

I also call it living in New York and everyone is rude as f somebody sounds a little entitled, but I wasn’t there. I don’t know. And in Philly, where people are even more friendly than they are in New York. It’s Variety Pack, a two weekend festival of Philadelphia’s weirdest all to comedy acts, not just stand up, not just improv, not just sketch, little bit of everything. It kicks off tonight through the third and then again May eighth through the tenth at the Drake Theater.

Producer Chaz Martin says, Philly is full of weirdos. We have incredible stand ups, brilliant improv in an emerging sketch comedy scene, but there’s been a void when it comes to truly wild, out of the box comedy. That space used to belong to the beloved Good Good Comedy, which closed in twenty twenty. Variety Pack is here to bring that spirit back. If you like your comedy weird and unpredictable.

This festival is for you. It kicks off tonight with Have You Seen My House? A Whirlwind cabaret featuring the songs of Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton and Moore. Other shows this week and include Cartoon Club, The Entire Effing Twilight Saga in sixty Minutes and clip Show, a live comedy show hosted by character actresses are Eric Thomas and Chris Newcomer. And yesterday I promised I’d finish off that John Clees article.

He spoke with the Hollywood Reporter. They were curious about the pythons fighting. They’ve seemed to always be fighting, and John said, if you look at the history of most groups, you’ll find there’s always quarrels at some I think we’ve done quite well. What people often don’t understand about a team is that a team is not composed of all people who do the same things well. It’s a group of people who do different things well.

Terry Gilliam, at an early stage, decided he just wanted to direct movies. Eric Iidel didn’t really come forward until the nineteen eighty three is in the Meaning of Life. Because Eric is very, very strong on music, and particularly on lyrics. Michael Palin, who always loved travel, did some travel programs. Terry Jones did all sorts of things.

Graham Chapman was two people. Really. He was Chapman sober, who was an extraordinary good writer and a really fine actor, and Chapman drunk, who wasn’t awfully good in anything and couldn’t remember his lines. Whereas I like comedy and I very much enjoy simple pleasure making audiences laugh, very different people, so inevitably, as we get older and become slightly more authentic, we go in different directions. And that’s your comedy news for today.

See tomorrow

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