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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Sunday. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm just can’t get enough of. All Right.

There was a little kerf fluffel involving BTS. You know, the Korean band that everybody loves. Well. Apparently, Seth Herzog was doing warm up for the Tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon, and Seth came under fire for making an improvised remark during a local taping. Before I tell you what he said, I am going to say something I have said on this podcast.

And I tell my class, if you say something into a microphone enough times, you will eventually say something stupid. You will eventually wish you had freeed something. Differently, it goes with the territory. You’re just riffing and you say something while warming up the audience. Seth Herzog apparently said, anyone here from the North.

The line was apparently intended as a general question about where the audience was from. However, some people thought it was some sort of comment about North Korea in relation to BTS. Who are from South Korea. Audience members took to social media because it’s twenty twenty six and we have to get offended at everything, and they posted describing the remark as offensive and inappropriate. The BTS global fan base immediately got involved with this boy.

I hope they don’t notice this podcast episode and download it and share it on social media. That would be awful. According to TMZ, Seth Herzog later apologized directly to BTS. NBC apparently discussed the incident internally with the comedian again. I’ll remind you what he said.

Anyone here from the North, now, this is interesting. This took place at a special taping at the Guggenheim Museum where BTS performed for a select audience. Then The Tonight Show taped its regular Wednesday night show in studio at Rockefeller Center. BTS was interviewed by Jimmy Follon on that episode. A source tells Late Night Or that Herzog, who usually does warm up, didn’t do the warm up for the second taping and was replaced by comedian Ryan Rice, who is the usual warm up comic for Seth Myers.

It is, of course unclear whether Herzog’s absence was related to the earlier incident or not. As I’m checking TMZ on Friday afternoon, they have asked mister Herzog for comment and so far no word back. Stay on Late Night for second Seth Meyers taking three weeks off. He won’t be back until April twentieth. I mean, what will we all do, all seven hundred of us that watch Late Night with Seth Meyers?

How will we possibly fill the time? Jimmy Fallon is taking two weeks off starting April seventh? This is all weird. We used to not do this. Is this like quiet budget cuts?

Is that what’s happening here? I mean, I know everybody hates j Leto, but the guy worked, and in olden times that Tonight show would have a guest host. Are they really going to run two weeks of reruns on Fallon? Are they going to run three weeks of repeats for Seth Meyers where they display the national anthem and run a test pattern for an hour and probably still get the same viewership? Honesty, very very strange.

Cheryl Hines has responded to those comments from Chelsea Handler. You may recall Chelsea Handler had said on the Dear Chelsea podcast that she had bought an La house from a blind trust. She didn’t know who the owner was and found out that the owners had been Cheryl Hines. An RFK junior. Chelsea Handler had said Cheryl Hines had left her a note after she moved in, urging her to call she needed anything.

Handler said she quickly discovered some issues in the quote unquote toxic house. Cheryl Hines has now said she wasn’t aware of any issues with the house. Cheryl Hines suggested Chelsea Handler is seeking sympathy in attention, especially given the Cheryl Hines is married to Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Hines was on the Tommy Laryn Is Fearless podcast and said, I think, yes, you have to question the timing of it, right, because she bought this house five years ago and she’s just now complaining about it.

She’s also getting a lot of sympathy from people. She’s buying a six million dollar house and talking about how she was duped and that we try to sell our house. That was her word, toxic, which also doesn’t make sense. The story doesn’t really hold water because I did write her a personal note when she moved in, saying how much we love the house, and I hope that she’s a beautiful life in this house. And if you need anything, call me.

And I left my number, So if we were trying to unload a toxic house on her, I would have left my number. I think she’s just trying to get attention. It’s probably fun for her to make fun of Bobby. What are you gonna do? I’ve been sitting on this one for a couple of weeks.

I actually want to get to it. I find the topic really interesting. A few weeks ago, Deadline wrote, as Netflix targets podcasts, comics weigh the risk of leaving YouTube, and I thought there was some really interesting insights in here that I hadn’t come up with on my own, Deadline said. Multiple sources we spoke with several weeks ago suggested that Netflix hasn’t been able to scale its podcast library at the pace some in the industry anticipated. After getting what one called a very quick education on this and other matters.

One agent that’s told Deadline, we’re talking to licensing teams that are used to going to with Sony or Warner Brothers. A soemenity that owns a catalog of content. I think their first expectation was do the same thing. We’re gonna go to the Ringer, iHeart Sirius, and we’re just gonna be able to get a slate of content. A source says the quote price to engage with comedic podcast talent has been quote a lot higher than he believes Netflix expected the quote.

I don’t think they realized just how much money some of these talents are making when there are majority participants in AD supported revenue. One manager said, in an ideal world, you’re baking these comedians into the streamer ecosystems and then you have more opportunities. So I’ll editorialize. Berd Krascher might be an example of that, although his podcast isn’t up there. Alan Abdeen, who’s head of AD revenue and Partnerships at Ymah Studios, that’s the Sigora Christina pea company that I think produces Berd Krascher’s podcast.

He said, a very important core truth of podcasting is you meet your audience where they live. He adds, regardless of how many millions of dollars are being offered, he would never advise talent to take a new captive audience at the expense of alienating the core audience that got you to where you are now, the theory being that risks creating an adversarial and problematic relationship with the community. You’re basically telling your community you’ll watch it, well, I’ll tell you to watch it, versus we’ll meet you where you live. But here’s the big one. This was the big takeaway for me that I had not at all thought of on my own as some sort of podcasting expert.

One executive wondered, specific to comedy, and I think this is a great point. If Netflix feels like they can get your audience every week from your podcast for a relatively low price, are they then going to be incentivized to get your special or these bigger projects from you? Right? So, well, yeah, why should we pay for a special if you’ve got the pawn on every week? Very interesting, this executive said.

It’s something we’re discussing internally in a very coordinated way because we’re cognizant of the potential impact it might have on other pieces of the business and we don’t want to continue to be at a race to the bottom. Today at one thirty pm, University of Tennessee Graduate LeAnn Morgan will return to campus. Why leand Morgan is throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a Lady Ball’s softball game. Fourth rank Tennessee is hosting Old Miss for a three game series this weekend. LeAnn Morgan will throw out the first pitch at Sherry Parker Lee Stadium, game scheduled for one thirty pm.

Leanne Morgan graduated from the University of Tennessee in nineteen ninety two. Gossip site rob Shooters Naughty or Nice said Kelly Rippa has quietly freezed out Howie Mandel. WHOA what happened here? An insider tells naughty but nice, Howie Mandel disrespected her in her house. That’s her show, her audience, her tone, and he bulldozed right through her.

An insider explains Kelly runs a tight Paula ship. She expects guests to play along, keep a light, protect the vibe. That interview did the opposite. Apparently, Howie Mandel pushed back on Kelly Rippa’s comments about his age. The source says She’ll never say your band, but suddenly bookings get tricky, schedules on the line and invites Vin as another insider says Howie won’t be asked back, not after making her uncomfortable on her own set.

A source ads in daytime TV, chemistry is everything now. I wrote about this on my substack link of the show notes about a week ago. I was in a waiting room and was subjected to this program. Now, Kelly’s co host is her husband. They have no chemistry.

I was stunned for a married couple. They have no chemistry. Mark looks like they grabbed a guy off the street and said, hey, we need somebody to co host Live with Kelly this morning. You’re free, and the guy was like, yeah, okay, I’ll do it. It was stunningly lack of chemistry.

So I don’t know what went down here, but if you’re gonna make me pick team Howie, I met Howie once million years ago. I’ve been keeping a note getting older. Now I’m starting to reflect a little bit. I’ve been keeping a note of the people I have met over the years, and every now and then I’m like, oh, yeah, I met so and so. Started a couple of weeks ago, I was just in the car and Bruno Mars came on and I remembered I had met Bruno Morris once.

That was when we had Henry Winkler up. Bit serious. You think I would have taken pictures with these people, but I tried to explain to people the reason you get access is because you know how to behave, so like, you don’t take pictures with these people. I know I met Bruno Mars, I know I met Henry Winkler. I guess if I had a picture, I could throw up on social media and look cool.

But like, it’s just not how you roll anyway, I met how we mentel ones. Melbourne Arts Review suggested some more shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which we talk about a lot. This time. Viria continues until April nineteenth. They like the show Transcendence, which places a side splitting spotlight on the complex love hate relationship of owning a dice and vacuum cleaner love it.

They also like Circus Oz Here, there and Everywhere at Melbourne Town Hall, fresh from their holiday season on forty second Street in New York City. I probably should have gone. Then Circus Oz returns the wonderfully silly cast ricochet between brilliance and nonsense, flanking themselves and anything not nailed down across the stage in a joyous explosion of acrobatics. Here’s the title for you, Skank Sinatra and Dolly Diamond. They’ll be at the Grouse in Room seven, April seventh through the nineteenth Dolly Diamond and Skank Sinatra teaming up for a cabaret catastrophe of epic proportions, and it’s going to be the funniest musical comedy failure you’ve ever seen.

We follow down on their luck cabaret producers Dolly Diamond and Skank Sinatra. I can’t say enough times as they hatch a scheme to save themselves from unpaid Edinburgh fringe tax bills by producing a short fireflop. Is this not just the producers but different when their guaranteed disaster turns out to be a surprise success, Chaos, comedy and show tunes ensue. Expect dazzling costumes, razor sharp banter and musical parodies and Broadway’s biggest hits as these two CAMOI icons do everything in their power not to succeed. Eva Seymour is the understudy at the Motley Warehouse spelled wh E R E h a U S the premise she knows all the line.

She’s memorized every cue. Now she waits for call to tell her. Amy has Gastro exploring the anxiety fueled existence of the professional swing. The other study dives into the desperation, jealousy and gratitude for the gig that fuels the perpetual waiting. But the waiting has consequences.

When you put everything on hold, what do you have left? And Marcel Cole is doing Smile The Story of Charlie Chaplin. After selling out Natalaie and Edinburgh in twenty twenty five, the Fringe sensation about the life of Charlie Chaplin coming to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. There’s mime, music, audience interaction and even a bit of ballet. The show is in the spirit of Charlie Chaplin.

The show with a laugh and maybe a tear. One man physical comedy. That is your comedy news for today. Have an awesome day to see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Saturday. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily Briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves A couple of good jokes from late night. During the week, SETH Meyers said, the Army increased its maximum enlistment age from thirty five to forty two.

One drill instructor said, drop and give me four sets of five. Great joke. Josh Johnson said, that doesn’t sound like the war is over. This is very confusing. Should I or shouldn’t I go to Times Square in my sailor outfit to kiss random women.

Early in the week, the President of the United States deployed ice agents to help with those pesky long TSA lines at the airports. What a nightmare, Kimmel said. Somehow Trump found a way to make the airport even worse than it was. He then asked, what do you think the last time he was even on a commercial flight or in an airport nineteen eighty nine. Good point.

He tagged that with snakes have been on al Lane more recently than Donald Trump. Love it, Kim Will said, one DH official told CBS, I have no idea what we’re doing, and neither does he, so welcome to the club. John Stewart said, Oh, we’re sending Ice agents to calm the situation. It makes perfect sense. It’s kind of like the way we calm our dogs during thunderstorms with a blanket of fireworks.

John. Again, Ice isn’t trained on X rays, No surprise. They don’t really seem to be trained on anything. Actually, did you watch Yankees Opening Day on Netflix? There?

People did. People did not enjoy Bert Krascher at all. No surprise. I had predicted that. We told you last week on Comedy stock Market to sell you Bert.

On The Dan Lebttard Show, Dan said, Bert Krascher can’t annoy people. Bert Krascher on your baseball broadcast is not something I would do if Dennis Miller and Tony Kornheiser don’t work on Monday Night football. A comedian around baseball is just simply not going to work on the broadcast given what the customer base is awful Announcing wrote, Bert Krescher was in a kayak in McCovey Cove because he’s contractually obligated to appear on every live Netflix sporting event, and incredibly, he wasn’t wearing a shirt. Bro Biole come piled some social media reactions. One person wrote, is Bird Krascher the least funny successful comic of all time?

I would have to think about that. I’m gonna say no, you know who I’m gonna say right in case you don’t. Adam Sandler, the great traumatic actor, not funny at all. Another person wrote how much longer do we have to pretend Bird Krascher’s funny? A third I’m always for fun man, but honestly, I ate all this pregame intro tile stuff MLB started doing recently.

I don’t want Bird Krascher yelling in my ear. Bro, please get on with the game. Another person wrote, imagine paying fifty million dollars for MLB and then spending an entire half inning showing Bird Krascher in a kayak. One more. Nothing says MLB opening Night like Bird Krascher’s screaming at you.

My mets are one to Oh that was just a random thing I said in the middle of the comedy podcast. So it turns out Bill Moore is getting the Mark Twain Prize after all. Remember I told the other day, I couldn’t figure out what was real or not. Remember somebody said he was and then the White House said he wasn’t. Well, this is gonna shock you.

The White House may have tried to mislead you. I know, I know you’re like John. The White House doesn’t do that. Well, apparently this one time they did. Bill Maher said in a statement, thank you to the Mark Twain people.

I just had the award explain to me, and apparently it’s like an Emmy, except I win. And that is the kind of humor that makes Bill Maher deserve the Mark Twain Prize. Last year, you may remember, it was Conan O’Brien and it was a bit of a love fest. So we’ll see if Netflix tapes this thing and all the comedians come out and say how awesome Bill Maher is and we get a special out of it, we’ll see. Now.

What I love is all the press coverage I’ve seen about this is talking about how it’s going to take place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. No other alternate name was mentioned. Everybody’s just calling it the Kennedy Center. Good job, everybody.

Now. Earlier in the week, the White House had said this is fake news. Bill Maher will not be getting this award. Now, I don’t know why Carolyn Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, would have said that. Did she believe that Bill Maher would not be getting the award or was she trying to mislead us from the truth.

And if the White House Press Secretary is misleading us from the truth about Bill Maher, what else might she be misleading us about. I’ll leave that to someone else. How many people have just unfollowed the podcast for the rest of you. How you doing well? The New York Times asked the administration about this, and an administration official said this was false reporting at the time of The Atlantic’s reporting, but the situation changed after further conversations took place between the Kennedy Center and event organizers over the past week.

So here’s what I think happened. Somebody out of nowhere made up a crazy, unsubstantial rumor that said, hey, we should give the Mark Twain Prize to Bill Maher. Now, the White House was like, no, we’re not doing that, that’s not true. That’s fake news. Then after they read the fake news, they were like, you know, but if the fake news wasn’t fake.

What if we gave it to Bill Maher. See that’s where the idea came from. It came from the fake news.

And then they’re like, no, that’s actually a good idea.

Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic responded to all this and said the Atlantic reported first and accurately that Bill Maher was going to receive the Mark Twain Prize. The White House’s obfuscation strategy is not effective. Previous winners of the More Twoin award include Conan O’Brien, David Letterman, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, John Stewart, Whoope Goldberg, Bob Newhart. At one point, Bill Cosby, don’t ask questions, just just ignore that one.

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And now Bill Maher, famous comedian, who’s still here.

He’s still here. I’m a little fed. Up with the non sense case you can’t tell. I’m a little fed up. Mark Norman.

He’s avoided of getting canceled twice already. This week he got up with the La Times. They liked the special. He said, appreciate you for watching. Nobody wants to watch anything now.

I’m really excited. The specials a joke. I don’t know every fifteen to twenty seconds. So if you hate a joke, just remember there’s one right after it, and it’s all jokes and a lot of it isn’t even real. So if you get too upset, just realize half the stuff is just made up for the sake of humor.

Just try and enjoy it and don’t yell at me that reminds me. At some point this week, I had this lofty plan that I was going to pull a bunch of clips to show how personally I found the one liner after one liner after one liner to just be fatiguing. And we had a very friendly discussion in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group about this, and I was gonna pull some clips and I just didn’t get to it. While we’re on that subject, I had to run a very unexpected errand on Wednesday afternoon, and that meant my production week got all thrown off. I haven’t had a chance to watch Scrubs yet, so that’s why I haven’t reviewed yet.

So at some point I low the straight what I mean by normand the La Times was curious did they deliberately put the special out on Saint Patrick’s Day? Because Saint Patrick’s Day is a huge thing in New Orleans, and Mark said, oh my god, I wish we had put that much into it, but no, we’re idiots. That was just the day they gave me. And I’m too scared to push back because everybody wants to be on Netflix. Actually recorded my last special on Saint Patti’s Day in Chicago, and that was a huge mistake.

It’s like this weird curse now. Mark went on to say, but New Orleans throws down for sinko to myle Mother’s Day, Ramadan, I mean, we’ll get drunk for any reason.

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Speaking of getting drunk, Nate Pergatzi said he learned an important lesson …

As Nate tells it, Rob told Howard, you think alcoholism is like you’re waking up drinking shots of vodka. I liked when Rob Low said it wasn’t just this extreme thing where you’re like, I’m drinking twenty four hours a day. Nate said, I never drink at home. When I was home, I’d never crack a beer open and have a beer or something. Never in a million.

But it’s like when I was out with friends, I didn’t know how to stop. You just get going, and then it was like it had its own momentum. I heard Rob Low say, it was like this addiction thing to it. You think it’s just driving off a cliff in a car, but it’s like there’s so many levels of it, and you think there’s a person worse than you, and so that’s what makes you think you don’t have something. You don’t have a problem.

I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted to get, alcohol was in the way. He says. These days, food is the one I have now, and that’s the one I’m working on. That’s been the hardest for me to get going, Like the eating. I like fast food, I like all this stuff, and you get stressed and then you end up going to it.

It’s tough. From the Louisville. Courier, they report that Kevin James was spotted at the Krueger. It is unclear why Kevin James was at the Krueger in Shepherdsville. Corporate affairs manager Jessica Sharp tells the Louisville Courier that Kevin James stop by the Kroger on the one hundred block of Adam Shepard Parkway, you know the one, and he was with another comedian.

Now, the Louisville Courier did not share who the other comedian was with Kevin James at the Kruger. Who do you think it was? I don’t know either. We are told Kevin James purchased retisserie Chickens and took photos with fans. A guy named Ricky happened to be there.

Ricky said, Kevin James is a very nice dude. I mentioned earlier. I didn’t get to watch Scrubs yet, so no Scrubs recap yet. Sorry, you were the best I can, but I got to watch Scrubs to review it. I will try and get that in asap.

However, Hailey Fest LA has announced that on Saturday, April eleventh, the Scrubs cast will be there attending our Judy Rayscarla Johns McGinley, doctor Cox, Neil Flynn as the janitor interesting as he doesn’t appear in season one or season ten or whatever we’re calling the reboot, and Christa Miller, who plays Jordan. They will be there at Paley Fest La, moderated by Vanessa Bear. Interesting. Oh, I wanted to tell you my car was almost stolen this morning. Now it wasn’t It wasn’t that scary.

So, as you know, I go to the National Donuts chain every morning and I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. Here’s the remnants right here. And as I’m going in, there’s this nice older gentleman and we pass on the door and he offers to hold the door for. Me, and I’m like, no, I got it, Come on out. And he comes out and we you know, say good morning and all that, and I go in and get my coffee and I come out and I walk back to my car, which I hadn’t locked.

That’s on me, and he’s sitting in my car and I’m like, huh no, this is a nice older man. And I start waving at him and he waves back, and then I’m like, am I crazy? And I checked the license plate. I’m like, nope, this is my car. So I had a knock on the window and be like, sir, this is my car.

He apologized, and then realized his similar car, which was a similar color but not the same make at all, was elsewhere in the parking lot. So he got out and I got in the car, which was not stolen bus thinking, you know, if he had tried to start it with the push button when my keyfob was, you know, halfway between the National Dota chain of the car, he could have stolen my a car. Hannah Gasby caught up with a guardian in Hannah’s free stand up special woof, Hannah is a sock puppet. The guardian was curious why. Hannah said, I got sick of being seen.

Well, okay, there’s a lot of different reasons. I’m a little bit of seeing myself reflected, and there’s a lot of stand up now and it all looks the same. People don’t watch stand up comedy anymore. It’s usually the second or third screen. I understand, second screen, third screen.

All right, so you have Hannah’s on the TV, you got your phone out, you’re scrolling. What would the third screen be doing? I know I’m old, but am I that old? Are you guys doing third screens? Now?

Anna says, it’s going on in the background. So that’s why I did an album. If you’re not gonna watch it, why bother filming the whole thing? Kind of my opinion on video podcasting. Yeah, I’ll tell you what I’m wearing right now, a baseball hat, a fleece and gray sweatpants, and I haven’t shaved yet.

You don’t want to see this? Why would you want to look at that? It’s a guy in a basement reading comedy headlines about Hannah Gadsby’s sock puppet. Nobody needs to see this, Hannah says, in a sock puppet, I wanted something homemade, as we’re entering the era of AI slot, But I feel queasy when I watch that. What the Internet has taught me is we’ll watch anything and it doesn’t have to be high quality.

Oh wait, maybe a. Fifty six year old guy who hasn’t shaved wearing a baseball hat and a fleece and gray sweatpants. Maybe you guys would be like, hey, I’d watch that. I don’t know, Hannah said, So I thought, how about if I make something that anyone could make, sort of like play school. I got into the useful box, so to speak, and cobble together a fairly average sock puppet.

That’s my hand, that’s my sock. The conversation turned to the subject of spoilers. Hannah said, when people get angry at spoilers, I don’t understand them. I think I get more on the story the second time. Anyway, the first time, I’m just tense when everything’s going nicely.

You know, there’s a group of writers going, how can we ruin this? Because we have to watch people’s worlds crumbling all the time. One of my favorite films is get Out. Have you seen get Out? I haven’t, but I think it’s a great film.

I’ve read all about it. I’ve read other people’s think pieces about it. I’ve seen a few clips, and I’m like, this is an amazing film. I have no desire to watch it. Can’t do it?

Uh Oh, I hadn’t read a hand here. Hannah is gonna get canceled here. Apparently, Anna says in Woof that Hannah does not understand Taylor Swift. Whoa, whoa? Whoa?

Are you crazy? Do you know what happened at Joe Coy At one time? He also the Golden Globes. He told a horrible, mean joke and apparently has an eleven million dollar house and can sell out Sofi Stadium. Taylor Swift wrecked his career.

You don’t want to mess with Taylor Swift. Next thing you know, you’re at the Riod Comedy Festival. I’m punching today. I’m having fun. Hanna said, yeah, I’m only able to get swept away.

I look at Fantom in general, and it seems I’m unable to really participate in. I don’t think I’m able to form parasocial relationships. If I haven’t met someone, I failed to form an attachment. Although sometimes I look at a rock and I feel sad, but sometimes they just look sad, which brings us to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which we do in the second half of these podcasts. This time of year.

Hannah’s show is called The Evening Muse, where Hannah acts as a late night host. Hannah was asked who they found was the best late night host. The answer Star Trek Ruder Stephen Colbert. Hanna says, although I did Conan’s podcast and he’s also extraordinary, and I’ll add has never ruined Star Trek. The premise of my tonight show is that I’m profoundly ill equipped to host it tonight show.

I’ve got a suit and an ego, but I can’t talk and listen at the same time very well, which is a really key skill set for interviewing. I’m going to have guests on from the festival and ask them questions from the nineteen eighty one Genius edition of Trivial Pursuit kind of adds archaic trivia really sues me. Now we have access to the Internet and we feel like we have all the information in the world. And I grew up at a time where we didn’t have any information. My brain was trained on a scarcity of information.

You could choose any country to write a project on in high school, and I chose East and West Germany in nineteen ninety four. That’s how up to date our library was. When the Internet first came in, I loved it. But now I feel like I’m being water bordered by information. So I’ve regressed.

And I’m going to wrap there because I got a record Sunday, Monday and Comedy Survivor. This was fun. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there on Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Now today is going to seem like I wanted to just pretape an episode and I didn’t. This is just actually the plan in the news. We’ll get to it in a second.

There are four stories involving comedians and food, and they just paired up nicely. Now I’m the first conceit. It just sounds like the kind of stuff I normally hit on the weekend. But nope, that’s what’s actually going on. And I also wanted to take a look at the Netflix as a Joke Festival lineup after they announced the roast of Kevin Hard.

I was like, let me just click on the line up and see what’s going on. And I’m quite impressed by it. So I just thought we’d take a moment here just look at some of the things that they are promoting. Now I’m a little frustrated for all the clowning I do about the Hulu publicist. Netflix is just impossible to crack.

I even had my publicist try and find someone to talk to about this. Festival, and I can’t get through to anyone. I reached out directly to Robbie Prau, who I know a little bit from just for lass Montreal. Haven’t heard from Robbie yet. Now I did that over LinkedIn.

He doesn’t need a gig, so maybe he’s not on LinkedIn. But I just I can’t crack this one at all. So I’m just on the website here and this thing is mighty impressive. So when you go to Netflix is a jokefest dot com. They’ve got an a twelve slide box at the top.

We already talked about the roast of Kevin Hart hosted by Shane Gillis. Now we haven’t heard a lineup on that yet as I record this, but how could that not be amazing? That’s Sunday, May tenth, the Fly on the Wall podcast with Carve and Spade. They’re doing May sixth with guest Chris Rock. That’s sure to make news.

Nate Brigets he’s playing the Into It Domes that’s where the Clippers play, right May ninth and tenth. I imagine they’ll film that to make that a special. A Night of Too Many Stars hosted by John Stewart. Pretty impressive. Guest list listed alphabetically by last name, Bill Burr, Conan O’Brien, Steve Carell, Ron Funches, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Hattish, Jimmy Kimmel, Lan Morgan, John Mulaney, Bob Odenkirk, Matt Riife, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, Ali Wong, and Noah Wiley.

So, just using my sense of stardom, the one, two, three, four, five, ten, fifteen sixteen. The sixteenth biggest star on that lineup was Lan Morgan. Pretty impressive, That’s what The Hollywood Bowl May seventh, Also the Hollywood Bowl May fourth, Sane Gillis and Friends, Seth Goes Greek Is at the Greek Theater May six the Seth Is Seth Rogan comedy from Eric Andre, Nikki Glaser, Stavros Hokyist, Nick Krol, Sarah Silverman, and Taylor Tomlinson, plus a special comedic performance by Michael Bublay. That’s interesting, John Mulaney. Hollywood Bowl May eighth, under featured artists, not going to read them all, Andrew Santino, Chris Fleming, David Letterman, Wait, Mike from Letterman Podcast?

Did you know about this? This better be Funny with David Letterman special guest John Mulaney. Maybe we did know about this May fifth at the Mantelbon May seventh, your guest is Martin Short, low ticket warning for both, boy, I may have to go out for this, Diane Morgan in conversation with Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker at The Egyptian. She’s kunk love her doctor z, Oh, doctor Z. Do you know this?

He’s doing the totally legally distinct character not at all to be confused with Doctor zais from Planet of the Apes Love Doctor Z Dusty Slay Boy. Should I just camp out in LA for a week? I’m feeling like I should for end of the show. John Marcos SERRESI four shows. We’re only up to g Gaffigan, Jim Jeffries, Cat Williams, Kevin Art Kill, Tony Orcelo Hernandez doing one thing, one thing well, Mark Norman if he’s not canceled by then.

For Biggs, ooh, can we start a war? If John Marco Forbiggs and Millenia or all in town at the same time, how do I get that started? Natalie Palamediu’s boy, I might have to this weekend just sit down and map this out and see if I went and I spend money on tickets, which I’m willing to do. What I guess, see Nikki Glaser, it’s also the it’s not just the flights in the tsams, it’s the hotel in the car as well. Star trek Ruiner, Paton and Oswalt, Robbie Hoffman, Ryan Hamilton, Love Ryan Hamilton, Sam Marrill, Stavros Correll, the B fifty two’s former coworker, French Schnider, Theovaugh TBA Show, Star trek Ruiner, tig NATARO.

Oh, maybe I could turn this whole thing into like a star trek Uh. What would you call that sort of star trek enthusiasm. There’s a good word, star trek enthusiasm tour for me, tig NATARO, Tim Dillon, Todd Barry and Yakov Smirnoff. And believe me, I didn’t read everyone there, all right, I might have to sit down and think about this one. In theaters today.

Jimmy O Yang Special Finally Home. His third comedy special, was taped during a sold out arena run in his hometown of Hong Kong. Self proclaimed as the Taylor swift of Hong Kong Love It. Jimmy O Yang turned his latest special into a full scale homecoming celebration, complete with pyrotechnics, musical moments, and surprise cameos.

Also out today on HBO.

Julio Torrea’s Color Theories that will be on HBO proper at eight East and West. You’ll be able to stream it on HBO Max No Knicks game tonight. Might actually watch these things. Julio Torrea’s Color Theories offers a guide to understanding the world through his playful interpretation of colors. Taking the stage in New York City as an expert on the inherent traits of particular colors, Torres explores the nuances of rule based navy blue to the rage of Red through observations from his life and culture at large.

I thought the material looked pretty good. The trailer as they played it the other day. Somebody, I think, perhaps possibly maybe added some laugh tracks, But I did think the underlying material was pretty good, all right. Some weight loss stories. Jim Gaffigan was on the Glass Half Full podcast.

He was asked if he’s still taking g LP one. Gaffagain at previous said he was on Monjuro. Jim Gaffigan said, I am it’s weird. It’s just something in the background of my life at this point where I’ll definitely take it because I’m still paranoid that I’m gonna feel nauseous. I’m not using it with the expectation of losing more weight.

It’s just I don’t trust my own behavior. Jim Gaffigan said it’s working for him because it cuts off his cravings for any food. He said, that’s where it really works well for me, because I would jokingly say that it made me. It didn’t remove me. It just made me consume like a human as opposed to a dog.

In the morning, would wake up and take our kids to school, and there’d be like four triscuit boxes we meaning mostly mean at his wife. I’d plow through three of them. No one does that, right, So for me, it’s like I hope the miracle drug that people think it is, because if it could suppress compulsive behavior, that would be great. But for me, it makes me behave like a human being, which is amazing. People will come up to me and accused me of being on an appetite suppressant.

They’re like, you’re on Ozepic, admitting you’re an ozempic and I’m like, no, I’m on a different one. I’m on Majuro, which is better, right because it sounds like an Italian restaurant. It’s always good, you know, like the health benefit, I’ll live longer, blah blah blah. But I love it because I feel better, and you know, some of it is I did have the appetite suppressant, so it’s not like I can’t even take pride in it. I was brave enough to stick a needle in the stomach, if you know what I mean.

It’s great, It’s beneficial. Gabe Iglesias said it was scary when he came off Ozempic. He was on Shannon Sharp’s Club Schayeshe podcast, which Dylan in the Facebook group Daily Coming to this podcast group points out might get the best comedian guests of anybody. Gabe said, I got on ozepic for five months. He didn’t say what brand ozepic works.

So zempic is scary. How good it works because it does curb your appetite to a place where you like, do I even need food? I got off the ozepic and I immediately gained back twenty pounds like that. It’s scary how quickly you regain the weight. Gabe says, that is heaviest.

He was four hundred and forty pounds and told Shannon, I really want to lose weight. It’s a serious thing. Shann had said, what if you lose too much weight? Your nickname is Fluffy. Gabe said he had a conversation about that with a radio host, big Boy.

Big Boy lost a lot of weight. Gabe said, hey, man, how did things change for you once you lost all that weight? You weren’t big Boy anymore? And Big Boy said, now, I wasn’t Big Boy anymore, but I was alive and that’s the most important thing. Fluffy says, So if I lose one hundred or whatever the amount of weight is, yeah, it might not be fluffy, but man, I’m gonna be alive, and I think my fans and people would rather see me alive and able to function rather than be the big guy.

Diane Morgan you know her as Kunk. She’s currently on Last One Laughing on Amazon, which you should want. She has embraced a vegan lifestyle and said that has changed her perception of cheese. She used to love cheese and now says cheese smells like socks. Diane Morgan said she was never a big milk drinker anyway, preferring oat milk, and continued, I couldn’t find a decent vegan cheese that I liked.

It all tasted like glue sticks, so I just went cold turkey on it. Then after four weeks, my brain just went out. I don’t like cheese anymore. It’s so I’s like socks, and now I don’t crave it at all. I just love animals, and I do a lot of work for animal charities, and consequently you see videos of the way animals are treated.

A lot of factory farming is horrific. And I was already vegetarian, but when I saw all that and how they’re treated, I just thought, I can’t do this anymore. She credits extra vegetables in the absence of dairy for a noticeable improvement in her complexion. She says, if you’re not eating meat or cheese, you really got to make friends with the vegetable. And I’ll tell you what, My skin’s gotten much better since I went vegan.

It’s definitely clearer. She has some recipes, one cracker involves baking sweet potatoes with grated extra firm tofu, chipotle and paprika. You topped that with a dressing of blended vegan yogurt, sliced tlepanios and lime. She also likes roasted butter beans with olive salt and broccoli finish with a finish with a squeeze of lemon juice. She says they come out like roast potatoes, golden and fluffy, and it’s so easy, healthy and delicious.

Meanwhile, Star trek Ruder Tignataro says she’s been vegan for going on ten years. She was on Laura Clary’s Idiot podcast. Laura said, it’s exciting you don’t meet a lot of vegans. I feel like people hate vegans. They hate me, Laura, because I like carrots.

It’s so strange. Star trek Runer Tignatura said, it’s a funny thing that you talk to eat your vegetables and then when you do, you’re a freak. Comedy stock Mark thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every week on the Comedy stock Marker, we look to find value in comedians. We buy low and we sell high.

And this week’s weird I only have one recommendation for us all. I don’t like to force the segment, but I looked at this and I’m not feeling strong about anything, but I think we might want to cash out on Mark Norman. Those specials come and gone, and he got in trouble twice this week. Maybe I’m a little paranoid, but I feel like we got our value out of Mark Norman and maybe we ought to sell our Mark Norman right now and just kind of lay low. I might be wrong there, but that’s my only recommendation this week.

Sell Mark Norman. That’s your comedy stock market boy. I have so many leftovers. It took a long time to go through that Netflix stuff. Let’s skip Melbourne for a day, just because I talk comedy vessels for so long.

In the front half Margaret Show, She’ll be at the Englert Theater tonight. You can expect her to be political, she says, that’s just who I am. How can I not touch on what’s happening today? What we’re living with is like science fiction. We’re living in this dystopian era, but with no flying cars or jetpacks.

Were at war. It’s very turbula with this administration. I would love it if Kamala would run again. I’d love it if Gavin Newsom would run. He has some of that zombie blood.

He’s fearal and angry. We need someone who has that. She also gets personal during the show. She says, I’m talking a lot about my life. I’m talking about my ever changing body and how it relates to the news of the day.

I talk but getting older and feeling different. I’m going through metopause. You understand who you are as a person. It’s a good realization. I’m excited to talk about it.

Oh and let’s clear this one out. Joe Coy. You remember him one time he hosted the Golden Globes untild a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. Do you know the joke? You don’t know?

You play it for you? Do you? He’s selling his place. It’s a Las Vegas mansion. It’s on the market for eleven point twenty five million dollars.

I don’t have that kind of coin. My son’s trying to get me to buy one of these NBA expansion teams. Joekoy’s home has a tree trunk shaped staircase, a brutalist style exterior, and an infinity pool. Jokoy bought the place in twenty twenty three. Built in twenty eleven, the can’t delivered home is made of concrete, with geometric wired mesh covering the top part of the house, giving it a distinct look that’s well known in the area.

The main level is a bright, open planned space that includes a living room, dining aeran kitchen. From there, a spiral staircase with a tree trunk like enclosure leads down to the lower level, which is designed to be darker and moodier. The lower level has a full bar, a sitting area, and a wine cellar and tasting room with an expose stone wall. The lower level leads out to one of the homes courtyards with seating, a water feature in an outdoor shower. A different staircase connects the main level to the upstairs four bedrooms, including a large primary suite where the bedroom and bathrooms share an open space.

A guesthouse adds two more bedrooms, plus a lounge with a bar. There’s also a rooftop deck with a fire feature, a bar, and views overlooking the golf course and surrounding desert and mountains. Joe Cooy’s place if you want to buy it eleven point two five million dollars. Maybe you can get a good mortgage rate. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Comedians of the comedy industry has said it’s the algorithm loves your big headline that gets the attention. Mark Norman is second controversy of the week. The headline Netflix source disputes Mark norman claim that an exec called Muslim’s dangerous people. So in the now deleted take of this podcast, I started to read the transcript and I’m like, you know what, let me let Mark Norman speak for himself. This is from episode six forty eight of the Tuesdays with Stories podcast.

Let’s listen to part one. They said, send us a couple jokes you like. We’ll chop them up and use that as promo on social media. So so I go, oh, no problem. I like this joke.

I like this joke. I like this joke. And I said, great, they come back in a week. We got to do a conference call, and I go, oh, that’s not good. I hate a conference call.

There’s eighteen jews on there with a speakerphone and my Jews and they go, well, yeah, we got some bad news there. We reviewed the special again. We’d like to take out the Muslim joke. I got a big joke about Muslims. And I go, oh why, and they go, well, last time a comic did a Muslim joke, we got bomb threats, we got death threats.

They’d said they were gonna kill us. They ruined the whole studio, blow the place up to smithereens. So we’d like to not use the Muslim joke. And I go wha. I like the joke, it kills it’s a hot joke, and you know, no one touches muzz Okay.

I let Mark and Netflix speak for themselves. But then Mark continued with this, which got an eyebrow out of me. Well, I’m on the call, like, oh, I thought this was gonna be like we’re cutting your money, we’re taking this special, Dad, we don’t like you don’t stop stop writing as letters. But they were like, we want to take out the Muslim joke, and they’re very whole special, not just the clip. Well that’s what I thought, So I was like, I’ve got to fight for the joke.

Here folks. You approved it. Now you’re going back. And they’re like, well, okay, we’ll keep it in the hour, but we got to get it off socials. And I said why, what’s the difference and they go, well, socials is where all the shit starts.

You go push it on the internet. That’s where the fire fucking pick up, the pilon, the retweets, the sharing. You can’t comment on a TV screen, you know. So they’re like, well, we gotta take it off. So that’s a that’s a no brainer.

And I was like, okay, okay, I don’t love it, but okay, I will take it off on one condition. And they said, all right, what do you want to hear? What do you want? And I go, I want you to admit on this call that they are dangerous people. Oh And they were like what no, what are you crazy?

And I’m like, you gotta admit it or I’m keeping it or I’m posting it. I mean, I’m half joking. But they were like, ah, you can hear like a in the back, like a horse was walking through and I was like that’s all I need and they go, well, we’re not going to do that, and I’m like, why not? They go, well, that’s offensive, and I go, that’s what the call is. You’re calling about this and I just need you to say it out loud.

A source to the hollerd Reporter strongly denies most components of Mark Norman’s story. You just heard it. I’ll let you decide how serious or not Mark was. But the source said we advised him that were a global company and to be careful with the clips and jokes he used to promote the special on his own social channels. The source says the idea that a Netflix executive would portray Muslims as a dangerous thread on a conference call, let alone verbally agree with Norman that they’re a dangerous people is quote not true, not correct, completely false.

The source says Mark Norman wasn’t even on the call, only his reps, so the idea of a back and forth dialogue between Mark Norman and the executives didn’t happen. They say it’s an embellishment.

Meanwhile, Vince Vaughan making headline.

Vince Vaughn was on THEO Vaughan’s this past weekend. He criticized late night programs for becoming the same show and saying that they are really agenda based. Here’s a lung ish clip from Vince Vaughn. Why a lot of the late shows have struggled because all they did during life, all they did. The only person they can make fun of it at a certain point was just like white redneck kind of people.

And then everything tanked after that. Think about that this is but see they never get it right. The podcasts have gotten so much more popular with less production, less riders left staff. Two people working here and both of them are hung over. The one guy is shingles, but the place is clean.

I like that you keep a clean plank. Yeah, we did vacuum. But but yeah, because people want authenticity. Yeah, and I think that the talk shows to a large part became really agenda based. Yeah.

They were gonna evangelical people to what they thought, you know what I mean, And so people just rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda being funny, and it started feeling like I was in class. I didn’t want to take Yeah, do you know what I mean? I’ve been scolded one hundred percent, Yeah, one hundred percent. And so I think that’s the phenomenon, isn’t what they say they always blame technology, but the reality is it’s the approach.

You know, someone could go watch a stand up at Madison Square Garden and they want to go because it feels dangerous. The crowd is alive, I don’t know what theo is going to do or say, and I love taking that experience so it’s fun. I don’t want to stay home and watch it on a TV because I want to experience that live, right, So when it cares where you’re coming from, that’s the that’s the main point. And I think people are going to tune into a podcast more so because they want to feel like people are having a real conversation. It’s interesting to them.

But if you look at what happened to the talk shows and why their ratings are low, it’s got only to do with the fact of what you just said, which is they all became the same show, and they all became so about their politics and who’s good and who’s bad. And it’s like, imagine sitting next to someone like that on a plane. Oh bro, you’d be like, how do I get out of this? Probably fart right next to cow. You fart your way out of that.

Now, if you listen every day. You know, the President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one of the issues we’re aligned on is that Stephen Colbert has to go. It is the right move that CBS has taken his late night show away from him and now taking Star Trek away from him. That’s right. CBS has canceled Starfleet Academy, in which star trek Ruiner Stephen Colbert was the voice of the computer.

That means fellow star trek Ruiner Tignatoro and fellow star trek Ruiner Genius Sheer are out of a gig. Good. Now I have bad news for Lord of the Rings fans star trek Ruiner Stephen Colbert soon to be Lord of the Rings ruiner. This is not getting a good reaction on social media. The headline a new Lord of the Rings movie is in development from Stephen Colbert and his son.

Does anything about that sentence make you go oh, I can’t wait for the new Lord of the Rings movie developed by Stephen Colbert. The announcement came from Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, giving an update about the next film in the franchise, that will be Andy Serkis’s The Hunt for Gollum, Jackson said, and he’s doing a terrific job. It’s looking amazing. The Hunter Forgllum will be out in twenty twenty seven. Jackson then teased that his very special partner who will help develop the next film after The Hunt for Gollum, Stephen Colbert.

This film currently titled The Lord of the Rings Shadows of the Past. The plots of Shadows of the Past will come from chapters of the Fellowship of the Ring that did not make it into Peter Jackson’s two thousand and one adaptation. Colbert told Jackson, you know what the books mean to me and what your films mean to me. But the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in The Fellowship of the Ring that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day. It’s basically the chapter three is Company chapter three through fog on the Barrow Downs chapter eight, And I thought, oh wait, maybe this could be its own story.

They could fit into the larger story. Could we make something that was completely faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made. Now that all sounds good, but I’ll remind you that Stephen Colbert took part in Starfleet Academy. He’s a star trek Ruiner. I don’t trust him with the keys to Lord of the Rings the official log line.

Fourteen years after the passing of fro Do, Sam, Mary and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure.

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Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter Eleanor has discovered a long buried secret and is …

Good luck Lord of the Rings fans.

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Meanwhile, snl UK apparently is costing around two point six million dollars …

SNLUK hired the largest studio in Central London’s Television Center on a standing exclusive basis for the entirety of its eight week run, meaning the cast and crew don’t share the space will have any other production. Graham Norton on the premiere pointed out that the ten thousand and eight unit square foot TC one is uly home to the Graham Norton Show. The exclusivity means the cast and crew aren’t sharing the space when let any other production, nor did they have to dissemble the sets and clear out the offices and all that in between episodes. SNLUK was originally going to get six episodes, they decided to make it eight. An episode of SNL USA goes from around four million dollars.

A typical British sketch show usually costs around five hundred thousand pounds. One expert said they’re expensive, which is why no one does them anymore. Topical shows also have no repeatability on like dramas. The Innaral episode got two hundred and twenty six thousand viewers, a number called respectable.

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Meanwhile, in the US, there’s a new short form series from SNL called The Run…

The Rundown streams on Peacock YouTube and SNL social channels, and it asks current and former cast members to choose their favorite sketches and musical performances to build a fantasy episode. Episode one is Colin Jost. He explains the cold open for SNL is often truly cold because after a warm up comic, the like ten minutes of jazz from the in house band, and the show waits to go Live at eleven thirty says you’re going from an ice cold vibe in here, and if you’re good as a performer and good as a writer and being able to get that audience laughing early on, it’s a feat. His choice for The Rundown is season thirty four is opening with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler playing Sarah Palin and Katie Kirk in a parody of the CBS News interview between the two seth Myers wrote that sketch episodes of the Rundown debut on Wednesdays when SNL is off, which is this week. SNL’s next live episode is scheduled for April fourth, Jack Black hosts Jack White, musical guest Love It.

Last One Laughing UK is back. If you haven’t watched it, start with season one, which was hilarious. If you don’t know what Last One Laughing is, a bunch of comedians get locked in a room. Jimmy Carters, your host, and the comedians try to make each other laugh. If you laugh, you’re out.

It’s fun because A it’s funny, and B you can play along at home and try not to break while you’re sitting on your couch. Vulture said, it’s arguably a game show about comedy comedians, but mostly it’s a show about walking away from people mid conversation, light society. It’s one of the rudest things you can do, but in last one laughing it’s a necessity. This season’s cast includes David Mitchell, you know him from Peep Show and Mitchell and Webb of course, also Diane Morgan you know she plays Filhemina Kunk in the various Counk documentaries. By the time you’re hearing this, there should be five episodes out and the finale will drop on April second.

Tim Dillon has a suggestion for the long TSA lines On his podcast, Tim said, you want to hear a solution, stop screening them. Get on the effing plane. Whatever happens happens. Get on the effing plane. If you want to go to Phoenix that much, just get on the effing plane.

Who cares the cockpit door’s closed? Who gives a hoot? Paraphrasing a couple people might have a bomb. You want to wait in line for an hour? Do you want a chlorine bomb to go off an hour outside of Orlando?

It doesn’t matter. Just get on the plane. Stop traveling. I don’t know what to tell you. People, Find a place you like and stay there for a minute.

If you’re really into comedy, check out the podcast Louis Thurreux. He has Stuart Lee, a comedian, as his guest. They get deep into the weeds. I really enjoyed that conversation. As I talked about it earlier, I’m very excited that Starfleet Academy has been canceled.

For the first time in many years, no Star Trek is in production. Now. As a Star Trek fan, you would think like, oh, doesn’t that make you sad. No, it makes me happy because the people who have been in charge have done nothing but destroy Star Trek, and I’d rather have no Star Trek than canon busting Star Trek. I’ll just sit with the seven hundred hours that existed through the end of the Enterprise series and ignore the rest.

Glad it’s gone. This has nothing to do with comedy. This week is the fortieth anniversary of the Van Halen album fifty one to fifty Boy. Forty years goes fast. As I wrote in my substack link in the show notes, I feel like it was maybe not yesterday, but not too long ago.

I went to the Numbers record store in my hometown, popped to the fifty one to fifty into my cassette. Walkman was listening to it on the way home. Stopped off at Tommy’s Pizza. Got a slice Back in the old days when like you could order slice through the window. Are you from New York City?

You know what I’m talking about. Yeah, they would open the window, you didn’t have to go in. You get a slice through the window. Great. Whatever happened to that?

And when I was at Tommy’s Pizza, I realized I had already lost the cassette box to fifty one to fifty. I retraced my steps, couldn’t find it. Still bothers me forty years later A great album wrote about it today in the sub stack. Hannah Burner and Page Desorbo. You may know them from their Gigly Squad podcast.

They’re working with Netflix. Netflix is developing a half hour scripted comedy co written in headlined by the best Friends, produced by Amy Poehler, sat in New York City. Untitled Hannah and Page Project stars the two as fictionalized versions of themselves as they become the ultimate writer dies, helping each other shed their baggage and emerges the people they’ve always wanted to be that will probably do well. Eliza Seleznger is teaming up with Jeep again. The new ad campaign is called The Real deal Ership.

Eliza Slesinger takes on her now official role as the brand’s Chief Family Officer. She steps into a dealership setting where she interacts with customers, showcases features, and injects her signature humor into the experience. Eliza said, everyone loves a good sequel, especially me if I’m the one starring in it. At least that’s honest.

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The real question is why I posted this story five times into my script. I don’t remember doing that. Bert Krescher, you’ never hear about him, Well he will The Laughing on the Lake Comedy Festival, which debuts May sixteenth at the ozarks Amphitheater. The Laughing on the Lake Comedy Festival, headline by Burt Krescher would also feature performances by Kathleen Madigan, Rory Scovel, Chris Porter and Shane Torres. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is underway.

Arts Hub tells us this year the festival’s pilot program showcases two different up and coming young Australian comedians each week of the festival at the work friendly time of five twenty pm, but on Sundays for twenty for some reason. Arts Hub Performing Arts editor Richard Watts suggests twelve shows that caught his eye and the lead up to the festival. We’ll go quick here. Alex Eins and Sarah Stafford’s Birds two women in swimwear and over the top makeup and Wiggs pose at the beach, one of them as a alled eagle toy perched on her leather gloved wrist like a hunting falcon. Sounds fun.

Anissa and Nondula’s No Small Talk promises, no filters, no small talk, just big laughs. We don’t know too much about that other than she was born in Uganda. Casey Phillips, what a character, We’re told. Casey Phillips doesn’t just play characters, He shape ships through them and makes you forget it’s the same person on stage. Elf Lyons show is called Swan We’re told, if you ever wanted to see somebody mercilesully and hilariously mock ballet, especially Swan Lake, this is the show for you.

Gary Starr’s show is called Classic Penguins. Something something dressed up where a lower torso and legs are those of a penguin sounds fun James Barr’s show is called Sorry I Hurt Your Son. We’re reminded intimate partner violence isn’t funny, but apparently this show is. Or explains that he’s chosen to tell his story of abuse because silence is traumatizing, and he helps that and telling his story he can help others speak out if they too are suffering domestic abuse in silence. I think that’s six.

I’ll save the rest for tomorrow. But I don’t want to go out on that one, so I’ll tell you that. Langston Kerrman has joined the cast of NBC’s currently untitled comedy. Langston Kerman plays Justin Royle, described as a great, big teddy bear of a man. He works as a PI at an agency run by his father, Julius Royal.

Okay, so we have two people called Royal. So this is going to be called something like The Royal Family, except I think that was a Red Fox show, so they probably won’t use that exact title, but it’s clearly going to be Royal something. Julius Royle, played by Keith David is a tough guy with somewhat antiquated views of the world justin That’s Langston’s character is the main investigator at the agency, alongside Mickey. Who’s Mickey? Good question.

I should have continued reading the sentence. I would have told you Mickey played by Jake Johnson, not Josh Johnson. Jake Johnson is a smart, cynical and heartbroken but trying to pretend he’s not. I misread that in my brain and I was like, Josh Johnson, I don’t know who Jake Johnson is. I’m sure he’s lovely.

Let’s look him up. Jake Johnson is an American actor. He has starred as Nick Miller in A New Girl. Oh that guy. All right, my daughter’s gonna like that show.

Then all NBC will tell us is it continues the proud tradition of la Private Eye that began with Philip Marlow, and we’ll end with this show. Good line there, and that is your Comedy News for Today, Mark Norman, Try and stay out of trouble for more than five minutes this week. What are you doing all right? See you guys. Oh, it’s Comedy Survivor.

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Kalaroga Shock Media, A Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the Algorithm’s love but I cannot remember. Tony Hinchcliff will bring Kill Tony to WrestleMania. Yeah. The WWE, in partnership with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, will team up with Kill Tony WrestleMania Live in Las Vegas April eighteenth, following the conclusion of Night one of WrestleMania forty two.

Kill Tony wrestle Media will feature a lineup consisting of Tony Hinchcliff, some current WWE superstars and WWE legends, well known comedians, and surprise guests. Who do you think will come? This should be fun. Ari Shafira is announced he’ll be ending his long time storytelling show. At one point, it was on Comedy Central and called This Is Not Happening.

It’s been called a few things over the years. The new version will be called The End. Seven episodes. It’ll be available on Tom Sagor and Christina Pea’s y m H Studios beginning April sixteenth. Will run you twenty five bucks.

By the way, interesting phrasing here. The end features performances from Shane Gillis, Naperghezzi, Tom Sagor, Tony Hinchcliff, and then we’re told others participating include Jim Brewer, Christa Stefano, Jordan Jensen, Robert Kelly, Joe List, Mark Norman Big, Jay Ogerson, Alisadik, Dan Soder, Sam Talon, Steph Tolev Roywood Junior, and a bunch of others. In a statement to Deadline, Tom Sagora said Ari has been an incredible partner to work with, and anyone has been around comedy long enough knows what these storytelling shows have meant to the community. This is a hell of a way to close that chapter. Ur Shafer told Deadline, my Storyteller show helped introduce people to so many millionaire comics who now buy me meals.

As many of you know, I love money, so I was worried about spending all of mine and make the show again. Ari Shaffer then added, and I’m quoting directly here, but then my Peruvian minority friend Tom Sagora, who’s more of a jewel than I ever was. That is why mh Miss greants to help me and my guys make it great. The comedians on the show all killed all the episodes came out, so sick I decided to bypass all the normal streaming services deliver it directly to the fans who matter most people with twenty five dollars. That way, I can afford to pay for Tom’s lunch for change, even though he’s at Arexic now and mostly eats radishes.

This all started in February of twenty ten is Ari Shaffer’s Storytelling Show. Then it became This Is Not Happening five seasons on Comedy Central. Ari brought it back as Ari Shafir’s renamed Storytelling Show, and now the end come on on. Jianni will join the cast of The White Lotus for season four. Character and plot details under wraps.

Season four takes place in France. Jason Momoa and Mack Packer Andy Samberg are teaming up for comedy called Protecting Jared. In Protecting Jared, Jason Momoa plays William, a Hawaiian security guard who gets pulled into a dangerous situation when a tech billionaire named Jared becomes the target of a kidnapping plot. Andy Samberg plays billionaire Bill Cosby in the news. A jury in California has ordered Bill Cosby to pay nineteen point twenty five million dollars in damages to a former waitress.

The courts have found that Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her while taking her one of his shows more than five decades ago. The woman said Bill Cosby gave her wine and a pill that left her incapacitated after picking her up at her home in a limousine in nineteen seventy two. Bill Cosby, who is eighty eight now, has denied the allegations, along with similar claims in a string of civil and criminal cases filed by dozens of women. I just went into my colin Joe’s delivery there at the end there, did you hear that? And I have no voice.

I don’t know, I have no voice. I haven’t recorded anything yet. Cosby was freed from prison in twenty twenty one after three years. That was for a sentence for a sex assault. His conviction was thrown out on a technicality.

Someday I will tell you guys a story about Bill Cosby on this very program, but not while he’s alive. The La Times, she reviewed Gabe Iglesias and Joe Cooy’s Big show with Sofi Stadium the other night. They tell us. The show started at seven pm. Opening acts included Matt Golightly, Joey, Julia, Alfred Roblez and Martin Morino.

Then Jeff Dunham got the crowd warmed up. They all did about an hour before, not an hour each, you know, an hour total before Gabe took the stage first, interesting Joe Koy following Gabe Iglesias. Was almost eight o’clock when Gabe emerged, following a video skit playing on the screens that I guess followed Gabe’s misadventures at a routine donut run at Randy’s Donuts that turned into the plot of These Sons of Anarchy spin off main Z MC. Then a cloud of smoke and Gabe made his entrance in a white flat cap and a custom LA button up. He said, thank you for being here.

All I have to say is we did it. Gabe weaved stories about his travels all over the world, including the ri Odd Comedy Festival, which does not seem to have damaged his career at all. Gabe shouted out. Joe Coy said Joe, I know you’re in the back. Thank you for trusting me.

Man. We did it, brother, and I’ll say it in front of an entire stadium. Will love you. Things like this for me is a huge deal because it inspired me and gave me another reason to keep doing what I’m doing. And tomorrow I’m going to be the same situation I was in after Dodger Stadium.

What am I gonna do now? But until then, I’m gonna enjoy the hell out of to night and I still have more stories to share with you. Gabe told his fans, and apparently this is true that his name is mentioned in the Epstein Files. He explained, I’ve never been to the island, I’ve never been on the plane, and I have never met Jeffrey Epstein. According to Gabe, he mentioned in the Epstein Files is because Jeffrey Epstein tried to buy tickets to Gabe’s show at a nambrov And West Palm in twenty fourteen, but was told by his assistant via email that both shows were sold out.

Gabe explained, Jeffrey Epstein one of the most diabolical human beings to ever walk the face of the earth. He had the ability to connect with politicians, with influencers, with celebrities. He put people in very compromising positions. He got people on planes, he put people on islands, he was involved in trafficking. He was able to accomplish all these evil, crazy things.

But at the end of the day he still couldn’t get tickets to see my show. Then an intermission and Joe Coy came out. There were more warm upsets. Do we need all this this deep into a show? One of the warm upsets from quote TikTok Skit Mass King Bach.

I’m unfamiliar with TikTok Skitmaster at King Boch, but I’m sure King Bok is awesome, and also Tiffany Hattish. The La Times tells us Joe Coy showed up undercover dressed as one of the Jabbawakees, who, as you know, are the legendary masked hip hop dance troupe. They danced on stage to a medley of West Coast hip hop, dressed in red with acrobatic swagger, says The La Times. At the end of a dancer team, Joe Koy unmasked himself as one of the dancers that got the crowd going Joe Coy one time hosted the Golden Globes until they horrible mean joke about Taylor. Swift said, this place is full all the way to the top, people laughing and having a good time.

I know there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world right now, but guess what we don’t want to hear right now. We came to have a good bleeping time. I’m not here to debate stuff. Everything they said wasn’t supposed to happen happened. Look around every bleeping color of the rainbows in Sofi Stadium tonight.

Then my former co worker Jamie Fox showed up. He sang the hook of Kanye West’s gold Digger. Interesting, Bill Maher either was or wasn’t going to get the Kennedy Center Award. I’m still trying to figure out what actually went down here. The Atlantic said sources familiar with the process that Bill Maher was chosen by the Kennedy Center’s honors committee.

However, the Kennedy Center had not officially announced the recipient. Bill Maher had not publicly acknowledged his selection. The Daily Beast contacted the White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt said this is fake News, Bill Maher will not be getting this award. Who do you think they’re going to give the I mean, do the Trump people get to pick the Mark Twain Prize? Now?

Who are they going to pick? Is it going to be like Rob Schneider or somebody like that. It’s going to be amazing, can’t wait. Did you see last week the Japanese Prime Minister was over at the White House and Donald Trump made a little joke there quoting Bill Maher, He was in the Oval Office with the Prime Minister of Japan and he was talking about a strike in Iran, and he said, we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted it to be a surprise. Who knows better about a surprise attack than Japan?

Now, Bill Mooer, I think fairly points out, is it right to say that? No, But if Shane Gillis said it, you’d laugh. I think that’s very fair. And just in case you want to feel a million years old, the article I’m cribbing off reminds everyone that the President was invoking the December seventh, nineteen forty one bombing of Pearl Harbor, the event that led the US to enter World War two. Just in case, you didn’t know what Trump was referencing?

Are we that old? Kicking off today, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the world’s largest dedicated comedy festival, celebrates its fortieth year. You’re a long time listener to this show, you know we’ll be diving in and out of this. I find interesting to see what else is going on in comedy around the world. The Melbourn International Comedy Festival almost seven hundred shows, thousands of performances across more than one hundred and thirty venues.

The folks over at boss Hunting pointed out some of the shows you can go see between now and April nineteenth. See what they’re recommending. One of them, Daniel Slass is Bitter. Bitter is Daniel’s thirteenth solo show. So these are you know, the hours you go and you do a storytelling thing for an hour and you throw it out and the international comedians tend to do one of these every single year.

Boss Hunting says it will be one of the hardest tickets to secure at the festival. It will sell out. They also like Josh Thomas Jiggle Jiggle. They write there’s a version of the festival that doesn’t include Josh Thomas, but no one remembers what it looks like because Thomas started doing stand up more than two decades ago. His particular talent is kind of a wide eyed, slightly manic sincerity that translates just as well to stand up as it does to TV.

One of those rare comedians who make vulnerability feel equal parts effortless and amusing. He’s doing shows all the way to April nineteenth. They also like Hannah Gatsby’s The Evening Muse. He probably know Hannah’s name. The Evening Muse is a live talk show serving up different content each night of the week and invites audiences to join Hannah on a mission to reconnect with the world.

Shows through April nineteenth. Will Anderson’s what You’re talking about? Will no script, no recordings every night, promising a different show that’s been tailored for the audience in the room. That’s aggressive. If you’re doing shows all the way to April nineteenth, wow, they tell us.

Rizilla Carlson is one of Australia New Zealand’s biggest comedy stars. In twenty twenty five, she won the People’s Choice Award for most tickets sold for Artable fourth time she won that in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. She delivers what she promises sharp deadban unpretentiously funny material about the experience of not quite fitting in anywhere. Her new show Fatty on a Yacht great title is for anyone who’s had the experience of not fitting in, standing out, or laughing at about it anyway. She’s doing shows April seventh through the nineteenth.

Tom Gleeson show is called out of Touch. In Out of Touch, Tom Gleeson carefully cultivates his reputation to someone with natural disdain for the public, showcasing exactly why he’s one of the rare comedians who’s actually funnier live than he is on TV. Sam Jay out of the United States of America, You know Sam Jay. Samjay’s show is We the People. Sam Jay got a Best Show nomination from the Edinburgh Fringe.

We the People explores how a woman who never truly felt part of her country grapples with its certain demise. The Melbourne Art sub wants us to focus on the improv comedians. Casey Flip’s show is called Virtuoso. Casey said the whole idea was just to get in front of the audience and see how far we could stretch the characters and what direction the audience wanted them to go in. The audience is sort of alive director.

We record all the shows, and any lines that come out naturally, we can go back and say, that was a great moment. Let’s see if we can reconstruct that moment in an organic way. That’s how you learn what the show’s about in the patterns of the show. Usually I think I’ve got a good idea, but it’s never as good as what it is when the audience is giving you feedback. Where you thought was gonna get a big laugh could get a giggle, and it turns in a flop, but then you save it with the joke, and that turns into the actual joke use for the whole season.

Y element of discovering is what excites me the most. Casey Flips describes the best improv as achieving something like a flow state, explaining, if I’m a bit tired or not on top of my game, I start to lead the audience at a certain direction. When I’m well rested and feeling good, you’re so open. That’s the sort of improv I’ve always like watching. It’s genuinely spontaneous, can go in any direction.

I’m feeling that right now. Can you hear I don’t have my good fastball. I have stopped this recording seven times to yell at the dogs. The dogs are quiet all morning, and I came down here to record, and it’s bark time. Isabella vlt is doing an improvised cabaret comedy show and explains audience members vote by a QR code from a menu of different historic errors, in which everyone wins.

The popular vote becomes the error that has performed that night. That’s fun. From there, Villlett will improvise characters and songs around key historical events based on audience suggestions. Plus the live band improvises a score of era appropriate instruments. This sounds amazing, Isabella Vilette says, I realized I was most inspired by genre and history.

Those type of audience suggestions opened up a really exciting world for me, as someone who’s always been a huge fan of history and mythology. I wondered how I could kind of incorporate that more to the show, and that’s where the idea of Cabaret Time machine was born. Love it. Ben Russell explains improv as being comfortable being an idiot, which goes against everything we do in the real world. The average person thinks about what they say and doesn’t want to make a fool themselves.

That’s not what improv is about. At Second City, I got to learn all about the structure of sketch, which is very similar to the structure of jokes. Second City is more improv for writing. Through play, you can find things that you can use. If you come up with a great idea at an improv show, there’s no reason you can’t develop that.

What I learned there and what I still preach today when I teach classes is the use of repetition and finding patterns. That’s oversimplifying, but you could argue that comment is effectively just rhythm and pattern, which reminds me of that one time Joe Coy, host of The Golden Globes, Russell said, I liked that it’s sort of this ugly steps on to stand up. I love improv because it’s so low stakes. If you do a good show, nobody remembers it, and if you do a bad show, nobody remembers it. Just kind of ephemeral.

Hanna Camilarry says, instead of writing a fifty minute show, I write a forty minute show so I could follow my nose, much like training had taught me. In last year’s show what I’m going for, she would invite an audience member up on stage for thirty minutes. Improv taught me that everything I need I already have. Sappy but true. You can arrive on stage without preparation and you are enough.

The Melbourne International Comedy Festival will be talking about that a lot in That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Assent. It’s the Algorithms Love. We’ll talk about snl UK in the second half, because you got a lot to talk about.

There are a bunch of fights, and Johnny Mack likes fights. But before we even get to the fights, we’ll start with some big news. The Roast of Kevin Hart will be part of the Netflix Comedy Festival and the host will be Shane Gillis. Do I have your attention? Yeah?

Live on Netflix eight pm Eastern and Sunday, May tenth. That’s in La, So five La time. Thinking about going out there, But if I go out there, I also want to see Flight of the Concords, which is the exact same time. Plus the airports are a mess, I might just stay home. I Digress, hosted by Shane Gillis.

May tenth is the final night of the Netflix As a Joke Festival. It’ll be the Kia Forum in l and the’s a lot of heavy hitters in town for the festival. Plus it’s La to begin with. I can’t imagine somebody like Nicky Glazer won’t do it or Tony Hinchcliff again, It’ll probably be the same people. And I’ll remind you at the roast of Tom Brady, Kevin Hart was really good.

So when he gets his shot, he’s going to bring it back. I’m really looking forward to that. That’s May tenth.

Meanwhile, and this story’s ridiculous.

Kevin Hart had to break up a fight between Logan Paul and Rob Gronkowski. Now, before we get into the story, just picture the sizes of those three gentlemen. You see. A few weeks back, Logan Paul was getting into it with Tom Brady. Tom Brady had questioned the Logan Paul’s athleticism compared to the top NFL players.

Tom Brady called Logan Paul’s stuff cute, but stated football is real competition. Then a few days after that, Tom Brady escalated things. Brady was talking with Rob Gronkowski and called Logan Paul the B word, which I assume rhymes with which Gronkowski said, if Logan Paul wants a piece of me, I’m down throw it down on the field at the flag footballing. I’ll whoop his bleep logan Paul said, I’m gonna beat your bleep, and then I’m gonna beat all your brothers bleep. Kevin Hart had to step in and urge the two to save it for the field team USA Football forty three, NFL Guys sixteen.

Meanwhile, this story is cracking me up. Have you seen the Lion King? Well, the composer and performer of the iconic chant in the Circle of Life from The Lion King is suing a comedian over a viral podcast comment about the song. You see. Zimbabwe comedian learn More Johnnesy was on the one fifty four Africa podcast and made a joke about the song Let’s listen.

Yeah, I gotta another thing though, the thing about the Lion King. Man, Okay, what would do the Lion King thing? Ready? What up? And you do it propably?

I don’t think he’s doing it right righty? No? Now this was a very wow. Now what does it mean? What is it?

What do they actually say? Is is it me? No? There’s a liad? Oh my god.

Now. Libo m wrote the chant and performed it in both the ninety four original Line King movie and the twenty nineteen remake. In the lawsuit, Libo said the chant is a form of royal parize that relies on metaphors, and the true translation is all hail the King, We all bow in the presence of the King, not look there’s a lion, Oh my God. The legal complaint says, look there’s a lion, Oh my God is not a simplified translation. It is a fabricated, trivializing distortion meant as a sick joke for unlawful self profit and destruction of the imaginative and artistic work of Libo M.

The lawsuit is asking for twenty seven million dollars in damages from that joke. The belief is that the joke could affect Libo M’s longtime relationship with Libo says he now quote fears for his life due to xenophobic comments and claims he’s been confronted in bombardment with comments about the podcast clip. Further reporting says that Libo stated in a video on March fourth on Instagram that he had messaged the comedian about his concerns, but the comedian brushed him off and said he’s been doing the same joke for eight years. It did not plan to stop. In the video.

Libo apparently says, I did try and engage this young man and he was so arrogant.

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Meanwhile, Elon Musk and John Stewart treated Barb’s on social media.

John Stewart on The Daily Show apparently said that Elon Musk has pushed this idea that undocumented non citizen voting is rampant. It is sowing the seeds of our destruction and we cannot do it. The irony of it all is because this guy’s platform, this guy’s algorithm, which he’s in charge of, He’s a far more relevant actor and the warping of our democracy through his money and his algorithm than any measure of undocumented non citizen voting will ever be. Stuart continued, what his argument, and I think his people’s argument would be is now that we’re getting uncensored material, now that First Amendment has primacy. People moved to the right because they learn the truth.

But the truth is that algorithm incentivizes the misinformation from the right, and he designs it. Elon Musk responded and wrote, John Stewart is an extremely skilled propagandist disguised as a truth tiller. Stuart fired back, writing that Musk is quote an extremely skilled propagandist. Elon responded to that, writing not as good as you. Stop being so humble.

Pete Holmes special is out today on YouTube. It is called Silly Silly Fun Boy. I have seen it liked it a lot. Pete was a guest on this program about three weeks ago. You should watch it.

It’ll be on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel at eight eastern today. In the special, Pete Holmes delivers fresh takes on parenting, marriage and more. Pete was on the Upworthy podcast and shared three words that have been a game changer in how he views life. Host Dan Harris asked about his mantra yes, yes, thank you, and Pete Holmes corrected him, saying it’s only three words. It’s yes, thank you.

When you were yes there, Pete explained the concept. I’ve heard really good teachers say, if you can really just say yes to what is, that’s all you need, just really short circuits your brain. If you say yes thank you to it, and I mean almost instantly, flight is delayed. Yes, thank you. It’s so weird.

That’s why it works. Everything attraction and a version, right, So a version is just charging it all with this push like a basketball underwater. You’re giving it all the energy. When you just go yeah, it’s as if it’s what you wanted. Then you realize you’re at an airport.

You’ll be in an hour later. Pete had this discussion before this weekend. I’d be curious to see how Pete feels about a six hour TSA line. Pete said, you’ll be in an hour later. It could just be a clean breath and a recognition that you’re alive.

Maybe you see the sun coming through the window, and maybe you’re realize that people used to die and covered wagons on the journey. You’re about to take it four hours, But it can really be way less than that. Really not debating with the bad feeling, just saying yes, thank you to it. That’s been one of the most powerful things in my life. He does have a point there.

When I went to Australia and my kids were like, oh, the flight’s really long. I’m like, it used to take seventy four days to get to Australia. I looked up the number with some number like seventy something, So yes, Pete Holmes is correct. Did you watch Saturday Night Live UK? Now a lot of us were excited about it, and Peacock had been like, yeah, it’s going to be on next day, And by next day they apparently met after nine pm Easter and Sunday night.

A lot of us got up on Sunday. We’re like, I’m going to watch this wasn’t up. In the afternoon, I was like, I’m going to watch this wasn’t up. So I finally went to YouTube. So I saw clips.

I’ve seen the opening sketch, Tina’s monologue, a piece of weekend Update which I’m going to play for you, and a sketch about the Last Supper that I liked a lot that had an awesome impression of Princess Diana that I can’t get enough of. So I haven’t seen the whole thing, and I definitely haven’t seen it in order. Thanks Peacock, You’re gonna make me do bad things on the internet next week. Tina Fey joked in her monologue, why do a UK version of SNL? Well, like so many large scale American operations these days, no one really knows why.

Great joke. The stage has more of a bar aesthetic than the American version. The stage is also positioned away where the audience is ceded to the left and right of the host, not just in front of them. In Weekend Update, they made fun of former Prince Andrew, which was good content for me because I also write for the Palace Intrigue podcast, where we cover the royal family seven days a week, so I pulled this audio let’s listen. Renovations to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s new home, Marsh Farm, had been taking place over the last month, including the installation of SkyTV, So if you’re watching Andrew, Hello, you’re not gonna like this next bit.

Also, I’m older than I look. Andrew’s new residence, Marsh Farm, is of course named after the nearby marsh where his body will be found. It was reported this week that the police investigation into Andrew is set to widen. The big question now is if Andrew is charged, found guilty and put in prison, will he be able to keep his mouth shut? I hope not said his cellmate’s penis.

We’re now three weeks to the Iran War, which started with the death of one Iya Toll Homony and the appointment of another Iya Tolla Hominy Hominy too. But one’s dead now. Friend of the show Jason Zinneman, he writes for The New York Times, and wrote under the headline like stepping into a well run Starbucks abroad, I love that. That is a great description. Jason Ziinnaman, friend of the show, Jay z writes, I found the promising debut of the British spin off you relie familiar.

I agree. I was discussing with Mark, who hosts the Ballast Intrigued podcast. He said that it needs to get more British, and I said, I think they did the right thing. I think you don’t want to screw up episode one. You go right down the middle.

Tina fan knows how to do the show. You do the basics, you do the monologue, two band sets, weekend update, and he just hand in the homework. And I think they delivered at least from the parts I saw. And as time goes on, it can become its own thing. See The Office versus the American Office for the opposite example of that.

Jason writes. You can detect Lorne Michael’s fingerprints in the more obscure conventions, such as celebrities in the audience asking question of the host and Tinas monologo as Michael Sarah and Graham Norton, and saving the most subtle comedy for the pre tape bits and the edgiest for weekend Update. From an American perspective, watching snl UK’s like stepping into a well run Starbucks in a foreign country, comforting and recognizable, with the few departures from the norm magnified. There was none more dramatic in this case than the presence of cursing, which can be a crutchery useful comedic tool. Tina Fat turns out can juice a joke with a hard consonant.

Yeah, some F bombs. I didn’t like the F bombs. I mean, I don’t really care. I’ve been known to use one or two, especially when driving. If you’ve ever seen Dennis Moose to the Suburbs episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I’m Dennis, Come on, he.

Han’t seize the goddamn have. People are so goddamn it efficient, God damnits variety roade. Thankfully, snl UK largely took the basics of what makes the US version successful sketch comedy, rotating guest hosts, and the unpredictability of live television, and left the Brits to it, but they say the weakest part of snl UK was the snl port. Their commentary is that Tinfa was in it so much. He has such a presence and had so many lines that resulted in fewer opportunities for us to get to know the new British players who are the reason we’re supposed to be tuning in in the first place.

They add, I think this gets to the heart of an issue snl UK has, who is this for? The set looks American, the pacing feels American, and the fact that lasted seventy five minutes when British audiences usually love their comedy no longer than sixty because we’re tired feels awfully American. At times, watching this like visiting a branch of five Guys. It’s fine, but it’s not like eating in America. If the show’s just to celebrate a US institution that a large proportion of BRITZ had never tuned into and wallt apart from a few viral clips, after the initial hype dies down, it’ll fall flat in its face.

SNLUK has added two more episodes to the run, so we’ll get eight episodes, not six. Jimmie Dornan hosts this week musical guest. Wolf allis currently the President of the United States. Liked snl UK he posted the opening sketch. In the sketch, the Prime Minister receives a call from Trump and one up, cowering to the US President.

Apparently Trump like that he shared it on Truth Social.

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Meanwhile, in Germany they’re making their own version of After Midnight, thi…

Late Nighter tells us Neo Social Club will look instantly familiar, almost eerily so. This version hosted by Laura Larson, a podcaster and digital creator not a stand up comic. Lawson dolls out points not for correct answers, but for originality, rewarding the quickest, funniest reactions over anything resembling accuracy. Neo Social Club is a weekly show and runs at ten point fifteen pm. Out today, A new special by Shelley Belly real name Michelle Ryder.

Shelley Belly Southern comedian. Her debut special Don’t You Judge Me? Is out today. Film last fall in front of a sold up crowd at Pickens Performing Arts Center in Liberty, South Carolina, Shelley Belly dishes out Southern Charm and No Filter Tales of Marriage. It’s distributed by Comedy Dynamics.

It’ll be on places like Prime, Apple, Google Play, Vimeo YouTube. She’ll be part of the Nashville Comedy Festival on April fifteenth. And that is your comedy news for today. Oh, Comedy Survivor, boy I checked Leslie Jones might be in trouble. So if you want Leslie Jones out, you can Pilon And if you don’t want Leslie Jones out, you might want to get an alliance going because the anti Leslie people were quick to get things going.

Comedy Survivor, what you do is you go to the Daily Comedy News podcast group. There’s a drawing of me in Otsco at Costco who was voted off the island last week, And in that thread there you write down the name of one of the five remaining comedians and you see who gets voted off Comedy Island. Voting continues until Thursday, all right, see tomorrow

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Kalaroga, Shark Media, Outbits Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor. This is Comedy Survivor, and I’m Johnny Mack. Many weeks ago, we stranded sixteen comedians on Comedy Island, and each week the listeners vote off one comedian by going to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. So far eliminated Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Joe Coy, Ron White, Jay Leno, Seth Myers, Jim Gaffigan, Burt Kreischer, Kevin Hart, and Tick Nataro still on the island.

One of these people will go home this week. John Mulaney, Sebastian Maniscalco, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, Leslie Jones, Otsco at Kotzka. It’s time for one of their torches to be extinguished. I’ll tell you the votes. Aaron votes for s Bashton Maniscalco, Matt votes for John Mulaney, Richard votes for Sebastian Maniscalco, two votes for Sebastian, Barbe votes for Osco, at Cotska, Jeff votes for Sebastian Maniscalco, three votes for Sebastian, Roffey votes for Leslie Jones, Dylan votes for OTSCO at Cotska, two votes for OTSCO, Mary votes for Leslie Jones, two votes for Leslie Jones.

Mike votes for OTSCO at Cotka, three votes for OSCO, three votes for Sebastian, two for Leslie Jones. Lee votes for OTSCO at Cosca. Now with four votes, Michelle votes for John Mulaney, Von votes for OTSCO Cotska, Mike votes for Nikki Glaser, Lindsay votes for otsgo at Cotsga, Scott votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. Cheryl votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. I have tally the votes and the AI has checked my work.

Sebastian Maniscalco with five votes from Aaron, Richard, Jeff Scott, and Cheryl. However, Sebastian is safe. Otsgo at Costco with six votes from Barb, Mike, Lee, Dylon, Yvonne, and Lindsay. The listeners have spoken. OTSCO oft Cotsga eliminated finally after several close calls, finally eliminated from Comedy Survivor.

Leslie Jones had three votes and continues to survive. We’ll take the break, We’ll come back and talk about what this means. Well, this one has been coming for weeks. Otsgo At voted off Comedy Island with six votes to Sebastian Maniscalco’s very surprising five. Do you guys not like Marcelo Hernandez’ impression?

Leslie Jones now the survivor we talk about. She gets a lot of votes and keeps hanging around. She had three, two for Malany, a couple single votes. The otsgo contingent has been pretty consistent, pretty organized. In this week, critical mass finally happened.

It was nice that we didn’t have a tie. We are now down to the final five and they are John Mulaney, Sebastian Maniscalco, Sarah Silverman quietly sailing along, Nikki Glaser, and Leslie Jones. Is Sebastian in trouble next week? Is Leslie Jones in trouble next week? Will some sort of out of nowhere Sarah Silverman vote happened?

It’s not up to me, It is up to you. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. There you will find a hopefully amusing comedy drawing of me and otsco at Cotska. In that Facebook thread, you vote somebody off Comedy Island again. Still on The Island, Mulaney, Sebastian, Sarah, Nikki, Leslie Jones.

You get one vote. Voting continues until end of day Thursday, Back in the morning with a normal episode,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, this should be fun. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves now, longtime listeners of this program, I don’t have to tell you that one time Joe Koy was hosting the Gold the Globes and told just the most horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. I’m not gonna play that one because we have a new candidate.

And the big question here today on a Monday, is Mark Norman’s career completely over because he told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. That’s right, Mark Norman was there on the Club Shayshay podcast with Shannon Sharp, and the discussion got into Travis Kelcey and the body types that Travis Kelcey has been into during his dating career. Now, I don’t want the Swifties to cancel me. Actually I kind of do. I could use the publicity.

I don’t want the Swifties to cancel me. So I’m gonna let Mark Norman speak for himself here. Let’s listen, because. We’ve seen his exes yes, compared to old surfboard buddy. I mean, this is not the besmirch the lady, but that’s quite a quite a jump in and type.

Yeah. Yeah, I only know that was his last girl. Now, I don’t know anybody that he dated before her, Kayla. But I think sometimes people like, oh he fumbled, he fumbled. I mean, if somebody makes you happy, er, is that a fumble?

No, not a fumble. But I wonder if he misses that fat ass. I think he, I think he. I think he do it. Okay, I think you do it.

I think she could get a BBL. No, that’s that’s that doesn’t fit. That doesn’t fit, that doesn’t feel what you got going on? Man? Now, if you’re curious, bb L is a Brazilian butt lift.

Now, you might not be familiar with the Brazilian but left. Fortunately, the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery has an f a Q webson. They tell us a Brazilian butt lift is a specialized fat transfer procedure that augments the size and shape of the buttocks without implants. Excess fat is removed from the hips, abdomen, lower back, or thighs with liposection and a portion of This fat is then strategically injected into the buttocks. A skilled cosmetic surgeon can improve the proportions of the entire lower body with Brazilian butt lift surgery, helping a patient lose fat and common quote unquote problem areas and enhance the buttocks, with results lasting many years.

There’s a before and after gallery in case you’re curious what this might look like. So the internet recaps say the Swifties have gone after Mark normand one person set on social media Shannon Sharp betraying his long friendship with Travis Kelce by disrespecting his fiance is disappointing and unexpected. They don’t make loyalty like they used to. My mother said, this is disappointing, Shannon, as Travis looks to you as a mentor and you’re over here monetizing as fiance’s name for clout. Take this down, be better.

Another asked, So we’re canceling this mofo, right, So we’ll see if Mark Norman is canceled and suddenly Joe Koy joking about the NFL. Not so bad there, Taylor, huh, As you. Know we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer caliber shots that Taylor Swift.

I swear I have some thoughts about Mark Norman’s news special. I’ll do the quick version. Was really into it for like thirteen minutes, and then my brain fried because of the relentlessness of just one liner after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner, after one liner after one liner. You get it, so I couldn’t. I was really thirteen minutes in my brain was like, please stop.

I’ve had that same experience at a Stephen Wright’s show. But I want to illustrate this. We’ve been discussing it a little bit in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, and I just want to discuss a little bit what I’m talking about, how a set needs to ebb and flow. And I’m not a comedian, you know that, but I was taught that by George Carlin’s manager. And if you listen to my interview with Pete Holmes, which probably three weeks ago now at this point, Pete agreed with the theory.

So we’ll get into that. I want to pull some clips and We’re really busy today, so we’ll try and get to that maybe on the weekend. A lot of news. All of a sudden, Josh Johnson is getting an HBO special. If I had a guess which streamer Josh would show up on, I don’t think I would have guessed HBO.

But this is pretty cool. The special title Josh Johnson Symphony, will premiere this spring. No date on it, but it is now officially Spring, so soon. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials. Nina observed Josh Johnson releases more comedy in a year than most people do in a career.

He tells stories with an incredible rhythm, and it makes the whole room feel like they’re listening to a friend. There’s a musicality to his work, and Symphony captures that perfectly say what she did there. She added, We’re so proud to bring Josh to HBO. Josh Johnson said, I’m excited to have my breakout peace be with a company that nurtures vision like HBO does. I’m grateful to them and you for watching.

Looking forward to that one, I’m not looking forward to be watching funny AF with Kevin Hart that’s going to be on Netflix. This is one of those stand up comedy competitions. Why I’m not excited about it is because the nature of such a competition when you put it on TV. A lot of these things in the past have had comedians who have had a minute of material and they get on there and then everybody goes, oh, so and so is really really funny. Hey John, how come you don’t play him on your show?

Zach we know talk about him, and then I have get to go because they have one minute of material. So I’m a little biased against these shows. Hopefully this one is a little better. A lot of names attached to this Funny AF with Kevin Hart. It’ll premiere April twenty f with four episodes on Netflix, and then episodes five and sixth of the week after that, and then two more episodes live May fourth and fifth.

What day of the week is that that means I’m gonna have to work? Please be the middle of the week May fourth and Monday Tuesday and the fifth eight Tuesday. Perfect. Thank you Kevin Hart for that, because Wednesday, by the time May roll’s around, Wednesday’s volleyball night. By the way.

I’m not kidding. I’m more or less in Morristown, New Jersey. If you are a female beach volleyball player, or a volleyball player, or just a female who would like to be on a beach volleyball team with a bunch of guys in their late fifties, hit me up. My email is in the show notes. We could use another player.

You don’t have to be good, you just have to come. Yeah, we play four on four and you always have to have one woman on the court. We’ve had this team for over a decade now and our female player is pretty good. She doesn’t always come. Then we have to bug somebody’s wife or I make my daughter play except my daughter’s way of college.

So we could use another player. I digress funny af with Kevin Hart on the premiere. Some big names these aren’t performers as a judges Keegan, Michael Key, Tom Segura, Kameil Nan, Gianni, Chelsea Handler, and Nikki Glaser. So this is, you know, this is the agents in Netflix. This is pulling out the stops because let’s rank these people out of Kevin Hart, Keagan, Michael Keat, Samsigora, Kamil Nan, Johnny Chelsea Handler, Nicky Glazer.

Who’s the sixth the biggest star there? Sigora right, and he’s selling out huge places. Maybe it’s Chelsea, maybe it’s Keegan, maybe it’s Nicky. But these are all pretty big names. A press release not attributed to any human.

It’s just a press release quote. Who said this quote? Why won’t they tell us? Do the AI rate this quote? A press release said, Kevin Hart knows what it takes to turn a mic and a dream and a comedy superstardom in funny af He’s searching for the next comedian ready to follow that path.

In this uncensored comedy competition, rising stand ups from across the country step into the spotlight, hoping to make the same leap Kevin once did, from grinding it out in small clubs to headlining their own specials. Along the way, Kevin and a circle of comedy heavyweights will decide who progresses in the competition, offering a behind the curtain look at the pressure triumphs an occasional bomb that shape a career in stand up. Theovon announced his comedy bus Boys, starring David Spade, will hit theaters nationwide April seventeenth, and we’re told, for the first time, two of comedy’s biggest names or skipping studios entirely to distribute their raunchy buddy comedy themselves. Your cast Theovon, David Spade, Tim Dillon, Bobby Lee, Jay Farrow, and Trevor Wallace runtime one hour, thirty three minutes of pure absurdist comedy gold. We are promised, Okay, then what happens?

Well? Theo and Spade co wrote this ridiculous buddy comedy about two hapless friends who believe becoming waiters will solve every problem in their lives. Cidber, There’s no chance the Yvon can act like at all right, there’s like zero chance that he’s a good actor, right like zero. Spade’s going to be Spade. There’s no chance.

All right, shut up, John, all right, We’re promised the dynamic between Theovon’s absurdist Louisiana Fried humor and David Spade’s sharp season comedy creates some thing totally fresh. What makes bus Boys revolutionary isn’t just the film itself. Listeners, Oh no, no, no, you see, Vaughn and Spade didn’t sell out to the studios or traditional distributors. No, they were like, hey, Paramount Warner Brothers, we don’t want your money. We’re going to do this ourselves.

We’re going to show them in And then the big movie studios were like no, no, here’s a lot of money, and THEO and Spade were like no, no, no, no, no no, we want to distribute this ourselves. That’s what happened. Everybody, You understand this that they all the studios been on this film and they’re like, no, we want to release it ourselves. That’s what happened. Stavros Halkia says joined the cast of Glenn Powell’s upcoming comedy movie about a country music star in free Fall.

Sources tell Variety Stavros will play the agents of Glenn Powell’s character. It’ll be directed by jud Appatol and premiere February fifth, twenty twenty seven. I’ve been on my soapbox lately about people who seem like outsiders or insiders, so you know, you might just look at Stavros Haukis and be like, no, he’s not one of those Hollywood insider types. He’s in a movie directed by Judd Apatow starring Glenn Powell he’s in the club. As George Carlin once said, there’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

Hey remember last summer when comedians played the Riod Comedy Festival, and like you know, they were just the worst people who ever lived, and everybody was all upset. Well, two of the comedians who play the Rood Comedy Festival, which, by the way, in my class Thursday, one of the students brought it up and he was not happy with comedians playing the Riod Comedy Festival. However, I hate to tell everyone, including my student, it has not affected anyone. Gabe Iglesias and Joe Cooy they both played Riod and on Saturday night they played a jam packed Sofi Stadium and got the big shiny piece in variety. Gabe was telling the tale as I’ve shared with you before, after selling out Dodger Stadium, I was kind of thinking to myself, what do we do now?

Are we done? Have we jumped the shark? Should we call it a day. I still feel young enough to keep doing stand up. I still feel relevant, but I don’t know that I could do something like this again.

He reportedly paid two hundred and fifty grand penalties and overtime fees for going over his time slot at Dodger Stadium with his curfew and stuff. So the question was, can I find something big to do? What’s gonna be the next big thing? Gabe suggested to Joe Coy that they do a show at Sofi Stadium, and now they have, Gabe said. Joe Coy was like, I don’t know, Gabe.

Gabe said, I’m like, oh, come on, how many sold out forums are gonna keep doing? He says in the end, I bullied Joekoy into doing it. Joe Coy, He’s told Variety. I lived in that area and I remember driving past the Forum and just thinking to myself, someday, but to be able to play so Fi. It’s the biggest venue in LA.

This is the most special moment of both of our careers. We went there two weeks ago to do a photo shoot and we hugged each other and said, Wow, this is crazy. So look, maybe Mark Norman told a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift, but I think the moral of the first half of today’s episode is you can tell a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift and you can play the riodd comedy festival. It doesn’t affect your career at all. Coming up at nowon Eastern today it’s the results of Comedy Survivor.

I haven’t put that episode together yet, looking forward to see who everybody voted off. So come back at noon Eastern we’ll see who’s gone.

And then on the other side of that, go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy New…

You’ll find a cartoon drawing of me and whoever’s off, and then we’ll vote again. We’re starting to get down to it now. A different student in my class on Thursday, who wasn’t the student who mentioned the Riyod Comedy Festival. This was a different student. She is a big Chris Fleming fan.

She stayed after class to grab me and just had this look on her face. She was sad, and she said, Chris Fleming is mainstream now now. She told me this on Thursday before I said that quote unquote on the air on Friday’s podcast, and I was like, you know, I said the exact same thing on the show tomorrow when we had this conversation. So it’s interesting, Chris Fleming mainstream. This is fun.

Zach Allafanakis has announced a show for Netflix it’s called This is a Gardening Show. It’ll be out on Earth Day, which is April twenty second, with six fifteen to twenty minute episodes. It is described as a refreshing and whimsical take on gardening. Rather than positioning himself as an expert, Galvanakis approaches the subject with curiosity and self effacing humor, with the goal of learning alongside his audience and giving viewers valuable, accessible and educational tools to use in their own gardens. There is a trailer.

It’s a lot of fun. Let’s listen. Hello, what are those cameras? Okay? What do you want to talk about?

If I were to offer a remedy to the human condition, it would be a garden. Or acid. The way we get food is so perverse. Right now, I think it’s worth talking about it without sounding stupid. What is a tomato?

And what we’re leaving this next generation they may have to know this stuff. What’s your favorite fruit? Cal’s not a fruit? Can you look at me and go that’s fascinating, That’s fascinating. This is a food gardening show with your host, Zach Gaspa Vedaski.

Congrats to the guys at Mystery Science Theater at three thousand. The new, New, New, new, new, new revival of it. They did a kickstarter. They have raised two million, Wow, two million, six hundred and ninety eight and forty nine dollars from twenty and eighty nine backers, while not as much as raised by previous fundraising campaigns survived the show in recent years. The initial goal was to raise twenty thousand dollars to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Riff Tracks.

They are going to make new episodes, and we’re back to the not quite original cast, but at least like you know, not one of the derivative casts that we’ve seen in recent years. This version will star Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbette. They will return in their original roles for the four new episodes. And I think I’m gonna wrap it up there because I have duplicates.

I’ve got another Gabe story, I’ve got another Joe Coy story. But you only get one story day on Daily Comedy News. So that’s it. We’re going home. I’m al ready home.

I record the basement, you know what I mean. Come back at noon Comedy Survivor see then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hither, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Jay Leno was on Judd Apatow’s podcast and thanks Justin for sending this one in. They started to discuss the mount Rushmore of comedy. Always a fun topic, and I don’t know what to do with it because I think people have a recency bias and get a little crazy and it’ll be like we want to put somebody who’s currently performing up there, or like sometimes a shooting star.

You know, these things are hard and you only get four spots. So for me, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and two I don’t know’s, And on any given day I might give you a different answer. Carlin is undeniable, including if you listen to the very very late George Carlin material, which at the time was described by people like me as angry boy as it aged will George Carlin is somehow the great profit of the twenty first century, So he’s undeniable. And the other one who’s undeniable is Richard Pryor. There are plenty of disciples of Richard Pryor starting with Richard Pryor cover act Eddie Murphy, who I love.

But let’s just be real about it, and you can see Richard Pryor descendants to today’s comedy. Now, who you would put in the other two? I don’t know. Like so part of it is how do you define the genre? Is Johnny Carson doing a monologue four nights a week for thirty years?

Should he be in the list? Bob Hope for eighty years? And don’t judge Bob Hope by what he did in his eighties and nineties. Go back and watch the Young Hope. Should he be there?

Why aren’t there any women on the mountain? Okay? Should we put say, Joan Rivers up on the list? I don’t know, So Carlin Pryor, I don’t know. I don’t know.

But Jay Leno gave his list. And listen to the name he uses for comedian number one. I’ve never heard anyone called person this other than Jay Leno. Okay, My four would be, uh, Richie. He was Richie Pryor when I know now he’s Richard Pryor, But Richie Pryor.

He would go on the car. He was getting ready to do Live at the Sunset Strip, the first filmed comedy special for theaters, not HBO. And I followed him every night because you couldn’t follow Richie. And I realized I didn’t have an hour worth of material. I had maybe eighteen minutes.

But then I just realized, throw out everything that doesn’t get a laugh. All right, Richard pryor Jay Lenno and I are aligned there. Let’s see who Jay Leno had as number two. To Robert Klin, Because you have to understand, prior to Robert Klein, most comedians were men in their thirties or forties that grew up during the Depression that kids today with these hippies with the long hair, that was all that kind of stuff. Suddenly here was Robert Klein, middle class guy talking about things I would talk about with my friends because I couldn’t do Depression era stuff or make fun of the music today because that was my generation.

Interesting pick. I think Robert Klein has been largely forgotten. His name never comes up. Very very interesting, all right. At number three, Jay Leno, who do you have next to me?

Bob Newhart? He was the close up magician of comedy, you know, new Heart had the great It was like a slider, like an inside fastball. He had a bit about the first astronaut to have extraterrestrial communication. So it comes down from you know, the thing lands, and of course he’s the first. So all the presses are asking him questions, and our porta says, how far ahead of us are these aliens?

And he says about six weeks, and you know it’s two weeks is too soon. Six months is too far ahead head, but six you cannot catch up, you know, it’s finding the right turn of six weeks is exactly rot. Not crazy again as time marches on mentioned a little less and less, a unique voice, one of the greats, Rushmore. And that’s another thing, all right, Jay, who do you have for number four? And across Rodney Danefield, Rodney Dangeville was the economy of words.

He could get to the joke quicker, I knew Rodney for forty years. I have no idea if he’s a Democrat or republic. We never discussied. It was just jokes. It was it was the you know, like the joke.

About one after another, the idea that my doctor said, I need a stool sample, a semen sample, and a urine sample, and I gave my underpants. That’s an interesting take by Jay Leno. Not sure I agree. Again, I won’t throw I want to say rocks and throwing rocks in the mountain. I won’t throw rocks at any of these picks.

But I don’t know Lynn pryor, I don’t know the conversation did go on. Jay Leno said, if he had a fifth pick, it would be George Carlin and I had. I don’t know when I even saw this story, but I’ve just been sitting on it for an episode like today. Back at twenty fourteen, Jay Leno was on Craig Ferguson show. I don’t remember that happening, but I believe everybody, and Craig asked Jay Leno if Jay’s mind ever drifted when one of the guests was not all that interesting.

Jay said, the classic examples I had on one of these reality stars, Trista, who apparently is Trista Sutter. Jay said, from one of those bachelorettes, and I’m looking at the side of her head. I couldn’t be less interested. I’ve never seen this stupid reality show. You know what it was?

And Jay said, to make it worse, Jay says he wraps up the show, he leaves. I go out on the parking lot. There’s a woman standing next to me with a boyfriend. She says, can I have a picture? And I go sure.

How you doing? She says good? And Jay asked her what’s your name? It was like just the interviewed on the Tonight show. That’s amazing.

Kevin Nealan was on Icon versus Icon. He said, I learned from so many comments. I bartended the improv so I was there all the time, and I’d see these comics come that I really enjoyed and was a fan of every night to watch them perform and take it all in. That’s how I learned by watching, and I loved it. It never even felt like work to me.

There were comics like Jay Leno and Richard Lewis, so I watched closely. Andy Kaufman was a huge influence on me because he was so unique, so different, and so interesting. He played so much with the audience’s mind, leading him in one direction, leaving people in sure of what he was doing, and really pushing boundaries. I also watched Seinfeld perform because we came up around the same time. More or less good advice from Kevin Neelan about the comedy industry.

It’s a business. You can’t take things personally. I learned that a long time ago, and things don’t really affect me that much anymore. Even think in regular life, I’m not easily shaken. I don’t want to say I’m dead inside, because I’m not.

But I’ve gotten used to a lot of rejection and disappointment, especially in the early stages. More from that Forbes conversation between Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Perghancy. Jerry Seinfeld was curious, what’s it like touring for you these days in terms of workload. Nate said, it’s like a gym. It’s a muscle.

You got to stay on top of it. When you don’t go out for two weeks and then you get on stage and you’re like, rough, I’m awful. Jerry was like, what about when your wife wants to go on vacation. Nate said he’ll try and pop in somewhere to do one show to stay fresh. Jerry said, it’s funny how fast it goes.

I find not only can you not remember lines, but I louse your nerve the you should be even be doing this who am I talking to in front of all these people? Wow? Jerry Seinfeldt thinking that, Nate said, Yeah, there’s a thing in your head that goes like, who do you think you are? You out to your mind? Nate continued, I had to work on my own mind wandering.

I had to work on pulling my mind back to the story, the joke I was telling. Every time i’m telling it, I visualize it. I love it so much. And you’re in front of a different crowd every night. Because I’m in the round, I’ll pick like four people.

It might be an older lady, could be a family further back, a woman with her husband. You keep an eye on them. It’s a good way to keep a gauge, like, is it too harsh? You’re picking four people to do the show for weirdly enough instead of a mass. Nate said, I like stand up in the arenas.

It’s really pushing stand up to this higher level. I’ve got big screens, a sound system. It’s like watching a live special. It’s about the community and everybody laughing. You want to give them a full show.

When they all leave, hopefully they’re very happy. Rob Riggle spoke with Clutch points. Rob said, Getting on Saturday Night Live was a dream come true with something I’d worked for for a long long time, and when it finally happened, it was hard to process.

And then being on the stage when they roll credits, and I’ve watched it in my…

To be on that stage looking back out to where the audience and in the cameras, it was surreal. Being on the Daily Show. Getting that job was a great, great moment. Get to do movies with people that I admire, get to do scenes with Tom Hanks or people you just love their work and appreciate them so much, and then you find yourself in a scene with them. I’ve worked with Rob, I think twice.

I found out to be super, super awesome in person. What a great guy. Rob wrote a book, Grit, Spits and Never Quit. He explained, you get to a point where you tell enough stories and people go, hey, you should write a book, and you go all right, and you hear that enough times you’re like, all right, maybe I should, And then I write down my goals every year at the beginning of the year. So I wrote down, I’m going to write a book, but it was the one goal that didn get accomplished.

It just kept rolling and rolling over until finally I was ashamed of myself and I said write the book, and so I did. Took two years, and he explains, you got to remember now, it’s not just like I locked myself in a log cabin and sat down a road. It’s not how it works. I gotta go out there or eat what I kill. I’m out there for work every day, and if I get to show you get a movie, I gotta do that, and then everything gets put on hold.

So it takes time to grind out a book. And Russell Peters told a fun story about NBA star Blake Griffin. Blake Griffin has dabbled with comedy. Russell runs into Blake Griffin and goes, hey, I’m a big fan. What are you doing here?

Blake Griffin goes, I’m trying comedy. Russell goes, really, but you’re a basketball player. Blake goes yeah. Russell says, well, what are you because you got red hair? Blake says, I’m mixed.

Russell, where’d you grow up? I think you grew up in Milwaukee or something. Oklahoma. Gotta suck being a big half black kid with red hair in Oklahoma, No wonder you’re good at it? And his face is like, what the F Russell says?

I’m like, anyway, good luck, stupid, That’s just how I am. So fast forward in time, Russell Peters is court side at the Raptors game Blake Griffin playing for Detroit. Russell Hills out Blake Blake, and Blake Griffin turns sees Russell Peters and he goes, ah, ef you, And that’s your Comedy’s for Today’s Tomorrow

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. This one from a while back. I pre taped today to accommodate my schedule how to do some stuff. Yesterday, Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bergatzi had spoken to poll Star, but let’s pick away at this Nate talked about how he’s been finding comedians.

He said, I’ve done every show you could possibly do. I’ve done Bowling Alleys to Arenas. We have a YouTube page where we have the showcase and they’re doing ten minutes, and we try to shoot some half hours with comics doing an hour and try to give them a path. As someone pops, they pop. I’ve been going after a lot of older comedians.

They could be my age or whatever, but they have the chops and the experience to be able to create this material. One in particular is Greg Warren, very funny comedian. He’s been doing comedy for thirty years. I brought him in. He’s come with me.

We were in Kansas City and he got a date at the Comedy Club of Kansas City. Two months later, we do two shows in the arena there. Out of doing ten minutes on two of the arena shows, they added fourteen shows. That’s just from him doing ten minutes. But he murdered so hard we had another one.

Derek Stroop did nine. Derek Stroop recently out on Netflix is fantastic. Jerry Seinfeld said, what’s changed in the past twenty years for comedians. It’s like a destination. We’re gonna go see this comedian.

This is an important thing for us to do. What changed, Nate said, A good beginning was your Comedian documentary. I come from that. We watched you build a new set. I’d never seen an inside look like that, especially for someone like me who’s not from New York.

I was already trying to do comedy and seeing it, but I wasn’t seeing someone that was you go and not get laughs at Gotham or wherever, and you run around to the clubs and you work on this thing. You started it. Essentially, it was a large group of people around my age that kind of made it, and like, all right, we want to go do this. I want to be a stand up comedian. After that, comics weren’t getting sitcoms anymore.

That route was shut down. Now you’re just gonna do stand up. Then he had all rooms open up and it started to expand. Another one was Dane Cook when he did tour Gasm and was doing arenas on HBO. He was the biggest comic on the planet, Like that’s dude’s a rockstar from just being a comedian.

Then you had your Jim Gaffigan Sebastian. You had comics having full careers and doing big arenas, big things and stand up. Brian Reagan’s another never did stuff in the Hollywood world was a comedian that got big and Netflix was a part of that. Comedy Central was a giant part of that as well. You Jerry said something about what hurt sitcoms?

What was going to be funnier than the standup comedian? You can’t make a movie I have as much laughs as stand up. To that, Jerry said, it seemed like those forums deteriorated. The reason was that someone has to prove each thing in the movie or TV show, Where a stand up we just go right to them and say what do you think of this? Having a third party make a decision was an obstruction of being funny.

That was one of the reasons my show did well in the nineties. It was Larry David and I and nobody said anything to us. We just did what we wanted and there was no network involvement really at all. Mark Maren caught up with Consequence of Sound and they discussed how Maren works politics in and Maarn said, I didn’t make a statement. I made a joke, That’s what I do.

An example of that was his comments about the Riod Comedy Festival, in which Maren said, how do you promote that for the people that brought you nine to eleven? Maren said, I made a joke about it, and I guess the joke had some residents and kind of sparked a more culturally active look at the participants in that festival. Consequence writes on this subject, his voice dips with contempt. Maren said, it’s about money, dude. It’s really about can you rationalize taking that money?

And most people can because that’s the world we live in. And I’m not even on any kind of high horse. I get it. Hey, all money’s crappy. Maren clarifies there is no dollar amount that would have enticed him to Riodd.

He also does not buy the argument that those comedians were spreading Western values. Maren said, autocratic countries that become culturally westernized. I don’t think it ever changes the politics of those countries. It just does what it does here, creates more distraction the sense of freedom of choice because when you have a few different restaurants and a few different places you can go online adopting Western culture. It’s not helping us right now.

Maren continued. If you can rationalize taking the money and live with that, that’s how this world works. You know, our president, who’s supposed to be an example of something American, might be the most American president we’ve had in years, who knows. Get away with what you can get away with. Get all the money, you can double down on anything.

Don’t take responsibility or apologize for anything. Jessica Kerson was one of the comedians who played the Riant Comedy Festival. She caught up with Pride Source. They did not talk about said festival. They talked about touring, and Jessica Curson said, you can’t make a living from the internet.

It helps, but it’s more that a lot of us put up videos to build an audience. We can perform four on the road because people follow you. They look at your schedule, they look at way you’re performing. Plus I’ve been doing live stand up. I just started my twenty seventh year, and online is not the same, you know, because you don’t have the audience reaction.

Now that I’m performing for a thousand people each time, it’s very different from the years and years of just doing it and hoping that an audience shows up. The demand is there now. The traveling is very hard, the planes and the hotels and all that stuff, but the shows are amazing, so when you get there it’s all right, But on the way it’s a lot. They were curious how the bit where Jessica turns away from the audience to share her internal monologue evolved. Jessica said, I just did it on stage one night.

I don’t even remember where it was or when. For a long time it didn’t work. People were like, this woman has a metal disorder. Until I realized it was a save line. I had to do it when a joke didn’t go over well or when there was awkward silence.

Then the response was so positive. I kept doing it. From the La Times in Los Angeles, Miracle Mile neighborhood flanked by the Libreat tarpits, The La County Museum of Art and a Diner is a dense concentration of charming Art Deco and Spanish Mediterranean style apartment buildings. And on the corner of Fourth and Cochrane you’ll find a plaque. Strapped to a street sign.

You’ll find a golden plaque commemorating Conan O’Brien’s time living on Cochrane. The plaque features Conan’s face as a bronze bust, with a short description of his life there before he became an Oscar’s host. It is not official. It was created by the Cochrane Committee of Conan Connoisseurs. I guess they’re the CZ which we’re told is actually just one guy who lives on Cochran Avenue, occasionally listens to Conan’s podcast, has a free time, and no real authority to put up a monument.

But did it Anyway. We know all this because it says that on the inscription I love everything about this story. So who is the Cochrane Committee of Conan Connoisseurs. Well, it’s Tim Hammill. He’s the entire committee.

He wanted people to know that Conan O’Brien used to live on that block in the nineteen eighties. The plaque riffs on the Baseball Hall of Fame plaques and the cream colored California historical signs. The CCCC explains, I wanted something that would look like a plaque from far away that would catch people’s attention, make them want to come over and read it. He then had it to Staples, printed out a large, sturdy poster and fastened it to the stop sign on his block. In describing Conan O’Brien’s time on Cochrane, the plaque reads, it was a time of struggle, ingenuity, and questionable mayonnaise based decisions.

From these humble beginnings, the street witness the rise of a comedy icon. May the monument quote a poster affixed with zipsies inspire Cochrane Avenue residents to chase their dreams, embrace the originality in one day upgrade to a home with more than one bathroom. Maria Bamford was on the Last Laugh podcast. They pointed out that Netflix CEO Ted Sorrando said her show Lady Dynamite is the best original series the streamer has ever released. Bamford said that clearly isn’t true.

There is no best, there is no worse. There’s just a bunch of people out there doing a craft and doing it beautifully in all sorts of ways. We are reminded that last year bill Board ranked Maria Bamford the ninth best comedian of the twenty first century, which is of course crazy talk. There’s an episode somewhere in the December feet if you want to hear me comment about that. Nothing against Maria Bamford, but seems a little high.

Can we talk about that list.

Let’s talk about that list.

Where’s that list? Let me pull that up for us. I won’t spend a lot of time on this, but looking at their list. One Dave Chappelle, of course. Two Chris Rock fine, pick three c K even though he’s canceled.

Fine, pick for Mulaney, sure fine. Five Bill Burr. Bill Burr had a good twenty four years before losing it last year. Jerry Seinfeld. You know, you might think of him as more of a twentieth century comedian, but if you’ve seen him in the twenty first century, can’t argue with that.

Kevin Art at seven, Norm McDonald at eight. I don’t want to debate. Norm MacDonald today, that’s fine. Bamford is the nine. Robin Williams at ten is he a twentieth century comedian or twenty first?

See I don’t like that pick either. Sebastian at eleven is just insane. Nay to twelve is way too high. Sandler at thirtie we’ve discussed this. Attel at fourteen is criminally underrated.

Hepburg at fifteen love Hebburg. But it’s two albums or three if you want to count the posthumous one and out. But okay, love Hebburg. If you listen to the show, you know I love Hebburg. Gervais at sixteen, Wanda Sykes at seventeen is a little crazy to me eighteen Patrese O’Neil.

You’ve heard me speak. I did not like the man, so I’m biased. Ali Wong at nineteen, Sarah Silverman at twenty seems high, Gabe Iglesias at twenty one, gaff Again at twenty two. He might not call you back, but it seems really really underrated. Trevor Noah twenty three, Billy Connolly at twenty four, and John Stewart at twenty five.

And I respect John Stewart a lot, but I’m not sure he’s in the same category in terms of stand up. I know he tours whatever. Alright, so back to Bamford, who’s number nine on that list, She said of the list, it’s just a trend and clearly not true. She suggested other women like Nikki Glaser and Kathy Griffin should be on the list as well, but she did repost it. She said, Oh no, I retweeted it just to be clear if the propaganda has been reposted.

Shang Wang, one of my favorite current comedians, finds the most ordinary of things to be funny. He said, it’s about taking a step back and look at the world as if you’re an alien, meaning you’re not taking any of it for granted, you’re just an aw of what this thing is. But I’m also taking a step in and looking closely at what it appears to be. Some of his inspirations photographers William Eggleston and Elliott Erwitz stay with me. Shehangwan explains.

Eggleston would take pictures of a tricycle but from a very low angle, and Elliott Erwit was catching interesting and funny little moments when things in life just lined up like melon’s on a stand that looks like a lady’s boobs. Wang tries to work clean, explaining the reason that I don’t really use profanity is because I want to find the most unique and specific way to say what I’m trying to say. I think part of my comedy is to remind people that were human and were not separate from nature. I think it’s important for us to pay attention to and appreciate the flora and fauna and how the ecosystems work. In the past, I’ve done a kind of comedy show with pictures of plants that I’ve taken.

I might go back to doing some ver Know that and that is your comedy news for today. Catch it tomorrow.