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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Dave Chappelle, Nikki Glaser, Trevor Noah, Nate Bargatze, John Stewart, Amy Schumer, Taylor Swift

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s joke about Trevor Noah being traded to Dallas Mavericks at the Grammys
• Dave Chappelle wins third consecutive Grammy for Best Comedy Album
• Nikki Glaser clarifies she is not yet signed for additional Golden Globes hosting deals
• Nikki Glaser discusses spending $70-100K on Taylor Swift concert experiences
• Nate Bargatze to appear in DoorDash Super Bowl commercial
• John Stewart loses bet with Jalen Brunson, wears Eagles gear to Knicks game

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I think Jim Gaffigan actually won the Grammy’s Ny for Gietzi. He’s got a super Bowl commercial, and of course Inny Schumer wants us to talk about her. Let’s start with the Grammys.

You may have heard there was a rather big basketball trade over the weekend that led to this joke. During the break. I don’t know how to say this. Trevor Noah was traded to the Dallas Mavericks. So I know this is a shock, but I am now your host.

Really great stuff from Jim. I’ll circle back to Jim in a second line of the night. I’m going to give to the John Westlang from Threads who wrote congratulations to FX as the bear for their Grammy win for Best Comedy Album. Best Comedy Album actually went to Dave Chappelle. I’m really impressed three in a row.

First of all, you have to put out three albums three years in a row to even win, so that speaks to the quality of the work that Dave’s been putting out. I haven’t seen the reaction pieces yet, I guarantee either coming about Dave and punching down and on the transgender topic again. I have no doubt those are coming later in the week, but for now, he’s the Tom Brady of comedy. Three straight Grammys for Best Comedy Album. Nobody’s gonna do that anytime soon.

Nikki Glaser was on the red carpet. She says she is not signed to host the Golden Globes. I will take Nicki herself over the reporting, and I’ve been a part of that reporting in the past, but let’s hear it straight from Nikki Glaser. You know what, it felt so good because the goal going in was you know, I made like a mission statement before I began preparing, I was like, Okay, what I want to do is I want to be funny, but I want when I watch a ward show, I just want to feel like I’m in good hands. I want to watch someone go.

I want her to watch. I wanted to leave that Award show and have people go. I want her to host more things that was comfortable to watch. I wasn’t nervous for her, and that’s what it came away with. All the reviews were like, she looked like she was in the pocket.

She we like her to host more things. I was like, oh yeah, cheat my goal. I just wanted people to have a fun time and not feel like I was going after anyone, but like having some fun, like I thought, I really. I worked hard to hit that tone, and I felt I succeeded. I keep seeing headlines that are like, She’s got a deal to do three more.

I haven’t heard about this yet, but I think I think it would be I think I like them as much as they like me, and I would like to keep this relationship going because I had a blast doing it. It was hard work, but it was the best job I’ve ever had. I’m ready to come back and host the Golden Globes again. It was truly the most fun night I’ve had in so long. And I didn’t have a Christmas because of it, but I don’t need a Christmas.

Nikki also talked about Taylor Swift. I forget that I hosted the Golden Globes. I’m just here as like, am I allowed to be here? I’m a comedian. You feel like, if you’re not a musician, you’ve kind of feel like what am I doing?

Even though I was nominated for a Grammy this year, I still feel a little bit like out of my element, like a snuck in. I’m just trying to fit in. But yes, I feel good. Okay. Want to ask you how much did you really spend on those Taylor Swift shows?

I mean, I’m gonna say probably what, cause I would fly my friends in, I would put them up, I’d pay for their tickets, I’d buy them merch So I would say seventy to one hundred, like it was a lot. But I again, I just want to remind people. I don’t have kids, I don’t have a house. I don’t have a nice car. I don’t buy handbags.

I wear a Lulu Umon fanny pack. Like I spend my money on experiences, and that’s the number one thing to me. Does Taylor know this? Does she acknowledge your like fandom? No, but I think she’s probably a little bit like Yike’s lady, you know, like I know, come on, I mean, I’m sure she’s she loves her fans, so I’m sure she’s like that’s cool, But I don’t.

I’m not waiting for anything from her, like I truly am. Like I come at it from like I just am a fan. I like watching her perform I’m not trying to angle for any like. I wonder if she’ll give me a letter or something, you know, right, I just I like, I like to sit back and watch her shine. Taylor did not make any jokes about Joe Koy, which is a shame.

Back to gaff again, Jim was on the Red carpet and this is pretty painfully unfunny. It never gets old. But I like to thank a time Grammy loser. Yeah, you know, no, I am so thrilled to be nominated, but I uh, it’s yeah, it’s weird. I don’t have an expectation of winning.

But that’s also you know, that’s the better vibe to carry into the event. I’m so excited to be here, and I’m dressed like a Batman villain, so that’s all you need to do. Your category step too with your friends. Oh absolutely, and people are having incredible years and there’s legends, so it’s it’s it’s really just cool to be included. Well, for the record, villains usually do dress better than the hero, so that’s right.

That yes, so maybe maybe since I’m dressed like a villain, maybe I’ll win, you know, I like that, I’ll steal it be weird. It’ll be another thing to get used to winning, because I’ve never really I mean, i’ve won, you know what I mean at being nominated. We’re going to change the telepromver so fast in the event that you win. If I win. Yeah, now I’ll do it where I won.

I can’t believe I won. What does this mean to you? It was so great and I feel like, you know, I’m just so humbled by all of it.

And now we’ll do it where I have to split it with someone.

Okay, where we splitting it with Nikki Trevor. I think it’s Nicky all right here, We’re gonna do it where. I’m like, I’m so happy for Nicky Nikki one. And you know, I’m so happy also for Trevor for winning because he you know, he’s been part of the Grammys, and I think he was great tonight. I’m so happy for Ricky, you know what I mean.

It’s like, it’s good that he’s being acknowledged. And I’m and I’m thrilled for Dave because finally he’s he’s winning something. I mean, he hasn’t ever lost, but I’m so happy that Dave Chappelle, a legend, is here to take every single award from every comedian. Aprigetzi will start in a super Bowl ad for door Dash. Now what’s interesting is usually they released the Super Bowl commercials early.

They didn’t release the commercial, they released a teaser for the commerce. So let’s listen when. We say five dollars on that takeout order, five dollars saved on my. Six hours and savings all crucial order. That to consider Corofesion starters.

Equals that’s a fifteen that I trimmed a little bit. The ad during the super Bowl will be a thirty. Nate told Variety, I used DoorDash regularly. I used it two nights ago. I’m only not using it right now because I’m in a hotel, and then I’ll be back at it.

DoorDash approached him after hearing Nate joke about DoorDash during his most recent SNL appearance. Of producing commercials, Nate says, it’s like, you know, making a mini movie. There’s not a live audience or anything, but it was all still enjoyable. I’m in trouble if I ever go to something that’s not going to be fun. He had hoped to keep his super Bowl project quiet.

He debated whether or not he should tell his parents. He did. He’s now excited for more people to see him, he said, not a lot of people. It’s gonna be a big, big surprise that it’s happening, and I can’t wait to see what people think. John Stewart lost a bet and he had to go to the next game.

At Madison Square Garden. Decked out in Philadelphia Eagles gear, John was booed by the Nicks. Faithful John had a bet against Nick star Jalen Brunson. They had bet on the Eagles Giants game and the Giants lost. John had to pay up in a Saquon Barkley Jersey.

Saquon used to play for the Giants, now plays for the Eagles. Jalen came over to compliment John’s fit.

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Also at the Knixt game, Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her.

She’s got a movie coming out Wednesday, and boy, Amy, for the amount of press you’ve been doing, for the amount of stories’s been sharing, this movie better be good. Because if it’s not good and you’ve used your entire arsenal promoting it, I don’t know where that leaves you. You know, During halftime at the Knicks Lakers game, the Knick City Dancers invited Amy to the court. The cheerleading squad called out Amy, who pretended to be shocked at the gesture and then flawlessly executed a dance to Uptown Girl by Billy Joel. She was recreating an iconic scene from her film train Wreck, which came out ten years ago.

The coordinated number featured Amy Schumer front and center. The dance ended with a group pos Amy blue kisses to the crowd. The crowd included Lebron James of the Lakers, who was also in train Wreck. She also was given the title Rookie of the Year. In a feature on the Nick City Dancers Instagram, Olivia Munn went on Amy’s instat and wrote, this is iconic.

Chelsea Handler added yes, Katie Couric, who was at MA, she wrote, so glad I was there to witness this go Amy. Amy has revealed that she called Kim Kardashian to get permission for a joke that’s in the new movie. Amy was on a satellite radio program and said, I want to make the show where I’m reading a kid instead of a bedtime story at Tabloid. I pitched Kim a couple jokes. I asked if she would mind.

She didn’t mind. How cool is she? Spoilers in case you’re excited about Amy’s upcoming movie. There once was a family of beautiful princesses called the Kardashians, and they lived in a palace that their dad bought them by defending a murderer. According to Amy, Kim had no issue with the joke about her father, Robert Kardashian.

Amy said, She’s like, yeah, I do the one about my dad defending a murderer. She was that chill. She’s such a good sport kind of pregnant. Out tomorrow. Are you excited?

Yeah? So you need something to watch tonight. Good news Hulu has acquired the rights to Stavros Haukias’s Let’s Start a Cult. That was the Indie Dirk comedy co written and executive produced and storing Stavros. It is out on Hulu now.

Pete Davidson has revealed how many tattoos out of his two hundred he will keep. Pete told Jimmy Fallon, maybe like two or three. Pete told Felon that he probably had like two hundred tattoos, most of which are almost gone. Now I’ve been burning them off. They burn off the layer of your skin.

Then it has to heal for six to eight weeks. You can’t get in the sunlight, and then you’ve got to do it like twelve more times. Fallon was curious why he had gotten so many tattoos. Pete said, I don’t know. Everybody was getting tattoos like five years ago.

Remember that Fox Business reported on Matt Rife digging the Rhode Island suburbs. Raife said, there were three things on my checklist. I wanted to get what I was actually paying for. There was a massive place that was probably the same price as a two bedroom with no yard in La I needed to have some kind of comedy scene, and Providence has the comedy connection out there. Great Club Boston’s forty five minutes away, an amazing comedy scene and convenient for travel.

Providence is like my Burdbank Airport in Boston is like my lax. How did he find Rhode Island? You know what I mean? He said, I was performing on Vehican Son five shows something like that. Mohegan Sun is a casino in Connecticut.

If you’re not familiar with Mohican Sun. Thus northeasterns or mohegan Sun was an hour away and we were on I don’t know Zillo and I was like, oh, I’ll peep this real quick, and we went and checked it out, and I was like, this costs like one show at mohegan Son. Awesome. Fox Business reports Rife’s comedy tour grossed more than most of the biggest names in comedy last year, topping everybody but Nate. Nate’s tour reportedly had a net gross of eighty two point two million dollars last year, selling over one million tickets.

According to Billboard, rif’s two hundred and fifty six shows sold seven hundred and thirty three thousand or so tickets, grossing fifty seven and a half million dollars. Always good to hear from the listeners. I heard from andres who reacted to my commentary over the weekend where I explained I’m a slider. In case you missed it, at some point, I’m from a different universe. At some point I made the jump from where I’m from to this universe where you guys spell the names of certain celebrities differently.

Where I’m from. The guy from Flight of the Concords is named Jermaine Clement with an R Andres roade, Hey, man, I heard what you said about Jermaine. I’m not sure if it was specifically spelled with a J or could have been a G, but definitely had an R. On Flight of the Concords. Thank you.

Andres is currently where I’m from. A new book called Fight Inside the Wildless Battle for the White House claims that Elon Musk and Dana White convinced Joe Rogan not to interview Kamala Harris. The book claims Harris’s team wanted to do Rogan and was willing to accommodate Rogan. Rogan’s team had insisted on doing the interview at Rogan’s studio. The only time Rogan has traveled for a guest was in twenty nineteen to speak with whistleblower Edward Snowden.

According to the book, given Rogan’s demands, the Harris team rearranged her schedule to do a campaign event in Texas. As the story goes, Harris’s deputy campaign manager told Rogan, we could do Friday, the twenty fifth. One of Rogan’s reps said, which we had known about the sooner because he has the twenty fifth, blocked out as a personal day campaign person. What about Saturday morning? Rogan’s team only if it’s before eight thirty am, campaign manager, the Vice president of the United States is offering to come to your effing show, and you keep putting up more hoops.

The Harris team continue to try and make it work. Then Rogan was like, nah, never mind. On October twenty fifth, the day that Rogan had the personal day, Trump was in Austin. Who appear on Rogan’s podcast. I guess that makes sense that you can’t tell the Harris campaign that Trump is coming the day that you want to do it, So that all makes sense to me.

Fun story regardless of that, is your comedy news for today. If you are finding the program on the new YouTube, a twenty four to seven stream, what I’ve done is I’ve created just an audio channel that plays, say, like the last two weeks of this program on a loop. If you’re finding this program this way, there’s no video. I know you figure that out by now, but like people get mad and they’re like, oh, oh, there’s no video Because there’s no video. It’s an audio podcast that I stuck up on YouTube.

But I appreciate you sampling the show, and it does come out in audio form seven days a week at three oh five am Eastern Time. If you want to follow in a podcast app. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Dave Chappelle, Joe Coy, Nikki Glaser, Taylor Swift, Eddie Murphy, Amy Schumer, Adam Sandler, Eliza Coupe

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah Grammy Awards hosting monologue performance
• Dave Chappelle wins third consecutive Best Comedy Album Grammy
• Nikki Glaser reaction to losing Grammy Award
• Eddie Murphy Netflix documentary announcement
• Amy Schumer movie ‘Kind of Pregnant’ Netflix release
• Eliza Coupe Sydney Comedy Festival appearance and interview

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with an early release of Monday’s episode in Today’s Daily Comedy News. It’s about a twenty pm Sunday night. I just watched Trevor Noah open up the Grammy Awards, and, as they say in comedy, he ate it. Not a good monologue at all.

I had the laptop out and I was gonna pull clips and there’s nothing to pull. Really flat monologue. Now you may recall Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes with nine days notice, if I remember correctly, and he didn’t do all that well, although he was much better than Trevor was tonight. Trevor only got announced hosting this a few weeks ago, so maybe there is something too needing to work on these award shows for several weeks. But I wish I had more to say about Trevor.

I’m on social media, people on Twitter and on threads and Facebook as well. Nobody reacting well to Trevor and Noah’s monologue. It’s still early. Maybe things look get better. The Grammy for Best Comedy Album went to Dave Chappelle for The Dreamer, his twenty twenty three New Year’s Eve Netflix special.

That was the one where Dave joked I love punching down. So I’m sure we will have Dave Chappelle reaction pieces all week from the people who get mad that Dave Chappelle even exists. This is Dave’s third win in a row in the category and his sixth win overall. So right now he is the Tom Brady of comedy. I mean six Grammys, three in a row, three peat for Chappelle.

Yeah, we’ll break that down in the upcoming days. Nikki Glaser was at the Golden Globes. She found out walking into the arena she hadn’t won. She said, I already lost. I know what happens.

They gave my award away already. Dave Chappelle got it. There’s no ceremony like televis so I’m getting my hair and makeup done and it’s already been determined that I didn’t win. The Comedy Album was announced around five pm Easter and I saw it in social media and Nicky said, no one texted me about it. I just had the most random person in my life, goes Dave Sappelle.

Again, I go, what are you writing about? No one on my team bad News wants to tell me. They just want you to find out the hard way. She was excited that Taylor Swift was gonna be there. She said, Taylor’s not performing, but she’s presenting, so I’ll get to hear her talk and be poetic in that way.

So I’ll take it. I just can’t wait to see what she’s wearing. I can’t wait to see her talk and maybe reveal something. You know, we’re used to her announcing something. I’m so excited it’s been a while.

I will not be bothering her. I’m gonna play it cool. There’s no need to be worried about what I’m going to do, all right. More about the Grammys on Tuesday’s episode.

In other news for US old people, Netflix announced that Eddie, a new document…

In Eddie, Eddie Murphy looks back on his extraordinary journey and looks ahead at what’s still to come. The film chronicles his rise from teen comic phenom to SNL breakout and stand up super nova to box office titan. I wonder if Eddie will be at SNL fifty. I guess he absolutely will. Especially if he’s going to be promoting something like this, which is a victory lap.

The doc illuminates the evolution of Eddie Murphy, the trails he blazed and records he broke on his way from Brooklyn Upstart to Hollywood. Icon can tell several publicists and probably an agent and a manager worked on this paragraph. In the film, the Oscar nominated actor opens up his home and dives deep into his eclectic, nearly fifty year career. In his own words, he talks about entertaining three generations of fans with a filmography that spans comedy, action, drama, animation, musicals, and family fair Friends. Co stars, directors, and fellow comics offer insight into Murphy’s singular life and career and the influence that has had with breakthrough stand up films like Raw Eighties Megahits, Beverly Hills, cop coming to America and trading places through nineties classics like The Nutty Professor, the Shrek franchise in the two thousands, to his Oscar nominated performance in dream Girls.

We kind of skipped the last twenty years there, I see. Dream Girls came out in two thousand and six. In case you’re curious. I don’t know if you know this. Amy Schumer has got a movie coming out on Wednesday, and Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so we will.

Now, how will Amy get us to talk about her? Today? With this headline? Amy Schumer reveals harsh joke she told Adam Sandler after Adam Sandler fled from the wildfires. Now, I have the clip from the tonight show.

I’m going to play it for you. I want you to pay close attention here. Pay close attention to poor Jimmy Fallon trying to pretend this is funny there with a visual Jimmy Steward that the poor guy is just faking it. Here, let’s listen. Adam Sandler, who is I mean, the greatest.

What was it like working with Adam Sandler? He’s such a perfectionist, Like he’s like, it’s just what you hoped it would because, I mean, obviously everyone like we’ve all grown up watching all of his movies, and it’s like, don’t you quote his movies like twice a day by accident? Yeah, of course, no conditioner is better like you. Every day. I did make a joke to him the other night that I don’t know how this is going to go.

But he was just you know, his family is like, you know, some some people, one of the people who’ve been affected by the wildfires, and you know, and he’s sitting at this dinner with us. She’s like, yeah, I just had to grab like two shirts and get out of there. And I’m looking at his shirt and I’m like, and you grabbed that one? You know? Did you see the Hawaii And.

I’m like, is that that’s some one new outline? Does you gotta make you gotta make your friends laugh? He laughed, he’s a good, good audience. Well, we all need comedies. So we got to watch this movie.

Only two more days until Kind of Pregnant. Amy Schumer’s movie is on Netflix on Wednesday. Can’t Wait. The Sydney Morning Herald caught up with Eliza Selessenger. She’s going to be at the Sydney Comedy Festival.

That’s not until April, but she was doing some early press. Eliza explained, to be a successful comedian, you have to come up with funny observations that people can relate to. But they’ve never heard anyone say before. She explains, we’re all thinking the same thing, so it’s about tapping into the things people were too afraid to say. How you know, it’s a good joke because when people confess after oh my god, I also shaved my big tail, where I’ve also had those weird thoughts about our principle or something like that.

The more vulnerable and honest we are as humans, the more we realize just how weird and connected we all are. The article tells us she’s had six Netflix specials today six and has built up a fan base so passionate that some make art based on her work. Eliza said, to see my art digested and given back to me, presents it on someone’s shirt or in a painting or drawing, It’s an incredible exchange. Although she has champions some liberal causes, she explains, I think you might have an idea of how I vote, but I kind of run down the middle politically at this stage of my career. When you buy a ticket to see Eliza Selesznger, you’re buying a ticket to escape and to feel seen, not to come to a political rally.

We’ll save that from my online rants. I definitely have the freedom to say whatever I like, but because it’s your freedom and you’re right, doesn’t mean it’s always a good idea. I think people have to understand the intention, both the people being offended and the people enjoying it. My intention is always to entertain and uplift. It’s never hurt anyone’s feelings.

When people don’t watch the full joke or someone’s full hour, they remove intension and then we’re all just defending each other. I find that the people most nervous about the woke stuff tend to be white men who are tired of being told that they’re wrong. The truth is, setting out to find anyone for a cheap laugh, you’re probably gonna be okay at the end of the day. We could all consider each other a little bit more. However, on the other side, I think people need to tough it up so per usual, right in the middle and take no side.

James Austin Johnson was on Seth Meyer’s show. He broke out an impression of Kamala Harris. Let’s listen, this is Kamala Harris hosting a cooking competition. Here we go, let’s try it. I think what the American people want to know is can the remaining five chefs take these family food classics cheeseburger and fries, meat loaf and mashed potatoes, vegetable lasagna and utilize those ingredients to create a five star gourmet meal for Debbie May’s our Bobby Fla and Michael Rappaport.

You have three hours not bad. As we recently discussed in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to join us in conversation there. His Trump has been drifting a little bit the kamala urright. I don’t know what you do with it, especially at this point, but okay. The La Times asked Gabe Iglacy as how he got involved with Funko pops.

Gabe said, I wasn’t a fan of them at first. I didn’t know what they were. Someone pulled me aside and they’re like, these are really popular, and I’m like, it’s weird looking. I started looking into it, and the next thing I know, we make a phone called a funk Go and said, hey, you guys have TV Funko pops, you have movie funkel pops. You don’t have comedians.

You guys should have comedians. There’s a lot of funny comics out there. I told them I’m interested in being the first, and they’re like, well, we know who you are, but that’s not a thing. Two years later we tried again. They said, well, we know who you are and we’re not interested in licensing, but if you’re serious, we’ll produce the figures for you, and you have to buy so many and you sell them.

We won’t even carry them in our stores, but we’ll make them, Gabe said, The founder of Funko, later admitted to me they should have licensed my doll when they could, because I sold so many. I think we’re on model number eleven. Now. It’s about persistence. I think a lot of times people give up easily.

And you know, if for first you don’t succeed, try try again. From true to old Jermaine Clement, you know him from Flight of the Concords, by the way, I don’t know if you know this. At some point in my life I switched to universes. I can’t explain this, but like I became a slider. I’m from the universe where the guy on Flight of the Concords his name was Germaine.

There was an R in his name at some point where I’m from. But now I’m in this universe where I sit in the Basement and I host a podcast. But where I’m from, his name was Jermaine Clement and the woman from Game of Thrones was Lena. He’d lee there was an extra Ellen there where I’m from. I don’t know what happened.

You might say Mendela effect, but I’m telling you I definitely switched universes. Anyway, Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Concords will star in a Disney Plus comedy. All we know is it’s a series from the makers of Baby Reindeer. No details about the plot, no details about the casting. Jeff Ross was at the Creative Coalition’s Washington, DC event honoring military service organizations, and Ross ripped into some people who think that comedy should be watered down.

Jeff said, people they don’t want their comedy water down. They wanted potent right to the stomach, and that’s what I try to do. The reporter asked or certain topics off limits? Jeff said, no topics are off limits. Now.

The kind of comedy I’ve always done is okay for my fans. Roast fans are the most dedicated. They don’t care about what any fake rules are. What’s funny is funny. You know, there are always be people who are going to pretend to be offended, but those are the people that offend me, you know, hypocrites.

Quick stop. On gossip Corner, a source close to Pete Davison tells people that Pete is still friends with pretty much all his exes, including Kim Kardashian. The insider also shared that nothing bad happened between him and Madelin Kline just ran its course. He and Kim still talk occasionally. He’s a good guy and they root for him.

Jeremy Piven’s going to be doing some stand up comedy this week at the Arlington Improv on the seventh and eighth. Pivens says, this has been an incredible journey. You have to face your fears, and one of my greatest fears was stand up. So for about a decade now been out there touring, just getting up on stage, working through it. It’s been amazing.

Being funny isn’t enough. You can make people laugh, sure, but standing up there alone it’s a whole different game. You learn real fast. Your material hast to land. You have to connect.

Once you get that first laugh, though, it’s like, okay, this is possible. He knows people think they’re coming to see Ari Gold. He leans into it and he says, I tell stories about having guys come up to me a urinal smacking on the back like I’m a douchebag because of you. And he laughs and says it’s like, dude, I’m just trying to pee here. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Taylor Swift, Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Joel Kim Booster, Amy Schumer, Gary Gulman, Pete Davidson

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah hosting Grammy Awards with minimal press coverage
• 2025 Grammy Awards Best Comedy Album nominees and predictions
• Joel Kim Booster hosting 2025 Writers Guild Awards
• Amy Schumer’s negative Ozempic experience and Netflix movie
• Gary Gulman discusses his one-man show and meeting Chris Elliott
• Pete Davidson’s ferry-to-comedy-club project progress

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve got my Suspicion hat on today. Trevor Noah hosts the Grammys tonight. Now.

I am recording this on Friday. It is eleven fifty Eastern Time as I record this podcast, and as of eleven fifty, Trevor Noah hasn’t done any press that I’ve seen about the Grammy Awards. Normally, you would expect the host of such a big award show that’d be like a splash article in the Hollywood Reporter or Variety or one of those, and there’s been nothing. Now it’s possible that you know, he had the cover of the Sunday Times this morning when you got up, but really strange to me that he’s not out promoting this thing. The announcement that Trevor was hosting came pretty late in the game, only like two weeks ago.

He is an executive producer now, but it’s just it’s just weird. And I don’t know why I did see that Trevor was overseas touring, but it’s just weird to me, especially if he’s a producer, that he’s not out promoting this thing. But they’re going to get a good number. I will tell you why. One of the presenters Taylor Swift.

Yeah, Taylor Swift’s gonna get up and present. Maybe she can make a joke about Joe Coy. Wouldn’t that be awesome? I doubt it because nobody knows who Jokoy is, but boy, that would be amazing. So normally I would have an article here where I would tell you what Trevor Noah said about the Grammy Awards, but it doesn’t exist.

I will tell you that Trevor himself is one of the five comedians nominated for Grammy for Best Comedy Album. Now, since we have time, I’m gonna get on my soapbox because I’m from the twentieth century. When you say to me, comedy album, I picture an audio presentation. Right. At one point there was vinyl and then cassettes and CDs.

You know how technology works. Somewhere along the way, the Grammy for Best Comedy Album started going to Netflix specials or HBO specials, and it became a video thing, and that bothers me. The nominees are Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffig and Nikki Glaze and Trevor Noah. Jervas is up for Armageddon, Chappelle’s up for The Dreamer. For both those guys, it’s nowhere near the top of their game, so I will pass on those.

Nikki Glaser is up for HBO’s Someday You’ll Die, which I didn’t think was all that good. Trevor Noah’s special I would pick, except Jim Gaffigan is nominated for The Prisoner, which is only out on album form. There’s no video special for the Prisoner. Therefore, I am all in for Jim Gaffigan The Prisoner. I hope an album wins Best Comedy Album.

If we’re just going in terms of material, I would pick Trevor Noah, but I want an album to win. Ricky Gervas Armageddon won the Golden Globe for Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy. Someday You’ll Die got two Emmy nominations. Chappelle’s The Dreamer was nominated for two Emmys. Chappelle has won five Grammys out of six nominations, including last year for Dave Chappelle What’s in a Name.

Trevor Noah has won twice. Jim Gaffigan’s been nominated seven times, never won a Grammy. Rooting for you, Jim.

Speaking of awards, the Writers Guild announced that Joelkim Booster will hos…

Joel said, being a member of the WGA is one of my proudest accomplishments. Barn None. After a tough couple of years, our union has faced. I’m honitor to get to host a celebration of all the incredible work our memories have produced. I have bad news for Joelkim Booster and the Writers Guild.

Here’s the you guys picked a stupid date. Here’s why. I don’t know if you know this. Saturday Night Live is turning fifty. Yeah, we’ve known this for a while.

The big SNL thing is that weekend, on the Sunday and on the Friday, they’re doing the big music concert. So if you’re looking for press for the Writers Guild on that weekend, you’re not going to get any. SNL is going to be all that people are talking about. Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, So okay, Amy, we’ll talk about you. Every single day.

Amy’s got a movie out on Netflix on Wednesday, and Amy wants us to know she’s no longer on ozimpic. She said she had a horrible experience on ozempic, despite losing thirty pounds. She told Howard Stern, I have this gene GDF fifteen, which makes you extremely prone to nausea, which is why I was so sick during my pregnancy. I tried ozempic almost three years ago, and I was like vomiting and then you have no energy. But other people take it and they’re all good.

God bless them. She said. She lost thirty pounds so quick and look great, but she couldn’t lift her head off the pillow from how nauseous she was. Forbes asked Gary Goleman, what was Gary Goleman’s first drink. Gary said it was either a Budweiser Miller lte at a bar in Bosston in my freshman year of college.

I remember it because I had brought eight dollars to the bar. My friend said, who brings eight dollars to a bar? I was like this. All I have was the guys from my football team. They were generous and wound up buying me drinks.

My big hang up was I was an athlete, and I was concerned it was going to make me less powerful on the basketball court and football field. Gary, what do you drink these days? He says, I’m not a big drinker. Occasionally, I’ll have a glass of champagne at a wedding, and I bought a bottle of McKellen after Neil Pert, the drummer from Rush, died, I’ll have a shot in honor of him on his birthday or the day he passed away. Forbes was curious how that tradition started.

Gary Goleman said, I was listening to Getty Lee’s biography. He reads it and he does such great voices and accents. He said. Out a memorial for Neil. He and Alex Liifsen had a glass of McKellen, and they also put one out for him.

The band used to drink it together on important occasions. So I thought that was very lovely and wanted to add that tradition to my life. They also to ask Gary about his current one man show Grand Delinquent. Gary explained, with stand up, the basic formulas try to get as many laughs as close together as possible. A one man’s show is definitely more challenging format.

I don’t know how to put it in an arithmetic but it’s about twenty percent more challenging. You need a narrative arc and a stronger ending than thank you and good night. I welcome a reasonable challenge. A musical would be way over my head. That’s something that’s close to my stand up but draws more in my acting training and writing skills.

I think I’ve conditioned my audience that I’m willing to share things that aren’t necessarily funny but are meaningful to me. I’m lucky that I have this patient, encouraging, reassuring audience there, and they don’t bristle at this. I hear loud laughs and to faws, and then I hear people who are openly weeping. It’s not what I intended. I didn’t think it would go to that level, but it’s a heartwarming surprise, he told an anecdote involving Chris Elliott.

You feel listen to this podcast regularly. You know I’m quite the eighties letterman fan Gary explained when the Great Depression came out, a friend of mine reached out to Chris Elliott and asked him to watch it one time Chris invited me up to his house in Maine and cooked barbecue at night and stayed up late and told stories and then made breakfast in the morning. I was giddy. I wasn’t able to tell him how crazy it was about his work, because I knew would make him uncomfortable, But it was a dream come true. Favorite Rush song Subdivisions.

Pete Davidson gave an update on the ferry he’s trying to turn into a comedy club. He said, the John F. Kennedy sanctioned ferry. It’s the biggest one. It’s like a five thousand seater.

Believe it or not. Not many people bid on it. A lot of people joke about it. But we have a very extensive plan and we’re a lot closer than people seem to think. The plans include a hotel on the top floor, a movie theater, an entertainment theater, and a shopping center.

Pete explained it’s only been two years and people are like, I guess it’s dead, and it’s like, we need like one hundred million dollars. Give us a second and a story caught my eye from the Phoenix New Times. The New Times wrote, after a racist comedy act did hosted drew pamphleteering neo Nazis to its front door. A particular brewery has a few regrets. Since I don’t know what’s really going on here, I’m going to pull my punches on the specific nouns, but I’ll give you the gist of the story.

The brewery went on Facebook and posted that they didn’t do their due diligence to verify concerns about one of the comedians. According to the brewery statements via The New Times, the comedian was brought along by the headliner. The statement reads headliner informed us he was providing his opening acts, as is very common in the industry. A few days before the event, we received concerns about one of the performers, who we weren’t aware of being on the show. We were assured by headliner that this wouldn’t be an issue.

A mistakenly didn’t do our due diligence to verify these concerns. Apparently, the New Times dms with the comedian in question, not the headliner, the other one who wrote I did two shows that went off with no issues. I went back to the venue of the following night. No one mentioned anything about neo Nazis handing out flyers or them having a locked the gates. I had a diverse audience, including Mexicans and Jewish people.

If this was a neo Nazi event, I’m pretty sure those people wouldn’t have been there, nor would they have hung around after the show to talk to me by my merch and tell me how much they enjoyed the show. So seeing this post seems like a load of horse hockey, and honestly, I’m disappointed in the venue. The New Time sources an employee of the brewery who worked the event, who said, as for the questionable material, there were more shouts of agreement and cheering than it was laughter. It felt more like a rally than a comedy show. The staffer had trouble recalling specifics of the controversial act, but they remembered a bit about the comedian being highly attracted to old school Nazis because they actually have testosterone and will smack you around every once in a while.

The staffer said management was complaining right along with us. We all shot each other painful looks from across the bar, specifically nasty lines. There’s been a nightmare for them and they’re even arguably more frustrated and upset than the hourly staff, simply because of the intense damage control they’re expected to do. Oh there is more. According to this, On Friday, members of some neo Nazi groups I’m not going to promote the particular groups posted photos and videos of themselves on a social media platform, masked and handing out flyers outside the show.

The flyers promoted some of their ideas which I choose not to promote. The brewery said, the views of the performers do not reflect the views of the Brewery, and in no way do we support the presence of any sort of neo Nazi groups around our business. We absolutely do not support neo Nazis, hate speech, white supremacy, misogyny, anti LGBTQ plus or racism of any kind. That’s it. I don’t even know how to wrap up here.

Awkward, But like, I just found that whole thing interesting, Like how did the show get booked? What was said? Why did the guys come by with pamphlets? Seems like there’s a lot more to unpack here. We’ll keep an eye on that one.

Uh, that’s your comedy news for today. Awkward, all right, see to worrow,

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Peyton Manning, Post Malone, Pete Davidson, Gordon Ramsay, Amy Schumer, Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel, Lady Gaga, Ronny Chieng, Bill Burr, Marc Maron

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis Bud Light Super Bowl ad featuring ‘Big Men of Cul de Sacs’
• Pete Davidson HexClad Super Bowl commercial with Gordon Ramsay
• Amy Schumer’s ‘Kind of Pregnant’ movie promotion on Howard Stern
• Amy Schumer’s SNL ‘Porn Teacher’ sketch viewership claims and SNL 50th anniversary
• Jimmy Kimmel appearance at Fire Aid concert
• Ronny Chieng discusses Lunar New Year traditions with Forbes
• Death of comedian Ken Flores at age 28 from heart failure
• Marc Maron performing in Monterey and discussing his podcast approach

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News’s got some more information about sen Gillis’s sixty second Super Bowl ad for bud Light. The campaign will introduce the big men of cul de Sacs. Some of the big men are Beton Manning, Post Malone, and Sheen Gillis. These are regular folks who enjoy grilling in the backyard and talking in the driveway.

The ad will air during the Super Bowl at pays tribute to those neighborhood parties that are happening across every backyard every culd de sac in America. A bud Light spokesperson says, we hope our fans can see themselves in this. I have a clip for you. I have to cut it short because the ad uses the Huey Lewis song Power of Love, and if I let that play through, I’m gonna get flagged by the people that flag things. So let me just play a little bit of Shane here at the top.

You wanna go fishing the one? I got a cole and ask me tomorrow. Pete Davidson will also be in a Super Bowl ad, this for something called hex Clad. In the ad Gordon Ramsey is tasked with having to prepare a meal for a newly discovered alien species at Area fifty one. The twist spoilers the alien is actually Pete Davidson playing himself.

Pete Davidson jokes all famous people are aliens. I see what the company says about the Pete cameo. We had a small list and Gordon was the one who was like, I want Pete Davidson. It wasn’t a hard sell. Pete was a gem.

And the two of them on the set, I mean the only time there was a second take is when they were cracking each other up. There was great chemistry. Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her. She’s got this movie. What is it, uh, something pregnant?

I could just look it up and make an edit here. What is called kind of Pregnant? I think it’s out on Wednesday. You can tell I’m excited about it. Amy went on Howard Stern because she thinks it’s nineteen eighty five and that’s a good way to promote things.

She said. According to Amy, her porn Teacher’s Sketch from the October tenth, twenty fifteen episode of Saturday Night Live is SNL’s most viewed video on YouTube. Amy said, can you believe that the most viewed SNL sketch of all time is me and Kyle Mooney the porn teacher. I want to bring it back for the fiftieth where I’m like a reeltar or something. I was shocked to hear that, and then you’re like, of course, everybody’s a pervert.

Howard asked who wrote the sketch. Amy said, oh, some pervert. You know, we just did it, thought nothing of it. It’s like one hundred something million. It has more than cow Bell.

You know, the most classic people really are perverts. A couple comments here, I’m not claiming I know everything. I have no idea what this sketch even is. I’m sure people are watching it on YouTube, but I have no idea what you’re talking about. And she’s comparing it to the cow Bell sketch, which I absolutely know and probably use the phrase more cow Bell four times a week.

So sure, maybe it’s got views. Plenty of things on YouTube of views, but this is not an iconic sketch. And Amy, if you think Lorne Michaels has time for you, a non SNL cast member at this big fiftieth anniversary thing where he’s got to squeeze in a lot of people and a lot of people that are more famous than you. Good luck. Reps for Saturday Night Live did not respond to Entertainment Weekly’s request for clarification on which writer wrote the sketch.

Writers for season forty two included Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider, Brian Tucker, and Ken Sublette. Other staff members at the time include Michael Ja, Colin Jost, Julio Taurus, and Sudie Green. According to Entertainment Weekly, more cal Bell has only twenty eight million views on YouTube, whereas porn Teacher has one hundred and six million. However, e W says these counts don’t reflect takedowns and re uploads by SNL. More cal Bell was only uploaded five years ago, despite being a twenty year old sketch.

In case you’re curious, second Place is a Black Jeopardy sketch from twenty sixteen featuring Ssher Zamaa, Leslie Jones, Keenan Thompson, and Tom Hanks. Amy also said she often gets a mistake in my fans for Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy and she doesn’t correct them. Amy says people come up to me and even though one hundred percent of the time they’re sure that I’m Melissa McCarthy or Rebel Wilson, I don’t correct them. I just go, Yeah, Bride’s may totally change my life. I should be so lucky.

Those are beautiful women. Oh, we’re gonna talk about Amy every single day. Jimmy Kimmel was at the fire Aid concert the other night. He took the stage late in the show and said, Hi, I’m Olivia Rodrigo. He then thanked the Benefits organizers and introduced Lady Gaga, who is the evening’s final performer.

Ronny Chieng was celebrating Lunar New Year. He told Forbes, the real tradition is centered around meeting up with your family. That’s the core. Everything else stems from that. You’re braving rush hour traffic to get back home.

Once you get there, you’re supposed to have a dinner. There’s gifts exchange and stuff you’re supposed to say, but that all comes from getting family together. Forbes was curious what sort of things one shouts out. Ronnie said, for context, I guess the most auspicious things Americans might say, would be happy New Year or Merry Christmas. For the lunar New Year, we consolidate all of our well wishes for the year.

And it’s connected to tossing the salad. That’s not a euphemism. There’s an actual salad that gets tossed. Okay, move on, good health, prosperity. There are Chinese idioms you’re supposed to shout out.

If somebody said they were doing a business deal, we would say, hope that you kill it. Tonni Mack. You sure about the salad toss? Ronny Chieng explained, we would always have roast pork and roast chicken, noodles, rice and vegetables and snacks, apple tarts. You’ll see mandarin oranges, sunflower seeds, and peanuts.

By the way, sometimes people ask me, like, what do you talk about on this podcast? This and their arranged in these very pretty containers and lots of red. You also have to give red packets with money. If you’re married, you have to do it. If you’re not married, you kind of don’t have to do it, which is nice.

It’s always the older people to give it to the younger people. Ronnie’s not sure how much money he got when he was younger, because in true Chinese fashion, anything we got, we gave it to my mother, so I don’t know how much I ever collected. Ronnie was there plugging some scotch, and thus the thinly disguised paid content asked Ronnie who he would like to have a scotch with. His answer, Bill Burr. He’s an executive producer of my latest comedy special Left to Hate It.

He’s the best, always very supportive and entertaining. TMZ had an update on the death of comedian Ken Flores, who passed away Wednesday at age twenty eight. Ken had been dealing with heart issues, according to the report, and been actively trying to get healthy before he died. TMZ reports Ken had been suffering from congestion of heart failure. TMZ further reports that Ken had been using oxygen and oxygen tanks were found at the residence.

One of Ken’s friends found him in his home after can’t experience cardiac arrest, called nine one one, performed CPR on him. Paramedics arrived. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Sources tell TMZ no drugs are found, no foul play is suspected. Mark Marin is playing in Monterey tonight if you want to go, He’s at the Golden State Theater.

He caught up with Monterey County Now and said, I’m a conversationalist, not an interviewer. I never prepare a list of questions asked my guests. In fact, I don’t really do much prep at all. I just looked for a way to kind of zone in on some way that will result in an intimate conversation. I try to make an audio portrait of somebody.

As for podcasting, Mark said, I was there at the very beginning, that’s all. It was pretty good cosmic timing and help with podcasting on the map. None of us, myself included, anticipated this level of success. It was a complete surprise. Early on Robin Williams and some other big stars came on and were being open like never before.

It was and still is just about having intimate, candid conversations about artists and stars and the processes meant to emotionally and artistically. Maren credits Sam Kinnison with helping Mark solidify his approach. According to Mark, however wrong minded Sam was in some ways, in other ways, he helped me learn about performing comedy outside the standard envelope, doing something about his delivery. Way beyond all the screaming. He had like a preacher like intensity that I liked a lot.

He had a special kind of darkness. People’s ideas about stand up are too narrow. The only responsibility there is to get laughs. However, you can do it. I dare you to tell me I’m not still a stand up comedian.

Well, if you want to go, take on Mark Maron. He’s at the Golden State Theater tonight at eight o’clock. Ticket started forty three dollars. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption.

If you’re on Apple podcaster’s a banner there it says uninterrupted listening. Click that try the commercial free thing for thirty days. After that, it’s four ninety nine a month. If you’re not on Apple podcasters, a link in the show notes you two can get this program without commercial interruption for four ninety nine a month. See tomorrow

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Featured: John Mulaney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nicky Glazer, Amy Schumer, Bradley Cooper, Jimmy Fallon, Bowen Yang, Matt Rodgers, Matt Rife, Adam Sandler, George Clooney, Greta Gerwig

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s new Netflix talk show ‘Everybody’s Live’ premiering March 12
• Comedy Gives Back Firefund benefit show in Los Angeles
• Adam Sandler joining Noah Baumbach’s film ‘JA Kelly’
• Amy Schumer on Tonight Show discussing Bradley Cooper age comment
• Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers book ‘The Rules of Culture Volume One’
• Matt Rife doing pop-up shows at Massachusetts South Coast comedy clubs
• Moe’s show returning with focus on Palestinian representation

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney’s talk show is back. It’s now called Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney. It’ll premiere in March twelfth at ten pm Eastern.

It will air weekly for twelve consecutive weeks. Mlanie said, we will be live globally with no delay. Will never be relevant, will never be your source for news. We will always be reckless. Netflix will always provide us with data that we will ignore.

Now, I forgot to check what day of the week March twelfth is. It is a Wednesday, so this will be your Wednesday night watch. But Johnny Mac is not up at ten pm, so this will be my Thursday evening watch. I am up at ten pm, but I’m not up at eleven pm, and I’m not starting a show at ten pm. That’s how I roll.

Plus Wednesday’s Trivia Night. And you know, I might have had a beverage or two. Maybe I’m a little sleepy. It happens, you know. By the way, second place this week, we’re having a great twenty twenty five.

We’ve got two seconds and a first and an eleventh. But we don’t talk about that. We also have a Hey guys, it’s cold and I don’t feel like going to the brewery tonight. We had one of those I digress. Just like the previous show, Everybody’s in LA.

Everybody’s Live, We’ll tape in Los Angeles. But I guess they changed the name to free themselves up of the geographic anchor. Everybody’s in LA will feature a couch of eclectic guests live your phone calls. Oh guys, he didn’t take my note? Was that segment just doesn’t work?

Richard Kind and same Oh the food delivery robot. Malaney says this will be the one place where you could see Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting next to Nicky Glazer sitting next to a family therapist, with music by Mannekin Pussy, which thankfully is an actual band. So I don’t have to explain to my wife why were you in the basement looking up Mannequin Pussy. Well, you see, honey, they’re an American punk and indie rock band from Philadelphia, formed in twenty ten. You may know them from their twenty sixteen album Romantic.

So I don’t know what you think I’m doing down here. I’m recording a comedy podcast. Laney continued, that’s just a brief sampling of guests. We don’t know if we can lock in Manneck and Pussy, but we’re into with them. I love this next line.

He said, this is a really fun experiment. Not since Harry and Megan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan. Ah, that’ll make for a good episode of Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the Royal family that I’m the writer on, and it’s one of those shows you get commercial free if you do the ad free thing that you know you hear the two people talking about Maline. He talked about the previous version of the show and said, you know, we had a hypnotist, we had an expert on coyotes in Los Angeles.

We had a palm tree expert, we had an earthquake expert. We covered most all natural disasters that take place in California except for one. We just weren’t ready. Apparently that remark did play well in the room. Maline said, it’s one of those shows that neither Netflix nor I really needed to do.

I never wanted a host a talk show, and they were getting out of the talk show game. It was the perfect moment to do this. So twelve weeks it’s apparently gotten a two season commitment. No idea when the second season will happen, but you know, twelve weeks, starting in March, you’ll watch, Speaking of Los Angeles, Tonight is the Comedy Gives Back fundraiser Love the top of this line up here, pat oswalt Zach Galifanakis, Bob Odin, Kirk, Bryan post Sayin, Doug Benson’s on this, Dana gould Is on this, and a bunch of others. The show benefits the Comedy Gives Back Firefund, which helps comedians affected by fires in Los Angeles.

Terrible news from Netflix. Adam Sandler is going to be in another movie now hopefully here. Let me tell you about the movie and they’ll tell you what the hopefully is. It’s a Noah Bomback movie titled JA Kelly. The movie J Kelly features people like George Clooney, Stacy Keach, Greta Gerwig, Laura Dern, Eve Houston, who’s Bono’s daughter, Napple Baby, Emily Mortimer, and Adam Sandler.

Now, whatever you think of Adam Sandler, terrible comedic actor, but he’s not a Naple baby, and he is a good dramatic actor. Maybe he’s doing a dramatic role in Jay Kelly. Maybe perhaps possibly Adam Sandler is taking my advice. Adam, you go. I hope this is dramatic.

Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her. I’m not kidding. I know I’ve been doing that all week. She wants us to talk about her, to the point I already have stuff for sad and Sunday and maybe Monday about how much Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her. She was on the Tonight Show.

She’s out promoting this movie kind of Pregnant that’s coming out, and she wants us to talk about her. In today’s installment of Amy Schumer wants us to talk about she talked about and encounter with Bradley Cooper who says to Amy, hey, I turned fifty this year, and he says to me, Amy Schumer, you fifty, And apparently that rubbed Amy Schumer the wrong way, as she had just turned forty three. She spoke with Jimmy Fallon about fans who say hurtful things to you by accident when they’re asking for pictures. They’d be like, Hi, sorry, I know you just worked out and I’m like, no, I didn’t. I had some ramen and had a kick so I’m sweating where They’re like, I know you’re not wearing makeup, but I’m like, I’m wearing a lot of makeup.

Back to Bradley Cooper, Amy said, I tried to like recover because whatever, I’m forty three, but you know, I’m like, I will be fifty, she told Fallon. She ultimately replied, yeah, no, I’m not Bradley. You know I’m not, but thank you for thinking of me. Schumer said the question got to her because we all want to be hot. This is how bad people want to be hot.

People literally run. She made fun of joggers and peloton writers, saying they’re riding a bike to nowhere to the Wicked soundtrack. Amy Schumer has a movie coming out in February. Bow and Yang and Matt Rodgers are putting out a book. It’s called The Rules of Culture, Volume one, described as a manifesto on culture and a Guinness World Records book for queer people and straight girls who get it.

The book will feature over one hundred insightful, hilarious and utterly immutable rules that govern culture in its current fragmented states. Yang and Rogers said in a statement, I apparently they have joined and become one entity. They have joined the Borg resistance is futile. In their joint statement, they said culture is a shattered mirror on the floor. This is our attempt at gluing every shart of it back together, as we will prove in this book.

Culturists for you, culturists for us, culturists for everyone. Never sure how a joint statement works, but okay, whatever. Hey, if you’re up in the Massachusetts Arie, you might want to look out for Matt Rife. He’s been showing up at local clubs. A week ago or so, he showed up at Fall Rivers Belmont Club.

Then in Tuesday he showed up at the Society Coffee Bar for Whale City Comedy’s latest pop up show. Ashley Thatcher is the founder and director of Whale City Comedy, and she said they went crazy. I never heard of fifty person crowd be that loud. That’s the best part of the show for me. Apparently Rife is trying to get as much stage time as possible, so that’s why he’s coming to the South Coast.

Whale City Comedy’s mission is to grow the local comedy scene beyond big cities like Providence in Boston. Wal City’s known for its lineup of pop up shows and an annual five day comedy festival. Thatcher said, I really love to highlight great local businesses across the South Coast, so we can pop up anywhere, from a batique in Westport to a coffee shop in Somerset, to a brewery to an art gallery. It brings exposure to these places while also creating a fun event. MOA.

Mayer’s show mo is back very good show if he didn’t see season one. The Guardian writes how Moe has found himself becoming one of the most prominent Palestinian voices in the world. When they interviewed him, it was right when the peace agreement came out, and most said, I just got a flurry of text messages about it as I came to my computer. It’s literally teed up and ready to go. Presumably look as a Palestinian man, we’re very suspicious of deals like this.

I’m very hopeful that it’s honest and real and sincere, and that it will lead to real positive change. I just have a lot of skepticism. Whatever people are willing to literally say, Cee’s fire, it’s over no more. That’s always a positive thing. The worry I have is just like it’s been going on for quite some time.

I’ve seen this so many times. I just really want for it to all truly end and for Palestinians to have a real future there. The BBC has apologized to staff members who felt they were unable to raise complaints or concerns about Russell Brand’s behavior when he worked for the BBC. The BBC has published the findings of an internal review into Russell’s conduct when he worked at BBC Radio between two thousand and six and two thousand and eight. There had been a series of accusations made against Russell Brand back in twenty twenty three.

One complaint related to Russell Brand urinating into a cup during a show on BBC Radio two. The BBC acknowledged that had been registered formally at the time, but admitted it was quote not dealt with effect actively. Another part of the report concerned in an allegation that Russell Brand had exposed himself to a woman in the bathroom of the BBC LA office. The investigation asserted that the incident was fairly common knowledge in the LA office and was often joked about. The report says what is clear is that many BBC staff and freelancers, especially in more junior roles, found Russell Brand demanding and difficult at work with and his behavior extreme, but all felt that there was no point in complaining as they believed they would not be listened to, and rightly or wrongly, that Russell Brand is a high profile presenter had the sport of station management.

A couple comments here for me, A don’t know what happened. B absolutely not being dismissive of the complaints. See personally worked with Russell Brand once for twenty minutes. In those twenty minutes, he was extremely professional and extremely charming. Again, I want to be clear, I’m not being dismissive of the complaints.

D having been showbiz adjacent for some time, a person who was at the point in their fame that Russell Brand wants around the time of those complaints, people get away with stuff welcome to show business and not saying it’s right. I’m just telling you it happens. For example, say you’re hosting Saturday Night Live, are you allot of smoke in the theater because some people apparently smoke while hosting Saturday Night Live. I’m on a website here and I just looked up the Smoke Free Air Act of two thousand and two, which protects the health of New York City workers against the harmful effects of secondhand smoke by making virtually all workplaces smoke free. So, for example, say your job is you work the cameras at a late night live comedy variety show that takes place on Saturday nights.

Say you work on one of those, The New York State Clear Indoor Act of two thousand and four impose state restrictions on smoking indoors. These acts impact the following businesses and establishments all office buildings okay, all private offices okay, All food service establishments, all bars, membership associations, all areas of theaters.

Also bank shopping, wall, sports arenas, public transportation.

So let me ask you. Say you’re hosting Saturday Night Live and you feel like smoking on live national television inside a theater in New York City. What happens to you? I don’t know. Perhaps a large fine was sent, Perhaps somebody spent ten days in jail, and it just didn’t get reported.

I don’t know what happens, but I’m telling you, for the most part, you’re sitting there going, hey, should I tell so and so that they can’t smoke here in a theater in New York City during our live variety show on Saturday night. My experience, being show business jacent is going to be yes, let it go. What are you gonna do? So let me be clear. I don’t know what happened with mister brand, could have happened, didn’t happen.

Don’t want to dismiss the people, but when I read in a complaint from BBC that staffers found no point in complaining that, I absolutely believe that staffers would find no point in complaining. Ken Flora is a comedian who helped create the Latin XL comedy show, has passed away at age twenty eight. D L eight Times reports that Ken’s body was discovered at his home at Tuesday afternoon around two p TMZ cites law enforcement sources saying it appears Flora suffered cardiac arrest and no foul play is suspected. His family posted on his Instagram on Wednesday, it is with great sadness that we confirm the untimely passing with our friend, brother and son, Kenny Flores. Please respect our privacy at this time, as we’re all shocked and devastated by the loss.

Flores had just filmed a comedy special in December. It has not yet been released, nore scheduled. According to The La Times, Joe Coy till the La Times. I always check in on him. I truly love this guy.

I literally posted about a pick of his tour schedule a couple days before he passed. It’s all so crazy, gave Iglacius till the La Times. I feel honored to have spent time with Ken. Of course he was hilarious, but above all he was kind, respectful and fun to be around. He will be missed.

Matt Raife posted, you’ll be missed brother. Ken Flores was twenty eight. That’s your comedy needs for today,

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Featured: Katt Williams, Theo Von, Nikki Glaser, Ricky Gervais, Jason Kelsey, Jim Gaffigan, Bobby Moynihan

What’s in This Episode

• Katt Williams and Theo Von discuss reincarnation, fitness, and Illuminati on This Past Weekend podcast
• Katt Williams claims he was offered actresses by Harvey Weinstein in a meeting
• Katt Williams criticizes Kamala Harris and 2024 election results in viral comedy bit
• Nikki Glaser signs multi-year Golden Globes hosting deal after initial million dollar demand
• Jason Kelsey’s ESPN late night show hits ratings low with only 110k viewers
• Bobby Moynihan reflects on nine seasons at SNL and comedy influences like Mr. Show and UCB

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with Today’s daily comedy Newskat Williams was the guest on THEO Vaughan’s podcast. Cat told THEO that black people would be honored to have Theo Vaughn reincarnated as a black man. Kat said, as a black guy, would be honored to have you come through our path. They started talking about everything from fitness routines to religion reincarnation.

THEO said, I think about that a lot, about what it would be like to live different ethnicities, Like if I could handle it, if I think it was fun. Kat complimented THEO on his uniqueness and let THEO know that he does check out Theo’s podcast. Kat said, you, as a black guy, are also not the norm. You’re kind of a singular. He explained why THEO shouldn’t jump to become a black guy, reasoning that there’s a lot that comes with it.

Kat said, there’s certain things that go along with it. They just don’t know how you’d handle it until you got a big asset and then you got to figure this thing out. Everything is different. They discussed fitness. Kat said the secret to his fitness regime is the ladies keep me fit.

I’m heavy into sexual relations. He’s got a little more to his workouts. I’ve got a cold plunge at Jacuzzie and Asana that they do pretty ritualistically. I’ve never been a gym guy. Kat talked about the time he was at a meeting with Harvey Weinstein.

Cat claimed that Harvey got whatever he wanted. I thought that didn’t apply to me because I didn’t care about anything but ladies and business. Then he offered me two actresses like they were playing cards. I was just as shocked as anybody about how powerful Harvey Weinstein was at the time I was meeting with him, how he could not be told no. Last November, Cat talked to GQ and said, it’s not the year of truth, it’s the age of truth.

It’s not that people ain’t been wanting the truth. E set for the first time ever. Whoever them mfors are that would be involved in the Illuminati, in the shadow government and all that stuff that really exists that really runs the world, all of them is eighty to one hundred right now. Kat discussed the potential safety risk involved with being candid. Kat said, I’m honored to get to say the things I say.

When I’m saying them, I assume it’s gonna work out for the best, and I understand if it’s for the worst, then I’m prepared to handle it as well. Kat has previous claimed he was invited to an Illuminati thing with Ludacris. Ludacris denied that Kat told THEA what I was attempting to do was impossible, So before I do this interview, there is no Illuminati. It’s just a joke. It’s just something crazy people talk about.

Whatever it is, that’s the game. If we understood the Internet itself as a government function, then how much privacy would you expect. There’s also a viral video going around where Kat discussed the election currently. Kat did this at a tour stop in La on January seventeenth. Kat is quoted as saying, it ain’t black men that like Kamala down.

Who was everybody the fls Nobody voted for this B word women don’t vote for her. Indians didn’t vote for her. Jews didn’t vote for her. She married a Jew and they did not vote for her. B words that wanted an abortion didn’t vote for her.

It was sad, sad, sad, They say that Kat Williams got more votes and I wasn’t even running. They just wrote me in. I don’t know. I expected more out of Kamala. It’s one thing to at your butt whooped up.

You still got to come out. Man. She didn’t even show the f up for her own She left her own sorority out there in the cold. I’ll have to find an hour to listen to the interview with Kat Williams and Theo vaugh from Radar Online. Nikki Glaser has been signed to a multi year deal by the Golden Globe, but insiders are saying that the contract was only worked out after Nicki demanded one million dollars to return his host.

Radar Online says one million dollars is double what Ricky Gervais used to get. A source tells Rader Online Glazer initially stunned Hollywood by demanding a jaw dropping one million dollars to return next year, but producers ultimately signed her to a multi year deal for a much lower figure. The deal Nicki originally wanted would have made her the highest paid host in Globe’s history, surpassing comedy icons Tina and Ricky. She’s good, but let’s be honest. She’s not vent good, says the insiders.

I don’t disagree. She was asking for more than comedy royalty and that wrote people the wrong way. Ricky Gervais has said he would do the show for free if organizers held it in London. He was asked his price to again, he said free if they do it in Hampstead, otherwise two million dollars. Ricky hosted in twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty sixteen and twenty twenty and says it could be the Golden Globes could offer me ten million dollars for ten minutes work, you know, and I’d be an idiot.

I’d be a liar to say I wouldn’t consider it. But at the moment, given I’ve done it five times, it got better and better for me. I enjoyed them all, but it got better and I’m planning never to do it again. I’ve asked them not to ask me because I can be persuaded that’s true. You know, it’s not a principle.

I’m not sure Jason Kelsey’s ESPN late night show is doing that well. Late Night of reports had hit a new ratings low Friday Night, drawing only one hundred and ten thousand total viewers. That’s less than a third of the audience it drew the week before, and eighty seven percent down from its ratings high on January tenth. Late Nighter says ratings were down among younger viewers, with just fifty one thousand viewers aged eighteen to forty nine. Kelsey’s guest on Friday’s show included Jim Gaffigan.

You may recall he told a quote hilarious story that I didn’t find so funny Late Night or is being fair here? They point out that a line can be drawn from the show’s huge rating swings to what the lead in is. For example, on January twenty fifth, the lead in was the X Games, that had an average of two hundred and forty four thousand total viewers. On January tenth, the night of Kelsey’s ratings high, twenty million viewers watched the Cotton Bowl one point six million. Stuck around for his lead in, Well, yeah, I mean, you could put this podcast on after the super Bowl.

It’ll get a number. I don’t know how week two will do, but yeah, that’s how it works, guys. Vulture has a big piece with Bobby moynihan. I’ll just pick up the SNL stuff. It’s lengthy, just nothing there really grabbed me.

They were curious for Bobby outside of SNL, what were his big sketch influences growing up? Moynihan said, I remember feeling cool when I found out what mister show was. SNL led me to that or the State. Then eventually it was the UCBTV show that I loved. I was walking down the street one day.

I was doing an off Broadway show after college, going like I’m going to be an actor on stage, and I saw the UCB symbol above a door, walked in, bought a ticket, saw the show, and never left. They asked him if he wished he had stayed on the show longer than his nine seasons. I can’t believe he was on nine seasons. He says, yes, I would have stayed. I would have happily been keenan if I had the wherewithal and if I had children earlier, whatever, just to look Lord in the face and go, hey man, I’ll stay here forever.

That being said, I’m glad, I’m done. I went back a couple of years later to do David pumpkins and drunk uncle, and it was flipping a switch on that hadn’t been turned on for years. I realized what I went through those nine years, and I was like, whoa, you realize what it was like and how harted just to do that show. We’re not fireman, but we’re still working hard. By the way, Tom Poppa’s podcast is getting some really good guests.

Now I have to catch up on I have downloaded but not listened to yet. I’m busy. David tell Gaff again, Paul Reiser, Anthony Justin, and Henry Winkler I have not downloaded yet, but also cool guest Leanne Morgan or Shafir, Ronny Chieng, Lisa Kudro and I know I ended on an up inflection there, but I got to the bottom of my list. I thought it was gonna scroll some warp. Anyway, Tom Papa’s podcast is breaking a bread.

I was correct. Bill Ngvall has unretired. Bill had planned to retire to golf with his wife. She got better and got three holes in one during his retirement. Bill said, after the third one, I called my maiden and said, let’s book some dates.

I missed it. I missed the performances, and you can only play golf so much. In hindsight, I should have just taken a break instead of making a big announcement. I don’t think anybody would have known the difference, but it is what it is. I’ve decided to come back, but on a more limited scale.

Before I retired, I was doing sixty to seventy shows a year. Now I’m going back to twenty to thirty. That’s what Larry the Cable Guy said. Recently. Bill talked about the heyday of Blue Collar.

We weren’t doing one hundred and twenty dates a year, but when you add that tour to your individual touring schedules, it became a lot. Ron bailed early. He wanted to do his own stuff, and we get that, but I don’t think we ever got tired of it. I was always open to coming back, especially for the twenty year reunion. We had a great time.

It was during that period. Bill was in three films, launched a serious satellite radio station. I was in charge of that. I loved working with those guys. That’s me Hi, and he was in the WB comedy sketch series Blue Collar TV.

Bill says he’s uneasy about modern culture. I worry about us as a humanity. It seems like we can’t buy anything unless it salts us by some cartoon character. We have a lizard that tries to sell us insurance in a talking box that tells me when I get my colon checked. That’s one of the things that scares me.

Bill also shared when he was on Dancing with the Stars in twenty thirteen, he got engaged in an argument on Twitter with a viewer who accused him of advancing unfairly. Bill tweeted him back and said, look, I’m not sure you know how this show business thing works, but this is not how it works. I don’t walk in on Monday and say, hey, I don’t know who’s getting kicked off this week, but it’s not me, and the TV executives go okay, Bill, you’re still good. Let it go, man. It’s a dance show.

It’s not like I’m affecting your income. Jimmy Fallon made his Broadway debut. He’s in the current cast of All In Comedy About Love. That’s the thing that mulaney had been. In the current cast, Lynn Manuel, Miranda, Adie Bryant, Jimmy Fallon, and Nick Kroll.

That group will be together until February second. Lynn is going to stick around with the next cast until February sixteenth.

Speaking of Broadway just for laughs and sign on as the co producer of the Br…

They’re building up a company there. There’s just for laughs and just for entertainment, and now they’re doing this Broadway thing. I’ll keep an eye on that and things you shouldn’t say out loud. Where did the story about the Nazi guy go? I knew something was gonna be the last story here and it has disappeared from my notes.

Where’d it go? Ah? Here it is. Australian comedian Tom Ballard has been slammed after performing what appeared to be a Nazi salute during a stand up show. There is a still image of comedian Tom Ballard with his hand outstretched.

And I heard somebody else say, I forget who said this. You can hold out your hand with one finger or two fingers, but you can’t hold out your whole hand. Well, he’s got his whole hand out. He was at the Basement Comedy Club in Melbourne’s Saturday Night Some members of the audience shared the footage with the media. His bit apparently started with him saying you can’t do anything in Australia and the position of a person’s hand when they waved a greeting it someone was central to whether they were breaking the law.

Nazi symbols and gestures were banned by the Victorian government in October twenty twenty three to quote send a clear message that Nazi ideology and the hate it represents is not tolerated in Victoria. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the show without commercials.

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Featured: Madonna, Amy Schumer, Shane Gillis, Jimmy Kimmel, Taylor Thomlinson, Jimmy Fallon, Bill Burr, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Kelsey Cook, Roseanne Barr

What’s in This Episode

• Madonna’s stand-up comedy debut at Comedy Cellar
• Shane Gillis Notre Dame fundraising announcement
• Super Bowl LIX coverage and Taylor Swift jokes
• Trump tariff threats and late-night comedy reactions
• Deep Seek AI and job displacement comedy
• Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Bourdain impression
• Kelsey Cook announces second comedy special ‘Mark Your Territory’
• Roseanne Barr’s new comedy series project

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Caloroga Shark Media. From the basement studio where if you think you hear barking dogs and construction workers, you too. It’s a busy day here. Good show today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

Thank you, DC and band. Madonna stop buy the Comedy Seller on Saturday night to do some comedy. She was brought there by her good friend Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her. Amy’s got a movie coming out. In Insider shared, Madonna was brought to the club by Amy.

She did a full thirty minute set. She did well enough, but the audience was so stunned it was Madonna that it took them the entire set to warm up to her. She didn’t do as well as she’d think she would. She got laughs every time she dropped an F bomb, just because just hearing Madonna curse is funny. What do you mean she didn’t do as well as you’d think she would.

Did you think Madonna was gonna be good up stand up comedy at the Comedy Seller. It’s like a karaoke singer getting up at Madison Square Garden with their gym. Bad talk talking about the source revealed Madonna nailed a joke about with all these Trump deportations, she’s not gonna have any staff left. That got some good laughs, but really everyone was just so shocked she was there. According to the Insider, Madonna was there with her boyfriend and left ten minutes after her performance.

Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her she’s got a movie coming out. In February, shared a picture of herself Madonna taken at the comedy seller. In the picture, they’re both wearing black outfits. Madonna is pecking Schumer on her cheek. Madonna reposted the picture on her Insta along with the caption, last night was fun.

Thank you Amy Schumer making my stand up comedy debut. What a thrill.

And then she said something a little dirty.

I don’t want to share. Thank you. Amy. Shane Gillis is upset that Notre Dame didn’t win the college championship. He said, I was looking at the confetti watching Ohio State and just sitting there.

I called my agent immediately. I was like, let’s book a show and give all the money to Notre Dame. He joked about the funds from the California Wildfire’s fundraiser and said Notre Dame needs a defensive tackle. I need to give that to an eighteen year old. Staying with football, Jimmy Kimmel with an awesome Joe.

Taylor Swift has now been more Super Bowls than the New York Jets. Taylor Thomlinson weighed in on sports betting and pointed out, you can now wager on what Taylor Swift will wear to the Super Bowl. Tomlinson said, Yeah, that’s right. Some guy’s gonna have to go home and tell his wife that he blew their kids college fund because Taylor Swift didn’t wear a ponytail like you thought. Jimmy Fallon said, if you’re rooting for the Eagles, you’re probably from Philly, and if you’re rooting for the Chiefs, you’re probably an NFL referee.

Love it’s some of those calls, man, what are we doing? Jimmy Kimmel criticized Trump. It seemed like Trump to credit for the Chiefs winning. On truth social the President wrote, congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs. What a great team, coach, quarterback, and virtually everything else, including those fantastic fans that voted for me.

Parentheses, mega exclamation point in record numbers. Likewise, congratulations with the Buffalo Bills on a tremendous season. They will do a lot of winning long into the future. Kim Will pointed out, that’s right. The real AFC champion is Donald Trump.

Bill Burr was on Rich Eisen Show. He commented on the referees and said, I don’t think it’s fixed. I think it’s massashed. It’s definitely more backgrounds on one side. It’s thick.

Where’s the money? Come on, man, they got all the stars, I got Taylor Swift. I mean that’s gonna be a lot. It’s a business. Why are they an Edge Tamier League?

Why aren’t they a sports league? I don’t watch Chief games? Strikes me insane. Late night had a pretty good night. I know I haven’t done late night jokes in a while, but this was a good set.

They talked about AI. You may have seen that the Chinese introduced deep Seek in the stock market didn’t react so well. John Stewart asked, who names an AI company after the thing it actually does? Where are your random letters? Where your cheapt your grock?

Deep Seek sounds like what you might use it for. China’s even beating us at naming staff. I know this is bad financially, but has anyone else excited that AI had its job replaced by Ai? Taylor Thomson commented on CEO’s hiring AI’s over gen Z. Listen up, CEOs, this is very short sighted.

If you don’t hire gen Z, who you gonna cheat on your spells with? That’s a very very funny joke. Stephen Colbert weighed in on Trump threatening an emergency twenty five percent tariff on Colombian imports depunch line, into which Don Junior said, wait, not everything from Colin? All right, think about it. After Midnight with Taylor Thomason announced on Thursday they will have their first ever all drag queen panel.

Apparently the panel is Jinx Monsoon, Ben De La Krem, and Peaches Christ. I’m not familiar with any of them. I do want to share with you this impression has been making the round. Comedian Jonathan Kite has a killer Anthony Boardine impression, and he posted a video of an Anthony Boardane episode where Boardeen visits Costco. Let’s just share like thirty seconds of it, But what a great impression.

Cost go a land of abundance where your wildest snack dreams and deepest regrets are sold by the pound everywhere you look, rolling fields of clothing, couches, and cot But one doesn’t come here exclusively for the mounds of groceries and flat screen TV’s, but rather the famous. Eatery Kelsey Cook has announced her second special, Mark Your Territory. It’ll be on Hulu and YouTube on February eleventh. This was recorded in Madison, Wisconsin, after she moved to Minnesota in the dead of winterter to live with her boyfriend, comedian Chad Daniels. In the special, Kelsey Cook tells us about the perks of dating an older man, the insanity of IUD insertions, navigating a parent with dementia, and much more.

It’s notable that this special is going to premiere both on Hulu and YouTube at the same time. There’s a trailer note that she’s working clean here, very good. There’s a couple solid laughs. I laughed out loud at this, stay with it. When he and I got together, we had that conversation about labels because I felt ready to be called boyfriend and girlfriend and he goes, ah, you know, being in my forties, I feel like I’m a little old to be called somebody’s boyfriend, but if you call me your man friend, it sounds like I’m not allowed to near playgrounds.

I was like, all right, well, what are you gonna call me? And he goes, I’ll just be like, this is milady, and I was like, well, we’re not at a renaissance fair, so no.

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Also, I can’t use the equivalent of that.

I can’t be like, mom, dad, I’d like you to meet my lord. And he’s also a comedian. And I wasn’t much of a jealous girlfriend in my twenties, but then some switch flipped in my thirties, and now when I see somebody hit on the person i’m with, I just feel myself anamorph into the cast of Jersey Shore. I am ready to brawl. And he does get hit on.

When he walks on stage, women whistle at him, and at comedy clubs there’s usually a security guard in the back to kick people out in case they heckle. So at his shows, I’ve just started to stand next to the security guard, and if I see a woman laughing too hard at one of his jokes, I just walk up and I’m like, hey, I’m gonna have to ask you to leave. He’s my favorite comedian. Well, he’s my lord. Roseanne Bar tells Variety that she wrote a new comedy series.

It will star Bar and be four to six episodes, in line with the UK’s comedy format. It’s a cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos. Roseanne says. It centers on a small town farmer in Alabama who is saving the United States from drug gangs and China. The protagonist dabbles and growing and selling drugs like cannabis and magic mushrooms.

Roseanne says it’s silly and out there. It’ll contain very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm and they have goats running through their house and stuff. It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii. They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime, and alcoholism.

It’s kind of like the Coen Brothers thing. You may recall. In twenty eighteen, Roseanne Barr made a comment about a Michelle Obama aid that I don’t want to repeat or dance with at all. Barr was then dropped by her agents and the Roseanne reboot moved on without Roseanne. As for the new show, she says she’ll shop into Hollywood.

If Hollywood doesn’t buy it, I’m just gonna make it myself. Does anybody in Hollywood? Like America? Are the people that watch TV? Because the people watch TV would really like to see a show where working glass people win against the enemies of America.

From baller alert dot com, You’re home for comedy news, Eddie Griffin weighed in on Snoop Dogg. You may have seen Snoop and made the headlines for agreeing to perform at Trump’s crypto ball ahead of the inauguration. Some people labeled Snoop a sellout. Eddie Griffin said, Black Twitter’s up at arms because Snoop performed at Donald trump pregame inauguration. So what’s the problem You all didn’t get mad when Kamala lying ass Harris paid twenty million dollars to Oprah to make an appearance.

He got paid. He’s in the business to get paid. He got the right to jump ship f them Democrats. The rest of you, m effer is get your stuff together. Griffin went on to credit Trump for making changes, especially to child support.

Eddie said he already saved you from child support to tyranny from a woman who’s raping your check before you even get it. They doing you just like the GD government, effing you out of your GD money. Trump took care of that. Snoop Dogg has responded to the criticism and said, get your life right. It’stop burning about mine.

I’m cool, I’m together, still a black man, still one hundred percent black. All out to you ball out or till you fall out. When Dave Schappelle hosted Saturday Night Live, he joked about the Ditty parties. Quoting Dave, he said, I saw one thing on the internet. I’m not sure it’s true, probably doubt it’s true, but I saw it.

Some guy who said he knew Puffy was like, yeah, I was at the freak Off one time and Puff was there with Carl Winslow, the dad from Family Matters. Seventy two year old reginaldvell Johnson played Carl Winslow on Family Matters. He had to chime in on the rumor. He said, the stuff that came out is so false, but I have to hear it every now and then. But Dave Chappelle made it funny and I really appreciate that.

That was really cool. He made it seem very civil. It was kind of nice to see him talk about me. I just wish he was talking about something a little bit better than the stupid lie with Ditty, but he made it funny, and I appreciate that it made me look good. The Guardian caught off with comedian Sean McLaughlin and they were curious, Hey, Sean McLaughlin, what was it like opening for Ricky Gervase at the Hollywood Bowl.

Sean said, I don’t know where to begin. The dressing room was bigger than my flat, and the stage is so vast it took me twenty seconds to reach the microphone after my name was called. There’s seventeen thousand people in the crowd and it’s open air, so I could hear my voice ricocheting around the valley. I just tried to focus on my jokes. What was difficult because Dave Grohl was in the front row staring at me.

It felt like walking on Mars or something. But I’m pretty sure I had a good one. The next night, I did a show in the back of a magic club and died as hard as I have in years. Bess Ecko. He says, heckling is pointless.

If anyone is going to ruin my audience this night, it should be me. Can you recall a gig so bad it’s now funny? Sean says. I once hosted a comedy and poetry show at a university’s summer ball. The show started at midnight and the lineup was myself in five poets.

They did some passable crowd work at the top and brought on the first poet. It launched it in a truly horrible piece called instant Rigor Mortis. The drunk students understandably started to leave in droves, but I was obliged to go on stage and introduce poet after poet, each more sow than the last. There were three hundred people the audience when the show started, in less than ten by the time it ended. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, Jim Gaffigan, Conan O’Brien, Tom Segura, Adam Sandler, Ricky Gervais, James Austin Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart’s reaction to Philadelphia mayor’s Eagles spelling mistake
• Pete Davidson attending Eagles game despite being Giants fan
• Jim Gaffigan’s story about quitting football on ESPN
• Conan O’Brien hosting the Oscars and dealing with personal loss and wildfires
• Conan’s dramatic role in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ compared to Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems
• Tom Segura discussing how comedians handle criticism and feedback
• Tom Segura on potential TikTok ban and platform replacement
• Saturday Night Movie review and cast impressions
• Ricky Gervais podcast episodes resurfacing online

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with today’s Daily Comedy News Eagles versus Chiefs. He excited. Kevin Hart, sure is. He’s been all over social media posting Eagles videos.

He even got in on making fun of the mayor of Philadelphia. You see, the mayor was trying to hype up fans by doing the traditional e A g L e S Eagles chant. However, the mayor spelled out e L g l e s. Commander’s fans started selling fly el Goles fly t shirts at its lgate before the game. Kevin Hart joined in.

He posted on Instagram e A g L e S Eagles. If you want to spell it the other way, we can do that too. Shout out to the mayor. Pete Davidson was at the Eagles game as well. People are like, hey, why’s Pete Davidson there?

I thought he was a Giants fan. Well, he is a big fan of Saquon Borkley, who played for the Giants, and the Giants decided we’re not going to re sign you. Are you even good at football? Oops from ESPN. ESPN’s own copy says Jim Gaffigan tells Jason Kelcey funny story about quitting football.

Okay, according to ESPN, this is a funny story. I’m going to stay with it as long as I can because Jim Gaffigan is a fantastic standup comedian when he’s performing written material. But this, I’m sorry, is not a funny story. Let’s listen. Who played at George sound what was your career?

Like, I mean, I feel so imperissed. I mean, I know you’re being caught. I played, I walked on to Purdue. I played for maybe two weeks. Then I transferred to Georgetown, which is Division three weeks to lose to you know, we could probably would have lost to a lot of high school teams.

And I played for a year and a half and I quit. I mean the best was when I because I walked in after two a day. And this is all about quitting, and which is like, I know these guys have been inspiring, but how about the quitters? And I have to hook it there because if I keep going, none of you are going to listen. Now.

Some of you are like drum graffigan rules, You’re just from idiot abasement. I understand that I am some idiot in the basement, But that story is terrible. You’d much rather hear me tell you about Conan O’Brien, wouldn’t you. Conan’s getting ready to host the Oscars. He’s got a movie coming out in November.

Both his parents passed away within three days of each other. He had to deal with the wildfires, and he says, a lot been happening in a very short time, and there’s a lot that happened in my personal life starting in December that was intense, and then going to this month with the fires and prep for what’s coming up. It’s been a time where I just take it one day at a time. He recalled speaking to a woman who drove him to the premiere of his upcoming movie. He learned that she was actually from la and her apartment quote burned to the ground.

Conan says, it’s time to be asking other people how they’re doing, listening to them, and that respect. Some of the things I’m doing, like coming here to sun Dance for the film or the Oscars Award show coming up, that can seem silly and trivial, but they’re also important at the same time, because we keep going, we keep making stuff. Conan was at sun Dance for the premiere of the movie. If I had legs, I’d kick you. This apparently got really strong reviews quote stunning audiences with its emotional intensity.

Conan plays a no nonsense therapist. The film quickly transitions from its supposed dramatic comedy genre into a raw, gripping exploration of the presence of Rose Burns’s character, leaning her into increasingly dark territory. Folks are comparing Conan’s role to that of Adam Sandler and Uncut Gems. Now, you know, most Adam Sandler projects are complete garbage, but Uncut Gems is solid. I want Adam Sandler to do more of that.

Are you listening, Adam, I know you are more Uncut Gems. Please. Even that space thing you did that was a little weird, that was good. I like dramatic Adam Sandler. I actually think you’re really good at that.

The comedies you’re not that good at it. And I realize you’ve made a lot of money and a lot of people have awful taste, but you should be a dramatic actor. Conan’s portrayal of a cold stoke therapist contrasts sharply with Roseburn’s frantic, desperate character. Despite limited scene time, Conan manages to add moments of dry humor, such as the line I don’t respond to emails about my client’s dreams. Conan said the experience is one of the best of his life, and he’s had quite the career.

The Redinblack dot Com talked to Tom Sigora and ask Tom how he deals with criticism. Tom Sigori said, the thing that most comedians probably listen to the most when it comes to feedback your criticism is usually if it’s from another comedian, you’ll never please everybody. I teach this to my college students. So remember Derek Jeter. You’ve heard of him.

Captain in the near Yankees, Remember eight Ron, Remember that guy? So you could be Derek Jeter. Right, You’ve got five World Series rings. Women think you’re good looking, You’re the captain of the Yankees, but everyone’s given you a hard time because they think Alex Rodriguez is better defensively at shortstop.

Meanwhile, over at third base, Alex Rodriguez could be looking over Jeter goi…

You know I’m dating h Nah, I’m a better short stop. No, no, just stay in your own lane, don’t worry about everybody else, don’t read the comments. Toms Gorse says, you never please everybody. There’s the idea that you’re gonna make everybody happier, make everybody laugh. It’s not real.

It doesn’t matter who you talk about. There’s no comedian, no matter their level, that everybody goes. Yes, I agree that person’s the best. The audience also dictates without telling you with words. You kind of know when something’s working or not.

Podcasting kind of works a little bit, almost like minor leagues or your stand up material, because you’re just kind of chatting. Then all of a sudden you realize that there’s something there for the stage. You’re not conscious of it. A lot of times it just happens. Then you give yourself a little note like, oh, that thing we talked about in the podcast, I think that’s a bit.

I think that could actually make that work. Yeah, Sigoura about the potential TikTok ben, he said, I would not be concerned. I know that everybody always does when they have their favorite platform, and the reality is that if it were not to exist tomorrow, other platforms would pop up. The ones that already exist would see and not partaking their growth. There’ll always be someone, so someone will come and fill a void if any of these places go away, And honestly, I wish they would all go away.

I hate it. I was all happy on Saturday Night and I’m like, all right, I’m gonna watch some TV. And speaking of Saturday Night, I didn’t do that intentionally. Netflix put up the Saturday Night Movie and I was like, Oh, I’ve wanted to see this hit play. It is fantastic.

Have you seen this thing? It is great. Gets a little feel goodie in the last five minutes there, but it’s okay. It’s a fun ride. The vocal impressions of the cast, like the guy doing Chevy, the guy doing Acroyd fantastic, Matthew reesis Carlin good enough?

The only thing that confuses me is I don’t know why they had cousin Greg double roll as both Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson. That got a little weird, But it’s fine. I really like this that Rachel sent out. That’s the it girl in Hollywood right now. She’s fantastic in this thing.

HI praise for me on SNL Movie pod News put in their newsletter and their podcast. They noticed that somebody has reposted the Ricky Gervase podcasts. No one knows where these showed up from, but they’re there. At least eight episodes of them are I grabbed them? Remember those from like two years ago?

They were pretty good. They haven’t been around, so you might want to type Ricky Gervaise into your podcast app and grab those before they disappear, you know what I’m saying. Yes, some of us in the Facebook group were discussing James Austin Johnson’s Trump impression, and I’ll go first. When he first came on SNL, I was like, ooh, this is really good. It’s drifting.

If you’d like to chime in on that discussion, please feel encouraged to joining the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I think SNL’s had a pretty rough season. People seem to like that Timothy Shallome episode. A couple sketches were okay, slow news Day here, So let’s click on what Mark Maren can’t live without. New York Magazine did this a few weeks back.

Mark apparently cannot live without Patchuli oil. He says, I just love this stuff and I’m one of the few people that can wear it and not come off as obnoxious. For whatever reason, I had a girlfriend while I was in college who was oddly not a hippie at all, just kind of this punk rock, angry sculptor who was a really important person in my life. She was into Pachuli oil. She sent to me in some sort of witchbag, and that point on, it’s always been part of my life on a daily basis.

Apparently you can get an ounce of Petuli oil for forty five dollars. Mark Maren’s also into the Will’s jacket. He says, it’s got kind of a rugged vod to it. The Will’s jacket is really the thing to get. I don’t run you five hundred and ninety eight dollars.

Mark’s also into White’s boots, the original semi dress. Those are only seven hundred and ten dollars. Mark says, when I was at Spokane, Washington doing a gig, I got in a car with a guy who was driving me and he’s an old dude, an old Spokane guy, and we were talking about boots and he goes, well, they make Whites’ boots here and they’re the best. I’ve never heard of them at the time I went over to Whites and got measured and made some choices about what I wanted on the boot. You had a choice of heel and leather, or whether you wanted a toastrap or no toae strap.

But at that time they had more types of leather to choose from. I’ve got five or six pairs of different kinds of Whites’ boots and I wear them all the time. Mark’s also into the Setaphil gentle foaming cleanser that’s only eleven dollars, and Mark says, I don’t know when I got into this, but I can’t live without it. It has to be this one because the other facial cleanser they have is Smelly for forty five dollars. So you could be like Mark Marin and get some quirkies nuts cold pressed organic walnut oil.

Mark says, I’ve been a vegan for a year and a half and I got obsessed with walnuts and walnut oil, and they seem to factor into my life quite a bit. Lately. I mix the walnut oil in my smoothies because I think it’s gonna fix my heart and brain and give me all the omega threes that I need. Mark’s a fan of the sure SM seven B Vocal Dynamic microphone three hundred and ninety eight bucks. Yep, A lot of podcasters use that one for thirty four ninety five.

That’s a thirty five hundred dollars, not thirty five dollars. Mark likes the Fender Telecaster Custom nineteen seventy eight. He says, I bought that from Howie at Rivington Guitars in New York City. It’s just like a classic Keith Richard’s guitar in a lot of ways. I’ve always been a bit of a telecaster guy.

It was just fortuitous that I found one of that era that has just a great sound. Mark recommends the Kent sixteen sea handmade course fine tooth dressing, grooming and styling comb for men and women. It’s eight bucks. Mark tells us Kent combs are just sturdy. They almost look like hand cut cone.

I go to a bunch of them, and I just kind of a fetish for them. And Mark’s final recommendation for us is Doctor Browner’s Peppermint Pure Castle Liquid soap that runs you a ten bucks at Amazon, twelve bucks at Walmart. Mark says I got to interview the grandson who runs the company. And I got a lifetime supply of that liquid soap, the big things like the almond, the t tree oil, the lavender, and I use it. I haven’t bought a barn a decade or more.

I just use that for the shower and everything. I use it to wash dishes too. Sometimes that’s the stuff man. And somebody show me a note asking John, is it a slow newsday again? No?

Why do you ask? Yes, it’s a slow news week apparently, And that as it is, is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. Join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Post Malone, Bill Burr, Tom Segura, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Jost, Pete Davidson, Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, Tom Papa, James Doomian, Joel McHale, Patton Oswalt

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis and Post Malone Super Bowl Bud Light commercial
• Bill Burr and Shane Gillis LA wildfire benefit comedy show
• Tom Segura interview on comedy influences and social media era
• Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson’s Staten Island Ferry joke
• Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer Razzie nominations for Frosted Pop-Tarts movie
• Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan Canada tour with Tom Papa opening
• Tom Papa on opening for headliners and ego in comedy
• Joel McHale replacing Patton Oswalt as host of The One Percent Club season two

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with today’s Daily Comedy News and I’m gonna have to read slowly today. It’s kind of a slow day, which is all right, it was really busy last week. Tonight is the fundraiser for those affected by the LA wildfires. Bill Burr and Shane Gillis are joining forces for a benefit comedy show.

Shane, You’re gonna hear a lot about Shane the next couple weeks. He’s in another bud Light commercial. In this one, he teams up with post Malone. The commercial will air during the Super Bowl. In the ad, we see post Malone and Shane Gillis dressed in patterned shirts and jean shorts.

They’re standing on a porch. They ring a doorbell while holding a case of bud Light. Shane is wearing a bud Light cap and asks post Malone is this it? While gazing into the camera. They then force a new cashphrase, which is come on.

So when your friends in a couple weeks are doing come on all the time, that’s what this is about. My sense it’s going to get really annoying really quickly. But anyway, I enjoy Shane Gillis, I will continue to read slowly. Red and Black dot Com caught up with Tom Sagora. Redinblack dot Com is a student website, so we won’t follow them for asking the very generic question, Hey, Tom Sigora, what inspired you to get into comedy?

Sogera said, I was a big fan of stand up. I liked laughing obviously, like making people laugh. I thought I was in a comedy acting more, but I kind of fell in a stand up. There were early influences, you know, cosby Eddie Murphy, Carlin, Bob Newhart. As you age, you start to consume more of it, you know.

I went to Robin Harrison, and I started doing David Teal Chappelle and Luis c. K. Sigora is ten years younger than I am. His influence is being like Carlyn Newhart, Eddie Murphy. That just seems too old for me, Like, yes, if you’re me, but coming along ten years later, I’d expect some more nineties comedians to be in there.

Red and Black ass Sigora if he has a favorite bit or joke he wrote over the years. Sigora said, I wouldn’t say I have one. Usually when you look back in your different hours, you have a few things that stand out for each ower. They could be your favorites for different reasons. I think the ones you look back favorably on, for me at least, are the ones where you take it from life and you take it to the stage and talk about it and build it into a strong bit.

Tom what’s your perspective on how comedy has changed in the age of social media? Segora has said, I mean, comedy’s broader and more consumed to different mediums than ever before. We’ve never seen anything like this, So anyone can grab a phone and upload any type of video and it’s good and that the truly talented will stand up. You’ll notice them.

And then you’re also bombarded with just obviously so many awful things.

But that’s just kind of the nature of it. It’s like you have to deal with the bad to get the good. With stand up, We’ve never had a more popular error for stand up. We’re literally in an unprecedented golden age, and it’s for sure because of accessibility and the Internet, and some of that is social media too, But you kind of have to remind people there’s nothing wrong with being great at it on social media. But you’re not in the same categories.

People will get on stage. If you want to get on stage, you’ve got to do it. Sounds like mister Sigora is not a fan of quote unquote TikTok comedians. That’s what I’m reading there. Scarlett Johansson would like her husband Colin Jost to sell the Staten Island Ferry that Jost bought with Pete Davidson.

Scarlett was on The Today Show and said, if anybody out there would like to start a GoFundMe for the Staten Island Ferry, please be my guest. I don’t know if I’m speaking for the Staten Island Ferry or against it, but help our family. Okay, this has now become a telethon for support the Staten Island Ferry. Colin Jos said to Scarlet, I hope you have a good thick pair of gloves at home, because someday you’re going to be getting so many paper cuts from all the checks that start rolling in from this ferry. It’s gonna put food on our table.

Finally, Scarlet, if we sell it for scrap metal, we could actually maybe, Jost, that’s what you need the gloves for. Handling the scrap metal. We’ll see, You’ll all see. Congratulations to Jerry Seinfeld. He’s been nominated for Worst Actor by the Razzies.

Apparently the folks at Razzies didn’t think that Pop Tarts movie was good. I enjoyed it, but I guess I’m right in the demo wheelhouse. I thought it was funny. Amy Schumer nominated for Worst Supporting Actress for what Cracked dot com calls her unlikable turn as breakfast mogul Marjorie Post. Seinfeld got a second nomination for Worst Director.

On Frosted got a nomination for Worst Screen Combo. Nominated for any two unfunny comedic actors. It’s unclear to me which two unfunny comedic actors they mean. Apparently Cracked did not like the Pop Tarts movie. Again, I liked it.

They went out of their way to compile some reviews. Matt Zoler on Roger Deeber dot com apparently had said it’s not only a critic proof movie, it’s an artistry proof movie and an audience proof movie. Richard Roper apparently said if there was a thing called the IMDb Witness Protection Program where you could get your name taken off the credits of a chick of the project. This would be that project. Oh boy, Jerry’s out on tour with Jim Gaffigan.

They’re playing Canada and Tom Pop is opening. That’s a good show. When Tom Pop is in the three slot, that’s pretty good. The News Herald asked Tom Pop about opening Tom’s headliner at this point in his career, and Tom said, we’re all good friends, and they asked if it’d come along and join them for this little Canadian run. It’s very cool to be able to hang with your headlining friends that you never get to hang o with when you’re working.

It’s a big part of why you do it. You normally are all out on your own. Could follow up by the News Herald who We’re like, it’s interesting there are some veteran comedians whose egos, well deserved or not, would have a hard time taking that opening gig. Papa said, I’m successful enough for my ego doesn’t get in the way. I have my audience, but their audience is larger.

They both draw more than I do. That’s just the reality. So it’s cool to be able to play a fifteen thousand seed arena. I’m honest enough to know I can’t fill this fifteen thousand seed arena. But I just love comedy and love those guys.

It’s the same when my friends go out and open for Chappelle, or if they go out and open for Bird Kreischer on his Crazy tour, or all this stuff kind of ebbs and flows. I think it’s a blessing to be a comedian, and it’s a blessing to have friends that are doing so well. You rarely let your ego get involved in show business, especially if you want to be happy. That’s good advice from Tom p Opper right there. Truth be told, It’s more fun being in the club than it is an arena, just as a personal feeling, the audience giving the feedback.

The arena’s a little too big. You don’t feel it, you don’t connect in the same way. You could do a great show. But I love clubs and smaller theaters just from a pure experience. I don’t want to jump on it, but I couldn’t see going to see a comedian in an arena.

And the last laugh got up with James Doomian. They point out that one of the top comments on James’s video is that Lorne Michael’s not hiring James is the biggest fumble in comedy history. James said, who knows, Maybe that was Lorne Michael’s drunken feeling guilty, maybe as a secret YouTube comments page where he goes to confess his regrets. Bad news for Patton Oswalt, Patton, I hope you’re not hearing this from me. You are no longer hosting the game show The One Percent Club.

It is getting a second season, but not with you. For season two. Joel McHale takes over as the host. Joel says, I’m one million percent excited to be partnering with Fox to host The One Percent Club. I absolutely love the show and love the gameplay to the ten x and guarantee my hair, makeup, and wardrobe will look great at least sixty eight percent of the time.

But now I have good news for Patton Oswalt. Patton, you have a different gig. You’re apparently going to be on Suits La. This is the spinoff of Suits People Got Into Suits on Netflix. NBC has shared a trailer for suits La.

Some real actors portray themselves in the series. Those actors include Patton Oswad and Brian Baumgartner, Kevin from the office. He’s gonna be on Suit’s La. Why, I don’t know, Johnny Mac, Is it such a slow news day that you’re taking the headline from Newsweek? Is Joe Rogan running for governor?

Is it such a slow news day that you’re taking that seriously? Why? Yes, it is, dear listener. Now, before I even do the story, do you think Joe Rogan’s running for governor of Texas? Of course he’s not.

It’s clickbait. But I clicked on it. What did they write? All right? So apparently Joe Rogan’s there.

He’s hosting his podcast. He’s talking to his guest, and Joe says, many politicians are just actors who are ugly, and they’re like, well, I can’t really make it in show business, and I want a lot of attention. I want to be a special person, so I’ll do politics. I’m good at b sing. Most people, you know, they’re trusting, like, oh, he’s saying the right things.

If you say the right things, you know, abercadabra, and then the next thing you know, you’re an effing governor. Will Joe run for governor? No? All right, he’s made that clear. No, I’m not running for nothing.

I don’t want to do nothing. That’s a double negative. Maybe he’s trying to head FACUS. He wants you to think he’s not running for governor. But he said I don’t want to do nothing, which means he wants to do something.

He also said I’m not running for nothing. Double negative. So maybe Joe Rokan is running for governor. What do you think? Yeah, that’s what Joe’s doing.

He is trying to head FACUS, and then when he runs for governor he’ll say no, I said, I’m not running for nothing. This has been out there since twenty twenty five. Were you coming at me now? That’s what he’s saying. Josephs I have the best job in the world.

I get to talk a crap with zero responsibilities. If I get something wrong, I go listen. I’m a moron while you’re listening to me in the first place. I have no desire in any way, shape or form to have anything to do with anything involving politics. I don’t want to be in control of it.

Sometimes I’m proud of myself with this program. You know, it’s pretty easy when there’s a ton of news. When I somehow can make an episode out of nothing, and I’m doing that right now. I am happy. Apparently there’s a pee Wee Hermann documentary this on HBO.

Called from forty hours of interviews and thousands of hours of archival footage, Mount Wolfe has made a documentary pee Wee as Himself. The Hollywood Reporter says, one of the many pleasures of peace Ue as Himself is getting a sense of Paul Rubins as a separate personality, even as the possibility never quite leaves your mind that Paul Rubins, as featured in pee Wee as Himself could be every bit as fabricated as pee Wee Herman. Rubens filmed forty hours of any rus with wolf That’s a lot, and the impression conveyed by Peewee as Himself is one of constant push and poll rights The Hollywood Reporter. Part one is dominated by Paul Rubins storytelling and reflections, though there were appearances by his sister and friends from college and some people from the groundlings. The second episode picks up with Pee Wee’s playhouse.

The hollod Reporter says Rubens is candidate and perhaps regretful about some of his controlling behavior on the show and its eventual demise. I’m sure people will enjoy that. Pee wee Herman, and none of that was ever really my thing. I’m not anti, but not my thing, But I’m sure people will enjoy that. One.

Sketch Fest is dark today, but they have a pretty busy week tomorrow out in San Francisco. The music of the Kids in the Hall, Bruce McCullough, Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson and the Red Room Orchestra at the Greed American Music Hall. That’s fun at that same venue on Wednesday, Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers and a whole bunch else this week. You can check it out at SF Sketchfest dot com on the schedule tab there. And that’s your comedy news for today.

If you enjoyed the program, tell a friend about it and hopefully they’ll enjoy it too. It helps me grow this thing. Here. Another way you can support the shows, you can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Now.

Normally I take your money and I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk, but boy, last week it was so cold, I was doubling up. Now, I always get a nice coffee because the iced coffee gets me through the day. But most days. Last week I doubled up and got a hot coffee, which is that’s not Johnny Mac. Johnny Mac usually doesn’t do hot, he does iced, but I needed to warm up in the morning.

And Friday, I treated myself to a hot chocolate, which I think is two hundred thousand calories, but it’s pretty tasty. So support the show, buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Maybe I’ll get a hot chocolate. Who knows.

All right, that was a lot of nothing. Ipe you enjoyed its. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Attell, Bill Burr, Kathy Griffin, Josh Wolf, David Cross

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Attell on the magic of Comedy Cellar and working crowds
• Dave Attell’s sobriety and improved writing and performance
• Bill Burr on authentic emotion in comedy and avoiding political sides
• Bill Burr’s Broadway debut in Glengarry Glen Ross with Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk
• Kathy Griffin on her history with federal surveillance and no-fly lists
• Josh Wolf’s introduction to comedy through Cosby and Eddie Murphy
• David Cross on comedy craft evolution and TikTok comedians

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, While my dogs compete to see who can make the most noisess e record, I’m chick with Today’s Daily Comedy News. David Sell spoke to Newsday and they were curious, Hey, David Sel, what made you make the Comedy Seller your home base? What’s so magical about the Comedy Seller? And a Tel said, for a small room, it’s mighty.

Everybody has worked there, from Dave Chappelle to Chris Rock to Amy Schumer. I know Amy and Dave are tight there. But when you do a rule of three lists and you go Chappelle, Rock, Amy Schumer is just a weird third, I wouldn’t expect that. You know, you could say we see k You could throw in there for example. Anyway I digress.

David Tel said they’ve all played theaters and arenas, but they returned to the Comedy Cellar because it’s like putting on a comfortable pair of pants, not shoes. Pants. I like to go on last there because it’s the hardest spot. Every comic loves. The sound on the staff is awesome.

If I can make someone who works their laugh, then I know it’s a great joke. Because they hear so many. Dave talked about being sober and said, I like to work in the moment. The clearer you are, the better you can think quicker. In my opinion, nobody’s better at working a crowd than David Tell.

Dave says it’s really helped me focus, and I think my writing is a little better now. Plus my performance has gone up a bit. Because there’s nothing to hide behind, you have to just do it. News Day was curious, how did you develop your signature look of baseball cap, gray hoodie and black jacket that Tel said, I was broke, short, fat and bald, so I figured these seem to work. It’s what I feel most comfortable, and plus I’m not really a looker.

Hey, Bill Burr, what makes you laugh the hardest? That a question from Variety, Bill said, authentic emotion. My favorite kind of comedy is stuff that wouldn’t be funny if it weren’t happened to me. A long time ago, I was doing a set in New York City and I’m walking up the street after my set, and the door to this bar was open, and ten people spill out. There are two guys squaring off, and neither of them wanted to fight, but they had to act like they wanted to.

They’re both terrified trying to get the other guy to back down. Now, if you want these people, it’s really scary. Nothing about it’s funny. But if you’re me on the other side of the street watching it, it’s hilarious. Bill Burtr, what’s the worst trend in comedy right now?

Burr said, I don’t tell people how to do things, but I feel like I should be doing is making fun of both sides. My job is not to pick side. You come to see me because you want to forget about your problems. Even if I do make fun of a politician, I always make sure I get them both. If I’m gonna make fun of CNN, I gotta make fun of Fox and make fun of the whole thing because I don’t feel that politicians work for us.

They work for the super rich, and they’re grossly underpaid, so they’re open to bribery. He gives regular people something to get mad at. Like with these fires, people are blaming Governor Knwsom. It doesn’t make a difference that was gonna happen the matter who was governor. They were saying the fire was coming forever.

The right set of circumstances, there’s nothing we can do. Burr’s gonna have a big march. He’s got that Hulu special and he will make his Broadway debut and Glengarry Glenn Ross opposide Kieran Kulkan and Bob Odenkirk. Bur said, rehearsal starts in February, but I did have lunch with a few of the guys from the cast, and the ball breaking has already started, so I know it’s gonna be fun, right, he said, The idea to put you three together’s genius. Bur said, If it was a genius idea, you know it didn’t come for me.

I got in because Nathan Lane put in a word for me. Mass Live talk to Kathy Griffin. They ask Kathy how she feels as a female comedian about the second Trump. Kathy’s answer quote, somebody’s going to shoot me. Some lunatics are gonna get in there and shoot me on stage.

And I’m gonna be a mortar, which is my real dream. So you know, if I get shot, first of all, don’t shoot my face off, like shoot me in the arm. Then I want a long mortar period where they write a DOCU series about me, and then young comedians are seen crying at my bedside, and then you know, since he says we’re not gonna have elections anymore, just take me out at that point. Unquote. That’s an interesting quote there, Kathy continued, let me tell you something, JD Vance isn’t going to be any better, so we need to be worried about the whole line of succession.

In fact, it would feel safer with the cast of the series Succession than our actual line of succession. Sorry, that’s an obscure reference of a now canceled series. But your readers will get it if they’re good in over sixty, which is what I hope. Kathy then went on to praise newspaper readers and said, let me tell you something, traditional media still sells tickets. I can do fifty thousand fing podcasts, and those criminals have me sit there interviewing me for two hours, and then you never know who’s gonna see it.

You never know when it’s gonna air. Good old newspapers. I still do drivetime radio, morning radio, afternoon radio. Some markets even have local TV. But look, I want a little credit because I was literally on the no fly lists, which is the international version of the No Fly List, and the Five Eyes List, which is the terror watch list.

No comedian in history has ever been on those lists. They were held so a different standard. I’m not putting myself in the class of the great George Carlin or the great Lenny Bruce, but even those guys were only hassled by local PDE. I have the FEDS knocking at my door multiple times a week, the Feds, and they don’t f around. They were dying to arrest me.

They were looking. They wanted to know if I had weapons. They wanted to know if I had made travel plans, like if I’m gonna fly to DC, waste that money, climb over the fence of the White House with a machete, look like Kathy Griffin, which unfortunately I still do, or maybe you convince a few people it was Reba, but I’d hate to do that to Riba because I just love her.

And then they’re supposed to believe that it’s broken to the White House and …

I mean, the fact that picture lives on is half comical and half tragic. And that’s where PTSD comes in. The intersection of comedy and tragedy. Josh Wolff told the Minneapolis Star Tribune how he was introduced to comedy. I remember one of my brother’s buddies had a cassette tap of Vettie Murphy.

We would hide in the basement and listening, laughing uncontrollably. I didn’t get all the jokes, but the cadences were funny. One day, the Civics teacher had come Park High School. Must have had a hangover, so he just played Bill Cosby himself in class. I know Cosby’s name is tainted now, but back then I was an au of his stand up.

It was weird though even as a kid, I thought I could do that. I just knew this gift. I just didn’t know as a viable job. The Missoulian asked David Cross what it’s been like watching comedy evolve. Cross said, like all change everywhere, some of it’s for the better, some for the worse.

I’m glad there are more opportunities for comedians to get the work out there, but at the same time, I think there’s kind of a craft involved that’s missing. You’re not gonna learn your craft by doing stuff on TikTok and then blowing up and then selling out arena. It’s just different. There’s always gonna be that kind of thing. But I certainly don’t subscribe to the cancel culture.

Bs of all those millionaires wandering about how they can’t say things anymore, it’s laughable. David Cross, what comics should we be on the lookout for? Cross said, well, Sean Patton, My opener is a brilliant comment, is great, fearless, clever, Shane tour is, Robbie Hoffman. There’s this kind of clown. Natalie Palominez.

Her shows are amazing and brilliant. Yes, I highly agree. Jacqueline Novak and this girl Curly Marouli people you might not have heard of, but they’re all worth checking out. New Citystage dot Com caught up with Jake Johanson, who’s been doing this for forty years now. He won the eleventh annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition back in nineteen eighty six.

That spotlight got Bob Newhart to name him as one of his favorite young comedians. That endorsement got the attention of David Letterman’s producers, and soon Johansson was on Letterman. Jake remembers I think it was just lucky because right from the beginning Dave enjoyed my stand up and for me that era, Dave was the new late night host. So the first time I was on in nineteen eighty seven was just such a big deal to be on it, you know, nineteen eighty seven Letterman. Now I get to check with Mike, who hosts the Letterman Pod.

Mike for listening, hit me on the side. I feel like, you know, if we like really graph out Letterman. I feel like the peak of Letterman was before nineteen eighty seven. Peak Letterman to me is the original ish, the very low key intro with all the neon signs turning off. And I feel like by nineteen eighty seven we were onto the more show, busy open, and it was already starting to become the earliest days of estab Letterman, and we had left behind that early early period of its twelve thirty nobody’s watching I Digress.

Johanson said. I was on at least once a year, sometimes three times a year, all the way till he stopped doing the show in twenty fourteen. It was an amazing connection for me, and I was lucky to have such a supportive fan in such a powerful position and sometimes have me on for his birthday week because he liked me. But one of my favorite Letterman appearances was and I got to be on the show with Bob Newhart. I got to meet him in person and thank him for promoting me all those years ago.

Chloe Hilliard was on Vulture’s list of comedians you should Know. They asked her what comedy hill should die on, and she said, stop what all the viral crowd work moments? It’s giving harassment. Setting up cameras and pointing at the audience sets off a domino effect of bad behaviors in the comedy club. The comedian isn’t bringing their a game and is relying on the audience to do the heavy lifting.

The audience gets entitled and expects to be the center of attention. At the end of the experience, there’s a one joker moment. You walk away with the feeling of Wow, that was an amazing experience. No one is retelling your crowd work rift to their friends. Stop being lazy.

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