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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Gabe Iglesias, Roy Wood Jr., Bob Marley

What’s in This Episode

• How to pronounce Nate Bargatze’s last name
• Nate Bargatze’s upcoming film projects and book
• Gabe Iglesias on his Hawaiian shirt and shorts style evolution
• Gabe Iglesias on branding and the ‘Fluffy’ nickname origin
• Roy Wood Jr.’s Golden Corral experience and comedy development
• Roy Wood Jr. on political satire in the Trump era
• Bob Marley on nostalgia and family dysfunction
• Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary

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, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I stumbled across this clip. A comedian by the first name of Nate shared this on Twitter. He was a guest on Woody and Willcox, and they are struggling with saying this dude’s last name the way I have been for exactly the same reasons.

If you listen to the first four years of this podcast, you heard me just roll through Nate Burghetzy.

And then I started to notice the same things that these folks did.

Let’s listen, and you said your name differently than I say your name. You are always Nate Bergatzi to me, and then I heard you say Burghetzi. Yes, I think we could say it wrong as our family. So you think maybe I’m right and you’re wrong. I think, I mean it’s a like I know, Falon says Bargatzi, and like I think that’s like a New York like Italian like you Shoulay Bargazzi.

And then I think our southern accent has turned it to Barghetzie. Oh man, no, I’m all kinds of self conscious. All right. Nate Burghetzi open up about pursuing his dream of comed He spoke to Parade magazine and said, I’ve always just done stand up. I want to be able to create movies that, hopefully the whole family can come out to.

I was never great at auditioning for other people’s movies, so I kind of figured I have to make my own. He’s working on a film called The Breadwinner, and he says he would love to start at a remake of nineteen sixty six. Is at the Ghost and Mister Chicken Nate be explain, I love Don Knatts. I don’t think I could do what don Knots does. It’d probably still go with Don Knats, to be honest, even though I traveled back in time to go Nonetheless, we’re gonna stick with don Knots.

But you know that’s the stuff I loved. It was just super fun and silly. He has as a book coming out in May, Big Dumb Eyes, Stories from a Simpler Mind. I gotta nag the publicist. I put in that request months ago.

They probably forgot about me. He says. The book is just telling stories that have happened to me, stuff that sometimes doesn’t always work and stand up. I read Paul Reiser’s book when I first started comedy, and I remember really laughing at it. I was just reading it in his rhythm and his voice, and I liked it so much.

The only times asked Gabe Iglesias about his style, you know, Hawaiian shirts, shorts and king gold caps, and they’re curious if that evolved over time or did he always just like that on stage? Fluffy said, when I first started doing stand up in ninety seven, everybody’s wearing dark colors. It was all about the cool dark shirt, the leather jacket, the black suit button up. I asked myself, how am I gonna be different here and also comfortable because I didn’t want to wear a suit. I didn’t want to wear a suit when I had the nine to five, and I don’t want to wear it now.

To do this. I remember watching Robin Williams was one of my comedy heroes, and he was always into Hawaiian shirts. It’s just bright, colorful, nothing threatening about that unless you’re scarface. If you’re wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you’re here to have a good time with the short. Same thing.

I want to be comfortable. I’m a California guy. We wear shorts here. You want of things that are memorable. Aside from having a great presence on stage, people are visual, so what I remember?

They remember the comedian that wears the Hawaiian shirt. When I watched his recent special, the New One, that shirt he’s wearing pops, It’s like electric red looks great. The nickname Fluffy came about because I tried using Gabriel Iglesias. I thought that was a beautiful, nice, wonderful name, and nobody remembered Iglesias. At the end of the night, they remembered Fluffy, And that’s why I stuck with that A lot of times.

To try something, you don’t give enough time to catch and I learned a lot of that from watching wrestling. They give a guy enough time, You’re like, ah, this sucks, this sucks, this sucks, and then finally I get it. That’s why every single special I’m wearing Hawaiian shirt shorts.

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And then with time, the Kangall cap started happening, So now it’s part of th…

Was playing a long time ago, and I just stayed with it and didn’t change. Could follow up from the La Times, where’d you learn about branding and marketing when it comes to comedy? Gabe said, before I got a comedy, I was actually working a lot in sales. I was always watching how people would promote their products and stuff like that. I worked inside of a Walmart, in the side of a kiosk selling cell phones back of the day, so we always trying to come couple ideas how to brand things better.

I also go back to wrestling on this one. I watch a lot of wrestling, and I see how they do their promos, how they dressed, the lighting, the sound, the experience. A lot of that goes into it. And I didn’t have the idea of branding early on. I think a lot of times entertainers don’t take themselves serious enough to be considered a brand.

I didn’t like the nickname Fluffy at first because it made me think of a cat, or pillows or comforters or cotton candy, but the name stuck. Friend of mine many years ago said, look, man, we’ll get these algorithms going, and trust me, the Internet’s gonna take off. That’s how far back we were talking about. He goes, we’ll start branding this now, and you watch what happens, and he was right. You know, if you google Fluffy, I’m the number one thing that pops up.

Time Magazine talked to Roy Wood Junior, and they were curious he worked at Golden Corral in college and what he’d learned from working at Golden Corral. Roy said, I feel like every American should either serve a year in the military or two years in food service. Both will give you different perspectives on society and how to treat people and how fortunate you are. Golden Corral you serve everyone from eight year olds to eighty year olds, from weird tables full of college kids to white supremacists, and you don’t even realize the guy’s white supremacist, so you see his white power tat on his knuckles as you’re refilling his sweet tea for the third time. When I started doing stand up comedy, a lot of my jokes were two or three sentence greeting bits that he did earlier that day on shift.

I could take a quick, little observational joke and by the end of my shift have it worded in a way that works in any demographic. You start noticing that we do have a lot of things to connect. That was a very very special time in my life. Zim was curious, does Trump winning make you happier or sadder that you weren’t app to host the Daily Show. Roy said Trump’s winter loss doesn’t change her job as political satirists to jump down the throat of whatever government is and isn’t doing right.

I think the difference becomes figuring out a new way to get people who love Trump but ignore facts to pay attention to facts if you still want to vote for him. At the end of that analysis, cool, but there’s been a big disconnect between what is considered entertainment what is considered news, and the public no longer cares about the difference so long as they’re entertained. Bob Marley was talking to the Rutland Herald about the weather and said, we just said snow, and then we had fifty seven and rain. When I was a kid, I just remember snowbanks being twenty five feet high, or was it because I was two feet tall. You just look at everything as big.

You look at your dad like, my dad’s a huge man, and my parents are geniuses.

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And then you turn fourteen and you’re like, these people know nothing.

Bob then talked about his family’s saying these people are insane. My cousin just passed away. It was awful, but my family so messed up. I called my sister and I go, we’re going to the funeral, and she goes, I’m not going up there. I gained so much weight, I’m too fat.

And I go, you’re too fat to funeral? Is father? O’Malley on the front step of the church. Get to say sorry for your loss. Please step on the scale.

I don’t know if you know this. Saturday Night Live started fifty this year. Oh, there’s a whole bunch of specials out. Marcy Klein was a producer and head of talent at the show from ninety five to twenty twelve. She told one of the docs, there’s a lot of people that I brought in, and I’m like, I can’t believe we’re not hiring that person.

Lauren Michaels himself tells the story. I wasn’t at the Jim Carrey audition. Somebody who was there said I don’t think Lauren would like it, and they were probably wrong. Other people who didn’t make it Kevin Hart, Mindy Kayling, Donald Glover, Jordan Peel, Stephen Colbert. Colbert was watching his own audition tape and said, I feel perfectly fine with that effort, and I probably felt okay then until I didn’t get it.

Back in twenty fifteen, Lauren Michaels tried to explain why Jim Carrey did get the show, and he said, no one gets it, all right, And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. If you like Chalking Comedy, join us in the Facebook group. It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group. See tomorrow

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Featured: Amy Schumer, Alex Cooper, Bill Burr, Billy Corgan, Ricky Gervais, Nicki Glaser, Howie Mandel

What’s in This Episode

• Amy Schumer’s Call Her Daddy interview about a professional athlete encounter
• Amy Schumer’s Cushing syndrome diagnosis from internet comments
• Amy Schumer’s upcoming Netflix film ‘Kind of Pregnant’
• Bill Burr and Billy Corgan half-brother theory on Howie Mandel’s podcast
• Nicki Glaser announces 17 additional tour dates
• Ricky Gervais shares sad news about Afterlife

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caalarokashok Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so we shall we find out if Bill Burr and Billy Corgan are indeed brothers. And Ricky Gervais shared some sad news. If you’re a fan of Afterlife, You’re not going to like this news.

This first story. I wish I were more excited about it, and I’m trying to figure out a way to even do this. Amy Schumer was on the Call Her Daddy podcast. Now, if for some reason you listen to this program with kids, you know I try and keep it clean. I can’t today, So just please, if you’re not an adult, shut this off right now, or if you’re with kids, shut this off right now.

I will try to keep it as clean as I can, but I’m not going to be able to. Like I said in the open, Amy wants us to talk about her. She knows what she’s doing here. She went on Call Her Daddy. Alex s Cooper after her about the craziest interaction you’ve ever had with a fan?

Fair enough, and Amy decided to share, I’ve never said this anywhere, but I was at sort of kind of my peak, touring arenas whatever, and I’ll say it. Were they a professional athlete? Sure did? I text them late at night and they came over, did me a favor. That’s John paraphrasing there.

The favor involves the word down. Okay, we got it, move on.

And then I said, I’m so tired, I’m so sorry, and they left.

Yes, and Amy looks into the camera and says, and you know who you are. Amy did not disclose the athlete’s name or when or where the hookup took place. Some recaps of this are saying it was a baseball player. I have a guess based on a New York City baseball player and the time when Amy peaked, but I’m not going to guess. If she chooses to share, she will share.

Schumer joked that happened a couple of times, and I’m not proud of it. She joked. I’m gonna get actually canceled. She continued, you want to be a giving lover whatever, whatever, But at this moment, it was like, you know, some people will do a favor for a guy, same kind of favor, but different. I know what I mean nudge, nudge, saying it more and that’s the end of the night.

So I kind of did it my way, to quote Frank Sinatra. She explained how that moment inspired a scene in her twenty fifteen movie train Wreck. So all right, this puts it before twenty fifteen. Amy in her peak around twenty thirteen. Amy lives in New York City.

There was a ballplayer around then. I have a guess. It’s just a guess, by the way, totally unrelated the story. I got to rewatch the movie The Dark Knight. I love Batman films.

If you watched a Batman film, The Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises, those are greed films. But let me get back to the Amy Schumer story, because I don’t want to speculate on who the ballplayer is. Amy continues telling the story, saying he did that favor, and then I yawned, and I was like, I’m tired. That’s a moment in train Wreck, that’s from real life. That’s not the most popular move that gets the best response, but that’s the truth.

When I was in my heyday, one of them was furious and one of them was totally fine with it, and the baseball player was kind of cool about it. We also learned that Amy has never orgasmed. Quote from Penetration, Schumer said, it’s a scary thing to say out loud. It’s scary because nobody talks about it, because we’re all like getting oscar. She shared that she didn’t prioritize having a partner help her climax until she reached her thirties.

Since then, however, she has experienced intimacy with generous partners who understand her needs ensuring she orgasms. First. Cooper praised Schumer, calling her admission normal for many women. Cooper then shared some of her own experiences, which has nothing to do with comedy. So go listen to call her Daddy if you’re curious about that part of it.

In another topic, Amy says she wouldn’t have known she had Cushing syndrome if not for the internet trolls. Amy said, a year ago, the internet really came for me. Commenters were saying that her face was swollen. I was like, okay, everybody like relax. Doctors were chiming in on the comments and they were like, no, no, something’s really up.

Your face looks so crazy. Amy said. Doctors thought she might have Cushing syndrome, which, as the Mayo Clinic explains, occurs when the stress hormone cortisol remains in the body for too long. It’s caused by taking steroids for an extended period of time and can cause weight gain, acne, and a distinctive facial swelling that’s called a moonface. Schumer said, at first, I was like, f off, wait.

I have been getting steroid injects for my scars from her breast reduction and cesarean section. So I was getting these steroid injections and it gave me this thing called Cushing syndrome, which I wouldn’t have known if the Internet hadn’t come for me so hard. I learned I had this condition, and then I had something called moonface. And I’m starting in a movie and there’s a camera right in my face. Everyone’s like, you look great, until one friend gave her the truth, telling Amy, your face is looking like a bit inscene.

Schumer explained that she got rid of Cushing, telling Alex Cooper, it just has to work itself out. I was feeling really down on myself before I started filming this movie. I was like, really having trouble figure out how he’s going to star in a movie. While I had this going on, director Loraine Coffee told Amy, you know, I think you look great. Amy says, I just needed one person to amp me up.

So that’s a lot of information from Amy Schumer. By the way, Amy has a movie coming out on Netflix in February called kind of Pregnant. So, like I said, this isn’t an accidental interview. You could ask me a question and I might even have a crazy story, but I probably wouldn’t share it. I’m not that kind of fellow.

But if I had a movie to promote, maybe I would tell a crazy story. Maybe I would tell you my Bill Cosby story that I’m not going to tell until after he passes away. Maybe I would tell it to you to promote my movie. You know what I’m saying. Yeah, all right, let’s move on.

Nicky Glazer has announced seventeen additional dates on her A Live and Unwell tour. NICKI probably you’re at the top of the game right now. She added a show in Boston. She’s playing New York’s Beacon Theater. She’ll now do five shows at the Beacon.

That’s no joke. Last year, Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins suggested that maybe he was Bill Burr’s long lost half brother. Burr was on Howie Mandel’s podcast, So Burr’s there. Howie Mandel says, I have something that I’ve planned for you. Bring in the surprise.

Corgan walks in. Bill Burr goes what’s up and then looks at Howie and goes, you’re an a hole. Corgan says, he told me you’re totally cool with me coming. Burr says, that’s what he does. Burr again, All right, fit, I’ll do it.

Did you ever think the fact that I never told that story that maybe you shouldn’t the emails of the crap that I got. It’s not that I don’t like him, it just reminds me of all that crap. Burr says, And I’ll just do this in my normal voice. I’ll explain why. To the break, Burr says, what was supposed to happen to?

Corgan explained the theory that the two look and sound alike because they could be real life half brothers. Corgan said, about ten years ago, one of my brothers was having a birthday party and my stepmother was there. He was obviously married to my father, and my stepmother said to me, do you know Bill Burr is? Now At that point, I had never heard of Bill Burrd and know he was. I didn’t know he was comedian or anything.

He could have been the guy down the street. She said, well, he’s this comedian. And I think I even somehow caught up a picture on the phone. I kind of know s right away. Gee, he looks like my father.

Bill Burr looks more like my father than Bill Burr looks like me or I look like Bill burse I said to my mother, why he asking me this? Mom says, I think he might be one of your father’s illegitimate children. Bill Burr might be one of the children and your father sired in his days being a traveling musician. Corgan said, the fact that he can’t sing, I think this proves that we’re related, because I’m not funny. Got more details about George Lopez’s upcoming and final special.

His new special, Mui Kotolko, was recorded in September at the Dolbey Theater in la It will be on Amazon Prime February eighteenth. In Mui Kotulico, Lopez will share his reflections on aging Latino family dynamics and cultural quirks. No way at George Lopez special is going to talk about Latino family dynamics and cultural quirks, raises the challenges of getting older, and touches on generational clashes and Latino superstitions. I’ve met George a couple of times. First time I met him serious, really cool, was at a Cubs game once.

We somehow had tickets in the first row because somebody knew the guy that owned the Cubs. As we were sitting there and George Lopez was behind us in row two. He was really cool that day.

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And then at the Chicago Comedy Festival saw Lopez get up.

This is when he had the Late Night show, and boy he went scorched earth like jerky face about Letterman and Conan and everybody, and he was going to reinvent late Night and everybody else sucks and that didn’t work out. That was a bit of turnoff seeing that particular live show. Other than that, I’ve always enjoyed George Lopez and his comedy. But yeah, he’s going to talk about cultural quirks. It’s what he does.

George says, it’s the last one I’ve subjected the American people to enough of my crap. Seems like the right time. It’s been the one thing that has never left me my whole life, and it’s just a wonderful place to leave it at this particular point. On Gossip Corner, TMZ tells us Miami Heat basketball player Jimmy Butler isn’t worried about being suspended by the Heat, apparently cuz just hours after the Heat hit him with a two game ban, Jimmy Butler was seen at a party hanging out with comedian Andrew Schultz. TMZ Sports reports that Butler made his way to the Reserve Cup draft and dinner.

He was photographed at the party. One party goer described him as being in a good mood. I witnessed to say Schultz cracked a joke telling the crowd if anyone asks, he’s not here, he was at the Heat facility practicing. That was someone else you saw. I always enjoy hearing from listeners.

Feel encouraged to email me or hit me up on Facebook, or however you want to connect. My email address is in the show notes anyway, heard from a fan of the show. I won’t say who they are. They know who they are because they emailed me. But you know, I don’t wanna really cross the line between private and public.

But the nature of the question was, sometimes I will on this program do half ass impressions, and I will flag them as half ass impressions. For example, I do half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld. Most people do a Jerry Seinfeld along lines of do you ever notice that da da da right? I don’t do that one. I do the angry Jerry, the slow burn Jerry.

Come on, what he da da da da da right? That’s my half assed Jerry. Question was lately, I’ve been reading a lot of Bill Burr quotes and not flagging it as a half ass Bill Burr impression. So let me explain slight distinction here. So let me explain because in my warped mind, and I know this will only makes sense to me, there’s a slight distinction.

So when I do a half ass Jerry Seinfeld, I’m usually reading and it’s hard for me. I can’t do these unless I have a quotes. So let me just find any Seinfeld quote. Oh look, here, I found a story on the fly from Yo. Jerry Seinfeld turned down twenty five million dollars for Steve McQueen’s Leamanz Porsche nine seventeen K.

Bidding for the Lamans reach twenty five million dollars at an auction last Saturday. Why did Jerry turn it down? He may feel that he could get more at a later date. But there’s no quote from Jerry in here. That doesn’t help me.

All right. Here are some words actually said by Jerry Seinfeld, but he probably didn’t say like this. The if I read the quote flat, it’s if you’re a champion skier, you could put the gates anywhere you want. So many people would do the You know, if you’re a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want. But I like to do the angry half asked Jerry Seinfeld.

If you’re a champion, scary, you put the gates anywhere you want, right, So that’s what I do. I’ll do half assed Brewery, do I half assed? Jeff fox Worthy, if you have a punchline for this line, you might be read it right. So the Bill Burr, The reason I don’t consider it a half ass impression is I haven’t attempted at all to do a voice. Burr has a cadence.

So when I read his quotes. I’m trying to catch his cads. You know. He’ll talk in short sentences, you know, and I’ll throw in a punchline and he kind of chops a little bit. But I haven’t attempted to do a Bill Burr voice, which is why I haven’t called it a half ass impression.

But based on this email, maybe I’ll work on it a little bit. Promoted to half ass impression? Is it a good impression? No? Is Johnny Max saying he does impressions.

No, these are half ass impressions. I know they’re not good. I’m just trying to read you a comedy news story without reading everything in my usual sing song monotone. So that’s it. Burr’s got a little punch to him, short sentences, little bite, good letter though, I appreciate that.

Did that make any sense? Who knows? Chloe Feynman says she has no regrets calling out Elon Musk on Insta. Chloe said, remember when I got in trouble for calling out mister Nazi salute? Yeah, no regrets.

Back in August, Chloe had told Bowen Yang that a male SNL host had made multiple cast members cry. At that time, she hadn’t shared who it was. In November, she shared that it was Elon Musk. TMZ ran into Tony Rock at Lax and TMZ writes, and we had to ask him about Trump is sending the highest office on the land. You really didn’t.

You really could have just sat there and let Tony Rock get on a plane. I’m more impressed than you could pick Tony Rock out of a crowd. I don’t know what Tony Rock looks like. I know what Chris Rock looks like, but I have no idea what Tony Rock looks like. TMZ asks Tony if comedians can come up with more content for jokes when it comes to Trump headlines.

Tony says, I mean they can, but he wouldn’t use the term gold mine because he’s not feeling a lot of good fortune. Rock says it’s the job of comedians like him to try and find humor in all the messed up stuff Trump plans to do. Send your letters to Tony Rock. Trey Kennedy as a stand up comedy special on Hulu today. I believe this is outside of the hilarious continuity, but you’d have to ask a Hulu publicist if this counts as a hilarious special or not.

And since the Hulu publicity department does not want to engage with this program, I don’t know what to tell you. But anyway, on Hulu, Trey Kennedy’s specials called grow Up and We’re Told Trey Kennedy takes audiences on a hilarious journey through the ups and downs of adulthood. The special apparently is family friendly, and Kennedy explores navigating fatherhood as well as his own upbringing. He discusses his relationship with his wife, what makes him so different, and the aspects of his life that needs some growing up. Kennedy said, I’m super grateful Hulu is helping me show grow Up to the masses.

If you’re in New Orleans tonight and you can get through the snow, did the snow melt yet? Pat Burcher is performing at Sports Drink. Pat recently had some social media success posting a clip on Instagram. In the clip, he says, you know how they turn the stock market off every night, then they turn it back on every morning. Then they’re like, we’re in a bubble.

It’s going to burst. The recession is looming any day now. Everything will collapse. His solution in the video titled Comic Soov’s Economic Crisis. Then leave it off.

What are you doing turning it back on? Just unplug it. It’s like, these people have plenty of money, these people have no money. Print more and give it to them. They go, we can’t, it’ll devalue the currency.

Just say it doesn’t. People argue with me Tho’re like, Pat, you don’t get the economy, and he says, I’ve studied economics, I have a degree. I’m like, economics is just astrology for pure losers and sad news for Ricky Gervaise. If you watch the TV series Afterlife, Ricky’s character has a dog. Auntie.

The German shepherd who played Brandy on the show has passed away at age thirteen. Vislor Antille was the dog’s proper name. A German shepherd, also appeared in Tom Cruise’s film Edge of Tomorrow, a fantastic film, one of my favorite Cruise films that is an underrated film, and also alongside George Clooney in The Midnight Sky. Ricky Gervais said Auntie was a beautiful soul that she helped making Afterlife my favorite filming experience of all time. Ricky said, he and the dog hit it off straight away, and I’m so glad that I told her a hundred times a day that she was a very good girl.

That’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Shane Gillis, Theo Von, Logan Paul, Ron Funches, Travis Kelce, Joe Koy, Tracy Morgan, Lorne Michaels, Matt Rife, Jonathan Van Ness, Rosebud Baker

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr and Shane Gillis LA Wildfires benefit comedy show at the Wiltern Theater
• Theo Von chair collapse prank at inauguration by Logan Paul
• Ron Funches reveals friendship with Travis Kelce and attends Kansas City Chiefs game
• Joe Koy USO show in Japan causes website overwhelm and ticket registration issues
• Tracy Morgan opens up about cultural isolation during early SNL years in new Peacock documentary
• Little Rhode Island Laugh Riot Comedy Festival lineup announced for March
• Jonathan Van Ness releases comedy special ‘Fun and Slutty’ on Veeps
• Rosebud Baker announces Netflix special ‘The Mother Load’ about parenthood and pregnancy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, Jenny mag how alongside the DCN band with today’s Daily Comedy News. Looks like there was a little more to that thing with THEO von falling out of the chair at the inauguration. Talk about that in a second, But Bill Burr and Shane Gillis are teaming up. They will do a benefit comedy show to support relief efforts for those affected by the La wildfires.

This show will be Monday at the will Turn Theater. All proceeds from the benefit will go to the Wildfire Relief Program, a GoFundMe that is currently supporting relief and recovery efforts related to the wildfires burning in La County. That program’s goal was to raise eight million dollars for those affected by the blazes. Through Tuesday, they had raised over five million dollars. As for THEO Vaughn, I told you yesterday that logan Paul had shared a video where THEO Vaughn is trying to sit down and his chair suddenly collapses.

THEO has responded to that tweet saying it wasn’t an accident. Paul thought it was funny to mess with the chair. There’s a time and place. You know, I agree wherever you are on the political spectrum, the inauguration is not the time to be doing pranks. Let’s have some decorum.

Ron Funches is a big fan of Travis Kelcey. Ron had done a show back in December at Kansas City’s Comedy Club, but he just shared the clip on social media, revealing that he’s a major fan of Travis kelce Apparently they hit it off when Funch has guest starred on Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? Which was hosted by Travis Kelcey last October, Funches is seen telling the crowd, I started doing this game show and it’s hosted by Travis Kelcey. We started to become friendly, you know.

And then he knew I was coming out to do shows for Thanksgiving week and he hi…

Let me know if you need anything. Funches calls the tight End a golden retriever of a human being. He’s a good guy. He’s a good dude. Not only did he get his tickets, but an hour and a half before the game, I got another little ding on my phone.

He was like Hey man, I’m getting ready to go in a game mode. I’m gonna turn my phone off before I do. Just want to make sure you got in okay. Funch just said, you Prince chirming mf Or. He’s amazing.

He’s a golden retriever of human being. It’s probably why he’s so good at football. He just like sees the ball and says, I gotta go get it. Funch has also made a joke about Kelsey’s relationship with Taylor Swift, saying I think he’s too good for her. That got a good laugh from the audience.

We’ll see if Joe Koy agrees with that sentiment. From Stars and Stripes dot com, demand to see comedian Joe Koy at bases in Japan overwhelmed the USO website. Joe Cooy is scheduled to perform January twenty ninth at Yakota Tayo Community Center and twice the following day at Yokosuka Naval Basis Fleet Theater. However, USO website glitches frustrated those who try to register for the free tickets. USO spokeswoman Jennifer Passey told Stars and Stripes there was an unprecedented surgeon demand, which caused technical challenges across our registration system.

The USO apologizes for the difficulties some experienced. We appreciate everyone’s patience as we work through this challenge with our registrations. Selwyn Jones is a manager at the Yakota Enlisted Club. He said he spent four hours on the website in a failed attempt to get tickets. He wrote on the Facebook page, this was a major cluster and now I didn’t pull money punches there.

He just said cluster. He didn’t tag cluster with any other syllables there, just major cluster. Jones wrote. The two shows should have been scheduled that Yakoda, adding that the us would advise people to keep trying for tickets even though the system was having issues. Then you tell us the system was suspended and that you’d be resuming on Tuesday after working on the problem and give folks a chance to get the last of the tickets.

Now you’re saying all the tickets are gone. See, people are really into this. Joe Cooy. You know, if you’re a famous musician, maybe you shouldn’t make a face when Joe Coy tells a very very harmless joke were Lax got back and I’m not going to play the joke. I’m trying to rest a bit.

But Joe Coy very popular. Tracy Morgan has opened up about his difficult days early in his SNL tenure. In Peacock’s SNL fifty Beyond Saturday Night documentary, Tracy said, I wanted to show them my world, how funny it was. But the first three years I felt like I was being culturally isolated. Sometimes I’m coming from a world of blacks.

I’m an inner city kid. To be on the whitest show in America, I felt by myself. I felt like they weren’t getting it. Morgan said his experience shifted when he talked to Lorne Michaels. Tracy said, Lorne Michaels had that talk with me.

He said, Tracy had hired you because you’re funny, now because you’re black. So just do your thing. And that’s when I started doing my thing. Coming up in March in Providence, the Lil Rody Laugh Riot Comedy Festivals got a serious lineup. They just added Matt Rife and Jonathan van Ness.

I mean, click on the line up here for you. I was looking at it earlier today as I was putting the show together, it is quite impressive. Thursday March twenty seventh, Kevin Hart des Bishop, you remember he was a guest on this very program. Very cool, and Josh Johnson right there, it’s great. Friday the twenty eighth, Michael Blaustein Andy Woodhull, Tone Bell and Alec Flynn.

A Saturday Night Matt Rife, the not so canceled Disease I’m sorry, Leslie Jones, Jonathan van Ness, Sophie Buttle, Ashley Gavin and Melissa Via Signor.

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Speaking of Jonathan VanNess, They’ve got a special out today on Veeps.

It’s called Fun and Slutty. The pressor tells us Jonathan takes on the persona of Professor Jonathan van Nasty as they set out to educate an unsuspecting audience on the definitions, shenanigans and stigmas of slutty behavior. The special leads us all through a sometimes shocking journey of political commentary alongside lighter serves of humor from tradwife trends to ye olden days of having to use map quest to find your appointment, All done with the fabulous hair flip, infectious laughter and beaming smile at his pure jv N. The hour was taped in the fall at Emo’s in Austin, Texas. You’ll find that on the VIEPS platform.

Meanwhile, Rosebud Baker has announced a special. This will will be on Netflix February eleventh. It’s called The mother Load. Taped months apart during two sold out nights at the Comedy Seller. The special intercuts between Baker before and after giving birth.

With the juxtaposition of these experiences, she unpacks navigating the unknown and the evolving journey of parenthood, delving into the decision to have kids, the indignities of childbirth, the pros and cons of losing your identity in motherhood, generational device of upbringings. She’s no longer doing something that men like. Move on. She don’t deadline. If you have kids, the specials for you, and I’ll tell you right here, based on the thing I just pulled my punch on.

Kids should not watch this one. This special is not for kids. If you absolutely do not want kids, The specials also for you. Baker said, there’s a lot of people in the world navigating infertility, miscarriage, IVF, pregnancy, and post partner them. I’ve been through all that, and I wanted to make a special to mate anyone going through those experiences laugh as badly as I needed too while going through them.

We shot over two years because I wanted to tell the full stories, include what the other side of pregnancy looks like, and I needed to live through it in order to tell jokes about it. And my number one hope is that it makes everyone laugh. It’d be nice to also make them feel less alone. I saw an item here. I just thought the timing was a little weird.

I don’t know if you follow the news, but from the Robb Report, the headline comedian Whitney Cummings is seeking thirteen million dollars for her suburban LA estate. I don’t know sure. I mean, you’re allowed to sell a house. It feels like timeing’s a little awkward there. The Robert port tells us the multi hyphenate entertainer relax with that, come on, comedian Whitney Cummings purchased the Woodland Hills residence back in twenty nineteen for four point three million dollars and gave it a stylish makeover.

Architectural Digest describes the makeover as a Santa Fe meets monastery inspired style, with a total of five bedrooms and seven baths, sixty eight hundred square feet high ceilings accented with reclaimed barn beams and French doors leading outside sequestered behind gates at the end of a secluded cul de sac. The creamy stucco and terra cotta roof structure is perched atop a four acre parcel overlooking sweeping mountain vistas. The home includes an inviting den sporting a fireplace flanked by built in shelving, as well as a bookshelf, line library, and a posh primary suite flunting a private balcony, a separacy, and a Spa inspired bath spotlighted by a Belgian soaking tub. Did I mention that Bill Burr and Shane Gillis are doing a fundraiser A lot of people lost their homes during the fires. Did I mention that that was the lead story?

Sorry? Sometimes I forget if I mentioned something or not. That’s right. Oh, And the listing goes out of its way to tell us that the homes of Loure is the property setting of Midahalow that protects it from the Santa Anna wins. And the listing also notes there’s an LA Fire Department helipad nearby.

Timing. Everybody comedy is about timing. Did I mention that there’s a big fundraiser Shane Gillis and Bill Burr are trying to raise money people lost their homes in the wildfires. Did you hear about that? Yeah?

Anyway, if you need a house, Whitney coming to selling hers for thirteen million dollars. James dobe And tells the LA Times funny is funny. There’s a lot of surprising material that can make an audience lose it, whether they agree or not. I believe in being funny more than I believe in being correct. It’s almost a political belief I have.

Comedy has to be funny, but there’s a curious system of algorithms, botnets and paid publicity that will screen the opposite at you. I love to bring up an important or intelligent topic and then make very stupid jokes about it. People have said before that my comedy is smarter intelligence that starts to sound like it’s one of those acts where we’ve got to have a degree in liberal arts to understand it. Nothing I do is difficult to understand. It’s all basic and moronic.

Also from the La Times, they checked in with the folks at the Alzadina Comedy Club PDA that burned down in the La wildfires. After the fires, a wooden picnic table remained fully intact. I will circle back to that Chekhov’s gun of a detail. Maria Bamford was one of the major players in the early days of the club. She used to work out there.

Bamford said, I drew a picture several years ago after moving to Altadena of my ideal comedy community, small and filled with love and in true La vision. Board magic Claire Button Kevin did a massive amount of work rehabbing a strip mall office space into a gorgeous, tiny clown theater. Ridiculously a request from the universe and crayon was answered. Co owner Kevin Krieger said, that’s what made the theater burning down the most devastating. We put our hearts in sold into turning this strip mall space into a beautiful little theater, and it’s gone.

Queger said Clare, and I would love to keep teaching and keep creating space for people to create. We get to be the owners of it, but in reality was really a community effort. I’m looking forward to doing it again. Theater isn’t the space, it’s the people that come to it and make it a vibrant place to be. The La Times ends the article with the picnic table and remains standing.

And that is your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Marc Maron, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Trevor Noah, Conan O’Brien, Taylor Swift

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr and Marc Maron discuss LA wildfires evacuation experiences
• Bill Burr and Marc Maron recount their backstage fights and quick reconciliations
• Conan O’Brien’s house narrowly avoided LA wildfire damage, assistant Sona lost her home
• Trevor Noah hosts Grammys for fifth consecutive year and is nominated for Best Comedy Album
• Will Smith reportedly still holds resentment toward Chris Rock over Oscar incident

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Seems like Will Smith is still man of Chris Rock and Trevor Noah is going to host the Grammys after all. That’s exciting. Bill Burr was the guest on Mark Marin’s podcast this week.

They discussed the Los Angeles fires. Let’s listen. No, I don’t freak out on these things, but I am freaking out somewhere. I’m just not in touch with it. Left.

So you weren’t directly threatened. I didn’t freak out during nine to eleven. I didn’t freak out during the pandemic. I didn’t freak out during this thing that your house wasn’t in danger. Uh no, yeah, no, it it got a little scary there, that’s what I mean.

Yeah, so we you know, definitely jelowed up. Yep, load up, had to get out of there, and you had a mandatory evacuate. Oh yeah, oh yeah. But it was like, you know, I saw this. The flames never got close enough, but like you knew they were coming, and it was just kind of like just yeah, and it was like, you know, it’s just yeah.

So I feel very like fortunate. Yeah, that survivor’s guilt. Yeah, I got a little of that. I freaked out. Wait, what does the benefits start with this many prigging people?

Well, you mean insurance No, I mean just as far as for helping people out, insurance company. And yeah, that’s the thing I was talking about on Kimmel is how they was keeping on all the homeless people, all the immigrants. What about the insurance companies. It’s not going to pay anybody a dime and still give themselves a bonus. What about those guys?

What about all these landlords that are now a two bedroom in Pasadena’s nine grand a month? Best? What about these hotels that was eighty nine bucks and it went up to like seven hundred bucks. And Maren also talked about they occasionally don’t get along. I was.

I was pretty impressed during the last fight we got into over whatever there was in the green room. Dude, I’ve had so many fights to do, and I don’t remember what any of them are about. No, well, I kind of knew what that was about. But there was a couple of things I remember about it, though. Oh the last one I do remember.

The last week we were trying to get a and then you tried to act like you weren’t. Uh. You came walking in and you go, Uh, I could hear your voice from down the hall, and I go, I could, I go. I could smell your bitterness. Yeah, you know that this was a different thing you were.

It was a it was over a topic. It was over a uh due process, and we were in the well the cancel culture was going on, right. We were in the green room and Jess looking, there’s a couple other people there, and you go off on me. And all I remember is like, I’m gonna have to just take this. I’m gonna have to stand.

I’m not I can’t walk away from it. I’m gonna have to hold my ground and wait till he passes and you go, and then I go. But the thing I noticed was, you know, within three minutes you were like, you know, maybe I should be on the women’s side once in a while. Like the distance between outburst and apology was tight. I was proud of both of us.

Yeah, I thought we did run over quickly. Wait pretty good. Yeah, No, we’re in a good place. And I know another one, because of the way we’re wired, is coming. But I don’t take it seriously.

Meanwhile, on his podcast, Codon O’Brian revealed he was close to losing his house or the LA wildfires. His house is okay, but unfortunately the home of his longtime assistant Sona. Her house was lost in the fire. Conan said he was at work preparing to host the Academy Awards, still scheduled for March second, when he got the call from his wife that she only had a few minutes to pack up their stuff and get out. She grabbed a small bag of clothes and the only thing Conan asked her to grab was the frame letter he received from author E.

B. White when Conan was just sixteen. Conan said, I could easily be here saying we don’t have our house. The fire came right up to the line of his property. Then he began joking with Sona about what he could do to help her money side, food aside, clothing, aside, love, an affection aside, sheltering you in any way at any one of my nineteen mansions, aside is there anything I could do for you?

And then he tagged that with and also I’m letting you go? Is this a bad time? Conan joked he was looking forward to the headlines that would read. Conan O’Brien Fire’s Sona on podcast where she talks about losing her home, Sona shut back. I’m really glad your house is okay, because if you lost your house, it would overshadow mine by a lot.

Good to see they still have a sense of humor here. I feel like all of us do you just feel awful for people that lost their homes there? And you know, I’ve been thinking about it. So even if you get the insurance company to pay you, you still got to get a contractor to rebuild your home, and the contractors are going to be busy. It’s gonna be a while for anybody to have any semblance of normalcy out there.

Trevor Noah is set to return as host of the Grammys. Now today is January twenty second. The news came out yesterday the Grammys or what February second, So he’s got a little more than nine days like Joe Koy had to get ready for the Golden Globes. But it’s only I don’t know, lazy mouth, ten twelve days a number like that. Now, Trevor has hosted the Grammys before, and I suspect he’s been secretly working on it.

I say that because Trevor is now a producer on the Grammy Awards. So that’s not a conversation that happened in the span of half an hour. That’s not a text. Hey, you want to host the Grammys and you write back shore, can I be a producer? Sure some negotiations surely went on there.

This is Trevor’s fifth straight time hosting the Grammys, and he’s up for an award. The nominees for Best Comedy Album, and longtime listeners know that I get annoyed about how the Grammys defined an album, but I have lost that battle, so I’ll shut up about it and just tell you. The nominees are Jim Gaffigan’s The Prisoner and Nikki Glaser Someday He’ll Die, Trevor Noah’s Where Was I, Dave Chappelle’s The Dreamer, and Ricky Gervais or mcgeddon. Out of those, I’m picking Trevor Noah. He can give a Grammy to himself.

Maybe Taylor Swift will come by. Is she nominated? Oh yes, Taylor is nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Music Video. You know, maybe she’ll come and Trevor will take a joke and Taylor will smile and be like, Hey, that was a really funny joke. I appreciate you trying to host an award show on short notice.

That seems like the kind of thing Taylor would do, because she’s cool like that, bringing Smifties. I like Taylor Swift’s music a lot. I just think Joe Coy got a bad rap. I’m not going there, Scott Peckert relax in Touch Weekly, he says. A source close to Will Smith revealed that Will Smith still holds resentment towards Chris Rock, particularly due to the median’s smug attitude following the infamous incident.

The source claims that Will Smith is now relishing what he feels like a last laugh moment as Chris Rock finds himself embroiled in controversy. Now, as they read the sentence, I’m like, what controversy is Chris Rock involved with? Oh yeah, you may recall last month Chris Rock reportedly walked off stage minute tune performance at a billionaire’s party in Australia. I got news for you, Will Smith. Not much of a controversy.

I couldn’t even remember it, and I talked about it for three days. Not a big deal, the source tells him. Touch Will’s getting a last laugh and loving it. He’ll never forgive Chris for ruining his life, even though he’s managed to pick up the pieces in the last year or so. He still hates the guy and his smug attitude.

I was watching last night. I was watching my DVD box set of Homicide, Life on the Street. I was there in late in season four and Pembleton is talking to a guy in the box. And you know who played the guy in the box, Chris Rock. Yeah, he’s on an episode of Homicide.

Did we know this? I guess we knew this. I mean it’s thirty years ago. It’s the episode Requiem for a Dina. Chris Rock plays Kurver Dooley.

The insider said, Chris isn’t the victim here or not. In Will’s opinion, a lot of people would agree with Will and think, what’s happening to Chris is karma for refusing to speak to Will or accept this apology. Let’s assume it was the worst joke, the meanest joke. You should have never done that, the worst thing anybody ever did to anybody. The karma for that is walking off a stage in a billionaire’s party that you per simply got paid to appear at, and then a comedy podcast talked about you for three straight days.

Whoo karma. Wow. You don’t want to mess with the karma. I’ll tell you that much. The source and knowledge that violence and response to a joke is never justifiable.

The source also stated that Chris Rock has also been deeply affected by the incident. From Chris’s end, he’s still haunted by what happened on that Oscar stage. He suffers from PTSD Like Will, He’s never recovered from that slap. Others feel the best thing would be for these two egomaniacs to come together and hug it out, but they’re too proud. At the inauguration, Theo Vaughn tumbled into YouTuber Logan Paul.

Theo’s cheer collapsed. Logan Paul started filming as he sat next to brother Jake. Paul Logan caught the moment THEO fell out of his chair and shared it on Twitter. He captured the video make cheers agreed again. Vaughan didn’t appear hurt during the accident and quickly made a joke which was Camalis Cheers.

I’m discussed in the past. In my humble opinion, Ricky Gervais is better at promoting his alcohol brand than Jim Gaffigan was. Ricky shared this clip on social media. I think late last week. I’ve bumped this a couple times, many many edits in here because Ricky is very filthy.

But let’s take a listen. Hi, I’m Ricky Gervais, world famous comedian, But I tell you what isn’t funny the effects that strong liquor can have on your wellbeing, everything from like putting on white diabetic skin or scabs and mental illness Dutch barn. Hey, you know what’s a big money maker is Ted Lasso. Deadline shared some data they got from Parent Analytics about how how much money Apple TV shows are making. They value ted Lasso at generating six hundred and nine point four million dollars.

Not sure how that numbers arrived at, but it compares to, say, two hundred and ninety nine point four for Severns, Rachel Sennots, who’s kind of the it girl right now? And Bow and Yang they’re going to announce the nominations for the ninety Did you hear me drop the G every now and the Queen’s comes out. I noticed my daughter when we were on the trip, reminded me there’s a C in Antarctica, and I realized, in my native queen’s accent, the southernmost continent often comes out as Antarctica. Like no T, no C, just Antarctica. I drop an entire syllable there, I digress.

Rachel and Bowen will announce the nominations for the ninety seventh Annual Academy Awards. They will do this Thursday at eight thirty am Eastern. If you live in La sucks to be you. You got to get up at five thirty in the morning to find out who will be nominated. Tarren kill Him has dropped out of the upcoming off Broadway production of You’re in Town because of the destruction of his home in the fires.

People Magazine ordered that his home, which he shares with wife Kobe Smolders, has been lost in the fires. There’s a clip from the offices Brian Baumgardner making the rounds on social media. Brian was asked why did Ryan, Kelly and Toby have to sit away from the rest of the characters in the annex on the office. Brian said, this is a fun little easter egg. There was the main office, the main bullpen, right, Jim and Pam and the accountants and Stanley and Phyllis and Michael’s office and all that.

Then there was the other side, right. We called it the annex. If your desk was in the annex, you were a writer. And they did this because the camera was always moving around, we were there all the time. He explained that creator Greg Daniels needed the writers in the writer’s room sometimes, so the people who were back there didn’t have to be on set all the time.

They could get up and write and then come back and shoot some group conference room scenes or seen back there, but they weren’t there all the time. Over in the UK, comedian Harry Dean’sway has lost his case against Steve Coogan’s production company over a sitcom that he claimed infringed his copyright. London’s High Court ruled that Live at the Moth Club, which ran for one season in twenty twenty two, was not a copy of deans Way’s twenty thirteen series Shambles Harry Tell’s Shortal. He now faces bankruptcy if Steve Coogan’s production company pursue him for legal costs. The lawsuit claim that Cougan’s show ripped off the original show by combining on stage performance with scripted comedy.

High Court Recorder Amanda Michaels said the format of Deansway series was not protected as a copyright work. The similarities between the shows identified by the claimant do not seem to me to raise an inference of copying. The main complaint is that Live of the Moth Club is set in an almost identical setting. They run down comedy venue and combined scenes of real comedians performing on stage with backstage scenes featuring a range of fictional characters. In my judgment, LATMC may have the same central underlying idea as Shambles, but that does not by itself lead to any inference that the pleated format of Shambles has been copied as a whole or in substantial part.

Interesting case there. I’m by no means an expert in the UK law, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. Like it to stay warm. It’s pretty cold out there.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Gary Gulman, Jim Jefferies, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart’s production company Heartbeat lays off 20% of workforce
• Kevin Hart’s top executives depart amid company direction disagreement
• Gary Gulman’s new one-man show ‘Grandiloquent’ receives 4-star review
• Jim Jefferies touring new material about adulthood and parenthood
• Bill Burr’s upcoming special dealing with depression and mental health
• Bill Burr performs in Abu Dhabi and navigates international censorship

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag with today’s Daily Comedy News. What’s going on with Kevin Hart? Bloomberg reports the days after Thanksgiving, Kevin Hart’s production company laid off about twenty people. That’s about one quarter of its workforce.

So eighty people working for Kevin Hart’s production company. Not too shabby, but not too long after. The chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief content officer of Heartbeat all departed. The departures are called amicable, but followed a disagreement about the direction of the company. I hey, Kevin, when your top three folks are like, yeah, no, there’s something going wrong here, I think, Bloomberg writes, Kevin had ambitions of building something more than a production company.

He wasn’t content to be a famous multimillionaire. He wanted to be a billionaire. He formed a separate company, laugh out Loud, to create comedy videos for the Internet. He built an advertising business with clients like Lift and Procter and Gamble. He produced videos and podcasts for Sirious, and he was a media entrepreneur before many of his premieres.

He formed Heartbeat in twenty twenty two, merging all his businesses under one roof pretty interesting. If he’s laying off that many people in the top three folks departed, that does not sound good. New York Theater dot Com reviewed Gary Golman’s new show, Grandiloquent. They give it four stars out of five. Writing comedian Gary Goleman delivers an uproarious description of his troubled childhood and this one man’s show.

It’s titled Grand Delinquent, the definition of which, to the comedian hopefully provides. In the course of the evening, Gary says the word means the use of extravagant or flowerly language, especially when intended to impress. Sporting a prominent goatee that makes him look like a hip university professor, his delivery of perfectly crafted one liners is frequently accompanied by sly smiles acknowledging the resulting laughs. He knows how good he is, but he’s not crass enough to laugh at his own jokes. JTA dot Org caught up with Gary and said, tell us about the show, what can we expect?

Gary said, Oh, man, I’ve been told people have laughed and cried, so they can expect an emotional I wouldn’t call it a roller coaster, but an emotional flume ride. Maybe I can’t call it tragic comic nor comic tragic, but there are some sad, sad moments in it, but it’s mostly hilarious. That’s what I would say. A stand up back is just how many funny things can I say in an hour and a half?

And then you write a one persons show and there’s a lot of expressing, well, …

This show? I wanted it to end with the beginning. I open up talking about the first book I ever read, and then I close by talking about that same book. I like that when movies or books were plays in where they began, and so that was important to my director and me, And so it ended up with a punchline that wasn’t all that funny but hopefully will resonate. Not being funny is very challenging for stand up comedian, and especially one is obsessed and passionate about finding the funniest things I can say to the point of it being unhealthy sometimes, so the challenge, ironically is not to be funny, when usually the challenge is to make this as funny as possible.

Gary talked about his first open mic experience October eleventh, nineteen ninety three, so thirty one years ago this past October, and it went well enough that I was hooked for life. It’s like, I can imagine what would be like to have a really good drug for the first time. You’re like, well, I guess I’m on this drug. That’s how I felt. I was hooked.

I got an applause break over an impression I did of Robert de Niro, which is embarrassing because it’s one of the easiest impressions that a lot of people did back then. But it went well enough. Jim Jeffries is out touring new material. What can we expect, he told Inlander. Look with me, it’s always going to be some social issues, some sex jokes, and then some stuff about my life.

You’re just following a soap opera of person, aren’t you. When I was younger, you were watching a guy who was dealing with addiction and having problems there. Now you’re dealing with a guy who’s doing the same as everyone my age, struggling to be an adult while having to be a parent. You know what, So there’s stuff about married life. There’s no more stories of one night stands or anything like that.

Tails of being an adult, I guess, but it’s still just grubby jokes. I always write the show that I want to watch. Every comedian who’s worth their salt should really think that they’re the best comedian in the world because they’re doing a show that’s designed just for them. So I hope other people relate to it, and I hope other people can see themselves in me and they take something away from that. I think my stage persona can come across as a bit of an a hole, but I think people can relate to that, because aren’t we all just a little bit of an a hole.

Bill Berry talked a Variety about his upcoming special, in which he deals with depression. Variety said, I feel like you’re knowingly playing with the audience’s perception of you. Burst said, I look at it that way. When I started doing the material, there was this really excited, happy feeling I had that I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Men were laughing.

It relates to this. I don’t feel good right now. I feel sad, and I’m not allowed to say that’s a guy because exceider a weak I always felt like a freak. I grew up with orange hair. We moved around a lot when I was a kid.

I didn’t feel like I quite fit in until I was at my second open mic and I was hanging off comedians with the same kind of weird that I was. A lot of people died quickly in a short period of time. People I looked up to, people I became friends with. One of them was Bob Sagging. To see that guy taking it didn’t make any sense.

Spoilers spurd dives into Israel and Palestine. Variety was curious, do you have to be more cautious while workshopping material that’s political or tense in nature? Bill said, Nah, you just go out and do it. And if you listen to that bit, it’s a political I’m just saying we need to come up with a way to solve our differences without dropping bombs on children. I don’t think anybody have a problem with that.

The great thing about travel, if you travel with your ears open, is you see way more similarities than difference. Is everybody kind of wants the same thing. To chill out with people they love, to have enough money, food, clothing, shelter, and to be able to exail and not worry about what’s coming around the corner. One of my favorite gigs last year was an Abu Dhabi. Drugs are illegal there and I was telling a story about taking mushrooms.

The way they were laughing, I was like, Ah, these people definitely do drugs, they just don’t do them here. They go abroad to do them. But I was thinking later, well, wait a minute. I used to listen to Richard Prior talking about cocaine and freebasing, and I’ve never done that. Are they laughing about me taking mushrooms?

Like this is some kind of cheech and shock stuff? I still don’t know? Interesting follow up variety When doing a corporate or international gig, I’ve ever been asked to avoid certain topics? A Yeah, definitely an Abu Dhabi? How does that negotiation work?

At first they get real offensive and I’m set with my agent going, why half would you book me here? I agreed to do Abu Dhabi because why wouldn’t you want to go there to see what it was like?

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Somebody had to write me a letter of apology, and I’m sitting there, going, why the hell would they book me? So now I’m stressing before I go there, going I’ve got to get six months in jail for doing a crap joke. I have to go to this coffee shop next to synagogue. This is a rabbi comes down. I got to know the guy.

I’m always busting shops because it’s always giving a life advice. I’m like, dude, do you ever just say hello? I tease him, and that had been a relationship for half a year, and then he shut up one day and he goes, hey, how you doing. I go, you know what, I’m not doing good? So I told him I got this gig coming up, but I’m stressed.

I don’t want to get in trouble or get detained or any of that stuff. I can’t talk about this, I can’t talk about that. Blah blah blah. He listened and shrugged his shoulders and goes, Dan, it’s not ready yet. He just gave me that perspective, and all of a sudden, I understood what my job was.

My job was to go over there and not be a jerk, and tried to advance the stand up ball a couple of yards for the next guy that comes over there and end up having a great time. Well, kind of materials did you have to avoid? This is fascinating per se A. You know, our foreign policy is upset a lot of people. I’ll leave it at that, Listen, I got another gig over there, so I don’t he nah, who gives a hoot.

I wasn’t allowed to make fun of the City of the Royals. It was pretty small, but a lot of it is what you do as a comedian. Like at Seattle, I want to get a coffee and I’m the only person not transitioning. Abu Dhabi didn’t want you doing that, but I could make fun of myself make fun of other places.

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And now this sounds ridiculous to us, but I get it.

Abu Dhabi’s where stand up wasn’t about nineteen sixty eight, which is kind of cool. Who would have thought some bald Irish American ginger would vibe with people in Abu Dhabi. This is a fantastic article. I’ll continue to pick away at it. Comedy Gives Back is doing a fundraiser for Los Angeles on January thirty first.

The benefit feature Zach Galifanakis, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Batton Oswald, Brian Possain, John Ennis, Tom Kenny, Jill Talian Moore. That is a great lineup those first five Zach, Odenkirk, Cross, Patten, and Postsaine, Yes Dulse. Sloan has left The Daily Show. Everyone is saying the parting was amicable. In a statement, Sloan said, there’s work that I’ve done over the past seven years with The Daily Show that I could be prouder of.

I collaborated with some incredibly talented people who look forward to continuing to work with. I know our past will continue to cross. I’m now free to pursue my dream job of being a live action cling on on Star Trek. Daily Show spokesperson said, Dulce Sloan is an exceptional comedic force, and we’re thankful for hilarious seven year run on The Daily Show. We wish her the best look forward to watching her next chapter.

Sloan had not been part of the rotation of correspondence slash hosts last spring. Late Night Or asked her if she would accept a role as the show’s permanent host if offered to her, and she said I’m just telling you the reality of situation that’s not going to happen. I’m paying attention and I worked there. It’s not about what do they ask me. It’s why they didn’t ask Roy would Junior?

Because if they didn’t ask Roy as sure as hell ain’t gonna ask me. If they’re getting rid of all the diversity in late night, why would they turn around and ask me? Hmm, this is random. I discovered that there’s a comedy room at a restaurant near my house. Now.

They’ve been doing comedy shows there for like a couple of years, and I haven’t really given it much thought. I actually ate at this restaurant ten days ago with my daughter, and you know, they don’t really promote the room, and I was just curious what was going on there. It’s called the Comedy Dojo, and I went on the website and I see this Saturday, Louis C.K. Is playing that room and working out some material. It’s already sold out.

Or I would go, but I might have to pay attention to this room and start going. They’ve got some people you’ve heard of. Anyway, I’m obsessively hitting refresh because you know, if I can this place is. I don’t know, six minutes from where I live, so I could be there in home super quickly, so I’ll have to keep an eye on that one. A cool account on threads is the SNL network.

They broke down the Chappelle episode. I saw some fun facts there. They said. The Chappelle episode had the fewest segments for an episode in SNL history, only ten segments, the monologue, Immigrant Dad, Talk Show, Fire Evacuation, the Great Sketch, the music segment, Weekend Update, Police Station Music segment two, Pop the Balloon or Fine Love, and then the good night segment. Chappelle’s the first SNL host since Flip Wilson in nineteen eighty three to not appear in any live sketch after Weekend Update, although that does not include the at home episodes in season forty five remember COVID, and does not include the Hulk Hogan Mister t episode in season ten, when there was no traditional news segment.

I gotta find out more about that. I wonder why there was no news that week In case you were wondering about Chappelle and Bow and Yang. In the past, people been like, hey, oh, come Bow and Yang’s not standing near Dave Chappelle during the goodbyes. This week, Chappelle and Bow and Yang briefly hugged all right, I was their first interaction on screen of the night. Yang did not appear any sketches with Chappelle.

Last time Schabelle hosted, people were like, what’s up with Bow and Yang? Yang told Variety, I stand where I always stand on good nights. It wasn’t a physical distance to anybody who’s creating, and I had to do with so many things that were completely internal. Vanity Fair has published a big, big article that we’re talking about on the Palace Intrigue podcast. That’s the podcast where we talk about the royal family.

Palace Intrigue Wheviget shows. They wrote a lot about Meghan and Harry, and I’m bringing it up here because of a weird shot Eliza Slessinger quoting the Vanity Fair article. They’re discussing the guest Meghan had on her podcast, and they write these archetypes actually stereotypes included diva parentheses Mariah Carey and bimbo parentheses Paris Hilton and Eliza Slessinger. Does Eliza Slessinger have a bimbo persona that I just missed. Just seemed kind of weird.

Rapper turn comedian TI. It was on Young Jack’s streets morning takeover. T I told Young Jack why he prefers a comedy to rap and said, ain’t no pay. He points out the pats of success in comedy’s a different journey, one that doesn’t always guarantee the same rewards. It ain’t a slope, it’s a dip.

I ain’t even tripping because it’s so much fun. I enjoy myself. That’s the thing. When we had all the money in the world and the energy just wasn’t right, you know what I’m saying. So now I just value my peace of mind.

The NL Times is a website that covers news from the Netherlands. In English, they write comedy club Boom Chicago. That’s an Amsterdam club, I believe, not one in Chicago. Boom Chicago has canceled two performances by Israeli Jewish comedian Yohi Spondor, citing safety concerns. Following online backlash and threats.

Boom Chicago director Andrew Moscoso wrote an email to Spondors manager. Due to the climate in Amsterdam, reactions and concerns reportedly expressed by police we can no longer allow YO high sponders performances. On January twenty fifth, this really caught my attention per NL Times. I’ll read the sentence verbatim from NL Times. Moscow edited that the club would assist in finding an alternative venue, potentially a quote Jewish location unquote or another club.

I am not hipped to the Amsterdam comedy scene. I’m not sure what a Jewish location would mean. Some folks on social media had labeled Spawner as an ultra Zionist and criticized his show The Self Loving Jew, alleging it promotes Israeli propaganda. Moscow’s described the situation as complex and said the decision was made reluctantly. We prefer not to cancel shows, but given the reaction and threats, we had no other choice.

Boom Chicago stands for freedom of expression, but in the current situation, we cannot facilitate it. Ticket Holders will receive refunds. This noll Fielding thing continues to be interesting. I told you yesterday that Apple had shut down production of The completely made up Adventures of Dick Turbin. Nol has said reports that his future on the Great British Bakeoff being in doubt or an untrue fielding spokesperson till the standard, There’s been absolutely no discussion about Noel stepping down from Bakeoff.

We’ve been in contact with Channel fourg Love Productions throughout all the speculations and his stepping down has never been part of it that dialogue. We can’t confirm he’ll be returning to co host the next series of Big Off and Ted Lasso fans, Nick Muhammed is giving us some hope here. In a post on Twitter, Mohammed framed his face with a ring light and announced that some dates from his upcoming tour would be rescheduled. His explanation, I know there’d be a lot of speculation as to why move these dates. What’s it for?

I’ll be honest, it’s for some filming that I haven’t been able to shift for the love of money. I can’t say what the filming is, but it will be announced shortly. He asked fans not to speculate as to what they think it might be, but he held up a hand painted Believe sign which suggests that it’s Ted Lasso. But he added, the last thing I want is for people to Go. Mad Nett is your comedy news for today.

Jody’s on the Facebook group. We had a great discussion over the weekend about the top comedians of all time. We kicked the ball around. I don’t think we decided anything, but it was just a fun discussion of how to even rank anybody in the first place. The genesis of that conversation was is John Mulaney in the top ten?

I both hold the position of I don’t think so, and also I can’t name Ted better yet. So feel encouraged to join the group and way in Daily Comedy News podcast group. We’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Nikki Glaser, Bill Maher, Lorne Michaels, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle hosts SNL with monologue on LA wildfires and Trump presidency
• Shane Gillis Under Armour commercial rooting for Notre Dame
• Nikki Glaser Milwaukee shows moved to larger venue
• Bill Maher critiques government response to LA fires on Real Time
• LA comedy venues navigate operating during fires while supporting relief efforts

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. A very busy Monday with Chappelle, inauguration and the TikTok band. Mark Norman tweeted, who knew the first immigrant to get kicked out would be a Chinese app Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live. I think it was the best episode of the season easily for his monologue, which was excellent, which I’ll break down, and for one sketch in particular Nina.

Here near there, he tells the crowd that Lauren Michaels had asked him to host the first episode after the election, but he said no because things are going good. I finished my Netflix deal, I have all this money and stuff started in October. Lorne Michaels called me and he asked me to do a Saturday Night Live the first episode after the election, and I was like, nah, man, I’m cool. Lauren kept pushing. I’ll let Dave explain here, and then.

The dates started rolling around, and then he started calling me again and again I was like, ah, man, don’t want to do it. And this goes on for like weeks and weeks, and then finally, you know, and I go, you know what, I can just get rid of all these old Trump jokes and started fresh. I say, you know what, I’ll do it. Here are are. The moment I said, yes, La burst into flames.

They’ve got off a good joke about the La wildfires. And I watched these fire videos and I read the comments sections and everyone’s like, yeah, it serves these celebrities, right. I hope the house is burned down and you see that that right there, That’s why I hate poor people. They’ve then turned his attention to the Diddy accusations. My friends asked me, They said, Dave, did you know only thing about those parties.

I’ll be like, no, man, I don’t know anything about the free gooff. And they all look at me like and they well, how all these people you know was at the free golf, but she’s the only one that wasn’t at the free golf. And I thought about it for a minute. I said, oh my gosh, I’m. Ugly nice tag here for that joke.

A tough way to find that out. You imagine if you were me reading the newspaper and found out everyone in Hollywood had a orgy behind your. Back, and at the end Dave got serious and addressed Donald Trump. Presidency is no place for petty people. So Donald Trump, I know you watch the show Man.

Remember whether people voted for you or not, they’re all counted on you. Whether they like you or not, they’re all counting on you. The whole world is canted onian. I mean this when I say this, good luck. Please do better next time.

Please all of us do better next time. Do not forget your humanity, and please have empathy for displaced people, whether they’re in the palisades, all Palestine. Thank you very. Much, good night. Really funny sketch.

It had me laughing out loud. Chappelle plays a dad whose family receives an alert to evacuate because of the impending fires. Spoilers on the sketch. David takes a sledgehammer and starts retrieving five hundred thousand dollars in cash he had hidden in a wall. Things escalate, eventually we find out that something is hidden in the dog.

A very very funny scene which had me laughing out loud. Go seek that sketch out online if you have non seed. It very very funny. Big college football game tonight, Shane Gillis did a commercial for Underarmoor in which Shane is rooting for Notre Dame. Let’s listen, Hey, God be Shane.

I’ve been here in a while, but I have a pretty big prayer for you No Names in the National Championship on Monday. I know you know, because you’ve been with us the whole time. A couple of weeks ago. That field goal. I know you’re a lot going on, so that was pretty chill.

You took time to help us with that. I should also say I have not bet on any of these games. All right, I half bet, but going forward if No Name wins, now will not bet on games for a month, couple weeks. We’ve probably been on something. Come on, God, I know you can help us.

Truck and dude pick sixes everywhere, have a couple of Just please let No Dame win a national championship. Now, what do you pray for? Pray for No Dame? What are you praying for? It?

Say? Notre Dame? Alright, cool s. What did you go to Notre Dame? Yeah?

I went to No Day. I’m sorry that was a lot I got. No I didn’t go to No Day, did you? Oh? Wow, Dame?

Oh that’s awesome. Alright, sh. Shit, that was a lot of fun. Nikki Glaser shows in Milwaukee have been moved to a bigger venue. Nikki is White Hot Right Now.

Originally set to perform at the Riverside Theater, Nicki will now headline the Miller High Life Theater of min May Previously sold to Riverside Theater. Tickets will be exchanged for new tickets in similar locations. Capacity at the Riverside Theater twenty four point fifty according to the interwebs. Capacity at the Miller High Life Theater forty eighty six. I met you could sell even more than that right now.

Bill Maher weighed in on the fires on his show Real Time. Bill said, now is wokeness the main reason for the fires? Of course not, but it’s also not wrong to associate some of the unforced errors our government made with the things norm easy as hallmarks of uber progressive politics, questionable budget priorities, high taxes that get you nothing, making everything about identity politics virtual signaling overseas instead of tending to the nuts and bolts at home. This a reference to Mayor Karen Bass visiting Ghana. More continued, The government’s jobs protect us from crime, violent stuff fire.

I’m not saying Alabama would have done better with fires by fighting them with prayer and school, but look me in the eyes and tell me anyone could have done worse. We just got our ass kicked by a fire. Something Neanderthals fought to a tie. We may not be able to do much about the weather, but we do need a better plan for putting out a burning city than waiting for reen. A lot of Democrats in this one party state this week went right to dum blame politicians.

You can’t do anything about the wind, which is exactly half true the win part. Yes, fire is a tough fight out here, and yes, global warming absolutely makes it worse, but that’s largely out of our control. What are we going to do? Pass a ballot measure to make sure Chinese stop burning coal? The Washington Post caught up on the La comedy scene.

They focused on the Vermont Hollywood, about ten miles east and southwest of two of the fires. The club is aiming to operate normally. Sandy Savas is the venues general manager, and Sandy says they’ve been searching for last minute replacements after performers and sponsors have canceled because of the fires. Savas says they’re allocating about twelve percent of their proceeds to supplies for fire victims. Savas told The Washington Post, it’s a horrible thing to party while you know the rest of the city’s suffering, and we do feel there’s a sense of guilt about it.

But at the same time, we understand we have employees, the show must go on, and people just need this gate. We’re happy to provide that for them. Jam In the Van said that they stopped promoting their events on social media. Jake Coulter is the venues co founder and said all messaging kind of shifted to what you can do to help the fires. We didn’t feel it was right to message about, hey, buy tickets to this.

During the week, he said, he saw other venues promoting events on social media, so they started atizing again, starting with the comedy show last Wednesday, Fewer people came to the show than usual. Jam In the Van is hosting another comedy show where twenty percent of ticket sales will go to Pasadena Humane, a local shelter that has taken in hundreds of animals. Jay Coulter says if the fallout from the fires is that nobody goes out and supports small businesses, restaurants, venues and stuff like that, then the suffering just keeps expanding. Flappers in Burbank organized a free show with Jay Leno on January tenth. Some people criticize them on social media.

One person on social said guests could use their alcohol to put out the fires. Another photoshop the word Flappers over a burning house. Owner Barbara Holiday said she experienced a weird sense of guilt, but the club felt normal for a few hours as one hundred and thirty people visited. I’ve spent some time over the weekend catching up on the comedy specials. My wife came to me and she’s like, hey, you want to watch that Nate guy.

So Nate has broken through all the way to my wife knowing his first name anyway, and she wanting to watch it. I liked it a lot. Let me go back and look my twenty twenty four rankings in just I’m doing this on the fly. Let’s see. So for twenty twenty four, I had Brady Attel, Triumph, Roddie Chang, David cross a domain, Dusty Sleigh.

It’s probably on par with Dusty. So now Kyle Kanaan had that ten minute thing. Maybe not as good as Canaane, better than Rife. So I’ll make the number eight and a half special of twenty twenty four. I don’t want to bog down in that the list is the list, New year, New list.

Okay, right now, I have as the number one comedy special of the year, Roywood Junior’s Lonely Flowers. I like the material way better than the trailer. Whoever put that trailer together, I would fire you. You’re terrible at putting together trailers. Roywood Junior Special is really funny.

As I have started to perform the best of twenty five list, I’m starting with three categories, best, watchable and not on list. I have roy in the middle tier, so I think by the end of the year won’t make my top tier. And I say that it’s funny, but it’s watchable. It’s not next level. It’s not like, oh my goodness, I can’t believe he really brought it.

It’s a nice, solid special, So right now number one. By the end of the year, it’ll probably be like number twenty one, also entertaining Ari Shaffeir’s America’s Sweetheart, Nice solid set. I laughed quite a few times, a little too long. At some point my brain kicks in and goes, all right, have had enough of this? How much left?

And there were still forty five minutes left? I can’t. That’s more about me than the artist. Because I had the same issue with Gabriel Iglesia’s special Legend of Fluffy, As I wrote to myself, perfectly fine enjoying it, at some point I was like, how much left? And there was still an hour left.

If there had been a half hour left, I absolutely would have finished it. But another hour that’s just like homework to me. So again, this is about me, This is this is my issue. I have comedy add I can’t stay with these things all that long. I get a little restless.

All three of those specials, they are good. They will make the end of the year list, but they will make that middle tier. So if you want a ragging right now, roy Ari Gabe, that’s the entire list to four right now ready. Steady Cut reviewed the specials, and they wrote, in many ways, Shafir is the moral and performative opposite of someone like Gabriel Iglesias, whose latest Netflix special brought in this still young year there’s a feeling of whiplash in going from one or the other. All the stuff that Gabe wouldn’t talk about is mentioned one after another by Shaffir, who reels through a litany of risky subjects like he’s trying to fill a quota.

That’s the point, though, despite the subject choices, America’s Sweetheart that’s already’s special isn’t trying to be a specially offensive Reggie. The underlying theme of everything having a silver lining just ends up being an excuse to riff, usually harmlessly, on the topics people tend to avoid out of fear everything is treated the same. This is a bad thing, but it’s a decent way to frame the jokes. There’s an absurdest quality to it, and it’s a good excuse to touch on a lot of different areas in a way that doesn’t feel overly scattershot. Roy Woo Junior explained to The Rap I decided to start off his Hulu comedy special Lonely Flowers with a despairing statement about modern society’s lack of connection.

Roy said, I enjoy the idea of starting with a joke before saying hello, but I also kind of wanted to almost state the thesis of the paper before presenting my work. We ain’t gonna make it. I feel like if we remain in the same state that we were in as a society, we’re not gonna make it. It’s only gonna get worse. So let me start with a comedic declaration of pessimism, just to make this horribly pessimistic declaration and then hopefully bring it back to a conversation about connection and togetherness.

That was kind of the goal. Why the title We’re the lonely flowers. Like a flower by itself is one of the saddest things you can see, but a group of flowers together is one of the most beautiful things you can see. We’re all lonely, but man, if we came together and we got more connected, would be so much better off. While I had him, they asked him about the Daily Show and he said, I’d never closed the door in any opportunity that gives me growth, which is part of why I accept the CNN job.

It’s an opportunity to still have a conversation at the time during an election. I think at the end of the day, I just wanted an opportunity to do something a little different, and I felt like the best opportunity for that was gonna come with leaving, and if the best opportunity with that comes with returning, then it’s fair to consider. But I’m very, very happy at CNN, and the thing I love about what we’re doing at CNN is that it feels like a deviation from what they do the other six nights of the week on that network. I mentioned yesterday that I would talk about Bill Burr a little more today, I’m going to bump that to tomorrow as we’re quite long here. If you like the Freezer revival on Barrymount Plus, it’s over two seasons and done.

Something’s going on with Apple TVs that completely made up Adventures of Dick Turbin. Production has ceased on season two. Various news reports are curious about the behavior of Noel fielding the Daily Mail. Rights concern is rising for Noel after he abruptly pulled out of filming. A spokesperson for the comedian told Male Online, this is a private and confidential manner regarding our client’s health.

We’re saddened by the decision to cease production, but we can’t make any further comment on the matter. A source close to the show told The Times, Noel has said that he can’t film anymore, and so there was no choice but to stop. It’s not a decision that was taken lightly, and they wouldn’t have gone to this extreme if every possible solution hadn’t been exhausted. People have been very concerned about Noel’s well being and given him time to recover, but there are also significant repercussions. Some people are furious.

So we’ll see what happened there and what led Apple to decide to stop production of the show. Definitely interesting big inauguration today. From a comedy standpoint, Bill Mooh had said he’s not going to pre hate anything and he’ll hope for the best. He told CNN, I’m not going to chase every rabbit down the hole like I did the first term. He’s a kookie guy.

He says a lot of kookie things, and I’m just not going to pre hate anything. I’m just going to hope for the best, and then when something serious happens, I’ll comment on that. A new biography Lorne, the man who invented Saturday Night Live, is coming out. Susan Morrison writes after the twenty sixteen election, the SNL cast and writers felt shame and anger. Many of them believe that SNL bore some responsibility for Trump’s win.

When Michaels had booked Trump to host in twenty fifteen, he, like most people, considered the candidacy a big joke, but it was a lucrative joke. Trump was a ratings magnet. People like to watch him, either in spite of or because of his noxiousness. Michaels felt part of the job was to keep SNL balanced, to urge writers and performers to mock candidates of all stripes. Many on the staff felt SNL was too soft on Trump.

Michael sometimes asked writers to tone down the hors or sketches. At one story meeting, according to Morrison, Tim Robinson smacked the table and said, Lauren has lost his mind and someone needs to shoot him in the back of the head. Yikes. Morrison says that Trump was tickled that Alec Baldwin would play him on SNL, but once the season started, Trump soured on the impression. Morrison writes, those who feel the show had gone criminally soft on Trump felt confused and annoyed.

Michaels told them we did our best. Michael’s reminded of the group that half the country had voted for Trump, and we have a job to do. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it they might like it. To join us in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Nikki Glaser, Pete Davidson, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr’s new Hulu special ‘Drop Dead Years’ filmed in Seattle
• Bill Burr on workshopping material and avoiding echo chambers
• Bill Burr discusses mortality and vulnerability in his comedy
• Bill Burr responds to criticism of his past material online
• Nikki Glaser’s plastic surgery plans and history
• Pete Davidson Staten Island Ferry update
• Dave Chappelle hosting SNL

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Bill Burr on his new special Roy Wood about how much he curses or not and win look at Nikki Glaser and plastic surgery. I’m not out to be caddy. I just found an interesting article.

And Pete Davidson updates us on the Staten Island Ferry My Words fiasco. We’ll find out what’s going on with that. I’ll talk about Dave Shabelle hosting SNL tomorrow. You don’t think I stayed up to two in the morning recording this podcast, did you? Bill Burr caught up with Variety.

His upcoming special for Hulu is called Drop Dead Years, filmed in Seattle. Fridy was curious how Burr picks a city burst it if I’ve done one there before, how much I love a city. If I feel like there’s gonna be a good amount of pushback for the crowd when you’re filming a statup special, this camera’s there as people tend to be a little more agreeable. I need that push pull thing to happen. I don’t want to be in an echo chamber.

I’d rather have it more hostile than agreeable? Faridy, Have you found that hostility more than liberal cities? Nah, Because I adjust my ahal vibe to whatever state I’m in. If I’m in a conservative place, I’ll go more liberal. If I’m a liberal place, I’ll go more conservatives.

It’s like trying to make it over medium egg. You know, there’s an art to it. They were curious about how Burr workshops his material. I don’t like it if I say something, everybody goes yeah, it’s one side. Everything is sized now, So I always make sure if once I gets too excited, I’m agreeing with them, not a trash them, or maybe I trash myself.

Political views is something you don’t want to ram down people’s throats. So I go over the double line a lot. Sometimes I’m here and sometimes I’m over there, depends on what you’re talking about. I like this one in the upcoming special very minor spoiler, You’ll be fine here. Bert makes fun of the audience for clapping aka Cleaptor.

As Burr tells it, I say I’ve been married for eleven years, and the audience goes woo. It’s like I get a had or chain or a radiator, What are you doing? I’m doing that for comedic effect.

And also I don’t like that sound.

I’d rather say something mean to me in a loving way than something genuine in a complimentary way. I don’t know what to do with that. But if you tell me, hey, a hole, you’re pretty funny tonight, that means a lot to me. If you’re like, hey man, life goes by fast, and I really wanted to make sure that they took the time. I’m like, oh God, please stop talking.

It’s creeped me out. Bild you ever still bum? I do, but I know how to bomb gracefully. I’m like an old fire and knows how to take a punch. So I still lose a fight, but I don’t get knocked out.

Composure. You have to maintain control even when you’re bombing, and you have to make fun of yourself. Last week I had a benefit on Tuesday. I’m not sure if this was the Tuesday last week. During the fires of the week before, so I was working out my set at the comedy store.

I had no seguys. I was out up to the fact that my act wasn’t there yet. There’s a reason they’re coming to see me in the original room on Sunday night. But people come to see you on those nights. They’re very forgiving.

They like to watch the process, and they’re entertained watching some of these seen do well struggle a little bit. Brody was curious if the comedy story is Burr’s a favorite place to workshop new material. It’s one of my favorite places. I also like a lot of the satellite rooms. The younger comics are running young comics.

He’ll be young, you’re still old, but you know how to act your age comedically around them, if that makes sense. If you perform to your generation, only you grow old with them. The comics that I love growing up. Never stop going to the gym, which is going down the comedy club and get in front of twenty somethings despite the fact that you’re in like your fifties. Like me, I learned how to get your fifty something your old ideas over to them.

If you get down there in your fifties and try to act twenty and that’s gonna be a train wreck. You gotta understand you’re like their funny older relative. It’s like my uncle saying stuff again. As for the special BurrH confronts his mortality. Bill, do you think about death a lot?

It’s a reality, It’s not a fixation or even a fear. If you’re comedian. To get to my age, you’re gonna have lost a lot of friends, unfortunately, and I have, and I missed them. Sometimes late night I put the kids to bend, I can’t go to sleep, and I think about them, and I get said, but I’ll look at death is something to be feared. I don’t think there’s this angry, invisible guy that’s gonna be upset.

Was the time to watch the tapes of my life Variety? This special struck me as your most vulnerable material yet Burr. Then Christ you saw that I’m a recovering meathead and I’m doing the best I can. It’s nice to hear some of my works being noticed follow them. Is it something you’ve intentionally baked in your work or do you think it’s a natural result of getting older both.

I don’t want to be up there just pointing my finger at the crowd the whole time. God knows, I was guilty of that early in my career, but that’s just where I was as a young man. I was lashing out at everything. As you get older, hopefully you realize that you’re bringing home some of the problems at the table, and maybe the way you handle things isn’t the best way you do it. Being married and having kids and realizing that your behavior can affect these people you’re living in a positive way or a negative way really makes you confront your flaws.

God knows, I have a lot of them, a lot of those things. I used to believe that women are difficult and blah blah blah. It was my issue of not understanding myself. Good follow up. Does it make you uncomfortable that your past material lives online forever?

Nah? Not at all. I love when people bring that up, because then I go, you were alive when I said that. Yet fifteen years they get offended. You’re scatting around to it.

Now. That sort of crap is happen in to comics that I grew up watching. They did these jokes and generally everybody laughed, and the needle moves twenty years later and the same people laughed act like they didn’t. But the comedian gets frozen at time. All the comedian has showing he was where society was at this time.

They feel like because they call out a comedian and made a joke twenty or thirty years ago, and they’re now an ally and they are appeased of all their wrongdoings in society. So much of that stuff’s cringeworthy. You’re gonna make your Instagram page dark for one day, So give me on the right side of history. That’s all took. You didn’t even have to leave your house.

Good stuff. We’ll pick it that some more tomorrow, all right. So this next one I saw and a clicked on it just as a civilian, and I saw that Life and Style mag had boasted has Nikki Glaser at plastic surgery photos of the comedian’s transformation through the years, and I was like, all right, I’m not gonna do that on the podcast. That’s just being cat. But then as I read it, I thought it was pretty interesting.

Nicky said on CBS Sunday Morning in December. So for January twenty twenty five, I was going to possibly have like a brow lift or some kind of really invasive surgery that I’ve been you know, looking at a getting. My agents were like, so this operation, is there any way you could push it till maybe the second week in January. The article pulls out some previous quotes. In twenty seventeen, Nicky tweeted, I know I’m too young for it, but I’ve had tons of plastic surgery on my face.

Not to look younger, are prettier, but to look von trappier. They have a photo of Nicki in twenty seventeen and twenty sixteen, and I believe her tweet at no pun face value. In twenty nineteen, Nicki told Howard Stern that she planned to get plastic surgery someday, face stuff, in particular, quoting NICKI, here, everyone who’s face you like, every celebrity you’re like, they’re naturally beautiful. They’ve all had stuff done, so just little things here and there. I think I might get my lips done next week.

The lip thing you do, and it’s not permanent, just a little plump. Howard tried to convince her not to do it, telling Nicky should look like clown. Nicky said, I’m canceling my appointment. Thank you. That’s all he needed to hear.

According to Life and Style, Nicki had some work done on her vocal cords in twenty twenty two. She wrote on Instagram basically my voice is fried and I’m having her repaired. I’m so excited about this. It’s not going to be painful and it’s going to change my life. The only bummers that recovery from this operation meeans I won’t be able to speak for three to five weeks, not a word, and so unfortunately I have to move some September October stand updates in twenty twenty three.

Thank you for understanding. Talk to you then. Wow. Imagine not being able to speak for three to five weeks. Yikes.

And then during the Golden Globes she did some jokes about plastic surgery. One of them, I love where you put your chick bones. I too, drink a lot of water. I don’t judge. I do it now too.

That apparently a hint at her own experience with getting cheek filler, So who knows, just thought it was an interesting read. The Wall Street Journal asked Pete Davidson what his most prized possession is. Pete said, I have a pair of my dad’s shoes from when he worked in the firehouses, boots. That’s always gonna be my favorite thing. But the coolest thing I have that’s not family oriented is two handwritten letters that Johnny Cash wrote really the week I share that Pete Treasure’s a letter he has from his father that really stuck with me all week.

And I’m thinking of writing my children letters on their birthday this year, and maybe it might not mean a lot to them in twenty twenty five, but it might mean a lot to them in twenty I don’t know. Seventy five, of course, will be one hundred and six years old that you’re still hosting this podcast. I’m on a mission to live to be one hundred and nine. First of all, I attended the bi Centennial as a boy, and then I learned about the tri Centennial. So I’ve always had it to be my life goal to attend the Trice Centennial July fourth, twenty seventy six.

You know, a bit of a stretch, shout, I have to get to one hundred and something. But then I found out if I don’t move, I stay right here in this very basement. In when I’ll be one hundred and nine years old, there’s going to be a total solar eclipse right over my house. All I have to do is go out into the backyard. So remember the final episode of Lost, where Jack is just lying there and kind of fades out.

That’s what I want to do. I want to make the solar eclipse at age one hundred and nine, lay down in my yard, watch the solar eclipse, and then all right. I had a good run.

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And then you know, I guess you guys will get two or three more podcasts that …

Who knows, maybe I’ll pretape some stuff. The Churnal asked Pete Davidson. You and John Mulaney recently reunited in an SNL sketch. You guys had a moving scene together in bup gis. What have you learned from John Mulaney?

Pete said, he’s shown me how to preserve I always looked up to him. He’s not only one of the funniest people working right now, he’s a top ten comedian of all time. Should I parse that now, I’d have to sit and make a list. But he’s just not right. I mean, he’s just not I’m not saying bad, but I don’t think he’s top ten all time.

And again, defined comedian, are we putting Lucille Ball, Bob Hope? And I don’t know Richard pryor in the same bucket, or they do different things. If we look at pure stand up. See now I want to do this. I’m so distracted.

Okay, let me pull up a list of somebody else’s list of the top comedians of all time and see if we can get to ten. All right, just so I have a list to work off. Rolling Stone’s at fifty best, right down to the bottom. I’m gonna get all distracted here. Richard Priory yup, George Carlin yep, Lenny Bruce at number three, c K pre canceled, Seek’s probably better than Mlanie’s still, Chris Rock, Joan Rivers.

Joan Rivers is better than Milanie Seinfeld clearly better than Mlanie. Bill Cosby, despite other parts of his resume, if we just look at him as a stand up, better than Melanie Chapelle. I’m down here. They got seventeen, Bill Hardy teen, Kevin Hart nineteen, Albert Brooks Newhart, Eddie Murphy for two albums, Rodney huh, I’m all the way down in the fifties. Now, I’m not sure I’ve named ten comedians better than John Mullanie.

Is John Mulaney in the top ten? Now? He can’t be right. Okay, that’s a topic for the Facebook group, a Daily Comedy News podcast group. I will post that and schedule it.

Where were we? Pete Davidson was saying, Mlanie’s a top ten comedian of all time. And I watched him as he took it on the chin a couple years ago and had to completely revamp his life. I’m kind of in the midst of that right now, and he’s been helping me so much. It was so inspiring to watch him beat his addiction, become an even bigger comedian, going on an arena tours, start a family.

He’s so happy now and it looks effortless, but it’s not. And I gotta say he’s always had my back and he’s always there. Not a lot of people are for me, I’d say it’s just him. Louren Michaels and Machine Gun Kelly Pete, you recently said that you made three thousand dollars an episode during SNL went viral. Pete said it was pretty humiliating that it went viral.

I mean, I hate Today’s World because it was a shoot for SNL and thirty other people answered something and it wasn’t planned. I was just walking into my dressing room and someone threw a camera in my face and was like, watch you buy with your first paycheck? And I was like, yeah, we don’t get paid a lot. I wasn’t really thinking of it.

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And then I woke up to a bleeping s show.

Nobody was mad or anything. But that’s not what I want out there. I’d rather it be a trailer for a movie or here’s what I’m working on the last year. So I kind of laid low. I don’t go out, I don’t do anything.

I’m just trying to make it all about the work. The journal asked about the Staten Island Ferry. One’s it gonna be up and running? Pete said, we do have believe it or not in him death plan. Every day I get asked about this bleeping boat, and we’re raising the funds.

We’re gonna do a floorid to Tome. There’s a full plan in motion, and meanwhile people are renting it out. All right, We’re unexpectedly long here on a Sunday because I went off on the Mulaniy top ten. I still don’t all hope prior Carlyn, this is not in any particular order. That’s three Seinfeld, Joan Rivers is five, Chris Rock.

Let me ask you a question. Is Nate Brighetzi better than John Mulani right now? Yes? So? Is Nate Brighetzy in the top ten of all time?

Oh my god, don’t open this can of worms. John, that’s holiday filler. We just did sixteen pre tape shows. Save this for a holiday weekend when you don’t want to work on Sunday. Okay, I’ll save it.

Roy Wood Junior talked about his philosophy of using the N word and curse words and jokes. Roy said, I try to use it in scenarios if I’m impersonating the person who would have said it, or if it’s a feeling of exasperation. So I’m not just gonna say frickin’ or gosh, drn That just for me doesn’t work. I’ve resigned myself to the truth, though, that certain words are gonna nail the chalkboard. Certain people don’t like those words, and if that’s the case, then I’m not sure if everything I do is going to be for you, that’s fine when done properly.

A comedy booker told me ages ago. This was the late nineties. She said, profanity should be the seasoning, never the main ingredient. So I curse way more when I’m first starting a joke, and a lot of that is just nervousness and curse words because h words like you saw me in a comedy club working new material versus when it’s polished. It’s night and day, and so you have all these curse words and they’re scaffolding, and then you slowly start taking the sport beams away to see that whether or not the joke is really funny.

Roy says, you have to stay grounded. You have to know what regular people are going through. You can’t do that by living in an uber blacks your entire life. I consider comedy to be a form of journalism, living anthropology in its highest form. You do anthropology on things that are still alive, things that are still evolving.

So you have to be immersed in that. You have to be yourself in that a little bit. So, yeah, take the train. Talk to regular people. That’s the one thing I always loved about the Daily Show was the conversation with people.

It’s the thing I miss the most about morning radio more than anything. It’s talking to strangers every day. I got to talk to anywhere from eight to ten regular people just going on about their life, and you understand their concerns and what they’re going through. And that becomes the things that I could take and put on Star because now you have an opportunity in a way to be a voice of connection. I had a bump a few things to tomorrow before we go, let me tell you that Lauren Michaels has donated a collection of his work on SNL and more to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

The collection spans fifty years, includes rehearsal notes for SNL, sketches, annotated scripts, personal correspondence, and more. The archive covers Lauren’s early writing on shows like Laughin and The Phyllis Diller Show, as well as on shows like Kids in the Hall and movies like Wayne’s World. A special exhibition Live from New York, The Making of Lauren Michaels, will be on display at the Center from September twentieth through March fifteenth of twenty twenty six. And that is your comedy news for today. If you missed yesterday’s interview with Larry the Cable Guy interviews, not the right word we had a conversation.

He was fantastic. Please go back and check out Larry the Cable Guy in Saturday’s episode. Tomorrow big inauguration, So we’ll talk about that a little bit, but we’ll keep it light. We’ll do normal Daily Comedy News, and I’ll talk about Chappelle on Saturday Night Live. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, hopefully they’ll like it too.

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Featured: Larry the Cable Guy, Dan Whitney, Jeff Foxworthy

What’s in This Episode

• Larry the Cable Guy’s Nebraska Road Trip Tour
• Larry performing at small venues including Wahoo High School and Central City High School
• Character creation and evolution of Larry the Cable Guy persona
• Larry’s Sirius XM radio show and weekly broadcasts
• Voice acting work on Cars franchise as Mater
• Dan Whitney’s perspective on separating personal comedy from the Larry character
• Collaborating and swapping jokes with Jeff Foxworthy

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 and I am high on life. As I record this support of the podcast. I just hung up with Larry, the cable guy who is today’s guest. He is awesome.

He is doing Larry’s Nebraska road trip. You’ll hear Larry explain it. He’s playing smaller venues including Wahoo High School, Central City High School, and some other small theaters. This might have been the fastest half hour of my life. Like I looked up and we were just talking.

Hopefully it comes true here that I actually know the guy and we’re friends, and suddenly it was twenty three minutes in and I’m like, holy cow, I didn’t even ask him about the Tory yet. So you’ll hear me back to back two questions because I could have talked to him for two more hours. It would have been amazing along the way here. Especially note I’ve talked about this in the past, and I talk about it during the interview the Dan slash Larry and this is really an interview with Dan Whitney. If you pay a lot of attention, especially vocally, he turns on the Larry voice a little bit, but he explains how the character has evolved.

Anyway, let’s get right to it. Here’s Larry the cable guy. That’s a nice setup you got there. Yeah, you know what. I when I was doing all my Disney stuff, all my picks are stuff, they said for the third one and a bunch of the toys and stuff.

You don’t have to come out here, but you can do it at the place in Omaha. And I said, oh, that’s awesome. I said, well, how about this. Can I put a studio in my barn and do it from the studio? Yeah, yeah, if you got the equipment, we’ll do it from there.

I said, okay, So I had my buddy designed me a studio and tell me what I need and they came in and put this in. It’s pretty nice. That’s nice, and that’s nice work if you can get it right. I know, absolutely, it’s funny. Then I put it in and then we ended up doing doing all that car stuff.

And once those projects were done, it just kind of sits here till I do my life show and Serious once Wednesday a week. How are you enjoying a lot of radio show? You know what, Joah? I like doing it. I mean it’s fun.

I do it. You know, they told me that I didn’t have to do it anymore if I didn’t want to. But you know, we had to do twenty hours of live programming between Jeff and I and Jeff does an interview show once a week or once every two weeks, whatever his twenty hours is. And I was just gonna do this to round out to twenty. But I like it.

I had a good time, you know. And I got four other people on there with me that work at Morale, you know, Maral of course, so yeah, so Moral’s there, and so I love it. We have a good time. So I do. I do every Wednesday when I’m home for two hours, and I’ll love it.

So we’ve been doing it a long time. I just want to keep it going. I mean, it’s a great way to connect with the fans. It’s a great way to connect with the fans. You know.

I got that. I got a record label, and I try to help promote some of these guys and gals that are on my record label. So it’s a good way to plug them and get them played and and uh so I enjoy doing that. Do you try out lines on the radio show? I do all the time I try out and I use it as my own personal Hey, what do you think of this?

When I wrote this yesterday, you know, and I’ll do I’ll do a bunch of stuff like that, I think. You know, here’s the thing I if I wish, I mean, Larry the Cable Guy of course is the name and the draw. But I don’t do my show as Larry the Cable Guy. I mean, I got I talk like this, this is me. I got a little accent, you know, but I don’t sometimes I wish, you know, when I was doing Cars, I wanted to use my real name, but you know my manager at the time, who I’m not mentioning live ever again, My manager at the time said, no, you have to play it as you know, Larry the Cable Guy is who’s doing the voice, because it’s a brand.

You’re selling a brand, and you got merchandised. I says, okay, I mean I don’t know much about that stuff. So so Mater from Cars was performed by another character, the Cable Guy performed by Dan Whitney, which really didn’t make much sense. So I kind of got it’d be cool to do a radio show Dan Whitney and you know, people know that I’m the voice of Larry the Cable Guy and Mad, but now I’m now it’s it is what it is. Everybody calls me Larry the Cable Guy, whether I talk with my character accent or regular.

So even on social media, I just have one Larry the Cable Guy, voice of major, voice of you know. So it is what it is. It’s funny since we’re peeling back the curtain. I’ve shared with people who listen to my Dope podcast. You know, I would sometimes be blessed to be backstage and you know, could tell what I was talking to Dan, and could tell when I was talking to Larry, depending on the situation and how much you ramped up the accent.

Is there a scenario where Dan might ever perform stand up comedy? Maybe some things that don’t fit the Larry PERSONA. Boy I would love to because the act that I did before Larry the Cable Guy. That’s how Larry the Cable Guy became to do what he does because Larry the Cable Guy. When I did Larry the Cable Guy, I wanted to create a likable Archie Bunker because I thought Archie was funny, but he was a douchebag to his wife and you know what I mean to people.

But he was funny. You got to admit the guy was hilarious. So I wanted to create a character that wasn’t a douchebag and had good points. Obviously conservative, I’m a conservative guy. It’s a conservative guy that doesn’t quite know how to say things in a correct way.

You understand what he’s trying to say, but he goes about it entirely the wrong way. And so that’s what I created. But Larry the Cable Guy originally was a political guy. Every time I was on the radio, I would do a social commentary on what was happening. So when I first went on stage and people started yelling, get her done, we went to here Larry.

I didn’t have a comedy show geared towards Larry the Cable Guy. My comedy show was upbeat, fast paced, a lot of goofy jokes, a lot of dumb actions, physical physicality. That’s what I had. So when I first did it, I said, well, I’m just going to take the next ten minutes of material that I got, and I’m going to do it with an accent and do it. Hilario would do it, and so you know, that’s what I did, and it killed and that’s the so I incorporated how I used to do my show into Larry and that’s what came about.

Now, could I go back and be myself and do these jokes, Yeah, it would be hilarious, but I think now it would just kind of throw people off and be kind of weird because as well, Lait a minute, Larry’s not you know what I mean. So I think I just leave it as it is. It’s not you know, people like it. It’s funny. You know, I’m not too at this point, John, to be honest with you, I’m not too worried about it.

I I used to be worried about separating the two and making sure that people knew that. But you know what, if it makes people laugh, I’m all about it. I love it. I still love it. So I love doing it.

Nothing making. You know, when Jeff and I get together, we both we don’t stop talking like that. You go, bet Neil yesterday with the potato salad. Yeah, we was up here. It all spoiled, not sad, and Amanda had to go to doctor.

You know, we talked. It’s funny. I remember hanging out backstage in Nashville with you guys one time, and I really enjoyed you guys are just riffing jokes. And Jeff had one that just doesn’t work for capital j Capital lef Jeff Foxworthy and over a year and you sent one back in the other direction. It was just a pleasure to watch that.

Yeah, But he would always come up with something that I thought was so stinking funny. But he’d like, oh, man, I can never do that doesn’t fit, but you can have that. Yeah, that’s exactly right.

And now I’ll go, hey, I got one I could never get to work.

Maybe you could get this doory. So yeah, we would swap jokes all the time. Unfortunately, the jokes I would swap him were a little too uh heady for my material. You know. I remember one time we swapped the joke.

I couldn’t get that joke to work about my buddy thinks he’s visited by aliens because he went outside and his lawn he had three little crop circles and he was like, what the heck aliens came. Turns out somebody just stole his garbage cans. Now, I always thought that was funny, but I could never get it to work, and it confused me. So I traded it with Jeff, who traded me the joke called poop Lazania. Oh no way, So poop Lazania cast me the uh trash can bit with the aliens.

But the poop Lazaia is disgusting, But you gotta laugh at it because it’s just thinking funny. I was thinking back, you know, I’ve known you for twenty something years now, it feels like yesterday. I could tell you. I remember I was standing in the hallway of Sirius on the outer side, on the right side there in the back, and Maggie was there with Jeff and she said, hey, you want to talk to this other guy, Larry the cable guy, And we were. Like, oh, mar whatever, Yeah, Maggie’s my manager.

Now. It was five minutes before you like super popped and then you just exploded there like it happened really quickly, right. You know, yeah, it really did, you know. But I had worked hard on it. I mean, when you get into something like comedy, anything that’s in the entertainment field or the athletic field, well really anything, you have to love it.

You have to love it if you just kind of like it, or you just kind of love it. It’s gonna be a hard road. But if you love it, if you love something, man, you want to you want to do it all the time. You want to. You live it, you breathe it, you watch it.

And I loved it, man, I loved making people laugh. And so when I started doing the Larry the Cable Guy character, I’d busted ass at it. I made sure that I got radio stations and morning shows that wanted to put it on. And I wouldn’t ask for any payment. My payment was just promote me when I come to the comedy club in the area.

And I worked hard on it. I did radio calls every day, five days a week for thirteen years with that Larry the Cable Guy and many it just work. I started selling out comedy clubs and and but so I say that, John, because when I hit when I got on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, this is this is what helped me out all those years of plugging away and doing those morning shows. Well, when I got called first audition for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, I think the first one was in like South Carolina, Greenville. Maybe it was a place where I was on a morning show already and had been doing Larry the Cable Guy for two years, and so I sold a ton of tickets.

You know, it was a huge crowd, and I knew I sold. I knew me being on the bill had sold a ton of tickets because every time I went there, I would do three shows. I would do a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I would do five shows. So I’d do two on a Saturday, two on a Friday. Sometimes I’d just do with the weekend.

I do four shows. But they were packed. So you know that’s at least four eight twelve. That’s at least sixteen hundred people, two thousand people that saw me for you know, three times at least before I got on there. So I was ready for it.

So when I went on stage, I man, the crowd went crazy and I had a great set. So the foundation was laid a long time before. But definitely Jeff, who was like my adopted older brother, he saw what I was doing and he knew it would work with blue Collar and Ron Man, he’s so funny and Bill. There was just such a good tight thing they had going. So when I joined it, you know, I already had a nice foundation laid.

I didn’t really have to introduce myself to a lot of the markets because I was already on them. And you’re right, from that point on, it just it was like a Tesla rocket, you know, and somebody pulled the lever and it just exploded up in the air. Oh man, I love him so much. We’ll be right back with more from Larry the Cable Guy, and I feel the material has aged really well. I was just doing a mental check in my own recollection.

I don’t feel like there’s jokes from twenty years ago and we’re going to cancel Larry the Cable Guy because of something that worked in two thousand and five that doesn’t work now. I feel like it was always just like joke jokes, having a good time, smile on your face. Absolutely all my stuff is so I mean, it’s it’s just nonsense. I mean, you know, being married and had kids has changed a lot of my act because you know, now I can’t make up stuff, you know. I mean I can I make up things, obviously, But before I was married, I could make up two ex wives.

I could make up you know, I could do all that kind of stuff. I could be going to teddy clubs and I could you know what I mean, You know, I would make up all these things that you know Larry was doing. But now Larry, you know now the character Obviously I have kids. I have to work them into my act because there’s so much material. So now I actually have actual jokes about an actual family.

But the jokes Earl made up and stupid. But it’s partially factual. Yes, I have two kids. The other parts aren’t, you know, But yeah, you know, it’s just all goofy, goofy stuff. I It’s not like I don’t try not to look.

If you’re offended at something I do, you’re gonna Obviously, people that come to a comedy show are going to get offended something. But the way I see it right now is I’ve been around a long time. People that are fans of Larry the Cable Guy, God bless them. They know what they’re going to get. They know the kind of material I do.

They know it’s set up, punch, set up punch, stupid gestures. They know what they’re going to get, so nothing really surprises anybody. It’s not like I’m up there dropping f bombs and taking the Lord’s name in vain, and you know, I don’t do any all. My stuff is so completely goofy and I love telling it and like, like, I got a joke now about I got a joke now where I’m in Vegas And Henry Winkler came up to me in Las Vegas one of my first times ever in Las Vegas off the Blue Collar Tour, and he wanted to borrow five hundred dollars and I’m like, what the heck, Henry? He goes, no, Larry, listen, I need to give me five hundred dollars, and I swear to you meet me here in about five hours and I’m will give you two thousand dollars.

I just just can you do me that favor. I’m like, yeah, man, tag, I’m right, Henry Winkler. I haven’t seen Henry Winkler since then, for fourteen years. And it turns out that I got caught up in a Phonsie scheme. I mean, it’s the dumbest joke, but.

You have the physicality. It reminds me of Bob Hope. That’s where you would take a pause and kind of mug for the audience and ask them nonverbally, did you guys get that one. Did you like that one? It’s so much fun?

Yeah? And that well, that’s why I loved all the mool guys and all the stuff they used to do. It’s the and Carson, it’s after the joke that’s funny, Like after that joke, Normally I would do something like it looks like I got caught up in one of those Fuonsie schemes. Crowd laugh, and then I’ll go, how have I not won a Grammy? You know, just stuff like that.

You know, one time I did. I was doing a celebrity golf tournament and I was doing some jokes. Oh man, what’s his name? Famous hockey player. I’m having a brain fart dog on it.

But anyway, he was there and I said a joke and they got kind of a so soo laugh, and I said, hey, keep this up, folks. I’ll bring him up talk about hockey for an hour. You know that, in my opinion, when you’re doing jokes like this, it’s not the joke per se. All these jokes are all about timing and all about the safe. That’s what these jokes are.

Now, you know, eighty percent of them are set up boom and a big laugh the other twenty percent are a funny like oh, no, you know one of those like ah, but the punch is the save, and it’s planned. It’s not like I didn’t you know. They’re all planned. I have a ton of saves that are planned for individual jokes. I’m already watching the clock here, So I’m gonna compound a question because I have a couple of big topics that I could see.

I’m not gonna get enough time already. So combined with that, that was John. That was planned so that you didn’t have to have big questions. You seem to have figured out life that it’s not only about the money, that’s also about family. You clearly could do two hundred and seventy theaters if you wanted to.

You have chosen not to the last few years.

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And now you’re doing this Larry’s Nebraska road trip.

You’re playing high schools, which is also a choice. So let me fold that into one big question, and can you just explain to us, like what you’re all about now? Well, look, I I grew up in Nebraska, and I love Nebraska. I grew up in a small town in Nebraska has the most small towns of any state in the United States under A thousand and I and all the time that I lived here, I have only I resided in the Southeast corner, and I never really went anywhere. I know, we maybe every now and go to Omaha, sometimes go to Lincoln, and I’ve performed in Omaha, Lincoln and at the Fair in Grand Island, but I’ve never been anywhere else.

I think I went to Hastings one time for a golf tournament. I went out west and played golf. But want I got a brand new album coming out, a brand new special coming out, and instead of just going to a comedy club and people coming to me and me working out Matario, I thought it would be cool to travel around the state, meet people in other parts of the state that grew up just like I did, and let them all be a part of this process of coming up with a new act and jokes and do my show for people that have supported me over all of these years, but yet never get to see me and I never get to be out there. So I just thought it would be a fun, unique way to do that, and that’s that’s why I do that. And I can, you know, not to proselytize John to people but I and it doesn’t bother me.

It doesn’t bother me going from an arena to a high school. It doesn’t bother me not doing two hundred and seventy shows a year to only doing twenty four shows a year, because comedy is my job. It’s not my identity. It’s my job, you know, And it’s not my identity. You know.

I’m a Look, I’m a Christian. I’m a Jesus follower, and that’s my identity. I mean, you know, one day I’ll be gone. One day I’ll be gone, and everything that I did, it’s just like every other entertainer. You’re oh wow, remember yeah, and then twenty years from then you forgot You’re gone.

So what so you got a plaque on the wall, big deal, you know. So I think about other things. I think about after I’m gone, you know. I think about those things. And so that’s not my identity.

I’m not sitting at home depressed because I’m not working arenas anymore. I don’t look at the TV and go, man. I remember when I was doing what Napragotzi’s doing now, you know, and being old van I used to do. I don’t do that at all. I am completely content and completely happy with everything that I ever got to do in my life.

And now that I have kids and they have careers that they want to start doing, it’s all about being a dad and making sure my kids are taken care of and following what they want to do and helping them out with their dreams. And so yeah, I mean I don’t I’m very into I don’t get caught up in any of that stuff. Because if you put your entire identity into what you do for a living, once that starts to fade, once that starts to go, then you got really nothing, you know. I mean, you got your you got I wouldn’t say you got nothing, but I mean all that’s gone now you’re not you’re not selling anymore tickets, you’re not. And I’m still selling I’m still selling out shows, you know.

But you have to think about the future and you have to think about later on in life. And that’s what I’ve done. And so my identity isn’t in material things, because if it was, I would be super, super depressed. So you can’t. You can’t do that.

You can’t live your life for material things. Now. I love what I do. If you do something you gotta love it because you want to be successful in it, but don’t put your identity in it. That’s that’s me.

That’s that’s me talking and what I’ve done. You know, I don’t want to be one of those comedians or one of those entertainers that’s in a hotel room at seventy five years old and you know hasn’t really there’s that’s it. You’re in a hotel room and you. Know what I mean, Yeah, no, you know the top. You know, I’m sure Sagat didn’t want to pass away in a hotel room.

You try and avoid that. I got to keep you on schedule. I’m honorable with Meggie, and uh, you know, I got my half hour here. I appreciate you. You have been a friend for two decades.

You continue to be a friend, you know, and in this industry where hey, it’s a dude in a podcast, but you know, you could easily say no, and you say yes. So I appreciate you. You’re awesome, lad, Johnnie. Thank you so much. Matey you and I man, I tell you what, You’re a big part.

I mean, you were always there. You’re a big part of every time might come up to Syria and I just thought it was the coolest thing. You know. We’d walk in there and there’d be me, Bill, Jeff and Ron our picture on the serious billboard underneath Howard Stern and John and you were always so nice to us and made us feel at home. And I always loved coming up there and saying hi to you and doing and stuff.

So I’m glad you had me on your podcast. Man, I appreciate it. Quick story on the sign. So Brewer, Jim Brewer comes up one day, he goes, am I crazy? Or is I came up here and my picture wasn’t on the wall And I’m like, yeah, dude, we rotate the pictures depending on who’s coming up.

We don’t have Howard started Jim Brewer, I made you laugh. I’m getting out on that. By hey, jo, Hey, can I listen before you go? Can I tell you a quick story? I mean, Jim Brewer knows his story.

And I’ll be late for this other and for just a couple of minutes. Is this okay? So when I was open mic, and some of the best years of my life were open mic and hanging out with comedians and writing jokes. But the West Palm Beach crew, which I was a part of. We would go up every now and then do Bonkers in Orlando.

So we’d always go out to eat to Denny’s and we’d get a booth and all of us comedians now listen, all of us had other jobs. We weren’t professional comedians. The only person in that booth that was a professional comedian was Tom Rhodes. He was the only professional comedian there, and we just made we would linger on every word Tom Rhads said, because he was funny and he had a TV show that had just come, you know what I mean. So in that booth though, in that booth trying to be comedians that night, me Scott Thompson, Carrot Top, Jim Brewer, Darryl Hammond, Billy Gardell, Tom Rhodes, Me obviously my buddy Chris Baker, who became this talk show host who’s like listened to his top one under talk show hosts.

And my buddy Tom Ryan and who’s from where we’re from. I lives in New York now and is a really great writer comedian. So that who was in that booth that day. It was unbelievable and we talk about it to this day, how crazy it was that all of us were together in that booth all those years ago, not knowing what was going to happen in the future. That’s some lineup, yeah, isn’t it.

I mean, that’s a great comedy lineup. All right, y’all right, I don’t want to get in trouble. I’m gonna let you go, all right. Hey, man, keep in touch. I love seeing you, man, keep in touch.

As I said at the top, that was the fastest half hour of my life. I have a long standing friendship with Maggie, who was mentioned in the interview, and over the years, I have prided myself if I ask Maggie for half an hour, I keep my schedules half an hour. A lot of these radio interviews run over, but I try to keep my word. But Maggie, if you’re listening, Larry told one more story. That’s why we won thirty one minutes.

I apologize. Larry’s great, Maggie’s great. To know them both for twenty plus years. And that is your comedy news for today. I hope you enjoyed that one.

I really really love him. He’s just an awesome person. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Jamie Foxx, Bill Burr, Roy Wood Jr., Dave Chappelle, Cameron Diaz, Kat Williams, Larry the Cable Guy

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien wins Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• Dave Chappelle hosting SNL with Morgan Freeman voiceover promo
• Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz promote ‘Back in Action’ on Complex’s Goat Talk
• Jamie Foxx takes shot at unnamed comedian suspected to be Kat Williams
• Bill Burr Variety interview and fan criticism about going soft
• Bill Burr’s ‘Drop Dead Years’ special coming March 14 to Hulu
• Roy Wood Jr. releases ‘Lonely Flowers’ special on Hulu

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. On Today Show, Conan O’Brien’s gonna win the Mark Twain Prize. Jamie Fox took a shot at somebody, was it? Cant Williams, Bill Burr’s got a big profile and variety and Roywood Junior specials out on Hulu Today. Not that their publicist wants me to know about it.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with Today’s Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien will be the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He’ll be honored at the annual gala March twenty third at the John F. Kennedy Senator for the Performing Arts in Washington, d C. Netflix will stream the events sometime later in the year, so expect a lot of Conan press coming up because he’s also hosting the Oscars on March second.

Conan becomes the twenty sixth person to receive the award. Others include Carl Reiner, wi Be Goldberg, Tina fe Eddie Murphy, Jay Leno, David Letterman, and I believe Bill Cosby oops at his fact check that he did. The Kennedy Center rescinded the honor in twenty eighteen. I’ve got some Bill Cosby stories to tell, and I will tell them, but not today. Perhaps after his death I will share them digress.

Conan said, I’m honored to be the first winner of the Mark Twain Prize, recognized not for humor but for my work as a riverboat pilot. Deborah Rutterer is the president of the Kennedy Center and said from Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons, where he was a writer, including the unbelievably funny monorail episode, Oh that’s a trigger for me. I’m going to be singing monorail all day now. Conan is a master of invention and reinvention, consistently pushing the envelope in search of new comedic heights. I look forward to honoring his immense legacy and enduring impact with an uproarious evening in the Concert Hall on March twenty third.

The Holly Reporter has a nice bio of Conan. He began his career on HBO’s Not Necessarily the News. Remember that show, fellow oldies I used to watch that. He was a writer on SNL and The Simpsons took over for Letterman in ninety three, hosted this Night Show for seven minutes in two thousand and nine, kind of hit out on TBS No offense for eleven years on TBS, No offense, but kind of hit out. I think if we ranked everything Cony did, the TBSC years probably had the least impact.

And then he started a podcast which has done okay, that one called Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. Dave Chappelle hosts Saturday Night Live. This week. They put out an interesting promo. Dave Chappelle appears in it but never speaks.

Towards the end of the promo we see Chappelle on a stool, but I will play the audio for you with this Morgan Freeman esque or perhaps actually Morgan Freeman voiceover. Who knows, but let’s listen. Studio AH, New York City’s Helloed Comedy Ground, a fifty year tradition we left of that Saturday Night Live, all great past of these halls.

Also Stephen Chagall and This Saturday.

So some background there on the Steven Sagal shot. Former SNL writer Al Franken in twenty twenty two called Sigal an effing moron whose big sketch idea involved him. I don’t even want to voice this doing something very very sexually violent to cast member Victoria Jackson again in a sketch Franken recalled, asking him, so he want us to do the ugliest sketch that’s ever been on television. Lauren michael Is the ones called Sagal the biggest jerk who’s ever been on the show. Wow.

Jamie Fox is out with Cameron Diaz. They’re promoting Back in Action. They were on Complex’s Goat Talk. Jamie was asked what is his goat curse word? And I’m really gonna have to let you use your imagination here.

Jamie said, B word made an N word. Okay, I don’t even want to tell you what it rhymes with. You’ll figure it out. You’re smart. Now Here, he took a shot at someone folks on the interwebs suspect he’s talking about Kat Williams.

Fox said, be Made for Me is actually scientific because when I see the guy that I’m talking about, he’s usually small. He’s one hundred and twenty eight pounds. Camer Diez was curious, asking how many men do you know who were one hundred and twenty eight pounds. Jamie said a lot of comedians. I’ll leave it at that.

A lot of little MF comedians be made an n F at here man tiny it’s tiny mfer. So the theory is he could mean Kevin Hart, but I don’t recall Kevin and Jamie and talking about each other ever, or Kat Williams, who definitely has talked about Jamie. Steve Harvey, who is not one hundred and twenty eight pounds, has also previously referred to Kat Williams as a heater. We’ll keep an eye on this little beef. Johnny Mac likes comedy beefs.

That’s good for the show. Bill Burr did a lengthy interview with Variety. I’m seeing a lot of pushback to Burr’s appearance on Kimmel the other night, people suggesting that Burr is tone def or sucking up to Gavin Newsom or something. I don’t know, but going up a level. I’m seeing more and more chatter from longtime Bill Burr fans who feel like Bill has I don’t know what to describe it, gone soft, gone Hollywood, lost his way.

The vibe being they prefer the old Bill Burr, not the current incarnation who seems to be I don’t know, more restrained. I’m not sure I’m feeling that, but I definitely have caught that vibe on several podcasts that I listen to. I’ll pick up this article for the next few days and tomorrow on this program Larry the Cable Guys my guest. So I’ll do a little of this today, a little Sunday, and it might even carry in it a Monday. It’s pretty long.

You’ll find it Variety, and I’ve shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Please feel encouraged to join us there and join in on the conversation Hurtzeld Variety. I’m feeling pretty lucky. Bill had evacuated his house due to the La fires, as covered on Kimmel Kills Me. It’s just a lot of bots.

I think it’s trees in his behavior to politicize everything and keep it working people at each other’s throats. It’s all like it for one group of people. It’s not working people. This is not meant to be any sort of Bill Burr impression. I’m just separating it from my normal reading voice.

I go back to any arc my comic friends tell me how soft La is. I’m like oh you New York has come out here and you leave with the tail between your legs because you can’t hack it. It’s funny in LA is considered the soft place, but then when they see our weather, they start quoting revelations. I’m a New Yorker who has spent time in LA. I’ve never lived in LA.

But I have no idea what Burr is talking about there about New York is going out there and then not being able to hack Los Angeles. No idea whatsoever. But again, I’m not a comedian and I’ve never lived in Los Angeles. Burr’s out promoting his hilarious special Drop Dead Years. It’ll be out March fourteenth.

Now, if you want to make a case for Burr has gone establishment, the Hulu stand up comedy series is pretty mainstream. Jim gaff again, Sembastian I think is part of that lineup, and Roy Wood Junior, Who’s got one out today. Roy’s is called Lonely Flowers. In Lonely Flowers, Roywood Junior riffs on how isolation has sense, society spiraling ins who a culture of guns, protests, root employees, self checkout lanes, and sex parties. Roy told NPR when I It’d be Easy’s Comic View in two thousand and four had gotten turned down three years in a row, and I got so angry with them.

I watched every episode and I cataloged every topic that was breached by comedians for the previous year’s entire season. How many jokes about being ugly, here’s sex jokes, here’s race jokes, president famous people, and cataloged at all And this told myself that entire year, I won’t make a joke about any of those things. So now, at a minimum, i’m original. I like that approach. That’s pretty good.

Roy talked about leaving the Daily Show. It goes back to the Doug Herzog quote that I posted the day that I left for I said, you don’t own these jobs. You rent them, and sooner or later your numbers up. So it doesn’t matter if I stayed at The Daily Show sooner or later and exits inevitable. It’s which uncertainty will you choose stay at this job.

I’m not sure who’s going to get hired as host. With the uncertainty of not having a job and trying to create another job and maybe to be a better job, choose he told a story about his dad being a founding investor in Soul Train. Roy said, my dad was the first black announcer at pretty much most stations. He worked out in the fifties and sixties doing news for the most part. And so we got with some people up in Chicago and decided to create the National Black Network.

And the National bl Black Network was a series of syndicated news stories and articles and programs that would be sent out to black radio stations across the country. My dad gets pulled over by a cop and the cop is a really deep voice. He’s in the middle of getting a ticket. My dad goes, yeah, man, you have a nice voice. You should be on the radio.

You should be out here doing this. And my dad gave the cop his card. That cop Don Cornelius, Officer Don Cornelius of the Chicago PD. He’d only been a cop for a year. He quit.

He started working at a radio station as reporter, got an inch for the media and came up with an idea for a show, Soul Trained. He goes up to my father goes, hey, man, I’m taking up money if you want to be an investor in the show. Roy says, my pops gave Don Cornelius some of the money to shoot the pilot for Soul Trained. My dad gave maybe, like, let’s say it’s a thousand dollars, which is a good jillion billion dollars in nineteen eighty six. And once the show started, my dad goes, hey, don I need that money, man, and Don goes, instead of giving your money back, why don’t keep you on as a producer.

You can be an executive producer for the rest of your life, to which my dad said, nobody wants to watch black people dance. Give me my money. Don paid him back. My father took the money, signed away his rights to any claims of the Soul Train empire. And that was that.

Wow. A lot more here from Roy Wood, But I’ll push that into the weekend as well, because that’s an awesome story. You and always go out on top, all right. Johnny Mac feels bad. You know, I’m on here and I’m like, hey, guys, buy me a coffee.

Come on, buy me a coffee. Will you buy me a coffee?

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And then poor Avon goes and buys me not one, but two coffees, And do I thank …

No? You think I thank her on the show. I didn’t. I’m sorry, Ivon. I appreciate you.

Thank you for buying me two coffees by going to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Now to be fair when you do buy me a coffee. I got a note in my inbox and Avon shot me note. She’s like, hey, you know, did you get the coffee? Is what’s going on?

Like friendly, not like being excuse me, me being trick or anything. She just want to make sure that you know some scammer she does want, like Nigerian scammers getting the coffee she intended for me. So I looked and this had happened while I was in Antarctica, so I missed the email. So Evon thank you and I apologize. But anyway, you can go to buy me coffee dot com slash Daily Common News.

Look at this, I almost have like forty percent of this one left today. I will take your money. I will drive to the National Dome chain where I’ve already pre ordered because I’m not gonna talk to anybody. It’s twenty twenty five. I’ve got apps and reward points and stuff, and I have a ready clicked large iced coffee, caramel milk.

I go in and I get it, and I get back in and then I pat my dog. My dog’s been coming for ride. And I don’t want letters from people to be like you look your dog on the corder. It’s twenty seconds, dude, Relax, dog likes coming in the morning. Bill Hayter spoke to K’SLA about the La fires.

Oh, I better reset here and get the cause. I just laughed a little, But this story’s not funny and all. Bill Hater’s home was destroyed in the fires, he told KTLA. People keep saying unreal. It doesn’t seem real.

I’m sorry. I’m in shock. Just gone everything Alphabet streets, which is to me, kind of the heart of the Palisades. This beautiful, beautiful area is gone. The whole thing is gone.

I got a video showing the fire and rush back, but by the time I got back it was gridlock traffic. I’m glad I got my family out during this city evacuation. Men’s Health was concerned about Jay Leno’s car collection. Jay’s been out and about volunteering. Men’s Health happily reports Jay’s car collection appears to be safe.

Most of his vehicles are stored in an empty aircraft hangar at Hollywood Birdbank Airport. Interesting. How much does that cost a rent? And I didn’t know this. Jay’s got another estate in Newport, Rhode Island that he bought in twenty seventeen for thirteen and a half million dollars.

Jay hanging out in Rhode Island. Interesting? And if Fox News apparently doesn’t get the Tim Dillon podcast, they reported on what Tim Dillon said about the fires on Monday’s episode. I listen to that episode was very funny. If you listen to Tim Dillon, He’s not serious about anything.

He’s just riffing jokes. But Fox posted this as if it was news. Ridiculous. David Spade has offered five thousand dollars to anyone who successfully catches and reports arseness in La Spade. I appreciate it, but five thousand dollars in David Spade money is like buying me a coffee.

Could we up that prize a little, dude? I mean, Daily Comedy News can almost afford a five thousand dollars prize. But anyway, his heart’s in the right place. He says, I’m out in California and people are saying there’s guys lighting fires out there making this stuff worse. So if you can find someone lighting a fire, and you catch somebody and you get the cops to bust them and throw them in jail, I’ll give you five thousand dollars.

So keep your eyes peeled, do what you can do out there. As I went to record the show today, I see Bob Yucker has passed away, age ninety. Let me see if I can do a quick bio on the fly. On Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Brewers announced that Bob had passed away aged ninety, calling it one of the most difficult days in Milwaukee Brewers’ history. Yucker’s family said he had battled small cell lung cancer since early twenty twenty three.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Bob Yucker was a beloved member of the baseball community. On the comedy side, Uker got his big break opening for Don Rickles in an Atlanta nightclub in nineteen sixty nine. That got him on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He did The Carson Tonight Show more than one hundred times. Carson dubbed Bob Buker mister baseball people.

My age definitely remember Bob Buker from the Miller Lite commercials. Those were fantastic. Bob starred in the ABC sitcom Mister Belvedere that ran six years and one hundred and twenty two episodes. He played the head of the family and a sports writer and a home that brings it a butler. The butler struggles to adapt to an American household.

Bob also played an announcer in the movies Major League and Major League two. He played Harry Doyle and you may remember the famous quote, just a bit outside. Bob Buker was ninety and that is your comedy news for today. Larry the Cable Guy. Tomorrow see then,

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Featured: Bill Burr, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Shlesinger

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr’s F-bomb-filled Kimmel appearance discussing LA fire evacuation
• Eddie Griffin’s conspiracy theory about LA fires covering up evidence
• Trump’s 1:24 AM Truth Social attack on Seth Meyers
• Laugh Factory fundraiser for Los Angeles Fire Foundation
• SF Sketchfest 2025 kicks off with 190+ shows through February 2nd

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, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show. Bill Burr’s on Kimmel and drops a million F bombs while talking about Los Angeles Eddie Griffin as a conspiracy theory about the fires, sketch Fest kicks off in San Francisco, and what did Pete Davidson say that hurt Nicky Glazer’s feelings? All right?

Bill Burr was on Jimmy Kimmel and talked about having to evacuate his house. I’ve got a long clip here. All the bleaves are where bird dropped F bombs. Hey, Bill Burr, have you not done TV before? Are you not familiar with how Late Night goes?

Why are you dropping F bombs? Anyway, here’s the clip. It’s very good to see you. I argue you had to evacuate your home. Yes, yes, like most people, I had to.

I got lucky. You know, the winds moved, but you know the fire was coming and all that stuff. So I feel lucky. Are you getting back? And I think everybody did a great job.

Yeah, I’m like the internet, you know, right, I know it’s right. Oh my god, all of. These fire experts Why didn’t you just fly a helicopter. Into the ocean? And I don’t know because it was one hundred nin wins.

You want to do that? You want to do that at night? You lunatic? How are you? This was definitely mismanaged.

That’s a big word we’re hearing now, mismanaged like some idiot on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in LA, sitting there in his underwear. You know what. Looking at the footage on the internet, I have determined that this here was mismanaged. You know about helicopters because I remember, and it’s interesting now thinking about it, because you said about it. I know about the one that I fly.

Other than that, I don’t know anything about it. You know something on the internet. You know everything you know about. It because you said that, you learned, you got your pilot’s license In case like all hell broke loose in LA, you could get out of LA. And at any moment did you think I’m going to make a run for that helicopter.

Well, the error in my thought was I didn’t realize how expensive helicopters were, So all I have is a two seater and I didn’t want to have to make Sophie’s choice with my family. Kimmel shared a discussion he had with his brother. According to Kimmel, he started talking to old lady who honestly believed that Diddies started the fires. Diddy, who was in prison in New York, managed to start the fire, and she believed this. There’s a story going around on TikTok that says the fires were started on purpose by elites who intend to destroy Diddy’s pedophile escape tunnels.

Because they’re evidence. This is something real people believe, said Kimmel. My legal department just wants to point out we hear Daily Comedy News have no knowledge of Diddy having pedophile escape tunnels. I’m just quoting Jimmy Kimmel. Apparently, Eddie Griffin talked about this theory on his YouTube channel on a video uploaded on the fourteenth.

The Griffin apparently said, LA is on fire and a lot of people are saying it’s to cover up the pedal file trial. And suddenly all the water ain’t working. Let’s pray for the mf rs out there. The houses is burning down, and chef unless they pedophiles. If they are pedophiles, f them.

Let’s get that burned because I don’t know what you’re doing. You’re burning the evidence up, sons of bees, but we’re still gonna catch it. Sticking with late night, apparently Trump was up late watching TV. At one twenty four am on Tuesday morning, Trump went on truth Social and wrote, how bad is Seth Meyers on NBC? Well, you know that’s not the worst point.

How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC? A network run by a truly bad group of people. I got stuck watching Marblemouth Myers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watched this moron, we should tell Trump about the remote controls and stuff. Every time I watch this more on, I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is. Merely a slot filler for the scum that runs Comcast.

These guys should be paying a lot of money for the right to give these kind of in kind contributions to the radical left Democrat Party. These are not shows, are entertainment. They’re simply political hits one hundred percent of the time to me and the Republican already, Comcast should pay a big all caps price for this. It is unclear what particularly led Trump to jump on truth social and comment on Seth Myers. Trump apparently enjoys Late Night, previously calling Stephen Colbert very boring, Jimmy Fallon weak and pathetic, and Jimmy Kimmel a loser.

I’d missed this one. I think it came out kind of quick to the event. But last Friday, the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles hosted a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Fire Foundation. All proceeds from both Friday shows went to the foundation. Jamie Massada is the club’s owner and said the club is proud to lift up our heroes or putting their lives online to save people in property across the LA.

Our firefighters are real life superheroes. Laugh Factory president David Feurer added, our firefighters are real life superheroes, and we’re proud to support them in their mission to keep the community safe. Eliza Slessengers playing Vancouver on Friday. She lives in LA. Her house is okay, but she told Global News what is heartening is seeing how quickly my city jumped into action, how quickly the donation centers were a capacity, how much all of a sudden the city.

That’s very much in terms of socioeconomic A list versus B list. How quickly that all just melted away and was just like, come on over, what can I do? How can we help those on the ground. In situations like this, you realize how big human hearts can be and that you really can rely on one another. Prior to this, the most apocalyptic situation I’ve been in was like an airport during the holidays.

We see people at their worst. Sometimes it takes the worst to see us at our best. In San Francisco, today, Sketch Fest kicks off the twenty twenty five Comedy Festival. This is a great event, over one hundred and ninety shows today through February second. Let’s start with these stand up comedians were performing, including Maria Bamford, Chris Fleming, Jolkim Booster, Dulce, Sloan Rhys Darby, Robbie Hoffman, Punky Johnson, A Partner and Turla, the Scar Brothers and Norri Davis, Josh Gonoman, Alison Leeby, Kate Willett, Hampton Yent, Nori Reed, Todd Berry, Todd Glass, and many more.

The SF Sketch Test dozen is a yearly spotlight of twelve top comedians this year Sophie Buttle, Britney Carney, Carmen, Christopher, Marie Fauston, Ross Fernandez, Kevin Iso, Bo Johnson, Rachel Kayley, Salter, Hio, Ikachuku, Ufomando, Eagle Witt, and Sabrina Wu. The forty fifth anniversary of the film Airplane That I’m Trying to Get My Daughter to Watch will be celebrated with a special live read featuring co creators Jerry and David Zucker, original stars Robert Hayes and Julie Haggerty, and surprise guests. Napoleon Dynamite celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a live read featuring the film stars, sketch comedy favorites. The State will present a live read of their unproduced musical, A Holiday Hubbub at Porcupine Corners. Three members of the Kids in the Hall Bruce mccallaugh, Kevin McDonald Scott Thompson, will team up with the Bay Area’s Red Room Orchestra for a night of songs and the sketches from Kids in the Hall Stuff the George Lucas Talk Show, which is a lot of fun on the interwebs.

If you’ve ever seen that. Connor Ratliffe is in town. He’ll be doing the George Lucas Talk Show, which is always fun.

Also a fake acting class and a parody reading of the Star Wars holiday specia…

Carol lot going on here. The cast of children’s hosts in Futuramo reunite. The fiftieth anniversary of the Groundings will be celebrated with an all stars show. A lot of all Stars have gone through the Groundlings. Some Groundlings who you’ve heard of probably live in La So we’ll see if that affects things, but that could be major.

Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers band are out there. SF sketchfest dot com for all the information there. Really fantastic festival. I got to do it. It’s been a minute now and I just got back from Aunt Artrico.

So right now it’s a little hard to tell my wife, Hey, I’m gonna go to San Francisco because it’s the forty fifth anniversary of Airplane and you know podcast the Wall Street Journal profile Pete Davidson. He loves Staten Island. He says, in all these other places, people move to a neighborhood and gentrify it. They put in insomnia cookies over there and call it a day. But in Stanton Island, it’s all homegrown businesses, really hard working people.

It’s the only place in New York where people just leave me alone. They were curious what time Pete gets up on a Monday and what’s the first thing he does. The answer, if I’m not working, I probably get up around ten thirty. Then I try to work out of meet. I just started working out, and they were curious, what’s Pete Davidson’s workout routine like?

Pete says, I’m lifting a lot of weights. I’m trying to bulk up and look like an adult. I have a bird body, and as I’m getting older, I just can’t look like a child anymore. Pete says, I’m working out minimum five days a week, doing meal prep and eating a lot of protein. I’m not a very good eater.

I’m very very skinny and shrimp like. I also have crones, so it’s always been difficult to eat and diet and I kind of finally figured out how to do it. So The Wall Street Journal asked how do breakfast and coffee fit into your morning? Random follow up, but Pete answered, I’m not a big breakfast guy, but you should always eat breakfast. This is like ABC promo from the cartoons on Saturday mornings in the seventies.

You should always eat breakfast. So if I can’t eat breakfast, which is usually a bacon, egg and cheese, I’ll love a protein shake. I love coffee. Sometimes I’ll do iced black coffee, and then sometimes I like the pumpkin spice for the peppermint. Pee should started buying in coffee.

Pete, you’re in the process of removing your tattoos. Are there any you’re keeping? What’s with the Hilary tattoo? Pete said, I burned off all all the tattoos in my arms, and now I’m working on the chest and back. The Hillary one is gonna stay there because I know her really well and I love her.

I just think she’s a very important figure in our nation’s history, one of the most important women ever. She’s super resilient and it’s just a tough lady. So it’ll always stay there. Nikki Glaser told the Vogue podcast about something Pete Davidson said that hurt nerve feelings. Niki told Vogue, guys still think about some of the jokes that have been made about me from Rose six years ago, and they still haunt me.

I’m seeing them when I look in the mirror. They will uncover things about you that you don’t even know about yourself. It’s a thing that you’ve always been like, I think this about me, but I’m just really mean to me. No one else has noticed it. What did Pete say?

Glazer says, Pete joked that NICKI doesn’t have an ass NICKI said, I mean, I knew I didn’t, and I know I don’t. But the fact that Pete Davidson had taken it in and sat with it, and I sat with it too, and it hurts because I don’t have an ass. But the fact that he had really thought about it, where maybe somebody wrote the joke for him, but he at least had to be like that works for her, and it hurt me. Big inauguration coming up on Monday. TMZ reports that THEO Vaughn has been invited and will attend.

I’ll let you know if any other comedians plan on attending. Let’s check in on John Mulaney’s Broadway show All In a Comedy about Love. Apparently it’s cracked the top five grossing shows. All in a Comedy about love, features readings of short stories, and it brought in close to one point seven million dollars at the Hudson Theater and played to one hundred percent capacity. That was to see the cast of John Mulaney, Fred Armisen, Richard Kind, and Chloe Feineman.

It’s a rotating cast, though. The next line up is Lin Manuel, Miranda, Adie Bryant, Andrew Reynolds and Nick Curll. In case you’re curious how one point seven million dollars compares to other shows, the top spot went to Wicked, which grows two point four million dollars. Fantastic show. I’ve seen it, Hamilton, You’ve probably heard of that one.

I’ve seen that too, one point eight five million. The Lion King still bowling in the money at one point seventy five million. I’ve never seen line kingning on Broadway, nor have I seen Gypsy, which was fourth with one point seven four to eight million dollars. Can you hear? My voice is still no good?

It’s so annoying. I was sick, then I got healthy before the trip, which was great, and then I’m an idiot. I flew for a four hour flight and a ten hour flying on a plane, and I know better I should wear a mask, but you know what, I didn’t have a mask, and at the Oshawai Airport in Argentina didn’t know how to acquire a mask, so I cowboyed it.

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And now I have this stupid cold and my voice still has the fuzz in it.

I’ve been back for a week and change and drive me nuts. That’s your comed news for today. You know I like coffee too. You could buy me a coffee, and if I run into Pete Davidson, I’ll pass your five dollars a long and I’ll buy Pete Davidson a coffee. I would love to buy Pete Davidson a coffee.

Pete, I know you’re listening. Text me one way to sport the show. Go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I will take your money.

I will go to the National Donus chain. I will order on the app. I don’t even talk to anybody in all the times I’d be like, hey, can I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk? But no, I don’t have to do that anymore. I have an app.

I could be completely at the social I drive, I walk in. It’s sitting there. It says John M on the cup. Don’t steal my coffee when they get back in the car, Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

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