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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Trevor Noah, Whitney Cummings, Jim Jefferies, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, John Stewart, Anderson Cooper

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais shows off £14.5 million mansion on Instagram
• Trevor Noah defended by South Africans after ex Jordan Taylor called him ‘nobody’
• Whitney Cummings criticized on Crack.com for conspiracy theories and harmful claims
• LA fires coverage with Jay Leno volunteering and serving firefighters
• Jim Jefferies Pittsburgh tour dates before special recording
• Jimmy Kimmel addresses LA fires impact on late-night community

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Ricky Gervais showed off his new mansion on Instagram. There’s an unusually harsh criticism of Whitney Cummings I found on crack dot com my own opinion. Jay Leno is driving a fire engine around LA, but he’s doing it for good and South Africans are coming to the defense of Trevor Noah.

New theme music by the DCN band Let’s Start. If you’re in Pittsburgh this weekend, Jim Jefferies wants you to go see him. He is preparing for his next tour and says, it just so happens that I’m gonna be recording a special in a couple months time. The best time to see a tour is just before the special, because all the jokes are ready to go and they’re all polished and good. The worst time to see a show is just after someone’s recorded as special and they’ve run out of material, so it might be a bit long.

To be honest with you, I have lots of jokes I need to filter out before I actually record the special. Ricky Gervay showed off his fourteen and a half million pound home, nine bedrooms, a spa in its own gym sounds nice, but then again, you invent the office. Ricky was on Insta on Sunday. In his usual style, he showed off a lavish hallway complete with a marble staircase, large windows, on a laundry basket. He captured the picture I call this place laundry basket on a bench in the hall.

Many social media users were distracted by the extremely polished floors. Many wondered how long they would take to clean. Others pointed out the risk of injury slipping on marble. One social media user said, shout out to the floor sweeping staff, do you clean your own floors? Genuine question.

Another said, must be weird living in a private hospital. Riggie’s’ing sure if this will be his forever home, He had previously posted on Twitter. I thought the last house was the one I was going to die in, but I didn’t die, and I wanted a tennis court, so we had to move to a bigger house with a bigger garden just so we could get a tennis court. And I thought, this is amazing, this is perfect. It it’s not even finish yet, but I love it.

But the other day Jane said, we can’t live here when we’re eighty, so that’s like a ticking clock. She said, there’s all these stairs, so I’m going to be moving again when I’m from New Zimbabwe dot com you’re home for comedy news. South Africans are defending Trevor Noah after his ex Jordan Taylor called him a nobody. Jordan showed up on the Netflix reality TV series Selling the City. In episode two of Selling the City, Jordan revealed they had met on Twitter.

Jordan said at the time he was a nobody. No one knew who he was. They dated from twenty fifteen to twenty eighteen. Trevor hosted The Daily Show starting in twenty fifteen. Jordan said, I was the funnier one in the relationship.

Trevor borrowed me for material all the time, but he would also steal my material one hundred percent. Jordan said Trevor was her first high profile client after facilitating his ten million dollar New York apartment purchase. The South Africans are not happy with this. One person said, look at the real nobody trying to be somebody. Another said, we’re still waiting for you to crack a joke.

Another said, oh please, he was already known as Trevor Noah, while she is known as Trevor’s X. That should tell you who’s who, and then more pointed out, yeah, he bought a ten million dollar home he was on the Daily Show. I know for me. I knew who Trevor was before he got The Daily Show by for sure, having seen him at several comedy festivals, and I left series in twenty fourteen, so I knew him. Taylor told Page six that she had given Trevor a heads up about our comments, saying he’s one of the more private people when it comes to the celebrity sphere.

I did give him a little heads up, but that relationship was six years ago, so it’s not recent or am I emotionally dealing with it. Jimmy Kimmel on his program, talked about the fires, saying it’s been a very scary, very stressful, very strange week in LA where we work, where we live, where kids go to school. Jimmy was in near tears, saying many of us had to leave our homes in a hurry. Some of our coworkers lost their homes it’s been terrible. Everyone who lives in this city knows someone most of us, multiple people, family, friends, colleagues, neighbors where houses have burned down, And the truth is we don’t even know if it’s over.

We had one hundred mile an hour winds fueling this nightmare, and as of tonight, winds are back. I think I speak for all of us when I say it’s been a sickening, shocking, awful experience. But it’s also been in a lot of ways and beautiful experience because once again we see our fellow men and women coming together’ty chain other people who lost their own homes or out volunteering in parking lots for others who lost theirs. One of those people, Jay Leno. I’ll get to him in a second, but first John Stewart defended La Mayor Bass, saying I’m not saying she’s churchill.

Yes, improvements could be made in leadership and management, design and materials and married ways. But sometimes fire f’s a tornado and makes a mockery of human infrastructure and our ability to dictate the terms of our existence on this planet. But the one thing it shouldn’t dictate is the cruelty that we would show to those in pain, because we don’t think they consistently vote right. Jay Leno was going about his business. I saw a couple small stories about Jay volunteering.

One at the Reedley Firefighters Association. They were at a base camp. Jay Leno came by and served some food. Then as Jay was out and about, he happened to run into Anderson Cooper. Jay’s driving around in a nineteen forty one American Lafranz firetruck.

Leonard tild I understand they’re all getting box lunches. We figured, let’s get some hot food. It’s unbelievable. It’s ten thousand buildings. If you drove all day, you couldn’t see ten thousand buildings.

You get on that hill and you look from and there’s nothing. Looks like heroshiamor just some horrible thing. It’s an entire city wiped out, Pacific Palisades. It doesn’t exist and probably won’t exist for the next five six years. I don’t know how you rebuild this.

It’s one hundred and sixty billion dollars. There’s no insurance company in the world that has that much money. The problems will be insurmountable, but We’ll get through it. We always do. On crack dot com, In my opinion, an unusually harsh article, the headline Whitney Cummings continues to demonstrate what happens when a comedy career slows down.

Keegan Kelly is the author. Keegan writes, the last few days of cummings feed is everything you can expect from a washed up comedian rebranding as a conservative conspiracy theorist. She’s dumping on Los Angeles and California despite the fact that she lives there. She’s using a natural disaster to basically demonize the homeless instead of even considering how climate change could have exasperated the extreme weather conditions. And she’s complaining about DEEI hires and woke lesbian firefighters by calling out women by name whom she believes shouldn’t be working their current life saving jobs.

Cummings just needs to pluck some shady supplement and throw it an insane an immigrant take on these tunnels to perfect her Joe Rogan, please have me back on your show publicity stunt. It goes without saying that none of cummings claims about homeless people starting the fires by pouring gasoline into the sewer system, or woke lesbians slowing the work of the first responders of any basis and reported facts. But truth is never the point When a medium talent who recently slid off all mainstream platforms starts trying to steer online discourse over current events, Krack pointed out some of these social media posts. One supporter said, taken ote from Thompsigre and Joe Rogan and moved to Texas Baby, and another said, Damn, you’re falling into the enus of the internet. I thought you were a smart one.

And yeah, the comedy news is not much fun today From Sky News, whose line is it anyway? UK version star Tony Slattery has passed away at age sixty five of a heart attack. In recent years, Tony had spoken candidly about suffering mental health problems, but was making a comeback with a new podcast and a comedy tour. A statement made on behalf of his partners said is with great sadness we must announce actor and comedian Tony Slattery, aged sixty five, has passed away Tuesday morning, following a heart attack on Sunday evening and from the Metro Times in the States. Jonathan Nokielski, a local comedian known by his stage name as Jada Jaden, unexpectedly died.

Jaded Jayden was forty three named best local comedian in the Metro Times Best of Detroit twenty twenty four reader poll. Comedian Dominic Man of Scalchi posted on Facebook he might not have been everybody’s cup of tea, but because of him, a lot of talented people were given a starting chance in an art form that’s difficult to get started in. He’ll always be the reason I got my start, and I’ll never be able to thank him enough. Local comedian Brandon Kyle Mullins added, he first reached out to me over social media when he saw me struggling with hout people were perceiving me and how I was presenting myself. He didn’t know me.

I had never seen me perform, but he reached out to give me kind and inspiring words that I’ll always appreciate. I could tell he was passionate about being genuine yourself as an individual and longing for the acceptance of a shared laugh. That’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow

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Featured: Katt Williams, Jamie Foxx, Dave Chappelle, Bill Engvall, Rob Schneider, Timothy Chalamet, Jimmy Fallon, Tony Hinchcliffe, Pat McAfee, Ben Bailey Smith, Richard Blackwood, Bill Maher, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Katt Williams roasts Jamie Foxx on tour, questions naked basketball parties
• Dave Chappelle hosting SNL on Saturday for fourth time
• SNL immersive Studio 8H experience launching January 30-February 2
• Bill Engvall appears to be unretired with Pearl River Resort comedy date
• Jimmy Fallon launches ‘Night of Comedy’ special on Fox Nation
• Tony Hinchcliff discusses fallout from Puerto Rico comments on Pat McAfee show
• Bill Maher special on Max receives negative Salon review
• Jay Leno reveals he only sleeps four hours per night on Bill Maher podcast

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with Today’s Daily Comedy News. On today’s show, Kat Williams calls Jamie Fox clone. Dave Chappelle’s gonna host SNL this weekend. Bill Engvall, are you unretired?

What’s going on there? Rob Schneider is man at the insurance companies in California? And yes, I have new opening theme music from the DC and band. Welcome guys.

All right, let’s dive in on the latest stop on his tour, Kat Williams made fu…

Kat said he cried like a baby five minutes into Jamie Special what had happened was, adding that he didn’t know what to think of it. Kat claims he was not invited to Jamie Fox’s special as they knew not to include him in the Shenanigans and that he wouldn’t quote participate. According to Sports Kadia and Cat alleged that Jamie hosted butt naked basketball parties, which is what made Cat realize he’s not the same type of person as Jamie Fox. According to this recap, despite being in the same profession and loving basketball, Jamie Fox never mentioned naked basketball parties to me, maybe I wasn’t invited to them. I don’t know, never heard even a whisper about such a thing.

I’d have to go back and look and see how long I worked with Fox in his camp. But if I had a guess right now, probably five years. I know I went to at least three Super Bowls with those folks. And I’ve been to Jamie Fox’s parties, and I don’t recall ever seeing anyone naked at a Jamie Fox party. I believe me as a married dude, were there naked people, I would remember apparently.

Kat also joked that Jamie’s wealth has secured him a spot in the Illuminati, and Cat joked that he wouldn’t mind getting himself in the Illuminati to get rid of a few secrets of his own. Dave Chappelle’s gonna host SNL on Saturday, interesting timing with an inauguration coming up on Monday. This will be Dave’s fourth time hosting the show. He hosted post election shows in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty hosted one other time in twenty twenty two. I’m sure that will garner a lot of attention.

The week after Timothy Schallomy will be the host and the musical act. Timothy Shallo may not a musician, but he isn’t that Bob Dylan biopic, So speculation here in the basement is he will perform as Bob Dylan. That could be fun.

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Meanwhile, NBC is launching an immersive studio eight h inspired experience t…

The press release says, from the thrill of hearing your name announced as you burst through the stage doors to rolling a chair up to the weekend update desk, every attendee will experience both the on camera magic and off camera rush of SNL, with surprises and callbacks around every corner that celebrates fifty years of fame, sketches, and the signature spontaneous nature that’s defined the series since nineteen seventy five. This sounds like a good time. They share some FAQs. All right, when is this the answer? It’ll run from January thirtieth, a Thursday, through Sunday, February second, from one until nine.

That’s not very long. That’s three and two four days where the answer it will be held at Rockefeller Center with an exact address to be revealed at a later date. Reservations become available today, January fourteenth, at noon. Reservations are free and available to the public on a first come, a first surf basis. So get move in and I hope you downloaded the podcast at three oh five am Eastern when I publish it.

Here’s a mystery. I saw that the Pearl River Resort announced Bill Engvall is performing comedy February first at eight pm. The reason that’s interesting to me is that Bill retired from comedy at the end of twenty twenty three. I went over to Bill Engvall’s website and there are four dates on his website, so perhaps Bill is back.

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Speaking of blue collar I’m scheduled to record with Larry the Cable Guy, a f…

I’m tight with the cable camp, so you know, unless there’s unforeseen circumstances, that’s pretty much a lock. I just jinxed it. Fox Nation. Jimmy Falla has a new special Night of Comedy, a ninety minute comedy special streaming exclusively on Fox Nation. As per the show’s description, the special has no no rules, no themes, and nothing is off limits.

Also appearing on the show, Anthony Ridia, Adam Carolla, and Jim Brewer, Fella says we had Fox put this night of comedy together because we want to be able to laugh about things going on in the country, and comedy is a way of bringing people together because we don’t agree on a lot. Got a pretty robust second half for you, but I’ll take you into the break with this one. Pat McAfee had Tony Hinchcliff on the alternative broadcast of the Ohio State Texas football game, and Pat asked Tony about the incidents. I haven’t talked to you since then. We had fun.

What was that the week or two before we were having a blast. I was on top of the world. I was a Mariah. Where are you now though, now you’re back on top? Oh?

Yeah, I assume some places do not feel that way. But hey, that’s comedy, baby, that is comedy. There’s only one little island I can’t go to. R Yeah. I think that’s probably for the rest of your life.

The beautiful place. Beautiful beautiful. Yeah, I’m sure you do. Hation there. I love the place.

I loved the people. I think you go ahead and take that off the list of facnationing points. Queen Yours in UK, viewers of the Mass Singer think they have figured out who Bear is after spotting three clues. Behar performed a musical number from Oliver on the first week, Then the next week did Will Smith’s Miami fans think Bear is comedian and rapper Ben Bailey Smith. One watcher took to Red and said Ben Bailey Smith is a rapper and comedian.

He wrote a children’s book called I Am Bear, and he supports Crystal Palace. However, some Messinger fans are convinced that Bear is actually East Enders actor Richard Blackwood, who’s also known for his rapping skills. Bill Moore put out a special on Max over the weekend. I even watched Max over the weekend and I don’t think they put it in front of me. If they did, I just didn’t stare at it.

Celon didn’t like it. Their headline the lazy comedy of Bill mooher. As anyone else seeing this, Coson complaints instead of jokes. The special is what giving up. But the concepts of a planned stage looks like wow.

Salon writes, Bill Moore has completed his metamorphosis into Abraham Simpson. That’s Grandpa. Salon writes, has this for breaking news. Mar Hatess cancel culture which doesn’t exist, and wokeism the exhausted right wing specter none can define. He announces his professor support of the trans community in the same way every other hack comic does, in that he says the obligatory words to make the audience comfortable with the uninspired observations that followed on me defends his lance by saying, I’m a noticer.

That’s what I do. That’s what I’m supposed to do, skipping ahead, and I think there’s a pretty good joke in here. Salon writes, it takes time and talent to blaze new approaches to headlines. We’ve forgotten about railing against trans fats. And here’s the joke.

I like, Which are fats that hate? Dave Chappelle doesn’t qualify as a new approach. I kind of like that joke, although, and I’m not a comedian, but I would have flipped the order there from my punchline and I would have gone with which are fats that Dave Chappelle hates? Anyway? This is a long negative review you’ll find on Salon.

Jay Leno was on Bill Maher’s podcast and revealed he only gets four hours of sleep a night. Mari asleto he only sleep four hours right, Jay said, I’ve been up since four. I went to bed last night at midnight. Leno says he usually goes to bed around two or three in the more, but decided to go to bed midnight the night prior. When he woke up, he said, he spent the early hours just dragging my butt around, reading and doing stuff.

Maris said, don’t you feel crappy? Leno said no. Maris said, don’t you drink coffee? Leno said nope, no hot liquids. Lenno apparently does not like hot liquids.

He said he also doesn’t like soup, adding that soup is just a way to screw you out of a meal. That’s my attitude. It’s just a way to screw you out of a meal. I could have something to eat, but you give me a dish that’s wet. Okay, thanks.

Pete. Lee was on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and shared that his house had burned down. Lee told the audience, I don’t mean to be a bummer. This is a comedy show. I’m a comedian, but my house burned down yesterday.

This appearance was on January ninth. The audience then was audibly sad. Pete joke, that was the most studio audience response I’ve ever heard. That was like a game show where it went to zero to bankrupt. He shared what was like watching his house burn on TV.

Pete said, the anchor was in front of my house, and he’s like, some people are finding out right now that their home is burning by watching this broadcast. And I’m watching over a friend. I’m like, yeah, that’s me, that’s my house. My friend goes, which one is your house? And I know the orange one.

Lee said being on the tonight show was therapeutic for him. It gave him something to focus on. And you’re a great friend, Jimmy, You’re a great man. I love you. Pete is coping doing what comedians do, writing jokes, he told Fouln.

And there are gonna be people with already the jokes I’ve said making light of this that are going to be mad at me because they’re gonna go, hey, you’re making fun of a tragedy. Too soon my house burned down. I could tell jokes about this, so Mike coping. Yeah, yesterday I was crying, and then I just kept writing down jokes. I hope people won’t think this is tasteless, and he pulled out some notes to workshop his new wildfire theme set.

His jokes include when your house burns down, dry, January is over shrinking like prohibition was going to start tomorrow. Pete then returned to the stage after the break and did a stand up set and got a standing ovation from the audience. Dean Cole shared about being hospitalized and then being forced to evacuate his home due to the wildfires.

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Also on January ninth, his fifty third birthday, he went on Insta and posted …

I sure could use them. Then the next night, he shared that he had to evacuate his house because of the wildfires, writing in another post they had collected a few important items from his house, including flowers given to him by his mom before she passed away. In twenty twenty one, he captured the video This day is devastating. Left the hospital earlier as sick as f went home, then had to pack what I could to evacuate. As I drove away, I saw the fire rising from behind my house.

It’s a nightmare. I got the flowers my mom gave me before she passed, though Dion Charity canceled his birthday party. Doesn’t feel right to do my birthday party while people are losing everything they own and myself being under a high alert from my own home. Pre for the families. Rob Schneider is not happy with the insurance companies.

He posted on Twitter, if you State Farm, screw you and all your phony commercials. You are a pile of crap for canceling insurance policies of Californians. I will never use State Farm insurance ever again. See Ann reported between twenty twenty and twenty twenty two insurers canceled two point eight million home coverage policies in California, including more than five hundred and thirty thousand in La County. Barons reported State Farm, who Rob Schneider’s man at, canceled seventy two thousand policies in California, nearly half of which were for home insurance.

There’s some discussion about whether or not awards season should happen or not. The Grammys announced that they will have the Grammys on February second. I was curious, is Trevor Noah back? And they haven’t announced a host yet. Today’s January fourteenth and February second is what lazy math?

Two and a half weeks away? You know what? Why don’t you call Joe Coy and they’d be mad at him when he’s not awesome at it when you all give him two weeks to prep. Nikki Glaser is in hosting forum. I’d love to see Nikki host the Grammys.

Plus Taylor Swift will be there. Oh wait, if Taylor Swift’s gonna be there? No, no, no, no, please please please call Joe Coy. Please, you gotta see me in the basement here. I’m like John Oliver at his most giddy right now.

Yes, please please call Joe Coy. That would be amazing. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. Day might like it too.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Nick Saban, Dave Attell, Nate Bargatze, Kathy Griffin, LeAnne Morgan, Gabe Iglesias

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis Nick Saban controversy at Notre Dame playoff game
• Dave Attell turns 60 and reflects on comedy career
• Nate Bargatze receives gymnasium named in his honor at Donaldson Christian Academy
• Kathy Griffin Guinness World Record for most comedy specials
• LeAnne Morgan book review in New York Times
• Gabe Iglesias on handling criticism and tweaking material by region

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Caloroga Shark Media. Fun One Today. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Shane Gillis gave us some more insight about his discourse with Nick Saban. You may recall that a head of Notre Name’s first round college football playoff game, Shane made some jokes about Alabama.

Nick Saban didn’t appreciate it. So it seems, let’s listen to the original clip caught him a cheater earlier. I was just joking around. I don’t think the SEC paid players eever. Period.

I’m joking. Not a fun show, no serious. Alabama Jones is very serious. I’m not serious. I do believe in integrity.

I was trying to run the program that way so players had a better chance to be successful. Money in the. NFL than any old school sixty one plays in the league. That was how we cheated redeveloped player. We recruit.

So sorry. Jane was wondering if Saban was actually mad he spoke about it. Here you’re gonna hear some dropouts in the audio, and that’s where the f bombs were. He was like, what do you think about the game, And I was like, I don’t know if fick Saban cheated. It was just a fulls faz.

It was so good though, I mean that I get I’d like to explain that because that was so After I said that, we had to go into the stadium to sit at the desk. Then I got in there and right before we go on, he looks at me and he’s like, I heard what you said, and I was like holy, And then Herb Street and McAfee were like, he’s just breaking balls, dude. He loves messing with guys like he’s literally just I was like, all right, off, put him back. I would have never done that if I thought he was serious. Yeah, they told me he was, so I started with him.

And then as soon as we get done, I tell herber Street and McAfee, I’m like, bro, he was definitely serious, and they were like, no way, he was serious. Go talk to him. So I went up to him after news, like. You think the SEC dominated because we cheated, that’s bullshit, and he likes are helping. But then so he was still on the stage and I was on the field, so after he yelled at me, I had to help him down, and he looked around to see if anybody else could help him, but I had to help him down.

Congratulations to Nate BERGETSI. A gym will be named after him. Donaldson Christian Academy Gymnasium will be named in honor of Nate’s on January seventeenth. Nate annually hosts a fundraiser golf tournament for the school, and Nate and his wife recently made a donation of one point one five million dollars towards the DC eight to go towards construction of an athletics indoor practice facility. Nice job all around.

Newsday caught up with David Tel turning sixty. Dave says, I’m surprised I made it. I never thought it was gonna happen. In terms of comedy, I’m the oldest guy in the room now. When I started out, there was always some old grizzled comic in the corner, and now it’s me.

It’s great to be able to see if I can still follow the new comics. I’m kind of like the old buffalo and the wolves are circling. Well, this is what I do, and I’ll keep doing it for as long as I can. Dave addressed the good buzz on his twenty twenty four special Hot Cross Buns. I had that way up my list, and Tel said it kind of blew me away when it hit like that.

I guess it’s kind of fun to watch someone who’s melting down and angry, unless you’re in the subway, then it’s scary. Newsday, that’s a Long Island newspaper, talk to a Tale about what it was like when he lived there. I used to live there too, and I agree with what he says here at Tel said, I grew up on Long Island when you could get from the Lincoln Tunnel to Roosevelt Field in under three hours. That should be about a twenty five minute drive, maybe thirty minutes. But yeah, it’s not that anymore.

Tel says. Now that Newsday asked to tell about being revered by so many fellow comedians, Dave says, I don’t say, because I’m one of them and we’re all in it together. I think a lot of them like to watch me on stage because I’m pretty self destructive. I’ll tell a joke that works, then tweak it and twist it until it fails, and then I get angry with myself and go off on tangents. I guess it’s fun to see the ramblings of a madman mass.

I’ve caught up with Kathy Griffin, who said, I am in the Guinness Book of World Records. I’ve done more TV streaming comedy specials than any comedian male or female, living or dad. And don’t talk to me about the boys now. I think the transcription went sideways here because it says here, I’ll read the two sentences, but then I’ll tell you about the spelling. It says I love Dave Chappelle, but he doesn’t come close.

Matt Rice is the hot thing now, but I write my own stuff. But Chappelle doesn’t have the E at the end, So that makes me think she actually said Matt Rife and not Matt Rice anyway. Spelling a side her comment on Matt Rife, he’s the hot thing now, but I write my own stuff. Is she implying that Matt does not write his own stuff? Kathy says, you know, these other comics have three four openers, but not me.

Do other comedians have three four openers? I’ve seen some pretty big headliners, usually one opener, sometimes two. Who’s touring with four openers? Kathy says, you better be on time for the show, because I go right on at eight o’clock. I do two full hours.

In fact, I do two hours when I’m a good girl, and they do two hours and fifteen minutes when I’m a bad girl. Mass Live was curious what happens during those fifteen minutes. Kathy, you know, if the audience is extra good, I make them pay. I make them pay the price by doing those few more minutes. But I love it.

It’s the only thing that gets me through. Even though all those years I was blacklisted, I was still writing stuff and planning stuff. I pitched every game show you can think of, every talk show you can think of, every sitcom you can think of, every reality show. Nobody bit not one single soul in seven years. Thank God for real live people that buy tickets with real life money, because now they’re all eating crap and they’re like, oh, Kathy Griffin just played fifty Cities.

I have no love for my own industry, but I have nothing but love for the actual audience. The New York Times are reviewed at Leanne Morgan’s recent book What in the World, A Southern Woman’s Guide to Laughing at Life’s unexpected curveballs and beautiful blessings, and they write and you may have questions, For example, is this one of those top tier comic memoirs like those from Tina Fey, Trevor Noah, and Steve Martin. The answer no, but it’s got a frazzle charm and it works. Is it as funny as Morgan stand up? Not quite a hard thing about trying to be funny on the page, as posted in front of audience, is that you lose your delivery.

Morgan’s sweet tone southern accent has bestowed on her a world class delivery system. Gabe Iglesias talked to the Hollywood Reporter and said, nowadays people can take anything you say wrong, and that’s the time we’re living in. He used to worry about it. I was always looking on my phone reading messages. But the more I continue to do this, the more I realized that as long as you do what you said you were going to do, your fan base is going to be there.

The people who disagree are the ones on the outside making all that noise. I can’t worry about people who are not even fans, who don’t understand what I do and how I do it, because people will watch a clip online all of a sudden they have an opinion. They don’t realize that this person’s been doing this for almost thirty years, and maybe there’s a reason why they’ve been around so long. I’ve lost a lot of time worrying, and nothing that I ever worried about happened. The Holly reporter asked Gabe if he tweaks the material for where he’s playing in the country, and he says, I’m always listening to see how things go over, but I don’t change something.

For example, he has a bit about guns. I don’t try to make it so California’s cool with it. I try to push this idea of Look, you might not agree with it, but let me tell you why I did it. I’m not just going to throw that out there. I’m letting you know that I start off the same way as you, and this is what happened to me that led me to go another way again, reacting to situations.

So even if people disagree with certain ideas, you can’t do agree with the person being affected by what’s happening around them that led them to that. I don’t think I’m losing anybody from that. When I say I’m a registered gun owner. I’ve had people in the crowd boo too. All I ask is you listen to my story, and if you still feel like booing me after I tell you my story, I welcome it.

But to boom me without hearing the full thing makes you look like the bad person. So at least give me the opportunity to share with you why I’m this way, and then people are like, all right, and at the end of it, I’ve yet to get another boo. The thirty five seat Theater Public Displays of Altadena, known as PDA, was in the path of the Eton wildfire and was burned down. Some have called it the unofficial home of LA’s a clown scene. Located in a strip mall alongside a liquor store in a pizza shop, the micro theater opened in twenty twenty two after a crowdfunding campaign.

Ria Bamford recorded her twenty twenty three special Local act there. The owners are trying to figure out what happens next. Right now they are canceling things, trying to refund people. They’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign that’s already raised over fifteen thousand dollars to try to find a new venue. A post on the GoFundMe page says, with your generosity and time, we pledged to rebuild PDA and come back stronger, more resilient, and ready to serve our community once again.

While I was on the trip to Antarctica, Just for Last Vancouver announced a pretty cool lineup. I’m psyched to see that the reconstituted Just for Laughs is continuing with all the old programming. This is fantastic. JFL Vancouver, February thirteenth through the twenty third. Pretty snazzy lineup here including Jerry Seinfeld, come on on, Gianni, Tim Dillon, Margaret Show, Roywood, Junior, Pete Holmes, Master Browny.

I mean this is great, Ashley Gavin, Brian Simpson, Sam Jay, Irene TiO, i’van Decker, Jay Jorden, and a whole bunch of others. Seventy plus shows Fantastic Just for Laughs, Vancouver, February thirteenth through the twenty third. If you are a longtime listener, you may remember this story. The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a request to hear an appeal by Sylvie Gabriel. Gabriel had been seeking to reverse a lower court decision that dismissed her lawsuits seeking compensation from comedian Mike Ward.

Jeremy Gabriel had become a celebrity in Quebec as a teenager after he appeared alongside Celine Dion and the Pope. Ward had mocked Gabriel in his act between twenty ten and twenty thirteen, joking at one point that he thought the boy’s illness was terminal and people were only nice to him because they thought the boy would soon die. Canadian Supreme Court found in twenty twenty one that Ward’s comments did not amount to discrimination under Quebec’s rights. Shorter from chort All The Next Big Thing Award has listed ten comedians who could be the next Big Thing. The British Comedy Guide has picked Celia ab Dan, Tiernan, Josh Pugh, Katie Norris, Michael Attawalle, Oka Kach Patty Young, Rachel Fairburn, Rob Copeland and tarat Or is it Terrot ta Rot.

The website had asked one hundred professionals for the acts they believed most represented the future of comedy. They got a long list. They’ve now cut it down to ten. That panel will now choose a winner to be announced on an unspecified date HMMs A mystery. That is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Channel Ali, Jeffer Currey, Catherine Blandford, Fern Brady, Nico Karney, Aaron Chen, Dina Hasham, Jordan Jensen, Nate Burgetski

What’s in This Episode

• Deadline’s 15 comedians to break out in 2025
• Critics Choice Awards postponed due to LA fires
• Critics Choice Comedy nominations and predictions
• Nate Burgetski’s shift away from edgy comedy

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Caloroga Shark Media either Johnny Mac who your Daily Comedy News. Right before I head it off on my trip, Deadline put out an article of the future of funny the fifteen comedians ready to break out in twenty twenty five. So I’m like, all right, I’ll do that one when I get back. And that is today, My friends, I haven’t read this at all. We will experience this together.

Deadline says here, in alphabetical order, our fifteen comedians would bet on as the stars of tomorrow. First up, Channel Ali named a just for last new face at the twenty nineteen edition of the Montreal Comedy Festival. We’re told she’s a strong joke writer who’s been seen on Epix’s Unprotected sets. I am not familiar with her. Jeffer Currey is described as the fastest selling comedian at this year’s New York Comedy Festival, two sold out Beacon Theater performances.

Deadline tells us in twenty twenty four, he sold over two hundred and fifty thousand tickets. Now I’m a little suspect here that Deadline is just printing anything handed in because it says he has showcased on the Late Show at Saint Colbert, Comedy Central’s Rost Battle Laughs on Fox, Serious XM, and at numerous comedy festivals nationwide over the years. Just to catch everybody up. I know some people hate when to bring this up. I used to run Serious XM comedy.

That’s how we know what I’m talking about here, and I would see comedians quote Serious XM as like a credit all the time. It’s like, dude, you put out an album and we just scheduled it. So I don’t know. Maybe he’s been hosting a show on Sirius for last decade and I didn’t notice, But now I’m wondering, Oh, okay, then people just hand stuff in and Deadline printed it. Next up, Catherine Blandford, a charismatic Kentucky born comedian who’s toured across the country.

She’s released her first Hour special, Catholic Cowgirl through the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, back on December fifth. Fern Brady, Yeah, I could see Fern breaking through in the States, one of U K’s hottest comedy stars who waits her big break state side. The Scottish comic is coming off the release of her first Netflix special, Autistic Bikini Queen. That’s a good choice there. Next up Nico Karney, a trans stand up reuter an actor based in New York, currently headlining comedy clubs across the country and sold out his headlining show at the New York Comedy Festival.

Aaron Chen is a comic quickly climbing the ranks of the international scene. Born and raised in Sydney, he sold twenty eight thousand tickets in Melbourne across ten shows back in twenty four. I think we played a lot of Aaron Chen here on this very podcast and dug him. So that’s good. That’s a good pick.

We like that. Dina Hasham, Yeah, she’s cool. Known for her deadpan delivery and newanced observations on her Islamic upbringing. Hasham is garnered Emmy and WGA Award nominations. This is a good list.

These are good picks. Jordan Jensen, Brooklyn based comic who recently graduated from clubs to sold out theaters. Jensen recently inked to deal with her first hour special for Netflix, which her debut sometime here in twenty five. Interesting. If you want to check her out, go to YouTube and check out thirty Minutes with Jordan Jensen.

Matt Matthews tours doing Confessions with Matt, adopted from his video series of the same name, where he offers a real time comedic take on audience members who voluntarily spilled their deepest, darkest secrets. Chloe Radcliffe, based out of New York City, A lot of New York Come here. She was named a TBS Comic to Watch back in twenty seventeen. Penny Years. Becky Robinson, based out of LA has gone from viral sensation to a sadout theater act with Entitled Housewife, an outspoken golfer character she introduced during the pandemic via a pair of self produced variety specials.

She grows seven plus figures over the course of one hundred and three shows. In twenty twenty four, She’s gonna tape her first stand up special at the Wilburn Boston in March. Casey Rocket is described by Deadline as one of the more unique comedic voices you’re likely to come across today. Something can’t be more unique. It’s just unique.

Look up the definition. But I know what you’re trying to say. Rocket’s career has blown up since being named a permanent regular on Kill Tony Casey Schornama is one of the newest Weekend Update writers at SNL, name the best up and Coming comedian in Nashville by Nashville Scene Magazine, and was a Just for Last new Face in twenty twenty two. I like this. She’s been seen alongside comics like Neil Brennan and Apra Goodsey and David tell Well.

I’ve been seen alongside comedians Life Jerry Seinfeld. There’s a picture somewhere. Next up Gianmarco Soresi SERRESI Yes, friend of the Show, two time guests. He’s taping his first hour special this year out in La A big fan of his, like him and last, alphabetically but not least, Renee Vaka. Vaka was one of nine up and coming comedians selected for the introducing showcase at Netflix’s A Joke Fest twenty twenty four.

The winner of the sixteenth annual Stand Up NBC competition, and he regularly sales out leg Day, a monthly show he hosts at the Hollywood Laugh Factory.

In other news, the Critics Choice Awards were supposed to happen today, but t…

The CEO of the Critics Choice Award says, this unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impact on our community. All their thoughts and prayers are with those battling to devastating fires and with all who’ve been affected. Chelsea Handler is scheduled to host. There are some comedy nominations. Best Comedy Series, Abbot, English Teacher, Hacks, Nobody wants this own Murders Somebody Somewhere, which is on HBO.

Somebody just told me that that was pretty good. Saint Dennis Medical on NBC, What we Do in the Shadows. I’ll pick Hacks Outstanding Talk Series, Hot Ones, Daily Show, Graham, Norton, Mulaney, Everybody in La Kelly Clarkson, Colbert. I’ll pick Milleni out of that. Best Comedy Special, Okay, Get Out, Johnny Mac’s Snabaree, Magic Wand they nominations are Ali Wang, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin James for Irregardless, Are you kidding me?

Nicki Glazers, Someday You’ll die, Rachel Bloom’s Death, Let me do my special, and Rommi Usef’s More Feelings. Boy, this is tough. Wasn’t Gaffigan’s best work, despite this being the year of NICKI. That was not a strong special Rommie. I didn’t like the direction.

I want to give it to Ali Wang, even though that special wasn’t a targeted at me and it didn’t personally speak to me. But I’ll respect it the special and give it to Ali Wang. For Single Lady on Netflix and on Best Animated Series. This is Weird Okay, Batman, Cape Crusader, Blue Invincible, The Simpsons, X Men, and they’ve fallen for the hoax. They’ve nominated Bob’s Burgers.

Slate caught up with Nate Brigetzi. Is he currently at the top of the comedy pyramid? Is he currently the top rank comedian if I bring back the Comedian power rankings if I have five minutes to make them, Is he currently number one? Nate shared that he used to have more of an edge he recalled in a story than he once workshopped an out of character joke about murdered sex workers in New York City, which he ditched after hearing from a woman in the sex industry who took offence. Nate internalized the feedback and then got rid of all the edgy ness and said, I just need to be super careful with anything that could be seen as making fun of someone.

I never want to be mean. Slate writes, Nate is certainly a smart enough guy to concoct a great joke about, say, January sixth, or the Facebook algorithm, but he’d much rather talk about his McDonald’s order. There’s dignitying that approach, and maybe a little bit of cowardice too. Therein lies the irony of his rise, right Slate, when Burgatzi first caught on nationwide, we were seeding into the coma of the early Biden years, said in your letters too, Slate, Americans had finally tapped out of the ara defining divisiveness of Trump’s initial ascension, and we’re holding out hope that the country might be on the cusp of a well deserved period of stasis. Nate imploys his crowds to shut off their brains for a narrow when he’s on stage, thus receding into the narcoticizing splendor of his meticulously crafted but ultimately toothless comedy.

A Little Harsh Dude’s really funny. I don’t know Whennie Cummings shared an anecdote about auditioning for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalabolis. She gets to the set with Coppola and finds out that it’s not a typical audition, as Whitney tells that everyone is so quiet. There’s no vibe of we’re at an audition, Hey, what’s up? How are you nice to meet you?

It was just so awkward. I go out and I’m like, so, where do you want to start first? And he’s like, now, we’re not going to do the scene. I was like, okay, it’s three days of my life. He would just throw things at me.

Apparently one of the directions was to say goodbye to her son who was going to war by using an English accent, and then use an Australian accent to respond to her husband leaving her for her sister. Whitney says, because I did the show punked, I was like, if I’m being punked, this is actually genius. Bob Beckett is working on a pilot for a show called am I the A Hole? Yes? It is aimed at fans of the popular reddit thread I am sometimes on there.

The pilot features a panel of top tier comedians passing judgments on relationship dilemmas and disputes and promises, big laughs, and eyebrow raising stories. Examples include a discussion of somebody getting rid of their favorite pet or price car behind their partner’s back. That could be fun, and Seth Myers tells Late Nighter he has no interest in hosting the Oscars. He says, the Golden Globes I think is the fun one. I think once you do this one, it’s hard to imagine doing anything else.

Just the way people are seated and it feels a little less stuffy. With that said, I think Conan’s going to kill it at the Oscars. I’m very excited about that. A lot of respect for my buddy Jimmy Kimble. I feel like has done an incredible job over the years, but he’s never said anything that made me think, oh, I’d like to do that.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Jerry Seinfeld, Sebastian Maniscalco, Joe Koy, Kevin Hart, Gabe Iglesias, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Maher

What’s in This Episode

• Daily Mail top earning comedians 2024 rankings
• Billboard highest grossing comedy tours 2024
• Gabe Iglesias Netflix special title controversy with Hard Rock
• Jim Gaffigan regrets over Trump criticism backlash
• Bill Maher on targeting woke liberals for comedy material

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Caloroga Shark Media Pure Jommy Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Daily Mail wrote an article about the top earning comedians and put some dollar amounts to it. Actually, they put pounds amounts to it, and I threw it into chat GPT and roughly translated the pounds into US dollars in case you’re curious. In this case, we used an exchange rate of one British pound to one dollar twenty seven US dollars. Not crazy off.

Your exchange rate may differ anyway. According to the Daily Mail, the top earning comedians of twenty twenty four, I’ll start with number eleven. I don’t know why they did eleven. Number eleven. They have Michael McIntyre at twelve point seven million.

Number ten, Andrew Schultz sixteen and a half million. Number nine, Jeff Dunham quietly going about his business nineteen million dollars shockingly low. Where do you hear these next two names? Okay? So number eight is Kevin Hart.

You know Kevin Hart who like starts a new business like twice a day. Kevin Hart quote unquote only twenty one point five to nine million. Now, why that’s interesting to me is number seven Joe Koy. You may recall Joe Coy also the Golden Globes over a year ago. I’m not going to bring that up, Scott back at relaxed.

But Joe Coy earned twenty five point four million dollars, So according to the Daily Mail, Joe Koy is making more money than Kevin Hart. How is that possible? Number six Trevor Noah twenty six point six five, Bert Kreischer also at twenty six point six. Number four, Peter Kay at thirty four point twenty nine million. Number three Seinfeld Jerry brought in thirty nine point three million.

Number two Sebastian Maniscalco big successful tour, okay, forty eight point twenty six million, and number one you want to take a guess here, and it’s a shocking difference. According to the Daily Mail again they have Sebastian at forty eight point twenty six at number one with seventy one point one two million, so that’s you know, twenty five million more loose math. Number one Nateperghetzi. Wow, yeah, I mean Nate had a big tour, but Nate quietly became a monster. I think everybody’s aware of him.

Now, but I had no idea he was making that much money. Nate is making I don’t know, forty percent more. I’m doing loose math in my head. Forty percent more than Jerry Seinfeld. I still don’t see how Joe coy is making more than Kevin Hart, but okay.

Meanwhile, bill Board shared the top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty twenty four. They say the top comedy acts collectively grossed a record breaking three hundred and ninety six point seven million dollars, up fifty two percent from the year before. I’ll go in the other direction. Here they have a number one Nates, grossing eighty two point two million dollars one hundred and forty eight shows with one point one million people going to see him, Number thirty seven overall on the all genre ranks. So I assume that includes Taylor Swift, for example, at number two, Number two two, where Matt Riiche grossed fifty seven and a half million sold seven hundred and thirty three thousand tickets across two hundred fifty six shows.

Gab Iglesias another one of those quiet monsters. Maybe not this week because he’s in the news, but he grossed forty two point eight million, sold six hundred three thousand tickets hundred twenty four shows. Kat Williams gross thirty seven and a half million, selling almost four hundred thousand tickets sixty shows. Sebastian gross thirty six and a half million, selling two hundred ninety three thousand tickets in fifty three shows. Krayzier twenty nine point seven million, three hundred and eighty eight thousand tickets sixty four shows, Trevor twenty nine point seven three hundred ninety two thousand, ninety four shows, Jerry twenty seven point eight almost two hundred thousand tickets thirty six shows, Adam Sandler twenty seven million dollars selling two hundred and sixty one thousand tickets and twenty six shows, and number ten Joe Coy Maybe he should host the Golden Globes, giveing more than nine days to prepare, and don’t invite you know who with the icy’s there.

Joe Koy gross twenty six millions, sold three hundred and sixty eight thousand tickets in eighty three shows.

Speaking of Gabeglacias, earlier in the week before the fires, he was profile…

He shared that the title of his new special was supposed to be hard Rock Fluffy because he shot the special the Hard Rock in Miami. Everybody was on board with it. Then we got a call from Netflix, who said, there’s money to be made on this and you can’t be promoting other brands. They didn’t like the fact that I was promoting hard Rock and Netflix, and they’re like, well, if something like that’s gonna happen, there needs to be compensation for it. I’m like, it’s cool, I’m there, I play the hard Rocks.

It helps me out. And they’re like, no, he can’t do it. So then, to be a jerk, I was like, all right, what about rock hard Fluffy, you know, to try and open up the audience a little. But no, they didn’t go with that either. They gave you about eight different titles, but they sucked.

Finally, we landed on Legend of Fluffy because I figured there’s a lot of pieces in the special that have to do with the amount of time we’ve been doing this. And I was a big gamer back in the day. I had my Gold cartridge, so I liked Legend of Zelda. So I said, let me just play with that a little bit. So that’s why the special is called Legend of Fluffy Switching Gears.

Gabe shared that a few years ago, a buddy of his has told him your generational talent. I said, what’s that even mean? He said, you got all these different generations coming out to see you. People that were kids the first time they saw you, and now they’re adults and some are bringing their kids. I’m like, that sounds weird, and I’m like, oh, I used to have hair, so it’s really really cool to see that.

I think it’s really beautiful that people come out and tell me I grew up watching you. Every time they say that, another gray hair comes out of my beard and another hair falls out of my head. All right, some political stuff here in the second half. If you don’t want to deal with the politics, you are dismissed. I understand.

But I’ve got a bunch of stories that pair up nicely. Let’s start with Jim Gaffigan, and he was on the Last Laugh podcast. He shared, I regret that people think I was criticizing people that support Trump. That was never the intention. Jim says he doesn’t regret publicly going against Trump, but acknowledges that he might have lost some fans.

Jim said, I also do acknowledge that there were true, diehard Trump fans who probably enjoyed my comedy, but because they feel so passionately, they’ll never forgive me. According to Jim, the back last year received for criticizing Trump was noticeable, but didn’t affect him that much. I wouldn’t say it was measurable, but there were definitely comments on social media, and there are still some. Bill Maher revealed his issue with the Democrats and revealed the main reason he goes after woke liberals more often now. He says, you give me more material.

I’m a comedian. I’m gonna go where the gold is. The Democrats can’t stand. I have to endure a moment of hearing something they don’t already agree with. Not that the right doesn’t do it too, but the left does it worse.

Everything with these people has to be an opportunity for virtual signaling. Bill says some Democrats have cut off their friendship with him because he’s had on people like Anne Culter, Bill Barr, and Ted Cruz, And he says, just think about what this is. That’s people who hate me. For who I won’t hate. It’s in their psychological profile.

They just have this need for virtual signaling. And I have their friends, and I guess everybody on social media thinking of them as the good guys. We’re the good people. We know who’s good, and it’s us. He also criticized the youngins, saying they have no perspective, quoting mar They’ve been indoctrinated into this idea that they live in the worst country in the world at the worst time in history, when actually they live in with all our flaws, still probably the best with definitely indisputably the best time in history.

What America needs as a colonic Would Trump be the man I choose first to administer it. No, but I’d like to see what he and Elon Musker could do. Many Republicans say, maybe we can get Bill Maher. Now you can’t. What you can get is Bill Mooher being honest about the left.

I’m not going to join your team that doesn’t believe in democracy. And he has a message for Kamala Harris, saying you’ll lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person. Congratulates Meanwhile, Whitney Cummings commented on the political left. She said, I always thought of myself as a pretty liberal person, but I don’t think the left is as liberal as it used to be. It’s like the left became the party of censorship.

It’s just wild to me that we’re in’t a time where if you’re on the left and you don’t criticize your party, how much you even care about your party? Do you know what I mean? It’s like what’s going on the left? I had to say, I just finally broke chants. If you love your party, you have to be able to criticize it, you know.

And I don’t really take sides. She then joked about some hypocrisy, quoting Whitney, my body, my choice, but you have to take this vaccine and also my body my choice, pro choice party, but you don’t have a choice in your candidate. I’m not an expert on politics, which is why I’ve always said I’m not weighing in on it. But I am an expert on hypocrisy. Okay.

I was raised by hypocrites, I’ve dated them, and I know hypocrisy what I see it. And that is your comedy news for today. Send your letters to Whitney Cummings, Bill Maher or Jim Gaffigan. I’m just here to tell you what’s going on. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Melissa Rivers, Jean Smart, Nikki Glaser, Roywood Junior, Mo’Nique, Pete Holmes, Bad Bunny

What’s in This Episode

• LA Comedy Clubs Close Due to Wildfires
• Late Night Shows Address California Fires
• Melissa Rivers Loses Home in LA Fires
• Jean Smart Calls for Networks to Skip Awards Shows
• Nikki Glaser Regrets Dancing with the Stars
• Roywood Junior Special Trailer Released
• Mo’Nique Announces Comedy Tour Starting February
• Kansas City Chiefs Launch Comedy Series with Pete Holmes
• 50 Cent Super Bowl Comedy Block Party
• Bad Bunny Responds to Tony Hinchcliff Puerto Rico Joke

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Caloroga Shark Media. Be there, Trainy mat with the daily comedy views. Let’s start out in Los Angeles. Some comedy clubs had to close as the fires spread. The Comedy Store announced they would be closed, saying we prioritize the safety of our staff, performers and audience.

We’re working on rescheduling the shows for the dates and will provide an update soon. The Laugh Factory similarly closed, announcing on Instagram these shows had been canceled. All ticket holders will be refunded. On the TV side, Jimmy Kimmel Live has shut down production on his Tuesday monologue, which was taped at four thirty pm Pacific time, and Jimmy said he had no power at his house and joked that he might have to sleep over at Gillermo’s. Jimmy did get a joke in saying the wind is especially scary here in LA because of all the boatos.

We’re not used to seeing things move at all.

Also shut down.

The price is right. I’ll mention that because comedian Drew Carey HOSTSED and CBS’s After Midnight. The late night shows did discuss it, they treaded lightly. Seth Meyer said before Kick Things off. We just want to send our love to everybody in the LA area in California right now who are dealing with wildfires.

These scenes we’re seeing on television are obviously harrowing, and there are no real words so they can share other than we’re thinking about you and hoping for your safety. Jimmy Fallon said, I just want to say that a heart’s got to everyone in Los Angeles right now dealing with the massive wildfires out there. You just see the footage on TV. It’s surreal. We have so many friends who’ve been affected.

We just hope that everybody stay safe, including all the firefighters and everyone else trying to contain it. Stay safe. We love you, La. Stephen Gobert said, we know that people love Los Angeles are resourceful and kind, and they’re doing everything they can do to help one another. We want to send our love and concern to all the residents of Los Angeles who are facing what is being described as the most destructive fire in the city’s history.

Joe River’s daughter Melissa, shared that she had just a few minutes to save a couple items from her house, which was destroyed by the fire. She told CNN, I kind of had a mental checklist. I made sure that we got passports, birth certificates, medication, clothing. I was just out shopping for clothes. It started to hit me.

We literally just had what we had on our backs. I grab whatever was there in my personal situation. That’s it. That’s the end of everything that belonged to my family and the history of it. To be one hundred percent honest, I grabbed my mom’s Emmy, a photo of my dad and a drawing that my mother had done of me and my son.

Melissa shared that the Emmy is Jones’ Daytime Emmy Statute, which she won on behalf of the Joan Rivers Show in nineteen ninety for outstanding Talk slash Service. Show host Jean Smart’s start of Hacks has called on the networks to skip awards season. In her statement, Jean Smart said, with all due respect during Hollywood season of celebration, I hope any of the network’s televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider not televising them and donating the revenue they would have garnered to the victims of the fires and the firefighters. She labeled her post with the word attention in all caps at the start a nod at all. Convinced that that is something the networks are going to do.

The Awards shows will happen, in my opinion, shifting gears. Jim gaff again was on The Kelly Clarkson Show and asked Kelly, what is going on with the feet you see? He noticed that Kelly Clarkson was barefoot at the beginning of their interview. Kelly explained, I feel more grounded when I sing if I’m barefoot. Jim then speculated on why she might not have shoes on and did a high pitched voice, saying, I feel more grounded when I sing if I’m barefoot.

I can feel the ground. Nikki Glaser tells The Wall Street Journal she regrets her twenty eighteen season of Dancing with the Stars. She was the first contestant eliminated. Glazer said that was truly a low point in my life. I never thought I’d be in first place, but I thought it might last longer than the blind woman on the show.

Roywood Junior has a special coming out on January seventeenth. There is a trailer and I’m going to go first here. I think this material is hacky. I think the material is weak, and to my ears it sounds if perhaps possibly maybe conceivably the laughter is added in which you know happens in trailers. But this whole piece here not good.

Let’s listen. We ain’t gonna make it. What happened to the next shit, Let’s go. I was at the gun range and I saw somebody get bad service at the gun range? How are you gonna be rude to somebody who showed up to practice account security?

Questions? Are just us reminiscent about when life was better? Remember when you had a home field with love? What street was that house all? Before you get Paddy, got your auntie pregnant, and now you got a brother cousin.

Retail changed, They locked up everything, and then they mad at us because we need to keep The only time you see an employee at the grocery store is when you do self check out wrong. What you’ve done to the machine? Get your way up. You evern’t seen a couple so happy it ruined the date that you own. We get mad if the phone ranged double intended for talking.

Oh hell dog, you got to text me first. Hilarious Lonely Flowers. January seventeenth, moa mayor announced a new stand up comedy tour beginning in February titled Moha mayor also Palestino Spanish for the Palestinian Bear on the tour. US life family and his journey as a new dad in today’s political climate, will also shortly get season two, the final season of Netflix’s Mo A Good Show. If you want to go see Mo, He’s really good.

February thirteenth in Milwaukee is when the tour starts. I’m not going to read fifty dates to you, but it goes through May sixteenth in Washington, DC, the Kansas City Chiefs are getting into comedy for some reason. The Magic Number features Pete Holmes and total debut on the Chiefs websites on Tuesday. The Magic Number is an original, lighthearted, multi episode buddy style comedy series. It’ll be on Chiefs YouTube and Chief’s official social channels three pm Central Time Tuesday.

The Magic Number follows two fans on an adventurous quest for their third friend, hoping to bring the team good luck. By the way, to hear my voice going, this is what happens when you spend fifteen hours on a plane. My fellow passengers, Come on, guys, if you’re coughing wear a mask. I should have worn a mask. That’s on me.

The multi part series promises to deliver a mix of humor, heart and playful storytelling. The comedy’s voice by Chiefs fan Jason Sedakis. Key cast members include Pete Holmes. Pete said, I had so much fun with this Chiefs Playoffs campaign. The story celebrates the connection and companionship sports spring and I’m excited to share this adventure with all the fans.

The cast and the crew were amazing. Holly, David and I ruined a bunch of takes cracking each other up, and I love playing a part in this fun take on fandom. I’ve been doing this for a while. That was written by somebody in the publicity department and Pete signed off on it would be my guest, perhaps possibly maybe, And if the Chiefs make the Super Bowl, they might want to head over to fifty cents Super bowld Comedy block Party. That’ll be Saturday, February eighth, Although you know you might nitpick what they’re doing at a comedy show the night before the Super Bowl.

Fifty cents super Bold Comedy block Party features fifty cent Bill Bellamy, Chico Bean, and DC Young Fly Bad Money finally went in on Tony Hinchcliff’s Puerto Rico joke Bad Money till the New York Times. It was a real moment of frustration. Yeah, I know he’s a comedian, blah blah blah, but that wasn’t a stand up comedy show. Was supposed to be a political rally. He was in a suit.

I was like, Oh, he’s a politician. Then people told me, no, it’s a comedian. It wasn’t funny for a lot of reasons. I have a great sense of humor, and I like dark humor. But there’s places and their circumstances for that.

James Acaster turned forty yesterday and says it feels wild with the pandemic. Suddenly we were two years older. I feel like now I’m still thirty seven, or I when I turned thirty. I loved it, actually, because in my twenties I thought, oh, I’m an adult. Now he really needs to know stuff.

I need to understand the world. Then when I turned thirty, I realized, oh, I’m never going to understand anything, and that felt a lot better. Now I’m turning forty, We’ll see what the revelation is Ultimately, I guess I’m just lucky I’m still here. That’s good. Just got to focus on that.

Russell brand busted for speeding. He’s been fined after pleading guilty to speeding. Apparently, Russell was driving his Mini at ninety five miles an hour on the M four last June. He also was busted for driving the Mini at at thirty seven miles per hour and a thirty mile an hour zone. He did not attend the hearing.

He was handed three penalty points for the thirty seven mile per hour breach and five points for the ninety five mile an hour speeding, on top of the three points he already had on his license. That gives him a total of eleven. Drivers who get twelve or more points without a three year period face a band. The judge find him thirty four hundred and fifty seven pounds for the offenses. You know, Russell could probably afford a car service.

And Jim Norton has joined the exclusive club of people who worked at Series XM and got shown the door. Welcome to the club, Jim. After twenty years, Jim Norton is out. He had been hosting a show with Sam Roberts Jim announced his new podcast, Jim Norton Can’t Save You. On the podcast, he shared that he was expecting and received a low ball offered during the holidays.

Jim is a good guy. I’ve worked with him a few times. Really like Jim a lot. Best of luck with your podcast, and that is your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Howard Stern, Gerard Carmichael, Adam Sandler, Ali Wong, Joe Koy, Kevin Nilan, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes hosting performance and monologue
• Golden Globes ratings discrepancy between CBS and Nielsen reports
• Ali Wong wins Golden Globe for Best Stand Up Special
• Hannah Brenner backlash over Luigi Mangioni joke on Netflix special
• Kevin Nilan’s new hiking talk show on Fox Nation

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mac back Live. I’m back from Antarctica. No really, I was in Antarctica. I’ll talk about that after the break, but let’s catch up Nikki Glaser on the Golden Globes.

I thought she was fantastic. I really enjoyed her monologue. It was a nice traditional I called it Johnny Carson style monologue, where you just call out the people in the audience and say something funny about them. Be the equivalent of me going and Scott Beckett is here. Scott’s excited about the Golden Globes because it means I won’t play the Joe Coy joke anymore, you know, that kind of harmless spanter among friends.

I thought she was really, really good. Nicki shared some details with Howard Stern, saying I got paid pretty I’m good with that. There was a past host who said how much he got in his monologue, and I got less than that. I’ll come back to that, but that’s okay. I’ll get more next year.

I feel well paid for what I do. I’m all right. I like cause she’s assuming she’s hosting next year. That said, it should be a great choice. Obviously, The speculation is she’s referring to Gerard Carmichael, who hosted in twenty twenty three.

He disclosed on stage that was paid half a million dollars for his hosting gig. You may recall the Golden Globes had to rebuild the ceremony was canceled in twenty twenty two after the controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s a lack of diversity. But I think even after last year with you know Who making the joke about you know Who, the Golden Globes are back. Baby, It’s a thing again. I think it’s a chair that people will want to host.

But Nikki Glaser did great and said if they’ll have me back for twenty twenty six, I’m all in the first time. You just want to prove yourself and I feel like I did that. She sure did. She shared with Howard some jokes cut from the monologue, some of them which she obviously would have told better. This is the last time all of you will be in the same room together until the Diddy trial.

That is a great joke, she explained. They had another Diddy mention that worked better, And you’re kind of accusing the people in the room of being involved in that, and they might turn on you. Another joke I loved conclave. It’s about choosing any poop. It was heartwarming.

It’ll touch you so much that the church will have to move to another theater. Hot tip. You don’t need ID to get into the conclave after party, She explained, we didn’t do that because there were Catholic joke pedophile jokes. We’ve all heard them. We don’t need more of that.

A tag to her joke about calling Adrian Brody a two time Holocaust survivor for his appearance in two Holocaust movies, The Pianist and the Brutalist, dropped from that joke was the tag if Adrian Brody could go back in time, he would thank Baby Hitler for his career. Nicki said, I love that one so much, but my assistant is gen Z and she was like, I don’t get it. Nicki explained, Oh, we’re gonna lose a whole generation on that joke, and then I’ve said Hitler for nothing. Another cut joke, only murders in the building is amazing. I think it’s so cool that legends like Steve Martin Martin short and Meryl Streeper all in it.

It just goes to show you you’re never too old to still need money. Why are you working so hard? What’s going on? Did you get caught up in the hawk to a crypto scheme? That’s a good joke.

Why don’t you cut that one? Glenn Powell’s nominated tonight for hit Man. Who would have thought you’d only be the second hottest hit man in America? This one probably a good cut. This is the only show where you can see the biggest stars in movies and TV joined together with a common goal getting out here tonight before Dak Sheppard asked them to do his podcast, another one good cut.

The Wild Robot is nominated tonight, and by that I mean Nicole Kidman after two white wines. Glazer interestingly said, I wish we could have done that. But if she makes a face. Yeah, you don’t want to make a joke about somebody and then they make a face. It could kill your career?

Or did it? We’ll talk about Joe Hooy on the weekend. Michael Keaton was so great and Beotle Juice and Alec Baldwin sadly did not come back to play a ghost because he was too busy making them. Wow, that’s a great joke, Nicky said, Please know that, I know it wasn’t nice. It’s such a great joke, but it’s just too mean.

Another great joke, here’s Ben Affleck. I can’t wait to see which Jennifer you try to ruin next. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the Golden Gloves producers. They asked why they thought Nicky was so successful and said, hard work. Putting in the work is very important.

And we’ve said it many many times. It sounds redundant, but she was doing literally four or five shows a night in la and other cities for three weeks to get ready for this, and she tested it out on a lot of the jokes and knew what worked and what didn’t work. And her team went to her and said, oh, that joke will work here. Maybe it’s too inside only of the people in the room. I get that the people at home won’t get it.

And she honed it down with the ones that work, and that’s why she did a great job.

And then she hit us with a couple of curveballs along the way, but that was f…

They wound up being funny like popular. So let me remind everybody Joe Cooy only got the job nine days before the Golden Globes. They didn’t have a host at all. So while we’re all killing Joe Koy for being the worst host ever, I mean he told that terrible joke about you know Who’m not going to go there today, Relax, Scott Beckett. He only had nine days.

Give the guy four months. You know, maybe somebody smiles at the joke. Who knows what happens. I still blame her. Bring it swifties.

The Golden Globes ratings were actually down. Initially, CBS reported that the ratings had jumped seven percent from last year’s show, claiming ten point one million viewers. However, Variety later released numbers from Nielsen that showed a dip of two percent in the ratings. With nine point three million viewers. Last year’s show, hosted by Joe Koy, was up fifty one percent from when the show aired on NBC in twenty twenty three.

That year got six point twenty five million viewers. Maybe Joe Koy should be the host after all? Catching up because I was in Antartica. We’ll talk about that after the break. Ali Wong.

Single Lady won Best Stand Up Special of the Year. The other nominees were Jimmie Fox, Nicky Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Rommie Yusef. Out of that group, I would have picked Adam Sandler, so that lets you know how bad the picks were. I don’t know who made those nominations, but I would have picked none of the above. And if I had to pick Adam Sandler.

People are mad a comedian Hannah Brenner for a joke Hannah made during that Netflix End of the Year special Thing Torching twenty twenty four. I have not seen it yet. I was in Antartica. Did I mention that Brenner joked she likes Luigi MANGIONI saying luigis so hot right now? Who knew besides Travis Kelcey you could become so popular with women by shooting loads into a billionaire.

That’s a naughty joke there when fan wrote not to be too woke, but that was wildly inappropriate. Relax everybody, It’s a joke. Kevin Nilan is getting a show on Fox Nation. His self produced talk show Hiking with Kevin will go to Fox News streaming thing Hiking with Kevin se’es Kevin Nielan joined by high profile celebrity guests including Nicky Glazer, Conan O’Brien, Rob Low, David Spade, Martin Short, and others as they hike through the canyons of La Malibu, Utah and elsewhere. I’ll let me jump in here.

I’m well aware of the fires. I hope everyone is okay. I don’t want to just flippantly make a reference about hiking through the canyons of La It is horrific what is happening out there. I hope everyone is safe. Clearly.

Neilan recorded this in the past. He said, when I hike with these people, they are really forthcoming. You’re outside, you don’t have an audience in front of you, you don’t have these bright lights, and you’re hiking. You become more casual and open and you have your endorphins going. Fox Nation has made ten episodes of Hiking with Kevin Availabel on a Fox Nation Hulk Hogan was booed in Los Angeles at WWE on Monday night they were making their debut on Netflix.

Gabriel Iglesias weighed in, saying it was a painful experience, but he thinks the WWE should have known better, given that the show was in LA and Hulk Hogan was a major Donald Trump presidential campaign supporter. Gabe said that was painful watching Hulk Hogan get booed. I’m like, yeah, wow, from great to hate that was ugly. That was ugly. But I mean, at the same time, they should have known better.

You know that Hulk Hogan’s been out there on this political train, trying to sell his beer and trying to be on the Trump train. So you take somebody like that and you put them in a blue state in LA, what else is going to happen? That might be the reaction? Hulk Hogan is out hawking a real American beer now an official partner of WWE. I have not yet seen Gabe’s new special.

I’m catching up on life. Did I mention I was in Antarctica? We’ll talk about that after the break. The Hollywood Reporter did a big profile of Gabe for this special. He said, I wanted to let everybody know, Hey, I’ve been around for a very long time, and I’ve seen a lot of things happen, and a lot of entertainers come and go, and if I’m still here after all these years, I shouldn’t have to deal with any of these issues that are amongst us right now about what you can and can’t say.

I’ve always felt, like I said, I’m coming from a good place. It should be okay. I’m trying to be diplomatic and cool about things, but also be like, come on, guys, I’m still gonna be here after this, so let’s just stop it already. In the special, he jokes about things like pronouns and says I’m leaning into it, but I’m not making an agenda to go out and just attack. I never attack.

I react. So it’s me sharing stories about going through certain experiences and how I to them, versus, hey, I want to talk about politics. The Hollood reporter was curious about, what do you mean. You’ve seen a lot of comics come and go. Is there a through line as to why many don’t make it?

And Gabe said, I think it’s pacing. There are a lot of entertainers out there that got the one thing that hits and next thing, you know, Gangham style man, and then you’re gone. I want to comment on that as somebody who’s been a comedy industry adjacent for two plus decades now. The people who last are what I call the brick wall comedians, the guys that tell jokes. The shooting stars are the gimmick comedians.

And I can go all the way back to somebody like Dice, these stylized comedians, you know, like Jim Gaffigan is standing in front of a brick wall telling jokes. Jim’s going to be around another thirty years. Then you’ll have other comedians. And I want to be positive today. I’m not going to pick on anybody, but like Dice had an act, and the act comedians tend to be shooting stars.

So that’s what means by Gangham style. Gabe said, it’s like, whoa, You’re on top of the world a minute ago. Where do you go? Being nice goes a long way. I think a lot of times people forget that and they start being a jerk.

He faces to people that eliminates people quickly and then being consistent with me, all the specials of branded everything is fluffy something you want to keep reminding people that that’s the brand. Sometimes people will say, well, that’s pretty excessive, and I go no, because all it takes is one or two years for them to start forgetting you. You have to constantly remind them and continue to put out what you’ve been putting out. I can’t just be doing a show that’s fun and friendly and then all of a sudden you go to this political rant about who you should vote for, because now you’re turning people off. The hollyd reporter was like, you refine this fluffy person over the years.

How’s he different from the real you? Gabe said, the guy on stage is just louder and talks more. So. Yeah, I went to Antarctica over the break. My daughter and I went flipping over all the cards here.

The last sixteen episodes of this podcast were pre taped. Now it was the holidays, so it’s a good time of year to be away. I can’t imagine another scenario where I would hand in two and a half weeks of pre taped shows because usually when I travel, I bring the laptop with me and just do the show from wherever I am. You know, I’m pretty open with you guys that’ll pretape a weekend or sometimes you know, wrap a weekend with a Monday pre tape. But for the most part, I do the show quote unquote live.

But yeah, it was a lot coming up with stuff for sixteen days of pretapes. Thank you Mike Chisholm for letting me rerun the interview on New Year’s Day, so that saved one. End of the year countdowns came in pretty handy in terms of the show. I want to pretape the weekend. I’ll give you quote unquote live shows through this weekend just to catch up.

I’m not gonna go back and do every story then I missed. You know, it’s Daily Comedy News, not daily comedy story. John didn’t get to two weeks ago, say John Mulaney on Broadway. We’ll just let the past be. I do need to catch up on my specials.

I didn’t see Nates, I haven’t seen Gabe, I didn’t see the End of the Year thing. I didn’t see Michelle Buteau and whatever else came out. But we’ll catch up here anyway. It is good to be back in the basement studio recording the podcast. But Antarctica, man, people are asking about it.

A typical day would be breakfast, You put on all your cold gear. You get in on a zodiac boat, which is like a big raft boat with a motorized engine, head over to the land, walk around, stare at penguins and seals. Come back, change out of your wet clothes, go eat lunch, go back to the room, put your wet clothes back on. Back to land again. Do that again for another two three hours.

Come back for dinner, pass out because you are exhausted. Repeat. It was amazing. It does take a minute to get there. On my way down, from leaving my home to JFKA Airport to actually checking into the hotel room was a thirty one hour trip.

So if you say to me right now, hey, you want to fly to Sydney, and I’m like, all I have to do is get on a plane in Los Angeles and watch moviees for sixteen hours, no problem, I’ll go. You may have heard of the Drake passage and the Drake shake. That is no joke. I was fine. My poor daughter has spent two days in bed twice.

It’s two days at sea before you get to Antarctica. And if you don’t like rocking boats, don’t go. But if you’re an adventurer, I highly recommend you go. I did an expedition cruise, so this wasn’t a big Disney cruise. This was one hundred passengers and forty crew on a boat probably maybe small than the Staten Island Ferry for New Yorkers, but definitely not a giant cruise ship.

And it rocked. But I had an awesome time. When I get some time, I’m going to make a podcast out of it, and I will share that with you when we get a little closer. All right, back to comedy. SNL is turning fifty.

Did you know that way? You should talk about that at some point. Will Ferralt, Tina fe and Andy Simberg are in a promo for Peacocks SNL fifty Beyond Saturday Night, which will celebrate the show’s fiftieth anniversary.

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Andy Samberg says, my first audition I threw up. One of the four episodes centers on the more cow Bell Sketch, one of the Alzheimer’s. Another episode focuses on the problematic Season eleven that came close to getting the show canceled. Jimmy Fallon says, this is beyond my wildest dreams that you’re making a documentary about the cow Bell sketch. Some other specials coming out January twenty seventh, NBC’s Ladies and Gentlemen fifty Years of SNL Music, and a live primetime special will be on NBC in peacock A February sixteenth.

Also, we have to monetize everything, so live from Sacks Fifth Avenue is some limited edition SNL inspired merchandise. Fans of the show can visit a dedicated landing page on the Sacks website which features the items available to shop. Should we do this? We should do this. I’ve been away for two and a half weeks.

We can go long today. All right. It took a couple of clips, but I found it, and I don’t get it. If you really want, you can get a Favorite Daughter baseball cab that’ over a new forty eight dollars. You can get a Favorite Daughter SNL Sport and Spirit cotton tote bag that over a new fifty bucks.

You want favorite Daughter SNL Auto five pocket jeans, those are only two hundred and forty eight dollars, and a tote bag that says favorite Daughter SNL Live from New York. That one’s fifty dollars if you’re looking for a more Cowbell T shirt that might actually be fun. Nope. The president and chief commercial Officer of SACKS says, We’re excited to partner with Saturday Night. I’m bringing together two iconic brands out of shape culture and delighted our respective audiences for decades.

This is being spun as saying SAX and SNL have a long standing relationship. You see their flagship store is across from NBC’s A thirty Rockefeller Plaza headquarters. Yep, okay, uh huh. The trailer is out for Amy Schumer’s new Netflix comedy feature Kind of Pregnant. In Kind of Pregnant, Amy Schumer plays a lady who wears a fake baby bump while feeling jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy and ends up meeting a perfect guy.

In the trailer, Amy asked, did you ever feel like such a big lie you don’t know how to get out of it? Some of the comments on YouTube include, this trailer makes me want to sit on my TV and watch my couch. Is it too late to replace Amy Schumer with another actress? And it seems like Netflix took a look at what Taylor shared in has been doing by appealing to regular Americans who just want a fun time and said, yeah, let’s do the exact opposite of that.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Jim Jeffries, Anthony Jeselnik, Shang Wang

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan on how stand-up has evolved and the pressure of producing multiple specials
• Jim Gaffigan’s new material on parenting and teenage relationships
• Jim Jeffries discusses aspirations to act more and his conversation with Russell Crowe
• Anthony Jeselnik on his comedy influences including Stephen Wright and Dangerfield
• Anthony Jeselnik critiques modern comedy and podcast culture overshadowing traditional stand-up
• Shang Wang on his friendship with Ali Wong and following her career path

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Caloroga Shark Media been there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Jim Gaffing. Until the La Times that stand up has changed so much, to the notion that people are putting out multiple specials didn’t exist when I started stand up. But I think that people who consume a stand up comedian’s material, there’s a familiarity, but it’s like a friendship. You can’t have the exact same conversation.

Even though we all have friends where it’s like we’re having the same conversation about high school. It has to be different. You both have to challenge each other. So for me working on the special or working on this new hour that I’m working on now, it’s self assignment. So some of it.

Any creative person’s like, what can I talk about that is embarrassing or revealing. I think that people that have tracked me along the way in my stand up would be interested in my view and parenting. I’ve always had the view that I suck at it, but I have greater empathy for what all parents are dealing with, and I think also parents of this era, we’ve made mistakes and it doesn’t help. With social media and the apps and the screens. And that’s something that’s revealed in doing my stand up and in reading some of the parenting books.

Parents of teenagers have this perspective. Adults have an impression of what their teenage years were like, and I’m providing this point of view about what it’s like to live with these people. It’s kind of a cliche raising teenagers is like raising a mentally ill person. It sounds harsh. We know this is a natural separation process where teenagers challenge things.

But I love that I’ve gained this perspective of was my data jerkface? Or maybe I was a jerk face? He used the D word. Maybe it’s kind of basic, but that’s something that’s universal. We all went through being teenagers, and not necessarily the conflict, but the misunderstanding between the teenager and the parent, which I find fascinating.

Jim Jeffreys told Rolling Stone that he wants to act more. Name dropper Jim said, I texted Russell Crowe excuse me, and I said, Russell, I’ve got an acting job. Can I call you quickly for some tips? And I think he thought I just wanted acting tips, and I was asking him more about when you talk to a director, what do you do here? Is it too much for me to add a line here or there?

Do you not do that? In trauma? But Russell sent me a quote from Hamlet and told me to hold up a mirror to nature and I went, thanks, mate. Rolling Stone asked him if stand up could take a back seat to film. Jim said, that’s like saying, do you think you’ll have sex with more tractive women?

It’s not my decision, is it. They get to make the choice. Now. Obviously I’m joking, I’m a happily married man. Blah blah blah blah blah.

But you get what I’m saying. It’s up to the movie industry. It’s not up to me. I look at Sammy Davis Junior. I watched a documentary about him.

He was a really good singer, an amazing dancer, and outstanding impersonator and all that type of stuff. He was a ball of entertainment, and I’d like to be that. I like the idea that I can entertain at any time. So whether it be TV presenting or acting or doing stand up, I just consider myself to be an entertainer first and foremost. I don’t think I can because of my voice or whatever.

But I’d like to do a bit of musical theater or something like that. I’d give that a crack. I’m up for doing everything but juggling and mime. Anthony Jesson expoke to crack dot com about his influences Stephen Right, Ronnie Dangershfield, and Mitch Hedberg. They were curious where he discovered those guys.

Anthony said, it must have been late night TV as a kid, waiting for those last five minutes of Carson to see who would show up. I remember watching a lot of end of Carson’s waiting for Letterman to come on. They would usually have a comic at the end. I’m sure, well, Stephen writes HBO special at some point, but I must have been introduced through late night sets Hebburg. I didn’t find out about until i’d been doing comedy for about a year, but Stephen Wright was the first, and then Dangerfield was like, oh, I’m into this guy too.

But Stephen Wright to me was huge. Did Jessinic try and mimic, writs Cadence. He said, no, surprisingly not. You could say Christopher walk In for sure has had an impact on how I speak, even though my dad gets the same comparison, But Stephen Wright was almost too much of a departure from my character. Maybe there would have been a couple of years in college when I was smoking too much pot that I could have had a Hebburg kind of personality.

But I never had that burnout thing either, which just more of how did they think of? That? Crazy twist? Never really entered into my persona with my friends in the beginning. Has the Anthony Justinic character evolved over time, and he said, I think of the character as an aging punk rocker.

At this point. In the beginning, it was like, there are no lines. If everybody offend everybody, let’s go. And I’m glad I did that in my twenties and that helped me out a lot my idols who have softened as they get older. I find that to be interesting, and as the world changes, you find yourself going from the villain of the hero.

My past is my past, then I’ll never apologize for it or try to whitewash it. But I think I’ve gained a lot of wisdom, a lot of knowledge and life experience. I like that I’ve softened and that the act isn’t as hardcore as it used to be. I think that’s good, and I think that’s more interesting. I don’t think of the character evolving, but as I write, I’m reacting to what’s popular around me.

If the biggest comics in the world started getting real family friendly, maybe I would go darker and would go harder. There’s plenty of comics now that are just as dark and hardcore as I used to be. It’s next part too justting listen to this. I think they lack my writing talent now. I just see a lot of culture personality.

I think having a popular podcast is more important than having a good act. That’s how it dies with the podcasting. You don’t really have to do anything other than have a popular podcast to sell tickets, and you’ll have a great show because the audience loves it, and you’re never really testing anything out. That’s why I see all these podcasts put out a special. They’re immediately savage by critics and forgotten about to the point that people don’t even want to write about it, because there’s no point in writing a negative review of something that’s just friends hanging out, which is what comedy’s becoming.

He’s both not wrong and somewhat wrong. I mean, I get what he’s saying about things having less artistic reaching. But on the other hand, from the consumer point of view, Hey, I went out, I saw somebody I dig. I had a good time and laughed, and I went home hopefully, and I’m home by ten thirty because I’m old. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

Not everything has to be art, and I know I sometimes argue that both ways, but I don’t know. If you go out and you have a good time, that’s fine. Like as I reviewed these specials, some of them are just fine. I can be a comedy snob, I admit it. Shang Wang, I like him a lot.

He spoke to The Texas Standard talked about his friendship with Ali Wang, who executive produced a special, and said, yeah, she’s a friend of mine. We met in the early days of doing stand up. We were both in the open mic scene in San Francisco in the early two thousands, and we’ve been friends ever since. I mean we got closer later on. We both moved to New York together around the same time.

She moved to LA to be a writer, and I followed her out there, And so I’ve been sort of following her footsteps and just kind of following her playbook in a way, so to speak. I kind of live in the ghost of Alley’s past. I have her old furniture, her old couch or old nightstand, and I might even tape my second special where she taped her second special. So I’m just kind of following the Alley Wong playbook in a weird way because it works. But I’m very grateful for our friendship and for all the sports she’s given me.

It’s pretty incredible to have a friend like that. I mean, she’s an incredibly talented person, but I think it’s also helpful to have a friend succeed to that level where you get a sense of like, this is a friend. This person also kind of looks like me, she’s an Asian American, and just makes it feel a little bit more accessible, like these things are possible. Of course, it helps when she produces a direction comedy special. JB.

Smooth as advice for aspiring comics, it is find who you are, constantly work on your style, matristylity of personality, say things that only you would say, and talk about what you know about. Don’t be stuck in one place. It’s great to have material, but you don’t want to be a robot. You want to be able to connect with people. If you can walk on stage and grab that microphone, you’re fifty percent there already fifty percent of what it takes is to get up there.

There’s rules, of course, you gotta have an intro, you gotta have a presence on stage, you gotta have a certain amount of last person minute. But you don’t have to go buy those rules. There’s something being offbeat and true to yourself and talking about what you know about, which is absolutely golden because you’re taking people on vacation, on a trip through your brain. Kevin Nielan said cancel culture has stifled some comedians. For someone like me, I don’t have a problem with it because I never really ventured in that area.

I may touch on something where someone’s like, hey man, you can’t do that, but some people get away with still. I don’t really have a problem with the woke stuff. Although my wife and son won’t come to see my shows because they’re afraid I’ll get canceled and be the last person to get canceled. People won’t even cancel my reservation if I don’t show up. I think a lot of comedians hopefully will evolve, like people do in their profession or whatever it is, They’ll find better ways of doing it.

I always try to be unique in my voice, because that’s what matters, That’s how you stand apart from other comedians. Now that we have zillions of comedians, it’s hard for comedians to become unique or be unique and also have something original say that isn’t about McDonald’s or whatever. A hard reporter I spoke to Matt Rife who said other comics have told me they miss not only the pace of stand up, but the level of control. Do you want to be an actor? Right?

Said? I don’t feel like I need control. I’m not a point now where I want to learn something new. I want to get better at something else. I mean, I’m getting so much better, so much faster at stand up, and I’m learning how to hopefully prepare for a lifetime of this, And now that I see that that’s achievable, I’m like, Okay, awesome.

What are some other skills that I can sharpen along the way that are only going to help everything else that I do. The better comedian I am, the more people are gonna want to watch the movies that I’m in, and the more movies I’m in, the more people are gonna want to see what I do live at a stand up show. Whose career mighty want to emulate? You have the Big Three Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, and Adam Sandler. Imagine Matt Riife doing Adam Sandler type movies.

I might have to quit the podcast. Those are the ones who did best, and I don’t know that anybody will ever do it at that level again, That’s my dream. Comedians who took their fan base into the theaters with their comedic talents and then they were able to transition over to different genres, especially dramas. I mean, my god, Robin Williams A Goodwill Hunting is one of my favorite acting performances of all time. Ryan Reynolds is my idol.

That’s who I’d love to work with more than anything, and he has this type of acting career that I’d love to try to emulate, and he’s done everything new top Egg Mett Rife, Who do you see is your core audience at this point? Young people, older women? Rife said, it’s a mix of everybody, which is so crazy and so cool. That’s a non answer. Nobody has everybody, most comedians, and this is exactly why you’d asked this question.

I have a relatively specific audience, whether it’s a specific race or gender or age range. But for us, it’s kind of everybody. There’s many people in their early twenties as there are fifty and up, just people who love comedy. What’s on your bucket list? I’d love to do more movies and TV, and I’d love to work with Ricky Gervais.

Adam Carolla and Jay Leno are getting ready to do a Comedy Fantasy Camp in La January twenty third through to twenty sixth. The four day camp offers workshops, Q and as and panels on all things comedy, from TV writing and podcasting to performing on stage. The Rap spoke with them. They pointed out that Adam’s from Southern California, Jay’s from Boston. Is there a difference between the comic sensibilities you know, Southern California vers East Coast?

Leto said, no, you know. Mark Twain said travel is the enemy of bigotry, and the fact is more you travel, the more you can pick things up and take them from other people. When I started to get popular in Boston and I left town because I was gonna wind up having a Boston base act. And I left and I said, I’m gonna go someplace else. But back in New England, I was a lazy guy.

I came here and suddenly I was the hardest working person because I didn’t have the southern California mentality. I didn’t go surfing in the daytime. So I think it’s good to travel around. If you got a joke that works in Texas and Anchorage, it’s gonna work everywhere. Awful things happen to you your first year you come here, you learn who’s a crook, whose agent is bad.

Second year you get a couple jobs. Takes three or four years before things clicked. This sounds horrible. You sort of learn who’s in town, who’s a real agent, who could really do something for you. You know, it takes a while.

It’s a lot of fun. It’s a great way to make a living. I mean, I figured I’d do it until I had to get a real job. I just never had to get a real job. It’s a job.

Don’t hang out with your pals at night. I mean I saw it at the comedy store. It became people just live there. You’re doing coke in the back. You have jokes about the thing on the wall the comedy store and about the window, and then you go to a real place and it doesn’t have those things.

Nobody knows what you’re talking about. I’d say that happen in Boston. Guys have twenty minutes on Kenmore Square. Then you go to Hartford and people go what. And that is your comment news for today.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Michael Ian Black, Nikki Glaser, Parna Nirula

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney discusses how he developed his on-stage persona and comedic approach
• Michael Ian Black reveals his obsession with UFOs and Pentagon investigations
• Nikki Glaser talks about her love for Taylor Swift and how the music helped her during the Tom Brady roast
• Parna Nirula discusses travel preferences and packing habits

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney talked about how he put together his on stage persona and said, I consciously thought, what if he did Spuden Gray with the energy of Bernie Mack. What if what you were really saying was really confessional and had an edge to it. The language was specific and nuanced, it was personal and contradictory, dark, suicidal, whatever it was.

But he kept saying it with this big show, busy energy, how big can you sell weird and specific? John said he thought, I’m gonna see if you could do a nine minute story about this and just hit it as though you’re doing the best bit about dating ever. I’m gonna tell this long story about how my parents had a complicated relationship with the Clintons and how it sort of plays it and how me and my dad relate to each other, and I’m gonna go on stage and annihilate with it. That’s how he handled twenty Fifteen’s The Comeback Kid. Then for Baby Jay, he said, all right, this is the most confessional one, so it’s gonna be all jokes.

There’s no moment that isn’t supposed to be very entertaining. Michael ian Black told Inside Hook, there’s really only two things on my mind at any given moment, maybe three things, politics, UFO, and poker. Really the only three things I think about with any regularity, he said, is childhood. Interest in UFOs was reignited in twenty seventeen when The Times New York Times did an article about a secret Pentagon program dedicated to investigating UFOs. Michael Lean Black said, they’re like, yeah, we’ve been studying UFOs for decades.

You’re like, wait, you told us that you hadn’t been. You told us for decades that you hadn’t been, that there was nothing to it, and now you’re saying there is. So at the very least, that’s a very compelling story. The thing I find so fascinating about this whole topic is whatever the explanation is, even the most prosaic explanation, is going to be fascinating. Because the most prosaic explanation is that the US has somehow developed tech, or somebody’s developed tech that nobody else has and nobody else even understands.

That’s a fascinating story. Or we all are the US and globally the victims of some sort of bizarre global disinformation campaign, which in a way makes less sense than the alternative, because you have these reports everywhere in the world, Russia, China, Brazil, Mexico, all of Europe to US, Canada, everywhere, So like whatever the explanation, none of it makes sense. And to me, that’s what I love. I just love the mystery of it. In a way I don’t want to know.

Nikki Glaser loves her Tailor Swift. She likes being around Swifties and said, I just love her music so much and singing it with other people love it as much as I do. This is no slight to Tailor. It’s just to speak to the power of her music and her fandom. But it was much fun at a Taylor Swift sing a Long Night as I do it in Aras tour concert.

NICKI, do you have any goals, you know, a surprise song or something that you’re hoping for when you go see Taylor live. I never have any goals because I like all of her songs so much that I really can’t be disappointed. But being able to sing You’re on your own kid with her in the stadium was really special. There have been songs that at first I overlooked, but I fall in love with Like The Lucky Ones is so good because it’s about the way I feel about Hollywood, and you know you’re quickly disposed of, and how you kind of have an exit strategy for when they decide they don’t want you anymore. You have to learn to really like yourself and have other interests because your career could be taken away from you despite what you do, or what you put out or who you are, how talented you are.

I always felt the Tailor was in a good mood performing. Of course she can’t always be, but she never lets it show in her performances. It’s probably because of her performances that she is happy. Do you have a favorite era, Nikki Glaser? I’m always in the era that she’s in.

The Tortured Poets Department really helped me get through preparing for the Roast of Tom Brady when I was really feeling isolated, alone and unsure of myself, and really all I was doing was thinking about roast jokes. It was the greatest gift because it was a distraction. Reminded me I care about other things, that my life is full no matter what happens with the Roast. It really held my hand through that really stressful time in my life.

And then even after the Roast, that was a really tumultuous time for me, just…

But say Elane, I talked about putting together an hour of comedy and said, when I’m on the road, an hour’s worth of material, that’s at least a year’s worth of doing stand up every single night at the Comedy Seller, working out new jokes, redoing jokes over and over. People think I do stand up every once in a while. I do stand up every night. I’m at the Comedy Seller every single night. To write new material, I have to be in front of an audience.

I think in July I did fifty shows at the Seller. You could see it within a week. If I’ve done eighteen shows in a week and I start that joke on a Friday, the next Friday, it’s a different joke. Usually I take May through September to write a bunch of material, and then you work them out in little clubs, trying to piece the material together. Three List spoke to a partner, Ninturilla, about travel.

They asked her window, middle or aisle seat. Johnny Mac loves the window. A partner said, I’ve historically been a window seat person. That’s right, that’s the correct answer. I like being able to nestle into the road, having that wall you can nap against.

Now, because of in my weakening bladder, I think I may have to eventually accept that I’m gonna have to be an aile person because I’m too conflict averse staff to keep asking someone to get up so I can go to the bathroom. One hundred percent on every piece of that answer. Love it all right? Do you pack light or do you overpack? She says, I’m an overpacker.

Johnny Mac is not an overpacker. I went to Australia with a carry on. I can get it done. MacBook airs and I sent in to that helps. And you don’t need to bring a big USB mic with you.

You know, if a famous comedian dies when you’re on the road and you have your book with you, you can use the microphone in the laptop of your audience will understand. Parna says, I’m bringing things that don’t make sense. I think if I had a go bag, it’d be like a three piece set of suitcases. I was just gone for two weeks, and I brought maybe seven or eight outfits. I’d say probably were four of the Moner rotation.

The thing about being an overpacker is when you suddenly need one of those random objects like your old journal, You’ll be like, see, this is why I need this favorite way to pass time on a plane. I was hoping get some work done on a few times I have. I’m like, can I get credit for this? I feel like a shner in miles for this. No, don’t do work in a plane.

Planes are wonderful times. You listen to music you never get to listen to. You close your eyes, you listen to podcasts like don’t Do Work in a Plane. Wi Fi should be banned on planes, and oh man, if they start with the starlink and start people start making phone calls on planes again, no no no no no no no no no. But partner said, I used to be someone who could sleep on flights, but I seem not to have that ability much these days.

So I end up watching something or reading most of the time. Her biggest travel fear something going wrong with the plane. Obviously crashing is the endpoint of that fear, but then I think really bad turbulence almost feels worse to me. You don’t know whether it means you’re going to crash orf it’s just going to be scary for some unforeseeable amount of time. Favorite travel snack some sort of trail mix where you’re getting different bits in one bag and it’s not all one thing, like a pretzel mix or something.

Paula got I spoke to the South China Morning Post. He says I was born in Hawaii in nineteen sixty eight, in the early morning hours after Richard Nixon was elected president. My mother contemplated naming me Richard, but thankfully she was also a Beatles fan and ended up naming me Paul. I have one sibling, a brother who’s fourteen months older than me, which is the two of us in a small Japanese family. He was the eldest son, which meant I was out of luck.

He got all the love, attention and adoration because in Japanese culture, the first born son is treated exceptionally well. It explains how I ended up in comedy, the need for attention and approval. I was on the city championship basketball team when I was a kid, but then everybody kept growing, so I stayed indoors, listening to comedy albums. There’s a lot of truth in comedy. The first comedy album I listened to was Gilda Radner.

In Hawaii, we only had one stand up comedian, Andy Bumasai. I had all his albums and listening to him on repeat day and day out. I could recite them verbatim. I wanted to be like Andy. The opportunity to elicit approval, laughter, an applause with my version of the truth really spoke to me.

In Hawaii, there was only one comedy club and that closed down, so there was no place for me and my friends to perform. In ninety six, I had a very bad idea to open a comedy club in Waikiki. The Comedy Cow was open about a year. Me and my friends had a place to perform at. Robin Williams came through one night.

It was great while it last did, and my finances, hopes, and dreams burned down around me. I learned I’m a terrible business person. I ended up massive debt and shame. I read in the newspaper that one of the morning DJs got fired from the local radio station. I sent a letter to the GM and said, hey, I’m the kind of person that likes to capitalize on other people’s misfortunes, so please hire me to do your morning show.

That turned into two and a half years at the station. That’s what convinced me that I should devote my life to comedy. Morning radio was a great creative experience. You have to write three hours of material every day and then burn it down because you couldn’t do the same show the next day. It forced you to be creative, and I enjoy that.

I didn’t like the hours. I had to wake up at four am to get to the station at five point thirty, which was bad. I did a morning drive. It’s thirty years ago now. I lasted four months on that shift.

It was hell. The alarm would go off at three thirty three every morning or weekday mornings, which was the last possible second where I could shower and get into New York City. And again no interney yet. I had to go find actual newspapers and read them really quickly to do the show. Prep before the five AM morning show.

Anyway. The alarm would go off at three thirty three every morning, and the first thing I would say started with the word F hated it. I hated it. Tom Green caught up with US magazine. He’s living on a farm in Canada and says, after a hectic day, I decompressed by being outside in nature with my dog or writing my mule Fanny.

She’s a big mule, very large and majestic mare. He made a list of twenty five things you don’t know about Tom Green. I won’t read them all, but some of them. Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show was my celebrity crush growing up. His favorite movie is Jaws.

His favorite karaoke song is Space Oddity by David Bowie. His first job was working at Dairy Queen. He made the peanut butter part and said the trick is extra fudge. I collect old coins and I don’t know why. Norm MacDonald was always my favorite stand up comedian.

I discovered him live in the comedy club when he was young and before he was famous. It was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen and made me want to be a stand up comedian. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Silverman, Kathy Griffin, Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Reiser, Seth Meyers, David Spade, Dana Carvey

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan discusses parenting and teenage behavior changes in latest special
• Sarah Silverman on midlife confidence and being alone in relationships
• Sarah Silverman praises Detroiters and wants to collaborate with female comedians
• Kathy Griffin confident in her voice and touring plans post-inauguration
• Kathy Griffin’s financial stability and work ethic inspired by Joan Rivers
• Weird Al Yankovic reflects on getting Michael Jackson’s permission for ‘Eat It’
• Paul Reiser discusses Beatles impact and Ed Sullivan Show memory
• Seth Meyers on writing stand-up material from real life and family observations
• David Spade and Dana Carvey launch ‘Superfly’ podcast spinoff

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll catch up about the Golden Globes in a couple of days. I was traveling yesterday and again today. Jim Gaffigan spoke to The La Times about parenting, and Jim says, I would say I was a very good teen.

I was very hard working. I would say that my dad was unnecessarily annoyed by some of my behavior.

And now I’m kind of like, oh, I get it.

I totally get what his annoyance was. And these are your children and you do anything for them. But there is a baffo mint. I talk about it in my latest special, where you have this sweet twelve year old and then they change, And obviously I’m using hyperbole and exaggeration, but there is a shift. And what’s so great about touring with the material is that it’s a conversation.

So the feedback from the audience can prove your premise or your theory. So even older parents, empty nesters can say, oh, yeah, that’s true. The hyperbolic humor statement you’re making is only funny because it’s grounded in a shared experience. Sarah Silverman spoke to the Detroit Free Press about the feeling that many women have in midlife about being more self confident and less worried about pleasing others. Sarah said, not everybody grows with age, you know, but it’s kind of thrilling to be like, yeah, I’m not doing that anymore.

I’m not gonna put up with that anymore.

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Also, I’m in a relationship I’m so happy with, but I also know that I love be…

A relationship has to be pretty great for me not to want to be alone. I think that’s a great place to be, and it’s a place I don’t think I could be at a younger age. Sarah has been digging the TV show Detroitters, the twenty seventeen series from Comedy Central that’s been showing up on Netflix. My boyfriend and I are watching Detroiters again. God, I wish there were more than two seasons.

Anytime we order dinner, we throw in Detroiters. It’s such a beautiful comedy. It’s very tricky to do comedy that’s warm and loving but has hardcore funny jokes with Sarah want to do a similar series with one of her female peers. She says, there are so many brilliant women I would love to start with. She was blown away by Kristin Malodian the Penguin and said, I was like, please, can I play her young mom?

She’s so brilliant. Sarah’s out on tour through February first, and said, it’s funny merch this time, which I usually never have. I say in the show. I just really feel like my parents would want me to monetize this. It just kills me because my dad would have borne every single thing.

Ah, they would just love it. Kathy Griffin is increasingly happy with her voice and says I sound like me again, shouting and cursing or my love languages. I tend to yell at the audience, even though I love them. I haven’t lost my hustle. I love the stage.

It’s the only time of fully relaxed. It sounds corny, but I get anxiety attacks. I can’t stop vomiting. I was in a restaurant recently and had to go into a corner. I had flops weat.

I was hoping nobody would recognize me. I had to get it together and drive home. She said. Joan Rivers told her to keep on working and never leave a blank page on the calendar. I worked with Joan.

Joan’s days were packed. I worked with her around two thousand, well, not around two thousand, when it was the fall of two thousand and one, two thousand and two. She would go up to Toronto or Philadelphia and do QVC and walk into the studio at five to six or five to seven. I guess it was a seven o’clock show, sit down, knock out a two hour show, and then go do something else. She like to work Joe Rivers.

Kathy said, I’m cut from the same cloth. Unlike Ellen, Kathy Griffin has no plans to leave the country. I assume that’s election related. She says, I’m not moving. I own a house in Malibu.

I love I have four dogs. I’m gonna keep touring after the inauguration. I’m good at saving money. I have no debt. My house is paid off.

I work with famed financial advisor Suz Orman. She never steers me wrong. Weird Al look back on getting permission from Michael Jackson for Eat It and said, I was completely surprised that he gave me his blessing. My manager, I guess talked to Michael’s representatives and we heard back fairly quickly that he was okay with it. At the time, I was virtually unknown.

I had one album out that didn’t do that great. I couldn’t believe we even got his attention. There’s a contract somewhere in the world that is my signature next to Michael Jackson’s signature, saying you know we are the co writers have eat it. Prior to that, it was tough to get anybody’s permission because nobody knew who weird Awl was.

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And then after we got to eat it, we had that for ammunition.

We could say, well, you know, Michael Jackson was okay with it, why you give me a hard time. If anyone song changed my life, that one certainly did. Because, as I’ve said many times, the day they aided video went into rotation on MTV, you hear of overnight fame, and it’s sort of a myth in most cases, but it was really true for me because right after that video hit MTV, all of a sudden, people are staring at me in public, which you know, never happened before. Paul Reiser was on the Everything Fab four podcast discussing the Beatles and said, my older sister was into them, and I have a vivid recollection of being drawn to live TV. There was just this imprint of importance.

You didn’t know it was going to be the cultural touchdown that it is, but you knowew to watch it. The night in question February nineteen sixty four, the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Reiser said they made good on it with one album after another. Specific Beatle songs are imprinted on the moments of my life, all our lives. Really, the music is so good it seems silly to even give it an adjective.

Seth Meyers told Variety he is consistently writing down funny ideas in real life situations on his phone and can gauge what works by reading different nuances in the audience’s reaction. Seth says, it’s how you feel and telling it sometimes even the way people laugh. You invented it in your life. That’s my wife I’m talking about. But if it’s ever anything, I’m worried she wouldn’t love.

I tried it first, and if you can’t make it work, there’s no reason to have it brought to her. Only when it’s a feasible. Bit to her credit, if it works, She’s always very supportive. I love doing stand up because it’s so different, not just in format, but also in topics. There’s something so universal about my family and should be noticed that even though I bust on them pretty hard, I love talking about them.

They’re my favorite people. Sometimes with Late Night, which is the show I love doing, I spent a lot of time talking about people. I don’t have a great deal of affection for us, so it’s nice to be out there spending an hour sharing anecdotes and observations about my family, the best people on Earth. David Spade caught up with Southjersey dot Com about his podcast, He Does What Dana Carvey Spade said, I wanted to do a podcast, but I didn’t want to do it alone and it was too hard. It seems very easy, and that’s why there are three million podcasts.

I didn’t know who to do it with, and I was trying to think of people. I just get an unknown sidekick, but I felt there’s safety in numbers. I was casually seeing Dana more than usual. He lived near me after always being in San Francisco. I’d hit him up for dinners and would always crack up and then we realized that we always talked about SNL.

We have the same manager. We discussed it and thought maybe this would be a good way to start a podcast. We wanted to do it on video and they didn’t. After a while, they want to do a spinoff, and I said, I’ll do one if it’s on video. So now they do the spinoff called Superfly.

So it’s kind of the same thing. It’s just me and Dana. We get have people on if we want, but the core of it is just he and I. It’s like when you were on SNL, you’d always be kind of aware what’s going on. What feels like a story that’s going to stick around, So we’ll scribble headlines just stories that are funny to me, like when Kanye asked his wife if he could have sex with her mom.

Really that happened, yikes, And then we just talk about it. What would you tell your wife? How would she react? And we just riff on that for as long as we can, and we go to the next story, and then sometimes Dana talks about what it was like on SNL this week, and then I talk about my weekend on the road. It’s a little more fun than Fly on the wall because Dana and I just blabbed like we’re at a dinner.

Spade also talked about hosting the Fox game show Snake Oil. I said, I’m not right for a game show, and then the production company, owned by Will Arnett, said, we want a host where you’re almost annoyed with the game. We’re trying to find different angles on it. Spade said the fun part of Snake Oil, which was on Hulu, is that he had no idea which items were real and which weren’t. I said, don’t tell me which ones are real, and then when I’m playing the game, I’m trying to chime in, going like I have no idea.

I’m not allowed to steer them. But I’m like, I could fully tell you I will guess wrong on this one, because even when I’d watch a rerun, I’d go, I don’t remember if this is real. But that’s the fun of it for me. That’s the hook. I like someone out there is working on a Chris Farley bio pick and Spade said, I’ve talked to the writers and the director, and I think they’ve got a handle on it.

It’s a big, big story to tackle and it’s not my story to tell. It’s whoever’s doing a movie about it. But I’d hope it all goes right. I think everyone that’s involved seems pretty cool, and they’re doing the best they can. So we’ll cross our fingers and hope for the best.

The New York Times profiled Young me Meyer great opening sentence, the comedian Young me Meyer didn’t mean to bring a cockroach into a downtown Manhattan food hall. And maybe she didn’t, but when one scampered across her body, under the table and out in the while, she just assumed that she was it’s host. Quote. I’m like ninety nine percent sure that was in my coat the whole time. My apartment is so cockroach infested that they’re like my pets now.

I mean, I try to clean, but they just won’t go away. I’ve given up. They’re hanging out with me now, they’re coming in my interviews, Caleb Heren spoke to The Cut about growing up in the Midwest. His favorite part of the Midwest Midwest nice. I love it.

A lot of people are like, oh, they’re nice to your face and meet behind your back. It’s not been my experience. Midwestern people are genuinely nice. I love When I’m in Kansas City, people hold the door for you. They say, hey, how you doing.

They really mean it, they really do want to hear about your day. It’s part of the reason that I still have a home in Kansas City, because I literally need it, and I love that Midwestern people will put seven foods were straight up not supposed to eat on a platter and be like, this is dinner. A cast roll is such a messed up concoction. You shouldn’t even be doing stuff like that in the kitchen, and I actually need it to live. I love cheese where it doesn’t belong.

I love four kinds of meat where none are called for. I love an appetizer sampler. I love a big chili with a cinnamon roll. You ever heard of that chili with cinnamon roll that’s happening in the Midwest. The Midwest is our cultural capital of the United States.

I don’t care what anyone says. That he is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. That’ll help grow the show much appreciated there. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show not it’s five bucks a month.

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