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Featured: Anthony Jeselnik, Shang Wang, Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Anthony Jeselnik’s villainous character and lack of backstory philosophy
• Anthony Jeselnik’s approach to writing new material without carrying old jokes forward
• Shang Wang’s background growing up in Houston near Beyoncé
• Jim Gaffigan on touring with Jerry Seinfeld and comedy philosophy
• Jay Leno and Adam Carolla Comedy Fantasy Camp in January
• Jay Leno on stand-up comedy remaining unchanged since the 13th century
• Nikki Glaser’s performance on Tom Brady roast and comedic style

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Shonny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Ope you had a good Christmas. Crack dot com did a really fantastic interview with Anthony Jessenick, and they are curious about the character he portrays on stage and asked him does the character have a backstory. Jess Nic said, I have no backstory villain.

I love. We don’t know what’s happening here, We don’t know what their problem is. My character was like the Devil’s Son, where there’s no motivation other than just being evil. I don’t want to get into here’s my upbringing. If I had a better babysitter, and maybe I wouldn’t be like this.

I wanted none of that because that stuff always sucks. You don’t know why I’m like this. You don’t have to know, and I love that. I’m very interested in villains and what makes someone a good villain. A lack of an origin story is always preferable to me.

Yeah. Remember, I was a Trevor Batman movie, Dark Knight. Is it just called the Dark Knight? The second one where the Joker tells a different origin story every time? Fascinating jess Nick said, every New Hour, I can resurrect everyone.

The mom dies in the last bushl she’s back alive. Now I’ve got five brothers and sisters, and now I’ve got one. Now I’m an only child. The audience doesn’t care. They recognize me, but they’re just in it for the story.

It doesn’t really matter what’s true and what’s not. And I don’t write a whole New Hour until the special hits because I don’t want any of that old stuff in my head. I don’t want to think about the grandma killed or the grandma who’s still alive. Let’s just go from scratch and do it that way. Cracked again doing a great job, asked him, are there any parts of you that are actually hidden in the jokes?

Or are we hearing about your personal life? J just nug said not at all. Really. Maybe in terms of my morality, I think you can probably get a sense of what I think about the trans issue. I think you get a sense of what I think about pro choice or pro life.

I think you can get a sense of what I think about cancel culture. But otherwise, now it’s not like I feel like I need to hide something. If you listen to my podcast, you get all that stuff. So there are fans at different levels. Oh I want to know him.

I have people come up after the show and they’re like, can I meet Anthony, And my tour manager will say, sorry, he doesn’t meet people, and they’re like, oh, yeah, I know he hates people, and they’ll walk off. And I kind of got in the reputation of my fans that if they’re a good fan, they want to leave me alone. They’ll come by and say, hey, that was really funny. I don’t want to bother you. If you want my personal life, you can find that through the podcast.

But I think personal stories on stage and stand up for boring. Unless you have some amazing story, I don’t want to hear it. I don’t think a lot of it becomes the same, and my stories would be the same. I’m not special. I’d rather have something more creative on stage.

Follow up from Cracked, You’re never tempted to get more personal as you get older. Oh, I’m tempted because it’s so much easier. I try it, and I get sick of the story. I’m just like, you know what, it is easier. I’m meeting up ten minutes, But why I didn’t only not tell stories in the beginning because I didn’t have much to talk about.

It is because I was bored telling the same story. Another good follow up, Will you’d toured this material for two years, What are these jokes never get boring? I gotta think it’s because they’re short. The jokes are very short, and the payoff, it’s not just the payoff for the audience, it’s to pay off for me. I like those laughs.

I like those bursts of energy. If I’m telling a story. It’s not like I’m bombing, but it’s just that there’s five minutes without a laugh, I start to feel anxious, and I don’t like feeling anxious. I don’t want that. I want to have those hits, which is why the stories that I do have are just joke joke, joke, joke joke, because I don’t want to have that explanation period.

And even if the audience is locked in on a long story, we love this and we’re just focused on you, I’m not comfortable. I’d rather have the laughs. Maybe at some point I come up with a story that I enjoy enough that I’ll be like that, but I’ve tried it. I understand why people want it from me, but I also understand why it’s better that I don’t do it. There’s plenty of people who do.

Texas Standards spoke to shang Wang, one of my faves. He said, as a toddler, I had a reputation for slamming my head into the ground when things didn’t go my way. I think that explains everything up until now. I’m originally from Texas. I grew up in Houston.

I went to the same middle school as Beyonce. That’s crazy, right, Beyonce alone is pretty big deal. But then you find out Shang Wang also came from the same part of town. It’s like, Wow, that’s a lot of talent. Most have been something in the water y’all.

The Standard asked what his parents think of his success, and he said, I think they’re proud of me. I’m really grateful. Follow up, they haven’t told you not in so many words. You know, Asian American parents or Asian parents tend to be pretty stoic when it comes to expressing affection or things of that nature. But I don’t know.

I’m grateful for my parents. I know they’re very loving folks. I feel like my folks are very much hands off in a way that was like, as long as you’re not getting into trouble and you’re doing well in school, you can do whatever you want. They weren’t against me doing what I wanted to do. They would sometimes my mom especially suggest alternatives to stand up That is sort of related.

She’s like, if you want to be on TV, maybe be a news reporter or something. You know. I guess she was inspired by Connie Chung. But yeah, they were pretty hands off and not pushing one way or the other. Jim Gaffian spoke to The La Times about touring with Jerry Seinfeld and said, I never had an expectation that that would happen.

Jerry has a very clear and concisive view and philosophy on stand up comedy. Then when you talk to him, you feel like you’re talking in Aristotle. He’s kind of like a stoic who reminds you to have control of your material. You don’t get caught up in the trend of the moment. You work on evolving your act in your writing.

Jay Leno and Adam Carolla are doing a comedy Fantasy camp. In January. Jay was asked about stand up comedy being Ai prove Jay said, you know, it’s the one form of entertainment that’s not changed, with the exception of the invention of the microphone. It’s been the same since the thirteenth century. You stand in the town square, you just yell and say things, or do physical comedy, juggle or do something.

But it really hasn’t changed at all. And I find a lot more made of political correctness. Funny’s funny, you know, if you have something you know. Nikki Glaser is a good example. Couldn’t be filthier but hilarious, and the stuff is so funny you have to laugh.

She was the best that that Tom Brady roast. Everybody else was just using obscenities. I’m thinking, I’m getting bored of this, and then she came out and I laughed really out loud. It was really really good jokes. So that’s the case of if you’re funny, all bets are off.

Eleno and Corolla were asked about a comedy renaissance. Corola said, we’re there, Leno said, A young comic said to me and Seinfeld, you guys are lucky you started when comedy was easy. It wasn’t easy. It’s always been exactly the same. Here’s how old I am.

You remember cabaret cards, Corola says, No, Leno says, in New York that’s how they got Lenny Bruce. You had a license to perform in New York City. If you’re on stage and you say the F word or something, a cop can come up and tear up your license, and boom, you don’t work. When the Warren Cord came out in sixty eight or sixty nine, boy Jay is old, all that went out the windows. Suddenly, pornography was legal, comedy was interpretive, but all that was against the law.

If you said obscenity, a cop would put the cuffs on you and take you to jail. And people think, oh, it’s so terrible now, it was way worse back then. The thing is now is actually better for comics because music is expensive to do. You have teams to load in, load out, put up a stage, set up the sound system. A comedian.

You just show up, Corolla said, every time I play a theater and see the posters like Santana was here eight years ago in the percussion section is fourteen dudes, and you look at it and you go, well, I just sold out a show and they sold out a show. How is this working here? The thing that’s funny, though, is that the theater wants to know if you want to come by that afternoon for a mic check, like you’re in Santana new topic, Leno said. People say to me, oh, I bet you wish you were doing the Tonight Show when Trump was president. No, I don’t, because when you really don’t like a guy, it’s worse.

I had a fondness for Bush. He then pantomimed set up for a joke. I don’t think President Bush quite understands and people would giggle him laugh. But if I really hate it him, I mean, you see how polarizing it gets. Now.

I sort of blamed Trump for all that because at the Tonight Show we used to make fun of both sides, and people couldn’t really figure out your politics, so you got the whole audience. Now you either get the Trump people like Gutfeld, or you get the anti Trump people like Kimmel, which to me, I’ll take everybody’s money, thank you. I play both crowds. Brandy Denise is one of vultures and comedians you should and will know, Vulture asked at Brandy Denise, how you’ve ended up becoming a comedian, Brandy said, gering up, I discovered some of Adam Sandler’s old comedy songs, Randy said, I never knew I was listening to a form of comedy, but I love them. Yeah.

Right, she’s saying it right there. She was listening to it and not realizing it was comedy because they’re terrible. I remember after that, I kept a notebook where I began to write my own comedy parodies. I think it was then when I first began my journey with enjoying being funny. Whose career would you like to follow?

Want of psychs. She’s had her own TV shows, she’s hosted, she pushed us out banging specials. And Adam Sandler he does what he wants. He’s transitioned from comedy to drama effortlessly and works with his friends. That’s the goal with my people.

Johnny Mac does like dramatic actor Adam Sandler. I’ve said that before. He’s not funny at all, but he’s a decent traumatic actor and he should just give up comedy and just do dramatic movies. In my opinion, biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since being a comedian, being broke is easy, but making a nice six figures for the first time after being broke for so long as a learning curve. I learned how to spend money quickly, but after that I realized investing in saving are just as important and you start making money.

Some years are better than others, but as long as you learn to budget early, you should be good. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice. Best, you’re already fun. Make sure your spirit is right and you know yourself, and stay grounded. Worst.

A lame ass stool banging comic in Atlanta told me not to move to LA because it wasn’t ready. Well, i’d say his name, but you’ve never heard of him. Like I said, can’t rock this boat, baby, I do what I want. It’s tattooed on the back of my neck, and I mean that in the most disrespectful way possible. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Jim Brewer, Gary Delaney, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dave Chappelle, Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, John Goodman, Jim Carrey, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Fallon Candy Cane Brownie calorie controversy at Crumble Cookie
• NFL Christmas Day games on Netflix with Bert Kreischer and Nate Bargatze
• Jim Brewer interview discussing SNL guest experiences and Half Baked chemistry with Dave Chappelle
• Taylor Swift Rock and Roll Hall of Fame eligibility in 2031
• Gary Delaney’s most stolen joke about Christmas tree setup
• Brennan Lee Mulligan profiled in Vulture’s comedians to know list

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media, Merry Christmas and Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News over the holidays. Have you gone to Crumble the Cookie Place? Found out one of my students actually works on the one right by my home, So that’s awkward in there. When I go and order a Jimmy Fallon Brownie and she’s gonna be like, really, dude, I mean she works, She’ll be like, oh no, that’s a good choice, sir. What’s the problem with Jimmy Fallon Brownie?

It’s got twelve hundred calories. It is a holiday peppermint brownie called the Limited Edition Candy Cane Brownie, a chocolate treat smothered in peppermint buttercream and topped with candy cane bits. Foodies have said it is Crumble Cookie’s highest calorie item, yet, according to the nutritional information, each serving is only one hundred and eighty calories. As if you’re not gonna eat the whole brownie, the Crumbled people are trying to pretend that brownie has six servings per brownie. Come on, dude, no, it has one and it’s twelve hundred calories.

Jimmy Fallon’s clared it was the best brownie he’s ever had. Some TikTokers are not convinced the dessert is worth the inches on your waistline. One content creator said, tell me who in their right mind, and especially an American, is going to be eating this in six settings. That’s not realistic at all. Another content creator said, nobody needs that many calories.

No wonder the US has such a high obesity rate. Let’s break down the nutritional information. Okay, the brownie contains one hundred and twenty one grams of sugar and one hundred grams of added sugar. That’s two hundred and two percent of the average daily intake. There are also forty grams of saturated fat, which coincidentally, and I’m wondering if this is actually a coincidence or like there’s some reason they did this.

That’s also two hundred and two percent of the daily recommended intake. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that sugar should be less than ten percent of daily calories consumed in a two thousand calorie diet. That equates to approximately twelve tea spoons of added sugar, depending on your nutritional needs. The CDC says this adults should consume anywhere from sixteen hundred to three thousand calories total per day. The Jimmy Fallon Krumble brownie, therefore, could be almost all of someone’s daily caloric intake.

Professor Darwin Dettweiler from Northeastern University told The Daily Mail. Without clear labeling, consumers may underestimate the caloric and nutritional content, which is particularly concerning with oversized portions like those Crumble offers. If these cookies were firearms, they would be illegal. Are you gonna watch football today? I’m Netflix knows what they’re doing.

Christmas is totally just going to turn into day. We watch football. Now. When you have young kids, or our young kid, Christmas morning is amazing. You go play with your stuff.

But once the kids are grown up, we kind of sit around the tree for ten minutes and then everybody scatters. So, yeah, football on Christmas Day makes sense to me. You go Netflix? Oh, I’m just not. Bert Kraser will join at Netflix as a tailgate correspondent today and my comedian of the Year, the slightly starting to be overexposed Nate Berghetzie is going to be a special guest your lineup today.

One o’clock Chiefs, Steelers four point thirty Ravens Texans Beyonce scheduled to be the halftime performer. Al dot Com caught up with Jim Brewer. I don’t have my Jim brew impression. I’ve been losing my brew impression. Part of it is you’ve heard me talk on and off about how I’ve had this fuzz in my voice.

Now to do Jim, I need to get down a little more raspy. I always reset my half assed Gim Brewer impression, and back in the day when I worked with him, I did it pretty well, especially capturing the way he spoke in his rhythm. I used to write copy for Jim because I worked with him all the time and I have a good year for that sort of thing. But I remember the first time I met Jim. We were sitting at a high tabletop at Sirius and this is what he said and how I always reset it.

He was telling Hi about the show and he goes, it’s me my friend Pete Pete being Pete Corioley and I tell right, so you have to get down a little bit in a little gravelly. But I haven’t been able to do it because I’ve been having the voice issues. And part of the reason I’m having the voice issues is because a lot of pretaping for a holiday week. So instead of doing like one podcast to day, there are bed days, I’ve been doing four because I not only host this, I also host five good News stories. So I’ve been blowing out my voice.

Ail dot Com Asper who he enjoyed working with on SNL, and he said, Tom Hanks was the first star that came on for us. He was a megastar at the time, Like, oh my god, how did we get Tom Hanks? And I just couldn’t believe how engaging it was. That really blew my mind. It’s really funny because Alec Baldwin, as much as he drives me crazy with the things he says, he was probably one of the most engaging, very funny.

He was incredible. John Goodman, Jim Carrey, he just came in and everything he did he at home run. Then they asked him about working with Dave Chappelle on the film A Half Baked Jim said, we had a chemistry before that movie started. We were already in the comedy club scene. We had the same manager hung out a lot in the comedy scene.

We both were kind of hot names coming up, and so we already had a major history before or Half Baked. We were going to do a TV show together, so the chemistry was easy to do. And I knew that doing that movie that you’re never gonna be on a set like this again where everyone gets along and everyone’s helping each other out. That just doesn’t exist. Uh oh, Jim, better be careful here.

They asked him. Taylor Swift will be eligible for a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in twenty thirty one. There’s a solid chance she gets in before Iron Maiden. Jim laughed and said, I don’t pay attention to who’s in the Hall of Fame. Hall of fames are meant for the people that actually make the real money out of the whole situation.

What a Jim Brewer answered, Jim always finds the conspiracy and everything, But yeah, he’s probably right. Hall of fames are for the people that actually make the real money out of the whole situation. So at the end of the day, it’s just like the government. Before government, we knew who the doctor was, we knew who the wise people were, we knew who the helpers were. We need to vote on it.

You’re always gonna know where maiden stands in history. All right? I got my half assed jim back there a little bit. A comedian Gary Delaney tells the lad Bible one of his favorite jokes is his most stolen joke by a mile. He says he originally performed the joke in two thousand and four, and the joke has shown up on countless t shirts and the pages of joke books.

Delaney said, I get stolen from a lot. I’ve seen comics do sets made above one hundred percent of my jokes. Nothing you do about it, but it’s annoying. All right, what is the joke? I went to buy a Christmas tree.

The guy said, are you gotta put it up yourself? And I said no, I was thinking about the living room. All right. Vultures did their list of the comedians you should know and will know. One of those comedians Brennan Lee mulligan.

Worst show was at a bar in Williamsburg where the audience’s chairs were physically removed mid show to make room for a bridal party that crashed the bar because they’d been kicked out of their own wedding venue. Bride’smaid wandered on stage and we called the set shortly thereafter. Biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since becoming a comedian, Probably the biggest one was needing emergency dental surgery for my number eight incisor one of the two most visible teeth right in front of your mouth, and only being able to afford it by flying to Costa Rica. Yikes. I highly recommend dental tourism to anyone who’s worried about affording both rent and their teeth.

The dental clinic I went to did great work and offered a discount on a nearby rainforest zip line excursion. Comedy opinions. The customer is always right. If the audience isn’t laughing at you, it’s because you’re not being funny enough to get a laugh. Bombing on stage and then blaming the audience after the factor.

Being too sensitive is for chumps and losers. Another one of the comedians is Malik Ela sal whose career would he like to follow? He says, any comedian who’s married. A comedian being married with kids is more impressive to me than if they sold out Madison Square Garden Comedy opinion I don’t like the idea that comedy is unimportant. I think comedy’s perfect and comedians are flawed.

I feel the same way about religion and religious people. I don’t think we should be the go to for answers on the big issues. But I still believe comedy is a meaningful art form. A comedian friend of mine, Charlie de Mahers, once told me comedy is a brick you throw through a window that turns into stained glass. That being said, there are a lot of shows where you feel like you’re the equivalent of bowling.

No shade to the bowling community. Worst advice he ever gotten was from his dad, who told him to steal Kevin hartch jokes little short today. But that’s your comedy news on a Christmas. If you’re listening on Christmas, thank you for listening on Christmas. And if you’re playing catch up after Christmas, thank you.

Thank for playing catch up after Christmas. I will continue to have daily episodes for you here see tomorrow.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Dane Cook, Leanne Morgan, Caleb Herod

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze Netflix Special ‘Your Friend, Nate Bargatze’ Release
• Nate Bargatze Wall Street Journal Essay on Comedy Origins
• Dane Cook Interview on Return to Film Acting
• Dane Cook Voiceover Work for Planes Movie
• Dane Cook Sneaker Collection and Podcast Culture
• Leanne Morgan on Touring Challenges and Mental Health
• Caleb Herod Holiday Movie and Celebrity Uber Preferences

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. A quick reminder of this program takes no days off. I will have an episode for you tomorrow and every day seventies a week. Daily Comedy News. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with the aforementioned daily Come News.

Nate Burgetzi has his new special at on Netflix Today. Nate discusses wanting a second dog, how much pizza to order for Guys Night, and how his wife is the responsible one. There is a trailer, let’s listen. My wife, she runs everything, but I do do my own laundry. One day, I was like driving home and it popped in my head and I was like, all right, I’m bringing that up.

Can I bring it up? That day? I was like, I’m sure there will be a time where we’re be in some fight. I’ll be losing this fight, and then I may not just come. I’m like, I do my own laundry.

I went to career day for my daughter’s school, so I was hoping to sit at a table alone. They put me at a table with a surgeon, which I think they did it on purpose, almost to show the kids here’s the difference between reading. They asked him, how long did you go to school to be a surgeon. You know, he’s like fifty four years or whatever. It’s like them, and they asked me, They’re like, how long to be a comedian.

I was like, you’re good now, so look finish elementary school and make their parents happy. But then I’d get out and get after it. Nate recently wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal wrote it himself under the title Nate Forgets He isn’t here to hurt your feelings. Nate writes, in class I was funny, but I wasn’t loud of crazy. My side comments were always hushed so teachers wouldn’t hear them.

I didn’t want to be disruptive or hurt their feelings. All of this was my way of fitting in and standing out. By my senior year, I managed to win the award for her most school Spirit. I didn’t win class clown. I came in second.

I wonder who won. Growing up, I watched my dad do his magic tricks. He practiced them on me, so I knew how they were done. I thought he was cool. My father was sensitive, like Robin Williams in Patch Adams.

My mom is very funny, more like me in terms of setting up jokes. Dad is more slapstick in his delivery. But what I always admired is how we made fun of himself. He taught there’s nothing funnier than making yourself part of the punchline. I started performing when I was around eleven, and skits that my dad and his friend wrote at church.

They created these simple rural characters, Ned and Jed I joined, dressed nerdy with suspenders and say something dumb. What I love most was the audience’s laughter. In high school, I didn’t do well, but I love being there. I was homecoming king for a year book. We listened to where we thought me ten years and I joked playing in the NBA, But that actually happened.

I played for my church in the Nashville Baptist Association, so technically it was the NBA. He then writes about his career. I’ll skip to the comedy part. One day I told a guy at work, another guy we worked with, want to do some ipprofits someplace called Second City in Chicago, and talk to the other guy and we went ipent eight weeks there, and I learned that improv wasn’t a good fit. Instead, I took a stand up class at Jim Rouse’s Comedy College in Chicago for graduation in two thousand and three.

The teacher took us to a bar where we all had our first stand up experience. We did well since the audience knew we were just starting out. My turning point was two thousand and eight when I was booked on Comedy Central Live at Gotham on Conan, and at the Montreal Comedy Festival. My first Netflix special was in twenty seventeen. Today I lived with my wife Laura and our daughter Harper and Nashville.

We moved into our home in twenty fifteen. I loved that it was in a cul de sac with no through traffic. We have a big backyard and lost of space. Inside. We have an open living room, dining areaan kitchen where we all hang out.

You could see everyone at once, so you don’t have to go searching for any family members. Boston Magazine spoke to Dane Cook and asked Dane hay he missed doing film. It’s been a while since you were in a movie. Dane said, I’m gearing up to do one now. It’s first movie I’ve done in probably ten twelve years.

I love comedy. I’m always going to do that, but I love the collaborative process of film. But for the most part, the stuff I was being sent was either really derivative of what I’d already done or just really watered down. I was like, Okay, I could make a million bucks and do the movie, but then my fan’s gonna be like, dude, what the F is this? Dane was asked if voiceover work is the easiest pay day ever.

Dane said, it’s the most convenient payday. I wouldn’t say it’s easy. I was working on planes, and it was especially tricky because I was replacing an actor who had been fired. John Lassiter thought my voice had the boyish whimsy he wanted. The amount of work that went into doing and right and giving those animators what they needed was a lot more work than I thought.

So, yeah, you’re rolling into your pajamas and there’s no hair and makeup. But after that first take, you very quickly start to realize this isn’t just about putting on a cute voice. You gotta land it, and it’s a really really intricate work. Dane Cook, what’s your biggest personal extravagance. Dane said, I turned into a bit of a sneaker head.

Over the past couple of years, podcasting became so in vogue that I realized you can’t go on a podcast with the same sneakers every time. So I started buying a new pair every time, and I think I probably have about two hundred pairs now in my closet. Leanne Morgan told Movie Guide what it’s like to tour with her. She said, I’m always dragging a big suitcase they’re an airport, and then getting in a rental car and going to a theater, going a hotel, putting on a girdle, go to a theater. Do all that just hard on your body and hard on your mind.

Then you got to get there and you want it to be the best for your audience, you know. Then you got to get up so you can be the best and give it everything you got.

And then you try to go to bed and sitting in a hotel room staring at a space.

I don’t want to sound like I’m not grateful, because I’m so grateful, but I think two things can be true at the same time time out. I’ve been using that phrase a lot this past year. Many things can be true at once. People just too often discuss things in absolutes. Yes, Leanne says, you can have this wonderful thing happen, which is everything I’ve ever dreamed of and bigger than I ever dreamed of to be, but it’s so hard.

A partner in Turla sounds like me. When she travels, she says she’s really sensitive to noise, and sometimes at airports and airplanes there’s so much unpredictable noise that sometimes she won’t to have anything playing in her noise canceling headphones. I’ll just put them on to create another layer between me and the world. I do that all the time, she says. I used to have a pair of Bow’s headphones, and those were on their last legs.

I got a new brand going down one of those internet wormholes where it’s just looking for some more eco friendly headphones, and I ended up on some back alley website. The ones I have now don’t even have a logo on them. The Cut asked Caleb Hero, Hey, what’s your favorite holiday movie? Caleb said, a Christmas movie that a lot of people don’t think as of being a Christmas movie. He said, step Mom, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarana and you know it, You’ll sob for three days straight.

It’s one of the saddest movies ever made. It’s so effed up. Julia is Pete nineties Julia. She’s wearing leather jackets like it’s her job, and in many ways it is. She’s wearing a little beret sunglasses, She’s looking Sheikh as hell, and she’s the step mom and Susan Saranda is the real mom.

There’s a Christmas element to it. It makes me sob. It’s one of my mom’s favorite movies. The cut asked him, all right, you’re hopping in an uber. You can bring five celebrities dead or alive.

Who’s coming. That’s a fascinating question. I might have to ponder that question myself, but not right now. He says, I’m gonna go with Natalie Mains, the lead singer of the Chicks. That’s my girl.

I love that band. John Goodman, I love him and everything. And he went to my college, Missouri State shout out go Beers. Back in the day on Roseanne o g fat. John Goodman was so hot and so funny.

Whatsn’t I’m gonna put in there? Frank Ocean, I need to understand what’s going on with him. I love his music. He’s sort of in a where he’s refusing to put any out. I want to be his friend or more if he’s open to it.

Frank, hit me up. All right, I’ve kind of as I was reading that, thought about my list. I should go with the guys from the Macpack. Now, if you’re a new listener, what’s the Macpack? These are my celebrity friends.

When I become a big time celebrity, this is who I’m gonna roll with. It’s a bunch of people. So the original macpacker is Michael Chicklist. John, do you have a man crush on Michael Chicklist? I might, It’s okay.

I met him a couple times in real life. He’s cool. I like the guy. He’s in the Macpack, so he’s in my uber. I think Andy Samberg also in the Macpack, seems like a good time, so we’ll bring him.

That’s two. Now it’s dead or alive? Do I invite like Jim Morrison just to make the trip interesting Carlin, so we can talk comedy and I can be like, hey, George, what do you think of YouTubers? And that’s four? Can I time travel.

Can I bring Peak and White PD Blue? Kim Delaney just, you know, so we could talk about the show. Maybe she’s wearing a turtleneck. I don’t know how this works. It’s Christmas Eve.

Why don’t you shut up? Okay, all right, very Christmas. I’ll be back in the morning on tape. Well, you’re always on tape on it’s a podcast, yes, but definitely on tape tomorrow. See then,

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Featured: Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, Adam Sandler, Xavier Luggage, Patrick Quinn, Shashua Jackson, Tom Papa, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno and Adam Carolla on comedy relationships and fantasy camp
• Adam Sandler’s pickup basketball skills at LA recreation centers
• Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast with celebrity guests

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Sit there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I imagine this week and next will be very slow for comedy news here, but I will have a normal schedule to have episodes for you each day. I’ll mix in some of my end of the year countdown specials.

I can pre tape a little bit here and give myself a couple of days off. But if you’re looking for an episode on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, ne Year’s Day, You’ve got an episode for you every day. Thank you for listening. I really enjoyed Jay Leno and Adam Carolla speaking to the Rap. The Rap asks a good question.

Is there a common thread that you guys started off with that would still translate to today? Leno said, yeah. The most common is a girlfriend or boyfriend going why do you have to work every night? If you’re the spouse of a comic, I’m sorry, you might be close to equal or second in importance, but you’re not first, especially if you’re starting out in that relationship. No comic, male or female, is going to be happy in a relationship unless they’re happy with their act.

Unless you’re happy with what you’re doing on stage, then I am worth to give my love to this person. But if you’re dating one of these people, they have to do it every night because it’s the repetition. It’s the only way they sit around that other twenty three and a half hours waiting for their little set to come out. And there’s nothing better than killing an audience. There really Isn’t People say sex is great?

Oh yeah so, and not really as good as a good comedy set. You know this joke? Right? A comic’s in Vegas the first time. He’s all excited.

It’s like one o’clock in the morning, goes back to his room after playing a set. The phone rings, Hi. My name is Felicity. I’m the leader nancer across the street, and I saw the show tonight and I thought you were really funny and sexy, and I thought maybe I could come over and we could fool around. I mean, i’d leave before morning.

I’d just like to spend some time with you. The comic goes, did you see the first show or the second show? Corolla laughs at that and says that is such a universal comedian thought, because you do two shows and there’s always one you like more.

And then at some point you run into someone they go, I see you back at the wh…

When they say the bad show, which isn’t even bad, it’s not as good as the good show, there’s a God Hates Me kind of moment. Corolla and Leno were doing that fantasy camp coming up in January. The rap is curious, can you take anyone and give them some beating spark? Carol says, I, I don’t think you can make a non comedian into a comedian. I think you take somebody who’s got a little acorn of comedy and maybe turned it into a mighty oak tree.

But I need some acorn in there. But being good on your feet and being relaxed and being sort of conversational in front of people as a universal application, if you’re an attorney certainly or socially, whatever it is, maybe you’re not gonna end up being on the marquee playing the theaters that these guys play. It’s still like I would always tell people, take a groundlings class, take an improv class. Why because you’re gonna join the cast of SNL NO, so you can be funny at a party, give and take and have good conversations. It could pay off on a first date.

Leno says, I always find people’s comedic ability is inversely proportional to their intelligence. You want to try and take as much from your life as you can. If you’re like adult person, a dullart, if you come across a sort of boring, then be really boring on stage. That’s where your humor is. Corolla with his zing, that’s what Jay does.

He draws them decisive life show a fans. How many people have had their Dusenberg breakdown on the four h five, Leno says, See be a comic. Have you ever seen a group of animals and one of the animals is injured and all the other animals try to come and eat it. That’s kind of like being a comic. That’s what happens.

Just now. ESPN wrote about Adam Sandler’s basketball capabilities. ESPN rights. It’s March twenty twenty three and an LA based photographer who goes by the moniker Xavier Luggage, is in the middle of his first pick up basketball game at the Point Set, a recreation center. The park typically fills around six pm with people arriving to get their games in, but it’s an hour so earlier.

When the intention of the player snaps towards the side of the court, they all see him warming up seemingly out of nowhere. Luggage told ESPN, it was like, damn, that looks like Adam Sandler. Sandler shows up without an durage, donning his signature brightly colored, oversized polos and baggy shorts. He looks to make the extra pass. He dishes out as many compliments as assists, regardless of whether he’s on your team, and competition reigns supreme.

Luggage said, he’s like the random older dude that pulls up to the court and you’re kind of like, all right, whatever, and then you pick them up and he’s making the craziest passes, not moving too much, not doing the most, but he’s just got the og game like he’s been playing forever. He came up to me and was like, oh, man, I hope you’re not fast. And I looked at him and I’m like, oh, you’re fed up. He was meaning to play, not just to mess around, you know, like you wanted to win for sure. It was honestly pretty magical.

Bro Patrick Quinn is a comedian who played Sandler in twenty nineteen, they were in a park in La Sandlor comes by, he goes, you, guys, mind if I play with you. Quinn played against Sandler in one game, then they teamed up for the next. Quinn said, he’s essentially an influential person in other aspects that you’re like. I wouldn’t expect him to be doing these plays. It seemed like he had to be playing a lot to do something like that, and he was nailing them.

Sandler once again was wearing bright colors and a large T shirt. Quinn said, Sandler’s outfit is disarming. His theory is Sandler does it on purpose, so you don’t think he’s going to absolutely dominate on the court. He was playing point, calling out the plays. He was calling shots out, he was doing no look passes, he was creating shots, and he was going up and down the court.

He was back and forth, sweating, putting in some work. I was very impressed. Shashua Jackson said Sandler had to be wearing something from a decade ago, like three XL pants, wrinkled big and tall shirt. He definitely had clothes on that could fit a six foot eight linebacker. He executed a simple, beckcut and squared his body with the rim.

Jackson turned around and said it was a perfect pocket pass. I had to go with it. He doesn’t wow. Sandler executed the past but described it as super quick and soft. He says it’s still the best past that I’ve ever received in my life.

And I’m not saying that because it’s Adam Sandler. Luggage said, to be honest, I don’t even remember him really leaving. I just remember that he just wasn’t there. The only time spoke to Tom Popa about his podcast, Breaking Bread. They were curious, are there any similarities or parallels between the world of comedy and food.

Papa said, yes, there are. I name my podcast Breaking Bread because I’m huge into baking bread and I love to host dinners and get together as I’ve always enjoyed it, I thought it’d be perfect to talk about the food we all love. We all have drinks before enjoying a meal and a baked bread. For every guest to open up the conversation and literally break bread over conversations is one of the things that I live for. It’s passion, mind you all the time.

The podcast is growing. We just said Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman and more. Jerry people are realizing this is a safe, comforting place to talk and enjoy bread, food, drinks, and conversations. As for food and comedy, the end result is both similar and that you’re hosting people you’re entertaining with, either with your food or your jokes, and you just want them to escape their lives and smile and enjoy themselves.

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Also, the process of cooking and baking is just as humbling as comedy.

I’ve been doing both for a long time, and it’s always a new experience. Anything can happen at a show, we’re breaking bread at home. Really, Tom, you always have to be humble about your craft. It’s not just a thing you can pin down. You get better at it, but it’ll never be one hundred percent perfect.

No one ever nails one hundred percent of every joke on their act all the time. Baking and cooking is very similar in this regard. Leanne Morgan wrote in her book that she felt unseen in the comedy industry for decades and had some advice. Leanne said, I was coming up in comedy clubs when Comedy Central was big, and back then they didn’t want to see a mama talking about three little children and how she couldn’t fit in her pants. I didn’t fit the bill.

Nobody cared, but anyone in my heart there were women out there who’d relate to me. I didn’t go and live in New York or LA because my husband had a good job and we needed health insurance. But that ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me. It was one of those silver linings and blessings because I was able to have a real life with my family, and my real life led to this wonderful material. I could mind that people could relate to what I had to do.

I would tell others to do is just keep believing in yourself. I just kept going. I’d pray about it, and God never shut the door. When I would get discouraged, I’d get some kind of sign to keep me going. Now, at fifty nine, I feel like I’ve really become my authentic self.

I was recently asked to speak at my alma mater, the University of Tennessee, and I tell those kids, don’t change who you are. Don’t be ashamed of where you’re from. That’s what made you who you are. Be authentic. That’s what people are attracted to.

That is great advice. Roz Hernandez is one of Vulture’s comedians You should and will know. Roz says, sometimes when my family would eat spaghetti, I would secretly take one of the noodles out and slurp off all the sauce like a plain noodle. And a time one end in a nod he stood with me. When no one was looking, I’d put the noodle in one of my nostrils and then fake snees really dramatically.

When I’d remove my hands from my nose. My family would see a long noodle dangling from my nose, and then I would gaslight them and be like, what is something on my face? She says, I’m gonna dust that one off next time I go on an Olive Garden date wors show. Ever, I used to present as a drag queen with a big wig and the whole shebang. I hosted a month show in the smaller room of a venue with two stages.

I couldn’t even sell those tickets. For for a while, Joe Rogan would sell out the big room or the people who couldn’t get tickets to see Rogan would come to my show instead. I learned that the people who want to see Joe Rogan but didn’t get their tickets in time or not mine’s demographic. All right, what’s your writing process? You have to sit down at a computer and write crappy jokes every day.

I feel like I heard older comedians say do that, and I’d get frustrated because my mind doesn’t work like that. Now. I just try to live life and take notes of funny things and experiences, and then I usually think about how to make them funnier as I drive around town. Biggest financial hurdle as a comedian not having rich parents. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice.

Best get good in a smaller market before moving to a big city. I ignored this when I started in LA and I’ve regretted it because it’s really hard to undo first impressions. Worst try to appeal to everyone. Cracked writes that Jerry the character on Seinfeld. The character Jerry Seinfeld is far from a need freak according to actual need Freaks.

Someone in the subreddit wrote, how come Jerry’s supposed to be a need freak, yet him and his friends rarely put shoes on the couch. Along with that was a screenshot of Jerry enjoying a diet coke with a sneaker firmly planted on the cushion of his teal couch. Gabriel Phileppe works for the Environmental Resilience Institute and said, we can track in all sorts of bacteria, but certainly some of the ones we’re most concerned about are e coli because that causes severe dominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting. There’s been studies that swab the bottom of shoes and something like ninety nine percent of the shoes test positive for fecal material. TV watchers point out Jerry gets rid of a shoelace for touching the men’s room floor, but steps on the coffee table with that same shoe when user said, he’s quite insane, a little confused.

I guess that’s your comedy news for today. Christmas is coming. I will have normal episodes all through I don’t take a day off. Sometimes I pre tape. If you listen on December twenty sixth, then you’re like wow.

John spent his Christmas recording to the December twenty sixth podcast. No, that was a pre tape, but I’m around, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Mike Birbiglia, Seth Meyers, Jim Jefferies, Anthony Jeselnik, Preacher Lawson, Sarah Silverman, Gianmarco Soresi

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s transformation from college improv to dedicated stand-up comedian
• Jim Jefferies on breaking America as an overseas comedian and the impact of TikTok on comedy
• Anthony Jeselnik discusses acting opportunities and how his appearance affects his on-stage character
• Preacher Lawson’s advice for comedians and navigating fame while maintaining privacy
• Comedy and controversial topics: when apologies are appropriate
• Sarah Silverman on growth, apologies, and not performing from a place of fear
• Gianmarco Soresi featured on Vulture’s list of comedians to know

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hello Jenny Mack On Your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney told GQ, I can really be setting my ways in some ways, but I’m very good at major transformations. At Georgetown, he joined an improv group with Nick Kroll and Mike Probiglia, but said I had erratic work habits. I was very disorganized in a sense. I was always ambitious, but I wasn’t like I’m going to direct every play in high school.

I wasn’t all over it in any way. He got to New York at age twenty three and said I hit the ground running. It was all of a sudden, this total focus and drive to do as much stand up as possible. I didn’t drink alcohol anymore. I didn’t take any drugs.

I was just totally dedicated to one thing, kind of monastically, and it was awesome. GQ analyzed his style and they nailed it here. They wrote, He’s expert at landing an audience deep into the thicket of a joke set up and then pausing just long enough to allow them to arrive at the punchline right before he does. When it works best, a single word detonates like a bomb. Seth Meyer says sense to the audience, I’m in control.

I’m not particularly interested in which of these jokes you like and which you don’t. No matter what happens, I’m going to be having a very good time. Jim Jefferies told review dot Com. When I moved over to America, there was this sort of myth that I was only funny because I said the C word and because of my accent. But I sold more tickets in Australia where they weren’t fascinated by my accent and the slightest.

So it’s just good to see you can entertain people all over the world. It used to be to go to a country several times to try and break a country. When I came to America, arguably they’d only been a handful of comedians from overseas that ever broke America before that. Now you know about a whole heap of different comics from all over the world because you’ve seen their specials. I’m not on TikTok, so I’m a bit of dinosaur in that regard.

I don’t think my comedy plays out well on TikTok. I think part of the problem with TikTok is that we’re seeing comedy in short form. Amen, So the long winded stories are the things that loop around in the callbacks and the shows being a show, we’re sort of losing that nuance yep. In the same way that people don’t listen to albums anymore, they’re just listening to individual songs. They don’t listen to albums as they’re meant to be played out as the artists set it up to be heard.

And I think that sort of happened to comedy as well. Yep. High five standing oh for me On that comment, crack dot Com asked Anthony Jelsink about being an actor. He said, I would enjoy it because I enjoy the camaraderie. Stand up’s all on your own.

With acting, you’re working with people. I like that. I’m just not asked to do it very often, and frankly, I’m surprised I’m not asked. I’m a good looking guy. I have a very distinctive voice that I think they would use me in voice stuff.

But I think at some point people will start asking me. But I’m spoiler. As a comic, I see comics who are making huge movies and I talked to them afterwards, and they’re like, I lost money. If I just toured the whole time I was doing this movie, I would have done much better. It’s not something I feel like I’m missing out on and I’m not that good.

The interesting character is I wouldn’t be able to play. I’d be thinking, Oh, someone else should be doing this, and that’s a bad thing for an actor to be thinking. Cracked asked about Anthony’s current hair style, Cracks observation, the older spike eer haircut seemed more in keeping with a villain. Now your hair is a little softer, not as threatening. I assume you think about how the character looks on stage.

What prompted the change? Je Nic said, It’s something I don’t think about on stage, but it was something that I became very aware of after the last special when there was this huge debate about beard versus non beard and which is better for the character. The character seems more like a psychopath clean shaven, but I’m like, no, I like the beard. I decided to grow my hair a little bit longer on tour. I just thought, what would this do?

Does this make me more of an a hole or less of an a hole? And let’s be honest, I think having more of a styled haircut seems a little bit scarier. This is fascinating. It’s more like we’re putting on a show. Whereas the spiky haircut was easy to do.

Anyone could do that. It just seemed like I’m walking out here doing this. I feel like I’ve gotten more famous in the past couple of years because of clips, and the clips are short. Here with longer hair, he feels it can be a little more anonymous in public. Preacher loss and has been out on the road doing the Funny as Bleep tour.

And that’s not me bleeping it, that’s the name of the tour. Preacher said, I was very quiet, unless everybody in the class was quiet. Then I was like, all right, some people just really want attention. First off, everyone does. Let’s just put that out there.

No one wants to be ignored, but some people just wanted a little more. His tips for comedians get on stage immediately and just do comedy a lot. I think humor is like athleticism. Some people are born a little more than other people. Then there’s some people that are just born a little funnier.

But I don’t care how athletic you are, you still have to learn how to shoot a basketball or dribble. You need to learn technique for comedy right every day, like it’s your morning coffee. You should do it anyway for your mental health. It’s not supposed to be fun. It’s a job.

You’re not supposed to like jobs because they’re working, and that’s the trade off. Lawson says, I think I have the perfect amount of fame where if I go outside, there’s people that recognize me. But it’s not like I just want to eat with my family. I don’t like when people take pictures or videos of me without my permission. I think that feels uncomfortable.

It’s like I never said I wanted to be recorded. As for controversial topics, Lawson says, anyone’s going to get upset, but if it’s a large group of people that are upset, I think it’s usually because the comedian did a bad job of conveying the joke. Comedians, we’re just storytellers. We’re the same as you. When you go to the movies, you lose yourself for an hour and thirty minutes.

You know you’d leave the theater feeling refreshed, like that was a good time. If you go to the movie theater you don’t like the movie, you probably should have looked up the director. There’s this narrative that you shouldn’t apologize, which I think is stupid. I think there are times when the comedians should apologize and then they don’t do it because they’re like, no, I’m a comedi and it’s like, no, actually you should apologize. But he adds, I really believe anyone could talk about anything, but sometimes you say dumb things like my bad, that was dumb.

Sarah Silverman says, I don’t really come from a place of fear that I’m gonna get canceled. I talk about stuff that I think is important or funny. I’m never looking upset people are offend people. Comedy is not ever green. If you’re a comedian, you look at things you did ten years ago and don’t cringe.

You’re not growing ideally, you’re growing and changing and can’t relate to the person you were. People get mad at me because I’ve apologized for things in the past. I think it’s important to apologize when you’re sorry and not apologize when you’re not sorry. Everybody wins. Friend of the Show Gianmarco Soresi is on Vulture’s list of the comedians you should know and Will Know.

They asked him, if you were immortalized as a cartoon character, what would your outfit be A very Gianmarco Soresi answer. Five inch shorts, a T shirt I got on Etsy for a high school musical production that I wasn’t in that’s also a little too short, a jean jacket that doesn’t really make sense given the shorts, and high top nikes where one of the colors matches the color of the shirts text. Let’s also throw in a thin gold Forever bracelet with a tea chirm that I got my girlfriend at a casino’s tattoo convention, some Warpbey Parker glasses, and a brown leather watch, the two hands of which read Memento and Maury. Which musical nobody asked? Ideally it would be Falsetto’s Company or Wild Party, just to be pretentious.

Also, if I’m thinking about this as a cartoon for a wide audience, I’d probably go with fan of the Opera, even though I’ve never been much of an Andrew Lloyd Weberstan proudest achievement of your career so far? My jfl New Faces set is probably the only important set I’ve ever done that I wouldn’t do over. I was at that show, he crushed. He was the best of the night. I wrote that down.

I told you about it on the podcast the next day. I’ve told that to his face. That was a great set, he said. Generally, I found all these career milestones are fraught and stressful and imperfect. So in terms of feeling proud a panel in comparison to a new joke working, or even better, an old joke finally working.

I did a pilot last year for a roast based panel show hosted by Anthony Jesselnik Interesting, and he anonymously mentioned me on his podcast the next week. I know this because I’ve been listening to that podcast to fall asleep to for years. I was already asleep, but my girlfriend heard it, shook me awake and was like, go back, go back now, it’s pretty cool. I’ve been procrastlading filming an hour. Which comedian’s career would you like to follow?

John Mulaney, But just in terms of his personal life, his favorite worst show was getting hired to feature in a corporate gig in Santa Barbara. I think I was getting paid forty five hundred dollars to do twenty five minutes, which was hands down the most I’d ever made off a night of comedy. My mom drove me to the casino from LA and on the drive I looked at what company I was performing for. What I learned was it was less of a company and more of a union of sorts for West Coast electrical companies with a very intense ideological bent. Their newsletter had articles like has woke this Roob?

And travel and COVID climate change and other lines Democrats want you to believe. I wish I could tell you I thought about not going through with the gig, but it would be a lie forty five hundred dollars. When I got there, my mom and I found ourselves surrounded by mostly men in their sixties thousands, all wearing full cowboy garb without looking like that ever been on a horse. So I met the other comedian, a kind and talented comic who nevertheless sold merch shirts that said who done farted? Hmm, I wonder who that was?

Marco said. The comedy show started as all comedy shows should, with the singing of the national anthem. Then the auction, of course, which consisted of small guns, guns that were intended for warfare training packages, and you know, five friends to learn how to use those guns before or hopefully not after a wine tasting. Right as they were wrapping up the auction with the AK forty seven’s, I looked through the playbill to ensure there wasn’t going to be some kind of cross burning at the end, and that’s when I saw the part with my name, which stipulated in big bold letters that the comedy portion of the evening was only possible thanks to a generous donation by Exon Mobile, you know, the evil company. I started freaking out, taking stupid comedian thoughts like well would George Carlin do?

But I didn’t have any cocaine, so I tried to think of a joke that in some way Abzombia the sin. So I got on stage and preceded a bomb for twenty three minutes. I wish I could say that was on purpose, despite the crowd, but it was more a mix of my lack of practice sticking to clean jokes plus second guessing jokes in the moment that I figured wouldn’t play well with men old enough to have served in the Confederacy. Then, with two minutes left and no momentum to speak of, I went for it. At the time, I was closing with a joke about Titanic two, a recreation of the Titanic built by some billionaire who hopefully was on the recent submarine trip.

Yikes. Normally I’d note that Titanic’s voyage was much safer nowadays thanks to global warming, but this time I said it was because of the Iceberg’s got a lot smaller thanks to my sponsor Exon Mobil. Wasn’t a boo right away. First was just noise, a unified, confused groan, but then one old man was able to close his mouth long enough to produce a bee. I wouldn’t say it was like an Apollo level boo.

It was nothing like the Apollo in more ways than one. But it was my first real boo. And whenever I have an extremely crappy gig now I try to remind myself it’s worth it for the story. That is amazing, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it and hopefully they’ll enjoy it too, and you can both hit that plus sign on the app there and follow the podcast if you’d like the show without commercial interruption.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Eliza Shlesinger, Leanne Morgan, Phil Wang, Vic McHayliss

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s early comedy days and evolution to wearing suits
• Eliza Shlesinger on female comedians facing harsher judgment and personalized algorithm comedy
• Leanne Morgan’s rural upbringing and using humor to cope with difficult times
• Phil Wang on addressing his Asian identity in his stand-up material
• Vic McHayliss on the changing landscape of comedy and career aspirations

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. By there, I’m Johnny Mac. If your Daily Comedy News. John m’laney spoke to GQ about his early days in how he was part of an old comedy scene. John said, I didn’t feel like we were black flag or anything, and I was on the straight edge of it, but it did feel like we were weirder than the norm.

Then he noticed he was getting big laughs on the road, just like he was in New York. He said, I might have been in Madison, Wisconsin. It was like twenty thirteen. It was older parents at the show with their teen kids, and they both seemed enjoyed. I thought, this plays in East Village, but it’s also working in Wisconsin.

Maybe we should see how far we can push it. It was around then that he started wearing a suit. Yeah, I think from memory. If you look at his earlier albums, he’s in a hoodie. Mulaney said.

An AHA moment came when he was playing a club called Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta. I remember that club when all six comics on the bill wore the exact same nerdy white guy outfit, and so did everyone in the crowd, and he said, I remember thinking they paid money to see something. Why does it look like one of the audience members is standing on stage talking and he began to suit up. The Harvard Gazette spoke to Eliza Slessinger. She discussed the balancing act between not offending and not allowing public opinion to ruin a good joke, and says female comedians are always judged more harshly, quoting Eliza, as women, we are constantly having to justify everything and make sure that you know I don’t mean to offend.

We love to pick apart people and women. We do it deliciously. We love the shodden fruit of I know that. All she said was she loves fluffy clouds, but she didn’t say she loved ring clouds also, which means you hate the rain, which means you love climate change. So Lussingery discussed the algorithm and said, we all have our own personalized channels on Netflix, and we all have our own personalized comedians because we have so much to pick from on social media.

That’s just not the way the human brain works. How could I tailor something that one percent speaks to you. At the end of the day, we’re all people we all go through the same things. When you could tap into that, which I always strive to do, that’s how you over to play Kuala Poor and also Irland and also Tokyo. You’re reaching a very human thing.

Leanne Morgan says she gets her positive attitude from her mom. I’m from a rural farming community of five hundred people and my extended family, my grandparents, aunts and uncles, a lot of family. We were always around and we all seem to make jokes out of the bad times. Did you hear me say, Aunt, I’m from Queen’s Why did I say, Aunt? I’m leaving it in aunts and uncles.

That’s how we talk what’s going on. I’m selling out. Listen to me with the aunt’s crap. You guys should throw pies in my general direction. I hope you miss, but if you don’t, I’ll understand.

Leanne said, we use humor together. I can’t believe I said, Aunt, Deacon Mike and Cleveland. You’ve known me for thirty years? What is wrong with me? Leanne Morgan said, we use humor to get through things.

Bad things would happen, but we would make light of what we could get through it. I think humor can help us see that when bad things come, there are silver linings like oh, that happened, and this wonderful thing came out of it. Leanne says, I can get bogged down and start looking at social media and freak out. It’s easy to get sucked in and start thinking the world’s on fire. When that happens, I get off social media and try to remember that God is in control.

I pray, and then I try to get out and walk. Being in nature helps me. Seeing my magical grand babies keeps me grounded. I agree with her, going for a good walk and getting fresh air and clearing your head. I know personally when I write, I write better in the morning.

I write better promos in the morning. I write better scripts for the show in the morning by like three four in the afternoon, I do tasks I call them like, oh can I just addit something where I don’t have to think but morning brains where it’s at. And go for a walk today. I actually exercise before writing the podcast, before recording the podcast, So I feel good today. You know what I’m saying, Leanne says, I come home from la or I’m shooting a sitcom from Netflix or everybody thinks I’m a star and my name is on things and I feel like Beyonce and my family’s like, can you wash my panties?

And I need to go pick up a prescription at Walgreen’s. That keeps me grounded. That is hilarious. Leanne any advice for those of us who want to be funnier, She says, go see live shows. Go see your favorite comedian, or go see a funny Broadway show.

Back to the Future the musical it’s closing soon. You should go. It really does feel good to laugh with other people. Well, you could even go on social media and find somebody that tickles you and watch them instead of all this other mess about death and impending World War III. The Guardian spoke to Phil Wang.

He said, no matter how much experience I have, no matter how many times I’ve been on TV, I always approach every gig assuming people don’t know who I am and have noticed that I’m Asian. It’s like a sick for me. I can’t stop trying to bridge the gap by joking about it. I’m writing new material at the moment and are ready. The first few minutes are about being Chinese.

It’s not conscious. Jerry Seinfeld once said, every comedian only really has the same ten minutes, and I think there’s something to that. Doing stand up about Asians is a way of me taking control, addressing what I think is the elephant in the room. As my career has progressed, comedy has become a different experience the way I see it. I used to date comedy and now I’m married to and I still love it, but it’s not all about new experiences in places.

It’s now just part of my life that’s not the same. I’m complacent. I still worry about not getting eighty percent in whatever I do. I recently watched my first special on Netflix and thought, this could have been better. I got that bit wrong.

Next time, maybe I’ll get one hundred percent. I’ll jump in there and I teach this to my fellow podcasters. I teach a couple college classes. You will drive yourself nuts and in the homework at some point the show’s done. Believe me, every single episode of this podcast I listen, I’m like, oh, that could have been better, that could have been better, and yeah, but at some point you got a hand in the homework.

Vultra had done their list of the comedians you should know and will know. One of their comedians is Vic Mchayliss, whose career would you want? Vic says, the landscape of comedy is changing so rapidly it’s hard to say. I love comedy based folks who really lean into acting and use their success to choose their work. Lisa Kudrou, Paul F.

Tompkins, and Quinta Brunson are all people I would love to follow. Worst show ever. When I was first starting out, my indie team got booked on a show at a venue none of us were familiar with through someone’s cousin. When we arrived to check in, we realized we’d be performing in a club, not a comedy club, a club club as in bottle Service. My best guess is the booker thought we were doing stand up, but he was hoping would say funny things while hyping up the crowd as the DJ switched out.

What she was not expecting were six over eager improvisers looking for one word suggestions to get started. We have been paid a very small amount of money upfront, so the show had to go on. The DJs were so mad they wouldn’t turn the music down and lay it on the horns Ount effect. Every time we tried talking the whole thing, I ended with a locally known rapper getting the entire club to chant muppets until we left the stage. Some life lessons.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is that if I’m not doing things outside of comedy, I have nothing to pull from. Sometimes it gets so caught up in shows and work I forget to do things that make me a complete person. I’ve learned it’s not only okay, but necessary to take a break and live my life where everything becomes self referential and boring. I try to do things I’m bad at and work on things that require spending actual time with people I love. Comedy requires so much of your heart that if it’s empty, it’s noticeable.

What comedy opinion Hill will you die on? VIC says comedy videos on social media aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and you don’t have to participate, but it is a valid form of comedy. Comedy is supposed to be fun, and making videos for people to see without putting studio quality lighting and sound behind them is a really cool way to see if your ideas resonate with folks. Jay Leno and Adam Caroll will be hosting the third annual Comedy Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles from July twenty third through the twenty sixth. Corolla told The Rap, I met the guy who started the rock and roll Fantasy Camp, and I was like, this is a great idea.

We should do this for comedy. The first two Fantasy Camps went so well that we thought, why not turn it into something we do once a year. And Jay Leno was kind of enough to get involved, but not just let his name to it, like really get what the campers and really get granular, really spend time and burn calories. And I think Jay had a good time. Jay Leno says, I had a good time because when I was starting out, it was lucky enough to meet the comics, Robert Klein, Gabe Kaplan, all these comics will come through Boston.

I’d meet them and talk to them, and that’s where I learned from. Because you’re usually taught from somebody who can’t do it, you kind of go, who’s this guy? People who respect his comedians, they’re gonna have a more unorthodox way of how you do it. If you’re going to do it, it’s the only thing you can do to say I’m thinking about being comedian, maybe I’ll be a writer. Well know, I’m sorry, Then you’re a writer.

I think if you’re a comedian and a writer, you’re a writer. If you think you’re an actor and a comedian, you’re an actor. Because comedians just want to commit. That’s the whole thing. You just want to do stand up.

It’s something you have to do, and you’ll go to humiliating lengths to do it. Corolla said, I always tell young comedians or young anything writers or podcasters that go, what do we need you for? Like, we’ve got a lot of comedians, you know what I mean. There’s a lot of podcasters. A lot of people think they’re funny.

There’s a lot of people think they can sing country music. Why you And if the answer is no, then maybe it’s no. But if you think you’re different, your angles are different, we’ve never met you before, then show up and bring us something we need. Leno’s as the best advice I always give young comics is don’t go up as a comic, Try and be an MC. If they have a talent show in your town, try to be the MC.

Speak of your synagogue, your church, an AA meeting, whatever you need to do to get in front of an audience. Just talk and if you get a laugh, continue to talk. If you don’t get a laugh, then sit down and introduce the next act. But get comfortable in front of people talking. And that’s all the voice I have for you today.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Nikki Glaser, David Letterman, Ricky Gervais, Ronny Chieng

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife’s baptism and religious journey
• Nikki Glaser hosting the Golden Globes on January 5
• Ricky Gervais gives advice to Nikki Glaser for hosting
• David Letterman discusses meditation and medication for anxiety
• David Letterman on retirement and anxiety dreams about his show
• Johnny Mac’s Letterman Podcast episode with Mike Chisholm
• Ronny Chieng on comedy’s influence in extremist algorithms

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Matt Riife surprised everybody he shared that he got baptized earlier this year. Rife was on the History Hyenas podcast and said I got baptized in August in a dude’s pool. Raife told Hosciannis Papas and Christa Stefano that he didn’t grow up in a religious household, but he’d occasionally attend church with friends a few times a year.

Rife said, I’ve never been a super religious person, but when my grandpa pasked away, something hit me that was like, I’ll never see this person again, so something has to exist. I skewed Christian so I started going to church a little bit more. But he says, I hate church. I find it excreminatingly boring. But I want to believe in God and it’s obviously a huge part of the process.

Matt Rife, if you’re listening, and I know you are, I’m gonna recommend Deacon Mike’s podcast. Deacon Mike’s podcast is called Question of Faith, and Deacon Mike and the crew they found a good way to like just be like normal person from the community who also attends church, Like they did a whole thing in the summer talking about the church softball league, so it’s not like preachy question of faith. Back to the comedy John, Nikki Glaser was on CBS this morning earlier in the week. She’s getting ready to host the Golden Globes on January fifth. Nicky’s right, a big wave of press right now.

Her PR team is taking on Nate Bergetzi’s a PR team in the or Super Bowl this weekend. Nate’s team put up three touchdowns yesterday. If you heard yesterday’s podcast anyway, here’s Nikki Glaser reached. Out to Ricky. He called me right away to give me advice.

Within like two minutes of me sending an email being like, would it be okay if you maybe copped on the phone for ninety seconds he called me. I’m like at an airport, ducked in a corridor being like, oh oh yeah, trying to hear his advice. And his advice was just be yourself. You’re not one of them. Don’t try to walk out there acting like you’re an a lister just because you’re invited.

You wouldn’t be if you weren’t the host, which is a very heals so real, it’s so real, and that’s really important. And he also wrote me and had great advice of you know, their advice that I chair so much that can only you would only get from someone who had done it was that the room is super noisy, they’re all talking. Don’t try to quiet them down because the audience at home can’t hear them. And I thought that was very valuable because I would have been out there. I’m not used to performing for a crowd of people talking.

Still, I would have been like, can everyone take your seats? The show has begune, you know, And now they just saved me from that moment, which would really possibly have been an awkward moment. Yes, if you’re a fan of me, I’m the guest today on the Letterman Podcast. Mike Chisholm and I talked to comedy for about an hour and a half The Letterman Podcast wherever you get your shows and if you’re too lazy to click on that, that will be the January first episode on this feed. But why don’t you give Mike the download no listening.

You can listen to my version, but give them the downloads. It feels good about himself. There’s also a video version of that. If you want to see how boring John sitting in the basement looks, you can go on YouTube and check that out. I wouldn’t your usual mental image of George Clooney sitting in a Chase lounge with a microphone recording off Lake Como in Italy.

That’s the image you should keep. You don’t want to see what this show actually looks like. There’s a reason this is an audio only podcast.

Speaking of David Letterman, he did an interview with GQ and we learned Dave …

Dave said, yeah, I do a little meditating. Sometimes I just meditate hoping I fall asleep. GQ was like, does that work? I can tell you firsthand it works, but Dave said, yeah, sometimes it does. Yeah, it’s pretty good.

When I was working, I would meditate. Because you’re doing five nights a week. You go out tired, sick, lonely, happy, scared. You gotta go out, Dave, you’re doing four nights a week. There was Friday Night videos for a while, and then I think when you went to five Days on NBC, one of the days was on tape and the CBS Friday night shows were clearly pre tape.

You doubled up one day a week, you gotta go out, and the meditation sometimes would give you a boost of energy. But I found when I did it religiously, it just gave me more energy to be angry. So I thought, well, this might not be what they’re talking about. Dave also said he took medication. Yeah, yeah, medication.

Doctor. The guy who saved my life begged me to go on an SSRI because he used to get so upset. And we had an office, an adjunct office, an office in the office, I’m sorry, a closet in the office full of telephones because if things went wrong, I pick up my telephone, yank it out of the wall and heave it across the room. And so we had to deal with Westinghouse, and people used to make the phones that have a regular delivery stops applying us with phone. So that was a cue that maybe I needed help, GQ.

And you don’t have that feeling anymore. I urged your hurl of phone, Dave. How have I been today, GQ? I haven’t seen him throw one phone? Davey retired?

Send me retired? What’s a deal? Dave said, retirement is a myth. Retirement is nonsense. You won’t retire.

The human mechanism will not allow you to retire. What do you do? Sit there and wait, give me the name of the show, Judge, Judy to come on. As long as you’re healthy, you still want to produce, and you’ll find ways too. Once I stopped doing the show, took me a couple of years to figure it out.

Ah, this is a completely different rhythm, and without the rhythm that you’re customed to, largely unsatisfying. So you gotta find something that’s important to you. Hello, Dave, Hi, I’m podcasting in the basement for that very reason. I understand. I’m on the back of my career now, I get it.

But I like doing this show. This show is a lot of fun, and it gives me a rhythm to my day. I hear you, David Letterman. Dave, do you think about the show in general these days? Dave said, from the day I stopped doing it till last night, two or three times a week I have an anxiety dream related to the TV show, and it’s maddening.

It’s just manning the dream is I show up and here I am I’m read do the show. I’m on the old show’s schedule. I’ve been a rehearsal, I’ve been a hair I’ve been to makeup. I come down and it’s people I don’t know looking at me, saying, Okay, we’ll get to it. But what about the audience.

I guess they’re here, So it’s me in the same mode everyone else is incomplete, and it’s anxiety. It usually wakes me up at a start. What does he think it means? I think, as it came to the college, dream of Oh I forgot where the English building is, or it could be some sort of psychosis Davis seventy seven. How much longer will he work for I don’t know.

Like I said, I’m surprised at the number that I’m still doing it now. I think if I start in the middle of talking to a world famous guest, I fall asleep. I was doing some show for Netflix a couple of years ago, and the schedule was ridiculous. We were doing three shows a night twice, and then three shows another night twice, and it was insane. And the stage manager came up to me between one of those shows and she said, you’re gonna have to sit up straight and look, I know you’re ehausted, can you sit up straight?

And I thought, ah, maybe that’s a sign. So does that mean he’s not doing anything more for Netflix? Interesting anyway, if you want to hear me talk about Letterman Letterman podcast. Today, the La Times asked Ronnie Ching, do you think comedy has the potential to become part of that extremist algorithm when it comes to how some people view the world socially politically? Ronnie said, yeah, but that goes both ways, politically right, some of that type of content can influence you to go left or right.

There’s comedy for everybody, so it can influence you in any direction. I think what’s sadder is guys, and I can speak to straight men because I’m a straight man sometimes have legitimate grapes that get kind of focused on and exaggerated by being on the Internet too much. It’s not even about politics, about losing your mind. It’s not about conservative or liberal. You could lose your mind as a liberal, you could lose them as a conservative.

I think just losing your mind is very scary. In the new special on Netflix, which is one of the top of the year, I will share my Top Specials of the Year list on the twenty seventh. But Ronnie in this special has a good, strong political chum. Hilarius has their second special out today, this one Alana Glazer. They don’t seem to be pushing this one all that much.

And that’s not me being catty at the Hulu publicist who won’t get back to me. I’m just not seeing much at all. This is Glazier’s second stand up special. It’s called Human Magic on Hulu today. The only press I had seen was with NPR, and even that wasn’t really about the special, but something interesting in that interview in PR asked are you good at knowing when something should end?

And Alana said, yeah, I am with broad City. We had signed a contract of seven seasons and then we both came to the decision and ended after five. Abby and I Comedy Essential was like, huh, but yeah, that’s something I would say is elegant about me knowing when things are at their end. CBS has picked up the pilot for Zorna Zarni Gorg’s multi camera comedy. The sitcom is called Zorna and in Zorna Zarna, Gorg plays Zarna, a pron immigrant woman who’s been raising her American born kids on Indian values, but now that they’re getting older, it’s time for her to focus on her own American dream.

Amy Schumer had a project called kind Of Pregnant, a comedy movie. It’s now scheduled for February twenty twenty five on Netflix. It follows a woman wearing a fake baby bump because she’s jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy, and leads her into awkward comedic situations. Amy Schumer has a producer credit, as does Adam Sandler. So you know it’s good.

I mentioned yesterday that I’ve pre taped a bunch. You know, Holiday’s Johnny Mac wants to take a couple days off, so you probably won’t hear me talking about all in Comedy About Love. That’s the Broadway show that’s starring John Mulaney. So you’ll see a lot of John Mulaney press next week. So if I don’t talk about it, it’s because I pre taped.

Malini said, I like every single thing about Broadway. I like that if you’re not on the crew that should move a chair, you can’t move a chair. I like that you run into everyone else doing shows. I like every single part of it. Malanie also talked to the Red Carpet about how fatherhood has changed his comedy.

Let’s listen to John and we’ll take the break. Oh it’s much less precise. Oh my god. There used to be limitless time in the day and tons of sleep to remember every little nuance and syllable of every little joke that’s gone. So I think in some ways it’s benefited from that ten percent less clever, but perhaps funnier.

Kevin Hart will tape his next comedy special Tomorrow and Sunday at the Adrian Orsch Center for the Performing Orts in Miami. Ian Lara is taping his special Lapo Swan Rouge. Did I get my friends right there? I’ll leave it in close enough? Who knows?

I don’t know. Ian Lara is taping his special Saturday at that place in New York City. Vince Vaughn’s Bad Monkey is getting another season from Apple TV. You know, I like the Apple guys. You watch one of their shows, and all their shows are actually pretty good.

They have a pretty good track record. Plus they renew things onlike Netflix, which you get into something and they’re like, eh, we’re not making any more of it, Well, like Shane Gillis’s Tires, Like that’s like ten minutes to make no offense to the writers, but that wasn’t like It’s not like they made an Indiana Jones movie. It’s guy sitting around a tire shop riffing, and they only made six of them, make sixteen episodes of Tires. Well yeah, anyway, bad Monkey, we’ll come back to Apple TV. It stars Vince Vaughan.

They got a tax credit, so they’re gonna film in California. I don’t know how that’s gonna work. It’s supposed to take place in Key West. Who knows. The Toronto Guardian caught up with Kyle Bergstresser.

He’s been told his comedy style is a mix of Rory Scovel and Pete Holmes, but describe it without referencing someone else. I’m like a guy who does so many stupid act outs that it’s basically sketch comedy. Some of his influences include some Canadians that I haven’t heard of. I’m gonna guess you haven’t either, Tim Gray Royan, Ashdana Smith. Right, you don’t know who those are?

Andy Samberg, Nick Kroll, Tim Robinson, Chris Locke, Maria Bamford, Tim Heindeker, Connor O’Malley, just anyone getting up there and being a crazy ass. Favorite comedian growing up, here’s a curve ball Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor. I knew I wanted to smoke cigarettes and be a truth teller just like them. And he says, now it’s embarrassing and weird, but my parents played it pretty safe. For the first comedy I’ve ever heard was a Jeff Foxworthy CD that was all about marriage and rednecks.

I listened to it like a thousand times and showed all my ten year old friends and we all somehow found it relatable.

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Also, some cassette tape in my dad’s truck of a Christian comedian, what’s a …

He was like, ain’t our Lord and save your funny that way? And I was like, yes, Mark, and I’d like to do this someday. His favorite comedian now John Mulaney, which is tough because he showed his behind a little bit in the last few years. But I’ve decided that I don’t need my comedian to be coke free or great husband’s. As long as they’re not total monsters, I still love them.

Wait did you say that out loud? We’re not supposed to say that out loud. What’s your pre show ritual? Two iced coffees? All right?

I like it here, I’ll shake one for you by me a coffee dot COM’s last day like comedy is fift for five push ups? Not doing that, not even doing five push ups, not doing one push up, screaming to a bunched up sweater, do the happy dance, check the hair, quick granola bar, middle finger to the sky for all my dead friends, and never bothered to catch a show. Kiss my wife, put on my show shirt, big glass of sprite, dirt off the shoulder, dance wife gets another kiss, Give her the kiss she’s begging for more. Big fat sun is right there. She’s got a cool off.

He’s a very curious boy. I tell her she’s getting it later tonight. I kneel down. I tell my big Sanchi’s perfect just as she is. I shove him over to remind him who his boss.

Middle figure of the sky again for all the times God did not provide a shadow box. My wife shows me over a little playfight that gets it out of her systems. She’ll still get it later and out the door by seven twenty. The Toronto Guardian said, Okay, what is it? Really nothing?

I usually just get diarrhea. He’s funny, this guy. I have a joke about the joker and how seriously we take him. I think it’s a pretty good observational thing. But my favorite right now is a very stupid alternate reality bit about how I’m protesting Shopper’s Drug Mart for selling one kind of toy and a different kind of toy.

That’s like a flashlight. Either know what I mean or you don’t. I love what it says about a certain type of men’s right sky, and I love seeing long it takes for the audience to realize that I’m not actually like that. Sometimes they never do. How does you find new comedians?

You gotta go to live shows. There’s so much pausing and eye contact and references to earlier sets and slight adjustments to the vibe that you can’t put into recording. No one will ever be as good in an album or special or stupid forty five second clip as they are live. I like this guy a lot. He is Kyle berg Stresser.

Let’s keep an eye on him, all right. Christmas is coming up. Johnny Mac has pre taped a couple episodes, so put this one on your calendar. If you’re in San Francisco and you’re not doing the Christmas thing. On December twenty fifth, why don’t you go see Kung Pow Kosher Comedy.

They’re doing six shows from the twenty fourth to the twenty six at the Cantonese Imperial Palace. This year’s lineup includes Afira Eisenberg, Becky Bronstein, and British comedian Matt Kershin. There’s a five pm dinner show and an eight thirty cocktail show on the twenty fourth, twenty fifth, and twenty sixth an Imperial Palace in San Francisco. Seventy one to ninety six dollars in person. If you just want to sit home and watch this thing, thirty five to eighty one dollars YouTube live stream an eighty one dollar live stream Koshercomedy dot com.

I’m clicking on that link. I support you guys, but an eighty one dollars stream eighty one Are you gonna send food to my house? All right. Let’s say to watch Kungpound on the YouTube line stream, buy a ticket from the box office. Click on the YouTube link.

You’ll get a email. All right, I’m clicking on the box office. I gotta see what I’m getting for eighty one dollars. Guys, it just says purchase tickets. I’m gonna get one for the December twenty fifth Cocktail Show.

Purchase tickets. Click here to purchase YouTube live stream tickets. Purchase tickets. A lot of links here. Pay what you wish level four thirty five bucks, and then there are tiers.

Okay, so it’s a pay what you wish starting at thirty five, and the top tiers has suggested eighty one. At least that makes sense. I mean, if you want to be generous, great, But if we’re just charging eighty one dollars for live stream, that’s a little nutty. If you’re in Daton, you might want to check out the Kakaroo Comedy Competition Saturday at the Black Palette Art Gallery. Show begins at eight.

Tickets are ten dollars. Saturday begins the quarter finals of the competition. The winners will advance to the grand finale, which is January fourth, at Brickey’s Comedy Club located inside Star City Brewery there in Dayton. That’s your comedy news. I do want to talk about Yellowstone for a second.

So if you haven’t seen the Yellowstone finale, you don’t care, You could check out and I’ll see tomorrow. But for the Yellowstone fans who saw the finale spoilers coming up, what was that? I’m not even talking about like what happened to the Dutton ranch? Fine, kind of saw that coming for three seasons. Now, yah with shit with that.

But let me ask you this. So John Dutton was the governor and his death is mysterious. Then on the show, is it what three days day later? Four days later, the governor’s son, who’s also the attorney general, he’s missing. So if we’re the investigators who haven’t actually seen the show, we think the governor’s son has beaten up his sister and then disappeared.

Eventually they’re going to find that he’s dead. Now don’t you think the governor were dead and his son, the attorney general, were dead within three four days? Because I’ll remind you, we see John Dutton’s funeral, so it’s only been like three four days in the show. It hasn’t been like three months. I don’t think it’s a couple days later, maybe a week later.

The governor’s dead, his son is dead, the daughter slash sister, she’s all beat up and then leaves town.

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Meanwhile, the guy that has openly been trying to acquire the ranch to build …

The son is dead, and the sister is beat up and leaves town, and this guy somehow controls the ranch. It sounds like a mafia thing, doesn’t it. No, we’ve watched the show. We know Rainwater didn’t do anything wrong. But if I’m an investigator, I’m looking at Rainwater going, wait, what what on here?

Your enemy is dead, his son is dead, the daughters all beat up, and let’s not forget about the drive by with the attorney who was shot in the car. Taylor Sheridan. I think he left some loopholes there at the end. Anyway, it was a good show till it wasn’t, and I enjoyed hate watching these last six seven episodes. What a mess?

Alright, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ronnie Chieng, Nate Bargatze, Adrian Applelucci, Nikki Glaser, Lorne Michaels, Ashley Padia, Mikey Day, Pete Holmes, Sinbad, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Ronnie Chieng Netflix special review and storytelling
• Johnny Mac’s end-of-year comedy special rankings
• Nate Bargatze’s PR campaign for Netflix Christmas special
• Nate Bargatze’s Nashville Christmas CBS special premiere
• Washington Post profile on Nate Bargatze’s ‘Walmart of comedy’ approach
• Nate Bargatze’s George Washington SNL sketch and career impact
• Nate Bargatze’s production company Nateland and clean comedy guidelines

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. He me there, I’m shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. So I did watch Ronnie Ching special and it’s really good. Now let me tell you what I liked it. Ronnie is a great storyteller and top of mine.

So right before I recorded this, I just recorded my end of the year rankings. So let me double sidebar here. First of all, I’ve been having a lot of voice problems lately. As you’ve been listening today, my voice seems strong. This is the fourth straight episode of Daily comed News I’m recording and the voice is holding up thanks to the help of a large iced coffee with caramel and milk.

And you get support the show and buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Well, that’s not why I bring it up. I’m just happy that I have the voice to record all these things. So I have Ronnie up on my list.

I have him way up on the list. But I don’t agree with Jason’s In a Minute is not the number one special of the year. That said, I don’t think Jason and is crazy. So tune in on December twenty seventh for my complete list. But as I recorded those lists, I was talking about specifically al name names, Adrian Applelucci Special, and my problem with Adrian Special is I don’t believe any of the underlying premises at all.

They’re funny stories, but I need a little bit of reality. Like she’s telling these stories, and I don’t believe anything she said actually happened. I could be wrong, but personally I didn’t believe it. Now, as I’m watching Ronnie and he does that big opening chunk about freezing his wife’s eggs, and it’s a long chunk, I believe the underlying story actually happened or the details exaggerated for comedic effect. Sure, but I don’t feel like he sat at a desk and said, Okay, let me just totally make up a half hour story and tell it.

Well, perhaps he did, but I believe the underlying story. So he’s a great storyteller. And as he tells the stories, he will drop in tags. So that’s like, you know, after a joke, you just say, like one more short thing. And I never saw his tags coming, and they’re all really funny.

I’ve talked about on this podcast how I have Emperor of Rome syndrome, and I’ll be like, oh yeah, that’s really funny, but I don’t actually laugh. I laughed at Ronny Chieng special, so I like that one a lot. I recommend, but I won’t tell you how far up the list. You’ll have to listen on the twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth for the breakdowns of those. Do you like Nate Burgetzi, because if you don’t, you might as well check out today.

Nate’s PR team should play Nikki Glaser’s PR team in the PR Team super Bowl this weekend because they are both absolutely flooring it. I don’t recall seeing a push to this effect. On Tuesday, Nate got a New York Times article, a Washington Post article, and a Hollywood Reporter article, all this to promote his Netflix special on Christmas Eve, and also tonight is Nate Burghetzi’s Nashville Christmas on CBS nine o’clock. So one thing we know about the special is, you know the George Washington bit he’s done on the two episodes of SNL. He’s doing a version of that, but he’s dressed as an angel.

One of the jokes we see in the trailers he says, let this be called Christmas, and let it be celebrated each year by gathering with family, by doing goodwill in his name, and by putting a big pine tree in your house. God commands the pine tree shall be decorated with glittering glass ornaments of incredible beauty, also with garbage that your children make at school. Now, before you feel bad for the SNL people being ripped off, Lorne Michaels is producing this special even though it’s on CBS, which is interesting that it’s on CBS right. SNL cast members Ashley Padia and mikey Day appear in the sketches Mary and Joseph, so it’s not like Nate’s thieving from SNL. Naperghetzi’s Nashville Christmas will feature a mix of stand up comedy, pre taped comedy shorts, sketches, and musical performances.

CBS says the special spots lights the heart and spirit of Nashville during the holiday season and highlighting family fun and feel good moments. In a statement, Nate said, and I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together. And I couldn’t be in better hands with this team. Some of his press, he said he met his wife Laura, while waiting tables at Applebee’s in Nashville, to her sense of humor and laugh. We married in two thousand and six on Friday the thirteenth.

His favorite spot at home, I have a golf simulator room that I added onto the house. His goal for stand up is to be funny on stage without saying things that will embarrass or upset his parents. In his pre stage mantra, I remind myself that the knight’s not about me, It’s about the audience. Then I go out to determine and make them have fun. All right.

Like I said, I got a lot of ate today. So if you’re not in anate, you should just bail. Let’s start with the Washington Post. On the headline, Nate Brighetzi wants to be the Walmart of comedy. They write, Nate loves fast food.

He loves big box stores and the suburbs and TNT marathons of Diehard. He finds felicity in the familiar, comfort in the caloric originality. Any ordinary somebody worked hard on that opener. The first quote we get from Nate is I had McDonald’s last night. They caught up with Nate playing golf, when we learned that he loves the pit stop around the Troubadour’s fifth hole.

A cottage filled with every temptation you can imagine, jars of candy, topshelf liquor, and a drawer of fried chicken sandwiches with pimento cheese. He points to the soft serve board and seems disappointed when no one makes a homemade version of a blizzard. He really loves blizzards, he tells the post. No one wants to be Walmart. I want to be Walmart.

When George Carland was around, you needed George Carlin, you needed Lenny Bruce. Now he thinks we need something else, so he doesn’t to push the envelope. He pulls it in. He loved comedy ever since childhood. When he heard Sinbad do a bit about McDonald’s and people not knowing what to order, Sinbad’s punch line was that they got the same menu.

The article then talks about Nate going and up to Chicago, and we’ve talked about that in the past. Then he hits New York City, where he loaded FedEx trucks from five to ten am after being on stage every night. Boy, that’s rough. Pete Holmes said the landscape of comedy was that nine out of ten comedians were going to be kind of rough. The styles you shock them and then you kick them in the place you kick people.

Pete Holmes supposed to wear clean, Pete Holmes. Pete said Canadians and college kids always loved me and Nate. Home says the audience grew weary about jokes about finding the g spot and thatvent he and Nate were a breath of fresh air at a gearshift. Mikey Day talked about how the George Washington sketch has accelerated Nate’s career and said, I truly only think that would have worked so well with Nate. The dead eyes stare that he did is just so perfect a for George Washington b just stating these dumb facts.

It was just kismet. Nate says the sketch shot his career into another world. I actually enjoy politics. I don’t talk about them, but I enjoy them. I don’t think it’s what people are coming to me for the battle isn’t with other people but myself.

I’ve got to fight myself. It’s easy to feel self important. I don’t have a crazy take ever, so I don’t get the quick hits, a lot of comic sketch. He’s got his company, Nate Land, and the guideposts for Nateland content. We’re starting at PG, but you can talk to me into PG thirteen.

That’s a good rule. That’s kind of what I try to do here. His production company has ambitions beyond comedy. Why not apply clean and different movie genres? For example, horror, let’s not show someone’s bones, says Nate.

Romantic comedy. He says, we’ve had a lot of sex scenes in movies. There’s not much left on the table. He has some taglines good clean, scary, good clean, dramatic, good clean. Bill Burth said, there’s people who work clean.

There are absolute cornballs that sound like they’re doing comedy for forty years ago. Then this guy’s like Nate, whose jokes are so good you don’t even realize he’s working clean. Nate says of his own comedy, it’s just going to be me being dumb, and you can laugh with me or laugh at me. My specials are rated PG. One of them was rated G.

I’ll be honest with you, it’s a little embarrassing. The New York Times had an article that was just one of the articles, and check your watch. We are deep into this podcast already today. Right the second one, Nate Bergetzi wants your family to stop fighting for an hour maybe two. They cover the same beats, including the George Washington sketch.

Nate says, I don’t want your family fighting. There’s plenty of times you’re gonna be fighting. So if I can be your one hour you don’t fight, we get the sindbad story again, then we get I remember when my dad brought Brian Reagan’s CD at a truck stop. He said, I’ll pull over because he was laughing so hard. My Dad’s just driving in the middle of the night on the interstate and he’s like, I can’t even drive because I have to get this out of my system.

Then I listened to it and it was that funny. To this day in my head, I want someone to laugh so hard, to just have that experience. When I was younger, someone said he always wrote me a Bob Newhart That meant not a lot of energy, not a big presence. But I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved his albums.

In a sitcoms, I like that I was gonna be more of that person. I was way more deadpan at the beginning, and I did move around a lot. I never moved. Being from the South and having this accent and talking slower, I always sounded pretty different, especially when I was in New York. So I learned how to write jokes first, and I feel like I’m getting more in my voice now.

I auditioned for the Daily Show. It was down to me and Jordan Klepper. Jordan was better. I did so bad. It was a quick no.

I was gonna meet my buddy for lunch. I didn’t make it to the restaurant before they called and said, you’re fine, don’t worry about it. I mean, look, I wanted it, but if you look back, it’s like, man, it’s really good that I didn’t get that, because I clearly wasn’t ready for it, and I could have really shot my career in another direction. Ah, this is interesting. I didn’t know the scene.

There’s always connections in Hollywood. And this doesn’t mean Nate is bad, but just you gotta understand how show business works, and it’s who you know. Nate tells the Times. My management company does a lot with SNL. They have Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, David Spade.

I knew my name had been thrown around, think it was anything too serious. They were just letting its sit there. Then they came to one of my shows in Vegas, and they came when I was in Radio City. The actor strike was going on and comedians weren’t our own void. We didn’t have anything all that, and then it was like, you know what, we have a hosting spot in two weeks.

And I went from I didn’t really know what was going to happen, now this is happening. My career felt like a steady climb s and I was a big leap. I’m glad my career before it was a slow build. So you’re a bit of a hand a little better. You know, it’s all slow until it’s as fast as it can be.

Some philosophy from Nate Television is chasing social media, and I don’t think it should. My company’s done very well on social media, but I don’t make it for that. You need to make your thing in the full way.

And then I hope that the clips go wherever they go.

There’s not a lot because they’re on to watch as a family That’s why Friends in Seinfeld and Ray are still some of the most watched shows. It’s not because people don’t want it. They do want it, they’re just not being given it. The goal with the variety shows to be able to have people come together and sit in their house and watch something dumb and silly. If you ever see a donkey perform a high diving act, put it in your set.

All right, I got another one. I told you. It was any Burghazzy Day, the Hollywood Porternybergatzi conquered Comedy. Hollywood is Next. We learned that in twenty fourteen, Nate was making a Jimmy Fallon Produce sitcom pilot.

Nate said, when it was happening, I remember my buddy was like, this is your shot, So if it doesn’t work, that’s it. I was kind of annoyed by that at the time, but I think it helped me. It’d put a little chip on my shoulder. I thought for sure it would go. When I look back, I’m very glad it didn’t because I have a lot more of control of where I want to go now, and I don’t think I would have had that then.

I would have been too young and not a good enough comedian or performer. Yet I look back on a lot of stuff like that, had I gotten it, my career could have gone in a different direction. And he tells the Daily Show anecdote, OLLI reporter, he almost had sitcoms at NBC, Fox, ABC, Netflix. Was there any kind of threw line other feedback? No, but I don’t think there was a lot of entertainment made for people not on the coast during that period.

They’d tell you they wanted multicams and stuff that’s designed for co viewing. Then you’d pitch one of people who aren’t watching multicams. They want them because it looks good in their budget, but then they’re like, well, this show’s not fun, yeah, because the show’s not made for you. So it was like there’s a lot of that for a long time, but now shifting and everybody seems to want broader again. We have a comic Derek Strup, who was on my Christmas special that he comes on the road with me a lot, and he’s someone I was telling CBS like, this is Kevin James.

Make that show again. Just have it be something fun that everybody can watch for thirty minutes and then you can go back to your murder show. He says, the Christmas Show is the most exciting thing I’ve done. If it does well, that’s the one thing I could see doing for an extended period of time that would be fun. Right if this became an annual tradition, Olli reporter, you worry about alienating an audience a lot.

What drives that? Nate’s I don’t want anybody to feel better or uncomfortable. Would break my heart if somebody thought that I thought I’m better than them. I don’t want to be for everybody. I mean, that’s the goal.

I grew up eating a chain restaurant and I’m going to Walmart. I’m on board with selling everything to everybody. A lot of times people be like, my comedy isn’t for everybody, and there’s a pride in that, but never click for me. I was always like, why would you not want everybody to come to your show? A little more about the Daily Show port Nate says, I was not good.

I auditioned with John Stewart and I’d heard that they’d like my audition, at least that’s what Hassan told me. Then I go to the Daily Show and I’m with John at the desk. That was good, and then I had to read to John Oliver part John Oliver uses a lot of words that I don’t really know what they mean or how to say them. It was bad and I had the suit on didn’t fit. I look like I was going to divorce court to get my daughter back or something.

They called me before I even was back in my hotel. Right, I’ve heard that part already and there’s like six more paragraphs, but I am nate it out and I have to take a commercial break. So behind the scenes, if I don’t take a commercial break before the twenty minute mark, the automation will force one. So let me put one by design and then we’ll come back and maybe we’ll do three sections today. You got an your money’s worth today, be right back.

Rose Matta Fayo has a special out on Max Today. The La Times caught up with Rosen. We learned that she started doing comedy workshops at age fifteen. She’s now thirty two, which means she’s been doing stand up for more than half her life, a fact she says makes her feel a panic slightly rising in my chest. She talks on stage about relatability and the need for female comics to be self deprecating, but she says she does not come from a place of imposter syndrome.

That’s the one thing I don’t think I have. I have everything else, low self esteem, terrible relationship with myself, all those things you’re supposed to have in your thirties. In On and on and on, we check in with Rose after a real life breakup where everybody from her grandmother to her housekeepers like Garol, move on. You weren’t together long enough to be this upset. She talks about chronicling her feelings in the notes app and this real experience of suddenly understanding her parents better.

But she’s now the age they were when she was a kid. She cut some jokes from her live performances. They were jokes about Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson. Tho was cut for time. One of the jokes is who has the time to get docks online by superfans, But a joke about the attractiveness of Wallougi from Mario Kart was obviously written and recorded before their real world arrest of Luigi, the guy accused of shooting the United Healthcare CEO.

That one stayed in Ro says, in your twenties you almost think you kind of got it together and now I’m staring at this next bit where you’re like, yeah, but you don’t know anything. You kind of have to accept the randomness of life, where friends marrying, of kids and the generation above you get sick and dies. She says she’s always had an interest in death. The first show she performed at Edinburgh Fringe was about her own funeral and involved her jumping out of a coffin in a jeweled tuxedo. Two Stories Out of the UK Today, One Happy One Sad, The Happy One Strictly Come Dancing in a Dancing with Star for the Brits they finish up their twentieth anniversary year.

The winner blind comedian Chris McCausland. Chris paid tribute to the efforts of his professional partner Diane Buswell and using unconventional methods and teaching Chris how to dance. That’s pretty cool. The Sad Story. Police have found the body of a missing Britain Got Talent star after he went missing.

Earlier in the week, comedian Martin Crofts had made it to the semi finals. His act involved him placing a pan on his head, becoming known as the pan Man and singing a song while impersonating a Dalek from doctor who Police have found what they believed to be his body in the Winnie Gill Reservoir in North Yorkshire. Felippe Esparza announced a new special coming in Netflix in February, Raging Fool. In Raging Fool, Felipe explores the trials and tribulations of navigating complicated family dynamics, marriage, cultural divides, infidelity and more. And if you’re in China, I gotta do this one today because of the way time zones work.

But on Friday in China, the Beijinger tells us the comedy the Citadel was bringing the festive spirit to life with a hilarious live version of family Feud to celebrate the Dongji Festival, also known as the Winter Solstice. The don g Festival marks the longest night of the year, enough time for family gatherings, feasting and fun. So if you’re listening in Beijing, hey, that’s pretty cool. Head on over to the Comedy Citadel. Their version will feature four teams or families and they will battle it out to answer survey questions, just like the TV show.

However, there’s a twist you the audience, Beijing listener, You’ll be the one providing the answers. It means every response could turn into a hilarious surprise. And that is your comedy news for today. Before we go, I just want to get in front of something. So Holidays coming up, I will have an episode for you every single day, just like always.

I’m not going anywhere, but I just want to be fair to myself and fair to you. Some of the episodes are pre tapes. For example, December twenty seventh, eighth and ninth pre tapes Top Comedy Specials of the Year. January first, I will air the interview I did on The Letterman Podcast. I’m the guest on The Letterman Podcast tomorrow if you want to hear it then, but I’m using that as the January first episode.

Christmas Day, I already pretaped it, so as part of that, I just want to get in front of it. So if you’re like, hey, how come he’s not talking about Nate Bergazzi special. Did he not watch it? I’m just on tape a little bit more than usual. You know.

Through the end of the year. That’s all that’s going on here. I just wanted to deal you straight. I’m about to record Friday’s episode, Johnny Max take it in some days off. I appreciate you, Thank you for listening.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ronny Chieng, Nikki Glaser, Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Joe Coy, Ali Wong, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Ronny Chieng special buzz and year-end rankings
• Ronny Chieng discusses merch strategy and vintage fashion aesthetic
• Ronny Chieng on delaying parenthood and comedy career priorities
• Nikki Glaser preparing for Golden Globes hosting
• Ronny Chieng’s influences and mentorship from comedy legends

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. In there. I warn you they’re about to over expose in a Berghetzi. There are two big pieces in the Washington Post and The New York Times. I’ll discuss them on the podcast tomorrow for reasons I’ll explain later.

Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. But I did share them in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Ronny Chieng special getting a lot of buzz front of the show. Jason Zenimann has it as the number one special of the year. My plan was to watch it on Tuesday evening and discuss it tomorrow, and then I can record my end of the year list.

Daily Times caught up with Ronnie. I also shared this in the Facebook group, and they wrote Che’s weapon of choice as a wardrobe of tailored vintage threads fit for a sixty spy caper. What a great description that is, even on a day that finds him off stage in his normal street wear, a dark blue sweater and ball cap hiding ahead of tossled black hair. Chang’s thoughtfulness in discussing his recent career uptick is indicative of the international mindset of a comic who combines old school style and a new school prospect. The only time said aspects of the special, oh spoilers, I’m spoiling myself because I haven’t seen it yet.

As I record this are bound to resonate with people your age, especially jokes about putting off having kids for the sake of your career. Have your thoughts on putting off parenthood changed it all since filming a special? Ronnie said, Yeah, it’s interesting. I did the bit and I was just kind of talking about what’s happening in my life, and I have to say not to about myself on the back, but a lot of people surprisingly have been relating to it, so it feels like everyone in America is doing it. I wrote it this year, so it’s a very current bit.

So I’m still in that mindset. I’m a bad person to ask about it because I don’t have kids, so I don’t know everyone who does have kids tell me there’s never a good time, and it’s fine. Bill Burr was telling me that he wished he had more sooner, So all that stuff gives me a kind of respective on it. Seinfeld told me that being married and not having kids is like going to Disneyland and staying in the car park. But everyone who’s the comic who I admire seems to say that it’s not only okay to have kids were working on your career, it’s great.

As for his attire, when I did my first special, I wanted it to look professional in classic because I didn’t want it to look amateur. Felt like it was an American to me, this is the NBA of comedy and entertainment. Every special idea, I try to have a visual aesthetic that matches a classic American show business era. This one was Elvis in Hawaii. I’ve been lucky to film a few projects in Hawaii.

I did at least one movie there. If not too it’d sound so hacky to say I love Hawaii, but I definitely feel something there reminds me of the best parts of Malaysia and the best parts of America in one place, and was a shelter from my wife and I during the pandemic. All right, Ronny Chieng, are there any comedy heroes you model yourself after? Interesting answer here, He says, A lot of times, I’d model my decisions after A Z’s I’m sorry, I asked myself a lot like, wou does Ese do that? And how Wouldeszz do a poster?

Because he’s very tasteful, obviously very funny, and he also managed to do comedy in a way where he kind of went beyond race. Everybody loved him. I don’t know about people who worked with him. Leave that there, John, And it wasn’t about his ethnicity. And he was sort of a super funny comic and he was always very stylish and tasteful, and he also didn’t over expose himself in terms of social media.

Ronnie, he was canceled Google, so he’s very selective in what he did. Bill Burg executive produced my special. I’m glad I can get advice from Dave Chappelle and Seinfeld and all the greats of comedy. Joe Coy gives me advice. I’m trying to imagine what that advice would be.

I would guess Joe Cooy’s advice would be like, if you’re at the Golden Globes, don’t make a joke about Taylor Swift. No, I won’t play it. I got a lot to do today. Uh, I film my last special and Joe Coy had filmed a special at the same place ten years before me. So I called him and asked him, Hey, anything I should know about this venue, and he gave me specific tips.

He told me to make up the balcony stuff like that. Ali Wang’s always giving me advice. I’m very lucky to be able to get advice from everybody.

Also learned a lot from John Mulaney.

John let me open for him this year, and I got to see how he works and how he runs his shows, and I got a lot out of it, just logistically, how to organize the show at that level. The look I picked was classic American show business because quite honestly, it was easier for me to look classic than to look fashionable. You just have to put on a suit to make sure it fits. When you try to look fashionable, you’re trying to look forward into what would be stylish or what will stay stylish. So it’s easier for me to look backwards for style and be more classic and be more professional.

He points out, you can’t dress that way doing spots in New York City. I feel like if he did three piece suits every single time, it almost looks like a gimmick, you know, kind of lose it’s its impact. Interesting question here from The La Times. Ronnie, do you think selling merch is a comic is more trouble than it’s worth? He said.

I never want to sell something I wouldn’t buy myself. So if I wouldn’t wear it every day proudly, why would I try to sell it. And when you bring merch on the road, everybody takes so much of a cut. It doesn’t even make sense anymore unless you make it into an entire operation and you outsource it. I’m happy they bought a ticket.

I don’t need to extract more money from them. But that’s just me. I asked Bill Burr about this, because he doesn’t really do much either. I asked if he ever figured out and he’s like, nah, they take such a big cut and it’s not worth it. And so I’m like, if Bill Burr can’t figure it out, then I don’t think I can figure it out.

I do sell socks and vinyl on my website, so people can buy socks and vinyl if they want to buy something, but it’s also an environmental thing. I just don’t want to sell something that would end up in a river choking out a sea turtle. Nikki Glaser was on CBS this morning. Now I’m gonna pull some clips here and not comment on them. Why.

I don’t know if you’re picking me up. But I’m a little hyper so this time year, everyone’s home, and to publish the podcast, I have to edit the podcast. To edit the podcast, I have to voice the podcast. To voice the podcast, after write the podcast, and I’m doing all that before some members of the family wake up, and before another member of the family comes home, and it’s like, hey, I want to use the workout equipment that’s two feet from the studio, and I want to do laundry. So I’m really trying to rush to get today’s show done, and I have to do some other stuff.

I have to do some voice work for the show I host on Live one, The Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s free the Aposphere. The show is free, The Weekly Comedy Thing on Live one. So I’m a little hyper here. So I’ve pulled the Nikki audio, but I haven’t at this point, as I’m voicing this, I haven’t said, oh, I’ll put this clip here, that clip there.

So here’s some random Nikki Glaser audio. It really is fun to be me. It’s it’s been a lot of hard work leading up to this point of like a twenty two year career where some people are suddenly starting to take notice on this kind of like bigger scale. And I’m at a point in my life where, you know, I’m old enough to kind of handle this kind of attention and not let it go to my head, know that it can go away at any point, and feeling like I have you know, good family, good friends around me, and and knowing like how to do a gig like this. If I would have gotten the Golden Globes five years ago, I would have not really known how to handle it.

I would have worked myself too hard. I would have been crying, yea naked getting a spray tann the night before, like what am I doing tomorrow? Like I’ve that was a moment. I had a lot of times in my life of like like I have to be on TV tomorrow.

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And now it’s just like I know how to plan things, I know how to train for the…

Normally I would comment on that audio there, but I explained to you I’m a little hyper today and I’m just trying to get this done. New York Times reported on Monday night, more than a dozen comedians walked into a Broadway theater to talk about love among other people there. David Letterman, by the way, I’m the guest on the Letterman Podcast on Friday, and I dropped a hint in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group about that interview and the numbers one one, and now I think like we’ve over hyped it. Mike Chishom, the host of Letterman Podcast Night, I think we’ve overhyped it. I’m using the interview if you don’t want to listen to it on the Letterman Podcast, but you should.

I’m using it here as the January first episode, so it’s one less thing for me to pretape over the holidays. That’s all. No major announcement. Sorry if we override that. That was not the intention.

I was just trying to be fun anyway. At the theater, Letterman, Tom Hank, Steve Martin, Pete Davidson, Olivia Munn, John Stewart, and some others. They were there to see all in Comedy About Love by Simon Rich. It opens December twenty second at the Hudson Theater. Olivia Munn and John m’laney greeted each other with a kiss and explain they hadn’t seen each other much.

Olivia said the hardest thing right now is having a toddler and a newborn. They try to schedule date nights, but then they’ll look at each other and say, should we just stay home instead. M’laney said, that’s the best type of date night when we both want to bail. John Stewart was wearing jeans and a New York Ranger as a camp with a tan jacket. His answer about love is it has to do with gummies.

Fred Armison said the thing I’ve told my wife. We’ve been married almost twenty five years, and I tell her the same thing every day. I wake up, look at her the eye and say, lower your expectations, and then I live up to them. Pete Davidson said, I don’t really have advice except I guess be patient, be yourself, and hopefully you’ll meet the right person. The more you try and look, the more you freak yourself out.

I think it should happen organically. Johnny Mac added, record your podcast when she’s not at home. Then you don’t have to fight over why you’re doing the laundry when I’m trying to record. That’s a big tip there. Andrew Schultz on his podcast, he continued to discuss the issues between himself and Kendrick Lamar.

Schultz things Kendrick is taking a page from Taylor Swift’s victim playbook. Uh oh. Schultz said, Kendrick really is the Taylor Swift of hip hop in that no matter what he does, he’s still the victim, no matter what. Like you know how Taylor’s always the victim. Like she’s the biggest in music history.

She’s a victim to the label, She’s a victim to Scooter Braun, she’s a victim to her boyfriend’s and yet she’s the biggest in the world. Somehow, Kendrick is the victim here. I’ll let she’s also a victim of Joe Coy’s vicious I mean, his joke was so vicious. I know earlier I didn’t play it, but I think Andrew brings up a thing here. Listen to how mean Joe Cooy was about Taylor Swift.

A big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift, right, I mean, that’s vicious.

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And then she justifiably made a face and turned the room against Joe Coy and …

I mean, really, to suggest that an NFL game has more shots of Taylor Swift than the Golden Globes, I mean, absolutely absurd. Schultz then broke down the timeline of the beef with Kendrick. According to Schultz, Kendrick dropped whacked out morals and mentioned Schultz’s friends on the song. Then, according to this recap, death threats start after Kendrick fans threatened Schultz and his family on social media. Schultz said he was quiet for two weeks and finally said, all of kendricks fans go, how could you say that?

And then Schultz shot back something vulgar. Schultz’s quote is saying, all of Kendrick’s fans go, how could you say that? Oh my god, you can’t go there. You can’t take it there. But I thought y’all get there when you said you’re gonna kill my family member.

So wait, you can kill my family member, But I can’t vulgar thing. I’m really cleaning up here, and I’m avoiding something I don’t want to voice. You can listen to Andrew Schultz podcast, Margaret Show in a light hot of water, So there’s no such thing as light hot lukewarm water. Margaret Show and lukewarm water really rushing today. I under a lot of pressure to get this one done.

Let’s see. Margaret was on the Out one hundred Red Carpet, an event hosted by Out magazine that honors the most significant LGBTQ plus individuals for the year. In a video interview, she was asked, who are you holding space for right now? She replied, the United Healthcare CEO Shooter. I’m holding space for as most people I know are.

We’re holding space for those eyebrows, that body the abs. Here’s Morgan jumped in and said, sickening. What is wrong with these people? Apparently what we do in the Shadows had its series finale. This is the thing that happened.

I missed it. They sure didn’t promote it. I mean, I knew about the Yellowstone finale, but apparently the series is over, very very very very light spoilers from the AV Club. I didn’t even read the entire article because I didn’t want to spoil myself. I like that show.

I don’t even know if I knew it was on. I’m sure I told you was on, but like I forgot about it because it’s on regular TV and I don’t come across it. But apparently Finale was a funny half hour of what the aft do you actually want from us? Utterly ruthless in the face of any back of bringing impulse to go for in Everybody Hugs Moment Shadows, Finale instead plays tribute to its history while thumbing its nose at the idea of deeper meanings. All right, that sounds pretty good.

I’ll have to catch up on that. On Gossip Corner, Chevy Chase went out for steak in Peoria. He was at Jim’s Steakhouse over the weekend. Waitress Gala said Chase and his family arrived around six point thirty on Saturday, and said, I was just super excited to meet him, you know, and I was really obviously honored to be able to wait on him and his family. Kristin, the manager, described Chase as a normal, regular family type of guy.

Kayla, the waitress, said I did hear him say something about he was just glad they could all be there for dinner. I just try to give him that time. The space to eat and you know, enjoy time with his family. Kristin, the manager, said, we put a picture on the table for him to sign for us to put up on the wall, and I hear that he cracked a joke to make sure that we hang it in the ladies room. While in Peoria, Chase spoke to the Peoria Journal Star and he was asked who should be on the Mount Rushmore of comedy.

Chevy’s answer, I’d want to have Danny ackroyd, Richard Pryor, Ernie Kovacs, and Charlie Chaplin with me. Well that’s five. So first of all, there’s only four on Mount Rushmore. And if I weren’t trying to get today’s podcast done as quickly as possible, I would comment on that list some other time. Chevy said, those are the ones.

They really are cracked point out that Richard Pryor would not want to be on the mountain with Chevy. Day saw were is Paul Mooney’s book Becoming Richard Pryor. In the book, apparently, Mooney wrote, Chevy Chase was the doll baby, the darling of the discotheque with straight teeth, and Richard wanted to knock them out There was supposed to be a show on Monday Night aimed at bringing together communities from both sides of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Debate. Don’t Hate would have taken place at Stand Up New York.

Organizers were forced to cancel after pro Palestinian comedians withdrew. Palestinian comedian Ahman El Hussini wrote to the organizers, thanks for reaching out, but I can’t share the stage with any Zaionazis while my people in Arabs in the region are being decipated and genocided. So Israelis can have beach houses in more Land, that’s not theirs. Libyan comedian Mohand El Shaiki posted on Instagram claiming the now canceled show was a little debate about why murdering children is wrong. Helen Rosner is a Palestinian activist and wrote, some comedy club in New York City is apparently putting on a both sides night about Israel’s annihilation of Gaza, inviting me to build a more inclusive community.

Organizer Robin Lemberg told The New York Post the intention was not to debate genocide. Humor is one of the most powerful tools we have to lower defenses. In foster connection. It disarms anger and fear, opening the door to conversations that would otherwise feel impossible. The facts are that anti Semitism is growing exponentially to diminish the rise of Islamophobia as well.

That concerns me personally and feels awful for all of us. Comedian Elon Gold told the Post it’s a missed opportunity. The whole point of comedy, beside the laughing part, is the unifying and the sharing of the human experience, and if comedians on both sides of this can’t get their literal act together, I’m concerned for the rest of humanity. Donnie Zuldan, the founder of Stand Up New York and someone I’m friendly with, and we work together in the back of the podcast company a website called the Algeimer dot com, they say last week on Thursday, Donnie released an open letter addressed to the Propalstinian Comics. According the report, the letter said, by participating, you’re not endorsing any narrative or perspective other than your own.

You’re helping to create a space where others can see what it looks like to sit in the same room, listen and engage without fear or anger dictating the conversation. We need your voices, we need your humor, and most importantly, we need your courage to engage on a happier note if you’re me. The National Film Registry has put Star Trek two into the National Film Registry. Yeah, big fan of that. I wrote about it on my substack mcdeepod dot substack dot com link in the show notes.

But we’re running along here, and as much as I want to talk about Star Trek to the Wrath of KHN for twenty minutes, I’ll refer you to the substack and bring it back to comedy. Beverly Hills Cop from nineteen eighty four is the first live action Eddie Murphy film selected for the Registry, also making it cheech and chongs up in smoke. Congratulations to those guys, and that is your comedy news for today. Whew, I got it done. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ronny Chieng, Jerry Seinfeld, Pete Davidson, Nate Bargatze, Dane Cook

What’s in This Episode

• Ronny Chieng’s Netflix special ‘Love to Hate It’ released December 17, 2024
• Ronny Chieng interviewed by Jerry Seinfeld for Interview magazine
• Pete Davidson on reducing work frequency and avoiding overexposure
• Nate Bargatze’s Christmas special on Thursday and CBS appearance
• Nate Bargatze partnering with Waze app as driving companion feature
• Dane Cook starring in dark comedy thriller ‘Boris Is Dead’

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Ronny Chieng specials out on Netflix Today. Friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann of The New York Times has it ranked as his number one I’m looking forward to watching it tonight. Love to Hate It was taped at the historic Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, where he had a five nights sold out show.

In Love to Hate It, Ronnie talks about the indignities of the IVF process, the pitfalls of being a man on the Internet, American politics, and the place of the older generation in today’s world. He had written a piece for The Wall Street Journal and said his first exposure to American comedy was watching Jerry Seinfeld’s stand up intervals on the Seinfeld sitcom. You also watched The Lead Show with David Letterman, right, we like the same kinds of comedy, he wrote. I watched because stand up looked interesting. Comedians would walk on stage, talk to the audience and make jokes, and people laughed, including me.

Interview magazine got a good interviewer. The interviewer was Harry Seinfeld, the subject Ronnie ching. Ronnie said, I’m surprised you agreed to do this. Jerry said, you know something about you. You just want to say, yes, you got that thing.

I have it two you know? And laughs? How you doing ching? I’m okay, I’m actually in la. I just did Kimmel.

I heard he did Fellon. I did well. They tell me how busy you were and how much I should be thankful that you’ve decided to speak to me. I’m still not over it. Seinfeld said, I think it’s time.

I used to get this thing I would call a twenty four hour talk show virus. You do a talk show, no matter what it could be, fantastic, mediocre, whatever. You don’t feel good for twenty four hours. Do you have that, Ronnie? Now?

I think I probably have the forty eight hour one. I get it twenty four hours before the interview and then twenty four hours after. I’m sick the whole time. You don’t go on and be sincere. You want to be funny, but you don’t want to just do a set.

Jerry, Yeah, I went and did a set and it felt terrible about it. And I watched you tell a story about the night of the election. I thought that’s what I should have done. I don’t have any stories though. I don’t understand these shows.

What’s going on here? Are we worthless or valuable? Chang says, I get my kicks from connecting to people I only know from watching on TV comedians. We a lot of reverence history. There are institutions that I’m just happy to be able to touch once in a while.

That’s why I do it. I’m like all my heroes used to do this, but then I didn’t know if I should do so much press. You’re the one who actually told me, what are you talking about? Do all the press? Jerry?

Absolutely, Ronnie, So just to be clear, you’re also doing this for press, Jerry, Yes. I like to think back to my early days of doing clubs, when I didn’t even ask how many days I worked here, how many shows they did? Whatever you told me was fine. The club owner would say to me, I want to do an extra show, and I’d go an extra show, and it’d say, what’s the difference? All you do is talk?

I came from that. Now the comedians are like, well, we want to know what makes you tick. I’ve watched the you know, go from zero all the way to this insane place that it is now, Ronnie. Do you think it’s gonna go back to where they don’t care about what makes us tick anymore? Jerry, Yes, I do.

We’re in the red zone now. I think tact is gonna have to come back, and what will make it come back is aging. When you’re in your fifties, you don’t care about anybody else’s problems. Ronnie. The thing that irks me is they don’t actually care what makes you sick.

They’re just asking because they’re trying to feel words in a column or keep the interview going. Most people don’t care, Jerry. I have a new line in my set that I just started doing. It’s unbelievably gratifying. It’s a long run about what’s annoying in the world.

I say. I find that whenever people talk, it tends to be annoying. At this point in life, the hardest thing any of us have to do is not scream. I don’t care into the face of anyone that says anything. In the audience totally loves it.

Pete Davison told The Hollywood Reporter he just wants to be known for doing great work, but only every couple of years. Pete said in the Sopranos. There’s this line from Tony that’s like, you ever feel like you got into something of the end when the good times are over. That’s how I feel about show business and being a celebrity. It’s over.

When you’re first coming up getting all these offers, it’s hard to say no because you’re hungry. I made the mistake of doing literally everything. Now I am older and wiser, and I’m realizing that less is more. Like Christian Bale. He does one movie every two three years, but you go see it.

Leo Dicabrio does one movie every four years, but it’s the biggest thing of the world. It’s because you miss them, people have to miss you. I just want to be known for doing good work. I want to be out there only when it’s a movie, stand up charity, or business ventures. That’s what I want to be seen.

I don’t want to be this loser who just dates people. That’s not who I am. But people hate celebrities now. The media takes a handful of celebs every couple of years and they just destroy them for some reason. I’m one of the people they choose to go after.

It’s actually, in a way a blessing because it’s allowed me to take a step back and evaluate things. Who do you want to be? Who are you? I’m someone who’s from Staten Island want to do stand up. But if I got to do anything else because of stand up, it’s a miracle.

Hmm. I can’t speak for other I know when I talk about Pete, I usually come from a place of like, hey, dude, I’m rooting for you because I see the struggles he’s going through. But I guess I see the celebrity gossip part of Pete Davidson’s dating so and so. Yeah, I’ve done that too, I get it. Beete says he’s very happy where he is right now mentally, and feels lucky that he was woken up about being hit on the face with the Hollywood shovel right.

I found out a little bit more about Nabrigatzi’s Christmas special, which is out on Thursday. The Nate is about to be massively overexposed between the CBS thing and his Netflix special. We’re going to start to get sick about Nate, I think, and I love him. There is a trailer for the special where you know the thing where he plays George Washington and says ridiculous, and people ask questions and he gives answers, and you know you’ve seen the sketcharent he’s doing a version of that where he’s an angel or something like that.

Meanwhile, Ways, you know the map thing on your phone.

I’m a big fan of Ways. They tell us calling all comedy lovers, buckle up and get ready to hit the road with the hilarious Naprighezzi. As you’re Way’s driving companion. Nate isn’t just a comedian. He also happens to love driving and is always ready with a joke or quirky observation to make the miles fly by.

No we don’t want this, No no no, no, no, no no no. Just tell me in three miles of the highway splits and I need to go left. That’s all I need to know. Nate’s sense of humor takes the edge off your daily commute no won’t, and brings a smile to your drive. Expect witty commentary, relatable anecdotes, and a healthy dose of Southern charm.

What Ai wrote that sentence, This Ways experience is all about enjoying the solitude of the open road and embracing the unexpected turns of life. Is it the open road or is it my commute? Pick a narrative here, guys, as you hear Nate put it. Shout out to everyone driving with a list of errands from their spouse. There’s no time let on these errands.

Okay, you could be gone for months. Make sure you have the latest version of Ways and look for the Nate forgets thee Benner in the left side column. Any of the app No thanks? Uh. Dane Cook is starring in the dark comedy thriller Boris Is Dead.

Boris Is Dead follows a struggling actor working as a waiter played by Dean Cook, who unwittingly becomes involved in a violent Heights gone wrong where his boss, deep in debt, has been stealing from employees and running the restaurant is a front for the mob. Oh no. Josh Blue is that comedy works downtown. This week he spoke to Colorado Public Radio. They were curious if his timing and delivery have changed since he started, and Josh Blue said, I feel like I’ve always had impeccable timing, even as a kid.

I could just zip something in with the teacher and the whole class would laugh. I’ve always had that gift, but I feel like it’s definitely evolved, and I’ve gotten more comfortable in the silence. I’ll let something ride longer the laughter go, and then when I do hit them, it’s even harder. What’s beautiful about stand up is I’ll never figure it out completely. Every time I think I’ve got something pinned down, something new in the world happens, or something in my brain puts a new connection together.

There’s no end to this. I have a bit where somebody would get up to go to the bathroom and I’ll be like, where you go, And they go to the bathroom, and I’ll be like, you want to wait?

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And then I will wait the entire time they’re gone.

It gets a laugh without me saying anything, and I mean minutes go by without me saying something, just a facial expression or body movement, and I can get it. When they come back. It’s like a standing ovation that people are so happy this person came back from the bathroom. It’s really fun. Josh Blue nineteenth through the twenty first It comedy works downtown.

All right, you need New Year’s Eve plans. Here’s something I guess you could go with NBC announced the day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year’s special. It’s an hour look back at Seth Meyers’s drunken interactions with Rihanna post Malone, Kelly Clarkson Blah blah blah it Al air from eleven thirty to twelve thirty five AM on New Year’s Eve. It is unclear how they’re going to handle the whole midnight thing. Not that hard.

You could just do an insert somewhere. You could time the thing out. I’ve pre recorded some New Year’s Eve specials in my radio career. It can be done. Quick story there.

Before the merger, when it was just serious, I used to do a New Year’s Eve special, rowd Dog’s Effing New Year’s Eve, and we would time it out so it aired at midnight. But we learned from the engineers for the signal to go from the computer up to space and back to your radio was twenty three seconds. But I can do math, so we used to time it out, so we would play at eleven fifty nine thirty seven and then hit your radio right at midnight. And it was kind of cool.

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And then we merged with XM, and XM had different technology and so there was …

So then we just started doing approximately midnight there, up and back was not twenty three seconds, it was a different number.

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And then they started with the Internet and the internet delay was a totally …

So when is midnight? We had four different answers. Last year NBC aired Sunday Night Football. Before that, they were doing the Lorne Michaels thing. Remember Pete Davidson was part of that.

Yeah, that went away quietly. In case you’re curious, CBS has a five hour country music special out of Nashville. ABC has Dick Clarks New Year’s Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest, and over on CNN, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will probably have a couple beverages, as they tend to do. On her podcast, Samantha Bee talked about Luigi man GEONI you know, the guy accused of killing the guy She was asked about, where’s the line? She says, how do you know when you’ve gone too far?

I’m not a person who finds murder amusing in the least. That’s a hard limit, no matter how bizarre or engaging the details. Are You ever watch darts The World of Darts Championship is going on right now. You’ll find it on YouTube if you’re in the States. It is the most entertaining thing at all.

Basically, these guys walk up the Brits right now are like, we know, but the Americans don’t know anything about the darts. They don’t know it. Let me explain it to them. Okay, So because everybody does this for a living, the commentators are like, oh, he needs to hit a twenty twenty and a triple seventeen to get to whatever the number is. These guys just walk up to the line, like you know, when I play darts at the bar, I stand there for a second.

These guys just walk up to the line. They’re like whoa who who and they’re just you know, they’re pros, but they’re great.

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And then announcer will be like, all right, this guy needs a triple sixteen a…

The crowd dresses up like they’re on let’s make a deal. And everybody, I think they’ve all had a couple beverages. So this whole thing is fun to watch. I recommend on. So a guy’s been walking around dressed up as Ali G.

It turns out it’s Jack Whitehall who posted the Darts the Greatest show on Earth. Wish I still had the stamina for it, and he shared some pictures of himself dressed as Ali G getting in the spirit of things. It’s a lot of fun. I was in Australia one time for Christmas and just started channel surfing because it was nighttime and wasn’t anything else to do. Everything was closed and I came across darts and I’m like, this is amazing.

British comedian Russell Howard will premiere his new stand up special Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium as a global streaming event January fifteenth. On the Drift platform, Drift is spelled with two eyes. I think my eyesight isn’t that good anymore. But that looks like or iiftes drift or no drift. I don’t know how you pronounce it.

Drift just spell things normally. You’re making things too difficult on yourself. The sixty minutes special was recorded during Howard’s international tour. The stream will include Off the Cuff, a bonus program featuring exclusive content totally random. Did you watch the Yellowstone finale.

I won’t spoil it here. I have so many questions. And I was hanging out in the reddit and somebody said like, Hi, I’m Chris Hardwick. Welcome to Talking Yellowstone. And after that finale we needed Talking Yellowstone.

I’ll give you a couple of days to watch them. But I have so many questions. All right, maybe Friday I’ll ask you about Yellowstone. All right, did you watch it? Hit me on the Facebook group and that’s your Daily Comedy News for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. But like I said yesterday, tell them about it like in the middle of January when the comedy news is back. Today wasn’t filler. I actually bounced stories today, so today was not filler. Take that back.

You can tell them today. Hey, there is this show. This guy talks about darts and Yellowstone. You’re gonna love it. See you tomorrow.

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