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Featured: George Carlin, Bob Moorehead

What’s in This Episode

• George Carlin’s relevance to modern America
• Misattributed Carlin quotes online
• Analysis of ‘Dumb Americans’ bit from Life is Worth Losing
• Carlin’s critique of American consumerism and corporate control
• The ‘American Dream’ monologue

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. How did July fourthom Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Today, I thought I would talk about America’s great prophet, George Carlin. If you’re a regular listening there to this program, you’ve heard me say before. The stuff Carlin put out at the beginning of this century, it feels like it was recorded yesterday. At the time, I thought Carlan sounded angry and had lost his fastball, And I am so, so so wrong to have had that opinion.

He is America’s great profit. I just want to talk a little bit about that war in the Persian golf, big doings in the Persian golf. You know my. Favorite part of that war. It’s the first war.

We ever had that was on every channel plus cable. And the war got good ratings too, didn’t it got good ratings? Well, we like war. We like war. We’re war like people.

We like war because we’re good at it. And you know why we’re good at it because we get a lot of practice. Those country is only two hundred years old and already we’ve had ten major wars. We average a major war in this country every twenty years, So we’re good at it, and it’s a good thing we are. We’re not very good at anything else anymore.

Can’t build a decent car, got no steel industry left, can’t get healthcare to our old people, can’t educate our young people. But we can bomb the shit out of your country, all right. We can bomb the shit out of your country, all right. Now, Before we get into this, some housekeeping. If you go looking for George Carlin quotes online, a huge percentage of what you’ll find is fig They’re not exaggerated or paraphrased.

They’re just attributed to him by people who never bother to check. One example is something called the Paradox of Our Time. That’s the one about taller buildings and shorter tempers, wider freeways and arrow of viewpoints that gets reposted with his name on it constantly. He didn’t write that. That’s from Bob Moorehead, a pastor who wrote it in nineteen ninety five.

Carlan was reportedly furious that he would be credited for it, and said nothing should be attributed to him unless it actually came from one of his album’s books, HBO Specials, or his own site. Let’s start with the bit that’s the actual backbone of this whole conversation. It gets quoted, the most it’s understood, the least it’s from. Life is worth losing. His thirteenth HBO special, recorded November fifth, two thousand and five, at the Beacon Theater in New York.

The bit is officially titled Dumb Americans. And that title alone tells you something because the version of the bit that circulates online almost never gets attached to that title or that context. It gets cut down to the punchest twenty seconds. It passed around like a standalone thought. So here’s my challenge here.

I want to play a little in context here, but I can’t go playing the whole bit. I’m just as bad as the people of critiquing. But here’s George Carland. Only a really low IQ population could have taken this beautiful content, this magnificent American landscape that we inherited. Well, actually we stole it from the Mexicans and the Indians, but hey, it was a nice one.

We stole it. It looked pretty good. It was pristine paradise. Have you seen it lately? Have you taken a good look at it lately?

It’s embarrassing. Only a nation of unenlightened half wits could have taken this beautiful place and turned it into what it is today. A shopping mall. That’s all you’ve got here, folks, Mile after mile of mall after mall, many many malls, major malls and mini malls. They put the mini malls in between the major malls, and in between the mini walls they put the mini marts.

And in between the mini march you got the car lots, gas stations, muffler shops, launder match, cheap hotels, fast food joints, strip clubs, and dirty bookstores. America the beautiful, one big trans continental commercial cesspool. And how did the people feel about all this? How did the people feel about living in a coast to coast shopping mall. Well, it’s just dandy.

They think it is cool as can be because Americans love them all. They love them all. That’s where they get to satisfy their two most prominent addictions at the same time, shopping and eating. What was actually happening in that room that night? Carlon spent several minutes building a case about American voters, calling out what he saw as wilful ignorance, mocking people for not paying attention, and then he pivots hard into something much more structural.

He says, there’s a reason education in this country doesn’t get better, and it’s not in competence. It’s designed Forget the politicians, he says, they’re relevant. They’re there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. The real owners, he says, are the big wealthy business interests. They control the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, the judges, the media.

They got you, in his words, by the balls two thousand and five.

And then he lands the whole thing on the line everyone knows when they don’t …

It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. That’s the big answer to everything. Education. They said, we need more money for education. We need more books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools.

We need more testing for the kids. You say to well, you know we’ve tried all of that and the kids still can’t pass the tests. So don’t you worry about that. We’re going to lower the passing grades. And I said, they’re doing a lot of these schools.

Now they lower the passing grades, the more kids can pass, more kids passed, the school looks good, everybody’s happy. The IQ of the country slips another two or three points, and pretty soon all you’ll need to get into college is a pencil. Then everyone wonders why seventeen other countries graduate more scientists than we do. Education politicians know that word. They use it on you.

Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things, the flag, the Bible, and children. No child left behind, No child left behind. Oh really, well, it wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving kids a head start, head start, left behind. Someone’s losing ground here. But there’s a reason.

There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this. There’s a reason education sucks. It’s the same reason that it will never ever ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better.

Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the big, the wealthy that the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. They’re they’re they’re irrelevant.

The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t you have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything, They own all the important land.

They own and control the corporations they’ve long since bought and paid for, the Senate, the Congress, the state houses and city halls. They got the judges in their back buckets. And they own all the big media media news, all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want.

Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking.

They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. You know what they want. They want obedient workers. Obedient workers people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours to reduce benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now they’re coming for your social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something, they’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner related because they own this place.

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. What’s important is the shape of the argument underneath that all. He’s not telling a joke with a setup and a Twisty’s making an accusation point by point, like a closing argument. And the laughs on the rum are happening because the audience recognizes something true in real time, not because he’s surprised him with a punch line. That’s why this bit has invaded the way topical material usually does.

He wasn’t joking about a specific two thousand and five scandal. He was describing a mechanism, and mechanisms don’t expire on a news cycle. The second piece of that conversation, the fascism line, has a different and more interesting origin than most people assume, because it didn’t come up from a stand up special at all. It came from a TV appearance September ninth, two thousand and five, on Real Time with Bill Maher, days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Harlan was on the panel and the conversation turned to President Bush calling for zero tolerance on looters and price gougers in the storm’s aftermath.

Carlin used the moment to say something he clearly believed. When fascism comes to America, it won’t be in brown and black shirts. It won’t be with Jack boots. It’ll be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts.

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And then he throws out in a side Germany lost the Second World War, fascism d…

The real looting in this country takes place in the transfer of the wealth from the poor to the rich. I’m sorry that you don’t like class and the truth, my friend, but you’re just stuck with it. And the poor have been systematically looted in this country. The rich have been made richer under this criminal, fascist president and his government. Book.

That line has had a second life, completely disconnected from Katrina, completely disconnected from two thousand and five, completely disconnected from Bush. It gets pulled out now by people across a wide range of political positions attached to whatever they’re worried about in their own moment. And that’s not a misuse of the quote. That’s actually what the quote was built to do. Carlan wasn’t describing a specific political party.

He was describing the mechanism, the idea that authoritarianism doesn’t need to look authoritarian if it can dress itself in comfort and branding and a friendly logo instead. Hmm, that’s a structural observation. Hm. The great profit of our time. Then there’s the bid that almost never gets the credit it needs next to the political stuff, because it’s not really about the government, it’s about the planet.

This one from Jammin in New York, April nineteen ninety two, Paramount Theater inside Madison Square Garden. Carland reportedly said that one was his personal favorite of everything he ever did for HBO. George starts by going after the language of environmentalism itself. Everybody’s saying something now, save the tree, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails, and then, in his own words, the supreme arrogance, save the planet. He says, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves.

We haven’t learned how to take care of each other, and we think we’re going to save the entire planet, and then the turn the planet’s fine. The people are the one who are finished. The planet’s four billion years old, he said, it isn’t going anywhere. We are pack your stuff, we’re going away. We won’t even leave much of a trace.

The bit isn’t really making a claim about climate change one way or the other. It’s making a claim about human arrogance, the assumption that we are significant enough to destroy something that’s outlasted ice ages and asteroid impacts. It’s aged in a strange way because every time there’s a wave or wildfire season dominating headlines, someone resurfaces the clip and it lands like he’s narrating this week’s news from thirty years in the past. He wasn’t predicting anything specific. He was describing a posture, and the posture is still recognizable.

See, I’m not one of these people who’s worried about everything. You got people like this around you, Countries full of them now, people walking around all day long, every minute of the day, worried about everything, Worried about the air, worried about the water, worried about the soil, worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives, carcinogens, worried about graydon gas, worried about asbestos, worried about saving endangered species. Let me tell you about endangered species, all right. Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling.

It’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that interfering with nature? Over ninety percent, over way over ninety. Percent of all the species that have ever lived on this line, that ever lived are gone. They’re extinct.

We didn’t kill them all. What ties all those pieces together, the owner bit, the fascism line, the planet bit, is that none of them are about a specific event. That’s the difference between material that ages and material that doesn’t. Jokes built around a particular scandal, particular politician, a particular headline, those need a footnote a few years later to even make sense. Carlin, especially in his last decade, was mostly building arguments about systems and habits of thought that don’t get retired just because the news cycle moves on now.

Some people would say Carlin himself would have mocked this framing. Not every bit in his catalog is aged the same way. Some of the broader targets from early in his career land differently now than they did in the room at the time, the way almost any comedian’s full body of work as a material that was much of the time. He was a comedian who, over five decades got progressively sharper and angrier and more precise about one specific question, Who actually holds power and what does it cost regular people that they mostly don’t notice. He spent his final specials narrowing in on that question with more focus than almost anyone else working in the format, and he answered it carefully enough and meant it specifically enough that the answer has not needed an update.

That is the case for calling him a profit. There has nothing to do with the seven words, nothing to do with hippie, dippy weatherman George Carlin, America’s prophet. Enjoy your Independence Day. Hope you have an awesome weekend. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Nikki Glaser, Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Robby Hoffman, Patton Oswalt, Dana Gould, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Ralphie May, Jeff Foxworthy, Louis C.K., Gianmarco Soresi Serasi, Ryan Hamilton

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle Summer Camp 2026 in Yellow Springs Ohio
• New York Times magazine profile of Robby Hoffman
• Patton Oswalt discusses music influences and best comedy sets witnessed
• Jeff Foxworthy on forty-two years of comedy and aging material
• Comedy Stock Market segment with buy and sell recommendations

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hey, or Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Late Nights Off. This week, Late Bought says it’s so hot the federal government is thinking of calling in the mets to cool things off. It’s so hot. Nikki Glaser did a twenty minute said about the heat, tagged every celebrity she’s ever met, and said a personal email to Tom Brady, it’s so hot that Jim Gaffigan finally called me back because he heard I have air conditioning and it’s so hot. John Mulaney wrote a tight, beautifully structured twelve minute bit about it.

His ex wife heard it and said it was the most attention he ever paid to anything. That’s from the AI getting savage and just murdering. John Mulaney Late Bot chill out. Do you have big July fourth weekend plans? Dave Chappelle’s summer camp is back.

If you’re in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Davin Surprise Guests will perform tonight at eight pm at the Weary Pavilion, located in Yellow Springs, about an hour south west of Columbus, Ohio. You’ll find the place off Meredith Road. It being a Chappelle show. The show will be phone free, no phone, no smart watch, no accessories.

You gotta do the stupid, annoying yonder pouch thing they see using a device. You will be escorted out.

Also, while you’re in the area, the Little Art Theater in Yellow Springs will…

My voice is giving out, which is not good for holiday weekend production. I gotta tell you about Robbie Hoffman. Now, Robbie Hoffman, let’s just be Clearlet’s take a second here. I’m going to slow down because I want you guys pay attention, listen to me. I know this is going to be surprising.

Robbie Hoffman is now full establishment. Okay, if you think Robbie Hoffman is like some cool, alt edgy comedian that only we know about it, No, Robbie Hoffman got the full New York Times magazine profile. Okay, we have mainstreamed Robbie Hoffman somehow. The New York Times magazine profiled Robbie at Robbie’s house. Who said it’s weird because you guys said, oh, they have to do it at your house because they want the person to be comfortable.

But you come to the house and you totally rip it apart. You want me to be comfortable, but the couches where the couches, The whole house has moved. They talked about rich weird and poor weird. Robbie said, rich weird is way weirder and worse because there’s a humanity that’s missing. My favorite is the people like me who grew up poor and then, by the grace of God, got some money and now it could be like, oh my god, how weird do these rich people who’ve been like this since birth?

Small things like when you go in a rich person’s house and nobody’s allowed to go on the fridge. The poor of much less when you go to their house, they’re like take, take, take. Whenever I meet a rich person and they’re actually helpful. I mentioned it. It’s worth mentioning Star trek run Er paton Oswalt what kind of music were you into when you were a kid, and said, oh, man, I very much love classic heavy metal, a lot of country, and a lot of punk, post punk, all that stuff from the nineties, pixies, A lot of Elves Costello, a lot of Beastie Boys, a lot of Kinks, and then smaller groups no one’s heard of, like Warm Soda and Bleached Patton.

In comedy, when a show’s going really well, what’s the feeling for you in the room? He said, The best way to describe it is, I’m outside of myself and I’m more connected with the larger crowd, the larger feeling of the room. I know this sounds very vague, but you don’t even thinking about the set or what you’re doing joke wise or worldwise. You’re just talking to the audience like they’re one person. Best comedy set you ever watched?

Star Trek growner Patton Oswalt said, I remember there was a night that Dana Gould was at Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco. This was in the nineties. The material was already amazing, but then he went off on some almost hallucinatory riff about Larry King interviewing guests in the time space membrane. I can’t do it justice, but it was one of the most amazing days I’ve ever seen. It’s definitely the best set I’ve ever seen.

Trying to think of best set I ever saw what’s popping to mind is Ralphie May at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. Now, that same weekend I saw Chris Rock who destroyed, and then the next night Jerry Seinfeld went up when was even better than Chris Rock. But Ralphie that night in a medium size room. That’s what popped into mind, randomly, without me putting any thought into this. If I sit and think about it, I might have a different answer.

Jeff Foxworthy, how do you describe your style? He spoke to McCall dot com Johnny Mac. Is this a holiday weekend yet? Is guys coming up on the show? Completing its seventh year?

We know how the show goes by Now I might do an anniversary special. I have to think about it. I might do a Letterman styled like anti seventh anniversary show July twenty ninth. I don’t know, We’ll see Jeff fox already said, like most comics, when I started out, I remember looking at bill boards and watching commercials and thinking what can I talk about? I learned early on there’s a commonality we as human beings have.

We’re all doing the same goofy stuff in life. I’ve always trusted that we’re doing this for forty two years. But if you go back in time, the first material I did was about dating that it was about being a newlywed, then about having kids, then having teenagers. If you go listen to an old CD or watch a special I did, it’s almost like a snapshot of what was going in my life that year. I can’t imagine doing anything else.

You always hear comedians talk about the bad parts of getting older. I thought, I’m going to approach it different and talk about all the great things about getting older. It’s a fun template to turn upside down. As you get older. You don’t have to worry about the cops showing up if you’re having a party.

That is not true. I I had a pool party a few years ago and somebody called the cops on us, and the cops showed up and the look on their face because I was like, I had no idea why they were there. I think we had a radio on it, like I’ll describe it as normal volume, and the cops are like, we got a noise complaint. And the cop this face just told me that he thought the whole thing was stupid, and I was like, I don’t know, maybe people were hitting the pool with the pool noodles and that made a sound and the cop was like, okay, keep it down. Jeff Foxworthy said, if you get older, you don’t have to worry about the cops showing up at for having a party.

If there’s flashing lights in my driveway, it’s usually an ambulance telling you not to play twister with people in their eighties. All right, Tomorrow on this program, it is July fourth, I’ve done one of those deep dive episodes. It is titled George Carlin America’s Prophet. Now I’ll tell you all you need to know about that. One Sunday, I’m planning on doing top specials of the year so far.

And it is Friday. So let’s take a look at the Comedy stock Market. Comedy stock Market, if you were new to all this. Every Friday on the Comedy stock Marker, we take a look at which comedians are undervalued, which comedians are overvalued. I’m actually going to add a cell here on the fly.

Based on today’s episode. You can probably figure it out.

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All right, Let’s buy some Gianmarco Soresi SERAISI no particular reason.

While I was listening to him on a podcast recently, and I’m like, this guy’s really really good. He’s the goods. I’ve already named him twenty twenty six Comedian of the Year, and people still don’t know who he is. So buy Gianmarco Soresi, let’s buy some more. Ryan Hamilton.

You guys saw the special. You know it’s pretty good. Let’s buy. Let’s sell Louis C.K. I mean, what is the upside to Louis C.K.

At this point he puts out a special and everybody rehashes stuff over and over. John, you did that all week yourself. I know, I don’t see the value in Louis C.K. Let’s sell, Let’s sell even more. N APERGHATSI.

This UFC thing is not going away. I think the whole thing is ridiculous and overblown. And Shane Gillis was there too, and no one cared. But if Nate’s looking to open up Nate Land and people are like, well, you went to a UFC fight one time, I don’t know, man sell Neighborghatsy, let’s sell our stock. And Trevor Noah.

I kind of see where Trevor wants to go with his whole persona. And I don’t think a lot of people are gonna want to go with him, and I’m not sure that he cares and he’ll go there anyway. But from a value standpoint, let’s sell our stock in Trevor Noah. Let’s sell James Cordon. You know he’s hosting show after soccer and there’s zero buzz on it.

Sell Let’s buy Ben Gleb. You know I kind of eye rolled his late night thing, but the numbers have been pretty okay on YouTube. He may be onto something. Let’s buy some Ben Gleib and the late edition. Let’s sell Robbie Hoffman.

You know, when you first see Robbie Hoffman, you’re like, oh my god, she’s amazing. That’s so different. That’s one thing, but establishment Robbie Hoffman having The New York Times over to profile her at her place, that’s just the opposite of cool. Alright, So the recap, we’re buying Gianmarco Soresi, we’re buying Ryan Hamblintson, we’re selling Ck, we’re selling Nate, we’re selling Trevor, we’re selling Cordon, we’re selling Robbie, and we’re buying Ben Gleeb. That is your comedy stock market for today.

If you need some stuff to listen to over the weekend. There’s always Daily Comedy News, but also Pete Holmes was the guest on Comedy Means Business. That’s Deadline’s podcast. The episodes a couple months ago at this point, but I finally got around to it this week and it was really really good. I like Pete and Everything’s about John.

Marcus Raisi was on Stavi’s World. That was also a good listen. Website Rittholtz dot com has the headline comedy is Hot. They were taking a look at the meteor issue of Pollstar and there was a chart for venues with capacities of five thousand or less and ritt Holtz discovered comedy is on this list. They’re right, So starting with the two thousand to five thousand capacity venues, number one is Jerry Seinfeld, which is not surprising.

Number two is DJ Subtronics. Three is Berg Kraser, four Christian Contemporary artist Josiah Queen, five def Leopard Somehow, six Manheim Steamroller, seven E d M Artist K forty s or K forties. I don’t know, I’m old, but three thousand people are going to see them, so great. Eight Jim Gaffigan nine British comedian Michael McIntyre and ten Josh Johnson. Brendan Ayre has announced his debut comedy special, the mental health themed Alive and Well, will premiere exclusively on the eight hundred pound Gerilla’s new streaming service, Gorilla Comedy Plus, on July sixth, that’s Monday, and the special will be available on the YouTube channel August fourth.

We are told from snakes wearing coats to being bipolar. Brendan’s laid back, observational style covers both the silly and the serious. Courted at the Blend Art Gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he discusses his fatherhood, mental health, the burden of owning a cast iron skillet, and more. He told Deadline the hour super special to me. There’s a lot of normal, silly stuff, but I also take on my struggles with mental health, which is such an important topic to me.

I’m really excited to get the special out into the world. That is your comedy news for today. I hope you have an awesome, awesome weekend. I hope Independence Day July fourth is everything all of us want. I’m personally disappointed that the USA two fifty is nowhere near what the Bisonennial was.

If you want my thoughts on that, check out my substack link in the notes, but it’s mcdeepod dot substack dot com. I wrote about that about a week ago. But I’m just kind of disappointed because the Bisonentennial was amazing. But I hope tomorrow is good. All right, Tomorrow on this program, George Carlin, America’s Profits Sunday Best specials of the year so far.

Monday, normal episode. Back to work, so enjoy the holiday weekend. Bye bye,

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Freeman, Louis C.K., Weird Al Yankovic, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, Don Lemon, Kevin Hart, John Oliver, Tim Heidecker, Michael Che, Colin Jost

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais skips BBC Office 25th anniversary documentary for solo YouTube special
• Louis C.K. special ‘Ridiculous’ reviews
• Weird Al Yankovic turns down AI commercial deal
• Dave Chappelle visits San Diego mosque after mass shooting
• John Oliver guest stars on General Hospital
• The Onion launches Info Wars comedy content with Tim Heidecker
• Kevin Hart Netflix roast controversy and racial joke disparity

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. We’ll do spoilers for the Louis C.K. Special after the break. Okay, everybody, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night is off this week, but I had the late bot write some jokes.

It’s so hot. Trump announced he’s building a wall to keep the heat out in New York City. Mayor MUMDONI wants to tax billionaires to cool down the city. The billionaires flew to their second homes and the Hamptons, which kind of proved his point. It’s so hot.

Nateprighatsy performed at another Trump event just for the air conditioning. And it is so hot that Louis C.K. Is not wearing pants. But to be fair, that’s not entirely weather related. Ricky Gervais has a big news story and I would tell you about it here, but I didn’t actually paste it into the script, and I could edit this out, but that’s no fun.

Where did you go Gervay’s story here? It is Ricky Gervas gives The Office co star reunion for solo anniversary show. I just find it’s more fun not to do the edits. A source told the Sun. Now again, that’s a new newspaper.

Sources don’t usually talk to the big yellow thing in the sky making things hot, but a source has told The Son that Ricky Gervas’s decision is a huge blow as it taints the BBC’s celebration somewhat. The BBC is making a documentary to celebrate twenty five years since The Office arrived. Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman, who played Gareth and Tim, which are roughly Dwight and Jim for you Americans, will reminisce about the sitcom in the BBC celebration. Ricky Gervais will not be part of it. He’s decided to film his own documentary.

The source speaking to the newspaper The Sun said it just sums up his lack of allegiance towards the Bebe, which has been drifting for some time now. A representative for Ricky Gervas told The Independent that Ricky was quote not available hogwash. Does Johnny Mac to take part in the documentary, but remains in contact with the BBC all the time about the Office. The BBC declined to comment. Jervas announced last week he’ll be celebrating twenty five years of the Office with a document entry on his own YouTube channel.

That version will appear Thursday, July ninth, which I’m going to add to my script right now before I forget. And that is good news for me because week after July fourth is a slow newsweek. Thank you, Ricky Gervas Sorry, BBC. Jerves rep told The Independent that Ricky’s YouTube content will be an affectionate look back at the Office on this big anniversary.

Meanwhile, the BBC’s Mackenzie Crook and Martin Freeman remember the Office.

That’ll be on BBC to an eyeplayer Wednesday, July eighth at ten pm. Johnny Mac once again says thank you because week after July fourth is a slow newsweek. Thank you guys, not only content but a controversy. This is fantastic. Can you guys fight some more, maybe say mean things about each other in the press, Please do not be civil.

Johnny Mac has content holes. Back in twenty nineteen, Ricky Gervas insisted he was still a fan of the BBC, but said I wish it wouldn’t bow down a pressure from media or from one complaint. That’s gotten worse and the days are gone. When people say we’re leaving it as it is, missioning editors are scared of being fired. How hot is it?

It’s so hot. I got to prop open the door here in the office before I pass out. For weird Al, it’s all about the integrity. Mister Yankovic told Syracuse dot Com that he’s not a big fan of AI, and he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is. Al says he was offered a quote nice pile of money to start a commercial for what he was told was business software that would increase productivity.

Al says that a week before we’re supposed to shoot it, I found out, Oh this is AI, and I thought, oh no, I can’t be the poster boy for AI. Forget it. Dave Chappelle visited a mosque in California where three people were killed in a recent shooting. He met with community members and encouraged support for the families affected by the attack. Dave’s official Instagram shared a video in which Dave traveled to the mosque to pay his respects.

On Monday, May eighteenth, a mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego left of security guarden to community members dead During his visit, Chappelle met with members of the congregation and highlighted ongoing fundraising efforts to support the victim’s families. Trevor Noah on his podcast had guests Don lemonon they started discussing the backlash surrounding Kevin Hart’s Netflix roast. Trevor Noah said, I felt like it was weird that all the black comedians that came on stage told jokes about the people who were there, but then a lot of the white comedians who came on told jokes about black people. I was like, wait, wait, wait, I thought it was the roast of Kevin Hart on your television today. If you’re watching General Hospital and you’re like, is that John Oliver it is.

There’s even a trailer. I’ve got to get Jocelyn out of Bindimer. Now my work is done. I completed the prototype. Nathan isn’t who he says he is.

John Oliver guest stars General Hospital on ABC. John Oliver had announced the casting on the June twenty eighth episode of Last Week Tonight. General Hospital. Executive producer Frank Valenti said in a statement, when John Oliver publicly threw down the gauntlet and said he wanted to appear on a soap. We didn’t hesitate for a second.

He was everything you’d hope for. Prepared, professional, funny, and genuinely kind everyone on set. He plays an integral character in the story and I can’t wait for fans to see Ross has pass with within Port Charles General Hospital is now on its sixty fourth year. You’ll find it on ABC and Hulu. John Oliver said, General Hospital was everything I hoped it would be.

It’s a true honor to be a small stain on the history of this illustrious show.

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Also today, The Onion starts rolling out its first wave of official info Wars…

You may recall they acquired the property from the previous owner, Tim Hidecker, now the face of it. Idiker said, I think well SATs are gets old pretty quickly, and we don’t want to keep fueling previous owner. So the plan is to goof on him for a few months and have fun with it, and then transition the site into a comedy streaming platform for people that he would hate to see have success. Hidecker stressed this is a soft launch. He told Indy Wire everything will still live on the Onion because a standalone info Wars website and social media channel has yet to be set up.

The programming will be heavy on parodying previous owner and his right wing media counterparts. Iidaker says, we’re launching a couple shows. One is my extension of my emergency broadcast from a month or so ago, sort of a parody of the previous world. And we’re launching the Onions Jim Haggerty show that we’ve been teasing for a while now. That’ll all set the tone for the summer where this is heading.

Heideker said, I think it’s very much comedians and artists and creators I guess you’d say, who were using their experience and our experience with the Internet as the fuel and inspiration for their comedy. It’s very much people that are using the tools of social media and satirizing that are reflecting that on social media. Michael ja posted Happy b Day to my good buddy Colin Jessica Jost. I think back to all the stupid fights we had throughout the years, like when you came to work with that racist puppet, or when you kept doing Nazi salutest our fans on tour, when you got a first magazine cover canceled because I was making stupid faces, or when you insisted on getting or Kelly on the show, or when you took me to that whites only store, when you got us beat up at WrestleMania, or all the times I had to stand there and listen to you and Scarlet argue at work and I had to stand there and be like, okay. Or when Harry Styles gave us flowers and you gas lit me because I don’t think he likes me, and you got all mad because he got us the exact same thing.

You’re just being reverse racist again, Or that time when the FBI thought we were dating. None of that matters today, because we’re still pals and still the best update anchors besides Normantina, Amy, Jimmy Seth, Chevy Chain, Ackroyd Miller, Neilan and Quinn. And I’ll argue that with anybody. The remainder of today’s program will be reaction pieces to Louis C.K.’s new special. There will be spoilers.

If you don’t want to be spoiled, why don’t you come back tomorrow for everybody else. The Guardian gave it two stars out of five, their headline ridiculous review. Ridiculous is the name of the special. The Troubled Comedian returns with a whimper. Jesse Hassinger writes, Louis c.

K’s back again. It’s been nearly a decade since the comedian etcetera, etcetera. You know that story. It’s less a triumphant return than a gradual slinking back and unspoken assumption that no one really cares that much about his behavior. No particular defense or apology, just a shruggy emoticon.

A genuinely funny observation like I can’t be held responsible for what I dream. I’m not a good guy in my dreams doesn’t hit as squarely as it should, because we’ve already heard extensively about him doing bad guys stuff in real life. It’s also hard to avoid reading some moments intended as self deprecating or honest. Is when he talks about not having much sex recently and primarily dating woman in his own age, as a kind of tacit burnishing of his regular shrub cred, positioning himself as essentially harmless. Maybe this isn’t fair.

There are plenty comedians who haven’t been given the opportunity to assess whether the dark eyes being downplayed or set to the side for the sake of a funny bit. But it’s the reality Luis c K lives in the disconnect. The lack of shared reality accounts for some, but not all, of the specials halting on even quality. It has brilliant stretches to be sure. The review then gets into some specifics there and then skipping ahead elsewhere he relies on dopey shock laughs.

In past specials, at least some of those shocks would stemp more carefully from a logical progression almost trapping the audience, and a laughing at something taboo. Here, the set just feels like blunt, forced mischief, almost obligatory, and they’re pushing of some imagined envelope. Luis c K is clearly capable of more than this, and ridiculous as flashes of his writer’s flare for crystallizing what could be standard comedians laments into something more vividly relatable. For Slate, Imagen west Night writes, the material in this new special isn’t nasty and bitter as some of the material he was doing immediately after his cancelation was. It’s classic ck superficially offensive, but actually taking kind of gleefully a moral route to the morally defensible positions, and funny too.

You can tell from his on stage a fact that twenty seventeen is a long time ago from his perspective, But what about from hours as the audience. What is supposed to happen after somebody’s canceled. They’re things K could have done to an act of better redemption and didn’t. The problem is so much K’s big on television now, nine years after his disgrace. He was always going to return.

He’s simply too profitable and too famous to be put out to pasture. The problem is what he’s been doing in the interim. It’s giving ahead. I wonder how people would feel about it had he genuinely gone quiet and taken the long time he proposed in his initial statement about the accusations to step back and listen back. In twenty eighteen, Slate’s Christina Catterucci wrote this prediction.

Every time ck are one of his canceled peers re emerges, some people will get mad, but most people won’t. There will be other more pressing outrages to some other with energy, and before anyone fully grasps what’s going on. They’ll be back on tour or rolling through the credits of TV shows and movies with an ugly entry on their Wikipedia pages, but a growing bank account to sue that indignity, The rap writes, there’s no mention of Louis c. K’s once perceived downfall in this one hour comedy special, which finds the man a little older, not exactly wiser, but with a bit of a glint in his eyes, clearly enjoying his time on the stage. K’s audience eats out of the palm of his hand while he regals them with personal stories and his desire and never get plastic surgery to his face.

Variety says Ck is one of the most gifted and influential performers of his generation, and would remain so even if he never took the stage again. So when I say Ridiculous is a strong hour of material performed with practice expertise, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Skipping ahead, Variety writes about Netflix, when the company stand up Zar, Robbie Prat sold my Variety colleague, this is just about giving subscribers an option, and that viewers have a decision to make about their own personal viewing habits. He was downplaying the decision Netflix itself made to re enter a business relationship with c K. The release of Ridiculous also culminates a tour that saw Ck make inroads with the kind of liberal coded publications that once covered his reputational nador with favorite write ups in both The Times and The New Yorker and Indie Wire, and gave the special acus.

They write in Ridiculous, the remnants of his former inquisitive, committed self were all but gone. His set doesn’t build enough to be rewarding in the aggregate, and his individual riffs keep stopping short of real wisdom. It’s terribly sad that Netflix is platforming Louis K again, just as it’s terribly sad that there are enough people attending his shows to make a return of mainstream media possible. It’s also sad to see Ck so trapped creatively and emotionally, but nowhere near as sad as knowing he physically and emotionally trapped others. Then he lied about it, got caught, and now carries on as if nothing happened.

I have not seen the special yet. It is Tuesday as I record this I’m trying to work ahead this week into the holiday weekend. It was my plan to watch the special on Tuesday night and include it one way or another in Sunday’s episode. Would be the top specials of the year so far, it’s I’ll probably on Sunday tell you what I thought of Louis C.K. Ridiculous now streaming on Netflix, and that is your comedy news for today.

You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on so st an episode and I’ll see here tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Maher, Louis C.K., Whitney Cummings, Woody Harrelson, Jay Leno, Cheryl Hines, Nate Bargatze, Michelle Wolf

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Maher receives Mark Twain Prize for Comedy at Kennedy Center
• Bill Maher’s speech on censorship and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
• Louis C.K. tribute to Bill Maher at ceremony
• Nate Bargatze labeled MAGA comedian after UFC fight attendance
• Michelle Wolf reflects on 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner
• Kennedy Center ceremony attendance and atmosphere

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. If you don’t like the intersection of comedy and politics, then skip today. Otherwise, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Bill Maher, for some reason, received the newly unrenamed Kennedy Senators Mark Twain Prize for Comedy. Bill Maher said, now the President, when he is in attack mode, never fails to say that I’m part of the lunatic left.

Okay, he’s not wrong that there is one. I’m just not part of it. And I’m sure there is a lunatic right. And when either side gets mad at me because I put them in jokes, jokes that work, my message to them is simple, you want to not get mocked, stop being funny, then the jokes will work. When they’re ridiculous, they do work.

And when people laugh, you’re caught. Laughter is involuntary. It’s people’s inescapable truth detector, whether they want to believe or not. Before the ceremony, Mar talked to reporters about the possibility of Trump himself showing up. Mar said, because anything’s possible with him, that didn’t happen, but Matt fra came to the stage and imitated Trump.

Matt friend, Trump said I get so many more laughs than this guy and demanded the award. Bill Moore said, just take it. I’m used to losing awards, and then noted that he’d received forty one nominations but has continuously lost. Bill Moore said, I lost one year to the U log Is it something I said? It’s everything I said.

The ceremony featured many clips, including his time at ABC with Politically Incorrect, as well as his stand up specials and podcasts. Louis C.K. Was there. Louis C.K. Said, I am not a political guy.

I wrote one joke about Trump, but it took me about eighteen months. Now. I don’t even know if I can repeat this joke without getting a visit from people of Bill Maher, Louis C.K. Said, he’s not a guy who gives an f about what people think of him. My career took a downturn, but then I heard from Bill within it invites a buera on a show.

He offered me to help me when no one else would. And he’s a good guy. He has a heart. C K said, mar earned the honor by being a constant and hilarious force in American comedy. For many years.

Whitney Cummings said, I actually heard Trump may come tonight, but he couldn’t make it. He got caught in sex traffic. Bill Moore himself called out the left, noting recent efforts to censor Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn because it uses racist language. Mar said, the silly purists on the left want to ban it now, which just shows you if you hang around long enough and create something important enough, everyone ates you at some point, and that’s when you know you’re doing it right. His point there was that the racist language is in the service of mocking racism.

Bill Moore praised his audience, saying people say they want honesty, they don’t. They want to live in a bubble. They say they want to be challenged, They don’t. Except for my audience. They love it, and I love it for them, and I’m sorry.

I think it makes them better. Why because I don’t ask to please the audience. I ask what’s true, and they’re okay with that. They are a unique group of people who do not demand to be pandered too, and in fact want me not to do that. And has been the honor of a lifetime to try and lead a backlash to group think.

The event will stream on Netflix July twenty first. This is not quite the Conan O’Brien event of last year, Woody Harrelson said, people generally come up here and talk about how great the nominee is. But I’ve decided to be honest. I’ve known Bill a long time, since back when he was funny. I’ll say this, he is impeccable tastes and friends.

We’re both outspoken at our beliefs. I not only admire you, but you’re one of the funniest, smartest, greatest people I know. I love you, brother what He also joked about the center’s temporary name change there. Woody Harrelson said, no award for my dear friend, ironically the Trump Kennedy Center. Oh right, we fixed that, not say you’d be able to notice.

In case you don’t know, they still have scaffolding out front, so you can’t see the name at all. Jay Leno was there. I’m not seeing much about what jay Leno said or didn’t, And believe me, I looked because I even found that jay Leno stopped by an iconic DC Italian restaurant. That’s right, jay Leno was at Philamina restaurante. The restaurants shared photos of jay Leno’s visit as writing, look who’s dining at Philamina.

Jay Leno, the celebrated comedian, writer, and former late night host, is scheduled to be a guest speaker the Kennedy Center presenting Bill Maher with the Esteve Mark Twaine Award for American Humor. He thoroughly enjoyed his lunch today and left a sweet note for Joanna Philamina. For many years, Joanna has been a great fan of his. But if jay Leno had some jokes, I can’t tell you what they were. Bill Moore said, this really does mean a lot to me.

Believe me, when they called and said would you accept this? They didn’t have to ask twice. My speech tonight will be mostly thank yous, as it should be, so all the people who believed in me supported me, the fans who stood by me, because you know, once in a while I did get in a spot of trouble. He said he was most proud of staying on the air for thirty three years without ever pulling a punch on a show mostly without stars. Sylvie McNamara wrote for The washingtony and things felt weird at the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize.

Sylvie writes throughout the evening there were some laughs and a smitch of gayety, but overall was fairly sedate. Whole swats of balcony seats stood empty. Volunteer seat fillers meant to plump up the crowd for the TV cameras, were given the option to bring up to five guests. Whitney Cummings opened by describing how strange it is that Bill Moore would choose to be a political comedian as opposed to any other type. She compared it to a surgeon choosing corectal specialty.

Both involved spending one’s life examining a holes. Cummings added, if that metaphor was too weird, I have another one that can help you under sty and how masochistic it is to do what Bill Maher does. Being a politicalmedian is like being a sports commentator who chooses only to talk about the Washington Commanders that got a cheer from the hometown, or, as Bill calls them, the Redskins. Oh wait, this does have a j leto joke. Jay Leno said, for the second time, at our nation’s capital, there’s a big, beautiful Bill in Washington.

Boy, that’s awful. You know, the Kennedy Center was not Bill’s first choice, but the Playboy Mansion was unavailable. Jay leto everybody a little behind the scenes. Johnny Mac has a clogged ear, and I am struggling to do the show today because I’m trying to explain. I’m kind of in my own head when I’m speaking, so I don’t sound to myself the way normally sound.

It’s very annoying. Cheryl Hines has shown support for Mega comedian Nate Pergatzy. That’s right, we’re now describing Nate Pergatzy, who went to a UFC fight as Mega comedian Natepergatzy. So what did Nate do now? Well, he posted a short clip of live stand up performance on Instagram on Sunday, featuring Nate’s alone on stage talking about his experience trying to buy a hammock.

Cheryl Hines publicly liked the post. However, the most liked comment on the video, we are told, reads Nate, how is the carnival on the w h lawn. The second most liked says, we remember Maga comedian Nate forguests, everybody went to a UFC fight once, so did Chane Gillis. Michelle Wolfe was talking about her appearance at the twenty eighteen White House Correspondents dinner. Trump did not attend that dinner.

Michelle Wolfe said, if there was anything I could go back and do again, I would be meaner. If I’d known how mad they were going to get at a joke about I makeup, I would have told the meaner jokes that I cut so they could get mad at something that was actually valid. But also knowing what the administration has done and what they continue to do, I would have really gone in on them and the press more and try to hold them more accountable. Michelle wolf is now living in Europe, splitting time between Barcelona and London. What she likes about Spain, there’s no worry of shooting.

I feel like that’s a big one. Never having to do a school shooting drill. That just feels like a nice thing to not have to teach her children. Michelle believes in poking fun at both sides. She says, you could say anything, people are gonna get maybe mad at you for saying it.

Even if you have a well constructed argument, people might still get mad at you. You’re free to say something and people are free to be mad at it. Switching topics, all those podcasts bros I had had a Trump on and got them the presidency. I feel like now maybe they’re walking back on platforming, but it’s like you knew who this guy was. They oftentimes put information out there either don’t know if it’s true or not, or don’t care, and they don’t realize that they have a responsibility millions of people listening to you, and whether you want it or not, they believe what you say.

So many of those guys went to the inauguration and they just think it’s cool to be up there, and I’m like, it’s gross for me personally, no matter what the side was, I wouldn’t want to be piles with the president, whether they’re a Democrat or Republican. They’re droning children. George Carlin always did a really good job of calling out the political power rather than being piles with anybody. Would she returned to the White House Correspondents dinner If they did invite me, I’d be happy to go. I just think they’d have to know what to expect, but sure, give me that platform.

I’ll do another roast Michelle Wolfe living in Europe. I did squeeze some special in between the soccer games. We’ve been watching a lot of soccer. Ryan Hamilton Special is fantastic. I think I’m going to do my updated list on Sunday.

At the time of this sentence, I haven’t seen Louis C.K. Yet, but I think Sunday I’ll do the midway through the year list Holiday weekend and all. You know how the show goes. But Ryan Hamilton Special is fantastic, and the folks in the Facebook group seem to agree with me. See if you haven’t watched Ryan Hamilton on Netflix, very very funny special.

I also switched over to Dez Bishop on Hulu, and I think you know, Dez was a great guest, good guy, want to hang out with them, guy from Queens. But I think what we’ve seen of the Hulu specials is the Hulu specials, so just not up to the quality of the Netflix specials. Dez’s specials fine. I didn’t stay with it that long because I’ve been doing this long enough that I know the difference between a great special and a fine special, and that one’s fine. Trevor Noah has been praised by his fans after pointing out bias towards African and Middle Eastern teams during the World Cup.

Trevor Noah was sharing his thoughts on World Cup Watch Party, which apparently he’s on YouTube. I haven’t checked the numbers, but I haven’t seen much buzz about it. Let’s look, let’s see how that’s doing, all right. The South Africa versus Canada game from Sunday got two hundred and ninety eight thousand views. England versus Ghana got two hundred and eight thousand views.

Germany and Ivory Coast got two thirty one. All right, so he’s doing, you know, mid two thirties while we’re here. Let’s see how those YouTube late night shows are doing. Can’t remember what these are called. Right outside tonight with Julian Shapiro Brinam.

It is one twenty six pm on Monday, as I say this sentence, Oh boy, he had on Jamarcos Sarasi four days ago as I speak the sentence, and that has done sixty three hundred views. That is not that is not a good number. The premiere, which is eleven days ago as I speak the sentence is up to sixteen thousand. Those are not good numbers. And what’s the other one?

I can remember what the other one is called Ben Gleeb. I’m never gonna remember that. Goodnight with Ben Glebe, an episode from thirteen days ago, has seven hundred and eight thousand views, so that’s three times what Trevor Noah is doing sort of kind of in Goodnight episode five, the guest Dutton Ranches Natalie Allen Lynde, comedian Drew Lynch sixty four thousand. I don’t know are these good numbers? They don’t sound amazing.

I digress. Trevor Noah was sharing his thoughts about the World Cup and said, why is it that African teams in Middle Eastern teams have to answer for what their governments and countries are doing, but then European teams don’t have to do this. I’m not sure what his point was there, who he’s mad at or which country should be answering for what? The specific comment here seems to be about Iran having to leave the United States after each game. Send your letters to Trevor Noah.

David Letterman will make his debut at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. He will host an evening with David Letterman and special guest Will Arnett at the Place Day Arts. That is how it is announced in French Place Day Arts Concert Hall. July twenty first, that’s the Tuesday. I don’t know what I’m doing yet, so I screwed up.

You know the big free weird Awl concert that’s on Saturday, July twenty fifth. Well, my daughter is like, hey, why don’t you come visit me when July twenty fifth. Sure I’ll be there because you know your daughter asked you to visit, and You’re like, yeah, I’ll go.

And then I was like, oh, that’s when the weird Al concert is.

So I don’t know. Maybe I’ll go up for Letterman on the Tuesday night and stay for the Wednesday and do New Faces. I’m also considering not going at all. I don’t know. So again, this is an evening with David Letterman’s and special guest, which is totally different from his Netflix series.

My next guest needs no introduction, so we’ll see. That is your comedy news for today. We’re doing okay into the holiday here right. We’ve had pretty robust shows this week. Feeling all right so far as our record this.

I’ve gotten all that Louis C.K. Think pieces yet, so I imagine that’ll be Thursday’s show. So we’re doing okay, doing all right, And it’s July now, so you don’t have to share the show anymore. In fact, you’re not allowed to show the show. If you’re like, oh, the show’s so good, I got to tell someone.

Nope, nope, nope. You had a month you could have shared it. You didn’t. Now you’re not allowed. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Mark Normand, Nate Bargatze, Carlos Mencia, Jim Brewer, Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan, Cumtown Bell, Steve Byrne

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Normand admits fabricating Netflix censorship story
• Nate Bargatze UFC photo controversy and deleted comments
• Carlos Mencia performs at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club after tax evasion arrest
• Carlos Mencia jail experience and new material about arrest

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am not sure how I feel about Mark Norman right now. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. When I work with Jim Brewer, Jim hadaphrase important of my French here, but Jim hadaphrase which was don’t be a dick, and then he would explain, you know what a dick is, don’t be a dick. Mark Norman was on Maury Povich’s podcast The Headline.

Comedian Mark Norman admits he just made up a story about Netflix trying to censor him. Let’s listen. But here’s the thing. You and Netflix have had problems. Oh yeah, yeah, what do you mean.

Didn’t they take out a bit? Oh no, I fabricated that you fabricated? Well, they uh muslim bit. Well, they said, hey, could you Uh. I picked a bunch of jokes that I wanted to use to promote.

They said, give us a few jokes you like and we’ll, you know, we’ll put them out on the internet. Right, And they said, let’s not do that one because the internet is crazy and people get worked up. And so I made it up in this whole story, so that that was on me. I lied. They they didn’t do anything wrong?

I did you admit that, yes, you got an exclusive. Would Chappelle ever admit that he did something wrong? And probably not? No. He does what he wants and smokes a cigarette and has a drake and moves on with his life.

Website humorism dot xyz Right. I almost can’t believe what I’m watching. He admits so reasonly that he smeared the people releasing a special for no reason other than to tell an islamophobic joke. Does that count as a joke? Is it comedy to tell a bald lie about yourself manipulating Netflix and is saying Muslims are dangerous?

Is it comedy to say the story you made up is kind of a microcosm of phony progressivism? Gosh, I don’t know if it is so. My initial reaction was outrage, outrage, outrage, But when I listened to the clip, I’m not sure. Here are we in the territory of Netflix? Did kind of sort of ask him to change it up?

And he, being a comedian, took a basically true premise and exaggerated it, whereas the whole thing made up, I’m not sure even after listening to it. So that’s my open I’m not sure how I feel about Mark Normand right now, but as Jim Burwers said, don’t be a dick. Nate Brigetzy returned to social media. You may recall people are upset that Nate went to a UFC fight and took photos with people like Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee.

He also took photos with Cheryl Hines, Joe Rogan. Nate had been silence on social media after people got mad. Eleven days after the quote unquote scandal, Nate Brigetzi returned to social media, promoted three cities, four shows, one great weekend once you go to see him in Houston, Austin and Corpus Christy. However, The Daily Beast suggests it appears that any remark critical of Burgetzie is being deleted. Comments that referenced the Trump administration you shouldn’t reflect the fierce backlash within Burghatzy’s fan base have either been hidden or removed.

One comment had said, condemn the horrid comment about our former first lady and apologize slash explain your wh visit to your progressive slash Mexican American slash feminist fans. You had some many In fact, we liked you. We simply want clarity if you value us or not. You may recall one UFC fighter said something horrible about Michelle Obama that I will not repeat, when user acknowledged that comments are being deleted, writing We’ll see how long this comment stays up. Well, I guess it stayed up long enough for the Daily Beast to see it.

I don’t know. I think we’re blowing this one out of the water a little bit. I’m not going to defend the Michelle Obama joke. But Nate Bergatzy went to a fight and took some photos with some people. I forgot to mention this one.

On yesterday’s show. Friend of the Show, Scott Backet put this in front of me. You may recall w camout Bell wrote a feisty substack suggesting that Nate Bergazzy not being photos with fascist. Steve Byrne wrote, come out Bell called Naperghatzia fascist. That’s like me calling wkmal Bell a comedian.

I love comedian fights. Everybody, Let’s keep fighting with each other. This is fantastic. How about Carlos Smincia, He’s back on stage. Yeah.

The Las Vegas Review Journal said it was just past midnight on Wednesday, but the party was still in full flourish. For Carlos Smidcia, the veteran comic, had taken over the Karaoki show at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club. Wait, can I start a controversy? Does that suggest that Jimmy Kimmel suggests that, possibly, perhaps maybe people should evade paying their taxes? Not saying that Carlos Smithcia did that.

I’m just trying to stir it up. Or is it just that Carlo Smincia has a residency at the club and showed up again. Who knows. We’re told wearing black Adida sweatpants and a Star Wars Stormtrooper T shirt. I might actually be wearing that outfit right now.

No, I’m actually wearing a Jackson Heights pigeon shirt, which if you’re from New York City you get, and my gray summer pants. I’m not my usual full sailor. I digress. Carlos Smincia wearing black Adidas sweatpants and a Star Wars storm Trooper T shirt. And don’t think I don’t own one, because I do.

Men Sea moved around the room mike and hand, singing along to the Backstreet Boys, and I did rip the audio of it. So you guys better start sharing the show. We’re gonna do a marathon of Nikki Glaser singing, Amy Schumer singing, and Carlos Mencia singing. That might be an entire episode if you don’t share the show. The phone’s in your hand right now.

Do it right now before we forget. Carlos Mencia seems to be making up for lost time after doing time, writes to the Las Vegas Review Journal ouch, although to be fair, Carlos had just been released after posting a fifty thousand dollars bond after being arrested. He has been charged with tax evasion, allegedly owing the state of California three hundred thousand dollars in back taxes. Anyway, Carlos Mencia arrived just before the nine point thirty show. Mencia cuts to the Chase about his still fresh incarceration.

He had written twenty minutes of new material the transcrip. The Las Vegas Journal says, I got arrested by the franchise tax board police. I didn’t even know they had police. I swear in my head I expected guys to show up with little calculators and advisor. So now I’m freaking out right like everybody else, going what the F have I ever done to deserve all the crap that I’ve gotten.

I became the poster boy for joke stealing, and now I’m the poster boy for not paying taxes. Now I’m not a professional comedian, but I feel like he should have paralleled that and said I would have tagged that with And now I’m the poster boy for tax stealing, which I think would have just rolled better. But again, I’m just a dope in the basement, and I’m sure he told it better. Mencia said when he was locked up, he noticed a video camera showing him as he used the toilet review Journal Rights navigating his personal hygiene with no toilet paper provided and a pretty grossery telling. The comic said he noticed a small video camera overhead.

He was concerned that footage from inside the jail would reach the public, quoting Vincia, here, dude, if there’s a Joe Rogan fan in there, it’s going to come out. You may recall it was Joe Rogan, who started the whole Carlos men Steel a joke thief thing. Men Se had told the crowd he had lent four million dollars to his family over the years, including his eleven sisters, six brothers, and seventy eight nephews and nieces. Men See has said, but now that they found out that I owe all these taxes, nobody’s asking me for money anymore. How awesome is that?

But See after the show said he’s restricted what he could say publicly about the case because there are attorneys involved.

And then he went to the karaoke party and See I thank the audience saying, I …

I don’t know which one it is, but I will forever be grateful. And for those of you that thought this is going to get to Carlos, it’s not. I’m never going to stop entertaining you, never going to stop being funny for you, never going to stop being the voice ever. So let’s finish the show, go downstairs and have some more fun. Louis C.K.

Remember that guy. He’s back. He’s got a special on Netflix today on the Substack switching codes with Eric Degan’s. Eric writes, some people have suggested that it’s difficult to know how to handle someone like Louis C.K. He was still relatively young and capable of creating a lot more projects.

He’s been away from most mainstream entertainment for years. They might say, is’t not enough for me, he writes, Eric, It’s much less about how long they’ve been gone than what they’ve done earned their way back into mainstream show business, besides proving how much money they could make someone as he fully had amitted how he’s harassed women in the past. Did he apologize directly and publicly to them. Has he helped any of the women who spoke honestly about what he did and saw their careers animized afterwards. Hollywood prefers to avoid the kinds of admissions which can bring lawsuits and morals clauses rights Eric.

Instead, the big business of entertainment would much prefer a situation where star stays underground until the social blowback has passed, emerging with a tale of redemption and renewal just in time to sell tickets, streams, memberships, and more. Already, Louis C.K. Has won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album in twenty twenty two, and it’s a sure bed he’ll be a contender when his new Netflix special gets released as an album. Back in October, Pajiba wrote, are we saying okay? Well, it’s been eight years.

He’s paid his debt by going out on sold out tours, successfully releasing comedy specials independently, and by winning a Grammy just three years ago. By being unfair am by being an overly sensitive triggered lib Should I just shut up and let it go. It’s not like Louis C.K. Has spent the last eight years fighting the good fight, speaking truths of power, or becoming a symbol of free speech. The man literally just returned from the reas On Comedy Festival and spoke on Bill Maher show about what a positive experience it was and how using comedy is a great way to get in and start talking.

And Mark called him and all the others who attended the festival brave for being paid obscene amounts of money to give the soundies exactly what they wanted, a lot of positive press. Louis C.K. Out on Netflix today from Late Night or they took a look at the late night ratings week of June fourteenth, Jimmy Kimmel no longer had the lead in from the World Champion New York Knicks and Charlotte Hurricanes. No Carolina Hurricanes, I mean Hartford Whalers, you know what I mean, those guys. Jimmy Kimmelive averaged two point five to five million total viewers with two hundred and seventy four thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

Number two late night show, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, averaged one point three million total viewers and one hundred and eighty four thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. Those were also slightly down from the week before. However, having on the New York Knicks World Champions on Monday Night produced a thirty one percent lift week over week in total viewers and a seventy three percent jump among younger viewers. And as I mentioned twice last week, it seems like Jimmy Fallon might possibly be perhaps be getting a little more political, and Jimmy Kimmel stupidly taking the summer off, so I’m really curious. I’m rooting.

I’m openly rooting for fallon here to catch Kimmel’s show. I don’t think Kimmell should have taken the summer off. I like summers off, believe me.

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Meanwhile, at twelve thirty, you know, the President of the United States and…

One issue we do agree on is that NBC twelve thirty could be better. Seth Myers continues to inexplicably have a show. He averaged a nine hundred and nine thousand viewers while falling ninety percent in the demo to one hundred and one thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. He’s listening to Nightline, which had one hundred and eight thousand adults eighteen to forty nine and one point zero one million total viewers.

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And then there’s the Byron Allen thing that got six hundred and ninety five t…

Late Nighter did the math and said that’s less than a third of Kimmel’s total audience and just over half of Falon’s, Which isn’t that bad for not even trying? Why don’t you mention Gutfeld. Here’s why, because it airs at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific A seven pm Pacific A late night show. No, it’s not stop Guttfeld anyway. That average two point nine three million viewers and drew one hundred and sixty six thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

They’re making a Shrek spinoff. It’s called Dunkey. It’ll be out June thirtieth, twenty twenty eight. If you want to get in line now, Eddie Murphy returns to voice Dunkey. It is an archin story of how a Dunkey became Donkey.

They are going to be shreking it up. Mike Myers and Gang will be in Shrek five, out in summer of twenty twenty seven. Donkey and Eddie Murphy, of course, in Shrek five. The Paper, you know, the office spinoff that’s coming back for season two in September. The cast is back, we’re told.

In season two, after sweeping the Ohio Journalism Awards, Ned searches for a journalistic crusade, coming for a local private club and jeopardizing the paper while he and Mayor try to figure out their attraction. As Morell does struggles to find her place, and the staff gradually mature as reporters. For some reason, they’ll drop the entire thing as a binge on September ninth, ensuring that once again it will have zero buzz. The Columbus Comedy Festival back for year three. This is a good festival.

This year August twenty seven through the thirtieth, more than one hundred comedians across the city of Columbus sixty shows. The Columbus Funnybone will host national headliners Greg Fitzsimmons and Arnez Jay throughout the weekend. Jason Banks will be back for two shows, the comedy dating game Cuffing SNZ. It will be a crowd work show hosted by Henry Allen. Kristin Key will headline an LGBTQ plus comedy showcase at the Palace Theater.

Some other names you might know at this one James Adomian, Connor Ratcliffe, and a bunch of others. Check out Columbuscomedyfest dot com. And are you enjoying the World’s Cup. I’ve been watching so much soccer. It’s incredible and we’ve all been enjoying.

The visitors to where I are a fine country here. One of the visitors Australian comedian Nathan ren Cloud he went to Popeyes. He said, it’s the most incredible chicken you’ve ever seen. It’s spicy and crunchy. You can get spicy chicken or regular.

I got spicy. He described as order two pieces of crunchy fried chicken, a biscuit, chips, and coalslaw. No, by chips, they probably mean what you and I would call fries, right. I don’t think Popeyes has chips. They’re fries, right, I don’t know.

Comedian Nathan wren Cloud said it’s the most beautiful coleslaw I’ve ever had in my life. It’s like coalslaw, but it’s kind of spicy, like it is mustard or something in it. He was surprised that it only cost six US dollars and asked how does this business even worked. He also questioned why Popeye’s chicken is not in Australia and says Popeyes, if you came here, you would own this country. He was also impressed by Popeye’s fountain drink machine and unlimited free refills.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, Oh my goodness. Every time I leave the United States of America except Canada, you guys have it together, but everybody else, please please sell me a large drink, and please sell me a cold drink. And if you’ll sell me a large cold drink, that would be amazing. When I was in London recently, I kept dipping into McDonald’s just to get something cold, because I knew they’d sell me a die of coke. But they tap out at medium.

Is there a law over there, britz? Can you not sell a large drink? Because I was going to open a chain of fountain soda places and sell big gulps and become a billionaire. But that McDonald’s would not sell me a large, didn’t offer a large. The biggest soda was a medium.

Makes me think you guys have some kind of crazy laws over there. What are you doing? When I was in Spain, it’s a while ago. I just wound up drinking Sangria every night because Sangria was both big and cold. Please sell me a cold drink, sell me a big drink, Sell me a big cold drink.

And that’s your comedy news for today. It’s still June, right, Yes, it’s still June. So you’re sharing the show and you’re following the show on Spotify, and you’re turning on notifications so you never miss a show and I’ll see you back here tomorrow

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Larry David, Barack Obama, Tim Dillon, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, Bert Kreischer, Eric Andre, Des Bishop

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Fallon jokes about Trump’s bicentennial rally and Great American State Fair
• Julia Louis Dreyfus warns about Trump’s war on comedy and attacks on facts
• Larry David teams up with Obama for HBO sketch series Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness
• Larry David criticized for complaining about airlines while flying private
• Tim Dillon discusses corporate Pride Month initiatives during Joe Rogan interview
• Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee promote Bad Game Show with naked street stunt on Hollywood Boulevard
• Des Bishop discusses his new special Bridge and Tunnel and finding his American voice

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. What do we make of political Jimmy Fallon, once again he was making fun of the President of the United States. President Trump headlined a rally to celebrate America’s two hundred and fiftieth after all the musical artists dropped out of his concert. It’s the first event where byob means bring your own band and you over.

Tonight included a military flyover, Lee Greenwood singing God Bless the USA, and a speech by Trump. Even Trump’s biggest fans are like, is this a repeat? I feel like I’ve seen this for him. The rally kicked off the sixteen day Great American State Fair in the National Mall. There’s funnel cake, there’s corn dogs, turkey legs, and lots of other foods found during Trump’s colonoscopy.

That’s cool. Yeah, the fair has everything. There’s even a dunk tank with JD Vance and a drunk tank with cash Ptel. So it’s guys both, Yes, a lot for something for everyone. Send your letters to Jimmy Fallon.

Meanwhile, Julia Luis Dreyfus, you know her, She was a lane on Seinfeld. You know who I’m talking about. Yes, she is sounding the alarm over Donald Trump’s war on comedy. On her podcast, Julia Luis Dreyfus said, I’m not sure how we got here, but all of a sudden, we live in a world where facts are disputed. She continues to say that facts are drowned in noise and then they’re weaponized.

It’s like there’s this attack on our ability to trust what we perceive, and then confusion and a kind of numbnification are the results. I’ve done a lot of comedy in my career, and people don’t immediately think of comedy as part of the artist holding up the mirror to society. Thing. They don’t. I thought that’s what most comedy is these days.

But of course that’s exactly what comedy does, and that’s why it’s the comedians who get down first. The Stephen Colberts and Jimmy Kimmel’s history could be rewritten and heroes are moved, but it’s harder to erase how people react to a novel or a painting or a movie. Art makes its argument through feeling, and feeling stubbornly can’t be controlled. I can see how a good play set in say Gaza or on the first tea at Mara a Lago might cause a bit of fuss. When there’s so much propaganda in chaos, the artist job gets more essential and frankly more dangerous.

Well, I’ll just point out that Julia Louis Dreyfus said that on her podcast, so she’s not being censored.

Also, Stephen Colbert is welcome to start his own podcast.

He’s welcome to. Hey, Stephen, if you want to guest host this thing for a month, a year, ten years, just let me know. I’ll give you a forum. Stephen Colbert is not being censored. Johnny Mac, enough with Trump.

You know you never talk about Obama. Okay, let me talk about Obama. Larry David was at the LA premiere of that new sketch comedy series Life Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness. Did you watch this? It’s premiered on HBO last night.

Larry David talked about teaming up with former President Obama and he was terrific. Yeah, we had some back and forth and how things should go in the show. He’s used to getting his way, so we were at odds. Larry also gave some hot takes. One of them about the airlines.

He said, I don’t get people getting on the ground for five hours. If there’s a mechanical problem, why don’t they get people off the plane. Why are they torturing everybody? It’s so unfair. The president of these airlines should be made to sit in that middle seat for five hours until they fixed that.

I’m going to guess Larry David flies private, right, he’s got Seinfeld money. Oh, this is fun. So I looked up Larry David fly’s private and here is what came up. I didn’t play this at all. From Real Clear Politics, April tenth, twenty twenty four, comedian Rob Schneider, because of course it’s Rob Schneider talked about the time he confronted Larry David and his then wife for flying short distances on a private plane.

Quoting Schneider from this article, Larry David used to complain him and his wife used to complain about people, remember driving, how dare you drive your big RVs? And they’d take a private plane from LA to Santa Barbara. I set that to his face, and him and his wife never talked about it again. That’s true. Getting it done.

Tim Dillon had some thoughts about Pride Month. I think for this particular story, it’s worth mentioning that Tim Dillon is gay anyway, or he is Tim Dillon and talking to Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan experience. This whole country right now is being torn apart by people who need to feel like they’re good people. Why is my bank gay ends up doing the exact opposite of what they want. You’re shoving a worldview down someone’s throat.

I have no problem with Scientology on record, it’s all fine. But if I went to my bank and it was just all Scientology for the month of June, I would go this is a lot to shut up. Bobby Lee and Andrews Santino have a new game show out, so how did they promote it? They asked a group of half naked dudes to run down the street to promote it. This from TMZ.

This was on Hollywood Boulevard. A group of forty guys and just their underwear ran down the block with bad Game Show written on their bare chests. Half the group dressed like Andrew Santino. How do you do that? You wear a red wig?

The others were supposed to resemble Bobby Lee. TMZ said, though it honestly looks more like the two comedians found forty randos on the street and convinced them to strip down. Bad Game Show is Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee’s new project. It drops celebrities into a chaotic scene filled with trivia, crazy challenges, and unexpected guests. The first episode is out now and pitts Bert Krascher against Eric Andre former guest of this program, Des Bishop, I enjoyed speaking with him a lot.

He has a new special out and he caught up with the La Times. His new specialist Bridge and Tunnel, and he said it took a while to find his American voice. He said the addicts and alcoholics he bonded with while in recovery living in Dublin opened his eyes. Des said, they helped me understand the unfairness of society. Most have been incarcerated and people always say it’s about the choices you make.

But I learned it’s not about choice, It’s about chances. I got sent to boarding school, and when I f that up, I got sent to a better one. I did stupid stuff, but always got another chance. Those guys didn’t get another chance until they got clean and completely turned their life around. His comedy was shaped by living in Ireland.

Des says storytelling is a more mainstream version of stand up outside the United States. It’s more than Norman Ireland and Great Britain. We all do shows at Edinburgh Fringe and that’s where I hone that skill.

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Now for American audiences, I had to be quicker with my punchlines and find w…

The servers are dropping plates are taking checks here at the comedy Seller, following Chris Rocker Dave Chappelle standing in the doorway waiting the only time, says, talking out a New Yorker’s volume certainly helps. Who was I talking to you the other day about this? This came up that who was saying, And somebody’s telling me how New Yorkers speak quickly and we do, And I shared with that person that for my delivery on this podcast, I actually had to teach myself to slow down. So yeah, anyway, Des says people always ask him why are you shouting? Why are you so angry it, to which he responds, I’m not anyng from Queens.

This is dinner volume amen, brother. He learned to meld his storytelling with the faster pace of jokes. The Irish stuff is part of who I am. But I’m a guy from Queen’s and when I embraced who the f I am, I suddenly found my American voice and the humor started flowing. I love it, Johnny Max from Queen’s Case your new listener.

On paper, nostalgia stuff can seem lazy, but as the comedian Dylan Moorean says, there are no hacked subjects, only subjects not done well.

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Now, let’s keep it irish.

The Toronto Guardian has their series where they catch up with local comedians and one of them is Fiona O’Brien. We are told Fion O’Brien brings Irish honesty and raw relatability to stages across Canada, shaped by Billy Connolly’s storytelling and Tommy Tiernan’s fearless approach. Love it all right, Fiona, how would you describe your comedy style? She says, real, honest and Irish. Who are your influences?

Billy Connolly, Joan Rivers, Whoopy Goldberg, Tommy Tiernan, Kathy Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell favorite comedian growing up is Billy Connolly. Favorite comedian now is Tommy Tiernan. Pre show ritual. I write out my set during the day and perform it for my dog. Once I get to the gig, I’ll write it out again before the show.

Just one keyword to remind me of the joke. Favorite place to have performed Newfoundland is fantastic like Ireland on steroids. Huh interesting, I’ll have to get up there. What are you promoting right now? Well, she’s promoting her latest album, Fiona fifty one and thanks Cottage Comedy for helping her with that.

And that is your comedy news on a summer Monday. This week I expect to be halfway slow, and next week is going to be brutal, always is. So we’ve got July fourth Saturday, so Friday is a de facto holiday, which means we won’t see any news after Wednesday and then next week. As a longtime radio producer, the week after July fourth, I can assure you is one of the, if not the slowest news week of the year, because at least after Christmas you have all the year end lists. So that’s a good reminder to me.

Maybe I’ll have to dust off my best specials of the year so far. We’ll see anyway. Regardless, We’ll be here every day. I’m Bloways here. Any follow show on Spotify, turn notifications on.

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Featured: Bill Maher, Louis C.K., Whitney Cummings, Jay Leno, John Mellencamp, Stephen A. Smith, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Dave Chappelle, John Stewart, Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Maher wins 27th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• Mark Twain Prize ceremony at Kennedy Center with Netflix broadcast
• History of Mark Twain Prize winners from 1988 to 2026
• Bill Cosby’s Mark Twain Prize rescinded in 2018
• Patton Oswalt’s Double Breakfast Sunday comedy project

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Caloroga Shark Media. Today, the newly unrenamed John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts will present the twenty seventh Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Bill Maher. That’s right, I said, Bill Maher. You didn’t misunderstand me.

Bill Maher is winning the Mark Twain Prize. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The prize is named to honor one of the world’s greatest humorists, that being Mark Twain. It will be awarded at a Galla performance today with some of the biggest names in comedy, including Louis C. K.

Whitney Cummings, Jay Leno, and others including John Mellencam stephen A. Smith. The program will eventually air on Netflix. It’s not on Netflix today, the official website tells us. For more than twenty five years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny political talk can go on American television, first on Politically Incorrect and for more than twenty years on HBO’s Real Time.

In twenty twenty five, Mediaite named Bill the fourteenth most influential person in media fourteen. They wrote in the Age of Independent minded content creators. Mark can easily be recognized as a pioneer and one of the only independents who continues to thrive. Now, I’m putting a little spin on my read here. That said, I find that I do listen to his podcast.

He gets good guests and there are good conversations. I do feel like we’re stepping down a class here. Let me just say it. Let me tell you who has won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in the past. All right, nineteen eighty eight.

The first winner Richard Pryor. Now, if you listen to the Daily Comedy News podcast, I assume I don’t have to tell you who Richard Pryor was. We’ll do the winners in order. Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner. All right, so they kind of went back.

Then Whoopy Goldberg in two thousand and one. Interesting choice, Then Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin, Lorne Michaels in two thousand and four, Steve Martin, Neil Simon. Interesting, then Billy Crystal. It’s not until two thousand and eight that we give it to George Carlin. Now, the award is not designed to be given posthumously, but Carlin died between the announcement and the ceremony.

Why did you wait till two thousand and eight to even get around to George Carlin? Then in two thousand and nine Bill Cosby. Wikipedia says those who honored Bill Cosby included Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock Sinbad, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Stephen Wright, Willie Nelson, Carl Reiner, Dick Gregory, Rita Marino, and Felicia Reshad. Cosby’s award was rescinded in twenty eighteen. How to be fair to those who honored Bill Cosby in two thousand and nine, Sometime between twenty nine and twenty eighteen, I worked with Bill Cosby several times, and he was the public persona Bill Cosby that you all knew and loved.

So I don’t think it’s absurd that any of those people there were to honor Bill Cosby who knew. But as I’ve said before, one day Bill Cosby will pass away and I will tell you a story. In twenty ten, Tina Fey, then Will Ferrell, Ellen DeGeneres, Carol Burnett. We put in Ellen before Carol Burnett, really Jay Leno in twenty fourteen, So that just had me check. Johnny Carson passed away in two thousand and five, and again the award is not given out posthumously, all right, Eddie Murphy in twenty fifteen, Then Bill Murray, David Letterman in twenty seventeen, Julia Louis Dreyfus, the MVP of the Seinfeld series by the way, if you rewatch it, twenty eighteen, Dave Chappelle in twenty nineteen.

Then there was COVID and stuff. We come back in twenty twenty two with John Stewart. And this is weird because is this guy comedian Adam Sandler. I only know him from being a great dramatic actor and things like uncut gems, the one about basketball. Does he do comedy?

Huh? Honoring Dadam Sandler? Where Dana Carvey, Luis Guzman, Tim Hurlahy, Rob Schneider and Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, John Appatol, Drew Barrymore, Steve asmy Conan, Chris Rock, Pete Davidson, and David Spade. Then in twenty twenty four Hart, last year Conan O’Brien and this year Bill Maher. So again we’re coming off a run of let Me go back to all right, let me dump on Ellen.

We’re coming off a run starting in twenty thirteen, in order, Carol Burnett, Jay Leno, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, David Letterman, Julia, Louis Drives, Dave Chappelle, John Stewart, Adam Sailor, Kevin Hart, Conan O’Brien, and now Bill Maher. The Mark Twain Prize recognizes individuals who have had an impact on American society and weighs similar to Mark Twain. Then there were some bios. Louis C.K. Is a six time Emmy Award winner, three time Grammy Award winner, and New York Times best selling author.

Ck is the creator, writer, director, and star of Peabody Award winning shows Louis and Horace and Pete. C K also wrote, directed, and appeared in the feature film Fourth of July, released in theaters nationwide twenty twenty two. Then they tell us about his book. They overlooked some things in Louis C.K.’s buyout, but we got into that yesterday. You can go back and listen to yesterday’s episode.

Another bio is about Jay Leno, the acclaimed television late night show host, admired stand up comedian, best selling children’s book author. Really. I mean, I’m sure, I’m sure his books sell great, but like you know, Jay, Like, like if you didn’t know who Jay Leno was, and I was like, you know, Jay Leno Tonight Show, and you looked at me like you didn’t know who I meant, and I’d be like, the best selling children’s book author. You’d be like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Jay Leno, I know him. Much in demand corporate speaker, television and movie voiceover artist, pioneering car builder and mechanic, and a philanthropist.

Jay Leno is widely characterized as no, I know what phrases in your head, because I’ve put it in your head wrong. He’s widely characterized as the hardest working man in show business. Well, that James Brown’s thing might make that up. Yeah, I googled the phrase the hardest working man in show business and James Brown came up. But James Brown is dead, so maybe Jay Leno is now the hardest working man in show business.

I don’t know. The bio continues Leno’s domination of late night tell vision to span two decades as host as the number one rated Tonight Show with Jay Leno when he’s not on television. Leno performs more than one hundred stand up shows annually across the country and internationally for his base and numerous charity and corporate events. Does voiceovers for animated series does he? IT’STEI on IMDb, Jay Leno, are you a new listener?

Shows a little relaxed day. I didn’t set out to do a relax show, but seems we’re being a little casual today. Let’s see. Jay Leno has one hundred and fifteen actor credits. We won’t read them all.

Oh yes, And Mickey and the Roadster Racers, he played Billy Beagle, Bill Beagle, and Bubba Beagle. He also voiced Billy Beagle in Mickey mouse Mixed Up Adventures You Know That series from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one. Famous voice actor Jay Leno played Hank Featherby in Tots in one episode in twenty twenty one. He’s the voice of Crystal Ball in TV series The seventy That rants seventeen episodes. From twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen, he played Jay Leno on The SIMS Since in two episodes.

He has also played Jay Leno on Family Guy Phineas and Ferb. In twenty fourteen, Jay Leno voiced Colonel Contraction, who knew all right, clearly he is a voice actor Let’s See Where were We does voiceovers for animated series Penn’s children’s books, and writes a monthly column in various automotive magazines. His spare time, he enjoys working on his collection of classic cars and motorcycles. He’s built a number of cars, including an acclaimed eco car and his eco friendly green garage. All right, I didn’t intend to get as casual as we did, so I’ll do this live.

I could edit this out, but this isn’t fun. Let me see what I want to do here. I definitely want to do Patton Oswalt today. Oh, we’ll do this one. This is fun.

Joe Coy will host a multi episode comedy showcase series titled Martin Lawrence Presents Pass of the Mic. That’s right, Martin Lawrence Presents Past the Mic, hosted by Joe Coy, will be filmed in front of a live audience August twenty ninth and thirtieth at the Legends Theater at Root sixty six Sino Hotel in Albuquerque. Past the Mic has designed a spotlight up and coming talent in the stand up comedy Martin Lawrence said, Passed the Mic is about creating opportunities for the next generation of comedians and giving them a platform to be seen. Wait until Martin finds out Kevin Harch just did. This comedy has always been about discovering new voices, and I’m excited to help shine a light on talented performers who deserve that opportunity.

No quote from Joe Coy, but you may remember if you know, like, who’s Jokoy again? He’s the guy one time he hosted the Golden Globes and told this horrible, horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots.

Of Taylor Swift. What a vicious comedian, I mean, just what a horrible, mean joke. Okay from the LA Times. How to have the best Sunday in LA According to star trek Ruiner paton Oswalt. Paton Oswalt has shared his ideal Sunday in Los Angeles.

He says seven am and a quiet breakfast at home. We learn I try to be an early riser. Today I got up at eight thirty, but a great day for me is getting up at seven because I have that hour of quiet. I have my breakfast, sip some tea, do some reading, and then start my day. Anyone who says they consistently wake up at seven am for the most part, they’re probably lying.

Got news for your Patton. I’m up nine am morning coffee with a side of people watching My perfect Sunday starts at the studio City farmers Market. You do this kind of roaming breakfast. I thought you had breakfast at seven, so this is like second breakfast where they do the Farmer’s market. There’s an amazing Tamali stand that does these chicken and green chili tomales.

You get one of those. Then you go over to Jones on third and you get yourself a really strong cup of coffee because Jones is right there part of the Farmer’s Market, right, so he’s had seven am breakfast where he had some tea, and now at nine am you get second breakfast, which includes Tamallay’s and coffee. Okay, at ten am you destroy Star Trek. You put on a dug the Vulcan costume, and you pretend that you care at all all about the series and it wasn’t just a paycheck for you. And you take the paycheck and you crap all over sixty years of canon because what’s it to you.

Then at eleven am you get into a book. You go to the Last bookstore, not meaning the final bookstore, it meaning a bookstore that is titled Capital L Capital B Last Bookstore. I always drop by there and spend too much money on a book. All right, So again, breakfast, second breakfast, Ruined Star Trek, hand on over and over to the bookstore. Then at one o’clock catch a matinee and a macha.

One of my favorite things is to see a movie in the afternoon. I don’t really eat lunch these days. Well you had two breakfasts, dude. But across the street from a theater he likes is a place called Horror Vibes Coffee. It’s based to around horror movies.

It’s really popular. All these goth kids going there and they make really good matchas. So I’ll go in there. I’ll get a macha and take that into the movie theater. And see a flick.

The movie theater also makes good chicken nuggets, and they make a delicious bagel dog. All right, so again breakfast, second break You skip lunch, but you have chicken nuggets and a bagel dog during the movie. At four o’clock, you head back to the bookstore. This all from the La Times. Pat Oswold said, when I’m done at the movies, I’ll take whatever book I’ve gotten and go back down to the last bookstore and just sit and read.

Or if you really want to go in a goblin mode reading, you go to the Iliad bookshop. They encourage you to go in there, sit and read. There are store cats everywhere that are hanging around the store. Kiddies are very friendly. So all right, so you have breakfast, second breakfast, a movie where you’re on like your third coffee.

You have some chicken nuggets, a bagel dog. Then you go to the bookstore and you read a book that you bought at a different bookstore. I’m sure they love you. Deliad has these big, over stuffed couches and chairs with blown springs. You’re encouraged to sit on a lounge and read the book you bought at the other bookstore.

They have no problem with you doing that. A big thing for me now is having two to three uninterrupted hours just reading, no phone, nothing, don’t go anywhere, don’t do anything. Now, this is fantastic. The La Times has an editor’s note and they wrote, editors, not the iliod is closed Sundays. Wow, Patten, amazing, Thank you La Times editor.

Then at six o’clock you sit down for some sushi, because yeah, you gotta be starving. You haven’t had anything since like one o’clock when you had chicken nuggets and a bagel dog after two breakfasts. Patton enjoys sushi simochy. I can’t rave enough about this place. They have a black cod sushi and the black cod is slightly seared.

It’s not cold, it’s not totally cooked. There’s something about cold rice.

And then this slightly seared, slightly burned black cod.

The flavor is so perfect. I love it. Then at eight o’clock you take an outdoor stroll and return to your book. Patton Oswalt explains there’s nothing wrong with double dipping. You don’t have to read just once during the day.

You can go back and forth. That is a perfect Sunday in La for Batton Oswald. I would then suggest you put on the television series Star Trek, not Next Generation, not Voyager, not Deep Space nine, not Strange Worlds, the one just called Star Trek, and you watch Leonard Nimoy show you how to play a Vulcan, not dub the vulcan, spok the vulcan. And that is a pretty casual episode of Daily Company News on a Sunday. All right, June’s almost over, So if you’re going to share the show, this would be the one to share.

Be like, Hey, this guy goes on this weird Star Trek rant in the middle of talking about Patton Oswalt, and I have no idea what he means. That would be the episode you want to share, So do that right now, your phone’s in your hand, hit share and just type what I just told you to do. You can follow a show on Spotify. Comments are on, so if you want to write WTF, you could do that. It’ll help the algorithm and comments are on in the Facebook group.

Congratulations Bill Moore, See tomorrow.

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Featured: Louis C.K., George Carlin

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. sexual misconduct allegations and New York Times report (November 2017)
• Netflix releasing Louis C.K. special ‘Ridiculous’ from Beacon Theater in 2026
• Louis C.K.’s independent distribution model and direct-to-fan sales strategy
• Louis C.K. Grammy win for ‘Sincerely Louis C.K.’ (Best Comedy Album 2022)
• Industry blacklisting and cancellation aftermath (2017-2026)
• Louis C.K. unannounced return to Comedy Cellar (August 2018)
• Comparison of Louis C.K. to George Carlin’s comedy philosophy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Callarogashock Media. Hither. I’m Johnny Mac, and on Saturdays this summer, we’re doing deep dives on single topics or reasons, I explained at the end of yesterday show. On Tuesday, Netflix releases a new Louis C.K. Special called Ridiculous, filmed at the Beacon Theater.

It is Louis C.K.’s first special the major distributor since twenty seventeen. Check your calendar. Twenty seventeen is the exact year everything in Louis C.K.’s career stopped, and Ridiculous is Netflix specifically deliberately picking the relationship back up nine years later. This is not a comeback happening quietly at the margins. This is one of the largest entertainment companies on Earth making a calculated decision to put their name back on Louis C.K.

And the fact that they’re doing that now tells you something has changed in relation to that. In twenty seventeen looked pretty settled. So let’s go back and take a look at what actually happened. November ninth, twenty seventeen, The New York Times publishes a report naming five women who said that Louis k had masturbated in front of them, asked to do it, were done so over the phone. In incidents stretching back more than a decade, several of the women connected to the comedy world, reading from the article skim a little bit.

But in two thousand and two with Chicago comedy duo had their big break, a chance of performing at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Naspen, Colorado. When Louis K invited them to hang out in his hotel room for a nightcap after their late night show. They did not think twice times right, so as soon as they sat down in his room, still wrapped in their winter jackets and hats, Louis c. K asked if he could take out his penis. The women said they thought it was a joke and laughed it off quote and then he really did it.

He proceeded to take off all his clothes, get completely naked and started masturbating. Then there are other accounts. You can read this on the New York Times from November ninth, twenty seventeen. All out was immediate and total. Where was it?

His film I Love You Daddy had its premiere canceled within hours, and the distributor pulled the release entirely. HBO scrubbed his past projects from there on Demand, FX ended its production relationship with them. Netflix, which reportedly had a deal in place for a second stand up special, apparently canceled that outright. The next day, Louis C.K. Released a statement transcript via CNN.

I want to address the stories told to The New York Times by five women. He names the women who felt able to name themselves and one who did not. These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my penis without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have a power over another person, asking them to look at euro penis isn’t a question.

It’s a ridicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me, and I wielded that power irresponsibly. I have been remorseful for my actions, and I’ve tried to learn from them and run from them. Now I’m aware the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday, the extent to which I’ve left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position.

I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me, he didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t think I was doing any of that because my position allowed me to not think about it. The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else, and I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I bought on them. But what happens next is the part that splits people the most. Because the timeline is pretty fast.

August twenty sixth, twenty eighteen, it is nine months and seventeen days after the New York Times story, Louis C. K walks on stage unannounced at the Comedy Seller in New York and does fifteen minutes, no advance notice, no big deal, just back on stage at the Comedy Seller in New York City. The club’s owner reportedly said afterword that Ck surprised even him by showing up unannounced. In December twenty eleven, Louis c. K self financed, wrote, directed, and edited a special called Live at the Beacon Theater.

He didn’t sell it to HBO or Comedy Central and Netflix or anybody. He put it out on his own website as a five dollars download with no copy protection at all, meaning if you bought it you could do whatever you wanted. You reportedly cost something like a quarter million dollars to make. He broke even in twelve hours. Within twelve days, he’d made a million dollars, and he wrote at the time with genuine surprise, that he’d never had that kind of money land on him all at once.

The bet paid off. People didn’t pirate it, they just bought it. And that’s the part of the story that sits right alongside the cancelation. Louis C.K. Returned to an audience relationship had already proven.

Worked more specials Sincerely Louis K in twenty twenty Sorry, in twenty twenty one, Louis K at the Dolby, and Back to the Garden in twenty twenty three, four full specials sold directly, no studio, no network. Sincerely Louis C.K. Won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album. In twenty twenty two, the Recording Academy handed its Top Comedy Hour to a special that nobody but Louis k himself had greenlit financed, were distributed during the exact period the rest of the industry had locked him out. Canadians have gone up against Lewis.

If you’re a murderer, you go to jail and they let you off whatever. Twenty years later, and you try to get a job as a bus boy. And if the guy says, I’m not hiring that guy he murdered, you know, and you go, but but he his penance, you know, and now you give him a job. That’s the humane thing to do. And people go, well, what about the murdered person, And you go, well, of course he got worse, you know, the guy that lost his life.

He’s doing worse. But it doesn’t mean you can’t forgive, or it’s impossible to forgive. During the years when I worked on my show, and even in the nightclubs, I mean a lot of the comedians, there was a lot of activity, let’s call it frivolity, comedians and waitresses and everybody, I mean men and women, you know, Chase after each other right right, Yes, yes they do. Now I’ve never seen it done in a way that was that. I thought, that’s not right that guy’s doing.

So you’re surprised with all this me too campaign and things that are coming. Out now, No, I’m not surprised, but you asked me if I had seen it, so I haven’t. One of them is also actually your friend or someone you worked with, Lucy King. That’s terrible. I mean, these behaviors themselves don’t even make sense sexually.

It’s like, I don’t even understand why they would do that. And is it something that will cause you not to listen to him anymore? Not to be I mean, not to listen to his material. Think it’s right that they took him. Ok, well, he stopped, he stopped working.

The problem for him will be no one will ever ever look at him without thinking about that. And he knows that now. One thing they got lost in all this there were as a time when Ck was being compared to George Carlin. That doesn’t happen much these days, but that was absolutely happening. The part of this tracess back to something Louis c.

K himself said at an actual memorial event for George Carlin. In twenty ten, he described being stuck for roughly fifteen years performing essentially the same hour, recycling the same material because it worked, because building new material from nothing is terrifying, And then he described watching George Carlin operate differently. Carlin would discard an entire hour of material after touring it and start over year after year, refusing to coast on anything that had already proven itself. C K said adopting the same discipline was the actual turning point that took him from a journeyman comic with a tired actor. Did the comedian who within about four years of making that change, Comedy Central was naming one of the hundred greatest stand ups of all time.

Once people started watching the result, the comparisons followed naturally. GQ called him the undisputed King of comedy during his peak run in the early twenty tens. I think that’s fair. Rolling Stone placed him in their list of all time Greats, and the specific shorthand quote, the air to George Carlin quote shows up again and again in writings about him from that time period. I was having a lot of hard time being a father, and I wanted to say it on stage one night, I just I thought, Okay, forget all the old jokes, I’m going to start again.

And I thought of the first thing. I said, I can’t have sex with my daughter with my wife because we have a baby, and our babies of asshole. It’s just what I was feeling. And I said it and the audience went whoa. And I thought, oh, I’m somewhere new now, and I said and I said something like, I never used to get babies in the garbage, but now I understand it.

And they did that, and I thought I’d rather have that than the tepid laughter for my fifteen year old jokes. So I started going down this road and he was always the beacon for me. And since then I’ve done three comedy specials and I’ve started down the same road. It’s been a massive change for me. I feel every year I’ve got something to work for it the same.

I’m doing exactly what he taught me to do. And on stage I feel that a courage to say what I want to say because of this guy. And anyway, a few years ago I was about to tape my first, my second stand up special, and he was taping the same night in la He taped his last special on the same night that I taped one, and I remember feeling like, this is amazing that I do what this great man does and that we do it in the same way. Whether he fully or in the comparison is a separate question that the comparison existed at all. It’s pretty interesting.

If you’re telling the real story of twenty first century stand up comedy, seek has to be in it. He has to be in it for like a decade, from the Beacon Theater experiment, through Louis, through specials like oh My God in Live at the Comedy Store, he was operating at a level of critics, fellow comedians, and audiences all independently agreed was or near the very top of the four. And he was doing it while simultaneously rewriting how comedians could build a sustainable direct relationship with their own audience without needing a network’s permission. First, those are two separate major contributions to the art form, the work itself and the business of comedy. And think of how that has changed.

And here we are in June of twenty twenty six, after performing at the Hollywood Bowl for the Netflix as at Joe Comedy Festival. We will get a special on June thirtieth. Louis C.K. Is back and how do you feel about that? And that is Daily Comedy News for today.

Back tomorrow with a normal episode.

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Megan Kelly, Leslie Jones, Robbie Hoffman, Julianne Nicholson, Rob Schneider

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Fallon increasing political material about Trump amid Kimmel’s summer hiatus
• Kimmel taking two-month vacation while Colbert show ends, guest hosts starting July 6
• Leslie Jones discussing SNL typecasting as angry character
• Robbie Hoffman storming out of 2025 Emmys after losing to Julianne Nicholson
• Freedom Fest Punching Up Comedy Festival in Las Vegas July 8-11 with Rob Schneider

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media In there. I’m Johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. Now, what do we make of Jimmy Fallon? Here? Is he?

Uh? Does he get it? Does he realize Cobert went away and Kimmel has taken the summer off and he should go for it, because here is Jimmy Fallon doing political material. Trump is now claiming that vandals cut a three hundred foot slit in the new reflecting pool lining with a knife, which is weird because a month ago he said this about the new reflecting pool lining. You couldn’t if you had a knife.

I don’t want to give anybody ideas if you had a knife, you can’t even cut it. We’re here to clear things up, as White House spokesperson Spencer Ellman. Yeah, hi, Jimmy, what a shameful day for this great nation. So you really think vandals cutting through in a foot slit in the reflecting pool lining. Yeah, we’re sure of it.

These maniacs took a knife and they absolutely gutted the president’s perfect renovation. It’s horrifying. Okay, but a month ago Trump said you couldn’t cut his new reflecting pool lining with the knife. It’s because you can’t, Jimmy, completely impossible. I mean, this is top of the line material, totally indestructible.

How can both things be true? Which two things? That they cut the reflecting pool with the knife, Yep, yeah, that happened. And you can’t cut the reflecting pool with the knife. Can’t do it.

Knife would break. And I’m getting these from Jimmy Fallon’s social I’m not going out of my way to find them. They’re coming to me. These clips here once again Jimmy Fallon kind of making fun of the President of the United States. At first, Trump wanted a regime change in Iran.

He told the people, you deserve a government, or as he put. It, you deserve a government. But now Trump’s approval rating has plummeted. After Americans of all walks of life rose up, or as he says. Americans of all walks of life rose up.

Things in the strait went terribly, but the administration keeps acting like it’s not as bad as it is, or as Trump says. As bad is it meant something. The whole thing is a mess, and getting out of it will take devotion, prowess, and expertise, or as Trump calls. Them, devotion, prowess, and expertise.

Meanwhile, Trump seems distracted by the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memor…

It, the Lincoln at Lincoln and you have to see this. He’s also distracted by America’s two hundred and fifty, which will celebrate the time our army man the ramparts, or as Trump put it. Our army manned the air, it ran the ramparts. In the end, the war has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and the only person with that kind of money is his friend Elon or as Trump calls. Him, my friend Leon, my friend Elan.

I hope that helped. I think Jimmy is very smart to start to head in this direction. With Jimmy Kimmel taking the summer off on Colbert Show being over, Kimmel shows in reruns for a little bit. The guest host will start week of July sixth with Tiffany Hattish. Are you excited advantage Jimmy Fallon.

Fallon may have figured it out. I’m gonna be curious to keep an eye on this. Megan Kelly waited in and said, Jimmy Kimmel’s going on Vaca for two months. Do you have a two month vaka? Probably not.

I’d be curious to know how much time Making Kelly gets off. By the way, do you have thirty acres and Marth’s vineyard? Probably not. I wouldn’t be shocked to learn Making Kelly as a place at Marth’s vineyard. Well.

Five months ago, a YouTube channel called life an Architectural Design did a video titled Megan Kelly’s new Jersey Mansion. From twenty twenty two, we learned that the Kelly’s at least then had an avalon Jersey shorehouse and if you know the Jersey shore not too bad ah. From twenty twenty five, the list dot com wrote the lavish life of former Fox News host Megan Kelly. They also mention the Jersey shorehouse. They mentioned that she flies private.

Do you fly private anyway? I digress? Megan Kelly asked the question do you have two months off? Probably not? And guess who has a sub hosting for him?

It’s a litany of left wing comedians, most of whom you don’t know very well because he’s worried about his job security. Okay, then who would you like him to have sit in for him? Would you like him to have someone more famous? Should have David Letterman. I mean that would be awesome.

I’m sure if David Letterman wanted to host a week of Jimmy Kimble tonight, Jimmy Kimble would say yes and not be worried about job security. Or maybe you look at it and you say Letterman’s too old. I mean, who should he have on? Josh Johnson, Nate Bergetzie. Should he have Nate Bergatzy hosts the show for a week?

I digress. Leslie Jones via Page six revealed that she confronted these Saturday Night Live writers over being typecast as angry and aggressive. Leslie was on the Sam Cinders Show and said, it’s kind of frustrating that they’d always make me the girl that was angry and beating up people or in love with a white boy. They just always would make me angry or fighting somebody. She said she played ball because I wanted to be on the show, and at that time I didn’t think that was happening until it kept happening, and then every time I would get a sketch, I was like, Okay, who am I beating up this week?

Or advice to you up? And coming comedians. If you want to be there, go there because it’s a great foundation. It’s a great place for you still to find yourself. You can definitely get love going there.

To sum up her experience, she said she loved being there and had fun, but doesn’t miss the mental part of the job, which is exactly how I feel about the satellite radio Company. Robbie Hoffman admitted she stormed out of the twenty twenty five Emmys after losing to co star Julianne Nicholson. Robbie was on the Ball and the beautiful and said, we’re the first award up. I immediately lost, and we woke up with all the gusto in the world. I walk in, I’m already like, where am I going to put the Emmy?

We lose immediately. My sister goes, we don’t need this crap and pushes me out. She grass me by the arm and says we’re leaving this s word. But Robbie had a return. She had to present cinematography.

Robbie said, I said, nah, I don’t want to do that anymore, and they said no, it’s part of the program. I was like, well, my circumstance has changed. I’m not in the mood, and they want me to read whatever’s on this teleprompter. I go one thing. I know, I’m not saying whatever the f they have me on there saying.

However, Hoffmann calmed down backstage and successfully presented the studio with its Outstanding Cinematography Award. Yeah, don’t throw a tantrum at the Emmys. That’s not going to help your career. Rob Schneider will headline the Funniest Night at Freedom Fest. It’s the Punching Up Comedy Festival at Freedom Feed in Las Vegas.

Are you excited? Will you be in Las Vegas at Caesar’s Forum from July eighth through the eleventh. Freedom Fest includes stand up shows, a competition, podcast, game shows, and conversations with comedians and creators. A confirmed lineup includes Rob Schneider and Lou Perez. You may know from Gutfeld We Are Told.

The Truth in Comedy competition at the Punching Up Comedy Festival is open to professional comics, first time comedians, and festival attendees under the theme think Funny, Think Independent, Think Free. Organizers say the competition is built around five themes free speech, political satshire, individuality, Independent Thinking and Challenging Convention Grand Prize five hundred dollars. That’s right, five hundred dollars. If you win the Truth in Comedy competition at the Punching Up Comedy Festival held in Caesars in Las Vegas, five hundred dollars. You’ll also get a trophy presented on the Freedom Fest main stage and a performance slot in the Punching Up Comedy Show alongside Rob Schneider.

Haven’t gotten around to Ryan Hamilton special yet because I’m watching three soccer games a day. I don’t watch the late one unless it’s Team USA, but I’ve been watching the others, which hasn’t left and much time for anything else. But I’m seeing good reviews from Ryan Hamilton. But Geeba wrote, I had no idea who Ryan Hamilton was when I click play on as Netflix stand up special. That wouldn’t be unusual if he were some young comedian who broke out in TikTok and does a lot of CrowdWork.

But this guy in his fifties looks like the Smiley Guy or the love child of Jerry Seinfeld and Gilbert Gottfried and apparently commands a huge audience. I’ve never seen him in my life. Should listen to the show, mister Pajeeba. The fact that a lot of people don’t know Ryan Hamilton is actually the first joke that he makes. It’s a good start, but then he launches into a bit about getting hit by a bus.

Apparently mister Pageba thought the bus section is a little long. Jeeba comments, Oh, he’s one of those guys a clean comedian quote A. Currently he’s also LDS, which is fine. It also explains why the entire audience appeared to be very old and very white, and it explains the whole shape of the thing. Hamilton works in the same lane as Jim Gaffigan and Brian Reagan, the observational family friendly never a curse word tradition, not true of Jim Gaffigan, where the comedian is built less on edge than on the comfort of knowing nothing will ever make you uncomfortable.

Boy, this is just a terrible, terrible review. Now, putting aside the fact that you may have helped Jim Gaffigan early in his career and then he wouldn’t call you back. Putting that aside, do you not have respect for Jim Gaffigan’s comedy? And talk to any comedian, any comedian, any any comedian at all except maybe Rob Schneier. Actually, probably even Rob Schneider respects Brien Ring.

They all respect Brian Reagan. So this whole sentence of like just being like suggesting that Gaffigan is is, I don’t know what you’re suggesting. No, No, everybody respects Jim Gaffigan’s comedy, even if he doesn’t call you back. The observational family, friendly and ever a Chris Word tradition where the comedy is built less on edge than on the comfort of knowing nothing will ever make you uncomfortable. That’s a skill and there’s an audience for it, but also means the bar for this bit could have ended twenty minutes ago, gets raised much higher than it should.

All right, that’s fair. A clean comedian working a thin premise into the ground isn’t transgressive enough to be interesting and is in varied enough to stay funny. It just sits there, agreeable and overlong. None of that is a particular knock against Hamilton, but it’s clearly as a type of audience that wants to see a clean LDS comedian. Why are you bringing that up again?

Clean LDS comedian joke about getting hit by a bus for over half an hour, and on that front he absolutely delivers. All right, maybe that wasn’t the most positive review. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler terrible at comedy but good at romance. To mark his twenty third wedding anniversary to famous Hollywood actress and producer Jackie Sandler, the great dramatic actor Adam hired a plane to skywrite a message above them that read quote twenty three a hart j. Adam shared a photo of the skywriting message on social media.

He wrote, happy twenty third d of our street to my sweetheart, Love you forever. Comedy stock Market. Thank you Burt Reynolds. By the way, the company from which I licensed Burt Reynolds now has Michael Keane. Should I have, Sir Michael Keane do the comedy stock market for a while?

All right, here’s who we’re buying and selling this week. If you’re new to the Comedy stock Market, what we try and do is we try and find value, much like you would in an actual stock market. We try and buy low and sell high. We’re not saying anybody’s good or bad. We’re just looking at the relative value.

Let’s buy Jimmy Fallon. Opportunity there, and it seems like maybe he gets it. He’s gonna grab it. Jimmy Fallon’s tonight’s show was in third place. It’s moved up to second place just because of the fire and Alan garbage.

So let’s buy Jimmy Fallon and see if he can run down Jimmy Kimmel’s guest host. I’m thinking he can. I’m gonna say I had it in my list before I did that review that I thought was positive. I’m buying Ryan Holleton. I like Ryan Hamilton a lot.

I’m buying Ryan Hamilton. Let’s sell Nate Brighetzi. The UFC thing kind of backfired coming off the heels of nobody liking the Breadwinner, and I mean nobody liking the Breadwinner. Have you met anyone who is like the Breadwinner? No, you haven’t, So Nate not having a good run here, Let’s get out on him.

Let’s sell Carlos Mencia. No. I don’t know what happened or not, but you heard the news stories that he was arrested, and I just think in terms of value right now, nobody is going like, oh, let’s book Carlos Mencia for a bunch of dates and sell out our arena. So it’s time to sell Carlos. Let’s buy some Mosha Casher.

Obviously some terrible health news earlier in the week, but the good side of that is it got him back in the news and it reminds us all he is a fantastic comedian, and let’s sell Sebastian Manascalco. I feel like other people are catching on too. Maybe the act isn’t that cool or needs to mix it up, or at least stop making the stupid faces. Okay, and now what should we do with because he’s got a special coming out next week? Should we buy?

Should we sell? Not sure so I guess we’ll just hold her. Luis c k al right is comedy Style market by Fellon by Ryan Hamilton, buy most Shaksher, hold Louis C.K. Sell, Nate BERGHATSI sell Carlos Mencia, sell Sebastian Man of Scalco out Today a former guest from this program. He was fantastic.

Dive down into the archives and listen to my conversation with Des Bishop, who’s got a special Bridge and Tunnel out on Hulu today. Filmed at the Comedy Seller Does Bishop embraces his inner bridge and tunnel. That’s some New York ease for people who don’t live in Manhattan, Prapper. It’s a bit of a dig. Bishop dives into the joys of not having kids, surviving gen X, dating, growing up Irish with a New Yorker’s attitude, and finding humor in the chaos of modern adulthood.

In case you don’t know his story, he grew up in Queen’s for a little bit and then moved to Ireland in his mid teens and has a big audience there. He was a great guest. Edie Motica you may know her from Dury Duty. She’s got a special out today on Veeps. It’s called I’m Just Like You and it sucks.

If Beeps isn’t your thing, you can hang tight until September. It’ll be on YouTube, whether it be talking to stains on her aunt’s carpet, making out with a pair of brothers on a cruise in two thousand and seven, or talking to a stranger about his liek girlfriend who died in a car accident. Eadie will stop it nothing to feel and spread love to the world around her. That’s on Veeps.

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I like it. We got a thread here today, Sally Ann Hall has a comedy special it’s called Dead Wife Pretty that is out today. There is a trailer. Would you like to hear it? Let’s listen.

I think that if I was on like an old black and white photograph, old timy, you know, holding a rose, and then an old man came up to you showing you that photo and was like, this was mar One, I think every person in this room would be like, sir, she was beautiful. Whatever happened to her with a shame surely you know. Yeah, I’m not super model pretty, but I’m dead wife pretty. Some people are pretty or alive. Never been my thing.

That’s Sally Ann Hall. Available on demand, so you can check it out on Apple TV or Amazon Audio wherever you listen to your audio. And we have a day for Mary Beth Baron’s a special that’ll be on Netflix a month from now, Tuesday, July twenty eighth. In Galaxy Brien, Mary Beth Baron aims to shock, amuse, and a rouse. She covers a wide range of important topics, from reproductive rights to guys with tattoos.

Baron says, I’m incredibly proud to speak for all women with this comedy special. Jokim Booster has a new podcast he’ll take on dating, love, sex and marriage. It is called Intimacy Coordinator. He asks guests to share their stories of romance and the advice that they took from the experiences. Some of the guests that will be on the show Bowen Yang, Margaret Show, Natasha lazerro Beth Stay, Steph tolev Likes, To Kerman, and a bunch of others.

And that is your comedy news for today. It’s still June, so you got to share the show or I’m going to play Amy Schumer singh. So what you do is your phones in your hand right now, hit share and text with somebody. Go hey, listen to this. It’s all you gotta do.

Take you one second, all right? Tomorrow is one of those deep dives. We’re going to talk a little Louis C.K. In advance of his special. That’ll be tomorrow’s deep dive.

If you haven’t caught on to this. And I got good reviews from the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. They said nice things about it, So I’m doing Deep Dives on Saturday in the summer. Several reasons for that, as I’ve explained, One it takes the edge off the production, and two, as a search has changed moving away from SEO to more AI stuff, there’s a way to train AI systems to surface your program a little bit more. So I’ve been working on that and seeing some early results on that.

Plus they’re fun episodes to do, and if you guys like them and I like doing them and it helps the show, i mean, win, win, win for everybody. So that’ll be tomorrow. Sunday’s a normal episode. We’ll talk a little past Nae Walt and we’ll talk about the mare Tween Prize.

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Featured: W. Kamau Bell, Nate Bargatze, Carlos Mencia, Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, Michael Che, Jimmy Kimmel, Bob Iger, David Letterman

What’s in This Episode

• W. Kamau Bell criticizes Nate Bargatze for attending UFC event with Donald Trump
• Carlos Mencia bail hearing and tax evasion charges
• Royce Junior performing at Pittsburgh Dave Comedy Festival
• Michael Che announces new stand-up special
• Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk murder and ABC’s response
• David Letterman archive expansion on YouTube and Facebook

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Caloroga Shark Media. I love when a show comes together. I thought at one point I had nothing for today, and boy, did this come together. I’ve even got a story that’s got me all fired up for the second half. And Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

Let’s start with the headline I love this one. Comic rips nice guy Nateperghatzy for partying with fascists. It’s w come out Bell, and he is among the people not happy with Nate Berghatzy. Belle put out a substack post on Monday with the title it is so easy not to do this. It comes with a suggested list of rules to follow for those who are quote confused when they are judged for their own actions.

Bell writes, the rules are so simple, people seem to forget them so often, so I’ve decided to write them out. The easiest way to not be photographed with fascists is not to go to places where fascists coagulate. If you do go to out to a place where fascists are coagulating, then you better have a good reason, like a John Brown and Glorious Bastard’s good reason. Bell writes, no one cares on much you wanted to see the fights at the White House. The White House is currently registered as the home of a fascist.

Again, send your letters to w comeout. Bell. The only reason Donald Trump loves the UFC is because UFC CEO Dana White runs the UFC just like Trump wants to run the country like a dictatorship. Bell continues, Stop being surprised when people who think you are a nice person are totally mummed out when you reveal yourself to be team fascism. You were smarter than that.

If not, then go back to the top and reread this list again. Bell continues, Look, I get it. I’ve been in some pictures with people I regret. The difference is I regret being in those pictures. He then shared a photo with Joe Rogan from twenty fourteen.

Speaking of Rogan, Rogan tell the story from backstage at the UFC event. Rogan was a little stressed there could be some terror at the event. Quoting Rogan, I said to Trump, I go, I hope we don’t die in a terrorist attack, and he goes, we gotta go somehow, Rogan said, I go, what the f do Carlos Mencia his attorneys demanded his immediate release from bail. They fired an emergency motion. You may recall Carlo Simancia was arrested at his home.

LA County District Attorney Nathan Hotchman had announced a twelve count felony tax emission against Carlos Mencia and branded him quote one of California’s biggest tax scoff laws. In a motion file to set bail, the defense accused the prosecutors of turning a financial dispute into a publicity stunt designers showcase the district Attorney’s new unit. The motion was obtained by the California Post that’s the West Coast spinoff of the New York Post, and apparently it reads that no one argues against the obligation to pay taxes, but the raid at his home with multiple law enforcement agents screaming search warrant with a bullhorn and drawing guns was an absurd show of force for the alleged offenses that do not involve weapons, drugs, or violence. They also said that Mencia’s incarceration was inflicting severe financial Harmy had to cancel a few comedy shows that may have cost him as much as forty thousand dollars in lost income. They argued that Carlos Mencia is not a flight risk.

They submitted character letters from longtime friends, one of which is Nicole Nicky Rosensen, who worked with Carlos Mencia on the comedy Central Mind of Mencia. Rosenson wrote, it is important to me that Carlos’s character is not reduced to a singular thing. He’s a loving father and a loyal, kind friend. Roywood Junior will be in Pittsburgh this weekend at the Dve Comedy Festival. He’s hoping to catch the first four innings of the Saturday four o’clock Pirates game before his eight o’clock comedy show.

He said, the plans to catch a few innings even if Skeens isn’t pitching. My debate in Pittsburgh is always rested versus recreation. There’s so much fun stuff to do there. Talked about his time at the Daily Show. It was a good time.

I didn’t get the pleasure of getting to work under John Stewart, so I can’t speak to whatever the workflow is over there now, but just to be able to be part of building some degree of awareness of what’s happening in the world and try to inform people. I think you take that a little seriously. Michael Jay announced a new stand up special he posted on Instagram. He told his followers He’ll be promoting a stand up special in like two months. But I don’t really do a lot of press.

So what are the platforms that people f with now? Late Nier says. Then came a process of elimination, with Chay writing Rogan’s finish right, Shannon Sharp probably just gonna ask me about other people the train one, I already did hot ones. What’s the new hot platform pairaphrasing there. This would be Michael Cha’s first special since twenty twenty one’s Michael Cha Shamed the Devil, which, if I remember correctly, was Okay, okay, this is the one that’s got me a little fired up.

Johnny Max’s gonna get a little political here. Send your letters to Johnny Mac. In an interview with The Financial Times, former Disney CEO Bob Iger commented about when they took Jimmy Kimmel off the air after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Was that move politically motivated? Iiger says that was not the case.

We thought it was in bad taste. Johnny Mac says, sure, Jan okay, let me set up the table for you. I’m going to replay what Kimmel actually said, but let me set up the table for you. Let me remind everybody on September tenth, Charlie Kirk was murdered. On September eleventh, The New York Daily News quotes Elon Musk, who you may recall, was working on something called douge.

Elon Musk tweeted, the left is the party of murder. ABC News September fourteenth reported on Republican Senator Lindsey Graham appearing on Meet the Press. They quote Graham is saying he saw Kirk’s murder as quote, an effort by the radical left to dehumanize the Mega movement. Now, in this new piece, Bob Iger says, of Jimmy Kimmel, we just wanted him to acknowledge that it was an ill timed and probably inappropriate comment. Let’s listen to what Jimmy Kimmel actually said, and remember the two quotes that I just read to you.

And here is a longer clip from Jimmy Kimmel that puts the line in context. We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and do everything they can to score political points from and in between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the President is taking this back. Indulge it down a lot of your friend Charlie Kirk mans Sir, personally, how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir, I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks.

They’ve just started construction of the new borrel for the White House. Send your letters to Johnny Mac David Letterman fans, we are excited. Worldwide Pants is teaming up with NBC Universal and whatever mrzigo is to expand distribution of more than six thousand episodes of Letterman on YouTube, Facebook and other platforms. Whoever Merzigo is. They are going to optimize Letterman’s archive of late night shows, starting with The greats Late Night with David Letterman and The Okay, The Late show with David Letterman, How do we get the morning shows?

Somebody’s gotta have the morning shows. Put the morning shows out. Walter Kim is Worldwide Pants executive producer for Digital and Walter Kim said, David Letterman’s unparalleled run in late night across four decades from his shows on NBC and CBS, contained six thousand hours of some of the most memorable television content in pop culture history. Johnny Mac will say most of that from the Late night years, Walter Kim said, As we continue to expand our distribution from these iconic moments on YouTube and Facebook, partnering with Mrzigo will enable us to better reach fans and new viewers across every platform and device, etc. Et cetera, et cetera.

Meanwhile, remember Stephen Colbert had a show Do you miss it? You don’t be honest, You don’t be honest, Just be honest. I know we all like Stephen Colbert, but be honest, you be honest. May Recalla was canceled. Well, the writing team is trying to get an Emmy now CBS isn’t gonna help them, apparently, so they posted a homemade four year consideration video.

In it it says CBS is not doing an Emmy’s campaign for US so for strictly financial reasons. The Colbert Late Show writers made our own four year consideration video. Late Nighter points out that CBS has aired fyc ads in New York in LA supporting the show in general. Plus, CBS took out a fear consideration ad for The Late Show on the Hollywood Reporter site, with a link going of a page that listed all the writers. Colbert’s team has been nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series nearly every year of its run, says Late Nighter, but has not won.

Can I interest you in French Saturday Night Live? Canal Plus is readying now this again from Late Nighter Lay Saturday Night Live. Franseis, we don’t even translate the Saturday Night Live part like their actual title is like John mangling French Lay Saturday Night Live, Francie. Really, it is an official adaptation of NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Late Nighter reports the project is expected to launch as a single special rather than a full episode order.

Francis tried this before. The previous attempt ended after one night that was in twenty seventeen. They even did a French language version of More Cowbell. Really hold On, somebody is gonna pause the recording and find that. Chat something.

Who’s that films. And from Deadline, Jermaine Clement says they might not be more Flight of the con Chords. He says, we haven’t been talking about making the TV show, but we just did some live shows for the first time in eight years at the Greek Theater. It was really fun. I loved it.

The idea of doing a film hangs around still, but we’re getting old now and that is your comedy news for today. It is June. So you’re gonna share the show. You’re gonna be like, hey, did you guys know there was French Cowbell and you’re gonna share the show with somebody. I don’t know how it works.

You tell me, because if you don’t do it, I’m going to play Amy Schumer singing and none of us want that. See tomorrow.

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