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Featured: Pete Holmes, Jerry Seinfeld, Nate Bargatze

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Holmes’ perfect Sunday itinerary in Los Angeles
• Pete Holmes’ vegan food choices and Girl Scout cookie obsession
• Pete Holmes’ LSD experience at Donut Friend
• Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bargatze discuss breaking the one-hour standup barrier
• Nate Bargatze on corporate comedy work and touring schedules
• Jerry Seinfeld on the parallels between standup and surfing
• Jerry Seinfeld’s new bit about miniature golf

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Easter. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. Pete Holmes talk to The La Times about a perfect Sunday in Los Angeles. Pete Holmes tells us here’s what you do.

At eight am. You visit a coffee shop with a sense of humor. Pete says, I like drinking espresso by itself. Val likes oat milk lattes, and his daughter would get a steam milk because she wants to feel like grown up. It’s very cute.

Then at ten am, you go read at least seven children’s books at Skylight. He says, I can tell you from experience. They’re incredibly generous with allowing you to read your kids seven books without any trouble. On principle, I’ll buy at least one of the books on the way out, because that’s exactly what people are talking about when they’re like shop local. Then at eleven you drink a terrible dark green juice.

He says. We’ll walk to punch Bowl and I get a terrible dark green juice that nobody wants. It would make a goat go blind. I love it because I’m forty six now and I eat almost exclusively for how It’s going to make me feel so very uncool, But that’s what I’m doing. My wife and daughter are going to get a smoothie called the honey Bee, which is very sweet and delicious.

Then at noon, you get a pancake for the table at Kitchen Mouse. He said, it’s really hip. The last time I was there, ran into Phoebe Bridger’s. Literally, rock stars are at Kitchen Mouse, and there’s a little kids area where my daughter can play with a little fake hamburger and a child she just met. I get the same thing every time.

The breakfast sandwich had a snicker Doodle pancake for the table. If you and I went to breakfast together, I would never ask do you want a pancake for the table? Because I don’t need you to be my accomplice. I know you want a pancake for the table because guess who wants pancakes everyone. This is going to reverse the juice that I just had earlier, but it’s going to be worth it.

At two o’clock, you eat an angry Samoa donut at the park it sounds like I can hang out with Pete Holmes. We’ve already had coffee, a smoothie, a pancake, and now a donut. Are we gonna get ice cream later? And this sounds awesome? Hete says.

We take a walk to Donut Friend and eat the donuts of the little park nearby. The park has giant bugs and it’s tube slide when you’re forty six and have kids sitting down as your heroin not to keep mentioning veganism, but Donut Friend has a really good vegan donuts. You gotta get the Angry Samoa, which is a girl Scalp cookie. My wife she comes by and she’s like, hey, I got your Girl Scout cookies. And I’m like, did you get twenty boxes?

She’s like, no, I got one box of samoas last I don’t know, two Knicks games, maybe three. Come on. One year I ordered the Girl Scout cookies that I ordered twenty boxes. She made the March Simpson face, as I like to call it. They did last the bulk of the year.

Maybe it was too many, I digress. Pete Holmes said, I once went a Donut Friend when I was tripping on LSD. I think it might have been my birthday, and I was coming down not a crazy person. I just couldn’t believe there was another person standing there with all the donuts in the world. It felt so overwhelmingly lovely that they were, like, which donut can I give you?

I was just floored by the generosity. I was probably making an ass of myself, like laughing in that sort of hippie way, not I get a drunk way, but like a benevolent alien who couldn’t believe that this planet had donuts. They gave me one, and I wish I could have seen myself eating it. Four o’clock. You feel fancy at the Huntington.

Now, he didn’t explain what the Huntington is, and I’m from New york’ so I have to look this up now. Obviously he means the Huntington Library, art Museum, and botanical gardens see New Yorker. I don’t know these things. I wanna play that game, Pete, all right, meet me at the Apple. Pete also says we’ll stop at the Chinese Garden get noodles there, because every step of the way there’s this constant eating seven pm vegan food.

Done right. He says, if we’re just Valerie and I, I’d go to the Crossroads Kitchen. I love it to death. When the pandemic happened, they would text us and ask if if we were okay, and if we needed food. We were like, what do you got?

And the manager brought it over. At nine o’clock, you go see whatever’s playing at Largo. At eleven o’clock, you eat at Norms. How much food are we having, Pete Holmes. He says, you get a milkshake, or you get some fries.

It’s open twenty four hours. I think La gets a bad rap for not having diners. Granted, in New York, they’re everywhere. It doesn’t matter what time we get home. We have to watch at least one episode of something thirty rock or right now we’re watching Black Rabbit.

It’s a busy day. Jerry Seinfeld n Apergasey spoke together in Forbest. Jerry said to hey, you told me you were having trouble getting pasted an hour. He had a sixteen minute barrier. Nate said, I think about it every day every show.

I’ve got myself to sixty two sixty three, I’m there. I’ve had that one at like sixty eight. I like to think I keep it tight. I can add stuff to make it longer. Your timing’s based on the audience.

You can do a sixty minute set in a corporate setting and do sixty minutes of a material in fifteen and it can go vice versa. Sounds like teaching. If I have a good class, I’ll leave class when it’s over and have an hour of stuff left.

And then when I have a bad class, two and a half hours of material shrinks do…

So I guess teaching college is like corporate work. Jerry was like, why do you still do corporate work? Nate said, it’s not a ton, but you know, Nate said, why do you go out every week? Your schedule’s been in this dude, I’ve been trying to get you to come out and hang with me one weekend, and every weekend I look at you. You work everywhere.

Jerry said, it’s the most fun thing I have in life. I find everything else is kind of okay, but working on a bit and hanging out with a comedian and I love hotel rooms. Well, Jerry probably stays in pretty nice hotel rooms.

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And then I think about that a little more.

Jerry said, it’s such a guy last night he was a surfer. He was older and surfs every day. I thought, but if I could have done that and just been a surfer, because nobody knows you’re doing it, Nobody really cares if you’re doing it well or not. Just this thing you love. I think stand up and surfing are similar, and that the ocean is always stronger than you.

The audience is way stronger than you. But for the short period of time, I’m going to do a dance in this wave, and that’s what stand up is. I look at surfers. That’s the only way of life I envy or admire, just you and that energy. Nate said, I think golf is like that.

Golfers at the same schedules as us. They’re like a Thursday to Sunday schedule. Those guys get on the road, they drive through these things, see if they can make any money doing it. It’s a pure love of it, you understand. It becomes a mentality more than anything, where you got to be able to just handle it.

Jerry was curious, Nate, would you have been a golfer if you could have? Nate said, yeah, would have loved it. I mean, I love stand up too much. I love it. Jerry said, love is while you’re so good, people always ask me why do you keep doing it?

That’s the only answer. It just love of it. I have a new bit about golf about how they realize the game is too big, if we need a car to get around. Then somebody said, well what if we miniaturize it? What if we take this whole thing and miniaturize it.

See, that’s already a funny premise. Then Nate worked on the bit and said, well, now you date it too much because it’s like a mini golf. There’s got to be a middle ground. Where do you go? I’d like to walk a little bit.

I mean it should be in a parking lot where you’re walking ten feet. Jerry said, that’s funny. We’re gonna miniatureize. We’re going to miniatureize the pencils. Joe Coy and Gabe Iglesias are friends.

They were calling the time. Joe Cooy turned to Gabe down. Gabe says, remember when I was gonna take you on the road, And he said, no, how dare you any joint interview, the topic of playing Rhoda came up Gabe made the point, I’m willing to play by the rules. Want to do a corporate event here in America. Don’t make fun of Google, don’t talk about the CEO, don’t talk about his shoes, don’t make fun of his wife.

There’s always rules no matter where you go. Since it’s he stere, Let’s catch up with Jim Brewer, who spoke to The Advocate and said he put out a series called Funny How God Works. It’s on YouTube. They’re very powerful stories, healing and stuff like that, and all true stories. Jim talked about his podcast, said, when I first started it, I hit more with what I call the noise, and to me, the noises news and politics and your face and all that.

Then after a while, it’s extremely exhausting and it never feels good. It’s all energy to distract us from the everyday importance of talking to someone you love, helping someone helping a neighbor. At the end of the day, if I’m here to help you, I don’t care what you’ve voted for. I feel it’s way more important than these times for us to get as united as quickly as possible and to turn off that noise and realize They’re all bad. All of them are bad.

There’s no left right, there’s no Republican Democrat, just people taking our money and controlling our lives. They asked Jim about the physicality of his act. Is he worn out after a show? Jim said, always worn out. I’m so tired after show because I just put everything out there, and you know, twice it’s cost me some serious physical things where I blew my calf out on stage, I pulled hamstrings out on stage, I pulled my back out, I sprained my ankle on stage.

I just go all out. I can’t help it. I remember when I first went out on the road with Jim when he had the radio show, and he grabbed me and he said, look, I don’t want you to think I’m in a bad mood. Before the show. I go into the zone and I focus.

I’m not mad at you. I’m just gonna go quiet. And he explained after the show he’s tired. Don’t read anything into it. I was appreciated that he did that, because I could be paranoid at times.

Kathleen Madigan, can we teach a person to be funny? She told Psychology Today, you’re on for comedy news. No, not even close. If a person’s already kind of fun wanders into a comedy class, that may actually help them. But the idea that we could teach someone to be funny, I don’t think that’s true.

Psychology Today, asked Kathleen Madigan. Do you think humor helps people cope with life? She said, if you look at groups of comedians, it’s the underdogs, Black comedians, Jewish, Irish Catholics, Asians, they’re made fun of every day of their lives. As an Irish Catholic, I’m not sure we are made fun of every day of their lives. Kathleen may have had a different experience, perhaps just because she grew up in the West, I believe, and I grew up in New York City, where there’s a lot of Irish Catholics, or at least there were in the seventies and eighties.

I digress. Kathleen said, humor is a huge coping mechanism for wherever your people come from. There was nothing funny about the potato famine in Ireland, but somehow it ended up funny. My grandpa would say this thing about coping, which was one hundred years from now. Nobody’s going to know the difference.

He’s right, nothing really matters. He might as well have fun while you’re here. The Buddhists would say, let’s meditate to get to a higher plane, and we would say, yeah, no, let’s get to that higher plane with a shot of fireball. Psychology Today said it was fun talking with you. Kathleen said, well, no one wants to talk now.

In the old days, HBO people would come to the mill Rose Improv and you met them. They were alive, and then they went back to work in that building on Sunset Boulevard. Now the children have taken over. They like email. They just don’t want to talk at all.

For the Netflix show, I’ve never met or spoken to anyone, never been in their office. I used to go to New York and meet the Comedy Central people and then you’d audition. They tell you to your face, yes or no. Now you send a link and a form letter comes back, yes or no. That’s your comedy news for today.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Steve Carell, Bill Lawrence, Nate Petgetzki, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Nealon, Cheech and Chong, Ali, Donal Rawlings, Charlie Murphy, Chris Fleming, Randy Jackson, Charlie Burns

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr Saudi Arabia controversy and Facebook backlash
• Rooster TV show review with Steve Carell
• Nate Petgetzki on clean comedy and past controversial jokes
• Jim Gaffigan keynote speaker at NACDS Foundation dinner
• Kevin Nealon on staying in character during SNL
• Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie coming to Paramount Plus
• Ali’s daily routine and best day ever in Houston
• Donal Rawlings reflects on Charlie Murphy’s passing
• Chris Fleming’s HBO special features hat shop clerk Randy Jackson
• Jeffrey Epstein’s networking with comedians

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. I’ve kind of given up on Rooster. I liked the first episode, Episode two was not as good, and then the third episode last week made me give up on the show. My wife agrees with me.

Robbie Hoffman now on the show, she says she botched every interaction she had with Steve Carell. Robbie explained, I botched it every time he said hi to him because it’s impossible not to be starstruck with him, and he’s such a classy man. I have my brother going to jask about the office? Did you ask? And it’s like, I can’t really just be asking about the office.

But finally I asked about the office. I literally had to say, Hey, my brother loved you in the office. I’m sad that I don’t like it because I like Corell, I like Bill Lawrence, I love McGinley. Just didn’t work for me. Nate Pergetzi famously a clean comedian.

He said he didn’t always surround himself with a clean comedian. He said, it’s kind of like school, you just find your group that you’re kind of going to be with. Really, my group, I was the closest to with the dirtiest comedians, Big Jay Okerson, Louis J. Gomez, Dan Soder was the dirtiest. I’d open for them, he explains, though my mind didn’t go the root of writing that kind of way, and I never wanted to make someone feel bad in the crowd.

He recalled one time he made a joke about prostitutes getting murdered by a serial killer in New York. He said, it worked very much on a young comic. It works very much in those rooms.

And then I didn’t put it up on YouTube, but it got put up on YouTube.

A prostitute saw it and was upset. Nate said, look, I’m so sorry. I didn’t know it was going to go up. I won’t do that joke again. Jim Gaffigan will be the keynote speaker at the NACDS Foundation.

They’re holding their twenty eighth Annual Foundation Dinner August fifteenth at the Omniboston Hotel at the Seaport. The event gathers industry leaders to support the foundation’s mission of advancing public health and promoting healthier communities. Kevin Nealan was in the headlines kind of bragging that he never broke character on SNL. He said, I knew much time the writer’s putting all those scripts. You don’t want to be the one who throws it off.

Michael’s doesn’t like when the cast breaks. Even if the audience laughs, it doesn’t work for the sketch. If you want to example that, watch the famous more cow Bell sketch TIV follons kind of losing in the background. Chiechin’ Chong’s Last Movie will be added to Paramount Plus on April twentieth, four to twenty. If you’re in the know, Cheiach and Chong’s Last Movie follows two of comedy’s best buds on a long, laugh fill drive to a place called the Joint.

Along the way, they reflect on their lifelong friendship from childhood to the heights of their careers in the sixties through the eighties, and beyond their breakup, and exploring how their counterculture stoner humor evolved in a brand that stands strong over fifty years later, with the catalog of movies, pack concerts, platinum selling records, and even a mobile game. Interspersed is archival footage, moments from the do, on screen and on stage, animations, interviews and more. I got to remember, I’ve been talking about how I’ve been reflecting on people I’ve met over the years. I met these guys. I’m going to add them to my little note here that I’m making, just as I randomly remember that I’ve met people.

I’m just putting them in a notepad on my MacBook. I don’t know what I’m doing with this, but I just like to keep lists. The Eastern Chronicle caught up with Alid the topic how to have the best day ever in Houston. I’ve never been to Houston, so I can’t comment on this. Seven thirty in the morning, he runs a few miles, at least three miles at Tom Bass Park.

If we’re not doing the full six and a half miles, that’s a good solid run. At eleven fifteen he starts taking phone calls and meetings to start the day. Now, what happens between seven? So if he runs six and a half miles at a reasonable clip, and he starts at seven point thirty, he would be done by nine o’clock almost definitely sooner than that, I guess he goes home and showers. Then eleven fifteen he starts taking phone calls and meetings to start the day.

At one o’clock, he visits the reggae bodega. At four o’clock, you go to the grocery store. At six, he hugs his daughter after school. At eight thirty, he goes to see his mom. He walks the dog.

Mom lives down the street. All right, that works out. At nine to thirty, he eats dinner with his wife and kids. He hopes his wife is making enchiladas. If she’s making enchiladas, I’m all in.

My wife is great enchiladas. We have a late day, and at midnight he passes out on the couch for a little while watching sports. So if I’m getting this right, you get up and you run, you have some menchaladas, and you pass out on the couch watching sports. We’re more alike than I realized. What do you say?

We hit Bill Burr’s Facebook page and see what’s going on. Oh, here’s a post. Bill is posted live at south By Southwest is available now on YouTube. Okay, let’s see what people are saying in the comments about Bill Burr. Jonathan wrote, Billy Blood money is all gas, no brakes.

Keith roat my jokes are paid for with blood money. Dave says bonesaw, Bill has some observations. Paru said bagdad Bill is on fire. Eric said it’s Billy Burka. Gabriel got right to it and said go back to Saudi Arabia, you ef ing sellout.

Now, that’s not Gabriel Iglacias. It’s a different Gabriel. Jared posted Bill, I was very disappointed at the North Korea show. Can you please respond to my refund email? Bill Burr did not help his career going to Riodd.

A lot of comedians went nothing happened, but Bill Burr, for some reason of everybody, seems to have taken on the most damage of that. Donal Rawlings became emotional while reflecting on the loss of Charlie Murphy. Donnelle was on the Wei in Miami podcast. He was asked about Charlie Murphy passing away in twenty seventeen. Donnelle said it was very difficult because it was like the big brother that I never had.

He also shared an anecdote, the only time I ever saw Charlie show any emotion other than being a super hard tough guys. When he was losing his wife, he cried on the phone with me. I’ve never seen him emotional, vulnerable or anything. It was weird. Charlie’s wife, Tisha Taylor Murphy, passed away of cervical cancer in December two thousand and nine.

From The Times Union, a Saratoga Springs hatshop interaction became a standout moment and Chris Fleming’s HBO special, turning former clerk Randy Jackson into an unexpected character. Jackson until The Times Union Chris Fleming was unfortunately correct. I’m definitely sort of an old lady trapped in a young man’s body. The jazz age, flapper of it all has never left me. On the day Chris Flemmings special premiered, Jackson woke up to a message from a high school classmate.

The mess told Jackson that Chris Fleming had dedicated a length excitement of his new special to an interaction he had with the hat salesman. Jackson said, it was so funny. Jackson reached out to Chris Flemming over Instagram to let him know he love the biddy said I found him, and I said, I’m the ancient hat boy, I’m the Ancient Demon. Charlie Burns will perform at the twenty twenty six Lumberjack World Championships. Athletes from around the globe will compete in twenty one events that test strength, agility, balance and precision.

Spectators can expect thrilling competitions including log rolling, boom running, shopping, sawing, ax throwing, and speed climbing shoecasing the elite skills of professional timber sports athletes. The New York Times under the headline at dinners over jokes with comedians Epstein, Yeah, that Epstein honed his networking. They dove into the file and apparently Jeffrey Epstein sought relationships with comedians. The New York Times reports in twenty fourteen, Jeffrey Epstein wanted a bunch of comedians to join him for dinner at an Italian restaurant on the Upper east Side. Chris Rock was high in his list.

David Brynner was it, probably then a yes, then ultimately in no. He was under the weather. Lewis Black was not to be invited. Apparently Jeffrey Epstein had not found Lewis Black funny when he had come over a year earlier, Chris Rock said no because he had plans with his daughter. Bobby Slayton emailed Jeffrey Epstein ahead of the dinner and said, now the pressure’s on me to carry all the funny unless Woody decides to chip in.

The Woody believed to be Woody Allen, The New York Times reminds us none of the comedians have been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, and nothing an email suggests that meeting women was part of the rationale for the gatherings. The New York Times further reminds us Epstein was an earnest fan of comedy who attended shows in Manhattan, Palm Beach and Montreal. Jackie the joke Man Martling is quoted here as saying, Jeffrey Epstein told Jackie over a meal, anybody that’s really smart loves jokes because they’re little problems and the way they work themselves out. Further reporting from The Times. After one dinner in twenty five fifteen, Jeffrey Epstein emailed Nick Depolo, writing, thanks for coming last night.

If okay with you, I will contact you on my return to New York. Topoulo wrote back, give me a little time to process that last part. As you know, you’re a bit of a controversial guy. I mean no offense by that at all, l ol. The Time says to Polo did not reply to request for comment, Neither did Rock Allen, Lewis Black, or Jackie Martling.

Times further says Lewis Black, Slayton, and Jackie have said in interviews that they never saw Epstein hanging out with underage girls. Layton told a Daily Beast reporter he felt obliged to visit and let’s not wrap up on that story. Let me get a little silly here. I’m worried about Tim Meadows. Why worried about Tim Meadows?

Johnny Mac Well. Tim Meadows says his funniest friend is Adam Sandler. Why why there’s nothing funny about the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler. How do you find him funny? Tim Meadows?

Who? Again, I’ve never met Tim Meadows. What I’m worried about you now? Tim Meadows said it. I know a lot of very funny people, but Sadler, I think for me is the funniest because I’ve known him so long.

We have a really good friend. We have bits that we do with each other from thirty years ago. Then you create new bits whenever you hang out with them. He loves to laugh and he loves to do bits. I think he’s one of the funniest people I know, just in terms of talking and hanging out.

We can be ourselves with each other, all right, So maybe he’s like really funny in person. That just doesn’t translate to anything on say Saturday Night Live or movies. All right, that makes sense. I’m less worried about tim Meadows now. I wait, I should have kept reading.

I’m worried about tim Meadows again, he said. I always say there’s very few people from SNL I would drive across the country with. But David Spade is probably in my top three or four people that I could do that with. To each their own. And that is your comedy news for today.

I’ll see tomorrow.

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Featured: Louis C.K., Eugene Mirman, Reggie Watts, Howie Mandel, Kelly Ripa, Nate Bargatzi, Sarah Silverman, Imogen Heap, Kenan Thompson, Judd Apatow

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. returns to Netflix with special and Netflix Is a Joke Festival headline
• Eugene Mirman hospitalized after serious car crash in New Hampshire
• Reggie Watts announces death of partner Catherine McCullough and launches GoFundMe
• Howie Mandel regrets apology to Kelly Ripa over joke controversy
• Nate Bargatzi movie The Breadwinner trailer released
• The Greatness averaging 1.6 million viewers on TV

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, busy one. Today for the first time a week, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. I always do one last check to see if anything came in between me originally writing the scripts and sitting down to record. And it’s a good thing I did, because just in as I sit down here, Netflix is getting back into business with Louis C.K.

Answering the question is anyone truly canceled in comedy? The answer, of course no. Louis C.K. Will headline a show with the Hollywood Bowl as part of the Netflix Is at Joke Festival. Ck will be there on May fifth, and his upcoming comedy special Ridiculous, will premiere on Netflix this summer.

Now, I feel like he already has a special cult Ridiculous, or an album or something. I don’t know why that’s in my mind. I’m calling up his discography here Live in Houston, Shameless, chewed Up, Hilarious, Maybe that’s what I’m thinking of. Live at the Beacon, Live at Carnegie Hall, Oh my God, Live at the Comedy Store. Sinceialy, Luis K and sorry, Well, Louis C.K.

Is back. You can play the READD Comedy Festival. You can do whatever you want in front of women. People will forgive you, and you will headline a show at the Hollywood Bowl during the Netflix’s Joe Comedy Festival. The good news is this will give me something to talk about next week.

You may recall Louis C.K. Was canceled in twenty seventeen. Some women had alleged that Louis k had masturbated in front of them. Ck admitted to the behavior, saying he believed at the time it had been appropriate because he’d asked first, So that knocked everything down. One story, the next two both pretty sad.

Eugene Merman was hospitalized on Tuesday with serious injuries after Crashken’s car in New Hampshire. The New York Times reported that Merman was pulled out of his burning car after he crashed into a toll plaza in New Hampshire shortly before noon. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Eugene Merman’s agent confirmed that his client was in a very scary car accident, but was quote grateful to be on the mend. The New York Times reports.

A state trooper assigned to the security detail of the Governor arrived at the scene saw Eugene Mermon trapped inside the burning car. The trooper helped pull Eugene out of the car, which apparently was a twenty twenty six Lucid Gravity type car. I’m not familiar with that. It appears to be an electric suv. Just picture something you would drive to the supermarket.

This is not like a Maserati or anything. It is one of corn Driver’s ten best SUVs and Esquire’s Car of the Year. Colonel Mark B. Hall is the director of the New Hampshire State Police. Colonel Hall called the response to the crash heroic and added, without hesitation, they put themselves in danger to render aid to someone who was in need of it.

Hopefully all is well there.

Meanwhile, Reggie Watts is working on a go Fundme to support his late partner.

On Wednesday, Reggie Watts shared a post on Instagram reflecting on the loss of Catherine McCullough. Reggie posted, Catherine, I will miss you so much. I know you were in pain and while I tried everything I could to reflect the light you brought into this world, the sorrow became too much to overcome. You changed my life. You open up my vulnerability and taught me how to receive love when someone close.

We built a life together, went on adventures, and we took our chances together. You had a natural radiance that people could feel from so far away, a light you carried despite the difficult path you walked from childhood. I’ve been processing so much. I know you can hear me, and I honor the intentionality of your journey. You planned your time in Lima beautifully, the coast, the art, the meal shared with a friend, While so difficult for those of us left behind, I understand your need for peace.

So much of you is still around me in the house we shared. I’m so grateful for everything we shared, and I will hold on to the light you gave me forever. Please say hello to my mother. You never got to meet her, but I know she would have been happy to see how kind you were to me. You took care of me in a way I know she always wanted for me.

I love you, Catherine, I always will. You’re a part of me as you’ve always been. Friends, including Sarah Silverman, Immagean Heap, Keenan Thompson, and Judd Apatow shared their support for Reggie Watts in the post common section. As for the go fundme, Reggie explains, Kat’s family is now in the difficult place of dealing with her loss, both emotionally and practically. Her remains must be shipped internationally, which apparently is incredibly expensive.

That’s why we set up this GoFundMe to help her mother and sister cover those costs, as well as any costs for a service in her home state of South Carolina. We asked that you please only give if you’re in a comfortable place to do so. Otherwise, Catherine would definitely prefer you go spend six dollars on a bag of argula instead consumed by the fistful with no dressing. The GoFundMe reads, Kathleen Early McCullough has passed on. She was obviously the sweetest and funniest person that ever walked the earth.

She was radiant and enchanting, and only half of that was her hair. In her own words, she hasn’t left us, but instead returned to the wholeness of consciousness. She’s with us still, and if you’re reading this, she probably loved you immensely. Unless you were ever mean to her sister Colleen, which would make you a sworn enemy. The GoFundMe had raised twenty seven thousand dollars as I’m reading this, the goal was thirty thousand.

No easy way to segue out of that, so I’ll just keep going ahead. Howie Mandel says he now regrets apologies to Kelly Rippa or we covered that. I think Sunday and Monday, and I thought the whole thing was weird. Howie has now said, I don’t believe in apologizing, but as I said at that post, which a kind of regret making. Obviously, I told a joke that didn’t land well.

Comedians always say, if it can make one person laugh, you’re doing the job. But apparently that’s not enough. I’m not sure that he means here. The quote is, so you liked my joke. I’m reading and there’s no stopping it, and I don’t understand it, and I tried to stop it.

I tried to apologize. I agreed with people I do. How he said he doesn’t know what’s going on or when this will end, and I ope it end soon because I didn’t mean to cause any disruption. I didn’t mean to embarrass anybody. Nate Bergatzy and friends have released a new trailer for the Breadwinner of this this movie that I keep staring at it, and all I can keep thinking is was Kevin James not available?

There is a trailer. I don’t find it very good. I’ll give you a little taste of it here. Hey, it’s Snay BARGATSI get ready for the dead air. Because the new Breadwinner trailer starts now.

I think I might really have something. If doing this makes you have you have to go for it. This is a big opportunity. I’m going to give you an offer. But Nate, you have to stay home and take care of the kids.

Yeah, I could do that. Really, you’re all gonna job. I’m right here. Bye, Love you guys. At the door is locked?

Is the wind in the back? Or crawl through that? Dad? You’re going the wrong way to your school, to any of our schools? Do you don’t know where our schools are?

What? In The Breadwinner, Nate Berghatzi is the husband of Katie, Katie’s the supermom. Katie the Supermom lands a deal on Shark Tank. As one does, that means Nate has to become a stay at home dad who hilarity ensues. The Breadwinner opens May twenty ninth.

That got me curious to see how the greatest average American was doing on the TV. There it’s averaging around roughly your math may vary, one point six million viewers. As a comparison, New Scrubs is getting three million viewers. Comedy stock Market, Thank you, Bert Reynolds. Every Friday we take a look at the comedy stock market.

We’re not talking about who’s good or bad. We’re just looking at whose career has got some upside and whose career has some downside. We try and find the value you Now the stock market works. Ten minutes ago, I had nothing for this week, and I felt bad because I had nothing last week and kept it pretty simple. But now that I’ve got my new top story for the day, should we just give in?

Should we just load up on Louis C.K. His stock is still well below where it was, and it seems we’re walcoming him back to the fold. Why don’t we just load up on Louis C.K. And he’ll play Netflix and everyone will pretend he was never canceled, and maybe we can sell A couple days after the festival at a new peak of Louis C.K. Value?

Right? Does that make sense investment wise? Put all your morals or whatever you think of all this aside. What I’m saying is, at one point he was being compared to George Carlin. As you listen to me today, he’s not being compared to George Carlin.

But if he headlines Netflix and there’s a Netflix special Louis C.K.’s back, there’s value there. Let’s scoop up some Louis C.K. I also don’t know what to do with Nate. I think the trailer looks terrible, but there’s a lot of people out there that I could see going, oh, this is hilarious and he does well at the box office. I don’t know should we sell Nate or should we buy Nate.

I’d be curious to know what you guys think. So I think my recommendation for now is just hold. So that’s what I have for you this week. I want to do something with Nate. I don’t know what, and we should buy some Louis k.

Quick shout out back to Chris. Chris is one of the listeners who shot me a note on the side and we were texting the other day. Appreciate you, Chris, thank you for listening. Great to hear from you this weekend in Anaheim. This sounds pretty fun, which I don’t think is proper English, but who cares.

It’s the stand up chow Down festival bringing laughs and bites together in Anaheim. At some point, I’m just gonna have to give in and move to California, like everyone eventually does. I don’t know if I’m gonna go to the Netflix Festival. I looked at it, and the shows I want to see are on the first Monday and Tuesday and then on the weekend. And if I go to LA for eight days, that’s a lot on you know, things like my family, the rest of my life, and it ain’t free and it’s Los Angeles, So even if I stay somewhere not that awesome, it’s still one hundred and fifty dollars a night and the flights and the car and I can’t get in touch with anybody at Netflix for some reason, So I don’t know if I’m gonna go out there for that.

I might just cover that from the basement. But if I were out there, you’d find me in Anaheim this weekend at the stand up Chatown Festival tonight’s and tomorrow throughout the Anaheim packing district. The event, aimed at local comedy fans and foodies, combines intimate comedy shows and chef driven dining experiences. It’s a partnership with Don’t Tell Comedy. The marquee headliner is Adam Ray.

The festival begins today with three comedy shows acompanied by food and drinks from local food trucks. More shows tomorrow. Participating vendors include The Craft Urbana, Mexican Gastronomy, Polly Wine Company, Picnick Stone, Groove, Steelhouse, Mangal, Randy’s Donuts, Mini Monster, The Wooden Pearl, Parfait Paris, and a bunch of other things. They’ll offer special menu items, discounts and curated pairings exclusive. I like it.

We need more of that. And in Melbourne, let’s see what’s happening in Melbourne. Pulled some clips for you today. Former guest on this program Nith Valvo. He’s performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival this weekend.

Let’s listen. Oh my god, hello, I’m Nate, very happy to be here. Get this, guys, not long ago, my boyfriend Cody awful name. Great guy said to me, I’m going to do a triathlon and you have to come and watch it. Don’t be a bitch, That’s what he said to me, right, So I was like, I can do that because I’m like really nice.

So the first thing he did was find a try group on the internet called the Mountain Goats, and they have that written on the back of their t shirts like they’re okay with people knowing that. Anyway, they’re all counting their steps, you know, people that count steps. We’re all dealing with those people just counting with steps and just counting with steps. I mean, the step club at work got to hit ten thousand, gotta hit ten thousand. No living than me today, I’m counting with steps.

If you’re over two years old, no one gives a shit how many steps you took tonight. You stop counting at two, you know. And they’ve all got these watches that they plug into laptops and all these grafts come up. Here’s a little rule. The more things you watch can do, the less time people want to spend with you.

Put that on a sticker next step. I pulled a clip from Denise Scott, so a lot of these people in Melbourne. You know, I don’t know everybody, and that’s why I like doing this. I like just clicking on and sharing with you guys and seeing who’s out there. Now.

I clicked on this and I was like, why did she release this? It sounds like it’s like an empty room. And I’m watching the and it is an empty room, and I’m like, the room sounds dead, it sounds half empty. Why would you release this?

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And then I kept listening and paying attention.

Oh, it’s from twenty twenty. I don’t know if you recall, there was this pandemic and we all had to stay home for a year and a half. Remember that what happened. So this was during the pandemic when we were all afraid to sit next to each other at comedy clubs. That’s why it sounds empty.

Anyway, here’s Denise Scott. My kids are both in their thirties now, you know, which means I can’t talk about them anymore. Well, that’s what their lawyer told me, But no. They are. They’re both in their thirties.

They live overseas. My son and his girlfriend live in Nashville. They Muso’s Old Country, you know, which means you know they’re poor. And my daughter lives in New York. She’s a visual artist, which means you know, she’s very, very poor.

But they’re both. Look, they’re brilliant. They’re brilliant artists. I’m very proud of them. People say, do I miss them?

And look. Put it this way. The last time my son left to go back to America and walk through those departure doors at the airport and they close, I may or may not have fallen to the ground and screamed, come back. Mummy’s got nothing left to live for. And I like this one from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

It’s Evil Dead the Musical. When five college students venture to an abandoned cabin in the woods, they accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. Melbourne’s iconic Chapel Off Chapel will be transformed into a ramshackle, not so demon proof cabin in the woods, putting you smack bang in the middle of the bloody chaos. Whether you’re a diehard horror enthusiast a musical theater lover, which is someone who joys a good laugh, Evil Dead the Musical is a wild ride like nothing you’ve ever seen. It’s part comedy, part carnage, and all parts groovy.

And that is your comedy news for today. Normal episodes, all weekend meets you back here tomorrow

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Featured: Kid Rock, Shane Gillis, Kevin James, Kathy Griffin, Joey Diaz, Matt Rife, John Mulaney, Trevor Noah, Amy Schumer, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Kid Rock’s Comedy Jam 2026 lineup announcement at The Ryman
• Matt Rife throws first pitch at Cincinnati Reds game
• John Mulaney book club recommends The Monkey Wrench Gang
• Webby Awards announces nominees for comedy and late night shows
• YouTube brand Cast Upfront presentation with Trevor Noah as MC
• Seinfeld trivia champions profiled in Wall Street Journal
• Amy Schumer posts swimsuit selfie after weight loss
• Kathy Griffin reveals new blonde hair on Instagram
• Jay Leno’s law moves through California state Senate for vehicle emissions exemptions

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. Now one thing the algorithm can help me with. Got some problems with today’s audio.

I did a new open here for you, but there’s what’s called peak distortion on some of the audio today, really annoying. I don’t know what happened. My laptop just went nuts and it took me like twenty minutes to realize this happened. I should have caught it in the recording, but I did not, So I’m gonna fall on my sword here and apologize. Kid Rock’s Comedy Jam is set to return for a fifth year as part of the twenty twenty sixth Nashville Comedy Festival.

The Kid Rock Comedy Jam is hosted by Kid Rock, who sometimes has army helicopters fly by stop asking questions the jam Monday, April thirteenth, seven pm at The Ryman. All proceeds from the show will go to. The Kid Rock Foundation, a five h one see nonprofit raising funds for and awareness of local and regional charities helping disadvantage children, victims of war and natural disasters, and those suffering from illness. Here’s your lineup, Kevin James, Kathy Griffin, Shane Gillis. I don’t know why Shane’s name is third in this thing, mister Rock.

Joey Diaz, who I have heard people say the phrase Joey Diaz is the worst person you will ever meet in your life. I’ve heard people say that about Joey Diaz. Yes, they go out of their way to tell you that Joey Diaz is the worst person that you’ll ever meet, but he’ll be there.

Also appearing Heather McMahon, Morgan, Jay, Nate Jackson, Nate Jackson and s…

Matt Rife went to hit a baseball game. It was the Reds versus the Boston Red Sox. Matt Rife throughout the first pitch, he received a personalized jersey with his name on the back. He posted on Instagram, I met my very first Reds game. Glad to be back home in Ohio.

Go Reds. I’m gonna go shotgun a can of skyline Chile. Matt Rife is from North Lewis, Ohio. We also learned from Matt Rife social media that he says the Lord of the Rings the Two Towers video game is quote one of the best games ever. A fan had mentioned on Twitter that they should remake that game, and Matt Riiche said, I was just saying this update the graphics and relaunch.

John Mulaney John Mulini shared the latest installment of his book club. Now, this was the one for March, and he apparently shared it on March thirty. First check your calendar, John. Anyway, if you want to read something from the John Mulaney book Club, he recommends The Monkey Wrench Gang. He said he was in Utah last week.

He’d never heard of it or author Edward Abbey m’lani tells us the novel is as hilarious, weird, and American as a classic Robert Altman movie. The characters come together early and easily and embark on the funniest adventure I’ve read in a long time. You’ll burn through it enjoy. The Webby Awards have announced a whole bunch of nominees. Now, before we get into the Webby Awards, let me just tell you something.

You have to enter the Webby Awards to have a chance to be one of the finalists. Now I was curious. It’s like, oh, what if one of my listeners want to enter the Webby Awards, what would that cost them? Well, for a creator, a single entry award is four hundred and seventy five dollars, So ponder that as I tell you all this. There are so many categories.

I could spend three hours reading them to you, but I’ll just tell you the ones that are mainly relevant to what we handle here. Your nominees for comedy show podcasts are Conan SmartLess, Fly on the Wall, Comedy Bang Bang, Las Calturistas, Late Night are covered. They’re part of the universe. They tell us. The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon amassed five nominations, including for Best Creator, Personality or Host.

Also of note, they’re nearly hour long. The Life of a Showgirl Deep Dive with Taylor Swift Extended has emerged as an honoree in the Music Video and Film category.

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Meanwhile, The Late Show with star trek Ruiner Stephen Colbert is nominated f…

The Daily Show is nominated in the Social and Games category. Desiliitik is up for Best Individual Performance Video and Film for her Desilidik Foxplains series. In a different podcast category, in which you could submit for four to seventy five dollars, The Weekly Show with John Stewart will vie for Best Series against the Pivot, What Could Go Wrong? And DC High Volume. Batman Saturday Night Live nominated for Best Overall Social Presence and Best Use of Vertical Video.

Very Exciting the Webby Awards. Let’s Stay on the Internet. YouTube is coming back to the TV Upfront’s week. Trevor Noah will MC the twenty twenty six brand Cast presentation for advertisers. That’s right, it’s YouTube’s brand Cast.

Upfront returning to Lincoln Center in New York City invitation only, sorry, folks, Wednesday, May thirteenth, starting at five thirty pm. I didn’t make Trivia Night last night because I wanted to stay and to watch the Moon launch and then to see what the President of the United States had to tell us. So no trivia for me. Now. I don’t know if I could keep up with these other trivia guys.

These are the champions of Seinfeld Trivia, and they were profiled by The Wall Street Journal. The journal piece leads off with this question. In season one of Seinfeld, Jerry secures this apartment dour with what he calls the most impenetrable lock on the market. What brand is it? No Idea?

That’s when I look at my team and I go no idea, and I go back to drinking my beer. Well, Mike is one of these trivia guys. It’s good at Seinfeld Trivia. He told the Journal. It was almost like I’ve been waiting for this question to pop up.

The answer, of course, the clapgo. D twenty nine, Mike and four of his friends are on a team called Venetian Blinds. How do they practice? One of the team members falls asleep two episodes, hoping details stick in his head. Another listens to the show’s audio while working out and showering.

At one point, the team won. A six foot aluminum poll, among other prizes, that was part of a festiv Us theme trivia contest last December. One of the guys on the team, Joe, said, I feel like by the time I’m eighty years old, I’m gonna be the guy with the Seinfeld room. Amy Schumer likes when we talk about her. She was on Instagram.

She revealed a swimsuit selfie. Fans notice she appears slimmer than ever following a reported fifty pound weight loss. We’re told that while wearing oversized sunglasses and her hair pulled back into a casual bun, Amy Schumer kept the look effortless and unfiltered.

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Meanwhile, Kathy Griffin is now a blonde.

Fans weren’t sure did she dye her hair as at a wig. One person commented, what the hell is happening here? Kathy confirmed she had actually bleached her hair. She said, Hi, you guys, it’s Kathy Griffin as a blonde. She then encouraged people to check out her Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin YouTube show, where she discusses her decision to go blonde.

The worst person who ever lived? Jay Leno back in the news. Remember there was this whole thing. Jay Leno has been battling against California’s emissions regulators. Well, Leno’s law has found its way back into the state Senate.

Right now, California draws a hardline at nineteen seventy five. Anything built before nineteen seventy five can potentially sidesteps and smock testing requirements, providing it’s not like an everyday car and it’s just for like parades and car shows and stuff like jay Lena would do. Under the proposed changes to the law, the collector vehicle threshold would shift to any car at least thirty five years old, with the cutoff creeping ford one model year at a time until twenty twenty two. That would eventually move the exemption all the way up until nineteen eighty six. Doesn’t sound unreasonable to me.

At the Melbourne Comedy Festival, there’s a lot of magic shows during the daytime, so if you’re free on Friday again with the Melbourne stuff, I have to work a day ahead because of the way time zones work. But if you’re free round twelve thirty, go see Barry Potter and the Magic of Wizardry. That’s right, I said. Barry Potter witness Feats of Sorcery in person as a grown up wizard delves into an untold story. Edmundton Journal gave it five stars and called it incredible Kiddo mag four stars presumably out of four, they said fun and surprise filled.

Got a couple actual clips for you today. Dave Thornton’s show was called More or less Ny Gouz. There’s been a lot of her in my family about getting a dog, and look, I get it. I grew up with a dog. It’s great.

And like you dog owners, I reckon you speak more complimentary about your dogs than most parents talk about their kids, Like seriously, you say stuff like, uh, it’s my fur baby, it’s my fur baby. I call my kids my flesh beets not as nice. And the only thing is we live in a built up area. I saw the dogs around us. They’re small, which is fine, but they’re the kind of dogs you know that humans have bred them to just be structurally unsound, Like near us there’s a pug.

Okay, I’m sorry. Pugs just shouldn’t exist like that. You know, historically they used to have snouts. They did, We’ve now bred them to be nostrils straight into skull. Like this poor thing, it struggles to breathe.

I feel so sorry for it. It jumps up on your lap and it’s like and the owner’s like, oh, I think Toby likes you. I’m just thinking, yeah, well, if he was a car to be on roadworthyst. And let’s do one more. I think there might be a naughty word in here.

I can’t remember from when I pulled it earlier. There might be a naughty word, So if you’re offended, punch out now. But otherwise I really like this clip from Nathan Chin. His share was called the Chinese Comedy Party. Look, just before I begin, I just want to quickly start off by also acknowledging the traditional owners of the land in which we gather here today, the wandery people of the Cooler Nation, and I pay my respects to their elders, pass and present, but also have to acknowledge the true owners of the land, the Central Equity Chinese property group.

Pay my rent to their developers, pass and present. Ah, gotta say both, now you know what I mean, just in case they’re listening, because you know, I’m actually quite proud to be an Asian Australian. But it’s annoying because when I tell people I’m Aussie, I get the same response that so many people have Colla Gate, and that’s a yeah, sure, but where you’re really from? Right? And I think that’s it’s a really stupid question to ask me, considering that in about ten years time, this is what the average Australian will look like.

Right, Some of you they aren’t laughing at that. Ah, that’s a joke about the Chinese taking over Australia. Well, you know, maybe you don’t think he’s a joke, in which case you really should appreciate the freedom to laugh where you still can. How a on a plane, it sounds like a lot of fun, And don’t forget Today is the last day of voting for this week’s round of Comedy Survivor Sebastian manascalgo in Massive trouble. If you want him out, join the crew.

If you want to save him, get some friends and hit the Facebook group Daily Many News podcast group and I’ll catch you tomorrow.

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Featured: Rob Schneider, Jon Stewart, Whitney Cummings, Andrew Schultz, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Eddie Murphy

What’s in This Episode

• Rob Schneider defends mandatory draft comments on social media
• Jon Stewart mocks White House ballroom project as potential bunker cover
• Whitney Cummings guest hosts The View, jokes about FBI director’s leaked emails
• Billboard February 2026 top touring comedians chart released
• Andrew Schultz cast in film ‘Clashing through the Snow’
• Andy Samberg stars in romantic comedy ‘42.6 Years’ with Annette Bening
• John Mulaney tells story about son Malcolm’s visit to Graceland
• Eddie Murphy receives AFI Life Achievement Award

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Rob Schneider has jumped on social media to clarify his comments about the mandatory draft. He posted, you are missing the point. Missing the point in all caps Schneider’s theory if nobody is exempt from military service, then poor and wealthy families alike would have a shared military connection.

Don’t worry, Rob, someone will be exempt, and it won’t be the poor. Schneider said Congress would think long and hard before sending American troops into another far away war that isn’t vital to our national survival. Rob Rob, Robert, Rob, Rob, Rob. Are you paying attention to the news. Do you think Congress does anything about anything?

Do you think Congress isn’t going to have figured out a way so their kids don’t have to go? Come on, man, Rob said, no more cavalier decisions, No more other people’s kids dying while their own kids stay safe at Ivy League schools or in Beverly Hills. Schneider said, then the nation might stop treating itinst the military like disposable chess pieces. I’m with you there, Rob, but uh yeah, let me know when Congress does anything. John Stewart ripped into the President of the United States.

Not over the war, No, John Stuart was more interested in the White House ballroom project, which it seems increasingly clear is just a cover story for a new bunker being built. The New York Times had reported over the weekend that designs for the ballroom show fake windows on the north side and columns that would block the interior ballroom view. There’s also a grand staircase that does not lead to an entrance. John Stewart on The Daily Show said, okay, woke New York Times. When mc escher does that, it’s art.

Well, but you put it on an actual building and suddenly it’s this doesn’t make any sense, and I appear to be trapped if you ours. After the Times report, President Trump spoke to the press. He was on Air Force One reporters, I’m fighting wars and other things, but this is very important because this is going to be with us for a long time, and I think it’ll be the greatest ballroom anywhere in the world. John Stewart responded to that and said for the ballroom, Trump will put in an all nighter for a point by point rebuttal, but for the war, he literally doesn’t have the focused answer one question. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Livett said, President Trump and his lead architect have built world class buildings around the world, and they’re ensuring the People’s House finally as a beautiful ballroom that’s been needed for decades at no expense to the tax payer.

Remember that last part there, Whitney Cummings, she’s getting political. She was guest hosting the view. She was discussing how FBI Director Cash Bettel’s emails had been leaked. She said, I mean, if Cash wanted his emails not to get released, he should have just c sed Jeffrey Epstein on them. That is a great line and a great point.

Moving away from politics. Finally, John Billboard has published the February box Score Report to see who the top touring comedians were for February twenty twenty six. Do you want to guess? Yes, you were correct? Number one again Naprighatzy.

He has led for six of the last seven months. The only month he wasn’t number one was in December when John Mulaney took the crown number two, Joe Coy three, Cant Williams four, Bert Kreischer five, Jim Gaffigan. Andrew Schultz, who once appeared in the headline in the New York Times June twenty third, twenty twenty five, Andrew Schultz might be America’s foremost political journalist. That’s right, The New York Times said, Andrew Schultz might be America’s foremost political journalist. This is a real thing that happened in the New York Times.

It’s I know you’re like John, It’s April Fool’s Day. No one is gonna believe that’s the story that appeared in the New York Times. They’re not crazy. No, I’m telling you this is not an April Fools joke. On June twenty third, twenty twenty five, they wrote the headline, Andrew Schultz might be America’s foremost political journalist.

He also, I’ll add, might be America’s foremost actor. That’s right. He’s going to appear in a new film. It’s called Clashing through the Snow. It’s described as planes, trains, and automobiles for the gen Z generation.

It centers on two rival coworkers at a book publisher who are forced to travel cross country when bad weather grounds all available flights. They should just rewrite this and say the TSA lines are fourteen hours long, and they decide to drive now. Yes. Andrew Schultz, possibly America’s greatest political journalist, will play Walder, a janitor with a close personal connection to the character played by Christopher Briney, who is a type A commerce focused editor. Zarni Guard plays Gail, whose unexpected god in steers a character played by Michelle Randolph, a creative, freethinking editor in a pivotal direction during the trip sounds very complicated.

Can’t wait for it? Mack Packer Andy Samberg. He will start in forty two point six Years, a romantic comedy. Samberg was originally going to star opposite Gene Smart. Gene has now pulled out of it and has been replaced by five time Oscar nominee Annette Benning.

In forty two point six Years, we follow ben played by Mack Packer Andy Samberg, who, after an experimental procedure leaves him cryogenically frozen for forty two point six years, sets out to reconnect with his ex girlfriend played by Anette Benning. He has an age today. She’s lived an entire lifetime without him. John Mulaney was a guest on The Late Show with star Trek Ruin or Stephen Colbert. Laney told a story about visiting Graceland.

As the story goes, John Mulaney says, his son, Malcolm, who’s four, is a huge fan of Elvis Presley, because of course he is. John said, and I said to him, do you want to get a tour of Elvis’s house? And he was like, elvis House awesome. Laney says, we’re walking through, and the guy goes, we’re gonna show you some special spots because you’re performing here at Graceland. My son goes, I want to go on the roof.

They weren’t able to visit the roof. However, they were able to visit Elvis’s jungle room. Malaney said, we’re looking around and Malcolm goes, Dad, can I meet Elvis now? And it never come up. While listening to hound Dog, you don’t go, son, you know this guy’s dead.

Right then I realized all his grandparents aren’t alive, and he’s never had a goldfish, and he doesn’t know he’s about to find out in the jungle room at Graceland that everybody dies. Laney explained to his son, Elvis is in heaven now. His son said, why. John Mulaney, as he tells the story, said, sometimes when people are in their early forties and they have a job at a schedule a lot like daddy, and some of the same issues as Daddy, they go to the bathroom and they go to heaven. Wow, that’s pretty good.

Eddie Murphy winner of the fifty first AFI Life Achievement Award. Well Netflix will televise the fifty first AFI Life Achievement Award, a Tribute to Eddie Murphy on Netflix May thirty first. The award will be presented to Eddie Murphy in LA on April eighteenth. According to the AFI, Eddie Murphy is the most commercially successful African American actor in the history of the motion picture business and as one of the industry’s top five box office performers overall. W Camal Bell, Melissa Via Signor, and Joel Kim Booster are going to perform in San Francisco.

They’ll be at the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area hosting the tenth annual Comedy Night for immigrant rights. April thirtieth is that event Want of Pikes was on Charlemagne, the God. Charlemagne said, the thing I used to love about the Chris Rock Show, it was just full of uncomfortable truths. Even that whole era was full of uncomfortable truths. Right, do you think comedy’s still a ought to be that honest?

Are we in an era now where everybody wants jokes but they don’t want the truth that comes with it. Wanta said, no, you know what, I think You’re allowed to do it, but it’s just who wants to do it. You know what I’m saying. If I’m trying to fill an arena, you know what I’m saying, you can’t be that common. You gotta appeal to the masses.

And sometimes right now with the masses want to hear it’s ugly, you know, want to continue it to a lot of people like to be the critic. They want to be the police. It’s like, if you say something it might offend you, but you got to look at where that person’s coming from. You know, maybe their life, their perspective is different from what you know. Yeah, you’re offended, You’re not standing in my shoes you don’t see it from my perspective, so I think that’s what we’ve gotten away from.

I always try to punch up, but that’s me. However, she said, if you punch down and it’s funny, I’m gonna laugh. Apparently, the Shepherd Express is your home for comedy news. We’ve got back to back stories from The Shepherd Express. In story number one, they caught up with Maria Bamford.

She said, I think I have a trimmer and it makes everything seem like I’m nervous. But I don’t feel nervous. I just look like I’m afraid. Bamford said, I need to entertain myself, so that’s a shell just keep myself from being bored. She also added, my friendship with my sister.

I stopped doing jokes about her and now we’re best friends. Next thing, Maria Bamford would love to accomplish. I’d love to be on a TV show for five lines a week in a wig.

Meanwhile, Jackie Kashin also caught up with these Shepherd Express.

Jackie said growing up she wasn’t thinking of being a comedian. She said, I wanted to act. I think I certainly played a lot of what a FUNSI was on the Starship Enterprise and acted out of all the parts I’d watch that, I vaguely remember answering that I wanted to be a lawyer or a teacher of Forrest Ranger. When asked, I went to UW. Madison.

There was a comedy club. We went to it. I went to open Mic three weeks after seeing the show, and I was hooked. I don’t know how to explain it, but it felt like I was looking for stand up forever. She recalls a night in nineteen eighty four she went to a Madison comedy club, got drunk, heckled the comedian on stage, and he couldn’t shut me up, and sally for the rest of the audience.

I wasn’t kicked out. The club manager came over and said, open Mic is on Sundays now, will you shut up? And I did. The comic guy heckled Sam Kennison. How could Sam Kinnison not shut you down?

That seems hard to believe. I’m not gonna pull up. That seems hard to believe that Sam Kinnison couldn’t slam a heckler. Jackie said, comedy right now, it’s crazy out in the world and there are two kinds of comedy. I like seeing now very open about the things we’re all living through, mostly to relieve the pressure and to make people know they aren’t alone a crazy.

The other kind of comedy is just normal, driving, family, food and relationship material, which is the kind of fun comedy you just keep writing to matter what the situation. TJ. Miller keeps talking about the next Deadpool film. I think he wants to get back into that franchise. Supposedly, Ryan Reynolds told TJ Miller about it.

TJ said, I’ll say his idea for the next Deadpool film is like really good. You know, it’s really smart. He told me the idea. I kind of got hair on the back of my neck standing up because I was just like, I didn’t think you could do something that’s even more different than Deadpool and Wolverine. I don’t know what’s gonna happen, because he’s got a couple other projects going.

I mean, I always liked him and I always thought he’s the funniest. I mean, what are you gonna say, hey, Ryan, that’s a terrible idea. I hate your idea for the Deadpool movie. I don’t want to be at it, DJ said, Ryan is really a powerhouse in terms of the comedy and specifically Deadpool. He’s coming to be a real friend and he’s at our back and I’ve tried to have his because I mean, the Internet is just such an evil, cruel place, so despicable.

And let’s see what’s happening in Melbourne. So I have to work a day ahead for you Americans because the listener’s down Under by the time they get the show. If I’m not wearing a day ahead, they’re gonna be like, yeah, thanks John. That show started at thirty minutes ago. So Thursday at eleven thirty in the morning, it’s the Class Clowns National Grand Final.

Who will be crowned Australia’s funniest high school I like this a month long search for the country’s brightest young comedy talent. Class Clowns is a national secondary school comedy competition inviting young people to unleash their creative talents through stand up, sketch, musical comedy or physical performance.

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And then if you’ll need something at night, how about six pm good time for sh…

We can see a show and go home and go to bed. That’s great. It’s Australia’s Funniest Lawyers, featuring a lineup of criminal prosecutors, barristers, government regulators and corporate solicitors who, as you could tell, are the funniest people of the world. With those jobs, we are teld the lawyers turn comedians in this lineup of one and been nominated for numerous prestigious festival awards, appeared on TV, and have sold out festival shows nationally and internationally. That’s right, it’s America’s Funniest Lawyers.

Oh wait, Comedy Survivor forgot to tell you. It looks like Sebastian Maniscalco is in massive, massive trouble. As I’ve been skiving the Facebook group, looks like he’s going to go. So if you’re like, well, I want to save a Sebastian Maniscalco, I would get about twelve of your friends to vote for somebody else. But whoever you guys want to vote it off is fine with me.

What you do is you go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group and you’ll find the little drawing there and you’ll see a bunch of people have written the words Sebastian and Maniscalco.

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Featured: Zach Braff, Joel Kim Booster, John C. McGinley, Scott Foley, Elizabeth Banks

What’s in This Episode

• Scrubs Season 10 Episode 6 recap and analysis
• Doctor Park character potentially rewritten from Doctor Cox
• Return of original character Rowdy the dog
• John C. McGinley’s comeback in final two episodes of season
• Missing characters Neil the Janitor and Carla not yet in reboot
• JD and Elliott’s post-divorce friendship dynamic
• Scott Foley scheduling conflict preventing Scrubs reboot appearance

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Caloroga Shark Media. Scrubs Season ten, Episode six, my VIP original air date March twenty fifth, twenty twenty six. High. I’m Johnny Mac. Another solid episode of the Scrubs reboot.

Now, before I get into the recap here, something that just I kept looking at as I watched it. I felt like there was a version of this episode that was written for doctor Cox and that they crossed out, or it said doctor Cox and they wrote doctor Park, which is Joe Kim Booster’s character, and you know how to soften a little bit and tighten up the dialogue, but I really felt like doctor Park was saying lines meant to be delivered by John C. McGinley. The log line, JD and doctor Park are forced to work together when a member of the hospital board experiences a mysterious health crisis.

Meanwhile, It’s Kirk helps Elliot navigate a newfound romance with the pilot …

The episode begins with JD talking about how one third of relationships begin in the workplace that it’s even higher in the hospital. The problem is when a relationship goes bad, there’s nowhere to hide. That’s when he runs into Lily. She’s the nice lady who plays the herp in the lobby. Doctor Park Joel Kim Booster sees the whole thing goes down rubs it in a little bit.

Meanwhile, for the first time really we see a lot of Elliott and Turk teaming up in this episode. Turk likes the new boyfriend because he can speak in pilot voice. J D learns that one of the board members of the hospital, mister Walton, is being admitted. His wife had found him passed out at home. JD tells Doctor Park they need to work together to keep mister Walton happy.

Along the way, we think that mister Walton’s wife is perhaps trying to have him killed. The characters portrayed as some sort of trophy wife who maybe doesn’t actually love mister Walton. Turns out in the end, Nope, everything was okay. It was just two medicines that didn’t work well together.

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Meanwhile, Turk guides Eliot through her relationship trouble.

Elliott the sides that she will spend the weekend with the pilot dude. The episode ends with JD, Turk, Todd Amara, and Deshauna out at the bar JDC’s Todd aggressively hitting on a woman and offers him to hook up with the crazy Heart player. Some of the criticism of the episode is that doctor Park is intended as the new Doctor Cox because he’s always insulting JD, claiming he’s a better doctor and saying sarcastic things about the interns. Yeah, I think that’s what happened, that they had this kind of sketched out for Doctor Cox and had to reboot. We also finally found Rowdy.

Remember Rowdy, the dog from the original Rowdy is now in JD’s office at the hospital. I think he looked a little worse for wear, and I’m not even sure it was the same Rowdy. Soon, Doctor Cox will be back. We know that he appears in the final two episodes of the season. I won’t spoil it for you.

I have seen some plot lines, but I will not say them on this podcast. Zach Braff has told tv Line, I know the fans have been really eager to see John again, and I want everyone to know he’s coming back. I can’t give away spoilers, but we’re seeing up is a situation where if we’re lucky enough to get a season two he can be around a whole lot more. It’s pretty interesting that they haven’t picked this thing up yet. That’s kind of stunning.

Zach also talked about the other missing characters. You’ll say, say to the fans who miss Neil the Janitor, we only had nine episodes, and we had so much to do. I know some people are like, I want more john I want more Neil, I want more Judy Reyush plays Carla. We get it and we’re working on it. In nine episodes, you have to do a setup that’s a teaching hospital and introduce to the students.

That’s the premise of the show, and you also have to fill out a world with the new characters. If and when we’re lucky enough to get a full order, our plan is to set up situations where Neil can recur, and Johnny can be there a whole lot more, and Judy, even though she’s on high potential, can be there a whole lot more. I just want all the fans to know we’re on the same page with you. As for JD and Elliott, zach Braff says they’re settling into a friendship. Of course, it’s still hard.

Everyone who’s at this experience knows you can go this isn’t right. We aren’t compatible, but it still hurts your heart when you see them flirting with someone, and that’s going to be tricky for them. Their friendship’s going to continue to evolve because they both really respect each other as doctors and as parents. Well, we see the family, Zach Braff said. We didn’t get to tell stories about the kids because we didn’t have the bandwidth with nine episodes, but there’ll be more of that.

Some couples get divorced and they hate each other, and then some couples get divorced because their co parents learn how to be good friends. That’s the direction we’re going to head with and just did as I’m recording this. Scott Fuley has joked that nobody cares about his Scrubs character not returning. Scott played Sean in the original. He’s not in New Scrubs.

He’s in seasons one, three, and eight playing Sean Kelly, the dolphin trainer who dated Elliott. He doesn’t even remember, he said, it’s been so long since I did it. I think my character was in a relationship with Elizabeth Banks character. I think maybe they’re married with a couple kids, nobody cares. Nobody cares about Sean anywhere.

Nobody cares he did ed Zach has asked me to come back. I actually got a call right when they were starting production. They had me scheduled for an episode and we couldn’t work the schedule out. So I’m sure we’ll find the time. What is Scott fully working on that he couldn’t find time to do Scrubs anyway?

Scrub Season ten, episode six, not bad. See tomorrow

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Featured: Rob Schneider, Howie Mandel, Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Michael Imperioli, Zoorn Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Russell Brand, Josh Johnson, Adam Sandler, Megan Gaily, Jeff Dunham, Jay Leno, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matt Bell

What’s in This Episode

• Rob Schneider advocates for mandatory military draft
• Howie Mandel apologizes to Kelly Ripa over age joke
• NYC Mayor Zoorn Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa perform comedy sketch at Inner Circle dinner
• Russell Brand rape trial delayed to October
• Josh Johnson to host 30th annual Webby Awards
• Adam Sandler remaking French film Time Out
• Megan Gaily Live from My Driveway special released
• Jeff Dunham hosting The Cars That Drove Us series

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians on the comedy industry. Rob Schneider went on Twitter he declared the United States must restore the military draft for our nation’s young people. Schneider said, each and every American at eighteen years of age must serve two years of military service. They could also choose to serve part of that time overseas or in a country in a volunteer capacity.

Being a citizen of the United States gives us unparalleled freedoms and opportunities that are the envy of the world. However, these freedoms that we cherish do not come without a cost, Schneider continued. By protecting and preserving these freedoms, young people, regardless of race, creed, and religion, will be united in service to their country and just as importantly, to each other. Many nations around the world require their young citizens to serve their country, until recently our nation did as well. Schneider, who has never served to the military, said by reinstating the draft, young Americans would be quote put into a rigorous physical training course that they could use for the rest of their lives.

He also claimed that unlike in today’s universities, the military would teach them how truly great their country is. I’ll jump in there, I teach you to universities. I will swear in a Bible. No one has ever come to me and told me what to say or not, not once, not at all. If there’s a conspiracy, I haven’t run into it yet.

Rob Schneider said to the young people of America, this is your country. In your future. We will leave this great free nation in your good hands for your children and your children’s children. God bless the United States of America. Schneider had referred to the draft as until recently.

The last military draft in the United States was December seventh, nineteen seventy two. Actor Michael Imperioli shared on Instagram, I’ve got a better idea. Let’s just send Rob to Iran a performance comedy. He will surrender immediately and unconditionally. We’ll stay somewhat political for a moment.

New York City Mayor Zoorn Mamdani joined former Republican rival Curtis Lay for a comedy sketch. If you’re from the New York area, you know who Curtis Sliwa is for everybody else, He’s that Guardian Angels guy that wears the red beret. You know who I’m talking about now. Mam Donnie and Sliwa participated in the sketch at the New York City Inner Circle dinner over the weekend. The sketch, apparently about cat adoptions, has gone viral.

The viral clips shows Curtis Sliwa joking about destroying sinister old political dynasties. Mam Donnie jokes about being a content creator who does a little governing on the side. Not an inaccurate description. Curtis Sliwa told The New York Post he thought the sketch was great because it was promoting rescuing animals. Apparently Kelly Rippa is much more powerful than I realize.

Howie Mandel has apologized to Kelly Rippa, told you over the weekend that she was reportedly upset with him. How he apologized, which I just find super curious. I went to pull the audio, but he’s speaking very slowly. It would take about two minutes to get to the point. So I’ll just tell you now.

Last week, Mark Consuellos on the Live with Kelly and Mark’s show remarked that how Mandel looks great for seventy Kelly Rippa said that that age doesn’t make any sense. How he asked, what do you mean it doesn’t make any sense? Marcuzwello said you look great. How he cut them off and said, I look great. That doesn’t mean anything to me.

No, no, no, I don’t like that because that’s a caveat. Kelly said, we’re not saying you look great for seventy. You look great. Kenswello said, yeah, you look good for a person your age, and how he fired back, it’s like saying you’re smart for a stupid person. Well how he has now apologized.

He posted a video on Instagram. He’s on the beach. He’s speaking very slowly. Like I said, I pulled it, but it’s just it’s going to take too long. How he says, I’ve been debating for forty eight hours whether I should make this post or not.

I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing philosophically. I don’t believe that somebody who’s a comedian needs to apologize for a joke. It’s a joke. It’s meant as a joke. It’s not meant to offend.

He continued and said this is for Kelly Rippa, who in the past has been incredibly supportive. Not only have i been a guest on her show, but I’ve co hosted with her, and I’ve known her for years. When I go out there, I just try to be entertaining and funny, and sometimes as a comedian, things don’t land the way you mean them to land. And I don’t know how to say this, but not only do I want to say I’m sorry to Kelly, but and this is the hardest part. You’re right, You’re absolutely right.

I’m sorry I didn’t see that way. After a lot of thought and self reflection, I do look great for my age, I really do. I look fantastic. Russell Brand’s trial on rape and sexual assault charges has been delayed until October. Was supposed to begin starting June sixteenth.

Sky News reports the trial, which will combine all seven charges brought against Russell Brand in the last year, will now begin on October twelfth. It’s expected to last two months. Josh Johnson will host the thirtieth annual Webby Awards. Those will be Monday, May eleventh at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Fancy Josh Johnson said, I’m really honored to be hosting this year’s Webbys.

The Internet in social media we have can be pretty devastating sometimes, so to come together and celebrate more of the Internet we want is a dream. Deadline says the next movie by the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler will be a remake of the two thousand and one French movie Time Out. The two thousand and one version tells the story of a man laid off from his job who pretends to go to work every day to avoid telling his family one happened. When Vincent is fired from his job, he can’t bring himself to tell his wife and family. Rather than reveal the truth, he spins a web of lies to conceal a situation.

He escalates his lies further when he creates an investment scheme and asks friends to contribute. His deception threatens to overwhelm his life and family. I still can’t tell if this is serious or a comedy, so I’m looking up to see what the French version was. Wikipedia describes the two thousand and one film as a drama, in which case I highly support this film. We have to get Sailor the Oscar for Best Actor.

Otherwise he’s going to continue to make crappy comedies. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, Megan Gaily is Live from My Driveway. Jeff Dunham is going to host the series The Cars That Drove Us. The series, mostly recorded in twenty twenty five, features people like The Worst Person Who Ever Lived, Jay Leno and action star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Each episode features a different machine, including American car classics like the Corvette, the Firebird, and the Hummer, as well as interesting one offs like the DeLorean.

Focused on crazy ideas, big successes, and magnificent failures, The Cars that Drove Us highlight wheels that were each important in their time. Jeff Dunham says, I love cars that were magnificent failures. There were somebody’s dreams and ideas and artwork and technological savvy and they put together these amazing machines and then for whatever reason, they don’t go. But somebody put their heart and soul in these things. Jeff Dunham says he’s a collector, not a mechanic.

However, while attending college, he built in flu experimental helicopters. Hmm. Jeff now has a collection that includes roughly one hundred and thirty vehicles. He says, the first exotic car bought was a nineteen ninety four Viper. That car started my interest in all this and I built a huge collection of cars from there.

Some shows going on in Melbourne Matt Bell’s The X Files e x Files, a comedy true crime tour. Melbourne has a dark secret. A crime has been committed and comedian Matt Bell knows where the bodies are buried. Join Matt Bell as he unravels one of the city’s most shocking true asterisk crimes, a tale of desire obsession at gay dating gone horribly wrong. How does he know all this?

The killer left one loose end hmm. The folks at my Melbourne Arts went to see the show, and they tell us. With each audience member armed with a pair of Bluetooth headphones, Bell guides us through a series of locations tied to the relationship at the center of the story. We move from the bar where the first date occurred, to a cinema shaped by a wicked lie, to a restaurant that ends a heartbreak on the most romantic night of the year. Sounds like fun.

Sounds like Russell Peters has a little tax issue. People reports that Russell was hit with reassessments totally more than a two point one million dollars plus interest for his twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, and twenty fourteen tax years. Apparently, California’s Franchise Tax Board concluded that Russell was actually a resident of California rather than a resident of Nevada. Russell is blaming his Toronto area chartered professional accountants for the tax woes. The claim reads, at all material times, the defendants, who I guess are the Canadian tax guys, had complete access to the financial, accounting and personal records necessary to determine mister Peters’s US residency without limitation his California property ownership, travel patterns, vehicle leases, and time spent at California from which his true residency status would have been readily ascertainable by competent accounting and tax professionals.

This gets very complicated, very quickly, and I won’t let the lawyers determine what’s what. Gab Iglesias was on Club chashe he talked about using a Zepich. He said, I started losing weight, but the problem with the zepic is you’re going to lose more muscles than fat. He said he lost the muscles around his shoulders, which he dislikes. He also said he was approached with a freaking incredible deal of a one million dollar offer to act as the official face of a zempic.

He said hisempic reach out to me many years ago. Even though it was a million dollar deal. I couldn’t do it. He said it would have caused scheduling conflicts with his tour. Who knows, maybe he was on his way to riodd and I don’t have his calendar.

That is your comedy news for today, See tomorrow.

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Featured: Leslie Jones, Nikki Glaser, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Maniscalco, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Comedy Survivor Week 13 voting results
• Leslie Jones voted off Comedy Island
• Final four comedians announced
• Sebastian Maniscalco rally vote
• Comedy Survivor listener voting mechanics

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Caloroga Shark Media, Oh outbit outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor and. I’m Johnny Mac. At the beginning of the year, we stranded sixteen comedians on the Comedy Island to see who would be the Comedy Survivor. We are down to the final five.

They are Leslie Jones, Nikki Glaser, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Manascalco, and John Mulaney. Each week, the listeners go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group and they vote someone off Comedy Island. It’s time to tell you the votes. Dylan votes for Leslie Jones. Barb votes for Leslie Jones.

Mike C. Votes for Nikki Glaser. Mike D votes for Leslie Jones. That’s three votes for Leslie Jones. Aaron votes for Sebastian Maniscalco.

Heather votes for Leslie Jones. That’s four quick votes for Leslie Jones, one for Sebastian Maniscalco, one for Nikki Glaser. Avon votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. Michelle votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. Three votes now for Sebastian Maniscalco.

Matt votes for Sebastian Maniscalco four votes, Leslie Jones, four votes, Sebastian Maniscalco, one for Nikki Glaser, Andrea votes for Nikki Glaser. That’s two votes Nikki Glaser. Shannon votes for Leslie Jones, five votes for Leslie Jones, Cheryl votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. With the thirteenth vote, Richard votes for Sebastian Maniscalco. That’s six votes for Sebastian Maniscalco.

Mary votes for Leslie Jones six votes Leslie Jones, six votes, Sebastian Maniscalco, two votes Nikki Glaser. Janet votes for Leslie Jones. Roffey votes for Leslie Jones. The listeners have voted. Leslie Jones has been voted off Comedy Island as your host, I like a nice, clear victory.

We’ll take the break, we’ll come back and we’ll talk about what all this means. Well, after weeks and weeks of barely surviving, living through some tiebreakers and hanging around, Leslie Jones has been voted off Comedy Island eight votes to Sebastian Maniscalco’s six. Starting to get interesting, Nikki Glaser with two votes. The Sebastian rally was pretty interesting because right out of the box Monday, a lot of people are like Leslie Jones, Leslie Jones, and then the Sebastian rally happened and it almost worked. No votes for Mlaney, no votes for Sarah Silverman.

As we get down to the final four, the final four r John Mulaney, Sebastian Maniscalco, Sarah Silverman and Nikki Glaser, one of them will be the Comedy Survivor. Here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. There you will find a drawing of me and Leslie Jones. You will write down one name.

Make it clear, don’t make me guess everybody was great this week. Just write my vote is for X. We don’t need any controversies on Comedy Survivor, which is just a silly bit I started because there’s not a lot of comedy news in January and we’re having fun with this. We are down to the final four. Milanie, Sebastian, Sarah and Nikki Glaser.

Is Sebastian Maniscalco in trouble? Will those six people vote for him again or are they going to move elsewhere? Who do you think is the favorite here At this point, I don’t want to steer this thing. I’m starting to think we know who the final two are going to be, and I’m not sure who’s gonna take this thing. Comedy Survivor go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group.

Vote and I’ll see you in the morning.

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Featured: Arsenio Hall, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, Bert Kreischer, Luke Combs, Mark Normand, Dolly Parton

What’s in This Episode

• Arsenio Hall discusses Jay Leno friendship on Conan O’Brien
• Conan O’Brien on resolving tensions with Jay Leno over Tonight Show hosting
• Bert Kreischer incorrectly claims Dollywood is closing
• Newsweek fact-checks Dollywood closure rumors
• Mark Normand discusses special details with LA Times
• Mark Normand on comedy career, parenthood in material, and viral trends among young comedians

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Monday. I’m Jutnimack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the Algorithm loves. Arseniel Hall was on Conan O’Brien.

They started talking about the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno or Sanuel. Hall said he was relieved to be welcomed into Conan O’Brien studio because the previous evening he had spent time with Jay Leno. Those two have done a few shows together. Arseniel Hall told ConA last night, me and Howie Mandela arrived in Beverly Hills to do a benefit for abused animals with Jay Leno. Yeah, Jade’s like, what a horrible guy doing a benefit for abused animals.

Now, I’m not sure what this benefit was because Jay Leno the worst person who ever lived. He’s not going around going everybody look at me, how cool I am? He’s just doing benefits now. I did find this story from twenty nineteen. I think it is yes, and back in twenty nineteen, jay Leno was at an event called Stand Up for Animals.

Back in twenty nineteen, the worst person who ever lived. Said, in these divisive times, there’s one thing that brings all people together, a public and democrat, libertarian, no matter who you are, and that’s animals. I mean, all humans just have a need for animals. They help cure people, they help us have fun, they put us in a good mood. And here’s a chance for us to do something for him and Chilean, he’s the worst, right anyway, Arsenio says, So last night, about eight o’clock, I’m thinking, get to bed, get up tomorrow, Duke Conan, and I’m looking at Jay Leno in this green room, and I don’t keep up with all white folks business, but I do remember that y’all had friction.

You may recall Jay Leno was the host of the Tonight Show and then Conan hosted it for five minutes, and then Jay Leno came back. If you listen to this podcast, you’re probably familiar with the story. So I will move on, Arsenio said, I thought about it. I’m like, WHOA. I hope Conan doesn’t hate me because Jay’s like a big brother to me, and we fought too.

Me and Jay were like Canaan Abel. Conan O’Brien said, water under the Bridge. This is gonna sound so corny, but I’m so happy with my life and I get to do all the things I want to do, and honestly don’t think about any of that stuff. Is Dollywood closing now? No one thinks it is, except Bert Kraser, who said this on a podcast with Luke Comb’s.

Bert Krascher and Luke Combs were discussing the difference between fame and celebrity in which country star fits into each category. Bert Krescher asked Luke Combs, hey, have you ever met Dolly Porton? And if he had visited the theme park as a child, then Bert says, it’s one of the best theme parks in the entire world. I’m so sad it’s closing. It’s a theme park with a thumbprint, and that thumb print is Dolly.

It is authentically Appalachia. The topography of the park is very hilly, and so even with large crowds, you get a good workout. And all the food is Appalachia, and so the smells are unlike any other theme park. Plus the rides are awesome. It’s such a great park.

Now you might be like John why’d you say Appalachia not Appalachia. Well, as I have learned, in the central of the Southern region, people tend to say Appalachia, while in the North, where you Yankees live, you people from New York City say Appalachia. So I’m trying to be correct. I may have made things worse. Should have probably just sat Appalachia.

Lu Comb said she definitely stayed true to her East Tennessee roots. She’s always been a huge proponent of the region and has installed that spirit in Dollywood. You know what I’m going to call out friend of the show, Scott Beckett. Scott, help your Yankee friend pronounce words, Shoot me a note, text me bro. Newsweek ran a fact check.

The fact check is is Dolly Parton’s Dollywood theme park closing permanently? They report Dolly Parton’s theme park Dollywood had to close early, just days into a new season, in a development that sparked confusion online. The park had been due to close at eight pm on Monday, March sixteenth, but according to an update posted on Instagram, it closed at five pm. The fact check by Newsweek says Dollywood has not been closed permanently. It was shut for a few hours.

It is possible that Bert Krescher was wrong. Mark Norman’s talk to The La Times. They were curious about at the beginning of Mark Norman’s special, a tape goes into VCR in case you missed it, and I did. The tape is labeled best of Gay Porn, and The LA Times asked the very important question, were there any other working titles for that tape? Norman said, no, My dumb friend edited it and put that in himself as a little easter egg.

He thought it’d be funny, so I had nothing to do with that. I was a big skateboarder in my youth and I told him I wanted a tape in a VCR like an old skate video, so that’s what he did. Thanks for catching it. They were also curious about Mark Norman throwing his fist in the air from time to time? Is that a tribute to Rocky?

Mark said, I don’t know where I got that from. There’s really no story behind it. I just got pumped up to do comedy. The LA Times. Yeah, sometimes when comics become parents, the material goes straight to kids say the funniest things.

But you’re still feels pretty horned up, but not overly kid heavy. Mark said, that’s news to me. Now I was conscious of that. I didn’t want to be the Aushuck’s dad. Kids are so crazy comics.

I appreciate you noticing that. I don’t know about the charged up part though. You know, Louis C.K. Is the best with that. He has a ton of kid stuff, but it’s still, you know, throwing your kids at a dumpster and all that.

So that was kind of min nord star. They’re curious about all of Mark’s projects. He said, I’m a weirdo and I like to work. He used to be a janitor and I used to move furniture. So podcasting and stand up is not so bad.

You talk about having a job. It is a lot, and I have no free time, but I don’t mind it. I hang out with my two friends. We do a pod together each so that’s how we get to hang out. Now we monetize it, so that’s something.

And then the stand up, I actually just love doing it, love of the game. If I wasn’t doing it, like during COVID, I wanted to put a gun in my mouth, I felt like I had no self worth. I just started drinking every day and doing drugs. Comedy gives me some meaning, which is kind of sad, but that’s how I’m wired. If I have nothing to work towards, I’ll just collapse in on myself.

They asked him about what’s standing out with the newer comics coming up another good question, he says, I think comics are chasing going viral. I get it though. Everybody wants the followers, everyone wants the views, but they’re not really chasing good jokes or quality comedy. Let’s say that’s a big thing, but it’s not even the young comics fault because you hear the clubs say stuff like we need a comic with a lot of followers or we won’t book you, so they’re scrambling to get followers. But I’m on fashion and young comics are probably gonna make fun of me.

But I think the cream tends to rise. So if you’re killing, you’re writing good stuff, and you’re getting up the right people will notice you eventually. I think the old guard, like Louis C.K. And Seinfeld, these guys are all very against the Internet. They’re like, get off the Internet, and I’m saying, no clip cell tickets both extremes, the young and the old.

I think we need a little bit of readjusting towards the middle. Coming up at noon Eastern today, the results of Comedy Survivor. As I speak to you right now into your ears, I have no idea who was voted off. I think I know because I look at the Facebook groups sometimes, but I don’t actually know yet. I didn’t produce the episode yet, but it will be out at newon Eastern today, out today.

If you need something to watch, Joe Dombrowski’s Dad on Arrival, available via early access on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. I’ll also encourage you to watch Last One Laughing UK on Amazon. One of the comedians on there is Diane Morgan. She’s currently also storing in a train railways. Is that redundant train railway?

Could you have just said railway? Leave it in train Railways? Inaugural safety video it is called Travel Safe with Diane Morgan, she said, at first I thought it was a mad idea asking me because I thought, am I the right person for this?

And then I thought it’d be an interesting challenge to do something like this…

I had no idea is that high, So don’t run down a platform whatever you do, or try to throw yourself between the doors. Diane’s trying to work out more. She said, I went through a phase last year of running, but then when it got really dark and cold, I stopped. Amen’s sister Johnny Mac had a terrible, terrible winter for running. But it’s still forty degrees out.

If it ever gets warm again, I promise you I’ll run. Even bought new shoes. Diane says, I’m so busy throughout the day. It’s difficult to find a time when you can go. But I really need to start doing something.

They all start doing yoga at home or something. We’re lifting weights. That’s meant to be good, isn’t it. I like this Diane Morgan. I find her very funny.

I don’t find her to the worst person to watch on TV, if you know what I mean. And she says, I’m starting getting in age where I just hate anything modern as well. She may be perfect. Noah Gordon Schwartz will be launching a weekly comedy series tracking the craziest elements of the new trend of prediction markets. You may know Noah.

He wrote all five seasons of The Marvelous Missus Masel. He’s hosting The Spreadsheet twelve part series on YouTube in April. Each episode will track the week’s most votable prediction contracts across pop culture, sports, and global affairs. Noah says social media first allowed people to voice their opinions about anything. Now, prediction markets actually allow people to try to make money off those opinions.

Or you know, sometimes there’s some things that happen five minutes before the markets open or five minutes after the market’s closed, and there’s some sort of international thing and there’s some trades, and you know, somebody just guessed well and made a ton of money. That’s been happening a lot lately, So maybe you can talk about that stuff. Shut up, Sean, Okay, let’s see what’s happening at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Melbourne Arts says Sammy Jay’s Hero Complex is one of the most memorable comedy shows they’ve ever seen. Five star review.

It’s about Sammy Jay’s lifelong obsession with the comic strip character of the Phantom, and it described as a heartwarming hour of constant grinning, chuckling and laughing punctuated with revelations that may just blow your mind. Sam Nicorestes Baby Joomer Troutle describes it as who knew a show about finding the perfect two piece skirt suit would be so uproariously funny, life firming, angry, dumb, insightful, and political all at once. Babydomer at the Weston until April nineteenth, And that is your comedy news for today. Coming up in noon Easter and the results of Comedy Survivor See you then,

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Featured: Seth Herzog, Jimmy Fallon, BTS, Chelsea Handler, Cheryl Hines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Seth Meyers, Bert Kreischer, LeAnn Morgan

What’s in This Episode

• Seth Herzog warmup incident at Tonight Show with BTS audience controversy
• Late night host schedule changes and potential budget cuts
• Chelsea Handler and Cheryl Hines house dispute escalation
• Netflix podcast strategy and comedian licensing costs
• LeAnn Morgan Tennessee softball first pitch appearance

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Sunday. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm just can’t get enough of. All Right.

There was a little kerf fluffel involving BTS. You know, the Korean band that everybody loves. Well. Apparently, Seth Herzog was doing warm up for the Tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon, and Seth came under fire for making an improvised remark during a local taping. Before I tell you what he said, I am going to say something I have said on this podcast.

And I tell my class, if you say something into a microphone enough times, you will eventually say something stupid. You will eventually wish you had freeed something. Differently, it goes with the territory. You’re just riffing and you say something while warming up the audience. Seth Herzog apparently said, anyone here from the North.

The line was apparently intended as a general question about where the audience was from. However, some people thought it was some sort of comment about North Korea in relation to BTS. Who are from South Korea. Audience members took to social media because it’s twenty twenty six and we have to get offended at everything, and they posted describing the remark as offensive and inappropriate. The BTS global fan base immediately got involved with this boy.

I hope they don’t notice this podcast episode and download it and share it on social media. That would be awful. According to TMZ, Seth Herzog later apologized directly to BTS. NBC apparently discussed the incident internally with the comedian again. I’ll remind you what he said.

Anyone here from the North, now, this is interesting. This took place at a special taping at the Guggenheim Museum where BTS performed for a select audience. Then The Tonight Show taped its regular Wednesday night show in studio at Rockefeller Center. BTS was interviewed by Jimmy Follon on that episode. A source tells Late Night Or that Herzog, who usually does warm up, didn’t do the warm up for the second taping and was replaced by comedian Ryan Rice, who is the usual warm up comic for Seth Myers.

It is, of course unclear whether Herzog’s absence was related to the earlier incident or not. As I’m checking TMZ on Friday afternoon, they have asked mister Herzog for comment and so far no word back. Stay on Late Night for second Seth Meyers taking three weeks off. He won’t be back until April twentieth. I mean, what will we all do, all seven hundred of us that watch Late Night with Seth Meyers?

How will we possibly fill the time? Jimmy Fallon is taking two weeks off starting April seventh? This is all weird. We used to not do this. Is this like quiet budget cuts?

Is that what’s happening here? I mean, I know everybody hates j Leto, but the guy worked, and in olden times that Tonight show would have a guest host. Are they really going to run two weeks of reruns on Fallon? Are they going to run three weeks of repeats for Seth Meyers where they display the national anthem and run a test pattern for an hour and probably still get the same viewership? Honesty, very very strange.

Cheryl Hines has responded to those comments from Chelsea Handler. You may recall Chelsea Handler had said on the Dear Chelsea podcast that she had bought an La house from a blind trust. She didn’t know who the owner was and found out that the owners had been Cheryl Hines. An RFK junior. Chelsea Handler had said Cheryl Hines had left her a note after she moved in, urging her to call she needed anything.

Handler said she quickly discovered some issues in the quote unquote toxic house. Cheryl Hines has now said she wasn’t aware of any issues with the house. Cheryl Hines suggested Chelsea Handler is seeking sympathy in attention, especially given the Cheryl Hines is married to Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Hines was on the Tommy Laryn Is Fearless podcast and said, I think, yes, you have to question the timing of it, right, because she bought this house five years ago and she’s just now complaining about it.

She’s also getting a lot of sympathy from people. She’s buying a six million dollar house and talking about how she was duped and that we try to sell our house. That was her word, toxic, which also doesn’t make sense. The story doesn’t really hold water because I did write her a personal note when she moved in, saying how much we love the house, and I hope that she’s a beautiful life in this house. And if you need anything, call me.

And I left my number, So if we were trying to unload a toxic house on her, I would have left my number. I think she’s just trying to get attention. It’s probably fun for her to make fun of Bobby. What are you gonna do? I’ve been sitting on this one for a couple of weeks.

I actually want to get to it. I find the topic really interesting. A few weeks ago, Deadline wrote, as Netflix targets podcasts, comics weigh the risk of leaving YouTube, and I thought there was some really interesting insights in here that I hadn’t come up with on my own, Deadline said. Multiple sources we spoke with several weeks ago suggested that Netflix hasn’t been able to scale its podcast library at the pace some in the industry anticipated. After getting what one called a very quick education on this and other matters.

One agent that’s told Deadline, we’re talking to licensing teams that are used to going to with Sony or Warner Brothers. A soemenity that owns a catalog of content. I think their first expectation was do the same thing. We’re gonna go to the Ringer, iHeart Sirius, and we’re just gonna be able to get a slate of content. A source says the quote price to engage with comedic podcast talent has been quote a lot higher than he believes Netflix expected the quote.

I don’t think they realized just how much money some of these talents are making when there are majority participants in AD supported revenue. One manager said, in an ideal world, you’re baking these comedians into the streamer ecosystems and then you have more opportunities. So I’ll editorialize. Berd Krascher might be an example of that, although his podcast isn’t up there. Alan Abdeen, who’s head of AD revenue and Partnerships at Ymah Studios, that’s the Sigora Christina pea company that I think produces Berd Krascher’s podcast.

He said, a very important core truth of podcasting is you meet your audience where they live. He adds, regardless of how many millions of dollars are being offered, he would never advise talent to take a new captive audience at the expense of alienating the core audience that got you to where you are now, the theory being that risks creating an adversarial and problematic relationship with the community. You’re basically telling your community you’ll watch it, well, I’ll tell you to watch it, versus we’ll meet you where you live. But here’s the big one. This was the big takeaway for me that I had not at all thought of on my own as some sort of podcasting expert.

One executive wondered, specific to comedy, and I think this is a great point. If Netflix feels like they can get your audience every week from your podcast for a relatively low price, are they then going to be incentivized to get your special or these bigger projects from you? Right? So, well, yeah, why should we pay for a special if you’ve got the pawn on every week? Very interesting, this executive said.

It’s something we’re discussing internally in a very coordinated way because we’re cognizant of the potential impact it might have on other pieces of the business and we don’t want to continue to be at a race to the bottom. Today at one thirty pm, University of Tennessee Graduate LeAnn Morgan will return to campus. Why leand Morgan is throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at a Lady Ball’s softball game. Fourth rank Tennessee is hosting Old Miss for a three game series this weekend. LeAnn Morgan will throw out the first pitch at Sherry Parker Lee Stadium, game scheduled for one thirty pm.

Leanne Morgan graduated from the University of Tennessee in nineteen ninety two. Gossip site rob Shooters Naughty or Nice said Kelly Rippa has quietly freezed out Howie Mandel. WHOA what happened here? An insider tells naughty but nice, Howie Mandel disrespected her in her house. That’s her show, her audience, her tone, and he bulldozed right through her.

An insider explains Kelly runs a tight Paula ship. She expects guests to play along, keep a light, protect the vibe. That interview did the opposite. Apparently, Howie Mandel pushed back on Kelly Rippa’s comments about his age. The source says She’ll never say your band, but suddenly bookings get tricky, schedules on the line and invites Vin as another insider says Howie won’t be asked back, not after making her uncomfortable on her own set.

A source ads in daytime TV, chemistry is everything now. I wrote about this on my substack link of the show notes about a week ago. I was in a waiting room and was subjected to this program. Now, Kelly’s co host is her husband. They have no chemistry.

I was stunned for a married couple. They have no chemistry. Mark looks like they grabbed a guy off the street and said, hey, we need somebody to co host Live with Kelly this morning. You’re free, and the guy was like, yeah, okay, I’ll do it. It was stunningly lack of chemistry.

So I don’t know what went down here, but if you’re gonna make me pick team Howie, I met Howie once million years ago. I’ve been keeping a note getting older. Now I’m starting to reflect a little bit. I’ve been keeping a note of the people I have met over the years, and every now and then I’m like, oh, yeah, I met so and so. Started a couple of weeks ago, I was just in the car and Bruno Mars came on and I remembered I had met Bruno Morris once.

That was when we had Henry Winkler up. Bit serious. You think I would have taken pictures with these people, but I tried to explain to people the reason you get access is because you know how to behave, so like, you don’t take pictures with these people. I know I met Bruno Mars, I know I met Henry Winkler. I guess if I had a picture, I could throw up on social media and look cool.

But like, it’s just not how you roll anyway, I met how we mentel ones. Melbourne Arts Review suggested some more shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which we talk about a lot. This time. Viria continues until April nineteenth. They like the show Transcendence, which places a side splitting spotlight on the complex love hate relationship of owning a dice and vacuum cleaner love it.

They also like Circus Oz Here, there and Everywhere at Melbourne Town Hall, fresh from their holiday season on forty second Street in New York City. I probably should have gone. Then Circus Oz returns the wonderfully silly cast ricochet between brilliance and nonsense, flanking themselves and anything not nailed down across the stage in a joyous explosion of acrobatics. Here’s the title for you, Skank Sinatra and Dolly Diamond. They’ll be at the Grouse in Room seven, April seventh through the nineteenth Dolly Diamond and Skank Sinatra teaming up for a cabaret catastrophe of epic proportions, and it’s going to be the funniest musical comedy failure you’ve ever seen.

We follow down on their luck cabaret producers Dolly Diamond and Skank Sinatra. I can’t say enough times as they hatch a scheme to save themselves from unpaid Edinburgh fringe tax bills by producing a short fireflop. Is this not just the producers but different when their guaranteed disaster turns out to be a surprise success, Chaos, comedy and show tunes ensue. Expect dazzling costumes, razor sharp banter and musical parodies and Broadway’s biggest hits as these two CAMOI icons do everything in their power not to succeed. Eva Seymour is the understudy at the Motley Warehouse spelled wh E R E h a U S the premise she knows all the line.

She’s memorized every cue. Now she waits for call to tell her. Amy has Gastro exploring the anxiety fueled existence of the professional swing. The other study dives into the desperation, jealousy and gratitude for the gig that fuels the perpetual waiting. But the waiting has consequences.

When you put everything on hold, what do you have left? And Marcel Cole is doing Smile The Story of Charlie Chaplin. After selling out Natalaie and Edinburgh in twenty twenty five, the Fringe sensation about the life of Charlie Chaplin coming to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. There’s mime, music, audience interaction and even a bit of ballet. The show is in the spirit of Charlie Chaplin.

The show with a laugh and maybe a tear. One man physical comedy. That is your comedy news for today. Have an awesome day to see tomorrow.