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Featured: Bill Burr, Ben Shapiro, Jamie Foxx, Chris Rock, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Sandler, Sarah Sherman, Kevin Hart, Leslie Jones

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr controversy over UnitedHealthcare CEO murder comments
• Jamie Foxx birthday incident at Mister Chow restaurant
• Chris Rock SNL hosting monologue and sketch performance
• Providence Rhode Island comedy festival announcement March 27-30

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start on gossip corner. In the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro writes an opinion piece under the headline Bill burg goes full a Hole, Ben Wrights. I used to enjoy Bill Burr’s work on occasion.

I still do. He’s a comedian, which means he’s very hit or miss. Once upon a time, I was such a fan that actually bought tickets for me, my wife, and two of my friends to go see him. It turned out to be one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen in my life because Burr has become woke over time. I think he became embarrassed that many people on the right thought he was very funny, so he decided he was going to go woke.

The show I saw was so bad that he got frustrated with the audience. The audience was not laughing at his jokes because his jokes are basically about how Floridians were a bunch of anti gay racists, and Floridians reacted badly because that’s not true. He ended up cutting a show early and walking off the stage. This week, he explained that he’s perfectly fine with CEOs having to live with full time security because they fear they might be shot, because after all, they are murderers too. Burr openly cheered the murder of the United Healthcare executive because he says CEOs should live in fear if they don’t act in the way that he would have them act in a system that he has no fixes for.

By the way, Ben Shapiro in The Daily Wire rights Bill Burr’s blue collar class routine act is a bunch of horse hockey. The man is worth fourteen million dollars and he makes his money creating crap movies for Netflix. At this point, yeah, old Dads was pretty bad. Yeah. If we’re gonna have a functioning country, you just can’t justify the murder of people who run their business legally in many ways with which you disagree.

It’s one thing to disagree with executives, you can call them whatever you want. But to start justifying that they should live in fear, suggesting they should be murdered, what’s the limiting principle here. It’s not just Bill Burr, it’s also Jimmy Kimmel, who decided recently to devote an entire segment celebrating the good looks they alleged shooter. Hilarious hilarious stuff glorifying the alleged murder of the United Healthcare CEO. What a delight these people are.

My former coworker, Jamie Fox is recovering after getting stitches. The dude went out for his birthday and according to CMZ, he was allegedly involved in an altercation at Mister Chow in Beverly Hills. A spokesperson for Fox tells people that Jamie was hit with a glass during his birthday celebration. The spokesperson said, Jamie Fox was at his birthday dinner when somebody from another table through a glass that hit him in the mouth. He had to get stitches and is recovering.

The police were called and the matters now in law enforcement’s hands. Mister Chow and the Beverly Hills PD did not immediately respond to people’s requests for further information. TMZ initially reported that the police were called to the restaurant around ten pm local time regarding an alleged fight, adding that Fox was involved and was no longer present by the time the cops arrived. I wonder what that’s about. All right.

Meanwhile, Chris Rock hosted Saturday Night Live and didn’t really get good reviews. The monologue seemed like was okay, although the audience groaned at points. Let’s listen to the beginning. Saturday Night Lab and Rob. I want to congratulate Lord Michael’s on twenty five great years.

I’m side out live. It’s a lot going on in the news. My god, it’s so crazy out there. It’s so hard just getting in the building the night. So much security.

My god, my god, I had walked. By a bunch of baby oil sniffing dogs. Was insane. Everybody’s worried. Everybody’s worried.

I mean, we got Luigi. We got Luigi, you know, and that’s good. I really feel sorry for the family. I mean, everybody’s fixated on how good looking this guy looks. If you look like Jonah Hill, no one would care.

They’d already given him a chair, already be dead. Okay, I can’t play the entire monologue. I will get a note from NBC. Chris Rock continues, But he actually killed a man, a man, a man with his family, a man with his kids. I have real condolences for the healthcare CEO.

But you also got to know sometimes drug dealers get shot. Rock then talked about how some New Yorkers didn’t vote for Trump because he would be undignified. Dude, this is the United States presidency. Come on, man, this is not the most dignified job in the world. We’ve had president show up at the inauguration with pregnant slaves.

Okay, and I’m just talking about Bill Clinton. Great joke. You know what country we live in, you know the history of this country. You know how many rapists are in my wallet right now. A cup of coffee in America costs seven rapists.

Trump’s going to get it down A three good joke, Rock joke. Trump will be working with the richest African American in the world, Elon Musk. That’s right, He’s African American. Elon got more kids in the Cleveland Browns. Nobody knows how to get rid of people like a South African.

Also a good joke. He talked about the Hunter Biden pardon. Only an animal wouldn’t pardon their son. Every parent in the world would pardon their son, except the parents of the Menendez brothers. Late Nighter did not like the episode.

Their headline after three seasons and four hosting gigs. Chris Rock still isn’t at home at SNL. They write, Chris Rock is bad at live TV. He just is in his unhappy tenure as a Saturday Night Live cast member. The young Rock was a shaky live performer, prone to blowing lines out of apparent nervousness.

As one of this season’s endless parade of returning the lums, Rock blue lines out of a live skittishness that never went away, coupled with the sense that he’s not really into doing sketches. As for his monologue, the set was solid, if not his tightest. I got the sense he was plucking good lines from an hour long specialties workshopping rather than crafting a unified set. His transitions were pretty non existent. Still Rock can bring it.

Not so Chris Rock, the sketch performer, sadly reading Q cards as part of the host burden of bear. But for a guy with years of experience in this very same environment, Rock is egregiously reliant on them and not remotely good at hiding it. Whether it’s a case of a big star not taking things as seriously as he should, or someone simply not suited for live sketch work. Each sketch suffered Davy. It didn’t give a good review either, but they did tell us about a cameo.

In a sketch. Sarah Sherman plays Leslie, a nurse making repeated massive errors during surgery, then demanding to know if everyone’s mad at her spoilers. The patient wakes up and turns out to be played by Adam Sandler. People were more kind to jostin Shake. Joe said they found a note on Mangioni expressing angry corporate America.

Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then was caught at MacDonald So perhaps his greatest crime was hipocrisy. Chay joked about Trump, saying Amazon is planning to donate a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration. It makes sense because American Trump both want to ship stuff out as fast as possible. A pretty interesting festival came out of nowhere out of Providence, Rhode Island, a brand new four day comedy festival March twenty seven through the thirtieth. The lineup includes Kevin Hart, Leslie Jones, The Not So Canceled Disease and Sorry, Christa Stefano, Hannah Burner, Michael Blaustein and Moore anchored at the Historic Veterans Memorial Auditorium and spilling over in a satellite venues four days.

Also includes Josh Johnson, Melissa Via Signors, Howne Bells, Sophie Buttle, Alec Flynn, Andy Woodhall. Additional acts will be announced. That’s no joke this festival. Daniel Schwartz is general manager of the Vets Auditorium and says this event isn’t just about comedy. It’s about creating a space where people from all walks of life can come together and share the joy of laughter.

Our lineup transcends generations, blending comedy icons like Kevin Hart with hilarious rising stars like Christa Stefano to sure there’s something for everyone. Well so far not kids, but we’ll get there. Sebastian Maniscalco’s show Bookie is back on Max. I enjoyed season one very much. You know, it’s one of those shows that knows what it is.

Don’t take it too seriously, don’t think about it, Sebastian says. Sometimes stage, Sebastian comes out a little bit. He enjoys working on his acting and likes that the crew laughs on the set and says it validates what I’m doing as funny because as a comedian, I like the laughter. I like to hear what I’m doing as funny through the laughs. I’m getting used to playing off other actors and learning a lot each day.

Joe McHale will host the Saturn Awards on February seconds. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror tell us this marks Joel’s third year as the host of the Saturn Awards. His clever edgie humor is consistently delivered with charismatic flare, and his ability to make light of both pop culture and everyday situations enhances the overall experience of the awards ceremony. Late Night reacted to Donald Trump being named Times Person of the Year. Jimmy Fallon said Trump is the first man in history to be Times Person of the Year and McDonald’s Employee of the Month.

Trump said the honored that feels just as exciting as the birth of his child, except he was present for the award. Dana Perino was guest hosting Guttfeld and said it’s the second sign Trump is held the honor, the first coming after his presidential win in twenty sixteen. That was the same week Hillary Clinton canceled her subscription and smashed her server with a hammer. Michael Costa, for the win on The Daily Show, said, once again, time has not been kind to Joe Biden. Johnny Mac, I feel like you’re stretching a little bit today.

Are the holidays coming now? Why do you ask? Adam Sandler tells us Eminem makes a cameo and Happy Gilmore too. Boy. I hope I didn’t spoil an Adam Sandler movie for you there.

I should have put a spoiler tag upfront. But the spoiler is that you’re going to see in Adam sandlor movie. Sandler says that Eminem is funny as hell. Apparently Eminem came by the set and shot a day’s worth of scenes. Eminem was cool, he came by, he was great.

I’ve known Eminem for a long time. He’s a great guy, and he came in. It was funny as hell. I think we just hung out for a day with Eminem and he just shot and shot and he was insane. He said a million things we could use and a million that we’re glad we have him on tape.

Mark Maren’s going to be in this Springsteen movie. This is the one starring Jeremy Alan White as Bruce Springsteen. It’ll probably win Oscar for Best Comedy because you know Jeremy Allen White the bear blah blah blah. Yeah. That it is called delivered Me from Nowhere, which I had a look is a pretty deep lyric for a Springsteen song.

You know, you could just call this thing born to Run, which might be a little hacky, but deliver Me from Nowhere is from the song State Trooper from the Nebraska album. Mark Maron plays Chuck Pluckin, the music producer who mastered Springsteen’s Nebraska album, turning his unprocessed cassette demos into a high quality recording. You’ll watch and John Mulaney was on Jimmy Fallon’s show and tell a story. I love Steely Nann. Some people don’t like Steely Dan.

It’s a very divisive band. When I had a son, I went great, fresh person, fresh ears. There’s one reason to have a baby, and so you can test Steely Dan out on them. I put on the Steely Dan song Hey nineteen because that’s fun. He looks over at Malcolm and he’s not dancing, so I had to change the song Gaucho from the album gaut show again he’s not dancing.

My son looks at me and goes Ei eio, and I go, oh, do you want to listen to Old McDonald? I turned on Old McDonald and he immediately starts dancing. M’LINI tags this story with so here’s what’s interesting about that story. He had never spoken before. That’s how much he hated Steely Dan.

He taught himself to sock. That’s your comedy news as it was sort of for today. My voices shot, oh, come back voice. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend, like on January tenth, that they check it out to when there’s comedy news again. They might like in the meantime, there might be a little bit of filler for these next few weeks.

Happens every year. It’s okay, that’s why I’m pre taping the top specials of the year. I’m waiting to watch Ronny Chieng’s special tomorrow night. Then I’m going to accord best specials of the year, the next best specials of the year, and things that aren’t the best specials of the year. Partly it’s like I can take a couple of days off, and partly because I’ve been doing this for a while and I know it’s not like people are going to announce stuff on December twenty sixth, So you know, you pre tape a couple it happens.

See you tomorrow,

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Featured: David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, Spike Feresten

What’s in This Episode

• David Letterman’s GQ interview and reflections on his career
• Letterman Fast Channel launching on Samsung TV Plus
• Letterman’s comparison to Johnny Carson and modern late-night hosts
• Jay Leno’s injuries and mob rumor debunking on Spike Feresten’s show
• Jay Leno staying at Hampton Inn while on the road

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. David Letterman did press, which is pretty rare. He did an interview with GQ magazine. I’m trying to figure out why.

I think because he’s promoting the Letterman Fast Channel on Samsung TV plus. A Fast Channel is one of those channels that shows up on like your Roku app or on your Samsung TV, and it’s like an old style live TV channel. You can fast forward, you have to sit through the commercials. It’s one of those. So there’s one that’s just Letterman.

I put it on last night and they were showing stupid pet tricks and stupid human tricks, which was never my bags. I bailed, but I like the idea of the channel. Let him be told GQ in show business, I find that I’ve pretended to be someone I’m truly not. The interview took place in Indiana, and Dave said, in my life here in Indiana and at my home with my family, I’m probably the person I actually am, and I regret that they don’t kind of cross at any point. Letterman is still working doing the show for Netflix called My Next Guest needs no introduction and says I’m surprised that I’m still doing it at my age.

On the other hand, I still get a kick out of what we’re doing. So what does that mean? I don’t know. GQ said to Dave, you know, if you read press about you from the eighties and nineties, you were portrayed as miserable. Letterman said, yeah, that’s great.

I love that is the characterization. Fair. Yeah, I think so. There’s a couple of things going on there. I was drinking heavily in those days.

That may have provided some fuel for misery, and I guess not achieving what I imagined to be. Like you’d say, Johnny Carson, there’s never going to be anybody as good at that kind of show as Johnny. Nobody better. Maybe there are people now who are excellent broadcasters and as good as Johnny, but nobody better. Trying to think if there’s anybody right now who says good as Johnny, I don’t think so.

Colbear is definitely not. Falin’s definitely not. Because Kimmel as good as Johnny, I don’t think so, Letterman says, So here, I’m thinking, oh crap, am I not going to be as good as Johnny. What am I doing here? I like the idea that I was characterized as miserable.

That’s delightful, Dave. Early in your career you were criticized fairly for not being a great interviewer. Dave said, probably, yeah, I think that’s true. Any criticism that has befallen me, I’m sure I had a coming. Here’s the issue with me when I got to California.

I don’t know if this contradicts everything I’ve said before. When I got to California was like, Okay, I’m here, let’s get ready to go. I thought I’m the guy we’ve all been waiting for. And I operated like that for a little bit. And the first time I realized it was a mistake, I had a morning show on NBC.

It was on for a day and a half. Then it blew up the network. And that’s when I realized, you know, the thing about me being the guy, maybe that needs to be like, let’s take another look at that, Dave. Did you get better over time? I don’t know.

I mean one hopes. God, thirty years plus one hope you get a little better. I do say that for the last handful of years and my favorite part of the show is just talking to people. Because doing comedy each and every night, each and every night, each and every night, that’s meaningful and not just laughable. That’s tough.

It’s really tough. And I was always lucky to have men and women who were really smart and really good writers. I’d just be in the next room. But the thing I enjoyed mostly was actually just talking to people. Dave had a reputation for being confrontational in the early days, and Dave said, yeah, I guess so, I will say that also in those days it was probably under some real or imagined mandate that would provide energy that would help the show succeed.

But no, that’s right, GQ. Dave, your reputation in your show years, accurate or not, was not social. Dave said, I felt like wherever i’d go out, there’d be an expectation in which I couldn’t live up to, which was, here, he comes, he’s gonna do a show, He’s gonna be funny, We’re gonna be entertained. I kind of felt like that expectation takes quite a lot of energy, because I didn’t want to bleed it off before or after the actual show, which was always in desperate need of entertainment. He talked about his energy and said, you’d either spend time preparing, time ruminating about what it might gone wrong, or try and enjoy what it went right, and anything else didn’t matter.

And that’s the mistake of having a career where it’s the same thing each and every night. Now I still advise people not to retire, but it was so single focused. If we can make these three four hundred people laugh every night, that’s our responsibility. So the idea that it actually transported beyond that would always come as kind of a glaring surprise. All I cared about was television.

One hour of television that I was responsible for for thirty years. That’s all I cared about. Everything fell apart went away. I didn’t even know if it was falling apart or not.

And now I have the energy and the broader focus to recognize humanity as othe…

A lot more here, and we’ve got some holidays coming up, so I’ll save more of that for some time, maybe Christmas week. Looking ahead, I will have episodes for you every single day, like always. I am going to pre tape a couple just so I could take a couple of days off around Christmas, and you know, there are things like best Comedy Specials of the Year that I want to do anyway, so I’ll record a bunch of those, but I’ll be here every day for you. I’m also bothered this session you’re hearing right now. I’ve only been recording for seven minutes and I can already hear that rasp in my voice that whatever bug I caught It’s almost a full three weeks ago.

Now I still feel it. I still feel that my voice going really quickly. I don’t feel sick at all, but boy, I just feel the rasp anyway. Jay Leno, let’s stay on late night type hosts. Jay was on Spike first In’s Spike’s Car Radio, and Jay pushed back on all the rumors about what’s going on.

There was one rumor that said Jay owed money to the mob and had been subject to a beat down. Leno said, it’s so stupid. Spike said the photos Jay looked like an AI of a Jay Leno that had been thrown off a building. All right, Jay, you’ve got money. Why he’s staying at Hampton In.

Jay said he got into the area at one am and was only going to be there for a short stay. He asked for the nearest hotel and happened to be Hampton In. Leno defended the brand, saying it’s a Hilton. Why wouldn’t he stay somewhere like the Four Seasons? Leno said?

Why would it pay eleven hundred dollars a night? Leno explains if his wife was with him, then he would have stayed in a nice hotel, but it’s just him. He doesn’t feel the need. Spike said he’s been on the road with Jerry Seinfeld, and Seinfeld also stays at modest hotels. Spike shows Jay some social media posts, including one where the author wrote, Jay Leno was beat up in some kind of ritual.

I suspect or to be silenced. Jay, is it a gambling debt? Jay said, Nope, never gambled in my life. I liked that the mob would drive to Greensburg, Pennsylvania to meet me on top of a hill and then throw me down the hill. All right, Jay, why were you walking?

Why didn’t he have a car? Jay said again he was only in town for a short time. He didn’t think it need one, And as I’m falling, I see these two elderly ladies. One of them goes that looks like Jay Leno falling down the hill. The two women came over after he fell down.

Leno said they realized it was actually him. They gave him a ride to a nearby restaurant. He says, of his injuries, I didn’t think it was that bad. When a server brought his sandwich over, the server told Leno, hey, you know you don’t look too good. But rather thansee medical attention, Jay asked for directions to the nearest CVS and bought an eye patch.

All right, what about all the weird stuff with the cars on the motorcycles, Leno said, there’s a lot of accidents in between you don’t even hear about. Jay says he got a good laugh when he told the crowd, ladies and gentlemen, I’m just completing my fall tour and added audiences love seeing rich people catch on fire. Maybe this is just how I sound now. I’ve worked in radio media, audio whatever this is now for thirty plus years, and I have run into older men who start to get that rasp in their voice. It sounds great if you’re a DJ.

Maybe this is just how I sound.

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During the break there, I hit pause on their cording and went upstairs and I went and got my iced coffee. Here the voice was driving me nuts. Today. Doesn’t hurt, but the fuzz all right, shut up about your voice, John, if you want to sport the show, buy me a coffee. Dot com slash d comedy news.

Serious topic here. Conan O’Brien, Oh wow, what a week. Conan’s father, doctor Thomas O’Brien, passed away Monday, December ninth. Thomas was ninety five. Three days later, on Thursday the twelfth, Ruth O’Brien passed away at age ninety two.

In an interview published on Thursday, Conan told The Globe, my father was in constant motion and he was interested in everything, absolutely everything. John Mulaney was on Jimmy Fallon during the week. Mulaney was filming a scene for poker Face and said he’s been going back and forth between Staten Island and Queen’s. We’re at a Rundown real life location like a motel for this one scene, and afterwards it was this summer. I’m standing there with Miguel and he goes, oh, no, I think I have some bug bites and I look down and he’s got these three red bites and he goes, oh, no, I might have bedbugs from the shoot.

Malanie gets back to his room. He notices he has bites and I go, oh my god, I got bed bugs from doing a peacock show. You never think that’s how you get them, but it is. I texted Natasha Leone. I go, hey, do you have Miguel’s number.

Miguel’s the director. I need to get in touch with him right now about something. She sends to me Migul’s number and I text him. He texts Miguel, it’s John m’laney. I’ve read bites on my legs too, What did you do for these?

And he’s really bed bugs. He doesn’t hear back. I call Natasha and I go, hey, mcguil hasn’t gotten back to me, and she goes, oh, yeah, I say you the wrong Miguel. Apparently m’laney texted the guy Miguel who has the hit song remind me to forgets. Malaney spoken to the TV and said, Miguel, if you’re watching, they weren’t bed bugs and on set medic let me know it was fine.

It’s a good lesson. Nikki Glaser posted on Instagram, I’m sorry if I’m everywhere right now, It’ll be over soon. She talked about the roast of Tom Brady in May and said it was a life changing performance, one of those things that you sort of like, you just never know what’s gonna happen, but everything changes after the next day, I was in line places and seeing my face on people’s phones. She told Jimmy Kimmel. I felt like Taylor Swift for a couple of days.

I felt that level of fame. No, you didn’t, and that is your comedy news or today. You didn’t. You were not Taylor Swift. Relax.

You told a couple of funny jokes on a roast A bunch of us watched. H You’re such a hater, John, I’m not. I speak truth to the media. See to morrow.

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Featured: Jason Zinoman, Nikki Glaser, Ronny Chieng, Rami Ysef, Tom Papa, Brooks Wheelan, Josh Johnson, Nate Bargatze, Kyle Kinane, Courtney Peruso, Anthony Jeselnik, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• New York Times Best Comedy of 2024 list with Jason Zinoman
• Nikki Glaser named Comedian of the Year by multiple outlets
• Ronny Chieng’s ‘Love to Hate It’ special releasing on Netflix
• Vulture’s Top Comedy Specials of 2024 rankings
• Johnny Mac’s upcoming Best Specials of 2024 episode delayed to January
• Debate over best comedy specials: Kyle Kinane’s ‘Dirt Nap’ and Adam Sandler’s ‘Love You’

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Jason Zinnemon is critic at large for the Culture section of The New York Times and writes a column about comedy. I consider him to be a friend of the program, and we interact on social media sometimes, and he was a great guest on here a few months back. On Tuesday, the Times publish an article called best Comedy of twenty twenty four. The subheadline John Stewart made the daily show Mussy TV again, Theo Vaughn had a memorable moment with Donald Trump and Nikki Glaser broke through.

I thought I’d take a look at Jason’s column. I’ve skimmed it. I haven’t really read it because I wanted to react in the moment. Here. Let’s start with his comedian of the Year.

Much like Consequence of Sound, he also has Nikki Glaser. Now, I said my piece about that on Tuesday’s podcast. I don’t think it’s an absurd pick, but I don’t agree with it. But I could see Jason Zinneman knows a lot more about comedy and has seen a lot more comedy, especially in the last decade, than I have. So I’m not gonna lie arm wrestle him to the ground.

I’d be like, no, you’re wrong, I’ll just respectfully go I’m not seeing it. Jason talks about the Rose set, but says her new HBO hour provided more substance. Wearing a glittering dress and a strategic smile, she performs showbis cheer, but underneath that shimmering facade is not just an ace club comic, but a restless artist exploring darker terrain. Gleezer gets underestimated because she’s filthy, but she can go high as well as low. Cover universal subjects and metacomedy analysis, do hilarious character work and brainy jokes.

This relentlessly funny hour is bleaker than it looks. Digging into suicide, rape, in the Apocalypse, and any year when it seemed like everyone had a comic take and why you shouldn’t have kids, hers was the funniest again, will agree to disagree. I don’t even have that special on my best of the Year list. I just thought it was, like, eh, now really interesting to me. Jason has as best special Ronny Chieng’s Love to Hate It.

This one is out on Tuesday on Netflix. The log line there, Ronny Chieng unpacks fertility treatment Fiasco’s the dark side of men’s self health and scam sensitive parents in this witty stand up special. So I’ve been holding off. I’m itch you to take my own best of the Year episode, but I’m gonna wait to the other side of Ronny Chieng. I heard from a friend of the show, Dan Bubletz Junior, who texted me and he’s like, why don’t you record your top Specialists of twenty four after New Year’s and run it like the first week in January?

Which makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it, because everybody else is putting out there topless in early December, so as I wrote back to Dan, because Channy Mack wants to take a couple of days off after Christmas. That’s why. Sorry, Just try to be honest. They’re Dan Buobletz Junior. You know, a little pre tape action on like December twenty seventh and twenty eighth goes a long way when you do this every day.

Zinneman has best political special RAMI Usef’s More Feelings. That was the one that I hated the direction on. I just didn’t like how it was shot and I couldn’t stick with it. Maybe if it was released as an album and I listened to it, I’d be like, oh, okay, But you know, I struggled with that one. Best Clean Comedy, Tom Poppa’s other in the category, Gaff Again, Fortune and Nate’s Best YouTube special, Brooks Wheeland’s Alive in Alaska.

Getting fired after one season at SNL has shadowed his career, but it’s also given him a relatable backstory. I’ll have to add that one to my list of things to watch. There’s just so many of these. I remember at one point, I think it was a decider pointed out there was like something like three hundred specials. I like this.

I like doing this. No one torches me, nobody makes me do the podcast, But like, you can’t keep up. I mean, I guess if this were a full time job and I did nothing else and never talked to my family, I could keep up. But I can’t even keep up with what comes out. Best Topical Comedy Josh Johnson on TikTok.

Josh has been putting out a ton of content. According to Josh, he’s put out twenty two hours of comedy in a year, and Jason wrote about some other things I did link to it in the Facebook group on Tuesday morning. The Facebook group is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Feel encouraged to join, Feel encouraged to participate, Feel encouraged to start converse. I enjoy when the listeners start conversations outside of me.

Those are my favorite posts. My choice for commed of the Year. Nate Brighetzi. He dropped the trailer for his upcoming special on December twenty fourth. In the special, and Nate discusses wanting a second dog, how much pizza at order for Guys Night, his wife being the responsible one, and even more.

Pretty good trailer. It’s like a minute and a half. We’ll use that into the break. My wife she runs everything, but I do do my own laundry. One day, I was like driving home and it popped in my head and I was like, all right, I’ll bring that up.

And I bring it up that day. I was like, I’m sure there will be a time where we’re be in some fight. I’ll be losing this fight and then I may not just come. I’m like, I do my own laundry. I went to career day for my daughter’s school, so I was hoping to sit at a table alone.

They put me at a table with a surgeon, which I think they did it on purpose, almost to show the kids. Here’s the difference between reading. They asked him, how long did you go to school to be a surgeon? You know, he’s like fifty four years or whatever it’s like, and they ask me, They’re like, how long to be a comedian. I was like, you’re good now, so look, finish elementary school and make your parents happy.

But then I’d get out and get after it. Vulture Publisher They are Best Comedy Specials of twenty twenty four. Back on December fourth. They have at number ten Alie Wong’s single Lady. I feel like I watched I don’t know ten minutes of that one.

I’m a comedy snob and not everything tickles my brain.

And also from the understandpoint, not everything is for me, and that’s fine …

Not on my top ten. It’s actually on my not on list section of my number nine. Langston Kerman’s Bad Poetry. I also have that one on my not enlist notes where I wrote fine but NH and I’m glad I wrote that down because I don’t remember even hitting play on it. Langston.

I like Langston. He’s been a guest on this program. Just wasn’t feeling that one. Number eight RAMI Usef’s more feelings, as I talked about in the first half, I wrote in my notes here to myself. Didn’t like the direction, couldn’t focus on the material.

A lot of weird camera angles in that one. At number seven, Kyle Kinane’s Dirt Nap. Absolutely, it’s got my favorite chunk of the year, which is his fast and Furious chunk. This one absolutely on my personal best of the year. I won’t tell you where until I released my episode, but it’s up there.

Like that one a lot. I like Kyle a lot. Number six Courtney Peruso’s Vanessa five thousand Vulture Rights. Vanessa five thousand is part of the current indie clowning wave, and Peruso’s clown is a mindless, stilted sex robot named Vanessa and black leather and a cheap blonde wig. Peruso gets the audience in game with aness on the terms defined by her programming.

I haven’t seen that one even like the cover art, just doesn’t grab me personally. Not everything is for me Vulture. At number five, they have Anthony Jessinicks Bones and all I lasted seven minutes on this one. I just felt like, been there, done that. It didn’t do anything for me.

Number four Nikki Glazers Someday You’ll Die. I’ve discussed this at length. I’m gonna sit over here in the corner with the people who have unpopular opinions. I guess I’m wrong because everybody else is saying that special is great, except me and the people in the Facebook group. I don’t know.

I thought it was okay. At number three, Vulture has Adam Sandler’s Love You. I’ve been warming up to this one right now. I have it in my second tier, so I’ve got like my top specials of the year, and then I’ve got another group that’s like these were good as well, and Sandler’s in that second group. But as I’ve been reflecting on the year, I’m warming up to this one.

What I like about Sandler’s special is he tried to do something, and I always appreciate someone who’s trying to do something as opposed to some pretty big names who did what they always do. And I guess that’s fine. But like I punched out on a lot of specials because it’s like, Okay, I know what you do next. I’m busy as Adam Zaandler’s specials go. I guess this was my favorite one.

I historically have not been a fan of his coledy, but I did like that special. Number two is Jacquelinovak’s Get on Your Knees. As I said earlier, not everything is targeted at me. Not everything is for me. Ortists can do their thing, and if John doesn’t like it, that’s fine.

My note lasted four minutes. And if you know what that special is about, and I say lasted four minutes, there’s a great joke in there. But I keep this show clean. On number one, Ali sadiqz Domino Effect Part three, I think this is one of those that I was intending to watch and for whatever reason, never did. I don’t have it on any of my lists, so it’s on the didn’t watch it list.

Vulture writes, it’s hard to imagine what other comedian could ever come close to pulling off this epicreation he’s been building for the past few years. Each YouTube installment is its own long special, but they all connect as pieces of Sidiq’s autobiography, beginning from childhood and continuing through the years he spent incarcerated for selling drugs. No part of Domino Effect is bad, but part three is a particularly remarkable standout. All right, so that’s their number one special of the year. Probably worth checking out then, right, all this is subjective.

You have your list, I have my list, Vulture has their, as Jason Simon has his. It’s just all fun. Let’s not take this too seriously. It’s comedy, different things for different people. I’m planning on doing my list right after Christmas is the plan right now from an editorial standpoint, As I mentioned, Jenny Mack wants to pre tape a couple and put his feet up for a couple of days.

And that’s your comedy news for today. Normal episode tomorrow. See you then,

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Ray Romano, Russell Peters, Jerry Seinfeld, Pete Davidson, Kenan Thompson, Joe Coy

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser’s Rolling Stone interview and mental health struggles
• Nikki Glaser hosting the Golden Globes on January 5th
• Nikki Glaser’s 67-show North American tour
• Ray Romano discusses his son attempting stand-up comedy
• Russell Peters interview with Toronto Star
• Jerry Seinfeld purchases 1971 Fiat 124 Special T
• SNL cast member salary dispute and research

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Nicky Glazer’s publicist really trying to get this done and don’t forget She’s hosting the Golden Globes on January fifth of Low, I’m Johnny Mackett. It’s Friday the thirteenth. Are you scared? I have your Daily Comedy News for you.

Rolling Stone did a big fluff job of Nikki Glaser. They remind us of the Nicky Glazer push that started with the roast of Tom Brady in the same week as her HBO Max special Rolling Stone Right Suddenly, Glazer was everywhere. She appeared on The Howard Stern Show and the massive podcast SmartLess. She then began a sixty seven show tour of North America that goes through June. She’s hosting the Golden Globes.

She’s nominated for Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy at the Globes. She’s positive that a list audience members like George Clooney or Jennifer Aniston or Brad Pitt won’t be familiar with her. She says, I’m gonna have to butter them up a bit, which I’m happy to do because I’m in awe of them and I do think they’re better than me. I desperately seek their approval. She then he goes on to discuss the various sexual topics that I won’t do here.

I try and keep the show relatively clean. Rolling Stone said, wait, since the special air, do you stop being horny? Glazier says, yeah. He’s talking about her boyfriend that she’s been on and off with for a decade. I was convincing myself that eventually he was going to discover something about me that was going to discuss him in a way, so I was pushing him away.

Back in May, the boyfriend convinced Nikki that he loved her unconditionally, and in doing so, writes rolling Stone, eliminated the titillating potential for newness that existed if they broke up again. She’s exhausted from traveling so much and says, I feel like the plane is the last place where you still have an excuse to not be available. I’m craving that people can’t get to me. On the day of this interview, she was in New York for the Joan Rivers tribute and said, it feels like, oh no, I tricked them, and now I have to live up to this thing that maybe they saw in me one moment of greatness, but I can’t keep that up. One day recently, Glazer said to a friend, I’m just a fraud, and I’d even write that joke that everyone’s obsessed with and compliments me for all the time.

After the roast and the special, she had to ask herself in her therapist, if this ain’t fun, what’s the point? Because the goal is to be at this level, and now I’m here and I’m miserable, Like then I should stop and start a pet rescue as the next part is a little worrisome to me, Rolling Stone writes. Glazier has a group chat on which she shares her darkest thoughts with her nine best friends, lovingly accrued from fourth grade to adulthood. In a recent voice memo, Nikki said, I wish a car would hit me. I’d love to die right now, but I just don’t even want to because I feel like the guy doing my autopsy would be like, uh, she’s so fat.

The group responded, that’s so funny. Write that down. Glazier says, her friends understand that these are just terrible thoughts and not precursors to terrible actions. In order to avoid worrying the chat to the point where they feel compelled to have her committed, which happened during a life threatening anorexic episode as a teen, Glazier’s promised that if she ever actually considered hurting a self, she will seek help. Rolling Stone added, and I’m glad they did, because after reading that, I was going to add it.

The number for the suicide and Crisis Lifeline is nine to eight to eight, Glazier says, the dopamine rush that I can get when a new joke works. Any comedian will tell you that’s why we keep doing this, because it feels so good and something you’ve just thought of makes a whole room burst out laughing. We like you is pretty much what they’re saying with their laugh. When I get most oppressed is when I haven’t had time to write new material for the Golden Globes. She’s gonna have a conversation with the director about which celebrities to cut to you for reaction shots.

She says, if the first one says this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life and it has a thousand up votes, you kind of go, oh, this is gonna be funny Glazer’s thinking of close ups of Robert de Niro, Matt Damon, and Jamie Lee Curtis. I’ve noticed they’re great laughers. Don’t have the director cut to Taylor Swift. She could murder your career. Just warning you.

I know you’ll love her, but be very careful. One time Joe Coy, host of the Golden Globes, and I think we all know what happened. I’m ready for a challenge. I think as an artist, you have to keep doing things that make you deeply uncomfortable. Now it makes me very uncomfortable is having to do a hard thing, which is be clean.

You know. I hope she’s okay. It is reading that article. I kind of got the I don’t know the feeling, you know, I hope she’s doing okay. Ray Romano has said his son tried stand up.

He was doing a presser and said, yeah, my son went on a stand up trip. He goes to these little dives and he tries stand up for the first time, and the people aren’t even facing the stage. There aren’t even people in there, and of course it doesn’t go well, and he takes it very personal. So I had to almost grab him go. You don’t understand.

First of all, you can’t do well in a place like that, and you can’t do well when it’s your first time on stage. I understand your hurt, but you really have no right to be upset right now. Stand up takes a long time. That’s all I told him. Please don’t get that way, because that’s the way I was.

I gave it up twice. You know, I got beat down my first time. I gave it up, but I got beat down the second time again, but luckily I tried a third time. Russell Peters told The Toronto Star he doesn’t really have any plans outside stand up. He says, I see nothing.

I mean just touring’s really another thing that makes me money. The industry was never a Russell Peters outlly, and there’s still not. So I’m gone this far without him. I don’t know what that’s about. I’ve never really heard bad things about Russell.

Maybe, perhaps possibly twenty years ago, I heard he was a little full of himself. Maybe i’ve met him. He was fine, not the warmest fellow, but neither’s Jerry Seinfeld. I don’t know, He commented on Tony Cliff performing at the rally and said in a comedy club setting that joke would have been very funny where people would have been able to hear the irony in the joke. Puerto Rico’s a beautiful place.

I’ve been there.

Speaking of Jerry seinfeld super car, Blondie, your home for Comedy News tell…

It’s a simple car that cost him eighteen thousand dollars. It’s got a two tone cloth interior that has nineteen seventies written all over it. It’s a gorgeous shade of sand yellow. Fiat calls the color dark Ivory. The engine is a one point four leader in line four puts out eighty horsepower and kiss You’re curious Front of the show.

Scott Beckett sent me another email.

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All right, let’s read this one.

Scott said, did what you reported pastor smell test that a full time cast member for SNL makes like fifty five to sixty K a season. I added the like you didn’t balk when you reported that, that’s absolutely no way that can be true. Listen, Scott Beckett, if Pete Davidson tells me something I accepted at face. Valuete Davidson has never said anything untrue to me. Why wouldn’t I believe Pete Davidson.

Scott did some Internet research and says that he found that the starting salary weekly for an SNL cast members seven thousand dollars and that Keenan Thompson and some other people are making like five hundred grand a year. Well, Scott Beckett Variety spoke to Keenan Thompson. Keenan told Variety cast members at SNL have to pay their dues a little bit when it comes to starting salaries. It’s pretty notorious that it’s more about having the job than getting paid for the job. Thompson did not give specific salary numbers.

Jason Sidekez shared a sentiment about his salary and said, I mean, you don’t even make enough money to make big purchases, all right. I have just typed into chant gpt. How much do people on SNL make site sources. According to chat GPT, new cast members typically earn around eight thousand dollars per episode, which equates to approximately one hundred and forty seven grand based on a twenty one episode season. More experienced cast members can make up to fifteen granded episode, which would be three fifteen.

Chat asked, let me know if you’d like further details. Yes. Unfortunately for all of us, it has no further details, So I don’t know. Three thousand and eight thousand seems to be a number like that. Hey, I found out because I went to the Hulu website.

It’s not like the Hulu publicist reach out to me. I found out, and maybe we knew this ready. I get Forgetful, which is the hilarious special for December. It is Alana Glazer Friday, December twentieth. Now Johnny Mac wants to take some days off after Christmas, so I won’t be waiting until a Friday night to watch that one for the end of the year list, So that’ll be in my didn’t watch it subcategory.

Her specials called Human Magic, premieres Friday, December twentieth. Russell Crowe divulged a little known fact about going on Rogan. He made this claim on Nova ninety six point nine Fitzi and Whippa, That’s the morning show down in New Zealand. Russell Crowe told Fitzi Rogan goes well. Chat for about three hours, and I’m like, three hours, No, you won’t, that’s kind of ridiculous, Crow says.

Then you get in there and that’s what he fully intends. But once you’re there, you have to sign a thing that you’re not gonna leave until the chat is over. Hmm. Sam Wiles has a comedy album Today. Johnny Mac likes when things come out as albums.

Here comes Success out Today from a Special Thing Records. Recorded live at a Whammy Video store in La Sam did a jubilant set about the drawbacks of going to a cheap gym, how adult entertainment can sometimes be too much, millennial dad friends, it feels about Boomer’s death, and more. They also tell us that the record is dedicated to O. J. Simpson, but you’ll have to listen to find out why.

All right, very interesting, Sam Wiles. Here Comes Success And from the Idaho Falls magazine, Katie Burke tells us why Jeff Foxworthy is her favorite comedian. You’ve heard me speak over the years about how awesome a dude Jeff is, and everything I’m going to tell you here matches my experience. Katie said she had the privilege of driving f Foxworthy to his show at the Eastern Idaho State Fair four years ago. She was assigned to be Jeff’s driver for the day.

The car they gave Katie a minivan. She said, this is Jeff foxworthy comedy legend. I’m showing up in a minivan. I pulled up to the hotel and sent Jeff’s manager a text message to the effect of walking to the parking lot and looked for the super cool white minivan then you’ll find me. Then Jeff Foxworthy walked out of his everyday hotel, looking all common casual right off the bat.

He made me feel comfortable like we were old bells. No big ego, no diva attitude, just the down earth guy ready for a day at the fair. Jeff did me a favor and did our broadcast at the super Bowl in New Orleans. And I was like, you want something to eat? And he said, is there a subway nearby?

And I’m like, yes, there is. You want me to go get you something? Yeah? And I forget what kind of sandwich he wanted? And he said, and can I get sun chips?

And I said to him, you could get two bags of sun chips. And I went and got Jeff a sandwich. I mean, there’s a lot of stars who wouldn’t be like that. Dude, you did me a favor at the super Bowl. I could spend seven bucks at Subway.

Jeff mentioned to Katie he I used to have a minivan when his girls were little. Katie tells Jeff, I have a kid at home. Jeff says, I can’t believe you’re old enough to have a kid. Jeff seems genuinely interested in the fair itself. He was all excited to try all the classic fair foods, corn dogs, funnel cakes, fried everything.

He mentioned he loved the local food scene in different places and had a soft spot for the weird, creative ditches you only find it fairs. He told me he planned to spend his eighties going out in a blaze of glory, eating anything and everything he wanted. I felt like I was witnessing the real Jeff Foxworthy, not just the guy who performs on stage, but someone who truly enjoys life simple pleasures. Yep, yep, yep, yep yep. Between bites of fried potato and barbecue slathered meats, Jeff shared stories about some of the celebrities he’s met over the years, According to him, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill or two of the nicest people in the entertainment business.

Jeff is humble, kind and one of those people who will make you feel better just by being around them. Amen. He is an awesome dude. And that is your comedy news for today. If you like the program, tell a friend about it, and hopefully they’ll like it too, and they’ll push the follow button on their app.

There. Hey, they might even be like, you know, I like the show. Is there a way to support the show without commercial And then you can tell them, yeah, there’s a link in the show notes. You give Jennie Mack five bucks and you’ll get daily commed news without commercials, and like twenty other shows commercial free. It’s a good deal and you know, then we’ll all be happy.

See tomorrow.

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Featured: Chris Rock, Taylor Thomas, Michael Costa, Stephen Colbert, Joe Rogan, Roger Avery, Nikki Glaser, Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Rob Schneider, Gabriel Iglesias, Lisa Trigger, Jamie Foxx, Cat Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Rock leaves Australian performance, conflicting reports about reasons
• Luigi Mangione arrested for United Healthcare CEO shooting, internet attraction commentary
• Nikki Glaser named Comedian of the Year by multiple outlets, Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment gala speech
• Rob Schneider launching competing talk show against The View
• Gabriel Iglesias and Lisa Trigger announce new Netflix specials
• Johnny Mac analyzes Jamie Foxx special audience authenticity

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. This Chris Rock thing is getting weirder and weirder. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. A source tales people that the reports that Chris Rock stormed off and off those are untrue. The reason he left is because children were in the audience.

An onlooker tells people he didn’t storm off. He did stop performing, but he wasn’t angry. He simply put the mic down and walked away. But then the story goes on to say that the reason he left was people were filming him, which was the original story. So I don’t know why people is saying anything about children in the audience.

And the reason given for not wanting anyone to film is that he was working out material. And I’ll go back to what I said yesterday. If I’m paying you to come all the way to Australia and I’m a billionaire, I don’t want you to work out with Cereal. I don’t know what’s going on. A lot of the country is fascinated with Luigi Mangione, accused of shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Taylor Thomas on her show admitted that like a lot of people she found the guy physically attractive. She said, one picture can be deceiving. I’ve been on dating apps for a long time. I’m gonna need to see four to six more photos. Okay, anyone can take one sexy, blurry candid right before they commit a murder.

Everyone has one of those. That’s funny, she continues. It turns out he actually got caught because an employee recognized him and phone the police. Do you have any idea how attractive you have to be for a McDonald’s employee to be like, wait, okay, you being in here is suspicious. I’m surprised anyone turned this guy in considering all the thirsting after him online.

I mean, every post about this guy’s just straight up calls him sexy. Maybe this was his undoing. I mean, if everyone on the internet was talking about how hot I am, I’d also be lingering in public spaces. That might be the kedy catching criminals. Let’s pretend we think they’re all super hot, and maybe they’ll just turn themselves in.

Michael Costa said it’s surprising that he comes from such a privileged background. He’s not really the kind of guy you’d expect to become a murderer. I mean, I’d expect him to crash the housing market, but not kill a guy. Stephen Colbert went, silly, you know what they say, snitches get filet o fishes. Joe Rogan commented on this and said, I don’t think the guy was a professional.

I think this guy if I had a guest with some guy who got e ft over, apparently that company’s really bad at the nine claims his guest, a film producer, Roger Avery, said I don’t think anybody is going to be crying too hard over this. Rogan said, maybe his family. That’s about it. It’s a dirty, dirty business. The business of insurance is effing gross.

It’s gross, especially healthcare insurance. It’s effing gross. All right. We not only have to get Nikki Glaser’s publicist to raise we have to get Nikki Glaser’s publicist too raises. There’s clearly a campaign going on right now.

We’ve already seen two news organizations named Nikki Glaser Comedian of the Year. I’ve spoken my peace on that. If you miss that, the short version is it’s not ridiculous, but it’s not the right call either. Tomorrow I’ll tell you about a big wax job of her car in Rolling Stone. Today it’s the Hollywood Reporter.

NICKI was at the Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment gala and said, when I was told I’d been chosen as one of the power one hundred women in Hollywood, I was so incredibly honored.

And then I said, which number am I?

And they said it didn’t work that way. You’re all equal. And I said, okay, if that’s the case, then can I sit it Nicole Kidman’s table? And that’s when the correspondence ended a breakfast gallop for women in Hollywood. We don’t even eat that meal.

That’s funny, but truly, what better ton honor women than at eight am, before the industry is awake and that coveted post Thanksgiving, pre Christmas Hollywood dead zone. We are women in Hollywood. You’re a roar, but not too loudly because the hotel is a quiet policy enforced until nine am.

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Also very funny.

I love being in full glam at the crack of dawn. What am I supposed to do the rest of the day looking like this? Usually women who look this done up at seven am aren’t entering the Beverly Hills Hotel. They’re leaving with a lot of cash and a fun story about Charlie Sheen. This is really strong material.

This very speech I’m giving right now might have been twenty percent better had I not had to prepare my body to even stand up before you and give it. It’s hard to write a speech on the same day. You have to get a spray’s hand to a fitting, get your nails done, a bleacher ooh read edge Jhonny a thing you might bleach not going there that she tagged it with. I guess I didn’t need to do that last one. We almost had a train wreck here on Daily Comedy News, so I got to preread these stories.

Next on a Little Hackey, Oh, Colin Farrell so dedicated to his craft that he spends three hours on the makeup chair to transform into the penguin. That’s how long it takes me every day to make sure I don’t look like the penguin. Rob Schneider has plans to launch a show to compete against the view. Rob has a book called You Can Do It, and he was on Fox News and disclosed that his company, no apologies media, We’re gonna do an all ladies talk show, and it won’t be like the View. It’ll be the opposite, because it’ll be entertaining.

It’ll be funny. We’re gonna have funny women on it that’ll tell jokes and have funny stories and health and wellness. Schneider describes the View as interesting as a hunter Biden painting made of his own feces hilarious, and said his show will focus on making people laugh rather than shaming them for their politics. People are sick of it. We’re going to have an entertaining show with people from all over America.

We’re not just trying to bring people who are angry and bitter and reinforcing their political echo chamber. Then he was on Twitter and said, we will be a show that will not be a narrow view or what you’ve had to indoor all these years. A single view that scolds into me means those that have a different view. This will be a show for while caps all of us two exclamation points. Netflix announced two more specials Gabe, but Fluffy Iglesias will get one.

It’s called Legend of Fluffy. Hey, Gabe, love you. You’ve kind of you’re fallen into the Gaffigan zone. Where Gaffigan called, like nine specials in a row pail something, tap the brakes on the Fluffy. Just do something else for a change.

All right, I guess this one’s already anounced. Next one, we’re not gonna put Fluffy in the title. Okay, Gabe, love you worked with you on the Comedy Central, Lost or a Good Guy. Everybody likes you. But enough with the Fluffy.

Legend of Fluffy will premiere January seventh. Lisa Trigger, We’ll have her special night Owl on Netflix January twenty eighth. Lisa Special touches on her friends who are parents, hating other people’s husbands, and lying to herself about how high she really is. I got a lot done the other night. First of all, the Indiana Jones video game is the pinnacle of human civilization.

This is it. We have topped out. There will be no greater art, there will be no greater entertainment. It’s all downhill for humanity from this peak of the Indiana Jones video game. So I played that for two hours, and then after a while my eye’s hurt.

So I’m like, I’ll watch some TV, and I put on Jamie Fox’s special. I almost bailed about seven minutes in. Then he went into an amazing Cat Williams impression. Jamie can do voices really well. The cat stuff kept me around.

Then there was a next part. Now go back and watch it. He goes into a little bit of a preachy, soulful, thoughtful part. But notice that the cameras zoomed in and what caught my ear? And you know, I do this for a living.

The room’s dead. I suspect possibly perhaps maybe that’s an insert that was filmed in an empty theater. I don’t think the audience was there for that part. I feel like that was filmed separately and cut into the main special. Why do you say that, John, the room is too dead?

A lot of times, what you’ll do in recording is you will record what’s called room tone, and then if you have to do any sort of production, you have the natural sound of what a room sounds like, and you can lay it under whatever you’re doing.

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Also, you know we’ve all been to shows.

If he went into a big soulful thing like that, somebody would he alled out, go Jamie, or we love you or woo or something. There would have been some noise. It’s too quiet. I also and I feel like a jerk saying this, but I also think there was a performance there when Jamie went into the part of, you know, please Lord, let me get through this. I’ll remind you he’s an Academy Award winning actor.

Then I started skimming through it. I came away thinking I need more comedy in my comedy for what he set out to do. I think it’s a very very good version of what he set out to do in terms of, hey, is this a comedy special I want to spend an hour with It wasn’t, so I moved on. It will not make my end of the year list, but I think it was a good version of what he set out to do. I switched over to Fortune Fimester last than about a half an hour.

It’s fine, you know, if you’re not a comedy snob, it’s perfectly fine hour. Nothing wrong with it, nothing bad to say about It’s funny enough. But just you know, I’d played two hours of video game and already watched Jamie, and I was like, all right on this one, I gotta feel for what this one is.

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And then I watched Matthew Brisard’s which was the best of the three.

That one’s on YouTube. Excellent writing there, funny jokes, couple actual laughs out of me. So that’s my favorite of the three. That said, it also won’t make my end of the year list, not that it’s bad, but you know, I can’t put everything on the list, So that’s my favorite of three. Watch Brisard this next story I saw, I just want to tell you in advance.

I didn’t really understand the version I saw. You’ll get this in a second, so I ran it through AI and asked the AI, can you just summarize this and rewrite this for an American audience and convert the currency because I’m getting a little confused here. So hopefully the AI has it accurate. The original sources from the India Times. So it caught my attention.

Comedian Sneil Powell’s alleged kidnapping has taken a controversial turn. A leaked to audio clips suggests that the nine thousand dollars ransom incident may have been staged for publicity, although the comedian denies the accusation. He had filed a police report Mumbai claiming that he was abducted and held for twenty four hours before paying the ransom. In the audio clip, which again the AI is telling me is reportedly edited and manipulated. A voice identified as one of the kidnappers accuses Pal of orchestrating the situation and filing a police complain.

Afterward. Power responds claiming the police contacted his wife, not him, and insists the recording was taken out of context under duress. Police report that two suspects are on the run, with CCTV footage allegedly showing them purchasing gold jewelry with the ransom money. Six individuals have been detained for questioning. Powell claims he was lured to me Roots under the pretense of performing at a comedy show and was abducted by five men who initially demanded twenty four thousand dollars before settling for nine thousand dollars.

He says the kidnappers even gave him two hundred and forty dollars for travel back to Mumbai, promising to repay the ransom once they found work. Just a weird story, all right, Michelle Buttio, She’s got a New Year’s Eve special, But tonight she’s hosting the twenty twenty four Billboard Music Wards eight o’clock on Fox, and Last week’s Saturday Night Live, which was pretty good. I thought. Paul Meskal hosted it. Late Night Er says it drew the show’s lowest number of viewers, in this case three point eight million since November of twenty twenty three.

The November twenty twenty three episode was Timothy Shallomey with musical guest boy Genius. That’s pretty good. In the eighteen to forty nine demo, only seven hundred and thirty nine thousand viewers, also a new low for the show. In the demo, this season has been pretty terrible, and last season was I don’t know it was last season worse. Yeah, this season’s better than last season.

Last season was pretty bad Late Night. It reminds us it’s not unusual for Saturday Night Live to see a seasonal decline in viewership in mid November to early December. Historically, this is where the show bottoms out every season. And that is your comedy news for today. You hear my voice going again?

This is like two and a half weeks now. Whatever the hell I caught? I just yeah, you hear that fuzz? All right? See tomorrow

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Featured: Jamie Foxx, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Matt Rife, Caleb Hearon, Aziz Ansari, Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese

What’s in This Episode

• Jamie Foxx’s new special and mystery illness revelation
• Chris Rock controversy at billionaire’s private party in Australia
• Will Ferrell receives Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film
• Matt Rife performs in Caitlin Clark jersey, jokes about WNBA rivalry
• Caleb Hearon’s new Max comedy special and social media philosophy
• Jason Zenneman’s top comedy special of the year list

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. My former coworker, Jamie Fox’s special is out, and we found out, you know, was it Diddy that did it to him? Apparently the answer no. Fox said, the Internet tried to kill me though they said I was paralyzed.

They said I couldn’t walk. Well, look at me now. He then dances. In the new special. Fox said, the Internet said that Puffy tried to kill me, and that’s what the Internet was saying.

I know what you’re thinking, did he That’s pretty good. Actually. He also talked about the Infamous parties and said, I left those parties early. I was out by nine. I had some more spoilers for the special.

Jimmie comes out on stage, proclaims he’s back. He dances, hypes up the crowd, and he told us what happened to him with his mystery illness. April eleventh. I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for Asper, and I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f to do. Jamie said, before he even took that Asper, and he blacked out.

And remained unconscious for weeks. He says, I don’t remember twenty days. He credits his sister as saying, get him in a car. That ain’t my brother. Right there, a doctor told Jamie’s sister that Jamie was having a breen bleed that has led to a stroke.

During his recovery, Fox says his sister and his daughter Corinne shielded him from the outside world, telling us they didn’t want you to see me like that, and I didn’t want you to see me like that. I want you to see me like this. So that’s in line with what I’ve said many times on the podcast that what had me worried is I felt that if they could have propped Jamie up and sat in Pool’s side looking cool, they would have shared a picture, and they clearly didn’t. Seems like the special has good buzz on it. I have not watched it yet.

I got to plan a big comedy night to watch Fox and Fortune Fimsta from last week and also Matthew Brissard specials out on YouTube now, so I have a lot to catch up on Will Ferrell. We’ll receive the seventeenth annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film Today, Michael Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas, said comedy is the hardest in you make it look easy. Will congratulations, Dad loved you. Friend of the show, Jason Zenneman from The New York Times put out his comedy list. I’m going to talk about that on Saturday.

I felt like that would make a good Saturday episode. But Zennaman, interestingly his top special of the year Ronnie Ching’s Love to Hate It, and that’s not out on Netflix until Tuesday. So I am definitely going to hold off recording my top specials of the year because if he’s got Ronnie at number one, and I don’t want to skip that before I publish my list. On Gossip Corner, Tony Rock responded to the story about Chris Rock storming out of a billionaire’s private party. Told you about that one yesterday.

Tony said the vibe was people shouldn’t be filming comedian sets, even at private functions, as comedians constantly work through material. Tony says fans who try to put out incomplete work are fing a holes, and said if you record it and put it up before the joke is perfective, it’s like a chef giving you a plate of food before it’s finished. It’s like buying a car before they’re done making it. You should wait for the finished product. I’ll ask the question.

If I’m a billion and I’m paying Chris Rock all this money to come to Australia and perform at my party, why are you working out material? Dude? I want your a game. Chris never returned to the stage and was placed by Keith Urban, who presumably played hit songs and not It was like, oh, here’s a song I’m working on. I don’t have a chorus yet, right I might be on team billionaire.

Chris Matt Raife took the stage in a Caitlin Clark jersey. I saw. I think she’s Time magazine sportsperson of the Year and well deserved because I don’t have to tell you who Caitlyn Clark is, so that’s just a sign of her fame and her success. Anyway, Rife donde Caitlin Clark jersey and started joking about Angel Reese. Angel is a bit of a rival of Kaitlin Clark in the WNBA there, Raife said of Caitlin she could have hit Trump from half court.

This is amazing. She’s incredible. Have you guys been to her game? Have you checked out her play live? Bro?

Watching Caitlyn play is like watching the longest yard. The longest yard is also what they call the distance between Angel Reese’s eyeballs. Yikes. Caleb here and worked in campaign spaces before stumbling into improv and eventually comedy. His first gig was putting a bors burlesque show in Missouri for twenty five bucks a week.

He said, twenty five bucks just talking to microphone. I was obsessed and I was so bad at it, but that’s how I started his new project, Sweetheart’s a eighteen roum com on Max. He says online comedy was always a mean to an end for him. Some people love the online thing, but I started leaning into it when I didn’t get SNL the first time. It was kind of a Spike video, like I’ll show them.

You know, as artists were always mining our lives for content, but I felt like I was doing it in a really disingenuous way where every interaction I had, I’d play out the content in my head. I’d be like, point of view, you’re being weird to me at dinner, Like shut up, I was really not enjoying that.

And then I did stand up crowd work clips for a second and hated that.

And the thing is, I love crowd work. It’s fun. I don’t love posting the videos. I have friends who are very good at it. I’m not judging them, but for me, I felt like I was selling my audience out.

It felt like I asked these people to come out and have a good time, and now I’m pipping out our interaction that’s supposed to be this beautiful, special thing happening in the room just for us for views and clicks. So I was like, that’s not gonna work.

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And then I was like, podcast, all I have to do is talk to some what I genuine…

Someone else can post it. I don’t have to read the comments. This I can do. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett, he was listening to Saturday’s interview with Matthew Bissard and he sent me a note and said, you didn’t know hyperbolic? Yikes, good luck at trivia.

No, I didn’t know hyperbolic. See on the trivia team, Bill is the smart one. I’m the one that rings up points with like random eighties TV shows and random eighties music and stuff like that. So we’ve got Glenn. Glenn is the science guy.

We have Van Van Handles sports and cars, Bill is history and smart stuff, and then I’m all the other things, Like when the trivia guys were like, this was the nineteenth person on the nineteen eighty one season of Saturday Night Live, and I’m like, oh, Charles Rockett, and everybody’s like looking at me, like who what, here’s your cast of nineteen eighty one SNL. By the way, Danny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthias, Joe Piscopo, An Riseley, Charles Rocket, and in the middle of December they added a guy named Eddie Murphy who saved the darn thing. So that’s what I do with the trivia. I answer the Charles Rocket question. I think we finished tenth last week, and the last round is always brutal.

But you know what if the trivia guys are listening, and I know you do. We loved last week, like we get a I mean, we don’t really care. I’ve learned to like shut up. I used to argue with the trivia guys and they’re like, who is this a hole? And I realized you know what they’re right, I’m an a hole.

Shut up, have your two beers who cares? But like, we hate when it’s Ariana Grande questions because we don’t know those. Now, last week there were a couple like actual trivia questions, like stuff about I don’t know facts and we didn’t know the answer, And I’m like, I’m okay losing if we don’t know facts. But like when it’s like what was Ariana Grande’s third album called, we don’t know? Who cares?

Anyway, Scott Beckett said, you didn’t know hyperbolock Yike’s good luck at trivia? So, Scott Beckett, you know that face Taylor Swift made it the Golden Globes Awards when Joe Koy told a joke about her. Do you need me to remind you of the joke? I think you do. Let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. Yeah, so you know that face Taylor’s making right now looking at Joe Cooy. I’m making that face at Scott Peckett. No, I don’t know what hyperbolic means, even though Matthew Persard told me I didn’t even listen to the answer because he’s I’m sorry. Not as canceled as we were led to believe.

Zi’s has announced a new tour. It’s the Hypothetical Tour. He’ll play a bunch of places, including Montreal. He’s up there on March twenty seventh. An Australian comedian has canceled a musical about Raygun.

Remember Raygun, the breakdancer from the Olympics. Raygun the musical was going to open in Sydney. Comedian Steph Broadbridge said Ygun’s lawyers got in touch with the venue and threatened legal action. Raygun’s lawyers were worried I was damaging her brand, which I would never do. She doesn’t need me to do that.

Broadbridge said. The lawyers had asserted she wasn’t allowed to perform the dance moves because Reygun owns the Kangaroo dance. Broudbridge said that one did puzzle me. I mean, that’s an Olympic level dance. How would I possibly do that without any formal breakdancing training?

I love this. Broadbridge says she will perform at a later date and change the spelling of Rayguns to include the letter I. In an attempt to alleviate legal concerns, Rayguns Management Agency said, while we have immense respect for the credible work and effort that has gone into the development of the show, we must take necessary steps to safeguard Rachel’s creative rights and the integrity of her work. This action is not intended to diminish the contributions of others, but rather to ensure her brand is properly represented and protected in all future endeavors. Our friends over at eight hundred Pound Guerilla, they’re excited to announce the release of season four of Greg in La.

Greg and La originally began as a series on Instagram. You will now find it on YouTube. Greg in La follows a recently single forty something as he navigates life in Los Angeles with his mentor canine companion, Winston. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without come marcial interruption.

If you’re on Apple Podcast, clink the link in the show notes. Hey. If you’re on an Android phone, they added Apple Podcast to Android phones. You can use it as a web app. Go to the website podnews dot net and check out Tuesday’s newsletter.

And the guy who writes that, James Cridlin, will explain to you how you can add it to your Android phone. But then you can do that, and then you can click the banner the ads go away. Johnny Mac makes a lot of money on the side. You know what I’m saying. Yeah, yeah, this thing ain’t free.

A lot of fun. It’s a job. I can’t tell the mortgage company. Hey, but I was telling people about comedy specials. That doesn’t work.

I have to give them actual money. So that’s why you get commercials. So you understand how this works. Why am I explaining this? All right?

I’m heading off to trivia. Hopefully they’re not going to ask us to define hyperbolic or anything like that. Actually, they’ve posted the clues. You want to know what we can do here, I’ll tell you if they post clues. So they’re called best Men Trivia.

See how smart Scott Beckett is? All right, Scott Beckett? In scrabble, what are the two highest scoring tiles? Scott Beckett, I bet it’s not hyperbarlic, is it? No?

It’s not. I got this one right. Still finished in tenth place. See tomorrow

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Featured: Chris Rock, Bill Burr, Billy Corgan, Jamie Foxx, Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Ali Wong, Ramy Youssef

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Rock storms out of billionaire’s holiday party after being videotaped
• Bill Burr’s commentary on UnitedHealthcare CEO murder and healthcare system
• Billy Corgan claims Bill Burr may be his half-brother
• Golden Globes nominations announced with Nikki Glaser as host
• Jamie Foxx Netflix special ‘What Had Happened Was’ releases
• Jamie Foxx lobbying for Down syndrome research funding bill in sister’s name

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media tightly home Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start on gossip corner. The Daily Mail reports Chris Rock ran out in the middle of a surprise comedy set at a billionaire’s holiday party. Must be nice to be Chris Rock and that billionaire. According to The Mail, Rock was upset by being videotape, so he stormed out minutes after taking the stage.

Rock was hired by Anthony Pratt for the party, attended by many quote uber wealthy Australians down at the Amandarin. Oriental comedian Wally Collins and country singer Keith Urban were also hired to perform at the party, but in between their sets, Chris Rock surprised the crowd. Rock took the stage in casual attire and joked, our new push will be out of space. We’ll put all the Mexicans on the rockets. I’m sure he told it better.

It’s not a particularly great joke. New York Post gossip colonist Cindy Adams, who has to be one hundred and thirty four years old at this point. I mean, she’s been around forever and was old when I was a kid. How old is Cindy Adams ninety four? According to Cindy Adams, the quote here is he saw something the audience did not before abruptly ending his quote very short set.

Whatever he saw or thought he saw upset him. Like he went momentarily ape and shouted something, does the ninety four year old woman use ape? Where is somebody ghostwriting this? Like he went momentarily ape and shouted something like he wasn’t supposed to be videotaped, reported or whatever else wasn’t supposed to happen. Rock didn’t complain, didn’t explain, didn’t do one more minute, and is said to have barreled quickly, forcefully through people to the exit doors.

He kept complaining loudly, and without a second’s hesitation, stormed out, never to return. Bill Burr on his podcast talked about the murder of the head of United Healthcare. I want to pull the audio here, but Burr drops a lot of F bombs, so let me read you what he said. I was sitting there reading an article. A guy was like, Oh my god, he’s such a great guy.

He had a wife and kids. He’s such a and then you find out any other guys he’s working for getting sued for a one hundred and twenty one million dollars you’re not a stock and not letting the other people know. It’s like dash emotive, the gangsters, dude effing gangsters and then when one of them gets whacked or something like, oh my god, he’s such a good guy. It’s a dirty game, healthcare dirty game. Why is there this lever off coverage?

Somebody gets gunned down in New York every f and day, and now all of a sudden these experts have to weigh in. That’s because of the status. You can’t have white guys and suits getting whacked.

Speaking of Bill Burr smashing, Pumpkins front man Billy corgan is claiming t…

Billy was on Howie Mandel’s podcast and told the story. Saw about ten years ago, one of my brothers was having a birthday party and my stepmother was there, and my stepmother said to me, do you know who Bill Burr is? Now? At that point, I had never heard of Bill Burr. I didn’t know who he was.

I didn’t know he was comedian or anything. He could have been the guy down the street. Stepmom shows Corgan a picture of Bill Burr, says, I kind of know sh right away. Gee, looks like my father. Bill Burr looks more like my father than Bill Burr looks like me, or I look like Bill Burr.

Stepmom says, I think he might be one of your father’s illegitimate children. Bill Burr might be one of the children that your father sired in his days of being a traveling musician. It’s a true story. I’m not making this up, and there’s no joke in that. This is a true story.

I’ve never told this anywhere, honestly. And again, I didn’t know Bill was a famous comedian. He could have been a guy that’s working down the street at the whack factory in Chicago. I had no idea who he was. None.

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And then the stepmom goes, I think there’s twelve total.

Well, he was a traveling musician. Corgan ads, it’s my belief at this point, because I’ve sat on the story for ten years that I don’t think Bill Burr and I were related. Just one of those things there were people in the world that look alike. Now, I was really upset here. I was googling Bill Burr parents and I scrolled down and I see on Google.

Burr’s father died when he was only one year old, and his mother died the following year. Burr became an orphan at the age of two years old. I had no idea about Bill Burr. Oh no, no, no, no, that’s Aaron Burr, the guy from Hamilton. Bill’s father, Robert Burr, was a prominent dentist who immigrated from Ireland.

Whatever, I’m moving on. The Golden Globes nominations are out. This year’s host, Nikki Glaser. I’ve got some categories here for Best Performance by an Actor or actress in Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, but they’re not really what we talk about here, so I’ll skip those. Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy.

Abbot The Bear, The Gentleman Hacks. Nobody wants this, only murders again. If you think The Bear is actually a comedy, you should have your head examined. Best stand Up Comedian on Television. Interesting category.

Jamie Fox for What had Happened Was, which is out today. Nicki Glazers Someday You’ll Die, Seth Myers for Dead Man Walking, Adam Sandler Love You, Ali Wong for Single Lady and Rami yousef more feelings. Now, I haven’t seen Fox yet, so putting that aside, if I had to pick from the other five, I’m going to pick No, buckle up, You’re gonna be stunned by this. I would pick ata those five Adam Sandler, and I’ve been known not to be a fan of Adam Sandler’s comedy. But out of those five Adam Sandler, Jamie Fox is out on Netflix today.

It is his special What had happened was I’m sure we’ll be recapping that a lot in the next few days. I don’t know if I’ll get to it tonight. The Indiana Jones video game came out, and I thought I was going to play at Sunday morning, and I thought I had preloaded the game, and then Xbox was like, yeah, this is going to take five hours to download. And I haven’t gotten to play yet, So that might be my Tuesday night. Maybe I’ll wait for Jamie and Fortune and watch them back to back on the weekend.

Back to Gossip Corner, page six reports that Jamie Party passed four am in Miami, seen at Megaclub E eleven on Sunday. Jamie was spotted dancing at his ultra vip table in the club’s party pit, surrounded by a listers. No word on who those eight listers are. One witness said Jamie was just vibing with the music and seemed to be having the best time. He was standing on the banquette of his table and definitely didn’t mind being seen.

The crowd went wild when gold Digger came on, and Jamie was nodding along with the music and interacting with fans. Says another source, his energy was unreal. Page six is told Jamie arrived at three am and stayed until dawn had take in Lil Wayne’s headlining performance. Wayne didn’t go on till four point thirty. Usually enough and not lying to you.

I’ve been at a Jamie Fox Barty or two and all that sounds right on. He tends to have his little area, tends to interact with fans, tends to be very pleasant as a beverage too, dances because he’s there. They always play gold Digger, that was his hit song, and you know, cool guy in all senses of the word. KABC reports Jamie visited Capitol Hill last Wednesday, lobbying for a bill that would increase funding for Down syndrome research in honor of his late sister. DeAndre Dixon had Down syndrome.

She passed away at the age of thirty six in October of twenty twenty. Fox told reporters, and my sister was a big part of my life. She lived an incredible life. People like DeAndre need help. Feels really good to talk about a bill that would be in my sister’s name to continue her legacy.

And I know she’s looking down, like, yeah, man, that’s what it’s all about. Having been around that camp. That is not hogwash. That is not something you just say to the papers. He clearly did care about his sister.

His sister clearly was a big part of his life. He would have his sister around. None of that is fake, phony, Hollywood stuff. I applaud you, Jamie Fox. The legislation past the House in September, and it still needs Senate approval and the President’s signature.

You can tell I only have good things to say about Jamie Fox. Right, yep, yep. Looking forward to watching the special. Maybe that’s a night because of Indiana Jones Saturday Night Live. Paul Meskol was a good host.

I really liked The Gladiator too as a musical sketch. There’s a three and a half minute cut of that floating around the internet if you haven’t seen it yet. I still don’t understand again, Laurene Michael’s Hall of Famer Me dope in the basement. I don’t understand what we’re doing with Dana Carvey. Why are we opening SNL in twenty twenty four with Dana Carvey doing the Church Lady and having David Spade on like it?

Just you have a cast, use them. You can kind of hear my voice isn’t all the way back yet? Right? Yeah, this thing is lingering, man. Variety held a thing called a Night in the Writer’s Room.

One of the writers that was there was Bill Lawrence. Laurence said, there’s absolutely a line between comedy and drama, and drama should not end into comedy, and it has. There’s a lot of shows that are not particularly funny, and then he drifted off and didn’t name names, but I will the bear. Laurence said, Look, there’s some dramas that are funny. Man.

I wouldn’t blink twice if Succession won the Emmy for Best Comedy. That show was effing funny. It was so darkly funny. I thought it was hysterical. But I thought it was hysterical because I’d had jokes.

And I think you can do any type of show that has pathos and drama in emotion and call it a drama if you want, But I think to call it a comedy, you’d better be joke forward and arguably have some big serious laughs, or at least be attempting in every shot the bear, Laurence said when he was first pitching Scrubs, which if you missed over the weekend, he’s working on a reboot of it. The president of one of the major networks said, I don’t think you could do broad silly comedy and then switch gears and if people give a crap about whether or not a patient is living or dying. Laurence said, He fired back, I think you can if you turn the lights down and play an indie song. The executive didn’t find that funny at all. Scrubs I think is proof that you can.

Also there was the show Mash. I don’t know if anybody’s ever heard of that one. Apparently Ellen is having a hard time a joke in the UK. You see Ellen’s got a land Rover Defender, but it’s so wide they can’t drive it in their new village, according to the Daily Mail. The newspaper said it’s crying shame as their local pub is just four hundred meters away, you know, because Ellen was gonna hang out with the pub.

Sure on the other side of A with restrictor and a with restricted bridge both said it’s six feet six inches. Ellen’s car is five to ten, which would mean squeaking through with a mere four inchest to spare on each side. Charlemage the God has stuck up for Andrew Schultz. The Internet continues to criticize Andrew over his alleged anti black jokes. Charlemagne said, I agree.

If you’re a comedian, you have the license to make jokes about any and everybody. Since when do we police comedians? And by the way, if you don’t like the jokes, you have every right to say it. You can rap about it, you can protest about it, you can be offended, you can tweet about it, you can do all that stuff. New York comedian Derk Gaines tapes his Neck special two shows at the Stand tonight in New York City.

Melissa via signor threaded. My special Whelp What Now will be out on New Year’s Day on YouTube. Hope you enjoy. And that is your comedy news for today. If you like the program, tell a friend about it.

They might enjoy too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes that’ll tell you how that all works. Short version five bucks a month, commercials go away. Do it? See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliff, Jim Gaffigan, Nate Bargatze, Jamie Foxx, Ronny Chieng, Michelle Buteau, Conan O’Brien, Robin Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Consequence of Sound names Nikki Glaser Comedian of the Year
• Johnny Mac’s Comedian of the Year pick: Nate Bargatze
• Nikki Glaser to host 82nd Golden Globe Awards in 2025
• Critics’ Choice Awards comedy nominees announced
• Netflix comedy specials releasing in December 2024
• Tom Brady Roast performances and impact on comedian rankings

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna go slow here because I don’t want to be accused of something that’s not true. So let me ask you a question before I get to story number one. Who do you think the Comedian of the Year is?

Right? Who do you think the Comedian of the Year is? Think about that. I want to tell you something else and then we’ll do the story. I got to figure out when I’m taping my Best Specials of the Year list, I definitely want to wait to the other side of Jamie Fox.

Then next Tuesday, Ronny Chieng has the Netflix special and I really liked Ronnie’s previous work. But on the other hand, candidly, Johnny Max look at it, pre tape a couple things for Christmas week, you know what I’m saying. So I don’t want to wait too long. You know, I can’t record it on December thirty first at eleven pm, so I’m definitely not going to include Michelle Buttoe’s Near’s Eve show and I probably will record this before Nateperghatzy comes out on the twenty fourth, and before the Jeff Ross end of the Year roast thing on the twenty seventh, so you know at some point I’m cutting it off early. Anyway, maybe I’ll get on the other side of Fox and recorded.

Okay, I’ve babbled enough, So did you think about it? Who do you think the Comedian of the Year is? Consequence of Sound picked Nikki Glaser. Not an absurd pick, but I don’t think it’s the right pick. Consequence says this year alone, the All Star Comedian dropped the gutbusting and wonderfully Morbid and Grammy and Emmy nominated stand up special Someday You’ll Die.

Did anybody care about that one? I haven’t met anyone who’s cared about that one. I’m not saying she’s bad because she crushed at the Roast of tom Brady. She won the night at the Roast of tom Brady, which is why she had a great year. But that same week, like three four days later, maybe a week later, Someday You’ll Die came out on Max and came and went.

I don’t think anyone cared. Nikki also hosted the reality series Lovers and Liars. She’s been on Thursday Night Football with late Hits, which is either invisible or terrible. Most people haven’t encountered it. I watch Thursday Night Football.

I’ve yet to actually see her do it, but I’ve seen the clips, and the clips were terrible. We got to make this quick so we can get back to what the fans are really here for, more wicked commercials. It is great to be. Here in Philadelphia, a city that feels the way batteries taste. It’s the city where Rocky ran up the most famous steps of the Museum of Art but never went inside to learn anything.

Tonight we had a face off between Taylor Swift’s boyfriend’s older brothers old team and the Commanders. The Commanders a name everyone loves and a logo that offends no one except, of course, graphic designers. In a few weeks she will host the Golden Globe Awards, which are in twenty twenty five. So that doesn’t really help you be Comedian of the Year. And of course she talked a lot about Taylor Swift.

She told Consequence of Sound, I was just having a conversation with somebody about being successful, and like, how did you get to this place? And I’m like, I just agree to things I didn’t think I could do and then I couldn’t back out of them. That’s funny. I attributed to having this burst of confidence for yourself months so you go, oh yeah, I can do that, and then you deeply regret it the entire time until you do. It happens almost every time where I have this massive panic that I’m going to be the worst ever and I’m certain of it.

There’s no telling me, Nikki. This happens every time. No, this time is different. This is really bad. Wait, I just put something together.

She’s a big Taylor Swift fan. Will she make a joke about Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes Because you remember one time Joe Coy made a joke about Taylor Swift. Do I need to play it for you? No, you probably remember it. Will she joke about Taylor Swift?

Will Taylor Swift give her the ice look of death and ruin her career? That would be terrible. Maybe Nikki Glaser shouldn’t host the Golden Globes. Don’t make a joke about Taylor Swift. Taylor doesn’t like those jokes.

Nikki Glaser tells Consequences of sound the way to be the best comedian that I want to be is to be the most authentic and the most unfiltered. I’d say that I’m even more true to myself and the things I think got stage because no one’s there to tell me Nikki stop. So okay, go ahead send your notes in Johnny Mac Hate’s women Comedian’s been there, done that, heard it. When I ask you who the comedian of the year is, who do you think of? Did you think of?

Nikki Glaser? Okay, it’s not an absurd choice, not at all. It is not an absurd choice. I don’t think it’s the right choice. Here are some people I wrote down and I didn’t really think about this long.

This is like who popped in a mind? Because the comedian year should be somebody that pops in the mine, right. I could make a case for Joe Rogan. There’s an entire political party saying Joe Rogan won the election for the guy that won, so that alone, Joe Rogan top Podcast, Joe Rogan had a good year, Joe Rogan had a special Joe Rogan had a good year. I’m not picking Joe Rogan.

I could make a case for Tony Hinchcliff. Some people thought Tony Hinchcliff had cost Trump the entire election. Didn’t turn out to be true. Kill. Tony is a force in comedy.

I know a lot of people are hating on it lately. I like the show. Tony Hinchcliff also crushed at the Tom Brady Roast and apparently Tony Hinchcliff wrote a lot of the jokes for some other people that were on that roast. I could make a case Tony Hinchcliff is the comedian of the Year. Not picking him John m’laney in the mix, not picking him.

Jim Gaffigan and had a pretty good year. I didn’t like a special. He had his whiskey. He was on Saturday Night Live. Everybody talked about Jim took a step up in and I don’t know class isn’t right because he’s been at the top of the comedy game.

But more people than ever know who Jim Gaffigan is. Jim had a great year. You can make a case for Jim gaffigin Comedian of the Year My pick. Nate Bergatzy hosted Saturday Night Live for a second time, has a special coming out on the twenty fourth as a TV special with Lorne Michaels. He announced a book that’s twenty twenty five.

He announced a movie that’s twenty twenty five. To word, everybody likes him. Podcaster ny Bergazzy w’d be my pick. Today, Minnie Kayling and Marsh Chestnut will present the nominees for the eighty second Annual Golden Globes, which will be hosted by Nikki Glaser, who may or may not tell a joke about Taylor Swift. That’s really interesting.

Meanwhile, the Critics’ Choice Awards will air on e Sunday, January twelfth, with host Chelsea Handler. That’s a good choice for a host. The comedy nominees are Best Comedy Series Abbott, Elementary English Teacher Hacks. Nobody wants this, only murders in the building. Is somebody somewhere?

Saint Dennis, Medical, what we do in the shadows? I don’t feel like reading. The Best Actor in Best Aschrist Today, Outstanding Talk Series, Hot Ones, Daily Show, Graham Norton, Mulaney, Kelly Clarkson, Colbert, Best Comedy Special Okay, I’ll play along. Nominees are Ali Wong, Single Lady, Nope, Jim Gaffigan, The Skinny Definitely Nope. Kevin James, irregardless, definitely Nope.

Nikki Glaser Someday You’ll die. Best of the four? Okay, you’re paying attention, Johnny macfeel’s fair. That’s the best of the four. I’ve mentioned Rachel Bloom’s death.

Let me do my special on Netflix. Didn’t see it? Romy yousef more feelings. I think I disliked the direction on that. Can I tell you those are terrible nominees.

None of those six are on my end of the year list. You want me to pick from those six? Nikki Glaser, Someday You’ll die. Delete that email you sent me two minutes ago. Huh hah, huh, John You’re so sensitive.

I know I get mad when people accuse me of that. I have two daughters, guys. Conan O’Brien looked back on his interaction with Robin Williams. Conan told Eric Einol, I was lucky enough to have some great interactions with Robin Williams before he passed away. One of the most memorable examples to me is when I went through my whole time and I showed a buckle.

Finally the show’s done. I don’t fall have a career anymore. What am I gonna do next. I’m lying on the floor in the living room in my house. My phone rings.

Pick it up. It’s Robin Williams. I don’t even know how I got my phone number. Williams asked, how you holding up, Chief, and he said, you’re gonna be fine. You’re gonna be great.

Then Williams, who’s in a bicycling and you Conan liked to bike, sold him to go down to a bike shop in Santa Monica where Robin had a cruiser setup for him. Robin said, just sat on down there right around you’ll feel better. And I went down. It was a Colnago, which is a very nice bike, and he said, I told him to paint in these crazy Irish colors they get down there, and I mean it’s the ugliest. It was just greens and shamrocks and everything.

And he was like, you’re gonna like that bike, Chief, don’t worry about it. I think them many times. I just couldn’t believe he was thinking about me.

Meanwhile, on Conan’s podcast back in September, he welcomed Catherina, who’s…

During that conversation, Conan asked if he could be a guest vocalist in her metal band Cringe Blizzard. Conan has shared on social media that he did indeed go to Austria and sing with Cringe Blizzard. People speculate he was in Austria to film more episodes of Conan O’Brien must go. If you’re looking at your calendar for twenty twenty five and be like, I have absolutely nothing to do. I have no idea how I would possibly pass the time, Like, I just have absolutely no friends, nothing to watch on TV, no video games, no movies.

I want to see what am I gonna do? Well? Good news, Greg Guttfeld is touring his tour starts. Boy, that was a shot. Gutfeld’s tour starts March fifteenth.

Looks like he’s doing two shows a month on one weekend. I would look at it. So it’s like April twenty six, twenty seven, May seventeen, so in eighteenth they’ll wrap up. October fifth and Sugarland, Texas. Kevin Hart, he’s never afraid to work.

He’s got yet another gig. Are you flying Cutter Airways? Cutter Qatar? Some of you pronounced quitar. Those guys they’ve got an airline and the in flight video is going to be Kevin Hart.

How annoying is that going to be? Those videos are annoying enough. Imagine Kevin Hart doing Kevin Hart things. Kevin Hart said, buckle up. This safety video is onlike anything you’ve seen on board a luxury airliner before.

I’ve loved partnering with Qatar Airways to produce a video that passengers will not only pay attention to, but remember for a long time coming, or at least until their next flight. Good news. The film will be available in January, and I believe only January. Jenny Mack, you’ve been sassy since you got your voice back. I know I’m a little I’m a little sassy lately.

Yes, I admitted. Eli Times caught up with Bella Bajaria. Bella is the chief content. Bella is the chief Did you hear my voice crack? There?

I was gonna make an edit because you heard me do the pickup. I’m leaving it. I was like Peter Breedy there for a second. Chief content officer for Netflix, Bella said, audiences can feel and are pretty tuned when something does feel like it’s authentic. Our strategy has always been about we love comedy.

Our members love comedy, and we also know that they have lots of different tastes. It’s also to make sure that we have comedy in lots of different formats. We’re not just narrow like those hilarious guys. And so that’s why it ranges from series to film, the live to stand up all over the world. Jason kels he’s getting ready for his big, exciting January late night show on ESPN at one in the morning.

Keith Cossro is the vice president and head of Content in NFL Films, and Keith spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about Kelsey’s show. According to Kossro, Kelsey said, I want to have a live band with horns. It’s got to have a horn section. Kelsey was recently on Kimmel and said, I love late night shows. I’ve always loved them.

I remember it sleepovers watching Conan O’Brien with my friends. They call it Late Night with Jason Kelsey will originate from Philadelphia at Kelsey’s request. Ross Katsover is another senior executive NFL Films. It says, comedy is hard sports and comedy is hard. Us doing essentially a live studio show is something very new and exciting.

But Jason is just a force of nature, and we’re so excited to be in business with him. They call it Late Night with Jason Kelcey Friday, January third on ESPN, and I think, understanding how clocks work, I think by Friday, January third, they actually mean one am Saturday, January fourth. But I’ll fact check that and get back to you. I was making a fact checking a friend of the show, Jason Zinniman from The New York Times. He hit me up on threads responding to one of my comments, he said, let me find it.

I had threaded. We don’t have a date for Burr, Zinnman wrote me back March twenty twenty five. I don’t know why I thought Burr was the December one. What is the December one, Johnny Mac, I don’t know. The Hulu publicists don’t want you to know either.

That’s how you wind up on the pirate ship with Captain Hook watching it over at his place. You know. I don’t know why I’m puccy. I guess I’m feel better all right. See tomorrow

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Mark Normand, Miss Pat, Sammorril, Tim Dillon, Jeff Ross, Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, Zach Braff, Donald Faison, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Pete Davidson, Bill Murray, Andrew Schultz, Kendrick Lamar, Jamineka Saunders, Jonathan Van Ness

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix announces Torching 2024, a roast of the year premiering December 27
• Spotify reveals top comedy podcasts of 2024, Joe Rogan at number one
• Scrubs reboot announced by creator Bill Lawrence
• John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight withdraws from Critics’ Choice Awards over category dispute
• Pete Davidson reveals SNL cast members earn $3,000 per episode
• Bill Murray expresses interest in hosting SNL this season
• Andrew Schultz responds to Kendrick Lamar’s subliminal shot about disrespecting Black women
• Jonathan Van Ness special ‘Fun and Slutty’ coming to Veeps January 23

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m shining Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big announcement from Netflix I’ll tell you about in a second, but top of mine, I want to share a story with you about Hilarious. So remember Hilarius, the big comedy platform thing. I’ve been telling you about it for a couple months, and Jim Gaffigan and had a special on it.

So I’ve mentioned to you that I don’t have Hulu. So when Jim Gaffigan special came out, I called up my friend, Captain Hook. The captain lives on a pirate ship. He’s a very eccentric character, but he gets all the comedy specials. So I went over to the Captain’s place on the pirate ship.

There and I watched Jim Gaffigan’s special on the pirate ship. Okay, every time I told you about Hilarious, I was thinking to myself Peacock. I was visually picturing myself in the comfy chair downstairs where I fall asleep with my Roku app, And every time I said the word hilarious, I thought of Peacock. Last night, I was watching some TV and I went over to Hulu to watch The Shield where I regularly watched The Shield, and there was Jim Gaffigan and I was like, Oh, hilarious is on Hulu and I have the service. I didn’t need to go over to Captain Hooks to watch it on the Pirate Ship.

I could have just watched it. Guys, the marketing didn’t work. Aside from I suck and I’m stupid, I host a comedy podcast seven days a week for five years now, Like something broke. Something in the marketing didn’t work. Maybe everybody else was like, oh, yeah, Hulu, we have Hulu.

I talked about this thing every day and never even realized I had the service, So I’m not sure it’s scored. And I went all the way over to Captain Hooks to watch seven minutes of comedy from somebody who has nothing new to say.

Moving on, Netflix announced Torching twenty twenty four, a roast of the year…

Build as a night of savage laughs and surprises looking back on the last twelve months. The roast will tape on December seventeenth. It will feature Mark Norman, Miss Pat Sammurrial, Tim Dillon, Jeff Ross. I just have this suspicion that it’s not gonna be good. Didn’t Netflix do some sort of like year recap shows a year ago or two years ago that was like unwatchable.

I think this is a mistake. Here’s why the Roast of Tom Brady was so good, such a high bar, and they announced this thing on December sixth. I’m gonna tape it eleven days later. And while the lineup is nice, it’s not at the level of the Tom Brady Roast, which had say Tom Brady or Kevin Hard or folks like that. So I think Netflix is making a mistake here and goofing up their brand new roast brand.

I like everyone who’s performing. I just don’t think it’s big enough. I think this is a mistake. A Roast of the Year Netflix, December twenty seventh. I don’t know man.

Spotify announced the top podcast of the year. I’ll focus on the comedy ones. You can probably guess number one. That’s right, The most powerful man in the world, the Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan is the man.

He’s number one. Theo Vaughn a number three. This is on Spotify, so if you look at the Apple charts, she’ll get a different result, although you’ll still get Rogan number one. THEO at three. Other comedians.

Let’s see Dak Sheppard. Is he comedic anyway? He’s at eight? The SmartLess Guys Are they comedians? They’re at fourteen.

The Kelsey Brothers at nineteen. Hey, one of them host a late night show. Now we got to put them in the bag. Trevor Noah at twenty Bad Friends and Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee sitting at twenty one, Matt and Chain’s Secret Podcast at twenty six, kill Tony at twenty eight. Twenty nine is two Bears, One Cave with Tom Si Gorenberg, Krascher Conan at forty seven, Andrew Schultz at forty nine.

And I guess this show is number fifty one. I’m not in the top fifty, but probably fifty one would be my assumption there. Scrubs is coming back, Baby, Well, all we know so far is Bill Lawrence, who came up with the original. He’s rebooting Scrubs. That’s all they’ve announced.

We have no idea who’s on it or not. If they bring this back without j D and Turk, everyone’s insane and Zach Braff and Donald Faison would be insane not to take the money right. Getting anyone else back from the cast would be nice, But I think it’s Zach and Donald and whoever else is bored. You can be part of it or not. My wife and I discussed this already, like, well, what happens if Carla doesn’t come back?

Very simple? Right? So Jad’s at the supermarket, he runs into turk. Hey, dude, how you been? Oh?

I’m great and great. You know, how’s it working at Saint whatever hospital? You know, I’m thinking to start my own practice. Me too. We should go into practice together.

And then they opened a practice together, and then whoever’s on the show’s on the show, and that’ll be fine. John Oliver’s show has withdrawn from the Critics’ Choice Awards as a result of a category change. Oh no, a controversy. The organization changed the rules stating that only shows that involved conversation should be nominated for Best Talk Show, and Oliver rarely talks to anybody else on his show, unlike his late night beers. The nominees are hot Ones, The Daily Show, Graham, Norton, Mulaney, Kelly Clarkson, and Colbert.

Organizers wanted Oliver to go into Best Comedy Series, where it would have competed against Avid Elementary English teacher Hacks. Nobody wants this, only murders somebody somewhere, Saint Dennis Medical and what we do in the shadows. I guess the Olivery people were like NAH Critics’ Choice Awards Sunday, January twelfth, talking a little bit about that. Tomorrow, Pete Davidson has divulged. How much you make if you’re in the cast of Saturday Night Live.

New York Magazine asked Pete what was your biggest splurge after your first SNL paycheck? Pete said, do you guys know what they pay us? It’s like three grand an episode. I think I got dinner. Somebody did some math.

That means if you appear in every episode, you earn somewhere between fifty four and sixty six grand. That said, it’s probably good for your career long term. I forgot to put in my notes somewhere. I saw Bill Murray was on somebody’s podcast and says he wants to host SNL this season. I can’t imagine Lauren seeing that Bill wants to do it, and Lauren saying no to Bill, because Bill’s a bit of a recluse, right, So I bet that winds up happening.

Andrew Schultz says officially responded to Kendrick Lamour’s subliminal shot at him. You may remember that Lamar’s recent musical release discussed white comics who disrespect black women. Many people on the interwebs think he meant Andrew Schultz. Schultz, in a facetious way, said nobody’s respected women more through art than rappers. Jaminika Saunders tapes her next special today at three pm and five pm at the comedy sellers Fat Black pussy Cat in New York City.

Jonathan van Ness will get a special on Veeps. Fun and Slutty will be on Veeps January twenty third, that service I definitely don’t have. In Fun and Slutty, Jonathan takes on the persona of Professor Jonathan van Nasty as they set out to educate an unsuspecting audience on the definitions shenanigans and stigmas of slutty behavior. Staped earlier this year in Austin, Texas, there is a trailer. I pulled the audio there was too much cursing for me to air it and I didn’t find it all that funny, so we move on.

Sketch Fest. You know, you gotta love the sketch Fest publicist. Sketch Fest publicist SANSI items and then I talk about them, so it’s good for me and it’s good for sketch Fest. Wish all publicists would be this good. I know, I said it, stop, all right, what did Scotch Test announce?

Now? Napoleon Dynamite celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a live read featuring the film stars. That’s pretty cool. That’s on January nineteenth. The Dear Boys podcast will be there on the twenty fifth.

Do you Like Baseball? John Cruck and Dwayne Kiper will be in conversation that’s on May fifteenth. I’m gonna have to hit the publicist back and be like, wait, sketch Chess is in January and that’s not comedy. Why is that in this? Chris Fleming, Who’s Fantastic, has added a third show by popular demand at the Great American Music Hall on January nineteenth.

Ucb’s ASCAT added a second show that’s on the twenty fifth, and Rhys Darby’s second show on January eighteenth. I’m not sure how the baseball guys feature in this. If it was in January, I’d be like, okay, whatever, But I don’t know. I don’t get it. Sketch Fest is fantastic.

I have to find some reason to get out to San Francisco and let me tell you about the Gallagher documentary. I have a screen of it. I’ve been so backed up since Thanksgiving. I need to watch this thing because I like Gallagher a lot. Got to do a broadcast with him one time, and he was pretty cool.

Indywire caught up with filmmaker Josh Forbes. Gallagher was shot over the course of seven years. Gallagher is a portrait of a prop comedian in the winter of his life. Forbes told any Wire, it’s kind of hacked. Just say, oh, this guy smashes things on an idiot.

If you look at the history of comedyer clowns, making a messes funny, by fights are funny. Slipping on a banana peel is funny. And I think it cause it’s so overly silly. It’s an easy target. And I always like the underdog.

I always like the outsider. I always liked the guy who’s misunderstood. Forbes initially pitched an idea about Gallagher reuniting with his brother. You know, there was that whole Gallagher two Gallagher too thing for a while. I still don’t understand what was going on there.

Main Gallagher was like, now the project evolved into a portrait of a comedian on the road. Forbes said, I had me and my sound guy and my camera guy in one room and we’re staying in the same hotel, and he’s like, well, it’s my room. It’s just one guy. You guys have three guys. One of you guys stay with me.

So I ended up sharing a bedroom with Gallagher, which was crazy because he never wore a shirt. Having met Gallagher, you know, probably not the same as hearing a room with I don’t know. David Beckham just saying at one point I was in the hotel room with him and I was checking my phone and I smelled something. I looked over and he had his wet underwear on a lamp just in our room. He was a total wild man.

Forbes said, anything that closely resembled the truth or his past, especially, he didn’t want to talk about it, and he didn’t see how it was funny. He only wanted to do things that were funny. No matter how hard he tried to be seen as something other than watermelon smashing guy. People were like, you’re the watermelon smashing guy. I’m just as guilty.

When we had him up, we had him smash Jackie the joke man. Jokemaster Junior’s long story Forbes said Gallagher completely resented it. No, not me, the watermelon folks. It’s like having a band having a big radio hit and then kind of hating the audience. But I think he also enjoyed it.

He enjoyed the thrill of making the audience cringe and go wild and get messy and all that, and he loved the aspect of that. But I think the most difficult thing for him was just being a brilliant comedian. But people just wanted him to smash things. Final story of the day, comedian Kabir Singh has passed away at thirty nine years old. Sing died on when day TMZ reported that Singh had been dealing with health concerns and authorities suspect he died of natural causes.

Singh’s friend Jeremy Curry posted on Facebook. He shared a picture of the two smiling together and wrote that the late comedian passed away peacefully in his sleep. Kabir Singh was thirty nine. That’s your comedy needs for today.

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Featured: Matthew Broussard

What’s in This Episode

• Matthew Broussard’s new comedy special ‘Hyperbolic’ full-length debut
• Growing up Cajun Jewish in a WASPY Southern prep school
• Millennial masculinity and mental health struggles in comedy
• Working out new material on the road versus in NYC comedy clubs
• Relationship with fiancée and performing together at comedy shows
• Using personal family stories, especially about his mother, for comedy material

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Be there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now. When we last left, I left you on a cliffhanger.

Did Matthew Brossard show up? Of course he showed up. I don’t know. I saw one of the bus. Of course he showed up.

He was fantastic. We did about forty five minutes raw with We had a technical snafpoo in the middle, so I’ll take the break there. What happened was he had his ring light plugged in but not his phone, and his phone ran all the way down to zero. So all of a sudden you’ll hear him drop out mid sentence. I’ll explain that when we get to it.

He’s got a new special. It is called Hyperbolic. It is his full length debut special. In Hyperbolic, Matthew Bisard dives into painfully personal experiences growing up Cajun Jewish and a waspy Southern prep school, the challenges of millennial masculinity, is the bread loser to a former pro athlete, and candid stories about mental health struggles in his family, plus some oddly keen sidebars into grammar, etymology, pharmaceutical origin stories. And statistics.

If you’ve heard me interview comedians in the past, this is a typical ride. We’ll get into the structure of comedy. We’ll talk a little crowd work, feeding the Beast, his favorite comedians, some comedy snobbery on my part. He turned me on to some people that weren’t on my radar, and I really enjoyed. Mattie restart.

Where are you today? I’m in my apartment in Brooklyn and sitting here. My fiance’s out taking her Paris to the museum. So thank you for giving me an excuse to bail on in law entertainment. How’d you wind up in Brooklyn by way.

Of Corpus Christy, Atlanta, Houston, LA?

And then ended up here to.

Work comedy out of New York as post LA. Yes, so I was dating my fiance who lived in Austin. I lived in LA and we wanted a place where we could both kind of do in the best version of the careers we were seeking. So she was a swimmer. You were a swimmer.

Did you guys meet as swimmers or did you meet as commons? No, she was a swimmer. I did not swim on that level. I swam as a recreational swimmer. She was like a professional old dudes.

I read an article yea, yeah, yeah, old dudes like me in the pool and you. Yes, yes, I was a I worked for the swim team in college, so I kind of knew of her through swimming. She knew of me through friends in swimming. In comedy, but yeah, just I was mostly I found her because she was a pro swimmer who I was a fan of and thought was very attractive. So did you get her into comedy or is that just an independent thing?

Independent thing? I would say it’s more she liked me because she was interested in comedy. And was doing improv when we met. Do you do shows together? Yes, so she comes into features from me on the road.

Fantastic, Yeah, and it’s pretty fun. We started doing Q and A at the end of the shows. It’s it’s neat. I have to tweak my set a little bit, because there’s there’s just no world in which there’s no world in which you don’t you don’t know. Even people can be very stupid, people can be very smart.

Most people understand when one comic is here from New York City who’s featuring, Well, they didn’t fly here to do twenty minutes, so clearly they may have come along with the headliner, and that we are the same age and share a lot of the similar demographics, it’s not unreasonable to assume that we are partners. And even beyond that, the biography, the dual biography, you’d have to be pretty dense to not figure out that my professional swimmer fiance turned comedian was not her. Though some crowds have very much surprised me. I’ve had people after the show after I’ve set everything go. So just question.

I noticed as she mentioned a lot of the things you mentioned, was that your fiance like they’re Sherlock Holmes, and do. You guys get along in terms of like if you do fiance jokes. Does she understand the difference between the character the fiance or does that spill over? Yeah, back to Brooklyn, I think we all get it. We have to.

You have to kind of force some details through for the sake of narrative and character, and you might have to embellish details. And I think we both understand that. And there are things that are said about us that are not accurate. But luckily we go up there and get to represent ourselves. So I say better than in most relationships where the other partner has no voice besides mocking impression.

I have been. Really trying in my comedy to be extremely truthful. I do try to keep the stories pretty accurate, so at least on a detail space, especially about my mom. I have a lot of stories about my mom on the special that are. My favorite jokes, and it feels like cheating because I don’t have to make up anything.

The details all happened as I told them, sometimes even a little more ridiculous than the story I told. And my mom doesn’t like certain details. I read a note she wrote on stage. It’s the one pushback I’ve ever gotten from her. Oh what did she say?

She doesn’t like it. She sent this note, and you can if you want to hear the note. I think it’s the I think it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever talked about on stage is this note. It’s the funniest thing I think I’ve accomplished. But the note is from my mom to my fiance for her birthday.

And I told her I’m going to read this and say. She goes, okay, fine, whatever you want to do. I don’t get why it’s funny, and then she came through a show where I read it out loud and she heard everyone laughing, and she still can’t understand why it’s funny. She still can’t understand why people are laughing at this thing. She goes and they’re laughing at me, and I have to explain her, No, they’re more laughing at how earnest you are.

It’s not that anyone thinks. It’s that people feel the things you’re feeling. It’s just so rare and interesting and funny to hear them so baldly expressed. I mean, there’s a lot of stories about my mom that I have, and a lot of stories with my parents they have in my back pocket that I don’t realize are good for comedy until I just tell them to someone and I realize they are not a normal experience. Do you have a home club where you work stuff out?

Home club the celler, But I don’t work out stuff there. Sure, sure, yeah. I work out stuff more on the road, So when I have a full hour, I like to That’s where I tend to stretch out, because if that’s strange fallus. The difference is work it out in the city, take it to the road, absolutely opposite of the road, there’s so much more leeway. They’re already there to see you, whereas the club is just in the city is so competitive.

It’s like, I don’t even know if it’s a great training ground. I think it’s just it’s more of a showcase. It’s where you go to prove yourself every night, not to improve yourself. So how will you work things in? Are you like, say, I don’t know, thirty eight minutes in playing stuff that you know lands and you’re like, all right, feel in the moment here, let me just yeah, try something.

Touch it where you know it’s safe, feel the momentum, and when you have it, be ready for it to all go away very quickly. When you’re a new joke doesn’t work, and learn how to sneak things in where it fits because a lot of time because like the best jokes I had wouldn’t work by themselves. It’s just that they’re propped up by a lot of material around it. So it’s that structuring.

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And then sometimes I’ve started to do a little thing where I just kind of tel…

Work the way I hoped, And you know you usually get a little last. Yeah, because as an audience member, we’re all in it together, especially if you tell us like, hey, you know, I’m trying stuff out here and you make the Bob Hope face of oops, that didn’t like you know, that’s fun to be in the room. Yes, the more successfully are, the more you get away with that. I have bachelor atte parties who never didn’t know who I was when they bought the tickets and probably won’t again after the show, who don’t have the patience for my artistic process. So you talked about dropping something into a successful set.

I’ve really been on my soapbox this year. That tiktokization of comedy now of you know, here’s crowd work or here’s a good slam, and I feel like we’re starting to lose the art of an arc man. Yeah, buddy, I’m already a member. I’ve already a remember this church. You don’t need to preach to me.

I it upsets me. I go back and forth because on one hand, the modular form joke is a strength of mine. I am not a full on jazz on like Mark normand but I do have jokes that I can extract thirty to ninety seconds in length that are a good meal, a full piece of comedy, and that has served me very well on social media. And that I have modular form jokes. I didn’t get into comedy to do that.

I like jokes that pay off just kind of you get a sense of completion, a couple of lasts and a good circularity that a joke requires. But this doing this special was I debated if it was worth doing. I’m still debating if it’s worth doing. I’m going to be able to extract a lot of clips out of with you WAT, And I think there’s going to be structure in ARC. It’s not a full hour structure, but there are three chunks that each kind of have their own theme to it.

And this is not meant to be study. This is not meant to be like some you’ll feel the thing where you want and if you’re even watching passingly, I think there’s a real good density of jokes throughout. So I don’t know, I don’t like that that shortening of attention span. I do think you kind of you know things moving cycles. I think that attention span kind of hit the bottom kind of hit that plank length and now it’s kind of broadening back out.

And I would attribute. Josh Johnson’s success to that as well as his talents. But Josh Johnson is going so far the other way now, and I think there’s an appetite for something that’s more than twelve seconds. Sure, and you know, you know, I get too close to it, as you know somebody who is a fan and studies this. I recently went to see Craig Ferguson and he made a random reference like eight minutes in, and the back of my brain spent the next forty minutes going, he’s going to bring that back, He’s going to bring that.

My wife’s just sitting there as a civilian enjoying a good show, and I’m analyzing the structure in my head, and like sometimes that drives me insane when I do that. Yeah, turn off the left brain. Yeah, the check out. I love that. You could spot the Chekhov’s guns ‘s comedy.

Yeah, that’s exactly what that is. That’s that’s funny. Uh, there’s there’s comics. I mean, I don’t I don’t mind the you know, you can feel your. Left brain working.

It’s like I imagine how like a coach feels watching a game. When you watch out of the comedian who are the comedians? Who were? Your left brain turns off and you start to feel like you’re not a comedian. So, you know the tree that starts with Stephen Wright threw Hebberg into Dimitri and whoever else you want to put on that tree.

You know, that’s sort of just random, like, oh, your brain works different than differently than Melfanakis. And I would say, now, right now, Casey Rocket is probably the greatest successor. Oh, I don’t know Casey. I want to check Casey out immediately. Oh yeah, but.

But yeah, you know, I’ll get too close to it and I’ll you know, i’ll see the okay that happened, that’s exaggerated for effect, that didn’t happen at all. But it’s funny like and you know, I hate that part of it. So I like going for the ride when I get a belly laugh of someone saying something that I didn’t at all see coming I treasure. Yes, that’s that’s a wonderful feeling. I had that with a what’s his name Chad Daniels joke this week, and he’s such a traditional comic and a very good comic, but he had a punchline that it just knocked me on my ass because it was it was couched in such a traditional joke about men and women and parents and and and marriages that when I when I heard the.

Punchline, it just it just got me. Uh. I would like to think it another in terms of it, how does your what what is your brain? Look like? Casey Rocket’s great, but he’s already more successful than me.

So when am I getting out of this? Andrew Cassertano is a name that I hope everyone starts hearing more. It is. It is that true alt weird but still kills in a club. Andrew Cassertano, That’s a that’s a great name that I’d recommend to you.

Sean Patton does that for me. Sean Patten’s the guy where I lose track of what’s the structure, what’s the pattern, and just kind of enjoy myself because he seems to be on a ride every set, especially live. There’s no game plan, there’s no map or not one that I can see, and if there is one, I don’t know how He’s so good. The one I loved this year, My favorite Bit of the Year is Kyle Kanaane’s chunk on Fast and Furious, just because he gets up a full head of steam. Yeah, and it’s just fun.

Yeah. He can have such strong opinions on such minutia, and I mean his Trader Joe’s bit is one of my favorite of all time because it builds off of just a small inspiration. He builds characters and a scene. Do you know that one from I think it was like his first or second album might be from Death of a Party like his first album. Yeah, yeah, you know, as we’re talking about studying it.

I had the pleasure of working with the Carlin estate put together George Carlin Radio for Serious in Another Life and his manager, Jerry Hamsa, sat down and what we tried to do with the station was build the sets the way Jeorge did. Carlin did, and George Hamsa, the manager, explained to me like he couldn’t just come out and do these big arcs. So Carlin would come out and do a bunch of rat a tat tat jokes for a couple of minutes and then do the long arc And it really educated me on changing speeds, changing volume, and taking the audience for that ride, but you can’t just like I love him. But I saw Stephen writ one time, and Stephen Wright for ten minutes, fifteen minutes, Oh my god, I love him for an hour and ten. My brain was mud.

It’s tough, and I’m not here to bash Steven, but it was just like, I can’t anymore. I hear you. Ronny Chieng gave me a good, long lesson about how to build a good hour. It’s twenty minutes of ratatat and it was twenty minutes of kind of a more theme joke, and then a twenty minute story to take it. Home, and each of those ask to circum lay into me.

But it’s you’re right, you have to say not every So when I started comedy, the real. Pie in the sky was late night. That was the thing. We all wanted to do five minutes for Conan or Fallon or Leno and Letterman or whatever. And you thought about doing a perfect five minute set.

And I had the impression that a lot of young camicks have is that an hour, a great hour is twelve late night sets. And that’s just impossible. I don’t know anyone who’s really done that. I don’t know the brain could handle that the consumer can handle. That.

I think a lot to Kumail nan Gianni’s first and only special, Beta Mail, where he does thirty minutes very observational, pretty pretty run on the mill, and then thirty minutes of just one pretty long story. Oh and Jesus, Hannibal Buris, who’s really one of my tough is maybe my favorite app My favorite special all time is Animal Furnace, but he has that Miami Nights, which is hard to find. Now he does ky twenty five minutes up top of his traditional style. It’s great, but you know hannibalim so it doesn’t knock do on your ass the way he used to and you’re like, okay, well that’s okay.

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And then at the minute twenty five he tells a thirty five minute story that i…

It’s just such an incredible special. It doesn’t slow down. You think, how can this story keep producing more plot points and laughs? And it’s cool to see an artist evolved. I remember when jasel Nick the second half of Like What was It?

The Thoughts and Prayers where he turns the story over to the death threats his family and that whole thing. I loved seeing when comics can change years. I love seeing what any artists can move away from a genre they’ve perfected into a scarier new realm and still succeed. I’m always rooting for the artist and whatever new stuff they’re trying. Yeah.

Absolutely, you run the risk of the fans turning on you. Though always, But you got to make what you like or you might as well have a desk job. I’ll tell you I was one of the people, and I was wrong who When the late period Corlin stuff came out, I didn’t like it. I thought it was angry. It just didn’t soundn’t like it either.

Twenty twenty years later, he’s the great profit of the twenty first century. It just you play that stuff and it’s like, oh, did you record this earlier today, even though you’ve been dead for fifteen years, But at the time wasn’t feeling it. Yeah, Hicks as well too, I am in my current Well you know what, they’re both dead. I’m not a huge fan of there prea too late stuff. It doesn’t do as much for me.

I loved it as a kid, but it’s I like a little more light hearted heartedness. Though after Trump lanning, I am not a fan of Trump. I do currently value a little more explicit point of view from people whose politics I agree with. It is. I’ve been listening to people on stage be a little more upfront about their anger and disappointment with things, and it is quite soothing.

When your girl just lost. So for your particular style, you know, I would be surprised if I would see you tonight and you did political material. But are you letting your feelings? Are you telegraphing it to the audience, or it’s just not what you do. I don’t think anyone.

I would be surprised if anyone couldn’t figure out my political leanings after twenty minutes of comedy. But I’m not overt with it. I don’t think it’s the place for it for me. We were all kind of a I have done a lot of political comminat I’ve put out. I’ve put out some I put out a set foth Comedy Central that was pretty overt and it was I’ve not really taken that tone before, and it was well received online.

I haven’t felt the urge to go after it again. I kind of did it more as a therapy and it served me well. This new hour is not very political. Little politics on the stage, but it’s not as fun to address that on It’s like a lot of things, it’s fun if it comes into this frame. Right now, I’m talking more about myself and stories.

And I happened to be at New Faces in twenty fifteen when you went up, Oh Wow, were you were one of them that popped. I put up the list right before I jumped on with you. But I definitely remember you because you know, you did your handsome villain from the movie’s joke, and I always remembered it. Never use the word handsome, by the way, never I once heared that word on stage. A lot of people correct, okay, but a lot of people say that I said that about myself, and I’m like, I can’t use that word.

If I use that word, I would lose the crowd. It’s good you heard that word, because that’s when I’m hoping to imply. But the word handsome has never kind of come out of my mouth self referentially on a stage, at least not in many years. Because the few times it has, it is not served me. Well, you are a handsome Thank you.

I appreciate that, but I appreciate that. I’m glad you think. So how was how was that experience for you? So at that point, if you’re doing New Faces, you’re not signed, right, you’re like pretty new into this. How do you even get new?

I was signed? Okay, So what happened right there? That’s when he got disconnected? So I just you know, sent around for a couple of minutes, and you know, well, let’s pretend that I just talked to myself and told you about his special Hyperbolic, which is on YouTube December tenth, that’s Tuesday. Anyway, it kind of works out because I have to chop up the interview and stick the commercial so where anyway, so I might as well stick it here, be right back, all right?

When I last left you, I had said to you mad hey, you weren’t wrapped at that time, and he was correcting me, and then his phone cut out. So when we’re picking up the conversation, as Johnny, Max stupidly said at New Faces, you weren’t repped, and he was correcting me, saying, no, he did have an agent and hadn’t had one for about five years, if I remembering correctly, And then I said something like, oh yeah, I was confused between New Faces Unrepped. Anyway, let’s jump back into the conversation. The last thing I heard was you had been signed, So you’re reminding me I’m mistaken. Obviously, there’s a different show called Unrepped, right, so new Faces, you’re repped, and then there’s Unwrapped.

But you were new Faces. That’s right. I was New Faces regular. The whole system’s a stam and everyone’s pushed him through their agents, and people who get it aren’t exactly getting a big break. They’ve already made it and they’re just being jfl makes it so someone can take credit for discovering someone who’s already very well on their way.

I will tap dance on that grave until they have power to give me something else. Then they need to play nice again. But they’re back. Oh yeah, cool, cool, good for them. Yeah.

I had auditioned. It was my third time, so I got it pretty quick. I had auditioned in Austin when I was maybe two years into comedy, and then I auditioned again once my first year in LA and didn’t get it, but I felt pretty good. And my third year I auditioned and got it, and I had I’ve been on Comedy Central once and I had some stuff going on with MTV and E mostly MTV, and got it and went there and did it, and it was the next year that things took off for me. More so a year after that, I did Conan and Roast Battle in the same summer, and that was that was a big break for me.

The JFL was a weird time for me because I did the set and I remember the set being fine. I remember not loving now it went, but no, it probably went good enough, but that being one of the last luster parts of the week for me, they signed me up for Roast Battle because there’s every comic who goes there, they’re supposed to give you another set to do while you’re there, and they didn’t have one for me, so they put me in a Roast Battle. I had no real experience with it, and. I was annoyed because like I wanted to do stand up, I didn’t want to do I didn’t want to write jokes about another person. And the first night I went really poorly and I went against Jack Knight and we were both trying to lose, and he won it losing, and that meant I went from the whatever sixteen down to the top eight, so I had to do it again, and I didn’t want to do it, and I was going to skip it, and Jeff Ross was like please, So I wrote four jokes pretty quick.

I went up and did them, and that night went well. I had some momentum and I won that night.

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And then the third night, now I’m down to the top four.

Exponential Decay is pretty strong, and that night was the best night of my life because Roast Battle was at like midnight, so there was no other shows competing with it. At JFL, you have what a couple dozen shows a day for a month, all these showcases and weird hours all day, all long shows, shows, show shows, and at midnight everyone’s done. So all the comics and all the agents and all the industry come to this Roast Battle. There’s a really fun thing to watch if you do comedy or are around comedy or a lot of people love it, just love it. I had agents, My agents couldn’t get in to see it.

By the third night. It was that big of an event, and I had all this pressure on my shoulder. I was staying up till six writing. I was doing everything I could to have joke five jokes ready. I went against kshevver Wilson.

He did really really well. I did love him. I did a little bit better, and I went on to the final round against Jimmy Carr and that was where how’d that go? Yeah? Yeah, exactly.

He’s pretty good at that kind of stuff, mean short jokes. But the third night was the night that my people started to know who I was in the industry, because everyone was watching and everyone was rooting for me because I was the underdog. I was the American who kind of came out of nowhere, who had nothing else to his name. So you always you always kind of root for the little guy in a roast battle, and that was that was a big turn for me. I still don’t really consider myself like a roast or a roast battle comic, but I do like jokes.

I feel like the next Comedy Central. Sorry Netflix, I’m living the past. Netflix roast will will be hard to perform at because the Tom Brady roast did crush. I watched that live and it was very funny. I wrote for some of that.

I wrote for I won’t name who, but you could easily figure it out one of the comedians up there. I just feel like the bar is going to be so high in the expectation is going to be so high that I would be one to sit out other than the paycheck. Yeah, it was really good. It did really well. I did not expect it would be.

They put a lot into making it a very good thing. That mean it was belowated it. They could have used half the number of people up there, So next time they’ll probably have forty different people and it’ll be seven hours long. But yeah, I think the next one’s going to be as long as they invest in good writers and good talent, I think they could. They could bring that back because I think the the celebrity roast and Roast Battle are things that will always have a great audience, and right now there’s no real form for host Battle, and I hope someone brings that back.

You know, I’m not waxing your car here, but that New Faces said it was really good. I’m looking at the list, and there were some people on there. Now I saw all twenty. I don’t remember seeing say Langston Kerman or Alex Edelman, who have had great careers. I remember you.

I remember Vlad Camanio. I thought it would be further along than maybe he is right too, lad crush that night. Yeah, I do remember John Ridnitski. Yeah he got snl off that, but I think Lauren used him in like three sketches. And John Radnitzki, I want to tell that’s a great story because he was no one, and I don’t think a lot of people expected him to get that.

He was on his way as an actor or doing okay as an actor at that point. She came up to me and and we’re doing all of our JFL stuff, which is miserable. You do these early you know, a prelims competition and a regular competition, and the crowds are bad and you get three minute sets or whatever. And John said, I think I’m gonna do something different. And I said, John, you don’t want to.

You don’t want to take a risk with this. Do your best material. That’s it. He goes, now, I got this new thing now where it’s all music. And I don’t say anything, and I go, okay, good luck, John, best of luck to you, you know, your funeral kind of thing.

And he goes up there and he did the flash dance song. That was it. He just danced to the flash dance song. Doesn’t say a fricking word the whole time. And he had the best set of anyone on that show, on the showcases, all of it, and that set, without using one word got am snl, so pretty pretty neat set in the history of JFL.

It was solid, all right. So I was on Threads, just on Threads because I get some comedy news there, and I was laught. Think at the timing, I see you whatever we do on threads, thread, You’re right, I’m having trouble getting booked on comedy podcasts right now because they’re busy influencing geopolitics, and I’m like, this, poor guy just got booked on my dumb shows. So I mean, I don’t care about that, totally get it. Are you having trouble getting booked?

Oh yeah, there’s a lot of rejections I’m getting. Man, Oh boy, oh boy. I feel like a high schooler again. I’m sending you know, messages to very successful Carlis whom I’m in friends with. Some am not getting no’s or getting ignored.

You know, it’s uh, it hurts real bad. I don’t know at what point in your life you have enough success to stop feeling rejection like you’re you know, got turned down to prom or don’t get to sit at the cool kids table. But man, oh man, that that feeling is as raw as it ever was. Yeah, and some of the people I reached out to jd Vance or Trump on their podcast lately, so you can put that together. So Okay, I guess, I guess it makes sense that I’m not the top with their list.

A guy who has following on Instagram and hasn’t been on TV in five years. It’s not exactly you know, prime real estate of the YouTube. They don’t want to pretape for the holidays and take some time off. Yeah, yeah, but it’s it’s it’s just it’s insane to me how outsized the influence of comedy podcasts has become. It’s it’s like, who is really the mainstream media at this point?

Well, yeah, you know, the big media conspiracy. I’ve worked in radio and media Chasened for thirty years now. I’ve never actually run into the conspiracy. It’s it’s dudes like me running things and like we just show up and go, all right, what should we make today? It’s I know, I’m a Jew, I feel the same way.

And that was another thing of people during Roast Battle. It was either, do you think these are just murmurs? Online? People were like, oh was it rigged? Did they rig roast battle?

And I’m like, I would be thrilled if they had enough organization to even consider reggae things. I literally no one checked my jokes. I walked out there. I said them, there was no plan. There’s not enough people making money to read to choose who won it.

Buddy, I’m happy if they pronounced my name correctly. Take one more break. We’ll come back with Matthew in a second’s new special Hyperbolic out of December tenth. So I promise I won’t devolve this into just reading what you posted on social media. But you had one other one that spoke to me, because I think the point is so on.

You wrote, want to know how hard it is to be a woman. People hate Yoko o O more than Mark David Chapman. There was like, wow, he’s. Right, dude, dude, people hate Yoko Ono so much, they hate him so much her. Sorry, Yeah, it’s crazy how which people hate women.

And I always knew it was bad, but in comedy in particular. Just read the comments section on YouTube of any woman doing comedy. My fiance you know, watch her do comedy and just the response sheet just what women have to deal with, especially online, but even in person. I noticed it with myself with I open on the road for bigger comics, and sometimes we end up in more rural places, and a lot of my jokes are built where I make fun of women, and then I will kind of flip it around and make fun of men, just just for the sake of symmetry, just because it’s a great structure to have things kind of collapse back in on themselves. And you know, when I perform in a city, I typically I hear the men laughing at the part making fun of.

Women, and I do the joke about the men. I hear the women kind of get the haha. We win in the end. And when I’m on the road, you see those crowd laugh too hard of the part about the women. And when I make fun of men, no one.

Laughs, not even the women. Women’s seed women. It’s nuts, it’s crazy. It’s how it’s these I think it’s these in cell young in cell men who just have no place in the world, and there’s all this more women are kind of catching up an education and an income, and young men aren’t taking it well, and I have some sympathy for them, But on the other hand, the hatred is just so misplaced. So the new special is called hyperbolic.

I could have looked it up, and I’m like, I don’t think I know what the word means, because I’m stupid. Nah, what does it mean or related to hyperbola or hyperbole? Whatever the plural is, which is the opposite of a circle X squared minus y squared equals one. It’s a great word. It also has another meeting, which people are probably more versed with.

But I like that word a lot, and I also, I mean, I’m not going to say too much about why it’s called that, But one of my goals was for my first two things released to be adjectives. My first album was called Pedantic. This is called hyperbolic, and that is a nod to Raw and Delirious by Bettie Murphy. I love that he went with adjectives, and I wanted to do my own adjectives that represented me, and I find those two be I am neither raw nor delirious, but I can be very pedantic, and I happened to sometimes be hyperbolic. If you’re of a certain age.

Those are two wonderful specials and people my age, I could probably do half that album in the. Memory, and people my age are more influenced by that album, even if they’ve never listened to it, those albums than they could ever know. So the specials out on the tenth of YouTube. Great. The date moved a little bit, but it’s the tenth is on YouTube Tuesday?

Yes? Is that the best way to distribute? Now? The Netflix money is kind of backed off a little bit. Hulu seems to have picked a lane Netflix.

Netflix didn’t offer me anything until I have a big fan base there, and they won’t Hulu. I think we showed it to Hulu a they did to make and I would do Netflix, but I wanted the freedom of YouTube. I wanted to be able to put the clips up and control it and have kind of build my audience off of it. And it truly is an experiments to see if people will like long form. If you have liked anything I’ve done, and if you would like to see something more developed for attention spans longer than ten seconds, please watch it.

I’m I really tried to make sure it was It stayed entertaining all the way through, and I think if you listen to the whole thing through, you’ll get more than just watching. My comedy one Instagram reel at a time. So that’s my mission here is to hopefully make people a little more a little less stupid. I’m looking forward to that one. You’ve been very generous with your time.

Last one. I want to ask you about going down your IMDb as just part of the general prep your role as comic number two at Stage DELI yes, tick me off. No one could be bothered to give this character a name. We can’t just call the comic Matt or something like it, just like, what is that? I mean, Bud, that’s I was.

I have no complaints about that. That was one of the best days of my life. Marvelous, marvelous missus Maisle. Yeah, I auditioned for it. I had taken a class with the casting director, and I learned that that show is work perfect, meaning you do the script exactly as it’s written, which not my new shows are like that, and the dialogue is basically as fast as you can talk.

And that helped me get the part. And woke up at six am, went down to the diner on the Upper West Side, and it’s a real place brought right. Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Bornstein ran their lines, and I sat there and ate pancakes and said, what was it? I know the whole exchange still joke Wire Graton, Boston, Philly, I get to Denver. Nothing.

It’s a regional joke, my sandwich joke. I have a different region in every city, which sandwich is funniest? HOGI HOGI is a funny sandwich. That’s the whole exchange. That was really cool.

That was really is the first show that I’ve been a fan of and then got to be on and it’s a it’s a great show. Is it hard reading or performing exactly someone else’s words? And what? I’m at the podcast company they were doing a doc and they asked me to voice a cop and I couldn’t just I’m just some dude, but like I couldn’t just read the written words. I’m like, I wouldn’t speak this way.

I just tweak this one word, no no, no, no no. I can only imagine on a like a. TV show, right, it was, It’s very exact. I remember Rachel ran her lines before we all went to hair and makeup and wardrobe, and she was already off books. She already had three pages memorized for that scene.

And at one point she said, I just know when I’m up there on the stage, on the stage, or that stage, and they corrected her on that stage versus on the stage. That’s how particular they are. It’s very hard to say it. A lot of a lot of projects, let you kind of word it for yourself, but often there’s some importance to the wording they chose. I mean, I think that’s what makes great actors, though they can deliver lines that wouldn’t naturally come out of their mouths.

I’m in the union of people who interviewed comedians, so by law I have to just throw out some topics of you feel free to pass the culture, cancel culture, trans Joe Rogan, your pick or passing all three? Cancel culture. These blue haired, whiny. Liberals who get offended at everything, I’m still looking for them because I live in Brooklyn, and these things people describe, I don’t see them happening. I don’t see people storming up and getting out and walking out of clubs over things that are only mildly offensive.

This feels like some kind of unicorn that Fox News has created it’s not real. I don’t see it. I’ve seen maybe a couple things in twenty twenty when everyone was very sensitive, But for the most part, I go up in front of crowds of educated liberals here in New York City. And try to push buttons. My comedy is not tame.

I do like to walk the line and sometimes they don’t laugh, but rarely do people shout and who and all clubs and venues I’m booked to try to get me canceled. So it feels like a boogeyman that a lot of people have created to make themselves more important. I do have one more real question. So I’m hearing from audience from comics that audience members are trying are now trying to be helpful, And since you’re going to post crowd work clips, let me be a helpful audience member and hickel you so you can slam me and then you’ll have a clip. Are you running into that?

Well, bad people are just I think people are just worse behaves lately. And we’re in the middle of a comedy bubble, which means a lot of people who don’t necessarily normally consume comedy are now at clubs, and that means they don’t know how to behave and a lot of uncultured people think it’s okay to shout out things during a comedy show. Stand up comedy is a fragile art form that only thrives if the consumers respect it, and I am resentful of these crowd work comedians who have trained ons to be bad audience members and reward people for doing the thing we hate most. I’m running into a little bit of it, but I’d like to think people who watch my clips understand that that’s not exactly the way I would like the show to go, and if they sit patiently, they will be rewarded because I try really hard to write clever and thoughtful things. And for some of those comedians.

I’ve heard stories at some of these comedians who have posted a lot of crowdboard clips and are getting audiences now or having trouble doing material because that’s the only thing people know them for. And I revel in their demise. You made your bed, now sleep in it. You could have taken the hard path and written good jokes, but instead you took you took the easy path.

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Also, I very bad at crowd work, so I’m resentful of people who can do it well.

That’s most That’s mostly what I’m man. I’m terrible at listening. I can’t come up with stuff that quickly. Super You don’t have your bag of tricks, your go to slam. No, I don’t.

I should do you. I appreciate you time today is no. I’m just some jerk with a podcast. I hope you enjoyed him as much as I did. Matthew Brissard Hyperbolic on YouTube, December tenth.

He’s fantastic. And that is your comedy news for today, normal episode tomorrow. If you like the show, tell a friend about it, Hopefully they’ll like it too. If you’re a publicist who works for Hulu, get back to me. See I could do this kind of thing with your specials.

You can get forty five minutes of publicity. Why don’t you get back to me. I’m nice See tomorrow

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