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Featured: Jon Stewart, James Adomian, Andy Kindler, Theo Vaughn, Jordan Klepper, Michael Costa, Ronny Chieng, John Fetterman, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Will Ferrell, Stormy Daniels, John Mulaney, Brooke Shields, Nate Bargatze

What’s in This Episode

• Jon Stewart’s Daily Show election night coverage after Trump’s 2024 victory
• Comedian reactions to Trump’s election win
• Kamala Harris’s decision to skip Joe Rogan’s podcast for SNL appearance
• Joe Rogan and Elon Musk’s late endorsement of Donald Trump
• Will Ferrell’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and voter backlash
• Stormy Daniels launching a stand-up comedy tour
• John Mulaney’s Harvey Epstein SNL parody
• NYC Dog Mayor election chaos involving crypto bros

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Tony Hinchcliff is off the hook. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It is seven thirty six am on Wednesday as I speak to you right now. Things went late into the night.

There aren’t all that many comedian reactions. Yes, especially the West Coasters are probably asleep. Some things I did gather. James Adomian on threads. Don’t worry.

All the Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney voters are going to come in any minute now. Jono Zelai said, what if I told you there was an even bigger pile of garbage. Liam mcinaney offered condolences to Jim Gaffigan on losing the gig. Andy Kindler posted several threads and tweets, one of them congratulations America, you are officially the most wilfully stupidest country on Earth. I’m not counting the people who have given up.

It’s not your fault. Evil is winning. THEO Vaughn wrote, congratulations Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Junior and JD. Vance and your team, and thank you Dana White for helping pot podcast contribute to the political landscape.

Never would have happened without you. We invited all the candidates, but only three showed up. Yeah, I’m wondering if Kamala’s decision to go on SNL where you’re preaching it converted and not go to Rogan. We might go back and look at that and wonder, you know, the Rogan effect may have been there. I think there’s a lot more to it with this election, but not doing Rogan, I’m not sure it was the smartest move.

Somewhere during the eleven PM hour, I remember that the Daily Show was live and I was like, oh, I’ll check that out. And I switched over and they were in commercial, and like, I get it. I get the business. Believe me, I like running commercials. But I was like, oh, you had this opportunity here and you’re in commercial.

And I went back and I didn’t bother checking it out again. The folks over at late night or did? They recapped it and said at first, Stuart only alluded to the crushing results rolling into a studio audience that had been deprived of the emerging truth. Their take is that it looked as though Stuart and the staff had prepared for the predicted uncertain outcome in the eleven pm hour, But yeah, by eleven was kind of obvious what was going to happen. Late Nighter said that they had serviceable bits, one with Jordan Klepper wasting no time escaping Pennsylvania, where he had been a fake located.

Another with Michael Costa imitating John King and Steve Cornecki at their magic walls, except they were reporting on projected efforts by Rudy Giuliani to attempt to steal another election, a bit that was increasingly unnecessary as the show rolled on. Ronny Chieng had an unsuccessful bit, says Late Nighter, because it was about undeclared voters, and yeah, by eleven thirty, we kind of knew what was happening. The weird thing of the night, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was booked on the show. Stuart teased him as a guest and said he’d be up next, and during the commercial break, apparently Fetterman bailed. Stuart had a vamped and Late Nighter said he surely regretted they had expanded the show to an hour.

Stuart wrapped it up by saying, this isn’t the end. I promise you, this is not the end. We have to regroup, and we have to continue the fight and continue to work day in and day out to create a bitter society for our children, for this world, for this country that we know is possible. It’s possible. A couple of quirky stories I saw in the news from the New York Post.

New York City dog mayor election gets chaotic as crypto bros allegedly pay for votes. That’s right. It was the competition for honorary New York City Dog Mayor. Enzo the Shitzu was taken out of the race by owner Olivia, who told The New York Post that the race had become too negative, with crypto fans allegedly looking to buy votes. Apparently, the Crypto bros were supporting bertrand the Pomeranian to market their bert coin.

Olivia said, they’ve taken the fun out of it.

And now about this one from the New York Post.

Kamalaw, an elephant at the National Zoo in DC, was euthanized on Saturday after struggling with osteo arthritis for years. The timing there caught the amusement of some on the internet. One social media user wrote, Trump is real mad at a genie right now. Another pointed out a bad omen but for whom the elephant is named Kamala Shore, But the elephant is the symbol of the Republicans. One person joked even things out, I’ve euthanized a donkey named Donald’s.

Another said, you know Trump’s kicking himself right now because he messed up his last wish on his monkey paw. Others claimed it was justice for peanut of the squirrel. There were some late endorsements. Joe Rogan released an episode with Elon Musk Monday, pretty late in the day. Now, my dog get me up all night, so I actually listened to it on the overnight.

Somehow got three hours of podcasting, and that’s how well I slept. Rogan announced an endorsement for Donald Trump. Rogan explained his endorsement. He said that his guest, Elon Musk, makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way. Trump said at a rally that Rogan’s backing was great and so nice.

Well, Ferreal endorsed Kamala Harris, and some people got annoyed at Will because he said this election is going to be one of the closest in history. Your vote will make the difference. Okay, fine, that’s fair enough. Then he tagged it with that means you, Gary, oh blah blah blah, I’m just one person. Shut the f up, Gary.

Last time, only a few thousand votes kept Trump out of office, and this time we will hold you personally responsible. Gary. One social media user wrote, Democrats have now resorted to physically threatening people to vote for Kamala. Another said Will Ferrell’s making it real tough for me to watch ELF this season. Stormy Daniels is out there on her stand up tour.

Her opener is the hilariously named Greg Studley. Yes I’m seven years old. Greg Studley spoke of Stormy Daniel’s comedy style and said, it’s not traditional stand up, no kidding, It’s like funny storytelling, and she’s got a message with a little dash of politicism. She makes a great connection. She’s got that something.

She’s really smart and you’re going to be pleasantly surprised. The owner said it took maybe a week to get it set up. It was like three or four of the morning. Greg Studley and I were talking and the next day, he’s like, she’s interested. We started working out contract detales and dates.

The reaction of the booking a positive. The owner says, everyone’s surprised. I can’t believe you got Stormy Daniels. Things like this help establish us and we’ll get her name out there. That is true, I’m talking about it.

Dudley said. She knows how to perform and get on stage. There’s a lot of things that go into a live performance, how you look and carry yourself. She knows how to perform.

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Meanwhile, Harvey Epstein, I don’t know how his election went.

That’s the guy John Mulaney parodied on Saturday Night Live. There’s a real guy actually named Harvey Epstein. When Harvey woke up on Sunday, he said he had hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of text messages telling him to watch SNL, he told The New York Times. So I watched it, and I’m like, hey, that’s me. It was like ridiculously funny.

I couldn’t stop laughing. Brooke Shields also waited on Saturday Night Live. In one of the bumpers, John Mulaney recreated Brooke Shield’s iconic Calvin Klin Jean’s ad In case you missed it, John Mulaney wore a red button down shirt, dark denim jeans, and black boots, and he kicked one foot into the air as he rested his palms on the floor behind him. Brooke Shields posted mullany and herself side by side on Instagram and said, I see no difference. Nate Bergatsy is flooring at floor while you’re hot.

Now he’s going to be in a movie. Try Star Pictures has preemptively acquired comedy Pitch the Breadwinner all Right, time out. I don’t even know where I was. I can’t go back and listen. I’m gonna pitch to you guys, a Vince von movie.

Here’s how the movie goes. A guy is trying to record his podcast in his basement. His wife goes out for the day but doesn’t tell him that she scheduled the exterminator. So fine, he deals to the exterminator and goes back to recording his podcast, but she doesn’t tell him that she’s also scheduled the guy that comes with a leaf blower to blow the lint out of the dryer exhaust port, and he’s trying to record his podcast Where were we? What was I even talking about?

Nate Bergatzy. That’s right, all right, Nate Burganzy is going to star in a movie. Try Star Pictures has preemptively acquired comedy pitch The Breadwinner. The Breadwinner is in early development. Nate and a partner will write the script.

Nate will star in the movie. The plot is being kept under wraps. Nate also has that Lorne Michael’s Holiday Special coming out December twenty fourth. He will also have a book next May. I asked the publicist if I could have him on.

The publicist thought I was insane.

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Speaking of movies, Chloe Fyneman, Patton Oswalt, and John McEnroe have joine…

They joined Chris Parnell, Jake Johnson, Mary Steinbergeon Ed, Harris ben Stiller and Tennis Great Andy Roddick. Adam Carolla told the Rap he remembers the exact moment he wanted to give stand up comedy a shot, and he has Jay Leno to thank for it. What’s the story here, John, Well? You see, Adam Carolla was working construction back in the eighties. It was at a house across the street from where Jay Leno lived.

Corolla told The Rap Jay would come out at noon, get the newspaper, walk back in the house dressed like Rodney Dangerfield his famous bathrobe, and I’m across the street sweating my butt off, spreading stucco, and I’m just looking at this guy’s schedule, and I’m going, I’ve been here since seven in the morning, I’m covered with stucco, we haven’t even broke for lunch yet. And he’s just getting his newspaper and goes back in the house. I’m looking at this guy’s schedule and I’m like, that’s a schedule for me. Sam Jay had a hot take for Roy Wood Junior about hollow. The topic was that one third of Americans think blackface is okay if it’s part of a Halloween costume.

Sam Jay told Roywood Junior, you gotta let kids do it. No kid wants to not fully Halloween. You don’t want to be a ninja turtle up to hear and it’s just your head sticking out and you’re like, it’s me Antoine, but I’m really Michaelangelo. Sam said she recently encountered blackface as a costume on Halloween, said, listen, I have my friend this kid. He wanted to be Kevin Garnett for Halloween, right, So he put on the Kevin Garnett jersey.

Then he went to his mother’s makeup and he was going to darken his face and his parents were like, no, you can’t do that. That’s fensive with black people. It was part of me that felt bad for him because now he’s just a white boy and Kevin Garnett and he could have been that on any day of the week from the Daily Mail. Like comedians suing Steve Coogan’s production company has told the High Court obviously Steve copied elements of a sitcom. Joshua Rincoff, also known as Harry Deansway, is claiming that Baby Cow Production copied parts of the sitcom Shambles.

Rnkoff created, wrote and directed two series of Shambles and said producers working on l Live at the Moth Club would have seen some or all of his show and obviously copied both the format and the distinctive elements of the sitcom. Live at the Moth Club is set at a Rundown comedy club. It includes real life comedians performing stand up and sketches. Rinkoff claims that some of the characters in that show are identical to those from his twenty thirteen web series called Shambles, and that even the jokes are similar. A representative of Baby Cow Production said they were unaware of Shambles and argued that LATMC is a mockumentary, not a sitcom, and one of its key features is that it presents substantial passages of actual stand up, which Shambles does not.

And are you in Cleveland, Well, then hit up the Cleveland Comedy Festival. I don’t know why the Cleveland Comedy Festival picked today. I think people might be distracted today. Well, at least you’ll have something to talk about, won’t you. The festival will be centered at Forest City Brewery at twenty one to thirty five Columbus Road in Cleveland.

You know the place. I will not be the Cleveland Comedy Festival because it’s trivia night. I will be at the Bow playing trivia. Had a disaster last week, finished like third last, got a rebound. See you later, Trivia guys, and everybody else.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, John Oliver, Ricky Gervais, John Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Michael Barra

What’s in This Episode

• Jerry Seinfeld criticizes Ethical Culture Fieldston School election day policy
• John Oliver gets emotional about elections and immigration
• Ricky Gervais viral satire on celebrity political endorsements
• The Daily Show live election night special with John Stewart
• Late night hosts prepare coverage for election night and aftermath
• Johnny Carson comparison to modern late night political comedy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. If you have not voted yet, hit pause and go vote. Why are you listening to a dumb comedy podcast. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily company news. Go vote, It’s super important.

Jerry Seinfeld has blasted his children’s former private school, why because they said they would allow emotionally distressed kids to take the day after the election off. According to The Daily Mail, children attending the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, which costs sixty five, five hundred and forty dollars a year in fees, children will be allowed to excuse themselves from classes. Further report, an email titled Election Day Support, the principal said it acknowledges that this may be a high stakes and emotional time for children. The email, seen by The New York Times adds, no matter the election outcome, the school will create space to students with the sport they may need. Jerry spoke to The New York Times and said decisions like that irritated his family and forced them to transfer his son out.

He said, this is why the kids hated it. What kind of lies if these people live that makes them think this is the right way to handle young people? To courage them the buckle. This is the lesson they’re providing front golly sums of money. Absences will be allowed on Wednesday or whenever the full election results are announced.

Kids, you might be out of school for two months. Please vote, Vote for somebody. Please vote. John Oliver got emotional during last week. Tonight, Oliver said elections alone aren’t efficient for large scale change, but they’re absolutely necessary for it to ever happen, because it’s the day you essentially get to choose who you’d prefer to be pushing for the next four years and where you’ll be pushing them from.

Oliver got teary eyed and said, look, I love this country. I’m an immigrant, I chose to be here. In the words of the late great Lee Greenwood, I’m proud to be an American, and I’d argue there’s nothing more American than having a healthy adversarial relationship with those in power, even if you voted for them. A clip of Ricky Gervas went viral. Jervas posted this back when I swapped out Biden for Harris.

Here’s Ricky, Hi, guys, Ricky g here wellness and beauty influencer. As a celebrity, I know all about stuff like science and politics, so trust me when I tell you who you should vote for. If you don’t vote the right way, it’s like a hate crime. And that makes me sad and angry and I’ll leave the country, and you don’t want that. Looking at to tomorrow, I don’t know what time of day the episode’s coming out right now.

I have nothing for tomorrow. I kind of want to react to whatever happens tonight. So if the comedians are out saying stuff, I’ll bang out an episode. You know. If we get late into the evening tonight, I might wait and wake up and record something.

So if you don’t have an episode at three am Eastern, you’ll have one around eight am Eastern would be the backup plan. But I’m not sure what’s going to happen yet. The Daily Show will be live tonight. John Stewart and his team are prepared for a quote no resolution outcome. Ronny Chieng, Jordan Klepper, Michael Costa, and Desi Leidik will join John Stewart providing updates and analysis on the election, as well as tips on surviving the post election breakdown of society.

The special will run for an hour oh I thought you guys are going to go all night, Come on, go all in, Come on, John Stewart, go all in an hour the official title, as Comedy Central continues to have terrible titles. The Daily Show presents a live election night special with John Stewart, Colin in Decision twenty twenty four colon nothing we can do about it Now. The special simulcast on MTV, Paramount Network, TV Land, CMT Pop and Logo. Jimmy Kimmel was on with Joe Scarborough recently and said, I kind of have to think through what I might say the next day, the next bit the next day being tomorrow to you and I because you know you’re gonna have to be up the next morning talking about what happened or what didn’t happen, and what message do you want to send to people watch the show. Most of my shows aren’t important.

That one seems a little bit more important than others because I do have a lot of people kind of asking me what I think and going along with what I think, and it’s a big responsibility. I don’t feel like I’m mentally prepared for the possibility of a loss for Kamala Harris. I’m not ready for it. I have to get there when I’m ready for either scenario or for no scenario, which might be the case for several days. Who knows.

None of my writers can figure out my take on this. I have to tell them what it is. As for the interview he’s most looking forward to, he says, interviewing President Kamala Harris the last laugh. Asked Seth Myers, is a part of you like the idea of Trump as president? Don’t you kind of want him to win because it gives you more material?

Seth said, I can only tell you the tension left my body when Biden officially one was palpable, and that slow creep of the tension back into my bones has not been enjoyable, because again, this one could be worse, and the fact that it’s so close as bad. And by the way I think we should be talking about him, it’s not a crutch for me. It’s the guy who has either had or been runner up to the most powerful position in the world. So I’m never like, what is it about him that I just can’t quit? I know what it is, and yet I can’t really stress enough.

And again I’m assuming he’s a big fan of this podcast. But if he went away, I wouldn’t even reference him. He’d be retired from the show. The day decides to get out of this SETH said, we’re not gonna go live. I don’t think we’re going to know much tonight.

One thing we recently did, which we enjoyed a great deal, is a live prime time closer look about the debate. But we did it the next day, and for us, having twenty four hours to do both a closer look about the debate and the reaction of the debate was thrilling. So going live was great. Going live moments after the dust settles or while it’s settling. That’s a skill other shows of some in their very depth at but we have not historically found that we’ve landed that plane in a way that was worth it.

As for who wins, I think the show will be fine in either way. I think if I spent too much time living and planning for two different futures, it will just take a lot out of me. And you know, myself and they had writers. We’re all improvisers. We came from an improv background and then we learned how to write.

And so I think what we like most is the yes ending to the president, and so I’m just going to stay on our toes and knowing that whether we’re happy or sad, it’s better to have the show than not. So it’d be cathartic either way to be doing a shit on election day and the day after and the day after and the day after. Michael Barry was a monologue writer for Carson. He told Late Night or I think if Johnny were working today, he would definitely dive in. I think it’d be offended and angered by Trump.

Johnny was the epitome of decorum and good manners and Midwestern reticence, and Trump is the antithesis of that. But Johnny was sometimes motivated by anger. He’d see something in the paper that would make him angry, and he’d call him the writer and say, let’s do something on this. Late Night er asked, would Johnny Carson go as far as chemic Colbert Myers and fallon? Barry said, all these guys are doing jokes, I can picture Johnny doing.

He got a lot of mileage out of Nixon Watergate. Some people would just tick him off. He’d channel that into his comedy. Comedians work a lot based on anger, Comedy Dynamics has shared a trailer for Tony Rock Rock the World. It’s out today as a video special on album Form.

On the eighth, they share a trailer. I pulled it. I was ripping the audio and I was going to comment on how long it takes Tony Rock to even get to anything resembling a punchline, and I was a minute five seconds in and I realized, I can’t play this on my podcast. You guys would be like, what is he doing? What happened to the jokes?

So no trailer from me. It took a long time to get going. Tony Rock Rock the World sees Tony Rock offer a fresh take on post pandemic life, covering black culture, gender and relationships. Tony Rock told Deadline this project has been a monumental endeavor, crafted during countless nights of brainstorming or rewriting and perfecting every single bit. This isn’t just a show.

It’s a milestone in my career, and I believe it’s some of my best work yet. If the name sounds familiar, Tony Rock’s brother is Chris Tony Rock, also famous for being slapped by the brother of Will Smith. The Plano Comedy Festival, the largest comedy festival in North Texas, is back. They’re back today, guys. Today’s not a great day for news coverage and tomorrow’s worse.

Did the election sneak up on you? Why would you do this? Today? Headliners include More Jonasi, Don McMillan, Sarah Colonna, Mike Vickiones, Cipha Sounds, Paul Varghese, Linda Stagner, Kalona Spiller, Kareth Foster I worked with Kareth many years ago, Merlin Award winner The Magic of Eric Eaton, and Brad Upton, who claims to have the second most watched comedy special on the planet. And that is your comedy needs for today.

Please vote, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Kamala Harris, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, Jim Gaffigan, Bowen Yang, Colin Jost, Bill Burr, Jamie Foxx, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney hosts SNL with race-based humor and monologue criticism
• Kamala Harris appears in SNL cold open mirror sketch before election
• FCC commissioner claims Harris appearance violates equal time rule
• Lorne Michaels explains equal time rule complications with actual candidates
• Hulu announces Andrew Santino for Hularius comedy special series
• Jamie Foxx Netflix special ‘What Had Happened Was’ premiering December 10
• Comic Relief US announces gala honoring Crystal, Goldberg, and Williams
• Darcy and Jerr announce North American tour and new special ‘No Refunds’
• Tim Walls appearing on Colbert tonight
• SNL 50th anniversary special airing tonight

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Helloom Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney was your host of Saturday Night Live episode e oh Hey, I got some thoughts. I thought John Mulaney was coasting on reputation during a not funny monologue. Stunningly not funny.

Also an interesting choice to be doing race based humor given the recent news…

John read the room. He got a free pass on it because it was a pretty much openly democratic Saturday Night Live. But apparently it’s okay to get up and do jokes about Asians. I’m just saying. During the beginning of the set, mullaney poke fun at the fact that having a five week old daughter and a two year old son, along with a Chinese and Vietnamese wife and mother in laws was a Filipino made as ensured that he spends most of his time looking down at people.

But the big news was a surprise appearance by Kamala Harris, who appeared in the cold open. They redid the mirror sketch. They’ve done this before. Mick Jagger one time did the mirror sketch with Jimmy Fallon. Donald Trump has done the mirror sketch.

This time it was actual Kamala Harris being in the mirror of Maya Rudolph’ Kamala Harris. Some people, quite unfairly, have accused Harris of ripping off Trump in the bit, but it is not a bit that they’ve never done before, so I don’t think that’s fair. The opening sketch I thought was flat. Dana Carvey’s Biden it was fun the first time, but it’s one joke and he’s doing it every single week, very much diminishing returns. Jim Gaffigan’s Tim Walls is excellent, but we have this whole ensemble cast there.

Nobody else can do a Tim Walls, And I think again, Jim’s is wonderful, but what is Saturday Night Live Now? People pointed out the opening sketch only had one actual cast member, Bowen Yang as jd Vance, and everybody else is doing cameos. What are we doing? I personally didn’t find the Kamala thing funny.

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Moving on to the news, Colin jost joke next week America will decide if the n…

Another joke from Jost. At a rally, Trump said he would protect women, whether the women like it or not. For example, He’s going to make everyone who is endangered to women wear an orange vest. That was a good joke. This is particularly interesting.

The FCC commissioner claimed that the Harris appearance violated the equal time rule. Stay with me because I’ve got a twist at the end of the story. Commissioner Brendan Carr tweeted, this is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s equal time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct, a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate and on the eve of election, unless the broadcaster offered equal time to other qualifying campaigns. So the key there is public airwaves.

This being on NBC over the air, it’s a little different than cable TV. I teach college class on this. The short version is bandwidth is limited and assigned by the government. So for example, over the air w NBC New York, that’s the public airwaves, whereas HBO is not the public airwaves. A Whtz one hundred point three FM Newark commonly known as Z one hundred.

Those are public airwaves. However, the iHeartRadio app where you would get ZER one hundred, not the public airwaves. Commissioner Car was appointed to the FCC by Donald Trump in twenty seventeen. Forbes says Car is also credited as the author of a section in Project twenty twenty five. Not gonna go there today, but here’s the twist that I told you to stick around for.

Lord Michaels told the Hollywood Reporter, you can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and equal time provisions. You can’t have the main candidates without having all the candidates, and there are lots of minor candidates that are only on the ballot in three states, and that becomes really complicated. It is unclear if NBC reached out to Trump or those minor candidates. That’s interesting. Perhaps they ran some sort of stop sign.

I’m not an expert in this particular equal time ruling, but if they did, seems like Lauren knows that they did. Next week’s host will be Bill Burr. Interesting that means Dave Chappelle will not host the post election episode for the first time in a minute. Hulu is not messing around. Now They’ve lined up Andrew Santino for Hularius.

Hey, Hulu, Publo says, get back to me, man, what are you doing? I wrote you a nice note. Andrew Santino’s comedy will be executive produced by Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions. Hilarius now is Santino, Burr, DiStefano, Gaffigan, Alana Glazer, Jessica Curson, Mittel Lane, Sebastian manascalco Otsco, At Kotska, and at Roywood Junior. They have not announced a date for Santino, but Hularius kicks off on November twenty second.

I believe Gaffigin is first up, if I remember correctly.

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Meanwhile, my former coworker Jamie Fox.

His special is called What had Happened Was? It will premiere on Netflix on December tenth. Jamie will discuss the medical emergency that left him hospitalized in fighting for his life last year. As I’ve mentioned before, having I spent some time with Fox. I’ve been at parties with Fox.

I’ve been to a Super Bowl party. I’ve been at his parties in Miami. Not saying we’re best friends, but been around the guy to me that they weren’t able to prop him up in a chair and some sunglasses and have him flash a smile and be like, Hey, what’s up that they couldn’t even get one Instagram photo out. I was very, very worried about the man, so I’m looking forward to see what he has to say. Comic Relief US announced Comic Relief Live, a star studded gala on December ninth at Lincoln Center in New York City.

The event will honor Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robin Williams with the first ever Icon Award for their deep commitment and passionate work bringing comic relief to households around the nation. If you’re younger, Comic Relief was on HBO for many years, an all star night of comedy. It was always one of the highlights of the calendar. Comic Relief Live will feature performances by Tim Meadows, Phoebe Robinson, Alex Edelman, Matt Friend in the Middle, Aged Dad Jamband, which features David Wayne and Ken Marino. More names to be announced.

Darcy and Jerr remember them. I had them on the show two years ago. They were pretty cool. They’ve announced a North American tour in twenty twenty five, along with a new comedy album featuring all new material. The couple’s average at Best tour blends their quick witted banter and observations about marriage, family, and everything in between.

That’s the tour. As for the Special, Darcy and jer no refunds out today. These special captures the best of their comedy as they tackle topics ranging from mental health to the ridiculousness of modern life. Tim Walls will be on Colbert Tonight. Walls recorded the interview Thursday in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Hannibal Burr spoke to al dot com about his time on Saturday Night Live, which I don’t know if you know, turns fifty this year. I forgot that Hannibal had written for SNL. Hey, Hannibal, what was something you took from your short experience writing for SNL? Hannibal said, seeing stuff happen fast, You know what I mean, Because there’s a deadline. You’re working towards a live show that’s Saturday, so things come together fast.

Man. You see people come up with a sketch and then do the read through, and then do the punch up, and if it’s a recorded sketch. You’re shooting some stuff on Friday or Thursday, even on the day of there’s the dress rehearsal, and then there’s the main show, so there’s some stuff cut and there’s a production meeting in between, so everybody’s kind of firing at full speed. I think being around that just taught me how you can create things fast and move fast, and it was getting things done.

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Also on TV tonight, the SNL Election special ten o’clock on Your NBC.

In the special a tribute to all the political parodies over the years, Chris Rock will write and direct a new film, Misty Green, follows Misty, who is an undeniably talented actress, but her vices have derailed every attempt to revitalize her career. Her best opportunity in ages arrives in the form of Jordan, played by Chris Rock, a film director with the perfect role for her, were it not for their contentious past and sad news, Scottish comedian Genie Godly has passed away at the age of sixty three. She had been receiving palliative care after living a number of years with ovarian cancer. You may recall I’ve shared her story. Recently, she was doing a tour called Why Is She Still Here and she had to cancel it in September when the doctors were like yeah, Her daughter Ashley posted on social media, I wanted to tell you face to face because it felt very much what she would have wanted.

She went peacefully, and I want to say a big thank you to all the staff at the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice. Thank you so much for being there and for making a very scary moment peaceful and a nice transition. Godlely revealed she had ovarian cancer in November of twenty twenty one. She was given the all clear in twenty twenty two, but a later scan discovered signs of the disease again. Buckle up, Big day tomorrow, don’t forget to vote.

See tomorrow

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliffe, Michael Ian Black, Charlie Kirk, Brent Terhune, Judd Apatow, Stav Halkias

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan advises Tony Hinchcliffe against non-comedy venue performances
• Puerto Rican merchandise shop offering to send trash to Tony Hinchcliffe
• Charlie Kirk shares fake garbage truck driver video, deletes after viral spread
• Michael Ian Black defends calling out high-profile comedians for poor material
• Judd Apatow Hurricane Helene benefit shows in Atlanta and New York
• Stav Halkias discusses mental resilience required for comedy careers

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Chunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll handle a milleni in SNL tomorrow. Joe Rogan on his podcast said that he had advised Tony Hinchcliff against that joke, you know the one. Rogan said, I tell all comedians, don’t ever do comedy at something that’s not a comedy event.

Don’t do it. Don’t ever do comedy at a place that’s doing Also, is he gonna have a bunch of speakers and you’re gonna do ten minutes. Don’t ever do that. It’s a terrible setup. Rogan said.

The joke kills in comedy clubs. I don’t like the joke, but it kills. And I said to him, it’s just like if you’re Puerto Rican and you hear that in the audience, you’re like, ah, but it’s a funny joke. The joke does well. But I said to him, I go, dude, that’s the one that’s gonna get you stabbed.

Meanwhile, an online shop that sells Porto Rican theme merchandise is offered to send a box of trash on behalf of any customer to the Trump campaign. Worrica Shop sells t shirts, swimsuit stickers, pillows, phone case and home goods, including boxes of trash. The boxes say from Porto Rico with love on it, and carry a card with custom messages and come overflowing with random assorted trash. The boxes cost two dollars and are sent to Tony Hinchcliffe and his party. The website claims that we have their address and we will set it on your behalf via mail.

They assure you that the names and buyers will not be included in the delivery. Right when commentator Charlie Kirk is being mocked, Kirk posted a video containing a man that he believed was the garbage truck driver from trump stunt the other night. Kirk rowe, this is fantastic. This is the man who drove garbage force one watches. He gets emotional describing the moment with Trump and how he feels about Joe Biden calling conservatives garbage.

Here’s the thing, It wasn’t the driver. It was comedian Brent Terhewn in the online sketch Turn You and, as the driver claims, Trump urged him to take the truck through a McDonald’s drive through before the pair discussed Biden’s recent remarks run as the driver says, so, Joe, consider us a message to you. You called us garbage, but to prove we aren’t, We’ve got a truck that hauls garbage. Now does it sound like something garbage would do? Drive around at a truck that hauls garbage.

I don’t think so. Terryud goes on to fake cry while telling Joe Biden that he plans to show up to the polls wearing a garbage bag. Charlie Kirk deleted the post within minutes, but it did still go viral. Michael ian Black has a sub stack that I enjoy. Following Lock did some soul searching and wrote, I don’t like that I’ve become something of a comedy scold.

But you know what, comedy needs comedians to call out crappy comedy every now and then. I don’t mean a joke that doesn’t land. I would conservatively estimate eighty three percent off my jokes fail. What I mean is that high profile comedians tend to be insulated from criticism from their fellow comics for the same reason that all industry leaders tend to get a pass from others in their industry. Joe Rogan is an industry leader.

Tony Hinchcliff is an industry leader. I’ve called out both of them with two links. Scold is not the kind of role I feel at ease with because I’ve said and done plenty of my own dumb and offense of stuff over the years, including wearing blackface for an episode of Stella. I’ve committed every comedic crime there is to commit, with the exception of asking my fans, if I can paraphrasing here, Louis C.K. You know what I mean.

I’m neither perfect nor as funny as most of the guys I call out, So why do I do it? Because few other comics are. The fact is I have a small platform and a conscience. I don’t ask that they be canceled. I don’t say they’re not funny.

I don’t insult their careers. In fact, I go out of my way to acknowledge that they do things well. Joe’s podcast, for example, is one of the most important modern media enterprises. That’s true. It’s also true that he made some jokes in his last special that I had issues with, and I wrote a piece about it.

Big deal. Rogan doesn’t care what I think Rogan doesn’t even know I exist with Hingecliff. The situation is obviously much different. Hingecliff not only understood the assignment, he probably thought he was going to get a perfect attendance record to go along with his standing. Oh, you need to understand that the comedian’s bread and butter is laughter.

We say things that we expect will be well received. Why would Tony make those jokes with any other exs and why would he have that expectation. I do know how jokes work, and I know that feeding your audience this high fat junk food is bad for them and bad for you. You’re free to be a crappy comic, but why be a crappy comic in such an obviously destructive way. I picked and chose these segments that I read there.

It’s a much longer piece, but it’s on Michael ian Black’s substack if you want to check that out. Good piece by him. Judd Appatow has a fundraiser today, a comedy show benefiting the American Red Cross and victims of Hurricane Helene. It’s in Atlanta to the Variety Playhouse. Jeff Foxworthy and Ricky Vilez joined jud as special guests.

A second benefit show will be held on November ninth at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Stavros Halki has told Icon versus Icon nobody deserves or should have a comedy career. That’s the thing. It’s the ultimate luxury. The biggest obstacle is that statistically everyone who tries this fails.

You have to be a specific type of mental illness to be like, this is worth it. Wasting my youth in crappy bars telling bad penis jokes. It’s totally worth it because maybe fifteen years from now I’ll be able to tell better versions of those penis jokes in theaters that it doesn’t happen. Right, So I just got lucky the biggest obstacles with just material realities and being able to override the human desire for survival. I was ignoring every sign that I should go get a real job, of a real family, at a regular life.

Luckily it worked out, because if I woke up, if I was this age and I had nothing to show for it, boy oh boy, that would be a much crappier reality. Luckily, we got a couple stand up specials and movie and some TV stuff, So I’m pump Man. One way to support this shows you can go to buy me at coffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. You can throw five bucks in a tip jar. I will take your money.

And I don’t know if you can even hear this because the isis melted. But the idea is, I take your money and I get a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. Now, I was laughing on Friday. So Friday was November first, Right, I’m at the donuts chain at six thirty in the morning. The donut chain on like July thirty first, was like, hey, man, Halloween’s coming.

Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin. You like pumpkin, right, pumpkin pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin. And over the last week or so, I’ve been into the pumpkin dot It was taste and I didn’t feel like crap. After eight it’s I’ve been getting the pumpkin donut octoberranded November first. They were like, pumpkin never heard of it?

What are you talking about? Pumpkin donut? Why would we have that? You want a pumpkin coffee? What are you crazy?

We have peppermint. Now, it’s all peppermint, peppermint, peppermint, and sugar cookie. I was tempted to get the sugar cookie flavoring in my coffee, but I’ve learned over the years don’t messing around. The caramel’s tasty, and if you’re a man of a certain age, it doesn’t create kidney stones. The butterper can is tasty, but it creates kidney stones and it’s not that tasty.

Trust me, you do not want the stones. Buy me a coffee. Dot Com, a slash Daily Comedy News let’s hit gossip corner, People was checking in on Pete Davidson. A source tells People that Pete Davidson is still friends with pretty much all his exes. Nothing bad happened between him and metelinkline just ran its course.

He and Kim Kardashian still talk occasionally. He’s a good guy and they root for him. It’s a new podcast out hosted by bilingual Latin comedians and actors Carmen Lynch, Frince’s Gramos, Carlos Santos, and producer Osco Armando. Thanks for Nothing with the number four in the middle there. It’s an English speaking podcast, but Spanish is always part of the mixes.

They tackle real life topics with humor and honesty. Thanks for Nothing And in Tacoma, police rushed to a local comedy club after a caller reported a stabbing. Oh no, John, this show’s supposed to be fun. What are you doing? Why are you telling us about a stabbing?

The apparent victim Spider Man. John, It’s not funny that Spider Man was stabbed. Stay with me, don’t you know how the podcast works. Nobody was harmed. What officers found was a group of comedians filming a skit, one of whom was dressed as Spider Man.

You see, Spider Man is a fictional character, so there was no way Spider Man was going to be stabbed. He’s not real. Officers responded to the nine hundred block of Market Street a little after nine o’clock. The comedians quickly informed the PD that the stabbing was make believe. One of the comedian said, they all had a good laugh.

Nobody was injured, not even Spider Man. We told him spider Man’s over there, and then he saw a Spider Man perched up on the windowsill in the spidy position. I believe that’s when the officer was very relieved that you’re just seeing some guys in costume and not actual danger. And that is your comedy news for today. Hey, guess what we’re gonna talk about the next couple of days.

Yeah, I’m sorry, we gotta talk about it. It’s a thing. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Des Bishop, Tony Hinchcliff, Jim Brewer

What’s in This Episode

• Des Bishop’s new special ‘Of All People’
• Tony Hinchcliff’s Puerto Rico joke controversy at Trump rally
• Des Bishop’s background in Queens and Ireland
• Pre-show comedy routines and mental preparation
• Impact of Hinchcliff’s joke on swing state voters before election
• Reaction to Hinchcliff’s rock-paper-scissors joke about Palestine

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m so excited to share this one with you. I’m Johnny Mac and my guest today is Des Bishop. He’s got a new special, it’s called Of All People. We recorded this on Monday, and I wanted to share it, like immediately.

I enjoy this conversation so much, but all the Hingecliff stuff was going on, so I kept it here in its normal scheduled Saturday slot. Some stuff about DES’s bio, grew up in Queen’s, flunked out of Saint Francis Prep, wound up living in Ireland, where he’s a very successful stand up comedian. He also speaks Mandarin and spent some time in China doing stand up. We’ll cover all that, we talk about Tony Hinchcliff, he’ll explain why the dogs are barking and the fireworks. And I just had so much fun talking to Des Bishop.

So I’m actually glad we were scheduled, were supposed to record this on Friday, and then you had an issue on your end. And my first question too, was going to be don’t you have a show in two hours? The hell are you talking? Yeah? Yeah?

Like literally, I was like driving down, and I was like, what was I thinking that I scheduled for this time? But you know what it is, It’s like when you’re in American mode and you’re scheduling, you’re not really thinking about like Irish time. Yeah, no, no problem at all. So that’s that’s up my second question, which is what is your pre show routine? I remember so my career is I’m really a radio executive and Jim Brewer used to do afternoon drive on the rod Up channel at Series XM when I was the boss, and I remember the first time I went out on the road with him.

He grabbed me, and I’m glad he did and he said, look, man, before I do a set, I totally shut down. I don’t want you to think I’m in a bad mood. I’m not pissed off at you, just like this is just how I roll. So like two hours before a show, don’t talk to me, of course not, but like what do you do? Well?

You know, if I’m driving and I’m basically just like getting there and then when I’m there, make sure everything’s set up, and then I just kind of like distract myself. Similar to Jim Brewer, except that I maintained my sanity into twenty twenty four, like Jim Brewer. But similar to Jim Brewer, I tell. Like relationships and people that I’m. Involved with that I can’t be around people, like if you’re expecting me to be a normal person, then you can’t be around me because I’m gonna be uptight, I’m gonna be a little anxious.

I’m not gonna be the best version of myself leading up to a show. Now it makes makes total sense since you open this door. Has Tony Hinchcliffe made the news in Ireland yet. Well, it’s hard for me to know if he’s made the news in Ireland because I’ve very much been on top of that story. So I mean, I have a lot of thoughts on all that stuff.

Can I just make a quick disclaimer the reason why I know that you’re not really a video guy, but I’m outside because fun fact about Ireland, Ireland does its fireworks for Halloween, not for the fourth of July, and it’s leading up to Halloween, so there’s a lot of fireworks. So the dog goes insane. So I’ve had to go outside and leave the dog inside so you may hear faint barking but it could be a lot worse. And trust me, when I’m not recording, it’s so much worse with me and the. Dog in the house.

But anyway, on the Tony Hinchcliff front, I mean, where do we start? So I try not to hang myself on this show. You know, people don’t come to this thing for politics. They come for me to speak with comedians. So my take on it.

And I’m not a comedian, never been a performer, but studied this enough to if I break it down just as a joke in no context, for example, during the Subway series, if I go to Los Angeles and I go, hey, there’s a floating pile of garbage on an island, it’s called Manhattan. If I do that during the World Series in LA that joke might fly. But in the context, in the room it was done, it takes on whole other connotations and it’s really not a good joke. It’s a one out of ten, two out of ten joke, Max. It’s dated on top of it, and I’m not like one to come after Tony Hinchcliff.

But in the context of the importance. Of the week and a half that we’re in leading up to an election, Like why you would choose like a dated target like Puerto Ricans, Like because obviously you can, like you just did, you can insert whatever island you want onto that joke. It’s it’s pretty basic. At the roast of Tom Brady, if they’re roasting like a Puerto Rican comic that was on the Dace, then you might go, Okay, you know, there’s a lot of that type of joke at roasts. But like when the world’s cameras are on you and you’re a comedian and it’s fine, you’ve been hired to make some jokes leading up to it, Like why you would choose that as your joke?

I mean you want to make that point like, oh, you can joke about anything, but it’s actually kind of like it’s juvenile, it’s immature, and it’s. Actually it’s really stupid. Like I actually think Trump is kind of stupid, So I think that like he would never think broad. Enough to go maybe I shouldn’t have a risky comedian on like this close to an election when certain states votes might literally hinge on twenty thousand people like it did in Georgia twenty two thousand people. He may have shifted enough votes to change a state that’s insane.

Well, I have so many topics, and when I gets to you and I are both New Yorkers, are both from Queens, so you know from the eighties and nineties. Trump is not like mister New York City. He’s not going to win New York. I just thought the whole thing it was a weird choice, like, go campaign in Pennsylvania. What are you doing in New York City.

This isn’t gonna work. Well, you know, nothing he does makes sense. And again we’re not going to get too political. But I think for him, he feels he wins regardless. You know, That’s what I think.

Like I think Trump thinks I’m gonna win. If I lose, I still can say that it was robbed and my profile is humongous, and I can continue with my current grift, which is the voice of the people that feel like they’ve been marginalized in Mardern America. So I don’t know if he even cares like I just feel like it’s a. Win win for him. The problem is that the whole political system just deteriorates all around his selfish you know notions and then I’m not a Republican, but the Republican Party continues to suffer.

Like the whole thing is, it’s. Absolutely crazy how much space and bandwidth has been given over to this ego.

And then people will the Trump people will obviously not agree with me, but I…

It shouldn’t have been allowed to happen. So over the politics in her back pocket before I go quoting, a comedian said, did you see Tony’s joke about rock paper scissors? I did, and again I like, fine, you know, I guess, but like read the room you need Michigan And actually I talked to. A Lebanese girl recently and they were like. She’s from Michigan, She’s from Grand Rapids, and they’re not happy with Kamala the Arabs in Michigan and some of them just out of virtue of their own anger towards common that we’re thinking maybe Trump can sort it out, and then he goes and basically like makes it very clear that they definitely do not care about the Palestinians.

So again, dumb joke. You know America. If, by the way, if that was an Ireland, he’d be lynched like the Irish. Oh you got to pay. The Irish are very The Irish perceive the Israeli.

Palestine conflict in terms of what the British did to Ireland has been done to the Palestinians. And I’m not taking a position. But I’m just telling you that that joke would not have flown over here at all.

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All right, let’s switch over to Queens.

One of the things I try and do is not ask the same questions you’ve been asked ten thousand times. However, your particular story has some interesting curves along the way. Again, Irish kid from Queens, I’m probably seven eight years older than you, so when we’re twelve that matters, but at this age it doesn’t. What part of Queens are you from? I know in I’m from Jackson Heights, eighty seventh of Roosevelt, So I know in an interview they’ll say Flushing.

But are you from Main Street? Are you down by Booth Memorial orre you further out? Which grow up further out? I’m nearly Bayside. I’m really right on the border of fresh Meadows and Flushing where and.

Just just west of Bayside, so actually near enough to where Trump grew up. I just grew. I grew right off Utopia Parkway. He was a few miles down the road in Jamaica States, off Utopia Parkway. My mother, though, as a youngster, hung out a lot in Jackson Heights because it was quite irish back in those days.

But I’m very much like Eastern Queen’s. I don’t like to admit this. But it has more like Long Island vibes than oh, sure city vibes. You know, oh yeah sure. Once you get out past the seven train, you know, maybe another mile or two now with all the development, Oh my god.

I was on the Van Wick last week and I couldn’t believe that development and flushing. But once you get out there, yeah, it’s you know, Queen’s just kind of softly switches into Nassau. They’ve renamed it since, but there was like that ten block stretch where one side of the street was Jamaica Avenue. On the other side was like, no, no, no, we’re Jericho Turnpike. Like, we’re not Jamaica Avenue.

What are you talking about? Well, you know, you pay less property tax when you’re on the Queens side. But officially, my neighborhood, by the way was called Auburndale. So if you’re ever on the Long Island Railroad where Auburndale station. Again, I’m back to Trump.

You just reminded me when he during COVID he started talking about walking past Elmhurst Hospital, which is eighty second and Broadway, a couple of blocks south of the seventh. I’m like, in what world were you walking on Broadway in Jackson Heights? Illmers never once? Dude? Yeah, and if he had, he walked by Elmhurst Hospital.

Who you know, it was a shit show back then. But honestly, I was there recently because I went to the met game actually, and I ended up parking on Junction Boulevard and we walked from when we were done, myself my wife walked from City Field back to Junction Boulevard. And I mean, like, you could travel the world on Roosevelt Avenue. I don’t care what anybody says. I actually the taxi driver that took me to JFK for this trip that I’m on right now, he was a Dominican guy, and he was telling me that he didn’t think Roosevelt Avenue was safe.

But I told him, I said, listen, man, I walked back late at night, right past Corona Plaza, and I thought the whole thing was exciting, you know, and you really feel like you’re in all these different parts of the world as you make your way further west towards the city. My dad would be so proud of you. So he was a bartender where mcdermidt’s. He worked at Blarney Stone, So you know the kind of guy I’m talking about. And he taught me growing up, you don’t pay the park you park over in Corona, And to this day, I’ll still park on like one twelfth in Northern and walk And remember when my son was little, he’d be like, what the hell are we doing.

I’m like, I’m not paying thirty bucks to park. This just isn’t that what you do? Well? Your dad wouldn’t be proud of me, because the reason I had to do it was because I got there too late and it was all and they were trying to get me to park in College Point. At the Skyview.

The game had already started, so I said, screwed that, I whipped onto the Grand Central. I was to be honest, I was actually gonna park in LaGuardia and get an uber, but then I was like, nah, nah, I just I’ll park on Junction Boulevard around there and I’ll jump on the seven. So that’s what I did. But then we walked back. That’s good.

Where’s Hannah from? Was she like? What’s up with Rosevelt? She’s from Brooklyn’s nothing to her. Yeah, none of this is too intimidating, you know, but she was in Park Slope but her grandfather bought that house, so like, they’re not like fancy Park Slope people.

In fact, her actually her dad grew up with Colin Quinn and his family, so uh, age wise, I fit somewhere between Colin Quinn and Hannah. But but Colin Quinn. Got quite the kick out of the fact that I ended up marrying Dan Berner’s daughter because they all grew up together in Park Slope. Love this guy more as Bishop in a minute, not to step on your material about your name. When I saw I was like, yeah, that’s an Irish guy.

Like I never I don’t want to do the joke, but like I was like, yeah, no, guy’s name Desmond. Yes, but I didn’t know any Desmonds growing up. That’s not an exaggeration on the joke. The only Desmond I knew, which you might have also known, was Desmond’s Pub on Park Avenue in like thirty something. I used to always see that and be like, yo, it’s my name because it was such a rare And obviously Bishop Desmond tutu, which is I talk about the joke, But yeah, not Honestly, I did not know many Desmonds growing up.

But I also was not aware until adulthood that black people in America consider it a consider it a black name. I didn’t know either. All right, So you’re growing up, You’re in Queen’s You’re going to Saint Francis Prep. That makes sense now that you’ve told me where you’re growing up. And depending on which article I read, you either got kicked out, asked to leave, chose to leave, got sent to Ireland, chose to go to Ireland.

Which version of that is accurate? I mean, essentially the majority of those things are true. They can all true together. Like I absolutely flunked out. You know, if you fail more than two subjects, you’re not allowed.

To come back. So I got kicked out. I mean we certainly that’s what we said, Like I got kicked out of prep. But obviously when somebody says they got kicked out of school. It sounds more dramatic than it is, but like I just had a severe lack.

Of interest in school. I mean, there was other things that were going on that I think in the modern day education system perhaps I would have gotten like more support. But that aside, I did flunk out. My mother was freaking out about what I was going to do. She was really thinking that I was on a bad path.

I was drinking a lot, but that had nothing to do with why I got kicked out of school.

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And then a cousin put the idea in my head and I suggested it to my parents, s…

I did actually want to go, but at the same time, my parents did allow me to go, and did organize it, and did do it in a out of a fear that I screwing up my life. It’s an aggressive choice so to catch up the audience. So you go to school in Queens. If you don’t go to public school. If you’ve got good grades, you’re probably going to Maloy.

If you’ve got bad grades, you’re probably going Tom Clancy. Saint Francis was like a middle school there. Well, actually the St. Francis Prep people would would not take kindly to you suggesting that Prep was below Maloy because they they definitely had equal status in like the eyes of the co op system and everything. I apologize to Saint France.

But that’s okay. The difference really was the smart people that were really into women went to San Francisco. Yes, Maloy was an al boys school back in. The time at the time, but why not christ Stefanie went to Maloy, by the way, why not dropped out of a clancy? Well, actually I would have went to Holy Cross.

That would have been where I ended up. Uh, but I don’t know. I never got to the stage where I had to pick another New York school because I really thought the idea of going to Ireland was like really cool. Actually, and my mother, see, we had a cousin that was going through some addiction stuff, and my mother really was freaking out that I was going to get in big trouble. So when this Irish thing came up and she looked into it and it was kind of cheap by relative standards of going to boarding school in the United States, she just had this thing in her head that I’d be safer there.

I think that’s really what she thought. Honestly, for me, it was a real win because not only did I get a better education because I was away from my distractions. I was in an all boys boarding school. You get supervised study, but I also got the education of suddenly living in a new culture, having to adapt. You know, there’s just so much about what happened that was good for me specifically.

I don’t think it’s for everybody, but me specifically easily distracted, wanting attention, you know, like suddenly being the kid from New York in a small Irish boarding school is actually kind of like exciting for me. So I kind of got everything I needed out of my Irish experience. I find it interesting you’ve held your I would never sniff you out, except when you say Ireland as both three syllables the way I would pronounce it. Yeah, and there’s there’s other there’s other words if we were talking for a while.

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Also, if an Irish person suddenly sat next to me, like my accent would shift …

But I never had more than a bit of an Irish accent. But I definitely had more than I have now. Well, you went over there, what early nineties, mid nineties, ninety nineteen ninety ninety, all right, So that’s what a lot of people were coming over from there to here to New York because of the economy, and the Irish were opening bars. I used to hang out at a bar called the Brefnee on Fortieth and Queen’s. No it well, okay, oh it well.

So the name of their softball team, and I didn’t get it at first, and once when I found out what it was, I was like, oh, that’s interesting. They called themselves the Provos. They had provosse. That’s so funny because that’s such a quintessential Irish American experience, like you could so I have tons of jokes about coming to Ireland. The first joke I used to have was that there was a sign at the airport that said wrong way, because I was the only American coming back to Ireland.

Everybody was going the other way. In reference to the first thing you said. But I also had a joke about how I mean it was a baptism of fire because as you know from the team being called the Provos. For those that don’t know, the Provos was slang for the Provisional IRA, which in Irish America, you know, you were raised to love the Iray. I mean, I was up thet all of my childhood and when I came to Ireland, to my great surprise, people in the Republic of Ireland were not They did not support the IRA.

In fact, they were kind of horrified by the whole thing. And I didn’t get any fights, but I had a lot of arguments with people. I was kind of shocked. Obviously I got educated and develop my own nuanced take on it. But the fact that you could call a softball team the Provos that would not have been happening in Dublin in nineteen ninety four, for example.

It’s crazy to you know, it’s almost like a hack station wagon kids in the backbit. But that the IRA would come to New York and just openly do fundraisers thirty years ago, like what. Nor aid, Well, my parents were right in the thick of that. I mean, we were as provo as they come. As far as Irish American families go, we had carvings of Celtic crosses that were made in Long Catch prison by IRA prisoners.

We marched for County Down. See, my mother’s father was from the North. My mother worked for Odran Bernstein, a law firm that represented fought against extradition of IRA members that were being held in American prisons. I mean we were in the heart of pro IRA Irish America. I mean when we marched down Fifth Avenue, the signs were like get the Brits out, you know, BRIT’s out.

And like when we sold our house in twenty fifteen, when I cleaned out the attic, there was like, you know, marching band instruments that we had been storing in our attic with BRIT’s out and twenty six plus six equals one stingers on them, and you know, like just like I was kind of shocked, Like as an adult man who spent actually most of his life in Ireland in the end, I was shocked at the just overtly Republican propaganda that I. Was raised around, you know, yeah, you know, and as an Irish American we were into U two when they were a little more political. Then a little later on I’d go see Black forty seven and Patty Riley’s and sure Larry’d me up there sing in the sun. Yeah, Larry Carr. And the funny thing is that Black forty seven is a great band actually, but very much Irish American band Irish and he was from Wexford actually, which is where I ended up going to boarding school for three years.

You know, I always say to Irish people because I do jokes. Actually, I did a show about my mom, you know, but after my mom died, I did like a like a one man show about my mother. But I had a whole section about the Irish American Republican experience, and I made make fun of myself for what happened when I came to Ireland. But I would definitely say that it’s somewhere in the middle between the way I was raised as sort of a naive kind of provo upbringing and the overly critical Irish people in the eighties and nineties that were perhaps overly critical of the ira perhaps didn’t have an understanding of the complexities of the North. I would say it’s probably somewhere in the middle of those two positions is the better position.

And you know what’s hilarious is that, well it’s not hilarious. But the young Irish people now they’re inclined to support shin Faine, which was the political party of the IRA and they don’t have the baggage from the troubles, so young Irish people sort of look to them as a sort of an anti establishment party that can fight against the housing crisis and all these issues that we have in the States too, but a different government gets blamed. You’re making me smile and thinking about my mom. And it wasn’t racism. It was some sort of tribalism that you know.

So and so, Oh they’re not Irish, we don’t like them. Okay, now they’re Irish, but they’re from the wrong county. Or oh the bishops, those green horns. We don’t like that. You know, everything was wrong.

You had to be like a first cousin or forget it. Yeah, well, I actually I have a company in arting, know id like a like a limited company, and I called it blowing entertainment. Most people don’t know the term blowing, but in. Ireland it’s a big term for somebody who lives in a place, but isn’t from there, And obviously I’m a blow into Ireland. But like Irish people can be blowing’s if you move from one village to another, you know.

So I called my company Blowing Entertainment and there’s a lot of that. Well, here’s a funny story about you’re talking about, like, not racism or tribalism. This is how ignorant in a way. My mother raised us because I remember, do you remember the movie The Great Outdoors or The Mosquito Coast. Yeah, so there was two redheaded twins in those two movies, and we were working on a modeling job for that we modeled as kids for Ford Miling Agency and the mother was Irish.

As far as I was concerned, I heard her accent. She was Irish and my mother after the conversation, the woman left and I said, oh, she was a nice woman, and my mother said, yeah, but she’s a Northern Irish Protestant. She put it right into my head that this person can’t be a good person because he’s a Protestant from the North. And I joke about that now to people because it’s it’s that’s insane that she thought that was okay. The other term that it’s a bit of a hack bit.

But you’ll know where I’m going here. But when I was hanging out in those Irish bars and the Irish would ask me if in New York City in the early nineties, if I wanted to go find some crack. Yes, that was a word loosely translated as let’s go find good fun, not rock cocaine. Yes, c R A I C. But she’s not actually Irish, but it has really that like it’s not from the Irish language.

That’s like a like a like a fake etymology. It’s it’s just a word that’s evolved out of there’s like three or four competing claims on the etymology of crack. However, these days it’s certainly not a guelga, it’s not an Irish language word, but it is one hundred percent the Irish word for fun. But because my wife is obsessed with crack now, because when we first met. That’s my first by the way, Hannah Berner is obsessed with crack.

But when we first met, I actually said to her, I said, one of the things that I immediately connected with is you don’t know what the crack is, but like you have the crack, like you are like quintessential crack, but you don’t get it. She still can’t explain it to people. And it’s very hard to explain what the crack is because the crack is not just almost like a like a way of being that can be hard to explain to people that aren’t Irish. She actually got in trouble the other day because she posted a clip and kind of tried to suggest that Irish and English people are into this thing called crack, and the Irish were like, it has nothing to do with the English. So it’s the twenty first century.

We have to put labels on everything. Every article about you in the States calls you Irish comedian to the. Irish Irish American? Are you American comedian as bishop like, because your style is you know, if I had a graph, you know you’re closer to the Bill Burr and than the Tommy Tiernan end. Yeah.

But you know, if you watch my early, really early stuff, I was coincident funny that I’m not inspired by Bill Burr at all, which is hilarious that I get a lot of comparisons to him now. However, I was very inspired by. Tommy Tuner in the early part of my career, and when I watch my bits from two thousand and one to three, I can see Tommy’s influence. On my style. And these days, unfortunately, I just get the Bill Burr comparisons, I think because we’re both like middle aged northeastern guys with like a kind of a and I’ve gone back to my de facto energy, which is kind of a queen’s guy energy, working class queen’s guy.

That’s not an artistic choice, that’s just who I am. You know. In Ireland, it wasn’t as obvious because I had a lot, not old, but a lot of material talking about Ireland and talking about the differences between America and Ireland, and also quite a keen awareness for a foreigner as far as Irish concerned, quite a keen awareness of like regional sensibilities and differences between Irish areas, and I could do the accents. So it’s not that the queen sense, the queen’s energy is not as obvious in a lot of those bits, because it’s obviously like not coming from that. But these days, when I’m expressing my frustration with the modern world, frustration with the differences between generations, or my frustration with America in general.

Og kind of Queen’s energy comes out and if you watch, like I put my mother in a couple of things over the years, like documentaries, and like, if you watch her ramage, you go, oh, it’s not Bill Burt that this guy’s inspired by. It’s Island Bishop. You know, she’s pissed off about everything. Yeah. I think my comparison there was about energy and the current specials a little more rad of tat tat than the themes the theme pieces, which is what I wanted to ask you about that evolution.

There is it a choice? Is it just what you’re feeling now that it’s it’s less of a theme power. I think it’s more necessity is the mother of invention, Like working in the States, working the clubs, doing fifteen minute spots at the cellar. I I just those long bits. You know, it’s just like my fifteen minute spot isn’t going to be about one thing, you know, just going around America, Like I’m just not going to get with bar staff floating around people not knowing who you are, Like you just don’t.

I don’t think you get the license to indulge in a theme in the same way. And I don’t even like the fact that there’s like a separation. Like people will be like, oh, it’s like a Verbiglia type show. Obviously, I’m sure you know this side of the water. Verbiglia type comedy is just comedy.

But so I don’t even like the fact that there’s there’s two types. But for me, it’s been, I think, like an upgrade to my skill level to have not been able to lean on that. Like, I think, obviously there’s tricks in every type of comedy, but I think that perhaps there were have been too many times, not always, but too many times in my comedy career where I had the crutch of a theme, which gives you maybe too much freedom to not be as punchy as you would need to be in Philadelphia on a Saturday night at ten thirty, you. Know, yeah, and in the age of social media and you got to feed the beast and all that. And my audience is sick of me telling this, but the amount of times I’ll be watching an hour and my wife shows up thirty six minutes in, stands there for five seconds and goes, is this guy funny?

And you know I want to hit pause and be like, well, you see what he just did. There, he’s at up eighteen minutes ago to let me throw back and a misdirect, and it’s like, you know. Oh, I mean I have I have so many like I watch. I had a great special back in two thousand and eight called Tongues, and it was a two part special. One part was all about the Irish language, which is why I called it Tongues.

The other part is just material that was relevant to Ireland at that time, which was actually right at the sort of the an inkling that the world economy was about to crash, which is funny because it’s a moment in time. But anyway, I have a very strong, what I think is a very strong finishing sort of fifteen minutes, but it’s very interconnected and very woven. Like my punchline. My special finishes with a joke that makes absolutely no sense unless you’ve watched the first part of that fifteen minutes, and so I had a lot of that back in the day, and I. Still think that stuff is great.

One of the great things about because that’s the other thing when I said necessity is the mother intertention. Clips being the currency of modern comedy, I obviously had to have jokes that stood alone. The great thing about clips is that if you can make clippable jokes work still within the confines of these great fifteen twenty minute bits, essentially your fifteen twenty minute bit still works the same. As it used to. It’s just so much better.

That’s what I think. One more breaking back with des Bishop, you have a piece of crowd work in your current special that I will not spoil at all. But as soon as I hit play, I was like, oh, this is amazing, so that hopefully. That’s not a spoiler. We could talk about.

That, okay, So for the audience, the clip opens up with crowd work and suddenly you burst into Mandarin and I’m like, holy yes, who is this guy? Well, this is amazing. Well your reaction is literally why that bit is there? And I really got a credit Shane Gillis because Hannah said why don’t you? And this wasn’t like a Shane Gillis bit, but Shane Gillis on his YouTube special I think, or maybe it was his Netflix special.

He opens cold open to crowd work, or he cold opens to a bit. It’s not like, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the state. Shane gillis, uh, and that’s very effective in the modern world where you just have to grab people’s attention. So Hannah said, why don’t you open with the Mandarin crowd work and people will just be like, oh shit, this is not what I normally see. And that’s why that exists.

And obviously that bit, despite the fact that it sounds complicated, the crowd work of finding somebody that speaks Mandarin and joking with them in Mandarin, I mean, it works so well for me. In fact, one of the things that made my transition back to the States so much easier was because so much of my material about spending time in China, which obviously takes a bit of time to explain right now, we’re just jumping in to it, but the material I had from my experience in China really translated very easily to America, in fact, better in America. Than in Ireland. So I had no problem chucking that bit of crowd work up top, because I know it’s funny. It’s funny without any awareness of China.

It’s got a pretty good punchline right at the end. And so everything you experienced is by design. It’s amazing. So what makes you go to China to be a stand up and that’s an aggressive play. Yeah, I mean again, that was one thing led to another.

But the very quick list of reasons how I ended up in China was one, I became very friendly with Chinese people on my first documentary project, which was about living on minimum wage. Two it just so happened that the years leading up to that, I was actually studying kung fu with a cifu from Hong Kong who took us to Chinese dim sum every Sunday afternoon and was very into teaching us about Chinese culture, which then helped me to connec with those Chinese people who brought me to China on a vacation in two thousand and four. I was fascinated by China and its difference to the West. Separate to that, but at the same time, my neighborhood, which we’ve discussed Flush and Queens, became completely Chinese in my lifetime, and my next door neighbors who I would shovel snow with if I was back visiting my parents, they couldn’t speak English, and I really became fascinated with like trying to communicate with them. So then when I made a project in Ireland about learning the Irish language, which was a very Irish project, and everyone in Ireland has to learn Gaelican school, so that was like an easy project to do in Ireland.

But once I realized, oh, I’m not bad at. Learning languages, I pitched the idea of doing that in China, to learn Chinese to do stand up in Mandarin. And that’s the quickest version of a very long story about how I went to China. Did you mentally write in matter in or did you write in English and translate it one. Hundred percent mentally wrote in Mandarin.

Fact, people always say like it must be hard to come up with jokes, you know, because they think of it in terms of translation, and people like Eddie is a great guy, but he takes his show and figures it out in another language and then does it, and he’s done that in numerous languages. But I was trying to do something else, which was I was trying to turn my experiences in China into stand up. So actually, once I got somewhat a bit of an understanding about the language, I was able to use my basic Mandarin to tell my fish out of Water stories, and the majority, I’d say only twenty or thirty percent of my jokes actually in Mandarin work in English. The ones that I do in the special are ones that work in English. Some of them don’t actually work in Mandarin because they’re they’re just different.

But most of my stuff in Mandarin works. Not because of translation, but because it’s about things that are about China. They don’t make sense in English or they don’t make sense to people that I’ve into China. So is it more storytelling? Is it raditat tat?

Or is it I don’t know. I didn’t know how to use the laundry machines and they find humor that the white guy didn’t know what to do. I mean, you can be sure, because the difficulty level is pretty high that I leaned on the easier topics. Fish out of water, mispronunciation jokes, you know, just I guess the entry level things you find funny as somebody who moves to try and trust to learn Mandarin and is clearly not Chinese. You’re a white guy.

You stand out all those things. So I leaned on that as much as possible.

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And then some basic observations jokes about like the stress around Chinese N…

And that’s about as far as I got in terms of like the difficulty level of my Chinese humor, Like I was only able to tell the jokes that I could with my basic level of Mandarin and my basic understanding of Chinese life. What kind of rooms are these? By the way, the sound effects for this episode, or I’m so glad you’re outside, I’m so glad you explained the fireworks and the dog because this is going to sound amazing as a pod. I’m loving it. What kind of room?

I’m so embarrassed. Actually the whole thing is very embarrassing. But I guess it’s interesting because Hannah had no idea that Halloween was the fireworks time. So well, at my time in China, the rooms were bar shows because it’s not a thing, you know, It wasn’t like stand up was a new thing in China, and it was these small pockets in Beijing, Shanghai, Shinjin, Chungdu of people that were like seeing it on the internet, Western people doing stand up and some nerdy comedy fans were like, you know, putting the Chinese Mandarin subtitles at the bottom, and they were seeing like clips from the oscars and clips from the Tonight Show and thinking, oh, let’s do that. So I was in the very early stages of that.

So that’s largely the types of rooms I was doing. Was that. Joe Wang. I don’t know if you have an interviewed him, but he actually made his career in the States. He said, from China, Chinese immigranty the United States, but did really well stand up in English, did a couple of really big letterman sets and really was amazing stand.

Up to be honest, like really astute. Observations, but again a little fish out of water, but classic Chinese guy play on words, a little mathematical. Anyway, he blew up because he roast to Joe Biden when he was vice president and it went viral in China, so viral that he went back to China to do because he was famous, and he’s had quite the career in China since I was there, actually since that time, and the only big shows I did were opening up for him. But he was doing stand up in Mandarin, but he was struggling with doing stand up and manner as much as I was, because his comedy brain was very much fish out of water comedy in English, about being in America. He had to almost find a different identity speaking as a Chinese person from the northeast of China, just speaking about modern China.

So that was the only time I did like a theater was with him. We’re worried about the censors, and obviously you’re not gonna lose your mind and get up and you know, do five minutes about the government. But are you worried about maybe stepping on something you don’t even know as a landmine culturally? I mean, yeah, you would definitely worry about stepping on a landmine. In terms of like being that in the room that night.

I mean, you’re definitely not gonna You’re not going to be the asshole who you know, does stuff that’s going to make the crowd uncomfortable because they think that this is too subversive. In a place where that’s not safe, you can touch on stuff I made a joke and actual show about One of the great things about China is comedy is always about finding the line and just crossing it just a little bit, but a lot of times you don’t know where the line is, Like we’re joking about Tony Hinchcliffe, like he totally misjudged the line and now there’s chaos right Whereas in China the line is very clear. The things you don’t talk about and if you do, you go to jail. The joke is always three teased. He had him into bet Taiwan.

But I wasn’t interested in causing any trouble. Wasn’t my job. I mean, I could go on about this topic for a long time, but it’s gotten a lot worse in China since I was there, so actually there’s even less freedom of speech there than when I was there. But what I will say is that stand up in itself, it’s kind. Of subversive there in the sense that our Western style stand up is individualistic, and it’s like often not always, but often personal.

You’re speaking about your life in a way that wouldn’t be quintessential Asian culture. And these young men and women that are going up there and saying joking about their difficult relationships with their parents, breaking Chinese cultural norms, not political stuff, but Chinese cultural norms, talking about dating stuff like that. In China, it’s actually it’s pretty subversive. It’s pretty challenging to the audience in a way that we don’t appreciate because we’re post sexual revolution, we’re post being able to criticize religion where we’re we’re going backwards. But largely we live in a situation where we can say whatever we want without fear of, uh, you know, upsetting people to the point that it’s going to cause our lives, you know, more issues than being canceled.

Right, So the whole thing was more impressive than it sounds when you say, oh, well, I couldn’t joke about the government, or I couldn’t talk about Tianaman or Tibet. You know, I’ll head for home here. You’ve been very generous with your time. My daughter was snooping my calendar. She texts me.

She’s like, I sawna calendar. You’re talking to danz Bychev. Do you know he’s married too, She’s in her early twenty I’m like, yes, yes, but that’s I’m not going to ask forty five minutes of questions about Hannah. But she was very excited. Are you seeing an audience pick up in the States because of the podcast?

I mean, honestly, there was an immediate pickup just from my association with Hannah, and the more popular she got, the more I would get people that would support me because they became aware of me through Hannah originally. But that was usually just like a small group. The podcast a little bit, but I really feel that the bigger thing has been the clips. I mean, there’s definitely some podcast people, but the clips have been the bigger thing. But I think that some of those clips probably went more viral because people were like sharing them because they were like, this is Hannah’s husband.

So, without a doubt, there has been positive career associations with. Being married to Hannah. But I must point out that when I met Hannah, she had only done a year of stand up. Stand up had been. Stopped because of COVID, and you know, it was a very different time I’m in her career and like actually because you know, the reality stuff finished, so like stressfully, it wasn’t an immediate sense of wow, this has been amazing for my career, and it was more like, wow, this has been very difficult for my mental health.

Are you are you a stand up for life? Do you want to act? And I’m asking that because you’ve got great hair game. Well, it’s not that great today. I did go to the gym and have a shower, but I did not brush my hair nor blow dry.

But sorry, I mean there was always in my mind like I would love to do movies, but I never. Wanted to do auditions or put in. The hard yards because well, I think not all but a lot of stand ups are kind of like not control freaks. But you just get used to sort of like making your own work, putting your own work on, and there’s a freedom to that. Acting is very much like weight and see, so I always kind of hope that something would like fall on my lap.

A couple of things have, but not to any huge extent. And I have done plenty of auditions throughout the years, but nothing easy ever came my way. So yes, I would still act, but stand up and writing, and you know, you want to know the truth. Actually, I always thought that as I got older, I would settle into radio, but. The industry just changed.

So actually me too, I’m doing a podcast date. Yeah, so uh, and I what I miss? I mean, I still go and do radio interviews, but and I got actually before I turned down two pretty good radio offers to go to China just coincidentally enough, I filled in for two Irish radio presenters on two different radio stations, and they both offered me quite good jobs after filling in for the week, and at both of those offers, I just was like, listen, I’m going to China. And I saw that as something for a little bit later in my life. I just didn’t know that within the next decade that industry would change and all so that I would want to spend a bit more time in the state.

So I wasn’t looking for like an Irish radio job, but I do like the formality of five days a week on the radio, producer up bit of focus time in the office, Like I think podcasting is slowly kind of essentially becoming that, but I haven’t found that model, and I miss the way it used to be in that not all areas of the industry, but I do miss that type of focus. It was fun. A big bulk of my career is producing radio shows. And just like you’re saying, the relationship between a producer and a host, and especially like if I’m producing you and I’m giving you the side like you, we have to have that circle of trust of like, dude, you’re going off the rails here, trust me. It’s like trust me, trust me and giving you and I’m doing out of habit on the video here giving your hand signals or you know, hey, wrap it up, are you going to hang yourself here?

Get out of this? Let’s go. Yeah, it’s radio is dead. It is. But what I do think will happen because I always say to Hannick is kind of like a very good podcaster, and I guess somewhat of a pioneer female podcast certainly was pretty early into the game.

But I feel that over time. Some of that formality will return because the money is there, and I think to maintain an audience, the standards have to be there, the sense of fresh ideas, keeping it interesting. Like a lot of podcasts are great, but they’re like a moment in time, and then when that moment passes, then it’s like where do we go from here? Like all that stuff will naturally be necessary. So I do think that some of the formality of the way it used to be will come back.

And the last thing I always say to Hannaz. The one thing podcasting is really lacking is the sense of its happening right now. For certain issues, certain types of radio. I think that still has value, and I think that that will be the next evolution. Is a better way of listening live other than oh this podcaster goes live on YouTube.

But it’s not the same. Yeah, no, it’s not the same. It will not surprise me if I used to work a serious If they open up a bag of cash for Hannah and she winds up with a station and they pay, well, just say yes. Well, as it turns out, they actually didn’t give Hannah a great offer, but they Hannah’s doing fine. But Sirius was one of the low bowlers, a really well.

I probably get in trouble to say. I probably shouldn’t have said that. I didn’t evean. Whatever. Such is life.

Appreciate your time today, man, this is awesome. Thank you so much. Wasn’t he fantastic? I loved him. I could have talked to him for another hour, but you know, you ask for twenty minutes and he keep forty five.

Yeah, you gotta let people go at some point. But he was so easy to talk to. Des Bishop especial is called of all people. You will find it on YouTube. See you back here tomorrow.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, Ronny Chieng, Adrian Appollonio, Hannibal Buress, Sarah Silverman, Dez Bishop

What’s in This Episode

• Moon Tower Comedy Festival 2025 Austin lineup announcement
• Great Outdoors Comedy Festival John Mulaney and Jim Gaffigan co-headline
• John Mulaney presents Olivia Munn with In Style Image Maker Award
• Ronny Chieng Netflix special ‘Love to Hate It’ December 17
• Adrian Appollonio special ‘The Dark Queen’ November 12
• Hannibal Buress opening venue in Brooklyn and doing pop-up shows
• Sarah Silverman performing at Orpheum Theater Madison

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Let’s take a break today, No politics, no Tony. How’s that for a change. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s just do comedy comedy stuff today.

Sam Morrill tweeted, I just watched all three Godfather movies. I was on the checkout line behind one person at CBS. The Moon Tower Comedy Festival is a big one. They’ve announced their lineup for twenty twenty five April ninth through the nineteenth in Austin, Texas. It’s the festival’s thirteenth year, will feature Adam Ray as a doctor, Phil Parody, Tig Natsorro Fortune, Femster, May Martin osco Atkotska, and quote many more.

The many more include Big Jay Okerson Podcast, Legion of Skanks, Brad Williams, Josh Johnson, and local talent including Eliza Splatt, Andrew Murphy, Ashley Sharma, Averymore, Brett ver Vort, Chris Teles, Colton Delling, Denny Goodwin, Doug Millard, Dylan Carlino, Genevieve Clinton, and many more. A promotion called the Bestie Badge offers twenty five dollars off every badge to those who buy two or more. You’ve heard me say before, the best way to handle a festival is to hop and don’t go see the headliners. You’ve seen the headliners before, go see the other people. That’s how you get the most out of the festival.

Another festival has announced a lineup. It’s the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival, returning new venues across Canada next summer. They have announced their headliners Not Bad John Mulaney and Jim Gaffigan. They will co headline one weekend of the festival with performances in Winnipeg and Edmonton on July nineteenth and July twentieth. Festival producer Brennan McFall, in a statement, said, we couldn’t be more excited to announce this John and Jim co headline as the first couple shows for twenty twenty five.

They are longtime friends and a couple of the best comedians of our time. They’ve never performed like this, so having them on the same stage on the same night in both Winnipeg and Edmonton is going to be an unforgettable experience for everyone in attendance.

Speaking of John Mulaney, I couldn’t we get to this all week, because you kno…

Mulaney surprised Olivia Munn by showing up to present her with in Style’s Image Maker Award. John told the star studded crowd, which included Chrissy Teagan, Laverne Cox, and Hilary Duff. John said, Olivia is saving lives by speaking her truth. Is not surprising to me. Olivia is constantly trying to keep me out of danger and keep me alive through a series of texts throughout entire relationship.

Mulaney then took out his phone and read out at an example of one of their texting changes. John sheared, this was like the two hundred time I took her son out for a walk at a stroller in Chicago, troute me out of nowhere with no context. Please be so careful today. So many crazy things can come out of nowhere. I texted back, Like what, Olivia responded, crazy cars.

You don’t hear enough about crazy cars. Ronny Chieng will have a special for Netflix, this one called Love to Hate It Netflix, December seventeenth, taped at the Historic Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, where he had a five nights sold out run. The special unpacks the indignities of the IVF process, the pitfalls of being a man on the Internet, and the palace of the older Jenner in today’s world. Adrian apple Uji will have a special called The Dark Queen, directed by Louis c. K not so canceled and produced by Arishafir, now out November twelfth.

Adrian takes aim at our public figure We’re not doing that today, awkward tribute tattoos, virtual signaling, and more. This was filmed at the Comedy Seller last fall. Alasan Alabama dot com spoke to Hannibal Burs. They were curious, Annibal, you’ve been doing pop up shows lately where you announced the performance just days before it happens. What’s the appeal?

Annibill said, There’s a few things. Man. It’s just fun to kind of do things in short notice and kind of change my plans and change people’s plans and do something exciting, kind of puts a deadline on it. The tickets will sell faster a lot of times too, when it’s something like that versus the ones where I put them on sale more time. I mean, they have to just because of the nature of you know, the show’s about to happen.

There’s a lot of excitement around it, so I just like doing them these days. I don’t like having too much on the calendar. Honestly, I’m opening a venue in Brooklyn interesting, and I thought would be open by now. I thought we’re going to open in summer. So now I’m doing gigs to help pay for this venue construction all this stuff.

But the surprise element is always fun. Man, Have there not be a show one day and you know two days before day. Have sometimes let people know the show’s going on. It could be a fun energy. Al dot Com was curious, do you think you have a good level of fame, Like can you walk down the street without getting hassled?

Animal said, yeah, I can move around and go place to solo and it’s pretty normal out and about. So yeah, that’s enjoyable too. I look different now too, My hair looks different. So a lot of times, even if the people know me, I don’t look how they remember me, so they don’t end up saying anything. It’s a good advantage because then you’re able to observe people for comedy writing purposes or have conversations without you know, that affecting it.

And it’s nice to be able to go do stuff and just go to a concert solo, all kinds of things. It’s pretty mellow. I dress that on stage with certain places. I’m not gonna get bothered at a cracker barrel. I don’t get bothered when I’m at a dispensary.

They go crazy. Sarah Silverman’s vote to WPR. Sarah, you’re known for being pretty fearless in your comedy. Have you ever thought of something that’s two out of bounds even for you? Sarah said no, but there have been things I’ve decided not to talk about because They’m either too close to it or I’m not sure what’s true, what’s real?

You know, Like I think I’m semi responsible for what comes out of my mouth, but only semi responsible because I’m also a comic and I’m ten years old. Sarah’s in Madison tonight at the Orpheum Theater. If you need plans and you’re in Madison, We’ve got a private jet. And you really like comedy, she warns you. Though, my last special came out on HBO right after my parents passed away, like two weeks later, so I said zero with stand up material.

My step mom and dad died nine days apart. It was a wild experience. My dad was my best friend, so I did his eulogy, and eulogy was pretty funny. I started doing stand up talking about it, and it turns out there was a lot of comedy there. This is like the worst ad for a comedy show, but I promise it’s funny.

It’s very dark tomorrow on this program, my guest is Dez. Bishop did forty five minutes with him on Monday. I showed an excerpt about thing we’re not talking about on Tuesday’s podcast, but you can hear the whole conversation there. If you are an Irish American kid from Queens, New York who is in the bar scenes in the nineties and you’re a Mets fan, this is the pod cast for you. Some of you might listen to it and be like, what are these two even talking about?

But you know, I stayed in that lane. I’m an Irish American kid from Queens who hit the bar seat in the nineties, that I’m a Mets van and so those deads and we had a lot to talk about there. So I really enjoyed the conversation. I’ll be curious to see your reaction. That’s tomorrow.

Sunday will be a normal episode, and then you know, next week gonna have to talk about the thing we’re not talking about today, guys, which reminds me the New York Comedy Festival is at the end of next week, and I’m wondering if they were paying attention to the thing we’re not talking about today. I feel like the Comedy Festival might get completely overshadowed by that event on Tuesday that we’re not talking about. We will see this next thing is fun. On December ninth, Disney Plus and ESPN Plus will stream the Dallas Cowboys Cincinnati Bengals game. But they’re doing one of those overlays.

Was so much fun, and this one, all the players will be replaced by animated characters based on those from Simpsons. Yeah, They’ve got this cool technology where they can somehow animate the game. The full roster of Simpson’s voice talent ar participating, including Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, et cetera. They will lend their voices to pre recorded bits and skits written by the Simpsons production team that will run before and during the game, including some that involve players from each team and steven A. Smith and Peyton and Eli Manning.

The Alts cast will also have its own announcer booth with animated versions of Mina chimes. Dan Rolovsky and Drew Carter calling the game for parts of the game. Bart Simpson will appear on the field for the Bengals, replacing an actual Bengals player, while Homer Simpson will play for the Cowboys. Margin Lisa will interview players during the game. Maggie Man’s the Skycam.

Joe and Troy will have the game on the normal channel. The Manning cast will be on ESPN two. Simpson’s version on Disney Plus and ESPN Plus. I don’t know either, but I have my ways. Nudge, nudge, wink wink, say no more.

The pressure Lease tells us the Simpsons it’s a younger male demo that the NFL wants to reach. Yeah, I mean the NFL is barely reaching dudes. It’s a good thing they’re they’re connecting with a thirty five year old cartoon, or guys wouldn’t watch the end of what are you talking about? David Gabori has an album out today. It is called Birth of a Nation, available everywhere where comedy is streamed and sold.

David started doing stand up in twenty ten and san fran because a friend advised them that if he bombed, at least he wouldn’t run into anyone he knew. Recorded in Denver, David cheers what it’s like to grow up in a house full of women, mocks the emotional nature of tough guys, and confesses he believed therapy was a scam until he cried in front of his therapist. I don’t know if you know this. SNL turns fifty this year, and originally we were going to talk about it every day, and then that other topic came up and we got distracted. But we’re back to talking about SNL.

Mikey Day said, it’s odd out during a bomb, there’s no sound, so if like two people laugh, that’s super loud. Bow and Yang explained Lauren’s mantra is the audience is never wrong. It doesn’t matter how funny or prepared you are in your piece. If it doesn’t land in the room, it’s not gonna play at home. And if the audience in the bleach doesn’t like it, and that’s not their fault.

John Clees revealed the faulty Tower stage show. We’ll tour the UK next year. Clee said, it’s just wonderful to see people laughing like that because when I was growing up with all those great sitcoms, people used to laugh more than they do now, and I think people miss it a bit and there’s a little bit of nostalgia in the audience when they’re laughing. And that is your comedy news for today. Tomorrow, Dez Bishop and I we’ll talk for forty five minutes or so normal episode on Sunday and again next week.

Gonna have to talk about the thing. But hope you enjoyed the break today. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Tom Papa, Seth Meyers, Neil Brennan, John Mulaney, Stavros Halkias, Nikki Glaser, Tig Notaro, Jimmy Fallon, Andy Richter, Jay Leno, Jim Brewer

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Papa’s ‘Home Free’ special review and clean comedy approach
• Seth Meyers’ ‘Dad Man Walking’ special and title decision with director Neil Brennan
• John Mulaney hosting Saturday Night Live
• Stavros Halkias’ new movie and origin story in comedy
• Nikki Glaser’s return to Amazon Thursday Night Football coverage
• Tig Notaro working out new material at Comedy Bar Toronto residency
• Jimmy Fallon’s visit to John Belushi’s grave
• Andy Richter’s unexpected encounter with Jay Leno at a Burbank diner

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll do the Hinchcliff stuff in the second half of the podcast to give us all a break. Let me just take a minute here, let’s just catch our breath. I had to work a little bit hard to put a show together today because if you google comedy comedian, it’s all the same topic.

And I really covered that on Wednesday show. If you want to go there tomorrow on the podcast No Politics, No Tony Hinchcliff, I can guarantee that because I’ve already recorded Friday so behind the scenes. I have learned over the years of doing this that sometimes it’s good to record one in advance because life gets on the way. Fridays tend to be a day where I can do that sort of thing because it’s album released day and they’re just predictable events. On Fridays.

I did find some time to watch some comedy specials. I watched both Tom Poppa’s Home Free and Seth Meyers Dad Man Walking, both of which I have trouble remembering the titles of. For Papa, I love the beginning about parenting. Tom and I are both fifty five years old. His youngest daughter recently went off to college mine too, so I was in the zone there and everything he was saying was clicking with me.

Then there were diminishing returns as the hour went on. It’s a nice, solid special, you know, nothing amazing about it. A lot of Jim Gaffigan vibes, like a lot like if I don’t know, if you read me the transcript and told me was Jim Gaffigan’s new Special, I would be like, yeah, obviously, it is a lot. I can’t understate this, a lot of Gaffigan vibes. I thought Seth Special is actually a better version of Papa Special, both talking about being dads.

But I did like Seth Special a little bit more. Both have made my end of the Year list, but those two will be the top two in Tier two. So I’ve kind of got fifteen that are really good, and then there’s a gap to the things that deserve to make the list but aren’t as strong as those first fifteen so far, and we have a lot of specials coming for the rest of the year. Seth told the Last Laugh podcast he was very on the fence about making the title of his new specially corny pun Seth said, I was very hesitance but dad or father in the title, but director Neil Brennan made the point that it would amount to false advertising without it. Seth said, it was nice to depart from what we do every night at the TV show, and talking about my family puts me in a better mood than talking about politics.

Tom Papa spoke to the La Times. They were curious about how he works relatively clean. There are two s bombs in the new special, and Papa said it was never a conscious thing that I think about at all. The best comedy has to be true to who you are and no matter what, and honestly, I don’t really speak that way in my real life. Set a throat into my act would seemed forced and weird.

Now. In the early nineties, when I was a younger, up and coming comedian in New York City, I did think I had to be dirty and edgy to keep up with those other guys during that time, but even the audience could sell that it just didn’t fit. My personality. Wasn’t who I was, and they got that vibe. They were looking at me with weird looks.

I just figured, hey, there’s so much vulgarity in society. My act should be something of a higher quality than some kids. I heard cursing up a storm in the playground in New York City. People laugh. Well, I think I do well with it.

It’s me just being who I am. I’ve always been attracted to talking about personal things. Family life are the bigger questions of just being a human being. I do discuss politics a little bit in my life, but I feel like in comedy there are lots of other comics out there who are more skilled of that approach, and I’d rather watch those guys who were great do that and be great at my own style. John Mulaney hosts Saturday Night Live this week.

That should be good in Malanie’s usually really good episodes, and you know the thing is happening on Tuesday, so there’s plenty need to talk about. Stavros Hacki has put out that movie last Friday. I thought there’d be a lot more buzz and press from Stavros, but not so much. He did speak to Iconverse icon and shared that we got cable kind of late, like in my teen years. We got Dish Network because they had Greek channels.

Initially we weren’t allowed cable, but as soon as my dad found out he had Greek TV on it, that’s when we got it. That’s when we got Comedy Central, and at the time, Comedy Central pretty much replayed Comedy Central half hour specials. In SNL, he says, even as a baby, I would sing songs, put on my little plays, and make my family watch. My parents bought me a little taper, was a little speaking spelled type thing. Bizarrely, I would spend hours talking into it.

It’s funny to think back on now, but I was essentially recording a podcast, which is insane. So I guess even as little kids, we know were destined for. But that’s really what it was. I’ve been doing stand up since freshman year in college. It did in an open mic in the basement of my dorms.

I’ve been pretty much doing stand up since I was nineteen. It wasn’t thought out. Then you wake up one day to realize you’re a thirty five year old man with no other abilities. You have to try and pivot to movies and turn to acting to flesh out your career. But yeah, it’s as simple as I loved it growing up, and I had the chance to do it, and I did it.

That’s the origin story. It’s not even crazy. I didn’t want a job when I was nineteen and I just did stand up instead. Hey, the Jets are on Thursday night football tonight, isn’t that exciting? Last week, after the Rams played the Vikings, Amazon brought Nikki glazerback.

Remember her first appearance was terrible. I didn’t see her last week, but awful Announcing said it was better. She had a few jokes about Ram’s backup quarterback, the very handsome Jimmy Garoppolo. Laser said, Jimmy did throw a single pass, but he’s definitely brought me to completion. And yeah, maybe Jimmy’s gonna ride that bench for the rest of his career, but I want to be that bench.

Tig Nataro is working out materials. She’s doing a residency at the Comedy Bar in Toronto. She says she’s grateful for the welcoming crowds, which she refers to as the Canadian way. It’s good to see everybody understands what a comedian working out material is. Jimmy Fallon told Howard Stern a story about visiting Belushi’s grieve Howard was curious what he said to Belushi.

Fallon said, I mean, that’s between me and John. As Fallon tells the story, he cracked a beer and sat beside Belushi’s headstone and struck up a conversation with him in the dead night and says I might go back and have another one. It was great, one sided. But you know, Andy Richter told Cinnamon Blend he was at a diner a couple years ago. It was a Sunday morning and a very popular restaurant in Burbank.

There was one seat left at the counter and I sat down. I turned to my right and there was Jay Leno eating breakfast. You may recall the whole Leno Conan rivalry. Andy said, it was like, I guess we’re gonna chat now, And it was fine. You know, all that show is rivalry is like high school rivalry.

Once you’re pasted it, it’s not that important. Jim Brewer spoke to the Jackson County Sentinel. Can you tell a deep dive to not talk about Hinchcliffe in the first half? Yeah, it wasn’t much out there today, Jim said, there are always things that can become an obstacle to our happiness, and the big three for me that I smack into most or divisions in the family, financial struggles, and health issues. For me, there’s no better feeling in the world and making someone laugh and know that I’ve inspired or healed someone.

It’s nice when people tell me I’m funny, but the ones that keep me going are the ones that go up to me and say, can I just tell you I just lost my mom and you healed me. It’s the first time I’ve laughed in ages. We’re not here for very long. We’re all stuck here together. Everybody needs to be laughing, be uplifted.

We’re here to take care of each other. I’m on a mission to lift you and the only way I know how. Late Night Or asked Jordan Klepper about John Stewart’s involvement on the non Monday daily shows. Klepper said, John is hands off. He’s here on Monday and we’re in the morning meeting.

But John has a vision for his show and then he’s hands off. We’re all hands off for the other people weeks. So when you come in for your week, it’s your week, and you’re using the other correspondence and the rest of the news team to be part of that week. That’s sort of how we see it as well. We try to be part of the other host weeks so that we’re part of the show as well.

Sometimes we’re in joke meetings in the morning to give our two cents to find something fun. I’ll send Dezzy articles, she’ll send me articles or people or stories. So we’re making the show collectively in that sense. But it’s hands off when it’s not your week. The show’s complicated enough.

It’s a lot of work when you’re hosting that you kind of don’t have time to be overly democratic with a bunch of outside ideas. You’re like, all right, it’s my show. We’re gonna all work together on this. Let’s go. Terry Garr passed away Tuesday at age seventy nine.

Terry known for many fantastic things in her career, including appearances on David Letterman’s programs. Letterman’s YouTube channel posted a clip from April first, nineteen eighty three, and a short but sweet message saying, remembering one of our all time favorite guests, Terry Garr, the rest of the show is Hinchcliff and politics. Mark Norman tweeted ironically Tony Hinchcliff could use a good pr person. Mary Well crafted Lewis J. Gomez said comedians piling on a Tony should be ashamed.

We make jokes, that’s what we do.

And also most of the comics talking crap are terrible comedians who don’t act…

If you do take a look. With the exception of Michael ian Black and Mark Marin, most of the comedians commenting are less famous. Joe Biden said, I’d like to take that guy out for a swim there anyway. Robert Smigel tweeted from the Triumph accounts he signed it off RS, so I won’t do the half ass trime from pression. Smigel wrote, the sick thing about the crude comments by the Trump rally speakers is the clear contempt they have for his supporters.

Every one of those comments bombed with the audience, But Team Trump thinks they’re all dumb, racist and women haters. The deplorables were the ones on stage. The character Triumph hit the Trump rally the other day. He was chanting with some supporters. Triumph said, this is nothing like a Nazi rally.

The Nazis were in shape. First of all, they took care of themselves. I’m like this guy over here. Seriously, when I look at you, it makes me think that grocery s Aren’s expenses enough. I need some water.

I can’t get down to the gravelly part to do a half ass triumph. It’s quarter ass triumph today. On the topic of abortion, quarter ass Triumph said, what would you say about people worried about losing that right? Aside from what is it like to have six? Steven Gobert said, the Hinchcliff joke somehow broke through the noise, and as a master political satirist myself, I’m completely jealous because what we do here is jokes all the time, and it changes nothing.

What was the difference to making here the target? Okay, then tell me which country is to crap on. I’ll do it. Okay, Australia, You’re the garbage island. Anything anyone?

Gobert continued, here’s a little pro tip when you’re running for president, try not to October surprise yourself. Ronny Chieng said, it’s still crazy to me that a joke from Trump’s warm up guy seems to be having more of an impact than Trump’s actual terrible record on Puerto Rico. I mean his administration block Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane relief. Then Trump went down there and tossed paper towels another crowd, I guessed, to help them soak up the hurricane. And to top it off, Trump tried to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.

I mean he’d rather have a frozen wasteland than a tropical paradise full of brown people with good music. What a stupid idea. No one in Greenland can play shortstop. Fantastic joke there, Ronnie fantastic Jane continued, of course Trump’s not a Nazi. Okay, they all famously served in the military.

Also a great joke, and one more from Ronnie was crushing it. You may have seen Trump claim to be the opposite of a Nazi. Ronnie said, what exactly is the opposite of a Nazi? Is it the guy who started Jade eight because they’re trying to make more Jews? Or is it the guy who is like the reverse mustache like everything else but not that part good stuff.

There no politics, no hingecliffs Tomorrow, that’s your comedy needs for today. See you here,

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliffe, John Stewart, Jeff Ross, Joe Rogan, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel

What’s in This Episode

• Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial roast jokes at Trump rally
• Puerto Rico island joke backlash and celebrity response
• Late night hosts react to rally performance
• DraftKings distances from Hinchcliffe
• Trump campaign knew about and censored some jokes beforehand
• Comedian reactions and pile-on criticism
• Joe Rogan’s role in suggesting Hinchcliffe to Trump

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Today is nothing but politics and Tony Hinchcliff. If that’s not your thing, if that doesn’t float your boat, and you want to check out, and I’ll see you tomorrow, no problem, I understand. For those of you who are sticking around, Let’s start with John Stewart, who maybe perhaps has added some sanity to this discussion.

Now, obviously in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before election day and roasting a key voting demographic probably not the best decision by the campaign politically. But to be fair, the guy’s really just doing. What he does. I mean, here he is at the Tom Brady roast a few months ago. The Great Jeff Ross.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff is so Jewish he only watches football for the coin toss. Gronk, you look like the Nazi that kept burning himself on the ovens. Kevin is so small that when his ancestors picked cotton they called it deadlifting. Jess. Yes, of course, terrible boo.

Yes, there’s something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny. So I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and have him not do roast jokes. I’d be like bringing Beyonce to a rally, not.

Oh Joe Coy’s got to be pretty happy he’s off the hook. Both fans of Taylor Swift and the Chiefs have formed a united front against Tony Hinchcliff. One of the jokes Hinchcliff said was, I don’t know about you guys, but I think Travis Kelcey might be the next O. J. Simpson.

Not even sure what that means. It is not a good joke. He then continued, and I have played this clip. The other side’s got a lot of crazy endorsements, Taylor Swift, M and M Leo DiCaprio, Beyonce. Every day the Democratic Party looks more like a P Diddy party.

When social media use tweeted, oh, this m effort didn’t only go full racist after he went after Travis Kelcey. And I’m pretty sure Taylor Swift is going to effing zue his behind for the Diddy comments. Hashtag Chiefs Kingdom, hashtag Magga cults. A lot of comedians are chiming in and for the most part it’s not famous comedians, so I think many things can be true. I think the joke was awful.

I think the environment amplified the joke being awful just as a joke in general. And I think perhaps, possibly, maybe there’s some jealousy of Tony Hinchcliffe’s success here. Samantha Ruddy tweeted, starting to think the guy whose primary source of income is showcasing every city’s most desperate, mentally ill comedians and then ripping them to shreds might be bad. Brandon Cooney tweeted, and stay with this one. One time at the roast Battle, Tony Hinchcliff was a judge and he tried to make fun of this random open micer.

But the open micer said, yeah, but what happened to your Netflix special? That really sucked? And the crowd uproariously laughed at his face, and he came back with I had a Netflix special and you’re an open micer, And the open micer said, yeah, but it was really bad, and the crowd laughty even harder. And my memory’s not one hundred but I’m pretty sure he started at Tony sucks chant that pretty much everyone joined Theanon and people were legit giving him high fives. That open micer’s name was Tim Walls.

Guy Brainham tweeted, to be fair, none of the comics had a great set at Nuremberg either. James Corden. Writer Sean O’Connor wrote, there is something so incredible about seeing the worst comedian in the world bomb so hard he changes the course of US history. Laurie Kilmartin wrote, in my opinion, roast jokes work because you have to fight your inner no to laugh at them. And the people at Trump’s rally probably call Puerto Rico afloating garbage sheep every morning before they leave for work.

It’s not a joke to them, not even a roast joke. In Carmel, who was the head writer for James Cordon, tweeted, big day on here for your favorite comedian’s least favorite comedian. Chris Estrada tweeted, more than ever we need Will Smith to slap a comedian. Michael ian Black I’ll talk more about in a second, wrote I think America just found its next Jim Brewer. Robin Tran wrote, most of the comedians piling on Tony making jokes about him.

That’s what we do when we don’t like somebody, We make jokes about them. W camal Bell said, Tony Hinchcliff’s career with Trump barely lasted a tenth of a Scaramucci, Devin Costa. Democrats are finally outraged at a bombing. The Late Night crew got involved, Seth Myers. Do you know how bad something has to be for the Trump campaign to distance themselves from it?

Trump won’t even distance himself from Hannibal Lecter. He’s bragging about how similar he is to Scarface. Colbert said, Buddy, you don’t get to call something a floating pile of garbage when you’re standing on top of Penn Station. They clean off the pe with fresher pe Kimmel. It was ugly, it was mean, It was hateful, it was racist, it was anti Semitic, it was stupid.

They really pissed off Porto Ricans to the point that Bad Bunny had to get involved. And that’s when you know you’ve got a problem. Has Tony blown his relationship with Draft Kings. Hinchcliffe at one point had tweeted about the start of the NBA season with a promo code for new betters. That post has now been deleted.

Multiple other Draft King promo posts have apparently been deleted. Hinchcliff recently was on ESPN’s Game Day and crack some jokes. I shared those with you last week. DraftKings, in a statement, said the commentsary made by Tony Hinchcliff does not reflect the views of DraftKings. I think that’s in reference to the ESPN stuff and not the appearance at the Trump rally, but I’m not sure.

The New York Post reported that Tony actually worked out the material at a comedy club the night before the appearance Saturday night. Tony was reportedly at the stand NBC News quote happened to have a news producer in the audience. Unquote. That’s interesting. I guess news producers go to comedy clubs.

No way, they were tipped off right. According to that report, the joke when told that the strand, did not get any laughs, only a handful of awkward chuckles. The Daily Beast reported Trump’s campaign had prior knowledge of the jokes in Hinchcliff’s speech, and even censored one joke for being too extreme. A campaign insider it told The Bulwark Tony Hinchcliffe had a joke calling Harris a C word. Let’s just say it was a red flag.

Four sources in the Trump campaigns said that staffers as speaker to submit draft speeches prior to the event. While reviewing, Tony said the C word remark was spotted and the convenient was asked to remove it. Campaign insiders who spoke to The Bulwark claimed, however, they didn’t notice the other controversial jokes, claiming those were ad libbed. I’ve watched a lot of comedy in my time. The island joke to me does not at all appear to be ad libbed.

Maybe he didn’t submit it for review, but it’s not like he was doing crowd work and threw that out there. No way, in my opinion. The Daily Beach reports that the insiders were divided on whether or not Tony’s immigration unprotected sex double on Tandra about how Hispanics come inside the country was pre approved. Daniel Alvarez, a Trump senior advisor, said the island joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign. The Daily be suggests that it was Joe Rogan who put the idea of Hinchcliff into Donald Trump’s breen.

On the August fourteenth episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan apparently said it would behoove him to hire a few great comics to just tour them and just write one liners about all these different effing people, if he could remember them. I like how he goes off in his own head, but if he could remember a few Hinchcliff bangers, if he hires Hinchcliff to take him on the road, you know how effing insane that would be Hingecliff writing bangers for Trump to crap on people paraphrasing. Sticking with Rogan, he explained why Kamala Harris has not been on the podcast yet. Joe Rogan tweeted for the record, the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast. They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour.

I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is just to have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. I really hope we can make that happen. Jd Vance is scheduled to tape with Rogan today Michael Ian Black as a sub stack, he wrote about all this. Some of his substacks says, the problem is when you try to take a roast format and bring it to a mega rally.

What are the tenets of the roast format is that it’s all in good fun. Host and guests make fun of each other, no holds barret, and everybody walks away shaking hands and maybe making out, probably not making out. What makes the roast work is that it’s ironically a safe space and nobody gets bent out of shape because everybody understands the format. Not so much at a mega rally where harm is very much intended. Tony’s racist jokes by themselves or whatever kind of hackey, but who cares In the context of one of Trump’s hate of thons, though, they cease being jokes and start being just some more wallpaper with which to decorate the Eagle’s nest.

Mark Marin posted a lengthy statement on his own website, More about the Election, Less about Hingecliff Maron writes, the Democratic idea anxious, folks. We’re all anxious. I assume it’s funny. I don’t do a political show, but I am very political innately, I keep up I read too many clickbait pieces as I waver between almost uncontrollable fear and not really hope but just fantasizing for an outcome Tho’ll guarantee the process of culture and freedom of mind for everyone. Once tolerance is removed from the dialogue, democracy suffocates.

Even though I don’t do a political show, I’ve been very clear in my specials and on the podcast that I believe in a belief for years what’s brewing in the country is an American fascist movement half in grievance and half in Jesus, enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources. Skipping ahead, Marin turned to comedy and said, the anti wop flank of the New Fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics my peers. Whether or not they’re self serving or true believers and the New Fascism is unimportant. They are of the movement. Whether they see themselves as acolytes or just comics doesn’t matter.

Whether they’re driven by the idea that what they’re fighting for is a free speech issue, whether they’re truly morally bankrupt racist doesn’t matter. They’re part of the public face of a fascist political movement that seeks to destroy the democratic idea. When comedians with podcasts have shameless self proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their side to joke around like they’re just entertainers, even politicians, all does is humanize and normalize fascism. It may be all self serving, greedy influencers and comics and public personalities, and certainly tech companies want to align themselves with an unapologetic right wing movement. There’s no concerns for regulation or law or justice or decency or democracy to increase their earnings and put them in the seat of power.

Mark continues and signs off, and Joe love marin Vulture rights that Hinchcliff would use this platform to tell jokes if this nature would have been unsurprising to anyone familiar with his work. He is first and foremost a roast comic who revels in shock. It’s a sensibility he developed as a means to capture audience attention at the Comedy Store in la where he honed his chops back in twenty seventeen, Hingecliffe said, my style is very much arranged around the darkness and extremely late spots and having to be compelling. I had no choice. Normally, by the time I go on stage, they’ve already seen fourteen of the best comedians in town.

Skipping ahead Vulture Rights. Trump has been courting young male podcast listeners aggressively in recent weeks, with appearances on Rogan Andrew Schultz, THEO Vaughn. Most of these comedians are political agnostics. They’re too interested in maintaining their image as nonpartisan freethinkers to explicitly support one presidential candidate over another at a rally. But Hinchcliff has long been a public proponent of Trump.

Yet Hinchcliffe’s comedy style was never going to fly in the setting when broadcast to the public. A presidential rally is not a kill Tony open mic skipping ahead Vulture Rights, Hingchecliffe set in its entire beer to play fine in the room. At one point, Tony said, Republicans are the party with a good sense of humor, free speeches under attack unquote Vulture Rights. Then, like clockwork, a bunch of Democrats got mad. Legitimacy of the grievances unfortunately irrelevant.

If the Trump campaign booked Hingecliff to convey to his audience that’d vote for them as a vote to protect the uninhibited comedy that see it. It killed Tony’s show. They might have just gotten that message across the only Times dove In Lori kil Martin asked, if George Carlin was alive right now and doing a podcast, would he have Trump on it? Would Trump want to appear on it? I think no to both.

Hmm, interesting question. I would have to ask Kelly Carlan what she thinks George would do. I’m struggling to even imagine George having a podcast if I had a pick. I don’t know if Carland would want to amplify the Trump message or if he would have him on and slam with words. Kill Martin said, as comedians, I think we’re supposed to be the ones making politicians uncomfortable, not comfortable.

I never liked it when presidents appeared on SNL when the comics were impersonating them. They should be running away from you, not cozying up to you. And the ones that do push back. Trump’s not going on. Andy Kindler said, if you look at Trump now, you know the Trump will forever be seen as one of the most evil people in the history of the world.

As for podcasters having Trump on, they know there’s money and saying something’s wrong with being woke. People listen to Joe Rogan and they don’t vaccinate themselves. People have died listening to the lies. I don’t even know what you say about a company like Spotify. All they care about is the numbers of the people who listen to his show.

Mark Marin said, even if you’re a comic, when is across the line they’re normalizing fascism when they have these guys on their show. Because the Delivery System is a comedy podcast. Would you say yes, you could be on my show and talk to my people and us on platform, even if you think it’s gonna be a laugh. I’m gonna talk to Trump about cocaine. Me and Trump could talk about wrestling.

Even if you think it’s good for your show, it’s self serving. It’s going to get you a bunch of new followers and make you some money. You’re still facilitating and helping a fascist no matter what you’re claiming going to be Libertarians are apathetic or both siders. We’re just trying to get to the truth. They made it very clear Trump and his minions what they want, and it’s not democracy.

It’s fundamentally Unamerican. There’s a point where it’s not funny anymore. This is not just another election. It’s really not all right. That was a lot there.

Let’s take the break, let’s be right back in all this hinchclop stuff. I forgot to mention did I even share with you? I started watching Seth Myers. I was watching him between the end of Red Zone and the beginning of Sunday Night Football. I got maybe twenty minutes in.

I liked it. I thought it was pretty good. But I’m a suburban dad, so it was speaking to me. On Tuesday night, I was hoping to watch pop Up, but I may or may not have had too much work to do. This hinge clup stuff’s creating a lot of extra work.

And there’s been sports on seven nights a week. You know, the World Series. The Jets are on Thursday Night Football, and you know I love making fun of the Jets. So I might be Friday before I get to Papa John Stewart, who we started with. He is going to extend his time in the hosting chair at the Daily Show he’ll be there at least through December twenty twenty five, still doing only Mondays.

Stuart, in a statement said, I’ve truly enjoyed being back working with the incredible team at the Daily Show in Comedy Central, hoping to allow me to do every other Monday, but I’ll just have to suck it up.

Speaking of Seth Meyers, on a recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Me…

And we did kind of hop back at the studio and made some songs. Unclear how many, because we’re not sure how many we deem releasable, Lakiva Shaffer said, and there’s still a bunch that are half songs where it’s like, if we could get some time to go back to the studio, we might be able to crack the rest of that one. Samberg said. It’s harder now because they don’t have the outlet they once had on SNL to get songs written and recorded. They have to go out of their way to make time in their schedule, and you have to get them out there somehow.

And that is your comedy news for today. That was a lot, see tomorrow.

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Featured: Tom Papa, Tony Hinchcliffe, Andy Kindler, Gianmarco Soresi, Mike Leah Black, Jesse Case, Congressman Richie Torres, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Pete Davidson, Machine Gun Kelly

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Papa Netflix Special ‘Home Free’
• Tony Hinchcliffe Puerto Rico Joke Controversy at Trump Rally
• Comedians React to Hinchcliffe’s Controversial Material
• Kill Tony Podcast Becomes #1 on YouTube
• Jamie Foxx Netflix Taping Claims About Diddy
• Pete Davidson Tattoo Removal and Public Appearance

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Caloroga Shark Media. Idy Home Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Papa back on Netflix with his new special Home Free. It’s his third four Netflix. In Home Free, Papa holds nothing back as his kids are finally out of the house and it’s just him, his wife, and a bunch of animals ready to return to their glory days.

Tom is seeing a lot over the years, from close calls with a pachinkle ball to late night seven eleven runs, and he’s sharing all his thoughts as he parties under the next stage of his life. I can relate. I don’t know if I feel like I’m an empty nester, but none of the birds are home. Man, It’s just me and the wife and the dog. And you know what I do on Saturday now, I don’t know either.

I’ve been going to soccer games for a decade and a half. Now I’m like, oh, I don’t have anything today, and I wind up taking out the laptop and making seven hours of podcast for the various things here on Calaruga Shrek Media. By the way, you can get this show and all the other is commercial free, so it’s not just this one. When I hit you up for the five bucks. This one you get like twenty shows.

Link in the show notes for an Apple podcast, click the banner. Papa jokes. Now that they’re all gone, nobody tells you how hard it’s going to be pretending to be sad. It is sad, Tom, you know it’s sad. You know it’s a little lonely Papa till the la times.

I guess I had a typical experience with my daughters going to college. That’s so called empty nest syndrome. But I’m not sure when the first one went. We were crying for a month. It was a two year time span.

But then the second one left and we found ourselves making dinner reservations and kind of excited about the whole thing. Like I thought to myself, I could do what I want and I can actually enjoy things once in a while without being on someone else’s schedule. In case you missed it, on Sunday, I dropped a bonus episode which shared the clips of Tony Hinchcliff. You’ve probably seen Tony in the news right now. As I suspected his set got a lot of attention, Tony Hinchcliffe tweeted, these people have no sense of humor while that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his busy schedule to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist.

I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone, watch the whole set. I’m a comedian, Tim might be time to change your tampon. Some comedians weigh in. Andy Kidler replied directly to that tweet, writing years ago, when I did your kill Tony show at a festival, I didn’t know who you were.

I just assumed you were a highly unpleasant a hole. You certainly weren’t funny. You’re a grifter hack that wants to cash in by catering to your Maga Nazi friends like Rogan Gianmarco Soresi Ciresi. Three separate tweets, One, he wrote, it’s never a pretty sight when an Austin comic tries out his material in New York two politics aside, there are so many better racist comedians who deserve that RNC gig over Tony Hinchcliff. Third one, you ever notice when there’s a debate about the acceptability of a joke, it’s almost always over one of the worst jokes you’ve ever heard.

Mike lean Black wrote, are you bleeping kidding me? And you work? Has this guy never seen West Side Story? But sure no racism within the Trump campaign. And I like this one from Jesse Case who wrote the really sad part is that Tony works six months.

Is MSG’s door guy for that set? All right? Some folks are looking for me to comment. Now, Look, it’s political season. I’m not I’m trying to lose half the audience.

All I want you to do is vote whoever you’re for. You vote. I will comment on the joke itself. As a joke, it’s a bit hack. For example, you could sub in Ireland, Long Island, Epstein Island and the joke works the same.

For example, say we’re in Los Angeles during the World Series and I said this joke. I don’t know if you know this, but there’s a floating island of garbage. I think it’s called Manhattan that would probably play in Los Angeles. Now you’re already writing me notes. I get it in context at the event.

Sure, in context at the event specific choice of Ireland. It is not the same as my World Series example. Congressman Richie Torre is Democrat from New York tweeted, pretty good line. As Puerto Rican I’m tempted to call Hinchcliffe racist garbage, but doing so would be an insult to garbage. The Trump campaign has distance itself from the joke.

Campaign senior advisor Daniel Alvarez said that this joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign. Tim Walls asked, who is that? Jack wad comedian ANDREWS Slater. If Tony Hinchcliffe cost Trump the election, then him becoming rich off being an awful hack was all worth it.

Meanwhile, an educational nonprofit that had planned a pair of comedy shows i…

Okay, well we did, wouldn’t think so. I don’t know why you brought that up. What’s the story here, John? The Gala Venue in San Juan posted a social media announcement saying they were canceling an appearance by Tony Hinchcliff. Ports are that that statement said we announced the cancelation of the Tech My School event where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was set to perform due to disrespectful comments towards Puerto Rico at gala.

We value respect for our culture and community. Puerto Rico deserves respect. But tech My School, the nonprofit that had planned the two comedy shows at gala, said Hinchcliffe was never scheduled to perform. On their page, they said they were featuring two comedians, Enrique Chicone and Heath Cordes, both of whom have previously appeared on Kill Tony. Says Tony Hinchcliff has never been invited nor included in the programming of our fundraising event.

Podcast newsletter podnews happened to share on Monday that new data from Tubular Lab shows that Kill Tony is now the number one podcast on YouTube, with nine hundred and thirty three point five million US minutes watched across YouTube and Facebook, up twenty one percent month over month and two hundred and thirty eight percent on the year. This was prior to the rally on Sunday. Some folks on social media are sharing this joke George Lopez made at a tim Walls rally. After the word overnight, Lopez walks away from the microphone. Donald Trump said he was gonna build a wall, and George Lopez said, you better build it in one day, because if you leave that material out there overnight.

The argument there is that Lopez made fun of his own, whereas Hingecliff took a shot at others from Yahoo. Eyewitnesses who are at Jamie Fox’s now net Flix taping said Jamie made some claims about Diddy. Three separate people claimed that Fox made comments indicating that Diddy was responsible for his hospitalization in twenty twenty three. According to page six, Yeahoo writes, though a source tells in Touch that there’s no truth to Diddy putting Jamie in the hospital, or remains unclear whether the comments were a joke or not. One of the eyewitnesses said he didn’t think Jamie was joking.

Y’all can determine whether he was joking or not when you see the show, because to me, I’m a new comedian. I’ve learned, and I know when somebody setting up a punchline, and I know when you’re serious. After he said, yeah, Diddy’s the one that did something to me, he said, and I’m the one who called the FEDS on him. Comedy Hype assed are we saying that Jamie responded and alerted whatever activity Puff had going on to shut him down as his get back director Choke No Joke said, Jamie was scared, right, he disappeared, right, He’s out in public now as soon as Puff went to jail. Well, that’s all kinds of interesting.

Meanwhile, on gossip Corner, Pete Davidson’s surface looking healthy and in good spirits. He was at a Clippers game with his friend mischie Gun Kelly. Eyewitnesses notice that Pete is now largely tattooed less. The tattoos that once covered his neck and arms appear dramatically faded or completely gone, perhaps due to laser tattoo removal. In May of twenty one, Pete told Seth Myers, it takes like three hours.

You have to get there three hours early to cover all your tattoos because for some reason, people in movies they don’t have them that much. So I’m burning them all off. But burning them off is worse than getting them.

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Also, tonight the Cool Comedy and Hot Cuisine fundraiser, This is the one Bob…

Jeff Ross will host the event. Both Jeff Ross and John Mayer will be honored with the Bob Saggat Legacy Award, recognizing their commitment to continue Bob Sagget’s sum mission of raising awareness for the Scleroderma Research Foundation.

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Also performing Whitney Cummings, Alex Edelman, Chris Hardwick apparently out…

Ali Wong was on Hot Ones. Sean Evans was curious, saying, I read the first place you ever did stand up was at the Brainwashed Cafe on Fulsom and San Fran. Can you paint the picture for us? Kelly said, oh, my gosh, this is a deep cut. The place has been closed since twenty seventeen.

She said it was literally like half cafe, half laundromat one hundred percent homeless shelter, and the show had start at five pm and you do three minutes to people doing naughty things to themselves and folding their laundry and a lot of comics judging you. It was great. She then talked about the tender loin neighborhood, saying those loins are not so tender in that neighborhood. Like if you step outside of our little theater, you will step in human feces. For sure.

It was gross and scary to enter an exit every single time.

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And then my god, the audience, the poor audience, they got trapped.

They got catfish into being there, and they knew it and I knew it, and I felt bad for them. Hey, did you know that Saturday Night Live is turning fifty? Did you hear about this? Well, we are going to talk about it every single day Today. I will tell you that Bo and Yang did not want to play JD.

Vance. It was that Lorne Michael’s guy, insisting. Yang said, up until the show, I tapped Louren on the shoulder and I was in the full beard and I was like, you can do a buyback if you want. Yang explained he initially had trouble getting into the character because he found him to be hollow. Then Bowen watched Hillbilly Elogy and learned that Advance had questioned his sexuality when he was younger, but was quickly shot down by Mama.

Yang said, I was like, oh, this guy doesn’t have a personality because he’s never had the spine to claim it. Send your letters to bow and Yang and I will remind you it’s going to be really hard not to be political these next nine or so days. What do we down to? No, it’s a week now, eight eight days, I guess. North Star News spoke to Lewis Black, who’s retiring at the end of the year.

Any regrets, Lewis said, you’d be nuts if you didn’t. But I’ve had a really good career, so I can regret all I want. But people will be going, really, you’re gonna cry about that. Everything just kind of worked out. But I did deal with some jackasses I shouldn’t have.

I was never good at business or show business, and I’ve worked with some real a holes. He had good advice for aspiring comics, actors and writers. Lewis says, just do it and do it again, and then do it again and do it again. Get a group of people you like to work with. So if you want to be a comic, at three or four people who like you, and pick your spot to do an open mic night we’re reading of a play.

But work and work. The shortest distance between two points is to keep doing it. If that’s it. If you’re writing, wake up and write. If you’re doing stand up, doesn’t matter.

If you’ve got three people in the world you’re still doing stand up. It doesn’t matter if you’re five people in the world, you’re still reading a play. You can do all that together as one thing. What’s lewis most excited for in the future, he says, not having to do a lot of stuff. Jimmy Fallon, He’s been in the news a lot lately.

He’s getting an hour long holiday music special air in primetime after the annual presentation of Christmas and Rockefeller Center aka the Tree Lighting aka thing New Yorkers hate. Do you have any idea what lighting the tree at five point thirty does to traffic in New York City? Do you have any idea what it’s like to walk anywhere between Times Square and that tree? Come? I don’t know.

Thanksgiving to about January second Nightmare Well, bah humbug Jimmy Fallon’s holiday seasoning spectacular, We’ll see Jimmy Fallon reunited with many of the performers is featured on his new album, including Megan Trainer, Dolly Parton, JB Smooth, The Jonas Brothers, Timberlake, ll The Roots, and We’re Now. December fourth, ten pm. Jordan Klepper specials on Comedy Central tonight at eleven thirty pm, I will be asleep.

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Also, the people did the press release screwed up.

It says the special premiere on Comedy Central at eleven thirty pm Eastern Standard time. We’re still on eastern daylight time, folks. People try a little too hard with that standard thing. I see people mess that up all the time. Major pet peeve of mine because I work in broadcasting, and when you do national programming and satellites and whatnot are involved, you have to be exact.

So if you mean eleven thirty pm e DT you say that, I digress. The terribly titled The Daily Show presents Colon Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Colan Rally. Together, we’ll see Jordan travel to Trump events in swing states over the elections crucial closing days. This time he’ll bring along some curious friends at experts in their fields to help unpack and understand why so Americans are supporting Donald Trump. Yesterday I recorded with Dez Bishop.

By the way, his new special is Fantastic. It is called of All People. You will find it on YouTube. I having in my top specials of the year pretty high up. I think around number eleven that will be the Saturday episode.

But we did talk about Tony Hinchcliff, and I thought i’d pull out a rather long clip here, So here is Dez and I talking about Tony. Has Tony Hinchcliff made the news in Ireland yet? Well, it’s hard for me to know if he’s made the news in Ireland because I’ve very much been on top of that story. So, I mean, I have a lot of thoughts on all that stuff. Can I just make a quick disclaimer the reason why I know that you’re not really a video guy, but I’m outside because fun fact about Ireland.

Ireland does its fireworks. For Halloween, not for the fourth of July, and it’s leading up to Halloween, so there’s a lot of fireworks. So the dog goes insane. So I’ve had to go outside and leave the dog inside, so you may hear faint barking, but it could be a lot worse. And trust me, when I’m not recording, it’s so much worse with me and the dog in the house.

But anyway, on the Tony Hinchcliff front, I mean, where do we start? So I try not to hang myself on this show. You know, people don’t come to this thing for politics. They come for me to speak with comedians. So my take on it, if I break it down just as a joke in no context, for example, during the Subway series, if I go to Los Angeles and I go, hey, there’s a floating pile of garbage on an island, it’s called Manhattan.

If I do that during the World Series in LA that joke might fly, But in the context in the room it was done, it takes on whole other connotations and it’s really not a good joke. It’s a one out of ten, two out of ten joke, max. It’s dated on top. Of it, and I’m not like one to come after Tony Hinchcliff. But in the context of the importance of the week and a half that we’re in leading up to.

An election, like, why you would choose like a. Dated target like Puerto Ricans, Like because obviously you can, like you just did, you can insert whatever island you want onto that joke. It’s it’s pretty basic. At the roast of Tom Brady, if they’re roasting like a Puerto Rican comic that was on the DACE, then you might go, Okay, you know, there’s a lot of that type of joke at roasts, but like when the world’s cameras are on you and you’re a comedian and it’s fine, you’ve been hired to make some jokes leading up to it, Like why you would choose that as your joke? I mean you want to make that point, like, oh, you can joke about anything, but it’s actually kind of like it’s juvenile, it’s immature, and it’s.

Actually it’s really stupid. Like I actually think Trump is kind of stupid, So. I think that like he would never think broad enough to go Maybe I shouldn’t have a risky comedian on like this close to an election when certain states votes might literally hinge on twenty thousand people, Like it didn’t Georgia twenty two thousand people. He may have shifted enough votes to change a state. That’s insane.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like this thing without commercials, check the link in the show notes. Short version there five bucks a month.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Lorne Michaels, Ricky Gervais, Hasan Minhaj, Sebastian Maniscalco, Sasha Baron Cohen, Fortune Feimster

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis SNL firing: Lorne Michaels claims NBC made the decision, not him
• Ricky Gervais Mortality tour receives negative reviews for relying on online culture wars
• Hasan Minhaj special praised for strong second half comedy after slow start
• Sebastian Maniscalco announces new Hulu special ‘It Ain’t Right’ as part of monthly Hulu comedy series
• Fortune Feimster Netflix special ‘Crushing It’ coming December 3rd
• SNL 50th anniversary upcoming

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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, well, well, the Lorne Michael Shane Gillis SNL story keeps changing. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Lauren said it wasn’t his decision to kick Shane Gillis off the show. You may recall Shane Gillis was going to be in the cast and then wasn’t.

Lawren Michaels told The Wall Street Journal, Shane said something stupid, but it got blown up into the end of the world. I was angry. I thought, you haven’t seen what we’re gonna do and what I’m gonna try to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing. The Shane thing was twenty nineteen. It’s been five years, Lauren.

I don’t know now that he’s popular. Oh yeah, I always love Shae Gills. What’s going on here? According to Lauren, NBC made the call that was very strong from the people in charge, and obviously I was not on that side, but I understood it. Michael said he has stayed in touch with Gillis as Shane has now become one of the country’s top acts.

I don’t know if you know this SNL is turning fifty and we’re gonna talk about it every day. Rigular Vase has a news special. You know, I was tempted. I saw on Friday that he added a second show to Radio City, and I was like, maybe I should go see Ricky Gervas.

And then I was like, I’d have to go all the way into Manhattan.

It’s easier to get to LA from my house than Manhattan. Manhattan if from New Jersey is a nightmare. I’m serious. He gets somebody to drop you at Newark Airport, You get on a plane, you listen to podcasts for six hours, you’re in LA. You know how annoying it is to take a train or a bus or to drive heaven forbid to New York City.

And then once you get to Manhattan, there’s nothing to do with your car, even if you have one thousand dollars, there is nowhere to put it. Slight exaggeration. Don’t hass on minaj me. There I have digressed. Ricky Gervais has a new tour.

It is called Mortality. Lewis Chilton reviewed it for The Independent and didn’t like it. He writes, few comedians have been altered so drastically by the sickly mirror of social media than Ricky Gervais, the man who was once comedy’s great television innovator. What makes Jerves such a curious case is that little of his work feels particularly modern. There’s nothing really about any of his TV projects, brillantly Biting the office, sin extras, mawkish care home dramedy, Derek Warwick Davis fronted cringe sitcom Life’s Too Short, award winning grief comedy After Life that really situates it in the era of Twitter feeds and Instagram filters.

I don’t think we had those when the UK Office started, But again I digress. His stand up comedy Too, which has remateialized this week with the launch of a new UK tour, is in its choice of material almost doggedly at a vistic hope. I said the word right, and I don’t know what it means. I’m looking it up. Looks like I pronounced it correctly at a vistic relating to or characterized by reversion to, something ancient or ancestral.

If you go to a Ricky Gervas’s show, you will invariably see him fixate on age old subjects such as religion, science, or philosophy, his frames of reference would not be so very out of place half a century ago, and yet Gervase’s recent work is utterly immersed in the discourse churn of the Twitter sphere. His routines now devote considerable energy towards ridiculing those online dissenters who have called him out for ableism or transphobic comedy, and goading them with more of the same. The Telegraphs review says that Ricky seems like a man who used to be the funniest bloke in the pub, delivering material written after spending too much time online. It’s a damning assessment, perhaps because it feels so plainly true. Then this article gets into Ricky being on Twitter all the time, and Twitter being owned by Elon Musk, and some Elon Musk commentary that I think is for somebody who is digressing a lot today.

I think we’re a little far afield here. Let’s get back to the comedy part. Ricky has not been canceled, not even close. What value then, is there in molding his entire persona around opposition to a force that has no material power by aiming his munitions at a nebulous enemy online back lashty quote unquote ooke mob. He’s waging a battle that can never be won or lost, so he’s free to keep shooting again and again and again.

I was gonna talk in the second half of the podcast about Hasan Minhaj’s special, but I guess let me jump into that here. So I’m all over the place today, right, So now we’re talking about Hasan Minhaj’s special, which is fantastic. I’ll give you a review in the second But where my brain went is Hasson makes a good point about how he got, you know, hung out in the media for exaggerating things for comedic effect. Maybe Ricky is just crafty and realizes, oh, this persona works and people laugh at it, and I make money and then I go home and donate money to animal charities. Maybe he knows exactly what he’s doing, and maybe you’re thinking way too much about what the on stage persona is.

I’ve never met Ricky the man, but maybe it’s an act, you know, all right, Hasan Minhaj. While I brought it up, I really liked it. The first thirty minutes of Hassan is compelling but not funny, high energy speech giving. Then around the thirty minute mark the jokes start coming fast and furious and some laugh out loud stuff. He has at that point set the crowd up for a lot of pins that he knocks down on the second half of the special really strong.

I’ll come back to him in the second half of the podcast. Back to Ricky Gervais. The Daily Mails review said Ricky has admitted he may have finally gone too far the joke about Jimmy Seville Sir James Wilson Vincent’s vill was an English media personality and DJ. If you google Jimmy you will see words like sexual abuse and the most disgusting human being I’ve ever met and survivors, so you can get what’s going on there. I’m here to do a comedy podcast, so let’s not go there.

But Ricky Gervaise claims he may have gone too far with a joke about Jimmy. The Daily Mail tells us the hour long show includes some controversial gags, which is unsurprising given Jerva’s unapologetic attitude, with jokes about disabled children Gandhi and another about Pakistan’s sharial laws. Another approach to comedy is what Sebastian Manuscalco does, and Hulu likes it and they’ve added him to Hularious. Hey, Hulu publicists, get back to me. Man looks like whoever did this press release had a tap dance.

The special, which is not yet dated, is now listen to this. This is the most generic Sebastian Manuscaco description possible. Is expected to tackle what Manuscalco sess the absurdities of modern life, from non existent manners and wallet wins prices to the chaos of social media. Yeah, that’s what he does. It’ll be filmed during his current it Ain’t Right tour.

Sebastian gave a statement, how many times do you catch yourself thinking it ain’t right? This special is my way of uniting us. That’s so hacky. This special is my way of uniting us to laugh at the ridiculousness of the world around us. And I’m thrilled to share with my fans.

So get your sweats on, pop yourself some popcorn, and get ready to laugh. No date on this, but Hulu is not messing around. So now we have gaff again. Bill Burr, Sebastian, Christa Stefano, Alana Glazer Jessica Kurson, Mittel Lane, oscar At Kotska, and Roy Wood. They’re gonna do one of these a month, So let’s say that’s one, two, three for Isaac seven eight, so we’ve got four more to go.

Fortune Fimesir will get a Netflix special on December third. This one called Crushing It. Fortune shares hilarious stories from her life, including her romantic honeymoon with her wife and her reflections on no longer being her mom’s surrogate husband. The special will be packed with Fortune’s take on navigating relationships, personal growth, and the hilarities of everyday life. Sasha Baron Cohen was on The Tonight Show and dust it off both Borat and Allie g I’m not going to attempt either impression here, but Borat facetiously asked Donald Trump, you say in Ohio that people eat the cats and the dogs.

What at restaurant do they serve them? Matt? Can you get me a reservation? Please? In my country, we have KFC Kazakh fried cat.

He then made a joke about it being I don’t even know how to clean this up. Body part looking good? Think about it? Cats? You got it?

Move on? Fallon asked Borat what he would say to Kamala Harris. Borat not. Johnny Mac said, you are a woman, a person of colors, and married to a Jew. I advise you not to come to Kazakhstan.

You’ve already made three out of four crimes punishable death. Please do not tell me that you have also made sexy time with an underage bear. Borad added, mister Trump, sir, that remind me after your visit five years ago to the almighty beautiful Bear pageant. We paid the hush moneies to gather the grizzly problem solved. Thank you for your nuclear secrets.

In return, Fallon asked ali G what he would say to Trump again. No impressions out of me today, ali G said, Yo, mister Trump, you’ve been convicted of thirty two crimes, you still classified documents, You bone enough porn stars, and you never pay no taxes. Respect you, my hero. Alig to Harris, when me look at you on the television, me get a massive election, Olig assured both candidates. Whatever happened, me is just glad that the next president won’t have white skin.

Johnny Carson has rolled over in his grave. I do have one more, Sasha Baron Cohen item and I just wanted to get into the commercial break on the Johnny Carson line. Sasha pledged five hundred thousand dollars in donations to the International Rescue Committee and Save the Children USA to aid in airwork in war torn Sudan, where eleven million people have been displaced and estimated seven hundred and fifty five thousand people are living in feminine conditions there. Nice job by Sasha. The National Comedy Center has launched a special exhibit to honor Norman Lear’s legacy of civic engagement.

There’s an installation inside the Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, and an online companion exhibit featuring rare archival materials and curated excerpts from Leader sitcoms. On Lear’s ninety ninth birthday in twenty twenty one, he reflected, the right to vote is foundational. It is the heart of everything I’ve fought for in war in peacetime. Protecting voting rights should not be today’s struggle, but it is, and that means it is our struggle, yours and mine, for as long as we have breath and strength. As I’ve been saying on recent episodes.

It’s going to be really hard not to talk about politics for these next ten days or so. I will strongly encourage you to vote. Vote for whoever you want, but vote. And this next story makes me sad. The Back to the Future musical is ending its Broadway run.

I immediately texted my daughter, who’s much more to the Broadway shows than I am, and I said, we got to go see this. You’re in charge, so she’s getting us tickets. Back to the Future the music will end its Broadway run on January fifth. The musical opened in August of twenty twenty three, will have been on Broadway for eighteen months when it closes. It has sold eighty million dollars in tickets, but received mixed critical reviews and as seen a gradual decline and engrosses and attendance.

But good news, producers plan open four productions in the next eighteen months, including Germany, Japan, and an eight year deal with Royal Caribbean to play the musical in its full physical form on the Star of the Seas Ship. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the show without commercial interruption.

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If you’re not on Apple podcast link in the show notes, I’ll tell you how that works. See you tomorrow. Wait, don’t leave. I forgot, totally forgot. Don’t leave.

He’s still here. Think of all the people that heard me heading for the lockout and they like bailed on the podcast. They’re going to miss this part. Now. I could edit this into the middle, but I like doing these things like the way they actually transpired.

It’s more fun. Hasan Minhaj’s is special. It’s really good. Like I said, first thirty minutes, he’s kind of setting up the pins knocks him down in the final thirty. Liked it a lot, high energy, he looks good, and I was watching it going, you know this, I should probably just host the Daily Show.

I also watched Dez Bishops of all people, that was on YouTube. It’s really good. As soon as you hit play on it, the very first thing that happens in the special, you’ll be like, oh okay, it’s a really strong opener that immediately made me go, oh wow. I was going to watch Ali Wong, but I was tired and didn’t get it. I was falling asleep in the comfy chair.

What was I watching? I had something on and I passed out during it. I think it was just a YouTube video and I woke up and suddenly it was today. But I do want to watch Ali all right. Here’s my list right now.

Best of twenty twenty four rose to Tom Brady two A Tail three Triumph four, David Cross five James A Doomian Path of Most Resistance. Go find that on YouTube. Six, Dusty Sleigh seven, Kanaane eight, Matt Rife was Good, nine, Samurell ten, Dmitri Martin eleven, Dez Bishop. Okay, you paid attention. I have that at eleven, and right behind it Hasan Minhaj twelve, both better than Jimmy Carr, Phil Wang and Chad Daniels.

That’s the end of tier one. Some other things that I liked, but there’s a bit of a gap here down to these Ellen, Greg Fitzimmons, Kat Williams, Hannah Gatsby, Connor, O’Malley, Bryan Simpson, tiknataro Taylor, Tomlinson, Rachel Feinstein, Joe Rogan. Remember his Live special in August, And I even liked Adam Sandlers. Love you. I know right now, I already said goodbye, so I’m not gonna do that again.

I’m just gonna awkwardly leave

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