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Featured: Jim Jefferies, Maria Bamford, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Neil, Langston Kerman, Felippia Sparza, Matt Berry

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Jefferies defends comedy against misogyny accusations
• Jim Jefferies regrets Jenny McCarthy joke from 2016 Netflix special
• Maria Bamford releases graphic novel ‘Hodge Book and Laser Eyes’ about her dogs
• Sarah Silverman discusses blackface in early comedy career and how her work doesn’t hold up
• Kevin Neil on his absurdist and misdirection-based comedic style
• Langston Kerman’s journey from mom’s basement to comedy career
• Langston Kerman’s podcast ‘My Mamma Told Me’ explores Black conspiracy theories

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 Boom. Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Jeffries rejects the suggestion that he hates women. Jim says, I don’t believe I’m a misogynist. No, but that’s you know, that’s probably what a misogynist would say.

I’d rather this be part of an interview. This was with Rolling Stone Australia, New Zealand, when people could actually hear me talk then read what I’m saying, or have some idiot in a basement recording a podcast read the words from a transcript from what Jim actually said. Why would we do that? That’s dumb, Jim says, But look, you never watched a female comic go on stage about some guy they had sex with, who had a little member who didn’t make them finish. I’ve cleaned that sentence up three times and thought, how dare she?

Right now? If I were to make a joke about some women’s general tillia being too large and me not finishing, I’m the worst man in the world. Right There’s no difference between those two jokes. There just isn’t. But do you believe that that woman when she makes the joke hates men.

No, you don’t think that she hates men like you know, I don’t. Women are half the population. I’m gonna make jokes about them. I do self deprecating comedy all the time where I make jokes about myself. Oh, I guess you could make an argument that I hate myself.

He discusses his mother. She was a hard person to grow up with. She was physically very abusive and verbally a very abusive person. So sometimes I imagine I’ve had a chip on my shoulder about women, and it’s probably been unfair for much of my life because my abuser was a three hundred pound woman growing up, you know what I mean. So that’s where this might come from.

Now, if you were here a female comic in an interview say their father was abusive and belittled them and was physically abusive and all this type of stuff, and then they said something about how men are, you wouldn’t begrudge them. You can see where that’s coming from. But for some reason, there’s no gray are with this that you can’t see where I’m coming from? Or why is this the one subject where you don’t know that I’m joking? Jim are there any jokes you do regret, he says.

One in his twenty sixteen Netflix special Freedom, he took aim at Jenny McCarthy and her son, Prison made a joke about whether or not the son was autistic or just Jenny McCarthy’s son. Jim says, I was more doing it because she was an anti vax person and I thought which she was doing is very detrimental to the world, and I felt like she was a person who was more of a hindrance on the planet than anything. So I made a joke about her child as a parent. Now I’m deeply sorry I did that. I shouldn’t have done that.

Maria Bamford has a book out. She and her husband, the artist Scott Marvel Cassidy, have collaborated on Hodge Book and Laser Eyes, a graphic novel. It describes their relationship from the perspective of their dogs. Maria Bamford told The Express News, it’s a beautiful sort of a memorial to all the dogs that we’ve had over the course of our relationship and how they supported us. Max was a marine and then he got into private detective work and that’s why he did the perimeter of whatever room he was in.

He’d go around the perimeter and make sure everything was safe. Then there were Arnold and Betty. They were a bonded bear and they were just completely in love with each other. Maria says they’ve typically taken in older dogs, even though it’s a setup for heartbreak. She says, you know they’re going to pass away, But I prefer an older dog because I think that’s what I am.

I like to sit down, I like to eat. Sarah Silverman spoke to NPR about her early career. You may recall it Sarah did blackface at some point. Sarah said, I think early on there was more character in her early work and certainly was purposely racist and all the ists because the character was an ignorant, arrogant person, and I felt like the truth would come through that, and at the time it worked. I can’t imagine a level of ways in which that special does not hold up now.

I think it would be hard to find any clip that works. It’s very hardcore and it does not hold up in today’s world. But that’s also what art is. You know, you watch it in two thousand and five, and it’s a very different show than when you watch it in twenty twenty four because you’ve changed, because the world has changed around us. I’m absolutely not proud of a lot of things in it looking back at it today, but I accept that that’s what it is to be an artist who’s been around a long time without the leeway of changing and growing.

We’re just defined by our singular moments. The world was bigger and it was way more ignorant. It’s funny because the character was this ignorant character that I could point to and go, she doesn’t understand, she says all these horrible things, but it’s okay because it’s a character.

And then really, I’m super liberal blah blah blah.

And then the irony was that the real meat behind that was ignorant. But I have to accept that because that’s me. And in order to grow, you have to accept that you can grow and change me different than you were, and not to find yourself by your most ignorant moments. Kevin neil And spoke to the Union about explaining his comedic delivery, and he said, it’s kind of like describing how you look. From what I hear, people would say that my stand up is very absurd, and a lot of misdirection, and I did to friends, tell me my comedy kind of sneaks up on you.

When I’m onto the next little hunk I’m talking about. The laughter is just coming to them. It’s very conversational. You know what makes me laugh? Or children?

Children are so naive and they do things that are just funny. I also like to go on the Daily Dose on the Internet and they have videos of animals or kids or anything. It’s really funny. My laughter comes from normal people doing silly things. Chicago Sun Times caught up with Langston Kerman.

He graduated during the Great Recession and said, I ended up moving back to my mom’s basement, which I vowed I would never do length since now thirty seven, it all felt dark to me. It was so antithetical to what I had envisioned in my head. I went to school, I got could grades and follow the rules, and now I’m back in this life I didn’t want. He decided to take a risk and pursue a dream. He signed up to do a comedy set at an open mic at Doc Ryan’s.

I went up there and I bomb for five minutes. But it was the great kind of bomb that a sick person like me can somehow translate as you should go do this again. She keep trying. So every week I’d go up to that open mic and bomb, and every week I felt a little bit better about the idea of pursuing this. He has a podcast called My Mamma Told Me, which showcases black conspiracy theories.

For example, did Bill Cosby attempt to buy NBC? Does the Black Illuminati exist? Or aircraft chemtrails infecting the public with chemical or biological agents. Kerman says, we take a lot of pride in either of us being scared of any conversation. I think conspiracy theory is so important.

I don’t mean that we should all be conspiracy theorists, but I do think the conspiracy theory is sort of like the adult version of imagining and whimsy. It’s fascinating me to unpack where these ideas come from. It is netflix special. He relays a time when a student made fun of his poetry, and Kerman said, I deeply resent that child. She’s not a child anymore as a grown person.

Should I ever come across her, I got smoke for her. Felippia Sparza said, I had great advice one time from Paul Rodriguez because I was worried, how is my comedy going to cross over? How’s it going to transcend to other cultures, to other nationalities, And he told me don’t worry about any of that. If you’re funny, the audience will cross over to you. It’s not your job to cross over to them.

Deadline caught up with Matt Berry. Matt, what were you doing before you were an actor? Berry says, I was in the London Dungeon. That The London Dungeon is a lunch in tourist attraction. It’s across between a museum and a live performance kind of thing.

During the course of the day, you’d be Jack the ripper in the morning, and then you’d be a judge in the afternoon, and it’s hired. You’d be doing something like twenty or thirty shows a day and I loved it. It was fantastic fun, but the money was horrendous, so I’d do gigs in the evening. And that’s how Dark Place happened. I was doing a gig and Matt Holness and Richard Aoide come up to me and said, we’re doing a TV version of their friend show Dark Place, and would like you to play the Spanish doctor.

In my head, I was like, well, you’re taking a risk there. Because I’ve never done any TV or any company before. I haven’t got a clue. But obviously I didn’t say that to them. I was like, yes, yes, fine, because I had nothing to lose and absolutely nothing going on at that point, so it was all to play for.

I just said yes to everything and turned up to rehearsal, and I really enjoyed it. I didn’t think i’d work after Dark Place. I didn’t even know whether they would show the whole series, and I wasn’t convinced it was actually going to air until the first night when it did, and no one believed I was going to be on TV. I told people, including my family, said I’m going to be on TV next month. It wasn’t until the adverts came on.

I was in one of those adverts that everybody realized it wasn’t full of stuff. Deadline asked about the origin of Toast of Lunch and which is a fantastic show if you’ve never seen it, Barry said, I’ve always wanted to do it because I’ve been doing voiceovers for years and years with older actors seeing how they behave just finding it very, very funny. I knew there was something there, so I wrote all ideas for it, his name and everything, and then spoke to Arthur Matthews. Because I wasn’t successful enough for anyone to say, yeah, he’s written this, let’s make it a series. I needed help in the form of Arthur.

And Arthur’s still the best of what he does. The character Toast. He’s pompous and he thinks that better things should be happening to him. There’s a never ending supply of things you can do to put him back in his place each time. But it’s just fantastic to play because it’s not set in any particular time and as a foot in the seventies and in the modern day, so we’re not limited to what we can do.

A bit like Shadows, those characters are in their own world and they can do anything. Will there’d be more, he said, Well, I did Toast of tinsel Down the fourth series where he went to Hollywood, and if you’ve seen that, you’ll know what happened to him at the end. I don’t know. I’m happy with it. I did everything with it that I wanted to do.

Vulture as their list of the comedians you should know and will know. One of those comedians is young Me Meyer. Young Me, if you were immortalized as a cartoon character, what we were outfit be? She said, I already wear a cartoon character outfit aka the same outfit every day, hot pink tennis skirt, mesh crop top, pink bra. It’s giving dumb bitch cartoon character that f’s up everything and think she’s the main character.

And she sort of is, but in a villain adjacent way. Vibes worst show ever. Once I did a show at a Jewish retirement home in upstate New York. I had to get a ride with the other comedians in the lineup. We got there and the show took place in a fluorescently lit dining hall during their dinner at four pm.

When I got on stage, I started off by saying, so I’m a single mom, and this ninety year old grandma on the back just yelled boo and did a double thumbs down. I don’t really remember anything after that. I just slowly walked off stage, like what could I even do to recover from a double thumbs down? Nothing? Writing process.

I cannot write jokes while sitting down at a computer at nine am with a cup of coffee. No matter how hard I try. In the beginning, I would set aside writing jokes time. I just can’t write jokes in that way. The only way I can write jokes is on stage.

There was literally a two year period where I just stopped doing bits on stage when just riff By going up with zero material was horrible. But now I feel like I can do bits and they’re more dynamic and fluid. I think joke telling has to be sort of spontaneous for me. There’s something about being pushed into a hairy situation that makes me funny in a way that I can’t, for the life of me, pre plan any financial hurdles. The biggest financial hurdle since becoming a comedian is becoming a comedian.

I am so broke. OMG. I have to say that I was talking to my friend who was a normal nine to five job that she hates, and she’s also broke. We all have to get side whustles as uber drivers and restaurants servers or anyway, so why not do our dream jobs on the side too. Best comedy advice was for my friend who told me just post anything I thought was funny, and not to be too precious about it or to think about it too much.

He also told me not to post or act on social media in a way to game the system, and always keep true to what I thought was funny. Worst comedy advice I’ve ever seen was when some old stand up comedians told me to focus only on standout, never get into doing online content because it will kill my live performances. Although I understand where he’s coming from, truth is, in this day and age, all comedians need to hone the skill of making content. It’s a separate language. You mean good is it doesn’t translate to the station, vice versa.

All comedians need to learn both languages. And that is your comedy needs for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, this link of the show notes.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Dane Cook, Sebastian Maniscalco, Shang Wang

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife’s decade-long path to overnight success
• Matt Rife’s self-funded YouTube specials and viral success
• Dane Cook on writing comedy and heckler management
• Dane Cook’s thoughts on comedian TV shows like Atsand Mazel
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s approach to material development and crowd work

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. Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Matt Reiche tells Formes his overnight success was a decade in the making. He was fifteen when he landed on Wild and Out, remember that on MTV. He was in sixteen episodes.

He said, I got Wilding Out and that was a phenomenal launching platform from my career, but it’s not what I want to do forever, which is why I left the show. Trying to make his name in comedy, he said he was getting a few hundred dollars a show and paying for his own flights, while sensing that he was capable of a much more Raife says, nobody wants to pay any attention. How am I to get in front of people? If nobody wants to give me a chance. I’m not asking you for anything drastic, just an opportunity to get in front of people.

My friend was like, want you to do yourself. You’re sitting here complaining about how nobody will give you an opportunity. Why don’t you create your own opportunity. Man, You have a little bit of a following and comedians are starting to put their stuff out on YouTube. Wyann’t you just do that?

That was the advice that led him to call his first YouTube special OnlyFans. That was a playful response to fans frequently asking if he had an only fans page. People kept checking to see if I had an only fans page, and I was getting tweets all the time asking about it. That’s when the adult theme platform exploded, and I thought if I named the special OnlyFans, it’d be a number one Google. He funded the special through a go Fundme.

He raised close to thirty grand and says, I think fifteen or twenty thousand was what I was really praying for, And for some reason, people were so supportive. People really believed in me and wanted this product. Only forty people attended that taping. Only Fans now boast thirteen million views on YouTube. His second special, Matthew steven Rife has twenty one million views.

His third, Walking Red Flag is thirteen million. You may recall he sold out two hundred and sixty dates in forty eight hours. He said, I remember lying in bed his tickets went on sale. My phone blew up with a message from my agent. This sold out, This sold out, and I’m like, didn’t go on sale five minutes ago blew my mind.

Adding Ford my passions in film and television, acting and development. That’s really where I want my career to go. There might be a day where I’m only doing movies. I don’t have the time to do stand up anymore, at least tour the way I’m doing now. Touring has been my life for thirteen years now, and it’s all I’ve ever done.

But it might not always be that way. Interesting Whilston Magazine asked Dane Cook about TV shows about comedians like Has or Missus Mazel. Dane said, I think Ax is wonderful. I had the real privilege of sharing the stage a couple times with Hannah Einbinder. She was like, I’m such a huge fan.

That made me feel great. I forget that I had been around for a minute. We had this fun back and forth talking each other up. With Mazel, I’m so far behind, but I love it. I grew up loving films like The King of Comedy Anything I kind of pulled back the curtain of funny people in the world of show business I was infatuated with.

In fact, I’m developing something now that’s kind of similar and I’ve never had so much fun failing miserably trying to get something off the ground. They asked Dane, what’s your process? And Dane said, this is my favorite question because I wish you could get me and ten other comics on a call and say how do you write? Because it’s so different. I found it in ninety seven.

If I wrote something down, when I looked at it again, I’d say, I’m unfunny, I stink. I realized that when I wrote something down, I hated it and thought it was terrible. But if I went on stage and just tried it on a dead Monday night, somewhere there was hope. If I organically talk about the first thought I have, instead of trying to write things that I don’t even know if they’re funny or not, it’s better. Had his Dane deal with hecklers, He said, I had a Heckler moment a few weeks ago and she said something about my wife, something about my relationship, and I got really angry.

But I learned something in therapy years ago. When someone makes you angry, respond with honesty. So I enjoy that process instead of just hammering them, I’m gonna invite them to the table, so to speak. I shoot the hecker, like I know you need to get something off your chest. I’ll invite them, We’ll go back and forth, and at the end of that, I’ll hit them with some final zinger.

But if you’re talking about people who are just disruptive and rude, they’re ruining the show for people around them. I get emails from people ten years later saying, we still think about the night Jonathan I got drunk at your show and you just scarlet letter to him Dane Cook, who’s the funniest person you know? Dane says, it remains Dave Chappelle. He makes me laugh. I had the luxury of doing TD Garden with him back in October.

He asked me to be a surprise guest, and I hadn’t been on stage in the Garden since I did Vicious Circle. I do my twenty minutes and I killed. Honestly, turned to my wife and said, no way, Dave’s gonna be better, but he comes out. My wife and I were wiping tears away. I was giving him a standing ovation mid set.

Who’s the comedian that you weren’t four but he’d most like to meet? He said, Oh Man, George Carlin. At times in my career when there was pushback against me and people were not happy to see you succeeding, he inspired me. I remember Carlin doing the hippie dippy weather Man, and then the day he went on TV and killed it. He brought the cardboard cut out and threw it out of the frame and said he’s dead.

I’m not this guy, and he literally kind of killed his career and allowed himself to say I’m changing, and if you don’t like it, I don’t give a rat’s ass. Worst moment on stage ever, Dane, He said, I was in a comedy group and we did The Garden in nineteen ninety two as part of wbcn’s Rock of Boston show. Fish was the closing act. This is a good show. They put us on, not at the beginning of the show, but two plus hours anyway, right after the spin Doctors and before Fish.

Being huge Fish fans, he’d sig here crowd through lighters and sandals. I got a welt on my neck. I got hit so hard with the lighter. I swear to you, if it hit me in the I would have lost my sight. When I describe it, I say, you ever see the opening of Saving Private Ryan you picture of that but with sandals and lighters.

Dane All liked this question. For a Sebastian Maniscalco, who was asked how do he put the material together for a new tour, Said’ve probably been working on it for two years. It’s not like I go in some room and start writing down funny things. It’s more of living my life, extracting the humor in everyday occurrences, whether it be hang out with my kids or my take on Amazon. He tells a story.

I got two kids, five and seven. We don’t bring the iPads to dinner. But that being said, if you don’t bring out iPads, you basically become the iPad and or just doing whatever you can at the dinner table to entertain your kids, like I’m doing things from the eighties to try and entertain my kids. That’s a little morsel of something that I might be working on. And what you’re seeing now is not where you’re going to see at the end of the tour in April.

Because as I live life, material kind of comes. And I’ve noticed as a comedian it seems that people really enjoy crowd work. I’m like you know what let me lean into the crowd work a little bit. I think it personalizes the show a bit more. You got to know where to put it.

I not, it’s just from trial and error. If you put it too early during the set, people all of a sudden think they’re part of the show and they might yell stuff at you. So it’s kind of science. Were we drop it in? The Texas Chronicle asked Shang Wang, if you hadn’t discovered comedy, or if comedy hadn’t discovered you, what you’d be doing today.

Shang Wang said, I don’t really know. I don’t think I would have been happy if I’d fall through with the business track. I was in a poetry and photography and maybe i’d be some kind of a photographer perhaps, So I’m not really sure. I still like to dabble in that. I’ll still shoot pictures all the time, and sometime in the future I might try to combine the two.

One time, Scheng was asked best and worst comedy advice, and his answer to worst advice was that he should do more Asian jokes. I don’t know if things have changed or things are changing, but I think something you come against when you perform for the general public. I feel like, especially if you’re somewhat of an ethnic minority or just some kind of minority in general, in our society, you feel pressure to do certain jokes, to dress certain issues, to be a certain way, and I think that advice comes from that phenomenon. Like people when they see an Asian person go on stage, they assume that these are the type of jokes they should be saying. And I think whoever gave me that advice at that mentality, I think it’s terrible advice because it’s not my nature to do those type of jokes, and I grew up hearing jokes, stereotypes and stuff like that that I find to be very limiting because it doesn’t allow to be who you really are, to be a whole person.

I think it’s much more free to do the jokes you really want to do, and I think it’s bad advice to limit yourself in such a way. Nico Karney is one of Vulture’s comedians you should and will know. Nico says, the first stand ups I love growing up where Tig Nataro, Mike Berbiglia, John Mulaney, Brian Reagan, and Jim Gaffigan. All right, we see the lame there. I love comedians who use language and cadence that is very specific to them.

I love Greer Barns. He makes it look effortless. I’m also a big fan of Julio Torres. Worst show Ever. I’ve done plenty of shows at restaurants where the audience was expecting a meal in surprise, there’s a comedy show.

Now, they could prepare you for doing anecdotal material about coming out as trans to a room full of people who just wanted to eat their burritos in peace. One time, he did a bar show where the mic was so close to the end of the bar and the only audience members were all seated at the bar, so it was kind of like giving a toast group of strangers. If I had to pick one worst show ever, it was probably a college gig. They put me in a massive auditorium. I performed to silence for less than a dozen students, most of whom left.

How many times have we heard how horrible these college shows are. The faculty member who organized it wanted me to stand in the elevator before the show to promote it. The only thing more humiliating than doing stand up for a group of uninterested college students. Is barking for audience members and an elevator? Yikes?

Interesting answer here. Biggest financial hurdle you’ve ever encountered since being a comedian travel in taxes. I’d just shown Ohio, and even booking three months in advance, it was going to cost nine hundred dollars to fly from New York to Cincinnati. No offense to the good people of Cincinnati, but who’s going there for nine hundred dollars? The Cincinnati airport isn’t even in Cincinnati, It’s in Kentucky.

The airlines need to get a grip. Taxes were also higher than I expected. I didn’t realize the government needed so much money from an up and coming artist, but I guess we have to fund this failing nation somehow. Best comedy advice, worst comedy of ice, best not to do crowd work for the first few years of comic I think we’re on the come down from the crowd work trend thanks to a very successful comedian who special maybe didn’t quite live up to the hype. Hmmm, is that a slam at Matt Rife?

But Matt Rife’s special is pretty good. I don’t know who’s slamming there. That’s interesting. Hit me in the Facebook group if I forgetting somebody, But that’s got to be a rife dig right, Yes, No, Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group. I think a lot of young comics.

He isn’t a quick way to go viral online. But starting out, it’s so much more important to find your material in your voice than it is to learn how to do crowd work. Worst advice I’ve received was to talk less about being trans. I could make myself more palatable for larger audiences. From what I can tell.

The man who told me this has never played a large audience. I’m not sure where he was coming from. I hope his open mics are going. Well, that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

They might like it too, And I’ll see tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Jim Jefferies, Mark Maron, Taylor Swift

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser’s obsession with Taylor Swift and influence on her comedy
• Nikki Glaser planning to attend Taylor Swift’s final Eras Tour show
• Jim Jefferies’ canceled sitcom during the pandemic
• Jim Jefferies’ sobriety journey and switch from alcohol to cannabis
• Jim Jefferies hosting The One Percent Club game show in Australia
• Mark Maron on controversial comedy topics and what’s off-limits
• Mark Maron’s perspective on the future of comedy and female comedians

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Hunnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The laughter, the littlety hear in my voice is because Nikki Glaser did an interview and guess what they asked Nikki Glaser about. That’s right, Taylor Swift. The question at hand, did Taylor at Swift influence your own sound?

Hmmm? Intriguing? Kind of like asking Joe Piscopo if Bruce Springsteen influenced his comedy. But okay, Nicki said, without question, I think when I first started stand up, I sounded exactly like my favorite stand up who was Sarah Silverman. I was obsessed with Sarah Silverman in a way that I am with Taylor Swift right now.

I’m sorry, Sarah, that’s really terrifying. Did NICKI follow you around the country attending all your comedy shows and doing the jokes along with you? Sounds horrible. So when I first wrote my jokes, I was like, what would Sarah Silverman write? No matter how hard I tried not to think about Taylor Swift, there was no way I wasn’t going to sound like Nikki’s hoping to go to Taylor Swift’s final show on December eighth, and says I hope she doesn’t add more shows because I can’t go to the dates that they’re predicting.

I have in fact checked if they added more dates, and doesn’t really matter, does it. If she does, I’ll probably shed some tears. I just want to be there to see her wave as she says good night for the final time, to thank her for all she’s given us, because it’s been so much work for her. I just want to be there to wave at her. She sinks down at the recesses of that stage one last time, let me jump in.

I saw Taylor Swift last summer, played the heck out of her music, saw the concert that it was fantastic, But like Taylor shut up at the Chiefs game last week, and I was like, can you just go away? And the Kelsey Brothers guys tap the break? Well, maybe not tap the breaks, because I think the Kelsey Brothers have about ten minutes left before everybody’s sick of them, So you might as well cash in now and be on every commercial and show up at every event. That train’s about to stop. I feel for the Kelsey’s John.

You’re making friends today, I know, I just I can’t. I just turned it into Mark Marin. I just can’t sit in the basement and not say what’s popping into my brain. There’s a microphone in front of me, you know, Nikki Glaser. What we do post here is listen to this.

She’s got to be doing a bit right. Listen to his answer. I’m going to fly to cities to go to Taylor Swift singalongs, which I’d done before the years tour. I’m going to potentially start a Taylor Swift cover band that would either open my own shows on the road, I would do it as an add on a little show when I’m on tour. I’m currently also getting really invested in football, or at least trying to.

Yeah, because you got that gig with Amazon. I really find a lot of similarities between the way my boyfriend loves football and the way I love Taylor Swift. Maybe if I really find a way to love it, I can have this thing to look forward to every fall. Okay, moving on, review spoke to Jim Jeffries. Jim had a sitcom in the works that got canceled when the pandemic happens.

To hear about the pandemic, Yeah, everybody had to stay home for like a year. It was a thing. Look it up. It’s a pretty interesting story. Jim said.

It’s hard to put your finger on what happened after the pand I make. It’s hard to know what would have been and what could have been. But then on the other hand, without COVID, I might not have married my wife, so you don’t know.

Also, I think a little of that time off actually made me a better writer, so …

Jim gave up alcohol and switched over to weed and said, as soon as I walk off stage, I take an edible and then I get myself a little bit of something to eat, and I go to bed. That’s as much parting as I do these days. The days of cocaine and women are long behind me. I always had a couple of drinks before I went on stage, and a drink could hit you differently. Sometimes you couldn’t feel it, sometimes you felt it too much, and it was a bit of a bouncing act.

Where now I don’t drink at all before I go on stage, so I’ve got a clear mind. Maybe with the heckling. I was a little bit faster with the heckles when I was drunk, as you’d say the first thing that came to your mind. But I also said a lot of stupid stuff that could have gotten me in trouble. So I think I remember my shows a lot better.

I think I’m a lot more polished than I’ve ever been. In Australia, he’s hosting a game show called The One Percent Club and says hosting a game show for a blooke like me is a pretty easy gig. Not really lines to learn. You just got to talk to people. You’ve just got to read a few questions.

You just got to keep smiling. A lot of people gave me guff for hosting a game show. But here’s the deal, man, I love game shows. I watch at least one game show a day every day. I like the question and answered things.

It keeps you engaged. Game shows for me with the last bit of television where you’re not looking at your phone because you have to focus. So, as a fan of game shows, I never thought i’d have the opportunity to host one, because no one would ever see me that way. But I’ve loved every minute of it. Mark Maron, who I just turned into a couple of minutes ago, spoke to the Phoenix New Times.

They were curious if there’s anything he won’t talk about in his act. Maaron said, nothing is really off limits. I sort of moved through my material from my own point of view and my own struggles and my own ideas. Haven’t understand things I’ve tell jokes in my life. There were wrong mind that I’ve told jokes in my life that could be seen as controversial if I was a bigger voice on the scene.

But for me now, there’s nothing off limits. You can talk about whatever you want. You have to decide for yourself whether you want to shoulder the repercussions of what you’re saying and whether it’s worth saying. So, really, whether or not there’s anything I can or can’t say or won’t touch, it’s not because videological principles. It’s just about, like I want to deal with that crap.

Mark Marin, where do you think comedy is headed in the next ten years? It seems female comics are on the rise, right said, Look, it’s always going to be the same. Somebody can find an audience, they’ll play for them, and if more people get on board, then you know they succeeded being in that level of comic. There’s a lot of comics around, a lot of them are just okay and working their angle. It’s a lot of different business than why I started in.

There’s a lot of weird crowd work going on. But you know, Nikki Glaser’s a huge comic now and chearned it. You know, Maria Bamford’s a genius, and there’s Kate Martin. Look, comedy’s not going to go anywhere. It’s just like the dominant paradigm at any point in time.

Since everything is content, everything is based on likes and followers, the justification for what success is really has nothing to do with the creativity of the art of comedy. It’s not like that changed much, but it’s changed in terms of how one gets seen in popular There’s a lot of people that are terrible and extremely popular. But I don’t know if that’s ever been different. I think comedy will just keep lugging along. Like you said, there’s a lot more women and a lot more diverse voices out there doing it where they make it on the large radar I don’t know.

Comedy’s always been sort of a niche thing for a lot of people. Success is based on a number of followers and likes and CrowdWork one hundred million dollar deals. So that’s just the way apples and works.

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Interesting question here, will you ever have Matt Rife on the podcast? Nah, I’m not interested in talking to him, really, that’s why not, Mark Marin, Have you ever thought about retiring? I think about all the time. I don’t know. A lot of people say it’s impossible to do, but look, doing more acting and trying to figure out how that works for me and standup keeps coming.

It’s still my primary source of creative enjoyment. But yeah, sure I think about retiring a lot. But I don’t know what that looks like. I don’t know. I fuppull out entirely because that’s just a little weird.

But I’m gonna be shooting a movie next month that’ll kind of determine whether or not I’m come out for the acting game in any big way. So we’ll see what happens. Jim Brewer talked about warming up the crowd for Metallica. Al dot Com said that takes a lot of guts to go out there in front of metal heads waiting to hear their favorite band. Had that happened now?

Jim has been friends with Metallica for years. I was sitting at my desk one day, phone rings serious, this is John Hello, this is James Headfield, And it was actually James Headfield. He was down. Jim Brewer didn’t tell me that Headfield was coming up to do the show, so I had to go down to the lobby and get mister Headfield. Who were said when they asked me to do it, and all the time I was like, this is amazing, and it was like, well, it’s not really stand up, what do you mean?

Sort of just entertain the crowd before we come up, you know, like maybe shoot off T shirts and stuff like that. So they had all these different ideas and when I say they, it was more of their team. But I huded Lars down. I said, what exactly do you visualize? And he put it on the line.

He made it so simple. He said, Jim, you’ve been around us a long time. You’re a huge fan. We had you on our thirty year anniversary shows. You interviewed us, you know us, You know the crowd better than anyone.

Just give them a quote experience. And here’s the most important thing is you don’t have to be funny. Tell the stories. We’ve gone on vacations with us. Tell the stories, Oh you and James went to Disney World with your kids that actually happened.

Tell the goofy stories. You know, I entirely leave that up to you. You’re the creator. I’m not stepping on your art. You do what you gotta do.

And the minute he said, dad changed my whole perspective on it. And I’m a diehard Metallica fan. What would I want to see start a show if I don’t have a band? Laura said, you know, when we have someone, especially a band, open for us, we want them to be the next biggest thing. Because hour crowd is so die hard, they don’t show up for the bands.

It’s a bummer for them, it’s a bummer for us. So we’re gonna try this. And it worked really well. If I remember, the first thing it did was kind of come out and let everyone know that the first time I saw Metallica was an eighty six and the fans were skeptical. But the more details that throughout and I start uniting the crowd, find me the oldest metal head in the arena.

And the minute I came up with that concept, you realize everybody was in this together, Like, Hey, I’m like you guys. The quicker we’ve done with this, the quicker we can get to Metallica are even Chattanooga. Do you like comedy? Do you look Out? Comedy Festival features thirty plus comedians.

It runs tonight through the nineteenth. Headliner is Laura Peek, Aj Wilkerson, Drew Morgan, and Leclerk Andre LCF organizer and local comedian Donny Marsh said this year’s festival will feature eleven shows over four days with some of the best rising and top headline comics across the country. Chattanooga’s comedy scene is long punched above its weight, and it’s very easy to get great comics to visit here if you can only make it a one show. I encourage comedy fans to follow these comics on social media beforehand and decide which one you’d most like to see. The festival is a labor of love for comedy in our local scene.

Every comic at my level experience does stand up at night as often as they can, stringing small tours together and promoting small gigs while juggling the other jobs and commitments. This festival wouldn’t exist without the everyday grind of jobs that have nothing to do with the arts. It’s a rewarding process that it’s an honor to bring these great performers to a city that’s given me so much since I moved here in twenty twelve. You can get a festival pass as well. Lookout Comedy Festival dot com.

Vulture has there comedians you should and will know. One of them is Courtney Peruso Worst show Ever. About ten years ago, my friend Casey put me on the lineup for his backyard show Super Tight in San Diego during Comic Con. I really hadn’t figured out how to perform on a lineup after being a Groundlings performer, and I was super nervous because a lot of cool people were there and I was intimidated by stand ups. I went up after Brody Stevens, who crushed with a magician’s assistant act where the premises the magician didn’t show up, so I’m just dancing around and smiling and pointing enthusiastically at things that aren’t happening, like an idiot.

But for some reason, my music stopped about thirty seconds in, so the intentionally awkward bit turned into an actually awkward bit, and everybody was kind of staring at me in silence, like, okay, I wanted to puke and die. Brandon Wardell went on after me and lightly roasted me, and I did a pretty little grudge about it for a while, but in retrospect, he had no choice but to acknowledge my bomb to save the vibe of the show. We ended up working together a few years later, and we’re actually good friends now. Love you, Brandon. What’s your biggest financial hurdle?

She says. What doesn’t help is that my comedy involves self producing shows that are full of costumes and props, and during the workshopping process, I often try out ideas that I quickly abandoned, but in the moment, I’m like, I need to go buy five yards of blue fabric, twenty five toy guitars at a Marie answen at Wig, and a nine hundred dollars portable dance pole so I could try out my bad idea tonight, and then my bad idea doesn’t work, and then I have all that stuff taking up space in my apartment. That’s why I recommend becoming a stand up, not a prop comic. That’s comedy advice. Worst comedy advice, the best.

One time, years ago, I was feeling down about my prospects and was winding to my clown mentor about being old, old and broke and doomed, and he said, whatever, dude, you’re a failed actress who gives a whot, Just don’t it. It’s cool. I cracked up and snapped out of it, and I’ll never forget it. Worst advice was in two thousand and eight when an acting teacher told me to get side swept bangs. They weren’t for me.

And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They may like it too. If you would like to show without commercial interruption. If you’re on Apple podcast, there was a better there.

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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Matt Rife, Mike Kaplan

What’s in This Episode

• Sebastian Maniscalco on embracing fear and showmanship in live comedy
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s arena tour with family and avoiding social media algorithms
• Matt Rife on crowd work and handling well-meaning hecklers at shows
• Matt Rife on managing expectations from front-row audience members seeking viral moments
• Matt Rife responding to critics and working on Netflix gym-themed series
• Mike Kaplan on reviewing material and the Boston comedy lineage

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hidley Holmes, Johnny Mac with Your Daily Comedy News the LA Daily News and spoke to Sebastian Maniscalco. He said there’s no better testing ground to prove what you made of than standing on stage alone in front of a crowd. Sebastian said, everybody’s trying to do it at different levels, and when you get down to the court of it all, I think you have to embrace that fear because as a comedian, you’re up there spilling your soul to these strangers. I think it’s part of what makes the connection between you and the fans grow deeper. That’s the beauty of going up there.

I’m a huge fan of showmanship. Back in the eighties, Prince Motley, Crue, Michael Jackson, those were all musical acts, but there’s an element of production and excitement, and I want to recreate some of that by doing some of the things that might not be traditional in the world of comedy. He had been working on figuring out things like how do I get from the back of the house to the stage, or how do I make an entrance? Then of course I have to be funny or else. No one in the arena gives a crap how I got there.

I just want people to say I never disappointed them at a show. That’s kind of what most important to me. He says. Putting most of his energy into his live show is a better use of his time at this stage than worrying about boosting his profile on TikTok or Instagram. He did post a video with the lead singer of Creed, Scott Stapp.

That video got twelve million views. Sebastian said, I just put it up like a fun, stupid video and not thinking he was going nuts, rather than trying to figure out how do I get in the algorithm or what a kids want to see, what’s the other generation looking for. I just do what I do, and if you like it, great, and if not, that’s fine too. If you just do what you think is funny, I think people will relate. This tour kind of has a little bit more meaning to me in the sense that for the first time in my life, I’m sharing what I do with my entire family, in particularly my kids, because now they’re kind of aware of what daddy does for a living.

He makes people laugh. I don’t know if I’m going to be doing a dome show. In two years, I could be back at the theater or a comedy club. Who knows. So to enjoy this tour with my family is really important to me.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Matt Rife about crowd work. They were curious how respectful Matt’s fans are when he’s out there doing prepared material. Rife said, I’d say a large already to them. They’re respectful. Occasionally they aren’t.

But there are pros and cons of doing crowd work. He gets to interact with these amazing people that you choose at random, and then people at home are like, oh, if I buy a seat in the first five rows, that guarantees me a chance to speak to him, where they’ll purposely yell, thinking, Oh, if I talk to him and he turns into something funny, I’m gonna be in his next clip. And I gotta understand how that can be the perception, but it’s not how it works. It’s rarely the loudest person in the room is intion that’s the most interesting person to talk to. It’s usually the least assuming person who probably had no idea who I was in the first place.

That sparks the best kind of conversation. So yeah, people do yell out sometimes because they expect or want to be the person who get spoken to, and then I’m like forced to entertain it. And that’s the thing. People will disrupt a show, which is a bad thing, but then because I’m good at it, I turn it into a good thing, and then they were rewarded for doing a bad thing. But if I scold them or I don’t turn it into something funny, then I look like I can’t handle a heckler or I can’t think quickly on my feet.

That’s really interesting, isn’t it. Yeah, so I’m kind of forced to rise to each occasion, and most of the time it ends up being something wonderful and we get a good moment out of it for the show, and the whole audience appreciates it. But I’d be lying if I said there weren’t times that people do ruin a moment for the show. Raife said, here’s your headline. F the haters, like, I hear about what they say, and I think it’s so funny.

It’s pretty obvious the stereotypes of people who don’t like me, and that’s totally fine. I have no problem with people not liking me. Cool, stay as far away from me as possible, because I make a lot of people very happy and that means the world to me. And you don’t know how badly these people need to be made happy. So yeah, for me, it was just an opportunity to comedically and creatively take a jab back.

This doesn’t matter how good loose it is. I could wear in an Emmy for it and they’ll still say it’s trash. And I try not to give haters the time of day, but I was like, Okay, here’s one little opportunity to get in my licks. I suppose comedy is just intention right, So my intentions haven’t changed because they were never wrong in the first place. If people think I’m this person, then you haven’t done enough research.

I mean, I don’t think I’ve done anything controversial. Just because somebody does something that you don’t like doesn’t mean that they’re the devil. That’s crazy. People are allowed to like different things than you, People are allowed to laugh at different things than you. Even in twenty twenty four, he’s working on a Netflix series that’s set in a gym and said, right now, my writer and I are passing off a couple of different script drafts back and forth that will submit to Netflix and hopefully get picked up the series.

It’s really really fun. The gym is something that’s very important to me, and I believe should be important to everybody, not just for your physical health, but for your mental health. Everybody goes to the gym isn’t trying to be a powerlifter. For me personally, it’s the one hour I get out of my day that I don’t have to think about work and I can just focus on myself and it’s a stress release. Like right now, I’m totally exhausted, but as soon as we get off the phone, I’m gonna squeeze it an hour before a show tonight because I know it’s part of my routine and I really need it.

The Columbus Underground spoke to Mike Kaplan about reviewing past material. Mike said, I’m sure that I’m not the only comedian who reviews and reflects. I can only speak from my own experience, and I think comedians aren’t a monolith and there’s a range. I don’t know if this is accurate, but Tony V was one of the first comedians ever saw on Boston. He’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever seen.

There are a lot of comedians that come from there, but there’s a rich lineage of really strong joke writers. In addition to great performers. You have Dane Cook and Bill Burrn and Patris O’Neil coming from there, and also Gary Goleman, who I think is a masterful performer, And there are masterful writers like Wendy Leeman. There are a lot of Boston comedians who are still there and still crushing it, and you might I see them tell their perfect joke equations night after night. Tony Vee was one who I remembered.

Even it was telling the same jokes of the same stories, it would often come out differently. I don’t know if he ever wrote anything down, or at least that’s what it seemed to me. He might have. Maybe he tricked me in the way that many comedians trick many people, but it’s my sense that he was like, I have these ideas, and I know I’m funny. I’ll express them this way one night, in another way another night.

Mike Kamplan started talking about seeing Rory Skovell in the two thousand and six Seattle International Comedy Competition. Everybody was doing basically their tight fives. It’d be their audition set to get on TV, and that served a lot of people. Well, Rory completely did not do that every night. It was something different.

It was inspirational to me. From that point on, I realized I didn’t have to just do the jokes as written in the order. I decided I could leave room for chance and open up to the moment and start riffing and experimenting more at the ends of jokes or in between jokes. So the Lasher point is there are some comedians and never write things down, when there were some comedians that write things down meticulously. When I first come up with an idea, usually I’ll record it in my recorder out loud.

Then I’ll write it long hand in a notebook. Later I’ll type it in my computer, and at each stage, when I’m revisiting, I’ll a stents quote unquote the same idea. Or visiting something can always spark something new to happen. So I’m not saying that every comedian should do what I’m doing, but it certainly serves me.

All right, let’s stay comedically philosophical today Dina Hasham spoke to Sl…

Dina said, yeah, I mean, having new experiences definitely helps. It’s not like you’re not having new experiences and you can’t joke about being a comedian for the whole time. So I have to consciously make an effort to do new things or have new experiences, and that definitely helps have new ideas. What happens to a lot of comedians become rich and famous, it changes their act and for the worst for the most part. Like it’s hard for me to think of comedians who’ve gotten better with fame and fortune.

My all time favorite is Norm McDonald and he just managed to be funny his entire life somehow. Sam Campbell is one of Vulture’s comedians. You should and will know. Sam spin on my radar for a few years for his work at the various festivals, the proudest moment of his career so far. There’s a funny comedian called James Gill who runs a Great Night in London at a pub called the Tommy Field.

He host the show and one says, I left the stage, he said to the crowd, give it up for Sam Campbell, the Maestro. I got a real jolt for him, called the Maestro, did wonder for my confidence. Unfortunately was short lived. I’ve done the gig a few times since. Discovery calls quite a lot of comedians the Maestro.

He says it all the time about people. But you can’t discount something just because it’s short lived. Whose career trajectory would you like to follow? He says? The answer is simple, Shelley Berman, interesting, worst show ever.

I’ve boon more times than you’ve had hot dinners. Every time I go on, I’m trying to showcase rather than just goose around. I almost always die very badly. I’ve had some really awful, unforfiable ones lately. Sorry, it’s not a specific answer.

If I try to access some of those memories and depth, I I could trap to not be able to come back. All Right, what comedy opinion hill will you die on? Sam says, A lot of people give me a hard time for laughing at my own jokes on stage. I’d like to dress this once and for all. They’re not my jokes.

I stole them from various open my comedians and foreside comic strips, and my laughter is always genuine. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice, the best. I have a boozy lunch with Jimmy Carr whenever he’s not touring, and it’s always an honor and a masterclass to listen to him muse on the craft. He recently said, be careful when you get to the top of the mountain. You might not be able to breathe that air.

That stuck with me. Worst advice. Johnny McCallister, who runs the Comedy Lounge in Perth, Australia, would say to me, only do your gold There was a lot of pressure. If I was a promoter, I would say to every act your golden Go out there and see what happens when the light bounces off of you. And that is 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 program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes I to tell you how that works. A short version five bucks. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Nate Bargatze, Andrew Schultz, Donald Trump, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Samantha Bee, Dave Chappelle, Weird Al Yankovic, Andy Samberg, Trevor Noah

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney to host weekly live talk show for Netflix
• Nate Bargatze returns to Netflix with two stand-up specials
• Andrew Schultz interviews Donald Trump on his podcast
• Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Let’s Go IDF’ message at Mets game
• Kevin Hart addresses Diddy party allegations on social media
• Samantha Bee’s new show ‘How to Survive Mental Pause’ in NYC
• Weird Al Yankovic discusses hosting SNL aspirations

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag who with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney is going to host a weekly talk show. Yep, it’s for Netflix. It will be live.

The Netflix Chief Content Officer Bella Bajaria announced the news at a Bloomberg screen time and said, I’m really excited about it. I mean, John Mulaney. Hello. Kind of weird the way they released this, just you know, out of the blue, no press release or anything. So we have a long relationship with John, obviously, and we’ve done his stand up specials and during the Netflix As a Joke Festival, he did a live talk show called Everybody’s in La And I was there at a couple of tapings and it was just so bold and original and fresh and then unpredictable.

And I think it’ll be really fun to get to do a live show with him. No word yet on when this will premiere or if John Mulini even knows about this. I will keep you posted a little more solid as Nate Perghetzi will return to Netflix with two stand up specials. He had been working with Amazon for a little bit. I guess he came back home where the money’s greener who knows your friend Nate Pergetzy will launch on December twenty fourth, and then they can promote the heck out of that on the football games the next day.

He’ll also do a second special in twenty twenty five, your friend Nate Pergetzy will see the comedian discussing wanting a second dog, how much beats an order for Guys Night, and his wife being the responsible one in the marriage. Andrew Schultz said Donald Trump on his podcast and laughed in Trump’s face. Trump referred to himself as basically a truthful person. Schultz burst out laughing. Trump said, of Harris, I always refer back to the simplicity of McDonald’s.

You lied about McDonald’s. You lied about many things, and she’s a liar. There should be some kind of rule, you know, where it’s a lie, you can’t do a commercial on it. But this is a thing that’s gonna end in twenty nine days, so I can say what they want. I have a hard time doing to them because I’m basically, you know, I’m basically a truthful person.

Schultz then burst out laughing in Trump’s face. Schultz said, what does that mean? Trump said, she’s given me so much ammunition. I don’t have to. She’s a radical leftling lunatic who will destroy our nation.

Send your letters of complaints to Donald Trump, or listen to the Ballot podcast, where we do this stuff every day over there, Ballots wherever you get your shows. Schultz then asked Trump if he supports abortion bands. Now that Baron Trump has been quote unleashed in New York City, Schultz asked, tell me the situation. Baron is eighteen, he’s handsome, he’s tall, he’s rich. Trump said he’s got the whole ballgame this kid.

Schultz said, he’s unleashed in New York City. Are you sure you want to reverse Roe V? Wait? Now, I mean maybe give him a few years, you know. Trump didn’t answer the question, but cracked a smile gave a straight answer about how it’s up to the states now, and I’ll leave the political stuff for the ballot show.

Let’s go hang out on gossip Corner, and it’s very gossipy today. Donald Rowling’s booked to Chicago. Defender the topic, Diddy Donale said, you know, it’s interesting. There’s two sides to every story. I had the chance to learn one version of Diddyon.

Some of those accusers are sharing their experiences in that photo, I saw a group of black men enjoying each other’s company, celebration of blackness, fatherhood, and friendship. People can interpret that image however they want, but that’s the energy I felt. Did he host gatherings like this every year? And I remember when Dave’s kids were hanging out with his kids? I believe the Dave in question there is Dave Chappelle.

Everybody was out in the water having fun together. It was a beautiful celebration of life, family and made a lasting impression. Unfortunately, many people now see him as the devil. Still, those who had the chance to work with him or receive undisputable opportunities have a different perspective, and that’s important to recognize as well.

Meanwhile, Atlanta Blackstar is asking where is Kevin the headline.

Kevin Hart’s wife, an Ego, has not posted the comedians since he was bombarded with Diddy questions. The troll attacks, as they’re being called, started on the couple’s September twenty ninth post about their daughter’s birthday. One comment read, still pretending everything is normal and acting like your eyes are blind as crazy. How did you sleep? Bro?

On October sixth, Kevin Hart shared a video of himself wearing out the gym. The comments included, you were invited to join Diddy’s jail party. Don’t forget baby oil. Kevin Hart was out in West Hollywood. A Papa Rozzo asked Kevin Hart, when you hosted for Ditty, did you catch any baby oil?

Kevin Hart responded, when I hosted for Ditty. You’re asking the wrong person, the wrong question. It’s not a good question. Which is an interesting answer here asking me if I’ve ever met Ditty? No, I have never met Ditty.

Have ever been one of his parties? No, I have never been to one of Ditty’s parties. I know that’s shocking, but no, I haven’t missus. Hart has not shared any images with Kevin on her Instagram since August twenty fourth. Again, we’re on gossip corner.

Now staying on gossip corner. Jerry Seinfeld was at the Mets game. A video shows a fan asking Jerry to send a message to the fans brother who’s in Israel. The brother was watching the Mets game from the Gaza border. Seinfeld raised his fist in solidarity and offered a three word message, which was let’s go IDF weird AWL told the story to people in which Andy Samberg, who’s in the macpack, actually weird Al should be in the macpack as well.

We’ll get to that a different day. Samberg actually called me up before the show SNL and said, hey, man, I’m doing an impressive view and I hope it’s okay, and I’m like, yeah, it’s fine, whatever you want to do. Al would like to HOSTSNALI, He says, I wonder why haven’t I done that yet? And that’s one of those things, but you know, still may happen. Who knows.

I think I’d rather be a host than a musical guest, because if you host, you have more permission to mess up, and as a musical guest, if you get one note wrong, you’re a failure. Samanth the Bee told the Daily Beast podcast she’s working on a three night run of a new show in New York City this week. The title of the program is How to Survive Mental Pause. Sam says, I’m not generally a hot takes type of person, and I do like to think about things and consider things, but the anger inside of me would boil. I would rage boil in a nanosecond.

It was such a powerful feeling that I did. At the end of the summer, I was throwing things privately. My personal anger was overtaking me. I never really did that in anyone’s presence, but it was like a private inner turmoil, and I thought, I really need psychiatric care. This is very out of character.

The show runs October seventeenth through the nineteenth at the Minuta Lane Theater in Manhattan. By the way, I want to thank the supporters. You know several of you support the show regularly. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

You know I’ll get an email in the middle of the night telling me somebody signed up. So Deb, thank you, Deb joined the two dollars Club. That’s a nice easy way to do it. Ellen Avon, Aaron Becky Different Aeron, Liz, Travis Scott. Maybe I should blackmail Scott and be like, hey man, a little more donations, a little less Joe Coy know what I’m saying.

Nudge nudge, we have fewer Camber shots of Taylor Swift, Tommy Andrea, Gary, Shannon, Mike and Kenny. Thank you all so much. Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You know what I’ll do. I will go to the National Donut Chain.

I don’t have one with me. What this is here? This is a diet coke that I got at famous Hamburger chain. Dudes, two cheeseburger meal that you would get at a famous hamburger chain. Eleven fifty.

What are we doing? Trevor Noah said he’d be happy to drop by the Daily Show. Coincidentally, he’s got a new book to promote. Wow, it’s weird how that happens. I mean, Trevor hadn’t mentioned wanting to go on The Daily Show at all, and he’s got a new book, and now he’s like, Oh, I’d go on the Daily Show.

Huh. I see how that works. Savannah Guthrie asked Trevor while he was guesting on The Today’s Show, the question, would you ever go back to the Daily Show just for a guest thing? Look at John he’s doing Mondays. Trevor said, oh, always, always, John and I text about it all the time.

I’m just gonna come pop in and harass him for a full day and then be his guest. Trevor said he always wished he could do a version of The Daily Show with a lighter schedule, and then he messaged Sean Stewart saying, I literally messaged him and was like, you set up a bee. You figured it out. Roy Wood Junior tell the Egle Online. What makes the Daily Show so legendary but can also be burdensome creatively is they have to try to look at the solution of the problem or the causation of the problem, so he can put a real call to action on the issue.

But when it comes to Have I Got News for You, we get to live in the joke first and the solution second. I mentioned this the other day as I’m watching HBO Max, Are you watching the Penguin? By the way, somebody’s got a crush on one of the actors in the Penguin? And no, I don’t have a crush on Oz Cobblepot. You can figure out who.

But I digress. Have I Got News for You? It’s like in the Top ten. So, as I mentioned, it might not be a good idea to have on CNN Saturday night, but people are watching it, which is good. I like everybody on the show.

Royoo Junior said, everybody interprets and digests information and trauma differently. So I think we have an opportunity with Have I Got News for You to introduce a new prism through which to process everything terrible that’s going on in the world. You know, one week, Donald Trump’s talking about people eating dogs and cats. In the next week, the mayor of New York City gets indicted. Every week’s been an amazing bingo cord of chaos.

There were so many shows that were around attempting to offer their own ankles on the stuff. So the fact that a new show even dared to enter the market space in the last four years is huge. Right. Vulture is keeping an eye on this crossover between Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny. They have an update which reads a lot of NSWF improv is hitting the cutting room floor.

Patrick Schumacher toil the rap. When we were shooting last week, Rob had this improv in one scene with Ava that I didn’t know was coming. He just thought about it temporaneously. It made me spit out my coffee and then wish we had an episode that was just like a gag reel of all the stuff we can’t use. When Quinna first brought it to me and Pat I was like, this is gonna work.

How we’re gonna marry the tones of these shows but stay true to the own show. It was incredibly fun to do. The Abbot folks added that Mceleenny and Charlie Day spend time in the writer’s room to make it work. No details and when it will air? Are you in Toronto tonight?

I like the title of this all of us are Asian comedy show. Exclamation boint. This is Toronto’s hottest comedy show that will take you on a wild and hilarious ride. The show always sells out. Get your tickets now.

Well, John, why’d you tell them about it two seconds before the show? I don’t know. Maybe I pretaped the weekend. You know it happens. Yeah, maybe I appreciate the weekend.

That’s your comedy news for today. Two dollars club. Love you guys, appreciated all the supporters. Appreciate you. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Felicity Ward, Jeff Dunham, Nate Bargatze, Ari Shaffir

What’s in This Episode

• The Office Australia casting and release with Felicity Ward
• Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special on Amazon Prime
• Nate Bargatze performing at Stanford with crowd work
• Ari Shaffir interview on being labeled a ‘smart comedian’
• Ari Shaffir reflects on canceled FX show Totally Biased legacy
• Aperghetzi and Laura’s $1.3M donation to Donaldson Christian Academy

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Caloroga Shark Media people are really wigged about this Australian version of the Office. Calm down, everyone, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. They’re acting like, oh, I can’t believe they made an Australian version of the Office. Are you paying attention? There’s a zillion versions.

There’s a version on Hulu that I watched that’s Hindi. It’s like half Hindi and half English and the dialogue goes back and forth and sometimes I read the captions and it’s the Office. I get it. And I don’t know if you know this. The Office, as great as it was, was originally a British series starring Ricky Gervay’s so let’s stop acting like we can’t make a new one.

Felicity Ward stars in The Australian Office and has told fans Ricky Gervaise personally approved her casting. Felicity said, Ricky Gervais has approved a female lead. He’s very excited about a female lead. Just in case anyone is angry. Australian Office will be on Prime Video on the Australia and UK on October eighteenth.

If you’re in the US, You’re not going to get it unless you have one of those VPNs. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. She was asked how she’s feeling about the show’s released on October eighteenth, and said, pretty chill. Actually, English people and people love the office. They’re like, hey, what do you want to do?

That’s fine. Felicity plays Hannah Howard, manager of the Sydney based box company Finley Cratick. She says, I did zero preparation because I read the script and I’m like, oh my god, this is every annoying part of my personality. I’ve been preparing for this my whole life, and I don’t know if this showrunner, I don’t know how much she had seen me before, but it was like as if she got the tapes and then edited out the charm and the bits that people liked about me, and then just wrote a character. So it’s just there.

It’s very strange playing a character where you’re supposed to make people cringe. Jeff Dunham has a new Christmas Carol inspired comedy special coming out, This one also on Amazon Prime. This one you can watch in the States. It’ll be out November nineteenth. It is titled Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special.

In Jeff Dunham’s Screwed Up In Jeff Dunham’s So yeah, I’m leaving that in. I did you hear that? All right? I misspoke and I said screwed up, and then I was going to do the pick up, and then I realized screwed up is funny. So I’m leaving all that in, including the explanation.

This is where I start over. Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiering on another bust. Leave it in. I’m giving you a little behind the scenes here, all right. Take three, Jeff Dunhams screwed him.

You’d swear I’m doing a bit. Take four Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiers November nineteenth. In Jeff Dunham’s scrooged Up Holiday Special, Jeff Dunham recreates the beloved Charles Dickens Holiday story with his iconic characters. In the classic roles, Guess who’s Scrooge? That’s right, Walter.

But when Jeff assigns Bubba j Peanut, Little Jeff and Ahmed to their thespian parts, they don’t quite agree and the plan spins hilariously out of control during this stand up comedy special. It’s Jeff Dunham’s thirteenth comedy special, his second to twenty twenty four. Remember back on Valentine’s Day he did I’m with Cupid, No Me neither. This is his third Christmas Team Special, following completely unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic Holiday Special from twenty twenty Great Title and Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special in two thousand and eight. Aperghetzi and his wife Laura are helping build an indoor practice facility for the Donaldson Christian Academy.

They’ve donated a gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars with an additional matching gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to help the DCA with the project. Nate is an alumni of DCA, graduating with the class of ninety seven. The DCA said, we’re excited to announce the potential edition of an indoor practice facility. Facility allows to better serve all of our wildcats by creating a space that can be used for multiple purposes during all our seasons. The indoor space will feature competitive athletic facilities, state of the art strength training, multipurpose space for band and early learning, and new locker rooms and office spaces.

Junior did some crowd work and bonded with an audience member over catching her boyfriend cheating on Facebook. He bonded by saying he was caught on AOL instant Messenger. The Stanford Daily says Wood’s joke about AOL wasn’t the only one that aged him, but he maintained relevance to the college student audience by highlighting the twisted nature of the textbook sale industry. Would have joked about a process called book buy back. The program allows students to sell used textbooks at the school bookstore or a quote unquote sketchy online company for around one tenth through the original price.

Yeah, if you’ve got any kids in college, the textbook game is insane. I actually teach you college classes. I don’t use a textbook. I use my own knowledge. I teach a radio class in a podcasting class so I can write the notes off the top of my head.

Roy said, I know a scam when I see one. How much new Calculus came out in the past few months, Smile Politely dot Com caught up with the ever so serious Ari Condobolu. Smile asked Hari, what’s it like being a smart comedian? Harry said, what it means is you get described as smart and brilliant and what did Time Out New York say, deals in commonly reasoned polemics. But the word funny isn’t used nearly enough.

The only thing I want to see is funny. He’s really funny, hysterical. I’m a comedian at the end of the day. All the other things smart, well spoken, thoughtful, and I’ll throw in ever so serious. I’d be part of it.

Is your interview Persoda, dude, I’d like that to be the garnish around the funny. I do think, certainly there’s a reason that I bring an NPR audience. I use big words and reference things that might not be in pop culture and maybe more about world affairs and about historical things, while still attempting to be relatable to any mainstream audience. I guess that’s what it means, or maybe I just wear glasses. I don’t know.

Smile asked him about his show Totally Biased already said, first of all, it’s a show. It’s been canceled since twenty thirteen. To the fact that it still gets its flowers, it’s really nice. I wish I got more. I feel like the fact that the clips aren’t readily available online.

When FX bowl the clips after the show got canceled, I felt that was a really bad decision. They put the episodes up. The episodes aren’t going to be evergreen, but some of the clips will be. It’s just annoying watch things. It’d be like, yeah, we cover this a decade ago, and that’s the same angle we took, and there’s no record of it.

I’ve seen things since and it’s like, Okay, that’s literally almost verbatim. When I said three years later the same joke. It taught me that there were more people appreciated the point of view that I had, that Camal had, that the voice of the show had. It made me feel like maybe I wasn’t out on a limb the same way I thought it was at the same time, and also taught me that we were still on the cutting edge because the stuff we were talking about in twenty twelve about trans rights and police brutality and the angles we took then became mainstream angles a few years later, all of a sudden, you even see late night shows covering those issues that started with us. That a Pooh documentary I did comes from totally biased.

I was thinking of a pool uh last week or the week before, and I was watching the quote unquote serious finale of The Simpsons, and I don’t think up Poo appeared in it at all, Like not even in the background or in the audience. Maybe I just missed him, or I said, that’s the thing that spurred me to write a piece about it. Things that a community know where feel have been discussed for years are new when you’ve been ignored by mainstream society. So all of a sudden, all our old stuff becomes new to everybody else. It helped me calibrate where we were as a society and perform in real time.

When you’re doing stand up, you’re doing it in real time, but you’re also releasing things of the masses. It’s every few years in a special or set. It’s totally biased. Every night, we kind of got a sense of where people were. People still bring up that spelling bee thing I did, or the Apu thing, or how I covered Columbus Day.

Stuff that was forever go to me, and somehow it’s still relevant people. It also says that the stuff we were doing was ahead of its time. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption. If you’re an Apple podcast, there’s a banner.

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Featured: Ariana Grande, Michael Chase, Colin Jost, Joe Pesci, Lorne Michaels, Stevie Nicks, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• SNL Season 50 celebration and Ariana Grande hosting with Stevie Nicks
• Lorne Michaels interview on Colin Jost and Michael Chase dynamic
• SNL joke swap segment and chemistry between Jost and Chase
• Bert Kreischer’s Bert Aid benefit show postponed from October 12 to November 15 due to Hurricane Helen
• The Hard Times satire ranking Lost characters as Joe Rogan Experience guests

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Caloroga Shark Media. Arian A Corande hosts Saturday Night Live Tonight. I say that with the emphasis on the tea, otherwise of my native accent. It’s just Satnite Live musical guest Stevie Nicks. I don’t know if you know this SNL turning fifty.

We’re gona talk about ever day the next eight months. Yallar reporter asked Michael Chase, if you see on your phone that Lord Michaels is calling, what’s your reaction. I’d freak out, I know I would. Chase said something’s wrong. I’m always like, uh, oh, who did it?

And how are we gonna fix it? Or it’s something like, oh, we’re hosting the Emmys. But I have a great relationship with Lord. I think everybody’s relationship with him boils down to the fact that he’s one of the few people who you truly respect their opinion about show business because he’s seen it all. Same question as Colin Jost, Joe says, it depends on what time it is and what section of the year it is.

Jay says, if it’s three AM, and it says FaceTime video Boss has been drinking, that’s funny. Joe says no, he’s a night owl and he has different relationships because of it. He’s up to three four am every night, so he’s certain people he knows they’re always up then two, and they have communication between the hours of two and four and not in an out drinking way, just a regular new conversation. But it’s three am. Do you guys stay up all night?

Chase says, yup. Choset said, I had a long run, but I can’t anymore. I think he’s learned that I’m not gonna respond until nine am, and then he’s gonna see it at eleven AM when he wakes up. This is fun. I like this interview.

A lot interesting come in here from Lorne Michaels. Six or seven years ago. Somebody high up with the network who never asked me sn no questions out of respect, said update with Jose and Chay. Do you think that’s working? And Lauren’s answer says, I said no, not yet, and he said, oh, you know, I’m like, of course, I know.

But there’s a chemistry there and we’ve had a lot of good combinations, but these two just brought out the best of each other. Like who else could make jokes about Colin and Scarlett and the joke swap. Whatever hostility he thought was lurking below the surface, it’s all visible in the joke swap. But it’s meant to be funny, and it’s truly funny. I just like to chake and take these positions which kind of fly in the face of the values of most of the audience, and he’s funny and they laugh and they like him.

Wow, that is interesting. Are there ground rules for the joke swap? Jay says, I don’t know if there’s a line. I think anything can work given the circumstance.

And also nothing can work given the circumstance.

Jay gives great answers. He is so insightful with these things, insightful and funny at the same time. I love his answers. Jay said, My thing with joke Swap, which is the most stand up thing we do at SNLS, that the audience just has to believe that I’m trying to embarrass Colin and that this really bothers him and vice versa. And if that comes across, then they’re not thinking about the content of the jokes.

So it’s not oh, that’s a racist joke. It’s more, oh, I can’t believe he’s gonna make him say that out loud, Holly Reporter, why do you think you’ve both ultimately stayed at the show? Chay my mortgage? Now, we love it. We love the show.

It’s a weird thing because you get moments where you love it so much and drives you’re crazy and you want to be as far away from it as possible. Joe says, It’s like when you play golf. A lot of times, it’s very frustrating, and there are times you certainly consider quitting, but then you hit a good shot and you’re like, Wow, I love this game. I should do this all the time. That’s the way it is with SNL.

When everything comes together and all the costumes look great and the timing’s perfect and the crowd’s good, You’re just like, this is the best job in the world, this next door r Let me just be honest with you. I’m recording this on Wednesday to accommodate my schedule. Bert Kreischer posted on Facebook his Bert aid show was supposed to be in Tampa tonight. Now I’m in the past. You know what the situation in Tampa is right now, So if I’m a little tone deaf.

I just want to be clear. I recorded this already three days ago. But here we’ll let Bert explain Tampa. This is the least important information you’ll hear all week. But obviously my show October twelfth at Ruthhickert Hall has been pushed was for the relief for Hurricane Helen, and now we will do it November fifteenth, and apparently it’ll be for both hurricanes.

If you’re in Tampa, stay safe, evacuate if you can. And if you grew up with me, send me a text. Because my parents are staying in Tampa for the hurricane. They’re not leaving. We try to get them to leave, so I may need you to check up on them.

God bless, stay safe. I will see you soon. I stumbled across this article. I don’t know how much I’m going to get out of it. This is one of those things.

I’m just diving in the pool. I make it thirty seconds zero. We might go another eight minutes, but the first two things. Let me tell you what it is. This is from Thehrdtimes dot net.

The premise every character from Lost ranked by how they’d be as a guest on the Joe Rogan experience, so that’s fun. I was like, oh, I’ll do this. They’ll be like ten. No, there’s eighty and number eighty is Michael, and I’m not gonna read all eighty. I’m just gonna read the ones that make me laugh.

Seventy nine is Charlie and the premise from The Hard Times is it turns out that Joe Rogan hates the band Drive Shaft, and we know Charlie is always seeking approval, so the episode would be incredibly hard to listen to because Charlie would relapse on air. Seventy eight is Alana Verdansky. Hard Times has a good writer. They wrote Rogan would forget who she is, just like the rest of us. Is quite frankly, it’s astonishing we took the time to add her to this list.

I have no idea who she is, and I love Lost. I’m going to look it up. Is this Saturday filler? John? Did you tape this like two weeks ago?

Maybe? Alana is introduced in the sixth episode of the fifth season of Loss as an officer boarding a Jira Airways flight three sixteen with Sayid in her custody. Okay, yeah, I guess that’s someone seventy seven, Nikki and Paulo seventy six, David Shepherd. That’s Jack’s son that doesn’t really exist. Seventy five is Shannon seventy four, Bernard seventy three, Detective Mars seventy two, Vincent the Dog seventy one Frogert Ten minutes in Joe Rogan would casually hint that lifting weights might help Frogert get laid more seventy Sarah Wagner, who Rogan would spend the whole episode asking but seriously, why do you leave Jack, while Sarah just rolls her eyes and mothers something about daddy issues.

Sixty nine Kate’s Dad sixty eight Liam Pace. Rogan would kick off the episode with her drive Shaft is finally gonna have a reunion, only for Liam to explain, now, man, you’re thinking of oasis. That’s pretty good. Sixty seven is Phil He’s one of the Dormer crew. Sixty six is Bram.

Bram would rant about Jacob saving the world, and Joe would randomly ask, but if you tried Lion’s main coffee, Brian would shake his head, muttering, you’re on the wrong side. Joe. Sixty five is Nadia sixty four is Boone, Remember Boone? Sixty three is Aldo. He was played by Rob Mcalenny.

Rogan would be excited to drop it’s always Sonny in Philadelphia references, assuming Aldo knows about it because of the actor’s connection. Aldo, completely oblivious, would just blink and ask, what’s always Sonny, leaving Rogan awkwardly butchering the dentist system. Okay, apparently I am going to get eight minutes out of this. Sixty two is Carmen Carman would spend the whole episode trying to feed Joe, insisting he needs more home cooked meals. Joe would try to steer the conversation back to Hurley’s lottery win, but Carmen’s too busy telling embarrassing stories about Hurley.

Sixty one is doctor Pierre Chang. That’s the guy from the Dharma videos. Sixty Carl Martin. He’s a character that got tortured by the others. Fifty nine is Danny Pickett.

Pickett would go on unhinged rant about how grilling was the only thing keeping him from losing it on the island. You think I tortured people for fun, Joe. Now it’s just stressed from never getting the damn grill hot enough. Fifty eight George Minkowski. This is one of the actors that was on Succession.

The entire episode would be Rogan asking did you watch Succession? Over and over while George tries to explain he’s not actually in the show. Van Matthew abinon, same joke, but have you seen the wire? Fifty six Cindy Chandler, She’s one of the flight attendants. Rogan would ask to do the others get tsa pre check?

Or what fifty five is Lenin? Joe would peg Lennon as the kind of guy who could handle some potent edibles. Big mistake. Lenin would get way too high, turning the conversation into a paranoid miss rambling about dormous secrets and human sacrifice. Fifty four is Son.

Son would ignore all of Joe’s questions about survival in island life, instead launching into a passionate rant about the superiority of Korean’s skincare. Fifty three is Rose. After Rose reveals are cancer returned after leaving the island, Rogan would suggest micro dosing shrooms, grounding, and of course, buying a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Roseanont politely clearly unimpressed.

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All right, we have fifty two more to go, so this will come back someday as we…

But let’s move on. Stephen Rogers is taping his special today. I was checking out his comedy. He’s got some Mark Norman in it. Stephen Rogers is a Syracuse race comedian based in New York City who’s been making others laugh for most of his life.

He’s teaming with Nate Bergatsey’s Nate Land Entertainment to produce the new special, taping tonight at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. Steven’s clever, rapid fire material, full of observations about his life and the world around him, has led to him appearing on The Late Show with Colbert Cordon and Dryboor Comedy. WPR was curious about Eugene Merman’s comedy festival. What’s the deal with that? Eugene said, I did a weekly show in Brooklyn with my friend Julie Smith Klem.

There was also an event that made me joke with her and Mike Berri Bigley at the time that I was going to do a Eugene Merman comedy festival and how I wouldn’t do that because I was not a known comic. It was particularly Lucris to suggests, but I thought we should do it because it would be silly. He was really fun. So at some point we decided to do a second one, and then that grew in doing a decade at these very silly shows. Veronica Slowakowska is one of vulturous comedians.

You should and will know what comedian’s career trajectory would you like to follow? She said, maybe Adam Sandler a terrible chow actually a great choice. I mean, Adam’s rich, he doesn’t care. Do you want the money? Do you want people to go?

Well, that was a good body of work. Take the money, doing a bit of everything and doing it with your friends and family seems awesome to me. You know, she is right. And Donald Glover’s the funny shows, the serious ones, the music, very cool wor Showever, I was booked on a magic show like where magicians do magic and I’m the comedy act in between. So I thought, okay, easy, breezy, everyone needs a laugh.

Turns out these magicians were so amazing, was mind blowing and be funny. What was my turn to do some alt comedy, following amazing magicians who were hilarious, charming, and also hot. I hate it, so now I do magic in every one of my sets. Her joke writing process. When an idea comes, no matter where I am or what I’m doing, I write it down.

You think you’ll remember it, but you won’t.

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Also having stuff planned but still being able to riff and play it.

There’s a sweet spot between being prepared and following your gut best comedy device, worst comedy advice. Best the audience is as smart as you, so what would you want to see? Worst the audience is a baby and you have to teach it everything. And that is your comedy news for today. If you like this program without commercials, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how that works.

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Featured: Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Milton Berle, Garrett Morris, Johnny Carson, Brian Reagan, David Cross, David Spade, Stephen Rodgers, Eugene Mirman

What’s in This Episode

• Saturday Night movie fact-checking: what’s true about SNL’s 1975 premiere
• Milton Berle flashing Chevy Chase — myth vs reality
• Lorne Michaels and Weekend Update — when did he hand it to Chevy?
• Johnny Carson’s actual reaction to SNL’s creation and launch
• John Belushi signing his contract five minutes before going live
• Chevy Chase and Bill Murray fight backstage in 1978
• Brian Reagan shifting from dumb guy persona to observational comedy
• David Cross’s Senses Working Overtime podcast launch
• David Spade taping special in Denver; Stephen Rodgers taping in Fort Collins

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Saturday Night Movie has been in limited release until now. Today it goes into wide release. The film tells the tale of the ninety minutes leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live, then titled NBC’s Saturday Night.

Yeah, there was a Howard Cosell show called Saturday Night Live. This happened October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. Young producer Lauren Michaels races against the clock to put together a live show. Director and co writer Jason Reiman interviewed lots of past and president SNL staffers and research written accounts of these sketch shows opening night. Of course, it’s a movie, so we had to take some dramatic license.

Entertainment Weekly looked at the true stories. Okay, some spoilers here, but you know, the show’s been around for almost fifty years, so you had a minute. But if you don’t want me to ruin the movie, I don’t know, skip ahead five minutes maybe because I’m going to tell you a couple of stories here. Boiler is a coming spoiler. Number one, did Milton Burrell really flash Chevy Chase.

E W says there’s no record that Milton Burle was lurking around SNL in premier Night or that he flashed Chevy. However, it was widely rumored that Uncle Milty had you know, big charisma and liked to show it off. Nudge nudge, wink wink. In the SNL Oral History book Live from New York, writer Alan’s Wybell said he was flashed in Burl’s dressing room when Milton hosted in nineteen seventy nine. Chevy had left the show by then.

Spoiler number two was Louren Michaels, the original host of Weekend Update before turning it over to Chevy. E W tells us in lesser known SNL lore, Michaels has said he was actually planning to anchor an early ineration of Weekend Update, but he didn’t hand over to Chase minutes before the show. It happened before Chase was even on the cast. Michael still Deadline in twenty fourteen. I’d done the equivalent of Weekend Update in Canada, but as we got closer to the air show, I began to realize that I didn’t think I could be the person who cut other people’s pieces and left my own inn.

Spoiler number three three, did Garrett Morris sing a song about killing white He’s at soundcheck? E W tells us. Although there are no stories about Garrett Morris singing at the show’s first sound check, he did perform the song for the movie on SNL in the first season, episode eleven featured this song. Next spoiler was Jenny Carson openly hostile to SNL, he W tells us, contrary to the film’s portrayal of Carson rooting for the show’s demise. SNL was created as a solution to the host insisting NBC stop airing reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends so he could cut his talk show down from four days a week to three days a week and air repeats on the remaining weeknights.

Per the book Live from New York, Carson was skeptical of the show and later openly appalled by some of its more outrageous gags, but did not make a threatening phone call to Lorne. Michael’s Lorn regularly invited Carson a guest host, but Johnny never appeared. Next boiler was NBC prepared to air a Tonight Show rerun in case SNL wasn’t ready. E W tells us, actually it was Lorne who wanted a backup plan, but not of the tonight show. Associate producer Craig Killum remembered in Live from New York, we almost didn’t get on the air because dress rehearsal went so poorly.

I remember Lauren seriously asking the network people, or having me ask them to have a movie ready to go just in case. Then I don’t think he was kidding. Next spoiler, did John Belushi he refuse to sign his contract until moments before the show went live. A W tells us Belushi was indeed without a contract until moments before starring in the cold open. Apparently John signed it five minutes before air.

That’s wonderful. That may do one more. Did Chevy and Belushi get into a physical fight backstage? He W says, similar to the film Chase was involved in a FIS fight, but now with Belushi, it actually involved Bill Murray. Bill Murray said in the Live from New York book, I got into a fight with Chevy the night he came back to host in nineteen seventy eight.

Bill didn’t join SNL until season two it was almost like I was goaded into it. You know, I think everybody was hoping for it. I did sense that. I think they resented Chevy for leaving for one thing. They resented him for taking a big piece of the success and leaving it and make his own career go.

Everybody else was from the improv world, where you didn’t make it about you. You were an ensemble, you were company. So when he left, there was resentment about that. It was a shock. Chase put most of the blame on Belushi in the same book, Chase said, in a sense, John caused that fight with Billy because we both ended up hitting John by mistake.

Billy came after me and tried to throw me off a little bit just before I was going on air. Ultimately, Billy’s still Billy and I’m still me. But it didn’t phaze me for the show. I was sure was upset, But I noticed John when I was going into Billy’s dressing room, and John was like the cheshire Cats, sitting in there like mission accomplished. Brian Reagan used to have a bit of a dem guy persona in his stand up and said, for a long time, I did feeling inferior fantasies on stage, like you say the dumb guy.

Reagan told the Burlington Free Press it was comedy from a perspective of a person who doesn’t want to put his foot in his mouth or feel inadequate in certain social situations. My brain is bigger than that dumb guy persona. I enjoy thinking about a lot of different things. It’s fun to share a comedic point of view that’s more observational in nature than biographical. But I still do a little bit of everything.

I like ancient civilizations, and I make a joke about Stonehenge, and I have jokes about space exploration, things that I think might surprise people that are familiar with my old work. It’s very funny stuff. He’s been acting a little bit. He says things are good. That doesn’t mean at some point I won’t want to get off the ride.

I’ve been thrilled to be a stand up comedian for my whole adult life. It’d be nice to experiment with some other ways of being creative. He’s working on an idea for a talk show where he would be on stage but would produce behind the scenes. He calls it a talk show with a twist. He’s also working on a Christmas production.

He didn’t want to talk about that in detail, and said it’s a Christmas idea with a twist. These are things that people might not expect from stand up comedian Brian Reagan. David Cross has a podcast called Senses Working Overtime. Cross says, I’ve started branching off to people I don’t know, and for me, the whole way I presented it is I’m just gonna have a conversation. It should be similar to I met you at a bar in a strange town I haven’t been in, and start a conversation with the person next to me.

That’s how I approach it. Obviously, a bunch of these people if I’m not fully aware of them. I know, at least your comics we have that to talk about. But I’ve had a lot of people on the show that I didn’t know before I met them when they walked in the room. I wouldn’t be doing the podcast if I didn’t enjoy it.

It certainly doesn’t pay anything. No, really it doesn’t. Maybe it would if I roge it up a little bit. We need more conspiracy theories, Half asked conspiracy theories would increase my paycheck. David Spade is taping a special tonight at the Paramount Theater in Denver.

Stephen Rodgers will tape his a special. He’s got a little bit of Mark Norman in him. Stephen has teamed up with Nate Bergatzy’s Nateland Entertainment. Stephen Rodgers, the Syracuse at raised comedian now based in New York City. He’ll record his show tonights and tomorrow at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado.

WPR spoke to Eugene Merman. They were curious about the origins of the Eugene Merman Comedy Festival. Merman said, I did a weekly show in Brooklyn with my friend Julie Smith Klem. There was an event that made me joke with her and Mike bro Bigley at the time that I was going to do a Eugene Merman Comedy Festival, but that I wouldn’t do it because I wasn’t a known comic. It was particularly ludicrous to suggest, But then I thought we should do it because it would be really silly.

It was really fun. So sometime we decided to do a second one, and then that grew in doing a decade of these very silly shows. Vaulter asked Langston Kerman, Hey, you tell a story in your special about the day you spent with your friends high and mushrooms at the park. I know your friends with Sam Jay, who also has a story in her last special about doing mushrooms with her friends at the park? Are those the same day?

Likeston said, Same day, Sam got really excited about watching the white people dance because they had set up a DJ booth randomly, and it then became this weird war between them and the other people would try and have a baby shower, were very put off by the music, and she was getting very angry at the fact that these white people had finally found their freedom dancing peacefully in the park were being told by a richer class of people that they needed to shut it down, and that became the inspiration for her story. Then, after Sam sat there watching this war happen for an hour and a half, we wanted to the ballpark and I lost my mind watching a man play softball poorly. It was great. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too.

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Featured: Nate Berghatz, Seth Meyers, Tommy Chong, Bill Maher, Jenna Fisher, Ricky Gervais

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Berghatz book announcement and CBS Christmas special
• Nate Berghatz SNL ratings analysis
• Seth Meyers new HBO special Dad Man Walking
• Tommy Chong claims George W. Bush ordered hit on him
• Jenna Fisher breast cancer diagnosis and recovery
• World Animal Day event with Ricky Gervais
• HBO’s Florida Man late night comedy series premiere

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Caloroga Shark Media tightly ho. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Nate Berghatzy is working on a book. It is called Big Dumb Eyes. I think the book publicist thought I was insane when I reached out to them already.

Big Dumb Eyes was announced by Nate on social media, who wrote, I’m so excited to tell you that I’m writing my first book. Big Dumb Eyes will be an easy read of a collection of personal stories, opinions, and confessions that the whole family can enjoy. It doesn’t come out until May sixth of nixt year, which is why the publicists, I think thought I was insane. Got I got those requests in though I’ve previously told you. Nate is working on a Christmas special with CBS.

Lauren Michael’s behind that one. Nate says of the new special, I’m extremely excited to be creating this special as I’ve long been a fan of variety and we don’t see enough of it. I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together, and I couldn’t be in better hands and with this team. The ratings for Nate’s SNL episode are in. Four point zero seven million people watched it, which is pretty good for eleven thirty at night when you compare that to say, Playoff Baseball.

Yeah. Week over a week, it was down six hundred and twenty six thousand viewers from the premiere. You think Coldplay would bring in more people, right. It was also down eighty nine thousand viewers from Nate’s appearance last October on the twenty eighth. That musical guest was Foo Fighters hmm.

If you want to compare week to week last year, on October twenty first, Bad Bunny hosted, Nate outdrew the Bad Bunny episode by seven hundred and twenty one one thousand viewers. HBO released the trailer for Seth Meyer’s new comedy special. It is called Dad Man Walking. I’ve got the trailer for you here. I’ve made a couple of minor edits to it because there’s some visual jokes.

But let’s listen, and I want to point out notice the music bed. It’s like stock Music Library version of the Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again? Weird choice. It like keeps distracting me because I’m like, oh, it’s fake who Anyway, let’s listen. I could never hate my kids, you guys, I could never hate my kids with that.

I hate when they wake up in the middle of the night bad news. It’s gotten to the point that when I hear the door knob rattle, I actually think to myself, maybe it’s just an intruder who will politely steal my valuables, and then I won’t have to scratch his back for the next hour. Meyer’s jokes that critics say it’s the special my kids will be talking about in therapy twenty years from now. October twenty six for Seth Meyer’s Dad Man Walking, Tommy Chong was on Bill Morris podcast. He suggested that President George W.

Bush ordered a hit on mister Chong. Tommy Chong is now eighty six. He claimed that his criminal conviction in two thousand and three for selling drug paraphernalia online, specifically seventy five hundred bonds and water pipes, was orchestrated by George W. Bush. Chong served eight months at a federal prison in California after entering into a plea deal.

The case was initiated by the US Attorney for Western Pennsylvania. Chung says it was orchestrated by Bush. He told Bill Mahr they had a hit on me. The Bush family. Bill Maher, no surprise, was curious about the claim.

Chong said, Bush was invading a raq, so they needed some sort of hippie bs more than asked him if it was a wag the dog type play. That’s a reference to a political strategy he used to create a diversion. You know, hey, don’t worry about the war, worry about Tommy Chung. Yeah, all right, Chong said, yeah, So they attacked me and they sentenced me on nine to eleven. The judge Schwartz was his name.

He had a reputation of doing whatever the Bush people wanted done, and so that’s why he was giving my thing. They needed a face for their campaign because they were going after paraphernalia on the internet. Mar Ashchong if he harbored any bitterness towards Bush Or’s family. Chong said no, Yeah, he said no, but admitted the experience was a life changer for me. Yeah.

I would imagine newsweeks as they contacted the Bush media team for comment. No comment at the time of this recording. Interesting tag here. Chong said prison was devastating to my family, especially my wife. Wasn’t tough on me.

Actually, it was quite a nice experience. Jenni Fisher, you know her as Pam from the Office. She shared on Instagram her breast cancer diagnosis, announcing she’s now cancer free. She released a series of slides in commemoration of Breast cancer Awareness Month. She said in October of twenty twenty three, doctors found something on her left breast after an inconclusive mammogram.

That December, she learned she had stage one triple positive breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form of the disease, but one that is highly responsive to treatment. They caught the cancer early it had not spread to the rest of her body. In twenty twenty four, doctors removed the lump, but triple positive breast cancer still requires chemo and radiation therapy. Jenna says during the treatment her hair fell out and she began wearing wigs and hats with hair, which her family affectionately called wigats. After twelve rounds of weekly chemotherapy, three weeks of radiation, and some other treatments, Jenna says she’s happy to say I’m feeling great.

I’m making this announcements for a few reasons. One, I’m ready to ditch the wigs. Two to implore you to get your annual mammograms. Can also ask your doctor to calculate your breast cancer risk Assessment score and get additional screenings required. I’m serious.

Caught your doctor right now. My tumor was so small it could not be felt on a physle exam. If I’d waited six months longer, things could be much worse. I’m happy to say I was recently rescreened and the treatments worked. I’m cancer free.

I will continue to be treated monitored to help stay that way. Take it from Pam and her Pam PAMs. Michael Scott was right, get them check, ladies. Some high profile animal lovers, including Ricky Gervais, attended a World Animal Day event in aid of the animal welfare charity Mayhew. More than fifteen thousand pounds were raised on the night You Are a Raffle and auction of virtual gifts to support the dogs, cats and communities that Mayhew helps.

HBO not the best timing to announce their new late night comedy series, It’s Florida Man. Hope Everyone in Florida is safe Today. The series It’s Florida Man debuts next Friday, October eighteenth, at eleven pm on HBO. It’ll stream on Max. By the way, I was playing around on Max watching the Penguin.

Have you seen the Penguin? The Penguin is very good, And I noticed in the top ten was have I Got news for you? The CNN thing that airs on Saturday Night. So maybe the Saturday night thing is a terrible idea, but the Max part of it seems to be doing well. You go, Roywood Junior.

Anyway, it’s Florida Man. We’ll stream on Max at a layer on HBO proper at eleven BM Eastern and Pacific starting on the eighteenth. The irreverent late night comedy series brings to life unbelievable rip from the headlines tales of the Sunshine State. Yeah, dude’s wrong week to announce this thing. Sorry.

I know you planned this months ago, but sometimes you got a punt. Hey Florida hilarious? Right, Yeah, that’s not going to play. And I hope I’m not even out of tone because I recorded this on Wednesday, so I hope you’re not listening on Thursday going, Oh my god, John, are you serious? Are you doing this like this is the Risk You Run.

Ripped from the headlines, tales of the Sunshine State, straight from the people who live there, featuring interviews from everyday Filaridians and playful recreations, Starring a rotating cast of actors and comedians including Anna Faris, Jake Johnson, Randall Park, Juliet Lewis, Sam Richardson, Agoneautum, and more. This hilarious and outrageous series sheds lights on the viral, wacky, and weird, covering diverse topics from mermaids to witches, extreme fantasies and feeral bunnies with equal parts and humor. It’s Florida, Man. There’s a love letter to the beaches, backwaters, and especially the people of a misunderstood yet magical state. Go carefully.

HBO Press Team. My former co worker Jamie Fox recorded his new comedy special and will eventually air on Netflix. Gail King happened to be backstage to ask Jamie some questions. Well, it’s amazing, Gail King asked Jamie Fox, I want to know how you feel after three nights. Jamie said it was an excruciating time opening those wounds every single day.

The subject matter was the story of the mysterious ailment that left Jamie hospitalized back in twenty twenty three. The show was titled What had Happened Was? Jamie says the show’s unusual because he didn’t workshop the material. Fox says it was excruciating because the worries what gets you. You got a great show in the room, but we don’t know what they may laugh at, what they might not laugh at.

Usually, when you do a stand up, specially you gought for a year and you work every nook and granny and then you take it. You don’t just show up in Atlanta and turn the camera on. It’s a personal journey and I hope I never have to go through this again. My next jokes will start out knock Knock. I’ll do an hour and a half of knock knock jokes.

Glad he’s doing well again. Having worked with Jamie in his camp for a few years, that they weren’t able to prop him up to take a photo of him sitting poolside and looking cool and being like, yeah, everything’s great. That screams to me that this was really serious, because I’m telling you, if they could have gotten one good picture, it would have hit the Internet, glad he’s doing it all right. Steph Tolev is taping her special at the Paradise Rocket Club in Boston tonight. Vulture recognized Steph as one of Toronto’s funniest exports in their annual Comedians You Should and Will Know not this year, but a previous year.

You can also see Steph tolev and Bill Burr’s movie Old Dad’s in the movie wasn’t good. Sorry, and that’s your comedy needs today. John, you end it on a jerky note. You’re more. I hate you.

I know, I’m sorry I stumbled into that, but it wasn’t good. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Lewis J. Gomez, James Austin Johnson, Maya Rudolph, Dave Attell, Chris Gethard, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis turns down SNL Trump role for Skankfest
• James Austin Johnson Trump sketch details
• Skankfest Las Vegas coverage gap
• Dave Attell on Vegas and comedy at 37 years
• John Mulaney’s late night show compared to Chris Gethard Show
• Late night talk show format and Letterman vs Conan legacy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, this show is interesting. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Shane Gillis says he was asked to come back to SNL for a year to play Trump. Shane was at Skankfest, the comedy festival in Las Vegas.

We’ll talk about that in a second. Lewis J. Gomez said of Shane, nobody thought he was coming to the festival this year. Shane said, explain why? Gomez asked, can I explain why Gillis gave him the go ahead?

Gomez says, because he was offered to play Trump on the entire season of SNL and he turned it down to effing b Here Shane confirmed the story and said, they said, are you serious? You’re gonna say no? And I said, Lorne, I gotta go to Coke Magic. Coke Magic is a show where Gomez performs magic tricks. Now, this is all interesting because remember that Hollywood reporter piece I was picking away at that suggested that James Austin Johnson wouldn’t be doing Trump on the show.

But wait, there’s more. Late Nighters said during rehearsal of the Nate Berghansey episode, there was a version of the opening sketch where Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris was home watching the debate. In the dress rehearsal version, James Austin Johnson’s Trump was also watching the debate. The Trump character said, this guy’s doing great, before it was revealed that he’s not watching the debate. He’s actually watching American Ninja Warrior.

So really interesting, right, I mean, Shane Gillis goes from hey, you’re on SNL, Sorry you can’t be on ESNL to now they’re asking him to come back for a year. I mean, his Trump is really good, probably is better than James Austin Johnson’s right now. But wow, now, new topic interesting to me about skank Fest is again. I’ll remind you I host this podcast every day and as part of the prep I go to several websites and I also type in words like comedy and comedian. Nothing about skank Fest came up at all this year.

I would have mentioned it. It didn’t come up at all. I came up like six months ago when they announced it, and that’s the last time I saw it came and went. I would have told you who was playing. I would have said something about it even stranger as I put together the show on Tuesday.

If you type skank Fest into Google and then click on the news tab, as one might do when preparing their comedy podcast, here’s what comes up. The deadline story about Shane. I just told you the local patch telling us about the official skank Fest after party at Peppermint Hippo. That story from two weeks ago. David Tail spoke to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

They were curious what a sober fellow like Dayton Fettel does late nights in Vegas these days. Dave said, it’s a blur, but the beauty of Vegas is you’re always a block away from a T shirt shop. You know me, I like a good saucy T shirt. And I really like Vegas because we’re on the same time frame. You can get breakfast at two in the morning.

Even though I don’t party, it’s perfect for me. And the fear is right there as well. I haven’t been there, but I’ve been to the BattleBots Arena, which is a couple blocks away. It looks bigger in person than it did on TV. He was asked about skank Fest and said, this is the third year in Vegas, and I think Vegas and skank Fest they’re a perfect fit.

It’s a great town for the super fans to fly into. The guys from the Legion of Skanks podcast have always cool to me, and I love what they’ve done now they’ve built this fond that really appreciates live stand up. The Journal was curious about Lewis Black’s retirement, and Etel said, Lewis, of course is the road warrior. Nobody tore it harder than him, and the guy’s a class all the way. He’s been a role model for the rest of us.

I’ll be doing it thirty seven years now and I’m hoping to make it a forty, but that really depends on my bills. So if you see me after that, then I got to pay these bills. But I do enjoy it. The only thing I don’t like is the travel, and it’s a little harder when you’re older, but the shows are still really will get you going. I know, comedy in Vegas is kind of lowered down, somewhere between magic and massage, and I’m working on new stuff all the time.

He was worried about the temperature getting down of the low nineties and said he was going to bring a jacket. Late Nighter I spoke to Chris Gethard and pointed out that when mulaney did his talk show, a lot of people were comparing it to the Chris Gethard show. Chris told Late Nighter, Mullany is a cornerstone of modern comedy to a degree that no one can ignore it now and moving forward, you just can’t have another boring talk show that looks like every talk show since nineteen fifty. Mullaney has cracked that open. I mean, yeah, but it was Son of Letterman, to which Chris Gether talked about, and he said, for me, like a lot of people my age, it’s the Letterman and Conan.

My parents tell me I used to fake being asleep as a little kid, at like three to four years old. I’d pretend to be asleep on the couch. Then they’d realize I was sitting there watching Johnny Carson with them. But Letterman was the real game changer. Amen high five, says Johnny Mac.

I remember the first time I stayed up late and watched Letterman with my older brother. I was definitely on the younger side of it, but someone who was built to understand that guy’s being kind of a troublemaker. He’s not Carson. Carson’s what it’s supposed to look like. This guy’s not doing that.

Amen. On top of that, a lot of my favorite stuff was stuff that Letterman platform. Do you look at Andy Kaufman, Chris Elliott, Howard Stern. Not only did Letterman do a lot of stuff that really shook things up, he took the people who were really outlandish and gave them a national platform, and then Conan felt completely insane. Conan really felt like if you took the smartest version of me and my brother and our friends and put them on TV and just let them do whatever they want.

I’ve often said, if there’s only one piece of comedy I could ever watch in my tire life again, it would be Conan takes mister t apple Picking. I think there’s a little bit of that happens among comedy nerds when you think what’s the best sketch group of all time and you go, you know, oh, kids in the Hall, Monty Python, UCB, the Slade, whoever you want to say. But I really think that Conan’s rying staff from that area. Brian Stack, Brian McCann, Kevin Dwarf, Andy Blitz, Alison Silverman, John Glazer. If you just put that in a vacuum, that’s one of the best sketch comedy groups ever assembled.

It just happened to exist under the umbrella of this larger talk show. That’s the best of the best sketch comedy of that generation, all under one roof, operating at a super high level. As for the Chris Gathard Show, there were a lot of things I was just chasing, especially with Letterman Conan. If I could do anything as funny as Dave dumping ten thousand bouncy balls off the roof of the studio onto the streets of New York, I’ll die happy. If I can do anything as interesting or funny as a Conan staring contest bit, and I feel like it’s worth doing it.

But there’s definitely part of me that was like, these guys don’t like doing these monologues, these political jokes, especially back then, that’s just how Carson used to do it. So you’re making them do that. I wish the Late Night Show didn’t have to do the monologue. It seems like the part of the hosts like least the Chris gathered show was far from perfect. I’m not saying we nailed it even the majority, but I think some of the reason it developed a cult following was because people saw us going, let’s see what we could do to maybe totally turn down the stuff we don’t like about talk shows and then pour gasoline on the stuff that we do.

Back to Mullaney’s late night show. I’ve known John for many, many years now, but I saw those people going, whoa man, this show has the Chris Gathard Show in front of it, and I was really nervous about that, because, just to be clear, John Mulaney does not need to rip me off in any way. He’s a very brilliant guy. But a lot of it was very healthy by seeing a lot of the fans of the Gathered show going, this is cool to watch this Mullenie show, and seeing old Gathered show fans jump in and say, if you like this guy, you might really like this thing. I like back when I was in high school.

Here’s a link to the YouTube page, and they’re all still up there. I emailed Mullanie after the first couple nights of a show to say, it’s so cool to see what you’re going for It’s bringing back a lot of positive feelings for me. You’re taking big chances on live TV, and I really love it. I talked to my old show runner and he was like, the cool thing is that Late Night always builds on the history of Late Night. Carson built on Steve Allen.

Letterman was building on Erni Kovax, than Conan built on Letterman, and I never ever hide the fact that my show was worshiping at the altar of Letterman and Conan. Front of the Podcast. Jason Zinnemann reviewed Ali Wong’s new Netflix special for The New York Times. It’s going to take me a minute to get to Ali special. The Mets are in the playoffs.

There’s football. I have this life outside of doing the comedy podcast, so it’s going to be a minute before you hear me talk about it. Jason writes, Wong always reminds me of Bill Burr, because she seems funniest at her most tense, working through anger using that machine gun delivery. She pops off with some umbrage on light topics, but also displays stream This is a show that a time feels undercooked. There are bits about dating younger men and Midwesterners that are less than ambitious.

The show is the feel of someone rushing to tell us something. Her main message is that being a divorced woman in your forties is better than its cracked up to be. It’s a promising take, in part because you rarely hear it. But the punchlines slow down as she zeros in on herself, telling the crowd look at me as an alternative example of how it can be. Yikes, that doesn’t sound great.

Hanna Gasby started their live show in New York City. The Daily Beast saw it and said, in Hannah Gatsby’s latest excellent show, prepare for that sweet innocence to be left in undignified crumbs thanks to a brilliantly disgusting joke involving a discarded packet of Tim Tams and something. Tim TAM’s seemed to be Australia’s favorite chocolate biscuit. It consists of two malted biscuits, separated by a light hearted chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate. But I digress.

You may recall the joke involves a discarded packet of Tim Tams and something let’s say if you’re cleaning a hotel room, you never want to find on the floor. Gatsby’s both a wonderful joke and storyteller. A tilt of the head, a side eye, a pause can add to moments of extended hilarity while attempt at threading stories and jokes with moments of sharp self reflection and confession. In this show, at certain moments, they insist that these moments are just between us, reflecting on Tailor Swift’s fame and global predominance. Uh oh, watch out.

You know one time Joe Cooy made a Tailor Swift joke. I think we all know that went Now I’m not doing it. Scot Relex Speed not only confesses to not being much of a fan, but also sums up Swift as a can of coke masquerading as a sorority cult. Oh man, I guess Hannah Gatsby won’t be hosting the Golden Globes anytime soon. Gasby has previously spoken of their own autism.

Here, they talk of social media being the place where neurotypical people go to experience the worst of the condition. They joke, I’m going to be canceled by feminists. I don’t think there’s anything more feminist than being canceled by feminists. Sounds like a fun show. Trevor Noah has unveiled his latest book.

It is called Into the Uncut Grass, an illustrated story that invites readers of all ages on a journey of connection, imagination, and self discovery. Into the Uncut Grass follows a young child’s adventure in a magical landscape beyond the familiar world of home, discovering the joy of sharing connection and finding peace with the people we love. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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