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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, what’s up Johnny Mack with a pool side edition of Daily Comedy News. If you think you hear birds, you do. It’s just too nice to sit in the basement today. So I’m out on the back deck.

Got my pal here, mister Scruff. I’m mister Scruff, and we’re chilling. I got a nice coffee. All this is true. So you may have heard former President Trump but got in a little trouble the other day.

Bad luck for the late night shows. Everybody but Kimmel was off, I mean brutal. What happened in my life was I heard that the verdict was coming down and I had to head out to take prom pictures with my kid. So I’m at this party and I was talking to some friendly dad and I eventually had a fall on my sword and I’m like, look, man, I know I seem all kinds of distracted, but I work in the media and kind of got to pay attention here. So that was my life.

So I feel for the late night shows. I mean, if you’re work in this business, sometimes you just really want to cover something, and you know, that was an old time event, So I feel bad for those guys, Jimmy Kimmel was on my dog just jumped on my lap. I’m recording a podcast. This isn’t he’s standing on the laptop. This isn’t going to work here.

You sit over here? Sorry, where were we? In case you can’t tell? Today’s episodes a little casual. Kimmel did a full monologue on his show Thursday night.

We covered that on the Ballot podcast. We’re doing obviously a lot, since Ballot covers the election. If you want to bounce over a ballot when we’re done here, you can catch up on Kimmel. The Daily Show tweeted Justice Alito as called for upside down American flags to be flown at half mast. The Tonight Show went with Trump fought the law, and the law one.

Meanwhile, as we sit here on the deck in the landscape, or show up for some additional ambient noise. Colbert Seth and Oliver have not yet responded. I hope Matt Rife is okay, to be honest. The other day, when I saw he did the lake cancel, I was wondering if it was one of those ah yeah, schedule conflicts. But it looks like something’s actually up from NBC Chicago.

Rife has postponed eight sold out shows at the Chicago Theater, so major market, major theater. According to Deadline, Rife is experiencing quote extreme exhaustion symptoms and has been advised to halt performing a statement reads On the way to a recent show in Indiana, Matt experienced exhaustion symptoms and nearly fainted heading to the venue. Matt is currently under advisement from his medical team to take immedia time off from touring for two weeks. Interesting to me there that the quote is third party and not from Matt. I do hope he’s okay.

Nicky Glazer’s recent special Someday You’ll Die has two million viewers on both the streaming version of HBO and the mothership HBO Max, putting on track to be the largest streaming audience for comedy special in HBO. To Max History, congratulations, you know be better if it was particularly great special. But I’m sure I’ll get complaints from that online. I don’t like every special. It’s okay, Chris Ostrata tweets on Monday, I got pulled over being on my phone when the cop came back with my license in reag he said, you’re the guy from the full.

Astrata says yep. The cop asked when the season three come out. Astrada says it got canceled and then shares this detail it got weird, and the cop said, sorry about the ticket. I wonder if it hadn’t been canceled. La Times spoke to Nick Swartzen.

He talked about comedy in the late nineties, not quite the big business it is right now. Nick said, when I started, everybody was like, oh, comedy’s dead. That was after the eighties had such a major comedy boom. I was making no money. There was no internet.

My family was poor. I was raised by single mother for the most part, and it was like we had to do one nighters and biker bars for one hundred bucks. We had nothing. I always tell kids that, and I feel like I’m a caveman talking about making fire. They’ll complain about things like, well, how do I do this?

I tell them, get on YouTube and Instagram, make videos, make sure it’s make an ig reel and use that as a calling card. I used to have to sleep in my car. You guys don’t have to do that. There’s so many venues. You just have to be motivated and creative.

I’m happy for young comics. It’s such a crazy boom right now and everyone’s killing it. It’s a really exciting time. The light time said, do you see it as a daunting time? Because of the reliance on social media, Schwartz has said comedians can say whatever we want.

You gotta commit to it, and you gotta stand by it. If you’re gonna put something out there, you can’t pull back. Comedians are the last resort of just calling stuff out. So when you try to censor me, I’ve done this for thirty years. I don’t blink an eye.

Don’t tell me what to do. Don’t tell me I can’t say on stage. I’m gonna say some crazy stuff and I don’t give an f. So if you’re offended, leave my show. Why are you here?

Real comedians double down when you tell the class clown growing up, hey, don’t do that. Guess what the kid’s gonna do. He’s gonna go harder. I put a lot of pressure on myself to make sure my shows are great because every time you do New Hour, you think that’s your last one. So it’s a little stressful.

When you’re established. People are like I bet Schwartz’s gonna go insane and make me wet my vants. So that pressure is a little dawning to be like, huh, I’m gonna make everyone you’re an eight. Oh and there’s more good news. He’s filming Happy Gilmore too.

You know who stars in that one, don’t? Yeah? Yeah. Nick is really beyond excited about that. It’s been amazing because we know each other so well.

Like Sandler and I clicked pretty much right away. He gave me the script Grandma’s Boy and asked me to rewrite it, and ever since I’ve worked with him and toured with him, and he’s one of my best friends. Sometimes they’ll take a step back and be like, oh, yeah, David Spade, Rob Schneider, nor McDonald, these were my best friends and they still are because creatively, like we get each other. I know what Adam is gonna like, I know what Spade’s gonna like. We’re just all on the same page.

Matthew Rappaport shows that Batavia’s comedy Vault were canceled amid safety concerns and planned protests form a pro Palestinian group. These shows were scheduled for June sixth, through the eighth now off the calendar. Batavia Police Chief Sean Maza sold NBC five that the police department met with the Comedy Vault owners in regards to safety after they were inundated with calls and emails to cancel. However, the police chief says the official call to cancel came from the Comedy Vault. The US Palestinian Community Network made repeated calls to cancel the show on social media, promising protests against Rappaport if he had performed at the venue.

Jewish organizations in the Chicago area strongly condemned the decision to cancel the shows, calling it an infringement on rap words free speech. Alison pure Slovan of the Simon Weisenthal Center said the Jewish community feels that if it were anybody other than the Jews, that there wouldn’t be this kind of cancelation. Hacks has been picked up for season four. I’ve really been enjoying season three. I finally got into Netflix and watched episode two of Tires.

Jean Gillis, if you’re listening during the week, my entire family was on Netflix all week and I couldn’t get in. But I finally got a chance to watch episode two. Liked it a lot and I wanted to binge it, but I’ve been sleepy. I digress. Hacks is back for season four.

Sarah Aubrey, head of Max’s Original programming, said, we congratulate hacks brilliant cast and crew. Hacks is a masterfully crafted comedy, delivering laughs and sharp insights about the vulnerability and joy of sharing a dream. Hannah Einmender, who stars in Hacks, has a new special coming out June thirteenth on Max. What’s interesting to me about June thirteenth is it’s a Thursday, not a Saturday. Max has been putting the specials out on Saturday night, and I recently commented that I wish they would pick a different night.

Maybe they listen to me, or maybe I’m not sure. Is this this is where Max’s Brandon gets confusing? Is this a Max special which is somehow less than an HBO special. It’s very very confusing. This one branded a MAX special, so I guess it’s quote unquote lesser.

The hour long set was filmed in April at the l Ray Theater in La Handah covers everything from climate change to her days as a competitive cheerleader shot in a cinematic style. The show is called Everything Must Go. We have a trailer. I’m gonna play it for you now. I don’t want to lead you with my thoughts with a share on the other end.

But there’s only one joke in the trailer, so I don’t want you to think that I left ten other jokes out. This is all we have one joke. Let’s listen. When some comedians start off their set, they will say something like, let me tell you a little bit about me. This is my version of that.

I smoked Los Angeles chronic marrow. I want four plus times a day during vital stages of my brain’s development. So I am what scientists and doctors have referred to in several articles and medical journals as ruin. I thought that was a really long way to go for one joke. No, I hope this one is okay, but I don’t know about that.

The Hollywod reporter spoke to Hannah about Hack season four. She says they have started writing it. She doesn’t know what happens in it, and is excited as for this cinematic comedy special. She tells us I knew a camera was going to be to my right, and that was the one I wanted to play several direct looks to camera. Other than that, I just sort of knew where my close up camera was and where some of the wider angles were.

We also had some cameras following me, and I’m pretty physical on stage. It definitely changed my performance filming the set. Usually I’d really played down on the crowd, but I sort of had to play up to camera. The idea to look directly in the camera came for the fact that translating the show from live to film, I wanted to figure out a way to do what I do live to the audience at home, which is make pointed direct eye contact with people in the crowd. I thought that would be the most engaging way to mimic what I do live on film.

Very interesting. I’m not going to judge until I see it. My spidy sense is like, hm, but maybe that will work great. I’m not sure. Spoilers.

You have a piece where you connect toxic masculinity to landscape architecture from the forties. Where did that come from? Hannah tells us there was an article in Scientific American I had read called botanical sexism cultivates homegrown allergies. It explores the topic of botanical sexism, which is a hot hot issue in the urban forestry community. I think, she explains.

I read the article because I have really horrific allergies and I had a really bad experience in New York where my seasonal allergies are at an all time high. I could barely breathe. I started a research and the most prevalent reason that pollen counts are growing is because of climate change, because as temperatures rise, trees thinks it’s a different season basically, and they release more pollen. Then there’s the botanical sexism theory as well. I read that article and joke started firing off of my head.

That’s fun, and I will leave you with this. James Austin Johnson tweeted this. His version is two minutes twenty seconds. I have cut this down a little bit for pacing. He is walking through a parking garage and doing an impression of a very notable politician.

I’ll let james words speak for themselves. He captioned the tweet with Don found guilty on thirty four counts of trying to take down framed photos of hot ladies from Buca to Peppo men’s room calls general manager a discrease. Carbonar are too expensive, just peas and eggs. Right, here’s James Austin Johnson. When you go to a Buca Debeppo, there’s so many wonderful things that are on walls and that there are on the table.

Frankly, if you look at the Pope room, there is a big head of the Pope and you should be able to play with it. I think like an action figure is something you know when you go to collectible store and they have so much behind glass and you can’t look at any of it. The last time I checked Booker Abebbo was not a collectible store. So we would like to be able to take the frame photographs down from the men’s room at Booking to Beppo and instead what you have is a very disgraceful judge who has said that you’re not allowed to do that. Win.

In fact, you should be allowed to do that because the fun pictures and the carbonar is very expensive, and I think carbonaro what is that like four or five ingredients? Peas a it’s bacon, you know, they give it a different name, Italian name, but it’s bacon and I think some cheese, maybe a couple of eggs, and it sounds like breakfast. But it’s a very yummy pasta. But they charge you so much. They’re charging people so much, and there was no way.

It’s an absolute disgrace. There was no way to pay for the carbonar Our country is in decline. Buka de Beeppo is in decline. The breadsticks are not as good. People say that.

People say that the bread’s not as good. Definitely not very good. And that is your pool side comedy for today. If you like this thing, ad free, pay attention to the promo link at the show notes five bucks a month. Do it come on see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Today on this program a conversation with comedian Dan Boobletz Junior. We talked about the industry, Pete Davison’s situation, Seinfeld Mulaney, and whether or not Dan will have his own celebrity bourbon. We’ll get into that. And I’m laughing here.

This is actually take five. I got up this morning and I’m like, I need to do an intro real quick, and I haven’t had my coffee yet. Here’s Dan. I just recorded Friday’s episode and I named check you. I was doing a Pete Davidson’s story about him getting heckled night.

I told the listeners, I’m going to ask Dan about this the question Dan has crowd work ruined stand up comedy? Okay, so I do have some feelings about this. I’ve seen two things, two observations that I have seen since all these crowd clips have been going on, like TikTok and ig reels, and that is one, people don’t want to sit up front anymore in a comedy show. But the other side of it is they do want to sit up front, hoping that they’ll be part of the show, that they’ll be part of that viral clip. That’s worse.

It is worse. It is. But yeah, so that’s one thing I’ve noticed, like because I produce shows too, and a lot of times, you know, we’re just doing shows like in breweries or whatever, so it’s just open seating, and people will not sit up front if they can get away with it, Like they’ll come in if the room is completely empty. They always go to the back. They don’t want to sit up front because they’re afraid the comics are going to talk to them.

I mean yeah, even back in the day, I never wanted to sit in the front either. I get it. It’s kind of just be annoying. Oh absolutely. I mean I haven’t experienced it a ton myself, but you can tell when people are coming in if they’re the kind of people that are trying to be part of the show, because they’re already act in a fool before the show even starts, and it’s just awful.

Yeah. So parably, Pete Davidson was trying to just do a show and people kept yelling out Ariana Grande and he walked off. Oh wow. But the reactions, at least what the newspapers are capturing on Reddit was good for you Pete like people aren’t mad that he walked off. I feel like the vibe I’m getting is that audiences have gotten worse somehow post pandemic.

I think so a little bit. I mean it again, I contribute some of this to the crowd work clips too, Like we’ve kind of opened a Pandora’s box with it, you know, because comics don’t want to post their material because you know, they feel like they’re birding it or whatever, so they’ll try to get these crowd work clips so they have content to put out. And yeah, and because of that, we’ve opened this weird you know, almost like we’ve given them permission to come be this way at shows. So it’s kind of, in a way, it’s kind of our own faults as comedians for doing that. Are the comedians that are posting the crowd work clips.

I try not to do crowd work myself because I’m awful at it. Well, there’s also there’s at least one guy a couple guys out there who are comedian slams Heckler for blah blah blah, and all that crowd work maybe ain’t the most authentic. Oh absolutely, and you get that too. I feel like now, especially now that crowd work clips and comedians are doing a lot of it, it just seems like there’s a lot of comedians and I’m like, I go to a lot of comedy shows, and yes, hecklers happen, but sometimes I’m like, really, you get heckled every time you have a show. Come on fine with a plant.

So this is not your style. But if you didn’t act and you put me in the audience as a plant and I yelled out, you know, hey, your glasses look dumb, and then you and I start having an argument and I come up and rush the stage, and you know, whatever the bit is, that’s fun. I’ve seen that execute well. But for me to just sit in the audience and go like, you know, hey, nice glasses just so you can slam me for a cheap joke, it’s lame. Oh absolutely, that’s funny that The way you described that as the playant reminded me of your favorite actors movie Happy Gilmore, when Shooter mcgaver sends in the plant to harass him.

The community on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, it’s been really good. Everybody’s kind of starting to come together and cross pollin eate. I love conversations that don’t involve me at all. I like having the community. So one of the more known listeners out there is Scott Beckett.

So just to ruin Scott’s day, let me ask you that Joe Coy famous insult comic one time at the Golden Globes he went after Taylor Swift. Let me play the clip for you just in case you haven’t heard it before. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift.

So what do you do this, Joe Coy? Oh, man, I tell you he shouldn’t be insulting America sweetheart, because that backfired. I think it’s that bet is kind of funny, but also I kind of agree with Scott. It’s a little you can really beat a joke down, So but I also love your commitment to it. I come from the belief of everything has a cycle.

It’s funny and then it becomes not funny at all, and I think that’s where some of the audience got.

And then another segment of the audience is with me that I’ve beaten it down …

That’s where I am with it, yep, because you kind of for it. Oh yeah, absolutely, And I can appreciate that. The joke itself though, I think it’s kind of funny because if you listen to the clip, he couldn’t even tell the joke, like he started laughing, and I feel like that threw off the delivery of the joke because as he was getting ready to say camera he starts to kind of laugh and he was trying to hold it together and is Gloden globes Yeah, yeah, like he was fumbling over his I was almost like he was too nervous to do it. But I don’t know. I feel like if he would have delivered it without those little fumbles, it probably would have been fine.

And also, you know, putting the bit aside, as I’ve said on the pod, if Taylor just smiles at it and goes ah hah, then it’s fine. She iced him, and I don’t think that helps. He wasn’t having a great set and I think is a good comic. I’m okay with Some people got upset and felt that he threw his writers under the bus. I thought he was just riffing, trying to save a set and explaining, like, I’ve had this job for nine days, what the hell did you want?

That was the vibe. I God, I think he was burying his writers. No, I don’t. I mean he kind of did, because he blatantly, you know, said he’d get right to stuff or whatever. But but again I would agree.

I think he was just struggling because he knew he was bombing, and he was just trying to bring it back. And that’s sometimes that happens when you’re on stage and it’s not going well, you’re just reaching for whatever. You’re trying to find that that life raft. You know, do you keep in your back pocket, like you know in ninety seconds that you just know works, that you just don’t use otherwise. No, I mean what I usually do is if I’m doing some jokes and they’re not going well, I’ll try to switch it up.

Because they do have jokes that are proven and I know will probably work. I don’t necessarily save them for just in case. I mean, at some point in my set, I’ll probably get to them, but I might change the order, you know, like I might have it planned that I’m going to do these jokes later in my set, but early on my jokes aren’t hitting. I’m gonna switch it up and I’m gonna go to this stuff that I know will work to try to win the audience back, so I’ll do an audible on the order. I remember back in the day when I worked with Jim Brewer.

I used to love watching him in front of crowds because he would look out and you could see his brain going, all right, who’s in front of me right now? I remember what time we were at the auto show and he’s like, right now, it’s dad’s with young kids, and he kind of switched off his stoner goat boy act and went into his family material, and it was just ready to watch him to see who’s in front of me? What is this group going to laugh at? And let me go there. Yeah, that’s why I think it’s important to you know, a lot of comedians probably don’t want to do this, you know, they’ll go hide in the green room or whatever.

But I feel like it’s important kind of watching as the audiences is coming in and just kind of observing, because you know, reading the room and watching the comic before you, so you can kind of get a sense of who is this audience because then if you need to adjust, you can. And you want the guy before you to do well. Right, You’re not like, oh yeah, no, no, no, I’m not saying watch yeah, yeah, you do want them to do well. I’m saying just so you can observe the audience, because then you can see what’s working what’s not when you’re watching the other comics. The other comic might be, you know, doing millennial jokes, and the audience could be boomers and they’re just not gonna connect because it’s not relatable or whatever.

But you know, you can get a pretty good read of the room the audience, so then if you need to adjust, you can do that. And that’s because that’s kind of what I do. Like, I know that some of my jokes aren’t going to work in some situations because I’m pretty nerdy. I do some nerdy material, And I know that my preferred audience is my age plus or minus about ten years. I really reached that Gen X audience.

But I can perform for all audiences, you know, and still be funny. I feel like lately i’ve been maybe it’s the amount of specials and watch them all at once. I feel like I’ve been analyzing comedy a lot more than I have in a few years. We definitely used to do this back at Serious and I’ve talked about this before. I remember seeing someone I want to say, maybe with prosine, and I felt like I could see the matrix of the premise based in fact premise exaggerated thing that never actually happened, but it’s funny callback, And I was sitting watching a set going I can see this happening.

Lately, I’ve been on a run of noticing things that sound like comedy. So I’ll just do like a and I’m not a comedian, as I always bring up on the pod, but I’ll bring up like Bob Hope style joke of like, you know, hey, just see General Johnson’s here, Yay, he probably just came for the free hot dog. Like it’s not funny, but it has the rhythm of a joke. And if I dropped that in the middle of a set and I had a proper persona that could get a laugh even though I don’t even know what that joke quote unquote meant. You’re right, and there is a rhythm to it too, And I think that’s like you said, it’s a persona or a character, because there are comics who really lean into a persona.

And you even talked about this on just the other day when you were talking about Norton. He’s, you know, very soft spoken off stage, but on stage he’s like an animal, you know, yeah, you know, he’s a nice, quiet guy. And I was very happy reading that article. I’m glad he found somebody he loves and he sounds super happy. And that’s the gym that I know.

Switching gears. What do you think of Malanie? Oh? Well, I haven’t watched his new special. I’ve heard some mixed reviews from some friends because I have a friend of mine is a big comedy fan and they watched it.

They actually went and saw Pete Davison last week too, But I haven’t watched his Dude special. But prior to that, I love his work. He’s in my top five of comedians. Anytime somebody either like who’s your favorite comedian of all time? I’m like, well, that’s a loaded question.

We have to break this down because there’s so many great comedians. I break it down into two categories. No, longer with us, still with us. George Carlin Richard Pryor are probably two of the best comedians of all time, but there are some great working comedians. For me, John Mulaney’s one of my favorites, John Mlanie, Mike Burbig, Yellow Mark Maron three of my probably tops.

Did you see Milani’s late night show? I have not. Now I’m so far behind on watching anything. It seems like I just started get trying to get caught up on Hacks season three. Hacks season three is good.

Well, I mean understandably you work nights and weekends, yes, because when the rest of us are watching TV, exactly totally get like, you know, hey, how come we’re not watching Saturday Night Live? What are you doing Saturday late night? You know? Yeah, exactly, I’m trying to be them in front of a live audience. That makes it.

I thought Molane it had a lot of early days Letterman two. As they talked about on the pod, he really needs a producer and a little bit of structure, but it was so much fun. He had a really really short Limb TV series, like I think it only had like I don’t know, maybe a couple episodes before it got canceled a Fox had come called Mulaney. Yep. It did ratings at the time like a one to six, which in twenty twenty four would get you a ten year commitment, but back in the day was an abysmal rating.

But I put that in the category of things that existed. You know, if you said to somebody today, Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if John m’laney had a sitcom on Fox pre cancellation, wouldn’t it be awesome if Louis C.K. Had a show on HBO? Imagine what a big hit that would be. And you know, these things happened and nobody cared.

Yeah, yep, absolutely and that speaking of that, that show again, and you’re right, that was another show I felt like was underrated. I thought that show that he had on HBO was better than the series he had on Fax. Like obviously he had evolved and it was still as serious. But I really like that series on HBO because they did it like a stage play. Yeah, and it had a Honeymooners kind of vibe, like if Jackie Gleason were played by Louis C.K.

It was that kind of setup, which is what he was going for. The latter show I didn’t watch a lot of because at that time, when I was at serious, I wanted to come home and get away from comedy. And I started watching the Universe because if a bunch of scientists were telling me about Saturn, I didn’t get bombed. Whereas when I would watch Louis show and I loved it, what would happen is I’d be sitting on the couch and relaxed, and Louis would talk to Jim Norton, who I’d seen earlier in the hallway, and oh yeah, I got to talk to Jim tomorrow to see if he’ll be a guest on the other show, and I got to get him a promo. And my boss is probably mad at me and that thing I didn’t do.

Now i’d be in the spiral and I’m back at work. So I actually deliberately stopped watching that show because it was stressing me out. No, I believe that one. A lot of people are always asked me because I’m a comedian. They’ll ask, you know, if a new special comes out there like did you see so and so it’s new special?

And I’m like no, because that’s work to me. I see so much live comedy. I do so much live comedy when I’m at home. If I want to watch something, I don’t want to watch a lot of stand up comedy because to me, it feels like work, even though it’s not my material. But help but not analyze like the comedic brain clicks in and I’ll be watching, you know, And I could objectively watch a comedian and see them do well and not necessarily like their material, but I can see it and understand why it’s working and why the crowd likes what they’re doing.

And that’s what happens when I watch stand up. I just started analyzing. I’m like, oh, I see what they did there. Oh that was a pretty good call back. Oh they just keep building this callback or you know or whatever it is.

So I don’t watch a lot of stand up in my free time. I gravitate towards, you know, more comedy type shows. So for the listeners, Dan just explained what I’ve described in the past is what I call the Emperor of rome syndrome. I do that even though not a comic, never been a comic, but I’ve hung out in the back of the room and same thing. Oh good callback, good setup.

I see what he’s doing here. Okay, Oh that joke was better than the audience or I can’t believe they laugh at that one. I totally hear you. On the analysis last weekend over Memorial the weekend, there were things I could have watched, like Rachel, and I was like, I just I needed a break from just life and needed to turn my brain off. And I’m like, I want to watch Planet of the Apes.

I don’t want to think about this at all, because the same thing if I put Rachel on, I immediately start going, oh is this one of the top twenty specials of twenty twenty four? When I say in the podcast, let me take some notes, let me put on Facebook that I’m watching a comedy special, so the people engage with me, and like, sometimes you just got to get it away from it. Yep. Absolutely, And like I said, I see so much live comedy too, because even you know, like last night, for example, I co produced some shows here in Loveland, Colorado, where I live. I wasn’t on the show, but we had a show last night, so I was there, you know, helping with set up, tear down and some of the behind the scenes stuff.

But watching the show and as I watch it, I’m watching the comedians and I’m analyzing some of the stuff that they’re doing, and it’s hard not to like that mindset or whatever. But also, I’m always watching comedy, even if I’m not on a show, I’m probably at a show because I’m producing it, so I see so much of it live. I’m like, I don’t want to watch it at home. I need an escape. And your brain does get numb to it.

It’s like, logically, think, Okay, that was really funny, the laugh doesn’t come out. That’s why you know a comedian that really has a surprising angle and that can shock you, not in a shock jock kind of way, but just like, oh, I didn’t see that one coming. Well, that actually funny. That happened last night with one of the comics. It was a really dark joke and I thing it had to do with the miscarriage and a gender reveal was the punchline, and the audience was into it.

But it was so dark and it was so funny because, as he said it, I was walking out of the door because I was taking pictures, and I go around the building instead of cutting through. Just the way it’s laid up and I was walking out as he landed the punchline, and I was like, Jesus Christ, and I said that out loud, and there’s a whole bunch of people on the street as I was coming out and said that, and then I just because it was like it’s so dark but so funny, and I was like, I can’t believe he just said that, and the audience was into it. And I even told him after his set, I was like, dude, that got me so hard. So how much producing are you doing it? Are you booking nights or tell us about what you’re doing there?

Okay, so yeah, I co produced shows. We have our comedy production company called Loco Comedy, which is Loveland Colorado Comedy.

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Also you know trains because Loveland’s a big train place, I guess.

But anyway, so yeah, we produce a bunch of monthly shows at different breweries, and you know, we get a hit up to do shows and then if they work out, they become regular shows. So we have I don’t know, like three or four monthly shows that we do, and then we host some open mics here in Loveland. So Loveland is just outside of Fort Collins, northern Colorado. I think we’re about one hundred thousand people or whatever. But there’s no comedy venues in Loveland proper.

We do have the Comedy for It over and Fort Collins, but it’s still like a half hour drive. Or you can go down to comedy works down in Denver that’s an hour every now and again. We do have a big arena and sometimes we’ll get like Bert Kreischer was just here a few months ago at that big arena. We also have the rialto Theater. Tom Poppa is going to be there in July, so they do bring in some bigger acts to Loveland.

But comedy is not like a regularist thing until my co producer Jeff Alright, he moved here from Denver five or six years ago and he started producing shows here, and then when I moved here, we just started working together now with you know, in addition to our monthly shows, we had the Laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival that we do the first weekend of August too. So yeah, we just go into breweries and turn them into comedy clubs. You know. We have one show called Loading Dock Laughs, and we do it on the loading dock of a brewery. But we turn it into you know, there’s a stage and we have a backdrop, we have lights.

We literally turn it into like a comedy club. Like if you saw pictures, you would not know people are performing on a loading dock. Oh that’s cool. It’s fun to see a scene pop up like that. You know.

Here, I’m in the Greater Morristown, New Jersey area, so, depending on traffic, an hour west of New York City, so it’s far enough away, and there’s just a burgeoning scene that there’s a local bar that’s getting some people. I want to play nice. I see some of the names coming to the bar and I’m like, that person is playing this tiny little room at this bar, really, because that’s surprising me, you know.

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And then I go the other way.

I’ll change the details because I’m not here to hammer particular people. But somebody was telling me yesterday about a nationality based tour. So let’s pretend it’s the the Irish American Warriors of Comedy something like that. And I just said, there’s just no way that’s good. It’s just not going to be good.

Let me look at it, you know. I pulled it up on Facebook and I’m like, I don’t know any of these people, and I’m not saying any everybody, but I do put a little bit of time into this. I’m like, that’s not going to be a good show. Yeah, right, exactly. Well, and that’s what we get some really good because we’re so close to Denver, we get some really good acts sometimes and then like our next one, that’s what I’m looking at.

I don’t I’m not as familiar with this comic, but we have a bigger comic coming from Comedy Central, Dave Ross. Dave Ross has done Drunk History, it was on WTF, done a bunch of other stuff or whatever, and we got here at one of our shows coming up. So we’re bringing in, you know, if they’re in the area, we bring in big headliners. You know, we had well he had to cancel because he got sick, but we had Adam Caiton Holland booked for a show and then he ended up getting sick, but then Ben Roy filled in for him. So we’re getting We’re able to bring in some really good talent here too.

So that’s the other cool thing about it, because we’re bringing in nationally touring headliners to this little city that you know, this little town, so and while you know, we don’t really have a I guess you could call it a scene, but I don’t call it a scene because there’s only like four comedians that live in Loveland proper. So it’s not like we’re doing a bunch of shows. But we’re bringing comedy here and the community really loves comedy. Like most of our shows are always packed, which is great. No, that’s great, And you start building a reputation, cool room, cool people to work with, they actually pay you, you know, all that stuff that goes into it.

You know, you get a good reputation and word’s bread. Oh absolutely, and it has. I mean, we’ve had to turn venues down just because we already do all these shows downtown and we’d just be competing with ourselves. Don’t be offended. We just don’t want to oversaturate and then ruin all our shows.

But if the venue approaches us that’s not in downtown Loveland or like I started doing a show at the Spinyard in another town called berth End, which is basically just the outskirts of Loveland. They approached us about doing a show, and I gave them a quote and they accepted it, and we did a show, and it was very successful. It sold out two weeks before we even had the show. All because they have their own internal client base, we didn’t have to do a lot of advertising on our end. The show went really well, so they booked another one, which we’re doing this Friday.

Sold out a week before the show. I had some people hit me up. They’re like, hey, I was trying to get tickets to the show Friday and it says it sold out. Is that true? And I was like, probably, but I’ll double check and yeah, they were sold out already.

That’s great. So yeah, so it’s great to have like a community that supports comedy. No, awesome, All right, let’s go down the list of the bigger comedians. Dave Chappelle. Wear you with Chappelle?

These days, he can say whatever he wants because he’s Dave Chappelle. Now, at least that’s what he thinks. I mean, there’s always going to be consequences. I have much respect. I mean, he definitely, you know, as a definitely as a comedian can definitely respect him.

I don’t know, I haven’t watched a lot of his recent stuff, and I don’t feel like he’s doing comedy as much as he’s doing lectures these days. But a lot of his older stuff great stuff, you know, Like he’s so funny and his cadence and stage presence and delivery is just on point. Yeah, And I do feel like he’s leaning into that I’ve been illustrating lately. And let me go slow here so I don’t accidentally cancel myself. For lett, anyone just wrap him about to do is based in hate at all.

But Dave has a move now where he’ll say a word, I’ll illustrate it, and then he does that knee slapping thing. So like if you said, yea, the early show is sold out, well you know why the late show wasn’t sold out, Dan because of the trans And now I slap my knee and I make the face and I laugh and I mug for the camera and he’s getting a laugh off of that, and I’ll go back to it sounds like comedy, yep, nope’ And you’re absolutely right. That’s one thing that I totally know what you’re talking about there, And I do find that kind of annoying because he’s actually he’s done that a lot. If you look at even his older stuff, and I noticed because there’s a lot of comedians that look up to him. I started seeing that when I was in San Diego.

There were comedians like do an open mic set with same thing. They’d like tell a joke and then like laugh at their own joke and do the hit the mic on their knee, and I’m just like, oh, that’s so annoying. Sometimes I think, though, I feel like because of the stardom that in the level of fame that he’s achieved, I don’t know necessarily, and I don’t know him. I’ve never worked with him. I know people who have and they say he’s a nice guy, and sure that’s the case, So I don’t necessarily think that he believe feels that way about.

You know, the issue per se is I think he’s just doing it because of his ego, like pushing it because he can get away with it kind of thing. If that makes sense. Y, It’s totally got that, yeah, exactly. And when you do try to tell him what to do, then he leans in harder. I feel like it’s I feel like it’s more of the ego that he’s gotten from his fame more than anything.

But again, I don’t know him, so I could be totally wrong. Too. What do you think of all the stuff with Jerry lately? It’s just been weird. It has been weird, and I honestly, I’m surprised that he got a pass.

I mean it’s weird because you know, he did date a seventeen year old when he was in his thirties thirtieth, which is a weird thing. And every other comedian that has had some kind of controversy regarding that kind of stuff, I mean, haven’t been canceled, but they’ve been you know, drug through the Ringer per se, and he didn’t until lately, which is weird to me. Yeah, it’s interesting that it came back thirty years later, but the Palestine stuff is sort of distracted from that, and the interview he did this week has distracted everybody. Again, but Jerry’s been in the news a lot, and I’m not sure for the right reasons at all, And it’s kind of weird too, Like, and you’ve even brought this up on your podcast about the legacy. These comics are leaving like they have a great body of work and then they lean into something and then now that’s what they’re going to be remembered for.

And it’s just kind of a weird thing. It’s like, I mean, obviously people change and they evolve over time, but still weird weird to me that you’ll see. I’ll go the other way, and I toked with this. I would love to see Jerry just go, you know what, I’m seventy years old, I’m going all day and let me show you how good of a comedian I am and do a forty five minute political chunk. It would be stunning, you know, would be like Dylan goes electric but do it.

Yeah, yeah, I mean it would be interesting. I’m not going to disagree with you on that. It would definitely be interesting to see him do that and lean all the way in. But again, when they’re you know, just these small, well small bits that they’re doing or you know, interviews or sound bites or whatever you want to call them, and they kind of lean into them, and then it’s like, well, now that’s all you’re going to be remembered for, is that last thing? Like you have all this great work and then you went and did this.

You really remembered for your last thing. Yeah, it’s true. That’s why, you know, image is everything, especially in entertainment. You’re remembered for that last thing. Have you thought about getting into bourbon as a comedian?

Like, you’re out of a vodka guy, But if you have a boky, you’d like to plug for seven minutes while I take a walk. Yeah. Sure. There’s a great distillery in Montana. Lolo Creek is the distillery, and it is a honey huckleberry flavored vodka.

You put it with a little bit of lemonade and some ice, and you have yourself a marvelous summer drink. And I am not being paid to endorse them. That is just literally my favorite vodka. You managed to do that without losing all your coolness like some other comedians that I won’t name, but I think everybody’s all right. What else is happening in comedy?

Who are you seeing out there? Who’s good? Oh man, there’s so many good people. I think the last time we talked I probably mentioned him too. But he just keeps getting better and better, Zultan, because as is so funny, and he just keeps getting better and better every time I see him.

If you don’t know who Zoltan, do yourself a favor and go discover probably one of the greatest working comedians today. He puts out material so frequently and just so good at it. He’s gotten to the point where he can go have an experience and then that night talk about it on stage and it’s just super funny, like it’s already a joke. And it’s like every time I see him perform or I work with him, he makes me want a quick comedy. I’m like, I’m not gonna be good.

You know, he’s so good. I’m just like I can open for him. I do open for him, but still I’m just like, oh, he’s so good, I don’t know if I’ll ever get there. So he’s one of my favorites. Obviously working some other comics that I feel like a lot of comics in Colorado Denver area has a really good working scene.

There’s a lot of working comics here. But another comic in this area that started to blow up is Derek Strup. He is so funny. He’s been opening a lot for Bert Kreischer, John Christ and Dan A. Bergazzi, but he himself so funny.

I saw him at the comedy for It before, like when I first moved here, and I was just like, Wow, this guy is hilarious. He’s just got like this because he’s from I think from al Arkansas, I don’t remember which. He’s from the south, but so he’s got a little bit of an accent, but just the way his delivery and everything and just he kind of has like a I don’t know, like an angry kind of delivery, and but it works. It’s so funny. So definitely check out Derek Strup.

I’ve heard great things about him. I know you have to go. We’ll do this more often and more frequently, but get all your plugs in. What are you selling us? All?

Right? Well, you can find me on all my social media d bubb Comedy. That’s dbub Comedy everywhere at dbubbcomedy dot com com for the website.

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And then yeah, I got a new podcast that I’m doing a couple of new podcasts.

I have a comic book podcast called Panel Picks, where me and another comedian we talk about comic books that are coming out each week.

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And then I have an unofficial travel podcast called Drives, Drinks and Dives …

It’s a long name, but it’s with me and another comedian and we’re talking about our ventures on the road. And that’s only a monthly podcast. Very accountant friendly. Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more. All right man, I will let you go.

This is a pleasure. Thank you, thanks for having me.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m jazzed. I just did an hour with Mark Malcoff. He hosts the Inside Late Night podcast. He used to host The Carson Podcast.

And we just talked all things late night for an hour and change and then I hit stop and said we were off air, and then we talked for another ten minutes. I can’t wait to share it with you. That will be the episode on Saturday, June eighth. In the normal feed. I’m going to drop it immediately.

For premium subscribers, you can either on Apple Podcasts hit subscribe there or go to Caloroga dot supportingcast dot FM. I would do it there. Five dollars gets you most of the shows on the network commercial free at free and bonus episodes like my fantastic interview with Mark Malcoff. I’m so so excited about it. Was just it was so much fun to do.

Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily comedy. And it was pretty busy for a Friday, especially it was a slow wee Pete Davison making international news. Even though this happened in the States, I saw this in the Independence a British tabloid. Pete Davison fans defend comedian for walking off stage in Omaha after relentless heckling. One fan said, just absolutely absurd.

You’re ruining it for the whole show. Pete was performing at Steelhouse in Omaha’s part of the prehab tour. Audience members refused to quiet down and continue to shout things like Ariana Grande. One Reddit fan said, good on Bete for disciplining the petulant audience that showed up like an attention seeking three year old demanding their presence. Noticed while the adults talk wasn’t the time, They wrote, truly disappointing a Pete Davidson fan using words like petulant okay.

Another one wrote, one of the crappier things I personally heard was when Pete mentioned he had one more joke to deliver before setting us off. At this point, some lady near my seats yelled, oh, you’ve got a joke. On YouTube, fan Caitlin asked where the f did decorum go at events because he shouldn’t have to walk off stage, because you guys don’t understand that. Because you see crowd work on TikTok, you think every comedia needs to be heckled to the point that they leave stage with one joke left. It’s absurd.

You’re ruining it for the whole show. That’s rotten. There’s a topic, has CrowdWork ruined comedy. I’m scheduled to do an interview with Dan Bublitz, a friend of the show. I’m going to ask him that question.

Matt Riife called off some shows in Bloomington on Wednesday night, citing a medical emergency. WTHR reports. Rife was scheduled to perform at the IU Auditorium, but on social media shortly after seven point thirty, Rife wrote, Indiana, I’m so bleeping sorry, but due to a last minute medical emergency, I have to reschedule our shows tonight again. I’ll come back to that. I’ve been doing forty plus shows a month for a year and a half and never had to do something like this.

I’m so so sorry. I hope you understand, and I love you so much. The show that was canceled this week was originally scheduled for February fourteenth. Raife announced that schedule change two days before the show, It’s WHR reports. Despite Rife’s wording of rescheduling, the May twenty ninth show, seems to be canceled, per a release from the I Auditorium.

We’ll keep an eye on that one. Dave Chappelle last night was doing another one of those pop up shows in Africa. He was set to perform in Kigali, a quote reliable source told The New Times. I hope they don’t have unreliable sources. But the reliable source told The New Times that Dave Chappelle was going to perform at high end restaurant Coozo, Kigallie.

The show was going for two hundred thousand local currencies whatever r WF is, making it the most expensive concert to attend in the history of Rwanda. Sarah Silverman has said that she has changed her comedy because of Donald Trump. She’s on David Ducovny’s Fail Better podcast. As Sarah said, it wasn’t a conscious like, Hey, that stuff doesn’t work, so I’m going to go a different way. I think I just very naturally started changing.

She said. In her two thousand and five Jesus’s Magic special, she was totally doing a character, and that character carried on in my Comedy Central show, The Sarah Silverman Program. Character is just an arrogant, ignorant You know, and so having Trump win, not that to carry through all the way up until Trump was elected, but especially when Trump was elected, and how the world changed in that way, that character was no longer really amusing to me because he embodies that completely. It wasn’t like, Wow, the audience isn’t laughing at my racist jokes anymore. Comedies are, you know.

And just like a painting on a wall in the museum, if you go and see it every single day, it changes because your life changes, your experience has change, and the world around as completely changes, and so what you’re seeing is going to be inferred with a whole new set of perspective. And you know, I learned this pretty early on that comedy really dies on the second guessing of your audience, and that you have to stay with what is funny to you. In some ways, much of our older comedy doesn’t hold up anymore because it comes from white privilege. One of those things in question is Sarah infamously did Blackface. She discussed watching the recent We Are the World documentary that featured Prince winning an American Music Award for Best Black Artist.

Sarah said, I was stunned that that was an award and stunned that. I’m sure I watched it in nineteen eighty four and thought nothing of it, and if anything, I thought it was inclusive. Of course, that’s absurd. Just goes to show that as much as we think we’ve progressed and as woke as we are in this current moment, we’re gonna go back and look at oh god, we had Best Actress and Best Actor awards, you know whatever. We see things in a whole new way that we don’t see right now.

Recent Jerry Seinfelder interviewed the one from this week Still getting Buzz. Variety picked up on Jerry Nutt caring that you didn’t like the Pop Tarts movie. He said, the only thing I want to read the absolute worst reviews the movie received, because there’s nothing funnier to me than people complaining that they didn’t laugh. Today, I’ve got my good half haff Jerry Seinfeld didn’t have it the other day. They want to laugh.

I related it. I get it. It’s funny that you hated it because he wanted to laugh and you didn’t laugh. It’s funny. It doesn’t matter what you think of me.

Why would I think I’m gonna make something that I everyone to like, what sense does that make you have to be insane? Anything like that? Jay Leno spoke to Fox. Jay Leno says comedy hasn’t changed. We talked about jay Leno in my interview with Mark Melcoff.

I can’t wait to share it with you. It’s so good. Sign up for the premium feed. You can hear it now. Comedy hasn’t changed.

It’s exactly the same thing. It doesn’t change. Things come in and out. If I showed you a Rudolph Valentino movie from the twenties, you wouldn’t think it was sexy. You think, oh my god.

But if I showed you Buster Keaton falling off a building, it would be just as funny now as it was then. So comedy doesn’t really change a whole lot. He was asked about the roast of Tom Brady again, if it’s really funny, all bets are off See. The trouble is only when it’s inappropriate, not funny, Then people go, oh, now I’m offended. I’m offended because a it’s not funny, because it’s inappropriate.

Then they’ll go, it’s inappropriate, but it’s really funny, he said. Nikki Glaser killed me. She was really funny. A lot of people might say it’s inappropriate, but if it’s really funny makes it okay. I’m not a big roast person.

It’s not something I do. But it’s just a different kind of comedy and it’s fine. It’s good. From the Late Night Our website, James Austin Johnson dressed up as Bob Dylan the other day to mark Bob Dylan’s eighty third birthday. Johnson brought his impression of Bob Dylan to Washington Square Park.

James said he made up a theme time at Radio Hour That’s Bob’s old radio show for Bob Dylan’s birthday at Washington Square Park. In the clip, Johnson as Dylan wax his poetic on things like baseball games, suntan lotion, and carnivals on Gossip Corner. A rising comedy star native to the Mechanicsburg area was spotted back in hometown at an iconic racing track. Okay Local twenty one news. Who was it?

It was Shane Gillis. Shane was seen on Facebook at Williams Grove along with the cast of his new Netflix series Tires. Today is day four of me trying to watch tires. But every single time I go to watch Tires, my entire family’s on Netflix and I just watch Hacks, and I like Hacks when I’m trying to watch tires. These kids are young adults and teenagers go out and drink beer in the park.

Stop watching Netflix. That’s for dad’s. John Mulaney joked that he busted someone watching John Mulaney on a flight. Lani shared on Instagram a fellow passenger sitting in front of Millaniy on a flight. The fellow passenger was watching Everybody’s in la Lay tagged it busted.

I feel good on the microphone today, probably because I just did an hour with Mark Melcoff. Did I mention that the interview is fantastic? I loved that interview so much, and not because of me, because of Mark. I just did the Carson thing of ask a question, should shut up and marked old great stories. Can’t wait to share that with you.

To be in the main feed Saturday, June eighth is my plan right now. Eddie Pepatone is taping a special tonight in Chicago. He’ll be a Lincoln Hall. He told CBS two that it’s been nerve wracking. I get so neurotic.

This is going to be part of my legacy. People are going to see what I do with the world really falling apart. It’s just kind of like me just talking about how I’m falling apart. I have a line in the special somewhere where I say, I don’t know if the fact that three corporations own everything and the ruling classes destroying us that’s fed me up, or it’s the fact that I’m really lazy and I don’t like myself. He picked Chicago because I love Chicago.

I love Chicago audiences. Chicago is a great comedy town. Great every time I’ve performed in Chicago, I leave the show going they’re really good comedy audiences. Of the new special, he says, I realize this special is an introspection about myself. In the battle I have toward being a free soul, I’ve realized the ugliness in me helps people with the stuff they’re going through.

Plus, as a comedian, I feel like the only way to get better is to stay honest with yourself and have the courage to put yourself out there. He warns. Topics are heavy. There are definitely people who are not ready for it, but adds anything dark you have to make palatable by showing your own humanity, how you’re scared, not above it all. Lincoln Hall Tonight seven fifteen Early Show, nine to forty five Late Show.

Jimmy O Yang is in a new quote high octane short film for Toyota, promoting the brand’s all new twenty twenty four land Cruiser. That’s right any three minute film The Land Cruiser Get Back Challenge. Jimmy o’yang and some other folks are blindfolded and dropped on a remote snowy embarkment. Their task to find their way back to civilization, navigating a series of challenges while relying on nothing but a twenty twenty four land Cruiser. I gotta tell you though, way cooler than Jim Gaffigan selling Bourbon Way Cooler Alts.

Comedy fan fave and TikTok star Laura Murley is releasing her debut comedy special. It’s called Belly slapin Fun that’ll be out Thursday, July eighteenth. Laura follows in the large footsteps of Mitch Hedberg and Maria Bamford, specializing in set up, punch line jokes, and one liner is told in a trademarked deadpan that just keeps getting funnier, and that to me sounds right up my alley. Ali Clayton’s new album is out today. It is called Country Queer.

After working in comedy for fifteen years, Ali puts together a set that tells her story as a member of a very southern family from rural North Carolina, a special ed kid, a lesbian, an alcoholic, and a white girl who started her comedy career in the South Side of Chicago. Ali Clayton says Comedy Queer is a love letter to Little Ali about embracing and loving your authentic self and never forgetting where you come from. I’m country and I’m queer, and I’m proud to be both. And that is your comedy news for today. Tomorrow a conversation with Dan Booblet’s about comedy.

Hope you’ll enjoy that one, all right, See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night had some fun with the daily use of marijuana now surpassing that of alcohol in the US. Wow.

Michael Costa said, of course, the rising popularity of weed is a good reminder of the beer in the state. They got lazy, they thought they could sit back and relax, while Tommy Chung brought up every ad on Twitter. You know, congrats beer companies. You lost to that well known super ambitious type a hard work and go get her Tommy Chung. Colbert with a great point.

Some may be surprised by this, but as a New Yorker, I’m not. I smoke weed every single day, whether I want to or not, on the sidewalk, literally everywhere I go. Yeah, New York City reeks. I mean I hate the smell. Whatever you want to do at home, fine, go to party, fine, But just walking down the streets in New York City now it’s impossible.

You just smell. It’s really really bad. They got to do something about it again, do whatever you want your house, want to walk down the street. Same note on regular cigarettes too, Colbert joke. This news has alcohol makers worry.

They changed their standard discover from drink responsibly to please drink. The Hollywood Reporter and an intelligence firm called Morning Consult asked twenty two hundred adults in the US how much they trusted to various US TV hosts. Your options A lot, some, not much, not at all, don’t know. John Stewart seeing Colbert got about fifty seven percent of the audience saying they either had a lot, were some, trust in both hosts. Seth Meyers forty nine percent, but it’s still higher than folks like Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and Sean Hannity.

They all scored lower than Seth Myers. Case you’re curious, the most trusted new z’s in America Lester Holds, David Muir, Al Roker, Robin Roberts, Michael Strahand, and Anderson Cooper. They all landed sixty to sixty five percent. If you want to break it down by age, millennials and baby boomers like John Stewart, Colbert won jen X, Seth Myers led gen Z. Catwilliams spoke about golf.

This is a bit of a longer clip, but I really liked it and kat Williams makes a lot of sense here. This from golf three sixty five dot com. Let’s listen. Golf is this thing where eighteen times they set you up with the challenge and they put obstacles and hazards in the way, and you have to try to navigate your way safely and try to do as much as you can. But you learn that if you do more than you can, you can’t do that, and there will be things that happen.

And so all of the things that I like about life in general are on the golf course. I’m saying, I have to addrink out here, I smoke out here, I whistle out here, I look at nature, all the things that really mean something to me. Golf requires you to experience all those beautiful things, but then every shot requires you to block all of that out and just focus on the task at hand, and you don’t have the opportunity of doing it again. So the Bastian man of Scalco is not concerned with you people that can’t take a joke. He told Fox News Digital.

I don’t add it myself. I’d be lying to you if I said, oh, I don’t know, is it worth doing that? Joke because it might cause a B and C. There’s a little of that, but I don’t know. I’ve been all over the country and I feel like the people are coming to at least my shows, are dying to laugh, whether it be appropriate and inappropriate.

I mean, I hate to use the word inappropriate. Including your own family and yourself. Wasn’t done with the mean spirit. It’s just kind of pointing out behaviors or idiosyncrasies or oddities that were going on in the neighborhood. Nevere gonna laughed at it.

My material tends to be experience based. I’m going to Universal Studios, I’m going to the kiddi part, I’m going to the school drop off. I’m doing all these things that happen to be part of my life, and through those experiences, I tend to have a point of view and what I’m seeing any particular time of day. The only thing you can concentrate on is your own material. So if you see a comedian get a TV show, you see a comedian selling out arenas or whatever, don’t let it bother you.

Don’t let to consume you. The only thing you have control on is writing your own stuff. The best you could do with what you’re doing. Your time will come. Bert Krascher spoke to WSAV about his Fully Loaded Comedy tour, and he said, it really is a family.

You know. Comedy is a tight knit community of people who have struggled and thrived together. It’s the reason I do it. It’s like summer camp for me. I’ve known these people for twenty five years, longer than i’ve known my daughters.

And my daughters come on tour as PA’s, so they’re like their uncles and their aunts, nepo babies. Bert says it’s my favorite tour I’ve ever done. It’s the reason I’m doing Fully Loaded. We created a system that hasn’t been created. I love the sense of community.

Look, I grew up in Florida. I love sunsets, partying and cold beer. So I try to create an environment that I’d love to go to. It does sound like fun. I’ve not seen that tour.

The Lucille Ball Comedy Festival announced to their headliners the festival August first. The headliners include Nicole Byer and Jeff Ross and unnamed third headliner. Third headliner will play at the Northwest Arena on August third and will be announced in mid June, so it’s got to be somebody significant. I have no idea. My spidy sense is telling me it’s Nate Perghatzy.

Why am I saying Nate Pergatzy just because of my spidery sets have no knowledge. There’s nothing in this article telegraphing that. That’s just the face that came into my brain has read the sentence. Jerny Gunderson is the executive director for the National Comedy Center and said Jeff Ross has been a genre defining artists for decades before continuing and revolutionizing the art of insult comedy. Beyond the RUSS, He’s just a fantastic stand up comedian and an incredible writer and a genuine champion of the arts past and present, which I love about him.

Nicole Byer is a fearless performer with a candid, razor sharp take that brings the audience along for a fun ride. In addition to the show’s three headliners, the festival will be incorporating its late night comedy shows, Lucy Legacy Events, and more as part of this year’s programming. I should probably take a ride up there. I’ve made fun of the choice of Jamestown in the past, but it’s not that far from where I live. It is out of the way, like you don’t accidentally drive through Jamestown, New York.

But I mean I could go. Jim Gaffigan needs an intervention. Man. He was on the Bourbon Pursuit podcast. I pulled some clips Jim the bourbon it’s just not cool.

It’s just, you know, like cool. Well apparently Jim doesn’t know cool. The rest of us you know cool. This just isn’t it. It’s just not working.

I see he’s backed off it too. I wonder if he figured out, like, oh yeah, no one’s into Jim Gaffig and bourbon. Jim and discussed with Bourbon Pursuit his wife’s take on the whole project. It’s not really a money making adventure, but it has been fun. I mean, my wife’s like, what are you doing?

But you know, what are you gonna do? Now? This is interesting. Jim admitted he was approached on this previously. In my humble opinion, this was being spun of.

I know, Jim just wanted to make a bourbon, but no, it seems like he was approached. Someone went, you know, if we had a bourbon you know, I’m in my late fifties. I know, like I look like I’m in my mid fifties, but I’m in my late fifties. And I was not always a bourbon or even like a dark liquid kind of guy, you know. But I think during the pandemic, you know, a lot of lockdown.

My wife and I we would do a casual, I’d have an old fashioned. My joke was like I always felt like I was pretending to be a grown up, or that I was pretending I was in a Tennessee Williams play whenever I would have like a mint julip or anything like that. And so but I slowly switched to just bourbon because I like an old fashion, but it’s a little too sweet for me. And so I just started to love it. And my you know, as my wife and I, you know, our kids are teenagers, and so it’s we I describe it as we have our occasional bourbon every night, you know what I mean.

And so it was this parental bonding thing. And so that kind of coincided with being approached by you know, some spear companies that to do a celebrity spirit and I was like, I would I was shying away from it, but I was like, you know, I kind of like Bourbon. And in this third clip, Jim is of course all about the authenticity of Jim Gaffig and Bourbon. It’s about authenticity. And I knew if I was going to do something like this, I would want it to be something special.

And so even when we eventually went down to Kentucky to pick the barrels, I had my brothers come down and do it. And of course, you know it’s I mean, there’s yeah, no, it’s like anyone. I’m sure everyone listening to this is just you know, the Bourbon Trail or visiting Kentucky is like to somebody that loves Bourbon. It’s like Kentucky is like is Disney World, Right, It’s just this kind of it has a charm and the stories and it’s I mean, all the research I did it was so fun because it’s also uniquely American, which I kind of love on a lot of different levels. So I don’t know, and I’m still learning so much.

I still have so much to learn, but I love this journey, and you know, I feel really good that the product is quality. I do think he’s let it go, though, I believe me. I googled Jim Gaffigan and Bourbon the way I used to google George Lopez Taco’s, especially when I’m looking for material to pad these things out a little. I haven’t seen anything lately. The Hollywood Reporter writes how Seth Myers accidentally made Getting Drunk on air and art form.

Seth discussed his early years at late night and said, I remember thinking, oh, this is a slightly worse copy of a thing that came before. He was asked if there was any point in the past decade where it didn’t feel the confidence of the bosses very interesting, Seth said, the first year, there was definitely at least one memorable conversation. There was a Hey, come out to LA for a quick meeting, and when the meeting was over, there were not garlands at our feet. I will say that I understood what they were asking us to do, but it ended up being the opposite direction of where we went. They definitely weren’t saying we think you should lean into long form political things.

It was more try to be a better show for the current era we’re in. This is twenty fifteen. It wasn’t wrong to suggest that we lean into shorter, viral popular things. The word not being said here is Jimmy fallon, which is two words. But we left the meeting knowing that we wouldn’t be able to do that in a way that was gratifying for us, nor would be able to make them happy.

That was the scariest time for the show. Then the circumstances of the world changed and we became a better show for the moment. I’ve said this on this podcast before. I feel like this show has had zero impact. Like I don’t know who’s watching it.

There’s no buzz on it. It just exists because NBC twelve thirty is a thing. I don’t know. Have you watched it? Is this the Bob’s Burgers of late night shows?

Maybe it’s not even on. I haven’t checked. Next time the dog wakes me up at twelve thirty, I’m gonna put the TV on and see if this thing is actually on. Good stuff here, the reporter asked what makes a good and bad guest? Sets that after ten years, you should be good enough that there are no bad guests.

You should have learned how to pull the best out of anyone. If there is a bad kind of guest, it’s one who comes just with a material they’re gonna do no matter what. I hate those guests, you definitely see. It’s usually comics. Right.

He asked them a question and you know, hey, what colors the sky? It’s blue? But I got to tell you the lines at these airports, right? I hate that? So what do you do, Seth Myers?

You become the audience that they’re not getting. The other thing about ten years is you learn who you like and who you don’t. There’s a tier of guests that all of us in Late Night would take any night, no matter what.

And then there’s a middle that we all share from.

And then there’s this sort of guests that are the most interesting ones because they establish how your identity is different from the other shows. For us. It could be a first time author or a fourth lead on the show that’s critically claim but nobody’s ever seen. I think the worst guest is a politician. They’re so boring.

They answer all the questions they wish he asked them, and I’ll answer two times in a row if you don’t stop them. They also have young staffers who are not plugged into the importance of writing towards a person’s specific voice and have given them three jokes that are gonna bomb, and they’re gonna tell them no matter what they asked him about potentially replacing Lorne, michaels He and Tina Fey are the names that come up as most likely said I’m definitely not gonna do it, but I never want any of you to stop saying that. Will SNL continue without Lorne? Or do you just not want to be the one that attempts it? Seth very honest here says I think both things can be true.

Everybody underestimates what Lauren brings to the show week in and week out, even though I then people estimate it quite highly. Lauren has this invisible hand that gets things done in that building for show that is unreasonable to even attempt. And I learned so much from watching Lorne, and yet I’m also acutely aware there are things you just can’t learn. You talked about the Strike Force five podcast from last summer during the writers strike. It’s a credit to Kimmel for putting it together, but also credit to Colbert.

When the winds were blowing towards the strike, Stephen was the one who thought, let’s all talk and stay on the same page. Let’s make sure there’s a cohesion with how we’re approaching the strike and what we’re telling our staffs and what we’re gonna do for them. That’s smart. This one I’ve bumped several times. It just keeps getting bumped.

Let me clear this out today. It’s good. I just kept kicking it. David Cross. In Variety the Sources and interview Cross did with Andrew Santino, Cross talked about Guru Nation, which was a show that Cross and Bob Odenkirk worked up a few years back.

He says there was a low key bidding war between multiple networks. According to Cross, he and Odinkirk wrote about half the eight episodes show about two rival cult leaders attempting to out manipulate each other, and plotted out the rest, took it to their new partners at Paramount Plus, and the whole thing got turned down by the streamer. Cross said it got vetoed by the company’s marketing and analytics department who didn’t want the series or get how to sell it. Cross said, they have all the uffing bower and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. See you tomorrow.

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Hi, I’m actually recording this after to let you know. I’m very aware I don’t have even my half assed Jerry Seinfeld today, as we will uncover as you listen to today’s podcast, I realize the pollen in my backyard got to me. I have no voice, and I was trying to do half assed Jerry, which is already not the best Jerry impression to begin with, but it’s half assed Jerry. And I’m aware I didn’t even do a good half assed Jerry today. Are you intrigued?

Let’s listen Caloroga Shark Media very home. I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy and he was Apparently Jerry Seinfeld did not enjoy not being the lead story on this podcast because he’s back baby. Apparently Jerry got choked up on Tuesday while recalling his trip to Israel after October seventh. He was on Honestly with Barry Weiss. They covered a wide range of topics that got picked up all over the place.

Let’s recap. Jerry said that he often tells the audience that he loves that young people are trying to get engaged with politics, but their aim needs to be corrected. So silly. It’s like, you know, they want to express this in here intense rage, but again a little off target. Jerry called his visit to Israel the most powerful experience of his life.

Weise said, really, Jerry quietly said sure. Yeah. He was asked why Jerry pauses for a long moment, you know, you just you know. Weiss asked, are you thinking of someone in particular? Jerry nodded, rubbed his nose, pulled out a handkerchief, sniffled, and said sorry.

In a different section, he talked about the protesters and told Barry, I love these young people. They’re trying to get engaged with politics. We just have to correct their aim a little bit. They don’t seem to understand that as comedians we really don’t control anything. It’s like they want to express this in here intense range, but again a little off target.

So that to me comedic. Seinfeld then compared both political parties to mobs. They’re mobs believe in their own crab right, that’s what a political party is. We’re gonna make up a bunch of nonsense. We all agree to it.

Let’s print up some bumper stickers and get out there, kids. That’s politics. We’re tribal animals. We’re social creatures. We look for agreement and consensus.

I’m aware I don’t even have my good half assed Jerry Seinfeld today. I’m at about third ass today. I hear it. I’m trying. I wasn’t even planning on recording this one.

I had one that I’m gonna use tomorrow. My schedules a little busy this week. I wasn’t even planning on doing this one. Then I saw the Jerry story. We’re tribal animals, we’re social creatures.

We look for argument consensus. We’re driven by agreement and consensus. And my rule be gives us a comfort, gives a certainty. It’s all ps. Another section, Jerry goes as a man.

Weiss cuts in and goes, are you sure you were? I did not hear pronouns. I always wanted to be a real man, but I never made it. And that hour was Jfko, was Muhammad Ali, was Sean Connery, Howard Cosell. That’s a real man.

I want to be like that someday. No, look at how I dress like an eight year old. I never really grow up. You don’t want to as a comedian. It’s a child just pursuit.

But I misdominant masculinity. I like a real man. That’s why I love you. Grant. He felt like one of those guys I wanted to be.

He knows how to dress, he knows how to talk, He’s charming, he has stories, He’s comfortable at dinner parties, knows how to get a drink. That stuff. Never mind, Jerry Seichfeld, I don’t even have my own voice today. Excuse me. Weiss asked, do you think punching down is the thing?

Like? Is that a real phenomenon? No, I don’t. Comedy’s extraordinary, simple, binary outcome event. It’s funny or it is it?

I nobody cares really about anything else. They talk. It’s a lot of talk. What we really ate is when someone does something that’s not so funny. We didn’t laugh, and now I’m going to criticize it because it didn’t make me laugh.

I really wish I had make good Jerry today. That was good stuff. I just don’t have it. I apologize. Oh wait, there’s more reviews of them frosted.

The only reviews I want to read are the absolute worst reviews at the movie received, because there’s nothing funnier to me than people complaining that I didn’t laugh because they want to laugh. If you’re built right as a stand of comic, you don’t give a flying dot dot dot. I’m doing this gig and getting my laughs, getting the money. I’m getting the hell out of here, and then your review comes out and I’m in another city doing the same thing. There isn’t no one opinion has any value.

Comedians on group think. Whatever the group thinks, that’s the vote. We don’t have to take a vote. That vote’s been taken on that joke. You can hate it.

It’s still a great joke because the laugh is still there. Dave Chappelle was playing Canyon tonight. The Sudden Show was announced less than forty eight hours before. The gig caught many Kenyans by surprise, with many expressing regret it not being able to attempt the Icon’s maiden performance at the Lewis Leaky Auditorium due to the abrupt ticketing. Tickets were going for seven thousand local currency units.

A source told The Nairobi News. The small and intimate venue, I almost read it as Jerry. The small and innimate venue was a condition set by day. He even wanted it to be a smaller audience of a hundreds, so even three hundred was a push. It’s funny, I U Nairobi news source sounds more like Jerry than my Cherry did.

I’m awful today. I’m trying a local comedian. Sea Room Wangi said, I will be one of two opening acts for Dave Chappelle. Even my wildest dreams, I had not seen this. The other opener, Lusavalli added as a comic, this isn’t even in your wildest streams.

But this Wednesday, I’m open for Dave Chappelle and Nairobi, Kenya believe the hype cause that dot Com spoke to Josh Blue, who’s a really cool dude. I met him. It’s got to be over a decade now, but he was really cool. His girlfriend is experiencing unusual vision problems. Josh said, we try to figure out what it was, and it evolved and now the bit is, oh, my vision is getting worse than a can’t pinpoint when it started.

But shortly after the solar eclipse, he says, Jokes can come out of anything. My girlfriend going blind should not be funny. Newsweek published I’ll call it a garbage article, but I need one more story today. The headline Joe Rogan slams his producer during podcast Oh No, What could have possibly happened? Newsweek tells this.

Joe’s there. He’s talking to two guests and they’re about fifty minutes in. The guests are talking about the possibility of artificial intelligence detecting human suffering. Rogan then cut into a complaint to produc her young Jamie. Rogan said, you know what I’m suffering, Jamie.

This coffee sucks. I don’t know what happened, but you made it. It’s literally like almost like water. Can we get some more? Rogan then poured the contents out of his mug, told this guests, We’re gonna talk about this after I’m caffeinated up.

This is the worst coffee I’ve ever had. It’s like half strength or something. I don’t know what happened. This is Newsweek. I’m sourcing Newsweek.

This is an article in Newsweek. Who tell us that the trio then settled back into the conversation. However, ten minutes later, Rogan said, Jamie, this is still super watered down. Jamie said he had just put water in and advised Joe Rogan to let the coffee sit for a second, Rogan said, I’m telling you dog. Jamie said, there’s a ton of coffee in there.

Rogan said, all right, I’ll stir it up. I we’ll figure it out. Some TV fore to watch. I’m catching up on the new season of Hacks, really digging it so far. I think I’m three episodes in.

I’m up to the one that is about late Night. That’s all you need to know about that one. I wanted to watch tires. I logged into Netflix, where I tried to log in in Netflix. The entire family was home and Netflix was like, too many people logged in.

Sucks to be you. So I went back to watching Hacks. Let’s check in with Jim Gaffigan, who you could just hear all the coolness and you know, he wasn’t exactly the funds, but all the coolness just sucking out of him every time he promotes this bourbon. He was on with Rich Ice and let’s listen. So this is father Time Bourbon, Father Time Bourbon.

And by the way, each you know, like Burt by the way, Burton Tom’s vodka, everyone should buy that. But this is a different thing. This is a limited batch. This is I was approached to do a celebrity spirit a couple of times. Uh huh, and I was like, I was worried because sometimes the celebrity spirits aren’t good.

And I also didn’t want it to appear like a cash grab. Yeah, we don’t want to make it seem like a cash grab, Jim. We don’t want that to happen. That would be terrible if anybody got that impression. And so I called a friend after the last time I was pitched, and I was like, from Louisville, from college, and I was like, can’t we just buy a couple of barrels and do our own?

He goes, yeah, we could. I mean, it might be a pain in the ass and you might lose money, though we can do it. I ninety five ask comedian Greg Stone about his opinion on the totally non existent pizza war. DJ Dave said, you’re originally from New Jersey, you live in Queens, and you work in Connecticut. We here in Connecticut had a congressional delegation from New Haven right now down in DC trying to say that Connecticut makes the best pizza the United States have You had the New York and you fire up over this debate.

I can’t even speak. I’m realizing, right before I did this first world problem, I was cleaning pollen off the pool. That’s what’s going on here. All right, this is a mess today. I get it, okay.

Greg Stone is responding to who has the best pizza. Greg says, I’m gonna not be funny here. I’m gonna be very serious. This is what makes me furious. The best pizza is such a dumb thing.

Everything has to be a competition. Everything exists, and it’s amazing. New York pizza is unbelievable. People will crap on Chicago, Connecticut is unbelievable pizza. My favorite place is this spot called Bar.

They have this mashed potato pie in New Haven. Unbelievable. But they don’t have to fight. It doesn’t have to fight a deep dish. I had this conversation the other night with Glenn when we went to the Rolling Stone’s concert.

We were talking about this exact thing. Chicago pizza awesome, New York City pizza awesome. They’re not at all the same thing. We can enjoy both. Greg Stone says, it doesn’t have to fight.

Known as in Queen’s which is one of my favorite pizzas known as nineteen seventy seven. I’d put it against almost anything. It’s all great, and I think we should stop fighting and we should come together and just be a pizza family. And that, because I’m losing my voice, is your comedy news for today, all right. I feel bad that there was probably a better version of this podcast to be done today, but I didn’t even have my half assed Jerry sucks, all right, See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. No, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle recently played the Abu Dhabi Comedy Week. The National News was there to see the show, which is good because Chappelle does that whole thing with the Yonder pouches. So you never get any clips from a Chappelle show, but we still find out what you’re talking about, Dave the National News rights Chappelle entered this year’s show with a hooded falcon on his arm.

Dave said, this bird has never been on stage before. He said the sport of falconry is an apt metaphor for where he’s at professionally. No longer does Chappelle want to go on the hunt simply to sustain himself. Instead, he wants a career trajectory similar to a falconer, one where he is in total command that can bow out at a time of his choosing. That’s aggressive there, Wow, what kind of show is this?

Chappelle joked. Abu Dhabi Comedy Week stimy that plan with its lucrative offer to headline the festival after his reportedly final Netflix special Discloser last year. That’s all in jest, Dave warn the audience I’m telling you right now, I’m rusty, but oh come good. Dave made pointed observations about the Israel Gaza war and talked about that on Saturday. He used the word genocide and the US elections and the history of the African American civil rights movement.

He also made quote obscene ruminations on friends and family. At the end, Dave said, the fact that you guys are doing this festival here is one of the most powerful things that is happening in this world. I was told before stepping on this stage, this is the biggest comedy show that the Middle East has ever seen. Mark my words, I’ll be back. Celebrity hot dog enthusiast Patton Oswalt.

You know sometimes he goes out for hot dog and he has to text before he goes because of the crowds. He surprised how much of his Parks and Recreation characters Fanboy filibuster scene ended up coming true. Back in twenty thirteen, Patton played a character he engages in a filibuster. His speech slowly devolves into the character pitching an idea for a marvel In Star Wars crossover film. Patton told Jimmy Kimmel, So the scene was supposed to be that I annous, I’m going to do this philibuster, And then they cut to Amy’s character Leslie just going oh dear God, and that would be the joke.

And then the directors and the writer said, let’s not yell cut and let’s just see how long he’ll talk. That’s hilarious. His character mentions Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet as a way to link the two cinematic universes together, marvel At and Dunn Guardians of the Galaxy. When I say time Jem, they cuts to Chris Bratt. That was way before he did Guardians.

Also, Amy has the funniest line on the whole thing when she says the female sports are a little underwritten, which is so exactly what those movies were. This is awesome, Patton continues. When the book of Bopa Fett came on Disney Plus, creator Jon Favreau confirmed to me, they cut the opening scene to match my filibuster. You can sing them up time wise. It pans down from the twin suns, the hand comes out of the sand.

You can match it up to my filibuster. They did that on purpose. In twenty twenty one, Patton tweeted to say, I’m touched is putting it lightly and yeah, book a Boba Fett. You’re welcome. Hazos Trejo has a new PBS show, Roots of Comedy, about the lives, families, and experiences of rising comedians.

Treyho was one of the ten and Comics to Watch back in twenty seven.

Also on that list Tiffany Hattish and Hasan Minhaj.

Let’s look at the rest of the list. I’m curious now and I’m make sure it’s the right list. There are several lists. I assume it’s the variety one that’s usually the big one. All right that year, Brian Jordan Alvarez, all Right, Rory Butcher, verr DAEs Li’s a trigger, Pretty good, right, pretty good.

Treo says, one of the things I prided myself in is that I talk about my upbringing, my family, the things I feel I’m an expert on, which is my lived experience. He highlighted the story of Vanessa Gonzalez as an example. One of the jokes she talks about is that her parents are from Mexico and they ended up working for the Border Patrol the punch line is like traders, but then we cut to her family story and we realize it’s complex. That’s the reality, that was the industry that existed in her hometown. My rich upbringing as a Mexican American in Long Beach with immigrant parents is the basis for my storytelling.

I can bring that storytelling and that experience to any project I take on. The Hollow Reporter profiled Alana Glazer. She talked about filming her stand up special and said, the first night I felt a little tight and nervous, but the second night was so silly and kinetic, and I took pleasure in every single moment. It was a blessed. There’s this feminine energy of the universe that I’ve been tapping into more and more.

It feels sort of like receiving whatever’s happening and dealing with both the positive and the negative. The Hollow Reporter says. Back in twenty nineteen, on the Lost Cultuestas podcast, she talked about feeling connected to masculine energy. Alana said, that’s so interesting. Wow, it’s funny.

It’s hard for me to ever go back and look at stuff I’ve done. Rami yusaff just sent me a screenshot from the pilot of broad City. Cracked me up to think about that part of the show and how it was ten years ago. But I really couldn’t go back to that place in my mind, like I’ll never go back and listen to myself on Lost Culturistas. But I find it really interesting that I spoke about that at the time.

Sees people really like Shane Gillis’s Tires series. I watched one episode on Friday night, I think it was I thought about it a lot, even was dreaming about the show. The folks in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, please join us. They’re all buzzing about it. Seems everyone digging that one looking forward to it, just can’t find a minute to watch TV sometimes.

Brendan Schab says he would beat the bleep out of Joe Rogan were they to have an MMA fight, which reminds me, I what months ago challenged Joe Rogan to an MMA fighting. He has not taken me up on it. Is it because he’s afraid of me? Probably right? Yes, Shab at one time was a UFC heavyweight contender, so yeah, he probably would do very well against Joe Rogan, who, by the way, Joe Rogan is going to lose to me should he take me up on the challenge?

Are you afraid? Joe? Shab says Rogan’s good though. He has immense lower body strength and an extensive background in jiu jitsu. Can Joe kick?

Absolutely? For a guy who’s never competed professionally, he can kick like a mother Ever, I don’t know. Leave it. If you put him against any celebrity out there, he’s going to beat the bleep out of them. He’s a black belt in jiu jitsu, it’s that civilian aspect.

He’s a monster. Why is he afraid of me? Though? Come on, Joe, let’s go, let’s do this. You gotta realize, though, I was ranked in the top ten of the world, so it’s just different.

I would beat the bleep out of Rogan. Dextero has compared them. Rogan five two hundred pounds, Shab six ‘ four two forty five. Yeah, that’s why I’m not challenging Shob. I’m not crazy.

But Joe Rogan, bring it, dude, what are you afraid of? You’re afraid of something? Apparently, Hans Kim you may know him from Kill Tony. I saw Kill Tony was way up on the podcast charts. Tom Brady says, you’re welcome.

Distractify was wondering what has happened to Hans Kim. Hans was a regular on the Kill Tony podcast. Distractify writes about a year ago, fans started noticing a drop in Hans Kim’s materials quality. As the opinion circulated, Tony began putting Hans up to battle other comedians to keep his position as a regular. He apparently hasn’t been on Kill Tony in a few months.

He used to perform every single week, fans have noticed on the red Fans have said that Hans’s two hour shows are fantastic, so perhaps he’s grown out of the one minute Killed Tony format. I got a fact check that two hour shows. A guy who was doing a minute is now doing two hours. Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock et cetera. Don’t to two hours two hours of stand up comedy is a lot.

I don’t know about that. One from the Newport News. A comedy bus wants to take people around Newport, but one counselor says it’s no laughing matter. Love this one apparently a comedy tour bus hopes to come to Newport councilor Jean Marine. Apolitano said, they act like it’s some kind of public veins that people can get around downtown, and no, it’s for them to make money, period in a story.

And all these people, you know, you go out and you have a cookout in your yard or something, and it can’t enjoy their family are there without a bus going by and narrating. God knows what. That’s what it’s about. Comedy Bus LLLC operates its ninety minute bus tours around Providence. The usual tours start a brass Monkey bar and grill and make one shortstop at a local restaurant or brewery.

Guests can bring alcohol, although not hard liquor, onto the bus and simp while listening to a local comic acting as the tour guide. The buses that Comedy Bus LLC uses for its tours or old school buses that have had the windows removed and replaced with clear vinyl sighting that can be opened with the addition of the comedian using a microphone, and the company’s promise of R rated shows. Napolazano says she was concerned about how the tour might impact local residents. That’s fair. We don’t need people saying naughty things out the window.

We definitely don’t need that. I mean, are you, Joe Koy? We’re clean? What is wrong with you people? Napolitano said.

Can you imagine somebody standing around with their kids and all of a sudden, here f this or something that doesn’t work for me or anybody else? All right, what if we do a clean comedy bus? Are you okay with it? Then? And that’s your comedy news for today.

I feel like I’m supposed to say something witty now. I got nothing. See you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. You know who’s an idiot? Me, Hi, Johnnie Mac idiot with your Daily Comedy News. If you listened last week, you heard me a couple of times saying I was siphoning off stories, sleeping some stories, making the podcast a little bit shorter to make sure I had enough for the holiday weekend. So on Friday, I sat down to record the entire weekend, gave myself the weekend off, and I finished recording Sunday.

And then I scrolled up in my little document. I used that as all the news stories, and I found a second complete file with a script for Sunday. I had two full shows Sunday, so now I have it’s out of leftovers. I guess a good problem to having a holiday weekend, right, yes. Hi.

Jim Norton spoke to Forbes about his marriage to Nicki. Nicki is a twenty six year old trans woman from Norway. Jim Norton is fifty five, and they get along just great. They recently launched a YouTube channel called Nicky and Jim and Ikki. They upload content that captures moments to their life.

Jim told Forbes the most important thing is that people actually like it for what it is, which is just two people showing you the piece of their lives. I’m not trying to convince people politically to do this, do that. We don’t care. We just want them to judge us on watching us and whether they like it or not, and just what they’re seeing. I know Norton in real life.

He’s pretty soft spoken, thoughtful. You know, he could turn it on and do the Norton Act in a second. And he’s naturally funny. But you know, if you see him in the hallway and say, hey, Jim, hey this easy going guy. Do Jim and Nicky see kids in their future?

Jim says, we’re working on a dog. Nicky shares that she wants children, especially a daughter. You can see the chemistry here. She says, I think it’s weird if I picture myself being fifty with no kids, that’s very weird. But then you’re gonna be eighty.

Jim laugh said her joke and says he’d get a dog if NICKI will walk in. Nicky says, I’ll walk in. I’m so ready for a dog because I don’t have a job. If anything, the dog’s gonna be my purpose. Jim says, She makes me laugh, even if she’s cranky.

I definitely marry the right person. You don’t see married couples like us where one partner is transgender and the other is not. It’s the same. We fight about the same, It’s not this earth shattering different thing. Nickcky has read her DMS and says, I don’t feel as offended as I thought it would be.

Most people like, you’re a man. You’re not gonna tell me I look ugly. I think they know that I look on and not to be on my high horse. That’s reality, and they don’t have a lot to attack me on. They were on vacation in Vancouver.

Vancouver is awesome if you’ve never been, Like, I love Vancouver. I wanted to move there and buy. There’s this bike shop right across from Stanley Park. He’s it called, Yes Stanley Park. There’s this bike stopped there.

I rented a bike out of there. I’m like, I just want to come and buy this business and just make this my life. Rent bikes to Taurus is so beautiful. Jim got down on one knee with a ring. Norton said, I wanted to be more traditional because so much about our life is untraditional.

If you want to understand Jim Norton in real life, that sentence right there, that’s Jim Norton.

Also Jim Norton in real life.

This next second, then I have a photo of her two hours later vomiting into a bucket. She’s got food poisoning or something. You realize who you just said yes to and you threw up. Joe Coy he released a trailer for his upcoming special. I can’t blame it for you because he doesn’t more than two words without an F bomb.

I got into this a little bit late last week, the whole working clean thing, like I got no problem with you working naughty. I got no problem with you working square words. But if you play this Joecoy trailer, and again, I can’t play it for you because it’s like, uh yeah, So I went to the bleeping store and I talked to the bleeping store clerk about the bleepin potato chips, And he doesn’t need to do it. It doesn’t add to the material at all. It’s just during in F bombs for no reason.

You know those people that just throw them in like left and right. Unbelieve me in real life when I’m not doing this, I swear like a sailor, especially while driving a car. If you want to know what it’s like to be if you want to know what it’s like to be in the car with me, should I just pull the audio one of my favorite clips. This is Dennis Reynolds from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia driving one hundred percent me. Let’s listen.

Oh, merge, merge, come on, you seize the goddamn get. People are so goddamn it efficient. We got a damn it. I caurf you’re all, says the gap, You all fat bretch not letting you intag. Wanta shot to work?

Be like, where is the foot all of you? Because I have just stud the night flo who causes all that happen? Come on, what’s your plan? Huh? Two miles an hour?

There you go? Oh god it, here’s your secondal you cow. So yeah, that’s me, including all the gds, uh, including screaming at the top of my voice, except I throw in more F bombs. All right, So Joe cooy, I get it. But you know, I somehow figure out how to do this podcast without dropping in an F bomb.

That’ll be on Netflix. It’s June fourth, you don’t know who Joe Cooy is. He’s uh. Some call him an insult comic because he listen to this. He went after Taylor Swift ones.

This was vicious. As you know. We came on after a football doubleheader. H the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer shots of Taylor Swift.

I swear Taylor did not deserve that. Joe Cooy Jim Jefferies, this is one of the stories I tell you always holding on to before I realized, oh, you have one podcast script, too many, too many stories. He was talking to The Daily Mail about being heckled. He’s been punched twice by heckler’s. Jim says he’s not the best at dealing with them.

Jim tells us if you google Jim Jeffries punched, you’ll see what people do with me when they heckle. I’ve actually been punched on stage twice, but it’s only been caught on film once. One of the ways you can pot the show is you got to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m actually shaking my cup here, but you can’t hear it.

Let me tap the mic with it, because that’s not a coffee, that’s a smoothie. I like this smoothie chain, right. What is this one here? Beach bum with dark chocolate. My daughter just picked this up for me.

So if you go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and you throw a couple bucks in the tip jar, you gotta drive right past the National Donut Chain and hit the smoothie place, and boy, these are yummy. David Letterman announce the next two guests on what is his show called? My Next Guess is right? Isn’t that what it’s called? Whatever?

The Netflix thing? Miley Cyrus and Charles Barkley. David Letterman’s show on Netflix returns June twelfth. The Guardian spoke to Toronto comedian Chris Moose and they said Chris Moose is a comedic force to be reckoned with. Moose blends personal anecdotes with sharp wit to create humor that resonates with audiences far and wide.

So he tells anecdotes with wit that connects with audiences. So that’s both Dave Chappelle and Jim Gaffigan and Dimitri Martin and me. Drawing inspiration from the quirks of everyday life. He brings laughter the Forefront Guardian. You’re gonna have to try harder, Chris.

How would you describe your comedy style? All right, Chris says, I guess I’d say that I’m funny. I try to model my jokes after my lived experiences so that they’re more relatable to people. I like to acknowledge the weirdness of my life and experiences and then embellish on that. Wait, I’m not here to bash on, Chris Moose.

I didn’t read this in advance. If you listen, you know I never read these in advance. I just kind of put them there so I can react to them. Wait, so, Chris Moose, you get up on stage and you tell a story based in truth and you exaggerate it for humor. Is that what it is?

Let me guess. Then you joke about some other things, and then you know, unexpectedly a few minutes later, you’ll go back to the first thing. Right, is that it? I could graft this for you. I’ve seen this.

I like technology, the weirdness of my life and experiences, then embellish on that. I think by finding faults and weirdness in my own life and telling stories and jokes about that makes it easier for the audience to connect and laugh at me. Who are your influences? He says, his family, my dad, my uncle. But it’s only until I was in university that I figured out the easiest way to make people laugh was talking about lived experiences and embellishing them, which I picked up from watching Kevin Hart and John Mulaney.

Who’s your favorite comedian right now? I’ve taken a lot of inspiration from Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Sebastian Maniscalco, John Mulaney, and I’ve been watching Angelo Shirukas, Trevor Wallace, and Jeff Rcurrie. If I had to pick a favorite, I’d have to say Dave Chappelle, what’s your pre show ritual? I question everything before I go on stage. Then when I get up there, I hit the autopilot button.

I feel like a different person I’m on stage. It’s one of the best feelings I’ve ever experienced, but I still get nervous every time. I also drink a coke sometimes. I love this article all right, This next one will be my last story of the day, it is major spoilers for the new season of Hacks, So if you don’t want to be spoiled, bail okay spoilers for Hacks in three two one, it was inevitable spoiler that Debora Vance was going to flirt with cancelation, so when it finally happened in season three, it is not surprising you were warned. Executive producer Jan Statsky told the rap the stand up comedy part of the show has always been something that we work on really hard.

It’s a group effort. It’s something we think about and loose some sleep. In one of the episodes this season, again at major spoilers, a video starts the surface of Deborah’s more controversial material over the decades. She was supposed to be going to Berkeley to accept an honorary doctorate. The college students start protesting.

Wow, good timing by the writers on this. Executive producer Paul W. Downs tells the rap was really complicated because we wanted to both show jokes that in the context of their time, would have happened and would have potentially worked, but also didn’t age well. We were really conscientious of not trying any material that was really inflammatory or really offensive. Some of the jokes include spoilers, including a Spanish to English dictionary at the US Mexico border, calling dyslexia lystexia, and saying that Anita Hill should be drinking diet coke.

Google that one. If you don’t get that one, let me just read it here. Back in the nineteen nineties, Hill publicly accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexually assaulting her. A buzzy point of the hearing was Hill were counting a time when Thomas asked her who put a pubic hair in his coke. Downs noted the joke was very specific and about the time it was a very very delicate needled thread.

This is well thought out by the writers. I like that show a lot. Another one of the staffers said, if a scene calls for a broad joke, anything goes as long as in Deborah’s voice, and it largely respects Ava’s view that comedy should never punch down. They say, let’s just generate a ton of jokes and go with what’s the funniest. Other times, a scene calls for a specific joke, and just because a Debora joke makes its way into the script.

It doesn’t mean it’s going to make the final cut downs, says, we see how Gene takes it on. We try and adjust the punch line or take a couple words out to try a whole new thing. Those are the things we have to evolve constantly. This is really good stuff. The season thirty finale of Hacks Thursday, May thirtieth.

That’s this week, and that is your comedy news for today. I’m going to join my smoothie here again. I’m shaking it for some reason. You’ll just have to believe me that I am here. I’ll top the mic again.

It’s in my hand, you hear it. But smoothies don’t make sound. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This one caught me by surprise. Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. You know, they have that podcast, Bad Friends that’s massively popular, but like most of mainstream America, has no idea who either one of them are.

It’s funny with comedy, you could be like secretly huge. There’s a lot of comedians that are secretly huge. And we’ll talk about this sometimes in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group walk down the Street one hundred people go, hey, do you like Andrew Santino? And unless you like specifically pick a certain demo, you might go, oh for a hundred, you might go like three four, a hundred. But it’s not like, hey, have you ever heard of Jerry Seinfeld?

Right, But they’re good anyway. The podcast is being made into an adult animated series for Hulu. Bad Friends follows the relationship between Andrew a fiery lightning bug and Bobby a shy roly Polly as they navigate the treacherous waters of being adolescent misfit bugs in high school. Okay, sure, no details other than that, but you didn’t see that one coming, did you me neither. Yahoo profiled Kevin James, which makes for some great holiday weekend filler.

Kevin told a story where he showed up to a stand up gig at a bachelor party and found out the guests were expecting a stripper instead. Kevin told Yahoo the stripper didn’t show and they put me up on stage and I had to stand on a chair in the middle of a bunch of guys to do my act. It was pretty rough, but I left with a lot of tips that night. That’s a good tag. He hasn’t done stand up in a while.

He says it’s nerve wracking when you haven’t done it for a while. Like when you’re doing a new show. You got to oil the muscles again and get everything working again. You go through that couple of shows and you get your legs. I wouldn’t say I get nervous anymore.

It’s more than I get excited. I just love doing stand up. I can understand that. I always would get nervous before a big radio show, if we were doing a remote or a really big guest, there’d be nervous energy in the room. Even though you would do radio every single day and you know, I’d been in the career twenty five thirty years.

You still get that nervous energy. I hear you. He got an audition for Saturday Night Live. He bombed. At the time he thought it was a failure.

He now sees it at one of the best things that ever happened to him. He recalls, you feel like, oh no, what did I do? I bomb? But I’m so happy I did. I really am.

He’s currently working on Solo Mio, in which Kevin James plays a groom who got suited up at the altar in Italy and decides to go on his honeymoon alone. He says, these movies aren’t made anymore. There aren’t that many of them. I’m gonna bust my butt to make this thing. I do love those type of movies, and I haven’t done one in a long time.

Solo Mio sounds like it should be an Adam Sadlor movie. No, yes, boy, it’s like the article read my mind now who writes. One of james frequent collaborators is Adam Saylor, who he met decades ago. They didn’t become friendly until Kevin was on the King of Queen’s Saandlor had an office on the Sony lot they met. Kevin says, I just met him, hung out and talked and became really close.

Now he’s one of my best friends. Just the greatest guy in the world. I’m very happy to be part of that camp. I really am. Anytime he says, hey, I’m thinking of doing this, I say, I’m in.

I get it. Hey, I would be in an Adams movie. Now the movie would be terrible because it’s an Adams Sandler movie, but I would be in it. Sure. Will Kevin James make in appearance in Happy Gilmore too?

We can only hope, so, he says, I don’t know. We’ll see. We’re talking about it right now. We’re working on some other stuff and hopefully, yes, if it happens, I couldn’t tell you anyway, but I don’t know. Hey, you ever get five minutes into the second podcast of five you’re trying to record, and you hear your voice going already, yeah, trying to take a long weekend.

Paul Sheer was on Conan recently and told a story about who he picked as his best man at his wedding in two thousand and nine. The answer a Jack Nicholson. Impersonator, as Sheer tells the story in a Nicholson impression, I don’t have one of those. The Nicholson impersonator arrived to the wedding late and goes, hey, sorry, I’m late. I was at a party at Robyan Polanski’s house.

That was his opening line. The wedding venue was split with parents and older adults on one side, the couple’s friends on the other. Paul says, now our friends on the other side are having the best time, going, oh, this is insane, and the people the other side started going, I think he might know Jack Nicholson. This is hilarious. Want I hear this properly told?

It’s on Conan’s podcast Shere says the day of the wedding, he pulls me aside and goes, you have a teleprompter. I say a teleprompter. No, it’s a wedding. There is no teleprompter. He goes, I’m not really going to remember too much of the speech.

So the man started improvising. He starts devolving into things that aren’t even Jack Nicholson. Paul said, I didn’t know that I married the right person because when I brought that up to June she was like, yeah, you can have him, and that was a nice moment, very nice. Carlos Mencia spoke to Tucson dot com weird set up here. New York and Mayor Eric Adams recently suggested immigrants could help fill the city’s lifeguard shortage because they are excellent swimmers.

The response did not go over well. Carlos Smancia, though, said the joke has two sides to it. One side is whoa what’s he trying to say? On the other side is all my immigrant family saying no, He’s right, we are very good swimmers. One of his setups in his shows a spoiler in case you’re playing agin seeing Carlos Smancia a clap if you were not born in the country.

Then he waits people clap and he goes, how many of you are good swimmers? See, that’s why he likes the Eric Adams stuff. And you’ll see they all clap, And then I’ll find somebody wh speaks English with a really thick accent, and I’ll go, were you offended by this? And the cool thing is it’s not always somebody from Mexico. The other day guy from Lafia said, I’m from Lafia.

And I am an immigrant and I’m a great swimmer. That’s the beauty of what I’m talking about. My ability to take reactionary moments, moments that are like ay man, I’m not supposed to be like that, and talking about the humans it effects. Let us not be arbiters of what is offensive to other people. Two soun dot com writes, Mencia recently appeared at an LGBTQ plus event and watch comedian after comedian tell LGBTQ jokes.

When it was his turn, he asked the audience why it was okay to tell those jokes but not at his comedy club shows. Mincea said. Somebody said, because here, we know that they’re one of us, and I said, so I’m not one of you. Two sound dot com says the response was something of an epiphany for Mencia. Comedy cannot be contained in a bubble.

It has to be given license to put a mirror in all of society, not just segments of it. That’s where I am. Now. I’m free. You don’t have to go to latinos show, you don’t have to go in an urban show, you don’t have to go to a redneck show.

Come to my show. And it’s like all those shows put together. We’re gonna laugh at each other and ourselves, and that’s it. My intention is good. If you don’t understand that, then I don’t know what to say.

I’m a comedian. My intent is to make you as happy as humans possible doing what I do. JB. Smooth was on The Daily Show and talked about stand up comedy. He sees it as vital to survival because there’s no way in hell you could take the brunt of the real world every day without that filtration.

The move argues, the comedians are empaths. They have to read the room and adjust their sets accordingly. Good stuff there. Vulture recently profiled Zach Tuscannie Back in August of twenty two. Zach was performing a stand up show in Boulder, Colorado, when suddenly an audience member’s hyperactive dog began running laps around the house like it had been possessed.

At first it was a minor distraction, but then the dog came back with the remains of the rabbit had been chasing. You see, Zach to Scunni does dey shows an average house show, and by house show, I don’t mean you know what a comedian would normally call a house show this is a show at your house. Zach. He usually plays around forty to fifty people. He charges a flat fee eight hundred dollars for shows on weekdays, twelve hundred for shows on the weekend.

Some guests also give out his Venmo and encourage the guests to tip him. That can bring in an extra three to four hundred dollars. He did forty five house shows in twenty twenty eighty five and twenty three. Twenty five of those were rebookings from the previous year. Some of his fellow comedians have been like, no, that’s great, but then you have to hang out afterwards and talk to people, and yeah, most comedians don’t want to hang out with non comedians.

Comedians are a breed, They’re a particular breed. Zach says. It’s the better part of doing the whole thing. You feel like you’re actually connecting with people. There are times where going to the show, I’ll be like, I’m feeling kind of tired.

I’ll probably do my set, hang out for a little bit, and then dip. Then afterwards I’m like, they’re gonna have to kick me out. I do that all the time. I call it going rock star. The amount of times I would drag myself to go out after work planning to catch the seven thirty train and then actually catching the twelve thirty am train.

Yeah, and I’m not even a big drinker. I just get into the hang and the socialness of it. If you hang out with me, you’ve heard me say the phrase two beers not eight. Zach says I did one show in a suburb outside of Oakland. The people who booked me were like, we’re Palestinians.

So while the people here tonight are in the Palestinian community, I don’t think I would have had access to that if I was at a comedy club that show in particular, I was like, let me eat all this food. They were like, we’re going to dance after this. You want to dance? I was like, yes, let’s effing dance. One show, there was a couple who were like, hey would like to book you.

We just moved in together, we’re getting married. Is it gonna be wird if it’s just us? Kyle Knane asked to come to one. He comes to an apartment show with those two people. So he sits in a lazy boy chair behind the couple sitting on their couch while I’m standing in the kitchen doing comedy.

It was a blast. That’s really funny. A lot more to this article. It’s on Vulture. It was up there a couple of weeks ago, but search for let me give you his name correctly, Zach Tuscani, zak new word, Tosca and I.

That’s on Vulture. Definitely worth your read there. And that’s your comedy news for today. Keep it a little shorter on the holiday weekend. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it day mainly Coat two.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Do me a favor. If this is the first time you’re hearing this podcast, listen to any other episode. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, and this one’s for me. Sometimes they just need to talk to the audience.

You can hear my voice. So I went to see The Stones Thursday night, right, and again, if this is your first time with the show, this is totally self indulgent, go find a different episode. So I headed out to The Stones and bark the car and I was sitting there with my buddy Glenn, and we had gotten Chipotle and we’re eating our burritos and you know, nice enough night. And I take a selfie of us, go to send it to my wife. Worlds at Tamos tailgate and I see two miss calls, a voicemail and a text that says call me now.

That’s never good, right, And nope, it was not good. Just took another stomach punch, some more terrible news. But you know, we were at the show and there was nothing to be done. And I don’t have a time machine. So Glenn and I saw The Rolling Stones.

I’ll have it in substack on Monday, that’s my free newsletter where I talk about the media. So if you want to get a full review of the show, that’ll be in the sub stack. You can hear. I can’t even form a sentence today. I think they were really good.

It was one of those things where I was not good company. Glenn understood. But I’m sitting there and I’m half thinking about the phone call for my wife, and I’m half enjoying the Stones, and I’m like, you know, kind of out of it, and then like, oh wow, this sounds really good. I really like the song Miss You. But what this conversation gonna be when I get home.

So that’s where I am today. But I just want to tell you the Stones I think they were pretty good, but I’m not sure because I was out of it. The other thing affecting me today is Morgan Spurlock passed away. Now, I worked with Morgan, and I’m trying to explain the Morgan Spurlock I worked with circa I don’t know, twenty fifteen, sixteen seventeen, somewhere in that range. Yeah, somewhere in that range.

Was like a really cool, thoughtful guy. He passed away on Thursday in upstate New York complications from cancer. He was fifty three. I’m fifty four. We did a podcast with him.

It was a weekly news recap show, A really good idea. I think maybe we tried it a little too early in podcasting’s growth curve. It was a show that deserved a lot better. I don’t even know if it’s still up. Let me look, yeah, I don’t see it.

My old company may possibly have taken it down. Let me read from his obituary and variety. This is where it gets a little complicated. In December twenty seventeen, as the me too movement continued to gain traction, Spurlock wrote in a lengthy social media post saying he was part of the problem. In the post, he admitted to serial infidelities and said he had settled an allegation of sexual harassment from a former assistant.

He also said he had been accused of rape and college. The post effectively ended as Spurlock’s documentary career, as Spurlock stepped down from Warrior Poets shortly after. If I remember correctly, he stepped down at the Christmas party that year. Yeah, December twenty seventeen, he had a lengthy lunch with him on the other side of that, I don’t know what happened or didn’t happen. I can tell you he was quite remorseful about everything, and I found it would be a very thoughtful person.

Again, I don’t know what happened, and if something horrible happened, I’m not here to defend it. I’m just telling you at lunch, the guy I worked with found to be cool. I found’ll be thoughtful. But he canceled himself for a reason, So I don’t know. So all that’s kind of on my mind today.

Also, out of that podcast that I worked with Morgan on, That’s how I know Tim Dylan. He was one of the frequent collaborators on the show, and you know, at that time, I’m like, I don’t know who this guy is, and he would crush every time he came on. So, you know, I often think of Morgan when I think of Tim, and just when I heard this news on Friday, I was just absolutely stunned. All right, let me see if I can find my fastball here. I also, personally, I need a couple of days off.

It’s been quite a stretch. I’m hoping to take Memorial Day weekend and just sit on the deck and listen to music and play video games and gonna watch Dune and stuff. I need to turn my brain off for a couple of days. So my goal here is to immediately find my fastball and then record a bunch of these and give myself a couple of days off. So thank you for that self indulgence here in the first five minutes.

Again, if this is your first time listening, that’s not normally what you get here. Right. Let me see if I can find my upbeat delivery, because our top story today, all right, let me find it. In three to one Dave Chappelle and the News. He was performing at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week and as part of his set, he said, a genocide is striking the Gaza Strip, all right, So that’s going to make huge news.

As I record Friday around lunchtime, this story just starting to bubble up. Chappelle’s comments get complicated. Abu Dhabi has maintained its diplomatic relations with Israel, although it has increasingly criticized Israel’s conduct in the Seven month war.

Meanwhile, pro Palestinian marches have swept across the Middle East since th…

DJ Trauma played the song My Blood Is Palestinian by Palestinian singer Mohammed Asaf. Now, no footage of this show yet, as it was one of those the Yonder Pouch shows. Keep an eye on that one. All right, I need a laugh. I’m going totally out of sequence here.

Did you see what happened on Wheel of Fortune? Here? Listen to this, let’s do it. Our first toss up is worth one thousand dollars. Category is phrase and off and golf.

Tomorrow’s right in the butt? What no blake that says the best? Yeah, that’s that’s it, I think. Yeah, I’ve got to also late night with a couple of random jokes. Jimmy Fallon pointing out that it’s Fleet Week in New York City.

If you’re in Manhattan this weekend, you’ll see a lot of sailors. Usually sailors are in shape and look good in a uniform. I’m a straight mail but I understand why, you know, some people would be like, hey check that out. Fallon said, of course, Fleet Week kicked off here in New York City with the braid of ships, and it ends Tuesday when all the bartenders wave away flag. Fallon again.

He talked about there’s a new airline, bark air is for dogs. I talked about this on the other podcast I host five good news stories. The short version is dog Airline. Okay, you get the setup there. Fallon said, the flights take a little longer because the plane has to do three circles before it lands.

New topic, Colbert talking about a Trump aid task with printing out copies of flattering articles for Trump. Colbert said, when she really needs his attention, she prints those on a slice of baloney. N silly joke. Another silly joke from Colbert unified Reich is the most fascist presidential ad since Dwight Eisenhower’s. I like Reich, just a silly joke, joke.

I love joke jokes. The New York Times as an article on what comedy specials you should watch this weekend, and I figure I better do this one today. Right is by Jason Zinnemann. I respect his work a lot. He recommends Nicky Glazers, Someday You’ll die.

I didn’t feel it at all. I understand that’s an unpopular opinion, but didn’t feel it at all. Nathan McIntosh on his list Down with Tech. I’m not familiar with this one. Let’s see Down with Tech.

Self produced focuses Nathan’s populist fury on the tech oligarchs with how much are attention we’ve conceded to their whims? All right, I’ll try and file that in the back of my mind. I don’t know how much comedy I’m in the mood for this weekend. I really think I need to watch like Dune. It just turned my brain off totally.

Part of it is if I start watching comedy special, I start mentally hosting the show again, and like I said, I just need I need a little break, need a little break. Rachel Feinstein’s Big Guy. I forgot that even came out here in this busy week that’s on Netflix. I want to check that out. Neil Brennan’s Crazy good, solid recommendation there.

He’s another one off the beaten path, Ian Abramson’s The Heist. This one on YouTube. Jason writes, if you’re a comedy fan with an experimental bent, give this Giddaly oddball performer a shot. He begins with a cinematic high scene and ends with a wild lark of a closure that no one will see coming sounds fun. All right, let me take the break here.

This was all new. I threw out the first half of what was originally Saturday. I’ll chop into pieces and I’ll use it over the course of the weekend. And the second half you’ll hear my normal delivery because I recorded a couple of days ago. Now, if you were listening last Sunday, you heard me say that, oh, I have a ton of leftovers.

Maybe I will record a Memorial Day weekend. That’s this part here. The Columbus Underground caught up with Bill Burr and they said, a few years ago Rolling Stone had you as seventeenth on their list of best stand up comedians of all time. You’re in the same tier as Bill Hicks, Robin Williams, and Andy Kaufman. Thoughts persaid, you know, it’s funny, bug me when I was left off it early on, or if there was someone I thought wasn’t as good, just mentioned I wasn’t, and then I just kind of realized somewhere along the line that I get this business to be on a list.

So much of it was also if you had a hot career at the moment, or if you didn’t, or who you knew all that stuff, just like the awards show, the effort, the promotion, the schmoozing, ah, the stuff you have to do just to get friggin nominated. I mean, it’s Washington, d C. It’s the same thing, like you’re running for office. I don’t pay too much attention to it, you know. It’s like, look at that the list of top drummers and musicians, something I don’t do, so I can have fund debates of like, dude, how can you put this drummer ahead of that drummer.

I don’t want to look at a list of something I’m doing because there always only somebody off it I feel strongly about. But the worst is it’s just kind of a lazy list. If who’s selling the most tickets and stuff. To be honest with you, that’s how I made it on those lists, certainly because of my looks. Eventually you start selling tickets, someone goes, well, this guy’s selling tickets, he’ll bring eyeballs or he’ll sell magazines.

By the way, this is not meant to be a bilber impression. It’s more of a vibe. Once you finally make it a list, then you gotta wonder how much of what’s on there is true the fact because you know I played Madison Square Garden. If I did the exact same thing but only did it at Funnybone Clubs, why don’t you even make the list that if I do? Where am I in a list?

I mean, it’s nice to be mentioned, but it’s not something I hang my hat on or really start believing, like, Wow, I guess I’m on eleventh of all time or whatever the hell I have. That’s hilarious. If you look at the people who are actually the reason the R form exists, there’s about thirty people right there. I feel like you have to tell of like an Eddie Murphy or something like that. Maybe I don’t know, but you look, I think wherever I am on those lists?

Because it’s twenty twenty four and I’m selling these tickets right now. Let’s say twenty years from now, when I’m a senior sists and nobody gives a hoot about me, if I’m still making a list, and I’d be like, yeah, that’s pretty good. That’s all right. Let’s see, since it is a holiday weekend, let’s see if the list is around. By the way, someday I’m going to get the flu or something I have had for two three years.

There’s a couple safety episodes sitting on the back end in case I just can’t speak or I’ve deep dove into these lists. They’re gonna be pretty moldy by the time it actually runs. All right, I think this is the list, and I’m not sure when they made the list, but the list is something like this. Number one Richard Pryor to Carlin, three, Lenny Bruce four, Woody Allen, five, Chris Rock, Steve Martin, Rodney Cosby, Roseanne at nine, Come on stop Eddie Murphy, who again, I’m from the eighties. Love Eddie, But the more I pay attention, it’s just a Richard Pryor cover band top to bottom.

Now, if you’re my age, we loved him. But it’s a Richard Pryor cover album. So I don’t know. I gotta move Eddy way down the list in these days. Carson Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Bob Newhart, Letterman, Ellen Rickles, Jonathan Winter’s Hicks, Canison, Dennis Miller, Klein, Stephen Wright, Red Fox, Bob Hoe Open, twenty five, ver Mono, Leno, Jack, Benny Milton Burrole, Gary Shalaling, I’m just trying to get to Bill Burr.

But maybe this list might be from like two thousand and four, George Burns, Albert Brooks, Handy Kaulfman, but He Hankett, Phillistiller, Jim Carrey, Martin, Lawrence, Bill Maher, Billy Crystal, mort Sahl, John Stewart, Flip Wilson. I mean John Stewart’s great but best stand ups of all time John Stewart, number forty one, and number forty three is Dave Chappelle. Now, clearly, if you made that list today, there’s no way that that’s the rankings right, No way. And number forty six is Adam Sandler, so obviously the list is complete garbage. Sebastian Man of scalco I was talking about AI in comedy, said I don’t know how it’s gonna affect stand up comedy.

Guess I really haven’t seen that yet. I haven’t really been on the pulse of things going oh wow. I mean my wife used it to redesign our kitchen, what our kitchen might look like if we remodeled it, which is cool to see. He said. He thinks live entertainment will always be around, but who knows.

Twenty years from now, I might be talking to Union, might be going, wow, you never saw AI coming, and I’d be like, yeah, now I’m unemployed. Look, you’re always gonna want to see the actual performer again. And I would to see The Rolling Stones a few days ago, and I have Rolling Stones DVDs. It’s not the same. You want to be there, you’d be part of it.

Can a AI write some stuff? Sure? It can write some stuff. Can it AI voice some stuff? I use AI to revoice a couple of my stumbles three four times a week, including this phrase right here.

If I said welcome to the month of July and I meant to say June, I can replace the July with June and you won’t notice, and I won’t notice, and I’m me. But if I start to use a lot of AI, it falls apart. But that’s as bad as the AI is ever going to get. So it should be pretty interesting as we head forward. And that’s your comedy news for today.

Enjoy the holiday weekend. I’ll have episodes for you all through the weekend and meet you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I need you guys straight. When I have nothing today, I’ve got stuff. And the weekend’s pretty good too, So you know, Memorial Day weekend. I get it.

Not everybody listens, but don’t blow off the episodes. They gotta have nothing because they’re actually pretty good. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Stephen Colbert with a pretty good joke. Earlier this week, Trump’s social media account put out a bit of disturbing content. It was a campaign video with a headline about a unified Reich.

Now, before you get two worked up, there’s a simple explanation. Donald Trump wants to rule over a unified Reich. I love that joke because of the simplicity. Let me digress here. I’m actually saving this as a real topic for a Monday, but I just shared in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group Joe Cooy trailer and dude, can you go more than two words without an F bomb?

We’ll start a discussion in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group about working clean. And I’m not saying you have to work clean, but I am saying don’t work dirty for no reason. And if you play that Joe Cooy trailer, you’ll hear what I’m talking about. We’ll do that on Monday. Shane Gillis throughout the first pitch at the Philadelphia Phillies game on Wednesday, Shane said, I’m trying not to be like fifty cent.

If you’ve ever seen it, fifty cent had one of the worst ceremonial first pitches of all time. I got one day of practice in I was at the University of Texas. I got to throw from the mound a little. NBC’s John Clark asked Shane Gillis how he felt leading up to the first pitch. Let’s listen, you perform in front of a lot of people.

Yeah, Like, is that nerve racking or resists? This is way more nerve wrecked. This. It’s a test, my man. With that, I’m certain I’m gonna fail.

You’re gonna be fine. How cool is this? It’s awesome. This is a cool team. I’m happy to hopefully not ambaniss myself.

Good luck. Shane Gillis, a south paw from Pennsylvania, threw a strike. Congratulations OutKick saw that new Shane Gillis show tires on Netflix. I’m looking forward to it. But last night I went to see The Rolling Stones.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are eighty, by the way, which is encouraging. I could host this thing another twenty five years. I saw my buddy Sal yesterday and he was asking me where do you record from? You go to a studio, and I’m like, no, basement. USB Mike straight in too my MacBook and he’s like, that’s what I thought.

Sounds good. Well, thank you, Sal, But yeah, I’m in my basement. I digress all right. OutKick talking about Tires. The headline from OutKick, Shane Gillis’s new comedy series is a massive middle finger to wokeness.

They write in a non spoilery way, what I can say is that Tires couldn’t care less about what should shouldn’t be allowed to be joked about. The premiere episode includes jokes about I gotta clean this up, favors that you might do for somebody you really like. You know what I’m saying, nutche nudge wink wink, say no more the results you get from such a favor nudge nudge wink only fans where you know, as you know, sometimes I lock myself in the basement and I watch some comedy from Natasha la Giro. I don’t know what you think I’m doing down here, reliving the high school football glory days, Oude Hussein lying about hooking up with women and being an idiot. Where else can you find a show with jokes about sex and the deceased son of Saddam Hussein.

That’s a good question. And it’s a pure R rated comedy and exactly what Shing Gills fans have come to expect from him. It’s absolutely everything the anti comedy woke mob hates? Is there actually an anti comedy woke mob? Does that actually exist?

Where? Is just like we just write articles about it and I talk about it every day, and Chappelle does twenty minutes about it, and Gervaise sweets about it, and everybody writes articles about everyone’s being canceled while Luis c. K plays Madison Square Garden. Is there an anti woke well? I haven’t seen it.

The jokes are so edgy at times that you might even feel a little uncomfortable, and I loved every second of it. The entire premise is a middle finger to people who want to sanitize comedy Again, are those those people. Or maybe it’s me because I don’t want JOKOI to try f bomps. Maybe I’m the anti woke mob. Wow, I just had a self awakening.

Tires also includes appearances from Stavros Halkias and Andrew Schultz. Schultz’s character immediately gets hit with pejoratives as soon as he’s introduced again. The show is edgy as hell and I love it.

Speaking of Andrew, Schultze just performed at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week.

The National News said comedian doesn’t hold back and uae return. They tell us it’s rare for a comedy show to leave you tearing up with emotion. But that’s exactly what happened when I saw Andrew Schultz at Eddie Hot Arena on Tuesday. Who’s a return to the area. Apparently Andrew had played there in October as part of the UFC Showdown Week.

The writer says, back then was the first time I’d heard of Schultz. Curious to know who this American comedian was that had sold out Eddie Hot Arena. It came across a short clip he uploaded on his YouTube channel. I instantly became a fan. After all, who wouldn’t be impressed by someone from the US learning and joking about an Arabic slang used to describe teenagers who hang around malls and groups.

The writer then shares that he or she went to see Andrew in Boston and then added, I was surprised to see the same opening acts I’d watched in the US comedians Derek posted Mark Gagnon, who took the stage and warned up the crowd while they were both entertaining. I had already seen them perform the same jokes a few months previously, making me worry that Schultz might do the same. You see somebody in Boston and the Abu Dhabi Comedy Week and you get the same material. I don’t think he could be like, what, how could we not do it a fresh set? Yeah, if you’re not going to play your hits at the Abu Dhabi Comedy Week, I don’t know when you’re going to This is not the seller good news.

The writer says, I was relieved to learn that wouldn’t be the case. As he stepped down on the stage with a thin bamboo stick, or as he joked, his comicky stick, I hope I pronounced that right. That is the aforementioned that slang word about teens in malls something to defend himself from these teens in malls and keep them at bay. And the two times I’ve now seen him live, I’m continually impressed just how good he is at what he does. And he personalized his sets based on what city he’s in.

He is a seamless way of knocking out jokes in such a natural way they’d already think he was quite familiar with the region. That’s cool, while we’re in the weeds here. While most of his jokes were hits, I did have to turn up my partner at one point to see if he understood a quip about UAE beating Saudi Arabian football, as there seemed to be some confusion, even with Schultz seemingly asked the crowd if that was true. My partner clarified that he thought it was a reference to Al Anine beating Alan Nassar in the AFC Champions League a couple months ago. That’s deep, Andrew, that’s deep.

Jen Marco Cireesi, his star is rising. Picks eleven New York City are aware of who he is now. They had him on They tell us recently, John Marco dropped a series of semi not safe for work announcements for the third leg of his Leaning into Our, which features John Marco in various states of censored undress with a winking, off kilter approachability. It’s this charming blend of self awareness and on assuming male energy that have made Seresi something of an internet heart throb for countless scores of straight women and gay men. I wasn’t aware of any of that.

I’m neither of those, and I’m a fan those star has been on the rise for some time. The leading and tour has coincided with some recent major industry attention for the host of The Downside with John Marcos Ressi podcast. He says, I was always funny leading. I always enjoyed comedy, and I probably thrived more in comedic roles than dramatic roles, even though deep down I always wanted to be like Daniel da Lewis, he says with a wink. But then after several years in New York and not getting that much work and struggling, I finally wrote a play for myself and it just lent itself to being comedic.

I got very addicted to the feedback loop of stand up comedy and stand up comedy, I immediately get to find out if something is good or bad or how to make it better, and it just sucked me. In Pixe eleven says, among John Marco’s strongest comedic attributes is the loose and cutting but kind way the comedian navigates awkward situations that can evitably arise at a comedy show full of drinking adults. Earlier this year, he was performing at a drag bar in Ohio doing some Trump material. A guest in the front row let her support be known. John Marco said, there’s no way you’re in the front row of a drag show and voting for Trump.

I don’t think it’s my job to take a poll before the show. Is there anyone in the audience who’s Republican? But you got to ignore, especially seeing as how drag queens have become the focal point for conservatives to try and use hysteriot inside homophobia, et cetera. Anyway, I could not talk about it, so I challenged her on it, and I said, how can you beat a drag show when the people you’re voting for would in their fantasies ban this from happening. All right, I have an on the fly update.

That first half was pretty good. I bumped two stories to Monday, and now I can tell you Monday is also pretty good. So listen all weekend solid episodes all the way through huzzah. Following up on yesterday, I was doing a Taylor Swift rant that yeah, I do listen back in the car every day on my way to the National Donute Chain. And as I listened back to Thursday’s episode that first segment where was talking about Nikki Glaser, I didn’t like it.

I didn’t nail it. I’d like to do that one again. Just didn’t nail it. Heather jumped in on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, not knowing that I didn’t like the segment, but I didn’t like the segment, and Heather wrote, friendly neighborhood Swifty here just wanted to say that Nikki Glaser brought up Taylor Swift. She wrote, do not insert Joe Coy joke.

Okay, because on Taylor’s new album she has thank You Amy, and she reminds us that the spelling on thank You Amy has a capital K a capital I and a capital M and the rest in lower cases, and Kim spells Kim. She has a song on the new album that people think is about Kim and reignited the Kim K hate. I think that was Nicky’s first thought when Kim K got booted the Brady Roast, but then she remembered that this family sucks in general in most people’s opinions. Fun fact, Nicky’s body shaming comments about Taylor were used in the Miss Americana documentary, which Nicky has since apologized for. Appreciate the note there.

I do like Taylor Swift, by the way. I just I like the bit more than I like Taylor Swift. When I saw Taylor last year, that was the best concert. I think. I’ve talked about this in the past, and I’ll let you know how the Rolling Stones were last night.

But when I left Taylor, and I’m a big Springsteen fan, I said, Okay, Bruce, you and the guys are going to stand at one end of the arena and play guitars for two and a half hours. I’m no longer impressed. Heather also to post with hashtag Bob’s Burgers fans Unite Well. Ellen is a Bob’s Burgers fan. Now I’m hoping the Bobsburgers fans unite and maybe, you know, if people run with the gag enough, maybe they’ll make like a fan film, or maybe they’ll like actually produce an episode of Bob’s Burgers from all this merch, and then we could all laugh at the joke that the show was real for the last fourteen years.

We’ll see Ellen wants to buy me a coffee dot com thank you, Ellen, and bought me three ice coffees. You can hear one right here. I’m gonna keep doing this because i haven’t done this in a while. And she wrote in the words of the why David Letterman, if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatever. She adds, I believe that applies to Johnny Mack as well.

I’m not offended anytime anyone wants to compare me in any way to David Letterman. Great compliment accepted. Thank you, Ellen. Hope you’re enjoying Bob’s Burgers. Oh my brain is fried here.

So I’m looking at the next story. It is from people and it says Richards tells people, And I’m like, do I have a Keith Richards from Merlingstones. Do I have a Keith Richards story in here? Oh no, no, No, it’s Michael Richards. He was Creamer on Seinfeld, still talking about that infamous night where he lost that on stage.

He said, I was immediately sorry the moment I said it on stage. I’m not looking for a comeback. My anger was all over the place and it came through hard and fast. Anger is quite a force, but it happened. Rather than run from it, I dove to the deep end and try to learn from it.

Hasn’t been that easy. Crisis managers wanted me to do damage control, but as far as I was concerned, the damage was inside of me. He says he has spent the past seventeen years in deep analysis. It was time to figure out where all the anger was coming from. Part of it came down for him, his own insecurities.

Somehow I couldn’t connect to the joy of being an artist. I was a good character actor, but I was comfortable being the character, not in being me. I said no to the offer of a store in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I didn’t feel deserving. I said no to hosting SNL twice because I didn’t feel good enough.

I never really felt satisfied with my Seinfeld performance. Fame magnified my insecurities. As for the infamous night in two thousand and six, he says, I’m not racist. I’m nothing against black people. The man who told me I wasn’t funny had just said what I’d been saying to myself for a while.

Felt put down. I wanted to put him down. The Veil Comedy Festival back this weekend, kicks off tonight. Jenny Zigrino Is you’re a headliner. You’ll find her at the Gambit Bar tonight at seven thirty.

She says, I feel like every time we do comedy in Colorado, I have an amazing time. Last year I was at the High Planes Festival in Denver. It was so great hang out with my peers from all over the country. My favorite memory from doing a festival like this is the crappy diner food you have the next morning after the closing party. I love seeing friends I haven’t seen at a long time at festivals, discovering new comedians that are hitting the scene.

My favorite part of festivals crazy after parties. I like to go back to the hotel and sleep and just knowing the funniest people in the world are on the same show as you. It’s the craziest thing that has ever happened to you at a comedy show. She says. One time I asked Blake Griffin for his phone number.

Blake Griffin, the NBA player, best known, I think for his time on the Clippers, the La Clippers. He gave it to me. I don’t know if it was real or not. Comedian Mark Masters is the organizer of the Veil Comedy Festival, and he said, you can go to comedy festivals where you’re going to a theater and you’re watching with five hundred or thousand people. You’re watching most of our shows with less than one hundred people.

And after the show you go into any of the great restaurants in and around Veil Village and the comedians who just saw on stage or sitting right next to you. Boy, imagine if Patton I was what was there eating a hot dog and that would be some scene. It’s very common for me to hear stories about guests buying beers for comics. I’m thinking, what’s the term. There’s a term.

I can’t think of it. For female fans of comedy who sometimes buy a beer for comedians. Sounds like it might be an opportunity to buy a beer for comedian this weekend. There’s a term. I can’t think of it right now.

Comedian Monroe Martin is originally from Philadelphia, is in New York City. He will also be headlining the Veil Comedy Festival. Mark Masters was asked how does he pick it comes to the festival. There’s a whole committee that scores their submission tapes. It’s a complicated process.

And I don’t choose the comedians. Those comedians get scored by a group of industry professionals and selected through a screening process. I’ll chime in. I assume part of the screening process is cost Like, let’s go to the Johnny Mac Comedy Festival. I’m gonna have Chappelle, Seinfeld, Malaney and affagain at Bill Burr and Seane gillis pretty cool festival.

I can’t afford to book it. And that is your comedy news for today. Oh and look at the clock. This was not a short episode today and I bumped another story. So we’ll have robust stuff all weekend.

Uh. You know, if you’re taking the weekend off and bring your podcast app with you or catch up on Tuesday. I’m cool with that. Have a great weekend, see you tomorrow.