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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News that Tom Brady Rose still making news. Nikki Glaser is still making news, but not for her new special There’s no buzz on that one. Apparently Nicki, who was out promoting her special, which there’s no buzz on, was on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast. She explained that she ran into someone at the comedy store in West Hollywood after the roast of Tom Brady and they were with some quote wild guy who’s a comedian with a quote reputation for just like starting stuff.

Nicki told the podcast. Apparently he started the boo is just like a joke. He just had too many drinks or something, and he’s not affiliated with Swifties or anything, and just felt like saying a boo into the air. And apparently everybody was so riled up it just kind of caught win. But it wasn’t swifty meditated.

Okay, all right, relaxed. None of us thought it was swiftly meditated, none of us. Did. I do have that on good information that it was not based on that, because I was like, this doesn’t feel like a huge swifty crowd you’re gonna make me break out the Joe quoy if you mentioned Taylor Swift again. No one was thinking this is about Taylor Swift.

No one mentioned that fifteen days now. Stop because I was like, this doesn’t feel like a huge Swifty crowd. But it didn’t feel like there was a vibe in the room. The guy started it as a joke. He caught on too much, but I was so glad to learn it was not Swifty meditated.

I’m gonna have to do it. Scott Beckett’s having a nice day, and you’re gonna make me play the clip. Stop mentioning Taylor. Nicky said it’s not just Swifties who have beef, and she said many people are stuck on the belief that Kim and the rest of the family are not talented and famous for nothing. I don’t want to hear that anymore, that they’re not talented.

They clearly are. They’ve achieved something consistently for twenty years now. They’re talented. It just doesn’t look like the talent you define. NICKI was on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast.

By the way, of all the comedy shows I ever did back at Serious XM, that was the only one we walked out of Scott Ackerman wasn’t good. Sorry, Buddy Popular, it wasn’t good. Johnny is throwing heat today. Yeah, and I’m in a good mood too. I told the comedy Bang Bang there was some message I got that they’re going to do a bunch of these greatest roast of all time with hopefully Serena Williams and Lebron James and Tiger Woods, like it’s gonna be a new thing and Tom Brady’s gonna kind of run it.

That ain’t gonna happen. None of that’s gonna happen. None of that. Glazer revealed that Tom Brady was kept away from all the comedians prior to the show. I got over at Scott Beckett.

I’m not gonna play the clip your luck today, No clip today. John Stewart commented on everyone coming after Jerry Seinfeld last week. Stewart said, look, Jerry Seinfeld took more crap over the past two weeks promoting a pop tart movie than Harrison Butker did for his entire speech and ask you people, what’s the deal of that? He did not do a Seinfeld impression there. I legitimately would like to know why he’s taking so much crap about everything from everybody?

And who are these people? Shane Gillis was scheduled to throw out the first pitch at last night’s Phillies game. His new series Tires premieres today on Netflix. In Tires, Will, played by Stephen gre Urban, is the nervous and unqualified air to an auto repair chain, and Will attempts to turn his father’s business around despite constant torture from his cousin In now employee Shane Shane is played by Shane Gillis. Did you need my help with that one?

Netflix has already renewed it for season two. Kevin Hart postponed some shows in Jackson, Mississippi, this weekend. Those performances will now be on September twenty second. The reason for the postponement was not released. However, the Clarion Ledger did some good sleuthing.

They say that ESPN announced that Kevin Hart would be doing his NBA Unplugged with Kevin Hart showed during the NBA Conference Finals, which do overlap with the now postponed dates, and I did warn you over the weekend, no twenty minute episodes this week. There’s not much going on, as evidenced by Patton Oswalt raves about Grand Rapids Coney Dog Joint. Sure, why not, there’s Patton Oswalt. He’s in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He tweeted, damn good dogs.

The post was met with hundreds of likes and comments from locals excited to see Patton Oswalt having a grand Rabpit’s Coney Cony co owner Connor Malloy told em Live the Patten heard about the local hot dogs shop after shopping for comic books at Vaults of Midnights. Patten was also spotted at Doctor Grinn’s Comedy Club ahead of Dan Soder’s show. Coney owner Malloy said he went down there earlier in the day and the workers were talking to him kind of suggesting places to eat, and they asked him do you like hot dogs? And he was like, oh, I love hot dogs. So they messaged us that he might come in dd that like, I mean, Patton Woswald is you know this isn’t Tom Cruise showing up the hot dogs Dad?

Are people like, oh my god, Patton Oswalt’s down south. Let’s go get the car. Let’s guy, let’s got light? Like all right, Patton Oswalt’s getting a hot dog. That’s not gonna draw a big crowd, is it?

Em Lone tells us. While Patton Oswalt ate his late lunch, many locals driving and walking by did a double take, surprised to see a celebrity basketing in the sun and showing a hot dog right there on Fulton Street. Coney owner mala He said, I talked to him briefly out there, and he was definitely getting a lot of attention walking around, which was awesome. I didn’t have the guts to ask him for a photo, so it was cool that he took a photo and posted it. Excuse me, mister Oswalt, would be okay if I took a picture of you eating a hot dog?

What is going on? It’s Paton Oswalt. I’d punching today. Oh there’s more. Oswalt spent time chatting up Malloy, who told him that he and his wife Olivia, took over One Stop Cony in twenty twenty from its founders you remember Leslie and Brian Ustille.

The place sure. Malloy was a former employee of the Hot Dog Joint, which originally opened in two thousand and nine. You know I’m surprised it took me this long. Now, I’m a menu curious as I tend to get. John has it a slow news day?

No, why why do you think that?

All right, here’s one stopcony dot com hours Monday to Friday, eleven to seven.

Saturday only noon to four is Saturday. Not a big hot dog day. Sunday not open at all. All right. A Detroit dog will cost you three point fifty.

That comes with Detroit style chili mustard and onions. You can get a flint with Flint style chili mustard onions for three seventy five. Chicago dog will go four to seventy five. Plain two seventy five. A bacon ranch ripped dog, which is a bacon wrapped deep fried dog, cheddar, cheese, lettuce, tomato, ranch dressing, four seventy five.

New item hot pepper deep fried dog, hot peppers, sour kraut, pepper, jack, cheese, tomato, spicy mao four seventy five. You know you can make these things. A combo fries and a drink’ll run these things up to six twenty five. You get a classic corn dog for four seventy five. But here’s what’s weird.

The middle of the menu highlighted in yellow, the rest of the menu is white. Is promoting burgers and sandwiches. What kind of hot dog place is this? Cheeseburger six fifty. I’m not coming to your hot dog place for cheeseburger anyway.

Paton finishes food left for his show. Bob Sagett would have been sixty eight years old. John Mayer expressed his ongoing grief on social media. John post that I miss you the most when I’m exhausted and I just want to talk to my friend. I missed you when this magician was performing at this party I was at and it was just a okay, and I knew you’d have interjected with insanely funny one liners even if I couldn’t imagine what you would have said.

Loss may be out of our control, but remembrance is our active defiance, and we will never forget you. Love you, Bob, Happy birthday. Comedian Moe Welch announced that her stand up special slash documentary Hybrid Dad Jokes will premiere on the YouTube eight hundred pound Gerrilla channel June fourteenth. Filmed at the Lodge Room in a Highland Park and all over Illinois. Welch’s debut special follows her.

She explains her lifelong obsession with dad jokes as way to process the aftermath of her own father’s abandonment. Welsh travels to Illinois in search of her father why, acerbically unpacking his absence in her life and what that has meant for her comedy and her journey as a new mother. CNN is in on this whole Bob’s Burger’s host. They post an article this long running sitcom wink wing nuts, nudge sure Jan has only gotten better thanks to its writers taking big leaps, CNN tells us fourteen seasons later, although no one has ever seen the show and no one has ever met anyone who’s seen the show, the Belchers are still messy and sticky, for their hearts will soften because the writers speaking for them have grown protective of the fictional family. Bob’s Burgers, whose writers place equal value on warm family moments and bodily humor, shines brightest when it’s focusing on the small moments from a family dinner to a poetry meeting, and if it hurts a little along the way, then it’s not too far moved from life Bob’s Burgers.

No one’s ever seen it. It’s very strange. Can you feel the holiday weekend coming? I can feel it. I’ve got some stuff I’m rationing.

I could tell you about Jim Jeffreys heckling people, but then we want I talk about all weekend. You know what I’m saying. I gotta do this seven days a week. Sometimes it’s a slow news week, being honest with you. Thank you all for listening.

This is a lot of fun to do every day. I enjoyed the back and forth of the Facebook group. It has been increasingly lively and it’s a lot of fun and over there we kind of drop our guard and have some fun with the jokes. We’ve got a nice community to go in here. I appreciate you all.

Thank you so much for listening. See you tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark Media, Yellow Jenny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Two good ones from Late Night, Jimmy Kimmel talking about Trump demanding Biden take a drug test before the debates. What are they gonna do? Test them for? Sasprilla?

Love it, Colbert, They really wanted to delay the debate, waiting for two old men to pee. John Stewart told a story about when his old talk show was canceled, not the Daily Show. Remember he had one in New York, was on Channel eleven. Nobody watched it. Stuart said, we were all very sad, and when your name is on it and they tell you to get out of the building, it’s very hurtful.

But David Letterman had some advice for the then up and comer. On the final show. Letterman said to me, don’t confuse cancelation with failure. And I thought that was a really interesting and then in the commercial break he said, although this is also a failure. Hey, Dave had a failed daytime talk show.

I wish the clips of that would surface. I think I saw it once back in nineteen eighty two. Must be somewhere somebody showed those. I mad at myself. I had this story yesterday.

I remember a slow news story day when I kind of checked and jive for twelve minutes. I had this one, and I forgot to actually do it. Nikki Glaser has been ripping on Ben Affleck for Ben’s terrible appearance at the Netflix Tom Brady Roast. She told the barstool folks, I haven’t watched it again like how it looks, because I don’t like to watch people bomb. He didn’t prepare.

He’s someone who’s famous enough he probably thinks it’s beneath him to do it, Like I’m just gonna do a favorite. It’s not gonna be that big a deal.

And then you do it and you go, oh, this is way bigger than I thought it was g…

I’m just kind of phoning it in. He probably had a picture the writers probably like maybe I’d do an angle or a man about tweets, because that’s his thing. Affleck said live on stage, I don’t think I’ll ever get this chance again. I’m probably never gonna work again. Actually, after tonight, you guys out there talking crap all night behind your keyboard.

That doesn’t make you a fan, That makes you a B word, Glazer said, there were so many jokes that didn’t get used that could have filled up an entire set of his that would have been amazing. But either they couldn’t get him on the phone enough to work something out where he didn’t practice enough, or he just picked a bad premise and then he had to stick to it the whole time. It didn’t work right, so it’s not gonna work later. If you joke bombs, you’re onto the next one. That’s probably what he should have done.

A couple specials were announced. Netflix is set the premiere for Keith Robinson in Different Strokes Tuesday, June eleventh. One hour special, Robinson will share raw personal stories from the aftermath of two life altering strokes, one in twenty sixteen one in twenty twenty, as well as insight into his recovery and the challenges he’s faced while navigating his new disabilities. In his statement, he said coming up with the title Different Strokes was a stroke of genius, stupidity mixed with perseverance. I love making this special and thanks to all who helped make it happen.

It is his second special for Netflix. Apparently, he had one in twenty fourteen called Kevin Hart Presents Keith Robinson. Sal Volcano will put one out on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla channel on YouTube eight Pacific on May thirty first. I think May thirty first is next Friday, eight am. Release on a Friday in summer.

Not sure anyone thought that out. Release it on a Tuesday, dude. We are told it’s unclear what he discusses in the special a mystery, but it is said to offer a fresh perspective on his hysterical real life experiences. Filmed at the VIC Theater in Chicago. Great theater.

It’s executive produced by Ari Shaffir. That’s cool. It’s for the launchtime and the we’re not telling you what it’s about. Not sure this pr strategy has been thought through, but we’ll see. Steve Carell, he’s doing a new show.

I have some thoughts about this. At the back end, the eleven time Emmy Award nominee is set to star in and executive produce a new comedy series ordered by HBO. Bill Lawrence is attached to this. You know Bill Lawrence from Scrubs and some other stuff. Ted Lasso, Yeah that was pretty popular, so great pedigree there.

Bill Lawrence says, HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV. Getting to do a show there with Steve Corell is an immediate career highlight. Nothing can go wrong now. A suit gave a quote the combination of Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence promises to be full of great laughs, warmth, and charm. We’re thrilled to be the home for this long overdue collaboration.

I was working on something here at the podcast company and someone drafted a press release and there was a placeholder quote attributed to me, and I’m like, I’m not quote unquote saying that I will get destroyed in the media. So I crossed it out and they gave me a couple of days to come up with it in my own quote, and I couldn’t come up with anything that didn’t sound like me going, you know, the combination of Steve Carell and Bill Horn’s promises to be full of great li Like, I just didn’t want to sound like that, And you can’t give a quip quote in my normal style, like I can’t say. John McDermott said, yeah, sounds cool, Like you can’t put that at press lease. So I just said, how about I’m not in the press release at all. So that’s why we went with Steve Carell, best known for being the lead in the Netflix comedy series Space Force.

He also briefly appeared as Michael Scott in something called The Office. Hey, Steve, let me give you some advice here. You’re looking to star in a sitcom, presumably so that people can laugh and you make a lot of money. Right, that seems to be the idea. Here’s an idea.

It’s called the Office reboot. How about it? Michael Scott moves back from Denver, moves back to Scranton because reasons, paper company reasons. I’m sure that would do well. Why are we messing around?

Little controversy SNL being accused once again of stealing an idea On the most recent episode, Jake Gillenhall and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter starretist Fred and Daphne from Scooby Doo. Sarah Sherman and Mikey Day played Velma and Shaggy. In the sketch spoilers, the shadow Phantom is revealed to be a bitter old man played by James Austin Johnson, so Fred rips his mask off. We’ve all seen that bit. Then he rips off a second mask.

But it’s not a second mask, it’s the guy’s actual face. Some Internet sleuths pointed out this is very similar to a twenty sixteen Nerdist comedy short called Scooby Don’t, which found the Scooby Doo gang reducing a villain’s face to a bloody mess. The director of Scooby Don’t, Andrew Bowser, pointed out the similarities on social media, suggest Daden he had directed this sketch seven years ago. Got a really strange note in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I don’t know what to make of it, Ellen wrote, I’ve been listening to DC every day for about a year.

Decided to join the group. What that’s awesome, Ellen, We welcome you. We’re glad you’re here, Thank you for listening. Truly appreciate you listening every day. I decided to join the group solely based on the Bob’s Burgers focus on today’s show.

Oh that’s good, because you know I am very outspoken about the Bob’s Burgers hoax. Again, if you’re a new listener, two questions. Have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? Know? Have you ever met anyone who has seeing Bob’s Burgers.

The answer is also know it’s weird. I don’t know what the hoax is about. It’s probably like a four Chan kind of thing. I don’t get it that Ellen wrote I’ve watched every episode with my family. I know people who watch.

I have attended a table read with the cast. Hmm what. I don’t know what to make of this. I mean, Ellen seems pretty cool. Appreciate Ellen listening every day for about a year and taking the time to write in.

But I mean, I don’t know what to say. I’ve never met or heard of anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers. And Ellen is saying that Ellen has seen Bob’s Burgers. I mean, I’ve seen the video of Bigfoot, pictures of Lockness Monster. It could be that kind of thing.

I’m not sure. Ellen writes give it a shot, Signed a super fan from Fargo. Well, I appreciate you joining the group. Uh you know, if you ask me, this sounds like the work of Kristin Shawl. I know Kristin a little bit.

We did some stuff together back. It’s serious and you know she’s a jokester. I bet Ellen is really Kristen but you know, if anybody out there has seen this Bob’s Burger’s show, which again you haven’t, but if you think you have, join the Facebook group. It’s Steely Comedy News podcast Group. Ellen.

Thank you for listening from Esquire Middle East, your home for comedy news. Tom Sigora getting ready to play Abu Dhabi Comedy Week. Esquire Middle East asked Tom about how he researches a new place that he’s performing. Si Gore says, you never want to go in a place completely ignorant. But when I do international shows, I tried to do the show that I’ve developed.

If you’re doing bits where you have to reference things that are very American, sometimes you gotta go, okay, what’s the equivalent here? But going in thinking I’m going to do a show that hopefully hits all the notes that these people would want to hear in this market, I don’t do that. Tom is working on a six episode series coming to Netflix in twenty twenty five. The question has a TV show been a long time coming for you? It did Netflix catch you at the right time?

Si Gore said, TV and film development, that process is always very taxing. It’s long, it’s arduous, and I’ve been through it. So I had this idea of shooting something I wanted to shoot, and I could have called an agent in seat up a meeting. Instead, I was like, you know what, I want to go shoot this. The original idea is I’d put it out on our same pay per view platform that sixty nine Minutes aired on.

When I was getting ready to air it on that platform, I showed it to my agents and they said, you gotta let more people see this. We showed it to Netflix and then they acquired it. How much freedom does he have from Netflix, se Gore says, so far, it’s been on real it means to be seen, though they haven’t been given scripts yet, so I don’t know what they’re gonna say when they actually read the scripts. But it’s been a good process so far. If you are attending Abu Dhabi Comedy Week, Tom will be at the Eddie Hot Arena on Saturday.

Andrew Santino and some others are set as the leads in Yahoo’s eight episode comedy Sin City Saints. I like Santino as an actor a lot. He’s just he has great presence. Whatever that thing that was called that was not about the comedy store in La and he played like the comic that was kind of making it. I thought he was great in that Sin City Saints follows the Triumphs, Travails and Transgressions literation of Las Vegas’ brand new pro basketball franchise, The Saints.

Santino will play Jake Sullis, the Saints unpredictable and charismatic owner who made his fortune as an Internet disruptor in the field of big data. All right, I could see him in that role. That sounds good, But it’s for Yahoo. Like Yahoo’s making shows again. I remember they did the last season of Community.

Where’s this going to air on Yahoo? I don’t get it. Clara o’caine as a new comedy album out. It is called Everything I Know How to Do. It’s on PGF Records.

She jokes about leaving her job at SNL, open marriage, gender identity, OCD, induced mantras, talking to ghosts and more. And that is your comedy news for today. I’m starting to see the news stripe. I’m starting to see the Hey, here’s all the albums we’re excited about this summer articles that you could have written in February. Starting to see those populate, so we’ll see.

Ellen. Thank you for listening, Thanks for joining us in the group. It’s all in good fun, you know. If you want to become a character, keep sending me bombs Burger’s notes and I’ll have fun with it, especially on slow news days. I’m tempted to play Joe Coy here just to say hi to our friend Scott Beckett, but I won’t, as you know, see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. SNL did their annual year end joke swaps between Jost and Shay. The one I like the best was written by Michael Jay, voiced by Colin Jost, who said chat GPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her, which I’ve never bothered to watch because without that body, what’s the point of listening. That’s a good joke.

In case you don’t get the joke, Colin Jost is married to Scarlett Johansson. That’s why it’s funny. Jerry Seinfeld insists on being in this podcast every single day. What happened now, Johnny Mack. Jerry’s there in Virginia.

He’s just trying to do his little comedy show. Here’s some alliteration. A pro Palestinian protester proceeded to stand up and shout insults towards Jerry Seinfeld, calling him a genocide supporter. The protester yelled, save the children of Gaza, no more American tax dollars for genocide. Audience members began quickly booing the heckler and demanded that he shut up and get out.

The protester kept shouting to the audience, you should be ashamed of yourself. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. According to TMZ, Jerry said, this is fun. I like this. I think your message is really resonating with the crowd.

People seem to be on your side. Wow. The protester responded, how dare you support a genocide? According to the version I’m seeing, Jerry supposedly said, I like it when that you hater spice up the show. According to TMZ, additional videos from the night showed an audience member starting a fight with the protester, eventually grabbing the protester in a headlock.

Security cheam and escorted the protester out of the room. The crowd chanted Jerry, Jerry Jerry. TMZ says they were about eight demonstrators throughout the show who were all escorted out by security. Wow. Eyewitnesses say Jerry told his audience not to boo and supported their right to protest.

Rachel Feinstein’s new special is out on Netflix today. It is called Big Guy in The Guy. Rachel describes her life as the wife of a firefighter, a mother, and a stand up comic. In the words of her three year old daughter, my daddy’s a hero and my mommy’s sarcastic. Today’s one of those days where we see if Johnny Mack can make an episode out of nothing.

I just played my two cards. Everything else is me shocking and jiving. A Vulture had somebody at Anthony Jesselnick’s show at the Netflix Festival. John wasn’t that two weeks ago? It was, but according to Vulture, Anthony opened his show talking about how an audience member had thought a joke he told a week earlier it was problematic.

Jessel next said he had closed his show with that joke, so we vowed to stop closing with it. Instead, he decided to open with it. During his set, he joked about politics, redecorating his place, telling jokes in the South, porn addiction, having a day job fifteen years ago, and the time that Kanye West attended one of his shows. All right, let me read verbat him here speaking of being canceled, Jessnaok takes a long pause at one point, ramping up to talk about the subject. He says, and let me see if I can recreate it here.

I’m again’s cancel culture. That’s my impression of a crappy comic trying to get on Rogan. He closed with the story about Norm McDonald. When jessel Nick was asked to host Last Comic Standing, he initially said no. When they told him Norm was a judge, he said yes.

For the first few episodes, they didn’t get along. Then they went on Larry King and Norm suggested that they start a bitter feud just for fun on the show. So Nick goes out and talks about how much he doesn’t like Norm. Then it was Norm’s turn. When asked about Jessa Nick, Norm said Larry He’s one of the greats.

A prank on the audience, and Larry King was turned on jess Nick. Ultra says Jesselnick’s set was a tight forty eight minutes. Here’s an article that Scott Beckett’s gonna like. It is entitled five surprise comedians Joe coy could bring to his Portland main show. Now you know Joe Coy, right, He’s the guy that hosted the Golden Globes and he got a little controversy with Taylor Swift.

He told this horrible, mean joke like you know, I come here. I just want to, you know, brighten up your day. I’m not looking to be mean, but just you know, not everybody knows who Joe Cooy is, and I want you to understand who this guy is. He’s just a vicious comedian that goes after Taylor Swift. What’s not to like about Taylor Swift?

She’s out there singing her songs and then this guy has to go and say this. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I mean, brutal right. I don’t blame Taylor for sitting there and not laughing at that joke and just making a mean face and basically wrecking Joe Cooy’s career.

I mean that was just uncalled for anyway. WJBQ dot com, Scott, I told you I’m trying to make a show out of nothing today, go with the bit relax. They asked five surprise comedians Joe Koy could bring to his Portland main show. I love the word. Could you know I could have Jerry Seinfeld co hosting this podcast tomorrow?

You never know. You’ll have to download it to find out. Is it statistically likely? No, but it could happen, all right. The first person that Joe Cooy might possibly perhaps bring to the Cross Insurance Arena on November fourteenth, they suggest, Chelsea Handler.

Sure, Joe Cooy’s ex girlfriend is just going to get at his show in Maine. Seems likely. Next up, Adam Sandler. Sure, Adam Sandler is just gonna pop into Joe Coy’s show in Maine in November because he’s promoting Happy Gilmore two. And what other way could Adam Sandler get anyone to talk about him than just doing a cameo Joe coyced Maine?

What is this? Article? Number Three? Who could show up at Joe Cooy’s show? Nikki Glaser Q ninety seven point nine Hit Music tells us there may not be a comedian that is trending more right now than Nikki Glaser.

Nicki could ride the wave and be a huge surprise for the Cross Insurance Arena crowd. Yeah, I mean career wise, that makes sense, right, She’s riding high. It’s May twenty first, sit tight for four or five months, show up in Maine in November, do a cameot to Joe Coy concert. I’ll recap it. I’ll do the Taylor Swift bit.

Nikki Glaser gets some pressed. That makes a ton of sense. Next up, Bob Marley. This almost makes sense. Bob Marley known as the comedian from Maine.

He plays in Maine a lot, so sure that might make sense. Next up, Rob Gronkowski qu ninety seven point nine hit music Rights. This one is way out of left field. You think, actually, you should have made a football pun there. No, Gronk is a comedian, but he shocked a lot of people with how funny he can be during the ROAs to Tom Brady, wouldn’t it be great if he was a surprise guest in Portland for Joe’s show?

I mean, yeah, sure, great suggestions there. Appreciate that one killed two minutes on a slow news day. I love you. Harry Shearer spoke to Exclaim don c a about The Simpsons and he says the cimpizens is not going woke. Relax, folks say, the show has become woke in recent years and one of my characters has been affected.

I voiced the black physician doctor Hibbert, who I based on Bill Cosby. Back then, he was known as the whitest black man on television. Then a couple years ago, I received an email saying that employed a black actor who then copied my voice. The result is a black man imitating a white man imitating the whitest black man on TV. I haven’t seen an episode of The Simpsons in a minute, and I like this a lot.

It’s just I fell out of the habit when they started being inconsistent with when it aired after football, like it aired after football. But I try and tape it and I wind up with a lot of incomplete episodes, and it just broke the habit. You can’t break the habit with stuff. You gotta be there, Like later this year, I’m taking a major trip. I may have to pretape a lot of episodes, but I’m going to do it.

You’re going to get an episode in the feed every day. Can’t break the habit with the listeners. Jimmy Kimmel is going to host a fundraiser for President Biden on June fifteenth in Los Angeles. No venue yet, but George Clooney and Julia Roberts will be there. Tickets started two hundred and fifty dollars apiece and go up to five hundred one thousand dollars.

And in case we couldn’t tell which way kimme A leaned in this particular election, I think he’s made it clear. The gods of slow news day have hooked me up. Vulture wrote an article twenty five essential Bob’s Burger’s episodes. Thank you Vulture so much for this. I need this today.

Vulture tells us it’s been updated with more our episodes ahead of the Bob’s Burgers season fourteen finale. This thing is claiming I’ve been on for fourteen years now. Longtime listeners know what I’m gonna ask here, But if you’re new, let me just focus for a second. I’m gonna ask you two questions. I’m very serious here.

Two questions. One have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? Like, have you ever actually seen the show? I get that it exists in popular culture, for example an article and Vulture where there are t shirts where they’re a merch where people talk about this show. I get it, But have you ever actually seen it?

I know you would watch football and Joe Buck would say after the game, an all new episode of Bob’s Burgers, and then they would put this really long postgame show there, during which you would switch over to NBC and watch Sunday Night football. Did Bob’s Burgers actually air? Did you watch it? You didn’t watch it, You watched more football. Was there a promo, Sure there was a promo.

Is there artwork? Sure there’s artwork. But you’ve ever actually seen Bob’s Burgers? You have it? Now?

Here’s what’s really weird. Have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? Has anyone ever come up to you and said, did you see Bob’s Burgers recently? To watch it last night? Man?

I love Bob’s Burgers. I haven’t met anyone. And this thing has supposedly been on for fourteen seasons across like how many years. Bob’s Burgers supposedly debuted January ninth, twenty eleven. You ever seen it?

No, you ever met anyone? No? Now, I’m not going to read this list. It’s on Vulture. I shared it in the Facebook group, but Daily Comedy News podcast group.

But just because this is an article doesn’t mean it exists. I refer you to this article that I’m on right now. List of Inspectors Spacetime episodes in case you’re not familiar with Inspector Space Time. It’s the very popular British science fiction show that’s been on the air for over fifty years. Created by Sir Anthony bottom Piece in nineteen sixty two, the show follows the adventures of a mysterious being only known as the Inspector, a time and space traveling alien.

The show had low production values in the first few seasons were broadcast in black and white, despite color being available. A succession of actors and one actress have portrayed the incarnation of the lead care Each actor wore a variation of the traditional uniform of the Inspector, a trench coat, an ascot and a hat, typically a bowler hat. There’s an episode list for example Season one, a Timeless Man, The Blorgons, The Trip of Ruin, Ferdinand Magellan, The Gloom of Aquanas, the Incas, The Radar Men, Rain of the Nightmare. I can read episode titles for fifty years. Season twenty seven, the Ninth Inspector took over.

If you’re not familiar with Inspector Spacetime, it’s a made up bit from Community and I just read you a ton of episodes, so don’t tell me Bob’s Burgers exists. It is a hoax. Two questions, Have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? No? Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers?

That answer is also no. And I have just killed off a slow news day. That’s your comedy news say tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Good joke from Jimmy Fallon. Lego just announced a new five thousand piece Lord of the Rings Fortress set that costs four uner sixty dollars. Anyway, if you’re looking for a line and a first date, that ought to do it.

As seth Meyer said, the makers of Oreos unveiled new packaging inspired by the Star Wars franchise. The way it works, the first three Oreos are pretty good, the next three are pretty bad, and the rest you eat just because he ate the first six. I love it. Quick housekeeping I talked about yesterday with the festivals kind of over in Memorial Day heading if you’ve been addicted to twenty minute episodes, so they’re going to shrink back down of the eleven twelve minute range for a little bit. If you didn’t listen this weekend, though they were both pretty robust.

There was this Chappelle story on Saturday and a Tim Dillon story on Sunday that just got a little longer than I thought, But those were pretty good episodes. Jimmy Fallon has started a podcast. It is a podcast version of the Tonight show. It features Fallons monologues, sketches and games, and extended versions of his interviews from the previous night’s episodes. You know, I never really listened to the Late Night podcast, and I like Late Night as a concept.

I mean, part of it is there’s only so many hours in the day. I can barely listen to my own podcasts someday because I have to make other podcasts, you know what I’m saying. But the summer’s coming, I’ll be sitting outside a lot more, half asleep, just listening to a six seven hours podcast while I sit under the umbrella. I’ve recented my Jimmy Buffett lifestyle. I had a couple skin scares.

I’ve got a couple spots that are pre cancerous and nothing too worrisome just yet. But you know, it’s the universe telling me, maybe don’t sit out in the sun for nine ten hours a day, which you know I did for half a century. I do believe I’ve been pretty good with lotion aside from my reckless behavior sitting in the sun. But you know, I think a lot of the damage was done in the seventies what we used to put on suntan oil. And remember you’d go to the beach and if your friend had something with a two on it, like you’re putting on two sunscreen.

And then the fours came out, and then I remember when eight came out, it was like eight, and then when fifteen came out, it was like fifteen. Same thing on thirty. Keep doing the bit. It’s not a bit, but if you have a certain age, you know what I’m talking about. I mean, we used to just go out and bake.

Remember people would sit with like the tinfoil reflectors to get more son on them. Remember when you thought it was like normal behavior, Like you’d get that like early summer burn, and then it would like crust off and then the second skin would tan properly. So I think a lot of my problems happened in nineteen seventy eight, I digress. Jimmy Fallon said, I’m excited to announce that I’m officially the last person on earth to start a podcast. Colbert’s Got One.

It’s the Late Show pod show and audio cutdown of his show with some extras. There’s the Daily Show. Of course. John Stewart has his new separate one from the Daily Show. I have to remember to add that to my podcast to Q just check that out.

Hopefully it’s better than the Apple one. HBO’s been putting out full episodes of Real Time with Bill Mahers podcast since twenty fifteen. I had no idea Jimmy Kimmel does not offer his show as a podcast. Sticking with Late Night for a second, John Mulaney is going to throw his what was that called Everybody’s in LA. They were planning to submit the show into the Scripted Variety category, where it would have competed against Saturday Night Live and John Oliver.

Oliver is gonna win because SNL led SNL season was so uninteresting. I haven’t watched the last five episodes. They’re all sitting on the DVR, but I’m just like, I just don’t care. However, Variety has learned that Netflix and the creative team feels the show is better suited for the talk series category and it will compete against Kimmel, Colbert, Seth Myers, and Jimmy Fallon. Last year, nineteen, the series were entered for Talk Series, which invited five nominees.

Variety believes they’re currently thirteen with their hat in the ring, including Kimmel, Colbert, and Fallon. Last year, Scripted Variety had twelve submissions. Variety right now is only tracking five. John Oliver snl Netflix’s The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman. What the what?

That’s a thing that happened? Did anyone see this? CBS is after Midnight and he now canceled Painting with John from HBO slash Max. What was that? I feel like I’m dreaming.

I just read five shows, two of which I’ve never heard of. As I explained recently, I don’t know everything about comedy, but like I do do this every day. I do, at least five days a week, go on Google and type in words like comedy and comedian, and I read articles I don’t just like sit here and go oh, let me make up twenty minutes of content. I do some research. What was Painting with John?

HBO has a FAQ’s website? Who is John Lourie? I am John Laurie. Thank you for asking? Who else appears in Painting with John?

Nesper? And Wolf has Scooched the Oucher and Mary James Leroy, Jacob and Rudolph the Man who sleeps in the Mango Tree. I’m asleep right like I’m just dreaming. There’s no such shows called Painting with John that’s nominated for an Emmy. Right, what is this part meditative tutorial, part fired side chant?

Musician John Laurie shares his philosophical thoughts while honing his water color techniques, and there’s three seasons of it? I’m sorry, guys, tell me in the Facebook group? Did I just like Mendela effect? Am I on now Earth two? Because on my Earth we didn’t have Painting with John?

That’s not a thing. What’s this Netflix Prank Show with Justin Willman. I’m convinced the alarm clock’s going to go off any second now, and I’m gonna be like, Oh, I had the craziest dream. I was hosting the podcast and I was talking about all these shows that I didn’t remember existed. Right.

The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman twenty twenty four to six episodes. In this irreverent comedy series, a magician stages elaborate pranks on unsuspecting targets. See this, I’ll believe exists. The other one on Max for three years. I don’t think that exists.

Per nomination procedures when categories have fewer than seven entrees why do I say entres? It’s not food entries. Leave it in why did I say andres? The submissions will be screened by the appropriate peer group for a nomination, any entry I must said entre again. Any entree that receives nine tenths approval will receiving nomination.

Think of it as a simple up or down vote, and then consider how difficult it can be to score ninety percent approval in everything rules. Further state, if none of the nominations receives ninety percent approval, the nomination with the highest approval receives the Emmy. The Dallas Cowboys put together a video for their schedule release. Apparently schedule releases are a big deal now and the teams are all trying to one up each other. While the Cowboys went with Shane Gillis, Sam Morrell, and Bert Krascher and a quick appearance by Joe Rogan, the video stars Jerry Jones, Post Malone, Dak Prescott, Michael Irvin, and Tim the Tatman.

They represent the Dallas Cowboys in what appears to be a team supergroup. They prank call their opponents fans via FaceTime. Shane Gillis represented the Eagles, who look to be answering a call during a cold plunge, featuring a brief appearance from his friend Joe Rogan cheering on Go Birds. Sam Morrell represented the New York Giants, who appeared to be utterly and comically annoyed to be hearing from the team with a process smirk, saying I don’t like this at all. Bert Krescher represented the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

He appeared joyfully surprised and answered laughing, saying, am I getting drafted a lot of press for Nikki Glaser lately? But no buzz on that HBO special? Like, no buzz at all. She was on The Today Show with Hoda and Jenna. That’s like the it’s like kind of the Today Show, but not really like it has the Today logo, but it’s kind of like Aday hour fifteen or whatever it is.

I don’t know. I have nothing against them. I hate daytime TV. Like anytime you go to the dentist or Jiffy Lube or any of those, they always have daytime TV on usually ABC. You usually get subjected to what’s her face Kelly Rippa, and then you have to sit through the view either get that or sometimes like the dentist office.

They’ll have on like the local news twelve news channel. That’s like less annoying, except if you sit there for half an hour and you’ve heard the weather report five times, it’s just like, Ah, I digress. Nikki Glaser told the Today Show folks, I didn’t freeze my eggs. She says if she feels the pulled up children one day, she’ll consider a option. She noted the kids are hard work.

She wants to focus on her career, but the real reason, she said, is I’m scared to love something that much. She said something I would have said someone, which is a callback to a Robert Shimmel joke, which I’ll clean up slightly, but he does the pause. I’ll try and recreate it for memory. So he says, you ever just need a bang something someone? So yes, my two cents, your child is someone, not something.

I digress again. Jenna said, that’s why I think your comedy is so amazing, because at the center of it are real conversations women are having. I have friends that decided not to have kids, and there’s still some shame there. Nikki said, you see your friends wanting it so badly, genuinely wanting it, and you feel like, what’s wrong with me that I don’t want it? You feel kind of left out.

That’s what I’m struggling with more than just well should I do it? Because I’m kind of sure I don’t want it, but I’m like, what I want this thing that everyone seems to want. I feel like I can always adopt. Hoda jumped in and said, by the way, i’d like you to know adoption rocks. Hoda has two adopt a daughters, Haley seven and Hope five.

Galai just says, I have some time, and I really don’t care if the baby looks like me. It’s not really interesting to me. John, you’ve told us twice in a row that the episodes we’re gonna stop being twenty minutes long, and they’re gonna get shorter because there were no festivals and we’re all checking our watch here and these things are getting long again. I know, I know there’s a lot going on. Salon wrote about cancel culture, Bill Maherr and Bill Burr.

Salon, right, So, remember when Gilbert Gotfrid was fired from his Affleck deal for making tasteless jokes about the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. That was twenty eleven when the great evil was called outrage culture, largely generated by jokes like that, along with rape and sexual violence. The reason I called out Bill Burr’s observation Bill was on more recently talking about cancel culture, et cetera, is because we don’t hear from or about the people whose careers have actually been canceled. And this is let me drop all the snark in goof. Let me get a really flat raid here, because I think this is actually a really great point and important.

Like the five women who came forward in twenty seventeen to detail Luisik’s misconduct one quick comedy altogether, others like Rebecca Corey keep trying to move forward in a career they’ve been building long before they crossed K’s path. Corey, who was more than three decades of experience as a performance stand up, wrote a twenty eighteen Vulture essay describing the difficulties she encountered before her name became habitually linked with CKS, and spoke to Variety in twenty twenty two after K won that Grammy, She told Variety, why am I constantly being asked to speak on cancel culture. The joke that is the me too movement in ck every time he’s in the news cycle. I don’t care what that guy does. And of course cancel culture is real.

I’m living proof. The moment I was sexually harassed at my job, I was canceled. That’s how it works, kids. So let’s talk about what I’m doing and when my Netflix special is happening. There are people who have been doing stand up for five minutes, with comedy specials, another with multiple specials who sucks.

So when’s mine? I’m ready? When you are, Ted Sarandos, Netflix CEO. Yeah, I think the points getting lost in the weeds there. Should her career have been canceled?

No, of course, not separate from that, whether you ever met Luis c. Kir not. Not everyone gets a Netflix special people who have been doing stand up for five minutes. I’ll translate to that to be I don’t say, like Matt Rife, but Netflix is a business and they’re putting up there who they think is popular. And Robbie pra has been calling some pretty good shots.

It’s really hard right now to say Netflix has been giving specialists to people who suck. Now they air comedy shows. This is back to the whole specials versus hours thing. Things show up on Netflix that you know have a box. It’s a picture of a comedian and it’s a box, and the comedian is calling it a special.

But I would call in an hour. We’ve discussed that on previous podcasts. You know, So are there comedy programs on Netflix? Sure film one yearself and offer it to Netflix. They might say yes if the price is right in terms of the specials.

And I think we just saw what the Netflix Comedy Festival was. I think could be hard pressed to look at anybody at the Netflix Comedy Festival and be like, that person’s not in the top echelon of comedy. Back to Salon, Ellen Degen is sharpening her material for her Netflix special. Let me jump back in. I mean, it’s not crazy that Ellen has a Netflix special.

Many things can be true at once. Ellen can be funny. Ellen apparently can be jerky to coworkers. Both can be true. Rolling Stone took in her recent set at West Hollywood’s Largo at the Cornet Theater and characterized her means of addressing her partner shows downfall less processing, including copying to being an immature boss who didn’t know how to be a boss.

During a post show conversation, one woman asked Allan, do you think you’ll seek revenge for those who have wronged you? This was met by what the reporters described as a loud round of applause and cheers from every corner of the room. That’s your evidence of what famous people crying over suppose. Cancel culture is yielded, not justice or a new sense of fairness, but misdirected grievance aim towards less powerful people, ruining everyone else’s good time by exposing our favorite star’s misdeeds. Yeah.

I have been I call it showbiz adjacent for many years now, especially the years at Serious And it’s an ugly business. And I do my job. You do your job. If you go back to your hotel room and do lines and lines of cocaine, and I go back to my room and watch Star Trek, you do you, I do me. Nobody should be harassed, nobody should be bullied.

But does crappy stuff go on on show business? Yeah? And I don’t know how you’re gonna clean that up or whatever. I don’t know. Maybe as technology changes and people can reach audiences without going through the system.

There’ll be more decent people, but for every decent person, there’s going to be somebody who asks out a seventeen year old. So I don’t know, very complicated and that’s your comedy news for today. Load of comment at the end there, John, Yeah, see tomar

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News DESI Lydick, who should be the host of the daily show, was talking about Bob Menendez. That’s the senator from New Jersey. He’s involved in a little legal thing. Ex Senator right.

I guess he stepped down. I don’t know. It’s a joke. Who cares, as she said, Bob Menendez. His argument is that his wife was secretly orchestrating a corrupt international bribery scheme and hoarding gold bars in his house and he never knew it.

And that, gentleman, is why you need to ask your wife about her day. I love that joke. Dessie again talking about some schools in the South, putting him back the Confederate name. She said, Let’s be honest, this isn’t about restoring your heritage. If it was, then you’d name it.

Hey, my cousin’s kind of hot. High school integned with. I can make that joke because I’m from Kentucky and my cousin’s kind of hot. She’s fantastic. Just give her the show.

Let John Stewart do Monday, have her prominently feature on Monday, and let her do that the other shows that way, You’ve got a transition plan, You’ve got a good host already there. Why are you not making the move? Deadline profiled Assi during the week, and she joked as how many Central does any focus groups and checked feedback? Have you checked my Twitter comments lately? Because I feel like someone’s making a huge mistake.

She’s been with The Daily Show since twenty fifteen. When I walked into the correspondent job, I never in a million years thought I would have a shot at sitting at the desk, but I knew how big and rare of an opportunity it was, and I needed to jump in there and put my hat in the ring. And I’m grateful. It’s pure delight. Sometimes it’s messy.

Sometimes you make mistakes, but you think, well, I’m not gonna do that again. Let me pivot from there. And I’m definitely pretty tighte A. And I like to do my homework. I like to prepare as much as possible, so the one thing I can do is get ahead.

I’m just doing research on the guests that I’m gonna have on. I like to read the books I watched the series. I always want people to feel comfortable and ask the right questions and be prepared. She said she got a tip from John Stewart, who explained the difference between long term issues and short term news or a Stewart calls it climate versus weather. I thought this was really smart.

It’s as if John Stewart knows how to host the show, as he says, We’ve had so many evolutions of the show in the last nine years, and we’ve had challenges with the pandemic, filming from home. Figure out a way to make the show under those circumstances. Then coming back last year with the guest hosting, I mean, Trevor’s been gone like eighteen months already. Figure this out, guys. The beauty with all those changes is that creatively you can stay pretty fulfilled by challenging yourself and making the show in a new way.

Now to be able to have a little desk time, you’re going to play with my friends and try out duos, it’s like a dream. Apparently the Joe Rogan fans are not happy with Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry not making a lot of friends. This month, Jerry was on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast that’s been making a lot of news lately and not really for good reasons. Jerry told Bill Maher, when you go Larry King, that was always so great.

It was great that show. Do you think it’s all over that show? Mar said, well, I think it’s Joe Rogan Tim Dillon whose podcast is fantastic, but someday he’s gonna be canceled and I’m gonna run so far. You guys should be like John, you told us three years to check out Tim Dillon. I’m gonna go.

I never said that. I never once told you to listen to Tim Dillon’s podcast. What are you talking about? I have nothing to do with that guy. KJ ZZ, all right, talk about because I’m fifteen at heart.

You know, like a station will be like, you know, w f AN and they’ll go the fan, or it’s I don’t know, Kiss and Los Angeles and they go kiss FM, that kind of thing. I keep looking at kJ ZZ and it’s not a jazz station. I know what you’re thinking. I’m thinking too, but I’m not going there. I just want to know what kjzz’s nickname is.

Why don’t I just go to the website. Let’s see what they call themselves. I know what I want to call it ninety one point five kJ ZZ. They don’t seem to have a nickname. They have podcasts.

One of the podcasts is called The Show. Not sure that’s the best idea for SEO, or maybe it is kjzz’s. The Show is a stream of curated stories from Phoenix, the Southwest and around the country. Are they even a jazz station? At least be a jazz station.

If you’re going to be k j ZZ, you know you could be uh ninety one to five the jazz you know? No, yes, all right, let’s move on John Tim Dillon. They talked about Tim Dillon and Rode. On a recent Friday night in downtown Phoenix. The line outside Stand Up Live snaked all the way from the front door of the club, down a flight of stairs and onto the sidewalk.

It was almost time for the fourth show and I sold out. Run by comedian Tim Dillon. One person in line said he makes me feel a little bit more sane in an insane world. Another fan said he’s not necessarily afraid to be politically correct. What I think is important in today’s day and age with cancel culture.

I think freedom of speech is really important at being able to say what everyone’s already thinking. Yeah, but here’s what they’re missing. Tim is saying what everyone is thinking in a character where he’s making fun of what the people that think Tim is on their side is doing. Listen to the podcast, you’ll get it. He’s kidding.

He kind of says what we’re all thinking. I think that’s what kind of comedy is say the unspoken. So I’m a huge fan of that. Another fan said, cancel. Culture’s gone too far.

People are too scared to say what they’re really thinking. Love this. The folks from the jazz asked, can you get you? I really want to make the joke. It’s like bursting out of me.

I can’t. Oh, I just made it. Leave it in. Can you give an example of something you’ve heard him say that? I lost my trade of thought.

I’m leaving all this in. I’m making myself laugh this morning, all right? K j z Z reporter asked a fan, can you give me an example of something you’ve heard him say that feels like the kind of thing people are thinking, but feels like the kind of thing other people aren’t willing to say. The fans said, well, I don’t know. Is the stuff maybe I’m thinking?

But it’s just, you know, it’s stuff it’s maybe come up in your head throughout the day, and he just comes up with something that’s similar enough to where you connect to it. Another audience member said, he speaks in a way that really isn’t acceptable anymore, and I find it to be wildly entertaining, hilarious and refreshing, and I like it a lot. The reporter from k j z Z asked, I don’t know why those call letters are so funny, but they’re funny when you say a way that’s not acceptable anymore, what do you mean? The audience member said, well, just specifically things that are publically incorrect, you know, and we all know these things that you’re not supposed to say and that you can’t say, and that all’s well and good, and that’s how it’s supposed to be, but there’s a huge vacuum for that in today’s modern life and times in the society. All right, let me call a full time out here, because I have the giggles I mentioned yesterday.

I was in a bad mood. This morning, I noticed I was in a great mood. So yesterday when I was driving around town, I was screaming at people through the sunroof. Why are you blogging the intersect today? When I was driving on the National Donuts chain by the way, I screwed up my order.

I forgot to click the caramel, so I just have this thing that has just no flavor in it. But that’s on me. I realized, I like, I’m I’m waving at people. I’m saying hi to neighbors. Honk did they haven’t seen it in a while, as was a woman rollerblading with dogs.

I’m like, all happy and now I’m a giddy At k j z Z, one group of Dylan fans tell the reporter from k jay z Z that he was asking all the wrong questions. If people are taking what he’s saying is super political, I think they’re missing it, like deeply missing the point. Especially if you’re taking a comedian for his political views. You’re probably too dumb to understand comedy. I want to have put it quite that way, but I think that fan does understand what Tim Dillon’s doing.

The reporter from kJ ZZ says, at that point, I was starting to notice that almost nobody had talked to said they were there because they liked Tim Dillon’s comedy. When I asked them about their favorite Tim Dillon bits. They might reference a rant from Dylan’s podcast. You know, I do think that’s fair. He’s a better podcaster than a stand up Yes, I agree.

The reporter from k j ZZ The Jazz said, I found Tim Dillon to be somewhat quirky on stage, a heavy set guy from Long Island who occasionally dies his hair and likes to wear ill fitting T shirts and baggy jeans. He’s gay, but he said he’d happily let the British monarchy call him homophobic slurs all day if they let him live in one of their castles. Part of the reason the reporter from kJ ZZ came out to the club was because they’d noticed that Dylan has become a mainstay of the freddy, aggressive masculine circuit of comedy podcast like Rogan’s, and it seemed like an odd match to me. The more I talk to the fans, the more I started to think they weren’t necessarily there because they loved Tim Dillon’s jokes. They just love Tim Dillon.

One fan said, he’s personal up in blue collar Long Island, so he’s just relatable. I grew up in Queens so yeah, I get Tim Dillon. I’ve been listening to his podcast for about two years now, every day twice, they said, which is interesting because it comes out once a week. There’s a separate episode on Patreon, but that’s the most twice a week every time I do Cardio. You know, I know he’s a big guy, and I’m a big guy myself, so I like to take his inspiration, his political advice whenever it comes to current events.

I love his position on everything. The reporter from kJ z Z The Jazz wrote, Tim Dillon went into his acting. I gotta be honest, I don’t remember most of it. But that’s not because it was bad. It’s because at the very end something happened that I’ve never seen it.

A comedy show, what’s this, I’ve probably been a several hundred comedy shows. They always end the same way. The comic hits their final punch line where they don’t and they put the mic back in the stand. They say something like I’ve been so and so, thank you good night. No they don’t.

They crushed with the final line and they wait for the crowd and they go they don’t go, eh, and I’ve been Dave Chappelle have a good night. They don’t do that. The reporter from kJ ZZ the Jazz says, that’s not what Tim Dillon did. He’d been on stage for about an hour, and as he built his last rift to a furious crescendo, the crowd was roaring.

And then right at the moment I imagine every comic dreams of all day long, he…

Dylan stood there for a moment, let him laughter some side, and then he started doing some crowd work. He starts asking a fan, how you doing things? Are good working? You’re finding work? The person in the crowd says his last job had been playing pro rugby.

Tim says, what do you want to do outside of rugby? The random person in the audience says, honestly, I want to be a comedian. Tim says, you want to be a comedian? You want to get up? Do you really want to get up?

The guy gets up. Tim says, what’s your name? Nick? What? Ladies and gentlemen?

Nick Hartley? Hartly did ten minutes and apparently was good planned maybe possibly, perhaps, I don’t know how random the Tim Dylan would do crowd work and the guy would be good. That’s weird Boy. Second day in a row, I jumped into an article that went way longer than anticipated. Let me do some housekeeping here.

So with Netflix, Festival and Sydney and Melbourne all that behind us, the show’s theoretically at least we’ll get a little shorter now because that segment takes like two three minutes. We’re also heading towards Memorial Day, so the news is going to dry up. The week after Memorial Day is usually a slower week, So if you’ve gotten addicted to the twenty minute episodes, they’re gonna start creeping back more towards that nine ten eleven mark, at least for a little bit. I don’t really do it to time, other than at some point I look at my timer and I go, okay, this is too long, now shut up. For example, I just bumped four five stories from the first half that I can use any upcoming days.

But I didn’t expect to go that long with Tim Dillon. All right, So that’s the housekeeping segment I heard from JB who was responding to the other day where I was questioning the premise of Louis C.K. Being out fifty million dollars when he was canceled, not canceled. JB wrote, Louis C.K. Fifty million.

Yeah, his TV show Louis was canceled and taken out of syndication, no longer on FX. Not sure how many more seasons it had on order, but that was a pretty big hit. Potentially four more seasons missed out on. Plus he had a movie about to be released that got dropped more potential income. I forgot about the movie.

Great point stop touring another revenue stream killed respectfully, it stopped touring for a minute. I mean, he’s playing Madison Square Garden, so he’s doing okay there. I don’t think fifty million is far off concerning He was at the top of his game when he got called out. Let me say how much he was making for the effects show. All right, This from The Hollywood Reporter back in twenty seventeen John Langraf, the head of FX.

I don’t think this is really going to answer it, but it’s playing on the same side of the street. Lang Graff said, Yeah, Louis called me at home on a Saturday and said, I’m really having trouble saying this out loud, but I think I need to not make Louis for a while. This was after the last season in twenty fifteen. It was very surprising to me because we had unilaterally rewritten his back end definition and given him very very lavish financial incentives. All right, JB, you made an excellent point, Lanegraff said, Look, I’m feeling trapped by being this version of myself.

I planned this TV show, and I’m feeling trapped by the expectations that I now go out and do this again. I know I can’t do right now. I have to go do something else. Lang Graff says, So what are you going to do when you have that conversation where you could go to the Dave Chappelle way and back up Mick and say, Louis, I’m going to pay you fifty million dollars to make two episodes of TV or whatever. It is all right that I’m not being difficulty or that implies that it was less than fifty million dollars.

But anyway, JB, thank you for listening. Thank you for taking a minute to write in. I know it’s really easy to listen to podcast, whether it’s this one or different one, be like hey, that guy or that that point is stupid. I truly appreciate anyone who takes a minute too right into the show. My email is in the show notes.

Always happy to hear from everybody. I was emailing on Friday afternoon with one of the listeners, just about stuff. Always happy to hear from you guys, so JB, thank you for checking in. As for me, I always try and explain it’s kind of like running, right, So I’ve ran two marathons very slowly. If we ranked all the people on the planet, I’m probably factually in the top two percent of people that run a lot of miles.

So I run more miles than a lot of people, but the people that are ahead of me are way better at it, if that makes sense. So in terms of comedy, I don’t know everything. I just know a lot more than the average person. Like, walk down the street and say Tim Dillon to one hundred people, you might go zero for one hundred. I know a little bit about Tim Dillon.

We’re in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Richard had mentioned he went to see John Marcos Sireesi partly because I had been talking about John Marco again. Walk down the street and say John Marco, SOIREESSI to a hundred people. Most people aren’t gonna have heard of him, so I know a lot. I don’t know everything, and I’m sure I mispronounced comedian names every single episode.

Oh and I’m checking the timer here, all right. Especially for a Sunday. The weekends, I try and make a little shorter just because factually people listen to fewer podcasts on the weekend, so I say some things for Monday when I get more downloads. But this is good because, like I said, mymor of the day is going to be super slow, so I’m glad I have all these extra stories. I might actually bang out Saturday of more day weekend with the leftovers, just to make my weekend a little easier.

Anyway, that is your comedy news for today. Thank you so much for listening. Please feel encouraged to take part in the Facebook group or email me and I will see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I love this joke from Seth Meyer. As President Biden and former President Trump are said to face off in two presidential debates. Biden is looking forward to laying out his twenty twenty four agenda, while Trump is happy to go somewhere where nobody will draw him while he sleeps. That is great fallon, said Biden.

Trump will meet June twenty seventh on CNN, and one of biden debates conditions was not having an audience, So that explains why it’s on CNN. Trump agreed to the debate. He said, I’ll be there, assuming it’s okay with my parole officer. We are covering all of that on the Ballot podcast if you want to check that one out. Oh, another one from Seth Biden getting Trump to agree to no audiences.

This is a great joke. Let me set it up again. It’s such a good joke. It’s well crafted. Biden getting Trump to agree to no audiences is like getting a vampire to fight you at noon on the beach during the garlic festival.

Really well written. Stephen Colbert with the winner, though, imagine Trump with his cut, He’s gonna look like the world’s angriest mime.

Meanwhile, did you see this new portrait of King Charles.

If you haven’t, just google King Charles portrait. It’s epic. It looks like he’s the devil. It’s red, it’s intense, it’s great. I wish my portrait looked as cool as this one.

We’re talking about it over in the Palace Intrigue podcast. Wow. Two plugs in the first ninety seconds, John Way to cross promote You’re welcome other shows. Desi Leightik hosting the Daily Show. We’ll talk about Desi in a second.

But she had two good ones. Obviously, this portrait is a pretty big departure from other portraits to the royal family. For example, Queen Elizabeth was often painted with her beloved corgies. Compare that to Charles, who looks like he was painted with her corgis once Christy no one was finished with them. Wow.

Now, clearly this painting has gotten a lot of negative feedback, but King Charles swears that he loves a portrait, which probably means that he’s having an affair with another portrait on the side. Wow’s great stuff. Oh I thought that Desi Lightok story was in Today’s podcast. It’s in Sunday’s podcast. Never mind, we’re not gonna talk about Desi at all.

Here’s my quick thought on DESI give her the Daily show. That’s it not qualifying at all. I get the whole John Stewart thing. Fine. John can do Mondays.

John can do Mondays forever. Give the show to Desi. She’s the right choice. Why are we messing around? Just do it?

Give it to her. More of that tomorrow because I’m in a bad mood. Why are you in a bad mood? John? Here?

Because it’s four o’clock on Friday. Four o’clock on Friday. I like to be hanging out on my deck with a beverage. But there were some capers today. I’m only starting work at four o’clock on a Friday, so I’m grouchy.

It’s not your problem. Nikki Glaser was on the whatever hour of the Today Show. It is when you get Hoda and whatever Bush daughter that is you know that one the like sort of Today’s show. Nicki was on that she thinks Tom Brady quotes maybe didn’t consider the backlash from his family and how it would affect them. She expressed disbelief that Tom Brady wasn’t aware what he was getting into, noting he could have prepared by watching, you know, comedy roosts.

Nicky said, I think it’s kind of a thing you say after the fact. It’s impossible to me that he didn’t consider that could have happened. Glazer joked that she thinks Brady couldn’t take it because no one has ever said a bad thing to him in the past thirty years. I got a sense it was a little more than he planned for it. He hadn’t planned out to react, and it kind of jarred him.

I don’t think he thought they were gonna go there. By the way, zero buzz on Nikki Glaser’s HBO special, the HBO specials prestige, I’ll use the word prestige has gone way out. Nicky’s been undoing press all week. All the press has been about the Tom Brady ROAs, which is thirteen days ago. Now none of it about her special.

Oh, she’s promoting the special and nobody’s talking about the special. Bobby Kelly was on I ninety five. DJ Lou asked Bobby what he thought of it. Robert Kelly said, I’ll give you my rankings. Nicky Glazer one, Tony Hinchcliffe two, Drew Bledsoe three, Belichick four, Andrew Schultz five.

And then I’d say Kevin Hart stinks. Yeah, I’m gonna go there, just wing it. He pulled to Keith Robinson. He just repeated, Oh wow, Nicky, she was great, all right, Nikki, right too. Just read off the teleprompter to write a joke.

Stop giving us all personality. You’re four to two, we get it, you’re full of jazz. I disagree. I thought Kevin Hart was hilarious. And I have previously questioned out loud why we gave Kevin Hart the Mark Twain Comedy word for prize.

That’s not a sentence. I’m not revoicing that, you know what I meant. Yeah, I’m not the biggest Kevin Hart fan. But Robert Kelly, why are you giving Kevin Hart a hard time? He did a good job.

DJ Lew asked, how does it work with people who are not comedians like the athletes. I assume those people have jokes written for them by the other comedians. Is that the deal? Robert Kelly said, Yeah, they have about twenty writers that you never see that are writing jokes.

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And then Jeff Rosco’s in and takes the best one off the top, and then there a…

But here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter. You can write a good joke for somebody if they can’t deliver it with a little something, if they can’t make it their own, it’s gonna stink Like Randy Moss and Ben, I mean Jesus. Ben turned into a crack attic halfway through his set. His lips were sticking to his fake teeth. Oh, Ben Affleck is who we’re talking about.

I was like, what you know what I mean? Isn’t it funny the faked teeth? Figure out who he meant? These actors don’t understand. When you’re bombing, your mouth goes dry and you need a sip of something.

DJ about Tony Inchcliff, you mentioned him. I think it was great too. Yeah, Tony is if I were to say anybody, Jeff is great, the roast Master whatever they call him, You know what they call him. Come on, Robert Kelly, you’ve been calling me for twenty five years. At least you know who he is.

Don’t act like you don’t know that Jeff Ross is the roast Master. That’s what he’s known as. Jeff is great, the roast master, whatever they call him. Never heard of the guy who Jeff what? Never heard of him?

But I think Tony’s more of that guy. He knows how to deliver joke. I don’t know if he’s gay or bisexual, straight, I don’t know what he is. Odd thing to bring up? Who cares?

He’s funny, He’s very ripped torn. He is the swagger of a Navy seal and a gay man combined. That’s a great combo, the tip of the spear in both ways. He’s just got that confidence. He hammered him.

I don’t even know what to make of that interview. Dave Chappelle controversy always fun from the sf Gate. The headline Dave Chappelle called me out at his surprise at San Francisco show. Now, I wasn’t aware of the surprise at San Francisco show until Friday. I think this one happened nine days ago.

As you listened to this podcast, hadn’t seen anything about Chappelle all week. But at the surprise show. At the punchline, Dan Genteela writes, Dave Chappelle crossed plenty of lines doing cringy Chinese accents, leaning into Jewish stereotypes, and gleefully yelling LGBTQ slurs. But midway through the set, he checked himself and stopped to joke short pivoting to how hard it is to be a celebrity because there’s always one snitch in the room. He peered around at the tightly packed one hundred and eighty two person audience, saying he was gonna find the snitch, all right, the gate tells us.

The night began with a stellar opening set by Oakland born comic Diude nimi Ar. I’m not familiar with dude, whose pro Palestinian videos let to the cancelation of several gigs last November. Then Chappelle began his fourth and final show of this run four surprise shows, How come wait to hear about these by talking about how he got in trouble with the local news in twenty twenty three for a joke about how San Francisco needed a batman. Oh, I see the writer and Chappelle have a bit of a history here. Oh this is fun.

Let’s keep reading. The local news was made? Hey, my story about the show when viral and was aggregated by Fox News, resulting in the most hate mail I’ve ever received. They even found me on LinkedIn. It’s not hard to find somebody on LinkedIn.

For example, my name is John McDermott. I say Johnny Mack on the air because it’s easier to say Johnny Mack. Even though my name is John McDermott. It is hard to say the N into the M so air name Johnny Mack. If you go on LinkedIn and you type in John McDermott, it’s a fairly common name.

Once you get the McDermott, you get a lot of john’s. But you can probably figure out. Oh, let me type in what do I know about this guy? Let me add the word serious or add the word comedy. That’s me So, I don’t get the point if they even found me on LinkedIn.

No one’s on LinkedIn on a pseudonym. I digress.

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Meanwhile, about forty feet away, I scribbled down his words in my notebook, …

Next came a half hearted sidewalk poop joke, and he pounced on the lack of reaction. Chappelle used a derogatory term. I don’t want to repeat here, so I will paraphrase. Chappelle did something along the lines of and a hush goes over the San Francisco crowd. I left a word out.

You can ask Dave what he said. Here we go. Here’s the loaded paragraph. For those who’ve been following the past few years of his career, that line isn’t that surprising. Chappelle turned heel with a string of controversial Netflix specials that earned him widespread combination from the LGBTQ community and a place on the anti woke Mount Rushmore.

Oh, anti woke Mount Rushmore. Who’s on anti woke Mount Rushmore. I’m curious. Well, here’s the answer. Joe rogan elon Musk, Kanye West, and Dave Chappelle.

That’s anti woke Mount Rushmore. I feel bad for Ricky Gervais. He didn’t make it. What’s this guy’s name again? Dan Gentilly writes he relished villain status, leading into his grievances and casting himself as an hundred doog, even though he’s rich enough to have purchase nearly an entire tan in Ohio, a move he cleverly describes as reverse gentrification, an explanation for this price show.

This time, it was an opportunity for him to test out new material while waiting out his one year non compete clause from Netflix. Chapelle said, I’m practicing on you. What resulted was more of a fireside chat than a typical stand ups at that’s like eighty percent of the time you see Dave Chappelle that he’s just kind of hanging out and talking. I dropped the g there, queensax, And as is common for many comedians these days, he uses a service called Yonder, which collects attendee cell phones. Yeah, Johnny Meck does not like Yonder.

Dave acted a little more self aware this time around, sincerely apologizing halfway through a joke about domestic violence to anyone in the room had experienced it. But he could not stay away from the slurs. He’d sneaked them into unrelated bits dog whistling about his old grudges. For such a virtuistic storyteller, it felt like a lazy move, a misdirected misdirection. When discussing our divided country, he drew the battle lines of a civil war as Maga versus gay slur land, but he said in this case he’d likely be on San Francisco’s side.

Politics was a recurring theme. This is a fascinating article. I didn’t realize how deep this was gonna be. Dave said, the upcoming election is the hardest of people’s lives. He did not elaborate why the Warren Gaza was another topic.

Chappelle dropped in a line about Israel having the right to defend itself and feeling like the best defense is a good offense. He’d bemoaned the fact that the US is sending guns to Israel and food to Palestine and that the hostages seem to have disappeared from the conversation, before pivoting back to familiar territory. Now I’ve looked ahead. As a joke joke. Now, if you understand comedy, this is just a line.

I understand why people are going to be upset about this line. I have critiqued Dave about this before, but just as a joke joke, this is a good line, Okay, So I’ll back up. Dave is talking about how the hostages have disappeared from the conversation before pivoting back to familiar territory. His line, if the hostages were transgender, they’d be rescued. That’s just out of Dave Chappelle on the persona that he’s built up, where you know he’s going to do that, him actually doing it in that context, I think that line is funny.

That’s Dave making fun of Dave. That’s Dave making fun of the Dave character that he’s become. Now. I don’t know why he’s chosen to become the character, but now he’s making fun of the character. One of the bigger laughs was about a communist toy store toys arrests for all of us, but it was followed by a distasteful rhyme about Chinese people that so cliche would barely score a laugh on an elementary school playground.

Let me jump in again. This is a workout show, right, I mean, this is what it is. He’s trying out material. Some stuff didn’t fly. That’s what this show is.

It’s a workout for such a small show. The crowd wasn’t that lively, a fact that wasn’t lost on Chappelle. At one point, he playfully said, the crowd sucked. He went longer than his scheduled hour, finishing three cocktails before a bartender brought him a beer, which he took as a subtle hint. Dave said, I understand then, joke people, I have a few more beers after the show and go fight some crime.

See that’s funny, too good callback what yourew. The biggest laughs were nostalgic stories about the origin of sketches from his Comedy Central show.

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Also of note, the Blue Note Jazz Festival in NAPA, they announced the twenty …

Not on the lineup this year Dave Chappelle. Dave was the headliner of the last two years. He violated the curfew of the festival both years. Wow, we are long today, all right? Bump bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump bump.

Plus I’m in a bad mood. Plus I’ve told you already. It’s almost five o’clock. All right, Sydney Comedy Festival. I think tomorrow is the last day.

Yep, this is it? All right? Who haven’t we looked at yet? Freddy McManus’s show is called Remind Me Later. Freddie McManus is putting on a show about all the things he’s been putting off.

He’s seen the damaged procrastination can do with the deadbeat family dogs still living with mom at home after seventy six k nine years. I like one of the reviews. That review reads as seen opening for Jim Jefferies. Theater Thoughts gave it four and a half stars. A non stop barrel of laughs will leave you with tears in your eyes and a giddiness in your step.

Grace Jervis’s show is called Oh the Horrors. It’s our third solo show. Grace will touch on the themes of establishing independence and identity evaluation, loaded with the trademark whimsical Jervis social commentary continuing to secure her place. Is one of the rising stars of the Australian comedy scene. No reviews and Oh, I was gonna click on Paul Douglas Thirst for the Worst, But it says canceled.

I wonder why it was canceled. Well, maybe the description tells us this is what it says for real, you know that feeling that makes you just go f it That that’s why it was canceled. Uh? What Moore? The very last box on the grid all right, Xavier Mishalides, I’m counting on you.

His show is called Xavier is a massive tool. The Harold Son gave it five stars. The enthusiast great Name says, hugely impressive with creativity and wit to burn. Chortle says Mitchelides isn’t just a larger than life character actor in the mold of Matt Lucas, He’s a more than useful writer, too interesting. All right, Sydney Comedy Festival bookmark delete and with that I get a fraction of memory back in my computer.

Ugh, how is this podcast so long? Today? I didn’t expect to talk about hell for ten minutes and plan this? All right, I’ll be back tomorrow. Normally I record the weekend all at once, but it’s four seventeen on Friday afternoon, and I just want to be done, and I got some work to do, all right, I know, poor me podcasting the basement life is so hard.

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Caloroga Shark Media. They are coming for Jerry Seinfeld. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty much ripped up the plan for today. The first half will be single topic.

You can hear my change, my delivery, a little bit of drop down. I’m not doing the hyperage gentamen, I’m gonna We’re just gonna talk here. They’re coming for Jerry. A headline I saw on Yahoo sourcing the Daily Beasts. But the Daily Beast had a different article.

But this one I saw on Yahoo the headline Jerry Seinfeld’s seventeen year old girlfriend saga resurfaces after Duke walk out. I’m not surprised, giving that many headlines this week featured both the words Stern and Seinfeld. And you know, back in the day, Howard was quite vocal about Jerry’s dating history and not so much in recent history. I discussed that, and I wrote about in the substack, so you can hear my previous thoughts on that from the Yahoo piece. Jerry Seinfeld’s problematic relationship with a high schooler he was well into his thirties has been grossing out a new generation this week, just after Duke students staged a walk out in protest of his commencement speech.

Yeah, I remember back in the day, and let’s see nineteen ninety four. So nineteen ninety four, I’m twenty five and I thought it was weird in nineteen ninety four. I’ve been amazed these last thirty years that everybody was like, oh, yeah, whatever, we love Jerry Seinfeld’s great show. But this story seems to be back now. Daily b slash yeah who writes a quick excerarch will bring up numerous tweets that referenced Seinfeld’s teenage girlfriend from the nineteen nineties, who he picked up in Central Park when she was still a senior at the private Nightingale Bamford School in Manhattan.

According to People’s cover story about the pair, at the time, she was seventeen, he was thirty eight. According to People in March nineteen ninety four, sources told the magazine that the young lady’s family approved of the match, as Seinfeld whisked her around the country to watch him perform and even meet his mother. The young lady told People, I’d like my life to be normal and just go about being a student. Jerry said at the time, I’m Shoshana is a person, not an age. At the time, Seinfeld’s friend George Wallace said, I think it’s serious between them.

She’s beautiful and mature. She’s good for him. Yahoo Daily Beast writes. As this type of normalizing media coverage continued for Seinfeld, Howard Stern was one of the first public figures to call the comedian out for his romantic interest in a minor. That’s what I was curious about this week, you know, when Jerry took a shot at Howard.

I was curious to see if Howard would go rabid and bring this back up. Howard did not, but others have. Stern sang a parody song about Seinfeld’s relationship at the Miss Howard Stern New Year’s Eve badget in nineteen ninety three, where Stern kruoned quote Seinfeld’s girl was seventeen and innocent with double d’s. He saw those breasts and flipped his lid for a real young, busty high school kid. Again, we’re talking about multiple topics here.

Don’t forget Howard Stern, the great interviewer. Never mind that he had Miss Howard Stern Newyear’s Eve pageant nineteen ninety three. He is the great interviewer, but I digress for Yahu slash the beast. He also called Seinfeld a horny, lonely TV geek and the young woman jailbait. In the song Elsewhere, the lyrics asked, can’t he find girls his age to date?

At first, Seinfeld denied knowing the young woman’s real age when confronted about the relationship during an interview with Howard Stern the following year, but on stern Show a month later, he said, I in realized she was so young. This article says the relationship continued nonetheless. A few years later, in a Vanity Fair profile timed to the finale of Seinfeld, Jerry revealed that he almost got married to his much younger girlfriend. I know everyone looked at this relationship is here’s this rich TV guy and here’s this young, hot girl. What was like that at all?

We were very much in love, but the timing wasn’t quite right. That same year, Jerry met his current wife, Jessica. Those two married in December nineteen ninety nine. Jerry was forty five, Jessica was twenty eight. Another sidebar here from Wikipedia.

In June nineteen ninety eight, Jessica married Eric Niederlander, a theatrical producer, etc. Etc. So that’s June nineteen ninety eight. In early August, after the wedding, on a honeymoon in Italy, she met Jerry Seinfeld. Niederlander filed for divorce in October nineteen ninety eight after only four months of marriage.

Interesting now the Daily Beast Proper the Daily Beast website. In an opinion piece by Seth Simons, Seth went all in everything that hasn’t been said, Seth Simons has said. Seth writes, one would be forgiven for wondering what world Jerry Seinfeld is living in. Where the extreme Left, as he claimed in a recent interview with The New Yorker, has purged American television of good comedy. For all the Left’s mighty powers, it couldn’t quite manage the halt production of abbodat Elementary Superstore, Crazy ex Girlfriend of the Good Place, Nor did it manage to stave off dark, even transgressive cable fare like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Righteous Gemstones Atlanta or Penn fifteen.

The Democratic Socialists of America certainly didn’t stop Seinfeld’s erstwhile collaborators Julia Louis Dreyfuss and Larry David from making Veep and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Seinfeld, whose net worth recently past one billion dollars, has long fashioned himself an a political comedian, But of course he’s far from an a political figure, reading from the Daily Beast here, a long time donor to democratic candidates and causes, he’s also been a full throated supporter of the far right state of Israel, not so much in the abstract sense of celebrities who waxed poetically about Israel’s right to exist than in the concrete, enthusiastic sense of a man who once took his family to an IDF fantasy camp in the West Bank. There he participated in shooting training with displays of combat according to the camp, and posed playfully with the same soldiers. In Seth Simon’s Opinion Peace, he writes, it seems only natural that his public opinion turns against Israel, so too should it sour on Seinfeld. Last month, his wife Jessica, contributed at least five thousand dollars to a pro Israel counter protest at UCLA.

She later claimed the funds went toward a peaceful demonstration out the violent mob that attacked a pro Palestinian encampment last Sunday at the Duke Thing, Jerry said, it’s worth the sacrifice of occasional discomfort to have some laughs. Seth Simon’s rights, What exactly does Seinfeld know about discomfort? His creative put since ending his eponymous sitcom twenty six years ago, this week has consisted chiefly of the animated B movie. By the way, I only realized this week that B movie was upon on B Movies. I just was like, oh, it’s a movie about bees.

I never got the joke, Jerry, Sorry, maybe it’s me. A TV series in which he drives luxury automobiles with his friends, a short lived reality show called The Marriage ref various sitcom appearances as himself, a Netflix special in which he complained about texting and unfrosted. Now in the opinion piece in The Daily Beast by Seth Simons, and I’ve shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedies podcast group. Seth rights, Comedians, especially very famous comedians, could do pretty much anything and come away with their reputations intact. Now we’re gonna get a little wider here.

Louis C.K. Has released four specials since confessing to sexual misconduct in twenty seventeen, one of which won a Grammy Award. Jeff Ross accused of grooming a teenage girl and a virtually forgotten twenty twenty New York magazine Expose just featured prominently and Netflix’s roast Tom Brady. Seinfeld himself at a relationship with a seventeen year old girl when he was a thirty eight year old TV star. If that didn’t affect his legacy, why would anything else.

Jeff Ross floated through the controversy largely thanks to an LA comedy scene unbothered by inappropriate sexual relationships, perhaps because it was built on them, and less than a year later he was sharing a stage with Dave Chappelle. Seth writes, do you remember the twenty twenty one child sex abuse lawsuit against SNL cast member Ratio Sands that implicated Lorne Michael’s Jimmy fallon Tracy Morgantina fe and Seth myers, that’s okay, neither does anyone else. Comedians protect comedians. The industry operates as a social club with a code of silence so strong you think it must be a police force. This is some beasier.

Normally on a Thursday, I would record Friday and Saturday back to back. Sometimes I’ll do Friday and Sunday in case I think there’s gonna be news. I’m not recording the weekend yet. I feel like this could bubble up a little bit. Seth continues, whether an open my comic podcast or a headliner or a TV star comedy is essentially a business of favors.

You put me on your show, I’ll put you on my show. And he brought up something I recently observed. Damie Schumer starred and Unfrosted after hiring Seinfeld’s daughter Sasha to write on the latest season of Inside Amy Schumer and then later on Life in Beth. Washington Post headline Jerry Seinfeld’s media tour could have been a plot on Seinfeld. The comedian wanted to put his Netflix movie on Frost in the Spotlight.

He ended up there instead. This is our third Jerry Seinfelder article today. The critics waged in, the protesters wait in the whole of social media weight in, But this is Jerry Seinfeld. Those minds he stepped on exploded only with strawberry filling. Seinfeld has sworn he has no interest in making another film or even recording another stand up special.

He just wants to tour, to do comedy, to continue in making people slightly uncomfortable, and therefore continue being slightly uncomfortable himself. Whatever he’s doing works for him, so why would he change. Maybe he’ll pull a titleist out of a blowhole once in a while, but he doesn’t need to. As he told Duke’s graduating class, I’m seventy. I’m done.

The telegraph headline, why the world stop laughing at tone deaf rich guy Jerry Seinfeld, the billionaire king of comedy, has been booed, called out of touch, and accused of making the worst Netflix movie ever? Or does he care? Had this been an isolated incident, would have been easy to dismiss as little more than a piece of performative rudeness, orchestrated by a gang of attention seeking rabble rousers. Those are the Duke students. In any case, he could hardly have been surprised by the reaction, given that Sparbacks twenty fifteen, Seinfeld had advised his fellow comics not to perform at university campuses.

Seinfeld claims to value the cut and thrust of being on stage in front of audiences who treat him the same way as any other performer, But no other performers in such venues have the luxuries of private jets, multiple expensive residences all over the world complete. If the rumors are accurate with a seventeen thousand dollars coffee maker, that’s when you know they’re coming for Jerry. Wouldn’t they start to drag up that stuff. A look at him, He’s got a seventeen thousand dollars coffee maker. I don’t know what happened when the sun came up on Thursday morning, but the universe said, Jerry, we’re coming for you.

If the rumors are accurate, with a seventeen thousand dollars coffee maker and well paid pr staff on hand to flatter his considerable ego at all times. I met Jerry once. He was a guest on Jim Brewers video show way back in the day when I worked. It’s serious. Jerry was what you’d expect.

Walked in, Hey, how you do like not looking to be your friend, not being a jerk, didn’t demand anything, didn’t want to hang out with you, didn’t w want to not hang out with you. It was just exactly the way to think aloof Jerry Seinfeld. Ah, right, where we’re going. We go to the studio, all right, we’re doing this. You record the show, all right, Thanks everybody, and it leaves.

That was my one experience with Jerry Seinfeld. Telegraph wrapped up with dear what I ask whether the angry mob but Duke should have been complaining less about Seinfeld’s political stances and more about how he seems to have forgotten the art of being funny. Wow, many things could be true at once. Is Jerry seinfelt funny? Yes?

Is Jerry Seinfeld quote still funny? Sure? Absolutely was unfrosted funny. I thought it was fantastic. Did a thirty eight year old man hang around with a seventeen year old girl?

Seems to be a lot of evidence. So I don’t know the world’s comfort Jerry should be interesting. Let’s take this break. Who Bill Burrs in Ashville tonight? He spoke to Nashville’s Scene Bill Saiden, I love going to the South and like I deliverly act like I don’t understand you guys.

If I go to Red State and make fun of Red State stuff, I’m not just gonna tell them what they want to hear. And if I got a Blue States, you know it make fun of Hillary and all that kind of stuff. I think the South gets a really bad rap. White people like to act like all the racism, all the racest white people just in the South. It’s been my experience that they’re everywhere.

It’s kind of like how people like to act like all the pedophiles are in Hollywood. It’s like you don’t remember to catch a predator. They did a bunch of seasons on that show. They never had to go to Hollywood to find one. That’s a funny line.

Since he’s a comedian. He was asked about cancel culture. It was almost like a political campaign, like say no to drugs, you leave no child behind. It was this thing. It wasn’t even liberals.

It was extreme liberals, which are no different than the religious nuts that are way on the right. Really got out of controlled. It died under its own weight because she couldn’t get enough people behind it.

And now it’s funny because the people that were doing it are not trying to wa…

It wasn’t that bad. It’s just classic toxic behavior. You do it, and then years later you get called on it, you act like it never happened. My job is to make people laugh their ass off, and I think I’m really good at it. I also feel like I’m just starting to hit my stride and I have a lot left in the tank.

Awful news for me. Netflix has confirmed that Adam Sandler will be returning as Happy Gilmore. Oh. They tweeted Happy Gilmore’s back exclamation point. Adam Sandler will apprize his iconic role in a brand new movie coming in Netflix.

A. Sandler then said, in a video shared by the PGA Tour, It’s been twenty five years since I’ve done this, meaning played golf. Let’s see what happens. I’m scared, Shooter McGavin. This is for you.

That’s just awful news and better news. Mack packer Andy Samberg is working on something called The Robots Go Crazy This for Amazon MGM Studios. Deadline reports the studio has snapped up the film, which it describes as a hot package. It’s a little naughty sounding, isn’t it. So what’s happening in this hot package?

Well, Colleider says plot to tails are being kept under wraps. Yeah, you don’t want anyone to know what happens in the Robots Go Crazy. Clyder says it is known that it’s an action comedy. Presumably the film splot will involve robots who will then go crazy. No other details available.

I am exhausted. Sydney Comedy Festival is two days left. They’ll see if I can find a clip or something. I can’t find any clips. But Ruben Solo must be doing well because they’ve added another show to his program called Please Clap.

The Barefoot review said four and a half stars, a unique style all his own. These scotsmen four stars, gleefully daft nonsense. I enjoy some daft nonsense. Oh, Nikki Osborne, she does have a clip, I’d take it back. Let’s listen.

I have to play the clip in advance. This is a little naughty, and I’ve edited for pacing. Little naughty, little naughty, but it’s a good joke. Let’s listen. Do you know how you tell if your husband’s been watching porn?

You get him a fit bit because it messes the pendulum that way, if he ducks off to the bathroom, toumps out six thousand steps. Lady, you don’t you got the night off. Capital FM Drivetime gave her five stars and funniest stand up I’ve seen. The Upside News also five stars, funny and heartfelt. Osborne tells it like it is, and that is your comedy news for today.

All right, let’s see what happens with Jerry tomorrow. I can tell you already Tomorrow’s podcast is pretty good, even if nothing happens with Jerry, just because of the amount of stuff I bumped from today to Saturday. So you don’t want to miss Saturday’s podcast. There’s a Tim Dillon thing, a Bobby Kelly thing about the Tom Brady roast, a locket bumped. It’s all good tomorrow, all right, see you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ABC Upfronts and said, two years ago I couldn’t be here in person because I had COVID, Last year I couldn’t be here because of the writer strike, and this year I couldn’t think of a third excuse. Tom Brady has regrets about the roast. I don’t think Tom Brady did enough research on how a roast goes.

Brady was on the Pivot podcast and said, I loved when the jokes were about me. I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way it affected my kids. So it’s the hardest part about it, like the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way and then all of a sudden you realize, who, I wouldn’t do that again because the way it affected actually the people I care about the most in the world. It makes you, in some ways a better parent going through it, because again, sometimes you naive, you don’t know, or you get a little like oh shoot.

Bourbon entrepreneur Jim Gaffigan is getting into comedy. He will be the first of a new series of specials on Hulu. Who was Laughing Now, a new comic on Hulu’s Laughing Now, will be featured each month. Twelve specials expected throughout a year. You see, there’s one every month, and in a normal year there are twelve months.

So that’s how they arrived at twelve. Jim Gaffigan special The Skinny, which thankfully doesn’t have the word pale in the title for once Well, debut November twenty second. That to me feels like it’s gonna be the Wednesday before Thanksgiving or such. Let me look, No, that’s gonna be Fridays when that’s gonna be okay, So they’re gonna put these things out on Friday night. I’m not sure that’s a good night.

Netflix does theirs on Tuesday, which I find works really well. HBO Saturday Night at ten pm, because they think it’s nineteen seventy eight. Those aren’t working for me at all. Amazon does Amazon do Monday? Is not even sure anyway.

Craig is the president of Disney Television Group, and in a statement, he said, with the launch of Hulu’s Laughing Now, we’re excited to round out Hulu’s world class comedy offering, Yeah with a lineup of some of the funniest voices in stand up comedy. Today. Hulu will also be launching a curated collective of licensed stand up specials from eight hundred Pound Gorilla and Comedy Dynamics. No word on who the other eleven comedians will be in year one. Conan O’Brien will get a second season of Conan O’Brien Must Go.

Season two will come out someday and will be six episodes long. We waited quite a while for season one, and as amazing as Conan O’Brien Must Go, is not sure this is what we were looking for. Conan. Although we’re getting like a variety show where you’re gonna be on HBO Max Max, HBO Max, you know more than like you’re basically on slightly more than I am. Can we get a little more output?

Buddy Bill Burr was on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast. The topic Louis C.K. Bill Maher said, I mean, don’t get me started on that. Isn’t it time everyone just went Okay, it wasn’t a cool thing to do, but it’s been long enough and welcome back enough. I mean, for the lord’s sake, clean that up.

A little. It’s not the end of the world. People have done so much worse things and gotten less. There’s no rhyme or reason to the me too type punishments. I’m sorry, is Louis C.K.

Canceled. He seems to be doing okay. He’s selling specials. He’s selling out Madison Square Garden. I’m on his website now.

Let’s see. I can buy his Madison Square Garden show for five dollars. If you’re playing Madison Square Garden, you’re not all that canceled. I’m sorry. He has a new special that we can apparently download and stream for ten dollars.

Oh yeah, he was nominated for Best Comedy Album by the Grammys. He had that movie last year that we totally forgot about fourth of July or remember that. Let’s not act like he’s on an ice flow in the middle of the Arctic somewhere. Bill Burr said they took fifty million dollars from I think they punished him. I’m I would love to ask Burr about how he arrived at that number.

Am I forgetting something like when you tell me Dave Chappelle walked away from fifty million dollars? I understand that number because he had a deal with Comedy Central, which he walked away from. Who’s the they that took fifty million dollars from c K? Bird talked about cancel culture in general and said, no one cares anymore. It started off with something everyone could agree on, then quickly it spun out of control.

Or remember when cancel culture got to the point where it was like, I don’t like some of the topics your stand up aackt right, That’s when it got weird. Cancel culture, it’s over. No one cares anymore. Bill Maher said there’s these actors who won’t work with him anymore, and some of them made movies with them, and saying I regret doing that. What a bunch of whosies cleaned that up.

First of all, it’s a very improbable crime they’re accusing him of. Plainly the other party had motivation and was vindictive. What On the maryseu dot com, Rachel Leischmann writes, let me explain. C K was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women and admitted to masturbating in front of female comedians without their consent. He went on to continue performing stand up just a few months after the situation.

Sure, he’s not starting it an FX series anymore, but he’s headlining comedy tours. Luis c K back in the day, put out a statement. The statement read, these stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my penis without asking first, which is also true. But I learned later in life too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your penis isn’t a question.

It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is they admired me, and I wielded that power irresponsibly, skipping ahead. I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. The allegations against c K went public, and he learned nothing. He went back to doing stand up making fun of the situation, winning a Grammy for his comedy album while selling out Madison Square Garden.

Nothing happened to him. Did he lose out on opportunities because he was a creep was found out. Yes, people like mar just really want the bad man in the world to get a slap on the wrist and be told, okay, don’t do it again. Wink wink. My personal point here, let’s not act like Louis canceled winning Grammys in Play in the Garden.

He’s not canceled. I’m sorry. Bilberr also spoke with Columbus Underground. Totally new topic here at the Columbus Underground asked Burr, have you ever been offered feedback about your work that actually been useful to you? So much of that stuff, like social media, you don’t even know if it’s gonna be bots at this point.

So I listen to that. I do listen to my comedic friends. I listen to my wife when she goes, hey, you know, I don’t know if you should be saying that. You know, I’ll get stubborn and all the finch stuff. But then eventually I’ll just be like, all right, it’s down.

A buddy of mine I saw doing a joke and the punchline was just what the f Don’t ever have a punchline in your act. That’s just what the f. Everyone’s laughing at it because they’re all thinking, what the f. They want you to elaborate in what they’re thinking because they can already think that by themselves. They don’t need a professional what the F guy.

For the most part of his feedback from comics, a lot of it nonverbal. If they’re hanging out to watch your set, so you know you’re doing something right. If they’re not hanging out anymore, maybe you should dig a little deeper. Columbus Underground said, I spoke to Brian Rigg in a month or so ago. You both often get called comedians comedians.

Do you agree with that? What does it mean? Burce said, Well, what a comedian is comedians that not only like what you do, but they really understand you. I’ve been quite prolific this week. Prolific it’s a little strong.

I’ve been writing a lot on the substack. I don’t know if any of it’s prolific, but there’s a lot of it prolific marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity. Hmm, maybe there’s a lot of it. Anyway, I wrote more about Howardstern. I was happy with the way the Howard one came out because I was trying not to Bury modern Howard.

I wanted to show my respect for younger Howard and explain my personal struggle with Howard twenty twenty four versus Howard Say nineteen eighty four, and realized maybe it’s just about me because at Hard I’m fifteen years old. So that’s on the substack link in the notes. It’s free. If it’s up for money, just go no money for Johnny Mack and just subscribe for free. Please thank you.

A new list the top fifty podcasts in the United States. It did not make it, So this is probably the fifty first most popular podcast in the United States as far as I can tell. And I’ll just go with that until somebody goes, no, you’re not. From a comedy standpoint number one, The Joe Rogan Experience SmartLess at number eight, Comedy Adjacent Club Shashay Kat Williams says, you’re welcome. That’s number eleven.

At number twelve, Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee’s Bad Friends number fifteen, Mainstream America, not noticing that even exists. Same note on THEO. Vaughn Office. Lady’s Still hanging Around at number twenty two. Conan at twenty five that seems low, doesn’t it?

Yeah, Two Bears one cave Sigorin Krasier thirty one, falling out of the top fifty, Mark Maren Probably it’s incem fifty one. Maren’s probably the fifty second most popular podcast, this one being slightly more popular than Mark Maron until somebody can prove otherwise. At the Sydney Comedy Festival, I couldn’t find any audio to play for you today, So does read A couple real quick? Tim Ling’s a show is called well this is awkward? How do you stop awkward situations for happening?

Ting wishes she knows she’s been a plus one at a funeral fought of Michael Jackson impersonator is constantly roasted by her mum about it. Weekend Notes said Ting is dry like a good martini. One of the hottest up and coming comedians on the circuit, Tom Witcomb’s White Collar Dark Jokes also no. This is a stand up comedy hour packed full of razor sharp jokes and devastating punchlines from a comedian who doesn’t believe in too soon or too far For lovers of Jimmy Carr, Anthony Jesseneck or Frankie Boyle comes see the closest thing Australia has to offer, right, I would be into that. See do Eat gave it four stars.

Confident, articulate and very funny. A comedian on the rise. CNN is going to do a US version of the BBC comedy quiz show Have I Got News for You? British version features two teams of panelists who answer questions about this week’s news, cracking jokes and sparking discussions in the process. The producers of the BBC version will also produce the US edition.

Well that’s good. No announcements on who might be on yet. Tracy Morgan nick fan. He was on the CNC NBA show Draymond Green was filling in for Charles Barkley, who had a night off. Tracy said, let me tell you something, Draymond.

I love you like cooked food. I love you like the fat kid loves cake. But don’t talk crap about my team. This is New York City, kid, this is the home of King Kong. This is where he died.

This is we get down. Don’t talk crap about my team, Draymond, I love you, piece. New York City is not the home of King Kong. I believe mister Kong grew up on Skull Island, did he not? Isn’t it right?

I mean that’s his home. He was kidnapped and brought to New York City and escaped and climbed the Empire State Building and then you guys shot him. I don’t think he considers that his home at all. Netflix has announced a golf comedy starring Will Ferrell, a scripted series comedy about golf. Ten episodes.

It will co star Romi Usef. That’s all weird. It is called Golf All Caps. In Golf, Will Ferrell plays a fictional golf legend. Details of Yusef’s part are being kept under wraps.

This completely different than the one where Owen Wilson plays a golf legend on Apple TV and Mark Maron is his old caddy or something. So we have dueling golf shows. That’s your comedies for today. If you would like this and the other shows on the network, ad free open up the show on the Apple podcast at more. It says subscriptions click it.

I pay the four ninety nine a month, but not the first thirty days. That’s a free trial, so you can test drive this thing, and you can decide, uh, either I’d like it or I don’t. Or Johnny Max sleeps too late. I’m up a four thirty in the morning, and I hate him. He doesn’t upload the commercial free version till sometimes seven am or seven forty five if he has to drop his daughter off at school, and I don’t like that.

I get it. What is it now in my world? It’s one thirty three at two pm Eastern today in my world, yesterday in your world. I have a meeting to try and solve that, So stay tuned. See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jerry Seinfeld in the news yet again. Howard Stern has accepted Jerry’s apology. On his radio show, Howard said Jerry had said that I’m basically an interviewer and that I’m not a comedian.

That now comedians of podcasts and comedians are, you know, funnier or something than me. I read and I went, that’s weird because Jerry’s a personal friend of ours, especially his wife Jessica is really good friends with Beth Stern. Stern confirmed that Seinfeld called him quote immediately to apologize for the comments, and Stern was happy to forgive his friend. Or Howard I said, Jerry, you don’t even have to please. This is embarrassing.

I’m the king of going on the air and having millions of regrets afterward. Apology accepted, I don’t care, And you know what, I’m not a comedian. I’m an interviewer. I don’t know what I am. I’ve always considered myself a bit of a comedian.

But whatever it is, don’t worry about it. Time out. Here’s Howard, yet again positioning himself as the great interviewer, third act Howard, revisionist history Howard. Not the guy that did beastiality dial date. No, not the guy that had women come in and ride a device that I can’t even describe if I want to keep my podcast clean.

Not that guy. Not the guy that did blackface. Not the guy that was route to Bob Hope when Bob was like ninety five. Not the guy that had a war with bon Jovi, Not the guy that had a war with Sam Kinnison. Not the guy that didn’t book people like Gilbert Gottfried once this third act thing started, Howard.

If he’s not a comedian, he’s an interviewer for Howard Stern. I don’t know what I am. I’ve always considered myself a bit of comedian. But whatever it is, don’t worry about it. Stern explained that Seinfeld apologized for a really long time, and he said it came out really wrong.

According to Howard, Jerry asked to come on the radio show to apologize there, but Stern said, not necessarily. I don’t want to get into it. It’s awkward. It’s fine. I’ve got to call up people and apologize for stuff I’ve done on the air.

When I’m a huge fan of these people, I don’t know what gets into me. I f up sometimes, So it wasn’t that big a deal. I didn’t really think much about it. Now this is me being a sure II. They go all out radio war with nineteen eighty five Howard Stern killing Jerry over this, just for the drama of it.

That’s what we loved, Howard taking the high road and going it’s okay. I mean, where’s the fun in that? Hey, Sam Catison, It’s all cool, bon Chovy, don’t worry about it. Where’s the fun in that? Hey, zoo keeper peace Bro, where’s the fun in that?

Howard? Howard Stern, the Great interviewer? Ignore the part before twenty fifteen. U. I’m in a good mood today.

I don’t pick the news. I just tell you what the news is. Andrew Schultz compared to Kim Kardashian to a robot with no human aspect. Schultz was on his own podcast, Flagrant and said that Kim sat with perfect posture for three hour street and seemed disassociated during the roost of Tom Brady, which we’re still talking about ten days later. Schultz said, even when she was up there, they were kind of booing her.

It didn’t make her smile, didn’t make her set. It was nothing. Kim’s up there doing her set, and this guy in the stands out of nowhere just goes bitch, just as if he’d been holding it in for a whole minute and he just couldn’t hold it in anymore. Just seeing Kim Kardashian on stage for three minutes was too much for him to hold it in. Bert Krasier and Tom Sigora on the Two Bears podcasts they had Jimmy Carr on I was trying to go back through the Facebook group to think, whoever told me to listen to this?

Thank you? Whoever it was, Dylan Scott, whoever it was, thank you. I pulled several clips here. First up here is Bert and Tom talking about how they prepped for the roast. Oh, let’s talk about our experience with the roast.

They get a call like a month ago and they say, hey, we’re doing this roast to Tom Brady, would you be interested in doing it? And you go I said yes, we’re both in, and I go no. He said absolutely, I go no. You were like, there’s nothing we can win out of this. Like, what are you talking about, Like, we’ve never been on roast, we’re not roasters or anything.

But then they said, we’re trying something different where we want you guys to do it together. And even then I was like, you mean like just go to the podium together and rose together. And they were like, no, we want to do like we’re thinking of, like trying something that we’ve never done before. I think they wanted a sports center thing first. Yeah.

Yeah, And we were like, nah, I got to give flowers. I give him to you last night. I’ll give them to everyone. Yeah. Well you said no, and you said you called me and said, we’re not saying yes yet.

We’re gonna have a meeting with Netflix. We’re gonna talk through with the writers, yeah, and with the producers. So we got on a thing and in a thirty minute zoom call, I spoke zero, which I think everyone will find shocking. Yeah, that’s true. And you talked the whole time, and you had a million questions of things angles, you liked, angles, you wanted to do, things you were cool to do.

You liked the multimedia presentation, you liked it being different than everyone else’s. Yeah, because you’re like it and there you can’t really draw comparison because it’s apples and oranges. So we can succeed on our own or fail on our own. Yeah.

And then at the end you were like, Bird, do you have any do you have anything…

And I said, I said yes, Thursday, Yeah, that’s exactly what you said yessday, I said yes, before we had any idea what we were doing. Then Jimmy Carr joined what was interesting to me about the Jimmy Carr segments? And I could listen to Jimmy Carr talk about comedy all day? Apparently because I did it this morning and I did it yesterday. This turned into a conversation between Bert Kreischer and Jimmy Carr.

Sogora kind of disappeared during it. I don’t think there’s anything weird going on, or maybe Bert was just excited. But you know, I’m listening for an hour and I’m like, is sigory even there? I got a text? Did you hear the text?

I’m gonna get more texts. I’m supposed to be ordering lunch from Jersey Mikes, so the family is going to be texting me orders. Why don’t you mute your phone, John, because that’s not fun. That’s not how I like to do this podcast. I like all the quirkiness.

Anyway, Sigora kind of disappeared in the middle of it. No harm, no foul, just noticed it. They started talking about Tony Hingecliff and echoed what I said the other day that I think Tony just took a step up in class, as they say, and from time to time you’ve heard me. Here’s another order? Could you order for Jersey Mikes?

I better pause this podcast, be right back. All right, I’ve got the orders here. We’ve got a number fourteen, the veggie number seven, turkey and provolon that’s for me, an original Italian number thirteen, and a Chipotle cheese steak. No, we don’t want a Chipotle cheese steak. See it’s a good thing I’m doing this bit.

We want a regular cheese steak. All right, that was close. I’m gonna hit next here, thirty eight eighty. I’m not telling you my credit card number. I’m telling them, but I’m not telling you done.

Where were we? What’s gonna happen now is I’m waiting for my banker to call me back. And that’s why I had my phone unmuted, So now that it’s muted, I’m gonna wind up missing his call. Oh were we let’s see. Oh yeah, I’ve talked about the past where I do this Emperor room thing where I don’t really laugh.

I analyze comedy, and comedians do that in the back of the room. And here’s Jimmy Carr talking about that very thing. I would say, like I was watching, it is a bit of you that watches in, you know from the audience is a comic going that’s good, that’s good, that’s great. Line. Okay, you know, you’ll kind of you’re kind of analyzing.

I think I wish it was up back.

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And then one more clip the setup here is Tom and Bert were talking about how …

This was something that I kept noticing too, because in seeing prompter and watching all the acts, one of the things that you pick up on was the people that didn’t do well, and there were a few that like it was. I’m saying, like the regular roasting was was. It wasn’t because of them or the material. It’s that they kept going off script. Yeah, because we would run with that and they commit to the bit.

They would read like the top line and you’re like okay, and then and they don’t realize, see, we know how important economy of words and like the you gotta say this before this is the connective tissue to that, and they would go first line and then I would watch them like riff on that and then try to pick up and you’re like, yeah, it doesn’t work like that. You have to stick to the whole thing for the thing at the end to pay off. Yeah. I thought. I thought Kim cutish she did a great job.

I mean, the joke is why I wouldn’t have told anyone. The reason the reason I think she was able to witch because she ended up getting a big couple of big pops, is because she stayed in the pocket to get booed like that and to just sit with it, yes, okay, yeah, and then to do it the confidence yeah yeah, like to get booed by that many people, It’s like most people would crumble while we’re analyzing comedy The eight hundred Pound Gorilla tells us Mark Norman’s got a new documentary called Page to Stage. Mark is ready to pull back the curtain on how he writes his signature jokes and open up on his creative process. Page to Stage is available on punch Up Dot Live. The doc follows Mark Norman as he takes an inkling of a premise that came to him in the bathroom of a fast food chain to five different stages in New York City that very night.

Over the course of six months, Mark sculpts his joke failure after failure throughout Europe in the Midwest, until it’s finally ready for a sold out show at Carnegie Hall. That’s fun, Norman says, these jokes don’t write themselves. Rolling Stone caught one of Ali Wong’s shows last week during the festival. She told the audience, I didn’t expect the news of my divorce to be so widespread in public. I felt embarrassed and ashamed, but I didn’t realize that all these media outlets were acting like a bat signal, letting all potentially interested men know.

I’ve never been pursued this much of my life. I get a phone call from this guy who I met a dinner party in the past and he got my number from a mutual friend. He was like, Hey, it just hopped near the news about your divorce and I’ve had a crush on you forever. I actually told my best friend years ago that you were my dream girl. And you know it sounds crazy, but I want you to be my girlfriend, she jokes.

I was just like, I just paid twenty five dollars for the dating app. You seem really nice, but I got to get my money’s worth every time she arrived at a new location on her vacation, and that man sent flowers to every hotel she stayed at. When she told her girlfriends about the gesture, they thought it. When she told her male friends, they said the man sounded like a psychopath. I’ll go with the latter as well, she said.

That’s how cheap and lazy men have become. When a fellow man commits any act of kindness and a romantic gesture, it must be a symptom of an undiagnosed mental illness. Ellen Degenerous is returning new Netflix for what she’s calling her final stand up special. This is six years after her last hour, which was called Relatable. This one will air later in the year.

Ellen says to answer the questions everyone was asking, Yes, I’m going to talk about it. Yes, this is my last special. Yes, Portia really is that pretty in real life. Let’s see what’s happening down at the Sydney Comedy Festival. I’ve already played this clip as I pulled the audio, and I really like this from Kevin Duo Jin.

Kevin Jin is the physically largest Asian Australian comedian in Sydney. He’d like to talk to you about Buddhism. There’ll be Zen Riddle’s diagrams and family photos from Kevin’s childhood. Before I hit the clip here, I should probably tell you he has a long strand of hair, which you will notice, and he will explain I have a foot long ret title because I want to have a social life on hard mode and I hate being able to date. My mom actually gave me some dating advice.

She said, Kevin, if a girl ever likes you, she’s wrong, which is very mean but also very silly, because I’m not going to take dating advice from a virgin. I don’t mean a brag, but I’ve actually taken several women out for a night in the city, you know, get a nice dinner in Chinatown or as I like to call it town. At the end of the night, I’d be like, oh, hey, I had a really good time. Just want to be clear, was this a date? And sometimes I’ll say, ah, I just want to be friends and that’s cool.

But sometimes I’ll make it weird. They’ll be like, oh, I just want to be friends.

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Also, I don’t date Asians.

It’s not exactly constructed criticism, like, if anything, this is a genetic condition. But so Rondo for had a really good comeback. They’re like, all the Donasians and I’ll be like, you know what, that’s totally cool. It’s totally fine. I don’t date racists.

A little clapter at the end there, but I laughed at the front end, really enjoyed that. Ali Morgan’s show was called hard Lunch or is it called hard Launch? I wrote both down. I’m gonna guess launch is correct. Remember the old thing from the seventies far out space nuts was it?

They were going? They pushed the launch button instead of the lunch button, and they wound up in space? Remember that, you know what I’m talking about it’s called hard launch is Ali Morgan’s show no clip, But being really honest, what caught my eye was the cover art that she’s using. She looks nice in this photo. And you know, if you’re in any sort of show biz us recording a podcast in your basement and I did actually shower before the podcast today, a major step up.

How you look is part of it, it really is. You know, why did I click her cover art as opposed to thirty others? Well I did click thirty others, but nobody else had any audio, neither does she. But this was the one I went, Ah, I’m interested in seeing what Alie Morgan has to say. Ali graduated from drama school ready to take on any role that came her way, and what came her way was commercials.

The Sydney Morning Harold said newcomer could be a younger Tim mentioned that’s how praise four stars. The Sydney scoop five stars belly laughs, they said. Australian Arts Review said we can expect Morgan to make some big waves in the near future, and the Theater People gave her four and a half stars, saying part bo Burnham, part hannigansby Morgan holds her audience in the palm of her hand, A right that sounds good. Far Out magazine got up with John Clees. Clees was talking about how there should be a separate OSCAR category for comedies.

The topic Standy Kuprick’s Doctor Strangelove. The nineteen sixty four movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peter Sellers. At one Nune Clease noted that Sellers lost out on Best Actor to Rex Harrison for his role in My Fair Lady, Please feels that Sellers had one of the greatest comedy performances of all time. Of course, they never give oscars to funny people. I think there is an extraordinary, completely incorrect idea that drama is somehow more important and more difficult than comedy, whereas, in my opinion, comedy is a great deal more difficult.

All you have to do if you get a straight part is you’ve got to make certain choices to make them believable. If you’ve got to be funny, you’ve got to make certain choices make them believable, and then put all of your comedy technique on top of that, which a lot of straight actors don’t have. There are some actors who can do funny and some very good actors who can’t. But I think all the very very best comedians can act interesting. Seth Myers he’ll be hosting Late Night with Seth Myers through twenty twenty eight.

In case you’re curious about the rest of the gang, John Oliver’s deal goes through twenty six. Stephen Colbert has a three year deal that he signed last year, so two years left on that, and Kim All he’s getting near the end here of this deal of twenty five. He’s talked about retiring, but I’ll believe it when I see it. And the Stranger dot Com has been asking comedians who were performing at the Egyptian about the ghosts. They asked Sam Miller, Hey, Sam Miller, this shows out the Egyptian, which is rumored to be haunted.

Do you believe in ghosts? I don’t know why I like this, bet, Sam Miller said, I don’t, and I checked. I used to stay up for three days at a time, and if anyone would have seen a ghost would have been me. But I’ve been wrong before, so don’t take any chances. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media Robust one again. Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I cannot get Jerry Seinfeld out of this podcast. You may have seen that on Sunday dozens of students at Duke University’s graduation walked out on Jerry some chanting free Palestine.

Let’s listen our commencement speaker. So Jerry was able to keep as cool deliver his entire speech no interruptions. I listened to the entire seventeen minutes and I pulled some clips for you as you listen. What us how Jerry actually speaks like Tomp Poppa’s delivery, not the Jerry Seinfeld impression that we all do though. Hey, you ever notice he doesn’t really speak like that.

It’s more of a Tomp Papa delivery. Pay a lot of attention to it. If you’re in a small submersible that looks like a giant kazoo and going to visit the Titanic seven miles down at the bottom of the ocean, and the captain of the vessel is using a game Boy controller, pay attention to that. What are you checking out down there? Oh?

I see what happened? This ship sank. Now I understand why it never made it into port. And here’s an interesting take on privilege from Jerry Seinfeld. Find something where you love the good parts and don’t mind the bad parts too much.

The torture you’re comfortable with. This is the golden path to victory in life, work, exercise, relationships. They all have a solid component of pure torture, and they are all one thousand percent worth it. Privilege is a word that has taken quite a beating lately. Privilege today seems to be the worst thing you can have.

I would like to take a moment to defend it again. A lot of you are thinking, I can’t believe they invited this guy too late. I say, use your privilege. I grew up a Jewish boy from New York. That is a privilege.

If you want to be a comedian. Thanks. If I messed up a funny story around my relatives, they would go, that’s not how you tell that joke. The prostitute has to be behind the drapes when the wife comes in. You went to Duke, that is an unbelievable privilege.

I now have an honorary doctorate, a Humane letters degree from Duke university, and if I can figure out a way to use that, I will. I haven’t figured anything out yet. I think it’s pretty much as useful in real life as this outfit I’m wearing. But so what I’ll take it. My point is we’re embarrassed about things we should be proud of, and proud of things we should be embarrassed about.

This incident led me to wonder should Jerry Seinfeld go political in his comedy. I talked about this on Saturday, and then this came up, and then I doubled down on it and wrote about it in the Substack on Sunday. I’ll just refer you there. The link is in the show notes. It’s free.

If it asks you for money, just go nope. I want the free version if you want to read my thoughts but the too long didn’t read is Hey, Jerry, why don’t you go political? George Carlin wasn’t the hippie topp weather Man forever. Would love to see your take on things. You’re a good writer, you know how’d be funny?

You say you’re passionate about it. Go for it anyway. I wrote at length about that on the substack link in the show notes I mentioned in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, I did not like Nikki Glaser’s special. I was bouncing around the channels as we do. You don’t do that anymore, but you know what I mean on a Saturday night and I’m like, oh, hbo Nikki Glaser special.

I will check this out because I’m really into her this week because she crushed at the Tom Brady Roast and that special. Didn’t like it, and I knew as soon as I posted it. I knew Nikki Glaser is having a great week and people are gonna get mad at Johnny Mack for not liking the special. Didn’t like the special, as I wrote, I just didn’t buy her premises, at least in the twenty minutes. Maybe later in the special, and I didn’t watch the entire special where she got serious about depression and topics.

Maybe then it was good, But that first fifteen twenty minutes it sounded like stand up comedy is supposed to sound. We actually got into that in the Facebook group as well. I was discussing Bob Hope. Let me pull it up because I made just a nonsensical example of a Bob Hope joke. So I wrote a Bob Hope esque joke where the tag doesn’t even make sense from the setup, but it has the rhythm of a joke.

Now, I don’t have a half assed Bob Hope impression. I just tried five time and it’s so bad I took it out, so I’ll just do it as Johnny Mack. But setup would be, Hey, do you notice Richard posted in the Facebook group nay pause and you book for the camera that Bob Hope way and you go, yeah, it was either that or try to convince Nixon to leave Vietnam. Right. The punchline doesn’t even make sense, but it’s got the rhythm of a joke, and that’s what I felt NICKI was doing that.

It was just yuck, yucks, and it had the formation of comedy. But I was like, I don’t buy anything you’re doing here. I know this opinion is going to be unpopular, but that’s okay if you’ve been listening last week or so. Let’s just add Nikki Glaser to the list of people that can be mad at me. So we’ve got Jerry Howard, Nikki Glaser, Mulaney.

Everybody at Netflix. Newsweek really liked the special coincidentally they had her for an interview. I don’t know if that’s real late or not, and they write comedian Nikki Lazer never wants to offend, quoting Nikki, I never want to say offensive for raunchy things or push the envelope, because that speaks to some kind of comedian who just wants to rile people up. She wants to hate you with honest and really funny, precise, acute jokes throughout.

Meanwhile, Glazier said she was at the Tom Brady after party and Tom Brady di…

She said he probably had something to do because he’s a busy guy. Kind of weird that Tom didn’t show up with the party. He was on his way out and I ran into him in the hallway and just said, hey, thanks for having me. We didn’t meet him before the show. I only met him after I got done with my set, and after telling horrible things about him, he just goes, you did a great job, good luck with everything, which is pretty much saying I’ll never see you again and don’t try to contact me.

Have a good life. Nikki said all that on the Paton McAfee show last Thursday. Netflix announced that Big Guy, A special from Rachel Feinstein will be on Netflix one week from today May twenty. First, there is a clip, let’s listen. My mom is like aggressively liberal.

She would have preferred if I married like a genderless Kenyan composter, an Irish Catholic fireman. Like she was praying one of us was gay. She was just sitting in the kitchen waiting, like there’s Coco if anyone feels gay and wants to talk about it a lot. Even physically, she’s always wearing some sort of long like menopausal cape, just some kind of navel host smock. She wears a hostile amount of turquoise.

It’s aggressive in Big Guy Rachel Feinstein, who we had doing mornings at series Sexam Raw Dog towards the end of my run. But there was a boss there who one time told me that his wife wasn’t familiar with the comedians we were playing, and we had to redo the playlist and we basically turned it into a top forty station instead of the original nine point five years, which was, hey, we know comedy and we’re trying to educate you, So we were too early on Rachel. Oops, sorry, boss Guy at him’s the list of people. It’s Madame Rachel and her new special Big Guy Jokes about her life as the wife of a firefighter, a mother, and a stand up comic in the words of her three year old daughter, and my Daddy’s a hero and my mommy’s sarcastic. A very good listen is the podcast Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Zepp’s I’ll refer you to the Jimmy Carr episode.

I went for a walk on site and really really enjoyed listening to Jimmy breakdown comedy. Here’s Jimmy talking about the importance of having a real job to appreciate your showbiz career. I work for Shell Oil for a couple of years. Yeah, I’d like a proper job. I think it’s quite important as well, because that thing of the haardonic treadmill.

We get very used to our lives being good, so you need something to anchor you. You kind of need the school years or the colleges or the work years. If you’re in show business or doing anything creative, you need something to judge it against. Yes, to go, well, that was really boring, and now I do this thing and it’s really fun. Very few people get to breathe that rarefied air, and so I get kind of sick and tired of people complaining about it.

Jimmy’s a comedian, so he had to be asked about cancel culture. Interesting take here, Yes, but I think you have to like size it. I think you have to write the size that you have to say, Well, look, I told a joke and some people didn’t like it. That’s as serious as it is. Like, if someone has a problem with that a joke, Okay, I’m not for everyone.

I would say, there are fifty jokes in that show of that show that’s the new one, that was a preview of the new show. Ye, I mean it’s literally happened fifty jokes that are worse than that right in the show. Right, you have no right to be offended by that joke, right, because what about the ones that came before and after and the idea that you go, oh, that sacred cow, the thing that offends me you can’t joke about. But the jokes in the show about rape or pedophilia or famine or does it not to be about Jimmy? But all the other all the other stuff’s fine, right, that one that’s a specific one, I think actually, the way the world is at the moment, it just seems very true.

I can’t imagine tend to be a slow newsweek when these things catch fire. Comedy sort of like a canary in the mine if you look at like Jerry Seinfeld stopped playing the universities in America about ten years ago. He said, yeah, I’m not I’m not playing the university campus anymore. They’re a bit too sensitive. That was the canary in the mind, right, That was the that was that was ten years ago, going this this these people are being crazy.

Do you remember his gag that that he got the they were upset about. He had a gag, I know, he had a gag about the young people scrolling through Instagram and just scrolling or scrolling through Tinder or one of these dating apps or something, and he said that there’s they’re kind of just scrolling and checking it and selecting and yes or knowing like a gay prince or something. It was like it was that mild, and they were like, that’s a homophobic it’s also an anti royalist slur perhaps, but or like or like I think he’s a gay French prince or something like that. He was just saying these people are behaving in an entitled fashion, right, and but yeah, that was that was I mean, if that’s pretty your okay, yeah, you’re offended by that? How many gay princes the world?

Good luck in the world though, because it’s you know, if you’re that brittle and good stuff from Jimmy on the evolution of stand up comedy, which you know, I struggle with this as well, like where do we start? And he’s starting it with Carlin and Pryor. Good take here, but really I’d say sixteen ninety seventy if you look at maybe Richard Pryor and George Carlin as John the Baptist, these guys come along and they start selling out shows where it’s just them talking for sort of an hour and a half two hours and being hilarious, and they’re kind of they’ve come from the nightclubs, but they’re doing an hour and a half. They’re playing like rock stars in these venues and people are coming to see them, and they’re looking at them and they’re they’re saying something very interesting. There’s there’s no filter.

You know, if you really think about what friendship it’s like, really good friends, you’ve got no filter. Work colleague’s got a bit of filter strangers, you’ve got a lot of filter comics. It’s no filter. It’s sort of direct with them. It’s like a friendship.

And then as things progress through the seventies, eighties, nineties, it’s getting better, it’s getting more relevant. I’d say it’s more relevant today than it’s ever been. So we’re going to work on a thing at the moment on teaching stand up comedy, because it strikes me that it’s more relevant than music. Like music is non verbal communication, and it’s incredibly important to me. And it it because an emotion within you, or can anker emotions within you that are just it’s phenomenal, right, but it’s not as relevant as stand up comedy.

Robbie Prau getting nothing but good press. The Wall Street Journal profiled Robbie. He’s the guy running Netflix comedy, and I thought this was really interesting as to how these deals are getting done these days. The Journal rights using the lower cost, lower risk model on Netflix now applies to most stand up deals. Robbie Prout licensed a one hour special from Leanne Morgan.

She had to cover the cost of producing the show, but retained ownership and could negotiate a new deal if it performed well. That explains why a lot of these specials look homemade. Like Tim Dillon, who I love and I’m going to deny that when he gets canceled. I never said I like Tim Dillon. Who said I like Tim Dillon?

I never said that his special The sound was terrible. I don’t know if he hired a friend. I don’t know what went into Tim Dillon’s special, but it wasn’t mixed right in my opinion at Tim Dillon’s illist right, howidz Tern, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mellany, Tim Dillon, fans of Nicky Glazer, and everyone at Netflix. Leanne had a cover the cost of producing the show and Scott Beckett he does not like the chokeoid joke. He’s mad and I can tell he doesn’t like it.

She had to cover the cost. She had to cover the cost of producing the show, but retained ownership and can negotiate a new deal for form well. I’m everyone was a hit. Last month, Morgan signed with the streamer for two additional specials plus a sixteen episode sitcom. An agent at CAAA said Robbie basically recreated Montreal comedy festival in a better location with significantly more financing for me.

W Bert Kreischer is not a cokehead, and he’s thrilled that the Tom Brady roast didn’t make him seem like one. He explained to Jimmy Kimmel that he had nicotine patches and a can in his pocket, but he was informed by the director of the roast that they were too distracting. So I said, okay, I’ll put them in a little bag. Sam Jay Ripbert saying that he’s a fake party animal, that I don’t even do drugs. I’m not even dead like the big ones.

So I went in my pocket and pulled out my nicotine patches and I just wiggled them. Andrew Schultz goes, you got a bag of blow on you, and then the camera’s on me in the forum and the forum goes nuts, like this guy brought coke. Sigoura comes back to me and tells me you’re about to go viral. Everyone’s gonna think you’re a coke heead, but they edited it out. Thank god.

I don’t want to have to deal with My daughters have been saying no pills, no powder for years and the dad’s rolling in with half an eight. Paul Bert said the roast was terrifying because it’s a big list, it’s a big day as there’s a bunch of murderers. But it went real well. It went great, and then god we followed Kim Kardashian medi and Rudy Moreno passed away Friday evening. Moreno died of complications from a stroke and sepsis, according to his son Nathan.

Nathan added, he put up a gritty fight and did all he could. Agent Mark Scrogg said Rudy was a great mentor to many comics. Was a great comedy show host, which is the toughest job in comedy because you have to support and let the others shine, and it was very involved in local charities. Ken Jung bothed on social media, my heart is truly broken. Rudy Moreno, the godfather of Latino comedy, was the first person to book me at the ice House.

In fact, the first time my wife ever saw me stand up was at the ice House on Rudy’s show. All this led me to doing my Netflix special at the ice House. Thanks to Rudy Morino constantly supporting me letting me get stage time. And all his shows, and he was hilarious, the consummate comedian. I’m laughing thinking of his East La Santa bit right now.

He was an incredible actor, guitarist and singer as well, which is a brilliant artist. Love you so much, Rudy, I know you’re making Heaven laugh. At the Sydney Comedy Festival, Bonnie Tanky’s show is called Lab Meet. The Herald’s son calls her a dry and delightfully kooky. She’s here to do something very different.

I played some of her material from Melbourne about a month ago, but here is a different part of her set. Let’s listen. I don’t have kids because I can’t afford them. I was I was online the other day, just like looking at kids, and I saw this thing and it said that the average cost of raising a child in Australia is half a million dollars. That’s ivucave them the whole time.

And I just don’t have that sort of money. But my sister has kids, and the youngest one, I was about two months old, and I was holding her the other day and I was looking at her and I was thinking, you are so cute. Not worth half a million bucks. And at that moment I dropped her. Yeah, and I just felt like so bad, like because it really does depreciate their value lots of fun.

I like her a lot. The Holly Reporter was that Nick Offerman and Friends Versus Climate Crisis part of the Netflix Festival last week. Some of the friends included Nicole Byer Otsko at Cotska and kamel On Gianni Mae Martin as well. The reporter says one of the highlights was Otsko’s set about her high school cheerleading days. Drag queen Patty Gurnia gave the audience a science lesson in support of their thesis and Nature is Gay.

The environmentalists performed a delightful drag routine of a clownfish transitioning from male to female that included NEMO references, costume changes, and confetti that sounds fun. SNL’s fiftieth anniversary coming up. NBC has announced a seven month long party to celebrate SNL, including a November election special, new holiday specials, a documentary series That’ll be Good, multipart music specials That’ll be good as well, and a comedy special. At Radio City Music Hall, there will be a three hour SNL fifty primetime special that will air Sunday, February sixteenth from eight to eleven PM. Unless the NFL pushes the super Bowl to that weekend, then you’re not going to show it that night.

I’ll tell you that. What is the super Bowl next year? Oh, you’re in luck. The super Bowl is February ninth, so it’ll go. I guess they’re not afraid of the Daytona five hundred.

The show and red carpet event will welcome stars of the past and present. I’m expecting a lot of Will Ferrell. Technically, the fiftieth anniversary is October eleventh, twenty twenty five. Dennis Larry I have told you about this before, but it’s now official. A series order going to Going Dutch Abody’s storing and executive produced by Dennis Leary.

Dennis Leary is sixty six. By the way, this single camera series, I bring that up for a reason. It centers on an arrogant, loudmouth US Army colonel, a sixty six year old colonel who, apparently after an epically unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he’s punished with a command position at the least important army base in the world. After serving with distinction in every war zone of the last three decades, the sixty six year old colonel now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, no weapons, and no tactical purpose. Instead, it has a Michelin star level commissary and a top notch bowling alley.

If I’m understanding what I’m reading on veteran dot Com correctly, age sixty two is the maximum age listed in the title ten USC for officers below general and flag grades. Sixty six year old Dennis Leary, I guess is playing a sixty one year old colonel. What if the show runs ten years? What will happen? It’s a sitcom.

John po dot Com tells me that the average age for a colonel is forty five years old. I’m sure I’m misunderstanding something. If you are clearly more expert than I am in military rank and age, would love to hear from you. Either email me it’s in the show notes or hit the Facebook group taiy com news podcast group. Tracy Morgan getting a new show on Paramount Plus.

This is set in the same world as The Neighborhood. Tracy Morgan will play Francois Crutchfield aka Crutch Cedric. The entertainer said in a statement, I’m excited to be expanding our the Neighborhood universe by producing a show with the legendary comedian Tracy Morgan. Legendary is a bit strong ed Tracy to the list, Howard Stern. Tracy Morgan.

The new character is a close cousin of my character Calvin Butler, and you’ll enjoy some of their many similarities. Why can’t it be the same character? Morgan plays crutch a say it like it is widowed father who is challenged when as two adult children and a couple of grandchildren need to move back home, and let’s just say there’ll be several comedic complications. Bill Maher has announced he’s not gonna do stand up anymore. He was on Club Ran and I’m talking to his guest at Jerry Seinfeld.

Mor said, after this year, I’m gonna stop doing stand up comedy. I don’t want to make it like a big announcement or anything. I’m doing a special at the end of the year. It’ll be my thirteenth for HBO, and that’s a lot. I put a lot of time and effort doing it, because, as you know, stand up is like playing the cello.

You can’t just walk up there. You have to stay in practice, and I do, and I’ve always loved stand up and I’m always working on it. But I have a show. Jerry said, it’s not crazy. I think perhaps for you, whatever feels right for you feels right.

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