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Featured: Moshe Kasher, Sebastian Maniscalco, Bill Maher, Dave Chappelle, Travis Kelce, Ricky Gervais, Louis C.K., Alan Carr

What’s in This Episode

• Moshe Kasher tonsil cancer diagnosis and surgery
• Sebastian Maniscalco calf injuries from performing
• Travis Kelce attends Dave Chappelle show in San Diego
• Mark Twain Prize honoring Bill Maher airing on Netflix
• Ricky Gervais new animated series Allie Katz
• Alan Carr reveals cut bit from That Was The Week That Was

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s all wish Mosha Casher some good luck. He’s been diagnosed with tonsil cancer. He revealed this on Instagram on Father’s Day.

He said, three months ago, I found a bump on my tonsil. It was cancer, which did not rule so hard. On Friday, he underwent a procedure in La Mosha. Kasher joke that a Jewish surgery robot at Cedar SINAI yanked my jaw open for five years and cut it out, and then slit my throat and I sected my neck, leaving me with a hardcore neck scar which will make people reluctant to street fight me. He said his tongue was clamped and yanked out of his mouth.

It’s so swollen and bruised. I sound like I am Sam. Referring to Sean Pennon’s character, Kasher wrote, this has been the most terrifying and consciousness consuming experience of my life. My life has been terror, meditation, tears, and medical planning. Oh and twelve hours days on set pitching jokes.

I truly cannot believe I managed to work an entire movie while dealing with this, but Judd Apatite presumably could not have been more kind, supportive, and nurturing friend, all while being on the verge of a five hour energy overdose from this terrifying habit. Casher said, I’m in pain, but the good news is the cancer I have has an incredibly high curate in the ninety five percent zone. He’s waiting to hear if he needs radiation, but regardless, I will be okay and back to being a cool dude asap. He joked that the good news is that he was diagnosed with the type of cancer you get from sex. He encouraged his followers to get checked and to vaccinate their kids, writing HPV positive tonsil cancer as an epidemic in men under fifty five.

He and his wife, Natasha Lazeiro recorded in an episode of their Endless Honeymoon podcast. Right before the surgery. Casher said, thanks to Natasha and all my wonderful friends who have been so supportive. I woke up on that operating table so flooded with emotions and gratitude for my life and the gift of consciousness. I can’t wait to get back to work, but for now, I breathe, I walk, I eat, I survive.

I live.

Also feel terrible for Sebastian Maniscalco, who The Wall Street Journal tell…

This sounds very serious. I wonder if Sebastian made a stupid face for the camera. While talking to the Wall Street Journal, they were curious what his morning routine is like when he’s not on the road. Sebastian said, like a lot of people, I look at social media for how to be a productive individual. I was setting my alarm for four thirty in the morning to work out and get everything out of the way.

Then I said to myself, why the hell am I getting up when I really don’t have to. I push my workout still later, and now I get up when my body tells me too. Usually around six thirty. I generally have two cups of coffee. Then the whole family gets in the car and goes to school.

I have two kids, seven and nine. That’s twenty two minute drive. Is great because they’re strapped in they can’t move, you can talk to them. I do a steam for twenty minutes, then jump in the cold plunge. My dad is like I’ve never done any of this, and I’m living to lady and I go, yeah, but you look like a grustacean.

So that was when the Wall Street Journal asked Sebastian Maniscalco, have you injured yourself telling jokes? Again? If you missed the lead story, Mosha Kasher has tonsil cancer and Sebastian Maniscalco has twice injured himself telling jokes. That’s right, he tells The Wall Street Journal. In Detroit around twenty seventeen, as I was leaving the stage, I kind of lean back and popped my calf.

I had to limp off and then be in a wheelchair the next day at the airport. Then a year and a half ago, I snapped the other calf doing a joke at the Winn in Las Vegas. This was mid set, and I mentioned it to the crowd because I had to be stationary. It’s not like I’m playing football, But when you’re jumping and leaping and doing this, that and the other on stage, then going to the next city and sleeping in a different bed, it all wears and tears on your body. Boy, being a comedian is just so hard.

You gotta feel bad for Sebastian Maniscalco, and of course mush Casher. Now somebody who actually plays football is Travis Kelcey, and TMZ tells us Travis kelce gave off bachelor party vibes in San Diego. On Sunday night, Travis and his posse went to see Dave Chappelle perform, and then TMZ captured the Kelcey and crew leaving on their very own part party bus. On the party bus was Jason Kelcey with other quote eight other athletic looking dudes. It is unclear to me if Dave Chappelle did any transgender jokes and if Travis Kelcey laughed at them.

I will investigate and let you know. TMZ also reports on Saturday night, a massive fireworks display pomped off outside the Ocean House near Taylor Swift’s estate in Rhode Island. Rumors are they will get married July third. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Bill Maher. That’s right, I said Bill Maher, And you’re like, John, did you say Bill Maher?

The script is wrong? No, it’s Bill Maher. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humors, honoring Bill Maher and it will air on Netflix on July twenty first. Now, you may recall last year they honored Conan O’Brien and a whole bunch of people, including dramatic actor Adam Sandler, were there and was great, Well, here’s who’s going to be this one. Well, there’s an update on who’s coming for Bill Maher.

The event itself takes place June twenty eighth at the newly unrenamed Kennedy Center. Guests will include Louis C. K not So Canceled, Whitney Cummings, Woody Harrelson, Hariana Huffington, Jay Leno, John Mellencamp, and Stephen A. Smith. The greats of comedy will be there.

Yes. Roma Darvi is the VP of Public Relations at the newly unrenamed Kennedy Center. Roma said, We’re delighted to once again partner with Netflix to bring the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the nation’s most prestigious comedy honor, to audiences everywhere. Comedy fans will have a front row seat to an evening of comedic candor not to be missed. Ricky Gervas is out and about hawking his new animated comedy series Allie Katz, created, directed and co produced by Ricky Gervais.

Alli Katz has a roster being described as the Avengers of British comedy. Ricky himself plays Guss, a fat, lazy, rude and opinionated creature with things. Diane Morgan, who some podcasters have a crush on, plays Olive. David Earl plays Puke, Tom Basden as Aunts, Carry Godlman as Lara, Aaron Brook is fing and Joe Harley is kitting. So again people are calling Tom Basden it, Carrie Godlman, Andrew Brook and Joe Harley the Avengers of British comedy.

Not sure how I feel about that. I feel like last one Laughing UK had better casts regardless. The series features a bold two D animation style. There is a trailer. I’ll play a bit of it before it starts to get a little too naughty for this program?

Hi going? How are we? Hungry? Tired? Full of hate and fury?

Were cats? So am I? And I’m none of those things? Sorry I should have said we’re cats with balls blocks? You heard of them?

Clever? What’s the plan for the day? Try to find the kids home? I get distracted, immediately kill something. What’s the biggest thing we could take down if we work together?

Don’t fuck it? Yes, bags wagon, fack you. Ellie Kats will be on Netflix this August. The series follows the trials and tribulations of a group of feral British cats who see companionship while ruminating about the struggles of everyday life.

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Speaking of LUK, Alan Carr shared that he had one last unused weapon to break…

Alan Carr said he was sad they cut out one of Sam Campbell’s maneuvers, which was by hiding a stretching man toy in Alan Carr’s drink that was edited out. Carr said he would put it everywhere he put the cup and I looked down, I’d say this little man. They’re idiots for cutting that. It was so funny and nearly caught me out. Campbell then said, I probably definitely shouldn’t say this, but you know what I heard.

They had doppelgangers of every person in the show waiting a Carr, who was one of the first comedians eliminated, confirmed it and said they did. I was sitting in there with Jimmy Carr and you and David Mitchell were going on and on. I know people think it’s produced, but we’re there to like nearly midnight. Weren’t wait, none of you were cracking.

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And then they said, how can we do it?

Then they were like, we’ve got doppelgangers. Jimmy was going show, we bring out the doppelgangers. Every one of us had a doppelganger on hand just to come in. So I wonder what yours would have looked like, and I wonder what mine would have looked like. Boy, that’s really interesting.

I would have loved to have seen that. Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention I got some nice comments over the weekend for the Saturday Longer Deep Dive episodes, so thank you for that. Appreciate that. And I was sitting out poolside on Sunday evening. I wrote a couple more of those and might actually record one right after this.

Remember that show outside tonight. This is YouTube’s big a play for a late night talk show. I told you that it had six thousand views. I checked back on Monday around noon. It now has twelve thousand views.

Deadline was speaking to Jay Leno. They said, your take on Late Night has gotten you spanked more than a few times, Jay Leno, as well as calling you a hypocrite almost a decade ago over your Monica Lewinsky jokes in the nineteen nineties and your calls for civility. John Oliver in particular, has taken you to the woodshed over your criticism of Late Night getting two partisan. It’s ironic because, let’s be honest, Jay Leno, you’re a Palo ex presidents, but you’ve been pretty political over the years with your singers too. Leno said, well, with John Oliver.

I did interview last year with the head of the Reagan Library about the humor of Ronald Reagan. Talked about having dinner with him a couple times and blah blah blah, the White House and stuff, and you know, just telling funny stories. One of the questions the interview asked me was like, how do you think you and Johnny handled politics? Well, we tried to make fun of both sides equally. You know, you humiliate degrade everybody equally, that’s it.

I mentioned the pressures of life and people coosing up to one side more than the other, and I said, I don’t think anybody wants to hear a lecture, Why go for just half an audience. He wanted me to say that Republicans laugh at each other more than Democrats, and I’m not sure I agreed anyway. This is all while Colbert is still out a job at CBS. Two weeks later, Colbert gets fired and the interview comes out soon after. I picked up the paper and they have a picture of me making an angry face and saying Lee Knight hosts are doing it wrong.

I didn’t say that, but John Oliver goes, hey, Jay Leno, fu F you for saying that about Colbert. But I never said that. That’s why I tend not to take any of it too seriously. I never mentioned another guy or being better or worse or anything. I think they all do a good job.

Funny is funny all the rest. It’s just the time we live in. That’s all deadline on the flip of that yet, Joe Biden on Jay Leno’s garage this week. You seem to like Biden, what kind of reaction you respect from the GOP and Mega Leno said, they all right, and I’ll never watch your program again. Yeah, I got it.

But here’s the thing. First of all, it’s free on YouTube. I don’t really care if you watch or not. You know, but there’ll be all these people. You know, they’ll go Biden’s a cryp blah blah that I just had his point of view on Trump.

It wasn’t the whole gamut whatever. It’s just us driving around. I don’t really worry about it. Like I said, we used to brag about the fact that Johnny and I would try to make fun of both size equally. Looks like that doesn’t work anymore.

The audience is all over the place. I think the most important thing is to remember funny is funny, Jimmy Kimmel making a strategic mistake and taking the entire summer off. We now know some of the ghosts hosts that include Coleman Domingo, Ike Barnholtz, returning hosts Anthony Anderson, Tiffany Hattish and Jelly Roll.

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And now we’ve heard that Rosie O’Donnell will sit in Jimmy fallon.

Opportunity is yours, and that is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget to share the show. You could be like, hey, you gotta hear what this guy Jay Leno said, here, let me send you this episode, and you text it to your friend and then I don’t know, they listen to it. And that’s how this works. We’re sharing the show in June.

Otherwise, I play Amy Schumer singing and don’t think I won’t see it tomorrow

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Chris Pratt, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ricky Gervais, Carlos Mencia, Joe Rogan, Rob Schneider, Ryan Hamilton

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle performs at Obama Presidential Center opening
• David Letterman and Stephen Colbert wear tan suits to Obama Center event
• Chris Pratt partners with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin for American history shorts
• Ricky Gervais confirms new Netflix special
• Carlos Mencia charged with twelve felony tax counts
• Rob Schneider offers to pay fines for players refusing Pride Night participation
• Ryan Hamilton releases Netflix special after being hit by bus in January 2022

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mac back from the beach. Some rainy weather in the Northeast always good for productivity. Dave Chappelle was at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. He said it felt like medicine, describing the event as a hopeful celebration of culture, laughter, and unity.

Here’s Dave. It was like medicine for me because the time seemed so dark and you know, of politics is like, you know, I never wanted to know this much about anything, especially politics, but now today was a celebration of culture and community. Now at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, both David Letterman and Stephen Colbert showed up in tan suits. You may recall one of the great scandals of the Obama presidency was one time the president of the United States were a tan suit and people were just outraged, major, major controversy. Times have changed her stage Bill.

I thought that was very funny, and I think people loan for the days where the scandal was as deep as the tan suit. Speces have gotten so much worse. But today also made me hopeful. And politics and sometimes the life it’s like weather. You just got to push through it.

And it eventually clouds will break. You know, not to disparage the current president, but these are tough times, you know. And and today reminded me of times they weren’t as tough, but we didn’t even know they weren’t as tough. I’m looking at Bush and they’re like, man, I can’t blow used to not like that guy, and then look, you know what I mean. It’s fun to see him smile.

It was fun to see four ex presidents together smiling, and it reminded us in the subtext, that we’re all on the same team. The current presidents just wear a tan suit just to see what happens.

Speaking of American history, Chris Pratt is teaming up with cidential histor…

Now, if you’re not familiar with Doris Kern’s Goodwin, if you like comedy, there’s a good chance you like baseball, or remember the Ken Burns Baseball documentary Doris was all over that that’s Doris. These shorts will follow Chris Pratt as he attempts to share his passion for American history, only to discover that his grasp of the facts may not be quite as strong as his enthusiasm. Fortunately, Doris Kern’s Goodwin serves as executive producer, editorial advisor, and on screen authority, helping keep the lessons on track. The project has received funding from the US Department of State’s Office of Public Diplomacy and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Do You Guys fund podcasts Just Asking You for a Friend, and is intended to inform and engage foreign publics about America through international media engagement, educational and cultural exchange programs, digital communications, and outreach conducted through US embassies and consulates worldwide.

I think we need to inform Europe of American comedy, don’t you. The series was designed as a public diplomacy initiative intended to engage international audiences with America’s constitutional values and history through modern digital storytelling. These still untitled Pratt Shorts. Pratt Shorts is just a funny phrase. The Pratt Shorts have been nicknamed a faster class for US history, with each episode exploring a defining constitutional value through the story of a pivotal historical figure or happening.

Blending live action and animation, the Pratt Shorts pair Pratt’s curiosity and humor with goodwins historical expertise and fact checking to highlight America’s founding ideals. That sounds fun. Have I mentioned on this show how disappointed I am in the lead up to USA two fifty because I’m ancient and I was around for the bi centennial. The Bisonennial was awesome. They were like the Betsy Ross flags.

Everywhere everything was painted red, white and blue. And I think because I grew up in New York City, my experience was really influenced by Operations Sale. They had these tall ships come into New York Harbor, and with the ships came foreign sailors. So you’d walk around and you’d be like, Oh, there’s a bunch of sailors from Portugal or whatnot. It felt like a thing, and this one doesn’t feel like a thing.

And I remember fifty years ago as a kid being like, oh, I’ll be around for the two fifty. That seems pretty cool. A fun fact on me. My life goal was to live to one hundred and seven to be around for the Trice centennial. But I’ve now extended that because I’m greedy and I need the doctors to get on board if I can make it to one hundred and nine years old, and I don’t move, I will be able to lay in my backyard and watch a total eclipse of the sun.

So I want to make it to one hundred and nine. I’m gonna go out in the backyard. I’m just going to lay down, look at the eclipse and just drift off like Jack did at the end of Lost. That would be a good life. Ricky Gervais has confirmed he will have another special with Netflix.

He told Deadline, this is my most personal show so far, and because both Cancel Culture and most people I know growing up are dead, I can really say what the f I want now. I’m not saying how much they’re paying me this time, but I can say it’s my favorite deal so far. Carlos Mencia has been charged with twelve felony tax counts. This was announced by the La County District of Orney Nathan Hackman. Prosecutors alleged that Carlos Mencia failed to file personal and corporate tax returns over a six year period and did not report about eight point seven million dollars in income, resulting in more than three hundred thousand dollars in unpaid state taxes.

This is not the first controversy involving Carlos Mencia. Back in February of two thousand and seven, Joe Rogan accused Carlos Mencia of plagiarism on stage at the Comedy Store in La Rogan nicknamed him Carlos Menstelia, which is one of my favorite nicknames of all time. Rogan had alleged that Mencia stole material from George Lopez, Ari Shafir and Bobby Lee. Now, I met Carlos Mencia during my time at Sirius XM. By the way, does anybody else remember remember when Chappelle Show went sideways?

They replaced it with Mind of Mencia. So, like, Carlos was pretty big there for a while. He got the post Chappelle slot basically like, oh, we don’t have Chapelle anymore about this, So he was up there. But I remember, unless I’m totally misremembering, I remember around that time Carlos admitted to being a joke stealer, and I just did a quick google. Here I’m seeing a clip from Vice TV Carlos smith Cy addresses joke stealing quote.

I was driven by my competitive nature as a human being, etcetera, etc. So I don’t think I’m misremembering that Rob Schneider is in the news because of course he is. Now remember recently, the San Francisco Giants had Pride Night and some of the baseball players did not want to wear the Pride caps. Rob Schneider went on Twitter and said he would pay fines for any player in any professional league who refuses to participate in what Rob Schneider calls woke leftist agendas. Schneider posted on Thursday, you signed a contract to play baseball.

You didn’t sign a contract to go against your deeply held Christian religious beliefs. Baseball is our national pastime, not drag Queen’s story hour. In another post, Schneider wrote, quote America’s pastime isn’t being gay, It’s baseball. Exclamation point. Ryan Hamilton has a special ad on Netflix today.

Now, we haven’t heard from Ryan Hamilton in quite a while, and there was a reason. He explains, I’m not going to spoil it. This is a trailer, but it’s a very different kind of trailer. And Ryan Hamilton will explain why we haven’t heard from him in a while, and that’ll take us into the break. Now, after the break, some of the funniest stuff that I have heard in a while.

I was in tears. So here’s Ryan Hamilton. Then commercials, then make sure you stick around. Okay. January first of twenty twenty two, I was hit by a bus.

It still feels weird to say I have the new Special and a lot of this is in there. But what people always ask me is what happened before. I was flying from Hawaii to lax and it was my first gig back after COVID. I was going to spend one night in la before going home. Then I got an alert on my phone while I was walking through the airport that said I’d been exposed to COVID.

Do you remember during COVID when you’d get an announcement on your phone and it would say, hey, you have a text message and possibly a disease. So I walked to the hotel, I took the test. It was positive.

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And now I’m in the hotel for ten days and my first day out is January one, An…

I watched the ball drop. I ate an entire pizza. Then I walked to pick up a rental car. It was just a ten minute walk. I thought and then I can get out of here.

First thing in the morning, I was so happy. I came to an intersection, hit the button, watched the light turn, and started walking. I didn’t see or hear anything. Then this just hit me. Oh boy, we got to talk about Elmo, and we got to keep talking about the New York Nicks.

I’m sorry I keep talking about the Nicks. But stay with me here. So you may recall, Elmo tried to both sides the Knicks game against the Spurs and says something like he just wanted both teams to have fun and that he’s from New York City.

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And then people got upset because Elmo clearly lives on Sesame Street, which …

Well, Elmo made it clear he was not making the same mistake with Team USA. This is a real clip from the real Elmo social media accounts. Here’s Elmo making it clear he’s rooting for Team USA. But this isn’t even the funny thing. Don’t leave.

But here’s Elmo making it clear he’s rooting for Team USA. Just to be clear, Emma wants Team USA to win. Okay, Everma loves everybody. Just to be clear, don’t make this a thing. Okay, now this next thing, this is actually I think the funniest thing of the year.

This is like a week old. I had missed it. I caught it over the weekend. I was playing it in the yard for my wife and oh my goodness, I was in tears. John Stewart commenting on Elmo rooting for both sides when Elmo should have been rooting for the Knicks.

This is quite a long cli. It is very funny. I have scoped it down. It gets a little naughty at the end, but the naughtiness is visual, and since this is an audio podcast, we’ll get away with it. But whatever you think is happening at the end of this clip, that’s what’s happening.

Here’s Jon Stewart with Elmo abuse. That’s piling up online for Elmo after he tried to be neutral about. The NBA Finals. As Sesame Street Star posted, Elmo hopes both teams have fun. You kidding me?

Alo, Today’s Sensame Street is brought to you by the letter B four. You’re a bitch, Suirly, Elmo’s fellow New Yorkers responded to his wavering with our trademark, Grayson understanding. New Yorkers didn’t like that, then we’s fury on him, blasting Almo as a trader, telling him to pick a side, but. To get inside of the story. Well, let’s welcome the muppet at the center of all this.

Elmo. Everybody, Elmo, Yay. Hi everyone, Hi Jannah, you’re still mad at Elmo? Elmo? You you’re a New Yorker.

I’m just I’m a little surprised you’re not all in on the necks. Elmo can’t help it. Elmo loves the knicks, and Elmo loves suspos. Elmo wants both teams to have fun, try their hardest, and Elbow just wants them both to hit the over. Y I’m sorry, did you did you just say hit the over?

That’s the kids the umber. That’s why the number of the day is plus two sixteen. Yeah, of course the number seems heavy given that it’s been a defensive series thus far. Yeah, Elmo, do you gamble? No?

No, no, no, this isn’t a gamble. This is a lock. And Elmo needs it to come in because Almo has been getting crushed by the unpredictable high school baseball scores. Yeah, you can bet high school baseball on these apps. Oh no, Almo banned from the apps.

That’s why Elma bets with Big Ricky. He lives in a. Part of Sesame Street. Elmo had never. Been to be the Yeah, Elmo, this is stunning to me.

This is shot. You need help. Yeah, Elmo, do need help, mister John. Elmo especially need help from Josh Hart because Josh Hart averaged twelve points during the regular season on fifty shooting from the field, but less than two points in the finals, ruining Elmo’s bay. You’ve got to get help.

You’re on a bad path. No, no, no, mister John, Elmo just on an unlucky street. Elmo turn this around. Elmo just needs a sure thing, like a prop bet that game go wrong. Like who.

Is mister John going to the game to make well? Actually, Elmo, I will be there tonight. Huh. That’s what polyymarket think too.

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And now that everyone think mister John going to game, Elmo makes big prep th…

Missing great, mister John. Help Elmo out of ben jam Yay, thank you, mister John. I’m sorry, Elmo. No fucking way no, right, I’m going. I’m taking my son.

We’re going to the game. We wouldn’t miss this for anything in the world. Please, oh no, please, please, mister John. Elmo can’t go back to the streets. Oh oh, mister John, you can’t make you.

Elmo will do Elmo will do anything, mister John, anything. Listen, job please please, I can make I can make you so happy. Jeez. And while we’re at it, and possibly the last Knicks clip for quite a while, Triumph the insult comic Dog was at the New York Knicks victory parade. I’m here in New York City with thousands of elated New Yorkers from all walks of life, all here for one reason.

None of them have jobs. Let’s go there, come home, go there, tell New York, New York go. I’m surrounded by me. Oh listen, baby, I know what my nickname at the dog park is. It’s Jalen Brunson because I’m undersized, but.

I know how to finish it. The whole. The old age then was a Tickeer tape parade. They would stock market ticket tape.

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And then they don’t use tickere tape that anymore.

So this year they just shredded the Epstein five. That is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget it’s June. You’re sharing the show. Otherwise I’m gonna play Amy Schumer singing and none of us want that.

Okay, so your phone’s in your hand right now, hit Chare and go, hey, dude, this is pretty funny. Check out the John Stewart clip towards the end. That’s all you gotta do and I’ll see you tomorrow

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Featured: Jay Leno, Joe Rogan, Johnny Carson, Conan O’Brien, Craig Ferguson, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Greg Gutfeld, John Oliver

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno on the death of late night television
• Podcasts replacing traditional talk shows
• Joe Rogan compared to Johnny Carson
• Late night ratings and commercials
• Jay Leno’s 2014 exit from Tonight Show
• Conan O’Brien replacement controversy and Jeff Zucker
• Streaming and YouTube replacing appointment television

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media a big thank you to j Leno. Hi, I’m a Johnny Mac with your daily company news, John. Why are you thinking, jay Leno? Because right now in my world it’s Thursday, and I wanted to go to the beach on Friday and pre tape Monday, and I was like, eh, I don’t have enough stories for Monday.

And then I saw Jay Leno spoke to Deadline the headline death of Late Night.

Jay Leno on what went wrong at eleven thirty, why Joe Rogan is the new Johnny Carson and how John Oliver doesn’t know what he’s talking about. How about that? Thank you, jay Leto. I have not read this article at all, so I’m just going to dive in cold and see what Jay Leno, who some people say is the worst person who ever lived, has to say. The seventy six year old comic said, I mean, podcasts really are the new talk show.

Joe Rogan is the new Johnny Carson. Let’s do this piece by piece, Deadline. With all that’s going on in late night now, your exit in twenty fourteen looks like a prophetic move. Jaylen’ll laugh says that’s pretty funny. You know, I made my living as a stand up comic.

TV’s a job that you last thirteen weeks, will least. Okay, I was lucky. Mine lasted twenty two years. But the day the Tonight Show went in, I was back on the road the next night in Florida for five nights. And that’s what I do now.

So for me, nothing’s really changed. People always think as retirement, Well, I’m not retired. I do total dates a year, and I do think I do a good show. I got a few other things going on, like the Groad show that I enjoy. I have a good life.

After Late Night, Leno told the story of being dropped by his agent. It’s funny because I was so fortunate that my agent dropped me right before I got the Tonight Show in nineteen ninety two. I later worked it out. I saved thirty million dollars in commissions. I said, all right, fun with me, you know, I mean, I’m one of those people when anybody wants to break with me, I don’t plead.

I go, fine, okay, you’re cool. And that was the same thing, you know, with the agent. I remember the same thing happened when I was in the Tonight show and they’re going to replace me with Conan. And they called me and I said, you know, I did number one for like seventeen years. One of the executives says, we want what’s above number one?

And I go, O, hey, what’s above number one? I mean, I just started to laugh, and then I realized how stupid the statement was. I said, you want me out, I’m out. Fine, Then I was out. Deadline said it wasn’t pretty.

I remember you think Deadline Jay Leno said yeah. But then what happened was Craig Ferguson came along and he started beating Conan. Then I got a call from Jeff Zucker saying, I think I made a mistake. WHOA is that new information? I don’t recall, like off to check with the cool late night kids, I don’t remember hearing that before that.

Jeff Zucker said, I think I made a mistake because if I’m reading this right, he’s talking about Craig beating Conan. So that’s a twelve thirty war. So did Jeff say that at twelve thirty? Anyway? I got a call from Jeff Sucker saying, I think I made a mistake.

Jay Leno said, yeah, I told you. Zucker said, we’d like to have you back. Okay, fine, I’ll come back where if you want. You know, I don’t have a manager. I don’t have a full time agent.

I negotiate everything myself, all right, So that puts the timeline back to eleven thirty being mistake. Deadline goes Jay, Dude, well I bother at this point. Who needs the stress? Jay said, yeah, I know, it’s really stupid. Then again, I have a house in Beverly Hills, so it’s working out.

That’s pretty funny. The nice thing about doing your own negotiations you find out exactly if people feel. The client might say Leno sucks. I can’t stand that guy. If you have an agent doing your negotiations, what you hear is, oh he likes you.

He just doesn’t have anything for you right now. Yeah, sure, okay, Deadline says with Stephen Colbert gone, Jimmy Kimmel thriving but under threat, and everyone looking over their corporate shoulder for attacks from Donald Trump. Their own bosses are Greg Guttfeld. Why do you think Late Night lost its swagger? Leno said, it’s boring.

But here’s the thing I think her at late night the most, too many commercials. They passed some new rules before my tenure at the Tonight Show that after eleven thirty at night you could add like another five or six minutes to the hour. It came in waves. But by the end of my time at the Tonight Show, instead of doing like forty eight minutes a show was only like forty two when broken up. More So, when I turn on late night now, regardless of how I’m watching, if I say Jake from State Form again, I’m gonna shoot myself in the effing head.

Jay Jay, Language Jay. It’s like geez. The host comes out, does the monologue, then right away over to six minutes of commercials. She’d come back, the host talks about his coming up, and we’ll be right back and so on. It’s all cut up enough already.

Why watch that when I could switch over to streaming or YouTube and I can watch an hour with Arison Ford talking off the top of his head, as suppose having just a few minutes with the guest or with the host. You know, Johnny used to have real conversations. I tried to have real conversations. That seems to be gone, and the audience knows it. It’s not that people are better or worse.

It’s the fact that the whole medium has changed. The idea that you have to turn the TV on at eleven thirty PM to hear what’s being said, like appointment television. That sounds ridiculous now, So I don’t want to make it sound like a Leno went on a rant there deadline, said Devil’s Advocate. Why Leno then continued, because you can watch TV whenever you want. Now you can watch whatever show, whatever you want, you know, so that’s really rudined it.

There’s no immediacy. People used to say, Oh, let’s see what David Letterman whoever had to say about the president’s thing today. It’s interesting, he said, Let’s see what David Letterman had to say. That’s really what a really really interesting name to drop there, right, because most people sharing that notion would say, oh, let’s see what Carson has to say about the president. But Jay Leno specifically named checking David Letterman.

Huh oh, let’s see what David Letterman whoever had to say about the president’s thing today. And you and the whole world simultaneously at eleven thirty knew what they thought, now you can look it up anytime. You know, my brain froze there. I’m not going to make the end of my brain froze there because he said David Letterman. Then he said eleven thirty.

Arguably Jay Leto could be talking about somebody watching Late Night with David Letterman at eleven thirty Central. But I think most of us associate pre Leno David Letterman with twelve thirty. Very very interesting. Now you look it up anytime whenever you watch it. If you miss it, that’s okay, you know.

So what’s really changed? Skipping ahead, I mean, podcasts really are the new talk shows. Joe Rogan is the new Johnny Carson. Yeah, Joe talks to everybody about everything. There’s no scac to step in and say what you can and can’t say, so you really do get an unfiltered idea of what everybody thinks.

So yeah, I mean to me, that’s what’s also changed Late Night. I talk to young people. They don’t know CBS, NBCABC, Channel four. They just go to YouTube, which is amazing. If you had predicted YouTube would be the most popular channel in the world ten years ago, I think people would have said, what are you talking about, but it is now I teach college students.

He’s correct, they don’t think of TV brands the same way as oldies ten years ago. I don’t think the YouTube notion was crazy. Maybe we’ll change the time on there. But I get what Jay saying. Right, I’ve done about eight minutes on Jay Leno.

There’s more there. Let’s save a little more for tomorrow, right right right. You can read this on Deadline if you can’t wait for tomorrow. Bill Carter on the Late Night Er website had the headline Outside Tonight rebuilds Late Night for the YouTube crowd. This was a fluff piece of sorts about the new YouTube show Outside Tonight, hosted by Julian Shapiro bornham Well.

Bill Carter, I got news for you, buddy. When I looked Thursday at noon, Outside Tonight had six thousand views. I can get six thousand views, and that’s without YouTube promoting me. Six thousand. Yikes, that’s even less than who’s the other guy?

I forgot that guy’s name, Josh Gleb? Is that his name? Ben Gleeb, Ben Glebe. Ben Glebe had like twenty thousand views. Let’s say how Ben Gleib is doing Okay, Good Night with Ben Gleb.

The channel has two point nine to one million subscribers. That’s not too shabby, and something has changed, friends. I wow, I’m stunned by this number. I’m about to tell you so Episode three has at two twenty three pm on Thursday, five hundred and forty one thousand views. So this thing has caught on a little bit.

That’s a real number. It’s a much bigger number than six thousand, so the algorithm must have been kinder, right. We’ll have to keep an eye on that one. Josh Johnson had a big piece with Variety. They talked about how Josh puts out just about an hour every week every Tuesday on YouTube.

He’s racked up half a billion views. Josh told Variety, I don’t even think what I’m doing would be advisable necessarily. I see why people say you’re leaving a lot on the table or giving it away for free. But this is what I want to be doing, and it’s pushed me to get better. He talked about the New York Knicks.

There was one game when Jose Alvarado crashed into Mike Bloomberg. Josh said, we almost got rid of a billionaire out of nowhere. Everybody’s always planning, hiring security. Wh would have thought they would have gotten themselves killed. Variety got a little poetic here writing.

Johnson’s comedic style is highly expressive, and his voice, nasal with a southern inflection, leaps across octaves and volume levels. He’s a physical performer, one who could tell the same story four or five ways, peppering in new insights each time. His material ranges from political to trivial. A bit about the absurdity of the Iran war might be followed by one about revolving doors. Johnson, it seems, is highly approachable.

Maybe it’s because he’s in our living rooms talking directly to us as a daily show host. Or maybe it’s because when he greets you, his mouth curls into a boyish smile and his voice slides into a higher register, like Mickey Mouse if he grew up on the Bayou. That’s a description. Variety flexes a bit and says, it’s quarter eleven now, and we’ve uber to a over price susy joint, and so for late dinner. Fancy.

I asked him where that fifteen minutes of material he just did in the club, will go? Josh says, I don’t really know. Maybe I’ll hold on to it and do it again somewhere. Maybe I won’t. Fridy says most comics wouldn’t dream of bringing fifteen minutes of all new material to a club and leaving it there.

But Johnson is a stranger to the scarcity mindset. He says, I write one hundred and twenty five jokes a day, and that’s all to hopefully get three on air. You’ll learn to be precious and you learn that you have more in the tank than you think. He’s asked if he’ll wake up one day with nothing to say, Josh says, that would be like if you woke up and went to work and were worried you were going to run out of words. Out today on the eight hundred pound Gorilla, it’s Willie Max’s good Dad, bad Father.

Bert Kreischer was promoted by Flamingo Magazine, your home for comedy news and Flamingos. I guess, Bert said, I mean you want to talk about luck. My special Hey Big Boy, was released March seventeenth, twenty twenty two days into the pandemic. He says, everywhere in America, people were being forced to stay inside, so they had to find something to watch. I also believe you manifest your luck by recognizing acknowledging your luck.

Even at times when you find yourself unlucky, you need to try and find the luck in it. Bill Lawrence, the guy behind Scrubs and a bunch of other shows, Ted Lasso, Rooster, Shrinking Bad Monkey. He had a Variety profile I personally imaged in the Scrubs part. He was asked why he doesn’t shoot Scrubs in LA because he tries to do most of his production in LA. Variety asked what’s the obstacle Scrubs and said, straight money, We’re gonna try and get it back here for the third season.

Ooh wait, does that mean we’re getting a third season of Scrubs? Awesome new Scrubs. You know what I meant. It’s one of those equations that the money you’re given to make the show, and this is conjecture, equals like three and a half million in LA and five point six million in Vancouver. And that’s a show that’s already very inexpensive.

It’s a network TV show, and I couldn’t afford to make it here in La Roddy said, you’re not day to day on Scrubs. How much to worry about legacy? Bill said, we always argue about this in the writer’s room, and I’m the legacy smegacy guy. The ninth year of Scrubs was supposed to be a spinoff called mid School, and people argue, oh, you’re ruined the legacy. No, I didn’t you love the finale of season eight.

You don’t get to go back in time and not like it now because you’ve seen the other season that creatively was a spin off. I just don’t want to operate that way. I never want to feel like anything is a money grab. But the writers in the cast came back and I thought the idea that was kind of intriguing, so why not give it a shot. I’m never sweating the legacy aspect of it.

I didn’t hate season nine, and that is your comedy news for today. All Right, you shared the show. I’m sure you did, because otherwise I would bust out Amy Schumer singing, and none of us want that. So keep sharing the show because it’s still June. Your phone’s in your hand right now, hit the share button, send it to somebody.

Go, hey, check this out. Jay Leno said some stuff, and then they’ll be like, oh cool, I love the show, and then they’ll follow it, and then we don’t have to listen to Amy Schumer sing. You can follow a show on Spotify churn notifications on so you never miss an episode. The comments are also open there, and they are always open in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group Ryan Hamilton Tomorrow. That means Dylan in the Facebook group.

He’s like sitting in front of the TV right now, waiting for midnight to strike so he can watch Ryan Hamilintson the second they put it live, and he’s going to be excited because I’m all in on Ryan Hamilton. That last spushal was fantastic, so you know, Ryan, don’t let me down, buddy, all right, See tomorrow, guys,

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Chris Tucker, Marc Marin, Jeff Ross, Nicky Glazer, Janelle James

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix renews Kevin Hart’s Funny AF for season two
• Kevin Hart’s Funny AF nominated for Emmy Awards
• Chris Tucker reveals three-year celibacy during Las Vegas stand-up
• Marc Marin discusses his Panic special and comedy craftsmanship
• Jeff Ross on Netflix roasts becoming cultural phenomenon
• Roasts as launching pad for comedians like Nicky Glazer
• Robbie Hoffman’s real name is Rifka Sarah
• Janelle James developing Rock City comedy series at Hulu

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. NETFLX is announced we’re getting season two of Kevin Hart’s Funny AF with Kevin Hart. I personally think that’s good news as comedy competitions go. That was a good version of one.

Kevin Hart will return as host, which is good because it’s called Funny AF with Kevin Hart.

Also good news for the crew.

The show is up for Outstanding Reality Competition Program in the Emmys. Hart is also up for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program. You won’t get season two until twenty twenty seven. Chris Tucker wants us to know that he’s been celibate. I know you were like wondering.

You woke up this morning. You’re like, I wonder if Chris Tucker’s celibate. Well, the answer is yes. During a recent stand up performance in Las Vegas, Chris Tucker chose to tell the audience he’s been celibate from more than three years as he focuses on finding lasting love and marriage. Tucker said, well, I’m celibate.

I’ve been celibate for three years, but I’m really trying to get married. I give it to the love this time. That got a big laugh. Tucker then said, I’m serious. No one believes me.

According to Tucker, even members of his family didn’t believe him. He said of his niece, she believes in aliens, but she don’t believe I did that. Mark Marin said that Panic is the best special I’ve ever done. The last three specials are really culmination of the work that have done over the last forty years in terms of craft, ideas and things I like to talk about. There was a holistic approach to the material that integrated nicely with me moving through things and kind of repairing myself.

The whole production was kind of built around that idea, which is very poetic and I think elevated the special a lot. We live in a time when a lot of comedy specials aren’t that special because there are so many of them, but we were able to bring it all together with this. There’s definitely an arc in there. Look, it took me two years to really get that set up and together because I do like to devi it through line and right up to a day or two before recording. I decided to change the tone of the opening bit because I didn’t want to come out with the vibe of being stride and herself righteous.

I wanted to bring everybody in, not alienate them by posturing when I’m doing is special. I’m usually working with ninety minutes material and I try to get it down like seventy three minutes. That’s my number, you know. So I had two weeks to get panicked down to seventy three minutes, and all of a sudden, I’m pulling pieces out and fitting things together differently. You always shoot two versions, and both shows I landed right at seventy three minutes with no clock.

Mark was asked by golderby dot com if young comics ask him for advice. Mark said, I don’t feel like I’m being sought out for advice. I think a lot of younger comics may have gleaned a lot from the podcast. I know it did help people because we talked about it. They’re also up against a different business than what I was up against.

I don’t want to talk about how I feel about what’s necessary required to be a great comic, or trace how you’re on stage and build on that, but I really can’t speak to the business side of things. I think the platform business is lowering the bar. It’s about creating viral moments for popularity, and that doesn’t necessarily mean the quality of what you’re doing is great or that you’re fundamentally talented or charismatic.

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Also think it makes comedy less special because it seems like everybody’s goi…

If you’re an old timer, you believe it’s a special type of art that starts a to diminish in quality in that kind of environment. I mean, the thought that I put into a special like Panicked wouldn’t be required anymore. And in that case, what do we really have? Everything becomes disposable in an hour or two, and I like doing specials at last with a certain degree. Deadline caught up with Jeff Ross.

They were curious how roast culture has changed since Comedy Central got into the roast game. Deadline said, ros have become a global phenomenon now that Netflix has become the de facto home for them. Ross said, I like that you say that they’re the home of roasting. That’ll make them feel good because that’s something they’ve tried to make happen and have now made happen. I like the size and scope of the roast.

Yeah, there’s certain things from the old days that I missed, but mostly that’s nostalgia. It’s sort of this niche thing on Comedy Central. Deadline jumped in and said the Comedy Central Rose certainly had a different feeling. Ross said, yeah, I got that, but it was also pretty body and a times controversial. I think it’s a spectacle now because we don’t have the White House Correspondence Dinner anymore, where comedians are roasting the presidents speaking truth to power, free speech.

The late night shows are getting dinged. I think the Roast it’s like the Purge once every year or two. Anything goes that. If you don’t like a joke, there’s another one coming in twenty seconds. The jokes permitted at the roast is like no other ship.

Oh and the fact that it’s up there now. Last year we got nominated at the Emmys, with the Oscars, the Tony’s, the Grammys, and the Super Bowl halftime show. So the Roast now, you can’t argue about the cultural relevance. Tens of millions people watched it, so it’s providing a service. Deadline said that the roasts are becoming an engine for minting comedy stores.

They mentioned specifically Nicky Glazer. Has that been cool to see? Jeff Ros said, it’s the best. It just delights me to no end. To note that the roast is like this launching pad.

Everybody who did this Kevin Hart roast is selling out now wherever they go. Everyone’s doing each other’s podcasts, and seeing how Nicky is soaring. It just fills me with joy. It really does. And this is an interesting note.

Deadline is a fan of bumping mics with David tell could we get more episodes? Jeff Ross said, it’s funny you said that. I have to be careful because Dave is so grumpy. But last night we stopped by the comedy seller and went up together for twenty minutes and he had me laughing so hard I was falling on the floor. So I want to do it.

It’s up to Dave. Robbie Hoffman tells people that Robbie Hoffman has not always been known as Robbie Hoffman. Someone in show biziness changed their name, says Johnny Mac, whose real name is John McDermott, but it’s easier to say Johnny Meck. No way. Apparently, Robbie was on the god Works podcast and explained, I’m born the name Rifka Sarah, so obviously when I got into comedy, Rifk is a very difficult name for comedians and people to bring me up, is it?

I mean, it’s not my name, but I don’t know. But uh, all right, we’re having a great show here. Let’s keep things moving. Give it up for Rifka Sarah. I mean, no, you can’t just do that.

I mean, I don’t care. Robbie Hoffman said, I’m just trying to do open mic. So when I look for a stage name, I wanted something familial. I just didn’t want to change my r initial and I went with Robbie. It just felt like a family name.

But my mother was horrified. My mother called me and she goes, it’s a beautiful Jewish name, Rifka. I’m not calling you, Robbie. Rifke is such a beautiful name. What are you ashamed?

I said, Ma, you think with three seconds of me being on stage, they’re gonna be like, I wonder if she’s Catholic. That is hilarious. Janelle James is developing a new comedy series at Hulu. It’s titled Rock City. In Rock City, we would follow a woman, presumably Janelle James, who returns to her hometown in the Virgin Islands after she inherits a local tourist trap from her estranged father.

According to the log line, she quickly realizes that she’s been left much more than a simple beachfront bar and grill. Isn’t that kind of the first act of the Margueritaville Musical? Alrighty? Remember in the finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert by the way, do you miss the show? Do you do?

You? No? Really do you? You don’t? You moved on?

But anyway, I remember when he played the Linus and Lucy composition and made a joke that CBS was going to have to pay for it. Well, apparently CBS is going to pay for it, but the Lee Mendelssohn Film Productions Company said they will donate the proceeds to Chef jose Andre’s World Central Kitchen, which is a nonprofit organization that provides meals throughout the globe during various crisses. In the case of the Late Show incident, Lee Mendelssohn Film’s production chairman, Jason Mendelssohn noted LMFP found the music’s use on the Late Show funny and entertaining, and is proud to support World Central Kitchen’s mission. A principal goal of our enforcement actions is to educate individuals, businesses, and government entities about the needs to obtain written license agreements to use music in a commercial setting. And from The Toronto Guardian, they caught up with comedian Beta Judaki Bita.

How would you describe your comedy style? She said, people have told me my style is playful, silly, surprising, dark and maybe too honest. Favorite shows growing up Seinfeld, The Simpson and Friends. Did I say friends? I did?

Didn’t I now I could edit that out, but I said friends? What’s friends? Friends? Is? That’s not even a queen’s accent?

Friends? I don’t know. Her favorite shows were Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Friends. Beta says, I think I based a lot of my personality slash early comedic choices on Lisa Kudro. Favorite comedian now she listed Tignisaro, Devergi, Giovanni, Robin Tran and Kate Burlant.

Pre show ritual nervously drink too much water at pea a lot. I’ll try to watch the comics before me, so I understand the inside jokes that have already been made with the audience. That’s smart. That is your comedy news on a summer Sunday. You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on so you never miss an episode.

You can also comment there, on Spotify or in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. And I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliffe, Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Burt Kreischer, Nikki Glaser, Ron White, Tom Segura, Jeff Ross, Theo Vaughn, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Kill Tony’s rise to become America’s biggest comedy show
• Tony Hinchcliffe’s career as a roast writer and host
• Kill Tony’s move from LA to Austin and connection to Joe Rogan
• The format and structure that makes Kill Tony successful
• Austin comedy scene impact on Kill Tony’s guest roster

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Magan. On Saturdays this summer, I’m doing some deep dives on single topics. Today, let’s take a look at kill Tony, which premiered When Everybody June third, twenty thirteen. This is not an overnight success.

I find it ironic when fat people wear t shirts promoting fitness. The other day I saw a guy wearing a Nike shirt that said there is no finish line, and so I just came to the assumption he wears that to the Golden crowd. If you were trying to explain kill Tony to somebody who’d never heard it or seen it, the easiest shortcuts to say it’s a comedy competition show, and that shortcut is wrong in almost every way that matters. Technically, Yes, people come up, they do a minute Tonyhinchcliff in the band, and whoever the guest is that week react to it. Sometimes people get brought back.

There’s a structure. But calling Kiltny a competition show is like calling the comedy store a building where comedians perform. It’s accurate, but it misses the point. The thing that Kiltny actually is the reason it feels arenas now. The reason comedians fly themselves out to Austin to sit in the audience on the chance they might might might get pulled.

The reason that has become one of the more genuinely interesting things happening in comedy right now is because kil Tony is actually a live document of what stand up comedy looks like at every level, simultaneously from the open micer who’s been doing it for four months and who’s terrified and is going to get mocked to whoever the guest might be that week, could be Shane Gillis, could be Ron White, could be Joe Rogan, all that in real time, no editing, no polish. Without the safety net that TV puts under, everything sounds simple, not simple. Most attempts to capture comedy and its raw state end up either feeling too curated to feel real. Kevin Hart’s recent show out a little bit of that, we’re too chaotic to be watchable. Kil Tony’s neither of those things, and the reason it isn’t is because of Tony Hinchcliff now thing about Tony.

Tony’s an interesting person to have become the center of the biggest comedy show in America because his public probe file outside of kill Tony is unusual. He’s known as a roast rider, one of the best in the business, arguably the best working right now. Burt Kreischer is a king. He looks like at the Tiger King and the Liver King, only a Burger King and had a liver that looked like Martin Luther King got beat up by Rodney King. Roast writers usually are behind the camera.

They’re the people that write the joke that destroys someone at the Friars Club or on Comedy Central or on the Netflix roast Now, and then they sit in the back while the celebrity gets the credit and the clip goes viral. Tony has broken out of that Nicky glazer. What a performance tonight? Am I right? Absolutely?

Tellar Nikki who wrote that where was that? Your entire career? Nicky has such a bad eating disorder. The industry keeps shoving her down our throat. You might recognize of her podcast appearances, specials and winning the Triple Crown at Churchill Downs.

It’s his sensibility as a roast rider, or the precision, the willingness to go somewhere that makes the room uncomfortable, the understanding of exactly how far you could push something before it stops being funny. All that makes him good at hosting kill Tony. He knows how to read a room. He knows how to find the thing about a person that’s the most interesting to poke at. Underrated skill.

He knows how to be mean in a way that’s entertaining rather than just cruel.

Also a very specific skill that most people who think they have don’t have.

You got to appreciate kill Tony as a host. Hosting that show is one of the harder jobs in comedy. You’re dealing with open micers who might completely fall apart. You’re dealing with big guests who have their own energy, their own agenda. You’re managing the live band you’re keeping, whether it’s four hundred or four thousand people or MSG engaged throughout an episode that might run three hours no script.

The comp is in some ways Howard Stern. Howard credited with being the greatest radio host who ever lived, because if his ability to make four hours of live radio feel like it’s moving along, Tony does something similar in a comedy show. He doesn’t get enough credit for how hard that is to do.

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Now, let’s not underestimate the Rogan connection.

The Rogan connection is real. Yes, Rogan is a friend of Tony’s. Yes, Rogan has appeared on Kill Tony. Yes, Kill Tony’s based in Austin, and Kill Tony moving from LA to Austin is not unrelated to the fact that Rogan moved to Austin and took a big chunk of the comedy ecosystem with him. But again, Kill Tony started in twenty thirteen as a small live show.

The premise simple, one minute, a button gets pushed times up, and what Tony has figured out over years of doing it is that the format is infinitely generative. No two minutes are the same because the range of people show up do their minute is so wide you never know what you’re gonna get. The combination of a strict format and completely unpredictable content creates tension that keeps the show moving even when individual parts aren’t that great, and there’s a lot of individual moments that are not great. That’s part of the show. I know what you’re thinking.

Why is my GTA drug dealer on stage right now? Um? Ooh that cough was rough at the plane crashes are rough. Right. Can we agree that they’re bad, But I actually think they’re the perfect opportunity to get something off your bucket list, because in that one minute before touchdown, you get away with anything.

You are a video game character. You know what I do in that opportunity. When I Wilita and Nana they’re praying for salvation for a miracle, I’m going to get out of my seat and I’m going to punch a kid right there. Okay, wow, hi over here, buddy, how are you going on? I’m your worst nightmare?

Look over here, keep looking at me. Don’t get distracted. Your add is uh oh, there you go. You just said something else, look at you. One of the absolute worst performances imaginable, doing everything backwards, coming out, calling the crowd ugly, getting sidetracked by a very light, normal cough by someone in the second row that nobody in the back of the room could hear.

You had to describe it as rough. Cough was rough. Yeah, you got sidetracked there, And then you talked about plane crashes, a punchlineless bit about how you would punch someone else’s kid because you were punched by your parents, but you’re punching another person’s kids. Yeah, the cycle abuse needs to keep going. You know I’m perpetuating.

Well, you just abused three hundred and thirty people here tonight. The years of grinding that show in La building, the audience slowly figuring out what worked what didn’t. That’s the part of the kill Tony story that get skipped when people just go yeah, Rogan. What the move to Austin did do was concentrate a massive comedy talent in one place that made kill Tony’s guest rosters suddenly and dramatically better on a consistent basis. When your friend is Joe Rogan and everybody’s in the same city and Joe’s got the club that helps.

Let’s also looked at the comedy scene that coalesced in Austin, the people who either live there or pop in there a lot. In the Rogan verse Rogan, of course, Shane gillis THEO Vaughn for Krascher, someone in the orbit Ron White. All that created conditions were kill Tony could pull a remarkable guest almost any week it wanted to. As I’m recording this, let me just scroll down some recent episodes. Tom Sagora, Shane Gillis or a Shafir, Jelly Roll, Theo Vaughn, Jeff Ross.

I mean, those are some great guests, especially for this particular format. When you have Bill Burr sitting next to Tony Hinchcliff watching an open mic or do their minute, and then Bill Burr gives his reaction, you’re getting an education in how a working professional at the highest level of the craft thinks about comedy. You’re hearing a Bill Burr type explain why something worked or didn’t work, what he would have done differently with the bid is actually about underneath what the person thought it was about. You can’t get that in a class, you can’t write that down anywhere. It’s the oral tradition of stand up happening in public, and it’s one of the valuable things that kill Tony does that nobody really planned for it to do.

Uh yeah, I would just say just slow down a little bit. Okay, slow down a little bit, and just the more you do your jokes, the more they’ll come off natural and you won’t be like, I don’t know if you were in your head we’re trying to remember him. I remember like I was in my notebook for the first year and a half. You know, and I would just be like having a teleprompt ghost just I would just slow down a little bit. Okay, that’s it.

It’s not a threat. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Madison Square Garden. This is a show based in Austin, Texas. So while I have a lot of great New Yorkers scattered throughout the show, my two guests live with us in Austin, Texas. Ladies and Gentlemen introducing first, make some noise for one of the best comedians in the world.

This is Shane Gillis. Oh my god, Shane is back. And why don’t we keep that energy going to the Great and Powerple showro again. Now there were the arena shows. That’s where things get pretty interesting for kill Tony Arenas.

You know, Madison Square Garden, a show that is a live podcast about open micers filled the garden. The arena shows are built around a kind of spectacle production value, lighting the sense of event. What Tony figured out is that scale doesn’t actually break the format and amplifies it because the open micer doing their minute in front of ten thousand people is a fundamentally different kind of moment than doing it in front of four hundred, The stakes are higher, The silence when something doesn’t land is deeper, the explosion when something works is bigger. The format designed to create tension and pressure and reaction actually benefits from scale in a way most formats don’t. There are comedians working today who can trace a significant portion of the current audience directly to a kill Tony appearance, not a guest appearance, the one minute appearance.

One minute Atlanta got clipped, got shared, showed up in the algorithm, I got watched by people who already Kill Tony fans. The historical analogies actually the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, but kill Tony does it faster and more organically, and without the fielder of a booker deciding that you’re ready or not. The comedians who are taking kill Tony seriously as a career move, who are flying to Austin, who were working on their minute the way work on a late night set, understand that one great moment in front of Tony’s audience is worth more than one hundred great minutes in front of a club audience that doesn’t have a streaming component.

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And then there’s Tony himself, a comedian who’s primarily known for the show …

If you ask most people what Tony Hinchcliff’s stand up is like, they’ll say dark, precise, roasty. But the stand up isn’t what they think of they think about Kill Tony. It’s a trade off he seems to have made consciously. They’re comedians who would no pun killed to have what Tony has platform with that reach, big audience, weekly presence Netflix.

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And then there are comedians who would never trade the freedom of a state of …

Now. Did any plan all this? That probably gives him too much credit. More likely, he found a format he liked, did it for a few years, got logging in some of the timing and the geography, and built something that happened to be exactly what the comedy audience was looking for without necessarily knowing they were looking for it. It’s usually how the things at last get built.

Kill Tony is good enough, the audience found it, and now it feels a renus. You can comment on this episode in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, where on Spotify comments are open, and follow the show on Spotify turn on notifications so you never miss an episode. I’ll be back at tomorrow with a normal episode. I’ll see you then

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, Joe Rogan, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Spike Lee, Ben Stiller, Amy Schumer

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze UFC event controversy and photos with political figures
• Late-night ratings: Jimmy Kimmel vs. Jimmy Fallon during NBA Finals coverage
• New York Knicks championship parade and fan reactions
• Will Ferrell as World Cup LA ambassador on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Late-night World Cup and Boston beer shortage jokes
• Ben Stiller directing Knicks championship documentary for HBO
• Kevin Hart’s Hulu deal for LOL Live Showcase specials

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m not sure that anyone actually cares that Nate Brighetti went to a UFC fight, but I do kind of like Burghetzi gait. It’s kind of a to me, a non controversy controversy. I mean, Shane Gillis went and you didn’t lose your minds.

But this is a good reminder to Nate and his investors. You know, you’re one photo with Cheryl Hines away from spending millions and millions of dollars on a theme park and having your business go sideways. Just keep that in mind. You might want to just keep touring and selling out arenas. Anyway, in case you missed it, people were upset that Nate attended the UFC event.

We found out he was there because he took a picture with RFK Junior and Cheryl Hines. Well, now, the wife of Donald Trump Junior has shared some more photos and guess who’s in the photo with Petina Trump. That’s right, it’s Nate Brighetzi. Nate still is not posted any photos or videos of himself at the birthday bash, and his people want us to know he was there because UFC is his favorite sport. But apparently Nate took some other photos.

There’s a photo of Nate and Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. You may recall one of her previous gigs while she was the Press secretary under the President Trump. Nate Berghessi also took a photo with House speaker Mike Johnson and famous podcaster comedian Joe Rogan. In a May twenty twenty five profile for Esquire, Nate Berghetti said, if I want to give you my opinion on who I voted for, who’s that for? It’s for me really, because I want you to know I’m smart.

I don’t think it’s really helping an audience. You don’t think they know who to vote for their living life. On the Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan said he convinced several people to go to the fight. He doesn’t mention Nate Berghetzi specifically, but he did mention Shane Gillis. I’ve made some edits for language.

I talked to a bunch of people into going that didn’t want. Shane Gillis was thinking about not going. I’m like, bro, you gotta go. It’s gonna be epic. It’s gonna be a once a thing, not on once in a lifetime, once in anybody’s lifetime.

It’s never happened before, it’s probably never gonna happen again. Probably not. No, that’s something you have to see and experience. Yeah, and so many people are trying to make it a partisan thing, like they’re mad at people for being there, like, oh, you’re support wrong. It’s a fight at the White House, doesn’t mean you endorse foreign policy, like shut up, just please, just please stop.

And again it’s this thing, the ego thing, where people are just they just want so badly. And on both sides, for sure, you know, the right celebrates this as a win for masculinity and patriotism and all these different things like okay, settle down, everybody, settled. Down, Johnny Mac. Enough with the politics stuff, stick to sports, okay. I Will Will Ferrell said it’s awful being an LA ambassador for the World Cup.

Will tell Jimmy Kimmel Live, I’m having to watch the uniforms. It’s awful. I thought it was gonna be great. I got to mow of the field. I didn’t even get a writing, mowhere.

I have a manual push mower, and it’s like pain the Golden gate Bridge. Once I started one side, I got to start on the other. I’m just there all the time. He also says there’s a lot of paperwork I’m processing, like HR complaints, all this passport stuff that’s on me. Late Night had some good jokes about the World’s Cup.

You may have heard the Scots visited Boston. Jimmy Fallon explains, apparently bars in Boston are running out of beer because all the Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup. It’s a bit of a wake up call when people from Boston are like and you drink too much. Jordan Klepper said, Boston ran out of beer, But how will they get the children to sleep? Did you spend yesterday watching the New York Knicks parade?

I did? The Knicks have been good for the ratings. Jimmy Fallon did well when the Knicks were on the other night. It gave the Tonight Show its biggest audience without a sports lead of the year. But yet even that could not defeat number one Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Late Nighter tells US. According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Fallon’s June fifteenth episode built around the NBA champion New York Knicks average one point four million total viewers and two hundred and twenty thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. That’s up twenty percent weeks a week. You should have the Knicks on all the time. But meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel still led the hour with two point two one five million viewers and two hundred and seventy three thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

Of course, Jimmy Kimmel, not being smart, in my opinion, is taking the summer off now. So Jimmy Fallon, this is your time to make the move. You may recall one time that Jay Leno ou hustle, David Letterman take the crown back, Jimmy Fallon, if Kimmel wants the summer off advantage you. Ratings are up for Byron Allen Garbage on CBS that is now averaging six hundred and ninety three thousand viewers and in eighteen of forty nine seventy two thousand. Kevin Hart says New Yick Knicks super fan Spike Lee deserves a ring.

On social media, Kevin Hart said, shout out to Spike Lee. Gives Spike a ring. Spike deserves a bleeping championship ring. And I’m saying it here. Give Spike in New York Knicks a championship ring.

I don’t believe he got one, having just watched the parade before I recorded this. That’s right. That was Amy Schumer leading Knicks fans in Go New York, Go chance. That was not at the main parade. That was at Wednesday’s parade for children.

But look, I’ve been warning you guys. It’s JUNI. You’re supposed to share the show. Now. The phone’s in your hand right, hit share right now, or I’m going to start unwielding weapons.

You think my threat of Nikki Glaser singing was bad, well, if you don’t start sharing the show, I’m going to start playing Amy Schumer singing. And if you think I’m kidding, I am not. Okay, you start sharing the show or we do that every single day.

Speaking of the Knicks and Spike Lee, I think this is a It’s not an awful cal…

They are making a documentary about the New York Knicks and the historic championship. It’s Ben Stiller that’s making it now. Ben Stiller very successful filmmaker and a New York Knicks fan. But wouldn’t Spike Lee be a better choice for this one? A lot of people on social media said, why aren’t we asking Spike Lee?

And I agree with those folks. Stiller posted on Twitter, couldn’t be more excited to make this doc with a twenty four and HBO about the NY Nicks. Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. He added a hashtag one word Let’s go Knicks period. Ben Stiller was also on the Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart Roommates podcast on Wednesday.

That’ll always help, ben Stiller told the Knicks. I’ve obviously been shooting some stuff on my phone, but it’s going to be about all errors of the Knicks and this team. Obviously, there’s accumulation here of something that’s been going on for a long time. It’s super exciting. It’s great to have had all the success to your team.

We’re gonna be shooting a little bit more during new season, and I’m gonna hit you guys up for some interviews. It’s gonna be over the next year. That’ll be working on it. A lot of people have wanted to make it for a long time. Still a wild direct.

Why not, Spike Lee? I don’t know. Circling back to Kevin Hart, Heartbeat has a deal with Hulu for twelve new half hour specials from the l Live showcase series. L OL Live is not easy to say, but was first released in twenty twenty five as a way of championing emerging talent. The lineup for the new series actually starts tonight.

Chaunte Wayans tonight, Then in July we’ll get Matt Richards, and then one a month from Britsha Webb, Alfred Robless, Just Nash, Comedian CP Takarl Williams, Jason Chenney, till Say Sloan, Sydney Castillo, Paris Toche and he all have to wait until May to see Lance Woods. Let’s hope Nick Swartzson is feeling well. He shared a health update from his hospital bed. He was about to have his appendix out. He said, Hey, everybody, it’s Nick Swartson with more life advice.

Hey, if you have a sharp pain you’re abdomen, don’t assume that it’s a super fart. Going to take a minute here to indulge myself watching that Nicks parade yesterday, and I published this on my substack. The producer in me came out so back in the nineties when I was just starting out in radio, I produced a lot of special events. I remember doing the two thousand election, I remember doing the OJ trial, And when I was watching that parade coverage yesterday, I was like, Oh, I wish I were at a studio right now. There’s just something magical, especially before the event started, the vamping, the killing time.

The parade hasn’t started yet, the parade is running late. Okay, let’s go once more around the horn to all our people. Let’s check in with so and so, who’s on the corner of whatever street. Let’s go down to them. Hey, what can you tell us moving commercials off the log like quote unquote, clearing out spots, and then when there’s a break in the action, catching up on spots.

Hey, this guest is really good and is a good talker. Let’s keep them as long as we can. Oh no, the mayor just gave us thirty seconds, so we have to dump the good guest. And go to the mayor. All that live radio stuff.

I missed doing asyesterday, and it’s interesting. That’s not a feeling I have day to day. I love doing the show, I love podcasting, I love my current life. But boy, yesterday the producer in me came out. It is Friday.

Let’s hit the comedy stock market. Comedy stock market? All right? I got a name for you. Write this down, Ryan Hamilton.

You’re like, who Ryan Hamilton? He’s got a Netflix special ad on Tuesday. His last one was great. Ryan Hamilton is a buye. You are buying low.

I’m gonna make you some comedy coin right now. Buy Ryan Hamilton. Who are we gonna sell Johnny Mac? I think we gotta keep selling our NAPERGHETSI just things not trending well for Nate, this whole UFC thing. You know, Do you want to invest in a theme park right now?

I don’t. And Nicky Glazer told you yesterday try hard is the word, and that is just the word. Try hard. Nicky is a tryhard and it’s just not looking cool at all. Let’s keep selling Nikki Glaser will sell Nate Pergatzy and we will load up on Ryan Hamilton, That is your comedy stock market for this week.

For the first time, the New York Comedy Festival will present Varieties ten Comics to Watch That’s always a fantastic list. The presentation and showcase will take place on November twelfth during the New York Comedy Festival, which this year runs from Friday, November sixth through Sunday, November fifteenth. This year’s honorees will also be featured in Variety’s November fourth issue ahead of the live presentation. Since two thousand, Variety has been selecting standout comedians for their ten Comics to Watch franchise. Past honorees include star Trek Ruiner, paton Oswalt, and UFC fan Nate Berghatzy That’s right Dancing with the Stars.

As a new competitor, It’s Guillermo from Jimmy Kimmel Live. Why I don’t know either? And speaking of why I don’t know either, Survivor is getting an animated comedy, Yes, imated Survivor movie set in the Animal Kingdom. As Jeff Probes goesf it Man, I am cashing in, Jeff says, I’m so excited to be teaming up with Paramount animation to bring you Survivor like you’ve never seen it before in the Animal Kingdom. This will be an all out comedy with animals competing for the chance to be crowned the sole survivor.

Let’s go Jeff Probes, who’s like ef it, let’s cash in? Said. The movie will have everything we love about Survivor, big personalities, funny characters, surprising alliances, competition, chaos, and of course a lot of heart. But this time the players aren’t humans. If I don’t get animated Boston Rob, I have no interest in this thing.

The official synopsis reads. Set on a remote and mystical island, animals from all around the globe compete for a once in a lifetime chance to be crowned the sole survivor Jeff Probes, who’s like efit, Let’s just cash in. We’ll serve as executive producer on the film. And that is your comedy news for today, right share the show where we start listening to Amy Schumer say every day. That’s even worse than listening to Niki Glazer.

Arguably, the Nikki Glaser song is almost catchy. Do you really want to hear Amy Schumer sing? Because I can do that. No, you’re not gonna do that. You’re gonna share the show.

Share it on Spotify, where people can turn notifications on so they never miss an episode. Comments are open there, and the comments are open in the Facebook group Dailly Comedy News Podcast Group. Right tomorrow, I’m doing one of those episodes I explained last week that’s gonna help the search engines, help grow the show, that whole thing. Sunday’s an normal episode, and then Monday, oh Monday, thank you jay Leno. See, I wanted to pre tape Monday’s show so that I could hit the beach today Friday, and Jay Leno hooked it up and did a big, big thing about late night television, so that’d be Monday’s lead off story.

And I can guarantee you that fact because I’m gonna record it right now. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Shane Gillis, John Mulaney, Mikki Glaser, Mike Myers, Trevor Noah, James Corden, Mark Maron, Eric Andre, Ali Wong, Bette Midler

What’s in This Episode

• Man mistaken for Shane Gillis arrested for road rage incident with BB gun
• John Mulaney sells out Wrigley Field, compared to McCartney and Springsteen
• Mikki Glaser voices villain Priscilla in Netflix’s Cinderella reimagining
• Mike Myers confirms Austin Powers 4 in development
• James Corden’s post-World Cup late night show underperforms in ratings
• Mark Maron discusses stepping back from twice-weekly podcast schedule
• Eric Andre incident at WWE RAW ringside

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Caloroga Shark Media be on the lookout for fake Shane Gillis. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News out of Watertown, New York. The police are saying that a man named Ian was driving on Clinton Street when Ian had an exchange with a man on a scooter. Please say. Ian shouted at the man and called him fat.

The man responded by making an obscene gesture. Ian allegedly pointed a pistol at the man and said do we have a problem and drove off, while the scooter operator called police and described the corps and the driver. He told dispatchers that the suspect looked like Shane Gillis. Apparently that description was enough, police found Ian. The pistol turned out to be a BB gun.

Shane Gillis was not involved. John Mulaney’s PR People getting it done from Deadline exclusive last fall, John Mulaney called his shot he’d become the first comedian a headline Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs, blah blah blah, and now he’s become the first to sell out the forty thousand plus seed Ballpark. Here’s where the PR people really got it done. Listen to the company they’re putting. Mullany and Mulaney, a proud Chicago native, joins a shortlist of the world’s most prominent artists who have made the stage their own, which includes the likes of Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Pearl jam Melanie will be at Wrigley Saturday, July eleventh.

In his statement, Mullaney told Deadline, I’m honored to stand on the same field where I saw Mark Grace rip cigarettes during games and yell all my jokes. That sound you here is all the cool being sucked out of Nikki Glaser. There’s no cool left. NICKI wanted to be famous, is famous, and now it’s the cash in. Nikki Glaser is joining the cast of Steps.

Nikki Glaser will play Priscilla, a villainous schemer who will stop at nothing to control everyone around her. Hmm, that’s it. I’m just saying. This is a reimagining of Cinderella. Bette Midler plays the fairy godmother in this thing.

Nikki Glaser, in the announcement, said it was a cathartic joy to voice the character of Priscilla, the jealous, try hard, want to be princess. Let’s just stop there. I’m not even gonna con Let’s just stop there. Okay, you’re thinking it. I didn’t say anything.

I just told you what. Nikki Glaser said. She’s playing Priscilla, the jealous, tryhard, want to be princess who’s fueled by deep seated insecurities of unlovability and inadequacy. Let’s just take another break and you know, take the podcast in today. We’ll go slow today.

Want me to read the whole quote again. Nicki said, the role wasn’t quite a stretch for me because those are all the characteristics that I do not at all relate to as a woman who has spent two decades clowing my way through show business. Here’s the synopsis. Think you know Cinderella’s evil stepsisters think again. Sick of living in Cinderella’s shadow, Lilith played by Ali Wong, steals the fairy Godmother’s magic wand and hijacks the Royal Ball with her sister Margo, breaking the Cinderella stories we know it and dooming the kingdom to the tyrannical rule of Priscilla, played by Nikki Glaser, a villainous schemer who swoops in and snatches the throne.

Now Lilith must team up with Cinderella to fight biker trolls, outrun evil Henchman, and escape the Screaming Woods on an epic quest to save the kingdom, but most importantly their relationship. I would say, let’s send this straight to the streamers, but this is from Netflix’s animation studios. That reminds me today’s garbage day. I gotta put the garbage out. Could we get Austin Powers four?

Mike Myers was on Trevor Noah’s World Cup watch party. Trevor asked if we will see Austin Powers four. Myers replied yes, that was it. No more information. Myers has been mentioning Austin Powers for since twenty eighteen, when he told Entertainment Tonight he wanted to make the movie from Doctor Evil’s perspective.

Myers at the time said, so it would be Doctor Evil one Austin Powers four. Mike Myers is also appearing as Doctor Evil in a commercial these days now. I was curious about this Trevor Noah’s World Cup WI party because I remember I had told you about it months ago, and I actually looked up last week when the World Cup started, Hey is he even doing this? And there’s no press on it. There’s still not any press on it other than this Austin Powers thing.

So I actually went on YouTube. Apparently it’s Trevor Noah and people sitting around couches and they’re watching the game. You don’t see the game or hear the game, but it’s kind of like you’re in Trevor Noah’s living room. I guess, so, I guess you put it on while watching the game. If that’s the thing you want to do, go nuts.

James Corden is hosting a show after Soccer on Fox. It has a different title, but I’m not going to use it. Late Night Er writes, James Gordon’s return to late night did not exactly arrive with World Cup sized ratings, but it wasn’t a face plan either. Late Night it tells us. According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Thursday’s premiere of FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon aka Show on After Soccer averaged four hundred and eighteen thousand total viewers and one hundred and ten thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

Boy Just Run Byron ellen Man you think CBS is dumb, maybe they’re not. Late Nighter compared Midnight to one a m ABC’s hours split between Kimmel and Nightline, NBC split between Fallon and the inexplicable Late Night with Seth Myers, and CBS between Byron Allen Garbage. Late Nighter says on that basis, Fox trailed ABC, who had one point five sixty four million viewers, NBC nine hundred and thirty thousand, and Byron Allen Garbage five hundred and thirty three thousand. However, in the eighteen to forty nine demo show after Soccer, one hundred and ten thousand adults, CBS said sixty four thousand, NBC one hundred and nineteen thousand. ABC led the hour three hundred and twenty thousand adults eighteen to forty nine.

Mark Maren spoke to gold Derby. Maren said people got very used to hearing me talking to them directly. Twice a week. I’m getting dms on social media, with some of them saying ope you’re enjoying retirement. I’m not retired and just having a life allow me to have a life.

I’m situated in my life in a way I haven’t been able to in a long time, which means I have a lot more time to worry about stuff and wonder if I’m doing enough. But I’m trying to ease up on that. I don’t need to be operating in that space all the time. But I’m doing a lot of comedy work and trying to put together movie that I wanted to director early next year, which is coming along. But I also have time to try and do stuff around the house, spend time with friends, go do things.

There’s a lot of stuff I didn’t used to do because I was so consumed by work, but I do still fun work to do. Does Mark Maron miss the direct connection to his audience, Yeah, sometimes thinks what would happen? I’d be talking about the podcast to stream a conscious away and I’d think, oh, maybe I should work that into a bit. So I’ve lost that outlet, a kind of improvisation in terms of developing material. There’s also discipline to do in the show twice a week, and I would send out a weekly update and forced myself to play music at the end of each episode.

Lately, I found I’ve had to put myself in a position where I make sure the I’m doing all that stuff creatively. But the other side is what I want to do to stand up now, especially in longer sets, is there’s an urgency to it there wasn’t there before, and I like the audience doesn’t know everything already because of the podcast. Currently, Eric Andre had a tough night on WWE RAW. We’re told Andre was ringside during a Bloodline segment featuring Roman Reens and Jacob Fattu. Apparently Roman Rains formerly welcomed Fatu into the Bloodline.

As the group made their way back up the ramp, eric Andre reached out and touched Fatu’s ceremonial something. Fatu reacted, pulling Eric Andre over the barricade and into the ring. Oh no, Luckily, Roman Rains climbed into the ring and called him off. But then after a pause, Roman Rains changed his mind and allowed Fatuo to continue. Fatsu then hit Eric Andre with a splash from the top rope.

We’ll let you know if Eric Andre is okay. Yesterday in New York City there was a New York Knicks parade for kids outside the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. You know who hosted it, Amy Schumer. Why, I don’t know we’re told she is a kid champion. Amy Schumer was joined by Jessica Seinfeld.

Meanwhile, the real parade is today, the Ticker Tay Parade in New York City. This morning, Jimmy Fallon had some thoughts. Everyone’s getting ready for the big victory parade this Thursday for the world champion New York. It could be the largest parade in New York City history, with over one million people expected to attend. And it’s New York, so they’re all roommates.

We’ll get this. The city is distributing two five hundred pounds of shredded paper to office buildings along the route for workers to toss out their windows right now. The santation departments like, why do we even bother cleaning up from Saturday? This is a design. It’s a big deal.

I even had a Zoom meeting scheduled and I canceled it because I want to watch the parade. I missed a good Jimmy Fallon joke the other night when he had the Nixon He said, of course it’s the Knicks, so they won’t really show up until the second half. Are you paying attention to what’s going on in DC with the reflecting pool. It’s a little green. Jimmy Kimmel said he wanted a painted American flag blue.

Not even a week later, it’s already completely green. It’s a Mexican flag green. Experts are saying that when Trump had it paid it dark blue, he made the problem worse because the darker color retains more heat, and analogy thrives in warmer water. You know, he’d promise he’d trained the swamp. Instead he spent fourteen million of our dollars building a new one.

Des Bishop, who was a great guest on this program, He’s got a new special coming out on Hulu Friday, June twenty sixth. In the new Hour, filmed at the Comedy Seller New York City, Des Bishop embraces his inner bridge and tunnel, diving into the joys of not having kids, surviving gen X dating, growing up irish with the New York’s attitude, and finding humor in the chaos of modern adulthood. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla has a deal to become the official audio distributor for Comedy Central Records. The deal brings together catalogs from comedians including a UFC, fann Aperghetzi, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, who likes the when we talk about her, the not so canceled disease, I’m sorry, Star trek Ruiner, Patton Oswalt, Big Jay Oakerson, Kyle Kanay and Mark Norman, Sam Marilla and many more. It’s like they’re collecting all the comics I have nicknames for.

You might as well have signed. Dramatic actor Adam Sandler. Comedian Willie Mac has announced his first full Lin special, Good Dad, Bad Father, will extreme exclusively on Gorilla Comedy Plus beginning June twenty second. That’s Monday. It’ll be on YouTube July twenty first, which is not Monday.

Mac show is about becoming a dad before fully becoming an adult. He said, my dad raised me with scripture, I raised my son with vibes. Comedian Kate and Sizowski will release her debut comedy album, Garbage Plate. That’s out Friday, June twenty sixth, via a Special Thing Records. As a comedy writer, much of Kate’s work centers on the LGBTQ community, flawed but lovable female characters, and mental illness, all of which shine on her first comedy album, recorded live in La And That is Your comedy news for today.

Enjoy the parade. Don’t forget you’re sharing the show where I’m gona play Nikki Glaser songs. You don’t want me to do that again. It took me a day to get it out of my head. I could torture you.

So tell a friend about the show. You’ve got your phone in your hand right now, Just hit the share button. Text them be like, hey, check this out. That’s all you got to do. Take five seconds.

Comments are open on Spotify and in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Turn on notifications you never miss an episode. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Louis C.K., Nate Bargatze, Stephen Bargatze, Robert F. Kennedy, Cheryl Hines, John Stewart, Rob Schneider, Ahmed Ahmed

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. Netflix special ‘Ridiculous’ trailer release
• Nate Bargatze UFC event photo with RFK backlash
• Stephen Bargatze magic special on Nateland YouTube
• John Stewart criticism of White House UFC event
• San Francisco Giants Pride Night Bible verse controversy
• Ahmed Ahmed lawsuit against San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department

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Caloroga Shark Media. It air Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Netflix has released a trailer from Louisk’s upcoming stand up special. The special is titled Ridiculous, which I feel like he’s used at five times already, but I guess not. It’ll be out on Netflix on June thirtieth.

It’s louis first special on Netflix in nine years. You may recall that scandal. Louise last Netflix special was in twenty seventeen. Since then, he has released several albums and specials through his own website. He also won Best Comedy Album at the Grammys in twenty twenty two.

That was his third The other two were before the scandals, in twenty twelve and twenty sixteen. In May, Louis k headlined a show at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the Netflix As a Joke Comedy Festival, and the streaming special was announced. Well now it is here. During that show, CK’s all the audience. That was my last show on the tour, last time tell those jokes, and I’m really happy I got to tell them to you.

Thank you very much for coming. Thank you to Netflix. I really appreciate the gig. And there is a trailer. Let’s listen to it.

I have edited out one F bomb. Yeah, my dad’s eighty nine and he’s in a home. Now, he’s in a home. You know what that means. Right, there’s a pink plastic water pitcher in the room, you know what I mean.

Yeah, he’s in a home. My sisters and I put him in a home because he was too old to stop us from putting him in there. He was just two weeks to resist being forced. So we went looking for a home to put our dad in and we went on a tour and not with him. But you don’t you don’t bring him on the tour now, his first time there is the day that if the last place he’ll ever go.

You know what this place does? You know what they do? You give them money and they take your father. They go this one. You go, yeah, and they they take him.

They just push him in a chair away from you. Just say. You don’t even have to wave, you just watch. And your father’s like. I didn’t love that clip, And that’s the clip you’re choosing to put in the trailer.

Maybe I’m sensitive because I had to put my mother and assisted living towards the end of her life and I don’t know, but maybe it’s not funny. You tell me. Comments are open on Spotify and in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group the Folks on the av Club wrote, based on the material presented in the first clip, the actual content of the special is unlikely to garner the kind of controversy that has deservedly followed work from Dave Chappelle or Kevin Hard. It’s roast a first glance, c K doesn’t address any controversy. It looks like an attempt to return to business as usual in what Netflix’s press material describes as a quintessential set that shows he’s still a legend of the stand up world.

Louis C.K. Ridiculous out on June thirtieth. As I said the other day, he’s probably the second best comedian of the twenty first century. So it’s a complicated situation. Now, the story that is amusing me this week is this Nate Brighatzy thing.

Incasion missed it. Nate went to the UFC fight the other night. He got photographed with Robert F. Kennedy and Cheryl Hines. I believe the Vice president is in the background of that and people are like, hmm, is Nate Brighatzy a supporter of the President of the United States.

Now, Nate himself did not post a thing about the attendance. A source says Nate discussed his attendance with his team, knowing that his appearance would be interpreted as a political statement, but decided to attend anyway. We are told that Nate went because he’s a big UFC fan and the appearance was quote not political. I guess that’s why. Well, at this point, I think the cover up is worse than the crime.

As they say, that’s just a phrase I’m using. Don’t read anything into that, but Nate Gates getting a lot of pick up. Yahoo wrote about it. They quoted some Twitter users, one called the comedian Maganate. That person said, I used to enjoy Naperghetzy, but then I learned that he thinks fascism is funny.

Another person wrote, now I love that guy, and I generally don’t do boycotts, but I’m done with him. I saw a lot of conversation on threads that people were done with Nate Brighetzy. One person wrote, we have tickets to see Nate in July. Sultan them back at half price this morning. I think, just own it now.

If you listen to the show every day, I try not to get too political. If you pay close attention to the spin I put on words, you can probably figure it out. But as I have said in the past, the President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues. For example, this week, I don’t want to send Iran three hundred billion dollars. But on the other hand, the President and I are a line that NBC twelve thirty could be way better.

Make twelve thirty great again. So you know, just own it now. Interesting timing here. Nate’s father, steven sian comedian. He’s got a special coming out Thursday.

Maybe Nate is a master of promotion. Stephen Burgetzi’s debut magic special will be on Nateland’s entertainment YouTube page at two pm Pacific on Thursday. Weird time to put that out. It’s called Out in a Minute taped at the Franklin Theater in Tennessee. Out in a Minute blends old school illusions, quick witted crowd work, and deeply personal stories from a lifetime in show business from classic tricks he performed during a Z Opryland days to one final stunt his family, which is hid retire.

Stephen Burgetzi turns the evening into a celebration of comedy, magic and the wonderfully unique journey that helped shape the Bergazzie family on their way to attending the UFC event on the White House Lawn. John Stewart commented on the UFC fight and said Sunday night gave the President and his acolytes an opportunity to rebut the joyous communion of teamwork that embodied the New York Knickerbockers for a joyless Vegas style trudge through the People’s House and now transformed into a gold plated pummeling center. Stuart said, what a gone awful mockery of an event that somehow managed to find a way to do value both combat sports and our national dignity. Who even aired this embarrassing stuff? The answer there is Paramount Plus.

Who’s his boss? Stewart said, once again, the leaders of Paramount Plus providing us all with incredible content at reasonable prices. I am proud to stand with the Paramount family and whatever shows they decide to either cancel or put on. Did you see this thing? With the San Francisco Giants.

They had Pride Night the other night, and some players wrote some Biblical messages on their Pride hats. Rob Schneider has entered the discussion because of course he did. Rob posted on Twitter, I will pay the fines for any MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform. MLB is anti Christian. The San Francisco Giants said they are proud to support Pride Night and the LGBTQ plus community.

We also respect that individuals may make personal choices about participating in team activations. We understand the choices by individual players has caused pain and anger to many in the LGBTQ plus community, and we are sorry for that.

Also out of San Francisco, comedian Ahmed Ahmed was arrested last year at San…

He says he was assaulted by deputies at San Mateo County Jail. According to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court, Ahmed Ahmed issuing the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department for assault, battery, negligence, and other allegations. As the story goes after missing a flight connection. When returning to the US from a work trip in Thailand, Ahmed and other frustrated passengers got into an argument with the United Airlines representative in the early morning hours at SFO. He was sent to a hotel with no available rooms.

He returned to the service desk around one am, exhausted, frustrated, and in need of help. The complaint said the agent was dismissive. From there, Ahmed apparently demanded assistance. The employee called San Francisco Airport Police, saying Ahmed was being disorderly. Police arrested him and transported him to the jail.

Ahmed said he sustained a broken wrist, elbow, and rib, as well as bruises and lacerations from being punched, kicked, and beaten by deputies. According to the complaint, He was then strapped to a chair in an isolation room with a hood over his head. The complaint also suggests that deputies tried to remove his pants. I’m at in the statements that I’ve spent my life trying to bring people together through laughter. But what those officers did broke something in me.

I was scared for my life. They tortured, humiliated, beat and injured me. The trauma has scarred me physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. I was released without being charged with any crime because I didn’t do anything wrong. Wow, just serious all the way around there.

We’ll keep an eye on that story, and awkwardly go to a commercial break. All right. The rest of the show was pretty much a victory lap for the world champion New York Knicks. If that doesn’t interest you, especially through the lens of Jimmy Fallon, you are excused and I’ll see you tomorrow. But for everybody else, Tracy Morgan says he doesn’t have a favorite New York Knicks player, but has crowned MVP Jalen Brunson the king of New York.

Tracy Morgan told The Post, I can’t pick anyone out because everyone had a part in it, the coaching staff, everyone had a part in it. So I won’t do that. I won’t single anyone out. But Brunson is the king of New York right now. People have spoken.

The New York Knicks were the guests on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Now, normally I defend Jimmy fallon. But this first thing I’m gonna play for you is so lame. It just it’s not funny. It’s not entertaining.

Jimmy, who is this? For Game one in Texas, New York brought it, y’all. Brunson put up thirty points, then shouted yeehaw. For Game two, much closer, Gay fans a heart attack. Thank god, Wemby passed the ball into his teammates’ backs.

Game three in New York MSG was packed. New York City took an l while one guy took a nap sweat. Game four historic down by twenty nine. It’s the reason I now have an Annoby Shrine s. Game five the Spurs.

We’re leading at the starts, but we believed because we all have hearts and bridges and kat They all played really great, so now we’ll all get turn it. That’s forage New York Knicks run starting five so much fun. Here’s to you time this year. How about at the same time next year. I mean, that was so bad that makes me want to listen to Nikki Glaser sing.

But by the way, by the way, by the way, I did myself in I woke up in the middle of the night the other night last night actually with the Nicky Glazer song stuck in my head. So as much as I’m trying to torture you, I wound up torturing myself. Just share the show anyway. Fortunately the actual Nicks came out. Here’s their introduction.

I have scoped this down for piecing. Wow, MVP right here, Come on, my gosh, thank you for being here, and thank you, thank you for being here, and thank you for bringing a championship to New York. On the coush with Jimmy Fallon, it’s coach Mike Brown, Karl Anthony Towns, you know him as Cat, and the captain Jalen Brunson. Jimmy felln loses control of his own show for a little bit before asking Jalen Brunson about his pre music routine. Jell and you scored a forty five points in a championship winning game.

Right but Michael, same time? All right, right, I can’t talk. Michael Jordan is. The only other player in history to do that. What does it feel like when you go down the street or you see this billboard in New York City of Clyde Fraser passing the ball.

That’s the John. That’s cool. That’s crazy, that’s it’s pretty cool. That’s really cool. I mean getting getting being able to know him and talked to him over the last couple of years.

You just see the joy he has watching us, and I’m just ready to thank for the relationship that we have. He means a lot to this community, the next community in US and just uh, he’s a pleasure to be around. Yeah, he’s always there for you guys. And we talked before when you’re on the show before the game, you told me listening to Justin Bieber, and I was wondering if that’s still the case. And during the playoffs, do you switch out the playlist or is it still Bieber?

Before the games? I switched it up every now and then, but right before after Mike does his pregame talk has to be Beber, right before I run out. I love you loyal. I can verify this, Yeah, right, y, Yeah, I can verify it.

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Speaking of music, you may have noticed coach Mike Brown singing who Let the …

During the ceremonies after the Knicks won the championship. Mike Brown tells the story who let the Dogs Out? By the Baha Man. What is that song. We got to put that to bed.

Yeah, where did that come from? Was that something you. Listen? Story? So I got too, He.

Said, know what, we need the story as well. We won’t need this. I was an assistant San Antonio many moons ago. The reporter that asked me the question, he said, what did you learn during your time here when you coach the seven year old dog’s flag football team? And so I said, I said, I learned to cheer because we used to have all the parents come into the huddle, all the kids come in the huddle before every game.

We put everybody put their hands in, right, all right, we’re gonna practice, and everybody to do this. Put your hands in, put your hands in.

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And then I’d go one, two, three, I go loot the dogs.

Not to walk out, to walk out, stop doing it. No, I won’t do it anymore. So not to walk after that. After that day, I’m going back to the hotel thinking everything is good, right okay, And the players walk off the bus first, every one of them that walked by me, tap me on my shoulder and killed He was the toughest on me. He was to they killed me.

And I will say one player, one player, on our team. Yes, he tap my back, rubbed my shoulder. He looked down at me, gave me the just just a sorry, just a sorry felt look, and he said, don’t worry about a coach. It was Mikail Bridges. Mikil mckis.

He got your baddies. Yes, he got kill Bridges. Can we talk about how he just compared me at thirty to a seven year old? Yeah? Yeah.

By the way, on that that last boys, you’re hearing there, that’s cat. You can just tell he’s got a quote unquote it. Jalen Brnson’s a little tight still with the media, but Cat’s in natural paying attention to that. On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel called it the best five game NBA Final Series ever. He then rattled off all the post game five stabbings, injuries and arrests in the aftermath and the Knicks win.

Yes, some idiots in New York don’t know how to behave. Kim joked that people worried that mayor Mum Donnie was going to destroy New York. No one would have guessed it would be fans of the Knicks. Kimmel then showed some clips of Knicks fans getting routy, including destroying school buses and putting Elmo’s head on a spike. I’ll come back to that, Kimo said, you know you’re in a festive mood when you set fire to a school bus and nobody has a problem at all.

So the Elmo thing was pretty funny. The Elmo social media account posted something like let’s have a good game, rooting for both sides, and people pointed out that Sesame Street takes place in New York City and called Elmo a treader. It was very, very funny reading the reactions to Elmo trying to both sides the NBA Finals. No, you’re from New York, you’re a Knicks fan. Elmo seth Meyer still has a show at twelve thirty.

For some reason, he dedicated his Closer Look segment to the Knicks. He said, I don’t know where you’re watching tonight, but wherever you are, I guarantee it’s not as much fun as New York City is right now. That is true. New York City is a lot of fun right now, no offense. But New York City is currently a cross between Mardy grac Corichella and the Ray from the matrix.

We got Nixon five World Cup, Fever, the Portteryay Parade, we got block parties, watch parties. We even got guys balancing trash cans on their heads. It all feels bigger than sports. If you’re in New York City right now, whether you live here or you’re just visiting, you could jump on the f train and at any moment be surrounded by people in Nick’s gear, or Brazil gear, or Morocco gear, or even Mets gear. And if you’re from abroad and you don’t know what the Mets logo is, it’s the one on the hats of the sad people.

Well, Seth Meyers actually made me laugh. I should just wrap up the show now, but I have to tell you about New York Laughs is happening in New York City tonight, and it’s pretty cool. New York Laughs is a comedy arts nonprofit that does world class stand up in public spaces. Tonight. James Austin Johnson is your headliner, joined by Jordan Fisher, Charlene Kay and Olivia Carter.

Lineups are subject to change, but you’ll find this at Lincoln Center tonight. Free limit advanced tickets are free seating is first come, first served. So what you want to google there is ny laughs one word and that is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget follow a show on Spotify or I’ll play Nikki Laser saying turn notifications on so you never miss a show. You can also comment in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Joe Rogan, Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis, Jay Leno, Joe Biden, James Corden, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jimmy Fallon, Marc Maron

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze at Trump White House UFC event
• Jimmy Kimmel’s birthday card parody for Trump
• UFC event on White House lawn with Joe Rogan
• Jay Leno interviews Joe Biden on his garage show
• James Corden soccer show with Sebastian Maniscalco helicopter bit
• New York Knicks appearance on Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caalarogashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Over the weekend, the presidents of the United States turned eighty years old, and Jimmy Kimmel wished the president a happy birthday. Over Instagram, Kimmell posted a birthday card that resembled a note that Trump had allegedly addressed to Jeffrey Epstein. Kimmel’s card reads, Happy eightieth Donald A.

Palla is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret. The President spent part of his birthday at the UFC event on the White House lawn. That’s a thing that happened in the United States of America. There was a UFC event on the White House lawn.

You might not have seen it because it was on paramount. Plus it was a big celebration and we had to put it on a streaming service. So if you didn’t see it, you may have missed Joe Rogan’s tie. Whatever you think of Joe Rogan, he’s terrible at ties. This tie came about three inches high of his belly button.

Unlus, Joe Rogan thought he was at UFC nineteen seventy four. I don’t know why his tie was so short. Now, some celebrities were there. The Daily Beast had the headline Emmy nominated comedian exposed as Maga at Trump’s UFC fight. They tell us Nate Brighetzi, who has hosted Saturday Night Life twice, had largely escaped the limelight at the Dizzying spectacle at the White House on Sunday until Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services Secretary at Robert F.

Kennedy Junior, uploaded a snap of the trio together on Instagram, with Vice President J. D. Vance in the background. That’s right, there’s a photo you see Nate Brighetzi, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and wife Cheryl Hines. Nate did not share this on his own Instagram, where he has three point one million followers.

He also didn’t mention it on Twitter. Didn’t mention it at all. Nate, did you not have fun at the UFC event on the lawn of the White House celebrating the president’s eighty five birthday? Seems like something you’d promote. Shane Gillis was at the event.

Now. During the event, one of the UFC fighters made a horrible comments about Michelle Obama. I’m not going to share the comment with you. Shane Gillis said he didn’t like it. Let’s listen to the audio of Shane.

I believe this is after the event. He’s being bothered by the paparazzi. And as you can hear, Shane travels with with people. Now he’s got people running interference for him. So if you think Shane Gillis is just like, you know, a goofy guy in a baseball hat showing up at an event, no no, no, no no, he’s got people.

Listen you think, guys come on Shane Trump’s job before. You what do you think of the cancel poultry? Guys got me on a couple But yeah, I didn’t like that. Okay, why do you both sides of this thing? Johnny Mac?

Okay, I will the worst person who ever lived. Jay Leno, he’s a guest on his little television show. There the guest former President Joe Biden. That’s right, Joe Biden and Joe Biden’s nineteen sixty seven Corvette Stingray are on a very special edition of Jay Leno’s garage. You’ll find this on Jay Leno’s YouTube channel.

In it, we see Jay Leno, who stole the Tonight Show back from Conan O’Brien, driving around Los Angeles with the former president. Former President Biden told Deadline, Jay’s been asking for years to drive my corvette, so I said, why the hell not. Jay and his team are the best, and we had a great time catching up while driving through the Angelus National Forest and the vet drove like a charm. The duo did talk about the current job holder. Biden reflected on his own tenure in the job and took a few swipes at the former host of The Apprentice, Joe.

Biden said, he’s cutting back on all the programs that have apprenticeships and create jobs. I see what you did there. Were told they were followed by Secret Service SUVs and police. Biden and Leno also ran fond the value of NATO natural parks, bo Biden’s life and Death, being Designated Drivers, horsepower, Ronald Reagan’s motorcycle, and ice cream. Yes.

Former President Biden and former Tonight Show host Leno stopped by handles. Leno said, all right, so we went for ice cream. You know. We got there and a bunch of little kids waiting for ice cream, you know, And I said, anybody ever meet a president of the United States? No, well, this guy’s president.

I mean, it’s just very funny. Yeah, eight nine year old kids, you know, so it’s very funny watching him interact with the kids. They loved him. Jay Leno also had an in and out cookout truck on site at his Burbank garage to serve Joe Biden lunch during the visit. We are told Joe did pay for the kids ice creams as well as Jay Leno’s ice cream.

Leno said he was the old Joe, you know, every Handshakespere two hundred and fifty votes, that kind of thing, Shrere hands with everybody. Just congenial, just the nice guy. Now they got into the topic of how sharp and how old a president might be. You know, sometimes people would accuse a sitting president of falling asleep during meetings. That has happened on both sides.

I remember one point, some people refer to Biden as sleepy Joe. Others are on Instagram every day catching the president blinking and saying he’s falling asleep in meetings. Jay Leno said it’s interesting because Joe was very very sharp. I thought maybe I’d have to talk in a slower voice, you know what I mean. But no, we just talked and he was funny and just making jokes and things like that.

I think a year of relaxation and taking it easy, just being a normal guy was great for him. Really, it was the old Joe again. It was great to see him. Are you watching World Cup Soccer? Well, James Corden’s got that show.

What’s it called again? A show after Soccer with James Cordon Pretty sure that’s the name of the show. And on Friday night he had on Sebastian Maniscalco. And I’m going to play a clip for you, but let me set it up. Okay, So the bit here is Sebastian is making his way from the World Cup soccer game to James Corden’s studio.

We see Sebastian on his phone, but then we cut away to a helicopter shot and the helicopter is tracking Sebastian Maniscalco in a car that has the proper name of the show on top of the car. Now, I watched this and I’m like, that was really and I’m gonna play it for you in a second. But then I thought, if David Letterman, especially in the eighties, did this exact bit top to bottom. Hey, Sebastian, Maniscalco is there. Let’s cut to the helicopter.

Sebastian, can you wave out the window, we would have thought this was the greatest thing ever. There’s something about David Letterman that would have made this exact word for word, letter for letter, second for second bit really cool. But the James Corden version is kind of limb. How you doing, Sebastian. I’m good.

I think I’m gonna make it. I don’t know what this la traffic, although I think we hit a We’re on an open road here, so yeah, I’m common. So save the seat for a dream some soccer we will. Hey, Sebastian, see if you can, if you can still hear me, lean out of the car window and give the helicopter a wave. Can you do that for me?

Seevie, there’s a helicopter above you right now. See hang gout, I’m outside. Hang on, we’ve got some trains. Come on his right. He’s on his right.

Let’s say sit in sebus. Now. This next story came together pretty quickly, or I would have told you about it. The world champion New York Knicks we’re scheduled to be the guests on last night’s tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon. Fallen was seen at a couple games.

Fallon said a booking fifty three years in the making. The episode was scheduled to feature head coach Mike Brown, NBA Finals MVP, Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony Towns you know him as Cat, Josh Hart og Ananobi, Michael Bridges, and the entire Knicks team, including my favorite Jordan Clarkson. The plan was for Fallon’s entire audience at thirty Rock to be comprised of diehard Knicks fans, so this will give us something to talk about tomorrow. Mark Marin was on Kara Swisher’s podcast He’s Not I’m a big fan of the Netflix thing. Now Netflix thinks that Netflix is airing podcast but they’re not.

Netflix is airing cheaply produced television shows, and Mark Maron had some thoughts about that. Heag’e John editing the show. I forgot to mention I made many edits to Mark Maron here for language. When I saw, you know, podcasts on the menu of Netflix I’m like, it’s over, you know, you know, with the bar has been lowered to such a degree that people will sit at home and watch people on Zoom with half their face covered up by a sure sm seven. It’s like, what is wrong with people?

Like? Do they not have any friends? Do they are they not curious about anything? Do they not use their brain anymore? They can’t think they got to have three idiots to entertain them.

I mean, it’s like a world of drive time radio. It’s the worst, right, So why do you think it’s popular? Huh? Why do you think it’s popular? Because people are lazy and they’ll adapt to anything, and they’re lonely, and they want to have parasocial relationships with people they feel that they’re like, which means usually amateurs.

Mark Maron started to talk about the Manisphere podcasters. He said, I knew them before there was a Manisphere. I knew them as comics. I knew Rogan when he started in Boston. I’ve known these guys were somewhat of a weird tribe in community.

So it gets a point where in politics are what they are. I’m team Left. I’m not going to make all the games right, but I’m team left going down to fight that. So, like with the THEO vonn thing, that’s a joke, and it’s a good joke to do. THEO interviewing Hitler’s hilarious, and I got to a place where that joke wheer, I’m like, how could THEO get mad at me for this?

It’s funny. Cara Swisher was curious, did they get mad at him? Maren said, well, Joe said he got mad at me. I don’t know, all right, guys, So I’ve been warning you. You think I’m messing around here.

I went to share Alytics, and I know that some of you didn’t share the show. Now, if you shared the show, why don’t you hit thirty seconds skip like three times? But the rest of you, you’re gonna be punished because it’s June and we’re sharing the show with a friend. We’re growing the show. So unless I see double the numbers, I know that some of you haven’t done it.

So your phone in your hand right now, push the share button, then send it to somebody and be like, hey, there’s this weird guy and he keeps starting to play Nikki Glaser music. If I don’t do this, I mean the next step is I’m going to escalate. I’m going to come to your house and sit across the street in a transam with a boombox, and I’m gonna play Nikki Glaser song over and over until you share the show. So here is your daily punishment for not sharing the show on Netflix, Ladies and gentlemen, Nikki Glaser singing. Ah read comment.

A little strange man poison my day. It’s not in common. It’s garning old look in my age. Okay, none of us want that, right, you don’t want that, so share the show.

Also, also follow the show on Spotify and turn on notifications if you need s…

Deadline Means Business had this pretty good interview with Ari Shafir. Ari got into his breakup with Comedy Central. Now that episode is from April. I only got to it on Monday when it was beautiful out and I went for a run, And I am now learning on the fly that I didn’t actually put anything in my script for the second half of the podcast, which means we’re going to talk about Vulture’s review of Tony Hinchcliff’s show, which I thought I was gonna bump to tomorrow but apparently not Vulture Rights. Just to get this out of the way, anyone inclined to dislike Tony Hinchcliff’s new Netflix special Man of the People, on principle, is not going to change their mind based on its material.

While the comedian has amassed a huge fan base owing to his popular quasi open mic podcast Killed Tony and work at Comedy Roast, he’s accumulated an equally larger amount of haters because of controversial jokes he told It to Donald Trump rally in twenty twenty four and the Roast of Kevin Hart last month, and predictably, this new hour is full of similar button pushing provocations. To the extent that Man of the People has an organizing idea, it’s that Hinchcliff has the right to be an equal opportunity offender because he is, as the specials title implies, a comedy version of the People’s Champion. Mostly he dips in and out of CrowdWork to create the impression of the audience’s perspective matters and that they’re all enthusiastic participants in this performance. Unfortunately, this is not how his forays into the crowd play out. On four separate occasions, Hingecliff turns to an audience member of a particular demographic to reinforce a stereotype about them, and the audience member’s response introduces nuance that undermines his premise.

Even on a basic technical level, Hinchcliffe’s crowd working directions fail to create the communal vibes after because the audience, despite playing such a prominent role in the special or not miked no I disagree with his next part. Midway through the special, Hinchcliffe calls on a Chinese member of the audience to help him reinforce a hack joke he’s just told about Asian people being bad drivers. Tony asks her what kind of car she drives? The answer Honda Civic, what car she drove previously. That was a setup to imply a joke.

Guy won’t spoiler where we were heading. We find out it’s her first how long she’s had the Civic the answer since twenty seventeen, And whether she’s ever been in a car accident. The answer is no. See Tony was a hope for a yes, and then he would have done a joke about Asian drivers. Vulture right stun that she’s never total the car and doesn’t fit into the box.

His bit revolves around Hingecliff cuts his losses and says, you just stuffed up my joke and concedes it wasted two and a half minutes. That’s what was funny about it. That the joke went nowhere. That’s what was funny. Come on, Vulture.

Vulture adds it a special so poorly executed from top to bottom, it’s far from the most notable misfire. Guys, let me explain something to you. You hit play on a Tony Hingecliff thing on Netflix. What did you think you were getting? No?

Seriously, seriously, I’m asking you, Vulture, what did you think was gonna happen? It’s Tony Hingecliff, You hit play. What did you think was gonna happen? When you hit play on the next Sebastian Manascalco special? Do you think he’s gonna like break down Israel verse Palestine in a meaningful way and hit Carlin level heights.

Do you think he’s going to do that? Or is he just gonna mug for the camera and do Italian restaurant jokes. What do you think Sebastian’s gonna do the next time you hit play on a George Lopez special. What do you think George Lopez is gonna do? You think maybe perhaps he’ll tell some jokes from a Mexican American perspective, jokes about family, maybe take some shots at some non Mexican descent Americans.

You think Lopez is gonna do that? So don’t be surprised when you hit play on a comedy special and you get what the person does. Maybe you don’t like Tony Inchcliff, but to sit there and be stunned that this is what Tony Inchcliff does. I don’t get it. That’s your comedy news for today.

Comments are open on Spotify. Comments are open to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Look Tony. Not the greatest thing I’ve ever watched. It’s also not the worst thing I’ve watched this year.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, David Cross, Louis C.K., Dane Cook, Bill Burr, Norm MacDonald, Colin Quinn, Bo Burnham, John Mulaney, Mitch Hedberg

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Shane Gillis impromptu Comedy Cellar sets after Knicks game
• Top 25 standups of the 21st century list analysis and ranking debate
• David Cross interview: morning person transformation, chili recipe, celebrity encounters with Charlton Heston and Chipper Jones
• Bill Burr’s brand perception decline and public image issues

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Found this one on the internet. This guy said that the other night after the knixt game, he went by the comedy seller user vodka. Mike three said, well, I must have hit the lottery.

He caught the eleven to thirty comedy seller show. Honestly not even sold out. Place was kind of dead due that in the Knicks game, well, about four comedians in the host calls up Chris Rock the place goes wild in all out of state. Chris said, the place electrified with just his presence. He then proceeded to bomb recovered the last five.

Then Dave Chappelle emerged from the stairwell. Place goes wild, the lights of Smoke, grabs a drink, hits us with just shy of two hours of comedy, just kind of riffing and talking crap. He brings up a drunk but funny Shane Gillis for the last twenty they totally slayd together. Basically, the three were at the next game and just swung in and dropped an impromptu set. I still can’t believe this happened.

That is the only mention I have seen of that, but if that did happen, that’s pretty cool. In the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, Dylan shared a thread some dude who’s not Dylan made a video the top twenty five standups of the two thousands. Now. Luckily Dylan summarized the list for me, so I don’t have to watch the video. I’m going to react before I even look at the list.

I would say here in June of twenty twenty six, off the top of my head on research, just reacting, I’d have to say number one Dave Chappelle, number two Louis C.K. Despite all the controversy, and three Dane Cook, who has become underrated and everybody forgets what Dane Cook did during the aughts. Then there’s another tier with like Mulaney and Gaffigan’s probably in there. But let’s see what this list is and I will react to it cold. Dylan’s recap in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group tells us twenty five Dane cooker right, seems low.

Twenty four Jim Jeffries, I’d have to see who else is on the list before I react. Twenty three Gary Goldman twenty two, Jim Norton twenty one, Rory Skolvell twenty, Jesselnick nineteen, Kat Williams eighteen, Shane seventeen, Tosh sixteen, Bamford fifteen to eight fourteen Mitch Hedberg. If you listen to the show, you know how much I love Mitch. The problem is there’s just not the body of work. Thirteen gaffagain twelve Bo Burnham, that’s crazy talk.

Eleven Doug Stanhope. Love Doug, but that seems too high. I’m gonna have to go back and react. Ten Greg Giraldo nine Patrese O’Neill. As I’ve said before, I never enjoyed the man’s company.

I’m biased. I get that people like he’s funny. Never liked being in a room with that dude. Eight John Mulaney seven Brian Reagan. That seems high.

Six It Tel, Oh yeah, a Tel, yeah, a good call. Five Colin Quinn that is absurd. For Bill Burr, Oh yeah, you know. I’ll be thinking about Bill Burr lately. Boy, he out of everybody who did Riyadh, I think Bill Burr totally goofed up his brand.

Like you don’t hear about burn now, and when you do everybody kind of eye rolls him. I really think he screwed up. Three. Chappelle two, Norm MacDonald no number one, Louis C.K. So what did I say?

I said, Chappelle c K and Dane. All right, let me look at this. Let’s go in the other direction. C K. You know you could argue it, but I’ll put Chappelle there.

Norm that’s way too high. Colin Quinn is insanity at five. Brian Reagan is too high at seven. Laney’s probably about right. Greg Giraldo at ten is crazy talk.

Twelve, Bo Burnham is crazy talk. Nate bergatsy at fifteen. You know, if we’re gonna put Nate on the list, are we gonna put Sebastian Manascalco on the list? Because they’re kind of like doing the same thing tour wise, and I don’t think either one of them is particularly groundbreaking anyway, if my memory suits me, I did some version of this list around the end of the year, so you can go back in the feed and look at that. Jenny Mack, are you serving us leftovers today?

No? Why do you ask? Yeah, if you’ve been listening, it’s been slow lately. Here’s some fun facts from David Cross. David Cross fun Facts US Weekly.

David Cross says, I used to be a night owl up until about nine years ago. Now I’m a morning person. My nine year old daughter is happy to explain why. Yes, I in my friend group, I had children a little bit earlier than the others, and you know you have a baby. If you’ve raised children, you understand you need to sleep.

And my friends would be like, why can’t you come out on Friday night? Are you whipped? And I’m like, no, no, no, no, no, you don’t understand. I can go out. What I can’t do is go out and then the next morning be like, oh, sorry, I know you had the baby all night because I went out, and you still have the baby because I’m hungover.

You can’t do that, So I understand David Cross. We also learned that his go to dish that is universally recognized as superior in every way is his chili. His family requested at least once every couple weeks, and he has to make extra for all the neighbors. Interesting, his secret, completely useless talent is that David Cross can tell you the temperature within one degree. Like if we were outside and you said how hot do you think it is?

I’d go, I’m about seventy one degrees, and I’d be right. There are a lot of famous people in my phone list, but the most famous is probably Bill Odenkirk, It says, I assume he’s kidding or the transcription messed up. I would have to guess in my phone it’s Jimmy Fallon would probably be it. Stephen van Zant. Fallon’s more well known than Van’s Ant, right, humble brag.

I’d have to go through every now and then I’ll like, so my business partner’s name is Mark, and I’ll be scrolling down and I’ll type in Mark, and I almost accidentally text Mark Maren things like that. David Cross says, I don’t get starstruck a whole lot, but I do get sports stars struck. I got to hang out with for like an hour and a half and drink with Chipper Jones. That’s the old Breeves player that US Mets fans don’t like. And I was unforgettable, an absolute legend.

We were just chilling and shooting the stuff, and I will never forget it for me. Now this goes back way way. I may have told the story It’s one of my favorite stories tell so I’m gonna tell it again. It’s like seven point thirty in the morning. I’m working at wr Radio.

It’s the early nineties. I’m walking down the hallway on my way to produce the show at eight o’clock and I look up and there’s a man and the man can see the look on my face that I’m like what, And the man sticks out his hand. He goes, Hi, Charlton Heston. I will never forget that moment, just because I was like, oh wait, that’s Tarlton. Doesn’t hi Charlton Heston.

That was my time I met Trelton Heston. I enjoy his movies, enjoy his work, and I enjoyed the one time I met him. I thought you, I’ve been keeping this list of celebrities have met over the years. At some point I’ll read it to you. I did not to flexious to I don’t know filler one day, but not today.

Cross says his celebrity crush growing up was an Aastasia Kinsky that poster have heard with the snake. I mean, come on, what’s left on David Cross’s bucket list? He says, Let’s see I hike the Inca Trail and dove to the blue Hole and Belieze a couple years ago. So I’m gonna say space. Maybe I’ve been struggling with that since I went to Antarctica a year and a half ago.

Like I don’t know what to do now because I’ve I’ve been very, very fortunate. Please understand as I go to this rap, I’m very thankful for all the things I’ve had, and I’m aware that I’ve been able to do something. But I’ve been to Iceland in Alaska and Australia, and like, I don’t know, Maybe I kind of want to go to Japan. Seems to be my new kick. We’ll see.

I also, and I’m not doing a bit. Was thinking about there’s a way you can climb Kilimanjaro, but it’s not like a mountain climb. It’s like the long way up you walk, and like it’s not just like a stroll. You got to put some effort into it and train. But I kind of have that on my list too.

I feel like some fifty six, I feel like I need another big thing, Like I was driving Tantarctica for years and I don’t know I need a thing. If you’re new This isn’t now the show normally goes. I don’t normally do all these sidebars, but you know, it’s a quiet Monday. Leftover is from Variety. Mark Maron talked about his pilot for Mark Maren Project back at nineteen ninety five.

It was a talk show pilot for Comedy Central. That space eventually was taken by The Daily Show. Maren said, at that time, HBO at a piece on Comedy Central and HBO Downtown produced a show that used to do for them short attention span theater. They want to do a talk show pilot because I was sort of there and I want to try. We did a pilot.

I felt like we did two episodes of The Mark Project. My guess was Dave Chappelle on one of them. It must have been a kid. Then what does Maren think about the current talk show format? I assume they’re hinting at Colbert here.

He says, I’m sad that the format can’t live in this world we live in, But I don’t think they’re at fault. I think ultimately, as individuals, you better hold onto that party of brain that can take in long form content, or else you’re just gonna have a complete mind mode with the tech forces that are guiding your brain in life, and you won’t really have much of an identity or method of choice anymore. I don’t feel bad that the business is changing, but I don’t know what you do about it. Maren On was also on Kara Swisher’s podcast, and he got a little political. Maren said, when comics get duped into this idea that because they can’t say tranny or worse words, and somehow or another, that’s the Left infringing on their freedom of speech, it’s so shalt and stupid.

Because they fought for it, they just become part of the party line of dismantling liberal democracy. It was never a freedom of speech issue. It was it never constitutional issue. You could say whatever you want, You’re just gonna have to should in the burden of the consequences. Ultimately, what happened because they were used to dismantle the entire infrastructure of DEI and everything else, and now they don’t have to shoulder anything because now they can say those words with impunity, and the Left is no traction to counter it.

Because we’re living in two separate worlds. Karon said, I hold them responsible for being the front line to usher in Trump’s second era. Send your letters to Mark mare And via Karra Switcher. Taylor Toomlinson has an announcement. Would listen to this.

Hi, guys, I have something really exciting to share with you. I wrote a book. I wrote a whole book. Can you believe it? I can’t.

It’s called Actually never Mind. It comes out September twenty second. It’s a collection of essays about everything I’ve changed my mind about over the years, which is literally everything, marriage, sex, mental health coming out. God, it’s my thoughts and feelings on all of it. I definitely overshared.

Uh, try not to think about that too hard or I’ll panic. I read the audiobook if you’re into that, and yeah, you can pre order it now at the link in my bio, So please go do that. Boy, are you excited? I can’t wait. Actually never Mind will come out September twenty s second of this year, the Taylor Tomlinson book.

Yeah. You know what else I’m really excited about? Listen to this. I had a check to make sure this is real. Here’s the twenty twenty six Emmy ballot for Best Original Music and Lyrics.

I said Best Original music and Lyrics. I didn’t say anything about comedy, did I know? I said best Original Music and Lyrics. One of the people on the ballot for best Original Music and Lyrics is Nicky Glazer. Yeah, it’s Nikki Glaser’s song good Girl from her Hulu Stan Up special.

And boy, we know she likes Taylor Swift, but boy she did a bad tailor Swift impression. Here. I’m going to torture you and make you listen to it. Did you share the show? You didn’t share the show?

Richard? Share the show? Richard? Thank you for sharing the show. I saw you share the show.

Richard hit thirty second skip like four times. Okay, because I don’t want to subject to you to this, but everybody else you didn’t share the show, and I’m gonna punish you. You now have to listen to Nikki Glaser sing good Girl, comment. A little strange man poison my day. It’s not a common it’s garn old look in my age.

They’ll praise you for your youthful clue and tiny aways line. She’s such a natural role, but he was a filter, and they’ll call you a lie. Oh be a. Oh my goodness, we’re gonna play some commercials, souse, I have to go beat my head against a brick wall to give myself brain damage, so I don’t remember that the song even exists. Here’s a shocker.

The guy that hosts Daily Comedy News actually watched some comedy specials the other night between Nick’s games. It was Thursday night, and I was like, oh, yeah, I should probably watch some of these. This was not the order I watched them in, but I put on Josh Johnson’s Symphony on HBO, and I know I’m supposed to like it, and I like Josh Johnson. He comes out and the first couple jokes are great, and he looks great, and the whole thing is great, and then a couple I don’t know, fifteen minutes in, I’m like, not really enjoying this. I’m just kind of bored, so I bailed on it.

That was actually the third special I watched. The second special I watched was Patton Oswalt, And aside from the Star Trek thing, which is not a bit I really feel that way, but generally I like Patton Oswalt’s comedy a lot like that George Lucas bit that I played the other day. That’s a great bit. I love it. Patten’s comedy just really is in my wheelhouse.

But this one, I don’t know. I was sitting there and I’m like, this isn’t registering at all, and I bailed the other thing I didn’t like. It’s one of those specials. This is the new thing that I talked to Pete Holmes about a while back, where we’re just suddenly in the middle of a set. There’s no more like, hey, welcome to the stage.

Patten als, well, hey, hey, how’s everybody in Cleveland doing? Yeah, yeah, and then you go into it. This was one of those new fangled things. We’re just boom pattens on stage mid joke. I don’t like that.

I live on old Man Mountain, my neighbor’s Pete Holmes Apparently the best of the three best with a lowercase B was Tony Hinchcliff on Netflix, which is nothing but empty calories. There’s barely any jokes. The crowd looks like they want to murder him. If you’ve seen this special, there’s this one guy that he’s trying to engage with. The guy looks like he might just suddenly.

I didn’t want to say. The guy does not look like a happy person. Now a couple days later, I’m wondering, is the guy a plant to set up the whole thing? Maybe, because the guy just doesn’t look like he’s having a good time at Tony Hinchcliffe’s show. Tony’s just doing like, okay crowd work, and the crowd work’s not scoring and there’s not too many jokes.

And I’ve got to comment from another comedian that’ll share with you in a minute. So it’s weird. I don’t even know why it exists, I guess other than they really wanted to kill Tony and as part of that package, they were like, yeah, we’ll do a Tony Hinchcliff comedy special, and Tony doesn’t have any material. Is that what’s happening here? The people on Threads are I rate at this special lowercasees And it’s not an hour either.

What should we call it? Show? Hinchcliff recording? This Tony Hinchcliff recording. The people in Threads are I rate that it even exists?

And I get it. That said, of the things I watched, this was the one that kept my attention. And you know, I was playing on my phone, wasn’t studying it, but I enjoyed it. Is it okay that I enjoyed it? Apparently not?

According to comedian Ryan Davis, who posted on social media, Tony Hinchcliff is so important to comedy in America. Twenty years from now, people will swear that our country wasn’t the way it is today and will try to change history. They’re going to try to burn the evidence, but Tony’s recorded sets and sold out arena shows will stand as proof of things that millions of Americans were cheering for the type of bigotry disguised as comedy that had people cheering and clapping instead of laughing. If you need a special to watch today, Brian Simpson Live from the Mothership out on the eight hundred pound Gorilla late Nighter. Looked at the late night ratings.

Now Stephen Colbert is gone and Jimmy Kimmel’s lead in was the New York Knicks twice last week. Wednesday’s postgame broadcast got three point nine to eight million total viewers for Kimmel, making it the show second high rated episode of the season. Friday’s post game two, after that big comeback, drew three point three eight million viewers. The eighteen to forty nine numbers are just shocking for all these things. Friday got eight hundred and forty six thousand in that demo Wednesday seven or fifty one thousand in the demo.

Meanwhile, Jimmy Fallon, who had no basketball, lead and fell back to one point three seven million total viewers, and in the eighteen of forty nine’s one hundred and sixty four thousand adults, which in the scheme of things, is not that much more than this podcast. That’s terrifying. How about Byron Allen? John, is everybody watching Byron Allen? Look, everybody needs to calm down with the Byron Allen.

Byron knows the deal, CBS knows the deal. Nobody thinks anyone’s going to watch this. All anyone is saying is that Byron Allen has figured out a way to buy the time from CBS and sell enough commercials that Byron Allen makes money on it. CBS gets a guaranteed dollar amount they don’t have to stress, and Byron’s making money on it. Whether or not you watch, nobody cares.

Five half hour averaged seven hundred and eighty six thousand total viewers and eighty thousand adults. Eighteen to forty nine. Twelve O five got five hundred twenty thousand viewers and fifty seven thousand adults. Did John, did you just say the number fifty seven thousand? I did, which is why I tripped over it.

Fifty seven thousand. Yikes, that is a small number. But again, as I just said, nobody cares, because let’s think about it. Whatever Jimmy Fallon’s being paid is getting one point three seven million total viewers, and then CBS not spending any money getting paid to air Byron Allen’s thing is getting seven hundred and eighty six thousand total little viewers, which is what about half little more than half. Now Fallon brings other things to the network and it’s the Tonight Show, and you know, I think there’s value to having something like the Tonight Show and a Jimmy Fallon hosting it.

But at some point the accountants are going to look at these things to be like, yes, EBS, isn’t that crazy? That’s twelve thirty five CBS is funny, you should ask. That’s Byron Allen’s other other show that average four hundred and forty thousand total viewers and fifty three thousand adults eighteen to forty nine. That compares to Seth Myers, who has eight hundred and ninety seven thousand total viewers and one hundred and three adults. So again, you can we can have Seth Myers and try really hard, or we cannot try at all and do half the number.

You gotta look at that at some point.

Speaking of Late Night, the folks at Late Nighter stayed up to watch James Co…

He’s hosting whatever that’s called, uh show on After Soccer with James Cordon. I think that’s what it’s called. Yeah, that’s you got it, John. They watched episode one. Late Nighter said for a first effort, the new Cordon effort had good energy and shaggy charm, which is a fair characterization of its host.

The show made its strongest case as a loose live hang. It was laid back enough that the beers consumed by the show’s roundtable during the hour looked more natural than affected. Cordon did no monologue. The show was not joke centric, but some jokes seeped in. Cordon played a clip from the opening game that showed the Mexican goalkeeper caressing and kissing a soccer ball Cordon joke to my wife.

Hasn’t helped me like that in twelve years. FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon. That’s the title, not what I said. What did I say? It was a show on after Soccer with James Corden, which might actually be a better title.

Well, I have to look back at this Friday night. The guest was Sebastian Maniscalco after the Team USA game. Do you think Sebastian came on and made a stupid face? Of course he did. And that’s your comedy news for today.

You know, for having nothing, this was pretty good and way longer than it had any business being anyway. So you’re gonna share the show or I’m gonna keep playing Nikki Glaser singing. You don’t want that, right, Okay, you understand we’re at the point where I’m threatening you. Now you’re gonna share the show, Richard, You’re excused. U saw you did it?

Thank you? Richard? Everybody else share the show or I’m gonna play Nikki Glaser singing. Don’t think I won’t. You know I played the Joe Koi bit for like three years, right, you know I will play Nikki Glaser singing, So share the show or else you’ve been warned follow the show, Spotify turn comments on.

I know, chun, you turned the comments on. You guys are gonna turn notifications on so you never miss a show. That’s what you’re doing there on Spotify. All right, see you tomorrow. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go to here

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