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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Kevin Hart did accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday nightem sourcing here from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Hollywood Reporter, Dave Chappelle gave a heartfelt tribute. Kevin Hart followed that up with can I pe? Then he waddled off stage.

He then reappeared to accept the bust of Mark Twain from David Rubinstein, the retiring chairman of the Kennedy Center. Chappelle said, I played arenas with Chris Rock, and I would never play an arena before I saw you Kevin Hart do it. You made me dream bigger, and you’re younger than me. It’s humiliating. Jerry Seinfeld said, the triumph of tonight is we found something Kevin Hart doesn’t already have, the Mark Twain Award.

Chris Rock said his favorite Kevin Hart movie was The Upside, because Kevin Hart had to act like he had less money than Brian Cranston. The Washington Post says the Knight’s standout performer and the recipients of a rare standing ovation is how they phrased it was Kevin Hart’s mentor, Keith Robinson, who has had two strokes. Keith joked, mine year’s resolution, no more strokes. Chris Rock calls me Strokey Robinson. He’s an a hole man.

There were other standing ovations. Rubinstein got one when he announced his retirement and one for Eddie Murphy who was announced as a surprize guest, but it was a misdirect Nick Cannon walked out instead. The audience sat back down. Kevin Hart said, I didn’t start doing what I was doing to get awards. I just fell in love with the idea of comedy.

On the red carpet, Nicky Glazer was there and said he’s just inspirational. He’s one of the most naturally talented people I’ve met. But he also loves himself, which is not something he could say about every successful comic. JB. Smooth said, Honestly, when he was first starting out, he was a pest, but he was always picking up pieces from he or there, always learning from people and never afraid to learn.

Chris Rock joked about Kevin Hart’s first marriage by complimenting his appearance in saying, Kevin Hart has got that second wife happiness. Other comedians who have received the Lifetime Achievement Award include Richard George Carlin, woop Be Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, and Dave Chappelle. Bill Cosby got it in two thousand and nine, was taken back in twenty nineteen. Google Bill Cosby’s sexual assault if you’d like more information there. The ceremony will be broadcast on Netflix on May eleventh.

Gonna be honest. As I put this together, I kept thinking about that article I read to you on Friday about I feel like this is when somebody makes the Sports Hall of Fame because they played twenty seven seasons and had twenty seven okay seasons but never really had that great season. I feel like that’s what we’re doing here. Jimmy Fallon. So I was looking for clips, and there don’t seem to be any available yeats, which is interesting.

Usually that kind of thing leaks out. The one clip that did come out is Jimmy Fallon dressed in a country music artist’s outfit, black with a cowboy hat, picture like a Garth Brooks kind of outfit, and he sang a song, Well, here’s the song we all love this famous kaleva even though oh he’s too live. He’s the balls in in in room. But from behind he looks like you sail. You can’t stop this fun and fail and the movie’s the best sail he can weather in his storm.

Just grab a cocktail, Umbrell. Yeah, we gotta get the cred. He’s great at earning bread.

And then after a long day of work he takes doggy stairs to bathe.

Jimmy Fillon, Okay, that’s just two verses. I have a feeling that was a long three minutes. I don’t know about that. Jimmy, Rid Krascher and Samsagora. They’re having a five K.

They had joked about that in the past. It is now official. They will tell you about. It’s light eded here for a naughty word, guys. It is now officially ready to roll the Two Bears five It is happening and you can register right now if you go to two Bears five K dot com.

It’s going down May seventh. We have a lot of friends coming, a lot of celebrities, Jelly Roll, Shane Gillis, Tim Dillon, Mark Norman, Cam Haynes, Michelle Wolf. I’m forgetting names. That’s Stobby’s gonna be there. They’re all gonna be there.

They’re going to be at the Netflix at the Joke Festival. They’ll probably be at our five k a big race and then a party. We’ve got a DJ go register right now. Two bears five k dot com. David Tail as a special ad on Netflix today.

That’s awesome. It’s called Hot Cross Buns. Not a lot of press for it yet, although he went on Joe Rogan’s It’s not alone. The special will get watched. We learned that David Til has a flip phone.

Here’s Joe Rogan. It’s the best listen. Is about the great sound when I’m doing it? Like, mor how long does this take for you to accomplish this? I’m done?

So you don’t have an iPhone at all anymore? Have one too, but that’s me off the grid? Yeah, so what do you use that one for? Like? Who do you text on that?

Now? This one’s just like for all my texting, the other ones for emails? Wait a mins is not on one? You text on that? Yeah?

So when I text you, you text me on that? I do? Can’t you feel it? Olds like ten spaces in between words that I’m sending you a text right now, that’s what happens. That is so insane.

This is good. Did you get it yet? I did? No? Okay, I didn’t get to make the sound your name isn’t They always make sounds every time you text a button.

It makes a sound that doesn’t drive. It really annoys people too. Yeah, so it takes come in four presses to get an s Still you’re doing that thing. Yeah. It doesn’t even have emojis on it, like any emoji is Like he still uses emoticons like a colon in a parentheses sometimes for smiley faith.

Well, are you guys done with this tech beatdown? Like I’m a tech arder. Come out of the house, buddy, Come on, we love you, Big Dave. For Comedy Tonight is the Patrise O’Neill benefit in New York City, Bill Burr said after Patrise died, Comedy Central was going to do a benefit. My agent goes, do you want to do it?

And I was like, yeah, absolutely. The the day he was getting closer and closer, I was living in LA and I’m like, hey man, I got to get my flight. What’s going on with the benefit. He goes it went away, and I was like, what do you mean it went away? What went away?

For this guy? What went away? He said Basically, they couldn’t get enough comedians to commit to doing it for the venue they had, so I Bill Burr was like, well, there’s no way we’re not having a benefit. So we kind of kicked the ball. I think because they wanted to film it or something.

There were people trying to protect their material for specials. But it was bad. It was bad. I was talking to Jim Norton, so we decided to do it on our own. It was a huge success.

We raised money for his mom and everything. Something I’ve always hated is when somebody dies, there’s like one night for them, and then they raise money and you give it to their loved ones. It’s like, all right, glade with the rest of your life. Patrice was taking care of his mother and she would have been you know, she was retired, Like what was she going to do. It’s like one of those things in this country where we should stop yelling about politicians.

We should just show them what we want them to be doing, which is we should be taking care of each other, especially a mom. Losa’s son. I can’t even imagine the pain. That’s the only thing she’d have to deal with is or grief. She shouldn’t be thinking about how am I gonna make rent and pay my own health ashirt something like that.

So we started doing it every year. It’s a great thing. It’s a nice way to have a little reunion with a bunch of comedians that I used to see all the time when I was coming up, and for younger comics has become a thing like people really consider it on or be asked. It’s one of my favorite things they do in this business. On the line of Tonight, Bill burd Ridge, Foss, Bonnie McFarland, Sean Patt and Michael Jay, Robert Powell the Third, Tim Dillon, Siphu Sounds, Morcelo Hernandez.

Ticket’s still available. You can get in for one hundred and thirty two dollars. Take Natarro’s specials out today on Amazon, this one called Hello Again. From the Make Believe Lounge to the hallway outside her Physical Therapists office, Nataro finds humor in situations ranging from the every day to the bizarre, crafting comedy out of hallucinatory text messages, a botch beating with a Hollywood heavyweight and a late night encounter with a mustache fireman as her questioning everything. Several ways support the show.

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The Melbourne Comedy Festival continues This is when I have to do mental math. Okay, I’m recording on Monday, you’re listening on Tuesday, but Melbourne is eighteen hours ahead? Is it eighteen Let’s say it’s twelve oh five in my basement and it’s three oh five on Tuesday already in Melbourne, so that’s what fifteen hours? So if somebody’s listening in Melbourne, they want to go down the block to the festival. It’s Wednesday, So let me tell you who’s playing on Wednesday.

Riley Nottingham kneedsre help. At five thirty pm today, here’s a clip how you recall out chats for training and quality. You may just be you, but I know you pumped out to me.

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I fell in love with a chat bot. It’s lack old times because I’m here in line. I’m obsessed with you getting in this cue. I love how you built the ten shine the right time. It gives me an action and just ends there toasting.

Aussie theater says. With songs that would make Bo Burnham proud and a delightful mix of absurdity, it’s impossible not to fall in love with him. I think It’s possible. Okay, TikTok Musical Comedy Sensation of UK Musical Comedy Awards finalist Richard Lindsay brings you his musical comedy show. Always been a player.

Let’s listen. My name is Richard and this is what my shows alike. Join Richard for this fun night of variety, which includes a mixture of stand up comedy, Richard’s aristal songs, fun audience interaction. We heard that, and guest characters are all look suspiciously like Richard, seems like it’s fun. All right, let me set up this next one.

I listen to the clip and I was like, I got to tell everybody what this is. Right. The Big Banana is a tourist attraction an amusement park in the city of Coffs Harbor in Australia. The grounds of the park are set amongst a banana plantation featuring a large walkthrough banana. All right, so we got the joke here.

The Big Banana is fifteen meters long. The slogan for the park is It’s a whole bunch of fun. But they worked on that for a while, didn’t they. This guy’s name Akmal. The show is called Red Flags in the suburb of Cairo where me and my brothers and my family lived in his twenty story apartment block of units right, a lot of them in Cairo, pretty close to the heart of Cairo.

This is not a word of a lie. If you got on the roof of this building where we lived when we were children, you could see the Pyramids and the Sphinx clearly on any day. Let’s be honest to God truth. Right. So when we came to Australia and my parents took us to see the Big Banana and Cops Harbor and was, oh, no, it was just different because my parents’ fault, because they built it up too much.

They didn’t know what it was. Then let’s take the case to say that Biga and like they got only three hours driving till we get to a big banana and they got yeah, did he get together? There’s not even that big a big banana. It should be called the adequate banana. Show is called Red Flags, and the Adelaide Theater Guide says, wonderfully fresh, hilarious and a definite starter for your festival list.

I like this clip a lot. Neil Brennan continuing to crush it I see he has Bill Burr on. I didn’t get to that episode yet. I did want to share this clip from Kyle Kanaan’s episode with Neil Brennan on The Blocks podcast where they talked about money. I don’t think stand up should be elevated at the level that people are holding it right now.

I think it’s a service job, and I think it should be rewarded as such. Eighty grand a year plus benefits. No, we could do a little better than that, Okay, buck thirty, all right, you know solid you know metals and then I had like solid feature, solid feature, buck thirty. Yeah, clock around two for two years for two benefits, yeah, two two fifty. If you’re really you know, you’re getting all five shows with overtime, jadd and you’ve had in shows, all right, I’ll give you three.

But that cap it there, cap it at that. And but you’re jealous, Yeah, yeah, you’re jealous not giving any of my money away, right, Yeah, I mean I like, yeah, but I’m not like doing it for free. I’m not like so like nope, all proceeds all the dumpster later. Like I saw those punk rock kids too, and I’m like I like some I like having some things. I think part of aging or maturity or something is just accepting like no, I think comedians should there should be a ceiling on what we make.

And also give me more money. Yeah, give me more stuff and give me more money, and you just like both of those are true for me. Well, since we’re already allowing this much money to be floating around, yeah, I think I should have a slice of it, but if we were just start over.

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And also I don’t like that hack making too much money.

I mean, I’d be fine if I did. And somebody thinks that I’m a hack, but they’re wrong. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Shohnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We have a top new comedy special of the year. I’ll tell you what it is in a second. It is not Rommy Yusef’s new one on HBO Max.

I sat down and watch that Saturday night. I hate the direction on it. The director shot at at weird angles. It opens up with Rommy in profile with the spotlight right in the viewer’s face. It was really annoying.

Then even when you get to a more traditional angle, it’s tight shots. You can’t really see the crowd. It’s Rommy against a black backdrop with light shining. I couldn’t focus on his material at all. I’m not saying it wasn’t good or anything, but after like I don’t know ten minutes, I was like, I don’t even want to look at this.

So maybe the material is funny, but that is not making the end of the year list. One that is Brian Simpson Live from the mother Ship. You’ll find that on Netflix. It’s very funny. How I saw a bunch of listeners in the Daily Comedy News podcast group raving about that one.

It’s really funny. It’s probably fifteen minutes too long. Somewhere over the weekend, I was listening to David Tell I think he was talking with Maren and how, Dave special that’s coming out this week is about thirty seven minutes. I think he said, maybe it’s me. Just because of what I do for a living, I do find a lot of these specials.

I’m kind of done and there’s fifteen minutes left, And that’s what happened with Brian. I was like, all right, this was really enjoyable, but can we move on here? But the uh wow, the best special of the year. I was laughing my hats off. I don’t know if anything’s gonna top this.

Just for laughs, Triumph the insult comic dog You Lucky Bastards on YouTube. I was raving it. I texted everyone in my family, you gotta watch this. I sent it to friends, you gotta watch this. My daughter came home and I made her stare at the last twenty minutes of it.

I was laughing. It is hilarious. So let’s check the updated rankings for best comedy specials of twenty twenty four. Number one, Tryumph, You Lucky Bastards to David Cross, I like that special. Lot three is Dusty Slay.

You’ll find that on Netflix, the Crosses on YouTube, then a bit of a gap. Brian Simpson and Taylor Tomlinson are the other two on my list. Those will wind up by the end of the year. Those will fall down to the high teens as more things come out and get between three and four. But Triumph Cross and Dusty Slayer are my top three right now.

Not on the list romy Yusef beat Davidson. I forgot that even happened. That was terrible. Jackie Novak, Kevin James, Rory Scovel, Don l Rawlings, Jenny Slat not on my list. As you know.

I had a terrible week last week and it’s just getting worse. Listen to this. I don’t know what the fate is doing to me. Adam Sandler, Yeah, he’s making a sequel to Happy Gilmore. I mean, life’s hard enough, Adam, what are you doing?

Christopher McDonald of from the original film said, I saw Adam about two weeks ago and he says to me, McDonald, you’re gonna love this. I said what he says, how about that? And he shows me the first draft of Happy Gilmore. Two sources say the project will be for Netflix. Well, of course it will.

They have a big deal together. Reps for Adam Sandler had no comment. The original grossed over eighty two million dollars worldwide. Stephen Colbert in some trouble with the pseudo royals Rose Hanbury. She’s been rumored to be friends with one of the royals.

I don’t want to get sued here, but lawyers for the former model Lady Rose Hanbury have confirmed that they sent the legal notice to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in response to jokes that Colbert made earlier this month. Colbert joked that Prince William was having an affair with Lady Rose Hanbury, which is not funny at all. He’s clearly not I’m not sure how this is going to work legally. Colbert is clearly a comedian making jokes. Who knows.

The royal stuff’s been amazing. I’m the writer on the podcast Palace Intrigue, and boy the numbers are the numbers are higher than they were when the Queen passed away. I thought that was going to be peak Royals, but Kate Gate has been unbelievable. Entry Griver Gear Show Seth Myers is taping a new special at the VIC Theater in Chicago Great Venue June fifteenth. It is unclear where this special will land.

His previous special was on Netflix. I’ll take a guest here. Peacock Great NBC seth Myers, Lord Michael was maybe involved. That’d be my guest, but what do I know. Tiffany Hattish has revealed that she’s been sober for more than two months.

She was on The Conversation podcast and said I haven’t drinked any alcohol, smoked anywheat or anything in like seventy two days. You may recall she had some adventures that made this podcast. Last year. On Saturday, I sat down in the Sleepy Cheer, was playing the MLB the show Game had some podcasts playing. Kyle Kanaan was on the Last Laugh podcast and Kyle has been super interesting.

Oh, I forgot. He’s also on Blocks with Neil Brennan. I forgot to pull a clip from that. I will do that maybe for tomorrow or the next day. But Kyle Kanane on the Last Laugh podcast.

Here he is talking about Netflix. I assume the comedians he’s mentioning here are the Bearded Bird crazier and does Tom siguor have a beard. Yes he does, of course he does. I just looked him up and I’m like, oh, yeah, that’s what Tom Sgur looks like. I don’t know why I couldn’t remember there tired, nobody’s knocking down my door.

You know, Netflix isn’t like, you know what we need is another guy with a beard. They got, they got their They got their dudes. They got their bearded white dudes over there that aren’t and also aren’t touching on political points, you know, So they got they got their guys. Next clip, but like this one a lot. Kyle Kaneen on the Last Left podcast talking about where comedy is now, and I think he nailed it.

The comedy got away from the comedy part for a little bit, thank you, Hannah Gatsby. But there’s a lot of comedy now, Like I was saying, like where people want somebody in the end of the story they’re winners. There’s a lot of kind of like more let’s say Alpha comedy and like bro comedy and like and that’s it’s wildly popular right now, and that’s great. It’s not the thing that I do. But also there’s there’s good and bad and every iteration of comedy, like my my thing was in the twenty tens, and it was when alt comedy was really ride and high at the end of the first decade and beginning a second dec decade of the century, which is weird to speak like that, but it was like all comedy, and there was some that was the stuff that I loved and appreciate it.

I don’t necessarily, I don’t think I do all comedy, but that’s what I liked, was being very honest about yourself and and that kind abused by so many hack alt comics of like, oh, I can just talk about my mental illness without any punchlines. And his third and final clip that I’ve pulled is about thirty second comedians. You know, people that have one good clip that goes viral on TikTok and suddenly they have Netflix specials. You know that kind of comedian. I’m with you on this, Kyle, the thirty to thirty second clips, like the kind of disposable, consumable fast food of comedy.

Right now, that’s fine, that’s you know, if if your thirty second clip gets you a million followers on social media and you sell tickets and then the people that bought those those tickets saw uce a good hour from you. Fantastic. You did a great job, you used the available marketing, and you are still a great comic. If you got a thirty second clips and then your hour sucks, I don’t know if anybody’s gonna come see you the next time you do an hour, So you’ve you dug your own grave with that one. But well, yeah, Or if you’re a seventy second clip gets you a Netflix special that’s an hour and you can’t deliver on it, But then that’s a that’s a problem too.

Yeah, I mean there is something to knowing. I mean, you have these vultures that exist in showbiz that’s like, oh, you’re just hot right now, so let’s let’s squeeze you till we can’t get any more dollars out of you, and you will be disposed of. You will be run through by a manager or an agent being like, he doesn’t have an hour, he sucks that stand up, but his YouTube characters are great. Book them on the road fifty dollars tickets and once that number starts going down, your phone calls will be returned. I also listened to Davitel on Mark Marin.

They were really in their groove there, so you might want to check that one out. I see a tell Is on Rogan. I haven’t had a chance to check that out. I mean, I can only sit in the sleepy chair and play video games for so long I am an adult at some point. The Moontower Comedy Festival will take place from April tenth through the twenty first is unclear to me.

So moon Tower is just for laughs, Moontower, and we saw the Montreal festival went sideways and I’m not seeing any just for laugh branding on the Moontwer website. Now, this was a successful festival in the past, and then it became jfl Moontower, so I don’t know where that relationship is right now. Regardless, the festival will be coming up. Jane Gillis, you know he was canceled. Now he’s not canceled at all.

He’s headlining the festival. Ronny Chieng and Tim Robinson will also perform. Andrew Schultz will beat the Moody Center, Margaret Chow, Nicole Bayer, Tim Robinson and if I click on here on this little graphic they made to see who they’re spotlighting. All right, Well, You can always tell who they find important by the font. So big font Andrew Schultz, Shane Gillis, Ronny Chieng, Tim Robinson, they get the big font, next biggest font, Amy Sedaris or A Shaffer, Brad Williams, Darcy and Jerr Remember I had them on last year.

They were fun, Desi Banks, Frankie Kenioniis, Jeff Ross, Jo Para, Kathy Griffin. Love It or Leave It? Mark Marin, Margaret chow Er, big Lea, Miss Patt, Nicole Bayer, Rachel Bloom, Roywood Junior, Sarah Sherman and Chloe Feyneman as one show the State first Bueller’s Day Off presented by Alan Ruck. Surprise, Mark Maren’s not in a bigger font there, So then we go down to font size three. I’m not going to read all these names.

Let me skim it here, Andy Kindler, Bruce McCullough, James Adomian, Natalie Palamides. Who’s fantastic If you’re Eisenberg, Rachel Finstein, Rosebud Baker, Todd Barry, see Todd Barry should be in bigger font as well. Then there’s an even smaller font. This is like an eye test, I tell you to even read this, I have to hit control plus plus on my mac. Here is to get to font size four.

Let’s say, who’s buried in funt size four that we’ve heard of? Blair Zochi, Jaye Jorden, Genny Zigrino, and a bunch of others who were in font size four. I think Natzaro as a special out tomorrow that went on Amazon. She was asked who in her peer group makes her laugh the most. She said a Parna Naturla, also her podcast co host Fortune Fimester and May Martin.

Chris Fairbanks is one of the funniest people live. We were almost legally married because our roommate situation went on for ten years. And there’s nobody like Maria Bamford. When I see her, I just think what am I doing? What made me think I could do comedy?

Advice If you want to get into comedy right now, you have to make sure you’re playing every vibe save spaces though you don’t want to put yourself in harm’s way. I’ve done everything. It was a preacher in southern California who booked me on a tour of churches. I was like, I’m not religious and I’m gay. He thought it was hilarious and tell me I could say whatever I want, but I’ve done it open MIC’s at a Taco stan, a laundromat, and still not too proud to do any kind of show.

I did a vegan benefit in someone’s living room two nights ago. The man who was sentenced to jail time for attacking Dave Chappelle will soon be released. The man has been in custody since May twenty twenty two. Remember this was that the Netflix as a Joke festival and the man went up on stage, and I remembering Chris Rock and Jamie Fox were involved somehow, meaning defending Chappelle. I don’t want to make it sound like Jimmie Fox attack Dave Chappelle.

The man will be conditionally released to a recovery center. Tracy Morgan was on the Tonight Show joking about ozempic that’s the weight loss drug, and Tracy said, I out ate ozempic. I’m like Magic Johnson. I gained forty pounds. He said.

The daily injections cut my appetite in half. I only eat half a bag of Dorito’s. There’s a new episode of The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on the Live one app. It’s kind of like this except by talk less, and I can play a lot more clips for you on this week’s show, Ian Carmel, Mike, Vicky and Brad Williams, Arishfier, Andrew Santino, Craig Ferguson, and a bunch of others including Norm McDonald.

So I was listening back to the playback. I listened not because I have a huge I want to make sure there are no mistakes in the show, and I was listening to my half ass Norm McDonald, which is not too bad up against real Norm McDonald, and I realized my vals have to get better. I slip into a bit of Queen’s and I have to get a little more Canadian when I slip in a half assed Norm. I will work on that. There are several ways to support this show.

This week. I’m going to push the two dollars Club. So what you do is you go to buy mecoffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, you join the two dollar Club, you sign up, you totally forget about it, and then like ten years from now, you’re like, wait, I’ve been giving Johnny mac two dollars a month for ten years. Yeah, that’s works. Maybe a little less cynical than that.

But if you want to join the two dollar club, you know, if a million people do that, I’ll be making two million dollars a month on this podcast. The other thing I’m pushing is my substack. I’m not trying to make any money off the substack. It’s just a thing where I write my media thoughts. The link is in the show notes, but it’s mcdeepod dot substack dot com.

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You don’t have to do it, sign up for the free version. I just want to people to read my thoughts. That’s all that’s about, all right. The Melbourne Comedy Festival. I’m confused here.

If you go to Melbourne International Comedy Festival, it says it starts March twenty seventh, today’s March twenty fifth, and there are shows tomorrow. So This is why I’m unprepared. I was ready to do this starting March twenty sixth. Actually, because of the way time zones work. In case somebody is listening in Melbourne, I have to stay East Coast at US a day in advance.

Otherwise they’ll be like, wait, you’re telling me about shows that are three hours ago. Did I explain that right? Just look up out time zones or whatever time it is where you are. Now, look up what time it is in Melbourne. It’s tomorrow.

It’s like eighteen hours in front of you. But this is big festival March twenty seventh through April twenty first, and by March twenty seventh the Australians mean March twenty sixth. So let’s see who’s playing on Tuesday in Milburn. Okay, everybody understands what we mean by today. So it’s Tuesday, Tuesday, March twenty sixth in Melbourne.

And boy, this website’s confusing. I pulled down the March twenty six dropped down and now it’s telling me March twenty fifth, but there are no shows March twenty fifth. Come on, get it together. This is a big show. There’s probably twenty different things.

I’m not gonna read all of these every day. See what catches my eye? How about groundhog Day the musical? No gimmick here. You are familiar with the movie groundhog Day, That but a musical.

Yep. Phil Connors is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day event. And it’s groundhog Day and you know what happens one hundred and fifty minutes at the Princess Theater at the Butterfly Club, Murder Village and improvised Who’s done It? That’s fun? At nine o’clock, Steph Broadbridge’s best dog joke ever.

At nine to forty five, Elliot McLaren’s Memoirs of a Methhead Chapter one. Usually they have clips that I can share with you, but they don’t seem to have any amp yet. Some things I could bump from last week from the Late Nighter website. That is a really good website talking about the late night shows. John Stewart paying dividends for the Daily Show.

They’ve now passed the eleven million subscriber mark on YouTube. Compare that to Jimmy Fallon with thirty one and a half million subscribers and Kimmel nineteen point three. The Daily Show has seven million subscribers. On TikTok, Fallon has nineteen point nine going back to the week of March eleventh. Apparently the Daily Show without John Stewart not working as well as they hoped.

The March eleventh episode hosted by John Stewart average nearly two million total viewers. The week averaged out to five hundred and forty seven thousand total viewers. So I’m not going to do the math here, but I’m sure if you take that two million out, it’s dragging up that five to forty seven a little bit. Yikes. Hannah Gatsby, she is on the cover of Rolling Stone down Under.

She’ll be on the Australia New Zealand to cover for the March to May issue, and I said, it was never my dream to be on Rolling Stone magazine, certainly not the cover. But why would you bother dreaming about something that’s highly unlikely? And ready is a special Autistic Bikini Queen is out on Netflix that came out over the weekend. Ian Carmel taped on Saturday night. He’ll have a new special coming out.

He also has a memoir called The T Shirt Swim Club. It’s a journey through the lifetime of being fat. He went from four hundred and twenty pounds to something a neighborhood of two thirty, back up to two forty, back down to two twenty three, back up to two fifty, back down to two thirty. His new show’s about confronting getting older and all the fun stuff. I was a pretty wild dude for a long time in terms of drugs, alcohol, partying and living, so I couldn’t conceive of a world where I lived till fifty.

I don’t think it was a conscious thought. But now I’m realizing I’ve treated my body very poorly, and being on the other side of that, I’m looking at life and all the other things about aging, like not being able to party anymore. And from Scotland. Last week, the front cover of the Herald Scotland, the world’s oldest national newspaper, reported the police have been told to target comics under a new hate crime law. Police training seen by the newspaper informed officers the material which can be deemed as threatening and abusive under the Hate crime and Public order can be communicated through public performance of a play.

Comedian Andrew Doyle said the best response to the Scottish national parties, and new hate crime bill is surely it’s a mucket and that intu comedy news for today. Last night, Kevin Hart was at the More Twain thingy, so we’ll talk about that tomorrow. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it. To see it then

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News chat. Prather is a humorist and a podcast host. He went on Facebook to complain about the cost of his lunch at the airport in Houston. Showed a picture of a burger and said, at Houston’s Bush Airport this was sixty two dollars and sixteen cents.

There’s so many directions I could go with this post right now, Unfortunately, have bigger things to worry about. As I sit in seat one E of the United Boeing seven thirty seven awaiting takeoff, people started blaming Biden for inflation. The thread went crazy. The burger’s actually fourteen dollars, folks. I’m gonna start with a little inside baseball here.

This is from Ashley Carmen’s SoundBite newsletter. It’s about podcasting. This is on Bloomberg dot Com. She writes, whenever I’ve spoken to folks about who might have a sense of just how big the Joe Rogan experience it is, I always get the same answer. Huge.

Last month and Spotify quietly began testing a feature that shows just how popular Rogan and other pot casters actually are. The metric we’re looking at here is followers. By the way, if you don’t follow this podcast, please do, Ashley writes, and I think this was from Thursday Rogan Show. As if this morning has fourteen point five million followers, that’s nearly three times more than the next follow up program, Ted Talks Daily. So this is on Spotify.

Anecdotally into the I test, the podcast audience on Spotify tends to be younger than Apple podcasts. Generally speaking, I find Apple podcasts listening about sixty percent of the audience and Spotify about ten to fifteen, depending on the show different shows. I’ll pull up right here, I’ll tell you what this show is doing. So for the last thirty days on Daily Comedy News, fifty six percent of fifty five point nine three. That’s my hesitation there.

I will make the I did fifty five point nine three on Apple Podcasts and twelve point four to eight on Spotify. Overcast at four point seven three, iHeartRadio three point five six, and then a bunch of others. Just see you get a sense of what we’re talking about here in terms of relative popularity. Point being, you know, Rogan fourteen and a half million followers, Ted talks daily five million. I won’t read them all, but let’s see here.

Call her Daddy’s third with three point seven THEO Vaughn with one point one million followers. That’s more than Jason and Travis Kelcey Travis you may know at Dave’s Taylor Swift Ashley Writes, a podcast with Katy Perry as a host, only reached five thousand followers. Wow. Seth Rogan’s story Time got to one hundred and two thousand. Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis’s podcast has eighty five thousand Patreon members, yet they only have three hundred and twelve thousand Spotify followers.

Chopo Traphouse has forty one thousand paid subscribers, earning them one hundred and seventy five thousand, nine hundred dollars per month, slightly more than I’m making here, and they only have one hundred and twenty seven thousand Spotify followers. This show here on Spotify as a record on Friday, has on Spotify thirty four hundred and ninety three followers. Again, Katie Perry five thousand. According to Spotify. For my show, thirty six point six percent of view between forty five and fifty nine, with another twenty six point four to one between thirty five and forty four, and almost twelve percent twenty eight to thirty four.

Now, so we’ll see here, there was a spike on March thirteenth. What happened to March thirteenth? That episode was titled was Cat Williams Right? Was John Cena Humiliation Ritual plus Aamy Schumer head her Uterus Bronze and Jerry Seinfeld loves mad Men? All right?

Apparently people like that one. Looks like we might actually, perhaps possibly maybe get that Office. Reboot’s not the right word here. Showrunner Greg Daniels is looking to create a new series in the world of dunder Mifflin. He’s tapped the co creator of Nathan for You to help lead the project.

It’s not a reboot of the Office, but it’s set in the same universe. So I guess, like, I don’t know, Twight could drop by, but it’s I don’t know, a different paper company, or maybe it’s a guy podcasting in this basement. Who knows. You’ll watch. We’re all gonna watch.

Craig Ferguson might return to Late Night. He told the spokesman. I have meetings next week. Next week is now this week in Los Angeles for a show. I’m considering doing a show, but I just don’t want to do one every day.

I like doing a talk show, but not enough to do it every single day. When he left the Late Late Show, he said, I had enough. I enjoyed it, but it was all consuming. Some people are all about it. I’m very good friends with Jay Leno.

We do gigs together sometimes, and he talks about how much work there was with our talk shows. Jay was much more professional than I was and spent more hours working on things every day. The tough part for me is all the time I spent away from your family. The talk shows just take over your life. I’m grateful for the show, but I had to step away from it.

I’m thinking here. So it’s now twelve twenty nine. I probably started prepping the shows. I often will be prepping several ones. What happens is I do the new sweep and I’ll be like, Okay, this one needs to go tomorrow, this can wait.

Let me throw this one to the weekend. The weekend’s are a little more generic. So I’ve been working on the pod and I’m not complaining. I’m just telling you about my day. About two and a half hours so far, and I’ve done a bunch of prep and I’ve recorded yesterday and today, and I’m going to do one more.

I have a cool idea for Easter Sunday that I’m going to work on next. Oh that’s why it’s so long. I pulled here. I’ll just tell you for Easter Sunday, I want to explore up and coming Australian comedians because it’s festival season down there. So I pulled a lot of clips, so that’ll be more of it’s not a generic episode, like I put a lot more work into that episode than I did in to say, today’s episode, because I pulled I don’t know twenty clips.

So anyway, next Easter Sunday, you’ll hear a bunch of comedians that you probably don’t know unless you’re an expert in the up and coming Ozzy comedian scene. I’d be impressed if you were. Anyway, So I’ve put in two and a half hours. I can only imagine how much work Jay Leno did you have to prep for the guests. You have to actually read their books or watch their movies.

And you can’t wing it and like I can stop here and redoce something, and those shows, for the most part would be live to tape, so you got to actually prepare. The flip side is I don’t have fifteen writers. Ferguson talks about being a stintup. He says that’s the best part of going on the road. It’s all on me.

He was hitting Spokane, he said, even though I’m coming for the first time, I must say Spokane is my favorite city in the United States. He wasn’t sure what he was going to talk about, but I know I won’t be talking politics. I made a rule seven years ago that I wouldn’t talk about politics on stage. It’s a stylistic choice. I talked about this with Jim Gaffigan.

His stylistic choice is never to cuss. Oh cuss occasionally off stage, but he’s more comfortable not cussing while performing. That’s how I am about politics. I’ll just be there to provide levity when I perform. He now splits time between New York City and Scotland.

I left LA in twenty eighteen. It’s a one industry town and I had to get away. He misses interacting with his guests. He says, I had fun with it. I was happy to see Robin Williams, Gary Fisher, Betty White, and Kristen Bell.

Robin Williams was just what you say he was, but a lot of people don’t know how kind he was. He was the sweetest man. You know, Craig, if you miss interacting with people, you do have a podcast where you interview celebrities. You know this right, I’m confused. Robin Williams used to talk about stand up being jazz.

I get it, since it could be improvisational. Leno and I were just talking the other day about the music and comedy connection, and Jay said, you start out with your big number and then you go to a ballad. Comics think like musicians, and that’s not a bad thing. These have been long lately. I think the episodes has been really good, but I’m trying not to do like thirty five minutes a day.

I just bumped five stories again. Jerrod Carmichael was on Jimmy Kimmel during the week. This is one of the stories I got bumped Friday and Saturday, but it’s a good one. He was on with Kimmel and he talked about Taylor Swift. Uh, oh, be careful.

You know what happened at Joe Coy. So one time, Joe Coy was hosting the Golden Globes, right, and he told this horrible media here, let’s listen to this. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. And basically what happened was Taylor Swift and murdered Joe Cooy’s career.

That’s what happened. So Gerrod Carmichael said, Taylor, that’s my best friend. Taylor Swift is my best friend, but I’m not her best friend. She’s my best friend. Can you think of a better friend to have than Taylor Swift?

She’s very smart and interesting anyone else. There’s more shots of her own the NFL than on the Golden Globes. Whoa Seohnnie Mack? WHOA? Why’d you go there?

Anyway? They connected at a Bill’s playoff game the Bills were playing the Chiefs. He said, she knows more about football than I do. Kim Ol said, did you ask questions about football? And Drod said, yeah, I’m the girlfriend in that situation.

Tignazaro has a special out Tuesday on Amazon. It’s called Hello Again. Here’s a clip. My wife, Stephanie is directing tonight. Tonight’s My night though.

Okay, Stephanie hauled nine one one and a gigantic fireman appeared. I thought, I get it now, I could get used to this mommy’s home. I came around the corner and our son said, it’s just her. Does everything have to be a joke with you kinda? Yeah?

Eh? Right, eh. Seems like you’ve become the defecto Hollywood comic. Your social circle includes a lot of big names, so there were jokes about Reese, Witherspoon and an A List party. I don’t want to spoil your last special.

Do you ever worry about that causing conflict? Tick said no, because I’m not ever saying anything that’s mean. I don’t know. If you’re familiar with my Taylor Dane story, see it’s not a Taylor Swift story. It’s a Taylor Dane story.

Sometimes people will misinterpret that to think I’m bashing Gara, but I’m not. It’s more like, yeah, she was rude to me, but I don’t care. It’s amusing I’ve since met Taylor Dane, and I really appreciated that there wasn’t a heaviness to it. She was like, I’ve read been telling stories about me. Sounds about right.

I was probably a couple of cocktails in. I love ribbing people, and I love when people rip me, so I don’t run anything by anyone. Well, take NATARO, I dare you to make a joke about Taylor Swift going to an NFL game. I double dare you. You saw what happened to Joe Cooy, didn’t you?

Not? Tig said my special taping almost didn’t happen because there was a moment where I thought I couldn’t do it. I was touring Europe and the airline lost my luggage. I was just making rounds around Europe for two and a half weeks. When I went to the airport to try and find it, somebody checked me with their giant suitcase and launched me.

I fractured my wrist I don’t know, and ended up on crutches with my leg and embrace. Three days before he taped, I still couldn’t bend my knee. The outfit I was wearing for my special wasn’t what I planned because my suitcase was still on its own tour without me when I fell. It was at the Manchester Airport and I never actually picked up the luggage before the ambulance came and got me and ended up in a storage unit. It was the biggest circus.

And that is your comedy news for today. Let’s get out on the laugh. I just bumped another five stories. We’re gonna have long episodes for a few days here. If you enjoyed the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. Are you’re enjoying the March madness. Jimmy Fallon joked about Yale making the tournament and said their sign said, don’t you know who our fathers are? Perhaps we should settle this on the squash court.

And this is such a bad loss, I’m writing it off on my taxes. Jimmy Kimble said. Gonzaga is the college basketball version of the Easter Bunny. It shows up once a year and makes a bunch of baskets and then disappears. Netflix obviously has installed a spy cam in my basement studio here.

Yesterday’s episode was quite long, twenty something minutes before I did the edits. As soon as I finished, I got an email. Netflix is a joke fest outside Joke lineup announcement outdoors at the Hollywood Palladium two weekends, May third through the fifth, and May tenth through the twelfth. So just zipping down this on May third, Freddy Gibbs, are you still listening? And the drop hosted by st Afros Haukias on Saturday, May fourth, I think I’m in Cleveland that day.

I won’t be able to make the festival less. I blow Cleveland off. The guy in Cleveland I’m visiting right now. It’s like, WHOA, don’t do that? The Crossword Show with Zach Sherwin, Mark Rebel Lay, Josh, Adam Myers and the drop in hosted by Leslie Jones.

Then on Sunday, May fifth, Netflix is a drag Zach Sherwin again, Fred Ormisen and the drop in hosted by Janelle James. Then the following weekend on the Friday that’s May tenth, Puddles Pity Party, a roast battle with Jeff Ross and Friends, and the drop in hosted by Jim Jeffries. That’s awesome. Saturday, May eleventh, Adam Ray’s Doctor Phil Middle Aged Dad jam band with David Wayne and Ken Marino, Morgan, Jay, Reggie Watts. Another roast battle and then the drop in hosted by Tim Dillon.

Wow. Sunday May twelfth is that Mother’s Day. Netflix is a drag Therapy Gecko, another roast battle and then the drop in hosted by Otsko at Kotska. Now that’s not the main Festival’s outside a day pass. I’ll get you in for twenty five dollars all in with fees, says the email guaranteed entry to outside joke for the single day if you’re a festival ticket holder.

If you have a ticket to any show at the festival, you get access to the outside joke via the standby line entry, first Come, first serve. Pete Davidson has decided not to go forward with Bupkis season two. It had been renewed, but Pete says he has decided not to continue with it. In a statement, Pete said, I’ve always seen buck Gus as a window in my life, since it’s so personal about my struggles and my family. After nearly a decade if my personal life being in the media, I wanted a chance to tell my story my way.

Of all the work I’ve ever done, Bupkis is by far what I’m most proud of. So grateful to Lorne Michael’s in Broadway, Video, Peacock, Universal Television, and the amazing cast and writers for helping me create something honest, funny, and heartfelt. I do also feel that this part of my life is finished. I’m very excited for this next chapter and for you guys to see the work. Thank you to all who support me for I am forever grateful.

What do you think’s going on there? That’s weird? Right now, I’m googling Pete Davidson. I don’t see anything gossip Cornery. But here from curbed, I’m doing this on the fly.

Here the plan for Pete Davidson and Colin Jose to Staten Island Ferry.

All right, let’s read this.

I’m reading this called curved. Right three months after Colin Jost and Pete Davison bought a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry for two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, Joe stood on its deck like a triumphant captain as it was towed through New York Harbor to a temporary dock that was two years ago. Ever since, the two hundred and seventy seven foot long boat seems to have just sat and sat and sat. If you’ve ever been on the Staten Island Ferry, it’s big locals living near the Staten Island dock till the near posts. They haven’t seen anyone working on it.

Pete Davison seld reporters. They were stone when they bought the ferry and said he hopes it turns into a transformer and gets the f out of there. Colin Jost has said, is it worse that I was actually stone cold sober? On a podcast last year, writes Curb, Davidson broke character and sold Seth Myers. There was an actual plan for the boat.

Regular conference calls about its redesign and even renderings quoting Peace. We had them and do one of those computer generated show you what it could be things curved asks. But who’s them? One report on the ferry purchase named a fourth partner ron, an architect who’s worked for some companies I’ve never heard of. Doesn’t mean they’re not good.

I’ve just never heard of them. On the website for that firm, it lists the JFKA Ferry as a project they’re working on for JFK Partners, with a budget of thirty four million dollars. Thirty four million dollars. That’s not a blown autit there, I said it twice. Thirty four million dollars and a floor plan of sixty five thousand square feet thirty four million dollars.

A short video that played on his website last month showed his renderings for each floor. A top deck furnished with patio tables set with umbrellas, another floor with two rolls of hotel rooms that open on a sun decks, and a lower level with two clubs thirty four million dollars. The ferry may open with two restaurants and six bars. I mean it’s big. It’s not six bars and two restaurants big.

I don’t think. I’m not an architect. I’m not an expert. Been on the ferry. Fe so doesn’t say that big so.

Curb interviewed this guy and as what’s Pete and Collins role? He said, they have input, They see everything. We have meetings as needed, sometimes twice a week, sometimes every three months. They asked him about the six bars and two restaurants. The guy said, it’s gonna have a lot of things.

I think right now we have six bars and two venues operated separately or combined. We have an outdoor event space, We have restaurants, two restaurants. It’s a big boat, almost three hundred feet long, sixty five thousand square feet curved. Asked Pete. Davison said it would have two hotels.

Is that still happening? The guy said, it’s only one floor of hotel rooms. Twenty four rooms on the fifth floor. They have private sun decks, but no pool pool. Something keeps coming up.

We’re going back and forth. There’s a little chacuozi kind of thing, but not a full on pool. We’d have to do a floating pool. And Davison said it’s gonna go between Miami and New York City. The guy said, yeah, I think that’s exactly Still, the plan doesn’t have to be in one place.

It can move. This is amazing. All right, This is going in the Facebook group, but Daily Comedy News podcast group. If you want to read this yourself because it’s uh. I would always say it’s unbelievable, but it’s uh.

Makes me go thirty four million dollars several times watched this. I’ll be here in eight years telling you how Pete Davidson’s a billionaire from this. Ferry Triumph, the insult comic Dog, has released a special and he Triumph spoke to a Consequence of Sound. Rob Smigle, the voice and hand up Triumph’s Booty, has just released an edited version of Let’s Make a Poop, the live game show taped at San Francisco Sketch Fest. Smichael told Consequence he didn’t have as much control over the taping of the show as he would have liked.

It felt like it was the most enjoyable show had done live in like twenty years. If I had really shot him more carefully, I might have tried to sell it somewhere. I didn’t feel it was in that kind of shape, but I still think it’s worth sharing, so I decided I would share it on YouTube for free. I gotta remember to watch this this weekend. Last night my daughter had a theater show, so that killed Friday in ITV, and you know, the new baseball games out on the video game platforms.

Gotta make some time for that. Plus my phone’s exploding. I listened to all these podcasts, which pairs up nicely with playing baseball on the video game. Johnny Mack digresses. So Michael says the sketch Fest show stands out because it had this unusual dynamic of having weird Al Yankovic there and having people sing his presumed song parodies, and that played out really well live on stage, had a really hot audience and a really good time, and Rob Schneider was a funny target.

As for including Schneider, Michael says, I’m always for putting people on as long as there are no restrictions for triumph, as long as triumph can tear into the person, and I feel like a tour and a Rob Pretty well, that’s kind of the point that people you want are rich subjects. You may or may not know that Rob Schneider has gotten politically outspoken in recent years. So Michael says, there was a passketch fest and they didn’t want the particular guests. They were like, now the audience will be too upset, and I’m like, you don’t get it. The whole point hasn’t going to tear into this person.

It’ll be very satisfying. So Michael understands why people have this impulse. Everything is so heightened down. People don’t even want to give platforms to dot dot dot. The word normalized is a very popular word.

Now. I had to take my sweatshirt off. It’s five trillion degrees in the basement today. I don’t know why it’s cold out. So Michael says, there is a class person that I wouldn’t give a platform too, even to make fun.

People that I feel are like grifters and are saying things they don’t even necessarily means they’re saying it to cultivate a certain audience. I didn’t feel like Rob Schneider fell into that category, but there are people that do, and I wouldn’t interact with them, even as Triumph. I’d just be like, nah, I don’t want to get anything out of this. I don’t want you to come away feeling like you got exposure credit for laughing yourself. They’re not doing it in a funny way like Triumph might do.

They’re not entertaining. Some of them think they are, but they’re not really funny enough to justify that. They’re just fanning the flames of paranoia and anger. I wonder who he means, Like seriously, wonder who he means. He did want to have on commentator Ben Shapiro.

Triumph would have had a field day with Ben Shapiro. I don’t know if San Francisco’s audience it’ll let me do it. But I like putting people out and ridiculing them if they’re willing to take it. And I feel like that guy has always been consistent, least he feels like he genuinely subscribes to what he says. That’s a lot more tolerable to me, a lot of people find him obnoxious, but he tries to speak intelligently.

Smichael says, now this interview is going to be like Smichel defends Ben Shapiro. Rolling Stone tagged on and said, triumphast if he could perform some of his favorite weird house boofs, only he delivered some whole there is dumb, half baked ones. Al definitely didn’t write one dumplings, said to bon chovis wanted dead or alive. Another mud slide, a take on Fleetwood, Max Lan slide about fast casual takeout and bowel movements. Triumph pretended weird.

Al wrote numerous parodies of green Day’s Good Riddance, one being about being confused by cream cheese with chives, one about cutting a cantelope with a plastic knife, one about a flight attendant explaining how a seat works as a flotation device, and one about not getting Paul Thomas Anderson’s inherent vice this is fun and I forgot I pulled the clip. Let’s listen, Michael winso Man is amazing. Michael Winslow can reproduce any sound except for a casting director saying you got the part notable for twenty Please know the bulls for twenty Okay, Republicans in twenty six states have been working to outlaw this act that many conservatives consider immoral. What is voting Okay? During the game show Puperty, which you just heard twice, the game required audio clues to answer questions about who wrote famous pop parodies of songs by Rim and Lona del Rey.

Thomas Lennon came out first, delivering a version of losing my religion about purchasing per Simmons, sam or Ruffin tackle, the latter turning summertime status into a tune about watching tennis. Great Pete Sampras close it out. Triumph got weird Alu himself to perform a duet of one of the fake songs, a spoof of Chandelier about wanting to binge old sitcoms, the chorus, I want to watch mister Belvedere love it Wow long again. Today there’s just been so much news. I just bumped five stories.

We’ve got plenty of other days. We can get to things on your HBO Max Max HBO Max Tonight, Romi yousef more Feelings. Rommi will offer his unique reflections on our divided world. The unexpected perils of charitable giving and more, including the twenty twenty four presidential election, the importance of prayer, and a childhood book report that changed the course of his life. Before October seventh, Romy says he was touring an hour long set that included a story about going home with a woman and finding out she had and Israeli flag on the wall.

He says, I’m horny, so I’m trying to justify it. That’s the star of David, that’s their logo. It’s just Jewish big Post October seventh, he didn’t have to throw everything out and start over, but he knew he’d have to write about it after friends started reaching out. October tenth, they get a call from a guy. I know, yo, bro, where are you at with Hamas?

Yusef is defiant? Where I’m at? Are we effing you think any of us like what happened? We hate seeing people die. It made me cry.

His punchline spoiler, you know me? You think I’m Jumas, bro, I’m a Taliman. Guy talked about people asking him about Israel and Hamas and he said, let’s be real, at the bottom of the question. The bottom of the question is you think I’m out like this, you think there’s a chance. I think terrorism’s cool.

And he was asked, was the punchline always Taliban? He said, we tried Bocoharram, but their brand isn’t strong enough to get the pop or the laugh you want. The interviewer was like, wait really, Robbi said no, it was always Taliban. That’s not the kind of joke you can workshop with a bunch of Arabs, though, because at a certain point someone non Arab shows up and goes, what are you guys talking about? The joke in of itself creates the problem you’re trying to avoid.

The New Indian Express was curious about in the special, did somebody from Joe Biden’s campaign really reach out to you in twenty twenty? Romy said, yeah, itIt a zoom. I mean they’re nice people, by the way, like they’re really good and I think, you know, obviously in the special, it’s kind of fun to play with those situations. We’ren’t a really interesting predicament where it’s kind of like, hey, you sure you want to complain about Biden because Trump is worse?

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And then it’s kind of like, all right, you know that’s kind of textbook abuse…

And you say, Okay, I thought we’re in a democracy, or aren’t we supposed to kind of question it and poke at it.

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And then I’m feeling an interesting thing where we’re kind of voicing what I …

Here he was asked about Taylor Swift coming to see one of his shows, and he said, I mean she was like person of the Year. It kind of becomes this huge talking point or whatever. I’ve kind of a throw away joke about it. Watch out, be careful here, let’s listen to what the throw away joke might be. Says.

For the most part, it’s like we just met, you know, Like she was a big fan of the movie Poor Things. Boy, She’s gonna be mad at that joke. So I don’t know if that’s gonna say, but she’s a really cool person. All Right, that’s long enough for today’s mura. It’s gonna be long too, because I could tell you have any stories I just bumped.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. Come back tomorrow. It’ll be robust to see you here.

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Caloroga Shark Media Jimmy Foul said a Delta Airlines pilot was sentenced to ten months in jail for showing up to work drunk. Yeah, you got ten months in prison and a job offer from Southwest. Hello. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Wait to hear this Kevin Hart thing.

Hoo, there was a lot today. It took me two and a half hours to sort the stories. Not everything’s making today’s program, with just so many articles and interviews and podcasts with comedians. So I’ve got a load of material well into next week. But the big thing today, The Washington Post threw some serious heat I insight right up against Kevin Hart’s chin.

The headline is Kevin Hart funny. Now I love this. The genesis of this article here is basically I’m paraphrasing, why are we giving the Mark Twain Prize to Kevin Hart? That was kind of my original reaction to the announcement as well. But the Washington Post is not pulling punches.

They write comedy, it seems, is merely the Empire’s cornerstone and some other comedians they could sort of weak. They quote Donnell Rawling saying on a podcast. I hear so many comics say Kevin Hart’s not funny. Donelle didn’t say if he agrees with them or not. Mike Epps on Instagram in twenty eighteen wrote, I still don’t think you are behind is funny?

I cleaned it up a little. You may recall Kat Williams was on Shannon Sharp’s podcast and called Kevin Hart an industry plant. Kevin Hart reacted to that and said, at the circus, when a lion comes out and rides a bike, you don’t think about it too hard. You just go, Okay, that’s crazy. The post writes Heart has built something massive, But does the last name Hart mean something in comedy?

Does he consider his comedy to be impactful? Or is he a lion riding a bicycle? We’d like to ask Cart himself about all this. We spent months trying to schedule him the Kennedy Center, which we’ll host and confer the prize March twenty fourth. Tried helping.

Maybe the interview would be in Qatar, where we had a show, or maybe on a film set in Atlanta, maybe just over Zoom, but Kevin Hart had other things to do, so we bought a one hundred and thirty five dollars ticket for a bad Seat in North Charleston, South Carolina to see his brand new material tour and listen for answers. Boy, I love this article so much. They are bringing it. They’re write Heart’s small athletic frame. He’s five foot four, prowl’s the stage like an NBA player on the court.

All twenty three hundred members of the audience have locked their phones and secure pouches. All eyes are on Heart. It’s clear what he means when he says he doesn’t write jokes. Instead, he shouts his way through meandering stories. They usually end with a laugh line that will repeat several times, each one louder time out.

Chris Rock does that same thing. I’m not saying Chris Rock sucks, but Chris Rock will go, here’s the punch line. The punch line right. They’ll usually end a laugh line that will repeat several times while he pantomimes say his explosive defecation after eating a spicy Chick fil a sandwich where his family’s eye rolling when his nephew came out as gay. Quoting Kevin Hart, he I think I speak for the whole family when I say we know, we know, we know.

The audience devours it, laughing louder with each repetition. Yikes, yikes, yikes, this is fun. Johnny Mack likes the gossip. Sup Betting is Kevin Art Funny comics such as Keith Robinson, Patrise O’Neal and David Tel thought so. They helped him get a start and respect in New York stand up clubs.

Meet Him mogul Damon Dash thought so he put him in the Rock a Fella produced movie Paper Soldiers, alongside Jay Z, Charlie Murphy, and Michael Rappaport. Jodd Apatow thought so. He cast him in a few episodes of his Fox Had Come Undeclared with Seth Rogan and Jay Barshell twenty three years ago. The Fish out of Water persona he honed in movies such as Ride Along, Get Harden several films with Dwayne Johnson, draws big box office receipts. His movie character there is really only one, is an extension of a stand up act.

Frenetic, self deprecating, yet overconfident, fast talking, and most important, all caps loud. The Washington Post continues, Funny is in the ear of the listener. But perhaps the proof is in the empire. Cornerstone be damned his modeled underwear from Macy’s. He’s played in major poker tournaments.

He co created a TV show in twenty thirteen called Real Husbands of Hollywood. He founded a production company that pumps out the schlocky comedies he appears in. He started a ventual capital firm that invests in companies that make beds, energy, drinks, snacks, and cleaning products. Oh there’s more, all right, fasten your seat belts. Heart’s Empire seems impervious to threats.

He cheated on his pregnant wife in twenty seventeen, Johnny Mack pauses, No one seemed to care. In twenty fifteen, he said he would never play a gay character. No one really blinked. In twenty eighteen, the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences announced he would host the twenty nineteen Oscars. Almost immediately, Twitter useres and journalists began sharing a slew of his old homophobic tweets and Santa pits.

The Academy asked him to apologize. He refused, resigned a gig, and then gave a non apology on Twitter but controversy rolls off him because he never fully admits wrongdoing, never earnestly apologizes. Instead, he talks about personal growth, He’s always evolving and growing, and complains about cancel culture. Did I tell you this is not pulling any punches. I can’t believe this.

I forgot to check the byline. Let me check the bioline here by Travis m Andrews. Travis m Andrews is a Future Wader. Joined the Post in twenty sixteen. He was previously a traveling culture editor for Southern Living magazine, a contributing pop culture reporter for Mashable in the Week.

Some of his other recent articles, I’m Just curious is an oh bit for m m at walsh an article on March fourteenth about the Mark Twain Prize. On March twelfth, the headline, Oh that’s what happens when the Academy nominates popular movies March twelfth. Chat Cafe the exceptional Indian restaurant in a gas station. See I’m curious. I want to click on that, but I cannot afford to get sidetracked today.

Johnny Mack Stay focused Washpot writes a bid from his twenty thirteen special, let me explain about how his infidelity broke up his first marriage captures the cycle. Yes, people, I cheated. Am I ashamed of it? No? I’m not do I wish I could take it back.

No, I don’t let me tell you why you can’t evolve as a man if you never make a mistake. I’m not sure that’s all that cool. But again, it’s in the context of a comedy special, So we should never take anything set in a comedy special all that seriously. He told The Sunday Times in twenty twenty one. I’ve been canceled what three or four times?

In the same interview, he suggests that anyone who wants to cancel someone should shut the f up. Post continues. One phrase came up repeatedly among fans and Charleston. Oh, I know where this is going because I’ve preread this for age way to hear this That phrase, he’s relatable. Who among us hasn’t taken penis enlargement pills from a gas station and then commanded his spouse to recite his social Security number during six But maybe we’re thinking too literally.

What’s relatable isn’t the taking of the pills, but the insecurity that leads to them. There’s a deep universal anxiety at the heart of hard jokes, and there’s a deep universal anxiety. And the way he talks about himself. He needed to tell the Sunday Times I’m talented as f that he’s not funny. Slander is the Best began a tweetstorm in twenty twenty one when Kevin highlighted that his movies have made four billion dollars in the box office and that three of a stand up specials are among the top ten highest gross of all time.

I’ve also turned my comedic talents into a place of business and branding and radio and other revenue streams. The hate slander fuels me to do more.

And now the focus of the Washington Post article asked the question, is the T…

Is fun and loud? Close enough? Cliff nester Off, the stand up historian, notes that Kevin Hart and last year’s winner Adam Sandler are difficult to contextualize because they’re technically mid career. Nestro Off says, Kevin Hart really belongs to one generation of show business. I don’t know if we’re there yet.

To see specific comedians performers that have been influenced by Kevin Hart. It almost feels like we’re honoring fame. Wow, woh, would love to know what you think about that one. I shared it in the Facebook group. Folks are telling me the article is payhold, but you just got the gist of it.

And if you use Apple Podcasts, they now have transcripts. So if you want to scroll through everything I just read to you, I’d be curious your thoughts. Daily Comedy News podcast group. Wow, that one story was the length of what’s normally one segment. How about this one from Late Nighter?

They’ll say Sloan was asked about hosting the Daily Show. She also did not pull any punches until Late Nighter. I’m just telling you the reality of the situation that’s not going to happen. I’m paying attention and I work there. It’s not about whether they asked me.

It’s why they didn’t ask Roy, would Junior? Because if they didn’t ask Roy, they sure is Heleen gonna ask me? If they’re getting rid of all the diversity in Late Night, why would they turn around and ask me? Next paragraph here on Late Nighter says Sloan is referring to the how late night has reverted to just being hosted by white guys after the following list of people have stopped doing late night shows. That list includes Samantha Bee, z Way, Ember Ruffin, Jesus and Marrow, and Trevor Noah, Well, Trevor left on his own.

Jesus and Marrow had a fight, sam Bee. I think turn around out of money, right. I don’t know why the other two ended. Sloane says the atmosphere at the Daily Show has lightned a bit recently. Sloan said, this is what’s happening with everything.

Look at all the shows that are getting canceled. Who lose this fool was hilarious. It got canceled. Nobody knows why. I’ll tell you why.

Nobody watched it. That’s why shows get canceled. It looks like this is what the directive is. And so I can’t worry about everything as a whole, because that just takes your brain somewhere it’s not supposed to go. It’s too big for my brain.

Listen, if your show gets views and you can sell to advertisers, it’ll be on end a story. There’s no conspiracy. I can tell you why this fool got canceled. Nobody watched it, so Loan says, with John Stewart coming back, everybody in the building has relaxed because it’s okay, we’re probably not going to get canceled now. Comedy Central is always an interesting place to be.

TV right now is an interesting place to be. So yeah, there are a lot of people who are like, my kids could stay in private school. We’re probably not going to get canceled right now. That’s the main thing. I got a lot more.

I need a break. Normally I do the show in two chunks. We may have three chunks today. There’s so much going on. David Tel he does indeed have a Netflix special coming out on March twenty sixth.

There’s no press about it, there’s no articles about it. This is it’s very strange. There’s not even a real triller. I went hunting and found that Netflix posted some audio. But this isn’t produced as a trailer.

It’s just somebody went all right, I’ll grab a couple jokes so you’ll know if there’s no music. There’s no editing here. You’ll also note that David Tell is working clean here. But I like this clip a lot. It’s really tough because there’s no late night food anymore.

It’s all gone. I don’t know what happened, but no food after eleven. You don’t believe me, I’ll take you through it. Okay. I’m in Milwaukee, which is a great town.

Milwaukee, great town, no late night food, which kind of explains Jeffrey Dahmer. Now, hey, this guy was a monster, all right. I am not condoning anything he did. But you get hungry, Am I right? I Mean, come on, all I’m saying is pack a snack, all right?

Now? I do trail mix anybody. I always travel with a bag of trails the most unsatisfying snack, Am I right? I mean, honestly, let’s call it what it really is. Are you ready?

Not enough M and m’s. I mean that’s what trail makes. It is. Every handful is just another handful of disappointment. Am I right?

It’s kind of like the hug of a step dad. I mean, it just doesn’t Yeah, I knew he had a couple of broken toys in the room. For what it’s worth, in my opinion, David Tell, and you don’t hear it there? He’s doing material there is really probably the best at crowd work. I’ve seen him going back a while.

We were at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival and that’s a long time gone. And he just got up there and did I don’t know, half an hour just working the crowd. It was amazing. That Steve Martin documentary is coming out. Apple has released a longer clip.

The first voice you’re going to here is Jerry Seinfeld. Let’s listen. This guy was getting people so happy. He’s up there, the most idolized comedian ever. I always thought of him as the door out of the sixties.

Well here’s something I don’t often see. Wow, you know, you could be silly again. You know. I have figured out one thing that would totally put an endo show business, and that is if the human race, instead of having two arms, just had one arm right in the center of our body. Now, the reason that would put an end to show business?

How would people clap? And one more thing, if you bought my album and you came down here expecting me to do a lot of her teams from the record and I didn’t do them, well, I trim that a little bit for pacing.

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Also in this documentary, Tina fey Lorne Michaels, Larry David, Diane Keaton,…

Short official synopsis. Steve Martin is one of the most beloved and enigmatic figures in entertainment. Steve is a docum mentory in two pieces. I’ve talked about this before. First part, the part John cares about the comedy.

Second, the movies and the banjo and all that. I don’t care anyway, Steve. On Apple TV Plus March twenty ninth, Bert Kreischer went on Shaquill O’Neills The Big Podcast. Jack said, when I work out, my gym is in the back, the pool is cold. It’s like a cold plunge, so I jump in.

I don’t want to get out, and then take a shower. Kreischer shared his workout and said, ice cold pool, Get in there, wake up. I got rituals. I swim from one side underneath underwater back to my breath holds Sigora. He’s made fun of me for taking pool showers my whole life.

Shack took it personally because that’s also his ritual. So he grabbed the phone for Bert Krescher and sent a voicemail. Tom Sigor saying, Hey, Tom, this is Bert’s twin brother. I take pool showers too, so leave him alone or I’ll kill you. He was joking.

ConA and O’Brien will take part in a special event called Globe Trotting and Podcasting ConA O’Brien’s Life After Late Night TV. This is part of the big push about this show on Max that’s finally coming out called Conan O’Brien Must Go. We’ll be hearing a lot from Conan coming up here. I think Globe Trouting and Podcasting Conan O’Brien’s Life After Late Night TV at the Paley Center in New York on April eleventh. Did you see Mike Tyson is going to fight Jake Paul, Our spears waited in telling of lad TV.

Mike still got the power and he still has the speed. My question is does he have the endurance? And listen, everybody’s going, Jake Paul’s a YouTuber, Mike’s gotta whoop his butt, blah blah blah. I want to see Jake Paul get his butt whooped too. But here’s the thing.

When Jake Paul first started, he was a little sloppy and he wasn’t well put together as he is now with his body, his postures technique. So my biggest fears that Mike Tyson does not have the endurance. Hmm all right, let me take just a quick break here so we can do the second part in the normal way. I’ve got a rhythm to this, and I just I need thirty seconds. Be right back.

Climb to New Heights with Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs as we scale the Empire State Building to uncover the legend of King Kong. This week, we’re swinging into the heart of a story that bridges the gap between monster and man, from Skull Island to the streets of New York City. Join us as we explore the myth, the mystery, and the enduring legacy of cinema’s most iconic ape. Follow Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Big shout out, Hey, one of you has a BMW and you took it to a shop in New Jersey on Wednesday, and you were listening to Daily Comedy News.

And I know this because the guy that took in your car is my friend Van, and Van told me the story that he got in a car and somebody was mid Daily Comedy News. So, whoever you are, man, say hi on Facebook. I was so happy when Van told me that story, and I hope your car is okay. He didn’t explain why I was in. I don’t know.

Maybe just need oil change. I don’t know why, but BMW guy in New Jersey or woman, thank you for listening. As I mentioned earlier, the Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group. It’s been super active lately, people other than me starting conversations, which is what I wanted to be. I don’t mind starting conversations, but I love when I log in and I’m like, oh, here’s a good topic, So please feel encouraged to join us.

The first time you post, you’ll get a brief timeout so we can make sure you’re not a pornbot. But once we figure out ah, this seems like a human, will let you in and then you could post away. Mike and Cleveland. He shot me a note he was reacting to the other day when I talk about Lenno versus Letterman, and I think he had a good insight, he said, paraphrasing. Leno felt like he needed to keep the job, whereas Dave didn’t give a hoot if he got fired or not, and I’m like, yeah, you know what, You’re right.

Good insight by Mike in Cleveland. A bunch of podcasts. As I’ve mentioned, I’m way behind on my pods. I’ve got a long drive next weekend. Maybe i can catch up on them.

Anyway. This week, Mark Marin had on Eddie peppatone that came out yesterday, and David tell I believe that came out on Monday. Neil Brennan, I forgot to write down the notes. Let me pull it up. He’s at a bunch of people.

Ah. Bill Burr, That’s who I wanted to tell you about. Bill Burr came out on Thursday. Kyle Kanaan came out on the fourteenth. Recent episodes there, Trevor Wallace, Jim Norton, Seth Green, Dusty Slay.

I’ve listened to the slag in the Norton. That show has been really clicking lately. Tammy Pascatelli’s on Elvis Duran’s podcast. Ari Shafer has launched a new travel podcast called You Be Tripping’ I like that title. His first guest is Andrew Santino.

The official description comedian and seasoned travel expert Ari Shafer has launched his newest podcast, You Be Tripping On You Be Tripping. Ari Shafir finds the comic wanting to ditch the travel guides and bring on real folks to discuss their messed up adventures in hilarious disaster tourism. I don’t know is Andrew Santino shucking jokes a good example of real folks. Here’s a clip if you can find a booie in a bay, which, by the way, is funny to hear him say. When he would say it, he’d say it sounded like boy.

He’s like, we must find a little boy, and I was like, why do we need a little boy? He’s like, no, we have to get a little boy for the boat. And I was like, I don’t really want a boy on the boat. Your wife just they have different customs. It’s you got, all right, we’ll get a little boy on the book.

By the way, that’s the first clip they shared, and let’s be honest, that’s not the greatest clip. I’ll check out the pod, but that clip doesn’t make me go wow, I gotta check this out. Already has lots of wild stories to tell from his international travels, such as getting Bert Krescher fat and Greece, as well as dancing for fourteen hours in a warehouse in Berlin. I had to read that twice to make sure it said warehouse, not a similar word warehouse in Berlin. On some of the finest lab made chemicals known to man.

The Entra Santino episode, they’d talk about the little islands off the coast of Italy, the subtle art of annoying locals and seeing so many stray dogs roaming everywhere. Upcoming guests include frequent podcast guests Joe List, Mark Norman, and also Kevin Ryan. More to be announced. From the Sun, No, not the not the Sun, the newspaper which is called the Sun. Imagine there was comedy news from the Sun.

Channel four bosses have apologized to one of their former employees who made a serious and concerning outgation about Russell Brand’s behavior. The CEO said, one former Channel four employee made a serious, concerning allegation about Russell Brand in two thousand and nine. Check your calendar. This was not escalated to Channel four’s then senior management team, nor investigated as it should have been. I’ve apologized on behalf of the organization to the individual for this breakdown and for the distress that this matter has caused.

A total of five women claim Brand had assaulted them between twenty six and twenty thirteen. Before the allegations were published, Russell Brand released a YouTube video in which he strongly denied the claims without specifying what they were. Mike Vicky Owns got a special today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. It’ll be at six o’clock. Now, I’m not sure what time zone the eight hundred Pound Gorilla stuff is usually Central Time.

This is called Worse Kind of Thoughtful. It’s inspired by his twenty eighteen comedy album on the same name. In this unique hour of comedy, Mike fully narrates while his talented friends, fellow comics, artists and more have been recruited to perform the stand up material on his behalf. That’s Fun. Adam Newmanman has a new hour of comedy, brought his guitar music, magic horses, but stuff.

This hour has it all. It’s called Jew Versus the Volcano. It’s his fifth hour of stand up. You’ll find it on Blonde Medicines YouTube channel. Jew Versus The Volcano has three acts.

The first act classic stand up checking in where he’s at now recently Mary traveled and barreling out of a pandemic. The second act is the age old tale about losing one’s virginity, featuring an appearance by RIM’s Mike Mills and a visit to the emergency room. The third and final act brings us to what Adam Newman has been planning all along coming out as a guitar comedian. It was in New York a few weeks ago, and it rained the whole time I was there. The first thing I had to do in New York was like dip into a bodega and get like a cheap four dollar umbrella, you know.

And I was walking in Brooklyn, in the neighborhood I was staying in. And I don’t know if it’s because I live in LA and just haven’t held an umbrella in a long time, or it was extra slippery or extra wet or whatever, but Augusta Wynn came and I just lost it. It’s just like up in the air. I turned around just in time to see it land in a baby’s stroller. Okay, the baby’s fine, I promise you.

The baby’s fine, but the mom was mad. She was like hey, I was like, I’m sorry, and she goes, you threw your umbrella at my baby. I was like, I didn’t throw it at your baby. Have you ever tried to throw and have you ever tried to throw an open umbrella? Like open against the way that it’s open, like facing the other direction?

Like for me to accurately be able to skill level, the skill level, the practice I would have had to put into it, the hatred towards her specific baby for me to land that in the stroller, her second reaction should have been my baby. Her first reaction should have been, that was incredible. You have to show me how you did that. That was amazing you versus the Volcano digital album and special out today vinyl orders in June. And that is your comedy News for today.

Long episode. But that was a lot, right, all right, plenty of good stuff for the weekend. If you enjoy the program, friend about it that they might like it too. You could five stars this thing an Apple podcast that’s always nice. Join the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Jimmy Fallon said, I can’t wait for March Madness. I can’t wait to see who wins and how it’s connected to a conspiracy about Taylor Swift. Uh watch out, Jimmy. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

We are back to normal now. Thank you so much for the notes. I got a lot of notes on the side, and case you missed it, my mother passed away last week. Thank you. On Late Night, Jimmy Kimmel started talking about my favorite topic, Kate Gate.

What’s going on with Kate Middleton? As you probably know, I’m the writer on the podcast Palace Intrigue and boy, the numbers are just off the chain. About Kate Gate, Jimmy kimbl said, shows you how different it is in the UK. Kate goes missing for a few weeks, the whole country goes berserk.

Meanwhile, we haven’t seen Melenia since twenty twenty one.

John Oliver on his show said a certain someone’s Adobe free trial expired in a pretty public manner. Manity Fair is wondering if John Oliver is teasing a deep dive into the CAD’s Middleton controversy. Oliver was on What What Happens Live. Andy Cohen asked, what’s going on in Ky Middleton? Oliver said, I was out.

I thought let’s just ignore this. We’ve moved on until the photoshop thing. It feels like you’re almost handling it badly in an impressive way. At this point, Oliver joked, there’s a non zero chance she died eighteen months ago. They might be weekend at burning.

This situation non zero. I’m not saying it happened. I’m saying it’s non zero until proved otherwise, until you see her with a copy of the day’s newspaper. Back in twenty eighteen, he talked about Megan Markle and said, I don’t think you have to have seen the pilot episode of The Crown and get a basic sense that she might be marrying into a family that could cause some emotional complications. I mean, they’re an emotionally stunted group of fundamentally flawed people doing a very silly pseudo job.

That’s what she’s marrying into. So I hope she likes it. It’s gonna be weird for her. He was very prescient.

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Meanwhile, the UK comedians having some fun.

Joe Lycett was one of the comedians at an event at Royal Albert Hall. Before he set he’d jumped down in the audience to experience their view. He noted he had never been to the Royal Albert Hall. Trivia question how many holes does it take to phill it? Think about that one?

John Lennon has your answer. He got his assistance from security, get back on stage and choked, I feel like a royal and then said where is she? Which got a big laugh. He added wrong place to say that, I imagine. Later in the night, comedian Paul Chaldry he joked about his confusion at people who edit their images on dating apps and later have to explain why they don’t look the same in real life, and he joked, who edited your pictures?

Kate Middleton? So much fun, palace intrigue. Wherever you get your shows. There’s a great new website called latenight or dot com. They cover late night.

It’s in the name. You could have figured that out without me telling you. Therefore, Desi Leidick has described Stephen Colbert wrote an email a long time ago. The email was to Rob Wriggle, and it’s been passed down from one generation of Daily Show correspondence to another. She said, Rob passed it along to Al Madrigal, Al passed along to Jordan Klepper, who passed it along to this generation.

What’s in the email? Desi said, they’re really good pointers, like know the three things that you really want to get from the interview subject and don’t leave until you get them. But she pointed out it’s not that easy. Colbert had the advantage of being brilliant at everything he does. Dmitri Martin will have a special all of a sudden next week.

Yeah wait, that’s not next week, John, That’s slightly more than a week from now. April second is when Dmitri Deconstructed comes out. There is a trailer. I’ll just play a snippet because he said a couple naughty words. But notice on this trailer the bass music very reminiscent of one of Mitch Hedberg’s albums that has the base on it.

I think it’s Strategic Grow Locations that has the base on it, and this really reminds me of that. Plus, Dimitri’s delivery is already in the Hedbergean Ballpark, so very interesting choice here, and can’t be accidental. Someone must have pointed that out right. Yes, let’s listen. My friend asked me if I ever went swimming with dolphins.

I said, yeah, definitely. I mean, what distance are we talking about from the dolphins? I’m pretty sure I swam with all of it the last time I was in the ocean. Apparently, Butttel has a special company in Netflix as well. I don’t think I’ve seen a proper announcement of that, but March twenty sixth on Netflix.

We’ll keep an eye out for that. Maybe a little announcement at some point. Kyle Knain is on the Last Laugh podcast. Some good advice from Kyle. He says, as a comedian, you get really locked into your surroundings.

Everybody from New York has jokes about the subway, Everybody from LA has jokes about auditions, and you sometimes forget there’s a whole country between those two cities. When I would visit my mother in the facility every day, she’d be like, did you see the person was pushing for the subway? And I’m like, no, I live in New Jersey. I don’t watch New York news, I don’t read the New York Post. I have no idea what you talk about?

Did you see the ooh creepy? You know what just happened? After I did that little not quite impression of my mom, I got a notification audio device has been disconnected from your computer. My mic crept out right, then weird, Hi mom, Kyle said, what’s really important to me is work life balance. The whole hustle culture like you have to sacrifice your entire existence for success.

I don’t subscribe to that idea of success. Your life is yours, It doesn’t belong to an industry. He said. The first peak of his career was around twenty ten. Maybe there’s another one coming, I don’t know.

That was when Comedy Central asked him to come in and record a few promos. He became the voice of Comedy Central. That was around the time we created Comedy Central Radio and Kyle did the liners for that radio station, which I created. Kyle said the network never gave him a contract, but just kept bringing him back week after week and year after year. Kyle said, right away, my expectations were set.

You have it, but you’re not gonna have it forever, but you have it for now, so be grateful. Before Kyle the job belonged to Pengulette, and he said, I don’t want to be stealing anybody’s job, but I think he’s probably doing all right. I think he’s got to mansion in Vegas or something. Kyle was the voice for about a decade, and then he started hearing from comedian friends that Comedy Central was booking auditions to replace him. He jokes, I lost it.

How I got it? Good thing. I wasn’t spending the money because I knew it wasn’t going to be forever. They also asked him about why Comedy Central has fallen by the wayside. Is the phrasing and he said, if I had answers like that, I wouldn’t be talking to you from a basement in Portland.

Again. Hopefully you can hear in my voice today. I’m in even in my jokes about the microphone that I am feeling. Okay, thank you so much. I got so many notes from listeners.

Again, thank you. Becky went to buy me a coffee dot com. Now I’m not here to shill for coffee. I just want to thank Becky. She did go there and bought me five coffees.

I won’t do the full you RL today because it’s not about trying to get a coffee out of you. I just want to thank Becky for doing that, and she also sent me a note thank you very much, Becky.

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Speaking of the National Donuts chain, when I was there this morning, I was w…

Now, if you’re a relatively new listener, Evil billing Vall is a guy that kind of looks like Bill Angvall, except he as a goateee, you know, like the mister spock Er evil abed thing if you have a go tee, or the evil version of the real version. Now, I know this joke makes no sense because actual bill Ingvall often has a go tee. But this character is Evil bill Ingvall nailed the door for me, and dude, he’s super nice. He was like super friendly. He’s like, hey, man, I have a great day.

So not so Evil bill Ingvall. But his character is Evil Billing That’s who he is. David tell Is on Mark Marin’s podcast this week. I did not get to listen to it yet for reasons well discussed. John Oliver on SmartLess also haven’t gotten to it yet.

At some point I’ll listen to those and I’ll pull some clips. Apparently, Oliver told these SmartLess guys he’s not interested in acting again, saying I haven’t done a lot of acting, and I think when I have done it, I’m not sure I would call it acting. And I remember Jonathan Banks, legitimate actor, came up to me before Seen and said, I just wanted to talk about what our characters are doing before this, and I had to tell him, Oh, Jonathan, I’m just going to say these words in the funniest possible way. Banks said, you know when actors act opposite a tennis ball, I’ll be that ball for you. John Clees is on Bill Maher’s podcast.

I haven’t listened to it yet for reasons well discussed. He said he has used a medium to communicate with the Lates Graham Chapman. Apparently Clees hired a psychic to quote explore his consciousness, but found himself communicating with Chapman. Clees claims the medium referred to facts that she couldn’t possibly have known. She said, who’s Graham?

And I said he’s probably Graham Chapman. She says he’s going on about a pipe. I said, but yes, he always smoked a pipe. Then she said he’s rolling up his trouser leg and I said, oh, that’s a sketch we did about the Freemasons. Bill Maher was like, maybe she saw the sketch and Clee said, no, it’s only been aired once or twice.

The sketch first aired in nineteen seventy and it’s been viewed two million times on YouTube. On Cleesa’s next visit, the psychic said Graham was waving a monkey with a strapeytail. Now you may not know there is a lemur named Clees’s wooly lemur named after him. I’ve told that story in the past. But Clee said, there’s no way she would have known that.

John. Maybe she listens to Daily Comedy News. She said, why is he showing this to me? He says, it’s named after you, and I said, no, it means that that species of lemur is named after me. There’s no way she would have known that except for the two million views and even me mentioning it.

Mill Maher said, are you sure it wasn’t in the twenty five Things you Don’t Know about Me and US magazine, because that’s the kind of thing you might get there. That sounds fun. I will have to listen to that. A DC Sketch Fest starts tonight, Executive producer Isaiah Heaton told WTOP when they first started this thing, we’d been traveling around the country going to sketch fests all over and we wanted to bring one here to Washington. We’ve been growing a lot the last couple of years.

There’s so many new teams, so it felt like the right time to bring the community together to showcase the talent and invite our friends from all over the country to come participate. One hundred performers from twenty two comedy troops from all over the US and Canada. Apparently there’s some regionality. Heaton says. The Seattle teams tend to be very silly and wacky, whereas the New York teams are very sharp, so you’re getting a mixed flavor palette of styles of comedy that kicks off tonight.

Boy, I’ve got ten more stories since a get too. That’s what happens when you pre taped four episodes in a row. Don’t worry, the weekend’s coming. I’ll get to the ball. Let’s see, let’s do gossip Corner and then we’ll get out of here.

On gossip Corner, Kevin Hart was spotted at Jeff Ruby’s steakhouse. No word on what he ate or not. I thought he was like mister Vegan now hmm. Trevor Noah looking for a new place in New York City. Apparently he was spotted checking out a three bedroom, three and a half bath unit asking seven point four million dollars in building on Tenth Street.

Design details include oversized arch windows, barrel vaulted ceilings, custom millwork, and views of the Hudson River, Statue of Liberty and Hudson Yards. Bill Maher has broken up with Talent Agency CAA after not being invited to the co chairman’s Oscars party. And as if the recent week wasn’t terrible enough, Adam Sandler movies are going to be released in Imax. Oh my goodness, what are you people doing to me? Luckily it’s not a terrible Adam Sandler movie.

It’s the good one, uncut Gems in Imax May twenty second. If for some reason you want to do that, that’s a thing that exists, and that’s your comedy news for today. I’m glad to be back. Thank you At i’le see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Chunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nick Swartson took to Instagram and took the Denver Gazette to task. This happened last Friday, you may recall. Recently, Swartzen was removed from the stage twenty minutes into his set.

He was incoherent, according to eyewitnesses. Swartzen posted a screenshot of the Denver Gazette report and commented, been a minute to address this, so bleeping dumb that this is news with all that’s going on in the world, Love my fans. I’m sorry edibles, alcohol and altitude will happen.

Also, I’m not the first person to try that combo in Colorado.

All caps good Lord Jose have been great after and will be Love you. Comedians are humans like everyone. Heart emochi. That got some social media reactions. One user said, hey, Nick, I’m a huge fan.

One of the reasons this is such a big story is because he went on Theo’s podcast talking about how you almost died from alcohol. We love you and we want you to be healthy. That’s all. Another wrote, get out, brother, ain’t no shame someone else. The three worst hangovers in my life was at veil and I live in Denver.

Ten thousand feet is no joke, Man, totally understandable. David Letterman was on Inside the NBA last week. He presented a series of ideas on how the NBA could improve the game. Kenny Smith said, is this anything like a top ten list? Letterman said, why would you say that?

Would it be bad if it was. Some of the ideas include five and ten point lines, team mascot’s getting all foul shots on the fourth quarter. I kind of liked that one, and a proposal to redesign the court to include two extra baskets. Even brought a diagram. Ernie Johnson asked if Letterman did that free hand.

Dave said, that’s all computer stuff. Letterman was on for like fifteen minutes. Here’s like a minute or so of that conversation. Not particularly hilarious, but I love a Dave. I didn’t know this was studio Jay.

Yeah, yes, named after Ernie. No, it’s Jobson. No really, Jim Reeves, the late Jim Reeves was a great video guy for us. It’s name for him. That’s lovely.

So a guy who actually put in time in this building. Actually, yeah, it worked tirelessly and make the show look as good as it does on some And the other thing I’m thrilled about is I think I heard one of you invoke the phrase mofo, which you know around the house. I don’t get to use that much. You know, you worked with us on All Star Weekend. You and Reggie Miller.

Is Reggie Miller, What a sweet guy. It was a real thrill for me and the production crew that I worked with or worked with me or vice versa. They did all the work. They were tremendous, and everybody here. When I was at CBS, everybody was It was like a minimum security prison and nobody was guilty, and everybody wanted to go home.

Here everyone is happy and they’re free, and they say they leave the middle of the night. You guys will be here till the sun comes up, and everybody happy and laughing going on. Well. Thirty years ago, Bill Carter wrote The Late Shift book, a fantastic book, and the HBO movie The Late Shift is pretty good. At the time people made fun of, especially the Jay Leno impression.

I think that movie’s fantastic. Bill Carter also has a new website called Late Night Her, which I’ve been checking out a lot very good website anyway, Bill Carter said, when I was finishing the book thirty years ago, I initially concluded that Dave had won because he instantly commanded the biggest audiences, knocking Leno’s Tonight Show from the pinnacle of late night for the first sustained period in the show’s history. But then Jay regained superiority and seemingly vindicated NBC’s decision to coordinate him, except it never fully resolved. Letterman retained his elite position in the late night pantheon while Leno piled up ratings titles. They could never fully escape being linked together.

That is true. Looking this in the rearview mirror now, I feel like Letterman did make the pantheon, and I feel like Leno is one of those guys that made the Hall of Fame because he played a lot of years. But to be fair, hosting the Tonight Show, you’re not supposed to if you see young Jay Leno on Letterman particularly, he was edgy, and when you sit behind the Tonight Show desk, you gotta kind of be more vanilla. And maybe that’s why Jimmy Fallon is good at it and Conan struggled a little bit. Who knows.

Bill Carter has another book about the Second Transition, the one involving Conan O’Brien. Let me tell you what that one’s called. That one I liked a lot. I read it on the plane to Australia one time. That one’s called The War for Late Night when Lena went early and television went crazy.

Also very good. Deadline reports that Stephen Colbert will narrate Pope Francis’s six hour audiobook. That book is called Life My Story Through History that went out this week. The Pope has a new audiobook, Life My Story Throughout History. He guess who’s narrating it wrong, Stephen Colbert.

Maybe he did guess Stephen Colbert.

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Speaking of notable Catholics, Jim gaff again has his weekly column on CBS Ne…

This week, Jim wrote, part of me can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I like bourbon. I don’t know if that means that I’m an old man or just an alcoholic enjoying hard liquors. New for me. I’ve always it’s been a beer guy in the past. When a friend would say, let’s get a Scotch and whiskey.

I think, well, I guess we could pretend like we’re in a Tennessee. Williams play James said, I decided to surprise my wife by buying a couple bottles of bourbon. Don’t tell me I’m not romantic. After the cashier wrapped up the last bottle and bubble wrapped like with some precious historical artifact, she casually mentioned, I don’t know if this is a big deal, but this bottle of bourbon cost eleven hundred dollars. Does it matter only if my children expect to go to college.

It should have been an easy answer. Nobody needs an eleven hundred dollars bottle of bourbon. Haven’t gotten to this one? Yeah? It’s Amazon Prime has Ricky Stinicky that follows the misadventures of three loyal, yet irresponsible friends.

They are played by Zac Efron, Jermaine Fowler, and Andrew Santino. They are forced to bring their imaginary scapegoat friend Ricky Stanicky, to life. They do this by hiring rock Hard Rod, who is played by John Cena. Santino and Fowler did a bunch of press. They didn’t take any of it too seriously.

Rephrasing their comedians. They just gave joke answers to everything. Santino said on set, we meaning Faler, are good friends. We’re very different, and I think we have all these friends in real life that we love as people, but our lifestyles are extremely different. The way we’ve grown has been so different.

But at the cores that we love each other, we still love to have fun together. In real life, I would say we’re closer than we are in the film. We’re both comedians and actors and two handsome young black men, so we have a lot of that in common. I think Fowler said it’s true he’s pretty black. Now I’ve learned a lot from this dude, Like his knowledge about Rolex watches is pretty outstanding, no joke.

I’ve heard him talk about cars and watches in golf and I’m like, man, I just like listening you talk about it. The New York Yankees will give away a George Costanza babblehead. That’s on Seinfeld Night July fifth, May Martin is putting out an album, but they told Mark Marin, I’m doing earnest music. I’m putting out an album this year of the most mediocre emotional songs. The music is guitar based.

May said, I’m embarrassed by it, so I don’t know how I’m ever going to promote it. I might just put it out quietly. If a musician listens to it, I think they’ll be like, this is very mediocre. Tyberrell will lead the ABC comedy Forgive and Forget, you know Tie from Modern Family. Forgive and Forget revolves around Hank, the perennial life of the party you, after an unexpected diagnosis, reconnects with his responsible adult son Ben in hopes of making new memories together.

Mary Lynn Rice Cub You know her. She was Chloe on twenty four and she is a comedian. She has joined the Netflix, CBC and APTN comedy North of North. It has begun production in none of it Northern Canada. Part of this is Canadian governments will pay for Canadian content.

Not sure what the plot of that one is. Sean Kaine’s album came out last week. Didn’t get to tell you about it for reasons we discussed on Saturday. America’s Uncle Dad is available everywhere. Streaming audio is enjoyed.

Sean jokes about mass transit, yoga culture psychedelics, growing Up with an adorable lisp, and a takedown of Simon garfocal classic that they promise will forever change how you hear the song. Some of the tracks on Sean Kean’s Uncle Dad are Mom Goes Online, uh oh and Psyched Alexaid Karaoke Caitlyn Belufo. I was going to do an interview with Caitlyn and that got lost in the shuffle for reasons discussed on Saturday. Her new album is out as well, and she shared two clips well us, so let’s play the clips. Honestly, I didn’t think I had a drinking problem until I stopped drinking for one month and immediately lost fifteen pounds.

That’s twins, Yes, that is the weight of healthy twins. I dropped little little Morgan Rita right there. You know. My body was like, girl, we’ll give you abs. Just put down the sangria.

It’s not fruit, okay, all right. I thought the pandemic was going to be a party because I thought it was going to be me and my younger boyfriend getting hammered every night. That’s what I thought. But it turns out he’s not a big drinker. Yeah, I know, and I honestly should have known because I saw him take night quill from the cap, so I was like, we are different people.

I use a straw, who measures their medicine? What a door? Right? Get a personality. Spiked online dot com wrote about the sand demise of the Montreal Comedy Festival.

They said, Montreal is huge. Comedians used to scheduled careers and international holidays around it. It was crucially the North American industry trade fair for decades. It was the springboard between the club circuit and the five minute breakout spot on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, or whatever thin Democratic Party propaganda grule the punch drunk American people are currently accepting as their late nights will supposedly, by twenty twenty five, Montreal will re emerge in a scale down format after a financial restructuring, but it surely won’t be the same. I agree, a scale down versus Montreal is not the same.

That was such a good festival. So I was talking about it earlier today that I’m sad about it. I want to go up there. I guess I’ll just go up to Montreal for Montreal’s sake. Now, like Don Lonon writes, you may be asking yourself, why should I care.

I’d like to raise the possibility that it’s symptomatic of something much bigger, much widespread, and then it should indeed worry all of us. My suspicion is that this is one of many events, former behemoths of live entertainment that have returned post lockdown, but in zombie mode. Lazarus like, they walk out in the light, but something is awry. They have no soul, there’s something missing behind the eyes. Yes, live events are back technically speaking, and I’ve been back for a few years now, but something is still just very slightly off.

Something’s not quite right. They then talk about how movie going has changed and wrote, perhaps the comedy festival and the cinema, or just a couple of entertainment options whose time head come. That’s your comedy news for today. I’m going to get serious here, So if you are just came for the comedy, you’re dismissed. For everybody else.

I’m recording this on Sunday, and this section here, I’m on stake four, as I’ve stumbled several times already, Monday was my mom’s wake and Tuesday was the funeral. I got a lot of notes from listeners, and I’ve responded to them individually, so I’m not going to do a shout out or a laundry list of you know things. Thanks to so and so and so and so. Thank you so much for the individual notes. It meant a lot.

And there was just an edit there where I choked up. I really really appreciate the notes. Everybody all right, we should be back to normal tomorrow. Thank you again. We’ll see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Neil Brennan will have a new special on April ninth, Netflix. Neil is absolutely in ascendency. His podcast is really good.

Each special is better than the last. He’s gotten out of being like me having to qualify Neil Brennan. You know the guy from Chappelle Schell. He’s just Neil Brennan now, and probably by the end of the year we’ll be right at the top of the comedy game. Definitely in acendency, Neil told The Hollywood Reporter.

If you’re watching this special because you saw my other Netflix specials and I talked about having depression and you wanted to support a fellow traveler, I have some terrible news. I feel pretty great. He spends a healthy portion of crazy. Good is the name of a special joking about the perks of bad mental health. The Hollywood Reporter said, Before I got a chance to screen your new special, I found a thread on Reddit where people had seen it started weighing in.

Neil goes uh oh. Holly reporter said, Now I bring it up because I was struck by this one comment to who wrote his material was outstanding, probably the best I’ve ever seen him do. I’m really curious how it translates to a special, and I was fan base reacts because some people definitely see him as the mental health guy. That’s an idea you play with. Right at the top of the special, Neil said, and I’ll tell you why I did.

I did the show in DC last summer. I just came out and started talking, and a guy DM me after the show and said, I brought my girlfriend. It was my birthday. We’d bought tickets for the front row, and I just kept waiting for you to show up, and I knew it was going to happen something like that. I always want to do a bit about the kind of heckles I get, which are like, be sadder, So I put that at the beginning.

I’m like, if you want me to be sad, I’m sorry, I’m not sad. That sort of covered it, and weirdly it made the whole show better. It was a good note from the guy. I’ve been feeling pretty good for a couple of years, to the point where when I did blocks the previous special, I had to kind of tap into the old feeling. So this was a new feeling of optimism, or at least accepting that bad mental health can be good, or whatever we consider bad mental health has propelled most of civilization.

Of course, you could argue that isn’t My mental health got better, my comedy got better. So I’m saying one thing and maybe exhibiting another. But I wasn’t going to present to be sad when I wasn’t. And I’m not saying don’t go to therapy. I’m just saying, like, don’t want certain people to have a good work life balance.

I don’t want like the head of Homeland Security to take up photography or poetry. You know what I mean, do your job all the time, be obsessed with it. Neil says. The other big thing is this idea about who our cultural and civilizational leaders are now, and how it feels like comedians are because everybody else is completely failed. There’s obviously lying religion, corrupts religious organizations, corrupt political leaders, corrupt corporate leaders, corrupt civic leaders, media, everyone’s in somebody’s pocket, and it seems like comedians are the only ones incentivized to be honest.

But then there’s this weird thing because now we’re the moral leaders, and we’re like what I almost called the special What are the clowns think? Why is it up to Chappelle and Brogan and Ellen and Kevin Hart and Shane Gillis Andrew Schultz? Why are these people now moral leaders when that’s not the job. I understand how we got here, but I think it’s a silly expectation. This is really interesting.

Neil says, I’m in this weird place where I’m not famous enough to get substantially canceled, Like I’m not going to get a job and lose it the way Shane Gillis did, which again became his propulsion. It’s quote Bill Burr, what are they gonna do? Take away my podcast? Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas takes bribes. Why you’re worried about what Kevin said in his monolog or what Bill said or whatever?

Or junts do it’s not allowed to say that. Biden’s old? Do you not understand what comedy is? But whenever people talk about Dave or Joe being canceled, I just think they’re doing arenas. Shane just did the Chicago Theater five times.

It’s eighteen thousand tickets. The thing about being canceled is you’re basically just getting free promo Alabama dot Com. Al dot Com asked Marlon Wayans about his friendship with Tupac Shakur. Marlon said, Pac and I were very similar in that we were two poor kids that were lucky enough to go to performing arts high school. So there’s an ecotomy there because, yeah, you grew up in the hood, we also appreciate the arts, and you’re lucky enough to have this outlet and it kind of saves your life in a sense.

Everybody knew him as this gangster. I knew him as very intelligent philosopher, extremely well read, really great at poetry. Just one of those multi talented people, and he was funny. If you ever sat in a room with Pac, you laughed. Famous comedy series The Bear on FX.

You know, the hilarious The Bear. I like that show a lot, but I can’t believe they keep entering it in Best Comedy. The voters go, yeah, that’s a comedy. It’s not. It’s great, but it’s not a comedy.

Source is confirmed to The hollyd Reporter that The Bear has been renewed for a fourth season. They’re going to film seasons three and four back to back to accommodate everyone’s schedule. Netflix has revealed that Brian Simpson Live from the Mothership is out today, directed by Baron Vaughan and is filmed at Joe Rogan’s comedy Mothership. In the special, Brian Simpson covers everything from racism and gun violence to in vitro fertilization and masculinity. Brian was named a new face at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in twenty twenty one.

Has got bumped from last week for reasons, I explained. On Saturday, Jim Brewer was playing Northeast Pennsylvania. He was excited about. He said he’d been there a bunch. That’s how I remember the first time I played there.

It was with Ralphie May. This touches me because I know Jim are really well and I knew Ralphie pretty well. They asked Jim to look back on his career, which includes Saturday Night Live and Half Baked, and Jim said, I would say my favorite moments are the most fun times, not so much the monuments. Whenever I got a chance to do a thing with a rock star, like the lead singer of a CDC. Brian Johnson, go on stage at Madison Square Garden and sing a song with Billy Joel or tour with Metallica.

Those things are way more exciting to me than any TV or film or anything like that. They asked me to open up their shows, to basically set the mood and create an atmosphere, and do it however I wanted. It was the greatest thing. Ever, the fact that I got paid is almost silly. In a recent Instagram live video, Monique revealed that Cat Williams had been looking out for comedian a Vett Wilson before she passed away in twenty twelve, losing a battle with stage four cervical cancer and kidney disease.

Wuik said, I want to say this about our brother, Cat Williams. Throughout the years, ID always hear things like, all right, he won’t show up with the shows. He ain’t this, he ain’t that. That’s one of the purest cats in the game. A friend had started an online fundraiser for twenty five thousand dollars for the actress.

The website only reached fifty six percent of the twenty five Atlanta Blackstar reported the Cat donated twelve thousand dollars to the cause. Monique said, there was a woman named Vette Wilson who played Adella on The Parkers, and it was a man named Cat Williams who just stepped in and took care of that sister until she left this earth. Hey, remember that recent Willy Wonka disaster thing. While a new musical is coming out, Willy Fest, a musical parody, will take inspiration from the Scottish event that went awry. You may recall the event was billed as an immersive experience.

The organizers used AI generated photos to track customers, who, upon arriving, found themselves on a drab warehouse. Customers compared the event to a meth lab. Actor Paul Connell, who was among three actors hired to play Willy Wonka, said he had been sent to script that was fifteen pages of AI generated gibberish of me just monologuing mad things. The musical will be a b horror movie inspired by the event, The creator said. Imagine if Edwood and p.

T. Bornham got into environmental experiences fueled by a million dreams and zero dollars, it might turn out like this. While mostly nothing but wreckage and a disaster of this magnitude, we think it screams out musical. The Guardian has seen the new documentary Remembering Gene Wilder. They write, generations of viewers got to know Gene Wilder as Willy Wan Blanka, and the new documentary argues that’s the goodest place as any to start.

Were transported back to the fond memories of the candy Man’s immortal introduction. He hobbles out to meet his adoring public with cane in hand, staggers a bit, starts to stumble, then somerselts himself into a sprightly upright stance. Like so many of Gen Wilder’s finest moments, it was surprised to his scene partners, proving his nimble versatility as a performer. He could mind humor from tension, aggravation or anxiety, but his desire to keep the public on their toes always gave way to a welcoming friendliness in his art, as in his life. With his mother’s hard condition, he had to make her laugh instead of making her angry.

Wild they grew up another premise that comedy and pain were close cousins, evident in the development of screen persona constantly teetering on the brink of a breakdown. The director says he was good, as though, why is this happening to me? Guy? While there is dynamic with co star Clevon Little and Blazing Saddles pointed to his next partnership, that one with Richard Pryor. For Blazing Saddles, the executives at Warner’s had declared Richard uninsurable and insist that on a replacement.

Over the course of four films together, Wilder and Prior would forge a close bond, even though Prior struggled with addictions that often threw wrenches into the production process. Wilder’s final film with Prior was called Another You, was also his final film appearance. He did a short lived sitcom called Something Wilder and a two episode stint on Will and Grace I Don’t Remember Something Wilder. Something Wilder ran on NBC from October first, ninety four to June thirteenth of ninety five. A fifty something husband, Gene Bergmann played by Wilder, and his wife Annie, who’s in her thirties, are learning to cope with raising their four year old fraternal twin sons.

Eighteen episodes three never aired. Alice Cooper guest starred in the fourteenth episode, which was titled Hanging with Mister Cooper. Gene unexpectedly finds himself cast on a TV appearance promoting Cooper’s new hit single, Marlon Maples. She was married to somebody famous one point. Guest starred on the episode Love Native American Style.

I have no memory whatsoever of this, but it was nineteen ninety four and I was hanging out, the director says. When we talk to Alan Alda, he shared a story about worrying before one of the films he directed came out what the critics might say. He was commiserating with Gene, who told Alan Alda, what difference does it make if they pay the film? So? What big deal you made it?

It’s finished, it’s over. Be proud of it. Gan knew how to live life well, remembering Gene Wilder is in theaters now. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Last week, both Joe Biden and Donald Trump secured their various nominations. Michael costa joke it’s now officially a three man race between Trump, Biden, and Natural Causes. Stephen Colbert said it feels like if Muhammad Ali fought Joe Fraser.

Now. Seth Meyers commented on Trump discussing possibly cutting Social Security and Medicare. That said, Dude, you’re seventy seven. Those should be your favorite things right now. Let’s be honest.

You could use the cash. The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor will be broadcast on Netflix. The Kennedy Center announced a new multi year partnership with Netflix that’ll bring the Mark Twain’s Prize to Netflix. This year’s celebration will honor Kevin Hart. It takes place Sunday, March twenty fourth.

The show will be recorded and stream on May eleventh, towards the end of the Netflix As a Joke Festival. This year’s ceremony is scheduled to include Dave Byrd, Little Dickie Right Interesting, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Handler, the Plastic cup Boys, Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock interesting combination. There al dot com as in Alabama. Dot com spoth to Morland Wayans he is touring, and he said, I think the world’s going through enough problems. I don’t care about politics.

I don’t care about like all the divisive topics. I mentioned some things, But the reality is I talk about me because that disarms everybody, and people could be so sensitive nowadays. But it’s not in the comedy clubs. But I feel like for me, my discovery of self as an artist means explore myself, explore my pain, and the deeper I go in there the funnier I became his new specials called Good Grief. It’ll be out on Amazon this summer.

Filmed at the Apollo. Good Grief is about dealing with the death and loss of his parents. He says, taking you through this dark journey that’s really light because what you find through all this is the appreciation of your parents, no matter how good or bad they were. Nobody’s perfect. But in the special, I embrace what’s good, make fun of what was bad, and I leave them with a smile in my heart and the audience with a smile.

Tracy Morgan will headline the twelfth annual April Fools Comedy Jam. When is the April Fool’s Comedy Jam? Wrong? It’s on April fifth for some reason. This is in the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, where Sting’s playing, and I didn’t want to go.

I mentioned the other day I’m not paying two hundred and ninety dollars for Sting tickets.

Also, I’m not going to Brooklyn.

I was trying to get a different venue. I’m not going from New Jersey to Brooklyn, and you insane. I’d rather fly to la and see Sting there would actually be easier. I digress. The twelfth Annual April Fools Comedy Jam at the Barcley Center, which I won’t go to.

I headlined Tracy Morgan.

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Also stars Deal, Hugh Lee, Bruce, Bruce Nephew, Tommy, Lonnie Love, dj Envy, …

We are told fans can expect an unforgettable night of entertainment. Okay, cracked dusted this one off. I thought this was interesting. Early in Norm MacDonald’s stand up career. He had a routine about dogs that did really well on late night shows.

The joke, these dogs, they’re getting kind of expensive. He goes to a pet store where a high pressure salesman tries to sell him a five hundred dollars pit bull. So the guy goes, buy this dog. Here, there’s a pit bull. It would protect your valuables.

You know, I don’t have any valuables. If I bought a pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it. I’d be out shopping for wolverines. My half assed norm is even more half assed than usual.

Listen a Saturday show and you’ll understand why. At one point, Norma told Tom Green Sam Kinnison came to Canada. He wasn’t famous or nothing. He took a liking to me and took me across the country. Was the greatest time I ever had.

I had a good act. Sam said, you’ve got good jokes, man. I know I should talk about dogs here. Really interested in dogs? Norm said, no, I don’t give a hood about dogs.

Kennison said, why don’t you talk about what you’re interested in? Norm said. From then on it became death. I don’t know what the average person thinks. I think you know it’s always on your mind.

I’ll ruminated about it for long periods of time for no purpose or no avail. It’s worthless except for generating jokes. He said, I did death material in my stand up special. Now that’s gone so I can move on. I really just think about stuff for stand up.

I got caught on one subject for a long period of time. Once I’ve exhausted the subject, I’m free now in my life not to think about death. Norm said, I’m very, very proud of stand up. I’m ashamed of almost everything else like this interview. The Aussies did not enjoy a comedy roast of John Klees.

Yahoo says despite heavy promotion by the local network on which it aired, the roast of John Clees was a ratings and critical failure. I got less than one third of the audience that reality series Married at First Sight got. Wow Viewers expressed their disappointment at the unfunny hour long show. One person on Twitter said, we have an enviable climate, but Australians do not do comedy well. The John Clees roast was a shocker.

Comedian Tom Gleeson joke. When I was growing up, I was a big fan of Monty Python. But then again, I was also a fan of Bill Cosby and Ralph Harris. So I’m just bracing myself for the allegations. When viewers said it’s important when you’re ro John Clees on National TV to actually roast the recipient, I asked chat GPT to roast John Clees.

They said John Colees’s comedy is so timeless, even as wrinkles of bunch lines. They say, behind every great man is a great woman. In John Cleese’s case, it’s probably his therapist. See those aren’t bad. The Guardian watched the film Sorry Not Sorry and wrote, the outrageousness of what Louis C.K.

Did is totally lost in the film. Caroline sue, I hope I’m saying your name right. Suh is a filmmaker and when of the stuff about Louis came out in twenty seventeen, Caroline said, my immediate reaction was, honestly, is it that bad? And my generation when we were coming up, we saw a lot of bad behavior and it was like, that’s just the way it is. Shortly afterwards, in a statement, Louis C.K.

Said at the time, I said to myself what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my stuff without asking first, which is also true. What I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your stuff isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me, and I wielded that power irresponsibly. Caroline analyzed her own initial reaction and began to see it as outdated, but she wanted explore it came from.

She teamed up with fellow filmmaker Karen Monas to create this documentary. Monas initially worried about giving Louis a platform, but said they centered on the women and realized how little most people knew about the backlash. This is interesting, writer Abbie Shackner The Guardian says essential to both the film and the original York Times story. After she was subjected to Louis C.K. Doing self stuff during a phone call, was criticized in a Netflix special by Dave Chappelle.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chappelle be Little’s her claim that CK’s behavior deterred her from pursuing a career in comedy, and says, B word, you don’t know how to hang up a phone. How the after you’re going to survive and show business if this is an actual obstacle to your dreams. So the question is always why did the women react like that? It’s never why did ck do what he did? Caroline says, the outrageousness of what Louis did is totally lost in the discussion.

Sorry not sorry. He’s on streaming platforms w comal Bell is doing a San Francisco residency after a five year break. The Chronicle spoke to him. He says, it’s been hombling because it doesn’t come back right away meeting the comedy. It’s twenty twenty four, and it’s the election.

If there’s a time for me specifically to be doing stand up comedy, it’s right now. He spends about an hour each week cycling through fresh strokes, riffing on everything from the Fulsome Street Fair to emoji’s and the upcoming election. He marks his notes scribbled on a stack of loose papers that he props up on a music stand next to him. Tick Totoro’s making the rounds she’s got a special coming out, and as she starts to do press again, I’m reminded the last time she did a press tour for a special she didn’t come across pretty well. Was it with Conan?

Somebody mispronounced her last name and she was kinda like, I don’t know, there was a better way to handle it. Really turned me off to her, to be honest. Anyway, she was on with Kelly and Mark Consuelos. Investigative reporter Kelly Rippo said, so you’re a mom to seven year old twin boys. Tig said, I thought you were going to say seven children, but yeah, they’ll be eight in June.

Ripper said, oh wow. I always think that having kids’ horme. Having two at the same time seems to be like baffling to me. Do your kids know you? Do they know what you do for a living?

Tick said, yeah, they know me. They don’t think I’m funny. I’m that person that’s like a hack in the house, but they know I do stand up and when they see me or anything I’m in on TV or streaming services, they refer to me as Tignazaro, So they’ll see me and say, oh, there’s tig Nazaro. There’s sting Nazaro. Did you scroll right past?

TJ Miller spoke to w RK or DJ has partnered with two family businesses for his lines of peanut butter and hot sauce. Did not see that coming. His new comedy album is titled Smooth Peanut Butter. Miller said he loves peanut butter so much and he wanted to make his own, but he needed to find the right partner. Back in twenty nineteen, he tweeted about the company be Happy Peanut Butter, saying it was the best he’s ever had.

They saw it and flaunted their newfound fan. Within two years, the small, family owned Indiana Peanut Butter Company partnered with TJ. Miller to produce his own line of custom peanut butters. But wait, there’s more. Years earlier, he had made his own line of hot sauces with the Skull Brothers, also a family owned company in Indiana.

He said, I had some other stuff. I liked it, and he asked me one time if I’d ever be interested in partnering with them, and I was like, Hell, yes, let’s do it. They had three different sauces. TJ said his favorite was the TJ’s Choice Chipotle Hot Sauce. You can find all his other sauces, including the one that the article says we cannot say.

Oh, I’m going to look on his personal website. TJ said, I’m glad I got to work with these families for these products.

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All right, let’s go to TJ Miller.

Okay, I typed in Tjmiller dot com and I don’t see anything. But there’s a website called Tjmiller does not have a website dot com. There’s a storefront. Here’s some hot sauces. All right, we’re getting closer.

Here we have TJ’s Choice Chipotle Hot Sauce twenty bucks, Extreme Gangster Heat Hot Sauce twenty bucks, TJ’s Diet Hot Sauce twenty bucks, and autographed hot sauce is coming soon. Those will cost you thirty dollars if you want autographed hot sauce. And the one that we can’t say is called f Intense Ghost pepper type stuff.

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Meanwhile, the peanut butter Toffee Crispy twenty dollars, Chocolate cherry t…

Come with an autograph for just thirty dollars. I don’t know if this is an official site or not, because it’s called the TJ. Miller does not have a website dot com and the Google slug is welcome to not TJ. Miller’s website, so who knows. People also ask did TJ Miller have brain surgery?

What? Wait? What? I clicked on it? TJ stated he became more philosophical and narrated his behaviors and was unable to sleep while filming Yogi Bear in New Zealand in twenty ten.

His brain surgery was successful. Wait what did I just stumble into? And why don’t I edit this so I don’t sound like an idiot Wikipedia. Miller described learning about an undiagnosed cerebral orteria venus malformation on his right frontal lobe on the Peede Holmes podcast You Made It Weird back in twenty eleven. He’s, Wow, that’s awkward, especially because that’s the end of the podcast.

I guess we’re ending very awkward today. See you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media, the show must go on. Hi, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see RFK Junior is considering a vice presidential candidate and it might be Jesse Ventura, or it might be in New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Even coldpart joke. Now, that’s a risky move to pick Aaron Rodgers, because if we’ve learned one thing, when he starts running, he’s gonna snap his achilles.

Jimmy Kimmel, these are not running mates. These are the people of the mass. Singer calls. When Rob Schneider says no, Jimmy Fallon said, RFK Junior was like, do you want to give it a shot? And Rogers said no, but I’ll give it a horse to warmer love it.

Kevin Costner was asked to react to John Mulaney’s wonderful recap of the Field of Dreams. Costner retweeted mullane’s bit and wrote, not a bad summary, John Mulaney can rest easy. TMZ reporting that sources with direct knowledge who’ve already read Anna Marie Tyler’s memoir and it used to being married to Joe on Malany. The sources tell TMZ that Mulanie is never mentioned in the book, either directly or indirectly. TMZ says, not only are we told that he isn’t named in the book, but there’s no alluding to him or their marriage.

In other words, m’lini makes no cameos in this whatsoever. Literally nothing that’s interesting. Will Dave Chappelle be at SummerSlam? Well, if Logan Paul has anything to say about it, Dave Chappelle will be at SummerSlam coming to Cleveland. If you’re in Cleveland on August third, there’s a rumor going around of people who could possibly be at SummerSlam.

Dave Chappelle was one of those names. Sea scoops dot com You’re home for Comedy News says a lot of people either sleep on Cleveland or they use the city as a punchline, one that has long lost its topical punch. The truth is that a lot of big names have come out of the city, and Logan Paul wants his Cleveland connection to turn out for SummerSlam. He’s hoping Machine Gun Kelly will come, the Kelsey Brothers, and also Dave Chappelle. He says, I want to bring my brother Jake Paul.

I want MGK to be there. I want the Kelsey Brothers to be there. I want to be one of the biggest events Cleveland has ever seen. And hopefully I can get an opponent who I could bring the house down with. Oh, Dave Chappelle will absolutely be there.

The Wall Street Journal recently profiled Kevin Hart and said Heart develops his routines orally he forms observations and anecdotes from his conversations with a bunch of his friends. They are dubbed the Plastic Cup Boys with a Z. Members of the Plastic Cup Boys are the only comedians who opened for Heart on tour. The Journal rights moments after showing Providence, Kevin Hart is reflecting, saying, that was a tight fifty nine minutes. I’m going to get it to an hour straight.

I’m going to move three to four things where I want to hear the laughter be as loud as it is in other places. I should be able to feel the laughter from the top to the bottom. Snaps his fingers and says, it’s fun. It’s fun. People look up.

It’s been an hour, but it didn’t feel like it in the act. He’s a finding now he wants to eye the backstretch of his forties and beyond, he says, including my transition as a father, my hope for family growth and gain, and the idea of old age. Heart’s been touring this under the placeholder brand new material. There’s talk of an official tour later this year, but he says instead of play arenas, he might do many residencies. Instead of sixteen thousand people a night, he’d played roughly the same number during a half dozen shows over a weekend in a more intimate theater.

That would be cool. Rolling Stone profiled Rommy. Yusef will be hearing a lot about Rommy in the upcoming weeks, with his special coming out soon, they write. As he is on stage, Usef is soft spoken, upbeaten, empathetic in person, always looking for the good and people in situations. Mark Curry invited Yusef to open for him on tour, and even though the Access of Evil and other Arab comics like Moa Mayer had been out there for a few years, Romy entered a stand up world that seemed confused by his existence.

He said, there was this thing on a baseline level of wait, do Muslims laugh? Do they condone comedy. That’s so when the gutter some of it was. He addressed nine to eleven and said, I don’t even know that I fully realized how it affected my psychology. Being eleven twelve around that period, it took me a really long time to say, oh, wait to cope.

I tried to downplay it, but affected every single thing my parents did, every decision they made. A lot changed afterward. They tried to hide some of it from us, but then you kind of start to realize, oh, you lost a lot of your friends, you lost some work opportunities, our entire social circle shrunk. He tried turning the anti Muslim sentiment to his professional advantage, auditioning early in his career for the kind of terrorist roles that have become ubiquitous over the previous decade. He didn’t get them.

They would go, oh, you’re not scary enough. If there’s one regret he has about the Hulu show, it’s that he named it and the character after himself, inspiring people to confuse him with the guy he’s playing. He was worried about how his parents would respond to the show. He refused to tell them anything about it because I wanted to give them plausible deniability. No fourth season has been ordered yet, but he says he’s talked to Hulu about the idea of taking a long break then returning to jupict Rami Hassan in a new stage of his life.

It’s definitely not over, he insists, Well, this is interesting. Johnny Knoxville new film, it’s called Sweet Dreams, out on April twelfth. In it, Bobby Lee, Moa Mahern, Theo Vaughn. The official synopsis of Sweet Dreams forced in a rehabit Sweet Dreams recovery Center, Mars played by Johnny Knoxville, struggles to confront the wreckage of his life, but when their house goes up for auction, he reluctantly agrees to coach their misfits softball team of Recovering Attic to win a cash prize and prove that everyone, despite their past, can hit a home run. Neil Young announced he’s back on Spotify or remember he quit Spotify when they did a deal with that Joe Rogan Fellow.

Yeah, well now that Rogan’s everywhere, what’s Neil Young to do? Neil said, I can’t just leave Apple on Amazon like it did Spotify because my music would have a very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all. Joe Rogan said, by the way, Neil Young came back to Spotify, Congratulations Neil, great to know you’ve got some ethics. Bill Murray commented who should play him in the SNL movie? Now?

The SNL movie takes place in nineteen seventy five, and Bill said, I’m plus this movie will really be about the original seven cast members, noting he didn’t join it until nineteen seventy seven. Bill said, I get to be on the sidelines. I think my name gets mentioned, which is good. He suggested some people. First up, he says, I like Keenan Thompson.

Now I’ll weigh in here. I’m not sure Keenan Thompson really captures the essence of Bill Murray. His next suggestion, Bill Hayter, I could see that working, although you know how old’s Bill Murray in nineteen seventy seven. Bill Murray was born in nineteen fifty. That’s nice and easy.

So he’s twenty seven. Bill Hayter is forty five, so probably not best choice to play Bill Murray. His other suggestions Kristin Wig, I think she’s wrong for the part or Amy Poehler. Yeah, Amy Polar would nail it. Bossum.

Yusef spoke to India today, you’re home for comedy news. He said, traffic in New Delhi is Cairo multiplied by one thousand. He recalled his first visit to India, where he snuck out at three in the morning to see the sites. He wanted to see the Taj Mahal. His organizers wouldn’t let him go out because they were worried with the traffic.

He wouldn’t get back in time, so he snuck out. In twenty fourteen, Yusef snuck out of Egypt, not because of traffic, but because jokes he had made against the Egyptian government. He’s a heart surgeon turned comedian. I find him fascinating. I didn’t know he’s a heart surgeon.

Anyway of the story. I just told you. He said, I sneaked out of Egypt. You think the Taj Palace can contain me. BAFTA has announced that Phil Way, comedian that I Like a lot, will host the twentieth BAFTA Games Awards, the world’s most prestigious annual celebration of excellence and creative achievement in games.

That’s April eleventh. Comedy Central all of a sudden last Wednesday announced out of the blue. I don’t know why they didn’t promote this, but they announced that starting Wednesday, March thirteenth. I get that it’s four days ago. I explained yesterday, Wednesday, March thirteenth, at won thirty pm they would feature thirteen hilarious new comics with short and sweet sets.

Season fifteen of the digital series includes Sydney Castillo, Gus Constant, Tellis Logan, Gutzelman, Morgan, Jay Andrea, Jin pap Johnson, Ryan Levine, Khaliam McNeil, Sean Patten, Lorena Russell, Amy Silverberg, Madison Sinclair, and Derek Stroop. Those are out already. I don’t know why they didn’t pre tease it. Nate Brigatsy on his podcast, I have not heard this yet, but I saw a recap of it. He talked about Jimmy Fallon appearing at his shows was that last weekend, and said after Jimmy Fallon arrived on campus, Fallon essentially he disappeared into the crowd of college students.

He was followed by Nate’s tour manager, Travis to make sure that Fallen wasn’t completely alone. Apparently, Fallon went up at a frat party. It’s also an anecdote saying that Jimmy Fallon could not open to a door to a bus bathroom in the middle of the night. That’s your comedy needs for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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