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I gotta tell you, I’m absolutely stunned at this first story, and the second story is a little wacky. The first story in Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The company that operates the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal that I was looking forward to attending I didn’t get to go last year has canceled this year’s addition. I was sitting at the lunch table eating my salad when I saw this come in and I was like, wow, like absolutely stunned by this. The parent company says they are seeking protection from its creditors as they begin formal restructuring under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

In a statement, they said JPR that’s the French version of Just for Laughs. Board of directors, after having extensively considered all available alternatives, came to the conclusion that the financial situation of the organization left no other choice than to initiate formal restructuring proceedings. The companies laid off seventy percent of its workforce about seventy five people, and has canceled seven shows that were previously scheduled. The company hopes that the financial restructuring will allow the festival to return in twenty twenty five. I mean, I am just stunned by this.

It’s a fantastic festival that takes over the heart of Montreal. There’s always a ton of comedians up there. It’s a great event. Wow, I don’t even say about this, really really stunning. That took the place of what would have been the big news story for me.

Nick Schwartson, best known for his appearances in Reno nine one one and Adam Sandler Movies, was escorted off stage twenty minutes into a set in Colorado over the weekend due to quote bizarre belligerent behavior. User Sean Guy shared a clip on social Let’s listen, what are you saying right now? I’ll save us. Let me just let me ask you this. It’s a weighted question.

What okay, I’ll tell you Joy all right, here we go. So one of my favorite days. I don’t have kids. I don’t have jads. Anybody here have kids?

Anybody here have jets? What the off? So one of my best friends was a guy named nor McDonald. Do you know who he is? He’s one of my favorite people.

So that clip abruptly cuts off a witnesses say that at that point the spotlights were turned off and the microphone was cut, so maybe that’s why it cuts off there. Witnesses told TMZ that while some attendees were uncomfortable with Schwartzen’s behavior, others cheered him on. In another clip, Nick Swartson can be seen rambling and struggling through an impersonation of Jason Statham as the crowd erupted in booze. A woman can be heard saying, I can’t take it. I can’t take it, I can’t take it, witness to say.

Before Nick was let off stage, he gave a brief wave and flashed a Shaka sign. After Schwartzen left the stage, the direction of operations came out and apologize to the crowd, telling the show had been officially cut short and refunds would be issued to those who bought tickets. Apparently, there’s also an email that reads, we apologize for the negative experience you may have had it this evening’s performance with Nick swartz Cent. Unfortunately, this show did not meet the Performing Arts Center standards as a world class presenter of the performing arts. Therefore, all tickets will be refunded, et cetera.

Et cetera. Please accept our sincere apologies and be in touch if there’s anything you will get you to further assist you. As Swartzon is doing that impression, he repeatedly said, here we go. As audience members bowed and heckled him. He said, do you want me to finish this or no?

And people are heard shouting back no. Schwartzen took to Twitter and said, just casually woke up on TMZ travel tip don’t drink and take edibles in high altitude brain diarrhea. I’ll make it up to Beaver Creek to me, the lesson no good comes from peering. In Adam Saylor movies, Trevor Noah as etis elbaw on his podcast and they traded impressions. The setup here is Trevor noahans how he uses Nelson Mandela to get to his Obama impression.

I’ve heard Dana Carvey explain impressions in the same way, and I know for my half ass impressions, specifically Jim Brewer, the only way I could start Jim is by going all right, That’s the only way I can get into it. I have to do that all right before I do anything in Jim’s voice or the half assed Jim voice. Anyway, you don’t want to hear me do half assed impressions. Let’s listen to Trevor Noah and Idris Elba trade Nelson Mandela impressions. My Nelson Mandela to get to my Barack Obama.

Okay, because I find they have the same. My conspiracy theory is that Mandela taught Obama how to do it because they the same. Yeah, because they got the same thing. Because, like you know, because Mandela has the hyper left, all South Africans, all my fact for this country. He’s got that thing right.

And then Barack, if you take it, it’s a natural it’s the natural progression of that right, hiper left where can come pro cover? And as Americans, we gotta try to h you know, it’s a strong voice, it has a lot of but when whenever I lose, I have to go back to Mandela because as Americans, as Americans, we gotta find our way. We believe in ourselves. It’s the same. I’m fighting every impulse to challenge you to a Baraque and a Mandela right now.

Why don’t we do it? No? Because because what what’s gonna happen? Because you’re just gonna murder me. I don’t believe that that’s true.

I don’t believe that that’s true. Do you do you? I’ll even like a harmony. Why you’re doing Mandela? There’s got to be a very see killing it.

This guy just pulled it out. But what it’s baroque, there’s gotta be No, that’s terrible. No, but you’re barck. You know why? Because I took it up.

Yeah, no, chesty, chesty Barock is also he’s also throw But that was flawless. I was almost doing like Mandela. Like you hear him on the radio. Why you’re heading up broadcast? Johnny Mack likes when comedians mix up a little.

On Monday Night, Andrew Schultz shared a clip on Twitter from a recent stand up comedy show he was performing in Philadelphia. In the clip, Schultz says, I’ll be honest with you, I don’t think Meek Mill is gay, but he is incredibly bad about proving he’s straight. He’s maybe the worst in history of doing that. If someone accuses you of being gay, you don’t go on Twitter and say I love women, cleaning it up, quite cleaning it up. I love women.

He uses words like Juicy needs your imagination. Schultz caption the post Meek Mill is not gay, but Philly, I love you. Thank you for always holding me down, just like Meek would hold down puff joking, joking, Meek, I love you, brother. Meek heard about the post and responded the first time I left at being gay. That had several crying laughing emojis, and then he tagged it with but don’t whit me in real life, I may swing lol.

Mike Birbiglia will have a documentary at Peacock. It’s called Good One, a show about jokes. At premiere is March twenty six. There’s a trailer. I was blown away.

I’m not blown away. He’s a little strong. I I liked the trailer. I wasn’t blown away by. It wasn’t Star Wars.

It’s a nice trailer. It made me laugh, is what I’m trying to say. Shut up, John and play the trailer. Good evening, and welcome to the Strange Attic, where Mike Verbiglia sometimes performs shows. For some reason, I love jokes and I love storytelling.

He loves stories the process. He takes that idea of what a special means literally, you’re probably thinking, how come we just get the first draft? I think Providence is the first draft town. This isn’t a fully realized show. All I’m doing right now is just throwing out jokes and seeing what’s dicks?

What’s the next show about? And it’s like, I don’t know. The last show is all about death, So now I’m trying to figure out, like what’s more high stakes than death. I’m happily married, which is to say I’m not happy, but I’m happy I’m married. Does that make sense?

You don’t want it to be pretty good, you want it to be great. The only way you make it great is writing. You need more of there. I’m failing. I got that line failing again.

That ending works well on the other show. Eventually you’ll arrive at something that is yours. The special follows Mike Berriglia through his process as he travels from Providence to Washington, d C. While developing new comedy material. March twenty six, looking forward to that, Jamie Fox has confirmed he is going to do a comedy special.

He says, everyone wants to know what happened. Remember he had the mystery illness, and I’m going to tell you what happened. But I got to do it my own way, going to get up on somebody stage somewhere near you. I got some jokes and a story to tell. Jamie talked about his recovery from a mystery illness and said, I’m so thankful and I get emotional because it’s beyond the scope by some people in my life that really made sure I was here, because it was dire straits.

I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking, doing a movie television show. I didn’t want you to see me with the tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through By being quiet, Sometimes things get out of hand. People say what I got. Some people say it was blind, but if she could see the eyes at working just fine, said I was paralyzed. I’m not paralyzed.

I went to Helen back. My roads recovery had some potholes as well, but I’m coming back and I’m able to work. GQ profiled Hannah Gatsby. Here’s the headline. Netflix has made transphobia profitable in comedy.

GQ writes, when Hannah stays at an Airbnb, they like to check out their host Netflix algorithm looking at a stranger’s stand up recommendations, Gatsby says, is illuminating. They tell GQ, if I were to understand Netflix purely from my own algorithm, I would say they’re even handed, if not a little skewed towards the queer audience. But that’s not the reality. Gatsby jokes about their new special, this is the carbon offset show. You don’t raise the Amazon and plant a tree.

One of the comedians on the show is Chloe Pets. Chloe rolls her eyes at the way all the edgy comedians have got their trans routine. She thinks that’s what Hannah is responding to, not just Dave Chappelle, but comedians inspired by his success. Why are you pugging your nose into a discourse that has nothing to do with you, Hanna says. Matt Raife released a special opening with a domestic violence joke.

He’s not inventing anything. He’s not smart enough for that. He’s reading the algorithm room, and I’m just not interested in that. I think it’s boring. Gatsby knows that there won’t be a follow up to this if Netflix doesn’t get the numbers it wants.

It has the power to elevate this. Whether or not it chooses to is up to Netflix. Hannah Gatsby’s gender Agenda is out on Netflix now. The New York Times had an article h articles kind of. I don’t like the headline.

Here’s the headline, verbatim, disgraced but embraced pop culture pariahs are making big comebacks. Subheadline. Shane Gillis hosted SNL, the show that rebuffed him Yay, topped the billboard short after making anti Semitic remarks as the mainstream given up on banishing bad actors. So here’s what’s bothering me. Pop culture pariah and Shane Gillis.

Really First of all, the guy just hosted SNL. I didn’t see too much controversy. There was a little before, there wasn’t too much after. Pariah is a little strong. The guy got signed by SNL and like, I don’t know what it was, forty eight hours later he was off SNL.

It’s not exactly Ojay, you know what I’m saying. I think pop culture para and Shane Gillis in the same headline and sub headline. It’s a little loaded. I thought this was interesting Donnie’s old and who I worked with for a few years, says some exciting news. After thirty six years in the same location, seventy eighth and Broadway, Stand Up New York Good Club, We’ll be moving to Times Square.

There’s so much history and stories to tell from our time on the Upper West Side. I can’t even begin to start. For now. We look forward to our grand opening March fourteenth, and can’t wait to begin the next chapter in our journey bringing the best stand up comedy New York has to offer. Our new flagship location is in partnership with Bond forty five will also be powering the food menu.

I just find that interesting, especially with Carolines being gone. Seventy eighth and Broadway is a little out of the way, that’s it. A lot of big comics would drop in there because it was off the radar. People like Jerry and Amy would pop in and just do sets on the DL. You know, there are other places in the city you can do that, and I guess you could still do it at Stand Up New York, but if you do it in Times Square, it’s a little bit more than just kind of sneaking into a comedy club.

On a side street in the Upper West Side. Interesting, but Donnie’s a good guy. Wish him nothing but success. I keep forgetting. I wanted to salute a young woman.

I was at the Morristown on Stage talent show last week and a young lady named Naomi Williams got up and everybody else on the night, I think every single other act involved music. Naomi got up and did stand up comedy and she was good. She made me laugh. And I’ve talked about my psychotic Emperor of Rome thing where I don’t laugh, and I just go, oh, that was good. That was good.

She made me laugh. So Naomi Williams, great job. On Gossip Corner, David Kagner was vaping marijuana on the station Maryland, says DMZ. Apparently there was a fan in the audience who was puffing on a weed pen Dave noticed. Dave looked out into the crowd, said who’s smoking?

Is that weed? The man responded yes, David said, give here. The dude walked up to the stage as TMV and handed the vape to Dave, who started bantering with his fans as they egged him on to take a few tokes. Dave finally cave took two huge drags blowing out the smoke. TMZ and their legal department and Johnny Mack and his legal departments say, quote, of course, we can’t tell from the video it was really marijuana, but everyone in the crowd seemed convinced.

Unquote clad thing. We cleared that up. TMZ says, we’re told everyone had a damn good time. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

The show’s been growing and I really appreciate you all keep participating in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You are very welcome. As I mentioned I think yesterday, the first time you try and post, you’ll get a time out. We have to make sure you’re not a porn bot. But if you’re not a porn bot, we’ll let you in, and if you’re a particularly hot porn bot, will probably let you in.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Great advice from Ricky Gervais, who tweeted, hope you’re doing your own thing and not anyone else’s. Have a great day. Love it, Ricky. I’m really excited about today’s show.

Hi. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Facebook group was super active over the weekend and I’m so thrilled it’s what was going on this weekend is exactly what I want. The Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, feel encouraged to join. The first time you post, I have to approve your post just to make sure that you’re not a pornbot.

We had a problem with pornbots last summer, you know. So I’ll be like, ah, this person looks like they’re actually a human, and then you’re good to go. But there were so many discussions. There were people commenting about some opinions I had and disagreeing, which is fantastic. I like intelligent discussion.

We don’t have to agree on everything. People brought up their own topics. I thought it was fantastic. That’ll drive a lot of today’s conversation. Aaron in the Facebook group again Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, to share this from the Stranger dot com and Aaron gets the jokes and said, you’re home for comedy news.

Love it, but this is kind of awful. The headline right wing media targets Capitol Hill comedy bar club owners canceled for shows now they’re facing constant harassment. This is the story from last week where Kurt Metzger, Dave Smith, Lewis Gomez, and Jim Florentine were unbooked from a Seattle comedy club. My take continues to be, like I get, if you want to have a particular vibe at your establishment, you should be allowed to have a particular vibe at your establishment. Does it suck that they were booked and then unbooked?

Yeah, of course, because why booked them in the first place, And then you might have cost them some dates because they weren’t available, or maybe they booked some travel. So that’s not cool. But the larger point of should I be allowed to have who I want my club who I want? I think that’s fine. From The Stranger, Jesse Waters was hosting on Fox News and had a headline Seattle loves drugs hates comedy.

The co owner, Jess says she’s locked down her social media. People have been harassing her online and have come after her and her children, suggesting, I don’t even want to say what people are suggesting happen to her. I mean, just like I don’t even know what to say. Like I know, I’m babbling here. I have the words in front of me, and I don’t want to voice them.

People are saying really, really horrible things. Jess said, given the response, I think maybe we made the right choice. I think this might not be the people we want inside of our club. Dane, who co owns the club, said, I think if you’re a comedian your fans rack with threats of physical or sexual violence based on a canceled comedy show, maybe you have some self reflection to do. I don’t know, the owner said.

Nobody came after them about the book performances. No community group forced their hands. The booking and subsequent cancelations where their decisions alone. Lisa Anderson said this all began with Kurt Metzger’s agent reaching out, according to this version, and the agent wanted to book Metzger at the relatively new club. With the Google search, Anderson learned Kurt Metzger had won a Peabody Ward and an Emmy for his work on Inside Amy Schumer.

The agent then offered her three other comedians for headlining shows at her venue between April and October. Those Smith, Gomez, and Florentine. So these are four shows. This was not one big show. Okay, that’s new information to me.

Or maybe I’m just terrible at reading. The agent says. Gomes has since dropped him as an agent. Another press person said Jim Florentine could not respond to the questions. He did talk to The New York Post.

We’ll get to that. As a booker, Anderson was overjoyed and said, oh, I just booked four headlining comedians. I’m killing it. I thought I’d done an awesome thing. Then an investor told her that Mesker, Smith, Gomez, and Florentine were right leaning or transgressive comics who may not be a good fit for the club.

After discussing the matter with friends, other comics, and people in the neighborhood, they decided to cancel the shows privately over email, the only shows they’ve canceled in their short history. Again, I want to use unbooked because canceled is a loaded word these days. Anderson said, it’s like a stupid, dumb mistake that’s turned into a whole thing. Let’s see of these four comedians. I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to Dave Smith.

I’ve been around Jim Florentine. Kurt Metzker was working at a podcast a former gig of mine was associated with, and I don’t recall interacting with Kurt and Lewis Gomes and I have had, you know, a few conversations. They were all probably eight nine years ago. I was enjoyed talking to him. I think he’s very talented.

The Stranger sites a twenty twenty one New Republic article titled the comedy industry has an alt right problem The Stranger Rights. Smith and Gomez were a pete guests on the Gavin McInnis show, hosted by the far right Canadian podcaster who founded the Proud Boys, Johnny Mack wants no part of any of that. They discussed some of the guests on that show. You can read the Stranger article. I don’t want to amplify the guests or what their messaging was the Stranger Rights.

The article also mentioned that Smith and Gomez left mckinnes’s Compound Media for a network, Gomez co founded Gas Digital, where they carried on a tradition of quote racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and flirtation with the far right. More recently, a significant portion of Metzger’s latest special, Thirty Minutes with Kurt Metzger, is dedicated to jokes about trans people in politics, Anderson says, it doesn’t mean censorship. You can say it, you just can’t say it here. Metzger in a radio interview with Jason Rantz from seven to seventy Ktt Metzker is quoted as saying, anyone who cave to this nonsense, they don’t deserve anything but mockery, some hilarious mockery, and it’s important that we do it. If you saw on Glorious Bastards at the end, Commando Brad Pitt karsaswastika into Christopher Waltz’s forehead, marking him as a Nazi for life, that stupid woke nonsense is dying.

It’s dying now. And what’s going to happen is all the cancel pigs they’re engaging with that are going to blend back into society. Gomez on his podcast said he thought the club was stupid for booking him and then unbooking him, and so was his agent for booking him at a super woke, progressive venue that the entire lineup is blue haired, effing freaks. He wasn’t planning to address any of it until Metzger posted on Twitter. Gomez quoted is saying, there’s plenty of places that won’t book me because I’m an effing jerk face.

Clean that up a little who says crappy things on the internet. That’s the right of any business. The same way I don’t have to put anyone on my podcast that I don’t want to, or anybody on the comedy festival skank Fest that I don’t want to, if they don’t represent the band or the fing core values you want to call it. It’s just they’re right. They didn’t make a big stink.

They didn’t fing publicly say these guys are pieces of crap. That email is pretty efing respectful overall. Sounds like Gomez and I are aligned on this whole thing. If skank Fest doesn’t want to have I don’t know, Patton Oswalt Great, don’t have them. Florentine has since book shows that the Tacoma comedy clubs replace the comedy board date.

So I think that’s a fair point that maybe these guys tied updates and or book travel that they couldn’t get their money back on. So that’s kind of a lousy thing about unbooking them. So I get that co owner Daine says, these guys may come and sell at the club for a weekend, but then we have to be here forever as a private business. Everyone that performs on our stage is there at our pleasure. To characterize this as censorship is inflammatory and correct.

There’s a big difference between saying a book should be banned and saying I prefer not to have that book in my home. Again, I think that’s all reasonable. The New York Post took this angle, quoting for the Post, the Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, which celebrates the vibrant voices of the queer community with a weekly queerst to the Front open Mic, had booked Jim Florentine, Dave Smith, Lewis Gomez, and Kurt Mesker for upcoming dates before the about face, which the owner said was to maintain the harmony within our community. Florentine’s all the post, I speak my mind on stage. I’m edgie.

I don’t kiss the audiences, but I’ll talk about the transgender stuff. Why are comedians so dug in on transgender stuff? Like why? And I’m not saying, don’t crack a joke about really anything, but like, why are they so dug in on this one? Florentine said, I didn’t know you had to check with the neighborhood.

I called my friends that own comedy clubs around the country and said, I’m coming in a couple months. You got to check the neighborhood and see if they’re okay with me performing there. Usually what happens is the club will research you before they book you and decide we don’t want that type of comedy. A lot of places won’t book you and you’ll never know. But in this case, they booked us.

That’s the way they’re gonna run their business. I don’t see how they’re going to stay in business that long. I’ll say for a third time, if it goofed up their travel, that to me is the sin here. The booking and the unbooking, not the decision not to have a particular act at a particular venue, or as previously said, not to have a particular artist. On say A Comedy Festival, Florentines said some of his jokes probably wouldn’t get big laughs at Capitol Hill Comedy Bar.

He was asked for an example, Florentine shared a joke about his son’s gender identity that has to do with the size of his stuff. Jim says, that’s why I got into comedy, to push boundaries. Like sometimes you tow the line with something and think, oh, that went a little too far. That’s the goals of comic. Try to find where that line is and just write it.

I think they’re going to book all of us there on different weekends. They said, well, take you guys. Absolutely, we don’t censor comics like they do. Come on over here. Gomez on his podcast speculated that young, jealous local comics pressured the decision.

He said, that’s what happens when comics don’t have anything going on, they just look for drama. So Anderson found drama within the comedy space there, and she was like, all right, I think they’re great, but I’m not you know, I don’t need to make it a thing. Maybe they were concerned with protests. Head was like a super woke area Hollywood and Toto listen to Noam Dworman’s podcast. It’s the Comedy Seller podcast.

I haven’t had a chance to listen to that or pull the transcript yet. The podcast is called Comedy Seller Live from the Table. Anderson on that podcast that she was a fan of Metzger from his days on Chelsea Lately, only when the club’s investors told her about their problematic jokes, that she regret the decision. Towarman pressed the owners again and again, says Hollywood and Toto to share what the four comedians had said to warrant their cancelation. What joke, what routine?

Is so hurtful that progressive fans couldn’t be exposed to it. Dorman discussed why edge comedians are important to the culture. He brought up a seventies era advertisement for Richard Pryor, noting how Pryor was built as harsh, vulgar, shocking offensive. That’s how things were marketed to liberal people, says Torman. Would Capitol Hill Comedy Bar turn Richard Pryor away, boy, there’s a loaded question, maybe they would.

Dorman said, you’re obviously nice people, well intentioned people. You’re in an industry that’s about free expression. You’re in an industry that has a history of having landmark incidents regarding free expression that affect the culture. So you chose that industry. You don’t have to live up to that calling.

But it’s not like you opened a deli and found yourself in this. You’re becoming a cousin, and you’re nice people, and you don’t want to be of the people smashing the windows. Apparently there is referencing a recent incident at Berkeley where violent protesters raged against Jewish speakers. He continued, saying, they started smashing the place up. This is a close cousin of the sentiment that you’re buckling to.

I can’t sign off on it because it’s wrong. It’s leading the country down a terrible direction. And everybody fueled their certainty that their position is the right one, so right that no one else should ever be platformed. And I will smash up Berkeley, and I will ride outside the comedy seller, and I will put this comedy club out of business if they should have the nerve, not the endorse of view I do not like, but simply allow that view to be heard. That was a lot.

I got a lot to get to I’ll tell you what the best special of the year so far is after the break. Wow, I really didn’t realize how long it was going to take to get through that first part there. This next section here normally would be in the A block here on the podcast. The best special of the year is David Cross. I should probably know what the name of this special is because I really liked it.

Worst Daddy in the World. I watched that on Friday night. I had a crazy busy weekend. I was at soccer all weekend, so I couldn’t freshen up Monday Show the way I would have liked to.

Also, I screwed up the title of You Were Up Early.

A couple of people pointed out to me the original title of Monday’s episode was something like DCN Monday Offphonic, so that I’ll let you know my naming convention behind the scenes before I put a proper title. But Cross, I almost declared that it was over and this would be the best special of the year. That’s how strong the first three quarters is. Once he gets to the part where he brings the audience up, I think that was in terms of editing. I think that was a mistake because the special was rocking, and then that kind of tapped the brakes.

He’s got a strong closer, but it kind of gets goofed up there. Right now. This is number one, So the entire best of twenty four list right now, David Cross number one, Dusty Slay number two, tailor Thomason number three. I think Cross and Sleigh will stay near that top of the list all year. I think Thomason will fall down to the high teens by the end of the year.

We will see. But I was glad I finally liked something because I felt like I was like Mikey with the Life Cereal and Johnny mack hates all comedy. Consequence of Sound interviewed David Cross and said one detail of note during the special, Cross stays hydrated on stage with a red solo cup. He said that’s not his normal choice when drinking a beer, but it’s a trick of the trade, as the cup’s opaque nature means the contents aren’t visible, avoiding the possibility of continuity issues. Is the cup between the sets, He says, if I had a bottle of beer, the level of liquid rise and fall depending on the take.

At other points, He’s not hiding the editing at all. When you watch the specially, you’ll see what that means. But he says, I’m already doing that, so there’s no reason I have the beer be distraction. You know, the way I crew material is I just go on stage. I do all my writing on stage, and the last phase of that process is sequencing.

I’ll put it all together and it’s not just disparate bits. It’s all with an eye towards you know, am I doing too much of this? Yere? Am I doing too little of that? Here?

Even asking the audience like does this feel like I’m dwelling on this thing too much? Should I lighten it up here? And that’s the last part of the process before he hit the road. The Chicago taping was show forty of a seventy six show tour. He says, I always tape the special in the middle and then record the album at the end, because there’s different material in there.

By the time it gets to the end, it’s the same title, but the audio will be like twenty to thirty percent different than the material in the special. That’s really cool. Can we give him the Grammy? Then? He likes taping a special midway through a tour because the materials had time to percolate and get crafted.

Some material was relatively new, the Ron De Santis chunk. He said he’d only done like eight or nine times before the special. But the album will be more polished because now the materials a little tighter and he found more jokes within it, so it’s a more realized bit. Very very cool.

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All right, let’s see what’s in the Facebook group, because there was so many …

Again, feel encouraged to join us Daily Comedy News podcast group. I’m just gonna go in chronological order here. Dylan posted, excited to see some shows next month. We have tickets to see Brian Kallin, Nate Bergatzy, Brad Williams, and Shane Gillis. That’s great.

We don’t talk about Brad enough on the show. And Shane. I think Shane is so much fun and like I said last week, I don’t think there actually is a controversy. Dylan also pointed out Soda and gill Us on We Might Be Drunk came out on Monday. I just downloaded that looking forward to that.

There was a pretty big thread as I watched comedy on Friday night, I wrote quick takes. Dan Soder’s new roadwork thing. Nothing wrong with it, but skippable Joe List Works the Crowd is better. David Cross is currently number one, so breaking that apart my takes. I watched Cross and then I put on soda, and maybe it was just the positioning there.

Like I wrote in the Facebook post, it was fine, but I’m a comedy snob and an admitted comedy snob, so it wasn’t There’s a part of my brain that gets tickled by these things, and soda was just it was fine.

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And then I checked out Joe List Working the Crowd, which definitely is not a …

He’s not claiming it’s a special. Soder used the word special on his I’m not sure it was a special, especially the way it was shot. It seems more like an hour. Ian chimed in and I appreciate your comment. I truly do, because this is what I want the Facebook group to be.

Ian wrote, skip sodas if you don’t like a forty five, that it’s the ground running and doesn’t waste a second. That’s awesome. Comedy is totally subjective. We don’t have to agree on any of this, and I love when people put things on my radar, and I might give Soda a second chance based on what Ian said, So I think that’s awesome. Dylan chimed in said I watched most of the specials.

I can watch a good one and laugh a couple of times. I laughed out loud several times during Soder’s, So yeah, maybe I’m totally wrong about Soder. Dylan wrote, watching Donnelle Rowling special now, and while it’s good, I haven’t laughed out loud yet. Yeah, that one didn’t do it for me. Aaron said, I saw the David Cross special.

I could not stop watching, though I honestly thought it was because I’m a lefty. Starts out solid, then builds to a hilarious finish that had me in tears. Yeah, his closures really strong. It’s just that audience chunk. I’m not sure it works one more firm.

Dlan watch four specials this weekend, Soda, Cross, Scovell, and Rawlings. I like Soda. The best Cross is always amazing, but the first half hour of his was a bit slow, and he finished really strong. I saw a cross and Patton oss whall together in two thousand and two or so. He was so great back then that no matter how good his stuff is now, it’s not on that level.

Scoville was fine, but it started slow. I love Donnell Rawlings, but a special as a B minus at not bad but not great.

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And then the big thing that I watched Adam Sailor Spaceman.

That was what I let off Frinday Night with s planned. I was like five minutes in it when I was like, oh, man, almost invoke the name of a deity. There. Sandler is doing an accent. Sometimes he’s doing like bad Eastern European Ish accent in some scenes.

So, as you know from the trailer, he’s an astronaut. The mission is sponsored, so he’s doing camera work and he’s got the accent, and then the next scene he doesn’t have the accent, and I’m like, oh, is this like secretly brilliant? Is Sandler pretending to be a Czech astronaut because of the sponsor. No, he just drops the accent in the next scene and then it comes back when he’s talking to the alien creature. I was also eye rolling really early in the film.

Adam Sandler’s daughter has a role because she was the best actress for the role, of course, and I was like, here we go Adam Sandler doing a bad accent and in a but I enjoyed it. Is it terrible? Oh, it’s terrible. I’ve told a few people to watch it and they’re like, Oh, this is so boring. I’m falling asleep.

I found it strangely nice company. Bulk of the film turns into basically a two person stage play, and I don’t know. I enjoyed the dialogue. Maybe I like Sandlor as a dramatic actor, since those are the films that I seem to be attracted to, whereas I’m not a fit of his comedy films. I liked it.

I would be curious to know what you think. Again, this is what the Facebook group is for Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join, as boy, I am long here. Today I listened to Mark Maren’s interview from twenty eleven with Richard Lewis, Can I be honest here? Well, I’m always honest here?

Can I be honest here? I came away not liking Richard Lewis, the person that was speaking to Mark Maren, As I listened, I was like, oh, I don’t think I would like you in real life. It’s a very honest interview and Maren got good stuff out of him, but I didn’t come away liking Richard Lewis. I know you don’t speak ill of the dead, but that was my reaction to it. So if you want to check that out.

David shot me a note and let me know. I had quote it last week for a review from the Was It nineteen ninety three sitcom that Richard did with Don Rickles. He pointed out the editorial style of that particular newspaper and said it’s probably not surprising that they didn’t like the edgy comedy and sexual jokes from that particular sitcom, so that may have been a loaded review on That’s a really good insight there as well. David says, appreciate your content and we’ll look forward to being an ongoing listener. David, thank you for listening every day.

Really great to hear from everyone. I’m going to drop a bunch of stories that can wait to tomorrow. What else that I want to mention SNL there was a great sketch. I don’t want to spoil it, but the setup is Sidney Sweeney has a crush on Bowen Yang. Oh my goodness, was fantastic.

In a story from Fox News, we begin with Fox, We End with Fox. Fox News host Rachel Campos Duffy is the mother of a child with Down syndrome, and she praised she and Gillis. The Huffington Post had written, although she and Gillis used the R word to highlight how it is a slur and wrong to use, the punchline of the joke didn’t exactly justify his usage of it. Campos Duffy said, the down syndrome stuff was actually really good because part of the thing that Shane Gillis gets a lot of credit for is not being hemmed in by political correctness. And he’ll say words that have now been stricken off.

You can’t say these words, and not only will they say the word will go deep on the topic at Campos Duffy said, he uses the R word and talking about down syndrome. However, at the end of the sketch, what he says is what everyone who has a family member with Down syndrome, liberals are so afraid. You know. He’s obviously referring to the eugenics that’s used against them, and he says, the funny thing is that they turn out to be the best person in the family, which is totally true. You guys have met Valentino.

He’s like the happiest person in our family. I actually really loved it because I think ultimately it was a very pro life message and a really great message about what we’re doing to people with Down syndrome through abortion and through eugenics. That is Today’s Daily Comedy News again Facebook group, Daily Common News podcast group chime in Love to hear from you guys. All Right, I really like today’s episode. I hope you like.

I know it wasn’t as newsy as usual, but hopefully it was a good discussion around the comedy industry. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. If you skip the weekend, please go back and listen to Saturday and Sunday. I pulled a bunch of clips on Saturday with Joe Rogan and Kat Williams. Sunday a bunch of clips from Jim Norton’s Fantastic interview on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast. Hello, I’m Johnny mackin.

This is Today’s Daily Comedy News. A couple of good jokes from Late Night. President Biden recently had his physical Jimmy Feln said, when asked about his mental state, the doctor said, the President’s in healthy physical condition. Golbert said, we also got a list of all the medications Joe Biden takes for allergies, blood pressure, and heartburn. They’re all pretty common eloquis crestwords.

I missed a allegra, pepsid and nexim. Thanks Joe. I believe that’s every one of our sponsors. Et Online talked to Taylor Thomlinson and asked her about this nonsense where people compare her to Taylor Swift. I get they’re both in their thirties and they’re both named Taylor, and I guess they look more like each other than either one of them looks like me, so like, I get that, but it’s kind of lazy guys.

Taylor says, I don’t know who’s doing that. There’s a couple of comments on Instagram. I’m not doing that. I would never compare myself to Taylor Swift. I’m garbage compared to her.

I think it’s mostly the name. Yes Et Online says like everyone’s favorite ANTSI hero Tomlinson’s act features a few digs at some of her ex’es. Though they aren’t famous, they aren’t excused for making their way in to one of her bits. She says, anyone who dates a comedian, it has to go in knowing that I dated comedians, and I went in knowing that. So this is if I were you, I would not date a comedian.

I mean, I know why comedians date each other because we both know the deal. But a person who’s not in this business might be very scary. It’d be like, oh, we were just kind of on the record all the time. Stand up is a solo sport. It’s an isolated thing in a lot of ways, and I love it.

I love being on tour. I have a good friend who Wiltmes for me, I love my tour manager. I’ve never really been in a situation where I have to create something new every day with a group of people that I really expect and admire. I’m a stand up first and foremost, and I love to tour. So when I took the first meeting with the TV producers, they were like, we know what you’re gonna say, only going to film Monday through Wednesday, which means you could tour on the weekends.

Once I knew that, I was like, oh, well, then I guess I should really think about it. The more meetings we had, the more people I met who were involved with the project, the more I wanted to do it. Her dream guest Conan O’Brien. I think Conan would be fun. It’s probably a big ask, but I would love if Conan did the show.

Conin’s going to do the show. He’s got a new show coming out himself. You’ll want to promote Conin’s one hundred percent to do that show. David Cross spoke to the Consequence of Sound and talked about the film work he does and the TV work he does and the stand up and he says it’s kind of in the middle I’ve done numerous kinds of indie films that don’t pay much at all, and I’ve done big budget films that pay a lot of money. And I do works on shows where you don’t get it’s out of money, but you get something.

And I have done my own shows which paying me more because I’m writing, directing and producing and sometimes acting and stand ups sort of in the middle there. He has a podcast and said, I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much as I have, Well, then why started. It’s called Sinces Working Overtime and features him in conversations with guests like Jason Bateman, Michael Sarah Mark, Maren Janine Garoffalo Amber Tamblin, Eugene Merman, and Steve oh Across that I’ve been asked for years to put something together and didn’t have any interest. Then I was like, all right, fine, but I really enjoyed it. It comes naturally to me.

They’re all these interesting, funny people. We’re friends. He came to the realization that, look, if you want to keep touring and you want to make money, then the podcast will help you with that. I don’t know. That doesn’t make me feel good.

You don’t sound like you want to do a podcast at all? Right, it just sounds like, oh, I have to do this. That’s not fun. David Cross he’s working on his next stand up special and says I’m in the very beginning stages of doing that again for the next tour that’ll probably start in the fall. Next year is the thirtieth anniversary of Mister Show.

We’ll see if they do a reunion. Across’s new special, worsd Statty in the World is on YouTube if you want to check that out. Adam Sailor believes Lorne Michaels isn’t quite ready to retire from Saturday Night Live. Sailor told Entertainment tonight, I don’t see that happening. I don’t know.

Maybe somebody said he might, but I talked to Lauren. I think he’s saying enough. He’s rocking, he loves it. Yeah, but Lorne Michaels is seventy nine years old. In November of this year, he’ll be eighty, so he’ll be eighty years old at the time of next year’s big fiftieth anniversary special.

Isn’t that the time to get out like they always say, get out on top? Why do season fifty one and now ice you’re retiring. Let the whole thing be a big farewell tour next year, culminating in the coronation at the fiftieth anniversary. You know you could stay on in like an emeritus role and say that you’re helping Tina Fey or Seth Myers, whoever takes over for Lorne. But like, I’m not saying he’s bad, I’m just saying you’re eighty.

Like this is exactly the time to get out, like Tom Brady and Tampa. He should have left after winning that Super Bowl, played one year too many. If you enjoy you what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There’s somebody in the tip jar, but it’s Monday. I’m not gonna get a coffee.

You are actually gonna buy me five eighths of a smoothie. Smoothies are like eight bucks. You throw five bucks in the tip jar and I’ll throw on the other three. Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Oh, for once, let me remember to propose the weekly comedy Thing.

I host the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. The app is free. The show is free. Who’s on this week? Dan Soder, Joe List, Doug Benson, Jeff Ross, Tammy Pascatelli, Dmitri Morton, Tom Poppa, Liza Selesterer, Verdaz, David Cross, Steve Travino, Jim Florentine, Kurt Metzger and Adam Sandler.

So if you want to hear less me more comedians kind of the opposite of this podcast, go check out the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app free and free Do it Rama. Yusef grew up in New Jersey. He said he didn’t envision being a comedian. He said, I never had this larger ambition because I didn’t think it was feasible. It didn’t feel real.

When he was a teenager, he saw the Arab American Comedy Festival and Access of Evil Comedy Tour. I always have loved the name of that tour begin picking up steam. So by the time he had college, the idea of performing a taken route. He dropped out of school, landed a role on Sea Dad Run, which apparently was a Nicked Knight sitcom starring Scott Bayo Rolling Stone Ads four years before Scott Bayo became one of the highest profile Trump supporters in the entertainment industry. Interesting note there, Rolling Stone, the arabnews dot com You’re home for comedy news, spoke to Russell Peters.

He gave the advice identify your dream and actively chase it. It’s far more rewarding and have pursued your dream even if you fail than a passively wonder about it. He said in the early days, he would drive hours to perform, earning fifty dollars plus chicken wings a tank of gas in a soda. He said, if I stayed, I’d be an exact same financial position I would have been had I gone, so I wasn’t losing anything. And if I’d stay there, I’d be talking to people for free.

I’d just remember all the hard gigs, those were the fun ones. He has enjoyed his visits to the Kingdom. He admires the generosity of the Saudi people. He says, I remember at the hotel they said, how did you sleep? And I said, honestly, it was the best most comfortable bed I’ve ever felt in my life.

When I came back to my hotel room, they had packed up all the stuff that I complimented and shipped it to me in America. As for the venue, he said, the acoustics there are great because it’s built for that, and they put the sound dampeners in there. The same can’t be said for I just performed in Egypt. Will Forte is sad he got to see Coyote Versus Acme. He says, it’s incredible.

This movie has been parked by Warner Brothers on Twitter, because that’s what we call it. Elon wrote to the cast and crew of Coyote Versus Act Me, I know that a lot of you have not gotten a chance to see our movie, and sadly it’s looking like you never will. When I first heard that our movie was getting deleted, I hadn’t seen it yet. Yeah, some kind of right off thing, So I was thinking, when everybody else must have been thinking, that this thing must be a hunk of junk. But then I saw it and it’s incredible, super funny throughout, visually stunning, sweet, sincere, and emotionally resonant in a very earned way.

And as the credits rolled, I just sat there thinking how lucky it was to be part of something so special. I quickly turned a confusion and frustration this is the movie they’re not going to release. Look, when it comes to Hollywood business stuff, I don’t know stuff about stuff. Even when a movie tests well like ours, there’s no guarantee it’s going to be a hit. And at the end of the day, that people paid for the movie can obviously do whatever they want with it.

Doesn’t mean I have to like it or agree with it. It doesn’t mean that this movie is anything less than magnificent. You would be so proud of it. A movie that should be seen, but won’t, The Hollywood Reporter had reported as a reporter would do that. Warner Brothers shelved Coyote versus act Me for a text right off.

Fans complained, the studio offered to shop it around. Amazon offered in the forty to forty five million dollar range for the film, but Warners rejected it. The film also starred John Cena, Who’s got pretty good comedy Chops. Netflix has revealed that Brian Simpson Live from the Mothership will debut globally on the platform on March nineteenth. Directed by Baron Vaughan, this is the first special to ever been shot at Joe Rogan’s comedy Mothership.

Simpson covers everything from racism and gun violence to in vitro fertilization and masculinity. No trailer yet, and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Today’s podcast is a little more adult than usual. There won’t be any swear words, but the themes are quite adult. If for some reason you listen to Daily Comedy News with little ones, why don’t you hit stop and I will see you tomorrow. For the rest of you who are still here, Jim Norton was on Neil Brandan’s Blocks podcast and it was fantastic.

I mentioned a few times recently that you know, I know Jim, and as I’ve shared in real life, he’s not walking around all day talking about hookers in Vegas, and I find them to be very thoughtful. In these clips, you’re going to hear me play. You will hear the thoughtful Jim Norton that I speak about. In many of these clips, Jim is speaking about his wife Nicki, a transgender woman from Norway, and as you likely know, the topic of transgenderism is a topic that tends to come up in comedy nowadays for whatever reason, and Jim and Neil here prove that there’s a way to have an intelligent conversation. First clip, again a warning, we’re a little more adult than usual, and on these clips I have made the occasional edit for language purposes, but I’m keeping the gist of the content intact.

Here’s Jim talking about his wife Nikki. She turns me on and she makes me laugh love, I love her brain. And I remember we had broken up at the end in twenty eighteen, but I remember we were I was like, I would love to because I enjoyed talking to her. I liked how she looked at these trans stuff in the way she discussed it, and I’m like, I would love to podcast or do something with her. And this is going back like almost six years now.

So we just started doing a channel. We’re just kind of showing snippets of our lives with no real goal, like because everybody has an idea of what this relationship should look like or what it is, and it’s just pretty much like any other relationship. And that’s kind of the point of this whole thing, is it’s not this magical thing when you have this is a weird question. Would you have been friends with her when she was a guy? You know, I didn’t know she started transitioning she was fourteen, so I can’t see her like that.

Like I’ve seen the baby pictures and there’s people in her family will still call her him like you know, and they’re like and then he I don’t even know if they’re being disrespectful or if it’s just such a habit. But I don’t know, Like if she de transitioned now, I would have a I wouldn’t want to I wouldn’t want to be in that relationship, even though I love her very much. I just don’t know how that would affect me. But no, I don’t know. I can’t picture her, like I can’t see it, like when I see old photos.

I can’t connect that to the person I’m with. Earlier in his career, Jim worked with Opie and Anthony with if you’re not familiar with them, they were shock jock shock Jockers, Scorched Earth, Shockjockers, and Jim talked about his time there. Neil was curious how the guys handled Jim’s sexuality, and I’ll let Jim tell it. I mean, our show was oh and he was a barbaric, hilarious show that made fun of everything. But they never cared about people being gay or bisexual, like in a legal sense, like they were never against gay people, but even like culturally it wasn’t even you’re gay.

It maybe you’re gay, but it was always yes, I’m not gay, but I’m definitely not straight. I was never a good ally for like LGBT never saw me as an ally because of the people that I’m with and the jokes I make and the things I’ve said. Well, all right, here’s the question whatever you’re vague sexuality is, do you feel like most people who’s either their non binary or they’re trans, or they’re all these new sort of they’re not new categories, they’re not new, they’re named. The naming them is new, categorizing them as new. But do you think that your experience is that off from most people within that realm?

I don’t know. I mean to be really honest, because I don’t understand a lot of it. I would assume it’s very contradictory and confusing within yourself. Well, I mean for me, I mean, there’s no way to consider myself straight. I never have.

Like you know, so many guys will say they misread it and they’ll go, you’re with uh, my wist name is Nick. You’re with her, and you think that he says he’s not gay, he’s delusional, But I’m not. If I was gay, i’d tell you I’m gay. I’m fifty five years old. I’m not nervous to say it.

And here’s a good left line about Jim’s turn ons. Is it like ordering off a menu or not ordering off a menu? What kind of food do I want tonight? Like Thai or Japanese or German? Or like we’re going on porn hub and being like old lady, I like ladies.

Sure, so then I within ladies, I go, I don’t know, maybe let’s see what if that’s anything. It’s like it’s more like blindly reaching my head into a bucket, and whenever I pull out, I’m likely fat. But is it that random? Does it feel that random? No, Like, whatever it is that will turn me on, it changes.

Adam Sandler was on Conan O’Brien’s podcast. This clip caught my ear. It’s a little weird. Sandler is acting like he’s the biggest Conan O’Brien fan, and he isn’t quite sure who Conan took over for on late night? Is that an obscure code?

In fact, the word late night is in the clue, Adam Sandler. But let’s listen. I’d probably told you this before, but when you got the show when we found out you were hosting the show and taking a you know over for lettering, right, Is that what it was? Yeah, it was unanimous with our reaction. Everyone was like, oh wow, yeah that’s great.

There was nobody going come, I didn’t get that about everybody was Conan’s name. Everybody just went yeah, wow, that’s perfect. What a great idea you were. You were sharper than everybody, but you. You You never came across nervous, like I remember watching your first night.

Who was the guest? It was Goodman? It was Goodman was the first guest.

And then Drew barrymore Wow.

And then uh Tony randall right came out like we’reing like a tuxedo.

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And then he and I sang Adelweiss.

We wanted to do on the first show, tell everybody this is the kind of show it’s going to be. So he and I sang adel Weiss and they cut to the crowd and there was a weeping Nazi and we just wanted to tell everybody like this, this is what this show is going to be. Cool, all pulling for you, all knew you were the best, and like we were like, maw, it’s officially. Hopefully you had a chance to listen to Joe Rogan and Kat Williams. I played a few clips yesterday.

They started discussing automated vehicles. Kat Williams said he has owned several Rolls Royces, including an electric one. Rogan said that thing is insane, just the way the doors open up, the way the doors closed when he touched the brakes, totally silent. Kat said, except for the price point four undred and fifty grand, it would have been perfect. The La Times, I’m glad they’re still doing comedy articles.

They recently had a ton of layoffs, and I was worried their comedy coverage, which is excellent, would get cut. It has not. They had a nice article about crowd work. Matt Rice said, I think people come to the shows with a certain expectation. They see something online and inspire for it to be them in a certain situation, which I feel bad for because it might not happen.

Trevor Wallace said, I do think any content that stand up related is better for sales. I get a lot of like I saw a stand up clip and I didn’t know you do that. Now I’m here, But I actually thought crowd work was this magical thing that all only a couple comics did, and I never thought I was wild enough to do it. Now, crowd work is more than fifty percent of Hannah Burner’s online content. It’s kind of a necessity, she said.

I would argue early on, you can post some good bits to get traction for people to hear your voice, but when you’re putting together special you don’t want your jokes already all over the internet. Raife said. Audiences think that because you only post crowd work, it’s all you can do, and it’s like, no, I don’t want you to pay to come see me in person to see the exact same jokes you saw for free. Riife says crowd work’s drawback is very rarely does he receive an A one response from an audience member, so much that he’s been known to say, not funny.

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Moving on, those clips don’t make it to social media, Rife says, you don’t se…

You don’t see me talking to somebody who absolutely gives me nothing. It’s never the person who yells out. It’s always the quiet ones that are at least assuming. Once again, the creators of the Simpsons may have predicted the future. Internet people think The Simpsons have predicted that weird Willy Wanka experience that I told you about the other day, and I’m glad I did you know, the one promoted as a journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises.

One clip online shows a bar of Wonka chocolate, a blue pipe, candy sticks, and one oople Loopa behind a pop up table. Another video shows a mystery character scaring kids well. A clip from The Simpsons has surfaced. It shows Homer Simpson charging a fifty dollars admission for Homer Land on a shabby looking sign, as well as a sad looking Oopa Luopa sitting smoking on a wooden box. While some of the screenshots are from different episodes, people are convinced it mirrors the House of Illuminatis infamous event.

On their social media page, the organizer said, I’m truly sorry for any upset and disappointment caused at the weekend. Refunds have been issued and will continue to do so. This was an event gone wrong. The House of Illuminati will not be holding any other events in the foreseeable future. Staying Animated Variety caught up with Dan Harmon talking about season seven of Rick and Morty.

That’s the season that just happened, Harmon said in the finale, where playing with the concept that we’ve fallen back on many times, where Rick considers moretyr replaceable. So this is kind of a final step into turning them into a partnership. Certainly not an equal partnership in any way, but they’re friends, their roommates. They’re kind of like Ernie and Bert. Showrunner Dan Martr says season eight will have a lot of similar flow and vibes to season six and seven, which is like a cool balance of silly and one up canonical stuff.

That’s the stuff I want as a fan. That’s the stuff Harmon and I work on, all jammed together. I’m really proud of these last couple of seasons. They’re sort of the perfect blend of what I look for as a fan. Notice we’ve stopped talking about the change in voices.

Martyr says, for Ian, who plays Rick, everyone who came in the door to do Rick screamed and felt like they needed to focus on that screen. But that’s just not Rick. A lot of the time, Ian worked on the opposite part that many people weren’t focusing on They talked about some popular fan theories. Matt Patt from the YouTube channel Film Theorists has proposed that the show is setting up mister Poopy Butthole to be the newest villain. Harmon said, ah, we can’t do that now where he could see us.

Right. Good job, Internet, you blew it again. Rick and Mordy season eight, not twenty twenty five, but this year we get Rick and Morty the anime. Quick note here, Kevin Casey White Harang is a new special ad on the eight hundred pound Gorillaz YouTube channel at seven up Pacific this evening. If you need something to do, and that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack and I’m stupid. I came downstairs to record three days worth the podcast without a drink, and I had a handful of peanut m and ms before I started, So my throat’s already closing up. That was dumb. Joe Rogan had Kat Williams on the Media picked up on a bunch of things I have pulled the clips.

Topic number one, Joe Rogan asked, why do black people like menthol cigarettes so much? Let’s listen, Like, in California they made flavored vapes illegal. Can you imagine? Yeah, Strawberry missed is our number one? That was fine, but they let it also hurt black people in that it counted menthol as a flavor and hurt Newport.

So you can’t sell menthol cigarettes in California, right, they have their own cigarettes. Well, have non mentho on Newports. It’s terrible. Why do black people like menthol so much? About it’s a totally different type of cigarette.

You’re gonna get me canceled. Oh, this is very racist. This is conversation, even even though neither of us are just talking about just saying why do black people like Newport so much and a black and a black person actually getting ready to answer this. It’s terrible on all ends. I don’t think it is.

Well, I don’t think it is either, because we have a news. It’s like if you started asking me about spaghetti, I’m not going to get offended you started asking me about Italian food or why why are Italian people so loud? I’m not going not gonna get how many people have ever died of pasta related? A lot, a lot of fatos out there kicking the bucket. Bro, that’s not because of pasta over abundance of carbohydrates.

They were going to be fat wherever they live there. Maybe that’s delicious story food. They couldn’t stop it. People are addicted to food like they’re addicted to anything. If there’s a thing that I could ever be addicted to, it’s that, right.

That’s all of us though, all of us, And what a blessing. Yeah, we have so much starving people are addicted to anything, and they don’t have food related illnesses exactly. But back to where we were, Yeah, right, they ment all cigarettes. Oh that’s right, and the answer is we value strength in product. So there’s this whole thing with liquor and malt liquor, and the difference between the two and one is richer and stronger, the more potent version, right, and as a people, we tend to go with those products.

Topic number two. Kat Williams explains that twenty years ago he knew that transgenders was gonna be a thing. Let’s listen. Everybody’s like, oh, he keeps talking about people wearing dresses. No, it’s weird.

It’s not like that. Look at it from a different way. Look at it. Show me one person that ever wore a dress in Hollywood unsuccessfully. That’s how you understand what the ritual is.

So twenty years ago I knew that transgenders was gonna be a thing. It wasn’t because I was a prophet. It’s just I had gotten so much information that I understood the path. Things are secular. It’s topic number three.

UFOs especially, he tells your story and then you have independent people who also used to work for the government now becoming whistleblowers and saying there’s a crashed retrieval program. Crashed UFO retrieval program. It goes back to what I’m saying, Joe, these are this is how you say this without getting canceled. Look, you do think they’re doing something, don’t you doing something? We want to believe like nobody’s doing nothing.

Like no, no, we’re doing stuff like they’re doing something. So there’s three hours of that. I haven’t gone through all of it yet. The transgender stuff is interesting. Tomorrow I’m gonna play some clips from Jim Norton, who was on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast, a fantastic interview, and we’ll see another way to discuss that topic intelligently.

Richard Lewis’s wife tweeted using Richard’s account, saying, Hi, this is Joyce, Richard’s wife, thank you for your loving tributes. He would be beyond thrilled and so touched as am I. In response to the many queries, I know Richard would appreciate donations in his memory to the Los Angeles based charity Comedy Gives Back dot Com. Mark Marin shared his twenty eleven interview with Richard Lewis. I started talking about eighties Letterman, which is like one of my favorite things ever.

Eighties Letterman and Star Trek are probably my two favorite things. I learned a lot of valuable lessons to in these shows once early in the eighties, it was I did more Lettermans than almost anybody. And I actually the panel guest. You were the guy that I was like, I always look forward to you. Sitting down sound to me was a respectable thing.

Well, and Letterman was the guy who told me you’ll never do stand up on my show. You’re much better on panel. You’re too physical, right, and you engage too. You know, he can move you along. And because of him, it’s set a precedent for me back in eighty two, and I never even without a series, I said, no, Lewis doesn’t do stand up if you want me to just sit down, squirms in his seat, right, And that’s because of Dave.

That was a great thing. But two things. Let Himan. Let Himan really gave me my first real break. Yeah, and because I was on like every six weeks for years, and you know, I had endless amounts of materials, so that wasn’t a problem.

And the thing is, once I was talking about Hawaii and I said to the woman during the how he could ask me, I understand, you won’t know why, I said. The whole thing is so fraudulent to me, right, it just sounds fake and a fun clip here where Richard Lewis was I think getting ready to be on Carson and turned to Roddy Dangerfield and got a little nervous. Interesting stuff there had had a feel of Roddy Hey, uh yeah, yeah, it’s attitude. So yeah, I said, Rodney, I feel I can’t. I had.

I just wanted to go home and hear the tape and time it. It’s all I can for Carson. Yeah, I mean that Carson because David Brenna want to something when I was twenty three, says for one five minute spot on Carson is like doing the improv every night full house three shows a night for like he had an old figured out like eighteen years he had the math done. Yeah, he had to hear he was in maniac like, so I eighteen years, is it’s right? Ricky Gervais is interested in maybe perhaps possibly playing Herbie the Robot in the Fantastic Four movie.

Remember Herbie the Robot. When we were kids, there was a Fantastic four cartoon and there you had Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl, the Thing, and Herbie the Robot. Where was the human Torch? There was an urban legend that they were worried kids were going to sell themselves on fire. I’ve seen another version of that where there was something with the copyright.

There had been a fifties or forties version of the Human Torch comic book. People. You can let me know, so that might have been the reason. Anyway, So you had the Fantastic Three and Herbie the robot. Ricky Gervais interested in voicing Herbie if asked.

The Internet people have also suggested Bill Hayter, all right, that’d be a right Matt Berry done done in Matt Berry, anything is awesome. I don’t think he sounds like Herbie though, but then again, does Ricky Gervas sound like Herbie? I don’t know. I don’t remember what Herbie sounds like. Somebody else suggested tignets are, which is of course a terrible idea, more terrible ideas.

Bob Newhart and mel Brooks, they’re wonderful. They’re both in their nineties. Cheryl Hines is on Watch What Happens Live and was asked about Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s reaction to Larry David, saying that Larry does not support rfk’s a presidential campaign, Cheryl said, you know what’s so funny about that, We actually had dinner with Larry David that night and said it wasn’t awkward. Weirdly, it wasn’t.

Those two have been friends for so long, and I think when Larry said it, I think he was being Larry, like, oh, I support him, but I don’t support him. And I think Larry and Bobby were like, okay, and I’m just like, past the asparagus. This is a weird night, but okay. My former coworker, Jamie Fox, may be returning the stand up as on a side here. You’ll notice I often refer to Jamie as my coworker, and then I’ll refer to other people that I worked with it serious as my friends, like I would consider Larry the Cable guy to be a friend.

I always found Jamie to be nothing but awesome, but like I didn’t really know him well. He’s usually behind three velvet ropes and as an entourage and people around him, but it was always a cool guy. He posted a video from one of his past stand up specials on Instagram showing himself doing an impression of Prince. In the caption, he shared that he plans to return a performing comedy, that’d be awesome. Adam Sandler has been performing something that some people consider to be comedy.

He’s been doing a residency in Glendale all week, tuning up for his new special, The SFGate tells us, for most of the night, it seemed like the theater was out to get Adam Sandler. I like this theater. First, someone handed him the wrong coffee as he walked on stage. What’s the wrong coffee? Then the screens behind him, because of some incompatibility with his team’s gear in the venue, didn’t work for almost all of his more than ninety minute set, even though a lot of the show was supposed to have a video component.

Adam Sandler relying on video. Oh my goodness. When leaning into a song, the keyboard fell. The PNIS said there’s a hole in the floor. I think there was just a really really cool ghost.

Sandler said, there’s a hole in the floor. Can we get somebody out here to fix this? At PA and then a second PA ran out to prop the instrument back up. Sandler said, this doesn’t feel like a comedy show. Johnny Mack said, you are right, Adam Sandler.

Wait. At one point, a dog ran out to the stage. But the Gate tells us, despite Adam Sadler’s obvious frustration with the technical details of the evening and despite the fact that the early show came off more like a rehearsal for the evening second set, when once again a rogue dog made it onto the stage. Right now, I don’t think it’s such a rogue a dog. The show is still great.

Adam Saandler’s side, the sf Gate says, it’s proved a theory that it’s a great moment for stand up comedy in LA. All that time during the strikes gave comedians a lot of time to sit at home and come up with new material. Now they’re free to work again. A listers are popping up in showcases all over the city. Two weeks ago, I was at a showcase at the Comedy Store where Jeff Ross and Andrey Santino were the biggest names on the roster.

All of a sudden, Ali Wong stepped on stage. Days later, an email popped up in my inbox. Adam Sandler would be performing two shows a night in Glendale for a week. Anyway, awesome job, Ghosts. If you like what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News and throw somebody in the tip chart and know what I’ll do is not get a nice coffee and not bring it to the studio when I’m planning on recording three podcasts so that my voice can give out. Everybody is excited that Matt Rife is gonna play Indiana. This from the Indiana Daily Student. They quoted one of the college attendees who said, if Matt Rife’s willing to learn, then he should absolutely be welcome. But if he’s not willing to learn from what he said, then he has no business being on a campus like Indiana University.

We need to put our best foot forward, and that starts by vetting who we invite onto our campus. Talked about this recently. Comedians don’t want to do college campuses anymore because of this stuff. Another student said, if you’re trying to cater to men by making a joke about domestic violence, that’s how you know you should not be in comedy. Indiana University has the right to do whatever they want, but they need to also recognize they’re a host for so many different marginalized groups and that their students make up those populations.

Giving someone a platform that has said so many problematic things about women and other groups as well, it’s disheartening but not really surprising. A different student, who is the member of the Ladies’ Night Comedy group, said, I think real humor is humor that can make everybody laugh and not offend a group of people. That’s what makes a talented comedian, and Matt Rife can’t do that. Jimmy Kimmel is still thinking about what he might do if he walks away from Jimmy kim alive. I don’t think he’ll walk away.

He’s suddenly is what late fifties, mid fifties, he’s fifty six. Come on, what are you gonna do? Jimmy, sit home. You’re not gonna sit home. Do the show.

You have the summers off already. It’s fine. Do a Carson deal. Tell ABC you’ll do it three days a week. Let somebody else host Mondays and you can take the summer off.

That’ll work, Yes, Sarah, Sarah will host Mondays in the summer for you. She’s been looking for a gig. There you go. I just solved it. Everybody.

Kimmel says, I don’t know. What I’ll do might not be anything that anyone other than me’s aware of. I have a lot of hobbies. I love to cook, I love to draw. I imagine myself learning to do sculptures.

I know that when I die, if I’m fortunate enough to die on my own terms, in my own bed, I’m gonna think, oh, I was neighbor to get to this, so I was never able to get to that. I just know that about myself. Feared us got into it with an airline. He was not happy with airline indie Go. He went on Twitter and commented about a series of recurrent flight delays he counted while traveling with indy Go.

He questioned, when did Indigo turn the board you on time, but keep you on the flight and depart when you’re supposed to land. Airline like fifth time in a row this happened. Indigo has acknowledging inconvenience and responded to the tweet. They said, our inflight team also made the onboard announcement about the delay, rest assured we’re fully committed to enhancing our services. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you like the program, Tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re a new listener and you’re on that Purple podcast Apple podcast app, push the plus button and become a follower, and I’ll see you here. Tomorrow is great.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. In case you missed it. Yesterday around lunchtime, I put out a bonus episode celebrating the life of Richard Lewis. In the second half.

There’s just some really great stuff with Lewis and Don Rickles from a nineteen ninety three article in the La Time. So check that out if you missed that big day Today, Adam Sandler’s Spaceman is out. Cannot wait, but first, let’s talk some comedy the Southboam. Did you hear the subconscious there? I said, first, let’s talk some comedy.

Ooh, what does John’s brain think about Adam Sandler? I’m sorry, I’m leaving that in south By Southwest Comedy Festival. Let’s still laughing at that. The twenty twenty four south By Southwest Comedy Festival lineup has been announced. The comedy celebration is next week March A through the twelfth.

They didn’t put out some proper copy. There’s just this big long list of comedy so let me skim it in. I’ll just yell out some random names here in alphabetical order by their first letter of the first name, Bett Stelling, Brian Simpson, h Conan O’Brien, You’ve heard of him, Doug Benson, Don’t say Sloan, Hannah Einbender, James Adomian, Leguizamo, Lily Singh, Matt Besser, Natalie Pallamedius, Who’s fantastic? Nicrol, Nickthune, Ball Sheer, Punky Johnson, Rich Voss, Robert Smigel, Sam b Weiser, Rich vass At, south By, Yeah, Yaminikas Saunders, plus surprise guests and more. Some of the Comedy Festival special programs include The Origins of whatever you call What We Did with Conan O’Brien, Robert Smigel.

That’s Fun, Street Meet a Meeting celebration of food trucks, grease pits and sandwich shops. The Unfinished Orson Wells Roast of Hollywood that features James Adomian Orson Wells played by a Domium is joined by his famous friends and enemies to survey the state of film celebrity and south That sounds amazing, Here’s some interesting copy. South By. Southwest Comedy is honoring longtime collaborations as well as welcoming new presenters to this year’s festival. New York City Institution, Gotham Comedy Club, Timeout, Great Club, Chrismassilli, who runs a place Awesome guy.

They’re celebrating their tenth season at south By by bringing the stage some of New York’s funniest Now this is where I found the copy interesting. Over the years, Gotham has showcased comedy greats, among them Bill Burr, Sure, Sinbad, Amy Schumer. Jim Brewer makes this list, and I’m friends with Jim and Nate BERGATZI ten years to south By. We’re gonna name five comics, and Jim makes the list. I mean, I’m surprised even Nate makes the list.

Nate is still on the rise. I’m not ready to put them in the Hall of Fame yet. UCB and Matt Besser are back with a slate of shows, including Ascant, which is always great. Besser will also present AI Johnny Cash and AI Friends hooton Nanny, a unique musical performance of artificial intelligences. AI Johnny Cash is played by Matt Besser, hosts an evening of AI celebrities performing like you never thought was possible.

Two comedian contestants face off and Samantha Bee presents Wits End, hosted by quiz Master Adam mckessner. Comedians, with the help of former Jeopardy contestants, compete in the live game show where being funny is almost more important than getting answers right. Doug Benson Douglove’s Movies, Joe de Rosa is doing the sandwich thing I talked about. Conan O’Brien and Nick Kroll will discuss Conan’s new travel series in the featured session. Conan O’Brien must Go, I’ve been talking about that one for quite a while.

Conan on what’s it coming out? We’ll deep dive on that next week because the big story today, Adam Sandler’s Spaceman is out. I’ve got a night of TV plan. I’m gonna watch Spaceman and then I’m gonna watch David Cross on YouTube. That is the plan for tonight, my friends.

Sandler was on Conan’s podcast and talked about Taylor Swift. Now, what’s surprising to me is on Thursday, as I put the show together, there were a million articles about Sandler talking about Taylor Swift, which is weird to me because the podcast came out on Monday and I hadn’t seen a thing about this in three days. I didn’t even realize Sandler was on Conan. Believe me, I would have talked about it. I’ve pulled the transcript for it, and if I get a minute, I’m going to go through and talk more about that interview.

Candidly. I was running out the door Wednesday night heading to Eighties Trivia Night. Oh my god, we finished thirteenth. I’m so embarrassed. I’m like, mister nineteen eighties thirteenth.

I can’t blame my teammates. I just didn’t know the answers. I’m very embarrassed by this. I did laugh though. The trivia guy.

He showed up at a Mets satin jacket, and I almost pulled out my Mets satin jacket to go with an eighties theme. I also considered pulling out my nineteen eighty three Tom Siver jersey, but it was cold, so I didn’t do either of those anyway. So I was running out the door, and then Richard Lewis passed away, so I had to cram out a quick bonus episode two days ago, and then yesterday putting together the Richard Lewis Tribute episode ate up most of the mornings, so when I get a minute, I’ll go through the Conan transcript, and as I’ve talked about before, I’d like to listen to the episodes before i go through the transcript, so I know what I’m looking for. But I’m just gonna need some time anyway. Adam Sandler was on Conan’s podcast, and Sandler said, Taylor Swift because what she means to my kids, I get a little jumpy, just because I don’t want to blow from my kids.

So I’m a little like Taylor Taylor, like I talk a little loud or something. I don’t stay as cool as I can. Sandlor Air said he also understands the comparisons between the Beatles and Taylor Swift. He says, people talk about the Beatles of it and all I mean, so many smash hits. There’s not a word my kids don’t know.

I know them too, by the way, but they know them inside now. But it just remember the Beatles. Every song on the record, you know that’s Taylor Swift too. There’s not a song you skip you go. That one’s pretty damn cool.

Adam Sandler was at the premiere of Spaceman and he was asked if he went to space for real life, what kind of junk food would he take with him? That’s a weird question to randomly ask Adam Sandler. Sandler said, oh, that’s good. I guess now a marathon BORI you ever have one of those? They don’t make him anymore.

Maybe they only make a few. He was asked if there’s a secret factory making them for Sandler. I feel like something’s up here, don’t you. This is a weird question to ask, and Sandler said no, I don’t. Well, maybe I do.

I’m Sandler, for God’s sake. I can get a marathon bar, all right. The Daily Meal reminds us marathon bars were discontinued in nineteen eighty one. Marathon was a combination of chocolate and caramel in a braided link bar. The Daily Meal also points out that Cadbury’s Curly Whorli bars are quite similar, but are scarcely available in the US.

Something’s up there, been doing this long time. Something’s up. At that same premiere, Sandler told The Hollywood Reporter how the director kept saying, I want to see none of Adam Sandler in there. I like this director. I agree.

I want to see none of Adam Sandler in this either, and Adam saying, I understand. I hear that in my house too. I want to see none of Adam Sandler. Hey, Adam Sandler, and I agree. Sandler said, I did my best to prepare for the role.

They did a call with the astronauts at the International Space Station. Sandler said, they told us so many cool stories. We got to watch them float around. I was like, oh, I got to look like that. They told me about life up there, and what their days are like and how to pass the time, and what it’s like when they’re missing home, and how heartbreaking it is.

Sandler added he tried not to watch too many other space films because he didn’t want to rip off anybody. All right, So is Spaceman any good? Screen Rant seems to say, Yeah. The New York Times not so sure. Screen Rant reminds us in twenty twenty when promoting Uncut Gems, which as listeners know, is the best Adam Sandlor film.

And that’s not even me being sarcastic. That’s a solid movie in Sandler’s best performance. At that time, Sandler joked with Howard Stern that if he were snubbed for a Best Actor nomination at the Academy Awards. He’d come back and do more Netflix movies that were purposely bad. Maybe he actually went through with that threat.

That explains all the stuff that’s come out. He’s deliberately making horrible movies. Now it makes sense. Screen Rent writes, it’s no secret that Sandler’s a very adepted comedy, and while Spaceman is not meant to be a laugh out loud rump, there’s a subtle comedy undertone, bolstered by the absurdity that Sailor effectively plays into. There’s a lot for him to tackle, and much of his performance feels unsupportive.

The narrative, ideas, and themes are obvious, but there’s a lack of consistency and true depth. Spaceman’s only draw is Sandler. The movie remains a drift for too long, showcasing its technical achievement but neglecting to solidify what the film is about. The characters despair, loneliness, and existential crisis. The New York Times buckle up the paper of record, you know the thing people actually read.

The New York Times wrote Spaceman review, what happened here? Now that’s not me being sarcastic. That’s the Times. What happened here? Adam Sailor and Carrie Mulligan’s star in a baffling Netflix misfire about a man in well space reading from the Times.

When was the last time you looked at the exquisite list of synonyms for the word baffled. They may be among the best of the English language puzzled, nonplussed, discombobulated, flummixed, stumped, fogged, wildered, buffalo, the delicious, delightful, full of consonants, evocative of a very particular feeling. You’re presented with something that seems as though it should be clear, but you can’t make it make sense. The occasion for my bout of word nerdery is the Adam Sandler movie Spaceman, and for that I thank the film. It’s not a particularly confusing movie on its own in port because we’ve seen its likes before.

Spaceman, alone in the inky blackness, goes little nuts and also gains clarity on his life back on Earth. What’s flummoxing about Spaceman isn’t what it is, but why it is. I love this. Some bad movies were never going to be good. Other bad movies never even tried.

But Spaceman is that exquisite, rare third thing. An awful movie, a very bad movie, indeed whose lousiness was almost certainly not apparent while it was in production. Perhaps this sounds fun bad to you. It’s not fun bad. It’s maudlin bad, but labored bad and also pretty boring bad.

Can I jump in here? Did we not know that this movie with Adam Sandler talking to se Alien that was really There’s not no way it was gonna be good? Rated R for some scary space stuff, language and a spoiler. Come on New York Times. Running time one hour, forty seven minutes on your Netflix.

So after I watch that, I’m gonna shake that off. On my quest to find a comedy special, I actually like David Cross. I’m counting on you. He spoke to Consequence of Sound about his new special, Worst Daddy in the World. Like many specials, Worst Daddy in the World was edited together from two different performances recorded on the same night in Chicago.

Consequence writes, unlike most stand up specials, where the editing ideally creates the illusion it’s one performance, there are multiple points where the artifice is abandoned, which Cross says was not a calculated approach. He says that just appeals to me. I don’t like anything too slick. This sticks out minor spoilers here, as Cross invites slowing down in case you don’t want to David Cross. Spoiler as Cross invites audience members up to the stage to perform a scripted scene with them, and the editing flows between the two different versions.

Cross says, if nothing else, it shows you I did this every night, every show, so I like that, and it allowed me, once I established it, to take the more interesting takes from each person. So you still doing the script as is. But I also definitely want to include the whole thing where the guy didn’t understand how to read that one line. I thought it was funny, so it’s the best of both worlds really. Cross says, bringing audience members on stage is a fun, sketchy, theatrical kind of element.

You never know it’s going to go. Some people had to stop and ask them to leave because they were either too drunk or two obnoxious, so they were trying to punch it up. Some people are too nervous, even though they volunteered. Who was asked to rate the two audience members featured in the special. Cross said, I thought the lady did a good job.

I’d give her a seven to seven. I think the gentleman was a little less in tune with it. I’d give him a five eight. As I put together the show, I was on Twitter because that’s what we call it, and I saw Dan Soder tweeted on the Road New special this Friday three to one on my YouTube ten am eest. Please subscribe.

Here’s a clip. In nineteen ninety seven, the United States enacted the deadbeat Dad Law, which meant if you didn’t pay child support, you were going to going to jail. My dad died in nineteen ninety seven. On that same Twitter search, Joe List said, just release some CrowdWork on YouTube. Here it is.

Oh, something else funny just happened. Oh, I wanted to make a Matt’s joke about people saying you gotta have a kid. He had that joke before I had a baby. I wanted you because I didn’t want you guys to be like, oh, they talk about Joe, babies bring no joy, no fulfillment. Did you guys forget though?

It’s like one minute ago?

Also out today, Angela Johnson Reyes has a new comedy album called Technicall…

That’s via eight hundred Pound Gorilla. Ashley Ray has a new comedy album called ice Cream Money. That’s via Blonde Medicine. Adam Newman has announced a fifth stand up comedy special called Juwe Versus the Volcano that’ll be on YouTube March twenty second. This one sounds interesting.

It’s structured loosely into three acts where promised music, magic, horses, butt stuff, and more. The first act offers a classic stand up check in about where he’s at now recently married, traveled, barreling out of a pandemic. The second 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, offering up catchy songs about everyone’s least favorite dictator and him. This will be free on YouTube, also available as a comedy album in both digital and double vinyl formats.

And let’s go to the political part of today’s podcast, where I’m gonna annoy everybody because we don’t all agree on anything. From the Jerusalem Post, Michael Rapaport showed up on an Israeli current events oriented comedy show. He did a sketch about how Hollywood stars are ignoring the plight of the hostages held by Hamas playing himself hosting the Oscars. He joked in the opening sermon on monologue that the one hundred and thirty four remaining hostages, as something in common with the Tinseltown royalty attending the show, neither had eaten in four months. His joke next year, the hostage diet will be bigger than ozempic another joke amas makes Harvey Weinstein look like Peter Pan.

He also made fun of several Jewish actors for their silence. He named the actors. I’m not familiar what they did or not. My hesitation here is he called out someone who I’ve already mentioned in this podcast, but this article says that person actually did sign a petition in support of Israel, so I don’t want to be unfair to the people named there. You can find that in the Jerusalem Post if you’d like more information.

The Daily Dot says, thanks to a resurfaced screenshot Twitter, because that’s what we call it is having a field day with the fact that Robert F. Kennedy Junior once congratulated a gay comedian on being ungayed. The comedian in question, Tim Dillon, who is gay, posted a photo of himself and writer Anikachayan on Instagram and Twitter and said the pair had just gotten married. Dylan joked homosexuality was a phase. Kennedy responded, saying that Anna was a beautiful angel.

Easy to see how she ungayed you. It is unclear if rfk Junior understood the joke. Former President Donald Trump recently told a town hall that now is not the time for him to be a comedian. He told an audience in South Carolina, I really don’t want to smile. I want to smile when we complete the task and make America great again.

Fox News share the clip. Laura Ingram said, you’re extremely funny. I mean, you have a fantastic sense of humor. And I was curious, is Trump a good comedian? So I asked the chatbot to write a Trump joke, and I thought it did a good job.

I’d like to hear Don say this one. I don’t have a Trump impression for you. I don’t even have a half assed Trump impression for you, but the joke would go like this. You ever notice how airline food is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get, but it’s always disappointing.

I mean, seriously, if I wanted something frozen and tasteless, I’ve gone to a rally in Iowa. Sorry, Iowa. That’s your Daily Comedy News for today. If you’re new, push that follow button on the Apple podcast app there and listen to every I mean, the last couple of days, you got two episodes a day, but that’s only in case of breaking news. Did you check out Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs yet, that’s the new podcast we’re pushing.

Come on, do me a favor. Open up Apple Podcasts, find Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs, hit the follow button, download the episode, play the episode. I don’t even care if you listen. Walk your dog while your phone is playing in your kitchen. I want to boost this thing on the charts, get this thing rolling.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mack. This is a bonus episode remembering Richard Lewis. The normal Daily Comedy News is in the feed. A normal episode came out earlier today.

Born Richard Philip Lewis June twenty ninth, nineteen forty seven. Born in Brooklyn, Raised in Englewood, New Jersey. Richard Lewis graduated from Ohio State University before joining the comedy scene in New York and LA in the seventies. There he worked with stars like Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer, and Elaine Boosler, swiftly becoming a favorite on late night TV, including Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. Self deprecating Razor sharp, honest about his struggles with addiction and neuroses, Richard Lewis possessed a unique comedic style that resonated with audiences, similar to his good friend Larry David.

Richard made his acting debut in nineteen seventy nine on NBC’s Diary of a Young Comic. He’s got a lot of time on the era of David Letterman that I and the era of Howard Stern that I loved. I’ll be curious to see if Howard does anything with Richard late period, Howard has kind of distanced himself from a lot of the guests of the past, Gubert Gunfried, for example, But we’ll see. By the mid nineteen eighties, Richard Lewis was being cited as part of a group of self reflective comics that included Richard Pryor, George Corolan, and Lily Tomlin Journey. Gunderson is the executive director of the National Comedy Center.

In a statement, Journey said his work exemplified and anticipated the deeply personal, raw, introspective, and yes, neurotic tone that has come to color so much contemporary comedy. HBO appearances in nineteen eighty eight, nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety seven, a sitcom alongside Jamie Lee Curtis called Anything but Love, one called Hiller and Dealer with Kevin Neil and I Don’t Remember That, and also at Don Rickles one I’ll talk about in the second half of the pod. Richard Lewis estimated he had about twenty thousand pages of jokes on his computer early in his career. He scribbled them on legal pads. When he appeared at Carnegie Hall in nineteen nine, he appeared on stage with six feet of yellow sheets taped together on the floor for reference.

Wait, did Jerry Seinfeld rip that off? Jerry kind of did that, and oh, we’ll dive into that a different day. Film roles include roles in leaving Las Vegas in nineteen ninety five, Robin Hood, men in tights, drunks, and of course, the notable run on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Dean eric Post reported that Richard was feeling quite well amid a battle with Parkinson’s disease just a few weeks ago. He said, I’m getting through it fine.

I have some occasional walking difficulties with Parkinson’s the last couple of years. It’s not majorure. I’m getting through it fine so far. But I didn’t want to go spend five or six hours mingling with so many people just asking for trouble. That’s why he wasn’t at the Curb Your Enthusiasm launch party.

I just wrapped a couple weeks ago, season twelve of Curb, and it was an amazing season. I’m so grateful to be part of that show. But you know, the last three and a half years, I’ve had sort of a rocky time Larry David Has said Richard had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him. Cheryl Hines said, when I was young, I had the biggest crush shun Richard Lewis.

He was the funniest person on stage on the most handsome comedian. Then when I was cast on CURB, I got to work with him and it was a dream come true. Susie Esmond called Richard an original, brilliant voice that cannot be replaced. Ben Stiller said I never met a kinder, more empathetic comedy genius. He was so funny and deep as a kid.

I remember seeing him at the improv and how nice he was to me and my sister. Over the years, he would always reach out with support and love or a kind word, something out of blue. It always felt special to hear from him. Jamie Lee Curtis, who co starred in the ABC sidcome Anything But Love with Richard, said, I remember exactly where I was when I saw a billboard of him about a stand up special on Sunset Boulevard when we were casting the ABC pilot anything but love and asked the casting people to bring him in to audition to play my best friend maybe boyfriend Marty Gold. I thought he was handsome.

He made me laugh, which is the one thing a strong capable woman can’t really do for herself. Jeff Ross said, first time I saw Richard Lewis perform was at Carnegie Hall in December of nineteen eighty nine. It was just an aspiring comic in the crowd, and Richard’s performance showed me that you don’t have to play guitar songs to be a rock star. Doug Benson said his encouragement was the push I needed to keep going in a field that can be not encouraging at all. Bill Burr said, rip to a true original, an absolutely fearless comedian who did and said what he wanted.

Patton Oswalt and Paula Poundstone just shared photos. Steve Martin tweeted, remember Richard Lewis. Thanks. Eric Idol said so sad in the learned of the death of Richard Lewis. He was such a lovely, funny guy.

I wasn’t ready for this. Mel Brooks said, I’m so sorry to hear that we lost Richard Lewis. I will miss him very much. He was so funny, and I was so lucky to have him play Prince John and Robin Hood men in tights, but I was even luckier to have him in my life. Adam Carolla called Richard Lewis one of the greatest, most talented men I’ve ever met.

Dane Cook called him a champion. Michael McKean called him a very good man. John Stewart said sleep well, Richard, and commented how some people say that Stewart resembles Richard Lewis, and he said, I’ll try to keep good care of our face. Jimmy Kimmel had guessed Bob Odenkirk. Bob called Richard Lewis a great, great stand up who was in touch with everybody.

Both odin Kirk and Kimmel said they had been texting with Lewis in recent days. Bob said, will always happen to thank for that very personal type of comedy that he helped blaze the trail of Jimmy Fallon shared a clip where he spoke about Richard. Hey, guys, had we had some sad news today. We just found out that Richard Lewis passed away. And he was a good friend of the show, a great guest.

I think he was one of the greatest comedians to ever do it. If you get a chance, go go on YouTube and watch some of this stuff. He was unbelievable. I used to impersonate him all the time. He was a good friend, would send me things.

But his HBO specials, his whole character and walking and I’m doomed. Do you ever see the HBO special I’m doomed. Yeah, he’d be a hypochondriac. He’d be just so upset that about everything this specially did was great. That he went to the hospital because he had thought he had a heart attack or something he didn’t you know, And he’s like, this is a terrible doctor.

He’s complaining and the nurse goes up, Sorry, mister Lewis, someone’s here to visit you. Your biggest fan and I don’t really say it’s your biggest fan. And a contortionist walks in. It’s funny. It’s so funny.

Yeah, and you might know him also in Kurby Enthusiasm. He was fantastic. I just think he’s one of the greatest to ever do it. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. We’re gonna miss you, Richard Lewis.

In The New York Times, Melana Riiazik had interviewed Richard on January twenty second. She recounted Richard as saying, I’ve got to give Jeff Gorland a lot of credit for hanging in. I mean, it’s a TV show, but how can he have any self esteem left after what he’s taken. It’s just a barrage. Every time a scene is over, it looks like he’s limping back from the Civil War.

He’s just all bloodied. There should have been a corner man, you know, like in Rocky Burgess Meredith. For any actor taking in Susy Esmond’s insults, there should always be a chair with a trainer putting smelling salts under actors’ noses. Richard and Larry David met as kids at summer camp. They’ve been friends most of their lives.

In that Times article recalls, I always had a pad with me from day one, and so did Larry, and would write premises down wherever we were without sounding too pompous about it. I always dug comedians who were the same on stage as they were off stage. There wasn’t too much fake stuff going on. They didn’t create a character, they were just who they were. He called Larry David the storyteller of my generation.

He’s not going to stop writing things down. I’ve always been blessed to be on the show and so grateful. One thing that bothered him is he didn get more time with Susie Esmond. Given the chance, he says, I would have gone out of my way to screw up the scene just to make her angry at me. He did have a plan, writes The Times.

If Susie gets a show, say it was just called Susie, I would beg Larry David for at least a guest spot on it. Please let me do something to make cure or feel horrified. I don’t want any money. Don’t pay me. I might have to just fly to New York and sneak into Susie’s house and antagonize her.

In fact, don’t tell her, but I plan to play a horrifying joke on her so I can bear the front of her wrath. The truth is, I’m gonna get her to yell at me if it’s the last thing I do on this planet. For the weekend. I wanted to see if there were enough articles about Richard from back in the day, and surprisingly there aren’t that many. I don’t know if he didn’t do many interviews or if they didn’t make it through the archives.

I found a few things around nineteen ninety three’s Daddy Dearest, which was not reviewed well. But in the spirit of comedy, let’s dive in here from the La Times in nineteen ninety three and Daddy Dearest, Richard Lewis portrays a divorced psychologist whose life becomes complicated when his overbearing and combative father, played by Don Rickles, suddenly moves in. All Right, that sounds like it would be a good premise, right, I mean, isn’t that just the plot of Fraser. Richard Lewis plays a divorce psychologist and his father moves in, Right, that’s Fraser. Oh what a different time.

This was the La Times Rights. Rickles, who’s touring the country with Frank Sinatra, sat with Lewis and chatted about the show. Richard Lewis says, Don’s long been one of my icons in comedy. Years ago. I had a notion that I wanted to work with him.

It’s been a long trip in journey to get to the show. I can’t imagine being happy or working with anybody else. Rickles said, yeah, I’d pretty much go along with that. Richard was really the one who made this thing come together. I had not thought about a TV series at this point in my career.

Was involved with Vegas gambling towns, theater and so forth the time, said Don, does it enter in your mind that Richard, while not exactly your boss, is more or less in charge. Rickles said, yeah, it reminds me of that all the time. According to him, I was out on the highway face down, being rolled by four guys. This man comes along. It reminds me every day that he’s the boss, and he found me, and I gotta kiss his you know what, to keep him amused.

Richard said, But if I don’t meet Frank Sinatra before the twelfth episode, there’s gonna be a problem because I’m the co executive producer and I have the right to fire Don. Rickles, the only way you’re gonna meet Frank is to throw yourself in front of his card. If I know Frank, he’ll keep going la times. Richard, you seem frustrated by recent questions about Don’s jokes on the show. That Don Rickles’ character insults people in ethnic groups.

Wow, we were canceling people way back then. Richard Lewis said, there are a tremendous amount of comedians whose subject matter stereotypes in a mean spirited way. There’s an unbelievable difference in what Don Rickles does as a comic, unlike many other comics who say you’re different, I don’t like you, I shouldn’t be with you, I shouldn’t be in your neighborhood. It’s the exact opposite. The deal is Don’s character.

And let me stress that this is a character. It’s politically incorrect. It’s almost as if we’re talking about Shing Gillis, but you realize he’s a teddy bear. One of the reasons I’m working with one of my idols is because his character’s so right on the money to educate, as well as perhaps being one of the funniest people in the whole universe. Again from nineteen ninety three, Don Rickles, You’ve done this type of comedy for so long.

Does it frustrate you that just years ago this kind of humor was okay. The climate wasn’t quite as sensitive. Now audiences are looking for significance where they’re looking for political correctness. Rickles said, well, I don’t find it frustrating at all. I’m still able to headline every major place you could think of and work with Frank Sinatra.

Richard Lewis, does Frank like me? Rickles? I mentioned you once and napped is it your name? And fell asleep right in front of me. Anyway, I can’t say too much about being politically correct because they still show up to see me.

Funny’s funny. It’s a very fine line. I’ve never crossed that line, and I’ve always been received with the utmost warmth. Richard Lewis, When can I mean Frank? I’ll be in the limo with you and Frank when you go to long beat Trickles, You’ll be running alongside the limbo.

I’ll roll down the window just see can hear part of the voice seeing the summer wind?

And then roll it up again with your hand in the window.

LA. Have you two watched the other Fox shows like nine oh two one oh? Richard Lewis, I watched all the shows. I’m a Fox kind of guy, except I wanted them change the logo because I was bent on my behind by a Fox. When I was a cub scout, that was fun.

The Desert News from nineteen ninety three said that same sitcom, Daddy Dearest is downlight dreadful. Fox’s new sitcom is so bad, so utterly unredeemable, that it’s difficult to know where to begin with a description of it. The premise is okay. Richard Lewis stars as Steven, a psychiatrist and divorced father of a young son who’s obnoxious overbearing father Don Rickles moves in with him again. Free sure, but as Daddy is executed, it deserves execution.

We’re talking downright dreadful. Wow, that’s like an Adam Sandler level review. This is offensivest show as Network TV has to offer most of the alleged humor, and let me emphasize the word alleged falls in a one of two categories of offensiveness, sexuality or bigotry. When Al gets a look at the Swedish stewardess that Steven that’s Richard Lewis’s character has brought home to take to bed, he bellows, Wow, look at the of those things. There are jokes about condoms.

There were offensive sexual jokes between Alan as soon to be ex wife Helen. Helen shrieks you never satisfied me in Ben Al Al yells I satisfied you plenty, to an incomprehensible burst of laughter from the studio audience. Helen is good sex too much for me to ask for before I drop dead? Al, why don’t you drop dead? And we’ll find out that’s not a bad line at all.

The Record interviewed Richard Lewis in nineteen eighty eight. He recalled a conversation with John Travolta, who went to the same school. Travolta was saying that they had named a Jim after him. Lewis said, I figured maybe I’d have a couple of bridge chairs named after me in the faculty lounge. What I should have as a bench in the nurse’s office.

I don’t want to sound like a big shot. After sixteen years of complaining in forty five shows on Letterman, I should at least be able to have people sit on me amy or tease in. The New York Times wrote, go ahead and call Richard Lewis the comedian from hell. He’d be paying him a compliment. His most incredible legacy could be one simple phrase spoken so often that its argent might never be questioned.

It’s the blank from Hell, the insert hated thing here from hell. Courting to Richard Lewis and the Yale Book of Quotations, it came from Richard. Richard said, I’m credited with popularizing the phrase because I felt victimized by everything. I totally popularized the phrase in the late seventies. If you go on YouTube, you could see it on Letterman.

David would cut me off and go you meet. It was the bar mitzer from Hell, that’s right. And I stopped saying it. I was self conscious I was getting applause for it. I guess subconsciously I thought I was a victim of everything.

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations did not give Richard credit for the phrase, which became a storyline during season three of KERB. The episode from two thousand and two weaves in Richard’s attempts to get it in Bartlet’s. He said, it was a real solid for Larry to do that for me. That really immortalized it in some respects. And I will leave you with a clip from the February eighteenth episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, where Richard talks about leaving Larry in his will back in the morning with a normal episode.

Rest in Peace, the Great Richard Lewis, I’m leaving you in my will. I’m tweaking it, and you’re in it. No, no, no, dunt dun’t do that. It’s done. You’re in.

I don’t want to be and I I have money, I don’t need it. Give it to someone who needs it when I die. I want you to know how much I care about you. I’m not going to keep it. I’m going to give it to charity, my best friend.

You’re getting it. No, I’m making as shut in that statement about the will right now, I shooking at historical references. If nominated, I will not run. If bequeath, I will not accept. Well I’m bequeathing.

Well, I’m not accepting. You’ll have to accept. Don’t give it to me. Don’t hurt my feelings. I’m not going to keep up petty of it.

You’re hurting me. Thank you, but I don’t want I’m giving it to you anyway. Pal

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Donnelle Rawlings out doing press, but everybody keeps asking him about Dave Chappelle. Rawlings told The Washington Post two years ago, we shot a special in North Carolina where I got a standing ovation. A month before deciding if it was going to air, Dave pulled it.

He said, I could put you in front of an audience and you’ll destroy the room, but that doesn’t make it a great special. Well, said Dave Chappelle. Donnelle said, I had to listen to this little constructive criticism, not getting my feelings and understand what he was saying. Donelle talked about the creativity he and Chappelle bring out in each other, telling the Post, staying true to the artistry of what we do, not just giving into trends. We push each other.

It’s a very very healthy competition. Dave sees me to a set, I might get a standing. Oh, I know that’s gonna make him want to give it his all. Same thing with me an earthquake. We went out on tour together last year and we alternated who would close the show.

We push each other to be great. It’s no days off when we work with each other. Then I’ll move from LA to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Dave Chappelle is also based. He says, I realized Hollywood is overrated. You can create a good lifestyle for yourself not being there.

So I went from the streets to the creeks and from the hoods to the woods. Love it some more advice from Dave Chappelle via Donnelle Rawlings. Dave said, if you want to see a comic, come and check him out after he’s filmed a special. Because now it’s a new process. I can’t use the jokes I use in the special.

I’ve got to go deeper. This is a time when comics really test their armor. Great stuff. The Daily Beast also spoke to Donnell and also discussed Dave Chappelle, and he says, I don’t have to come to Dave’s defense, but I do defend him. We’re best friends.

It’s not just that we work together. We’ve been to funerals together, We’ve been to cookouts together. So if you talk sideways, I can’t listen to it. Take that stuff to somebody else, but not to me, because he’s like a brother. If you say something to my family member and then I’m going to check you.

If people say Dave got in trouble, you might have three people that didn’t like it and ninety seven people that loved it, but the focus is on those three people as opposed to the ninety seven. And I think people like Dave, people like myself, people like Chris Rock. We’re taking back who we appreciate and we’re showing them love. And at three percent, can go kick Rocks. I love it.

He actually said, kick Rocks. I’m not cleaning that up. Does Rawlings understand why people are upset about Chappelle’s jokes targeting the trans community. Donelle says, you want my honest opinion. No.

Dave’s point on everything is like, I understand you, I hear you, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with everything that you’re saying. People want to find something to be mad at. There are some people who aren’t happy unless they’re mad. And the real reason why I take offense to that is because you’re trying to destroy my friend’s character, and I know how hard he tries to be fair. I watched Donnell’s news special on Netflix.

I found it to be just yelling, like just yelling. I didn’t last long. I was like, this is not enjoyable. So then I switched over to Jenny Slat’s special Let’s Just add on Amazon Prime. I lasted a little longer there, but just wasn’t feeling it, and as I shared in the Facebook group Daily comed News Podcast group, I have to find a special before I turn into the Johnny Mack just hates everything.

Here we are. It’s March, and I only have two specials on the Best of twenty twenty four list, which right now is number one Dusty Slay, number two Taylor Thomlinson, and I think Taylor Thomlinson’s is gonna fall to like number twenty by the end of the year. Not on the list Pete Davidson, Jackie Novak, Kevin James, Rory Scoveldno Rowlings, Jenny Slat. It’s early though. I remember last year this time it was like Nate Bergatzy and not much else, So we’ll see how the summer goes.

After I didn’t enjoy Donnell and then I didn’t enjoy Jenny Slat, I switched over to the Daily Show with John Stewart and Johnnie mack Hay’s Everything Think. MSNBC nailed it here. John Stewart’s third appearance in the anchor chair open with the host basking in a standing ovation, yep.

And then he made the topic Israel Palestine, and he got kind of serious, and …

MSNBC rights, the popular genre of which Stewart is a master, blend’s comedy and political analysis, all the while smuggling in whatever moral convictions the comic might possess. Poll attainment. I like that looks like real news. I’m saying. I like that a lot today.

I wonder what that’s about. Do I say that all the time. It’s graphics are so eye popping, the chiron’s so abundant. It’s shiny sets so CNN like one expects Wolf Blitzer to pop in projecting a winter in the Michigan Primary. Poly Attainment radiates a weird sort of winking authority and even moral gravitzas audiences and even comedians themselves risk forgetting that their newsreader is neither a credential journalist nor a scholar, but a person who’s core competency is genital gags Stewart tried to maintain a semblance of ideological balance as a newsperson would, but in the conflict this raw, complex and emotionally charged, he likely satisfied very few.

Some things just aren’t funny. So then I switched over to John Oliver, and as I prepped the show today, I’m really confused. I definitely had John Oliver on, I definitely was enjoying it, but I don’t remember thinking about it. I can’t tell you a single joke. I don’t remember what the main topic was.

And here’s what’s scarier to me. I don’t remember turning it off. Did I finish the episode? I remember sitting on the same couch. This was not the sleepy chair.

I didn’t pass out. I was awake. I was watching this. I had Oliver on, and at some point I switched over to watching YouTube videos. But I don’t remember turning Oliver off, or did I complete it?

Did I bail halfway? I don’t know, and this troubles me. I have a memory. GAP told you the other day about four comedians who was gig at a Seattle comedy club was canceled. One of those comedians, Jim Florentine.

He told Como News, we got this email saying listen, we did some research and you basically can’t come to the club. There was a whole thing about we’re a progressive area and we check with our community, and your values and my values don’t align with the other comics. This is such a big deal. Even Rob Schneider has waited. Rob tweeted, Dear Seattle.

If you’re worried about hearing ideas separate than your own, if a person standing on a stage saying words that may challenge your opinions frightens you. If you only want approved ideas that keep you in your safe political bubble, you can thank your local comedy club. Look as I said yesterday, I’ve got no problem with a club saying hey, we’ve got a particularular vibe here. For example, if I opened a rock club and you came in and you said, well, you know, we’re like a country rock band, and I said, well, that’s not really what we do here. I don’t think I have to book you now why they were booked and unbooked.

That’s a separate conversation. But if this comedy club wants to go you know, hey, we’re doing this kind of thing like, say you’re in Brooklyn and you’re running an alt comedy scene and Jim Norton, who’s a good guy that I’ve worked with, we’re friendly. If Jim Norton wanted to play your all comedy club and just do jokes about hookers in Las Vegas for an hour, it doesn’t fit. It doesn’t mean Jim’s not good, it just doesn’t fit your alt comedy scene in Brooklyn. It’s okay.

Rab Schneider is incredibly fascinating. John Jamison said, I always keep thing positive here on Twitter, but Capitol Hill Comedy Club in Seattle can who’s right off? Steve Mudflat McGrew said, I hope the club goes belly up. The empty building burns down from drug addicts using it to shoot up with the free needles the city gives, and then the shell of the business is bulldozed down. Then the briocks washed and used to build a new church for better humans than the ones who own the club.

Florentine said, I’m not even really that mad at it, it’s just weirder they booked us. Kurt Metzker, one of the unbooked comedians. I’m trying not to use word canceled, because you know that means something else these days. Before Dave Smith, Lewis, J Gomas, Jim Florentine, and Kurt Metzger. Kurt said they’re gonna go out of business.

They don’t have real comics coming in. I looked at the lineup. Let’s take a look at the lineup, all right? Tonight. It’s an open mic.

Katie Boyle is your headliner. Friday and Saturday. We’ve got a roast battle on Sunday. Monday night, Queer’s to the front Tuesday. Washington’s Funniest Mammal.

I’m clicking on that. What’s that? Hm? I clicked on it. It’s not listed, but I do see Dave Marriages just playing there.

He’s solid, all right. Washington’s Funniest Mammal. Washington’s Funniest Mammal has their own website. Cozy Comedy founders Travis and Marcus have been producing local comedy shows. The goal of Cozy Comedy is simple, bring local comedians to places that haven’t ever seen them.

First round, fifty total comedians, five shows, ten comedians per show. Each comedian gets seven minutes. Top three from each show move on to the semis show winners received two hundred dollars semi final rounds fifteen comics. You get the idea of final round four comics. That’s why this thing is three nights.

That’s not terrible. Again, the weirdness is why book them and then unbooked them.

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Meanwhile, in New Westminster, British Columbia, a show featuring comedy trou…

Here at Daily Comedy News, we do not promote serial killing, so I will not mention the name of the serial killer. As far as serial killers go, was not a serial killer whose name I was familiar with. I don’t think I’m an expert on serial killers, but it wasn’t like that famous guy from the nineteen seventies in New York City. Again, I’m not saying the names of serial killers. In a now deleted Facebook post, the House of Comedy BC wrote it had decided to cancel the event, saying it missed the market aims to do better.

The post had read, While we value and support the freedom of expression in comedy, we recognize that the chosen material for this show has caused discomfort in our community. When asked by CBC News for more details, the VP of Operations said they had no comment. Hmm, now I’ve popped over to the Danger Cat’s website. They use a font I think is similar to the font def Leopard uses. They also use a font similar to Grand Theft Auto.

They’re about us, says for those that understand living into the fullest comes with a good time and a cold one in hand. I’m gonna click on this merch tab they have here. Let me see what comes up. We could get a flag in that def leopard ish font. There is some sort of T shirt here.

I believe it is an image of Justin Trudeau doing brown face from an event in two thousand and one. There’s another T shirt in the style of Guns N’ Roses album covers, another one in the style of the Rolling Stones, but I don’t see anything with a serial killer in it anyway. This is the first time I heard of these guys. So that today’s Daily Comedy News. This brought to you by Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs.

No, it’s not three separate sponsors. It’s a new podcast, Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs dives into the fascinating worlds of the planet’s most awe inspiring and fearsome beings. Look, I wrote most of these. I don’t need the copy. I’ll tell you so.

Episode one is Godzilla, So that’s a monster, Jaws, next week, Shark, Jurassic Park, Dinosaur. You get it. So we have Godzilla, then Jaws, Jurassic Park, King Kong, the meg and the Kraken. Those are the first six episodes. And this came out wonderful.

This started with me saying to my business partner Mark, let’s just do a crazy idea. How about this? And he laughed and we’re like, all right, let’s see what this would be. And we started writing and we found this wonderful lane of talking about how the monster would kill you, how the monster might exist if we applied science to it, and then what are real life analogues of such a monster, and what is the film history of the monster. This thing came out way better than when I first said, Ah, let’s do something with like dinosaurs and sharks and stuff.

I’d say, help me launch this thing. Let’s be real here. If I got a bunch of downloads today, it’ll move up the charts. So do me a favor, especially if you use Apple podcasts. Download Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs.

Monsters Sharks and Dinosaurs. Follow it, download it, play it. You can play it and walk your dog. You know, I don’t even care if you actually listen. Just help this thing move up the charts today.

Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs wherever you get your shows, but it would mostly help if used Apple podcasts. Thank you, Johnny Mack. You never mentioned Shane Gillis. I know R Slate wrote about Shane and they said, contrary to popular opinion or what you might assume from that one ignoble podcast clip, Shane Gillis has never been a mega comic. He’s unburdened by the pickled grievance that defines an Adam Corolla or Ricky Gervase.

And I’ve never heard him utter the word woke on stage in spite of the ants I woke the scriptor that all manner of outlets and commentators frequently append to his name. He’s Red State friend, if not Red State exclusive, the kind of thing that socialists Brooklynites can savor alongside their Fox News watching dads. The punchlines weren’t delivered with any real invective were from a specific moral vantage, but they did underscore Gillis’s broader credo The world is funnier when he doesn’t need to think about what he wants to say. Gillis has played the game perfectly. He’s managed to parachute back into mainstream consciousness while still intentionally or not holding onto some sly anti woke bonafides that appears to be scaffolding for a long career.

Marlon Wayns will have a new special on Amazon Prime Video, this one called Marlon Wayns Good Grief. He will film this at the Apollo Theater in New York. Great theater. Thanks John, We had no idea. I got to see Springsteen there.

It was amazing, armed with his trademark wit and irresponsible energy. No, it’s not irresponsible. I’m leaving it in irrepressible energy. He has responsible energy, which is irrepressible. Waynes dies into the depths of personal loss, grappling with the profound grief of losing both parents, from poignant reflect actions on the lessons imparted by his father, to the unexpected challenges of caring for aging parents, including the uncharted territory of changing diapers.

No date yet on that, other than it’ll be out in the summer. I didn’t get back to yesterday. I wanted to talk more about that Bill Hicks piece that was in The Guardian. Brian Logan had asked, does anyone perform stand up like Bill Hicks nowadays? I’ve watched and listen to a handful of his sets over the last week or so, and the way he styles himself takes the readjusting to It’s not just the rock star posturing the idea of himself as fearless rebel against the powers that be.

It’s the lack of irony the authority assumes to preach to all of us efforts who want to tell you what to think. Very few stand ups do that now, and the ones that do, Dave Chappelle leaps to mine, are considered deeply suspect. Couldn’t we do with a bit more faith in the possibility of telling the truth with exposing lies? As Hicks described his mission, You might agree with that principle, but the sexism and homophobia lands with a hell of a clunk. In the twenty twenties, Hicks once told an interviewer to me, the comic is a fleame like Shiva the Destroyer, toppling idols no matter what they are.

Frasier is getting another season. That’s it. I could read a quote Fraser’s getting another season. And did you see this thing about the Willy Wonka event I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, OLLI reporter cracks me up with a description, it looks like a meth lab. I’m not sure this is really comedy, but it makes me laugh.

And why not? What was built as an immersive experience seemingly inspired by Willy Wonka movies turned into the fire fest of unofficial movie tie ins. You gotta see the pictures of this thing. It’s like an empty warehouse and somebody stuck a candy cane in the corner. It’s not exactly what’s in your mind when I say Willy Wonka, The other reporter says.

The UK event was titled Willie’s Chocolate Experience and charged customers forty four dollars each. The attraction was not affiliated with the movie Wonka, though the events marketing came as close as possible to suggesting it was based on it. The ad copy invited fans to journey to a universe where confectionery dreams are brought to life, including mind expanding projections, optical marvels and exhibits that transport you into the realm of creativity and wondrous creations and enchanting surprises at every turn. The event organizers apparently used AI to generate promotional images that suggested a very high quality attraction. I saw those images and yeah, looked pretty cool.

As reported by the Guardian, customers showed up to a sparsely decorated warehouse with a scattering of plastic props, a small bouncy castle and some backdrops bending against the walls. Scotland police were even called to the scene. The event shut down. Parents and their children were in tears. That’s not funny, John, but it’s kind of funny.

Wonderful copywriting here, and I’ll make this the end. I won’t say another word after this next sentence, because this is just perfect. All the event lacked was a man in a top hat telling customers you get nothing, you lose good taste, sir,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Wow. I was just heading out the door, checked the email one last time, and I see Comedian and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Richard Lewis has passed away at age seventy six. Richard’s rep. Jeff Abraham I know Jeff, confirmed the news in a statement to people on Wednesday afternoon.

The statement reads, Comedian actor Richard Lewis passed away peacefully at his home in la last night after suffering a heart attack. His wife thanks everyone for all the love, friendship, and support, and ask for privacy at this time. Lewis best known for his self deprecating humor, his long running roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm, his guest spots on Letterman, and The Howard Sterns Show. He also co starred with Jamie Lee Curtis in a sitcom that I really liked way back when it was called Anything but Love, that run from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety two. In two thousand, he had a memoir titled The Other Great Depression.

He told The Washington Post in twenty twenty, I’m not a very happy man. I’m thrilled to be alive. I’m grateful for he was in my life. I’ve got great friends, a great wife, a dog, and I have a great career. But there’s a part of me that’s always going to be never totally happy, and I think that has a lot to do with my childhood.

I did not prep this episode at all. Like I said, I was running out the door. Let me see what comedians are seeing on Twitter. Albert Brooks, Sorry, p Richard Lewis a brilliantly funny man who will be missed by all the world needed him now more than ever. Michael McKeon, Farewell Richard Lewis.

Brocol Harum has lost another fan, and the rest of us have lost a very good man. Sam Morrell, not Richard Lewis such a funny guy for so long watching a curb as this news broke. I remember reading his pickup line with the ladies in the book I’m dying up here. I’ll buy you a two to sandwich anywhere in the city. Rest in peace, Keith Olberman.

I’ve never had a brother. From the day he came up and said hi in nineteen eighty nine, Richard Lewis and I called each other brother. I used to kid him if people knew how good and kind of person he was, it would ruin his career. Bet Midler, on a sad note, the great Richard Lewis has died. Richard Lewis has passed away at age seventy six.

All right, Like I said, I was running out the door, so I put this together quickly. The Thursday episode is already recorded. You will not hear me address this in the normal Thursday episode, but I’ll probably do a bonus episode with a proper Richard Lewis tribute sometime tomorrow afternoon. Richard was fantastic. Rest in peace.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack who we have here Daily Comedy News. Sheen gill is getting a deal with Netflix. Talking about that in a second. But Jimmy Fallon had a good joke about Trump winning the South Carolina primary, which was Trump actually had two versions of his speech, one a victory speech in casey one and a victory speech in casey lost.

Hey, Seth Meyers celebrated his tenth year anniversary. Guess who stopped by and made an edit here for pacing. But let’s listen here with my very good friend Amy Poehler. We were talking about the first show back in twenty fourteen. Your fellow guest.

He was kind enough to follow you that night, Vice President Joe Biden. Yeah, that was he was a class act. Yeah, we did try to get him for our ten year anniversary show. Obviously got a bigger job now, so he was unavailable. Oh you couldn’t get him.

I couldn’t get him now, Oh I could get him. Hey President, welcome back, mister President. It’s good to be back. Why haven’t you invited me earlier? Well, of note, Seth did wear a suit I mentioned yesterday he hadn’t been wearing a suit, but I guess when you know Potus is coming by, you suit up all right.

Shane Gillis has a new deal with Netflix. They’ve acquired the independently produced sitcom Tires from Shane. He stars and serves as executive producer. Six episodes self financed. It a premiere on May twenty third.

As part of the deal, Netflix will also produce a new stand up special with Shane that’ll be his second. In Tires, Steven Gerbin plays Will, the nervous and unqualified air to and auto repair Shane. Will attempts to turn his father’s business around despite constant torture from his cousin and now employee Shane. Shane is played by That’s right, Shane Gillis. Who do think I was gonna say?

I shared in the Daily Comedy News podcast group a sketch that did not make SNL. It is wonderful. I would share with you here, but it wouldn’t make sense. It’s a take off on the insurance and as with the EMU. You know, hey, ad amcle I’m thinking here, I can’t even remember what it’s advertising, you know, the one with the EMU and It’s basically a riff on Training Day where Shane and the EMU go to investigate a case and things go sideways like they do in Training Day.

Barstool Sports wrote, what the f how did this not make the cut? Finally, something different and hysterical from SNL and they left it on the coning room floor. Makes me wonder what else they’re keeping from us. We had to sit through what felt like forty five minutes of Bo and Yang on Weekend Update for god knows what reason, but Limu the EMU doing coke, is put on Twitter. Barstool rights.

I don’t doubt that there are hilarious writers over at SNL, but I also don’t doubt that the show has lost itself so badly that the theater kids in charge of the decisions and Lord Michaels seems to be in his old man who doesn’t know up from down era just have no clue what people want to see. I mean, bleep. They opened the gill Us episode with a Trump based cold open that only got zero laughs. It was almost if the writers were saying, oh, yeah, you want killis hosting, Well, we’re gonna do a crappy Trump sketch. At the top out of spite that the opening was pretty bad.

I didn’t make it all the way through before he had fast forward. I will talk more about what people really want in the second half of today’s podcast if you’d like to see the sketches in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. So I started wondering is Shane even controversial? Or we in a cycle of headlines saying he’s controversial? Like, who’s actually upset that Shane even exists?

At this point, I have some thoughts about that. I’ve started a new substack. I’ll talk about the second half where I wrote about this. I’m not sure there’s actually a controversy right now. There was five years ago, but I’m not sure there’s one this week.

As for who’s even offended, I did find one guy, which we’ll get to in a second. I find myself in the weird position of agreeing with somebody on Fox News. Guy Benson wrote, if this guy, Shane wrot Or said something that was bad and then maybe went overboard firing whatever, is there no path back to redemption? You can never do anything again, Like I’m glad s and Alec Nor then mentality and brought him back, maybe belated league because he did a good job. Yeah, Johnny Mack thinks that episode was pretty funny.

Fox News contributor Lisa Booth said, aren’t comedians supposed to push the boundaries and be controversial? Co host Charlie Hurt said, it’s not just the humor, it’s also the truthfulness. The whole point of court jesters is they tell the truth and it’s in a funny way, and they get away with it and they don’t get beheaded by the king. Co host Katie Pavlich said, Americans people all over itching for more comedy. They want to laugh at things, especially in times that feel very heavy.

People really want to laugh about these things. And the over sensitivity and calling jokes about certain people hate movements. I think people are really getting tired of that. There’s a reason you’ve seen comedians refusing to go to college campuses, for example, because it’s not worth it to them. They’re going to go to an audience, and there are many of them that exist where people want to laugh and not take things too seriously, and comedy is a great way to joke and to really establish what’s happening in the country.

Almost a historical record in a way that can be funny, and so people want more jokes. They don’t want to be scolded. The Fox News article cites Variety from twenty nineteen quoting Shane. All Right, that’s a like triple quote there. Back then, Shane said, feels ridiculous for comedians to be making serious public statements, but here we are.

I’m a comedian. It was funny enough to get SNL. That can’t be taken away. Of course, I want an opportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction. I respect the decision they made.

I’m honestly grateful for the opportunity. I was always a mad TV guy anyway. Pavlich said, Shane won that one, and I’m sure he’ll be back somewhere else, even if SNL doesn’t have him back In The Atlantic, Jeremy Gordon writes under the headline what Shane Gillis proved on SNL, and I think this is a pretty fair balance to take. Jeremy Gordon writes, the comedian Shane Gillis is fond of joking about all the things he knows. He looks like a high school football coach, a possible parking a lot rapist, a police brutality skeptic, someone who asked to go see the rest of the bodycam footage before we jump to any conclusions he’ll pose as a recognizable genre of buffoon or creep before subverting those expectations.

In his Netflix special Beautiful Dogs, he pretended to be a ra ro jingoist before lamenting America’s epidemic of gun violence. He also joked about becoming an early on set Republican before noting that emergent concerns boiled down to why are black guys in every commercial? And mermaids are white? In many of his routines, he embodies the anxieties felt by a certain stratum of straight white men about their waning cultural influence, and then he makes these anxieties the butt of the joke Gordon Wrights. In fact, Gillis would likely have never achieved his current level of success had he not been fired by SNL.

The podcast where he made those remarks is now the top Patreon account in the world. Today was announced that Netflix has ordered a scripted show and another special for him. Considering the social penalties voice that on most public figures caught using offensive slurs. This good fortune may seem surprising, but the Gillis incident transpired at the nexus of Sarah phenomena, ongoing debates about free speech and comedy, spearheaded by celebrity performers such as Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle, and the identity based sensitivities associated with wokeness, and finally, the expansion of an independent media ecosystem centered on podcasts, where people can run their mouth without much oversight and connect directly with paying fans scrolling down. Gordon rights back in twenty nineteen, when Gillis’s offensive remarks first came to light, he said, up, I’m happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.

Well, I was offended, and it wasn’t just some virtuous pose. It was because he’d repeatedly said something offensive in service of jokes that weren’t even good time out for me. If they were good jokes, is it okay? Then is there a line there? Gordon write.

Some reviews claim that Gillis had bombed his monologue, but I’m not sure about that. I took his nervouses as an honest admission that the night was unconventional and weird, but he was going to get through it. Stand up comics are always reading the room, and on Saturday, Giviss appeared to be full of humility about the opportunity to prove himself on this particular platform. He said, thank you guys so much. That means a lot to me to be here.

I really appreciate it, and Gordon said he sounded sincere. Good stuff there. Jimmy Fallon is coming to Prime Time for one night. It’ll be his tenth anniversary of hosting The Tonight Show. This will air Tuesday, May fourteenth.

Fallon told his audience, We’re so grateful we get to do this job. I want to thank everyone on our staff and crew, and of course all of you for tuning in every single night for the past ten years. To celebrate, really, thank you so much. To celebrate, NBC is going enter a two hour Prime Time Best of Tonight Show special on May fourteenth, the best moments of the Tonight Show from the past ten years, featuring some of our favorite sketches, guests, and musical performances, from tight Pants with Will Ferrell to Me Almost Dating Nicole Kidman and musical bits like classroom instruments with Metallica and Adel, we had so many fun moments. In a statement, Jimmy said, to be able to sit in the same chair as the iconic Hoast before me, It’s been my absolute honor to be part of the Tonight Show for the past ten years.

I still pinch myself every day, and I’m so appreciative of the opportunity to stand alongside the giants of her business who have made their mark on this great TV institution. I still think they should have given Conan Moore rope, but I get why they didn’t. Jordan Klepper is excited about the return of Jon Stewart. He was on The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast and said, what an exciting, awesome shock for us to sort of have this person who was really important for so many people’s lives here at the Daily Show. I think this last year and a half taught us many things, and one of them is through the infrastructure of the Daily Show, we have such a very clear voice.

John came in sort of like, here’s what I’m feeling about this. This is such an important year. It’s an existential threat, is what everybody’s talking about, and we all know the threat Donald Trump poses, and we also know it looks like it’s going to be Joe Biden. What do Democrats feel about this? What are the insecurities people ever around this idea?

And how do we talk authentically about the fears people have? Really, what the show needed was John coming in and all of us getting into that room being like, all right, here we are. This is the team. We got John Stewart back, and we’re running as fast as we can till this election. Klepper said, as somebody who came in during John’s time, stuff mattered.

John was a comedian and approached it comedy first, but the guy was serious as a heart attack, as smart as you can get. People tune into John. I tuned into John because I trusted him. I trusted that he wasn’t bound by party politics, he wasn’t bound by BS, and I think people were drawn to that. Johnny Max take is I think the Daily Show is going to have an awesome run here into November.

The ratings have been pretty good. Haven’t seen this week’s ratings yet. I’m wondering if there’s maybe more to be mined. Here is eleven pm on Comedy Central on cable TV, and I know it airzon streaming the next day. I think maybe it’s the same day.

I don’t know. Is that the best use? Should this thing air earlier in the evening? Should it air on CBS proper? Like I keep saying, I feel like John could have a really big summer here and for the Daily Show.

I wonder what’s going to happen on the other side. You better use this opportunity to figure out who’s next. Trevor Noah used to host the Daily Show. Nice Segue John and The Crypto Times, your home for Daily Comedy News, said that Trevor was at the Web Summit Qatar twenty twenty four conference. Trevor lamented that he didn’t buy bitcoin when it cost almost nothing.

He said, not buying bitcoin was easily the biggest mistake I’ve ever made. If you’re into podcasting, there’s a wonderful newsletter called pod News and they have this item. The host of The Fighter and the Kid, Brendan Schob, has lost a legal claim against YouTuber you unique y ewneek. Now, I didn’t get the joke until I actually read it out loud. You probably didn’t get the joke till I spelled it you unique anyway, Shob claimed that a reaction video used Shob’s copyrighted material, and Shob’s lawyers managed to get YouTube to shut down the channel for two year period while the case was ongoing.

The judge rule that the use of shops material was fair use. I lightly mentioned in the first half of the podcast, I’ve started a substack newsletter. I just I always have thoughts about the media, and I’m like, all right, let me actually write them down. It has the really well thought out title John McDermott’s Media Thoughts Substack. If you want to follow it, I’m not trying to make money off that thing, so just take.

You have to offer a paid option, click on the free option. I’m not going to put anything behind the paywall anytime in the near future. It is mcdeepod dot substack dot com. The link is in the show notes. If you need something to watch today, on the eight hundred pound Gorillaz YouTube channel at seven pm Central eight Eastern, it’s David Cross Worst Daddy in the World.

That’s pretty cool. I would watch that, except it’s eighties trivia Night. The trivia guys over at the Brewery in Morristown. It’s eighties trivia night. I cannot wait for this.

I better win tonight. This is it, this is in my wheelhouse. If I don’t promise, I don’t know movies, and I gotta hope my friend Van comes. He knows movies. I better.

I better at least win a T shirt. I mean, it’s eighties trivia night. I can’t wait. So I won’t be watching David Crossworst Daddy in the World on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel tonight, but maybe tomorrow if you’re up late. Taylor Thompson has Fortune Feamster May Martin and tig Nataro as her guest.

That’s pretty good if you need something to listen to. Al Madrigal and Jay Larson have their new podcast, The Dust Up, out today. Netflix has announced Steve Travino will have a new special it’s called A Simple Man, that’ll be out March twelfth. A Simple Man see Steve Travino tell us what it’s like living with a Type A Virgo wife, squabbling over containers and pizza parties. He also shares nostalgic tales of his dad’s broken down truck one an unlikely love story two.

In comedy rule of three and how to face the challenges of raising spoiled kids. Today, every pres lease does the one two three as a husband, father, and son. Steve is just doing the best he can as a simple man. So many of the comments one time, like two years ago, got so mad when I point out the comedy rule of three. So I didn’t do it for like two years, but it’s back.

I’m doing it. Congratulations, Eliza Slessinger, you and husband Noah have welcomed a second baby. Ethan arrived weighing seven pounds thirteen ounces. Eliza told People Magazine. I picked Ethan partly because it means strong in Hebrew, and because Ethan’s are usually pretty good looking.

And that is your comedy news for today. I had more, but I felt like I got out on a funny note there, So always leave them wanning more. Do you want more? Well, if you want more, I’ll be back tomorrow. If you don’t already follow the podcast, hit that follow button there.

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