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Featured: Guy Fieri, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreischer, Bobby Lee, Tony Hawk, Adam Ray, John Oliver, Mark Maron, Patton Oswalt, Nate Bargatze, Jeff Foxworthy

What’s in This Episode

• Guy Fieri’s new Food Network show ‘Guy’s Feast Club’ featuring comedians
• Adam Ray’s ‘Dr. Phil Live’ cheaply produced show debuting on Netflix June 19
• John Oliver joining ‘Days of Our Lives’ soap opera with custom-written role
• Mark Maron interview: childhood nicknames, cereal obsessions, karaoke choices
• Patton Oswalt on balancing topical vs observational comedy and America’s direction
• Nate Bargatze Netflix special taping with delayed start and theater-in-the-round setup
• Jeff Foxworthy explains comedy math: one new minute per week takes a year to develop

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Guy Fieri has a new show. It’s called Guy’s Feast Club. Why are we talking about this John because he’s got some comedians on it, including Andrew Santino and Bert Krascher.

Before episode series Guys Feast Club will include guests feasting on dishes like Tomahawk Ribbi sandwiches while chatting with the Food Network chef. There’s a trailer he introduces his guests, whom he calls the most talented people on the planet, including Bert Kreischer. Guy asks the guests what they would like to eat. Andrew Santino says Italian food would be nice. Bobby Lee says Korean.

Guy explains the show, I find out what they’re craving, I go get it. We sit down and what happens next is anybody’s guests. So in the four episodes, there’s an Italian least with Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino, a Tomahawk Ribbi sandwich with Bert Krascher, and then the other guests are Tony Hawk and somebody else. Sounds very exciting, doesn’t it. Adam Ray is getting a cheap television show on Netflix.

Now, the people at Netflix are mistaken. They think this is a podcast because they don’t understand what a podcast is. It’s actually an inexpensively produced television show that they’re airing on Netflix under the column that says podcast. But this is in no way a podcast. But what is it?

John? It is called Adam Ray Doctor Phil Live. The cheaply produced television show will debut on Netflix June nineteenth. That’s coming up with four episodes. Michael Boobley the first guest, then Dave Matthews, Niki Lazer, Oh Boy, and Andrew Santino.

Future guests include Hasan Minhaj, Jelly Roll, Marshaun Lynch, John Schneider, and Mike McDonald. Know not John Schneider from The Dukes of Hazzard, I don’t think it’s the general manager and head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Joel mchel Mark Normand Ray’s mother, the Google Dolls, and more. Adam Ray will engage in quote deep dive converse with the guests, but not always as himself. He’ll drift into improvised characters, including Doctor Phil.

Meanwhile, Days of Our Lives has taken John Oliver up on his offer.

According to The Daily Mail, John Oliver has started taping a role on Days of Our Lives, with the part reportedly written specifically for him. The Daily Mail calls the role whacky now. Back in March, John Oliver closed an episode of Last Week Tonight with a tribute to the pleasures of daytime soaps. During that segment, he said, I’m officially offering myself to you. Write me your role, and I’ll be on your set so fast that it’ll make your head spin.

He did have conditions. He does not want to play himself. He wanted the character to have a ridiculous name, and he wanted something quote unquote juicy, preferably involving murder or slapping or being slapped or being someone’s long lost something. He also requested a dramatic close up. Variety had ten questions from Mark Maren.

Mark childhood nickname, Mark said drink p In fifth grade at stickball, my coach used to call me Hank Maren, which was pretty good because I hit a couple homers. I wouldn’t say I was doing it all the time, but I don’t remember too many nicknames other than just my last name. All right, Mark, something you loved as a kid, but can’t believe you were into it now. Mark said I was pretty involved with cocoa pebbles. You didn’t expect him to say that.

I don’t feel ashamed about it, but I try to eat them recently. It’s not the same. His go to karaoke song is Bob Dylan’s Going Going Gone. He also does Taylor Swift’s Bigger Than the Whole Sky, which is in his recent special. Some of the other questions, they’re not all interesting.

Secret talent. I can cook and I can play. Harmonica favorite ice cream flavor Ben and Jerry still makes pretty good vegan ice cream, the chocolate fudge brown he’s good. The vegan Jerry cherry garcilla is good. Vegan fish food is good.

I like things with caramel and them too. One thing Mark Maren couldn’t live with out his glasses what TV showed as he wished he could have been on the cast Mary Tyler Moore to work with Ed Asner at that point. How funny wuld that had been the whole crew? Oh my god, it’s so funny. Favorite piece of advice, Mark Maren.

I remember one time when I was talking to an editor about a book, and I was kind of panicking, so I go, but it’s going to be okay, right, and he said, yeah, we’re not. I think it’s as honest as you could be. No, Oswalt, what aspirations do you have now as an actor, now that you’ve ruined Star Trek and you can ruin other things? Patten said, I want to keep acting in movies, obviously, and then I want to write and direct. I’ve always been kind of fascinated by the kind of low stakes, low life crime world.

That’s something that’s always drawn me in New topic. Hey, Pat and Oswalt and your specials, what’s the balance between topical and observational comedy? Does that change over time? Patten said, it fluctuates each special. I just do a snapshot of me reacting to the world at that time.

I’m not trying to do anything beyond that. I’m trying to capture that moment, how it feels. He talked about the week when we went to the Moon and started a war. Pat said, it’s weird how we’re at the extremes of our highs and lows right now. It’s insane.

Humans have been the furthest they’ve ever been away from this planet, and they’re poets. They’re sending down these beautiful transmissions, and then we have a guy on the ground is saying, I’m going to wipe out a civilization. I don’t know our minds are going to keep both of those together, but we’ll see. He talked about he is feeling of the current direction of America, and he said, I think it’s gonna take a generation. I don’t think we’ve got to throw a switch and go back.

We’re so far down this road. There are many people like if I can’t have this level of cruelty and pet I’d rather the world burn down. That’s a level of nihilism that we’re going to have to work through. Send your letters to Paton Oswalt, Star trek Ruiner. Folks at fort Worth dot com went to see Nate Burghetzi.

They say the electric atmosphere was evident at the three o’clock performance Three o’clock Wow. Due to heavy traffic and late arriving patrons, the show began about thirty minutes late. Julian McCullough served as both MC and opening acts, warming up the crowd. Fellow comedians Mike Vickione and Greg Warren followed with sets Greg Warren mind humor from dating, missaps, and social awkwardness. All three comics frequently engaged audience members, et cetera, et cetera.

This was a Netflix taping in the afternoon that started thirty minutes late, which told crane mounted cameras glided across the arena floor to capture Burghetzi’s Theater in the Round presentation, while a rotating overhead camera recorded audience reactions minor joke spoilers, whether wondering how many chickens could fit inside a horse or admitting that he blindly accepts every website’s cookie policy because he has no idea what any of it means. He consistently found humor in ordinary situations. Jeff Foxworthy explained comedy math to NPR sixty minutes of Comedy for Special Equals a year on stage, Jeff Foxworthy said, I guess was nineteen eighty four and Jay Leno was probably the King of the Road comics, and he said, your goal should be to write one new minute a week, and I remember sitting there going to eat crazy. A week, I can write twenty new minutes, and I found out over time. He was exactly right.

It’s hard. It’s trying to find a thing that’s going to make a room full of strangers laugh every time you say it. Jeff talked about working political or not. I had a lot of friends that did political stuff, and half the room hates you. My goal was to make as many people laugh as I could.

And because a I really believe if you took people from different sides of the political spectrum, they could peg one side or the other, and you sat down with them and you said, what do you want out of life? Would probably agree on eighty five percent of things, But instead of celebrating that eighty five percent, what we chose to do was scream and throw things at each other for the fifteen percent that were different. One of the coolest things about Stand Up for me was before I did it, I hadn’t been anywhere. I’ve never been out of the South.

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That’s the part I choose to go after with comedy. Jeff, will this be your last special? I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure I’m more content and more at peace, and now at this point in my life, I’m like, you know what, if I got a spare Wednesday evening, I don’t want to be in a club with no cards in my hands. I’d rather be laying on the bed reading to my grandkids. It’s not because I didn’t love this thing.

It’s because I love other things too. You may recall Bill Engvall retired and then unretired, so we will see. Jeff Foxworthy is sixty seven. Guy Brainham Toldnuvau dot Nett. When I started, stand up comedy was something that was done eighty five percent by heterosexual men.

When people showed up at a comedy show at a random comedy venue, they assumed a really specific perspective, and if they weren’t getting that, they were shocked and surprised. The change that happened in stand up comedy in America is not a change to that because of the raw, amazing talent of a greater diversity of stand up comedians. It’s a change that happened because audience has changed, because women showed up to shows not wanting to be humiliated and insulted. Because queer people realized it was a space they could show up to and not always be the butt of the joke. You can’t deny that gay comedy was unusual when I started, No successful gay male stand up comics, even recently as six or seven years ago.

Now you have Matteo Lane, Caleb heern An. Its higher generation of people have been able to build that. What Matteo has is in so many ways because of YouTube and Instagram stuff he did on his own terms. What Caleb achieved is because of TikTok and his podcast. I think we’re at this really interesting moment entertainment where a consolidation of the gatekeepers has given a small number of corporations what they believe is a whole lot of power, but because they’re not using it in ways that are reflect other times, they could very easily lose that power to other institutions that aren’t gatekeeping as Hard and Toronto has the series Tragedy Plus Time.

They caught up with Ashwan Singh, a Toronto comedian, seeing discusses topics like immigration, religion, and social hypocrisy, and splits his time between Toronto and Deli influences. Good List here George Carlin, Patris o’ neil, Doug Stanhope, Dave Chappelle, Taylor Thompson, Michelle Wolfe, and some others. Favorite comedian growing up, Carlin. Always love that answer. Favorite comedian now depends on the day, but probably still Carlin.

And that is your comedy news for today. It is June. So you’re sharing the show, right. I forgot to bother you about that on Friday. You’re sharing the show.

You’re telling people, right, You’re like, Hey, there’s this guy and he talks about stuff. I don’t know what the show’s really about, but I kind of like it. I listen every day. So what are you gonna do is you’re gonna hit You have a phone in your hand right now, right, push the share button and send it to somebody would go, hey, listen to this. It’s a random Sunday episode in the summer, and they’ll be like, wow, that was a pretty good episode.

Thank you, John. I don’t know why I put myself down. If you like the show, share the show and I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Matt McCusker, Lorne Michaels, Joe Rogan, John McKeever

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis SNL firing and controversy (September 2019)
• Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast origins and audience building
• Joe Rogan’s long-form podcast format and cultural impact
• Shane Gillis podcast clips resurfacing and offensive language
• Lorne Michaels defending Shane Gillis after NBC forced firing
• Gilly and Keeves YouTube sketches and character work

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac In this summer on Saturday, is gonna start doing some deep dives on some topics. Today, we’ll take a look at Shane Gillis. And here’s the thing about the Shane Gillis story that nobody tells. Right.

Everybody starts with SNL. Everybody starts with September twenty nineteen, the firing, the controversy, the tweets, the whole thing, And it’s understandable because it’s a clean narrative. Guy gets the biggest job in comedy, loses it three days later, and somehow ends up bigger than he ever would have been had he kept SNL. Good story, writes itself. The more interesting story, the one that actually tells you something useful about where comedy is right now, starts a few years earlier, in a much less glamorous place.

It starts with two guys from Pennsylvania doing a podcast that almost nobody was listening to, talking about comedy in a way that felt less like a product and more like a conversation that needed to be recorded. Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, two guys genuinely entertaining each other, and occasionally remembering there might be people listening. There were a lot of comedy podcasts in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, even more so now. Most have a recognizable formula comedian. You’ve heard of a guest, you’ve heard of some stories about the road, maybe some bits that didn’t make the special.

Thing about Matt and Chane was neither of them were famous enough yet to have that kind of show. Plus the show had a specific sensibility that was weird and funny in its own right. It wasn’t using the podcast as a promotional vehicle, it was using the podcast as the actual thing. Joe Rogan gets credited with proving that the long form podcast could be a legitimate media format, but what Rogan also did was create a permission structure for comedians to build audiences outside the traditional pipeline. Before Rogan, the consensus was that the path when something like this, you do clubs, you go on late night, you get a Comedy Central special, maybe you get a sitcom.

Somewhere in that process, the industry validates you and the public finds you. Rogan didn’t quite follow that path. He did TV Fear Factor UFC. But Rogan experience operated completely outside that validation system. By the end of the twenty tens, Rogan had more reach than basically any TV show, and it built it by just talking to people for three hours.

Now, what he pointed out now, what Rogan accomplished was that the gigkeepers were optional. Shane Gillis was building something real on top of his podcast. The podcast was getting passed around by people who cared about stand up and Shane got a reputation in the clubs as someone whose material was genuinely different in olden times. There’s a version of the next few years. We would have grinded through the normal progression, maybe it gainst a Comedy Central half hour, but instead he got the call to SNL.

No, you remember that. That was a big deal. Shane was funny, original, and the fact that SNL was adding him felt like confirmation of what his audience had been saying.

And then three days later, old podcast clips surfaced some bits with some rac…

It was kind of surreal because I went from I was one of the first people to get like canceled or however you want to say it. Consequences however, Yeah, however you want to say it. It doesn’t matter what we call it. It is what it is, right, But uh, I was one of the first people to go from I was doing. I was poor.

I was not famous at all. I was poor, and then I got canceled immediately, like that was my thing, Like right, it was a very famous and then yeah, most people that get canceled or yeah, you got canceled on the way. I got canceled immediately. Yeah. They literally were like how about this guy?

And everyone was like no. The official statement was polite and final. Lorden Michaels does not do messy public disputes. Shane was out USA Today September twelfth, twenty nineteen. Shane gillis one of three new featured players on SNL is apologizing.

Shane posted to Twitter, I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes missed some happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said. Note the actually in there, the clip that was pulled, Shane said, I’ll quote it directly from USA Today here Chinatown’s expletive nuts. Let the expletive live there, using a racial slur for the second expletive. Shane’s apology continues, if you go through my ten years of comedy, most of it is bad, You’re going to find a lot of bad misses.

My intention is never to hurt anyone, but I’m trying to be the best comedian I can, and sometimes that requires risks. From The Independent, October twenty fifth, twenty twenty four. Lorne Michaels, the creator of SNL, has said that he didn’t want to fire Shane Gillis from the show, but was ordered to by executives at NBC. Lauren told the Whorl Street Journal that was very strong from the people in charge, and obviously I was not on that side, but I understood it. Lauren said he kept in touch with Shane after the firing.

Michael said he said something stupid, but it got blown up into the end of the world. I was angry. I thought, you haven’t even seen what we’re gonna do and what I’m trying to bring out in him, because I thought he was the real thing. After the firing, an SNL spokesperson in Or issued a statement which reads, after talking with Shane Gillis. We have decided he will not be joining SNL.

We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as a committe and his impressive audition for SNL. We were not aware of his prior marks that have surfaced over the past few days. The language he used is offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier and that our vetting process was not up to our standard. Shane responded to the news of his firing on Twitter, saying, I’m a comedian.

It was funny enough to get SNL that can’t get taken away. Of course, I wanted an opportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction. I respect the decision they made, honestly grateful for the opportunity. I was always a mad TV guy anyway, After all that. The discourse that followed depended on which side you were on.

Was it a reckoning with the kind of comedy that gets platformed, or an example of outrage culture eating someone who was clearly not a bad person. Or some complicated thing in between those two positions. Now, Shane’s statement is interesting. He didn’t grovel in the way that crisis PR people usually suggest one does. But he also didn’t go on offense, and he went back to work.

He did the podcast, he kept doing clubs. He didn’t disappear. And here’s what the TV executives missed. A huge number of people already felt like they knew Shane Gilly. They’ve been listening to the podcast and watching the clips.

They had a relationship with him that preceded SNL. When SNL fired him, those people didn’t update their opinion of Shane based on SNL’s decision. If anything, his fans dug in harder. Then there’s the Gillian Keeves stuff. Shane and John McKeever started doing character videos that lived on YouTube and existed outside the podcast ecosystem and outside the stand up ecosystem, just doing their own thing.

Gilly is a character Shane does, kind of a dumb, sweet, vaguely threatening guy from Pennsylvania, and the sketches have a handmade quality that it feels unpolished. Their production value is intentionally low. The pacing is often ways that feel deliberate they’re funny in a way that’s generally hard to explain if you haven’t seen them. Hello, I’m Bob Isis of Isis Toyota, and we have a great collection of pre owned, certified Toyotas. But there’s one thing I want to make very clear, and it’s that we have nothing to do with the terrorists over there in the Middle East right now, and that’s why we are the good Isis all right, listen, yeah, lean into the Isist thing.

It’s a good marketing tool, the great marketing tool. I agree with Barbie. I think you should be like here at Iss Toyota will behead the competition. Yes, no, we’re not doing this. What are you guys talking about.

We’re not wishing death to any of our enemies. We are wishing death to low the high prices. Me and Barbie. We can hold AK forty seven. Yeah no, no, that would be so cool.

So I’m holding an AK forty seven. She’s holding AK forty seven. You’re like, we gotta go both toyotas and I I can be doing that like terrorist turkey gobble thing, you know what I mean. We’re like good. Enough at Ices Toyota.

We have nothing to do with Aboo Bakar albak Dottie and his vicious gang of thugs. All we’re trying to do is put you into an affordable tree owned, certified Toyota. What’s notable about it, it’s it’s proof of something that not every stand up can pull off, which is being funny in multiple formats. It also helped Shane reach more people because you might not be ready to listen to two hours of him and Matt, but you’ll watch a four minute sketch on YouTube where something weird and funny happens. Different entry points, different audience relationships, all building towards the same thing.

By the time Shane’s Netflix special That’s My Time came out, Shane was operating with an audience that had been built over years through channels that Netflix had nothing to do with. The special was good, confidently good, the kind of stand up special where you can tell the comedians knows exactly what they’re doing and it’s comfortable taking their time. A lot of guys would knock on the front door. Not these guys, not our guys, not our guys. Our guys went through the wall.

They blew up his roll, and they used dogs beautiful dogs. Beautiful dogs is the funniest detail. It’s true. They actually did use It was the Army Rangers, and they used dogs because they were afraid howback daddy was gonna be wearing a suicide vest, so they killed him with dogs in a robot and then made fun of him for crying. Let that guy cry.

That’s the scariest death I’ve ever heard of. That dude was laying in his bed in the middle of night. His wall exploded ten dogs in a robot. Netflix wasn’t breaking Shane Gillis to the world. They were confirming what people already knew.

Historically, the platform, whether it be HBO or in later days, Comedy Central and then Netflix was the thing that made you the special was how people found you. Netflix wanted this special because they’d watched enough comedians to understand that an audience that was earned through years of direct relationship is more durable and more engaged than an audience that came through a platform recommendation algorithm. Then in twenty twenty four, Shane hosted Saturday Night Live Ladies and Gentlemen. Shane Giless. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.

It’s yeah, I’m here. They Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was, actually I was fired from this show while ago. But if you know, don’t look that up. Please.

If you don’t know who I am, please don’t google that. It’s fine, don’t even worry about it. I don’t know this is I probably shouldn’t be up here. Honestly, Lord Michaels does not do things accidentally. Inviting Shane Gillis back to host was not a neutral decision.

It was a signal that this person is large enough that the firing now looks like a mistake. I thought Shane was very funny that night. Some people did not. I thought it was great. He did a monologue that acknowledged the history without making the whole episode about the history that brings us to today.

The comics coming up right now are watching all this. They’re watching the way Shane navigated the firing, watching the way the podcast became a real thing, watching the YouTube stuff find its own audience, watching the Netflix deal, watching the SNL hosting. They’re learning that you don’t have to go through the old paths. Doesn’t mean SNL doesn’t matter, doesn’t mean Netflix doesn’t matter. It means they’re different now.

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Featured: Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Adam Sandler, Tracy Morgan, Mark Maron, Tony Hinchcliffe

What’s in This Episode

• Comedians at Knicks game courtside sightings
• Jerry Seinfeld Palestine streamer confrontation
• Tracy Morgan on teachers and education
• Mark Maron ends WTF podcast after 16 years
• Mark Maron Panic special and creative process
• Tony Hinchcliffe Man of the People Netflix special review

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, how about those New York Knicks. Hello, I’m Johnny Man with your tailely comedy news. I’m still buzzing about that game. We’re gonna talk about that game.

Let me just try and focus on about comedy a little bit. Adam Sandler was at the game in front of the show Scott Beckett, who was texting with me after midnight. First of all, that I was even up after midnight watching the post game show. After that next game the other night, Wow, Sandler was at the game, and the Athletics review said, I feel like I just watched uncut gems again after the game. As the legend of the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler continues to take rude, people are understanding what Adam Sandler is good at and what he’s terrible at, and what he’s terrible at is, of course, comedy.

So many comedians were at the game Sandler. Of course, Jerry Seinfeld was on camera a lot, Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan, of course. I saw a different list that said Amy Schumer was there someplace, Rain Wilson, Chris Rock, Oh yeah, Chris Rock was on camera, and Taylor Swift was there being all kinds of annoying. Somebody said, Taylor Swift looks like she googles four seconds before game. How do sports fans act?

And then she tries to act like a sports fan. She’s not good at it. Now I see circulating on the internet pictures of Taylor from like twenty fourteen, proving that she’s actually a Knicks fan, but she just seems fake. Jerry Seinfeld was at the game. As he walked out of the game, a pro Palestinian streamer tried to get Jerry to say something about Palestine.

Jerry told the streamer it doesn’t exist. I’m not going to get into all that, but the video of the incident did go viral on social media. You may have seen it. Nicks fan Tracy Morgan in trouble, having nothing to do with the Knicks. Tracy was hanging around with that guy Marcelo Hernandez who does one thing well and one thing only.

They were on CNN and Variety’s Actors on Actors. Marcelo Hernandez revealed that he got scolded by teachers for making mischief in school. Tracy Morgan said, you know who gave you that voice? No they didn’t understand you. You had a sense of humor and they couldn’t control that.

God gave that to you. Marcello said, Now look at it, I’m getting paid for mischief, Tracy said. And they’re still making a minimum wage. You know how much them teachers are probably making right now? Hernandez said, Man, not enough.

Tracy Morgan said, I can’t stand teachers. You know why, because they have a ceiling, a limit. That’s all they ever going to be. I teach my kids, sky is the limit. You can tell Tracy did well in school because he said that’s all they ever gonna be.

Then again, Tracy Morgan was court side at the next game. Now, if you listen to yesterday’s show, you know I was kind of vamping. I had my good fastball, and then my wife came home.

And then it’s not that I don’t love my wife, it’s that my wife starts making …

She’s allowed to live here and make noise, but it throws me off. Normally, I have the ouse to myself, phone a record, and I get kind of loose the way I am now when other people around, and you know, it’s distracting. But what I’m learning today is it’s good that she came home because I would have used this Mark Marin story yesterday, And as I prepped the show today, I realized, oh, there’s barely anything happening. Good thing I have the Maren the story for length. Variety caught up with Mark the topic ending his podcast Does he miss It?

Mark Maron said, I don’t find myself freaking out as much. I mean, it was a big haul. We did a lot of episodes. We did two new episodes a week. I was banking interviews.

It was all consuming, and anytime you stop something that’s all consuming, any kind of relationship after sixteen years, there’s a freedom there. I thought there would be more of a panic or more of a sadness, but that really didn’t happen. Maren says he has resisted pitches to get back behind the mic. Maren says there were people that wanted to set me up somewhere, or do a deal with the old catalog and do new stuff. I don’t know.

I don’t see if there’s anything really special about the format anymore. You know what’s special about the format? Mark, Netflix, Bunny take it and I don’t see if there’s any reason to compete in the format anymore. We did a thing, the more you keep doing it, when it just becomes a job just kind of fades away. You’d rather not be the guy that people are going, oh, is he still doing that?

Mark walked away four months too early, in my opinion. The kind of feel bad for him. He talked about his special Paniced, in which he joked that liberals annoyed the average American into fascism. Mark said, it’s a line that came to me probably a week before the special. It came out of nowhere.

It was quite a gift from whatever muse I’m working with. But that was a line that kind of dropped in pretty close to showtime. There were a couple other lines seems to have resonated that particular line. He said, it took two years to build Panic, but he made some tonal changes a few weeks before the show. I was constantly shaping it.

It’s sort of the way I do it. I kind of keep it fluid and let new things happen right up to showtime. If you really look at Panic, there’s a full special. There’s some heavy stuff in there. Man, there’s stuff in there about death.

There’s stuff in there about having to deal with childhood trauma, there’s stuff about processing grief. But I do notice the stuff that sticks with people is lighter. How are the cats, Mark Marin. I have this problem with Charlie and Buster. Charlie wants to kill Buster.

Buster’s the old guy, Sam’s middle guy, and it was a lot. It was causing me a lot of problems. But I put Charlie on a new medicine and the advice I was given was to keep them separate, but rotate them during the day so they each get an equal time in the bigger part of the house, and you know, put one in the bedroom one of the main house and switch them out. It’s a bit much, but now I just let the meach have a floor. I think Charlie is a lot happier.

I don’t know if it’s the medicine or the space, but he’s happier, and that’s good, good news for me. There’s a lot more to that interview, which is good. Here I’ll flip the cards over and tell you because right now I have nothing for Monday. I don’t have a single story for Monday right now, So you might hear me talking about Mark merrin website. DM Talkies watched Tony Hinchcliff special.

I haven’t gotten to it yet. I’ve got a list I have to watch that Josh Johnson, Hannah Berner, and Dylan in the Facebook group will remind me what else I haven’t watched yet. I’ve been watching The Knicks. Did I mention that? So spoilers here, I’m gonna spoil you.

I’m gonna spoil me. Let’s see what DM Talkies thought of Tony Hinchcliff’s Man of the People on Netflix. Well, their subheader is does disqualify as comedy now and they gave it one star out of five. Though I think we know where this is going. But let me see what DM Talkies does, and I don’t know, let me do it in some sort of I rate character.

Tony Hinchcliff Man of the People barely qualifies as a stand up comedy special. Technically, sure, it’s a stand up comedy special because it was a guy standing on that stage. See, this is the kind of stuff I can’t do in my wife’s home. If she’s home, she’s just sitting on the couch on our iPad. I can’t get into this character.

I just can’t do it. He is trying to make people laugh, and it’s being presented to us in the form of a Netflix special. But the man in question is so spineless and the jokes are so unfunny that it’s hard to see what makes this event so special? Is this this bad? I thought I saw Dylan in the group say that it was pretty good or okay, let me check.

I don’t want to put words in Dylan’s mouth. Hold on, oh no, oh no, no, not oh no, oh good. I just see here. An hour ago, as I record this, Dylan posted a list of somebody’s top comedians of the twenty first century. That’s some good filler if I have nothing for Monday.

All right, here’s Dylan’s scorecard. I’m in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Yeah, Tony Hinchcliffe is that at number sixteen at an AUS? So who knows? Do we trust Dylan or do we trust DM Talkies who wrote?

But the man in question is so spineless and the jokes are so unfunny that it’s hard to see what makes this event so special. I don’t even know what to say about man other people because the whole thing was bad from start to finish. Even killed Tony had its moments. Tony, in his own stand up special, started off proceedings with a joke about him not being gay, seeing his gun as his second fallas, and wanting to put it in his mouth, not in an homosexual way, but in a suicideal way. I didn’t laugh at that, but in hindsight, I think I should have filled up my quote of laughter at that point, because it was all downhill after that.

Well, based on that, the way that joke was described to this reviewer might be correct. I’m gonna watch this thing. He followed that up with a crowd interaction bit where he assumed the guy’s sexual orientation, objectified the woman sitting beside that guy, and then compared to another guy sitting next to that woman with a mass shooter. And Tony kept coming back to those three and every time he did it, the vibes got worse. Being honest, here actually fell sorry for all the people who were sitting in the front rows.

I know they paid for that experience, and yet I think they deserved better. Let’s see, they also tell us a Man of the People featured racist jokes, praise for Trump, abortion jokes. By the time Tony began praising Donald Trump for being the most amazing president of all time, I think I probably dozed off, writes the reviewer. The review ends with what I’m saying is your jokes need to be good enough to justify the lack of theatrics. Really, you can’t just go out on stage tell jokes.

I think you can. Recently, the only comic that has successfully done that while also using the stage in an intelligent fashion is Taylor tunluit’son her latest comedy specials available on Netflix. Maybe Tony Hinchcliff and is quote unquote fans should watch that as soon as possible to understand what a good stand up comedy special looks like. Dave Schpelle’s I’m Playing in a Park later this summer. By the way, all right, we are making lemonade here today.

Quick programming note. I shared a little bit about this the other day. So I’m gonna try something on Saturdays for the summer. I’m gonna deal it straight, tell you why I’m doing it. If you hate it, let me know in the Facebook group or on Spotify Daly Comedy News podcast group.

But the way search engines are working has changed, and you used to do a certain thing called SEO to get your stuff found, and now it’s kind of moving to the AI. So I have recorded a few explainer episodes. They are deep dives on a single topic. Tomorrow’s is about Shane Gillis. Then the next week kill Tony, and the week after that Joe Rogan, and we’ll get into some other stuff and I’ll talk about a longer plan I have there.

So the idea is that these episodes will do better in search engines, which will help people discover the show and the other six days and plus completely transparently in the summer especially. You know, I like to do stuff on the weekend, so I like to pre tape and then you have a week like this. If I didn’t do an explainer episode tomorrow, tomorrow would be the leftovers from Mark Maren and the David cross story. I just bumped and I don’t know, probably some stuff about Toronto comedians that I have in a folder labeled leftovers. So it kind of works on two levels there.

It’ll give the show a longer tail.

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And then off the cold beer thing.

I had this other thing I wanted to do, which I was gonna do as a sister series. So I probably will do it as a sister series and also use them as Saturday episodes. But I wanted to do one episode each about late night hosts like Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, the Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno o’conen, maybe some Ferguson. So I think that will go into this model as well. If you’re a longtime listener during the pandemic, as the pandemic got longer, you may recall, especially in January, I was doing things like that.

I did a four episode thing about Letterman at one point and started doing deep dives on just like Sam Kinnison stories, things like that. So this is kind of that, but a little more focused to get the search engines to like the show better. So that’s what’s going on. That’ll be tomorrow, and with that, it is time for the comedy stock market. Comedy stock markets, all right, I’ve got three buy recommendations for you.

First, buy the US men’s national team. It’s the World Cup and they play Paraguay tonight, and people think the US men’s national team might not be all that good. But the premise here of comedy stock market is we buy low, we sell high. So get on board, have fun, be a bandwagon fan. It’s Team USA.

You like USA? Right, You’re not living in Vancouver or the suburbs up there or something. Right, No, you’re an American Team USA. Sorry I got distracted. My son just texted me that he met Michael Bloomberg.

Guy will have to text him back. I’m believing all that in That’s why I stopped talking there Where was I always making fun of my chishim up in Vancouver rooting? He’s probably rooting for Team Canada. That seems like something he would do. Anyway, Buy Team USA and watch the game tonight.

Also buy stock in the New York Knicks. Now, John, they’re all time high value coming off that amazing win the other night. I know, and it doesn’t go with the premise of comedy stock market. Plus, the Knicks aren’t comedians, but we’re buying New York Knicks stock.

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And then one actual comedian, Steph Tolev.

I really liked that deal she did with thoms I Gore’s Yamah Studios, and I think that will help her career. So we’ll buy Steph Tolev, We’ll buy the Knicks and We’ll buy the US men’s national team. Edie Motica will have a comedy special. It’s called I’m Just Like You and It Sucks. It’ll be on Veeps June twenty sixth, and then a wider YouTube release in September.

You may know her from Jury Duty. On I’m Just Like You and It Sucks, Edie discusses her longing for human connection and all the way she’s contorted herself in search of it, whether it be talking to stains on her aunt’s carpet, making out with a pair of brothers on a cruise. In two thousand and seven, we’re talking to a stranger about his late girlfriend who died in a car accident. Edie will stop it nothing to feel and spread the love to the world around her. Edie guides the audience through her life as an angry, poor kid, a sexually deviant teen, all the way to where she is now, a poor yet slightly famous, sexual devian’s adult with a passion for a human connection.

Born and raised in New Yorker, from Nyak to Bay Ridge to Ridgewood, I bet I know what basketball team she roots for. Edie is best known for her role in the Emmy nominated comedy Jury Duty out today. Jamel Johnson’s album mid Range, Jammel’s third album, shot live in one take at Sports Drink in New Orleans. On mid Range, Jamal brings levity to serious topics like the racial biases of artificial intelligence, the way men encourage toxic masculinity, and the pros and cons of being a fat boyfriend. That’s mid range available through blonde medicine.

And that is your comedy news for today. Pretty good one, considering I kind of had nothing. Thank you, NIX, Go Team USA, Go NIX tomorrow night, back tomorrow with the Shane Gillis episode, and then back on Sunday with a normal one and hopefully an NBA championship. See you then,

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Featured: Jamie Foxx, Tracy Morgan, James Corden, Rio Ferdinand, Ian Carmel, Will Ferrell, Morgan Wallen, Theo Von, Matt Rife

What’s in This Episode

• Jamie Foxx Inside the NBA impressions of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaq, and Kenny
• Tracy Morgan receives inaugural Flip Wilson Award at AAFCA TV Honors in August
• James Corden’s FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours late night show premiering during tournament
• Will Ferrell named official community ambassador for Los Angeles World Cup 2026
• Morgan Wallen cancels Pittsburgh concert due to severe weather and tornado warnings
• Theo Von and Matt Rife defend Morgan Wallen’s concert cancellation decision

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. I almost say you for a free slurpey, but it’s not seven eleven. It’s six eleven. Hello Shohnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Everybody is hopped up on New York Knicks basketball.

How could you not be? And my former co worker Jamie Fox, a very very underrated impressionist, broke out this whole uh can I called a skitch. He brought out impressions of the guys on inside the NBA. You know, Ernie Shack, Charles Barkley. Here’s Jamie Fox.

Thirteen of sixteen. Here of the garden. I’m here, they’re there, We’re all here. Shaq is here, Charles is here, Kenny’s here. What do you think Shaq at so we’ll I don’t know what the he said, but we’re here here of the garden.

They’re going off. It’s great here in the garden right now here with the New York Knicks. Everyone to your ben Steelers here typically chaloon as their spike leeds. There. Everyone is here in the garden.

We’re here there there, We’re gonna be here. We’ll be here all night. They’ll be there all night. What do you think? Uh?

Charles Charles Way in ern arn Arn let me let me say this, arn Le say that. Shaq shack. Let me say, Shaq, what do you think? We’re here? They’re there, We’re here.

Will be right back, Kia, right here in the garden. And congratulations to major New York Knicks fan Tracy Morgan. Normally this would make the second half of the podcast, but since we’re in Nick’s mood, I will tell you in the two slot that Tracy Morgan will receive the inaugural Flip Wilson Award at the eighth annual A A f C, A t V Honor Ceremony. It’s a new prize, and the press release explains that the Flip Wilson Award recognizes individuals whose comedic artistry and cultural impact continue the legacy of the groundbreaking entertainer and television pioneer Flip Wilson. Morgan will receive the special honor at the awards ceremony, held on Saturday, August eighth, at City Club LA in downtown LA.

It’s a good thing that it’s not until August, because he’s going to be at a parade in New York City very soon. The World’s Cup kicks off today and along with it we get a new late night show at least for a month or so. Premiering tonight is FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon. That’s right. FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon features James Cordon in a quote fun, high energy and comedic celebration of the world of the FIFA World Cup trademark.

The show will air throughout the tournament at midnight local time on Fox, falling all the action of the day with FIFA World Cup legend and former England national team captain Rio Ferdinand and comedian Ian Carmel joining James Cordon in studio for FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon. Not sure a midnight time slots gonna work for me? A Fox suit said, the show is the perfect edition to our programming lineup, and we’re looking forward to capping off the day on Fox in a way that only James and his team can deliver. Four fans. FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Corden What a Terrible Name?

Will originate from Los Angeles on the Fox Studio lot and Spotlight the tournament’s most talked about moments and storylines of the day. Yeah, are you guys gonna talk about the new Jersey Transit mess? Are you gonna talk about that? Are you guys gonna talk about the overpriced tickets? Are you gonna talk about the half empty stadiums?

I call bluff on FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon. Let me know when you talk about the new Jersey transit story, and I’ll be happy to comment on what you comment about. I digress. Each show will feature surprise guest appearances from some of the biggest names in pop culture, and of course the beautiful Game. Oh there’s more.

Fox wants us to know from people inside and around each of the forty eight teams competing in the tournament, who have compelling stories. To the fan who goes viral on camera that means they’re gonna have the German guy. Have you been following the German on Twitter? Some German guys been traveling like the Southeast and discovering things like waffle House, and he’s all impressed by all the things the United States of America has to offer to Germans anyway. From people inside and around blah blah blah to the team dog who becomes a good luck charm, and much more.

FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Cordon. All camps, by the way, will be immersed into the fabric of the tournament. Diehard soccer fans and casual supporters alike. We’ll be in bed before midnight and join in for the excitement for the world’s biggest sporting event taking place right here, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Fox says the show will be built around James Cordon’s lifelong soccer fandom, and you can tell by the way he calls it soccer.

Gordon describes the idea what we’re gonna try and do is make it feel like you couldn’t meet up with your friends at a bar that night. We’ll be there to have some fun. Anyway, if you want to stay up late tonight and I’m going to bed after staying up late for those New York Knicks, and then tomorrow night, I got to stay up late to watch Team USA. Who’s Team USA playing Paraguay? Right Anyway, if you want to stay up and watch FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with James Gordon All Caps.

It will be on tonight after the exciting Korea versus Chechia game. By the way, can we take a time out here. When I came into the studio today, I thought I had nothing. I’m going to tell you a couple of minutes that I googled one more thing and found a Mark Maron interview that gave this episode a little length. But so far, five six minutes in, I’m kind of happy with this one time in.

One of the soccer ambassadors this month will be Will Ferrell. He is an official community ambassador for the Los Angeles World Cup twenty twenty six. In a news release, Will Ferrell said, I’m here to support the host Committee’ efforts and cheer loudly for the country he’s playing in the tournament. I promise not to jump in as a goalkeeper unless it’s absolutely necessary. Let’s make this tournament unforgettable for Los Angeles.

I personally find Will Ferrell annoying. Morgan Wallen upsets some people. To just see what happened, So Morgan Wallen was going to play. By the way, he’s one of those people like Kathy Griffin that anytime his name comes up, there’s always like a controversy. I saw Kathy Griffin’s story what I was putting the show together today, I was like, I’m not doing that.

I’m just I’m tired of her. Who’s the other one, Michael Rappaport, Rob Schneider. I mean, there’s just always controversy around these people. Morgan Wallen has stirred it up. You see.

He was supposed to play a concert Saturday night in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the second show of the weekend, but Wallen and his team announced that it was canceled early in the day because of stormy weather in the area. All Right, I mean, can’t blame the guy. He doesn’t want his fans to get struck by lightning. I don’t think that’s absurd.

Here’s the thing, the weather. I wanted to say, the weather didn’t cooperate. The weather did cooperate and was nice, so fans posted shots of sunny skies and they were annoyed that he didn’t have the concert. That said, within about an hour of where the concert was going to be, there were six tornadoes. So it’s not total crazy talk.

Why are you bringing this up, John, because it was a conversation topic between Theo Vaughn and Matt Rife. Now Vaughn is actually featured in the opening video skit On the Still the Problem tour, Matt Raife talked about his own decision to cancel a show because he ended up in the hospital from a lack of sleep and that got backlash. Vaughn related that story to Wallin’s situation with Riife, saying he’s not a meteorologist. It’s not up to him. He’s doing the best he can and people just say, won’t cut him a brake.

Both Theovonn and Matt Riife noted what would have happened had Wala not canceled the show and then there was a tornado. Theovon joked, you can’t be on stage saying, guess I’m the problem. And people are getting hit by lightning. There’s a twister just throwing people up on stage. People are passing you by in the air.

Rice said, you can’t please everybody. Man. Oh no, my wife just got home from work and I was vamping. All right, I’m going to take the commercial break here, but when we come back, you’re going to say I’m not as good very pack. Okay, I’m back on the Hill.

That’s basically like a starting pitcher coming back out after rain delay. But it did affect where I was going to put the brake right, so I mentioned earlier. Sometimes when I put together the show, I think it’s a slow news day and I google one more thing, and I found this wonderful Mark Marin interview with Variety. But now I’m going to save it for tomorrow because I was able to get some length out of the court bit. Jim Gaffigan never confused for somebody cool or somebody who would call someone back who helped them earlier in their career.

You know what he did yesterday? He was signing bottles of his bourbon. That’s not exactly Timothy Shalomey sitting courtside at the New York Knicks playoff game. You know what I’m saying. Jim Gaffigan was at Bulldog Liquor on North Division Street signing bourbon bottles.

The bourbon is described as rees with love and discipline and heavy oak barrels undisturbed by children or the stress of parenting. Jim did that before performing a concert.

Meanwhile, much cooler.

The Southern Tier Brewing Company is teamed up with the National Comedy Center on a new beer. The new beer will support ALS Research. It’s called bit by Bit Blonde al see what they did there. Bit by Bit Blondelle is a limited release five point one percent blonde. Aale that’s a little high there, you know, uh, you know, that’s one of the things I factor in when I go out, you know, to look at that APV.

It’s not terribly high. You know, where was I recently I had? Where was I? I had? Like the most delicious Basic Miller light on tap?

It was delicious. Bit by Bit Blondale is a limited release five point one percent Blondale created a raise funds and awareness for ALS Research. The beer’s name draws inspiration from the comedy bits that have brought people together for generations. You didn’t have to tell this that in the press release. We knew that.

Brandon Hank is the brand manager at Southern Tier, and mister Hank says, we’re honored to be partnering with the National Comedy Center for Bit by Bit. Craft beer has always been about community, so having the ability to raise funds for a great cause is truly special. Bit by Bit is available at all Southern Tier Brewing Company tap rooms the National Comedy Center and select local retailers. Now, because I shuffled the deck here, I’m now looking at the second half here, and I’m one story short. So let me this one got bounced.

Let me tell you about Startrek Ruinner patent Oswald, he told Forbes about the best career advice he’s ever received. He said, there are two pieces of advice. Actually, one is don’t get too high on the highs and don’t get too low on the lows. You’ll have both, and both can hurt you if you don’t handle them correct. You get way too high.

That can mess you up just as much as you can mess up by going I’m never going to get out of this bit. It’s up and down. Then the other one is every day’s a rainy day. Every day in this business, in the creative world and the lunar professions, is a rainy day. Don’t live beyond your means if you’re a creative I’m paraphrasing Harlan Ellison when who’s talking about writing, But anyone can become a stand up comedian.

It’s just really hard to stay one. So you got to live it away. That’s not beholding a debt or ego, George Carland said, I never want to own a house that I was using to scare people with, because when you do, then you’re beholding a nine out of things that have nothing to do with your comedy. So keep everything as small scale as you possibly can, so they have the freedom to do what you want and work with who you want. And that is your comedy news for today.

Now. See I was originally going to record a Sunday’s episode as part of the session because I was feeling good earlier, but you know, now lost my fastball ordered a little too late in the day. Today. All right, it is June, so you’re sharing the show. So your phone is possibly in your hand.

If your phone is not in your hand, like if you’re driving a car in Arizona, even if it’s an automated car, keep your hands on the wheel, pay attention. But say your phone is in your hand, what are you gonna do right now? In your podcast app? You’re gonna hit share and then you’re gonna send it to somebody. I don’t care who you send it to.

Send it to Pat Oswald, I don’t care. You’re gonna share the show because that’s what we’re doing in June, and you’re gonna tell your friend. They can follow the show on Spotify, and they should turn on notifications so they never miss an episode, and they can comment in Spotify or they can comment the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. And I will see you tomorrow when I’m gonna have to record the whole weekend because I didn’t do Sunday

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Dave Chappelle, Marc Marin, Howie Mandel, Brian Posain, Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Alec Baldwin, James Austin Johnson, Jim Downey, Robert Smigel, Maya Rudolph, Keegan-Michael Key, Chevy Chase, Robbie Hoffman, John Mulaney, Jeff Foxworthy

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien partners with Adaptive Security for 15-part AI cybersecurity training series
• Dave Chappelle announces Summer Camp 2026 dates in Yellow Springs, Ohio
• Marc Marin promotes new film In Memoriam about comedian with terminal diagnosis
• Playing Potus documentary celebrates presidential impersonations at Tribeca Film Festival
• James Austin Johnson discusses playing Trump on SNL with empathy and humor
• Robbie Hoffman discusses success and John Mulaney’s support of her career
• Johnny Mac announces new Saturday deep-dive format starting with Shane Gillis

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Callarogashock Media. Hey, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I think we’re all crushed and sad and just really upset that the Knicks lost on Monday Night. Michael Jay is blaming the President of the United States, which I got to say is totally unfair. The reason the Knicks lost was because of the crooked referees.

That is the reason. Call some fouls both ways, guys, I digress. Michael Jay posted on Instagram, you just had to invite Trumpty Dumpty Spurs one fifteen New York Knicks one to eleven. Knicks play tonight at eight thirty. Johnny Mac plays volleyball at six thirty.

Should be a big night. Conan O’Brien has partnered with AI cybersecurity firm Adaptive Security. Conan O’Brien will start in a fifteen part training series. I wonder how much he’s getting paid for this, because fifteen’s a lot. Conan can’t be cheap.

These AI people have money. Conan will star in a fifteen port training series four Customers, exploring the various cyber threats emerging in the AI age, from voice cloning and impersonations to the ever present threats like phishing and even physical safety. Each episode of the training series, available to Adaptive’s enterprise customer base, begins with Conan O’Brien deploying a bit that’s relevant to the episode’s topic. Conan said, I teamed up with Adaptive Security just to figure out what these kids are up to. Turns out it’s pretty cool.

The company reportedly has raised more than one hundred and forty million dollars through several investment rounds. Some of that went to Conan O’Brien. Dave Chappelle will return to the Cornfields of Yellow Springs, Ohio this summer for Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp, a new run of shows at the Weiriga Pavilion. The new dates are July first, second, third, August twentieth, twenty first, twenty second, and August twenty seven to twenty eight, twenty ninth. Tickets available today noon local time at ticketmaster dot com.

The sixth edition of Dave chappelle Summer Camp celebrates the sixth anniversary of the Cornfield shows. Remember they started, If I recall correctly during the pandemic in six years, that sounds about right. No phones, no smart watches, no accessories, et cetera, et cetera. It’s a Chappelle show. Guests maintain possession of their devices at all times.

It can access them through the event only in designated phone use areas. All devices will be secured in yonder pouches, et cetera, et cetera. Anyone seen using a device during the performance will be escorted out by security. Mark Marin is beginning to do press for in Memoriam. He plays a comedian with just six months to live.

He’s pushed to connect with the daughter he’s never met and finds himself questioning what truly matters. Mark says, if you’re can make it funny and make a point, you should make the point. And people on either side will resist the idea of popsics being part of comedy, but it has to be. And if you have something to say and your principles are sound, you should figure out a way to say it better. If it’s funny, just try to make it funny.

Howie Mandel and Brian Posain are in a new music video. This is a collab between German band Electric Callbol and The Offspring’s Dexter Holland. The two released a collaborative song called let the Good Times Roll. In the music video, we see how a Mandel, Brian Posain, and John Goblekhan Remember that guy. Yeah.

A new documentary is celebrating being able to make fun of the president. It’s called Playing Potus. It’s not just about the current president, it’s about making fun of all the presidents. Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell and Alec Baldwin were at the Tribeca Film Festival and they look back on their presidential impersonations. There was also a panel discussion with SNL writers Jim Downey and Robert Smigel, as well as James Austin Johnson, who plays President Trump on Saturday Night Live.

James shared how he gets another role. He said, I’m trying to think of a guy who’s been working in retail for like five decades, in a corner, in an uncomfortable chair somewhere. He’s just doing that to whatever new workers walking past. I want to play it like it’s a man talking alone in a room, and it’d just be saying all that stuff. The panel moderator asked James Austin Johnson if he has some degree of empathy for the president.

Johnson said, If you can’t tell how I feel about Donald Trump from the way that I do him, you’re a moron. He said, people who come to see a perform him live are sometimes mistakenly under the impression that he loves Donald Trump, and they wind up walking out. Johnson said, I think I play his charm a little bit more, maybe more than Alec Baldwin did. I think I play the secret weapon that he’s deployed, which is that he’s you know, funny, intentionally and unintentionally kind of hilarious guy. That’s not really something I’m looking for when it’s time to vote for somebody, but it’s been extremely powerful.

Johnson said, am I fearful of the crazy person who wields the military and seems to target individuals? Yeah? I hope my name never comes out of his mouth. Senior letters to James Austin Johnson. Jim Downey said he sometimes feels like we did a little too much political stuff on SNL and pointed out that the cold open wasn’t always about politics or news of the week the way it is usually these days.

Down He said, our cold openings were only political about a third of the time. That shifted after we started to get a lot of attention for political sketches in the mid eighties, and Lauren began to feel like we were almost like a daily newspaper and we had an obligation of the public to something political upfront.

Also appearing and playing potus Maya, Rudolph Keegan, Michael Key, and Chevy…

Robbie Hoffman told people, I don’t want to jigs anything, but it’s pretty good to be me right now. She says this current stretch has come after years of grinding and TV writing in the stand up circuit. She said this level of success out of the blue would not feel manageable. What’s happening with the heated rivalry boys. That feels like there’s no on wrap.

We’ve been rubbing up to highway speed for a while. She is thankful for John Mulaney, who directed her first stand up special, Wake Up. Robbie says, he’s like a Knight in shining armor. He was putiful and going I want everyone to know about her. It feels like Batman and Robin and my name’s Robbie.

Some quick housekeeping. I’ll get into this a little bit more on Friday. Starting on Saturday. For Saturdays in the summer, I’m going to do deep dives on single topics. This week’s topic will be Shane Gillis, next week will be Tony Hinchcliff.

So among the reasons I am doing this is search engines are changing the way they’re doing things, and I need to create some content that has longer to make sure the show shows up and hopefully that will lead to more downloads and more people checking out the episodes. Plus, candidly, it’s summertime and I like to pretape the weekends. I’ve always been honest about that. So when you start hearing those Saturdays in the summer, that’s what that’s all about. I’ll get more into it on Friday.

And again, it’s an experiment. Much like Comedy stock Market was and Comedy Survivor was. This is a different experiment and hopefully you guys will like it. And if you all hate it, let me know in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I’m not offended if it sucks and then we won’t do it anymore.

But I think it’s pretty good. I’ve recorded three of them. They came out pretty well. Jeff Foxworthy caught up with Atlanta magazine. Good placement there.

You know, it’s interesting. I have a friendship with Jeff’s manager, and I, you know, I’ve had Cable Guy in a couple of times. I don’t know. I didn’t ask for Jeff this time around. He’s doing some press.

I just didn’t feel like I had anything to ask Jeff about. Great guy. I have nothing but great things to say about him. He’s been very helpful in my career. But you know, I’m slow to ask for the favors, and I just didn’t feel like using one this time.

But Jeff did speak with Atlanta magazine, and when comedians asked Jeff for your guidance, he says, nobody has your life experience, nobody has your point of view. The sooner you let your stand up be you, the better it’ll work. That’s just part of the learning curve, he ads. I think you need to do it every night for ten years, and all of a sudden you have a style. His biggest piece of advice is you need to hang out in comedy clubs with other comics so you can see how materials perform, developed and honed, as well as how comics find their own voice.

Jeff himself moved to LA in the early nineties. He’d watch people like Seinfeld and Stephen Wright. He said, Stephen Wright in particular, at this really slow and monotone style. He was really popular, and I wondered if I should copy it. Comedians would tell Jeff to tone down his accent, and he said, I tuck my heels in.

I’d think, where I come from, You’re the one with the stupid accent. I thought this was interesting. I’ve never heard this story. If Foxworthy was performing in Nashville in the late eighties and Robert Plant, you know, the singer from led’ Zuppa and La Guy, walked in to watch Jeff Foxworthy. After the show, Foxworthy sought out Robert Plant.

Plants old Foxworthy he was funny and said people from London would often make fun of the way that Robert Plant spoke when Plant was growing up. Fox Worthy said, I kept thinking as he spoke to me, Holy hell, Robert Plant likes redneck jokes. Steph Tolev is having a year, so are the folks at Tom Sigor’s YMH Studios. They are teaming up Steph Tolev’s podcast, Steph Infection Well premiere with YMH Studios. Guys today, which means her career is going to shoot up.

So that’s an early hint on the comedy stock market this week. That’s a great crew to be running with. With Steph Infection, Steph Tolev brings the same no holds bored and hilarious, honest approach that has made her a fan favorite on stage. The podcast features conversations with guests that deliver outrageous stories about the human body, medical mishaps, intriguing Ailment’s health quirks, and more. Late Night reports that Outside Tonight with Julian Shapiro Bornham will premiere June seventeenth.

That’s just one week away. This is YouTube’s first direct attempt to build a late night franchise of its own. So Ben Gleib is kind of doing his own thing, but this is YouTube trying to do it. Hosted by the creator behind the YouTube hits Recess Therapy and Celebrity Substitute, which I’m sure are amazingly popular and have never once hit my algorithm. So I’m assuming these are not for fifty six year old guys recording podcasts in their basement.

Again, I’m not saying it’s bad. I’m just saying factually, it has never once hit my algorithm. Outside tonight, we’ll take the format out of the studio and into public spaces with celebrity interviews, live music, games, and audience interactions staged in parks, plazas and street corners. So we’ll see that it’s a week from now now. I did look up on Monday at eleven thirty I looked up to see how Ben Gleb’s second episode did Ben Gleb Episode two had When I looked at eleven thirty am on Monday, twenty two thousand views.

That is not going to cut it. Arch Barker will have a new album out on July seventeenth that is called The Mindfield. You’ve got that via Blond Medicine. On the Minefield, arch Barker encourages the audience reflect on questions insufficiently explored by science, such as what is consciousness. He also takes on topics like meditation, masturbation, and traveling over an now to eat mediocre pizza.

Track listings include New Zealand, Travel Tips, Night Boner, and Coffee Breath Blues.

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Meanwhile, up in Canada, the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival annually combines…

Once again. They’re doing events in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Mississauga, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Now the show’s July seventeenth through the nineteenth. In Edmonton and Winnipeg. Are Pete Davidson, The Not So Canceled Disease, I’m sorry, Jeffer Curry, Bill Burd just back from the Red Comedy Festival, Matt Riife, Jordan Jensen, Hasan Minhaj, Robbie Hoffman, Ronny Chieng, Jimmy o’yang, and Adam Ray as Doctor Phil.

Then in Halifax in August, you’ll get Nicky Glazer, Fortune Fimester, Steph Tolev, Trevor Wallace, Ryan Long, Andrew Schultz, Lucas Zelnik, Cam Patterson, who by that time will probably have anoulys he’s not returning INESNL, alongside Matt Rife and Adam Ray. That’s good. Now in Calgary August twenty eighth to the thirtieth, you’ll get Mulaney, Bill Bird, Signatoro Bob the Drag, Queen, Mittel Lane, Mike Brobiglia, Langston Kerman and Jordan Jensen.

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Meanwhile, if you’re in Vancouver and you know that you are, Anthony Justin, …

If you’re in Ontario, you gotta wait till September eleventh. You guys get Nick Kroll, Fred Armison, Matt Matthews, miss Pat t J. Miller, Katherine Landford, Michael Costa, Brad Williams, and Grace O’Malley. Now, if you’re not overwhelmed by those names, they’re joined by John Mulaney, Jeffic Curry, Hasan Minhaj, Ronny Chieng, Adam Ray, Mike Berbiglia and Jordan Jensen. You’ll find that at Mississauga’s Erindale Park.

And that is your comedy news for today. Right it’s June. You’re sharing the show? Are you telling everybody? Especially Canadians, just be like, Hey, Canadians, nobody talks about us.

This guy did like a whole three minute segment at the very last item in a show. So if you’re Canadian today, you’re going to tell a friend about the show, and you can tell them they can follow a show on Spotify where comments are open, and they’re going to click that little button that says turn on notifications so that they never miss an episode. You’re all going to do that, all right, Canadians. You guys are trustworthy. You’re going to do that for me.

Coming up tonight, the New York Nicks take on the San Antonio Spurs. That’s where I’ll be if you’re looking for me. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Maher, Louis C.K., Jay Leno, Stephen A. Smith, Whitney Cummings, Woody Harrelson, Zarna Garg, Adam Sandler, Patton Oswalt

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Maher wins Mark Twain Prize at Kennedy Center
• Zarna Garg performs at Riyadh Comedy Festival
• Trump plans to attend Knicks game at Madison Square Garden
• UFC event scheduled on White House South Lawn for Trump’s birthday
• Adam Sandler declines UFC White House event invitation
• Patton Oswalt releases new special on YouTube
• George Carlin commemorative collection discussion

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Here’s a crew for you. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It’s the Mark Twain Prize.

Remember last year Conan O’Brien and like everybody showed up. Well, who’s coming this year? Who’s even getting it this year? John? Well, this year’s winner is Bill Maher.

And who’s coming Louis C.K. Jay Leno and Steven A. Smith. Which sounds like the setup to a joke, that’s right. Bill Maher will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center Sunday, June twenty eighth.

It will be filmed for Netflix. And it’s not just Louis c. K, jay Leno and Stephen A. Smith, Oh No, you’ll also get Whitney Cummings, Woody Harrelson, Arianna Huffington, and John Mellencamp. Previous winners include Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, wiop Be Goldberg, Bob Newhart, George Carlin.

You’ll cosme, we don’t like to talk about that. Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, David Letterman, Kevin Hart, Conan O’Brien even Cheilano himself in twenty fourteen, I bet you can’t wait, Well, you’re gonna have to wait two weeks.

Meanwhile, listen to this from Zarna Garg.

Are you ready for this? You’re not. You know why she played the Rion Comedy Festival. No, it wasn’t about the money. She was on the Breakdown podcast and Zarna Garg said, I really went with the spirit of I’ve been ordained to do this by somebody, some higher power.

It is my job to spread the message and to let women know they could say what comes to their mind. That’s life freedom. If I can even inspire them to think in that direction, then I’m doing something positive for this world, which of course is why she donated all her proceeds to share hold on in being passed a note. Oh she didn’t. Oh so it’s never mind.

Sorry I got distracted there, guys. Zarna said it was controversial here as everything tends to be, because everybody thinks they know what Saudi Arabia is sitting in Brooklyn. Well they don’t know is that my material goes all over the world because of the digital world we live in. My joke’s my comedy special. Everything travels.

You can’t control where these things show up anymore. So women in that part of the world watch me in secrets the jokes that are open here. It’s not so easy for them to watch it. They write me constantly. They’re like, come to us.

We want our daughters to see you because they’ve never seen somebody that looks like me say these things. Greg said her children were dead against the trip, but she offered to go for message, not money. Uh huh. Zarna says a lot of people think that the comics who did it did it for the money. Money’s very important in life.

But I’m gonna say this, and it’s gonna sound a little braggy, but I’m gonna be honest about it. The comics they invited make a lot of money in America. They didn’t invite the comics who are struggling here. To be honest, you think you think they didn’t invite open micers? Sorry, Zarady said, we would have all made money.

I could do three more shows in New Jersey and make the same money, right, three shows. We all didn’t go there to chase the money. I can’t speak for others, but the money was not a motivator for me at all, which is why she donated it to Oh no, she didn’t. I’m telling you, I went with the same sense that I owe these into something. Honestly, it’s a very slight capitulation by the regimes that run those places that they too need a woman on the lineup.

They didn’t have to invite us. They could have ignored us, They could have just had fifty men. But even they are now understanding that is it really in your best interest to exclude half of your world? And even though there are plenty of problems there, there’s no defending a lot of things that go on there or here for that matter. But if they’re opening that door, even for the slightest ray of sunshine to pass through, is it not our job to help push it open even that little bit more?

In October, The Hollywood Reporter shared that Jessica Curson donated her fee from the Riyadh Comedy Festival to the Human Rights Campaign. Perhaps Zorna did too, and she just hasn’t promoted it. Who knows? How about those Nicks? Huh?

Everybody’s talking about the Knicks, including Jimmy Kimmel. President Trump said he is planning to go to New York for the day. This would be the first time Trump has appeared at a court New York since being convicted of thirty four felonies. Trump is. A fan.

I mean know he’s a n X fan, because a few days ago he posted this Ai slop of himself in a Next Jersey dunking on New York Governor Kathy hulk Ole areas Larry tured with two hands on the bar. The President wants to be there in person to support his hometown team and, if necessary, to overturn the results of the game. I just can’t wait to hear him try to say the word Webin Yamas. That’s where I’m looking forward to. You think Trump would be rooting for the Spurs, right, It’s what got him out of Vietnam.

Solid joke there. It’s a big sports week for the president, who’s excited about the big UFC event on the White House lawn. I was in DC recently and you got to see this thing. It looks like a mess. I’m sorry, it looks terrible.

They do such a good job down there with the monuments and the whole National Mall area, but this thing on the lawn mess, total mess. Adam Sandler’s Not Going to Go. Sandler was one of seven celebrit that UFC CEO Dana White said he invited to the events on the White House South Lawn on Saturday. That list included Guy Ritchie, Tom Brady, Jared Lado, Jason Statham, The Rock, Mario Lopez, and of course Adam Sandler. What a list?

Actually, wouldn’t you watch that movie if it were on Netflix? If I told you they’re a movie staring Sandler, The Rock, Jason Statham, You’re already in right now. I’m gonna throw on top for no reason. Tom Brady, Mario Lopez, Jared Lado and Guy Ritchie. Why are we not making this movie?

It’s like Ocean’s eleven, but like bad. Make that I digress. A representative for Sandler told Vanity Fair that the star best known for comedies including Billy Madison and The Wedding Singer, along with dramatic roles in films such as Uncut Gems and Jake Kelly Wait Am I Winning the War? Are people starting to refer to Adam Sandler dramatic actor? Because they just qualified him?

In Vanity Fair naming four movies and only two of them were horrible comedies. Hmm, maybe I’m winning the war of Adam Sandler. I digress again. The representative for Sandler told Vanity Affair that mister Sandler would not attend. No reason was given.

The UFC event is scheduled for the President’s eightieth birthday this weekend. It is being promoted as part of the country’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration. If you’re old like me, you remember in nineteen seventy six we had things like Operations Sale and CBS, Rand Bison, Sanniel Minutes, and everything was red, white and blue all over the place, and there were like flags with thirteen stars. None of that happening this time. Very very disappointing.

I remember fifty years ago as a kid being like, oh, I can’t wait to the two fiftieth because I really enjoyed this spic centennial. The two fifty is going to be awesome, and it’s just going to come and go. How disappointing. Send your letters to me, I guess Star trek grown Er Patton Oswalt has a new special out today t N Scotch on YouTube. Good discussion with Patten and Vice Vice ass Patten and the liner notes for the George Carland Commemorative Collection.

You said that you thought Carlin entered the millennium with his eyes wide open. Weiss was curious, what material you’re referring to. Paton said, I was referring to a lot of the very painful, self reflective stuff that he puts himself through. As far as the Boomer generation, his generation failed. A lot of the peace, love and understanding stances from the Summer of Love were so easily co opted and marketed.

And he owns it, and he shows how those failures led to a lot of the mess we were in when he was filming his material. I don’t get directly into it in this special, but a lot of the ironic racism and homophobia the gen X indulged in in the late nineties early Oughts set the blueprint for the whole it’s just jokes, doodge that actual racists and homophobes are using now, and we need to own that and find a way beyond that. Every generation does what it can, and every generation ultimately falls short. You got to own your failings and hold him up so the next generation starts from Okay, first off, let’s not do that which I think would apply to the next generation of Star Trek series. You would go back and you would watch Strange New Worlds, and you would watch the Dug the Vulcan episode.

You’d be like, Yeah, we should not have done that. Let’s never do that again. In fact, let’s pay John Delancy a lot of money to show up as c snap his fingers and wipe that out of existence and just say that never happened. Peacard. Humans take time so seriously, and then we just wiped the Doug the Volka.

I digress again, Vice asked Star Trek runer or Patton Oswalt. He stirred up a bit of controversy in twenty fourteen when you admitted that you never found Lenny Bruce funny. Richard Lewis even wrote an op ed in The New York Times responding to what you said, I don’t remember any of that. That’s fun. Have your thoughts changed about Lenny Bruce since then?

Did you get to talk to Richard Lewis after that? Patton said, I spoke with Richard over text and voicemails, but he was also going through a lot of mechal stuff and we never got to get together. But it bothered me that people misunderstood what I was saying were simplified it into a sound bite or poll quote. Me not finding Lenny Bruce funny doesn’t mean he wasn’t funny. I was being honest about how his stuff was too out of context for me to really laugh at.

If I’m really being honest, I can appreciate his genius, acknowledge what he did, and be aware of the dead I owed him as an artistic performer, but his stuff never made me laugh. And that’s me being honest, even if it makes me look bad, which I think Lenny would have appreciated maybe.

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Meanwhile, Spin caught up with the star trek Ruiner patent Oswall.

They asked him about his comedy heroes. He said, definitely people like Prior and Carlin and Steven Martin and Albert Brooks.

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And then once I started doing comedy, was just all my friends.

I got to see Carlin live a couple times, I got to see Leno before I started, But once I started actually getting into clubs, I was hanging out with people like Dave Chappelle, Brian Possain, Sarah Silverman, and David Cross, and those were the people that were really influencing my moment to moment development. The subject went to Heckler’s Patton said people are so used to talking online, commenting on things and reacting things that when someone’s in front of them in real life, they want to comment on that in the moment they think they’re in a constant dialogue with people. Then there’s also jealousy or boredom. There’s nothing more frustrating than Heckler getting tossed out of a show, going, Oh, it’s just trying to hope the show, just trying to make it funnier. I mean, everybody wants to be funny.

Nobody wants to think that they’re not funny. And they asked a Star Trek crew and air patent Oswald about his appearance on Star Trek Strange New Worlds as Doug the Vulcan. Doug said, it was a bleast getting to work with that crew and that cast, being on a set where it was a three hundred and sixty degree practical set. I thought it’d be in front of green screens and stuff, but no, they actually built the hallways and the decks and the rooms in the chambers. It was just a fun world to get some plan.

Were you a Star Trek fan as a kid? I can’t answer that from here. F No, there’s no F and way. I almost dropped an actual F bomb. I’m so upset about this.

Patent said, I’m not deep into the lore because Star Wars kind of captured my brain when I was eight. Yeah, this guy that ruined Star Trek has a bit about he wants to kill George Lucas with a shovel for the stupid things in the Star Wars prequels, and then you go, when you play Doug the Vulcan, don’t come to my neighborhood and drop a deuce on my lawn. Dude, I’m not deep in the lore because Star Wars kind of captured my brain when I was eight, and Star Trek was a little bit ahead of my time. But I know enough about it, and I certainly appreciate how amazing the world is. What are you talking about?

Star Trek was ahead of your time. It came out in nineteen sixty six. I watched it as a kid. I old as Patton Oswalt, he’s fifty seven, also born in nineteen six, And what are you talking about? It was ahead of your time?

It was out before this. This Guyugh, I think we’d better play some commercials so I can calm down, be right back. I am still worked up. I went and pulled the bit. This is from Patton Oswalt.

This bit is at midnight, I will kill George Lucas with a shovel. The premise here is Patton has a time machine and he goes back to nineteen ninety three and runs into George Lucas on the street, and George starts describing the prequels. Now, I will point out to you Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds is a prequel to Star Trek. So everything Patten says here applies to Dug the Effing Volcan. Some edits here for language, but here’s Patton Oswalt being mad about a prequel.

And the first thing I thought of doing if I actually had a time machine is I would go back to around nineteen ninety three or ninety four and killed George Lucas with a shovel. That was the first thing that came to my mind and stop him from making the prequels. That’s how I would try to save history. I mean, I don’t even know how it would erect if I’d just run into him on the street. I going, oh my god, George Lucas, Dude, look, I don’t want to bother you and nerd out, but like, Star Wars is one of my favorite movies, and I just want to thank you, man, just thanks for all that.

It’s so great you like Star Wars. I got some good news. I’m working on the three prequels, the first three chapters. Oh really, you’re gonna do the finally. Oh my god, that’s awesome, dude, I’m so excited.

I can’t wait. Well, hey, you say you’re a Star Wars fan. Do you like Darth Vader? I love Darth Vader. Dude, the helmet and the cape with the sword.

That’s right, man. Is he in the first movie? Yeah, in the first movie you get to see him as a little kid. Is he like a little Damian omen kid like evil and killing people with his mind? Now he’s just like this little kid.

And then he gets taken away from his mom and he’s very sad. You know what’s scary. I’m not even doing a bit. I’m actually this upset. Okay, what else do I have for you?

Are you a new listener? This is the show Francisco Ramo says a new special out today it is called Still Learning. I don’t believe Ramos appears in any episodes of Star Trek Francisco Ramos Still Learning on tvod via Comedy Dynamics out Today, Filmed in New York City, Still Learning dives into the lessons that don’t come with instructions, marriage therapy, eating with other people, and even learning how to dance in the US, from cultural misunderstandings to relationship realizations. The special explores how we’re all still learning, especially when we think we’ve got it figured out. And The Toronto Guardian does their wonderful series Tragedy plus Time, where they speak to local comedians.

One of them is Spencer Glassman, favorite comedian growing up, John Mulaney. New in Town was probably the first special Eye memorized. I also love the s and Ol Weekend Update character Step on which John Mulaney co wrote pre show ritual Jim Tan Laundry and Macha. I don’t drink alcohol or carbonated beverages, so they’re really the only way to get loose or lock in is with sugar and breathing exercises. I’m kind of avoidant, so unless it’s a showcase or a particularly important set.

I don’t decide what I’m going to say until an hour before. Then, right before the show starts, I repeat the mantra, I love the audience. I’m so grateful to be here. I’m so excited I get to do what I love in front of these people. If they don’t laugh, I will not turn on them and start frantically repeating, see you guys hate this huh favorite bit that he’s written.

I have a joke about Steve Jobs super timely I know where I basically say that people made such a big deal about how he wore the same thing every day to maximize productivity. But what was he wearing before that that was so distracting. That’s a good joke, and that is your comedy news for today. Go watch some proper Star Trek. Go watch Star Trek TuS the Doomsday Machine.

Go watch that. Go watch William Windham turn in the best performance in the entire Star Trek series, even better than Sir Patrick Stewart William Wyndham as common or Decker. Go watch that, and don’t forget you can comment. We’ve got the comments on on Spotify, and there’s the Facebook group Deally Comedy news podcast group. You can write things like this show is terrible.

This guy thinks he’s funny. All he does is rant about Star Trek. I hate this show. You could post that, but it will help the Spotify algorithm, and you’ll only be helping me. Another way you’re gonna help me is by sharing the show.

Right, We’re doing that in June. Pretty soon, I’m gonna be demanding proof. You’re gonna have to send in a picture of how you shared the show, because that’s that’s part of the price to get in this month you’re sharing the show. It’s June, Share the show month, all right? Follow the show on Spotify, Turn on notifications so you never miss an episode.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Jimmy Kimmel, Dwayne Johnson, Henry Cavill, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Joe Rogan, Nate Bargatze, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Jim Carrey, Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr.

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart discusses his roast experience on Jimmy Kimmel Live
• Jimmy Kimmel Live becomes number one late night talk show
• Kevin Hart movie with Henry Cavill about rival spies
• Late night ratings: Kimmel vs Fallon competition
• Debunked rumor about Joe Rogan joining 60 Minutes
• Nate Bargatze’s movie ‘The Breadwinner’ bombs at box office
• Dave Chappelle announces five tour dates for June 2026
• Shane Gillis spotted wearing Chili’s T-shirt at NBA Finals
• Hulu orders Cable Guy TV pilot with Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr.

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Ten Am, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We are still talking about the roost of Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart himself was on what’s it called Jimmy Kimmel Live. I was gonna call it like late Night with Jimmy Kimmel.

That’s not a thing, Jimmy Kimmel Live, which is now America’s number one late night talk show. We’ll get to that in a bit, but here’s Kevin hartch talking about the roost. Obviously, you know you could you dish it out there. You can obviously take it as well because you volunteered to be a part of this, absolutely obviously. Well, I think the the beauty of any roast is the roast ta being gained for whatever is going to happen.

Yeah, so sometimes it happens that the roasty did not research what theah. Sometimes they sit in that chair and don’t really understand what comes with that chair. Yes, I’ve seen that happen. When you sit in that chair, it’s like, okay, have at it, like go have a good time. No, did I get the mic last?

And I’m going to have a good time. But you’re not gonna make me uncomfortable in the chair. I’m not gonna let you get the luxury of seeing me be discomfortable, Like, I’m not gonna I’m not gonna sit and give a reaction of oh my god, this stuff hurts what you’re saying. So I sat there and in comfort. Uh no, no, man, I think uh, I think.

The the the one that caught me off guard, Dwayne. Dwayne had the picture of my father and and he had a mug shot of my dad, and he goes, look at my dad, keV. We both love our dads. And he had a picture of his dad in shape, you know, coming from a gym. He’s like, look at my dad, He’s a tank.

And then he goes look at Kevin’s dad. And it was the worst picture of my father. I’ve ever seen the worst picture of my find. And they caught me off guard. But it was funny and and and anything done.

Uh with the effort of giving the laugh, I’m always gonna give it the benefit of the doubt. Kim ask Kevin Hart, which celebrity is Kevin? Things could be good for future roasts. Kevin suggested Lebron James because of his enormous cultural influence and public profile, and Kimmel asked, what about Oprah? Would that be unacceptable?

Hart immediately rejected the idea and said that would be like spray painting the Sistine Chapel. If I found out Oprah’s that she wanted to do what, I’m driving one hundred miles an hour to Oprah’s house. You cannot do this, no shot. Kevin Hart never afraid to work. I told you he’s working on a movie in which two rival spies cross pass and a Lama’s classes, their wives become friends, their double lives collide in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways.

You know that might not be the worst idea for a movie either.

And now I like the casting the other spy, Henry Cavill, you know Superman, yo…

Very good casting. Mara like that a lot from Late Nighter. They’ve got the ratings from the first post Colbert week in Late Night. As predicted, Jimmy Kimmel is now number one. I will continue to say I think Kimmel’s crazy.

If he’s walking away in a year, I don’t think he will. But I also think he’s crazy that he’s taking the summer off, which the guys on the Late Nighter podcast seem to agree with that that’s a major, major, can’t miss opportunity for Jimmy Fallon. Fallon’s gonna have to floor it this summer to get back in the race. Kimmel’s now basically beating him almost two to one. But if Kimmel is goofing around with guest hosts all summer and Fallon puts in the work and gets some good guests, it’s a good opportunity here.

Again, I think it’s insane that Kimmel’s taking the summer off all right from Late Nighter. According to Nielsen Live plus three ratings data for the week of May twenty four, Kimmel averaged two point four to three million total viewers. That was up thirty five percent from the week before. In a small two hundred and fifty two thousand adults eighteen to forty nine that was across three original episodes two repeats. Fallon averaged one point four to one million, So again, it’s two point four to three to one point one four.

However, in the eighteen to forty nine’s Fallin beating Kimmel two seventy one to two fifty two, and that was with the Tonight Show in reruns all week. CBS News has denied reports that Joe Rogan will be joining sixty Minutes to replace Anderson Cooper. When I saw this on Twitter, I just wanted to say to people who were like saying Joe Rogan rumor to join sixty Minutes, I just wanted to say to them, are you stupid? There was like a better chance of me being on sixty minutes because if they ask me, I will actually say yes. Whereas there’s no chance Joe Rogan is going to go on sixty minutes.

He doesn’t need the money, he doesn’t want to do the work. No good would come of it. Why would Joe Rogan be on sixty minutes. Radar Online, one of those gossipy news sites, had reported that CBS was considering Joe Rogan. An unnamed media executive told Radar Online they do a lot of those on name sources.

Rogan would bring a core connection to over fifty percent of the country. Joe Rogan speaks to viewers who feel ignored or mocked by legacy media. There was never a chance of that happening. A CBS spokesperson said, the rumors are false. I don’t know why, but I find it amusing that this an Aperghazzy movie bombed so hard.

I did think it was gonna bomb this hard. The Atlantic had the wonderful headline, Comedy’s biggest stand up won’t be Hollywood’s next leading man, Nate, are you listening to me? Theme park? Terrible idea? Stand up tour, great idea.

The subhetter from the Atlantic, Naperghazzy’s big screen experiment is a bust. They’re right. The comedian in Aperghatzy is an indisputably Titanic name in his field. He’s been the top grossing stand up in America for two years in a row. He hosted last year’s Emmy’s Appey It’s to mixed reviews, and he’s even planning on opening a theme park called Nate Land in his hometown of Nashville.

Don’t do it, Nate, don’t do it. Consequently, there was every reason to think that the new movie The Breadwinner would break through with audiences. It’s a breezy comedy, aim Squareliad Family is blomb blah blah. The Breadwinner is admittedly not very good. Dave Chappelle is touring.

He just announced five tour stops for twenty twenty six. They’re all in June, Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and San Diego. Pretty big arenas. One of them the United Center. You’ll find Dave Chappelle there on Friday June nineteenth.

Are you ready to watch the NIXT tonight? Of course you are. Now if you watch game one, you saw Shane Gillis on the screen. It’s unclear who Shane was rooting for, if anyone, but he was wearing a simple black T shirt with the Chilis logo and a forty fifth and Lamar under the famed pepper. From Kron dot Com, they tell us the Chili’s located on forty fifth and Lamar in Austin has been a long running local joke.

The quick the answer to my parents slash, grandma’s lash, childhood best friend is in town? Where should I take them to eat? Kron tells us it’s unclear where Shane got the shirt from, but y two Kts sells a very similar shirt for nineteen ninety nine. We’re also told gillisism and spotted court side at Spurs games before who knows. Hey, remember the movie Cable Guy, the one with Jim Carrey.

What if we brought that back and made it a TV show? Yeah. Hulu has ordered a comedy pilot inspired by the Jim Carrey movie. Jake Johnson and Damon Wayne Junior attached to star and executive produce the log line. In a world of endless streaming binging an algorithms, old school cable technician Chip Douglas played by Jake Johnson languishes alone until Steven Stevens played by Wayne Junior, calls to have his cable turn back on, reconnecting Chip with a childhood friend he never forgot.

The relationship gives each man something he’s been missing, until Chip’s enthusiasm turns into obsession. Inspired by the movie, the show explores the darkly absurd side of modern day male friendship. Why are we making this? I don’t know. Can’t we just watch the movie?

Some famous New Yorkers including New York Knicks fan Spike Lee, Jack, Ryan John Krasinski, Natasha Leone from a cool TV show that I can’t remember the name of right now, and Amy Schumer, who likes when we talk about her. They are all in a PSA released by New York City Mayor Zoran Mumdani. Yeah, that guy in the PSA. Amy Schumer says people are in the habit of discounting New York because they think it’s so expensive or it seems unertainable to shoot here. Then you find out what the tax breaks here.

It’s never been easier to shoot in New York. New York Knicks fan Spike Lee ads, I remember there was a time when a lot of stuff with shooting Toronto, but it’s not New York. You save a couple of Nichols you don’t even have to know was shot in Toronto, but you feel like something’s off, including the video. Amy Schumer, who likes when we talk about her, says, New York is there to service whatever you’re looking for and the story you’re telling. One of the things you learn as a filmmaker is that every frame should have a purpose.

It should be part of telling your story. And whatever that story is, whatever mood you’re looking for, New York has it for you. As I mentioned earlier, if you need something else to listen to. Late Nighter had a very good roundtable about late Nights at television, including the final Colbert Show. That’s worth a listen the Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno.

Listen to what this guy’s up to the nerve of this guy. Jay Leno is auctioning off a chance to meet Jay Leno and tour his legendary Big Dog Garage. This auction will benefit you mass Lowell, specifically the Joseph Dorsey Memorial Scholarship, which supports you mass Lowell Physical therapy students who demonstrate strong academic performance, leadership, and dedication to serving others. Beginning today through Friday, you can make your bid. One winner and up to four guests will meet Jay Leno in the garage, a one hundred and forty thousand square foot facility that holds his collection more than two hundred and fifty rare and specialty cars and more than one hundred and fifty motorcycles.

Jay Leno said of Dorsey, he was just a wonderful man. Jayleno also discussed the importance of investing in students through scholarship support and the gratification that comes from helping students succeed. For over thirty years, the Worst Person who Ever lived has supported causes that reflect his charitable priorities. Particularly education Boy, the nerve of that guy? And are you a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Well, they are making a sitcom for some reason. It’s called LL off Season. It is the Chief’s first ever scripted comedy series. I don’t think you needed to tell is that this one created entirely in Spanish and built for a new generation of social first fans. The nine episode micro novella premieres this Friday and will roll out twice weekly across Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook internationally and in the US YouTube.

Blending sketch comedy with classic telenovella storytelling, LL off Season follows four young friends who work for the team and suddenly find themselves searching for purpose and drama when football season ends. What begins as a quiet off season quickly spirals into chaos, complete with romance, rivalries, alter egos, questionable side hustles, and wildly exaggerated plot twists. I can already see the Netflix English version of this. It’ll star Adam Sandler and Marcelo Ornandez. It’s already in my mind.

You can fixture right. Chiefs Vice President of Brand Marketing and Fan Engagement, Lauren Deniwitz said, this is exactly the kind of storytelling opportunity the off season creates. When the game stop, the connection matters even more. Ll off season lets us show up for our fans in a way that feels fun, culturally relevant, and completely different from anything we’ve done before, while staying true to who we are. The New York Nicks play Game three of the NBA Finals tonight at eight thirty pm.

This show here, You can follow it on Spotify and turn out of vcations on so you never miss an episode. You can also comment in the Spotify section there. You can also always comment in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. And I’ll see you tomorrow. Go next

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, Nate Bargatze, Bert Kreischer, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart loses $1.4 million on High Stakes Poker
• Jim Gaffigan on comedy evolution and social change
• Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bargatze discuss aging in comedy
• Nate Bargatze’s movie project and theatrical releases
• Bert Kreischer’s Free Bert season two renewal
• Nikki Glaser discusses mental health and meditation

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Caloroga Shark Media spoilers for season sixteen of High Stakes Poker, which streams on Poker Go. I know you were gonna watch, so I don’t want to ruin it for you. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy. He was John Why are you talking about poker?

Because Kevin Hart was on the show. We are told, with nearly one million dollars in front of him, Kevin Hart had a rough night. So I don’t understand any of this. So here’s Kevin already’s playing against somebody else who’s five hundred and forty four thousand dollars in the pot. We’re told his opponent improved to the nut flush on the first runout.

You know what that sentence means. I don’t. And on the second run out, Kevin Hart’s misfortune increased as the board left him drawing dead on the turn. A few hands later, Kevin Hart looked down at the four thousand dollars double straddle, live and lots of action in front of him. We’re told Big Owl kicked off the party with a limp from upfront with Senior Tilts, who bumped it up to twenty thousand dollars.

Attacking the dead money in the middle, Kevin Art opted to flat the rays with his jacks. I love reading this story to you because I the words are in English, but I don’t understand a word I’m telling you. So anyway, Kevin Art had to buy back in, but the majority of his five hundred thousand dollars rebui vanished in two pots, and Kevin Hart lost his losses eclipse the one point four million dollar mark. Someone will have to send me cliff notes on what I just told you. Jim Gaffigan caught up with the Golden Globes dot com.

We’re told Jim began his comedy career in the nineties. He said, I started prior not only to streamers, but also social media, YouTube, and even satellite radio. Hmm, you’re welcome, Jim. The arrival of these elements transformed stand up from niche born club, dead end career into a vibrant live performance business You’re welcome, Jim, which is presently properly the healthiest part of the entertainment industry. Jim says, stand up comedy’s about listening.

I feel most good comedians understand that comedy, like liberty, is ever evolving concept. Of personal liberty or a reverence in the nineteen twenties was very different from what we now have in the mid twenty twenties. I feel like he’s changed topics here. Jim Gaffigan said these changes can be incremental or dramatic, but if one is listening, you could pick up trends on social norms. If you’re a comedian who primarily deals in a reverence or shock, these changes can feel punitive and unnecessary.

If you talk about being lazy and complain about your children, that’s pretty evergreen. Jerry Seinfeld and Nate Bergazi kind of had a conversation for Forbes. Nate told Jerry I had a joke about being older. If the TV captions are on, I’m not taking them off. I’m not saying I deliberately put them on.

But if they’re on, I’m not at a stage where we don’t want them on. I have a whole thing I’m doing because I’m forty six, so I’m like the old of the young. I get to fifty, which is the young of the old. Once you get to fifty, you’re like, well, I could beat up everybody above me. But the back end of the forties is the frustrating part because you’re like, I bet I can clear that fence, and then you need to be fifty to go.

Why would I want to clear that fence? Jerry says, forties is the most dangerous time because you don’t really know that you’re not young anymore. Nate chimed in and at fifty you accept it. And when I say, in the joke is that’s why everybody tells you when they’re fifty, No one tells you their age. They go from like a child to quiet to like fifties.

Then they’re just walking around just like fifty three years old. They start yelling it and you’re like, all right. Jerry said, I like when people go, I don’t want to date myself, Like, we can’t tell by looking at the extra wide light, gray new Balance, We have no idea how old you are. It was only because you knew Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons that we could tell. Nate said, I’m at the age now where I want to wear the same thing every day.

Jerry said, ah, yeah, I’ve been there a long time. That’s Einstein Steve Jobs. They got to that. I used to have a really good joke. You may remember when I was in my sixties that I don’t want to turn around anymore.

Someone says, you got to see this, and I go, I’ll see it. On the way back. We’re all google it. I’m seventy one now with nothing funny about the seventies. I can’t even tell them because they’ll get depressed.

Jerry asked Nate Brighetzi. What was it like making the movie? Oh boy, Nate said, I liked it. I wrote it. I was in every scene.

I didn’t got to do a ton of editing. I love taking stuff out. That’s a comic. That’s all you do. It’s frustration.

But some of my favorite parts is going it doesn’t work, cut it down. I want to see what I could do adapting to this movie world. This is a movie that I think you would think I would make. I’m not playing a stand up comedian, but telling those stories and having it all connect. Nate had told Jerry, I’m not a believer when people were like, no one wants to go to the movie theaters and no one wants to do this.

I disagree with all that. Traveling into the country doing stand up and hearing laughs in different places and different reasons. That stuff matters. Well, no one went to see the movie, sorry, Nate. So as gutting back to comedy, Jerry said, I loved doing comedy clubs.

Whoever the middle act is that week, we’re hanging out every day all week. I spent the past twenty six years being married. I’ve learned to be with regular people. But the language of comedian and comedian is just a different language. Right now, this was interesting, Jerry said, do you imagine you’ll maintain the pace here on now for quite a while.

Nate said, well, see what happens with this movie. I have a plan of what I want to do. I think this big tour, I see another big tour. I’ve said I want to stop doing comedy and all this. Jerry said, no, you’re not.

Bert Krascher is both to Fox News Digital about what to expect from season two of Free Bert. Bert told Fox I said to my wife, we’re getting dressed to go to an FYC event for a TV show that people seem to like that’s been renewed for season two. Our kids are doing good. We’re living the dream. If you had told us twenty two years ago when we were giving birth over at Cedars, Sinai and broke.

Not sure we could afford it that would be here. We made it. We made it as for free. Bert. You hope it comes out as fun as the first one.

But the first time we had no expectations, no realizations. We’re just going to make something that made us laugh. And with this one, you’re like, well, you’ve got testing. You know what people like. People seem to appeal to this and that, and you know the characters that stand out.

I want to give them a little more of that, but also one of the things, you don’t want to give them too much of that, you know, it’s like cocaine. Upworthy asked Nikki Glaser about her journey with mental health. Nicki said, I would first try a free meditation app. That’s what I did when I was broken, was in desperation for any kind of relief from my negative thoughts. It really helped.

I’d also recommend twelve step programs. There’s one for just about everything. The meetings and fellowship are free. You can go on zoom and just listen if you’re scared to share, and you don’t have to believe in God to go. Up Worthy asked Nikki, have you ever met someone else who’s famous and completely freaked out.

Nikki said, yes, I’m quite an obsessive fan of celebrities who I love, and I could never seem to keep my cool when I meet them. I was a Dave matthew Stan in high school. I met him in twenty eighteen, and I humiliated myself by saying the word sphere a lot. I don’t even know why. It had nothing to do with the Las Vegas sphere as well before that existed.

Thank god I got to meet him again a few years later and act relatively normal. My policy now with these kind of icons is that I don’t really want to meet them. I just feel like a huge bother when I share how much they mean to me, unless, of course, they’re new to fame or if faded from the spotlight, then I’m happy to tell them. As someone who’s not a huge a listener, I get how much it means when someone tells you they like their work. But someone who’s a global pop star doesn’t need me shaking and crying and telling her she saved her in my life.

I don’t want to bother her with my anxiety. She needs to save her energy to write songs, not hug me, so I stopped convulsing. I assume we’re talking about Taylor Swift there. David Cross talked about AI and said, as we understand it now, I would imagine dance can’t be replaced, and I would imagine stand up comedy is safe if you can’t replicate that experience without a replicant. M New West World idea, and he pitched New West World, but said, but it’s all crappy stand ups.

Who knows where the fit’s going. It’s clearly not going to be regulated. I mean not with the current people in office that won’t regulate anything. Send your letters to David Cross and The Toronto Guardian caught up with local comedian Kendell Labella. Labella self describes as like if a Ted Talk and a panic Attack had a child and the child was raised exclusively on Much Music and y TV from the nineties.

Port Sermon, part garage sale, part disco party. Favorite comedian growing up, mister Bean obviously a silent genius. That man was my Richard Pryor. Favorite comedians now Nathan Fielder, Chelsea Paridium, Maria Bamford, Patty Harrison, Josh Johnson, Dan soder Sheng Wang and Sam Speraza favorite bit you’ve written. He says, there’s one way I compare can Tuda to the emotional availability of my father.

I’m proud of it because it makes both older men and me and the audience uncomfortable. At the same time, I write jokes so people will remember me while microwaving fish. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, it’s June. So you’re sharing the show with a friend.

You’ve been doing this right, yep, absolutely, I’m sure I’m not going to check on you today. I trust you, and you’re following the show on Spotify. You’ve got notifications on so you never miss an episode. You can comment there on Spotify, and you can of course comment in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Nikki Glaser, Marc Maron, Leanne Morgan, Harlan Williams, Tim Hawkins, Chuck Nice, Nate Bargatze, Jeff Foxworthy, Brian Stack, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Kimmel dominates post-Colbert late night ratings
• Nikki Glaser on wanting to be likable while saying provocative things
• Marc Maron discusses his audience of sensitive, creative, politically engaged people
• Harlan Williams on instant feedback from stand-up versus animation
• Tim Hawkins advocates for clean comedy in entertainment industry
• Jeff Foxworthy returns to small clubs for new material development
• Brian Stack reflects on late night comedy influences and character creation

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Caloroga Shark Media. I I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from Latenighter dot com. We have our first ratings snapshot post Cobert Ooh do you think finished? First? Of course, Jimmy Kimmel did.

Now, this data is from last Monday, the first time that everybody was live and things were kind of fair late night or sales US. According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Jimmy Kimmel dominated the hour with an average two point one eighty five million total viewers and two hundred and ninety five thousand in the eighteen to forty nine’s Boy Boy Is only old people like me are watching these things? I mean two ninety five in the eighteen of forty nine’s Wow. So, comparing Monday June first, twenty twenty six to Monday June second, twenty twenty five, Kimmel was up fifty three percent in total viewers and up one hundred and seventy eight percent among adults eighteen to forty nine. So at eleven thirty five, Kimmel had an eight point three share average two point oney eighty five million viewers.

Fellon in second place with a little over five share and one point three million viewers. Comics unleashed six hundred and twenty eight thousand viewers. Now, before you’re like, that’s not a lot of people, The Big Fancy Daily Show with Jon Stewart had six hundred and twelve thousand viewers at eleven o’clock and then at twelve thirty seven a m. Late Night with Seth Myers seven hundred and ninety thousand people, and the new twelve thirty Byron Allen. Thing funny you should ask, that’s now the twelve thirty show four hundred and nineteen thousand people.

Nightline is winning that time slot with eight hundred and nineteen thousand more. From that Hollywood Reporter Comedian roundtable that we were picking at yesterday, Nikki Glaser, the Hollyood Reporter writes, this is the hollered reporter speaking recently defined her aspirational self as follows. I want to be someone who’s smart and effable and adorable and likable and seems nice, but it’s saying awful things. They asked Nikki, did they miss anything? Glazier said, wow, I didn’t practice that before I said it.

I do want to be liked by everyone because it’s a sickness, but I also want to say things that make people feel less alone. I always felt like it was weird. No one was really an example of that on TV, the people that were my role models. And yeah, I want to be effable because it makes people treat you better and give you more money for things. I don’t actually want to be ft.

I want to be clear about that. I don’t want to be She’s getting a little coarse here. I just want the stuff that comes with people wanting to feels weird to say that. But who doesn’t want to be liked. I’ve read the room, and when you look prettier, people are nicer to you.

Maren wade in and said, effable is good. I think I want people to like me, but I see you don’t want them to work for it for a bid. I’m also very clear that not everyone’s going to this. Part of me thinks I’m from everybody, but I know that’s not true. The Hollered reporter, we’re asking the comedians, who are your people?

How do you define your people? Maren said, it’s multi generations of handringers, sensitive, creative, angry people that feel like they don’t have a voice in the world. A lot of them politically active or at least engaged and want to feel a little better. Holly Reporter, Where won’t your audiences go with you? Maren, I push a la leak because I get labeled as this progressive.

I’m a progressive person, but I’m also an old, dirty man. I mean, I’ve been in this business a long time and half of it was drunk. There’s a part of me now that I have this following of sensitive, socially concerned people that wants to be like, yeah, but I’m kind of dirty. You still like me now. Leanne Morgan said, I don’t think I’m qualified to weigh in on politics.

Nobody wants to know what I think, and I don’t know. Half the time. I’m just sitting here thinking about how to get through menopause. Harlan Williams having a bit of a moment. He’s been around forever, but he was on Rogan recently and the spokesman caught up with Harlan Williams.

He said, you tell a joke, can you get your result instantly in the moment versus waiting for years to see a finished animated film. I wanted that immediacly. I wanted that instant feedback, so I knew that’s stand up was the right fit for me, so I could get that really quick turnaround on my product. I don’t like to get too serious because to me, comedy is silly and fun. I don’t want to talk about politics or abortion all that stuff.

I’d rather talk about a frog jumping around on a beg of doritos, or something stepping outside of a predetermined routine. It’s like I’m almost entertaining myself when I don’t know where it’s going. I think the audience picks up on that energy that I’m amusing myself, and so they’re amused. It’s infectious and it’s fun. Tim Hawkins told The Christian Post there’s guys who were entrenched in the industry and in the world’s entertainment business.

It’s a dirty place. We’re finding that out with certain files in a certain way the world works. Comedy’s a lot of fun, but you’d be surprised it did a little bit of club work. Starting out was a very depressing place. It was filled with drug addicts.

It was filled with depress people. A lot of comedians just have issues. We’re not the most positive people in the world. All the time. These entertainers are realizing there’s more to it and that they’ve been down these roads and it doesn’t end in a fun place.

It doesn’t end in a good place. It’s like, well, what are the answers. I think it’s encouraging and the more clean performance succeed that helps guys like me. It’s really kind of a team thing. There’s more opportunities if you’re clean.

He named check Nate Brighetzi and Leanne Morgan. There are a lot of people out there that can connect and relate to what I’m talking about. We’re not out clubbing, We’re home doing family stuff. People laugh harder when they can relate to what you’re talking about. Be the same person you are in your living room making your friends and family laugh.

Jeff Foxworthy works clean. He said he was shocked when Fox Nation agreed to bring his act back to smaller clubs. Jeff said, there’s just something about that beer smell. I spent so many years in them, and when it’s working on new stuff, I never do it in a big place. It’s always a little place.

Because stand up is intimate. I want the audience actively involved in it. I’m talking to them, is this funny? Is it not funny? And I’ve had a lot of people that were there for those nights in the small club saying that was probably my favorite night of stand up because I got to be part of it.

Jeff explained, I wasn’t just receiving. I’m watching you thinking, how do we make this better? If you do it well, it looks like you just walked on stage and thought of it that day, which works in the break room when you shared experience in history with each other, But when you’re on stage or in front of strangers, you have to work it. You have to be a fishing at it. An example of that the Redneck jokes, he said, the redneck jokes help me to be efficient as a writer because I had to create an entire joke in one sentence because they were one lighters.

All right, here’s a leftover from Cole Bear week. This guy is Brian Stack. He was a writer on The Late Show and for Conan. He caught up with Chicago Magazine. He talked about his influences Good List here Letterman hit me really hard in college at a younger age was things like SETV, Early SNL, Steve Borton, Richard pryor Peter Seller’s Monty Python Great List.

The conversation moved to Conan being silly for silly’s sake, and some of the characters Conan would do Chicago mag liked already. Kendle the ghost crooner. Brian Stack explains that just popped into my head one day. Rockefeller Center had been around since nineteen thirty, and these old singers like Bing Crosby were there, and I thought a lot of the views from back then wouldn’t be acceptable today. What if there was a guy whose views weren’t even acceptable in his own time.

I was trying to make it clear that Artie Kendall was a monster who had been murdered because he was awful. I love doing all the silly characters at Conan, but I’m grateful for some of the newer challenges that I had at Stephen’s show, and learning from people who were so brilliant political satsire. It was never my strong suit, so it was interesting and fun to try and develop that voice war but it was an adjustment, especially when Trump came along, because that caught us all so off guard by how much we had to think about one particular guy They then talked about Conan’s nine month run on The Tonight Show. Stack said, as happy as I was for Conan, they got the opportunity to do the show they’d always wanted to do. I always felt like we were all better suited to something that was on a little bit later, had a little bit less of a high profile.

I’ll chime in, and I think in retrospect that’s crystal clear. Conan once said that the Tonight Show’s like a big, beautiful ship that’s a little hard to maneuver. It moves very slowly, and it’s very large and bulky. When we got to the TBS show, it was more like being on a little cigarette both that can flip around and do whatever you want. I think that’s where we felt more comfortable.

I don’t remember anyone imposing anywhere strictions on us at the Tonight Show, but there’s something about it as an institution that made us so little self conscious about some of the stuff we were trying. So while I wish Conan had gotten a shot at the Tonight Show that we all know he deserved, and the time to develop it the way the other host did, I always loved the freedom to mess around like we’re up in an attic and no one’s paying attention, and the Toronto Guardian does this serious tragedy plus time where they talk it to local Toronto comedians. One local Toronto comedian is Olena Fox, known for bold, sex positive storytelling and sharp Eastern European honesty. Her influence is Matt Rife for his fearless crowd work, Louis C.K. For turning personal life and relationships into sharp comedy, and of course the Ukrainian women who survived everything and still make jokes.

Favorite comedian right now. I’m really inspired by Matt Rife for his stage presence in crowd interactions, and Chay Durina for his disgusting but delicious humor pre show ritual lipstick, Deep Breath, and an internal pep talk, which is, Elena, you survived immigration and divorce. You can survive people looking at you for ten minutes. And that is your comedy news for today. Right.

It’s June. So you’re sharing the show with a friend. You’ve been doing this right, because I’m gonna check in. I’m gonna come to your house and be like, hey, show me who you shared the show with, and if you’re start going, oh, you know, I’m meant to you, and around the time we’re we’re gonna have an issue. You don’t want me showing up your house, do you know.

So just share the show with somebody and you can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on say and never miss an episode, and you can comment there, and you can comment in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Mark Maron, Nikki Glaser, Wanda Sykes, Leanne Morgan, Julio Torres, Hannah Berner, Bert Kreischer, Lori Kilmartin, Michael Jay, Stephanie McMahon, Paul Heyman

What’s in This Episode

• Hollywood Reporter Comedians Roundtable featuring five major comics discussing fears and comedy
• Nikki Glaser on performing dirty material versus working clean
• Mark Maron on talking to himself as comedy material
• Hannah Berner’s new Hulu special ‘None of My Business’
• Bert Kreischer’s health scare: blood clots and lung issues in January
• Bert Kreischer’s tour bus fire connection to his blood clot discovery
• Lori Kilmartin discussing Gen Z son and loss of in-person socializing
• Michael Jay interest in writing for WWE

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Caloroga Shark Media. I am such that weather’s finally come to the Northeast. The Knicks are winning. Life’s good. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

The Hollywood round Table. No, that’s not what it’s called at all. I’m leaving it in. I’m in a good mood. The Hollywood Reporter did a round table.

There’s no such thing as the Hollywood Roundtable as far as I know, But the Hollywood Reporter did a round table. They say, gather five of the most relevant comedians working today and ask them what scares the most, and the answers very complacency comes up, SODA’s cancelation. Mark Maron says, and sometimes people don’t hear comedy for comedy. They’re like, well, I don’t really believe that, And I’m like, good because it’s a joke. Stupid.

Who was on the round table, which took place in May at the fancy Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica. Excuse me, Mark Maren, Nikki Glaser, want of Psykes, Lean Morgan and Julio touris. There’s a crew and we are till to get your eye roll ready. Johnny Mac, are your eyes ready to roll. John.

Yes, they are all of whom I’ve released specials in the past year for a wide ranging oft in raunchy conversation about comedy, pothics, bombing, and yes, Glazer’s desire to be, as she puts it, effable. Oh nicky. As I went through this and I’ll pick out it today and tomorrow, I found Mark Maron and even Nikki Glaser interesting. I am finding Nicki increasingly annoying. I think that’s clearly leaking out into the show.

I found Wanda Leanne and Julio uninteresting. So I’m mostly going to quote from a Glazer and Maren chr asked, what was the last experience where we thought in the moment, well, at least this will make good comedy. Maren said, well, I’ve been talking to myself more than usual in the moment. I don’t think it’s very funny, but I’m starting to think this is an avenue that I can explore. I don’t know if that sounds sad or not, but I have three cats and I’m not talking to them.

They won They’re like, what’s going on. I’m like, no, I’m gonna keep this to myself. Bestween me and me chr Nicky. You recently said that stand up is like sex, Nikki Glaser, But I’m on stage. I believe in ways and say things that I would never say off stage, similar to sex.

I feel unbridled. I feel like I make different noises and faces and do things with my body that I would never do in front of my friends and family or the general public. Having to then hear feedback about anything I did on stage always feels to me like someone after sex being like, remember when you said that one thing? No, no, no no. I don’t want to hear what I said.

There’s a detachment for me, and I’m kind of embarrassed by that person. So I’m glad that everybody watches it, but I don’t want to watch it. I don’t want to hear what you think. They talked about working clean versus dirty, Nikki Glaser said, once you get agents and people who are weighing in and you want to be marketable, I get a lot of don’t be dirty, and not only because you can’t be on network TV talking like that, but it’s also what all female comics do, and so you’re doing the easy thing. I go, well, is it easy for other women to talk about their private parts.

Look like on stage, it’s easy for me, But why wouldn’t you want me to do something that comes easy to me? The hollered reporter was curious, who’s saying work clean? Maren said, book club owners Agents. Glazer added in and TV early on because of my stand up. I wasn’t chosen to do a lot of things on network TV because they’re just worried you might go off and talk about an advanced sexual thing, very advanced, very very advanced.

You even go on radio and they’re like, now, this is a show where families are listening, and I’m like, I know where I am. I preferred Maren’s answer, which is part of me is always a little dirty, just to keep those people away. And by that I mean success. But I’ve done clean sets because we all had to do them. If you’re doing Letterman, you had to be clean.

I could do it. And I don’t talk dirty stuff as much as I used to because I’m old. It doesn’t age well. And A Burner has got a special out today on Hulu. It is called None of My Business and it’s held variety.

After my Netflix special, I was like, I have to do that. Again. How many specialists they have to put out It’s crazy. I was really nervous about how I was going to make these jokes as good as the ones that are so tried and true and tested. But I also realized that my Netflix special wasn’t good because of the particular jokes.

It was good because I was being myself.

And now I’m better at writing jokes and better performing, and I’ve had more …

Being on stage is all about or on confidence, and you can’t help but get better the more you’re on stage. Stand Up comedy was healing from me after dealing with reality TV, which was a blessing. Stan up made me just feel so myself because even if something didn’t go well, at least I was authentically being myself. It made me want my voice to be heard. I felt like my voice was shrunk, and I wanted female voices to be heard in all their emotions.

If I wasn’t feeling that excitement to do that, I wouldn’t be crazy enough to tour for five years. You have to have a chip on your shoulder and be like, I’m getting a Netflix special, I’m getting a Hulu special. I have stuff to say. I can’t be quieted down for the new special, Hannah Burner says, I want it to be the people’s comfort show. I want them to be able to put it on when they’re feeling down, and to be able to watch it with their friends and to share clips that they can relate to want people to feel less alone in any of the tough times in life.

I hope this comedy special adds little brightness. Hannah Burner, none of my business Hulu today seems like Bert Krascher has seen the light. He was speaking to Fox And Now remember earlier in the year there was the whole bus fire thing. Well. Bert shared with Fox News that in early January, Bert had gone to the er after a severe leg pain woke him up in the middle of the night.

At the hospital, doctors found a blood clot behind his knee and discovered additional clots in his lungs. He was placed on blood thinners and had to stop drinking. Now back to the bus fire, Bert says, two weeks after it burned down, I got to go on my new tour bus with my same tour bus driver who was in the fire, and he says to me casually and did add affect me? At all. He goes, man, you’re lucky you got that blood clot.

Bert was like what, and he goes old school Birdie boy would have been drinking. He didn’t pass out in the back. We would have just let you sleep. Bus would have caught on fire Man, you would have been dead. That thing caught up in thirty seconds.

Bert said, I’ve realized how valuable life is. I realized how luckworks in certain ways. And you’ve got to see everything is lucky because all those things are real. Seven days Vermont caught up with Lori kill Martin. They were curious about her talking about her gen z Son in her comedy and what Laurie kill Martin finds disturbing ridiculous about the Zas.

Laurie said, I don’t know. I mean, I guess the only thing I’m sort of bummed out about is they don’t hang out together in person. They go online and he’s hanging out with his friends, but they’re not in person. They’re losing something. The ability to make small talk and just being bored with each other’s that kind of bums me out.

Wrestling in kids dot Com You’re Home for Comedy News spoke to Michael Jay about Wrestling. Jay was a guest on Stephanie McMahon’s What’s Your Story podcast? Would Chay like to write for WWE? Chase said, I would love to do that. That’d be a bucket list that could be really fun.

I’m a fan, you know. He then name checked a bunch of wrestlers I’m not familiar with. Chay’s a big fan of Paul Hayman, saying he’s one of the best people I’ve ever seen on television. Like he’s then on the short list of the people. I don’t know why he’s not a four time Emmy winner.

He’s so good on television. Every time he’s on, it’s like something cool or developing. I had a meeting with Paul Hayman once, very very likable, very likable guy. Wish I’d gotten to work with him. Star trek Ruiner Pat Oswald is mad about food bowls.

He was on the Snacks podcast. The Star trek Ruiner is upset with KFC’s famous bowl, the menu item that combines mashed potatoes, chicken, corn, cheese, and gravy into one container. Paton said, it’s clearly what stuff do we have left over? Can we jump into bowl and cover it in grievy. That sounds pretty good, actually, Doug the vulcan continue.

The reason I think bulls have caught on because now every place offers bulls is because half our time now we’re staring at a screen, and a bull is a way you don’t have to need to look at what you’re eating. He’s got a point there. We’ve got to stop the bulls. No more bulls. Comedy stock Market, Thank you, Bert Reynolds.

Every week in the Comedy stock Marker, we look at what comedians are overvalued and undervalued, and much like you would in a real stock marker, we try and make some money on the folks. You get how this all works. We’re gonna buy low and we’re gonna sell high. It’s been a very quiet week, you can tell from the stories that are making the podcast the last two days. Not much going on after the whole Stephen Colbert farewell thing.

So I’ve got two for you. Let’s buy some Tracy Morgan. There’s Tracy. He’s at the Knicks games. The Knicks are winning.

Everybody’s happy Tracy Morgan. Sure, why not? Let’s buy some Tracy Morgan. Plus the people seedn’t like that NBC sitcom and one sell for you. If we have any left, let’s just sell our Nate Berghetzy.

I mean that movie bombed so hard and I’m going to continue to first guess this theme park thing. What are we even doing? Nate, You’re making more money than anybody according to bill Board when you do the comedy tours. Just do a comedy tour, so a pretty simple one today. Buy Tracy Morgan, sell, Nate Brighetzi, Nuva dot Nat caught up with Guy Brainham.

He likes trivia now. I didn’t make trivia this week. Were between volleyball seasons, but Wednesday night was the Knicks, so I couldn’t go to Wednesday Night trivia. I had to watch the Knicks. The trivia guys won’t put the Nicks up on the TV.

They want their trivia questions up on the TV, so I had to stay home. Got the same issue coming up for Game four on Wednesday. I have to hope my volleyball game is at six thirty, seven thirty. I haven’t seen these schedule yet. Guy Brainham said, I think comedy and trivia come from the same place of wanting to be right and proving yourself that you have a mine that’s quick.

In the same way that I was growing up during the Golden age of comedy, I was growing up during the golden nature of jeopardy, and they’re both ways of learning about the world. Jokes tell you so much about the world as a kid you don’t understand, and so does trivia. When I was in college, I was on the quiz Bowl team, but at Berkeley I wasn’t good enough to travel. I only got to play when we were at Berkeley. Then I went to law school at the University of Minnesota, and one of the good things about it was they had a nice endowment, so we traveled a lot and I got to see the college towns of the then Big Ten.

It was a lot of driving around the Midwest, learning about the importance of steak and shake, and that one McDonald’s it’s on a weird bridge over the Highway on the way to Chicago, and which towns in Wisconsin were the best to stop for pie. I’m in on all that, and I had a pitch from the people at openmicx dot com. They have some data which cities have the most active open mic scenes, what stage time costs, now free MIC’s versus paid mics. Wh Thursday is a big night for open mic nights and what comics on the road can learn from city to city. Let’s call it the data on a slow news day and see what they got all right?

Thursday is the peak night for open mikes. Looks like there’s a barograph here. Thursday number one, Wednesday two, Tuesday, three, Monday, four, Sunday, five, Friday, six Saturday. According to twenty two hundred and sixty three published recurring open mic listings, open mics by states on open mic x Top ten states New York, California, at Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Florida, Arizona, Washington, North Carolina, Pennsylvania. Not surprised there, and the top venues and ticket sources for open mics Number one the NYC Comedy Club, followed by second city event, Bright Laugh Factory, Show Clicks, Leap Flappers, Allegiant Theater, Improv Tixer, TIXR, Comedy, Mothership, Zany Chicago.

And there’s a lot more here. And you can check all this out at openmicx dot com. And that is your comedy news for today. Don’t forget it’s June. So what are you doing you’re sharing the show with a friend.

That’s what the rule is. You have to share the show with a friend this month, and don’t forget. You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on so you never miss an episode, and comments are on there, and you can always comment in the Facebook group as well Daily Comedy News Podcast group. By the time you’re hearing this, Dylan has already watched the Hanna Burner special three times and updated his top comedy ranking, so you could check that out on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. Seed to Bar

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