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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m shunning Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Late Night went in on Taylor Swift a little bit. Jimmy Fallon said, let’s get to today’s Taylor Swift news. Everybody else at the Grammy’s got an Emmy for acting surprised when she won.

There’s been some backlast year that Taylor keeps doing that. Oh gollie gee, I want I can’t believe it. Taylor is having a bad week. I’ll talk about Taylor in a bit more from Late Night Fallon. Yep, Taylor dominated the Grammys.

And if you thought she was on your TV a lot on Sunday, wait till next Sunday. Amen. Jimmy Kimmel was talking about the torential rain in LA and said, you know, they closed our kids’ school because of rain. And I just want to mention this is not an outdoor school. There’s a roof on the school, but they said it’s too dangerous to come to school.

Somebody could get wet. And Kimmel had a similar upbringing to me, and he’s joking here, but he’s right. When I was a kid in Brooklyn, for them to cancel school there had to be like at least six inches of snow, there had to be black ice on the road, and son of Sam had to be on the loose. So I grew up a queens. As I mentioned about seven times a week I went from first grade to college.

I had a total of one snow day in nineteen eighty one when we had the there was like twenty six inches of snow in February. School never closed in New York City, and now I live in the suburbs, and I find with my kids’ schools, if there’s even a hint of snow, especially on a Monday or a Friday, oh you know, we better close Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, they’ll just do the two hour delay. But Monday and Friday, yeah, snow day. And we’re already at February seventh, and they haven’t used that many which means if it even I don’t know, gets dark, they’re gonna just start closing school left and right. Jimmy Kimmel, here’s how you know we have a lot of rain.

When the La River is actually a river, usually it’s just a big empty skateboard park. I also go back to Taylor.

Let’s talk about Dave Chappelle.

I can’t believe he got the Grammy for What’s in a Name? I dusted off Sean McCarthy’s review from December twenty twenty two. This was on this cider just so I could remind myself and you what what’s in a nameless about? In it, Dave Chappelle goes back to his old school to lecture the students about how his previous Netflix special The Closer is a masterpiece, and how the kids these days have no idea what they’re complaining about, because his rights to tell whatever jokes he wants is more important than analyzing the content of the jokes. Sean writes.

This recording is not of his twenty twenty one visit to the school, but to his subsequent visit in November. You may be able to keep beating a dead horse, but can you beat a bragging goat? Netflix set aside thirty nine minutes for Dave Chappelle to hold court at the school with an acceptance speech that recounts his time at the school in the major highlights of his career. I’ll remind you this one best comedy album, Sean wrote, what comedy specials will remind you of? Answer, Today’schappelle is more lecturer than comedian.

I’ll remind you this one best comedy album, huh. Switching to an article on cract who wrote, by my thinking, a Chappelle voter must fall into one of three camps. Camp one, the Chappelle is the best crowd they right, take away the controversy, and you’re left with the comedian that many consider among the best ever to grab the microphone. I think that’s fair on both points. Some faction of voters must be thinking, I know what Chappelle says offense people, but I don’t care.

He’s simply a better comedian than Trevor Noah or Sarah Silverman. I’m gonna vote for the best artist, not the least defensive one. That is fair. Dave is a better comedian than Sarah, for sure, Trevor. I like Trevor’s game a lot, but Dave is really good.

Camp two, I’ll show the Snowflake’s mob create a role and they feel duty bound to break it. What some view of Chappelle’s insensitivity or even cruelty can be received as bravery by those who value artistic freedom above all else, vote for Chappelle could be a middle finger extended to anyone who wants to restrict what a comic can joke about. I personally am not looking to restrict what Dave joke’s about. My problem is he’s done at four straight releases now and I’m done with it. Like you made your point.

It was funny. I laughed at some of it. Some people didn’t appreciate it. But what are we doing? And back to this particular Grammy Best Comedy Album, not best speech given by a comedian, Best Comedy Album.

What are we doing? Grammys Camp three? And I think this is where they nailed it. The Chappelle is the comedian I’ve heard of gang they write who votes for the Grammys? According to the Recording Academy, voters come from a pool of vetted and venerable performers, songwriters, producers, engineers, instrumentalists, and other creators currently working in the recording industry.

Cracked Rights. Think about that for a minute. While there must be some comedians among the vetted and venerable performers, they’re also jazz saxophonists, classical violinists, and normley bearded dudes who played the slide guitar. Then they’re all the wonky producers and engineers. Industry expert, sure, but possibly not folks who spend their spare time spinning comedy records.

Voters who don’t know much about the contenders will opt for the one with the most name recognition. I heard of that guy. I love Chappelle’s show. Chapelle keeps winning, so he must be good crack finishes. Are there other reasons to vote for Chappelle?

Let me know if you can think of one.

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Meanwhile, don’t blame me for his continued dominance of the Grammys.

I would have voted for Wanda Sykes, Johnny Mack would have picked Trivor Noah, and I could even make the case for the I’ve I heard of that guy. Vote for Trevor Noah. So I don’t get this at all, all Right, back to Taylor Swift. Backstage, Taylor greeted Trevor Noah with a hug and praised him for such a successful night as host of the Awards show. People tells us she embraced Trevor and told him he did a beautiful job tonight.

You really did. I don’t know how you do it. I’ve seen you running around all night. I don’t know how you do it, Taylor, You run around all night? What are you talking about?

Before I get hate mail? I like Taylor a lot. You want me to whip out my phone and show you my Taylor list playlist. There’s even one in the phone called Taylor Swift Dad’s Edition. I saw the concert best concert I’ve ever seen, I told my Springsteen friends, and I’ve seen Springsteen fifty times.

I told my Springsteen friends, you want to tell me five guys are going to stand at one end to the stadium and play guitar. Not impressed that said, I’ll just chime in on Taylor. By the way, if you’re interested in Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift Today’s podcast, which covers Taylor Swift who knew right well. I was listening to The Town podcast, which is kind of a Hollywood insider podcast, and they were talking about backstage people were eye rolling that Taylor promoted her album during her speech and when she kind of blew off Selene Dion.

Later you saw a photo of Taylor and Selena. I’ve been in the media or media a Jason for thirty years. I was like, somebody was cleaning something up, and apparently, according to backstage people. They were cleaning that up and made sure that picture got out in a hurry, because yeah, Taylor, you’re a little rude there. Taylor is not having a good week, John, get back to the comedy.

Okay. Pace Magazine gets it. Their headline man two racist to join SNL cast set to host SNL. They get it, they wrote. Just to be clear, Sane Gillis’s stand up act doesn’t consist of him just standing on stage spouting rachel slurs and insulting gay people for an hour.

I wish more people covering Shane Gillis would point that out. He also often deflates some of those statements immediately after making them, and some of his fancy it as a performance similar to it Danny McBride character basically saying how could anyone actually believe what I’m saying? Gillis is careful not to alienate the audience that would take him at face value. It’s hard to tell how ironiculeus intends to be, but it also doesn’t matter if he’s completely insincere and trying to make fun of racist attitudes, as ironic racism is still fundamentally racist, accomplishing the same goal sinceer racism by perpetuating and legitimizing racist ideas. Middle aged white dude sitting in the basement, Not sure I agree.

I get what Shane’s doing, I get what Ricky’s doing, and at some point in comedy, something’s making fun of something. Otherwise we’re just telling jokes about chickens crossing the road. Paste points out SNL has made an effort to bring in current stand up comedians as host off in a critical acclaim, Nate Pergatzy’s hosting debut last year. It meains the most popular episode of the current season, those the best episode years, and John Mulaney has become one of the show’s most beloved repeat hosts, so it’s not a major surprise it would reach out to a comedian with the ursioning profile of Gillis. Of course, Burgatzy avoids politics, and it’s usually not a major part of Milani sets, and neither of them resorts of the kind of hoary, hackneyed, racist and homophobic material Gillis use in those podcast episodes from twenty eighteen.

We’re gonna be talking a lot about this one for another ten days, Davy Club said. Bowen Yang’s feelings about Nicki Haley’s SNL appearance or a bit more clear. Yang posted to his Instagram a note in Nicki Haley’s dressing room which read, welcome to Studio eight h from Lauren plus everyone at SNL. Yang captured the photo everyone with a smiley face emoji. Davy Club says some believe that comment suggests that Bowen did not want to be included among the everyone welcome to showbiz.

Bowen got some comedy podcast nominees NOE, but I wasn’t nominated. I think a lot of times you have to actually pay to submit to these awards, which why I don’t do it. I feel like the podcast nominated, why don’t have to give you two hundred dollars? The iHeart Podcast Awards. What are these actually called?

The twenty twenty four iHeart Podcast Awards south by Southwest, March eleventh. The nominees are best Comedy Podcast. I’ll remind you two things. One I host a comedy podcast seven days a week, which you can’t hate much if you’re this deep into this episode. And two, I’ve been in podcasting since twenty fifteen and listen to eight million podcasts every day, eight million Slight exaggeration and I’m looking at the list and going what the nominees for best Comedy podcast are?

Baby this is Kekey Palmer. Huh? Are you guys all listening to Baby this is Kekey Palmer. Whether or not I listen to it or like it, I do look at the charts because I want to see how my own podcasts are doing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on the charts.

The description Kiki Palmer has questions for days about everything under the sun, from the existential to the inconsequential. I’m gonna go to charterable and see how this thing does. Again. I’m not saying it’s good or bad. I’m just like, what, who Mike in Cleveland, You’re probably like, come on, man, Kecky Palmer.

I know you’re like the comedy expert, Mike. Mike’s my friend for twenty five years. I’m not being a jerk. Is it twenty five, Mike? No, it’s more than twenty five.

It’s thirty five, all right, Kekey Palmer’s podcast. Right now as I look at this on the Apple podcast the United States of America Comedy Charts is number forty three. Much better than this dumb podcast. You’re listening to this one right now is number twenty four in the stand up subcategory up three places today. Yeah, this one’s usually around twenty or so, depending on the minute.

Anyway. The nominees maybe this is Keky Palmer, handsome, so that’s Stickingnataro Fortune themestern May Martin, all right, probably gonna win. SmartLess, Oh yeah, that could win. This is important. I’ve heard of that.

But what is that? Adam Devine, Andrews Holme, Blake Anderson, and Kyle Nyuachek forgot that existent? How’s that doing? Well? There’s at least one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine podcasts with the same title.

I don’t care that much to figure out which one is which. I worked with those guys very briefly. One broadcast. It was actually my last day at Serious. They did Super Bowl Radio Row.

They were quite cool. And Why Won’t You Date Me? Is the other one. That’s Nicole Buyer’s podcast start I interrupted a million times. I’ll give you the list real quick.

The nominees are maybe this is Keky Palmer, handsome, SmartLess? This is important? Why won’t you Date Me? Running along here again? That’s actually good if you’re me like when I have extra stuff all right?

From gossip Corner? Did you see Darius Rucker? You may know him as country music star Darius Rucker. You may also know him as a lead singer in Hoodi and the Blowfish. He’s not hooty, a common misconception.

Darius was arrested last week in Tennessee his ex girlfriend, comedian Kate Quigley, Which is why I bring this up? Celebrated on Twitter, she posted all I can say is karma, adding an emoji heart to the text. Ouch. In a follow up post, she shared a bikini selfie with her tongue out that she captioned mood when you hear your d bag X got arrested hashtag karma. Mister Rucker was charged on minor drug offenses for possession of a controlled substance.

Quigly split with Rucker back in twenty twenty. Mister Rutcker was released from police custody on ten five hundred dollars bond. Kevin Hart, never one shy to take on another gig. Exclusive from Awful Announcing Heartbeat launches Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls Super Bowl live tapings. Kevin Hart’s got his Cold as Balls Cold Tub interview series.

It’s kind of like Hot Wings but different. They’re gonna tape two episodes of Cold As Balls on Thursday and Friday. Heartbeat will also present Shaquille O’Neills Shacks All Star Comedy Jam a Friday and Saturday. Let’s See Who’s on that by I tell my wife about my Lauren Bobert search. She thought it was funny.

All Star Comedy Jam hosted by Dion Cole. Good Choice, There Dial, Hugh Glee, Earthquake, Desi Manx, I Eita Rodriguez. That is a solid show February ninth and tenth, eight o’clock at Resorts in Las Vegas, and I love suits who are just so unaware how bad their quotes say Heartbeat President and Chief distribution Officer Jeff Clenigan told Awful Announcing the synergies between sports and entertainment have long been something we’ve been interested in, dating back to the launch of Cold As Balls in twenty eighteen and the viral Peacock series Olympic Highlights with Kevin Hart and New Dog. At Heartbeat, we’ve created an ecosystem that can produce, market and monetize IP and experiences all under one roof boy. That sounds fun, mister Clanagan, all right, one more for you from Kroc.

A comedian has been announced for the Minnesota State Fair grandstand lineup. Who is it, Johnny Macause? I’m planning on going to the Minnesota State Fair. Well, if you find yourself in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, the State Fair is running August twenty second through Labor Day. All right, John, Well, who’s the comedian?

Why won’t you tell us? Well, the comedian’s performing Saturday, August twenty fourth at seven pm. I think that might be the night of Kenny Chesney. Tickets at Giant Stadium. You can get in for seventy seven, ninety seven, one hundred and seven or one hundred ninety seven.

The party deck will run you one fifty four. I wonder what the party deck gets you. Who’s the comedian? John? Is it Kevin Hart?

No? Is it Dave Chapelle? No? Who is it? John?

It’s Nate Perghatzy. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your podcast. Tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Shoanny mag with your Daily Comedy News man. There’s a lot going on. I was gonna lead off with Shane Gillis, and then a bunch of stories jumped on top. How about this headline for The New York Post.

Adult film star Lisa Ann dragged out of Matt Rife comedy show and handcuffs. They quote her as saying, I did nothing wrong. All right, what’s the deal here? Podcast host and former adult film actress Lisa Ann. Lisa Ann and I have at least one thing in common.

Went to see comedian Matt Rife. I’ve never seen Matt Rife, so it’s not that perform at Radio City Music Hall and ended the night in handcuffs. Oh no, she tweeted, because it’s Twitter, and we tweet on Twitter. I don’t know about that letter that Elon Musk uses. She tweeted.

So I was dragged out of the Matt Rice Show tonight in handcuffs, stating I was using my phone. I had not used my phone. I was just enjoying the show. Forty five minutes in handcuffs, sent to an ambulance and released.

Meanwhile, I missed the show I was so looking forward to.

She accompanied her post with a video of herself being escorted out by NYPD officers. Where she get the video? Was she using her phone shouting I did nothing wrong, I didn’t touch my phone. I wanted to see Matt Rife because he’s a friend of mine, and I go to jail. In her comment, she added, putting a period between each word, as I’ll phrase it, this is not a bits real life.

I was arrested tonight at Matt Rife show at Radio City Music Hall. Hashtag WTF. So she’s either confused or just wanted to shout out Mark Marin there, bad joke, John, keep going. The post points out although Anne said she was going to jail in her follow up tweet, she claims she was released after forty five minutes. A source from the venue tells the Post that Lisa Ann was allegedly recording the show, which is prohibited.

When she was asked to stop and refused, the NYPD got involved. Must have been a quiet crime night in New York City. Hey, we need two officers to respond to porn stars recording Matt Riffe’s show at Radio Music Hall. Nothing else happening in New York that they need to deal with that. Same source tells the Post she was not removed for the phone.

She was removed because she was disruptive. She was being very disorderly. How disorderly could you be at a Matt Rife concert? Some people speculated because of her past career. I’m not going there.

No idea wasn’t there. I can’t imagine that. It’s not like Lauren Bobert was at the show. All right, that was funny. The source says.

She started getting loud. The police were there, and she started kicking them. See that doesn’t add up to me, because I’m pretty sure if you kick a police officer, somebody’s gonna start throwing around the word assault. Right. I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think I could just kick a police officer and get let go forty five minutes later.

Case you’re wondering who this is, Lisa Ann is best known for playing a parody version of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a certain genre of film and now you’re like, oh, I know who that is? Yes, you do? You naughty boy? Talk about unfair poor Joe Coy. You may recall a few weeks ago that Taylor Swift appeared to murder Joe Cooy’s career.

Bring it, Swifties. Listen to this headline from Yahoo. The Internet is praising Trevor Noah for his respectful but funny jokes about Taylor Swift at the Grammys. Now, let me remind you what Joe Koy actually said that cost Taylor Swift to apparently murder his career. Joe Coy’s terrible, mean, horrible joke.

How could he possibly say this about Taylor? Joe Cooy’s joke was the big difference between the Golden Globes in the NFL. At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh man, that is so mean. How could you do that?

Why can’t you be respectful but funny like Trevor Noah? What is going on? So? Here a third in my rundown. I want to tell you about a comedian who released a trailer for a comedian special And I almost moved this here, but I’m overthinking it.

The comedian is Taylor Thomlinson, and my hesitation is too many people are writing the really lame Taylor Thomlinson is the Taylor swift of because you know their first name is Taylor. But if this were a Deane Cook story, it would sit here. So Taylor Thomason, you get the third spot. She has released a trailer her specials called Have It All. It’ll be on Netflix February thirteenth.

I’m gonna play the trailer, but I gotta tell you, as I listened to it, there’s some unnatural crowd work here. I’ll give them some rope because it’s a trailer, so it’s obviously remixed and mixed. But if the crowd is laughing this hard on the actual special, I’m gonna be a little suspicious. Well, let’s listen. To be honest, my career is going very well right now.

This is the last night of the biggest tour I’ve ever done. I’m filming my third Netflix special tonight. And recently someone was using my name and photos on a dating app. It was me. I was doing it.

If someone has their soulmate, you don’t want them to have their dream job too. If someone has their dream jobs, they don’t get to be in love. On top of that, if someone has their dream job and their soulmate, minimum their parents better be divorced. I prefer they were an orphan. Kilert.

Tomlinson’s Have It All Netflix February thirteenth was filmed at Capital One Hall in Tyson’s Virginia. It’s her third special for Netflix in four years. Looking forward to that, but I’m more looking forward to this. My favorite thing last year was Kunk on Earth. Well, Philhemina, Kunk, as played by Diane Morgan, is coming back, Baby.

The BBC tells us it’s Kunk’s most ambitious quest to date, venturing right up to the universe and everything to find the definitive answer to the ultimate question, the meaning of life. What’s the point of it all? Is a question humans have been asking themselves since the dawn of time. But as we cling to our dying planet, working around the clock while we’re slowly being replaced by machines, now more than ever, people are desperately looking to make sense of their lives before someone invents a computer that makes sense of it for them. It’s a one off extended special for BBC two an I player at a layer in the States on Netflix, Kunk’s Quest for Meaning Kunk.

We’ll tackle some of the most complex It’s just fun to say, Kunk will tackle some of the most complex concepts to ever have been discovered, including quantum physics, existentialism, nihilism, hedonism, and at least four other isms, as well as exploring subjects from the Big Bang to biology, morals to mediation and art to artificial intelligence. Good job making fun of the copywriting rule of three. There she’ll also examine the lives that works of some of the history’s foremost thinkers and groundbreaking creatives, from Epicurus to Dostoyevsky, from Sarto to van Go, from Nietzsche to whoever came up with those signs and kitchens that say Live, Laugh, Love. It’s a journey that will take Philimina further afield than ever before. This is a great copy.

She visits sites of significance across Europe, as well as traveling internationally for the first time to America, subject of visa approval fingers crossed. Along the way, she’ll be meeting leading experts and academics and not lighting them leave until she’s gotten to the bottom of such questions as what is life, what’s the point of life? And why are we bothering to find out? And when’s lunch? Philamina Kunk says, to be honest, I thought we could cover the Meeting of Life in a thirty minute episode, but the producer said we might need a bit longer, and that I could probably go to America if we did a special.

Very excited to be going to America for free. This is so well written. Charlie Booker says, what’s sort of quote you want for your press release? I haven’t got time to think about this on late for zoom. Oh, for God’s sake, Okay, this print something bland like.

I’m thrilled Philamina’s returning to our screens to help us uncover the meeting of life. That’ll do now, go away, leave me alone. Oh my goodness, this is wonderful. Making fun of other press releases. John Petrie, BBC, Director of Comedy Commissioning, there’s a title, how do you Get that job?

Says Kunk has become a global phenomenon, so it’s fitting that she’s traveling further than before to ask some of the brightest people on Earth some serious questions. Hopefully she was clever enough to remember to renew her passport. Diane Morgan and Charlie Bricker are the dream team, and I’m so glad they’ve teamed up for more Kunk on the BBC. All right, Shane Gillis, he’s going to host Saturday Night Live. I touched upon this yesterday and as I said yesterday, Hey, Lauren, did the material get less offensive by just getting five years older?

Was it offensive or it’s not? How is it now not offensive? I know how things go the other way that maybe we used a word in two thousand and five that we don’t use anymore. I know how that works. It’s stuff going the other way.

Now we’re like, oh, I know you said pejorative back in twenty nineteen and it was a no go now, but now nobody gives it Wood It’s okay if you said those things. What’s going on here? And I think Hollywood in Toto has nailed it their headline. SNL needs Shane Gillis more than he needs NBC’s show Rising Star, formally snubbed by Far Left series, will host February twenty fourth episode. Hollywood and Toto reminds us Shane had sold cruel jokes featuring racial stereotypes in the past.

Material the show’s production team didn’t learn about until Social Justice Warriors unearthed it. Since then I’m editorializing here. Dave Chappelle has hosted SNL what twice? Maybe three times? At least twice total, writes this could have been a death blow to Gillis, at the time a modestly known comedian podcaster.

Imagine coming that close to the gig of a lifetime on let me see it slipped from your fingers. The show’s more laughing stock than a comedy institution. In its forty nine season, last year, the show’s called Open used the tone deaf testimony of three Ivy League residents to mock not their moral rot but the GOP congresswoman who exposed it. The show has lost its edge and sense of adventure, its predictable and planned. I got Stephen Colbert monologue, all right, you know it’s terrible.

I just opened up Google. Remember that Lauren Bobert crack I made earlier, so before I said it, I wanted to fact check it. Now that I’ve opened Google again, my search is for Lauren Bobert and the thing she did. My wife comes out, She’s gonna be like, what are you doing. I’m working on the podcast, honey, Oh my goodness.

The least search history all I wanted to do was remind myself where I pulled this next story from the answer Vanity Fair, who writes Saturday Night Live caters to the right. With Nicky Haley appearance, she and Gillis return, Eve Baty writes SNL continued its long standing tradition of giving problematic people a platform with two questionable judgment calls this weekend. First, it gave Nicki Haley the chance to seem fun, I guess, she writes in a cold open that saw the actual anti trans pro gun black friend have her rib a Donald Trumpet personator in the sketch show’s cold open. Let’s not act like Donald Trump didn’t host the show. Then it announced the next host would be Shane Gillis, a comedian.

It was higher than fired from the show’s cast in twenty nineteen. Blah blah blah. They do remember Trump hosted it, right, Haley isn’t the first candidate SNL, as ample vined via comedy. Trump was hosted the show twice. Others who have hosted at Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Rudy Giuliani and Americus Mayor John McCain, Bernie Sanders, and a bunch of other presidential candidates.

Out of all those, former cast members most frequently called Trump’s stint out as its most regrettable, with Tarren Killiams saying in twenty seventeen that Trump’s twenty fifteen hosting spin normalized him and makes it okay for him to be part of the conversation. It’s also time perhaps that has paved the way for Shane Gillis to return to the SNL stage. Cracked Rites, Why Lorne Michaels can’t quit Shane Gillis, As Gillis’s stand up star continued to rise. Lorne Michaels found ways to stay in touch. This last year he hired Shane appear in the Pete Davidson bio sitcom Bupkis.

A statement issued from the Michaels camp a few years ago damn Gillis for language those offensive, hurtful and unacceptable. Apparently that’s worth a two year probation before getting a work release gig on another Michael’s show. Now Gillis is getting the ultimate your back gift. He’s hosting the show, et cetera, et cetera. Crack nails it here.

The easy answer is it’s attention stupid. The two top trending subjects on my Twitter feed this morning were Lorne Michaels and Sheen Gillis. You know how hard it is for a fifty year old television show. I want to slip in angry Jerry Seinfeld. I was watching out Kerb and Jerry was on and doing angry Jerry Seinfeld.

You’re a hardness for a fifty year old TV show to be the most talking about subjects social media the wake of the Tarot swift super Bowl. I guess it’s not that hard at all. Invite radioactive comedians to the show and sit back and watch the fireworks. Maybe Luis c k will turn up for the Good Nights on the Gillis episode. That would be amazing.

Don’t act like you won’t watch Michael’s is cut from the same. I want to have it both ways, cloth ripping conservative lawmakers in one week’s cold open, inviting conservative candidate Haley to crack jokes on another day. So what are we complaining about now that the show’s balanced? I don’t get it OutKick, writes Shane Gillis to host SNL, proving whoop comedy doesn’t work. You know, between this Shane Thing and Joe Rogan being really popular.

Maybe people just like to laugh. Maybe we like to laugh at all kinds of things. I find Schapelle funny. I wish you wouldn’t talk about some subjects. I disagree with him on other subjects, but he’s funny.

Shane Gillis is funny, Mark Maron is funny. Out Kick Rights now after destroying itself to peace the woke mob, butt Light who Yeah, they’re doing a deal with Shane Gillis for a commercial is actually listening with consumers and giving them what they want. Maybe, just maybe SNL is doing the same inside hook with what I’d think is a bad take their headline, it might be time for Lorne Michaels to retire Before we even read this, do you really think Lorne Michaels is going to retire in year forty nine? You think he’s not gonna do the fiftieth anniversary? Really, maybe it’s time to admit it’s impossible to stay in a job for five decades without becoming out of touch.

His cast members rattle off jokes about Joe Biden, Donald Trump being too old to run for president every night, but Michael’s himself is pushing eighty true, but you know, kind of a difference between I mean, picking the wrong musical guest and pushing the nuclear button. Just saying the Hally cameo proves that michaelss learned nothing since he deservedly caught heat for having Donald trumpos the show in twenty fifteen. The Trump Show bombed hard, and it represented a crossing of the rubicon of sorts. SNL has a long history of having politicians on, but since twenty fifteen or so, we’ve been living through some of the most divisive times, et cetera, et cetera. Beyond the fact that Chane Gillis represents a certain type of lazy, unfunny comedian who fancies himself edgy see I disagree.

Watch his Netflix special If you watch his body lineage, he knows they’re just jokes and he’s having a good time and he does a great Trump having him host shows an unfathoma lack of respect for Bow and Yang, the show’s most talented and arguably most power popular current cast member. Fair point there. Yang is Chinese American and gay, and you’re really gonna make him share a stage with a guy who thinks it’s funny to mock Chinese accents and casually drops slurs like two slurs. I’m not gonna repeat them. If we set aside the obvious HR concerns, what other job is there when someone could be fired for being racist and homophobic and then brought back to work alongside the very people his eight speech was targeting.

Welcome to show business? Are you kidding me? What happens if somebody’s doing drugs backstage at SNL? We’ll have to let them go? Come on?

Why is Dave Chappelle seemingly roaming the halls of Studio eight h for no reason? Why is Lauren Michael’s betting over backwards to accommodate problematic old guys and problematic not so old guys who’re clinging to an incredibly stale, outdated idea of what comedy should be when he’s got an incredibly talented, younger generation of comics at his fingertips. Let me jump in the last two seasons have been terrible. Dave Chappelle’s really popular, Shane Gillis is really popular. Lauren’s running a business.

He’s not running a comedy charity. People like this stuff. He’s trying to make a popular show. He wants the fiftieth anniversary special to be the biggest thing ever. He’s playing the hits.

If you want to do some niche comedy thing, there are plenty of black box theaters that’ll have you. But SNL NBC’s in the business of selling commercials, and they’re in the business of selling commercials to bud Light. Oh boy, long in the first here, Johnny Mack, I didn’t even get to Dave Chappelle. I guess I’ll get to that rant tomorrow. But I’ll tell you what I wrote Chappelle, of all his work, that one, all right, I got the machete out.

Let’s see gossip corner? Can wait? Kevin Hard can wait? Is Bill Martin can wait? While we’re talking about people who have been canceled and uncanceled as he is and sorry?

He has launched his directorial debut nearly two years after what was supposed to be his directorial debut was scrapped. Admits a report of co star Bill Murray’s inappropriate behavior. Forgot about that has He’s and sorry? Who this article doesn’t bring anything up about? Should I google?

Is he’sn sorry? Canceled twenty nineteen Vox has a headline as he’sn Sorry addresses sexual misconduct allegation. Their subheader, as he’sin Sorry has addressed his sexual misconduct allegation, but he hasn’t publicly apologized. In pr has a headline the fine line between a bad date and sexual assault. I’ll leave that there.

Not getting into that today. Has he’sn sorry? Who’s uncanceled till the hollow? Reporter Keiki Palmer, who’s joined the casts the light to work with. I’m so happy she’s part of her cast, and even more excited to provide a quote for this press release announcing her casting.

Kunk did it Better. Pete Davison is testing out new material in Tarrytown tonight, performing a never before seen set. He’ll be a Terrytown music call eighty one bucks to see Pete Davison tryout new material. Not a good use of your bunny, I mean even Pete’s best material at eighty one dollars, I don’t know. You want to see Pete trying stuff out?

Not sure that’s a great idea. Phones are not allowed, all right, So if you’re a former porn star, don’t go whipping out your phone or leave it I’m having fun today. You get the rest of the joke. Kim McVicker has a new special hour. This is not a special.

This is an hour on Prime Video and Apple TV. It’s out today. Kim McVicker’s third stand up Thingy bos bits about the perils of men trying to stick their stuff in your backside on the dance floor, and her dreams of playing a corpse on ends. Wrap it up, John, You’re definitely gonna make somebody mad today and you’re just gonna get in trouble. Go home.

Well, I’m already home. I’m in the basement. Not your comedy news for today. If you enjoy this, share it with somebody. They might like it too, or they might go, who’s that jerk face?

I hate that guy? I get it. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media so much to talk about. Gane gillis coming back to SNL, Dave Chappelle wins a Grammy, and did Taylor Swift murder Trevor Noah’s career? The answer is no. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac. Let’s listen.

You can tell that Taylor Swift is here? Yeah? What this she is? Look? Look at this?

Look at this. I say the names and they pop out Taylor Swift everybody. I like, if we should do it like this every year. I’m gonna say the people and they’re gonna walk in. Are you seeing what’s happening right now?

As Taylor Swrift moves through the room, the local economy around those tables improves. Can you see that? Look at this magic right now? Look at this magic? Huh?

Lionel richie now, Lionel wealthy? Look at that? Look at that? By the way, can I just say something before we move on? Can I just say I think it is so unfair how NFL fans have been complaining about the cameras cutting to Taylor Swift right, like she’s controlling the cameras at the games.

Right, Let her live, Let her live in fact to night on Taylor’s be hoffy. You know all what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna give it a break every time every time they mentioned Taylor Swift. I’m gonna get revenge. Every time someone says Taylor Swift.

I’m gonna cut the cameras to someone who played football. That’s what I’ll do. Cut bam, just like that. Oh yeah, you like that? Terry Cruse?

You like that? Terry Kruse. You better fix your face, Terry. Yeah, we’re watching you all night, Terry, no relaxing for you. Do you work for the CIA?

Terry ha ha, I can read lips. Terry, better watch what you say. Trevor’s a really good host. I mean, is it hilarious the job he’s still on the Grammy’s No, but he’s solid. He’s so charismatic.

One of my friends texted me and was like, why is Taylor late? I’m like, that is not late. That is so contrived. Sorry, a big flowing dress. Taylor is in full look at me mode last night.

You can follow all about Taylor Swift on the Taylor Swift Today podcast on This Very Network. It was Trevor’s fourth time hosting the Grammys. He joked at the show is the only concert that starts on time, and that his goal is keep the vibes going. He did a big rap about TikTok and Universal Music Group removing their music from TikTok, but in the course of shaming TikTok for ripping off artists, he joked, that’s Spotify’s job, which is a funny joke but also very interesting because Trevor’s in business was Spotify. That Trevor Noah podcast, that’s a Spotify podcast.

And I’ve been in the industry for a while. I’ve been at similar corporations. My guess is some executive at Spotify is going to have an annoying Monday morning with some boss going, why is our going making photocal initial TV? Dude, Da, it’s a joke. It over it anyway, Nice job, Trevor Noah.

The winner Best Comedy Album Dave Chappelle for What’s in a Name? Uh? That was my last choice in the group. What do I know? If you listen over the weekend, I couldn’t even remember what that was.

This was the forty minute special taken from a speech at his former high school where he defended The Closer. The Closer won Best Comedy Album at the twenty twenty three Grammys, Chappelle beat out Wanda Syke, Sarah Silverman, Trevor who should have won Chris Rock, which would have also been a good choice. Chappelle was not in attendance to accept the award. The award was given out before the televised part presenter Rufus Wainwright accepted it on his behalf. Wainwright goofed up and announced that photographer David La Chappelle had won Best Comedy Album.

Dave Chappelle Oops. As for What’s in a Name? This was the one where Chappelle said, the more you say I can’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it. I’m sure this is going to rekindle the Chappelle controversy. I think it’s a terrible pick.

I won’t pull my punch Best Comedy Album. I don’t know man at the Academy or whoever picks these things. I don’t know what you’re doing. We’ll talk a lot about the Grammys during the week. Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed, passed away.

He was also in the movie Happy Gilmour. Adam Sandler posted on Instagram calling Carl Weathers a true great man, great dad, great actor, great athlete. I spent Sunday I rewatched Rocky Rocky one because I was in a Carl Weather’s mood.

Also on this network, we put out bonus episodes of TV in the Basement discuss…

Those were Carl Weathers related. The other big story circulating, Shane Gillis has been announced as the host of the February twenty fourth episode of Saturday Night Live, Which is weird because you probably know who Shane Gillis is if you listen to me every day, and he’s got a very popular podcast and he’s hit with the college crowd. I know my son loves Shane Gillis, might even name him as his favorite comedian. But I think most people are gonna be like who. But the same thing was true of Napergatsy and he was the best guest host in years.

That was the best episode in years. But what’s weird if you don’t remember Shane Gillis was hired to be part of the cast of Saturday Night Live in twenty Nineteen hours after that announcement, videos resurfaced on social media that featured Shane making what variety calls racist, homophobic, islamophobic, and Masanja de jokes on his own podcast and other media. A week later, NBC Come from the Cast, a spokesperson at that time, set on behalf of Louren Michael’s after tuggle with Shane gillis, we’ve decided that 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 comedian and his impressive audition for SNL. We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days.

The language he used as 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. So my question for NBC and Louren is what changed? Are we no longer offended by such language or is he popular enough that you need to help your show in a bad year as we head into the fiftieth Is it that possibly? Yes?

Huh? Because the jokes didn’t change, Shane doesn’t have a time machine and made them go away. So are you offended by the language or not? Pick one back Then, Shane released a statement saying, it feels ridiculous for comedians to be making serious public statements, but here we are. I’m a comedian who is funny enough to get SNL that can’t be taken away.

Of course, I wanted to notportunity to prove myself at SNL, but I understand it would be too much of a distraction or respect the decision they made. I’m honestly grateful for the opportunity. I was always a man TV guy. Anyway, keep an eye on that one. I’m sure we’ll talk about that a lot in the next two weeks.

As I speak this sentence, it’s eight forty five pm Sunday night. I’m gonna cut here to some stuff I recorded earlier, and if Will Smith gets up and slaps Trevor no or something wacky happens, I guess I’ll do a bonus episode. The Gazette spoke to bobcat Goothwaite under the headline living well is the best revenge. They remind us one of the most memorable moments in the history of the Howard Sterns Show was when Howard and Sam Kinnison called Bobcat to end a feud between the two stand ups. The concept was to bury the hatchet, but Kennison wanted to bury Bobcat.

Goothwaite says, Sam was always talking a lot of crap about me. I looked bad when they did that. I didn’t feel like fighting when I was getting ambushed. It was one of the lower parts of my career. I’m sure if Sam had lived, he would have been in the Oval office with Kid Rock.

I don’t have anything in common with him. I broke on the national scene, but for him, I thought that early persona I came up with it was funny. I’ve changed so much from them. Yeah, he doesn’t do this anymore at all. I try to challenge myself these days.

He’s directing movies as I was thinking a lot about how Tarantino always has these suspenseful moments with not a lot going on, but you’re still on the edge of your seat. Can I do this? I tried. The last screenplay I wrote was a family picture. Can I pull it off?

It all seems quite possible, and he has in the past few years started doing comedy again, four or five years. I think he says, it’s great to have this opportunity again. My dog is here. What do you want? Do we need to go out?

Should I hit pause on this recording? I’m going to hit pause on the recording because I don’t want to clean up pee on the floor. And I’m back, John, why didn’t you just edit that out? I’d like to let you guys into my life. So that’s the border Collie.

She’s sixteen, which in dog years is one hundred and five. She moves him around well, she acts like she’s twelve, you know, a little stiff. When she was a puppy, she would escape and run around the neighborhood and we couldn’t catch her. I would grab my son and jump in the car and we would have to tire her out. And border colleiues like to herd.

So what we would do is we would trick her into following the car. So I’d be driving it like twenty five miles an hour and the dog would just be following us along, and then she’d eventually get tired enough that my son could jump out of the car and catch her. So I can catch her now pretty easily. But she moves around just fine. And if you’re curious, she did have to pee.

Where were we? Roy Wood Junior was on Audie Cornish’s CNN podcast and Roy talked about the changing wave of comedy and he said, there’s more eyeballs on TikTok than any two streaming services you could combine. So is an hour special still the lick might be better off taking your hour jokes and chopping that thing down into ninety second chunks and putting it out on TikTok and riding the algorithm to sell out crowds. There’s comedians I can name who are selling out stadiums, selling out theaters before they even had an hour special. That’s a whole turn on its head.

Twenty years ago. You do good on Letterman, you do good on Leto. The network likes you. They give you thirty minutes. If they give you an hour, then you could sell a theater.

And he talks about how the economics has changed the self producing You might not even need any of these people meeting companies and stuff. There’s a recipe that Joe Rogan set in motion, that Mark Maron set in motion, that a lot of other comedians have started to finally figure out and how to crack that code. You know, the bird Chrysier’s of the world, the Tom Sigores of the world, the eighty five sALS of the world. Audi then asked about Hasan Minhaj, you know the guy that we all think was going to host the Daily Show before that went sideways, And hey, Roy, love you man, You’re not getting the Daily Show. They’re trying to really make it clear to you.

They just like as a friend. Roy said he was accused of not being accurate with a handful of his stories from a stand up act. One was the idea that he was rejected by his prom date’s family due to racism. Another was about FBI informants harassing Muslim communities after nine to eleven. Another was a story about receiving a letter with white powder.

Each of the stories was fundamentally true, but, as he has said, some of the details were fudge in order to make it work. Did you hear that thump? That was the border Collie. She just thumped the door. She came in again.

Roy makes a good point here. He says, if you take Chappelle in this, this is a terrible analogy, says Roy Chappelle, jokes I saw a baby on the corner smoking weed. It’s a joke. He’s just painting the picture of the ghetto. There’s no baby actually smoking weed.

I think if Hassan chose to use, if he chose to change up some of the story to invoke extra motion to get people to pay attention to it, is that the wrong tool. But at the source material is the racism still there? Is the xenophobia still there? Or all the things he’s trying to shine a light on do they actually exist? And to me they do.

What happened tick some people off, especially Daily Show viewers, because for them there’s no difference between desk joke and stage joke. But there is, and so for them if you’re Comedy Central, half these corporations aren’t going to bat for talent anyway. But was he ever not factual at Patriot Act? To me, that’s the question because in my brain, as a comedian, desk Hassan nailed it, did everything he was supposed to do over the Patriot Act, won a couple Emmys. But if you question comedy Hassan, then you’re gonna automatically question the Daily Show Hassan, But at no point did anybody go back and bet anything he said at Patriot Act, or if they did, it all checked out.

This is kind of fun. Faulty Towers, the John Clees hotel sitcom from the seventies, has been adapted for London’s West End. John has written a two hour play based on three of the original episodes. Those are The Hotel Inspector and the Germans from season one and season two’s Communication Problems. If you’re not hip to Faulty Towers, there are only twelve episodes total.

That’s the way the Birds do things. We now do that over here with Netflix. Apparently I missed twenty five episode seasons, don’t you The Germans was in the eye of a storm, says Variety In twenty twenty when UKTV removed it as it contained racial slurs. It was later reinstated after Clees attacked the decision as stupid. If you’ve never seen the show, the whole point of the show is how stupid basil Faulty is.

In twenty twenty three, it was announced that Faulty Towers was coming back for a continuation. I don’t think it’s a reboot, but I haven’t heard anything about that. In a while, we’ll see. Mindy Kahling is working with Netflix on a comedy series set in the world of pro basketball. The untitled Seas received a ten episode order at Netflix in June of twenty twenty one.

Three years I know there was a strike, but come on, let’s go. In untitled basketball show, when a scandal forces her brother resign, Kate Hudson’s character is appointed to president of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied professional basketball franchises and her family business, The Waves. That sounds like a WNBA team. Revisit that that’s a terrible name. Ambitious and off as and overlook Kate Hudson’s character will have to prove to her skeptical brothers, the board, and the larger sports community that she was the right choice for the job, especially in the unpredictable, male dominated world of sports.

Brenda Song will star as Ali Lee, the chief of staff of the Waves. That character is said to be born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and knows where the bodies are buried. She understands the complex politics surrounding the Gordon family, having known the new owner since they shared a dorm room in college. She’s funny, tough, and even the biggest guy on the team. If scared of her, this is a train wreck.

I can tell her already this is terrible. Can you hear how terrible this is going to be? I know it’s Mindy Kayling. Everything she does is wonderful. Drew Sarver plays Sandy, one of the brothers and chief financial officer of the Waves.

That character thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and is often right hopelessly unathletic and bad at sports. Sandy felt alienated by his family his entire life. He now works hard to prove that he could return the franchise to greatness, or at least make them profitable. All right, So he’s the stupid male character in a Mindy Kayling comedy. Did you see the Scooby dooe Velma thing?

Watch that and then come back and be mad at me for critiguing this? Okay, you go watch Velma and tell me Vilma is good, and then come back and be mad at me about my opinions. Here. Another character is Ness Gordon, the emotionally sensitive general manager of the La Waves. Ness has an infectious enthusiasm.

Friddie is both good and bad Ness. Is a former player himself who burned out after one season in the pros now He earns for greatness in the front office to make up for his unremarkable career on the court, and to impress his siblings. A right been developing that for three years. It’s Always Punny in Philadelphia. It’s the fifth iteration of Philadelphia’s pun Contest, hosted by Helium Comedy Club February seventeenth.

This year, there are three rounds. Pundits has competing comedians performed pun filled routines. Headlines has competitors read madcap news stories and come up with funny headlines. And Pundemonium gives contestants a prompt from a hat and pits them against each other in a pun off. Winners of Pundits and Pundemonium receive a cash prize and a T shirt.

What happens if you win Headlines, you get nothing. Nathan McIntosh is taping a special at the Comedy Seller in New York City today, the eight uner bround. Gorilla says energetic, loud, and always funny. Nathan McIntosh is becoming one of the names to know in comedy Solar Opposites has a Valentine’s Day special. Solar Opposites was so good until they changed the voice.

I understand why Justin Royland had to go, but the new voice is terrible. In the last season was not good and I didn’t make it all the way through. Sorry, guys, used to love you, but I get it. The new special is called an earth Shatteringly Romantic Solar Valentine’s Day Opposites Special. The teaser shows the aftermath of a war featuring attacking parrots, galactic satellites in the Solar Opposites attempt at saving love.

You’ll find that on Hulu today and at the comedy seller in Rio So not the one in New York City, the one in Vegas. They have a showcase tonight, Greg Riguel, Jenny Zagrino, Tom Rhodes, Matt Richards, and Mark Cohen. Seven o’clock and nine thirty. Steve Martin is the subject of a new two part documentary. It’s called Steve.

It’ll be split into two halves. The first part is chronicling Steve Martin’s upbringing in years and stand up. That’s the interesting part. Part number two takes a look at who Martin is as a person today in his latter career after stand up. That’s the banjo part.

I won’t be watching that part. According to Vanity Fair, the films are so different that Neville had two separate editors working on each part. He treats them as two different films entirely. This will be on Apple TV Plus March twenty ninth. That’s your comedy news for today.

If you’re mad at me at the Mindy Kaling thing, go watch vell MOV. Let me tell you where film was streaming. It is on Max Max, HBO, Max Hbo, Hbo, Max Max. Go watch it. Come back and tell me that was good.

And that’s why I have no hope for this basketball thing. Okay, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It is Grammy Night. Let me do two things of homework here. One, if tomorrow’s episode isn’t there at three or five in the morning, I’m gonna wait tonight to put Monday’s show all the way together.

I want to see what Trevor does or doesn’t, or maybe Taylor Swift murders his career like she did to Joe Coy. Bring it, Swifties. It’s called Daily Comedy News. Posted on the message board. Make sure you include a link to Apple podcast.

While you guys are attacking me, laugh at the jokes Taylor anyway. So if the episode isn’t out right away, it’ll be out by like eight a m. Eastern on Monday. If all the Trevor stuff and the Comedy Awards have settled in, I’ll put it out. The other thing is if today is the first day you’ve discovered this podcast, this episode is a little atypical.

So if you’re like this sucks, maybe listen to yesterday’s more normal. I’m gonna soapbox a little bit about the Grammy Awards in a bit, and I’ve already talked more the beginning than I usually do. Usually I get right to it. Nominees for the Grammy Best Comedy Album are Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage, Wanda Sykes, I’m an entertainer, Trevor Noah, I wish you would, Dave Chappelle, What’s in a Name? Sarah Silverman someone you love now?

A Ward shows are always weird. I was thinking I didn’t have Trevor Noah at the top of my list last year. Well, that’s because his special came out in twenty twenty two. So for my list in twenty twenty three, I’m just looking at the nominees here. I had Chris Rock at thirteen, Trevor actually as a special after this one, that one was called Where was I have that?

At fifteen. I had Sarah at twenty, and Chappelle I think was also at the end of twenty twenty two. Let me see if I could find my twenty twenty two notes. In twenty twenty two, I had Shang Wang as number one. I had Trevor Noahs I wish you would at eight, and I don’t if I remember correctly, Chappelle came out like maybe after Christmas, so I didn’t have it on my list.

Regardless as you hear me talk, I’m not really remembering that Dave Chappelle special, so that’s not the answer. I would pick Trevor Noah, and I think that would be a nice win for Trevor, who’s hosting and just is on the top of the world right now, apparently irreplaceable as host of The Daily Show since they had to go back to John Stewart and three four guest hosts a week. Anyway, good luck to Trevor. Noah is my pick for the Grammy. He’s a two time Emmy winner.

He has never won a Grammy. He says. I’m rooting for Beyonce to break the most wins. I’m rooting for Taylor Swift to win the most albums. Please make a Taylor Swift joke.

I want to see if she ICs you. Because she iced the Fox cameras and she murdered Joe Coy’s career. I want to see what she does if you make a Taylor Swift joke. That’s how we’ll know if Trevor’s in like the Hollywood inner circle. If Taylor gives him a then we’ll know like Hollywood has accepted Trevor, Noah, Joe Coy, Sorry, Bud.

Trevor says, what’s tough about these categories is that almost every single person in them someone who I believe deserves to win that award. Yeah, they’re all great. I agree. He says. I’m not part of the voting contingency.

I’m actually glad because then nobody can come up to me and say, who’d you vote for? What you do? Luckily I don’t have that stress on my shoulders. He compared a regular set to hosting awards. He says, I think stand up comedy is a performance that’s curated not just for but by the comedian for their own audience.

It’s one where you’re in total control and most importantly, you’re the reason that people are there. An award show is different because you’re not the reason people have come most of the time, and everyone there in the audience is there predominantly because they’re hoping to take home an award. So that makes this gig different. I think it means it’s not all the same skill sets, and I think that means the outcome is a little less predictable because if you’re a comedian, you’re on stage and you’re not doing well, you can switch things up, you can do whatever you want. You can’t do that in an award show.

So it’s a different discipline. I don’t take that for granted because it’s difficult in a very different kind of way to just doing stand up. All right, I’m gonna get on my soapbox here. If you don’t want to hear the soapbox, maybe hit skip like thirty second skip hit it like ten times. This will probably take three minutes, would be my guess.

So here’s my soapbox. The headline is I disagree with the Grammys on what an album is. They can pick whatever they want as an album. It’s their rewards. But let’s go back in nineteen fifty nine, the Chipmunk Song won the Grammy.

As we get into the sixties, things like Bob Newhart’s The Button Down Mind strikes back. So let’s use that as an example. Clearly an album. I would like to experience the comedy of Bob Newhart. Well, there are two things I can do.

I can go see Bob Newhart live, or I can go to the record store and buy this twelve inch vinyl also known as an album and play the Button down mind strikes back on my record player at home. Clearly an album. Nineteen sixty three, Vaughan Mater is the first family. Clearly an album. As we head into the seventies, nineteen seventy three, George Carlin FM and AM I can either go see George Carlin or I can buy a twelve inch vinyl.

Maybe by nineteen seventy three did we have eight tracks yet? Maybe? I don’t know an album? You know, now it starts to get a little little funky. So in nineteen eighty four we have Eddie Murphy’s Comedian.

I owned that on cassette. Cassette another form of album. You know, it’s a thing you listen to you’re not watching it. But there was also Eddie Murphy Raw I believe it was called, which was the HBO special and the material kind of overlaps, but at least there was an album there. You know, I could take my cassette and listen to it poolside with the other teenagers, and believe me, we did.

But as we get into the twenty twenties, Dave Chappelle Sticks and Stones one in twenty Tiffany Hattish Black MITZVN twenty one Louis c. K Sincerely twenty two, Dave Chappelle’s The Closer in twenty three. Those to me are Netflix specials or video specials. Those aren’t the same thing to me as Bob Newhart, you know. But the Grammys disagree.

From their own website screening criteria for Best Comedy Album, this category recognizes excellence in comedy recordings, including spoken words, stand up comedy, and musical novelty recordings. So far we agree. New comedy performance albums, whether recorded in a studio or low, so far we agree, or whether recorded in an audio only format or as part of a video project or eligible. And that’s where we are now. The Grammys feels a Netflix special is eligible for a Grammy.

I’m like, why aren’t we doing audio recordings here? What happened? So? If weird Al makes a funny video but doesn’t release an audio version of it, is that eligible? I guess it is now.

The Grammys tell us recordings that are compilations and excerpts from a current year radio or TV program, or new recordings of comedy performance first aired on television within five years of the release date are also eligible. Recordings that are compilations and excerpts from non current year broadcast radio or television programs. Audiobooks, even if considered humorous, albums of sound effects and albums of environmental recordings are not eligible, and Best Comedy Album and may be entered in other categories as appropriate. So I’d say, well, agree to disagree, but they’re not my awards, So the Grammy’s gonna do what the Grammys are gonna do. The other thing is, and I’ve been programming comedy radio for twenty years now, a lot of people don’t release anything that on old Man Mountain would call an album anymore.

Most things are just video releases or they go straight to YouTube. Maybe if we’re lucky, there’s a digital release and you can buy some MP threes. But you know, the days of George Carlin putting out twelve inch final That’s over Cracked reminds us that no comedian can touch with Bob Newhart did. In the nineteen sixty one Grammys, Newhart recorded his debut comedy album and a club had never heard of the Tide Lends Motor Inn in Houston. Bob had never performed in front of a live audience before recording that album.

Wow Bob’s comedy career began when he’d call a buddy who worked at an ad agency and do prank calls as an airline pilot or the manager of a yeast factory. Another friend heard about Bob’s funny phone stuff and suggested recording them to sell at a radio stations. A few stations bought in a suit at Warner Brothers found out about this. They thought Bob’s phony phone calls would make a funny album and wanted to record them at one of the comics club gigs. The problem Bob Newhart had never performed in front of an audience.

Isn’t this incredible? The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart hit number one on the charts, not the comedy charts would didn’t exist at the time. The music charts warners wanted another album, but Bob had used up all his material, so he scraped together enough bits to get The Button Down Mind to Strikes back its stores before the end of the year. That reached number two on the charts, right behind his debut album That’s Amazing. The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart beat out Harry Belafonte and Frank Sinatra for Album of the Year.

Bob also won Best New Artist, making him a triple Grammy winner on the night, best Comedy Performance Album of the Year and Best New Artist. Bob says, it turns out my two albums held the number one and number two spots for two consecutive weeks. That record stayed in place until Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion one to two in nineteen ninety one. That is amazing, all right. The other big thing going on today is Curb Your Enthusiasm rolling still.

Alan Seppenwalla is a very respected critic, and he writes under the headline Kurby Your Enthusiasm final season is a very mixed bag potential spoilers coming up. Consider yourself warned. Sepinwall writes, it’s a running gag in season twelve that people keep mentioning that Larry David didn’t work on the last two seasons of Seinfeld, but then returned for the finale. Every time, Larry greets the observation with Stony’s silence because he knows the audience hated that finale and assumes he is being given another thinly veiled complaint about it. The previous eleven seasons on Kerb have already featured two episodes that were blatantly presented at as series finales.

In season five, Larry died then was kicked out of The Afterlife for being annoying. Season eight, Larry and Leon fleet America for Paris to escape a feud with Michael J. Fox and plenty of other season enders would have been fine finales if Larry David didn’t come back. Larry was at a screening of the first two episodes of season twelve. He got a standing out.

Larry joked, if I had been a different person, I might have been touched by that. He confirmed, this is it the final season. It’s very sad, and apparently he was being playful with the American sign language interpreter next to him. Larry tells us, don’t worry about me. I got plenty to do.

First of all, I love to travel. Y’all know that I’m a world traveler. I love packing and unpacking, tripping ou everybody. When I come across having a medical emergency in a foreign country where they don’t speak English, that’s the greatest. He says.

He’s thinking about traveling to Antarctica. I’ve been hearing a lot of things about Antarctica. Good things get that boat. O’ll go down there. They got the penguins.

I love the penguins. Now that the show’s over, I’ll have a lot more time accomplish a few things that needed to be done. I might get that stool test that I’ve been putting off. All right, a little long here Today, let’s hit seafood Corner. This may be the last seafood Corner.

I love the bit, but there really isn’t that much comedian seafood news today. On seafood Corner, we’re reminded that Chris Rock used to work at a Red Lobster. You know, not like last year or going way back here and back in two thousand and three, Chris Rock told Jay Leno, the thing about Red Lobster is that if you work there, you can’t afford to eat there. You’re making minimum wage. A shrip costs minimum wage.

It is the final day of sketch Fest, which means I’ll get to delete another bookmark. I’ve got about twenty open as usual. Let’s see noon Glop meets Glog. It’s the Glorious Ladies of Puppetry and the Glorious Ladies of the Groundling love the title. That alone makes me want to go there.

Two o’clock something called Hey Riddle Riddle that appears to be a podcast taping about riddles. Okay, Seven o’clock DJ Dimmers I talked about him yesterday. That would be a great for us to see.

Also at seven the Traventure Zone, a night of Dungeons and Dragons, and also …

Eight o’clock Open Mike Eagle and Sketch Fats Sets. I would pick DJ Dimmers and then catch a red eye back to New Jersey. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify overcasts. You could use Fountain throw me some SATs.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Super Bowl tickets going for twelve thousand dollars. Jimmy Fallon said, yeah, but that’s cheap to see Taylor Swift. Fallon adds, nothing like being ten grand down before stepping foot in Vegas.

You know what I’m saying. Greg Guttfeld talked about Shane Gillis, and I was going to read you the story, but I need you to hear it. I know the show is supposedly popular, but it seems terribly unfunny, and I don’t want to be blamed for not properly presenting Guttfeld’s humor. Let’s hear it from the man himself, Greg Guttfeld discussing Shane Gillis. He’s funny and he does Trump better than Alec Baldwin.

Plus, plus he hasn’t shot anyone yet. But what’s special about Gillis is that he beat cancel culture. In twenty nineteen, he was hired as a cast member on Saturday Live, but was fired before he ever appeared on the show after people dug up old clips in which he made jokes about Asians. Now, if you’ve seen SNL in the past few years. You might even say he got lucky.

You know, he’s like the guy who causes a ruckus at the gate, so he’s banned from boarding the plane and then that flight crashes. SNL is like that crashing plane, only not as funny. That silence is stunning. I mean, I know he doesn’t do a full studio audience and it’s just the crew, but really, let’s listen to some more. But it’s no surprise they fired him before he set foot on stage.

He was too dangerous for Elita snobs who think anything Trump or Republican is an automatic punchline. He also didn’t tick any boxes that they liked, and the ones he did, white and male, were like a French kiss from your grandmother, the last thing they wanted. Wow. Wow, all right. Dana Carvey and David Spade have a spinoff podcast.

This one is called Superfly. They will riff on current events, pop culture, social clips, and audience submissions. I’m a podcasting expert, so here’s what that means. It means, Hey, our podcast is doing really well. Can you guys do another one?

And they went, yeah, we’ll just come in and riff for an hour. That’s what that is. David Spade said, I can’t wait to meet Dana. I’ve heard great things. Dana Carvey said, I can’t wait for David to meet me.

Larry. David has revealed his favorite episode of Seinfeld. The correct answer is the contest. Yes, that is the best episode of Seinfeld. What about Curby Your Enthusiasm?

Larry has picked Palestinian Chicken from season eight. Larry becomes obsessed with a Palestinian restaurant and a gorgeous Palestinian woman who works there. The restaurant is next to a Jewish deli. Larry the character tells Jeff Green, the character, this would be a fantastic place for Jews. We’re cheating on their spouses to come to because no Jews would ever come here.

They’d be so safe. Kirby Your Enthusiasm back tomorrow Night.

Also Tomorrow Night the Grammys.

Trivor noeh as your host. In case he didn’t hear, he spoke with ET online and says, even though he’s hosted it four times, I’m still nervous every single time. It’s the same amount of nerves, same amount of excitement and anticipation, and I think I can see why I’m nervous. When you look at the lineup while the performers are going to be on, you know, you don’t want to be the person who messes that thing up. I wonder if Taylor Swift will be there, and if so, do you dare joke about Taylor Trevor.

You don’t want Taylor to murder your career like she did to Joe Coy. You know what, Trevor’s a pretty high profile go for it, make a tailor joke. I want to see what happens. Trevor says, whatever job I’m trying to do, and try and make sure I’m doing it with people I enjoy doing it with, meaning the Grammy people in this case, because even if the outcome is terrible, the process doing it was rewarding and wonderful seeing how good the other people are. I appreciate that.

That’s probably one of the biggest things that keeps me coming back. He also likes his quote unquote seat. He says, where else you get to get a ticket to see do Alipa, Travis Scott burn a Boy and Billie Eilish. So I think that’s the most selfish reason I do it easily the best concert that’s ever made. Looking ahead, just to warn you guys, Monday’s episode, I’ll see how the Grammys go.

A lot of times I say I’m going to put the episode out late on Monday, and I wind up recording it Sunday night. Anyway, I want to see what Trevor does, both from stand up and who wins the Comedy Award, So if the episode is late Monday. That’s why Trevor spoke to people about hosting award shows, and he says, the first thing that I’ve learned is all your preparation is really just a parachute for what actually happens on the night, because anything can happen, and every single year, somehow it does. Yeah, you never know. Somebody might get up and slap you, or a famous pop star might murder your career because she has no sense of humor.

Bring it, Swifties, it’s called Daily Comedy News. Put me on your message boards. I’ve also learned that because it’s a celebration of these musicians and what they’ve done, everyone is there to party and have a good time. So as the host, I’m constantly navigating the room. There’s people walking by while I’m trying to do stuff.

There are people who are catching up with their friends while I’m trying to move the show along. It’s almost like I’m at a huge party and I’m trying to work while I’m at the party. And I’ve also learned to have a good time. People asked the question do you feel any nerves after seeing Joe Coy’s experience, and he says, you know what, I don’t need to see anything to have nerves. I’ve never approached either an award show or stand up show without nerves.

Tailing a joke is like jumping out of an airplane with a parachute. You have an idea of where you’d like to land, but when you actually get close to the ground, you might be a little off where you intended to be. So I just worked my butt off try and think of the funniest things to say and waste to say them. The rest I leave to god. Trevor is nominated for Best Comedy Album.

He said, it’s really momentous for me because I’m not just about the award of the nomination. It’s about the company that I’m nominated alongside. I grew up watching Wanda Sykes on TV just seeing her as one of the funniest human beings. I watched Chris Rock single handedly to find an era of comedy. I watched Dave Chappelle and thrall audiences and take comedy to new heights.

To be in the same category as these people’s really something special. It becomes a milestone in my life that reminds me to think more about the process than the outcome. And to be in this moment. I want to savor it for as long as possible. They asked him if he doesn’t win, will he return to the show next year’s host or has this been an elaborate campaign to win yourself a Grammy.

Trevor laughs and says, it’s all been a long con But yeah, if I was asked a host, I think I would say yes. But let me give you that answer after I host this time. As my mom always says, just chew the food that’s in your mouth and then you can focus on the next bites. All right, good advice there, mom, Trevor says. The honest truth is, I don’t think there’s any way you can win in art.

I think the real way you win in art is by moving people and making an impact. In people’s lives. I don’t know. I’m not part of the Italian team, so I don’t even know how close the votes are. Sometimes I think to myself, what if somebody won by one or three or five votes.

So, in a weird way, I don’t root for any one person. I just think of my favorites to go, Oh, that person did amazing. I love what they did. Grammy’s tomorrow. I’ll talk more about it tomorrow, including my annual soapbox about the category of comedy album.

You’ve been around for a few years, you’ve heard this. If you’re new, see you tomorrow. No, I’m not leaving, don’t go sorry, that’s usually my sign off. No, we’ve got ten more minutes here. Netflix announced their slate of movies for twenty twenty four, and if you’re like me, you can’t wait for March first, because that’s when Spaceman will be on Netflix.

It’s actually in select theaters February twenty third, not too far away. I can’t wait, can’t you? What? Spaceman Johnny mack Well, six months into a solitary research mission at the edge of the Solar System, an astronaut played by Adam Sandler realizes the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him. Okay, good premise, Adam Sandler, How could that not be good?

Johnny Mackwell, Desperate to fix things with his wife, Adam Sandler is helped by a mysterious creature from the Beginning of Time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. The mysterious alien from the Beginning of Time works with Adam Sandler to make sense of what went wrong before it’s too late. How could that not be good? May third. Jerry Seinfeld makes his directorial debut Unfrosted, the pop Tart story Michigan nineteen sixty three, Kelloggs and post sworn serial rivals raised to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast, The Tale of Ambition, Betrayal, Sugar and Menacing Milkman.

Unfrosted stars Jerry Seinfeld in his directorial debut. That’s Exciting Jerry.

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Also in the movie Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant and…

What are you doing? Eddie Murphy? Of course is your store in that one? If for some reason you came by today and you expected me to say nice things about Adam Sandler movies, as I explained, I had planned that for today, but with the Grammys and Curb, I’ve pushed that back two weeks. I hope you understand just wasn’t the right day to hand it.

Engineeric on Seafood Corner, the new segment. Are you enjoying Seafood Corner? Tell me in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Back in November, Bill Murray was spotted at a popular seafood restaurant in Boston. Bill Murray was at Select Oyster Bar.

They shared a photo on Instagram of Bill Murray posing with the chef. They were standing under a print inspired by the West Anderson two thousand and four film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzu. I don’t like this next door, you know, Dave on FX Little Dickie’s Show or Little Dickie’s Show l L Lil Well. FX tells us Dave Bard is going to focus on his real life rap career instead of his on screen one. A suit from FX tells Variety after some back and forth, there are no current plans for a fourth season of Dave, as Dave Bird has decided to take an extended break to focus on music and other ventures.

That does not rule out the possibility of doing something in the future. We’re excited that our partnership with Dave will continue as he develops future projects for us through his overall production deal with FXP Doo Bad Really Good Show from low KICKMMA dot com. You’re home for comedy news. Brendan shab is taking a time out from stand up to focus on his family. Brendan revealed that his baby daughter was hospitalized and being prepped to undergo emergency surgery.

The procedure went as planned. On his podcast The Shob Show, Brendan revealed he’d be walking away from stand up comedy to focus on his family. He left the door opened for some local gigs, but he says his days of traveling across and out of the country. You’re done for the time being. Brenda tells us I had to cancel in Boston and Nashville.

Usually I hate doing that, but I think this time, I just don’t care. It’s where I’m at. I gotta be home more. I have to pull back from touring so much. I gotta be home.

I’m tired. I’ve been hustling for over twelve years. I’m not gonna stop doing the podcast. But as far as the plane rides and stuff, I gotta chill out. Maybe do some spots in La So Cow.

But going international to going across the United States ain’t happening right now. I gotta take a break from that, just focus on family and do my thing. That makes a lot of sense to me, And I hope your daughter and your family are doing well. Laurie kill Martin has a new special out on video on Demand. That’s gotta be tough, right because you know, just about everybody has Netflix and there are so many free YouTube specials.

So, you know, Laurie kill Martin, wonderful comedian, but not quite Dave Chappelle in terms of a household name. You got to ask people to go find this thing on VOD That’s a bit of an ask anyway. The La Times caught up with LORI. She’d tell The Times this is a generalization, but men get into stand up to get laid. Women get into stand up to be heard.

So the reasons where these comedy clubs are very, very very different. On the road, I didn’t hang out, and that really hurts your career as a comic. I didn’t feel safe. I would do my set and leave. If you connect with the bookers and hang out, they like you more, they bring you back more.

So making sure you’re safe will also slow down your career. You may have heard the La Times laid off a lot of people recently. I’m wondering if their comedy coverage will continue to be excellent. Has been really good over the past few years, so I hope they don’t cut back on that. There’s also a guy who was writing down on Philly.

I can’t remember his name. He had good stuff. I haven’t seen anything from him in a while, and I don’t even remember his name or what website it was, but it was he’d talk a lot about people or comedians passing through Philadelphia suburbs. Anyway, you know, I hope that guy’s all right as well. And we started with Fox let’s end with Fox.

Jimmy Fayla, He’s got his new exciting Saturday night show. If you want to stay home tonight and watch Fox get some laughs, you could do that. Jimmy says, we’re not doing a Republican comedy show. We’re doing an American comedy show. Forbes then commented, no one’s bothered to ask him if he thinks Democrats count as Americans.

I mean it is. I think in a lot of ways, late night talk shows are packaged in one way that’s denying us common culture. He pointed out back in the day, the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was bipartisan. Jimmy said, for a long stretch there, late night was where we put our differences aside.

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And now I feel like our differences are the lead on every late night show.

I mean, if you watch Colbert, we’re gonna talk a lot about Trump voters, and the same would go for something like Kimmel. For me, politics aside. If you look at presidential comedy, like when Obama was president, nobody ever really nailed the definitive Obama impression, and it wasn’t too much that was funny about Obama. So presidential humor kind of went away, whereas during George W. Bush it was Biden’s not funny.

I mean, Stephen Colbert will put on sunglasses. That’s not really funny. You can make old jokes. Old jokes are fun, but they’re really old jokes. They’re not really about Biden jokes, whereas former President Trump tends to get into I’ll call them capers, So there’s usually something to joke about.

That’s my point of view on that. We’ve only got two days left. Its sketch fast out in San Francisco. Let’s see what’s going on today. Three o’clock Off Book, the improvised musical that’s sold out, that is also a podcast, a fantastic podcast, also sold out.

Comedian feud open Mike Eagle, Blair Sochi. Let’s see who else is on that the way I know, Paul F. Tompkins, Shoesier Zamata, the comedians will feud it out in the style of the classic game show. Don’t want to step on anyone’s trademarks there, but you know what they’re doing. Seven o’clock The Groundlings are sold out.

A lot of sellouts today. The George Lucas talk show that’s also a fun video podcast, Mosha Casher’s Subculture Vulture, An Evening in six scenes, Joid, Mosha and Friends for an evening of comedy and conversation broken down into six sections. Raves, burning man, Sobriety, the Deaf Community, Judaism and stand up comedy. Six Chapter, six scenes, six moderators, Controlled Chaos on that bill, DJ Demmers. He is very funny, probably off your radar.

I’ve been playing him on the live one show that I host, which is called The Weekly Comedy Thing, and new episodes every Monday. Guy Brainham comeals on that show. That’s a good show. Eight o’clock Mark Marin.

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Nine thirty Improvised Shakespeare Groundlings Brian Possaine, Filipino af with about ten comedians. That’s sold out. Nine forty five Fun Voices with Ron Funches and Blair Sochi and some other shows. All right. If we were in San Francisco today three o’clock, I would go to off Book the Improvised Musical because I am a fan of that podcast.

Comedian Feud seems like fun. Let’s do off book something different. Seven o’clock. I would go, say, Mosha Kasher because I want to see DJ demmer Is in person. That means we’ll skip both at Mark Marin and Todd Barry.

So here’s my thing about comedy festivals. If you’ve been listening for all, I’ve heard this before. Do I love Mark Marin? Yeah? Do I love Todd Barry?

Yeah? I had it at as like what the number one or two special last year? But I can stay home and hit play and see an hour of Mark Maren or an hour of Todd Barry, Whereas say, if we hit the Mosha Casher thing, I’m not gonna be able to just see that on Netflix. You know what I’m saying. So when I go to the festivals, I like to explore a little bit that said.

If we’re free at nine thirty, I dig Brian possayin I’d like to go see him. John, you just contradicted yourself. I know. Eight hundred pound Gorilla dot Com reviewed some shows they were at recently. They said Dave Hill cave Man in a spaceship.

They wrote spoilers. When Dave Hill hit the stage, it became clear going and blind was the right call. Right. I’m gonna blow this up for you. Spoiler spoiler spoilers, back by fire on a projection screen.

Dave Hill dressed in a blue denim jumpsuit, brandished nunchucks and started shredding on guzar All within the first sixty seconds. That tells you everything you need to know what you’re in for. The Gorilla also saw Doug Love’s movies. Kind of a generic review here. He has a knack for surrounding himself with amazing panelists talking about all things movies, and this show was no exception.

And they also caught celebrity autobiography. A group of celebrities take turns reading passages from autobiographies by other celebrities. It’d be amazed and how quickly something that wasn’t intended to be funny becomes hysterical once you take it out of context. Thomas Lennon was on that show, so was Dulce Sloan and Lorae Newman. That’s cool.

Oh, I was gonna bump this next story, but since I named check Laraae Newman, it fits right into this. That movie SNL nineteen seventy five. They have cast the not Ready for Primetime players Corey Michael Smith plays Chevy Chase. You may know Corey from Gotham, Matt Wood from SpongeBob SquarePants, Broadway Run is John Belushi. Lamar and Morris from New Girl and Fargo plays Garrett Morris.

Dylan O’Brien from May’s Runner and Teen Wolf is Dan ackroyd Ella Hunt from Dickinson is Gilda Redner. Emily Farrin from The Responder is Lorae Newman See What I Did There? And Kim Matula from La to Vegas is Gene Curtin. And that is your comedy news for today, if you enjoy the program. By the way, the numbers have been really good like the last two weeks.

I really appreciate you all. I love you all, except Mike and Cleveland, who I just like as a friend. He knows that he understands he’s at Joe Gatto’s comedy show anyway. But the numerus have been great, so really appreciate that. Tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. Let’s grow this thing together. I really appreciate the help there. And I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Cal Rogashock Media bonus episode. I’m Johnny Mack with breaking news about the Joe Rogan Experience. If you’re a new casual listener who just discovered the podcast, there’s a normal episode in the feed from earlier today. The headline from the Wall Street Journal Joe Rogan gets new Spotify deal worth up to two hundred and fifty million dollars. The part that has me excited hit show to be distributed broadly, including on YouTube, rather than exclusively on Spotify.

I had mentioned during the week I love Rogan’s podcast, but I just kind of don’t listen because I don’t use the Spotify app. I personally use pocketcasts. The Journal reports it’s a multi year term involving an upfront minimum guarantee plus a rev share based on ad sales. Under the new licensing agreement, Spotify will sell ads and distribute the Joe Rogan Experience across several podcast platforms, including a video format on YouTube. Spotify if I had its first deal with Rogan in twenty twenty, it agreed to pay more than one hundred million dollars to bring the Joe Rogan Experience exclusively to Spotify.

The Journal rights by distributing Joe Rogan’s show broadly, Spotify stands to make more money from ads as it sells the podcast reach to a larger audience. I’ve been paying attention to this. Bill Simmons seems to have a lot of influence at Spotify these days. Earlier in the week I saw that Call Her Daddy was no longer exclusive, and I wondered what would happen with Rogan. So I know from listening to Bill Simmons he is of the opinion of be everywhere.

I am of the same opinion. I call it Jimmy Buffett theory. Jimmy used to stream all his concerts live on YouTube. You didn’t have to go to Jimmy Buffetts show. But guess who was almost always the top touring act every summer.

It was Jimmy Buffett. So be Everywhere. So Joe Rogan, happy to have you back. And for podcast snobs, now, I’m deep in the weeds, but if you listen to podcasts about podcasting, they’ve been arguing is Joe Rogan a podcast? Well, it’s not because it’s exclusively on Spotify, and or his inclusions do do do do?

And who cares? Civilians think? It’s a podcast, and now if I can get it anywhere, it’s a podcast. Welcome home, Joe Rogan, congratulations, don’t spend all the money in one place. And that’s a bonus episode.

Again, if you just discovered the podcast today, there’s an episode earlier in the feed and I’ll be back in the morning, see you. I’m excited, man,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Let’s get right to it. Larry David attacked Elmo. Hi, I’m Shooney Mack and all that. The voices you’re going to hear are the hosts of the Today Show, Larry David, Elmo and a character that apparently is Elmo’s father named Louis.

Louis is the one that says I’m going to sue him for assault. Let’s listen, all right, let’s go over to Alpha check of the weather. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. Don’t you before ask permission? Ask permission before you touch people?

Larry talk about all right, you’ve gone too far this time that somebody have to do it. Anybody really surprised He’s gonna sue y’all for the teaser. I’m gonna suit him for that’s right, Louie. Oh alright, let’s shut show you what’s happening. Weatherwise.

Didn’t see that coming. If you watch the video, they cut back and forth. Apparently Larry was on the set next to the couch waiting to do his one on one, and he came over and threw a fake punch at Elmo. He deliberately missed. He clearly wasn’t trying to actually hit Elmo.

The Today Show host didn’t know how to react a few times, the cuts of al Broker standing in front of the weather map out didn’t know what to do, and the whole thing is insane, lots of fun.

Speaking of Larry David, he will be at the Paley Fest.

It is the annual television festival hosted by the Paley Center of Media. Mentioned this yesterday, but there’s some other cool things this year’s line up. April twelfth of The Morning Show, The Apple Thing, April thirteenth, Loki the fourteenth, Young Sheldon also on the fourteenth, Avatar, The Last Airbender on the fifteenth, Late Night with Seth Myers, eighteenth is Kurb and April nineteenth, Family Guy’s twenty fifth anniversary celebration. The New York Post apparently has decided to start covering comedy in a way different than what they did in the past. That they send somebody to Mark Norman show at the Beacon, and I believe this is the first time we’ve heard Mark Norman address the silly stunt.

Last week at New York Comedy Club, when the crowd was evacuated, Mark Norman said, I went viral for I don’t know thirteen hours, some bullsh and then he trailed off, says the Post. Eventually Britney Spears took a crap at a hotel lobby and it was all good. Now, what I think is new for the Post is they covered Mark Norman’s opening acts. Matt Ruby went up first. They quote one of his jokes, joking about lack of success with long term relationships.

Apparently Matt’s joke told much better than I. Well, the first six months are easy. Just feels like you’re on drugs right, like you’re on molly. After living together for years. It feels like you took molly and you’re stuck on the subway.

You’re like, how is this ecstasy? And oh my god, I feel trapped. Please let me out, all right? Next up, Phil Hanley talked about dating. He proposed the idea that a relationship is probably near over once you make a pros and cons list.

He said, I did that with my ex. I was like, pro, she’s by con polar. That’s a good joke. The Post writes people were already near choking on laughter by the time Mark Norman rat on the stage. The forty year old New Yorker’s notoriously nasally voice was enough to set the crowd into a rapture of enthusiasm.

Does Mark Norman have a notoriously nasally voice? I know he’s got a very noticeable delivery style, but I never thought about nasally voice from Mark Norman. I opened for Seinfeld here a couple of years ago. Now I’m headlining and he’s in the tunnels. He joked about Joe Biden worried about World War three.

Don’t be The president has military experience. He served in the Civil War. He then joked about environmental activist Greta Tuneberg, making an OnlyFans joke. It said, Dori, she’s twenty one years old. She’s of age.

It’s fine, man, I thought she was nine. The Post says what makes Mark Norman special is that he has cleverly evaded most cancible offenses while towing the line of decency. Sure are some things teeter on the offensive, but the reality is that Mark Norman is just as likely to dunk on one group of people as the other, and the net effect being that it’s near impossible to loathe him for political incorrectness. Yes, that is comedy in The New York Post says he’s just making jokes after all. Amen.

Then the Post adds with this weird tag to the article. They wrote, eager to find out what he thinks about Caitlyn Jenner, Governor Abbott, Nikki Haley, Leah Thomas, Gypsy Rose. No, not really, and then they wrote, well, you’ll have to buy tickets to his next show to find out. Thanks. New York Post.

Comedy writer Tremor Noah is hosting the Grammys on Sunday. He was on with Gail King on CBS. It seems now if you host an award show, they have to ask you about Joe Coy. Boy, Joe, I’m so sorry, dude, Taylor murdered you. All she had to do was smile.

Did you see Taylor ice the CBS cameras. I think I shared that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. When Taylor’s at the game on Sunday, the Fox camera switched to her and she just stared with that face she makes, and then finally mouthed what looked like please leave me alone or something like that. She murdered Jokoy. If she had smiled, everybody goes, oh, Joe Coy was okay, but now he’s the worst Awards show host ever.

I guess David Letterman feels like he’s off the hook. Anyway. They asked Trevor Noah about Joe Coy and he said, here’s the thing about Awards shows. Everybody loves the joke when it’s not about them, and your goal and your hope is to tell a joke about the person that they also think is funny. Say, for example, coverage of football games tends to show you on camera.

You could smile. It’s not about you, it’s just a joke. Smile. Bring it Swifties, Daily Comedy News, get it right. So it’s difficult, and I think every comedian understands this.

I think what makes the Grammys particularly nerve wracking for me is like these are superstars. Yeah, these are like I don’t want to get on the wrong side of Taylor Swift fans, see I kinda do. That’s Johnny Mac saying that, not Trevor Noah. So you’re trying to walk this fine line of being, you know, the comedian, but then also still being nice about the night. Joe Rogan still don’t accepted my challenge to fight in the ring Chicken.

Trevor says, there’s no guarantee every joke will strike gold. I never take it for granted. I’m never not nervous. Think of this a moment. Everybody’s there.

You have an idea of what you like to do. You never practiced this with them. Some people are having a good night, some people are not having a good night. You don’t know how it’ll go. And as the night progresses, the mood changes, and how does that mood affect the comedy.

You don’t know. Gail King asked Trevor, Noah, who are you rooting for? Trevor said, you know what I’m gonna say, I’m rooting for me. I think me has done a very good job with the Special Grammy Sunday Night, CBS eight Eastern. Roywood Junior was on the Audi Cornish Pod via CNN Really interesting interview.

Roy said, the best political comedy comes with steaks, and you can only hit those stakes if there’s a relationship. It’s no different than the correspondence dinner. The viewer has to know the host and see the host repeatedly and get a relationship and get a rhythm and then understand where you’re coming from. I’ll jump in, so yeah, John Stewart and the story and then you can do more daring stuff. You know, if you’re gonna use the news team, that’s gonna be great for the show in an election year because everybody knows them, everybody’s familiar with them, and you know, with guest hosts, it’s like it’s literally a different quarterback every week, and they may have a different comedic flavor and it’s great to play around with.

That’s some, but if comedy and new satsire flows through their host, you want a familiar face or as many familiar face as there are as possible. I think that is well said. I think they got to stop with the guest hosts. I’m glad John is back. I’m sorry John’s only doing one day a week.

They should pick somebody for the other four or three, right, it’s not on Friday other three. While he was like, you were frustrated by the process, you exited right, skipping ahead, Roy says it wasn’t frustration as much, it was fear. It was more fear like for my own career, like I don’t know what you’re gonna do. I don’t know how you’re gonna make moves, So let me start thinking about what’s next now while I still have a little bit of time and the strike was about to end. I was afraid of being a man without a country.

I was afraid of them hiring a new host that doesn’t want me. I’m afraid of not being in the plans. If you don’t know what the plans are and you’re looking at doing things, I have to hedge. Okay, let me take the time now before January and before February to start looking at other things and exploring other things and then creatively. I just didn’t think there was a way to do that and honor the position of correspondent appropriately and do the job right.

Am I in the mixed to host? I don’t know. I’ve always said if they call me and want me to come back as a host, that would be a conversation. I’d consider that. But in the meantime, we’re talking about the job of correspondent escaping head.

So now imagine you’re at a job and you’re not sure what the plan is for you to host or not or to continue as a correspondent next year, depending on what the do creative iteration is of the show. Let me jump in, Roy, love you man. Comedy Central’s kind of made it clear you’re not gonna host the show. I mean, I don’t know what they have to do to let you know you were not the choice. You were there.

If they wanted you, they would have picked you. Roy said, you know that your alternative is scripted film and TV, right, or are creating your own nonscripted show. Well, the best opportunity to create your own nonscripted show is at the end of a strike, after you killed at a correspondent’s dinner. So that’s option one. Option two is to try and do something scripted, to make films, which they’re making less of.

They’re not going to be throwing money at bench of TV shows there. You don’t make pilots the way they used to. You’re not even gonna have a cast a bunch of people anymore. This is really interesting, Like eight or nine people in a show a year ago, Bob Hart’s Abashola had I think seven series regulars. They cut the show to two series regulars and then made everybody else recurring For people that don’t know the difference, Like a series regular that’s someone in every single episode recurring as somebody who comes in like Newman and Seinfeld, who’s in like three or four episodes a year, and you don’t see them all the time, but they’re in the world.

You’re making less television than television you are making, you’re making for cheaper than that.

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All right, let’s try out that new segment I came up with yesterday, Seafood C…

I love it. This happened last August on Seafood Corner. Pete Davidson showed up with Bud’s Chicken and Seafood on the Dixie Highway in West Palm According to The Palm Beach Post, Pete Davidson ordered the chicken finger dinner and ate inside the restaurant. That’s Seafood Corner for you. World famous comedian Joey Gatso in the news again.

A remind you. If you ask one thousand people who’s Joey Gatto, nine hundred and ninety nine of them will go, I have no idea, and Mike and Cleveland will be like, dude, that’s the guy from Impractical Jokers. Well, apparently Mike in Cleveland works for AB six Philadelphia because they went with the headline comedian joe Gatto from Impractical Jokers performed at the met, but that’s not the exciting headline. The exciting headline is that met in Philadelphia helps consumers who couldn’t attend comedy show due to snow emergency. Yes, it is a world famous comedian Joe Gatto from Impractical Jokers controversy.

ABC six tells us the Action News Troubleshooters fielded nearly a dozen complaints from consumers demanding refunds for a Philadelphia comedy show that took place during a snow emergency, and they remind us comedian Joe Gatto is best known for staring in the television series and Practical Jokers, but fans also love his stand up. As a Christmas gift from their children, Nick and his wife received tickets for the show, but a heavy snowfall that day forced the area of snow emergency and closed schools and offices. Nick says the snow started to accumulate, the mayor issued a stern warning for drivers to stay off the roads. Nick is a rule follower, he said, especially being a new mayor, I wanted to be able to abide by her rules. That’s very kind of you, Nick.

So from one forty four pm in the afternoon that day until three pm, I continued to contact ticketmaster. He says he called the ticket master about five times to ask about a cancelation and a refund. He explained for the concern of driving for Bucks County down to the Met in the city. He says he also tried calling the Met. Many fans took to social media begging famous comedian Joey Gatto to cancel the concert.

Nick said, we have not been refunded the tickets or the money that my daughter in law and my son put out for the tickets themselves period and it’s a little over two hundred dollars. The Troubleshooters reached out too. World famous comedian Joey Gatto, known for hosting and Practical Jokers Live Nation and The Met. The met Philly tells ABC six we had a great show with the Met Philly with the vast majority of fans at attendants. We are proactively reaching out to fans who were unable to attend to offer tickets for them to come to a future show.

Nick says he’s very excited to choose a new show and ABC six leaves us with this wisdom for the future. Experts advise people to get insurance when buying tickets because you never know what might happen. I should get out there, but I’ve got a lot to tell you about today. Donald Glover has confirmed there is a script for a community. He said, I was told that the script was done.

I haven’t ready yet, but I was told it was done, So it’s really just a scheduling thing. I’m in. I’m all in. There’s a movie coming out. It’s a sequel to a movie about a ghost.

Wiring saying the title John because I don’t want to summon this particular spirit. But the title of the sequel to the original film. According to the instagram for the movie, the new title is Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. So you’re not tricking me into saying that a third time.

I don’t want that. Collider says. Chris Hardwick has a new gig. I’m a little confused by this one. Chris Wall host up for auction giving viewers previews of historic at Disney memorabilia before it’s auctioned off.

Okay, that’s fine. The series will air on the CW app so it’s not even on the CW. It’s on the cw app. What’s the viewership on the cw app less than this podcast? Possibly so for the four of you, I have five listeners for the four of you on the cw app.

Chris Hardwick will host Up for Auction February eighth. I’m sure he’s paid better than I am. Eight episodes on the cw app taking viewers to the Disney storage rooms to feast their eyes on iconic Disney history. By the way, right now, I’m having a good time hosting this again. I’m panicked that the audio sucked like it did yesterday.

Yesterday I felt like I had my good fastball and then that audio being rotten killed me. And I feel like I have my fastball again today. I hope this audio’s fine. Stupid zoom. The image is shared by Collider include shots of notable Disney memorabilia, including a vintage Dumbo ride car and an old timey Disney mapp.

Other items include a nineteen fifties Peter Pan ride vehicle, a nineteen seventies Haunted Mansion stretching portrait, and an animatronic from the It’s a Small World attraction. Holy O, how I got six stories left? We’re not doing six more sketch Fest. What you guys got first today? Oh my goodness, I forgot it’s a Friday.

There’s like nine billion shows. All right, we might be here for an hour. Gary Meself a soda, seven o’clock, The Ground Links, Improvised Shakespeare. That’s a different show. Facial Recognition comedy.

What’s this? Nationally touring stand up show featuring female identifying performers of Manasa, which is Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian descent. The show was created as a response to tokenism and underrepresentation and entertainment. That’s my kind of show. I like seeing different shows.

Also at seven Fake Ted Talks, Adam Savage, Amy Schneider, Guy Brainham, Jonathan Colton, Matt Bronger, and some others. That could be good. The Crossword Show with Zach Sher, when Mosha Casher’s on that one, Mario Toby with Paul F. Tompkins. That’s a lot of picks for seven will come back, nine thirty Asian af and there are there’s so many comedians I can’t count out loud.

It looks like fifteen, sixteen or seventeen comedians. I’m gonna make it go to that nine forty five Hot Sets with Sam Clark and Veronica kwai Kowski, Fake Ted Talks, and Riotopia with Paula Tompkins. All right, early show, let’s do facial recognition comedy, and then at nine point thirty, let’s do Asian af Right. So tonight we’re gonna see like twenty five comedians, none of whom we’ve seen before. And that’s my approach to a comedy festival.

If you’re in New Jersey, Ramy Yusef is taping his new special tonight, White Eagle Hall and Jersey City. This will eventually wind up on HBO Max Max Max, HBO Max Max, HBO, HBO Max, and then is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. You can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you get your shows found in app.

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Oh my god, I’m so upset. Every time I do a zoom call, it resets the audio levels. Like I work to make this thing try and sound good. And I caught it before I recorded today, and I adjusted the levels.

And then as you hear, I’ll get into this big thing about pizza in the second …

So if the first fifteen minutes or so sounds a little wonky, that’s what happened. Then after the pizza story, I caught it. Ah, this is so annoying, but I have my good fastball today and I don’t want to redo the whole show. I hope you understand, all right, let’s hit it. Caloroga Shark Media.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily company news. There was obviously some sort of Trevor Noah news embargo. I prepped the show early on Wednesday because I had to do an airport run.

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At ten a m. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Trevor. He’s hosting any Grammy Awards for the fourth time. He’s hosting it on Sunday. Back in twenty twenty, Trivor was not the host, but he was nominated for Best Comedy Album.

Again. Longtime listeners know this. Trevor Noah doesn’t have a comedy album. He has a comedy special that was released, but the Grammys and I how define albums differently. I wish they were a Trevor Noah comedy album.

I would play it on Live one, but there’s no such thing. Even though he got a nomination for her Best Comedy Album at the twenty twenty Grammys, we lost to Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones, which really isn’t an album either. That one, at least Chappelle put out like nine copies on vinyl, so theoretically it was an album. This year, Trevor Noah is going up against Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage Special not an album, Wanda Sykes I’m an Entertainer Special not an album, Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love special, not an album, Jenny Mack. What’s an album?

An album is something that’s preferably audio for, but at least has an version of it that I can buy, like on a CD or a cassette or vinyl or an MP three and just listen to it. These things don’t even get repurposed these days anyway. Trevor Noah says, I’m nominated alongside my heroes one of Psykes, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. I don’t ever take those moments for granted. I think to myself how crazy it is to even be in the same category as these people.

When I was thinking of doing comedy, Dave Chappelle was a ready and accomplished comedian. When I was thinking of starting to maybe tell somebody joke, Chris Rock was already one of the biggest comedians in the world, and I guess he realized, oh, I’d better say something about Wanda, and the same goes for Wanda Sykes. Nice save Trevor. So. I’ve never been somebody who’s in a rush to win or be thought of as the best at anything.

I’m really, really, really not even saying this just to be humble or anything. I’m really happy and grateful to just be in that company. Trevor is nominated for I Wish You Would, which is a special non album, while Dave Chappelle is nominated for What’s in a Name, which is a special not album. Trevor says, I’m glad it’s happening in my fourth year hosting the awards, because I think in my first year that would have been an emotional overload being nominated for a Grammy so ohm amentas that, I don’t know how you could focus on hosting a show at the same time, and hosting the show is so much stress. There’s so much that’s happening live that you don’t want to be distracted by this idea that you may or may not win an award.

This may be the perfect time for it to happen a lot more Trevor Noah over the next few days. Like I mentioned at the top, there’s a zillion articles all of a sudden. Rolling Stone says that they can exclusively reveal that Sebastian Maniscalco will break the record for most consecutive comedy shows at Madison Square Garden. He’s added a fifth night to his New York City stand. He sold out shows September eighteenth through the twenty first.

He has now added a fifth show September twenty second. There was a press release. I’ll get to split the press release here. All these quotes are attached to Sebastian Manuscalco. The first quote attached to Sebastian.

I think he might have said, I am sincerely humbled and filled with gratitude for the unwavering support of my fans granted me the extraordinary opportunity to perform five consecutive historic knights at the world’s most famous arena, New York City, especially MSG has shown me so much love. Maybe he said that I’ve worked on some presh releases in the past. I could see. Maybe a publicist wrote that in as Sebastian, Hey, you’re right with this quote and him going yeah, this next part, yeah. Maybe he said my only goal when I got into this business was to perform for a living, and since it’s taken me for ride, I’ve only dreamed of breaking my own personal record.

Here is not just a milestone, but a testament to Sebastian use the word testament, but a testament to the amazing connection we share and love for comedy. Thank you for the overwhelming support and making this journey unforgettable. All right, maybe he said that, But here I have in my show notes I wrote ridiculous quote. Are you ready for a ridiculous quote? This ridiculous quote is attributed to Sebastian Maniscalco, who supposedly said, quote, brace yourselves for an elevated comedy tour, a unique experience unlike anything I’ve embarked upon in the past.

From roasting today’s absurdities, non existent manners, wallet wincing prices, and the social media circus. We’ll all laugh at the wrongs in this shameless world. Nice that as he was giving a quote, he even used the press release rule of three. There come on, guys, the other thing that all of a sudden has a ton of press. Curb your enthusiasm.

Also back on Sunday, Larry David announced a short tour. He will join a Mystery Moderator in Washington on March twenty ninth and in Boston on April first. Tickets for a Conversation with Larry David and Mystery Moderator now on sale. Larry said, Hi everyone, it’s Larry. I’m really looking forward to seeing you all.

Just so you know, I’ve recently had plastic surgery on my face and the doctor, which everyone raved about, totally watched it, leaving me a devoid of all expressions. So if I seem more sour than usual, that’s the reason. But don’t let it stop you from having fun. Now, that’s a quote that sounds like Larry David actually said that, or at least wrote it. Larry will also headline a Palyfest on April eighteenth with the Curb Gang, including Jeff Garland, Suzy Smnd, Cheryl Hines, JB.

Smooth, Richard Lewis, and Ted Danson. And how about this Friday through Sunday, Max HBO Max HBBO Max Max Max HBO Max will stage a real life version of Latte Larry’s the Spike Store Cafe at the center of Season ten. I’ll give you the address in a second Get Out of Pen if you’re in California. Latze Larry’s will be serving up hot cups of spie and extra dry scones in Culver City twelve four to thirty Washington Avenue and Venice Beach fifty six Winward Friday through Sundays, seven am to four pm. The menu features vegan options, and stores will carry limit edition manates, carby Your Enthusiasm, collaborative t shirts and mugs, plus a special Blends signature roast of latte Larry’s Beans.

There’s a limit of one coffee and scone per customer while supplies last. That’s fun. Bill Simmons as Larry David on the newest edition of his podcast that I didn’t get to listen to it yet. I did pull the transcript, and for Today’s Daily Comedy News, I just pulled a part about the Jets because I’m a known Jets hater, and I’ll go through the transcript and pull some more stuff out tomorrow. I just didn’t have time to go through an hour of transcript that I haven’t actually heard.

When I’ve heard things, I make mental notes like, oh, go to the thirty six minute market, pull this part. But I haven’t listened to Simmons yet. Anyway, The topic is Larry David not watching Jets games live because he golfs on Sunday, and he says, I record the games and after the first of second week, everybody knows. Don’t text me, I’m gonna watch the game later on. So this goes on until I send a text out and go I don’t give a shoot anymore.

Just tell me what’s happening. You can text me during the game. It doesn’t matter. It’s over. So Bill Simmons was like, last year, what was that around Week thirteen?

Simmons says, it seemed like there was a moment last season where the Jets were gonna suck you back in, that they were lingering and maybe Aaron Rodgers would come back. Larry said, I never believe that for a second. That was ridiculous. The Street with the loaded headline bud Light partners with right wing comic fired for racist comments. The subheading the comedian lost his job at Saturday Night Line before he even started you know it is now and he also made homophobic comments and jokes.

Now, Annheuser Busch has leaned further into politics by partnering with right wing comedian Shane Gillis. Gillis and bud Light shared the news on Insta. Shane posted a picture of himself at a brewery saying excited to announce partnership with bud Light. Hashtag bud Light partner. The Street reminds us in a bit of a loaded way, while he’s not a household name.

Gillis became more famous for job he loss than any job he’s head. The comedian was hired in twenty nineteen to join USNL along with Bone Yang and Chloe Feineman. Just hours later, a video went viral on Twitter in which Gillis mocks Chinese people using several racial slurs during an episode of his podcast, and the now deleted YouTube video, Gillis and his co host shared a slew of racist to quote unquote jokes against Chinese Americans, mocking their accents and culture. I’ve never met Shane. I found his special last year pretty funny.

While I’ve listened to his podcast in modern times, I did not listen to it back then, so I’m not familiar with the bit. And it’s interesting that bud Light has now pivoted from Dylan mulvaney to Shane Gillis. I guess they won’t appeal to everyone, so we’ve been having fun all week with Remember, however, it was phrased renowned comic or world famous comic Bobby Lee, and then renowned comic or whatever he was Joey Gatto. So Fox Spokane wrote Tom Sagora, a widely known standup comedian. Tom Sagora, a widely known Stan up comedian, will be headlining seven unforgettable dates Calgary, Halifax, London, Ottawa, spoke Hanne, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.

It’s all part of the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival. Fox Spokane tells US is first time the festival will be making an appearance in the States. They’re using Spokane as a test market, joining Tom Sagora, widely known Sandwa comedian are Bobby Lee no qualification there because I guess they assume everybody knows who Bobby Lee is and hilariously relatable comedian Jessica Kerson. All right, I feel bad for Liz m I shot her a note on the side. She had bought me five coffees on buying me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, and was looking forward to me saying nothing but good things about Adam Sandler movies.

Originally I said I was going to do this Saturday, but now I have all this Trevor Noah and kurb stuff, and just editorially, it doesn’t make sense for me to hand in a generic this weekend and the next week in at Super Bowl. So maybe on the seventeenth, I will do it. Liz, I hope you understand.

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If you’re a new listener, Hi, push that plus button on your Apple app there and follow the show. So, Liz, I hope you understand. And Liz’s kids be nice to mom. Will Yeah, your mom is pretty cool. On Gossip Corner, Joe Coy visits Benny’s Pizza in Beaumont.

Twelve News Now tells us Joe Coy was at the Parkdale Mall. He decided to visit several businesses inside the mall. The founder of Benny’s Pizza is Brandon. He was in for surprise when a celebrity showed up to his store. That celebrity Joe Coy.

Brandon says, I got a phone call from the store saying they needed to get inside of our showcase that a customer wanted to buy something. When I arrived to open up the showcase, it was him and I said, hey, Hey, that’s Joe Coy. Apparently, Brandon owns a place called Vault four O nine. In case you’re wondering why the Pizzeriha has a showcase, they don’t. I left that part out.

Let’s see what Vault four o nine is here him on the park Dale mal website. Vault four O nine is the best in caps fashioning for him in the four oh nine housing brands such as Liberty and Kicks, Supreme, Bape, Yeezy Jordan, and much more. So. It seems that mister Cooy was interested in sneakers or something. While I’m on the website, one of the taps says, eat so Joe Koy, he got pizza.

I’ll get back to the pizza, but let’s see what else he could have gotten. There’s a place called Seafood Corner that could be a segment on this podcast. Let’s hit Seafood Corner and see what’s going on. They don’t have a menu up, they don’t even have a logo. It’s just plain text Seafood Corner.

They’re open from eleven to seven and there were no deals at this time. Please check back later. Other places Joekoy chose not to eat LVA Ho Tony Mexican grill, Auntiani’s Pretzels always good choice are Taco McDonald’s. By the way, if you like McDonald’s, we’re doing a podcast called The Weekly Mac that’s about McDonald’s in fast food. It’s strangely amazing.

The Weekly Mac wa podcasts sense Japanese cuisine, Domino’s at a mall, Las Mocha heades. Another Mexican restaurant, the Mellow Mushroom with pizza in their logo. Let’s see what they got. Mellow Mushroom makes the best pizza in Beaumont. Old ingredient combinations on a homemade crust make Mellow Pies the most delicious around.

Now in the Moon for a pizza, order a calzone, hoky sandwich, burger or Mellow salad. See how care goes in every item on the menu. They’re open at eleven am every day. If you’re curious, No, I want to know why Joe Coid didn’t get his pizza there. Then there’s Benny’s Pizza, which we’re gonna come back to.

La Cantina Mexican Grill. A third Mexican option here at the Haarkdale Mall. Chinese Gourmet Nothing, Bunt Cakes, chat Cha Tea House, Taco Bell in case. The other three Mexican places weren’t doing it for you, Burger King, Buffalo Wild Wings. Benny says, they’re bringing the best pizza to the four oh nine, delivering specialty made pizzas, appetizers, and drinks you’ll not find in your average pizza shops.

Seems like there’s little pizza rivalry. These guys are open ten to eight, except Sundays they close at six. Anyway, when we last left, isn’t my podcast ridiculous? When we last left, owner of Brandon was opening the showcase at Vault four oh nine apparently, and before JOKOI left, Benny told him, you need to try a slice of Southeast Texas at Benny’s Pizza. I wanted to change from what the old pizzai had, add my crazy flavors like brisket, garlic, parmesan, shrimp, just a bunch of different flavors that the city probably hadn’t seen before.

Benny tells us he absolutely loved the pizza. He actually bought some for his whole team. He left well over four boxes of pizza. We sell whole pies, but he ended up buying eighteen slices for him and his team. Why would you buy eighteen slices.

Why wouldn’t you buy two pies and two slices? We’re told Joe Koy went traditional cheese slice, or as we call it in Queen’s Slice. I hate whant to go to a pizzeria. I’m just this isn’t green to me as a New Yorker. I’ll walk in and I’ll go slice.

And they asked me what I want? I said slice. Slice means just a plan cheese pie cut in an eate and give me one eighth of the pie. That’s what a slice is. Just slice, dude, Come on, Benny says, it’s an experience I’ll never forget.

So this is the part where the audio sounds the way it’s supposed to. That took the wind out of my sales. I was having so much fun with that pizza thing. There’s no way I can do that again. I’ll never do it as well.

Who’s its sketch Fest? That was awful. I knew the levels were wonky because of the stupid zoom. Leave my levels alone, will yeah, every time it resets them. Okay.

Sketch Fest Thursday, February first, seven o’clock the Bay Area pun Off sold out. That sounds like a good time. What is that? Some say it’s an affliction. We’re gonna go ahead and call it comedy.

Sketch Fest invites you to celebrate the contagious power of the pun, the lowest form of comedy, the highest form of intellect. Seven fifteen. Eight sketch Fest also sold out. Seven thirty The Bechdel Cast, Matt Bronger, Those Different shows Mortified with Jonason cool Ton, The Fast and the Furious and musical parody I’m making you go to that. There’s nothing that would be better than that South Asian af Boy.

That’s a great show. There’s a lot of comedians on this, so many tough choices. Eight o’clock Michael Shannon and Friends play Ram’s murmur That’s Weird. Eight fifteen. The wonderfully titled Comedians with Disabilities Act nine point thirty.

So say we all Vamp non Fiction showcase blend’s populist accessibility with an intense literary boot camp to produce polished multimedia performances of wild, absurd, poignant, and hilarious true tales. All right, if we were out there, I’d really like to see the puns? Can we do the puns? At seven and we’ll leave early and run across the town. I don’t know where these are.

Sketch Fest is pretty stretched out across San Francisco. It’s not like the Montreal Comedy Festival, where most things are within five blocks. If you hustle, you can get from one or the other. Seven o’clock is Puns. Seven thirty Fast and the Furious and musical parody.

I’m gonna have to blow off puns and make you go to Fast and the Furious. I love the Fast and the Furious. That’s like one of my favorite things in life. So I’ll drag you to that, and then for a late show. See, we’re also gonna miss Comedians with Disabilities act.

Do we do puns in that? I also want to see the South Asian Show though, Nope, We’re doing Fast and the Furious.

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And then we’ll do a taste of Sketch Fast featuring a million Shetland Ponies,…

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ve got two stories, but they can wait for tomorrow because I have no idea what kind of levels I’m getting out of my computer now. They look fine, but I’m so annoyed at that fifteen minute stretch there. I apologize. I will do a better job.

Adam Sailor is right, I make terrible podcasts. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Hip Hop DX. Dave Chappelle auctioned off fifty cents. What hip Hop DX rites? Fifty cent may have a reputation as one of the most feared men in the ramp game, but that has and stop Dave Chappelle from using him as fuel from his comedy AMMO.

They were at Reggie Jackson’s Mister October Foundation over the weekend and Chappelle jokingly auctioned off mister sent. Chappelle apparently compared the location, which was a Florida golf club. No, not that one, a different one, to a scene from the Jordan Peele film get Out, before joking to the largely white crowd that fifty was for sale. I’ve seen the clip myself. This really happened, Chappelle said, mister Jackson has transcended the odds of the black community and came all the way out here to the get Out resort.

Surprise Fellas, the auction begins right now. How much do you want for this big buck? Fifty apparently thought it was funny and a scene cracking up in the video. If you want to check it out for yourself. If you google it, it’ll come up.

Bob Odenkirk is related to King Charles, who knew Bob Odenkirk didn’t. He was on PBS’s Finding Your Roots. On Finding your Roots, host Henry Lewis Gates helped celebrities learn about their family history, Odenkirk learned that he and King Charles are eleventh cousins. I’m pretty sure you and I are eleventh cousins. Oden Kirk said, that is crazy.

Apparently, Bob Odenkirk’s father’s fifth grade grandfather was born out of Woodlock to Maria Katharia Bain and the Duke of Plum. Oden Kirk said, I’m an American. I’m not a monarchist. I don’t believe in ah that you know. I feel it’s a little twisted.

I understand why society built itself around monarchs and leaders and they passed them down through generations. I understand that goes through every society, every civilization. But I think that we’ve gotten a better place with democracy and we should just keep going down that road. Bob, you should just call Prince hang out with him.

Meanwhile, on that same show, Eliza Selessenger finds out that her great gran…

The brother was a textile dealer who was still in Poland when the Nazis showed up in September of nineteen thirty nine. Host Gates confirms that Slessinger’s family didn’t discuss Leipa’s story and asks her to relate Ester’s feelings towards her brother. Eliza said, I can’t beginning to imagine this. I don’t think I want to. He then shows her some pictures from the ghetto and asks her how seeing those images and learning that personal connection made her feel.

Eliza said, when you look at pictures from history atrocities committed against your own people in particular, there’s always that poll. But I never thought I had any actual connection because I didn’t know any of that history. All right, Johnny Mack, this is a lot of fun. How are you gonna pull this one out? Let me turn things over to David Letterman.

Taylor Swift. I don’t think in the history of show business, in the history of popular culture, we’ve ever witnessed anything like this tremendous. She fills stadiums around the world and puts on a three hour s Oh no, we live in a world now where all we hear is nonsense and ugliness, and the nonsense can’t be more nonsensical, and the ugliness, God hopes it can’t get any uglier. But that’s all we hear. That’s all we hear.

So now here’s Taylor Swift, who is a glowing bright light of goodness in the world. And she starts dating Kelsey Grammar and people, no, that’s not true. What yes, yeah, an interesting parent and people go crazy. And the Kelsey Grammar people say, oh, no, no, no, don’t bother us. We’re all caught up in football.

We don’t want Taylor in football. And the Taylor Swift people, the swifties, are saying, oh, we don’t want a footballer in here with Kelsey Grammar. And I’m saying, huh, Travis Kelsey, right, Travis Kelcey, and I say to both camps, this is such a lovely thing. Shut up. It’s good for the footballers, it’s good for Taylor Swift, and it’s something positive they’ve been happy for the world.

And also politically, Taylor Swift is a huge force and I think just wants to see people do the right thing, So God bless Taylor Swift and Kelsey Grammar. That’s all I have to The Danes are annoyed with Chris Rock from games Radar You’re Home for comedy news. Comedian Chris Rock has signed on to direct the English language remake of Another Round. Fans of the Danish original are not happy about it. The original centers on four teachers as they try to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the working week, having stumbled on a theory that it makes people more creative and successful.

One Danish fan tweeted American producers need to learn to keep their hands of themselves. Another said, great original stories. I’m very happy for Dusty Sligh. It seems that people watched that Netflix special and they’re now on team Johnny mach going, Yeah, Dusty Slay is really funny. Been telling you that for a while now.

Dusty’s special is still the only thing on the best of two only twenty four list. That’s it. The entire list is Dusty Sleigh. It’s almost February. Dusty told al as An Alabama dot com it’s an honor to even be on Netflix, but to be on there to know that people are actually watching it.

It’s like getting recognized by the industry but also by people in general, and that’s great. Dusty, described as a longed hair trekker hat sporting Opa Liga native, says, the mayor reached out and wants to meet me. I gotta tell you to get a little hometown recognition. Feels good. They have some bio here.

Since going full time as a stand up in twenty ten, leaving his job at a pesticide company, sometimes Dusty would drive two hundred and fifty miles to play a gig for two hundred and fifty bucks. On the road, he’d often eat tuna straight from the can. He stayed at dodgy motels where he feared for his life. That’s on Funny John Off the Road. He lived in a Nashville attic apartment with no insulation, freezing during the winter and in the summer sweating like hell, I didn’t know Dusty stayed any upstairs room in my house.

No, he doesn’t actually my house. He’s talking about the Nasville apartment. But you knew that already. There were plenty of unglamorous things. You’re working for years for basically no money, just hoping this turns into something one day.

Yeah, I’m just gonna remind Dusty I’m podcasting for the basement. I feel you. I don’t think my wife and kids would enjoy it if I were still making that kind of money. But for me at the time, I was like, this is what I want to be doing. I’m traveling in the country with my car with three hundred and seventeen thousand miles when I traded it in, zipping all over and leaking oil, and I loved it.

Dusty, where did you watch your specials premiere? He said? I was supposed to go to New York, but we had the snowstorm of the century in Nashville. My flight got canceled, so I went home. My neighbor was having a watch party with some of the other neighbors that took my kids and my wife.

We all went to the neighbor’s house and they put the special on. It felt like I was watching a comedian that I’m just very familiar with, and it’s fun. Gilda’s Laugh Fest is Back Baby March sixth to the tenth in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year’s lineup Tammy Pascatelli, Josh Johnson, Piffed, the Magic Dragon and Dimitri Martin. That’s pretty good.

Tom Poppa also pretty good. We’ll be headlining the Gilda’s Club Annual Red Door Gala March fourteenth. Other events, it’s the Clean Comedy Showcase, LaughFest, Trivia Night of Stars, and The Dirty Show. Gilda’s Club is a nonprofit that provides free emotional healthcare to children, adults, families and friends on any kind of cancer journey, or those grieving the death of someone in their life due to any cause. The club is named after the iconic comedian and Detroit native Gilda Redner.

Johnny Mack has just realized he wanted to take the break there, But you have to take the break with something upbeat, So let me pull up a story. Kate McKinnon is going to be in a Super Bowl commercial. It’s for a famous mayonnaise company that can afford to buy advertising. She co stars with a cat known as Mayo Cat. The ad is to make viewers aware of food waste and how the company’s famous mayonnaise can help reduce the food waste.

Kate even spoke to Variety about this and said, I grew up on a house that was very environmentally minded and we never threw anything out, something that’s very deep in my heart. The suit from the Mayo company says, viewers want to be entertained. This is sort of a moment to entertain them. We take a very serious subjet like reducing food waste, and communicate it in a comedic way that is still relevant. All right.

What happens well in the spot, Kate McKinnon gets kitchen advice from Mayokat, who advises her to use Mayow Get It to make leftover food taste great. That’s terrible soon and this is where it becomes fun. The cat becomes famous enough to date Pete Davidson. Apparently Kate checked in with Pete to make sure that that joke would be okay, and it is.

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Yahoo tells us Klein was photographed leaving with Pete Davidson on Sunday after he performed at Helium. She kept a low profile and a beige winder coat with a matching Tommy Hill figure baseball cap while Pete Davidson sported a black hoodie under a brown jacket and a dark green Bloomfield New Jersey cap. Hmm. I totally screwed up the order today. I could just edit this stuff, but I like to let you guys know what’s going on.

Let’s see what’s happening at Sketch Fests. Seven. Brett Gilman’s inappropriation canceled. Hmm. I wonder why, uh again, I’m speculating here.

I have googled Brett Gilman and maybe perhaps some of his opinions on current events are scaring people. Maybe maybe not pure speculation there. He could just have a cold. I don’t actually know anyway, canceled. Don’t head to that.

So your other choices at seven thirty are Killing my Lobster with Cam Wiley. Killing my Lobster has been SF’s premier sketch group comedy since nineteen ninety seven. Or at seven thirty we could hit Comedy Rodeo with Hayden Crystal one, two, three, four, five, six comedians are so there, and at eight o’clock the Red Room Orchestra plays the music of Twin Peaks. That’s it, let’s go to Killing my Lobster. We can’t even hit the Anchor Brewery because it closed.

Anchor was such a good beer, and hypothetically, we did Little Italy last night. I guess we’ll do little literally again. Mike from Cleveland chimed in. He said, you probably heard this already, but Joe Gatto is from Impractical Jokers. Well, Mike and Cleveland tell Joe Gatto to put that on his Wikipedia.

So if you ask a thousand people who Joe Gatto is, nine hundred and ninety nine are going to go. I have no idea, but Mike and Cleveland’s going to go. That’s the dude from a Practical Jokers. Well done, Mike. The only Times enjoyed Kate Berlance show they wrote a would be method actor.

Kate enters into a hall of mirrors, in which overwrought versions of her life are conjured in funhouse style. She remakes her biography as though it were as held by Charles Dickens, full of villainous ogres and scrapes with melodramatic disasters. For Lance, a gifted physical comic who whipsaws between over the top grandeur and abject awkwardness, introduces her situations with a wink, and even the winks are delivered in quotation works. Somebody had the thesaurus out or ran this through her website, because there’s some pretty five dollars words in this description here. Anyway, it seems like a good show.

A lot of people are talking about that. Glenn Close says that if Christopher Reeve were still around, Robin Williams would still be alive. I saw that headline in People, and I was like, hmm, yeah. Glenn explained their friendship. Their connection is the stuff of legend and not only endured, but became a life giving force of stating them both on Friday evenings, Chris would literally swoop in piloting his own plane, scoop Robin up, and away they would fly for the weekend.

On Sunday, late afternoon, Chris would swoop back in and deliver Robin back. I have to say a little worse for wear. They were living the kind of fast and crazy life that our business can hand to you if you become a wildly famous phenomenon, particularly overnight. The Hollywood Reporter has fifty reasons we love Hollywood. One of them is your comedy.

Headliner is our open mic. They write in between tours. The biggest names in comedy drop it to their home clubs in LA to workout material and stay sharp. Adam Sandler, John Mlaney, Nik Krol, Sarah Silverman, and Judd Apatow regularly hit Largo, while Mark Maron and Margaret Show were Comedy Store regular. Sebastian Manascalco and Kamil nan Gianni perform at the Hollywood Improv Deane Cook and Craig Robinson do sets of The Laugh Factory, and Ramy Yusef and Tignazaro.

I’ve had recent shows A Dynasty Typewriter. That’s nice. I think we could say the same thing about New York City. But whatever, Riba McIntyre, good news for my mom is getting a new sitcom, or at least a pilot anyway and as yet untitled multi caam project. Riba inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she’s a new business partner and the half sister that she never knew she had.

What’s weird to me is this is for NBC. Doesn’t that sound like a CBS sitcom? My mom doesn’t know how to switch from Channel two to Channel four. She’s never gonna see this thing. Put this on CBS word Belongs and that’s your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. You could support the show at buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I didn’t forget about that Sandler thing. I got to actually write it.

I’m hoping to do it Saturday. We’ll see how my week goes. And if you’re hip to podcasting two point zero, you can use the Fountain app throw some SATs my way if you have no idea what I’m talking about. Sort of explaining the show notes see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I love a good controversy and I’ve got a few today. Get a load of this. Crack dot Com writes, is Donald Glover complicit in the completely lame hoax at Mark Norman’s stand up show?

Oh boy? So I’m not going to say the name of the company that is looking for publicity. I will just call them brand X. You may recall the story from last week where Mark Norman was on stage, a man jumped on stage. The man was escorted out, and Mark Norman was escorted off the stage as if he were the President of the United States.

Norman and the New York Comedy Club issued Instagram explanations for the incident. They said the show’s producers staged the disturbance, identifying the group as brand X. So cracked dove in. They say brand X has also taken responsibility for some other viral incidents, including the heist of custom sneakers at an art exhibition and a Tyra Banks furry sandwich thing at a NETS game. Their byline, would you risk it all to have it all cracked?

Rights? Brand X appear to be a stupid, pretentious attempt at going viral perpetrated by a bunch of wannabe influencers, and they add well. Judging by Donald Glover’s recent Instagram stories, Brand X is actually a stupid, pretentious attempt at going viral perpetrated by one of the most powerful maked corporations on the planet, Cracked Rights. The whole scheme is just a promotion for Donald Glover’s Amazon Prime video series Mister and Missus Smith. The series is built off the premise that Donald Glover and Mayra Erskine play wannabe spies recruited by a mysterious organization they call brand X, which they named after the greeting the entity sends the two.

Donald Glover reposted clips from the Brand X Instagram page on his own story. I know I’m barely hiding it right. You’re gonna be able to figure out the Amazon part, but I don’t want to help here. Including videos of the normal incident. That’s a weird thing for Donald Glover to do.

I mean, I guess I did it too, but yeah. Glover also shared the court side furries and the sneaker boosters. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla website says they have found a website built for the brand X account called join brand x dot com. But you know not that I’m hiding the name. Stereo Gum says that brand X recruited people to perform stunts and mishes for prizes, and Amazon is mentioned in the contest rules.

Wow. Uh talking about backfire. I’m curious what Mark Norman will say about this. If anything, I’m curious what Joe Rogan will say about this. Why Joe Rogan because he likes to talk about comedy.

All right, next controversy, Saturday Night Live. I haven’t seen it yet. There were these football games, Go Niners. We’ll get to that. So I haven’t watched SNL.

But apparently at the end of SNL, who showed up on stage. Dave Chappelle Davy Club didn’t pull their punches, they wrote. The divisive, transphobic comedian popped up on stage alongside host to Coda Johnson, musical guest Justin Tiberlake, and a slew of others celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon and the Shark Tanks Mark Cuban. During the Goodbye segment of this Past week Ads SNL seemingly to the surprise of the cast as much as the audience. The AV Club says, this writer is no body language expert, but it seems clear that certain cast members weren’t too thrilled, etc.

Etc. That didn’t make this prize any easier for repertory players Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman, who seemed visibly distraught when they realized Chappelle had joined the group on the other end of the stage. The AV Club reminds us of some of the details of Dave Specials. David’s hosted SNL three times. AV Club reminds us back in twenty twenty two, although Chappelle’s reps denied it.

Page six reported at the time that some of the show’s writers boycotted his episode because they did not agree with his views. In that particular episode, the AV Club noted that Yang, Sherman, and Molly Kearney were notably absent from that night’s goodbye segment. HM next one, George Carlin, you know that lawsuit against the AI thing, Well, it appears that there may have been a pivot. So now it seems that the AI Carlan thing, as it’s been described, was not actually AI spokeswoman Daniel Dell to The New York Times, it’s a fictional podcast character created by two human beings, Will Sasso and Chad Culkin. The YouTube video I’m Glad I’m Dead was completely written by Chad Culkin.

So it’s not an AI special NAWL, So what is it? Carlin estate lawyer Josh Schiller told The New York Times the lawsuit would move forward. He said, we don’t know what they’re saying to be true. What we will know is they’ll be deposed, They will produce documents, and there’ll be evidence that shows, one way or another how the show was created. Wired analyzed this and said, while the special doesn’t present images of video of Carlin AI generator or not, the YouTube thumbnail for the video shows an AI generated image of a comedian with Carlin’s signature gray ponytail, looking out over an audience.

The lawsuit also cites numerous social media posts where Carlin’s name and image used to promote the special or the Dudzy podcast. According to the lawsuit, that creates an association between the podcast and Carlin that is quote harmful to Carlin’s reputation, his legacy, and to the value of his real work. If not curtailed. Now, future AI models may incorrectly associate the Ducy Special with Carlan, ultimately folding defendants knockoff version in with Carland’s actual creative output. I use AI a lot, and my non expert opinion is, yeah, that’s the thing that could happen.

I’ve seen it make up facts. I’ve seen it get confusedive things. I’m a big Star Trek follower, and I’ve seen it make up Star Trek things already. Because things are out there, Wired writes. The lawsuit asks the courts of forced Dudecy to remove, takedown and destroy any video or audio copies of the George Carland Special wherever they may be located, as well as pay punitive damages.

So as I understand it, the Dudcy version is down. But I just jumped on YouTube and I found a copy of it, and that file appears to be fifty nine minutes and twenty seven seconds long. I have not played through the whole thing, but it looks like then it is a copy of it. And here I see an episode of the Dudecy video podcast on YouTube. The thumbnail includes the image of someone who looks a lot more like George Carland.

Then the person looks like me where it looks like Taylor Swift. But I’ll let a jury decide. I’m just here to tell you what’s going on. So I was curious what happens if you ask chet Gpt to write a Carland joke, And I picked the topic of bagels, which I talked about on yesterday’s podcast. I asked it to write a joke in the style of George Carlin, and here’s what I wrote.

And I’ll do my really quarter asked George Carland impression. Why is it every time I would buy a bagel that came out of Jim Brew for some reason? Why is it every time I buy a bagel there’s a hole in the middle. I mean, what kind of business model is that? Selling food with a missing part?

Next thing you know, they’ll be selling donuts as bagels with extra air and charging twice the price. All right, there’s no way Kelly’s gonna think I’m representing myself as George there. That was horrible. Leave it in, Johnny Mack. So that’s what AI came up with, is Carlin.

But I think that’s a generic joke because I’ll do it as half assed angry Jerry Seinfeld, why is I retired? Buy a bagel as a hole in the medal? I mean, what kind of business model is that? Selling food? Or the missing part?

Next thing you know they’ll be selling donuts. Is bag old extra churning twice the price? Right? So that worked? Who knows?

Sorry, I can’t get gravelly today. I don’t know why. Bert Krascher actual, Bert Krescher has a deal to do two more specials for Netflix. This will be his fourth and fifth. The first will be shot in Saint Petersburg, Florida, on July sixth.

In case you thought he was filming it in Saint Petersburg, Russia, He’s not well. Actually, with Bert Krescher, that wouldn’t be crazy, right, that would you could see that happening? He’s the machine. Nope, the Florida one, Saint Petersburg, Florida, July sixth. Krascher will executive produce the new special, also getting a producer credit.

LeAnn Krascher Adam Sandler would be proud. Did you listen to Trevor Noah’s interview with Kevin Hart, Because it’s really good. You should listen. There’s a funny moment where Trevor asked, Kevin, you’ve ever done a half empty arena? Right?

So that’s the setup, and then Kevin answers kind of quickly. I’m pointing that out in advance so that when you hear what Kevin says, you’ll get it. So Trevor goess, you ever done a half empty arena? By the way, I’ve done one? Kevin, No, Can I tell you?

I should have said that so fast? That sounded really Ask me that question again. So Trevor backs up, but they left all of a sudden key. Have you ever done an empty arena? Half empty?

Kevin goes, ah, let me think. Have I done an empty arena? I don’t know. I don’t know if I have. I loved the transparency there.

I mean, I’d have to think about it. I’m quite sure it’s probably been some I don’t know. If I don’t know, i’d have to think about that. Love it more controversy. You may recall Kat Williams recently did an interview.

In that interview, he asked why earthquake not in movies sounded cooler in Cat’s accent. He can’t read, and they found that out when they gave him a show and then put the cards in front of him. Earthquake was on Charlemagne’s show and asked about these comments. Earthquake said, personally speaking, me and him was cool, So I didn’t know where that came from. Certain things he said about me, half was true, half was a lie, but to each his own.

I don’t even getting into that part of it, because see, I’m the type of person where if I have a problem with you, Charlemagne, I’m gonna call you out. We’re either gonna talk it out, We’re gonna duke it out. We’re gonna handle it man to man. Today it’s a lame edition of Gossip Corner. The headline from WIBX nine to fifty dot com your home for comedy news.

They went with no joke. Renowned comedian stops for cup of Joe at CNY coffee shop right CNY Central, New York. Renowned comedian. So you’re wondering who is it. Maybe it was Dave Chappelle or Bert Kraser, maybe Jim Gaffigan, maybe Earthquake, Kat Williams maybe came by for some coffee.

It’s a renowned comedian. And they even had a thumbnail where they blotted out the comedian’s face so that they would get their click. Well, they got a click out of Johnny Mack. WIBX nine to fifty dot com got their click for this one. Unica Coffee seems to be one hotspot and here’s the reveal.

This is the renowned comedian. Comedian Joe Gatto also stopped in for a cup a few days ago. Who excuse me? What renowned comedian Joe Gatto? What we just got done with?

What was the term they used yesterday for Bobby Lee? World famous Bobby Lee? Why don’t you go ask a thousand people who Joe Gatto is. I don’t know if Joe is good or bad. It’s probably an awesome dude.

He’s probably hilarious, but renowned. I don’t know if he’s renowned. The Internet tells me. Joseph Anthony Gatto, Junior is an American improvisational comedian, actor, and producer from the New York City borough of Staten Island. He was formerly a member of the tender Loins, a comedy troupe consisting of Sal Volcano, James Murray, and Brian Quinn.

All Right, Sal is known a little bit maybe Tenderloin fans, right, now are throwing their phone across the room, going, how do you know who Joe Gatto is? I mentioned earlier I watched football on Sunday? Did you? Of course you did. I still can’t believe my Niners came back.

The entire time during the game, I was texting my friend Pat. He’s a Chiefs fan, I’m a Niners fan. So we were kind of rooting for each other’s teams because we want to face off on the Super Bowl, and we got our wish. So when the Lions scored with two minutes of the game, I wrote, remain calm, play the entire game, and I kept texting him that. In the first half halftime, I was a little nervous, and I said, going to get my lucky hat, which is a real thing.

I did. My son got me a Niners cap for Christmas, and I went up and I got it, and I kept texting, remain com play the entire game, lucky hat, and boy, the Niners pulled it off. Which is all along way too long set up to tell you that Bill Burr was not happy with the coaching strategy of the Lions. If you watch the game, the Lions were a little aggressive instead of kicking field goals. Bill Burr tweeted, what do analytics say about the momentum shift of not kicking a field goal, going for an on fourth down and turning the ball over versus the upside of making the first down anyway?

Two weeks of Taylor Swift Talk. Can’t wait. That’s going to be good for our podcast, Taylor Swift Today. We’ve got plenty to talk about In Taylor Land, Jay Leno is seeking to become conservator over wife Mavis Leno because she has dementia. Jay filed court documents on Friday to ask a family court judge to grant the conservator ship so he can structure a living trust on other estate plans to make sure that seventy seven year old Mavis has managed assets sufficient to provide for her care should he die before her.

The petition reads, Unfortunately, Mavis has been progressively losing capacity and orientation in the space and time for several years. Jay is fully capable of continuing support for Mavis’s physical and financial needs as he has throughout their marriage. The court document said she was being treated for dementia and mood disorder. They’ve been married for forty three years. Just three shows at sketch Fest Today seven thirty Exploration Live with Shirley Bartley and Natalie Roder Lateman.

Not sure what this is. It says the show’s moved to Cobb’s Comedy Club. I’m not sure if that’s a step up or step down. Not sure where it had been. The website tells us the world is confusing place full of mysteries to be probed and questions to be answered.

Still not sure what that show is? All right?

Also at seven thirty Battle of the Wizards, Magicians Versus Mentalists and t…

You know what we would do if we were at sketch Fest tonight, I’d take you out to dinner in Little Italy. Not sure. Comedy news for today, Shoddy Bexen is not impressed by those shows. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. The numbers have been up.

And I love you all except Mike and Cleveland. I just like you as a friend. See you tomorrow,