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Featured: Stephen Colbert, John Stewart, Colin Jost, Shane Gillis, Taylor Tomlinson, Joe Coy, Eric Idle

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s Taylor Swift jokes at Super Bowl coverage
• John Stewart returns to The Daily Show
• Colin Jost to host White House Correspondents Dinner
• Shane Gillis hosting SNL this week and controversy over past comments
• Taylor Tomlinson’s new Netflix special ‘Have It All’
• Late night television history and format changes
• America Magazine’s analysis of Shane Gillis comedy style

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Well, the Chiefs beat my niners high. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. After the Super Bowl, Stephen Colbert was live and he made this terrible, horrible joke. He said, finally something good happened for Taylor Swift.

Wow, if Joe Coy said that, he’d be canceled. She’s going to be so mad. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. Colbert also joked, have fun, Taylor, but please make sure you have a designated driver for your private jet.

John Stewart was the guest. Now The Daily Show returned last night, and as I put the show together on Monday, I was like, oh, yeah, February twelve, The Daily Show with John Stewart is back. Despite them doing Super Bowl ads, which I saw with John Stewart, it it didn’t register in my brain at all that that was last night and there wasn’t really a lot of buzz heading into Monday night on that. If I’m Comedy Central played the big card. Now I gotta be a little worried I’ll recap tomorrow.

Whatever Stuart was talking about last night. Anyway, the appearance on Colbert was pretty uneventful. On The Daily Show podcast, John Stewart said, if you want to be present in this world, you have to be present in this conversation. You have to be as relentless and tenacious as the counter narrative that’s being formed. So much of the information that we see now is weaponized, and he keeps taking exponential leaps.

It’s not just the election, it’s AI. It’s the way we’ve militarized our conflicts. I keep going. John John Stewart is now sixty one years old. He hosted The Daily Show from nineteen ninety nine to twenty fifteen.

The La Times wrote the world has changed, of course, around late night shows, and they point out that Tonight Show turns seventy this year. Until the adoption of the VCR, late night television was available only at night. I remember when I got my first VCR. I was so excited. I didn’t have to stay up to one thirty in the morning to watch Letterman.

It was awesome. Late night TV was for people who were happy to forego sleep, or couldn’t sleep, or had nowhere they had to be in the morning. You might not be ready for bed. After Johnny Carson finished, he’d come in from a club or a movie or whatever and turn on the set and there’d be Tom Snyder talking to Orson Wells or Chris Elliot living under the bleachers on Late Night with Letterman. The later the start time, the less the financial risk, and the more freedom to play.

Craig Ferguson’s still celebrated throughout the cards. Late Late Show was constitutionally at twelve thirty AM. Show would have worked at eleven thirty. And the people remember Taylor Thomlinson as a twelve thirty show. She showed up in a few Super Bowl ads.

I mean she made a Taylor joke. I guess it’s just I don’t know. I’m not ripping Taylor. I just think everybody going see her name is Taylor and she’s plowing. It’s lame.

Her new Netflix special is out today. It’s called Have It All, filmed at the Capitol One Hall Theater in Tyson’s, Virginia. I guess that in the Daily Show will be my TV action. Tonight, Colin Jost is going to host The White House Correspondents dinner, great choice. He will be great at that.

The White House Correspondence Association President Kelly O’Donnell said, Colin Jost knows how to make Saturday Night’s funny. His sharp insids perfectly meet this remarkable time of divided politics and a presidential campaign careening towards a rematch. The two most recent hosts were Roy Wood Junior and Trevor Noah. You know, Jost would be a good daily show host. He’s got the writing chops.

You know, Hey, Comedy Central, write that one down, right, because after Lauren does the fifty, that’s going to be the time to walk away from messing out. Write that one down, Colin, you write that one down too. That’s a good gig for you. It’s in New York. You don’t have to move.

Jost is forty one. He could do it for ten years. That’s the move, Colin Jost. Why didn’t we think of that earlier? Colin Joss sticks around till Lauren’s fiftieth, So that’s that’ll be June of twenty five, and then host the Daily Show.

They just have to muddle through for another year and a half.

Speaking of Saturday Night Live, you know who’s hosting this week Shane Gillis.

We’re gonna be talking about that all week. America Magazine gets it their headline, comedian Shane Gillis doesn’t make a good first impression, but it’s worth sticking around. Great stuff by America Magazine. They have watched Shane and they get what he’s doing, and they write, Shane Gillis does not make a good first impression. He looks and sounds like every online scolds, worst nightmare and out of shape white millennial mail, casually throwing around offensive words, and most people have not outside of a middle school playground since nineteen eighty seven.

And yet there’s something more there. While it might be difficult to stick around for, that’s something more than shang Gilis has to say. I would advise you to do so. They right. It could be said that Gillis is not for everyone, but in a sense, he actually is.

Like all great comedians, Shane Gillis is something important to say, the problem is that you don’t immediately realize he has something substantive to say because you’re also squirming so much. Gillis’s comedy is a hybrid of cringe humor and bro culture. However, both wind up being subordinated to the fiercely intelligent observational skills that ultimately steer his comedic course is on stage. Persona embodies the millennial bro. This is a broad categorization for young white males, usually distinguished by their enjoyment of domestic beer and say bud light and televised sports, being carelessly misogynistic and lacking intellectual curiosity.

Watching Gillis’s stand up back, it appears this VI’s from another time, and by that I mean it’s as though he was transported from the nineteen eighties to the present day somehow bypassing the advent and subsequent entrenchment of language within mainstream cultural discourse. But if you’re only paying attention to the cosmetics of the act, the bostering, and the rhetoric, you will miss the incredibly intelligent man and is incredibly astute commentary on contemporary society. Watching a Gillis show requires some work. He doesn’t add anything to you, continually makes you evaluate exactly what he’s doing up there in question whether or not you should be laughing. Should be a fun week.

TMZ caught up with Joe Ann You. Joanne is the executive director of the Asian American Foundation. She tells TMZ that Shane gillis hosting SNL’s bad timing, considering the Asian community has been devastated by a wave of hate that started during the COVID nineteen pandemic, but adds, if Shane’s serious about making amends, he should cut a check to the organization’s Hope against Hate campaign and join their food tours for a real Asian cuisine experience. She’s planning to watch, but not for Shane, but for what she calls the Bow and Yang Variety Hour at the Super Bowl. Shane was invited up by Zach Bryan.

Whiskey Riff writes, the one and only Shane Gillis bumbled his way on stage and somehow looked like he was having a blast and was completely uncomfortable at the same time, but that didn’t stop him from grabbing the mic. Fun What do you think this one’s about? Matt Riich’s show in Memphis has been postponed due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict. His show for Friday has been moved to June twelfth. Does that mean he got a better paying gig?

What’s going on there? Master Brownie’s got a new album. It’s called The Birds and the Bees. Hopefully you’ve had a chance to catch up on Mark Maron’s wonderful interview with John Oliver. I loved the way John made fun of Mark here.

I had to rip out a lot of f bombs here. But this is a lot of fun. It’s all this sort of they want to be worked up. It’s all this general grievances, just this broad grievance ideology. And this guy seems mad.

You’re completely about grievance. They’ll be a hype pipe of grievance. No, you’ll the shining angry city on a hill. I think that I am a completely objective narrator American comedy A little quiet off the super Bowl Shortle has three things that I want to talk about today. The first, Eric Idol saying he has no money on social media.

Eric, who’s eighty, said, I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded. Python is a disaster. Spamalot made money twenty years ago. I have to work for my living. Not easy at this age.

All right, maybe he didn’t make money on the TV show. You should have made some money on those movies. No, and spamalat you should have made some money. I guess not. Eric says, I think the series problem or the Spotify’s on the youtubes copyright ain’t worth jack stuff anymore.

We own everything we ever made in Python, and I never dreamed at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously. But I guess if you put a Gilliam child in as your manager, you shouldn’t be surprised. One Gillium is bad enough. Two can take out any company. Ouch.

I guess we won’t be seeing a Python reunion anytime soon. One fan suggested a comeback, Idol said no thanks, I’m doing no more Python. I gave already ungrateful bastards. Wow. Another suggested a Netflix documentary, and he said, f Netflix and f documentaries wow.

Idle pointed out he hasn’t seen John Clees for said years. One fan said that makes me sad. Idle responded, why makes me happy? I still love and I’m proud of what we did as Python. It was a very unique group.

Can’t be very unique, Eric, I think of us as an ex Liverpool team. We played together well way back in the day, but it was never very supportive of people’s feelings and emotions, not brothers colleagues. Apparently the Gilliam child is Holly Gilliam, who took over the Python brand in twenty fourteen and co produced that year’s reunion show. I worked with the guys. Was it their fortieth anniversary?

We did a pop up station for I don’t know if we had merged yet Serious or Series XM, but that makes sense. Sixty nine and forties two thousand and nine, Yeah, all right, for Serius XM. That’s probably when that was give or take. So in the past, John Clees was the voice of God in Spam a lot on the show toward the UK in twenty eleven. Then Idle said I fired John Clees, surgically removed him.

It wasn’t me, and he’s had millions of dollars from me. He charges people of fortune fusing his voice. He’s always been in financial crisis. In response to that, Cleise wrote, I see Yoko Idols been moaning again about the royalties he had to pay the other Pythons for spam a loot. Apparently he paid me millions actual rough figures.

Last time we checked, Yoko Idol thirteen million dollars Michael Palin one point one million, the others just under a million each, So back to the beginning, Eric wyould assume you’re loaded? Is if you got thirteen million dollars from spam A lot. Yeah. Lily Idol is Eric’s daughter, and she jumped on Twitter and said, I’m so proud of my dad for finally starting to share the truth. He’s always set up to bullies and narcissists and absolutely deserves reassurance and validation for doing so.

Also from chort Ole, the Wonderful Richard Ayoada will narrate the animated version of Bill Bryson’s popular science book A Short History of Nearly Everything That’s Fun. This next one not fun. Comedian Paul Curry has been accused of inciting anti Semitic chants against audience members during his comedy show at London Soho Theater. Apparently, Curry took out a Palestinian flag during his show. At the end of the show, the comic, according to Turtle Quote, orchestrated his own standing of ation.

At the end, Curry spotted one man or remain in a seat and asked him why didn’t stand? Didn’t you enjoy my show? The man is believed to be Israeli and said, enjoyed your show until you brought out the Palestinian flag. According to Short, let it provoke Curry to order him out of the theater. Audience members are saying and escalated into a screaming match, with Curry shouting leaf my effing show, now, get out now, adding to the intrigue.

Soho Theater is built on the Dean Street site where the West End Great Synagogue used to stand, and it still displays a miss rock, the plaque traditionally placed on the east wall of Jewish building, commemorating that history. Tina Fey was on Bowen Yang’s podcast and told Bowen authenticity is dangerous and expensive. Fay warn bow and bow and Yang giving his real opinions about movies on this podcast. I regret to inform you that you’re too famous. Now, sir, you have a problem with Saltburn.

Keep it to yourself, because what are you going to do when Emerald Fennel calls you about our next project. We play Kerry Mulligan’s coworker in the bridal section of Herod’s and then act three it takes a sexually violent turn and you have to pretend to be surprised by that turn. You hang out with Arianna and SpongeBob. Now that’s your life, and that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, John Oliver, Megan Kelly, Dave Chappelle, Howard Stern, Louis C.K., Mark Maron

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis hosting SNL on February 24th amid left and right criticism
• Shane Gillis Bud Light partnership drawing conservative backlash
• Debate over whether Shane Gillis’s comedy is offensive or hateful
• NBC News article questioning Asian representation after Gillis SNL announcement
• Dave Chappelle wins fifth Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in six years
• John Oliver reveals The Daily Show didn’t want to retain him as host

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Man, what a game, huh? And that halftime show wow? And that thing Taylor did And now I tape this in advance. I watched the super Bowl yesterday.

We’ll talk about the super Bowl tomorrow. Hello. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. This is the week where Shane Gillis will host Saturday Night Live, and it is being well discussed even in the UK. The Independent, under the headline SNL hosts Shane Gillis maybe offensive, but he isn’t the devil.

They’re right. After his initial firing by SNL, Shane Gillis was championed by many on the American right as a victim of cancel culture. Some have gone further imposing political beliefs onto Gillis, such as support of Donald Trump that he’s never personally espoused. In twenty nineteen, Gillis clarified he had not voted for Trump, and he says, as soon as they decide you’re a bad guy, you’re just all right now or something. The Independent Rights watch Gillis a show, and you can’t deny his materials.

Liable to a fen. He doesn’t shy away from certain slurs and mixed crash jokes about sensetive topics. But in the world of comedy this is hardly disqualifying from Bill Bird or Frankie Boyle. There are plenty of precedents, liberal or left wing or centrist comedians who are more than willing to throw around our offensive words or ideas for the sake of a laugh at a provoke a reaction. Louis c.

K the now disgraced to stand up whose creative influence is unmissible in Gillis’s style, was one’s a dept at this taking an objectional or distasteful thought and carrying on stage too. It’s natural extreme. You may recall a pre canceled Louis c. K as being compared to George Carlin the independent rights. To some extent, The question comes down to intent, to whether or not the comedy is hateful or simply problematic.

Look, for instance, at Gillis’s routine about down syndrome. There are things in there to object to it. Generalizations, patronizations, all done with gleeful awareness of the taboo, but within the same material they’re also affectionate and seemingly well intentioned. To observational jokes about a family member with down syndrome. To brand it outright hate speech would take a black and white, deeply unpragmatic view of the world.

Comedy can be hardful without being hateful, and some jokes are more harmful than others. Expect some sparks to fly during the opening monologue, but this is more likely to be a bearing of a hatchet than a resumption of grievances. At the end of the day. Shane Gillis has always seemed less interested in his scoring political points than it’s simply going for the laugh at whatever cost. Megan Kelly and I’m just gonna go first.

This is really stupid. She took a shot at Shane Gillis and other celebrities because they bend the need of bud Light. He went from doing slurs that the left finds upsetting to issuing one out of his mouth the right finds upsetting, which is bud Light. Really, really, really, I mean just really, you’re mad that Shane Gillis is selling bud Light. I’ll tell you right now, if bud Light wants to sponsor the show for ten years, write the check.

Megan said, I’m actually not sure what he’s doing either, because not only is he going on SNL but he’s partnering with bud Light, which is basically a slur in Republican circles on I’ll insult my friend Mike and Cleveland. Hey, Mike, I bet you drink bud Light. Who oh, maybe I can get canceled. I bet Taylor Swift drinks bud Light. Bring it swifty, so it’s called Daily Comedy News.

Megan Kelly said, well, you cope buy bud Light because Shane Gillis got paid a bunch of money to go speak for them. Does that help your life? Oh? My, find something to talk about, Megan, Actually, don’t keep doing this because this is great content for me. Media in Toto asked, is the left trying to recancel Shane Gillis on SNL?

Right? So, Shane, the right hates you because bud Light, and now the left hates you too. Everyone hates Shane Gillis. He has no fans whatsoever. I don’t know why he’s hosting SNL because both the left and the right hate him.

I guess centrists loves Shane Gillis. Medium Toto Rights take NBC News the far left outlet publish an essay entitled with Shane Gillis return snl Asians ass when they’ll stop being the punchline? It covered that, I think last Friday Toto Rights. Is there anything new here? Of course not.

Does Gillis make it a habit of specifically targeting Asian people, of course not. Does he spend endless hours in front of a podcast Mike squeezing funny observations from every source possible? Of course? Do those Asian riffs represent his best work? Of course not nothing.

He threw some shade and wrote, Howard Stern has said far, far worse than his days, and he’s never been canceled. Well, the media has been complicent in the establishment Howard myth of the last ten years. Howard is now. Howard has laid groundwork that his obituary would be that he was the great interviewer. And I haven’t enjoyed late period Howard, loved early period Howard.

And there are things that I listened to or I watched on his TV show that have been just washed from the internet. But this idea that Howard Stern’s career was he interviewed people. Come on, no, no, no, no, wa’tch you google Howard Stern blackface website them, writes Shane Gillis hosting Saturday Night Live as a slap in the face to queer viewers, even as the show court’s LGBTQ plus fans. It platforms comics like Gillis and Dave Chappelle. They’re write in the comedy world.

It was a banner week for queer phobia, not that it’s ever gone out of style. Al Dave Chappelle, who treats anti transmockery like a holy crusade, won his fifth Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in six years.

Meanwhile, Shane Gillis wrote America’s hard right word pivot straight into a…

I’ll chime in, except we just learned that the right hates him because he promotes bud Light them rights. If Gillis’s name means less than zero to you, congratulations on your blissful life, you offline legend went for a run, Humble Bragg, I’m so out of shape, Oh my goodness. You can go from marathon ready ish to completely out of shape in let’s say it’s just in three months, Oh my goodness. On the run. I listened to Mark Maren’s fantastic interview with John Oliver.

So much fun and it went so quickly. I thought it was interesting. At the beginning in the monologue segment, Maren is self aware. I had brought up recently that sometimes Maren and younger comedians kind of don’t connect. Maybe Maren listens to me, because he said sometimes I could be a little pokey and a little mild chap busting going on, some slight bullying occasionally.

In the interview, John Oliver talked about not getting the Daily Show, and I’m going to play the actual clip or comment dafter here’s John. I didn’t state the Daily Show because John was still there and no, but even if you were set up to be the next guy, did that factor into your decision not to follow up on that the next guy for to host their show to Daily Show to the Daily Show? They didn’t. I think it was clear when we would do because my contract expired at the end of the year that I hosted for John over that summer, and I think it became clear at the end of that they didn’t really care about me, oh really, And because I think our idea for me to stay this is our ideas being just John and I was that I would do the summers from now on and then so he could take he could take the summers off, which he wanted a break. I think they could have had him for longer if they’d allowed that, but they were not interested in that at all.

So then it becomes clear, Oh, then you really don’t care, right, which is fine, but it is now painfully obvious. So I should probably go somewhere okay, And then yeah, talking to various commercial outlets, there was just an innate instinct of I don’t I could do this. I don’t think it’ll go great. Yeah, there might be a way that I can find myself to doing the things that I used to love let theman doing when he’s just criticizing his parent company. But that was but I don’t have the let no, I just like I always love that instinct with him, but I had no standing with hers to do that.

So a much easier move that the luxury move to me, was to go to HBO, where there is no corporate commercial pressure from advertisers, so you truly can say what you want, right. So they didn’t want John Oliver. That’s a swing and a miss. I always wondered did Stuart not tell anyone that he was leaving soon, because wouldn’t you want to hold on to John Oliver? But this kind of clears up that Oliver didn’t feel like they wanted him.

They did a good job that summer, and apparently HBO agrees. Tom Poppa hosted the poll Star Awards didn’t even know these were going on. Taylor Swift won major Tour of the Year, and that is an understatement well deserved. And if you want to keep up on Taylor Swift, follow the podcast Taylor Swift Today. I’m sure they’re talking about whatever happened at the Super Bowl.

Taylor was not in attendance because she was playing to Kyo, but Dave Chappelle stop by he won Comedy Tour of the Year. Dave said, I used to take this stuff for granted, but this last tour was hard as if. I want to thank everyone at Live Nation, everyone on that team, everyone at Netflix. That was a real special tour. It was a hard one, but man, this stuff is great.

The New York Times went to see Amy Poehler and Tina Fay. They’re doing some stand up. Apparently Tina Fey asked, are there any dads in the crowd who had either Tina or Amy As Hall passes two decades ago, Many hands shut up. The Times writes, if the phrase mom jeans makes you instantly crack up, you’ll love this show. So this is really emotionally confusing to me, because I think they’re targeting people who are exactly my age, and I’d like to think I’m slightly cooler than this.

I’m so confused. Faye is all sharp edges and slashing wit, her deadpan unshakeable, keeping the audience and her partner at a distance. Amy Poehler is more vulnerable, even a bit fragile. Discussing kids, trauma raging, She jokes, my memories like a cat, it will not come when called. She of course told it better, because that is obviously a hilarious joke.

Some Times writes, the show itself is to throw everything at the wall, mess of visually in different collection of parts, some that probably would have been cutter owned by a ruthless director. Ouch. There were sex jokes and mom jokes. Jokes A written the day of the show about President Biden making an appearance on the Upper West Side that joke again and I don’t know who told it, and obviously told much better than this. The traffic has in this bad since the opening scene of Fame.

Yeah, there’s an okay Donald Trump joke that receives a big response and a strong OCD punch line that doesn’t. There were jokes that only New Yorkers were get. I’m not sure who told this one. I took the four train and I didn’t even have a doctor’s appointment. Yeah, New Yorkers would get that joke.

That’s not a bad New York joke. Tina Fay said, this really feels just like S and L, except they were in bed by ten and I don’t have to go to a weird Tuesday night dinner with Warren Michaels and Rudy Giuliani. That’s funny. Donnel Rawlings will have a new special produced by Chappelle’s Home Team Production Banner. This was recorded last fall at the New York Comedy Festival at the hard Rock.

It is titled Chappelle’s Home Team Donnell Rawlings A New Day. The log line reads, It’s a new day and Donnell Rawlings is feeling good, dressed in a blue suit, red sox, and lotion ankles, easier to discuss, toxic relationships, traveling New Zealand, aging, co parting, and much more. Chappelle told Variety, I’ve been doing this long time. Comedians like Donnell are not only friends but have inspired my own career. Anyone in the comedy community who knows these names and knows their time to shine is long overdue.

I’m proud to be part of this moment A new day Netflix, February twenty seventh. Fox is hot on Animal Control. That’s the Joel McHale sitcom that you probably watched two episodes of and forgot it existed. It’s back for its second season on March sixth. They’ve already renewed it for a third season.

Animal Control had Fox’s most stream debut in network history and the most streamed comedy episode ever in the network’s history. Does that include the Simpson Nice lineup at the Comedy Seller at the Rio tonight for still in Town after the Super Bowl Candle Awards, Sophie Buttle, who was Great, Marshall Warfield, Josh Adam Myers, and Mark Cohen seven to nine thirty at the Comedy Cellar. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Joe Rogan, Larry David, Jeff Schaeffer, Will Wheaton, Dakota Johnson, Brian Cranston, Jenni Fisher, Angela Kinsey

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan Experience returns to Apple and YouTube
• Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12 finale airs after Super Bowl
• Larry David Elmo chokehold controversy and Will Wheaton response
• The Office reboot movie possibility discussed
• Late night hosts’ Trump and Biden political jokes

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Caloroga Shark Media. Joe Niners. I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed yesterday, I did the super Bowl preview in the Saturday episode, you’ll find that in the feed. Today’s more of a normal episode, Jimmy Fallon, and he might get canceled by Taylor Swift.

Imagine if Joe Coy said this joke? Hey, did you know that Trump’s legal team has been prepping for months?

Also, they’re making an album called The Tortured Lawyer’s Department.

Taylor’s not going to like that, vicious? How dare you make fun of Taylor? By the way, for all things Taylor Swift, listen to the Taylor Swift Today podcast. I’m sure they’ll be pretty interesting tomorrow. Stephen Colbert said, Trump’s lawyers have pointed out that the Fourteenth Amendment says people have engaged in an insurrection cannot hold office.

It doesn’t say they can’t run for office. But the point of running for office is to hold office. Unless you’re Nikki Haley, We’re not sure what her point is. Jimmy Fallon said, did you know that the recent hearing was led by Chief Justice John Roberts Also he’s the only chief that’s not worried about the forty nine ers. Yesked, all right, keep it fair, Johnny Macker.

I’ve been a lot of talk about President Biden’s memory lately. Jimmy found said, it’s pretty embarrassing for Biden, but on the bright side, you’ll forget about it. Five minutes later, as predicted, the Joe Rogan Podcast went straight to number one now that it’s back available everywhere, Joe Rogan tweeted, because that’s what we do on Twitter, nobody calls that Exelon podcast is now officially back on Apple. We should be back on YouTube with full episodes of the coming weeks. Shout out to Spotify for absolutely being the coolest and smartest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of being in partnership with.

I’m very excited the podcast will now have a much broader distribution. Curby Your Enthusiasm is on tonight after the Super Bowl. You’ll probably watch the Big Game, won’t you. The Holler Reporter caught up with executive producer Jeff Schaeffer. Is this the final season?

He says, even though every season has been the final season, it’s the final season. Although I don’t think Larry’s done with having spirited discourses with troublemakers on the West Side of Los Angeles, so you never know. But he adds, when you watch the end, it’ll make sense that this is the end. Larry David said, people think I’m lying. I’m not a liar.

Okay, yeah, fifteen years ago I said it was the last season. That’s what I say when I don’t think I’m coming back with another one. But this is it. Schaeffer said they almost killed Larry off Curb in the season eleven finale, but then changed their minds so they could return for this season twelve. Shaefer says, we didn’t start writing the season with the intent that was going to be the last one.

It wasn’t like, all right, what’s our final season going to be? We were just writing a story. As the story evolved, it made sense that this was the series finale, But it came from an evolution of story, not from any master planet. This was going to be the last season, but there are unexpected benefits. Now Larry has time to pursue his passion projects like making erotic dioram as of Old Testament scenes, breeding Doberman’s and refurbishing turn to the century popcorn makers to their previous glory.

You can finally do what he wants. The Holly reporter said, did you just come up with that on the spot? Jeff said two with him. Yeah, Jeff says. Finalees are always a tricky thing because it’s a breakup.

You’ve had this relationship for twenty years with some people, and a twenty year relationship with your fans, and all of a sudden you’re leaving them. A finale always weird energy to it. I think what I’ve learned is the best finales are really funny episodes of the show, not this other thing that’s not the show. So that was something we kept in our heads. Someone who’s not a fan of Larry David will Wheaton.

Will Wheaton did not appreciate the Elmo thing. We’ll post that on Facebook. What a stupid, self centered tone deaf a hole. And I don’t want to make fun of this next sentiment. No, Will sheared All the time.

When I was growing up, my dad would grab me by the shoulders and shake me while he screamed in my face. He was always out of control, always at a furious rage, and always terrifying. I’m a fifty one year old man, and my heart is pounding right now. We’re calling how I felt when I was a little boy who loved Grover the way today’s kids love Elmo. You couldn’t stand that a puppet brought people together in a meaningful way that you can’t You couldn’t stand that your appearance on national television and promote your wildly successful series was delayed for a few seconds while the adults talked about mental health and crappy idiot Larry David couldn’t leave it alone for some reason.

He had to indirectly tell everyone who opened their hearts to a muppet that they were stupid and they thought it was a good joke to physically attack and choke this character who was beloved by children and adults alike. You know what that tells impressional young people about sharing their feelings. You know who was watching the Today Show with their parents, kids who also watched Sesame Street. Elmo was an avatar for children all over the world. Children who are too small to understand Elmo is a puppet will know that a man attacks someone they love for no reason that will frighten and confuse them.

Elmo and the Muppets teach and model to children all over the world. A kindness and empathy aren’t weak or stupid or any of things people like Larry David or my dad thinks they are. Larry David strikes me as a person who mocks and belittle’s people who are vulnerable and sensitive and enjoys being cruel because he feels untouchable. Maybe I’m wrong. That’s who I see whenever I can’t find the remote and he’s on my television.

Seems like there’s a lot going on there. Dakota Johnson, who’s the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Mmm, she’s in The Office series finale and told Seth Myers that was honestly the worst time of my life. Boy, life is hard. Imagine that being on the Office finale. They were like, do you want to be in the series finale?

And I was like, of course, thinking I show up for like half a day. I was there for two weeks and I’m barely in the fings show. Oh man, Imagine being on the set of the Office for two weeks and that was the worst time of your life. Life is hard. I feel so bad, Dakota, this nextport’s kind of interesting.

I wonder what’s going on here. I hadn’t heard this before. She said, there were weird dynamics that have been going on for the last ten years. Some people didn’t speak to each other. That’s interesting, and I’m coming in like so excited to be here.

No one wanted to talk to me. No one gave an f I was like in the background of all these scenes faxing things. That does sound like the hardest part of anyone’s life. Imagine being on the set of the Office and like having to pretend to fax things. Life is horrid.

Brian Cranston was on the Office Ladies podcast. He asked them, let’s say there’s not a reboot series, but what if there was a movie something to see where we could see where these people are? We wondered at the end, where did they go? What became of them? Jenni Fisher said she’d sign up as long as Greg Daniels is involved, because then I would trust it, you know, as long as Greg is right again and he’s in charge of it, I would say yes.

Angela Kinsey said I would do it for my kids because I would think that it’s fun. I’ll chime in. You’ll both do it. It’s a payday. Don’t act like you’re not gonna do it.

Hey, Angela, do you want to be in the office. No, I don’t want to be in the office. I’m working so much I’m not interested. Get out of here. The movie is probably a better idea than a reboot series, because if you do a reboot series, how does it work?

Is Pam in it? If Pam is in it, well, where’s Jim? I thought they moved to Texas? Didn’t they move to Texas? Are they still together?

Did Texas not work out? Are Pam and Jim still married? But Pam went back to sales at dunder Mifflin And Jim, is you know, doing something else? Because Krazinsky’s not going to do it? And are we going to bring in like the season nine characters, I forget their names PLoP And if there was fake Jim and fake d White, are they going to do it?

Like? I just think it’s a mess. I don’t think you can bring this show back. Did Kevin quit the bar and go back to dunder Mifflin, Like, how does this even work? But don’t act like you’re not gonna do it.

You’re gonna do it. Come on. Tina Fey was on bow and Yang and Matt Rogers podcast Las Culturistas. She was shocked to learn that some Saturday Night Live staffers bring their dogs to work. Bow and Yang told Tina, you’d like to be a pet parent, but doesn’t have enough time due to the demanding production schedule at SNL.

Because no one brings their dogs to SNL, Yang said, oh, people bring their dogs to SNL. Fay, what, Bowen, there’s a couple of people, But it’s fine, Tina. They stay in the dressing room, Bowen. They stay in the dressing room where sometimes they’ll bring them out. It’s okay, Yang tells Fay.

It’s the change in the workplace culture. It’s a different world now. Maybe Shane Gillis will bring his dog. Weird one from the Daily Mail they tell us Robin Williams was a regular visitor to Billy Connolly’s house, and Billy, who’s eighty one, told the Mail I had a stuffed Scottish wildcat at the fireplace in my house to frighten the person who sat down by the fire. Robin Williams would lift the cat and he would become the cat.

He was talking in a Scottish accent and being a wildcat, really getting in a character. Somebody would come in, like the guy who had the stretch of the river that he rents out to fishermen. The guy goes, what’s that? And Robin became the wildcat and made the noise that cats make. The guy nearly crabbed himself.

It was an unbelievable moment in life, watching a genius become a wild animal. It was wonderful. So I’m not following. There’s a stuff cat. You walk in, you go, what’s that?

Oh, yeah, it’s a cat, and then Robin Williams picks it up and starts acting like a cat. And that’s scary, is it? Because you don’t recognize Robin Williams and you just think this is crazy. Man, I don’t know what’s going on there. ABC wrote about the decline of Late Night.

I thought this was stunning. During the twenty fourteen to fifteen season, the Daily Show, Fallon, Kimmel and Letterman combined for an average ten point five million viewers. The same four shows Colbert are now in place of Letterman, and I’ll add the Daily Show as Rudderless have four point eight million viewers again from ten to five to four eight in nine years. WOW ABC says the shows took in eight hundred and fifty nine million dollars in ad revenue in twenty fifteen through November twenty twenty three. The tally for that year was two hundred and fifty nine million.

I doubt they had a six hundred million dollar December. John Stewart had more than one point three million viewers In his last season. Trevor Noah was down to you want to guess how many guests he low wrong? Three hundred and seventy two thousand, one point three million to three seventy two in twenty twenty two. WOW.

During Stewart’s last full year in twenty fourteen, the daily show earned an estimated one hundred and twenty nine million dollars in advertising revenue. Last year, the rudderless show with no real host was down to nineteen million dollars through November. I doubt they made one hundred and ten million in December. WOW and Unture Comedy news for Today, Go Niners See Tomorrow

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Featured: Keegan Michael Key, Bert Kreischer, Travis Kelce, David Schwimmer, Tina Fey, Jason Sudeikis, Rob Riggle, Eric Andre, Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Ken Jeong, Jeff Foxworthy, Martin Lawrence, Shannon Sharp

What’s in This Episode

• Keegan Michael Key hosts NFL Honors with Taylor Swift jokes
• Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift relationship coverage at Super Bowl
• Bert Kreischer appears on New Heights podcast, praises it
• Super Bowl commercials featuring comedians and celebrities
• Ken Jeong Popeyes ad with cryogenic freezing concept
• Pete Davidson discusses Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in interview
• Food waste awareness campaign with Pete Davidson and Hellman’s
• Martin Lawrence and Shannon Sharp team up for Oikos commercial

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News super Bowl preview edition at the NFL Honors Awards, Mack Packer Keegan Michael Key was your host, and boy, I hope he doesn’t get canceled for making these vicious Taylor Swift jokes. Will we keep cutting to an influential blonde superstar? M you bet we will? Roger Dedell, Yeah, right, though, imagine if Joe Coy said that Taylor would be so mad.

Here’s some more. Of course, we’re going to talk about Travis and Taylor. I think I think they’re Yes, yes, give it up with Travis and Taylor. Okay, Yes, I think they’re both great and I’m happy for them. Uh but you know, Travis Kelcey isn’t the first NFL player to have a relationship with a pop star.

There’s Russ and Sierra. Yeah, there was Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson and of course Peyton Manning and Brad Paisley. So I can’t forget those guys. My understanding is that Taylor Swift is in Tokyo right now. The only people farther from the Super Bowl are the Carolina Panthers.

I’m sorry, it’s now there. There has never been a season like this, everybody. I mean, who’d have thought we’d see a year when Taylor Swift went to more playoff games than Bill Belichick. Bert Krascher was on Jason and Travis Kelsey’s famous podcast New Heights, and Bert said their podcast is better than my podcast. They’re not supposed to be broadcasters.

They’re supposed to be meatheads. They’re cleaning up over there is Bert Krascher is supposed to be a broadcaster, arguably even a meathead. Bert was asked about Jason Kelcey appearing shirtless at games. Bert Kreischer himself has been known to be shirtless. Bert was asked what he would do if he went to a game in Buffalo, and he said, I’m wearing a Gabe Davis jersey and I’m going through a table.

Fire on it. I’m going through a table. He even added he’d do a shirtless too, presumably going through the table. You can’t wear a jersey and be shirtless at the same time. I mean, I guess you could wear the jersey as a hat.

Get back to a chun. Bert was asked about Taylor Swift and said the relationship with Travis is good for the United States of America. Taylor is everything that a bondies this country. She’s ours. I love Taylor Swift man.

I’ve got two little girls, and Taylor Swift was on play NonStop. KC dot Com caught up with Travis Kelsey himself what might he do after football, and he said, I’m comedy all the way. I don’t know if I’m anything else. I like to have a run time and make people laugh. I’ll dabble into everything just to see if I have fun doing it.

Earlier this month, he says he has no reason to stop playing football. I know there are definitely Hollywood talks out there, but I’ve been focused on football throughout the season, so I’ll probably have some of the meetings when it’s all said and done. She knows. Dot Com recapped the various Super Bowl ads. I’ll focus on the comedy ones here.

David Schwimmer is in one with Victoria Beckham, Nick Offerman, and Aubrey Plaza, Will Schilfer Mountain Dew. Tina Fey is out there for booking dot Com. She says, with so many choices on booking dot com, there are so many Tina Phays I could be so I hired Body Doubles to help me out. One of the Tina Phays is co star Gene Kurkowski, another Glenn close H. Jason Sidakis is in a commercial with Lionel Messi.

By the way, to follow everything about Linel Messi, follow the Messy Effect podcast where you get your shows. They’re shilling for Ultra Michelobe. We see Messi dribbling a ball with others on a beach while Sadekas just watches and he says, I’m gonna get out there. A second later, after seeing how good Messi is with the ball, he goes, naw, I’m not gonna get out there. Rob Riggle chiefs fan.

He’s shilling for Miller Light and says Miller Light isn’t running a big game ad this year, They’re running one thousand literally, so while most big game ads give you giant explosions in talking animals, Miller Lites big game ads give you what you really want, great tasting, less filling beer. Eric Andre has got a spot. You’ve probably seen this one already. He is shilling for Drumsticks ice cream and he takes on the TSA who says I’m going to need to confiscate one of these. Kate McKinnon references Pete Davidson in her ad.

She’s shilling for a Mayo. She’s with Mayo Cat. The cat becomes an overnight sensation. Mayo walks the red carpet with none other than Pete Davidson before Kate McKinnon reads if They’re Split on the cover of a magazine and says he lasted longer than most. Ken Jung is doing an ad for Popeyes.

Ken stars as a man who cryogenically froze himself fifty two years ago, waiting for the best ever wing to be created. They’re promoting their new wing offerings including honey barbecue, roasted garlic, parmechan signature, hot Ghost Pepper, and sweet and Spicy. Ken said he ate all of them. He told today, I happily ate the chicken that you see me eat. When you’re filming anything of high quality, you do it over and over again, and I happily ate the chicken.

It was not a problem. I could say that very very confidently. Ken ads Coincidentally, there was supposed to be a dood old dog in the campaign, so I asked if I could use my own Golden Doodle mocha, and they said yes. My wife and I had so much fun just spending time with our dog. You know, this is her debut.

Popeyes really captured my sense of humor in my own brand of comedy, and I think that I totally captured what they were trying to do with this campaign. It was definitely a really amazing and authentic collaboration. Not too long ago, I was a doctor. Then he tells this tale. It was not uncommon for me to go to Popeyes after a long shift being on call, let’s say a thirty six hour shift.

When I was in medical residency. There was a Popeyes on my way home. When I came back a couple of years ago to do commencement it Tulane. My only request was to have a Popeye spicy chicken sandwich. It was one of those things in my life that was very full circle for me.

I might actually believe that I did radio row with Jeff Foxworthy at the Super Bowl and I asked Jeff if he could get anything, And I remember our exchange. He goes, is there is subway nearby? There was, what do you want, Jeff? I whatever, sandwich. He wanted, I don’t remember, Jeff, you can have two sandwiches.

Fox Worthy is awesome. As for that Kate McKinnon’s bought, Pete Davidson told ET online he doesn’t mind being the butt of the joke. Pete says, I love Kate. We have a lot of fun together, so getting the chance to work with her again was awesome. As for how he feels about his love life being public, Pete said, I’m actually a very private person.

I’m usually at home watching movies on VHS. They asked Pete Davidson about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. He said both are incredibly smart, kind and talented. I’m not sure they’re looking for any advice from me. Pete is actually supporting the Hellman’s Super Bowl ad, which is make Taste, not Waste.

They’re encouraging people not to waste usable food. This is one of my pet Pee’s isn’t the right thing, but I see so much food waste out there at restaurants, candidly at the nursing home where my mom has been. Just food comes and it goes and nobody eats it. Pete said, I think it’s a really important issue. In our country that needs to be addressed.

During this part, I learned that the Big Game is the second most wasteful food day in the US, which is crazy to me. How can you have all this perfectly good food and just throw it out. I’m a big leftovers guy, and using Alman’s commediently is the perfect way to repurpose my leftovers, which I have a lot of since I’m often on the go. But yeah, so much food goes to waste. Man, it’s a shame.

Martin Lawrence is doing a Super Bowl commercial. He has teamed up with Shannon Sharp, who’s been in the comedy news a lot lately. This is for Oikos, whatever that is. I guess that’s why they’re advertising. In the commercial, the two come together for a game of golf, which quickly becomes a display of strength.

Martin Lawrence says, Shannon’s very quiet and if you talked up between takes so communicate with you and everything. But when it’s time to shoot, he’s very focused and he goes into his work. That’s the good thing about Shannon, because I’m a lot like that as well. I don’t talk too much before I start my acting or whatever. I’m doing.

But he’s a lot of fun and has a lot of knowledge. Eric Andre in that ad I mentioned earlier for drum sticks, he says he still has imposter syndrome. As for his fame, I’m still surprised by it. My brain doesn’t make sense, and I have imposter syndrome, so I never feel like I belong anywhere. I’m like, can I have these sunships?

Is that okay? Can I take these home? Is he nervous about his Super Bowl lad He said, I’m nervous every day. I hyperventilate my way through life. It’s a crushing, oppressive anxiety in my brain that I carry around with me twenty four to seven.

It’s a cage. My mind is in a cage, and I’m the only prisoner in solitary confinement. Anyway, eat a drumstick. Carrot Top was making the radio Row rounds. I did Radio Row maybe four times.

Oh what a nightmare. I hated it. Not today, but I’ve told in the past. I’ll tell it again. I had a couple adventures with Jamie Fox that were just nightmares, having little to do with Jamie, not too much anyway, but oh my goodness, anyway, Scott Thompson, you know him as Carrot Top.

The New York Times asked him about the effect of the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. Carrotop’s been a headliner at the Luxer for eighteen years. Good gig man, Carrottop said, I think this is the biggest event we’ve ever had. How big Carrot Top was wearing a baseball cap with a sticker that said need tickets. Yep, even carrat Top can’t get tickets for the game, he told The Times.

Everyone says you’re carrot Top, you own this town, but I really can’t get one, all right. Non super Bowl topic, Matthew Brisord is taping his special today at the Little Field in Brooklyn. Matthew is fantastic big fan. He describes as a disgraced financial analyst forced into stand up comedy. The byproduct of a Cajun chemist and a Jewish microbiologist, he holds a degree in computational mathematics.

He always manages to bring up and is fully aware of how douchey he looks. He’s a good looking guy. He’s got a joke about he looks like the uh frat douchebag in like every eighties college sex movie. It’s a great joke that I just ruined. Not your comedy needs for today.

I’ll be here tomorrow, but regardless, enjoy the big game. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Katt Williams, Trevor Noah, Aaron Rodgers, Shane Gillis, Monique, Tiffany Haddish, Nikki Haley, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Matthew Brock, Preacher Lawson, John Oliver, Marc Marin

What’s in This Episode

• Katt Williams Live Netflix Special May 5th
• Trevor Noah Produces Fortnite Comedy Special Joke Night Royale
• Joe Rogan Experience Aaron Rodgers Interview Conspiracy Theories
• Shane Gillis SNL Return and Asian American Comedy Controversy
• Monique Addresses Tiffany Haddish Netflix Pay Dispute on Club Shay Shay
• Nikki Haley Nevada Primary Loss to ‘None of These Candidates’

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see that Nikki Helly lost to Nevada to nobody? Late Night talked about her. We’re also talking about it on our political podcast that’s called Ballot.

Ellly got thirty percent of the vote, which was less than none of these candidates. Steve Colbert said, Nicki Haley’s campaign messages nobody’s better than me, and Nevada agreed. She also lost to Nevada candidates. Not feeling it today and gonna be a no from me, dog kibble. You know how they say you’re second and none.

She finished second and none. I like the idea that people took the time to wait in line a vote for the candidates and picked none of these candidates. It’s like going to Wendy’s and yelling nothing for me, thanks. Seth Meyer’s even worse. She actually came in third behind none of these candidates.

And no, seriously, not you, Nikki. My that’s fun? All right? Hey, Johnny Mac, what’s a special and what’s an hour? Well, I’ll tell you what’s a special.

Cat Williams Live on Netflix. I cannot wait for this May fifth, ten pm Eastern, Cat Williams will performed live at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. The special is unnamed, but I mean, come on going after that last interview where he trashed everybody, including you, listener, cannot wait for that May fifth Netflix Cat Williams Live Awesome. A weird one came out on Wednesday night sometime after six pm Eastern. Fortnite was like, yeah, Trevor ne Noah is producing a new comedy special in Fortnite and it’s on now now.

There have been mixed reports about this. In the end, Trevor’s not actually in this thing, he’s quote unquote producing it. That’s often industry code for hey, can we attach your name to something and give you money so we get more pressed for it and you don’t actually do anything. For example, watch Star Trek Discovery and count how many producers there are? Twenty one by my count.

Anyway, Trevor Noah is producing a new stand up comedy special Fortnite. Joke Night has launched. If you need the island code, it’s a six two nine eight two nine sixty five two four. I hope you had a pen in your hand. If not, that fifteen second rewind button comes in handy, or just go to the epic pic section of the discovery page.

It features performances from Matthew Brissard, Who’s Great Preacher Lawson, Scott Sase, and Marsha Belski a suit Who’s not Trevor Noah said. Each comedian delivers a motion captured performance delivered in a Fortnite outfit against the backdrop of a digitally rendered comedy club. Trevor Noah, in a statement supposedly said, with joke Night Royale, we’re blending two things my mom never wanted me to get into, comedy and gaming. I’m excited to step into this uncharted territory, breaking down traditional barriers and offering a fresh, dynamic way for fans to experience comedy. I think the idea is actually cool, but I’m old.

I’ll check in with my son to see what he thinks of all this. Fortnite has already done performances from the likes of Travis, Scott and M and M. Comedy’s an expansion of that. I like it. The av Club points out.

While the trailer announces the show and it drops Trevor Noah’s name, it doesn’t feature Trevor Noah. It doesn’t feature Trevor Noah’s voice, nor does it feature a Fortnite approximation of Trevor no Noah. So I got my wish. The Joe Rogan podcast is back available over the wall. You don’t have to use the Spotify app.

I was using pocketcasts and I enjoyed some Joe Rogan with Aaron Rodgers and men I shared in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Well maybe a year or two ago, Tim Heidecker did a parody of the Joe Rogan podcast where he and his crew were talking conspiracies. That’s what this Aaron Rodgers interview talked about. They were just running through the conspiracies COVID, RFK, Epstein Island, UFOs and just switching topics like three conspiracies a minute. I’m not exaggerating.

Listen to it. They’ll be in the middle of a UFO conversation and suddenly we’re on Epstein Island and then back to COVID. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t think there was a single question about football. Aaron Rodgers mentioned a couple times what he does for a living.

I think the word super Bowl was set once, but it is not a football interview. And I’m sure the Jets are thrilled that Aaron Rodgers is on the Joe Rogan Experience available wherever you get your podcasts. Mark Marin has John Oliver on I haven’t gotten a listen to that. I’m excited NBC got in on the Shane Gillis controversy. They write with Shane Gillis’s return SNL, Asians ask when they’ll stop being the punchline.

They quote one Asian American comedian is saying there’s an idea that Asians will take it and have to just be obedient and have a smile on our face. Dylan Adler in La based Asian American comedians quoted as saying there’s a feeling of it being swept under the rug anti Asian jokes being viewed as benign or not having real life effects and consequences on people when it’s not the case. I meant to tell you yesterday I saw the clip of Shane Gillis making jokes about Chinatown and I wanted to share it, but there’s just so many F bombs in it. It just I’d have to just machety it and it just wouldn’t translate at all. Now my take, I’m gonna be consistent here.

I think Shane is dropping into a character to illustrate how absurd the character is. It’s almost like Archie Bunker. So how do you do Archie Bunker without actually saying horrible things? At some point comedy’s comedy. I got a joke about something everybody.

NBC loaded their article Gillis, who’s been embraced by right wing viewers for his anti wo comedy. He was fired from SNL. We’ve recapped that. Just Tom, an Asian American stand up comedian and actor, said, from twenty eighteen ish to right now, casting has become more diverse, but because the image change, it allowed people like straight white men to believe that now they’re the alternative voice. They’re the little guy who’s punching up against the diverse powers that be.

Dylan Adler says, what comedy’s supposed to do is surprise you. When I hear that that isn’t surprising, it’s not interesting, it’s not nuanced. That it does feel lazy to me. For your point here, there’s so many talented, incredible Asian comedians and actors they haven’t had on the show yet. I can’t believe they haven’t had Margaret Show host the show or someone like Michelle Yo.

Michelle Yeo would be a good choice Marker show. Why would Margaret Show host SNL in twenty twenty four? Anyway, we’ll be talking about that one for another week and SNL in the news During a Taylor Swift Super Bowl week club Shayshay continues to make major comedy news. Monique is on the latest episode, and Men’s Journal recapt it and says Monique has not forgotten a twenty eighteen GQ interview in which Tiffany Hattish made comments about Monique when Monique accused Netflix of racial and gender bias after she was paid less for a stand up special compared to other comedians such as Dave Chappelle and Amy Schumer. Let me jump in there.

Yeah, you’re paid less than Dave Chappelle. I mean, at some point, please be realistic. Chris Rock’s gonna get paid better than Todd Barry. Let’s just be realistic. What are you talking about.

Tiffany Haddish at that time said my business run different than her business. I don’t live her life I don’t have that husband of hers. I’m looking at how Netflix open up so many opportunities for black females in comedy when my people are dying. That’s when you’re gonna catch me protesting. I’m not going to protest because somebody got offered, not the amount of money they want to get offered.

If you don’t like what they’re offering, you just no longer do business with them. That seems reasonable to me, based on what I just said. Monique question why black women continue to throw each under of the bus on the podcast, She said, well, I don’t do business like Monique do business, and I’m glad I don’t have that husband of hers. Monique responded to that and said, Tiffany, if you had a husband like mine, you might not have two DUIs. If you had a husband like mine, you may not be caught up in what looks like you could have been grooming a child.

A Men’s journal reminds us. The latter comment references a controversial comedy skit Tiffany appeared in alongside Aery Spears in twenty twenty two, titled Through a Pedophile’s Eyes. It led to a lawsuit. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed, Hadish apologize for the skit. Comeil nan Gianni opened up about the mental stress created by being in The Eternals.

He was on Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast and said, the reviews were bad, and I was too aware of it. I was reading every review and checking too much. It was really really hard because Marvel thought that movie was going to be really, really well reviewed, so they lifted the embargo early and put it in some fancy movie festivals, and they sent us on a big global tour to promote the movie right as the embargo lifted. I think there was some weird soup in the atmosphere for why that movie got slammed so much, and I think not much of it has to do with the actual quality of the movie. Was really hard, and that’s what I thought was unfair to me and unfair to my wife Emily, and I can’t approach my work this way.

They wore some stuff has to change, so I started counseling. I still talked to my therapist about that. Emily says, I do have trauma from it. We actually just got dinner with somebody else from that movie and we’re like, that was tough, wasn’t it. And He’s like, yeah, that was really tough, and I think we all went through something similar.

At the GRIE Awards, Kevin Hart recognized Eddie Murphy as one of the greatest comedians of all time. He said, the idea of performing in big venues came from watching you, from watching you on that lens of what the hell the stage is attached to a laugh and in a demand where this rockstar like idea was attached to comedy because of the work you did. You made it look good, you made it look cool and my time I wanted that, and you opened the doors for me to do a version of that. He also praised pioneering comedians, including Steve Harvey for his contributions in the original Kings of Comedy, Cedric d entertainer Bernie Mack and Diel. Kevin said The Kings of Comedy was such a dope thing for comedy.

We started to expand the lens of how comedy should be perceived. I swear to you, I’m thankful and humbled for what you guys have allowed me to do. The baton gets passed, then I don’t take it for granted. Jeff Die is recording his special Two Nights and Tomorrow with the Electric Gene in Nashville. You may know Jeff from the NBC show Better Late Than Never, where he follows Henry Winkler, William Shanner, Terry Bradshaw, George Foreman as Jeff Greats for them the adventure of a lifetime.

Shanner’s been a space hashtag six seasons and a movie. Donald Glover tells The Holly Reporter Dan Harmon told me what he wanted, and I was like, this sounds great. This is the community movie he’s talking about here. It’s a college reunion. But Abed is like this big director now and basically this is his magnum opus.

I’m like, this sounds effing tight. And I was very sad to see my friend Mojo Nixon passed away at age sixty six. You may know Mojo. He had a minor and novelty hit back in the eighties called Elvis Is Everywhere. A statement announcing the news on his Facebook page and this is so Mojo wrote, Mojo has left the building.

Mojo Nixon real named Neil Kirby McMillan Junior. I didn’t know that died after suffering a cardiac event during an Outlaw Country cruise in which he was a performed. The Facebook post reads, how you live is how You should die. Mojo Nixon was full tilt, wide open rock hard root hog corner on two wheels plus on fire, passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners, and a good breakfast with bandmates and friends. A cardiac events on the Outlaw Country cruise is about right, and that’s just how we did it.

Mojo has left the building since Elvis is everywhere we know. He was waiting for him in the alley out back. Hen’n help us all. Mojo was a good guy, larger than life, fun, always in a good mood. I just loved being around him.

I worked with him on blue Collar Radio a little bit. He hosted some NASCAR stuff for us. But you know, super awesome guy. Mojo Nixon was sixty six. See tomorrow

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Bowen Yang, Lorne Michaels, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura

What’s in This Episode

• Trump immunity ruling late-night jokes
• Biden jokes written by ChatGPT
• Bowen Yang deletes SNL posts amid tensions with Lorne Michaels
• Shane Gillis SNL controversy
• Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura launch PLYS Two Bears Vodka
• Jo Koy Taylor Swift joke controversy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Idly how I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Got a couple of Trump jokes for you. I tried to keep it fair. I’ll explain why.

After the Trump jokes, the topic Trump not getting immunity, Jimmy Kimmel said it was a devastating moment for Trump, especially when Malania started clapping. I love it. Seth said, all right, it doesn’t have immunity, but after all these trials, he must have built up some antibodies. Trump’s campaign said he respectfully disagrees with the ruling. Although if Trump knew to respectfully disagree with the loss, he wouldn’t be on trial in the first place.

So I wanted to keep it fair. I’m like, all right, keep it fair, Johnny Mac. Do some Joe Biden jokes. There were none available, so I asked chat Chept four to write some. One is okay?

Have you heard about President Biden’s latest workout routeat. It’s called running for Office. It involves a lot of backtracking, sidestepping, and the occasional spread to the left. He says it’s great for building core support. That one’s all right, I asked it for six.

The rest were bad. It’s a bad one. The White House staff installed a new game on Biden’s phone and keep them sharp. It’s not Candy Crush. It’s fine, Mike Glasses.

I mean it’s bad. I could see Fallon doing it. Then I asked it to do a Prince Harry joke. I’ve been very busy over at the Palace Entry podcast. Don’t know if you heard King Charles’s cancer.

We’ve been doing bonus episodes that had been quite busy over there, and this one’s pretty good. From the late bot, I heard King Charles only spend thirty minutes with Prince Harry. In royal terms, that’s just enough time to decide which tea not to drink. Earl Gray, Nope, time’s up. I like that one, all right, bow and Yang man.

He deleted his Instagram posts interesting. You may recall that Bowen had shared a photo to Instagram of a note that Lauren Michaels had left for Nicky Haley. That note read, Ambassador Haley, Welcome to Studio eight h from Lauren plus everyone at SNL. Yang captioned his post everyone smiley face emoji. He later deleted the post, but social media has been decoding Bowen’s subtle protests of Louren Michael’s recent bookings over the past few weeks.

You may remember Dave Chappelle showed up at the group farewell at the end of an episode recently and Bowen stood as far away bos well from Dave and the next week Shane Gillis is back well discussed on the podcast All Week. You can listen to the last two three episodes about that. Anyway, Bowen Yang’s Instagram no longer contains any mention of SNL at all. He apparently has taken off every scrap of SNL from his social media presence. Some are wondering if he’s going to leave the show.

So I think Bowen probably is the best cast member on the current show. That said, the last two seasons with Bowen as the best cast member have been pretty terrible. Bowen, you don’t want to get into a whistling match with Lorne in year forty nine. Lauren is going to be coronated for year fifty. It’s going to be a big deal and Lauren is going to stand there with the likes of Will Ferrell and Tina Fey and Kristen Wig and Adam Sandler and whoever else you want to add to the list.

It is not the time to take Loauren my On. You’re going to lose. So what would a post SNL career look like for Bowenie? And he’s got the podcast podcast or nice on doing one right now. I guess he’d get some streaming service movies.

I’m not sure it’s big enough to do with theatrical comedy. So I don’t know. Man. As I prepped the show today, the mainstream media has caught on to the Shane Gillis thing. I’m not going to get into that today.

I had plenty to say the last two three days, and I want to keep the podcast fresh rather than just rehash that. Bert Krescher and Tom Sigora have put out a press release this next segment. Everything I’m going to share with you is directly from the press release. And if you listen every day, you know I like eye rolling press releases because they could be so corny. So here’s what the press release is about.

Entertainment powerhouses Bert Kreischer and Tom Sigoor are set to disrupt the spirits industry with the launch of their premium Vadka Porosos not for their friendship and unfiltered humor. The duo is teaming up with Drip MFG, a leading venture studio special in celebrity consumer packaged goods parenthese CpG brands to bring this exciting venture to life. All right, so far not horrific or also translated from Spanish because of Tom Sigora’s provan background in Spanish speaking, deep cuts meaning for the Bears, as a play on their top comedy podcasts, Two Bears, one Cave. This vodka is Buy the Bears Burton Tom for the Bears, their audience. Created with the utmost dedication of quality, this gluten free vodka stands out by using only premium ingredients including non gmo wheat and a patent did finishing process from a Persado craft technology that sets us apart in a crowded market.

The result is a smooth, unparalleled sip promised to elevate the drinking experience for enthusiasts and navsis alike, a top shelf taste, but at a reasonable mid market retail price. It’s time to get into the quotes. Tom Sigora allegedly said, I couldn’t be more excited about launching this brand with my best friend Bert. We’ve always approached everything we do with a mix of passion and humor, and this no different. Crafting a premium vodka and sharing it with everybody is a dream come true.

Get ready to taste the laughs and the quality. It’s going to be a wild ride. Kraser added, Supposely, this is an idea Tom and I have thrown around for so long, and we’ve really taken our time to do this the right way. It’s not just something for us, it’s for our fans who’ve been along this ride with us for years. They know how to work hard, but they also know how to play hard.

I’ve always been a voka guy, so it is such a no brainer for us to do something that flipped a celebrity liquor on its head. Bring a little comedy to the bar scene. How does that bar work? What is the comedy coming to the bar scene? So Mike and Cleveland and I are at the bar.

We walk up, I look at Mike and I go porosos. He goes yeah. I look at the bar, turn and I go two, Where’s the comedy? Then there was some fun boilerplate explaining who Bert Krascher and Tom Segura are Berg. Kreischer’s career has evolved from being Rolling Stones nineteen ninety seven number one partier in the nation to one of the top grossing stand up comics in the business, and most recently, star of a major motion picture.

According to four Kreyser has been hailed as quote one of the best storytellers of his generation, seamlessly and sincerely sharing anecdotes about his family and fatherhood while preventing that there’s a way to take his party boy antics into middle age. You know what, that’s actually pretty good. I won’t make fun of that. They kind of nailed that. Then a full paragraph recounting his Netflix specials, and another paragraph telling us about the fully loaded tour and the sea crews and all that.

In addition to being named quote one of the US top stand ups over the past decade by The Guardian, Kraysier is a world renowned top podcaster, hosting Burt Cast with over five hundred episodes and two Bears One Cave with Tom Sagora, which consistently charts in the top ten comedy podcast worldwide. Bert also created, hosts and produces the YouTube cooking show Something’s Burning, which has gathered over eighteen point two million views, and then they humble brag about his social media. Is bert a world renowned top podcaster. I’m gonna go to charitable again. Let’s say maybe he is, maybe he’s not.

Let’s look see here unchartable, you can do the charts. I’m going to do an Apple podcast, and let’s pick a country, Belgium, how about Belgium? Down here to comedy. The top Apple podcast in Belgium in the comedy category, number one Alex Agnew and Andres Becker is Welcome to the AA. Number two, of course is Muslin Am Half twee Scrolling scrolling, scrolling Theovan at number forty in Belgium.

And let’s see Kate Burlant and Jack Lenovac at eighty three, Andrew Schultz at ninety one. And I’m down to one hundred, which is flying the wallaty At Carvey and David Spade. So he may or may not be a world renowned podcaster. What about you, Juddie Mack and your dumb basement. Hey, I’ll let you know right now.

This is the number six podcast in the Denmark stand up subcategory, and in Denmark the number one hundred and sixty three comedy podcast overall. Hello Danes love you in France where they love Jerry Lewis. This is the number fifteen State and Up podcast in Greece, number eight in Kuwait, the number five stand up podcast a number one twenty eight overall in the comedy category, Number seven stand up podcast in Botswana, number six in Yemen, number seven in Uganda. So I’m going to declare myself internationally renowned as well. Actor comedian writer Tom Sagora is one of the biggest names in the comedy business.

He recently toured over three undred city He’s humble brag about his tour. Segora can be seen in the STX film Countdown opposite Elizabeth Lale, Instant Family opposite Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, Opening Act and Flinch. He can we wanted something New. Every day when he isn’t performing on stage recording a podcast, he’s watching college football or waiting for college football to come back. Mosha Kasher was on the Last Laugh podcast.

You may or may not know that Mosha is married to Natasha Lazeiro, who recently took her top off during a set. He says he’s been so focused on his book release that he barely noticed the fact that Natasha broke the Internet. He says, I’m mostly here for her moral support. No one asked me how I feel about it. I’m furious.

I feel betrayed. Those were mine, and I’m very upset.

And now, to be honest with you, I’m very proud.

I thought it was really punk rock and really cool. Nothing matters when you really think about it. So if you could do something interesting in the world, I’m all for it. And they’re good. I’m proud to be the roommate of those breasts.

He talked about how he got into stand up. His high school friend Chelsea Peretti, Yes that one took him to his first real stand up show during a visit to New York when he’s still in college. On the bill that night, Patrese, O’Neil and Sarah Silverman, he said, I listen to Patrice and Sarah do stand up, and I wasn’t offended or appalled, but it was definitely shocked that you could do that. He remembers Patrese making fun of Michael J. Fox.

Mosha says, and I’m sitting there going you can’t do that. You can’t make fun of Michael G. Fox being sick. It’s so wrong and everyone’s laughing. Was this real configuration of what you can do or what I could do with my writing?

You can just be funny for the sake of itself. Kevin Hart is all excited that the World Cup is coming to the United States. The final is going to be in New Jersey, not too far from where I live. Kevin was on Fox promoting whatever he was promoting on a particular day, and he talked about his long history with soccer, dating back to childhood. He explained how his own kids have gotten him back into the sport, so he teased the idea of getting a full back tattoo in honor of the World Cup.

He said, my love for the game started when I was younger. I think now being a soccer dad, you know, having kids that love the sport and to fall the sport, it’s given me a different level of passion. Well via gold dot Com, Greg Buralter says the US men’s national team have sent Kevin Hard a tattoo that says USA all day. Let’s see if Kevin actually does it. I want to shout out the members who went to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash a Daily Comedy News. They’ve set up recurring donations. Hi Tommy, Hi Andrea, Gary Shannon, Mike Kenny, Kenny, I just shot your note on the side by the way, much appreciated. So this next one is from the University of Indie Reflector. So it’s a college student.

I don’t want to go totally off here, but the headline Joe Coy’s comedy at the Golden Globes was a joke from the article. According to the Golden Globes award website, Joe Coy was to host the ceremony because he would bring three things his unique charm, energy, and unpredictable humor. Of those things, he was definitely unpredictable. But I must have missed the port where we were supposed to be genuinely humorous. Maybe I should cut him some slack.

It’s unrealistic to expect for perfection, after all, we’re all human. But I think taking accountability is what ultimately redeems someone. Thank goodness, Coy did that not, So what’s the issue here? Oh? Joe Coy was vicious about Taylor Swift.

Should I play what he said? All? Right? I’m going to parental discretion is advice here. This clip about Taylor Swift is just so vicious.

Okay, you ready for this, So let’s listen to what Joe Coy he said about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL on the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh my goodness, that is so mean to joke about football game showing Taylor Swift in the skybox. That is just terrible.

How could you do that? Joe Coy article says that the most Coy claimed his Taylor Swift joke didn’t land the way he wanted. He relied on playing the victim and having a tough crowd for a majority of response to criticism, the writer says, I’m so incredibly happy that he can hide behind a veil and call his pathetic attempt at comedy and experience he will not forget because I will not forget it either. Should we listen to the joke again? Let’s listen.

Big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL on the Golden Gloves we have fewer ciber shots of Taylor Swift. Oh man, Joe, dude, that is vicious. How can you say such a thing about Taylor Swift that she’s at a football game and they show her? Oh my god, Joe, Relax boy. I hope Lauren doesn’t ask Joe Coy to host SNL Boon and Yang won’t want any part of this.

The writer says, I generally hope he realizes how problematic his comments were, and then he didn’t have to say anything that was written for him. People did not laugh, they did not find it funny, and the only joke in that room had the title of host. The first Macau International Comedy Festival will be held from March eleventh through the eight I’m not sure who’s playing. Hey Macaw guys, if you want me to go, I’ll go. From the Figure Lakes Daily, You’re home for comedy news.

Andrew Dice Clay reportedly joining Eddie Murphy’s heist comedy The Pick Up, this one for Amazon Prime Video. Beat Davidson also in this as well as Keky Palmer. It’s funny how names all of a sudden pop up on this podcast. Billboard interviewed Dice and here I’ll read it too. Dice performed his final show at Madison Square Garden in two thousand inc to deal with Serious XM in two thousand and five, and stayed busy for the next twenty years.

Blah blah blah blah blah. I’m going to push back hard on ink to deal with serious XM in two thousand and five. A couple of reasons. One, there was no such thing as serious XM in two thousand and five. There was serious satellite radio, and there was XM radio.

And in two thousand and five, I definitely was running comedy at Sirius. I did not recall a deal with Dice. Howard wasn’t there yet. Howard didn’t get there to two thousand and six, So the Howard channels didn’t do it, and I didn’t do it. And I feel like I would remember Dice having some sort of thing.

Maybe the Big Boss did a deal with Dice, but it never materialized into a show. I guess that’s possible. Separately, maybe Dice did a deal with XM. I wasn’t running XM comedy in two thousand and five. I believe Sonny Fox was in two thousand and five, so I don’t know.

I googled Dice XM two thousand and five, didn’t see anything relevant. I googled Dice Serious two thousand and five. I don’t see anything relevant. So, mister Clay, I’d love to know more about your show or whatever the deal was. Maybe the deal wasn’t for a show.

Maybe the deal was, I don’t know, maybe we’re gonna sell radios. I’d like to know more about it. I’ve been feisty this week and I’m gonna get out on that. And here’s why I told you the other day about the sixteen year old border colligue. Sometimes they have accidents, and an accident apparently happened, and the smell is so bad I need to get out of my studio and get some air.

So that’s it. Thank you for listening. Let’s see to where owh

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Taylor Swift, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Shane Gillis, Celine Dion, Selena Gomez

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle wins Grammy for Best Comedy Album with ‘What’s in a Name?’
• Taylor Swift dominates 2024 Grammy Awards and receives backlash for acceptance speech behavior
• Late night hosts joke about Taylor Swift’s surprised reactions at the Grammys
• Jimmy Kimmel monologue about LA school closures due to rain
• Shane Gillis SNL casting controversy and media coverage of his comedy style

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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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 Mac 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.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Lisa Ann, Matt Rife, Taylor Swift, Joe Coy, Trevor Noah, Taylor Tomlinson, Diane Morgan

What’s in This Episode

• Lisa Ann arrested at Matt Rife concert at Radio City Music Hall
• Taylor Swift’s reaction to Joe Coy’s Golden Globes joke vs Trevor Noah’s Grammy jokes
• Taylor Tomlinson’s third Netflix special ‘Have It All’ releasing February 13
• Philomena Cunk’s new BBC special ‘Cunk’s Quest for Meaning’

Questions Answered in This Episode

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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 Mac, 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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Featured: Trevor Noah, Taylor Swift, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Carl Weathers, Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, Rufus Wainwright, Bobcat Goldthwait, Sam Kinison

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah hosts Grammy Awards with Taylor Swift commentary
• Dave Chappelle wins Best Comedy Album Grammy for ‘What’s in a Name?’
• Shane Gillis to host SNL on February 24th despite 2019 controversy
• Carl Weathers passes away
• Bobcat Goldthwait reflects on Howard Stern feud with Sam Kinison

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media 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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Featured: Trevor Noah, Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle, Sarah Silverman, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé

What’s in This Episode

• Grammy Awards 2024 Best Comedy Album nominees and predictions
• Trevor Noah hosting the Grammy Awards
• Trevor Noah’s future after The Daily Show
• Grammy Awards eligibility criteria for comedy albums
• History of Grammy Best Comedy Album category from 1959 to present

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac 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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