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Caloroga Shark Media boy. Somebody craked my headphones blew my ears out, and I don’t know who because I’m the only one who uses this laptop. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Hey, good news star trek Ruiner. Patton Oswalt is not dead.
Apparently there was a rumor circulating online that he had died. Patton said, yeah, this has been very sudden. I’m trying to adjust, asking for privacy as I ascend. The original post included a black and white photo of Patton Oswalt alongside the caption Seriously f twenty twenty six rest in Peace. Twitter added a note Patton Oswalt pictured is alive.
Good news for Patton that we got good comments. One person wrote rip Patton, you were pretty good on King of Queens and others said, well, there goes my dream of Ratitue two. Christina p has opened up about her divorce from Tom Sigora. She did this on the podcast on the Your Mom’s House podcast. He said the two try to work things out for several years for the sake of the children family, but ultimately couldn’t make the marriage work.
She says there’s no blood between them. As she put it, We’re cool, dude, She told fans, She’s still there for them and they’ll get through this BS, just like everything else they’ve weathered together. Do you like Shane Gillis? Do you like car racing? A big event today, Williams Grove Speedway announced that it has partnered with the Netflix comedy series Tires, which of course stars Shane Gillison.
Johnny Mac should probab watch those final four episodes from last season. I just got distracted. Well. At the Williams Grove Speedway, it’s fan appreciation night as far as I understand. You’ll get free chips and candy courtesy of Martin’s Potato Chips, hose Heads and J and S Classics.
Fans at the event will have access to the backpit area from five point thirty to six fifteen to meet the drivers out on Netflix today, it’s Ricky Gerviz, Allie Katz, Diane Morgan is part of the cast there. Some podcasters have a crush on Diane Allie Kat six episodes, fifteen minutes seat so she can blow through that and uh, can you do that an hour or no? That’d be one two three for an hour and a half. It’ll take you an hour and a half to do that. That was very Letterman what I just did there.
The six part comedy fifteen minutes each follows a band of foul mouth feral cats from across British society as they search for companionship. We’re reflecting on the absurdities of modern life. Diane Morgan, who’s some podcasters have a crush on does one of the voices, Diane said, I know, you see the cats and you think, oh, they’re cute and lovely, and they have these little adventures and then they open their mouths. We learn that the cast recorded together rather than separately, and as Diane says, it’s basically the cast of Afterlife again with a few new editions. He credits Ricky for keeping spirits high on set and says, despite Ricky’s experience, he laughs so much during recording that scenes had to be Redone from Mainwire, Bob Marley is talking about the furries.
Apparently Bob has a new bit that he’s comfortable with the Main Wire talking about. So spoilers if you’re gonna go see Bob Marley tonight. Bob says, kids nowadays think they’re animals, fur burgers. The audience laughs at that, apparently, and Bob says, oh, what are they called? The audience he goes thought furries.
Bob says, look, can be whatever they want to be. I’ve got my own problems, as you can obviously tell. We learned from main Wire that furries made news a year ago in Maine at the Mount Blue Middle School in Farmington, when a student began barking like a dog at another student who regularly crawled around the school on all fours, hissing and other students and openly and nafying as a furry. The barking student was suspended for five days. We’ll keep it up in New England with Seth Myers.
He’s up there tonight at the s NHU Arena in New Hampshire. Seth Meyers show will support two New Hampshire groups, one Court appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire and two the Granite State Children’s Alliance. Seth Meyers said, it’s going to be a night where we’re gonna have a little bit of messaging about how important the organizations are, and mostly it’s going to be a night for people to come and see some stand up comedy. Vogue went with the attention in getting headline Mary Beth Barone is ready to piss off the right people. That’s a good headline that got my attention.
Mary Beth Barone tells Vogue, my stand up is very reflective. Before I’m at currently, I know that I wanted to speak on politics, but finding ways of getting there that you wouldn’t necessarily think, presenting one idea and then relating it back to something political. I also wanted the comedy to feel super specific, and my goal is always to make women and queer people laugh. That’s the same mission they’ve carried on from thought provoking Netflix. Telb you basically have three minutes to show people who you are to make them stick around for the rest of the special.
Spoiler. She mentions that in the special, and as I mentioned previously on this podcast, I took the challenge and went, yeah, I’m not interested, and I bailed on it. I’m sure other people love it. My wife mentioned to me we were in the car and we’re talking. You know, you ever you ever been in a car worth your spouse and you talk.
You know, this is a thing a couple might do. So I don’t know, we were talking about basically everything the podcast comedy. I don’t know what we read on the internet, and she said, Netflix is showing me some comedian, that’s all she said, And I went Mary Beth Baron. My wife said pretty, I’m like, yep, that’s her. She asked will I like it?
And I said, now, it’s probably too dirty for you, and then my wife moved on. But it was interesting that the Netflix algo was pushing Mary Beth Baron at my wife, who went back to watching shows about people being murdered. Mary Beth Barone said, I had a really con consider how I wanted to present myself to a new audience. What’s the material that feels really important to me? What does it feel like I want to say right now?
That was the guiding light. I’ve watched a lot of women’s special but you know there aren’t many, and especially Amy Schumers Live at the Apollo was very influential when I was just starting. I’ve always been inspired by her comedic point of view. As for the final cut of the special, Mary Beth Burn said, I’m proud of myself for doing the jokes that were more of a high wire act confronting Edgy and dark topics. I wasn’t afraid to take risks with the jokes because the discourse is always in the back of my mind.
My desire to say these things just outweighed whatever the potential response might be. Could be a joke about Crystal Leia or a zempet or my Jack Russell Terrier. Bailey, who I grew up with and describe as a domestic terrorist, must have been the Irish in her. Took me a while to find that last beat about being responsible for seventeen flat tires on three car bombs. My mom’s side is Irish.
I think they’ve got good humor about themselves. Maybe it’s being a Gemini, but there’s a weird pushbawl with me. I don’t want to upset people. What if I’m doing my job right, it’s going to just about upsetting the right people. Comedy stock Market.
Every Friday on this program, I announced that we’re going to bomb. I ran and I manipulate the stock market, and then it makes the insider trades, and then Monday morning, I go psych, we didn’t do that at all. We almost have a deal. Oh no, that’s a different that’s a different guy. That’s not me.
What I do. What I do is I look for value in the comedians, and we try and sell low and buy high. No market manipulation here. I’m not that powerful yet. But hey, maybe someday this show will be so big that I’ll be like, hey, you guys ought to be into comedian Smedley Jones, And then I’ll go on like Calshie and buy some stock in or real life to make some money.
That might be an idea. John, you Deigress, who’s on the comedy stock market this week? I don’t have a lot for you. Let’s sell ted Lasso. The reviews are not good.
I’m not excited about it. I haven’t watched it yet. I’ve had time. But my wife and I we were in the car, you know sometimes you’re in the car where with your spouse and you talk. You’d done this, Yes, we covered this in the first half of the podcast.
John, we all agreed that’s the thing a couple might do. Anyway, we were talking about ted Lasso, and we were like, yeah, I mean, I guess we’ll watch it at some point, but like we’ve moved on. It was too long. You wrapped up the show and just we don’t care. So let’s sell Ted Lasso, Let’s sell Mary Beth Baron because they went full court press for a week.
There were a lot of big time shiny articles here. Pr team got it done. But before I logged on today, I went on Netflix to see if that special was still in the top ten, and it was not. That fell off pretty quickly and they targeted my wife, and my wife’s like, eh so, I don’t know. I think Mary Beth Baron gave it a shot, but let’s sell.
Let’s sell a little bit high on Mary Beth Baron and John, you’re very negative this week. Should we buy somebody, Let’s buy some stock in Pete Corielli. He’s got a new special on YouTube. He hangs out with Sebastian Maniscalco, who might shave his head, and the gator is very, very funny, and he’s one of those guys. It’s just a matter of time that Pete’s gonna put together the right material and the right platform and everybody is going to be like, oh my god, Pete Corielly is amazing, and I’m gonna be like, yeah, that’s why he was on Jim Brewers Show It’s Serious twenty five years ago or whenever this happens in this story, all right, So sell ted Lasso, sell Mary Beth burrown by Pete Corielly.
Tomorrow on this program, the Deep Dives are back after a one week break. I got notes people like the Deep Dives, and I’m like, okay, I’ll work a little harder. They do take a minute to put together. That’s fine. And since tomorrow is Jay Leno Day in Burbank, we will take a look at Jay Leno, but not the Tonight show stuff.
So noe, we’re not gonna do Dave and Jay, and we’re not gonna do Conan and Jay. I’m gonna do that in the fall. I have a plan. In the fall. I want to do a whole series on late night talk shows, and the hosts, or at least the ones that I care about, I’m not gonna do them all.
And I’m gonna get in trouble because there’s a few that, like everybody else cares about and I have nothing to say about. So I’m gonna leave them out. We’ll get there. We’ll get there, and I don’t mean Seth Myers. We’ll get there.
But tomorrow’s Jay Leno Day, both in Burbank and on the podcast.
Speaking of Jay Leno, he recently got behind the wheel of an exceptionally pr…
The car has fewer than five hundred miles on it. Wow. Gabe bought the Mustang because it represents the late eighties and early nineties cars he admired growing up. Plus he’s got a lot of money. When the car appeared on Jay Leno’s garage, it had four hundred and sixty eight miles on it.
That’s amazing. Gabe has no intention of keeping the Odomeino there. He replaced the original tires, yeah, thirty year old tires probably, and then Jay and Gabe took it out onto Southern California Roads to find out if it still drives like it did in nineteen ninety three. We were told that under the hoods, it’s Ford’s five point zero leter High Output V eight, also known as the three zero two cubic and small block. It was rated at two hundred and twenty five horsepower when it was new, and it sends powder to the real wheels through a five speed manual transmission.
Do you guys do that Jay has upgraded the sound system in the trunk. We were told the sound system occupies much of the luggage space and has a playful touch without altering the car’s basic mechanical character. Jay Leno was impressed and I thought this was interesting. In The Guardian, they have a comedy critic, Brian Logan, and he did a little Q and A with the audience, and the audience asked to comedy critic Brian Logan, after years of reviewing comedy, do you still get belly laughs. I’ve talked about this in the past.
I call it Emperor of Rome syndrome. I can logically understand something is very funny, and I will say to you that’s hilarious, but I don’t laugh. I get this. Let’s see what Brian Logan says. There’s no point pretending that after years of comedy watching, some of the base level mechanics of comedy have lost their power to surprise.
But the best comedians don’t resort to the base levels, or if they do, they so deply reinvent or conceal or re engineer them that there’s a surprise and delight to seeing that process and action. The comedy I get most excited by is the stuff that makes me laugh or gasp but not know why. I love the sensation of puzzling out why I’ve just found something so startling or funny or unexpected. I love to get to write about it. So yes, I still get non infrequent wows and a huge sense of pleasure and privilege to be seeing and writing about comedy.
I feel you. He was also asked, do you agree that in Edinburgh and elsewhere the almost come lee reliance on a single format, the hour long show that’s supposedly about something but is usually just a string of loosely related bits, perhaps with some matter, crowd work and a bit of padding for regionals, has made stand up a bit boring. The Guardian’s comedy critic Brian Logan answered, I think it could equally be argued that the fringe in this country has made comedy more interesting, liberating it from the simple structures of club comedy, encouraging it to take more creative and theatrical risks. But yes, I acknowledge the straight jacket of the fifty five minute running time in certain discernible formulae in the creation of shows to fit it can make things sometimes feel samy, but a good creative comedian won’t make a show that’s as transparent or cynical as you describe, and the best shows will really be about something rather than just pretending to be. And that is your comedy news for today.
I will see you for Jay Leno Day tomorrow