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Caloroga Shark Media. Today’s gonna be engsty. I’m gonna try and keep it fun, but I’m not sure I’m gonna succeed. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve played with the show order several times today and I’m like, all right, let me start with the fun stuff up first before we really get to it.
But even this first story annoys me. From Netflix, the headline Pete Davidson to host new weekly video podcast from his garage. No, I’ll push back on that headline in a minute, but first, let me tell you the story from the Netflix site. When Saturday Night Live Along, Pete Davidson heads into his garage, turns on some cameras and starts talking to his friends. You might think he’s fixing his car or trying to find a hammer.
Not in Davidson’s case, He’s filming a podcast for Netflix, which feature candid no holds bars conversations. I’m trying not to jump in here, or I keep going on the Pete Davidson Show. A new video podcast Yeah, will be exclusive on Netflix starting Friday, January thirtieth at twelve oh one am Pacific Standard times. Let me translate that, so that means it comes out Friday at three am on the East Coast c watch it on Friday’s episodes drop every week. Pete will shoot the podcast primarily from his garage, where all the best conversations happen, but he will occasionally take the show on the road.
Pete said, Netflix was the home of one of my first stan Up specials, so it felt right to bring the podcast there too. It’s me and my friends talking about anything and everything. It’s going to be a great time. It’s good that you feel that way about Netflix. Remember you had a show on Peacock and you walked away from it.
People lost their jobs, Pete, remember that one. Remember Lauren Michaels, he was good to you. But hey, Netflix, they’re making quote unquote podcast now. Now, as a podcaster, this has me up in arms. Listen to me write this down.
In no way whatsoever is this thing a podcast. This is a TV show. It may be a very inexpensively produced TV show, it may be a casual TV show, but this is in no way a podcast. Because I will refer to you to Netflix’s own language, exclusively available on Netflix. That’s not a podcast.
That’s a Netflix show. Is Stranger Things a podcast that’s available exclusively on Netflix? Why isn’t Stranger Things a podcast? Clearly Stranger Things as a podcast, is it not? So this just as a podcaster annoys me?
That aside? Should we just start taking bets on when Pete Davison walks away from this, because he does have a history of walking away from projects, and I wish him well and it alway struggles with mental health. But I’m just looking at this and I got my podcast nose at a whack on this story. But how long is Pete Ashley going to do this? We’ll find out.
We’ll be tracking this tolligence. Today’s going to be angsty. That’s not even the angsty part, that’s the fun part. Taylor Tomison has inked a deal for another Netflix special, this one called Prodigal Daughter. It will premiere February twenty fourth.
It is Taylor Thomason’s fourth for Netflix. Prodigal Daughter was taped at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Bobby Lee, now we’re gonna find out if his career has peaked because he is due doing a stand up special on Hulu. And you know, Johnny Max’s theory on hularious specials. When you get a special on Hulu, you might be a little past your peak.
Now here’s a name to keep your eye on, Nikki Glaser. We’re at peak Nikki Glaser. Now. Everyone including me is favorable towards Nikki Glaser right now. But her next special will be on Hulu.
We’ll see how the hilarious chinks goes for Nikki Glaser. I Digress. Bobby Lee is getting a special on Hulu. No description, no release date, but it did make the trades. Bobby Lee’s filming the special at the Balboa Theater in San Diego this weekend and now tomorrow on Hulu.
Bob the Drag Queen has a comedy special. It’s called This Is Wild. Brian volkwis he’s a good guy, worked with him in the past. He’s one of the producers over at Comedy Dynamics. He said.
Bob’s new special is absolutely hilarious front to back. Bob is one of those performers that seems to have been born for the stage and that shines through in her new special. Brian really knows comedy, so I respect that opinion a lot. Oh, while I’m throwing. Today, Amazon Prime Video has picked up the animated comedy series Odd Jobs.
In Odd Jobs the years twenty twenty seven, the world was in an extreme late stage capitalist hellscape. The show follows a reluctant team of gig workers as they travel around the neo Midwest doing the weirdest, most dangerous things the Odd Jobs app demands. Here’s my problem with this one. One of the co creators is Mike McMahon, who’s that he’s one of the people involved with Kurtzman’s Star Trek. Now he made the Lower Deck series, which a lot of people like, and I just can’t stand because it doesn’t belong in Star Trek.
I like Rick and Morty. I like Star Trek. I don’t need the two to cross. So he’s on my list of comedy people destroying Star Trek. So Mike McMahon, Paton Oswald, who play Dug the Vulcan, don’t get me started, take Nataro part of that horrible Star Trek discovery, and Gina is Sheer is part of this new terrible Starfleet Academy show.
Don’t even Starve Me. I mentioned Trevor Noah is hosting the Grammys, and I was like, did I ever do the story of the Grammy nominations? And I looked and I’m like, oh, it came out the day I flew to go visit my daughter and got into the airport at two am. I think I may have missed this one, and that is why it was a Friday, and I had pre taped the weekend, and like I said, I got it very late. So it was probably that or a couple of weeks away from the Grammys.
But the nominations for Best Comedy Album, and by Best Comedy Album, the Grammys people mean best TV special. Wanet impress me put out a CD. I’ve gotten on that soapbox for years and years and years now. Anyway, the Grammys define comedy album as things containing greater than seventy five percent playing time of new recordings, so the word there was recording as opposed to me, who would like, you know, an album album like Born in the USA. That’s an album that’s not a Netflix special, although Netflix would probably say Born in the USA as a podcast.
I digress. Your nominees are drop Dead Years by Bill Burr, now post Mortem by Sarah Silverman, That should win. Single Lady by Ali Wong my former co worker Jamie Fox is what had happened was and Nate Brighetzi’s your friend, Nate Burghetzie. I would pick Sarah out of that group? And who the academy will pick?
I have no idea. All right, onto the feisty stuff. See that was the happy part of today’s podcast. Really, John, Yeah, really, onto the feisty stuff. Jay Leno, that guy’s the worst.
He says. Modern comedy is overshadowed by the outrageous society we live in. As if Jay Leno knows anything about performing stand up comedy, has he ever been on a stage. Jay was on Maria Shriver’s podcast and said, you know, people always say, oh, I bet you missed it with Trump being president. No, not really.
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. You know, you kind of do it. Psychologists used to say the punchline of the joke would be like, that’s like the president with a stripper. Okay, now the president’s with strippers. Shriver asked if Jay Leno envied today’s late night scene or if he was glad he wasn’t part of it.
Jay said, I mean, you can’t. We live in a society where there’s nothing you could say that’s so outrageous because comedy comes from a place of conservatism. You start with a sort of moral high ground. Jay told an anecdote about performing at a prison. I had an act about meeting women.
You know, I said, you know, when you see a girl you’re not quite sure how to approach her. This guy yees out, Just put her in the face and effort and they all cheer, and I go, okay, I’m playing a prison. The idea of approaching and being it just made me laugh because the culture wars of the prisoner are not really the same ones I’m dealing with here. Shreiver said. It was like what used to be off limits it is now real, and what it was shocking is now every day.
Lenel said, That’s why it’s fun to go the other way. I’d just like to work clean because it requires a bit more thought and it makes it trickier. We have it in a society now where people just whatever they’re into. There’s an audience for that, and you just play to that audience. Jay says his ticket sales have gone up since taking politics out of his act.
I’m on the road a lot. It just took politics out of it completely. I know ticket sales are up twenty thirty per cent just because nobody wants to be lectured, So like, I get it, and I disagree.
And now we’re up to the angsty part of the show.
And I know, I know this next section might cost me some listeners, but like, I’ll try and do this through the lens of comedy. But I got to tell you what’s bugging me. And I’m of the belief if you have a show, whether it’s a dopey podcast in your basement or it’s an eleven thirty show on a network, you got to use your platform sometimes when you have it. One person using his platform is Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan has compared some of the recent stories involving Ice to the Gestapo, and that got me thinking the president losing Joe Rogan is like the ridiculous twenty twenty six version of LBJ losing Kronkite, Like comparing Joe Rogan to Cronkite is like comparing any other president to this one if you’re not familiar.
In nineteen sixty eight, Walter Cronkite on The News said, it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. This is nineteen sixty eight. To say we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of evidence the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we’re on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in a stalemate seems the only realistic and yet unsatisfactory conclusion.
It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out, then will be to negotiate not as but an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. So that’s when LBJ lost Cronkite, And in twenty twenty six, I think the President of the United States has lost Joe Rogan. Now I’m sensitive to this story. I’ll tell you something from my little corner of the world. This from Eyewitness New seven.
They’re discussing a raid that happened over the weekend at a laundromat at Speedwell Avenue in Henry Street in Morristown, New Jersey. Now, I’ll tell you if I went out to my driveway and I threw a frisbee really hard and the wind caught it. It might land in the laundromat over by Morristown and Morristown High School. Ice rated a laundromat. One of the people rounded up was a seventeen year old who apparently has a four point two GPA at the high school.
The seventeen year olds being held at a federal detention facility. His brother said that the boy is very scared. He’s in pain for the injuries he has, and he’s worried about his family. Worried about his brother here and his mother back in Honduras. Two women say they spoke to a relative of one person who has taken.
I’m not sure if this is the boy or someone else. One of the women said he came in to do his laundry and his cousin told me he was taken. He was just cleaning his clothes and he was taken. A lot of people were taken. The eyewitnesses say that included the father of a six year old girl, and the child was left alone on the street until other adults stepped in.
Here’s Joe Rogan. I could also see the point of view of people who say, yeah, but you don’t want militarized people in the streets just roaming around snatching people up, many of which turn out to actually be US citizens. They just don’t have their papers on them. Are we really going to be to the Gestapo? Where’s your papers?
Is that what we’ve come to? So it’s more complicated than I think people want to admit. You know, people want to look at this as a black and white issue, you know, if you’re a compassionate person or if you’re a pragmatic person. And I don’t think that’s true. I think it’s both.
I’m with Joe, complicated issue, but really we’re just going to start knocking down doors and shooting people in the street. Now, sticking with Ice for a second from boy boying comedian Ben Palm. Motto is you can be anything, and over the years, Ben has pretended to be anything from GBT to cracker barrel to poke fun at right wing outrage. His latest thing is pretending to be an Ice agent. Here’s a quick clip.
I made a website for reporting illegal immigrants, and people end up on the site thinking that it’s real. And I talked to one lady who wanted to report every Uber driver that picked her up claiming that they’re all using fake driver’s licenses to work for Uber. And I listened to nothing and I thought about playing it, but with the people calling in, it just felt a little too awkward for me, and I didn’t want to go there. But you know, I like the premise of what he’s doing there. And while we’re being political, Noah Wiley was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Noah Wyley plays a doctor on the Pit. You may also know Noah Wiley from playing a doctor on Er many years ago. Anyway, I thought this was really on point. It’s a little long here, but here’s Noah Wiley into the break. The measles vaccine will turn your son into a furry, a pan sexual furry.
Hi. I’m Noah Wiley. I played doctor Michael Robbie Rabinovich on The Pit. I also played doctor. John Carter on The R.
But I am not a real doctor, just like most of you are not real doctors. I was cast because I have a trustworthy face and can convincingly deliver complicated medical lines like I’m sorry, mister whormath, I’m afraid that you have advanced phenol penaltyam Angler and round jam no I have no idea what I just said, but that doesn’t matter, because when it comes to medicine, I do my own research and I go with my gut. For instance, I know that raw milk is good for you, but raw chicken even better, especially when it comes in a smoothieck. I know that five G towers give you COVID and that vitamin C isn’t real. It was created by Tropicana to sell the use.
The flu vaccine will take four inches off your penis or vagina, and if you take probiotics and antibiotics at the same time, you will achieve the perfect level of biotics. Yes, hello, this is he Yes, I would be honored to head up the Center for Disease Control. No, thank you, mister President. Well, it looks like I’m ata expot After all, I’m Noah Wiley. Don’t do anything until I say it’s okay.
This has been a message from the CDC. You guys still with me? How many people did I lose? There?
All right, let’s take a look at Comedy Survivor.
Are you playing Comedy Survivor? You go to the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. There’s a little uh drawing there of me extinguishing the torch of Amy Schumer. And you get to vote, and I’m just scrolling down here, I see Leslie Jones vote is crept in, Seth Meyers vote, A little bit of sailor action going on. I think Adam Sandler could go this week.
Now, Today is the final day of voting for week two, So head on over there to the Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. Make your vote clear. Write down a name. Don’t make me think about it. If you want to vote off Joe Schmoe, write Joe Schmoe.
Now, Joe Schmoe is not one of the survivors. The remaining survivors are Sandler, Leno, Joe Koy, Gaffigan, Glazer, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, Mulaney, Otsgo, Sebastian Tig, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, Bert Kreischer. Write down one of those names, and then what’s going to happen is at the end of the day today, the voting ends, and then tomorrow I’ll count the votes and I’ll produce up an episode, and then Monday at noon Eastern, I’ll drop a bonus episode telling you who’s out, and We’ll head on a week three comedy survivor in the Daily comed News podcast group. Kim Wayans has launched a new YouTube comedy series called Still Got It with Izzy Fabulous. It features Kim Wayns Aszy, a confident life coach navigating love, aging, and identity with humor.
The series is described as character driven. The first episode is titled Girl Listen to Assista and features her famous brother Sean Wayans as the director and producer. And I’ll leave you with some advice from Bert Krascher. His advice bust your ass and business so you can take your kids on vacation. Bert said, it’s not about the big house.
It’s about the experiences with your family and being able to do cool stuff with your kids, do cool stuff with your wife, being able to afford to send them to college. He said his favorite house he ever owned wasn’t the biggest. It was an eleven hundred square foot house that smelled like family and sounded like family. But even after making thirty three million dollars in a single year, Bert discovered, I guess my bills are paid. I don’t think i’d noticed between one hundred million and ten million somewhere there is good advice, but you know your head explodes that.
They’re like, uh, we only made thirty three million, okay, but he’s on point. Do cool stuff with your wife, do cool stuff with your family. Time goes by fast, and that is your comedy news for today. Weird one Today, See you tomorrow.