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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny magg with your Daily Comedy News. If you’re a drive by listener who just came for the It’s always sunny stuff I put in the headline. That will be the second half of the podcast. We’ve got feisty news today.
We’ll start with Pete Davidson versus Peta. TMZ reports Pete left Peta a profanity laced voicemail. Apparently, Pete Davidson left a heated message on Monday for Pete’s senior VP of Cruelty Investigations why her Pete had gotten her name because she had issued a statement to TMZ expressing Pete’s collective disappointment in Pete Davidson buying a puppy at New York City pet store instead of adopting from a shelter for the report. On the voicemail, Pete Davidson announces himself and says he’s responding to the statement, which he calls uneducated and premature. He notes that he’s allergic to dogs and that’s why he had to get a Kavapoop, which is a nearly hypo allergenic breed because they don’t shed.
He added that the dog was for his mother, whose previous dog had just died. TMZ says, then an explet of lace dive Tribe, in which he angrily tells the woman to do her research before talking to media, he drops an fbomb and I love this phrasing makes a vulgar suggestion involving his penis. Pete is not backing down, they telled TMZ. If Pete had done his research, he would know that there’s no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog, that at least a quarter of dogs and shelters are purebreads, and that Petfinder has listings for homeless dogs. If every breed under the sun, including the one he purchased, TMZ reached out to Pete.
Pete admits he was unaware he could adopt a specific hypoallergenic dog. He said he was told it wasn’t an option, and if it was, it was rare. Pete said, I haven’t seen my mom and sister cry like that in over twenty years. I was trying to cheer up my family. I was already upset that the store filled me without my permission or acknowledgement.
Then this organization pete and made a public example of us making our grieving situation worse. I’m upset. It was a poor choice of words. I shouldn’t have said what I said, But I’m not sorry for standing up for myself and my family. Pete said.
Our hearts go out to the Davidson family for the loss of their dog. But Pete must know in his heart there’s no excuse for buying a dog and propping up the puppy mill into street when millions of dogs await loving homes and shelter. And we hope he’ll do the right thing and adopt next time. More from Pete Davidson. He was at the premiere of Transformers Rise of the Beast.
He does a voice in the movie. The paparazzi asked him about the ferry. Remember he bought a ferry with Colin Jost. Pete said, I have no idea what’s going on with that thing. Me and Colin were very stoned a year ago and bought a ferry and we’re figuring it out now.
I’ll jump in there. That’s a funny line. It’s a funny story. But let’s think for a second. You don’t just accidentally buy a ferry.
It’s not like there’s a guy on the street corner going, Hey, you want to buy a ferry, and because you’re stoned, you whip out two hundred thousand dollars. That’s not how ferry purchasing works in my experience. Pete. If I’m mistaken and that’s how you bought the ferry, please let me know. So I personally don’t think you bought a ferry because you were stoned, Pete.
Then joke. Hopefully it turns into a transformer and gets the f out of there so I can stop paying for it. This next story from the Hollywood Reporter, I’m gonna go lightly here. I need to educate myself about it, but I think this is going to be well talked about. Headline burn it Down.
A new book explores SNL and its culture of impunity. Author Maureen Ryan writes that Lauren Michael’s long tenure as a power player at SNL’s enduring importance or intertwined with a culture of impunity. There’s then an excerpt addressing the Gene Doe accusations against Horatio Sands, and I skimmed it. I obviously hadn’t read their whole book, but I read the excerpt and seems like a hit piece on Lauren Michael’s and I’m not sure how that’s going to play in the industry. I’ve never met Lauren.
Lauren’s reputation seems to be pretty good, and the amount of stars that I think would side with Lord Michaels if this gets into a big public thing, I think Lauren will have a lot of big, big, big names on his side. But we’ll see. Maureen Ryan writes, during many different NBC regimes, Lauren’s power has been near absolute or depending on whom you talk to, absolute. The excerpt then talks about someone named Grant and says when Grant joined the show in the nineties, he observed that the lighting designer was an eighty some thing World War Two veteran wh would work there till I think it is in the nineties and whose vision was failing, and he was the lighting designer of the show. During Grand’s time at S ANDL, the rules, such as they were, were insane.
People smoked in their offices in the early aughts, despite the existence of a Manhattan indoor smoking band. I’ll jump in there too. I’ve worked at places such as radio studios where you don’t smoke in the studio, and there are some celebrities who are going to smoke in the studio and don’t care, and it’s really annoying. But to say that the only place that ever happened was SNL, it’s not the only place that ever happened. The excerpt says the lighting designer and others had such long tenures at SNL in large part because Michael’s is has Grant put it the prime minister of his own nation.
He has his own laws and his own rules. All the current Comcast executives when they talk about him, it’s like he’s I don’t know, Mandel or something. You know, this figure who looms largely over show business and entertainment at NBC. He’s the last real direct connection between what we have now and what we have then, this magical, mysterious, nostalgic time, the halcyon days of television. Whether or not creating an awful work environment was Lauren Michael’s goal is relevant.
Decades. SNL has been a frequently it’s terrible, punishing experience for a lot of people who work there or ended up in the show’s orbit. The fact is in full view and any number of books, interviews and other coverage of the show. What is wrong is systematically and institutionally wrong, and Michaels runs that institution. He has had the power to change the SNL culture for the better on a number of fronts, But the hours, the pressure, lack of inclusion, the punishing, manipulative atmosphere, not enough changes have been made to prevent the worst successes of all that from negatively affecting many people for many years.
So yeah, I’m not sure what to say about that. Never worked on SNL, never met Lauren Michaels, I worked closely with Jim Brewer. I don’t remember Jim badmouthing Lauren. I’ve run into Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, Jim Belushi a little bit, Matt Ackroyd once even met Ratio. So I’m not sure this is going to play.
Let’s see what happens tomorrow. I will google Lord Michaels and let you know. A me too documentary about Louis C.K. Is not heading forward at showtime. No reason given by the network, although I’ll point out a lot of streaming services have been removing content at some sort of money saving thing.
But the Louis C.K. Doc directed by Carolyn Sue was not told from his perspective, but used the comedian as a focal point to discuss the me too movement and where it’s gone in recent years. It was ordered by Paramount plus his chief content officer, David Nevins, who has since left the company. Back then, I remember this quote, Luis c. K is a slightly different situation of Harvey Weinstein and is a great, great comedian has come back in his own way.
The doc is no longer moving forward at the Network for Variety, and it’s unclear if the project will be picked up elsewhere. If you’re trying to prep your podcast on Tuesday afternoon and you googled the word comedy, oh my goodness, there were ten billion hits about matt Rife. Why Sean matt Rife is kicking off a brand new tour. It’s called the Problem Mattic Tour, with Matt in the middle there in caps. The Problemmatic Tour will take him across the country Australian Europe, starting in July going to October of twenty four.
Matt Rice said, I couldn’t be more thrilled to live out this lifelong dream toward the world spreading laughter with some of my best friends, something I never thought would be possible. The remainder of this podcast will only be about It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I’m going to really really spoil episodes. If you don’t want to hear that, see you tomorrow. If you don’t like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, might as well check out if you want to hear about the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which kicks off today.
Stick around all right? Everybody else Gone? In three two one okay, Looper gave the new season seven out of ten. They wrote pros a rebound from the show’s previous season with multiple belly laughs each episode. Last season was pretty good, more pros hits its satirical targets far more frequently.
Sixteen seasons in, and we’re still finding new ways in which the Gang is awful, and this time we don’t have to rewrite Cannon to get there. Cons It’s not the show at its peak, with some gags falling flat, but it’s a closet show. It’s been a peak form for quite some time. Alright, I’m excited, Looper says. The primary reason why this season’s more successful compared to last season is the topical targets the writing team is chosen to skewer.
When it came to the Waiier themes, last time, Marona felt like episodes were reversed, engineered to tackle specific subject matter head on, forcing the Gang to be at the center of the national conversation. Here, the stakes are much lower in ways that recall the strip down storytelling of the earliest seasons. Okay, here come the big spoilers, big, big, big spoilers coming up. The premiere episode on tonight, The Gang Inflates deals with the recession entirely through the attempts of Mac and Dennis to start a business renting out inflatable furniture. Collider says in the first six episodes, the sixteenth season goes in the wild directions would expect from the group.
The Gang spores everything from inflation and their legacies to trying to get Brian Kranston and Aaron Paul to buy their own alcohol brand. Coming after Charlie search for his father last season, this season also brings family and see the equation much more often. For example, the first episode, The Gang Inflates, We’re spoilers here has Dennis indeed attempting to get back into Frank’s will, while Charlie’s mom, Max’s mom, and Uncle Jack are around for more of the season than expected, which makes for a nice addition. In the second episode titled Frank Shoots Every member of the Gang, Charlie, Mack and their mother is go to meet Axe Uncle and Charlie’s sisters in order to gain pieces of their families legacies. For the Kelly family, that means a giant jar of teeth full from past generations ever since the family arrived on the Nina Pinta and Santa Margarita.
Maybe the biggest surprise in season sixteen, especially with episode names like Frank Versus Russia and Frank Shoots Every Remember the Gang, is that the show doesn’t seem to be attempting any larger commentary. In Frank Shoots Every Remember the Gang, Dennison d attempt to get Frank to give them their gun, and while the Gang Inflates does an admirable job of explaining inflation in a way that Charlie can understand, there’s no larger message. The closest the show comes to commentary this season is in risk E Rat’s Pizza, in which the gang goes to a chucky cheese like restaurant where they realized times have changed and they rail about how things used to be better. D argues that Frank’s experienced with the restaurant with its racist jokes was a different time, while d in the rest of the gang missed the restaurant that used to have a bar, sell lifelike guns and had animatronics that look like birds with realistic human breasts. It’s always sunny in Philadelphia.
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