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Caloroga Shark Media. Yo, what’s up Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Catherine Hahn guest hosted for Jimmy Kimmel, and she said, I’ve had an amazing time. I totally get why Jimmy does this three months out of the year. Jimmy’s got a sweet deal.
Even Johnny Carson didn’t get the entire summer off. Oh, let’s start with the pink News. You’re home for pink news. I guess they’re a headline. Netflix faces backlash after trailer for Joe Rogan’s comedy special drops.
Okay, pink News, I’ll bite the pink News rights releasing a far from informative thirty second trailer. That’s fair. I mentioned that yesterday there’s no jokes in the trailer. I chose not to play the audio for the trailer because it doesn’t add anything. The streaming service announced that the comedian’s first stand up special on the platform in six years will be called Burn the Boats.
Okay, what is the backlash? Well, they found some people on Twitter. You can fine people on Twitter who don’t like anything. One social media user wrote, I’m not at all surprised by Netflix continuing to give the absolutely worst people a platform. Well, I could give you a list of names of people who have specials on Netflix, and it’s a pretty diverse group of comedians.
Some you might like, some you might not like. Another person called Joe Rogan’s comedy Special, which comes out in August, disgusting. Again, there’s no clips in the trailer. How do you know it’s not the most progressive comedy special you’ve ever heard? Can we at least see it first?
Another commented f Yeah, I can’t wait to hear what poor or undeserved communities are annoying him. That’s the backlash against Joe Rogan. Stay tuned. Hey, I like backlash. It’s good for content.
Today, I don’t need content. There is plenty Sam Morrel’s News special, and boy, I hope you like Samurel News because I seriously, I was doing the show PRIP today and chopped up Sam stories. I have a Sam story almost every day into late next week, and that doesn’t even include these Sam stories I slept for when I have a travel day coming up in the future. There’s a lot of Sam. He spoke to Deadline.
I’ll tell you what I think of Sam Special in a second. Sam how you feeling about your New Hour? Sam said, I feel pretty good. You never know until it’s out how people feel about it. But I feel better about this special on my last one by a pretty good amount.
Why is that, Sam, I had way more time to tour with this one. Last time. I rushed it a little bit.
Also, it was just a weird time.
I went from putting out an airtight special. I got this on YouTube and then covid hit and I was rusty and I didn’t want to lose my mind. So I ended up doing a special on rooftops and I was still pretty rusty. I toured a bit after that, but it took a while to get the mojo back, and then I put one out on Netflix. I could tour with a New Hour in the fall, and that’s what became this.
That was twenty twenty two. So I put out three specials in three years, which I think is a little too much. Sam. Is there an underlying theme to this new one, which is called You’ve Changed? Sam said?
I unfortunately never have a theme really, or at least I don’t start with a theme. Sometimes one emerges. I always admire someone like Colin Quoyn and who’s like this one’s the Constitution, this one’s the history of the world. I think it’s awesome, but it’s not how I write. I’m learning how to write in chunks a little more.
I’ve become a little more obsessive. I think it’s because of my ADD. I think most comics of add it’s like your mind has to wonder a little bit, but then you become weirdly obsessive on certain topics. At least that’s how I am. So I’ll find something and I’m hooked on and that’ll give me a few more minutes of material time out.
Wait do I sometimes get obsessive on things like I don’t know Joe Koy or Bob’s Burgers or menus. And I’m not a comedian. Sam says, I once saw David Tell do a late night sent on conaback in the day, and he did joke up top of killed. He goes, I’ve proven I’m funny, and then he did his stuff. I kind of think every comic is thinking, just prove you’re funny.
I did a few dating jokes, a quick travel story, and then it was off to the races. You kind of do whatever you want once you prove it. But I think any social commentary I want to usually be at least ten minutes in before I want to earn it. All right, So I watched Sam’s special and it is one of the best of the year. I’ll give you my updated list in the other side of my review of Hannah Berner.
But Sam a very strong special. I laughed out loud a few times. I’ve mentioned on this podcast before I’m a psychopath who usually doesn’t laugh at comedy. He’s a great storyteller, and there are some good headfakes which I find that I like in a joke. So you think you’re going down one road and there’s a sharp red turn, That’s where the laughs come from.
I also watched Hannah Berner. PUJB reviewed it. Emma Chance was the writer of the article under the headline we write at Dawn comedian Hannah Burner is the most annoying girl you know. This by Emma Chance. Emma Chance writes, if you’ve never heard of Hannah Burner, you’ve probably never seen Summer House or scroll TikTok until you’re ret in his blood.
So I salute you. If you have heard of Hannah Burner, you’re probably not her biggest fan. She was on Summer House for three seasons, during which she made enemies of almost everyone except Paige and Clara, the former being the co host of her podcast, Gigli Squad. Her trajectory was that a former tennis pro turn podcaster turned stand up comedian, Hanna said, I’ve always really like reality TV, but doing it left a bad taste in my mouth. She stumbled into stand up when she did a live recording of her then podcast Burning in a Hell at a comedy club.
I did ten minutes of stand up. What you’re not supposed to do in front three hundred people, you first time, but ignorance this bliss. At the end of my show, my reality TV friends were like, Ooh, this is what you’re meant to do. Her Netflix special, We Ride at Dawn. You know Netflix, they keep giving specials to horrible people like Joe Rogan and Hannah Berner write Pink News m Yeah, see what I did there?
That’s what I did there? You see you see how this works. Hannah Burner special covers her mental health, her older husband, on realistic sex scenes in movies, and other hot takes about pop culture. She describes her sense of humorous female locker room where the girls are like, thank god she’s saying these things. The men are like, I actually learned some stuff.
Translation, she’s the most annoying girl you went to high school with, the one who said she didn’t identify as a girl’s girl because girls love drama and boys are so much more chill, All right, Johnny Mack, did you like the special? No, here’s my impression of the special. Ladies and gentlemen, Hannah Burner, Hey, everybody, whoooooo, I have a premise to set up here. Whooooo, why did the chicken cross the road to get the other side? Whoo Oh, my goodness, tell a joke, crowd, Let her tell a joke.
I bailed. Now. My daughter, who is in the target audience for Hannam and was looking forward to the special. She came downstairs and told me it started a little slow, but the back half of the special is really good. So daughter liked it a lot, and she’s the target audience.
Not all comedies for everyone. I get it. Old man didn’t like it, young woman liked it. So whatever you think there, not for me, but definitely for her. She liked it a lot, So I guess this is a good time to take a look at the updated rankings.
I’ll just do the top tier here, I won’t do the whole list. So here are the top specials of the year. Roaster Tom Brady Netflix is number one. Dave Tel’s Hot Cross Buns on Netflix. That’s David Tel showing how It’s done.
That’s also on Netflix. Triumph You Lucky Bastards on YouTube that came out in March. That’s three. David Cross’s Worst Daddy in the World. That’s on YouTube.
That was number one for a little bit on my Little list. Dusty slay Back in Netflix in January at five, Kyle Kanan’s Dirt Nap on YouTube in April, a all time chunk about the Fat and the Furious. There if nothing else, watched The Fast and the Furious Chunk, Sam Morrel, You’ve Changed on Amazon at number seven, Dmet You morton Netflix at eight, Jimmy Carr Natural Born Killer, also from Netflix at nine, and that’s the end of tier one. Hannah Berner did not make the list at all, but again not for a fifty four year old dude. Young woman in her twenties living her best life.
She liked it. So figure out which kind of comedy fan you are and adjust your expectations accordingly. Well, I’m already long here. Scott Beckett, front of the show, had sent me this Jerry Seinfeld thing. I had this here, Scott, but I’m gonna bump that to tomorrow.
So this one is in twenty minutes long. A lot of news going on. Ella Degenerous on one of her recent stand up shows that wasn’t canceled. In case you missed this, she recently canceled a couple of dates. Johnny Mack speculating that perhaps possibly it could be a situation where who knows, you never know, Maybe the ticket sales were a little light, and Ellen was like, oh, I have a cold.
You never know. Shows get canceled for all kinds of reasons. But she did perform at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa. One fan asked Ellen would she returned to movies after the tour ended, or perhaps try her hand at Broadway. Ellen said no, quite.
Matter of Factully, this is the last time you’re going to see me after my Netflix special. I’m done, And she apparently doesn’t mean done with comedy, she means done with showbiz. Another fan asked Ellen to once again voice Dory from Finding Nemo, and Ellen said, no, I’m going bye bye. Remember during the Santa Rosa show, Ellen said, let me catch you up on what’s been going on with me since you last saw me. I got chickens.
Oh yeah, I got kicked out of show business for being mean. She admitted she can be demanding and impatient and tough. I’m a strong woman. I am many things, but I am not mean. I used to say I don’t care what people say about me.
Now I realize I said that during the height of my popularity. During a previous stop on the tour in West Hollywood, Ellen said it was so hurtful how her show came to an end. I just thought, well, this is not the way I want to end my career, but this is the way it’s ending. I just hated the way the show ended. I love that show so much, and I just hated the last time people would see me is that way.
So I guess the last time people will see her is this way. Her tour continues through August seventeenth. If you’re in Detroit today, Dave Chappelle is doing a fundraiser for US Senate candidate Hill Harper. Tickets were ranging from two fifty for the balcony to thirty three hundred for those who wanted to attend a VIP reception. All right, don’t forget.
On Monday, that new podcast, The Artist A Killer’s Canvas makes its debut rated R for mature audiences only. I’ve been doing some writing on that one. Got to the deepest, darkest parts of my brain. Even I’m like, what the heck did we just write? And I sent it over to Mark and Mark makes the episodes and he was like, this is really good.
I’m like, are you sure. He’s like, yeah, this is really good. So that’s The Artist A Killer’s Canvas. Where you get your podcast. You might want to open up that podcast app right now and hit follow, and that way, if a bunch of you follow, it climbs the charts and then more people discover it.
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We’re actually going to drop three episodes of the artist for the paid subscribers on Monday, and you’ll get this all free for thirty days, and then on day thirty one you’ll forget to unsubscribe and I’ll make five bucks. Oh, Johnny Mac, You’re too honest. Sometimes. Another way to support the show the two dollar club. Yeah, you go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.
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Kenny. I was thinking of you again recently. I was back at that Starbucks in California. We sometimes email about. I find myself with that one a lot, and I think of you every time I’m there.
I hope you’re doing well. Shrek five is officially a go. It will star Mike Myers, comedian Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz. It’s twenty five years after original Shrek. Don’t get online just yet.
It’s not out until July first, twenty twenty six. The Committee to Protect Journalists have announced that John Oliver will host their twenty twenty four International Press Freedom Awards. These are in New York City November twenty first. That’s on the other side of the election. That could be fun, one way or another.
In a press release, John Oliver said, I’m delighted to join the Committee to Protect Journalists on the Big Snight for Press Freedom to champion journalists during harrowing times for democracy as they are threatened, we’re taken for granted. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter back in April, John Oliver reminded us that his ship was not journalism. He said, we might commit sporadic acts of journalism in the process, but those would be outliers. The vast majority of the time, we’re relying on journalist’s work to aggregate stories. Without them, we just couldn’t do it.
If you’re on eight hundred Pound Guerrilla’s YouTube channel tonight at seven pm Central Time, Jen Fullwire’s Maternal Instinct will premiere this weekend. I have an interview with the guys from eight hundred Pound Gorilla. It’s already on the can. I did not ask them why they were these things at Central time. I wish I had.
Oh well, that’s your comedy news or today see tomorrow