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Featured: Adam Sandler, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Louis C.K., Margaret Cho, Wahlberg Camal Bell, Steve Hofstetter, Larry the Cable Guy, Stephen Colbert, Rob Shooter, Leslie Jones
What’s in This Episode
- Adam Sandler officiates Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding
- Louis C.K. Netflix special backlash from comedians
- Stephen Colbert retreat from public view after Late Show cancellation
- Leslie Jones HGTV series Roast My Rental announcement
- Podcast recording technical difficulties due to power outage
Questions Answered in This Episode
Did Adam Sandler officiate Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding?
Yes, according to People Magazine, Adam Sandler said yes right away when asked to officiate their wedding. Sandler kept it low-key before the event, shooting hoops in his signature basketball shorts and yellow T-shirt.
Why are comedians criticizing Louis C.K.’s Netflix special?
Comedians like Margaret Cho, Wahlberg Camal Bell, and Steve Hofstetter are upset that Netflix gave Louis C.K. a special without meaningful accountability for his past behavior, and that he’s returning with a ‘woe is me’ attitude rather than genuine understanding and attempts to prevent similar incidents.
Is Stephen Colbert retiring after Late Show cancellation?
According to gossip columnist Rob Shooter’s sources, Stephen Colbert is taking time to recover and figure out what comes next rather than retiring. He is reportedly working on a new Lord of the Rings film and using writing as a way to process his emotions.
What is Leslie Jones’ new HGTV show about?
Leslie Jones is starring in ‘Roast My Rental,’ an upcoming HGTV series premiering July 24th where she roasts vacation rental properties, highlighting the good, bad, and questionable vacation rental experiences.
Why was Johnny Mac recording in the dark?
Johnny Mac’s power had been out for six days due to downed power lines, and he was recording in his basement while a power crew from Alabama worked to reattach the lines to his New Jersey house.
Full Transcript
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Caloroga Shark Media. You’re not supposed to roadblock the top of a show. Well, let me set the scene for you here. Hello, I’m Johnny back with your daily Company news. I’m in the basement.
There’s no power. I’m sitting in the spot where I usually record the show, illuminated by the lights of my flashlight. Now, the power lines have been on the ground for like six days, and about twenty minutes ago a power crew from Alabama came to reattach the power lines to my house. And I’m in New Jersey, so I appreciate these guys coming all the way up. So that’s the sitch here.
But of course the power guys are on the lawn, which is making the dog’s bark, and I’m sitting in the dark. So that’s the scene today. But luckily I had prepped almost all of the show before jomping in here.
Let’s get to at Adam Sandler said yes right away when he was asked would he o…
A source tells People Magazine Sandler was incredibly on it to be part of such a special day. The source ads that Sandler was the perfect person to serve as efficient, noting that Sailor has been happily married for so many years to his wife Jackie. They just celebrated their twenty third anniversary. I mean, yeah, I’ve been happily married for over twenty five years, and I qualified. Who knows.
Sailor wasn’t just trying to find the perfect words or make it this big production. He just wanted to speak from the heart, pass along a little wisdom that he’s gained from his own happy marriage. People tells us Sandlor kept it low key before the big wedding. He was seen stepping out in the New York City heat wave hours before the wedding to shoot some hoops. As one does.
Sandlor headed out in his signature basketball shorts and yellow T shirt. You know, Sandlor and I could be friends. No, I’m not kidding. I went for a run this morning in a yellow T shirt and shorts. Weird, told Sandlor.
Right after the basketball went out to pick up coffee for his family. Back in twenty twenty five, Sandlor told Entertainment Tonight, Travis Kelsey’s like the guys I grew up with when I was with. Travis reminded me of my buddies, an eye, just being able to laugh and say the things you want to say. Taylor is incredible. Taylor so damn nice to my family and has always been.
My kids have met Taylor a bunch of times over the years, and she’s ridiculously nice to them and warm. Now see, here’s our first I could edit this out, but here’s our first victim of the power outage. Here in the two slot, I had some comments from comedian Michael Loftus who was saying that the marriage went on the last three years. But I didn’t actually paste to the script, and now I don’t have power to grab the article. See if I can get it on my phone, Why don’t you edit this out, John, because that’s not fun.
I’m sitting in the dark. This is not a bit. Nope, I don’t have enough Internet to find that story. So now we know what we’ll be in tomorrow’s show.
Moving on, John Focus USA today asked a bunch of comedians about that guy Lou…
You know Louis C.K. He used to be canceled, but now he’s got a big Netflix special. That’s not that good, Margaret Chow posted on threads I’m gonna have to clean this up a little bit. Louis C.K. Should have just had an onlyfan so people could pay to watch him do the kind of thing Louie likes to do in front of people, instead of subjecting female comment to it.
Missed financial opportunity. W Camal Bell on his sub stack took a break from taking shots at Mega Comedian Apraghatzy Bell wrote, so many people at Netflix had a sign off on ck getting invited to the festival and getting a new special. What were they all thinking? So many people have to work the show that he headlines, whether they want it or not. So many comedians will be at events and parties with Louis C.K.
Whether they want to be in the room with a known sex pest or not. So many people who make so much less money than him will have to pretend like they’re okay being in the same room as him. This is how showbiz works. I will agree with mister Bell in this is how showbiz works. If you want to hang around with people who are cool and not at all a holes, don’t get into showbiz.
Comedian Steve Hofstatter said the brief hiatus never amounted to real accountability. Steve said comics take time off all the time to work on a screenplay, to go on vacation. The idea of having to take six months off the road was somehow sentence for his behavior is ridiculous. There’s nothing America loves more than a redemption story. If he had come back with Trician, with understanding and with the desire to help prevent it from happening to other people instead of a woe is me attitude, would have been a very different response.
I’m gonna point out here because I’m friends with both Steve and Larry the Cable Guy. Steve factually put out an album one time called Cure for the Cable Guy. The cover of that album is an effigy of someone being hung that is dressed similar to the way Larry the Cable Guy does it during his act. I know that Larry was quite hurt by this and confused by his because he didn’t know or interact with Steve. And you’ve heard me say a million times on the show Dan Whitney, Larry the Cable Guy is an awesome, awesome guy.
Not sure why Steve chose to call his album that, but that was an awkward time, and if you make me pick, I’m on team Cable guy in that fight, Rob Shooter has a pretty gossipy sub stack. He often quotes sources and doesn’t put names to the sources. So take this with a grain of salt. As they say, but Shooter wrote, sources tell naughty but nice. Stephen Colbert has largely he retreated from public view as the reality of his cancelation sinks in.
I don’t know, but you know, the show’s only been over for a month. It’s summertime. What is the guy supposed to do? Like? Can’t take a break, but Shooter rates friend saint.
Colbert is heartbroken, frustrated, and struggling to imagine life after spending years at the center of late night television. One insider says, this wasn’t one insider see what I’m saying. This wasn’t just a job. It was his identity. Stephen poured everything into that show.
Losing it has hit him hard. Shooters column adds the emotional toll was hard to miss when Colbert attended Taylor Swift’s wedding over the weekend, where guest spot at the usually upbea comedian looking unusually subdued. And miserable. How do we know this? I thought nobody was talking about this wedding?
How do we know this? Even longtime colleagues are surprised by how little they’ve heard from him. Another source, again no name, says he’s always been the one holding everyone else together. Now he’s the one who needs time. He stepped away to figure out what comes next.
Yeah. An insider reveals writing is what’s saving him now. It’s giving him somewhere to channel everything he’s feeling. You may recall Stephen is working on a new Lord of the Rings film for some reason. One source says this isn’t retirement, it’s recovery.
Once he’s ready, he’ll be back. Yeah, no kidding. All right, this next segment, I’m gonna call bad ideas Bad Idea Number one. Leslie Jones is giving property owners a reality check on HGTV’s upcoming series Roast My Rental. That’s right, it’s Roast My Rentals, starring Leslie Jones.
This will be out Friday, July twenty fourth, Because you know, don’t you want to sit home on Friday night and watch Leslie Jones Roast Rentals. There’s a trailer. Let’s listen. Please take me to my vacation villa. Whoa disgusting Millions of people check into vacation rentals each year and when that great, they can make a trip unforgettable.
This is blow What in a fresh black plague? Is this? Oh? No? But sometimes was posted online?
That’s not reality? Do we need to call the authority? Snason would love this because this is definitely a serial Killers. Then I’m Leslie Jones, and as a comedian, I travel a lot and I’ve seen it all the good, the bad, and the what were they thinking? Sometimes a property just loses his way, and that’s where I come in these.
Owners now, fortunately for us, and I’m not doing a bit. That’s when the power went out as I was pulling the clip. I lost the Internet and that was all the clip I was able to pull. But luckily for us. I mean, do you want to watch that?
We are told after Leslie Jones scopes out each property and gives owners an honest roast, She then calls on renovation expert and help I wreck my house star Jasmine Roth to help with the major overhaul roast my rental Friday, July twenty fourth, at ten pm. If you have no life now you have something to watch. Bad idea Number two, Chelsea Handler is expanding her podcast network. It’s the launch of the Dear Chelsea Network because Chelsea Handlers at the peak of her popularity right now after the Kevin Hart roast. This is great timing the multi year partnership with iHeart.
We’ll see the creation of several new shows executive produced by Chelsea Handler. A suit over there says, Chelsea has become an incredibly influential voice in the podcasting space with her unique ability to create community among her listeners. I will be honest with you, I’m finding out as I read that sentence that Chelsea even has a podcast. And I’m in the podcast industry and go to shows and google the word comedy every day and do this show. Not sure how popular it is, but I have no Internet, so I can’t tell you.
The first podcast launching on the Deer Chelsea Network will be You’re the Problem with Yaminika, hosted by Yaminika Saunders and longtime friended producer Syree Rush. That’ll be out July fifteenth, that’s Wednesday. It focuses on pop culture in the moment, current events, news and politics. As a podcasting expert. I could tell you from that description that means the show’s completely on foot focused and it’s we’re going to talk about, you know, stuff that never works.
Chelsea Handler says, when I started Dear Chelsea, I wanted to give people access to me and build a place where people could come for honest advice, real conversation and a lot of laughter. And my dog is parking, so quick pause here into an edit, and I think they’ve reconnected the wires because I just heard the power clickback on. So I’m going to go have to check on these guys. Were we Chelsea Handler was saying, when I started Dear Chelsea, I wanted to give people access to me and build a place where people could come for honest advice, real conversation and a lot of laughter. Building that community into a network feels incredibly meaningful, especially because I get to launch it with someone I know, love and believe in as much as Yamanika.
She’s one of the funniest people I know. I can’t wait for people to make her part of their lives the way I have. Bad Idea Number three. Fred Armison and Kerry Brownstein are headed back to Portland. Why a Podcast it’s Podlandia ao Rewatch, produced by Will Ferrell’s company.
That’s out on the sixteenth, which is Thursday. With new episodes weekly Podlandia ao Rewatch, we’ll see Armison and Brownstein revisiting their cult classic TV series, which documented the hipster fat of birds as the core unique bicycles and a tense mustache care that define the capital of Oregon for an entire generation. Now, the reason I don’t love this idea is port LANDI around for seventy seven episodes across eight seasons on IFC. I know people like it, but like it’s not exactly like the Office. I just think the audience is too small for this to work.
Brownstein said, our hope with the portlandier Rewatch podcast is to continue the conversations we began when the show first aired, conversations around community, how a place shapes and defines us, how much of life is mere performance, and how absurdity is often the best way to make sense of the world. Revisiting these episodes also reminded me of the ways Fred is singularly hilarious, We’d love getting to hang out and Reminisce saying that praises the cast crew, in the city itself and have new means of connecting with our audience. I barely made it through that description, and there’s a whole other paragraph. Fred said, rewatching these Portlandy episodes was so enjoyable. I really laughed, which is a strange thing to say about something.
I’m in. Carrie made me laugh a lot. Blah blah blah. I’m so bored. Bobby Flay says one of the highlights of returning to the American Century Golf Championship every year is to catch up with Colin Jost, especially if they end up paired together on the golf course.
Prior to the event, Flay said, I’m looking forward to seeing Colin Jost at the very least. I know if I play with Colin, it’s gonna be funny on the golf course. Lay says, the competition is anything but casual. People think we’re having fun. We are, but we’re also trying to make par It’s very, very competitive.
It’s the most nerve wracking thing we do all year. You can ask any of these guys out here. We’re grinding for pars. Listen, I’m a chef, I cook for a living. I’m playing against world class athletes all over the place.
So it’s not easy. Hey, good news, we are back. The lights are on here in the office. Now it’s too bright in here. Stop complaining, John, We got to talk about Count Binface.
The Telegraph asks, could Britain by hurtling towards its first prime Binister. There’s a comedian, John Harvey. He goes by Count Binface. So this is a guy with like a garbage can on his head. It looks like a Monty Python sketch.
Longtime prankster and elect role underdog. Count Binface, formerly known as Lord Buckethead, stands for the exasperated voter, says the Telegraph. Variety profiled this guy, They tell us. The wannabe politician who last month stood in a by election against Andy Burnham, widely considered the UK’s Prime Minister in waiting, is set to run against right wing MP Nigel Farage in yet another upcoming by election. Despite Farag’s resignation coming only a few days ago, the ballot has already descended into a circus as the politician vowed to stand for re election, resulting in all the other major political parties pulling their candidates over what they’re calling a political stunt.
Enter Count Binface, the comedian dressed as a trash can variety broke this down, Subpetter who is Count Binface. Count Binface is a fifty nine hundred year old intergalactic space warrior from the planet Sigmund nine, whose motto is make Earth grade again, Love It. He has stood in five elections since twenty nineteen, including the London mayoral election, the twenty twenty four general election, and the previously mentioned one against Andy Burnham. Some of his policies include changing London Bridge’s name to Phoebe Wallerbridge, building at least one affordable house, and selecting himself as the UK Eurovision candidate for twenty twenty seven. Now I mentioned he used to be Lord Bucketed, but you see, Lord Buckethead had first appeared in a nineteen eighty four Star Wars parody called Hyperspace, so people started arguing about the ip.
The conversations were initially friendly imagine arguing over Lord Buckethheed, but the conversations broke down. He was forced to hand over the password to the Lord Buckethead Twitter account, so he evolved into Count Binface. Oh my so silly, and I’m gonna go see what the power guys are up to. That’s your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.