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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jennie Mack with your Daily Company. K new some good ones from Late Night. Stephen Colbert said, China has a good reason to want to talk to America, and it’s cash. For the past few years, China’s economy has been struggling with an eMac consumer spending and high youth unemployment.
It’s gotten so bad that second graders can’t get a job at the iPhone factory. Love it new topic. Seth Meyer’s former House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, denied claims that he elbowed Republican Congressman Tim Burchett in the back and added, if I hit somebody, they would know I hit him. Seth said, I assume because his fist would bruise. Colbert said, if I hit him, hit me on the ground, then I’d kick him and I’d take his bike and his Pokemon cards, and his girlfriend would be my girlfriend, and then people would like me, by the way.
Leslie Jones hosting The Daily Show this week, have you heard anything about it? And me neither. Jason Alexander discussed the Seinfeld reunion. Jason was I had a celebrity poker tournament and got asked about this, and he said, no one called me. There’s only one reason for that rumor.
Apparently, at the end of some stand up thing, Jerry went, Larry and I are thinking of doing something good for you. I don’t know anything about it. No one called me. He said that in a joking and warm spirited tune. I’m glad they added that, Otherwise I would have thought there was some beevige going on.
He continued to joke. Apparently they don’t need George and they might not need a Lane because Julie and I went, do you know anything about this? I don’t know anything about this? And I just talked to Michael Richards the other day and I don’t think he knew anything about it. We’ll see.
It’s probably not a good idea. Let things be. The Academy Awards have decided they will stick with Jimmy Kimmel as host. Good choice. You know you need a steady hand at the ship, and he gets it done.
The Oscars are March tenth. It’s the ninety sixth ceremony. We’ll see. If anybody punches anybody, just ask Chris Rock to host it. Wouldn’t that be amazing lot, a lot a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of press about Matt Rife.
This week, I watched Matt Rife Special. As I’ve said all week, I likefe I like where he’s coming from. You hear the butt? The butt’s coming? Do you want the butt?
Now? I’m gonna make you wait for the butt. There’s a butt coming. Vogue and talk to Matt Rife about Matt Riffe’s hotness, and they wrote, let’s play a game. Does the name Matt Rife ring a bell?
If not, you’re probably not gen Z time out. I teach a college class on Monday night. I referenced Matt Rife, and the young ladies in the room their faces lit up like, ooh, we know Matt Rife. And the dudes were like, who’s Matt Rife? And I told the class I was gonna share this anecdote.
The writer for Vogue said. When I asked some young colleagues if they’ve heard of the twenty eight year old comic, they erupted into swooney gaps. Yes, they chanted it it once. He’s so hot, So Vogue said to Matt Rife, how are you feeling Rife said, to be completely candid, it’s wildly overwhelming. You know, for ten years, I woke up every day with absolutely nothing to do nothing, until finally I kicked my butt into being like, Okay, you gotta create your own work if you’re gonna sustain yourself.
So all this is happening now. It’s a lot, but oftentimes I find myself not getting to enjoy the moment as much as I should. Like last night I was on Fallon. I was so tired when it was done. I was like, ah, I gotta go to bed, rather than like I’m calling my mom and all my friends.
If I could sleep like a normal human being, I think this would be a lot easier. Fallon tapes at five thirty in the afternoon, Matt, five thirty, it’s over by six thirty. You’re twenty eight, Matt ryif you’ve gone viral for your crowd work, but there’s none of that in your new special tell us about the thought process, Matt said, I’m just excited to reach a broader audience with this. At this point on YouTube and social media, I feel like I’m creating things for the people that already follow me, which is wildly important. But also social media success is not respected because everybody’s on social media.
People who get sucessful on social media is just lucky, like you happen to get chosen out of all of us. When something lands on Netflix, it’s a bit of a more verified platform, So I’m hoping they’ll watch it and be like, Okay, he does more than crowd work, and maybe I want to go see a live show now, because if you come to my show, I do an hour of material and then maybe like five to ten minutes of crowd work. Maybe did I mention that I watched Matt rivee special and you’re waiting for a butt to make you wait for the butt? Matt, will you continue to do crowd work while you’re on tour? That said?
Probably because it’s fun for me. I won’t do it when people expect it, though, I messaged people who were like, I bought tickets to Matt Write’s show. If he doesn’t do CrowdWork or roast me, I want my money back. Really, I’ll respond, then, do not come. Do not expect that.
I like that answer. I don’t even know who you’re seated. What if you’re in the balcony? I probably can’t talk to you up there. Not true.
I’ve seen Jimmy Carr do amazing crowd work with people in the upper deck study some Jimmy Carr tapes young men, and if I do it, it means you yelled out and interrupted the show, which is widely inappropriate. Matt. Why do you feel like your fans go so crazy? Matt said, I think it’s because so much of my audience is new to comedy. I’m their introduction to a comedy show, so they don’t know how to appropriately react.
They look at it more like a concert than they do like a play. All right, I’ll jump in on the butt here. Remember I told you I saw Matt Ripe Special, but it felt more like a concert. Here’s my takeaway. It’s not funny like the guy.
I want to write the guy. I’m rooting for the guy. This isn’t me on old Man Mountain hating on him. I want to root for him. I was psyched to watch it, and here I took a note.
Four minutes and thirty seconds into the special, I hit stop. I’m in a room by myself, and I caught myself saying out loud, this is true. I went that was bad. He just comes out and it’s like, Hey, it’s the crowd. Oh what’s up, bros.
We’re taping a Netflix special. Can you believe it? No jokes? Where are the jokes? Let’s go boom boom, where’s the funny?
Not feeling it? R I’ve talked about that concert analogy said, like you want the musician. I know you love what they’re doing. You love this song, and you love that hit that note right now, and they’re playing the hits, play the one I want to hear. In my case, crowd work.
I think that’s usually the instinct they have going near these shows, not realizing that’s not what it’s supposed to be. So it’s a bit of a responsibility bringing a new audience into comedy. But I’m also incredibly lucky that you have to tap into a whole fan base that a lot of comics can’t reach.
Also in matt Riife News Coming Soon debuted an exclusive trailer forort Don’t…
Don’t Suck will be out February first. In Don’t Suck, Pete, played by Jamie Kennedy, believes that he’s seen it all in his ears as a road comic until he meets his new killer opening act, a struggling comic who’s a vampire played by Matt Rife. During their time on the road, Pete fulfills his dream of becoming a comics comic. But what about the vampire? We’ll find out.
I also watched Trevor Wallace’s new special called tarot Actyl, but I was in a good mood, too crack to ask Trevor why he called it tarot Actyl, and he said, I wanted a name that was easy to stick in somebody’s head. It did absolutely work because I had prepped this article yesterday, which is what reminded me to watch Trevor wallace as special.
And then I was like, HATTI spelled tarod Actyle.
I knew there was a pen and tea h at the top, and I couldn’t figure out the rest of it, but I found it. I wanted a one word name because I was thinking about how my friends have told me about specials. Have you seen so and So’s blank? I noticed the recurring theme like first or last name of the person, like Tom sigoris sledgehammer? Did people actually talk like that?
Are you guys going, hey, did you watch Tom Sigori’s sledgehammer? Or are you saying something along the lines of, Hey, did you watch is new special? The latter? Right? What are we talking about here?
Here? Let me ask you some questions. What was Chris rock special? The live one? What was called?
What was John Mulaney’s special called you might get that one? What’s Jim Gaffigan’s newest special called? Mark Marin’s? What was his called? How about Andrew Santino?
Remember that one was called? What was Bird Crazier’s called From the Middle of Summer? What was Tom sagore is called? I just told you it? Do you remember from thirty seconds ago?
You see where I’m going here? John? Stop beating the dead horse? We get it? Okay, I will move on.
Trevor Wallace said, it’s just a powerful, strong word. I didn’t even decide on the name of the special until after I filmed it. It was up against a few other ideas I had, like birds in the bees or carrot cake or spear fingers, all from different jokes I really liked. But Sara Actle just stuck. People won’t know how to spell it, but they’ll remember it.
I gotta agree with you there, I just told you that yep as look as they have their voice to text on their remote control. Will be good. Johnny left us hanging on the butt. Oh yes, I watched Trevor Wallace’s Special, but I lasted six and a half minutes and I wrote down it’s just a guy yelling there’s this comedy that I’m just not into and this was it. John That first half was so negative.
Do you actually like anything? I’ve been meaning him to tell you, guys. I finally got around to watching Bird Chreischer is the Machine. I loved it. That is absolutely making the end of the year top funniest things right now.
I have it between the number eight stand Up Special wisch Is Jim Jeffries and number nine Peene Holmes. I’ve put the Machine as funnier than Peene Holmes, and I like Peen Homes Special a lot, but not as good as Jim Jeffries. But the machine solid, absolutely solid. Watch. On Thursday mid morning, I was looking at the podcast charts and it caught my eye.
Trevor Noah is sitting at number three. This is the Apple podcast charts. THEO Vaughn as the number thirteen podcast in the country. Danielle Tash’s New One at thirty five, Dan soder is one that came out of Nowhere’s at forty, Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee’s Bad Friends at fifty two. No rogan on the Apple charts because it’s a Spotify exclusive, so it doesn’t chart on the normal podcast charts.
If it did, it would most likely be number one overall, if not number two. On the comedy genre page SmartLess, Theovanna Daniel Tosh are one two and three. Soda is number six. I caught my eye that Trevor Noah does not appear on the comedy charts, so I dug and I see that they have labeled that as a society and culture podcast. So when you create a podcast, you do submit to a category.
You can do whatever you want. I could say this podcast is a science podcast, and no one’s gonna actually fact check that. Society and culture tends to be the category you pick when you’re like, I don’t know this podcast is about bottled water. Where does that go? I don’t know society and culture?
So they put Trevor there. I guess he didn’t want it. In comedy, then there are subgenres in comedy. There are three of them interviews, improv, and stand up, and for this particular podcast, it doesn’t really fit in any of them. It’s not an interview show, and I don’t do any improv, So I picked stand up because at least I’m talking about stand ups.
This particular podcast on This Morning is number sixteen in the stand up subgenre. The number one stand up podcast is Bad Friends with Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino. Dana White, the guy that runs UFC. He was on Theovan’s podcast, and he’s kind of mad at Peloton. Somewhat quoting Dana White here, I’m gonna have to quite clean it up, Dana said.
I posted a video for Trump on my personal social media and one of our big sponsors called said take that down. You know what I said, Go f yourself. You vote for whoever you want to vote for, and I’ll vote whoever I want to vote for. That’s how this works. I don’t even carry your voting for it’s none of my business.
But f you don’t ever call me and tell me who to vote for. Theovonn revealed he had the same thing happened to him, with former sponsor Peloton telling him to take down an episode featuring presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Dana wasn’t abby with that. He said, what do they sell efing stationary bikes?
Peloton sells stationary bikes and they got a problem with Robert fing Kennedy. F you Peloton? Who the f are they are? You? E fing kidding me?
Effing Peloton calling bitching about Robert Kennedy. I actually do have that podcast downloaded. I didn’t get to it yet, so I’m looking forward to that section. Rummy Usef has announced that all proceeds from his upcoming shows will go directly to organization helping innocent people affected by the Israel Hamas war. On Instagram, Rami Yusef said one hundred percent of the proceeds for the remainder of the Rami Yusef More Feeling stampupatorial be donated to anera providing humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza.
Usef listed twelve upcoming shows happening between the thirtieth and February second. According to its website, and nara’s mission is to provide humanitarian assistance and sustainable development to advance the well being of refugees. Another vulnerable communities in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan. Back on October thirteenth, Rami Usef posted, this past week has broken the heart of all in my life. We fully condemned the death of civilians.
We always have, and now we are witnessing the latest inhumane chapter of a story that desperately needs to end. It serves no one. The people of Gaza do not deserve to pay the price for our failings. If Gaza is erased, history will see we stood by that we failed to find our humanity. Awkward segue time, Lisa Kudrou must have noticed that everybody else from Friends had posted about Matthew Perry, so either Lisa or her publicist went, we want to do something here.
In her post, Lisa wrote, shot the pilot Friends like us got picked up. Then immediately we were at the NBC upfronts. Then you suggested we play poker and made it so much fun while we initially bonded. Thank you for that. Colin Jost wanted Sikes and some snl Alum are the voice stars of a new scripted comedy podcast series.
Audible is going to try this again. They keep trying these and I’m not sure any of them have caught on yet. In this one, Colin Jost stars as Trent Brockets, a sad sack corporate drone vying for a big promotion, But when he discovers that his boss only wants to promote family men, Trent invents a fake wife to try to land the job. Only one problem. The corporate retreat and aspens a few days away, and Trent is very, very single.
He signs up for a sugar Daddy dating app and meets Carla, a smart, beautiful woman. She’s played by one to Sikes. When they meet in real life, Trent discovers that Carla is a brash, bold, much older woman who is trying to catfish him. As the lie spirals out of control, these two strangers must pretend to be married, raise their fake family, and stay one step ahead of the cutthroat corporate competition. Audible’s got a lot of budget men.
This thing also stars Chris Parnell, Neil Patrick Harris, Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner, Jay Farrell, Michael Uri, and Rachel Dratch. Broadway Video is part of this, and if I remember correctly, Broadway video is tied to Saturday Night Live. All right, we’ll see when that one comes out. Kevin James has a new special, Are You Psyched? In the special, he delivers his unfiltered take on parenting, marriage, and getting older.
Topics include motivating children to put down their video games and why he doesn’t trust technology. No official dates yet, and that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify, YouTube, overcast, pocket casts. Wherever you get your shows, you’ll find this one here. Meet you back here tomorrow