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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I got some nice compliments about that Hepburg episode on Saturday, thank you very much. So that was to accommodate my schedule and had a pre tape a couple here, which means today I want to catch up on a few major items I didn’t get to comment on yet. George Lopez says he’s retiring from stand up comedy after his next comedy special.
Lopez says, I’ve subjected the American people to enough of my crap. This is making me feel ancient. When I started at serious comedy, the very first comedian I met in that role was George Lopez, and I have seen people come and go. I was recently thinking of my friend Lisa Lampinelli, who had a hot career for a while. She’s retired.
Ron White retired, Lewis Black retiring. It’s just crazy, Lopez says, it seems like the right time. It’s been the one thing that has just never like me my whole life, and it’s a wonderful place to leave it at this particular point. Lopez got his start and stand up comedy in the eighties. Appearing on The Arsenio Hall Show and The Johnny Carson Tonight Show.
In nineteen ninety two, he’d tell the La Times that he’d like to start on his own TV show like Seinfelder Rozanne, where he would have full creative control because the parts they write are horrible for Latinos. He did get his own show, The George Lopez Show, which ran for six seasons on ABC. Lopez is only sixty three. He had a kidney transplant at one point, right, so you know, maybe that factor’s in. He says.
This upcoming special on Amazon is the last one. It was filmed in Los Angeles September twenty seventh and twenty eighth as part of his All Right Comedy Tour. He’s not entirely retiring, though, He’s going to continue to work on his NBC series, Lopez Versus Lopez. He says, I wanted to spend more time with my daughter, and I love the show. Lopez Versus Lopez just headed into its third season on NBC.
You’ve probably seen some Jerry Seinfeld headlines. Jerry Seinfeld backtracked on the comments he made earlier this year. Or you may recall, Jerry had blamed the extreme left and PC crap for ruining comedy. Jerry told The New Yorker back in April that he believed TV comedy was suffering because people are worrying so much about offending other people. Is quote, then nothing really affects comedy.
People always need it, they need it so badly, and they don’t get it. Used to be, you’d go home at the end of the day and most people go, Okay, Cheers is on, Okay, mashes on and oh, Mary Tyler More is on. All the family’s on. You just expected to be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well guess what where is it?
This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people. When you write a script and it goes into four or five different hands committee’s groups, here’s our thought about this joke. Well, that’s the end of your comedy. I agree with him about the comedy by committee thing, absolutely, you may recall Julia Louis Driff has pushed back, saying I want to hear people starting to complain about political correctness, and I understand why people might push back on it. To me, that’s red flag because it sometimes means something else.
Well, Jerry has now backpedaled. He was on Tom Poppa’s podcast.
All right, here’s where I’ll jump in.
I think Jerry did Tom a favor. Why do you say that, Johnny Mack. Tom Papa has a special on Netflix next week. Papa used to open for Jerry. They are friends, they are good friends.
And I think this was an interesting place for Jerry Seinfeld to make headlines because now we’re talking about Tom Papa a week before his special. See how all this works, Folks pay attention to timing on things on Tom Papa’s podcast, which, by the way, the special on Netflix next week. We’ll talk about that one tomorrow. Jerry said his original comments were wrong and he regretted saying it. Jerry told Papa, I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy.
I did say that. It’s not true. If you’re champion skier, you could put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain and you’re gonna make the gate. That’s comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate.
You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. The game is, where’s the gate? How do I make the gate and get down the hill the way I want to. Does culture change? Are the things I used to say that I can’t because people are always moving the gate.
Yes, but that’s the biggest easiest target. You can’t say certain words whatever they are about groups, So what the accuracy of your observation has to be one hundred times finer than that to just be a comedian. So I don’t think, as I said, the extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. I’m taking that back now. Officially they have not.
It’s not my business to like or not like where the culture’s at. It’s my business to make the gate to stay with my skiing analogy. Seinfeld denied suggesting he would never perform at colleges because young people were to PC. He told Tom Papa, I play colleges all the time. I have no problem with kids performing for them.
I do colleges all the time. Which is interesting because in twenty fifteen, Jerry Seinfeld told ESPN show The Herd quote, I don’t play colleges, which is a chair, but I mean maybe nine years ago he didn’t know he does. I’ll be fair, I don’t play colleges, but I hear a lot of people tell me don’t go near colleges they’re so pc. I’ll give you an example. My daughter’s fourteen wife says to her, well, you know, the next couple years, I think maybe you’re gonna want to be hanging around the c anymore on the week out and so you can see the boys.
No, my daughter says, She says, that’s sexist. They just want to use these words. That’s racist, that’s sexist, that’s prejudice. They don’t even know they’re talking about as Then, if he believed such her attitude’s hurt comedy, he replied, yes, it does. Jerry Seinfeld says, you’re welcome.
All right, more stuff. Johnny Mack asked to catch up on last week. Jim Gaffigan crushed the Al Smith dinner. This was a last Thursday. Kamala Harris became the first presidential candidate in forty years to skip the Catholic charity bash.
Jim did not pull his punches and said, you know, this event has been referred to as the Catholic met Gala. Twenty two percent of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will be a key demographic in every battleground state. I’m sorry, why is Vice President Harris not here? Gaff again got some laughs as he ridiculed Kamala from making times like that naughty podcast call her daddy.
Jim said, I mean, consider this. This is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nominee. In her defense, I mean, she did find time to appear on the View Howard Stern Colbert in the longtime staple of campaigning to call her daddy podcast. You know what I think this is?
I think she doesn’t like me, Chuck, Do I have bad breath? Gaffigan talked about the change on the ticket, saying the Democrats have been telling us Trump’s reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned to this threat they staged a coup. Else did They’re democratically elected and come and installed Kamala Harris. In other words, all her dreams have come true.
Really makes me consider the power of prayer, right, Cardinal Sometimes prayers take three and a half years out at George Clooney op ed this is killer stuff by Gaffigan. So great. One person on Twitter wrote, hello nine one one. I’d like to report the murder of an entire political party. Malania Trump did not enjoy one of Jim’s jokes.
Jim referenced the whole thing with Trump’s comments about their eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs, Jim said. During the first and only debate, President Trump talked about migrants taking cats and eating them. You know, if you’re keeping track at home, this is the second time grabbing a kitty has been part of a campaign issue. Think about it.
It’s a little naughty. I’ll leave it there. Trump laughed at the joke. Milania remained, quote stoneface. We are going to be very political today.
That is just the news. Donald Trump said he leaned on Fox News to help him come up with a tight ten minutes of joke for the dinner. Rumors on social media were that the jokes had been written by the network’s news and opinion hosts. Trump said, nope, Nick Topolo, quoting Trump, I had a lot of people helping a lot of people, a couple people from Fox. Actually I shouldn’t say that, but they wrote some of the jokes.
The most part, I didn’t like any of them. In a statement, Fox News confirmed that no employee or freelancers wrote the jokes. According to one person familiar with Trump set, Nick Topolo contributed one joke that Trump used that is not uncommon. When Obama was president, he used some writers from The Daily Show for his White House Correspondent’s dinner routine. Andrew Schultz has accused the Brooklyn Academy of Music of canceling his scheduled stand up special just hours after he had Trump on his podcast.
Schultz, on his podcast Flagrant, said three and a half hours after the Trump interview, they canceled the shows, f them and f them forever. He shared an email from the Brooklyn Academy of Music telling him that his November shows had been canceled, with only a vague explanation quote, after some internal discussions with leadership, it was decided that BIM is not the right fit for the show at this time. Schultz says he doesn’t know for sure if it was because of the Trump interview, but the day before it came out, we were ready to go. We were gonna go on sale this week. We’ve had this venue locked in for a month now.
It’s not like we might do it here. It’s booked, it’s ready to go. We’re going on sale. This week, Jimmy Kimmel called out Donald Trump for sharing what Kimmell says is a made up story about the few times he has been on Kimmel. Trump was on the Full End podcast.
Kimmel shared some clips from that. On Full Send, Trump called Kimmel a loser, and Trump said, quote, I do Jimmy Kimmel. I did him a lot, to which Kimmel said, you might be confusing me with Stormy Daniels. Kimmell then pushed back and said, We’ve been on almost twenty two years. You’ve been on three times, Mike.
The situation from Jersey Shore has been on more times than you. But go on, Trump said, Kimmell used to greet me on the sidewalk outside his studio. This was before politics, of course, But I’d come in and be standing on the sidewalk saying, oh, oh, sir, can I bring you in? And he’d bring me in every time, Kimill said, and by every time he means no times. He loves telling this made up story.
Never did I ever stand on the sidewalk to greet Donald Trump or any guests. The only time I’ve ever walked out in the sidewalk for Donald Trump was to urinate on his star in the Walk of Fame. He has invited Trump back onto the show on one condition, he has to take a cognitive test. Kimmell said, if he wants to come back and accept the invitation that I made last night, that he’d take a cognitive test against Kamala Harris, I will for sure roll out the burnt orange carpet and go meet him on Hollywood Drive. Sticking with Late Night, seth Meyer has won the bet with the guy on his staff when the Steelers beat the New York Jets.
Because everyone beats the New York Jets, I mean, that’s not hard. Meyers had a bet with Kenny Coyle, a Late Night Utility Grip and Fierce Jets Dave Ot. The original bet was if the Jets won, Meyers had to play a mug featuring the final score on his desk for the rest of the football season. If the Steelers won, Coyle would get a tattoo of the score and seth Meyer’s signature on his arm. Steelers thirty seven, Jets fifteen.
Speaking of sports, where you’re watching ESPN’s College Game Day over the weekend, Tony Hinchcliff was on This caused a stir on social media. I’m just going to quote Tony Hinchcliff here. Send your letters to Tony, not to Johnny Mack. Tony Hinchcliff said, quote, I didn’t realize we had pre best in lesbians kicking today. Quote it’s an incredible look.
He’s like broke back Bob the Builder unquote. He also referred to another player as quote Matthew m kinda gay. Hassan Minaj’s special is out today. It is called Off with His Head. You may recall Hassan was probably going to host The Daily Show and got in some trouble with his previous special, The King’s Gesture, in which he elaborated on some real life events as comedians tend to do.
But I kind of understand on the other side, why that might not be a good look for The Daily Show. Who knows? Hassan specialist taped to July at the San Jose Civic Center. Des Bishop has a new comedy special called Of All People that’s out on eight undound Gerrilla Today. Of All People’s an hour of original stand up and a culmination of years of experience on stage all over including Queen’s, Ireland and China.
Bishop’s material often focuses on cultural differences he noticed being a transplant into Irish society from Queens at a young age. He always incorporates a lot of material about in language. I’m supposed to speak to him later in the week, so that might be Saturday’s episode. I haven’t quite planned it out yet, nor have I actually recorded the interview, which I need to prep for. But I used to hang out in the Irish bars in Queens with Irish Irish people.
I’m Irish American and cash cantell from my American brogue here, and I remember when they in the nineties, the Irish would be like, hey, you want to get some crack? And the Irish word crack cr a c means good fun. I was in New York City in the nineties crackman something entirely else, so people were like, you want to get some crack, and I’d be like, what what are you talking about? No. From cardplayer dot Com, you’re home for comedy news.
South Korean comedian Legion Oh in hot Water, he revealed he broke the country’s laws by illegally gambling. He confessed to be borrowing money from friends and family, including reportedly one hundred million one that’s seventy four thousand US dollars from Jim and from K pop band BTS. In the social media post, Lee jin Ho said, I will fully cooperate with the police investigation and accept the consequences of my actions. It was the harsh advice from those close to me and the fear of losing the work I loved that finally made me stop gambling. However, by then I had already received financial help from many people.
I am steadily repaying the debt each month and intend to fully pay it off on my own, even if it takes the rest of my life. Lee was the host of the variety show Knowing Bros. South Korea Network GTBC, in a statement said Lee jin Ho will leave the program starting with this week’s recording. We will edit out as much of his previously filmed content as possible. Yikes.
Lee was also part of a Netflix show called Comedy Revenge. He missed a press conference to promote the debut. Netflix said we’re deeply disappointed to learn about this just a day before the show’s premiere. However, Netflix said he will remain in the show. Because the program is structured around team competitions, fully editing out specific teams presents significant challenges to the narrative.
We ask for your understanding. Billy Crystal was honored for his devotion to the Clippers. For some reason, the Basketball Hall of Fame put in Billy Crystal. He’s part of the Nasmith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s James F. Goldstein Superfan Gallery.
Billy Crystal said, how strange should be getting a ring before any of the Clippers. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link of the show notes. Tell you how that works. A short version five bucks a month.
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