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The Shark Deck. Hello Johnny Mack with your daily comedy newho is going to flip the order around a little bit. I watched Shane Gillis’s new special on Netflix. Beautiful Dogs is the name of that one, if you haven’t seen it. I loved it.
I found Shane to be just so personable and having a good time and just up there and he knows it’s all fun and silly, and you can tell he’s enjoying that. You’re enjoying it. It feels like you’re at the tavern and you ran into a guy who’said no maybe two and a half beverages and is a little loose and telling some funny stories, and the guy’s just fun to be around. I liked it a lot. As I watched it, I was like, is this the best special of the year, And by the end I decided it’s the second best special of the year.
I’ll give you the updated top ten in a minute. I think part of that this keeps happening to me. So I go downstairs and I watch a comedy special. Now, a comedy special is an hour, no matter how long it is, but you know it’s an hour in concept, and it is a flow, right you start. I remember George Carlin’s manager, Jerry Hamza, explained to me one time the way Carlin would work is he would come out and do a bunch of ratitat tat jokes and that real quick Carlin.
Hey, you ever noticed something something punchline. He’d do a bunch of those, and then George would go into a long flowing thing, you know, one of those long especially lateness, care long rants, making a point and then come back and do a little ratitat tat and then leave with the big thought. So comedians will craft a set, but what happens is I’m watching it, I’m having a good time, and my wife comes down and then she’ll be like is he funny? And already I’m like, yes, yes, he’s funny.
And then she’ll stand there and it’ll be in the middle of something that has …
And what happened when I was watching this the other night? She starts sweeping the basement. So I’m sitting there and there’s this woman just going so I just I hit pause. I’m like, really, so, I don’t know, Shane, you might have had to run at number one, but I was interrupted. I like Shane’s a lot.
I also put on Lunel’s special. I lasted two minutes ten seconds. I could tell right away this was not going to be for me. I wanted to hit stop after I don’t know four seconds, and I hung in there and I was like, no, not feeling this at all. My opinion, Netflix clearly wants to be in the Dave Chappelle business.
Dave executive produce that one. I’m not sure how well that one’s going to do. Let’s look at the updated list of best of twenty twenty three. According to Johnny macde best special Love the Year is Todd Barry’s Domestic Short here you’ll find that on YouTube. Shane Gillis pops in at number two.
Toms Agore three, four, Kyle Canine five, Napper Gatsy that came out back in January on Amazon, six, Michelle Wolf seven, Jay McBride’s Daddy’s Girl that’s on YouTube, eight, Jim Jeffries from Amazon in February, Hary Condobolu at nine that was on YouTube. And Chris Rock, remember he had a big special. It was a big deal. Yeah, I’m more fascinated with my not on the list. The not on the List includes releases by Jim Gaffigan, John Mliney, Lewis, Black, Mark Marin, and I’ve been on a big Mark Marin kick lately.
Bert Craisher, I didn’t love the middle nor in the end of that special. Andrew Santino, Kevin Hartt, Lewin ELL’s so a bit of a comedy snob. Johnny Mack. Vulture put out their Comics to Watch list. I am recording this a little after eleven am on Monday, and I just saw the list.
I think it came out in the ten o’clock hour. Haven’t dived into it, and I have a lot to cover today, so I’ll get to that. But I did share the link in a Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, if you want to check out that, and I’ll talk about that in the next few days. I listened to David Letterman on the Strike Force five podcast. I love lettermans so much, and this just reminded me of the old twelve thirty Letterman because they were talking a lot about those days and his old NBC Daytime Show, the one that failed spectacularly.
A couple of tidbits that I didn’t know before. NBC had approached David Letterman to host the Monday and Tuesday episodes of The Tonight Show, and Johnny Carson would have done the other three, and Letterman asked, does Johnny know you’re talking to me about this? And the answer was no, and then Letterman said, I’m not having this conversation. That was interesting. The guys kept asking Letterman questions, and Dave doesn’t want to talk about himself, so they might ask him, I don’t know, who was your favorite guest of all time?
Yeah, you know, I know so many? Who was your favorite guests? And he kept whatever they asked him, he threw it back on them. I thought that was interesting. And if you pay a lot of attention to these episodes, especially the Letterman one, there’s this vibe that Jimmy Fallon is the little brother of the group, almost as if the others are like, I don’t know, Fallon’s up to our level here.
They keep making fun of him for the newlywed game type thing that Fallon did a couple episodes back. They talked about that a lot on the Letterman episode, and Okay, fine, that’s just some chopbusting. But they also just keep making fun of his questions. At one point, Fallon as Letterman a question, and they all made fun of the way it was freezed. And you kind of hear knock on Jimmy Fallon’s tonight show that he’s not the best interviewer in the world.
And and and maybe I’m just sensitive to this now. A lot of alcohol reverences, a lot of stories with Jimmy drinking beer. So hm. The late night shows returned last night. I’m still wondering if NBC’s considering making a change at eleven thirty.
We’ll see. We’ll talk about Late Night’s return tomorrow. John Oliver returned on Sunday Night, and during the first fifteen minutes iss of his show, he went in on the writer strike. Oliver said, I’d have loved have covered all these stories back when they originally happened. I wish so much I could have told you these jokes at the time, but I couldn’t because our writer is The people who wrote these jokes were forced to strike for a fair contract for the last five months.
And while I’m happy that they eventually got a fair deal and immensely proud of what our union accomplished. I’m also furious that it took the studios one hundred and forty eight days to achieve a deal that they could have offered on day FFing one. But hopefully this might encourage others, from autoworkers to Starbucks baristas to healthcare providers, whether they’re in unions or would like to be, to find power in each other. Some of the jokes that he had missed out on while away. On Trump’s mugshot, he said, Trump looks like he’s struggling to find Waldo in the crowd.
On the coronation of King Charles quote the world’s oldest boy, Oliver joked he was aiming for successful pimp, but ends up looking like someone wearing a set of tacky drapes over a Lakers Jersey. Oliver talked about when Reddit unveiled a policy that charged third party apps, and, as John explains it, for weeks images of me were used as a form of protest on some of the most popular subreddits. He showed a bunch of pictures himself, one looking like a muppet, another that made him look like John Wick. This one labeled John Oliver Wick, which is a pretty good way of showing you exactly what would happen if Professor Snape ever committed arm robbery and he joked about Fallout Boys cover of Billy Joels we didn’t Start the Fire, Oliver said, what it’s worth, We didn’t stop the Fire is the last song anyone should cover from Billy Joel’s discography, even if it’s original form. It’s the musical equivalent of a child telling you everything he learned to do at school that day.
Slow down. But also, I don’t care oh one more about Lauren Bobert attending Beetlejuice and some stuff happened there this next sentences PG. If you’re driving around with kids, whyn’t you get thirty second skip four times? Okay ready? Oliver said, I’m not saying it would be appropriate to engage in high school freshman era, hand stuffed or in the production of any musical, but I just wanted to be absolutely clear.
This wasn’t one of the more explicitly sexual ones like Spring Awakening or Rocky Horror or Cats. This was Beetlejuice, a song that is quite loudly about death. I’m just saying, if you’re gonna get your nipples tweaked and your pipe squeaked, you saved that for Fiddler on the Roof like an insult. Oh, Bill Maher was back as well. He said, first of all, I want to thank everybody who made as possible to be back.
You know, I’m talking about my brilliant staff writers and non writers who scrambled jet so it would beyond in two days, and the union folks who expedited the PaperWorks so we could get back quickly. So thank you. Pete Davidson reportedly swide swiped his car against a wall on Saturday night after leaving his comedy show. Page six reports there was another man on the passenger seat and three people on the back seat. Pete driving four people around.
What’s going on? According to the story, Pete’s car was apparently scraped from the middle door to the start of the back wheel. In some photos, Pete appears to be holding a cigarette and shielded his face from the paparazzi. Recall, Pete Davidson was recently charged with reckless driving in July and was supposed to complete fifty hours of community service. This Trevor Noah thing is fascinating.
I’ve been talking about his tour of India and more and more stories keep coming out again from the Indian Express. You’re home for comedy news. Trevor said, you know, sometimes you feel like something’s about to happen, and it does. That happened to us in Bengaluru. We’re driving to the venue.
After about an hour and a half of driving, I was like, where are we going? The driver and everyone in the car was like, this is the way we’re supposed to go. At some point, the driver turned onto a dirt road. Trevor said, where is this? Am I performing in the past?
Where am I going? And they drove us to this venue. Noah said when he usually goes for a show backstage, what happens is they’ll be like an entrance you walk into, you emerge in a backstage area before you come and perform. Here, we walked through an alley that was full of dogs, half of which were in cages. Some of the dogs are outside, others are in What have these dogs done?
That’s what I want to know. I have never prepared for show with a backstage area with dogs and cages. Trevor said the venue technically was building but the room he was in looked like a semi permanent tent with giant air conditioner units on the side making a loud noise. They tried to turn the sound up so you could hear what’s happening, but because the room wasn’t designed for human beings, what happens is the sound waves are bouncing around the room in every direction. That’s fantastic.
So I noticed on Sunday night, as I was doing some prep, skank Fest was over the weekend. Now, maybe you think I suck. We’re ten minutes in, so you probably don’t think I suck that bad if you’re still hearing my voice right now. But maybe you’re like, this podcast sucks and I just hate listen. I do try and prep for it.
I do look up the news, like these words I’m saying don’t just come from nowhere. God doesn’t go here is the comedy news. Like, I do some research here, and I was like, skank Fest was this weekend. There was nothing about Skankfest here. I challenge you go to Google and type in skank Fest and tell me what comes up.
Yeah, they have a website, and there’s one article from a Las Vegas paper which is the one I saw that went oh, it was this weekend. There were some big names at this thing, Robert Kelly or Spear, Dan soder, T, J Miller, Mark Norman, Joe List, Tim Dillon. That’s just some of the names that were there. Now, I know the skank guys. They’ve got all their podcasts and they go on each other’s podcasts.
And I’m sure the festival was amazing, and I’m sure they sold every ticket and I’m sure it was great. But that there’s nothing on the internet, no articles, both before or after, no coverage of this thing. Is that what you want to do? You want to have a festival, Nobody talks about it. Very very strange.
Again, I’m in your corners, gang Fest. I think your festival is a lot of fun, but I don’t. Let’s tell somebody about it. Congratulations to Eliza Slessengers. She has another baby on the way.
Eliza is forty. She’s expecting her second baby son to be born in February. On Instagram, we see Eliza Slessengers surprising a couple during their sex reveal by popping out of a box the couple expected balloons to come out of. After explaining the environmental dangers of the practice. Eliza shared her own baby news.
I have a balloon story to second. Eliza told people that filming the bit and revealing her our own news was so fun. My friends pitched in, I try to use my platform to advocate for the environment as much as I can. Sex or reals and baby celebrations can be done so irresponsibly, because I just wanted to bring awareness to that while making a point about simply having a baby is special enough. There’s no need to get the fire department involved.
Okay, balloon story. So on Sunday, the local town has the street festival. I like a lot and I’m walking around. All of a sudden, a balloon hits me chest high and I just grab it, and I’m like, this must be some child’s balloon. And I look around and there’s no children.
I don’t know where this balloon came from, and so I grab it because I just have issues. You know how, we all have issues from when we were children. So when I was a child, if I ever lost my balloon and up to the sky, I would freak out. Anytime I see a balloon, like a child lose a balloon, I get really sad. So I’m holding onto this balloon and I’m like, what am I going to do with this?
Because I can’t just let it go. I will be traumatized. I’m walking around the festival and I’m like, I don’t know, maybe I’ll see a kid and I’ll be like, hey, kid, do you want a balloon? I’m like, well, that’s kind of creepy. Why is this middle aged man handing balloons?
Kits? I just I walk around with this balloon for the whole festival, and I’m like, I guess I’ll bring it home. And I get back to the car and I put it in the car and I start driving home, playing with the radio, listening to some music. And I’m driving and all of a sudden, the balloon that I had forgotten about. I see it come from the back seat and it starts to approach the front seat, and then it suddenly goes up because Johnny Mack left the sunroof open.
I want to thank Travis who went to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Company News and brought me not one, but two ice coffees. I was thinking of Travis on Monday as I was driving to the National Donuts chain. I was like, oh, yeah, Travis hooked this up, and I’m going to thank him the next time I record. And I was like, you know what, I’ll do a live thank you from the parking lot of the National Donus Chain. I took out my phone and I recorded myself walking into the National Donus chain, where three different people and I exchanged pleasantries.
Hey, you have a great day too. I saw one of my kids friends who said, Hi, mister mcdee. I had all this sun recording and I came back to put the show together, and I’d be like, Oh, Travis is gonna be so impressed that I actually put extra effort into this thing. And I never hit record, but I do have a second recording of me opening the car door and breathing heavy and closing the door and starting the car. If you want to hear that, Travis, you gotta buy me a coffee.
Dot com its Lash Daily Comedy News. Support the show, Travis, thank you for being a dedicated listener and appreciate the coffees. This one cracked me up. The headline from the a V Club Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review. A dozen years in the show hasn’t lost any of its luster.
Okay, the headline Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review got it. Okay, So I’m gonna ask you two questions if you’re a new listener. First question, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is no, you actually haven’t. But what’s weirder is have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers?
The answer to that is also no. Now, I understand that the show appears to be a show, and there’s articles about it, and there’s merch, and they promoted during the football games, but it’s clearly a hoax. And it cracked me up that the hosters were like, oh, no one will say Bob’s Burgers that nobody actually has ever seen. In the back, We’ll put it up against the Taylor Swift football game. Yeah, So like they knew, we were all watching Taylor Swift at a football game and not one of us was going to pop over to Fox to see if Bob’s Burgers actually ever airs, which it doesn’t.
I’m sure Fox had a test pattern up up against Taylor Swift, but they were like, yeah, Bob’s Burgers is on season fourteen, but here’s what’s weird from the AV Club headline? Again that headline Bob’s Burger’s Season fourteen review. The first sentence is over the course of its twelve years on the air. I thought this was season fourteen. How does that work?
Did they just not do a season thirteen because it’s unlucky? Did whoever is behind this hoax mess up? Oh? I don’t know anyway, The AV Club says, given enough time on the air, any show, no matter how beloved, is bound to lose its flavor. But somehow, even after all this time, Bob’s never as fourteen seasons in over the last twelve years.
However, that math works. The bloom isn’t off. The bloom and onion, and we hope we’ll belling up to the burger counter for many years to come. Uh huh, not falling for it. Hey, you know who has a new book today?
Sarah Cooper? Remember Sarah Cooper, a longtime listeners. She during a pandemic, was pantomiming to Donald Trump and the Netflix gave her a comedy special. Remember Sarah Cooper. He’s got a new book.
It’s called Foolish Tales of Assimilation, Determination and Humiliation. The description Sarah Cooper’s book is About You. Cooper, a recently ascended star having utilized the Internet to get famous with her pointed, withering performance based political satire, possesses a direct and fierce comic voice, and in her previous books she took down cultural dinosaurs. Here she explores, thoroughly, examines and mocks herself for past and her motivations, and shows how you two can find your voice, comic and otherwise and use it to exercise your demons. If you’re in New York City, Matt Golditch is taping his album tonight at Caveat.
He may even be joined by a very special guest. That’s an interesting tease there, if you’re like, who’s Matt Golditch. She’s a longtime writer for Late Night with Seth Myers. And Robin William’s daughter Zelda is getting annoyed about artificial intelligence. She said, I’ve witnessed for years how many people want to train these models to create and recreate actors who cannot consent, like my dad, Robin Williams.
This isn’t theoretical, it’s very very real. I’ve already heard Ai used to get his quote voice unquote to say whatever people want, and while I find personally disturbing, the ramifications go far beyond my own feelings. Living actors deserve a chance to create characters with their choices, to voice cartoons, to put their human effort in time, into the pursuit of performance. These recreations are, at their very best, a poor effects emily of greater people, but at their worst, a horrendous Frank and Steiny and monster, cobbled together from the worst bits of everything this industry is instead of what it should stand for. That’s your comedy news for today.
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