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Caloroga Shark Media. Pro tip, actually plug in your microphone or you wind up having to do the first eight minutes over on your podcast. Hi, I’m Johnnie mag with your Daily Comedy News rookie mistake, you idiots? Hey, am I crazy? Wasn’t it like twelve days ago Tony Hinchcliff was at Madison Square Garden and he told a joke about Puerto Ricans and people got all irate about it.
Well, Atrian Applelucci dropped her new special on Netflix and told this chunk, I’ll share it with you. I found the chunk on Samuel’s Twitter account. Let me play it and then I’ll have some commentary. Hamas has to kill all of the Jews. They are really limiting it to Israel, right, like if they wanted all of the Jews dead, and they do it globally, it’s just local.
Well, which lets you know, it’s not really about the Jews. It’s about whoever is occupied that space. If Asian people live there, they would hate the Asians, you know, Like, look at me. I’ve lived in the Bronx my entire life, so I hate Puerto Ricans And what I am proposing is a little exchange program where we send the Puerto Ricans to Israel and send the Jews to the Bronx, and then you watch how quickly the Palestinians will be begging for the Jews back. Like, oh my god.
But these people never sleep. He’s always playing music. Yeah, Now, how come nobody’s upset about that? One is because one was at a political rally and the other was set at a stand up comedy club. Perhaps maybe they’re both comedians.
I personally am able to understand the difference between comedians telling jokes and hate speech. I don’t believe Adrian actually wants to send Puerto Ricans to Israel. I think she’s kidding or is the election over or I don’t know. If she did that set at Madison Square Garden, people would be irate. No yes, no, yes, yes, no, yes.
Anyway. I watched Adrian apple Lucci’s The Dark Queen or Dark Queen whatever it’s called on Netflix. It’s okay. I struggled with it. I’m struggling with my emotions.
And there’s a thread on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group where you can discuss this with us. I think her writing is on point. I think there are particular chunks that work really well, but as a whole I struggled with it because I don’t find any of the premises to be real, and I need some reality. I need, I need my comedy to be at least a little bit reality based. So here she’s telling for an hour untrue premise after untrue premise, and each untrue premise comes with the shocking twist.
And you can do that in comedy, but I think that works better if you do it after a chunk based in truth, whereas this is just absurdist joke after absurdist joke. Again, the writing’s funny, The individual parts work well, they’ll probably work really well on social media, but as a whole it was just like, all right, I’m forty five minutes in here. You haven’t said a single truth thing yet unless you actually do want to ship Puerto Ricans to Israel, I do think you’re kidding. So overall it won’t make my end of the year list. However, I’ll recommend that you watch it because it is entertaining.
I was entertained until I wasn’t entertained anymore. Controversial comedian Shane gillis, that’s how the headlines phrase him, He’s announced a tour controversial comedian Shane Gillis. Now, let me ask you what is controversial about Shane Gillis? Is it because he got higher than fired by SNL many moons ago because somebody noticed something he had said on a podcast previously, and then we canceled Shane Gillis, And then Shane Gillis went, I’m not canceled, And he’s one of comedy’s biggest stars right now, so everybody loves him again. Is that it?
Anyway? The controversial comedian’s tour is called Jane Gillis Live. He must have worked a really long time on that one, but it does get the job done. It’s a twenty seven city tour kicking off January tenth in San Antonio. Is a mostly US show with two random shows in March in Dublin and then London.
The Dublin show March twenty first. Maybe he just wants to at Saint Patrick’s day over there. Who knows. He’s not playing anywhere near my house. I would have to drive closest.
One looks like Albudy in New York, in case you’re curious. Would surprise me if he adds dates Deacon Mike April eleventh, Cleveland, you should go. Elon Musque has responded to Chloe Fineman’s accusation that he made her burst into tears when Elon hosted the show. Elon tweeted, frankly, it was only the Thursday before the Saturday that any of the sketches generated laughs. I was worried.
I was like, Damn, my SNL appearance is going to be so unfunny that it’ll make a crackhead sober. But then it worked out in the end. He did not address Chloe’s comments. He did not apologize. People are catching up on that John Mulaney profile in GQ, which I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy, his podcast group been talked about a little bit yesterday and we’ll talk about for the next few days.
One of the things we learned is that Comedy Central twice tried to get John Mulaney to take over the Daily Show. The first time was when John Stewart left, which on a timeline would have made sense for John Mulaney, and the other time quote more recently, which career wise, I don’t think makes any sense for John Mulaney. Why would John Mulaney host The Daily Show in twenty twenty four. Right, No, why would he do that? Mulaney said, it wasn’t the right thing.
At the moment, we’re hearing mullany is going to do twelve more episodes of that Netflix late night show. That’ll be fun. Congratulations to John Krasinsky. He has been named sexiest man alive by people. So if you find yourself in meetings making faces because the meeting is ridiculous, one of two fates awaits you.
Either you become the sexiest man alive or you find yourself recording a podcast on the basement fifteen years later. One of those two things is true. Remember Gallagher, there’s a new documentary about him. Gallagher is a tale of triumph, heartick, and the resilience of an endlessly creative mind. You remember the dude he smashed watermelons?
Remember that? But that was only a fraction of his act. Gallagher was at heart a wordsmith, poet, and a visual absurdist. Over time, Gallagher’s fame faded. He claims he never landed a sitcom because he spent too much time on the road.
Was that true? Was he difficult to work with? Was he unlucky. What about the urban legend that his brother stole his act as Gallagher two? Who is the real Gallagher?
Well, the new documentary Gallagher makes its world premiere at the doc NYC Film Festival today. They have shared a trailer with me from which I will excerpt. You’re gonna hear some voices that you’d be like, ah, I know that voice. The voices you’re going to hear include in order, Bill Burr, Howie Mandel, and Bobcak Goldwaite. As like twelve thirteen.
To see an adult acting like that freedom, there was a silliness. It was visceral, and it was relatable and it was. Fun, but at the same time it becomes the only thing people known for. He had really smart material too. He was really brilliant, and he garnered a bigger audience in a wider swath and more television than anybody of his era.
So what happened to Gallagher? What happened to that surreal hippy genius I saw as a kid? I worked with Gallagher once when I had the Raw Dog Comedy channel at Sirius, which is audio only by the way. We had Bob Goat come in to smash watermelons on the radio, because that was the kind of thing we did. We like absurdus humor.
You’ve heard me talk. I like Letterman, I like Conan, I like things that make no sense. Why would we have a guy smash watermelons on the radio. I don’t know, but it was funny, and I will tell you. We did this in the it’s called the Fishbowl studio, which is the main studio at Sirius.
It’s called the Fishball because it’s all glass, so a lot of people can gather around and watch the recording from outside the studio. Oh my, did we draw a crowd for that? It was huge. There is a clip on YouTube if you want to look for it. Just google raw Dog Gallagher.
I think it’ll come up. Yep, raw Dog Gallagher. The first clip that came up from April sixteenth to two thousand and eight. Gallagher is still smashing watermelons. That’s the clip you’re going to look for.
We actually did this thing. It was hilarious. I didn’t find him difficult to work with at all. I found him cool. I found him fun.
I thought he went along with the gags that we had for him, and it was a great broadcast. Check out that video if you enjoy what I do here. There are several ways to support the show. One way is go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Now I’m doing my usual shake the cup bit, and I see the ice has already melted.
And it’s only eleven thirty in the morning as I’m recording, so there should be more ice.
Now here’s the thing.
When I went to the chain this morning, it was a mess. Nobody’s order was ready. And every now and then, this is my number one donut chain, pet Peeve, they do the thing where it’s not really a nice coffee, it’s hot coffee that they poured over ice because the orders were backed up and they don’t have enough stuff ready, and that’s what happened today. I hate when they do that. Anyway you could support the show, you go to buy me a coffee dot com.
Throw some money in the tip show. I take your money. I go to the National Donut Chain and I get myself a large iced coffee with caramel and almond milk. These days trying to switch up to diet a little bit. If you need something to watch, Jeff Dye the last Cowboy in La premieres on the eight hundred pound Gerilla YouTube channel tonight at seven pm Central Time.
Speaking of Central Time, it’s the Flyover Comedy Festival, the annual comedy invasion that takes over the Grove and a few other venues in Saint Louis. Your headliners Tik Nazaro and paton Oswalt.
Also in town the Sclar Brothers, Ben Bailey, Jackie Fabulous, Henry Phillips.
I do like the way the Flyover Comedy Festival has their schedule, and I wish more festivals would do this. It’s probably an Excel sheet or whatever the Google Docs version is for you kids, but it’s just a nice easy way for podcast hosts to see what is going on tonight, all on one screen without me scrolling. I see Ben Bailey is the big headliner tonight at eight o’clock. But as I’m scanning here, there’s an improv show at nine called Whimsy Lohan and Some Black People, which is just a great name.
Meanwhile, the New York Comedy Festival, they have theirs in chronological or…
I prefer the grid that way, I can see, like all the shows at say seven o’clock one line, rather than scrolling down. Maybe next year in New York can hire the guy from the Flyover Comedy Festival.
Also, I’m babbling as I sit here waiting for this schedule page to load.
Perhaps there’s a big late morning demand on the schedule tab. People are really excited about the lineup. Come on load. Why don’t you edit that out, John because that’s not fun? Well, fans, I did eventually have to make an edit as I sat here in silence waiting for this thing to load.
It’s not my internet. I’m checking here. I’ve got a blazing eighty eight megabytes per second of downloads. I don’t blame Johnny Max’s Internet. I suspect this website has problems because I’m looking at it and says the laughter starts in negative seven days, negative twelve hours.
Unless that’s a joke. You are a comedy festival. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Well, they’re having problems. The mobile site loaded first, and I’ll tell you when you have all your shows in chronological order, and we’re a week plus into this thing.
Now you have to scroll through like four hundred shows to get where you want. Why wouldn’t you have the newest shows up top? Why would you do it like this? This website is terrible. Hire the guy from Flyover?
Will you all right after all that? Who is playing Tonight? Five thirty at New York Comedy Club for a shaw Ida Rodriguez? Six thirty at Chelsea Jubuki Young White at the hard Rock at seven. JB.
Smooth at town Hall at seven Comedy Gives Back Laugh Aid at Gotham at seven o’clock. Joo Rivers owed to Joan, it’s like Joe Rivers a week at the festival. That’s at the Lori Beachman Theater at seven. This is different than the other Joe Rivers things I told you about the description of this one. If Joe Rivers would have been Chinese, she would have been the spitting image of the glamorous, hysterical Joe Yang Summers.
Just call her Jiao Rivers. That’s fun well played here at the Little Field at eight o’clock The Aristour Taylor Swift Comedy Show and Dance Party. Do you think Taylor Swift will show up? Taylor Swift’s Eras tour is still going on, so Zach Schiffman and a gaggle of swifty comedians will help say goodbye to the never ending epic concert Lewis Katz haven’t heard that name in a while. His show Old Man Hassel Presents Lewis Katz Live in Brooklyn at williams Burg at eight David Tell at town All at nine forty five.
That’s the show you want to go see, no doubt, I don’t care what else I didn’t scroll down to yet. That’s the move. Go see it. Tell and the New York Comedy Festival website has sucked the life out of me. I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do right now.
I’m gonna record the New York Comedy Festival parts of Saturday and Sunday’s podcast while the website’s actually working. I’m not sure comedy is for today. See Ano Rrow guys,