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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Funny joke from Kermit Appiois on Twitter, who wrote, be careful when you order your Trump sneakers. It says they weigh two pounds, but they actually weigh twenty eight pounds.
Also, they have no soul.
Hey, I know not everybody listens to the weekend episodes. Saturdays in particular was very strong. If you missed that one, I highly recommend you downloads Saturday. Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live, mixed reviews. I thought it was pretty good.
I seem to be unpopular of that opinion. Before I get to the monologue, since I talked about Trump sneakers, let’s start with a sketch about Trump sneakers. The setup here is that Shane is portraying a regular guy who’s bad at basketball and stuff, and then he gets some Trump sneakers good at basketball. No, they give me the power to say I’m good at basketball, and they double down on that until people actually start to believe it. No gets whatever he wants, mister Mitchell.
Everybody’s saying, I should have your office because my cubicle is a disaster right now? What can I have a minute to gather my things? Bye bye? He gets whoever he wants. Wow, that was the most fantastic love making you’ve ever had.
How really it only lasted two hours? That was a two hour love session. You had a big O in They’re a very big O. But I did no want to go again. I’d love to, but you’re too tired, all right, So you get the joke there.
Later in the sketch, James Austin Johnson shows up as I guess actual Trump, and we get my predicted to dueling Trumps. You know, in many ways, the real magic has been inside of you all along. Wrong it comes from the shoes, and you’re coming off as very stupid and frankly quite rude walking in here like this. My work here is done in terms of basketball movie pastiche, and with regard to shoes, I think we’ve done wonderful. White Man, Kim Trump.
Oh, ask for the monologue. I’m going to make some trims here to tighten up crowd and pacing and stuff. But let’s listen to Shane Gillis, Ladies and gentlemen, Shame Giles, thank you, thank you very much, it’s yeah, I’m here. Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was, actually I was fired from this show a while ago.
But if you know, don’t look that up. Please. If you don’t know who I am, please don’t google that. It’s fine, don’t even worry about it. I don’t know this is I probably shouldn’t be up here.
Honestly, I should be home. I should be I should be a high school football coach. That’s what I should be, Like, God molded me perfectly to be a high school football coach slash ninth grade sex education teacher. Now, if you watch his body language, he’s just shucking jokes. It’s the same thing I said about a special He’s just like, hey, I’m a big goofy guy, and these are just jokes.
And I think people are taking this way too seriously. About two and a half minutes into the monologue, we get our first controversy. He said a word ended upset people. My mom asked me, She’s like, when did we stop being best friends? And she’s right, we used to be best friend.
Do you remember that when you were a little boy and you like, you loved your mom and you thought she was a cool. You remember when you were gay? Do you remember when you were just a gay little boy? Every little boy is just their mom’s gay best friend. There’s literally a zero difference.
I was gay for my mom. She would pick me up from school. I’d hop in the van. I’d be like, girl, tell me about your day. I thought she was cool.
I would listen to her music. I’d be like, bam bam, badam, bam bam bam, let’s go girls. I would dance for her. She’d be like, look at my little dance. He heard about the for minute ten second mark, he goes into if you’ve seen his specials, some familiar downs at syndrome material.
He gets criticized over this material a lot. And maybe I’m just a jerk face. This does not sound hateful to me. I don’t know if you guys, if you can tell by looking at me, but I do have family members with down syndrome. It almost got me.
Hu I dodged it, but it nicked me. It nits me. It’s funny it Look, I don’t have any material that can be on TV. All right, I’ll try my best.
Also, this place is extremely well lit.
I can see everyone not enjoying it. This is uh yeah, just the most nervous I’ve ever bet. Don’t clap now, shut up. No, I talked about I brought up down Center. You got you can always tell who’s never been around down center when you bring it up, Like if I to help people, if I’m like, yeah, I have family members with down syndrome, people that have never been around it are always like, oh, Like it’s like it’s the end of the world, Like, oh, are they okay?
Are they doing it? It’s like they’re doing better than everybody I know. They’re the only ones having a good time pretty consistently. They’re not worried about the election. They’re having a good time.
Later in that routine, he does use the R word as the tag and a long story, but again in context, it just doesn’t sound hateful. Colleider wrote, the Shane Gillis episode of Saturday Night Live was rough to watch. Picking out the best sketches of the night was a lot harder than you’d think, and it was because none of them were particularly great. Well, that’s been true for two plus years, guys. I’m not sure we should blame Shane for that.
Perhaps the writers, at every turn, every sketch It’s something that was just insulting to people for no reason. From a sketch about a sex doll mocking people with amblyopia to a frankly distasteful Forrest Gump sketch, the episode left audience is wondering, who is this for? People who like to laugh at sketch comedy shows, That’s who it’s for. An episode the felt I was never going to end. Gillis’s grand debut on the stage of Studio eight h was beyond painful to watch.
What’s the worst possible to way to remake Like Mike in twenty twenty four by using that same premise but applying it to Donald Trump’s nearly four hundred dollar sneakers that are bright red, blue, and gold. The idea is that Gillis is playing a man. There’s really bad a basketball I’m talking to anyone. When he wears just Trump shoes, he can suddenly convince everyone lady’s good at this stuff. Yeah, pretty funny.
Did he miss the shot? No, he didn’t. He thought he did, but he didn’t. He totally made it up. Yeah, it was a funny.
Sketcher just played it. The Daily Beast wroach She and Gillis bombs on SNL with dawn syndrome and gay jokes. So does this monologue have the same victory lap vibes of Norm McDonald’s nineteen ninety nine monologue after he was fired. Not quite, because it doesn’t seem like there was any real beef between Gillis and the people running the show. Perhaps, if the criticism hadn’t kept growing as it did, Lauren Michaels would have kept Gillis on regardless of whatever racist or homophobic thing had said in the past.
This is the same guy who let Donald Trump post in twenty fifteen, after all, despite the casts of discomfort. But my favorite take of the night is from Franktouris dot org. Have you noticed the young lady guitarist in the band? You have to watch her reactions. It’s fascinating, and Frank Taurus writes, the Saturday Night Love Band is in a very tough spot.
During each new episode of the show. They have to play on the superstar hosts and keep a poker face during their entire monologue. The spotlight landed on guitarist Maddie Rice. While Rice makes several faces during the monologue, the one that social media ran with was the one where she appeared annoyed Gillis’s remarks, which she upset was she trying to hold a poker face? Only she knows the answer to that.
The rest of the band was more relaxed if you smiled and softly chuckled saxophonist Lenny Pickett, who’s usually the thermometer during these show openings. So it’s mostly neutral with an occasional smile and polight applause for Gillis’s dad. Oh and forever It’s worth everybody. At the end of the show, in the credits, Bowen Yang hugged Shane Gillis. I’m sure we’ll talk more about this tomorrow.
The Daily Beast caught up with Rory Skolvell again. If you missed Saturday’s pot podcast. I played a clip from Rory’s special Are people edding laughter or do comedy specials? Not saying Rory did, but is that a thing that happens in the industry. Listen to Saturday’s episode from The Daily Beast, Rory says, I don’t appreciate a band that just kind of always puts out the same album, even if they’re putting out an album.
Then I don’t end up liking I always appreciate that at least they try to do something slightly different than what they’ve done before. In terms of comedy, he says he has no interest in seeing any hour from someone who hasn’t learned anything, or hasn’t grown or revolved or changed in any way. Chappelle, Sorry, I keep coughing during the recordings, and you know, apologize for that. Who knows, at the end of the day, you probably end up losing some people. He’s been getting a little more political, and he says, who knows, at the end of the day, you probably end up losing some people because they just can’t stand jokes about politics, despite the fact that they’d spend their free time in a rally.
But I think at some point you kind of get pushed to the point where you want to speak out and say what you really think, and if you could turn it into something that entertains people or gets them a laugh, or who knows, maybe open their eyes a little bit to other people’s situations. He jokes about his Carlin phaze and says, but then I walked away from that being like, you know, the Corlin thing is kind of interesting, not you want to go. I’m gonna try to be Carlin. I don’t want to do that, but he does want to see what his version of the political rant with a message would look like. Tak Nataro has a new special out today.
It is called Hello Again on Amazon Prime Video. I teach a college class on Monday nights, so you’re gonna have to give me a couple of days to get around to watching that. One. Tig finds humor in situations ranging from the every day to the bizarre, crafting comedy out of hallucinatory text messages, a botch of meeting with a Hollywood heavyweight, and comedy Rule of three, a late nine encounter with a mustache fireman who has her questioning everything. Amy Schumer and Will Forte have signed on for a new Netflix comedy movie, kind of Pregnant.
Now just there. I see Netflix movie and I’m like, uh ceandlier, here we go again. Well wait for the twist. John. The synopsis is jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy, Laney wears a fake baby bump and accidentally meets the man of her dreams.
Guess who produces this? That’s right, Amy Schumer and say with me Adam Sandler, Oh Good, and Amy Schumer. Adam Sandler produced Thing on Netflix. Looking forward to That Little Dicky Dave Bird was on the Hot Ones podcast and he said, I’m not gonna name names, but there are several instances where episodes have been written about a particular celebrity. Oftentimes it ends up being a rapper and they don’t show up on the day, and then I immediately have to totally reimagine and rewrite the scene on the spot, call someone else and hope someone else is in town.
I’ve had to bring twenty thousand dollars in a backpack for whoever shows up that day.
And then I left the backpack at catering at lunch and then I was like shootin…
I’m like, oh my god, twenty thousand dollars and I spread it to go get my backpack. It was still there, and then an artist came and actually didn’t even charge anything. Anyway. It’s always very stressful. It’s much easier as time gets on.
In season one, I’m like, trust me. Season three, I’m like, Brad Pitt, I know you’ve seen it gets easier as time goes on the show. Unfortunately, he’s on a hiatus so Bird can focus on his music. Hopefully that show comes back.
Also a comedian who’s any music is Phil Wang, who you were picturing naked in…
I know you were, and you’re doing it right now too, Phil Wang, naked in the shower. You’re thinking about it. He does chortle. That’s really me singing in Wonka. Here’s a little behind the scenes bragging.
I was told by someone on Wanka that, you know, sometimes in movies they have to correct a singer if they’re not a professional singer in post production, and they didn’t have to correct me at all. I hit all the notes, all five notes I was given. I hit them spot on Dusty Slay, speaking to al as in Alabama dot Com, al dot Com said, I was trying to be a Southern comic. Look at me, I’m real Southern, right. I was wearing overalls and no shoes to perform and it wasn’t going very well.
So I quit doing stand up comedy.
And then in two thousand and eight my friend invited me to do a show and he w…
So we write this bit about the letters of the alphabet. I go out and do this bit and it’s on YouTube and on my album Making That Fudge, But I do it in front of an audience people, in front of a bunch of comedians that never heard of me, and I crushed every show. Wasn’t like that. I wasn’t crushing every but that hooked me. I was like, I can’t wait to get back up there and do it again.
Jim Norton spoke to I ninety five Rock about audiences. Rock was interested. Our audience is different now. Now I’ve worked with Jim Norton quite a lot. He is on stage persona and his real life personality are different.
When you’re hanging out with Jim Norton in real life, he’s very thoughtful and not talking about hookers in Vegas all day. So when I read this quote, picture a very insightful Jim Norton probably saying this, soft spoken Jim said. It’s been happening a lot longer than just two years. It’s not just comedy so that everybody’s attacking everybody. Everyone’s using everyone else to pretend to be angry so they can get a little attention for themselves.
There’s been a decent amount of pushback on it. But I think the difference now is that everybody in the audience is performing as well. It’s like you have a guy in stage and the people in the audience are performing pretending they’re upset, or going on social media pretending they’re upset. It died down a little bit, but that’s the reason for it. Everybody’s their own corporation now, so people are trying to get some credibility by acting like I’m upset publicly, will people come and give me some attention.
Everybody’s got a voice, which is fine. Everybody wants to let everyone else know how hurt they are. It’s not just comedy, it’s kind of everywhere being affected by it. If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.
I will take your money. And it’s Monday, so and I teach on Monday nights. Usually what I do is I drive past the own chain, I go to that smoothie place and I’ll get a buffalo rap and a beach bum. I think it’s called beach bum. I don’t know.
It’s like I told people it was raspberry, but I looked it up. Apparently it’s strawberry with some dark chocolate in it. Very good. So I get a buffalo rap in one of those. I eat that before class, so that’s like lunch dinner on Mondays.
Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’ve mentioned this before. Israel Hamas is a very touchy subject and a lot there to not laugh about. But I also feel that comedy should discuss important issues and I don’t want to ignore the topic, but when the topic comes up, I tend to put it in the second half.
If you listen every day, you kind of feel there’s the first half of the podcast before the commercial break is usually headlines and hits, and then I go a little deeper in the second half. This from The Guardian and they interviewed bossom Yusef, who I just find fascinating, like a really really interesting guy, and they’re right. Usef opens a show with a disclaimer to the audience members who know him as the Egyptian John Stewart. Usef says, I know some of you used to be performing in Arabic, but the show will be in English, the language of the Infidels in the show frequently refers to Joe Biden as genocide Joe. By the way, for those of you keeping score at home, that the guide Pylon Trump all the time, please note I’m doing this story right now frequently refers to Joe Biden as genocide Joe, but he never directly mentions the Israel Gaza war, which birthed the nickname.
He tells The Guardian that’s a deliberate choice. Usef says, I don’t want to be capitalizing on this right now as it’s happening. It’s not the story I want to tell. I wanted to tell my story. He says he was surprised to be put on a pedestal after his appearance with Piers Morgan.
When people say thank you for speaking up, thank you for being our voice. That’s a trigger sentence for me. I’m a human being and I have limitations. I can’t be someone who’s the face of that much of a cause. I do what I can, but sometimes it’ll be beyond my ability.
If you’ve never seen the thirty minute clip of Bassom with Piers Morgan, it is amazing. Here is the opening buckle up. The Guardian called it a roller coaster ride, and I agree. But here listen. I want his words to speak for themselves, because the how how are they’re doing?
But you know, we’re used to that. I mean, it’s just like it’s it’s it’s very repetitive. We’re used to that. We used to them being bombed every time and moving from one place to the other. You know, it’s just like those Plastinians.
They’re very dramatic, ah Israel killing us, but they never die. I mean they always come back. You know. They’re very difficult to kill, very difficult people to kill. I know because I’m married to one.
I tried many times, couldn’t kill her. I mean there’s a dark humor there, and I under time why because oh it’s not dark human I really I try to get to her every time, but she uses our kids as human shields. I can never take her out. Right. So he’s doing this wonderful mix of very pointed political observation with jokes in the middle.
You could see peers like the joke is funny, but you know, do you want to laughter in the subject? And I just think this is comedy at its best because he’s using humor to make wonderful, wonderful points. He said, he turned down Peers Morgan invitation twice before giving in the third time, he said, it’s the contradictory expectation of his dual audience. If I was too much, I could lose my career here in the US. It was not enough, I lose my career in the Arab world.
I was going in knowing it was a lose lose situation. So why do it? I don’t know. Until now, I don’t have a clear answer. And I’ll follow that up with this comedian Matt Rife inducted into the Mahegan Sons Walk of Fame.
Wow, what an honor. Congratulations to Matt Rife, twenty eight years old and already in the Mohegan Sons Walk of Fame. Who else is in the Hall of Fame? John Well, Taylor Swift, Earth Wind and Fire, and Rascal Flats. He’s the forty first inductee into the Mahegan Sons Arena Walk of Fame.
Now I’m curious. Now I’m looking it up and I can’t find the fullest. Some other names Chris Rock, Toby Keith, New Kids on the Block, bon Jovi, and Matt Rife. I’m bad. That’s your comedy news for today.
See you tomorrow,