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Caloroga Shark Media Happy Shane Gillis Day. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Shane hosting SNL tonight. The New York Times wrote a big article about Shane. They resurfaced a twenty twenty one interview with Shane from The Joe Rogan Experience, on which Shane said he had told SNL about the tone of his podcast.
Lord Michael Sposeley asked, Shane, do you have anything you want us to check out? Gillis replied he had a podcast, as The New York Times quotes, I say like gay and retard a lot. According to Gillis, they were like, ah, that’s fine, don’t worry about it. The Times reminds us that that year Bowen Yang joined the cast. In twenty twenty, Yang told The Times, the reason I didn’t comment on it was because there was a sense of opposition being created between the two of us, right, But a lot of it was invented because it wasn’t like he was making any comments about me specifically.
So why is Shane back? Well? The Times went with this when hosting SNL in nineteen ninety nine, about a year and a half after being let go, Norm McDonald said, I wanted to keep my job, and they felt the exact opposite. How did I go from not being funny enough to even be allowed in the building to being so funny that I’m now hosting the show? How did I get so damn funny?
It’s inexplicable to me. Then it occurred to me, I hadn’t gotten funnier, The show had gotten really bad. Time Magazine writes SNL’s Sheen Gillis flip flop comes as no surprise. This is a very good article I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Time rates on SNL the buck stops with creator Lauren Michaels, So it seems fair to presume that the choices reflect some combination of his taste and what he and his team believe viewers want to see.
And you hear him tell it. He never stopped being a fan of Shane Gillis’s work. As he explained in twenty twenty two, NBC was in something of a panic. It was like they’re gonna boycott the sponsors. Reflecting on all this in twenty twenty two Inner with Andrew Yang, the rich guy that ran for president, Remember him?
Shane told Andrew, I understand both sides of the argument. He should be fired or he was just joking. I’m not a victim. There’s a video of me using a slur. There’s gonna be some backlash.
Time says that might not seem like much. Certainly isn’t an apology. Yet it’s remarkably rare to hear such a clear eyed articulation of his own predicament. Usually, comedians double down, refashioning themselves as free speech warriors. Chappelle Sorry, I had a cough there, rallying against cancel culture and ultimately embracing an audience friendlier to their brand of bigotry.
Some, most prominently Louis C.K. Have issued apologies and disappeared for a while, only to resurface with material geared towards reactionary fans. Gillis can be refreshing and that he doesn’t pretend I have all the answers or be an exemplary human being. And his jokes he casts himself as ugly bad at sex, subjectively inferior to his girlfriend’s Navy seal. X wive in Austin opens with the comedian roasting his own hair.
Then he advises an overwhelmingly white male audience. If you’re white, don’t get it to me Midican haircut, you just stand up looking more racist. He then doesn’t a brief impression of the Dominican barber, Sime writes, it’s a bit of a punchline overload. Who’s actually the butt of the joke? Gillis Dominicans, racist white people with their stupid haircuts.
A thorough review of the context surrounding the racist language that knocked them off a pedestal might lose some nuance. The new material might even be enough to make you wonder whether SNL hadn’t been overly hasty and cutting them loose. Would a comic this perceptive really step off the stage and spew hatred for its own sake? Time rights? Unfortunately?
Yes. If an interest in history is a gateway to republicanism, then Gillis’s stand up that’s a call back to a joke that’s not a dig from time. Then Gillis’s stand up might be a gateway to his partially paywalled empire of slurs, conspiracy theories, and all manner of other bigotry. Seth Simons has made a study of all the things Gillis says, outside of his Aisle crossing stand up in The Daily Beast, I talk about this early a week. He offers a damning indictment of Gillis’s choice to platform holocaust deniers, one of whom happens to be his podcast co host’s brother Simons brought a run down of the comic recent utterances for The La Times.
Features inwards, anti Semitic K words and a crude impression of some with down syndrome, the misgendering of trans women, praise for Proud Boys founder Gavin McGinness, and as well as that old standby charactertures of Asian people. I’m looking forward to this episode tonight. I will talk about it on Monday, because you know SNL ends at one am and Johnny Mack goes to bed.
Speaking of SNL, I think this is really cool.
Colin Jost and Michael Chay are celebrating Saint Patrick’s Eve. See this year it’s a leap yeer. Saint Patrick’s Day was supposed to fall on a Saturday, which is awesome. When I used to be the mayor of Saint Patrick’s Day, there was one year I lost my voice on Saint Patrick’s Day. I went out anyway, but because of the stupid Leap Year, Saint Patrick’s Day is a Sunday, which sucks.
So Jost and Chay and Jamison Irish Whiskey are promoting Saint Patrick’s Eve. Chay tells People Magazine, we don’t really like doing brand deals, that’s not a thing. But for a really good cause like Leapier, I mean we had to. Jay says it’ll possibly be the greatest holiday that will ever exist. Even though we just found out about it, feels like we’ve been celebrating it forever.
Joe just said, I think this is going to be at least the second biggest countdown of the year that happens at Times Square Top two for sure. Jay says, obviously, Saint Patrick’s Day’s a big deal in New York. I just always love that everybody’s in kind of the same spirit together. It’s very rare that a city this big find something we could all agree on. Just kind of cool to see everybody on the same page and having a good time.
Joe sasked, did you ever march in the parade? Jay says, march of the parade? What am I a cop? No? I never marched the parade, but I’ve seen it maybe forty times.
Chris DeStefano said he had a callback audition for a reporter role in James Gunn’s Superman reboot. I don’t think he got it. He was up for Steve Lombard, who apparently is the Daily Planet’s sports reporter. That must have happened after I became an adult and stop reading Superman comics. Lombard often as a comedic undertone.
It is something of a workplace foil for Superman’s nerdy Clark Kent secret identity. They often have a strained relationship but wind up being good friends. Who knows rory scovel specials out on HBO Max. I’m not adding it to my end of the year list. A couple notes here, and this isn’t at Rory, this is at everybody.
The intros on these comedy specials they’re too long, man Like, Get to It. Rory’s thing was like two minutes. Kevin James did the same thing. Get to It to the twenty first century. We’ve all got ad D.
We’re all playing on our phone while the TV’s on, and you’re just gonna like walk out to music for two minutes and the crowd here just get to it. Tell a joke. So I got through all that, and I gotta admit the long intro already put me in a funk. You’re already digging yourself out of a hole because I’m already annoyed at the direction of the special. But I’m gonna play a clip here, Okay, I want you to pay attention.
I’ve been noticing this a lot on specials. Are the comedians adding laughter to specials? You tell me, listen to this, I’m gonna play a clip. The initial joke is solid, definitely deserves the laugh. But then listen to the tags.
Listen to the way the audience reacts to the tags. To me, feels like a sitcom. I feel like the laughter’s way out of whack with the relative hilarity of these tags. You tell me, I also want to be fair here After the word holy, he said the S word. I try and keep this podcast clean, so I’ve made an edit here.
Other than that, it’s as it aired on the HBO Max special. Take a listen, you guys. Have you ever met someone who’s like I’ve read the whole Bible? Is your first thought? Oh my god, we should hang out the whole Bible.
What are you doing tonight? Holy the whole Bible. You ever seen somebody with a highlighted Bible? Why did that start? I just thought Jesus made such a good point here, and I want to I just I was reading it and I was like, wait, this is me.
But Jesus said it back then. Ah, So what do you think? Huh? Yeah, I don’t know. I’m noticing a lot of that.
Anyway. That does not make the end of the year list. The list continues to be only number one, Dusty Sleigh, number two, Taylor Thomlinson not on the list, Beat Davidson, Jackie Novak, Kevin James, and now I have to add I already forgot his name, Rory Scovel. I would hate to think people are adding laughter to their specials. But Mitch Heedburgh had a joke twenty years ago about sweetening, so might be a thing that happens again.
Use your years, you tell me got a lot here for a Saturday. Huh. The Washington Post it caught up at that. Robert F. Kennedy fundraiser Jeremy Piven compared white men to bitcoin, saying we were the toast of the town, and now everyone’s trying to dump us.
Rob Schneider prowled the stage in a fedora, says the Post. He complained in California public schools, one day, you drop off a girl. In the afternoon, you pick up a boy. Schnyder said, I’m old enough to remember when the Democratic Party was the Democratic Party. Remember when they were against war, censorship, don’t trust your government.
It was really a joke, was it, Post says. People appear to have come for the politics as much as the comedy. They laugh, but just as often cheered things like the Constitution and my Glendell and booed things like Jimmy Kimmel and Gavin Newsom. The crowd was diverse in age and style of dress, but mostly white and skewing male. In an informal survey of twenty odd attendees, quoting here, only one, a sharp dressed black man named Emmanuel, said Biden was the second choice.
The rest leaned toward Trump unquote. The evening’s entertainment was heavy on podcast comics loosely connected to what some have called the manosphere. I have not heard that term before. The manosphere among the audience, which paid one hundred and fifty dollars for theater seats and up to fifteen hundred for after party access. Podcasts were cited as an important source of information.
THEO Vaughn’s name came up a lot, as did Adam Carolla. Both have given RFK Junior a lot of airtime. The La Times ads so what got the crowd going? Jokes about lockdown, masking, Biden’s age, the pathetic Democrats, and more masking. Not sure if they’re quoting someone here or paraphrasing, but they wrote, isn’t it funny how you had a mask when walking to a restaurant but not at the table?
How about on a plane visiting your elderly mom? Should do that? As angry Jerry Seinfeld and a funny I had a mask? And why at a restaurer? Have another tell?
How about out of play and were visited you earlier? The mom quite the show. Varidy caught up with Michael Keaton about these sequels of Beetlejuice. The movie is titled Beetle Juice and I’m not saying it a third time, not falling for that, but it’s that word twice is the title, Kean says, It’s the most fun I’ve had on a set in a long time. The one thing that Tim Burton and I decided on early, early, early on, from the beginning, if we ever did it again.
I was totally not interested in doing something where there was too much technology. They had to feel handmade. It’s the most exciting thing when you get to do that again. After years of standing in front of a giant screen pretending somebody’s across the way from you, this is just enormous fun. What made it fun was watching somebody in the corner actually holding something up for you to watch everybody in the shrunken headroom and say, there are people under there operating these things, trying to get it right.
We thought, we have to get this right. Otherwise don’t do it. Let’s just get on with our lives and do other things. So I was hesitant and cautious, and he was probably equally as hesitant and cautious after all these years. Once we got there, he said, all right, let’s go for it.
Let’s see if we can do it. B were, I’m not falling for it is the most fun you can have working. It’s so fun, it’s so great. You know what this is. We’re doing it exactly like we did the first movie.
There’s a woman, a spoiler in the Great Waiting Room for the Afterlife, literally with a fishing line. I want people to know this because I love it, tugging on the tail of a cat to make it move. Movie sequel, not Falling for It in theater is September sixth. Hopefully that gets people reinterested in the musical. I saw the musical.
It was fantastic. Paul Versey is taping his next special at the Din Theater in Chicago tonight and on YouTube you many. American comedian I’m ed Al Khardri is releasing his first special. Ahmed brings his striking goofy charm to tales that span the spectrum of life subsurdities, from taking mushrooms at a Lizo concert and playing taboo with his brothers to the comedic nuances of dual cultural identities that one’s called special not special. You’ll find it on YouTube and that is your comedy news for today.
Hopefully. Shane Gillis creates all kinds of controversies. I like the controversies. See tomorrow