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Caloroga Shark Media. He there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Season two of Sane Gillis’s Tires out on Netflix today. If you haven’t watched season one, start with season one. The episodes go super fast, super bingeable.
And it’s not like the NBA wants us to watch them tonight, or they would have told the refs, Hey, refs, call some fells against the pacers, will you? But nope, the NBA wants to have pacers. Okay, see, I’m not watching I’ll be watching Tires bitter much. Sure. In season two of Tires, after the unexpected success of their big marketing idea, Will and Sheen rush to grow personally and professionally without fully realizing the cost of doing business.
Okay, Netflix announced a whole bunch of things and they shared a trailer for Adam Sandler is Happy Gilmore IWO with Premiere’s July twenty fifth on Netflix. I think we’re about to see a lot of press. Netflix had their Too Dumb presentation on Saturday, which did not go over well on social media. People were saying that it sucked, but appearing at it, Adam Sandler, Christopher MacDonald and Julie Bowen were introduced by sports commentator rich Eisen. The trailer showed Sandler breaking in another new Caddy, this time played by Bad Bunny.
On the stage, the kids who play Sandler’s children in the movie joked, is there anyone actually under sixty in this movie? I heard somebody commenting that they just took the roles played by Carl Weathers and Richard Keel just made the characters the kids of the original because the original actors have passed away and it’s just like whatever, it’s a Sandler movie. Who cares go with the jokes. Other cameos on stage and in the movie include John Lovetts, Wow, how’d they get him?
Also in the movie famous actresses nobody better to cast than Sadie Sandler a…
They must know somebody. Professional golfers John Day, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory McElroy are in this one. Us Kelsey’s in it Market Qualley and other Nepple Baby, She’s fantastic, but still an apple baby. They’re all in Happy Gilmore two, Adam Simdler till Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show that Travis Kelcey is a nice guy. You guys would love him in real life.
What a big, handsome guy, funny and cool as hell. He’s a stud and he’s so funny. Happy Gilmore too. July twenty fifth. It’s more details about the new version of Just for Laughs Montreal.
Roy Wood Junior and Mikey Day announced as the gala hosts. Roywood on July twenty fifth, Mikey the next night. So new shows announced Ralph Barbosa on the twenty fifth, Joe Jumbroski in the twenty fourth, The Nasty Shows back two shows July twentieth and twenty fourth. Just for the Laughs Culture Show on the twentieth and twenty third, New Faces of Comedy on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth. I might have to get up there for the twenty fifth and catch that one.
I haven’t been able to make friends with the new press people because my former press contact up there is now working with Bruce Hills, who used to run Just for Laughs. She sent me a press release and I’ll read it. Paying attention JFL publicists, paying attention to Hulu publicists.
All right, let’s see what we got here.
MRG Live and Bruce Hill’s Entertainment announced Rick Mercer’s Stand Up for Canada Comedy Tour with twenty one stops across Canada. Thank you for sending things over. I will include your notes in the show if you actually send them to me. John Mulaney commented on this whole thing about why isn’t Mike Birbiglia more famous. Mulanie’s take, Birbiglia does want to be famous.
I think everyone wants to be famous, but he thinks Birbiglia is already famous. It’s kind of relative the question of fame because he’s had successes that maybe some more household names haven’t. I don’t know anyone with as much respect in the theater, stand up, film, and TV world all at once. He made deliberate choices about having a much more interesting career than pursuing one of the agreed upon mainstream roots. That’s all fair.
I was thinking about that verbig special. I feel like the media really liked it, the Bverbiglia special. I feel like the media really likes Burbiglia. Verbiglia’s PR team definitely got him on a lot of big shows. I don’t know if that had any impact in mainstream American society.
And I’m not sure. In you know, regular folks like go down to the bar and go hey Mike Burbiglia, Like go down to the bar and ask your buddies like, hey, did you watch Mike Burbiglia and see if they actually know who he is. I’m not sure. I’m not here to bash. I’m just I give my take on how I see things, and I’m not sure that special cut through Despite a lot of press last week, Robert Smigel has got a new podcast called Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends.
On Humor Me, Robert Smigel and his guests, who will be a line of professional writers and comedians, will help listeners write all kinds of prepared remarks, from a speech to a toast, to a eulogy, to a presentation or application essay or a thank you note. We’re just slamming someone online. His online announcement suggests things like letter to a Congressman, letter of Santa, letter to a longtime crush, or if you’re Conan O’Brien and Oscar’s monologue, Michael says, we thought it’d be entertaining the showcase funny people writing. So here’s this no word on a release date yet. This will be produced by Big Bunny Players, which is Will Ferrell’s podcast network and a partner of iHeartMedia, so that’ll get pushed pretty big.
Speaking of Conan O’Brien, he said that Hacks triggered PTSD symptoms for him as he watched the fourth season. Conan told Hacks co creator and writer Paul W Downs the show delves into late night this year, which was fascinating for me because there are things you cite in the show that I’ve lived through, and so I’ll get a little bit of PTSD from watching it. But it’s also really funny and apt, you know, like getting notes here, this is what we heard about you, you know, in the early days of my late night show research and what are people saying and what do we need to adjust? Let me chime in there. I was really into HBO’s Entourage and had to stop watching it because it was at a point in my life where I was working closely with the Foxhole Jamie Fox’s comedy channel and doing la things that you know, Jenny Mack from Queen’s normally would be doing and never felt quite comfortable.
So then I’d watch Entourage and they were doing the same kind of things like going to parties on yachts and stuff like that, and I was like, this is too close to where I can’t and I had to just stop watching it. I really liked the show, but it was just giving me kind of the same feeling Conan was getting, Like, I just this is making me excited. Even talk about it now, fifteen years later, I don’t want to go there. Remember being at a super Bowl party one night and the Big Boss was mad at me, so I was there to make sure that the broadcast aspect of Live from Jimmie Fox’s super Bowl party went well. Again, listen to me, Oh poor you.
You were Jimmy Fox’s super Bowl party. Yes, but everybody else was partying and I had to stay in manager mode. And I remember a nice young lady who thought I wasn’t having enough fun and she was encouraging me to have more fun, and I just I felt like such a loser. First of all, you know, I’m married, so I’m not going to do anything with a nice young lady anyway. But I just remember being like, yeah, I got to just stand here and look like a suit.
It sucked. Conan said, it was all stuff that just felt impossible. So I’m kind of reliving it a little bit through your show. But you guys are doing a very good job of hitting a bunch of the nerves, which means you’re getting it right. Conan brought up a scene from the show where late night hosts are arguing over a celebrity guest appearance.
Debora Vance is trying to get Kristen Bell on her show. Jimmy Kimmel confronts her and says, you don’t get Kristen Bell because she always says my show. I sort of got possession of having her after conanbur died. Conan thought it was funny that in that universe that Conan died. And what I loved about it is no one questions it.
It’s just like since Conan died. It’s just like I get her after Conan died. It’s just understood. And I’m laughing because no one questions it. That is funny.
Oh you see, now I should head for a break there, But I didn’t end on a down inflection. Remember I lectured everybody about this yesterday. So I’m going to do one more story in the A block so that I can properly throw things to break like you’re supposed to. In Canada, they’re making a Canadian spin off of the Prices right now, You’re like why, I don’t know either. Are Canadians like yeah?
You know that True Carry version is way too American for us. We have a Canadian hosting America’s got talent. We don’t get upset. Maybe we should do something about that. What is Trump doing about that?
Why is a Canadian hosting America’s got talent? Why doesn’t Drew Carry host America’s got talent? A good at old fashioned American marine. Let’s get that campaign going. Send your letters to me.
I guess I opened that cat of corn there. I’m just shucking a joke. Relax, it’s a joke. How we Mendelican host America’s Got Talent because he’s also hosting the Canadian The Price is Right? This one has a working title of The Price Is Right Tonight.
See it’s totally different. HOWI Mandela, a press release said, I’ve been a fan of the Prices right my entire life, so stepping into this PS iconic role is an absolute thrill. The Price Is Right Tonight will bring a fresh, high energy twist to everything people love about the original Big Games, lots of laughs and fun surprises. I can’t wait to say, come on down to a whole new generation of Canadian fans and remember everybody heading into a break and on a down inflection. All right, well, the stupid NBA wants us to watch PACER’s OKC.
We’re not doing that. Call some fowls, refs, what are you doing? You know the right ping pong ball comes out of the thing every year during the NBA draft. You know that seems to magically work out for wherever the hot rookie should go. Somehow that works out.
Nobody can call some fowls against the Pacers. What are you doing? You left a lot of money on the table. No one’s watching Pacers OKC. Sorry from Celtics Wire, you’re home for comedy news.
Former Celtics Ford Blake Griffin said some NBA players are pretty funny. Jamal Crawford is hilarious. I think one of the funniest guys is Jeff Tigue. He’s hilarious. I could listen to him tell stories all day.
As for Blake’s own comedic influences, he says, when I was younger, jud Apatow comedies were right in my wheelhouse. I was in high school when those were coming out. I love Seth Rogan. I love Dana McBride. I’ll watch Danny McBride planning character.
I think he’s awesome. You have Shane Gillis, his stand up is phenomenal or mind Blake Griffin Tire season two out today. I like how guys are just starting to get funding and shooting shows and selling it because they can make exactly what they want and they don’t have to adhere to a bunch of notes. Those are some of the people who are doing the best in comedy right now. An interesting story, it’s behind him paywall.
I’ve tried every trick to try and read this story. The headline from the Philadelphia Inquirer, and I’ll just tell you all I know is the headline says, a junk fee is no laughing matter. According to a new class action lawsuit against Helium Comedy Club. The lawsuit requests damages for Helium Comedy Club customers in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Missouri over the inclusion of junk fees at checkout. I tried googling to find out more about this lawsuit.
I can’t find anything. I just find the headline interesting. I’ll try and keep an eye on that. Seth Myers told a crowd in Austin that he can’t picture a world in where he would stop doing Late Night. I found from the very beginning of my career in this business, you just have to focus on the day you’re doing the show.
There’s no version of me getting ahead of what twenty twenty eight it’s gonna look like that’s going to be even close to right now, Seth’s ratings should sort of more or less double right once Taylor Thompson shows go away and twelve thirty seven to himself, you know, maybe go up one point five x. That should make the show more profitable for NBC and keep Seth away. You know, I’ve been fascinated by Late Night with Seth Myers. I feel like it has zero impact on the universe. It just exists, Seth said.
It’s an industry that’s constantly facing challenges, But I don’t think anybody on a network thinks I’m going to be the one smart enough to solve the problems of like how to fix TV. Myers has a contract to host Late Night through twenty twenty eight, which is an eternity in current television. Who knows what TV will look like in three years? Here is a terrifying fact. On July nineteenth, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast, put on your seatbelt before I tell you this next sentence.
On July nineteenth of this year, Seth Myers will pass David Letterman for second longest tenure as host of the Late Night franchise. Seth would have to hang out until August twenty twenty nine to break Conan O’Brien’s record for longest tenure of the Late Night franchise, and in fourth place, Jimmy Fallon. Josh Gonoman announced his latest hour of material, Positive Reinforcement, will premiere on the Blonde Medicine YouTube channel on June twenty seventh, and in album for Him on July eleventh. Now what I like here is let me read it back to you. Joshleman has announced that his latest hour of material, somebody has found a way to not use the word special.
I like it. Oh no, but here in the second paragraph in the special in Brooklyn. Oh sorry, rats, I thought somebody had figured it out. I could edit that out, but I’m not going to. Gonoman details his attempts to adapt to changing times despite being born in the previous century.
I Feel You. He covers topics arranging from novelty big goods to proper pronoun usage and creative retirement planning, all while wearing a very nice sweater and a clean pair of sneakers because he knew there would be cameras there. Josh Gonoman Positive Reinforcement Blonde Medicine YouTube channel. June twenty seventh. If you are in Chicago, today is the Kids Above All’s annual Stand Up for Kids comedy Night.
Seventy five dollars. Tickets include beer, wine, and appetizers he can get Raffle tiktets. All Proceeds benefit the children and families in the Kids Above All programs. Comedians include Patty Vasquez, Chris Bourns, Kimberly, KB Marion, and Paul Farivar. Proceeds benefit the young people in families and Kids Above All programs supporting early childhood learning, safe housing, and counseling services for youth who have experienced trauma in the city of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
Today eight pm at the Den Theater on Milwaukee Avenue and That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow