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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, the Chiefs beat my niners high. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. After the Super Bowl, Stephen Colbert was live and he made this terrible, horrible joke. He said, finally something good happened for Taylor Swift.
Wow, if Joe Coy said that, he’d be canceled. She’s going to be so mad. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. Colbert also joked, have fun, Taylor, but please make sure you have a designated driver for your private jet.
John Stewart was the guest. Now The Daily Show returned last night, and as I put the show together on Monday, I was like, oh, yeah, February twelve, The Daily Show with John Stewart is back. Despite them doing Super Bowl ads, which I saw with John Stewart, it it didn’t register in my brain at all that that was last night and there wasn’t really a lot of buzz heading into Monday night on that. If I’m Comedy Central played the big card. Now I gotta be a little worried I’ll recap tomorrow.
Whatever Stuart was talking about last night. Anyway, the appearance on Colbert was pretty uneventful. On The Daily Show podcast, John Stewart said, if you want to be present in this world, you have to be present in this conversation. You have to be as relentless and tenacious as the counter narrative that’s being formed. So much of the information that we see now is weaponized, and he keeps taking exponential leaps.
It’s not just the election, it’s AI. It’s the way we’ve militarized our conflicts. I keep going. John John Stewart is now sixty one years old. He hosted The Daily Show from nineteen ninety nine to twenty fifteen.
The La Times wrote the world has changed, of course, around late night shows, and they point out that Tonight Show turns seventy this year. Until the adoption of the VCR, late night television was available only at night. I remember when I got my first VCR. I was so excited. I didn’t have to stay up to one thirty in the morning to watch Letterman.
It was awesome. Late night TV was for people who were happy to forego sleep, or couldn’t sleep, or had nowhere they had to be in the morning. You might not be ready for bed. After Johnny Carson finished, he’d come in from a club or a movie or whatever and turn on the set and there’d be Tom Snyder talking to Orson Wells or Chris Elliot living under the bleachers on Late Night with Letterman. The later the start time, the less the financial risk, and the more freedom to play.
Craig Ferguson’s still celebrated throughout the cards. Late Late Show was constitutionally at twelve thirty AM. Show would have worked at eleven thirty. And the people remember Taylor Thomlinson as a twelve thirty show. She showed up in a few Super Bowl ads.
I mean she made a Taylor joke. I guess it’s just I don’t know. I’m not ripping Taylor. I just think everybody going see her name is Taylor and she’s plowing. It’s lame.
Her new Netflix special is out today. It’s called Have It All, filmed at the Capitol One Hall Theater in Tyson’s, Virginia. I guess that in the Daily Show will be my TV action. Tonight, Colin Jost is going to host The White House Correspondents dinner, great choice. He will be great at that.
The White House Correspondence Association President Kelly O’Donnell said, Colin Jost knows how to make Saturday Night’s funny. His sharp insids perfectly meet this remarkable time of divided politics and a presidential campaign careening towards a rematch. The two most recent hosts were Roy Wood Junior and Trevor Noah. You know, Jost would be a good daily show host. He’s got the writing chops.
You know, Hey, Comedy Central, write that one down, right, because after Lauren does the fifty, that’s going to be the time to walk away from messing out. Write that one down, Colin, you write that one down too. That’s a good gig for you. It’s in New York. You don’t have to move.
Jost is forty one. He could do it for ten years. That’s the move, Colin Jost. Why didn’t we think of that earlier? Colin Joss sticks around till Lauren’s fiftieth, So that’s that’ll be June of twenty five, and then host the Daily Show.
They just have to muddle through for another year and a half.
Speaking of Saturday Night Live, you know who’s hosting this week Shane Gillis.
We’re gonna be talking about that all week. America Magazine gets it their headline, comedian Shane Gillis doesn’t make a good first impression, but it’s worth sticking around. Great stuff by America Magazine. They have watched Shane and they get what he’s doing, and they write, Shane Gillis does not make a good first impression. He looks and sounds like every online scolds, worst nightmare and out of shape white millennial mail, casually throwing around offensive words, and most people have not outside of a middle school playground since nineteen eighty seven.
And yet there’s something more there. While it might be difficult to stick around for, that’s something more than shang Gilis has to say. I would advise you to do so. They right. It could be said that Gillis is not for everyone, but in a sense, he actually is.
Like all great comedians, Shane Gillis is something important to say, the problem is that you don’t immediately realize he has something substantive to say because you’re also squirming so much. Gillis’s comedy is a hybrid of cringe humor and bro culture. However, both wind up being subordinated to the fiercely intelligent observational skills that ultimately steer his comedic course is on stage. Persona embodies the millennial bro. This is a broad categorization for young white males, usually distinguished by their enjoyment of domestic beer and say bud light and televised sports, being carelessly misogynistic and lacking intellectual curiosity.
Watching Gillis’s stand up back, it appears this VI’s from another time, and by that I mean it’s as though he was transported from the nineteen eighties to the present day somehow bypassing the advent and subsequent entrenchment of language within mainstream cultural discourse. But if you’re only paying attention to the cosmetics of the act, the bostering, and the rhetoric, you will miss the incredibly intelligent man and is incredibly astute commentary on contemporary society. Watching a Gillis show requires some work. He doesn’t add anything to you, continually makes you evaluate exactly what he’s doing up there in question whether or not you should be laughing. Should be a fun week.
TMZ caught up with Joe Ann You. Joanne is the executive director of the Asian American Foundation. She tells TMZ that Shane gillis hosting SNL’s bad timing, considering the Asian community has been devastated by a wave of hate that started during the COVID nineteen pandemic, but adds, if Shane’s serious about making amends, he should cut a check to the organization’s Hope against Hate campaign and join their food tours for a real Asian cuisine experience. She’s planning to watch, but not for Shane, but for what she calls the Bow and Yang Variety Hour at the Super Bowl. Shane was invited up by Zach Bryan.
Whiskey Riff writes, the one and only Shane Gillis bumbled his way on stage and somehow looked like he was having a blast and was completely uncomfortable at the same time, but that didn’t stop him from grabbing the mic. Fun What do you think this one’s about? Matt Riich’s show in Memphis has been postponed due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict. His show for Friday has been moved to June twelfth. Does that mean he got a better paying gig?
What’s going on there? Master Brownie’s got a new album. It’s called The Birds and the Bees. Hopefully you’ve had a chance to catch up on Mark Maron’s wonderful interview with John Oliver. I loved the way John made fun of Mark here.
I had to rip out a lot of f bombs here. But this is a lot of fun. It’s all this sort of they want to be worked up. It’s all this general grievances, just this broad grievance ideology. And this guy seems mad.
You’re completely about grievance. They’ll be a hype pipe of grievance. No, you’ll the shining angry city on a hill. I think that I am a completely objective narrator American comedy A little quiet off the super Bowl Shortle has three things that I want to talk about today. The first, Eric Idol saying he has no money on social media.
Eric, who’s eighty, said, I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded. Python is a disaster. Spamalot made money twenty years ago. I have to work for my living. Not easy at this age.
All right, maybe he didn’t make money on the TV show. You should have made some money on those movies. No, and spamalat you should have made some money. I guess not. Eric says, I think the series problem or the Spotify’s on the youtubes copyright ain’t worth jack stuff anymore.
We own everything we ever made in Python, and I never dreamed at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously. But I guess if you put a Gilliam child in as your manager, you shouldn’t be surprised. One Gillium is bad enough. Two can take out any company. Ouch.
I guess we won’t be seeing a Python reunion anytime soon. One fan suggested a comeback, Idol said no thanks, I’m doing no more Python. I gave already ungrateful bastards. Wow. Another suggested a Netflix documentary, and he said, f Netflix and f documentaries wow.
Idle pointed out he hasn’t seen John Clees for said years. One fan said that makes me sad. Idle responded, why makes me happy? I still love and I’m proud of what we did as Python. It was a very unique group.
Can’t be very unique, Eric, I think of us as an ex Liverpool team. We played together well way back in the day, but it was never very supportive of people’s feelings and emotions, not brothers colleagues. Apparently the Gilliam child is Holly Gilliam, who took over the Python brand in twenty fourteen and co produced that year’s reunion show. I worked with the guys. Was it their fortieth anniversary?
We did a pop up station for I don’t know if we had merged yet Serious or Series XM, but that makes sense. Sixty nine and forties two thousand and nine, Yeah, all right, for Serius XM. That’s probably when that was give or take. So in the past, John Clees was the voice of God in Spam a lot on the show toward the UK in twenty eleven. Then Idle said I fired John Clees, surgically removed him.
It wasn’t me, and he’s had millions of dollars from me. He charges people of fortune fusing his voice. He’s always been in financial crisis. In response to that, Cleise wrote, I see Yoko Idols been moaning again about the royalties he had to pay the other Pythons for spam a loot. Apparently he paid me millions actual rough figures.
Last time we checked, Yoko Idol thirteen million dollars Michael Palin one point one million, the others just under a million each, So back to the beginning, Eric wyould assume you’re loaded? Is if you got thirteen million dollars from spam A lot. Yeah. Lily Idol is Eric’s daughter, and she jumped on Twitter and said, I’m so proud of my dad for finally starting to share the truth. He’s always set up to bullies and narcissists and absolutely deserves reassurance and validation for doing so.
Also from chort Ole, the Wonderful Richard Ayoada will narrate the animated version of Bill Bryson’s popular science book A Short History of Nearly Everything That’s Fun. This next one not fun. Comedian Paul Curry has been accused of inciting anti Semitic chants against audience members during his comedy show at London Soho Theater. Apparently, Curry took out a Palestinian flag during his show. At the end of the show, the comic, according to Turtle Quote, orchestrated his own standing of ation.
At the end, Curry spotted one man or remain in a seat and asked him why didn’t stand? Didn’t you enjoy my show? The man is believed to be Israeli and said, enjoyed your show until you brought out the Palestinian flag. According to Short, let it provoke Curry to order him out of the theater. Audience members are saying and escalated into a screaming match, with Curry shouting leaf my effing show, now, get out now, adding to the intrigue.
Soho Theater is built on the Dean Street site where the West End Great Synagogue used to stand, and it still displays a miss rock, the plaque traditionally placed on the east wall of Jewish building, commemorating that history. Tina Fey was on Bowen Yang’s podcast and told Bowen authenticity is dangerous and expensive. Fay warn bow and bow and Yang giving his real opinions about movies on this podcast. I regret to inform you that you’re too famous. Now, sir, you have a problem with Saltburn.
Keep it to yourself, because what are you going to do when Emerald Fennel calls you about our next project. We play Kerry Mulligan’s coworker in the bridal section of Herod’s and then act three it takes a sexually violent turn and you have to pretend to be surprised by that turn. You hang out with Arianna and SpongeBob. Now that’s your life, and that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.