🎙️ Listen to this episode:
Full Transcript
Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence The Algorithm loves SNL is coming to the UK this Saturday. Your first host on SNL UK will be Tina Fay. Pretty good choice.
Some people are surprised they went with an American host, but I don’t think you can argue that Tina Fay doesn’t know how to do SNL. So you know, sometimes the correct move is go right down the middle, and why goof around the first impressions make a big deal. Tina Fey good at SNL knows how to host, Sure, Dna Fay, why not? Musical guests, English band wet Leg Season one is only six episodes. We know that.
On March twenty eighth, Jimmie Dornan will host April fourth, Riz Ahmed and we’re going to talk about him later we’ll host. Dornan will be joined by musical guest Wolf Alice and Casbian will be on the Riz Ahmed Show. SNL UK will air at ten pm local time on Sky one and the streaming service known as Now. If you’re in the US and you want to watch, you have to wait until the next day. That’s fine.
I watch SNL on Sunday anyway, It’ll be on Peacock in the US. SNL UK episodes are seventy five minutes. Interesting number, The Guardian wrote, how could this be anything other than funny? They profiled the behind the scenes. Maybe someday someone will make a movie of all this, the Guardian tells us.
For the past four weeks, eleven performers and twenty writers have been spending every weekday together in this very building, which apparently is a boardroom in West London’s television center. They’ve been hashing out premises for skits. Do we like the word skits? I think we like the word sketches over here more than skits workshopping each other’s material and finding the alchemy. Writer Graham Maguire says, since Lockdown, it feels like British comedy television has been slowly atrophying.
A huge opportunity like this is so exciting, The Guardian tells us the SNL model seems unthinkably luxurious. On that side of the pond, where sitcoms are often written by just one person and writer room jobs are pretty much non existent. Is my delivery very Colin Jost today. Every time I’m finishing a freeze, I feel like I’m putting a Colin Jost’s spin on it, and I’m not trying to do that, The Guardian says. When they ask cast member Al Nash how he’s getting in the zone, he thuds a copy of Live from New York, Tom Shells and James Andrew Miller’s eight hundred page oral history of SNL down on the table, and he says, some of us like to do our research.
Follow up question was what inside have you gained? The answer, I actually haven’t started reading it yet. That’s hilarious. Showrunner James Longman says, Lauren Michaels keeps saying things to me like just get it on air. How do they choose the cast, he says, we were looking for the funniest people.
We didn’t go in for name recognition. The cast range from twenty six to age thirty six. There was not an age limit. One element being carried over from the US’s Weekend update, Good thing Tina Fey is there this weekend. I’m looking forward to watching that one.
I Meanwhile, in the United States, of America. We have our own Saturday Night Live at Arizon Saturday Nights Long. I’ve at eleven thirty and on the most recent episode, Marcelo Hernandez busted out his Sebastian Maniscalco impression again. Sebastian is campaigning hard to get booked on SNL. Man He posted on Twitter, I’ve been on SNL twice now, which sounds impressive until I tell you neither time was as the host.
At this point, Harry Styles and Marcelo Hernandez have locked more rehearsal time as me than I have. Both of them were hilarious and absolutely nailed it. Maybe the third time I come in and do it as myself campaign campaign campaign. A lot of people really liked this impression that Marcelo Hernandez does. As I said in the past, he does one thing, and he does one thing well, and arguably he does two things.
But I here, let’s listen to it. I’ll talk about the case yourana. Listen to me. For my client to get out of that store, he would have had the June Collar security Gullar. Then they got delases everywhere, so my client would have had the Tom Cruise.
That okay, and then they got the sensors. You know about the censor Jarana, They’re about this thought of sensus. They tell you you got something you’re not supposed to have. So Mike Client what I had to grab the shoes and the bell and the jack and hold it above his head and go like that. So either Mike Client is not upid or he belongs in the alumpics.
The defense rests. I agree. I mean, it’s okay. Now I’m only playing the audio, so you’re not getting the physical aspects. He does it very very animated, which I’m not entirely sure where that’s coming from.
It’s a good character, but it’s not like the most amazing impression. And if you’re like Jenny Mack, you just don’t find Marcello or Hernan is funny. You’re you’re not being fair. Well you might be right, but as evidence that the impression is nothing special, let me present to you Harry Styles. This is crazy.
You’re all just captivated by the way Sebastian Anna Scalco is talking like what if I talk like that? Eron, This guy took the close and he walked right out of school. He got the security footage to lat them, so ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Yea, I yes, why. Would do that?
Moving on now, if you want to hear a really good impression, Jeremy Colhane broke out Tucker Carlson impression on Weekend Update, and it was fantastic. Let’s listen, let’s all. Go to the movies. Huh? Really?
Yes, why don’t we grab some popcorn and watch American culture collapse? What are we doing? What’s going on? All right? Coming in hot?
Well, how do you feel about this year’s nominees? Where to even beacon? Oh? I know? Why don’t we talk about sinners?
That’s right, sinners? Because of course, leftist, woke America’s favorite movie this year is about sinning. Huh why does that not surprise me? No? Sorry, kids, we don’t go to church anymore.
We go to sinners. That’s the rule, that’s the goal. Now what are we doing? What’s going on? Okay?
All right, so you didn’t you didn’t like Sinners? You didn’t like sinners? What about Handnet? Oh? Hamnet?
Because we’re not allowed to say Hamlet anymore. No, no, took. The l and gave it to the GBTQ. So it’s Hamnet. Now what are we doing?
What’s going on?
Meanwhile?
We have a beef? Yeah? Did you catch it? On it? I just did the cone and yeah.
See that’s why illustrated that yesterday. Yeah, we have a beef. Did you catch the send up of the pit they did on usnl MA Hospital, Well, some people said the Daily Show did that already. Back on November twenty first, The Daily Show aired a promo for RFK Hospital, a fast paced medical drama about the only hospital brave enough to follow the advice of the medical Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior.
In that sketch, a doctor played by Michael Costa knows that medical science doesn’t have to be based on anything in particular, and in that sketch, the staff prescribed treatments such as raw milk, fecal matterbaths, and defluoridated water. In that sketch, Costa’s character reacts to news of a school bus full of children hitting a deer by saying, we can still save that deer meat now. The SNL version closes with RFK Junior, played by James Austin Johnson, rushing a dead bear into the er, hoping to salvage it’s meat. Hmmm. Michael Costa went on Instagram and Johnny mack loves a good beef.
He posted, watch the original that we released six months ago. He further commented, ridiculous. We are also reminded that on January fourteenth, Jimmy Kimmellive aired a sketch called Make America Healthy Again, in which Noah Wiley presented himself as not a real doctor who gave some medical advice inspired by RFK Junior. Hmm. Mark Norman’s special was out on Netflix, and you know there were Nicks and USA Baseball last night.
You know, I kind of wish Netflix would stop putting the comedy specials out on Tuesday. You would think Tuesday would be like a good night to just kick back and watch comedy special and it never is. And maybe it’s just because I live an old man mountain. Can you just put these things out on like Friday? Mark Norman was on Fox News and he said, what bothers him about comedy today is the presence of any finger wagging in comedy.
He said, imagine if a musician just came up put his guitar down, was like, let me tell you about iron in Israel, and you’re like, what about the music, sant up. Comedy is the only art for him that’s so subjective. You can kind of slip away from the comedy part because you’re holding a microphone and have a stool with a beer on it. Mark says comedy has become weirdly morality based. When I was a kid, you watch Blazing Saddles, Ready Murphy or whatever, and it was just like, the worst things are what you should lean in on.
He does not believe in shock for its own sake, and explain I think some people do that horribly and they just say a word without having a joke. I think as long as there’s always a joke, you can talk about anything. Everything’s on the table. And I think making horrible things funny is part of the job. So I say lean in.
But it’s got to be funny. That’s the key. It’s gotta have a laugh, and that’s the art form making it funny and getting away with it. I’ll pick it that a little bit more tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Ready Steady Cut gave a Mark Special three and a half out of five …
They right. Mark Norman’s style has never really evolved, which is kind of the point. None too pleased, plays out like in All You Can Eat Buffet of Zingers, designed to be equally offensive to everyone, just as it should be. Norman isn’t quite a one liner comic, but he’s close, each argument, usually highlighting some kind of inherent hipocracy or drawing an out there comparison. Examples being an anatomical analogy for the Israel Palestine conflict, or OnlyFans being for men with the wnbas for women, or how being married is like being in the military and using that as an excuse to slip in an off color gag about classic taboo topics like Hitler or Nine to eleven.
They write The reason this works so well for Norman are varied, but the biggest one is that he’s good at it. The punchlines are offering cleverly put together and snuck in when you least expect them, and some of the core contradictions he highlights are just as stude enough to become interesting jumping off points. Cats are like Heroin addicts a couple of spoilers in there that I will skip, but they conclude with most people can laugh not just at others, but also at themselves. Bird Kreischer is gonna milk this bus story again. I’m glad everyone’s okay.
But like the whoever roasted him yesterday, now bird has two stories. Kreischer was on social media again, said all right, here’s everything you need to know about the bus. Both bus drivers said that never seen anything like it in their thirty five years. We waited for a couple hours and then we ditched the bus and got on the crew buses and drove in a seat of rapids. That morning, our bus caught fire on the road.
Everyone is fine, the bus driver, Dewey. He got out in time, he said, literally. The fire started in fifteen seconds. The front cabin was in flames. Here’s the good thing to know.
Had we slept on that bus, we’ve all been trapped in the back and be dead today. Yesterday, we would have been dead yesterday. God works in mysterious ways. So it was a blessing that we had to blow out. It was a blessing.
So today, as frustrated as you may get, everything is a blessing. God works in mysterious ways. The bus story pairs up with Netflix announcing that Free Bert got a season two renewal Bert will also be part of the Netflix as a Joe Comedy Festival, Kreischer, Sigora and Jelly Roll will do the Two Bears five K at the Rose Bowl on May ninth. At the festival, Bert is hosting Bert and Shak’s crowd Work show at the Comedy Store May eighth. I promised I would bring up this comment left in the Facebook group.
Lee has shot a nice note. He pointed out nicely, very nicely, that the fish that Steve Harvey was going after, even though it is spelled like you would pronounce it crappy, it’s actually pronounced crappy and tells me it’s a popular menu item for recreational fishermen. Thank you, Lee. I used to fish for snapper off Jon’s Beach over by the Coastguard station on its probably like ten years old. We just used worms.
No, we didn’t use worms. We would go get baitfish little bit. I don’t know what they’re called. Perhaps they’re called crappy. I don’t know these little baitfish we used to get.
They’re coming like a frozen pack. All the fishermen are like, yeah, city boy, we know you sound like an idiot, and I do sound like an idiot, So let’s move on. Jenny Mack. You never talk about Conan O’Brien or the oscars, and I know I really should bring it up more often. People were curious, Hey, Conan, I thought you said Trump’s not funny?
What was with the political jokes? Conan told Variety after the show, you have to use a common sense about what feels right. If you completely ignore it, you look like you’re living in a bubble, and I wouldn’t want to do that. You got to reflect on what people at home are thinking about, but also they want to be entertained, so you need to thread it. I always hope to try and do that.
Robbie Hoffman was at Vanity Fair’s oscar party. So in case you thought I was really digging in on Nicki Gleezer yesterday, Robbie Hoffman Hollywood insider. I know, Robbie Hoffman. You might look at Robbie Hoffan and be like, that’s not an insider. Oh, that’s an insider.
Robbie Hoffman special produced by John Mulaney and Robbie Hoffman’s at the Vanity Fair oscar party. Were you at the Vanity Fair oscar party? No, because you’re not a Hollywood insider. The entertainment industry is very, very insular if you pay attention anyway, We were told that Robbie Hoffman went on Instagram Stories to share that she had found a diamond watch on the floor of the Vanity Fair’s annual Oscars after party, which took place at the La County Museum Forard. Now let me ask you, listener, do you have a diamond watch?
Did you lose it at Vanity Fair’s annual Oscars after party? No, and no. Robbie Hoffman was there, and she posted an image of the watch and wrote, let it be known that I found a diamond watch on the floor of the Vanity Fair party. The watch appeared to be broken in pieces. Hoffman then followed up with another slide showing a security guard holding the watch, and she pointed out, obviously, I returned it to the LACMA security.
A third post showed an iPhone with a note typed out reading Robbie Hoffman found your watch and a blurred out phone number. Robbie wrote expect reward. We are told the thin, delicate watch appears to be from I’m going to butcher this because I’m a kid from Queen’s You can’t even get the name of a fish Raid Boucheron’s Vendome Milissaa collection. You nailed it, John, keep going all right? Well, we are told via the watch brand’s website.
Watch run from twelve one hundred and fifty dollars to thirty six nine. I mentioned rizam d at the beginning, and I said I would mention him later. It is now later, Amazon, What are you doing? All right? Amazon has made a quote unquote James Bond series.
Now, why don’t you guys just make James Bond. Here’s what James Bond is. He’s a good looking British man, walks in the office. He flirts with Monty Penny. He goes in and kind of yells at him for a little bit.
He goes over to q’s office, grabs some gadgets, has a cool car, meets a chick. There’s a guy who’s trying to kill him, usually as a gimmick. Then he meets another chick, then he defeats the bad guy. That’s James Bond. Anyway, they are making a show called Bait.
Why they would make Baits and not James Bond, You’d have to ask them. Baits was written by, created by, and stars Rizamed as Sha a struggling actor about to give up when he’s invited to audition for the role of James Bond. The six episodes follow Shaw over four days as he and his family and his best friend learn what it means to be an instant star. Shaw learns firsthand that while being considered for one of the biggest movie roles of all time makes them the center of attention, it also brings a lot of backlash. Here’s an idea, Let’s just make James Pond.
And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.