Taylor Swift Reportedly Upset With Nikki Glaser, Dave Chappelle’s Arena Tour, and Howard Stern’s HBO Move

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Featured: Taylor Swift, Nikki Glaser, Dave Chappelle, Howard Stern, Chris Rock, Joe Cojoy, Conan O’Brien, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Taylor Swift reportedly upset with Nikki Glaser over wedding guest comments
• Dave Chappelle announces arena tour including New York Comedy Festival
• Howard Stern’s HBO deal and SiriusXM channel termination
• Chris Rock jokes about Taylor Sheridan Yellowstone role
• Joe Cojoy Netflix special filmed at Stockton Arena
• Joe Cojoy to receive Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2027

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Well, we kind of knew this was going to happen, huh? Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Taylor Swift is reportedly livid with Nikki Glaser. Nikki, I told you, you shouldn’t have said anything on stage. You blew it.

This comes from Shooter Scoop, which is a pretty gossipy website. I’m familiar with it. We use it on the Palace Intrigue podcast as a source, and it tends to be gossipy, and it tends to have unnamed sources. But per Rob Shooter, Nikki Glaser didn’t just break wedding etiquette. She exposed the one thing Taylor Swift never wanted anyone saying out loud.

Sources tell Naughty But Nice that Taylor Swift is livid after Nikki Glaser publicly admitted she attended Taylor Swift’s wedding despite barely knowing the couple. I think barely knowing is even exaggeration. Like, that would be like me saying I barely know Taylor Swift. Had they even met before? Insiders say she wasn’t alone.

One of the unknown insiders tells Naughty But Nice, Taylor is furious with Nikki, but the worst part is that it’s true. There were famous people at that wedding who barely knew Taylor. Yeah, we knew this. This is not as everyone could tell. And some had never met her.

Yeah, she doesn’t know these people. Nikki said publicly what everybody was whispering privately. On stage, Nikki Glaser had said, I’m a huge Swifty, probably the biggest Swifty that was at that event. If you’re a Swifty, you’ll understand. I got the text inviting me to the wedding.

I never thought in a million years I’d get invited. I don’t even know them, but I got invited. Yeah, because you’re like the it’s a comedian right now and your agent and your PR team is getting it done. They got the invite. We all know how this works.

It’s not like Taylor said, how about Nikki Glaser? Somebody in Hollywood put this together for you. We know how this works. The source says the joke going around is that Meghan Markle knew the celebrities at her wedding better than Taylor knew some of hers. For Taylor, that comparison is absolutely mortifying.

A wonderful story, which makes a great crossover story with the Palace Intrigue podcast. I’m the writer on that one. We talk about the royal family and a lot of Meghan Markle seven days a week. So check out Palace Intrigue wherever you get your pods. The insider said Nikki made the wedding sound less like a celebration and more like celebrity casting.

Yeah, that’s what it was. It was a wedding experience. Officiated by Adam Sandler at Madison Square Garden. That’s what this was. Some guests don’t have Taylor’s number.

They attended her wedding, then went right back to being strangers. Yeah, no kidding. Dave Chappelle has announced an arena tour. Pretty exciting. One of the dates is at the New York Comedy Festival.

Carolyn Hirsch, who founded it, said Dave is one of the defining comedians of his generation, and without question, one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time. To have Dave close out his tour by opening our festival is spectacular. So this is The New York Comedy Festival stepping up. This is a whole other level. I’ve commented about the New York Comedy Festival.

The lineup so far had been underwhelming. But no, yeah, Dave is the ace. Yeah, it just took a step up in class. It’s a short tour. October 20th in Nashville at the Bridgestone Arena.

The next night in Charlotte. Then on the 23rd of October, Toronto. Then back down to Louisville, Kentucky. Down to Austin, Texas on Monday, October 26th. I wonder if we’ll get a Kill Tony appearance out of Dave Chappelle while he’s in Joe Rogan land.

Wednesday the 28th, Houston, Texas, and then Friday, November 6th, Madison Square Garden as part of the New York Comedy Festival. That’s great. Howard Stern is allegedly puzzled by fans being frustrated. A source told the U.S. Sun that Howard Stern reads everything and then everything is in all caps the second time.

And Howard wants to control what’s being reported. The source notes that Howard was apoplectic over the negative reaction to the news of the sudden termination of his archival channel Howard 101. And that his show would now broadcast just one day a week. Stern also doesn’t get why staffers laid off would be disgruntled. So, look, I’ve said this in the past.

Howard paid me the compliment of my career when I met Howard. He told me that the Raw Dog channel at Sirius was a great-sounding radio station, and for one of my radio heroes to tell me that a station I was in charge of sounded great means the world to me. Howard is now 72 and he’s been making reportedly $ 100 million a year for 15 or so years now. Or is it 20? I think it’s more like 20 now.

So he doesn’t need the money. It’s time to put your feet up and he doesn’t want to totally walk away. So he’s doing the show once a week from the house. So, yeah, you don’t need a second channel recapping three hours of programming for there’s 168 hours in a week. What do you want Howard 101 to do all day?

And if you’re doing three hours down from 20 or 15 or 12 or whatever it’s been over the years, unfortunately, people are going to get laid off. Now, as for this new HBO show, I saw the promo for it and I thought it looked like the opposite of cool. I’ve talked about this in the past. Howard Stern in his heyday, I don’t know, let’s pick a random morning in 1993, would hate Howard Stern of 2026. The current Howard Stern is everything the young Howard Stern hated.

The new show on HBO Max, again, the promo looks so lame. Is according to the source, Stern’s method of holding up the middle finger to Sirius XM. An insider told the Daily Mail, Howard’s in a really good mood with his new HBO deal. He feels like it’s a big middle finger to all his critics who either want him done or think that he’s done. We will see.

Chris Rock says, if Taylor Sheridan’s got a job for me, I’ll take that job. He joked he could become the black guy on Yellowstone. That’s a great joke. He didn’t stop there. He imagined playing a black landowner who owns property and has white slaves.

Now, that would probably get a lot of attention. The comedian then joked that he encouraged Taylor Sheridan to make an entire show around that idea. I would watch that. Joe Coy’s new special’s out on Netflix. He got a cover story from the Vogue Philippines edition.

I didn’t know there was Vogue Philippines, but there is. Joe said it sucks because once this special drops, I have to say goodbye to these jokes. I’ve been attached to them for so long. When it comes to approaching his specials, he says he wants them to reflect the newer version of himself. And for his routine to evolve the same way he has, he has to try new things on top of the previous special.

One of his favorite things about the new special on Netflix is the arena, Stockton Arena. You see, Stockton was once home to the largest population of Filipinos outside the Philippines. In the early 1900s, young Filipino men came to California to work as the primary agricultural workforce harvesting crops in the Central Valley. Jokoi said some of the migrants that were there a long time ago faced a lot and dealt with a lot of racism back then. We understand that what happened was bad, but now we have to realize that it’s not going to be repeated anymore.

We just sold out an arena. Behind me is the Filipino sun. Jokoy also said, He also described his career as a long journey with many challenges. Now, you may recall one of the challenges was one time he hosted the Golden Globes and just told this horrible mean joke about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots. Of Taylor Swift. I swear. There’s just more to go to.

Sorry about that. In 2027, Joe Coy will be honored with a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He said, I can’t wait for that day to happen. Dreams come true, baby. Conan O’Brien getting political.

He is now the face of a fundraising campaign for the State Plus Local Election Alliance, a political action committee that puts money into low-profile state and local races involving the officials who oversee elections. Conan O’Brien put out a few videos, and one he said, if anyone appreciates something unsexy, it’s this guy right here. So when I heard there’s a group that only backs the unsexy races, county clerks, election boards, local courts, I thought, finally, my people. These are the offices that decide whether your vote gets cast, counted, and certified. In another commercial, Conan made fun of the idea that anyone would turn to him for guidance on politics.

Conan jokes, I must have Conan’s political advice as a thought that has never crossed your mind, and it shouldn’t have. Yet here we are, because I just learned something smart and I want to share it. Margaret Cho seems fed up with the way things are going these days. She says, we are being taken over by the richest people in the world, but the one thing they cannot afford is jokes at their expense. I want to fight fascism with everything I have.

Jeff Ross had a birthday and got roasted by Jim Carrey, who went on social media and wrote, 61 years ago, a boy named Jeff Ross came into the world. I don’t want to say he was an ugly baby, but when he was born, God made his mother sign an NDA, and nothing’s changed in that regard. In fact, it’s gotten worse. I’ve seen better-looking heads on cystic acne. His spirit animal is a blobfish, a pale, misshapen bottom feeder that makes you laugh just looking at it.

But he’s not just funny-looking. In many places around the world, people find his brand of humor highly toxic, except in Japan, where his jokes are considered a delicacy. But there’s no denying one thing, Jeff. You are funny. You’ve spent your whole life making people laugh.

If only it were on purpose. If only they were laughing with you and not, you know, at you. Jim Carrey added, Of course I’ve been half-joking this whole time, but before I sign off, I’d like to say one thing that’s sincere and meaningful, Jeff. In the time it takes you to make a wish and blow out your candles, I will make millions of dollars in passive income. I will deal with the Emmys tomorrow because I had to record this one on Monday because the nice people of New Jersey invited me to take part in the jury system on Tuesday.

And I don’t know at the time of this recording if I’m available on Tuesday. We’re sitting in a courthouse where you really can’t record a video podcast, so I had to tape this one in advance. We’ll get to the Emmys tomorrow. Catching up for the weekend, SNL UK was pretty good. If that had been an episode of SNL US, it would have been the best episode of last season, so..

You know, I really liked it a lot. It was the probably the best SNL UK they’ve had, period. Here only, you know, one episode in a season two. There’s not a large body of work, but I felt like they found their voice. The news guys got a lot better.

They have totally borrowed the the joke where you put something up on the screen behind you and you go so and so seen here. Insert punchline. They use that joke, I think, three times during the news, but it worked perfectly. If you want to dive on clips online, there’s a sketch involving King Kong that I won’t spoil. That was pretty good.

Your host was Jeff Goldblum and an artist named C-MAT, who I’m a fan of. Actually, I’m a fan of C-MAT’s, was the musical guest. SNL UK, you’ll find it on Hulu and the clips tend to show up on YouTube. A comedian branded Australia’s King of Dark Comedy got some backlash after he did some September 11th jokes. Don’t do this.

Julian Wood posted a video on his Instagram page where he’s seen approaching a stranger sitting on a bench. He asked the older man, excuse me, if science has flown us to the moon, where has religion flown us? The punchline into the Twin Towers. So that’s bad enough that he then opens his jacket to reveal a fake bomb strapped to his chest. He says, it’s actually the 25th anniversary of 9-11 today.

Did you know that? Well, I’m not a scientist, but I am religious. It did not go over well on social media. One person said, stop making jokes about 9-11. I lost my uncle on that day.

Another person said, do you really think this is funny? Another comment, I have good humor and some 9-11 humor is funny if made appropriately, but this isn’t funny. One more said, I just unfollowed you. You’re a disgrace to society and your family. In better news, we now know who will be on Kunk on Cinema, the upcoming newest episode of Philomena Kunk’s documentary series.

The BBC says Philomena Kunk, played by Diane Morgan, who some podcasters have a crush on. We’ll be asking experts all the hard-hitting questions about the history of cinema, with a list of contributors that includes Michael Bay, Benedict Cumberbatch, and others. The three-part series will uncover the invention of the camera to the new wave filmmakers of the 60s, right up to the entrance of CGI and AI. Philomena Kunk will attempt to demystify it all while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn, asking herself, where did cinema come from and why, what does it want, and what can it tell us? No date yet, but it will be on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, and if you’re not in the UK or Ireland..

Netflix and that is your comedy news for today see you tomorrow

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