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The Shark Deck. Happy National Donut Day. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News now regular listeners. Now, I hit the National donut chain every day. Here’s my large iced coffee.
Then I’m almost done with well. Today, being National Donut Day, the Late Bot decided to make fun of me. These are pretty good. You’re ready from the Late Bot. I heard Johnny Max celebrated National Donut Day by setting a new world record.
He ate so many donuts at the local baker he had to take out a loan just to restock. Johnny max love for donuts knows no bounds. He’s the only person I know who orders a dozen donuts as an appetizer. They say Johnny macloves donuts so much that this blood type is actually powdered sugar. To commemorate National Donuts Day, Johnny Mack organized a marathon called the Run for Donuts.
The Catch the finish line is at the nearest Krispy Kreme. I heard Johnny Max celebrated National Donut Day by going out on a donut crawl across town. He claims he hit every donut shop. Let’s be honest, he probably just stayed at the first one do honor National Donut Day. Johnny Mack invented a new game called to Pin the Sprinkles on the Donut.
And finally from the Late Bot. These are all good AI generated jokes. You know, they say you are what you eat, and if that’s true, Jenny mc must be a giant, walking talking donuts. Dana Carvey revealed why he would not let Robin Williams make an appearance in a Church Lady sketch. This from The Hollywood Reporter.
Dana Carvey said this on his podcast. Dana said, Robin was a really good friend and he really wanted to do church chat. This was in the early days. This was my golden ticket and I was very careful. I thought if Robin got so excited, I was just afraid of it.
Robin called Dana Carvey one Saturday morning asking to be on the Church Lady Sketch. Carvey said no. It was heartbreaking, but you know we got past that and we were friends. But in those days, your character was very precious. I wanted to keep it quasi reel in a sense.
The Hollywood Reporter had an actor round table several comedians on it. One of them John Mulaney, and they said to John, John, your comedy historically has been about telling personal stories. This hour felt more confessional. You said it was fun. Was it also cathartic?
Mulaney said, that was the challenge I wanted to give myself to be vulnerable. What I wanted to see is could I say this much about myself but still own the room and be an entertainer. That just seemed more of a challenge as opposed to more somberly or groundedly presenting the facts of what the specials about. John Mulaney said, I don’t think people set out to be likable. I think they put themselves out there in some way, and speaking for myself, they enjoy the feedback that others relate to you, to what they’re saying or doing.
It starts off with though I must be honest something or there’s something about me these people get I find that one most dangerous. When they don’t get you. Then that’s phase two and you go, oh, I like the positive, but why aren’t they getting this part? Why did they miss this aspect? Then if people are disappointing in direction you take, I wouldn’t say that that’s hard because it’s very music at first, because it’s so parental, like we’re disappointed in you.
It’s just not feeling because I didn’t know we had that kind of relationship. The thing I found during the tour was this idea of I’m not going to people please as much in life. Is all great and it’s very liberating, but it’s interesting to see when you stop people pleasing, some people are not pleased, like not everyone will just applaud it. The Hollered reporter asked John Mulaney about his TV appearance, is pointing out on guests he plays basically chan Mullaney, and Millaney said, if you go through my work, most of my television is me playing myself on my friends shows. Illi reporter followed that up with it also seemed to fit into this repackaging of you, or at least of who the audience thought you were.
If likability is jail, how conscious and freeing is showing this other side? Mullaney said, We’ll see, because am I still doing the same thing? Am I trying to communicate? Hey, there’s a lot going on with me, y’all get it now? Am I still looking for that?
Of course? I am one of the other comedians on the panel is a mayor. They asked him, if a fan approaches you on the street, how do they recognize you? And Mo said, I usually get I’m a huge fan of your music, and I’m like, I’m not DJ Khaled Mullaney turned some Mo and said, I don’t know if you felt this with your first stand up special, but you basically have from age zero to twenty fives or rumin eight on things and come up with the sensibility and figure out the jokes you like. So your first special is the first twenty odd years of your life, and your sex special is one year.
It was made while you were mainly touring. That the musicians say that a lot right. You get your whole life to make your first album in six months to make your second one. MO said, it’s a really great point for me. I was always explaining myself was Wait, you were born in Kuwait but you came to Texas when you were nine, so you’re KUWAITI.
And I’m like, no, I’m not KUWAITI. My parents are Palestinian. Wait o’t come, you’re not Kuwaiti. You were born there. I don’t get it.
And I was like, I’m effing tired. Of these questions. So the whole first special is going to be answering all your questions, and then I just want to be a comedian. The Albuquerque Journal caught up with Carlos Mencia. I should see how young the writer is.
I don’t think they got the complete picture of Carlos Mencia’s career. The Journal writes he’s known for his raw and unfiltered style of comedy, which he has showcased a great success on comedy stages and in television shows and movies. Yeah, I think he’s known for two things, one being mind of Mencia, the attempt by Comedy Central to keep doing the Chapelle thing after Chappelle kind of blew up there for a minute. And the second the whole Joe Rogan Carlos Menstelia joke, theft thing that Mancia has admitted to. I’ve been in a room with Mencia at Sirius XM where he admitted to it.
Anyway, The Journal rights mean Sia only shot two stand up specials due out later this year, and apparently he’s on a Disney Plus series, The Proud Family. Mencia says, I don’t consider any of this work, especially right now. People need comedy the most. After big, major events in the world, we need to be able to laugh through all the seriousness. It’s time again for me to perform.
I remember doing might Have Mencia and talking about the impending great divide of the left and the right. If you go back and look at it, it’s happening now. That’s when I get excited with a sense of purpose. Beyond there’s this extra level of relevance. He says.
The past ten years have been difficult, and it feels like two different personas are merging together. Interesting, Carlos said, I have people who’ve seen me live and talking about the live shows. Then I have the Internet who’s been trying to cancel me since two thousand and five. The two personas are coming together, and I’ve been defending myself on social media. I needed to be heard and corrected what’s being said about me.
So I don’t know what’s being said about Carlos Mencia on the internet these days. But here’s a clip of Carlos Mencia talking about Carlos Mencia. A lot of people out there are going to ask, why did they interview Carlos about the CEO. Carlos is a joke cleief steal’s jokes. And we know this, and listen to me and look at me when I tell you this with all honesty.
If you think that I steal jokes, yeah, you’re right, of course that’s steal jokes. Are you out of your mind? When I come to a comedy club, you better run, You better get off stage, because if anything you say is even remotely funny, I’m gonna make it mine. And all I’m gonna do is say Mexican in the front. I had a clip that down.
He used a lot of salty language in there. Is he joking? Is he telling the truth? I don’t know what is Joe Rogan think? Anyway, Let’s not unpacked that all Rogan mid Sea I think today.
Speaking of Joe Rogan, he said he saw Sam Kinnison for the first time. Was like, oh, that’s comedy too, And that was like one of the first times I thought I could do comedy. I was like, maybe I got a wrong idea. That comedy was Seinfeld, Richard Pryor polished. It’s all done, and like you can’t do that.
You don’t know what you’re doing. Rogan’s inspirations Kinnison, Bill Hicks Richard pryor all them, Lenny Bruce. But I saw an open Mike Wants and gave me the confidence because I was like, oh, everybody to the beginning, because you see someone like an open mic night first time I went. When I did my show afterwards, Teddy Bergeron did the set, so Teddy Bergeron went up it just like showed everybody out. It’s done.
This cracked me up. The Sun, British tabloid, they were writing about Harry and Megan. By the way, I’m the writer on a podcast called Palace Intrigue. We cover the British royal family every day, and by that I mean we pretty much talked about Harry and Megan. Always play the hits and all formats play the hits, Megan Markle anything big downloads.
But I laughed at this. They quoted Tim Dillon as Hollywood broadcaster Tim Dillon, and I’ll read you what Tim Dillon said. I heard Tim Dillon’s podcast. I think the Sun missed that Dylan was kind of doing a bit. Anyway, Tim Dillon did say all I want to do is hang out with celebrities.
I was at a party the other night talking to somebody about these people and it’s just constant with them. Megan was texting the person I was with there. The point is they just won’t stop. These two. They’re like low grade reality stars trying to attach to anything.
I’m literally at the party and they’re showing me text of this woman begging people to hang out. She’s trying to get places. It’s sad, a lot of it isn’t working. And they’re all in their eyes at mellol and we’re having a good laugh about this. I respect the huzzle.
I get what they’re trying to do. Again, I just read you the transcript. I heard Tim say the words. I think he was kind of joking, but anyway, that’s Hollywood broadcaster Tim Dylan. New album out today from Rachel Mack.
It’s her debut comedy album, Teacher of the Year. She’s a Wisconsin Natives. She started doing stand up in LA and then moved back to Wisconsin to record this album. She jokes about her job as an English teacher, being a hopeful tilf. I assume that’s a teacher I’d like to be friends with, and army teachers as well as a solution for solving teen pregnancy Revelations about her Christian upbringing and the Tedium of motherhood Rachel Mack Teacher of the Year.
The remainder of today’s podcast will be massive spoiler discussions for the finale of ted Lasso. If you haven’t seen it yet, why don’t you hit pause? Come back after you’ve seen ted Lasso. But this will be the last topic of the day today. All right, are they gone?
Let’s talk ted Lasso spoilers. In three two one, it was all right, like everybody else. I started watching ted Lasso during the pandemic and it hit the spot during the pandemic, was like, oh, this is just bright and fun, and it became one of those shows I watched with my wife and we liked it together, and we just liked it. It was just happy, and it was about soccer, and it was light and flighty, and like most people, Season three were like, what is even going on? The show started to fall apart when Nate went evil, and then towards the end of season three, suddenly Nate’s not evil anymore, and he quits his job because he loves the girlfriend.
He loves the girlfriends so much. She’s not even in this season finale or series finale. We’re still unsure if there’s going to be spinoffs or whatever. I’ll talk about that in a second. But yeah, Nate loves this woman so much, and then she doesn’t even pop up in the last episode.
Weird decisioned by the creators. The Guardian wrote, good riddance ted Lasso. How the nice comedy became utterly dreadful television. You know, my wife and I we decided we were kind of behind. She hadn’t seen the second to last episode and I hadn’t seen the last two, and I’m like, let’s just skip to the finale because none of it matters anyway, and we’re gonna get spoiled on the internet.
So yeah, I haven’t actually seen every episode. I haven’t seen the second to last one. The Guardian says, rubbish jokes inept plotting a week script should we go on? Characters veered into incongruous demonstrations of whimsy or cruelty or wit, none of which train true to their personalities, but served whatever the script needed. Conflict, typically a driver of plot, went out of the window.
We got episodes dedicated to solving bad fathers, homophobia and racism, while genuine plot developments happened off screens, such as Nate quitting his job at west Ham so he could wind up back at Richmond, or the revelation that Ted’s folksy charms are not an inherent quality but a learned defense mechanism, and that was abandoned as quickly as this therapist was written out of the show. And yet we saw the therapist like nine times during the finale watching the soccer game Why Rolling Stone had a review that was on point Ted Lasso Season three finale the end of a frustrating bad season. They write without Ted and by extension, the team he coached as an organizing principle. Season three felt more and more unfocused with each week. I agree.
Big ideas were introduced and then dropped. Huge moments took place entirely off camera. Characterization was all over the map. The worst offender was the storyline about Nate yep. Rather than show him gradually recognizing what an abusive person he’d become, that’s terribly he’d betrayed Ted, the show seemed to view his redemption as a matter of Nate learning to love himself, and the writer’s method of doing it was with a bizarre love story involving Jade, the hostess at Nate’s favorite restaurant, who had no personality and no apparent reason for wanting to go out with Nate other than taking pity on him after another one was meeting him in front of Jade.
Nor were we given any reason why Nate was so hung up on Jade, given how repeatedly cold she was prior to him to that moment. Yeah, this is a bit of a mess. Will there be spinoffs? I think they gave us a major hint. It’s in a scene where Ted Lasso was talking to Trent Krim, who was fantastic this season.
Trent was really good. Trent is showing him the book, which I think was called The lass Away, and Ted said, I’d changed the title. It’s not about me. It never was. So we’ll see if we get Ted Lassos season four.
I hope they do. I like a lot of the characters, even though the season was a mess, and there’s plenty of things to be done without Ted on the series. Anyway. That is your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, or YouTube wherever you get your shows.
And I’ll see tomorrow