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The Shark Deck. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney was on Hot Ones. As the podcast were eating increasingly hot spicy wings. He was asked by host Shaun Evans what the worst reaction he ever got from a celebrity host on a sketch mulaney had pitched when writing for SNL.
The answer Mick Jagger. Mulaney had a joke. I think this is fantastic. Hey, everybody on Mick Jagger, So mothers lock up your daughters or should I say daughters lock up your mother’s. That is hilarious, mullaney said.
Mick listened and he went, nah, I don’t like that. But Mlandy says, I remember I made Seth Meyers read that one. That’s a great joke. Mulaney said, I’m very confident there’s a profound difference between knowing you’re hearing a joke from a person and knowing you’re hearing it from AI. I took the challenge and I asked the Late Bot to come up with some stuff involving Mick Jagger, and they were all terrible except for this one, which is passable and not very good.
Late Bot says Mick Jagger once tried to hit on my mother, but she told them you can’t always get what you want. Hack. The BTS army is mad at Jimmy Oh Yang. His special has been out on Amazon for a while. I gotta watch that as well.
It’s called Guess how Much, and he starts joking about BTS, and the joke starts with Yang seemingly praising BTS in their extensive reach in the US, and he says, I love my BTS man. Even white people know BTS. Now, that’s progress.
And then he jokes about how once a fifteen year old white kid tried to introd…
I didn’t want to say it. I couldn’t say it as an Asian person, but they all just look like me with pink hair. He ends at jokes saying I could turn this whole show into a BTS concert right now. He points to himself and goes, this is Jimmy. Then he takes off his glasses and he goes, and this is jim in right here.
You don’t know, sounds funny even me telling it, right it’s a forty second clip, and the BTS fans are not happy. They’ve expressed disappointment in Yang resorting to cracking jokes using harmful stereotypes against Asians created mostly by the West, despite being a Chinese American artist himself. Eliza’s lessenger is playing Hawaii at the end of the month, one show in Oahu, the other on Maoi Nun bad Eliza, but she was making fun of Hawaii’s traffic. It said, Hey, when you get your tickets, start making a way to the theater early, because if somebody gets a flat, you’re all screwed. She says, I have been Hawaiian awhile, so I’m not doing any material that you saw on Hot Forever, my last Netflix special.
This is brand new. This is what we’re working towards, a new special, and you guys are the first ones that get to see it. So it’s a good time. Maui, July twenty seventh, Honolulu, July twenty eight Jeff Foxworthy talked to the Branson Tri Lake News, which is your home for comedy news, about the Blue Collar tour, and Jeff said, I enjoyed most of it. That was the most fun thing i’d ever done.
A few years ago, I had said, and Ron’s kind of the one that’s not as gung hood as the rest of us. I said, Hey, come on, Ron, it was so much fun. Let’s do it one more time. Ron said, I can’t write thirty minutes of clean material, and I said you can. We did three Blue Collar tours and he did it for that and he said, all right, I’m too lazy to write thirty minutes of clean material.
Jeff said, if I had one more thing i’d like to do before I hang up my cleats, that would be it. I’d like to do it one more time. When I hang up with you, I’m texting Ron that come on, man, let’s do it one more time. Jeff was about to do a show with Larry with a Cable Guy, and he was looking forward to it. He said, I hadn’t worked with Larry in almost a year.
I’m really looking forward to it. When we were doing Blue Collar, he’d be out there on the stools. He was like the Tim Conway of the Carol Burnett Show. All he wanted to do is make me laugh, so we would go off on tangents. I know if I looked at him I was going to start laughing, so I just stared down at the floor, and Ron would consistently lean over and go, just look at him, just look at him, and I’d go, hell, no, I’m not looking at him.
Because I look at him, I’ll laugh. And that’s what he wants me to do. I have talked many times on this podcast of working with the blue collar guys, all great guys. Even more great is Jeff, and even more and more and more great is Larry. They are wonderful people.
Billing balls listening right now, going you bastard, I’ve done favors for you. Bills also cool. I know Ron the least. Although when I met Ron and he found out I was the guy who was scheduling records on serious he thanked me for the royalty checks he was getting. They were quite significant.
He shared the number with me and I was like, m you’re welcome, buddy. Andrew Schultz will be touring the UK and Ireland this autumn double on October twelfth, Glasgow October thirteenth, Manchester October fifteenth and the Royal Albert Hall October nineteenth. Will find out how many holes it takes to phill it Hari Kannibolu spoke to exclaim and said, I’m a dad now, so clearly there’s a lot going on. There’s nothing to do with my career. There was a time when I lived and died off my thoughts and feelings, and I realized they’re not as important as they thought they were.
After the child was born. It’s like, you know, those are all second to the million out of things this child requires the best part of it Selfishly is I’ve tried to find ways for years to minimize self. Isn’t that like the goal of Buddhism and all it required was not meditation but a child.
And now the self is so small, The self is a conduits and making sure my kid i…
That’s one big epiphany I had. I never added inkling, and now I’m like, I’ll do whatever you need me to do too. If my child wants to get into the arts and particularly stand up, I will not be nice about it. This is not something I wish on my child, and in some weird way, I feel like I want what my parents wanted for me for him. Go into something with a stable income where you can have a family, have more energy.
Don’t do what I did. I’ve a joke on the specialty. You realize how hard your grandparents had to work. Don’t waste this opportunity. With their generation, they had this large immigrant community, So the safety net is even bigger than you think.
The community to make sure you’re okay. They’ll never forget that you were in peril. Not I’ll be brought up for generations, but in this generation, I want to have the same level of immigrant safety net. It goes down with me. Johnny Mack, you never talk about John Clees.
I know right. John was talking to The Daily Mail. He’s working on the stage adaptation of Life of Brian. He’s actually cutting the final scene from the movie. That is the scene where they sing always look on the bright Side of life and says, nobody’s going to be shocked now to see people singing while on a crucifix.
People thought it was hilarious, they screamed with laughter. Well, nobody’s going to be shocked now. That joke is forty years old. Clees assured The Mail that the film’s transphobic Loretta scene would remain in the show, despite very experienced actors telling him he wasn’t able to do it. In the original movie, the Loretta scene features a character played by Eric Idol who has to be called Loretta and voices longing to bear a child.
Cles’s character in the scene dismisses the request as ridiculous. Others who have pushed back on the show are other Pythons and may Eric Idol expressed his support for the project by tweeting he has nothing at all to do with it, adding apparently Cleice has cut the song. Of course. Clie shot back, saying Idol is very keen. He used the song because he gets all the royalties from it.
Michael Palin try to offer Clee some feedback that Cleese didn’t take. Clie said, Michael, and I liked the first half of the new script, but was dubious about the changes that I had made in the second half. Klice wants to challenge people by doing the unexpected. For example, he wants to ensure the integrity of the project by making sure a marginalized group he and his weird friends have an outsized interest in is subject to Hackney jokes and stereotypes. The Daily Mail writes, no one could have predicted that the guy who spent the last few years complaining about wokeness and defending JK.
Rowling would do something like this unpredictable. High Times asked Nimish Patil, what’s been thrown at you on stage? Names said in Phoenix, the fire alarm went off for about ten or fifteen minutes into my set. Wasn’t a typical fire alarm. It was the mall’s fire alarm, loud as hell for about seven minutes.
I had to navigate the situation with an uncertainty. I didn’t know if it was a real fire and known from the club was communicating. Eventually someone said it was a false alarm. But those seven or eight minutes were completely unexpected. I’d never expected anything like that.
I had to hold the audience’s attention to keep them engaged. Fortunately, everyone had a great time and no one was hurt. It was a unique learning experience, great story, But the question was what’s been thrown at you on stage? I thought your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, Smashed Alike, See to Worrow