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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Hey. Thanks Travis Kelcey for hooking up the podcast Discovery Seo by celebrating your thirty fifth birthday alongside brother Jason Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes throw those guys in the episode title why John, Why are you talking about football? John?
Well? They went to Zack Townsend’s comedy show at the Midland Theater in Kansas City on Saturday night. They hung out in a private loungerry and took turns at taking photos with Townsend. Jason’s girlfriend, Taylor appears to not have been there. I think we would have heard of it if she showed up, although the Twitter stalkers say that Taylor or at least her plane, flew from Kansas City to Nashville earlier in the day.
Earlier on Saturday, Kelsey had hosted the second annual Kelsey Car Jam charity event. He had scheered what he wanted for his birthday. He wants I’ll take another Super Bowl if you’ve got one of those. Donnelle Fwllings was on The Breakfast Club and he commented on the whole Diddy thing, you know, I try not to play in that part of the arena, But I think this Diddy thing is going to drag this podcast into it as comedians seem to be talking about it, and who knows who’s even involved in this whole thing. Dan I always questioning about a picture of him and Diddy alongside Dave Chappelle and some others on a yacht.
Rawling said the picture was taken during a day party years ago and was an annual holiday focus get together. Rawling said, I got the history behind that that was a day party. First off, it’s a very interesting situation even to bring this up right, and I’ll tell you and everybody knows. I know, I’ll be criticized for this, and you know, but Diddy, there are some of the best parties you’ll ever go to in your life. You got this party, you got that party, and that party was a great party.
My son was on the yacht with me. We had a great time. So I understand, like now, if you say you went to any party, people who assume it was the freak cough, that wasn’t the case. We had a good time. He joked about what he drank at the party and said, I don’t know what was in that vodka because I felt like I had a whole full head of hair on that yacht.
I don’t know, there’s something special on that I felt light skinned for a second. Rawlings added that he’s not gonna say free ditty or anything, but a good time was had during the yacht party. Ali Wong specials out on Netflix Today titled Single Lady, Alli discusses her life following her twenty twenty two divorce from her husband Justin filmed at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival earlier this year, Alli tells people, I really do believe that forty is the golden age to get divorced. It’s perfect. The age range of who I can date is huge.
I can go as low as twenty five, and I can go as high as fifty five. If you’re fifty five, I’ve got questions for you, like, can you go on a brisk walk? I can, Alli, but I’m married and we not only went for a brisk walk, we ran a five k on Sunday, So leave me alone. Very sensitive about turning fifty five? Have you noticed?
I was thinking about this on the way to the National Donuts Chain this morning. When I started the show, I was forty nine. If you started a podcast in your forties, I don’t think gets that ridiculous. Now I’m like, are people like wewis this old dude hosting a podcast? And I think they are.
Tom Sigre has a big tour for tw twenty twenty five. Dates include shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City and the Ovo Arena Wembley in London. Fancy Tom says, this is the most fun I’ve had on tour, and I’m excited to continue touring this hour of material to a bunch of great cities across the globe. If my Instagram algorithm is any indication of the state of humanity, this very well might be the last tour anyone can see on Earth. Can’t wait pre sale Wednesday general tickets.
Friday buyers and select cities can purchase platinum charity tickets. Sigor has committed to donating a portion of the proceeds from those tickets to World Central Kitchen. He’s also made a personal donation of one hundred thousand dollars to help further their work. Tom said, We’re thrilled to announce this donation a World Central Kitchen. They do incredible work to people who need all over the world.
When we announce this tour, we pledge to donate proceeds to WCK to help them continue the work we will continue to do so. Who would have thought that talking about forts and genitals could lead to helping so many people. David Cross’s current tour is called the Beginning of the End of the Beginning. If you go see David, he says, a really big chunk of the is talking about the real experience I had without giving anything away. But it’s all kind of true and crazy.
I talk briefly about going to Peru with Bob Odenkirk, we hike the Ink and trail Machu Picchu. When I use that thread in some ideas, it’s just fun. As for the title, I usually have trouble coming up with the title. Usually the first fifty things I come up with are too serious or heavy or just too punny. This one I came up with very quickly, and I don’t remember.
I wish I had an interesting, pithy answer. I know what it means, but it’s open interpretation. Just think about it for a second and you’ll come to this understanding. I’ll repeat it to you the beginning of the end of the beginning, he says, you don’t want to go to the well too many times and rehash the same idea. I definitely have a couple of bits I’ve been doing for six or seven years, but I didn’t have room or time for it in the set.
But now it kind of fits in there. But also knowing how I work, the show, you see is going to be a little bit different because more stuff’s going to happen. So I have a Nikki Glaser item for you in a second. But concurrently to the Nikki Glaser item. Sometimes when I need like one more story, I’ll go into the podcast charts just to remind me who is currently popular.
And as I was doing that, I was reminded Nikki Glaser he has a podcast, and I was like, I haven’t seen a thing about that podcast in a while. I’m not here to bash Nicki. She’s having a great year, but she does a daily podcast and it like never comes up. So I looked at the charts. I use a website called Chartable as a record this on Monday, Nicki’s podcast is around number two hundred and ten in the overall comedy category chart.
I’ll talk about that in a second in the neighborhood there around two ten or so ahead of Nicki in that neighborhood, or the Bald Brothers podcast Nurse John something called right Now with John gibbecon, then Nicki, and right below Nikki, Netflix’s a daily Joke. Now. I think part of this is that she hasn’t added a subcategory. For example, in the sub category of stand up where this podcast lives, Netflix is a Daily Joke is ten. So if Nicki were to tag her podcast with stand up, she would definitely be a top ten in the category.
This program here right now in the subcategories you can surface a little bit more is sitting in around number thirty in that a gory and it’ll bounce up and down and peek into the top twenty every now and then. So I’ll just give you relative popularity of things. I seriously imagine Nicky has at least fifty times the amount of listeners I have. The charts worked on a recency bias too. If you get a bunch of subscribers in a short window, like if you went out and got one hundred of your friends to subscribe today and they all subscribed in like a three hour window, I would actually move up on the main chart.
I wouldn’t stay there, but for a brief window, I’d be on the main chart. Just how the Apple podcast works. Anyway. Nicki is currently on seur and she posted a TikTok for one of her very best friends waiting for her backstage. Shocking, only this story has nothing to do with you know who, the singer Nicki stopped to hug at Chihuahua.
One person wrote, ohmg, we do not deserve them, you or her everything. Another fan said, oh my, she spotted you the tail wags. I can’t. Someone else said, the little friend is so proud of you. It’s Nicky’s at Chihuahua.
Back in June, she posted, I just adopted my third dog from may Day Rescue and she’s perfect, just like the other two. She doesn’t have a name yet because I’m scared of commitment. That’s also why I have a dog instead of a kid. So I’m clear to me. If she ever gave her dog a name, I hope so.
Nate Bergatzi hosted Saturday Night Live. I enjoyed the episode, thought I’ll talk about it for a second. They brought back the George Washington sketch not as good as the first one, I guess, just because not as fresh, but still pretty funny. They did a really long Sabato Jigante parody. Nate was good in that he plays a befuddled audience member pulled into the show and he doesn’t really understand Spanish.
There’s also a good sketch where Nate played an emt who’s trying to convince water park workers to let a dead body go down the slide rather than carry it down two hundred and fifty five steps. That was good. Some other notes I wrote down, So Sabado Gigante Marcelo Hernandez is funny, but I’m gonna keep giving the same note until he shows me another look. Does he do one thing? He does a variations on the character with a thick Hispanic accent, and I haven’t seen him do anything else.
I do think he’s funny, but what else do you have? Towards the end of the show a couple notes. I thought it was weird on the clock. They fired off a sketch at twelve fifty eight to thirty. You know, the show’s ostensibly ninety minutes, but I guess they were running later.
I don’t know what was going on there now. Before the twelve fifty eight to thirty sketch, they ran something from the Lonely Island, which brings up my larger theme about SNL season fifty. It’s a little weird to me. There’s like no room for the main cast. So the only island is Andy Samberg’s musical project.
And it was a wonderful pre produced video, but you know it’s taking up five minutes from the current cast.
Also in the pre produced video, not just Andy Samberg, but Maya Rudolph was i…
So again, why does Maya have to be sitting there one of the current cast? I sat there. Bowen Yang was in the sketch as well. I thought Nate was fine. I actually found his monologue a little long.
I was into it, and then I was like, okay, let’s get into the show. In the last few years when comedians hosts, they’ve tended to let them monologue a little bit longer than maybe they did for a few decades there. But you know, I watch Saturday Night Live for Saturday Night Live, which brings me back to the opening sketch. Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walls crushed it. But Jim Gaffigan’s not a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and Andy Samberg is there, and Maya Rudolph is there, and I feel like this season is quickly turning into not a bunch of twenty somethings breaking into comedy.
It’s like the All Star Show and a guess that makes sense for the fiftieth year, and a guess that’s what we’re going to get all year, and that’s fine. Makes me wonder about season fifty one when all this is gone, And that got me thinking as I watched it. You know, if I’m Jostin Chay, this might be the year to get out. If I’m Bow and Yang, this might be the year to get out. Because next year, on the other side of fifty, I could see a lot of new faces and the show almost feeling like it’s starting over, kind of sort of like it did in nineteen eighty.
I think season fifty one is going to be rough because let me ask you this, If Bow and Yang leaves, who’s the star of Saturday Night Live? Right? Yeah. Don Francisco, who hosted the original Sabado Gigante, posted on Instagram, I want to thank NBC and Marcello Hernandez for bringing back those special moments of our dear Sabado Gigante, who was not only a great television show, was much more a meaning point for families and four our Hispanic community. Cal Penn says that if John Stewart stepped away from the Daily Show, cal Penn wouldn’t mind taking his place.
I mean sure, I also wouldn’t mind hosting the Daily Show on Monday. Not gonna happen, cal Penn said, I had the chance, you guest host two weeks on the Daily Show last season, so we’ll see. They say John is back for one season. The fanboy part of me is like, I hope John stays on the Daily Show because I’m such a fan and I grew up on it. Then the agent part is one of your team and calls and is like John may be leaving after the election, Are you still interested in this job?
And I’m like, yes, of course I’m still interested in that job. It’s a lot of fun stuff happening. Anytime we’re around an election, it’s so tense. So what I love about what I do in the comedy space is you have the chance to do the opposite of like distress.
Speaking of politics, Kamala Harris will be the guest on Colbert tonight.
Colbert was supposed to be off all week, and all of a sudden, on Sunday afternoon, Kamala announced she was doing what is it call her Daddy Howard Stern because she thinks it’s nineteen ninety five and Colbert. The Stern announcement did not go over well on Twitter. This got announced when I was watching football Sunday and people were just killing Howard for basically becoming everything he hated.
And also the clips of Howard in blackface using the N word quite liberally st…
But Howard’s trying to clean up his legacy that he was the great interviewer and none of that other stuff happened, and most of the clips have been disappeared, but the blackface clip definitely was circulating on Sunday. Sam Walls was on Kimmel last night. At least that was the plan as I’m recording this. If you’re interested in the combination of politics and humor, check out the Ballot podcast. Look for the logo with a cartoon donkey that you know sort of is kind of possibly Kamala and an elephant with Trump like hair.
That’s the show you’re looking for there. Zack Zimmerman will tape his debut comedy special today at the Bell House in Brooklyn. That is your comedy news for today. If you would like to program without commercials, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how that works. The short version is five bucks a month.
Not bad, right, See tomorrow