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Caloroga Shark Media. I have solved the mystery of the sixth sauce. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Today’s a real episode. It’s not filler.
There’s actually news today. The following is not a commercial. This is just a topic I’ve been interested in. Hey world, Jimmy, oh yank here and I’m on Popeye’s channel today because I need to clear the air. I once wrote in a famous food magazine that bonus wings are just little white meat lies.
But then I had these and I was wrong. Popeyes bonus wings made me a bonus believer, and I know I wasn’t the only one out there who has some strong feelings on bonus wings. So I want to hear what you guys think. Are you a bone in bro or a bonus believer? Drop common below and I have discovered what the sixth sauce is?
Are you ready? The sixth sauces are classic. I think that’s the one we were missing. Honey, lemon, pepper, signature, hot honey, barbecue, sweet and spicy, and roasted garlic parmesan. Now I have even better news for you, and this really is not a commercial.
This is just somebody putting together a comedy podcast. Tomorrow, July sixth is National Fried Chicken Day and press release. Popeye says they’re confident that one bite of their new Boneless Wings, endorsed by Jimmy O Yang, is all it takes to win over skeptics. Popeyes has set out to connect with thousands of users on Twitter who had publicly proclaimed their anti boneless wing beliefs to offer codes redeemable on the Popeye’s website and app for free six piece boneless wings with any purchase made on the Popeye’s website or app. Now, if you’re a true boneless Wings believer, you can get some free wings too.
That offer a free six piece boneless wings with a ten dollars purchase. That’s a lot of money there, Popeyes. How much food do you think I’m eating? Jeff Klein is president of Popeye’s North America. Jeff says, when planning our Boneless Wings launch, we noticed a lot of people have pretty strong opinions about them, and many claim their minds can’t be changed.
We’re here to challenge that prove it. We’re giving everyone a chance to try them on a National Fried Chicken Day again. Tomorrow, July sixth is a National Fried Chicken Day. In other Jimmy O Yang news, he banned his father from attending his film premieres after dad embarrassed him too much. Jimmy’s father was at a premiere and, as Jimmy tells the story, he brought these ray banned glasses.
They’re like the old snapchat glasses that you press a button on the record, but then a bright light will shine. So in my scene came on in the movie theater, it was just a bright flashlight on his face. I’m like, Dad, what are you doing? And I ripped the glasses off him. I’m like, you’re committing a federal crime right now recording at a movie theater and like embarrassing me.
He’s banned. He’s done. Jimmy’s dad wants to do stand up. He wants to do stand up now. I told him, if you want to do stand up, go and do some open mics.
That’s how everyone starts. And he’s like, no, I do theaters only from sports Kidia, we have a little nicky Glazer controversy. This is fun. On June thirtieth, Julia Roberts attend to at Taylor Swift’s Dublin concert. There, Julia Roberts meets Travis Kelcey.
The next day, Nikki Glaser shares a video on her Instagram story where Nicky and her parents discussed the interaction between Julia Roberts and Travis Kelsey. In the clip, Nicky’s mom can be heard saying of Julia Roberts, she’s so groose. Nicky’s father chimes in and says Travis was trying to get away from Julia Roberts, observing that the scratching is weird. You see. Nicky’s mom, Julie, pointed out that Julia Roberts resting her hands on Travis Kelsey’s chest was weird and equipped that it appeared as if the actress was itching the NFL star.
Julia and Edward Glazer issued an apology via Nicky Glazer’s Instagram post, mentioning they wanted to say the interaction was weird and the word grosse was mistakingly used. Dave Chappelle will headline a show next week to benefit the campaign of US Senate candidate Hill Harper July eleventh at Saint Andrew’s Holland downtown Detroit, a fundraiser tickets go from two hundred and fifth fifty bucks for the balcony to thirty three hundred dollars for those who want to attend a VP reception. Under federal rules, thirty three hundred dollars is the maximum donation that one individual can make to a federal candidate per election cycle. I’m seeing mixed reviews on Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills cop For the proper title of that Beverly Hills cop axel f Eddie was out doing some press. He told bet even in show business, it wasn’t like becoming a singer or an actor.
When I started, it was like being a magician or a juggler. It was like a fringe vocation.
And now it’s mainstream.
Comedy is big, a giant, multi billion dollar business. Since it was an interview about comedy, he got asked about cancel culture. Eddie said, I don’t think the woe cancel culture has anything to do with whether or not something is funny, And ultimately, comedy is either funny where it’s not. And I don’t think anyone’s going to get canceled because they said something that was funny. Usually the things that people say that ruffle somebody’s feathers and start controversial.
Things are really really not funny. It’s like they said something that was edgy, and a couple of people might laugh at them, But something that is really funny, it is what it is. No one’s canceling funny. You want more, you don’t cancel it. You turned it up.
Bert Kreischer is taping his next special for Netflix this weekend. He taped one on Wednesday evening. He’s taping some more shows this weekend at the Mahaffe Theater in Saint Petersburg, Florida. I guess they’re capturing it looks like four shows total. Watch for the edits when that one comes out.
Brad Williams spoke to Forbes about whiskey, and he’s just cooler about it than say Jim Gaffigan is. Brad Williams said, I love whiskey. I love scotch. That was what I call a frat house drinker. Let’s do shots of tequila until I met my wife and she likes her scotch smoky and beaty.
I thought I hated scotch. Turns out I just hated bad scotch and shocker, I’m actually part owner of a brewery in San Diego called Thorn Street Brewery. It takes a genius to figure out where it’s located. Forbes was curious what his first drink was. Brad said, the first drink that got me sick was called ninety nine bananas.
That messed me up because it’s like you’re drinking candy. That was in college. I woke up at a bathtub, thankfully no water.
Also, as a dwarf, I could spread out in the bathtub.
Random question, ever share a drink with one of your idols? Fortunately he had an answer. I’m a lifelong and die hard Denver Broncos fan. The John Elway car dealerships were having a Christmas party and asked if I wanted to perform. I go, I’m there, and at the end of the show, John Elway starts the standing ovation.
He was nice to me before, but after he saw me perform and now he really wanted to hang out with me, and we hung out. Then he goes, what are you doing tomorrow? You want to come to the game. My wife was eight and a half months pregnant, but thankfully my wife is an amazing woman who just said that’s your hero. So I went to the game and I watched the Broncos with John Elway.
How about comedy idols, Brad Williams says, one of the coolest nights of my life. I didn’t have a drink with him because he was sober, but this is how I got maybe the nicest compliment I’ve ever gotten my life. I did a set at a small club in northern California. I go backstage and Robin Williams burst through the green room door and goes right for me and says, oh my god, mister Williams. Both Williams a little confusing.
I get it. You’re like Prozac with a head that’s going on my gravestone. The next night, he’s doing a show at the same theater because he lives up there and that’s where he’d go work stuff out. And after the show, I go back to the green room and there’s Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, me, Mort Sahl All talking comedy. Was the greatest night ever.
So I have been under selling this Alex Bennett interview that I have scheduled for tomorrow. On Tuesday night, I cleaned up the edit and I was like, oh, this is really good. So I hope you enjoy my conversation with Alex Bennett. That’s the Saturday interview. Sunday is a normal episode.
Glenn Howard and you know him from It’s Alway Sunny in Philadelphia. He’s got a new role in Netflix’s show Sirens. He will play Ethan Corbin the Second.
Also on this Sirens show is Kevin Bacon.
Sirens takes place over a single weekends set at a fancified beach estate. Ethan Corbin the Second is described as a dear friend and next door neighbor of the lead family who has spent his life as a roaming bachelor, steadily burning through his trust fund as a yacht club regular. Yeah, I can see Glenn in that role for sure. The Hollywood Reporter did their comedy roundtable. Jenny Slat said, I could never audition for the comedy festivals or whatever because they’re like, bring five minutes, and it would just be like, I don’t have that for you.
It’s just not what I’m like. I’m a long distance runner on this one. Jacqueline Novak said, maybe that’s why I didn’t internalize my comedy seller opportunity, because when you guys talk about giving fifteen minutes that you know it works. I’m like, tell me about that fifteen minutes. I’m like forty six to lower them men, forty seven minute, you got them boom, Jenny said.
The people have done comedy with for years will be like, no, Jenny, you can do fifteen minutes. You just don’t. And it’s like yeah, But it feels like if I do this one bit, then I’m not going to be able to go to sleep for three days unless I do that one bit. But if I do that one, then I have to do the other one. So I don’t know.
Maybe I have OCD and that issued comedy news for today. Go have some wings. Will you see you tomorrow