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Caloroga Shark Media Pure Jommy Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Daily Mail wrote an article about the top earning comedians and put some dollar amounts to it. Actually, they put pounds amounts to it, and I threw it into chat GPT and roughly translated the pounds into US dollars in case you’re curious. In this case, we used an exchange rate of one British pound to one dollar twenty seven US dollars. Not crazy off.
Your exchange rate may differ anyway. According to the Daily Mail, the top earning comedians of twenty twenty four, I’ll start with number eleven. I don’t know why they did eleven. Number eleven. They have Michael McIntyre at twelve point seven million.
Number ten, Andrew Schultz sixteen and a half million. Number nine, Jeff Dunham quietly going about his business nineteen million dollars shockingly low. Where do you hear these next two names? Okay? So number eight is Kevin Hart.
You know Kevin Hart who like starts a new business like twice a day. Kevin Hart quote unquote only twenty one point five to nine million. Now, why that’s interesting to me is number seven Joe Koy. You may recall Joe Coy also the Golden Globes over a year ago. I’m not going to bring that up, Scott back at relaxed.
But Joe Coy earned twenty five point four million dollars, So according to the Daily Mail, Joe Koy is making more money than Kevin Hart. How is that possible? Number six Trevor Noah twenty six point six five, Bert Kreischer also at twenty six point six. Number four, Peter Kay at thirty four point twenty nine million. Number three Seinfeld Jerry brought in thirty nine point three million.
Number two Sebastian Maniscalco big successful tour, okay, forty eight point twenty six million, and number one you want to take a guess here, and it’s a shocking difference. According to the Daily Mail again they have Sebastian at forty eight point twenty six at number one with seventy one point one two million, so that’s you know, twenty five million more loose math. Number one Nateperghetzi. Wow, yeah, I mean Nate had a big tour, but Nate quietly became a monster. I think everybody’s aware of him.
Now, but I had no idea he was making that much money. Nate is making I don’t know, forty percent more. I’m doing loose math in my head. Forty percent more than Jerry Seinfeld. I still don’t see how Joe coy is making more than Kevin Hart, but okay.
Meanwhile, bill Board shared the top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty twenty four. They say the top comedy acts collectively grossed a record breaking three hundred and ninety six point seven million dollars, up fifty two percent from the year before. I’ll go in the other direction. Here they have a number one Nates, grossing eighty two point two million dollars one hundred and forty eight shows with one point one million people going to see him, Number thirty seven overall on the all genre ranks. So I assume that includes Taylor Swift, for example, at number two, Number two two, where Matt Riiche grossed fifty seven and a half million sold seven hundred and thirty three thousand tickets across two hundred fifty six shows.
Gab Iglesias another one of those quiet monsters. Maybe not this week because he’s in the news, but he grossed forty two point eight million, sold six hundred three thousand tickets hundred twenty four shows. Kat Williams gross thirty seven and a half million, selling almost four hundred thousand tickets sixty shows. Sebastian gross thirty six and a half million, selling two hundred ninety three thousand tickets in fifty three shows. Krayzier twenty nine point seven million, three hundred and eighty eight thousand tickets sixty four shows, Trevor twenty nine point seven three hundred ninety two thousand, ninety four shows, Jerry twenty seven point eight almost two hundred thousand tickets thirty six shows, Adam Sandler twenty seven million dollars selling two hundred and sixty one thousand tickets and twenty six shows, and number ten Joe Coy Maybe he should host the Golden Globes, giveing more than nine days to prepare, and don’t invite you know who with the icy’s there.
Joe Koy gross twenty six millions, sold three hundred and sixty eight thousand tickets in eighty three shows.
Speaking of Gabeglacias, earlier in the week before the fires, he was profile…
He shared that the title of his new special was supposed to be hard Rock Fluffy because he shot the special the Hard Rock in Miami. Everybody was on board with it. Then we got a call from Netflix, who said, there’s money to be made on this and you can’t be promoting other brands. They didn’t like the fact that I was promoting hard Rock and Netflix, and they’re like, well, if something like that’s gonna happen, there needs to be compensation for it. I’m like, it’s cool, I’m there, I play the hard Rocks.
It helps me out. And they’re like, no, he can’t do it. So then, to be a jerk, I was like, all right, what about rock hard Fluffy, you know, to try and open up the audience a little. But no, they didn’t go with that either. They gave you about eight different titles, but they sucked.
Finally, we landed on Legend of Fluffy because I figured there’s a lot of pieces in the special that have to do with the amount of time we’ve been doing this. And I was a big gamer back in the day. I had my Gold cartridge, so I liked Legend of Zelda. So I said, let me just play with that a little bit. So that’s why the special is called Legend of Fluffy Switching Gears.
Gabe shared that a few years ago, a buddy of his has told him your generational talent. I said, what’s that even mean? He said, you got all these different generations coming out to see you. People that were kids the first time they saw you, and now they’re adults and some are bringing their kids. I’m like, that sounds weird, and I’m like, oh, I used to have hair, so it’s really really cool to see that.
I think it’s really beautiful that people come out and tell me I grew up watching you. Every time they say that, another gray hair comes out of my beard and another hair falls out of my head. All right, some political stuff here in the second half. If you don’t want to deal with the politics, you are dismissed. I understand.
But I’ve got a bunch of stories that pair up nicely. Let’s start with Jim Gaffigan, and he was on the Last Laugh podcast. He shared, I regret that people think I was criticizing people that support Trump. That was never the intention. Jim says he doesn’t regret publicly going against Trump, but acknowledges that he might have lost some fans.
Jim said, I also do acknowledge that there were true, diehard Trump fans who probably enjoyed my comedy, but because they feel so passionately, they’ll never forgive me. According to Jim, the back last year received for criticizing Trump was noticeable, but didn’t affect him that much. I wouldn’t say it was measurable, but there were definitely comments on social media, and there are still some. Bill Maher revealed his issue with the Democrats and revealed the main reason he goes after woke liberals more often now. He says, you give me more material.
I’m a comedian. I’m gonna go where the gold is. The Democrats can’t stand. I have to endure a moment of hearing something they don’t already agree with. Not that the right doesn’t do it too, but the left does it worse.
Everything with these people has to be an opportunity for virtual signaling. Bill says some Democrats have cut off their friendship with him because he’s had on people like Anne Culter, Bill Barr, and Ted Cruz, And he says, just think about what this is. That’s people who hate me. For who I won’t hate. It’s in their psychological profile.
They just have this need for virtual signaling. And I have their friends, and I guess everybody on social media thinking of them as the good guys. We’re the good people. We know who’s good, and it’s us. He also criticized the youngins, saying they have no perspective, quoting mar They’ve been indoctrinated into this idea that they live in the worst country in the world at the worst time in history, when actually they live in with all our flaws, still probably the best with definitely indisputably the best time in history.
What America needs as a colonic Would Trump be the man I choose first to administer it. No, but I’d like to see what he and Elon Musker could do. Many Republicans say, maybe we can get Bill Maher. Now you can’t. What you can get is Bill Mooher being honest about the left.
I’m not going to join your team that doesn’t believe in democracy. And he has a message for Kamala Harris, saying you’ll lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person. Congratulates Meanwhile, Whitney Cummings commented on the political left. She said, I always thought of myself as a pretty liberal person, but I don’t think the left is as liberal as it used to be. It’s like the left became the party of censorship.
It’s just wild to me that we’re in’t a time where if you’re on the left and you don’t criticize your party, how much you even care about your party? Do you know what I mean? It’s like what’s going on the left? I had to say, I just finally broke chants. If you love your party, you have to be able to criticize it, you know.
And I don’t really take sides. She then joked about some hypocrisy, quoting Whitney, my body, my choice, but you have to take this vaccine and also my body my choice, pro choice party, but you don’t have a choice in your candidate. I’m not an expert on politics, which is why I’ve always said I’m not weighing in on it. But I am an expert on hypocrisy. Okay.
I was raised by hypocrites, I’ve dated them, and I know hypocrisy what I see it. And that is your comedy news for today. Send your letters to Whitney Cummings, Bill Maher or Jim Gaffigan. I’m just here to tell you what’s going on. See you tomorrow.