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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You know who’s a crazy person, Johnny Mack. It’s June sixteenth. I’m already freaking out that summer’s half over.
Part of that is it never stops raining here in the Northeast. Drewski has released the official trailer for The Diggers. The Diggers co stars Theo Vaughn and Shane Gillis. The movie he tells the story of Brandon Digger, a young man who inherits a funeral home upon his grandfather’s death. And see his name is Digger.
I see what you did there. However, Brandon finds himself in a bit of family drama as he learns that his brother in law played by Theo Vaughan, also inherited a stake in the family business and his father’s wealth. They come to terms in their new partnership. Drewski and Vaughn’s characters struggle to keep the family business afloat, and then they run into Shane Gillis’s character, who is the medical examiner. Now this is interesting.
I haven’t tested this out yet, but the trailer caption says, the Digger’s funeral home is open for business. For questions or general inquiries, please call us. And they gave a phone number. Should I give you the phone number? All right, you’re on your own if you call this phone number.
I don’t know what’s gonna happen. I don’t know if you’re gonna get something fun. I don’t know if you’re gonna get porn. I don’t know if a Hitler is gonna answer the phone. It’s probably a promo for the movie.
But you’re on your own here. If you call six six, two seven, three three zero one zero four, let me know what happens. If people are unsure what’s going on here. THEO Vaughn teased the release back in October on his podcast. At that time, he had said, me and Drewski did a fake movie.
It was like a fake movie that we made. So we’ll see what’s up there. Pretty interesting. Theovon Sheen gillis project that’ll get noticed here on Daily Company News for sure. U Jim Gaffigan caught up with People magazine.
He said, I feel like getting teenagers out of the house or out of bed on a weekend is a game in itself. So the game is like do you blackmail, do you motivate, do you inspire? Or do you just go full crazy? Here’s what you do, Jim. I’ll leave him alone.
Jim admits the task of arrenting teenagers is such a minefield, and for me, there’s the balancing act of you don’t want to lose your mind, but you also have some sense of self respect, you know what I mean. People also asked Jim about his rituals. The last thing he does before he goes on stage, he drinks coffee and says, I’m such a slow talking Midwesterner. The pacing of a show is faster than I speak. The last time he scored.
Husband points he brings his wife Jeanie, coffee every morning, but considering I travel constantly and she does ninety percent of all the things for five kids, it’s very imbalanced. It’s the least I can do. His last to do it yourself project. I’m not that handy. If the TV doesn’t work, I just don’t watch TV.
My wife’s like, why don’t you just unplug it and plug it back in. I’m like that would mean standing up. And Jim’s last obsession, he’s still pushing this bourbon. Jim nobody cares, but he did the hit for people, so people waxed his car, and we’re told Jim’s current precious batch is called middle Child Mystery. And as you’re drinking bourbon, don’t you want to drink something called Middle Child Mystery?
I mean, is there anything cooler than that? I mean maybe the Cold Bear Book Club is slightly cooler than Middle Child Mystery bourbon, but those have to be one and two. Limited quantities are available m HMM home delivery of thirty seven states, and you get in the stores in Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I had this in Friday’s show, and then it got bounced because of the horrible Mulaney story I told you about with the death threats. So that was terrible.
But Malanie was part of a comedian roundtable with the Hollywood Reporter. John said, I’ve learned that before someone can start giving notes, ask them questions about what they think you should do. You know, like, we have an astrologer coming on. Should I bring them on in the first act and have them sit there and we can bring out Gary Coleman and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Where do we bring the astrologer out?
In the third act just start to give them ownership over something that isn’t even in significant And John was asked what he can’t believe he got away with on the show. He said, it’s not so much getting away with it, but I really respect that they’ve had me have so many big music performances on because they have a lot of data about how music does on TV and it doesn’t do as well as you might think. I’m dealing with a very data driven company that’s kind of interesting to learn, just like where the gas and Break is of people tuning in and out, and it doesn’t really color what we do, but it’s interesting information to have. I remember Jim Brewer a million years ago when he had the afternoon show on Sirius Raw Dog and I was the program director of that station. He was like, don’t we have ratings?
And I told him, I’m like, Jim, you don’t want ratings. The last thing you want is me coming to you and being like, you know people are tuning out during this segment. I’m like, enjoy the creative freedom you’re getting paid. You don’t need numbers anyway. Seth Rogan’s part of this round table and was curious if Netflix tells Malaney about the stats and Lannie said, yeah, tune outs completions things like that.
Like, I get it. You know, the stats are a good thing, but you look at them too closely, it can definitely interfere with the orts. I thought this was interesting too. You know, you hear about comedian theft and stay with me here. This is a total parallel thinking.
So if you go on my threads feed maybe two weeks ago, you’ll see I posted this. I was watching and Or the Star Wars thing and there was an actor in it who kind of looked like a young Roy Scheider, So I grabbed a screen grab of him and posted it and joked about my idea for Jaws zero, which is about a cop in the Bronx who’s like had it and is debating should he take a job as a sheriff in a small town up in the Cape cod Right, So that was an original thought I had. Now Mullaney in this Hollywood reporter thing, and I can’t say this loadly enough. John Mulaney did not rip me off. I’m not accusing John and Mullaney of stealing my joke, but I think it does illustrate parallel thinking, John Mulaney said, you know who I’d love to play is Chief Brody from Jaws, but in a prequel about his life in New York as a cop before he got to Amity Island.
But I don’t have the rights of the book, the movie, any piece of it. I’m putting that into the world because I don’t want to do the legwork of running down any of the rights. But it’s out there. I’m not sure mulaney would be right for that role, but I like the idea. It’s a ridiculous idea.
Here’s an idea that I think is terrible. Mel Brooks, who turns ninety nine this month, will appear in Spaceballs Too. That’s not the official title, that’s the working titles. Spaceball’s two will be in theaters in twenty twenty seven. We’re told Brooks will reply as the role of Yogurt in the follow up to the nineteen eighty seven cult classic comedy spoofing Star Wars and other films of the era.
I mean, it’s just not a good idea. No love mil Brooks. But if you want proof of why this isn’t a good idea, remember like two years ago we did History of the World Part two and it was awful. Right, there’s no way Spaceball’s two is going to be good. Here’s a starter.
John Candy’s dead. Yeah, don’t make it. Oh yeah. Joan Rivers was in it as the not quite c three po. Joan Rivers is also dead.
Josh Gadd is scheduled to be in this one. I don’t know. Just don’t make it. Taylor Thomason wrapped up her show. She explained why she chose to step down and said it was just not sustainable for me, so I guess touring pays better than CBS.
It was my dream that I get to finish out the season and hand it off to a new host. I really wanted CBS to replace me because I think there were so many amazing comedians who would have done a great job with the show. I bet if we live long enough, we’ll see a third version of at Midnight. It’s a relatively inexpensive format to make. Jerry Seinfeld has extended his residency at the Beacon Theater ten new shows October twenty four and twenty five, December nineteen and twenty January nine to ten.
Nice gig if you’re Jerry Reeltar dot Com tells us. In nineteen ninety eight, Jerry purchased a duplex apartment just steps from the American Museum of Natural History in Central Park, a nice part of town if you can afford that, and if you’re listening to this podcast, you can’t. But if you were to walk from Jerry’s apartment to the beaconputer, that’s an eleven minute walk according to Google. It’s a seven minute drive according to Google. But if you’re a real New Yorker, there’s no way you’re picking a seven minute drive over an eleven minute walk, because in New York City, a seven minute drive could easily become a thirty five minute drive.
If you can do it on foot, do it on foot. Shout out to Mark, who listens to the show every day and was kind enough to send me a note on the side, a little QC quality control issue. You know, sometimes Johnny blows an edit, sometimes things happen, and Mark was kind enough to hit me on the side, be like, hey, you might always take a listening around a minute thirty five to one of the recent shows, So I appreciate you, Mark, Hope you’re doing well. Let’s hit gossip Corner. The Animal Rescue League of Iowa shared a photo on social media of Matt Rife and puppies.
I bet that got a lot of likes. The post said, these puppies got a fun night out this weekend. They got to meet comedian Matt Rife. We got a request to schedule a cuddle break for VIP ticket holders at Matt’s Des Moines tour stop, and we’re happy to bring these little ones out. The puppies enjoyed lots of cuddles from VIP ticket holders.
They got to go backstage and hang out with Matt. They had a great time getting love and giving kisses. One pop even dozed off in Matt Rife’s arms. Thanks for having us, Matt Rife. Las Vegas Weekly wrote about the Las Vegas version of the comedy seller You’ll find this one in the rio, We’re told when they opened that location in twenty eighteen, they had a challenge, how do you bring the field to the newer club to Vegas without losing its edge and soul.
I agree that is a mighty challenge. Owner known to Warman says in New York, most of our shows are sold out before we even announce the line up because they trust our brand. If somebody’s funny in New York, they’re funny in Vegas. It’s very challenging to run a place the way I like to run a place from twenty five hundred miles away, which has a lot of attention to service and customer satisfaction. I decided it was the wisest thing to really partner with a casino.
They’re in the hospitality business and would take care of the day to day challenges that I would risk if I were not able to check in on out myself. That’s smart. A lot of our crowd comes in knowing what they’re going to get. Sometimes they’ve never even been to a comedy club before. It takes them a couple of minutes to go, oh, we can laugh at that.
If they’ve only seen comedy on social media. They’re pleasantly overwhelmed by the live experience. It’s much more visceral than seeing it on a phone. They do nightly shows at seven and nine thirty, and that is your comedy news for a Monday. Summer’s almost over.
I’m freaking out. It’s got to stop raining. I need beach days. See tomorrow