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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, summer finally came to where I live. I am so excited, and I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Late night. Had a pretty good week. Let’s do some late night jokes.
Haven’t done this for a while, Jimmy Fallon said. The White House is now claiming that over two hundred and fifty thousand people attended the parade last weekend. Yeah, it was an estimate, give or take two hundred and fifty thousand. John Stewart said it was less a show of overwhelming force and more like a military museum getting at its steps. Did you see Trump is coming out with a phone?
Seth Meyers at the Trump Organization today unveiled plans for a new Trump mobile phone service. Best of all, you won’t have any need for a friends and family plan allan. A lot of words come to mind when you think of Trump, but mobile is not really one of them. It’s the perfect phone to call your friends. It’d be like, yeah, I’m at the parade, there’s no one here.
Switching topic, Seth Meyers said, Trump is reportedly considering joining the war between Israel and Iran, and you might not like it. But he did say over and over again during the campaign America Third, Colbert, the thing is Trump being bunkerbuster curious is a shock to some people because one of the things that America First supposedly meant was keeping American troops out of foreign wars, so we can send more of them to Los Angeles, you know, send them to America first. All right, send your letters to those guys. You’re gonna be mad. You need a Biden joke to keep this thing balanced.
All right. Did you see Biden stumbled onto the set of Reacher. That’s a real thing that happened. They were filming Reacher in Philadelphia and Joe Biden showed up. Long story, Google it, The late Bot said.
Hunter Biden was impressed with the action scenes, but thought they needed more laptops. Late Bot again. New season Pitch, Reacher tracks down a fugitive, only to find out the President already pardoned him invited him with thanksgiving Late Bot again. Insiders say Hunter Biden was impressed with the explosions, but disappointed no one offered him a role as guy who misplaces important evidence. Send your letters to the late Bot.
Now we’ve offended everybody. Let’s move on. Or maybe not. THEO Vaughan is speaking out about the potential US involvement in the conflict, saying, quote, he doesn’t understand why America will get involved in a milie’s fight. On his podcast, and this story is making the rounds as I record this afternoon, he address the possibility that Israel is trying to get the United States into a war with Iran.
I don’t trust the Israeli leader at all, said Vaughan. I don’t believe anything the guy says, and I don’t think our soldiers should have to go and defend stuff that they start. I’m not a soldier, so I’m obviously speaking out of turn. I’m not even brave enough to serve. So there’s that element.
But this is kind of how I feel, I guess. So it’s like, yeah, when do I speak? When do I say that? Because you know, because it feels like they’re trying to push Trump to go do that, and it’s like who makes that choice? Does he make that choice?
And then what do we get? You know, what’s the win for us? We’re just involved in some other thing while we have suffering here at home. In more fun topics in Great News, Tom Sigor is Bad Thoughts has been renewed for a second season. I had a nice moment with my son the other day.
We were sharing a little whiskey and I was telling him about the show, and I said, it’s very funny and it’s very adult, and we will never speak of it it. Sigora shared a video of him breaking the news to his mother. Tom said, I’m so excited. She’s definitely not happy with it. It was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and horrify audiences with our very Bad Thoughts on Netflix.
We’re all excited to push things further with season two. I promise your family will not approve of what we do. Netflix shared the video and they tagged it sorry to Tom Sigora’s mom. Bad Thoughts is coming back for season two. No release date on that.
I discovered is the wrong word. I was watching Netflix and I got to the end of Tires episode six, and I was like, all right, that was pretty good. There’s six more episodes. I thought it was a six episode season because season one was six episodes. It’s twelve episodes, so I basically have a bonus season of Tires to get to Shane Gillis Tires on Netflix.
That and Sigora and the Conan Thing are the three funniest things of the year, all on Netflix. Good job there. Dred Carmichael did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. I found his first answer here really odd. The question from the Hollywood Reporter Ubye Gay is almost disarmingly frank about sex.
What made you want to go there with your first hour since Nathaniel? A right fine question. Now listen to this answer. I don’t know what to make of it, Drod said. I like speaking explicitly about sex.
It’s exciting because it’s the complete opposite of my life. For many, many years it was all suppression. Now, especially being in a relationship, I feel compelled to articulate the experience. I guess I hadn’t heard that a lot in comedy. And that’s funny because in a sense, it’s what you wanted from Louis c.
K. He was going around the edges of truly articulating sexual experiences. But there’s that glaring truth that he didn’t acknowledge. The same thing with Bill Cosby. Cosby is truly a master of the craft.
But now it’s like you hear it and you’re like, man, Wow, you didn’t really acknowledge what you were doing. Those are really scaring things. I don’t know what to make of that, especially on the Cosby front. Now, I do have a Bill Cosby story that I’m not going to tell until mister Cosby passes away, but I will tell you that story someday. It was quite eye opening personal experience on I had with mister Cosby, who I interacted with at least three times.
A story for another day. So draw continued and said, even with a ZS. When we had the Babe dot Net situation, he made a special Spike Jones. It was well done, but it wasn’t quite exactly what you wanted. You wanted him to.
Well, you want anyone to come up and say, here’s what happened. That’s one of the things I admire about Richard Pryor. He’d come out on stage and be like, Hey, here’s what’s going on with me? Anything happening with him in public, he’d address it and work it out through comedy is doing what I wish my father, both my actual father and comedy forefathers would do. It’s a vulnerable thing.
The women in comedy, the best of the best have dealt with really vulnerable things, from Ellen to Tig and made it hilarious. I just feel compelled to do it, and I’m excited to do it a little nervous obviously about saying it and putting it out into the world. I don’t know what to make of all that. Yeah, I just I don’t have any comment. Be curious what you think.
Share your thoughts on the Facebook group Dilly Comedy News podcast group. Really really interesting there. I’m not sure what he wanted to seek, is these of those guys to do or Bill cous what’s Bill Cosby gotta do? Come out and do? Never mind.
Jeff Ross was on with Jimmy Kimmel. Jeff shared a joke his doctor delivered to Jeff Ross when telling Jeff Ross that he had colon cancer. Ross said, my oncologist was like, Jeff, good news and bad news. The bad news is you’re gonna need six months of chemo. The good news is you lost your hair a long time ago.
That’s brutal. Jeff said, I was already in my fifties. I’d never gotten a colin oscopy. I went in, I had no symptoms, and I had a tumor in my colon. You always think it’s never gonna happen to you, and it happened to me.
Now I have a semi colon. All right? What waw? Jeff addresses his cancer diagnosis in his one man show, Jeff Ross, Take a Banana for the Ride. It’ll be on Broadway this summer.
Jeff says, I don’t want the show to be Maudlin, but I think it’s important to address it. Norm MacDonald was very private and hit his sickness. I didn’t think that was fair to the audience and his friends. So I’m putting it out there, but I don’t want people to feel sorry for me. It’s going to be a very empowering and bold statement on how to get through tough times.
All right. If you’re planning on seeing Devin Walk and Michael Longfellow in Philadelphia this weekend, you’re not. They have canceled a pair of stand up dates. They are showing support for striking and terminated staffers at the venue where they were going to perform. Apparently, what has happened here?
Several employees at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live walked out during a performance by Suzanne Vega they have accused the venue’s new management of fostering a hostile work environment and failing to deliver timely accurate pay. Management responded the next day. According to this version, apparently management then let a dozen people go and ban them from the venue. Walker on Instagram said, in light of the labor disputed of the venue, we’ve decided to cancel the Philly show this weekend. We’re working on getting another date in the city later this year.
Brett Goldstein is hard to get secrets out of. He was speaking to Variety. They were curious about the new season of Shrinking. Michael J. Fox is a guest star.
Jeff Daniels and Cannis Bergen also appear. Goldstein said, being on set with Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox doing a scene, you’re like, am my tripping at my back in my bedroom in the eighties. But it wouldn’t give any details about it about Ted Lasso. You’re gonna tell us about Ted Lasso, Brett said, Obviously, I can’t tell you a single thing about it, of course, but we’re working on it and it’s good.
It’s exciting to have everyone back together. I put the spin on the word everyone there. Bill Lawrence talked about the Scrubs reboot and said, I hate the narrative, like, oh, the ninth year sucked, it’s sour grapes whatever. I’m lucky to have done it. I didn’t get to work on that season as much, but the writing staff did a great job.
If it had been a spin off called Scrubs Med or Scrubs Med School, it wouldn’t have been judged as horsehly. But I understand the business of that decision. Yeah, season nine. You know, it’s different that the show had kind of wrapped up and then ABC brought it back, and I know at the time they wanted to call it something like Scrubs Met and the network’s like, no, no, no, Scrubs. Season nine is fine.
It’s just it’s different. It’s like kind of like after Scrubs. Of the reboot, Lawrence says, this one is also called Scrubs and it starts with j D and Turk, although this version will try to capture the same humor and heart as the original run. We catch up with JD fifteen years later and has been beaten down by the system. Bill explains the hardest part is that Zach and Donald have aged people still have that affinity and love for that goofy youthfulness.
That’s why the T mobile commercials work well. But if I saw two guys in their late forties early fifties doing World’s most Giant Doctor and carrying each other around all the time, I’d go, what is going on? To see what that friendship looks like at their age, and take a comedic look at what medicine has become since those kids started out as interns, and see how our people would look at it, deal with it and try to remain optimistic. Is their main objective. I’ll share with you my wife is a physician, and she was an intern when Scrubs came on, and she for decades said Scrubs was actually the most realistic medical show because of you know, take all the broad comedy out of it, but just the background stuff of like how the hospital operated.
She said it was the most realistic that has now been superseded by the Pit where I was fun to watch the pit with her because she would just comment and be like, Oh, yeah, they’re doing this, they’re doing this. It was very realistic, according to doctor Mac. Back to Bill Lawrence, he says, I’ll tell you the people I based the original characters on, like the real JD Doctor Jonathan Doris is still the medical advice on the show, and it’s still a cardiologist and a heart surgeon in LA. But the real Elliott, who was Doris’s wife, doctor Dolly Clock, is no longer in medicine because it got to be too much for her. She wanted to do other things that we’re equally as philanthropic.
She does this education thing for adolescents and kids now. So to look at how the system not only changed, but it’s beaten some of these people down, how they retain their optimism with a wave of new young characters has been really fun. My hope would be that we established where everybody from the original show is, whether they’re still with us at the hospital or not. That would be great. Bill says, I hope Ken Jenkins as doctor Bob Kelso, who’s eighty four now, is able to come play with us a little bit.
He’s a little older, but we love him so much. Don’t expect Scrubs two O to feature the kids. Bill says, I think it’s inevitable that Jad and Elliott’s kid made compearances, but Scrubs is first and foremost a workplace comedy. So I think we’re going to keep it that. I’m looking forward to that.
And that is your comedy news for today. And I’m always honest with you guys about the shows right when I go, Hey, this weekend’s pretty good. This week this weekend, it’s a lot of filler stories. It’s, being honest, a light week. I carved two shows out of it.
I’m never going to tell you not to download the show. But you know, if you took a weekend off, this might be the weekend to take off. But I’ll see you if not tomorrow on Monday. I get it, just being honest, see you