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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians of the comedy industry. The kind of phrase that someone like Jay Leno would say if they were trying to goose these Spotify transcription algorithm to goose their podcast and the Spotify rankings. But of course jay Leno doesn’t have a podcast, so he would never say a phrase like that. Bill Board has released the Top ten comedy tours of twenty twenty five.
By the way, this is a real episode today. This is not a filler episode. This just happens to be the new story. Top ten comedy Tours of twenty twenty five. Only two names made their debut in the top ten.
Half of them or on twenty twenty fours. Round up those two names, weird Al and Nikki Glaser. Glazer also made the top one hundred acts of all genres. Only two comedy acts played one hundred shows or more this year are Gabriel Iglesias and Nikki Glaser. Billboard says Glazer is the only woman in comedy’s top ten.
It’s not necessarily a breakthrough for representation, but it improves on last year’s all male list. It’s been nine years since a woman led the comedy list. That year, Amy Schumer grossed nineteen point five million dollars from thirty six shows, and twenty sixteen, let’s take a look at the list. Number ten Jim Gaffigan The Barely Alive Tour fifteen point seven million dollars, seventy four shows, one hundred ninety two thousand tickets. Number nine Nikki Glaser at you compare with Amy Well?
Nicki grossed nineteen point five million, compared to Amy making eighteen million ten years ago, and Nicky did one hundred and twenty shows, two hundred and ninety four thousand tickets. Number eight Joe Cooy. He one time hosted the Golden Globes, but I don’t have time for that today. He did eighty three shows and grossed twenty point nine million dollars. So who’s laughing now, Well, actually, Taylor Swift is still laughing.
Taylor can sell three hundred three thousand tickets at about four seconds. Number seven you won’t guess this name. Jeff Dunham. He’s still out there with the puppets. Yeah, ninety shows, four hundred three thousand tickets twenty six point one million dollars.
Number six, You love to hate him? No, he’s not Jay Leno. He’s Matt Rife. Sorry, he’s funny. Get over it.
Forty six shows, twenty seven point nine million dollars, three hundred and thirty thousand tickets. Somebody likes him, and I’m one of those people. But I like this next person a lot more than I like Matt Riife. He’s weird. Al Yankovic.
Number five The Bigger and Weirder Tour seventy two shows, four hundred, twenty two thousand tickets, twenty eight point six million dollars grossed. Weird, hel you go. Number four Gabe Iglesias. He’s quietly going about his business. One hundred shows, gross thirty five point three million and sold four hundred ninety five thousand tickets.
Dude, do one more show gets a half a million? Number three? Oh my god. Even the image they’re using on billboard, he’s making a stupid face. I can’t take it.
Sebastian Maniscalco’s what if Dice Clay was an old Man Tour? Oh no, that’s not the name of it. It’s it’s the eight a right tour, same thing, forty one shows, four hundred and twenty five thousand tickets, forty two point nine million dollars grossed. Ough, guys, come on, Kevin Hart never a free to work. He did eighty two concerts aside from his eighty two jobs, three hundred and thirty four thousand tickets and gross to forty three point one million dollars, and the top touring comedian of the year.
Although I’m wondering if this is gonna hold? Have we reached peak of this name? Is this movie going to help? Is the theme park ever gonna happen? But so far things are good for Nate Berghetzi six hundred and seventy seven thousand tickets, seventy six shows, fifty six point seven million dollars for the Big Dumb Eyes World Tour.
Now I have another list, but then you guys are gonna think this is fillers, so it’s not. So I’m gonna skip the list and tomorrow I’ll do this Deadline Comics who won twenty twenty five list.
Also tomorrow Comedy Festivus.
So jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Try and get there before noon, which is when I usually record will air some comedy grievances on tomorrow show. Mark Maren was profiled by Esquire, and I loved this first thing, Mark Maren said, because it really I can connect with this. Maren said. I used to say that I never really felt like life was going by quickly.
When you’re in it, you’re like it’s plotting by. Here’s the part that resonates. Then all of a sudden, it’s like, oh my god, how am I the oldest guy in the room. I didn’t really have a sense of age of those younger comics like John Mulaney or Nateperghatzy. I always saw them as my peers.
Then you hit sixty and you’re like, you guys are forty? What when did that happen? It’s so true, Like I think of this podcast and I’m like, you know, even if this thing blew up tomorrow, what is it got fifteen years left? Then I handed off to someone who knows. We’ll worry about that some other time.
But Mark Maron, I feel you some ratitats hat from Maren. What if I learned from being divorced twice? Just give them the money, Mark, what happens to us after we die? Not much. But is that so bad?
Don’t we all need a nap? For a while, Maren said, I thought comedy was a noble undertaking. The only rule of comedy is you should be funny outside of that, and you could do whatever you want on stage. If you can make it funny, you could be who you are. There was this idea on the anti war, don’t censor yourself at all, and it’s like, no, that’s how civilization works.
That’s the way democracy works. You learn tolerance and you behave properly in certain situations. Now that’s gone. I don’t know how democracy works without tolerance and compassion. Maren says.
If you can change one of two people to either think differently or help them out, that’s not nothing. I don’t know what else I can do. I’m not going to run for office. As I was putting the show together, I threw some comedian names into Google. One of the names Bert Krescher, and what came up was a headline Bert Krescher parking, and my mind just ran with that note.
It was just about what one would do with their car while attending Bert Kreischer’s concert over the weekend. But I was like Bert Kreischer parking. Imagine if he got into that, like, imagine if that was Bert’s version of Jim Gaffick and Bourbon and Burt got like super serious about parking. Can we make that happen to be amazing. Robbie Hoffman and John m’laney were talking about when they first met, apparently with somebody to do with a WGA Writers Guild meeting.
Hoffman said, it was my worst night. We had a union meeting that we were forced to go to or there’d be some kind of fee or a doctor merit points. I don’t even know how it works yet. I wasn’t even on the healthcare. John Mulaney said, we are members of a great union, the Writer’s Guild of America, with whom we have some complaints, as does every member.
M’lini continued, So there are meetings of the WGA that did kick off various actions, normally strikes. We mainly strike. We don’t do that much else. And there are these meetings at the Writer’s Guild of America West or East, and I think there are a little bit less meetings and more like pep rallies. And Robbie went to what was more of a PEP rally.
They were taking questions and an event like this, they’re more taking comments about how it’s great that were striking. Robbie raised her hand and asked why the guild owned so many buildings of the goals to get money to the writers, and you had a list of properties they owned. That’s hilarious offits that I did. Here’s the thing. I’d be remissed as a former accountant.
Before I did this job. I thought my ticket out was I was going to go to school and get a good job. What a novelty, I get a good job. Shout out to KPMG to the day I die, just like I would say, shout out to John Mulaney until the day I die. A good job.
Nothing like it. I remember it forever. I love it. Skipping a hit, she says. Then they tell us were striking.
First of all, we just had COVID. We have to strike because the studios are about to do what studios do and be a hole, surprise and prize. So they say there’s a mandatory Q and A. It’s a day before the strike, and I realized my timing was off. My timing couldn’t be worse, but any event I go, and I decided, well, I got to be informed.
I just joined this union. I’ve never been in this type of union. Side, I decided to go to the website and look through their financial statements, which is what I would do with anything, just to have a nice read. They’re not for profit, supposedly, and I just looked at it. I hadn’t been got in for years.
This is hilarious. I barely even know how to look at this stuff. But there’s certain things I could look at a balance sheet, I could look at an income statement. I could look at it, you know, just cash flow and these three basic statements. I don’t need everything else.
But a couple of line items jumped out at me, particularly the real estate. And it’s like we work from home in our apartments with roommates. Who’s at the building. So I said, why do we have to strike this yet and hold our wages? And when we have assets to offload, why don’t we sell all the buildings and divide it up among the members?
Give checks out. V Magazine caught up with Chloe Fineman. Chloe Fineman makes Jim Gaffigan’s bourbon business look casual. V Magazine tells us the ultra hilarious algorithm shattering SNL comedian teamed up with the beloved Moxie Hotels to write and record a series of exclusive holiday bedtime stories. All these Holiday Bedtime Stories are accessible from in room rotary phones at every Moxie across the US and Canada.
Fineman delivers impression packed tales from the Guilt Trip, Mary Peach Miss and more. Copywriting Rule of three, Chloe explains, I pulled a lot for personal experience, which helped keep the stories grounded even as we leaned into the comedy. The holidays can feel chaotic and overwhelming, so it was fun to contrast that energy with the soothing shift that happens when you escape to a hotel and slip into a different persona.
And then here’s the part that I think even Jim Gaffigan would throw up at, be…
But Chloe Fineman said this supposedly with a straight face, as if she actually believes this. Sometimes you’re just taking a check and it’s okay to admit it. Like that’s the one thing about Pete Davidson, who played the reON Comedy Festival. Pete’s father was killed on nine to eleven. He was a New York City firefighter.
But Pete just said they paid well. At least you can kind of respect the honesty. Chloe Feyneman said, living in New York has really shaped the kinds of partnerships I gravitate toward, because I always want to collaborate with brands that feel genuinely authentic to my life. Moxie has had a strong presence in my New York experience, whether it’s going to events there or having friends stay at the hotels when they’re in town because they’re so convenient. This partnership felt like a naturally great fit.
I gotta go throw up, be right back. They don’t forget if you’re listening on Spotify, follow Daily Comedy News, so it shows up in your feet every morning. That’s the kind of thing Jay Leno would do to try and like beat out the other podcast. That Guy’s the worst. Remember that Raymond Reunion on CBS like a month ago.
It rated well, so they made another one with the leftovers. So I don’t know how good Tonight’s special is gonna be, But on CBS Tonight, it’s the Everybody Loves Raymond thirtieth Anniversary Reunion Part two, ray Romano said, some of the compilations we had to cut down. The gag reel had to be cut down. My wife Anna did a half hour interview and they showed her for three seconds. Yeah, I know everybody wants to tune in and be like, I wonder what Ana Romano has to say about this.
My father and Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal’s father did guest spots together a few times, and they weren’t actors, but they were always hysterical. We showed that during the live taping. We got to cut that down.
Also, you don’t want to go too long.
We could have used another ten minutes, and since Rady needed another ten minutes tonight, they gave him an hour. I hope you really enjoy anam Romano. I’m sure she’s lovely. Tonight’s one hour special will include more clips and outtakes from the series and unaired interviews with writers, producers, and guest stars. I’ll be watching the forty nine ers on Monday Night football.
Jimmy Carr he will never retire from comedy. He hopes to quote die with his boots on Jimmy was on the Chris Moyles radio show and Chris said, we were talking yesterday and Dominic said, do you think Jimmy Carr will get to a certain point, like a certain age, and I’ll just go I’m done now? And I went absolutely not. I think he’ll be forever. I think you’ll be one of the living legends of comedy.
Jimmy Carr said. I aspired her that, Yeah, dying with your boots on sounds pretty good. My problem is work is more fun than fun. I’m very aware of how grateful I am to do a job at jam the Love, But then you get a night off and sit around and go, oh, I get to watch something now. I do two shows a night most nights.
Not at the moment I’m doing the big rooms the arenas, but normally I do two shows, one at seven to one at nine thirty. And comedian Connor Wood has shared his travel must haves with USA Today. When connor Wood’s out there on a comedy tour, he always finds in his backpack chomps and liquid IV, but he doesn’t know who puts them there. His mom an elf. He says, I never want to check because it ruins the magic.
As for Liquid IV, his favorite flavor is standard lemonade. He carries a book. He says, I’ve carried around Moby Dick for years. I’m on page eight. Sounds like me and the audio books in my phone.
He’s also developed a love for knickknacks. He explains, I walk past the window of a miscellaneous item shop like I don’t need maraccas in Phoenix, but they’re there. I’ll always remember my trip to Phoenix because of the moraccas. I don’t even need to remember the trip because it wasn’t important. The trip is temporary, but the moroccas or forever.
And that is your Comedy News for today. Normal episodes row including the story I Bumped and Comedy Fest of Us. So you’ve got a couple hours left to jump in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Looking Ahead On the twenty fourth and twenty fifth, I have already recorded my take on the top one hundred comedy films of all time, and in the middle of it, I get pretty upset. That’s for Christmas, even Christmas Day, or you can catch up next weekend. I totally understand.
That’s why I schedule them for those days I get it, so Tomorrow be normal, and Friday I anticipate doing a normal episode just to cover whatever comedy news happens during the twenty third, fourth, and fifth. Regardless, you left something in your feed every single day, and I’ll see you here tomorrow