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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, they are Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I have not yet watched this Tim Dillon thing on Netflix. As I’ve mentioned the past, I like Tim Dillon a lot, although I’m not sure this particular special that I haven’t seen is what I want out of him. Why haven’t you watch it?
Johnny Mack? The Mets are in the playoffs. There was the debates Wednesday night. I played trivia, so I’m not home. I will get to it.
The folks at OutKick spoke to Tim Dillon and they called Tim Dillon legendary, tap the brakes legendary. Really, I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you walk down the street and ask the next five hundred people you meet who Tim Dillon is. I am willing to wager you you go zero for five hundred, not even one for five hundred, zero for five hundred. Now, if you’re at a college or something, you might get better numbers, but you know, go to the mall and ask some people who Tim Dillon is.
Legendary? A little strong there. The La Times did see Tim Dillon and special. Let’s see what they said. Apparently, the conversation with Netflix was never to do a comedy special.
The conversation was, what do you want to do? Netflix wanted something unique and unscripted. Tim says, initially they brought something political and I wasn’t really into that. I wanted to bring back nineties trash TV. That’s what we did, and it’s a nineties trash TV talk show.
So I don’t know if i’d call it a comedy special. I mean, they’re going to call it that on Netflix, because I don’t think they have a term for it, but it’s kind of what it is. It ends up being a better satire of America than a political special or anything like that, doing something at a convention or doing some kind of daily show ripoff. I think it ends up being a really good satire of America because they’re all real people that have come to talk about things that are real cultural themes. There’s no script and we basically don’t know where any of it’s going to me that’s what makes it fun.
It’s not really knowing what’s gonna happen. We shot a bunch of segments and we only use five because we thought they were the most interesting and the funniest and the best. That’s the thing. Not knowing what’s going to happen is what I like about the format. This project was about learning to be a good interview where it’s learning to work with the crowd, which I know how to do from stand up, but it’s learning to integrate all of those different elements into it to make it feel like it’s got a flow and the crowd is to be it.
The people on stage have to be into it, you hope the people watching it. Obviously you are into it. So you’ve got to make sure that it’s not only entertaining in the room and interesting in the room, but that it’s going to translate when it’s on Netflix. I’m confused because everybody keeps asking if these are real people. I’m morning, if anyone’s been outside in the last few years.
I mean, what a lovely view of the country that you almost have. The hollerand Reporter caught on that Michael Chay is working on a late night talk show. You listen to this podcast, so you knew that because I mentioned it, because I read Late Night Er, which is where the Hollywood reporter is catching wind of all this. The working title Don’t Sleep With Michael Chay. Jay says he’s still sorting it out.
Sometimes you just got to motivate yourself to get on stage and try things, especially me, because I’ll come up with an idea and that I’ll get bored and it dies in my imagination. So I have no idea where this goes. But you never know. Maybe nbc’ll put it on at three in the morning. Jay has stopped short of shopping the show around a lot of s’s in that sentence Johnny Mack, you’d like to keep testing it with audiences, Jay explains, I always think comedy fans select what they want to see, and so ideally I just do it live for a while and listen to what the response is and find the identity of the show that way, and then have something to say, well, is this part of an SNL exit strategy?
Chase says, you get moments where you love it so much that is Drasha crazy, and you want to be as far away from it as possible. Will he come back for the fifty first season? I don’t know if you know this. SNL is turning fifty this year, and we are going to talk about it every day for the next eight months. I’ve updated the calendar.
It’s only eight months now. Jay says, I try not to think about that because I think it ruins the morale for the rest of this year. I don’t know, you never know. As for the talk show, I’m having fun, but it’s like any relationship that’s new, you can’t start talking marriage too soon. The second Gentleman, Doug m hoff enjoys macpacker Andy Samberg’s portrayal of him on SNL.
Doug Emmahoff was on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday, which Johnny Mack just learned to exists. Doug said, I’ve been watching that show my whole life, and I think somebody’s playing me. First of all, it’s wow, and then I got a hand it to Andy Samberg did a good job. He also likes Maya Rudolph as wife Kamala Harris. Doug says, she’s so good as Kamala.
She did a really good job. Nate Bergatzy hosts Saturday Night Live this Saturday. I don’t know if you heard. It’s the fiftieth season. We’re going to talk about it every day for eight month.
He has another gig. He has joined the advisory Board of Directors at the National Comedy Center. In a statement, Nate said, I’ve immersed myself in the exhibits for hours each time I’ve explored the National Comedy Center in Jamestown. It’s the only place that truly celebrates the essence of what we do. For an artist, It’s a tribute to this thing we work so hard at, and for the average visitor, it pulls back the curtain on what elevates it to being an art.
The experience is just awesome.
Also on the board of directors Amy Poehler, wkmal Bell, Lewis Black, Tiffany …
Seems like you all enjoyed Shane Brendan on a Saturday’s episode of this podcast. That’s good. I enjoyed him a lot. His new album is out either way, pretty funny, Brendan told The Portland Tribune, and I can’t speak for the entirety of the comedy community, but for me personally, I have to find something funny. Comics are regular people.
They go through emotions and everything else, but the comic brain never shuts off no matter how dark things get. I acknowledge the darkness and the same breath. There’s an angle here in this moment of not feeling great. What makes me feel good? I’m not on the edgy and devisive side.
A lot of my stuff is personal. Spoilers for that Jimmy Fallon a Halloween thing. The av Club had it over there. They say, you are in Jimmy Fallon’s bedroom. It’s a dark, dank at chili space, bathing an eerie, musty fog that laps up your ankles.
You’re taking your surroundings, noticing a half open picture book and shivering at the sight of the murky green glow emanating from under Jimmy’s bed. Johnny Carson rolls over in his grave. You hear Fallon’s voice echoing around you, but you cannot see him. This is terrifying. Jay Leno dies and rolls over in his grave.
You feel the need to escape, to hide. See a high tail it into Jimmy’s closet, is hung up clothes hitting you in the face as you push through, Steve Allen rolls over in his grave. The closet was a mistake. It leads to a small black ante chamber, and now you find yourself somewhere far more terrifying. You are in Jimmy Fallon’s mind as Jack Parr rolls over in his grave.
Nowbe’s the premise of Tonightmares, the av Club. It’s a concept so demented that it could only have come from the twisted imagination of the man who brought you all about that base performed on xylophone. I’m going to guess it came from the mind of NBZ executives who were like, Hey, we make a lot of money here at Christmas time, what can we suck the tourist in with at Halloween. I’m gonna guess that’s where it came from. And Jimmy just went, yeah, sure we could do that.
But what do I know. I’m recording a podcast in the basement. I’m also aware I name checked all the Tonight Show primary hosts except Conan O’Brien didn’t have a ConA joke for you, Zari. I’m a guy in a basement recording a podcast. Jimmy found Tonightmare or this is a new haunted attraction.
You see up until now Rockefeller Center with its skating rink, music hall, roquettes and the Big Tree has owned Christmas. It’s a logical next step to turn the complex into a destination for another major holiday, filling a Jecklin Hyde Club shaped hole in the city’s Halloween market. Despite me mocking this thing, it is not the worst idea. Know that area very well. I worked across the street for quite a few years.
It’s not the worst idea, And the tourist kind of it sucked away like it doesn’t bother the real New Yorkers. If the tourists want to go over there and do this, fine, Wow, this sounds like a big thing. Av club rights. After descending the escalator, I went through a metal detector and took note of the warning sign which cost visitors not to enter the experience if they have a medical sensitivity to strobe lights or fog through the doors spoilers. We found ourselves in a pre show room themed like a decrepit elevator loading dock.
It was filled with rusty pipes and flickering lights, complete with a wall of old control switches. The vibes of Oke the loading zone of Disney World’s Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Right, this doesn’t sound horrible. After Jimmy set the scene, the down light lit up, the elevator doors open. We were ushered inside into a room that simulated a moving elevator.
Av Club rights. I think people who like Orlando coated things in the heart of Midtown, who appreciate the immersive thrills of forty X and the Top of the Rock Beam and the stupid fun of Margaritaville Times Square, we call those tourists. We’ll find this worth the cost of admission. People who want a truly haunting experience can visit the American Girl Doll Store just upstairs. Hey, it’s always great to hear from you all.
I’ll put my contact in the show notes today. A friend of the show, Scott Beckett, and I were emailing the other day. Appreciated that, and I heard from Travis who hit me a note on the side and tell me yakof Mernoff’s podcast is pretty good. So I’ve added that to my endless qu of things I’m never going to get to, which reminds me I have a substack and every week on Wednesday, I do podcast listening recommendations, so if you want to check that out link in the show notes. I caught up on The Simpsons the other night between the Met’s playoff game and the VP debate.
That was the Simpsons series finale. Very very good at times, even touching. I think they absolutely nailed it, although I’m shocked Conan O’Brien can’t deliver lines a little better than he did. The Office Ladies have made it to their end of their rewatch, so were they ending the podcast? No?
Jennif Fisher and Angela Kinsey will now have the podcast twice a week asterisk. As of early November, Office Ladies will have two episodes. The Wednesday episode will be called Office Ladies six point zero, a reference to the season one episode Hot Girl, when Michael Scott insults Pam by comparing her to Amy Adams character. New episodes will feature new interviews, more stories from the set, and they’re patented deep dives into random topics and in depth of character studies. So what’s the second episode?
They’re just rerunning the rewatch as somewhat of a podcast expert. Rerun episodes are lame, so why are they doing it? Because they want the inventory. I get it, but it’s lame because if you’ve listened to the show, you’re just gonna delete all those It’s gonna goof you up in the charts. It’s gonna make people actually unsubscribe to the show because they’re gonna be like, I’ve heard all these I’ll just download them manually and then you break the habit so bad move office, ladies.
I’m just telling you now. Bossom Usef is taping his at New special tomorrow. He’ll be at the Wiltern in La also recording tomorrow and on the fifth at Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco. Irene TiO her show in twenty twenty four was named one of the funniest by the La Times. I like both of those comedians a lot, but I’m on the East Coast, so I won’t be at either taping, and that is you’re co many news for today.
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