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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny mack who with your Daily Comedy News. It looks like Forbes. Somebody at Forbes anyway are the biggest fans of Shane Gillis. The headline SNL brings Shane Gillis back to host following controversial firing and poorly received first hosting gig.
Was it poorly received? No SNL this week, but March first? I think it’s the date. Shane Gillis is hosting SNL, Yes, March first, to you know, eight days Forbes, right. Shane Gillis, the comedian whose history of jokes deemed racist and offensive led to his controversial firing from Saturday Night Live in twenty nineteen, is hosting the show for a second time, despite critics saying he struggled and bombed in his first hosting gig last year.
They did pull some reviews where some people thought Shane struggled, some thought he bombed. I thought it was pretty funny to each of their own, all right. I bounced this from yesterday from the Root. They write, comedian Trevor Noah has never been one to shy away from hot topics and hot takes, but this latest one has the Internet sounding off and for a good reason. I seen this earlier in the week, and I wanted to take a beat and just see how it unpacked and lets of other people provide wisdom before I started chiming in here.
In the latest episode of the What Now podcast, Trevor has guest Ruha Benjamin, a professor of African American studies at Princeton University. They discuss whether or not integration was better for America as a whole when it came to black people the root Rights. While some black folks may feel like integration was ultimately beneficial, Trevor Noah argued that segregation may have actually been the best if we separate the oppressive and negative ways it affected things like the school system and other entities. The root rights is sentiments matched that of other black folks who also believed that we would be better off tending to our own gardens, businesses, and society in general and separate from white folks. Continuing to quote from the root, Noah also cided the country of Finland as further proof of a country that’s better when its people are all unified and on one accord as to what goals they want.
To accomplish and the backlash the black people faced on the aftermath in the US once integration took place. When he posed the question to Professor Benjamin, she agreed, citing the fact that segregation and integration weren’t the only options and that it didn’t ultimately serve black people to be integrated into institutions and systems that were riddled with anxiety, hierarchy, and white supremacy. Naturally, once the clip went viral on social media, many had much to say. One person tweeted, quoting the tweet, Trevor Noah almost certainly lives in a nearly all white neighborhood. LMAO.
I was curious. I googled Trevor Noah residents. The New York Post reported on March eighteenth of twenty twenty four, Trevor Noah tours four point seven million dollar home in New York City’s West Village. The New York Post on September eighth of twenty twenty three reported Trevor Noah sells New York City penthouse for nine and a half million dollars. They say Noah lived in style inside Stella Tower at four to twenty five West fiftieth Street.
There is a video from a channel that calls itself the Real Estate Insider. Their video is titled Trevor Noah bell Air Mansion twenty six million, four hundred thousand dollars. House of Celebs has a video from November twenty four titled Trevor Noah’s impressive twenty four point nine million dollar Los Angeles home. I make no editorial comment there. I’m just telling you I was curious where does Trevor Noah live.
Another user wrote, MAGA is going to be posting this as owning Trevor Noah, but he brings up great points. Americ was so racist that integration was very complicated. That’s what he’s saying. Another user said Trevor Noah would probably be president if he was American. He’s basically the second coming of Obama.
Comedian D L. Hugly chimed in and called Trevor Noah’s opinion the stupidest thing he’s ever heard. Hugely told TMZ, I’ve had enough from South Africans between Elon Musk and Trevor. I don’t need to hear about race from two dudes from South Africa. Trevor Noah has yet to respond to deal hugely as I record this.
I’m actually recording this on Wednesday to accommodate my schedule. I plan to listen to the episode. I’m actually going to download it right now while I remember to educ hate myself more on the subject. The episode is titled DEI with Ruha Benjamin. The episode description includes the three discuss whether DEI initiatives are in fact valuable and how the world will look without them, while universities honor people whose voices they previously tried to silence, and how best to navigate a world that was not built for us?
Can the three collectively imagine a better world order? While I have my phone out, I see The February sixth episode was titled No One Told Trevor he was hosting the Grammys. I’m downloading that one too. I can hear some of you. Now, go jug get to the comedy.
Come on, So I’m getting political. This is where comedy is right now. John Oliver talk to USA Today the topic the speed of news in the second Trump administration. Oliver says, that’s what everyone’s wrestling with, isn’t it. I guess it’s very helpful to have a show to process all these feelings.
Though this may age very badly, said John, but I’m hoping that we’ll be able to do more of those timeless stories because we’ve been to contain the chaos. John wants to reassure his viewers without giving false hope. I don’t know how that’s going to end up. We’re going to try our best. For our last show of last year, we were trying to meet people where they were.
We definitely don’t want to give false hope. There’s lots of that right now, So yeah, I don’t know. That’s what we’re tackling this week. We’re trying to land on something that is uplifting in a way that you can stand on. We can’t say everything’s gonna be all right, Clearly it is not.
We generally don’t like to follow what’s happening in the news of the week, but that’s harder to do when the administration is this chaotic. Hopefully, going forward, we’ll be able to contain the chaos of the Trump administration at the start of the show, and then the main body of it can be left for the more systemic issues, which were more interested in covering showing people things they haven’t seen before rather than stuff they’re seeing all the time. USA Today said to John, in the last episode of twenty four, you mentioned you had a wish for twenty five, which was less Elon Musk. That hasn’t exactly turned out the way you were hoping. Oliver said, I think I might just stop wishing for things.
There’s a genie with a very sixth sense of humor somewhere. I don’t see us getting any less Elon Musk anytime soon. We’re getting more and more of him to a medically inadvisable degree. Good question here, John Oliver, do you foresee more pushback on your content from your corporate parents. HBO is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery.
John said, definitely. We will continue to behave like there’s nothing we can’t talk about. That’s how we’ve operated the last eleven years, and that’s certainly how we’re going to continue doing it. Let’s get out of the political zone. Tig Nataro is going to host the Ambies.
Those are some podcast awards. Now. Don’t get too excited about podcast awards. There are podcast awards every sixteen minutes in this country, I believe. Anyway.
Grammy nominated comedian and podcaster tig Natara will host the Ambies on March thirty first in Chicago. The ceremony will be live on Twitch from six to seven thirty pm at Central Time on that Monday night. The Ambies celebrate excellence in podcasting and elevate awareness and status of podcasts. Blah blah blah. Tigg said, I’m so excited to host the Podcast Academy’s fifth annual Awards for Excellence in Audio.
It’s like being at the Oscars, only at celebrating those of us who are good at talking into a microphone while wearing sweatpants in our closets with pillows on our windows. Take that, Meryl and Merrill, while I have your attention, would be a guest on my podcast. I won’t do all the nominees. We’ll look at some of them. Podcasts of the Year, see if any comedies are here.
Ninety nine percent Invisible, Beyond All Repairs and Men, City, Dragon Age, Empire City, Far Away, Fire Escape, Hot White Heist two Hysterical and through line. Hot White Heist two is actually an audible show, so those of us in the industry would argue whether or not it’s a podcast. Anyway, it stars, Bowen Yang, Jane Lynch, Cynthia Nixon, Ian McKellen, and others. Best Comedy Podcasts, the nominees are By the Way, there’s breaking news, my daughter reporting and from college. She got her housing for next year.
My phone will not stop beeping. I’m very happy for her, but I already told you I’m recording a podcast. Stop texting me. Dad’s a jerk. Right click Idle Alerts.
Best Comedy Podcast, the nominees are Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Hot White Heist two, which again is an Audible show, not really podcast, Lost Culturistas with Matt Rodgers and Boone Yang. So Bowen’s up against Bowen, scam Goddess, SmartLess, We’re here to help? And who replaced Avril Levigne. Out of those, I would pick Conan. I guess none of that really excites me.
Best Interview one of the nominees, thanks Dad with egg nuotum. Apparently that’s the thing. Best Performance in Audio Fiction, sponsored by Audible. The first nominee is Hot White Heist Too, which is produced by Audible. When it isn’t really a podcast, it’s an audio series you can get on Audible.
It’s different than a podcast. A podcast of course, as you know, would include an RSS feed enclosure. But well, I don’t want to get into that today anyway. One of the nominees Boon Yang for his Audible Show sponsored by Audible A bungeet Today. Best Podcast Host nominees include John Stewart for The Weekly Show with John Stewart, Raeen Wilson for Radio Rental, and some other folks who are not comedians.
The press release here has a section called about Tignazaro. Should we read it? Yes we should. Tig Nataro is an Emmy, Grammy, WGA, and SAG Award nominated comedian actor. Of course, great actor on Star Trek Discovery.
I mean clearly Star Trek Discovery, the greatest Star Trek series ever made. Not actor, writer, director of producer, and podcast host. Originally from Mississippi and named by Rolling Stone as one of the fifty best stand up comics of all time. Resist John, Resist, Resist, Resist. You can’t get into that.
Just accept that, somebody once said. Tag Nataro is one of the fifty best dat of comictoball time. Resist John, Resist, Resist, Take the breaks so you don’t got down the rabbit hole. Take the break, Take the break, You’re gonna go down the rabbit hole. You know you want to talk about This is Tgnataro, one of the fifty best dat of comics of all time.
Don’t do It, Don’t do it, don’t do it. Take the Break is Ticknatara, one of the fifty best stantup comedians of all time. Facebook group, Daily Company News podcast group. Jimmy Fallon has checked off another item from his bucket list. He got his picture at Sardes.
Sardes is a very New York thing. It’s been a staple of the Broadway community since the nineteen twenties, and it honors its famous patrons with caricteratures. You know, they draw you and they stick you on the wall, and you sit there and eat at Sarti’s and you look at the wall and you go, oh, I recognize that person, or I kind of heard that person’s name, or other people are like, has that person on the wall? The time honor tradition has resulted in a collection of some twelve hundred portraits adorning its walls. Jimmy Fallon had recently voiced his hopes that he would score a Sardi’s portrait.
Fallon had kicked off a six day run starring in the rotating cast of Simon Rich’s all In comedy about Love. After Fallon made his wish, Stephen Colbert announced his own desire to be immortalized at Sardis. Colbert was interviewing Linn Manuel Miranda at the time. Lynn promised Colbert he’d make a call. I’ve bounced this story for a week.
I don’t know if you heard. SNL turned fifty and we talked about it a lot. Anyway, so last week, when Paul Schaeffer was sitting in as the band leader, Paul said to Fallon, Lionel Barrymore and those classic actors, they went on a whole career and they’d get their portraits and Sardis after like seventy five years on Broadway. How long was your run, Fallan said, almost a week. Fallon encouraged fans to visit Sarties themselves, both to support the theater community and to catch a glimpse of Jimmy Fallon’s character.
Chure Jimmy said, go to Sardis and on your way to the men’s room, look out for someone familiar. Fun fact, Jimmy Fallon is now the fourth Tonight Show host Hang on the restaurant’s walls. All right, let me list the host for you. Hopefully I don’t forget anybody. I’ll get a nasty note from Mike Chishom would be like, how did you forget so and so?
All right, So we had Steve Allen, then Jack Parr. We don’t talk enough about Jack Port. Jack Parr is fantastic, a little before my time, but I know I’m educated. Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, and Jimmy Fallon. I didn’t forget anybody there, right, I mean, I guess hosts?
All right? So who are the four that are hanging in Sarties? Can you guess? I’ll come back and on in with that, I’ll tell you one more stories. So who are the four hosts including Jimmy Fallon?
So that who are the other three that made the wall in Sarties? James A. Caster is going to be a judge on Dinner Is Scrapped? On Dinner Is Scrapped, two celebrity chefs battle it out in the kitchen, be using only ecologically sound ingredients, such as upcycled foods, which are wasting byproducts that would not have otherwise been consumed by humans. A caster likes food.
He hosts the food based Off Menu podcast with Ed Gamble. The pilot episode is currently in post production. The producers are in conversations about where it will air. They’re making eight half hour episodes. All Right, Trivia Time.
Name the four hosts whose characters air in Sardi’s Kenyon name than they are, of course, Jimmy Fallon, Steve Allen, Jack Parr, and Johnny Carson. No Conan yet and no Jay Leno interesting and no Jay Leno a second time either. He’s not up there twice. If you know what I’m saying, and that is your comedy Newcer today, weird one Today. I’m having a good time.
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