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Caloroga Shark Media. HEYMN Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The second half of this podcast. The stories are quite out there, quite aggressive today, but we’ll do normal stuff in the front half. Wanted to catch up on some late night jokes that I liked, one from Jimmy Kimmel.
The setup here the indictment of Hunter. Biden accuses Hunter of spending millions on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels, rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature. In short, everything but his tax is Kimmel’s joke. Hunter Biden is like the son Donald Trump. Never had a new topic from Jimmy fallon.
President Biden hosted Ukrainian President Zelenski at the White House. When he asked for money and support, Zelenski said, sorry, Joe, I got my own problem. That’s a great joke. Cal Penn talking about the Dodgers signing at show Hey Otani to a seven hundred million dollar contract, cal Penn said, that’s one dollar for every minute it takes to watch one single baseball game. Trevor no has got a new special out December nineteenth.
I am psyched for it. Let’s listen to the trailer. When I flew to Paris, my luggage was lost. I had to find somebody to help me. It’s an older French gentleman and he was wearing a red vest and in French it read Informacion and then underneath an English said information.
I said English French English, yeah we I said, okay, could you help me? Please? My my my luggage didn’t arrive. I would like to know what do I need to do. He’s like, oh, the leg easier?
Did you come? If you could define? For that one, we maybe you’re gonna p do you because if you’re in you can be put you different want but you go to that when you can be fine for you because you did not do like them different ones for because I’m not in control with the but this different and controls to maybe you can’t see you for for that one, I was like, okay, okay, all right, let’s try French. Netflix is gonna have quite a run. Trevor on the nineteenth, Ricky Gervai’s Christmas and Dave Chappelle New Year’s Eve.
That’s awesome. I was watching Netflix and they suggested, hey, want to watch Kevin Hart and Chris Rock not an absurd suggestion Netflix, and I was like, hmm, I kind of don’t. I don’t know why, I just I’m not interested in this one. Jason Zinnemann covers comedy for The New York Times, and he only wrote two paragraphs about it. So maybe his editor cut it down.
Maybe the assignment desk was like, Jason, just give us two paragraphs, or maybe Jason’s not into it either. He wrote, Kevin Hart and Chris Rock headliner’s only as a slick self mythologizing. I don’t know how to say that word piece of Netflix conflict. I’m leaving it in That follows the two comedians on the recent arena shows they teamed up on. It’s aimed to comedy fans, even if much of it will be familiar to them.
The story of how Eddie Murphrey spotted Chris Rock at the comic strip and offered him a job on the sequel to Beverly Hills Cop has been told many times in Any stand up fan on social media or listening to this podcast knows that Kevin Hart presented a goat to Chris Rock at the end of their recent MSG show. That doesn’t mean there aren’t reasons to watch, says Jason Zinneman. Did you see Netflix released Hey, here’s what people are actually watching. They finally did that, and I was scrolling down and I wanted to see what the top comedy special was. I got one hundred and twenty five down on the list before I got bored looking.
So then I went to the SEK function and I typed in the words Chris Rock and I found Chris Rock four hundred and ninety seventh. It was the four hundred and ninety seventh most watched thing on Netflix in the first six months of the year. That said, the things that were more watched have seasons, whereas a Chris Rock special was what an hour? So if you’re comparing that to I don’t know, suits has a lot of hours and Chris Rock has one hour, that makes thirty six million, two hundred thousand hours viewed much more impressive. So that suggests a lazy math here.
If it had thirty six million and change hours viewed and the special is about an hour, that means sort of kind of thirty six million people checked out this special. That’s pretty good as a random comparison. The one thing that popped up my mind. I was like, how many people watch the Seinfeld finale? That answer seventy six million?
That thirty years ago when TV was much different. I think thirty six million for comedy special, very very impressive. From The Daily Beast, George Santos says Jimmy Kimmel short changed him by more than twenty thousand dollars when Jimmy requested cameo videos that were later aired on late night television without his permission last week, and now he wants Jimmy Kimmel to pay up. Jimmy Kimmel had a segment called will Santos Say It? He played clips of Santos addressing bizarre requests he and his staff made using pseudonyms, including one where Santos was asked to congratulate a Gary Fortuna on winning a beefeeding contest in Florida.
Santos told The Spectator World that Kimmel’s stunt may have violated Cameo’s terms of service, adding he plans to take Jimmy Kimmel to court if he doesn’t shell out for the clips much higher business rates since they weren’t requested for personal use, Santos says, His total invoice to Kimmel, not including the two thousand already paid for the four videos, is twenty one eight hundred dollars and change. That account amounts for the videos and a fifty percent business rush rate, according to the Spectator. Kimmel provided the Spectator with a statement which reads, the idea that mister Santos would claim we short changed him and used credit card purchases improperly, proves once and for all that the man’s a comedy genius. Steph Tolev told the Toronto Stars she knew when she hadn’t made it. She looked out in the crowd.
There were eight women. They were part of a bachelorette party, but instead of wearing tierras and sashes, they were dressed in rompers and supporting mulletwigs. Steph said that was crazy, as jumpsuits, rompers and curly, dark, long in the back hair are Steph Tolev’s signature look. Steph said, that was crazy, a kind of imposter syndrome. So part of me was thinking, what are you doing?
Why would you want this? But it was strange and kind of nice At times. I still think what’s going on? Last year, she opened for Bill Burr at Toronto’s twenty thousand seat Scotiabank Arena. She said Scotiabank felt like an out of body experience.
I got there and it felt like a simulation. I started doing crowd work, but it’s hard in a plays like that.
And then I looked off to the side and saw my dad and sister just glowing.
And then I saw Bill Burr watching me and laughing, and it brought me back to reality. For a second. I felt more nervous for those people than myself. Before that, she was hanging out on her couch promoting her local shows on social media, making fun of New Yorkers, and then Bill Burr shared the video. She DMed him and thanked him for sharing it, and he said thanks for being hilarious, and then he asked if I’d ever want to open on the road for him.
I seriously thought I was being pranked. About a month later, till I was manager called and said Burr had specifically asked for her to be in his new Netflix special. He had told Netflix the request was non negotiable. Wow, that special as Bill Burr presents Friends Who Kill. That changed things.
Steph says, I was already getting some headlining weekends at American clubs, but that special just took things to a whole new level. Clubs were banging on my agent’s door trying to get me spots. Nate Bergatsy was on the Manning Cast Monday Night, and people didn’t like it. Apparently I didn’t even realize those in Manning Cast because for some reason, Monday Night football had two simultaneous games. I YouTube TV and they had a channel option that let you watch both games simultaneously, so I didn’t go channel surfing at all.
I didn’t even know there was a Maning Cast Monday night, and I guess Nate brought along his father, who’s a magician. Some of the social media comments, I don’t know who magic Man is on the man In Cast, but he’s truly horrible. Another viewer said, Magic on Maning Cast is an all time flop. Kate mccoochee and now she has lung cancer. You may know Kate from The Big Bang Theory or perhaps Garfunkle and oats.
She said the diagnosis was pretty weird. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. It was a surprise, but I also guess it happens the American Cancer Society says that not everyone who’s diagnosed with lung cancer has a history of smoking. Non smokers can develop lung cancer from exposure to rate on secondhand smoke, air pollution, or other factors. That’s scary.
I’ll tell you something I hadn’t shared. So I had a little skin thing removed, and I’ve gotten the biopsy back and everything is fine. But I’ve got a big scar on my arm now. But my reaction to it was like, all right, this is not crazy talk. If you know me, I’m always at the beach.
I’m always out in the sun. So I wasn’t like what me and the example I was using. It was like, it wasn’t like they told me, oh, you might have lung cancer because I don’t smoke. I’ve never smoked, just like Kate. So it’s just interesting me that this, Wow, this actually happened to her.
Hope she’s doing okay. She shared a video and photo from her time in the hospital. You see her walking around in a medical gown holding an IV pole while admiring the pretty nice artwork on the walls. At the end of the TikTok, she poses on her hospital bed with a small box of cereal banana and a food tray. Really scary.
I hope she’s doing okay there. Vulture reviewed ma Maria Bamford’s new special if you’re like what Maria Bamford new special exactly. Comedy Dynamics released it as a thing you can buy. It’s on Apple TV for fifteen dollars. We seem to be in a little moment here where the comedy Senti has decided Maria Bamford is awesome.
Who was it last week that had was a Maren that had Maria Bamford as the number two comedian of all time? Again, Maria is wonderful? Was seeing her alive? But number two all time seems a little high. But vultures on the train, they said.
At first glance, Maria Bamford’s new special, Local Act does not look much like the artistic statement of purpose common Special lacks the kind of sweeping statements about humor and humanity that tend to come with this mode. In scope and style, it doesn’t have pretensions of grandeur, but Bamford isn’t interested in broad claims by other comedians about what art should look like. All of it is charming, and all of it is unmistakably Maria Bamford, full of odd little sound effects, swallowed premises, and startling character voices that arrive into part in seconds. Her physical performance is occasionally so broad that she literally pulls a face. At another point falls into a whole body collapse that punctuates her awareness of being a cliche.
Her jokes are so fast and full of sound it’s as if they’re being told by a one woman band holding invisible instruments. Towards the beginning of the special, she jokes, I’m a comedian as far as I’m concerned, but if I have to make a bunch of ladies at a nonprofit luncheon and NAPA Valley laugh who books this crap? She pauses, then points to herself and says, I do heard from a couple listeners. I always enjoy hearing from listeners. So several ways you can do that.
One participate in the Facebook group which is Daily Come News podcast group. You can email me directly my emails in the show notes. I heard from Susannah, who wrote a huge comedy fan and I love your podcast. It’s the first thing I listened to every morning. I’m going to circle back to that comment in a few minutes.
Please please, please give Michael McIntire some attention. His Netflix special show Man is by far and away the actual funniest like sides hurting, tears, streaming, laughing out loud that I think I’ve ever seen. I know he’s a brit but honestly so worthy of more recognition on this side of the pond. You know, if you listen to every Day, I’m a fan of British comedy on the podcast, I tend to do that stuff in the back half or more on the weekend because you know it’s primarily in an American audience. I get it.
I love British comedy, so I will check out Michael McIntyre. He is off my radar. Thank you for the tip. The Guardian wrote about Michael McIntyre and said, you want ten tight minutes on middle aged wine drinking, McIntire’s your man. Interested in a riff on yawning, Mcinsire’s here for you.
Itemizing the oddity of this universal human behavior, the comedy of failing to press it when in conversation, the incongruity of its seeming contagiousness, how do you catch tretis not for the first time you marvel at such an ostensibly but not observation can feel so fresh and deliver in McIntire’s expert hands such a substantial comic payload. Susanna, thank you for the note, thank you for listening, and that special sheet is recommending is called Showman on Netflix.
Also heard from PS who said, Hey, Johnny, please take a moment to look at Pat…
He does a series called what makes This Song Stink? It’s all in fun He just released episode eight about Jason Aldeen and it’s insanely funny. I did that. I checked one out about Weezer’s Beverly Hills. I’m a big Weezer fan, and in that video, Pat Trinerty mentions Duncan.
I was like, all right, I could do this. Good tip there. Thank you for reaching out. Back to Susanna’s comment about it’s the first thing I listened to every morning. That pleases me, a couple thoughts about the show here as I put it together, That’s exactly what I’m going for.
You can listen any time of the day, but I’m just trying to do a ten to fifteen. Today’s going to be more like twenty casual listen in the morning, easy on the years, I keep it clean, trying to have a little fun. I was listening to another podcast and it’s hosted by comedian, and two comedians were the guests, and they were going after somebody who I regularly quote on this podcast, who reviews comedy, and they were just going after the guy, making fun of the idea of reviewing comedy. I thought it was a little unfair, and you know, maybe I got a little sensitive to it. I’m like, oh, will they think I’m stupid?
But here’s my deal. Some of you are gonna be like, yeah, yeah, we know. But for the newer listeners, I ran Serious XM Comedy for ten years. After that, I started running the comedy properties for Slacker Radio, which is now called Live one Radio. As part of that, I started hosting a weekly show called The Weekly Comedy Thing.
I still do that. I’ll talk about that on Monday if I remember, I forgot this week and off that I wound up having all these extra stories, so I turned it into this podcast that you’re listening to. Now. I’m not a comedian, I’m not a performer. I’m not trying to be funny, you know.
I’ll throw in some dry wit that your maymory and I like, you might think I’m stupid, that’s cool. I don’t mind. And my take on this. You know, when I was running the Comedy Channel, especially at the series, people were like, well, you’re not a comedian, You’re not And I’m like, well, I’m not a guitarist, but I can understand that a Rolling Stones record is good and schedule it and music master and play it on the rock station. It has nothing to do with whether or not I can play bass guitar.
So specific to comedy, I think I know more about comedy than say, I don’t know ninety eight and a half percent of the population of the United States that zaid. The people that know more than me know way more so. The comedians who are making fun of the critic, they know way more than I do. Mark Maren knows way more than I do. Jason Zinnemann knows way more than I do.
That guy Cliff that wrote the book this month knows way more than I do. I am not claiming to be any kind of expert, just a dude in the basement who likes talking about this stuff. I thank you all for listening. While I’m doing all this, let me thank them members they’ve been on buying Me a Coffee dot com. These are the recurring members.
They are Tommy and Andrew and Gary and Shannon and Mike and Kenny and Kenny’s always trying to get me to switch coffee brands. Kenny Man, I get too wired on that green cup one. I can’t do it. And some other folks have made donation, including Scott and Becky and Kara and Dan JB. And thank you all.
If you would like to support the show, you can go to buy Me a Coffee dot com Slash Daily Comedy News. All right, the rest of the show, and we’re a little long here today, but just some awkward stuff. Let’s start on gossip Corner. Taylor Swift. Happy birthday yesterday, Taylor, Hope, Taylor at a nice day.
If you want to keep up on Taylor, We’ve got a sister podcast called Taylor Swift Today. It’s like this, except not like this at all. It only talks about Taylor Swift. But today there’s an overlap. Taylor Swift attended a comedy show that featured comedian ram Yousef which benefited a Gaza charity.
And here’s where the controversy is going to start. This was on Friday night Taylor is with Selena Gomez. They were spotted walking into the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Voe confirmed it was a good old fashioned girls’ night out. Both Swift and Gomez opted for the mini skirt and tall booze combo for their evening out at ram Yousef’s stand up show benefiting a Nara.
Anara is the American Near East Refugee aid at charity that provides humanitarian aid to refugees and vulnerable communities in Palestine and Lebanon. Rami Yusef posted on Instagram that one percent of the proceeds for the remainder of his tour will be donated to Anara. Megan Kelly has chimed in and she’s calling for a boycott against Taylor Swift. Megan Kelly on her show said that Taylor owes Israelis and Jewish Americans in apology for attending the event. Megan says, I hope they boycott Taylor Swiss events until she issues it because attending this thing was wrong.
Do some googling see what they do in gaza to gaze see about women’s rights in gaza. Taylor otherwise do this and then motions to shut up when it comes to talking about those issues again. You clearly know nothing. This isn’t a political show, and I’m a little off The point here was Taylor went to a comedy show, and this has turned into a thing here I’m under educated on the entire issue. This next story is horrible.
Originally I left it out. Then when I went for a second pass of preparing today’s show, I see it’s the number one story in comedy. From the New York Post. A US comedian an activist was abducted and killed after trying to meet a woman he found on social media and Colombia. To Geer Jong Hope, I said your name right, an Asian American living in Minnesota, was on vacation in Colombia.
The plan was to spend the holiday season with family. He came into contact with a woman he met on social media. He planned to meet her on December tenth, but was attacked and kidnapped by a group of men around seven pm local time. The comedian called a friend in Columbia, saying that these men had demanded two thousand dollars in cash for his release. He told his friend, who filed a police report, that he was being held at gunpoint.
Hours earlier, police were at the apartment Jean had been staying at because a woman was taking items from the residents and ran off before police could arrest her. Jong’s body was found lying in a ravine with over a dozen stab wounds and multiple bruises, caused by an apparent fall from over sixty feet. Horrible. My favorite actor, Andre Brower passed away at age sixty one. I’m fifty four.
I can’t believe when he was on Homicide Life in the Street he was only seven years older than me. When he was playing Pembleton. I mean always seven years older than what I mean, but I think I was a teenager watching that show and he just absolutely great. Actor. Andre Brower passed away on Monday, age sixty one.
Terry Cruz, who co starred with him in Brooklyn ninety nine, said, can’t believe you’re gone so soon. I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you, and shared eight glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent. This hurts you left us too soon. Joe la Truglio from that same show said, so many wonderful stories will be told about Andre for now, but all my love goes to his wife and his three boys. We love very much and flew back every weekend from the show to be with.
Well you probably didn’t know is that Andre could sing too, and often did at lunch, building basic vocals from his dressing room to whatever new music he found. At first, it was odd because well, it was Andre Brower crooning at full lying behind closed doors. But then very quickly it made all the sense in the world because the man was so full of song, and that’s why the world took notice. I miss him so much already. If you’re under familiar with Andre’s work, go on social media and type his name in and add the word homicide and watch some of the clips.
He was just fantastic. S your comedy needs for today see tomorrow