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Caloroga Shark Media. If you don’t like the intersection of comedy and politics, then skip today. Otherwise, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Bill Maher, for some reason, received the newly unrenamed Kennedy Senators Mark Twain Prize for Comedy. Bill Maher said, now the President, when he is in attack mode, never fails to say that I’m part of the lunatic left.
Okay, he’s not wrong that there is one. I’m just not part of it. And I’m sure there is a lunatic right. And when either side gets mad at me because I put them in jokes, jokes that work, my message to them is simple, you want to not get mocked, stop being funny, then the jokes will work. When they’re ridiculous, they do work.
And when people laugh, you’re caught. Laughter is involuntary. It’s people’s inescapable truth detector, whether they want to believe or not. Before the ceremony, Mar talked to reporters about the possibility of Trump himself showing up. Mar said, because anything’s possible with him, that didn’t happen, but Matt fra came to the stage and imitated Trump.
Matt friend, Trump said I get so many more laughs than this guy and demanded the award. Bill Moore said, just take it. I’m used to losing awards, and then noted that he’d received forty one nominations but has continuously lost. Bill Moore said, I lost one year to the U log Is it something I said? It’s everything I said.
The ceremony featured many clips, including his time at ABC with Politically Incorrect, as well as his stand up specials and podcasts. Louis C.K. Was there. Louis C.K. Said, I am not a political guy.
I wrote one joke about Trump, but it took me about eighteen months. Now. I don’t even know if I can repeat this joke without getting a visit from people of Bill Maher, Louis C.K. Said, he’s not a guy who gives an f about what people think of him. My career took a downturn, but then I heard from Bill within it invites a buera on a show.
He offered me to help me when no one else would. And he’s a good guy. He has a heart. C K said, mar earned the honor by being a constant and hilarious force in American comedy. For many years.
Whitney Cummings said, I actually heard Trump may come tonight, but he couldn’t make it. He got caught in sex traffic. Bill Moore himself called out the left, noting recent efforts to censor Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn because it uses racist language. Mar said, the silly purists on the left want to ban it now, which just shows you if you hang around long enough and create something important enough, everyone ates you at some point, and that’s when you know you’re doing it right. His point there was that the racist language is in the service of mocking racism.
Bill Moore praised his audience, saying people say they want honesty, they don’t. They want to live in a bubble. They say they want to be challenged, They don’t. Except for my audience. They love it, and I love it for them, and I’m sorry.
I think it makes them better. Why because I don’t ask to please the audience. I ask what’s true, and they’re okay with that. They are a unique group of people who do not demand to be pandered too, and in fact want me not to do that. And has been the honor of a lifetime to try and lead a backlash to group think.
The event will stream on Netflix July twenty first. This is not quite the Conan O’Brien event of last year, Woody Harrelson said, people generally come up here and talk about how great the nominee is. But I’ve decided to be honest. I’ve known Bill a long time, since back when he was funny. I’ll say this, he is impeccable tastes and friends.
We’re both outspoken at our beliefs. I not only admire you, but you’re one of the funniest, smartest, greatest people I know. I love you, brother what He also joked about the center’s temporary name change there. Woody Harrelson said, no award for my dear friend, ironically the Trump Kennedy Center. Oh right, we fixed that, not say you’d be able to notice.
In case you don’t know, they still have scaffolding out front, so you can’t see the name at all. Jay Leno was there. I’m not seeing much about what jay Leno said or didn’t, And believe me, I looked because I even found that jay Leno stopped by an iconic DC Italian restaurant. That’s right, jay Leno was at Philamina restaurante. The restaurants shared photos of jay Leno’s visit as writing, look who’s dining at Philamina.
Jay Leno, the celebrated comedian, writer, and former late night host, is scheduled to be a guest speaker the Kennedy Center presenting Bill Maher with the Esteve Mark Twaine Award for American Humor. He thoroughly enjoyed his lunch today and left a sweet note for Joanna Philamina. For many years, Joanna has been a great fan of his. But if jay Leno had some jokes, I can’t tell you what they were. Bill Moore said, this really does mean a lot to me.
Believe me, when they called and said would you accept this? They didn’t have to ask twice. My speech tonight will be mostly thank yous, as it should be, so all the people who believed in me supported me, the fans who stood by me, because you know, once in a while I did get in a spot of trouble. He said he was most proud of staying on the air for thirty three years without ever pulling a punch on a show mostly without stars. Sylvie McNamara wrote for The washingtony and things felt weird at the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize.
Sylvie writes throughout the evening there were some laughs and a smitch of gayety, but overall was fairly sedate. Whole swats of balcony seats stood empty. Volunteer seat fillers meant to plump up the crowd for the TV cameras, were given the option to bring up to five guests. Whitney Cummings opened by describing how strange it is that Bill Moore would choose to be a political comedian as opposed to any other type. She compared it to a surgeon choosing corectal specialty.
Both involved spending one’s life examining a holes. Cummings added, if that metaphor was too weird, I have another one that can help you under sty and how masochistic it is to do what Bill Maher does. Being a politicalmedian is like being a sports commentator who chooses only to talk about the Washington Commanders that got a cheer from the hometown, or, as Bill calls them, the Redskins. Oh wait, this does have a j leto joke. Jay Leno said, for the second time, at our nation’s capital, there’s a big, beautiful Bill in Washington.
Boy, that’s awful. You know, the Kennedy Center was not Bill’s first choice, but the Playboy Mansion was unavailable. Jay leto everybody a little behind the scenes. Johnny Mac has a clogged ear, and I am struggling to do the show today because I’m trying to explain. I’m kind of in my own head when I’m speaking, so I don’t sound to myself the way normally sound.
It’s very annoying. Cheryl Hines has shown support for Mega comedian Nate Pergatzy. That’s right, we’re now describing Nate Pergatzy, who went to a UFC fight as Mega comedian Natepergatzy. So what did Nate do now? Well, he posted a short clip of live stand up performance on Instagram on Sunday, featuring Nate’s alone on stage talking about his experience trying to buy a hammock.
Cheryl Hines publicly liked the post. However, the most liked comment on the video, we are told, reads Nate, how is the carnival on the w h lawn. The second most liked says, we remember Maga comedian Nate forguests, everybody went to a UFC fight once, so did Chane Gillis. Michelle Wolfe was talking about her appearance at the twenty eighteen White House Correspondents dinner. Trump did not attend that dinner.
Michelle Wolfe said, if there was anything I could go back and do again, I would be meaner. If I’d known how mad they were going to get at a joke about I makeup, I would have told the meaner jokes that I cut so they could get mad at something that was actually valid. But also knowing what the administration has done and what they continue to do, I would have really gone in on them and the press more and try to hold them more accountable. Michelle wolf is now living in Europe, splitting time between Barcelona and London. What she likes about Spain, there’s no worry of shooting.
I feel like that’s a big one. Never having to do a school shooting drill. That just feels like a nice thing to not have to teach her children. Michelle believes in poking fun at both sides. She says, you could say anything, people are gonna get maybe mad at you for saying it.
Even if you have a well constructed argument, people might still get mad at you. You’re free to say something and people are free to be mad at it. Switching topics, all those podcasts bros I had had a Trump on and got them the presidency. I feel like now maybe they’re walking back on platforming, but it’s like you knew who this guy was. They oftentimes put information out there either don’t know if it’s true or not, or don’t care, and they don’t realize that they have a responsibility millions of people listening to you, and whether you want it or not, they believe what you say.
So many of those guys went to the inauguration and they just think it’s cool to be up there, and I’m like, it’s gross for me personally, no matter what the side was, I wouldn’t want to be piles with the president, whether they’re a Democrat or Republican. They’re droning children. George Carlin always did a really good job of calling out the political power rather than being piles with anybody. Would she returned to the White House Correspondents dinner If they did invite me, I’d be happy to go. I just think they’d have to know what to expect, but sure, give me that platform.
I’ll do another roast Michelle Wolfe living in Europe. I did squeeze some special in between the soccer games. We’ve been watching a lot of soccer. Ryan Hamilton Special is fantastic. I think I’m going to do my updated list on Sunday.
At the time of this sentence, I haven’t seen Louis C.K. Yet, but I think Sunday I’ll do the midway through the year list Holiday weekend and all. You know how the show goes. But Ryan Hamilton Special is fantastic, and the folks in the Facebook group seem to agree with me. See if you haven’t watched Ryan Hamilton on Netflix, very very funny special.
I also switched over to Dez Bishop on Hulu, and I think you know, Dez was a great guest, good guy, want to hang out with them, guy from Queens. But I think what we’ve seen of the Hulu specials is the Hulu specials, so just not up to the quality of the Netflix specials. Dez’s specials fine. I didn’t stay with it that long because I’ve been doing this long enough that I know the difference between a great special and a fine special, and that one’s fine. Trevor Noah has been praised by his fans after pointing out bias towards African and Middle Eastern teams during the World Cup.
Trevor Noah was sharing his thoughts on World Cup Watch Party, which apparently he’s on YouTube. I haven’t checked the numbers, but I haven’t seen much buzz about it. Let’s look, let’s see how that’s doing, all right. The South Africa versus Canada game from Sunday got two hundred and ninety eight thousand views. England versus Ghana got two hundred and eight thousand views.
Germany and Ivory Coast got two thirty one. All right, so he’s doing, you know, mid two thirties while we’re here. Let’s see how those YouTube late night shows are doing. Can’t remember what these are called. Right outside tonight with Julian Shapiro Brinam.
It is one twenty six pm on Monday, as I say this sentence, Oh boy, he had on Jamarcos Sarasi four days ago as I speak the sentence, and that has done sixty three hundred views. That is not that is not a good number. The premiere, which is eleven days ago as I speak the sentence is up to sixteen thousand. Those are not good numbers. And what’s the other one?
I can remember what the other one is called Ben Gleeb. I’m never gonna remember that. Goodnight with Ben Glebe, an episode from thirteen days ago, has seven hundred and eight thousand views, so that’s three times what Trevor Noah is doing sort of kind of in Goodnight episode five, the guest Dutton Ranches Natalie Allen Lynde, comedian Drew Lynch sixty four thousand. I don’t know are these good numbers? They don’t sound amazing.
I digress. Trevor Noah was sharing his thoughts about the World Cup and said, why is it that African teams in Middle Eastern teams have to answer for what their governments and countries are doing, but then European teams don’t have to do this. I’m not sure what his point was there, who he’s mad at or which country should be answering for what? The specific comment here seems to be about Iran having to leave the United States after each game. Send your letters to Trevor Noah.
David Letterman will make his debut at the Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. He will host an evening with David Letterman and special guest Will Arnett at the Place Day Arts. That is how it is announced in French Place Day Arts Concert Hall. July twenty first, that’s the Tuesday. I don’t know what I’m doing yet, so I screwed up.
You know the big free weird Awl concert that’s on Saturday, July twenty fifth. Well, my daughter is like, hey, why don’t you come visit me when July twenty fifth. Sure I’ll be there because you know your daughter asked you to visit, and You’re like, yeah, I’ll go.
And then I was like, oh, that’s when the weird Al concert is.
So I don’t know. Maybe I’ll go up for Letterman on the Tuesday night and stay for the Wednesday and do New Faces. I’m also considering not going at all. I don’t know. So again, this is an evening with David Letterman’s and special guest, which is totally different from his Netflix series.
My next guest needs no introduction, so we’ll see. That is your comedy news for today. We’re doing okay into the holiday here right. We’ve had pretty robust shows this week. Feeling all right so far as our record this.
I’ve gotten all that Louis C.K. Think pieces yet, so I imagine that’ll be Thursday’s show. So we’re doing okay, doing all right, And it’s July now, so you don’t have to share the show anymore. In fact, you’re not allowed to show the show. If you’re like, oh, the show’s so good, I got to tell someone.
Nope, nope, nope. You had a month you could have shared it. You didn’t. Now you’re not allowed. See you tomorrow