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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Chiniac who with your Daily Comedy News and it’s a good one today. A lot going on. Let’s start with Late Night. They had some pretty good jokes.
Stephen Colbert said Trump entered the arena like Rocky belt Boa if Rocky fought for Russia. Anthony Anderson, subbing it for Jimmy Kimmel said Trump entered the convention like a heavyweight champ with the swagger of Mike Tyson in the ear of a vander Holyfield. John Stewart talked about JD Vance and said it’s like for Vice President Donald selected the actor who would be hired to play Don Junior in the Lifetime movie. That was pretty good. Seth Meyers said JD Vance looks like teen Wolf graduated and came back to coach the team.
Seth added, I got a bunch of these, but it’s a long campaign, so I’m gonna save some. Jimmy Fallon pointed out in a new interview with Lester Holt, Joe Biden admitted that he hasn’t watched the whole debate with Trump. Fallon said, oh, so that’s why he thinks he should stay in the race. If you like keep political jokes, go check out The Ballot podcast live from the Republican National Convention this week. Numbers are up on that one.
We’re having a good time doing that one. Another thing you absolutely want to check out is kill Tony. No, that’s not a violent act. That’s the name of a podcast slash YouTube series. You know, Kill Tony.
Tony Hinchcliffe, the guy that you thought was funny at the roast of Tom Brady. He has amateurs come up, they do one minute of comedy and then he has celebrity friends come by. Anyway, on Kill Tony, Shane Gillis showed up as Donald Trump. Adam Ray showed up as Joe Biden. The clip is hilarious.
Let’s listen to Shane Gillis do Donald Trump while dressed up as a pretty convincing Donald Tony. What an unbelievable experience it is. What a great show this could be. Instead, we’ve got an absolute idiot here running the show. As the clip goes on, Shane can be seen breaking character as he couldn’t hold in his laughter while reacting to Adam Ray’s Joe Biden impression.
The Biden impression is I’m not sharing any audio, because it’s really just a guy staying off into space and then says something vulgar, and we don’t do that here. John Stewart explained why they didn’t go to Milwaukee and said, well, obviously we were supposed to be doing our shows for Milwaukee for the R and C this week, but because of the attempt on the former president’s life, the venue on which we had planned to do the show, a theater, which was originally located in the soft perimeter, as they called it, security wise, was shifted understandably to the hard perimeter. You don’t really want to be in the hard perimeter. Less facetiously, he explained that crowds wouldn’t have been able to get to the theater, so there was no reason to do a live show without people. That all makes sense, John Stewart, all right, Two big stories came out.
The first one Variety’s Comics to Watch for twenty twenty four. This is an annual list of some people to keep an eye on. Let’s take a look at the list. First up, Asif Ali, I’m not familiar with Asif, Variety says, Ali’s been making his rounds in the acting space for some time. From appearing on shows like Wanda Vision, The Mandalorian, and BoJack Horseman.
He’ll soon be seen starring in the upcoming Hulu comedy series Deli Boys, where he leads an all South Asian led show. He’s a member of the sketch group Goatface, alongside Fahim Anwar, Aristotle Athari, and Hassan Minaj, all of them who I know, all right, that sounds a good recommendation. This next guy. If you listen to me every day, you probably know Ralph Barbosa. He’s had a couple specials out and that was the guy George Lopez took a shot at, right, So Ralph we know.
Jackie Fabulous has been hustling in the comedy game since realizing her log gig at Caltech wasn’t doing it for her anymore, and at thirty five Stand Up Comedy. She was on America’s Gut Talent in twenty nineteen. Next up, and I’m gonna have to try to not go on a total rantier Rachel Feinstein, why would you rant? John Well? Many years ago back at Sirius XM, we had Rachel and Steve.
Who’s Steve? Steve’s just some guy but Rachel and Steve were hosting the morning show. The Rachel was Rachel Feinstein, who’s now a comic to watch. Back in the day, we were pretty good at identifying talent. The boss is no long term vision.
Hey, boss, would you like Amy Schumer to do a show for you know? Who’s that? Get us? Chris Rock? I’ll get you, Chris Rock.
Do you have a million dollars? You know? So that kind of thing would gone. So we had Rachel doing mornings, and then when it was time to redo the budget, a boss said to me, well, why would we compete against Howard Stern? The reason you compete against Howard Stern, Boss is because Howard Stern isn’t for everybody, And over time people age, including me the boss, Howard Stern, and younger generations come along.
And if you talk to Howard’s been behind the paywall now since two thousand and six, it’s almost twenty years Howard to anybody under I don’t know, forty forty five. Nobody listens to Howard. Old people listen to Howard. So I think there was a case to Rachel do mornings now here ten fifteen years later, I’m not sure Rachel would still be doing mornings on the Raw Dog channel. But anyway, you could have given us some bucks for this one.
Rachel Feinstein, one of Variety’s ten comics to watch, Johnny thought you said you weren’t going to do a slow burn. I can’t help myself. Do you want to hear about how we wanted to give Deane Cook a show and there was no budget. You know how popular Dame Cook was there ever a while. Serenity now Krimmel originally attended college to study journalism.
She signed up for a stand up comedy class at the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington. She spent years working on her craft and since discovered that her disability was a strength on stage, realizing it wouldn’t make people uncomfortable. Now, the article didn’t address her disability, but I found this wonderful quote from her. She says, I get that I’m unconventional. I’m disabled, but I’m not totally committed to the lifestyle.
A lot of people when they see me, they think I suffer from cerebral palsy, which I don’t. I have cerebral palsy. Tony Awata is one of the latest additions to the Daily Show News team Tony started earlier this year. Preacher Lawson first broke out in the comedy scene on America’s Got Talent in twenty seventeen and now one of the comedians to watch. Leslie Lao went from working in human resources at Netflix to appearing on Netflix’s Verified stand Up this past year.
Hmm. I want HR to investigate that. Did you go through all the resumes of potential comedians who wanted to appear Unverified stand Up? I wonder if that was a proper HR search. I might report Leslie loud at HR and she’s the HR.
Hmm. Nathan McIntosh, I’ve been telling you about him lately. His special up on YouTube is awesome. Check out down with Tech on YouTube. Saw true.
Heo first realized his comedic sensibilities when his classmates at culinary school told him his future was not in the kitchen. Hey, he would have been perfect on the bear. He started in comedy in twenty ten, has most recently appeared on Comedy Central Stand Up Presents, and has an hour long special in the can. He’s working to find home for well after this article, I bet you already have one. The other big story for today the Emmys.
The nominees are out for variety talk series. The nominees are The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Seth Myers, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Interesting there people thought John Mulaney would be nominated. He was not all right. Who would I pick out of Daily Show, Kimmel, Seth Colbert, I’d pick kim All.
I think Best Comedy. The nominees Matt Barry What We Do in the Shadows, Larry David for kerb, Steve Martin for Only Murders Martin Short for Only Murders, Defarow Woon a tie for Reservation Dogs, and Jeremy Allen White for The Bear Love the Bear. I know this is a very hack conversation everyone’s having, but my take, the Bear is not a comedy. Have you watched The Bear? Season one might have been a comedy, Season two and three not a comedy.
So as awesome as Jeremy Allen White is, he’s not getting my vote. Let’s say out of Barry, Larry David, Steve Martin, Martin Short. Oh that’s tough. I don’t want to give it to Larry David. I didn’t think the last season was that Strong.
Should we give Matt Berry a Lifetime Achievement Award? We could do that. Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Quina Brunson for Abbott, io at A Berry for Non Comedy The Bear, Selena Gomez for Murders, Maya Rudolph for Loot, Gene Smart for hacks, Kristen Wigg for Palm Royal. I’m giving that to Gene Smart and not thinking for a second about it.
That’s the winner there. Outstanding Comedy Series, Abbot Elementary, The Bear, which is not a comedy curb only murders, Palm Royal Reservation dogs. What we do in the Shadows, huh, I don’t want to pick any of those. I like shadows. Let’s give shadows a victory lab.
I was looking more at the nearer comedy festival lineup, especially after listening back to yesterday’s show, and it caught my ear the second time around. They’ve already announced a bunch of the Carnegie Halls shows, so if more names are coming, they can’t put the big names at Carnegie Hall because they’ve already used that venue. So unless there’s like I don’t know, Sebastian of Manascalco is gonna play the Garden or something like that. Coming a bit of an underwhelming lineup. Oh, I’m so excited about this next.
I’m gonna save this next thing for tomorrow. I’m so excited about this. It’s about Hank Azaria all right, but I’ll save it because we’re getting a little long here. Oh so pumped about it though. You need something to watch, all right?
Head to the eight hundred pound Garriilla YouTube channel at seven pm Central Time. I’m still mad that I didn’t ask those guys what the Central time stuff’s about. Nick Swartzon’s make Joke from Face premieres today. It’s seventh Central, separately on YouTube.
Also at seventh Central, Laura Murley’s Belly slapin Fun I love that title.
Eight years in. It’s Laura’s debut comedy special. Her half hour consists mostly of non sequiturs and seemingly random observations in a distinctively disjointed, hilarious style inspired by Mitch Hedberg and Maria Bamford. That sounds like it’s in my wheelhouse. Maybe I’ll channel flip between that and the RNC tonight, Hey are you in Cleveland?
Summer Slam’s coming to Cleveland? Why are you mentioning this? Johnny mack Well WWE has announced a Sammy Zen stand up comedy slash storytelling event. It is called Sammy Zan and Friends do Cleveland Friday, August second at eleven pm. You know you could go to Cleveland.
You could stay over the next day you hit the Saturday five pm mass Deacon Mike’s doing the homily. You could tell him you heard about his preaching here on Daily Comedy News. You’ll make his day. And that’s your comedy news for today. I’m going to do another minute or two here on another subject, but that’s your comedy news for today.
If you don’t want to hear me talk about commercials, you are dismissed and I’ll see you tomorrow. So every now and then somebody will post something on the Apple podcast website with a comment about there are too many commercials on the show, and I just thought i’d explain how this all works. First of all, most transparently, this podcast is here to make money. This is how I make a living. How it works is the ads you’re hearing.
They’re called dynamically inserted ads or dynamic ad insertion DAI. Now what happens is when you download the show, your phone or device goes Okay, where is Mike. Mike is in Cleveland, Let’s serve him some ads that are targeting Cleveland. So, for example, when election time comes around, Mike in Cleveland might hear some ads for a local Cleveland congressional race. Here in New Jersey, I won’t hear them.
Mike in Cleveland might hear some commercials for a local business here in New Jersey. I won’t hear them. So what happens is the computers are bidding on the spot. So on this show, I’ll tell you I’ve got two open spots before the show, three in the middle and two on the end. In those sometimes I internally bid.
For example, this week we’re pushing the artist a Killer’s Canvas. I’m running an in house spot at a thirty dollars bid so that it wins the spot more often than not. Now I don’t actually have to pay the thirty dollars because I’m paying myself the thirty dollars, you know what I mean. It’s a fake bid in some ways so that it outbids, say the Ryan seacrestchump, a casino spot that I get all the time. So the computer goes, hey, who’s bid the most things?
And then whatever has bid the most dollars goes to the spot. Now, the person in question mentioned that they were hearing the promo for the TJ Show a lot. The promo for the TJ Show is a favor with the people that I’m in business with. They asked me if i’d help promote the TJ Show. I said, sure, happy to help, and I have that in as a lower dollar amount.
So this one listener who’s frustrated that whatever combination of device you’re using, location you’re using for some reason, the TJ Show is winning that bid, whereas here in New Jersey, I haven’t heard the promo for the TJ Show on my own podcast in weeks it’s running. It’s just being outbid by other things in my locale. So does that all make sense? So again, when you download the show, your phone goes where are you? And it sees if anybody wants to serve commercials too specifically you Anyway, I just felt like sharing how it works.
I have not increased the commercial load at all unless I do an hour long show. When I do an hour long interview on Saturday. And by the way, I don’t have one this weekend unless Hank Azaria throws me a lifeline and writes me back. I can’t wait to tell you about Hank tomorrow. But when I do an hour one, I throw in a second break because again, I’m here to make money, just being transparent.
Hope you understand. Oh, and that’s why we’re pushing the subscriptions. Like, I get that you don’t like commercials, but like something’s got to pay the rent. So four ninety nine gets you the show commercial free. Help support the show much appreciated.
If you don’t want to do that and you like things quote unquote free, totally get it. But then there’s going to be commercials. Hope that’ll make sense. See you tomorrow.