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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I like this joke from Seth Meyers. Tesla has reportedly paused cyber truck deliveries due to an issue with their windshield wipers. Apparently, when you turn them on, you can see all the people laughing at you.
I like that one a lot. Nicky Glazer versus the two Bears one cave not too bad, and I enjoy a kerf fluffle. Bur Kreischer and Tom Sigora were discussing the roast of Tom Brady. Krayscher wondered, if you’d put Andrew Schultz in Nicky spot, would everybody be talking about Schultz and not Nicky. No one’s really talking about how great Schultz was.
Three hours in, this m effort goes up after everyone wing this GD thing dry and still crushes. I mean, I’m not going to say the GD word. I’m trying to book the Pope. Deacon Mike’s on it, Dacan. Mike tells me the Pope doesn’t speak English to and I texted him back, I go, I don’t care book him.
All right, let’s break apart Krascher’s comments. No one is talking about how great Schultz was. I mean, people like me pointed out how great Schultz was. The thing is, if you flip their order, yes, Nicki would be more buried in the special. There definitely is comedy fatigue, right, You’re not laughing as hard two and a half hours in as you were in the first half hour or so, So that’s definitely a thing.
But also Andrew just doesn’t have the it factor Nicki does. I’ve described most of my career as shobiz adjacent, but I’d like to think I’m fluent in it and some people have it and you can’t teach it. I do not have it. But Nicky’s got just a little bit more than Andrew in that total package, as they call it. Nicki handled the critique quite graciously.
She was on the Zach Sang Show and said, I was a little disappointed in Chryscher’s comments, but they did have a point. Where you go in the lineup does absolutely matter, and I’m so grateful I went up earlier because people had the energy to pay attention. Well, said well played. Does she think Andrew would have received more publicity in her spot, She said, yes, but I also think they would have been talking about me in his slot too. Nicki said she felt no backlash until quote till that moment of like, well, would we be talking about her if this timing would be different?
Why even bring that up? Doesn’t that kind of rob me of something? I just don’t like to see people talking about me, especially my friends. Tony Hinchcliff said to Bert and Tom, the Brady Roast was a comedy up until you guys started. Then you guys got to really change the tone a bit, got to make everyone appreciative of laughter.
Yeah, they kind of ate it. So before I saw that story, I was going to open up today on the Soapbox. Here’s my question every day, and I’ve got one here. There’s an article comedians can’t say anything anymore, cancel culture, blah blah blah. Who is actually saying comedians can’t say anything anymore?
Like? Who? Who were the people that are saying that that we’re reacting to every day? Nobody? Julia Luis Dreyfuss was on Kars Swisher’s podcast That’s the one where West Coast elites taking their electric cars to upper level democratic insider things while flying in private jets and spending millions of dollars at Fancy Dinners.
That podcast, Julia said, there’s a lot of talk about how comics can’t be funny. Now, I think that’s bs physical comedy and intellectual comedy and political comedy. I think has never more interesting because there’s so much to do. It’s a ripe time. Comedy is risky and it can be offensive, but that’s what makes it so enjoyable.
I personally don’t buy the conceit that there is an impossible time to be funny. Maybe some people aren’t laughing at your jokes, but it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be made. The Guardian went to see Jerry Seinfeld in Australia. They gave him four stores out of five. The headline Jerry Seinfeld Live Review, crotchety comic is still at the top of his game.
About ten minutes into the Australian premiere of a show, Jerry asks the perth r Acea Arena, what else is annoying in the world today? Besides everything? The Guardian writes, this throwaway line could easily be the catchcry for Seinfeld’s sardonic brand of comedy, which parodies the minutia of daily life. He rants later in the evening. I hate Tee.
I hate it. He doesn’t understand how hard life is. All these names, Darjeling, cam Emel Jasmine. What am I in a whorehouse in the Bayou? If you’d like to see Jerry Seinfeld and you’re in Australia or I guess you could travel there.
He’s there until this weekend. Then he’s in New Zealand twenty four through twenty sixth June. Next topic, I’m confused by this. Apparently the Lost Culturista’s Culture Awards were held in Brooklyn on June fifteenth. Check your calendar.
I only heard about this on Tuesday morning. Bowen Yang’s in the press all the time. Last year, the Lost Culturista’s Culture Awards had tremendous buzz. This year, no buzz. I only saw one recap of it, and that was in Vulture, which is behind a paywall, I believe.
And even so I went through the paywall, I’m like, oh, I’ll pull some stuff out and I’ll tell the listeners about it. And there was nothing there that interested me to share with you. So I don’t know what happened to Las Culturista’s Culture Awards. The air has gone out of that balloon, unless you’re like a coastal elite who writes for Vulture, and then you think it’s the greatest thing ever. Interesting choice to host the twenty twenty four NHL Awards, They’re going with comedian and quote impressionist extraordinaire Matt Friend.
Matt Friend’s a better impressionist than I am sure, but I’m not sure he’s extraordinary. His impressions are okay. The Awards at the Fountain Blue, Las Vegas, Thursday, June twenty seventh. They’ll be on ESPN. Matt gave a quote, which is growing up.
All my heroes were hockey obsess comedians. Really, who were the hockey obsess comedians? I want to list hockey obsess comedians. Hmm, Dennis Leary question mark was Bill Hicks at Boston brus Oh did you go there? John?
I did. I am so thrilled, boy, I’m punching today. I am so thrilled to join the list of my heroes like Will Arnette and Keenan Thompson as host of the NHL Awards, especially as someone who grew up a Chicago Blackhawks fan during the dynasty. I’m so grateful to Steve Mayor, Michael Dempsey and Gary Bettman for the opportunity to fulfill my lifelong dream of hosting the Golden Globes of Hockey. Relax.
I’m not gonna do the tailor bit. However, I’ll win them over when I debut my Gary Bettman impression. Who’s Steve Mayer? He apparently is the NHL Chief Content Officer and senior EVP. He gave a quote which is, we can’t wait to be back in Las Vegas to celebrate the best players in the NHL and cap off a monumental season for the league.
Vegas has a unique energy. We’re thrilled to have Matt Friend join us his host this year. Matt is a versatile comedic talent unlike any other, and we know the show will be in great hands unlike any other. Is doing a lot of work there. I’m not making friends today from the press release.
Friend has risen a fame on social media in recent years as a master impressionist. What spawn on takes of everyone from Jeff Goldbloom to Romney Malick to Timothy Shallamay, I better pull a clip for you, guys. You’re like, what is John talking about? Hold? On.
But I will tell you I am killing this dinner harder than Christinome kills the puppies.
Moving on place.
Even Bernie has something to say, mister Trump, you have no idea what the ordinary experiences every day Americans are. I am concerned with battling the ruthless dictators like Vladimir Putin? Can we all agree on that? Can we all agree? Even Mitch would agree with that?
Right now? Mitch, Well, let me begin by starting what a privileged idio is. So that he did, I Midge McConnell face, which helped a little bit. But I don’t know. Let’s see what else we have in this bio.
Friend has arisen a fame on social media in recent years as a master chrissionist, with spot takes of everyone from Jeff Goldbloom to Romney Malleck to Timothy s Sheella May Anyway, Mad Friend hosting the NHL Awards, JB. Smooth and Susie s Men were on the rap. JB’s not sure Curb is over. He says, it’s almost like a little bug in me because I always feel like there’s still stories left unturned. That dude right there, he’s hilarious, like how do you say you’re not coming back?
Susie said, We’ve been out to dinner a few times since we wrap where something’s come up and he’d be like, ah, that would have been a good episode. The brain is always working, but I just feel like he’s done. Susie s men emphasized She’s not Susie Green, but if she gets bad customer service, I can go Susie Green on them. But I also raise teenagers, and I would say at least once a month for each of my kids, I went Susie Green, I’ll hear myself and I’m like, oh my god, I’m her left over from last week. Take Natar Tike.
Natara was on with Colbert a bit of a set up here, gotta be honest. Colbert asked her how Pride Month is going. She said, I’ll be honest, it’s a little weird. And luckily Colbert randomly asked her about Pride Month because she had a story ready, which was about her kids. They’ll be eight this month.
The school six minutes away from our house, and at minute three we were in the front seat of the car talking about something gay and our son Finn leans forward and says, you’re gay. I was so stunned because we’d lived together for eight years and I’ve been gay the whole time, even prior, and we’ll continue to be so I was like, yes, we are. We realize that even though there are pictures of our wedding day at home and they have two moms, that doesn’t know that they mean what gay is. Perhaps she thought he was the butler. This week got on this very podcast.
Mike Chisholm is my guest. He hosts the Letterman Podcast. We’ll do a deep dive on Letterman. I’m gonna split that up into two parts Saturday and Sunday, as we did eighty minutes raw. Check out my substack where I pontificate on other things media mcdeepod dot substack dot com.
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For ninety nine a month, we’ll get you this ad free. Check it out from Sue Falls Live You’re Home for comedy news. Stephanie Springer is part of Mom’s Unhinged. She says, if you’re a mom, or have a mom, or have a friend who is a mom, you know it’s not all wine and roses. And even if it is, it’s probably a box of wine to keep in the garage refrigerator.
And while there are no roses, it’s car seats covered in vomit, a screwl drop offline that brings out the worst in you and everyone else, a field trip, permission slip nobody can find, and staying awake to make sure your teenager drives himself home safely. Springer ran into Andrea Vall, founder of Moms Unhinged. Andrea was gracious enough to take the risk of putting me on one of her shows the first year of my stand up career. The audience is women and moms who are like, let me laugh because these jokes are meant for me. And as a comic, you get to be on stage with these women, and that is changing narratives.
That is what happens when women really amplify each other’s strength and creativity. This show sounds like fun. Vall said, I started Mom’s unhinged to showcase amazing mom and comedians. Too often comedy shows are male dominated, it’s difficult for mom comedians to get on shows. Vall said, we wear a lot of hats.
Also, I didn’t realize the kids want dinner every day. From Deadline, micro Budget is a comedy feature about an aspiring director who recklessly moves himself and his nine monthsregnant actress wife from Iowa to La to shoot a low budget indie movie and sell it to a streamer. This stars Bobby moynihan, Chris Parnell, and Maria Bamford. That said, none of them appear to be the leads. The mockumentary skewers the world of show business and the depth sum moniacal tours will sink in pursuit of their vision.
The revival of Fraser is bringing back familiar faces. Bob Bulldog Briscoe and Gil Chesterson, Fraser’s former co workers at the Seattle Radio Station, will appear on the Fraser reboot in season two. No details in how they come back to Fraser’s life. This is fun. The Suresy Fall Classic Hockey Game has been announced.
Our second hockey story of the Day. Stars from Shoresey versus NHL alumni and select cities. This Fall benefits local charities. Tickets go on sell Friday. The Suresy Fall Classic November sixteenth in Boston, November seventeenth in Toronto.
And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program and you’d like it, add free a link in the show notes. See you tomorrow.