🎙️ Listen to this episode:
Full Transcript
Caloroga Shark Media Jimmy Foul said a Delta Airlines pilot was sentenced to ten months in jail for showing up to work drunk. Yeah, you got ten months in prison and a job offer from Southwest. Hello. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Wait to hear this Kevin Hart thing.
Hoo, there was a lot today. It took me two and a half hours to sort the stories. Not everything’s making today’s program, with just so many articles and interviews and podcasts with comedians. So I’ve got a load of material well into next week. But the big thing today, The Washington Post threw some serious heat I insight right up against Kevin Hart’s chin.
The headline is Kevin Hart funny. Now I love this. The genesis of this article here is basically I’m paraphrasing, why are we giving the Mark Twain Prize to Kevin Hart? That was kind of my original reaction to the announcement as well. But the Washington Post is not pulling punches.
They write comedy, it seems, is merely the Empire’s cornerstone and some other comedians they could sort of weak. They quote Donnell Rawling saying on a podcast. I hear so many comics say Kevin Hart’s not funny. Donelle didn’t say if he agrees with them or not. Mike Epps on Instagram in twenty eighteen wrote, I still don’t think you are behind is funny?
I cleaned it up a little. You may recall Kat Williams was on Shannon Sharp’s podcast and called Kevin Hart an industry plant. Kevin Hart reacted to that and said, at the circus, when a lion comes out and rides a bike, you don’t think about it too hard. You just go, Okay, that’s crazy. The post writes Heart has built something massive, But does the last name Hart mean something in comedy?
Does he consider his comedy to be impactful? Or is he a lion riding a bicycle? We’d like to ask Cart himself about all this. We spent months trying to schedule him the Kennedy Center, which we’ll host and confer the prize March twenty fourth. Tried helping.
Maybe the interview would be in Qatar, where we had a show, or maybe on a film set in Atlanta, maybe just over Zoom, but Kevin Hart had other things to do, so we bought a one hundred and thirty five dollars ticket for a bad Seat in North Charleston, South Carolina to see his brand new material tour and listen for answers. Boy, I love this article so much. They are bringing it. They’re write Heart’s small athletic frame. He’s five foot four, prowl’s the stage like an NBA player on the court.
All twenty three hundred members of the audience have locked their phones and secure pouches. All eyes are on Heart. It’s clear what he means when he says he doesn’t write jokes. Instead, he shouts his way through meandering stories. They usually end with a laugh line that will repeat several times, each one louder time out.
Chris Rock does that same thing. I’m not saying Chris Rock sucks, but Chris Rock will go, here’s the punch line. The punch line right. They’ll usually end a laugh line that will repeat several times while he pantomimes say his explosive defecation after eating a spicy Chick fil a sandwich where his family’s eye rolling when his nephew came out as gay. Quoting Kevin Hart, he I think I speak for the whole family when I say we know, we know, we know.
The audience devours it, laughing louder with each repetition. Yikes, yikes, yikes, this is fun. Johnny Mack likes the gossip. Sup Betting is Kevin Art Funny comics such as Keith Robinson, Patrise O’Neal and David Tel thought so. They helped him get a start and respect in New York stand up clubs.
Meet Him mogul Damon Dash thought so he put him in the Rock a Fella produced movie Paper Soldiers, alongside Jay Z, Charlie Murphy, and Michael Rappaport. Jodd Apatow thought so. He cast him in a few episodes of his Fox Had Come Undeclared with Seth Rogan and Jay Barshell twenty three years ago. The Fish out of Water persona he honed in movies such as Ride Along, Get Harden several films with Dwayne Johnson, draws big box office receipts. His movie character there is really only one, is an extension of a stand up act.
Frenetic, self deprecating, yet overconfident, fast talking, and most important, all caps loud. The Washington Post continues, Funny is in the ear of the listener. But perhaps the proof is in the empire. Cornerstone be damned his modeled underwear from Macy’s. He’s played in major poker tournaments.
He co created a TV show in twenty thirteen called Real Husbands of Hollywood. He founded a production company that pumps out the schlocky comedies he appears in. He started a ventual capital firm that invests in companies that make beds, energy, drinks, snacks, and cleaning products. Oh there’s more, all right, fasten your seat belts. Heart’s Empire seems impervious to threats.
He cheated on his pregnant wife in twenty seventeen, Johnny Mack pauses, No one seemed to care. In twenty fifteen, he said he would never play a gay character. No one really blinked. In twenty eighteen, the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences announced he would host the twenty nineteen Oscars. Almost immediately, Twitter useres and journalists began sharing a slew of his old homophobic tweets and Santa pits.
The Academy asked him to apologize. He refused, resigned a gig, and then gave a non apology on Twitter but controversy rolls off him because he never fully admits wrongdoing, never earnestly apologizes. Instead, he talks about personal growth, He’s always evolving and growing, and complains about cancel culture. Did I tell you this is not pulling any punches. I can’t believe this.
I forgot to check the byline. Let me check the bioline here by Travis m Andrews. Travis m Andrews is a Future Wader. Joined the Post in twenty sixteen. He was previously a traveling culture editor for Southern Living magazine, a contributing pop culture reporter for Mashable in the Week.
Some of his other recent articles, I’m Just curious is an oh bit for m m at walsh an article on March fourteenth about the Mark Twain Prize. On March twelfth, the headline, Oh that’s what happens when the Academy nominates popular movies March twelfth. Chat Cafe the exceptional Indian restaurant in a gas station. See I’m curious. I want to click on that, but I cannot afford to get sidetracked today.
Johnny Mack Stay focused Washpot writes a bid from his twenty thirteen special, let me explain about how his infidelity broke up his first marriage captures the cycle. Yes, people, I cheated. Am I ashamed of it? No? I’m not do I wish I could take it back.
No, I don’t let me tell you why you can’t evolve as a man if you never make a mistake. I’m not sure that’s all that cool. But again, it’s in the context of a comedy special, So we should never take anything set in a comedy special all that seriously. He told The Sunday Times in twenty twenty one. I’ve been canceled what three or four times?
In the same interview, he suggests that anyone who wants to cancel someone should shut the f up. Post continues. One phrase came up repeatedly among fans and Charleston. Oh, I know where this is going because I’ve preread this for age way to hear this That phrase, he’s relatable. Who among us hasn’t taken penis enlargement pills from a gas station and then commanded his spouse to recite his social Security number during six But maybe we’re thinking too literally.
What’s relatable isn’t the taking of the pills, but the insecurity that leads to them. There’s a deep universal anxiety at the heart of hard jokes, and there’s a deep universal anxiety. And the way he talks about himself. He needed to tell the Sunday Times I’m talented as f that he’s not funny. Slander is the Best began a tweetstorm in twenty twenty one when Kevin highlighted that his movies have made four billion dollars in the box office and that three of a stand up specials are among the top ten highest gross of all time.
I’ve also turned my comedic talents into a place of business and branding and radio and other revenue streams. The hate slander fuels me to do more.
And now the focus of the Washington Post article asked the question, is the T…
Is fun and loud? Close enough? Cliff nester Off, the stand up historian, notes that Kevin Hart and last year’s winner Adam Sandler are difficult to contextualize because they’re technically mid career. Nestro Off says, Kevin Hart really belongs to one generation of show business. I don’t know if we’re there yet.
To see specific comedians performers that have been influenced by Kevin Hart. It almost feels like we’re honoring fame. Wow, woh, would love to know what you think about that one. I shared it in the Facebook group. Folks are telling me the article is payhold, but you just got the gist of it.
And if you use Apple Podcasts, they now have transcripts. So if you want to scroll through everything I just read to you, I’d be curious your thoughts. Daily Comedy News podcast group. Wow, that one story was the length of what’s normally one segment. How about this one from Late Nighter?
They’ll say Sloan was asked about hosting the Daily Show. She also did not pull any punches until Late Nighter. I’m just telling you the reality of the situation that’s not going to happen. I’m paying attention and I work there. It’s not about whether they asked me.
It’s why they didn’t ask Roy, would Junior? Because if they didn’t ask Roy, they sure is Heleen gonna ask me? If they’re getting rid of all the diversity in Late Night, why would they turn around and ask me? Next paragraph here on Late Nighter says Sloan is referring to the how late night has reverted to just being hosted by white guys after the following list of people have stopped doing late night shows. That list includes Samantha Bee, z Way, Ember Ruffin, Jesus and Marrow, and Trevor Noah, Well, Trevor left on his own.
Jesus and Marrow had a fight, sam Bee. I think turn around out of money, right. I don’t know why the other two ended. Sloane says the atmosphere at the Daily Show has lightned a bit recently. Sloan said, this is what’s happening with everything.
Look at all the shows that are getting canceled. Who lose this fool was hilarious. It got canceled. Nobody knows why. I’ll tell you why.
Nobody watched it. That’s why shows get canceled. It looks like this is what the directive is. And so I can’t worry about everything as a whole, because that just takes your brain somewhere it’s not supposed to go. It’s too big for my brain.
Listen, if your show gets views and you can sell to advertisers, it’ll be on end a story. There’s no conspiracy. I can tell you why this fool got canceled. Nobody watched it, so Loan says, with John Stewart coming back, everybody in the building has relaxed because it’s okay, we’re probably not going to get canceled now. Comedy Central is always an interesting place to be.
TV right now is an interesting place to be. So yeah, there are a lot of people who are like, my kids could stay in private school. We’re probably not going to get canceled right now. That’s the main thing. I got a lot more.
I need a break. Normally I do the show in two chunks. We may have three chunks today. There’s so much going on. David Tel he does indeed have a Netflix special coming out on March twenty sixth.
There’s no press about it, there’s no articles about it. This is it’s very strange. There’s not even a real triller. I went hunting and found that Netflix posted some audio. But this isn’t produced as a trailer.
It’s just somebody went all right, I’ll grab a couple jokes so you’ll know if there’s no music. There’s no editing here. You’ll also note that David Tell is working clean here. But I like this clip a lot. It’s really tough because there’s no late night food anymore.
It’s all gone. I don’t know what happened, but no food after eleven. You don’t believe me, I’ll take you through it. Okay. I’m in Milwaukee, which is a great town.
Milwaukee, great town, no late night food, which kind of explains Jeffrey Dahmer. Now, hey, this guy was a monster, all right. I am not condoning anything he did. But you get hungry, Am I right? I Mean, come on, all I’m saying is pack a snack, all right?
Now? I do trail mix anybody. I always travel with a bag of trails the most unsatisfying snack, Am I right? I mean, honestly, let’s call it what it really is. Are you ready?
Not enough M and m’s. I mean that’s what trail makes. It is. Every handful is just another handful of disappointment. Am I right?
It’s kind of like the hug of a step dad. I mean, it just doesn’t Yeah, I knew he had a couple of broken toys in the room. For what it’s worth, in my opinion, David Tell, and you don’t hear it there? He’s doing material there is really probably the best at crowd work. I’ve seen him going back a while.
We were at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival and that’s a long time gone. And he just got up there and did I don’t know, half an hour just working the crowd. It was amazing. That Steve Martin documentary is coming out. Apple has released a longer clip.
The first voice you’re going to here is Jerry Seinfeld. Let’s listen. This guy was getting people so happy. He’s up there, the most idolized comedian ever. I always thought of him as the door out of the sixties.
Well here’s something I don’t often see. Wow, you know, you could be silly again. You know. I have figured out one thing that would totally put an endo show business, and that is if the human race, instead of having two arms, just had one arm right in the center of our body. Now, the reason that would put an end to show business?
How would people clap? And one more thing, if you bought my album and you came down here expecting me to do a lot of her teams from the record and I didn’t do them, well, I trim that a little bit for pacing.
Also in this documentary, Tina fey Lorne Michaels, Larry David, Diane Keaton,…
Short official synopsis. Steve Martin is one of the most beloved and enigmatic figures in entertainment. Steve is a docum mentory in two pieces. I’ve talked about this before. First part, the part John cares about the comedy.
Second, the movies and the banjo and all that. I don’t care anyway, Steve. On Apple TV Plus March twenty ninth, Bert Kreischer went on Shaquill O’Neills The Big Podcast. Jack said, when I work out, my gym is in the back, the pool is cold. It’s like a cold plunge, so I jump in.
I don’t want to get out, and then take a shower. Kreischer shared his workout and said, ice cold pool, Get in there, wake up. I got rituals. I swim from one side underneath underwater back to my breath holds Sigora. He’s made fun of me for taking pool showers my whole life.
Shack took it personally because that’s also his ritual. So he grabbed the phone for Bert Krescher and sent a voicemail. Tom Sigor saying, Hey, Tom, this is Bert’s twin brother. I take pool showers too, so leave him alone or I’ll kill you. He was joking.
ConA and O’Brien will take part in a special event called Globe Trotting and Podcasting ConA O’Brien’s Life After Late Night TV. This is part of the big push about this show on Max that’s finally coming out called Conan O’Brien Must Go. We’ll be hearing a lot from Conan coming up here. I think Globe Trouting and Podcasting Conan O’Brien’s Life After Late Night TV at the Paley Center in New York on April eleventh. Did you see Mike Tyson is going to fight Jake Paul, Our spears waited in telling of lad TV.
Mike still got the power and he still has the speed. My question is does he have the endurance? And listen, everybody’s going, Jake Paul’s a YouTuber, Mike’s gotta whoop his butt, blah blah blah. I want to see Jake Paul get his butt whooped too. But here’s the thing.
When Jake Paul first started, he was a little sloppy and he wasn’t well put together as he is now with his body, his postures technique. So my biggest fears that Mike Tyson does not have the endurance. Hmm all right, let me take just a quick break here so we can do the second part in the normal way. I’ve got a rhythm to this, and I just I need thirty seconds. Be right back.
Climb to New Heights with Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs as we scale the Empire State Building to uncover the legend of King Kong. This week, we’re swinging into the heart of a story that bridges the gap between monster and man, from Skull Island to the streets of New York City. Join us as we explore the myth, the mystery, and the enduring legacy of cinema’s most iconic ape. Follow Monsters, Sharks and Dinosaurs on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Big shout out, Hey, one of you has a BMW and you took it to a shop in New Jersey on Wednesday, and you were listening to Daily Comedy News.
And I know this because the guy that took in your car is my friend Van, and Van told me the story that he got in a car and somebody was mid Daily Comedy News. So, whoever you are, man, say hi on Facebook. I was so happy when Van told me that story, and I hope your car is okay. He didn’t explain why I was in. I don’t know.
Maybe just need oil change. I don’t know why, but BMW guy in New Jersey or woman, thank you for listening. As I mentioned earlier, the Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group. It’s been super active lately, people other than me starting conversations, which is what I wanted to be. I don’t mind starting conversations, but I love when I log in and I’m like, oh, here’s a good topic, So please feel encouraged to join us.
The first time you post, you’ll get a brief timeout so we can make sure you’re not a pornbot. But once we figure out ah, this seems like a human, will let you in and then you could post away. Mike and Cleveland. He shot me a note he was reacting to the other day when I talk about Lenno versus Letterman, and I think he had a good insight, he said, paraphrasing. Leno felt like he needed to keep the job, whereas Dave didn’t give a hoot if he got fired or not, and I’m like, yeah, you know what, You’re right.
Good insight by Mike in Cleveland. A bunch of podcasts. As I’ve mentioned, I’m way behind on my pods. I’ve got a long drive next weekend. Maybe i can catch up on them.
Anyway. This week, Mark Marin had on Eddie peppatone that came out yesterday, and David tell I believe that came out on Monday. Neil Brennan, I forgot to write down the notes. Let me pull it up. He’s at a bunch of people.
Ah. Bill Burr, That’s who I wanted to tell you about. Bill Burr came out on Thursday. Kyle Kanaan came out on the fourteenth. Recent episodes there, Trevor Wallace, Jim Norton, Seth Green, Dusty Slay.
I’ve listened to the slag in the Norton. That show has been really clicking lately. Tammy Pascatelli’s on Elvis Duran’s podcast. Ari Shafer has launched a new travel podcast called You Be Tripping’ I like that title. His first guest is Andrew Santino.
The official description comedian and seasoned travel expert Ari Shafer has launched his newest podcast, You Be Tripping On You Be Tripping. Ari Shafir finds the comic wanting to ditch the travel guides and bring on real folks to discuss their messed up adventures in hilarious disaster tourism. I don’t know is Andrew Santino shucking jokes a good example of real folks. Here’s a clip if you can find a booie in a bay, which, by the way, is funny to hear him say. When he would say it, he’d say it sounded like boy.
He’s like, we must find a little boy, and I was like, why do we need a little boy? He’s like, no, we have to get a little boy for the boat. And I was like, I don’t really want a boy on the boat. Your wife just they have different customs. It’s you got, all right, we’ll get a little boy on the book.
By the way, that’s the first clip they shared, and let’s be honest, that’s not the greatest clip. I’ll check out the pod, but that clip doesn’t make me go wow, I gotta check this out. Already has lots of wild stories to tell from his international travels, such as getting Bert Krescher fat and Greece, as well as dancing for fourteen hours in a warehouse in Berlin. I had to read that twice to make sure it said warehouse, not a similar word warehouse in Berlin. On some of the finest lab made chemicals known to man.
The Entra Santino episode, they’d talk about the little islands off the coast of Italy, the subtle art of annoying locals and seeing so many stray dogs roaming everywhere. Upcoming guests include frequent podcast guests Joe List, Mark Norman, and also Kevin Ryan. More to be announced. From the Sun, No, not the not the Sun, the newspaper which is called the Sun. Imagine there was comedy news from the Sun.
Channel four bosses have apologized to one of their former employees who made a serious and concerning outgation about Russell Brand’s behavior. The CEO said, one former Channel four employee made a serious, concerning allegation about Russell Brand in two thousand and nine. Check your calendar. This was not escalated to Channel four’s then senior management team, nor investigated as it should have been. I’ve apologized on behalf of the organization to the individual for this breakdown and for the distress that this matter has caused.
A total of five women claim Brand had assaulted them between twenty six and twenty thirteen. Before the allegations were published, Russell Brand released a YouTube video in which he strongly denied the claims without specifying what they were. Mike Vicky Owns got a special today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel. It’ll be at six o’clock. Now, I’m not sure what time zone the eight hundred Pound Gorilla stuff is usually Central Time.
This is called Worse Kind of Thoughtful. It’s inspired by his twenty eighteen comedy album on the same name. In this unique hour of comedy, Mike fully narrates while his talented friends, fellow comics, artists and more have been recruited to perform the stand up material on his behalf. That’s Fun. Adam Newmanman has a new hour of comedy, brought his guitar music, magic horses, but stuff.
This hour has it all. It’s called Jew Versus the Volcano. It’s his fifth hour of stand up. You’ll find it on Blonde Medicines YouTube channel. Jew Versus The Volcano has three acts.
The first act classic stand up checking in where he’s at now recently Mary traveled and barreling out of a pandemic. The second act is the age old tale about losing one’s virginity, featuring an appearance by RIM’s Mike Mills and a visit to the emergency room. The third and final act brings us to what Adam Newman has been planning all along coming out as a guitar comedian. It was in New York a few weeks ago, and it rained the whole time I was there. The first thing I had to do in New York was like dip into a bodega and get like a cheap four dollar umbrella, you know.
And I was walking in Brooklyn, in the neighborhood I was staying in. And I don’t know if it’s because I live in LA and just haven’t held an umbrella in a long time, or it was extra slippery or extra wet or whatever, but Augusta Wynn came and I just lost it. It’s just like up in the air. I turned around just in time to see it land in a baby’s stroller. Okay, the baby’s fine, I promise you.
The baby’s fine, but the mom was mad. She was like hey, I was like, I’m sorry, and she goes, you threw your umbrella at my baby. I was like, I didn’t throw it at your baby. Have you ever tried to throw and have you ever tried to throw an open umbrella? Like open against the way that it’s open, like facing the other direction?
Like for me to accurately be able to skill level, the skill level, the practice I would have had to put into it, the hatred towards her specific baby for me to land that in the stroller, her second reaction should have been my baby. Her first reaction should have been, that was incredible. You have to show me how you did that. That was amazing you versus the Volcano digital album and special out today vinyl orders in June. And that is your comedy News for today.
Long episode. But that was a lot, right, all right, plenty of good stuff for the weekend. If you enjoy the program, friend about it that they might like it too. You could five stars this thing an Apple podcast that’s always nice. Join the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.
I will see you tomorrow.