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The Shark Deck may see one again today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A bunch of the late night guys tweeted, I saw Colbert did it, and then Kimmel did it. I’m assuming Falon did it as well, but from Colbert. This just in.
I’m headed to Vegas with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel for Strike Force three Live Catch us one night only, Saturday, September twenty third. All proceeds from our live show will go directly to out of work staff from our respective shows. See you there. The Hollywood Reporter had a press release in which Seth Meyers and John Oliver addressed their absence. Oliver said, I’m not allowed back in Vegas until I’m cleared of all charges.
Seth Meyers said I will be in Vegas, but unable to attend as I got to play my slots. The Hollywood Reporter points out they have yet to discuss fallon Gate on the podcast so far. The episodes that have been published were recorded prior to fallon Gate. We’ll see if they addressed them on upcoming shows. I’ll suspect not, but you never know.
Did you see this whole Martin Short thing. A guy wrote a piece on slate dot com with the headline why we keep putting up with Martin Short? And apparently Hollywood did not react well to the taking down of Martin Short. The writer cited his reasons for questioning Martin Schwartz’s talents. He thinks Martin Short will desperately do anything for a laugh, and he finds almost all the over the top characters that he played unbelievably annoying.
Are we sure this isn’t me writing about Adam Sandler? Because no, Dan Kois Kois Hope I’m saying your name right, Dan? Anyway, Dan writes, I find Martin Short’s whole stick exhausting, sweaty, and desperately unfunny throughout his evolution from sketch comedy, standout, too uneasy, movie start at twice, failed talk show host, enthusiastic song and dance man. I’ve wrinkled my nose. I’ll let me jump in here and let me give a quote about Adam Sandler.
I find Adam Sandler’s whole stick exhausting, sweaty, and desperately unfunny throughout his evolution from sketch comedy standout to movie star, I’ve wrinkled my nose. Okay. Back to what Dan wrote about on Martin Short, Eugene Levy did not like it and wrote, just got wind of that ridiculously laughable op ed about Marty Short after five years in the world of comedy, There’s one thing I know for certain. No one is faster, smarter, or funnier than Marty Short. He is the definition of funny.
Ben Stiller wrote, Martin Short is a comedic genius. Endo story, Mark Hamill. You know him as Luke Skywalker from Star Wars. He said, heart to believe people are actually debating whether or not Martin Short is funny. Newsflash, he is hilarious all caps.
John Cusack, I don’t know what people are on about Martin Short, but is mister Rogers boxing match is my fave. And in the end, Dan wrote that Martin Short is basically a nice, decent guy who would find heaters like him boring as a dinner companion. Kara Swisher has Conan O’Brien on her podcast. I haven’t listened to yet, but I did read the transcript and I’m actually gonna grab that pod right now. I got my phone right here.
Here it is. It’s called Conan O’Brien talks Today’s Accountant. Fifty nine minutes downloaded, done. I have shared the transcript if you want to read along. That’s what I did in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group.
But there’s a lot’s unpacked there. I’ll be picking at it for like the next five days. I want to just sit here and read an article to you for an hour. Conan self described and said I could probably come across to a lot of people as, oh, he’s so silly and he makes a lot of jokes and he takes things very lightly. And I’ve never been that person.
I take things very seriously, and I am that person. But also when I’m given an assignment, I take it very seriously, and it’s in my nature. I don’t want to let people down. I think for years and years and years, i’d wake up and I was so driven by what’s the show today, how’s it going, how did we do this week? What does the network thing?
How are things? Are we repeating ourselves too much? What’s the next challenge? And I felt that way for a boy. I started in ninety three, and I think that was my mo for twenty some odd years, and I started to get better in the latter part of the TBS show.
But now that’s my life. I feel you, Conan one of the first things I do every day as I checked the podcast download numbers on this thing, Conan continued. I think it was eventually toward the end we went to half an hour, and I remembered feeling a huge difference half an hour and an hour. It’s more than just a thirty minute difference. I don’t know how to explain it.
We feel this responsibility the whole time for a longer period of time, so I don’t know. I feel that just helped, and you have to remember it. Towards the end of my run, COVID hit and I think COVID accelerated things a bit because I was doing interviews late night interviews on Zoom and I remember if just feeling like, yeah, I know COVID’s going to depart and things are gonna go back to normal. But I think to a degree, COVID may have accelerated a bit, meaning I might have done thirty years instead of twenty eight. But then I thought, why stick around for two years?
Leave? Now? It’s been fun It’s been an amazing gift. Conan said he loves his podcast. I love the travel shows.
Let’s do this transition now. Let’s not wait around and have some cool three zero anniversary, especially as you say, the culture is changing so quickly. Comedian Owen Benjamin has been making fun of his own sketches in light of Fallon Gate. Owen Benjamin tweeted this aged well. What he was referring to is a twenty nineteen sketch that he had previously posted.
In it, Benjamin don a wig in a suit to play Jimmy Fallon. In the sketch, Jimmy Fallon is interviewing Joseph Stalin, played by conservative commentator Stephen Crowder. There’s an opening monologue where Benjamin is Fallon claims he read Stalin’s autobiography in a bubble bath with Justin Timberlake. Crowder appears in a Stalin tunic and a fake mustache. He sits down with fake Jimmy Fallon.
The audience goes wild. Crowder, playing Stalin, becomes angry and yells who was the last one to clap, and then tells Benjamin as Fallon, I don’t know why you have so many nice things when you have such weak hands. They banter for a bit Krowder as Stalin tells Benjamin’s Fallon. When he returns home, he will find his wife and children dead.
And then Jimmy Fallon goes.
When we come back, Harry Styles and I’ll be doing stuff to each other on a ferris wheel, and we’ll play beer pong with Kim Jong Young. Here’s a weird one for you, and I’m sharing it because Chris Rock appears in the story from The Hollywood Reporter. The Federal Government’s crypto crackdown is hitting Hollywood again, this time star getting an animated web three series featuring the voices of Chris Rock, Ashton Kutcher, me Lacunis, Jean Fonda, Seth McFarland, and more. The SEC on Wednesday filed Chargers against the creators of the NFT cartoons series Stoner Cats for an unregistered offering of NFTs. I don’t believe Chris Rock is involved in this at all, other than he was one of the voices.
Stoner Cats launched in twenty twenty one as an animated series funded by selling NFTs to buyers. The series is about the wacky adventures of cats who learned talk after inhaling medical marijuana. As I’m talking to you, I’m getting texts. My daughter apparently wants me to get Olivia Rodrigo tickets. Okay, I rolled a seven on the tailor Swift tickets, so she must think I’m really good at ticket Master.
I’d digress. The NFT offering, which raised more than eight million dollars, gave buyer’s access to watch the series their own stonecat avatar, and promised the creation of future animated projects. Did I erase this from my brain? I was doing the podcast then anyway. Rough week for Kunis and Kutcher.
They also have been getting backlash to letters they wrote to the court and support of former That seventy Show cast member at Danny Masterson ahead of his recent sentencing. Let’s not go there. Pete Davidson spoke about as Kenemine use at the show on Sunday at the hard Rock and Atlantic City. That’s the show he’s doing with Millennium, John Stewart. I told you could have got in for fifteen bucks, Bet Davidson.
I am fresh at a rehab everybody. I got that post rehab glow seventh times the charm. During his set, Pete revealed he took ketamine every day over a four year period before checking in a rehab In June, Pete joked, it was magical one time I got the wiggles to mesh with Schindler’s List. He revealed that he was high when attending Aretha Franklin’s funeral in twenty eighteen. Why would Pete Davidson be at Aretha Franklin’s funeral?
A quick Google reveals to me, Ah, it was in twenty eighteen, and at that time, Pete Davidson was engaged to Ariana Grande, who was asked to perform at the service. That makes sense. Forgot that happened? The Huffington Post, in the same article I’m looking at says, in case you forgot, which I did. Pete Davidson has a leg tattoo of Hillary Clinton, who he called one of the strangest people in the universe.
Pete shared the photo on social media, and the Hillary A Kamp wrote back, thanks Pete Davidson. That makes it significantly less awkward that I’ve had a Pete Davidson tattoo for years. Boy, I didn’t know we were going to go anywhere near this. I was just trying to tell you about Pete Davidson’s tea on Slurday Night. That was a fun digression.
Pete explained to the crowd, you can’t do drugs in your thirties because it’s not cute anymore. At that point, you’re just a drug addict. This next story is not new, but I hadn’t seen it before, and it came up because this week was the anniversary of nine eleven. Apparently, Jimmy Carr had tested a joke before making it about Pete Davidson’s father. Back in twenty sixteen, Jimmy Carr was on a Comedy Central roast.
One of the panelists was Pete Davidson. Jimmy Carr’s joke, I’m a Paul that people would come here and make jokes about the sacrifice pete heroic father made on nine to eleven. This is not the roast of Pete Davidson’s father that was in two thousand and one. Last year, on the Have a Word podcast, Jimmy Carr explained that he first debuted the joke at the Hollywood Improv in LA. He revealed the line got a laugh and then an ooh, and that Pete Davidson was laughing harder than everyone else from the back of the audience.
Car said, there’s a laugh from the back of the room, like a sustained maniacal laugh. It was Pete Davidson. Okay. The Daily Beast saw Michelle Wolf’s new special. I haven’t seen it yet.
You see, last night was trivia. Tonight’s football Friday. I’m gonna play Starfield. Are you’re playing Starfield? Yes?
Maybe Saturday, actually maybe tomorrow. Usually on Friday night, I’m tired, and I say I’m going to play video games, and then I just like stare at the TV. So and I also have to watch Chane Gillis. My son said, Chane Gillis is really good.
And then Sunday’s football and Monday’s football.
By the way, Jets, sorry, bro. Michelle Wolf has a new special. The Daily Beast reviewed at Laura Bradley is the reviewer, and I read her review and I’m not so sure she liked it. She wrote. Much of Wolfe’s material pointedly points out the hypocrisy white women enacted in a society that can often encourage their sense of victimhood lest they discover and embrace their true power.
As she labels it karening, quoting wolf and Spoilers, Waiting until a couple summers ago to realize that things have been bad for black people is like needing to see that documentary to No Sea World is bad? Did you know Wale shouldn’t live in the sink? Laura Bradley continues, but on other topics, like me Too, the comedians comments start to feel less considered and more incendiary. During one joke Spoilers, she sums up me too supporters positioned by saying, doesn’t matter what you did. You could have raped somebody or accidentally whispered into a boob.
It’s all the same, and you have to die. Michelle Wolfe says she was so frustrated by me Too because I think we genuinely could have made social change. We could have made things better for women and men, but we effed it up from the very beginning. Michelle Spoilers also jokes about trans people, quoting Michelle here, I heard her about all these trans women getting murdered and assaulted, and all I could think of when I heard that was welcome jump on in the Water’s terrible and full of missing women. The audience laughs let’s out a few ohs, and Michelle says, some people say, now statistically more trans women are getting murdered, And I’m like, well, are they getting murdered because they’re trans?
Or are they getting murdered because they’re not used to presenting as women? She tells an imaginary trans woman, you used to be a lion, Now you’re a gazelle. There’s different rules. Okay. Laura Bradley said, Wolf obviously did not set out to write a thesis paper, but still this treatment feels frustratingly glib.
Sean McCarthy writes for Decider of cross baths with Seawan quite a few times over the past twenty years. He definitely knows comedy, and he said what comedy special is will Michelle will remind you of? By format, nothing per se by subject matter, Wolf stand somewhere on the spectrum between the sexually explicit feminism of Nikki Glaser and the defines of Dave Chappelle. Sean McCarthy for Decider says, stream it precisely because Wolf chose to split up her new material into multiple episodes, You’re much more likely to want to watch the first twenty minutes, so you can decide for yourself whether you want more. Where that came from?
Holy Cow. I just check the clock running along here. I’m going to talk about the commercials at the end of today’s podcast. By the way, the writer strike is getting serious now. From the Hollywood Reporter, NBC Universal’s studio group has suspended Lorne Michael’s Broadway video and Dween the Rock Johnson’s seven Bucks deals.
Wow, those are two pretty high profile people. I’ve been sharing my Jimmy fallon NBC conspiracy theory with people, and people are buying into it. If you missed it, check out Saturday’s episode that was all about fellon short version. I wonder if that story leaked, if they’re trying to push Jimmy out before a political year. And I’m mentioning that right now because normally I would think Lauren Michaels would try and protec Jimmy failing.
But Lauren’s heading for SNL’s fiftieth year, and NBC apparently isn’t afraid to mess with Lauren right now, So very very interesting. Derek Brown has a debut comedy slash poetry album out today. It’s called A Close Shave with Heaven. Let’s listen. There’s a strange thing that happens when you’re in a relationship, and when you’re deep in it for like four years, you don’t know why this seismic shift happens in a relationship where you go from like, let’s have fun, let’s go play dodgeball, into like, let’s argue all the time, and you can’t get back to that fun.
And therapy can try and do it, and sometimes you can’t do it. But I want to examine more that strange thing where you argue all the time. The only sex you’re having is makeup sex where your girlfriend puts on a bunch of makeup and then goes have sex with a bunch of other dudes. The album was recorded live in Boston intro by Eugene Merman, who’s a big fan and signed Derek to his PGF Records comedy label. That label includes Bob gat Goldthwaite, Love what He’s Doing These Days and Maybe Higgins.
A Close Shave with Heaven available streaming digitally. It’s on vinyl and quote the Total Brownie Jam Pack, which includes a Close Shave with Heaven on vinyl, a two egg carrying case, a stealthy shaving cream and canister with secret advice inside and a book of poems That’s fun Over on Gossip Corner. Matt Rife was in Vegas. He did two shows of The Cosmopolitan last Friday, then he showed up at the Jonas Brothers show. The Jonases were doing their residency at the MGM Grand and that show included a special intermission from Matt Rife.
Meanwhile, Olivia Wilde seen hugging comedian Nick Fune during a night out at the Greek Theater. This from Eats Online. Olivia Wilde was out to see nap Bergatzy she was greeted by Nick Fune. Nick Fune reportedly stepped out from a backstage area to greet Wilde, and the two shared and embrace before entry the venue. Whom James Adomian is taping his special today at the Allegian in La Love.
James Adomian one of my favorite albums from the recent years. I didn’t phrase that well, you know what I meant, Trump versus Bernie Debate. Fantastic album. The official release says on the stage, James Adomian is a living god, an incarnation of Dionysus, meaning he’s often drunk and largely available for bookings. He’s been to Armenia twice but still can’t convince anyone that he is Arntmenian.
Jad Daniels is on tour. He’s starting to really heat up. I think that’s a name we’ll be talking about more and more in the next year or so. To our kicks off in Denver tonight at the Comedy Work South three days, then onto Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, Chicago, Salt Lake, La, Irvine, San Antonio, or Arlington, Portland, to wrapping up December fifteenth and sixteenth in Tacoma, John Marcos or Esse. You’ve heard me talk about him, one of my faves.
Keep an eye on him. He just started a tour. Tonight is not the first night, but his tour is called the Leaning ind Tour. Tonight and bloom Rington, Minnesota, then to Northford, Connecticut. I haven’t heard of Northward and I’m from New York City, Poughkeepsie, La, Liberty Township, Ohio, Dubuque, Scottsdale, Chicago, Milwaukee, Milan.
I was like, what’s it Italy, That’s what it is, Milan, you know that Milan, the famous one. I was like, what state is it? No, it’s Milan. It’s Milan, Milan. Then he’s in London, UK, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris.
If you’re in Paris, no November ninth, Apollo Theater, go see Chan Marco. Or if you don’t want to pay the airfare, just go to Bridgeport, Connecticut November sixteenth, then DC Point Blaisant Beach, Pittsburgh, Springville, Utah, Memphis, Jeansville, and then December twenty eight through to thirtieth in Philadelphia. That’s a pretty big tour there, pal. That concludes the comedy segment of today’s podcast. I’m going to talk about the commercial load because I’ve gotten a bunch of comments and I would just want to address it.
So if you don’t want to hear any of that, we’re done zee tomorrow. For those of you still here, Isaac posted a review before even comment Isaac, dude, thank you so much for listening every day. I’ve been doing Brady in some form for thirty years now, and I know you wouldn’t post something if you didn’t actually care. It’s the easiest thing in the world to go delete, it’s the easiest thing to just like ignore, But that you actually took the moment to post this. Let’s me know you actually do like the show and you actually care.
So I’d’ve gotten a couple other comments about the ads. Well, let me start with Isaac and the I’ll explain. So Isaac posted the headline so many ads has become overloaded with repetitive ad reads. I had to change my five star to a one star. Seems like it’s become fifty percent ad reads, and they are so repetitive.
It used to be great to listen when those one minute of ads and ten minutes of content, but it’s hard to listen to now. Isaac, totally fair comment. So let me explain how we get here. Cards up. I’m totally trying to make money on this thing, one hundred percent, dude, one hundred percent.
I’m not gonna pretend i’m not. So there’s two kinds of commercials. There are live reads, which is me talking about a product, like this week, talking about draft kings. And there are the commercially commercials. You may get a lot for online casinos.
I got one this morning for a famous credit card company. All right, So there’s the commercials and there’s the live reads we’ll call them. Last week there were two live reads that not really supposed to happen. It’s supposed to have one. The two advertisers were Factor and Draft Kings.
Draft Kings did a significant commitment to the show. I think it’s nine weeks in total, So thank you Draft Kings, and I want to be good to Draft Kings Factor as a new sponsor. I want them to stay in I like that category. I truly do like the food. This is not a commercial.
This is me just telling you what’s going on. What you heard was me truly enthusiastically promoting the product. Did I go long? Yeah? In retrospect, did I go too long?
Yeah? You guys made that clear. So when you put the enthusiasm for Factor back to back with a Draft Kings read that comes along with a lot of boilerplate legal stuff that you have to do. Yeah, that middle break got a little long. There, You’re right.
The feedback I’m getting this week is it’s a little better. The other part of this is when you do a podcast, the podcasts have to live somewhere. That’s called hosting. You can either pay for hosting or you can get hosting free. I work with a hosting service that as part of the deal, they sell the commercial commercials the ones you hear, and I have to run at least one before the show.
I have to run at least one after the show. In the past, I had two and two because I never had any live reads. Live reads pay a lot better than the other kind of commercial. Again, following your feedback, I’m like, oh, all right, gotcha, everybody. So I had two and two.
I’ve cut it down to one and one. So what you should hear now is a commercially commercial at the beginning. Then me I try and do all the other stuff, including the housekeeping in the middle of the show. If you want to skip it, skip it, I get it. I do the same thing and then one more at the end.
So that should be the format. I’m not being defensive. I’m just trying to explain. I hope that’ll make sense to you. Another thing, just as I’m talking, as I think, So when you upload the file, you have to put a marker and tell it how many commercials If you go backwards in time, I have the mark for two and two and things like that.
I would have to go back and change fifteen hundred episodes. That takes more than five minutes. So you know, maybe if you go back and you’re like, hey, I wonder what John talked about back in February. You’ll get two and two. If you listen tomorrow, you should get one on one and whatever pops up in the middle next week.
I don’t think there are any live reads, so you’ll just hear commercially commercials. I hope that all makes sense. Oh. The other thing too, is I immediately got the feedback on Labor Day. People were like, dude, what the hell?
So last week, after I got that feedback, I went back in and I redid Tuesday’s episode and make it longer. So I did try to make the episodes longer last week, so it wasn’t like fifty percent commercials. But Isaac Man, I hope you’re still out there. Email me on the side. Would just love to connect you.
We don’t have to do anything public. John at the sharkdeck dot com my emails on the notes would love to hear from you. I hope you’re still out there. All right, Na’s your comedy needs for today? Follow the show for free on Apple podcast, Spotify YouTube.
Thanks to Draft Kings for supporting today’s show. See tomorrow