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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A very very robust Friday with several major stories. But let’s start with the Netflix as a Joke Festival, which we’ll be back in twenty twenty four May, second to the twelfth, more than three hundred shows across thirty five plus la venues. The Hollywood Bowl will feature the biggest acts including Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mulaney and we’ll see if this actually happens Matt Rife.
The Hollywood Bowl will also host Ladies Night with a lineup including Taylor Tomlinson, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser, Michelle Buteau, and an evening titled Seth Rogan Smokes the Bowl featuring music and comedy. This is insane, This is huge. Over at the Forum, Netflix will host Groat the Greatest Roast of All Time, which is a roast of Tom Bray. Jeff Ross will host that night to some of Tom Brady’s famous friends in Frenemies will gather together to light up Tom Brady. Chris Rock will host star studded table reads of his favorite films at the Hollywood Palladium.
The list of people at the festival so far. This is John reading a list, but I gotta do it. You gotta hear these names. You’re ready. This is no Joe Gali Wong.
Let’s go at Coonska. Remember when she was in the news every day for like three months? Haven’t heard her name? And a mother So Anthony, Jelsin, ekber Kreischer, Beth Stelling, Bill Burr, Brett Goldstein. If I stopped right there, you’d be like, this is a pretty cool festival.
We’re only up to the bees. Cedric d entertainer, Celeste Barber. So I’m ten names in and Celeste Barber the least no name right, Chelsea Handler, Chris Rock, Craig Robinson, Daniel Tosh, Deane Cook, Interesting, Dane Diino tends to be a comedy outsider, David Letterman, Dmitri Martin, Dean Cole, Earthquake, Fortune Fimester, Hannah Berner, Hannah Gatsby, Heather McMahon, Eliza Slessinger, Jason Menzukis, Jeff Ross, Jerry Seinfeld, Jesse Klein, Jessica Kirkon, Joel Kimbooster, John Mulaney, John Stewart, Jim Gaffick and Jim Jefferyes, Jimmy Carr. I mean, wow, Justin Willman, Katherine, Ryan, kat Williams, Kevin Hart, Country, Wayne kameil Nan, Gianni, Leanne Morgan, Leslie Jones, Lunel Mae, Martin, Mark Normand again, I know I’m reading a really long list, but you listen to these names Man, Marlon Wayans, Mitzel Lane, Matt Rife. We’ll see if that happens.
Maya, Rudolph, Michelle Butteo, Mike Berbiglia, Mike Epps, Mosha Kasher, Natasha Lazio, Nate Bergatzi, Nicole Bayer, Nick Kroll, Nikki Glaser, Patton Oswalt, Phil Rosenthal. Yes, I’m only up to the P’s What a list. I’m gonna keep going. Rachel Bloom, Ralph Barbosa, Ronny Chieng, Roywood, Junior, Ryan Hamilton, Who I Love, Sam Jay, Sarah Silverman, Sebastian Maniscalco, Seth Rogan, Shan Gillis, Shang Wang, Stavros Halkias, Taylor Thompson, Tim Dillon, Who I Love, Tim Robinson, Tom Brady, Tom Poppa, Tom Segura, Trevor, Noah Vidaz, Wanda Sykes and Dodgers player Will Smith not the actor that qualify. Wow, unbelievable.
You want to go? Tickets go on sale today’s tan Am Pacific. Let me break down the individual highlights at the Hollywood Bowl eight nights. Jerry Seinfeld, Chim Gaffigan, a bergazzy spashion of Manascalco, Bill Burjohn Mulaney, Seth Rogan, Matt Riife Taylor, Sarah Nicky and Michelle, Kevin Hart, Trevor Noah Wow. At the Forum the Tom Brady Roast, also Tom Sigoora and Bert Krascher.
I believe those are separate shows, but I’ll check on that. At the Palladium, Chris Rock’s table reads very interesting. Dodgers Comedy Night, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer and presented by Dodgers catcher Will Smith. Chris Rock has to come by that for the easy Joe guess. Maybe it’s a little hackey, eh, you gotta do it.
At the Greek Theater, Big Mouth Live with Nick Krolmei, Rudolph, John Mulaney, Jesse Klein, and Jason Manzukus.
Also at the Greek Theater, John Stewart and Friends.
Separately from that Shane Gillis. Separately from that, I Think you should leave with Tim Robinson, Ali Wang and Scheng Wang play the Wiltern. Ronny Chieng wan To Sykes Daniels Toss played the Dolby Letterman, Mark Norman, Eliza Sllester, Heather mcmah, Dane Cook, Rachel Bloom and Katherine Ryan All at the Montelbon At the YouTube Theater, Kat Williams The Dark Matter Tour will be recorded for Netflix. Chelsea Handler, Fortune Fimesner, It’s Hail Lane, Sam Jays and Vanessa Gonzalez host Three Gays in Mexican and a Jew Great title A Night of Comedy with Chelsea Handler and Friends. Kill Tony at the YouTube Theater.
Wow, That’s awesome. At the Orphium, I’m Brett Goldstein’s Les Barbara of verrdas Country Wayne at the Theater. At Ace Hotel, Hannah Gatsby, Ralph Barbosa, Papa Nan Gianni Patten, Burbiggs, Jimmy Carr, Marlon Wayans, Phil Rosenthal, Henneberger, Jessel Nick, Dimitri Martin at the Avalon the wonderfully titled May Martin and Brett Goldstein make love to one another on stage. Separate from that, Felippe esparsa, Wow, this is crazy. All Right, I’m gonna stop because I’m just reading you lists, but this is amazing.
Great job Netflix. Six minutes into the podcast, I’ve only done one story, all right. Other major news, Trevor Noah will host the twenty twenty four Grammy Awards. It’s his fourth time. He announced this on his podcast What Now with Trevor Noah.
Trevor said, I think it’s important to acknowledge something. I’m hosting the Grammys. I’m excited about that. Yeah, it’s a lot of fun. I enjoy the Grammys because I get to watch the show in person and then experiencing comment and on person while it’s happening.
The Grammys are February fourth. Vulture points out Trevor if he wins, he’d be the fourth Grammy host to win during a show that they hosted. On this next story, I’m gonna pull my punch here. I’m gonna do a lot of wink wink, nudge, nudge, know who I mean, because I don’t want to be investigated by the Secret Service. The Messager reports.
The Secret Service investigated comedian Shane Gillis for saying that seeing a particular person. Wink wink, nudge nudge. Secret Service involved you know who I mean, and not the current guy, the guy before the current guy. Shane Gillis apparently told a joke about the person with that big job back in twenty nineteen. I’m quite paraphrasing here again, I don’t want to be investigated, and Secret Service appreciate that you guys love the show.
I’m just reporting on a new story, Shane said, paraphrasing here of all the you know people with that big job, I’ve been alive for that guy who had it at the time, not the guy who has it now. I’m not asking for that. I don’t want that to happen, but it’d be funny to see. He’d be on stage talking crap, the shooter be coming at him and he’d be like, sit down. He’d definitely make a funny noise when he got hit.
It would be funny, Shane Gillis wrote on Twitter back then. I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss. My intention is never to hurt anyone, but I’m trying to be the best comedian I can be, and sometimes that requires risks. The messenger says a look around YouTube and TikTok shows that Shane Gillis has recycled the joke at other comedy clubs around the country.
In twenty twenty one, Gillis retold that joke during a special taped in Austin, but that time included a joke about the guy who currently has the big job. Gillis suggests that that person is the first person with that big job that someone could kill with a punch, a reference to that person’s age and perceive fragility again, Secret Service, I’m just reporting a news story here. Appreciate that you guys listen, so the messenger tells us. After Gillis’s act at the stand was picked up by news outlets, the joke caught the attention of a protective intelligence research specialist at the Secret Service. According to documents attained by the messenger, the Secret Service employee noted the joke in an email with the subject line discovery of threatening statement by comedian Shane Gillis.
Per this report, the employee wrote that they found Gillis’s joke by doing routine open source intelligence research and found that multiple news outlets had reported on the joke. In the records, the Secret Service rits that Gillis was not interviewed when he made inappropriate statements towards Guy with Big Job, and the information had not been presented to the US Attorney’s Office. To conduct their productive, intelligent assessment of Shane Gillis, the Secret Service pulled his personal information such as his social Security number, of criminal history, last known phone number, address, and vehicle information. They also checked three internal databases for reports about pass threats. A Secret Service Deputy Special Agent in charge told the Messenger, the Secret Service is aware of the comments made by mister Gillison.
As a matter practice, we do not comment on matters involving protective intelligence. We can’t say, however, that the Secret Service investigates all threats related to our protectees. The Messenger reminds us Gillis is not the first comedian to be investigated for jokes about the guy with a Big Job. In twenty twenty one, John Mulaney apparently was investigated about a joke made on SNL. M’lany further joked with Jimmy Kimmel that he’d been investigated by the agency for a joke about Roman dictator Julius Caesar.
Another big story from page six, The New York comedy scene is being shaken by allegations that an SNL cast member lifted a catchphrase from Janis Poppas. Page six is told there’s been a flurry of angry messages and finger pointing between comics cast members and other members of the SNL team after an alleged blatant ripoff. If you saw last week’s episode, Marcello Hernandez played a flamboyant Hispanic character who used the catchphrase das it many times. However, apparently Yannis Pappas has been doing a beloved Hispanic character called Marisa for years with the catchphrase das it. Papus told Page six, I’m kind of torn on the situation.
Part of me is honored, but the other part of me has to find out about the bit the next day from people tagging me and writing me about this. I’m been doing stand up comedy for two decades now, so I’m not an up and coming comedian. I’m surprised nobody in the writer’s room spoke up about this. I find it hard to believe Marcella wasn’t aware of me and the character, a source close to SNL told Page six with respects to Giannis in his comedy. This sketch, in its premise, was independently created DEAs it was a commonly used phrase in Marcella’s household in Latin community growing up in Miami.
The sketch was not written with Giannis’s character in mind. Page six reminds us that the show has been accused of plagiarism a dozen or so times in its forty eight year history. In his two thousand and four memoir Gasping for Airtime, former cast member j Moore admitted to stealing a sketch from comic Rick Shapiro. Michael McDonald, You know the singer. He’s got a new book coming out.
Why you telling me about this, Johnny mack? Well, guess who co wrote it? Wrong? Of course, Paul Reiser is the cover writer. I was like, what, Apparently, Paul Reiser has several books, including Couplehood, Babyhood, and Familyhood.
Paul Reiser tells People Magazine. I sort of made a joke because I period asked Michael McDonald questions I didn’t understand about the doobies and about him, and I said, jokingly, you should write a book so I don’t have to bother you all the time, and he said, I’ve thought about it, but I don’t know how you start that during the pandemic. Apparently they worked on it. It is called What a Fool Believes Good title. It will cover McDonald’s long career, his interaction with other musicians, and his battles with drug and alcohol addiction.
It’ll be out in May. Kathy Griffin she’s been investigated by the FEDS. At some point, she was speaking to the pitch at Kansas City, who said, we read somewhere the your new stand up tour came together at a moment’s notice. I’d been waiting patiently for all the planets in a line like this, Kathy said, Yeah, I’ve been writing stuff this whole time. Because I’ve been doing it for so many decades.
I can’t help but look at everything through the prism of what would be funny. Honestly, it’s just pitiful. I’ve been taking my little notes the whole time, waiting for Hollywood to get over themselves and come back to me. And no joke. I just got a manager two or three months ago, and then they got me an agent a couple weeks later.
I think the people who buy tickets probably know about my cancer and how my voice is a little higher pitched now. I talk about that part because I didn’t know cancer was accidentally funny. But let me tell you something, when you have cancer, it’s the great equalizer. And if I’m called Kathy Lee Gifford one more time at the medical office, I’m on the D list even in my cancer medical appointments. But I’m cancer free now.
So I was actually injured during my surgery when they took out half my left lung. Half my left lung gone gone. It’s somewhere and it hazard been somewhere in Beverly Hills, along with my dignity. And from the Irish Star You’re Home for Comedy News, comedian Katie Boyle has explained Irish slang two Americans. She’s been living in New York for nearly a decade, but sometimes Jesus phrases that the Americans don’t understand.
I remember back in the nineties, I had several Irish friends and they would ask me if I wanted to go out for some crack. And in the nineties, when you said that to me, I’m like, no, I don’t really do cocaine derivatives. Thank you. Though apparently craxy or aic would just mean want to go out for some good fun. Wonderful word to throw out a sentence if you want to confuse somebody.
Katie Boyle has been confusing people using the phrase in bits, which I’m familiar with. She explained on stage, if we’re sick, we’ll say I’m in bits. But when I said that to Americans, they were like, sorry, what I had to explained it? I was like, it means sick because I’m in bits, I’m in little pieces, I’m not whole. I was like, oh my god, are we just all poets on Ireland?
This is so embarrassing, Katie said, every time I go home, the humor is so subtle. I have to remind myself that most people are being sarcastic all the time here. If you’re going to be sarcastic, you have to add a bit more tone. Irish people are just naturally funnier in general, and funnier with dark stuff. Irish audiences are chattier and interactive in a fun way.
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