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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily in comedy news. A lot to talk about, but I thought first let’s check in with Mark Merin. Well, there’s a Riod Comedy Festival. I don’t know if you heard about that.
This is true, there’s a Riod Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival. I mean, how do you even promote that? You know, like from the folks that brought you nine to eleven two weeks of laughter in the desert, don’t miss it. I mean, the same guy that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to Bonsaw Jamal Kashogi and put him in up the suitcase. But don’t let that stop the yucks.
It’s gonna be a good time. A full disclosure. I was not asked to perform at the Riod Comedy Festival, so it’s kind of easy for me to take the high road on this one. Easy to maintain your integrity when no one’s offering to buy it out. You know, that’s right.
The re Odd Comedy Festival checks out today. A lots of your favorite comedians are there. One comedian who will not be there is Shane Gillis. He said on his secret podcast, I’m not doing it. Then they doubled the bag.
It was a significant bag, but I’d already said no. I took a principal stand. You don’t nine to eleven your friends. Stavros Halkis guested on the Two Bears, One Cave podcast that he was also offered a gig and he declined it. Jim Jeffries has been public going a different way, saying there’s a reporter who they killed.
You don’t think our government has bumped people. I think Jeffrey Epstein was bumped off and said that killing a journalist is quote, not an effing hill that I’m going to die on. Mark Norman is going He said that he’s just in for the money. He said on an episode of We Might be Drunk, I’m going in and out just to get a paycheck. Jessica Person said she’d love to go there and do stand up and added she wouldn’t do gay material there at all.
In twenty twenty three, CNN dip their toes in these waters. They were checking out the Saudi travel website and on the FAQ page, CNN said there was a question our LGBT visitors welcome to visit Saudi Arabia. The answer was everyone is welcome to visit Saudi Arabia, and visitors are not asked to disclose such personal details. When I looked on Tuesday, I did not see that Human Rights Watch is encouraging participating comedians to avoid contributing to laundering the Saudi government’s reputation, and they should use the comedy festival to publicly urge Saudi authorities to free unjustly detain Saudi dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists. So we’ll see how the comedians react to that suggestion from the human rights organization.
For example, Bill Burr is performing today, Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee are doing two shows, one today and one tomorrow. Master Browny’s going to be there today and tomorrow. Whitney Cummings is there tonight. Christa Stefano will be there tomorrow, and Dave Chappelle will be there tomorrow. Dave Chappelle usually has a lot to say.
It should be an interesting set that he’ll be doing. Mainstream media starting to pick up on this a little bit, and they noticed Tim Dillon’s comments. Tim had been scheduled to perform at the festival. He was disinvited. Some media report says because of Tim Dillon’s controversial take on some of the slavery like conditions now leli Slavery was abolished in the Kingdom in the nineteen sixties.
Tim Dillon said, the slavery jokes, we’re misunderstanding. Tim said on his podcast, I was defending them for having slaves. I literally said, slaves are hard workers and for the most part agreeable. But they didn’t like that new topic. THEO Vaughn has demanded that the Department of Homeland Security remove a video using his voice to promote mass deportations.
I’m actually recording this on Wednesday. I do teach on Thursday, and my schedule gets a little tight, and Johnny Max’s been working hard with the bonus episodes, so I wanted to make sure Friday was in the can. There was also an incident involving ice on Wednesday. Just want to pot all that out there in case you’re listening to the store and you’re like, dude, tone deaf or dude. They took it down, but a clip posted on the Department of Homeland Securities official Twitter account on Tuesday open with Theovaughn saying heard you got to pored it dude by THEO.
Vaughn responded a few hours later saying, YO, didn’t it prove to be used in this? He asked for payment, called the clip a banger deportation video, and urged the agency to take it down. He added that his thoughts in heart we’re a lot more nuanced than this video allows. By John Mulaney was on the CUBS broadcast. He’s starting to look like a guy that sort of looks like John Mulaney.
I don’t know what’s going on, especially the hair. The hair is too dark or something’s going on. Anyway, I was watching this clip and h let’s listen to John Mulaney who kind of looks like John Mulaney. These days, there’s breaking news breaking now. I’m very excited to say July eleventh, twenty twenty six, I’ll be the first comedian to ever play Wrigley Field.
Wow. Yes, that’s really cool. It’s really cool. I mean, this is a big venue. First, this is very it’s a real, like, you know, thirty five thousand seat venue.
But yeah, look, if Mark Grace couldn’t come out there every day and just deliver ripping cigarettes. Yeah, I can. I can face down this crowd too. I’m so excited for it. Really Field, July eleventh, If you want to see John Mulaney, Oh well, let’s make something fun in here.
Tom Papa has collaborated with Nambe on a new collection of bread making tools that debuts in October. That’s right, Tom Papa is making bread. Some people are in Rio odd, some people are getting removed and put back on ABC. Tomp Papa passionate home baker. He’s teamed up with Nambe to sell a whisk, a bench, scraper, storage canisters, a cutting board, and a breadknife.
Tom Papa said breaking bread has brought so much comfort and creativity into my life. Partnering with Noam Bad design tools that make the process easier and more beautiful is a dream come true. These are pieces you’ll want to display proudly on your counter, not take away in a drawer somewhere. Jim Gaffigan, sipping his bourbon, goes that sounds really really cool. But to be fair, neither Jim Gaffigan nor Tom Papa are going to the Rio Comedy.
Festival Comedy stock markets. Every Friday. We buy some stock and we sell some stock in comedians. This is the comedy stock market, Free speech edition. Let’s load up on Jimmy Kimmel.
Even if we lose money on the deal. Let’s support the guy, Jimmy Kimmel. We will buy. We got some recommendations the other day from friend of the show, Jason Zennemann of The New York Times. He recommends we buy John Marcos Sir Raizy stock.
I agree, and buy Dusty slave stock. I agree. Both great comedians. I’m gonna answer to the list. Let’s buy some more.
Mark Maren dudes at the peak of his game as he walks away here, please stay, Mark Maren, we need you. Played at the top of the show, he has some comments about the Reod Comedy Festival, which is going to inform my sales. Let’s sell stock in Louis c. K, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Sebastian Maniscalco, Gabriel Iglesias, Jessica Kerson, Mark Norman, Pete Davidson, Jimmy Carr, and whoever I forgot to call out. If you want to support them, you go to Riod and you buy tickets to the Riod Comedy Festival and support those comedians, and that is your comedy stock market.
On our free speech Friday, much thanks to Travis. He went to buy me a coffee dot com and he bought me not one, not two, no three, not four, five large ice coffees, and boy, they’re going to good use this week. I’ve been working a lot of hours. I am not complaining. You could tell just by listening.
I’m having fun doing this show this week. This is probably my favorite week of the show ever. Tons of content, and I thank you all. First of all, extra super thanks to Travis for the five buy me a coffee coffees. I will take his money five different times, and I will go to the National dotage chain.
I will buy a large iced coffee with caramel and milk. And I’ve stopped messing around with the almond milk because I’ve seen YouTube videos telling me that’s not good for you. And I like the butterper can, but the butterper can creates kidney stones, and that’s a whole other thing we can’t get into today. So Travis, thank you, but all of you thank you. There’s are a lot of new listeners who probably search for the terms Jimmy and Kimmel and have discovered the show.
I hope you stick around this week. I’ve been doing it seven days a week, three times a day. That’s gonna chill out a little bit. We’ll go back to once a day at three oh five am Eastern. But you know, while those while everything’s hot, you gotta keep flooring it.
Can you hear the barking dog? So I’ve got this robo vacuum that cleans up the living room a couple of days a week at three pm Eastern, and it apparently started, and the dog does not like the robot. The dog also doesn’t like my robot that cleans up the leaves out of the pool. Apparently this dog is very very anti robot. Anyway, thank you all for listening.
Jason Alexander, you know him from Seinfeld. That was a famous sitcom. You may have heard of it. Part of that he worked in character as George Costanza. He worked for the New York Yankees for a while.
Well. Jason Alexander has teamed up with fashion brand Kith and he did some modeling for the fashion brand. In it, we see Jason Alexander wearing some Kith stuff from the New York Yankees line. That line includes a coaches jacket, a Sirpa jacket, and Nelson Kreuneck novelty outerwear with all over logo patches and co branded artwork like a corduroy Avery bomber jacket. Now, John, why don’t you go upstairs and ask the dog to stop barking, or you know, help calm down the dog, because that doesn’t make for funny audio.
I am looking at these pictures of Jason Alexander and some of this Yankee stuff, and I’ll tell you what would be a really cool look If you put on some of this stuff and you open up some jin Gaffick at bourbon, maybe had some tompop of bread and watching Adam Sandler movie, That’d be a good look all around, you know what I’m saying. So, say you wanted to get the New York Yankees leather jacket as modeled by Jason Alexander. That’d run you just thirteen hundred and fifty dollars. I don’t think that’s a bad price, right. You get one, a white one here with black New York lettering.
That one also thirteen fifty again, one thousand, three hundred fifty dollars. Here’s an orange sweater that George Costando might wear it as a New York Yankees logo on it and under it it says Kiff. That’s just two forty five the official color. I’m sorry, I misspoke. I said orange.
It’s not orange, John, It’s not orange. It’s poppy. And that’ll just run you two forty five. Anyway, you can go to kith dot com to get your George Costanza approved ware. At the Toronto Comedy Festival tonight, just for last Toronto.
Bill Burr’s not there, he’s in Riod, but Chloe Radcliffe is in Toronto at seven o’clock. Patty Harrison, A’s have a column, Tyrell seven point thirty at the Danforth Comedy Bar Ian Finance at nine o’clock at that same bar. So if we were up in Toronto today, I’d say let’s just go hang out of the dan for out on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla. Today. Jeff Innocent’s Smart Casual that’s an album, and Ian Finances, Wild, Happy and Free also an album.
So some’th in a silly mood now I’ve been bouncing this one. I don’t know if you heard. Jimmy Kimmel lost his gig for a week or so. So this one got bounced a couple times. But you know that guy, Jay Leno, the worst guy that ever lived him.
Yeah, so some guy made a video trying to convince Jay Leno to buy a nineteen fourteen Princess Petite Special. The Princess was a short lived prototype, a production car never materialized. This seems like the kind of thing jaylyb Have’d probably get in it and drive around and comment on late night television the way that guy does. Can’t stand that guy is the worst. YouTuber Ben Logan posted a nine minute video to YouTube asking Jay to buy the car.
He said, I’m actually making this video specifically for Jay Leno. There are only three of these cars in the world. One of them lives in the halls of the Peterson Automotive Museum. No word yet on if jay Leno is interested in this classic car or not. But somewhere out there, Jay Leno probably has an opinion on late night comedy.
And that’s why I can’t stand the guy. And that’s your comedy news for today. Oh boy, all right, as you can tell, I’ve got plenty of news. I didn’t say. Louis c.
K I’ve seen the story. We’ll get to that tomorrow. I didn’t say, Mark Maroon, John Stewart, I’ve seen the story. We’ll get to it. There’s been a lot going on, and you never know when a bonus episode drops.
I’m not sure we’re done with the Kimmel thing yet. You probably know better than I have. I released the Jen Marco Seresi interview yet or not. I don’t know. It’s old you.
It’s Wednesday. I’m trying to get ahead. So check the feed, and then you know, we hit me up on social media. You tell me what I put out. See you tomorrow.
We’re later. I don’t know. I don’t know. Maybe i’ll see you later. Check the feed.