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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Mark Maren continues to be super interesting on his podcast On Monday, he had Tim Highdecker on I coincidentally had listened to it on Monday, enjoyed it very much, and the media is picking up on the discussion of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Tim Hideker told Mark Maron there’s something annoying about his show Rogan that you can’t put your finger on. A few years back, he did a wonderful parody of Rogan’s show.
I actually just downloaded it again to re listen to it. Let me find it for you. It’s episode one eighty four of Tim Hideker’s Office Hours Live. If you’ve never heard it, check it out. It’s unbelievable.
It’s so on point, and Hideker said we put our finger on it, you know, and said, this is what’s annoying about it. It wasn’t even political. It’s just like how boring it is and how going in circles you end up going. Arren said that Rogan and friends spend the show skirting around an issue that you don’t understand with information that you don’t understand. Either, Maren continued, the authoritarian hardware, to say, administration and the fascist cultural apparatus through the Christians.
They’re making policy built on the back of this anti woke thing. All these comics who were like it was really about language and their own victimization that they saw, which wasn’t real. They’re tethered to political policies. They’re really killing people and damaging lives and infringing on the freedom of people and the rights. I’m working on my half, asked Maren a little bit.
I know I don’t have it at all, not that I have any of the half ass impressions, but Maren seems to speak in five word chunks, and the last word of a downbeat he tends to stretch out. For example, I’ll just do that last phrase again, the freedom of people and their rights anyway, Mark Maron said, Joe’s kind of changing as too now. But the thing is he did what he did. How convenient. Howard Stern wants us to talk about him, so we will.
He was supposed to come back from vacation on Tuesday and tell everybody what was going on, and he didn’t show up for work. Who knows now, To be fair, I’m recording this at nine in the morning on Tuesday. I never record at nine in the morning, but I had to take care of some stuff on Tuesday afternoons. I recorded way early in the day, So who knows. Howard may have said something later in the day or as I’m recording this.
I don’t know what the President announced or not. At two pm. You might be like John, you’re not talking about the thing. That’s why. Anyway, Howard was supposed to be back on Tuesday morning.
They had even ran promos during the summer promising the big reveal today. Well, Howard didn’t come. Howard’s social media accounts posted on early Tuesday that Howard Stern will now speak Monday, September eighth, encouraging listeners to stay tuned. I could all kinds of speculate here, but I suspect the news cycle will change quickly, So I’m just going to tell you that’s what happened. The Daily Mail caught up with former Stern intern Steve Grillo, who had predicted for the announcement that didn’t happen yesterday.
Comes September second. I think it’s just going to be everybody tuning in and then I think they’re going to get disappointed and tuned right back out, unless he decides to put on a leather jacket and a pair of black jeans and then come back and was like I’m back baby, which I highly doubt he’s going to do because it’s two for and in between. All of a sudden, he’s going to come back and be that awesome rock star that everybody listened to every day. Instead, Grillo calls the promo’s lame and says it’s such a sad, pathetic version of what happened to this man. I think if old Howard Stern could go and jump in the time machine, he would punch him right in the face.
Now I don’t know about the violence part of that, but I have said that in the past that nineteen eighty five Howard Stern would destroy twenty twenty five Howard Stern and hate everything that old man Howard Stern became, Grillo told the Daily Mail. Now he’s trying to develop an audience again through this entire awful hoax campaign of did he get fired? Did he not get fired? He’s going to come on announce that there’s five more years of creative BS that is going to be able to do. But that’s already been in place.
His contract is up. I guess probably January from my reliable source. That’s been part of his contract since day one or the last time. They’reknew to his contract that when he came to this point, he had an option of five years of freedom to do what he wants and still have his name on the door. It’s serious interesting.
My prediction continues to be a end of December announcement of a two year farewell tour. We’ll see some more SNL rumors. And again, I recorded early in the day, so by the time you’re hearing this, maybe there’s been eighteen more cast departures. Who knows well you do, or maybe you don’t. Maybe that’s why you listen to me.
I don’t like recording this early, but I had to. TMZ reporting SNL is looking at Cam Patterson, who you may know as a regular on Kill Tony. Cam Patterson possible new cast member. Boy, there’s a whole bunch of comedy snobs on comedy threads that already hate SNL and hate Kill Tony. If we combine those two things, those people are going to lose their minds.
TMZ points out. Cam Patterson has nearly six hundred thousand followers on Instagram. He’s part of the recent Netflix version of Killed Tony and was okay.
Speaking of SNL, beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney have a new podcast.
They’re out there trying to make some noise. Vulture caught up with them and Beck Benn said, we shared addressing room for seven years, in an office for eight years, so just hanging out in the office and doing bits and making each other laugh was a very creative, natural process, and we missed that now as a podcast executive, I see some red flags here. Kyle Mooney said. I think we were psyched about the premise that we don’t know what we’re doing and we’re going to explore how to become better podcasters. Beck Bennett said, were talssing around ideas and we didn’t really have anything.
We were like, we could start a podcast, but why would we be starting a podcast. Kyle had the idea where we start a podcast trying to figure out what our podcast was, and I guess would come on and give us an idea. Okay, major red flag. You know what this is telling me? This to me is screaming that they don’t have much going on, and they saw that Carve and Spade have an SNL podcast.
They are like twenty years younger. So we’ll do our own version of that. And podcasting is easy and we’ll make a ton of money and we’ll book our friends. And anytime hosts come in and be like, I don’t know what we want to do, that never works out, never well. Tray asked what podcast you listen to?
Kyle said, I listened to The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Prints. Beck Bennett said I listened to SmartLess, Hollywood Handbook, dough Boys, WTF, Las Culturistas, and Office Hours Vulture. In your second episode, Mark Marin said he had a hard time telling when you are or aren’t doing a bit Kyle. It’s something we’ve encountered pretty consistently with every guest. No one has heard the podcast, and nobody knows what to expect when they come in the room, Kyle.
We pitched the podcast to a handful of places, and Headgum was incredibly receptive in an awesome way. One of the cool things about the concept of developing it with them is we don’t know the best way to present all these things, So there was a development process of how do we break this down. What portion of the show is a podcast within a podcast with guest pitches? What portion is the interview? Do you want to do an interview?
How much of it has just beckon me? So there’s this constant conservation of what this thing is, and they were really essential in the process of making it an actual podcast that seemingly is ready to be consumed. Yikes. Well, to be fair, they’re off to a good start. What’s Our Podcast with Beck Bennett Kyle Mooney is number one ten on the All Podcast charts and number fourteen on Comedy overall.
That’s pretty good. Bill Burra said he plans to attend the ninetieth edition of The Bowl when Alabama visits Auburn on November twenty ninth. Burst said, I’ve picked out the college football game that I’m going to go to this year. I got the green light from my wife because this was the hard one. It’s Auburn, Alabama and Auburn.
It’s a Saturday after Thanksgiving. Oh but it’s gonna be a good game, just for laughs. Announced their dates for twenty twenty six. I’m not sure in the past they’ve announced it this early. Now it was always really consistent in the last two weeks of July, but kind of nice to see it.
So as they’ve announced it, the festival will be held in both Quebec City and Montreal simultaneously from July fifteenth through the twenty sixth in Montreal and Quebec City July twenty second to August second. That’s interesting. Just guessing more of the French stuff will be in Quebec City would be my guest there. John Mulaney’s got a book club, remember that. Yeah, he in the middle of the holiday weekend dropped on threads.
I saw it. Weird time to make an announcement, but anyway, this month’s pick, according to John Mlanieu’s pan by Michael klune Alani said, this book is wild as a panic attack. Veteran reading this novel was a funny, surreal b so totally familiar experience. Panic has a spiritual experience. Panic has a gift from the gods.
I had never read anything by Cloon before, and I intend to dive into it all now. Some reviews describe the setting of this book as a dreary suburb, but Libertyville, Illinois is a fascinating place home to several of my cousins, as well as Tom Morello. All right, that’s John Mulaney’s a pick. Add John Clees to the list of people that when I mention them on the show, I’m never like John Klee said, it was a beautiful day and I pet a puppy and isn’t everything great in the world. He’s always fighting.
Klees is mad at the BBC and said, if you put a script in now it has to go through a bleeping committee. You have no idea what they’re doing. There’s been nothing funny since the office. It’s sad, and it’s because the people in charge of no idea how to make comedy happen. The whole process has been replaced by a bureaucratic process which does not begin to work.
He said of British comedy, we used to be really good at it and now we’re not, and that’s very sad. There weren’t committees when we started. Comedy now has to be clean. You must not play for lass. So I’m going to write a book about writing comedy and make people are aware how difficult it is.
The people organizing comedy have never been very good, but at the moment of particularly the BBC. They are clueless. I don’t think it’s a lack of talent except among the executive classes. Those classes have no idea what they’re doing. Cleaes is working on a sequel to the twenty sixteen adaptation of Faulty Towers.
Faulty Towers, Too, will be inspired by three episodes from the TV version, which include The Psychiatrist, where Basil Faulty accidentally groups a hotel guests appressed while reaching for a light switch, and also from the Kipper and the Corpse, where the hotel staff tried to hide a dead body. No word on what happened with the TV sequel of Faulty Towers. I haven’t heard anything about that.
Now, let’s check in on the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno.
Listen to the nerve of this guy. He was trying to get the California Assembly Appropriations Committee to prove something called Leno’s Law. Leno’s Law would have given classic car owners like Jay Leno a pass from smog requirements. However, on Friday into the holiday weekend, the Assembly Appropriations Committee blot ba Field Republican Senator Shannon Grove Senate Bill seven point two from advancing for a full vote. Jay Leno, the nerve of that guy, had testified the support of the measure in Sacramento earlier in the year.
Assembly Member Buffy Wicks did not a great name. Buffy, I’m sorry it did not provide a reason for killing the bill. During Friday’s hearing, which quickly announced the fate of two hundred and sixty other bills that have been placed on the committee so called suspense file, Buffy Wicks was asked by reporters, why did you kill Jay Leno’s law? Buffy Wicks told the reporters, I’ll have to go back and look. I can’t remember what what what do you mean?
You can’t remember now? When Jay Leno testified the nerve of this guy, he said, with a modern cards, plug and get your money, boom, get out. It’s very quick to get a smock check with a modern car. It’s not impossible in an older car, but it’s tricky, takes time, and often causes charges four or five six times more than a regular car. Leno said, classic car owners struggled to even find a shop with the equipment needed to test them.
The nerve of that guy, that’s your comedy News for two. I actually wrote a substack mcktpod dot substack dot com link in the show notes about how I’ve become obsessed with jay Leto. I will tell you right now. I’ve got a jay Leto story in the scripts. I think all the way through Sunday already, I am obsessed with possibly the worst person who ever lived?
Is he you tomorrow?