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Featured: Matt Rife, Craig Robinson, Sasha Baron Cohen, Jason Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Kat Williams, Mark Marin

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife announces ‘Suite Rife on Deck’ comedy cruise from Miami
• Ali G Who is I movie announced for October 23 theatrical release
• Ted Lasso Season 4 premiere date August 5 with women’s soccer team storyline
• 2026 Indie Street Film Festival lineup includes Mark Marin documentary
• The Daily Show produces first micro drama in vertical format
• Kat Williams concert review and jokes about constipation and Kevin Hart roast

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Matt Rife is gonna have a comedy cruise. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac once again, booleside with your Daily Comedy News. That’s right, Matt Rife has announced ready for this title, Sweet Rife on Deck. I see what you did there, a comedy cruise featuring some of Matt Rife’s stand up pals.

It’s a four night voyage setting sail from Miami. They’ll stop off in Grand Turk February tenth through the fourteenth. What a better way to spend Valentine’s Day than getting off a cruise ship, probably at like nine in the morning. Pretty good lineup Matt Rife, of course, Craig Robinson, Nate Jackson, Eric Griffin, Finesse, Mitchell Ian Edwards, April Macy, David Lucas, and like ten other names I didn’t mention. There will also be live music from Blake Whitten and DJ sets from Cosmo Baker, DJ Rock and of course DJ Spider on Instagram.

Matt Rif’s all right, guys, I’ve been thinking about this for a very long time and it’s finally coming to life. He promised, great comedians, great musicians, great people, only cool people, only good vibes. He also promised infinite activities on the boat. All right, what are the infinite activities? I’m intrigued.

This sounds amazing. There’s a welcome roast toast, a swimsuit competition with prizes, a talent show with prizes, movie nights, an all star comedians, basketball game, and more. Boy, if you’re ever like boy, I’d love to watch a basketball game featuring I don’t know, Clayton Thomas and Craig Robinson. I mean that sounds exciting, doesn’t it. The first five hundred Cabins booked five hundred, I said, John, did you say five hundred?

Yeah? The first five hundred Cabins book will include an onboard meet and greet and photo opportunity with Matt Rife. One hundred ex Hospitality CEO Dan Berkowitz said, Sweet Rife on Deck is about creating an experience that goes far beyond a comedy show, giving fans the opportunity to spend four unforgettable days immersed in Matt’s world. We’re excited to partner with Matt and Cloud nine Adventures to bring people together through comedy, connection and a truly unique vacation experience. Sure, why not?

All right? We found out what this Alig stuff is. We’re getting a movie why John, I don’t know either, but it’s called Ali G. Who is I is spelled with a Z because of course the Alig character is a moron. This will be in theaters October twenty third.

It is Sasha Baron Cohen’s feature directorial debut, and there is a trailer. Let’s listen, Buya Kasha Minambiolo G representing the West Side of Stands upon Thames. In it, I is not with my first movie in over twenty decades, is coming out in the cinemas on the tenth day of the twenty third month. In it, the name of this film has been spray painted illegally on this wall by general graffiti orist. It’s only in the movie fas later this year.

So check you out West Side in case you’re a youngster and you weren’t. Around twenty years ago, Ali G was a British hip hop character who interviewed the likes of Donald Trump before he was president and the UN Secretary General. The humor came from these people not realizing this whole thing was a put on way back when on HBO there was Duh ali G Show, it was spelled d a Alig Show, because, of course Alig is a moron. Ali G also stared in the two thousand and two feature Ali G Into House one word into House stupid spelling, of course, and all that happened before Bora, which made two hundred and sixty two and a half million dollars in two thousand and six. Alig Into House did not receive a domestic release here in the States, but made twenty three million dollars plus abroad, the most of it from the UK.

Anyway, Ali G? Who is I? October twenty third, Can’t Wait? Ted Lasso Season four August fifth, on Apple TV. The new season finds Ted Lasso back in Richmond, coaching a second division women’s football team.

Well, first, I have a bad feeling about this. I feel like we’ve all kind of moved on and this is going to be diminishing returns. I hope I’m wrong. Some of the articles I’ve read suggest that they know that they kind of lost their mojo in season three. Now, part of that was the pandemic.

Jason Sidekas got a big fluff piece from the Hollywood reporter, they tell us. In early February twenty twenty four, Jason Sidekas convened the writers of ted Lasso in California. He was having second thoughts, he said, I don’t know if we’re done. There were some ideas for potential spinoffs, all right. One of them would have been an idea about Roy Kent.

Brett Goldstein had been working on that one. He plays Roy Kent, so I could see where he’d be motivated. Two different Ted Lassel staffers played around with the idea about a spinoff about character kee Lee Jones. That’s a terrible idea, Sadeka said. He was even toying with a Leslie Higgins cartoon and a Danny Rojas telenovela, both terrible ideas.

Brendan Hunt, who plays Coach Beard, said we were just kind of kicking the tires on it, or we were saying at the time, checking the viability of the soil the folks involved, like the idea of a women’s soccer team as Coach Lasso’s new thing to do. Bred Goldstein said, it all seems easy now, but it was hard because it’s not a spinoff. You’re like, it’s not frasier cheer still exists. It’s more like you’re adding a room to the bar. Goldstein says, I think it has some of that Season one magic.

The creatives point out doing another season with the old team didn’t make sense creatively, and Jason Sadekas had to make some phone calls to those actors. He described those calls as very difficult, but he called them all directly because I didn’t want them to hear it on the internet, because I love those guys and we all went through something together. Ted Lasso Season four, August fifth, you’ll watch The twenty twenty six Indie Street Festival in Red Bank, New Jersey has revealed its full lineup. It includes the New Jersey premiere of Mark Maren’s In Memoriam starring Mark Marin, the eleventh Annuel Indie Street Film Festival August seventeenth through the twenty third. The Daily Show is going vertical.

They announced that they are producing their first micro drama, a serialized political soap opera made for the short, vertically shot format that is the trendy thing with the kids today. Comedy Central Humble brags the project is not only The Daily Show’s first micro drama, but the first produced by any late night franchise, not the flex you think it is. The story centers on Alanka. That’s Alanka, I said, Who is the beautiful daughter of an aging president. Hah.

The aging President would prefer to spend more of his time in the Oval office sleeping. Huh. The aging President hangs around with two technology moguls. One is called Egon Husk and the other Jeff Zavos. Hah.

But the official description tells us but in their lust for power and Alonka that leads to dangerously hot complications. Cast members released eight episode count distribution platform all have yet to be announced, So, in other words, you’d just announced something because it was your thirtieth anniversary. The folks at the Minneapolis Star Tribune went to see Kat Williams in concert. Kat joked that he had almost canceled the appearance because he was dealing with constant constipation, the side effect of a diet of too many greens. He did a bit where he slid across the floor and then perched on a stool and said everything I want to do anything visical that Sally gives me a talking to.

He talked about the roast of Kevin Hart and said that he only appeared because Netflix agreed to his demands for one million dollars. I assume he’s kidding there. Kat Williams said, they sent it to my account. While we’re on the phone. The start sure, Bean tells us.

Kat spent a lot of time in the set talking about the good things of life, most notably his investment in a thirty thousand dollars toilet. He then recycled some material about people coming out of Sean Combe’s parties in the Hollywood Hills. Cat said, I need to get these jokes off while I can. Kat said, was only forty five minutes, but there were five openers. Interesting.

David Cross was in Lexington doing some workouts. There was a standing room audience of only a few hundred people, where told David Cross ripped on everything from climbing Machu Pichu to doing a character bit involving an inappropriate rabbi and a patriotic anthem. He sings using the words of one of the presidents, uniquely worded speeches. So this me up. You know, I was prepping the show and I saw that Frankett Calliendo was going to be doing an appearance, and I went through the story.

Caseau, ABC nine has the story. I find the whole thing funny, So Bay attention here. This is an actual news report, and you can tell that the ancre doesn’t really know who Frank Calliendo is.

And then towards the end, I find it funny that the Chamber of Commerce is rea…

John Madden passed away in twenty twenty one. I’m not sure the kids today even know a thing about John Madden, other than, of course, there’s a video game called Madden. John Madden’s last broadcast was the Super Bowl February first, two thousand and nine, right, so that’s seventeen years ago. So I’m not sure people even know who John Madden is anymore. I know, I just made you feel old.

I get it, believe me. Anyway, Caseau has the story, and I just find this funny. For the fortieth annual su Land Chamber Dinner, organizers are taking a different direction with this year’s headliner. Comedian, actor, and impressionist Frank Caliendo is set to headline. He has over twenty years of experience entertaining audiences on various platforms, including TV shows, radio and live performances.

Of course, marks the first time that the Chamber has decided to bring in a comedian for the event, and officials say that they’re excited about the big change. What I think Frank Calando brings is something for everybody. In this video we just introduced, he does a John Madden impersonation, Joe Biden impersonation, a Trump impersonation, Morgan Freeman. So whether you’re a sports fan and you like John Madden, or you like going to the movies, Frank Caliendo’s got something for you, and we’re really excited for what he’s going to bring to Sueland. The Flyover Comedy Festival is returning for its ninth year.

It will take over the Delmore Loop. Headliners include David Cross, Roy Would Junior, The Sclar Brothers, He’ll Say Sloan, Yakov Smirnoff, and nearly one hundred and fifty other performers including Cameron Esposito, Catherine Blandford You’re paying attention to Katherine Blandford or You’re not, Daniel Vankirk, and a bunch of others. Four day badges are currently available for purchase. Those include the Loop badge for seventy six dollars and nineteen cents. Interesting pricing point.

I bet there’s some state tax on there that gets that to a nice round number, would be my guess. I put on some events in the past with odd pricing like that. That way, it’s probably just comes out to like eighty bucks. I’m not gonna look, but that would be my guess anyway. The Loop Badge offers first come, first served access to all club shows at Delmore Loop Venues and the Improv Shop.

You can also get the Loop Plus badge for one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty eight cents, which includes all that plus access to one theater show, and the Everything Badge just two hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy eight cents, which includes access to everything you can go to Flyovercomedyfest dot com. If you want to pick up one of those two hundred and thirteen dollars seventy eight cent badges, and now I’m curious about the tax, let’s do it. Okay, I’ve gone through several websites. I’m going to buy one Everything badge. Okay, Now I’m totally confused because it says Everything Badge two hundred and thirteen dollars seventy eight cents, includes eighteen seventy eight in fees.

But my order summary says one Everything Badge one hundred and ninety five dollars, fees, eighteen seventy eight. Oh and then there’s taxes twenty two dollars and six cents in taxes. Really, that’s a lot of tax So my total for the Everything Badge is just two hundred and thirty five dollars and eighty four cents US currency. Flyover Comedy Festival. Hey, remember the other day we were also pullside and Scott the neighbor, was out, and I yelled over to Scott and I was telling you about Leslie Jones.

Well, I didn’t get to the entire Leslie Jones story. She had shared her favorite shows on HGTV. One of them is Help I Wrecked My House, which stars Jasmine. Leslie loves Jasmine. On an off screen she says, Jasmine’s the bomb.

Leslie also loves Fix My Frankenhouse. What is going on on this channel? Apparently? Fix My Franken House stars Boston based power couple Mike and Denise. Really, they tackle homes that have become an awkward patchwork of editions over the years.

I had one of those in my old neighborhood. And of course you can watch Leslie Jones roast my rental Friday Nights at Santa Clock, which is also available to stream on HBO Max as HBO Max continues to completely water down their brand. And that is your comedy news for today Poolside See tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert, David Letterman, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Colin Jost, Scarlett Johansson, Howie Mandel, Simon Cowell, Terry Crews, Bob Marley

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien’s scalp sunburn and slicked-back hair at Obama Museum opening
• Seth Meyers mocks President Trump’s World Cup comments and Andrew Giuliani
• Jimmy Kimmel discusses Steven Colbert’s Late Show ending and Celebrity Millionaire ratings
• Colin Jost explains proper pronunciation of wife Scarlett Johansson’s name
• Howie Mandel impersonator ‘Howard Michael Lando’ buzzed off America’s Got Talent
• Comedian Bob Marley catches fire during camp activity

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Conan O’Brien addressed what’s up with his hair? Hello from poolside. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It is seventy one degrees, Sonny out.

The humidity’s fifty five to do points like fifty three, one of the top ten days you’re going to get. So we are not sitting in a basement today when we can do this outside with this cadas, the birds, the pool, the dogs, and the landscapers. You may recall people were wigged. Well that’s a bit of a pun. People were wigged that Conan O’Brien had slicked back hair.

Conan addressed the situation. He told a long version of the story on his podcast. I started to pull the audio from it, it would just take too long to get to it, so let me just tell you what he said. He was invited to the opening of the Obama Museum. He realized the opening would be held outside, He put some sunscreen on his face and went about his day.

Conan explains, it’s three hours plus and when it’s over, I’m so glad that I put the sunblock on, and I’m feeling really good about myself, like smart move. He goes over to talk to some fellow guests who he called bright red, like Stephen Colbert and David Letterman. He said those gentlemen looked like they had been playing in a sandbox with plutonium. However, Conan says, a day or two later after the event, I feel like my skull is on fire.

And then two days after that, my scalp is really itchy, and whenever I itch i…

White freckled Confetti’s pouring off my head. It’s disgusting. He was confused, he thought he was going crazy. Someone let him know he had a scalp sunburn. Conan said, I’m not used to that because I’ve got so much hair, but this sun just blasted right through my hair, roasted my scalp, and someone said, to treat this, you have to rub oil into it.

So this morning I rubbed oil into it, not thinking about the podcast when we went on camera, and then I come in and I look like I’m in Shanta Na. I’m a grease ball. I’m so greasy. I’m Frankie Valley. We’ll see if it goes back to the pompadoor.

We’ll keep it at twelve thirty. Make twelve thirty great against. Seth Myers has been bashing the President of the United States. Now, the President and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one of the issues we do agree on is making twelve thirty great again. We need to get back to the days of Letterman and Conan.

And yet Seth Myers has a show for some reason, and Seth was mocking the commander in chief for staying on stage during the World Cup. The New York Post has brought this to my attention. Apparently Seth took issue with a truth social post from the President of the United States in which the President praised Andrew Giuliani, who is the White House’s point person for the tournament and coincidentally, the son of Rudy Giuliani. That doesn’t mean Andrew wasn’t the perfect person to run these things. He just happens to have a famous father.

Anyway, I digress. Trump thanked the younger Giuliani for elevating the World Cup to a level that nobody thought was possible. Seth Myers, who has a show at twelve thirty for some reason, said all right, calm down. It was already the biggest sporting event in the world. It’s not like he sold seven million pickleball tickets.

Myers also made fun of Trump’s comments during a pregame interview before the World Cup final. The President said Ronaldo has a much easier life and that he’d like to trade places with the soccer star for a month or so. Seth Meyer said, or longer. You ever watched Ronaldo like run full speed up and down a soccer pitch and you’re like, this guy doesn’t worked as hard as President Trump. Seth Myers also suggests that President Trump is a sports reaper because when he attends games, the teams he’s rooting for lose.

I do like this joke, though, Seth said, They’re going to have to sage MetLife Stadium to get the hecks out, otherwise the Jets might have a bad season. Love It Jimmy Kimmel’s Old Variety. The ratings are very strong, which we are very grateful to CEBs for their wisdom. We were doing pretty well before that, but that really helped that. Of course, is the ending of The Late Show with Steven Colbert, which nobody talks about it anymore.

Except Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel told Variety asked Colbert if it liked to guest host the Kimmel Show. Colbert politely declined. Jimmy said, of course. I asked him, and I think it feels premature, but I told him anytime you want to host it, it doesn’t matter if it’s the summer, I’ll gladly step aside.

Jimmy Kimmel was out promoting celebrity Millionaire. I guess people watch this stuff. I’d rather watch civilians than celebrities. Some of the celebrities are Colin Jostin, Michael Shay. Kimmel said, I don’t really know those guys.

I learned that Michael is very decisive and Colin is not, and in a battle of the decisive and indecisive, the indecisive always wins. Colin was really weighing things out in general on Millionaire. Whatever your first thought is is probably the right answer, unless you really have no idea. But people have a tendency to blurt out what they think is the answer, and then they take a long time talking themselves out of that correct answer, and usually they’ll come back to the correct answer, but sometimes they talk themselves out of it. In an unrelated clip, Colin jos explained how to pronounce his wife’s name.

I didn’t know, we didn’t know how to pronounce it. But here’s Colin Jost telling us the proper way to say Scarlett Johansson. How do you. Pronounce your wife’s last name? Is it Joe Hanson or Yo Hanson?

I don’t know. I’ve never met her in person yet, but so I want to hear how she says it Johansson. I mean I certainly say Johansson. I mean I don’t say it really ever, but. Yo, Joe Hanson.

Why is the fridge empty? But it was originally she’s Danish. I think her family is kind of a mix, probably kind of went back and forth a little bit between Denmark and Sweden. So it was definitely it was Johannes Johanssen probably originally, and I was probably Yost in Germany. But now that’s all along forgotten.

So we all we changed together, All ancestors coordinated, and so let’s get them together. Are you with Michael Chang? I didn’t say you can have a second question. Did you see the Howie Mandel impersonator on America’s got talent. Yeah.

A guy came out dressed as Howie Mandel. He called himself Howard Michael Lando. Simon Cowell asked why. From the sidelines, Terry Crews said this is disturbing. Before Howard Michael Lando could do his act, meil Be reached across the judges table and hit all four red buzzers.

The audience protested and pleaded with the panel to give a fake Howie Mandel a chance for lunch today. I couldn’t decide if I wanted a pickle with my sandwich or not. I was like dil or no dil. He then did a second joke, which was if I was on a farm, I’d be Cowie Mandel. Definitely time to hit the buzzer and Melb said that was not good.

She asked the audience did anybody laugh? They went to the vote. All the judges said no, fake Cowie Mandel said that’s fair. Good night. Bob Marley caught on fire and first of all, this is comedian Bob Marley.

I’ve worked with Bob a little bit over the years. I remember one time he was trying to set the record for longest comedy set up. I can’t remember if he has the record now, or if Chappelle does, I could look it up, and I’m too lazy. I think Marley does because we broadcast the whole thing live on satellite radio a million years ago. Anyway, he goes by comedian Bob Marley, so you don’t think he’s the reggae guy.

And then in the computers we always had a label at comedian Bob Marley. Otherwise his stuff was really difficult to schedule because you’d want to schedule a comedy record. He’d accidentally schedule. I shot the sheriff. You don’t want to do that.

Comedian Bob Marley caught on fire. He was forced to dive into the lake by his camp when a sweatpants caught on fire. John, we all heard your chuckle during the story. Do you think it’s funny that Bob Marley caught on fire? Apparently you do.

We heard the chuckle. Don’t edit it out. You cowered. What happened? Bob was making s’mores.

He was cooking with Uncle Jimmy, and one of Uncle Jimmy’s s’mores got overcooked. Bob Marley went to rescue his seventy nine year old uncle Jimmy’s s’more from the fire, and the blaze jumped from the fire to the sweatpants. Uncle Jimmy said, Bobby, your leg’s on fire. Bob Marley said, I know, Jimmy. Oh see, this is why I love recording outside.

I’m deliberately doing this for the randomness. Do you hear that? I don’t know if you can hear that, but again, I’m in my backyard. No one’s doing anything wrong. You’re not supposed to record your podcast Poolside, John, You’re supposed to record it in a basement like losers do.

Anyway, the neighbor is now having his generator serve, so that’s why you hear the generator noise. I’m leaving all this in. That is the beauty of Poolside. This is why you work for yourself. I could be trapped in an office in New York City staring out the window, going it’s seventy one degrees out in sunny, and I’m trapped in this office.

So we’re gonna put up with the generator guy. I digress. Before all that happened, you may recall Bob Marley was on fire. Uncle Jimmy said, Bobby, your leg’s on fire. Marley said, I know Jimmy Bob Marley jumps in the lake, and he explains when I was in the water, I took off my sweatpants and my shirt and put them on the doc to dry, and then I got up on the docks, standing there in my underwear.

Then I see a pontoon boat coming toward me with three one hundred and ten year old ladies on it. One of them asked me, Bob, are you standing there in your underwear? And Marley said yes, I am. Okay, I actually put a note in this week’s show to remember to promote the Weekly Comedy Thing. It was pointed out to me in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group that I never remember to promote it.

What is this weekly Comedy Thing? John? Okay. There’s an app it is called Live One where you can listen to music and the comedy stations. I program the comedy station so you can listen to comedy.

The app is free. All this is free. You can just do this for free.

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And then on Sundays I published a show called The Weekly Comedy Thing, which …

Now this is where I can do long form versions of the stories, and on the weekly comedy thing, I’m more of a jock, so I’m trying to keep the story super tight. But over there I can actually play the comedy clips. So if I tell you say, Mark Maren’s going to be at a film festival, I can play Mark Maron after it. If you’re into you discovering new comedians, some of the newer comedians you’ll hear this week on the show Ali Hassan, Tom Staid, Kyle Gordon, and Whitmer. Thomas also got some Bob Marley in there.

You know why the story I just told you, except on that show, I tell the twenty second version of it. It is the final day of Just for Laughs Montreal. It wasn’t much buzz this year. At five o’clock today May Martin is recording a Netflix special and again at eight thirty, we’ll keep the best take. There only two other shows, Raffy Bostos is at Club Soda at seven and Lucy Dorling at seven.

That’s kind of it. I mean, I’m glad the festival’s back, but Netflix says stolen their corner, as they say in Montreal, because zat they want to hit the nasty show. During the comedian CP talked to the gazette and said, this is a very smart comedy crowd. As a comedian, that’s one of the most important things that your audience understands how to be an audience. It’s funny.

Some people are intimidated by the French, but then you come and they have a high ballot for comedy.

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Also, they’re not sensitive.

They understand a lot of jokes derive from inappropriate places and they love that. We are told CPS cartoon like Cadence echos the early days of M and M, with whom CP’s uncle Trick Trick is a frequent collaborator. The essence of Slimshady can be found throughout his high energy, envelope pushing storytelling, which covered everything from some dirty stuff I don’t want to get into, and some more dirty stuff I don’t want to get into, and then a third thing that’s kind of dirty that involved the wildfires and the words squirting. You figured out it is the nasty show after all, John, what do you think was gonna happen? Ontario’s Rebecca Reid came in and told some jokes about various private parts.

Really good punchline here, but I can’t set it up for you. Go to the Montreal Gazette to read it.

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Meanwhile, at the Culture Show, Dave mer Hedge was your host.

He told Cult MTL it’s such a dope festival to perform at. He also called Montreal a savvy audience with good knowledge of stand up, which allows comedians to be themselves. The Culture Show formerly known as the Ethnic Show and then was known as Just for the Culture. I didn’t even realize they had switched this name. Just for the Culture was bad.

The Culture Show is better. I still like the Ethnic Show the best. Come on, we all know what this is anyway. The concept is simple. Five comics of different backgrounds come together for an evening of laughs.

Dave mar Hedge was your Lebanese comedian. Then we got Wise Cal Tara, Canishtraki, high energy Keith Pedro and the methodical and storytelling driven Alfred Roebliss. And that is your comedy news on a summer Sunday. Pretty strong for a summer Sunday. And I will see you tomorrow

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Brian Redband, Michelle Faller, Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, Kanye West

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan’s transition from TV to podcasting
• The Joe Rogan Experience launch on Christmas Eve 2009
• How comedians shaped Rogan’s podcast approach
• Early adoption advantages in podcasting
• Joe Rogan’s interview with Elon Musk in 2018
• Long-form conversation vs. traditional media format

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac, and on Saturdays this summer, I’m doing deeper dives on single topics. Today, let’s talk a little about Joe Rogan. And the thing that gets lost in every conversation about Joe Rogan is that he’s a comedian, that was a comedian, is a comedian. Now you might not think he’s the best comedian.

Maybe he’s not, but he’s a comedian. The way he runs the podcast, the way he talks to guests, the way he thinks about things, the way he’s built the whole thing. It’s all shaped by being a comedian. And what I mean by that is his whole career was shaped by being in rooms. We’re the only thing that matters is whether something’s actually interesting or actually funny.

You can’t fully understand the Joe Rogan experience without understanding that the person at the center of the Joe Rogan experience thinks like a comedian, which means he thinks about authenticity the way most media executives think about ratings, which is to say, it’s the only metric that actually matters to him. And a lot of times those two things are in opposition. TV never quite figured out what to do with Rogan. He did News Radio, remember that. Yeah, it’s a funny show.

People remember it fondly. He was good in it, but he’s not the thing you think about when you think about news radio. He was a comedian doing TV rather than a TV person. Then he did Fear Factor. It’s its own strange chapter, a show that was watched by tens of millions of people, made him a household name in a very specific way.

Fear Factor, Joe Rogan and Joe Rogan experienced Joe Rogan are the same person if you look closely enough. But the mainstream audience that knew him from Fear Factor had no reason to think he was going to become the most influential media property in the next two decades. Joe Rogan was the guy who made people eat bugs. This is so wrong. Come on, this is for your charity.

Might be a little bitter, but go for it. It’s free charity. Does it taste like? Yeah, don’t tell us what it tastes like. What they missed and all that was Joe Rogan’s genuine intellectual curiosity.

I was recently listening to the episode with Michelle Faller at a point, So I was one of if Joe had checked out, and then I realized no, he was just taking it all in as they talked about the space and science of a great episode. If the Earth was the dot of an eye in a book in regular print, that the Milky Way Galaxy would be as large as the Earth itself. Actually a little bigger. Yeah. So, I mean the thing is, this is an interesting thing about science communication.

If the Sun were the size of a dot of an eye, and you’ve got to remember, you can fit a million earths inside the Sun. This is a huge thing. So if that’s the size of a dot of an eye and untext, then the galaxy would be the size of the Earth. That’s when people’s eyes get big and people. Respond to so it’s not just the Earth the sun.

So if the Sun was the. Dot of an eye, yeah, that’s right. So make this clear. So the Sun were the size of a dot of an eye on a page of text, so you could fit a million earths inside that dot of an eye, then the Milky Way Galaxy would be bigger than the Earth. Yeah.

So if the Earth was the dot of an eye, then because the Sun is how many millions earths. The volume wise, you could fit over a million earths inside the sun. Yeah. Yeah, the sun is about eight hundred thousand miles across. You could fit about one hundred and ten earths across it the diameter.

We do those things where you show the differences between our sun and different stars and immense stars, and you go bigger and bigger and bigger, and you get to the point where you’re like, I can’t this is not working. Get I can’t process this. It’s too coooky. There’s nobody that can process it. The Joe Rogan Experience, Episode number one, guest Brian Redband, December twenty fourth, two thousand and nine.

What an interesting time to launch a show. Christmas Eve now two thousand and nine is early. We only got iPhones in two thousand and seven. And if you were into podcasts in those early days, and I was, you couldn’t actually download a podcast to your phone. You had to get it on your laptop and then connect your phone with a cord to the laptop and move some podcasts over.

So back in those early days, when I was listening to things like this or a Hardwick an artist, you had to like really do it. Start broadcast and then update, update to Twitter, and then I always like to watch my own channel, so let’s go to your own channel so you can see what the chat is and then update year internet tonight, update my own or go through the faster one. You’re gonna get addicted to. Oh nice colors. Pretty So two thousand and nine is pretty early to start a podcast, and a lot of the people that really were the big names did start early.

That’s not to take away from them, but there’s obviously an advantage to being an early adopter. You know, Maren definitely was an early adopter, again, not taking away from anyone. So two thousand and nine, the idea that a podcast could be a primary media property that can compete with TV or radio ad dollars, Yeah, we couldn’t even do. It’s called dynamic insertion. Now, like you know, if you’re in I don’t know, if you’re listening to Portugal, serve you local ads targeted at you in Portugal back in the day.

And I started podcasting in twenty fifteen, which was kind of the start of round two. The ogs give us a lot of crap for getting in late, but you know, here eleven years later, I feel like I got in early. Anyway, you couldn’t do dynamic insertion advertising. You had to actually bake the ads in. But Rogan wasn’t thinking about a media company.

He was thinking about it as a comedian who wanted to have long conversations with interesting people and had figured out a way to record and distribute those conversations for free. The early episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience or a document of someone figuring out a format in real time. They’re loose. They have a feeling of someone who’s experimenting rather than executing. Early guests are people who were part of the La comedy ecosystem that Rogan was part of.

The early episodes have the energy of a thing that doesn’t yet know where it’s going. Where nobody’s performing for an audience, because the audience is a little smart enough that performing for it would feel absurd. Now, if you look back at who Rogan had on and when, you can get a map before the culture was heading, before the mainstream caught up. He had Elon Musk one in twenty eighteen, before Musk had become the figure he is now. You know, a cool scientist guy that’s going to build a mores Base.

Well the electric car is that guy? Yeah? Yes. I think one of the issues with social media that’s been pointed out by many people is that, I think, maybe particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than. They really do.

Right, So, by design, yeah, people are posting pictures of when they’re really happy. They’re modifying those pictures to be better looking. Even if they’re not modifying the pictures, they’re at least selecting the pictures for the best lighting, the best angle. So people basically seem they’re way better looking than they basically really are, right, And they’re way happier seeming than they really are. So if you look at everyone on Instagram, you might think, man, they’re only happy, beautiful people, and I’m not that looking, and I am not happy.

That conversation got watched and shared in a way that a TV interview never would have because it was three hours long and Rogan let must be weird and interesting instead of trying to fit him into a seven minute window. Rogan had on Bernie Sanders, he had on Kanye he had scientists, fighters, comedians, authors, conspiracy theorists, doctors who disagreed with other doctors, and he treated all of them more or less the same way, which to say he was genuinely curious about what they thought and asked follow up questions and didn’t try to trap anyone to score points. That format, long curious, non adversarial, was unusual in the media in the early twenty ten still unusual today. Cable news had trained everyone to expect conflict and interruption. Talk shows were in seven minute segments.

Even in PR, had you know that? NPR kind of air to it that shaped how the questions got asked and how you answered. Rogan didn’t have any of that. He had a comedians framework, which is what’s interesting here and how do we get to it? Those are different questions what a journal leuts asked, and they produce different conversations.

And part of the audience that found the Joe Rogan experience did so because they were hungry for that kind of conversation and weren’t finding it anywhere else. Personally, it’s why I love the show. Joe is genuinely curious. Sometimes I don’t agree with anything he’s saying or what the guest is saying, but I always find the conversations interesting to listen to because they’re calm.

Let’s talk about the comedians.

When Joe Rogan had Bill Burr on, those conversations functioned as a masterclass and how comedians think about their work. Same with Louis C.K. Same with Chappelle. They weren’t promotional appearances. The guests were there to talk about comedy in the road, what it’s like to do the thing they do, and they talked for as long as the conversation was interesting.

By twenty fifteen or so, the podcast was the biggest in the world by any meaningful measurement, still considered to be the number one podcast. The advertising model was working. Rogan was doing host red ads. Advertisers were paying for them because the audience was enormous and loyal in a way that podcast audiences tend to be. But the mainstream media was still condescending, treating the Joe Rogan experience as a curiosity, still not reckoning with the fact that what people were listening to Rogan every week then were watching most cable news programs.

The industry was still writing think pieces about whether or not podcasts were a real medium. Comedians understood what Joe had built. A Rogan appearance moved tickets in a way that a late night appearance no longer did. Getting on Rogan was the thing, not getting on Conan or Kimmel or Comedy Central. Rogan.

Some of the comedians who arguably Joe made their career, Sigora Kreischer, Andrew Schultz, She and Gillis. Then the Spotify deal in twenty twenty one hundred million dollars later reported to be closer to two hundred million for exclusive rights to the Joe Rogan experience. Suddenly the media was like, hey, wait, what a guy’s talking to people in a studio is worth two hundred million dollars to Spotify. Don’t forget. Spotify is a company that has access to data about podcasts listening and made that deal with full information about what they were buying.

Rogan was eleven years in At that point. It wasn’t a bet on what he might become. It was an acknowledgment of what he was reading. He was the largest and most influential audio media property in the world. Built without a network, without a studio, without a development deal, no big company behind it, just a comedian who wanted to have conversations with interesting people and figured out how to distribute them.

That deal did create some friction. People would listen to the podcast on their regular app, now how to listen to it on Spotify. That’s when I started listening a little less because I don’t love the Spotify app.

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Also, the show was moved off YouTube at that point, so there’s some audio dis…

I know, personally, if I heard enough buzz on an episode, I’d go listen to it on Spotify. But you know, for the most part, I skipped a lot of those years. Then covid comes along and some controversies. Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify to protest Joe Rogan’s COVID episodes. That became a whole cultural moment.

In early twenty twenty two, there were calls for Spotify to drop Rogan entirely. Spotify stock dropped Spotify put Good Content Advisor on some episodes. They issued a statement they kept the deal intact. The cultural pressure that was supposed to make Rogan radioactive basically no effect on the one thing Spotify cared about, which was whether or not people kept pressing play. Eventually, the Spotify deal was redone so that you can now listen to the show on any app or on YouTube.

Just like we did in olden times.

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And then there’s the political aspect to this.

Joe always had on political guests, for example, Bernie Sanders. In twenty twenty, politicians realized they could reach young men who don’t watch cable news, who don’t read political newspapers. By twenty twenty four, the show had become something that presidential campaigns felt they needed to engage with. At least one of them did. Donald Trump came on in October twenty twenty four, sat with Rogan for three hours.

No prepared questions, no handler, no seven minute segments, just Rogan and Trump talking the way Rogan talks to everyone, with genuine curiosity and without the adversarial framework that defines most political interviews. It was really like two different lives. You know. I had a very wonderful life, but I wanted to do this. The Apprentice was still going very strong.

We had twelve seasons, and we had actually fourteen seasons twelve years over. They had a couple, well, they canceled The Apprentice when you were running for president. Correct. No, they had Arnold Schwarzenegga do it. I was involved in that, and I had enough of it, and we did great.

It was doing great, but they wanted me to stay. They all came to see me. They said, we’re going to give you a contract. They wanted to extend my contract. Mark Burnett is a great guy.

Then they wanted to extend the contract. Mark said, you’re crazy. Don’t run. Don’t run. Nobody gives up prime time.

They said, you know, it’s one of those little things, which is probably true. Nobody gets for the most time for being president. For running well, for running against twenty some ORed people, you know. It turned out to be eighteen eighteen professional people, you know, mostly politicians. The episode got something like forty million views in the first few days.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s campaign made the decision not to go on Rogan. In October of twenty twenty five, Harris told the Diary of a CEO podcast, I wanted to do Joe Rogan Show, and there were a lot of games being played, but I wanted to do Rogan Show. There was some claim in a book that the Harris campaign had rearranged her schedule for a possible appearance on the show, but were told that Joe was taking a personal day, which turned out to be the same day Rogan interview. Trump. Rogan fired back, saying Harris and her team never agreed to an appearance on the podcast.

Joe also said that the Harris team wanted him to travel from Austin to New York to do the interview. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe said he wanted to do Trump and Harris on the same day. That was my goal. I even offered to do it late that same night, the night Trump came on. I’m like, what if we do her while she’s in Houston, if she came here, But no one ever committed to doing it.

This is really important because they keep pretending like I lied. Harris said on a subsequent podcast appearance that she wanted to go on Rogan show but was advised not to because they assumed. As it turned out to be correct. It says the quote that he was supporting Trump and that it would not be a productive piece for me. But just like when I went on Fox News with Brent Beher, my perspective was they might have their bias, but there are people who listen who are open minded, and I’m going to go there and give them a chance to get to know me and make my case to them.

So that was my perspective on Joe Rogan, just like it was from my perspective on Fox. She concluded of the topic, I definitely regret that we didn’t do it. You start a podcast in two thousand and nine because you want to talk to your comedian friends for three hours. Fifteen years later, presidential campaigns are making strategic decisions about whether or not to appear on your show. Joe Rogan experience still number one.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, David Letterman, Molly Shannon, Will Arnett, Kevin Hart, LeBron James, Ben Marshall, Marcelo Hernandez, Paul Shaffer, Seth Meyers

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien’s slicked-back ‘greaser’ hair on podcast with Molly Shannon
• David Letterman at Montreal Comedy Festival with Paul Shaffer
• Kevin Hart’s ’72 Hours’ movie release on Netflix
• Kevin Hart criticizing LeBron James for messing up golf schedule
• Ben Marshall’s Cosmo interview and shirtless SNL/movie appearances
• Ben Marshall’s breakup story at high school prom on crutches
• Marcelo Hernandez and young comedians working with Kevin Hart on film

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media, Conan O’Brien is being compared to a drug lord. Hello from poolside. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You VNDX of nine eighty five degrees out. We are by the pool.

Did you watch Conan O’Brien’s podcast with Molly Shannon? People are like, what’s with the hair? Conan? You know he is the pompadour. His hair is usually poofy.

No, it was slicked back. What’s with that? One fan asked in the YouTube comments, we all click for the hair and there’s no explanation. Slick back hair was called greaser Conan by fans. The comments section was awesome.

This reminds me maybe we’ll do it tomorrow to go into the bill Burg comments section, which is differently awesome. Social media user comments included what does he look like? I’m about to be sold to used Kia Sarrento. Pretty sure this guy drives a New York cab. Hey, I got Conan’s hair wrong.

Conan is dead. This is his doppelganger, Conan looking like your Irish uncle who shows you how to steal guests from car and gives you a flick knife and tells you to keep it a secret from mom straight off hoour moos closing has led to Conan’s pampador deflating and greez er Conan isn’t real, he can’t hurt you. Page six says Conan O’Brien’s rep did not immediately respond to their request for comment.

Meanwhile, David Letterman he used to host twelve thirty on NBC.

So did Conan O’Brien. For some reason, Seth Myers so said these days that doesn’t make any sense right, No, make twelve thirty great again. David Letterman was at the Montreal Comedy Festival and the folks at Beats ninety two point five were there. They say the room was buzzing from the start, but things escalated quickly when our good friend Paul Shaver pointed to the ceiling, prompting production to lower a massive Canadian flag over the stage. Paul Schaeffer and the guy from the Montreal Canadians who sings the anthem led the audience in a version of O Canada.

The guys from ninety two to five tell us Letterman was in prime form, leaning into his signature dry wit, He jokingly offered multiple apologies for their American leader. Send your letters to David Letterman. He is, after all, a letter man. Get it. Yes?

Aha. Dave delighted the local crowd with pointed, humorous remarks, reassuring everyone that Canada is not for sale. We’ll say outcomes. Will Arnett’s the guest. They’d talked about his comedy career, the SmartLess Podcast, his time on Arrested Development, his time being married to Amy Poehler, and the existential depth of his character on BoJack Horseman.

We also learned that his father used to be the CEO of Mulson Brewery. Hey, it’s Scott the Neighbor. Hi, Scott the Neighbor. I’m recording my podcast. Scott’s cleaning up some trees out there.

I told you it’s a poolside edition. Will Arnett came out and capped off the night with a classic late night top ten list of things that sound cool when Will Arnett says it. Will Arnette then read the top ten phrases in his infamous Will Arnett voice. Paul Schaeffer comes back out leads the audience into a performance of Bachmann Turner Overdrives taking care of business. Then they did a second rendition with French lyrics I won’t butcher those for you.

Ninety two five gives it a ten out of ten. You know it’s out on Netflix today. Hey, is Kevin Hart’s seventy two Hours. This is the movie in which Kevin Hart, who’s forty seven years old, pretends to be forty and gets invited out for a weekend with some young guys, including Marcelo Hernandez. Why the character has to be forty and not forty seven, ask Kevin Hart.

Before we get to that, Kevin Hart has been trading barbes with NBA star Lebron Jeames. Kevin Hart was on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon and said bleep him and meaning Lebron James, not Jimmy Fallon. Why would he curse out Jimmy Fallon of Lebron. He’s a cheater, He’s a dishonest golfer. I had more love for Lebron before he started all this.

I’m adding another year. I’m going to another team. I don’t care what that man’s doing with basketball. He’s messing up our golfer team. I don’t want to play basketball at all because he’s messing up our schedule.

He’s messing up our schedule. Man, This whole new team thing’s gonna throw a schedule off. In seventy two Hours, in which forty seven year old Kevin Hart plays a forty year old hanging out with young guys like Marcelo Hernandez and Ben Marshall, Ben Marshall got a nice fluff piece from Cosmo, a glow up. I will call it nice job, Ben Marshall’s agent. Ben Marshall tells Cosmo it’s boring and obvious, but I really just love comedy.

I love laughing with my friends. I feel so lucky that I get to make stuff with people that I like and laugh all the time. I’m trying to think of anything else I could tell you about myself that’s remotely interesting, Cosmo, said Seth Myers, who, for some reason as a twelve thirty show I don’t understand either, pointed out how often you were shirtless this past season on SNL and shirtless in the seventy two Hours trailer. Cosmo was like, you’re trying to get a Cosmo centerfold like Burt Reynold’s voice of the comedy stock Market. Ben said, Yeah, everything was very calculated.

Now. I never imagined myself taking my shirt off in anything. Then it just kind of happened. It was funny shooting seventy two Hours where we knew that we had our shirts off, but we were shooting that part toward the end of the summer, so all summer we were obsessed with what we were eating and working out. We learned that Ben Marshall likes basketball and used to play, but picked theater over basketball.

Ben said, I guess there was a moment in high school I was like really getting into making videos on YouTube and photography, so I switched to this arts high school in Savannah called Savannah Arts Academy. I didn’t really do much theater or anything we had, but it would always act in videos that we were making as for seventy two Hours, He says. Kevin Hart is the nicest guy in the world. It was kind of crazy. He was improvising so much and setting us up to improvise.

Sometimes older comedians don’t give it up as much, but he really gives it up. Cosmo asked Ben Marshall, and it seems like we’re setting him up to be a heart throb. I mean, if we have him as a heart throb, and Marcelo Hernandez is a heart throb. This is some movie, Ben, describe your ideal date. Ben says, go to the loudest part, or you can find no conversation, or see a long film no conversation.

Then you each go home to your own apartments and you go to sleep early. He told a story about dating my freshman year of college. I was still dating my high school girlfriend, who was a senior in high school spring break. I flew home to go to prom with her, and she breaks up with me immediately, but she still wants me to go to prom with her. I’m like, this is crazy.

I’m gonna go play basketball, blow off some steam. Then I sprained my ankle, so I met my old high school prom with my ex girlfriend on crutches, hobbling around. Just the saddest, most pathetic site. No hard feelings though, and if you’re reading this, you know who you are. It’s all love.

Hold On Magazine asked Marcelo Hernandez what it was like. We’re with a generation of young comedians. Marcello said, from day one all the way through the finish, they were hungry comics and hungry comedic actors seizing an opportunity. It’s a great thing to be part of an R rated comedy. It’s been some time since we’ve been back in this space.

Kevin Hardy added, Oh my god, I can’t believe I’m doing a movie. Those are feelings I don’t have as much because I’ve been doing it for so long. But it was refreshing to be around this new generation that has it. It made me just hungry. Marcelo said of Kevin, He’s much more experienced than I am, so I wanted to learn from him.

Being around someone like Kevin was incredible. I paid attention to everything he did because I wanted to absorb as much as I could. Working with him was a blessing. Now, you may recall earlier in the week, Marcelo Hernandez did a Kevin Hart impression. Kevin Hart has now done a Marcelo Hernandez impression, and he pretty much captures it.

No socks, no socks. I don’t need socks because I Dominican. I Dominican. We don’t wear socks. We don’t need socks.

Yep, nailed it tomorrow in Montreal. It’s that weird. Al concert Al had recently spoken to the Pittsburgh City Paper. They credited Al with popularizing song parodies. Al said, actually, Alan Sherman had three number one albums doing parody songs.

And our national anthem is a parody song, you know now, I look that up. The National Anthem is sung to the tune of a pre existing song that was the theme song of a Gentleman’s club. Interestingly enough, but it’s not really a parody song. It just uses the melody. It’s not like the Star Spangled Benner is like goofing on some other song.

Al said, I think because I got that early leg up on MTV, I kind of became the brand name of parody songs. The Xerox are Kleenux if you will. Al’s last album was in twenty fourteen, Mandatory Fun. I remember the day that came out. I went for a run.

I remember listening to it. I could tell you exactly where I was when I was listening to Mandatory Fun way back in twenty fourteen. Since then, Al’s been focused on releasing singles. He said, if I were to do parodies, it’d be harder these days because we don’t have quite the monoculture we had in the eighties. And nineties where everybody was finally a tune MTV and radio stations and Top forty was still a thing.

Well, if you go see the Free Show on Saturday, I think we can get a hint of what it will look like. We’ll look at last Saturday Night’s Boston appearance of the Bigger and Weirder Tour. The guys from Boston dot Com. We’re there, they say, Balladeerian Clown Puddles Pity Party kicked off the evening by giving new energy to rock classics including Crazy Train. Al comes out and he opens with Tacky.

Let’s take a look at the setlist. Tacky mission statement, that’s a deep cut. If you know you’re out, that’s a good one. Poke Mania, everything you know is wrong? One more minute smells like Nirvana.

Dear to be Stupid than at Medley Party in the CIA, It’s all about the Pentems, Bedrock, anthem, my Bologna, Ricky O to a Superhero, I love Rocky Road, Eat it like Assurgeon, word crimes and Canadian Idiot. Then onto fat full version. It’s my world and we’re all living in it. Captain Underpants theme song. Now you Know Happy Together, a cover of the Turtle song not a parody.

Puddles Pity Party came out to sing the other half of the duet, Skipper Dan eBay stop forwarding that crap to me, White and nerdy and amish Paradise Nice fish Al then pretended to leave and then came back out because there was an encore. We all have cell phones. The saga begins, and Yoda Boston dot Com said it was weird and it was great on Saturdays during the summer, I’m doing these deep dives. Tomorrows will be about the Joe Rogan experience, and because of that, we’ll do two days of the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival schedule. On Friday night, it’s the JFL Awards.

Chris Fleming will receive the Comedy Performance of the Year award, otsgo At Cotska receives the Breakout Comedy Star of the Year, Lisa Gilroy will be honored as the Rising Comedy Star of the Year, and Gabe Iglesias will receive the Generation Award. That’s at three thirty in the afternoon, which gives you plenty of time to make it to the Mike berbigli A gala at six thirty Sultan Cosas plays at seven. All right, we’ve got a real lineup tonight, British at seven, Ashley Gavin at seven, The New Faces do a second show at seven, Jacqueline Novak at nine to thirty, otsgo at Cosco has a gala at nine thirty, and then midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine. That’s more in line with what we’ve seen in the past. Saturday’s lineup the Jerry d Gala at six thirty, Dan SODA’s at Club Soda at seven, Tiffany Haddish at Friends at eight o’clock.

Oh yeah, weird Al nine o’clock at the Place Day Festivals. I know that place well. You find yourself at the Place To Festivals quite often if you’re at the Montreal Comedy Festival at nine thirty these the Gabe Iglesias galap but you would of course be at Weird Al. Dan Soda does a second show at nine thirty, New Faces does a show at nine thirty and then again midnight Surprise. Comedy stock marketine.

Thank you Bert Reynolds. If you were new to this. The comedy stock market works like the real stock market. You try and buy low and sell high. We try to find value here and make some hypothetical money on the comedians.

I got a whole bunch of buys that once four by six, eh buys no cells. Johnny Mac, you’re in a good mood. Hey, I’m sitting by the pool watching neighbor Scott clear up the branches from that recent storm, a terrible storm. All right, we’re gonna buy Marcelo Hernandez. John what you killed Marcelo Hernandez all week long?

And now we’re buying Marcelo Hernandez. Yeah, just if everybody else is gonna make this guy the next Adam Sandler, I’m not gonna fight it. You guys are all stupid. He’s not funny, he is good looking, he does one thing well. But let’s buy some Mare Solo Hernandez.

I mean, this is all about making money. Sure, we’ll buy Marcelo Hernandez. Let’s also buy some Ben Marshall. I’d like that Cosmo preview I just read to you, and you know, maybe he breaks out a little bit standing next to Kevin Hard Marcello Hernandez, and people go, who’s that. Oh, yeah, that’s the guy from Please Don’t Destroy.

I could see Ben Marshall stepping up in class here. Let’s buy Shane Gillis. It’s kind of like buying stock and apple. You look at it and you go, it’s so absurdly high. How can it go up?

And it keeps going up and up and up. So even though Shane Gillis is really high value, I’m buying in just no stopping this guy right now. And he’s very funny. Let’s also buy Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart likes to make money.

He’s everywhere, he’s got a new movie. Everything he does is pretty popular. Let’s buy some Kevin Hart. All right, some names that might be off your radar. We’re gonna buy Katherine Blandford.

Who’s that? Just a comedian whose name you should know, Catherine Blandford. This is what we do here. Trust me. We’re buying very low on Catherine.

Keep an eye on her. We’re going to buy Mo Gilligan. He’s got that Netflix documentary Big Chicken coming out on August fifth. It’s basically supersized me but Chicken. But here’s the thing.

And I can tell you this because I teach college classes. This younger generation, you know, like you and me, we knew all the old stuff, like even if we didn’t, like ever see a Humphrey Bogart film, we kind of sort of knew who Bogart was, maybe because Bugs Bunny parodied him, but we kind of knew about stuff. And if you grew up in the seventies, he grew up on black and white TV shows from the late fifties and the sixties, so you knew the stuff that came before. These kids today, unless it was on TikTok five minutes ago, they don’t know what it is. So they’re gonna watch Big Chicken.

It’d be like, oh wow, this guy ate one thing for a month, and us oldies are gonna go, Yeah, Morgan Spurlock did that and supersize me in two thousand and four, but these kids did don’t know anything from two thousand and four. Forget it. So we’ll buy some Mo Gilligan. We’re gonna buy Rory Scovell. Why John, I’ll tell you a second.

Let me finish the news, and we’re gonna buy Whitmer Thomas, Why John, same note, Let me finish the news and I’ll tell you why.

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All right, So here’s who we’re buying.

Marcelo Hernandez, Ben Marshall Kevin Hart, Shane Gillis, Katherine Blanford, Mogillian, Rory Scovell, and Whitmert Thomas. That is the comedy stock market for this week. Tomorrow on this program will deep dive on the Joe Rogan Experience, how it came to be and how it is so popular. Saturdays this summer, I’ve been doing these deep dives so I can actually hang out in the pool. You can record pool side.

You can’t record pool in you know what I’m saying. And I gotta tell you what today’s show. I came out. I wrote a bunch of scripts and I was like, all right, I’ll record pool Side today, record a bunch of these.

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And then the guys who come and do the gutters came and you know, they had lad…

As much it’s fun to record with cicadas and planes and Scott the neighbor, you can’t record with all that. So I had to go back inside.

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And now my wife texted me and she’s almost going to be home, so I’m only goin…

It is tough being a podcaster. I’ll tell you that, all right, why are we buying Rory Scovell. He’s going to have a new Netflix special. It’s called Show Must Go on Tuesday, August eleventh. It is his first new hour on Netflix since twenty seventeen’s Rory Scovell Tries Stand Up for the first time.

It was shot at the Neptune in Seattle, Washington. We don’t know what it’s about yet. Interestingly enough, we will buy Whitmer Thomas because he’s getting an HBO special. They keep dipping into the weird for what they’re doing. At least it’s a brand unless you know, except for the Mark Meron, everything else has been like weird and quirky except Mark Marin.

I don’t know why Mark Maron was on HBO other than he’s great. It was a great special. Now you might be like, who’s Whitmer Thomas now? Johnny Mac of course knew who Whitmer Thomas is, but you know, just for your sake, I looked it up just to explain to you who Whitmer Thomas is. I of course knew that he’s best known for his voice on stone Quackers, the FXX animated comedy series from twenty fourteen.

Of course I knew that, and his work with the LA based comedy True Power Violence and who can forget his HBO special from February twenty second, twenty twenty, The Golden One. Yeah, I mean yes, Well, he’s got a new special coming out on HBO. It is called Terminal Crew of Dudes. It’s an hour filled with original songs, home videos, and heartfelt memories. Whitmer Thomas says in the trailer.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to get bit by a radioactive hillbilly so that I’d become Forrest Gump. One day, he’s joined by his bandmates and they sing funny songs about chaotic adolescents, skateboarding, sales, and ruining a Benny Hannah birthday party. Whitmer Thomas, Terminal Crew of Dudes, HBO, August fourth, nine pm. So that’s why we’re buying him, because no one knows who that is. Yet we buy low and we sell high.

I did watch the Bill maher Thing on Netflix. Well, by by watch, I mean hit play, and went, oh my god, I can’t take any more of Whitney coming skip skip skip skip skip is Jay Leno on yet oh wait, here’s Louis C.K. And Louis K wasn’t funny. Skip skip skip hips kIPS hip skip. Oh here’s Jay Leno.

Ja’ll be good and Jay was all right. Jay’s gotten really old, by the way, like really old. So I balled on that.

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Speaking of unwatchable shows, Leslie Jones has her HGTV show Roast My Rental…

Leslie Jones tours some of America’s most outrageous short term rentals, roasting every questionable design choice before flipping the properties from sham to glam. Leslie says, we actually say what people have been thinking. We point out the smells and the tiles. We’re helping people. It’s funny as hell.

They did give a list of her favorite HGTV shows, but I think that’s getting bumped to Monday’s podcast because my wife’s going to be home soon and Scott the neighbor needs to clean his lawn. Wait. I had one more thing for you. It is Brian Bates has a new special out today on mega comedian Aperghatzy’s Nate Land Entertainment YouTube channel. That’s right filmed it Zenie’s in Nashville.

Brian Bates puts a lifetime of overthinking awkward encounters and people pleasing toward reflection on getting married and becoming a first time father later in life. From surviving dating apps and raising a four year old in his fifties to sleep apnea, body training emergencies, expensive dog therapy, and the financial trauma of removing a tree, he proves there is no situation too ordinary to worry about. Brian Bates Worried is produced by mega comedian Aateperghatzy’s nate Land Entertainment. The same people who for some reason are building an amusement park, and that is your comedy news in April side not the cleanest episode I ever did, but you know, hey, all right somewhere out Joe Rogan Sunday normal episode. See you

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Featured: Marcello Hernandez, Kevin Hart, Al Roker, Chanelle Jones, Seth Meyers, Whitney Cummings, Joel Kim Booster, Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke

What’s in This Episode

• Marcello Hernandez’s Kevin Hart impression on the Today Show
• Kevin Hart and Marcello Hernandez promote ’72 Hours’ Netflix movie
• Marcello Hernandez appears on Late Night with Seth Meyers
• Netflix cuts Whitney Cummings joke from Mark Twain Prize TV special
• Joel Kim Booster leaving Scrubs revival after 9 episodes
• Scrubs revival season 2 casting updates and guest stars

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Let me know if you found my headphones. I must have left him outside when I recorded yesterday. I’m using my old broken pair. Hi.

I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Mar Solo Hernandez is everywhere. He’s out promoting seventy two Hours. That’s the exciting movie that’ll be out on Netflix tomorrow where Kevin Hart, who’s forty seven years old, plays a forty eight year old guy. They appeared on the Today Show together, and eventually Marcelo, we’ll get around to where he’s making fun of Kevin Hort liking to work and make money.

Here is the clips, the. First time we work. It’s the first time we worked to How is it? How would you describe it is? Uh?

Do you want to see it? Yeah? Sure, I show you? No, don’t. Yeah, this is what is Kevin Hart.

I’ve told a few people this, but I’ll tell you so tell us. Let’s say pretend like we’re on set, right. Am I Kevin? No, you’re me? Okay, I’m Kevin.

You’re me? Hey? Yeah, okay, I don’t know. I don’t know what I was Okay, okay, Kevin, Okay, all right, that’s okay, okay, let’s do this. I’m you’re mean, you’re trying to get some advice from you know, Kevin Hart.

Yes, already, already three to one action. I’m sorry. I just add. The thing is that I got a little Yeah, just give me a moment. They got to bring the money up.

Money’s got to be up, and they want me to do that. Listen, I’m good, I’m good. But he’s going to cost I’m good, I know what I’m doing. Yeah, I’ll be there for a price. Here’s a zero.

Is he lying, Kevin? Listen, this is ridiculous. By the way, he got the AirPod behind him. He got it behind the thing just in case, just cause of Jesus CEO calls and it’s like, we want Kevin to be the face of fruit loops. He’s only like, of course, this is the fruitiest loop in the world.

I’m Kevin Hart. Hello world, I’ll have him, y’all have him. Wait, come in the morning and pick me up. Let me pick you up with the loop that smiles back. Get that’s a lot of laughing over there out A currently al roker the Today Show lady whose name is Chanelle Jones, I was unfamiliar with her work until this clip, and Kevin Hart himself found that quite funny.

I guess the fruit loop shoke wasn’t too bad. I have a second clip, I know, right, yeah, And the second clip, Marcello makes fun of Kevin’s outfit. Why don’t you ever wear socks? How about we talking about that? Because I’m Dominican.

This morning is a perfect example, because Kevin is waking up in the morning going which shirt should I wear it? Should I wear a normal shirt like a human being? Or should I put on this weird, rusty silver combo. It looks like I’m golfing, but also I’m the matrix D casual. I think it’s a very casual.

Why don’t you ever wear socks? How about we talking about that? Because I’m Dominicans Dominican, I can’t I need to wear socks. I’m hot hot, I’m. Hot mor solo than did Late Night with Seth Myers make twelve thirty great again?

I mean, if we combine Seth Myers and Marcelo Hernandez, how could this clip not be funny? I’ll show you how cannot be funny. Kevin Hart Man I got to work with him and it’s so great. It’s he’s a here’s one of the thing. And he plays an older gentleman, as we can tell from the clip, who’s on a bachel party weekend with you guys?

Yes, and do you feel like in real life? I mean, Kevin’s cool dude, right. Yes, he’s a cool dude. He’s definitely think about it. The movie is about an older guy that’s trying to keep up with younger people.

Yeah, you actually brought a few Instagram photos? I did, I did. I brought something because I want you guys to look at these photos and not tell me that Kevin is perfect for this role. He’s a very handsome photo of him. I mean, come on, guys, he’s fifty years old.

Doesn’t this doesn’t this photo? Just say like, hey, let make sure you get this on me real good, let me let me let me post this on the Instagram. And by the way, the hashtag his caption is duck hid. If you’re older forty calling yourself duck hid. Yeah, I mean this is this is give your son the phone and be like.

Let me let me get you. Let me get me. Did you get it? Did? You can’t make sure you get the boots in it.

Caption says little swag hashtag duck kid. Right, he’s still using hashtagh. Are you, Marcella? Are you telling me the kids are not using the hashtag? So this is nice.

He just kind of cut candid moment in the elevator. Yeah, I love that. This is his new pose is the hands? Look, this is his pose. By the way, Marcella was not wearing socks in that clip.

Marcelo is a nice looking guy and the Illuminati wants you to like him. So there was a little kerf fluffle and I pronounced it that way because it was brought to my attention that I’ve been saying it wrong and it’s apparently kerfuffle no way. Yeah, Mary brought it to my attention that I’ve been saying kerf fluffle, which is incorrect, for seven years now, and nobody told me until New Well, thank you Mary for pointing it out. The problem is, kerfuffle doesn’t sound right to me, and I’m going to keep saying kurf fluffle to be defiant and stupid. So what is the kerfluffle?

Johnny Mac? Well, perhaps, possibly, maybe, but it doesn’t sound like they did. Netflix cuts some Whitney Cummings jokes from the Mark Twain Prize TV special. There here’s Whitney Cummings talking about the special. The Mark Twain Prize, which we talked about last time.

Uh whatever. When I got back, not only did I have to cut a joke in rehearsal, then the joke I did, I ended on Donald Trump. Couldn’t make it tonight. He got caught in sex traffic. It stayed in and then they said we would like to cut it out.

And I’m gonna be very careful with how I say this, because the people at the venue have been amazing. They don’t want to silence anyone. It is. True that their boss is Donald Trump. So they did their job.

I was presented with a tricky conundrum. I just don’t know if I did the right thing or not. They said it was very clear to me that they would lose their jobs. This is for the broadcast. This is for broadcasts.

The joke was already leaked by someone that was in the audience, journalists or something. It was already in People magazine and Daily but it was already out out there. But then they said we need to cut it from the broadcast. We’ll thirty out there who cares now like he will sue you, which is like, I don’t buy it. I don’t buy it.

Number one, number two he might. Netflix then denied that they decided to remove a joke about the president of the United States they threw the unrenamed Kennedy Center under the bus, saying the decision rested with those guys. A Netflix spokesperson told Puck News. While it’s our preference not to cut jokes from anyone set, the newly unrenamed Kennedy Center has the contractual right to do so. Whitney Cummings on Twitter added, I was super clear that Netflix did not cut anything from my Mark Twain price set.

Netflix always supports comedy and comics. Quit spreading rumors, you weirdos. We got an update on the Scrubs revival. Now, shockingly, Joel Kim Booster is leaving the show. So what was the point We made nine episodes Joel Kim Booster was in like five of them, and now he’s gone.

What was the the point of the character of doctor Kevin Park then, Plus, now there’s no antagonist. Ava Bon, who played doctor Sam Tosh in season one of the reboot, has been up to series regular status for the second season. Interesting. She must have the right agent. The rest of you interns step it up, get some better reps.

Of course. Zach Braf, Donald Faizon, and Sarah Chalk are all returning once again. I mean, if they don’t ride this thing for fifty years, they’re fools. Returning and recurring guest star roles include Neil Flynn the former Janitor, John C. McGinley, doctor Cox, Judy Reyes as Korla, and Robert Machio as the todd Christer.

Miller will also again guest star.

Also appearing in recurring roles Vanessa Bear as the annoying new character,…

I don’t have to tell you who they play on the show, you know, I have no idea. I guess those are the interns and the sassy nurses. I don’t know who they are. Season two Slash eleven, JD. Turk and Elliott have leveled up from interns to iconscred Heart now the respect to doctors inspire the next generation while balancing the ups and downs of working at a hospital.

Uh, could you get me any specifics whatsoever? Gee? Thanks for that description. Together with characters new and old, they’re navigating this next chapter with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way. Let’s head an up to Montreal for jfl at six thirty Jerry Seinfeld live, exciting.

I saw they were all excited. They’re like, dude, to popular demand, We’ve released an additional two hundred and thirty two tickets. Like, I don’t know what that is. Probably they put the stage up and went, oh yeah, somebody could sit here. Brich Ish at seven, Chris Fleming at seven o’clock.

Now, now this is interesting. Had I gone and I did not, and you asked me, do you want to go see Jerry or Chris Fleming? I would pick Chris Fleming. Welcome to Comedy twenty twenty six, Joel Kim Booster. He’s not even on scrubs.

He’s there at seven as well. New Faces of Comedy Characters at Club Soda at seven, Ron Funches at nine thirty second, Jerry at nine thirty second, Chris Fleming at nine thirty. Okay, John, you should have read ahead. You could have seen both and Midnight’s surprise at eleven to fifty nine. Again, this feels thinner than previous years.

Again, this is the reconstituted festival, but this just doesn’t feel as big as it has in the past. I definitely feel like there are fewer shows that said I’m glad the festival is back, rather than not existing at all. On the eight hundred pound Gorilla Plus channel today, Rhys Darby’s twenty five years is out. The Telegraph fired some shots in the direction of Sasha Baron Cohen. He’s been doing ali g lately, they wrote of the recent clips.

At least it was amusing. Even so, it feels humiliating Baron Cohen, who’s now in his fifties, So people in their fifties can be cool. I’m enjoying my mid fifties because I’m about to turn fifty seven, which he is late fifties. Get ready for that mental breakdown coming in a couple months. But as a guy in his mid fifties, I mean, Sasha Baron Cohen’s way cool, is he not?

Baron Cohen is essentially exhooming a character he drumped up in his twenties with the aim of wrenching a career that has noticeably faltered. What is he recording a podcast basement? His past decade has yielded more famine than feast, with few projects of note since twenty sixteen’s absurdly underappreciated Grimsby Grimsby exists? What’s Grimsby? Whatever it is?

It’s ten years ago. Grimsby. Let’s say Grimsby Grimsby is a twenty sixteen spy action black comedy film. Nabbi Butcher has been separated from his little brother Sebastian Butcher for twenty eight years. During their years apart, Nabbie became an alcoholic football hooligan who started a life with his partner Dawn, and there were eleven children in Grimsby, while Sebastian, now known as Sebastian Graves, has become one of I six’s top agents.

This exists. Let’s head on over to just watch and see if this is streaming, because you know, because soccer’s over now and I can actually watch things. I don’t recall this existing at all. Let’s see Grimsby. You can rent it four bucks on Amazon, four bucks on Apple, four bucks on fendango, and it’s free with ads on two B and It’s eighty three minutes long, so you know it’s good.

The Telegraph rights. But I can’t agree that this dry stretch means that Baron Cone has lost his mojo. Rather, it’s that the film and television industries have long since lost the nerve to let him deploy it. Can you imagine a young comedian swanning into Channel Four’s offices today and pitching them a sketch show based around a feckless middle class manchild from Surrey who pretends to be black? Maybe not, perhaps not, but Netflix would go for it.

Did you not see Tom Sigore’s bad thoughts? Anyway? They say? Does the character still work? All we have to go on for now is the stir of this new forty two second clip.

So happily, the answer appears to be yes. Is there a conclusion? James Tricky was performing his final set at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year when a fire alarm sparked the evacuation of the pleasant’s courtyard. He decided to continue his set on the street. However, one man who had not been originally part of the audience did not take too kindly to the performance.

Tricky explains there was a fire alarm. There was a feeling that the show must go on. It was the final night, so we carried on outside on the street, but someone passing by didn’t really gel with it. He was obviously not very happy with the fringe going on and his shout it over. I just thought when he came over that if we hashed it out and I explained the situation, it would be fine.

I’d already decided that point we would stop. It was quite late on a Sunday night, and we wanted to be respectful of the neighbors. However, the man took a punch at mister Tricky’s face, split my lip pretty dramatically, and my glasses came off. It looked very intense, I said, shock. I couldn’t believe what was happening.

He ran off. Tricky said the instant punch somehow turned into me interrogating the male relationships in my life, and it’s the basis of his new friende show love It. He said he would welcome his attacker attending the new show, adding I don’t even know if he remembers my name, but if he came, the script would have to go out, the window would sit down, would be more like a talk show panel thing and sad news. The Great’s Peter Less Sally, a producer who worked with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and with David Letterman and Craig Ferguson on their CBS shows, has passed away. Sally worked with Johnny until Johnny retired in nineteen ninety two.

Then he joined forces with David Letterman. Michael Natus worked with A Sally on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show as the showrunner. Michael said Peter had few loves in his life that lasted more than half a century, the first with his lovely wife, Alice, and the second with the world of talk television. Each of those love affairs was a two way street, quite literally. Hundreds of millions of people oh their late night smiles and laughs of this beautiful soul whose gift for finding extraordinary talent and honing it is unmatched and unrivaled.

An NBC spokesperson said, when Johnny Carson and David Letterman needed counsel in an honest opinion, they immediately went to Peter le Sally, the professor of Late Night. His relationship to each of these giants was immeasurable, and both of them would undoubtedly say his contribution to their success was so impactful it would be difficult to put into words. Peter Losali born in Hamburg, Germany, in nineteen thirty two, to a Jewish family that had to flee while there. Peterle Sally’s sister went to school with Anne Frank or on a Franca. My daughter was in the theater show where I learned that he was supposed to pronounce her name like that, but most people would just know her as and Frank.

Peter, his mother and sister were imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp and later in a concentration camp. They survived the Holocaust and La Sally and his family moved to New York And Night eighteen forty seven. Wow. He joined The Tonight Show in the nineteen seventies, rising to executive producer. His final act in Late Night was identifying Craig Ferguson and transforming him into a talk show host.

Ferguson wrote on Instagram, Peter le Sally was the best boss I ever had. His kindness, generosity and skill were incredible. He taught me how to do a job. I was deeply unqualified for, and he changed my life beyond measure. I’ll always be grateful for what he did for me and my family.

Thank you, Peter. Peterle Sally was ninety three in That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Ricky Gerzais, Kat Williams, Marcelo Hernandez, Kevin Hart, Mike Epps, Dave Chappelle, Stephen Wright, Howie Mandel

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais on free speech and cancel culture
• Netflix comedy special viewership rankings for 2026
• Kevin Hart’s movie ‘Seventy Two Hours’ release
• The Office UK rewatch comparison
• Stephen Wright on his comedy writing process

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Caloroga Shark Media. From Poolside with a cicadasm Johnny Mac with Your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gervais did an interview with BBC two. He doubled down on his long held defensive free speech. Ricky said, I don’t tell people not to be offended.

I tell them I don’t care if they are be offended. If you want it makes it funnier for me. You can’t help by what you’re offended by, but don’t expect me to care. It’s a myth that I go out to offend. I never go out to offend.

I just know that it’s probably gonna happen because everyone’s different. There’s nothing you can say, particularly anything that’s mildly interesting or contentious at your viewpoint, that somebody’s somewhere won’t find offensive. And times have changed. Twenty years ago, if someone said I was offended by that, I probably would go why Now I go, I know you are everyone is, that’s funny. Ricky said, I’ve dealt with it too much.

Actually, I think the last couple of tours I’ve dealt with cancel culture and free speech because I felt like I had to. Now I don’t have to I’m ignoring it all. I shouldn’t even bring it into the room. Those people there have paid hundreds of pounds. They’re not offended.

I can play a million people, not one complaint. As soon as it goes on Netflix, fifty million people. Of course it’s gonna be someone who doesn’t like it. What am I gonna do? It’s too late, I’ve been paid.

I love how brigage just doesn’t care. I finished my rewatch of The Office UK again. There’s only fourteen episodes. It goes pretty quick, it is. It’s better than the American version.

You know, they’re different. You’re comparing one hundred something episodes to fourteen. But the David Brent character is so cringe, Like like Steve Krell’s Michael Scott, they quickly softened and you know, you could see yourself actually hanging out with Michael Scott. But the David Brent character is so cringe. There were times where I was talking back to the TV like, oh my goodness, like it’s it’s unbelievable.

If you haven’t watched The UK Office in a while, it’s on Hulu, go back and watch it. Especially. You know, if I say The Office, you picture Michael Jim and Pam. But go back to the original. It’s really good.

I do have to scold the audience today. May now, maybe not you particular listener who I’m in your ears right now because you are smart, but just in general, I have to scold everybody. What are you people doing? Netflix released the top comedy specials for the first half of twenty twenty six. These are the ones that are the most watched.

Now. The top special for people with brains was Kat Williams the last Report that got eleven point three million views. So good job there, But that’s not why I’m here to scold you. You know what’s number two? Marcelo Hernandez American Boy.

You’re watching Marcelo Hernandez attempt to do stand up comedy. He does one thing. Marcelo Hernandez American Boy premiere January seventh, and got nine point two million views. Now, hopefully I’ll give you the benefit of doubt here. Netflix might count anything is few.

Hopefully. What they accounted here was he watched four seconds of it and went, oh my god, this is unbelievably unfunny, and he had stopped and they were like, nope, that’s a view. Hopefully, that’s what happened. Hopefully you listen to this podcast and you’re like, how unfunny could Marcelo Hernandez be this guy? Johnny Mac goes on and on about it.

I got to see how unfunny this is, and you watched three seconds of it, you were like, oh, yeah, Johnny Mac is right, this is horribly unfunny. You have to dance or you have to find a new family. That’s the rule. I had to dance ever since I was a kid. I had to dance.

That’s how I had to enter my house. If people came to my house, my mom would be like, Marcello, and I’m six years old and I have to leave my room like this, and I’m like, Mommy, I don’t want to dance, and my mom is like yeah, and I didn’t want to escape Cuba, so dance, okay. I’m sorry. I don’t know what that’s like. I’m sorry, and I would think that I’m doing a good job, and then out of nowhere, my mom would be like, no, Marcello, not like that.

Do what I taught you. And I’m like, mommy, please. Don’t make me get nasty. So it’s got to be that right, like, you watched like that much and you’re like, oh my god, this is not funny at all. I have to hit stop on this.

But Netflix was like, nope, gotcha, that’s a play, all right. So I apologize, listener, I see what happened there. You sampled it because you couldn’t believe how horrible it was, and then you watched it and you’re like, Johnny Mac is right, Okay. I apologize. I shouldn’t have taken a shot at you.

Sorry about that. I’m very sensitive about these things. I’m here to promote good comedy. We’ll be hearing a lot about Marcelo Hernandez in the next few weeks because he’s part of the Kevin Hart movie Want’s That Thing Out Again? Seventy two hours is out July twenty fourth, that’s two days from now.

To save his career, a forty year old executive, Kevin Hart is playing a forty year old dude. Just own it. You look good, Kevin, but you’re forty seven. You’re not forty. Like I’m fifty six.

I’m gonna be fifty seven. I’m not fifty. I wish I was fifty. I wish I were forty. I like to pretend I’m young, but I’m not forty.

You’re not forty. I’m not fifty, You’re not forty. To save his career, a forty year old played by a forty seven year old Kevin Hart joins a crew of twenty somethings for a wild Miami bachelor party after they mistakenly add him to a group chat. Marcelo Hernandez, one of those wild Miami twenty year olds. The dude is good looking.

I just feel like the illuminati decided, you know what, let’s make Marcello Hernandez a star, and they’re not gonna stop now. While I was looking that up, I saw that Netflix is saying that Kevin Hart’s Funny af got forty one point eight million views in its first season. That is a great number. Mike EPP’s special Delusional third six point six million views. I thought Dylan and the Facebook group was the only person who watched that one.

Ricky gervais Is late twenty twenty five hour Mortality has pulled six point four million views since the beginning of the year. Dave Chappelle’s The Unstoppable four point eight million. Again, that was left over from December. Lest do you think Chappelle had a bad number. He topped the chart for July to December of twenty twenty five with fourteen million views.

This is funny. Okay, I’m gonna specifically call out one of the listeners to the show. You know who you are. You just texted me right now and you are listening to your take on Sunday’s Pot about Marcello or Hernandez Savage. I am writing you back.

We are time traveling and I’m writing him back saying I’m killing Marcelo right now. And just read your text on the show. Hilarious. Okay, So for all the people I scolded, not you, sir, you know who you are. I’m not gonna say it is private text.

You’re reading the private text on the air anyway, John, I know. Wait, and the same person is saying I’m wrong about my take about reclining on airplanes. No, I’m not. There’s no reason to recline. The seat is perfectly fine.

You recline now. I have about half an inch from my laptop, which forces me to recline, and now we’re all reclining. They need to disable that button and everyone just sit comfortably. It’s fine. What they need to do is improve the headrests.

Never mind the reclining nonsense. All right, so this guy’s one for two. He’s right about marcell Ernan as he’s wrong about reclining. I, of course am right about everything. Stephen right back in the spotlight.

Stephen right now seventy years old, which makes sense because he’s been around since the eighties and forty years went by. None of us are getting any younger. Stephen Wright was on Howie Mendel’s podcast, Howie Mendel Does Stuff. Stephen talked about his writing process. He says, I go on the road and write more stuff.

I don’t think things like that’s what I should do. I’ve never had a plan about it. It all just happened. Tim Dillon has some thoughts about politics. Let’s listen.

They’re in the White House. They have the Congress, they have the Senate, they have the Supreme Court. It is them. It is now them. I don’t want to hear about the deep state anymore.

You’re playing me for a fool. You’re playing everyone for a fool. I’m sick of hearing about this deep state. All of these people. You have to be one of the stupidest people in the world to fall for this at this point, this is you are peddling the dumbest most like by the way, I hate to use this word, but cringe.

It’s literally cringe. You watch this and you go I feel so. Disgusted by the fact that they think people are still gonna believe this. Send your letters to Tim Dillon. Ryan Hamilton was on WRIF Radio with a very DJ sounding DJ.

The DJ asked Ryan about the comparisons to Jerry Seinfeld, and I think if you listen to this clip, you’ll hear it in Ryan Hamilton’s speech pattern. It’s not at all an absurd notion. It’s definitely there in the speech pattern of Ryan Hamilton here on WRIF radio. I’ve been compared to him my whole career. I think maybe people here in my voice a little bit his tenor and a little bit of my natural rhythm, yeah, the way I talk.

So I’ve been compared to him my whole career really in a way. But starting out, no, I was trying to be It’s interesting you find your path. I mean, I grew up with his show. I revered him, I watched the show, I saw his lifestyle in New York and his comedic mind. I always but I was trying to be in the very beginning more absurdist one liner like Mitch Hedberg was a really heavy influence to me.

I would watch him when I first started on Letterman, and he was one of the first live shows that I ever saw, Mitch Hedberg, and I just thought, I love the way his mind thinks. And I was trying to be that because when you first start, you don’t know what you’re doing, and you experiment with something and it’s almost like your essence and your voice is decided for you. You don’t really decide it as much. So I started there and eventually I became in this place where I am and I’m always evolving. Kelsey Cook getting a Netflix special.

It’s called Happy Hour. It’ll be out Tuesday, August eighteenth. In Happy Hour, Kelsey Cook explores anxiety, relives a plain bathroom nightmare, and breaks down dating and a literal chad filmed at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with Eric Abrams directing. Cook’s most recent special, Mark Your Territory, was released on both Hulu and YouTube and made the top fifteen most stream specials for twenty twenty five. That special has been streamed over one point six million times on YouTube.

As for the Hula number, asked the Hulu publicist in Montreal tonight, it is New Faces. Now. I usually go, and I kinda I feel guilty that I’m not going this year. When they first announced festival, I reached out to the people. I was like, oh, I gotta go, and they’re like, yeah, I get back to us a little closer, and then it got a little close, and I was like, I don’t know, I don’t feel like going, and I don’t know why I don’t feel like going this year.

I just don’t feel like going. I haven’t looked at the list yet. We will do that together right now. Deadline has spotlighted Englishman Read Richardson, who made their list of the Comics to keep an Eye on in twenty twenty six, and Mario Adriann, a German American comic spotlighted in their Comedy Means Business newsletter. Since its inception in nineteen ninety four, New Faces has been regarded as premier launch pad.

It has launched the careers of people like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, who loves when we talk about her, Colin Joe Stali Wong, Gerrod Carmichael, Jack Whitehall, of course, friend of the show, John Marco Siasi. Nick Berzo is the VP of Programming and Talent, and he said this year’s performers are sharp, original, and hilarious, I hope, so we’re proud to offer this platform. Blah blah blah. Okay, new faces stand ups. These are new faces, so don’t be surprised if neither you nor I know the names yet.

Ainsley Baily, Aylon Ellion, Andrew Packer, Carolina Montesquie, Chris Renoir, Christine Mariani, David Drake, Elijah Nevills, Ellie Orlando, Elouise f Dos. She’s been around, Estebund Gast, Fiona Couley, Freddie Chanell, Gary Simons, Gus Tate, Hannah Veldowen Hassan, Phil’s Helen Bauer, Jack Hirshfield, Jackson Banks, Joe Maurice, Joey Dardano, Jonas, Joseph, Kenny Lee, Mario, Adrion, Mark Thompson, Mitchell Doren, Nicky, Paris Peyton, Ruddy Red Richardson, and Tessa Bell. Good luck to all of those folks, Your new Faces Characters. That’s a fun show as well, Annie Sullivan, Caitlin Freen, Claire McConnell, George c Owens, Jesse Kendall, John Blair, Russell Daniels and Tijonda Again great show if you’re up that way. I don’t know.

I just didn’t feel I can’t explain it because I usually am like all up to go, and I just didn’t feel like going this year. All right. Tonight in Montreal at the Comedy Festival. Some of the shows include Jordan Jensen at seven o’clock, British at seven, French New Faces at seven, English New Faces at seven at Club Soda, Timmy No Breaks at Ley Studio seven o’clock, and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine pm. Now, why is Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine pm?

Johnny Mac? Because when you schedule a show at twelve and you write am, people get confused and think that’s noon, and it gets very confusing. So that’s why you just schedule things at eleven fifty nine. You’ll notice planes that do the same things. Otherwise people get confused.

That’s actually a pretty light Wednesday. So if I were up there tonight, I would hit the New Faces one and two at seven and nine thirty, but they’ll eventually post them online and we will cover it then. Chris rock is heading to Canada. He’ll be at the Toronto Film Festival. He is the director of hal Misty Green, about a talented actress whose career has been stifled by her vices, also at the Toronto Film Festival.

I Play Rocky? Did you see the trailer if I Play Rocky? Stop listening to me right now and go watch the trailer for I Play Rocky. This guy that they got playing Sylvester Stallone is uncanny. Like now, I want to make Rocky Zero, which I’ve wanted to make for fifty years.

So what’s Rocky zero? Johnny Mac Well, it would take place in early nineteen seventy five, and it would follow a guy who collects debts for the local mob boss. The debt collector is also a part time boxer, so it’d be a prequel to Rocky. Rocky Zero, you’ll watch People in Mobile, Alabama are all upset that the first entertainment act announced for their new arena is comedian Matt Matthews. Matt rose to social media fame with a series of videos about life on his farm he shares with his husband.

The videos offer feature him yelling at form animals while wearing a bathrobe. After earning millions of followers on TikTok yelling at farm animals and at bathrobe, at least on poolside today, I’m not in a basement. At least I’m sitting by a pool. I’ve got some money. Matt Matthews made the jump to stand up in twenty twenty TiO and now the Not What I Ordered World Tour will be at the Mobile Arena.

Some people on Facebook wrote who. Somebody else wrote never heard of him? Others said it didn’t look the most family friendly thing. What do you want? Then book Maga comedian Aprigazzy.

Then Matt Matthews post that it’s been brought to my attention that some people in Mobile aren’t too happy with Is it mobile or mobile? Wait? I’m looking this up. Some people say mobile, some people say it’s mobile. Now you’re all going to be mad at me.

I don’t know. I’m from New York City. I’m just gonna say Alabama. Matt Matthews posted, it’s been brought to my attention that some people in Alabama aren’t too happy that I was the first artist announced for the new Region’s arena. Well stay mad, because I can’t wait to bring all this gay and raunchy comedy straight to your city.

The good news is, since I’m apparently such a nobody who won’t sell it out, there should be plenty of parking. See you there. He then posted a thank you to his supporters, saying I joke a lot, but this one is real. Thank you Alabama. You all have already pushed the show at Region’s Arena too, over half sold before the general public on sale even starts.

Thank you doesn’t even begin to cover it. Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, I never imagined my life would look anything like this. I started out making videos and telling jokes online, and now I’m getting the opportunity to perform for people not just across the US, but in Australia, New Zealand, the UK. Blah blah blah, I meaning Connor Ratliffe is on Blue Sky. He is currently presenting one Roadrunner cartoon.

Each day, he posts a link to the full cartoon, then post the cartoon again in segments with his oral commentary. Connor Ratcliffe says many people think the Roadrunner cartoons are repetitive, but he maintains that watching them in the order they were made as movie audiences would have in the nineteen fifties reveals that the gags and tropes actually satisfyingly build on each other.

Meanwhile, there’s a new trailer for Daffy Season, a soccer theme short.

You might have wanted to release the actual short during the World Cup, but nope, they decided to wait until November. It’ll be attached to the new CGI Cat in a Hat movie. It will not be attached to the Coyote Versus ACME movie coming out in August. Why John, Because remember that they were they made that and then like Warner decided we’re not releasing it. It off and now it’s being released via Ketchup Entertainment.

So Wrights Lawyer is something something something. Anyway, we’ll get a Daffy Duck short five months after the World Cup ends. There is a trailer. Let’s listen, boy, you I watch Soccer Season’s supposed to. Be Dug cleven Socker Season, Duck Cleveland Soccer season, Watch up Black.

Walk Em Molly. It’s just the offense on Now we’re talking all, that’s the way to play. Time to pull the plug on this so called soccer. Cleeven And that is your pool side comedy news for today. Have an awesome day.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Dave Chappelle, Bill Maher, Louis C.K., Chloe Fineman, Mario Barth, Naomi Watanabe

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis breaks comedy attendance record with 76,212 tickets at Lincoln Financial Field
• Bill Maher wins Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
• Bill Maher defends Louis C.K. and discusses appropriate punishment for comedians
• Chloe Fineman exits Saturday Night Live after seven seasons

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hitter Johnny mackpool Side with your Daily Comedy News. My life advice to everyone is, when you get a nice day, take it. So we are outside today. Shane Gillis sold seventy six thousand, two hundred and twelve tickets for his show at Lincoln Financial Field.

Let’s just stop for a second because you can easily glaze over that number. Seventy six thousand, two hundred and twelve tickets football stadium. We’re not talking about Madison Square Garden anymore, which used to be like the gold standard football stadium. Seventy six thousand, two hundred and twelve tickets. Take that number in seventy six thousand people at a comedy show Shane Gillis, who was canceled and not on Saturday Night Live, remember that.

With seventy two hundred twelve tickets sold, Shane Gillis broke the Guinness World Record for most tickets sold for a comedy show by a solo comedian. The previous record Mario Barth performed for sixty seven, seven hundred and thirty three people at the Olympia Stadion in Berlin in two thousand and eight. Who’s Mario Barth? I don’t know either, but we have Google. Wikipedia tells us.

Mario Wolfgang Barth is a German comedian who mainly deals with the interactions between men and women. In two thousand and four, Barth published a dictionary for men to understand women. He sold two million of them. The dictionary was also sold internationally in various countries such as South Korea, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Japan and Poland. In two thousand and eighty, established the new world record in the category live comedy with the largest audience.

He broke the previous record of fifteen nine hundred comedy visitors by Chris Rock at a show in London. Do you want to hear a clip? Well, I have good news for you. Mario Barth Channel has posted a comedy clip of him, translated by the YouTube AI. So judge this one on a curve.

Here’s Mario Borth. Hey, let’s be honest. Let’s be completely honest. These permanent construction sites, we men love them. We love construction sites.

We stop and don’t understand women, But we men stop at construction sites even if there’s a sign somewhere saying it’s freshly painted. Do you hear the. Sign saying to you, well, do you believe me? Women just keep going, But you, as a man, you want to keep saying no, I don’t think, I know, I don’t know, and you have. To go there.

And the fact is you’re right. We love construction sites. We stop. We touch things too. Men can’t see with their eyes.

We have to touch things. Okay, you’re curious. Naomi Watanabe holds the record for most tickets sold for comedy show by a solo female comedian. The Japanese comic sold forty four, three hundred and fifty six tickets for her set at the Tokyo Dome in twenty twenty six. At Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Philadelphia Eagles, former Eagles center Jason Kelsey.

His sister in law is Taylor Swift. Jason Kelsey came out led the pack stadium in an eag l e s chant. Kelsey then brought out Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill. Other performers at the show included Big Jay Oakerson and Dave Chappelle. The show took place under all that smug If you were in the Northeast last week, we had the smoke from the Canadian fires.

A Code Purple designation meant that the air was considered unhealthy for everyone, not just those with respiratory conditions. Some local attractions and community events were canceled because of the smoke, but Shane Gillis’s show did go on. Some people didn’t think it was the most diverse show in terms of crowd. Shane Gillis was joined on stage by Dave Chappelle. Shane attacked that notion dead on and slipped into his Trump impression.

The audio is not great here, and I made a minor edit for language. But let’s listen what’s. Going on there? And I said, mis president, can please have the air for us? Is a gallery of whites.

Let me say, sir, it’s the largest gallery of whites.

And then his in Philadelphia.

Well then we love it. We’re gonna send you the muster. The guys who bombed Jaman, how about the bombsamore unbelievable, how they bomb Jaman? And we we used the N word. We use nuclear.

That’s one of his best quotes. And I call it the N word. It’s on sixty minutes. It’s like yo, He’s about to say the Edward over sixty minutes. He’s like, you know the Edwards going around lately, you know the little ship Allen D.

S. Bryants. It’s like, let’ll be a tough one to defendo. He hit the N word over sixty minutes. I’d be like, I’ve been defending you for a while.

That’d be a tough one. But I’m trying to figure out is how do you promote a show himself? Delvin and that old black people hear about it? Hey, you know it’s funny. I love.

I was like, there’s one black person that’s Tiffany Hadiship. I was sitting in the bank with Tiffy. Ads from Nick. Mills like we got it on Netflix today. It is the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the now re renamed Kennedy Center.

This year’s winner was Bill Maher. You can put on Netflix tonight and watch Bill Maher with his friends Louis C. K Whitney Cummings, Jay Leno, Borderline Impressionist, Matt Friend, Woody Harrison, John Mellencamp, and Steven A. Smith, the greats of comedy. There is a trailer.

In this trailer you will hear from Woody Whitney, Jay Leno met friend to doing Trump. Louis C. K some edits for language and I did omit Stephen A. Smith, I think for language. I pulled this clip three days ago.

I can’t remember, but I left myself a note here to address that I did take Steven A. Smith out of the clip. Finally, an award from my dear friend. Tonight, we’re here to honor Bill Maher with the Mark Twain Prize. Becoming a political comedian is like becoming a surgeon and choosing colo rectal.

Bill and I used to talk about the Lord Thomas and we’ll reach out to you the other side, try and see even bring people more in. He did, and now both sides Hay, we’re up. Mark Twain. He’s a great America. If you sailed the Mississippi, which used to be called the Mississippi before the crazy Democrats made a transition.

These are sick people. He doesn’t like kids, and he smokes a lot of pot and me and thanks. God’s stupid show business. Of wards are just the opinion of who sometimes we don’t even know, usually just some very small group of people who are harboring God knows what kind of taste or agenda. Having said that, thank you so much for this.

Bill Maher was on NPR’s Newsmaker’s podcast. He defended Louis c. You may recall Louis C.K. He got in some trouble years ago. Bill Maher said, anyone who’s still mad at that has no concept of appropriate punishment.

People just want to believe what they want to believe. So when the jury comes out on the side, you like, oh, perfect, the jury spoke. But when they don’t, it’s like, oh no, screw that, forget it. I don’t care about the police investigations. I don’t care about the exonerations.

Either the law means something or not, and not every punishment should be forever. Bill Maher was asked by having a Louis c. K at the unrenamed Kennedy Center. Was he just inviting a friend or was it some sort of statement. Bill Maher said, it’s already been told of the world.

Do we have to just dwell on this forever? People get like two years for rape. The weird sort of no rules for how we meet our punishment in this country for offenders is pretty weird. Chloe Feinneman has left Saturday Night Live after seven seasons. This is the first publicly confirmed cast update going into season fifty two.

On Instagram, Chloe Fineman wrote, it’s really hard to leave us and l but it does feel like the right time. I’m gonna miss it a lot, but the people who work there in my family and at places my home, and I know I’ll never be too far away. I just got a text from my daughter. She’s at the beach. She too understands when you get a nice, beautiful day, enjoy it.

So I’m planning on taking a nap in the sun after I record here. I digress. This is more of Chloe’s statement every day I was lucky enough to be sprandled by the best people in the business, and I was constantly amazed watching them work. I’m definitely not the first to make this observation, but it really is funny looking back at it all now, because at the show you get so invested in everything you work on, you sob uncontrollably. When your sketch isn’t picked, You storm into a producer’s office telling them they just made the biggest mistake of their lives.

You call everyone you know to complain, and then you look back a few years later, and it was a sketch called Lipstick for Thick Dogs. That’s funny. Apparently the reason she is leaving is to star in the Netflix adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Myron Bulletsar with Fineman off the lineup. Sarah Sherman is currently the solo female main cast member. It is assumed Ashley Padilla and Jane Wickline will be promoted to main cast.

Perhaps Veronica Slowakowska also makes it she’s a featured player. Ask Lauren Michaels, now, nothing is easy. Page six had to throw some shade, and insider tells Page six, LOI, we could rub people the wrong way at times. She got along really well with some cast members, but not everyone clicked with her. Some cast members felt like she expected people to accommodate her and assumed everyone would adjust to her schedule and preferences.

The insider added, it wasn’t some huge feud or anything like that. A second source close to the show told Page six, there’s no truth to this. Christina pe she has split up with husband Tom Segura. She went on social media and wrote thank you for all the kind messages. This is a really difficult time for our family.

Episodes of YMH are pre recorded in advance, hence no mention of recent events. Just know your mommy loves he and we’ll see you very soon. Did you watch the World Cup? I think everybody did. Spain won.

Spoilers Trevor Noah said, amazing game, crazy game, red card, good goal, fantastic. But everyone’s gonna ask what would have happened if Argentina had eleven men on the field. I guess we’ll never know. Kevin Hart was out and about at the World Cup. He showed up at the Pitch Side Club to perform celebrity karaoke.

He sang Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel. He called the World Cup breathtaking. It’s all or nothing, so much riding on these games for these countries, because there’s a lot of not just fanfare, but a lot of meaning and integrity. There’s so much that goes into it. Stephen Colbert was on social media for the first time since hanging up The Late Show.

I remember there used to be a thing called The Late Show and Steven Colbert hosted it, and like nobody seems to miss it. Stephen Colbert posted happy seventh birthday Benny. Benny is a dark brown Boykin Spaniel and apparently it was Benny’s birthday. I like recording outside with the cicadas and whatnot. It’s fun.

The Montreal Comedy Festival is underway. Let’s see what’s happening tonight. The Big Show tonight is an evening with David Letterman and special guest Will Arnett. There’s a pretty good lineup as we get into the festival proper now British at seven o’clock, Nasty Show at seven, Bamford at seven, some French New Faces at eight, Martin Demini at nine thirty, and the Culture Show at nine to thirty. They did announce the cast of New Faces.

I’ll cover that intomorrow’s show. If you need something to watch today, of course you can watch Bill Maher. There’s also Willie Max Good Dad, Bad Father. That’s on the eight hundred pound Gorilla Channel. Kyle Gordon will have a new album and Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter will narrate it.

Yeah, what’s this about? Kyle Gordon’s third album, Kyle Gordon Is Everywhere, will feature a narration by Daniel Radcliffe. The album will be out October second. It features Daniel Radcliffe performing a David Attenborough esque narration during the album’s interludes. The album’s first single, Mister Jambo, is out Now through the persona of a prototypical cringe American tourist named Barry Bergen.

The song satirizes Paul Simon’s graceland. There’s an accompanying music video filmed in South Africa. Hey there, mister Johnbo out there in the African sun? Do you ever get time? Hey there, mister John Bo, will you share with me.

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And then he told me, well, I couldn’t speak his language.

You couldn’t even understand door. What I knew his meaning was what I. Decided I had heard, he. Said, the love boy. This is elaborate again.

This album is called Kyle Gordon Is Everywhere. His first album, Kyle Gordon Is Great, features two thousands country music and pop punk emo parodies. His second album, Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful, satirizes folk pop and British rap. This album pokes fun at a dozen genres, including indie sleez pop, Disney Channel era, between bops, and late nineties mini van rock. In a statement, Kyle Gordon said with Kyle Gordon is everywhere.

I feel like I’ve achieved my goal of creating a comprehensive, cohesive comedy album that is enjoyable as a whole piece, but also a collection of very fun, funny and catchy pop songs. I also feel as though I finally found that perfect balance. The songs are funny without sacrificing the songwriting. Essentially, they are a bunch of great pop songs that are also funny. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Fortune Feimster, Chris Parnell, David Hornsby, Marcello Hernandez, Shane Gillis, Caleb Williams, Carlos Mencia

What’s in This Episode

• Will Ferrell’s Netflix golf comedy ‘The Hawk’ receives poor reviews
• Marcello Hernandez ESPYs monologue breakdown and criticism
• Will Ferrell and Marcello Hernandez awkward ESPY presentation segment
• Shane Gillis reference as previous year’s ESPYs host
• Carlos Mencia tax evasion court case and Encino mansion
• Jalen Brunson and WNBA jokes from ESPYs monologue

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. I realized that on today’s show, I’m gonna sound like Silkie Johnson, winner of the Haters Ball. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I hate you, I don’t even know you, and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happened to you and nobody else but you.

The reviews for Will Ferrell’s The Hawk are not good. The Independent, with the headline Netflix Golfing Comedy, gives Will Ferrell his own crappy Gilmore two stars out of five. The Hollywood Reporter said, you might think it would be impossible for a TV show featuring Will Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Jimmy Tacho, Fortune Fimester, Chris Pornell, and David Hornsby not to generate at least a few laughs. Perhaps the biggest issues that everybody’s essentially playing to type. Fortune Fimester is more or less the same filteralistic centric she played on shows like Foo Bar or the short lived Middy Kayling sitcom Champions.

Chris Parnell abuse his PGA board member with the same disarmingly perky charm he’s been peddling for decades. Molly Shannon is perhaps the standout, though even her withering scorn is nothing new. No one feels real, least of all Ferrell. They add. Ferrell is a performer whose glory days have seemingly passed.

Where he once ruled the box office, now he’s grinding out a comeback on Netflix. The New York Post said, Will Ferrell’s The Hawk is a pale imitation of his earlier work. He’s been all over the place doing outrageous antics to promote it. It’s a shame it didn’t seemingly put that effort into making sure the show wasn’t a dud. It’s a story that might have made for an amusing, yet forgettable, five minutes Saturday Night Live sketch.

It’s tedious as a five hour series. At the very least, it’s obvious that his skills are best for a movie, not stretched across a ten episode series. The Hawk is painfully unfunny. The Daily Bet said twenty years ago, The Hawk would have been a ninety minute theatrical comedy. Today it’s the latest feature film idea to be overextended to the point of worthlessness.

Will Ferrell was at last week’s SP’s, which will give us a nice smooth transition to our second target today, Marcelo Hernandez. Now you might be wondering, Hey, John, what if we took the unfunny Will Ferrell and put him on stage with the unfunny Morselo Hernandez. What might that sound like? Well, I have a clip for you. I have edited this for pacing so you don’t lose your mind and turn off my podcast.

Warning. I know that this clip is bad. I know that this clip is going to make you want to hit skip. But to illustrate today’s theme, I have to play the clip. Here’s Will Ferrell with Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing.

As a Latino. It’s very important for me to represent my community every chance I get, and I’d like to take a moment to do that now in a special way. For the first time in the history of the sp Awards, I am going to present an award entirely in Spanish. I just thank you, yes, thank you. I just don’t want anybody to feel left out.

So I just need a translator. Can anybody, I’ll do it. I’ll do it. I can translate. I can translate for you.

Are you sure, Will Ferrell? Yeah? Yeah, you speak Spanish. Yeah, sure, okay, yeah, of course I do. All right, come all, come.

In a little Spanish film. Yeah we’ll ferrel. Yeah yeah, I’m happy to I was in a little Spanish film called Talladega note. Chase, so. Okay, so yeah, all right, yeah, let’s do this.

Sure okay, all right here damas caballeross me or notice the premio tangu indand. Hey everybody, Uh, what’s up? Game? Were feeling good? I’m excited to present this next award here in the world’s greatest sports arena, Madison Square Garden.

Can I get a what? What? Ambul masaldo imucha disciplina. As a young boy growing up in Miami, I didn’t have many friends. Uh.

Most of my friends were stray dogs I had collected in the neighborhood and I gave them names. There was George, there was Peaches. There was Alexander. Often late at night I would press my private parts against. I didn’t even talk for that long.

Ouch. You may recall last year’s host was Shane Gillis, who the establishment athletes did not welcome. I lost. Shane was hilarious. What’s Shane up to now?

Marcelo Hernetez has the answer. I also want to shout out last year’s host, Shane Gillis. He is watching from home like a true American on his couch, gonna be here while a Hispanic guy does his job. Do you like hack jokes like the hackiest of hacked, most obvious? How long did it take you to write that joke?

Because I have one for you. In nineteen seventy three, hockey players didn’t wear helmets, basketball had no three point line, and in nineteen seventy three, Bill Belichick was the age his girlfriend is. Now, Wow, that’s pretty hacky there. Marcelo then turned his attention to the Nicks. Now on the video of this, Jalen Brunson made the face that Taylor Swift should have made at the Joe Koy joke way back when Jalen did the ha ha ha that’s funny.

But you can tell he did not find this funny because it’s not funny. And Jalen Brunson, Rick Brunson’s son got to win an NBA championship with his dad as the coach, which proves one thing, which is that nepotism, like most things, is way cooler when a black guy does it. Next up. We have a WNBA joke that isn’t that bad, but I think he mispaced it ended comedy. Timing is everything, and I also think this kind of joke would have worked better for say Shane Gillis.

I also want to shout out the WNBA players for signing a new deal and they’re not making more money than ever before. Yes, yes, it’s a lot of new money in the WNBA. Man opening up the door for a new reality show basketball husbands and wives, but mostly wives. Okay, Marcelo? How about the World Cup?

World Cup is the time when American sports fans remember what the word world means. They usually think it means the US and one team from Toronto. I will say it has been amazing to see Americans learn about soccer and Europeans learn about ranch dressing. And I have something to say to the Europeans. Come in here.

It’s not so easy to stay skinny here, is it. I’ve really enjoyed watching you slim snobs eating like delicious junk food and this is real karma. You called American stat for hundreds of years, and now look at you drinking ranch taking it home with you like a weirdo. That’s the fattest thing you can do. By the way, Wow, that is just bad.

And you might be saying, Johnny Mac, you’re just such a hater. Surely Marcelo Hernandez must have had one good joke, and you’re right, he did have one good joke. And here it is gradulate one player. I want to congratulate. Caleb Williams, the quarterback for the Chicago Bears, will be on the cover of the new Madden video game.

Congratulations to Caleb. Yeah, and Tiger Woods will be on the cover of Grand Theft Auto. Carlos meant SIA it sold the California Post. All I did was not pay my taxes being arrested the guns. That was a very shocking thing.

I was compared to al Capone. All I did was not pay taxes. I never cheated on them. I never got paid in cash. I never didn’t sign a ten ninety nine.

How much money I made will come out because I never hid that. Carlos showed up in court. So what do you wear in court? You dress up nice, you wear a suit, you try and look professional. Carlos wore a University of Oregon jacket and a T shirt and blazon with the words super funny.

Now, I’m not a judge, but I probably wouldn’t have reacted that too well. But again, I’m up for winning the haters ball this year. Up again, Silky Johnson. Mencia’s attorney argued that Carlos should be able to list his la estate in order to help pay his over three hundred thousand dollars tax bill. The attorney also attempted to unfreeze assets from Vincia’s bank accounts so he could pay living expenses and his attorney fees.

I could see why that might be important to the attorney. The judge ruled that Carlos could list his Encino mansion, believed to be valued at over four and a half million dollars. The judge also allowed for one hundred thousand dollars to be taken from the bank account. Carlos told the California Post at the end of the day, we’re going to take care of this. It’s how we got there.

That’s a little painful from a psychological and physical standpoint. They got what they wanted. They got the attention of this issue for me, So it is what it is. Dane Cook, serious actor, perhaps Jeff Barker, who’s that He’s the father of Obsession director Curry Barker and a screenwriter. Jeff Barker is writing and directing his own psychological horror short film, Medium Rare.

It will start Deane Cook. Medium Rare follows a man trapped inside a bar where reality begins to unravel in increasingly disturbing ways. Perhaps Dane Cook’s character is forced to watch the hawk. Hey, remember the other day I mentioned Thom Sigore not wearing a wedding ring, and I shared that for a while playing volleyball, I wasn’t wearing a ring. Don’t read anything into it.

So I showed up at volleyball the other night and two of my teammates were there. They were mid conversation, and the conversation was like, yeah, you know, you could stick it in you know, your shoe or something and won’t get lost. And I’m like, what are you guys talking about. One of my teammates wanted to take off his wedding ring for volleyball because his fingers were swollen. He had spent the entire day with his wife.

They had a nice day. Don’t read anything into it. Sometimes we’re just playing volleyball. It’s almost time for season eighteen. If It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

FX has announced it’ll be back Monday, August seventeenth, with what they’re calling an expanded ten episode season. We have all lived long enough that ten is now an expanded season. That’s because the previous three seasons were only eight episodes each, which goes really quickly, especially when they show two a week. Season eighteen premieres at nine Eastern on fxx FX and Hulu. We are told now the longest running live action sitcom and TV history.

It’s Always Sonny follows a group of deeply self absorbed friends and they’re chaotic misadventures while running the failing Philadelphia dive bar Patty’s Pub. Now, to be fair, this show’s been on for twenty plus years eighteen seasons. Is the bar failing because it’s been a steady business for two decades? I mean, how long do they have to own this thing before we consider it a successful business. We’ve got some plot points here minor spoilers.

It’s Always Sunny, don’t worry about it. In season eighteen, Charlie mcdennis, d Stupid Bird, and Frank are wrapped up in a salvaging inheritances from a dead woman, b surviving tent encampments, and the great inside outside divide between the haves and have nots. C withstanding job loss at the hands of workplace automation. Four you switch from the letters to numbers, John, Yeah, I did, embracing a new found appreciation for neurodivergence. Five, questioning the fabric of society against conspiracy theories, and six the biggest elephant in the room, outlasting the public’s pendulum swing against drinking.

We’re told not to mention battling nerds, LARPers, and a particularly petulant mcpoile clan at the Renaissance Fair were sports washing their way back into the good graces of their community by sponsoring a little league team. All those sound like really, really good plots. Kevin Hart likes to work. He’s got a new season of Cold as Balls. You know, that’s the show where Kevin Hart sits in a cold tub with famous sports figures.

They were getting ready to film new interviews live at Fanatics Fest in New York over the weekend. Guess we’re scheduled to be Serena Williams, Rob Gronkowski, Cooper Flagg, Sean O’Malley, Zlatson, you know the guy that basically ran Alexi Lallas out of town on World Cup coverage. We all love that guy, and I show speed now as cool and hip as I am. I had a google Sean O’Malley, who apparently currently competes in the bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. So although I don’t know who he is, I’m sure Maggot comedian Ate Berghazy’s familiar with Sean O’Malley can talk about that.

For a second, I was thinking about this, Can I be honest? If the President of the United States wants to come on this show, he’s coming on now. If he comes on Daily Comedy News, I’m probably gonna ask him about like Saturday Night Live and some comedy stuff that he’s done, and then eventually I’ll get to it. But like, this show’s not sixty minutes. I know, I know sometimes she confuse it for sixty minutes, but this isn’t sixty minutes.

I probably ask him who his favorite comedians are, you know, that his stuff, and then maybe with the end, I could be like, hey, you know this thing with the war, you know, I might get that in at the end, and then you guys would all be like, Maga, podcast host Johnny Mac had the President on, but meanwhile, I’ll have the number one podcast that week. You know, we could probably talk about Late Night. I’d be like, hey, mister President, you know, what’s your deal with Jimmy Kimmel?

And then he’d say his stuff and I’d be like, now, the one thing I do agree wi…

This seth Meyers thing. It’s got to be better, right, And then he would say some stuff and I’d be like, that’s right, make twelve thirty great again. Then he would laugh, and then I would ask him about Colbert, and then you guys would be like, come on, how come you’re not ask him about election interference? And I’d be like, I’m guy in the basement, what do you want to do. I will also welcome whoever runs for a president on the Democrat side.

That person is also welcome to come on here, and I will also ask them about their favorite comedians and if they’ve ever hosted Saturday Night Live. I Digress. Cold as Balls will now be on Netflix with six new episodes with those guests that I told you about. Kevin Hart said, Coldest Balls coming in Netflix feels like a homecoming. I’m pairing two of my favorite ease together for an unbeatable conversation and content.

I love that for twelve going on thirteen seasons, thirteen seasons of this, now Kevin’s billionaire and doing really well. Does this thing of cultural impact or people watching this thing? I love that for twelve going on thirteen seasons, the show continues to be a celebration of sports and entertainment. Then he went into some corporate speak and plugged his other stuff, and this is sad. The High Planes Comedy Festival has announced it’s over.

Festival organizers posted on Facebook, all good things must come to an end, and man has High Planes Comedy Festival have been good. After thirteen years and a dozen amazing festivals, we’re calling it. Founded by comedian Adam Clayton Holland, High Planes focused on local comedians and national comedians. The announcement said we’ll be taking the next few months to say goodbye. We want to see your favorite picks from High Planes over the years, so post them and tag us or email them to info at Highplanescomedy dot com.

They’re going to host one last official party, a blowout show Saturday, November twenty first, at the Skylark Lounge on South Broadway. Performers TBA, sorry to hear that, Fellas, and that is your comedy news for today Hater Edition see tomorrow. I hate you, I hate you, I don’t even know you, and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you

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Featured: Marcello Hernandez, Gianmarco Soresi, Pete Holmes, Jeff Foxworthy, John Leguizamo, Matt Damon

What’s in This Episode

• Marcello Hernandez’s journey from college soccer to Saturday Night Live
• Gianmarco Soresi defends airplane seat reclining in Wired interview
• Pete Holmes discusses email and text management habits
• Jeff Foxworthy recalls origins of ‘You might be a redneck’ one-liners
• Jeff Foxworthy’s memorable Johnny Carson Tonight Show appearance

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You’re excited for the World Cup final today. I’ll be in the backyard watching it on the laptop. It’s summer.

I can’t go inside. Three in the afternoon. I’m sorry. Guys. Love the World Cup though.

USA Today caught up with Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing and does one thing well, maybe possibly he does two things. Well, is the second thing being funny? No, no, it’s playing soccer. Morselo Hernandez was recently spotted at a World Cup game, specifically Columbia versus Portugal. He was photographed in a suite with John Leguizamo and Matt Damon.

Pretty fancy. Marcelo said he introduced Matt Damon to both his mother and younger cousin. He says, of hanging with the actor, You’re next to Matt Damon for long enough that you like. If I don’t say something, I’m an idiot. So I asked questions and I try to get some game from him.

When I played soccer, if I was ever with somebody was playing on a better team or older than me, you try to ask them questions. USA Today tells us hernand has played soccer right up through college at John Carroll University, he quit three years into his sophomore year to pursue comedy. Boy, we could have had one of the great soccer players of all time. Instead, we have a guy who does one thing on Saturday Night Live, According to the university, after a day of classes in soccer practice at night, Hernandez would uber to comedy clubs to work on his set. Eventually he realized he had to choose whose Wisely he did not.

Hernandez recalls, I had to tell the team with tears in my eyes that I’m quitting. That drove me to work hard because I was like, if I’m gonna quit something that I’m kind of good at, I should get really good at this new thing. Unfortunately, Marcelo’s plan failed, and he got kind of good at the new thing, but not really good at it. He does one thing pretty well. Hernandez believes he’s probably better now at comedy than he ever was at soccer.

Oh, he must have been a terrible soccer player then. Despite playing Division IREE in college and earning an All first team honors in Miami as a high school senior must have been a pretty crappy league. Marseillo says soccer is a full time job because you’re taking care of your body, and I think that SNL is a full time job because of the schedule. You’re also taking care of your mind. You’re trying to write stuff.

It’s a much more mental game than a physical game. But pretty demanding for sure. I’m curious about that trying to write stuff part, because I haven’t seen it. Establishing comedian John Marco Siraisi continuing to do mainstream press. He talked to Wirecutter and had some travel tips for us.

Hi. I’m John Marco Siaisi, and I’m a stand up comedian and host of The Downside podcast. I travel a lot. I would say, at least on average, two flights a week. It gets constant.

It’s crazy. I am here today with advice for how to be the perfect airplane seat mate. Is it annoying if they lean the seat in front of you all the way back? It’s what it’s there for, that’s the function. It can be annoying.

I think, like if it’s brutal, you could ask, but that’s just what you sign up for. John Marco I’m a big fan. He’s the Community of the Year twenty twenty six. He of course is wrong about reclining. Reclining should be permanently banned on all planes.

You don’t need to recline. You just do it because the button’s there. Same as when everybody first got free minutes and everybody was on their cell phone all the time on trains and planes and being annoying. You were just doing it because you had the minutes. He didn’t have anything to say.

Same thing the reclining button. If we take the button away from you, you’ll be mad for like two seconds one time, and you will get over it. No more reclining. Let’s keep it technical. Wired had caught up with Pete Holmes.

Remember we did this a little bit last Sunday while I saved some of it Beach Friday. You know what I’m saying. Yeah, you know what I’m saying. Pete Holmes sells us he has eighty unread texts. He says, the thing I do most so often when I read a text is market is unread.

That was the greatest achievement of tech in the past ten years. If my wife texts me, it’s different, but a lot of times I feel people just bugging you. It’s like, do I work for you? When did we start? Somehow, all of life feels like we work at an office.

Even your friendships are like, I gotta get back to Jennifer. I think a change might be coming. AI is going to lead to so much disinformation in your inbox, even in your text, that we’re all going to slowly walk away. We’re just going to be like amish. We’re going to be hanging out in person and talking again.

We’re going to be meeting up and having coffees way more. How many unread emails does he have? Fifty five, four hundred and twenty six. He says, If you reply to an email more than three times, you have to start a fresh thread. I’m not going to dig through.

I’m getting better at being like you don’t have to do that. I don’t think it’s a show business thing. I just think I’m forty seven years old. What computer does Peede Holmes have? He says, a MacBook Air with the M two chip.

I had a slightly thin, kind of fun one that snapped in my backpacks. I just bought this pretty thoughtlessly, which kind of a shame. This was my I just need a laptop. Laptop. There have been other laptops I’ve had far more feelings about.

There was a MacBook era eleven inch that I still think about. It was the smallest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. And there was a MacBook that was seventeen inches. It was huge. I still think about those computers like their old friends.

Favorite news source of Pete Holmes none zero. I get my news from people. This is my unreliable, biased news source, and there’s nothing more fun than watching them fumble through the mismatch. They can’t even remember why. They’re angry and scared.

Favorite subreddit none. The folks over at McCalls asked Jeff Foxworthy what inspired the you who might be a redneck one lighters. Jeff said, back when I was starting out, would go to places like New York and LA. Guys would go, look, Jeff, I don’t hurt your feelings, but you got to take voice lessons and lose that stupid accent you got. It was all good natured fun, but they were always saying I was an old redneck from Georgia.

One night, I was in Michigan and I was telling them about how I wish I could be sitting at a tree in the morning because it was deer season. They were laughing and calling me a redneck. I said, if you don’t think you have rednecks in Michigan. The club we’re at now is attached to a bowling alley that is valley parking. That night, when I got back to the hotel, I decided to write ten ways you know if you’re a redneck.

The next night, not only do people laugh, they were pointing each other. That’s when I thought, if I could have ten, can I ride thirty? And if I can ride thirty, can I rate one hundred? Jeff? Of all the highlights in your career, what’s the most memorable?

Jeff said, If I had to pick one, it would be the first time doing Johnny Courson. Back then, there were only three channels. That if Johnny like you long enough to call you over the couch, that made your career. So I was out there doing five hundred shows a year, grinding. When I finally got the Tonight Show and could do my six minutes, they pulled me aside and tell me, if Johnny doesn’t like you, he’ll just clap.

If he likes you, he’ll give you the big OK sign, and if he loves you, he’ll call you over to the couch. At the end of my six minutes, I was scared to look because it was like Caesar deciding whether I live or die. But it looked over and there’s Johnny waving me over to the couch. My only plan when I started doing comedy was to be on Johnny Carson. I remember going home that night after the show, just laying there in the dark.

I stared at the ceiling and couldn’t stop thinking about how I’d made Johnny laugh. That’s all I wanted to do. Isn’t that fantastic? The Laconia Daily Sun caught up with my former coworker, Jim Brewer. Jim told the story about the time Jie Peshe, he was a guest on the show.

Brewer used to do a Peeshe impression. Jim meets Pesche and says he’ll never forget it. After about ten minutes, he didn’t know if he had disrespected the actor. Jim said, he confronts me. He gives me the whole Good Fellows Tommy seen scared the living snot out of me.

I was like, I’ll never do the sketch again, but then he said, ah, busted you, chops. I thought I was gonna have to pay him. Commission star trek Ruiner Pat Oswald talked about how he dresses for different occasions. He told Forbes, I have a travel suit, which is a nicely pair of jeans, really good walking shoes, and then this short sleeved hoodie with a pocket in front that I could shove stuff in when I’m in the airport. Then I have my wheeled two me suitcase there is a very specific one that fits in the overheads, and then my two me briefcase that slides onto it perfectly.

When I’m on stage, it’s always a T shirt and a button up shirt. Nothing crazy, but I dress nice for the stage. It’s same clothing during the days I have to travel. Keep it really simple. I don’t like to have too much stuff, especially on a travel day when I have enough anxiety because the airports have gotten so insane.

Now I make the preparation for travel just no brain or stuff. Here’s his travel ritual. Pat Noswald tells Forbes, this is gonna sound kind of insane. I bring a ziplock bag of PG tips, tea bags and When I land, I buy some honey, and I always asked for an electric tea kettle in the hotel room so I can make myself that specific cup of tea, two bags honey. That’s a reset for me and helps me calm down.

And The Toronto Guardian as a series where they speak with local comedians. How about comedian Nick Burden. Nick practices what he calls beautiful nonsense or freestyle yelling, a crowd heavy and prophesyational style shape more by people watching as a self described social butterfly than by any specific comedic influences. That’s very complicated there, Nick Burton. He explains, although I do have a lot of material, everyone has a story.

Because I do a lot of international shows, I enjoy hearing about different people’s lives, perspectives, et CETERA. Favorite comedian growing up Dave Chappelle, because literally every millennial group on the Spell Show. Favorite comedian right now sounds basic in mainstream, but honestly, there’s nobody more effortlessly funny than Shane Gillis. Dude’s an animal. Favorite place you’ve performed comedy Budapest, amazing city with a vibrant nightlife scene and super cool venues.

So many people from all over the world go there to party. So every time I’ve done a show there, you always get like fifteen plus nationalities in the audience. Super cool. He was asked to tell them a joke about Toronto, and he said, nah, I’m off the clock. That’s your comedy news for today.

At a summer Sunday, enjoy the World Cup. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Patrice O’Neill, Louis C.K., Marc Maron, Jim Gaffigan, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze’s rise to becoming America’s favorite comedian
• Nate’s early years in Chicago’s comedy scene at Second City and the Dugout
• Nate’s grind in New York City including barking for the Boston Comedy Club
• Marc Maron’s discovery of Nate at LaughFest 2012 and WTF podcast appearance
• Nate’s comedy festival wins and late night TV appearances with Fallon and Conan
• Nate’s Netflix and Amazon Prime special releases and commercial success
• Hello World becoming most-streamed original comedy special on Amazon Prime

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Caloroga Shark Media. Saturdays this summer for deep dives on single topics. Helloo, I’m Johnny Mac and let’s start in Chicago. It’s two thousand and two. We are in a rat infested basement.

Aprighetzi’s there with his friend Michael Clay. They were meeter readers at a water company back home, and they decided they were going to become comedians. They moved to Chicago and rented a basement they nicknamed the Dugout, and they signed up for classes at Second City, you know, the improv factory that gave you Bill Murray Tina Fey half of every SNL cast for fifty years. Nate did it for a minute and figured out pretty quickly improv was not his thing. He switched over to a stand up program run by a guy named Jim Routh.

Nate did his first set in April of two thousand and three and started picking up scraps around Chicago and back home in Nashville. H my name’s Nate. It might be hard to understand me. And sometimes I come in New York City. I’m just going from Nashville.

I’ll wear this shirt for a couple of reasons. So if I get questions like that, they just they’re oh okay. If people come in late, they know they don’t have to interrupt us by asking. They’ll just read my shirt and they can’t figure that out. And they’re probably from Nashville too.

You’re probably have the same shirt. I also wear it in case I get lost people not wearing the sinem It’s kind of like a dog leash. I got my name to know where written in the back. This part of the story matters because it skips the aprighetsy creation, myth that he’s this wholesome Nashville guy. His dad’s a magician, he does clean comedy.

It skips the part where he actually came up in Chicago. He wasn’t a regional guy who got discovered. He went did the unglamorous thing the comedians do, which has moved somewhere else with a real comedy scene, and get humiliated in front of small rooms until something clicks. In two thousand and four, Nate moved to New York City. He got a job as a barker for the Boston Comedy Club, which is a club in New York City, which meant standing in Greenwich Village handing out flyers in exchange for stage time at night.

You ever see these guys, they’ll be like, hey, do you like stand up comedy? It is a rough gig. Nate was also driving for FedEx and walking dogs during the day to make the rent. But back in those days, the Boston Comedy Club was a real room. Dave Chappelle came through there, Bill Burr, Patrise, O’Neill, Louis C.K.

Nate has talked about watching those guys from the back, paying close attention to comedians who were not doing clean comedy, and he has said it took close to a year before he got his first actual paying gig in New York City. He described those early years as doing as many as seven sets a night, bouncing between rooms, which by his account, is too many. Nate will tell you five is the realistic ceiling before you stop being able to tell what you’re even saying anymore, Nate forgets. He stayed in New York City for almost nine years, nine years of the comedy seller the Stand Carolines. That’s where where he got the education, the place where he built the timing and the writing instincts that everybody now associates with effortless dad comedy, except none of it was effortless, and none of it happened in Nashville.

He built this in rooms that were dirty and rowdier than almost anything he had ever performed himself. And the interesting part is that people in the quote unquote mainstream comedy culture openly liked him, despite Nate being nothing like them. The detail that the dirty comics of that era genuinely loved Nate tells you that the cleanliness was never a defensive posture. It’s just who he was tested against an audience that had every incentive to expose him if he wasn’t real. Part of the discovery story I don’t hear about involves Mark Maren.

Maren saw Nate at a festival called LaughFest back in twenty twelve and tweeted about him and brought him on to WTF that same year. Mark Maren not exactly known for a wholesome sensibility, not exactly the Nashville demo, but Maren always had a sharp eye for who’s actually good underneath the surface presentation, and he clocked Nate almost immediately. That WTAF appearance did something specific for Nate’s career, put them in front of an audience of comedy people, the exact opposite of the casual audience had been known for, and that audience responded because the writing was that strong. I think I got a fascination with people that live in the South. I want them to h to set me straight on it and and and make me appreciate it as a place where a lot of different kind of people live, and not just the kind of people that are stereotypically Southern.

Yeah, we’re like the rest of the country, you are, except New York and LA the only ones that are different. Oh really, I think so. So we’re the assholes. I mean sort of like y’all Like New York always baffles me because they’re like they are like so small on America. Yeah, and they’re just like this is how it is, and this is how y’all are.

And I’m like, in your own state, their people are not like that, Like they’re your own Like they’re You’re only thirty miles away from hill people, yeah, like I mean very close. Yeah. And my people that I can go talk to and get out. Let’s go to upstate in the town. Of seven and they get it.

They get me. They I can go to Walmart and walk around and breathe and feel good about myself. Around that time, Jim Gaffigan was advocating for Nate, calling him one of the best up and comers in the business. Jimmy Fallon found him around the same time and put him on Late Night in twenty thirteen, then brought Nate onto something called the Clean Cut Comedy Tour, which Nate used that year to win both the New York and Boston Comedy Festivals. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for Nate by got it.

Thank you, Thank you everybody that was exciting, you know, it felt it felt good, all right. I’m from Tennessee originally. Yeah, so that’s something. And I lived in New York though for years. I’m on board in New York.

I like it. It’s I like the driving. It’s like great, It’s very intense. It’s everybody just honks it, everybody NonStop. And that’s how it should be everywhere, you know, like growing up in the South, no one honks their horn ever.

People just sit at lights and they’re just like, if you want to go, I totally understand. Conan had him on the Old TBS Show back in two thousand and eight and brought him back multiple times over the years. Very excited to be out here. Love getting to travel a bit. I’ve been through a lot of different countries lately, and it’s always weird because like every time I go to another country, I don’t never know where it’s at.

Uh, because I’m from Tennessee. I didn’t learn about countries in school. I learned about Tennessee. I learned about the states that touched us in case they attacked, and then I was told the rest was Europe and that’s where the gays were made. So by the time most casual audiences eventually discovered Nate through a Netflix special The Actual Comedy Folks Maren Gaffigan Vallan Conan other comedy Snobs You Me had already spent close to a decade quietly insisting he was one of the best pure writers working.

Twenty fourteen, yelled At by a Clown eight number two on the Billboard Comedy Charts. Full Time Magic followed in twenty fifteen, the title of that one a nod to his dad’s actual career as a working magician. In twenty nineteen, The Tennessee Kid, That’s the One a lot of the comedy nerds points to is the moment the writing fully arrived was now confident specific less about proving it could be clean and more about just being funny on his own terms. No Gimmick twenty twenty One’s the Greatest Average American on Netflix got made a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album. Then he switched teams twenty twenty three, Hello World went to Amazon Prime.

That became the most streamed original comedy special in Amazon’s history in its first twenty eight days.

And then there was Saturday Night Live.

Nay Brighetzi hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time on October twenty eighth, twenty twenty three, was the Halloween episode Season forty nine, Your Musical Guest, The Foo Fighters. His monologue ran long, the response strong enough that both Vanity Fair and Entertainment Weekly both wrote him up as a standout. He would come back and host again less than a year later October fifth, twenty twenty four, and season fifty Your Musical Guest Coldplay That tells us a lot. That’s Lord Michael’s making a specific bet that Nate brigets he could deliver ratings and a clean broadcast back to back. Of course, the famous moment is from the first appearance Washington’s Dream.

He plays George Washington walking his soldiers through an absurdly over complicated system of measurements, weights and measures. Sir, Yes, as I dream of that one day our proud nation will measure weights and pounds, and that two thousand pounds shall be called a ton, and what would one thousand pounds be called, sir nothing. That became one of the most clipped sketches of the season, and Vulture actually ran a piece asking if Nate had cracked the SNL code, whether his specific deadpan, patient’s style had found a way to work inside of a format that chews up most posts. Lord Michaels does not invite anyone back to host within a year. By accident that, in my opinion, was peak Nate.

Dennis starts to get a little rocky, not too bad, but a little old. There was the Emmy hosting gig. In twenty twenty six, CBS announced Nate as the host of the seventy seventh Emmis. The monologue leaned into a bit built around Nate’s reputation, the premise that he was terrified of offending anyone in a room full of famous, powerful people, using his clean image as the engine of the joke rather than working around it. Look at us, we’re doing it, all right.

Welcome to the seventy seventh Emmy Awards. You know, it’s not a big one like seventy five or eighty, but it’s the one that gave me. It’s an honor to be here tonight. I mean, I’m so excited to be here. Just all you guys have worked so hard to get here.

I mean. And it’s confusing too, because it’s just like we even McIntyre feel like I’m about the Grammys, Kate Lanchette feel like I’m aout the Oscars. Crazy Tina Fey. I thought like they should have had her host, you know why. A lot of people were wondering, like why am I hosted?

I I don’t know what that was, but all right, it counts as a laugh. It’s on paper. Maybe it worked in the room. People felt it ran out of gas before it found its second gear. The reviews afterward were not kind.

Award show hosting is chewed up funnier people and even more successful than David Letterman comes to mind under better circumstances, but it exposed something about the gap between his strength and the longer format. SNL gives him four minutes with a premise he can control, and Emmy’s monologue is fifteen plus minutes addressing a room that you know isn’t there for you.

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And then Nate made a movie, an actual movie.

The Breadwinner hit theaters May twenty ninth, twenty twenty six. The pitch his wife, Mandy Moore’s character Lance a shark tank deal and now she he’s the one with the career and Nate’s stay at home dad bumbling around with the three daughters. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the movie. If you know Nate’s old deal, you know exactly what every scene looks like.

The reviews were not kind. Roger Ebertsite called it Burgatsley, which is pretty good.

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And then there was the UFC event on the south lawn of the White House.

It was UFC Freedom two fifty, which was also part of the President’s eightieth birthday celebration. Nate was there. He’s a massive UFC fan, and while there he took a photo with Cheryl Hines and her husband RFK Junior. Cheryl posted a photo of the three of them together in the background. Jd Vance comments blew up on Nate’s Instagram.

People had seen him four times were swearing that they were done. W camal Bell wrote a whole substack about it. Some outlets started calling Nate Maga comedian Nate berghatsy and called him part of Team Fascism. His representative put out a statement saying Nate is not political, nor is anything he produces, and called him a huge UFC fan who just wanted to watch fights. All that brings us to Nateland.

In twenty twenty three, Nate launched Nateland Entertainment, not a touring brand, on a merch line and actual production company. The state ad mission is family friendly content across stand up, special sketches, scripted shows, podcast music, the whole apparatus.

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And then he started to actually use it to actually build other comedians’ car…

He’s done great with that. Look at the Nateland roster. Dusty Slay, Aaron Webber who got a debut special produced by Nate Nateland, Nick Thune got one, Derek Stroop he was on Netflix, Julian McCullough, Joe Zimmerman, Lachlan Patterson, There was the Nateland podcast, Nateland at Sea, and actual cruise built around the brand. So while down in Austin, Tony Hinchcliff and Joe Rogan and Gang are doing one thing, Nate is building a quieter, more family oriented version of the same idea content company that gives emerging, clean leaning comedians, a real production budget, a real platform, and a real audience that already trusts the Nateland lame. So what do you do when you’re at the top of your game despite some minor stumbles in twenty twenty six, you start to think about walking away from it to open a theme park, an actual theme park on the site of Opryland, USA and Nashville that closed in nineteen ninety seven.

Nate plans to build the next great American theme park, a one hundred acre land named after himself. It will be called Nateland, he told the Wall Street Jourtle I’m the Mickey Mouse. The initial design for the park is divided into three sections based on Nate’s roots. Part of it will be Tennessee, part of it his journey to New York, and the rest He’s reach into the world beyond is as people magazine. Guests will enter through a nineteen ninety style mall.

The Tennessee themed land will have roller coasters at a donkey dive. The New York area will have street performers live shows at a ride through a simulated Times Square.

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Meanwhile, the third section will have stunt performers and interactive shows.

Nate says, I’m in the ticket selling business. That’s all I’ve ever been in. That’s Daily Comedy News for Today, Back tomorrow with a regular episode.