Callaroga Shark Media. They are coming for Jerry Seinfeld. Hi, I'm Johnny
Mack with your daily Comedy News. Pretty much ripped up the plan for today.
The first half will be single topic. You can hear my change,
my delivery, a little bit of drop down. I'm not doing the hyperage
gentamen, I'm gonna We're just gonna talk here. They're coming for Jerry.
A headline I saw on Yahoo sourcing the Daily Beasts. But the Daily Beast
had a different article. But this one I saw on Yahoo the headline Jerry
Seinfeld's seventeen year old girlfriend saga resurfaces after Duke walk out. I'm not surprised,
giving that many headlines this week featured both the words Stern and Seinfeld.
And you know, back in the day, Howard was quite vocal about Jerry's
dating history and not so much in recent history. I discussed that, and
I wrote about in the substack, so you can hear my previous thoughts on
that from the Yahoo piece. Jerry Seinfeld's problematic relationship with a high schooler he
was well into his thirties has been grossing out a new generation this week,
just after Duke students staged a walk out in protest of his commencement speech.
Yeah, I remember back in the day, and let's see nineteen ninety four.
So nineteen ninety four, I'm twenty five and I thought it was weird
in nineteen ninety four. I've been amazed these last thirty years that everybody was
like, oh, yeah, whatever, we love Jerry Seinfeld's great show.
But this story seems to be back now. Daily b slash yeah who writes
a quick excerarch will bring up numerous tweets that referenced Seinfeld's teenage girlfriend from the
nineteen nineties, who he picked up in Central Park when she was still a
senior at the private Nightingale Bamford School in Manhattan. According to People's cover story
about the pair, at the time, she was seventeen, he was thirty
eight. According to People in March nineteen ninety four, sources told the magazine
that the young lady's family approved of the match, as Seinfeld whisked her around
the country to watch him perform and even meet his mother. The young lady
told People, I'd like my life to be normal and just go about being
a student. Jerry said at the time, I'm Shoshana is a person,
not an age. At the time, Seinfeld's friend George Wallace said, I
think it's serious between them. She's beautiful and mature. She's good for him.
Yahoo Daily Beast writes. As this type of normalizing media coverage continued for
Seinfeld, Howard Stern was one of the first public figures to call the comedian
out for his romantic interest in a minor. That's what I was curious about
this week, you know, when Jerry took a shot at Howard. I
was curious to see if Howard would go rabid and bring this back up.
Howard did not, but others have. Stern sang a parody song about Seinfeld's
relationship at the Miss Howard Stern New Year's Eve badget in nineteen ninety three,
where Stern kruoned quote Seinfeld's girl was seventeen and innocent with double d's. He
saw those breasts and flipped his lid for a real young, busty high school
kid. Again, we're talking about multiple topics here. Don't forget Howard Stern,
the great interviewer. Never mind that he had Miss Howard Stern Newyear's Eve
pageant nineteen ninety three. He is the great interviewer, but I digress for
Yahu slash the beast. He also called Seinfeld a horny, lonely TV geek
and the young woman jailbait. In the song Elsewhere, the lyrics asked,
can't he find girls his age to date? At first, Seinfeld denied knowing
the young woman's real age when confronted about the relationship during an interview with Howard
Stern the following year, but on stern Show a month later, he said,
I in realized she was so young. This article says the relationship continued
nonetheless. A few years later, in a Vanity Fair profile timed to the
finale of Seinfeld, Jerry revealed that he almost got married to his much younger
girlfriend. I know everyone looked at this relationship is here's this rich TV guy
and here's this young, hot girl. What was like that at all?
We were very much in love, but the timing wasn't quite right. That
same year, Jerry met his current wife, Jessica. Those two married in
December nineteen ninety nine. Jerry was forty five, Jessica was twenty eight.
Another sidebar here from Wikipedia. In June nineteen ninety eight, Jessica married Eric
Niederlander, a theatrical producer, etc. Etc. So that's June nineteen ninety
eight. In early August, after the wedding, on a honeymoon in Italy,
she met Jerry Seinfeld. Niederlander filed for divorce in October nineteen ninety eight
after only four months of marriage. Interesting now the Daily Beast Proper the Daily
Beast website. In an opinion piece by Seth Simons, Seth went all in
everything that hasn't been said, Seth Simons has said. Seth writes, one
would be forgiven for wondering what world Jerry Seinfeld is living in. Where the
extreme Left, as he claimed in a recent interview with The New Yorker,
has purged American television of good comedy. For all the Left's mighty powers,
it couldn't quite manage the halt production of abbodat Elementary Superstore, Crazy ex Girlfriend
of the Good Place, Nor did it manage to stave off dark, even
transgressive cable fare like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Righteous Gemstones Atlanta or
Penn fifteen. The Democratic Socialists of America certainly didn't stop Seinfeld's erstwhile collaborators Julia
Louis Dreyfuss and Larry David from making Veep and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Seinfeld,
whose net worth recently past one billion dollars, has long fashioned himself an a
political comedian, But of course he's far from an a political figure, reading
from the Daily Beast here, a long time donor to democratic candidates and causes,
he's also been a full throated supporter of the far right state of Israel,
not so much in the abstract sense of celebrities who waxed poetically about Israel's
right to exist than in the concrete, enthusiastic sense of a man who once
took his family to an IDF fantasy camp in the West Bank. There he
participated in shooting training with displays of combat according to the camp, and posed
playfully with the same soldiers. In Seth Simon's Opinion Peace, he writes,
it seems only natural that his public opinion turns against Israel, so too should
it sour on Seinfeld. Last month, his wife Jessica, contributed at least
five thousand dollars to a pro Israel counter protest at UCLA. She later claimed
the funds went toward a peaceful demonstration out the violent mob that attacked a pro
Palestinian encampment last Sunday at the Duke Thing, Jerry said, it's worth the
sacrifice of occasional discomfort to have some laughs. Seth Simon's rights, What exactly
does Seinfeld know about discomfort? His creative put since ending his eponymous sitcom twenty
six years ago, this week has consisted chiefly of the animated B movie.
By the way, I only realized this week that B movie was upon on
B Movies. I just was like, oh, it's a movie about bees.
I never got the joke, Jerry, Sorry, maybe it's me.
A TV series in which he drives luxury automobiles with his friends, a short
lived reality show called The Marriage ref various sitcom appearances as himself, a Netflix
special in which he complained about texting and unfrosted. Now in the opinion piece
in The Daily Beast by Seth Simons, and I've shared this in the Facebook
group Daily Comedies podcast group. Seth rights, Comedians, especially very famous comedians,
could do pretty much anything and come away with their reputations intact. Now
we're gonna get a little wider here. Louis c k has released four specials
since confessing to sexual misconduct in twenty seventeen, one of which won a Grammy
Award. Jeff Ross accused of grooming a teenage girl and a virtually forgotten twenty
twenty New York magazine Expose just featured prominently and Netflix's roast Tom Brady. Seinfeld
himself at a relationship with a seventeen year old girl when he was a thirty
eight year old TV star. If that didn't affect his legacy, why would
anything else. Jeff Ross floated through the controversy largely thanks to an LA comedy
scene unbothered by inappropriate sexual relationships, perhaps because it was built on them,
and less than a year later he was sharing a stage with Dave Chappelle.
Seth writes, do you remember the twenty twenty one child sex abuse lawsuit against
SNL cast member Ratio Sands that implicated Lorne Michael's Jimmy fallon Tracy Morgantina fe and
Seth myers, that's okay, neither does anyone else. Comedians protect comedians.
The industry operates as a social club with a code of silence so strong you
think it must be a police force. This is some beasier. Normally on
a Thursday, I would record Friday and Saturday back to back. Sometimes I'll
do Friday and Sunday in case I think there's gonna be news. I'm not
recording the weekend yet. I feel like this could bubble up a little bit.
Seth continues, whether an open my comic podcast or a headliner or a
TV star comedy is essentially a business of favors. You put me on your
show, I'll put you on my show. And he brought up something I
recently observed. Damie Schumer starred and Unfrosted after hiring Seinfeld's daughter Sasha to write
on the latest season of Inside Amy Schumer and then later on Life in Beth.
Washington Post headline Jerry Seinfeld's media tour could have been a plot on Seinfeld.
The comedian wanted to put his Netflix movie on Frost in the Spotlight.
He ended up there instead. This is our third Jerry Seinfelder article today.
The critics waged in, the protesters wait in the whole of social media weight
in, But this is Jerry Seinfeld. Those minds he stepped on exploded only
with strawberry filling. Seinfeld has sworn he has no interest in making another film
or even recording another stand up special. He just wants to tour, to
do comedy, to continue in making people slightly uncomfortable, and therefore continue being
slightly uncomfortable himself. Whatever he's doing works for him, so why would he
change. Maybe he'll pull a titleist out of a blowhole once in a while,
but he doesn't need to. As he told Duke's graduating class, I'm
seventy. I'm done. The telegraph headline, why the world stop laughing at
tone deaf rich guy Jerry Seinfeld, the billionaire king of comedy, has been
booed, called out of touch, and accused of making the worst Netflix movie
ever? Or does he care? Had this been an isolated incident, would
have been easy to dismiss as little more than a piece of performative rudeness,
orchestrated by a gang of attention seeking rabble rousers. Those are the Duke students.
In any case, he could hardly have been surprised by the reaction,
given that Sparbacks twenty fifteen, Seinfeld had advised his fellow comics not to perform
at university campuses. Seinfeld claims to value the cut and thrust of being on
stage in front of audiences who treat him the same way as any other performer,
But no other performers in such venues have the luxuries of private jets,
multiple expensive residences all over the world complete. If the rumors are accurate with
a seventeen thousand dollars coffee maker, that's when you know they're coming for Jerry.
Wouldn't they start to drag up that stuff. A look at him,
He's got a seventeen thousand dollars coffee maker. I don't know what happened when
the sun came up on Thursday morning, but the universe said, Jerry,
we're coming for you. If the rumors are accurate, with a seventeen thousand
dollars coffee maker and well paid pr staff on hand to flatter his considerable ego
at all times. I met Jerry once. He was a guest on Jim
Brewers video show way back in the day when I worked. It's serious.
Jerry was what you'd expect. Walked in, Hey, how you do like
not looking to be your friend, not being a jerk, didn't demand anything,
didn't want to hang out with you, didn't w want to not hang
out with you. It was just exactly the way to think aloof Jerry Seinfeld.
Ah, right, where we're going. We go to the studio,
all right, we're doing this. You record the show, all right,
Thanks everybody, and it leaves. That was my one experience with Jerry Seinfeld.
Telegraph wrapped up with dear what I ask whether the angry mob but Duke
should have been complaining less about Seinfeld's political stances and more about how he seems
to have forgotten the art of being funny. Wow, many things could be
true at once. Is Jerry seinfelt funny? Yes? Is Jerry Seinfeld quote
still funny? Sure? Absolutely was unfrosted funny. I thought it was fantastic.
Did a thirty eight year old man hang around with a seventeen year old
girl? Seems to be a lot of evidence. So I don't know the
world's comfort Jerry should be interesting. Let's take this break. Who Bill Burrs
in Ashville tonight? He spoke to Nashville's Scene Bill Saiden, I love going
to the South and like I deliverly act like I don't understand you guys.
If I go to Red State and make fun of Red State stuff, I'm
not just gonna tell them what they want to hear. And if I got
a Blue States, you know it make fun of Hillary and all that kind
of stuff. I think the South gets a really bad rap. White people
like to act like all the racism, all the racest white people just in
the South. It's been my experience that they're everywhere. It's kind of like
how people like to act like all the pedophiles are in Hollywood. It's like
you don't remember to catch a predator. They did a bunch of seasons on
that show. They never had to go to Hollywood to find one. That's
a funny line. Since he's a comedian. He was asked about cancel culture.
It was almost like a political campaign, like say no to drugs,
you leave no child behind. It was this thing. It wasn't even liberals.
It was extreme liberals, which are no different than the religious nuts that
are way on the right. Really got out of controlled. It died under
its own weight because she couldn't get enough people behind it. And now it's
funny because the people that were doing it are not trying to walk away from
it and trying to say nobody got canceled. It wasn't that bad. It's
just classic toxic behavior. You do it, and then years later you get
called on it, you act like it never happened. My job is to
make people laugh their ass off, and I think I'm really good at it.
I also feel like I'm just starting to hit my stride and I have
a lot left in the tank. Awful news for me. Netflix has confirmed
that Adam Sandler will be returning as Happy Gilmore. Oh. They tweeted Happy
Gilmore's back exclamation point. Adam Sandler will apprize his iconic role in a brand
new movie coming in Netflix. A. Sandler then said, in a video
shared by the PGA Tour, It's been twenty five years since I've done this,
meaning played golf. Let's see what happens. I'm scared, Shooter McGavin.
This is for you. That's just awful news and better news. Mack
packer Andy Samberg is working on something called The Robots Go Crazy This for Amazon
MGM Studios. Deadline reports the studio has snapped up the film, which it
describes as a hot package. It's a little naughty sounding, isn't it.
So what's happening in this hot package? Well, Colleider says plot to tails
are being kept under wraps. Yeah, you don't want anyone to know what
happens in the Robots Go Crazy. Clyder says it is known that it's an
action comedy. Presumably the film splot will involve robots who will then go crazy.
No other details available. I am exhausted. Sydney Comedy Festival is two
days left. They'll see if I can find a clip or something. I
can't find any clips. But Ruben Solo must be doing well because they've added
another show to his program called Please Clap. The Barefoot review said four and
a half stars, a unique style all his own. These scotsmen four stars,
gleefully daft nonsense. I enjoy some daft nonsense. Oh, Nikki Osborne,
she does have a clip, I'd take it back. Let's listen.
I have to play the clip in advance. This is a little naughty,
and I've edited for pacing. Little naughty, little naughty, but it's a
good joke. Let's listen. Do you know how you tell if your husband's
been watching porn? You get him a fit bit because it messes the pendulum
that way, if he ducks off to the bathroom, toumps out six thousand
steps. Lady, you don't you got the night off. Capital FM Drivetime
gave her five stars and funniest stand up I've seen. The Upside News also
five stars, funny and heartfelt. Osborne tells it like it is, and
that is your comedy news for today. All right, let's see what happens
with Jerry tomorrow. I can tell you already Tomorrow's podcast is pretty good,
even if nothing happens with Jerry, just because of the amount of stuff I
bumped from today to Saturday. So you don't want to miss Saturday's podcast.
There's a Tim Dillon thing, a Bobby Kelly thing about the Tom Brady roast,
a locket bumped. It's all good tomorrow, all right, see you then,