Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. If
you skip the weekends, the weekend was really good. Saturday, my hour
long interview with Mark Malkoff, Sunday's episode, and I'm the first one a
cop to a lot of times on the weekend, there's filler stuff. Yesterday's
episode was all new stuff that I had found when I recorded, and it's
really strong, including a fun Triumph story and a really fun Rob Schneider story.
So if you miss the weekend, check that out. And premium subscribers,
boy, on Saturday morning, they were treated to three three and a
half minutes of me talking to my phone as I drove home from the National
Donuts Chain. I mean, what a treat that alone worth the four ninety
nine for premium subscribers Today is good too. A late night joke from Jimmy
Fallon. In an effort to boost the birth rate, Tokyo was launching the
first government run dating app. That's nice. Apparently in Japan they have government
benefits and government with benefits love it. John Mullaney profiled by Indie Wire he
talked about that late night show. Mulaney said the pitch was Netflix wanted a
show every night coinciding with the festival. They didn't know what they wanted.
They brought it to me and said, would you want to produce this and
be some part of it? And I was like that, we didn't know
what this is. Do you want to do it? I was intrigued by
six live nights, the run of it, and the finite amount of time.
Originally, Melanie didn't even plan to host it. I knew we wouldn't
be able to start until February, even in pre production, and I thought,
Oh, that's so fun. We'll just get a staff together, get
a lot of great people together, and then we'll just have to go,
go, go, and then it'll be done. May tenth. I was
kind of ripping off The Chris Rock Show. That's Chris Rock's nineteen ninety seven
HBO series. He had Johnny Cochran on, and I remember watching that as
a kid and going, Oh, he's having on who he thinks is interesting.
I filed that away as like, oh, of course you do that.
If you can get somebody interested in who would be really cool to an
audience, everybody wins. And so I had Marcia Clark. All right,
he has now addressed some of my concerns with the program. Mlanie explained,
you have Jerry Seinfeld and he's sitting next to a coyote expert that was anorth
star from the beginning, so the fact that that specifically came together was really
great. When pitching the experts, Malanie assured them they weren't going to be
a punchline of the joke. I learned quickly you have to say, oh,
we're not making fun of you, which I would have never thought you
have to say. But of course they're saying it's a comedy show and we're
comedians, and I was like, no, no, no, I'm much
more interested in you than I am in the other comedians. Fan response to
Everybody's in la In particularly felt really gratifying because most of the comedy I've done,
like Sack, Lunch Bunch or Oh Hello, is actually about external topics
and not about my own life or psyche or whatever. Was never about my
personal life. To me, I mainly make fun of TV shows and random
things I've seen. So this show, being entirely external in a way,
in the end becomes the most personal thing you can do. I promise you,
I think more about earthquakes and ghosts than I do my own life.
All right, John mulaney, are we getting more of this show? M'laney
said, I'm really not sure. I think what I loved about the show
so much is that every sort of minute looked like it was about to get
out of control in every possible way. M'lanie talked about the callers. Johnny
mack has pointed out some of the callers were kind of killing the show.
Mlanie said, but there was one story I won't name, but I thought,
are you kidding? I was so bored, and I was like,
you got to hold it together. You did invite the calls. My biggest
takeaway was I feel like on Larry King Live or on drivetime Radio, people
knew what a call in segment was. They hit the ground running and they
go, yeah, I got three things to say about Lendy Dichster. But
our callers tended to be younger. I'd be like, hi, and they'd
be like, so, I know, you talk about earthquakes. Get tell
the story. You got to come in hot, exactly, John mulaney.
And that is why you need a producer. That's what I've been saying.
Rob Schneider in the news again, this time international. The Daily Mail writes
American comedian Rob Schneider slam's cancel culture, claiming it has changed the world of
comedy for the worst. He told Channel seven's Sunrise that audiences are getting too
upsight about what you could joke about on TV, which is why he prefers
stand up comedy. Although if you're doing a hospital benefit, be careful booking
Rob Schneider, see yesterday's episode for why people get uptight about stuff. That's
why it's important I have a dark theater to perform in where people can hear
things that they can't hear on TV. Schneider is currently touring Australia. The
idea is to be able to express things and let it out. People can
laugh at things. It's not attacking anybody, although some people claim it is.
It's tough for now, But at the same time, anytime people get
uptight about something is an opportunity. You have to get it in a way
the audience can laugh. Schneider was asked about Happy Gilmour too. He said,
I think Sandler just can't stop making movies. He doesn't know what else
to do with his life. I finally got around watching some comedy specials.
Joe Coy Boy, that review I read on Friday, it was on point.
The guy was saying how it looked like a comedy special and there were
no jokes. Boy, I agree my notes where Joekoy is all energy,
stop cursing and tell a joke. It was just like all vibe. He's
very charismatic. The energy's there, but dude, do some material. It
was five minutes fifty seconds in before the first solid joke land. I won't
spoil it. It's very solid, but it was like, come on,
dude, life's too short. I bailed on that. Sorry, Joe Coy,
Life's too short. I bailed on that one. So I switched over
to Rachel Feinstein and the complete opposite. She gets right to it. I
don't even know if she said hello and immediately gets into the material. Is
it her special life changing? No, it's a nice, solid hour of
comedy. I've added to my best of twenty twenty four list all the way
at the bottom, but it's on the list. It's fine. It's a
nice hour. As I analyze it, are some of her stories exaggerated?
Fake? Sure? Absolutely, but she's doing characters and the voices of the
various firemen she does in her act. I feel like I know these people.
I've met these people, so I like Rachel a lot. The Closer
could have been a little stronger. The special just kind of ends, but
it's nice. The TV grim Reaper reported that although The Roast of Tom Brady
did two hundred and seventy nine million minutes in its first live night, it
averaged two hundred and thirty nine million minutes a day for the following week.
Wow, a lot of people watched it after the fact. I guess it
had really good buzz. Last week Jimmy Kimmel had Kamala Harris on seems they
made an edit and we didn't know about stuff. A video shared on social
media by an anti war group called Code Pink. They described themselves as a
feminist grassroots organization working to end US warfare and imperialism and support peace and human
rights initiatives. In their video, pro Palestinian activists of the audience at Kimmel
can be seen interrupting the interview with Harris by shouting phrases like stop the genocide
and you're a murderer to Harris. Kim Will tells the crowd, you're interrupting
my flow. Security personnel appear to remove the person disrupting the proceedings. Kim
Will tells Harris, sorry about that, and then quips if anybody else has
something to say, this is the time. The video then cuts to a
different person interfering with the taping, a security officer and then is on the
video saying you are under arrest at the moment for interfering with a live television
broadcast. It is unclear if that person was Jimmy Kimmel's security secret service LAPD
or someone else. Code Pink is now demanding the Late Night Show address and
apologize for the un necessary use of brutal force. Yikes. The Washington Post
had a large profile of Joel Kim Booster. Joel Kim Booster's publicist, you
earned your money this week. Boy. This was a wax job. As
a former coworker used to say, you know, that's when you bring your
car over to somebody's house and they wax it down and make it look nice.
That's what that term means. The Post writs, for a while,
Joel Kim Booster's brand was oversharing. Joel says if I was feeling something,
everybody online would know about it. Now it's just like if I'm feeling bad,
I don't want any of these lunics to know about it because they'll just
go for the kill. I'm very happy being a Dalist gay celebrity. I
can't imagine what it would be like if street people knew who I was.
I have a very strict do not engage policy. I hardly ever spawned anyone's
sweets or comments publicly, or dms for that matter. The Santa Fe Reporters
spoke to Brian Reagan. Brian was an ECON major until his football coach suggested
he switch. Reagan said, I took a speech class and for one of
the speeches, we had to try to be humorous. So I wrote this
speech and killed But not only did it feel good. Remember the teacher in
the back, This woman was laughing like crazy, and I was thinking,
I've never impressed a teacher in my life with anything that. I remember walking
back to the dorm after the class and I was on a cloud, thinking
I don't feel like this when I walk back from any of my other classes.
So I was like, whatever that was, I know, I want
that in my life. Has comedy changed since Brian Reagan started. Yeah,
it's like anything else that grows and evolves. In fact, if I were
young now trying to get in to stand up comedy, I don't even know.
I wouldn't how to do it. When I started comedy clubs which just
opening around the country, and the way you got on stage was going to
open mic at a comedy club. Now a lot of comedy clubs don't even
have open mics. The Washington Post has been covering the DC comedy scene.
Some comedians doing well there include Jasmine Burton, a practicing attorney. Jasmine started
in comedy a little over two years ago. My long term goal is to
be a late night television show host like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Coberer or Trevor
Noah. A lot of hosts get their start in comedy, so I thought
it'd be a great way to get my name out there and start preparing me
for the big leagues. I'm the perfect combination of West Coast and East Coast
swagger. I'm known for my high energy, witty punch lines, and infusion
of the law and my life experiences in a co When you see me.
I want you to feel like you are just like me, or have a
best friend that is. I love to talk about law school at Howard University
and my career now and how policy affects us in our day to day lives.
Well, tell us about a time you bummed, Jasmine said. One
time I was trying new material and was not going well. One audience member
yelled keep your day job, and although they meant it as an insult,
I actually found it to be extreme sound financial advice, so I thanked them
for that. That's really funny, and that is your comedy news for today.
My voice is shot. I recorded Sunday and Monday back to back.
That half ass triumph impression killing me. Don't do a triumph impression. You'll
destroy your voice. See tomorrow