Callaroga shark media. Man, there's so much going on. I could seriously
pre tape next week and tating next week off. I've been bouncing so many
stories. I am Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Netflix just dominating
everything. And if you listen, last week, I was doing a lot
of stories about Jerry Seinfeld. I appreciate someone who's self aware. Listen to
this clip. I've trimmed it down a little bit for pacing and to get
to the good stuff. But here, enjoy this, guys. Oftentimes when
an actor is promoting a new movie, let's say a Netflix movie, they
have to do a lot of press, sometimes too much press. Here to
comment is a man who did too much press. Oh my god, I
gotta stop. Yeah, you've you've kind of been everywhere. I mean,
I've seen you. You've been. I even saw you on Rich eisen I
wasn't on Rich Eyson, No, you were. I saw it. I
like Rich Eyeson. I find him accessible. Yeah. Yeah, it's a
sports show. I know I know that now so well for the viewers,
how does someone know that they're doing excessive press? Well, that's the thing
you don't know. I mean until someone who cares about you, shows you
a video package and you see yourself with people with these names Hoda Morocca,
Chanel Vlad And I know I can't undo all the press I've done, but
I want to help other people. If you're struggling with press, you're not
alone. I'm talking to you, Ryan Gosling. When I started doing press
ron Frost that I was like, you funny, good looking. Now look
at me. Do you think this is how I wanted to spend my twenty
sixth birthday. Nice job, Jerry. So yesterday I published a bonus episode.
In the bonus episode, I discussed at length the roast of Tom Brady,
What an amazing event. I also discussed Kat Williams, and I gave
you short shrift to Bin. I realized after I published it. When I
read the substack version of the podcast, I'm like, oh, I probably
should have actually talked about Mulaney on this podcast, So let me do that
right now. Friday night, I watched John Mulaney Everybody's Live in LA and
for the first ten to fifteen minutes I thought eighties letterman had come back to
me. And I'm talking about the very very early Lucy Goosey brown set,
not the blue set, the brown set David Letterman, when you'd get a
lot of Chris Elliot and a lot of Larry Budd Melman. John came out,
he looks great with the longer hair, did a nice monologue, did
the equivalent of a desk piece about the neighborhoods of Los Angeles, although he
was technically standing. And then Jerry Seinfeld comes out, and I'm watching this
and I'm like, give this guy a late night show right now. This
is amazing again, Lucy Goosey. They did a field bit where they had
a guy up in the hill somewhere waiting for coyotes. The bit kind of
went nowhere and fell flat in that very funny early eighties Letterman way of we're
just throwing stuff to see what happens. Conan kind of had that vibe on
his Late show, and I'm loving it. Right I'm thinking, sign Milleniu
up. So Jerry comes out and he's paired up with a coyote expert.
This is Friday Night Show, not Last Night with John Stewart, which is
weird and quirky. Now the coyote guy who's sitting there with Jerry Seinfeld and
John Mullaney held his own and was entertaining. Jerry's doing the what the hell
is this show kind of vibe and it's just fun. And now the mistakes
started to happen. Somebody decided it was a good idea to take a live
call. Now. I have worked in audio radio, podcasting, satellite broadcasting
since nineteen ninety two, professionally since nineteen eighty seven, including college. I
will tell you this, civilians cannot tell a story. If you're doing say,
political talker radio, which I've done, you coach the caller to get
right to their point, and I'm telling you, after the first sentence it's
diminishing returns and hang up on the caller and get the ball back to your
host. So Netflix's producer decided, okay, we've got John mulaney and Jerry
Seinfeld, let's take a call from a civilian. And this nice woman starts
telling her coyote story, but she doesn't know how to tell a story,
and Jerry's trying to save it, and it goes on and on and on,
and I'm like, you have Jerry Seinfeld sitting there, what are you
doing. They finally hang up with her and they don't have commercials. It's
Netflix, so they throw it to a prepackaged thing where I don't even remember
who. It was, a bunch of comedians going house hunting. The packaged
bit was so bad that I went upstairs and started talking to my wife.
That's not a rip at my wife. I was just like, not in
Eddie, hurry to get back to the TV. By the time I came
back downstairs, Seinfeld was gone, and I'm like, you had Jerry Seinfeld
and you wasted it on a caller, and now Jerry's gone. What are
you doing? That said? I think there's a lot of potential in Milaney
as a late night host. And by late night, I mean yeah,
ten pm on Netflix, maybe even a little earlier for US East Coast people
like to go to bed Hi. I think that would be fantastic. I'm
not sure we need five nights a week. That's a lot of content to
consume here in the mid twenties. But if you gave me Mulanie, I
don't know, Monday to Thursday, Tuesday to Thursday, three times a week,
keep it short, maybe do a tight forty five minutes, I think
it could be really good. My other note to John Mullaney and the producers.
Teach this to my college students. I teach this professionally as a broadcasting
executive. Johnny Carson had it right. When you have a good guest,
shut up and let your guest be funny. The anecdotal example is Johnny would
have on, say Burt Reynolds. Burt Reynolds would tell a great story.
Johnny would sit there and laugh, and the next day at work everybody would
say, did you see Carson. So John Mullaney, you're very funny yourself,
But when Jerry Seinfeld sitting there, just shut up, stay out of
the way, and definitely don't take calls anyway. Mullanie a lot of potential,
A lot of potential hasan minaj at the Netflix Festival said We've all failed
at our lives. But if you ever failed so bad that you bring back
John Stewart is a great joke. He said, I saved a dying institution.
You're welcome. John himself performed at the Netflix is a Juket Festival.
This from the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. John played the Greek Theater Friday Night,
six thousand seats outdoors. Ricky Valez opened and Ricky Set. He talked
about having a Jewish wife, a friend who has four dads, which is
one dad away from an Ocean's eleven movie, being a nineties kid, Dodgeball
and Joe Biden. Next up Josh Johnson from The Daily Show. He commented
on the surroundings. The Greek Theater has a really good view, and he
said not every show's like this, and he talked about staying in a hotel
with friends, companies pretending to be your friend, and deconstructing KFC. Mike
Birbiglia. Next up is set per the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. Consisted of
imagining his daughter as a fifteen year old, his daughter doing ballet, and
his marriage. Sarah Silverman then kept her set pretty tight. She said she's
in the process of starting over after releasing a special last year that is a
pretty good special if you haven't seen it. She admitted she was working out
material that her topics included what it's like to be on tour, a fly
sketch she wrote for Phil Hartman on SNL and targeted ads. Musical act Gary
Clark Junior came up and did four songs that makes me go huh why with
the eight hundred pound. Grella said it was a fun way to break up
the comedy and a special treat to see him play a mini concert. Okay,
we Les came back out and introduced John Stewart instead. Jimmy Kimmel walked
out. He did about a minute and joked about what it's like to visit
John Stewart's home. Kim Old joked, what is Netflix getting out of the
festival? This is six thousand people not home watching Netflix. That's a good
joke. John Stewart came out, his hair whiter than when he left The
Daily Show, and he said, this is what I look like now.
He joked about how aging is a humbling process, how he tore his rotator
cuff, and how he to use his reading glasses to entertain himself. He
also talked about the presidential candidates, a dehydrated Mitch McConnell, and voters flipping
from Obama to Trump, which reminds me to plug the Ballot podcast. We're
putting that out five days a week, sometimes seven days a week, depending
on what the candidates do. That's been a lot of fun lately. Ballot
wherever he shows BA double lot, We've realized people don't know how to spell
ballot. Even on the back end, we spelled it with two te's.
Stewart talked about anti Semitism issues, what the anti woke will get to that
in a second, and a bit about buying an AR fifteen to test gun
restrictions. Eight hundred pound Gorilla said an evening of comedy that cannot be missed.
As for the anti wokeness, John questioned, what are you losing?
You can't say anything anymore? What do you want to say? Shut the
f up? And by the way, people who talk about anti woker the
biggest efing wises you'll ever find. I'm just so tired of it, the
woke stuff. You lose nothing. I'm a comedian. I've lost two words
in thirty five years. Honestly, are you that unimaginative that you can't figure
it out? I don't Liberals say, don't say Joe Biden is old.
Don't say what people see with their own eyes. You could say it,
he can't hear us. I know you know how efing old he is.
I know you don't want to say it because Trump is so scary, but
he's so effing old when you watch him on television. You're nervous, aren't
you. I'm not saying that Biden can't contribute to society, he just shouldn't
be president. Wanda Sykes returned to the Dolby Theater for the first time since
two thousand and two, and she joked, I bet you don't remember I
was here that night. That night in question the oscars. You may have
heard about this Will Smith incidents. Yes, the eight hundred pound Gorilla was
at that show too. They've got good credentials and more free time than I
have. I would have loved to have hit this thing. Her opener Keith
Robinson. Keith has had two strokes. He is aided by a cane,
and he talked about how his life has changed and even had fun with the
crowd. Wanda Sykes came out, talked about the Oscars. She talked about
turning sixty married life for time management, the writer strike, the importance of
voting, and why she stopped drinking so much. Gorilla writes, if you've
only seen Sykes in her specials and haven't seen her live yet, we definitely
recommend it next time she's in a city near you. There's a certain energy
in the room that can't be replicated, even in the best stand up special
from The Daily Beast. Ted Cruz not happy with Tom Sigora. Ted Cruz
was on Megan McCain's podcast. They discussed a bit in Tom Sigora's special Sledgehammer
where Sigoura says Ted Cruise is his neighbor and that Ted Cruise once asked him
about the origin of the word mf R. It's complete fiction. It's utterly
made up. I've never met the guy. I've sadly watched it on Twitter.
It's twisted and deranged, and it's complete fiction, which of course means
every lefty believes it's true because it's horrible about me, and he just made
it up and got some laps from lefties who hate me. Remember the man
who rushed the stage during Dave Chappelle's performance at the Netflix Festival two years ago.
That man has fired a lawsuit that alleges security officers and members of Chappelle's
entourage beat him, ruthlessly, dislocated his shoulder, and spat on him for
CBS News. The man in question identifies as bisexual and was offended by Dave
Chappelle's jokes relating to the LGBTQ community. He was arrested after the attack and
held on charges of mister meter counts a battery and possession of a weapon with
intent to assault after police discovered he had a replica handgun containing a knife in
his possession. The lawsuit claims the Hollywood Bowl and the security company had hired
had a duty to exercise reasonable care. It is unclear how much he's suing
for. Let's see what's happening at the Netflix Festival today, nine am.
The Two Bears five K, seven point thirty Seth Rogan Smokes The Bowl seven
thirty. Conan O'Brien needs a Friend, Ali Wong at seven. That one
just added. Hannah Gatsby and close personal acquaintance is at seven. The Gods
of Comedy with David Letterman at seven thirty. Not sure who are the Gods
of comedy, but I'm intrigued. I'm a big Letterman fan. As you've
probably picked up sold Out Asian Nation with Nigel Ang and that's at seven.
Most shows aren't listed as sold out, so it's interesting that that one is.
What's this seven and nine? Low Key Comedy show? Low Key Comedy
at the Troubadour Adam Ray, Francisco ramos Ian Edwards also surprise guest. That's
low key comedy. Kind of enjoying low key comedy because I just recorded the
bonus episode and we're like fifteen seventeen minutes into this one, and my voices
shot, can I stay at this cadence instead? I'm usual, Hey,
I'm Johnny Mack. Can I just stay here? Seven o'clock, Sam Campbell,
two shows, Joe Kim Boosters seven and nine forty five, Donnell Rawlings
at seven boy this is some festival. They are just crushing it. I
got to turn a pack on, don't I. Yeah, I'm starting to
just drown here. Seven thirty Sophie Bottle and a bunch of other shows I
didn't tell you about. Let's see what's at Sydney. I will pull clips
today because I want to go have a soda. Any Boyle show is called
any Are You? Oh? Okay? Love it? The Sydney Arts Guide
four star is easily reminded of Flea Bag with an elegant dash of Annie Hall.
All right, that sounds good. That's all I can tell you about
that show. There's no clips, no other reviews. Billy Williams You're So
Brave Billy Williams says comedy is hard. Don't believe it. Then come to
You're So Brave Billy Williams and watch her trying new jokes for the first time
as well as old jokes, as well as she tells you why she is
so brave. Apparently she is a New Yorker. Come for the comedy,
stay for the drinks, and eventually be asked to leave because look, it's
three am. Love it. There seems to be a really strong scene of
women comedians south of the equator. We got to get this up here.
I've been accused in the past of only talking about men comedians. Here in
the Northern hemisphere, especially in North America, the male comedians are dominating the
scene. That's why I talk about them. Please note, because I am
sensitive about this, go back and listen to the last month of shows and
listen to the names that I've brought up. What a great scene down there.
We really need to get that up here. And my voice is shot,
I'm gonna stop talking. That's your comedy news for today. If you
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