Callaroga shark media. I love this joke from Seth Meyer. As President Biden
and former President Trump are said to face off in two presidential debates. Biden
is looking forward to laying out his twenty twenty four agenda, while Trump is
happy to go somewhere where nobody will draw him while he sleeps. That is
great fallon, said Biden. Trump will meet June twenty seventh on CNN,
and one of biden debates conditions was not having an audience, So that explains
why it's on CNN. Trump agreed to the debate. He said, I'll
be there, assuming it's okay with my parole officer. We are covering all
of that on the Ballot podcast if you want to check that one out.
Oh, another one from Seth Biden getting Trump to agree to no audiences.
This is a great joke. Let me set it up again. It's such
a good joke. It's well crafted. Biden getting Trump to agree to no
audiences is like getting a vampire to fight you at noon on the beach during
the garlic festival. Really well written. Stephen Colbert with the winner, though,
imagine Trump with his cut, He's gonna look like the world's angriest mime.
Meanwhile, did you see this new portrait of King Charles. If you
haven't, just google King Charles portrait. It's epic. It looks like he's
the devil. It's red, it's intense, it's great. I wish my
portrait looked as cool as this one. We're talking about it over in the
Palace Intrigue podcast. Wow. Two plugs in the first ninety seconds, John
Way to cross promote You're welcome other shows. Desi Leightik hosting the Daily Show.
We'll talk about Desi in a second. But she had two good ones.
Obviously, this portrait is a pretty big departure from other portraits to the
royal family. For example, Queen Elizabeth was often painted with her beloved corgies.
Compare that to Charles, who looks like he was painted with her corgis
once Christy no one was finished with them. Wow. Now, clearly this
painting has gotten a lot of negative feedback, but King Charles swears that he
loves a portrait, which probably means that he's having an affair with another portrait
on the side. Wow's great stuff. Oh I thought that Desi Lightok story
was in Today's podcast. It's in Sunday's podcast. Never mind, we're not
gonna talk about Desi at all. Here's my quick thought on DESI give her
the Daily show. That's it not qualifying at all. I get the whole
John Stewart thing. Fine. John can do Mondays. John can do Mondays
forever. Give the show to Desi. She's the right choice. Why are
we messing around? Just do it? Give it to her. More of
that tomorrow because I'm in a bad mood. Why are you in a bad
mood? John? Here? Because it's four o'clock on Friday. Four o'clock
on Friday. I like to be hanging out on my deck with a beverage.
But there were some capers today. I'm only starting work at four o'clock
on a Friday, so I'm grouchy. It's not your problem. Nicki Glazer
was on the whatever hour of the Today Show. It is when you get
Hoda and whatever Bush daughter that is you know that one the like sort of
Today's show. Nicki was on that she thinks Tom Brady quotes maybe didn't consider
the backlash from his family and how it would affect them. She expressed disbelief
that Tom Brady wasn't aware what he was getting into, noting he could have
prepared by watching, you know, comedy roosts. Nicky said, I think
it's kind of a thing you say after the fact. It's impossible to me
that he didn't consider that could have happened. Glazer joked that she thinks Brady
couldn't take it because no one has ever said a bad thing to him in
the past thirty years. I got a sense it was a little more than
he planned for it. He hadn't planned out to react, and it kind
of jarred him. I don't think he thought they were gonna go there.
By the way, zero buzz on Nicki Glazer's HBO special, the HBO specials
prestige, I'll use the word prestige has gone way out. Nicky's been undoing
press all week. All the press has been about the Tom Brady ROAs,
which is thirteen days ago. Now none of it about her special. Oh,
she's promoting the special and nobody's talking about the special. Bobby Kelly was
on I ninety five. DJ Lou asked Bobby what he thought of it.
Robert Kelly said, I'll give you my rankings. Nicky Glazer one, Tony
Hinchcliffe two, Drew Bledsoe three, Belichick four, Andrew Schultz five. And
then I'd say Kevin Hart stinks. Yeah, I'm gonna go there, just
wing it. He pulled to Keith Robinson. He just repeated, Oh wow,
Nicky, she was great, all right, Nikki, right too.
Just read off the teleprompter to write a joke. Stop giving us all personality.
You're four to two, we get it, you're full of jazz.
I disagree. I thought Kevin Hart was hilarious. And I have previously questioned
out loud why we gave Kevin Heart the Mark Twain Comedy word for prize.
That's not a sentence. I'm not revoicing that, you know what I meant.
Yeah, I'm not the biggest Kevin Hart fan. But Robert Kelly,
why are you giving Kevin Hart a hard time? He did a good job.
DJ Lew asked, how does it work with people who are not comedians
like the athletes. I assume those people have jokes written for them by the
other comedians. Is that the deal? Robert Kelly said, Yeah, they
have about twenty writers that you never see that are writing jokes. And then
Jeff Rosco's in and takes the best one off the top, and then there
are people writing for Drew Bledsoe. But here's the thing, it doesn't matter.
You can write a good joke for somebody if they can't deliver it with
a little something, if they can't make it their own, it's gonna stink
Like Randy Moss and Ben, I mean Jesus. Ben turned into a crack
attic halfway through his set. His lips were sticking to his fake teeth.
Oh, Ben Affleck is who we're talking about. I was like, what
you know what I mean? Isn't it funny the faked teeth? Figure out
who he meant? These actors don't understand. When you're bombing, your mouth
goes dry and you need a sip of something. DJ about Tony Inchcliff,
you mentioned him. I think it was great too. Yeah, Tony is
if I were to say anybody, Jeff is great, the roast Master whatever
they call him, You know what they call him. Come on, Robert
Kelly, you've been calling me for twenty five years. At least you know
who he is. Don't act like you don't know that Jeff Ross is the
roast Master. That's what he's known as. Jeff is great, the roast
master, whatever they call him. Never heard of the guy who Jeff what?
Never heard of him? But I think Tony's more of that guy.
He knows how to deliver joke. I don't know if he's gay or bisexual,
straight, I don't know what he is. Odd thing to bring up?
Who cares? He's funny, He's very ripped torn. He is the
swagger of a Navy seal and a gay man combined. That's a great combo,
the tip of the spear in both ways. He's just got that confidence.
He hammered him. I don't even know what to make of that interview.
Dave Chappelle controversy always fun from the sf Gate. The headline Dave Chappelle
called me out at his surprise at San Francisco show. Now, I wasn't
aware of the surprise at San Francisco show until Friday. I think this one
happened nine days ago. As you listened to this podcast, hadn't seen anything
about Chappelle all week. But at the surprise show. At the punchline,
Dan Genteela writes, Dave Chappelle crossed plenty of lines doing cringy Chinese accents,
leaning into Jewish stereotypes, and gleefully yelling LGBTQ slurs. But midway through the
set, he checked himself and stopped to joke short pivoting to how hard it
is to be a celebrity because there's always one snitch in the room. He
peered around at the tightly packed one hundred and eighty two person audience, saying
he was gonna find the snitch, all right, the gate tells us.
The night began with a stellar opening set by Oakland born comic Diude nimi Ar.
I'm not familiar with dude, whose pro Palestinian videos let to the cancelation
of several gigs last November. Then Chappelle began his fourth and final show of
this run four surprise shows, How come wait to hear about these by talking
about how he got in trouble with the local news in twenty twenty three for
a joke about how San Francisco needed a batman. Oh, I see the
writer and Chappelle have a bit of a history here. Oh this is fun.
Let's keep reading. The local news was made? Hey, my story
about the show when viral and was aggregated by Fox News, resulting in the
most hate mail I've ever received. They even found me on LinkedIn. It's
not hard to find somebody on LinkedIn. For example, my name is John
McDermott. I say Johnny Mack on the air because it's easier to say Johnny
Mack. Even though my name is John McDermott. It is hard to say
the N into the M so air name Johnny Mack. If you go on
LinkedIn and you type in John McDermott, it's a fairly common name. Once
you get the McDermott, you get a lot of john's. But you can
probably figure out. Oh, let me type in what do I know about
this guy? Let me add the word serious or add the word comedy.
That's me So, I don't get the point if they even found me on
LinkedIn. No one's on LinkedIn on a pseudonym. I digress. Meanwhile,
about forty feet away, I scribbled down his words in my notebook, suddenly
terrified that my neighbors would notice and snitch on the snitch Chapelle didn't seem particularly
angry about it, though he was using it as a setup. Next came
a half hearted sidewalk poop joke, and he pounced on the lack of reaction.
Chappelle used a derogatory term. I don't want to repeat here, so
I will paraphrase. Chappelle did something along the lines of and a hush goes
over the San Francisco crowd. I left a word out. You can ask
Dave what he said. Here we go. Here's the loaded paragraph. For
those who've been following the past few years of his career, that line isn't
that surprising. Chappelle turned heel with a string of controversial Netflix specials that earned
him widespread combination from the LGBTQ community and a place on the anti woke Mount
Rushmore. Oh, anti woke Mount Rushmore. Who's on anti woke Mount Rushmore.
I'm curious. Well, here's the answer. Joe rogan elon Musk,
Kanye West, and Dave Chappelle. That's anti woke Mount Rushmore. I feel
bad for Ricky Gervais. He didn't make it. What's this guy's name again?
Dan Gentilly writes he relished villain status, leading into his grievances and casting
himself as an hundred doog, even though he's rich enough to have purchase nearly
an entire tan in Ohio, a move he cleverly describes as reverse gentrification,
an explanation for this price show. This time, it was an opportunity for
him to test out new material while waiting out his one year non compete clause
from Netflix. Chapelle said, I'm practicing on you. What resulted was more
of a fireside chat than a typical stand ups at that's like eighty percent of
the time you see Dave Chappelle that he's just kind of hanging out and talking.
I dropped the g there, queensax, And as is common for many
comedians these days, he uses a service called Yonder, which collects attendee cell
phones. Yeah, Johnny Meck does not like Yonder. Dave acted a little
more self aware this time around, sincerely apologizing halfway through a joke about domestic
violence to anyone in the room had experienced it. But he could not stay
away from the slurs. He'd sneaked them into unrelated bits dog whistling about his
old grudges. For such a virtuistic storyteller, it felt like a lazy move,
a misdirected misdirection. When discussing our divided country, he drew the battle
lines of a civil war as Maga versus gay slur land, but he said
in this case he'd likely be on San Francisco's side. Politics was a recurring
theme. This is a fascinating article. I didn't realize how deep this was
gonna be. Dave said, the upcoming election is the hardest of people's lives.
He did not elaborate why the Warren Gaza was another topic. Chappelle dropped
in a line about Israel having the right to defend itself and feeling like the
best defense is a good offense. He'd bemoaned the fact that the US is
sending guns to Israel and food to Palestine and that the hostages seem to have
disappeared from the conversation, before pivoting back to familiar territory. Now I've looked
ahead. As a joke joke. Now, if you understand comedy, this
is just a line. I understand why people are going to be upset about
this line. I have critiqued Dave about this before, but just as a
joke joke, this is a good line, Okay, So I'll back up.
Dave is talking about how the hostages have disappeared from the conversation before pivoting
back to familiar territory. His line, if the hostages were transgender, they'd
be rescued. That's just out of Dave Chappelle on the persona that he's built
up, where you know he's going to do that, him actually doing it
in that context, I think that line is funny. That's Dave making fun
of Dave. That's Dave making fun of the Dave character that he's become.
Now. I don't know why he's chosen to become the character, but now
he's making fun of the character. One of the bigger laughs was about a
communist toy store toys arrests for all of us, but it was followed by
a distasteful rhyme about Chinese people that so cliche would barely score a laugh on
an elementary school playground. Let me jump in again. This is a workout
show, right, I mean, this is what it is. He's trying
out material. Some stuff didn't fly. That's what this show is. It's
a workout for such a small show. The crowd wasn't that lively, a
fact that wasn't lost on Chappelle. At one point, he playfully said,
the crowd sucked. He went longer than his scheduled hour, finishing three cocktails
before a bartender brought him a beer, which he took as a subtle hint.
Dave said, I understand then, joke people, I have a few
more beers after the show and go fight some crime. See that's funny,
too good callback what yourew. The biggest laughs were nostalgic stories about the origin
of sketches from his Comedy Central show. Also of note, the Blue Note
Jazz Festival in NAPA, they announced the twenty twenty four lineup. Not on
the lineup this year Dave Chappelle. Dave was the headliner of the last two
years. He violated the curfew of the festival both years. Wow, we
are long today, all right? Bump bump, bump, bump, bump,
bump, bump, bump bump. Plus I'm in a bad mood.
Plus I've told you already. It's almost five o'clock. All right, Sydney
Comedy Festival. I think tomorrow is the last day. Yep, this is
it? All right? Who haven't we looked at yet? Freddy McManus's show
is called Remind Me Later. Freddie McManus is putting on a show about all
the things he's been putting off. He's seen the damaged procrastination can do with
the deadbeat family dogs still living with mom at home after seventy six k nine
years. I like one of the reviews. That review reads as seen opening
for Jim Jefferies. Theater Thoughts gave it four and a half stars. A
non stop barrel of laughs will leave you with tears in your eyes and a
giddiness in your step. Grace Jervis's show is called Oh the Horrors. It's
our third solo show. Grace will touch on the themes of establishing independence and
identity evaluation, loaded with the trademark whimsical Jervis social commentary continuing to secure her
place. Is one of the rising stars of the Australian comedy scene. No
reviews and Oh, I was gonna click on Paul Douglas Thirst for the Worst,
But it says canceled. I wonder why it was canceled. Well,
maybe the description tells us this is what it says for real, you know
that feeling that makes you just go f it That that's why it was canceled.
Uh? What Moore? The very last box on the grid all right,
Xavier Mishalides, I'm counting on you. His show is called Xavier is
a massive tool. The Harold Son gave it five stars. The enthusiast great
Name says, hugely impressive with creativity and wit to burn. Chortle says Mitchelides
isn't just a larger than life character actor in the mold of Matt Lucas,
He's a more than useful writer, too interesting. All right, Sydney Comedy
Festival bookmark delete and with that I get a fraction of memory back in my
computer. Ugh, how is this podcast so long? Today? I didn't
expect to talk about hell for ten minutes and plan this? All right,
I'll be back tomorrow. Normally I record the weekend all at once, but
it's four seventeen on Friday afternoon, and I just want to be done,
and I got some work to do, all right, I know, poor
me podcasting the basement life is so hard. Shut up, Johnny Maxy Tomorrow