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Shane Gillis was on Hot Ones. You know what that is. That's where
you go and they feed you increasingly spicy wings while you answer some questions.
You know, that thing's pretty popular. Probably heard of it. Shane explained
where the name Beautiful Dogs came from. That's the name of Shane's most recent
Netflix comedy special. He shared that it was a spontaneous decision made from one
of his shows at Joe Rogan's club, The Comedy Mothership in Austin. The
booker stopped him as he walked off stage and told Gillis that's the name of
the special. It's Beautiful Dogs, and Gillis goes, all right, great,
if someone names it few, it's a lot easier than trying to be
cool and creative. Shane Gillis is a favorite mediocre US president Ulics assessed Grant
he failed at the beginning, that became a general at the end. It's
pretty sick. Gillis acknowledges how much of a loser Grant was while working for
his father in law's drug store. The story continues on how Grant then became
a clerk when the Civil War broke out, and by the end of the
war he was commander in chief. I with Shane on this one. He
said, how unimportant comedy special intros are. Just walk on stage, amen.
I hate those specials that have the four minutes of I don't know,
green room stuff or walking backstage and with the camera falls down and says,
just walk on stage. Shane is absolutely right, exclaim dot ca a with
a fun one for the last decade. Duff McKagan you know him from Guns
n' Roses. He plays bass. He has claimed that the Simpsons beer Duff
Beer, is named after him. No it's not. Jake Cogan, is
an original writer producer on the show, told TMZ it's very weird that this
Duff mccagan guy wants to claim credit for Duff Beer. He had zero to
do with it, according to Duff McKagan, So I was Doff the King
of beers. But this is nineteen eighty eight, nineteen eighty nine, and
our management, I remember they called me and said some art house like cartoon
wants to use your name as the beer, like a college arthouse cartoon.
There weren't any adult cartoons at the point, I didn't know anything about branding
or anything like that took off and they started selling merchant stuff. I never
went after him, but I'm like, hey, mfrs. You know,
no, dude, No, it's not named after you. Cogan says we
named it Duff because it's a synonym for butt, tushy, booty, and
so on. It wouldn't have been funny to name it after a rock star
as Duff as a beer for people who sit on their fat ass all day,
Excelain points out. Cogan said no one working on The Simpsons at that
time knew any Guns N' Roses member beside Axel Rose, a burn for McKagan,
but a worse burn for Slash Entertainment Weekly. Uh put out a fluff
piece. A coworker of mine used to call it waxing your car. I
don't know what the point of this article was. It was just gushing.
Executive producer Stephen Colbert says he's long been a fan of Taylor. Thomson was
thrilled when she agreed to host. Colbert explains, when she was just starting
out, the algorithm started feeding her to me years ago. I remember thinking,
who is this special Woman. We then get a recap of Tomlinson's career.
She builds her career as a stand up comedian, winning fans with frank
confessional Netflix specials, including this year's Having On twenty twenty's Quarter Life Crisis,
but she's since embraced the joys of staying up after midnight. Taylor explains,
I think hosting is an entirely different skilled and stand up which is why I
decided to take the job. I wanted to try something new. Also,
you know, forty plus weeks of steady work that probably pays well. Some
internet rumors have her salary at three million dollars, you know, so there's
that, and plus her on network TV. And then you show up on
things like the Tony Awards. She was on the Tony Awards Sunday night,
and people are like, I know who that is. You know, maybe
if somebody offers you a twelve thirty show on a network, you say yes,
Tomlinson said. I remember being incredibly nervous and feeling excited but also pretty
overwhelmed. I don't think I could have or would have taken a show like
this without someone like Steven producing it. He's been super generous with his time
and advice. I can't imagine tackling something like this entirely on my own.
Oh yeah, here's ten million dollars. But the executive producer is I don't
know who's someone horrible Marjorie Taylor Green. She's executive producing it, and it's
ten million dollars. You. In weird article, Late Nighter recapped a recent
FYC event for John Mulaney's Late Night show. Nick Kroll was hosting it.
Nick asked writer Langston Kerman what their favorite pieces for the show were. Kerman
revealed they had shot a tribute to LA's many Kobe Bryant murals. Mlani explained,
there were four hundred of varying quality, but then the lawyers got involved.
Oh, I've been involved with lawyers. They ruin everything. Mulleny explained,
you can't show an outdoor mural legally without compensating the muralist. We filmed
like one hundred murals. We just thought they're on walls. The co executive
producer, David Ferguson clarified, well, they'll let you do it as long
as you make commentary. Mlanie also mentioned one argument that didn't work for the
lawyers. John said, when the muralists put their name in the corner,
you can't go. We had no idea who did it. Our lawyers called
it due diligence. Thanks lawyers. Dean Cook is going to reteam with Greg
Coolidge. You're like, who's Greg Coolidge? Well, he's obviously the director
from the two thousand and six lines Gate comedy Employee of the Month, which
starred Deane Cook. How did you forget that film? While this comedy duo
is back, they're working on an indie comedy based on the twenty eleven Blacklist
script by Christopher Baldy. The film follows a man who, after hitting a
major rut in his marriage, is convinced the only way to save the relationship
is to have the ultimate night out with his male co workers. Dan Cook
is fifty two, so I guess it's kind of sort of The Hangover with
a fifty two year old Dane Cook in the middle. Some more evidence of
that seth Yankelwitz, who casted The Hangover, is casting for this one.
Can't wait for it, Dane says. He sets to release another comedy special,
this one called Gritty in Pink. Although there was not yet a date
for that one. Also, he's working on an untitled documentary chronicling his rise
to comedy stardom amid a fierce legal battle that's in development. W Magazine caught
up with Hannah Einbinder, and I like W Magazine because they mentioned her mother's
Lorraine Newman, who was on Saturday Night Live and is a founding member of
the ground Links. It's relevant. It doesn't mean Hannah's not talented. It
just means, you know, people know Peo. People make a call.
For example, say I wanted to have the Pope on, I could go
to vatic and Media Relations and be like, hey, my name's Johnny Mack.
I host a podcast. Da da Da da da. I'm not gonna
get anywhere. But if I reach out to Deacon Mike, who talks to
the Bishop, who talks to James Martin, who talks to the Pope on
my behalf, I've got a shot. That's how the world works, you
know. So let's not pretend Hannah's mother's not Lorie Newman, and it didn't
help. Doesn't mean she's not talented. It helps. Before landing Hacks,
Hannah said she was really enjoying stand up I love the art form. I
love storytelling and characters and straight up stand up comics, alternative comics, clowns,
bur lesque. It's just pure to me. Before I started acting,
I was still a local comic. I had just started featuring for other comedians
on the road. Being an opening act Hacks gave me the ability to tour
on my own. She was excited to release her special. There are some
jokes that are months old. There are some jokes that are years old.
It feels like a time consul this hour of my life artistically, and I'm
ready to move on to the next thing. If you have been watching my
next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman, you saw his interview with Miley
Cyrus, who invited Dave to one of her family and friends shows. Letterman
apparently is one of the very few, if not only, straight men who've
ever been granted entry. Miley tells him from the stage, it's invite only,
and it's kind of like you got to be gay to get an invite.
Letterman got to see Miley doing her interpretation of talking Head cycle Killer,
which she describes as David Byrton does Johnny Cash doing Kylie Minogue Letterman said this
was so good. As I'm sitting there, I'm thinking I might be gay.
If you like David Letterman, listen to tomorrow's podcast. I'm talking with
Mike Chisholm, host of the Letterman Podcast, and we talk Letterman for eighty
minutes. I might even split into two ports forty and forty. You know,
it's a weekend. It's a summer, all right. If you can
make your way to Columbus, Ohio, it's the Columbus Comedy Festival. It's
the inaugur one August fourteenth through the eighteenth. Co founder Walker Evans says,
we could be more excited to not only bring major headliners to Columbus from New
York, LA, Chicago and beyond, but also highlight her incredibly talented local
comedy scene. The multi day festival will be spread out at the Columbus Funny
Bone, the Key, Columbus Performing Arts Center, Mad Lab, the Attic
Comedy Club, the Nest Theater, the Hashtag Comedy Company, and Don't Tell
Comedy Columbus. Among the performers Michael Ian Black, Jason Banks, Tony Rock,
Irene Two, Who's Fantastic, Sam Jay, and there's about fifteen more
names on this list that you probably don't recognize, but that sounds like a
really good festival. The New York Times did a fluff piece for Lauren Michaels
Lauren Hirsch. On the byeline, Lauren Hirsch writes some jokes could have landed
better, and Lauren Michaels is second guessing his choice to shorten certain skits.
He's likely to spend the weekend thinking about every detail. By Monday, he'll
find some degree of contentment until he has to do it all over again.
The article points out it's gotten harder since the pandemic because a lot of the
live venues that served as farm teams for SNL have closed. Michaels is well
versed in the challenges that New Star's facing. If you were the funniest kid
in the class at your school and then you're working professionally and everyone else in
the room is that it can be upsetting or can be really stimulating. No
one can handle the fame. Generally, we're more tolerant of it because you
know people are going to turn into a holes because it's just part of the
process, because no one grew up that way. Is Lauren going to sticker
around. He won't answer. He says, I'm gonna do it as long
as I feel I can do it. But I rely on other people and
I always have. Josh Gondoman is taping his next special at the Bell House
in New York tonight. A very funny comedian you should check out. Brooklyn
based comedian Eva Evans is being praised for making a hilarious yet respectful joke about
the LGBT plus community during a recent show. A clip from her set was
posted on Instagram by Don't Tell Comedy. It has gone viral. The set
is called dating a trans Man. Eva says, I didn't know he was
trans from his profile, but you know in person, I figured it out.
But I didn't give a hoot. I'm too poor to have a phobia.
As long as you identify as a man who's paying this check at the
end of this MF and meal, that's all I care about. As long
as your pronouns are zell and cash app, I don't give an f about
what else you got going on. And that's your comedy news today. All
right, Mike Chisholm and I doc Letterman tomorrow. Have a good weekend. See you