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Lydick, who should be the host of the daily show, was talking about
Bob Menendez. That's the senator from New Jersey. He's involved in a little
legal thing. Ex Senator right. I guess he stepped down. I don't
know. It's a joke. Who cares, as she said, Bob Menendez.
His argument is that his wife was secretly orchestrating a corrupt international bribery scheme
and hoarding gold bars in his house and he never knew it. And that,
gentleman, is why you need to ask your wife about her day.
I love that joke. Dessie again talking about some schools in the South,
putting him back the Confederate name. She said, Let's be honest, this
isn't about restoring your heritage. If it was, then you'd name it.
Hey, my cousin's kind of hot. High school integned with. I can
make that joke because I'm from Kentucky and my cousin's kind of hot. She's
fantastic. Just give her the show. Let John Stewart do Monday, have
her prominently feature on Monday, and let her do that the other shows that
way, You've got a transition plan, You've got a good host already there.
Why are you not making the move? Deadline profiled Assi during the week,
and she joked as how many Central does any focus groups and checked feedback?
Have you checked my Twitter comments lately? Because I feel like someone's making
a huge mistake. She's been with The Daily Show since twenty fifteen. When
I walked into the correspondent job, I never in a million years thought I
would have a shot at sitting at the desk, but I knew how big
and rare of an opportunity it was, and I needed to jump in there
and put my hat in the ring. And I'm grateful. It's pure delight.
Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes you make mistakes, but you think, well,
I'm not gonna do that again. Let me pivot from there. And
I'm definitely pretty tighte A. And I like to do my homework. I
like to prepare as much as possible, so the one thing I can do
is get ahead. I'm just doing research on the guests that I'm gonna have
on. I like to read the books I watched the series. I always
want people to feel comfortable and ask the right questions and be prepared. She
said she got a tip from John Stewart, who explained the difference between long
term issues and short term news or a Stewart calls it climate versus weather.
I thought this was really smart. It's as if John Stewart knows how to
host the show, as he says, We've had so many evolutions of the
show in the last nine years, and we've had challenges with the pandemic,
filming from home. Figure out a way to make the show under those circumstances.
Then coming back last year with the guest hosting, I mean, Trevor's
been gone like eighteen months already. Figure this out, guys. The beauty
with all those changes is that creatively you can stay pretty fulfilled by challenging yourself
and making the show in a new way. Now to be able to have
a little desk time, you're going to play with my friends and try out
duos, it's like a dream. Apparently the Joe Rogan fans are not happy
with Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry not making a lot of friends. This month,
Jerry was on Bill Maher's Club Random podcast that's been making a lot of news
lately and not really for good reasons. Jerry told Bill Maher, when you
go Larry King, that was always so great. It was great that show.
Do you think it's all over that show? Mar said, well,
I think it's Joe Rogan Tim Dillon whose podcast is fantastic, but someday he's
gonna be canceled and I'm gonna run so far. You guys should be like
John, you told us three years to check out Tim Dillon. I'm gonna
go. I never said that. I never once told you to listen to
Tim Dillon's podcast. What are you talking about? I have nothing to do
with that guy. kJ ZZ, all right, talk about because I'm fifteen
at heart. You know, like a station will be like, you know,
w f AN and they'll go the fan, or it's I don't know,
Kiss and Los Angeles and they go kiss FM, that kind of thing.
I keep looking at kJ ZZ and it's not a jazz station. I
know what you're thinking. I'm thinking too, but I'm not going there.
I just want to know what kjzz's nickname is. Why don't I just go
to the website. Let's see what they call themselves. I know what I
want to call it ninety one point five kJ ZZ. They don't seem to
have a nickname. They have podcasts. One of the podcasts is called The
Show. Not sure that's the best idea for SEO, or maybe it is
kjzz's. The Show is a stream of curated stories from Phoenix, the Southwest
and around the country. Are they even a jazz station? At least be
a jazz station. If you're going to be k j ZZ, you know
you could be uh ninety one to five the jazz you know? No,
yes, all right, let's move on John Tim Dillon. They talked about
Tim Dillon and Rode. On a recent Friday night in downtown Phoenix. The
line outside Stand Up Live snaked all the way from the front door of the
club, down a flight of stairs and onto the sidewalk. It was almost
time for the fourth show and I sold out. Run by comedian Tim Dillon.
One person in line said he makes me feel a little bit more sane
in an insane world. Another fan said he's not necessarily afraid to be politically
correct. What I think is important in today's day and age with cancel culture.
I think freedom of speech is really important at being able to say what
everyone's already thinking. Yeah, but here's what they're missing. Tim is saying
what everyone is thinking in a character where he's making fun of what the people
that think Tim is on their side is doing. Listen to the podcast,
you'll get it. He's kidding. He kind of says what we're all thinking.
I think that's what kind of comedy is say the unspoken. So I'm
a huge fan of that. Another fan said, cancel. Culture's gone too
far. People are too scared to say what they're really thinking. Love this.
The folks from the jazz asked, can you get you? I really
want to make the joke. It's like bursting out of me. I can't.
Oh, I just made it. Leave it in. Can you give
an example of something you've heard him say that? I lost my trade of
thought. I'm leaving all this in. I'm making myself laugh this morning,
all right? K j z Z reporter asked a fan, can you give
me an example of something you've heard him say that feels like the kind of
thing people are thinking, but feels like the kind of thing other people aren't
willing to say. The fans said, well, I don't know. Is
the stuff maybe I'm thinking? But it's just, you know, it's stuff
it's maybe come up in your head throughout the day, and he just comes
up with something that's similar enough to where you connect to it. Another audience
member said, he speaks in a way that really isn't acceptable anymore, and
I find it to be wildly entertaining, hilarious and refreshing, and I like
it a lot. The reporter from k j z Z asked, I don't
know why those call letters are so funny, but they're funny when you say
a way that's not acceptable anymore, what do you mean? The audience member
said, well, just specifically things that are publically incorrect, you know,
and we all know these things that you're not supposed to say and that you
can't say, and that all's well and good, and that's how it's supposed
to be, but there's a huge vacuum for that in today's modern life and
times in the society. All right, let me call a full time out
here, because I have the giggles I mentioned yesterday. I was in a
bad mood. This morning, I noticed I was in a great mood.
So yesterday when I was driving around town, I was screaming at people through
the sunroof. Why are you blogging the intersect today? When I was driving
on the National Donuts chain by the way, I screwed up my order.
I forgot to click the caramel, so I just have this thing that has
just no flavor in it. But that's on me. I realized, I
like, I'm I'm waving at people. I'm saying hi to neighbors. Honk
did they haven't seen it in a while, as was a woman rollerblading with
dogs. I'm like, all happy and now I'm a giddy At k j
z Z, one group of Dylan fans tell the reporter from k jay z
Z that he was asking all the wrong questions. If people are taking what
he's saying is super political, I think they're missing it, like deeply missing
the point. Especially if you're taking a comedian for his political views. You're
probably too dumb to understand comedy. I want to have put it quite that
way, but I think that fan does understand what Tim Dillon's doing. The
reporter from kJ ZZ says, at that point, I was starting to notice
that almost nobody had talked to said they were there because they liked Tim Dillon's
comedy. When I asked them about their favorite Tim Dillon bits. They might
reference a rant from Dylan's podcast. You know, I do think that's fair.
He's a better podcaster than a stand up Yes, I agree. The
reporter from k j ZZ The Jazz said, I found Tim Dillon to be
somewhat quirky on stage, a heavy set guy from Long Island who occasionally dies
his hair and likes to wear ill fitting T shirts and baggy jeans. He's
gay, but he said he'd happily let the British monarchy call him homophobic slurs
all day if they let him live in one of their castles. Part of
the reason the reporter from kJ ZZ came out to the club was because they'd
noticed that Dylan has become a mainstay of the freddy, aggressive masculine circuit of
comedy podcast like Rogan's, and it seemed like an odd match to me.
The more I talk to the fans, the more I started to think they
weren't necessarily there because they loved Tim Dillon's jokes. They just love Tim Dillon.
One fan said, he's personal up in blue collar Long Island, so
he's just relatable. I grew up in Queens so yeah, I get Tim
Dillon. I've been listening to his podcast for about two years now, every
day twice, they said, which is interesting because it comes out once a
week. There's a separate episode on Patreon, but that's the most twice a
week every time I do Cardio. You know, I know he's a big
guy, and I'm a big guy myself, so I like to take his
inspiration, his political advice whenever it comes to current events. I love his
position on everything. The reporter from kJ z Z The Jazz wrote, Tim
Dillon went into his acting. I gotta be honest, I don't remember most
of it. But that's not because it was bad. It's because at the
very end something happened that I've never seen it. A comedy show, what's
this, I've probably been a several hundred comedy shows. They always end the
same way. The comic hits their final punch line where they don't and they
put the mic back in the stand. They say something like I've been so
and so, thank you good night. No they don't. They crushed with
the final line and they wait for the crowd and they go they don't go,
eh, and I've been Dave Chappelle have a good night. They don't
do that. The reporter from kJ ZZ the Jazz says, that's not what
Tim Dillon did. He'd been on stage for about an hour, and as
he built his last rift to a furious crescendo, the crowd was roaring.
And then right at the moment I imagine every comic dreams of all day long,
he didn't leave the stage. Dylan stood there for a moment, let
him laughter some side, and then he started doing some crowd work. He
starts asking a fan, how you doing things? Are good working? You're
finding work? The person in the crowd says his last job had been playing
pro rugby. Tim says, what do you want to do outside of rugby?
The random person in the audience says, honestly, I want to be
a comedian. Tim says, you want to be a comedian? You want
to get up? Do you really want to get up? The guy gets
up. Tim says, what's your name? Nick? What? Ladies and
gentlemen? Nick Hartley? Hartly did ten minutes and apparently was good planned maybe
possibly, perhaps, I don't know how random the Tim Dylan would do crowd
work and the guy would be good. That's weird Boy. Second day in
a row, I jumped into an article that went way longer than anticipated.
Let me do some housekeeping here. So with Netflix, Festival and Sydney and
Melbourne all that behind us, the show's theoretically at least we'll get a little
shorter now because that segment takes like two three minutes. We're also heading towards
Memorial Day, so the news is going to dry up. The week after
Memorial Day is usually a slower week, So if you've gotten addicted to the
twenty minute episodes, they're gonna start creeping back more towards that nine ten eleven
mark, at least for a little bit. I don't really do it to
time, other than at some point I look at my timer and I go,
okay, this is too long, now shut up. For example,
I just bumped four five stories from the first half that I can use any
upcoming days. But I didn't expect to go that long with Tim Dillon.
All right, So that's the housekeeping segment I heard from JB who was responding
to the other day where I was questioning the premise of Louis ck being out
fifty million dollars when he was canceled, not canceled. JB wrote, Louis
CK fifty million. Yeah, his TV show Louis was canceled and taken out
of syndication, no longer on FX. Not sure how many more seasons it
had on order, but that was a pretty big hit. Potentially four more
seasons missed out on. Plus he had a movie about to be released that
got dropped more potential income. I forgot about the movie. Great point stop
touring another revenue stream killed respectfully, it stopped touring for a minute. I
mean, he's playing Madison Square Garden, so he's doing okay there. I
don't think fifty million is far off concerning He was at the top of his
game when he got called out. Let me say how much he was making
for the effects show. All right, This from The Hollywood Reporter back in
twenty seventeen John Langraf, the head of FX. I don't think this is
really going to answer it, but it's playing on the same side of the
street. Lang Graff said, Yeah, Louis called me at home on a
Saturday and said, I'm really having trouble saying this out loud, but I
think I need to not make Louis for a while. This was after the
last season in twenty fifteen. It was very surprising to me because we had
unilaterally rewritten his back end definition and given him very very lavish financial incentives.
All right, JB, you made an excellent point, Lanegraff said, Look,
I'm feeling trapped by being this version of myself. I planned this TV
show, and I'm feeling trapped by the expectations that I now go out and
do this again. I know I can't do right now. I have to
go do something else. Lang Graff says, So what are you going to
do when you have that conversation where you could go to the Dave Chappelle way
and back up Mick and say, Louis, I'm going to pay you fifty
million dollars to make two episodes of TV or whatever. It is all right
that I'm not being difficulty or that implies that it was less than fifty million
dollars. But anyway, JB, thank you for listening. Thank you for
taking a minute to write in. I know it's really easy to listen to
podcast, whether it's this one or different one, be like hey, that
guy or that that point is stupid. I truly appreciate anyone who takes a
minute too right into the show. My email is in the show notes.
Always happy to hear from everybody. I was emailing on Friday afternoon with one
of the listeners, just about stuff. Always happy to hear from you guys,
so JB, thank you for checking in. As for me, I
always try and explain it's kind of like running, right, So I've ran
two marathons very slowly. If we ranked all the people on the planet,
I'm probably factually in the top two percent of people that run a lot of
miles. So I run more miles than a lot of people, but the
people that are ahead of me are way better at it, if that makes
sense. So in terms of comedy, I don't know everything. I just
know a lot more than the average person. Like, walk down the street
and say Tim Dillon to one hundred people, you might go zero for one
hundred. I know a little bit about Tim Dillon. We're in the Facebook
group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Richard had mentioned he went
to see John Marcos Sireesi partly because I had been talking about John Marco again.
Walk down the street and say John Marco, SOIREESSI to a hundred people.
Most people aren't gonna have heard of him, so I know a lot.
I don't know everything, and I'm sure I mispronounced comedian names every single
episode. Oh and I'm checking the timer here, all right. Especially for
a Sunday. The weekends, I try and make a little shorter just because
factually people listen to fewer podcasts on the weekend, so I say some things
for Monday when I get more downloads. But this is good because, like
I said, mymor of the day is going to be super slow, so
I'm glad I have all these extra stories. I might actually bang out Saturday
of more day weekend with the leftovers, just to make my weekend a little
easier. Anyway, that is your comedy news for today. Thank you so
much for listening. Please feel encouraged to take part in the Facebook group or
email me and I will see you tomorrow.