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Speaker 2: Hey, crazy busy. We continues. Hello, I'm Johnny mag with
your daily comedy news, A daily briefing on standup comedy,
comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves.
Where to even begin, Let's start with this one. Jimmy
Kimmel had John Mullaney on the show.
Speaker 3: You know, our friend Stephen Colbert is he's only got
weeks to live, you know, yeah, right, yes? And by
live I mean on television?
Speaker 4: And is there any other better way to live?
Speaker 3: I was looking at your Instagram and I'm not realizing
I look at your Instagram too much, but oh I.
Speaker 4: Approached you about this.
Speaker 3: Actually, this is a message that you wrote last time
you're on the show. I can barely read that, but
it says me, Stephen Colbert, David Byrne, the best, my
last time at the ed Sullivan Theater with the kindest,
coolest man in late night.
Speaker 4: Now right, well.
Speaker 3: Last fat I just say, right now to the audience.
Applause was not the reaction I was looking for. Now,
kindest I could have definitely dealt with, for sure, even
coolest on its own I for sure could have done
the in and kindest coolest in Late Night really narrows
it down, Yeah yeah, really narrows it down.
Speaker 4: To just a few guys. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And so then I sent this to you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with the text that said, I let you live
in my house, yeah, which which during a wayward a
dressless period of my life, I lived in your house
just for a while.
Speaker 3: Was there a period of time where you lived in
Steven's house for longer.
Speaker 4: Than I have to say? The man's never invited me over.
But I think obviously, like what a position you've all
put us in. You're all getting suspended and fired constantly.
That conan retires, we all have to talk so hyperbolically
about all of you so often we're out of words.
The coolest who gives it? I mean, it's psyche, he's
he's off the air. You gotta say something nice. If
you had been full fired, not half fire, yeah, I
would have said, this is the kindest coolest guy in
Late Night. And I broke his bathtub once.
Speaker 2: While m'laney was in town, he sat down for this
Better Be Funny with David Letterman special guest John mulaney.
Before bringing out Mlany, Dave brought out our good friend
Paul Shaffer. The capacity crowd greeted Paul Shaeffer with a
standing ovation. Letterman has signed on to executive produce Say
Hello to Our Good Friend to Paul Shaffer, an upcoming
future documentary about Paul Shaffer. Recap says Dave and Paul
traded quips like they did for years. Shaeffer came back
to close the show ninety minutes later by taking a
seat at the piano and performing Frank Sinatra's That's Life.
So this sounds very similar to the Vancouver show that
a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm, who hosts the
Letterman Podcast, Mike could come on here to tell us
about that one. So it sounds like it was very
similar when Paul shot up in Vancouver. Also like the
Vancouver show, Dave kicked off the La show with an
opening that played like this is your Life. Dave looked
back on his early days, all the way back to childhood.
Photos flashed on the screen showing a young David Letterman
in his yearbook photo and on the basketball and track
teams at Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dave
recapped highlights of his career early radio and TV gigs,
the time he was a weekend weatherman, or when he
reported live for KTLA at the nineteen seventy nine Rose Parade.
I'll have to pull that clip someday. He played clips
of himself on Mork and Mindy and the Mary Tyler
Moore Hour. That's the variety show, not the famous sitcom.
Dave talked about an early appearance at the Comedy Store, saying,
I told a joke and nobody laughed, but I wasn't
discouraged because I was specified. You can't be discouraged and
petrified simultaneously. When I got off stage, there was a
man there in the shadows, a man I recognized by
the name of Richard Pryor. And Richard Pryor said to
David Letterman, I really like that joke, Dave said, and
I thought, oh my god, I can go ahead and
pay the rent. It was a huge moment for me.
Blaney comes out. Dave and John spent some time talking
about Malleini's family. It sounds like Mullaney wents to stock material,
which is kind of lame. To be honest, We've heard
this before. If you listen to this show, if you
pay attention to John mullaney, but the recap I see
says that Mallani got lots of laughs for For the
first thirty nine years of my life, I financially supported
zero Vietnamese people. Now sitting in with you tonight, I
have about ten on the books and to take cash
app It's weird when people like, oh, what's your life
like when you're doing all these projects, But most of
my day is texting with elderly Vietnamese people about if
they got the money, if they need more, if I
bought an appliance at a breaks. I don't know if
you know this, that's on me. M'laney said it was
one of the greatest things that's ever happened to him,
to have his life expanding that way, quoting Malleni, there's
just no comparison to being Vietnamese. Being Chinese Vietnamese is
the smartest thing I ever did. It's remarkable. It's remarkable.
Letterman asked mullaney about some other stuff, like being the
first comedian to play Wrigley Field, accepting an honorary patronage
from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, taking Malcolm to Graceland,
and becoming a part owner of years the famous non
autum alcoholic beer brand. Dave asked Lane about directing Robbie
Hoffman special. Dave was curious what it's like to work
with Robbie Hoffman. He prefaced his question saying, I've lost
my way in the world of contemporary comedy because I'm
so smitten by you in a handful of other young
men and women who I think have elevated this craft,
this art beyond early expectation in the world. Mullaney called
Hoffman a total original, likening her debut to Sam Kinnison.
Quote someone who you're like, I've never heard a comedian
like this. I've never seen anyone this unafraid. You know,
you throw Sam Kinnison in front of Johnny Mack and
I was ready to say the phrase tap the brakes.
But I don't think Mullaney's crazy there, Malaney said when
she opened for me in San Diego at an outdoor
venue on the water with lots of couples of tables,
she never adjusted her act for anyone. Tell you that's
gonna make for a nice pair on the Weekly Comedy Thing.
That's the show I host on the Live one radio app.
The app is free. The show is free, and over
there I can play bits. So I'm going to back
to back some Robbie with some Kinneseson. That's great. Mullaney said.
He reached out to Robbie Hoffman because he had a
deal to direct and produce specials for Netflix. As John
tells it, she goes, what's the money, and I go
all told, you'll net blank there's a lot of expenses,
and I have a small budget, and they'll license it,
and it's a really interesting deal. But I'll just be
up front. I take no fee to direct it, but
you'll probably only net blank blank thousand. She's like, not
very much. She came to the conclusion that was very
good for her, but said to m'lanie, let's be clear,
it's good for you too, because he seems street. When
you do stuff like this, John, you seem street. It
seems like you're plugged in, Mollini said. But I will
say her prophecy came true. I am seen as cooler,
I am street. A lot of people have been saying
I see more Street. Now she's one of those people
that makes me excited to just stand up again. Now
this is an interesting change. Letterman asked Mullaney will he
make more of the talk show. Mullany gave a non answer.
He said, we have another season from Netflix. I'm on
tour till January twenty twenty seven, so we shall see.
So it's Schrodinger's talk show. It's both dead and not dead.
Other conversation points they talked about Mullanie's time on SNL
and the new Michael Jackson movie. Melanie asked Letterman whether
a Letterman would see it. Dave declined. Mlaney said, I
don't think that program is for me. I don't say this,
by the way, some kind of stance, but just esthetically
and as a film, it looks stupid and bad. I
don't think that was filmed. I wonder if that will
come out on some form on Netflix. That sounds really amazing.
I would love to see that. Maybe it's one of
those you just had to be there, all right. It
was the finals of Funny af that's the Kevin Art
comedy competition series, which I'm behind on. But I've been
picking away at and I was like, you know what,
this is a pretty good version of such a thing.
I could give notes. I think I have given notes,
but just it's like something I have on while I'm
scrolling on Twitter to see what's up with a hantavirus.
It's nice to have on in the background. Anyway, it
was the finals. Here's Kevin Hart. Viewers around the world
have voted and the winner.
Speaker 4: How funny af is?
Speaker 2: And why did you clip it there? Johnny was just
about to tell us who won. Yeah, so the problem
is Kevin Hart dropped an F bomb, and I try
not to do that on this program. Your winner was
thirty four year old Detroit Bourne comic Ron Taylor. Taylor
went out over at Caitlyn Palufo, Sama, Sidiki and Regg Thomas.
Kevin Hart said, Ron is such an amazing talenty. It's
a strong voice, and I love his energy. He's poised,
polished and now position to be a face that will
be seeing for quite some time. This competition was everything
was supposed to be plus more. The four finalists were
all amazing. They did not disappoint. I'm blown away at
Ron's win and we're all in full celebration mode. I
got a high five Kevin Hart. There is gonna make
a short joke, should I? I got a low five
Kevin Hart hack, But like I said, this was a
good version of that, and you came away liking these
people and rooting for them, and you got to see
some newer faces. So it was a good job there.
Taylor was crowned the winner during a taping on Tuesday
night that aired live on Netflix. He will now get
his own Netflix special, he said, he will title that
special Elevate Now. During the semi finals, they did a
roast and Nikki Glazer was there, and I was like,
hold on, hold on, hold on Niki Glazer, and they're
like praising Nicki Glazer that she's the greatest roast comic
of all time, which will debate some other day. Don
Rickles and did Tony Hinchcliff write the jokes at the
Brady Roast? But okay, fine, Nicki Glazer is the greatest
roast comedian of all time. She's in Los Angeles with
Kevin Hart and on Sunday is the roast of Kevin
Hart and Nicki Glazer the greatest roaster of all time?
Isn't doing the roast of Kevin Hart. The whole thing
was weird, especially when Kevin Hart is just waxing poetic
about what a great roaster she is. Why isn't she
doing the roast of Kevin Hart. I mean, if you're
the greatest, hear me out, hear me out, hear me out,
hear me out, hear me out. If you're the greatest
roaster of all time? Should I not be able to
wake you up out of bed and you just slay?
Wouldn't that make you the greatest? Right?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 2: Niki said, oh, I need time to prepared jokes. Well,
maybe you're not the greatest. Then maybe you're the best prepared.
I don't know. The whole thing was weird. A guy
named Chris grulan Comedy on three did a breakdown here.
I have not confirmed this, but according to his threads account,
he said, Osama time on stage six thirty five total laughs,
fifty three laughs per minute, eights applause breaks, five, run
time on stage six thirty two total lasts, fifty five
last per minuted, eight point four applause breaks six. All right,
very similar numbers. Caitlin seven minutes twenty four sixty four
total laughs, eight point six lass per minute, five applause breaks,
and Redge got seven to twenty one on stage fifty
eight total laughs, seven point nine laughs per minute, and
seven applause breaks. Not sure what you do with that information,
but it is interesting. If you follow me in the
Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you saw me
post Thursday Midday that like, hey, I just had to
like get the machete out to cut down today's script.
I mean, check your watch. We're this four in and
we've got a lot to do even in the first half.
Dave Chappelle was on Michelle Obama's podcast, Here's Dave.
Speaker 1: It's never really been quite like this before, where everyone
feels like we're on the precipice of some amazing change.
And every day the new cycling is more appalling than
the last day, and this doesn't seem like it's eving
going to end. And every week I learned some new
word like straight of her moves or blah blah blah.
And it's such an avalanche that it is fun even
for me now to watch comedians contextualize this stuff. Someone
asked me about my transgender I say, say, you know,
you got a lot of trouble for those transgender jokes,
and I go, ah, the good.
Speaker 3: Old days.
Speaker 2: Now getting some pick up, and I suspect this is
going to get more pick up, will become more of
a thing because of some of the words of Dave Chappelle,
some of the blowback he's going to get, and that
Michelle Obama was there and really didn't comment on what
Chappelle said. Dave was talking about trans jokes. Dave said,
people would think it's me versus the gay community. I
never looked at it like that. Oh, it was corporate
interest and culture negotiating itself. So you know, most of
these people who were critical of what I was doing
didn't seem like they were of it. It's like they
had their faces pressed against the glass commenting on what
we were doing in there, but they weren't there doing it.
Every opinion you could think of is represented in a
comedy club. Every type of person you can imagine does
stand up comedy, transgender stand up comics, black, white, Asian,
every kind of perspective, and we all champion whatever opinion
we champion. We would never think to silence one another.
Dave said, being in the room for a joke is
much different than a joke being read on paper or
perhaps by some idiot in a basement reading your words
on his dumb podcast. I if Dave Chappelle has that
criticism of me, I think Dave Chappelle would be correct.
Dave said, for a media outlet to speculate on a
comedy show that they weren't at or misinterpreted joke, nothing
makes a comedian matter than reading his joke wrong in
the paper, you know, And reading a joke is nothing
like hearing one or being one. And the intention of
a comedy show is a very unique intention. We're playing
with whatever the culture is made of, and we break
it down and we get it right or we get
it wrong. But in all art, if it's going to
be good or even hopefully great, you gotta have a
margin of error. I think that's all very fair. And
like I just said, if if if Chappelle or any
comedian like hates when I quote their stuff, they're right.
They're one hundred percent right. In Yahoo or maybe it's
from them dot com, Matthew Rodriguez writes, come again. Many
of Chappelle's anti trans jokes were not in fact digested
on paper, but were available and widely watched a series
of Netflix specials that were available for all to see.
And indeed, it is actually kind of hard to misinterpret
the comedians saying he is Team Turf seems like one
of those situations where you get exactly what it says
on the tin. Also from Yahoo, they were talking more
about K's show the other night. They observe themes that
stuck out in CK's performance are ridiculous. Is the new
materials interest in aging, death, wisdom, and regret. Take for
instance the call and response bit where Ck said I'm
so old and the crowd yelled how old are you?
He named three increasingly bleak truths about approaching sixty, concluding
I'm so old that I live in the present for
the first time, not because of wisdom, but from because
there's too much of the past and not enough of
the future. The thing about life that I've learned is
that life is too long. It's way too long. It's
way too long because you again have a good life, but
then you're still live after that one. And also you
kind of figure life out, you figure out the world,
and then it changes completely. Here's the thing about getting old.
I don't feel bad for somebody that gets old, because
you don't have to do it. Getting old is what
happens when you don't die for a long time. That's
all it is. Uh. That quote worries me a little bit, Louis,
I hope you're doing all right.
Speaker 4: Comedy stock marketine.
Speaker 2: Every week we take a look at what comedian stock
we should buy and we should sell. Again. This is
not a judgment on who's good or bad. It's a
judgment on value. Who's overvalued, who's undervalued. Let's buy some
Ron Taylor, right, I mean Kevin Hart backing Ron Taylor.
Ron Taylor getting in a Netflix special. Let's get in
while it's still low. Let's also get in on some
more job. It's Johnson. He's got a new special coming
to HBO. We'll talk about that next week. It's just
way too busy this week to get to that. I
also did get to tell you about Larry the Cable Guy.
Has got a cable show that's ironic coming out this fall.
So we're gonna buy some Larry the Cable Guy. We'll
get all these stories. Another bye. Johnny's positive today. Vittorio Angeloni.
I've seen him personally up in Montreal that has been
buzzing him for a few years, and now playing out
in la at the Netflix Festival. A lot of people
getting to see Vittorio for the first time. Good buzz
on him. Mo Ammer. I always like what he does,
and he's now consulting to the Daily Show. That's another buy.
Jeff Currey, I thought looked pretty good on the Kevin
Hard Funny AF shows. Let's buy some Jeffic Curry and
I got some sales for you. Andrew Schultz, I got
story in tomorrow. His co host is leaving the Flagrant Podcast.
And let's sell Louis ck for reasons well discussed to recap.
We're gonna buy Ron Taylor, Larry the Cable Guy, Vittorio Angeloni,
mo Amer, Jeffic Currey, and we're gonna sell Andrew Schultz
and Louis c K. My dog is no dog knows
it's a nice day and wants to go for a
long walk. Oh you just pulled up on the floor here, okay,
dog is co hosting the show. Deadline had caught up
with the Netflix folks earlier in the week. Robbie pra
who heads up Netflix Comedy, said, you're getting this huge
community of talent to come in and all be in
LA and not only comedians, but people who work with comedians,
people from around the world who work in the comedy business.
Having that for two weeks seemed unecessary, so that was
probably the biggest pivot, turning it into a week Tracy
Pacosta said, I also think what becomes a parent is
the bigger comedy ecosystem that we have here at Netflix,
So being able to be inclusive all that, whether it
be the scripted shows, a lot of features, or talent
does many different things here in flexus different muscles, So
how do we best take pride in that and give
our talent the opportunity to get involved. Robbie said, that's
a good point, merging very popular podcasts with some of
our biggest shows. I think that's a real fun development
this time around. I think we have more music and
athletes in the festival, but God's something that organically happened
last time and we're excited to do that. Deadline asked,
what have you figured out in the last four years
in terms of ticket sales and had his best structure
a festival when you have so many big names. I'll
jump in here. I know we saw some of the
bigger names weren't selling out, including c K. Robbie Pros said,
I think as somebody who's worked in the festival world
for a long time, I'll jump in again. He used
to be the number two I think. At the Montreal
Comedy Festival, Robbie said, ticket sales work a little bit differently.
What we're seeing from our consumer base right now is
people waking up, seeing things all around town, saying the
festival's coming, and starting to pick the festival shows they
want to go to, which is a little different than
the typical behavior. We have a touring comedian coming to
town really just speaking to their fans. I think a
joy about any festival, not just hours, is people experimenting.
I'll jump in again. Amen to that. I always tell you,
if you go to a festival, go see the random shows.
Don't only see headliners. Robbie says. People picking the thing
that they know they love the most and then giving
a shot to somebody maybe they heard is cool that
they just want to try out to take advantage of
this being in their hometown. Amen. We are getting along here,
and the dog wants to go out, and so does John.
John's been on the computer. What is it? It's two
o'clock at Thursday afternoon. I started at seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve one. I have another career for seven hours, and
I'm a podcaster who works from home and it's sunny out,
I want to go outside. Let's see what's at the festival.
Two nights Hollywood Bowl seven thirty. John m'aliney's Mister Whatever
the Bad Friends podcast at the YouTube Theater at seven o'clock.
What is this beautifully Broken Comedy Night hosted by jelly
Roll that's at the Greek Theater. That'll get a click
out of me. Let's see what this one is? Oh
interesting show, they're not marketing this properly beautifully broken Comedy
Night is America's foremost political commentator, Ata Schultz, Tony Hinchcliffe,
Big Jay Oakerson, Adam Ray, Jeff Ross, and Josh Adam Myers.
Hosted by jelly Roll. That's a pretty interesting show and
definitely has a vibe. At the Palladium Dave Chappelle Dolby Theater,
seven o'clock, Low ticket warning for Hassan Hates Ronnie, Ronnie
Hates Hassan. That is Hassan Minhaj and Ronnie Ching Maximini
sold out at the Orpheum, A good one if you
want to go off the beaten path. Sam Campbell is
at the Masonic Lodge at nine forty five if you're
in town and you don't have tickets at one of
the big shows, take a flower on that, trust me.
At Largo tonight, Robbie Hoffman sold out at eight and
ten thirty. Wow the Laugh Factory at seven forty five,
says Legends of Comedy. I clicked on it. They won't
tell you who it is. At the Preppermint Club, Michael
Irvin and Friends Michael Irvin from the Dallas Cowboys, who
are their friends? Headliners Michael Irvin featuring comedian CP. I'm
sure it's a wonderful show, but boy, there's some other
things to go see tonight. And I'm just scrolling down.
There's a good thirty other shows I didn't even tell
you about. That is the Netflix is Joke Comedy Festival,
just crushing it in Los Angeles this week. And that
is your comedy news for today. All weekend normal episodes.
I'm very open that I usually pretape the weekend episodes.
I haven't touched Saturday, Sunday or Monday. I'm swinging here
day today because I want to keep abreast of what's
happening out in LA. I don't want to get too
far ahead of things as I record this at two
o nine pm on Thursday afternoon. Netflix has still not
said who's on the roast of Kevin Hart? Is that
not weird? I mean, let's just play it out. Let's
just say that, like it's amazing and they're gonna keep
it secret. So who's gonna show up chappelle Ck, etc. Like,
all right, is John m'laney gonna roast Kevin Hart? I mean,
I guess is you know? Is David Lettering gonna show
up and do five minutes roasted Kevin Hart? I can't
imagine any of that. So why are you not telling
us who's playing the roast of Kevin Hart? Who knows?
Maybe we'll get Eddie Murphy, who knows? You know what? No,
I'm thinking about that. Eddie lives in town ish you
know what I mean by town in Los Angeles. You know,
Eddie doesn't live ten hours from Los Angeles. He lives
close enough. Jamie Fox. I can see Fox showing up
at this. This could be an event. I'm looking forward
to the roast of Kevin Hart Sunday night on Netflix
at eight Eastern after the next playoff game, and tonight
we have a next playoff game. Go Nix see you tomorrow,