Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. If
Speaker 2: you skip the holiday weekend, I get it, but I'll
Speaker 2: tell you there were real episodes Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2: No holiday filler, Plenty of fun news in there, some
Speaker 2: fun moments. Check that out in today at the halfway mark,
Speaker 2: I'll have a major announcement. But before that, just a really,
Speaker 2: really shocking development in the make twelve thirty great Again movement.
Speaker 2: If you're a regular listener, you know that the President
Speaker 2: and I are not aligned on all the issues, but
Speaker 2: one of the issues we are aligned on is the
Speaker 2: twelve thirty NBC franchise Late Night. We need to make
Speaker 2: it great again. The President, like me, not impressed by
Speaker 2: what Seth Myers is handing in. The President on social
Speaker 2: media posted, why does NBC waste its time and money
Speaker 2: on a guy like this? Which is a good question.
Speaker 2: We need to get back to the good old days
Speaker 2: of throwing things off a five story tower, or masturbating
Speaker 2: bears or whatever Jimmy Fallon did while he hosted the
Speaker 2: Thing Friends. This is very tough for me. David Letterman
Speaker 2: has weighed in on the situation. Now you're probably like John, Yeah, Letterman.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got to know, like, what is Seth doing?
Speaker 2: He should be throwing stuff off a tower. He should
Speaker 2: be having Chris Elliott on doing fun bits. That's what
Speaker 2: I would hope David Letterman would say. But friends, no,
Speaker 2: David Letterman on the wrong side of the make twelve
Speaker 2: thirty Great Again movement.
Speaker 1: Let's listen, the President of the United States now wants
Speaker 1: to fire Seth Myers.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, and I thought this is just delightful me.
Speaker 1: How do you think that's gonna go? So anyway, I've
Speaker 1: never been more proud of Seth Myers. That's our old show.
Speaker 1: As a matter of yees, yeah, we used to do
Speaker 1: that show and he does a magical job. But just
Speaker 1: remember Seth. Things happen.
Speaker 2: I think Dave may have lost it. It could just
Speaker 2: be he got really old and he just forgot what
Speaker 2: twelve thirty is supposed to be, Like make twelve thirty
Speaker 2: great again? The President doing a great job on this issue.
Speaker 2: More masturbating bears, more throwing things off a tower, more
Speaker 2: Chris Eliot. David Letterman continues to cause me personal pain.
Speaker 2: He's on Netflix today as a new episode. He has
Speaker 2: a new episode of his talk show My Next Guest
Speaker 2: Is or whatever it's called, Today's guest Adam Sandler. Now,
Speaker 2: hopefully David Letterman is asking Adam Sandler questions about how
Speaker 2: Adam Sandler is a great dramatic actor and not in
Speaker 2: any way making Adam Sandler think that Adam Sandler's funny. Dave,
Speaker 2: I hope you did not let me down twice in
Speaker 2: one day. That would pain me terribly. But yes, add
Speaker 2: on Netflix today David Letterman with the great, great dramatic
Speaker 2: actor Adam Sandler. Things not going Johnny max Way lately,
Speaker 2: I sold yesterday. Jim Gaffickin's Bourbon special doing really well
Speaker 2: on YouTube. I don't get it. You're only going to
Speaker 2: encourage him to do more. Everybody go watch Kevin Hart
Speaker 2: special for something actually funny. A variety watched Jim Gaffigin's car.
Speaker 2: They were curious, Jim, when did you find success? You
Speaker 2: were on Letterman and then quickly given a TV show
Speaker 2: called Welcome to New York, which was canceled after one season.
Speaker 2: What was it like to reach that peak and have
Speaker 2: a ticket away? Jim Gaffikins said, I feel like my
Speaker 2: career is this balance between creative fulfillment and getting caught
Speaker 2: up in other people's expectations. And when you get caught
Speaker 2: up in other people's expectations, that's when you become frustrated.
Speaker 2: I know, I would expect somebody who you helped earlier
Speaker 2: in their career would call you back, and then when
Speaker 2: they don't, that's very frustrating. So I understand what you're saying,
Speaker 2: Jim Gaffigan. Jim said, it's weird because comedians are very
Speaker 2: much self servers, but they also have to be cooperative
Speaker 2: and compliant. They go in a club environment and they
Speaker 2: have to be deferential to the person who books it,
Speaker 2: the person who oversees it. So they have to be
Speaker 2: audacious to get there, but they also have to be deferential.
Speaker 2: They need some schmoozing skills. But in the entertainment industry,
Speaker 2: particularly when creating and executing a show, you have to
Speaker 2: be protective of your ideas. I'm not saying you have
Speaker 2: to be Rosanne, but you have to be protective. The
Speaker 2: skills that work in stand up, not just the writing,
Speaker 2: but the businesses stand up are completely different from the
Speaker 2: sitcom or TV world. Acting is something I love, but
Speaker 2: it's insane. I used to say auditioning is like stripping,
Speaker 2: but you don't get a dollar. There's an amount of
Speaker 2: humiliation and rejection every creative person has to embrace. Jim Gaffigan,
Speaker 2: are their boundaries you would not cross? Good question? Jim
Speaker 2: said it sounds corny, but being a comedy nerd and
Speaker 2: having studied stand up, I do think there's an aftertaste
Speaker 2: to stand up that people don't realize. I don't want
Speaker 2: my stand up to leave people with that ichy feeling.
Speaker 2: I don't want to punch down. We all have friends
Speaker 2: who are super bitchy and gossipy, and they're great to
Speaker 2: hang out with, but in an hour after that, you're like,
Speaker 2: I feel kind of bad. We were making fun of
Speaker 2: Melissa forever, not saying I'm not guilty of this, but
Speaker 2: there is a lot of anger and I have a
Speaker 2: very dark heart. But it's better to bring insight and
Speaker 2: make a joke as a commentary on all humans. Good
Speaker 2: follow up here. In a recent special, Jim had a
Speaker 2: joke about pat retiring from Wheel of Fortune, the punchline
Speaker 2: being long lines. So if you can't retire from playing hangman,
Speaker 2: isn't that punching down Jim said, no, Honestly, that's a
Speaker 2: good example, because I wouldn't want Pats a Jack to
Speaker 2: be like, why is he picking on me? That's where
Speaker 2: it's imperfect. I tried to set up the joke where
Speaker 2: he seems like a loving guy, but the point of
Speaker 2: the joke was he was making seventeen million dollars a
Speaker 2: year for playing Hangman. The meat of the joke is
Speaker 2: more commentary on how our priorities in society are all
Speaker 2: over the place. Pat Sajack was compensated because people had
Speaker 2: an affinity for him. He was efficient, he was likable,
Speaker 2: he was charming. But maybe a teacher should make more
Speaker 2: than him. Shane Gillis is going to play Lincoln Financial Field,
Speaker 2: home of the NFL Philadelphia Eagles, over sixty thousand seats.
Speaker 2: He sold it out in half an hour. That shows
Speaker 2: July seventeenth. The Daily Mail was very excited about this one.
Speaker 2: Canceled comedian Louis c K devours Hollywood legend's widow on
Speaker 2: streets of NYC as steamy romance is revealed. Okay, what's this? Well,
Speaker 2: you see Louis c K just back from the Riod
Speaker 2: Comedy Festival, spotted passionately kissing Philip seymour Hoffman's longtime partner
Speaker 2: Mimi O'Donnell. That's right, Mimi was seen with Louis c
Speaker 2: K eleven years after Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away. Now
Speaker 2: The Daily Mail says that Mimi O'Donnell is now Spotify's
Speaker 2: head of scripted fiction. Hmm, mister ck just wrote a book,
Speaker 2: didn't he. That's interesting, We're told in the PDA Louis
Speaker 2: c K passionately put his hand on the back of
Speaker 2: her head. Josh Johnson got some attention for joking about
Speaker 2: New York City Mayor elect Zora and Mumdani. Johnson was
Speaker 2: joking about mum Donnie's visit to the White House where
Speaker 2: the Mayor elect and the president got along. Maybe they
Speaker 2: were talking about twelve thirty. Josh started by defining a communist,
Speaker 2: saying that it refers to those individuals who want everyone
Speaker 2: to eat or want some kind of grocery store for themselves.
Speaker 2: And then he said, for his part, you know, Zoren
Speaker 2: only really brought up Trump when he was asked. He
Speaker 2: wasn't one of those people that was companning on like
Speaker 2: opposing Trump specifically. You know what I mean, and it's
Speaker 2: wild that those two were in the same place. Johnson
Speaker 2: tagged that with I would have been like, Nah, sounds
Speaker 2: like a setup. I know a setup when I see
Speaker 2: one hand's papers. Dot Com had some questions for tig
Speaker 2: Nataro Rapid Fire tig Nataro questions. Favorite book The Five
Speaker 2: Am Club by Robin Sharma. The last thing to chock
Speaker 2: your breath away tick Nataro. Five deer lying close together
Speaker 2: off a wooded trail. Interesting, last thing I made you
Speaker 2: cry getting tough news about a dear friend. What would
Speaker 2: be your last meal? My morning's smoothie? Something worth fighting
Speaker 2: for planet Earth? If that goes, we go, something worth
Speaker 2: giving up expectations. Spend an afternoon with anyone alive or dad.
Speaker 2: Who would it be, she said, my mother. I'd love
Speaker 2: to introduce her to my family. Any interesting objects in
Speaker 2: your home or studio? Her answer A beautiful crystal on
Speaker 2: our mantle from singer Edie Burkel. Last film you watched? Friendship?
Speaker 2: What's the movie? Everyone should watch the documentary Come See
Speaker 2: Me in the Good Light on Apple TV plus this.
Speaker 1: Fall Sixteen Comedians, One Island And in the end, only
Speaker 1: one thing matters. Your vote alliances will form, bits will evolve,
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Speaker 1: Sixteen comedians, one recurring bit, one Survivor. This January on
Speaker 1: Daily Comedy News, Outbit Outlaugh Outlast, this is Comedy Survivor.
Speaker 2: That's right, Comedy Survivor will be the new bit. Here's
Speaker 2: how this is going to work. This week, in the
Speaker 2: Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you're
Speaker 2: gonna find a cartoon image for Comedy Survivor. In that thread,
Speaker 2: I want you to make nominations for who should be
Speaker 2: part of this contest. Then we'll let the holidays go by,
Speaker 2: and then in January, every week in the Facebook group
Speaker 2: Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, you will vote one person
Speaker 2: off the comedy island and we will see who wins. Now,
Speaker 2: I want to remind you it doesn't really matter this.
Speaker 2: The whole thing is a bit. There's no actual island,
Speaker 2: there's no prize. This is a bit. So let's all
Speaker 2: tee each other up so that we can hopefully make
Speaker 2: for an entertaining podcast. And with that in mind, I
Speaker 2: have pre selected four people who would be part of
Speaker 2: Comedy Survivor. You guys get to pick the other twelve,
Speaker 2: but the four that I am putting on the island
Speaker 2: for reasons that you should understand if you listen to
Speaker 2: this podcast. They are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy,
Speaker 2: and Jim Gaffigan, creator of Bourbon It's Comedy Survivor. Coming
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Speaker 2: Billboard released the Biggest touring Comedians of October twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Your top touring comedian Nate bergatzy fifteen million dollars in October. Wow,
Speaker 2: some other people making some money. Louis c K. If
Speaker 2: you thinn't going to Riatt'll hurt your bottom line? Well no,
Speaker 2: he grossed to one point seven million dollars. Louis ck
Speaker 2: did eleven shows domestically twenty seven thousand, six hundred tickets,
Speaker 2: grossed one point seven million dollars. Matt Ryf also sold
Speaker 2: twenty seven thousand tickets. He did two shows, also grossed
Speaker 2: one point seven million. John mulaney seven shows, twenty three
Speaker 2: thy nine hundred tickets two point six million dollars, and
Speaker 2: Nate of course up top fifteen point eight mil two
Speaker 2: hundred and sixteen thousand tickets fourteen shows. What's fifteen point
Speaker 2: eight million divided by two hundred and sixteen thousand. Serie
Speaker 2: tells me seventy three point one four so on average,
Speaker 2: seventy three bucks to go see Nate Pergatzy must be
Speaker 2: Nice CNN. On Year's Day, they'll have a documentary called
Speaker 2: I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not. A trailer suggests a
Speaker 2: deep dive into both the myth and the men, featuring
Speaker 2: interviews with the likes of Dan Aykroyd, Lorne Michaels, Kevin Kneelan,
Speaker 2: and Martin short Notice. Nobody from community listed there out
Speaker 2: to day. On YouTube, Charlie Barns has his second special.
Speaker 2: It's called Neighborly. Charlie brings his particular brand of Midwest
Speaker 2: nice to his latest hour full of stories about growing
Speaker 2: up one of twelve children, sneaking a beer in a church,
Speaker 2: gambling with his grandmother, and Midwest cheap hacks. And that
Speaker 2: is your comedy news for to day or a I'll
Speaker 2: see you to Morrow.