Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media Tater, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Their first story seems to be bothering people,
Speaker 1: and I don't come to make light of it at all.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you the story and then I'll tell
Speaker 1: you my feelings about it. The headline Toms Agora and
Speaker 1: Christina Pozitski have reportedly split. They've been married for eighteen years.
Speaker 1: A source told TMZ they had a special and productive relationship,
Speaker 1: creating one of the most successful comedy podcast networks in
Speaker 1: the industry, and more importantly, two kids. They're taking different
Speaker 1: paths moving forward while remaining devoted to their children. They've
Speaker 1: been married since November of two thousand and eight. In
Speaker 1: her twenty seventeen Netflix special, Christina p said, I love
Speaker 1: my husband. I laugh at his jokes, I think he's fantastic,
Speaker 1: and then all day every day, I want to punch
Speaker 1: him in his dumb face. It's not the big things
Speaker 1: that make you want to kill your spouse, it's little stuff.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty nineteen, Tom Sagora joke the key to
Speaker 1: his marriage was intimidation and saying, my wife is Kim
Speaker 1: jong Ill and I'm the people of North Korea. Every
Speaker 1: day there are a series of interrogations leading to a
Speaker 1: looming execution. The pair will reportedly continue to host the
Speaker 1: podcast Your Mom's House. So obviously a big story if
Speaker 1: you follow comedians, and Tom is one of the bigger
Speaker 1: comedians right now. You know, for me, I don't come
Speaker 1: to it's say to me when anyone's marriage breaks up.
Speaker 1: This is very different to me than like, if Amy
Speaker 1: Schumer posts a picture on Instagram at a bikini, she
Speaker 1: wants us to talk about her, and I'm happy to
Speaker 1: poke fun at that. But this here is just, you know,
Speaker 1: I like seeing anybody break up. The New York Post said.
Speaker 1: Sigora hinted at the splits by titching his wedding ring
Speaker 1: during the latest episode, Monday's episode of Two Bears One Cave.
Speaker 1: That episode came out the same day of the news
Speaker 1: of the split. I'll just caution everybody don't read too
Speaker 1: much into that. I wasn't wearing a ring for a while.
Speaker 1: You know why, because I play beach volleyball and my
Speaker 1: hands would swell and it was bothering me. And depending
Speaker 1: on how fat I am at a particular moment, sometimes
Speaker 1: the ring bothers you when you take it off, especially
Speaker 1: playing volleyball. I'm used to playing it now and I've
Speaker 1: actually dropped some weight this summer. Some days it's loose.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's a little not loose, but you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I can slip it on and off
Speaker 1: in other days it's don't read anything into that. Maybe
Speaker 1: Tom Sigoor is playing volleyball. The innerk Post says the
Speaker 1: couple has not filmed an episode of Your Mom's House
Speaker 1: Together since late April, during which Sigora wore his wedding
Speaker 1: ring and apparently somebody did the homework and saw that
Speaker 1: Tom had his wedding ring on all prior podcast episodes.
Speaker 1: People have too much free time. I was going to
Speaker 1: share with you that, and I still will. Tom Sagora
Speaker 1: was on the Colin and Semir podcast talking about Y
Speaker 1: m H Studios that came out prior to the news
Speaker 1: of the split, and you know it's a decent listen.
Speaker 1: In terms of the business of podcasting, people are not
Speaker 1: happy with Will Ferrell. They found him really annoying. Monday
Speaker 1: night during the home Run Derby on Netflix. I found
Speaker 1: him so annoying that I had to turn the thing off.
Speaker 1: Let's listen to Will Ferrell introduced Bryce Harper, the man
Speaker 1: who never asked the pant Rarah. The Liberty Book comes
Speaker 1: in photos of him. This big cross have cost the
Speaker 1: Temple more than George Rohington. He has twenty one career.
Speaker 1: Help me. I'm hopefully he ejects some bones tonight, Bronze Harper.
Speaker 1: You can tell Netflix does not care because they shared
Speaker 1: that clip on social media, so they think it's great.
Speaker 1: In general, social media was not happy at all with
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell. I saw a lot of chatter I shared
Speaker 1: it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group
Speaker 1: with people just being like, please shut up. A lot
Speaker 1: of people suggesting Will Ferrell is past his prime. He's
Speaker 1: got the new show out on Netflix, The Hawk, so
Speaker 1: we'll see if there's a Feral Sans or not. In
Speaker 1: The Hawk, Will Ferrell stars as Lenny the Hawk Hawkins,
Speaker 1: a washed up golf legend who's trying to make the
Speaker 1: sport's greatest comeback by chasing one final major and in
Speaker 1: typical Will Ferrell fashion, that's accompanied by plenty of chaos
Speaker 1: along the way. The Holland Reporter compared it to Happy
Speaker 1: Gilmore So you can tell I'm excited about it. Fortune
Speaker 1: Fiemester is part of this. She wondered if the Hawk
Speaker 1: character would get along with Happy Gilmour. She said, the
Speaker 1: characters are so different. I think you love seeing these
Speaker 1: non golf type guys in the very buttoned up golf world.
Speaker 1: That's the comedy, the juxtaposition. I think they would give
Speaker 1: each other a pretty hard time but have a good
Speaker 1: time doing it. Will Ferrell said, I was really interested
Speaker 1: in the possibility of getting to shoot something in La
Speaker 1: and I was intrigued with playing a character for longer
Speaker 1: than ninety minutes in a film. According to Will, the
Speaker 1: character really only cares about himself and that's what gets
Speaker 1: him back to the top of his game. Ten episodes Netflix,
Speaker 1: you'll watch. Speaking of golf, at the American Century Championship
Speaker 1: last week, Colin jos teed off from the par three
Speaker 1: seventeenth hole and nearly hit a hole in one. His
Speaker 1: ball rolls within an inch of the cup. Colin Jose
Speaker 1: pumped his arms in the air before ripping off his
Speaker 1: sunglasses and embracing the crowd's roars. Scarlett Johansson, his wife,
Speaker 1: was there. Joe said Scarlett was like, Baby, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna win this thing, I gotta be there like I
Speaker 1: got to see the champ in action because she kind
Speaker 1: of knew this was my year. Unfortunately, for Colin Jost,
Speaker 1: that was his best shot. He had a couple bogies
Speaker 1: and did not win the championship. Remember the other day,
Speaker 1: I was recording the show and I didn't have power,
Speaker 1: and I didn't get to tell you what comedian Michael
Speaker 1: Loftist said about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's wedding. Loftist
Speaker 1: told Sky News. Set your watches on how long this lasts?
Speaker 1: I give it three years tops, and then it's over.
Speaker 1: I don't know how she's going to spin it. Somehow,
Speaker 1: he'll be the bad guy, she'll have her heartbroken, there's
Speaker 1: going to be action figures, and she'll probably be part
Speaker 1: of the Marvel Cinematic universe before it's all over. Are
Speaker 1: you going to see the Odyssey? This weekend? John Stewart
Speaker 1: had on director Christopher Nolan and said, holy s word,
Speaker 1: it's a staggering work. I was utterly absorbed and transformed
Speaker 1: by the powerful storytelling and epic nature of it. That
Speaker 1: sounds like I'm reading the quote here. John apparently spoke
Speaker 1: those words, but that just reads like a printed quote
Speaker 1: I digress. Stuart said, it's just remarkable. I feel like
Speaker 1: I know a lot of the tricks, but I don't
Speaker 1: know how you did it. Here's what I'm going to say.
Speaker 1: You're a wizard, Harry. The film is spectacular. Stuart was
Speaker 1: impressed by practical effects, saying that's all practical effects right.
Speaker 1: Those are real boat's, real water. Christopher Nolan said, real boats,
Speaker 1: real water. Bill Maher has no intention of retiring. Bill
Speaker 1: Mooh is now seventy for comps. Johnny Carson retired at
Speaker 1: sixty six, David Letterman at sixty eight. Bill Maher had
Speaker 1: on Byron Allen on Mar's Club Random podcast. I have
Speaker 1: that in my cue for this weekend. More said, people
Speaker 1: are basically retired at this point anyway. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to retire, and nobody who is my fan wants
Speaker 1: me to. I don't feel any different really, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: act different than when I was forty. I'm married, I
Speaker 1: don't have kids. I still drink and smoke pot and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. When my life changes, maybe the show
Speaker 1: where my career will change, but until it does, not retiring.
Speaker 1: Comedy Stock Markets, thank you. Bert Reynolds this week on
Speaker 1: the Comedy stock Market, we're going to make some aggressive plays. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're new to this. Every week we try and
Speaker 1: find value in the comedians. We try and sell high
Speaker 1: and buy low. And I'm not all that confident I'm
Speaker 1: right this week, but I'm gonna play some bets here.
Speaker 1: Let's sell Will Ferrell. I was looking at social media
Speaker 1: during the home run derby, and people were annoyed, and
Speaker 1: people were saying things like Will hasn't been funny in
Speaker 1: fifteen years, and Will has passed his prime, and I
Speaker 1: haven't seen this Netflix show or not. I'm sure right
Speaker 1: now if I log in, it'd probably number one in
Speaker 1: trending just because he is Will Ferrell. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if people are kind of done with Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1: So let's sell Will Ferrell. I might be wrong there,
Speaker 1: but that's the recommendation. Sell Will Ferrell. Let's also sell
Speaker 1: Tom Segura. I'm seeing a lot of vibe of Tom
Speaker 1: lost weight and he's gone Hollywood and he's lost his way,
Speaker 1: and just the general public blaming Tom Sagora. I'm not
Speaker 1: in their marriage. I don't know what goes on or not,
Speaker 1: so I wish them both well as I've said, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry anytime anybody breaks up, but you know, trying to
Speaker 1: make some hypothetical money here. So let's sell Tom Segura
Speaker 1: and let's buy Tim Hideker. I've been spending some time
Speaker 1: on this new rebooted Info Wars, and what Tim high
Speaker 1: Decker is doing on there is amazing. I can't stop
Speaker 1: watching it, basically making fun of the entire Alex Jones persona,
Speaker 1: and he has got my intention. So we're gonna sell
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell, sell Tom Sigoram, We're gonna buy Tim Hidecker.
Speaker 1: That's your comedy stock market this week. If you need
Speaker 1: something to listen to besides me. Marg Barker's new comedy album,
Speaker 1: The Mind Field, is out today via Blonde Medicine. You
Speaker 1: can also find it on various places that stream and
Speaker 1: comedy albums. Late Night Er tells us the TV Academy
Speaker 1: is preparing for the possibility that this year's newly recombined
Speaker 1: Outstanding Variety Series category could produce more than one Emmy winner.
Speaker 1: I told you about this the other day. If you
Speaker 1: get more than ninety percent of the votes, you get
Speaker 1: an Emmy. CEO Morey McIntyre said, it's a pretty high
Speaker 1: bar to clear ninety percent yes votes. But you know
Speaker 1: it's not unreasonable. It could happen. We're planning for it
Speaker 1: just in case. Under the new structure of voters won't
Speaker 1: be asked to choose one winner. They'll just vote yes
Speaker 1: or no on each series. I'll walk you through the
Speaker 1: series in a minute and tell you what's going to
Speaker 1: happen here. If no nominee reaches ninety percent, goes to
Speaker 1: the show with the highest percentage of yes votes. McIntyre
Speaker 1: till deadline. One of the things we had heard from
Speaker 1: the community loud and clear was these are such disparate shows.
Speaker 1: It's hard sometimes to compare them, Like what is Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live? How is that really the same as Colbert.
Speaker 1: That's why this idea of the Area award made more sense. Again,
Speaker 1: I think it's stupid. So let me walk you through this.
Speaker 1: The Daily Show, you want to give it an Emmy.
Speaker 1: How about Kimmel? You want to give Kimmel an Emmy
Speaker 1: just to stick it to the man. Probably, how about
Speaker 1: John Oliver he almost always wins anyway. How about Colbert?
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to give Colbert a vote just to
Speaker 1: stick it to the man, right, And Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: did not have a great year at all, but I
Speaker 1: could see them getting votes. So those are your five.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon's got to feel pretty dopey being left out,
Speaker 1: and luckily Seth Myers isn't on this list. Make twelve
Speaker 1: thirty great again. But again I could see Oliver Kimmel
Speaker 1: and Colbert all getting one, And then what are we
Speaker 1: even doing? Do you believe in the Mendela effect? I do,
Speaker 1: because where I'm from, the guy from the Flight of
Speaker 1: the Concords used to be named Jermaine Clement, and at
Speaker 1: some point the R went out of his first name,
Speaker 1: and his name in this universe where I'm speaking to
Speaker 1: you today is Jamaine Clement, and I'm telling you that
Speaker 1: was not always true, Jamaine Clement told Vulture New Zealand
Speaker 1: political correctness came quite early. We still like to try
Speaker 1: and not insult whole groups of people, and we stuck
Speaker 1: with that. We then joked, oh, it's cool to make
Speaker 1: fun of trans people. Now we should do that. We've
Speaker 1: not done that. But there was a reaction of political
Speaker 1: correctness of going, okay, it's edgy, you know, make a
Speaker 1: racist joke. But it wasn't edgy. It was just old.
Speaker 1: It was just old fashion. And it's like that again.
Speaker 1: It's like this just looks like it's from nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1: I Eata Rodriguez spoke to the La Times about comedians
Speaker 1: taking jabs at marginalized people. I said, yeah, there's no
Speaker 1: balance when people say, oh, the trans people are so sensitive,
Speaker 1: queer people are so sensitive because the people who were
Speaker 1: talking about them are at the top of the food chain.
Speaker 1: If there was a trans comedian that was in the
Speaker 1: Forbes Top ten that could push back and give their
Speaker 1: perspective and their point of view, then it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: as horrible. But there's no balance. Sometimes that translates into violence.
Speaker 1: I got tired of that, and I decided to create
Speaker 1: the world I want to be in because I'm tired
Speaker 1: of fighting. Comedy and music bring people together. Comedy is
Speaker 1: very subjective. There should be a spectrum either love George
Speaker 1: Lopez or fluffey, and there's never any room for anything else.
Speaker 1: And there are many voices in comedy. With Frankie Conunius,
Speaker 1: we started a long time ago together. I thought This
Speaker 1: Fool was brilliant. It was a great representation of the city.
Speaker 1: The fact that it took time to be part of
Speaker 1: something that represented La in the community in a way
Speaker 1: that you never see. Is so special to what's happening
Speaker 1: right now. He has got a new show called The Remix,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to put all that stuff together and
Speaker 1: celebrate us because no one else is going to do
Speaker 1: it for us. And that is your comedy news for today. Saturdays.
Speaker 1: During the summer, I've been doing some deep dives on
Speaker 1: single topics. Tomorrow we'll take a look at mega comedian
Speaker 1: Nate Pergetzi. See then,