Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Well, this show is interesting. Hello, I'm
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Shane Gillis says
Speaker 1: he was asked to come back to SNL for a
Speaker 1: year to play Trump. Shane was at Skankfest, the comedy
Speaker 1: festival in Las Vegas. We'll talk about that in a second.
Speaker 1: Lewis J. Gomez said of Shane, nobody thought he was
Speaker 1: coming to the festival this year. Shane said, explain why?
Speaker 1: Gomez asked, can I explain why Gillis gave him the
Speaker 1: go ahead? Gomez says, because he was offered to play
Speaker 1: Trump on the entire season of SNL and he turned
Speaker 1: it down to effing b Here Shane confirmed the story
Speaker 1: and said, they said, are you serious? You're gonna say no?
Speaker 1: And I said, Lorne, I gotta go to Coke Magic.
Speaker 1: Coke Magic is a show where Gomez performs magic tricks. Now,
Speaker 1: this is all interesting because remember that Hollywood reporter piece
Speaker 1: I was picking away at that suggested that James Austin
Speaker 1: Johnson wouldn't be doing Trump on the show. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's more. Late Nighters said during rehearsal of the Nate
Speaker 1: Berghansey episode, there was a version of the opening sketch
Speaker 1: where Maya Rudolph's Kamala Harris was home watching the debate.
Speaker 1: In the dress rehearsal version, James Austin Johnson's Trump was
Speaker 1: also watching the debate. The Trump character said, this guy's
Speaker 1: doing great, before it was revealed that he's not watching
Speaker 1: the debate. He's actually watching American Ninja Warrior. So really interesting, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, Shane Gillis goes from hey, you're on SNL,
Speaker 1: Sorry you can't be on ESNL to now they're asking
Speaker 1: him to come back for a year. I mean, his
Speaker 1: Trump is really good, probably is better than James Austin
Speaker 1: Johnson's right now. But wow, now, new topic interesting to
Speaker 1: me about skank Fest is again. I'll remind you I
Speaker 1: host this podcast every day and as part of the
Speaker 1: prep I go to several websites and I also type
Speaker 1: in words like comedy and comedian. Nothing about skank Fest
Speaker 1: came up at all this year. I would have mentioned it.
Speaker 1: It didn't come up at all. I came up like
Speaker 1: six months ago when they announced it, and that's the
Speaker 1: last time I saw it came and went. I would
Speaker 1: have told you who was playing. I would have said
Speaker 1: something about it even stranger as I put together the
Speaker 1: show on Tuesday. If you type skank Fest into Google
Speaker 1: and then click on the news tab, as one might
Speaker 1: do when preparing their comedy podcast, here's what comes up.
Speaker 1: The deadline story about Shane. I just told you the
Speaker 1: local patch telling us about the official skank Fest after
Speaker 1: party at Peppermint Hippo. That story from two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: David Tail spoke to the Las Vegas Review Journal. They
Speaker 1: were curious what a sober fellow like Dayton Fettel does
Speaker 1: late nights in Vegas these days. Dave said, it's a blur,
Speaker 1: but the beauty of Vegas is you're always a block
Speaker 1: away from a T shirt shop. You know me, I
Speaker 1: like a good saucy T shirt. And I really like
Speaker 1: Vegas because we're on the same time frame. You can
Speaker 1: get breakfast at two in the morning. Even though I
Speaker 1: don't party, it's perfect for me. And the fear is
Speaker 1: right there as well. I haven't been there, but I've
Speaker 1: been to the BattleBots Arena, which is a couple blocks away.
Speaker 1: It looks bigger in person than it did on TV.
Speaker 1: He was asked about skank Fest and said, this is
Speaker 1: the third year in Vegas, and I think Vegas and
Speaker 1: skank Fest they're a perfect fit. It's a great town
Speaker 1: for the super fans to fly into. The guys from
Speaker 1: the Legion of Skanks podcast have always cool to me,
Speaker 1: and I love what they've done now they've built this
Speaker 1: fond that really appreciates live stand up. The Journal was
Speaker 1: curious about Lewis Black's retirement, and Etel said, Lewis, of
Speaker 1: course is the road warrior. Nobody tore it harder than him,
Speaker 1: and the guy's a class all the way. He's been
Speaker 1: a role model for the rest of us. I'll be
Speaker 1: doing it thirty seven years now and I'm hoping to
Speaker 1: make it a forty, but that really depends on my bills.
Speaker 1: So if you see me after that, then I got
Speaker 1: to pay these bills. But I do enjoy it. The
Speaker 1: only thing I don't like is the travel, and it's
Speaker 1: a little harder when you're older, but the shows are
Speaker 1: still really will get you going. I know, comedy in
Speaker 1: Vegas is kind of lowered down, somewhere between magic and massage,
Speaker 1: and I'm working on new stuff all the time. He
Speaker 1: was worried about the temperature getting down of the low
Speaker 1: nineties and said he was going to bring a jacket.
Speaker 1: Late Nighter I spoke to Chris Gethard and pointed out
Speaker 1: that when mulaney did his talk show, a lot of
Speaker 1: people were comparing it to the Chris Gethard show. Chris
Speaker 1: told Late Nighter, Mullany is a cornerstone of modern comedy
Speaker 1: to a degree that no one can ignore it now
Speaker 1: and moving forward, you just can't have another boring talk
Speaker 1: show that looks like every talk show since nineteen fifty.
Speaker 1: Mullaney has cracked that open. I mean, yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was Son of Letterman, to which Chris Gether talked about,
Speaker 1: and he said, for me, like a lot of people
Speaker 1: my age, it's the Letterman and Conan. My parents tell
Speaker 1: me I used to fake being asleep as a little kid,
Speaker 1: at like three to four years old. I'd pretend to
Speaker 1: be asleep on the couch. Then they'd realize I was
Speaker 1: sitting there watching Johnny Carson with them. But Letterman was
Speaker 1: the real game changer. Amen high five, says Johnny Mack.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I stayed up late and
Speaker 1: watched Letterman with my older brother. I was definitely on
Speaker 1: the younger side of it, but someone who was built
Speaker 1: to understand that guy's being kind of a troublemaker. He's
Speaker 1: not Carson. Carson's what it's supposed to look like. This
Speaker 1: guy's not doing that. Amen. On top of that, a
Speaker 1: lot of my favorite stuff was stuff that Letterman platform.
Speaker 1: Do you look at Andy Kaufman, Chris Elliott, Howard Stern.
Speaker 1: Not only did Letterman do a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: really shook things up, he took the people who were
Speaker 1: really outlandish and gave them a national platform, and then
Speaker 1: Conan felt completely insane. Conan really felt like if you
Speaker 1: took the smartest version of me and my brother and
Speaker 1: our friends and put them on TV and just let
Speaker 1: them do whatever they want. I've often said, if there's
Speaker 1: only one piece of comedy I could ever watch in
Speaker 1: my tire life again, it would be Conan takes mister
Speaker 1: t apple Picking. I think there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: that happens among comedy nerds when you think what's the
Speaker 1: best sketch group of all time and you go, you know, oh,
Speaker 1: kids in the Hall, Monty Python, UCB, the Slade, whoever
Speaker 1: you want to say. But I really think that Conan's
Speaker 1: rying staff from that area. Brian Stack, Brian McCann, Kevin Dwarf,
Speaker 1: Andy Blitz, Alison Silverman, John Glazer. If you just put
Speaker 1: that in a vacuum, that's one of the best sketch
Speaker 1: comedy groups ever assembled. It just happened to exist under
Speaker 1: the umbrella of this larger talk show. That's the best
Speaker 1: of the best sketch comedy of that generation, all under
Speaker 1: one roof, operating at a super high level. As for
Speaker 1: the Chris Gathard Show, there were a lot of things
Speaker 1: I was just chasing, especially with Letterman Conan. If I
Speaker 1: could do anything as funny as Dave dumping ten thousand
Speaker 1: bouncy balls off the roof of the studio onto the
Speaker 1: streets of New York, I'll die happy. If I can
Speaker 1: do anything as interesting or funny as a Conan staring
Speaker 1: contest bit, and I feel like it's worth doing it.
Speaker 1: But there's definitely part of me that was like, these
Speaker 1: guys don't like doing these monologues, these political jokes, especially
Speaker 1: back then, that's just how Carson used to do it.
Speaker 1: So you're making them do that. I wish the Late
Speaker 1: Night Show didn't have to do the monologue. It seems
Speaker 1: like the part of the hosts like least the Chris
Speaker 1: gathered show was far from perfect. I'm not saying we
Speaker 1: nailed it even the majority, but I think some of
Speaker 1: the reason it developed a cult following was because people
Speaker 1: saw us going, let's see what we could do to
Speaker 1: maybe totally turn down the stuff we don't like about
Speaker 1: talk shows and then pour gasoline on the stuff that
Speaker 1: we do. Back to Mullaney's late night show. I've known
Speaker 1: John for many, many years now, but I saw those
Speaker 1: people going, whoa man, this show has the Chris Gathard
Speaker 1: Show in front of it, and I was really nervous
Speaker 1: about that, because, just to be clear, John mullaney does
Speaker 1: not need to rip me off in any way. He's
Speaker 1: a very brilliant guy. But a lot of it was
Speaker 1: very healthy by seeing a lot of the fans of
Speaker 1: the Gathered show going, this is cool to watch this
Speaker 1: Mullenie show, and seeing old Gathered show fans jump in
Speaker 1: and say, if you like this guy, you might really
Speaker 1: like this thing. I like back when I was in
Speaker 1: high school. Here's a link to the YouTube page, and
Speaker 1: they're all still up there. I emailed Mullanie after the
Speaker 1: first couple nights of a show to say, it's so
Speaker 1: cool to see what you're going for It's bringing back
Speaker 1: a lot of positive feelings for me. You're taking big
Speaker 1: chances on live TV, and I really love it. I
Speaker 1: talked to my old show runner and he was like,
Speaker 1: the cool thing is that Late Night always builds on
Speaker 1: the history of Late Night. Carson built on Steve Allen.
Speaker 1: Letterman was building on Erni Kovax, than Conan built on Letterman,
Speaker 1: and I never ever hide the fact that my show
Speaker 1: was worshiping at the altar of Letterman and Conan. Front
Speaker 1: of the Podcast. Jason Zinnemann reviewed Ali Wong's new Netflix
Speaker 1: special for The New York Times. It's going to take
Speaker 1: me a minute to get to Ali special. The Mets
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs. There's football. I have this life
Speaker 1: outside of doing the comedy podcast, so it's going to
Speaker 1: be a minute before you hear me talk about it.
Speaker 1: Jason writes, Wong always reminds me of Bill Burr, because
Speaker 1: she seems funniest at her most tense, working through anger
Speaker 1: using that machine gun delivery. She pops off with some
Speaker 1: umbrage on light topics, but also displays stream This is
Speaker 1: a show that a time feels undercooked. There are bits
Speaker 1: about dating younger men and Midwesterners that are less than ambitious.
Speaker 1: The show is the feel of someone rushing to tell
Speaker 1: us something. Her main message is that being a divorced
Speaker 1: woman in your forties is better than its cracked up
Speaker 1: to be. It's a promising take, in part because you
Speaker 1: rarely hear it. But the punchlines slow down as she
Speaker 1: zeros in on herself, telling the crowd look at me
Speaker 1: as an alternative example of how it can be. Yikes,
Speaker 1: that doesn't sound great. Hanna Gasby started their live show
Speaker 1: in New York City. The Daily Beast saw it and said,
Speaker 1: in Hannah Gatsby's latest excellent show, prepare for that sweet
Speaker 1: innocence to be left in undignified crumbs thanks to a
Speaker 1: brilliantly disgusting joke involving a discarded packet of Tim Tams
Speaker 1: and something. Tim TAM's seemed to be Australia's favorite chocolate biscuit.
Speaker 1: It consists of two malted biscuits, separated by a light
Speaker 1: hearted chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer
Speaker 1: of textured chocolate. But I digress. You may recall the
Speaker 1: joke involves a discarded packet of Tim Tams and something
Speaker 1: let's say if you're cleaning a hotel room, you never
Speaker 1: want to find on the floor. Gatsby's both a wonderful
Speaker 1: joke and storyteller. A tilt of the head, a side eye,
Speaker 1: a pause can add to moments of extended hilarity while
Speaker 1: attempt at threading stories and jokes with moments of sharp
Speaker 1: self reflection and confession. In this show, at certain moments,
Speaker 1: they insist that these moments are just between us, reflecting
Speaker 1: on Tailor Swift's fame and global predominance. Uh oh, watch out.
Speaker 1: You know one time Joe Cooy made a Tailor Swift joke.
Speaker 1: I think we all know that went Now I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it. Scot Relex Speed not only confesses to not
Speaker 1: being much of a fan, but also sums up Swift
Speaker 1: as a can of coke masquerading as a sorority cult.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I guess Hannah Gatsby won't be hosting the
Speaker 1: Golden Globes anytime soon. Gasby has previously spoken of their
Speaker 1: own autism. Here, they talk of social media being the
Speaker 1: place where neurotypical people go to experience the worst of
Speaker 1: the condition. They joke, I'm going to be canceled by feminists.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything more feminist than being canceled
Speaker 1: by feminists. Sounds like a fun show. Trevor Noah has
Speaker 1: unveiled his latest book. It is called Into the Uncut Grass,
Speaker 1: an illustrated story that invites readers of all ages on
Speaker 1: a journey of connection, imagination, and self discovery. Into the
Speaker 1: Uncut Grass follows a young child's adventure in a magical
Speaker 1: landscape beyond the familiar world of home, discovering the joy
Speaker 1: of sharing connection and finding peace with the people we love.
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