Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. We'll do spoilers for the Louis c
Speaker 1: K special after the break. Okay, everybody, Hi, I'm Johnny
Speaker 1: Mack with your daily comedy news. Late Night is off
Speaker 1: this week, but I had the late bot write some jokes.
Speaker 1: It's so hot. Trump announced he's building a wall to
Speaker 1: keep the heat out in New York City. Mayor MUMDONI
Speaker 1: wants to tax billionaires to cool down the city. The
Speaker 1: billionaires flew to their second homes and the Hamptons, which
Speaker 1: kind of proved his point. It's so hot. Nateprighatsy performed
Speaker 1: at another Trump event just for the air conditioning. And
Speaker 1: it is so hot that Louis c K is not
Speaker 1: wearing pants. But to be fair, that's not entirely weather related.
Speaker 1: Ricky Gervais has a big news story and I would
Speaker 1: tell you about it here, but I didn't actually paste
Speaker 1: it into the script, and I could edit this out,
Speaker 1: but that's no fun. Where did you go Gervay's story here?
Speaker 1: It is Ricky Gervas gives The Office co star reunion
Speaker 1: for solo anniversary show. I just find it's more fun
Speaker 1: not to do the edits. A source told the Sun.
Speaker 1: Now again, that's a new newspaper. Sources don't usually talk
Speaker 1: to the big yellow thing in the sky making things hot,
Speaker 1: but a source has told The Son that Ricky Gervas's
Speaker 1: decision is a huge blow as it taints the BBC's
Speaker 1: celebration somewhat. The BBC is making a documentary to celebrate
Speaker 1: twenty five years since The Office arrived. Mackenzie Crook and
Speaker 1: Martin Freeman, who played Gareth and Tim, which are roughly
Speaker 1: Dwight and Jim for you Americans, will reminisce about the
Speaker 1: sitcom in the BBC celebration. Ricky Gervais will not be
Speaker 1: part of it. He's decided to film his own documentary.
Speaker 1: The source speaking to the newspaper The Sun said it
Speaker 1: just sums up his lack of allegiance towards the Bebe,
Speaker 1: which has been drifting for some time now. A representative
Speaker 1: for Ricky Gervas told The Independent that Ricky was quote
Speaker 1: not available hogwash. Does Johnny mack to take part in
Speaker 1: the documentary, but remains in contact with the BBC all
Speaker 1: the time about the Office. The BBC declined to comment.
Speaker 1: Jervas announced last week he'll be celebrating twenty five years
Speaker 1: of the Office with a document entry on his own
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. That version will appear Thursday, July ninth, which
Speaker 1: I'm going to add to my script right now before
Speaker 1: I forget. And that is good news for me because
Speaker 1: week after July fourth is a slow newsweek. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Ricky Gervas Sorry, BBC. Jerves rep told The Independent that
Speaker 1: Ricky's YouTube content will be an affectionate look back at
Speaker 1: the Office on this big anniversary. Meanwhile, the BBC's Mackenzie
Speaker 1: Crook and Martin Freeman remember the Office. That'll be on
Speaker 1: BBC to an eyeplayer Wednesday, July eighth at ten pm.
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack once again says thank you because week after
Speaker 1: July fourth is a slow newsweek. Thank you guys, not
Speaker 1: only content but a controversy. This is fantastic. Can you
Speaker 1: guys fight some more, maybe say mean things about each
Speaker 1: other in the press, Please do not be civil. Johnny
Speaker 1: Mack has content holes. Back in twenty nineteen, Ricky Gervas
Speaker 1: insisted he was still a fan of the BBC, but
Speaker 1: said I wish it wouldn't bow down a pressure from
Speaker 1: media or from one complaint. That's gotten worse and the
Speaker 1: days are gone. When people say we're leaving it as
Speaker 1: it is, missioning editors are scared of being fired. How
Speaker 1: hot is it? It's so hot. I got to prop
Speaker 1: open the door here in the office before I pass out.
Speaker 1: For weird Al, it's all about the integrity. Mister Yankovic
Speaker 1: told Syracuse dot Com that he's not a big fan
Speaker 1: of AI, and he's willing to put his money where
Speaker 1: his mouth is. Al says he was offered a quote
Speaker 1: nice pile of money to start a commercial for what
Speaker 1: he was told was business software that would increase productivity.
Speaker 1: Al says that a week before we're supposed to shoot it,
Speaker 1: I found out, Oh this is AI, and I thought,
Speaker 1: oh no, I can't be the poster boy for AI.
Speaker 1: Forget it. Dave Chappelle visited a mosque in California where
Speaker 1: three people were killed in a recent shooting. He met
Speaker 1: with community members and encouraged support for the families affected
Speaker 1: by the attack. Dave's official Instagram shared a video in
Speaker 1: which Dave traveled to the mosque to pay his respects.
Speaker 1: On Monday, May eighteenth, a mass shooting at the Islamic
Speaker 1: Center of San Diego left of security guarden to community
Speaker 1: members dead During his visit, Chappelle met with members of
Speaker 1: the congregation and highlighted ongoing fundraising efforts to support the
Speaker 1: victim's families. Trevor Noah on his podcast had guests Don
Speaker 1: lemonon they started discussing the backlash surrounding Kevin Hart's Netflix roast.
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah said, I felt like it was weird that
Speaker 1: all the black comedians that came on stage told jokes
Speaker 1: about the people who were there, but then a lot
Speaker 1: of the white comedians who came on told jokes about
Speaker 1: black people. I was like, wait, wait, wait, I thought
Speaker 1: it was the roast of Kevin Hart on your television today.
Speaker 1: If you're watching General Hospital and you're like, is that
Speaker 1: John Oliver it is. There's even a trailer. I've got
Speaker 1: to get Jocelyn out of Bindimer. Now my work is done.
Speaker 1: I completed the prototype. Nathan isn't who he says he is.
Speaker 1: John Oliver guest stars General Hospital on ABC. John Oliver
Speaker 1: had announced the casting on the June twenty eighth episode
Speaker 1: of Last Week Tonight. General Hospital. Executive producer Frank Valenti
Speaker 1: said in a statement, when John Oliver publicly threw down
Speaker 1: the gauntlet and said he wanted to appear on a soap.
Speaker 1: We didn't hesitate for a second. He was everything you'd
Speaker 1: hope for. Prepared, professional, funny, and genuinely kind everyone on set.
Speaker 1: He plays an integral character in the story and I
Speaker 1: can't wait for fans to see Ross has pass with
Speaker 1: within Port Charles General Hospital is now on its sixty
Speaker 1: fourth year. You'll find it on ABC and Hulu. John
Speaker 1: Oliver said, General Hospital was everything I hoped it would be.
Speaker 1: It's a true honor to be a small stain on
Speaker 1: the history of this illustrious show. Also today, The Onion
Speaker 1: starts rolling out its first wave of official info Wars shows.
Speaker 1: You may recall they acquired the property from the previous owner,
Speaker 1: Tim Hidecker, now the face of it. Idiker said, I
Speaker 1: think well SATs are gets old pretty quickly, and we
Speaker 1: don't want to keep fueling previous owner. So the plan
Speaker 1: is to goof on him for a few months and
Speaker 1: have fun with it, and then transition the site into
Speaker 1: a comedy streaming platform for people that he would hate
Speaker 1: to see have success. Hidecker stressed this is a soft launch.
Speaker 1: He told Indy Wire everything will still live on the
Speaker 1: Onion because a standalone info Wars website and social media
Speaker 1: channel has yet to be set up. The programming will
Speaker 1: be heavy on parodying previous owner and his right wing
Speaker 1: media counterparts. Iidaker says, we're launching a couple shows. One
Speaker 1: is my extension of my emergency broadcast from a month
Speaker 1: or so ago, sort of a parody of the previous world.
Speaker 1: And we're launching the Onions Jim Haggerty show that we've
Speaker 1: been teasing for a while now. That'll all set the
Speaker 1: tone for the summer where this is heading. Heideker said,
Speaker 1: I think it's very much comedians and artists and creators
Speaker 1: I guess you'd say, who were using their experience and
Speaker 1: our experience with the Internet as the fuel and inspiration
Speaker 1: for their comedy. It's very much people that are using
Speaker 1: the tools of social media and satirizing that are reflecting
Speaker 1: that on social media. Michael ja posted Happy b Day
Speaker 1: to my good buddy Colin Jessica Jost. I think back
Speaker 1: to all the stupid fights we had throughout the years,
Speaker 1: like when you came to work with that racist puppet,
Speaker 1: or when you kept doing Nazi salutest our fans on tour,
Speaker 1: when you got a first magazine cover canceled because I
Speaker 1: was making stupid faces, or when you insisted on getting
Speaker 1: or Kelly on the show, or when you took me
Speaker 1: to that whites only store, when you got us beat
Speaker 1: up at WrestleMania, or all the times I had to
Speaker 1: stand there and listen to you and Scarlet argue at
Speaker 1: work and I had to stand there and be like, okay.
Speaker 1: Or when Harry Styles gave us flowers and you gas
Speaker 1: lit me because I don't think he likes me, and
Speaker 1: you got all mad because he got us the exact
Speaker 1: same thing. You're just being reverse racist again, Or that
Speaker 1: time when the FBI thought we were dating. None of
Speaker 1: that matters today, because we're still pals and still the
Speaker 1: best update anchors besides Normantina, Amy, Jimmy Seth, Chevy Chain,
Speaker 1: Ackroyd Miller, Neilan and Quinn. And I'll argue that with anybody.
Speaker 1: The remainder of today's program will be reaction pieces to
Speaker 1: Louis c K's new special. There will be spoilers. If
Speaker 1: you don't want to be spoiled, why don't you come
Speaker 1: back tomorrow for everybody else. The Guardian gave it two
Speaker 1: stars out of five, their headline ridiculous review. Ridiculous is
Speaker 1: the name of the special. The Troubled Comedian returns with
Speaker 1: a whimper. Jesse Hassinger writes, Louis c. K's back again.
Speaker 1: It's been nearly a decade since the comedian etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: You know that story. It's less a triumphant return than
Speaker 1: a gradual slinking back and unspoken assumption that no one
Speaker 1: really cares that much about his behavior. No particular defense
Speaker 1: or apology, just a shruggy emoticon. A genuinely funny observation
Speaker 1: like I can't be held responsible for what I dream.
Speaker 1: I'm not a good guy in my dreams doesn't hit
Speaker 1: as squarely as it should, because we've already heard extensively
Speaker 1: about him doing bad guys stuff in real life. It's
Speaker 1: also hard to avoid reading some moments intended as self
Speaker 1: deprecating or honest. Is when he talks about not having
Speaker 1: much sex recently and primarily dating woman in his own age,
Speaker 1: as a kind of tacit burnishing of his regular shrub cred,
Speaker 1: positioning himself as essentially harmless. Maybe this isn't fair. There
Speaker 1: are plenty comedians who haven't been given the opportunity to
Speaker 1: assess whether the dark eyes being downplayed or set to
Speaker 1: the side for the sake of a funny bit. But
Speaker 1: it's the reality Luis c K lives in the disconnect.
Speaker 1: The lack of shared reality accounts for some, but not all,
Speaker 1: of the specials halting on even quality. It has brilliant
Speaker 1: stretches to be sure. The review then gets into some
Speaker 1: specifics there and then skipping ahead elsewhere he relies on
Speaker 1: dopey shock laughs. In past specials, at least some of
Speaker 1: those shocks would stemp more carefully from a logical progression
Speaker 1: almost trapping the audience, and a laughing at something taboo. Here,
Speaker 1: the set just feels like blunt, forced mischief, almost obligatory,
Speaker 1: and they're pushing of some imagined envelope. Luis c K
Speaker 1: is clearly capable of more than this, and ridiculous as
Speaker 1: flashes of his writer's flare for crystallizing what could be
Speaker 1: standard comedians laments into something more vividly relatable. For Slate,
Speaker 1: Imagen west Night writes, the material in this new special
Speaker 1: isn't nasty and bitter as some of the material he
Speaker 1: was doing immediately after his cancelation was. It's classic ck
Speaker 1: superficially offensive, but actually taking kind of gleefully a moral
Speaker 1: route to the morally defensible positions, and funny too. You
Speaker 1: can tell from his on stage a fact that twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen is a long time ago from his perspective, But
Speaker 1: what about from hours as the audience. What is supposed
Speaker 1: to happen after somebody's canceled. They're things K could have
Speaker 1: done to an act of better redemption and didn't. The
Speaker 1: problem is so much K's big on television now, nine
Speaker 1: years after his disgrace. He was always going to return.
Speaker 1: He's simply too profitable and too famous to be put
Speaker 1: out to pasture. The problem is what he's been doing
Speaker 1: in the interim. It's giving ahead. I wonder how people
Speaker 1: would feel about it had he genuinely gone quiet and
Speaker 1: taken the long time he proposed in his initial statement
Speaker 1: about the accusations to step back and listen back. In
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Slate's Christina Catterucci wrote this prediction. Every time
Speaker 1: ck are one of his canceled peers re emerges, some
Speaker 1: people will get mad, but most people won't. There will
Speaker 1: be other more pressing outrages to some other with energy,
Speaker 1: and before anyone fully grasps what's going on. They'll be
Speaker 1: back on tour or rolling through the credits of TV
Speaker 1: shows and movies with an ugly entry on their Wikipedia pages,
Speaker 1: but a growing bank account to sue that indignity, The
Speaker 1: rap writes, there's no mention of Louis c. K's once
Speaker 1: perceived downfall in this one hour comedy special, which finds
Speaker 1: the man a little older, not exactly wiser, but with
Speaker 1: a bit of a glint in his eyes, clearly enjoying
Speaker 1: his time on the stage. K's audience eats out of
Speaker 1: the palm of his hand while he regals them with
Speaker 1: personal stories and his desire and never get plastic surgery
Speaker 1: to his face. Variety says Ck is one of the
Speaker 1: most gifted and influential performers of his generation, and would
Speaker 1: remain so even if he never took the stage again.
Speaker 1: So when I say Ridiculous is a strong hour of
Speaker 1: material performed with practice expertise, it shouldn't come as a surprise.
Speaker 1: Skipping ahead, Variety writes about Netflix, when the company stand
Speaker 1: up Zar, Robbie Prat sold my Variety colleague, this is
Speaker 1: just about giving subscribers an option, and that viewers have
Speaker 1: a decision to make about their own personal viewing habits.
Speaker 1: He was downplaying the decision Netflix itself made to re
Speaker 1: enter a business relationship with c K. The release of
Speaker 1: Ridiculous also culminates a tour that saw Ck make inroads
Speaker 1: with the kind of liberal coded publications that once covered
Speaker 1: his reputational nador with favorite write ups in both The
Speaker 1: Times and The New Yorker and Indie Wire, and gave
Speaker 1: the special acus. They write in Ridiculous, the remnants of
Speaker 1: his former inquisitive, committed self were all but gone. His
Speaker 1: set doesn't build enough to be rewarding in the aggregate,
Speaker 1: and his individual riffs keep stopping short of real wisdom.
Speaker 1: It's terribly sad that Netflix is platforming Louis K again,
Speaker 1: just as it's terribly sad that there are enough people
Speaker 1: attending his shows to make a return of mainstream media possible.
Speaker 1: It's also sad to see Ck so trapped creatively and emotionally,
Speaker 1: but nowhere near as sad as knowing he physically and
Speaker 1: emotionally trapped others. Then he lied about it, got caught,
Speaker 1: and now carries on as if nothing happened. I have
Speaker 1: not seen the special yet. It is Tuesday as I
Speaker 1: record this I'm trying to work ahead this week into
Speaker 1: the holiday weekend. It was my plan to watch the
Speaker 1: special on Tuesday night and include it one way or
Speaker 1: another in Sunday's episode. Would be the top specials of
Speaker 1: the year so far, it's I'll probably on Sunday tell
Speaker 1: you what I thought of Louis c k Ridiculous now
Speaker 1: streaming on Netflix, and that is your comedy news for today.
Speaker 1: You can follow the show on Spotify, turn notifications on
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