Speaker 1: Caloroga, Shock Media, and are I'm Johnny Mack with your
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on the comedy industry, A sentence the algorithm loves, even
if I can't figure out how to get the crowd
noise right in my new mix here. A couple of
weeks ago, I cleaned up my computer and I accidentally
deleted some stuff. And I've been trying to rebuild the
way it used to sound, and I can't figure it out.
I digress. David Letterman was a guest on Bill Simmons podcast.
An unnamed Canadian Letterman expert texted me on the side,
and I'm gonna violate the guy's privacy right now, and
he says, good stuff, builds it a good job. I
will have to catch up with that at some point
over the weekend. That's David Letterman on the Bill Simmons Podcast.
Page six took us inside Dave Chappelle's epic Hollywood Palladium
Netflix show, where even his closest collaborator didn't know what
Dave might say. Ooh, scary all right. Page six tells
us it was no small miracle that a show even happened.
Given the climate of chaos and the days leading up
to the big night, I don't know what happened. Sources
tell Page six Hollywood that no one, including Dave Chappelle's
longtime collaborator Stan Lathan, knew what material Dave Chappelle was
going to perform. Page six says last week Chappelle tested
material at pop ups in New York and before that
in Chicago. A source says, Dave is really proud of
these specials. He wants to get the stuff right. Meanwhile, Oh,
do I have my phone? I want to read you
this now. I left my phone upstairs. Hold on, I
got to I could just re record this, but no,
I gotta tell you. James Adomian on Thread's uh kicked
Matt Friend in the face. Here it is. James posted
congratulations to Matt Friend for wrestling the championship Belt of
Least Funny Personal live from the longtime title holder Elon Musk.
Now I thought this was a little weird. The headline
impressionist Matt Friend takes fans inside ridiculously star studded comedy
brunch at Netflix CEO's house. So Ted Sarandos had a
bunch of comedians over and Matt Friend took pictures and
post it on Instagram. Now, I'm just a loser recording
a podcast in a basement. But there was a time
when I was around a lot of celebrities, and I
don't have many pictures of me in celebrities because that's
not what you do. You play it cool. I remember
at some point, at some where along the way, I
was at some sort of after party with Jimmy Kimmel
and Sarah Silverman. I don't have any pictures of it.
You don't go, hey, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, can I
take a selfie? You play it cool. So I'm kinda
surprised that met Friend was taking pictures when you have
the likes of Eddie Murphy and Jerry Seinfeld at the party.
In a selfie video, Matt Friend scans the crowd and says,
this is crazy. Oh my god. Behind him, dramatic actor
Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy are shaking hands. Behind him,
also as he pans, Kevin Hart, John Malini, Chris Rock,
Hade Hudson, Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, John Stewart. I don't know,
maybe I'm wrong do these people want to be? In
Matt Friend's video. Matt Friend then cuts to Bert Krascher,
and Bert says, I feel incredible, but maybe I'm wrong.
Photo shared by the official Netflix's a Joke Instagram page
showed more folks including Dave Chappelle, Jelly Roll, Will Forte,
David Spade, Ken Jung, and Britney Snow. I don't know,
it just seems like, again, maybe everybody was cool with it,
but I could see people like icing Matt Friend because
he's that guy. Maybe I'm wrong. The Hollywood Reporter posted
their winners and losers for the week, kind of like
Comedy stock Market, but different. And I'm not accusing them
of ripping me off. I'm just saying it's kind of
like they say, who won the week, Louis c K.
It's like that line from the Rise of Skywalker. Somehow,
Louis c K returned, that's pretty good. They dusted off
the quote from Robbie Praul the other day. That quote.
Part of the job of my team as we listen
to the type of stand ups people want to see,
but we also spend a lot of time looking at
who's selling tickets all around the world. The Hollywood Reporter
opines an honest reply might be nearly a decade has passed,
he's really popular. Nobody can agree on the consequences for
certain mistakes, and we estimate blowback will be minimal. But hey,
my team just now noticed this Louis K guy sells
tickets is also an answer. Vanity Fair weighed in on
Louis c K their headline the Curious, Uncomfortable, and perhaps
inevitable return of Louis K. They talked to some fans, Now,
I to do the story right, I have to get
vulgar here. If you listen, you know, I try and
keep the show clean. But I don't want to pull
my punch here because I think these quotes from the
people who went to the show really nail it. Vanity
Fair quoted these people. The first person they quoted was Richard,
who is thirty four years old and told Vanity Fair
after the show, here comes the vulgar quota. You're ready,
Richard told Vanity Fair he's officially uncanceled. Netflix platformed him.
His friend Julian, who's thirty two years old, was there
and gave Vanity Fair quote his quote. Quote. Richard says,
it's okay to whip your dick out in front of women.
Vanity Fair says the crowd skewed overwhelmingly mail no Way.
They observed a smattering of gen Zers and attendance. It
was predominantly millennials and members of jen X. Most of
the women appeared to be with their boyfriends or husbands.
A man who identifies himself as a huge fan of
ck joked that the comedians admitted sexual misconduct made him
a bigger fan and then was like just kidding, just kidding.
During the week at the Greek Theater, it was a
benefit for Hilarity for Charity. Seth Rogan was your host
for the evening. The lineup included John Stewart, Nick Kroll,
Eric Andre, Sarah Silverman, Nicki Glazer, John Gadd, Michael Booble,
Buster Rhymes, and magician Justin Willman. The sort of people
you could see Matt Frienn taking selfies with. Seth Rogan
was not happy with Kanye West appearing at the festival.
Seth said he had a song called Hyle Hitler and
He's back. What's funny is I've said critical things about
Jewish people. I think I got more trouble than Kanye
West did, I got a lot of crap for what
I said. I have no number one albums. I sometimes
think what Adolf Hitler would think of the Kanye West
song Hyle Hitler. I bet he'd be torn. That's a
great joke. At that same show, John Stewart weighed in
and mused, how Kanye thinks we fed up as Adidas deal,
but seriously f that guy. He was like Hitler, we
miss understood. We've got to forgive Hitler, and I'm like,
I don't think I need to listen to anybody who
thinks Hitler needs to be forgiven but is still mad
at Pete Davidson. John Stewart began roasting RFK Junior, asking
if the crowd was made of MAHA supporters. Zen your
letters to John Stewart, who asked, I don't know how
fed up Los Angeles is. I know you're pretty fed up.
I know you had a fire and a mut slide
and you were like, nah, fit, let's let the guy
from the Hills fix it. So I assume you've given up.
That reference is Spencer Pratt, who was running for LA mayor.
John Stewart said, how are you gonna lect someone from
the hills and not have it be Lauren Conrad. Come on.
John Stewart then made fun of the President of the
United States. A plane flew over during that joke. John
said it was the Secret Service yelling tell him Kimmel's
house is over there. This has nothing to do with me.
I'm on basic cable. Trump doesn't even get the package.
Sarah Silverman taunt at RFK Junior during her set. She
read the poem that RFK Junior had sent to reporter
Olivia Nuzzy during their alleged romance. Is it an alleged romance?
I'll keep it safe? Alleged romance? Silverman's I couldn't make
this up. It's so eff engross, but I feel like
you should get an audience here, and like, I don't
want to king shame anybody, but f this guy. He
like brought back the measles. Nick Carle joked about shooting
the comedy Get Him to the Greek and mentioned the
cast Jonah Hill the Wonderful Russell Brand Diddy at a
number of other alleged sex pests. He remembered a moment
during rehearsal when a pyrotechnics went off and said and
I swear to God. Unfortunately, nothing happened to Russell Brand.
The folks from Consequence went to see the Pee Wee
Herman show. I've got a pee Wee Herman story. I'll
tell it at the end of this one, they tell us.
There were surprisingly few tears shed at Netflix As a
Joke's fortieth anniversary celebration of Pee Wee's Playhouse on Monday,
despite the weight of nostalgia and the sad absence of
the dealy departed Paul Rubins. Clips from the show were
heavily featured, including an opening montage that laid into Kate
Pearson of the B fifty two's performing the pee Wee
theme with the house band. Members of that band included
a guy from Devo on stage. The simple set featured
a few large pieces emulating the show's original production. Our
truck ruiner Pat and Oswald called out how during rehearsal
for the show, every performer was excited to walk through
the signature of Zigzag padded red door. Five of the
original Playhouse puppeteers got to show off their talent as
performers with a puppet free number. Huddle's Pity Party came
out in full clown regalia to show off his incredible
singing voice. Sounds like that was a lot of fun,
all right, My pee Wee story, so, way back at
the serious XM days, we would do these pop up
radio channels to salute people, and we had some sort
of deal to promote Pee Wee Herman. I don't remember
what it was. I never was into pee I'm a
little too old for it and just never really got it.
But the younger guys of my staff were all into it,
so they were doing this thing. I'm not throwing them
under the bus, but in terms of things that we
worked on the creative on, I was less involved with
this one. I'm not shading them at all because I
think this story I'm about to tell you is ridiculous.
So you know, you have a radio station and we
were trying to figure out, all right, what is the
excuse for playing various clips from the Peewee Show, And
one of the guys came up with an idea for
a slot machine, so you'd hear a slot machine effect,
you know, dddddd ding, and then it would go like chunk, chunk, chunk,
and then whatever subdivision of Pee Wee's Playhouse would come
up that would be that the clip you would play,
and it sounded great and we mocked it up and everything,
and then it got sent over to mister Rubens camp
and the whole deal fell apart, and we were like
what and are you like what? So, what's the problem
with the slot machine? Apparently that Camp, possibly mister Rubins himself,
I don't really remember, thought that the slot machine was
us making fun of the incident with mister Rubens in
the adult theater. So maybe something with pulling a lever
or something he thought, I swear on a Bible that
was not our intention at all. Sometimes a slot machine
is just a slot machine. Anyway, the whole thing fell
apart and we never did pee wee playhouse radio or
whatever we were going to do a million years ago.
We are along again and I'm bumping five six stories.
Let's get the break in. We'll come back. Gossip Conner,
whist business change, Gossip con Problem, Gossip God were with me,
Johnny magtoll in the tree. Let's start with this one
from TMZ. Comedian Akila Hughes has fired shots at Manpacker Keegan,
Michael Key's wife. In the video, the comedian claims that
Key's spouse has been a detriment to Key's career. TMZ
says the story is bs quoting TMZ, here's the deal.
During Aequila's stand upset, she uses a not so clever code,
lock and banana. You see lock is like a key
in a banana appeal. You got out lock and banana.
Many people think when she jokes about lock and banana,
she's joking about Key and Peel. Quoting TMZ, she says
she and Kamka pitched and sold a show around the
time of the pandemic, but it got up ended in
the eleventh hour because Keegan Michael Key's wife, Ellie, caused
too many waves as an executive producer. This gets nastier.
Akila also claims she was warned about the Kmka's spouse
by Peel's wife, quoting TMZ, allegedly likening her to Phil
Hartman's wife Brynn, who fatally shot Phil Hartman in ninety eight.
TMZ says multiple sources connected to KMK and Li tel
TMZ a Kila's stand up narrative is outlandish and fabricated nonsense.
There's also a theory floating around that the whole movie
get Out is about Key I don't know man. Also
on Gossip Corner, Wayne Brady feuding with Bill Maher. Wayne
Brady was on the America Who Hurt You Podcast and
said of Bill Maher, he's racist and I don't care
Bill Markinson have all these black friends that took Dave
Chappelle recently saying something Apparently in a twenty ten CNN interview,
Bill Maher said, quote, I thought when we elected the
first black president. As a comedian, I thought that two
years in I'd be making jokes about what a gangster
he was, and not that he's president. Wayne Brady, you know,
I thought we were getting shook night. Amy Schumer likes
when people talk about her, So what did she do?
She showed off pictures of her new home, sweeping Central
por views much be nice. The home features a spacious
living room, a dining area with a bold red light fixture,
an ample seating for entertainer. Schumer previously sold her Brooklyn
townhouse for eleven million dollars after splitting up with her husband,
Chris Fisher, in a series of photos shared to Instagram.
Because you have to do that, you can't just keep
your personal life private, she thanked interior design firm Ash
Leonardo for helping bring quotes my dream home to life.
Amy Schumer said, I'm grateful every single day beautiful and
filled with love. I know, I know, but it's true.
I never dreamed I would get to live somewhere like
my home. Late Night had some good jokes during the
week from Spirit Airlines. Stephen Colbert said Spirit announced their
immediate closure in a statement saying all flights have been
canceled and customer service is no longer available, which coincidentally
was also Spirit's motto. Kimmel, I'd have to say the
announcement is particularly a bitter pill for those of us
who host late night talk shows. Spirit being terrible with
something every person got immediately and that's hard to replace.
We're taking applications. I've got my eye on you, allegiant.
Jimmy Fallon said they heard Frontier Airlines, was like, oh no,
were we the worst airline? Now? All right? Netflix? Is
that Joe keeps going The La Times is excited to
see Otsco at Conska at the Orphium at seven o'clock.
I recently saw the hour she's doing. It is very good. Also,
this morning you probably missed it if you're listening to me.
Maybe not. I don't know how early you get up
at seven thirty am. It was the Two Bears of
five K that at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Boy,
I hope you listen to the show at like five
am and hopped in your car. If you're too lazy
to even walk the five K, We're told there is
or was plenty to entertain you between cheering, including a DJ,
food and drinks, and rubbing elbows with fellow Superstar participants.
Deadline is excited to see Moe Ammer at the Orphium
at seven and let's take a look at the schedule.
I was scared for a minute. The schedule's blank. Now
the problem is because of the event at seven thirty am,
everything's all the way over to the side. I was like,
this is pretty light for a Saturday night, right. Nate
Berghatzi is at the Intuit Dome Concords at the Greek
Theater that is killing me Chappelle again. He's at the
Palladium as on on Ronnie Chang of a show, Brett Goldstein, Sex,
Death and Small Talk seven o'clock at the stab in Theater,
Pete Davidson with John Mulaney at The Will Turn and
that'll wind up on Netflix as what Netflix calls a podcast.
It's clearly not a podcast. It is a low produced
television show. Todd Barry is sold out. He is at Dynasty,
Typewriter at seven, I'll go smirnov at seven at the
ice House Sticke. It's still available, and no joke, probably
forty other shows that I'm not reading to you. Just
you can go to Netflix as a joke dot com
slash schedule. Click the rectangle that says Saturday, May zero
nine for more information. And that is your comedy news
for today. Pretty busy for a Saturday that I didn't
even pre tape. We'll see tomorrow