Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. People are not upset with Shane Gillis,
Speaker 1: but they're kind of like, come on, dude. He went
Speaker 1: to the Masters last Sunday. Rory McElroy had his run there.
Speaker 1: A lot of people were tuning in on the fly,
Speaker 1: a lot of casuals, myself included, put the golf on
Speaker 1: and on his podcast, Shane said, I don't give enough
Speaker 1: about golf. I really wanted to. You couldn't see a thing.
Speaker 1: Shane was there with his tires Co star Steve Gerbin.
Speaker 1: Steve had pleaded with Shane to use his celebrity power
Speaker 1: to gain entry into the exclusive Masters tournament, tagging along
Speaker 1: as their friend Chris O'Connor. Shane says O'Connor was planning
Speaker 1: on not going, so he had already started drinking a little.
Speaker 1: He was prepared to lock down by himself at Hooters
Speaker 1: for the entire day, which I could have been more
Speaker 1: jealous of. Gillis admitted that the fairways of Augusta were
Speaker 1: like paradise and that everybody was friendly except for the bathrooms,
Speaker 1: which he compared to prison. People on social media are
Speaker 1: both jealous and kind of like, can you not appreciate it?
Speaker 1: I had an experienced once back when we did Blue
Speaker 1: Collar Radio. I used to get hot passes for NASCAR events.
Speaker 1: So what a hot pass is is you can be
Speaker 1: in Pitt Road while the race is going on, while
Speaker 1: cars are coming in and they're doing the tire changes
Speaker 1: and all that, and I'd be three feet from the
Speaker 1: car during a race. And every time I did it
Speaker 1: at the Daytona five hundred, I would be appreciative, but
Speaker 1: I was like, deep down, I know I don't appreciate this.
Speaker 1: It would be like somebody else who doesn't care sitting
Speaker 1: in the Mets dugout during a Mets World Series. That
Speaker 1: would be like my equivalent there for me. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is amazing, but I'm not a NASCAR fan, and
Speaker 1: I know there's somebody up there in the stands who
Speaker 1: would kill for this experience. Loved it, did it several times.
Speaker 1: Thought it was cool. NASCAR's great, especially in person, really
Speaker 1: good time, but I knew, like, deep down, I don't
Speaker 1: deserve to be here, or someone else does. I watched
Speaker 1: on Millenie Show with David Letterman and Hannibal burrus NICKI
Speaker 1: Glazer and John Mulaney's He's not good at hosting a
Speaker 1: talk show. David Letterman tried to save the night, but
Speaker 1: the show it's misproduced. Here's some notes from somebody who's
Speaker 1: produced a thing or two in thirty years. John's fifteen
Speaker 1: minute story at the beginning too long. I started hitting
Speaker 1: fast forward. Part of the problem is I know that
Speaker 1: they're going for this is different, and this is chaotic,
Speaker 1: and the zaniness and the weirdness is what makes it cool.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't work. You've got David Letterman there, but
Speaker 1: instead of just having Millennie and Letterman talk, you've got
Speaker 1: Leanne Morgan there. So then Milanie starts talking over Dave
Speaker 1: towards Leanne Morgan, who's further down the couch. Dave makes
Speaker 1: a joke about how awkward it is, which was funny. Again,
Speaker 1: Dave tried to save it, but the format doesn't work
Speaker 1: because Letterman or any guest Nicki Glazer, Hannibal Buris, they
Speaker 1: can't get into groove because you've got too many people
Speaker 1: sitting there at once. Richard Kind apparently has carte blanche
Speaker 1: to interrupt and throw the whole thing off. This show
Speaker 1: doesn't work. I can't understand how you have John Mullaney,
Speaker 1: David Letterman, Nikki Glazer, Hannibal Burs and Fine Leanne Morgan.
Speaker 1: And you can't hand in something that's entertaining. I didn't
Speaker 1: make it to the end. This show is not good.
Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien will be the guest on John mullaney next week.
Speaker 1: Here's a pro tip for the producers. Okay, you're ready,
Speaker 1: here's what you're gonna do. It's seven oh one in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and fifty four degrees. My first guest is
Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien. Conan, how you doing? And then stop talking?
Speaker 1: And then fifty nine minutes later ago, and that's our
Speaker 1: show this week. See you guys next week. All right,
Speaker 1: write that down mlany or more importantly, write that down
Speaker 1: malleaney's producers, says the guy hosting a podcast in his basement.
Speaker 1: The Sydney Morning Harold asked the question ken John Mulaney's
Speaker 1: absurdist Netflix masterpiece save late night TV masterpiece. They use
Speaker 1: the word masterpiece. The Sydney Morning Harold writes. When it works,
Speaker 1: it's very good. However, there are some more awkward episodes.
Speaker 1: Cruise Ships, for example, didn't end as a particularly interesting
Speaker 1: topic where everybody had good stories but getting fired. It's
Speaker 1: alls about finding the right people. Yeah, like so you had,
Speaker 1: I don't know, David Letterman, hanniballe person, nickki Glazer. You
Speaker 1: could probably make a show out of that. It all
Speaker 1: has a frantic, somewhat cobbled together feeling that's incongruous to
Speaker 1: the amount of money that's clearly being spent on the show.
Speaker 1: And nobody seems more joyful about the chaos than Mlany.
Speaker 1: He told Bill Hayter, this is what it's going to
Speaker 1: be like the entire time. I have a whole new vibe.
Speaker 1: It's very different. It might be a winning strategy, a
Speaker 1: way to save the format, but it feels less deliberate
Speaker 1: than that. Maybe it's just a way generally a fun
Speaker 1: and beloved style of show for as long as they're
Speaker 1: allowed to get away with it. Latenighter dot Com orroat
Speaker 1: Episode six of Everybody's Live treats Letterman's appearance with format
Speaker 1: breaking comic reverence, an unprecedented cold open with a mic
Speaker 1: toting Mullaney fainting towards a similarly unprecedented topical bit about
Speaker 1: the current constitutional crisis, give way to the frenzied backstage
Speaker 1: prep for the measure in they lined up people in
Speaker 1: size order. It was a lettermanesque bit. Even Letterman said,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing we used to do late night.
Speaker 1: A writs are running theme the season has been that
Speaker 1: even Mlanie doesn't know what he's actually doing here. His
Speaker 1: pronouncement here that his sort of late night show looks
Speaker 1: and sounds like it's real, but it's just kind of
Speaker 1: off is a more sucinct definition than any I've come
Speaker 1: up with. Letterman's presence makes the call in segments even
Speaker 1: more of an afterthought than usual. M'laney introduces Hannibal Verse
Speaker 1: and Nicky Glazers, two of his best stan up pals,
Speaker 1: while LeAnn Morgan's ultra Southern stick gets tiresome, but none
Speaker 1: can compete with the legend nestled beside them on Malanie's couch.
Speaker 1: That's in line with my notes, ladies and gentlemen, my
Speaker 1: first guest is David Letterman. Hi, Dave, what's going on?
Speaker 1: And stop talking? Good stuff from late night? Or here
Speaker 1: they write for Dave himself. This sort of coded tribute
Speaker 1: is barely acknowledged even as the entire episode plays out.
Speaker 1: In one extended thank you. Rolling Stone interviewed Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1: I shared that in the Facebook group, which is Daily
Speaker 1: Comedy News podcast group, they were curious of Jimmy's earliest
Speaker 1: comedy memories. Kimmel said, I had an audio cassette recorder,
Speaker 1: and before Letterman came on, I would watch Carson. Same note.
Speaker 1: I was there for Dave and you just you watched
Speaker 1: Carson to get to twelve thirty with something to do.
Speaker 1: Kim Will says specifically, when Bill Cosby was hosting for Johnny,
Speaker 1: I tape the monolog and I transcribed it because I
Speaker 1: wanted to see what it looked like. But I didn't
Speaker 1: have any intention of being comedian. That never occurred to me.
Speaker 1: I had a late night license plate and had a
Speaker 1: late night birthday cake because I love Letterman so much,
Speaker 1: not that I thought I could do it someday. Rolling
Speaker 1: Stone was curious about the late night landscape, especially in
Speaker 1: light of After Midnight being canceled. Kimmel says, ABC pays
Speaker 1: me so ideally, in an ideal world, everybody would watch
Speaker 1: our show on ABC, but it's not how it works.
Speaker 1: It's very easy to watch it on YouTube. People watch
Speaker 1: anything at a moment's notice now and in late night,
Speaker 1: I find most of the people are watching me the
Speaker 1: next day. That's the next day in the morning. But
Speaker 1: if you look at YouTube, you look at all the shows.
Speaker 1: More people are watching our late night television than ever were.
Speaker 1: And that's what any comedian wants. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: might have to fact check that. Let me see what
Speaker 1: Carson was at his peak. Okay. AI overview on Google
Speaker 1: says Carson Show averaged nine million viewers nightly. A Facebook
Speaker 1: post says it averaged sixteen million people. Here's the LA
Speaker 1: time saying nine million. So let's go with nine million.
Speaker 1: I guess if you added up two million here million
Speaker 1: there a millionaire in the social media. Maybe if we
Speaker 1: add everything together, it might get to nine million. Jimmy Kimmel. Maybe,
Speaker 1: perhaps possibly, I'm too lazy to do the math. Jimmy retirement. Yes, no,
Speaker 1: Jimmy said, I realize there's no point in talking about it.
Speaker 1: Obsess the people I work with. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of people who want of jobs when I retire. That
Speaker 1: definitely weighs on me. But the reality is, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do this forever. At a certain point, it's gonna
Speaker 1: have to end. I also know that there's not one
Speaker 1: person who works here who would resent me for retiring.
Speaker 1: I think they know that when I'm done, I'll feel
Speaker 1: like I've done this as long as it possibly can.
Speaker 1: But you always feel like the band leader that when
Speaker 1: you step aside, everyone's gonna have to find new jobs.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon, whose Tonight Show is in third place? And
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about that since I said it on
Speaker 1: the podcast. I can't imagine a universe in which the
Speaker 1: Tonight Show is the third most popular thing at eleven thirty?
Speaker 1: How is that possible? And yeah, I get demos and
Speaker 1: the younger people like them and all that, but like,
Speaker 1: if you're at NBC and the Tonight Show is in
Speaker 1: third are you like, hmm, what are we even doing? So?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but like, if not Jimmy Fallon, who
Speaker 1: and what and why? Right? So fine? Let Jimmy Fallon
Speaker 1: sit there for twenty years. Maybe it's the marketing. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they should hire Milanie's producer, just have
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon host a mess of a show. Who knows. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Jimmy's got another show on NBC, so I guess they
Speaker 1: like him a lot He's going to host the marketing
Speaker 1: competition series On Brand, which will also feature marketing exec Bezoma,
Speaker 1: Saint John and a number of big companies. On Brand
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Fallon. We follow what happens when Jimmy Fallon
Speaker 1: starts a premier marketing agency and fills it with the
Speaker 1: most creative, clever and competitive go getters he can find. Boy,
Speaker 1: somebody in the NBC sales department is creaming their coffee
Speaker 1: over this one, because a host of national brands, including
Speaker 1: Captain Morgan, Duncan, KitchenAid, Marshall's, Pillsbury, Samsung, Sonic Southwest and
Speaker 1: thorough Body, will be part of the show, serving as
Speaker 1: the agency's clients and of course getting a good deal
Speaker 1: of screen time. All right, so there's a show and
Speaker 1: it's going to be all advertising. Oh boy, NBC se executives.
Speaker 1: So just gotta love this. Jimmy Fallon said, I love branding,
Speaker 1: I love marketing. I love the world of advertising, and
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: who do as well. This show, let's the audience that
Speaker 1: our contestants get a peek behind the curtain of how
Speaker 1: campaigns where some of the biggest brands come together and
Speaker 1: what goes into making them. Each episode will see the
Speaker 1: on brand agency, which reinforces the show's title, working with
Speaker 1: one of the aforementioned brands on a major campaign that
Speaker 1: may involve commercials, jiggles in Pearson Experiences, or merchandise. The
Speaker 1: judges will pick the best ideas, which then go on
Speaker 1: to become real world campaigns. What are we even doing
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati? Yesterday? Cant Williams got a street named after him.
Speaker 1: You may know it as Reading Road at the corner
Speaker 1: of Maple Avenue in Avondale. Nope, it is now Cant
Speaker 1: Williams Way. Happy for twenty and Easter, but happy four
Speaker 1: twenty to those of you who observe. People who do
Speaker 1: observe today's holiday are Cheach and Shong, and I believe
Speaker 1: from my original notes when I stashed this here months ago,
Speaker 1: Cheach and Shoong's Last Movie I Think is out today.
Speaker 1: Euchen Chong's Last Movie is a documentary offering a wildly
Speaker 1: imaginative take on genre convention, a true life tale till
Speaker 1: through a mix of animation and archival madness, all underscored
Speaker 1: by a classic cinematic road trip comedy. My Voice is
Speaker 1: already given out. And while I'll con see that often
Speaker 1: happens on the Sunday episodes. That's usually because I usually
Speaker 1: record Friday, Saturday Sunday to give myself the week and off.
Speaker 1: But you know, I had the interview yesterday, so this
Speaker 1: is actually the first one in the sequence that I'm recording.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why my voice is gone, because
Speaker 1: I want to do Monday too, because it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be nice out today and Johnny Mack wants to
Speaker 1: be doing something else. I love you guys, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's Sunday, it's Easter, it's four twenty. I'm not a
Speaker 1: four to twenty guy, but you know, if you are,
Speaker 1: that's fine. But it's Easter and it's nice out and
Speaker 1: I want to go out anyway. The Mailburn Comedy Festival
Speaker 1: wraps up today. The Guardian gave Lou Wall's show five stars.
Speaker 1: They write comedians frequently lie, but if the story is funny,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. If the truth of a hit TV show
Speaker 1: is contested, do you enjoy it less? Lou Wall's new
Speaker 1: show Breaking the Fifth One, was nominated for Best Show
Speaker 1: at Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The story is about Wall
Speaker 1: listing a bed for free on Facebook Marketplace and the
Speaker 1: unhinged interaction that follows with a woman named Eileen. It's
Speaker 1: a fantastic bit, not least because it's very believable. Anyone
Speaker 1: who's listened something on Facebook Marketplace is familiar with the
Speaker 1: absolute gauntlet of humanities weirdness that you open yourself up to.
Speaker 1: It starts with a straightforward story and it becomes something
Speaker 1: much more meta and much more complicated. Sounds like a
Speaker 1: fun show. I think I figured out how to. I've
Speaker 1: dropped my energy a little bit. I've stopped shouting, and
Speaker 1: I think if I talk at this level, I'll be
Speaker 1: able to record today and tomorrow. Let's do one more.
Speaker 1: From expats dot cz, your home for comedy news, they
Speaker 1: caught up with Icelandic comedy star Ari l Jarn. You
Speaker 1: know him from Pardon My Icelandic Well. Ari is visiting Prague.
Speaker 1: Ari is known for his razor sharp impressions and deadpan
Speaker 1: takes on Nordic oddities. Expats dot Cz was curious, have
Speaker 1: you been to Prague before? Ari said, yeah, once, about
Speaker 1: eight years ago. It's beautiful. Raykovic has almost no old
Speaker 1: buildings left. We basically demolished everything ourselves after World War Two.
Speaker 1: The oldest house where I live is from seventeen ninety
Speaker 1: in Prague. The pizzeria I went to was from fourteen ninety.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even listed as a historical landmark. Who shaped
Speaker 1: your comedic style? Eddie Murphy was the biggest comic in
Speaker 1: the Nordic countries. His specials Delirious and Raw were huge here.
Speaker 1: They were the first stand up specials most people saw. Later,
Speaker 1: I discovered Eddie Zard. Now my manager is Eddie's tour manager.
Speaker 1: It's been awesome learning from him. Good question here. Your
Speaker 1: material is very eurocentric. Do you think it works outside Europe?
Speaker 1: Any jokes that didn't land or? He says, by far.
Speaker 1: I've heard the biggest reactions from the Nordic countries, especially
Speaker 1: Denmark and Finland, and also really works on Australia. Australians
Speaker 1: really get it. The US not so much. I've performed
Speaker 1: there much, but I think American audience is harder to crack.
Speaker 1: Mostly the Americans who make it to my shows are
Speaker 1: very Eurocentric. They're often the type of say, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: from the stats, We're sorry, We're sorry. Good question here.
Speaker 1: You once said translating a material from English felt like
Speaker 1: a rebirth of the jokes. It's exciting when you realize
Speaker 1: the joke, which he thought was completely local, can be
Speaker 1: made international. It's a fun challenge because most of my
Speaker 1: material is so intertwined with Icelandic phrasing. When I speak English,
Speaker 1: I tend to be less precise, more of an impression
Speaker 1: of an English speaker, which can lead to strange errors.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't notice them, but doing it on the
Speaker 1: fly is a mind bending challenge. It's almost like being
Speaker 1: an AI translator. And he shares that he's fluent in English,
Speaker 1: semi fluent in Danish, and can also make himself understood
Speaker 1: in French, German, and Spanish and of course Icelandic. I
Speaker 1: assume he says, that's five, but I'm counting six, assuming
Speaker 1: the Icelandic one. That's your comedy news for today. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: I gotta find a voice for Monday's episode. Come back
Speaker 1: tomorrow you'll see what happens.