Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. David Letterman did press, which is pretty rare.
Speaker 1: He did an interview with GQ magazine. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out why. I think because he's promoting the Letterman
Speaker 1: Fast Channel on Samsung TV plus. A Fast Channel is
Speaker 1: one of those channels that shows up on like your
Speaker 1: Roku app or on your Samsung TV, and it's like
Speaker 1: an old style live TV channel. You can fast forward,
Speaker 1: you have to sit through the commercials. It's one of those.
Speaker 1: So there's one that's just Letterman. I put it on
Speaker 1: last night and they were showing stupid pet tricks and
Speaker 1: stupid human tricks, which was never my bags. I bailed,
Speaker 1: but I like the idea of the channel. Let him
Speaker 1: be told GQ in show business, I find that I've
Speaker 1: pretended to be someone I'm truly not. The interview took
Speaker 1: place in Indiana, and Dave said, in my life here
Speaker 1: in Indiana and at my home with my family, I'm
Speaker 1: probably the person I actually am, and I regret that
Speaker 1: they don't kind of cross at any point. Letterman is
Speaker 1: still working doing the show for Netflix called My Next
Speaker 1: Guest needs no introduction and says I'm surprised that I'm
Speaker 1: still doing it at my age. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: I still get a kick out of what we're doing.
Speaker 1: So what does that mean? I don't know. GQ said
Speaker 1: to Dave, you know, if you read press about you
Speaker 1: from the eighties and nineties, you were portrayed as miserable.
Speaker 1: Letterman said, yeah, that's great. I love that is the characterization. Fair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. There's a couple of things going on there.
Speaker 1: I was drinking heavily in those days. That may have
Speaker 1: provided some fuel for misery, and I guess not achieving
Speaker 1: what I imagined to be. Like you'd say, Johnny Carson, there's
Speaker 1: never going to be anybody as good at that kind
Speaker 1: of show as Johnny. Nobody better. Maybe there are people
Speaker 1: now who are excellent broadcasters and as good as Johnny,
Speaker 1: but nobody better. Trying to think if there's anybody right
Speaker 1: now who says good as Johnny, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Colbear is definitely not. Falin's definitely not. Because Kimmel as
Speaker 1: good as Johnny, I don't think so, Letterman says, So here,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, oh crap, am I not going to be
Speaker 1: as good as Johnny. What am I doing here? I
Speaker 1: like the idea that I was characterized as miserable. That's delightful, Dave.
Speaker 1: Early in your career you were criticized fairly for not
Speaker 1: being a great interviewer. Dave said, probably, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's true. Any criticism that has befallen me, I'm sure
Speaker 1: I had a coming. Here's the issue with me when
Speaker 1: I got to California. I don't know if this contradicts
Speaker 1: everything I've said before. When I got to California was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm here, let's get ready to go. I thought I'm
Speaker 1: the guy we've all been waiting for. And I operated
Speaker 1: like that for a little bit. And the first time
Speaker 1: I realized it was a mistake, I had a morning
Speaker 1: show on NBC. It was on for a day and
Speaker 1: a half. Then it blew up the network. And that's
Speaker 1: when I realized, you know, the thing about me being
Speaker 1: the guy, maybe that needs to be like, let's take
Speaker 1: another look at that, Dave. Did you get better over time?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean one hopes. God, thirty years
Speaker 1: plus one hope you get a little better. I do
Speaker 1: say that for the last handful of years and my
Speaker 1: favorite part of the show is just talking to people.
Speaker 1: Because doing comedy each and every night, each and every night,
Speaker 1: each and every night, that's meaningful and not just laughable.
Speaker 1: That's tough. It's really tough. And I was always lucky
Speaker 1: to have men and women who were really smart and
Speaker 1: really good writers. I'd just be in the next room.
Speaker 1: But the thing I enjoyed mostly was actually just talking
Speaker 1: to people. Dave had a reputation for being confrontational in
Speaker 1: the early days, and Dave said, yeah, I guess so,
Speaker 1: I will say that also in those days it was
Speaker 1: probably under some real or imagined mandate that would provide
Speaker 1: energy that would help the show succeed. But no, that's right, GQ. Dave,
Speaker 1: your reputation in your show years, accurate or not, was
Speaker 1: not social. Dave said, I felt like wherever i'd go out,
Speaker 1: there'd be an expectation in which I couldn't live up to,
Speaker 1: which was, here, he comes, he's gonna do a show,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be funny, We're gonna be entertained. I kind
Speaker 1: of felt like that expectation takes quite a lot of energy,
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to bleed it off before or
Speaker 1: after the actual show, which was always in desperate need
Speaker 1: of entertainment. He talked about his energy and said, you'd
Speaker 1: either spend time preparing, time ruminating about what it might
Speaker 1: gone wrong, or try and enjoy what it went right,
Speaker 1: and anything else didn't matter. And that's the mistake of
Speaker 1: having a career where it's the same thing each and
Speaker 1: every night. Now I still advise people not to retire,
Speaker 1: but it was so single focused. If we can make
Speaker 1: these three four hundred people laugh every night, that's our responsibility.
Speaker 1: So the idea that it actually transported beyond that would
Speaker 1: always come as kind of a glaring surprise. All I
Speaker 1: cared about was television. One hour of television that I
Speaker 1: was responsible for for thirty years. That's all I cared about.
Speaker 1: Everything fell apart went away. I didn't even know if
Speaker 1: it was falling apart or not. And now I have
Speaker 1: the energy and the broader focus to recognize humanity as
Speaker 1: other fulfilling pursuits. A lot more here, and we've got
Speaker 1: some holidays coming up, so I'll save more of that
Speaker 1: for some time, maybe Christmas week. Looking ahead, I will
Speaker 1: have episodes for you every single day, like always. I
Speaker 1: am going to pre tape a couple just so I
Speaker 1: could take a couple of days off around Christmas, and
Speaker 1: you know, there are things like best Comedy Specials of
Speaker 1: the Year that I want to do anyway, so I'll
Speaker 1: record a bunch of those, but I'll be here every
Speaker 1: day for you. I'm also bothered this session you're hearing
Speaker 1: right now. I've only been recording for seven minutes and
Speaker 1: I can already hear that rasp in my voice that
Speaker 1: whatever bug I caught It's almost a full three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Now I still feel it. I still feel that my
Speaker 1: voice going really quickly. I don't feel sick at all,
Speaker 1: but boy, I just feel the rasp anyway. Jay Leno,
Speaker 1: let's stay on late night type hosts. Jay was on
Speaker 1: Spike first In's Spike's Car Radio, and Jay pushed back
Speaker 1: on all the rumors about what's going on. There was
Speaker 1: one rumor that said Jay owed money to the mob
Speaker 1: and had been subject to a beat down. Leno said,
Speaker 1: it's so stupid. Spike said the photos Jay looked like
Speaker 1: an AI of a Jay Leno that had been thrown
Speaker 1: off a building. All right, Jay, you've got money. Why
Speaker 1: he's staying at Hampton In. Jay said he got into
Speaker 1: the area at one am and was only going to
Speaker 1: be there for a short stay. He asked for the
Speaker 1: nearest hotel and happened to be Hampton In. Leno defended
Speaker 1: the brand, saying it's a Hilton. Why wouldn't he stay
Speaker 1: somewhere like the Four Seasons? Leno said? Why would it
Speaker 1: pay eleven hundred dollars a night? Leno explains if his
Speaker 1: wife was with him, then he would have stayed in
Speaker 1: a nice hotel, but it's just him. He doesn't feel
Speaker 1: the need. Spike said he's been on the road with
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld, and Seinfeld also stays at modest hotels. Spike
Speaker 1: shows Jay some social media posts, including one where the
Speaker 1: author wrote, Jay Leno was beat up in some kind
Speaker 1: of ritual. I suspect or to be silenced. Jay, is
Speaker 1: it a gambling debt? Jay said, Nope, never gambled in
Speaker 1: my life. I liked that the mob would drive to Greensburg,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania to meet me on top of a hill and
Speaker 1: then throw me down the hill. All right, Jay, why
Speaker 1: were you walking? Why didn't he have a car? Jay
Speaker 1: said again he was only in town for a short time.
Speaker 1: He didn't think it need one, And as I'm falling,
Speaker 1: I see these two elderly ladies. One of them goes
Speaker 1: that looks like Jay Leno falling down the hill. The
Speaker 1: two women came over after he fell down. Leno said
Speaker 1: they realized it was actually him. They gave him a
Speaker 1: ride to a nearby restaurant. He says, of his injuries,
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that bad. When a server
Speaker 1: brought his sandwich over, the server told Leno, hey, you
Speaker 1: know you don't look too good. But rather thansee medical attention,
Speaker 1: Jay asked for directions to the nearest CVS and bought
Speaker 1: an eye patch. All right, what about all the weird
Speaker 1: stuff with the cars on the motorcycles, Leno said, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of accidents in between you don't even hear about.
Speaker 1: Jay says he got a good laugh when he told
Speaker 1: the crowd, ladies and gentlemen, I'm just completing my fall
Speaker 1: tour and added audiences love seeing rich people catch on fire.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is just how I sound now. I've worked
Speaker 1: in radio media, audio whatever this is now for thirty
Speaker 1: plus years, and I have run into older men who
Speaker 1: start to get that rasp in their voice. It sounds
Speaker 1: great if you're a DJ. Maybe this is just how
Speaker 1: I sound. Now for real. During the break there, I
Speaker 1: hit pause on their cording and went upstairs and I
Speaker 1: went and got my iced coffee. Here the voice was
Speaker 1: driving me nuts. Today. Doesn't hurt, but the fuzz all right,
Speaker 1: shut up about your voice, John, if you want to
Speaker 1: sport the show, buy me a coffee. Dot com slash
Speaker 1: d comedy news. Serious topic here. Conan O'Brien, Oh wow,
Speaker 1: what a week. Conan's father, doctor Thomas O'Brien, passed away Monday,
Speaker 1: December ninth. Thomas was ninety five. Three days later, on
Speaker 1: Thursday the twelfth, Ruth O'Brien passed away at age ninety two.
Speaker 1: In an interview published on Thursday, Conan told The Globe,
Speaker 1: my father was in constant motion and he was interested
Speaker 1: in everything, absolutely everything. John mulaney was on Jimmy Fallon
Speaker 1: during the week. Mulaney was filming a scene for poker
Speaker 1: Face and said he's been going back and forth between
Speaker 1: Staten Island and Queen's. We're at a Rundown real life
Speaker 1: location like a motel for this one scene, and afterwards
Speaker 1: it was this summer. I'm standing there with Miguel and
Speaker 1: he goes, oh, no, I think I have some bug
Speaker 1: bites and I look down and he's got these three
Speaker 1: red bites and he goes, oh, no, I might have
Speaker 1: bedbugs from the shoot. Malanie gets back to his room.
Speaker 1: He notices he has bites and I go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I got bed bugs from doing a peacock show. You
Speaker 1: never think that's how you get them, but it is.
Speaker 1: I texted Natasha Leone. I go, hey, do you have
Speaker 1: Miguel's number. Miguel's the director. I need to get in
Speaker 1: touch with him right now about something. She sends to
Speaker 1: me Migul's number and I text him. He texts Miguel,
Speaker 1: it's John m'laney. I've read bites on my legs too,
Speaker 1: What did you do for these? And he's really bed bugs.
Speaker 1: He doesn't hear back. I call Natasha and I go, hey,
Speaker 1: mcguil hasn't gotten back to me, and she goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I say you the wrong Miguel. Apparently m'laney texted the
Speaker 1: guy Miguel who has the hit song remind me to forgets.
Speaker 1: Malaney spoken to the TV and said, Miguel, if you're watching,
Speaker 1: they weren't bed bugs and on set medic let me
Speaker 1: know it was fine. It's a good lesson. Nikki Glazer
Speaker 1: posted on Instagram, I'm sorry if I'm everywhere right now,
Speaker 1: It'll be over soon. She talked about the roast of
Speaker 1: Tom Brady in May and said it was a life
Speaker 1: changing performance, one of those things that you sort of like,
Speaker 1: you just never know what's gonna happen, but everything changes
Speaker 1: after the next day, I was in line places and
Speaker 1: seeing my face on people's phones. She told Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1: I felt like Taylor Swift for a couple of days.
Speaker 1: I felt that level of fame. No, you didn't, and
Speaker 1: that is your comedy news or today. You didn't. You
Speaker 1: were not Taylor Swift. Relax. You told a couple of
Speaker 1: funny jokes on a roast A bunch of us watched.
Speaker 1: H You're such a hater, John, I'm not. I speak
Speaker 1: truth to the media. See to morrow.