Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: Daily Comedy News. We're about to find out if Nicki
Speaker 1: Glazer can take a punch. We'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: a second, but let me set the scene here. It's
Speaker 1: seventy five degrees and the humidity's thirty four percent, and
Speaker 1: it's Sonny out for the first time of month. So
Speaker 1: if you're like Johnny Mack, do I hear birds? You do?
Speaker 1: Do I hear planes? I do? Do I hear dogs?
Speaker 1: You might? Because this, to my friends, is our first
Speaker 1: pool side edition of Daily Comedy News this year. It
Speaker 1: is too nice to sit in the basement, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get to it. Nicki Glazer was at the time
Speaker 1: one hundred Summit on Wednesday. She said there was a
Speaker 1: joke she told during the Golden Globes that she worried
Speaker 1: went too far. Niki explains, I didn't say anything that
Speaker 1: was like calling anyone ugly or fat at roast you
Speaker 1: say really cruel things, that's the job. She conceded. She
Speaker 1: was initially concerned about a joke aimed at Emilia Paris
Speaker 1: star Selena Gomez and her fiance Benny Blanco that she
Speaker 1: ended up texting Blanco to get his permission to go
Speaker 1: ahead with the joke. Quoting Nicki, I said that Selena
Speaker 1: Gomez is here because of Emilia Perez and Benny Blanco
Speaker 1: is here because of the genie who granted him that wish,
Speaker 1: and looking back, I'm like, that could seem mean, but
Speaker 1: everybody's like he's not attractive enough for her. For me,
Speaker 1: I've never looked at them and thought that. I feel
Speaker 1: like she won too. I think he's really cool. So
Speaker 1: because that joke didn't actually come from a mean place,
Speaker 1: I felt like it was okay for me to say.
Speaker 1: If you pay a lot of attention to these Nicki
Speaker 1: Glazer interviews, there is definitely signs of mental struggles here.
Speaker 1: She's pretty open about it, and you do worry about her.
Speaker 1: Nicki said, I'm happier than I've ever been, but I'm
Speaker 1: not happy by any means. I'm so grateful, but i
Speaker 1: still have a lot of self loathing that's almost getting
Speaker 1: boring to talk about. At this point, she spoke about
Speaker 1: her current hot streak. I know it. I'll get taken
Speaker 1: away at some point because it has to. That's just
Speaker 1: the way things work. And when that part of my
Speaker 1: career happens. I don't want to be sad about that,
Speaker 1: so I just don't put too much worth in it.
Speaker 1: But I'm enjoying it now. None of that is the
Speaker 1: controversy that I alluded to at the beginning. Nicki said
Speaker 1: she was more critical of Trump than usual at a
Speaker 1: recent show in Canada because she usually holds back in
Speaker 1: the US to not alienate fans who might disagree with
Speaker 1: her politics. But she told the audience at the time
Speaker 1: thing she got worried that she could get backlash. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, what if I said gets recorded and sent out.
Speaker 1: Maybe I couldn't be let back into the country. There's
Speaker 1: just no scenario where the headline is US government bans
Speaker 1: Nicki Glazer from re entering country. I mean, that would
Speaker 1: just be such a massive scandal story. There's no chance
Speaker 1: of that happening, Nikki said, I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: an alarmist, but I definitely don't think that I'm immune
Speaker 1: to having some kind of backlash. Look at the other
Speaker 1: places that have dictators. I have a friend Jennif Friedman,
Speaker 1: who posted on Instagram that she was performing in Vancouver
Speaker 1: and when she came back, customs asked her what she did.
Speaker 1: She said she was a comedian, and they asked her
Speaker 1: if she talked about politics had made fun of the president.
Speaker 1: They let her go, but they asked, or I could
Speaker 1: be put on some kind of list because of some
Speaker 1: story I reposted. Look at other places that have dictators.
Speaker 1: You're not allowed to say things about them. She then
Speaker 1: joked about being sexually attracted to Trump to get on
Speaker 1: his good side. I don't know where you're laughing about.
Speaker 1: I'm one hundred percent real about this and it'll save
Speaker 1: me when I'm on the gallows. Send your letters to
Speaker 1: Nikki Glazer. John mulaney has come under fire for a
Speaker 1: quote very controversial joke. This from the British tabloids. The
Speaker 1: very controversial joke was about the deaths of Gene Hackman
Speaker 1: and Hackman's wife. The joke in question and told much
Speaker 1: better by John mulaney. Scientists are now like, we believe
Speaker 1: dinosaurs were killed sixty six million years ago by an asteroid.
Speaker 1: Stop you don't know that. We don't even know how
Speaker 1: Gene Hackman and his wife died and we found their
Speaker 1: whole bodies with full clothes on one week after the event.
Speaker 1: How about that? Santa Fe police Hello, Press conference number
Speaker 1: four hundred seventy. We now believe that a rat bit
Speaker 1: Missus Hackman turning her hands into mummy hands. Slow down.
Speaker 1: You don't know what happened that again, told much better
Speaker 1: by John mulaney. Is the very controversial joke? Really okay?
Speaker 1: Very controversial? One Reddit user called the comments sickening and
Speaker 1: posted just me thinking that Gene Hackman bit was just
Speaker 1: a tad sickening. Another redditur wrote only John could get
Speaker 1: away with a Gene Hackman joke this soon really okay, guys.
Speaker 1: Late nighter watched the millenniy show. I didn't. I Wednesday
Speaker 1: night is volleyball night, and I made the mistake of
Speaker 1: I went for a run. Johnny Mack is out of shape,
Speaker 1: and I will cop to being out of shape when
Speaker 1: I'm out of shape. And I'm out of shape. So
Speaker 1: I went for a run Wednesday afternoon because the weather's nice,
Speaker 1: and then I played volleyball and I was so gassed,
Speaker 1: so there was no chance of me watching a show
Speaker 1: from ten to eleven PM. I went to bed. But
Speaker 1: Late Nighter they watch Mullenie's show. They are very positive
Speaker 1: about the show, and it sounds like maybe, perhaps possibly
Speaker 1: Millenia has taken my notes. Late nighter, says Mullani waited
Speaker 1: until halfway through the show to explain that guest Rita
Speaker 1: Marino wasn't there. Apparently Rita wasn't feeling well, but he
Speaker 1: never addressed the other missing panelist, which was to be
Speaker 1: dinosaur expert doctor Luis Chiappe, who had been announced earlier
Speaker 1: this week. Maybe John took my note that having seventy
Speaker 1: five people on it once doesn't work. Who knows. Mllenie
Speaker 1: opened the show announcing the time and temperature sixty two
Speaker 1: degrees in LA while snow went past his studio windows.
Speaker 1: Mulaney explained this is his Christmas show since the show
Speaker 1: won't be on in December, and he felt like it.
Speaker 1: See that's funny, that's like an old style Letterman inspired bit.
Speaker 1: So was the Christmas Show, complete with twinking lights, tinsel,
Speaker 1: and a disheveled white beard. Hobo, one of the guests
Speaker 1: he did have on io at a Berry. She liked
Speaker 1: the craziness. She compared the show to Crack, but in
Speaker 1: a good way. Okay, we all know crack is bad. Yes,
Speaker 1: we can all agree that crack is something bad, But
Speaker 1: consider this Crack gave us funk music. Crack gave us
Speaker 1: Tyren Bighams Crackavius Whitney Houston saying, first of all, let's
Speaker 1: get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. The spirit of crack,
Speaker 1: one could argue, has also given us this show. John
Speaker 1: Mulaney Sober and a Father is basically spiritually on crack.
Speaker 1: To be clear, I think this is a good thing.
Speaker 1: This man shows up dressed like a pentecostal deacon son
Speaker 1: headed to the twenty eighteen NBA draft all he'd end
Speaker 1: up a fifth round reject, and yet he puts out
Speaker 1: some of the sharpest comedy happening right now. She described
Speaker 1: Mlaney as a gift to comedy. He's also maybe probably insane.
Speaker 1: But I think this is good and I think crack
Speaker 1: is bad. Now what's interesting is I did several googles
Speaker 1: of the term Malinie Conan. Not much came up. Jessica
Speaker 1: Kerson has a new special out on Hulu today. It
Speaker 1: is called I'm the Man. Now. The Hulu publicist didn't
Speaker 1: send me anything, but I will not be stopped. Hulu publicists,
Speaker 1: you keep your comedy special secret, and I'll keep outing them,
Speaker 1: Jessica told The Daily beast. I've been doing stand up
Speaker 1: for over twenty years, and this special is truly special.
Speaker 1: My stand up has always stood out to the audience
Speaker 1: as I've performed for my fans, had especially in other comics.
Speaker 1: I'm the Man is me embracing everything I am, the
Speaker 1: crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I'm fearless
Speaker 1: on stage. Michelle Wolf had a surprise release, not really
Speaker 1: a special, a fifteen minute clip where she talked about
Speaker 1: her controversial twenty eighteen set at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Speaker 1: The clip is called Dinner Time. It has premiered on
Speaker 1: punch Up Live, a digital platform for live comedy. You
Speaker 1: can watch it for free. Wolf explains there might not
Speaker 1: be a comedian at the Correspondent's Dinner this year, but
Speaker 1: the good news is I have some leftovers. I've been
Speaker 1: holding onto the set since twenty twenty two, and with
Speaker 1: everything going on, I felt like it was the right
Speaker 1: moment to share it exclusively on punch Up, a platform
Speaker 1: where comedians can release their own uncensored material without the
Speaker 1: constraints of any network or streamer. Drud Carmichael will have
Speaker 1: another stand up special for HBO. This one is called
Speaker 1: Don't Be Gay. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president
Speaker 1: for HBO Programming. She says in a press release, this
Speaker 1: new special continues to build on the raw, intimate, and
Speaker 1: emotionally honest impact that his last special, Roathaniel and his
Speaker 1: recent series on the network at drud Carmichael Reality Show
Speaker 1: had no quote from Carmichael though. Anyway. Don't Be Gay
Speaker 1: on HBO Saturday, May twenty fourth, at ten pm. At
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's Brett Goldstein Special. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Good
Speaker 1: job by the birds giving me. I hope you can
Speaker 1: hear the birds giving me some atmosphere as we do
Speaker 1: the show poolside today. Now it's so weird putting the
Speaker 1: show together because when I put together Thursday Show, there
Speaker 1: was nothing. Now behind the scenes, I teach a college
Speaker 1: class on Thursday morning, so I often like to pretape Fridays,
Speaker 1: and as the week goes, Friday tends to be one
Speaker 1: of the lesser listen two days. I guess people get
Speaker 1: into weekend mode. So I often, when I'm teaching, will
Speaker 1: pre tape Friday show and I'll you know, I'll squirrel
Speaker 1: stuff away all week. And there was just really nothing
Speaker 1: to fill Thursday show. So I had to pull. Boy,
Speaker 1: these birds are getting done. Thank you birds. I had
Speaker 1: to pull most of what was going to be today's
Speaker 1: show into yesterday's show just to get a show out,
Speaker 1: and it was a short show as it was now today. Conversely,
Speaker 1: it took me two hours to put this together. There's
Speaker 1: enough for three shows, and I'm probably gonna sit here
Speaker 1: at poolside recording the entire weekend because there's so much.
Speaker 1: Let's head on over to Gossip Corner. This is sad
Speaker 1: TMZ reporting Fortune Femster and her wife Jacqueline Smith recently
Speaker 1: separated and Fortune is planning a file for divorce. According
Speaker 1: to TMZ, it's unclear what caused the split or when
Speaker 1: they separated. TMZ thinks it's pretty fresh. This is sad
Speaker 1: to me because wasn't one of fortune special all about
Speaker 1: getting married to Jack's. Wasn't that like the whole cornerstone
Speaker 1: of it. So that's kind of sad. They were married
Speaker 1: in October of twenty twenty. Also on Gossip Corner, now,
Speaker 1: kids are listening to this with you. For some reason,
Speaker 1: it stopped. We don't want the kids to listen to
Speaker 1: this next section. They're just gonna have questions. So I'll
Speaker 1: give you a second hero bebble. Okay, kids are gone.
Speaker 1: Catherine Ryan has spoken out about more sexual misconduct in
Speaker 1: the comedy industry. She claimed one male comedian showed other
Speaker 1: cast mates intimate videos of himself having sex with women.
Speaker 1: Catherine explained the incident happened while backstage in the green
Speaker 1: room of a big show. She did not identify the comedian,
Speaker 1: but did say that he isn't British. She explained, I've
Speaker 1: been in green rooms were very famous male comedians. One
Speaker 1: male comedian in particular, I will say it's not British.
Speaker 1: He was very famous, very rich, very powerful, and he
Speaker 1: was in a room on a big show. I was
Speaker 1: one of the few women on that bill, maybe three women,
Speaker 1: and there was a young female comedian who was starting out.
Speaker 1: It was next to him, and he was with all
Speaker 1: the lads showing pictures and videos on his phone that
Speaker 1: he had taken of himself having sex with women, so
Speaker 1: like really intimate photos, intimate videos, and he was showing them.
Speaker 1: His junk was in a lot of these videos. She
Speaker 1: felt very uncomfortable about that, and she came to my
Speaker 1: dressing room to be like, oh, I didn't like him
Speaker 1: showing me that, and she's about to go on stage.
Speaker 1: She's very new. I was even quite new at the time,
Speaker 1: but yeah, stuff like that, and being a minority in
Speaker 1: that situation which female comedians, especially when I was starting out,
Speaker 1: we're always minorities in every green room, every dressing room.
Speaker 1: There are things we can't do that the boys can do.
Speaker 1: We can't take a night bus, we can't sleep on
Speaker 1: the floor with four other comedians starting out. A lot
Speaker 1: of times we have children that we have to look after,
Speaker 1: and then we get fans who could like kill us.
Speaker 1: She then talked about Nicki Glazer. Nicki Glazer, who's doing
Speaker 1: amazing and American hosting the Golden Globes for the second
Speaker 1: year in a row. She'd make a joke of it
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Should write, come kill me in Cincinnati at
Speaker 1: seven pm, Come kill me in San Diego at eight pm.
Speaker 1: We'd have to publish where we are at night, and
Speaker 1: we're always alone. It's a bit different. When I started
Speaker 1: doing television, male audience members could be weird with me.
Speaker 1: I had this following of very strange lone wolf men.
Speaker 1: Before I had a tour manager that'd follow me onto
Speaker 1: the train and keep talking to me. I was trying
Speaker 1: to be polite and boundary, but some of those interactions
Speaker 1: were scary. I've been locking in part, I think because
Speaker 1: of the guys I came up with. Joe lystt, Rob
Speaker 1: Beckett and Ramesher Rag and Aathan are just really really
Speaker 1: good guys. Boy, this is all just terrible switching gears.
Speaker 1: If you're in Boston, Paul Reiser is at the Cabot
Speaker 1: in Beverly tonight. Paul says he doesn't have to do
Speaker 1: stand up. I just love performing. I don't love airports.
Speaker 1: I don't love connecting flights. I just tell my agent's
Speaker 1: got to be direct flight, not too late, because I
Speaker 1: like to be in pajamas at nine to forty five
Speaker 1: if possible. Paul's my kind of guy. I've been on
Speaker 1: Stranger Things, which is big and great to be in,
Speaker 1: but has nothing to do with me being on stage
Speaker 1: for an hour and a half. That's the fun, that's
Speaker 1: the joy. I love the order of stand up. I
Speaker 1: love how ephemeral it is now. The goalposts are always
Speaker 1: moving and you never quite get it, and if you
Speaker 1: do get it, it's gone the next day. It's like, wow,
Speaker 1: what was that? Paul says it has a hard time
Speaker 1: watching his old stuff, but when I do see a
Speaker 1: glimpse of it, there are themes of things I'm still questioning.
Speaker 1: What's also great is the audience now comes to see me.
Speaker 1: It's not nineteen seventy eight years greedy Number eleven Bull Riser.
Speaker 1: If people are coming and they bought a ticket and
Speaker 1: they came to see me, it's because they know me
Speaker 1: from something probably man about you. It really does feel
Speaker 1: like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks, I
Speaker 1: know this guy who grew up together, and we got
Speaker 1: married around the same time, we had kids around the
Speaker 1: same time, and the same warmth that I think they
Speaker 1: bring I feel towards them. And maybe younger people come too,
Speaker 1: and they're confused. Wait, why is the doctor from Stranger
Speaker 1: Things trying to be funny? Save some more of that
Speaker 1: for the weekend. A Memphis comedian is going for a
Speaker 1: world record this weekend. Benny Elbows is working on a
Speaker 1: solo stand up show that could last forty plus hours
Speaker 1: to break the record for longest continuous solo comedy stand
Speaker 1: up routine in history. I think Bob Marley had that.
Speaker 1: The comedian Bob Marlin had that record for a while
Speaker 1: we actually broadcast it live on serious if my memory holds,
Speaker 1: Benny Elbows says, for a while, it's a tour guide.
Speaker 1: It did tours in Memphis. It was a ghost tour guide,
Speaker 1: like a haunted tour, not like a signed up for
Speaker 1: the tour. Never saw me again, that's funny. The plan
Speaker 1: was for him to take the stage at six o'clock
Speaker 1: this morning at the High Tone Cafe on Cleveland Avenue.
Speaker 1: He's aiming to break the current record of forty hours
Speaker 1: eight minutes. His game plan. I think the most important
Speaker 1: thing is going to be caffeine. There are rules according
Speaker 1: to the Guinness World Record. I can repeat jokes, but
Speaker 1: only every four hours. So right now I have a
Speaker 1: word document with like sixteen seventeen thousand words. It's twenty
Speaker 1: six pages. Another big one is that we need ten
Speaker 1: people in the audience at all times. That's hard. How
Speaker 1: will we make sure there are ten people in the audience.
Speaker 1: He's hoping that this press helps. Well, if you're in Memphis,
Speaker 1: go help this guy out. Hopefully you download the podcast
Speaker 1: at three or five am when I dropped it, and
Speaker 1: you ran right over there to hook up that six
Speaker 1: am hour. All right, I know you're curious, what about
Speaker 1: the bathroom, He explains, I can eat and drink on
Speaker 1: stage as long as it doesn't disrupt the flow of
Speaker 1: the show. You get five minutes every hour you can
Speaker 1: use for whatever you want, say a bathroom break. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to go as far as i
Speaker 1: can to the show before trying to take a nap
Speaker 1: and then finish strong. If everything goes well, he'll break
Speaker 1: the record around ten thirty on Saturday night. And that
Speaker 1: is your comedy news for today, Poolside Edition. Have an
Speaker 1: awesome day.