Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media Hither. I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Stephen Colbert was interviewed by GQ, who really
Speaker 1: wanted us to know that Colbert was poolside when this
Speaker 1: took place. The topic the cancelation, Stephen said, Listen, every
Speaker 1: show's got ended sometime, and I've been on a bunch
Speaker 1: of shows that have ended, sometimes by our lights and
Speaker 1: sometimes by the decision of other people. It's just the
Speaker 1: nature of show business. You can't worry about it. You
Speaker 1: got to be a big boy about that. But I
Speaker 1: think we're the first number one show to ever get canceled.
Speaker 1: Colbert said he was told by CBS they were getting
Speaker 1: out of Late Night because it's no longer profitable. He
Speaker 1: called it surprising. I'll editorialize here I have brought us
Speaker 1: up in the past. Well, then why did they renew
Speaker 1: Taylor Tomlinson at twelve thirty That was announced as a
Speaker 1: renewal and then Taylor said she didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1: That was the story we were told. So A, is
Speaker 1: that story not true? B If it is true that
Speaker 1: they renewed it, and then Taylor said no, thanks, Well
Speaker 1: why would you renew twelve thirty. Were you going to
Speaker 1: have a twelve thirty show with a no. Eleven thirty show,
Speaker 1: or were you going to move after midnight to be
Speaker 1: before midnight? None of that makes sense. Steven Colbert said,
Speaker 1: I can understand why people would have that reaction because
Speaker 1: CBS or the parent corporation. I'm not going to say
Speaker 1: who made that decision, because I don't know. No one's
Speaker 1: ever going to tell us decided to cut a check
Speaker 1: for sixteen million dollars to the President of the United
Speaker 1: States over a lawsuit that their own lawyers, Paramount's own
Speaker 1: lawyers said is completely without merit, and it's self evident
Speaker 1: that this is damaging to the reputation of the network,
Speaker 1: the corporation, and the news division. So it's unclear to
Speaker 1: me why anyone would do that other than the Curry
Speaker 1: favor with a single individual. Wow, he is not pulling
Speaker 1: his punches here, Colbert said, if people have theories that
Speaker 1: associate me with that, it's a reasonable thing to think
Speaker 1: because CBS or the corporation clearly did it once. But
Speaker 1: my side of the street is clean, and I have
Speaker 1: no interest in picking up a broom or adding to
Speaker 1: refuse on the other side of the street, not my problem.
Speaker 1: Colbert says he has a great relationship with CBS. It's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why this was so surprising and
Speaker 1: so shocking that there was no preamble to this, budgets
Speaker 1: and everything like that. We've done cuts and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: so that's why it was surprising to me, as I said,
Speaker 1: But I meant what I said on air the next
Speaker 1: night after I found out, because I couldn't sit on it.
Speaker 1: They've been great partners, they really have. They've been very supportive.
Speaker 1: It took us six to nine months to find our
Speaker 1: legs before people watched the show. We didn't quite figure
Speaker 1: out what we wanted to do. It didn't come fully
Speaker 1: assembled out of the box the way the Colbert Report did.
Speaker 1: And they stood by us and they were very supportive,
Speaker 1: and they gave us what we needed and we found
Speaker 1: it and we delivered for them what we wanted. I
Speaker 1: want to do a good job, he said. There is
Speaker 1: a sense of relief that he might not have to
Speaker 1: put the snorkel on and get into the sewer every day.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know how they're going to land the plane,
Speaker 1: but he wants to do it gracefully. GQ's opener, house
Speaker 1: work super normal, Colbert said, strangely, everything is normal because
Speaker 1: the show is never normal. I've got nine months of
Speaker 1: shows to do. I can't be thinking about it ending
Speaker 1: in May. I've got to think about the show on Monday.
Speaker 1: So when you say has the show perfectly normal? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that normal. And I had to tell everybody
Speaker 1: at the show was ending. But the next Monday I
Speaker 1: had to do a show. Steven, does nine months feel
Speaker 1: like a long time or a short time? Colbert said?
Speaker 1: The end has a discernible shape, but it still seems
Speaker 1: a long way away. Seems like I got feisty here.
Speaker 1: As for that discernible shape, GQ, can you describe that shape?
Speaker 1: Colbert said? The image I have as a man walking
Speaker 1: towards me in the dusk, and he's got something in
Speaker 1: his hand. I don't know whether it's a knife or
Speaker 1: an ice cream cone, but he is asking me if
Speaker 1: I'd like a lick. Now, this is a transcript. I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what Colbert's tone was here, but this
Speaker 1: is interesting, GQ said, I can't tell if this is
Speaker 1: a bit or if this is real. Colbert, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Why would this be a bit. By
Speaker 1: the way, it's hard to tell whether things are real
Speaker 1: or a bit. Sometimes to me, every day you have
Speaker 1: to come up with a bit about something that was real.
Speaker 1: So after a while it's hard to tell what's a
Speaker 1: bit and what's real because you see other people engaging
Speaker 1: in performative behavior all the time, and it's hard to
Speaker 1: know if they're sincere about it. And at a certain
Speaker 1: point it doesn't matter if they're sincere about it because
Speaker 1: their behavior has an effect. Interesting again, the interview. I
Speaker 1: know I'm going along here, but the interview continues to
Speaker 1: seemingly go sideways. GQ. You've been attaching your mouth to
Speaker 1: the exhaust pipe of news for I don't know. And
Speaker 1: then there's a dash and Colbert's answer is that sounds
Speaker 1: vaguely suicidal. You've been running your car in the closed
Speaker 1: garage of media for twenty years. Or you're getting a
Speaker 1: little woozy. Yeah, I'm getting a little woozy. Listen, It's
Speaker 1: possible that George Cheeks, who was at the time the
Speaker 1: co CEO of Paramount, saved my life. I'll get a
Speaker 1: little oxygen back into my brain. I love what we
Speaker 1: do and I love the grind. You can only do
Speaker 1: one of these shows, do the jokes every night, year
Speaker 1: after the year, for twenty years if you give a
Speaker 1: damn at all about what you're talking about. And I do,
Speaker 1: but there's a sense of relief that I might not
Speaker 1: have put on the storkel. All right, let me pick
Speaker 1: up more on that tomorrow. A heck of a lot
Speaker 1: more there. Via TMZ. THEO Vaughn once against addressed the
Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security using a video of him to
Speaker 1: promote deportations. THEO told guest Andrew Santino, it was scary
Speaker 1: seeing how much hate THEO god After the promo video
Speaker 1: made its rounds. THEO points out the government chair of
Speaker 1: the clip not long after Charlie Kirk was murdered, and
Speaker 1: he was therefore paranoid. Sindju Post has a transcript. They
Speaker 1: have it as Santino saying, talk about pulling that out
Speaker 1: of context. They're so good at that, dude. They just
Speaker 1: took something that had nothing to do with something else.
Speaker 1: You're making a joke and they're like, he's our spokesperson.
Speaker 1: You're like, what, I didn't sign up for that, bro.
Speaker 1: THEO then talked about being paranoid following the Charlie Kirk murder. THEO,
Speaker 1: you know, I started getting real paranoid at home. I
Speaker 1: was paranoid about the show. If there could be somebody
Speaker 1: in the audience, you know. The conversation then talks to
Speaker 1: THEO Vaughan's Netflix special taping, which sources who are there
Speaker 1: say didn't go so well. THEO said, yeah, so that
Speaker 1: was happening. And then there were just too many cooks
Speaker 1: in the kitchen on the set, and then during it,
Speaker 1: it was all kind of too much, I think to
Speaker 1: get the show off as best as I could, and
Speaker 1: I left there thinking I couldn't remember where the next
Speaker 1: joke kind of went more from that. In the upcoming
Speaker 1: day's full hour interview there and they talked about a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of things. The New York Post had a
Speaker 1: feisty story involving Leslie Jones. This took place at the
Speaker 1: SNL fiftieth anniversary celebration. Apparently there was some director that
Speaker 1: she doesn't like, Leslie told Vulture's Good One podcast. First
Speaker 1: of all, I don't like him. He comes over to me,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't like him, she says. The
Speaker 1: director said that he wanted a photo with Leslie and
Speaker 1: that Paul Rudd was going to take the picture. She says,
Speaker 1: Paul Rudd sees that I don't like him, so Paul's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying this, and the guy goes, I want to
Speaker 1: take a picture with you. I'm not taking a picture
Speaker 1: with you. You're a piece of crap. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to take a picture with you. Rud snapped the photo.
Speaker 1: Jones said, I wanted to kill him. Get your hand
Speaker 1: off me. Jones revealed that her hatred of the man,
Speaker 1: who she has described as a narcissistic penis head, that
Speaker 1: her hatred peaked after he wouldn't leave her following a
Speaker 1: long day on set back in February. On the Tore podcast,
Speaker 1: Leslie said, the guy who would direct to some SNL
Speaker 1: pieces was an fing a hole And I don't give
Speaker 1: an f If you see this, you still are probably
Speaker 1: an fing d head, an e fing narcissistic d head.
Speaker 1: He was just one of the white boys that thought
Speaker 1: he was doing Shakespeare. No, this is an effing sketch
Speaker 1: and you're not funny and you're not creating anything beautiful.
Speaker 1: You're just being an a hole with this tedious fing s.
Speaker 1: Leslie talked about being on the cast. He said, there's
Speaker 1: going to be good times, there's going to be bad times,
Speaker 1: there's going to be stressful times. It's any job now.
Speaker 1: SNL is a big stress Yes, it's mentally and physically hard.
Speaker 1: That's why you gotta be ready when you go in there,
Speaker 1: because it's a foundation, it's a machine, it's an institution.
Speaker 1: The thing I had to realize is like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be able to change SNL. Matt Wright
Speaker 1: is upset with the airlines. He posted on social media
Speaker 1: to Air Canada, F you. I hate your guts. So
Speaker 1: your website crashes and won't allow me to check in,
Speaker 1: So upon arrival to the airport, I'm told, yeah, you
Speaker 1: weren't checked in on time. We can't give you a
Speaker 1: boarding pass because of your website. Absolutely nothing stopping me
Speaker 1: from making it onto the plane, Plenty of time to
Speaker 1: make it to the gate, not even an issue. You
Speaker 1: just won't let the person who bought a ticket get
Speaker 1: their ticket because of your system. Go f yourself, never
Speaker 1: flying with y'all again, and I hope nobody does. Around
Speaker 1: three hours later, the airline replied, Hey, Matt, sorry about
Speaker 1: your experience. The issue you've encountered was not caused by
Speaker 1: our website. Please dm us and be happy to have
Speaker 1: a conversation about the issue. Apparently Matt Rife has gotten
Speaker 1: into it with the airlines before. One report says in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Matt Rife posted on X how long
Speaker 1: is too long? A rose flight attendants in my new
Speaker 1: show now. During Matt's Netflix comedy special Natural Selection, there
Speaker 1: was a lengthy segment on flight attendants who insist on
Speaker 1: enforcing the rules? Is that a bad thing? You realize
Speaker 1: we're in a middle tube five miles high? That segment
Speaker 1: was not reviewed well. A review in Cracked magazine said
Speaker 1: the most off putting segment of the specials is less
Speaker 1: bit a long time tried about a flight attendant who
Speaker 1: assisted Rife Stowe's bag under the seat. It's a long
Speaker 1: story that starts out defensive and then gets more defensive. Yeah, dude, Stull,
Speaker 1: your bag, relax, dude. Rolling Stone said Rife is a
Speaker 1: garden variety strain of American contempt, cheap, lazy, and sure
Speaker 1: to fine broad agreement. Vulture called the flight of attendant
Speaker 1: rants unfunny, saying it notably lacks the kind of humorous
Speaker 1: reframing or conscious construction that would make any of it
Speaker 1: into material if it'd given more thought to it. The
Speaker 1: realization that he comes off as an enormous a hole
Speaker 1: might have been an exciting opportunity to twist the story
Speaker 1: in new directions. At the thirty one to two Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival in Chicago today seven o'clock stand up on the
Speaker 1: Spot at Downtown and John goblecon he's at Zani's Downtown
Speaker 1: at nine point fifteen. Prince Harry I talk about him
Speaker 1: all the time on the Palace Intrigue podcast. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you heard about form MILLI. Prince Andrew boy,
Speaker 1: we've been doing bonus episods and everything. That's been keeping
Speaker 1: me busy while watching football Sunday. I think I spent
Speaker 1: about six hours writing Prince Andrew's scripts while also watching
Speaker 1: football and absolutely crushing listener Scott Beckett in the football pool.
Speaker 1: I warned him when he invited me. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm really good at this. You understand what you're bringing
Speaker 1: into your little playhouse there, and he was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're not the good I'm like, oh no, I'm very
Speaker 1: good at football picks. And now Scott Beckett has seen
Speaker 1: the light I'm happy to take his money. I digress.
Speaker 1: Hassan Minaj has a podcast. Yeah, I totally forgot this
Speaker 1: was a thing. First of all, I totally forgot that
Speaker 1: Hassan Minhaj was out there, you know, doing stuff. Apparently
Speaker 1: he's got a podcast. Boy, he would have been the
Speaker 1: host of the Daily Show. Think about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was no brainer to hire that guy to host
Speaker 1: the Daily Show. He was next anyway. Now he's got
Speaker 1: a podcast, which I have a podcast. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not that impressive. And I bet you if we add
Speaker 1: up Hassan's listeners and my listeners, we have more people
Speaker 1: paying attention to us than say, Late Night with Seth Myers,
Speaker 1: which is a thing that exists for some reason. I
Speaker 1: digress again. Prince Harry was on Hassan Minhaj's podcast. Hassan
Speaker 1: asked Prince Harry about a supposed feud between Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: and Charlie xc X, because when you have Prince Harry there,
Speaker 1: that's what you would ask him about, right, people say.
Speaker 1: Harry looked visibly confused and said he had no idea
Speaker 1: what Minhaj was talking about, which would have been my
Speaker 1: reaction as well. Columnist Roba Shutter said Harry's team didn't
Speaker 1: vet Hassan Minhaj before agreeing to the appearance. A Hollywood
Speaker 1: publicist told Shutter's website, Harry walked into this blind. His
Speaker 1: team didn't vet the host at all. Prince Harry also
Speaker 1: attempted an American accent, joking about ordering breadsticks with ranch
Speaker 1: at Applebee's, which actually sounds pretty tasty. Last week, the
Speaker 1: hockey players on the Seattle Crack End dressed up as
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler characters. They went to go see Adam Sandler's
Speaker 1: stand up comedy tour. One of the Fords and the
Speaker 1: goalkeeper when as characters from You Don't Mess with the Zohan.
Speaker 1: One of the defensemen and two Fords were the iconic
Speaker 1: white cutoff cable knit sweaters from Billy Madison. Sandler came
Speaker 1: by the crack and locker room. They presented him with
Speaker 1: a sign Jersey. Sandler posted on his Instagram account and
Speaker 1: called the outfits by the hockey players hilarious. Netflix will
Speaker 1: have that documentary about Eddie Murphy next week November twelve.
Speaker 1: The trailer's out. The whole thing is called Being Eddie.
Speaker 1: In Being Eddie, Eddie Murphy himself opens up his home
Speaker 1: and heart, reflects on a career that captivated multiple generations,
Speaker 1: and reveals the inner life that has long driven his
Speaker 1: unique ambition and charisma. I use a lot of AI.
Speaker 1: I think AI wrote that sentence. Captivate is a word
Speaker 1: that AI loves to use anyway. Featuring a star studded
Speaker 1: lineup of fellow comedians and industry peers, including Chris Rock,
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle who's just back from the Riod Comedy Festival,
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld, and Kevin Hart who also performed at the
Speaker 1: Riod Comedy Festival. Not sure if they talk about that
Speaker 1: in this documentary, Probably not, would be my guess. Being
Speaker 1: Eddie explores how Eddie Murphy navigated fame, stayed grounded, and
Speaker 1: remained at the top of his game for over four decades.
Speaker 1: The documentary is expected to explore Eddie's deep relationship with
Speaker 1: his late brother Charlie, who passed away in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: It's been that long. I remember doing an episode about that. Wow.
Speaker 1: The doc also features footage from Murphy's days on SNL,
Speaker 1: which were great. I was having a conversation with one
Speaker 1: of my students the other day, who's a big fan
Speaker 1: of SNL. Now the Eddie Murphy years or well before
Speaker 1: his time. I mean I was a teenager then, So
Speaker 1: hopefully he'll watch this and appreciate them. Now here's a premise.
Speaker 1: This thing promoting the Eddie Murphy documentary says there would
Speaker 1: be no Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, or Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler without Eddie Murphy. So do we have Eddie Murphy
Speaker 1: to blame for all these horrible, horrible movies? That's terrible.
Speaker 1: I used to like Eddie Murphy being Eddie. Netflix, November twelve.
Speaker 1: Pete Davidson and Ella Pernell have signed on to star
Speaker 1: in That Time We Met. The Time We Met follows
Speaker 1: a new couple that discovers their unborn child is destined
Speaker 1: to save the future of humanity. The only problem is
Speaker 1: they've just had their first date and now they hate
Speaker 1: each other, which sounds like it would actually be I'm
Speaker 1: not being a jokey here. That would be a good
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler role. He'd be really good at that. Pete
Speaker 1: Davidson in that role, I'll tell you right now, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be terrible. Write that down. That's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the comedy stock Market picks on Friday. Pete's not
Speaker 1: going to be good in that role. Adam Sandler, the
Speaker 1: great dramatic actor, he could nail that. And you may
Speaker 1: recall yesterday I was like, Eh, I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: about Amy Schumer's weight loss, and you've been sitting around
Speaker 1: for twenty four hours now waiting for me to talk
Speaker 1: about it. Well, I will talk about it now. Amy
Speaker 1: Schumer posted on Instagram she was wearing a black and
Speaker 1: white Valentino dress. Amy posted, I'm feeling strong and like myself.
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying how I look, But man, it's all about
Speaker 1: how you feel. So grateful to be pain free, thanks
Speaker 1: to my trainer who has helped strengthen me since my
Speaker 1: back surgery, and some sort of company that she was
Speaker 1: promoting or thinking for lifting all the endometriosis out of
Speaker 1: my body. In the photos, Amy Schumer poses around the
Speaker 1: house in a split black and white neat length dress
Speaker 1: with a plunging neckline and black pointed to pumps. In
Speaker 1: one of the photos, she also wears a silky, pale
Speaker 1: pink dress and posed in a lounge chair. You've heard
Speaker 1: me say this before. Every now and then, Amy Schumer
Speaker 1: wants us to talk about her, so okay, we will.
Speaker 1: Glad you're looking great and feeling great, and that's your
Speaker 1: comedy news for today, See tomorrow.