Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. I'll do the Hinchcliff stuff in the
Speaker 1: second half of the podcast to give us all a break.
Speaker 1: Let me just take a minute here, let's just catch
Speaker 1: our breath. I had to work a little bit hard
Speaker 1: to put a show together today because if you google
Speaker 1: comedy comedian, it's all the same topic. And I really
Speaker 1: covered that on Wednesday show. If you want to go
Speaker 1: there tomorrow on the podcast No Politics, No Tony Hinchcliff,
Speaker 1: I can guarantee that because I've already recorded Friday so
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. I have learned over the years of
Speaker 1: doing this that sometimes it's good to record one in
Speaker 1: advance because life gets on the way. Fridays tend to
Speaker 1: be a day where I can do that sort of
Speaker 1: thing because it's album released day and they're just predictable events.
Speaker 1: On Fridays. I did find some time to watch some
Speaker 1: comedy specials. I watched both Tom Poppa's Home Free and
Speaker 1: Seth Meyers Dad Man Walking, both of which I have
Speaker 1: trouble remembering the titles of. For Papa, I love the
Speaker 1: beginning about parenting. Tom and I are both fifty five
Speaker 1: years old. His youngest daughter recently went off to college
Speaker 1: mine too, so I was in the zone there and
Speaker 1: everything he was saying was clicking with me. Then there
Speaker 1: were diminishing returns as the hour went on. It's a nice,
Speaker 1: solid special, you know, nothing amazing about it. A lot
Speaker 1: of Jim Gaffigan vibes, like a lot like if I
Speaker 1: don't know, if you read me the transcript and told
Speaker 1: me was Jim Gaffigan's new Special, I would be like, yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: it is a lot. I can't understate this, a lot
Speaker 1: of Gaffigan vibes. I thought Seth Special is actually a
Speaker 1: better version of Papa Special, both talking about being dads.
Speaker 1: But I did like Seth Special a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Both have made my end of the Year list, but
Speaker 1: those two will be the top two in Tier two.
Speaker 1: So I've kind of got fifteen that are really good,
Speaker 1: and then there's a gap to the things that deserve
Speaker 1: to make the list but aren't as strong as those
Speaker 1: first fifteen so far, and we have a lot of
Speaker 1: specials coming for the rest of the year. Seth told
Speaker 1: the Last Laugh podcast he was very on the fence
Speaker 1: about making the title of his new specially corny pun
Speaker 1: Seth said, I was very hesitance but dad or father
Speaker 1: in the title, but director Neil Brennan made the point
Speaker 1: that it would amount to false advertising without it. Seth said,
Speaker 1: it was nice to depart from what we do every
Speaker 1: night at the TV show, and talking about my family
Speaker 1: puts me in a better mood than talking about politics.
Speaker 1: Tom Papa spoke to the La Times. They were curious
Speaker 1: about how he works relatively clean. There are two s
Speaker 1: bombs in the new special, and Papa said it was
Speaker 1: never a conscious thing that I think about at all.
Speaker 1: The best comedy has to be true to who you
Speaker 1: are and no matter what, and honestly, I don't really
Speaker 1: speak that way in my real life. Set a throat
Speaker 1: into my act would seemed forced and weird. Now. In
Speaker 1: the early nineties, when I was a younger, up and
Speaker 1: coming comedian in New York City, I did think I
Speaker 1: had to be dirty and edgy to keep up with
Speaker 1: those other guys during that time, but even the audience
Speaker 1: could sell that it just didn't fit. My personality. Wasn't
Speaker 1: who I was, and they got that vibe. They were
Speaker 1: looking at me with weird looks. I just figured, hey,
Speaker 1: there's so much vulgarity in society. My act should be
Speaker 1: something of a higher quality than some kids. I heard
Speaker 1: cursing up a storm in the playground in New York City.
Speaker 1: People laugh. Well, I think I do well with it.
Speaker 1: It's me just being who I am. I've always been
Speaker 1: attracted to talking about personal things. Family life are the
Speaker 1: bigger questions of just being a human being. I do
Speaker 1: discuss politics a little bit in my life, but I
Speaker 1: feel like in comedy there are lots of other comics
Speaker 1: out there who are more skilled of that approach, and
Speaker 1: I'd rather watch those guys who were great do that
Speaker 1: and be great at my own style. John mulaney hosts
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live this week. That should be good in
Speaker 1: Malanie's usually really good episodes, and you know the thing
Speaker 1: is happening on Tuesday, so there's plenty need to talk about.
Speaker 1: Stavros Hacki has put out that movie last Friday. I
Speaker 1: thought there'd be a lot more buzz and press from Stavros,
Speaker 1: but not so much. He did speak to Iconverse icon
Speaker 1: and shared that we got cable kind of late, like
Speaker 1: in my teen years. We got Dish Network because they
Speaker 1: had Greek channels. Initially we weren't allowed cable, but as
Speaker 1: soon as my dad found out he had Greek TV
Speaker 1: on it, that's when we got it. That's when we
Speaker 1: got Comedy Central, and at the time, Comedy Central pretty
Speaker 1: much replayed Comedy Central half hour specials. In SNL, he says,
Speaker 1: even as a baby, I would sing songs, put on
Speaker 1: my little plays, and make my family watch. My parents
Speaker 1: bought me a little taper, was a little speaking spelled
Speaker 1: type thing. Bizarrely, I would spend hours talking into it.
Speaker 1: It's funny to think back on now, but I was
Speaker 1: essentially recording a podcast, which is insane. So I guess
Speaker 1: even as little kids, we know were destined for. But
Speaker 1: that's really what it was. I've been doing stand up
Speaker 1: since freshman year in college. It did in an open
Speaker 1: mic in the basement of my dorms. I've been pretty
Speaker 1: much doing stand up since I was nineteen. It wasn't
Speaker 1: thought out. Then you wake up one day to realize
Speaker 1: you're a thirty five year old man with no other abilities.
Speaker 1: You have to try and pivot to movies and turn
Speaker 1: to acting to flesh out your career. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: as simple as I loved it growing up, and I
Speaker 1: had the chance to do it, and I did it.
Speaker 1: That's the origin story. It's not even crazy. I didn't
Speaker 1: want a job when I was nineteen and I just
Speaker 1: did stand up instead. Hey, the Jets are on Thursday
Speaker 1: night football tonight, isn't that exciting? Last week, after the
Speaker 1: Rams played the Vikings, Amazon brought Nikki glazerback. Remember her
Speaker 1: first appearance was terrible. I didn't see her last week,
Speaker 1: but awful Announcing said it was better. She had a
Speaker 1: few jokes about Ram's backup quarterback, the very handsome Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: Laser said, Jimmy did throw a single pass, but he's
Speaker 1: definitely brought me to completion. And yeah, maybe Jimmy's gonna
Speaker 1: ride that bench for the rest of his career, but
Speaker 1: I want to be that bench. Tig Nataro is working
Speaker 1: out materials. She's doing a residency at the Comedy Bar
Speaker 1: in Toronto. She says she's grateful for the welcoming crowds,
Speaker 1: which she refers to as the Canadian way. It's good
Speaker 1: to see everybody understands what a comedian working out material is.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon told Howard Stern a story about visiting Belushi's
Speaker 1: grieve Howard was curious what he said to Belushi. Fallon said,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's between me and John. As Fallon tells
Speaker 1: the story, he cracked a beer and sat beside Belushi's
Speaker 1: headstone and struck up a conversation with him in the
Speaker 1: dead night and says I might go back and have
Speaker 1: another one. It was great, one sided. But you know,
Speaker 1: Andy Richter told Cinnamon Blend he was at a diner
Speaker 1: a couple years ago. It was a Sunday morning and
Speaker 1: a very popular restaurant in Burbank. There was one seat
Speaker 1: left at the counter and I sat down. I turned
Speaker 1: to my right and there was Jay Leno eating breakfast.
Speaker 1: You may recall the whole Leno Conan rivalry. Andy said,
Speaker 1: it was like, I guess we're gonna chat now, And
Speaker 1: it was fine. You know, all that show is rivalry
Speaker 1: is like high school rivalry. Once you're pasted it, it's
Speaker 1: not that important. Jim Brewer spoke to the Jackson County Sentinel.
Speaker 1: Can you tell a deep dive to not talk about
Speaker 1: Hinchcliffe in the first half? Yeah, it wasn't much out
Speaker 1: there today, Jim said, there are always things that can
Speaker 1: become an obstacle to our happiness, and the big three
Speaker 1: for me that I smack into most or divisions in
Speaker 1: the family, financial struggles, and health issues. For me, there's
Speaker 1: no better feeling in the world and making someone laugh
Speaker 1: and know that I've inspired or healed someone. It's nice
Speaker 1: when people tell me I'm funny, but the ones that
Speaker 1: keep me going are the ones that go up to
Speaker 1: me and say, can I just tell you I just
Speaker 1: lost my mom and you healed me. It's the first
Speaker 1: time I've laughed in ages. We're not here for very long.
Speaker 1: We're all stuck here together. Everybody needs to be laughing,
Speaker 1: be uplifted. We're here to take care of each other.
Speaker 1: I'm on a mission to lift you and the only
Speaker 1: way I know how. Late Night Or asked Jordan Klepper
Speaker 1: about John Stewart's involvement on the non Monday daily shows.
Speaker 1: Klepper said, John is hands off. He's here on Monday
Speaker 1: and we're in the morning meeting. But John has a
Speaker 1: vision for his show and then he's hands off. We're
Speaker 1: all hands off for the other people weeks. So when
Speaker 1: you come in for your week, it's your week, and
Speaker 1: you're using the other correspondence and the rest of the
Speaker 1: news team to be part of that week. That's sort
Speaker 1: of how we see it as well. We try to
Speaker 1: be part of the other host weeks so that we're
Speaker 1: part of the show as well. Sometimes we're in joke
Speaker 1: meetings in the morning to give our two cents to
Speaker 1: find something fun. I'll send Dezzy articles, she'll send me
Speaker 1: articles or people or stories. So we're making the show
Speaker 1: collectively in that sense. But it's hands off when it's
Speaker 1: not your week. The show's complicated enough. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of work when you're hosting that you kind of don't
Speaker 1: have time to be overly democratic with a bunch of
Speaker 1: outside ideas. You're like, all right, it's my show. We're
Speaker 1: gonna all work together on this. Let's go. Terry Garr
Speaker 1: passed away Tuesday at age seventy nine. Terry known for
Speaker 1: many fantastic things in her career, including appearances on David
Speaker 1: Letterman's programs. Letterman's YouTube channel posted a clip from April first,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, and a short but sweet message saying,
Speaker 1: remembering one of our all time favorite guests, Terry Garr,
Speaker 1: the rest of the show is Hinchcliff and politics. Mark
Speaker 1: Norman tweeted ironically Tony Hinchcliff could use a good pr person.
Speaker 1: Mary Well crafted Lewis J. Gomez said comedians piling on
Speaker 1: a Tony should be ashamed. We make jokes, that's what
Speaker 1: we do. And also most of the comics talking crap
Speaker 1: are terrible comedians who don't actually work. If you do
Speaker 1: take a look. With the exception of Michael ian Black
Speaker 1: and Mark Marin, most of the comedians commenting are less famous.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden said, I'd like to take that guy out
Speaker 1: for a swim there anyway. Robert Smigel tweeted from the
Speaker 1: Triumph accounts he signed it off RS, so I won't
Speaker 1: do the half ass trime from pression. Smigel wrote, the
Speaker 1: sick thing about the crude comments by the Trump rally
Speaker 1: speakers is the clear contempt they have for his supporters.
Speaker 1: Every one of those comments bombed with the audience, But
Speaker 1: Team Trump thinks they're all dumb, racist and women haters.
Speaker 1: The deplorables were the ones on stage. The character Triumph
Speaker 1: hit the Trump rally the other day. He was chanting
Speaker 1: with some supporters. Triumph said, this is nothing like a
Speaker 1: Nazi rally. The Nazis were in shape. First of all,
Speaker 1: they took care of themselves. I'm like this guy over here. Seriously,
Speaker 1: when I look at you, it makes me think that
Speaker 1: grocery s Aren's expenses enough. I need some water. I
Speaker 1: can't get down to the gravelly part to do a
Speaker 1: half ass triumph. It's quarter ass triumph today. On the
Speaker 1: topic of abortion, quarter ass Triumph said, what would you
Speaker 1: say about people worried about losing that right? Aside from
Speaker 1: what is it like to have six? Steven Gobert said,
Speaker 1: the Hinchcliff joke somehow broke through the noise, and as
Speaker 1: a master political satirist myself, I'm completely jealous because what
Speaker 1: we do here is jokes all the time, and it
Speaker 1: changes nothing. What was the difference to making here the target? Okay,
Speaker 1: then tell me which country is to crap on. I'll
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, Australia, You're the garbage island. Anything anyone?
Speaker 1: Gobert continued, here's a little pro tip when you're running
Speaker 1: for president, try not to October surprise yourself. Ronnie Chang said,
Speaker 1: it's still crazy to me that a joke from Trump's
Speaker 1: warm up guy seems to be having more of an
Speaker 1: impact than Trump's actual terrible record on Puerto Rico. I
Speaker 1: mean his administration block Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane relief.
Speaker 1: Then Trump went down there and tossed paper towels another crowd,
Speaker 1: I guessed, to help them soak up the hurricane. And
Speaker 1: to top it off, Trump tried to trade Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: for Greenland. I mean he'd rather have a frozen wasteland
Speaker 1: than a tropical paradise full of brown people with good music.
Speaker 1: What a stupid idea. No one in Greenland can play shortstop.
Speaker 1: Fantastic joke there, Ronnie fantastic Jane continued, of course Trump's
Speaker 1: not a Nazi. Okay, they all famously served in the military.
Speaker 1: Also a great joke, and one more from Ronnie was
Speaker 1: crushing it. You may have seen Trump claim to be
Speaker 1: the opposite of a Nazi. Ronnie said, what exactly is
Speaker 1: the opposite of a Nazi? Is it the guy who
Speaker 1: started Jade eight because they're trying to make more Jews?
Speaker 1: Or is it the guy who is like the reverse
Speaker 1: mustache like everything else but not that part good stuff.
Speaker 1: There no politics, no hingecliffs Tomorrow, that's your comedy needs
Speaker 1: for today. See you here,