Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hey there, it's one of the worst days of the year.
Speaker 2: It's back to workday. I'm so glad I worked for myself.
Speaker 2: And hello, I am Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news,
Speaker 2: A daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the
Speaker 2: comedy industry, which is a sense that you would say
Speaker 2: if you are successfully seeing increases in your Spotify downloads
Speaker 2: as you're trying to goose the Spotify algorithm, that's just
Speaker 2: a pro tip there. Hopefully the comedians get back to work.
Speaker 2: It's getting a little thin out there. I've got enough
Speaker 2: for you today, especially as we catch up on New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve. Bert Kreischer's New Year's Eve special. Not sure
Speaker 2: it went too well. I've been looking for recaps, haven't
Speaker 2: seen any that were good. People on social media did
Speaker 2: not like it, and CBS had a technical snaff who
Speaker 2: they lost the broadcast of New Year's EV Live Nashville's
Speaker 2: Big Bash for twelve minutes. Again, I've been working in
Speaker 2: radio since nineteen ninety two. Twelve minutes is an eternity.
Speaker 2: If there weren't some emergency conference calls on New Year's Day,
Speaker 2: there's a meeting today I used to work with a
Speaker 2: guy named Frank. Frank would be holding a meeting this morning,
Speaker 2: going how did this happen? And how does this never
Speaker 2: happen again? So to all the Franks out there, enjoy
Speaker 2: your meeting. A twelve minute gap. So what did they do,
Speaker 2: Johnny Mack? They started running Mattlock. Can you imagine You've
Speaker 2: got this big New Year's Eve show, You're trying to
Speaker 2: take on Ryan Seacrest and it drops to the point
Speaker 2: where like you don't know what to do, so you
Speaker 2: throw on matt Lock. That is a technical disaster, and
Speaker 2: that's just you know, it's New Year's Eve, you're having
Speaker 2: a party. You're not gonna leave matt Lock on. Everyone's
Speaker 2: going to turn that off. The interruption came about fifty
Speaker 2: minutes into the five and a half hour special. I
Speaker 2: had no idea that special was that long. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: So what happened was at about eleven to fifty pm Eastern,
Speaker 2: which is exactly what you don't want this to happen.
Speaker 2: Laney Wilson was in the middle of a song when
Speaker 2: suddenly was interrupted. Shortly thereafter, a voice mentioned technical difficult.
Speaker 2: Does a network still have the live announcer in the booth,
Speaker 2: sitting there all day. They probably do just for this.
Speaker 2: So CBS cut to a string of commercials. Been there,
Speaker 2: done that. That's what you do when something goes sideways,
Speaker 2: you just clear out all the spots. Then they threw
Speaker 2: on Mattlock that appeared to start in progress. So they
Speaker 2: were probably dead rolling as the term dead rolling Mattlock
Speaker 2: in case such a thing happens. So during a live
Speaker 2: show you might run something in the background. Another reason
Speaker 2: you would do that is to keep your automation systems
Speaker 2: on time. That's my guest there. So somebody who was
Speaker 2: dead rolling Mattlock ran out of commercials or hit the
Speaker 2: panic button, was like, hey, I don't know how to
Speaker 2: get this back up. Well it's like midnight. So are
Speaker 2: you calling the CBS boss? Whoever's making this call me like,
Speaker 2: hey boss, we don't know how to get Chrysler back up.
Speaker 2: What should we do? Should we run the Mattlock tape?
Speaker 2: So somebody had to make that decision. Oh, the meeting
Speaker 2: today is going to be amazing. Can I sit in
Speaker 2: on it? Can you guys invite me to the meeting?
Speaker 2: I just want to sit in on it cause these
Speaker 2: are much more fun when You're not the one explaining
Speaker 2: what happened. You don't understand. This is a whole stress point.
Speaker 2: You know what I did on my tenth anniversary, Well,
Speaker 2: my tenth anniversary was in the middle of my week's vacation,
Speaker 2: and my boss told me I had to come into
Speaker 2: New York City to sit at my desk to monitor
Speaker 2: just in case the broadcast of Jamie Fox's show from
Speaker 2: the Democratic National Convention went down. The DNC was not
Speaker 2: was not New York City, so I had to come
Speaker 2: in to an office, sit there, blow off my wife
Speaker 2: on our tenth anniversary, and just sit there miserable till
Speaker 2: like eleven thirty at night, just in case the thing dropped.
Speaker 2: It did not drop. So I can't imagine the meeting
Speaker 2: they're having today. I want to sit in on it.
Speaker 2: After about twelve and a half minutes, Bert Krasier and
Speaker 2: Country Singer Party came back on and apologized for the interruption.
Speaker 2: Gretchen Wilson and to this stage, oh that sounds wonderfully horrible.
Speaker 2: Also on New Year's Eve, Stephen Colbert was on Anderson
Speaker 2: Cooper and Andy Code Show. Apparently their whole hey Let's
Speaker 2: get drunk on the air thing got a little little
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: This was weird.
Speaker 2: Is that really the best idea? Guys, Hey, let's get
Speaker 2: our host drunk on the Is that really the best
Speaker 2: look for CNN?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert told Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen don't trust billionaires.
Speaker 2: They don't get rich by finding that money on the
Speaker 2: side of the road. Brother, These last five months of
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert's TV show might get a little interesting. So
Speaker 2: there I was. It was New Year's Eve. I was
Speaker 2: watching the Knicks. So while watching the Knicks, I was
Speaker 2: also playing on my phone. And let me get serious here,
Speaker 2: it is nice to have friends in this world. And
Speaker 2: this has I've been thinking about this for days and
Speaker 2: it made me happy, and it made me a little sad.
Speaker 2: So normally on Wednesday nights, more often than not, you'll
Speaker 2: find me at trivia over at the brewery, unless it's
Speaker 2: volleyball season. See, my guys, We're of Beach Volleyball team,
Speaker 2: a bunch of guys. I'm like the young one and
Speaker 2: I'm fifty six. And I'll tell you the name of
Speaker 2: our team. Name of our team is We're Old, so relaxed.
Speaker 2: And now the reason it's called We're Old so relaxed.
Speaker 2: Is so when you twenty somethings show up with the
Speaker 2: spike in your facers, you go, who we playing? Oh,
Speaker 2: we're playing and we're old, so relaxed.
Speaker 1: That's weird.
Speaker 2: And then we show up when we're all in our
Speaker 2: late fifties plus and you go, oh, I'm the hell down.
Speaker 2: We're just there to have fun. It's suburban Morristown, New Jersey,
Speaker 2: volleyball relax. So that's what I do in the summer,
Speaker 2: but in the winter I go play trivia. You gonta
Speaker 2: understand Morristown, New Jersey on New Year's Eve is a zoo.
Speaker 2: And my dog better stop barking. You can hear the dog.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the noise reduction got the dog.
Speaker 1: Dog.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be serious here for a second, stop barking.
Speaker 2: You know what the dog's barking in. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: what it's barking at. As I record this, it's three
Speaker 2: oh one pm. The robovac goes out at three o'clock.
Speaker 2: Three times a week. The robovac goes around the living
Speaker 2: room to clean up the dog. Here. We do this
Speaker 2: every other day, and the dog just like girl, where
Speaker 2: was I? Normally I go to trivia, but I didn't
Speaker 2: want it to go with Morristown, so I stayed home.
Speaker 2: So I'm playing on my phone and watching the things
Speaker 2: and Jeff. Jeff is one of the quote unquote trivia guys.
Speaker 2: There's Bob and there's Jeff. They're both really cool and
Speaker 2: sometimes Johnny Max had one beer too many and argues
Speaker 2: the points on the questions and they go all right.
Speaker 2: Normally he's not a total a hole. We'll let him
Speaker 2: go on this one. I've learned over the years. Just
Speaker 2: stop arguing. You're gonna win a sticker. Calm down. Actually
Speaker 2: there was a gift certificate if you finished first. Pretty
Speaker 2: good one too. Anyway, there I am. I'm playing on
Speaker 2: my phone and I go on Facebook and I see
Speaker 2: from Jeff, who's one of the trivia guys. And Jeff, seriously, dude, bro,
Speaker 2: this meant so much to me, and this made me
Speaker 2: just made me feel loved and also guilty that I stated, boy,
Speaker 2: I wish I had been there for this. I really
Speaker 2: wish i'd been there. I'll ask the audience the question
Speaker 2: that Jeff posted, question five the topic. Shout out Johnny
Speaker 2: Mack the question and I'll answer it after the break.
Speaker 2: The Daily Comedy News podcast reported that Billboard reported that
Speaker 2: this comedian's Big Dummies World Tour was the top grossing
Speaker 2: comedy tour of twenty twenty five, grossing fifty six point
Speaker 2: seven million dollars on six hundred and seventy seven thousand
Speaker 2: tickets sold. That was a trivia question. I would have
Speaker 2: gotten that one right, although for laughs, I would have
Speaker 2: dumped that on Glenn and made him stress, and Glenn
Speaker 2: would have went, I don't know, so Jeff, Thank you
Speaker 2: so much. Jeff, one of the trivia guys. They're best
Speaker 2: men Trivia if you were. I don't know how far
Speaker 2: these guys go. They come to Morristown, New Jersey, and
Speaker 2: I know they do a bunch of things. If you draw,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm making this number up a twenty
Speaker 2: mile circle round that. Jeff might be throwing his phone
Speaker 2: across the room going, we're not going twenty miles. Or
Speaker 2: maybe it's like I'll go two hundred miles.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Ask them best men Trivia. They were on a really
Speaker 2: nice show to super Pro. I'm usually home by nine
Speaker 2: point thirty. Again, I'm fifty six years old. That's a bonus, Jeff.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for that. I'll reveal the answer
Speaker 2: after the break. Amy Schumer likes somebody talk about her,
Speaker 2: so she went on Instagram on New Year's Eve. She
Speaker 2: posted Happy New Year hashtag sensual photo. People magazine describes
Speaker 2: a picture as featuring the newly single Shumer sitting alone
Speaker 2: on a sofa in a dimly room. She wore a
Speaker 2: loose fitting T shirt underneath the black hoodie and was
Speaker 2: makeup free, with her hair and a bonytail. She also
Speaker 2: crossed her eyes and made a funny face while holding
Speaker 2: on to a container of spaghetti. Amy, why don't you
Speaker 2: take a time out from social media? That's just some
Speaker 2: free advice. Just want you chill out for I don't
Speaker 2: know a month, figure out what's going on with your divorce,
Speaker 2: get your life together, and then come out with a
Speaker 2: new special. Okay, just stay off Instagram. Just trying to help. Now,
Speaker 2: you know what today is? Today's the kickoff for Comedy Survivor.
Speaker 2: So at noon Eastern today there'll be a bonus episode
Speaker 2: explaining Comedy Survivor. The short version. Here sixteen comedians on
Speaker 2: a hypothetical island. You guys are going to vote someone off.
Speaker 2: You'll go to the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy
Speaker 2: News podcast group. I'll tell you the contestants and all
Speaker 2: that in the bonus episode out at noon today. If
Speaker 2: you're listening between seven am Eastern and noon Eastern, voting
Speaker 2: is already live. You go to the Facebook group and
Speaker 2: you could vote someone off. If you voted off Amy Schumer. Hey,
Speaker 2: that's up to you. I'm not saying as host, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't be cool for me to suggest who you vote off.
Speaker 2: That's not cool at all. I'm the omniscient toast. You know,
Speaker 2: Jeff on the Survivor shows, not trivia Jeff Jeff Probs.
Speaker 2: Jeff Probes doesn't show up and be like, you know,
Speaker 2: if you wanted to vote Boston rob off, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be the wepsete about that, like he wouldn't do. I
Speaker 2: love Boston Roup. Can I tell you how much I
Speaker 2: love Boston Roup. I love Busting Rup. Anyway, bonus episode
Speaker 2: coming out at noon today. Now over at the eight
Speaker 2: hundred Pound Gorilla. You know what they did. They sent
Speaker 2: me publicity. You know how I complained about the Hulu publicist,
Speaker 2: that the Hulu publicist will not engage with me. The
Speaker 2: eight hundred pound Gorilla people are the opposite. They're like, hey,
Speaker 2: new special and I was like, oh, what's this new special.
Speaker 2: It's a new CrowdWork special from Jen Marco Siasi. Three
Speaker 2: time guest and Friend of the Show John Marco hasn't
Speaker 2: gone all Jim Gaffigan Honus No Friend of the Show
Speaker 2: comes on his best CrowdWork moments from twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: from messed up family stories to theater kid confessions and
Speaker 2: unhinged overshares, Jen Marco successfully turns chaos into punchlines. I
Speaker 2: shared a link to that in the Facebook group which
Speaker 2: is Daily Comedy News podcast group and don't forget Comedy
Speaker 2: Survivors there And if you voted off Amy Schumer, I
Speaker 2: mean that's on you. You pick who you want to
Speaker 2: vote off. The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival announced its lineup
Speaker 2: for its sixth year as one of North America's premier
Speaker 2: destinations for live comedy. That's code for Canada. Matt Rife
Speaker 2: will headline across all six GOCF weekends Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary,
Speaker 2: Spokane and Vancouver, bringing his magnetic stage presence, razor sharp
Speaker 2: crowd work and viral appeal to outdoor venues. Throughout the summer. Comedian, actor,
Speaker 2: TV hosts and host of The Golden Globes, Nicki Glazer
Speaker 2: will headline in Halifax, closing out the weekend alongside Fortune
Speaker 2: Fimester and Steph Tolev with more twenty twenty six lineup
Speaker 2: reveals to come. So here's what we know so far.
Speaker 2: Edmonton Friday, July seventeenth, TBA, Saturday, Rife Sunday TBA. Then
Speaker 2: in Winnipeg that same weekend Friday, TBA, Saturday, TBA, Sunday
Speaker 2: Matt Rife and Friends. Okay, interesting how they're having simultaneous
Speaker 2: ones in Edmonton and Winnipeg. Halifax. You guys got to
Speaker 2: wait till August sixth, Thursday Night, Matt Rife, Friday, More
Speaker 2: Matt Rife, Saturday, TBA, Sunday, Nikki Glazer, Fortune Feaster, Steph Tolev.
Speaker 2: Then at the end of August in Calgary Friday night,
Speaker 2: August twenty eighth, Matt Rife, Saturday and Sunday TBA. Then,
Speaker 2: because that's in North America, they come all the way
Speaker 2: down south to Spokane, Washington for Friday, August twentieth, TBA,
Speaker 2: Saturday the twenty ninth, Matt Rife and Friends and on
Speaker 2: the thirtieth, TBA, Boy, TBA might be Comedian of the Year.
Speaker 2: And if you're in Vancouver or the suburbs, I don't
Speaker 2: know where you live. In Stanley Park, which is an
Speaker 2: awesome park across from Stanley Park. When I was there,
Speaker 2: it's fifteen years ago. Now there was a bike rental shop.
Speaker 2: It has to still be there. I wanted to just
Speaker 2: give up my life, move to Vancouver, buy that bike
Speaker 2: shop and just rent bikes to tourists. I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about BIC schools, or how to operate a shop,
Speaker 2: or how you move to Canada and own a business.
Speaker 2: I don't know how that works. But boy, I loved
Speaker 2: Stanley Park. And if I'm there on Sunday, August thirtieth,
Speaker 2: I'll see Matt Rife and maybe I'll rent a bike
Speaker 2: and ride past him. All right, chucking a driving today,
Speaker 2: getting a pretty decent show. Actually bounced a couple stories,
Speaker 2: which is a luxury if you're me again. Comedy Survivor
Speaker 2: begins today. They'll be a bonus episode at noon Eastern
Speaker 2: Vote one person off now through end of day Thursday.
Speaker 2: Voting will be over when I wake up on Friday.
Speaker 2: Why John, Because John wants to record these on Friday.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 1: Oh and I forgot to tell you the trivia answer
Speaker 1: when I was on a proper microphone. I'm dropping this
Speaker 1: in as part of the edit. The answer to the
Speaker 1: trivia question was, of course, Nate Burghetzi. Jim Brewer spoke
Speaker 1: to The Christian Post. I found this really interesting. I
Speaker 1: worked with Jim Brewer when he had the radio show
Speaker 1: at Series. We were there together for ten years, traveled
Speaker 1: with Jim. I'm very fond of Jim. We had a
Speaker 1: lot of real conversations, and everything I read here really
Speaker 1: is in line with what Jim is all about. So
Speaker 1: Jim tells them a story that it ran into a
Speaker 1: young woman at a camera store who had recognized Jim
Speaker 1: from Saturday Night Live and told Jim about her intention
Speaker 1: to move to la to make it big in the
Speaker 1: entertainment business. When Jim realized how excited she was just
Speaker 1: to see Jim Brewer, he began to feel a paternal
Speaker 1: instinct to protect her from the industry. That is very
Speaker 1: very Jim. As Jim told The Christian Post, all you
Speaker 1: think about is like, if this kid goes to California
Speaker 1: and she's this excited for me, I'm a nobody. I'm
Speaker 1: not a producer. If you go out to LA and
Speaker 1: you're putting yourself out that hard, these demonic monsters they
Speaker 1: see you coming. Jim said he had a forty five
Speaker 1: minute conversation with the girl and explained how predators in
Speaker 1: the entertainment business will chew her up and discard her.
Speaker 1: That is very Jim, and Jim's not wrong.
Speaker 2: I got honest with her. I talked about people I know,
Speaker 2: I got sucked up by this industry drugs. I got
Speaker 2: so honest and real with her. By the time it
Speaker 2: was over, she was like, wow, I never thought of
Speaker 2: that stuff. I went, No, nobody, does you need to
Speaker 2: know these things? So I'm telling you right now, I
Speaker 2: can tell you willing to listen to anyone, and they
Speaker 2: will take advantage of you and they will target you.
Speaker 2: Trust me, and that's exactly I Again, I know Jim
Speaker 2: pretty well. He would have slowed down and he would
Speaker 2: have said, trust me, you know what, let's get out
Speaker 2: on that one today. That's your comedy news for today.
Speaker 2: Comedy Survivor coming up at noon Eastern, and a normal
Speaker 2: episode tomorrow. See you then,