Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark media.
Speaker 2: Today me a little different because of the stories. I
didn't go out of my way to do a special episode,
but there's interesting stuff out there. We'll get a little political, yeah, Shahi.
I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I was
on social media and somebody pointed out about this comedy
concert coming on September tenth. Told you about this yesterday,
New York City, still rising after twenty five years, A
nine to eleven Charities comedy benefit at Madison Square Garden.
Told you the details yesterday. John Stewart and Pete Davison
putting this together, and somebody pointed out the lineup. Okay,
you're ready as he's in. Sorry, who played the re
Odd Comedy Festival, Bill Burr who played the Reodd Comedy Festival.
Dave Chappelle who played the Reod Comedy Festival. Ronnie Chan
who played the Reodd Comedy Festival. Isn't this lineup curious?
Pete Davidson, whose father Scott Davidson was killed on nine
to eleven. Pete Davidson played the Rio Odd Comedy Festival.
Nikki Glazer, who did not play said festival. Josh Johnson
who did not play said festival and of course John Stewart,
and we're told plus special guests. But isn't that interesting?
The first three, four five names on the thing are
also played. New York City still Rising September tenth, Madison
Square Garden. It's the twenty fifth anniversary of the terrorist
attacks on New York City on September eleventh, two thousand
and one. They say, never forget. I'm now finding people
are in their mid twenties and have no memory of
this and don't feel it the same way us older
people do. I'm wondering if New York City Mayor Mumdani
will be invited, and will he come, and if he
does come, what the reaction will be. I don't want
to get too political today, but that could be an
interesting situation. Speaking of Mayor Mumdanni, and he's been in
the news all week. One of his supporters is comedian
Mary Beth Barone. She had a Netflix special earlier in
the week and she went on the Not Kidding podcast
with Mitti, his son. They made a little montage of
some of the things they talked about. Here's Mary Beth
barn How did you get involved supporting Mamdani. I felt
like this was a good person to put in front
of as many voters as possible.
Speaker 1: You slid into Zoronsda.
Speaker 2: I slid into Zoronstian. What do you think of all
the socialist wins recently. I think they had clear platforms
and they campaigned well, it's actually not that hard, I
don't think. Mary Beth Baron was also asked what she
thinks of the Democratic Party establishment and she said, I
think they should retire so they can trade stocks to
reckless abandon go out on your boats and live your
lives and your mansions. Just get out of politics because
it's ticking me off. Last week at the JFL Montreal
Just Relapsed Comedy Festival, it was the annual State of
the Industry this year, giving the State of the Industry,
where Jay Jorden and Jermarco Sirraisi. John Marco was going
to put that out on his YouTube channel. That was
happening between me recording this and you hearing this. I
assume it's actually up now if you want to go
look for it. The folks at Deadline it took some
notes while they were there in the room with them.
I'll pick away at this Jay Jorden said, we're two
of the few comedians who were skinny before Zimpeic. Sarasi said,
we're like if John Mullaney and Gerrod Carmichael. We're willing
to do this. Jorden said, we decided to take a
note from the successive heated rivalry and have one actual
queer guy and a straight guy who will play gay
as long as it advances his career. Saisi. Neither of
our teams wanted us to do this gig. I just
wish they showed the same restraint around Riod Trenmarco again.
We're both former Just for Laughs New Faces, which used
to launch comedy celebrities and now just gets you employed
by Just for Laughs. Trenmarco again. As we all know,
JFL went bankrupt and came back as a weaker version
of what it once was. It should be readamed the
Dane Cook Comedy Festival. Wow. Trenmarco again, and you could tell.
I mean, if you've listened the show, you know I
love him and these are really funny with me reading them.
Trenmarco again. Some people judge Tony Hinchcliff for opening a
Trump rally. I judge him for bombing a Trump rally.
That's like me bombing at a Tony Awards watch party. Jordan, Oh,
let me set the record straight. A lot of people
say that Tony's gay. I know Tony isn't gay because
he's not funny or interesting. They talked about Tony Hinchcliff's
new special. John Marco said, did he film the new
one in Montreal? Because it had just four laughs? That's great.
They talked about Shane Gillis. John Marco seventy six thousand
people at one show is insane. Say what you will
about his politics. Shane's done more than any Democrats to
get Ice off the streets. We could end the whole
immigration problem if he co headlined with Gabrielly Glacias. That's hilarious.
Nate Berghatzy the subject, John Marco crushing here. We gotta
watch this. I'll pull some clips. When he posted, John
Marco said, Nateperghatzy where summer now? Calling him Jeff Fox Newsworthy,
that's awesome, portrayed many fans when he appeared at the
UFC match on the White House Lawn. But that wasn't
nearly as bad as when he told his fans to
see his new movie Breadwinner in theaters. Breadwinner was so
bad people were praising Colin Joe's performance. John Marco again.
Theo Vaughn is the only comedian whose haircut is worse
than Nottscoes. Some other comedians got name checked John Marco again.
Since this State of the Industry addresses started, Elisa Dick
has released four new stand up specials. Jay said, and
at the same time, Joss Johnson has released four specials.
Explaining those specials to white people and final topic, Carlosmancia
Jay Jordens said, Carlos Smith see it was charged with
tax evasion. The irs are the only people who didn't
forget about him. Great stuff there, guys, all right? The
AV Club caught this one. It is the Comedy Fee Tracker,
a new project from comedy journalist and critic Seth Simons
using public information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
The Comedy Fee Tracker is a searchable database of talent contracts.
This is fun. Simon saw the AV Club via email
that the project began with an investigation into SNL's return
to live audiences during COVID. Five years later, he's amassed
a nice quote little library of information by requesting receipts
from public venues. Do you want to know how much
everyone makes? You? Do? And I do too? All right?
Louis c. K apparently makes anywhere between one hundred and
seventeen thousand and two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars
an hour. According to this report, Adam Devine fifty one
five hundred for an hour of comedy at the University
of Florida. His opener Adam Ray spelled r y here,
So I don't know if it's the same one pulled
in five hundred dollars for an hour. I guess that's
a different to Adam Ray. Simons writes, maybe this is naive,
but it shocked me to see that Colin Jost was
getting paid seventy thousand dollars to do an hour of
stand up at the University of Illinois, and that his
openers were getting five thousand dollars apiece. This is going
to cause a lot of trouble. This is going to
upset people. Chris de Leiah made one hundred and thirty thousand,
nine hundred and nine dollars reportedly for a two twenty
three show at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon. Now,
if you want to check this out yourself, it is
at Humorism dot xyz Humorism dot xyz. Seth Simons here,
Let's just do it, he writes. Dave Chappelle two documented
records and quotes the numbers two hundred and thirty six thousand,
two three hundred and thirty nine thousand, seven hundred and
thirty eight. Kevin Hart two documented records, twenty thousand and
two thirty four eight oh six. Jim Gaffigan, who won't
call you back if helped him early in his career,
he doesn't care. Between seventy five thousand and one hundred
and fifty four thousand, eighty dollars, according to five dot
com coumented records. Pete Davidson twenty seven thousand, five hundred two,
one hundred and twenty nine thousand, nine sixty and four
documented records, Matt Riife two records one ninety four seven
thirty five to three sixty five five ninety six. Jerry
Seinfeld one documented record from twenty twenty three, six hundred
and eighteen thousand, one hundred six dollars. Stephen Colbert one
documented record in twenty twenty one three hundred grand THEO
Vaughn two records two forty two sixty nine to two
seventy seven nine eighty five. In October twenty nineteen, John
mulaney performed at the University of Rhode Island's annual Family Weekend,
earning a fee of one hundred forty thousand dollars. A
few days later, writes Seth Simons, mulaney headlined the homecoming
show at the University of Maryland, which paid him one
hundred and seventy five one thousand dollars again humors in
dot XYZ. So if you're wondering how much your favorite
comedians make, now you.
Speaker 1: Know comedy stock Market, Thank.
Speaker 2: You, Bert Reynolds. Maybe I should do some more homework
on that comedy. How much everybody made trackery thing I
just told you about, and see who we should actually
be investig in. Apparently there's good money in Colin Joe's
all right, my recommendations this week. Last week I gave
you eight, I only have three this week. They are
Mary Beth Barone. Now I'm not digging what she's selling,
but it seems like they're trying to make her a
thing and the idea here is to find value in
the comedian. So let's buy a little bit on Mary
Beth Barone, but just a bit again, I'm not feeling it.
Let's buy some Stavrels. Halky Is why John, because of
the story I bumped from the script. It didn't actually
read you. It was gonna go before the break. But
we're getting a little log, so you'll have to listen
over the weekend to see why we're buying some Stavrels. Halkias.
The short version is he's got a new special coming out,
and I am doing a normal episode tomorrow. I had
some ideas for some deep dives, and I wasn't feeling
any of them, and I don't want to force any
of it. So Tomorrow's a normal episode. Sunday's a normal episode,
and let's buy some Jimmy Fallon. Here's why we'll segue here.
So we're buying Mary Beth Borone, buying stoppers, and buying
Jimmy Fallon. USA Today was one of several publications that
wrote a nice fluff piece about Jimmy Fallon his pr
People are getting the message out there, and USA Today
tells us Jimmy Fallon is experimenting with new formats, including
a short form micro drama series. Yeah. Remember earlier in
the week Comedy Central they had their thirtieth aniversary of
The Daily Show and they're like, hey, we're putting out
a new micro series, and Jimmy Fallon went yes, so
are we. First USA Today tells us Jimmy Fallon can't
sit still. Part of the problem is that he has
spilled salad dressing on his khaki pants more than a
few drops, a hand sized explosion. You know, salad dressing
on khaki pants is gonna look like a whole thing.
You know what I'm saying, you do. I don't have
to describe it to you. That's gonna be a problem.
We are told that, at age fifty one, Jimmy knows
he needs to be healthy, hence the salad. His lunch,
we're told, was pura vita salmon with avocado. Sleek silver
weights taunt him from the floor of his corner office
at thirty Rock. There are counterbalance to the cookies and
large bowl of popcorn on his oval table where his
Tonight Show writers meet regularly. This is quite the fluff piece. Congratulations,
pr Team Jimmy and his team have been busy. The
Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon is coming off a major
week with the World Cup and most of the stars
of the Odyssey coming. By all this, Johnny Mack will
point out why Jimmy Kimmel took the summer off. Jimmy,
nobody likes summers off more than I do. Believe me,
I took Friday off and pretape the whole weekend on Wednesday.
I feel you, Jimmy Kimmel, but you're opening the door
for Fallon to come in. And Jimmy Fallon is a survivor.
Maybe Kimmel doesn't care. Maybe Kimmel is walking away, but
I don't think so. If somebody hands you the Late
Night Crown, grab it, or Jimmy Fallon's gonna take it
from you. Back to the USA Today article, they're right.
The double whammy led to viral hits, including a retelling
of the Odyssey in sixty Seconds and Holland Versus Holland,
in which Jimmy Fallon compares the Spider Man star to
the Norwegian soccer star that pushed Jimmy Fallon to Number
one adults eighteen forty nine. Now I hadn't seen that
reported elsewhere, but I don't think USA Today would make
that up. I know it was close when I ready
the numbers from Late Night or the other day. On Monday,
Jimmy Fallon launched the show's first micro drama, one of
those ultra short, fast paced video series with one to
two minute episodes shot vertically four smartphones. Jimmy said, it
seems to be the kind of the trend, so we
wanted to spoof it as soon as we could, beating
the Daily Show to the punch. Well done, Jimmy says,
I don't even know if it's funny. I could take
a guess. We're told with Colbert's departure, Fallon feels some
responsibility to carry Late Night into the next generation. Jimmy says,
the idea of it is that just someone that you
can talk to, that's there for you, that you can
laugh and you know what's going on in pop culture
in the world. I think that's just needed. They look
back at Fallon taking over the Tonight Show from Jay
Leno back in twenty fourteen. I know in your mind
you think he took over for Conin, but no, remember
jay Leno came back. Yeah, Fallen said, I remember coming
out the first night. I wanted to explain everybody who
hadn't seen the Tonight show what it is. These are
the Roots, They're the greatest band on earth. This is
Steve Higgins, he's our announcer. We'll ban her back and forth.
I read some jokes based on what's going on in
the news, and then I go sit over there and
interview celebrities, and then we'll have a musical guest a breakdown.
Though right out of the gate, Jimmy relied less on
interviews than his predecessors, with thirty seven percent of his
show devoted to talk, compared with fifty one percent for
Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, Seth Meyers, and David Letterman and
forty eight percent for Jimmy Kimmel. As for monologues, Jimmy
spent twenty three percent of his time on comedy sketches
and fourteen percent on music. It was a recipe for
the digital age, says USA Today. In this fluff piece,
they talked about COVID. Jimmy tells the story when COVID happened,
I went home and my wife was like, so, what's
the plan. I go, I think we're off for two weeks.
She's like, huh, you're not gonna be off. You have
to get out there. You have to do the show
from your phone because everyone's going through this right now.
They need you. This is the way you do what
you do. People ask Jimmy Fallon for advice. He said,
I'm like, do it because you like it, don't do
it for the money. I'm very lucky there's money in
it for me now, but there's no money in this.
If you do it because you like it, you can
do it forever. As a guy recording a podcast in
the basement, I think those are wise words from Jimmy Fallon.
And that is your comedy News four today again a
normal episode tomorrow and Sunday and Monday, and the day
after that, the day after that. See you then,