Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Say there, I'm Shohnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news Keegan Michael Key. He's in the macpack.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. At the end of this story,
Speaker 1: he says that although Key and Peel were once an
Speaker 1: iconic duo, they don't see each other that often anymore.
Speaker 1: Keigan said, we lived together for a few months. We
Speaker 1: would write and talk about comedy, who we liked and
Speaker 1: why we liked them, and how that worked in the
Speaker 1: architecture of what we were trying to build comedically. When
Speaker 1: we were on camera, it was alchemy. It was just like,
Speaker 1: why is this working. It's been almost a decade now
Speaker 1: since that show ended, and we don't see each other
Speaker 1: that often anymore, which is to me a tragedy. Peel
Speaker 1: lives in la Key lives in New York. Our evolution,
Speaker 1: I think is tied to both of what our desires are.
Speaker 1: His desire was to start exploring the horror genre. My
Speaker 1: desire was to do more dramatic work like had been
Speaker 1: trained in school. After Kean Peel, both of us jumped
Speaker 1: to another platform, but we needed that first platform. He
Speaker 1: talks about in the early seasons, I was playing the
Speaker 1: clown more and doing more physical comedy in the beginning
Speaker 1: of our time together, and then I find myself into
Speaker 1: playing more of the straight roles and teeing up Jordan
Speaker 1: to play the clown. I got to work with those guys.
Speaker 1: A few times. I've mentioned I helped put together a
Speaker 1: Comedy Central radio for series XM, so I was in
Speaker 1: the room with them several times. Here's the reason why
Speaker 1: I love Keegan. Michael Key and Jordan Peele totally cool,
Speaker 1: but I love Keegan for this. So it's my last
Speaker 1: day at Sirius. We're at the super Bowl radio row
Speaker 1: and I've called in every favor. I have to get
Speaker 1: Comedy Central to give me really good guests for the
Speaker 1: super Bowl because it's serious. The super Bowl is a
Speaker 1: big deal. So we've got the cast of the work
Speaker 1: Alkoholics here, and we've got Key and Peel there, probably
Speaker 1: five minutes too early. Again, it was my last day.
Speaker 1: I had been let go, but I'm a professional, so
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll stay on and finish the super
Speaker 1: Bowl broadcast. I called in the favors. I'm a pro,
Speaker 1: I will produce the show, and I did so. Now,
Speaker 1: about two months later, they were on the cover of
Speaker 1: Newsweek is like comedy's hottest thing. So on this Super
Speaker 1: Bowl day, one of the bosses just didn't get it
Speaker 1: and got all excited that Jamie was there and the
Speaker 1: Cardinal of New York was there, and decided we were
Speaker 1: going to put the Cardinal and Jamie fox On together,
Speaker 1: which took away the set that I was going to
Speaker 1: use for Key and Peel. So the engineers put together
Speaker 1: I called it the kiddie table with like a snack
Speaker 1: table and the leftover equipment and stuck Key and Peel
Speaker 1: in the corner. And I'm just apologizing to those guys,
Speaker 1: and Jordan's cool with it, and Keegan looks me out
Speaker 1: and he goes, dude, I see what's going on. I
Speaker 1: get it. It's all good. And I will always appreciate
Speaker 1: that guy for reading the room and seeing that I'm
Speaker 1: trying and it ain't me. So Keegan, Michael Keay, I
Speaker 1: love you. Mark Maren talked about watching Robert de Niro
Speaker 1: film the First Joker movie. Maren on his podcast said,
Speaker 1: I did that one scene with de Niro and Joker,
Speaker 1: and I was literally watching him because I was on
Speaker 1: the set all week and he's playing that talk show host.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know his lines and they're doing it over
Speaker 1: and over again. It was totally demystifying de Niro to
Speaker 1: me because I've watched him my whole life. Obviously he's
Speaker 1: a great actor, but they understand something. People live their
Speaker 1: lives on cameraon be doing it that long. Because I'm
Speaker 1: watching it, I'm like, this is a disaster. How they
Speaker 1: got cut this together? He knew was gonna be cut
Speaker 1: up alright, He's been on set so many times. I
Speaker 1: was just gonna do it and do it, do it,
Speaker 1: and they'll find one. Sam Morrell talked about his time
Speaker 1: on The Joker. He told Howard Stern, I think they
Speaker 1: expected me to suck, so I was kind of pumped.
Speaker 1: I'm in my trailer and director Todd Phillips is going
Speaker 1: over with me and I was like, it says I'm
Speaker 1: an open micro this. Do you want me to be
Speaker 1: crappy like an open micer? And he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you're doing any jokes. Sam said, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna bomb my stuff. I'm gonna kill Joker too. Out
Speaker 1: on October fourth, do you like Saturday Night Live? Well, good,
Speaker 1: because we are going to talk about Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: every single day for the next nine months. Did you
Speaker 1: hear SNL's turning fifty? Michael Chase says, as the writing
Speaker 1: staff grows and as the cast grows, SNL's like an
Speaker 1: apartment building, not a house. We all live together, but
Speaker 1: we don't really live together. A cold open could go down.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, I don't like it one bit, but
Speaker 1: it's not my voice and it's not up to me.
Speaker 1: I can't agree with everything political we've had on the show,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure this stuff I've written that's made some
Speaker 1: castmates bristle or some writers go, what are we putting on?
Speaker 1: We can't say that, but we have to live with
Speaker 1: each other. We're rid digging the space and trying to
Speaker 1: get this real estate for our ideas. So there's no
Speaker 1: one mission statement. I don't believe beyond Funny's funny maybe
Speaker 1: Lauren idea of what he wants the identity to be.
Speaker 1: As I always say, as Corny s it sounds at SNL,
Speaker 1: we're not the A students. We're the kids in the
Speaker 1: back of the class learning spitballs with the teacher. But
Speaker 1: I think the audience might feel like comedy is going
Speaker 1: to tell them the truth because they don't trust politicians anymore.
Speaker 1: They don't trust news even and so they're very protective
Speaker 1: of it, and they feel like if you say something
Speaker 1: against the side, it's almost traitorism. It's almost trees. It
Speaker 1: as to make fun of Biden or the left when
Speaker 1: Trump is running, and I get that feeling. But as
Speaker 1: time goes by and we face more disasters and crisis,
Speaker 1: we'll understand that this was all a ridiculous time. Sarah
Speaker 1: Simmerman spoke to Saint Louis NPR. She said, I think
Speaker 1: the one consistent thing with me is I've always kind
Speaker 1: of tackled the darkest reaches of humanity. That kind of
Speaker 1: started with speaking at my dad's funeral and eulogizing him
Speaker 1: and realizing there was a lot of funny stuff in it.
Speaker 1: I've always felt that all comics become funny and developed
Speaker 1: their sense of humor as a means of surviving childhood.
Speaker 1: I would say one hundred percent of comics become funny
Speaker 1: that way. So it's been a survival skill for us
Speaker 1: since we were kids, and so it's very natural to
Speaker 1: me that processing death, especially big ones like this, feels
Speaker 1: very natural to process it through stand up. I think
Speaker 1: the two things that helped me grow as a person
Speaker 1: our therapy and stand up. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: comedians have really feared getting well because they feel like
Speaker 1: their comedy comes from not figuring out their stuff. For me,
Speaker 1: I disagree. I'd rather be happy because I think we
Speaker 1: lived just one time on this rock and outer space,
Speaker 1: and it's crazy not to figure out your joy, but
Speaker 1: to be able to utilize it and use it in poignant,
Speaker 1: ridiculous and silly ways. That really works for me. Chris
Speaker 1: Rocks Everybody Still Hates Chris premieres today ten pm East
Speaker 1: and West on Comedy Central. Not sure why they made this,
Speaker 1: but Everybody Still Hates Chris features Chris Rock as adult
Speaker 1: Chris narrating stories inspired by his experience growing up as
Speaker 1: a skinny nerd and bedsty I like this one from
Speaker 1: Josh Gadd speaking to people. He says he wishes he
Speaker 1: hadn't used his regular voice to voice all Off in Frozen.
Speaker 1: Josh Gadd said, if I could do it all over again,
Speaker 1: I would have not lent that snowman my voice, so
Speaker 1: I would have created a different voice because it's very
Speaker 1: weird being in a supermarket and having a little child
Speaker 1: stare at him. So that was my first big mistake.
Speaker 1: But you know, if people tell me I have a
Speaker 1: very unique voice, people seem to like my voice. I
Speaker 1: try to give it to them when I can. I
Speaker 1: saw Josh he was in the Book of more And
Speaker 1: when it first premiered million years ago, he crushed in that.
Speaker 1: Oh what a good show if you've never seen the
Speaker 1: Book of Mormon. Apparently they're making more Frozens, he told
Speaker 1: Kelly and Mark. All of a sudden, my phone's blowing up.
Speaker 1: People are like, I'm so excited about Frozen three and
Speaker 1: Frozen four, and I said, so am. I I had
Speaker 1: no idea. Nobody thought to call us up and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, we're doing two sequels to your movie.
Speaker 1: Bubba shared this one on the Facebook group, which is
Speaker 1: daily comedy news podcast group. At the Norman Rockwell Museum
Speaker 1: an exhibition called What Me Worry The Art and Humor
Speaker 1: of Mad Magazine. It's the Norman Rockwell until October twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: The exhibition explores the unforgettable art and satire of Mad
Speaker 1: from its beginning ens in nineteen fifty two. I'm scrolling
Speaker 1: down here on NRM dot org. They've got some of
Speaker 1: the cover arts, some of the old Mad fold ins.
Speaker 1: Remember those. There's an online symposium on Friday October eighteenth
Speaker 1: from six to eight and again on Saturday, October nineteenth,
Speaker 1: called the Usual Gang of Idiots and other suspects. Mad
Speaker 1: Magazine and American Humor join us for this lively exploration
Speaker 1: of the art and history of man. That's cool NRM
Speaker 1: dot org if you want to check that out. The
Speaker 1: museum is in Stockbridge, Massachusetts if you're up that way.
Speaker 1: Open Thursdays through Tuesdays ten to five. They have an
Speaker 1: app as well, closed Wednesdays. Guys wait to schedule the article.
Speaker 1: John Adam Connover spoke to Variety. I think there's some
Speaker 1: spin here. Conover till Variety. A lot of people know
Speaker 1: me as an informational comedian, right, I do comedy about
Speaker 1: important topics. They don't know me as a stand up comedian.
Speaker 1: And stand up comedy is my first love. So I
Speaker 1: want to do a straight stand up show. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to do information. I didn't want to do Here's
Speaker 1: how you can change the world. I just want to
Speaker 1: do jokes about myself, about my life. It's personal story.
Speaker 1: What's the spin? John Well? He brought the quote to
Speaker 1: very personal special to drop out, to be able to
Speaker 1: care about every single detail and have it come out
Speaker 1: on this incredible platform where people are going to watch
Speaker 1: it and give a hoot about it. That's very rare
Speaker 1: to be able to do as a comedian now. So
Speaker 1: not a it's very special up on YouTube for free
Speaker 1: and hope that people watch or do it on a
Speaker 1: big streamer and hope their algorithm is going to show
Speaker 1: it to people. Yes, I mean the algorithm on Netflix.
Speaker 1: If you don't want Netflix money, that's fine, But you
Speaker 1: know Netflix, every Tuesday they put a big, giant special
Speaker 1: in front of everybody's face. It's not really the algorithm,
Speaker 1: but okay. Adam says the specials called unmedicated not because
Speaker 1: I'm against prescription treatments for add but simply because they
Speaker 1: never worked for me and they caused me problems. I
Speaker 1: felt addicted to them for a while and they caused
Speaker 1: me to have other addictions as well. And I turned
Speaker 1: out fine, but other people maybe not. Bo When Yang
Speaker 1: said he was obsessed with Gray's anatomy growing up and
Speaker 1: he was going to pursue medicine, he realized later that
Speaker 1: his interests had to do more with Sandra Oh than
Speaker 1: with healing the sick, but it was a convenient way
Speaker 1: to satisfy his parents. He tilled The New Yorker. I
Speaker 1: think I did the drag of saying, well, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: be a doctor. He then got into improv. Improv was
Speaker 1: my only wait point for a billion. We were all
Speaker 1: fifteen year olds performing with beer drinking thirty year olds.
Speaker 1: Maya Rudolph says, when you've seen his funny, tend to
Speaker 1: be pigeonholed as the wacky best friend because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of meat in that role. You think that's where
Speaker 1: the fun is. He wants to be the straight guy,
Speaker 1: but you're never the straight guy, and that's all you
Speaker 1: ever want to be. I remember at SNL sitting in
Speaker 1: Lauren's office saying I want to play the wife sometimes.
Speaker 1: Why can't be the girlfriend? He was like, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be the girlfriend, you want to be the
Speaker 1: crazy German art dealer neighbor Kevin neil In told the
Speaker 1: Union his biggest influence was Chevy Chase. It's been thirty
Speaker 1: years since I've been on SNL. It's hard to believe
Speaker 1: so things are different. Back then, I was portraying more
Speaker 1: of a newscaster like a dry delivery. And for the
Speaker 1: last fifteen years or so, people are more being themselves.
Speaker 1: They're like comedians commentating on things and smiling and laughing
Speaker 1: about it, unlike newscasters. But things are changing. Newscasters on
Speaker 1: CNN or Fox News of personalities that are more entertaining.
Speaker 1: I'd probably fall more into that category with the snide
Speaker 1: comments more myself. As for SNL's fiftieth they told me
Speaker 1: to save the date. It's almost overwhelming. At the fortieth
Speaker 1: after where I looked at it was like Madame Tussau's
Speaker 1: wax Museum of Hollywood. Eddie Murphy was there and Prince
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. It was crazy. I'm so grateful for the
Speaker 1: career I've had and continue to have, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, The highlight of my career was really early
Speaker 1: when I did the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. That
Speaker 1: was the only game in town for talk shows that
Speaker 1: validated he as a stand up. After the Tonight Show,
Speaker 1: I've never felt such a natural high. Tim Meadows also
Speaker 1: from SNL Third Straight SNL are here. Yeah, I line
Speaker 1: these up on purpose. He'll still we are in the
Speaker 1: CBS Comedy Pilot DMV, a single camera comedy pilot set
Speaker 1: at the place everyone dreads going most, the DMV. I'd
Speaker 1: put it second. I'd rather go to the DMV than
Speaker 1: the dentist our quirky and lovable characters and making minimum
Speaker 1: wage doing a thankless job where customers are annoyed before
Speaker 1: they even walk in the door. Good thing they have
Speaker 1: each other. Tim Meadows plays Greg, a former high school
Speaker 1: English teacher. Greg is the examiner who likes to get
Speaker 1: through the driving tests and the day as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: Greg is sardonic, defeated, and would love nothing more than
Speaker 1: to retire. Zarna Garg is getting a CBS comedy Zarna.
Speaker 1: Garg will play Zarna. The ship was also called Zarna.
Speaker 1: In Zarna, Zarna plays Zarna, a proun immigrant woman who's
Speaker 1: been raising her American born kids on Indian values, but
Speaker 1: now that they're getting older, it's time for Zarna to
Speaker 1: focus on her own American dream. And that is your
Speaker 1: comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell
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Speaker 1: that's the thing you could do. And I'll see tomorrow