Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. It's a quiet one. It's a Saturday after
Speaker 1: July fourth. I did do a new sweep on Friday morning,
Speaker 1: and it's a little light. So think of today like
Speaker 1: the day after Thanksgiving. Let me make you a turkey
Speaker 1: sandwich and I'll heat up some mashed potatoes in the
Speaker 1: microwave and tell you what I've got for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: you understand where I'm coming from here today? Yep. In Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: Max Tavern, the old city bar and restaurant known for
Speaker 1: its ties to it's always sunny in Philadelphia, it is
Speaker 1: closing down after fifteen years on Market Street. They posted
Speaker 1: on Instagram at the bar part owned by Rob Mack
Speaker 1: and Caitlyn Olsen, it's closing. They thank supporters. They did
Speaker 1: not give a reason for the closing. The bar. On
Speaker 1: the Instagram post said when we open this bar, our
Speaker 1: hope was to create a welcoming down to earthplace where
Speaker 1: people could gather, share stories, laugh a little too loudly,
Speaker 1: and enjoy a drink or two among friends. What we
Speaker 1: got was so much more loyal and loving community that
Speaker 1: made Max Tavern feel like home. Not just to us
Speaker 1: and the staff, but to everybody who walked through its doors.
Speaker 1: Though Max Tavern may be closing, our gratitude to you
Speaker 1: will remain open and overflowing forever. It's all kinds of interesting,
Speaker 1: especially the liquor license part, right, So what are they
Speaker 1: gonna do with that liquor license? Won't keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that one. Rob Mac making a lot of news lately,
Speaker 1: And you know it's always sunny in Philadelphia. Is coming back?
Speaker 1: Let me check the date for you, July ninth. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear a lot from these guys this week
Speaker 1: as they drum up attention for the new season. Not
Speaker 1: sure closing a bar was the best way to do it,
Speaker 1: but and then again I'm talking about it. Good news
Speaker 1: if you like Johnny Carson. They've unearthed fifty episodes that
Speaker 1: haven't been seen in decades. These will go to Johnny
Speaker 1: Carson TV, the free ad supported streaming channel that brings
Speaker 1: the total number of streaming episodes to four hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy one. These will begin to air on the Corson
Speaker 1: TV Fast channel today, with a marathon of exclusively new
Speaker 1: episodes running through Sunday and then again every Weekend in July.
Speaker 1: Guests include loose Ball, Gilda Radner, Melbrooks, and Muhammad Alli.
Speaker 1: Variety caught up with Seth Myers and said they weren't
Speaker 1: going to ask him the lorn question because he's probably
Speaker 1: sick of the lorn question. Seth said, I'm only not
Speaker 1: sick of it because I find it incredibly flattering anytime
Speaker 1: anyone asked me if I take over SNL, mostly because
Speaker 1: my first five years on SNL, I felt like I
Speaker 1: was falling into an elevator cheft. So it's a very
Speaker 1: nice question for someone who really thought they were terrible
Speaker 1: at the show. Well, Seth, do you really believe Lauren's
Speaker 1: never going to retire? Seth said, I do. I'm not
Speaker 1: being glod with that answer. He just loves it so much.
Speaker 1: If he had a hobby that was like, if I
Speaker 1: can only get the show off my schedule, I'd start fishing.
Speaker 1: But that's not Lauren. This is his first love, and
Speaker 1: nothing keeps you more young than being surrounded by young people.
Speaker 1: Lauren is smart enough to know that. I agree with
Speaker 1: Seth there. I strongly believe as you age, you need
Speaker 1: something to do in your life. I enjoy being semi retired.
Speaker 1: I don't think i'd ever stop doing anything. I'll probably
Speaker 1: host this podcast until I just physically can't. Won't that
Speaker 1: be fun? Some ninety one year old guy ranting about
Speaker 1: comedy in Adam Saylor Movies The Only Times asked Steph Toleev.
Speaker 1: Does your comedy help open the door not just for
Speaker 1: more great female comics, but comics who are female, who
Speaker 1: were out there scaring the crap out of anyone and everyone.
Speaker 1: That's a great question, Steph said. I think there are
Speaker 1: a lot of us. Maybe you haven't seen a lot
Speaker 1: of them. I don't know. If you know Jordan Jensen,
Speaker 1: she's incredible. She's out there giving it to people too.
Speaker 1: There's so many. But I feel like there's so many
Speaker 1: women like me, and they just don't have the platform
Speaker 1: to openly talk about this kind of stuff. In my
Speaker 1: meet and greet lines, it's all women being like, I
Speaker 1: like these things. I want to say these things, but
Speaker 1: it's like they've either lived a sheltered life and they
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable, or they're surrounding themselves with people who
Speaker 1: don't like when people talk like that. Nothing I say
Speaker 1: is like some weird, orpulsive thing. It's something gross we've
Speaker 1: all done we've all had a bad sex story, we've
Speaker 1: all embarrassed ourselves, we've all had really bad one night stands.
Speaker 1: I'm giving a voice to not even just women, men
Speaker 1: too maybe feel sheltered and feel like they can't be
Speaker 1: their full self. The conversation switched to the LA comedy scene.
Speaker 1: Steph Toolov said, I think the LA scene right now
Speaker 1: is amazing. All the main clubs, the bookers are women,
Speaker 1: and it's very nice to see that because they're much
Speaker 1: more inclusive with a lot more people in the lineups
Speaker 1: are way more diverse. You're seeing a lot of new
Speaker 1: people who kind of came out of nowhere that are
Speaker 1: really funny. They've been doing comedy for a long time,
Speaker 1: but now getting the opportunity to be these bigger stages.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's because I'm on a higher level,
Speaker 1: but the community feels much more inspiring and much more supportive.
Speaker 1: That's awesome to hear. I feel like when I first
Speaker 1: moved here eleven years ago, i'd go to places like
Speaker 1: the Comedy Store and I felt like people didn't want
Speaker 1: me there. But now I feel like, even when newer
Speaker 1: comics come, everyone is so much more supportive and they
Speaker 1: want to meet people, and it just feels like a community.
Speaker 1: I don't know when that happened, but it definitely feels
Speaker 1: like that right now, which is awesome. I started out
Speaker 1: here in the alt scene, which I think might be
Speaker 1: in a bit of a down swing right now because
Speaker 1: some of the bigger shows are not happening, but I
Speaker 1: think it'll swing back again. They asked Steph about hosting
Speaker 1: the Adult Video News Awards, the AVN Awards. I found
Speaker 1: myself at the av AND Awards one night. I think
Speaker 1: I've told the story on the show. We had the
Speaker 1: giggles because I don't expect you to know this, but
Speaker 1: people who know porn movies know that sometimes they have
Speaker 1: parodies based on real movies. I can't remember any actual titles,
Speaker 1: and I won't make them up here, but we had
Speaker 1: the giggles as they came out. And then also, you know,
Speaker 1: all the categories of best combination of us your imagination,
Speaker 1: we just had just the big laugh. And then they
Speaker 1: gave us a gift. And I got back to the
Speaker 1: hotel room and opened up the gift and it was
Speaker 1: a glass thing several inches long. Here's your imagination, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do I do with this? And I'm
Speaker 1: not bringing this home. I'm not bringing this on the plane.
Speaker 1: So I just left it in a hotel room and
Speaker 1: I guess the maid wonder what happened with that. Steph said,
Speaker 1: my buddy was actually one of the writers. Every year
Speaker 1: they asked a different comedian and they just put my
Speaker 1: name for it, and that was it. I got it.
Speaker 1: And I will say that was one of the coolest
Speaker 1: experiences I've ever done in the porn industry. No matter
Speaker 1: what you think about it, those people are so genuinely nice.
Speaker 1: I will agree with that from my experience at the
Speaker 1: av AND Awards, and they were so supportive, Like for
Speaker 1: every award, people were getting up and clapping. One of
Speaker 1: the girls I hosted with her parents were there, Like
Speaker 1: these Midwestern parents were so happy their daughter was there.
Speaker 1: Like you're seeing stuff on screen, you're seeing the clips
Speaker 1: that they're showing you what she's nominated for, You're seeing
Speaker 1: stuff and they were like, ooh, great show, and what
Speaker 1: a great award show. And I was like, what the heck.
Speaker 1: It was really nice to see parents being supportive and
Speaker 1: I got flashed a lot. Jeff Ross talked about out
Speaker 1: working with Milton Burl. Burl passed away in two thousand
Speaker 1: and two, so the stories get some dust done it.
Speaker 1: Jeff Frost hold at Howard Stern. Milton had giant hands,
Speaker 1: and every time I got a laugh from behind the podium,
Speaker 1: he'd poke me in the ribs and I would jump.
Speaker 1: And then I kept going and I'm hitting pretty consistently
Speaker 1: getting good laughs, and finally he's just interrupting me. I'm
Speaker 1: killing and he's interrupting me. Finally I go, Milton, didn't
Speaker 1: I see you in an antique shop this morning for
Speaker 1: a hundred bucks. Milton gets up and starts doing a
Speaker 1: two man show, and I'm trying to keep up with him.
Speaker 1: Buddy Hackey yells out, hey, Milton, let the kid work,
Speaker 1: remember when you used to. Milton runs down, kisses Buddy
Speaker 1: Hacket on the lips. The place explodes, and I go, oh,
Speaker 1: there it is Milton and Buddy over eighty years of
Speaker 1: homosexual experience, and the place goes wild, and I felt
Speaker 1: like I'd found my Yankee Stadium moment. I went back
Speaker 1: to the Friar's Club afterward. I said to Buddy Hackett,
Speaker 1: why would Milton do that? And he goes he doesn't
Speaker 1: like when other people get a lot of laughs. He
Speaker 1: was trying to trip you up. Ross decided to speak
Speaker 1: to Milton himself and said, I went and had a
Speaker 1: cigar with him, and I said, Milton, why would he
Speaker 1: poke me like that? Milton said, remember they only remember
Speaker 1: the home runs. It means I had too many jokes
Speaker 1: and had to edit down just the home runs. And
Speaker 1: even though he was trying to interrupt me and mess
Speaker 1: me up a little bit, I was like, that's really
Speaker 1: good advice. Milton and I went on to become very
Speaker 1: good friends. I think he was testing me. Kathy Griffin.
Speaker 1: You know, Kathy, do I ever come on to hear
Speaker 1: and tell you a story about Kathy Griffin that's like, Hey,
Speaker 1: Kathy Griffin had an awesome day and impetted a pony
Speaker 1: and said life is great. She's one of these comedians
Speaker 1: that we talk about on the show that this just
Speaker 1: always strife. Well, Kathy Griffin reveals why she turned down
Speaker 1: hosting the View. She said, I'm gonna be honest, I
Speaker 1: had to turn it down because at the time, between
Speaker 1: doing my life on the D List and touring, I
Speaker 1: was making about ten million dollars a year. She tried
Speaker 1: to negotiate with the View. The money the View had
Speaker 1: wasn't enough to uproot her life to another coast, she said.
Speaker 1: She told Barbara Walters, I'm gonna be honest. This is
Speaker 1: how much money I made last year. I'll show you
Speaker 1: my tax returns. I don't want you to think I'm
Speaker 1: blowing smoke. But between moving costs and I'm so entwined
Speaker 1: with my mom and dad, I have a house in
Speaker 1: LA just isn't feasible for me to do. But I
Speaker 1: want you to hear it directly from me, that all
Speaker 1: sounds perfectly reasonable. Apparently Barbara Walters did not like that
Speaker 1: one bit. She didn't care up their offered by a penny.
Speaker 1: I think I might have said something like can you
Speaker 1: meet me halfway? And they didn't. But that's the real story,
Speaker 1: that all seems fair. Joe Quasala is the writer and
Speaker 1: star of a mockumentary called American Comic. It follows two
Speaker 1: stand ups as they try to navigate the modern comedy world.
Speaker 1: Joe said, every time he watches a movie or TV
Speaker 1: show that incorporates stand up that doesn't look like a
Speaker 1: comedy club, audiences in a room that size wouldn't sound
Speaker 1: like that that wouldn't get a laugh. So when Joe
Speaker 1: made his own project, he said he tried to reverse
Speaker 1: engineer it. By analyzing what doesn't work. It would hopefully
Speaker 1: become clear what to avoid and I could forge my
Speaker 1: path to success. I thought about my main problems with
Speaker 1: depictions of stand up comedy and landed on three areas,
Speaker 1: the setting, the audience reactions, and the material. When one
Speaker 1: of those doesn't come across correctly, it all goes south.
Speaker 1: So I had to nail all three. Among comedians, there
Speaker 1: might be varying opinions on the ideal setting for a
Speaker 1: stand up show, but most will agree that intimacy is key.
Speaker 1: That means close quarters, low ceilings, the audience's proximity of
Speaker 1: the stage and to each other. A lot of comedy
Speaker 1: clubs are designed with these qualities in mind. And that
Speaker 1: is your comedy news for two. I hope you're enjoying
Speaker 1: the holiday weekend. It's very very nice weather here in
Speaker 1: the Northeast, and hopefully everybody has an awesome three day weekend.
Speaker 1: I've got stuff for tomorrow and I'll see then.