Speaker 1: Caalaroga, Shock Media may the I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. Are you people really sitting home Memorial
Day weekend and watching television? Netflix seems to think so.
Tonight is the premiere of season two of Tom Sigora's
Bad Thoughts six episodes I loved season one. Bad Thoughts
follows Tom Sagora as he navigates unthinkable situations and fantasies
within a cinematic world. I laughed out loud at season one.
Netflix describes the series as a collection of hilariously disturbing
stories that push boundaries of decency in ways only Tom
Sagora could imagine. Tom Sagora said, it was such a
thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and harrifi audiences
with our very own bad Thoughts on Netflix. We're all
so excited to push things further. Bad Thoughts on Netflix tonight.
Jerry Seinfeld has made the claim that without Seinfeld the show,
there would be no Friends. Jerry said this during the
New Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival. But there was
this roast of Kevin Hart and Stephen Colbreer week and
sometimes stories get to sleep for a holiday Weekend. You
know what I'm saying, Jerry said. I think NBC was
watching my show and they said, hey, this is working
pretty well. Why don't we try the same thing with
good looking people. Apparently Jerry has had this chip on
his shoulder for years. In twenty twenty two, Lisa Kudro
told The Daily Beast she ran it to Jerry Seinfeld,
who told her you're welcome. Kudro said, thank you, what
and he said, you're on after us in the summer.
You're welcome. In twenty twenty four, when promoting the movie Unfrosted,
Jerry joked about when people steal your ideas and do
whatever they want with them. Seinfeld said, you mean like Friends.
I don't know about that, Jerry. I don't know about
any of that now, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Sure, Friends was
on after Seinfeld? When was Seinfeld on between nineteen ninety
one and nineteen ninety three? It was on nine thirty
on Thursdays? What was on at nine o'clock? Cheers? So Jerry,
next time we run into Ted Danson, say thanks Jay
times as a very good boy boyd look at John
take a shot at Jerry Seinfeld, But come on, man,
lead In's work. That's why we do them. Nobody was
watching Seinfeld at first, except crazy people like me who
knew Jerry Seinfeld as a recurring comedian on the Wonderful
Late Night with David Letterman show. There were two guys
that we couldn't get enough of, Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno.
So when I heard Jerry Seinfeld was getting a sitcom,
I watched it from episode one, but nobody else did.
Show almost got canceled. So yeah, I went on after Cheers.
That's how you build a network. And then they moved
Seinfeld up to nine and they threw on a show
they believed in after I've never once watched Friends and
been like, oh, this is just Seinfeld with better looking people.
Not once. Sorry, I don't know why I'm riled up
about this. I don't even like Friends. I don't care.
The La Times has a very robust comedy section. They
wrote an article we watched everything we could at Netflix's joke.
This is what stood out. I thought this would be
very interesting to take a look at, they wrote. Considering
the amount of comedy that was dropped on La the
idea that anyone could see it all is laughable. Yet,
of course, like fools, once again, we tried try and
fly through this Shane Gillis show at the Hollywood Bowl,
Commanding a solid roster veteran comics including James McCann, Sam
Jay Ron White, Dan Soder and Jim Jefferies as a
pretty good lineup, Gillis took on the role of a
grizzled and playfully perverse football coach, hosting the night and
telling funny stories about his days as a very average
high school football player on crappy all white teams before
he blew up. In comedy, they liked Mike Ward at Dynasty, typewriter,
record breaker and a master of storytelling in French. Mike
Ward did not disappoint with his all English crossover, covering
everything from his legendary Supreme Court of Canada case to
teenage lust, dating after marriage, attempting generosity and trunk love.
Ward mentioned jokes translating from friends to English and how
that hit. But he was definitely in his element. That's great.
They went to see Jerry Seinfeld featuring Leanne Morgan Leanne,
I hope you said thanks. The Eli Times wrote, blending
the big city humor with hilarious Southern comfort. Might sound
like an odd pairing, but somehow the combo of Jerry
Seinfeld and LeAnn Morgan just works. Yes, we love a
good rant about the terrors of technology from a comedy
legend like Seinfeld, but his crotchety comedy On a Whole
Night at the Greek Theater was complimented by Morgan's ability
to add warmth and sweetness to her smack talk about
being a small town cheer mom and the world of
competitive cheerleading, which he described as the Olympics meets honey booboo.
That's great. They liked. Nate Jackson at the Laugh Factory Hollywood.
The La Time says it's a skill for comedian to
be able to sit in the pocket of a crowd's
energy and keep a room full of people laughing and
on their toes at the same time. Try doing it
for six shows back to back. In Jackson's case, that
meant delivering some third degree burns in the front several
rows of the crowd known as the roast zone. Jackson
prefaces every show the same way. Rule number one. If
I look at you and you don't want no smoke,
look away. That is the rule in the standard I
do not get people unless they lock eyes and give
me consent. As a matter of fact, this is called
a roast zone. If anyone is accidentally down there, it's
time to get the f out, because rule number two
is if I look at you and you look at me,
and I start and you don't like what I decided
to talk about, looking away, will no longer save you.
Wanda Sykes at the Adobe Theater, Politics, family, inflation, racism, wait, gain,
and greed were among the multiple topics. Kill Tony at
the Inn, to a Doom on the Panel, Harlan Williams
and Gabriel Iglesias. The Legends bucket made it sway to
the Arena in La. The polls were Ron White, Jode
de Rosa, and Tony's number one favorite comic, Tony Hinchcliff
played by Adam Ray. Oh that sounds amazing. Oh, I
got to find a clip of that. Let me see
if I can find something quick. Maybe somebody grabbed that.
I didn't know that happened. Makes some noise for Brian
redband everybody, and makes some noise for the best goddamn
band in the land. Oh my god. On the leave
a bald who's ready for the best and out of
their lives. Oh yeah, oh my god, we're really doing
it Red Band every Monday. We're doing it live. All right.
That was fun. The visual definitely helps, but boy, that's fuzzee.
I like hosting the show, and that's why I don't
read these things in advance so that I could react
like that Tony Hitchcliff played by Adam raygeow the crowd
exactly what effortless and absolute merciless veteran comedy looks like
Dave Chappelle. Now this is interesting. The La Times Rights
were not allowed to say anything about what went on
at the Dave Chappelle three show residency other than the
fact it was an evening of music and comedy per usual.
They locked up the crowd's phones to see a show,
But why aren't they allowed to say anything like couldn't
somebody as a civilian go to the show? It's been
very weird. I've seen nothing about that Chappelle three Chappelle shows. Nothing,
nothing has come out. Very strange. Hasan Minhajs versus Ronnie
Ching at the Dolby Theater. They challenged one another to
prove who's better suited to fix a broken America, Asians
or Indians, never mind that Indians or South Asians. The
two comedians got plenty of laughs backing up there absurd
arguments with flow charts, graphs, curated news clips, an ai
Bot called Nieri, and plenty of racist rhetoric that sounds
like a fun show. They broke the down the debate
in the categories Who's better at academics, business, in the economy, cuisine.
Ronnie Chang argued that Asians are better at sports. With
a list of Olympic gold medal wins over the past
three Summer Games. He won't use all of Asia, he said,
just China. The result the country had over one hundred
gold medals India had just won. Hasan Minhaj wondered aloud,
for people who love gold so much, why is it
so hard for us to win one? Sounds like a
good show. Otsgo at Coska. The La Times said her
show at the Orphium is the result of a brand
new hour she's been performing on tour and includes plenty
of jokes about dinosaurs and her love of Jamaican dancehall choreography.
I've seen the show. All that is very very funny.
If otsgoes around go see it. It's a great hour.
Before she got on stage, she got blindsided by the
appearance of two comedy titans, Margaret Show and Trevor Noah. Wow,
that's a nice bonus. Who came out to deliver punchy,
political driven opening sets that got loads of laughter and
set the tone, and she announced to her next special
will be on Netflix. In twenty twenty seven, Australian born
comedian James McCann at the Hollywood Improv Top the Bill's
Saturday Night high energy was the vibe m looking flawless,
poems and tow and dark humor, Dialed two and eleven.
He questioned LA's homeless crisis may have questioned the audience
a bit too much and tore through his thoughts on
a census overhaul, the insanity of the TV show Survivor,
the glory days of drinking, and having visions of finally
being successful enough to hire his dream team. The La
Times also hit the Two Bears five K They tell
us whether you kicked off the Magical day of athleticism
and a Downward Dog with Ari Shafir, if he went
straight for the starting line with Bert Kreischer, Thoms Agora
and jelly roll. They were stretching, pacing, sweating, and rejoicing
to be had a bunch of comics on hand. The
finish line led runners directly into the Rose Bowl, where
there were plenty of poor osos, flowing snacks, interactive games
and recovery stations, and a live taping of Two Bears,
One Cave. Sunday, May tenth, Marcelo Hernandez, they didn't really
say too much. You're gonna think I'm doing a bit here,
they wrote on Saturday Night Live, he plays a Latin
lover named Tomingo. But at the Hollywood Bowl on Mother's
Day Sunday, headliner Marcello Hernandez riffed on his real life
as a mama's boy growing up in Miami and duly
invited out his mom is Isabelle, who has met with
the standing ovation. Then they discussed the roast of Kevin Hard.
I think we've covered that enough, And then at the
Greek Theater, Flight of the Concords, looking a bit more
like silver foxes than young birds that made the timeless
chuckle inducing tunes like robots, The most beautiful girl in
the room hurt feelings in business time Land with even
more impact as the crowd enjoyed some long awaited nostalgia.
Did they forget a few of the lyrics, miss some solos,
mess up in sire songs. Sure, With a dose of
Kiwi banter and the ability to laugh at themselves, the
mistakes only made the show funnier and a reminder of
why they've missed them. You can find of that show
on YouTube. Don't tell anybody, and I want it to disappear.
I enjoyed it, all right. It's a holiday weekend. Let
me get you out of here. Let me tell you
one more thing from the BBC. Hundreds of comedians have
reportedly gone unpaid after the Lesser Comedy Festival. The festival
attracted around a hundred th spectators and featured more than
five hundred acts, including Stephen Frye, Sarah Pesco and Rosie Holt.
Organizers said performers were expected to be paid after the event,
which ran in February, but payments have been delayed because
of cash flow problems. Comedian Benjamin Alborough said he was
owed just short of two thousand British pounds. It's very frustrating.
I got bills to pay like everybody else. Between festival
registration fees and travel and accommodation and production costs AFT
to invest several hundred pounds per individual show. I want
the Lester Comedy Festival to succeed because it's a brilliant thing.
But in order to do that, everyone needs to get paid.
Artists needs to be paid money. Canadian comedian Zoe Brownstone
said she was owed around two hundred and twenty five
US dollars. I guess they did a conversion here. I've
done a few festivals, this, by a mile was the
most prepared. People donated more for tickets. Leaving the festival,
I felt great. I never felt so positive. It's astonishing
to me that a big organized festival can't pay me
at the end of the day. Michael Harris Wakelam, chief
executive of the nonprofit organization Big Difference, which runs the festival,
said it's a case of the cash flow problem. But
we're trying to communicate with the artist is this is
a case of a small delay rather than you won't
be paid. He said the organization was still waiting on
money from sponsorships, third party ticket sales and commissioned shows,
and was exploring bridge financing with banks. That is your
comedy news for today, See you tomorrow,