Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, they are Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. I have not yet watched this Tim
Speaker 1: Dillon thing on Netflix. As I've mentioned the past, I
Speaker 1: like Tim Dillon a lot, although I'm not sure this
Speaker 1: particular special that I haven't seen is what I want
Speaker 1: out of him. Why haven't you watch it? Johnny Mack?
Speaker 1: The Mets are in the playoffs. There was the debates
Speaker 1: Wednesday night. I played trivia, so I'm not home. I
Speaker 1: will get to it. The folks at OutKick spoke to
Speaker 1: Tim Dillon and they called Tim Dillon legendary, tap the
Speaker 1: brakes legendary. Really, I'll tell you what. Why don't you
Speaker 1: walk down the street and ask the next five hundred
Speaker 1: people you meet who Tim Dillon is. I am willing
Speaker 1: to wager you you go zero for five hundred, not
Speaker 1: even one for five hundred, zero for five hundred. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're at a college or something, you might get
Speaker 1: better numbers, but you know, go to the mall and
Speaker 1: ask some people who Tim Dillon is. Legendary? A little
Speaker 1: strong there. The La Times did see Tim Dillon and special.
Speaker 1: Let's see what they said. Apparently, the conversation with Netflix
Speaker 1: was never to do a comedy special. The conversation was,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? Netflix wanted something unique
Speaker 1: and unscripted. Tim says, initially they brought something political and
Speaker 1: I wasn't really into that. I wanted to bring back
Speaker 1: nineties trash TV. That's what we did, and it's a
Speaker 1: nineties trash TV talk show. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: i'd call it a comedy special. I mean, they're going
Speaker 1: to call it that on Netflix, because I don't think
Speaker 1: they have a term for it, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: what it is. It ends up being a better satire
Speaker 1: of America than a political special or anything like that,
Speaker 1: doing something at a convention or doing some kind of
Speaker 1: daily show ripoff. I think it ends up being a
Speaker 1: really good satire of America because they're all real people
Speaker 1: that have come to talk about things that are real
Speaker 1: cultural themes. There's no script and we basically don't know
Speaker 1: where any of it's going to me that's what makes
Speaker 1: it fun. It's not really knowing what's gonna happen. We
Speaker 1: shot a bunch of segments and we only use five
Speaker 1: because we thought they were the most interesting and the
Speaker 1: funniest and the best. That's the thing. Not knowing what's
Speaker 1: going to happen is what I like about the format.
Speaker 1: This project was about learning to be a good interview
Speaker 1: where it's learning to work with the crowd, which I
Speaker 1: know how to do from stand up, but it's learning
Speaker 1: to integrate all of those different elements into it to
Speaker 1: make it feel like it's got a flow and the
Speaker 1: crowd is to be it. The people on stage have
Speaker 1: to be into it, you hope the people watching it.
Speaker 1: Obviously you are into it. So you've got to make
Speaker 1: sure that it's not only entertaining in the room and
Speaker 1: interesting in the room, but that it's going to translate
Speaker 1: when it's on Netflix. I'm confused because everybody keeps asking
Speaker 1: if these are real people. I'm morning, if anyone's been
Speaker 1: outside in the last few years. I mean, what a
Speaker 1: lovely view of the country that you almost have. The
Speaker 1: hollerand Reporter caught on that Michael Chay is working on
Speaker 1: a late night talk show. You listen to this podcast,
Speaker 1: so you knew that because I mentioned it, because I
Speaker 1: read Late Night Er, which is where the Hollywood reporter
Speaker 1: is catching wind of all this. The working title Don't
Speaker 1: Sleep With Michael Chay. Jay says he's still sorting it out.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just got to motivate yourself to get on
Speaker 1: stage and try things, especially me, because I'll come up
Speaker 1: with an idea and that I'll get bored and it
Speaker 1: dies in my imagination. So I have no idea where
Speaker 1: this goes. But you never know. Maybe nbc'll put it
Speaker 1: on at three in the morning. Jay has stopped short
Speaker 1: of shopping the show around a lot of s's in
Speaker 1: that sentence Johnny Mack, you'd like to keep testing it
Speaker 1: with audiences, Jay explains, I always think comedy fans select
Speaker 1: what they want to see, and so ideally I just
Speaker 1: do it live for a while and listen to what
Speaker 1: the response is and find the identity of the show
Speaker 1: that way, and then have something to say, well, is
Speaker 1: this part of an SNL exit strategy? Chase says, you
Speaker 1: get moments where you love it so much that is
Speaker 1: Drasha crazy, and you want to be as far away
Speaker 1: from it as possible. Will he come back for the
Speaker 1: fifty first season? I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: SNL is turning fifty this year, and we are going
Speaker 1: to talk about it every day for the next eight months.
Speaker 1: I've updated the calendar. It's only eight months now. Jay says,
Speaker 1: I try not to think about that because I think
Speaker 1: it ruins the morale for the rest of this year.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you never know. As for the talk show,
Speaker 1: I'm having fun, but it's like any relationship that's new,
Speaker 1: you can't start talking marriage too soon. The second Gentleman,
Speaker 1: Doug m hoff enjoys macpacker Andy Samberg's portrayal of him
Speaker 1: on SNL. Doug Emmahoff was on The Jennifer Hudson Show
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, which Johnny Mack just learned to exists. Doug said,
Speaker 1: I've been watching that show my whole life, and I
Speaker 1: think somebody's playing me. First of all, it's wow, and
Speaker 1: then I got a hand it to Andy Samberg did
Speaker 1: a good job. He also likes Maya Rudolph as wife
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. Doug says, she's so good as Kamala. She
Speaker 1: did a really good job. Nate Bergatzy hosts Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live this Saturday. I don't know if you heard. It's
Speaker 1: the fiftieth season. We're going to talk about it every
Speaker 1: day for eight month. He has another gig. He has
Speaker 1: joined the advisory Board of Directors at the National Comedy Center.
Speaker 1: In a statement, Nate said, I've immersed myself in the
Speaker 1: exhibits for hours each time I've explored the National Comedy
Speaker 1: Center in Jamestown. It's the only place that truly celebrates
Speaker 1: the essence of what we do. For an artist, It's
Speaker 1: a tribute to this thing we work so hard at,
Speaker 1: and for the average visitor, it pulls back the curtain
Speaker 1: on what elevates it to being an art. The experience
Speaker 1: is just awesome. Also on the board of directors Amy Poehler,
Speaker 1: wkmal Bell, Lewis Black, Tiffany Hattish, and Jim Gaffigan, who
Speaker 1: said stand up means so much to me, so I'm
Speaker 1: happy to be welcoming my good friend Nates, who shares
Speaker 1: that feeling and who also supports the Comedy Center's work
Speaker 1: to preserve the history of our craft while showcasing the process.
Speaker 1: Seems like you all enjoyed Shane Brendan on a Saturday's
Speaker 1: episode of this podcast. That's good. I enjoyed him a lot.
Speaker 1: His new album is out either way, pretty funny, Brendan
Speaker 1: told The Portland Tribune, and I can't speak for the
Speaker 1: entirety of the comedy community, but for me personally, I
Speaker 1: have to find something funny. Comics are regular people. They
Speaker 1: go through emotions and everything else, but the comic brain
Speaker 1: never shuts off no matter how dark things get. I
Speaker 1: acknowledge the darkness and the same breath. There's an angle
Speaker 1: here in this moment of not feeling great. What makes
Speaker 1: me feel good? I'm not on the edgy and devisive side.
Speaker 1: A lot of my stuff is personal. Spoilers for that
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon a Halloween thing. The av Club had it
Speaker 1: over there. They say, you are in Jimmy Fallon's bedroom.
Speaker 1: It's a dark, dank at chili space, bathing an eerie,
Speaker 1: musty fog that laps up your ankles. You're taking your surroundings,
Speaker 1: noticing a half open picture book and shivering at the
Speaker 1: sight of the murky green glow emanating from under Jimmy's bed.
Speaker 1: Johnny Carson rolls over in his grave. You hear Fallon's
Speaker 1: voice echoing around you, but you cannot see him. This
Speaker 1: is terrifying. Jay Leno dies and rolls over in his grave.
Speaker 1: You feel the need to escape, to hide. See a
Speaker 1: high tail it into Jimmy's closet, is hung up clothes
Speaker 1: hitting you in the face as you push through, Steve
Speaker 1: Allen rolls over in his grave. The closet was a mistake.
Speaker 1: It leads to a small black ante chamber, and now
Speaker 1: you find yourself somewhere far more terrifying. You are in
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon's mind as Jack Parr rolls over in his grave.
Speaker 1: Nowbe's the premise of Tonightmares, the av Club. It's a
Speaker 1: concept so demented that it could only have come from
Speaker 1: the twisted imagination of the man who brought you all
Speaker 1: about that base performed on xylophone. I'm going to guess
Speaker 1: it came from the mind of NBZ executives who were like, Hey,
Speaker 1: we make a lot of money here at Christmas time,
Speaker 1: what can we suck the tourist in with at Halloween.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that's where it came from. And Jimmy
Speaker 1: just went, yeah, sure we could do that. But what
Speaker 1: do I know. I'm recording a podcast in the basement.
Speaker 1: I'm also aware I name checked all the Tonight Show
Speaker 1: primary hosts except Conan O'Brien didn't have a ConA joke
Speaker 1: for you, Zari. I'm a guy in a basement recording
Speaker 1: a podcast. Jimmy found Tonightmare or this is a new
Speaker 1: haunted attraction. You see up until now Rockefeller Center with
Speaker 1: its skating rink, music hall, roquettes and the Big Tree
Speaker 1: has owned Christmas. It's a logical next step to turn
Speaker 1: the complex into a destination for another major holiday, filling
Speaker 1: a Jecklin Hyde Club shaped hole in the city's Halloween market.
Speaker 1: Despite me mocking this thing, it is not the worst idea.
Speaker 1: Know that area very well. I worked across the street
Speaker 1: for quite a few years. It's not the worst idea,
Speaker 1: And the tourist kind of it sucked away like it
Speaker 1: doesn't bother the real New Yorkers. If the tourists want
Speaker 1: to go over there and do this, fine, Wow, this
Speaker 1: sounds like a big thing. Av club rights. After descending
Speaker 1: the escalator, I went through a metal detector and took
Speaker 1: note of the warning sign which cost visitors not to
Speaker 1: enter the experience if they have a medical sensitivity to
Speaker 1: strobe lights or fog through the doors spoilers. We found
Speaker 1: ourselves in a pre show room themed like a decrepit
Speaker 1: elevator loading dock. It was filled with rusty pipes and
Speaker 1: flickering lights, complete with a wall of old control switches.
Speaker 1: The vibes of Oke the loading zone of Disney World's
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Right, this doesn't sound horrible.
Speaker 1: After Jimmy set the scene, the down light lit up,
Speaker 1: the elevator doors open. We were ushered inside into a
Speaker 1: room that simulated a moving elevator. Av Club rights. I
Speaker 1: think people who like Orlando coated things in the heart
Speaker 1: of Midtown, who appreciate the immersive thrills of forty X
Speaker 1: and the Top of the Rock Beam and the stupid
Speaker 1: fun of Margaritaville Times Square, we call those tourists. We'll
Speaker 1: find this worth the cost of admission. People who want
Speaker 1: a truly haunting experience can visit the American Girl Doll
Speaker 1: Store just upstairs. Hey, it's always great to hear from
Speaker 1: you all. I'll put my contact in the show notes today.
Speaker 1: A friend of the show, Scott Beckett, and I were
Speaker 1: emailing the other day. Appreciated that, and I heard from
Speaker 1: Travis who hit me a note on the side and
Speaker 1: tell me yakof Mernoff's podcast is pretty good. So I've
Speaker 1: added that to my endless qu of things I'm never
Speaker 1: going to get to, which reminds me I have a
Speaker 1: substack and every week on Wednesday, I do podcast listening recommendations,
Speaker 1: so if you want to check that out link in
Speaker 1: the show notes. I caught up on The Simpsons the
Speaker 1: other night between the Met's playoff game and the VP debate.
Speaker 1: That was the Simpsons series finale. Very very good at times,
Speaker 1: even touching. I think they absolutely nailed it, although I'm
Speaker 1: shocked Conan O'Brien can't deliver lines a little better than
Speaker 1: he did. The Office Ladies have made it to their
Speaker 1: end of their rewatch, so were they ending the podcast? No?
Speaker 1: Jennif Fisher and Angela Kinsey will now have the podcast
Speaker 1: twice a week asterisk. As of early November, Office Ladies
Speaker 1: will have two episodes. The Wednesday episode will be called
Speaker 1: Office Ladies six point zero, a reference to the season
Speaker 1: one episode Hot Girl, when Michael Scott insults Pam by
Speaker 1: comparing her to Amy Adams character. New episodes will feature
Speaker 1: new interviews, more stories from the set, and they're patented
Speaker 1: deep dives into random topics and in depth of character studies.
Speaker 1: So what's the second episode? They're just rerunning the rewatch
Speaker 1: as somewhat of a podcast expert. Rerun episodes are lame,
Speaker 1: so why are they doing it? Because they want the inventory.
Speaker 1: I get it, but it's lame because if you've listened
Speaker 1: to the show, you're just gonna delete all those It's
Speaker 1: gonna goof you up in the charts. It's gonna make
Speaker 1: people actually unsubscribe to the show because they're gonna be like,
Speaker 1: I've heard all these I'll just download them manually and
Speaker 1: then you break the habit so bad move office, ladies.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you now. Bossom Usef is taping his
Speaker 1: at New special tomorrow. He'll be at the Wiltern in
Speaker 1: La also recording tomorrow and on the fifth at Cobbs
Speaker 1: Comedy Club in San Francisco. Irene TiO her show in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four was named one of the funniest by
Speaker 1: the La Times. I like both of those comedians a lot,
Speaker 1: but I'm on the East Coast, so I won't be
Speaker 1: at either taping, and that is you're co many news
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