Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Mark Maren continues to be super interesting
Speaker 1: on his podcast On Monday, he had Tim Highdecker on
Speaker 1: I coincidentally had listened to it on Monday, enjoyed it
Speaker 1: very much, and the media is picking up on the
Speaker 1: discussion of Joe Rogan's podcast. Tim Hideker told Mark Maron
Speaker 1: there's something annoying about his show Rogan that you can't
Speaker 1: put your finger on. A few years back, he did
Speaker 1: a wonderful parody of Rogan's show. I actually just downloaded
Speaker 1: it again to re listen to it. Let me find
Speaker 1: it for you. It's episode one eighty four of Tim
Speaker 1: Hideker's Office Hours Live. If you've never heard it, check
Speaker 1: it out. It's unbelievable. It's so on point, and Hideker
Speaker 1: said we put our finger on it, you know, and said,
Speaker 1: this is what's annoying about it. It wasn't even political.
Speaker 1: It's just like how boring it is and how going
Speaker 1: in circles you end up going. Arren said that Rogan
Speaker 1: and friends spend the show skirting around an issue that
Speaker 1: you don't understand with information that you don't understand. Either,
Speaker 1: Maren continued, the authoritarian hardware, to say, administration and the
Speaker 1: fascist cultural apparatus through the Christians. They're making policy built
Speaker 1: on the back of this anti woke thing. All these
Speaker 1: comics who were like it was really about language and
Speaker 1: their own victimization that they saw, which wasn't real. They're
Speaker 1: tethered to political policies. They're really killing people and damaging
Speaker 1: lives and infringing on the freedom of people and the rights.
Speaker 1: I'm working on my half, asked Maren a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know I don't have it at all, not that
Speaker 1: I have any of the half ass impressions, but Maren
Speaker 1: seems to speak in five word chunks, and the last
Speaker 1: word of a downbeat he tends to stretch out. For example,
Speaker 1: I'll just do that last phrase again, the freedom of
Speaker 1: people and their rights anyway, Mark Maron said, Joe's kind
Speaker 1: of changing as too now. But the thing is he
Speaker 1: did what he did. How convenient. Howard Stern wants us
Speaker 1: to talk about him, so we will. He was supposed
Speaker 1: to come back from vacation on Tuesday and tell everybody
Speaker 1: what was going on, and he didn't show up for work.
Speaker 1: Who knows now, To be fair, I'm recording this at
Speaker 1: nine in the morning on Tuesday. I never record at
Speaker 1: nine in the morning, but I had to take care
Speaker 1: of some stuff on Tuesday afternoons. I recorded way early
Speaker 1: in the day, So who knows. Howard may have said
Speaker 1: something later in the day or as I'm recording this.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the President announced or not. At
Speaker 1: two pm. You might be like John, you're not talking
Speaker 1: about the thing. That's why. Anyway, Howard was supposed to
Speaker 1: be back on Tuesday morning. They had even ran promos
Speaker 1: during the summer promising the big reveal today. Well, Howard
Speaker 1: didn't come. Howard's social media accounts posted on early Tuesday
Speaker 1: that Howard Stern will now speak Monday, September eighth, encouraging
Speaker 1: listeners to stay tuned. I could all kinds of speculate here,
Speaker 1: but I suspect the news cycle will change quickly, So
Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you that's what happened. The
Speaker 1: Daily Mail caught up with former Stern intern Steve Grillo,
Speaker 1: who had predicted for the announcement that didn't happen yesterday.
Speaker 1: Comes September second. I think it's just going to be
Speaker 1: everybody tuning in and then I think they're going to
Speaker 1: get disappointed and tuned right back out, unless he decides
Speaker 1: to put on a leather jacket and a pair of
Speaker 1: black jeans and then come back and was like I'm
Speaker 1: back baby, which I highly doubt he's going to do
Speaker 1: because it's two for and in between. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's going to come back and be that awesome rock
Speaker 1: star that everybody listened to every day. Instead, Grillo calls
Speaker 1: the promo's lame and says it's such a sad, pathetic
Speaker 1: version of what happened to this man. I think if
Speaker 1: old Howard Stern could go and jump in the time machine,
Speaker 1: he would punch him right in the face. Now I
Speaker 1: don't know about the violence part of that, but I
Speaker 1: have said that in the past that nineteen eighty five
Speaker 1: Howard Stern would destroy twenty twenty five Howard Stern and
Speaker 1: hate everything that old man Howard Stern became, Grillo told
Speaker 1: the Daily Mail. Now he's trying to develop an audience
Speaker 1: again through this entire awful hoax campaign of did he
Speaker 1: get fired? Did he not get fired? He's going to
Speaker 1: come on announce that there's five more years of creative
Speaker 1: BS that is going to be able to do. But
Speaker 1: that's already been in place. His contract is up. I
Speaker 1: guess probably January from my reliable source. That's been part
Speaker 1: of his contract since day one or the last time.
Speaker 1: They'reknew to his contract that when he came to this point,
Speaker 1: he had an option of five years of freedom to
Speaker 1: do what he wants and still have his name on
Speaker 1: the door. It's serious interesting. My prediction continues to be
Speaker 1: a end of December announcement of a two year farewell tour.
Speaker 1: We'll see some more SNL rumors. And again, I recorded
Speaker 1: early in the day, so by the time you're hearing this,
Speaker 1: maybe there's been eighteen more cast departures. Who knows well
Speaker 1: you do, or maybe you don't. Maybe that's why you
Speaker 1: listen to me. I don't like recording this early, but
Speaker 1: I had to. TMZ reporting SNL is looking at Cam Patterson,
Speaker 1: who you may know as a regular on Kill Tony.
Speaker 1: Cam Patterson possible new cast member. Boy, there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of comedy snobs on comedy threads that already hate
Speaker 1: SNL and hate Kill Tony. If we combine those two things,
Speaker 1: those people are going to lose their minds. TMZ points out.
Speaker 1: Cam Patterson has nearly six hundred thousand followers on Instagram.
Speaker 1: He's part of the recent Netflix version of Killed Tony
Speaker 1: and was okay. Speaking of SNL, beck Bennett and Kyle
Speaker 1: Mooney have a new podcast. They're out there trying to
Speaker 1: make some noise. Vulture caught up with them and Beck
Speaker 1: Benn said, we shared addressing room for seven years, in
Speaker 1: an office for eight years, so just hanging out in
Speaker 1: the office and doing bits and making each other laugh
Speaker 1: was a very creative, natural process, and we missed that
Speaker 1: now as a podcast executive, I see some red flags here.
Speaker 1: Kyle Mooney said. I think we were psyched about the
Speaker 1: premise that we don't know what we're doing and we're
Speaker 1: going to explore how to become better podcasters. Beck Bennett said,
Speaker 1: were talssing around ideas and we didn't really have anything.
Speaker 1: We were like, we could start a podcast, but why
Speaker 1: would we be starting a podcast. Kyle had the idea
Speaker 1: where we start a podcast trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: our podcast was, and I guess would come on and
Speaker 1: give us an idea. Okay, major red flag. You know
Speaker 1: what this is telling me? This to me is screaming
Speaker 1: that they don't have much going on, and they saw
Speaker 1: that Carve and Spade have an SNL podcast. They are
Speaker 1: like twenty years younger. So we'll do our own version
Speaker 1: of that. And podcasting is easy and we'll make a
Speaker 1: ton of money and we'll book our friends. And anytime
Speaker 1: hosts come in and be like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: we want to do, that never works out, never well.
Speaker 1: Tray asked what podcast you listen to? Kyle said, I
Speaker 1: listened to The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Prints. Beck
Speaker 1: Bennett said I listened to SmartLess, Hollywood Handbook, dough Boys, WTF,
Speaker 1: Las Culturistas, and Office Hours Vulture. In your second episode,
Speaker 1: Mark Marin said he had a hard time telling when
Speaker 1: you are or aren't doing a bit Kyle. It's something
Speaker 1: we've encountered pretty consistently with every guest. No one has
Speaker 1: heard the podcast, and nobody knows what to expect when
Speaker 1: they come in the room, Kyle. We pitched the podcast
Speaker 1: to a handful of places, and Headgum was incredibly receptive
Speaker 1: in an awesome way. One of the cool things about
Speaker 1: the concept of developing it with them is we don't
Speaker 1: know the best way to present all these things, So
Speaker 1: there was a development process of how do we break
Speaker 1: this down. What portion of the show is a podcast
Speaker 1: within a podcast with guest pitches? What portion is the interview?
Speaker 1: Do you want to do an interview? How much of
Speaker 1: it has just beckon me? So there's this constant conservation
Speaker 1: of what this thing is, and they were really essential
Speaker 1: in the process of making it an actual podcast that
Speaker 1: seemingly is ready to be consumed. Yikes. Well, to be fair,
Speaker 1: they're off to a good start. What's Our Podcast with
Speaker 1: Beck Bennett Kyle Mooney is number one ten on the
Speaker 1: All Podcast charts and number fourteen on Comedy overall. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Bill Burra said he plans to attend the
Speaker 1: ninetieth edition of The Bowl when Alabama visits Auburn on
Speaker 1: November twenty ninth. Burst said, I've picked out the college
Speaker 1: football game that I'm going to go to this year.
Speaker 1: I got the green light from my wife because this
Speaker 1: was the hard one. It's Auburn, Alabama and Auburn. It's
Speaker 1: a Saturday after Thanksgiving. Oh but it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good game, just for laughs. Announced their dates for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. I'm not sure in the past they've announced
Speaker 1: it this early. Now it was always really consistent in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks of July, but kind of nice
Speaker 1: to see it. So as they've announced it, the festival
Speaker 1: will be held in both Quebec City and Montreal simultaneously
Speaker 1: from July fifteenth through the twenty sixth in Montreal and
Speaker 1: Quebec City July twenty second to August second. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: Just guessing more of the French stuff will be in
Speaker 1: Quebec City would be my guest there. John Mulaney's got
Speaker 1: a book club, remember that. Yeah, he in the middle
Speaker 1: of the holiday weekend dropped on threads. I saw it.
Speaker 1: Weird time to make an announcement, but anyway, this month's pick,
Speaker 1: according to John Mlanieu's pan by Michael klune Alani said,
Speaker 1: this book is wild as a panic attack. Veteran reading
Speaker 1: this novel was a funny, surreal b so totally familiar experience.
Speaker 1: Panic has a spiritual experience. Panic has a gift from
Speaker 1: the gods. I had never read anything by Cloon before,
Speaker 1: and I intend to dive into it all now. Some
Speaker 1: reviews describe the setting of this book as a dreary suburb,
Speaker 1: but Libertyville, Illinois is a fascinating place home to several
Speaker 1: of my cousins, as well as Tom Morello. All right,
Speaker 1: that's John Mulaney's a pick. Add John Clees to the
Speaker 1: list of people that when I mention them on the show,
Speaker 1: I'm never like John Klee said, it was a beautiful
Speaker 1: day and I pet a puppy and isn't everything great
Speaker 1: in the world. He's always fighting. Klees is mad at
Speaker 1: the BBC and said, if you put a script in
Speaker 1: now it has to go through a bleeping committee. You
Speaker 1: have no idea what they're doing. There's been nothing funny
Speaker 1: since the office. It's sad, and it's because the people
Speaker 1: in charge of no idea how to make comedy happen.
Speaker 1: The whole process has been replaced by a bureaucratic process
Speaker 1: which does not begin to work. He said of British comedy,
Speaker 1: we used to be really good at it and now
Speaker 1: we're not, and that's very sad. There weren't committees when
Speaker 1: we started. Comedy now has to be clean. You must
Speaker 1: not play for lass. So I'm going to write a
Speaker 1: book about writing comedy and make people are aware how difficult
Speaker 1: it is. The people organizing comedy have never been very good,
Speaker 1: but at the moment of particularly the BBC. They are clueless.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a lack of talent except among
Speaker 1: the executive classes. Those classes have no idea what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Cleaes is working on a sequel to the twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: adaptation of Faulty Towers. Faulty Towers, Too, will be inspired
Speaker 1: by three episodes from the TV version, which include The Psychiatrist,
Speaker 1: where Basil Faulty accidentally groups a hotel guests appressed while
Speaker 1: reaching for a light switch, and also from the Kipper
Speaker 1: and the Corpse, where the hotel staff tried to hide
Speaker 1: a dead body. No word on what happened with the
Speaker 1: TV sequel of Faulty Towers. I haven't heard anything about that. Now,
Speaker 1: let's check in on the worst person who ever lived,
Speaker 1: Jay Leno. Listen to the nerve of this guy. He
Speaker 1: was trying to get the California Assembly Appropriations Committee to
Speaker 1: prove something called Leno's Law. Leno's Law would have given
Speaker 1: classic car owners like Jay Leno a pass from smog requirements. However,
Speaker 1: on Friday into the holiday weekend, the Assembly Appropriations Committee
Speaker 1: blot ba Field Republican Senator Shannon Grove Senate Bill seven
Speaker 1: point two from advancing for a full vote. Jay Leno,
Speaker 1: the nerve of that guy, had testified the support of
Speaker 1: the measure in Sacramento earlier in the year. Assembly Member
Speaker 1: Buffy Wicks did not a great name. Buffy, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: it did not provide a reason for killing the bill.
Speaker 1: During Friday's hearing, which quickly announced the fate of two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty other bills that have been placed on
Speaker 1: the committee so called suspense file, Buffy Wicks was asked
Speaker 1: by reporters, why did you kill Jay Leno's law? Buffy
Speaker 1: Wicks told the reporters, I'll have to go back and look.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what what what do you mean? You
Speaker 1: can't remember now? When Jay Leno testified the nerve of
Speaker 1: this guy, he said, with a modern cards, plug and
Speaker 1: get your money, boom, get out. It's very quick to
Speaker 1: get a smock check with a modern car. It's not
Speaker 1: impossible in an older car, but it's tricky, takes time,
Speaker 1: and often causes charges four or five six times more
Speaker 1: than a regular car. Leno said, classic car owners struggled
Speaker 1: to even find a shop with the equipment needed to
Speaker 1: test them. The nerve of that guy, that's your comedy
Speaker 1: News for two. I actually wrote a substack mcktpod dot
Speaker 1: substack dot com link in the show notes about how
Speaker 1: I've become obsessed with jay Leto. I will tell you
Speaker 1: right now. I've got a jay Leto story in the scripts.
Speaker 1: I think all the way through Sunday already, I am
Speaker 1: obsessed with possibly the worst person who ever lived? Is
Speaker 1: he you tomorrow?