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Speaker 2: From Poolside with a cicadasm Johnny Mack with Your Daily
Comedy News. Ricky Gervais did an interview with BBC two.
He doubled down on his long held defensive free speech.
Ricky said, I don't tell people not to be offended.
I tell them I don't care if they are be offended.
If you want it makes it funnier for me. You
can't help by what you're offended by, but don't expect
me to care. It's a myth that I go out
to offend. I never go out to offend. I just
know that it's probably gonna happen because everyone's different. There's
nothing you can say, particularly anything that's mildly interesting or
contentious at your viewpoint, that somebody's somewhere won't find offensive.
And times have changed. Twenty years ago, if someone said
I was offended by that, I probably would go why
Now I go, I know you are everyone is, that's funny.
Ricky said, I've dealt with it too much. Actually, I
think the last couple of tours I've dealt with cancel
culture and free speech because I felt like I had to.
Now I don't have to I'm ignoring it all. I
shouldn't even bring it into the room. Those people there
have paid hundreds of pounds. They're not offended. I can
play a million people, not one complaint. As soon as
it goes on Netflix, fifty million people. Of course it's
gonna be someone who doesn't like it. What am I
gonna do? It's too late, I've been paid. I love
how brigage just doesn't care. I finished my rewatch of
The Office UK again. There's only fourteen episodes. It goes
pretty quick, it is. It's better than the American version.
You know, they're different. You're comparing one hundred something episodes
to fourteen. But the David Brent character is so cringe,
Like like Steve Krell's Michael Scott, they quickly softened and
you know, you could see yourself actually hanging out with
Michael Scott. But the David Brent character is so cringe.
There were times where I was talking back to the
TV like, oh my goodness, like it's it's unbelievable. If
you haven't watched The UK Office in a while, it's
on Hulu, go back and watch it. Especially. You know,
if I say The Office, you picture Michael Jim and Pam.
But go back to the original. It's really good. I
do have to scold the audience today. May now, maybe
not you particular listener who I'm in your ears right
now because you are smart, but just in general, I
have to scold everybody. What are you people doing? Netflix
released the top comedy specials for the first half of
twenty twenty six. These are the ones that are the
most watched. Now. The top special for people with brains
was Kat Williams the last Report that got eleven point
three million views. So good job there, But that's not
why I'm here to scold you. You know what's number two?
Marcelo Hernandez American Boy. You're watching Marcelo Hernandez attempt to
do stand up comedy. He does one thing. Marcelo Hernandez
American Boy premiere January seventh, and got nine point two
million views. Now, hopefully I'll give you the benefit of
doubt here. Netflix might count anything is few. Hopefully. What
they accounted here was he watched four seconds of it
and went, oh my god, this is unbelievably unfunny, and
he had stopped and they were like, nope, that's a view. Hopefully,
that's what happened. Hopefully you listen to this podcast and
you're like, how unfunny could Marcelo Hernandez be this guy?
Johnny Mack goes on and on about it. I got
to see how unfunny this is, and you watched three
seconds of it, you were like, oh, yeah, Johnny Mack
is right, this is horribly unfunny.
Speaker 3: You have to dance or you have to find a
new family. That's the rule. I had to dance ever
since I was a kid. I had to dance. That's
how I had to enter my house. If people came
to my house, my mom would be like, Marcello, and
I'm six years old and I have to leave my
room like this, and I'm like, Mommy, I don't want
to dance, and my mom is like yeah, and I
didn't want to escape Cuba, so dance, okay.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that's like. I'm sorry, and I
would think that I'm doing a good job, and then
out of nowhere, my mom would be like, no, Marcello,
not like that. Do what I taught you.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, mommy, please.
Speaker 4: Don't make me get nasty.
Speaker 2: So it's got to be that right, like, you watched
like that much and you're like, oh my god, this
is not funny at all. I have to hit stop
on this. But Netflix was like, nope, gotcha, that's a play,
all right. So I apologize, listener, I see what happened there.
You sampled it because you couldn't believe how horrible it was,
and then you watched it and you're like, Johnny mac
is right, Okay. I apologize. I shouldn't have taken a
shot at you. Sorry about that. I'm very sensitive about
these things. I'm here to promote good comedy. We'll be
hearing a lot about Marcelo Hernandez in the next few
weeks because he's part of the Kevin Hart movie Want's
That Thing Out Again? Seventy two hours is out July
twenty fourth, that's two days from now. To save his career,
a forty year old executive, Kevin Hart is playing a
forty year old dude. Just own it. You look good, Kevin,
but you're forty seven. You're not forty. Like I'm fifty six.
I'm gonna be fifty seven. I'm not fifty. I wish
I was fifty. I wish I were forty. I like
to pretend I'm young, but I'm not forty. You're not forty.
I'm not fifty, You're not forty. To save his career,
a forty year old played by a forty seven year
old Kevin Hart joins a crew of twenty somethings for
a wild Miami bachelor party after they mistakenly add him
to a group chat. Marcelo Hernandez, one of those wild
Miami twenty year olds. The dude is good looking. I
just feel like the illuminati decided, you know what, let's
make Marcello Hernandez a star, and they're not gonna stop now.
While I was looking that up, I saw that Netflix
is saying that Kevin Hart's Funny af got forty one
point eight million views in its first season. That is
a great number. Mike EPP's special Delusional third six point
six million views. I thought Dylan and the Facebook group
was the only person who watched that one. Ricky gervais
Is late twenty twenty five hour Mortality has pulled six
point four million views since the beginning of the year.
Dave Chappelle's The Unstoppable four point eight million. Again, that
was left over from December. Lest do you think Chappelle
had a bad number. He topped the chart for July
to December of twenty twenty five with fourteen million views.
This is funny. Okay, I'm gonna specifically call out one
of the listeners to the show. You know who you are.
You just texted me right now and you are listening
to your take on Sunday's Pot about Marcello or Hernandez Savage.
I am writing you back. We are time traveling and
I'm writing him back saying I'm killing Marcelo right now.
And just read your text on the show. Hilarious. Okay,
So for all the people I scolded, not you, sir,
you know who you are. I'm not gonna say it
is private text. You're reading the private text on the
air anyway, John, I know. Wait, and the same person
is saying I'm wrong about my take about reclining on airplanes. No,
I'm not. There's no reason to recline. The seat is
perfectly fine. You recline now. I have about half an
inch from my laptop, which forces me to recline, and
now we're all reclining. They need to disable that button
and everyone just sit comfortably. It's fine. What they need
to do is improve the headrests. Never mind the reclining nonsense.
All right, so this guy's one for two. He's right
about marcell Ernan as he's wrong about reclining. I, of
course am right about everything. Stephen right back in the spotlight.
Stephen right now seventy years old, which makes sense because
he's been around since the eighties and forty years went by.
None of us are getting any younger. Stephen Wright was
on Howie Mendel's podcast, Howie Mendel Does Stuff. Stephen talked
about his writing process. He says, I go on the
road and write more stuff. I don't think things like
that's what I should do. I've never had a plan
about it. It all just happened. Tim Dillon has some
thoughts about politics. Let's listen.
Speaker 1: They're in the White House. They have the Congress, they
have the Senate, they have the Supreme Court. It is them.
It is now them. I don't want to hear about
the deep state anymore. You're playing me for a fool.
You're playing everyone for a fool. I'm sick of hearing
about this deep state. All of these people. You have
to be one of the stupidest people in the world
to fall for this at this point, this is you
are peddling the dumbest most like by the way, I
hate to use this word, but cringe. It's literally cringe.
Speaker 2: You watch this and you go I feel so.
Speaker 1: Disgusted by the fact that they think people are still
gonna believe this.
Speaker 2: Send your letters to Tim Dillon. Ryan Hamilton was on
WRIF Radio with a very DJ sounding DJ. The DJ
asked Ryan about the comparisons to Jerry Seinfeld, and I
think if you listen to this clip, you'll hear it
in Ryan Hamilton's speech pattern. It's not at all an
absurd notion. It's definitely there in the speech pattern of
Ryan Hamilton here on WRIF radio.
Speaker 4: I've been compared to him my whole career. I think
maybe people here in my voice a little bit his
tenor and a little bit of my natural rhythm, yeah,
the way I talk. So I've been compared to him
my whole career really in a way. But starting out, no,
I was trying to be It's interesting you find your path.
I mean, I grew up with his show. I revered him,
I watched the show, I saw his lifestyle in New
York and his comedic mind. I always but I was
trying to be in the very beginning more absurdist one
liner like Mitch Hedberg was a really heavy influence to me.
I would watch him when I first started on Letterman,
and he was one of the first live shows that
I ever saw, Mitch Hedberg, and I just thought, I
love the way his mind thinks. And I was trying
to be that because when you first start, you don't
know what you're doing, and you experiment with something and
it's almost like your essence and your voice is decided
for you. You don't really decide it as much. So I
started there and eventually I became in this place where
I am and I'm always evolving.
Speaker 2: Kelsey Cook getting a Netflix special. It's called Happy Hour.
It'll be out Tuesday, August eighteenth. In Happy Hour, Kelsey
Cook explores anxiety, relives a plain bathroom nightmare, and breaks
down dating and a literal chad filmed at the Fitzgerald
Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with Eric Abrams directing. Cook's
most recent special, Mark Your Territory, was released on both
Hulu and YouTube and made the top fifteen most stream
specials for twenty twenty five. That special has been streamed
over one point six million times on YouTube. As for
the Hula number, asked the Hulu publicist in Montreal tonight,
it is New Faces. Now. I usually go, and I
kinda I feel guilty that I'm not going this year.
When they first announced festival, I reached out to the people.
I was like, oh, I gotta go, and they're like, yeah,
I get back to us a little closer, and then
it got a little close, and I was like, I
don't know, I don't feel like going, and I don't
know why I don't feel like going this year. I
just don't feel like going. I haven't looked at the
list yet. We will do that together right now. Deadline
has spotlighted Englishman Read Richardson, who made their list of
the Comics to keep an Eye on in twenty twenty six,
and Mario Adriann, a German American comic spotlighted in their
Comedy Means Business newsletter. Since its inception in nineteen ninety four,
New Faces has been regarded as premier launch pad. It
has launched the careers of people like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer,
who loves when we talk about her, Colin Joe Stali Wong,
Gerrod Carmichael, Jack Whitehall, of course, friend of the show,
John Marco Siasi. Nick Berzo is the VP of Programming
and Talent, and he said this year's performers are sharp, original,
and hilarious, I hope, so we're proud to offer this platform.
Blah blah blah. Okay, new faces stand ups. These are
new faces, so don't be surprised if neither you nor
I know the names yet. Ainsley Baily, Aylon Ellion, Andrew Packer,
Carolina Montesquie, Chris Renoir, Christine Mariani, David Drake, Elijah Nevills,
Ellie Orlando, Elouise f Dos. She's been around, Estebund Gast,
Fiona Couley, Freddie Chanell, Gary Simons, Gus Tate, Hannah Veldowen Hassan,
Phil's Helen Bauer, Jack Hirshfield, Jackson Banks, Joe Maurice, Joey Dardano, Jonas, Joseph,
Kenny Lee, Mario, Adrion, Mark Thompson, Mitchell Doren, Nicky, Paris Peyton,
Ruddy Red Richardson, and Tessa Bell. Good luck to all
of those folks, Your new Faces Characters. That's a fun
show as well, Annie Sullivan, Caitlin Freen, Claire McConnell, George
c Owens, Jesse Kendall, John Blair, Russell Daniels and Tijonda
Again great show if you're up that way. I don't know.
I just didn't feel I can't explain it because I
usually am like all up to go, and I just
didn't feel like going this year. All right. Tonight in
Montreal at the Comedy Festival. Some of the shows include
Jordan Jensen at seven o'clock, British at seven, French New
Faces at seven, English New Faces at seven at Club Soda,
Timmy No Breaks at Ley Studio seven o'clock, and Midnight
Surprise at eleven fifty nine pm. Now, why is Midnight
Surprise at eleven fifty nine pm? Johnny Mack? Because when
you schedule a show at twelve and you write am,
people get confused and think that's noon, and it gets
very confusing. So that's why you just schedule things at
eleven fifty nine. You'll notice planes that do the same things.
Otherwise people get confused. That's actually a pretty light Wednesday.
So if I were up there tonight, I would hit
the New Faces one and two at seven and nine thirty,
but they'll eventually post them online and we will cover
it then. Chris rock is heading to Canada. He'll be
at the Toronto Film Festival. He is the director of
hal Misty Green, about a talented actress whose career has
been stifled by her vices, also at the Toronto Film Festival.
I Play Rocky? Did you see the trailer if I
Play Rocky? Stop listening to me right now and go
watch the trailer for I Play Rocky. This guy that
they got playing Sylvester Stallone is uncanny. Like now, I
want to make Rocky Zero, which I've wanted to make
for fifty years. So what's Rocky zero? Johnny mack Well,
it would take place in early nineteen seventy five, and
it would follow a guy who collects debts for the
local mob boss. The debt collector is also a part
time boxer, so it'd be a prequel to Rocky. Rocky Zero,
you'll watch People in Mobile, Alabama are all upset that
the first entertainment act announced for their new arena is
comedian Matt Matthews. Matt rose to social media fame with
a series of videos about life on his farm he
shares with his husband. The videos offer feature him yelling
at form animals while wearing a bathrobe. After earning millions
of followers on TikTok yelling at farm animals and at bathrobe,
at least on poolside today, I'm not in a basement.
At least I'm sitting by a pool. I've got some money.
Matt Matthews made the jump to stand up in twenty
twenty TiO and now the Not What I Ordered World
Tour will be at the Mobile Arena. Some people on
Facebook wrote who. Somebody else wrote never heard of him?
Others said it didn't look the most family friendly thing.
What do you want? Then book Maga comedian Aprigazzy. Then
Matt Matthews post that it's been brought to my attention
that some people in Mobile aren't too happy with Is
it mobile or mobile?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 2: I'm looking this up. Some people say mobile, some people
say it's mobile. Now you're all going to be mad
at me. I don't know. I'm from New York City.
I'm just gonna say Alabama. Matt Matthews posted, it's been
brought to my attention that some people in Alabama aren't
too happy that I was the first artist announced for
the new Region's arena. Well stay mad, because I can't
wait to bring all this gay and raunchy comedy straight
to your city. The good news is, since I'm apparently
such a nobody who won't sell it out, there should
be plenty of parking. See you there. He then posted
a thank you to his supporters, saying I joke a lot,
but this one is real. Thank you Alabama. You all
have already pushed the show at Region's Arena too, over
half sold before the general public on sale even starts.
Thank you doesn't even begin to cover it. Growing up
in Birmingham, Alabama, I never imagined my life would look
anything like this. I started out making videos and telling
jokes online, and now I'm getting the opportunity to perform
for people not just across the US, but in Australia,
New Zealand, the UK. Blah blah blah, I meaning Connor
Ratliffe is on Blue Sky. He is currently presenting one
Roadrunner cartoon. Each day, he posts a link to the
full cartoon, then post the cartoon again in segments with
his oral commentary. Connor Ratcliffe says many people think the
Roadrunner cartoons are repetitive, but he maintains that watching them
in the order they were made as movie audiences would
have in the nineteen fifties reveals that the gags and
tropes actually satisfyingly build on each other. Meanwhile, there's a
new trailer for Daffy Season, a soccer theme short. You
might have wanted to release the actual short during the
World Cup, but nope, they decided to wait until November.
It'll be attached to the new CGI Cat in a
Hat movie. It will not be attached to the Coyote
Versus ACME movie coming out in August. Why John, Because
remember that they were they made that and then like
Warner decided we're not releasing it. It off and now
it's being released via Ketchup Entertainment. So Wrights Lawyer is
something something something. Anyway, we'll get a Daffy Duck short
five months after the World Cup ends. There is a trailer.
Let's listen, boy, you I watch Soccer Season's supposed to.
Speaker 1: Be Dug cleven Socker Season, Duck Cleveland Soccer season, Watch
up Black.
Speaker 2: Walk Em Molly. It's just the offense on Now we're
talking all, that's the way to play.
Speaker 1: Time to pull the plug on this so called soccer.
Speaker 2: Cleeven And that is your pool side comedy news for today.
Have an awesome day.