Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. I had posted on threads people are
Speaker 1: just giving Jay Letto so much crap about his comments
Speaker 1: about Late Night the other day, and I posted Jay
Speaker 1: should just come out because Jay was a really good comic.
Speaker 1: He understood what the Tonight Show is and isn't. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Fallon understands what the Tonight Show is and isn't. You
Speaker 1: can't have Dice Clay hosting the Tonight Show. It's not
Speaker 1: what the gig is. So I encourage Jay, you know what,
Speaker 1: come out and just show everybody what you can do.
Speaker 1: Come out and just go all right, your sons of guns.
Speaker 1: Do ten minutes about Conan O'Brien, then do ten minutes
Speaker 1: about Letterman, then do twenty minutes of political and then
Speaker 1: change gears and just do your whole Hey, you ever
Speaker 1: noticed did you see this thing? And just do that
Speaker 1: and just drop the mic and let everybody know you
Speaker 1: can do it. What brought that to mind is this
Speaker 1: first joke from Late Night during the week from Jimmy
Speaker 1: Fallon wanted to set it up by saying, did you
Speaker 1: see the thing where Trump was cheating at golf because
Speaker 1: that's the setup and the did you see the thing
Speaker 1: made me think of Jay anyway. Jimmy Fallon joked, it's
Speaker 1: just refreshing to see someone cheating without being at a
Speaker 1: Coldplay concert. Great joke. New topic. Fell and Russia just
Speaker 1: started direct flights between Moscow and North Korea. It's one
Speaker 1: of those rare trips with a fun part. Really is
Speaker 1: the journey and not the destination. Seth Meyer is getting political,
Speaker 1: he said. The Justice Department has reportedly granted limited immunity
Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein associate Julane Maxwell in exchange for information
Speaker 1: on one hundred people linked to Epstein, as well as
Speaker 1: full immunity if he gives them zero information on one person.
Speaker 1: Seth Again, an inmate at a New Orleans jail, was
Speaker 1: mistakenly released after authorities confused him with another prisoner with
Speaker 1: a similar name. So congratulations to Maxwell's Jolaine. Colbert had
Speaker 1: on Las Culturistas, Bowen Yang, and Matt Rogers on his
Speaker 1: show the other day. Colbert said, I'm gonna need a
Speaker 1: gig soon, sell me on podcasting Is it fun? Rogers
Speaker 1: advice to Stephen cop keep it real. Seth Myers was
Speaker 1: on a podcast, specifically Armchair Expert, and he was asked
Speaker 1: by Dax Shephard, do you have the fear that this
Speaker 1: is going to end tomorrow? Meaning Late Night? Seth said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I mean only because it's such a time
Speaker 1: we're living in as far as the entertainment industry. I
Speaker 1: shifted from fearing that it wouldn't be good enough, and
Speaker 1: now my fear is weirdly more outside of my control,
Speaker 1: which is just at some point the ecosystem might not
Speaker 1: support it. I guess that's better than thinking it's your fault,
Speaker 1: but it's weird not to feel any control over it.
Speaker 1: His strategy is just show up and do the work.
Speaker 1: That's the only part they're paying you to do. It's
Speaker 1: the only part you're good at. All the other problems
Speaker 1: we have people that are good at that don't mess
Speaker 1: around with it. I sometimes take stock of, oh, this
Speaker 1: isn't the best time to be doing what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: but at least I got in. Myers recalled Late Night
Speaker 1: being on shaky ground during its early years. Whatever time
Speaker 1: we're living in now, I've had lower points in the
Speaker 1: body of the show. Early on in the show, we
Speaker 1: had some NBC executives actually say to us like, we're
Speaker 1: very worried about how the show's going to go with
Speaker 1: no real instruction has how to get out of it.
Speaker 1: Seth just surpassed David Letterman as Late Night's second longest
Speaker 1: serving host. Conan would be number one. That means Fallin
Speaker 1: is number four, and he's got a deal through twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight. My guess maybe it'll end then. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like that show has zero cultural impact and
Speaker 1: I don't know who's watching it. Seems nice enough, but
Speaker 1: I don't know why that show exists in its current form.
Speaker 1: Out today HBO Max Mark Maren's new special Paniced. Interesting
Speaker 1: to me that it's on Friday night, Saturday. Interesting to
Speaker 1: me that it's at eight pm Eastern, not ten pm
Speaker 1: on a Saturday night like they usually do. I am
Speaker 1: planning on watching a bunch of comedy specials tonight. I
Speaker 1: know I host a podcast called Daily Comedy News. Maybe
Speaker 1: I should actually watch a special because I do this
Speaker 1: for a living. By the time nighttime rolls around, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do comedy. Does that make sense? I
Speaker 1: was the same way when as it's serious, I'd come
Speaker 1: home and watch the Universe and just stare at Neildograsse
Speaker 1: Tyson telling me about Saturday, you know, things like that.
Speaker 1: As there's just some nights, I'm like, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like thinking about stand up anymore. But my plan right
Speaker 1: now is to watch Maren, Dusty Slave, Veered, Zedi Pepatone.
Speaker 1: If I'm still rolling, we'll see. Mark Maren's Panicked is
Speaker 1: his second special for HBO, is sixth stand up special overall.
Speaker 1: Mark says, I feel this is the best work I've done.
Speaker 1: Everything came together, the direction, the production design, the shirt,
Speaker 1: the bits HBO gets me, and I'm thrilled to be
Speaker 1: presented by them. A lot of the Mark Maren news
Speaker 1: cycle was getting sucked up by Taylor Swift. This week,
Speaker 1: Maren was on the Good One podcast That was actually
Speaker 1: a pretty good listen. I'm not that hot on that
Speaker 1: particular podcast, but that was a good listen. Maren shared
Speaker 1: that he licensed Taylor's song Bigger than the Whole Sky,
Speaker 1: which is a bonus track on the three AM edition
Speaker 1: of her twenty twenty two album Midnights. The cost a
Speaker 1: license Bigger than the Whole Sky, Maren said about fifty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Maren explained, I know Jack Ansid Off enough
Speaker 1: to text him, and he's the co writer on that song.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know what's proper how to do this,
Speaker 1: but we're running out of money on this thing. It's
Speaker 1: probably gonna come out of my pocket. Is there anything
Speaker 1: you can do about the song or talk to Taylor?
Speaker 1: Antonoff told him go through official music licensing channels. Maren
Speaker 1: said it was doable, but fifty grand only covered use
Speaker 1: of one minute. He said, I would have gone over
Speaker 1: the minute, but it would have been more money. Wow,
Speaker 1: I thought this was an interesting press release. The Martha's
Speaker 1: Vineyard African American Film Festival announced it will present a
Speaker 1: special screening of Dave Chappelle's unreleased documentary Dave Chappelle Live
Speaker 1: in Real Life. That's a documentary that exists. Well, it's unreleased,
Speaker 1: which might be why I don't know about it. Why
Speaker 1: is it unreleased? Dave Chappelle. Well, I'll go up to
Speaker 1: Martha's Vineyard on Friday, August eighth at two point thirty pm.
Speaker 1: Hit the Performing Arts Center and Martha's Vineyard. The exclusive
Speaker 1: screening serves as a fundraising event. So between that and
Speaker 1: the travel, and you'll probably need a place to sleep.
Speaker 1: This isn't going to be cheap if you want to
Speaker 1: see this thing. The documentary captures Dave Chappelle's Pandemic era
Speaker 1: comedy series back in summer twenty twenty in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life follows Dave Chappelle as
Speaker 1: he provides the community he calls home with two things
Speaker 1: desperately needed in difficult times, economic and comic relief. Kathleen
Speaker 1: Madigan is going to be at the Venetie in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas tomorrow. She was asked about her favorite places to play.
Speaker 1: She didn't say the Venetian. She barely lights up talking
Speaker 1: about New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah, Georgia. This from Las
Speaker 1: Vegas magazine, and Kathleen said, I must have had a
Speaker 1: pass life as a swamp person. She's grown weary of
Speaker 1: the homogenization plaguing many cities, explaining every city's got it.
Speaker 1: Here's a strip mall, here's DJ Max, here's Applebee's. But
Speaker 1: then she did say good things about Vegas. I can
Speaker 1: leave Vegas alone for six months and come back and
Speaker 1: something new will be built. You guys move faster than
Speaker 1: anyone as far as change goes. Zero respect for history,
Speaker 1: which I do find kind of funny. If she weren't
Speaker 1: a comedian, she would want to own a bar called Madigan's,
Speaker 1: combining her love of bartending, social interaction, and sports. Kathleen
Speaker 1: at the Venetian tomorrow night, thirty nine bucks, you should
Speaker 1: go ten pm. Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson are out
Speaker 1: promoting The Pick Up, a heist movie that sees them
Speaker 1: sparring as a pair of incompatible armored truck drivers. Inspector Acluseau.
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, who's sixty four, said it was a bucketless
Speaker 1: thing for Pete Davidston he was thirty one now. Eddie explained,
Speaker 1: Pete comes from SNL. He's a stand up comic. We're
Speaker 1: both from the East Coast. I love to get in
Speaker 1: a scene with somebody else that's funny, improvised with them
Speaker 1: and start playing. I love it. He Davidson said. We
Speaker 1: do take as written, and then the director was like,
Speaker 1: everyone just go nuts and would end up just trying
Speaker 1: to one up each other. We're just trying to make
Speaker 1: each other laugh. Keeky Palmer, who stars in the film,
Speaker 1: said they were improvising constantly. It was really sweet to see.
Speaker 1: It's so cool because you see two different generations from
Speaker 1: the hub dot Ca, a Canadian website, I used to
Speaker 1: live in Canada. Last week, and Steven Stalely writes, the
Speaker 1: Late Show at Stephen Colbert is a perfect distillation of
Speaker 1: everything that went wrong with mainstream comedy over the past decade.
Speaker 1: Jokes replaced by talking points, laugh substituted with applause lines,
Speaker 1: and comedians more eager to affirm than amuse. It wasn't
Speaker 1: always this way. For decades, late night television had an
Speaker 1: irreverend edge. David Letterman poked holes in celebrity self importance.
Speaker 1: Jay Leno made Middle America wise cracks that actually landed,
Speaker 1: but over time the nightclub stage became a pulpit. The
Speaker 1: night before Colbert delivered the news the show is being canceled,
Speaker 1: Shane Gillis re might of the world that people still
Speaker 1: want to laugh. He then discusses Gillis's performance and how
Speaker 1: Gillis did the Norm McDonald joke, and Gillis didn't just
Speaker 1: deliver the line, he delivered a message comedy is back.
Speaker 1: The article then praises Norm MacDonald and then says Gillis
Speaker 1: is cut from the same cloth he was fired from
Speaker 1: SNL before his debut, and offensive comments on old podcasts
Speaker 1: triggered a pile on from the cultural enforcers, and like norm,
Speaker 1: he was eventually invited back to OS the show, not
Speaker 1: because he changed, but because the world did. Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's August. Now. August depresses me because August is like September,
Speaker 1: which is like summer's over, and I can't enjoy anything.
Speaker 1: I'm already counting down on the weekend. So so we
Speaker 1: got what tomorrow's aug at second, So got the second,
Speaker 1: the ninth, sixteenth, the twenty third. I probably have to
Speaker 1: teach a class a week of the twenty third, so
Speaker 1: summer's probably already over than the thirtieth. Oh at least
Speaker 1: it's a five weekend August. But on the other hand,
Speaker 1: Labor Day September first, so all of a sudden, summer's
Speaker 1: over and it's only September second. You're like, ah, I've
Speaker 1: had a good summer though with that, I mean it's
Speaker 1: been hot, Pol's been working nice, got to the beach
Speaker 1: a lot. It's been good. Anyway. August is fringe time
Speaker 1: in Edinburgh. Voicemag dot UK has been previewing a lot
Speaker 1: of the shows they caught up with Alex Stringer. Alex says,
Speaker 1: my show is about what it's like getting sober twenty
Speaker 1: three and realizing that you're still a d head, basically
Speaker 1: jerky faces. How I usually paraphized that Alex is excited
Speaker 1: about Fringe and says, I'm told the minimum I'll get
Speaker 1: is being a better comic, which feels like a really
Speaker 1: good minimum. I'm just gonna enjoy the milestone of it all.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll learn lots from it. I look forward
Speaker 1: to it. Best advice you got about the Fringe go home,
Speaker 1: as in when you're staying in Edinburgh and not Liverpool.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Rachel Fairburn said, go home and watch television.
Speaker 1: Networking is great, but you need to rest and recoup.
Speaker 1: I'm planning on seeing another show a day, maybe no
Speaker 1: more than that. Initially, I think I'm going to leave
Speaker 1: watching any other debuts just so I don't compare, etc.
Speaker 1: And try to rast do some compilation shows, catch up
Speaker 1: with friends, as this is my debut. I initially did
Speaker 1: just forty five minutes of material with no through line
Speaker 1: or narrative or arc. Then I looked at my material well,
Speaker 1: I thought about what I wanted to say in the
Speaker 1: show I wanted to make. I then focused more on
Speaker 1: writing material. I didn't have to tell the story, I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell artistic influences Joan Rivers. I think her
Speaker 1: ability to bring lightness when joking about the darkest parts
Speaker 1: of her life is really inspiring to me. I also
Speaker 1: strive to be Rys Nicholson because they're excellent. Happy hour
Speaker 1: at the Pleasants Courtyard, Bunker three at six pm for
Speaker 1: the entire Fringe. Few Times of London caught up with
Speaker 1: Leo Reich. Leo says the Fringe is incredible. The thing
Speaker 1: that infuriates me is that it makes so much money,
Speaker 1: but it makes money at the expense of the people
Speaker 1: actually doing it. It'd be appalling if people allowed it
Speaker 1: to die. But if we split ourselves into a series
Speaker 1: of individuals looking after our own interests and trying to
Speaker 1: get on television, then it will dissolve. I will go
Speaker 1: up to the Fringe in five years and see one
Speaker 1: hundred people who got famous on TikTok perform the worst
Speaker 1: comedy you've ever seen in your life. He recently posted
Speaker 1: an ironic quote statement against the cancelation of Jimmy Carr
Speaker 1: on Instagram, reacting to outrage that Jimmy Carr had attended
Speaker 1: an event to celebrate Israel's seventy seventh Independence Day at
Speaker 1: the British Music The ironic statement said, if this spate
Speaker 1: of anti Semitic cancelations continues, soon we may find ourselves
Speaker 1: in a society where well meaning people are penalized simply
Speaker 1: for being willing supporters of a horrifying ethno state. He
Speaker 1: said he wanted to say something both as a comedian
Speaker 1: and as a Jewish person. I'm satirist fundamentally, and so
Speaker 1: it makes sense for me to do so. The idea
Speaker 1: that you should be able to implicitly or explicitly support,
Speaker 1: or make excuses for, or be indifferent to genocide. I
Speaker 1: don't want that person in my community. It's so spineless
Speaker 1: not to speak out. What do you think is going
Speaker 1: to happen? Oh, I'm not on eight out of ten cats?
Speaker 1: Does countdown? Thank God? I'd rather chew off my own
Speaker 1: arm and let's send on a lighter note. Fun one
Speaker 1: oh seven was curious what if we could make comedy
Speaker 1: even better? A New Orleans comedian is looking to change
Speaker 1: comedy with a brand new show. Alex Carrow has brought
Speaker 1: in super fights. Here's how it works. Six players performed
Speaker 1: in front of three judges and a crowd. They are
Speaker 1: given random attributes or superpowers. Each player is given their
Speaker 1: superpowers and a random character. For example, one comic had
Speaker 1: to be Justin Bieber with telekinesis, but his hands were
Speaker 1: taped to his hips. Caro said, it's something different. I
Speaker 1: want to do something that's fun for both the comics
Speaker 1: on the audience, a chance for comics to cut loose.
Speaker 1: It's a fun hang and you get to be funny
Speaker 1: in a room full of people. And that is your
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