WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.160 --> 00:00:04.440 Callarogas Shock Media. 2 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:13.080 Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily comedy who said, Look, 3 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:15.759 I've tried. I did everything I could. But if you 4 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:19.879 guys are gonna watch Adam Sandler comedies on Netflix, they're 5 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:23.640 gonna keep making them. Happy Gilmore I forty six point 6 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:27.600 seven million views, slightly more people consume that than consume 7 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.879 this podcast. Forty six point seven million views in just 8 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:35.840 three days. That made Happy Gilmore Too, the biggest US 9 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.960 opening weekend ever for a Netflix film and Adam Sandler's 10 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:43.039 best Netflix debut. So if you're gonna watch it, and 11 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:45.439 Netflix is going to pay Adam Sailor to make these, 12 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:48.159 they're gonna keep making them. He's not gonna make uncut 13 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.200 gems too. If you keep watching this crap. People are 14 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.799 starting to pay a lot of attention to Bill Burr's 15 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:55.799 the interview with Vulture from last week on The Good 16 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:59.000 One podcast, Burst said specials aren't just special. Some of 17 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:01.240 them are transitionals. So someone will be like, ah, I 18 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:03.439 really like Paper Tiger, but then Red Rocks wasn't quite 19 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.840 as good. It was more of a transitional special because 20 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:07.079 I was in the middle of undoing a lot of 21 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.159 stuff about myself. There's specials where you're catching somebody sort 22 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.280 of midstry. They haven't plent of that foot or where 23 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:14.120 they're going to be. So I'm excited about my new 24 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.200 hour that I'm writing because this one is more of 25 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:19.879 my self examination. But my worldview is apolitical and it's 26 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.760 trying to bring people together. I'm trying to do the 27 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:25.079 opposite of what's going on there because I feel like 28 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:27.359 we're going to have a civil war if we're not careful. 29 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:30.200 When I was growing up, everybody hated the Russians. Now 30 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:32.920 people hate California or Florida or New York at Texas 31 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:35.200 and it's like, geist we're on the same team. People 32 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.319 gonna have different opinions. I don't know. I think what 33 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.280 this country needs now is a leader. At that point, 34 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.120 the Good One podcast asked, are you the leader? No, no, no, 35 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:46.439 no no. I'm talking about politics and this whole leading 36 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.480 by dividing. That's we're going off for the last few decades. 37 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.200 It's going to pull a country apart if they're not careful. 38 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:52.400 Lever of corruption with all these politicians and how much 39 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:54.760 money they're making from the people, poisonou food supply. I mean, 40 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:56.760 are they going to hook up with the pharmaceutical people. 41 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:58.519 Like your job's to go out here and eat poison 42 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:00.719 and get sick by the drugs. Say live long enough, 43 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:03.200 make a claim, haven't denied after you paid insurance, then 44 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:06.079 die and I've all that dead passed on to the people. 45 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:07.680 And I can tell you right now that people doing 46 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:11.360 that are not illegal aliens. Bill is not happy with 47 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:15.360 Ben Shapiro saying that Burr has become woke. He doesn't 48 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.400 even know what the word means. His definition awoke. As 49 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:19.080 white liberals, they don't even know what it was. They 50 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:20.719 just took the word from black people. It's the worse 51 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:22.879 thing about our people. Not only we take from other cultures. 52 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:24.800 We don't even take the time to understand the definition. 53 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:26.400 You want there to be annoyed so you can have 54 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:27.960 something to talk about, and then he can make money 55 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.800 off dividing his own country. Those people treason us what 56 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.039 they do. The fact is it worked for what his 57 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:34.800 goal was, for it to become a thing online. We're 58 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.599 a certain portion of the right complain about how you're 59 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:39.759 woke racist, they're racists. Let me drop the half ass 60 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:41.280 impression here, because this is the next point, is that 61 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:44.240 Bill Burr says, they send pictures of monkeys to me 62 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:47.520 and my wife. They're effing horrible people and their cowards. 63 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.439 They never say it to your face. There's an ugliness 64 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.439 out there right now where if you're a racist, if 65 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:55.159 you're an anti semi, if you're a psychoanationalist and you 66 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:57.159 want a softball interview, there's podcast out there where you 67 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:58.919 can get one, and they'll laugh at you for your 68 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.280 bad jokes and give you the pass. There's a really 69 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:03.039 ugly thing going on out there, and we've already seen 70 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:05.360 what it destination. It's not the way to go. Then, 71 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.080 Vulture said, people on the left have been really embracing 72 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.680 you and sharing videos of you. Burr said, no, it's 73 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:12.800 not true, dude, it's not true. It's common sense on 74 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.120 both sides. We keep doing this stuff where we're like, oh, 75 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:17.719 the right's all f and racist, and dude, the left 76 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:20.000 is some of the most Most of the left feels 77 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:21.840 like if they have a black friend, they don't have issues. 78 00:03:21.879 --> 00:03:23.240 I'm oud of that. I don't want to hear any 79 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.199 more left and right crap. They're all e f and nuts. 80 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.039 Me too. Where it went from people shouldn't sexually assault 81 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:30.240 people absolutely too. I don't like where you're talking about 82 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:33.000 in your act was nuts. It was McCarthyism on the left, 83 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.520 and the left is so fed up that the cycle 84 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.240 right thinks they're in the middle, and they're not. They're 85 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.199 out of their f and minds. We're continued and I travel, dude, 86 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:41.039 and I'm telling you people who lean right and left 87 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:43.439 or chill and they're just sitting in the middle. Like, 88 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:45.919 when is everyone going to calm the f down? When 89 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:47.759 is this going to go back to live and let live? 90 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:51.240 People from construction workers to hairy leg chicks with nose 91 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:53.400 rings going, hey, I like what you're saying out there 92 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.439 about these billionaires, because that's the problem. The other problem 93 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:58.280 is people make it like it's political, like if you 94 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:00.520 vote for this color tie, those billionaires or somehow going 95 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:02.159 to grow a heart, and it's just not the case. 96 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:06.199 It isn't. That's on the Good One podcast Vultures podcast. 97 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.520 I'll continue to pick away at that one. Let me 98 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:14.199 go forward promote Saturday. Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast 99 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:18.600 and I had a long conversation. I haven't checked with Mike. 100 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.040 I imagine it'll be The Letterman Podcast on Friday, but 101 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.079 it will be this podcast on Saturday, and we talked 102 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:28.000 about all things Late Night. Very good conversation. We wrapped up. 103 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.199 We'd gone just about an hour and a half and 104 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:32.160 I couldn't believe how long we'd been talking. I can 105 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.439 talk to that guy forever. John Stewart on his own 106 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:39.000 podcast was giving Jay Leno some crap, and that's one 107 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:41.040 of the topics I got into with Mike Chisholm on 108 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:44.920 The Letterman podcast. John Stewart got annoyed at Jay Leno's 109 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.879 comments about, you know, being less partisanship in Late Night. 110 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.040 Stuart said, this is them trying to police and create 111 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.360 rules they would never follow. That's how Fox is popular. 112 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:55.720 That's how any of these people, you know, they all 113 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.800 talk about Gutfeld. By the way, Gutfeld on Fallon Tomorrow night, 114 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:01.639 they'll talk about Gutfeld. It's the most popular. I'm struggling 115 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.360 here because I'm trying not to slip back into Burr. 116 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.240 I have to remember I'm doing John Stewart here, or 117 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.000 I'm not trying to do anyone right now, but that 118 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.360 burricades I'm kind of locked into it. Let me take 119 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:14.839 a breath and just try and speak normally. John Stewart said, 120 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:16.399 that's how any of these people, you know, they all 121 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.560 talk about Gutfeld. It's the most popular. He's not popular 122 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.759 because he's a both sides guy. He's relentless, and after 123 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:23.720 a day of watching Fox News and being bathed in 124 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.839 their very purposeful propaganda, it's a great way to top 125 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:28.680 off the night. If you look at the social media 126 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:30.399 profile of all the people to complain about the left 127 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.199 wing bias, they're all right wing influencers. They all make 128 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:35.439 their money. Their entire economy is based on how willing 129 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:37.480 they are to attack and to fame and to crush liberals. 130 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.040 The whole thing is bs. Have you met the chairman 131 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:44.279 of the FCC, He's like crap poasting Colbert. He's probably 132 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:46.240 right now. Want to search for more right wing billionaires 133 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:48.040 that can buy out more of these properties, because there's 134 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:49.759 going to be an acquisition in Murger Spree for these 135 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:53.680 kind of things. Mark Maren had some opinions on podcasts. 136 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.680 Mark Maron was on CNN, and I'll let Mark speak for himself. 137 00:05:57.399 --> 00:05:59.040 You know, we were there at the beginning, and it 138 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.720 is a media that anyone can really do, that can 139 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:03.480 thrill their hat in the ring. And I think as 140 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.240 it's evolved and into video, you know, people have been 141 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.000 able to set up their own little show business empires. 142 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.920 So I mean, like any medium, it can be used. 143 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.439 For bad or evil. 144 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:16.839 So I mean, you know, what are you going to do? 145 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:20.680 But it is the way the media landscape is working. 146 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:27.079 I look, there's a sort of cultural malignancy to it 147 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.319 in some ways, but in some areas people are doing 148 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:31.279 really interesting stuff. 149 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.720 I have been enjoying the heck out of a Dusty 150 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:38.439 Sligh's opinions about country music Rolling Stone as Dusty Sligh, 151 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:40.079 what do you think makes for a good country song? 152 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:42.680 Dusty said, sometimes it's a good story, but I think 153 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:44.879 voice plays a big, big role. I love a good 154 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.759 deep voice minus shot right now because I just talked 155 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:50.639 to Mike Chisholm for an hour and a half. Dusty said, 156 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.560 I have a joke where I say, a good country song, 157 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:55.360 we'll have you reminiscing about times you never had. And 158 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:57.680 I think about that Brooks and Dunn song Brand New Man, 159 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:59.800 where he's talking about how basically he's been running around 160 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:01.560 while he's women and how he's met a woman and 161 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:03.720 changed his life. I was probably eight years old, ready 162 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:05.480 to settle down. I was like, I need to change 163 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:08.079 my ways and I've never even done anything, but I 164 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:11.120 think that's what good country does. Dusty talked about the 165 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:14.279 Brooks and Dunn song hard Working Men. Dusty said, I 166 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:16.319 love the song and I'm listening and basically he's complaining 167 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:18.079 about how he can't get ahead in life. He's working 168 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:19.560 so hard he can't get ahead. But he reveals to 169 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:21.800 you on the song why he can't get ahead. And 170 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:24.519 this guy, this character I feel like they're writing about 171 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.600 a character, is a guy who's complaining about how he 172 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.079 never has any money. But if you look at his 173 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.680 own personal finances, you're like, well, you're spending all your money, 174 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:33.560 and you know how you're doing it. Speaking about spending money, 175 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.160 Colin Chost and Pete Davidson spent it on a ferry. 176 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:42.120 The New York Post reported that Jost, Davidson and their partner, 177 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:47.079 comedy club owner Paul Atalia Mayo, thirteen five hundred dollars 178 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:50.720 to a downtown law firm. That law firm filed a 179 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.160 lawsuit something something to do with dockage and twing contracts 180 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:57.720 from when the comedians and their partner A BoNT the 181 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.839 original ferry. A source told The New York Post Jostin Davidson, 182 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.360 we're unaware of this as they don't handle the day 183 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.120 to day business operations of the Ferry. Out on Amazon 184 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.759 Prime Video today, The Pickup, starring Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy. 185 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:14.639 The log line a routine cash pickup takes a wild 186 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:18.360 turn when mismatched armored truck drivers Russell and Travis or 187 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:22.439 ambush by ruthless criminals led by savvy mastermind Zoe played 188 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:25.839 by Keky Palmer. As chaos erupts, the unlikely duo must 189 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:29.720 navigate danger, clashing personalities, and one very bad day that 190 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:33.000 keeps spiraling out of control. The Daily be Sure didn't 191 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:34.919 think the movie was good. Their review said, it's been 192 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.879 decades since Eddie Murphy made an honest to goodness funny 193 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:40.120 movie Wait till they find out about Adam Zandler, and 194 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:43.679 The Pickup won't break that dispiriting streak. It's going straight 195 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.000 to Prime video, although in a just world it would 196 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:48.200 just be released on DVD and sent directly to a 197 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:51.360 big box retailer's bargain bin. This heist comedy is a 198 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:54.200 half baked throwaway that's so busy staging third rate action 199 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.480 sequences that it forgets to concoct a single passable joke. Wow, 200 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:00.879 I can't believe Pete day Vidson got the role of 201 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:04.159 not Sandler. Most of the reviews I've seen are in 202 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:07.440 that vein Late Night are reporting the Daily Show is 203 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.600 off for five weeks. The Late Nighter has a take. 204 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.080 I have a slightly different take. Late Nighter says, though 205 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.480 the timing is shure to raise eyebrows. It sure did 206 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.159 you know Stephen Colbert and all that. If you're this 207 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.200 far into this podcast, you know what's going on there. 208 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:23.559 Dosi Leidak on last Thursday show said, just to let 209 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:25.840 you guys know, we're going on a production break for August, 210 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:28.480 which was planned months and months ago. So don't freak out, 211 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:30.559 have a great summer, and we'll see you in September 212 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.240 when we can all freak out together. Late Nighter says 213 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:35.440 it's not the first time the show did that. When 214 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.080 Trevor was hosting in twenty twenty one, they took three 215 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:41.519 months off between the end of the Daily Social Distancing 216 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:44.519 Show and the show's return in September to a proper show. 217 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:46.919 All Right, I don't think that's exactly the same. In 218 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.600 twenty fifteen, the show took a seven week break between 219 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.159 the end of Stuart's run and Trevor Noah's debut. I 220 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.639 don't think that's the same. Comedy Central is filling the 221 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:57.559 time slot with repeats of other shows, for example of 222 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.600 The Family guyd In's Health Park. Now my take here 223 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:02.720 and Late Night Er is much more educated in this 224 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:05.679 than I am. But my take weren't we told during 225 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:08.279 Colbert Gate that the reason for the timing that they 226 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:11.000 had to make the decision right then and there was 227 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:14.360 because the contracts come up in August for like the 228 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:18.320 writers and stuff. So the last show of The Daily 229 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.679 Show before the five week break was Thursday, July thirty first, 230 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:24.639 and then August rolled around They're like, oh, yeah, we're 231 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:27.519 on a five week break. So my question is everybody 232 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:30.519 being paid for the five weeks because CBS paramount whatever 233 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.519 they are, skuide ans because the parent company's cool like that. 234 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:35.600 So yeah, you guys get have five weeks off, enjoy 235 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.799 your summer. Maybe or are people not being paid for 236 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:42.360 five weeks? And if I divide fifty two by five, 237 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:45.399 that's around ten percent. And I don't think The Daily 238 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:47.720 Show does a show every week of the year. So 239 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:51.240 is this like a secret fifteen percent budget cut? Perhaps? 240 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.039 Maybe possibly, or I might just be talking out of 241 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.039 my hat. I have no facts. I'm just a guy 242 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.399 in the basement. Stephen Colbert is going to appear in 243 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:02.879 the upcoming season three episode of Elsbeth, which runs on CBS. 244 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.240 Stephen Colbert will play a talk show host. In the 245 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:10.039 October twelfth episode, Stephen plays the host of a fictional 246 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.320 late night talk show called Way Late with Scottie Bristol. 247 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:17.720 Colbert's episode was just recently filmed, however, the idea has 248 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:21.360 been floating around for months. Interesting timing. Eric Idol was 249 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:25.240 asked by The Guardian, what comedian from any time do 250 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:29.120 you believe would have complimented the Python's ensemble? Great question, 251 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.799 The answer, Dan Ackroyd, because he was a writer and 252 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.039 a performer and can melt his ego into a crowd. 253 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.399 On the whole, we didn't try to upstage each other 254 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.799 on Python, you were supportive. The Pythons do tend to fight. 255 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:46.080 The Guardian was curious if any of the Pythons get 256 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:49.000 royalties from spam a lot. Eric Idol said, they get 257 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.399 more effing money than they've ever been grateful for They 258 00:11:51.399 --> 00:11:54.080 got effing millions, and they're miserable and horrible and bitchy 259 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.240 about it. I spent twenty years working for Python and 260 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.360 then two years at the two Show. They were there 261 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.399 for two weeks. I'm not really motivated by money, to 262 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.879 be honest. Anyway, the producers get all the fing money 263 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:06.399 and divide it up according to the contract. Someone suit 264 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.799 us for years saying I was paying the Pythons money 265 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:10.639 from my back pocket, and I said, why would I 266 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.519 risk going to American jail to give John Clees more money. 267 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:16.399 Let me tell you about some comedy specials I liked. 268 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.240 Mark Maren's new one is fantastic. It feels like a 269 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:23.000 comedy special, like back in the day when HBO would 270 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:24.919 roll out a special every now and then and it 271 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.159 fell big, and it shot properly, and it's in a 272 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.799 theater and a comedian has something to say, that's Mark 273 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:32.679 Maren's special. Oh, I got to add it to my 274 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.679 rankers here. Let me open up that file. I'm going 275 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:38.120 to put it at number four overall, and it's the 276 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:40.159 best special of the year. So my top tier right 277 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.480 now is the Conan Mark Twain Prize by A Mile 278 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.679 Shane Gillis's ESPN monologue I have a two Thomsigor's bad 279 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.240 Thoughts at three. First stand up special on my list 280 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:51.600 is Mark Maron's new one, and then Shane Gillis tires 281 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.679 at five. Number six in the stand up tier would 282 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:57.440 be Justin Willman's Magic Lover, and I'll go over the 283 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:01.039 list some other day. But Maren, I thought was just fantastic. 284 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:04.679 I said this already on this podcast. He's got something 285 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:07.679 to say, and I think that makes such a huge difference. 286 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:10.879 Don't want to spoil any of it. Absolutely watch it. 287 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.600 Then I put on Dusty Slayh's a new one which 288 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.679 is on Netflix, and I like Dusty a lot. It 289 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:19.039 sounds like I'm about to bash it. No, this is 290 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:22.159 a good special. My hesitation is I think he had 291 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:26.039 two specials worth of material. I'm looking here at my ranker. 292 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:29.600 I'm gonna slot it after Justin Willman, but ahead of 293 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:33.279 Bert Kraser, so that would be my third best special 294 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:36.559 of the year and the seventh funniest thing overall. Dusty's 295 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.720 just doing ratitat jokes. I like that style. The problem 296 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.279 with that style, whether it's Steven Wright or Mitch Hedberg 297 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:45.440 or Dusty Slay your brain fatigues after a while. So 298 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:48.279 Maren is telling stories and there's an art to it. 299 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:51.000 Dusty's just up there shucking jokes and as he says, 300 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:52.840 we're having a good time, and we are having a 301 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:57.080 good time at an hour and change, maybe even longer. 302 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:59.159 I think it would have been better served as two 303 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.720 forty minutes specials. But very very very good. Again, the 304 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.519 Netflix stuff in comparison to City HBO stuff. As I 305 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.320 said earlier, the Maren felt like a special, and Dusty's 306 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:14.320 like a lot of them on Netflix. Feel like somebody 307 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.320 went to the mall and bought a comedy special off 308 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.039 the shelf. It just doesn't feel as big, but it's 309 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:23.879 definitely funny. I actually watched Dusty in two nights. Again, 310 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:25.919 I think it was better as two forty minute specials, 311 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.399 and that's the way I consumed it. After Dusty, I 312 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:30.919 put on ver Dawes, who I like a lot, did 313 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:33.679 not like this special. Three and a half minutes in, 314 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.000 I was struggling. I tried to hang in there. I 315 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:40.240 made it maybe five six minutes. Maybe that's an unfair review, 316 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.720 but dude, we got a lot of things to watch 317 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:45.399 out there, and I've only got limited time. Vier was 318 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.279 just on somebody's podcast. Who was I listening to? Was 319 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.679 it good one? Yeah? Maybe it just good one? Sorry. 320 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.080 Whatever I was to do was a really interesting interview 321 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.759 about the special, but just as a special, just wasn't 322 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.559 feeling it. Some things I am digging not Comedy Department 323 00:15:00.639 --> 00:15:04.159 Q on Netflix thumbs up. And I'm not a big 324 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:07.480 wrestling fan. I watched it like every week when the 325 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.879 Rock was red hot twenty five years ago. But I 326 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.080 put on the new thing they are promoting. That's like 327 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:16.919 how the sausage is made at wrestling events, really really good. 328 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:18.840 I'm all into that one. That's the one that if 329 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:20.240 you hang out with me in real life, I don't 330 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.080 shut up about. So some other things for you to watch. 331 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.879 Lloyd Evans wrote about the Fringe and the Spectator. Now, 332 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.720 if you follow this podcast, no conversation about the Fringe 333 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:32.399 is like, the Fringe is awesome, you should go and 334 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:34.559 it's a good time and everybody's happy. It just seems 335 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:37.759 like the Fringe is making everyone miserable. Lloyd Evans writes, 336 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:40.600 every day my inbox fills with stories of panic, madness 337 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:43.720 and despair. The Edinburgh fringes upon us and the publicists 338 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:47.039 are firing off emails big and critics to cover their shows. Now, 339 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:51.399 he comments about how comedy has changed. They're sure is 340 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.639 full of performers advertising their mental disorders as if they 341 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:57.600 were badges of achievement. The fringe once had a sense 342 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:59.679 of freedom and danger. I used to head for a 343 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:03.200 crimp little basement just off the Royal Mile, where comedians 344 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:05.559 performed from noon until midnight. No tickets, A bucket was 345 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:08.039 passed around. At the end of the show, comedians showed up. 346 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.559 They delivered sixty minutes of chit chat and verbal sword play. 347 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:12.840 Often this involved singing out members of the crowd for 348 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:16.759 good natured abuse. Anyone with a sensitive temperament or heaven forbid, 349 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:19.200 an emotional disorder stayed away. There were no rules or 350 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.200 special protections other than criminal law. I was there in 351 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.559 twenty ten when a comedian lost patience with a drunken 352 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:27.120 heckler and head butted him into the floor. After the 353 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.840 bleeding victim was carried upstairs to a waiting ambulance. The 354 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:31.600 next performer was called on the mic because she was 355 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.360 an American with a delicate Southern accent. Good evening, Edinburgh, 356 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:36.559 I had stepped over a pool of fresh blood in 357 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.320 order to reach the stage. It's that normal in Scotland. Yes, 358 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:41.320 this is the fringe we need back, not the one 359 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.360 we're complaining about. How much the hotel is what Evans 360 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:48.320 continues in The Spectator. Back then, the Fringe specialized in 361 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:51.799 monologues about mass murderers and war criminals. An actor would 362 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:54.960 dress up as say Hitler Stalin or Jeffrey Dahmer deliver 363 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:57.000 an hour of bad taste joked to a crowd of 364 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:01.919 unshockable punters. That genre seems to have expired yet right 365 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.079 now the world stage is full of controversial and even 366 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:08.640 monstrous characters who are ripe for mockery. The satirists seem uninterested. 367 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.400 Another casualty is the joke of the Fringe Award, who 368 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:14.359 sponsors have withdrawn their support. Last year's winner suggested that 369 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:16.480 the pool of talent had all but dried up. The 370 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:18.319 winner was I was going to sail around the globe 371 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:20.920 and the world's smallest ship, but I bottled it. Lloyd 372 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:22.839 Evans right, it's not great, but it's better than the 373 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:24.880 winner from the previous year, which was I started dating 374 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:27.000 a zoo keeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah. 375 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:29.680 And he goes on and on the premise the Fringe 376 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:33.440 used to be more fun, I've never been voicemag dot 377 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:36.119 uk has been profiling some of the performers. They caught 378 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:40.240 up with cabaret comedian Scott Derwood, who says his new show, 379 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:43.799 Apocalypse Cabaret Songs for the End of the World is 380 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.759 about a karaoke jockey who finds themselves the sole survivor 381 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.599 of an apocalypse and commits to singing every song on 382 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:52.440 the sign up list. What are you excited about? First, 383 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:54.720 the opportunity needs to do the same show twenty eight 384 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.079 days in a row is huge because an extended run 385 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:59.039 like that is so physically exhausting it knocks you out 386 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.559 of your head, letting your art brain mak intuitive decisions 387 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:04.480 rather than always deferring to one's thinking mind. The second 388 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.240 is Edinburgh's like going to camp where everyone shares your 389 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.039 same obsession, and that obsession is live shows. Best advice 390 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.119 he got about the Fringe assume the weather every day 391 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:14.799 is going to be crappy, and if the sun ever 392 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:16.920 does come out, you'll be so excited you won't know 393 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.200 what to do with yourself. You can check out that 394 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.200 show nightly at the diary room at the Underbelly. Nine 395 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:25.799 to twenty pm. Troida went to see Ben Pope's The 396 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:29.240 cuts They write for reasons it'd be a spoiler to explain. 397 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:34.599 Ben Pope finds himself almost ungooglable. The topic is about circumcision. 398 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.480 Troda writes what shines out most or the charmingly funny 399 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.799 vocabulary he deploys and the quirky mental pictures he conjures 400 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.680 up that exquisitely define a microphone, for example, or a CD. 401 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:48.359