Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Heidly Ho. I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News,
Speaker 2: and let's talk about that greeting. Now. I've been doing that,
Speaker 2: think I'm channeling ned Flanders. But it came up in
Speaker 2: trivia the other night and they asked, how does Ned
Speaker 2: Flander as a greed people? And I wrote down heidly Hoe.
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, Ned Flanders, apparently, says Hi Diddley Ho.
Speaker 2: So I didn't get the point in the trivia game,
Speaker 2: but I got the Dave Chappelle question correct. I shared
Speaker 2: that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group,
Speaker 2: Hi Happy Saturday. Maybe, perhaps, possibly they've figured out what
Speaker 2: to do with John Mulaney's show next week the guest
Speaker 2: David Letterman. Finally, Letterman also dropped an episode of his
Speaker 2: show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. His guest is
Speaker 2: WNBA star Kaitlyn Clark. It's not what I want out
Speaker 2: of you, Dave. I'm not gonna watch that now. Dave is,
Speaker 2: you know, mostly in retirement. He doesn't care if I'm
Speaker 2: gonna watch or not. But I don't want that. Can
Speaker 2: Mulaney interview Kaitlyn Clark and let Letterman screw around with
Speaker 2: a weekly talk show. Can we make that trade? Because
Speaker 2: I would watch that great lineup next week David Letterman,
Speaker 2: Hannibal Burris, Leanne Morgan, Nicky Glazer, music by Randy Newman.
Speaker 2: Maybe he'll do I Love La. So they are pulling
Speaker 2: out all the stops next week, Nicki Glazer, Letterman, LeAnn Morgan,
Speaker 2: Hannibal Burus, Fantastic. Everybody's Live with John m'laney streams live
Speaker 2: on Netflix Wednesdays at ten East seven West. Because John
Speaker 2: opens the show with that very exciting it is seven
Speaker 2: oh two in Los Angeles, it is fifty nine degrees, John,
Speaker 2: take my notes, ask Dave how to do it? Come out,
Speaker 2: tell two jokes and roll into the show. You're not
Speaker 2: doing this right. And by the way, if you give
Speaker 2: me David Letterman, Nicky Glazer, Hannibal Burs and Leanne Morgan
Speaker 2: and Randy Newman, and you can't hand in a good show,
Speaker 2: forget it. It's not gonna get better than that. All
Speaker 2: you have to do is go hey, guys, what's up?
Speaker 2: And shut up. At an hour later, go all right, goodnight, everybody.
Speaker 2: That's all you need to do with that panel. If
Speaker 2: you're in the UK and you're like, boy, I wish
Speaker 2: we had Saturday Night Live. Well, they're making Saturday Night
Speaker 2: Live UK. It'll launch sometime in twenty twenty six on
Speaker 2: Skymax and the streaming service known as Now same format,
Speaker 2: guest host, musical guests, and a cast of British comics.
Speaker 2: The CEO of Sky Studios said, for over fifty years,
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live has held a unique position in TV
Speaker 2: and and our collective culture, reflecting and creating the global conversation,
Speaker 2: all under the masterful comedic guidance of Lorne Michaels. The
Speaker 2: show discovered and nurtured to countless comedy and musical talents
Speaker 2: over the years, and we're thrilled to be partnering with
Speaker 2: Lauren and the SNL team to bring an all British
Speaker 2: version of the show to UK audiences next year, all
Speaker 2: live from London on Saturday Night, Google tells me. In
Speaker 2: the States, SNL Studios is a production company founded in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven as a joint venture between Louren Michaels
Speaker 2: and NBC Studios. NBC Studios is now Universal Television, the
Speaker 2: production arm of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of Comcast. So
Speaker 2: some version of NBC's got their hands in. Lauren's gonna
Speaker 2: get paid a lot of money to be made out there.
Speaker 2: I hope this show in the States. A bunch of
Speaker 2: comedy specials coming up. Jessica Curson will have a special
Speaker 2: on Hulu on April twenty fifth. Now I don't know
Speaker 2: this because a Hulu publicists sent me the notes, because
Speaker 2: that would be too easy. No, I was on the
Speaker 2: internet and I stumbled across this, so I'm happy to
Speaker 2: tell you. Jessica cursons I'm the Man. Premiere is April
Speaker 2: twenty fifth on Hulu. Jessica tells The Daily Beast, I've
Speaker 2: been doing stand up for over twenty years, and this
Speaker 2: special is truly special. My stand up has always stood
Speaker 2: out to the audiences I've performed for my fans, and
Speaker 2: especially to other comics. I'm the Man is me embracing
Speaker 2: everything I am, the crazy voices, the characters, and the
Speaker 2: fact that I'm fearless on stage. Jessica says people need
Speaker 2: to laugh now more than ever. Is that some did?
Speaker 1: They did?
Speaker 2: They pass out a pamphlet to all the comedians that
Speaker 2: you just have to say that in an interview. Is
Speaker 2: not every comedian saying you know people need to laugh
Speaker 2: more now than ever. Has there ever been a point
Speaker 2: in history where, like, you know, everything's chill now, people
Speaker 2: don't really need comedians, but you know, if you want
Speaker 2: to laugh, that would be fine. Everybody needs to stop
Speaker 2: saying people need to laugh now more than ever, Jessica continues,
Speaker 2: After everything we've been through these past few years, I
Speaker 2: wanted to create something brutally honest and authentic. I wanted
Speaker 2: the audience to know they're not alone. That I struggled too.
Speaker 2: I pride myself on being an entertainer. I wanted people
Speaker 2: to see a show nothing too much. That's what people experience,
Speaker 2: a fast paced ride. I'm so proud of what I've created.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for the world to see it also,
Speaker 2: and I'm filled with fear now. I could play a
Speaker 2: clip here, except the Hulu publicists don't get back to anybody.
Speaker 2: I don't have a clip to play for you. I
Speaker 2: guess they don't want you to watch their special. That's fine.
Speaker 2: I will not be stopped because I have found out
Speaker 2: that the next hilarious thing on May thirtieth is Ricky Smiley.
Speaker 2: His is called fool ish with a hyphen between the
Speaker 2: L and the Eye in fool Ish, taped at the
Speaker 2: Lyric Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. The special is said to
Speaker 2: be infused with his trademark humor, characters, and satire on
Speaker 2: life and pop culture. It's his first special since twenty eleven,
Speaker 2: and Smiley said, as I knew after over ten years,
Speaker 2: I had offered something that was satisfy my fans. I've
Speaker 2: been through a lot of transformation and trauma these past
Speaker 2: few years, and I was determined to get through it
Speaker 2: and think that I'll have a deeper connection with my audience.
Speaker 2: From my experiences, we can find humor in so much
Speaker 2: of life. Fool Ish is for people of all ages,
Speaker 2: for those who grew up playing with etch a sketch,
Speaker 2: to those who were raised on iPads. Brett Goldstein. We
Speaker 2: have a date for his special on Max April twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: You can sit home and watch Brett Goldstein the second
Speaker 2: best night of your life. Now, HBO does this annoying
Speaker 2: thing where they don't release it until ten pm Eastern.
Speaker 2: You know, Johnny Max fallen asleep to ten Eastern? How
Speaker 2: about seven Eastern? Guys? If you're like, who's Brett Goldstein,
Speaker 2: He's Roy Kent on ted Lasso. Now you know who
Speaker 2: this is. I've even shared a trailer and it's a
Speaker 2: big bag of okay. I had to make some medits
Speaker 2: here because there's some naughty words we're not going to
Speaker 2: use on this podcast, and overall I find the trailer okay.
Speaker 1: Cookie Monster is an addict. Bah, we are meeting him
Speaker 1: at the point of addiction where he's still fun in
Speaker 1: a few months. You don't want to be hanging out
Speaker 1: with Cooky. Cooky is a nightmare very soon. My mom
Speaker 1: is really hot. Recently, I've been speaking to lots of
Speaker 1: couples in long term relationships, and I've been asking them
Speaker 1: about their sex lives because I am a pervert. I'm
Speaker 1: vaguely distracted by a child in the front run. Are
Speaker 1: you a human child? Okay, We're going to learn so much.
Speaker 2: Cameron Esposito talked about her new special with The La
Speaker 2: Times and says it's meant to be art. Sadly, stand
Speaker 2: up comedy can sometimes just be goofing around, and it is,
Speaker 2: but also I wanted to feel like the experience of
Speaker 2: a manic episode, which is what the special is about.
Speaker 2: There's meant to be three sections within the special. The
Speaker 2: first it's just the standard special that you're used to,
Speaker 2: with more traditional camera angles. The second it's one of
Speaker 2: the camera shifts to being almost up my nose, which
Speaker 2: is meant to sort of feel intense and a little
Speaker 2: panic inducing. And then the third act is filming in
Speaker 2: front of an all white background where the club disappears
Speaker 2: and reappears as I talk about the experience of being medicated.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen this one yet, but that sounds like
Speaker 2: a little too much for Johnny Mack. How about you
Speaker 2: stand in front of a brick wall and you tell
Speaker 2: some jokes. How about that the camera says, dropout. Let
Speaker 2: me build a fake stand up club. It would be
Speaker 2: cheaper to shoot at a regular club, but I wanted
Speaker 2: to be able to control the exact camera angles and
Speaker 2: where the audience was placed so we could pull off
Speaker 2: this idea of escalating energy and being on stage. Part
Speaker 2: of the reason I chose this job is it being
Speaker 2: on stage also induces like a mini bipolar cycle. So
Speaker 2: literally being on stage floods the brain with those chemicals,
Speaker 2: like those very positive endorphins, like the feeling of working
Speaker 2: out or drugs. Because it's also the same chemicals that
Speaker 2: happen when people take cocaine. What is going on with
Speaker 2: this special? Can't we just stand in front of a
Speaker 2: brick wall? So being on stage and all this chemicals
Speaker 2: being released and the excitement of that, I want people
Speaker 2: to feel that and not just feel it in the
Speaker 2: way when you're shooting a special and there's like a
Speaker 2: cream shot and it's very far from the back of stage,
Speaker 2: and you're getting this grand feeling of stand up, which
Speaker 2: is so sumportant to stand up biz, but stand up
Speaker 2: when you're watching it. My favorite thing is being in
Speaker 2: the room, Cameron. I think that's something that stands a
Speaker 2: test of time. Are those specials like Carlin that are
Speaker 2: really about this bigger question and they answer it with
Speaker 2: an arc. Bo Burnham has done a great job with this,
Speaker 2: Hannah Gatsby, all those specials. I think we'll have a
Speaker 2: lasting effect and change the art form. And these specials
Speaker 2: that are kind of like sermons, they have a point
Speaker 2: or hear me out, you stand in front of a
Speaker 2: brick wall. I was hanging out with some civilians. Now
Speaker 2: these civilians are my friends. We were at trivia night
Speaker 2: the other night and they started their own conversation about
Speaker 2: what comedy specials they were watching. We usually talk about, Hey,
Speaker 2: what are you watching, Bill? What are you watching on Netflix?
Speaker 2: What's good this week? Bill? Bill? As soon as it
Speaker 2: comes out on Netflix, Bill has seen it. So I
Speaker 2: asked Bill, what should I be watching every week? So
Speaker 2: one of the guys had watched Bill Burr's special and
Speaker 2: really liked it, and then the three of them were like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Bill Burn and I didn't want to chime in and
Speaker 2: be like, excuse me, I'm a comedy snob. I think
Speaker 2: it's actually Bill's seventh best special years what I just went. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They also talked about Nicki Glazer and found her to
Speaker 2: be a little graphic. They weren't offended, they weren't shy,
Speaker 2: but they're like, oh my, I can't believe she says
Speaker 2: such things personally, that's not my style of comedy. And
Speaker 2: they were bored by Chelsea Handler. So that is three
Speaker 2: civilians at Trivia night reviewing comedy. You can agree or disagree.
Speaker 2: Let's hit gossip corner real quick. You might have been
Speaker 2: there in Adams County, Pennsylvania. You're at the Civil War
Speaker 2: Museum and shop and in walks Matt Rife, Yeah, the
Speaker 2: Union drummer Boy shop. Posted on social media Matt Rife
Speaker 2: stopping by to check out some historic artifacts. It is
Speaker 2: unclear if he bought anything from The Guardian. Australian comedian
Speaker 2: Alice Fraser not coming to the US after receiving legal
Speaker 2: advice that she could be stopped at the border because
Speaker 2: of Trump jokes really overreact much. Alice was going to
Speaker 2: apply for an one B visa, which The Guardian tells
Speaker 2: US permits comedians to live and work in the US
Speaker 2: if they demonstrate extraordinary ability in the arts. But after
Speaker 2: widespread reports of people being denied entry to the US
Speaker 2: and travelers being detained, Fraser sought advice from an immigration lawyer.
Speaker 2: Alice tells The Guardian, I asked the lawyer what I
Speaker 2: thought was a ridiculous question, that I do political sets
Speaker 2: are and have a fair few jokes floating around on
Speaker 2: Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and whether that be a risk.
Speaker 2: I thought I was being paranoid, but you said it
Speaker 2: might pose a risk and it almost certainly googled me
Speaker 2: are they doing that? Which reminds me, by the way, Trump,
Speaker 2: Elon doing a great job. Nobody's a bigger sport than me. Anyway,
Speaker 2: back to the show, she said, while the vast majority
Speaker 2: of people will be able to travel. It it out.
Speaker 2: They're definitely doing increased scrutinizing. Johnny Mack doesn't want to
Speaker 2: go to the comedy Coulac guys is if this is
Speaker 2: a thing. I mean, I'm just recording stuff on the podcast.
Speaker 2: You guys are doing great, keep it up. If I
Speaker 2: didn't have two children, I might be more open to
Speaker 2: taking a risk. But the vision of me being there
Speaker 2: with a baby strapped to me and held up in
Speaker 2: hassled or worse, I'm not up for that. According to
Speaker 2: The Guardian, foreigners have had their devices search at the
Speaker 2: US border and been denied entry, including a French scientist
Speaker 2: who had messages on his phone critical of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Fraser says, I will go to the America that will
Speaker 2: have me when it's no longer reasonable for a visa
Speaker 2: lawyer to say I should purge my social media before
Speaker 2: I go there because a joke about Elon Musk might
Speaker 2: be considered hostile to the nation. Are you at C
Speaker 2: two E two twenty twenty five. They're in Chicago and
Speaker 2: they have a track for comedy fans this weekend. Patton
Speaker 2: Oswald was there last night. Second City is there tonight,
Speaker 2: Let's see who's at the various festivals. It is the
Speaker 2: final night of the Traverse City Comedy Festival. Three o'clock
Speaker 2: Funny Women of a Certain Age, three point thirty, Comikaze
Speaker 2: Comedy Show, five thirty Big Fun, Murder in Improv, Murder Mystery,
Speaker 2: A Next Up Comedy Showcase at five thirty. Six o'clock
Speaker 2: Mark Marin, WHOA, I love Mark Maren and it's happening.
Speaker 2: At six o'clock, I could see a comedy show and
Speaker 2: being met by quarter to eight perfect seven o'clock Leon Lord.
Speaker 2: Eight o'clock the Comedy Rumble with a it looks like
Speaker 2: I'm just skimming here, probably about fifteen comedians. That's different
Speaker 2: than the Daily Doesn't Showcase. Also at eight a second
Speaker 2: a Mark Marin show at eight thirty, but I'll be
Speaker 2: in bed by then. At nine thirty the Out of
Speaker 2: Towner's Comedy Showcase, ten thirty PM A Dirty Showcase, and
Speaker 2: at midnight Comedy Karaoke. Nice job, Traverse City Comedy Fest.
Speaker 2: I get to delete that tab until next year, and
Speaker 2: my browser fills up. Guys, it can't keep everything open.
Speaker 2: In Nashville, Dan Cummins at five o'clock again My kind
Speaker 2: of Show. Six thirty a Zany's showcase for the Tonight show.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. Dan commins again at Zany's. At seven thirty
Speaker 2: Jay Leno at the Rhyme and at seven thirty eight
Speaker 2: forty five another showcase for the Tonight show. Ninety five
Speaker 2: pm Pete Lee and at ten forty five the Dark
Speaker 2: and Dirty Showcase. And I don't know if this is
Speaker 2: a mistake or they put it out of sequence. It
Speaker 2: says Saturday, April twelfth, four o'clock, Yakoff Smirnoff. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna guess this is a mistake and this is actually Sunday.
Speaker 2: Let's say no, it says April twelfth, all right, they
Speaker 2: put it out of order yakof smirnof at four o'clock.
Speaker 2: I'd probably be at that. They have some more shows tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and let's go down to Austin, Texas, where it's all
Speaker 2: bro dudes with shaved heads and muscle t shirts and
Speaker 2: all the other stuff we hate as they ruin comedy
Speaker 2: in Austin, Texas. Those jerks, right, it's not the current narrative.
Speaker 2: Four o'clock. Josh Johnson also at for Don reed Boy
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon comedy is the thing. Huh. Josh does another
Speaker 2: show at seven, Handsome Live with Tignataro, Fortune Femester in
Speaker 2: May Martin at seven, Ricky Lindholm at seven, Josh Johnson
Speaker 2: at nine thirty. Josh doing three shows in a row.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want to see that third show, Guys,
Speaker 2: and Alex Moffatt at nine thirty at the State Theater.
Speaker 2: Out of everything I just talked about, Mark Marin and
Speaker 2: Early Bed. How's that sound? It sounds great, Johnny Mack,
Speaker 2: I know. And that's a lot for a Saturday, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's go do something else. Why are we're listening to podcasts?
Speaker 2: It's the weekend. See tomorrow.