Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess we only answer to you why they
didn't promote the lineup for the Roast of Kevin Hart.
I am Johnny Mackam recording this at nine pm, where
I just turned the Roast off during Lizzo. Now, if
the rest of the night was amazing and there were surprises,
then they didn't structure the show correctly because that first hour. Boy,
I feel tired from watching it. I kind of wanted
to turn it off half an hour ago. Maybe it
got better. I got some notes for you here. Shane
Gillis came out. Shane's material probably better than the crowd
reacted to. It a tough room for Shane. He wound
up eating it a little bit. He opened up and
did about a minute or so. I did pull some clips. Now,
just assume for any clip that I played during today's
podcast that I have made edits for language, lots of
F bombs, and we don't like to do that on
this program. But here's a little bit of Shane Gillis.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Roast of Kevin Hart, live in Los Angeles.
Where we're yeah, where we're here to celebrate a guy
we used to like in a city that was once important.
Kevin will be out in a minute. I'm sure he's
backstage shadow boxing or doing a group prayer or whatever
he does. I'm your extremely white host, Shane Gillis, Yeah,
white hosts pick up laws.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: I'd just like to thank Netflix for choosing me to
host this celebration of black excellence. Look, I'm not saying
there's a lot of black people here tonight, but backstage,
a production assistant asked me what color drank I want
in my dressing room.
Speaker 2: Chose purple. You can even hear in my deliverism doing
the podcast, Like, I just don't have the energy to
be excited about this at all. So after Shane Usher
came out and sang Kevin, it was just like overacting,
like fake outraged. It was almost like wrestling, like, oh,
I can't believe you're bashing me at the roast, Like yeah,
no kidding. It just felt very very lame. Kevin Hart
got up there and said it would be better than
the roast of Tom Brady. That ain't true. I'm gonna
tell you right now, it's gonna be way better than
the Tom Brady, gross, way better, way better. The reason
why is because I'm not a bitch.
Speaker 3: Tom is a bitch.
Speaker 1: Tom sat there in the.
Speaker 4: Whole time with the white man face, went on radio
stages after what anything me?
Speaker 2: I gat believe, and then in the leadoff position, Tom
Brady came out. I thought that was a weird choice.
Here's a little bit of Tom Brady.
Speaker 4: I do have a few words for you before I
returned to my affairs in Las Vegas. Oh wait, I'm
talking about affairs in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Was that off?
Speaker 4: I'm not supposed to talk about affairs in Vegas. I
think I broke another rule.
Speaker 2: One line I did like was Brady ripped the dais
saying it wouldn't be a Kevin Hart project unless it
was a crappy sequel. I mean, no star power at all.
Chelsea Handler and Pete Davidson, Tony Hinchcliffe and those were
the big names. I mean, I'm just not feeling this
thing at all. All right, Shane comes back out, does a
longer set here, and I think he kind of ate
it again. But I did like this line.
Speaker 1: We're all here to honor Kevin Hart, and what a
better way to do that than to take a paycheck
while pretending to have fun.
Speaker 2: Shane did get in some good shots about Kevin Hart
playing the Riodd Comedy Festival. Shane said he himself turned
down the Riodd Comedy Festival to honor the brave firefighters
who lost their lives that day, Right, Pete, that was
kind of a nice job. Jeff Ross comes out, it's
already eight twenty six and the energy's out of the
room in my opinion, by the time Jeff Ross comes out.
He came out dressed in an Eddie Murphy's style red
outfitted to the music of axel f. Here's a little
Jeff Ross.
Speaker 4: We've been friends a long time, but the world first
fell in love with you when Michael Jackson dangled you
over that balcony.
Speaker 2: Jeff had a couple quick riffs, he said, Kevin put
the elf in Philadelphia. He also called him Eddie Smurphy.
Jeff's set was pretty strong. He also had a joke
about Pete Davidson only banging nines and eleven's. I like
that one a lot. The next person up was Niam Win,
not exactly a household name. Mister Wynn explained he has
a show on bet thought the material was pretty good,
but it was already eight thirty seven at that point,
and I hadn't been really laughing all that much. I
was just kind of like, okay, Winn did ask where
Dave Chappelle was good. Point Chelsea Handler was next. She
was good, but I thought her set was really long,
and then Lizzo came out. During Lizzell, I was like,
you know what, I'm tired. I'm not feeling this and
I don't feel like chasing this thing to eleven o'clock.
Sometimes you just have to punt. So maybe you all disagree.
Maybe the rest of the night got more amazing, and
I'll be eating crow on Tuesday's podcast. But as I
speak to you at nine five pm Sunday night, not
feeling the roast of Kevin Hart at all. Very interesting though, that,
like who didn't come? You know, some of those names
that I had thrown out speculating on Sunday's program, and
you know, and people not showing up for Kevin. I
don't know what to make of that. Another thing that
caught my eye on Sunday, Bloomberg dropped an article just
like I saw it on social media, like an hour
before the roast of Kevin Hart. The headline inside a
year of chaos and conflict at Kevin Hart's media company.
Now to drop this on a Sunday is a choice.
Please understand that that's a choice, Lucas Shaw writes. When
Kevin Hart announced in January that he'd licensed his name
to Authentic Brands Group, the popular comedian was silence on
a key detail, the future of his name's media company.
Skipping around the article, Heart's employees say they worry that
the deal marks the beginning of the end of Heartbeat.
Once valued at about six hundred and fifty million dollars,
Heartbeat has shriveled over the past few years. The company
enacted its latest round of job cuts in December, firing
the heads of its scripted TV division, as well as
employees working across marketing, social media, and brand partnerships. The
article then walks through several acquisitions and people leaving the company.
The article ends telling us about an email sent by
Kevin Hart's assistant, in which Kevin Hart says, I know
the past few months have been tough, and Kevin apparently
added that for too long the company had been too
dependent on him. The email was said to be signed
by Kevin aka boss Man, as I said, interesting timing
to drop that on a Sunday afternoon. That is a choice.
Stephen Colbert, now into his last two weeks, Tonight should
be a really good episode. He will interview Jimmy Fallon,
Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Myers, and John Oliver. That's right, Strikeforce
five is reuniting. You may recall those gentlemen during the
sag AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes did the Strike Force
five podcasts together. Proceeds from that podcast went towards supporting
the crew members of the respective shows. I guess it
all works out. Kimmel Intown for the upfronts, Jimmy Fallon
already in New York City, Seth Myers, and John Oliver
already in New York City. So should be a good
Late Show tonight. The original host of The Late Show,
David Letterman, will be Stephen Colbert's guest on May fourteenth,
which is Thursday. From jimbands dot Com, You're home for
Jimband News. John mullaney calls Bruce Hornsby's Indigo Park the
best album of the year. Now, if you're listening to
the other day, when my dog came by and the
dog wanted to go for a walk. I went for
a walk and listened to Indigo Park. Based on John
Mlanie's suggestion, it's not the best album of the year,
but it's pretty good. It is sonically interesting. I kind
of like that Bruce Hornsby under sings it. The first
two tracks the last track are really good and there's
one with North Carolina in the title that are really good.
The rest of the album is hit and miss, but
it really goes for it. A donkey charity has named
a newborn fall after Ricky Gervais. Ricky Gervas donated one
hundred thousand British pounds to help Safe Haven for Donkeys.
Save Haven for Donkeys was one of twenty two animal
charities that benefited from Ricky Gervay's Christmas donations over two
and a half million British pounds. Save Haven for Donkeys
cares for working donkeys in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza
and parts of Egypt. They've been treating thousands of donkeys
in the Gaza strip, where a lack of fuel has
forced people to rely on donkeys as their main form
of transport. A tiny foal named Jervaise was born at
the charity sanctuary in Israel on April nineteenth. Jervy's mother, Deborah,
was found abandoned in southern Israel in September and was
around two years old and was seven months pregnant when found.
A local woman contacted Safe Haven for Donkeys. The charity
transported at Deborah to their sanctuary in Israel. Andy Foxcroft
is the chief executive of Safe Haven and said, Jervaise
the donkey is full of life at already showing off
her first teeth. She's brought so much joy to the
team and as a tiny symbol of hope this world
Donkey Day, Debora could have given birth alone after being abandoned. Instead,
she was safe, watched over and cared for in Jerves
has had the start every full deserved. Now some more
donkey facts. The sanctuary team had hoped that Theodora, another
rescue donkey and a companion of Debora, might act as
an aunty to the new arrival. You see in the wild,
new mothers sometimes accept help from another female donkey. Theodora
initially stayed close by Zebra and Jervase. However, Debra seems
to prefer caring for Jerves on her own. Billboard put
out the list of top comedy tours for March twenty
twenty six. Great Davies at number five, seven shows, thirty
seven seven hundred tickets grossed two and a half million dollars.
Number four John m'laney did fourteen shows, thirty one thousand,
three hundred tickets, three point one million gross. Bert Kreischer
thirteen shows, fifty four thousand, six hundred tickets, grossed three
point seven million. Number two Naprighatzy off of number one.
This month he was number two. Eight shows grossed four
point six million across fifty six thy nine hundred and
who's He's making more money than anybody. You can hate
all you want. Matt Raife did seven shows, sold ninety
three thousand, three hundred tickets and grossed eight point three
million dollars. Here's an email I say from a week ago.
Remember I told you that just for laughs, decided to
announce a bunch of shows during Netflix week. Not sure
that was the best strategy, but hey, I love those
guys and we can get to it now. They've added
a second show by Jerry Seinfeld. He'll be at the
Place day Arts, which is how you pronounce it. The
six thirty show is sold out. The nine to thirty
show has been added. Chris Fleming at Late National That's
how you pronounced it at seven o'clock, also on the
twenty third Wow. The twenty third's where it's at. Dan
Soda will be a club Soda. That's a good club.
Been in it myself. Did I have a soda?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I had a beer. July twenty fifth, seven o'clock. Joel
Kim Booster you know him from Scrubs now He's also
there on the twenty third seven o'clock at Studio TD.
Two of the galas are sold out. Otsko at Kotzka
July twenty fourth at the Placed at Arts and Gabe
Iglesias's got La same venue on the twenty fifth are
sold out to Jerry de Gala still tickets and the
Mike Brobiglia Gala not yet sold out on the twenty
fourth at six thirty. Hashtag Team John marcos Aresi snl
UK has been renewed for season two. It'll be back
this fall and early twenty twenty seven, so more of
a traditional schedule there. Twelve episodes have been ordered. Snl
UK executive producer Loren Michaels said, I'm incredibly proud of
our team in the show. It keeps getting better every week.
I'm grateful to Dana Strong and Sky for believing in
and supporting snl UK. I'm excited for the season ahead.
Diana Strong is the Sky CEO. The series started with
two hundred and twenty six thousand viewers for episode one,
hosted by Tina Fay. Jack Whitehall had the lowest numbers
of the season up until the time of this recording,
with one hundred and nineteen thousand, five hundred and forty viewers. Boy,
that's like Seth Meyers Territory. Seems like the show settling
in at around one hundred and forty thousand. However, on
social media, the Prince Andrew cold open from episode two
has two point four million views, and a cold open
with King Charles and Queen Camilla has one point seven.
Royal Family is where It's at. Everybody, good time to
plug the Palace Intrigue podcast. We talk about the Royal
Family twice every day and I'm the writer on that.
Check that out. Diane Morgan, who some people think I
have a crush on and I was thinking about this
the other day let's say I had a crush on
Diane Morgan. Now, first of all, I'm married, But putting
that aside, well, what do you even say to Diane Morgan? Hi,
I really like when you do kunk and I host
a podcast in my basement. I have no game. Diane Morgan,
who some people say I have a crush on, is
getting ready for a BBC comedy Anne Droid, an n
new word Droid get it, no premier day yet, but
Anne Droid tackles AI in everyday life, exploring how far
society will go and replacing people with tech and droid
centers on an elderly woman and a humanoid care robot.
You see, Sue's husband David passed away eighteen months ago
and her only son, Michael, is moving out to try
and fix his marriage. But the good news is he
got Sue a surprise to help her live in independently.
And that is a second hand Anne Droid Z fifty
eight slash one hundred Basic elder Care robot played by
Diane Morgan. Android is an overly attentive socially in pain
in the arse, says the British copy, but she soon
works out that she can use the Droids her benefit
in settling scores and doing the things her son never
gets around to. Diane Morgan is ann droid. I'll watch.
James Austin Johnson will be touring right after SNL wraps
up the new season this weekend with Will Ferrell and
musical guest Paul McCartney. Is it Lauren's farewell or is
it just a really good host and a really good
musical guest. We'll find out. James Austin Johnson playing New
York City, Dallas, Uncasville, Connecticut. That's a casino, Red Hook,
New York, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, four shows in
various North Carolina's, Philly, Indianapolis, Chicago, Richmond Heights, Missouri, Pittsburgh,
and wraps it up in Nashville. I cannot imagine he
will not be back for the new season of SNL. Emily,
she was a guest on this program. She's gone viral.
A video of a nurse springing into action when a
patron passed out at Emily Canilano's show has gone viral.
In the clip, Emily Catilano asked an audience member what
their occupation in ann Arbor was. The audience member said
they were nurse. Seconds later, a man passes out and
falls to the ground. The nurse offered medical advice and
called nine to one to one. Emily Catilano moved to
the side, and the social media clip has added music
from TV series The Pit to make it more dramatic.
Catilano joked, I hate when people steal the attention away
from me. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, gossip corn,
probably about Pete.
Speaker 3: Gossip conn where the rumors meeting with Johnny Mackett's always
a tree. Gossip Connor whispers this tree gossip cone probably
gossip gone where the room is meeting with John mccot's
always a tree.
Speaker 2: Gossip corner is about Pete. Pete Davidson. Boy, I'm starting
to think if you want to invest in stuff, don't
listen to Pete Davidson. He's trying to sell this house
in Westchester. Reelzer dot com says Pete has decreased the
asking price again. Weeks after elicited it for two point
seven million dollars, He's now dropped it by another one
to twenty five. So if you would like to buy
Pete Davidson's home, it is now going for two point
one point five million dollars. Fox is holding their upfronts today.
Bad news for Dennis Leary. Going Dutch was the lowest
rated entertainment program at Fox. According to Deadline. However, Dennis
Leary is well liked internally, so they thought about renewing
the lowest rated entertainment program at Fox. But Sanner has
prevailed and no more Going Dutch. You may recall, or
you probably don't, because no one watched this thing. Dennis
Leary played US Army Colonel Patrick Quinn, who was reassigned
to the Netherlands, where he was punished with a command
position at the least strategic army base in the world.
Of course, it worked out that his daughter, Captain Maggie
worked there. Shockingly, not renewed. To better news for Joel McHale,
Animal Control will come back. If you're joning for comedy festivals,
The Boston Fringe Festival kicks off tonight. Forty acts around
the city during this week. Not just stand up, they
will also be clowning, magic and musical parody. Co founder
Debbie Jondie said, Boston is such a huge comedy scene
in comedy community, but we do allocate space for musicals
and specifically for like variety shows, magic or something that's different.
Comedy is the most specific slots, but we did make
sure to keep a variety, so we're not just doing
a comedy festival. The co founder said they haven't seen
any of the acts except for the two that they're doing,
so outside of those two, we have no idea what's
coming that's fun. I'm still picking away. At this Deadline
interview with the Netflix of Folks, I saved some of
the stuff that was not a festival related for this week.
Deadline asked head of Comedy Robbie pra why we've seen
a dwindling of projects like Verified stand Up, which served
as a showcase for young stand ups. Robbie Pros said,
the honest answer is it's tough to get the viewership.
When we did the stand ups the first season of it,
I think it's eight or nine year years ago, the
numbers were massive and if you look who was on it,
it was Naperghatzy, Nikki Glazer, Fortune Fimester, Dion Cole. But
we quite frankly stop seeing great numbers for that. We
want opportunities like that to be really winning for stand
ups and if they're not going to work on other
ways of finding the opportunities. We ended up doing more
freshman specials for people like Derek Stroup, and that's how
we're getting it done now, less in the multi comic way.
I think that's all fair. Deadline asked what's the importance
of comedy to the company. Robbie pro said, the festival
is a great example of a manifestation of that because
you have people who maybe they did a Netflix special
four years ago, maybe the last specials on YouTube or
Hulu or Amazon or Hbo, but at the festivals, these
things are still playing on Netflix. So I think it
feels great that even when folks do projects somewhere else,
to a lot of these artists, this still always feels
like part of their home, which is a pretty cool thing.
Deadline asked do you have any predictions for the comedy
marketplace in the next three to five years. Robbie Pross said,
I think it's going to continue to be really strong.
We've seen the artists that are emerging. It's pretty exciting.
We used to talk years ago about is this a boom?
I think comedy is just part of the culture. I
think things ebb and flow. I think comedy movies are
going to come back in a big way. And that
is your comedy news for today. I will catch you
tomorrow