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Speaker 2: Hey, busy Monday, on a busy week. I am Johnny
Speaker 2: Mack with your daily comedy news. It was Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: Your host Will Ferrell, musical guest Paul McCartney. Wasn't Lorne
Speaker 2: Michael's last episode. We will find out. In the cold open,
Speaker 2: President Trump was visited by a ghost played by Will Ferrell.
Speaker 3: Do O, don't worry, Donald, it's me your best friend,
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey, but I thought you were dead.
Speaker 3: I am, remember I killed myself.
Speaker 2: Now. Interestingly enough, they posted that at eleven forty eight
Speaker 2: on the official SNL account. I mean, it just shows
Speaker 2: you how things have changed. You don't even need to
Speaker 2: watch the show. I watch, I quote unquote watch SNL
Speaker 2: mainly through the clips on Sunday mornings. All right, so,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, Will Ferrell, But at center stage, it's
Speaker 2: not Will Ferrell. It's Chat Smith from the Red Hot
Speaker 2: Chili Peppers pretending to be Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1: It really feels like coming home. Hey, hey, shoot me,
Speaker 1: what the hell do you think you're doing. I think
Speaker 1: I'm hosting the show.
Speaker 3: You're not the host, I am, You're Chat Smith of
Speaker 3: the Red hot Chili peppers.
Speaker 1: No, shut up, shut up? Everyone shut up?
Speaker 3: What the hell is wrong with you? He pushed me
Speaker 3: down backstage, and I tell Hord Waurn had to give
Speaker 3: me mouth to mouth.
Speaker 2: Jo Justin Chay did the annual joke swap, and I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what I mean. It's always funny. I went
Speaker 2: to pull the clips, and then anything I pulled, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, comedy, there's context, and if I just start
Speaker 2: playing like, oh, I thought this call of Joe's joke
Speaker 2: was funny. Out of context, it's just not gonna be
Speaker 2: good for me. So I'll just refer you to the
Speaker 2: internet if you want to find those. This's just in isolation.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't work. Your musical guest, Paul McCartney Ringo
Speaker 2: Star did not show up, so Paul did not collect
Speaker 2: the three thousand dollars from fifty years ago. Here's a
Speaker 2: little clip of Band on the Run We're pay Money
Speaker 2: Quack the songs one set to the second. Paul is
Speaker 2: almost eighty four years old, his voice not quite what
Speaker 2: it once was, but I did notice a different trummor
Speaker 2: on Band on the Run. I've seen Paul live many
Speaker 2: times over the years, and his this drummer has been
Speaker 2: doubling his voice for decades, but this was a different drummer,
Speaker 2: so I don't know if that affects things or not.
Speaker 2: On the end credits, Paul played coming Up Now. There
Speaker 2: were some comments on the end credits that maybe Paul
Speaker 2: was overshadowing the cast saying goodbyes, like was it Cam
Speaker 2: Patterson's final episode of SNL. I think we know the answer,
Speaker 2: but I believe coming Up was the first song Paul
Speaker 2: played on SNL and perhaps the last song Paul plays
Speaker 2: on SNL. Eagle eyed watchers noticed that the credits hung
Speaker 2: for a really long time, saying executive producer Lauren Michaels
Speaker 2: as Paul McCartney sang us out, Does that mean anything?
Speaker 2: Time will tell. In other news, THEO Vaughn is shutting
Speaker 2: down concerns raised by Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is worried
Speaker 2: about THEO Vaughan's mental health. On a recent Joe Rogan Experience,
Speaker 2: Joe shared concerns about Vaughan's recent behavior, including comments tied
Speaker 2: to suicide and Theo's use of selective serotonin reputake inhibitors
Speaker 2: common known as SSR eyes. The ovonne has responded and said,
Speaker 2: this is mostly cap sad to see this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great and I'm a human being, which is
Speaker 2: a rocky ride. But I'm doing fine. Thanks. Hopefully THEO
Speaker 2: is doing okay. Jim Gaffigan announced that the digital version
Speaker 2: of his Bourbon set. Remember that he did a special
Speaker 2: bourbon themed comedy set late last year. I think that
Speaker 2: was well. That is now available on audio wherever you
Speaker 2: listen to your digital comedy Sad news. I don't like
Speaker 2: this one. I'm not gonna gossip corner this one because
Speaker 2: this is just terrible and there's a baby involved. Pete
Speaker 2: Davidson and Elise Hewitt have split. Initial reports said there
Speaker 2: have been points where they've split and gotten back together.
Speaker 2: The latest I saw was that they're not going to
Speaker 2: get back together. Davidson and he would have a daughter,
Speaker 2: Scottie Rose born December twelfth, twenty twenty five. Scotty, named
Speaker 2: after Pete's father, Scott Matthew Davidson. That's just all around, said,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to say. Pete Davidson sold
Speaker 2: his Staten Island apartment at a four hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 2: loss one day before the rumors emerged that he had
Speaker 2: split from Elise. The New York Post reported that a
Speaker 2: deal closed on May thirteenth, final sale price eight hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: Pete had paid reportedly one point two million in December
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Meanwhile, Pete's trying to sell that house in
Speaker 2: North Salem, New York. First less that at two and
Speaker 2: a half million, then dropped to two point twenty seven million,
Speaker 2: dropped again in April to two point one point five
Speaker 2: million asking price. This brings us back to the rumored split.
Speaker 2: An insider told The Sun. They're focusing one hundred percent
Speaker 2: on Scotty working out the best co parenting situation as
Speaker 2: the top priority. An insider told The Sun Pete is
Speaker 2: selling his properties, including his upstate home in his Staten
Speaker 2: Island apartment, to open up funds as they move forward
Speaker 2: and figure out the next steps. Pete has been traveling
Speaker 2: so much for work, but at least was craving more
Speaker 2: support from him at home after the daughter was born.
Speaker 2: It is very hard for him because obviously he has
Speaker 2: to work to make money. Something more fun than those
Speaker 2: last few stories. Triumph the insult comic dog shut up
Speaker 2: on Stove's World.
Speaker 4: Everyone calls you stave baby, Am I correct? That's right, Triumph,
Speaker 4: I understand that's because you look like someone rolled an
Speaker 4: infant around the.
Speaker 2: Barbershop for.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: That's actually not right.
Speaker 4: I'm keyding Iikey thikey. You're so likable. That's why you're
Speaker 4: a hit. You know, you have this magnetic personality in you,
Speaker 4: and not just because your body has its own gravitational pull.
Speaker 2: Drake's got a new album out. It's called Iceman. Why
Speaker 2: are you bringing that up? Johnny mack Well, Joe Listen.
Speaker 2: Mark Norman on their show Tuesdays with Stories said that
Speaker 2: when Drake was up shooting a video in Toronto, so
Speaker 2: was Shane Gillis. Is Shane Gillis and a Drake video
Speaker 2: Stay tuned. Hey, everybody, just take my money. They're making
Speaker 2: a weird Al Broadway musical. I'm there, just just take
Speaker 2: my money. It's called Dare to Be Stupid, The Weird
Speaker 2: Al Musical. The musical shockingly features the songs of weird Al.
Speaker 2: One of the folks attached to this is Anthony King,
Speaker 2: who worked on a Beetlejuice which was fantastic. We are
Speaker 2: told the musical feature songs including white and Nerdy, Amish
Speaker 2: Paradise eat it smells like Nirvana and like a surgeon.
Speaker 2: What no fat? When you're only having seconds, I'm having
Speaker 2: twenty thirds. We're not gonna have that line in musical.
Speaker 2: Mister Yankovic, in a statement said, ever since I was
Speaker 2: at middle aged man, I've always wanted to be part
Speaker 2: of the New York theater community. Plus, the one thing
Speaker 2: people always say about Broadway is that it's severely lacking
Speaker 2: and weird al based entertainment, and I think this musical
Speaker 2: should fix that problem immediately. Producer Greg Noble said, Beneath
Speaker 2: the Absurdity and the Joy is a show about creativity, individuality,
Speaker 2: and the freedom to be unapologetically yours. We couldn't be
Speaker 2: more thrilled to be working with Al and Gang to
Speaker 2: bring weird Al's singular word to the stage. Can't wait.
Speaker 2: Most of this week we'll talk about Stephen Colbert, except Friday. Friday,
Speaker 2: we're just going to talk about Byron Allen. I guess
Speaker 2: last week when the Strike Force five of Folks showed
Speaker 2: Ouk cut by the way, did you listen to the
Speaker 2: Strikeforce five podcast? It sounded like garbage. I was so
Speaker 2: offended by this that I had to I wrote about
Speaker 2: it on my substack. Just guys record these things properly.
Speaker 2: What are you doing? It sounded horrible last week on
Speaker 2: the Light Show. These strike Force five guys showed up
Speaker 2: late night. Reports that preliminary Nielsen Live plus same day
Speaker 2: data said the episode drew two point eight one to
Speaker 2: nine millions total viewers and a whopping two hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty one thousand people between eighteen and forty nine. Now
Speaker 2: let's break that apart. Let's do lazy Matthea. So we
Speaker 2: have two point eight million people and we subtract two
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty one thousand, So that's like two and
Speaker 2: a half million people that watch the show are over
Speaker 2: forty nine. It's old people like me or presumably seven
Speaker 2: year olds. I mean, no events. That's why this thing
Speaker 2: isn't going on. Everybody's ancient like me. I'm seven years
Speaker 2: out of that demo already. Boy, that happened fast. I
Speaker 2: remember being sad that day. I graduated the eighteen to
Speaker 2: forty nine's and again the twenty five to fifty fours. Yikes. Anyway,
Speaker 2: two point eight one to nine million total viewers was
Speaker 2: the Late show's largest live plus same day total viewer
Speaker 2: audience since January twenty sixth, which was a Sunday night
Speaker 2: episode that aired after the AFC Championship game. For normal episode,
Speaker 2: you'd have to go back to October twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Vice President Kamala Harris was the guest Late Nighter, says
Speaker 2: the last time they looked and extended YouTube upload of
Speaker 2: theirppearance racked up three point two million views. After the show,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel was asked if they will do more Strike
Speaker 2: Force five podcasts. Jimmy said, I can't imagine not keeping
Speaker 2: doing it. The appearance on the air with Stephen went
Speaker 2: so well and was so much fun, it made me
Speaker 2: think we should do them in front of a live audience. Now,
Speaker 2: what's interesting is if you listen to the dynamic and
Speaker 2: everybody's saying the same thing, there's clearly a gang of four,
Speaker 2: plus Jimmy Fallon like Falin's like doing his own thing.
Speaker 2: He doesn't fit the vibe the other guys. You know,
Speaker 2: like in every group, there's like the friend that everyone's
Speaker 2: picking on. I feel like that's Fallin. So while it
Speaker 2: wouldn't shock me if there are some live shows, and
Speaker 2: Seth and Oliver already do things together regularly, I don't
Speaker 2: see Fallon being part of it. Maybe I'm wrong. As
Speaker 2: for the end of the Late Show, Kimmel said, people
Speaker 2: are going to be losing jobs. Where do you go
Speaker 2: if you write jokes for a living. During the appearance,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel joke you could host my show. That started
Speaker 2: a rumor that that would actually happen. But Late Night
Speaker 2: of reports, to my personal disappointment, that Jimmy Kimmel is
Speaker 2: taking the summer off. I personally think that that is
Speaker 2: a strategic mistake. That Kimmel should stay in the chair
Speaker 2: this summer. Again, as I said before, I don't want
Speaker 2: to work the summer either, but boy capture that audience.
Speaker 2: But the guestsos are actually starting pretty soon as soon
Speaker 2: as the Knicks win the NBA Championship, where maybe someone
Speaker 2: else does. As soon as the Knicks win the NBA
Speaker 2: Championship and the NBA Finals are wrapped up, kim will
Speaker 2: be taking the summer off, and Late Nighter says most
Speaker 2: of the guest hosts are already lined up. Strategic mistake, guys.
Speaker 2: Friend of the show, Jason Zenniman, writes for The New
Speaker 2: York Times. He asked David Letterman if David Letterman has
Speaker 2: a favorite memory from the Late Show. Dave said, the
Speaker 2: band had barely quit playing and they dismantled the set
Speaker 2: and there were dumpsters on fifty third Street. I remember
Speaker 2: that happened. That was ugly, and I walked out of
Speaker 2: the building. I saw the detritus and the debris of
Speaker 2: my life at CBS being tossed into the dumpster. Now
Speaker 2: that's not a pleasant memory. I don't know. Talk to
Speaker 2: somebody else. Yikes. Jason asked Dave about Late Night and said,
Speaker 2: we still have Jimmy presumably kim Ol, we still have seth.
Speaker 2: It's not completely dead on arrival, but I'd be surprised
Speaker 2: if it lasts more than a year or so. But
Speaker 2: it's such an easy, soothing format that it's got to
Speaker 2: stay on. Jason apparently reacted the same way I did.
Speaker 2: You'd be surprised if Late Night survives another year, Letterman, Well,
Speaker 2: maybe specific shows. I don't think it'll ever go away
Speaker 2: because it's just the best. It's humans talking to humans.
Speaker 2: Interesting tidbit here. Zinnemann asked Letterman, could you imagine having
Speaker 2: Jay Leno as a guest on Dave's Netflix show. Dave said,
Speaker 2: we think about it from time to time. This is
Speaker 2: not a bad idea and answer your question. Of course,
Speaker 2: I would love to. I'm sorry, did I say love?
Speaker 2: Of course, I can imagine heavy Jay. I mean when
Speaker 2: I was a kid, he was the funniest man in comedy.
Speaker 2: So just based on that alone, why wouldn't you boy?
Speaker 2: Can we make that happen? That would be amazing. Chicago
Speaker 2: Magazine caught up with Brian Stack, who has been with
Speaker 2: The Late Show since twenty fifteen. Prior to that, he
Speaker 2: wrote with Conan. Stack said the program's cancelation lester I
Speaker 2: was a shock, but the mood has been very positive overall,
Speaker 2: despite everyone's sadness about it coming to an end. While
Speaker 2: I'm proud of certain jokes and bits I've tossed in
Speaker 2: over the years, I think the most fulfilling thing for
Speaker 2: me has been when I'm aster performing character or do
Speaker 2: voice of that help bring other writers' ideas to life.
Speaker 2: I've always loved riffing around with other writers and bouncing
Speaker 2: ideas back and forth in an improvisational way. A lot
Speaker 2: of us came from an improv background, including Steven, and
Speaker 2: we all love coming with ideas collectively that we might
Speaker 2: never have come up with it on our own. I'm
Speaker 2: proud that we did our best for the last eleven
Speaker 2: years to find humor in the events of the day,
Speaker 2: even when those events were far from humorous. They asked
Speaker 2: about the challenge of writing so much Trump material, Stack said,
Speaker 2: he was just everywhere, all the time for the last
Speaker 2: ten years. That was something that none of us saw
Speaker 2: coming when the show started. I think the main challenge
Speaker 2: for all the writers, Steven included has been trying to
Speaker 2: lighten the emotional loads so many people carry around with
Speaker 2: them with Trump in the news twenty four to seven,
Speaker 2: year after year. Druss me, We've always welcomed the chance
Speaker 2: to write about literally anything else, especially fun silly stuff.
Speaker 2: On Conan Shows, if we dealt with politics, it was
Speaker 2: usually in a very silly, cartoony way. I don't mean
Speaker 2: cartoony in a pejorative sense. I just mean that if
Speaker 2: Robert Smigel was doing his Clinton character, he played it
Speaker 2: more like a crazy, good old boy. Chicago Magazine asked Stack,
Speaker 2: is a writer's day at the Late Show so much
Speaker 2: different than the Conan Shows? Interesting answer? Stack said, it is.
Speaker 2: Actually with Conan would start a little later in the morning,
Speaker 2: maybe around ten thirty or eleven, but would often be
Speaker 2: there until after midnight. I'd be on the one am
Speaker 2: train home of the suburbs. At the late show, we
Speaker 2: tend to get in earlier and get a jump on
Speaker 2: the day's headlines and leave earlier. And we tend to
Speaker 2: work in pairs on monologue stories and things like that,
Speaker 2: because Steven's show is much more monologue centric and there
Speaker 2: are big chunks of material about each story. We all
Speaker 2: work on the monologues as well as the other bits.
Speaker 2: I'd never been a monologu writer till I worked with
Speaker 2: Stephen's show. Uh oh, who's the better boss, Steven or Conan?
Speaker 2: More important? Who's funnier? How are you going to answer that?
Speaker 2: Stack laughed and said, what are the funny differences between
Speaker 2: Stephen and Conan? Is a lot of times you see
Speaker 2: Stephen in the hall or something, and he'll talk to
Speaker 2: you as Steven about something that's really going on. With Conan.
Speaker 2: In all my eighteen years there, I rarely had more
Speaker 2: than one or two genuine conversations with him. He was
Speaker 2: doing some bit in the hallway, or he'd come in
Speaker 2: with his guitar or a silly cap on his head
Speaker 2: and start doing a bit for us. He was always
Speaker 2: so playfully abusive, and he only does it to people
Speaker 2: he likes or loves. If you don't know Conan, sometimes
Speaker 2: people think it's somehow coming from a real place, and
Speaker 2: it's not. I remember what I was leaving and asking
Speaker 2: for his blessing to go to Steven's show. He was
Speaker 2: so nice about it and generous and understanding. I was thinking,
Speaker 2: why does this feel so weird? Oh, this might be
Speaker 2: the first sincere conversation I had with him in eighteen years.
Speaker 2: Stephen could be hilarious too when he's kidding around with us,
Speaker 2: but it's different. He and Conan both come from big family,
Speaker 2: so I think they're used to giving crap. Another thing
Speaker 2: I love about both of them is they love it
Speaker 2: when other people give them crap. I don't want to overgeneralize,
Speaker 2: but in comedians there's often a lot of self doubt.
Speaker 2: When people give it back and nail you feels like
Speaker 2: you're in a warm bath. A lot more here. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'll save that for like a July fourth pre record.
Speaker 2: You'll find the full piece in Chicago Magazine out today
Speaker 2: on Gorilla Comedy plus Emmy Blotneck's What's Her Secret? John
Speaker 2: Stewart still mad at Apple TV. On The Weekly Show,
Speaker 2: Stuart compared his time with the Apple folks to an
Speaker 2: abusive relationship. John said, Apple made it untenable for us
Speaker 2: to continue doing our show, and then Apple fired me. Well,
Speaker 2: they didn't really fire me. They just told me to
Speaker 2: work there, I'd have to disown everything that I'd ever
Speaker 2: held dear and so I left. That show went from
Speaker 2: September thirtieth, twenty twenty one to October twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I think I watched half of one episode once and
Speaker 2: just wasn't John at his best. Stewart said of his
Speaker 2: time at Apple, you know what it was self care.
Speaker 2: I was walking out of what was becoming an abusive relationship.
Speaker 2: And if you've ever been in an abusive relationship with
Speaker 2: a multinational conglomerate, the hard part about breaking up with
Speaker 2: Apple is that all the breakup songs are on their technology.
Speaker 2: It's almost impossible to avoid very difficult. BBC Comedy boss
Speaker 2: John Petree says his genre competing with big budget dramas
Speaker 2: at the BBC is like being the Prince Harry of
Speaker 2: the TV Royal Family. He says comedy has to fight
Speaker 2: harder than it should for attention, for status and sometimes
Speaker 2: for survival. Hey, John Petrie, check out our sister podcast,
Speaker 2: Pallace Intrigue. We talk about Harry all the time. You
Speaker 2: might like it. Petrie says he intends to camp outside
Speaker 2: new BBC Director General Matt Britton's office to make sure
Speaker 2: he understands just how vital it is that the BBC
Speaker 2: keeps back in comedy because the BBC does not back
Speaker 2: comedy to make money, we back it for laughs. Well
Speaker 2: a sequel to that story. John Petrie was at the
Speaker 2: BBC Comedy Festival and Live and announce ten new and
Speaker 2: returning shows. Returning shows include Amandoland, Black Ops, Am, I
Speaker 2: Being Unreasonable, Things you should have done, such Brave Girls
Speaker 2: and Mammoth. Sitcom Two Doors Down comes back for an
Speaker 2: eighth series, and you can watch comedy on BBC I Player.
Speaker 2: I got three letters for you, VP and N. Also,
Speaker 2: you might want to google the phrase London postal code
Speaker 2: if you know you know. That's your comedy news for today.
Speaker 2: I'll see tomorrow