Speaker 1: Callaroga shark media man. I went to LA for the weekend,
Speaker 1: and so much happened while I was away. I have
Speaker 1: so much today that I'm bouncing major stuff tomorrow. The
Speaker 1: Sebastian maniscatcoal trailer has me out of my mind. But
Speaker 1: that's gonna be tomorrow's leadoff story. I'll probably tape Tuesday
Speaker 1: and Wednesday back to back because I'm so fired up. Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. But we
Speaker 1: got to talk about Nicki Glazer on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: I don't want to lead you with my opinion, so
Speaker 1: I'll do a story or two and then i'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I thought. But I headlined from USA today.
Speaker 1: I believe this was comedian Nicki Glazer calls SNL debut
Speaker 1: a dream a mid monologue backlash. That's right, there is
Speaker 1: monologue backlash. Nicki posted on social media posts to come
Speaker 1: when I fully wake up. But oh my god, I
Speaker 1: can't believe how amazing this cast and crew was. As
Speaker 1: a fan of the show, I just have to tell
Speaker 1: all the other fans that everyone at SNL is just
Speaker 1: as talented, elite, cool and kind as you'd hope it'd
Speaker 1: be literally everyone. It was a dream, all caps. I'll
Speaker 1: never get over it. Now I'll start to play my cards.
Speaker 1: I'll flip one card. So I watched the monologue. I
Speaker 1: didn't have a problem with the monologue's content. I had
Speaker 1: the problem with the monologue being by wrote. I was
Speaker 1: texting on the side with the host of the Letterman podcast,
Speaker 1: Mike Chisholm, and I said, it just felt like she
Speaker 1: was doing jokes like, for example, Mike, who you may remain?
Speaker 1: And I was Canadian. Mike went to the store. He
Speaker 1: was so polite, take a beat because he's Canadian, and
Speaker 1: it just felt like that type of joke where you
Speaker 1: tell a story and then you do the beat and
Speaker 1: then you do the headfake, and I felt like she
Speaker 1: was just doing that. Her sketches, I thought were fantastic.
Speaker 1: I'll come back to that. But as part of this
Speaker 1: monologue controversy, as I started to read this USA Today article,
Speaker 1: they were saying the things the monologue was about, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I don't think I want to
Speaker 1: say that, because they're the type of things that get
Speaker 1: flagged by content services. So maybe some do have a
Speaker 1: point here. Nicki opened up and of course told much
Speaker 1: better by Nicki. She opened up by saying, here I
Speaker 1: am in New York City, Epstein's original island. And I
Speaker 1: may have actually told that better, because when I watched
Speaker 1: it on the DVR after the four PM games on Sunday,
Speaker 1: I think she kind of swallowed the word Epstein, and
Speaker 1: I missed the joke. I had to go back. So
Speaker 1: later in the monologue she started talking about people being
Speaker 1: trafficked and the signs, quoting Nicki Glazer. Here, they're in
Speaker 1: every stall, They're in every language. I mean, English is
Speaker 1: really tiny. It's like you wish men's restrooms don't have
Speaker 1: these signs. I don't know what signs you have. Do
Speaker 1: you have signs that are like want to sleeve? She
Speaker 1: then did make a joke about violent assault on women
Speaker 1: that I don't want to repeat, so you can factor
Speaker 1: that into your evaluation if you didn't see it, that
Speaker 1: it's a joke John's not comfortable repeating. She then went
Speaker 1: on to joke about how she's certain her boyfriend will
Speaker 1: murder me someday, and then did some material that was
Speaker 1: about showering with a younger person, which I probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: get into here either. So again, there may be some
Speaker 1: validity to the controversy. But when I watched the show,
Speaker 1: I wasn't like, oh, outratous. So my take, you know,
Speaker 1: whether or not there's a controversy about the content. I
Speaker 1: just didn't think it was a monologue. I just didn't
Speaker 1: find it funny. But she was great at the sketches.
Speaker 1: Yahoo recapped the entire episode for me, Thank you. The
Speaker 1: opener with President Trump in the Oval office as somebody
Speaker 1: passes out James Louston Johnson boy, I loved him when
Speaker 1: he first started doing Trump on SNL. I'm now all
Speaker 1: the way to the point maybe Lorne Michaels needs to
Speaker 1: consider someone else doing Trump. I know what a major
Speaker 1: move that would be. But James's Trump is just he
Speaker 1: didn't have it this week. It's it's off Mark and
Speaker 1: I don't know if they had a bad crowd or what,
Speaker 1: but the crowd seemed to be with me that that
Speaker 1: opening segment didn't fly all right. Then the monologue already
Speaker 1: discussed a pre record with NICKI doing a commercial for
Speaker 1: a medication that makes you sick enough to credibly cancel
Speaker 1: your appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show. NICKI was very
Speaker 1: good in that. Then a sketch about family karaoke, Sarah
Speaker 1: Sherman crushing as always, NICKI showing she's got some acting
Speaker 1: chops in that one. Beauty and Mister Beast. I thought
Speaker 1: that was pretty funny. American Girl Doll XL was solid.
Speaker 1: I'll circle back to the News for reasons which will
Speaker 1: become clear in a minute. And then on the News,
Speaker 1: Pete Davidson showed up. Pete Davidson said, in case you're
Speaker 1: wondering why I had to do a show in Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 1: we're losing millions on this ferry. I assume that's what
Speaker 1: the article says. I can't spend five dollars on a
Speaker 1: pay wall when I got a kid on the way.
Speaker 1: I'm just excited to be a dad and to give
Speaker 1: it all the energy enthusiasm I never had for this show.
Speaker 1: Pete also got off a good line about Lorne Michaels, saying,
Speaker 1: if Louren Michaels has taught us anything, it's that you
Speaker 1: never ever give up, even if everyone says the time
Speaker 1: has come and Tina Fey is ready to take over.
Speaker 1: Pete talked about the new mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1: If you're not from the New York City area. You
Speaker 1: might want to get yourself familiar with this. Mom, Donnie Fellow,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a national figure for
Speaker 1: a few months here. Pete said, I have a message
Speaker 1: for everyone who did not vote for our new mayor,
Speaker 1: Hey statn Islanders, which is an on point joke. If
Speaker 1: you look at the mayoral electoral if you look at
Speaker 1: the voting results, let me pull it up for you.
Speaker 1: As you may know, New York City has five boroughs.
Speaker 1: Manhattan is what most to outsiders would think New York
Speaker 1: City is in Manhattan zoorun Mum. Donnie got fifty two
Speaker 1: point seven percent of the vote. Queen's where I'm from,
Speaker 1: but I did not vote because I'm now a New
Speaker 1: Jersey resident. He got forty seven point three, the Bronx
Speaker 1: fifty one and a half, Brooklyn fifty six point eight,
Speaker 1: Staten Island twenty two point seven, losing to Andrew Combo,
Speaker 1: who ran as an independent and got fifty five point four.
Speaker 1: So hence Pete Davison's joke. Pete said, did you promise
Speaker 1: to move out of New York if Ma'm Donnie one?
Speaker 1: But if too many warrants in New Jersey and not
Speaker 1: enough guns for Florida, Welcome to New Staten Island, and
Speaker 1: showed a picture of the ferry. We can't call it
Speaker 1: the Titanic anymore since the people on this ship will
Speaker 1: actually love running into ice. Good material there, I don't
Speaker 1: think he delivered it that well. I think the writing
Speaker 1: was better than Pete's performance. Pete told people I had
Speaker 1: a great time hosting last time, and anytime you get
Speaker 1: that call, it's an honor and a privilege to return
Speaker 1: to SNL. It's always relevant, it's a hot show. People
Speaker 1: look forward to it, and the cast is great. He
Speaker 1: said of Lorne Michaels. I owe that guy in my life.
Speaker 1: He jump started everything. So I do anything for Lorn
Speaker 1: and he knows that. So I went to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: for five minutes. They decided to announce the Grammy nominees
Speaker 1: Best Comedy Album Quick Time out Here. If you are
Speaker 1: a longtime listener, you've heard this before. If you are
Speaker 1: relatively new, you may not have. Johnny Mack gets annoyed
Speaker 1: that things that Johnny Mack considers to be quote unquote
Speaker 1: Netflix specials get nominated for Grammys. I personally feel that
Speaker 1: a comedy album should be, you know, an album, Bruce
Speaker 1: Springsteen Born in the USA. That's an album, It's not
Speaker 1: a Netflix special. Some of these things, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: they're albums, But the Academy clearly disagrees with me. These
Speaker 1: nominations are horrible. This is just really bad. Okay. The
Speaker 1: nominees for Best Comedy Album, Bill Burr for his worst
Speaker 1: special drop Dead Years, and you could see that going
Speaker 1: to re odd really affected Bill Burr's career. Ali Wong's
Speaker 1: single Lady not her best special. Nate Bergetzi's Your Friend,
Speaker 1: Nate Berghetzi not his best special. But okay, my former
Speaker 1: coworker Jamie Fox, what had happened was I felt like
Speaker 1: Jamie just doing a performance. And I understand that all
Speaker 1: of these are a performance, but I really felt like
Speaker 1: Jamie was pulling out his Academy Award winning chops to
Speaker 1: pull your emotional strings. It just didn't feel like a
Speaker 1: genuine performance to me. I felt like he was acting
Speaker 1: it out to get the crowd going. So no doubt
Speaker 1: out of these five to me, Sarah Silverman's post Mortem,
Speaker 1: which I think i've pretty high up on my list. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I right now have Sarah at seven my list. Really quickly,
Speaker 1: if you want to count it a stand up or not.
Speaker 1: The Conan O'Brien, Mark Twain ward. It is far and
Speaker 1: away the best thing of the year, if you want
Speaker 1: to throw that out. Mark Marin's special now that should
Speaker 1: have been nominated for a Grammy. It's Mark's best special.
Speaker 1: He's at peak Marin. I don't know how that's not nominated.
Speaker 1: Going down my list from there, Jim Jeffrey's, Justin Willman,
Speaker 1: Dusty Slay Krasier, Brett Goldstein's HBO special from April is
Speaker 1: really underrated, Michelle Wolf, Sarah Silverman, matte Ola, and Tim Dillon.
Speaker 1: I don't get a vote, but I would vote for
Speaker 1: Sarah Silverman over It's a no brainer. While I left
Speaker 1: down for five minutes, Variety and the New York Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival announced that Jim Gaffigan will receive Variety's inaugural Comedy
Speaker 1: Vanguard Award that was going to be presented on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: I've not seen any post mortem on Jim winning the award.
Speaker 1: There is leading into that, a big shiny fluff piece
Speaker 1: wax job in Variety, but too busy today to get
Speaker 1: to that. Maybe tomorrow. The inaugural Vanguard Award recognizes Jim
Speaker 1: Gaffigan's trailblazing contributions to comedy and his remarkable career milestones.
Speaker 1: Time out, trailblazing? Is Jim Gaffigan one of the top comedians? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Is he funny more often than not? Trailblazing? Why? Based
Speaker 1: on what what has Jim done that nobody has done before? Anyway,
Speaker 1: The award recognizes Jim Gaffigan's trailblazing contributions to comedy and
Speaker 1: his remarkable career milestones. Caroline Hirsch said, Jim Gaffigan has
Speaker 1: been making us laugh since the very beginning of his career,
Speaker 1: and I've had the pleasure of watching him grow into
Speaker 1: one of the most expected and beloved voices and comedy today.
Speaker 1: His originality, consistency, and sheer brilliance on stage make him
Speaker 1: the perfect recipient of this inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award. You
Speaker 1: know that John Stewart is at your event, Caroline right,
Speaker 1: No one is more deserving, and Jim truly represents the
Speaker 1: spirit of innovation and excellence that this honor celebrates. There
Speaker 1: was a mystery with Jimmy Kimmel's show. Jimmy Kimmel's Show
Speaker 1: did not air Thursday. Well, a rerun air, but there
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a new episode. It was unexpectedly
Speaker 1: pulled just hours before airing, reportedly over quotes a personal matter,
Speaker 1: So I don't want to make light of it. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the personal matter is. I hope everything's
Speaker 1: okay in the Kimmel household and friends and family and
Speaker 1: all that's good, But of course a Jimmy Kimmel episode
Speaker 1: not airing is going to be major news. These scheduled
Speaker 1: guests included David Ducovney, Joe Keery from Stranger Things, and
Speaker 1: singer Madison Beer. It was Madison Beer who broke the
Speaker 1: news on social media at six thirty three pm Eastern
Speaker 1: Time on Thursday, as Johnny Mack was on a plane.
Speaker 1: Madison Beer tweeted, due to unforeseen circumstances, Jimmy Kimmel Alive
Speaker 1: needed to reschedule my performance that was originally scheduled to
Speaker 1: air tonight to a later date. There's also a story
Speaker 1: going around that Jimmy Kimmel's wife, Molly, admitted she fired
Speaker 1: off many emails to Trump supporting family members begging them
Speaker 1: not to vote for Trump in last year's election, and
Speaker 1: has since cut ties with her right wing relatives. This
Speaker 1: is not hearsay. She said this on the We Can
Speaker 1: Do Hard Things podcast. Molly said, I've spent many emails
Speaker 1: to my family, like right before the election, saying I'm
Speaker 1: begging you, here's the ten reasons not to vote for
Speaker 1: this guy, Please don't and either got ignored by ninety
Speaker 1: percent of them or got truly insane responses from a few.
Speaker 1: It hurts me so much because of the personal relationships
Speaker 1: I now have where my husband is out there fighting
Speaker 1: this man and me. Them voting for Trump is them
Speaker 1: not voting for my husband and me and our family,
Speaker 1: and I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people
Speaker 1: and my family because of it. Molly said she was
Speaker 1: angry all the time at certain aunt's, uncles and cousins
Speaker 1: for helpings to elect Trump, yet says she feels sympathy
Speaker 1: for them, calling them deliberately misinformed. On a related note,
Speaker 1: Oscar Isaac, you may know him from Star Wars movies.
Speaker 1: He did an interview with g Q. Would he return
Speaker 1: to Star Wars because you know, Star Wars is owned
Speaker 1: by ABC and Disney and the you know, the support
Speaker 1: is a fascism. You know those guys well, Oscar Isaac said,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd be open to it, although right now
Speaker 1: I'm not open to working with Disney, but if they
Speaker 1: can kind of figure it out, you know, not to
Speaker 1: succumb to fascism, that would be great. If that happens,
Speaker 1: then yeah, I'd be open having a conversation about a
Speaker 1: galaxy far away or any number of other things. You see.
Speaker 1: Oscar Isaac is not one of those guys who'd be like,
Speaker 1: you know, this chair is really comfortable. I've got a
Speaker 1: Roku in my hand. All I have to do is
Speaker 1: push the Hulu button and I can watch Scrubs. No,
Speaker 1: Oscar Isaac is not one of those people. He goes
Speaker 1: upstairs to the main level and then one more level
Speaker 1: to the DVD closet, and he pulls out the Scrubs DVDs,
Speaker 1: walks all the way back downstairs, fires up the PlayStation five,
Speaker 1: puts in a disc, and then hits play. He doesn't
Speaker 1: just watch Hulu. No, he's not one of those people. Now,
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack, I have YouTube TV right now. Now we
Speaker 1: don't even get Disney channels. So even if I wanted
Speaker 1: to support fascism, I can't watch you their products, nor
Speaker 1: can I support you my camble By watching, and that's
Speaker 1: a whole other thing. We don't get ESPN, we don't
Speaker 1: get ABC. But I'll tell you one thing, and listener
Speaker 1: Scott Beckett knows this. I don't need to watch Monday
Speaker 1: Night football. You know why my picks were so good
Speaker 1: this week. I wrapped up the whole week before Monday
Speaker 1: night football. Oh. Speaking of football, the Carolina Panthers they
Speaker 1: still are not sure about a penalty called on running
Speaker 1: back Ricodeel last weekend, so they asked Mac packer Keegan
Speaker 1: Michael Key. Yeah, Keag and Michael Key was at a
Speaker 1: Panthers team meeting on Saturday to give the final determination
Speaker 1: on whether or not the questionable touchdown celebration should have
Speaker 1: resulted in a penalty. The Panthers head coach said, let's
Speaker 1: get an expert. Can we get Keag and Michael Key
Speaker 1: to explain this to us? Via video? Keegan Michael Key appeared.
Speaker 1: He said, I just want to say that I'm very
Speaker 1: honored that you would choose a key and Peel sketch
Speaker 1: for your celebrations. That's the whole thing here. The reason
Speaker 1: I'm here is I wanted to share with you guys,
Speaker 1: jecially with you, Rico, is that I've done my recent
Speaker 1: research and apparently I guess the rules that are made
Speaker 1: up in a comedy sketch do not necessarily reflect the
Speaker 1: rules of the NFL. Daddell's agent said they would appeal
Speaker 1: the fine, and ESPN reports to find his fourteen four
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety one dollars. Keag and Michael Key did
Speaker 1: some math regarding the fine and said, fourteen thousand dollars
Speaker 1: for two pumps. That's seven grand a pump. That means
Speaker 1: if you do zero pumps then it would cost you
Speaker 1: zero thousand dollars and a fine. Keek and Michael Key
Speaker 1: originally responded to the penalty. Last Monday. He had posted
Speaker 1: a video saying, Rico, you got robbed. You only did
Speaker 1: two pumps. I'm sorry, man, I'm gonna have to write
Speaker 1: a new sketch. We are long today and I didn't
Speaker 1: even rant about Sebastian Maniscalco's new trailer. That's tomorrow New
Speaker 1: York Comedy Festival. Have they fixed the website? Let's find out. Well,
Speaker 1: it's scrolling well today. I mean, I wish I could
Speaker 1: just click on Tuesday and not have to scroll through
Speaker 1: shows that are in the past. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do with that information, but okay, I'll scroll.
Speaker 1: Still haven't seen any like massive headliners. Later in the
Speaker 1: week is skang Fest in New Orleans. I'll talk about
Speaker 1: that on Friday. Wait, do you see the lineup for
Speaker 1: skang Fest and you'll see what I'm talking about. How
Speaker 1: New York, despite Jim Gaffigan winning the Vanguard Award, doesn't
Speaker 1: have the star power this year. Tell you what today,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read you everything. I won't get into spesticifity,
Speaker 1: but you'll see what I'm talking about here right Seven
Speaker 1: o'clock Kennon Fodder seven o'clock Hilarious, Habibi's seven o'clock Longtime,
Speaker 1: No See Comedy, seven o'clock Hour Findings, seven o'clock, Todd
Speaker 1: Glass Again seven o'clock, Pete Lee seven o'clock The Woke
Speaker 1: Woke West seven o'clock Donnell Rawlings. So so far, that's
Speaker 1: the biggest name today. Vanessa Gonzales at seven, The Infinite
Speaker 1: Wrench hits the main stage at seven, Tamua headlining at seven,
Speaker 1: Gag and Squirt seven thirty, Pretty Major, seven thirty Teacher
Speaker 1: Reverse Teacher with Sam Salem and Aaron Monte at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: Good Show Visit seven thirty, Hersterical seven thirty, Morgan Jay
Speaker 1: at eight Is Morgan Jay the biggest name today? Or
Speaker 1: Donnell see what I'm saying? Celebrity drop in at eight.
Speaker 1: Mama's Boy Comedy at eight, No Not Like Other Girls
Speaker 1: at eight, Stamptown at eight, Stata Cat Comedy at eight,
Speaker 1: Cheek As You Should Know at eight, Bianca Cristavo at
Speaker 1: eight thirty, Wildcard Comedy at eight thirty. M A. Willman
Speaker 1: at nine. Love in the Time of Fifth Grade at nine,
Speaker 1: kel Crepe Does Stand Up nine to fifteen, No Ceilings
Speaker 1: Comedy nine thirty, Science Tonight nine thirty, E TEENA Frimmel
Speaker 1: nine thirty, Baby at nine thirty, The Yard Sale Girls
Speaker 1: at nine thirty, Sauna Comedy nine thirty, We Fix You
Speaker 1: nine thirty, Jackie Fabulous nine forty five. Live from the
Speaker 1: Algorithm with Julie Dissisi at ten o'clock, Stata Cat Comedy,
Speaker 1: ten o'clock Comics to Watch ten o'clock, Shane Smith at
Speaker 1: ten thirty. So I just trit to, I mean critical
Speaker 1: mass absolutely, but understand this is New York City. So
Speaker 1: even though you do forty shows, they can be quite
Speaker 1: under visible. I'll call it right. The New York Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival presents Comics to watch the annual live stand up
Speaker 1: showcase featuring the very best new comedians from around the country.
Speaker 1: One day you'll say you saw them here. First REP
Speaker 1: Showcases November eleventh and fourteenth. I'm not familiar with these names,
Speaker 1: but they are Gray West, Nate Meeker, Tachiana Frank Thash Mose,
Speaker 1: Rachel Williams, Ellen, Harold Matt Ross, Turner Sparks, David Drake,
Speaker 1: Jamal Russell, Leah Samson, Josh Ocean Thomas. Good luck to
Speaker 1: the comics to watch REPPT And let's get out there,
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna hit save and immediately record Wednesday's show
Speaker 1: because I got to get the Sebastian Man of Scheco
Speaker 1: thing out of my system here. And how long do
Speaker 1: you want the show to be? I mean it's long.
Speaker 1: You got a nice, healthy show today. Don't write me
Speaker 1: a letter. See you tomorrow.