Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, they're Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news Master Brownnie caught up with the ABC, you know,
Speaker 1: not the American Broadcasting Corporation whatever, the Australian one is
Speaker 1: called that ABC, and they started talking about Colbert Gate,
Speaker 1: and Mos said, I love Colbert. I get my news
Speaker 1: from Colbert. He makes the news fun. I knew that
Speaker 1: Trump was gonna come after the late night talk show hosts,
Speaker 1: but I didn't think it was going to be this way,
Speaker 1: where their own companies can them. I thought Trump would
Speaker 1: maybe send the irs out to audit them or something,
Speaker 1: just make their lives hard. Because Trump, unfortunately doesn't have
Speaker 1: a sense of humor. He doesn't have to take a joke,
Speaker 1: which is what dictatorships usually are like. The job of
Speaker 1: the comedian is to reveal the emperor has no clothes.
Speaker 1: I think we need to keep doing that. If we don't,
Speaker 1: we're gonna lose our democracy. I always say, the whole
Speaker 1: point of America is I can make fun of the
Speaker 1: president in America. I couldn't make fun of the president
Speaker 1: of Iran. That wouldn't work. We're slowly seeing, maybe even
Speaker 1: fastly seeing, the American democracy crumble, and I think now
Speaker 1: it falls on our shoulders more and more as comedians
Speaker 1: to make fun of Trump and poke at him. For
Speaker 1: my entire life in America, I've had to explain Iran.
Speaker 1: I just try to find funny ways to explain to
Speaker 1: people what I'm feeling. Like I say, I wish it
Speaker 1: were Swedish, because you were Swedish, you wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: explain anything, right, you just talk about a Kia and Abba.
Speaker 1: Being Iranian has been a challenge, but it's also obviously
Speaker 1: giving me plenty of material because I've been able to
Speaker 1: try and present people from Iran and other people from
Speaker 1: that part of the world, hopefully in a positive light
Speaker 1: versus what you see when they show us in the news.
Speaker 1: I worked with Mas at the Montreal Comedy Festivals. All
Speaker 1: my stories now fifteen twenty years old. Yeah, boy, it's
Speaker 1: got to be fifteen. Cool guy. I really enjoyed my
Speaker 1: time with him. Ma says, I grew up in America,
Speaker 1: so I always say that I'm not in Iran, but
Speaker 1: Iran is in me. I feel an affinity towards the
Speaker 1: country of Iran. I feel an affinity towards the Socrates
Speaker 1: when they play I feel an affinity towards the people.
Speaker 1: The Iranian people are some of the most hospitable people.
Speaker 1: It is a place in my heart. Iran is a
Speaker 1: cautionary tale of what happens when you mix religion with politics,
Speaker 1: and currently living in America, we're moving closer to becoming
Speaker 1: the Christian Republic of America is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Speaker 1: When I do a show, I have people of all backgrounds,
Speaker 1: all religions in the room. We're laughing together and we're
Speaker 1: humanizing each other. You get a room, We're have a Palestinian,
Speaker 1: you have a Jew, you have a Muslim, people from
Speaker 1: different backgrounds and we're laughing together, and then people realize, oh,
Speaker 1: he's human. I'm human like Maz a lot. Good guy.
Speaker 1: Bob oden Kirk is optimistic about comedy's future. He tells
Speaker 1: Din of Geek, I'm not that worried. With the Internet
Speaker 1: and YouTube and all the streamers. There's more comedy than
Speaker 1: there ever was, and there's more platforms and opportunities than
Speaker 1: there ever was. They tend to pay less, but then
Speaker 1: they pay something and there's more of them, so that's good.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest challenges can make a very good
Speaker 1: show now and almost nobody sees it because there's too
Speaker 1: much to sample. The industry kind of does this journey
Speaker 1: of expanding and contracting, expanding and contracting. So possibly we're
Speaker 1: going to contract a little bit. But I love how
Speaker 1: many platforms there are and how much variety we can see.
Speaker 1: As for Late Night, he says, some version of Late
Speaker 1: Night will continue. It's terrible what happened with Colbert, but
Speaker 1: I also feel I understand it. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: late night shows that are very similar to each other,
Speaker 1: and I can see how much is online now. A
Speaker 1: lot of my viewing is online, so I understand that
Speaker 1: it's going through these changes. I'm okay with it. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of opportunity for us. John Oliver
Speaker 1: was on Monica Lewinsky's podcast last week. John said, with
Speaker 1: all these stories going on, it brings something out of you,
Speaker 1: like it's there that anxiety that I thought i'd moved
Speaker 1: past the day I got my citizenship. John feels like
Speaker 1: attention is now being weaponized and that he himself can
Speaker 1: get sent back to the anxiety he felt for a
Speaker 1: very long time, very quick. It's not far from the surface,
Speaker 1: and it does feel personal. It's one of the things
Speaker 1: I get really mad about, and therefore I want to
Speaker 1: use our show to show Americans who may have heard
Speaker 1: things like come in the right way, just do things
Speaker 1: the right way, and not fully understand just how antithetical
Speaker 1: that is to the process that actually exists. Weirdly, in
Speaker 1: the Trump administration's defense, they said all this out loud.
Speaker 1: I think it's very convenient for people not to believe it,
Speaker 1: because then it feels like you could vote for them
Speaker 1: and think, yeah, sure, I voted for you, but I
Speaker 1: didn't vote for that. For people being chased across fields. Well, no,
Speaker 1: you did, though, because they again I can't believe I'm
Speaker 1: defending them. They did say this, they said all of it.
Speaker 1: You just chose not to believe it. The Guardian caught
Speaker 1: up with Jennif Friedman, Michelle Wolf and Sam Jay. They're
Speaker 1: at the fringe. The headline in The Guardian it felt
Speaker 1: like a scene from The Handmaid's Tale. US comics on
Speaker 1: the dangers of political satire. You now, before we get
Speaker 1: into the story, whatever you think of the politics of
Speaker 1: the story, that is the perception of the United States
Speaker 1: around the world right now. Again, the subheader US comics
Speaker 1: on the dangers of political satire. In The Guardian, they
Speaker 1: dusted off a story I told you about earlier in
Speaker 1: the year from Jennif Friedman. I'll fly through it quickly.
Speaker 1: She's in the Vancouver airport. She's heading home to the US.
Speaker 1: Someone she thought worked for airport security asked about her visit.
Speaker 1: She said, I was doing comedy. Then he asked, what
Speaker 1: do you joke about. I lightly flirted with him and
Speaker 1: was like everything other than airport's security. He didn't react
Speaker 1: at all. Then I realized he was border control. He
Speaker 1: asked again, what did you joke about. I froze because
Speaker 1: I'm a political comedian I know to say. Then he said,
Speaker 1: do you joke about politicians? The Guardian rights she made
Speaker 1: it home, but the incident stuck with her. She tells
Speaker 1: The Guardian it did feel like a scene out of
Speaker 1: The Handmaid's Tale. I'm a blonde, white woman who looks
Speaker 1: like a Republican's wife, and I have an American passport.
Speaker 1: But what if I had said, yes, don't we want
Speaker 1: to live in a country where you can joke about politicians,
Speaker 1: or we can joke about anything. Michelle Wolfe lives in Barcelona.
Speaker 1: These days, We're told she's yet to encounter border trouble,
Speaker 1: but with reports of people with green cards and citizens
Speaker 1: being detained, she says, I'm keeping an eye on it.
Speaker 1: She says, I feel like I have to address the
Speaker 1: whole America and Trump thing. People expect me to say
Speaker 1: something about it. I don't like making it a large
Speaker 1: part of my set because it bores me. There's always
Speaker 1: something crazy happening, but it's hard to come up with
Speaker 1: creative angles other than that. Can you believe this? Sam
Speaker 1: Jay says? How did we get here as Americans? Of course,
Speaker 1: I think race plays a large part in it, and
Speaker 1: how did these race relations get to the way they are?
Speaker 1: Not just blaming white people, but exploring the type of
Speaker 1: white people we're dealing with and why they might be
Speaker 1: the way they are their roots in England. She says,
Speaker 1: of Trump, he's the symptom of this, not the cause.
Speaker 1: This is a result of years and years of us
Speaker 1: doing it wrong. It's been building for a long time
Speaker 1: and a lot of different reasons. Sam Jay says, the
Speaker 1: mood in America chaos. There's no way to keep up.
Speaker 1: People are also very desensitized. Stuff just keeps happening in
Speaker 1: more extreme ways that people are losing a metric for it.
Speaker 1: The Guardian asks what does the future hold for US
Speaker 1: comedians Jennifer and says it's too soon to tell, but
Speaker 1: I think everybody exercising the US First Amendment in a
Speaker 1: way that's funny disarming is really important right now. I
Speaker 1: feel that article is a little alarmist. The BBC asked
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson or the things about the Internet that were
Speaker 1: you in terms of yourself as a comedian. Josh said,
Speaker 1: I think as lot as I stick to the attitudes
Speaker 1: I have now and the things are doing now, I
Speaker 1: don't have much to worry about. At some point after
Speaker 1: you realize what is yours and what is not. When
Speaker 1: you're becoming known for the first time, you might trick
Speaker 1: yourself into thinking it's just because of you, but really
Speaker 1: it's a moment. I think that what you do with
Speaker 1: that moment is very important. If you handle it well
Speaker 1: and carry yourself well, then you can establish yourself for
Speaker 1: a long time. It's not as if the most popular
Speaker 1: comedians we reference when we think about stand up comedy
Speaker 1: were flashing the pan. We think about the people who stayed.
Speaker 1: I think they stayed because of what was built around
Speaker 1: them and what they did with it. In Los Angeles Today,
Speaker 1: the Brody Stevens Festival of Friendship a benefit in honor
Speaker 1: of the late to Brody Stevens, who passed away in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. The event raises money and awareness for comedy
Speaker 1: gives back at the Comedy Store tonight at eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: Bill Burr, Robbie Hoffman, eleanor Kerrigan, Dean Delray, Dan Levy,
Speaker 1: and Doug Bentson all confirmed to attend. Paul Reiser is
Speaker 1: getting a sitcom with Fox untitled. The comedy series follows
Speaker 1: the dysfunctional fallout after the family has failed to launch
Speaker 1: twenty something. Sun is forced to work alongside his father,
Speaker 1: Paul Reiser in the less than glamorous New Jersey damaged
Speaker 1: goods business that sounds terrible. Just show a football game, guys.
Speaker 1: Bob Newhart will be honored in September. North Sheridan Road
Speaker 1: between Ardmore and Thorndale will be renamed for Bob Newhart.
Speaker 1: He used to live in a condo over there. Friday
Speaker 1: September fifth, which would have been Newhart's ninety sixth birthday.
Speaker 1: Bob Newhart born in nineteen twenty nine. In oak Park,
Speaker 1: attended Saint Ignatio's College Prep and Loyal University, where theater
Speaker 1: bears his name. Gossip Connor whispers in the street, Gossip
Speaker 1: conn probably Bopete, gossip conn awhere the rumors meet with
Speaker 1: Johnny Mackett's always a tree. Gossip Connor whisp business Tree,
Speaker 1: Gossip I have gone Probably gossip Cone wethers with me
Speaker 1: with Johnny Mactoe in the Tree. I really do walk
Speaker 1: around my house singing that song. It is Jorn Catchy
Speaker 1: on gossip Corner. Did Kathy Griffin have plastic surgery? Did
Speaker 1: she have a face lift? We asked Kathy Griffin why
Speaker 1: I didn't, but somebody did. Kathy Griffin said, you guys,
Speaker 1: I had a face lift. That's right. I talk about
Speaker 1: it now. I know it's not the most exciting thing.
Speaker 1: I just think it's funny that I'm even having one,
Speaker 1: because it's not like I'm known for my face. You
Speaker 1: talked about the doctor who did it and said he
Speaker 1: just looks at you and he's like, yeah, you got
Speaker 1: a lot of problem areas. I can't fix that. You
Speaker 1: have to live at that part. But okay, I can
Speaker 1: do this. We're gonna move this around and who did
Speaker 1: your last one? She says, they get really competitive about
Speaker 1: who did the last one. By the way, this is
Speaker 1: my third. Jimmy Kimmel still off this week, and Colbert's
Speaker 1: off for three weeks as well. That's interesting. Tiffany Hattish
Speaker 1: will host Kimmel's show. She replaces come Out on Gianni,
Speaker 1: who was originally announced a host this week. It is
Speaker 1: believed he has opted out because of scheduling conflicts for reels.
Speaker 1: He's in broad Way previews for his debut in Oh Mary,
Speaker 1: a dark comedy. If I were working on cbs L'sbeth,
Speaker 1: I would get my resume ready because they are taking
Speaker 1: on the Curse of Andy Richter. In case you don't
Speaker 1: pay attention, if Andy Richter appears on your show, it
Speaker 1: gets canceled. Even Conan O'Brien was unable to survive the
Speaker 1: Curse of Andy Richter. Andy will appear on Elle'sbeth. He
Speaker 1: will play the sidekick of Stephen Colbert's Scotty Bristol character.
Speaker 1: Andy Richter will play Mickey Munks, the hilarious but long
Speaker 1: suffering sidekick on Way Late with Scotty Bristol. That sounds
Speaker 1: hackier than hack out. Today on The eight hundred Pound
Speaker 1: Guerrilla available for early access, Moe Welch's Hollywood Forever, and
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack. You never talk about Howard Stern, I know
Speaker 1: in GQ, Vince Mancini, right, So Howard Stern went from
Speaker 1: shock jock to centrist cat dad. If his audience couldn't
Speaker 1: follow him, that's not his fault, Vince writes, I've been
Speaker 1: a loyal Sternee since he first became available to those
Speaker 1: of us on the West Coast in the late nineties.
Speaker 1: He never struck me as all that shocking. Despite everything
Speaker 1: that made it infamous, the show was more like comfort food,
Speaker 1: a way to be part of a conversation even when
Speaker 1: you were alone. When Stern moved to satellite, he immediately
Speaker 1: shelled out for a serious subscription that I probably couldn't afford,
Speaker 1: And with the show's replayed throughout the day, I could
Speaker 1: listen to them almost any time I wanted. It's easy
Speaker 1: to recount the hits, but good bits don't do much
Speaker 1: to pinpoint the actual appeal of the Howard Stern Show,
Speaker 1: which would broadcast for almost four hours every day well
Speaker 1: back in the day, I CARO could be four plus
Speaker 1: it started six and go to ten something. The show
Speaker 1: was a running hang that I can imagine myself being
Speaker 1: part of, and that sounds much easier to pull off
Speaker 1: than it actually is. It did. Yeah, I totally it
Speaker 1: felt like a hang you could imagine yourself being part of.
Speaker 1: I definitely, back in the day would have dreams that
Speaker 1: I was just like on the show, as like sixth Guy.
Speaker 1: These people felt like friends. I get it, Vince, who writes,
Speaker 1: I also haven't listened to Stern for probably fifteen years.
Speaker 1: I've been throwing that fifteen year number around myself. There's
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with this famous turnaway from cheap
Speaker 1: gags and casual sexism, is increasingly therapy influenced introspection, or
Speaker 1: his gradual slide into normy liberalism and dramatic like that.
Speaker 1: It just so happened that the explosion of podcasts, which
Speaker 1: we're free at first seem to coincide with my not
Speaker 1: having a car for the first time in my adult life.
Speaker 1: With so many different versions of a similar thing so
Speaker 1: widely and more easily available, my need for the Stern
Speaker 1: Show suddenly it didn't seem so pressing. I can't honestly
Speaker 1: say that I upgrew him. Had it been a more
Speaker 1: frictionless transaction. I might have stuck around, but I got
Speaker 1: out of the habit, and suddenly it seemed less important. Now.
Speaker 1: Part of getting out of the habit was when Howard
Speaker 1: cut down to three days. I still listened to him
Speaker 1: in the serious years, and like when the show was
Speaker 1: what did they do on Friday? Best of? Or like
Speaker 1: shuffling the stuff from early in the week. You know,
Speaker 1: you stop listening, you take enough vacations, you find something
Speaker 1: else to do. That's why I like, for example, I
Speaker 1: make sure the show always goes out. Do I pre tape? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Did I pre tape today's show? I did because I
Speaker 1: took a vacation day today. Did you notice until just now?
Speaker 1: Possibly not? Does it matter? Really doesn't. As Stern as
Speaker 1: aged and softened, his world seems to have gotten progressively smaller,
Speaker 1: not because he sold out or gone woke, or any
Speaker 1: other dramatic reasons his critics sight, but for more understandable reasons,
Speaker 1: like the fact that he's a hypochondria near billionaire with
Speaker 1: OCD who's seventy one years old and has been getting
Speaker 1: up at four am for most of his working life.
Speaker 1: His latter day career is proof that if nothing else.
Speaker 1: Evolving with the times looks a lot more dignified than
Speaker 1: trying to be the exact same person you were in
Speaker 1: two thousand and two. No, I get it. You know,
Speaker 1: at seventy one years old having young women in the
Speaker 1: studio and doing the sort of things he used to do.
Speaker 1: It's super creepy, you know, not a good look. But
Speaker 1: to pretend it never happened, that's my issue with Howard.
Speaker 1: To pretend that stuff never happened. Where are the clips?
Speaker 1: Why can't we watch the clips? We all know what happened.
Speaker 1: I've got some cassette tapes of the old Howard Stern show.
Speaker 1: We know these things went on. No, you do have
Speaker 1: to age gracefully. I totally get that. But to pretend
Speaker 1: the other parts didn't happen, that's the part that bugs
Speaker 1: me this whole. Howard Stern was the great interviewer. That narrative,
Speaker 1: that's nonsense. Howard Stern was the great shock shock and
Speaker 1: then the last ten years of his career decided to
Speaker 1: interview people. Just stop with the revisionist history. That's the
Speaker 1: part that annoys me. And that is your comedy needs
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