Speaker 1: Kaleroga Shock Media.
Speaker 2: And I'm Johnny Magan. We're continuing to follow the death
Speaker 2: of Rob Reiner. I will continue to do these as
Speaker 2: standalone episodes and focus it through the lens of stand
Speaker 2: up comedy. Jerry Seinfeld called Rob Reiner the biggest influence
Speaker 2: on my career. Seinfeld explained the show Seinfeld would never
Speaker 2: have happened without Rob Reiner. He saw something no one
Speaker 2: else could when nobody at the network. Like the early episodes,
Speaker 2: he saved us from cancelation. That I was working with
Speaker 2: Carl Reiner's son, who happened to be one of the
Speaker 2: kindest people in show business seemed unreal. I was naive
Speaker 2: at the time to how much his passion for us meant.
Speaker 2: Seinfeld praised Rob's marriage to Michelle Singer, calling it an
Speaker 2: imprint for me of how it's supposed to work, each
Speaker 2: one broadening the other. Their death together is impossibly sad.
Speaker 2: Rob Reiner was on The Howard Stern Show in twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen and explained how Castle Rock recognized the potential of
Speaker 2: the Seinfeld series. Rob defended it to NBC. As Rob
Speaker 2: told the story to Howard, NBC said, we can't have
Speaker 2: the show. What is the show, just people sitting around talking.
Speaker 2: As Rob told it, I said, please, I promise you
Speaker 2: there'll be stories. You can't take the show off the air.
Speaker 2: It's going to be one of the great shows you've
Speaker 2: ever had. I mentioned at the end of yesterday's Bonus
Speaker 2: episode at the President of the United States just made
Speaker 2: some terrible, horrible comments. I'm not gonna pull any punches here,
Speaker 2: just awful. Jimmy Kimmel spoke about those comments at length.
Speaker 2: I'm going to play a very long clip here from
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel, but I don't think it could be said better.
Speaker 3: Here in Los Angeles, the murder of one of our
Speaker 3: greatest directors and patriots, Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Reiner.
Speaker 3: And what we need in a time like this, besides
Speaker 3: common sense when it comes to guns and mental health care,
Speaker 3: is compassion and leadership. We did not get that from
Speaker 3: our president because he has none of it to give. Instead,
Speaker 3: we got a full rambling about nonsense. We got a
Speaker 3: brief moment of respect for our friends in Australia. We
Speaker 3: got a brief moment of condolence followed by a thing's
Speaker 3: happened for the students at Brown and for Robin Michelle Reiner.
Speaker 3: We got this posts. A very sad thing happened last
Speaker 3: night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but
Speaker 3: once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed
Speaker 3: away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the
Speaker 3: anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable reflection.
Speaker 4: With a mind.
Speaker 3: Crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome sometimes referred to
Speaker 3: as TDS. He was known to have driven people crazy
Speaker 3: by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with
Speaker 3: his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration
Speaker 3: surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the
Speaker 3: Golden Age of America upon us perhaps like never before.
Speaker 4: May Robin Michelle rest in peace.
Speaker 3: Just when you think he can't go any lower, he
Speaker 3: somehow finds.
Speaker 4: A way to do that.
Speaker 3: His description of what happened, of course, is not at
Speaker 3: all what happened, And this is exactly what I've spoken
Speaker 3: about before, this rush to pin the tale on the
Speaker 3: donkey in pursuit of the Trump friendly narrative, not to
Speaker 3: mention blaming his death on the fact that he is
Speaker 3: an outspoken liberal, insulting someone who's just been murdered, who
Speaker 3: leaves children behind without having any idea of what actually happened.
Speaker 3: It's so hateful and vile. When I first saw it,
Speaker 3: I thought it was fake. My wife showed to me
Speaker 3: this morning, was like, well lad even for him, that
Speaker 3: seemed like too much, but nothing.
Speaker 4: Is ever too much for him.
Speaker 3: Of course, he won't see the Fox newsgang screaming about
Speaker 3: this one, but a couple of Republicans did, to their credit,
Speaker 3: two of them, I think, And so a few hours
Speaker 3: later a White House reporter gave Trump the chance to
Speaker 3: take another shot, to act like a human being.
Speaker 5: Amber of Republicans have announced your statement hundred social murder and.
Speaker 4: Rob Ryer.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was
Speaker 5: a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. He
Speaker 5: said he likely knew it was false. Is the exact
Speaker 5: opposite that I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia,
Speaker 5: you know, the Russia hopes he was one of the
Speaker 5: people behind it. I think he heard himself in career wise,
Speaker 5: he became like a deranged person Trump derangement syndrome. So
Speaker 5: I was not a fan of Reiner at all in
Speaker 5: any way, shape or form. I thought he was very
Speaker 5: bad for our country.
Speaker 3: Guy that corroded brain is in charge of our lives.
Speaker 3: If you voted for that, it's okay to reconsider. It's
Speaker 3: perfectly fine. And I'm to say I know ver my
Speaker 3: personal interacts with Rob Reiner, that he would want us
Speaker 3: to keep pointing out the loathso atrocities that continue to
Speaker 3: ooze out of this sick and irresponsible man's mouths.
Speaker 4: And so we're going to do that over and over
Speaker 4: again until the rest of us wake up.
Speaker 2: On that episode, guest Michelle Obama, this is really interesting.
Speaker 2: Listen to this. Michelle said, We've known them for years,
Speaker 2: many years, and we were supposed to be seeing them
Speaker 2: that night. Wow. I don't want to speculate. I don't
Speaker 2: know where the meeting would have taken place, but boy,
Speaker 2: very easy to let your mind run wild with that one.
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert did a cold open.
Speaker 4: Hi, everybody.
Speaker 1: Normally we start the show with a short cold open
Speaker 1: about a major news story of the day, but after
Speaker 1: the terrible news this past weekend, the horrifying Honokah massacre
Speaker 1: at Bondi Beach, the tragic shootings at Brown University, and
Speaker 1: the heartbreaking deaths of Rob and Michelle Reiner. All the
Speaker 1: major stories are.
Speaker 4: Too dark for that.
Speaker 1: Other people's tragedy is sacred ground, and we try very
Speaker 1: hard not to walk there. But we are going to
Speaker 1: do a comedy show tonight in light of and in
Speaker 1: spite of the darkness.
Speaker 2: Seth Meyer has got very serious. He did seven minutes
Speaker 2: about the Reiners, but I'll play just a chunk here
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 6: We all got the news that Rob and Michelle Reiner
Speaker 6: had been murdered in their homes. I did not know
Speaker 6: Rob Michelle very well, but I'd been lucky enough to
Speaker 6: spend time with them, and they were delightful people to
Speaker 6: be in a room with. I had Rob here on
Speaker 6: this show for the first time a couple months ago,
Speaker 6: and I could have talked to him for hours about
Speaker 6: his work, about his career. A few years ago, I
Speaker 6: was lucky enough to get invited to a hundredth birthday
Speaker 6: party for Norman Lear. Norman Lear was an incredible creator
Speaker 6: of television. He was the mind and the heart behind
Speaker 6: some of the greatest shows ever made. One of them
Speaker 6: was All in the Family. Rob had been in that show.
Speaker 6: Rob was also at that one hundredth birthday party, and
Speaker 6: Norman was one hundred years old and he was still
Speaker 6: very with it. I was sitting next to him, and
Speaker 6: he could hold a conversation. He was incredible to behold.
Speaker 6: At the end of the night, remember about forty or
Speaker 6: fifty people there, the host of the party said, does
Speaker 6: anybody here have anything? Thatsk Norman? And somebody said, Norman,
Speaker 6: how did your career start? How did you know you
Speaker 6: wanted to do what you did?
Speaker 4: And you know, he was a sharp one.
Speaker 6: Hundred year old man, but he was still one hundred
Speaker 6: year old man. He was sort of struggling to come
Speaker 6: up with a way to answer that question. And we
Speaker 6: were all patiently waiting, and then Rob just yelled out
Speaker 6: from the back of the room. He said, Norman, tell
Speaker 6: them the story about how you once hit in a
Speaker 6: birthday present. And then Norman launched into the story that
Speaker 6: he clearly told a hundred times, if not more, and
Speaker 6: it was just the most wonderful story and everyone was
Speaker 6: delighted in it. And as soon as one story ended, Rob,
Speaker 6: who'd know Norman for so long, would just yell out
Speaker 6: another greatest hit story, and Norman would tell another incredible
Speaker 6: tale and I know this sounds like a story about Norman,
Speaker 6: but it's also a really great story about Rob. Because
Speaker 6: Rob was known. Rob had this reputation for getting the
Speaker 6: best out of people, and if you watch his films,
Speaker 6: you know that is something he had the skill with.
Speaker 6: But to see him in person and know that's what
Speaker 6: it was like in his real life as well, it
Speaker 6: was just so truly special to see.
Speaker 2: Late Nighter reported that Jimmy Fallon did regular monologue jokes
Speaker 2: about Trump, but stayed away from the Reiner story. In time,
Speaker 2: Late Night Ers says that Jimmy addressed it in a
Speaker 2: straightforward post monologue expression of sadness without any mention of
Speaker 2: Trump's accompanying comments. Johnny Mack will add the opinion that
Speaker 2: is a poor decision by Jimmy Fallon. Jim Norton tweeted,
Speaker 2: just a heads up, it's okay to be sad about
Speaker 2: Rob Reiner's death without letting everyone know that you didn't
Speaker 2: agree with the politics. No one gives a whot. Continuing
Speaker 2: to focus this story through a stand up comedy lens
Speaker 2: and not getting into the gory details of it, but
Speaker 2: Conan O'Brien's name, making the story Rob Reiner and son,
Speaker 2: Nick Reiner, were involved in a heated argument on Saturday
Speaker 2: night at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party. Sources told people Nick
Speaker 2: was quote freaking everyone out, acting crazy, kept asking people
Speaker 2: if they were famous. TMZ reported that after the arguments,
Speaker 2: Robin Michelle left the party. It is unclear if Nick
Speaker 2: left the party at that time. At the National Comedy
Speaker 2: Center in j Jamestown, New York, executive director Journey Gunderson
Speaker 2: says Rob Reiner visited in twenty twenty with his family
Speaker 2: to cut the ribbon on the Karl Reiner Keep Laughing exhibit.
Speaker 2: Journey said it was incredible because it wasn't a moment
Speaker 2: about him, even though his career certainly stands on its own,
Speaker 2: both within comedy and outside of it. It was about
Speaker 2: honoring his father's legacy, and he had reverenced in humility,
Speaker 2: in this kind of steadfast intellect about anything comedic or
Speaker 2: when it came to the humanity of the art that
Speaker 2: his father had created, she recalls. In twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: Rob Reiner appeared on The Today Show to announce the
Speaker 2: Comedy Center's acquisition of Karl Reiner's archive. Journey said, my
Speaker 2: first meeting with Rob was to brief him on what
Speaker 2: he would then later find in Jamestown and our work
Speaker 2: at the National Comedy Center, and he really went to
Speaker 2: bat for us as a cultural institution because he believed
Speaker 2: in the mission and he believed in the cause. Gunderson said,
Speaker 2: not a day goes by at the Center where someone
Speaker 2: isn't laughing about Rob's own contributions, including This is Spinal Tap.
Speaker 2: She says it was a film that was largely improvised
Speaker 2: and collaborative, which is kind of rare. So many things
Speaker 2: are really scripted to a t. So in nineteen eighty
Speaker 2: four he comes out with his directorial debut of This
Speaker 2: Spinal Tap. Over the more than ten years since we
Speaker 2: started building the National Comedy Center, people come up to
Speaker 2: me all the time with their favorites, so their quote
Speaker 2: of all time, and it's many times that people tell
Speaker 2: me the original Spinal Tap is their favorite comedy. Gunnerson says,
Speaker 2: it feels like they've lost a leader of the entertainment community.
Speaker 2: Someone online said it best. They said, we've lost one
Speaker 2: of the few good men, and I thought that was
Speaker 2: well said. There was a regular episode in the feed
Speaker 2: earlier today. Back in the morning with a normal episode