Speaker 1: Callaroga shark media heavy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Jonathan Kite
Speaker 2: has been doing these impressions of Anthony Bourdaine. He posted
Speaker 2: them on threads at Jonathan Kite. He goes to actual locations,
Speaker 2: he dresses up like Boardane. He does a great Boordaine impression.
Speaker 2: He's got the body type to pull it off too.
Speaker 2: I was watching this one that I'm about to play
Speaker 2: for you, and I was like, even if I did
Speaker 2: a great Boardine, I don't have the right body type
Speaker 2: at all. I could never pull off toll and Lean.
Speaker 2: But Jonathan Kite has this thing down. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: a little longer with this one than I normally do
Speaker 2: because it is Thanksgiving themed, and you know Kite's putting
Speaker 2: He's up on social media, so I don't think he's
Speaker 2: really trying to monetize them. I come in peace, really
Speaker 2: like your work. But here's Jonathan Kite as Anthony Bourdain.
Speaker 1: Welcome to America's Endless Harvest and the Feast of all
Speaker 1: you can eat Golden Corral, where Pilgrim's progress meets the
Speaker 1: Age of consumption. Because here Thanksgiving isn't a holiday. It's
Speaker 1: a lifestyle, a face style. So buckle up, throw on
Speaker 1: your stretchy pants. This is manifest destiny. It's the United
Speaker 1: Plates of America, and at sixteen ninety nine ahead you
Speaker 1: get liberal portions at conservative prices. As is tradition, we
Speaker 1: begin with the bird, our annual sacrifice. The golden butter
Speaker 1: soap turkey glistens under heat lamps that could tan a corpse,
Speaker 1: and like Travis Kelcey's dating history, you can enjoy both
Speaker 1: white and dark meat. The first Thanksgiving was a fragile
Speaker 1: truce between worlds to survive the Hunger Games of sixteen
Speaker 1: twenty one. Today we gather with loved ones just trying
Speaker 1: to survive each other. Left wing, right wing. It's all
Speaker 1: the same bird.
Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic. Jonathan Kite is his name, Give him a follow.
Speaker 2: Sebastian Manuscalco, he spoke with us weekly. He had a
Speaker 2: cooking show, remember that it was called Well Done with
Speaker 2: Sebastian manusuks Alco on Food Network. And now in hindsight,
Speaker 2: I'm realizing I didn't make nearly as much fun of
Speaker 2: that as I should have. I should almost go back.
Speaker 2: If we ever have another pandemic and I need a
Speaker 2: bit like George Lopez Tacos. Maybe I'll just critique well
Speaker 2: done with Sebastian Manascalco on Food Network. But hopefully we
Speaker 2: won't have another pandemic and I won't have to do that.
Speaker 2: But as you know, it's this is a food story
Speaker 2: and it's Thanksgiving. I do put these shows together. A
Speaker 2: Sebastian said, I became passionate about cooking around the time
Speaker 2: I met my wife. I like cooking because it's similar
Speaker 2: to comedy and that you're doing it alone and making
Speaker 2: stupid faces for no reason. If it sucks, it's your fault.
Speaker 2: If it's great, it's your fault. Same thing with stand up.
Speaker 2: It's very therapeutic for me to go into the kitchen
Speaker 2: and get lost in the sauce. I do a beautiful
Speaker 2: French toast. The next thing I want to master is pizza.
Speaker 2: Switching to comedy. You have to live in everyday life
Speaker 2: to extract humor, and that's why I'm an active parent.
Speaker 2: I drop my kids off at school, I go to
Speaker 2: the soccer games. I'm taking my kid to gymnastics. You
Speaker 2: find a lot of humor in those things. You do
Speaker 2: have to be cautious about talking about some of the
Speaker 2: fancy things you do. I went to the Oscars, but
Speaker 2: my Oscar story is not one of fame and fortune.
Speaker 2: It's me sitting up at the third balcony while everybody
Speaker 2: from Greenbrook is accepting the Oscar. When I was announced
Speaker 2: on the red carpet, it was a bathroom break for
Speaker 2: the photographers. They were cleaning their lenses. Ryan Seacrest was
Speaker 2: there with his camera guy in lights on a pedestal,
Speaker 2: and they take me all the way down to the
Speaker 2: guy who's a one man shop with his iPhone and
Speaker 2: is from the Ecuador Times. So four dot com spoke
Speaker 2: to Fortune Femmester about taking care of Biscuits. That's the
Speaker 2: name of her tour. She said it came to me
Speaker 2: as something that lets people know they're in for a good,
Speaker 2: silly time. She said, Now, at all the cities I
Speaker 2: go to, people are dropping biscuits off, and I'm grateful,
Speaker 2: but I'm like, oh, I'm gonna have to name my
Speaker 2: next tour taking care of Salads, because it's a lot
Speaker 2: of biscuits right now. One Instagram video showed Fortune in
Speaker 2: her green room. The room was filled with biscuits from
Speaker 2: heart Ease Biscuit shaped pillows custom merch. She said that
Speaker 2: was all a surprise. My writer is so boring. I
Speaker 2: literally asked for water, ice and a cup. I used
Speaker 2: to have big, extravagant green rooms, but then I was
Speaker 2: never hungry, and I felt like I was being super
Speaker 2: wasteful because normally I either eat before or after. The
Speaker 2: show asked for her biscuit preferences. Her favorites are a loaded, savory,
Speaker 2: yummy biscuit with fried chicken, pimento cheese, and a little honey,
Speaker 2: or just the opposite, just a jelly biscuit. I'm trash,
Speaker 2: so I love grape jelly. If Fortune Feamster could only
Speaker 2: eat one thing twenty four seven three sixty five, it
Speaker 2: would be pad thaie. She says, I went to Thailand
Speaker 2: and ate pad tie for a week and a half
Speaker 2: straight and did not get tired of it. I love
Speaker 2: it so much, I think I could do it. I
Speaker 2: could just eating it forever. I usually get it with chicken,
Speaker 2: but if I were gonna eat it every day, I'd
Speaker 2: try to switch it up, try some shrimp or tofu
Speaker 2: or bounce back and forth. All right, Fortune was the
Speaker 2: first thing you learned how to cook grilled cheese. But
Speaker 2: I learned by doing it wrong. I was babysitting and
Speaker 2: the kid won a grilled cheese to turn the oven on.
Speaker 2: And he was like, why are you turning the oven on?
Speaker 2: And I said, I don't know baking it. He told
Speaker 2: me just throw in a pan or the toaster oven.
Speaker 2: It was too much for me. You don't need to
Speaker 2: go throw that for a grilled cheese. But he was right.
Speaker 2: I was pretty old to learn that. Like sixteen more
Speaker 2: food stories from Fortune. It's Thanksgiving, you know, she said.
Speaker 2: Grilling is brand new for me. I never had a
Speaker 2: grill until I got this house, and it came with
Speaker 2: a grill, and I was determined to learn how to
Speaker 2: use it. Getting beef to the right temperature is the
Speaker 2: trickiest part. You don't want it to be too rare
Speaker 2: or red or too cooked and dry. I'm learning the
Speaker 2: happy medium there. And there's an editor's note pun intended.
Speaker 2: Fortune told Savor I'm a dessert gal. I have such
Speaker 2: a sweet tooth. I'm near a cheesecake factory. I will
Speaker 2: hit up that Adam's peanut buttercup fudge rippled cheesecake. That's
Speaker 2: a real treat. Any foods from your childhood that you
Speaker 2: liked Grandma's chicken and dumplings, so comforting and classic. Biggest
Speaker 2: flex to impress guests. Fortune said, I love some good
Speaker 2: scented candles. They're inviting warm then all you eat is
Speaker 2: good food. I don't have a signature scent yet, but
Speaker 2: I love holiday candles all the time, so we're getting
Speaker 2: closed to the holidays. I'm pumped because the ones that
Speaker 2: I love smell like Christmas trees. Jim Gaffigan spoke to
Speaker 2: The Today Show. They were curious how Jim's wife and
Speaker 2: kids feel about being in his comedy. Jim joked, I
Speaker 2: don't care. Then he got a little more serious and said,
Speaker 2: the good news is that my children all the things
Speaker 2: I say, I don't have to feel guilty because they
Speaker 2: have no interest in my comedy. I'm more concerned about
Speaker 2: accidentally posting a photo where they appear in it on
Speaker 2: Instagram than me saying something in my stand up. Obviously,
Speaker 2: I try to be respectful, and I think anyone who's
Speaker 2: apparent is aware. We've all made mistakes. But parenting is
Speaker 2: you try your best and then as a parent, become
Speaker 2: their septacle for all the blame. Kathleen Madigan spoke to
Speaker 2: the La Times about her family and the stuff they
Speaker 2: bring over. She's proud of the chicken salad or stuff
Speaker 2: they bring over like tunicast roles, and they're very into
Speaker 2: hardy grandma type food, meaning fattening, which I'm all in on.
Speaker 2: She talked about a Midwestern sensibility and said everybody's got
Speaker 2: their little things, like I would have a big fight
Speaker 2: about their corn being better than anyone else's stupid stuff.
Speaker 2: But to us, it's what's happening. It's what we're talking
Speaker 2: about sports. Everybody's got their thing with the packers and
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff, but it's not anything we were given,
Speaker 2: like the ocean, the mounts of Colorado. Don't know, we
Speaker 2: don't have that either. That's why when people say, oh,
Speaker 2: do you like where you're from, or always like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's fine. We know it's not great, but it's not horrible.
Speaker 2: It's fine. I love when people say Saint Louis is
Speaker 2: that kind of by Chicago, well kind of four and
Speaker 2: a half hours down the road to find kind of pie.
Speaker 2: That's what I say about my coastal friends. It's what
Speaker 2: they've been given. I mean, someone made it all the
Speaker 2: way out there, so I give those people credit, but
Speaker 2: the Midwest is like, you're gonna get bored driving around Kansas, Nebraska.
Speaker 2: At least in Missouri. When you get south of Saint Louis,
Speaker 2: we start to get big ills. We called them out,
Speaker 2: and it's a hill. We have good lakes. Coastal people
Speaker 2: don't like lakes because so like, yeah, that water is
Speaker 2: a little still. I'm like, yeah, and there's snakes in
Speaker 2: it too. She is hilarious, all right. No amount of
Speaker 2: food stories. Uh. Stephen Colbiert had spoken to GQ. This
Speaker 2: one is a bit of a leftover in the spirit
Speaker 2: of Thanksgiving. They were curious, does he think the late
Speaker 2: night format makes sense anymore? Do you think the times
Speaker 2: for these shows has passed? Have you ever felt that
Speaker 2: while doing your show, Stephen Colbert, He said, no, not
Speaker 2: doing the show. I do the show with gratitude. We
Speaker 2: have a really great time. We love doing the show
Speaker 2: with each other. We love all pulling on the same rope.
Speaker 2: I love being there with those four hundred fifty people
Speaker 2: and the Ed Sullivan Theater, in a Broadway theater. We've
Speaker 2: done our best to deliver something that the network can
Speaker 2: monetize in some way. I thought we were successful at that,
Speaker 2: so all things must pass. I think if there's a
Speaker 2: business reason for this. I know there's been a change
Speaker 2: in ad rates since the strike, and I know that's
Speaker 2: really never recovered for that, so all that makes sense
Speaker 2: to me. And I also know that these late night
Speaker 2: shows are kind of like symphony orchestras. They need a
Speaker 2: certain amount of personnel to do them. You can't relate
Speaker 2: to a show and the Ed Sullivan Theatre eleven thirty
Speaker 2: five on CBS with a band and sketches and field
Speaker 2: shooths and stuff like that for the cost of a podcast.
Speaker 2: And if you look and say, oh, well look, this
Speaker 2: is what a podcast makes, and this is what these
Speaker 2: shows make, then you're keeping these shows on because you'll
Speaker 2: love the form. Why would shows like mine continue and
Speaker 2: exist or Kimmel or Jimmy or whatever. Well, we're like
Speaker 2: your friend who at the end of the day paid
Speaker 2: attention to what happened today more than you did, and
Speaker 2: we curate that back to you at the end of
Speaker 2: the day. But it's really more about how we feel
Speaker 2: about or I as the person who's the vehicle for that,
Speaker 2: how we felt about it today. Boy, that speaks to
Speaker 2: me as someone who does this show, Like, presumably at
Speaker 2: some level you just kind of enjoy my voice and vibe, right, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't think you're like this is the only place
Speaker 2: I can get comedy news. But you know, we have
Speaker 2: this relationship, you and I. You listener, me host, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel what's Stephen selling here? He says. I share
Speaker 2: those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they
Speaker 2: don't laugh, and there's a sense of community there. Quick
Speaker 2: time out, it's a holiday, We've got time. I was
Speaker 2: teaching my class one week ago today, and I was
Speaker 2: teaching the college class about the concept of tribes and
Speaker 2: building community around shows. And I started to explain to
Speaker 2: the class how I almost always refer to one comedian
Speaker 2: as dramatic actor Adam Sandler. You're in on the bit,
Speaker 2: I'm in on the bit, and always saying dramatic actor
Speaker 2: Adam Sandler reinforces the thought there with me as the
Speaker 2: leader lowercase L of this tribe of comedy fans who
Speaker 2: have gathered around this podcast and in the Facebook group
Speaker 2: Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, please join us anyway. One
Speaker 2: of the students starts agreeing with me and goes on
Speaker 2: for like seven minutes about Adam Sandler is good in punch,
Speaker 2: drunk Glove and in uncut gems. And I just stood
Speaker 2: there mugging for the camera, making eye contact with students,
Speaker 2: and just gesturing over at the student who just kept
Speaker 2: going on and on proving my point of the power
Speaker 2: of the tribe and of the community. And I high
Speaker 2: five the student. I was like, you just proved my point.
Speaker 2: So I get what Colbert is selling here. He says,
Speaker 2: there's a sense of community and there are fewer, fewer.
Speaker 2: I don't know who coined this term, but there are
Speaker 2: fewer and few of what you would call third spaces
Speaker 2: in our life. Have you heard this term three spaces?
Speaker 2: This is John talking. My daughter taught me about the
Speaker 2: sea off home, work, and then somewhere else you go.
Speaker 2: For me, it's the brewery on trivia night, where I
Speaker 2: see my friends every now and then. I'm tired. A
Speaker 2: couple weeks ago, the night we want Actually, I was
Speaker 2: kind of tired and I said to my wife, I go,
Speaker 2: I have to show up or I won't have friends anymore.
Speaker 2: I need to be with the guys. So that's my
Speaker 2: third space. Colbert says, we need third spaces in our life,
Speaker 2: not your home, not your work, but some other place
Speaker 2: we get together, and these late night shows are for
Speaker 2: millions of Americans a third space to come together and
Speaker 2: think about the day. Switching to politics, Colbert said, people
Speaker 2: perceive me as the sort of lefty figure. I think
Speaker 2: I'm more conservative than people think. I just happened to
Speaker 2: be talking about a government and extremists. What I'm giving
Speaker 2: to you is my reaction video to the day, and
Speaker 2: my reaction video is like the scream. So that makes
Speaker 2: me perceived as more left necessarily than I am, because
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what other reaction would be a an
Speaker 2: honest one. I was having a side text with a
Speaker 2: friend of the show who appreciated that he's not entirely
Speaker 2: sure which side of the aisle I'm on. Again, this
Speaker 2: is not a political show. I'm not sure what you think.
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure what I'm telegraphing might actually be accurate. Again,
Speaker 2: and I'm not playing a role. But like I like
Speaker 2: to say, the President and I don't agree on all
Speaker 2: the issues we agree on twelve thirty, we don't agree
Speaker 2: on other things. With previous presidents. I agreed on some things,
Speaker 2: didn't agree on other things with the next president. I'll
Speaker 2: agree on some things, I won't agree on some things.
Speaker 2: I think that's how most people are, right, Colbert said,
Speaker 2: we broadcast to a general audience. There's no entrance fee,
Speaker 2: there's no subscription. You don't have to look for us
Speaker 2: except on Channel five or wherever you are. And we
Speaker 2: have a variety of different guests. It's a variety show.
Speaker 2: It is Thanksgiving, and I hope you're all having a
Speaker 2: nice Thanksgiving. I do want to give a shout out
Speaker 2: to one particular member of the audience. That's Mike Chisholm.
Speaker 2: He hosts The Letterman Podcast, and I don't know if
Speaker 2: you know this. He's Canadian. So hey, Mike, hope you
Speaker 2: enjoyed October twelfth, or whenever Canadian Thanksgiving was. I assume
Speaker 2: you have to work today. Sucks to be you. The
Speaker 2: rest of us Turkey and football enjoy my friend. Love you.
Speaker 2: A new episode of The Letterman Podcast tomorrow, probably, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know if Mike's skipping week. He
Speaker 2: usually puts out an episode on Friday. If not, you
Speaker 2: haven't listened to them all. Listen to on an old one.
Speaker 2: He's got this guy Johnny that goes on there every
Speaker 2: now and then anyway, Mike good Joy work today, I'll
Speaker 2: be getting even fatter. Lauren Michaels has donated his five
Speaker 2: hundred box archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the
Speaker 2: University of Texas at Austin. The exhibit is called Live
Speaker 2: from New York, The Lurne Michael's Collection. It is stuff
Speaker 2: going all the way back to nineteen seventy five, boasters,
Speaker 2: newspaper clippings, photos, Lauren's work with Lily Tomlin, Phyllis Diller
Speaker 2: and Rowan, and Martin's laugh in his other stuff Three Amigos,
Speaker 2: Mean Girls, thirty Rock Portlandia, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,
Speaker 2: and Late Night with Seth Myers. You can walk past
Speaker 2: that exhibit and be like, Kah, this isn't interesting at all,
Speaker 2: and just keep going. There are posters, annotated scripts, Make
Speaker 2: twelve thirty Great Again, costumes, production materials, and newspaper clippings
Speaker 2: from these projects. Guest curator Steve Wilson's exhibit labels provide
Speaker 2: excellent in depth guides the entire exhibit. Various network memos
Speaker 2: on display reveal the inevitable behind the scenes battles of
Speaker 2: musical tastes. Network execs like the classic rock. The youngsters
Speaker 2: like some different kinds of music. Also, apparently some memos
Speaker 2: discussing the departures of Norm MacDonald and the great dramatic
Speaker 2: actor Adam Sandler. Before email, the show regularly got mail,
Speaker 2: fan letters, complaints, sketching job pitches, scribbling on everything from
Speaker 2: scratchbats to toilet papers. There's a nineteen seventy eight letter
Speaker 2: from one of the writers describing the frustration of having
Speaker 2: to respond to the relentless barrage of unsolicited comedy materials.
Speaker 2: She wrote, no matter how funny you think it is,
Speaker 2: we cannot read, evaluate, or use any of your stuff.
Speaker 2: We never use outside material, and we're not looking for
Speaker 2: any new writers at this time. Really cross my heart
Speaker 2: and hope to die, which I may do soon if
Speaker 2: I have to write any more letters like this one.
Speaker 2: And that is your Thanksgiving comedy news for the day,
Speaker 2: normal episodes all weekend. I got plenty even from this show.
Speaker 2: I bumped four stories. It's not one of those weeks
Speaker 2: where I'm like, oh, what am I going to talk about?
Speaker 2: I got plenty. Enjoy your Turkey, Mike, enjoy work. See tomorrow.