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Speaker 2: The numbers are up man. Thanks everybody for listening. I'm
Speaker 2: Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And if you're
Speaker 2: on YouTube, yeah there's no video. I know. I didn't
Speaker 2: say there was. I'll tell you. Usually this week is
Speaker 2: a dead week off Labor day, and I had been
Speaker 2: squirreling stuff away. I don't need it. Plenty of news.
Speaker 2: Everybody got right back to work. It's like what I
Speaker 2: talked about on yesterday's podcast, the annoying boss going, Hey,
Speaker 2: you know, Simmer's over. Let's good to work, guys. Okay,
Speaker 2: they got to work. Vulture put out there what do
Speaker 2: they call it? It's comedians you should know and will
Speaker 2: know list. I'm gonna deal with that on Sunday. There
Speaker 2: are twenty of them and it is quite long, so
Speaker 2: let me hold that until Sunday and I'll do a
Speaker 2: deep dive on that. Then. I did share the link
Speaker 2: in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast
Speaker 2: group if you can't wait till Sunday. Also a reminder, Saturday,
Speaker 2: I'll have John marco Ciresi, who is one of the
Speaker 2: twenty comedians you should know. They keep dripping out information
Speaker 2: about Ellen's new special, Ellen DeGeneres for Your Approval, premiere
Speaker 2: globally on September twenty fourth on Netflix. In a statement,
Speaker 2: Ellen said, to answer the questions everyone is asking me, Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about it. Yes, this is my
Speaker 2: last special. Yes, Porsche really is that pretty in real life?
Speaker 2: Netflix tells us the final comedy special of her historic career.
Speaker 2: Ellen gets personal and reveals what she's been doing since
Speaker 2: being kicked out of show business, from the mundane world
Speaker 2: of raising chickens and parallel parking to the harsh realities
Speaker 2: of becoming a brand name celebrity. She goes deep into
Speaker 2: her stand up roots and brings laughs through life's most
Speaker 2: real and absurd realities. I always found her stand up
Speaker 2: to be pretty good. You may recall. The Ellen Degenerous
Speaker 2: Show ended in twenty twenty two after nearly twenty years
Speaker 2: on the air. Its finale came after a series of
Speaker 2: reports detailing allegations of racism, sexual misconduct, and intimidation on set.
Speaker 2: Hulu's not messing around. They've now lined up otsgo at Katska.
Speaker 2: She'll have a special on Hulu. No date yet, no
Speaker 2: title yet, but she will tape it at the el
Speaker 2: Capitan Theater in Hollywood on Saturday, November ninth. This part
Speaker 2: of her full Grown tour, which kicks off on September thirteenth,
Speaker 2: includes twenty dates across the US. In Canada, I think
Speaker 2: she's fantastic. You should go see her, Osco said. As
Speaker 2: a company that pionneered cartoons, it was only amount of
Speaker 2: time until they asked to work with me. I mean,
Speaker 2: look at me. I rock a bowl cut and wear
Speaker 2: bright color as I am tuned down excited to bring
Speaker 2: good times and shenanigans to the people of the world
Speaker 2: with the Disney Hulu family. Peacock announced that Colin jos
Speaker 2: and Michael j Present New York After Dark will stream
Speaker 2: September twelfth at nine pm Eastern. It'll feature a rotation
Speaker 2: of the pair's favorite New York City Club comics, along
Speaker 2: with fresh faces and likely some familiar ones as well.
Speaker 2: So that's interesting, right. That's more of them hosting an
Speaker 2: evening than doing comedy themselves. We'll keep an eye on that.
Speaker 2: That Saturday night movie made its premiere Intellier Ride. People
Speaker 2: seem to really like it. Deadline wrote a top director
Speaker 2: once told me ninety percent of the success of movies
Speaker 2: is casting. If you get that right, you're on your way.
Speaker 2: If that's the case, then Saturday Night director and co
Speaker 2: writer Jason Rightman nailed it and then some, with a
Speaker 2: killer ensemble of more than eighty speaking roles helping to
Speaker 2: bring the life to film. This is a masterful movie
Speaker 2: comedy firing on all cylinders. Wow, I'm excited to see
Speaker 2: this one. With no time to breathe, and it's tight
Speaker 2: one hundred and three minute running time. I have to
Speaker 2: do some math here, so that's sixty and forty three
Speaker 2: an hour forty three. Johnny Mack thinks the perfect movie
Speaker 2: is about an hour thirty nine, but one hundred three minutes.
Speaker 2: That's good. Brightman has mine comic gold in telling the
Speaker 2: incredible tale of how producer Lorn Michael's navigated a nervous network,
Speaker 2: bruised egos, and an unpredictable cast. Blah blah blah. The
Speaker 2: clock ticked down to eleven thirty when it still wasn't certain,
Speaker 2: believe it or not, that NBC would press the button
Speaker 2: for its first SNL or the Johnny Carson Tonight's Show
Speaker 2: rerun they had ready to go in its place. Some
Speaker 2: of the casts stand outs, according to Deadline, Corey Michael
Speaker 2: Smith's spot on Chevy Chase Lamur and Morris's Garrett Morris
Speaker 2: no relation, Matt Woods, John Belushi, Nick Brown's rolls of
Speaker 2: both Jim Hansen and Andy Kaufman. Wonder why they did that.
Speaker 2: That's an odd choice to have him played two different roles.
Speaker 2: Right and some others, including a chilling pitch perfect JK.
Speaker 2: Simmons as Milton Burrell. Simmons nails Burl's visit to the
Speaker 2: set had missed all the chaos and a brief but
Speaker 2: an unforgettable turn that has to be seen to be believed,
Speaker 2: and that includes a thing. There's a fun fact about
Speaker 2: Milton Burrell. I like to keep this show clean, but
Speaker 2: it's a big fact. People know this big fact about
Speaker 2: Milton Burle legendary. The big fact, Rolling Stone said. Saturday
Speaker 2: Night turns the SNL origin story into a late night
Speaker 2: bad news bears. The Stone writes, part sloppy and overly
Speaker 2: Reverend tribute, part hilarious nineteen seventies gross out romp, and
Speaker 2: an all out assault to recreate the adrenaline Russia, producing
Speaker 2: that inaugural LESSNL. Jason Rightman's Saturday Night seeks to bring
Speaker 2: folks back blah blah blah when Michaels keeps the ship together. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Chevy Chase is already being courted as a breakout star
Speaker 2: with a bright future. Dan Ackroyd is flirting with every
Speaker 2: female in site and carrying on a not so secret
Speaker 2: relationship with a rosy Thray. Newman is neurotic, Geene Curtain
Speaker 2: is ironic and waspish, and Gilda Radner is adorable and deafy.
Speaker 2: It's all admittedly funny and nerve jangling, with the comedians
Speaker 2: mugging and the pressure mounting, and the chances of Michael's
Speaker 2: dream of a show made for the generation who grew
Speaker 2: up on TV by the generation who grew up on
Speaker 2: TV actually airing, slipping away minute by ticked off minute.
Speaker 2: The movie also heads to a foregone conclusion. Imagine an
Speaker 2: underdog story about a group of rag tag baseball players
Speaker 2: who you already know will eventually turn out to be
Speaker 2: the nineteen twenty seven New York Yankees. Anyway, that sounds
Speaker 2: like it's going to be fun, all right. Bert Krascher
Speaker 2: was walking around a right aid in Los Angeles. I
Speaker 2: guess he found the shelves pretty empty. He tweeted a video,
Speaker 2: and yes, the shelves are pretty empty. Here's what Bert
Speaker 2: Krascher had to say. I had to make several clips
Speaker 2: to get rid of some f bombs, but you'll get
Speaker 2: the idea.
Speaker 1: This is Los Angeles. Everything is gone. Look at this
Speaker 1: is our deodorants. I think this place is going. I
Speaker 1: mean this looks like looks like it's been looted. And
Speaker 1: I guess thieves just come in and take whatever is
Speaker 1: expensive and just walk out with it. This is crazy.
Speaker 1: This is unrecognizable. When it moves to Los Angeles, you
Speaker 1: come and ride it to spend the afternoon looking around.
Speaker 1: This is so fad. This is Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: On gossip Corner. Adam Sandler, his wife and daughter, died
Speaker 2: at Goldberg's world famous Deli in Milburn. I saw this
Speaker 2: story in one of the local papers, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: world famous. It's not even the most famous deli in Milburn.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure the locals somebody's gonna argue this,
Speaker 2: but I always hear about the Milburn Deli, which is
Speaker 2: not Goldberg's world famous deli. Anyway, Sandler was at Goldberg's.
Speaker 2: According to owner Chris, they came in and walked up
Speaker 2: to my wife, and she gasped in surprise and let
Speaker 2: out a wow. She thought she was keeping her surprise
Speaker 2: on the inside, but she was not. Who'd be able
Speaker 2: to They were so nice to everyone. As soon as
Speaker 2: they walked in, the entire deli just lit up in joy.
Speaker 2: Everyone was smiling and just so happy to have such
Speaker 2: a fun family joining us for a meal. Sandler was
Speaker 2: happy to take selfies with guests and staff. Adam's been
Speaker 2: in my greater local neighborhood. He hasn't been like next door,
Speaker 2: but he's been pretty close to where I live. Filming
Speaker 2: Happy Gilmore two. Chris the owner has a message for
Speaker 2: Adam Sandler. It is Adam, if you're reading this, all
Speaker 2: the best and making the world laugh and smile once
Speaker 2: again on your latest endeavor, Happy Gilmore too. All Right,
Speaker 2: I finally ain't got around to watching Adam Sandler's comedy special.
Speaker 2: I know I'm a week late on this, but you
Speaker 2: know we talk about Sailor enough here. You're probably like
Speaker 2: Jonny Mack, did you like it? Did you hate it?
Speaker 2: You hate it? You hate everything? Right, Johnny Mack. Well,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I liked it. Let me break
Speaker 2: it apart. The safty stuff at the beginning where they
Speaker 2: kind of shot it like a movie and Adam pulls
Speaker 2: up in a car and we follow Adam walking to
Speaker 2: the club and people ask him to sign stuff. I
Speaker 2: really like that. I thought it was interesting. I kind
Speaker 2: of hate the way most comedy specials open and wish
Speaker 2: it would just be like Ladies and Gentlemen, Joe Comedian
Speaker 2: and the comedian comes out. But you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of these specials have to have these forced opens. I
Speaker 2: kind of liked that this one was stylized that said
Speaker 2: during the set proper the fake stuff like the random
Speaker 2: dog or Adam pretending that the venue isn't good even
Speaker 2: though it's a fake venue, you know, and pretending there's
Speaker 2: technical problems and all that. It just didn't work work
Speaker 2: for me. Maybe if I didn't know it was fake,
Speaker 2: I would have been like, oh, that's interesting that they
Speaker 2: left that in, But it just it didn't work at
Speaker 2: all for me. I watched it in two chunks Friday night.
Speaker 2: I was kind of tired, had a really busy week
Speaker 2: last week, and I kind of liked the low keyness
Speaker 2: of it. Adam was kind of chill, and I was
Speaker 2: into it. My wife came by with the laundry basket, because,
Speaker 2: as I've told you, one hundred percent of the time,
Speaker 2: if I'm watching a comedy special, she will come by
Speaker 2: about thirty seven minutes in, and sure enough she did,
Speaker 2: and she was like, is that Adam Sandler? Yeah, I thought,
Speaker 2: you don't like Adam Sandler, and I said I don't,
Speaker 2: but I have a comedy podcast that said I liked it.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, how much more of this?
Speaker 2: And there was still like another forty minutes. So I
Speaker 2: went on to do something else. But Saturday night I
Speaker 2: went back in and watched more of it. The second
Speaker 2: half I kind of got bored. There was more of
Speaker 2: the Sailor songs in there, and his songs are just
Speaker 2: really dumb, and I know they're supposed to be dumb,
Speaker 2: but they're the same thing over and over. He just
Speaker 2: sings like four line a normal song and then says
Speaker 2: something ridiculous at the end, gets the laugh line, and
Speaker 2: the song falls apart. They're not even like complete thoughts.
Speaker 2: It's just like roses are red, violes or blue. Let
Speaker 2: me say something absurd so you laugh now, And it's
Speaker 2: that same formula over and over. Rob Schneider came out
Speaker 2: as Elvis and I had to fast forward through that.
Speaker 2: I couldn't even do it. And then some people have
Speaker 2: said the song at the end is very poignant. To Adam,
Speaker 2: sing's like a ten minute song about other comedies in
Speaker 2: the history of comedy and famous comedians, and he's got
Speaker 2: a clip show behind him, and it's designed to make
Speaker 2: you clap and designed to make you feel good. And
Speaker 2: it just felt really forced to me. John, it doesn't
Speaker 2: sound like you like the special. I did like the Special.
Speaker 2: It's got a lot of problems. I'm going to add
Speaker 2: it to the list of best of the year. It'll
Speaker 2: probably be the last thing on the list, however long
Speaker 2: it gets, but it makes it. I appreciate when someone
Speaker 2: tries to do something like what came to mind is
Speaker 2: Kevin James last special not trying to do anything that
Speaker 2: was just dumb. Sandler here is trying to do something.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it worked, but I appreciate it, if
Speaker 2: that makes any sense. So it's not in the top
Speaker 2: tier at all. It's in my second tier on a
Speaker 2: rather long list now, and it'll probably be the last.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I liked it, Okay, Adam Sandler, I trash
Speaker 2: you a lot. I feel fair here, and if we
Speaker 2: look back now, since Hub Halloween, you've done Uncut Gems
Speaker 2: and Hustle, the Basketball Movie, and the Space One, and
Speaker 2: you've had two specials, one of which I liked. Maybe
Speaker 2: I'm coming around on Adam Sandler or maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2: I also watched Greg Fitzsimmons, a special on YouTube that
Speaker 2: is going to make the list as well. It'll be
Speaker 2: in the second tier, but at the top of the
Speaker 2: second tier. But what I found interesting about it is
Speaker 2: it's eighty percent really funny, but also twenty percent really
Speaker 2: hack It's a weird mix. When he's on, he's on
Speaker 2: he definitely reminds me of Portman's Bill Burr, and then
Speaker 2: he'll do some hacky material and I'm like, really, dude,
Speaker 2: that's like awful. Which one that I like better? Fitzimmons
Speaker 2: is better than Sandler, for sure. I have not watched
Speaker 2: Philang yet. That was my plan for Tuesday nights, so
Speaker 2: I'm sure my wife is planning on doing laundry. About
Speaker 2: thirty seven minutes after I hit play on Phil Wang,
Speaker 2: shortle saw it spoilers coming up here. They gave it spoilers.
Speaker 2: Are you gone okay three and a half stars out
Speaker 2: of five. Phil Wang opens with the main difference between
Speaker 2: white people and Chinese people. Straight out of the gate,
Speaker 2: doesn't even say hello, but chortle tells us don't expect
Speaker 2: any hack material or edgy race based content from this
Speaker 2: mild mannered comedian. Later, he tackles the N word in
Speaker 2: rap lyrics and the concerns most non black people have
Speaker 2: in singing along. His solution takes potential offense and makes
Speaker 2: it cozy, typical of a comedian so physically soft, he
Speaker 2: confesses to injuring himself on bread, complains about having to
Speaker 2: do everything himself when flying seem lightweight, but end with
Speaker 2: a more distinctive payoff, calmly dismissing a task that he
Speaker 2: doesn't want to take on. It's the closest the composed
Speaker 2: comic ever gets to snapping Phil Wang Wang in their
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