Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Happy Saturday. I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. You know what Arizon Saturday Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: It had been on a hot streak six point nine
Speaker 1: million viewers watched John mulaney host, but last week when
Speaker 1: Bill Burr bombed Oh, I said that on threads and
Speaker 1: people got very upset with me. They're like, in Bob,
Speaker 1: you just didn't kill fine. Anyway, people didn't watch it,
Speaker 1: only four point four to two million. That is disappointing
Speaker 1: coming off the election, isn't it. Charlie XCX doubles up
Speaker 1: tonight as both a host and musical performance guest. She
Speaker 1: will perform music when not hosting. John mullaney auditioned for
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live before the two thousand and eight nine season,
Speaker 1: but didn't make the cast and got hired as a writer.
Speaker 1: We know this from the GQ profile of John Mullaney.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about and I have shared with you
Speaker 1: in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.
Speaker 1: Balani spent four seasons at SNL. His frequent writing partner,
Speaker 1: Simon Rich said, I remember very distinctly thinking, I really
Speaker 1: really hope that I get to write with this person.
Speaker 1: Part of his genius is his precision and his absolute
Speaker 1: mastery of language. You never want to paraphrase a Malaney
Speaker 1: joke because they're so perfectly constructed and crystalline. If you
Speaker 1: don't get it word perfect, you're not doing it justice.
Speaker 1: We're like the post office yea haye es. But you
Speaker 1: love us. At the end of the day, you go, look,
Speaker 1: they worked hard and got it done, but you've grown
Speaker 1: at our existence. I found out I'll never need another
Speaker 1: topic to talk about. It's like our World War two.
Speaker 1: At any event, any dinner I go to anywhere in
Speaker 1: the world, this look comes into their eyes. If you're
Speaker 1: saying I'm an outlaw, Like, yeah, before this, I was
Speaker 1: a cowboy. Rich estimates that he and Malaney wrote two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty sketches, including frequently working on the host monologue.
Speaker 1: On the theory it was one thing that wouldn't be cut.
Speaker 1: Jenny Slat appeared on Saturday Night Live. I've not brought
Speaker 1: back for a second season. Slade said, I think it's
Speaker 1: so cool that I touched that dream. I'm proud of myself.
Speaker 1: It's almost magical in this weird way to think about it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of weird rewards that come from situations
Speaker 1: that we might think are more shadowy. One of the
Speaker 1: big rewards a belief in the long game, a belief
Speaker 1: in many, many options. It's really important to believe that
Speaker 1: there's like, actually twenty really cool, weird secret doors rather
Speaker 1: than one big, golden ornate legendary door. If I hadn't
Speaker 1: had that experience at the start of my career, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have understood how much is really up to me
Speaker 1: cracked ads. As recently scrapped cast member Chloe Troes pointed
Speaker 1: out last month, the names on the list of fired
Speaker 1: SNL cast members is perhaps even more impressive than the
Speaker 1: list of performers who were permitted to stay. And they write,
Speaker 1: it's not like anyone would have cast Joe Piscopo in
Speaker 1: uncut Gems. I would watch that, And there are no
Speaker 1: billion dollar Marvel movies starring Jim Brewer as iron Man. Right.
Speaker 1: Victoria Jackson remember her I bumped the story for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks now, just there's been a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about. But while we're in SNL mode, she talked
Speaker 1: about her longtime beef with Alec Baldwin. The attention getting headline.
Speaker 1: Apparently Alec Baldwin called Victoria Jackson's breast's garbage cans. Jackson
Speaker 1: was on the Dana Carvey David Spade podcast. Victoria's said
Speaker 1: we got to talk about Alec Baldwin because he was
Speaker 1: on Fly on the Wall and he said my breast
Speaker 1: looked like garbage cans. Spaden Carvey asked her what he
Speaker 1: meant by that, and she said, that's what I want
Speaker 1: to know. Apparently, Baldwin had said, the only time I
Speaker 1: ever cracked was when we did SNL. Victoria Jackson's in
Speaker 1: there and they have her all dressed and her boobs
Speaker 1: are like two garbage cans sticking in your face. Spaden
Speaker 1: Carvey theorized they may have been complimenting her breast size.
Speaker 1: Jackson disagreed. She also took issue with Xena Carvey telling
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin in the episode that Jackson was trying not
Speaker 1: to fall in love with him. Jackson said, I don't
Speaker 1: remember that way. She believes Baldwin took issue with what
Speaker 1: she wrote about him in her twenty twelve book is
Speaker 1: My Bow Too Big? An anecdote in nineteen ninety, Alec
Speaker 1: was sitting next to me on the set and he
Speaker 1: asked me why my boobs were so big. That's rude
Speaker 1: and it's caustic and it's inappropriate. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was flirting with me or he's being mean. It
Speaker 1: was kind of a mixture, but I think he heard
Speaker 1: about the book and ever since, Alex's been mean to me.
Speaker 1: Jackson thinks Baldwin probably targeted her because our political views
Speaker 1: are opposite. And I've also said that when he does
Speaker 1: an impression of Trump, he is hatred side of him.
Speaker 1: So they probably read that Paul Riser's got a special
Speaker 1: coming out this week? Is it this week or next week?
Speaker 1: Because today Saturday, the nineteenth, I guess that's this week now,
Speaker 1: I know it's the weekend, right, Where does the week
Speaker 1: not start tomorrow? Who cares? John? Paul Riser has a
Speaker 1: special coming out soon and he tell the Irish Times.
Speaker 1: I started a little ahead of the boom. It was
Speaker 1: in the late seventies when I was in college. There
Speaker 1: were ready people who are on TV, who had big
Speaker 1: hit TV shows an year earlier. They were unknown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember Freddy Prinz, what a shooting star. They came
Speaker 1: out of those clubs. The people who open these comedy
Speaker 1: clubs realized there was an easy way to make money.
Speaker 1: They just get a brick wall and a microphone and
Speaker 1: can charge people twenty dollars to watch unknowns. We all
Speaker 1: flocked to it. I would have aspired to be a
Speaker 1: comic if that path hadn't been laid out. He talked
Speaker 1: about being in Ireland and said, we were there in
Speaker 1: the height of summer. I didn't realize how late it stays. Light.
Speaker 1: Would come home from work at seven and then would say,
Speaker 1: let's go to the pub. Would sit with our guinness
Speaker 1: or two guinnesses and chatting with people and petting dogs.
Speaker 1: We don't have that in New York. It's a bar culture,
Speaker 1: not pub culture. In Ireland, they're not watching the ballgame
Speaker 1: or CNN. They're talking us. The threeboot of Mad About You,
Speaker 1: where Paul and Jamie were empty nesters, people said, why'd
Speaker 1: you break up? They're upset. We showed them that they
Speaker 1: separated for a bit because all marriages have bumps, but
Speaker 1: they ended up happily forever after and after a few
Speaker 1: years a whole bunch of shows were rebooting. We had
Speaker 1: that conversation. We thought, what story do they tell? We
Speaker 1: can't play newlyweds anymore. That ship has sailed. But we realized,
Speaker 1: if our kid has grown up, then these two idiots
Speaker 1: are all alone again, just like when the show started.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we did it. We had a great time.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's take a look at the comedy festivals
Speaker 1: for today. It's the final day of the Flyover Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival out Saint Louis Way, and again I like their website.
Speaker 1: Tonight at eight o'clock the Sclar Brothers a smaller show
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock, an improv show called help Me I'm
Speaker 1: Drowning and Idiot Bitch. I kind of like that title.
Speaker 1: Oh no, here's one at ten o'clock called S Show,
Speaker 1: and I can't tell you what the S stands for,
Speaker 1: but whatever your guess is, you're right. And switching over
Speaker 1: to the New York Comedy Festival Saturday night in the
Speaker 1: Big City. I'm gonna have tons of headliners, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on this year. They don't
Speaker 1: have the names I've had in the past. I'm scrolling down.
Speaker 1: I'll read you the bigger names. I'm nine shows in yet,
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen anybody. You've probably heard of. If
Speaker 1: you've heard of Bill Maher the WTF Tour. That's what
Speaker 1: you're calling your tour? Are you just like completely unaware
Speaker 1: that Mark Maren has been calling his thing WTF for
Speaker 1: twenty years. Bill Maher's the WTF Tour. I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear Marin Steak on that. That's at the Beacon at
Speaker 1: seven o'clock. I mean, it's not like Maren owns WTF,
Speaker 1: but like, come on, man, you're a comedian, you know
Speaker 1: Mark Maren is WTF. Matt McCusker is at Town Hall
Speaker 1: at seven o'clock. Good name here, Time to kill a
Speaker 1: sketch comedy show at seven o'clock. Rachel Feinstein at the
Speaker 1: Bell House at seven thirty. Ali Colbert's She's on the Rise.
Speaker 1: Check her out to Union Hall seven thirty. Christian Finnegan
Speaker 1: remember him, You might remember his face from A Chappelle's
Speaker 1: show seven thirty at Q E D. I thought he
Speaker 1: was going to have a much bigger career than he
Speaker 1: has had. The stepfathers U see b At ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: Jason Zinnemann had some things to say about That'll talk
Speaker 1: about that in a minute. Don't Tell Comedy at ten
Speaker 1: o'clock at location TBD and that's it. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are other shows, but those are your big names. On
Speaker 1: a Saturday, Bill Maher on the second Saturday at the festival,
Speaker 1: this thing has taking a step down. No offense, but
Speaker 1: I mean there was a time when there were just
Speaker 1: huge names playing the festival. Jason is in him in
Speaker 1: front of the show, and he writes for The New
Speaker 1: York Times he recommends these Stepfathers at UCB, writes if
Speaker 1: you're looking for something other than stand up. The Stepfathers
Speaker 1: were one of the best improv groups in the city
Speaker 1: for many years, with a pack weekly show at UCB.
Speaker 1: Then the organization shut down. It's returned this year in
Speaker 1: an attractive new space on East fourteenth and this is
Speaker 1: a good chance to see how the season troop ad
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