Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: I am Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I
Speaker 2: feel like being conversational today. I've got some stuff on
Speaker 2: my mind. I want to tell you about Back to
Speaker 2: the Future of the Musical. I want to talk about
Speaker 2: where I think comedy is right now, and I'm not
Speaker 2: sure it's on the mark at the particular moment, So
Speaker 2: let me just talk for a little bit. In the
Speaker 2: second half, we'll tell you about the comedy festivals and
Speaker 2: do some stories. Thursday night, I went into Manhattan, which,
Speaker 2: if you listen to the show, you know like, oh,
Speaker 2: I have to go to Manhattan. I would seriously rather
Speaker 2: drive to Chicago. It's easier. I would rather fly to Australia.
Speaker 2: It's easier. Getting to Manhattan is a bear. But I
Speaker 2: went because my daughter hooked me up with tickets to
Speaker 2: Back to the Future the Musical and it was awesome,
Speaker 2: just a good time. I'm like jonesing now to watch
Speaker 2: the movies again. The guy that plays Marty McFly does
Speaker 2: that Michael J. Fox creaky voice thing. I don't think
Speaker 2: I have a half assed Michael J. Fox impression, but
Speaker 2: you know the voice he nails that shows a lot
Speaker 2: of fun the actors have a good time performing their roles.
Speaker 2: These special effects are amazing. It really reminded me of
Speaker 2: when you're in a waiting room at Disney World and
Speaker 2: they're trying to distract you. Standing there for half an hour,
Speaker 2: just fantastic. It's closing in January, which stinks. January fifth
Speaker 2: is the last day for the Broadway run. I do
Speaker 2: see there's a Los Angeles run that goes until December first.
Speaker 2: There is a national tour of it. I also see
Speaker 2: San Diego dates in January and a world tour that
Speaker 2: will hit Japan and Germany. Anyway, if you could see
Speaker 2: this thing a lot of fun. I was high on
Speaker 2: life coming home last night. So while I was in
Speaker 2: New York City, I've mentioned the New York Comedy Festival,
Speaker 2: which i'll talk about in the second half. Is Invisible Now.
Speaker 2: I walked from thirty second Street and Seventh Avenue up
Speaker 2: to fiftieth Street and Seventh Avenue. So if you're not
Speaker 2: familiar with New York City, that's Times Square and the
Speaker 2: extended area. So basically I walked from Madison Square Garden
Speaker 2: through Times Square too the Broadway district. So if you're
Speaker 2: not from New York, and you think of New York,
Speaker 2: this is exactly the part of town that you think
Speaker 2: is New York City. No New York Comedy Festival. I
Speaker 2: saw Barker's holding up signs with Comedy Central logos on it,
Speaker 2: trying to get me to go to see some comedy shows.
Speaker 2: That's always the thing that goes on. But New York
Speaker 2: Comedy Festival completely invisible. They've been nothing but good to me.
Speaker 2: It's a good festival. But New York is too big,
Speaker 2: and boy was Times Square packed Saturday Night Live tonight
Speaker 2: with Bill Burr. I'm very curious to see what they
Speaker 2: do tonight, so I'll talk about the comedy part of
Speaker 2: it in a second. I saw this clip from Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2: This is Bill Burr reacting to Trump being elected in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. So perhaps this is insight into what Bill
Speaker 2: Burr's thinking.
Speaker 1: And I don't understand why everybody's so upset. Yeah, get out, Like,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen to you? Do you liked Obama?
Speaker 2: Did he call you at all in the.
Speaker 1: Last eight years? Did you ever put a sandwich on
Speaker 1: your table? You do that, You're gonna keep doing that.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: Right, have you like Lona, Dude?
Speaker 1: I have to say though, him winning is the most
Speaker 1: astounding thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It was a surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1: Dude, Like you're talking like like Lake Placid, the Olympics
Speaker 1: when we beat the Russian Barry sat Kirk Gibson's home
Speaker 1: run is a joke, right, the Giant's beating the undefeated Patriots,
Speaker 1: that's all a joke. Through the star of a reality
Speaker 1: show is gonna run the country. I got decided if
Speaker 1: Brett Michaels or Cindy Lauper would make a better CEO
Speaker 1: for a company that doesn't exist, it's gonna be running stock.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just reminded me like when I didn't read
Speaker 1: the book and I'm just like just winging it. You know,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna do that? Oh you'll say, you'll say,
Speaker 1: did it worked.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty two, Bill Burr, who's hosting SNL tonight,
Speaker 2: spoke to The Hollywood Reporter. In twenty two, Burr said,
Speaker 2: as someone who considers self liberal, it's this point to
Speaker 2: see the left come how the right used to be
Speaker 2: when they went after the Dixie Chicks after the criticized
Speaker 2: George W. Bush. It's not a lot of people like that.
Speaker 2: Most of them are not trying to get in trouble.
Speaker 2: But there's this small collection of lunatics either on the
Speaker 2: right or left any given moment that causes hysteria. You
Speaker 2: may recall in twenty twenty three, Bill's wife was seen
Speaker 2: giving Trump the middle finger at a UFC event. I
Speaker 2: remember the events. I forgot that it was Bill Burr's wife.
Speaker 2: Burr was on The Rich Eisen Show and said, I
Speaker 2: love my wife. You know where you stand with her.
Speaker 2: The guy walked in the arena, everybody cheered, she gave
Speaker 2: him the figure. Nobody got arrested. That's why his country's great.
Speaker 2: Everybody expressed themselves, can we all be adults on threads?
Speaker 2: And I got to figure out how we refer to
Speaker 2: a threads? So much easier saying tweeted, so triumph threaded
Speaker 2: on our mind you. Robert Smigel wrote many of the
Speaker 2: all time bits on Saturday Night Live, including Reagan mastermind
Speaker 2: Trium slash. Schnegel wrote snl open that won't happen. Biden
Speaker 2: woken up suddenly getting visits from people he hasn't heard
Speaker 2: from since July. All seeking preemptive Pardons, Pelosi, Shift, Liz Cheney, Stephanopolis, Lebron,
Speaker 2: Bill Maher, Beyonce plus Chris Christy and a guy who
Speaker 2: called Trump chump in college. Biden no, now you need me.
Speaker 2: Biden cuts deals with each of them, ranging from scoring
Speaker 2: tickets to taking someone else's shoes to smelling their hair.
Speaker 2: Somebody responded to that, saying, I got an image in
Speaker 2: my mind of Maya Rudolph sitting at a piano singing
Speaker 2: Hallelujah and now please excuse me, but I must go
Speaker 2: hurl yes, and now you're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 2: eyes on you tonight. Before I dive in today, let
Speaker 2: me quote Caroline Hirsch, who used to own Caroline's Comedy
Speaker 2: Club and has organized the New York Comedy Festival. Caroline
Speaker 2: Hirsch said, pay attention here. This is very important. Caroline
Speaker 2: Hirst said. Ideally, comedy is about taking information that may
Speaker 2: be controversial or polarizing and making it more palatable in
Speaker 2: a communal setting where everyone comes together to laugh and
Speaker 2: let off steam. We live in a country where fifty
Speaker 2: percent of the people are pissed off and fifty percent
Speaker 2: are happy. How do we bring those two sides together?
Speaker 2: By making them laugh. Laughing is a healing process. It
Speaker 2: soothes the soul. I'm glad I found that quote from
Speaker 2: Caroline because I have struggled to capture my feelings here
Speaker 2: and I think Caroline has captured them again. Comedy is
Speaker 2: about taking information that may be controversial or polarizing and
Speaker 2: making it more palatable in a communal setting where everyone
Speaker 2: comes together to laugh and let off steam. Let's dive in.
Speaker 2: So where I am with the election, and stay with me.
Speaker 2: If you listen to me every day, you kind of
Speaker 2: get my vibe here. I was not surprised at all
Speaker 2: by the result. Whatever my political opinions are, I was
Speaker 2: not surprised by the result. And I think Hacks on Tap,
Speaker 2: which is a podcast, nailed the vibe. And I'm leading
Speaker 2: up to something here. You may recall Tony Hinchcliffe told
Speaker 2: a joke, terrible joke, told one joke. It was a
Speaker 2: joke in the middle of a six hour event, in
Speaker 2: the middle of a four month campaign. They drilled down
Speaker 2: and everybody focused on that. And then I look at
Speaker 2: my friend Tom. My friend Tom has to work six
Speaker 2: days a week. I'm friends with some people who were
Speaker 2: very happy with the result.
Speaker 3: This week.
Speaker 2: I'm friends with some people who are very unhappy of
Speaker 2: the result. This week, hacks on Tap talked about the optics.
Speaker 2: So say you're standing on a stage with Beyonce and
Speaker 2: Bruce Springsteen. Hacks on Tap said, you got to understand
Speaker 2: how off putting this is to so much of America.
Speaker 2: It feels very comfortable if you're having a dinner party
Speaker 2: at Tina Face House, but out there where they're bending
Speaker 2: metal and parking squad cars for a living, it's not
Speaker 2: only a shortcoming, and it's an off putting vibe. That's
Speaker 2: how I feel about comedy right now. I get where
Speaker 2: the late night hosts are coming from. I get that
Speaker 2: comedy is supposed to comment on the current situation. I
Speaker 2: think Late Night is not helping themselves this week. I've
Speaker 2: mentioned here we have a podcast called Ballot, which makes
Speaker 2: fun of politics. I'm working with AI to take stories
Speaker 2: and make fun of the stories. If there's comedy to
Speaker 2: be mined, we make fun of it, pure comedy. Trump
Speaker 2: is a more colorful character than Harris was. Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: You can make old jokes. Jade Vance is a bit
Speaker 2: of a character. Tim Wallasle is a bit of a character.
Speaker 2: So we throw those things in there and we make
Speaker 2: fun of it. All Since the election, we've taken the
Speaker 2: point of view of us. We never made fun of Trump.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? We love Trump and we're
Speaker 2: having fun with that, and then we talk about how
Speaker 2: much we love Trump while making fun of the stories.
Speaker 2: I think the late night guys are off tone. This week,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel said, let me tell you, that was the
Speaker 2: worst Taco Tuesday of my whole life. We had the
Speaker 2: choice between a prosecutor and a criminal, and we chose
Speaker 2: the criminal to be the president of the United States.
Speaker 2: More than half this country voted for the criminal who
Speaker 2: was planning to part in himself for his crimes. The
Speaker 2: Borto pick out there is more than half the country
Speaker 2: voted for the guy. And Kimmel I thought this joke
Speaker 2: was terrible. Donald Trump is like the Emperor from Star Wars.
Speaker 2: He's old, he's evil, and he keeps coming back with
Speaker 2: no reasonable explanation whatsoever. So a supertopical twenty eighteen, twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen Rise of Skywalker joke a better joke, Kimmell said.
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris called Trump today, She conceded and then explained
Speaker 2: what the word conceded me. And see that's funny, Kimmel joked,
Speaker 2: I can't stay for another four years of this. My
Speaker 2: only request to President elect Trump is that he let
Speaker 2: me share a prison cell with Taylor Swift. I'm really
Speaker 2: good at making bracelets, and I think we get along
Speaker 2: just fine. Stephen Colbert said, Hey, there, how you doing.
Speaker 2: If you watch the show regularly, I'm guessing you're not
Speaker 2: doing great? Yeah? Me neither. Some people said to me, sorry,
Speaker 2: you have to do a show tonight, which is nice
Speaker 2: for them to say, but I don't have to do
Speaker 2: a show. I get to do a show. They'll be
Speaker 2: jokes because it's what we do. And I'll let you
Speaker 2: in down a little secret. No one gets into this
Speaker 2: business because everything in their life worked out great. So
Speaker 2: we're built for rough roads, you guys ready. Seth Meyer said,
Speaker 2: I don't think Donald Trump's a good person. I'll even
Speaker 2: go as far as saying he's a bad person. On
Speaker 2: my defense, I'm only basing that on everything I've ever
Speaker 2: been taught about what makes someone good or bad. This
Speaker 2: is real and something I accept. Half the country thinks
Speaker 2: he's a good person or don't care that he's not,
Speaker 2: and thinks he's a good person and because of that,
Speaker 2: he's going to be our president again. Jimmy Fallon hacked joke. Well, guys,
Speaker 2: last night in America decided to get back with a
Speaker 2: crazy X and elect Donald Trump as the forty seventh
Speaker 2: president of the United States. No matter who you voted for,
Speaker 2: I think we can all agree that it's going to
Speaker 2: be a rough Thanksgiving. I assume there's a punch line
Speaker 2: in there somewhere. Kim Oll then the next night went
Speaker 2: on about Elon Musk and said, at least my children
Speaker 2: like me, which, again, I guess there's a joke in
Speaker 2: there somewhere. Now you probably just heard that segment and
Speaker 2: think you know who I voted for. You're wrong. Just
Speaker 2: from a comedy standpoint, I think it's off tone right now.
Speaker 2: Joe Rogan had on commie and libertarian Dave Smith, who
Speaker 2: does a political podcast of sorts. I like listening to
Speaker 2: all sorts of things, and I have a brain. I
Speaker 2: can listen to things. Whether it's Joe Rogan or Steven Colbert.
Speaker 2: They might have different takes on things, and I listen
Speaker 2: to things and sometimes I go, huh, interesting point, and
Speaker 2: other times I listen to things, and I go, that's
Speaker 2: crazy talk. Rogan has advice for Trump and said, this
Speaker 2: is one of the first times ever where there's a
Speaker 2: real chance to make real, tangible change that's going to
Speaker 2: be for the good of everybody. He's got to unite people.
Speaker 2: He's got to not attack the left and not attack everybody.
Speaker 2: Let them all talk their crap, but unite now. It's
Speaker 2: time to unite everybody. Rogan said, it's Donald Trump as
Speaker 2: the messenger was so polarizing that people lost what's really
Speaker 2: going on just based on who this guy is. Just
Speaker 2: like Tony Hinchcliff is an insult comic, Donald Trump's entire
Speaker 2: career is you're fired. You're a loser. Rosie O'dnald's a loser.
Speaker 2: Like that's this whole stick. Recently, Rogan talked about Obama
Speaker 2: and said he didn't come through on a lot of things,
Speaker 2: but as far as like a representative of the United States,
Speaker 2: who better than Obama? He's the best of all time,
Speaker 2: the most educated and eloquent and even keeled, and he
Speaker 2: was a statesman and the way he spoke inspired confidence
Speaker 2: that truly the wisest among us is the king. I
Speaker 2: listened to a bunch of Rogan's. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was the Dave Smith one or if it was
Speaker 2: Tim Dillon, or maybe a different one. But he pointed
Speaker 2: out Harris, who did not appear on the Rogan podcast.
Speaker 2: According to Rogan, Harris one ad Rogan to go to him.
Speaker 2: Rogan pointed out Obama was the sitting president and went
Speaker 2: to Mark Maron's garage. Jay Leno thinks the election was
Speaker 2: a great day for democracy. The nice thing about the
Speaker 2: election is it was fair, was honest. I was not
Speaker 2: a fan, but that's okay. It's the president of the
Speaker 2: United States. Let's all get together, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: In his view, the election was done professionally, there was
Speaker 2: no cheating. Everybody says it was honest. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: a great day for democracy. In my day, you kind
Speaker 2: of made fun of both sides, I agree with jay leto.
Speaker 2: Jay Leno had a very successful run hosting that Tonight show.
Speaker 2: Make fun of both sides. Wherever the comedy is, find
Speaker 2: the comedy there, Leno said, you'd get angry letters from
Speaker 2: both sides. Now you kind of have to take a side.
Speaker 2: And yet it's a little bit different. Dad Letterman's social account,
Speaker 2: it's unclear if David Letterman himself handles it. It's unclear
Speaker 2: if David Letterman approves these things, but David Letterman's Instagram
Speaker 2: account posted a video of Green Day performing America Idiot
Speaker 2: just hours after Trump was declared the victor. Anyway, back
Speaker 2: to the future of the musical. It's really good. You know,
Speaker 2: this one got overshadowed the three to one to two
Speaker 2: Comedy Festival in Chicago, and they've got great artists. Note
Speaker 2: it's been going on since Wednesday, and I've talked about
Speaker 2: this during the week. Weird week to schedule things, guys
Speaker 2: and I did prep the show. It didn't come up.
Speaker 2: You got no Google results, and I forgot that this
Speaker 2: thing was going on. But tonight at the Chicago Theater
Speaker 2: at five o'clock Larry David Nate Jackson plays at seven
Speaker 2: at the Riviera. Ryan long As a show at Zany's
Speaker 2: at seven, Angelo Colleen at Park West at seven, Kevin
Speaker 2: Herrera at zany seven to fifteen, Mark Norman at the
Speaker 2: Chicago Theater eight o'clock, Lisa Triggers at Zany's, Kevin Herrera
Speaker 2: Well the Late show at Zany's the New York Comedy Festival.
Speaker 2: I don't want to read every show. It is a
Speaker 2: pretty big festival. But let's see what's interesting here. What's
Speaker 2: bot a swing? That sounds like a show that Trenmarcos
Speaker 2: Siresi and I were making fun of when I had
Speaker 2: him as a guest recently, Michelle Chan Bennett and Josh
Speaker 2: Nasser are Bobby Bingis and Tommy Laguini to nineteen sixties
Speaker 2: cruiters whose careers, livers and opinions have seen better days.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a good time. We're allowed to make
Speaker 2: fun of things again, right, Yes, we're not going to
Speaker 2: freak out. The Italian American Defamation Society's not going to
Speaker 2: showup because somebody did a character named Tommy Laguini. Right,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe they are, And I think this
Speaker 2: is back to the vibe we used to be able
Speaker 2: to just get along and kind of have fun. Not
Speaker 2: everything has to be a big deal. It's a comedy show.
Speaker 2: Jimmy o Yang Carnegie Hall at seven o'clock. Awesome, Joe
Speaker 2: List at Town Hall at seven, Jordan Jensen at Grammercy
Speaker 2: at seven, Sophie Duker at Union Hall at seven thirty,
Speaker 2: Joe Kim Booster at the Billhouse at seven thirty, jud
Speaker 2: Appatoo and Friends at eight o'clock. It's a fundraiser, right,
Speaker 2: I'm asking you as if I'm not hosting the show.
Speaker 2: It doesn't actually say and it doesn't say who the
Speaker 2: friends are either. It's a little hard to you gotta
Speaker 2: tell me who's on the lineup, guys. Don't tell comedy
Speaker 2: at eight o'clock. What's the location? That's how don't tell
Speaker 2: comedy works. It's a secret indoor location. B Yob show.
Speaker 2: That's all we know. Sam Morrison and friend Sam is
Speaker 2: really good. That's the name you should know at the
Speaker 2: Little Field at eight. Sophie Buttle at Second City at
Speaker 2: eight thirty. A lot of shows to night. Believe me,
Speaker 2: I'm skipping a lot. I'm not reading the whole thing here.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Yang a second show at nine to forty five,
Speaker 2: Joe Kinbooster, second show at ten, the Mister Rogers Variety Hour.
Speaker 2: Oh that's tomorrow, all right, Well that's the Golffhanger. I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is. I almost clicked on it. We'll
Speaker 2: see what that is tomorrow, and I think it's time
Speaker 2: for me to go. If anyone is still listening, I
Speaker 2: probably lost everybody in the first half. What are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? I'm gonna leave you with this TikTok that
Speaker 2: somebody sent me. See tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So you know how those lids all right, because this
Speaker 3: is fun speak, Okay, so this is it. So you
Speaker 3: know how those lids on the Starbucks cuts, they're white, right,
Speaker 3: and so if you were lipstick, they get all over
Speaker 3: the lid. And so then I find myself in meetings
Speaker 3: if I'm the only woman, and that's kind of until
Speaker 3: I keep taking the lid off and having my cub
Speaker 3: out so that I don't have that big lipstick. So
Speaker 3: I said, can we do something about the color of
Speaker 3: the lid. So that was that conversation.