Speaker 1: Kalaroga. Shok Media got a pretty big Saturday Night Live tonight.
We'll see if Louren Michaels is saying goodbye. I don't
think so. And I'm still buzzing about Letterman on Colbert. Hello,
I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Now people
are wondering is there more to the Will Smith Chris
Rock thing. Yeah, that's back. I didn't expect that to
be back. Today, Chris Rock was on the Fly on
the Wall podcast with Spade and Carvey. Rock was asked
to name his five favorite rappers. During that Chris Rock
said that he had beef with Tupac Shakur because they
often dated the same woman and Tupac usually won out. Now,
why is this interesting? Tupac Shakur's most famous girlfriend was
Jada Jata aka Jada Smith, Will Smith's wife. Over the years,
Jada has denied dating Tupac Shakor, saying they were platonic soulmates.
In twenty twenty three, Jada revealed that Chris Rock had
asked her out on a eight years ago. She claimed
that Chris Rock called her saying I'd love to take
you out. According to this version of the story Chris
Rock was taking a shot because he thought she was
getting divorced from Will Smith, who knows very interesting. Tonight
Saturday Night Live, is it Lauren Michael's final episode? Some
people are speculating that it's a good time to get out.
I think we would have heard something. I don't think
Lauren's just gonna suddenly walk away on a random Saturday
in May. Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell's your host.
Paul McCartney is your musical guest. Oh my god. Well,
we're so excited to have you here with Yeah, we're
big fans. Gosh, you guys. Thanks, I'm really excited to
be back. Hey, Andrew, need you do me a favor
and get off the stage? Okay, thanks God. This place
looks exactly the same. Yeah. I don't think they've changed
it much. Yeah, they even kept this. It's very funny.
I was delighted by that joke. Get off the damn stage.
So do you guys have any sketch ideas? Uh? Tell
him about SpongeBob is a Circle now? Oh, I can't
wait to see that. Okay, I see your showing off
for Chlory and Sarah. I'm gonna give you a little
show off my own. I'm gonna give you the beating
of a lifetime in front of the's gorgeous town and ladies.
How's that's the stage? How's the stage? Yikes? That wasn't Andrew?
Who was it Paul McCartney? Oh sorry, Paul, you can
stay on the stage. You guys are gonna have to
find a new host. Just start bowing, Just start bowing, okay?
Late night or among those of us wondering, could Paul
McCartney finally bring a Beatles runion to Saturday Night Live?
Obviously John and George can't be there. Paul's already there.
Could Ringo come by? Paul's promoting his new album, The
Boys of Dungeon Lane. On that album is a song
called Home to Us. Build is the first true duet
between McCartney and Ringo and the first song since the
Beatles broke up to feature two members alternating lead vocals.
I like the song. It's a little cheesy, it's a
little catchy, which kind of is what McCartney does, kind
of what Ringo does too, So I like it. Their
guys in their eighties relax. Maybe the vocals artists good
as they used to be. You be of the Beatles now.
Ringo himself just had an album called Long Long Road.
He is not on tour until May twenty eighth. Ringo
has only appeared on SNL once, hosting an episode nineteen
eighty four, and that was when Lorne Michaels wasn't there.
I think that's just a coincidence. You may recall the
story in nineteen seventy six, Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles
cash to reunite on SNL. Lorne Michael said, all you
have to do is sing three Beatles songs, and he
offered them three thousand dollars. Now, what's great about the
story is John Lennon revealed that he and McCartney happen
to be hanging out that night at John Lennon's apartment
at the Dakota, and they considered going down to show
up and collect the three thousand dollars. That would have
been amazing if you're not familiar with New York City,
just between the Dakota and Thirty Rock, not a lot
at all. They could have jumped in a cab. By
the way, mentioned Lennon and McCartney jumping in a cab,
but it's in New York City that stuff used to
go on, so we will see if they show up. Now.
We learned from Jeff Ross that the roast of Kevin
Hart maybe perhaps could have been the roast of Paul McCartney.
Jeff told Variety, we did ask Paul McCartney at one point.
To me, that would be a fantasy roast. Paul McCartney
doesn't eat anything, but a Paul McCartney roast would be
good for the world. Would be so funny to me
because he's so loved. That's a good segue to some
stories that I didn't get to all week. I've been
holding on of these. But we'll go from the Beatles
to the Rolling Stones. The Stones have a new album
coming out. Their last album, Ackney Diamond's in twenty twenty three,
was pretty good. The first two songs from the new
album are decent. The new album, Foreign Tongues, includes guest
spots from people like Paul McCartney, not like actually Paul McCartney,
Robert Smith of The Cure, and Chad Smith of the
Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Rolling Stones joined Conan O'Brien
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ronnie Wood told Conan that Paul McCartney
was checking items off his bucket list and wanted to
appear on the album. Said now I could say I've
played with the Rolling Stones. Conan described hosting the conversation
as the gig of a lifetime. Conan said that the
vocals on the new album didn't sound a lot different
from the vocals from nineteen sixty eight. Mick Jaggers said, well,
I was taking a lot of drugs in sixty eight.
Conan joked he was actually there to stage an intervention.
The new record will be out July tenth. The Rolling
Stones were also hanging out with Jimmy Fallon. Fallon brought
back a bit called real people, Fake Arms and did
this with Mick Jagger. The bit originated with Will Ferrell,
who's on SNL tonight. This All's coming together, John Well
done Total Accident. Back in twenty ten, Jimmy Fallon and
a celebrity guest act out a scene from the fictional
nineties Canadian soap opera Jacob's Patience. The running gag, one
of the actors insists on using manneqin arms instead of
their own, no matter how observe the situation while the
other tries and fails to carry on as if everything
is normal. In the Jagger Peace, they were in a
jewelry store called Hackney Diamonds again the name of the
Rolling Stones twenty twenty three out, which is pretty good.
Mick Jagger greets Jimmy Fallon and says, please to meet you.
Hope you guess my name. Ron Wood was on Wednesday's Fallon.
Keith Richards was on Thursday's fallon. John You never mentioned
Kevin Hart. I know Kevin Hart has teamed up with
michelob Ultra. They are going to pay one soccer fan
ninety thousand dollars for ninety minutes of work at the
FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six final. My question of
the winner is how are you gonna get there? You're
gonna pay one hundred and fifty dollars train, you can't
park at the stadium and there's no ride shares. How
are we supposed to get to this game? The selected
fan will be the Superior Player of the Match Chief
Trophy Officer. That fan will be responsible for delivering the
Superior Player of the Match trophy on the field during
the World Cup Final. In addition, to the ninety thousand
compensation package. The recipient will receive two tickets and access
to the championship match at the Stadium here in New
Jersey on July nineteenth. Again, O doun't on how they're
going to get there. Kevin Hart, you never from him
said this really might be the best job in the world.
I mean, it's so good. I even tried applying for it.
To go from being a fan at home and end
up at the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six final matches,
something most people can only wish for. Remember, like ten
major stories ago, there was Kevin Hart funny af and
the winner was Ron Taylor. Ron Taylor won a comedy
special on Netflix. Does he have a time limit on that?
Ron Taylor told AV Club about a week ago. I
haven't got any of details about that, at least not yet.
I'm still kind of wiping crust out of my eyes.
But the way I've been thinking about it is that's
next month. So every month I'm gonna say I have
to shoot this hour next month. That way I can
be working on it diligently and intently to where it'll
be ready whenever it needs to be ready. A right
Ron Taylor, How are you gonna use your new found visibility?
Ron Taylor said, it's interesting. Kevin Hart has given a
good blueprint of what I think most comedians would like
to do when they think about life outside comedy before.
A good blueprint could have been like Steve Harvey doing
different shows and stuff like that. But I think Kevin
has done everything. He's got his own shoe. He's a
comedian that's not very tall, and he's got his own
athletic shoe. He's got movies, books, he's even got a
music deal. He's got a rap alter ego Chocolate Droppa
he does. I didn't know that. Is that a thing?
I'm googling? What do you know? There's a tiny desk
concert on YouTube. Oh, we will get to this some
other day, like July fourth week, when I'm like, how
am I going to fill the time? We'll get into that.
I'll just add that to the notes for a slow
news day. We got too much of this week, Ron
Taylor said, I want to use this momentum to work
as much as I can. When you're coming up and
you're trying to make things happen, you can't just go
to a comedy club and say, hey, can I have
a weekend here? They're like, can you put butts in seats?
If not, get out of here. President Obama teased his
upcoming HBO Max show that one feature is comedian Larry David.
You know that guy. It is titled Life Larry in
the Pursuit of Unhappiness. Obama set up sat across the
table from some of the world's most difficult leaders and
wrestled with some of the globe's most intractable problems. Nothing
has prepared me for working with Larry David. I'm just
a producer on the show, so I don't have to
deal with them day to day, but still it's a lot.
Larry David then walks into the video goes hey forty four.
Obama says yeah. Larry asks can I put you down
as my emergency contact? Obama says, why would you do that?
Larry says, well, if they see your name, they'll be
more inclined to help Life Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, HBO.
June twenty sixth NBC picked up the paper for season
two on Peacock That's the Office spinoff. I was kind
of enjoying it. And I think I got I don't know,
maybe seven of the ten in I'm not sure I
finished the season. Maybe I did, can't remember. It's fine.
NBC is also renewed Reggie Dinkins, starring Tracy Morgan and
Daniel Radcliffe, for a second season. The Fall and Rise
of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan as a former football
star whose career ended in a gambling scandal. Apparently someone's
watching that. Prime Video signed up Brett Goldstein for an
eight episode, half hour single camera romantic comedy in es
Courted a divorce dad, presumably Brett Goldstein accidentally becomes a
male escort and I'm pretty sure it's Brett Goldstein in
this romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether
real intimacy can ever be bought. Goldstein said, I'm so
excited to bring a wholesome show about condoms, co parting
and cosplay. Amazon the place where I actually buy my condoms,
like a real circle moment. Last weekend, like you know,
like eight days ago, maybe fifteen days ago. I bumped
a lot of stuff this week. John Stewart was down
in Philadelphia playing drums for his band Church and State.
This was at the Singer's Home festival. John Stewart learned
how to play drums during COVID. He said, it's been
such an incredible gift to sit around guitarist Andy Bova's
basement like a group of proper fourteen year olds and
write songs. Who's up for some indie old man emo?
Not a Jeanreyette, but it's coming. The band is led
by singer songwriter Rick Berry, who's an Asbury Park musician.
If you're not hip to Asbury Park, New Jersey, there's
a thriving music scene down there, always a great place
to catch a show. Boba's father, Jim, plays bass. Church
and State's YouTube page has forty eight subscribers. We had
to get them some more forty eight and they've posted
three videos from past shows. John Stewart said, the feeling
you get when desparate limbs locking and moving away they
never have before. You can feel new neural pathways opening up,
lighting up. It feels like the opposite of death. And
John was playing drums for The Very White Stripes. That
is the band that appeared the other day with Codin
O'Brien on guzar. Jimmy Kimmel on I don't know, some
sort of woodwind I don't remember. I'm doing this story
from memory and some lovely young lady on vocals and
they just shared another clip which I just grabbed. So
we'll let that take us out and I will see
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Take it up with my hosting company. They will not
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that at three oh five in the morning, So you
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