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Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media Happy Memorial Day. From the basement, it's

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Johnny Mack and his dog. Sometimes the dog hangs out

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in the studio. I don't know why she's here, but

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she is. From ysnews dot com, your home for Yellow

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Springs News. Dave Chappelle has opened a gift shop. It's

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Dave Chappelle's local merch shop, dubbed the Chappelle Shop. You'll

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find it a two to twenty one Zenia Avenue in

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Yellow Springs, Ohio, for sale or Dave Chappelle branded apparel

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including socks, pants, shirts, Thermoses lighters, Final Records, and more.

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Store manager Joe Harworth told ysnews dot Com it was

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a pop up that ended up lasting four and a

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half years. The front of Chappelle's shop faces Keith's Alley.

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Keith's Alley is named after longtime Yellow Springs News editor

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Keith Howard. Store manager Joe Harworth said that was intentional.

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The Chappelle Shop is directly visible from Dave's comedy club,

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The Firehouse, over on Corey Street. Arwitz said the building

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can really work with the club. The ideas all these

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people can line up, look over their shoulder and see

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us doors are open seven days a week neon to six.

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When there's a show at the club, the store stays

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open well into the night. Arwith tells us there were

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shirts with the classic c but there's also a lot

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of stuff that's loud and speaks to culture. On the

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back of one hoodie is the image of a lion

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with the stenciled word unstoppable, which also was the name

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of Chappelle's twenty twenty five special. Underneath that is a

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quote from Chappelle's mother, Sometimes you have to be a

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lion so you can be the lamb you really are.

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That HOODI will run you seventy five dollars. Jerry Seinfeld

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and Larry David were on the Rushmore podcast and they

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started talking about the classic television show. Seinfeld Larry David

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said the show's first episode order four episodes, was the

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smallest order in the history of television. The money came

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out of the same budget NBCUS for variety specials. When

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Seinfeld received the four episode order, it became someone else's

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responsibility to tell Bob Hope he wouldn't get a Christmas

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special that year. Wow, you gotta understand Bob Hope was

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a giant at NBC. That must have been an awful

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meeting to have. They went over the famous reaction of

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the pilot. There was a memo that noted no segment

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of the audience was eager to watch the show again.

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They called Jerry's life boring, George a loser and said

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Jerry needed a better backup ensemble. They were sold the

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show wouldn't be picked up, Larry David said, and I

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was thrilled because he felt like I had no more

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stories to tell. He said he had that same feeling

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after every season of Seinfeld and every season of Kerb. Now,

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if you've seen the pilot, and you probably have, Aline

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is not in the pilot. There's a waitress at the

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restaurant who was decided they needed a lady in the group.

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Jerry said, we were single guys. We couldn't write relationships.

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We didn't know anything about it. Larry David shared he

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had dated Monica Yates, daughter of author Richard Yates, and

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that the Alaine character was based on Monica Yates, and

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Jerry said if the character was an axe, it eliminated

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the element of will they or won't they. They also

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talked about the origins of some of the show's iconic things.

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As for the close Talker, Larry David said, their to them,

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they were two hundred in this audience right now. As

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for the Soup Nazi, that idea came from writer Spike

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first In, who shared a story about a hostile man

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selling soup in New York. Larry said people around us

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would just be talking and not realize they had a

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storyline for the show. Jerry said a single regret as

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Larry David not allowing him to work the phrase Oi

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the Vaults, a play on Eugevelts into an episode. Jerry

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Seinfeld's favorite episodes the Contest, The Soup Nazi, The MERV

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Griffin Show, and The Marine Biologist. Larry David said the

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Contest to the opposite, the puffy Shirt and the pen.

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As for the Contest, Larry David had the idea in

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a notebook for two years before pitching it, figuring no

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one would want to do it. He was shocked when

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Jerry told him he loved the idea. Larry was so

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convinced NBC wouldn't let them film the script he was

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ready to quit on the spot. However, that directive never came.

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It's sold after the table read the ad sales team

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went nuts. As for the boyfriend episode, that's the one

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with Keith Hernandez, Jerry said it was one of the

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biggest thrills of the series. It was a long speech

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and I knew would get a lot of laughs if

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I got it right. That speech the conspiracy of the

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second Radar Online, which tends to be a little gossip,

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he says. Jimmy Kimmel has big plans for life after

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Late Night. Insiders say Jimmy Kimmel can't stop bragging about

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he's going to be the next Merv Griffin, who was

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the mastermind behind shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.

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An insider says, as Kimmell looks at the declining and

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contracting talk show world, Jimmy is preparing for what's next.

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With the right idea, game shows can be very cheap

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to produce, and Jimmy also sees these projects as potentially

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employing a lot of his family members and longtime staffers.

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Should Jimmy kimmelive and its run in the next few years,

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his talk show is important to him, but Jimmy's now

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wants to prove to his bosses that he can be

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useful in many other ways beyond just hosting. He's been

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helping to create interesting shows and unique formats for going

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on thirty years. Eugene Merman told Ner Trompolis that he's

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recovering well after his recent accidents. He says, I'm feeling

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pretty good. I'm healing and recovering and doing all right.

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He explained that if you saw the images of the

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wreck car, it looked terrifying, but the car is quite destroyed.

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But I was pulled from it before that it fully happened.

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All the very kind messages from everybody have obviously been

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very sweet and heartwarming. He's got a new special. It's

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called Here Comes the Whimsie. You'll find that on YouTube.

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In that special, he jokes about a club with bizarre

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rules about jackets and shoes. Merman said, you get the

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feeling they're almost like, we're so sorry, but someone from

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two hundred years ago insisted on this rule. He talked

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about Bob's Burgers. Now, longtime listeners to this program know

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that I am hip to the hoax that is Bob's Burgers.

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If you're new, let me ask you two questions. Have

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you ever seen Bob's Burgers? The answer is no. And

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have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob's Burgers?

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The answer is also no. No. I understand this artwork.

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I understand you used to hear Joe Buck promote coming

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up after the Cowboys game there's a new Simpsons and

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an all new Bob's Burgers, but you never actually saw

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Bob's Burgers because you switched over to NBC and watched

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Sunday Night football. This is a hoax. Think about the

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types of comedians, Eugene Merman, Kristin Shawl, These are the

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kind of people that would do such a hoax. Kristin

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won the Kaufman Award. I mean, how many clues do

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you need ask for the hoax? Eugene Merman said, I

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never expected a cartoon to exist for this length of time.

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I Dora making a comedy that's both a family comedy

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but all so idiosyncratic in its own way. People are like,

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oh my god, that's my family. Merman says. The cast

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frequently records scripts has written before, experimenting with alternative deliveries, improvisations,

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and fresh joke ideas. He says, well recorded is written,

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and then sometimes it'll be like, can we try this?

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He has an idea for Bob's Burger is crossing over

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with the equalizer or the born identity. The idea is

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Gene has amnesia and he's like, why am I so

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good at making tacos? And slowly he remembers. Jay Farrow

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has a renewed embrace of Christianity. He said, I had

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a lot put on me early and pretty much had

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access to whatever I wanted. But I found out that

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that never makes you happy. He is expounding on his

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philosophy in a new Venture, a rap album. One of

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the tracks is called life is Good when You're Rich.

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One of the verses is I'm telling you how I'm rich.

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I said, I'm rich with my family, I'm rich with

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my friends. I'm rich for the love of God that

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will never end. Jay Pharrow said recently, a pastor drove

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from Tennessee to Columbus, Ohio to attend a show. He

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came up to me after the show and he goes,

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God told me to give you this. It was a

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blue Bible with my name on it. The Bible is

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book marked at the exact mark that I had stopped

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reading on my Bible. App took that moment as a

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sign to get myself together, he said. The Lord is real.

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He is real. Tiffany Hattish is on the cover of

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the twenty twenty six Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Tiffany said

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preparing for the shoot helped her reconnect with her physical

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strength and discipline after years of injuries and personal challenges.

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She said the cover opportunity stem from a dream she

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had when she was young when she competed in track

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and field. She said she later began intentionally visualizing herself

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appearing on Sports Illustrated and eventually pursued the goal more seriously.

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The Swimsuit issue is on newsstands tomorrow and Good News

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from the New York Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York.

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Mel Brooks has donated his archives to the museum. The

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archive comprises nearly one hundred and fifty thousand creative in

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production documents and over five thousand photographs, and it offers

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an unparalleled record of brooks creative life and the development

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of works that transformed American comedy and culture, including Blazing Saddles,

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Young Frankenstein, The Producer's Silent Movie, History of the World

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Part One, and Spaceballs. The archive begins with mel Brooks

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earliest handwritten comedic notes, creating during his service in the

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US Army during World War II. It then moves through

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his work with Sid Caesar on TV shows like Your

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Show of Shows. In a statement, mel Brooks said, I've

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always been proud to say that I make people laugh

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for a living. So knowing that my work will have

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a home at Comedy's National Archive and continue making people

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laugh leaves me with a deep sense of pride. I'm

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honored that my contributions will be preserved for future generations

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at the National Comedy Center, especially because it's a place

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that was meaningful to my best friend Carl Reiner, who

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believed in the importance of preserving comedy's history. I know

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he'd be happy with our work that'd be run for

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the next two thousand years or maybe more. Other comedian estates,

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including John Ervins George Carlin, have donated their files to

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the Comedy Center. Jereny Gunderson said of this collection, it's

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as big as it gets in the way he so

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fearlessly satirizes the darkest moments of humanity in the post

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World War two era. And with that, let's go have

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a hot dog or something. Enjoy the rest of the

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holiday weekend, and we'll meet back here tomorrow