Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media Happy Memorial Day. From the basement, it's
Johnny Mack and his dog. Sometimes the dog hangs out
in the studio. I don't know why she's here, but
she is. From ysnews dot com, your home for Yellow
Springs News. Dave Chappelle has opened a gift shop. It's
Dave Chappelle's local merch shop, dubbed the Chappelle Shop. You'll
find it a two to twenty one Zenia Avenue in
Yellow Springs, Ohio, for sale or Dave Chappelle branded apparel
including socks, pants, shirts, Thermoses lighters, Final Records, and more.
Store manager Joe Harworth told ysnews dot Com it was
a pop up that ended up lasting four and a
half years. The front of Chappelle's shop faces Keith's Alley.
Keith's Alley is named after longtime Yellow Springs News editor
Keith Howard. Store manager Joe Harworth said that was intentional.
The Chappelle Shop is directly visible from Dave's comedy club,
The Firehouse, over on Corey Street. Arwitz said the building
can really work with the club. The ideas all these
people can line up, look over their shoulder and see
us doors are open seven days a week neon to six.
When there's a show at the club, the store stays
open well into the night. Arwith tells us there were
shirts with the classic c but there's also a lot
of stuff that's loud and speaks to culture. On the
back of one hoodie is the image of a lion
with the stenciled word unstoppable, which also was the name
of Chappelle's twenty twenty five special. Underneath that is a
quote from Chappelle's mother, Sometimes you have to be a
lion so you can be the lamb you really are.
That HOODI will run you seventy five dollars. Jerry Seinfeld
and Larry David were on the Rushmore podcast and they
started talking about the classic television show. Seinfeld Larry David
said the show's first episode order four episodes, was the
smallest order in the history of television. The money came
out of the same budget NBCUS for variety specials. When
Seinfeld received the four episode order, it became someone else's
responsibility to tell Bob Hope he wouldn't get a Christmas
special that year. Wow, you gotta understand Bob Hope was
a giant at NBC. That must have been an awful
meeting to have. They went over the famous reaction of
the pilot. There was a memo that noted no segment
of the audience was eager to watch the show again.
They called Jerry's life boring, George a loser and said
Jerry needed a better backup ensemble. They were sold the
show wouldn't be picked up, Larry David said, and I
was thrilled because he felt like I had no more
stories to tell. He said he had that same feeling
after every season of Seinfeld and every season of Kerb. Now,
if you've seen the pilot, and you probably have, Aline
is not in the pilot. There's a waitress at the
restaurant who was decided they needed a lady in the group.
Jerry said, we were single guys. We couldn't write relationships.
We didn't know anything about it. Larry David shared he
had dated Monica Yates, daughter of author Richard Yates, and
that the Alaine character was based on Monica Yates, and
Jerry said if the character was an axe, it eliminated
the element of will they or won't they. They also
talked about the origins of some of the show's iconic things.
As for the close Talker, Larry David said, their to them,
they were two hundred in this audience right now. As
for the Soup Nazi, that idea came from writer Spike
first In, who shared a story about a hostile man
selling soup in New York. Larry said people around us
would just be talking and not realize they had a
storyline for the show. Jerry said a single regret as
Larry David not allowing him to work the phrase Oi
the Vaults, a play on Eugevelts into an episode. Jerry
Seinfeld's favorite episodes the Contest, The Soup Nazi, The MERV
Griffin Show, and The Marine Biologist. Larry David said the
Contest to the opposite, the puffy Shirt and the pen.
As for the Contest, Larry David had the idea in
a notebook for two years before pitching it, figuring no
one would want to do it. He was shocked when
Jerry told him he loved the idea. Larry was so
convinced NBC wouldn't let them film the script he was
ready to quit on the spot. However, that directive never came.
It's sold after the table read the ad sales team
went nuts. As for the boyfriend episode, that's the one
with Keith Hernandez, Jerry said it was one of the
biggest thrills of the series. It was a long speech
and I knew would get a lot of laughs if
I got it right. That speech the conspiracy of the
second Radar Online, which tends to be a little gossip,
he says. Jimmy Kimmel has big plans for life after
Late Night. Insiders say Jimmy Kimmel can't stop bragging about
he's going to be the next Merv Griffin, who was
the mastermind behind shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.
An insider says, as Kimmell looks at the declining and
contracting talk show world, Jimmy is preparing for what's next.
With the right idea, game shows can be very cheap
to produce, and Jimmy also sees these projects as potentially
employing a lot of his family members and longtime staffers.
Should Jimmy kimmelive and its run in the next few years,
his talk show is important to him, but Jimmy's now
wants to prove to his bosses that he can be
useful in many other ways beyond just hosting. He's been
helping to create interesting shows and unique formats for going
on thirty years. Eugene Merman told Ner Trompolis that he's
recovering well after his recent accidents. He says, I'm feeling
pretty good. I'm healing and recovering and doing all right.
He explained that if you saw the images of the
wreck car, it looked terrifying, but the car is quite destroyed.
But I was pulled from it before that it fully happened.
All the very kind messages from everybody have obviously been
very sweet and heartwarming. He's got a new special. It's
called Here Comes the Whimsie. You'll find that on YouTube.
In that special, he jokes about a club with bizarre
rules about jackets and shoes. Merman said, you get the
feeling they're almost like, we're so sorry, but someone from
two hundred years ago insisted on this rule. He talked
about Bob's Burgers. Now, longtime listeners to this program know
that I am hip to the hoax that is Bob's Burgers.
If you're new, let me ask you two questions. Have
you ever seen Bob's Burgers? The answer is no. And
have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob's Burgers?
The answer is also no. No. I understand this artwork.
I understand you used to hear Joe Buck promote coming
up after the Cowboys game there's a new Simpsons and
an all new Bob's Burgers, but you never actually saw
Bob's Burgers because you switched over to NBC and watched
Sunday Night football. This is a hoax. Think about the
types of comedians, Eugene Merman, Kristin Shawl, These are the
kind of people that would do such a hoax. Kristin
won the Kaufman Award. I mean, how many clues do
you need ask for the hoax? Eugene Merman said, I
never expected a cartoon to exist for this length of time.
I Dora making a comedy that's both a family comedy
but all so idiosyncratic in its own way. People are like,
oh my god, that's my family. Merman says. The cast
frequently records scripts has written before, experimenting with alternative deliveries, improvisations,
and fresh joke ideas. He says, well recorded is written,
and then sometimes it'll be like, can we try this?
He has an idea for Bob's Burger is crossing over
with the equalizer or the born identity. The idea is
Gene has amnesia and he's like, why am I so
good at making tacos? And slowly he remembers. Jay Farrow
has a renewed embrace of Christianity. He said, I had
a lot put on me early and pretty much had
access to whatever I wanted. But I found out that
that never makes you happy. He is expounding on his
philosophy in a new Venture, a rap album. One of
the tracks is called life is Good when You're Rich.
One of the verses is I'm telling you how I'm rich.
I said, I'm rich with my family, I'm rich with
my friends. I'm rich for the love of God that
will never end. Jay Pharrow said recently, a pastor drove
from Tennessee to Columbus, Ohio to attend a show. He
came up to me after the show and he goes,
God told me to give you this. It was a
blue Bible with my name on it. The Bible is
book marked at the exact mark that I had stopped
reading on my Bible. App took that moment as a
sign to get myself together, he said. The Lord is real.
He is real. Tiffany Hattish is on the cover of
the twenty twenty six Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Tiffany said
preparing for the shoot helped her reconnect with her physical
strength and discipline after years of injuries and personal challenges.
She said the cover opportunity stem from a dream she
had when she was young when she competed in track
and field. She said she later began intentionally visualizing herself
appearing on Sports Illustrated and eventually pursued the goal more seriously.
The Swimsuit issue is on newsstands tomorrow and Good News
from the New York Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York.
Mel Brooks has donated his archives to the museum. The
archive comprises nearly one hundred and fifty thousand creative in
production documents and over five thousand photographs, and it offers
an unparalleled record of brooks creative life and the development
of works that transformed American comedy and culture, including Blazing Saddles,
Young Frankenstein, The Producer's Silent Movie, History of the World
Part One, and Spaceballs. The archive begins with mel Brooks
earliest handwritten comedic notes, creating during his service in the
US Army during World War II. It then moves through
his work with Sid Caesar on TV shows like Your
Show of Shows. In a statement, mel Brooks said, I've
always been proud to say that I make people laugh
for a living. So knowing that my work will have
a home at Comedy's National Archive and continue making people
laugh leaves me with a deep sense of pride. I'm
honored that my contributions will be preserved for future generations
at the National Comedy Center, especially because it's a place
that was meaningful to my best friend Carl Reiner, who
believed in the importance of preserving comedy's history. I know
he'd be happy with our work that'd be run for
the next two thousand years or maybe more. Other comedian estates,
including John Ervins George Carlin, have donated their files to
the Comedy Center. Jereny Gunderson said of this collection, it's
as big as it gets in the way he so
fearlessly satirizes the darkest moments of humanity in the post
World War two era. And with that, let's go have
a hot dog or something. Enjoy the rest of the
holiday weekend, and we'll meet back here tomorrow