Speaker 1: Caalarogas shock media. Hi there, I'm Johnnie Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Now. We try not to get political
Speaker 1: on this program, especially because the President and I don't
Speaker 1: agree on all the issues, but on one issue that
Speaker 1: we are aligned on, it's this whole make twelve thirty
Speaker 1: great again issue. I'm very passionate about this. We need
Speaker 1: to get twelve thirty back to the great days of
Speaker 1: Letterman and Conan. Are changing networks, Craig Ferguson and now
Speaker 1: we have Seth Meyers. The President said Seth's show is
Speaker 1: a ratings disaster aside from everything else, Myers says no
Speaker 1: talent and NBC should fire him immediately. Seth Myers responded
Speaker 1: to this on his twelve thirty program, which is closer
Speaker 1: in consumption to this program than it is to Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan's program. Those are facts. They're amazing facts, but they're facts.
Speaker 1: Seth said, you guys, they said my name on TV.
Speaker 1: It's not often you hear the name Seth Myers on
Speaker 1: TV before midnight. Seth then got somewhat serious and said,
Speaker 1: as I've said before, I prefer to handle these situation
Speaker 1: is the way you handle an angry driver. Who hawks
Speaker 1: and flips you off on the highway. You just ignore them,
Speaker 1: you know, unless you're in New Jersey then technically that's
Speaker 1: a marriage proposal. Conan O'Brien, who helped make twelve thirty Greats,
Speaker 1: was in India. On social media, he was sharing some
Speaker 1: of the fun he was having. He's shooting season three
Speaker 1: of his travel series Conan O'Brien Must Go. One photo
Speaker 1: shows Conan with a cricket bat and says, my first
Speaker 1: day playing street cricket and I scored eleven hundred points
Speaker 1: question mark, I have no idea what happened. In another post,
Speaker 1: Conan is seen posing with background dancers. Conan was dressed
Speaker 1: in a traditional outfit. Decaption. Just filmed a Bollywood extravaganza
Speaker 1: with these gifted dancers and incredible crew. I can't wait
Speaker 1: for you to watch it on your phone. One more,
Speaker 1: he was interacting with the public. They captured lots of
Speaker 1: laughs in Mumbai with my new friend Rusty and this
Speaker 1: woman was thrilled to meet Ryan Seacrest. Search hashtag Conan
Speaker 1: O'Brien must go on your social media's if you want
Speaker 1: to see those. Bill Maher was on his podcast. The
Speaker 1: guest was Patton Oswaltz. Bill Maher explains to Patton oswalt
Speaker 1: While Bill Moore no longer tours doing up comedy, he said,
Speaker 1: I felt like it was a great choice because I
Speaker 1: don't want to be out there in this country, in
Speaker 1: this political atmosphere. I could get shot by the left
Speaker 1: or right. I mean, it's just not a good time
Speaker 1: to be out there. Marris pointed out that he released
Speaker 1: his thirteenth HBO special earlier this year, was called Bill
Speaker 1: Maher as anyone else seeing this, and he said, I
Speaker 1: feel like that's a good body of work. I felt
Speaker 1: like they basically got better as they went along, and
Speaker 1: I feel like the last one was the best one,
Speaker 1: which is a good way to get off. Some other
Speaker 1: factors that Bill said contributed to his decision was getting
Speaker 1: tired of the travel, obviously, and getting tired of being
Speaker 1: twice as funny as people who were selling twice as
Speaker 1: many tickets as me. He said, part of that is
Speaker 1: because I'm on TV every week, not that I didn't
Speaker 1: sell a lot of tickets. You know, do great theaters,
Speaker 1: but I didn't sell arenas and some people did, and
Speaker 1: frankly they aren't that great. But you know, when the
Speaker 1: audience is thirty five to forty five. They don't want
Speaker 1: to see somebody seventy. Pat Oswalt released an audio special
Speaker 1: last week on Audible, this one called Black Coffee and
Speaker 1: Ice Water. It opens up with Patten reading a fake
Speaker 1: disclaimer about how he's gone full Mega in an attempt
Speaker 1: to avoid the hand of Donald Trump. The Last Lafe
Speaker 1: Vulture says it's a funny bit that also underscores Patton
Speaker 1: Oswald's fears about being outspokenly anti fascist in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five America. It's very simple, Patton, just don't watch Hulu.
Speaker 1: Go upstairs and get the scrubs DVDs. Very simple. You
Speaker 1: didn't need to watch the bashion of Manascalco's special. You
Speaker 1: didn't think it was going to be funny, did you? No?
Speaker 1: Come on? Patten told The Last Laugh about doing an
Speaker 1: audio special. I love the idea of getting to go
Speaker 1: old school again. Then I loved it even more when
Speaker 1: I was ten minutes in recording the set and realized, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm not on camera right now. This is just me
Speaker 1: talking and the audience responding. It's very real, and it's immediate,
Speaker 1: and it was so immediately freeing. I felt fantastic. As
Speaker 1: for the new cycles, Patton said, whatever horrible thing happens
Speaker 1: usually will happened for a week, and then they'll move
Speaker 1: on to whatever the next horrible thing is that they
Speaker 1: want to do. Our only advantage is hopefully we can
Speaker 1: outcreate them and outpivot them, because they seem to have
Speaker 1: no object permanence. Weird Al announced that his tour, Bigger
Speaker 1: and Weirder will continue into twenty twenty six and additional
Speaker 1: ninety stops through North America, including cities such as Chicago, Boston, Vegas, Austin, KC, Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: and more. Jim Brewer announced his tour, It's the Fine,
Speaker 1: the Funny Tour. The tour launches February nineteenth at the
Speaker 1: Sunrise Theater at Fort Pierce, Sick Jim's current resume. According
Speaker 1: to this piece, a Long Island native. Strong Island, Brewer
Speaker 1: honed his craft on New York's comedy circuit before breaking
Speaker 1: out as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. See
Speaker 1: I said all the syllables that time? Did I mention?
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned this in the Facebook group. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite things about the Eddie Murphy documentary was
Speaker 1: hearing Eddie Murphy say the first word of SNL the
Speaker 1: same way I do and the same way that Jim
Speaker 1: Brewer does. It must be a Queen's Long Island thing,
Speaker 1: because if you pay attention to Eddie saying Sad Night
Speaker 1: Live the way I do, Saatenite Live or sometimes Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live, definitely not Saturday Night Live, Saturday Live. I
Speaker 1: loved it. After SNL, Jim Brewer went out to star
Speaker 1: in the Colt Stoner comedy Half Baked, which also features
Speaker 1: Dave Schapelle and appears in films including Zookeeper, Beer League,
Speaker 1: titan Ae, among others. Brewer most recently released the YouTube
Speaker 1: special country Boy Will Survive as Other specials include Hardcore,
Speaker 1: Let's Clear the Air, and Laughter for All I'm Behind
Speaker 1: on my Jim Brewer YouTube specials. Apparently, bill Board asked
Speaker 1: comedian Josh Johnson if he's ever been confused with NFL
Speaker 1: player Josh Johnson. Have you guys ever met or talked?
Speaker 1: Comedian Josh Johnson said no, We've never run into each other.
Speaker 1: Then they asked Josh Johnson, have you ever had a
Speaker 1: politician supporter coming you for something you said on your
Speaker 1: show or in your act? Comedian Josh Johnson said no,
Speaker 1: I try to be fair in my assessments of people.
Speaker 1: Even if there are people I don't really like, I
Speaker 1: can still acknowledge when they did a thing for the
Speaker 1: collective good or made a smart political play, even when
Speaker 1: it's something that I considered to be terrible propaganda. I
Speaker 1: do my best to give kudos when they're deserved. You
Speaker 1: have a better political understanding if you can be as
Speaker 1: close to objective as your political leanings will allow. I'd
Speaker 1: talk about everything, and if I see something that doesn't
Speaker 1: hold water, I'll say so even if I like that person.
Speaker 1: Josh got a little philosophical and said, if you stay
Speaker 1: in the big arc of history and how politics works,
Speaker 1: you can see that there's precedent. We already had a
Speaker 1: guilded age. So there's already a playbook on how people
Speaker 1: combatd the robber baron era. But there's also a playbook
Speaker 1: for the robber barons to get and consolidate power. So
Speaker 1: many of these things are bigger than any one political figure,
Speaker 1: and the last much longer than any one person's political career.
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson, comedian, Are you optimistic about where a country's headed?
Speaker 1: Comedian Josh Johnson said, I always leaned toward optimism because
Speaker 1: that's the best way for me to live. But I'm
Speaker 1: not ever going to poop poo the idea that things
Speaker 1: get worse than you can imagine. I do think with
Speaker 1: optimism and hard work, they'll turn out better than someone
Speaker 1: could have projected. Pure Wow asked Nicki Glazer about her
Speaker 1: upcoming Golden Globes monologue. They were curious, when you're writing
Speaker 1: such a thing, are you rewriting right up until showtime?
Speaker 1: Nickki said yes, I rewrite until the very last minute.
Speaker 1: For my monologue last year, I decided to do my
Speaker 1: closing joke in the moment on live TV. It wasn't
Speaker 1: even in the teleprompter. The closer I had in the
Speaker 1: teleprompter didn't get the pop I wanted, so I just
Speaker 1: winged it and reached for a joke that I had
Speaker 1: previously memorized as a possible closer. Thank god, I had
Speaker 1: rehearsed it enough that I hadn't memorized. It was a wordy
Speaker 1: joke too. Kevin Nelan was on Ted Danson's podcast. Neilan
Speaker 1: talked about the preparation it took to get a fake
Speaker 1: chin applied for his imitation of the worst person who
Speaker 1: Ever lived Jay Leno, you know that guy with the
Speaker 1: charity work in the opinions about L Night TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the worst. According to Neilan, the makeup artist had to
Speaker 1: cover him in thick plaster that left him unable to
Speaker 1: breathe through anything other than two straws that was stuck
Speaker 1: into his nostrils. He called it a life mask or
Speaker 1: a death mask. Nelon said, I never thought it'd be
Speaker 1: a problem. Then it starts to get warm and it's hardening,
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, oh my god, all that's open is
Speaker 1: my nostrils. If those close up, I'll suffocate. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine the headline SNL comedian dies of suffocation impersonating Jay Leno.
Speaker 1: Nelan said he started to get panicky and I remember
Speaker 1: being about to pass out. Next thing he knew he
Speaker 1: was being administered smelling salts. Tracy Morgan spoke to people
Speaker 1: about his new Paramount plus titcom Crutch. Tracy plays Francois
Speaker 1: Frank Kretchfield. Tracy said, it's one hundred percent of me
Speaker 1: because I'm just mimicking my dad. My older brother moved
Speaker 1: back in with my father, and that was sort of
Speaker 1: a battle, but a teachable moment. Maagine Simba moving back
Speaker 1: in with Mufassa. Who's the lion king. My father had
Speaker 1: to go about it in a graceful way. He let
Speaker 1: my brother know that he was the lion king, and
Speaker 1: I'm just mimicking that and from Business Insider. Before I
Speaker 1: do the story, I'll remind you George Carlin once said,
Speaker 1: it's a big club and you ain't in it. Business
Speaker 1: Insider was at Baron Capitol's thirty second annual Investor Conference,
Speaker 1: an event known for blending of financial presentations with high
Speaker 1: profile entertainment. Attendance is exclusive. Shareholders must have at least
Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars invested with the firm to get a seat.
Speaker 1: Past conferences of featured people like the great traumatic actor
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler well this year. Doors open at six thirty,
Speaker 1: panels started at nine. Attendees were told to go to
Speaker 1: one of three lunch venues, each hosting a different midday performance.
Speaker 1: Those assigned to one particular theater received box lunches offering
Speaker 1: salads or ham turkey or roast beef sandwiches. Who comes
Speaker 1: out Sebastian Maniscalco, who opened by asking you ever performed
Speaker 1: with the smell of ham sandwiches? Sebastian Maniscalco is hilarious
Speaker 1: or should I say hilarious. That's your comedy news for today,
Speaker 1: See you tomorrow.