Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Conan O'Brien, who is indeed on the Mount
Speaker 1: Rushmore of Late Night Comedy. Hopefully you listen to Sunday's
Speaker 1: episode where I revealed the four names. Go check it
Speaker 1: out if you haven't. I really enjoyed putting that episode together.
Speaker 1: That was Sunday's episode. In this feed, Conan O'Brien was
Speaker 1: on the Messy podcast, which is hosted by Christina Applegate
Speaker 1: and Jamie Lynn Sigler. Conan's been all over the place lately.
Speaker 1: Conan said, I've had multiple times in my career where
Speaker 1: things kind of blew up or went sideways. I had
Speaker 1: no regrets about giving the Tonight show a shot, and when,
Speaker 1: for all these complicated reasons, it blew up, I was
Speaker 1: deeply upset. I thought I'm in real trouble. This could
Speaker 1: be end of my career at forty six. But lo
Speaker 1: and behold, this thing called the Internet rose up and
Speaker 1: I got this huge groundswell of love and appreciation that
Speaker 1: I didn't expect. Because you're doing a show like Late Night,
Speaker 1: day and day out for sixteen years, it's submarine duty.
Speaker 1: You don't get a chance to you understand fully that
Speaker 1: there's a generation of people out there that have been watching.
Speaker 1: They're younger than me, and they all knew how to
Speaker 1: use the internet, so they all got on social media
Speaker 1: and it was a big thing. The one thing that
Speaker 1: saved me is I'm very restless, and I'm willing to
Speaker 1: change it up. The idea of doing one thing for
Speaker 1: thirty five years in television and getting a gold watch
Speaker 1: and leaving just said it awful to me. It still does,
Speaker 1: although a gold watch would be great. Speaking of watches,
Speaker 1: I didn't even plan this. I just put a Conan
Speaker 1: story back to back with John Mullaney. But John Mulaney
Speaker 1: spoke to GQ magazine about watches. I wish I had
Speaker 1: done that on purpose. I'm not that good. It's a
Speaker 1: Tuesday off, a holiday weekend. I just put some stories
Speaker 1: with big names at the top. Anyway, we accidentally have
Speaker 1: a theme. Look at that. GQ recounts the story of
Speaker 1: Mullany having to sell his Rolex when he had some
Speaker 1: drug problems. In twenty twenty one, Olivia Munn gave John
Speaker 1: Mulaney a Rolex air King to celebrate the birth of
Speaker 1: their son. The watches from nineteen eighty two, which is
Speaker 1: the year John mullaney was born, and that makes me
Speaker 1: feel ancient and has Malcolm's dad engraved on the case back.
Speaker 1: M'LINI told GQ that the Air King was coming right
Speaker 1: off that whole Rolex debacle. It's linked to a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. Melini said he didn't need another watch after
Speaker 1: getting the air King, but you still end up getting them.
Speaker 1: John's collection includes a white gold Rolex, sub Mariners and
Speaker 1: elegant Grand Sacos to the high flying show Pards and
Speaker 1: the new Brightling Top Time. How many of those words
Speaker 1: that I pronounced wrong? I'm gonna guess two. Skipping a ed,
Speaker 1: GQ says, I saw on TV the other day you
Speaker 1: wore the special edition show Pard for the Year of
Speaker 1: the Rabbit with a scene of two cute little rabbits
Speaker 1: on it. John said, two cute rabbits on it and
Speaker 1: a great watch with everyone loved. But it's very hard
Speaker 1: to tell the time on two gold hands moving over
Speaker 1: two slightly gold rabbits. But it's funny. I always go
Speaker 1: it's seven to one pm, and that's the one where
Speaker 1: I had to go it is, and then look at
Speaker 1: the studio clock. John talked about having to pick the
Speaker 1: right watch for performing. He said, of one watch, it's
Speaker 1: nice for most occasions, not distracting when you're doing stand up.
Speaker 1: There are watches you might wear where the audience might
Speaker 1: lose any empathy for you. You don't want to wear a
Speaker 1: sub mariner and be complaining about traffic. Colour Wise, I
Speaker 1: don't wear a rose gold, no pink gold. I like
Speaker 1: to say it's for a better reason, but I'm that
Speaker 1: shade of pale where it doesn't look good anyway. GQ
Speaker 1: long piece with John Mullenian watch as I barely skim
Speaker 1: that one. The La Times caught up with Dmitri Martin.
Speaker 1: They talked about how Dmitri incorporates drawings in his stand up.
Speaker 1: Martin said, the cool thing about drawing is I could
Speaker 1: share something personal and I can use a graphic to
Speaker 1: illustrate it. More specifically, Martin's now wondering I brought visual
Speaker 1: art into my stand up comedy. Can I bring comedy
Speaker 1: into the visual art world. Acute Angles is Martin's solo
Speaker 1: exhibit running through May thirty. First Acute Angles, he says
Speaker 1: the title reference is the shape of his nose. It
Speaker 1: features large grayscale paintings with a unifying color palette of
Speaker 1: bright red, sky blue, and medium gray. The paintings depict
Speaker 1: implausible scenarios. What if the Grim Reaper slipped on a
Speaker 1: banana on his way to kill you? What if Superman
Speaker 1: ripped his underpants on his quest to save you. Martin
Speaker 1: has a month long lease of an abandoned yoga studio
Speaker 1: tucked behind a California in Pete's kitchen in Brentwood. The
Speaker 1: Devil's always in the details. Love that whole sentence you
Speaker 1: can relate to this. This show also represents Martin's re
Speaker 1: emergence from his own midlife existential crisis. At fifty one,
Speaker 1: he is older than his dad was when his dad died.
Speaker 1: I just went through that milestone. That's the one you
Speaker 1: really think about. Dimitri's mom was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1: So Dimitri wonders, so now is this like bonus time
Speaker 1: for me? Started asking himself that in his late forties,
Speaker 1: he's now fifty one. Sarah Silverman was asked about Dmitri.
Speaker 1: Sarah said, he's not without cynicism once you know him,
Speaker 1: But where comics often lead with cynicism, he is this
Speaker 1: wide eyed openness, and I think that's the threat that
Speaker 1: pulls through all his work. Taylor Tomlinson will be recording
Speaker 1: a Netflix special, she posted on social media. She'll tape
Speaker 1: the special December thirteenth in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She's taping
Speaker 1: at the Fountain Street Church. Kaylee Clements is the director
Speaker 1: of audio and visual technology at the church. Kaylee says
Speaker 1: she was looking for a venue with a nice look.
Speaker 1: As far as I understand, it wasn't expressed to me
Speaker 1: why she picked Grand rap But I'm going to say
Speaker 1: it's because the Fountain Street Church is amazing. Kaylee told
Speaker 1: him live Taylor was very kind and sweet. We were
Speaker 1: taking a virtual tour of the space to see if
Speaker 1: it met her approval. Because it's a really large production.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of moving pieces. We may have
Speaker 1: a reputation as a conservative town, and this shows again
Speaker 1: that we allowed diverse voices and we're open to all
Speaker 1: kinds of perspectives. The Saint Pete catalyst asked Howie Mandel,
Speaker 1: why do you always come back to stand up? How
Speaker 1: He says, I never left stand up. People always go
Speaker 1: I loved it when you did stand up. Stand Up's
Speaker 1: my thing. I was a stand up from day one,
Speaker 1: I did a young Comedian special, and then because that's
Speaker 1: what people did, I went to meet with a sitcom
Speaker 1: company and they gave me a sitcom called to See Elsewhere.
Speaker 1: I didn't set out to be a dramatic actor. While
Speaker 1: I was doing that, I was doing stand up. And
Speaker 1: then I got a Saturday Morning cartoon, Bobby's World. I
Speaker 1: didn't set out to do that. They knew my voice
Speaker 1: from stand up, and I continue to do stand up.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a game show host, but
Speaker 1: I did Dealer No Deal, and I kept being a
Speaker 1: stand up. Now I'm a judge on a talent show
Speaker 1: and I'm still a stand up and I do a
Speaker 1: podcast with my daughter, But really, I do stand up.
Speaker 1: Vanity Fair asked Martin Short how he feels about being
Speaker 1: up against Steve Martin in the same Emmy category. Martin said,
Speaker 1: it's a little weird and we do kind of divide
Speaker 1: the vote. I think someone approaching me at the very
Speaker 1: beginning about would you consider being submitted as a supporting
Speaker 1: actor when I go into that category, and I said,
Speaker 1: that's completely dishonestome Now it was just a pondering question.
Speaker 1: I think it was from the Emmys. They were acknowledging
Speaker 1: that we would always split the vote. He told a
Speaker 1: funny story about working on the show Damages. It was
Speaker 1: the first day and one of the executive producers, after
Speaker 1: a couple takes, came up and said, Marty, can you
Speaker 1: not smile? And I said why is that when you
Speaker 1: smile you become Martin Short? And I said, well, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of stuck because I am Martin Short. The producer
Speaker 1: later apologized and said that was a stupid note. Martin said,
Speaker 1: I think Lauren Michael said this to me. I attributed
Speaker 1: to him that when you go to the zoo, you
Speaker 1: go to the monkey cage, and the monkeys have a
Speaker 1: right to be reflective or sleeping or not swinging by
Speaker 1: their tails. But when they don't, you wander why, and
Speaker 1: you come back when you hear them swinging by their tails.
Speaker 1: Lauren said something to the effect of, let's face it, Marty,
Speaker 1: you're a monkey. I can sing. I did fifty shows
Speaker 1: on Letterman where I did a big number every time,
Speaker 1: but I never did it like I'm going to be
Speaker 1: sincere this time. Nope. It was always comedy, because that's
Speaker 1: the deal the audience makes with you. And that's your
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