Speaker 1: Calorogas shark media, Conan O'Brien is being compared to a
drug lord. Hello from poolside. I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. You VNDX of nine eighty five degrees out.
We are by the pool. Did you watch Conan O'Brien's
podcast with Molly Shannon? People are like, what's with the hair? Conan?
You know he is the pompadour. His hair is usually poofy. No,
it was slicked back. What's with that? One fan asked
in the YouTube comments, we all click for the hair
and there's no explanation. Slick back hair was called greaser
Conan by fans. The comments section was awesome. This reminds
me maybe we'll do it tomorrow to go into the
bill Burg comments section, which is differently awesome. Social media
user comments included what does he look like? I'm about
to be sold to used Kia Sarrento. Pretty sure this
guy drives a New York cab. Hey, I got Conan's
hair wrong. Conan is dead. This is his doppelganger, Conan
looking like your Irish uncle who shows you how to
steal guests from car and gives you a flick knife
and tells you to keep it a secret from mom
straight off hoour moos closing has led to Conan's pampador
deflating and greez er Conan isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Page six says Conan O'Brien's rep did not immediately respond
to their request for comment. Meanwhile, David Letterman he used
to host twelve thirty on NBC. So did Conan O'Brien.
For some reason, Seth Myers so said these days that
doesn't make any sense right, No, make twelve thirty great again.
David Letterman was at the Montreal Comedy Festival and the
folks at Beats ninety two point five were there. They
say the room was buzzing from the start, but things
escalated quickly when our good friend Paul Shaver pointed to
the ceiling, prompting production to lower a massive Canadian flag
over the stage. Paul Schaeffer and the guy from the
Montreal Canadians who sings the anthem led the audience in
a version of O Canada. The guys from ninety two
to five tell us Letterman was in prime form, leaning
into his signature dry wit, He jokingly offered multiple apologies
for their American leader. Send your letters to David Letterman.
He is, after all, a letter man. Get it. Yes? Aha.
Dave delighted the local crowd with pointed, humorous remarks, reassuring
everyone that Canada is not for sale. We'll say outcomes.
Will Arnett's the guest. They'd talked about his comedy career,
the SmartLess Podcast, his time on Arrested Development, his time
being married to Amy Poehler, and the existential depth of
his character on BoJack Horseman. We also learned that his
father used to be the CEO of Mulson Brewery. Hey,
it's Scott the Neighbor. Hi, Scott the Neighbor. I'm recording
my podcast. Scott's cleaning up some trees out there. I
told you it's a poolside edition. Will Arnett came out
and capped off the night with a classic late night
top ten list of things that sound cool when Will
Arnett says it. Will Arnette then read the top ten
phrases in his infamous Will Arnett voice. Paul Schaeffer comes
back out leads the audience into a performance of Bachmann
Turner Overdrives taking care of business. Then they did a
second rendition with French lyrics I won't butcher those for you.
Ninety two five gives it a ten out of ten.
You know it's out on Netflix today. Hey, is Kevin
Hart's seventy two Hours. This is the movie in which
Kevin Hart, who's forty seven years old, pretends to be
forty and gets invited out for a weekend with some
young guys, including Marcelo Hernandez. Why the character has to
be forty and not forty seven, ask Kevin Hart. Before
we get to that, Kevin Hart has been trading barbes
with NBA star Lebron Jeames. Kevin Hart was on The
Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon and said bleep him and
meaning Lebron James, not Jimmy Fallon. Why would he curse
out Jimmy Fallon of Lebron. He's a cheater, He's a
dishonest golfer. I had more love for Lebron before he
started all this. I'm adding another year. I'm going to
another team. I don't care what that man's doing with basketball.
He's messing up our golfer team. I don't want to
play basketball at all because he's messing up our schedule.
He's messing up our schedule. Man, This whole new team
thing's gonna throw a schedule off. In seventy two Hours,
in which forty seven year old Kevin Hart plays a
forty year old hanging out with young guys like Marcelo
Hernandez and Ben Marshall, Ben Marshall got a nice fluff
piece from Cosmo, a glow up. I will call it
nice job, Ben Marshall's agent. Ben Marshall tells Cosmo it's
boring and obvious, but I really just love comedy. I
love laughing with my friends. I feel so lucky that
I get to make stuff with people that I like
and laugh all the time. I'm trying to think of
anything else I could tell you about myself that's remotely interesting, Cosmo,
said Seth Myers, who, for some reason as a twelve
thirty show I don't understand either, pointed out how often
you were shirtless this past season on SNL and shirtless
in the seventy two Hours trailer. Cosmo was like, you're
trying to get a Cosmo centerfold like Burt Reynold's voice
of the comedy stock Market. Ben said, Yeah, everything was
very calculated. Now. I never imagined myself taking my shirt
off in anything. Then it just kind of happened. It
was funny shooting seventy two Hours where we knew that
we had our shirts off, but we were shooting that
part toward the end of the summer, so all summer
we were obsessed with what we were eating and working out.
We learned that Ben Marshall likes basketball and used to play,
but picked theater over basketball. Ben said, I guess there
was a moment in high school I was like really
getting into making videos on YouTube and photography, so I
switched to this arts high school in Savannah called Savannah
Arts Academy. I didn't really do much theater or anything
we had, but it would always act in videos that
we were making as for seventy two Hours, He says.
Kevin Hart is the nicest guy in the world. It
was kind of crazy. He was improvising so much and
setting us up to improvise. Sometimes older comedians don't give
it up as much, but he really gives it up.
Cosmo asked Ben Marshall, and it seems like we're setting
him up to be a heart throb. I mean, if
we have him as a heart throb, and Marcelo Hernandez
is a heart throb. This is some movie, Ben, describe
your ideal date. Ben says, go to the loudest part,
or you can find no conversation, or see a long
film no conversation. Then you each go home to your
own apartments and you go to sleep early. He told
a story about dating my freshman year of college. I
was still dating my high school girlfriend, who was a
senior in high school spring break. I flew home to
go to prom with her, and she breaks up with
me immediately, but she still wants me to go to
prom with her. I'm like, this is crazy. I'm gonna
go play basketball, blow off some steam. Then I sprained
my ankle, so I met my old high school prom
with my ex girlfriend on crutches, hobbling around. Just the saddest,
most pathetic site. No hard feelings though, and if you're
reading this, you know who you are. It's all love.
Hold On Magazine asked Marcelo Hernandez what it was like.
We're with a generation of young comedians. Marcello said, from
day one all the way through the finish, they were
hungry comics and hungry comedic actors seizing an opportunity. It's
a great thing to be part of an R rated comedy.
It's been some time since we've been back in this space.
Kevin Hardy added, Oh my god, I can't believe I'm
doing a movie. Those are feelings I don't have as
much because I've been doing it for so long. But
it was refreshing to be around this new generation that
has it. It made me just hungry. Marcelo said of Kevin,
He's much more experienced than I am, so I wanted
to learn from him. Being around someone like Kevin was incredible.
I paid attention to everything he did because I wanted
to absorb as much as I could. Working with him
was a blessing. Now, you may recall earlier in the week,
Marcelo Hernandez did a Kevin Hart impression. Kevin Hart has
now done a Marcelo Hernandez impression, and he pretty much
captures it. No socks, no socks. I don't need socks
because I Dominican. I Dominican. We don't wear socks. We
don't need socks. Yep, nailed it tomorrow in Montreal. It's
that weird. Al concert Al had recently spoken to the
Pittsburgh City Paper. They credited Al with popularizing song parodies.
Al said, actually, Alan Sherman had three number one albums
doing parody songs. And our national anthem is a parody song,
you know now, I look that up. The National Anthem
is sung to the tune of a pre existing song
that was the theme song of a Gentleman's club. Interestingly enough,
but it's not really a parody song. It just uses
the melody. It's not like the Star Spangled Benner is
like goofing on some other song. Al said, I think
because I got that early leg up on MTV, I
kind of became the brand name of parody songs. The
Xerox are Kleenux if you will. Al's last album was
in twenty fourteen, Mandatory Fun. I remember the day that
came out. I went for a run. I remember listening
to it. I could tell you exactly where I was
when I was listening to Mandatory Fun way back in
twenty fourteen. Since then, Al's been focused on releasing singles.
He said, if I were to do parodies, it'd be
harder these days because we don't have quite the monoculture
we had in the eighties. And nineties where everybody was
finally a tune MTV and radio stations and Top forty
was still a thing. Well, if you go see the
Free Show on Saturday, I think we can get a
hint of what it will look like. We'll look at
last Saturday Night's Boston appearance of the Bigger and Weirder Tour.
The guys from Boston dot Com. We're there, they say,
Balladeerian Clown Puddles Pity Party kicked off the evening by
giving new energy to rock classics including Crazy Train. Al
comes out and he opens with Tacky. Let's take a
look at the setlist. Tacky mission statement, that's a deep cut.
If you know you're out, that's a good one. Poke Mania,
everything you know is wrong? One more minute smells like Nirvana.
Dear to be Stupid than at Medley Party in the CIA,
It's all about the Pentems, Bedrock, anthem, my Bologna, Ricky
O to a Superhero, I love Rocky Road, Eat it
like Assurgeon, word crimes and Canadian Idiot. Then onto fat
full version. It's my world and we're all living in it.
Captain Underpants theme song. Now you Know Happy Together, a
cover of the Turtle song not a parody. Puddles Pity
Party came out to sing the other half of the duet,
Skipper Dan eBay stop forwarding that crap to me, White
and nerdy and amish Paradise Nice fish Al then pretended
to leave and then came back out because there was
an encore. We all have cell phones. The saga begins,
and Yoda Boston dot Com said it was weird and
it was great on Saturdays during the summer, I'm doing
these deep dives. Tomorrows will be about the Joe Rogan experience,
and because of that, we'll do two days of the
Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival schedule. On Friday night,
it's the JFL Awards. Chris Fleming will receive the Comedy
Performance of the Year award, otsgo At Cotska receives the
Breakout Comedy Star of the Year, Lisa Gilroy will be
honored as the Rising Comedy Star of the Year, and
Gabe Iglesias will receive the Generation Award. That's at three
thirty in the afternoon, which gives you plenty of time
to make it to the Mike berbigli A gala at
six thirty Sultan Cosas plays at seven. All right, we've
got a real lineup tonight, British at seven, Ashley Gavin
at seven, The New Faces do a second show at seven,
Jacqueline Novak at nine to thirty, otsgo at Cosco has
a gala at nine thirty, and then midnight Surprise at
eleven fifty nine. That's more in line with what we've
seen in the past. Saturday's lineup the Jerry d Gala
at six thirty, Dan SODA's at Club Soda at seven,
Tiffany Hadish at Friends at eight o'clock. Oh yeah, weird
Al nine o'clock at the Place Day Festivals. I know
that place well. You find yourself at the Place To
Festivals quite often if you're at the Montreal Comedy Festival
at nine thirty these the Gabe Iglesias galap but you
would of course be at Weird Al. Dan Soda does
a second show at nine thirty, New Faces does a
show at nine thirty and then again midnight Surprise. Comedy
stock marketine. Thank you Bert Reynolds. If you were new
to this. The comedy stock market works like the real
stock market. You try and buy low and sell high.
We try to find value here and make some hypothetical
money on the comedians. I got a whole bunch of
buys that once four by six, eh buys no cells.
Johnny Mack, you're in a good mood. Hey, I'm sitting
by the pool watching neighbor Scott clear up the branches
from that recent storm, a terrible storm. All right, we're
gonna buy Marcelo Hernandez. John what you killed Marcelo Hernandez
all week long? And now we're buying Marcelo Hernandez. Yeah,
just if everybody else is gonna make this guy the
next Adam Sandler, I'm not gonna fight it. You guys
are all stupid. He's not funny, he is good looking,
he does one thing well. But let's buy some Mare
Solo Hernandez. I mean, this is all about making money. Sure,
we'll buy Marcelo Hernandez. Let's also buy some Ben Marshall.
I'd like that Cosmo preview I just read to you,
and you know, maybe he breaks out a little bit
standing next to Kevin Hard Marcello Hernandez, and people go,
who's that. Oh, yeah, that's the guy from Please Don't Destroy.
I could see Ben Marshall stepping up in class here.
Let's buy Shane Gillis. It's kind of like buying stock
and apple. You look at it and you go, it's
so absurdly high. How can it go up? And it
keeps going up and up and up. So even though
Shane Gillis is really high value, I'm buying in just
no stopping this guy right now. And he's very funny.
Let's also buy Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart likes to make money.
He's everywhere, he's got a new movie. Everything he does
is pretty popular. Let's buy some Kevin Hart. All right,
some names that might be off your radar. We're gonna
buy Katherine Blandford. Who's that? Just a comedian whose name
you should know, Catherine Blandford. This is what we do here.
Trust me. We're buying very low on Catherine. Keep an
eye on her. We're going to buy Mo Gilligan. He's
got that Netflix documentary Big Chicken coming out on August fifth.
It's basically supersized me but Chicken. But here's the thing.
And I can tell you this because I teach college classes.
This younger generation, you know, like you and me, we
knew all the old stuff, like even if we didn't,
like ever see a Humphrey Bogart film, we kind of
sort of knew who Bogart was, maybe because Bugs Bunny
parodied him, but we kind of knew about stuff. And
if you grew up in the seventies, he grew up
on black and white TV shows from the late fifties
and the sixties, so you knew the stuff that came before.
These kids today, unless it was on TikTok five minutes ago,
they don't know what it is. So they're gonna watch
Big Chicken. It'd be like, oh wow, this guy ate
one thing for a month, and us oldies are gonna go, Yeah,
Morgan Spurlock did that and supersize me in two thousand
and four, but these kids did don't know anything from
two thousand and four. Forget it. So we'll buy some
Mo Gilligan. We're gonna buy Rory Scovell. Why John, I'll
tell you a second. Let me finish the news, and
we're gonna buy Whitmer Thomas, Why John, same note, Let
me finish the news and I'll tell you why. All right,
So here's who we're buying. Marcelo Hernandez, Ben Marshall Kevin Hart,
Shane Gillis, Katherine Blanford, Mogillian, Rory Scovell, and Whitmert Thomas.
That is the comedy stock market for this week. Tomorrow
on this program will deep dive on the Joe Rogan Experience,
how it came to be and how it is so popular.
Saturdays this summer, I've been doing these deep dives so
I can actually hang out in the pool. You can
record pool side. You can't record pool in you know
what I'm saying. And I gotta tell you what today's show.
I came out. I wrote a bunch of scripts and
I was like, all right, I'll record pool Side today,
record a bunch of these. And then the guys who
come and do the gutters came and you know, they
had ladders and hoses and made the dogs bark, and
I'm like, all right. As much it's fun to record
with cicadas and planes and Scott the neighbor, you can't
record with all that. So I had to go back inside.
And now my wife texted me and she's almost going
to be home, so I'm only going to get to
record this one episode of pool Side today. It is
tough being a podcaster. I'll tell you that, all right,
why are we buying Rory Scovell. He's going to have
a new Netflix special. It's called Show Must Go on Tuesday,
August eleventh. It is his first new hour on Netflix
since twenty seventeen's Rory Scovell Tries Stand Up for the
first time. It was shot at the Neptune in Seattle, Washington.
We don't know what it's about yet. Interestingly enough, we
will buy Whitmer Thomas because he's getting an HBO special.
They keep dipping into the weird for what they're doing.
At least it's a brand unless you know, except for
the Mark Meron, everything else has been like weird and
quirky except Mark Marin. I don't know why Mark Maron
was on HBO other than he's great. It was a
great special. Now you might be like, who's Whitmer Thomas now?
Johnny Mack of course knew who Whitmer Thomas is, but
you know, just for your sake, I looked it up
just to explain to you who Whitmer Thomas is. I
of course knew that he's best known for his voice
on stone Quackers, the FXX animated comedy series from twenty fourteen.
Of course I knew that, and his work with the
LA based comedy True Power Violence and who can forget
his HBO special from February twenty second, twenty twenty, The
Golden One. Yeah, I mean yes, Well, he's got a
new special coming out on HBO. It is called Terminal
Crew of Dudes. It's an hour filled with original songs,
home videos, and heartfelt memories. Whitmer Thomas says in the trailer.
When I was a little kid, I wanted to get
bit by a radioactive hillbilly so that I'd become Forrest Gump.
One day, he's joined by his bandmates and they sing
funny songs about chaotic adolescents, skateboarding, sales, and ruining a
Benny Hannah birthday party. Whitmer Thomas, Terminal Crew of Dudes, HBO,
August fourth, nine pm. So that's why we're buying him,
because no one knows who that is. Yet we buy
low and we sell high. I did watch the Bill
maher Thing on Netflix. Well, by by watch, I mean
hit play, and went, oh my god, I can't take
any more of Whitney coming skip skip skip skip skip
is Jay Leno on yet oh wait, here's Louis c K.
And Louis K wasn't funny. Skip skip skip hips kIPS
hip skip. Oh here's Jay Leno. Ja'll be good and
Jay was all right. Jay's gotten really old, by the way,
like really old. So I balled on that. Speaking of
unwatchable shows, Leslie Jones has her HGTV show Roast My
Rental tonight, ten East ninth Central. Leslie Jones tours some
of America's most outrageous short term rentals, roasting every questionable
design choice before flipping the properties from sham to glam.
Leslie says, we actually say what people have been thinking.
We point out the smells and the tiles. We're helping people.
It's funny as hell. They did give a list of
her favorite HGTV shows, but I think that's getting bumped
to Monday's podcast because my wife's going to be home
soon and Scott the neighbor needs to clean his lawn. Wait.
I had one more thing for you. It is Brian
Bates has a new special out today on mega comedian
Aperghatzy's Nate Land Entertainment YouTube channel. That's right filmed it
Zenie's in Nashville. Brian Bates puts a lifetime of overthinking
awkward encounters and people pleasing toward reflection on getting married
and becoming a first time father later in life. From
surviving dating apps and raising a four year old in
his fifties to sleep apnea, body training emergencies, expensive dog therapy,
and the financial trauma of removing a tree, he proves
there is no situation too ordinary to worry about. Brian
Bates Worried is produced by mega comedian Aateperghatzy's nate Land Entertainment.
The same people who for some reason are building an
amusement park, and that is your comedy news in April
side not the cleanest episode I ever did, but you know, hey,
all right somewhere out Joe Rogan Sunday normal episode. See
you