Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Ryan Reynolds was on Conan O'Brien needs a friend.
Speaker 1: Conan said, we're in a moment where politically there's some
Speaker 1: tension between Canada and the United States over tariffs. What
Speaker 1: do you guys send us? What do we send you?
Speaker 1: And it occurred to me today that we've been getting
Speaker 1: some of the greatest comedians in comic minds and actors
Speaker 1: of all times from Canada. And I don't think we've
Speaker 1: sent you a crap. I don't think we've exported much
Speaker 1: to you in the comedy realm. And I think if
Speaker 1: somebody would do a reckoning just comedically, and you started
Speaker 1: to add up the Ryan Reynolds and the Martin Short
Speaker 1: and the Lorn Michaels and the Mike Myers, it just
Speaker 1: goes on and on. There's too many to even begin naming. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can read your mind now, and you're like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I can think of plenty of funny American comedians. I
Speaker 1: guess the point is we haven't exported the American comedians
Speaker 1: to Canada. Sarah Silverman, in that Rolling Stone interview, talked
Speaker 1: about how the reactions to October seventh left her stunned.
Speaker 1: Sarah said the alienation of liberal Jews was a stamp.
Speaker 1: Everyone's afraid to say anything. I couldn't even imagine doing
Speaker 1: stand up. I was scared. And it was Chelsea Handler
Speaker 1: who was like, get your ass up. Your job is
Speaker 1: to make people laugh. That's your job. And I needed that, boy,
Speaker 1: I needed it. And then she made me open for her,
Speaker 1: and honestly was a gift because I realized that it's important.
Speaker 1: Here's this John Mulaney story that I mentioned on Monday
Speaker 1: that I bounced. I didn't get to it yesterday. The
Speaker 1: yesterday was pretty packed the Washington Post as the headline
Speaker 1: something about John Mullaney's Netflix talk show Isn't working, to
Speaker 1: which I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News
Speaker 1: podcast group. The meme of Bruce willis from Diehard going
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Party, pal Johnny Maxman saying this all season.
Speaker 1: Wash Po writes not even Mullaney can muster much interest
Speaker 1: in some of the subjects he chose, or in the
Speaker 1: experts discussing them. Some like cruises feel phoned in, and
Speaker 1: his obvious anxiety over whether in exchange will pay off.
Speaker 1: Sometimes Trump's his interest in any particular contribution. He frequently
Speaker 1: truncates conversations that were just getting going. It doesn't help
Speaker 1: that there's so much amiable agreement between Millanie and his
Speaker 1: guests absence some fiddly on stage dynamic he can provoke
Speaker 1: in stage manage, Mulanie needs something to do, especially when
Speaker 1: things are too friendly, he turns all that surplus energy
Speaker 1: and vitriol onto the poor callers. There's a sense that
Speaker 1: where everybody's in la joyfully invited folks in everybody's live
Speaker 1: kicks them out. The eccentricity that makes Melanie's stand up
Speaker 1: so good is precisely what makes it hard for many
Speaker 1: guests and callers to chime in. His dinosaur bid, for instance,
Speaker 1: is so genuinely weird that no guests managed to really
Speaker 1: join him in that headspace. Conan tried hard, so did
Speaker 1: Tina Fey. When an actual world class expert paleontologist Jack
Speaker 1: Warner called in and tried to play along m'lanie, who
Speaker 1: seemed to not know he was hung up on him.
Speaker 1: Wash Po writes, a servit John could be fun. It's
Speaker 1: instructive to watch Millenie snap judgments in action, as when
Speaker 1: he hung up on a caller in the Cruises episode
Speaker 1: because his anecdotes sounded two rehearsed. Malani said, you've added
Speaker 1: little tags. It's become a yarn. We don't have time.
Speaker 1: Krackt asked, did John Mulaney rip off Chris Gethard again?
Speaker 1: They write? Ever since the beginning of Everybody's Life with
Speaker 1: John Mulleni, fans have accused melleny of ripping off The
Speaker 1: Chris Gethard Show, a k Bleaxis comedy talk show that
Speaker 1: was on Fusion and True TV, on which Mullany was
Speaker 1: a multiple time guest. The latest example was the Blindfold
Speaker 1: episode last week, in which Mullany navigated the entire show
Speaker 1: with a bandana tied around his eyes. The Getherard version
Speaker 1: was dubbed the Blindfold Show. On The Blindfold Show, Chris
Speaker 1: told jokes and took viewer phone calls, just like Mullaney did.
Speaker 1: It was such a popular episode that Gethard recommended it
Speaker 1: to new fans as an entry point to his show's weirdness.
Speaker 1: It also inspired The Blindfold Show, Too correct Right at
Speaker 1: this point, it's almost like Mlanie's trolling fans, daring them
Speaker 1: to find the YouTube clips that inspired this week's episode,
Speaker 1: why not at least invite gether to guest on one
Speaker 1: of the panels. They're said, he's a very brilliant guy.
Speaker 1: John mulaney doesn't need to rip me off in any way.
Speaker 1: Matteolane had a special ad on Hulu on Friday. I
Speaker 1: had forgotten about it because you know the Hulu publicists, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't get back to you. I'm trying to be
Speaker 1: your friend, Hulu publicists. I would publicize your stuff, but
Speaker 1: there I wasn't Hulu, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Mittelolane put out a special I would have mentioned that
Speaker 1: on my daily comedy news podcast, but there was also
Speaker 1: no press about it. Since then, people caught up with
Speaker 1: Mittel Lane, who told them, when I'm writing jokes, my
Speaker 1: brain's back to being a sponge absorbing everything around me. Like, oh,
Speaker 1: that might be a funny idea that could work. Even
Speaker 1: when I was four, I said I wanted to be
Speaker 1: a famous comedic actor like Jim Carrey. I knew I
Speaker 1: had something. It was always the feeling of something else
Speaker 1: is waiting for me. And once I found stand up,
Speaker 1: that feeling left me. I thought, this is my goal
Speaker 1: in life. I'm doing this forever. Kind of felt like
Speaker 1: a calling. MATEO started in comedy in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 1: He said he didn't truly make it until twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: That was when I was posting my own stuff online
Speaker 1: networks like Netflix and HBO. The gatekeepers had an idea
Speaker 1: of what a gay person was supposed to be. They
Speaker 1: didn't see the value in gay end just being funny,
Speaker 1: So I did it on my own intern's out There
Speaker 1: was an audience for me. I really enjoyed the challenge
Speaker 1: because I try to be an optimist and I think
Speaker 1: we all have more in common than we think. A
Speaker 1: lot of the older people are telling us that we
Speaker 1: don't have something in common. So if someone has a
Speaker 1: negative idea about a gay person, they see me and
Speaker 1: they laugh. Maybe in the future they'll think of that
Speaker 1: not curing cancer. But I think little by little we
Speaker 1: have to find a common ground. I think humor is
Speaker 1: a great way to do that. What's next. I've done enough.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the summer off. I'll be writing new jokes.
Speaker 1: But I haven't taken a proper vacation in so long.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Thailand and Cambodi with friends to see
Speaker 1: another part of the world. The Aldente special is on
Speaker 1: Hulu a Theovann making the podcast third day in a row.
Speaker 1: He has opened up about his recent hang with Avanka
Speaker 1: and Jared Kushner. THEO shared a photo of them, Avanka
Speaker 1: stunning in a cutout black mini dressed. Jared opted for
Speaker 1: a more casual look with a black T shirt and
Speaker 1: white trousers. You can tell him sourcing a British paper here,
Speaker 1: and Theovan was seen wearing a colorful T shirt and
Speaker 1: gray trousers. THEO on X posted, y'all's poster is so good.
Speaker 1: Wh are you all in spine club or something? I'm
Speaker 1: built like a damn raccoon. Thanks for the hospitality. Had
Speaker 1: a blast I mentioned yeshae. Kevin Hart is working on
Speaker 1: a film called seventy two Hours, in which he plays
Speaker 1: a forty something executive who joins a group of twenty
Speaker 1: somethings on a three day bachelor party. One of those bachelors,
Speaker 1: Marcello Hernandez, who does one thing. Well, well, if you're
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, Hey, I'm in New Jersey and you
Speaker 1: own a luxury car, I do not. You may qualify
Speaker 1: to become an extra Grant. Wilfley Casting has put out
Speaker 1: an open call for Jersey locals who own luxury cars
Speaker 1: to appear in seventy two hours as quote pedestrians. Here
Speaker 1: are the cars they're looking for. Are you ready? Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Lotus, Aston, Martin, Bentley, Portia,
Speaker 1: BMW seven series, Mercedes SSL CLSG and Audi A seven
Speaker 1: or A eight and a Kia. Hey guys, I have
Speaker 1: a Kia. I love my Keia. My key has got
Speaker 1: a big giant s unroof. It's great. Anyway, If you
Speaker 1: have a qualifying car and you're interested, you can email
Speaker 1: seventy two hours at GWCNYC dot com. So seven two hours,
Speaker 1: one word at GWCNYC dot com. Make your subject line
Speaker 1: luxury cars. They need to know your full name, whether
Speaker 1: or not you're a SAG member, your height, weight, clothing
Speaker 1: and shoe sizes, whether or not you're local to New
Speaker 1: Jersey or New York. Are you eighteen or older? What's
Speaker 1: the make, model, year, in color of your car, current
Speaker 1: clear photos of yourself close up and full body, and
Speaker 1: a current photo of the car. That's a lot. Semaphore
Speaker 1: reporting that Bill Maher shut down his podcast company. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll keep doing his podcast, but back in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, not too long ago, Bill Maher launched Club
Speaker 1: Random Studios. Two people familiar with the situation have said
Speaker 1: the podcast studio has ceased operations. The website that once
Speaker 1: hosted the network show no longer works. Matt Friends podcast
Speaker 1: has not shared a full episode since late last year.
Speaker 1: Journalist Ricky Schlott, who had announced the show with the
Speaker 1: network last year, also hasn't shared an episode in months.
Speaker 1: Club Random Studios did not return their request to comment.
Speaker 1: The idea was to elevate voices from Bill Maher's extended
Speaker 1: universe comedians, musicians, and journalists with heterodox views on issues
Speaker 1: and shared skepticism of what they perceived is the overreach
Speaker 1: of liberals and the left. At the time, Bill Moore said,
Speaker 1: I want to help this impressive slate of other voices
Speaker 1: do the same thing on the Club Random network. Dance
Speaker 1: like no one's watching, We talk like no one can
Speaker 1: cancel us. Very interesting. A little more from that Cracked
Speaker 1: dot com interview with Nora Dunn, they were curious how
Speaker 1: she feels about folks like Dave Chappelle and Donald Trump
Speaker 1: hosting SNL. Nora said, with Chappelle, I do think he's very,
Speaker 1: very smart. When I saw the specially did, I was
Speaker 1: turned off completely. You can't endorse that. I was really
Speaker 1: turned off by that, and I don't think it should
Speaker 1: have been hired. It's too bad, though, because I always
Speaker 1: thought he was great. But then he's getting on the
Speaker 1: bandwagon and picking on people in this country who are
Speaker 1: only about two percent of the population. Why are you
Speaker 1: picking on then one have done to you? Why do
Speaker 1: you say you hate them? Let me jump in there.
Speaker 1: I don't think Dave says that he hates anyone. He
Speaker 1: jokes about folks, and we can debate that all day,
Speaker 1: but I don't think Dave is saying I hate these people?
Speaker 1: Am I forgetful? There? Nora says us for Trump? They
Speaker 1: hired Trump after he came down that escalator. That's not okay,
Speaker 1: And of course that show was terrible. Cracked asked, why
Speaker 1: do you think controversial figures like Trump and Elon Muskin
Speaker 1: Shane Gillis are asked to be the hosts? Is Shane
Speaker 1: really that controversial? Guys? I mean, what are we mad about?
Speaker 1: A bit that Shane did on his podcast before anybody
Speaker 1: heard of him before the whole SNL thing, Like what
Speaker 1: is controversial about Shane Gillis. He's just a guy with
Speaker 1: a very charismatic smile who tells goofy jokes and it's
Speaker 1: just having fun. Noorah said, it's the ratings, it's the
Speaker 1: idea of being cutting edge. Jimmy Fallon told Kelly Clarkson
Speaker 1: he one stepped in as Don Pardo, who used to
Speaker 1: do the voices on SNL. If you listen to my podcast,
Speaker 1: you're probably familiar with Don Pardo. Fallon, who was on
Speaker 1: SNL from ninety eight to oh four, said he was
Speaker 1: sick one night and Lauren said, Jimmy, can you do
Speaker 1: Don Pardo? And I was like, I think I can.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll try. Not exactly sure why that made news,
Speaker 1: because it is pretty well known that Daryl Hammond often
Speaker 1: filled in for Don Parto late in Don's run. And
Speaker 1: I'm doing this from memory. I think Don worked into
Speaker 1: his nineties. Maybe yeah. Don passed away in twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: at age ninety six, but Darryl Hammond did it a
Speaker 1: bunch of times, and that was like a known thing. Anyway.
Speaker 1: As I have said a lot recently, Fellon is very talented.
Speaker 1: He's just in the Tonight Show box and he understands
Speaker 1: the gig, and sometimes you have to understand the gig.
Speaker 1: Kraischer was on Jay Shetty's pod. I listened to this
Speaker 1: driving down to the graduation last week. It was okay,
Speaker 1: I got bordered it at some point. It's fine. Kraischer
Speaker 1: talked about his relationship with his father. My dad's a
Speaker 1: great dad, but he's just like, hey, don't you cry.
Speaker 1: One Easter, everyone leaves and it's me and my dad
Speaker 1: high as crap, really high. And then I leaned over
Speaker 1: to him and I said, why do you like me?
Speaker 1: And he goes, I love you. You just make me uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: He's like, I love you and I'm afraid you're going
Speaker 1: to die. And I said, well, I'm not going to die,
Speaker 1: and he goes, you don't know that I lost my
Speaker 1: dad when I was young, and I'm terrified to lose you.
Speaker 1: And I don't understand you. I don't understand your lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Bert let his father set him up with a cardiologist.
Speaker 1: While the tests came back fine, Bert says, and I
Speaker 1: want to say, from that day on, our relationship was
Speaker 1: so much smoother. That's kind of a cool story. Nice
Speaker 1: job by Nick Carl Seth Meyer's, Amy Schumer, John and others.
Speaker 1: They hosted a one night only event for a memorial
Speaker 1: Sloan Kettering Cancer Center mission of ending cancer. A million
Speaker 1: years ago my father got treatment at Sloan. They did
Speaker 1: great work. Comedy Versus Cancer is the official comedy benefit
Speaker 1: show for blood cancer research at Sloan. They sold out
Speaker 1: one night only event raised two point three million dollars.
Speaker 1: Kroll was your host. He's the co founder and host
Speaker 1: of Comedy Versus Cancer and said laughter as a way
Speaker 1: of cutting through the heavy stuff and is a great
Speaker 1: unifier raising money to fund research for rare blood cancers
Speaker 1: can still be joyful, and we dedicate each year of
Speaker 1: Comedy Versus Cancer. That's doing just that, creating a night
Speaker 1: of laughter to rally around a cause that affects so many.
Speaker 1: What's interesting to me is I didn't see a thing
Speaker 1: about this prior to it, and yet it sold out,
Speaker 1: and yet it raised a ton of money. I'm just curious, like,
Speaker 1: how did anyone know about this? Whereas they're just a
Speaker 1: benefactor list that they're like, hey, I want to go
Speaker 1: to a concert, donate some money, sure, but I didn't
Speaker 1: see anything about that in advance. But anyway, job by them,
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