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Speaker 2: Yes, we're gonna talk about Stephen Colbert, of course we will,
but we got some other stuff to do up top.
I am Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. The
great dramatic actor Adam Sandler is making a comedy new Yeah.
I don't know about this one. Boy, you can tell
how I'm excited. I am all right? What is he
making this time? John? Grown Ups three? Jesus, Come on, man,
you were so good at JA Kelly. You're so good
at the dramatic stuff. We stop. Grown Ups three is
in development at Netflix. Netflix announced this at their upfronts
last week. The script for Grown Ups three is by
Adam Sandler and Tim Hurley. Producers include Adam Sandler and
famous producer Jackie Sandler. In case you haven't seen the
Grownups films, the franchise revolves around a set of childhood
friends who were brought back together as adults over the
course of a summer vacation. The friends include David Spade,
Rob Schneider, Kevin James, and Chris Rock, all sets a
return for the three quel. Really, Chris Rock, I'm impressed
if they get Chris Rock for this, Chris Why would
you do this film? Paycheck? Okay, I get it. It's
been thirteen years since Grown Ups two. This time it
is believed the Friend group travels to Europe along with
their families to spread their deceased friends' ashes. Is this
like a different friend or is Chris rock at this
thing for two minutes? That would all make sense. We'll see,
we'll see. I can see that now, Johnny Mack. You
can hate all you want, but Grownups and the sequel,
Grown Ups two have grossed over five hundred million dollars
at the box office. Grown Ups has a ten percent
rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Grown Ups two was
even more poorly received. But that's not gonna stop Netflix.
And if you like that kind of humor, boy, you're
gonna love The Hawk. That's Will Ferrell's upcoming golf comedy series.
If Will but comes unavailable, you can drop Adam Sandler
right in the middle of this one. There is a trailer.
I went to pull the audio, but it's too visual
because it's got yuck yuck jokes like people being hill
with a golf ball hilarious. In The Hawk, Will Ferrell
plays Lonnie Hawkins two thousand and four's and number one
golfer again. This is so saidlor Hawkins struggles on the
back nine of his career, trying to recapture his magic.
His body says retire, but his heart says he's not
done yet. His ex wife and his son, Lance, who
happens to be golf's new Golden Boy, know that Lonnie
is through, but with one more major to win to
complete Golf's Grand Slam, Lonnie refuses to believe he's anything
other than one stroke away from the greatest comeback in
golf history. Molly Shannon plays Lonnie's foul mouth ex wife Stacy,
Also appearing This Thing, Fortune Fimester, Luke Wilson, Chris Parnell,
David Hornsby, who's usually great in things, and some others
can't wait. Nick Krole has a new comedy series, this
one called eight hundred Percent. It stars Nick Kroll, Sam Richardson,
Jason Mitzukis, and vi Us a Bear. Hopefully that'll keep
her away from the Scrubs reboot. The cast portrays a
group of friends working inside the thought leader industrial complex.
Their books, podcasts, and morning routines might help us live
our lives more perfectly, but away from the screens and mics.
These characters are most definitely far from perfect. You know,
I do think this fits into Jason and Krohl's wheelhouse.
This could be good, Krol said, I'm thrilled to make
this show with Gabe in this insane cast. I can't
wait to explore this high functioning group of friends who
endeavor to live their weird lives. That could actually be good.
Want of Sikes as a special ad on Netflix today.
It is called Legacy. I want to pull the trailer.
She swears a lot, so I passed. Netflix tells us
with the trademark wit and fearless insight that have earned
her multiple Emmy wins and nominations. Want of Sikes delivers
an hour of bold, smart, and laugh out loud comedy
that cements her legacy as a comedy icon. That is
the most generic description I've ever seen anyway. That's on
Netflix today, and by the time you're hearing my voice
at three h five am. Friend of the show and
Facebook group regular Dylan, He's probably watched it, maybe twice.
Dylan and I keep very different hours. I think. Apparently
Mike EPP's Netflix special Delusional did really well. It was
his fifth for Netflix, and they've given him a deal
for two more. Netflix is playing the long game. They
plan to release specials by Mike Apps in twenty twenty
eight and twenty thirty. The press release tell us that
Mike Epp specials have racked up twelve and a half
million views. That doesn't even include Delusional, which ranked as
the number five English language TV title globally on Netflix
and its debut and roasted number three on the US
Top ten list. YouTube had upfronts of sorts. Trevor Noah
was your host. He said, some of you may recognize
me from stand up comedy, some of you may recognize
me from my podcast, some of you might recognize me
from The Daily Show, some of you might recognize me
from the Grammys. But there's one place where you definitely
see me. That's on YouTube. These days, everything is on YouTube. Everything, sports, entertainment, interviews, podcasts,
you name it. Well. Coming to YouTube is Trevor Noah's
World Tour. Premiere Day TBA. On Trevor Noah's World Tour,
Trevor ne invites viewers along for the ultimate global hangout
in this prestige travel series on YouTube. You know I
like travel and I like Trevor. I'm gonna wind up
watching Trevor Noah's World Tour, where comedy, culture, and spontaneity
collide as Trevor Noah journeys from city to city on
his World Tour with friends, collaborators, and surprise guests joining
the fun. Each episode blends Trevor Noah's signature humor with authentic,
on the ground experiences that spotlight local people, food, and culture.
So it's Anthony Bourdain minus Anthony Bournine plus Trevor Noah.
Is that what I'm getting here? Not the worst idea?
Along the way, Trevor turns his discoveries into sharp, hilarious
observations that weave into his live performance, creating a fresh
window into his comedic process and into the places that
inspire him. That actually sounds pretty good. Mo Amer will
host the eighty sixth Annual Peabody Awards May thirty first,
at the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Peabody Executive
director Jeffrey P. Jones said, Moe Ammer is the comedic
voice we need now. His comedy is bold and refreshing
because he minds his own personal, heartfelt experiences a refugee
and blends them with cultural Commentsary that is powerful, moving
and very funny. Johnny Mack, you said you were gonna
talk about Stephen Colbert. All right, I mean give me
nine minutes. I'll get to it. Stephen Colbert answered some
questions from the other late night hosts. I've clipped this
down a little bit for pacing, but let's listen.
Speaker 1: You got a question from Jay Leno. I'll tell you
when I got this gig. Jay Leno called me right away,
and Jay goes, yayt the you got the Pope job,
you got the John c you dead. You're wrong on
that one. Jay, all right? From Jay Leno. As a
road comic, I've always enjoyed live audiences. Have you ever
thought about a road version of your best jokes for
a live audience still waiting for the best jokes? Jay,
I think that's a great idea. Jay. Please send me
a list of what my best jokes have been, and
let's hit the road together. You drive from James Cordon,
how are things at CBS? Should I come back? One
hundred percent? James, one hundred percent? Hold on, hob, I
see what Cordon actually asked? What have you been doing
to mentally and emotionally prepare for your daily life after
the show. Trevor and I can send a zoom link
if you need a good question. I don't know about you, guys,
but there's no I don't think there's any prepping for it. Look,
I try not to make eye contact with the people
in the building too much. I've always discouraged it, but
now I'm really being a heart ass about it. Don't
look me in the eye because I'm a weeper and
I like the show a lot, but I love the
people I work with and that's going to be hard,
and they're so physically attractive. From Trevor Noah, is there
anything you were never able to do because you had
a late night show? And do you see yourself doing
it now? Exercising? That's what I would like to do.
I think my wife was waited long enough. It's time
for abs. Okay, honey. From Knor and O'Brien, just who
the hell do you think you are? Sometimes I wish
I was Connin O'Brien because I've never been able to dunk.
From Jimmy Kimmel, is it true that hospitals are sometimes
forced to send patients who are two obese for their
MRICT machines to be scanned at the zoo. Okay, sometime
at once. It happened once, but then after that I
got the shot and I don't have to go to
the zoo for my CT scan anymore. From Jimmy Fallon,
you've had the best seats in the house for over
ten years. What's the one musical performance on your show
that you and the crew still talk about. I mean,
we just recently had a Hosier and Lake Street dive
do Joe Cocker's Woodstock version of with a little help
from my friends, that's pretty fantastic.
Speaker 2: The Times they asked even about why the show was canceled,
saying that some are skeptical there was for financial reasons.
Colbert said, I do not dispute their rationale. I do
make jokes about it, but I also completely understand why
people would say, hey, that doesn't make sense to me,
and be this seems fishy to me because the network
did it to themselves by bending the need of the
Trump administration over a twenty billion settled for sixteen million,
completely frivolous lawsuit. It's possible that two things can be
true broadcast can be in trouble. They can't monetize because
of things like YouTube, because of the competition of streaming.
They've got the books. I don't have any desire to
debate them over what they say their business model is
and how it doesn't work for them anymore. But less
than two years before they called me to say it's over,
they were very eager for me to be signed for
a long time. So something changed. By the way, oops,
who knows what they offered him. It is believed Colbert's
current annual salary is around fifteen million dollars, and I
think I have it somewhere in my head. They wanted
him for five years. As Johnny Mack likes to say,
if somebody ever offers you seventy five million dollars, just
say yes. Steven said, I've really like work with CBS.
They've been great partners, and I'd like to end it
that way. Eleven years is a long time to work here,
and almost ten years before that, almost twenty one years
together in Late Night. I feel so much better to
be grateful for than to be mad about. The discussion
move to taking over for David Letterman in twenty fifteen,
Boy time flies. I feel like I just watched that,
remember watching that on the upstairs TV. Stephen said it
was my instinct to be less topical because I didn't
want to have to engage with what I saw is
an increasingly contentious public discourse. And I thought, aren't there
other ways to have fun with the audience. But in
twenty sixteen, Colbert went all in on News The Time
said that change worked right. Colbert said, I was like
Clint Eastwood and Unforgiven or said some other movie. He
buried his guns, and I'm like, you know, I buried
those guns. I was talking to Paul Denello, he's one
of my oldest friends and one of my producers here,
and he's like, you're having fun and people like to
see that. And I said, but that means I got
to go dig up the guns. And he says, Buddy,
that's the part the audience wants to see. They asked
Stephen Colbert why he thinks the FCC and the Trump
administrations are so focused on him. Stephen told The New
York Times authoritarians don't like anybody who doesn't give them
undue dignity. Comedians are anti authoritarian by nature and authoritarians
are never going to like anybody to laugh at them.
The number of newspeople have said to me or John
Stewart or any of the guys who do this, God,
I wish I could say what you say on air,
and we can. I think that upsets them. I think
it might be upsetting and we really don't live in
their world of principalities and powers. Continuing about Trump, and
send your letters to Stephen Colbert, he said, I don't
have any problem with Trump being a Republican. I have
a problem with Trump being a complete north who's only
working for his own interest and doesn't appear to care
if the entire world burns. That's not a partisan position.
I have eyeballs and ears, and I think calling Late
Night partisan is just roughing the ref And we don't
even want to be refs, but they perceive us as refs.
I reject the partisan description. Partisan means you're never ever
going to make a joke about a Democrat, and that's
just not true. There's just no comparison of how fertile
the fields are. What's next for Colbert. He's working on
a script for a Warner Brothers Lord of the Rings movie.
He loves podcasts and spends more time with podcasts than
any form of entertainment. That could be a clue there
now in the past, I think I have in my
brain that he didn't want to do a podcast. But
doesn't that seem like a no brainer? I'm sure just
knowing the internal workings of serious I'm sure they've either
been on the phone with him, or on the phone
with him right now, or will be on the phone
with him at twelve thirty eight am Friday morning. Stephen
says he wants to do comedy, but he's not sure
what's next because the show takes ninety five percent of
his brain. I don't think I can give you a
good answer until I can really think about it. It
Will it be your relief to not have to think
about Trump in the same way Steven said, Oh yeah, Now,
I could be as interested as I want to be
on a daily basis, as opposed to interested as I
need to be, to do a show about what our
national conversation was about. I can opt out of the
national conversation for day two. I mean, I'm American, I
still care about my country. I'm still going to care,
But I could do that recreationally. You know we're privately
out on the eight hundred pound Guerrilla YouTube page today.
Now you gotta pay attention because they're going back and
forth between Gorilla Plus and the YouTube page. This is
on the YouTube page. Shane Moss trips Parentheses Second Dose.
The Ish Edinburgh Comedy Awards will return to the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe in twenty twenty six. James Cordon is backing it.
He said, I am honored to support the brilliant Mish
Edinburgh Comedy Awards again. Now in their fourth year, the
awards continued to direct all sponsorship and come straight to
performers through prize money. Last year's prizes included four thousand
pounds each for Best Show and Best Newcomer, three thousand
for the Panel Prize, one thousand for Better Tech, and
a five hundred four Best Joke. The winners are decided
by a volunteer panel who attend every eligible comedy show
with the Fringe, giving performers an equal chance regardless of
venue background, industry backing or audience size. The twenty twenty
six Awards are expected to retain the same five categories website.
The spinoff is covering the new Zealand Comedy Festival. They
say Henry Yen is the best bad date at the
NZ International Comedy Festival. They tell us Wellington's Cavern Club
is a bit of a dank hole in the wall,
but it's a cozy place to catch some comedy. During
a set focused on the highs and lows of life
as a perpetually single thirty year old, you really start
to feel like you're on one of those bad first dates.
He'll never stop telling your friends about the spectator says.
They write this in the most complimentary way possible. The
strength of Yen's comedy is in his awkwardness, The way
he says haha crazy after every other line, The way
he takes a joke bombing and turns it into another
opportunity to make another joke appealing to the audience is pity.
You know what? Who has inspired me to find a clip?
Let's listen.
Speaker 3: My parents are here. I love you. Hey, your turn? Yeah,
I left my computer for this. Yeah, so it's gonna
be so fun. I'll just tell you, guys, if someone
walks in here like aggressive, I'm telling you that I'm
not gonna protect you. Yeah, because recently someone asked me
to protect them, and I was like, from what like nowhere.
It's crazy because what happens on the street right in
the city. These two guys were fighting and the girls
standing next to me. She turns me, she's like, aren't
you gonna stop the fight? I was like, oh, thank
you for believing in me. Yeah, but I don't look
I'm not a fighter. I'm a snitch.
Speaker 2: Wow, he's pretty funny. Like that a lot, The spectator
tells us. Henry Anne's audience work was also impactful. He
seemed to make a genuine connection with a fellow spreadsheet
obsessive in the crowd. Good stuff, Henry Ann, And that
is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.