Speaker 1: Callaroga shock Media. If you don't like the intersection of
Speaker 1: comedy and politics, then skip today. Otherwise, Hi, I'm Johnny
Speaker 1: Mack with your daily comedy news. Bill Maher, for some reason,
Speaker 1: received the newly unrenamed Kennedy Senators Mark Twain Prize for Comedy.
Speaker 1: Bill Maher said, now the President, when he is in
Speaker 1: attack mode, never fails to say that I'm part of
Speaker 1: the lunatic left. Okay, he's not wrong that there is one.
Speaker 1: I'm just not part of it. And I'm sure there
Speaker 1: is a lunatic right. And when either side gets mad
Speaker 1: at me because I put them in jokes, jokes that work,
Speaker 1: my message to them is simple, you want to not
Speaker 1: get mocked, stop being funny, then the jokes will work.
Speaker 1: When they're ridiculous, they do work. And when people laugh,
Speaker 1: you're caught. Laughter is involuntary. It's people's inescapable truth detector,
Speaker 1: whether they want to believe or not. Before the ceremony,
Speaker 1: Mar talked to reporters about the possibility of Trump himself
Speaker 1: showing up. Mar said, because anything's possible with him, that
Speaker 1: didn't happen, but Matt fra came to the stage and
Speaker 1: imitated Trump. Matt friend, Trump said I get so many
Speaker 1: more laughs than this guy and demanded the award. Bill
Speaker 1: Moore said, just take it. I'm used to losing awards,
Speaker 1: and then noted that he'd received forty one nominations but
Speaker 1: has continuously lost. Bill Moore said, I lost one year
Speaker 1: to the U log Is it something I said? It's
Speaker 1: everything I said. The ceremony featured many clips, including his
Speaker 1: time at ABC with Politically Incorrect, as well as his
Speaker 1: stand up specials and podcasts. Louis c K was there.
Speaker 1: Louis c K said, I am not a political guy.
Speaker 1: I wrote one joke about Trump, but it took me
Speaker 1: about eighteen months. Now. I don't even know if I
Speaker 1: can repeat this joke without getting a visit from people
Speaker 1: of Bill Maher, Louis c K said, he's not a
Speaker 1: guy who gives an f about what people think of him.
Speaker 1: My career took a downturn, but then I heard from
Speaker 1: Bill within it invites a buera on a show. He
Speaker 1: offered me to help me when no one else would.
Speaker 1: And he's a good guy. He has a heart. C
Speaker 1: K said, mar earned the honor by being a constant
Speaker 1: and hilarious force in American comedy. For many years. Whitney
Speaker 1: Cummings said, I actually heard Trump may come tonight, but
Speaker 1: he couldn't make it. He got caught in sex traffic.
Speaker 1: Bill Moore himself called out the left, noting recent efforts
Speaker 1: to censor Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn because it uses racist language.
Speaker 1: Mar said, the silly purists on the left want to
Speaker 1: ban it now, which just shows you if you hang
Speaker 1: around long enough and create something important enough, everyone ates
Speaker 1: you at some point, and that's when you know you're
Speaker 1: doing it right. His point there was that the racist
Speaker 1: language is in the service of mocking racism. Bill Moore
Speaker 1: praised his audience, saying people say they want honesty, they don't.
Speaker 1: They want to live in a bubble. They say they
Speaker 1: want to be challenged, They don't. Except for my audience.
Speaker 1: They love it, and I love it for them, and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I think it makes them better. Why because
Speaker 1: I don't ask to please the audience. I ask what's true,
Speaker 1: and they're okay with that. They are a unique group
Speaker 1: of people who do not demand to be pandered too,
Speaker 1: and in fact want me not to do that. And
Speaker 1: has been the honor of a lifetime to try and
Speaker 1: lead a backlash to group think. The event will stream
Speaker 1: on Netflix July twenty first. This is not quite the
Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien event of last year, Woody Harrelson said, people
Speaker 1: generally come up here and talk about how great the
Speaker 1: nominee is. But I've decided to be honest. I've known
Speaker 1: Bill a long time, since back when he was funny.
Speaker 1: I'll say this, he is impeccable tastes and friends. We're
Speaker 1: both outspoken at our beliefs. I not only admire you,
Speaker 1: but you're one of the funniest, smartest, greatest people I know.
Speaker 1: I love you, brother what He also joked about the
Speaker 1: center's temporary name change there. Woody Harrelson said, no award
Speaker 1: for my dear friend, ironically the Trump Kennedy Center. Oh right,
Speaker 1: we fixed that, not say you'd be able to notice.
Speaker 1: In case you don't know, they still have scaffolding out front,
Speaker 1: so you can't see the name at all. Jay Leno
Speaker 1: was there. I'm not seeing much about what jay Leno
Speaker 1: said or didn't, And believe me, I looked because I
Speaker 1: even found that jay Leno stopped by an iconic DC
Speaker 1: Italian restaurant. That's right, jay Leno was at Philamina restaurante.
Speaker 1: The restaurants shared photos of jay Leno's visit as writing,
Speaker 1: look who's dining at Philamina. Jay Leno, the celebrated comedian, writer,
Speaker 1: and former late night host, is scheduled to be a
Speaker 1: guest speaker the Kennedy Center presenting Bill Maher with the
Speaker 1: Esteve Mark Twaine Award for American Humor. He thoroughly enjoyed
Speaker 1: his lunch today and left a sweet note for Joanna Philamina.
Speaker 1: For many years, Joanna has been a great fan of his.
Speaker 1: But if jay Leno had some jokes, I can't tell
Speaker 1: you what they were. Bill Moore said, this really does
Speaker 1: mean a lot to me. Believe me, when they called
Speaker 1: and said would you accept this? They didn't have to
Speaker 1: ask twice. My speech tonight will be mostly thank yous,
Speaker 1: as it should be, so all the people who believed
Speaker 1: in me supported me, the fans who stood by me,
Speaker 1: because you know, once in a while I did get
Speaker 1: in a spot of trouble. He said he was most
Speaker 1: proud of staying on the air for thirty three years
Speaker 1: without ever pulling a punch on a show mostly without stars.
Speaker 1: Sylvie McNamara wrote for The washingtony and things felt weird
Speaker 1: at the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize. Sylvie writes throughout
Speaker 1: the evening there were some laughs and a smitch of gayety,
Speaker 1: but overall was fairly sedate. Whole swats of balcony seats
Speaker 1: stood empty. Volunteer seat fillers meant to plump up the
Speaker 1: crowd for the TV cameras, were given the option to
Speaker 1: bring up to five guests. Whitney Cummings opened by describing
Speaker 1: how strange it is that Bill Moore would choose to
Speaker 1: be a political comedian as opposed to any other type.
Speaker 1: She compared it to a surgeon choosing corectal specialty. Both
Speaker 1: involved spending one's life examining a holes. Cummings added, if
Speaker 1: that metaphor was too weird, I have another one that
Speaker 1: can help you under sty and how masochistic it is
Speaker 1: to do what Bill Maher does. Being a politicalmedian is
Speaker 1: like being a sports commentator who chooses only to talk
Speaker 1: about the Washington Commanders that got a cheer from the hometown, or,
Speaker 1: as Bill calls them, the Redskins. Oh wait, this does
Speaker 1: have a j leto joke. Jay Leno said, for the
Speaker 1: second time, at our nation's capital, there's a big, beautiful
Speaker 1: Bill in Washington. Boy, that's awful. You know, the Kennedy
Speaker 1: Center was not Bill's first choice, but the Playboy Mansion
Speaker 1: was unavailable. Jay leto everybody a little behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack has a clogged ear, and I am struggling
Speaker 1: to do the show today because I'm trying to explain.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of in my own head when I'm speaking,
Speaker 1: so I don't sound to myself the way normally sound.
Speaker 1: It's very annoying. Cheryl Hines has shown support for Mega
Speaker 1: comedian Nate Pergatzy. That's right, we're now describing Nate Pergatzy,
Speaker 1: who went to a UFC fight as Mega comedian Natepergatzy.
Speaker 1: So what did Nate do now? Well, he posted a
Speaker 1: short clip of live stand up performance on Instagram on Sunday,
Speaker 1: featuring Nate's alone on stage talking about his experience trying
Speaker 1: to buy a hammock. Cheryl Hines publicly liked the post. However,
Speaker 1: the most liked comment on the video, we are told,
Speaker 1: reads Nate, how is the carnival on the w h lawn.
Speaker 1: The second most liked says, we remember Maga comedian Nate forguests,
Speaker 1: everybody went to a UFC fight once, so did Chane Gillis.
Speaker 1: Michelle Wolfe was talking about her appearance at the twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen White House Correspondents dinner. Trump did not attend that dinner.
Speaker 1: Michelle Wolfe said, if there was anything I could go
Speaker 1: back and do again, I would be meaner. If I'd
Speaker 1: known how mad they were going to get at a
Speaker 1: joke about I makeup, I would have told the meaner
Speaker 1: jokes that I cut so they could get mad at
Speaker 1: something that was actually valid. But also knowing what the
Speaker 1: administration has done and what they continue to do, I
Speaker 1: would have really gone in on them and the press
Speaker 1: more and try to hold them more accountable. Michelle wolf
Speaker 1: is now living in Europe, splitting time between Barcelona and London.
Speaker 1: What she likes about Spain, there's no worry of shooting.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a big one. Never having to
Speaker 1: do a school shooting drill. That just feels like a
Speaker 1: nice thing to not have to teach her children. Michelle
Speaker 1: believes in poking fun at both sides. She says, you
Speaker 1: could say anything, people are gonna get maybe mad at
Speaker 1: you for saying it. Even if you have a well
Speaker 1: constructed argument, people might still get mad at you. You're
Speaker 1: free to say something and people are free to be
Speaker 1: mad at it. Switching topics, all those podcasts bros I
Speaker 1: had had a Trump on and got them the presidency.
Speaker 1: I feel like now maybe they're walking back on platforming,
Speaker 1: but it's like you knew who this guy was. They
Speaker 1: oftentimes put information out there either don't know if it's
Speaker 1: true or not, or don't care, and they don't realize
Speaker 1: that they have a responsibility millions of people listening to you,
Speaker 1: and whether you want it or not, they believe what
Speaker 1: you say. So many of those guys went to the
Speaker 1: inauguration and they just think it's cool to be up there,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it's gross for me personally, no matter
Speaker 1: what the side was, I wouldn't want to be piles
Speaker 1: with the president, whether they're a Democrat or Republican. They're
Speaker 1: droning children. George Carlin always did a really good job
Speaker 1: of calling out the political power rather than being piles
Speaker 1: with anybody. Would she returned to the White House Correspondents
Speaker 1: dinner If they did invite me, I'd be happy to go.
Speaker 1: I just think they'd have to know what to expect,
Speaker 1: but sure, give me that platform. I'll do another roast
Speaker 1: Michelle Wolfe living in Europe. I did squeeze some special
Speaker 1: in between the soccer games. We've been watching a lot
Speaker 1: of soccer. Ryan Hamilton Special is fantastic. I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to do my updated list on Sunday. At the
Speaker 1: time of this sentence, I haven't seen Louis c k yet,
Speaker 1: but I think Sunday I'll do the midway through the
Speaker 1: year list Holiday weekend and all. You know how the
Speaker 1: show goes. But Ryan Hamilton Special is fantastic, and the
Speaker 1: folks in the Facebook group seem to agree with me.
Speaker 1: See if you haven't watched Ryan Hamilton on Netflix, very
Speaker 1: very funny special. I also switched over to Dez Bishop
Speaker 1: on Hulu, and I think you know, Dez was a
Speaker 1: great guest, good guy, want to hang out with them,
Speaker 1: guy from Queens. But I think what we've seen of
Speaker 1: the Hulu specials is the Hulu specials, so just not
Speaker 1: up to the quality of the Netflix specials. Dez's specials fine.
Speaker 1: I didn't stay with it that long because I've been
Speaker 1: doing this long enough that I know the difference between
Speaker 1: a great special and a fine special, and that one's fine.
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah has been praised by his fans after pointing
Speaker 1: out bias towards African and Middle Eastern teams during the
Speaker 1: World Cup. Trevor Noah was sharing his thoughts on World
Speaker 1: Cup Watch Party, which apparently he's on YouTube. I haven't
Speaker 1: checked the numbers, but I haven't seen much buzz about it.
Speaker 1: Let's look, let's see how that's doing, all right. The
Speaker 1: South Africa versus Canada game from Sunday got two hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety eight thousand views. England versus Ghana got two
Speaker 1: hundred and eight thousand views. Germany and Ivory Coast got
Speaker 1: two thirty one. All right, so he's doing, you know,
Speaker 1: mid two thirties while we're here. Let's see how those
Speaker 1: YouTube late night shows are doing. Can't remember what these
Speaker 1: are called. Right outside tonight with Julian Shapiro Brinam. It
Speaker 1: is one twenty six pm on Monday, as I say
Speaker 1: this sentence, Oh boy, he had on Jamarcos Sarasi four
Speaker 1: days ago as I speak the sentence, and that has
Speaker 1: done sixty three hundred views. That is not that is
Speaker 1: not a good number. The premiere, which is eleven days
Speaker 1: ago as I speak the sentence is up to sixteen thousand.
Speaker 1: Those are not good numbers. And what's the other one?
Speaker 1: I can remember what the other one is called Ben Gleeb.
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna remember that. Goodnight with Ben Glebe, an
Speaker 1: episode from thirteen days ago, has seven hundred and eight
Speaker 1: thousand views, so that's three times what Trevor Noah is
Speaker 1: doing sort of kind of in Goodnight episode five, the
Speaker 1: guest Dutton Ranches Natalie Allen Lynde, comedian Drew Lynch sixty
Speaker 1: four thousand. I don't know are these good numbers? They
Speaker 1: don't sound amazing. I digress. Trevor Noah was sharing his
Speaker 1: thoughts about the World Cup and said, why is it
Speaker 1: that African teams in Middle Eastern teams have to answer
Speaker 1: for what their governments and countries are doing, but then
Speaker 1: European teams don't have to do this. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what his point was there, who he's mad at or
Speaker 1: which country should be answering for what? The specific comment
Speaker 1: here seems to be about Iran having to leave the
Speaker 1: United States after each game. Send your letters to Trevor Noah.
Speaker 1: David Letterman will make his debut at the Montreal Just
Speaker 1: for Laughs Comedy Festival. He will host an evening with
Speaker 1: David Letterman and special guest Will Arnett at the Place
Speaker 1: Day Arts. That is how it is announced in French
Speaker 1: Place Day Arts Concert Hall. July twenty first, that's the Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing yet, so I screwed up.
Speaker 1: You know the big free weird Awl concert that's on Saturday,
Speaker 1: July twenty fifth. Well, my daughter is like, hey, why
Speaker 1: don't you come visit me when July twenty fifth. Sure
Speaker 1: I'll be there because you know your daughter asked you
Speaker 1: to visit, and You're like, yeah, I'll go. And then
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's when the weird Al concert is.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Maybe I'll go up for Letterman
Speaker 1: on the Tuesday night and stay for the Wednesday and
Speaker 1: do New Faces. I'm also considering not going at all.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So again, this is an evening with
Speaker 1: David Letterman's and special guest, which is totally different from
Speaker 1: his Netflix series. My next guest needs no introduction, so
Speaker 1: we'll see. That is your comedy news for today. We're
Speaker 1: doing okay into the holiday here right. We've had pretty
Speaker 1: robust shows this week. Feeling all right so far as
Speaker 1: our record this. I've gotten all that Louis c K
Speaker 1: think pieces yet, so I imagine that'll be Thursday's show. So
Speaker 1: we're doing okay, doing all right, And it's July now,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to share the show anymore. In fact,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to show the show. If you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: the show's so good, I got to tell someone. Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1: You had a month you could have shared it. You didn't.
Speaker 1: Now you're not allowed. See you tomorrow