Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media Pure Jommy Mac with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: The Daily Mail wrote an article about the top earning
Speaker 1: comedians and put some dollar amounts to it. Actually, they
Speaker 1: put pounds amounts to it, and I threw it into
Speaker 1: chat GPT and roughly translated the pounds into US dollars
Speaker 1: in case you're curious. In this case, we used an
Speaker 1: exchange rate of one British pound to one dollar twenty
Speaker 1: seven US dollars. Not crazy off. Your exchange rate may
Speaker 1: differ anyway. According to the Daily Mail, the top earning
Speaker 1: comedians of twenty twenty four, I'll start with number eleven.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they did eleven. Number eleven. They
Speaker 1: have Michael McIntyre at twelve point seven million. Number ten,
Speaker 1: Andrew Schultz sixteen and a half million. Number nine, Jeff
Speaker 1: Dunham quietly going about his business nineteen million dollars shockingly low.
Speaker 1: Where do you hear these next two names? Okay? So
Speaker 1: number eight is Kevin Hart. You know Kevin Hart who
Speaker 1: like starts a new business like twice a day. Kevin
Speaker 1: Hart quote unquote only twenty one point five to nine million. Now,
Speaker 1: why that's interesting to me is number seven Joe Koy.
Speaker 1: You may recall Joe Coy also the Golden Globes over
Speaker 1: a year ago. I'm not going to bring that up,
Speaker 1: Scott back at relaxed. But Joe Coy earned twenty five
Speaker 1: point four million dollars, So according to the Daily Mail,
Speaker 1: Joe Koy is making more money than Kevin Hart. How
Speaker 1: is that possible? Number six Trevor Noah twenty six point
Speaker 1: six five, Bert Kreischer also at twenty six point six.
Speaker 1: Number four, Peter Kay at thirty four point twenty nine million.
Speaker 1: Number three Seinfeld Jerry brought in thirty nine point three million.
Speaker 1: Number two Sebastian Maniscalco big successful tour, okay, forty eight
Speaker 1: point twenty six million, and number one you want to
Speaker 1: take a guess here, and it's a shocking difference. According
Speaker 1: to the Daily Mail again they have Sebastian at forty
Speaker 1: eight point twenty six at number one with seventy one
Speaker 1: point one two million, so that's you know, twenty five
Speaker 1: million more loose math. Number one Nateperghetzi. Wow, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Nate had a big tour, but Nate quietly became
Speaker 1: a monster. I think everybody's aware of him. Now, but
Speaker 1: I had no idea he was making that much money.
Speaker 1: Nate is making I don't know, forty percent more. I'm
Speaker 1: doing loose math in my head. Forty percent more than
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld. I still don't see how Joe coy is
Speaker 1: making more than Kevin Hart, but okay. Meanwhile, bill Board
Speaker 1: shared the top ten highest grossing comedy tours of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. They say the top comedy acts collectively grossed
Speaker 1: a record breaking three hundred and ninety six point seven
Speaker 1: million dollars, up fifty two percent from the year before.
Speaker 1: I'll go in the other direction. Here they have a
Speaker 1: number one Nates, grossing eighty two point two million dollars
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty eight shows with one point one
Speaker 1: million people going to see him, Number thirty seven overall
Speaker 1: on the all genre ranks. So I assume that includes
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, for example, at number two, Number two two,
Speaker 1: where Matt Riiche grossed fifty seven and a half million
Speaker 1: sold seven hundred and thirty three thousand tickets across two
Speaker 1: hundred fifty six shows. Gab Iglesias another one of those
Speaker 1: quiet monsters. Maybe not this week because he's in the news,
Speaker 1: but he grossed forty two point eight million, sold six
Speaker 1: hundred three thousand tickets hundred twenty four shows. Kat Williams
Speaker 1: gross thirty seven and a half million, selling almost four
Speaker 1: hundred thousand tickets sixty shows. Sebastian gross thirty six and
Speaker 1: a half million, selling two hundred ninety three thousand tickets
Speaker 1: in fifty three shows. Krayzier twenty nine point seven million,
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty eight thousand tickets sixty four shows,
Speaker 1: Trevor twenty nine point seven three hundred ninety two thousand,
Speaker 1: ninety four shows, Jerry twenty seven point eight almost two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand tickets thirty six shows, Adam Sandler twenty seven
Speaker 1: million dollars selling two hundred and sixty one thousand tickets
Speaker 1: and twenty six shows, and number ten Joe Coy Maybe
Speaker 1: he should host the Golden Globes, giveing more than nine
Speaker 1: days to prepare, and don't invite you know who with
Speaker 1: the icy's there. Joe Koy gross twenty six millions, sold
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty eight thousand tickets in eighty three shows.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Gabeglacias, earlier in the week before the fires,
Speaker 1: he was profiled by the La Times. He shared that
Speaker 1: the title of his new special was supposed to be
Speaker 1: hard Rock Fluffy because he shot the special the Hard
Speaker 1: Rock in Miami. Everybody was on board with it. Then
Speaker 1: we got a call from Netflix, who said, there's money
Speaker 1: to be made on this and you can't be promoting
Speaker 1: other brands. They didn't like the fact that I was
Speaker 1: promoting hard Rock and Netflix, and they're like, well, if
Speaker 1: something like that's gonna happen, there needs to be compensation
Speaker 1: for it. I'm like, it's cool, I'm there, I play
Speaker 1: the hard Rocks. It helps me out. And they're like, no,
Speaker 1: he can't do it. So then, to be a jerk,
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, what about rock hard Fluffy,
Speaker 1: you know, to try and open up the audience a little.
Speaker 1: But no, they didn't go with that either. They gave
Speaker 1: you about eight different titles, but they sucked. Finally, we
Speaker 1: landed on Legend of Fluffy because I figured there's a
Speaker 1: lot of pieces in the special that have to do
Speaker 1: with the amount of time we've been doing this. And
Speaker 1: I was a big gamer back in the day. I
Speaker 1: had my Gold cartridge, so I liked Legend of Zelda.
Speaker 1: So I said, let me just play with that a
Speaker 1: little bit. So that's why the special is called Legend
Speaker 1: of Fluffy Switching Gears. Gabe shared that a few years ago,
Speaker 1: a buddy of his has told him your generational talent.
Speaker 1: I said, what's that even mean? He said, you got
Speaker 1: all these different generations coming out to see you. People
Speaker 1: that were kids the first time they saw you, and
Speaker 1: now they're adults and some are bringing their kids. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that sounds weird, and I'm like, oh, I used to
Speaker 1: have hair, so it's really really cool to see that.
Speaker 1: I think it's really beautiful that people come out and
Speaker 1: tell me I grew up watching you. Every time they
Speaker 1: say that, another gray hair comes out of my beard
Speaker 1: and another hair falls out of my head. All right,
Speaker 1: some political stuff here in the second half. If you
Speaker 1: don't want to deal with the politics, you are dismissed.
Speaker 1: I understand. But I've got a bunch of stories that
Speaker 1: pair up nicely. Let's start with Jim Gaffigan, and he
Speaker 1: was on the Last Laugh podcast. He shared, I regret
Speaker 1: that people think I was criticizing people that support Trump.
Speaker 1: That was never the intention. Jim says he doesn't regret
Speaker 1: publicly going against Trump, but acknowledges that he might have
Speaker 1: lost some fans. Jim said, I also do acknowledge that
Speaker 1: there were true, diehard Trump fans who probably enjoyed my comedy,
Speaker 1: but because they feel so passionately, they'll never forgive me.
Speaker 1: According to Jim, the back last year received for criticizing
Speaker 1: Trump was noticeable, but didn't affect him that much. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say it was measurable, but there were definitely comments
Speaker 1: on social media, and there are still some. Bill Maher
Speaker 1: revealed his issue with the Democrats and revealed the main
Speaker 1: reason he goes after woke liberals more often now. He says,
Speaker 1: you give me more material. I'm a comedian. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go where the gold is. The Democrats can't stand. I
Speaker 1: have to endure a moment of hearing something they don't
Speaker 1: already agree with. Not that the right doesn't do it too,
Speaker 1: but the left does it worse. Everything with these people
Speaker 1: has to be an opportunity for virtual signaling. Bill says
Speaker 1: some Democrats have cut off their friendship with him because
Speaker 1: he's had on people like Anne Culter, Bill Barr, and
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, And he says, just think about what this is.
Speaker 1: That's people who hate me. For who I won't hate.
Speaker 1: It's in their psychological profile. They just have this need
Speaker 1: for virtual signaling. And I have their friends, and I
Speaker 1: guess everybody on social media thinking of them as the
Speaker 1: good guys. We're the good people. We know who's good,
Speaker 1: and it's us. He also criticized the youngins, saying they
Speaker 1: have no perspective, quoting mar They've been indoctrinated into this
Speaker 1: idea that they live in the worst country in the
Speaker 1: world at the worst time in history, when actually they
Speaker 1: live in with all our flaws, still probably the best
Speaker 1: with definitely indisputably the best time in history. What America
Speaker 1: needs as a colonic Would Trump be the man I
Speaker 1: choose first to administer it. No, but I'd like to
Speaker 1: see what he and Elon Musker could do. Many Republicans say,
Speaker 1: maybe we can get Bill Maher. Now you can't. What
Speaker 1: you can get is Bill Mooher being honest about the left.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to join your team that doesn't believe
Speaker 1: in democracy. And he has a message for Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: saying you'll lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person.
Speaker 1: Congratulates Meanwhile, Whitney Cummings commented on the political left. She said,
Speaker 1: I always thought of myself as a pretty liberal person,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the left is as liberal as
Speaker 1: it used to be. It's like the left became the
Speaker 1: party of censorship. It's just wild to me that we're
Speaker 1: in't a time where if you're on the left and
Speaker 1: you don't criticize your party, how much you even care
Speaker 1: about your party? Do you know what I mean? It's
Speaker 1: like what's going on the left? I had to say,
Speaker 1: I just finally broke chants. If you love your party,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to criticize it, you know.
Speaker 1: And I don't really take sides. She then joked about
Speaker 1: some hypocrisy, quoting Whitney, my body, my choice, but you
Speaker 1: have to take this vaccine and also my body my choice,
Speaker 1: pro choice party, but you don't have a choice in
Speaker 1: your candidate. I'm not an expert on politics, which is
Speaker 1: why I've always said I'm not weighing in on it.
Speaker 1: But I am an expert on hypocrisy. Okay. I was
Speaker 1: raised by hypocrites, I've dated them, and I know hypocrisy
Speaker 1: what I see it. And that is your comedy news
Speaker 1: for today. Send your letters to Whitney Cummings, Bill Maher
Speaker 1: or Jim Gaffigan. I'm just here to tell you what's
Speaker 1: going on. See you tomorrow.