Speaker 1: Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna deliberately do some different names off the top
Speaker 1: of here today. I feel like all week I've just
Speaker 1: been talking about Nate Brighetsi and Bill Burr. It's gonna
Speaker 1: work in some other people, although we'll get to those guys.
Speaker 1: John Oliver says a UK version of Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: is a terrible idea. John told Seth Meyers, it just
Speaker 1: sounds like a bad idea. We've had sketch comedy before,
Speaker 1: and it just feels like Saturday Night Live is such
Speaker 1: a unique group. It's a cult. I'm trying not to
Speaker 1: say the word. It's a cult, and I don't know
Speaker 1: how you can impose that cult on the UK. Seth
Speaker 1: Meyers asked John to identify the most cult like thing
Speaker 1: about SNL. Oliver said, what night is it? You stay
Speaker 1: up all night? Meyer said Tuesday night. You stay up
Speaker 1: all night and Tuesday. Oliver said, that's ridiculous. I'm saying
Speaker 1: that's the kind of a thing a cult leader would
Speaker 1: make you do. We stay up all night on Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: By the way, John continued, I think it's been proven
Speaker 1: that SNL is the outlier. It does don't have to
Speaker 1: be dictated to the day that you must not sleep
Speaker 1: on that day or the great Leader will be irritated.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to Snluk gives me more things to
Speaker 1: talk about. David Cross will be at Bellingham's Mount Baker
Speaker 1: Theater tonight. He explained touring and said, it's what you do.
Speaker 1: You work up a bunch of material and you take
Speaker 1: it on the road, you shoot a special and when
Speaker 1: that airs, you work up new material and then you
Speaker 1: go out again. This set, though, is not quite as
Speaker 1: topical or political as it usually is. That's surprising, isn't it.
Speaker 1: You'd think you'd have something to talk about right now
Speaker 1: because the first half of the set, with one exception,
Speaker 1: is just a true embarrassing situation. I found myself in
Speaker 1: another difference about this tour. Cross stopped in the middle
Speaker 1: of the tour to go to Broadway as part of
Speaker 1: All in a Comedy about Love. Remember that show? It
Speaker 1: had the rotating cast. Cross said it was a limited
Speaker 1: ten week run or something like that, and they asked
Speaker 1: me to be part of it. It was great. It
Speaker 1: was really a feather in my cap. Cross is doing
Speaker 1: all sorts of things He's also on season four of
Speaker 1: Netflix's The Umbrella Academy. He played Zi Grossman and said,
Speaker 1: I don't think I've worked on a show quite like that,
Speaker 1: especially with the reach that one had, and I'd never
Speaker 1: seen it before. I got the offer and it was
Speaker 1: one of those things where it was like, if you
Speaker 1: could do this, you need to fly out. On Monday.
Speaker 1: I shot a couple scenes and then I went back
Speaker 1: and started watching it with my wife and we immediately
Speaker 1: got hooked. Don't worry about David quitting a stand up,
Speaker 1: he says to me. It's just what I do, and
Speaker 1: I'm doing stand up if I'm not working on a
Speaker 1: project or TV show, movie, whatever the thing is. But
Speaker 1: I'm always doing stand up. I've never stopped doing stand up.
Speaker 1: How did he get a podcast, he told the Bellingham Harald.
Speaker 1: I woke up one day and checked the mail and
Speaker 1: there was a thing saying it was my time to
Speaker 1: do a podcast. It was required by the government, and
Speaker 1: my number came up, so I went down to the
Speaker 1: studio and just started doing it. Jimmy O Yang is
Speaker 1: going to do a show in Hong Kong, and the
Speaker 1: Hong Kong press was all excited about this. My comedy
Speaker 1: trackers were like, oh my goodness, Jimmy O Yang is
Speaker 1: doing a show in Hong Kong. He will play the
Speaker 1: Hong Kong Coliseum on June fourteenth. Time Out reminds us
Speaker 1: Yang can speak Cantonese, Shanghai's and Mandarin Chinese, so they
Speaker 1: are guessing some of the material will be in Cantonese
Speaker 1: at the Hong Kong show. Now, at first, I freaked
Speaker 1: out at the ticket prices, which I saw as three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty, five hundred and eighty and seven hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty dollars. Now, love Jimmy Oyang, but seven hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty dollars is a lot. But then I learned
Speaker 1: I was not aware there is currency called Hong Kong dollar,
Speaker 1: so the prices are in Hong Kong dollars. And as
Speaker 1: I record this, Google tells me seven hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: Hong Kong dollars is one hundred US dollars. So that's
Speaker 1: not too bad. That's reasonable to see Jimmy Oyang, and
Speaker 1: those are the price he seats. I mean, if we
Speaker 1: want to get the three eighty HK dollars, that's just
Speaker 1: fifty bucks. Tickets on sale today at two pm, which
Speaker 1: time zone that I can help you with for HSBC
Speaker 1: credit Card Priority bookings only. So if you're like, I
Speaker 1: gotta go see Jimmy Oh Yang in Hong Kong, I
Speaker 1: suggest you start looking right now. There's also a kluk
Speaker 1: pre sale on May twelfth at noon. Klook, what's that?
Speaker 1: I don't know either, but I'm the one hosting this thing,
Speaker 1: so I guess up to me to figure out what
Speaker 1: kluk is. Google tells us on Kluk you can find
Speaker 1: discounted attraction tickets, tours with unique experiences, and more. They
Speaker 1: seem to purvey in theme park tickets and airport transfers
Speaker 1: and other things. Kluke Time Out reminds us the Hong
Speaker 1: Kong Coliseum, which sounds like you would be this huge building,
Speaker 1: right you think Jumio Yank's playing the eighty thousand people
Speaker 1: know the Hong Kong Coliseum only seats twelve five hundred people.
Speaker 1: We'll see if he adds a second show. Isn't this fun?
Speaker 1: I haven't mentioned Naperghetzi or Bill Burry yet. Howie Mandel
Speaker 1: was on with Nestor from Baltimore Positive. Nestor was curious
Speaker 1: if everyone should try stand up comedy at one point
Speaker 1: in their life, Howie said, I think if everybody got
Speaker 1: up Benet's stand up, it'd be a huge crowd on
Speaker 1: stage and one or two people in the audience. That's funny.
Speaker 1: I love an audience. I think you should be an
Speaker 1: audience member. I think people should sit comfortably in the
Speaker 1: theater and just watch one person on the stage try
Speaker 1: to regalue with humor. I look at it like a
Speaker 1: giant party, and I'm just trying to be the center
Speaker 1: of attention. As for working Clean, Working Blue, how He says, obviously,
Speaker 1: after all these years in the business, I have many
Speaker 1: hours of prepared material, but I love to be reared off,
Speaker 1: whether it be because of something that's happening in the moment,
Speaker 1: technical problems, something else or whatever. I don't have an
Speaker 1: edit button. I'm just a human. Hannah Berner got one
Speaker 1: of those big profiles by the Hollywood Proforter. I'll zero
Speaker 1: in on the stand up comedy part of it, and
Speaker 1: they were curious if Hannah finds it odd to find
Speaker 1: herself on TV doing stand up instead of reality TV.
Speaker 1: Hannah said, these stand up specials my therapy. Reality TV
Speaker 1: was one of the ways I was put on. So
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for it, but I can't watch reality TV anymore.
Speaker 1: I do think reality TV, as I saw, is that
Speaker 1: everyone was put into characters, and you're pretty much putting
Speaker 1: a box. The rampant misogyny. It gave me this chip
Speaker 1: on my shoulder to be like, I want to be
Speaker 1: seen as me. When I say me, I mean all
Speaker 1: the sides of me. I want to put out the vulnerability,
Speaker 1: the mistakes I've made, the confidence I have, the anxiety have.
Speaker 1: If I'm going to be judged, I want to be
Speaker 1: judged based off at least a human rather than an archetype.
Speaker 1: I do think I always emphasize just how women are
Speaker 1: so multifaceted, and I try to in my comedy say
Speaker 1: things that maybe women were afraid of or insecure about,
Speaker 1: so they can say, Hannah just said it, so it
Speaker 1: can't be that bad. Alright, I'm editing on the fly
Speaker 1: here in my a block. Here, I've got leftover Burr
Speaker 1: and Nate. I'm a little NATed out. Want to take
Speaker 1: a Nate break. Let's do Burr. This piece in The
Speaker 1: New Yorker a really good profile with Burr where he
Speaker 1: got political. It is behind a paywall. But if you're
Speaker 1: good at the internet, like really good at the Internet,
Speaker 1: you gotta have like internet skills, you can get to
Speaker 1: this one, or of course, pay for a subscription to
Speaker 1: The New Yorker like I did. Bill said, why is
Speaker 1: there Fox News? Because there were CNN. No president has
Speaker 1: allowed to be president since the first Bush. So what
Speaker 1: he's saying there, because I've read ahead, is that the
Speaker 1: news networks give every president a hard time. Here are
Speaker 1: some examples, Bill Burr. Once they went after Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: for lying about you know, the thing with the intern.
Speaker 1: Let's not go there. Everybody else. George W. Bush, he
Speaker 1: stole the election. Obama, he's not from here. Trump everything
Speaker 1: that he did. Joe Biden, let's get something on him.
Speaker 1: We can't get something. Oh, his kid does cocaine. As
Speaker 1: it helps if a certain percentage of the president's stays
Speaker 1: deal with the other side trying to take him out
Speaker 1: and peach him, which is never gonna happen. Burr, who
Speaker 1: was there to promote Glengary Kelen Ross, said to the interviewer,
Speaker 1: are we gonna talk about the player? Am I just
Speaker 1: gonna come across as the political guy? We've gone out
Speaker 1: three times do you want to go out? I'm recording
Speaker 1: a podcast, but I'm recording the podcast. But I just
Speaker 1: let you out. Okay, I guess I gotta take a break. Boy,
Speaker 1: where were we? The dog does not understand that Johnny
Speaker 1: Man's got a lot to do today. She just snuck
Speaker 1: back in. I had closed the door for a reason.
Speaker 1: All right, she left. We'll see how far I get here.
Speaker 1: There was a good discussion on Threads. I'd asked the
Speaker 1: question just like it did on the podcast. Is Jay
Speaker 1: Leno a good guy or bad guy? Yeah, there's the
Speaker 1: Conan thing, but he seems like a good guy. That's
Speaker 1: when I was reading the stuff about Mavis and yet
Speaker 1: nobody ever seems say good things about him. I got
Speaker 1: some good responses here. Megan responded on Threads, as I'm
Speaker 1: at Daily Comedy News, Howard Stern has nothing good to
Speaker 1: say about him. After reading the War on Late Night book,
Speaker 1: it sounds like he's a backstabber who also wants everyone
Speaker 1: to like him and no hard feelings after he betrays them.
Speaker 1: Someone named Deva V. Wrote when I lived in LA
Speaker 1: in the late nineties, one of my roommates worked on
Speaker 1: The Tonight Show as a page and then eventually as
Speaker 1: a writer. From what I heard, Leno's a great guy
Speaker 1: to work for, and I was able to see his
Speaker 1: real comic self, which is much more cerpic and funny
Speaker 1: than what he was like on the show for obvious reasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've talked about this. If you watch the old Late
Speaker 1: Night with David Letterman Jaylenel appearances, you got the edgy
Speaker 1: Jay Leno, you know, not that he was you know
Speaker 1: Tim Dillon or Andrew Schultz or someone like that, but
Speaker 1: he was a lot edgier than the Tonight Show persona.
Speaker 1: And like I've talked about with Fallon, when you host
Speaker 1: the Tonight Show, that is a particular shade of yourself
Speaker 1: that you have to do because that's what the Tonight
Speaker 1: Show is. John Roy, comic who writes for Vulture, said,
Speaker 1: when I did his show, he was very cool and
Speaker 1: hung out in the green room telling comedy stories. He
Speaker 1: also knew my act, which is rare for the host.
Speaker 1: No other host I worked for did either of those things.
Speaker 1: And then Ford probably had the best take. He wrote,
Speaker 1: Jay is a guy like all other people. There's some
Speaker 1: good and some bad in all of us. And I
Speaker 1: did not react well to this. Somebody came at me
Speaker 1: and wrote, how would you pair off? All your readers
Speaker 1: were asked the same question about you. Also, why are
Speaker 1: you holding him up for a public referendum? You can
Speaker 1: let us know your record, so I did. Here's what
Speaker 1: I wrote. Seriously, Okay, I ran SERIOSXM comedy for ten
Speaker 1: years out of a thirty year radio career. My reputation
Speaker 1: is that I'm a nice guy. I'm sure someone out
Speaker 1: there doesn't like me, because we're all humans and all
Speaker 1: comments on that. My reputation in the industry is that
Speaker 1: I'm a nice guy. Like I wrote to the person back,
Speaker 1: I'm sure someone thinks I'm a jerk fase and I
Speaker 1: can be a jerk fase, and I'm sure people who
Speaker 1: are reading my substack are like, this guy's a jerk phase.
Speaker 1: But I admit I'm writing the substack a little jerky
Speaker 1: for attention to promote the podcasts. So I'm sure people
Speaker 1: that don't actually know me and only read that are
Speaker 1: like that guy is a d and I would get
Speaker 1: it and I would totally understand. But people have actually
Speaker 1: worked with me. My reputation is that I'm pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And then, because I was highly offended, I wrote and
Speaker 1: then I explained the spirit of my inquiry is that
Speaker 1: the guy gets dragged by comics, but in interviews he
Speaker 1: seems nice. Anyway, I thought that was an interesting discussion.
Speaker 1: A real quick let's hit gossip corner. Graham Norton is
Speaker 1: selling his New York City crash pad. Must be nice
Speaker 1: to have a New York City crash pad. Listen to
Speaker 1: this crash pad. He's selling it for five point six
Speaker 1: million dollars. The murray Hill carriage House on Sniff and Court,
Speaker 1: which is a private gates muse Now I grew up
Speaker 1: in New York City. I'm like, where is Sniff and Court?
Speaker 1: And apparently it's this little street that is gated in
Speaker 1: Manhattan's murray Hill neighborhood. Sniff and Court has just ten residences.
Speaker 1: The homes were built in eighteen sixty three and eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty four. It's horse stables. At the turn of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century they were converted into single family townhouses. I
Speaker 1: looked at the pictures, which you'll find on the rob Report.
Speaker 1: Pretty nice looking place. The great room has fifteen foot ceilings,
Speaker 1: a fireplace, there's a dining room. The second floor guest
Speaker 1: bedroom has a marble bathroom. The third floor has the
Speaker 1: primary suite. There's even a rooftop. Not bad. Five point
Speaker 1: six million dollars if you got the cash. I don't.
Speaker 1: I wish I did, because the place looks pretty dorn, snazzy,
Speaker 1: and for a place in New York. It's just that
Speaker 1: it's even on the market. If you've got five point six,
Speaker 1: grab this thing. I'm not a real estate agent. Make
Speaker 1: your own decisions, all right, And thats your comedy news
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