WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:10.640 Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. 2 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.039 I'm gonna deliberately do some different names off the top 3 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:14.599 of here today. I feel like all week I've just 4 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.839 been talking about Nate Brighetsi and Bill Burr. It's gonna 5 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:20.160 work in some other people, although we'll get to those guys. 6 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:24.000 John Oliver says a UK version of Saturday Night Live 7 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:28.120 is a terrible idea. John told Seth Meyers, it just 8 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:30.879 sounds like a bad idea. We've had sketch comedy before, 9 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:33.039 and it just feels like Saturday Night Live is such 10 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.520 a unique group. It's a cult. I'm trying not to 11 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:37.399 say the word. It's a cult, and I don't know 12 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:40.079 how you can impose that cult on the UK. Seth 13 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.119 Meyers asked John to identify the most cult like thing 14 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:46.560 about SNL. Oliver said, what night is it? You stay 15 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:49.039 up all night? Meyer said Tuesday night. You stay up 16 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:51.159 all night and Tuesday. Oliver said, that's ridiculous. I'm saying 17 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:52.719 that's the kind of a thing a cult leader would 18 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.000 make you do. We stay up all night on Tuesdays. 19 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:57.759 By the way, John continued, I think it's been proven 20 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.320 that SNL is the outlier. It does don't have to 21 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.240 be dictated to the day that you must not sleep 22 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:04.200 on that day or the great Leader will be irritated. 23 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:07.640 I'm looking forward to Snluk gives me more things to 24 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.239 talk about. David Cross will be at Bellingham's Mount Baker 25 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:15.519 Theater tonight. He explained touring and said, it's what you do. 26 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:17.239 You work up a bunch of material and you take 27 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:18.879 it on the road, you shoot a special and when 28 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:21.079 that airs, you work up new material and then you 29 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.439 go out again. This set, though, is not quite as 30 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.439 topical or political as it usually is. That's surprising, isn't it. 31 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:29.159 You'd think you'd have something to talk about right now 32 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:31.879 because the first half of the set, with one exception, 33 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.959 is just a true embarrassing situation. I found myself in 34 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.599 another difference about this tour. Cross stopped in the middle 35 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:40.280 of the tour to go to Broadway as part of 36 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.239 All in a Comedy about Love. Remember that show? It 37 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:45.920 had the rotating cast. Cross said it was a limited 38 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:47.560 ten week run or something like that, and they asked 39 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:48.799 me to be part of it. It was great. It 40 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.280 was really a feather in my cap. Cross is doing 41 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:53.640 all sorts of things He's also on season four of 42 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.359 Netflix's The Umbrella Academy. He played Zi Grossman and said, 43 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.079 I don't think I've worked on a show quite like that, 44 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:00.920 especially with the reach that one had, and I'd never 45 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:02.200 seen it before. I got the offer and it was 46 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:03.799 one of those things where it was like, if you 47 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.519 could do this, you need to fly out. On Monday. 48 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:07.400 I shot a couple scenes and then I went back 49 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:09.240 and started watching it with my wife and we immediately 50 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.719 got hooked. Don't worry about David quitting a stand up, 51 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:15.080 he says to me. It's just what I do, and 52 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:16.800 I'm doing stand up if I'm not working on a 53 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.080 project or TV show, movie, whatever the thing is. But 54 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.319 I'm always doing stand up. I've never stopped doing stand up. 55 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:26.520 How did he get a podcast, he told the Bellingham Harald. 56 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:28.199 I woke up one day and checked the mail and 57 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:29.800 there was a thing saying it was my time to 58 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:31.919 do a podcast. It was required by the government, and 59 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:33.960 my number came up, so I went down to the 60 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.400 studio and just started doing it. Jimmy O Yang is 61 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.599 going to do a show in Hong Kong, and the 62 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:42.639 Hong Kong press was all excited about this. My comedy 63 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:44.960 trackers were like, oh my goodness, Jimmy O Yang is 64 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.319 doing a show in Hong Kong. He will play the 65 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:51.560 Hong Kong Coliseum on June fourteenth. Time Out reminds us 66 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:56.879 Yang can speak Cantonese, Shanghai's and Mandarin Chinese, so they 67 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.240 are guessing some of the material will be in Cantonese 68 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:01.960 at the Hong Kong show. Now, at first, I freaked 69 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:04.960 out at the ticket prices, which I saw as three 70 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.240 hundred and eighty, five hundred and eighty and seven hundred 71 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.439 and eighty dollars. Now, love Jimmy Oyang, but seven hundred 72 00:03:10.439 --> 00:03:13.000 and eighty dollars is a lot. But then I learned 73 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.520 I was not aware there is currency called Hong Kong dollar, 74 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.840 so the prices are in Hong Kong dollars. And as 75 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.800 I record this, Google tells me seven hundred and eighty 76 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:26.400 Hong Kong dollars is one hundred US dollars. So that's 77 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:29.159 not too bad. That's reasonable to see Jimmy Oyang, and 78 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:30.719 those are the price he seats. I mean, if we 79 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:33.639 want to get the three eighty HK dollars, that's just 80 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.840 fifty bucks. Tickets on sale today at two pm, which 81 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.879 time zone that I can help you with for HSBC 82 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:43.319 credit Card Priority bookings only. So if you're like, I 83 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.240 gotta go see Jimmy Oh Yang in Hong Kong, I 84 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:50.000 suggest you start looking right now. There's also a kluk 85 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:54.719 pre sale on May twelfth at noon. Klook, what's that? 86 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:57.719 I don't know either, but I'm the one hosting this thing, 87 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:59.400 so I guess up to me to figure out what 88 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:03.039 kluk is. Google tells us on Kluk you can find 89 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:07.560 discounted attraction tickets, tours with unique experiences, and more. They 90 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:11.199 seem to purvey in theme park tickets and airport transfers 91 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.479 and other things. Kluke Time Out reminds us the Hong 92 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.279 Kong Coliseum, which sounds like you would be this huge building, 93 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.560 right you think Jumio Yank's playing the eighty thousand people 94 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:23.600 know the Hong Kong Coliseum only seats twelve five hundred people. 95 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.680 We'll see if he adds a second show. Isn't this fun? 96 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.000 I haven't mentioned Naperghetzi or Bill Burry yet. Howie Mandel 97 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:33.759 was on with Nestor from Baltimore Positive. Nestor was curious 98 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:35.920 if everyone should try stand up comedy at one point 99 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:38.560 in their life, Howie said, I think if everybody got 100 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:40.720 up Benet's stand up, it'd be a huge crowd on 101 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:43.000 stage and one or two people in the audience. That's funny. 102 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:45.079 I love an audience. I think you should be an 103 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:47.120 audience member. I think people should sit comfortably in the 104 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:49.279 theater and just watch one person on the stage try 105 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:51.279 to regalue with humor. I look at it like a 106 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:52.959 giant party, and I'm just trying to be the center 107 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:57.639 of attention. As for working Clean, Working Blue, how He says, obviously, 108 00:04:57.639 --> 00:04:59.519 after all these years in the business, I have many 109 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.480 hours of prepared material, but I love to be reared off, 110 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:04.480 whether it be because of something that's happening in the moment, 111 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.560 technical problems, something else or whatever. I don't have an 112 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.279 edit button. I'm just a human. Hannah Berner got one 113 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.800 of those big profiles by the Hollywood Proforter. I'll zero 114 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:14.879 in on the stand up comedy part of it, and 115 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.120 they were curious if Hannah finds it odd to find 116 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.519 herself on TV doing stand up instead of reality TV. 117 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.720 Hannah said, these stand up specials my therapy. Reality TV 118 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:25.279 was one of the ways I was put on. So 119 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:27.959 I'm grateful for it, but I can't watch reality TV anymore. 120 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.160 I do think reality TV, as I saw, is that 121 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:32.360 everyone was put into characters, and you're pretty much putting 122 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:35.680 a box. The rampant misogyny. It gave me this chip 123 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:36.839 on my shoulder to be like, I want to be 124 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:39.439 seen as me. When I say me, I mean all 125 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:41.319 the sides of me. I want to put out the vulnerability, 126 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:43.720 the mistakes I've made, the confidence I have, the anxiety have. 127 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:46.560 If I'm going to be judged, I want to be 128 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.600 judged based off at least a human rather than an archetype. 129 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:52.240 I do think I always emphasize just how women are 130 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.759 so multifaceted, and I try to in my comedy say 131 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:56.959 things that maybe women were afraid of or insecure about, 132 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:58.720 so they can say, Hannah just said it, so it 133 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.240 can't be that bad. Alright, I'm editing on the fly 134 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:04.879 here in my a block. Here, I've got leftover Burr 135 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:07.600 and Nate. I'm a little NATed out. Want to take 136 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:09.920 a Nate break. Let's do Burr. This piece in The 137 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.519 New Yorker a really good profile with Burr where he 138 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.360 got political. It is behind a paywall. But if you're 139 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.360 good at the internet, like really good at the Internet, 140 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:19.399 you gotta have like internet skills, you can get to 141 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:22.639 this one, or of course, pay for a subscription to 142 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:25.160 The New Yorker like I did. Bill said, why is 143 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.800 there Fox News? Because there were CNN. No president has 144 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.199 allowed to be president since the first Bush. So what 145 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.839 he's saying there, because I've read ahead, is that the 146 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.040 news networks give every president a hard time. Here are 147 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:39.040 some examples, Bill Burr. Once they went after Bill Clinton 148 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:40.879 for lying about you know, the thing with the intern. 149 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:43.920 Let's not go there. Everybody else. George W. Bush, he 150 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.079 stole the election. Obama, he's not from here. Trump everything 151 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.480 that he did. Joe Biden, let's get something on him. 152 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.360 We can't get something. Oh, his kid does cocaine. As 153 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:54.399 it helps if a certain percentage of the president's stays 154 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:55.879 deal with the other side trying to take him out 155 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:58.680 and peach him, which is never gonna happen. Burr, who 156 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.480 was there to promote Glengary Kelen Ross, said to the interviewer, 157 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:03.120 are we gonna talk about the player? Am I just 158 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:06.639 gonna come across as the political guy? We've gone out 159 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:09.319 three times do you want to go out? I'm recording 160 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.879 a podcast, but I'm recording the podcast. But I just 161 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:17.600 let you out. Okay, I guess I gotta take a break. Boy, 162 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:20.399 where were we? The dog does not understand that Johnny 163 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:24.240 Man's got a lot to do today. She just snuck 164 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:26.920 back in. I had closed the door for a reason. 165 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.439 All right, she left. We'll see how far I get here. 166 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.720 There was a good discussion on Threads. I'd asked the 167 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.160 question just like it did on the podcast. Is Jay 168 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:37.600 Leno a good guy or bad guy? Yeah, there's the 169 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.720 Conan thing, but he seems like a good guy. That's 170 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:41.759 when I was reading the stuff about Mavis and yet 171 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.199 nobody ever seems say good things about him. I got 172 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:48.519 some good responses here. Megan responded on Threads, as I'm 173 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.040 at Daily Comedy News, Howard Stern has nothing good to 174 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:53.199 say about him. After reading the War on Late Night book, 175 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.720 it sounds like he's a backstabber who also wants everyone 176 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.319 to like him and no hard feelings after he betrays them. 177 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.480 Someone named Deva V. Wrote when I lived in LA 178 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.319 in the late nineties, one of my roommates worked on 179 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:04.920 The Tonight Show as a page and then eventually as 180 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:06.839 a writer. From what I heard, Leno's a great guy 181 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:08.720 to work for, and I was able to see his 182 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:11.360 real comic self, which is much more cerpic and funny 183 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:14.199 than what he was like on the show for obvious reasons. Yeah, 184 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:16.720 I've talked about this. If you watch the old Late 185 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.920 Night with David Letterman Jaylenel appearances, you got the edgy 186 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.879 Jay Leno, you know, not that he was you know 187 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.279 Tim Dillon or Andrew Schultz or someone like that, but 188 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.600 he was a lot edgier than the Tonight Show persona. 189 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:29.720 And like I've talked about with Fallon, when you host 190 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.840 the Tonight Show, that is a particular shade of yourself 191 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:34.600 that you have to do because that's what the Tonight 192 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:38.519 Show is. John Roy, comic who writes for Vulture, said, 193 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:40.519 when I did his show, he was very cool and 194 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:42.399 hung out in the green room telling comedy stories. He 195 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:44.399 also knew my act, which is rare for the host. 196 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:47.240 No other host I worked for did either of those things. 197 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.759 And then Ford probably had the best take. He wrote, 198 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:53.000 Jay is a guy like all other people. There's some 199 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:56.200 good and some bad in all of us. And I 200 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.639 did not react well to this. Somebody came at me 201 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:01.279 and wrote, how would you pair off? All your readers 202 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.919 were asked the same question about you. Also, why are 203 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.279 you holding him up for a public referendum? You can 204 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:09.200 let us know your record, so I did. Here's what 205 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:13.440 I wrote. Seriously, Okay, I ran SERIOSXM comedy for ten 206 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.000 years out of a thirty year radio career. My reputation 207 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:18.799 is that I'm a nice guy. I'm sure someone out 208 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:20.879 there doesn't like me, because we're all humans and all 209 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.919 comments on that. My reputation in the industry is that 210 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.799 I'm a nice guy. Like I wrote to the person back, 211 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:29.679 I'm sure someone thinks I'm a jerk fase and I 212 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.279 can be a jerk fase, and I'm sure people who 213 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.720 are reading my substack are like, this guy's a jerk phase. 214 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:37.919 But I admit I'm writing the substack a little jerky 215 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:42.639 for attention to promote the podcasts. So I'm sure people 216 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:44.440 that don't actually know me and only read that are 217 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:46.720 like that guy is a d and I would get 218 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.000 it and I would totally understand. But people have actually 219 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:50.799 worked with me. My reputation is that I'm pretty cool. 220 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.120 And then, because I was highly offended, I wrote and 221 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:55.159 then I explained the spirit of my inquiry is that 222 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:57.320 the guy gets dragged by comics, but in interviews he 223 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:00.919 seems nice. Anyway, I thought that was an interesting discussion. 224 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.440 A real quick let's hit gossip corner. Graham Norton is 225 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:07.279 selling his New York City crash pad. Must be nice 226 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:08.840 to have a New York City crash pad. Listen to 227 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:11.879 this crash pad. He's selling it for five point six 228 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.519 million dollars. The murray Hill carriage House on Sniff and Court, 229 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:19.080 which is a private gates muse Now I grew up 230 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:21.000 in New York City. I'm like, where is Sniff and Court? 231 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.960 And apparently it's this little street that is gated in 232 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:27.840 Manhattan's murray Hill neighborhood. Sniff and Court has just ten residences. 233 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.159 The homes were built in eighteen sixty three and eighteen 234 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:32.240 sixty four. It's horse stables. At the turn of the 235 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:35.759 twentieth century they were converted into single family townhouses. I 236 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.879 looked at the pictures, which you'll find on the rob Report. 237 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:43.759 Pretty nice looking place. The great room has fifteen foot ceilings, 238 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:47.480 a fireplace, there's a dining room. The second floor guest 239 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:51.240 bedroom has a marble bathroom. The third floor has the 240 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.440 primary suite. There's even a rooftop. Not bad. Five point 241 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.080 six million dollars if you got the cash. I don't. 242 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:00.879 I wish I did, because the place looks pretty dorn, snazzy, 243 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:02.480 and for a place in New York. It's just that 244 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:04.919 it's even on the market. If you've got five point six, 245 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:07.639 grab this thing. I'm not a real estate agent. Make 246 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:09.960 your own decisions, all right, And thats your comedy news 247 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.159 for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend 248 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:14.200 about it. They might like it too. If you're finding 249 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:17.360 me on YouTube again, I'm old. I don't know. I'm 250 00:11:17.399 --> 00:11:20.159 not a YouTuber. I'm a podcaster who's on YouTube because 251 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.519 that's what you're supposed to do. So smash the bell 252 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:25.080 and like and all that stuff. Whatever the kids tell 253 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.000 you to do, do that. See you tomorrow.