Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media either.
Speaker 2: I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Lewis Black,
Speaker 2: retiring at the end of the year. He says, I
Speaker 2: have other things I want to do. I enjoy it all,
Speaker 2: but I've always liked stand up the most because it
Speaker 2: allows me to write, direct and act. And I've always
Speaker 2: loved that the ultimate arbiter of any performance has been
Speaker 2: the audience, and not some producer or executive producer. Lewis
Speaker 2: tell says, anyone who's over the age of sixty five says,
Speaker 2: these are the best years of your life, and you
Speaker 2: could take the back of your hand and slap them
Speaker 2: as hard as you can't. Aging sucks. There's nothing fun
Speaker 2: about it. You close friends call and they tell you
Speaker 2: they went to the doctor today, and then you just
Speaker 2: wait for the other shoot to drop. It's just so awful.
Speaker 2: Nikki Glazer, she's getting ready to host the Golden Globes
Speaker 2: on Sunday. She tells Entertainment Weekly she's on the Sea list,
Speaker 2: and I say that with so much love for myself.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with that. I'm a comedian. If I wasn't hosting,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be there. There's no other way for me
Speaker 2: to be there, except maybe as a seat filler. Not
Speaker 2: entirely true. She's nominated for Best Comedy Special. She explains
Speaker 2: her approach. I have to say who I am first.
Speaker 2: I have to be a little softer and more self
Speaker 2: deprecating because I'm not as well known. I can't just
Speaker 2: come out swinging. They'll be like, who's this lady and
Speaker 2: why does she think she has a right to talk
Speaker 2: to us? This way, I can't come in with the
Speaker 2: same annihilating venom as I did at the Tom Brady Roast.
Speaker 2: With status comes the ability to punch harder. She did
Speaker 2: seek out advice from Ricky Gervase, who told her you
Speaker 2: aren't them. You're a comedian. They're a list movie stars.
Speaker 2: Remember that. Do what you do, don't try to be them.
Speaker 2: Don't trick yourself into thinking you're better than you are.
Speaker 2: She says, I like that because I always perform best
Speaker 2: when I shake that delusion off. I'm not a movie star.
Speaker 2: I just want to have a comedian that night. Then
Speaker 2: by the third time I'm hosting, I can have a
Speaker 2: scorch Earth monologer. And I'm gonna give you some advice, Nikki,
Speaker 2: because I know you're a big fan of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: What you don't want to do during your monologue. You
Speaker 2: don't want to joke about Taylor Swift because last year
Speaker 2: Joe Coy told the joke about Taylor Swift and she
Speaker 2: gave him a death stare and it killed the room.
Speaker 2: And then everybody said Joe Coy did a bad job hosting.
Speaker 2: And I don't agree with that. I think that meani
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift iced Joe co Let's listen back to that moment.
Speaker 1: As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.
Speaker 1: The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.
Speaker 1: On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. I swear, it's just where to go to
Speaker 1: kare sorry about that.
Speaker 2: You have plans for tonight. NBC is airing Day Drinking
Speaker 2: with Seth Myers. Now I don't I like Seth Myers
Speaker 2: at all, but of all the things you could do tonight,
Speaker 2: that's not the choice. I mean, even if you're home
Speaker 2: watching TV, just go with the Ryan Seacrest thing. It's basic.
Speaker 2: Just do that. Why would you watch Day Drinking with
Speaker 2: Seth Myers? Really, it's an hour long look back at
Speaker 2: the best of Meyer's drunken interactions with Rihanna Post Malone,
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart, Julia, Louis Dreyfus, Lizzo, Dua Lipa Ala. Air
Speaker 2: from eleven thirty to twelve thirty five. NBC's not trying,
Speaker 2: Why should you? Then at twelve thirty five, NBC's trying
Speaker 2: even less. They're going to air E News Presents NBC's
Speaker 2: Hot ten of twenty twenty four, a one hour special
Speaker 2: hosted by some folks from E News. Fell and Dolly
Speaker 2: Parton Andy Cohen appear on the E special. CBS watch
Speaker 2: the CBS show five hours of country music. New Year's
Speaker 2: Eve Live, Nationhale's Big Bash. It's not comedy, but that's fun.
Speaker 2: ABC is the traditional Dick Clark's New Year's Rock and Eve.
Speaker 2: The Ryan seacrests that's not bad. CNN Anderson Cooper and
Speaker 2: Andy Cohen, they usually get a little loose on their show.
Speaker 2: You could watch that or you know, you could have friends,
Speaker 2: you could watch movies, you can play video games, you
Speaker 2: could watch some comedy specials. I'm just saying this. Eth
Speaker 2: Myers thing's gotta be pretty far down your list out
Speaker 2: You could watch Michelle Buteau. She's got a new special tonight.
Speaker 2: Why don't you watch that? Michelle Butteu a betellful mind.
Speaker 2: Recording Radio City back in June, she reflects on motherhood
Speaker 2: and marriage, all while sipping rose through a straw. She'd
Speaker 2: tell the La Times, I have other stuff I do,
Speaker 2: but I love stand up. I love connecting with people.
Speaker 2: And now we're actually wearing pants and heels, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: the time is now, We're just up, let's go. I
Speaker 2: love talking about my life, but finding a balance is important.
Speaker 2: Having the utmost respect for people in your life and
Speaker 2: not using them as fodder all the time, but definitely
Speaker 2: speaking about them in a more universal, bigger picture way
Speaker 2: is something that will always sort of inspire me. She
Speaker 2: spoke to the hollerd Reporter about the choice of venue
Speaker 2: and said, sometimes I watch a special, I'm not inspired.
Speaker 2: I'm like, where are you? You can be in Ohio, you
Speaker 2: could be in Kansas, I don't know. And because Netflix
Speaker 2: has such a reach one hundred and ninety countries around
Speaker 2: the world, I want people to feel like, look, when
Speaker 2: you watch a special with me, it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: New York City night. Whether you can afford to come
Speaker 2: here or not. I just love when the world feel
Speaker 2: small and big at the same time. But I'd never
Speaker 2: headlined Radio City before, and when I walked into tour it,
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, this place is magical. It's calling me.
Speaker 2: I asked the people who were taking us to tour
Speaker 2: the place, what other female comedians have taped their specials here,
Speaker 2: and they were like, none, females have headlined here, but
Speaker 2: no one's taped a special and I was like, oh wow, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm in a Holly reporter said presumably it's very expensive
Speaker 2: to book and hard to fill. Michelle said, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: any other agent or manager would it's all their client
Speaker 2: go somewhere else, save the money. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm a lot to say this, but you pay for
Speaker 2: production out of your fees. Usually you go to a theater.
Speaker 2: There's few receipts. That way, you can do two shows
Speaker 2: and early show in a late show. In case you
Speaker 2: don't get what you want, you can mix and match
Speaker 2: the edit. But with Radio City Music Hall, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I only got the one show, and I can barely
Speaker 2: afford the one show. But I also felt this is
Speaker 2: bigger than me, and also like, how come no one
Speaker 2: else has done this before? I think he answered your
Speaker 2: own question. Money, The answer is always money. Any question
Speaker 2: in showbiz that makes no sense, the answer is always money.
Speaker 2: They asked her about mentioning her family and her material,
Speaker 2: and she said, twenty thirty fifty years from now, somebody
Speaker 2: looks back in this, are they gonna be wildly hurt
Speaker 2: and embarrassed? Are they gonna say, Ah, she was gone
Speaker 2: through a lot of stuff, and she was living her
Speaker 2: truth and she made history and money. Are there jokes
Speaker 2: that you do in comedy clubs you don't do it
Speaker 2: on a Netflix special? One hundred percent. I mean I
Speaker 2: did a twenty city tour last year and there was
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff that I didn't put in the special.
Speaker 2: There are things you should only hear live where it
Speaker 2: shouldn't be recorded. You get to speak your truth and
Speaker 2: say that nasty little thing. You only get away with
Speaker 2: that a two drink minimum, and then you figure out
Speaker 2: what you can say on a platform like Netflix that
Speaker 2: will live forever. Spoiler mid show, you take a dig
Speaker 2: at Chappelle. Why Michelle said, I've always been an inclusive person,
Speaker 2: and especially with comedy or anything in the arts. We
Speaker 2: have to speak truth to power. I don't understand why
Speaker 2: we get to make fun of and punch down and
Speaker 2: bret on beautiful communities because the world is changing and
Speaker 2: we should change along with it. That's what should happen.
Speaker 2: Change isn't linear, but its performers. We also have the
Speaker 2: power to move that needle. And quite frankly, I really
Speaker 2: wish more performers that have a bigger platform than me
Speaker 2: will also speak out, because it's a reason why an
Speaker 2: injustice will happen for so long no one's calling it out.
Speaker 2: And if we have an opportunity to not only call
Speaker 2: it out but also make it funny and then pay
Speaker 2: taxes on it and make some money, it's a win win.
Speaker 2: And look, I've got so many protests and I've done
Speaker 2: a lot of hashtagging on social media, but I feel
Speaker 2: like if I really want to make people think about something,
Speaker 2: I gotta have to sneak the vegebles into the meal
Speaker 2: I could do with the kids. I've got a sneak
Speaker 2: in my wokeness with some hilarity. So you're beat it
Speaker 2: back to your friend at the water cooler on a
Speaker 2: Monday morning and hopefully learn something.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Lissa via Signora will have a special tomorrow. It is
Speaker 2: called Whelp What Now? That'll be on YouTube tomorrow January first.
Speaker 2: On this feed tomorrow January first, you will hear my
Speaker 2: interview with Mike Chishom. Mike Chisham actually interviewed me. I
Speaker 2: was the guest on the Lunarman podcast. But Mike was
Speaker 2: cool and said I could repurpose the audio and take
Speaker 2: a day off, so I did. If you're in Canada,
Speaker 2: the CBC has restored its New Year's Eve celebration, a
Speaker 2: one hour special called twenty two Minutes New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: Pregame Special. It features the cast or the political series.
Speaker 2: This hour has twenty two minutes. It will be followed
Speaker 2: by cann Out Alive Countdown twenty twenty five. People were
Speaker 2: mad at the CBC last year because some cost cutting.
Speaker 2: They didn't bother. They just aired a pre tape just
Speaker 2: for laugh special hosted by May Martin The Charlotte Observer
Speaker 2: as Sarah Silverman. Are you with Jerry Seinfeld type where
Speaker 2: every word is important? Are you more of someone who
Speaker 2: outlines your set and kind of goes with it? Sarah said,
Speaker 2: I'm never tied to a script at all. It's not
Speaker 2: like a written monologue. There's all things I learned from
Speaker 2: the audience. You know, some jokes can bomb or killed
Speaker 2: depending on all kinds of factors. You realize, oh, I
Speaker 2: need to have a pause here, you need a tiny
Speaker 2: word here, or they need a little more information, or
Speaker 2: they need much less information where the setup is too
Speaker 2: heavy for the lightness of the punchline. There's all this chemistry.
Speaker 2: You get beakers of jokes, and you're adding and taking
Speaker 2: away all that stuff until you figure out what works best,
Speaker 2: and you'll never get the perfect version. But I'm a
Speaker 2: really meticulous slow honer. That's why I can't watch my
Speaker 2: specials once they're done. It's too frustrating. At a certain point,
Speaker 2: you just got to put it out on tape or
Speaker 2: digital whatever it's called. You got to record it and
Speaker 2: kiss it goodbye because it can all fit in my head.
Speaker 2: And I think with that, that's your comedy news for
Speaker 2: the year. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend
Speaker 2: about it. They might like the program too. Have a
Speaker 2: very safe New Year's Eve. I hope you and your
Speaker 2: family had a good twenty twenty four. I hope you
Speaker 2: have an even better twenty twenty five. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening every single day to this podcast.
Speaker 2: It means a lot to me. It's a lot of
Speaker 2: fun for me to do. So Happy New Year to
Speaker 2: us all. Tomorrow's an hour and a half episodes. If
Speaker 2: you have nothing to do on New Year's Day, we'll
Speaker 2: keep your company with that. Normal episode on Thursday Tomorrow
Speaker 2: is an hour and a half episode. It's me guesting
Speaker 2: on the Letterman Podcast. So if you have nothing to
Speaker 2: do tomorrow, now you do. Happy New Year,