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Speaker 2: Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Conan
O'Brien is suing Harvard. I've got a clip for you,
a little longer than I usually play for a clip,
but it's great. Here's Conan.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the biggest issue facing this institution is that the
federal government of the United States is suing our university. Yeah.
Many people think I've come today to defend Harvard. Well, sorry,
those people are wrong. Not only am I not against
these lawsuits, I'm here to announce that I'm joining them.
I too, am suing Harvard. I'm suing Harvard for the
cast iron bunk bed that greeted me upon my arrival
at How Were They sixteen my freshman year, a bed
that has since been confiscated by the Hague as an
instrument of divine c I'm suing Harvard for allowing me
to sign up for a nine am class at the
Science Center and a ten am class down at Soldiers Field.
For God's sakes, I was a child. I'm suing Harvard
for my less than spectacular undergraduate sex life, for me
having a three way man adding a second mirror to
my dorm. I'm suing Harvard because once I had to
listen to the Harvard Crocodillo's do an eight minute rendition
of split splash, I was taken a bath. My god,
each one took a solo and it was awful. And finally,
I'm suing Harvard because, and this is absolutely true, in
the spring of my sophomore year, while trying to grab
a quick lunch at Adam's house, I was served a meal.
You has served a meal called capt'n Ben's fish spaghetti.
To this day, I have no idea who capt'n Ben
is or why someone would combine government issue cod with spaghetti. Harvard,
I'll see your ass in court. Yes, I'm confident that
my claims will have more merit than those filed by
the President of the United States. Yes, as you are aware,
the current administration feels Harvard amidst too many foreign students,
and who knows, they may have a point. After all,
what has any foreigner ever added to our American culture,
with the possible exception of music, literature, art, cuisine, architecture, dance,
scientific breakthroughs in the core of our moral codes and
ethical blaze? Seriously serious, If foreigners hadn't gummed up the
works right now, it'd all be listening to delightful Calvinist reggae,
eating savory Church of England ZD and dancing the forbidden
and sexually charged the Lutheran LOMBARDA wow.
Speaker 2: And you can send your letters to Conan O'Brien now
via Deadline. BBS is letting you know you could take
all the shots you want at them over this Byron
Allen thing. They're good with it. I see people on
threads and they're like, the ratings are down for Byron Allen.
CBS is getting what they deserve. They know what they're
walking into. Byron Allen is fine with this. CBS is
fine with this. CBS wants you to know that Byron Allen,
who is a billionaire and has had a lot of
success in television, doing this sort of thing. Byron Allen
is paying fifteen million dollars a year as a time buy,
meaning that he's leasing the eleven thirty hour from CBS
and selling its ad inventory himself. So on the CBS end,
even if this show gets zero viewers, they make fifteen
million dollars a year, so they don't care. You can
hate all you want the first night of Comics Unleashed
got eight hundred and seventy eight thousand total viewers, which
honestly is not that far from comparing apples to slightly
different apples here, but Seth Meyers show really doesn't get
a lot more than that. I'm comparing eleven thirty and
twelve thirty, and maybe that eight seventy eight was some
curiosity mixed in. We'll see where the Byron Allen number
settles in. BBS said, We're proud to partner with Byron
Allen on a new business and programming model for Late
Night that proactively addresses a network date part that was
cost prohibitive to continue with this time by model, we
have shifted an hour that was losing roughly forty million
dollars annually to fifteen million dollars in profit, a fifty
five million dollars swing. Some industry sources or curious how
a CBS arrives at the negative forty million dollar number,
doesn't really matter. The Late Show is over. Star trek
Ruinner Patton Oswalt spoke to Vice about his new special.
One of the topics was ai. Patton Oswalt said, stand
up as an art form is a living, evolving snapshot
of one person's life and their reaction to an opinion
of it, which is why I think a lot of
younger people are kind of seeing the job security of
it at all. A I might be able to craft
technically funny jokes, but it will never have a point
of view that comes from living a life of heartbreak, joy, accidents,
massive f ups, and real growth. The new special is
called t and Scotch. What's with that patent? He said?
The titles of my specials and albums are never consciously
connected to anything within the special, But later on I
realized I was subconsciously expressing something I didn't even realize
was eating at me. And right now, the way we're living,
it's either soothing tea or bracing scotch. Maybe I'm struggling
with how I've willingly embraced living under those two extremes
and fooled myself into thinking it's somehow healthy vice ass, Patten,
this seems to be the smallest venue you ever filmed
a special. Aunt. Is there a reason for that? Patton said,
I did some shows at Comedy on stateon Madison, Wisconsin
a few years ago, and I was blown away by
how electric and just plane present the crowds were. By
the time the weekend was over, I knew that's where
I was going to film my next special, small, raw, intimate.
I still love the big streaming platforms, but a lot
of them seem to send some pretty brilliant comedy specials
down a digital black hole. This was a chance to
own my product, control the distribution, make sure the right
eyes got on it. Roll with the new t in
Scotch on YouTube. June ninth, Congratulations to Tom sigor who's
on a bit of a roll. Fox Creator Studios and
Sigora's YMH Studios are joining forces. It is a strategic
MULTII project partnership to develop, finance, and produce a broad
slate of original content. That slate includes a stand up
comedy showcase spotlighting both established and emerging voices, a horror
comedy animated series, and a live action comedy series set
in an airport bar. Sagora til Deadline. We've spent years
building a business where we can create independently and stay
directly connected to our audience. Fox Creator Studios understands that
model and brings the infrastructure and reach to help us
expand it in a meaningful way. Nate Bergantcy was hawking
his new movie The Breadwinner on in the Ovaughn's podcast.
They started talking about clean comedy. THEO said, you can
get away with a lot more when you don't curse.
I think you could say a lot of things and
talk about a lot of stuff. When people hear foul language,
they either check out or label a comedian as dirty.
Nate said, just be in control of it. When did
he get into comedy. Let me look this up two
thousand and two, Nate, you could say stuff by two
thousand and two. Relax, You couldn't say whatever you wanted
to say way back in two thousand and two. That's
not a bad thing. That means you have to be
creative in a scenario and come out stuff in different angles.
THEO Vaughn said, foul language is kind of how I
operate a regular day. Nate said he doesn't consider von
a quote dirty comic and told him to do whatever
you want to do. I think Nate needs to hide
out for a while. I think if we look back
in this run that started with what did he host
the Emmys like? He had all the heat coming off
the Snlharents. But then the Emmys, the Game Show? Did
anyone care? The movie? Does anyone care? The theme park?
Does anyone care? I think he needs to just tap
the brakes a little and just do a stand up tour.
But what do I know. He's making more money than anybody.
And I'm sitting in the basement. Rob Schneider in the news,
and there's always when Rob Schneider is in the news,
it's about, you know, really positive things. I don't know
what it is with Rob. He's just one of those
comedians that every time he appears, just like strife involved
with the story. This time he was weighing in on
Adam Carolla making the Hollywood Walk of Fame. How about
you just say congratulations Adam Carolla, or don't say anything now.
Jimmy Kimmel was there at the ceremony. Kimmel said, Adam
and I, as you probably know, don't agree much when
it comes to politics. But I love him dearly. I've
never worked with anyone funny or I'm proud of him.
This is guy worked his way up from nothing to
become literally a millionaire. And if you don't believe it,
you'll hear him say at every single show. Schneider, who
was not at the ceremony, had to jump on Twitter
and said, have a friend like Adam Carolla who's able
to set aside the most egregious whiny. He hates viewing
leftists lying even about murder bs and still be a
pel all at uh is believed to be about Jimmy Kimmel, Adam,
congratulations on your well deserved star and your loyalty above ideology.
Greg Proops has a new album. It is called Kidding
but Still. It's available via a Special Thing Records group.
Recorded at the Punchline in San Francisco on New Year's
Eve for the fifth year in a row, he did
a spontaneous set of tales from the road, improvvel's pointed
political observations, and more. It is his tenth live comedy album.
Jamel Johnson's third album is available for pre order. It'll
be out on June twelfth. That's called mid Range. On
mid Range, Johnson brings levity to serious topics like the
racial biases of artificial intelligence, the way men encourage toxic masculinity,
and the pros and cons of being a fat boyfriend.
There are also some hyper specific references like phone game ads, basketball,
ice hockey and living with an iPod Touch instead of
a phone. The Guardian caught up with Nish Kumar now.
They point out, while they were doing the interview, there
was a big poster promoting prime videos last one Laughing
UK and in the center of the frame is Jimmy Carr,
The Guardian reminds us. In Kumore's last stand up show,
he recalled the time he confronted Jimmy Carr about Jimmy
Carr's decision to appear on Jordan Peterson's podcast. The Guardian
tells us Kumore is initially as it into criticizes fellow comics,
saying all I'm thinking right now is a single phrase.
You should not be allowed to give interviews. But soon
he was calling out Jimmy Carr, Bill Bird, Dave Chappelle
and Jack Whitehall were playing a part in the quotes
cultural washing of a repressive regime. All that about the
Riod Comedy Festival, I imagine he found the participation of those
who have complained about cancel culture egregious. Kumore said, I
don't want to hear about free speech from any of
those sea words again. He tells us he's not living
like a superstar. No one I know of his level
of wealth where they have transcended the mechanism of day
to day life. That's a Jimmy Carr level of money.
We found out that Kumar even turned down last one,
laughing when his agent laid the offer. She told him
the money was really good and that Jimmy Carr was hosting.
Nish said, I said to her, do honestly think I
could say yes to this given the content of what
I'm saying on stage right now. If I'm essentially accusing
him of being part of the mechanism that's wondering fascist,
misogynist ideas in the mainstream discourse, I can't then be like, oh, Jimmy,
isn't Bob Mortimer good? And that is your comedy news
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