Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hi, Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news,
the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the
comedy industry. Johnny Mack, you never talk about the roost
of Kevin Hard. I know, right, We'll get to that
in a second, but I gotta tell you Conan O'Brien
will return to host the Oscars for a third year
in a row.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Surprisingly to me, the reaction on social media was kind
of man, people are like, oh, Conn's back. They did
not seem excited about it. I think Conan did a
fine job and just roll it back. The Oscars are
heading to YouTube, so you know, when it goes to YouTube,
they're gonna have like somebody like mister Beast hosts the things.
So while it's still on ABC, let's just do a
proper show with a nice, solid host. Conan O'Brien will
host the ninety ninth Oscars March fourteenth to twenty twenty seven.
I'll have to stay up late that night. Craig Erwitch,
president of Disney Television Group, said Conan has created remarkable
energy around the Oscars. His singular comedic voice makes Hollywood's
biggest night one of the most entertaining celebrations of the year.
We're proud to welcome him back and look forward to
what he and the producing team deliver next. Interestingly, I'm
not seeing a statement from Conan O'Brien. I also thought
the timing of that was weird. I guess it was
tied to the ABC upfronts. Maybe that's what the timing was. Yeah,
that would make sense now to that I'm talking as
I think, but just with all the Stephen Colbert noise,
just seemed an odd time to announce it. The Strike
Force five guys did put out another podcast. The Strike
Force Five are Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel,
and Jimmy Fallon. A lot of people think that the
first four are pretty tight, and Jimmy Fallon is an
add on. Colbert talked about how he's feeling with just
a few late show episodes left. He said, it's super real.
I've sunk it into it. Actually, what I've said is
the rising tide of emotion has reached my chin, and
now the only thing to do is take a deep
breath and swim like l of H twenty. First, he
said he feels a little like a college senior, but
he isn't too sure about his future plans. He says,
the show takes all of my mind, like ninety five
percent of my mind every day to do the show
until it's over, I don't really know. I've had some
really nice meetings with people like we want to be
in the Stephen Colbert business, and I'm like, that's wonderful.
What is that? Can you tell me please? Colbert said
that the staff has to almost immediately leave the show's
offices as soon as the finale airs. Looking ahead next Friday,
they're not even airing one last rerun. They're going straight
to Byron Allen's thing on Friday night. Colbert said, no
one's got a job after that night. I think the
next day everyone's fired. I think maybe the crew has
some time to clear out the studio, but the staff
has to be all gone. I think they're going to
start tearing things out immediately. I know my staff is
not paid the next day, like they're out. I've already
packed my office. Colbert said he will miss working with
young people who are good at their jobs and who
you met when they were first out of college. John
Oliver asked Steven how many times he's had a guest
and then vowed to never have them back on the show.
Colbert said the number is probably not double figures. But
without naming names, Colbert said he interviewed a former Bush
administration official on The Colbert Report who only spoke negatively
about George w when the cameras were off. Colbert said,
I said, why didn't you say that on camera? That's
why you're here, and he goes, well, I got to
get a job in this town. That's the first person
I ever said. That person can never come back. Kim
All asked Colbert if there are any guests he found
distractingly attractive. Colbert said he didn't know what to do
with my eyeballs when Michelle Williams was on. He also
seemed to like Rachel Wise, Rebecca Ferguson, and Andrew Garfield.
Seth Meyers joked, by the way, we're going to keep
doing this podcast without you, and it won't be the same.
Colbert has been kissing people all week. On Monday night,
when the Strikeforce five games were on, the group was asked,
have you guys ever made out with a guest on camera?
Colbert looked at Jimmy Fallon, who asked, why would you
look at me like this? Colbert said, because I think
you've made out with guests on camera. Fallon said, no,
I think you just want to make out with me.
Colbert then pulled Jimmy Fallon in for a kiss. Colbert
shared that he has kissed Sally Field, Helen Mirren, Alison, Jenny,
Jeff Daniels, and Andrew Garfield at one point or another
throughout his CBS program. Then, on Tuesday night, Julia Louis
Dreyfus was on the show. She said she wanted to
join the list of guests that he has kissed. Julia said, no,
one's watching, it's just between us. Colbert said, what harm
is that, Julia Nunn? What could possibly go wrong? Then
they kissed. That got cheers. Colbert said, well, the interview's
going great so far. Why don't we do another take.
Then later in the same episode, Pedro Pascal came by
and they kissed. Pascal said, I got jealous. If you
can't get enough Stephen Colbert, CNN is cashing in this
weekend with a CNN flash doc called The Last Laugh
Stephen Colbert, It'll be on the CNN app today at
Lair Sunday at eight pm Eastern. We're told, for more
than a decade, Stephen Colbert has sat at the center
of Late Night, where comedy, politics, and culture collide. As
he prepares to take the desk for the final time,
the Last Laugh turns its lens on both the show
and the man, etc.
Speaker 2: Etc.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a pretty generic doc Radar online shading Stephen Colbert.
They randomly dusted off this story. Apparently when Steven's appendix
ruptured in late twenty twenty three, he feared guest hosts
might overshadow him. Now, even David Letterman last week told
I think he told Bill Simmons that Letterman didn't like
the idea of having guest hosts because he never wanted
to get up the desks. So let's not throw Colbert
under the bus here. Who's the last person that's sat
in for Jimmy Fallon? Huh, Jimmy Kimmel seems a little
more secure. Oh, I keep forgetting to mention. Let me
get this point out here. Maybe I said this is
I keep thinking of This is Jimmy Kimmel insane if
he takes this summer off because the Colbert people are
going to want to go somewhere, and I think the
most likely landing place is Kimmel's show, and then Kimmel
usually takes July and August off, and you'd have guest hosts.
I think he should probably work this summer. Now. I
know that's a big ask. Johnny Mack doesn't like working
in the summer. I get it, but boy, to capture
that audience, maybe don't take two months off and do
fresh shows and try and get the former Colbert people
to like you. You could be the king of Late Night,
make a lot of money. I know they keep talking
about Jimmy might walk away, and I don't see it.
He's roughly my age. I think he should work. We'll
see what happens. Anyway, back to Colbert and guest hosts,
an insiders told Rater Online, Colbert's decision to stick with
reruns highlights a deep level insecurity. Steven is not a
exactly I passed the Baton type of person. There's no
chance of him handing over the reins to someone who
might want to push him. Handle the way too, and
at this point it's a moot point. Michael Chay has
weighed in on the roast of Kevin Hart. Two sources
involved in the production tell Variety that Michael Chay was
supposed to be on the roast but had to pull
out because of SNL scheduling difficulties. Ardy says Chay was
not alone. Sources say the roast lineup had undergone quite
a bit of shuffling, with several last minute editions and dropouts.
That's interesting. Michael Chay went on Instagram and commented on
the roast, I'm gonna swamp out the N word and
I'll use the word fellas just to keep the rhythm
of what he wrote. White guys and black people joke different.
Black guy's a roast like look at this fellow's shoes.
White roast are like slavery, MAT's lane teen sex crime, slurs,
family secrets. White guys don't give an f about the shoes. Chay,
in a separate post, wrote, let's do a roast celebrating
the career of the most successful black comic in the
last ten years. I love that. Who should we get
to write it? On the next slide, he included a
photo of the five joke writers hired by Shane Gillis,
all of whom are white. Variety pointed out the telecap
had seventeen credit writers, quote, several of whom are black unquote.
Many of the comedians hired their own team of writers,
including Tony Hinchcliff and Chelsea Handler. Pete Davidson's writing partner
Dave Cyrus, listed several jokes he said were cut from
the roast. I'll do my best here. In one of
the jokes, Kevin Hart was called the Michael Jordan of
Baseball of comedy. Kevin's in superhero shape. He could start
in Wakanda four to eleven because next one's pretty good.
This about Kevin Hart's car accident. Kevin got drunk and
hit that tree so hard he had to stop making
cookies at it. New topic, Draymond Green. Draymon is probably
four to five years from being in the Hall of
Fame and forty five minutes from being in Chelsea Handler.
That's a good joke, All jokes aside. Chelsea Handler is
a killer, especially if you believe life starts a conception.
Chelsea f fifty cents. So long ago, the magic stick
was what they called a musket. Yes, Chelsea aborded a
feed us and easier tonight Jeff Ross, take a bow.
Oh man, I'm going to hell for that one. Chelsea.
Anything else you want me to say to your kids
while I'm there? More jokes? You may know Tony Hinchcliff
from walking through his mouth Tanter Amusement Parks. That's really
good if you get it. That's very, very clever. It
might be too deep. I first met Big Jay when
I was sixteen years old. Jay, it must be finally
nice to hear those words outside of court room.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Tiffany Hattish, who was in attendance at the roast, told
TMZ she didn't hear the George Floyd joke said by
Tony Hinchcliff. She told TMZ the roast was so much fun.
I think it should have been shorter. The show was
too long. I didn't hear the George Floyd joke because
I had a piece so bad. I was a glorified
seat filler and I was tired. Sometimes political correctness does
not fit in comedy. Freedom of speech is alive and well,
and It's alive on Netflix. Riday had asked Jeff Ross
why was Tiffany Hattish on the dais but not even
referenced in the roast Jeff said, I invited Tiffany. She's
a good friend of mine. She's co starred with Kevin
a couple times. We just wanted to populate the Dais
with his friends and make him feel comfortable. I wanted
him to feel like Frank Sinatra surrounded by the rat pack.
Lorell Howery weighed in on all this. He posted a
three minute video on social media. Howary said, what I'm
annoyed by and I'm just keeping at one hundred, y'all,
I don't understand. It's one thing to roast people that's there.
It's one thing to roast the people who may be
the audience, roasting someone number one that's dead, number two
that's not there, number three that the implications of why
you shouldn't joke about that Tony hinchcliff joke about George
Floyd didn't make effing sense to me. It was no
reason to bring George Floyd into this. It was just disgusting.
The audience was okay booing Draymond Green every time his
name was mentioned. Y'all could boo, but you don't boot
Tony Hinchcliffe. Right after that, I get it, man, I'm
okay not being part of this click bs that's going
on in comedy. I one hundred percent would have booed
that mfor and probably walked out. That's all I'm saying.
How he concluded, Why can't we just agree that bringing
up George Floyd the way he did was fed up
and not funny and not needed. It wasn't even needed.
I ain't like that. Comedy stock mark as thank you.
Bert Reynolds's voice of the comedy stock market. Every week
we take a look at what comedian stock we should
buy and what comedian stock we should sell. We're not
saying these people are good or bad. We're just looking
to see who's overvalued or undervalued. Why don't we buy
some Tony Hinchcliff. Now, I know some people are like,
whoa Tony Hinchcliff, But you know what Hinchcliff is reliable.
You put him up there, he does deliver. Yeah, some
controversy comes with it, but that's okay. He stays in
the mix. Kill Tony's sailing along. We'll buy some Tony Hinchcliff.
Let's also throw deep here. Let's buy some Ian Carmel. Why, John,
remember I told you the other day he's gonna be
co hosting that FIFA show, the World Cup show, so
he'll get in front of people and maybe that'll up
his profile. So let's buy really low on Ian Carmel.
Maybe they will cash in on that. I was looking
at Kevin Hart at one point I had it as
a cell and then I upgraded it to hold because
I'm looking at the cast of the movie that's coming
to Netflix in a month, and it's him and the
Police Don't Destroy Guy and Marcelo Hernandez, and I just
feel like people are gonna like that movie, at least
in a Netflix low bar universe. So let's hold Kevin
Hart and I've got two cells for you. Let's sell
Cam Patterson. I assume this will be his last appearance
on Saturday Night Live. I don't see him coming back.
I've said that all year long. I think he's one
and done. He's also in the Kevin Hart movie, by
the way. But despite that, let's sell Cam Patterson and
let's sell Nicki Glazer. What is Nicki Glazer right now?
Career wise? So Conan's coming back to host the Oscars.
So despite the soft campaign, she's not getting the Oscars.
She didn't show up at the roast so she's no
longer like the killer roast comedian. So Nicki is what
a solid guest on Kelly Rippa and the View. Okay, sell,
Let's sell Nicki Glazer, sell Cam Patterson, Buy in Carmel
by Tony Hinchcliffe. Hold Kevin Heart. That's your comedy stock
market for this week, and we are long. I'm gonna
leave you with this. I've been bouncing this all week.
The Flight of the Concords did do their reunion. You
may recall their famous song the Robots Are Dead. Jermaine
Clement has updated the lyrics in the voice of a
frustrated robot. The lyrics are now. Humans invented artificial intelligence,
and they had us doing really stupid stuff with it.
Brett Mackenzie added, They gave us all the knowledge deep learning,
gave us the power to solve complex scientific mathematical equations.
Then they just asked us questions like how do you
cook an egg? The Guardian gave the show five stars.
They said Mackenzie and Clement were clearly enjoying themselves and
their musicianship was on full display as they harmonized and
played an array of instruments, including guitar, bass, keyboard, flute,
and various digital devices. Clement's voice was particularly rich on stage.
The records haven't always done it justice. There were a
few mistakes along the way. One song suffered from extensive
lyrical confusion, but the band embraced those moments to cheers.
They played most of their hits, including business Time, The
Most Beautiful Girl in the Room, Bowie, and Space Carol Brown,
in which Clement lists all the rhyming ways as exes
have left him, a sort of fifty ways to leave
your lover in reverse. Mackenzie said, we're not really playing
new songs, but they're new to us because we can't
remember them. That's great. Other highlights include eight appearances by
Rhys Darby, who played the band manager of Murray on
the show. Kristin Shall played obsessive fan Mail. There. Arch Berker,
who played the band's friend Dave, was there. Arch opened
up the night with a stand up set This Sounds Fantastic.
Jerby appeared on stage to conduct a raffle for an
on stage VIP experience with the band who won Mel
played by Kristin Shawl. She was offered the opportunity to
touch both men for thirty seconds. Oh so much fun.
Speaker 2: The duo.
Speaker 1: We're backed on some songs by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,
which was a single cellist named Nigel Collins. And I'm
going to end with a clip. I'm not sure this
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