Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: I got some nice compliments about that Hepburg episode on Saturday,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. So that was to accommodate my
Speaker 1: schedule and had a pre tape a couple here, which
Speaker 1: means today I want to catch up on a few
Speaker 1: major items I didn't get to comment on yet. George
Speaker 1: Lopez says he's retiring from stand up comedy after his
Speaker 1: next comedy special. Lopez says, I've subjected the American people
Speaker 1: to enough of my crap. This is making me feel ancient.
Speaker 1: When I started at serious comedy, the very first comedian
Speaker 1: I met in that role was George Lopez, and I
Speaker 1: have seen people come and go. I was recently thinking
Speaker 1: of my friend Lisa Lampinelli, who had a hot career
Speaker 1: for a while. She's retired. Ron White retired, Lewis Black retiring.
Speaker 1: It's just crazy, Lopez says, it seems like the right time.
Speaker 1: It's been the one thing that has just never like
Speaker 1: me my whole life, and it's a wonderful place to
Speaker 1: leave it at this particular point. Lopez got his start
Speaker 1: and stand up comedy in the eighties. Appearing on The
Speaker 1: Arsenio Hall Show and The Johnny Carson Tonight Show. In
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, he'd tell the La Times that he'd
Speaker 1: like to start on his own TV show like Seinfelder Rozanne,
Speaker 1: where he would have full creative control because the parts
Speaker 1: they write are horrible for Latinos. He did get his
Speaker 1: own show, The George Lopez Show, which ran for six
Speaker 1: seasons on ABC. Lopez is only sixty three. He had
Speaker 1: a kidney transplant at one point, right, so you know,
Speaker 1: maybe that factor's in. He says. This upcoming special on
Speaker 1: Amazon is the last one. It was filmed in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles September twenty seventh and twenty eighth as part of
Speaker 1: his All Right Comedy Tour. He's not entirely retiring, though,
Speaker 1: He's going to continue to work on his NBC series,
Speaker 1: Lopez Versus Lopez. He says, I wanted to spend more
Speaker 1: time with my daughter, and I love the show. Lopez
Speaker 1: Versus Lopez just headed into its third season on NBC.
Speaker 1: You've probably seen some Jerry Seinfeld headlines. Jerry Seinfeld backtracked
Speaker 1: on the comments he made earlier this year. Or you
Speaker 1: may recall, Jerry had blamed the extreme left and PC
Speaker 1: crap for ruining comedy. Jerry told The New Yorker back
Speaker 1: in April that he believed TV comedy was suffering because
Speaker 1: people are worrying so much about offending other people. Is quote,
Speaker 1: then nothing really affects comedy. People always need it, they
Speaker 1: need it so badly, and they don't get it. Used
Speaker 1: to be, you'd go home at the end of the
Speaker 1: day and most people go, Okay, Cheers is on, Okay,
Speaker 1: mashes on and oh, Mary Tyler More is on. All
Speaker 1: the family's on. You just expected to be some funny
Speaker 1: stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well guess what
Speaker 1: where is it? This is the result of the extreme
Speaker 1: left and PC crap and people worrying so much about
Speaker 1: offending other people. When you write a script and it
Speaker 1: goes into four or five different hands committee's groups, here's
Speaker 1: our thought about this joke. Well, that's the end of
Speaker 1: your comedy. I agree with him about the comedy by
Speaker 1: committee thing, absolutely, you may recall Julia Louis Driff has
Speaker 1: pushed back, saying I want to hear people starting to
Speaker 1: complain about political correctness, and I understand why people might
Speaker 1: push back on it. To me, that's red flag because
Speaker 1: it sometimes means something else. Well, Jerry has now backpedaled.
Speaker 1: He was on Tom Poppa's podcast. All right, here's where
Speaker 1: I'll jump in. I think Jerry did Tom a favor.
Speaker 1: Why do you say that, Johnny Mack. Tom Papa has
Speaker 1: a special on Netflix next week. Papa used to open
Speaker 1: for Jerry. They are friends, they are good friends. And
Speaker 1: I think this was an interesting place for Jerry Seinfeld
Speaker 1: to make headlines because now we're talking about Tom Papa
Speaker 1: a week before his special. See how all this works,
Speaker 1: Folks pay attention to timing on things on Tom Papa's podcast, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, the special on Netflix next week. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that one tomorrow. Jerry said his original comments
Speaker 1: were wrong and he regretted saying it. Jerry told Papa,
Speaker 1: I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art
Speaker 1: of comedy. I did say that. It's not true. If
Speaker 1: you're champion skier, you could put the gates anywhere you
Speaker 1: want on the mountain and you're gonna make the gate.
Speaker 1: That's comedy. Whatever the culture is, we make the gate.
Speaker 1: You don't make the gate, you're out of the game.
Speaker 1: The game is, where's the gate? How do I make
Speaker 1: the gate and get down the hill the way I
Speaker 1: want to. Does culture change? Are the things I used
Speaker 1: to say that I can't because people are always moving
Speaker 1: the gate. Yes, but that's the biggest easiest target. You
Speaker 1: can't say certain words whatever they are about groups, So
Speaker 1: what the accuracy of your observation has to be one
Speaker 1: hundred times finer than that to just be a comedian.
Speaker 1: So I don't think, as I said, the extreme left
Speaker 1: has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy. I'm
Speaker 1: taking that back now. Officially they have not. It's not
Speaker 1: my business to like or not like where the culture's at.
Speaker 1: It's my business to make the gate to stay with
Speaker 1: my skiing analogy. Seinfeld denied suggesting he would never perform
Speaker 1: at colleges because young people were to PC. He told
Speaker 1: Tom Papa, I play colleges all the time. I have
Speaker 1: no problem with kids performing for them. I do colleges
Speaker 1: all the time. Which is interesting because in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld told ESPN show The Herd quote, I don't
Speaker 1: play colleges, which is a chair, but I mean maybe
Speaker 1: nine years ago he didn't know he does. I'll be fair,
Speaker 1: I don't play colleges, but I hear a lot of
Speaker 1: people tell me don't go near colleges they're so pc.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. My daughter's fourteen wife says
Speaker 1: to her, well, you know, the next couple years, I
Speaker 1: think maybe you're gonna want to be hanging around the
Speaker 1: c anymore on the week out and so you can
Speaker 1: see the boys. No, my daughter says, She says, that's sexist.
Speaker 1: They just want to use these words. That's racist, that's sexist,
Speaker 1: that's prejudice. They don't even know they're talking about as Then,
Speaker 1: if he believed such her attitude's hurt comedy, he replied, yes,
Speaker 1: it does. Jerry Seinfeld says, you're welcome. All right, more stuff.
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack asked to catch up on last week. Jim
Speaker 1: Gaffigan crushed the Al Smith dinner. This was a last Thursday.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris became the first presidential candidate in forty years
Speaker 1: to skip the Catholic charity bash. Jim did not pull
Speaker 1: his punches and said, you know, this event has been
Speaker 1: referred to as the Catholic met Gala. Twenty two percent
Speaker 1: of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will be a key
Speaker 1: demographic in every battleground state. I'm sorry, why is Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris not here? Gaff again got some laughs as
Speaker 1: he ridiculed Kamala from making times like that naughty podcast
Speaker 1: call her daddy. Jim said, I mean, consider this. This
Speaker 1: is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New
Speaker 1: York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 1: In her defense, I mean, she did find time to
Speaker 1: appear on the View Howard Stern Colbert in the longtime
Speaker 1: staple of campaigning to call her daddy podcast. You know
Speaker 1: what I think this is? I think she doesn't like me, Chuck,
Speaker 1: Do I have bad breath? Gaffigan talked about the change
Speaker 1: on the ticket, saying the Democrats have been telling us
Speaker 1: Trump's reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they
Speaker 1: were so concerned to this threat they staged a coup.
Speaker 1: Else did They're democratically elected and come and installed Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: In other words, all her dreams have come true. Really
Speaker 1: makes me consider the power of prayer, right, Cardinal Sometimes
Speaker 1: prayers take three and a half years out at George
Speaker 1: Clooney op ed this is killer stuff by Gaffigan. So great.
Speaker 1: One person on Twitter wrote, hello nine one one. I'd
Speaker 1: like to report the murder of an entire political party.
Speaker 1: Malania Trump did not enjoy one of Jim's jokes. Jim
Speaker 1: referenced the whole thing with Trump's comments about their eating
Speaker 1: the cats. They're eating the dogs, Jim said. During the
Speaker 1: first and only debate, President Trump talked about migrants taking
Speaker 1: cats and eating them. You know, if you're keeping track
Speaker 1: at home, this is the second time grabbing a kitty
Speaker 1: has been part of a campaign issue. Think about it.
Speaker 1: It's a little naughty. I'll leave it there. Trump laughed
Speaker 1: at the joke. Milania remained, quote stoneface. We are going
Speaker 1: to be very political today. That is just the news.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said he leaned on Fox News to help
Speaker 1: him come up with a tight ten minutes of joke
Speaker 1: for the dinner. Rumors on social media were that the
Speaker 1: jokes had been written by the network's news and opinion hosts.
Speaker 1: Trump said, nope, Nick Topolo, quoting Trump, I had a
Speaker 1: lot of people helping a lot of people, a couple
Speaker 1: people from Fox. Actually I shouldn't say that, but they
Speaker 1: wrote some of the jokes. The most part, I didn't
Speaker 1: like any of them. In a statement, Fox News confirmed
Speaker 1: that no employee or freelancers wrote the jokes. According to
Speaker 1: one person familiar with Trump set, Nick Topolo contributed one
Speaker 1: joke that Trump used that is not uncommon. When Obama
Speaker 1: was president, he used some writers from The Daily Show
Speaker 1: for his White House Correspondent's dinner routine. Andrew Schultz has
Speaker 1: accused the Brooklyn Academy of Music of canceling his scheduled
Speaker 1: stand up special just hours after he had Trump on
Speaker 1: his podcast. Schultz, on his podcast Flagrant, said three and
Speaker 1: a half hours after the Trump interview, they canceled the shows,
Speaker 1: f them and f them forever. He shared an email
Speaker 1: from the Brooklyn Academy of Music telling him that his
Speaker 1: November shows had been canceled, with only a vague explanation quote,
Speaker 1: after some internal discussions with leadership, it was decided that
Speaker 1: BIM is not the right fit for the show at
Speaker 1: this time. Schultz says he doesn't know for sure if
Speaker 1: it was because of the Trump interview, but the day
Speaker 1: before it came out, we were ready to go. We
Speaker 1: were gonna go on sale this week. We've had this
Speaker 1: venue locked in for a month now. It's not like
Speaker 1: we might do it here. It's booked, it's ready to go.
Speaker 1: We're going on sale. This week, Jimmy Kimmel called out
Speaker 1: Donald Trump for sharing what Kimmell says is a made
Speaker 1: up story about the few times he has been on Kimmel.
Speaker 1: Trump was on the Full End podcast. Kimmel shared some
Speaker 1: clips from that. On Full Send, Trump called Kimmel a loser,
Speaker 1: and Trump said, quote, I do Jimmy Kimmel. I did
Speaker 1: him a lot, to which Kimmel said, you might be
Speaker 1: confusing me with Stormy Daniels. Kimmell then pushed back and said,
Speaker 1: We've been on almost twenty two years. You've been on
Speaker 1: three times, Mike. The situation from Jersey Shore has been
Speaker 1: on more times than you. But go on, Trump said,
Speaker 1: Kimmell used to greet me on the sidewalk outside his studio.
Speaker 1: This was before politics, of course, But I'd come in
Speaker 1: and be standing on the sidewalk saying, oh, oh, sir,
Speaker 1: can I bring you in? And he'd bring me in
Speaker 1: every time, Kimill said, and by every time he means
Speaker 1: no times. He loves telling this made up story. Never
Speaker 1: did I ever stand on the sidewalk to greet Donald
Speaker 1: Trump or any guests. The only time I've ever walked
Speaker 1: out in the sidewalk for Donald Trump was to urinate
Speaker 1: on his star in the Walk of Fame. He has
Speaker 1: invited Trump back onto the show on one condition, he
Speaker 1: has to take a cognitive test. Kimmell said, if he
Speaker 1: wants to come back and accept the invitation that I
Speaker 1: made last night, that he'd take a cognitive test against
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, I will for sure roll out the burnt
Speaker 1: orange carpet and go meet him on Hollywood Drive. Sticking
Speaker 1: with Late Night, seth Meyer has won the bet with
Speaker 1: the guy on his staff when the Steelers beat the
Speaker 1: New York Jets. Because everyone beats the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not hard. Meyers had a bet with
Speaker 1: Kenny Coyle, a Late Night Utility Grip and Fierce Jets
Speaker 1: Dave Ot. The original bet was if the Jets won,
Speaker 1: Meyers had to play a mug featuring the final score
Speaker 1: on his desk for the rest of the football season.
Speaker 1: If the Steelers won, Coyle would get a tattoo of
Speaker 1: the score and seth Meyer's signature on his arm. Steelers
Speaker 1: thirty seven, Jets fifteen. Speaking of sports, where you're watching
Speaker 1: ESPN's College Game Day over the weekend, Tony Hinchcliff was
Speaker 1: on This caused a stir on social media. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to quote Tony Hinchcliff here. Send your letters to Tony,
Speaker 1: not to Johnny Mack. Tony Hinchcliff said, quote, I didn't
Speaker 1: realize we had pre best in lesbians kicking today. Quote
Speaker 1: it's an incredible look. He's like broke back Bob the
Speaker 1: Builder unquote. He also referred to another player as quote
Speaker 1: Matthew m kinda gay. Hassan Minaj's special is out today.
Speaker 1: It is called Off with His Head. You may recall
Speaker 1: Hassan was probably going to host The Daily Show and
Speaker 1: got in some trouble with his previous special, The King's Gesture,
Speaker 1: in which he elaborated on some real life events as
Speaker 1: comedians tend to do. But I kind of understand on
Speaker 1: the other side, why that might not be a good
Speaker 1: look for The Daily Show. Who knows? Hassan specialist taped
Speaker 1: to July at the San Jose Civic Center. Des Bishop
Speaker 1: has a new comedy special called Of All People that's
Speaker 1: out on eight undound Gerrilla Today. Of All People's an
Speaker 1: hour of original stand up and a culmination of years
Speaker 1: of experience on stage all over including Queen's, Ireland and China.
Speaker 1: Bishop's material often focuses on cultural differences he noticed being
Speaker 1: a transplant into Irish society from Queens at a young age.
Speaker 1: He always incorporates a lot of material about in language.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to speak to him later in the week,
Speaker 1: so that might be Saturday's episode. I haven't quite planned
Speaker 1: it out yet, nor have I actually recorded the interview,
Speaker 1: which I need to prep for. But I used to
Speaker 1: hang out in the Irish bars in Queens with Irish
Speaker 1: Irish people. I'm Irish American and cash cantell from my
Speaker 1: American brogue here, and I remember when they in the nineties,
Speaker 1: the Irish would be like, hey, you want to get
Speaker 1: some crack? And the Irish word crack cr a c
Speaker 1: means good fun. I was in New York City in
Speaker 1: the nineties crackman something entirely else, so people were like,
Speaker 1: you want to get some crack, and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: what what are you talking about? No. From cardplayer dot Com,
Speaker 1: you're home for comedy news. South Korean comedian Legion Oh
Speaker 1: in hot Water, he revealed he broke the country's laws
Speaker 1: by illegally gambling. He confessed to be borrowing money from
Speaker 1: friends and family, including reportedly one hundred million one that's
Speaker 1: seventy four thousand US dollars from Jim and from K
Speaker 1: pop band BTS. In the social media post, Lee jin
Speaker 1: Ho said, I will fully cooperate with the police investigation
Speaker 1: and accept the consequences of my actions. It was the
Speaker 1: harsh advice from those close to me and the fear
Speaker 1: of losing the work I loved that finally made me
Speaker 1: stop gambling. However, by then I had already received financial
Speaker 1: help from many people. I am steadily repaying the debt
Speaker 1: each month and intend to fully pay it off on
Speaker 1: my own, even if it takes the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Lee was the host of the variety show Knowing Bros.
Speaker 1: South Korea Network GTBC, in a statement said Lee jin
Speaker 1: Ho will leave the program starting with this week's recording.
Speaker 1: We will edit out as much of his previously filmed
Speaker 1: content as possible. Yikes. Lee was also part of a
Speaker 1: Netflix show called Comedy Revenge. He missed a press conference
Speaker 1: to promote the debut. Netflix said we're deeply disappointed to
Speaker 1: learn about this just a day before the show's premiere. However,
Speaker 1: Netflix said he will remain in the show. Because the
Speaker 1: program is structured around team competitions, fully editing out specific
Speaker 1: teams presents significant challenges to the narrative. We ask for
Speaker 1: your understanding. Billy Crystal was honored for his devotion to
Speaker 1: the Clippers. For some reason, the Basketball Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: put in Billy Crystal. He's part of the Nasmith Memorial
Speaker 1: Basketball Hall of Fame's James F. Goldstein Superfan Gallery. Billy
Speaker 1: Crystal said, how strange should be getting a ring before
Speaker 1: any of the Clippers. And that is your comedy news
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