Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Here's a crew for you. Hi. I'm Johnny Mack with
your daily comedy news. It's the Mark Twain Prize. Remember
last year Conan O'Brien and like everybody showed up. Well,
who's coming this year? Who's even getting it this year? John? Well,
this year's winner is Bill Maher. And who's coming Louis
c K, jay Leno and Steven A. Smith. Which sounds
like the setup to a joke, that's right. Bill Maher
will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at
the Kennedy Center Sunday, June twenty eighth. It will be
filmed for Netflix. And it's not just Louis c. K,
jay Leno and Stephen A. Smith, Oh No, you'll also
get Whitney Cummings, Woody Harrelson, Arianna Huffington, and John Mellencamp.
Previous winners include Richard Pryor, Jonathan Winters, Carl Reiner, wiop
Be Goldberg, Bob Newhart, George Carlin. You'll cosme, we don't
like to talk about that. Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy,
David Letterman, Kevin Hart, Conan O'Brien even Cheilano himself in
twenty fourteen, I bet you can't wait, Well, you're gonna
have to wait two weeks. Meanwhile, listen to this from
Zarna Garg. Are you ready for this? You're not. You
know why she played the Rion Comedy Festival. No, it
wasn't about the money. She was on the Breakdown podcast
and Zarna Garg said, I really went with the spirit
of I've been ordained to do this by somebody, some
higher power. It is my job to spread the message
and to let women know they could say what comes
to their mind. That's life freedom. If I can even
inspire them to think in that direction, then I'm doing
something positive for this world, which of course is why
she donated all her proceeds to share hold on in
being passed a note. Oh she didn't. Oh so it's
never mind. Sorry I got distracted there, guys. Zarna said
it was controversial here as everything tends to be, because
everybody thinks they know what Saudi Arabia is sitting in Brooklyn.
Well they don't know is that my material goes all
over the world because of the digital world we live in.
My joke's my comedy special. Everything travels. You can't control
where these things show up anymore. So women in that
part of the world watch me in secrets the jokes
that are open here. It's not so easy for them
to watch it. They write me constantly. They're like, come
to us. We want our daughters to see you because
they've never seen somebody that looks like me say these things.
Greg said her children were dead against the trip, but
she offered to go for message, not money. Uh huh.
Zarna says a lot of people think that the comics
who did it did it for the money. Money's very
important in life. But I'm gonna say this, and it's
gonna sound a little braggy, but I'm gonna be honest
about it. The comics they invited make a lot of
money in America. They didn't invite the comics who are
struggling here. To be honest, you think you think they
didn't invite open micers? Sorry, Zarady said, we would have
all made money. I could do three more shows in
New Jersey and make the same money, right, three shows.
We all didn't go there to chase the money. I
can't speak for others, but the money was not a
motivator for me at all, which is why she donated
it to Oh no, she didn't. I'm telling you, I
went with the same sense that I owe these into something. Honestly,
it's a very slight capitulation by the regimes that run
those places that they too need a woman on the lineup.
They didn't have to invite us. They could have ignored us,
They could have just had fifty men. But even they
are now understanding that is it really in your best
interest to exclude half of your world? And even though
there are plenty of problems there, there's no defending a
lot of things that go on there or here for
that matter. But if they're opening that door, even for
the slightest ray of sunshine to pass through, is it
not our job to help push it open even that
little bit more? In October, The Hollywood Reporter shared that
Jessica Curson donated her fee from the Riod Comedy Festival
to the Human Rights Campaign. Perhaps Zorna did too, and
she just hasn't promoted it. Who knows? How about those Nicks? Huh?
Everybody's talking about the Knicks, including Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 3: President Trump said he is planning to go to New
York for the day. This would be the first time
Trump has appeared at a court New York since being
convicted of thirty four felonies.
Speaker 2: Trump is.
Speaker 3: A fan. I mean know he's a n X fan,
because a few days ago he posted this Ai slop
of himself in a Next Jersey dunking on New York
Governor Kathy hulk Ole areas Larry tured with two hands
on the bar. The President wants to be there in
person to support his hometown team and, if necessary, to
overturn the results of the game. I just can't wait
to hear him try to say the word Webin Yamas.
That's where I'm looking forward to. You think Trump would
be rooting for the Spurs, right, It's what got him
out of Vietnam.
Speaker 2: Solid joke there. It's a big sports week for the president,
who's excited about the big UFC event on the White
House lawn. I was in DC recently and you got
to see this thing. It looks like a mess. I'm sorry,
it looks terrible. They do such a good job down
there with the monuments and the whole National Mall area,
but this thing on the lawn mess, total mess. Adam
Sandler's Not Going to Go. Sandler was one of seven
celebrit that UFC CEO Dana White said he invited to
the events on the White House South Lawn on Saturday.
That list included Guy Ritchie, Tom Brady, Jared Lado, Jason Statham,
The Rock, Mario Lopez, and of course Adam Sandler. What
a list? Actually, wouldn't you watch that movie if it
were on Netflix? If I told you they're a movie
staring Sandler, The Rock, Jason Statham, You're already in right now.
I'm gonna throw on top for no reason. Tom Brady,
Mario Lopez, Jared Lado and Guy Ritchie. Why are we
not making this movie? It's like Ocean's eleven, but like bad.
Make that I digress. A representative for Sandler told Vanity
Fair that the star best known for comedies including Billy
Madison and The Wedding Singer, along with dramatic roles in
films such as Uncut Gems and Jake Kelly Wait Am
I Winning the War? Are people starting to refer to
Adam Sandler dramatic actor? Because they just qualified him? In
Vanity Fair naming four movies and only two of them
were horrible comedies. Hmm, maybe I'm winning the war of
Adam Sandler. I digress again. The representative for Sandler told
Vanity Affair that mister Sandler would not attend. No reason
was given. The UFC event is scheduled for the President's
eightieth birthday this weekend. It is being promoted as part
of the country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration. If
you're old like me, you remember in nineteen seventy six
we had things like Operations Sale and CBS, Rand Bison,
Sanniel Minutes, and everything was red, white and blue all
over the place, and there were like flags with thirteen stars.
None of that happening this time. Very very disappointing. I
remember fifty years ago as a kid being like, oh,
I can't wait to the two fiftieth because I really
enjoyed this spic centennial. The two fifty is going to
be awesome, and it's just going to come and go.
How disappointing. Send your letters to me, I guess Star
trek grown Er Patton Oswald has a new special out
today t N Scotch on YouTube. Good discussion with Patten
and Vice Vice ass Patten and the liner notes for
the George Carland Commemorative Collection. You said that you thought
Carlin entered the millennium with his eyes wide open. Weiss
was curious, what material you're referring to. Paton said, I
was referring to a lot of the very painful, self
reflective stuff that he puts himself through. As far as
the Boomer generation, his generation failed. A lot of the peace,
love and understanding stances from the Summer of Love were
so easily co opted and marketed. And he owns it,
and he shows how those failures led to a lot
of the mess we were in when he was filming
his material. I don't get directly into it in this special,
but a lot of the ironic racism and homophobia the
gen X indulged in in the late nineties early Oughts
set the blueprint for the whole it's just jokes, doodge
that actual racists and homophobes are using now, and we
need to own that and find a way beyond that.
Every generation does what it can, and every generation ultimately
falls short. You got to own your failings and hold
him up so the next generation starts from Okay, first off,
let's not do that which I think would apply to
the next generation of Star Trek series. You would go
back and you would watch Strange New Worlds, and you
would watch the Dug the Vulcan episode. You'd be like, Yeah,
we should not have done that. Let's never do that again.
In fact, let's pay John Delancy a lot of money
to show up as c snap his fingers and wipe
that out of existence and just say that never happened. Peacard.
Humans take time so seriously, and then we just wiped
the Doug the Volka. I digress again, Vice asked Star
Trek runer or Patton Oswald. He stirred up a bit
of controversy in twenty fourteen when you admitted that you
never found Lenny Bruce funny. Richard Lewis even wrote an
op ed in The New York Times responding to what
you said, I don't remember any of that. That's fun.
Have your thoughts changed about Lenny Bruce since then? Did
you get to talk to Richard Lewis after that? Patton said,
I spoke with Richard over text and voicemails, but he
was also going through a lot of mechal stuff and
we never got to get together. But it bothered me
that people misunderstood what I was saying were simplified it
into a sound bite or poll quote. Me not finding
Lenny Bruce funny doesn't mean he wasn't funny. I was
being honest about how his stuff was too out of
context for me to really laugh at. If I'm really
being honest, I can appreciate his genius, acknowledge what he did,
and be aware of the dead I owed him as
an artistic performer, but his stuff never made me laugh.
And that's me being honest, even if it makes me
look bad, which I think Lenny would have appreciated maybe. Meanwhile,
Spin caught up with the star trek Ruiner patent Oswall.
They asked him about his comedy heroes. He said, definitely
people like Prior and Carlin and Steven Martin and Albert Brooks.
And then once I started doing comedy, was just all
my friends. I got to see Carlin live a couple times,
I got to see Leno before I started, But once
I started actually getting into clubs, I was hanging out
with people like Dave Chappelle, Brian Possain, Sarah Silverman, and
David Cross, and those were the people that were really
influencing my moment to moment development. The subject went to
Heckler's Patton said people are so used to talking online,
commenting on things and reacting things that when someone's in
front of them in real life, they want to comment
on that in the moment they think they're in a
constant dialogue with people. Then there's also jealousy or boredom.
There's nothing more frustrating than Heckler getting tossed out of
a show, going, Oh, it's just trying to hope the show,
just trying to make it funnier. I mean, everybody wants
to be funny. Nobody wants to think that they're not funny.
And they asked a Star Trek crew and air patent
Oswald about his appearance on Star Trek Strange New Worlds
as Doug the Vulcan. Doug said, it was a bleast
getting to work with that crew and that cast, being
on a set where it was a three hundred and
sixty degree practical set. I thought it'd be in front
of green screens and stuff, but no, they actually built
the hallways and the decks and the rooms in the chambers.
It was just a fun world to get some plan.
Were you a Star Trek fan as a kid? I
can't answer that from here. F No, there's no F
and way. I almost dropped an actual F bomb. I'm
so upset about this. Patent said, I'm not deep into
the lore because Star Wars kind of captured my brain
when I was eight. Yeah, this guy that ruined Star
Trek has a bit about he wants to kill George
Lucas with a shovel for the stupid things in the
Star Wars prequels, and then you go, when you play
Doug the Vulcan, don't come to my neighborhood and drop
a deuce on my lawn. Dude, I'm not deep in
the lore because Star Wars kind of captured my brain
when I was eight, and Star Trek was a little
bit ahead of my time. But I know enough about it,
and I certainly appreciate how amazing the world is. What
are you talking about? Star Trek was ahead of your time.
It came out in nineteen sixty six. I watched it
as a kid. I old as Patton Oswalt, he's fifty seven,
also born in nineteen six, And what are you talking about?
It was ahead of your time? It was out before this.
This Guyugh, I think we'd better play some commercials so
I can calm down, be right back. I am still
worked up. I went and pulled the bit. This is
from Patton Oswald. This bit is at midnight, I will
kill George Lucas with a shovel. The premise here is
Patton has a time machine and he goes back to
nineteen ninety three and runs into George Lucas on the street,
and George starts describing the prequels. Now, I will point
out to you Star Trek's Strange New Worlds is a
prequel to Star Trek. So everything Patten says here applies
to Dug the Effing Volcan. Some edits here for language,
but here's Patton Oswald being mad about a prequel.
Speaker 1: And the first thing I thought of doing if I
actually had a time machine is I would go back
to around nineteen ninety three or ninety four and killed
George Lucas with a shovel. That was the first thing
that came to my mind and stop him from making
the prequels. That's how I would try to save history.
I mean, I don't even know how it would erect
if I'd just run into him on the street. I going,
oh my god, George Lucas, Dude, look, I don't want
to bother you and nerd out, but like, Star Wars
is one of my favorite movies, and I just want
to thank you, man, just thanks for all that. It's
so great you like Star Wars. I got some good news.
I'm working on the three prequels, the first three chapters.
Oh really, you're gonna do the finally. Oh my god,
that's awesome, dude, I'm so excited. I can't wait. Well, hey,
you say you're a Star Wars fan. Do you like
Darth Vader? I love Darth Vader. Dude, the helmet and
the cape with the sword.
Speaker 2: That's right, man.
Speaker 1: Is he in the first movie? Yeah, in the first
movie you get to see him as a little kid.
Is he like a little Damian omen kid like evil
and killing people with his mind? Now he's just like
this little kid. And then he gets taken away from
his mom and he's very sad.
Speaker 2: You know what's scary. I'm not even doing a bit.
I'm actually this upset. Okay, what else do I have
for you? Are you a new listener? This is the
show Francisco Ramo says a new special out today it
is called Still Learning. I don't believe Ramos appears in
any episodes of Star Trek Francisco Ramos Still Learning on
tvod via Comedy Dynamics out Today, Filmed in New York City,
Still Learning dives into the lessons that don't come with instructions,
marriage therapy, eating with other people, and even learning how
to dance in the US, from cultural misunderstandings to relationship realizations.
The special explores how we're all still learning, especially when
we think we've got it figured out. And The Toronto
Guardian does their wonderful series Tragedy plus Time, where they
speak to local comedians. One of them is Spencer Glassman,
favorite comedian growing up, John mulaney. New in Town was
probably the first special Eye memorized. I also love the
s and Ol Weekend Update character Step on which John
mulaney co wrote pre show ritual Jim Tan Laundry and Macha.
I don't drink alcohol or carbonated beverages, so they're really
the only way to get loose or lock in is
with sugar and breathing exercises. I'm kind of avoidant, so
unless it's a showcase or a particularly important set. I
don't decide what I'm going to say until an hour before. Then,
right before the show starts, I repeat the mantra, I
love the audience. I'm so grateful to be here. I'm
so excited I get to do what I love in
front of these people. If they don't laugh, I will
not turn on them and start frantically repeating, see you
guys hate this huh favorite bit that he's written. I
have a joke about Steve Jobs super timely I know
where I basically say that people made such a big
deal about how he wore the same thing every day
to maximize productivity. But what was he wearing before that
that was so distracting. That's a good joke, and that
is your comedy news for today. Go watch some proper
Star Trek. Go watch Star Trek TuS the Doomsday Machine.
Go watch that. Go watch William Windham turn in the
best performance in the entire Star Trek series, even better
than Sir Patrick Stewart William Wyndham as common or Decker.
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