Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Jim Norton tweets Cracker Barrel is going
Speaker 1: to keep their original logo, The old Man is staying
Speaker 1: on the logo. Holyes, what a victory. Take a moment
Speaker 1: to give yourselves a round of applause. No joke there,
Speaker 1: but it was good to hear from Jim Norton. I
Speaker 1: just watched Kill Tony on Netflix. I have some notes,
Speaker 1: but I'll start with the Jim Norton part. I thought
Speaker 1: Jim was pretty funny. I thought the material was better
Speaker 1: than what the audience gave him back. I did have
Speaker 1: a visceral reaction. Now, I've worked with Jim both at
Speaker 1: Sirius Exam and then on the UFC podcast, and as
Speaker 1: I looked at Jim and went out, Jim looks like
Speaker 1: ten years older, and I realized I probably looked ten
Speaker 1: years older too. But I haven't actually seen or been
Speaker 1: in a room with Jim Norton in quite a few years.
Speaker 1: At this point, I have come to the conclusion I
Speaker 1: like to Kill Tony podcast a lot, because when I
Speaker 1: listened to the Kill Tony podcast, I'm listening at two
Speaker 1: point three speed and I have thirty second skip at
Speaker 1: my disposal. As for Kill Tony on Netflix, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's working. If they're going to do it as
Speaker 1: a Netflix special, they can't just do the normal thing.
Speaker 1: Even if they're at Madison Square Garden. It needs a producer.
Speaker 1: Here's my note. So I watched the most recent episode
Speaker 1: on Netflix and it was seven and a half minutes
Speaker 1: before a comedian took the stage. That's an eternity. We
Speaker 1: don't need all the intros and all that. And then
Speaker 1: the first comedian that they picked out of the hat
Speaker 1: was terrible, So you know, that's a lot of barrier
Speaker 1: to entry to a casual. Kill Tony doesn't need my notes.
Speaker 1: They're doing just fine. They were selling out Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: But in terms of a Netflix show, it needs a
Speaker 1: little help there. That sound you heard last night was
Speaker 1: me screaming at the TV. In the new episode of
Speaker 1: Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Patton Oswald too normally. I
Speaker 1: really like Patton Oswald played a vulcan. The Vulcan's name
Speaker 1: is Doug. If you understand Star Trek, you a don't
Speaker 1: write for Strange New Worlds, and B understand why I'm annoyed.
Speaker 1: If you don't understand Star Trek, just trust me, it's
Speaker 1: really really annoying. Maybe I'll dive into Star Trek next
Speaker 1: week on the DCN eight Bonus Episodes. Bradley Cooper has
Speaker 1: a movie coming out. It is the story of how
Speaker 1: John Bishop got into comedy. It is called Is This
Speaker 1: Thing On? I will be curious as it gets closer
Speaker 1: to see how real life comedians nitpick the movie's depiction
Speaker 1: of stand up comedy. They usually have a problem with that.
Speaker 1: The film is directed by Bradley Cooper. It is based
Speaker 1: on John Bishop's story of getting in a stand up
Speaker 1: after his marriage broke up. Will Arnett plays Alex, who
Speaker 1: seeks a new life in the New York comedy scene.
Speaker 1: Laura Dern plays the wife. Comedian Chloe Radcliffe, who plays
Speaker 1: a stand up comedian in the movie, said, I think
Speaker 1: Will and John sat next to each other at a
Speaker 1: dinner ten years ago and Will heard a story and
Speaker 1: was like, that rules I want to do that someday.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's the movie. Cooper's in the film himself,
Speaker 1: playing Will Arnett's character's best friend. Also appearing in the
Speaker 1: movie Peyton Manning Why I don't know Green Day or
Speaker 1: putting out a comedy why, I don't know. They're working
Speaker 1: on a wild road trip comedy titled New Year's rev
Speaker 1: Green Day Promises. The movie is packed with your favorite
Speaker 1: Green Day songs as well as quote loaded with mischief unquote.
Speaker 1: Some of the stars of the film include Fred Armisen
Speaker 1: second mentioned in Two Days, Jenna Fisher from The Office,
Speaker 1: Angela Kinsey from the Office, comedian Bobby Lee. The film
Speaker 1: will make its world premiere September twelfth at the Toronto
Speaker 1: International Film Festival. The description is a garage rock trio
Speaker 1: gets the opportunity of a lifetime to open up for
Speaker 1: Green Day and hit the road across America and make
Speaker 1: the gig. The only problem is they didn't realize it
Speaker 1: was a prank. Johnny Mack, you never mentioned Mark Maron.
Speaker 1: I know rights he caught up with people. Maren is
Speaker 1: a beginning to do promotion for the documentary Anxiety Club.
Speaker 1: Maren said, there's a lot of things I don't give
Speaker 1: a hoot about that I used to do. There were
Speaker 1: big anxiety producing things. I think with age and certainly
Speaker 1: with money, a lot of that stuff is just sort
Speaker 1: of Nolan Void and it's a relief. In the documentary spoiler,
Speaker 1: Maren reveals that his anxiety stopped him from having children.
Speaker 1: Maren said, I'm not sad about it. My panic and
Speaker 1: worry level operates in just such a way that it
Speaker 1: just seems like a nightmare to me. He has accepted
Speaker 1: his anxiety, saying, what do you think we're gonna do? Like,
Speaker 1: if you're incapacitated and your life is unmanageable for whatever reason, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should fix that. If you're uncomfortable, but you're okay,
Speaker 1: that might just be you. The podcast turns sixteen years
Speaker 1: old on Monday. Sixteen years It's a long time. It's
Speaker 1: a long time doing anything, And certainly I've said recently
Speaker 1: while I'm living it and I don't feel like time
Speaker 1: is passing by quickly, But all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: old and you realize you've been doing something for a
Speaker 1: long time. Jimmy Fallon has yet another gig, and I
Speaker 1: think as lame as this idea is, this gets into
Speaker 1: Fallon does a lot more things for NBC than Colbert
Speaker 1: did for CBS. I don't know if Colbert was unwilling,
Speaker 1: perhaps CBS never asked, but factually Fallon does a lot
Speaker 1: of these things. A new show on Brand with Jimmy
Speaker 1: Fallon places Jimmy Fallon at the head of his own
Speaker 1: advertising agency. He's joined by Chief marketing officer Bozoma Saint John,
Speaker 1: who I'm supposed to know who that is. Apparently she's
Speaker 1: someone on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hill. On brand,
Speaker 1: she'll act as mentor and judge, guiding contestants, so I'm
Speaker 1: wondering what Jimmy Fallon does on the show. The competitors
Speaker 1: will pitch to companies, including a famous rum company with
Speaker 1: a pirate on it, at National Donuts chain that I
Speaker 1: sometimes go to, and some others. The show's winner will
Speaker 1: receive one hundred thousand dollars, which sounds like a lot
Speaker 1: of money, except I looked up from website Simul Media.
Speaker 1: They say NBC gets two hundred thousand dollars for a
Speaker 1: thirty So if we show one ad, we've paid off
Speaker 1: the grand prize. I know we did this production company
Speaker 1: costs and write ups, and Jimmy Fallon salary and the
Speaker 1: nice lady from Real Housewives of whatever I said. They
Speaker 1: all got to get paid. But two hundred thousand AD
Speaker 1: is the low rate for NBC if you want to
Speaker 1: advertise on Sunday Night Football, Simul Media says that will
Speaker 1: cost eight hundred and eighty two thousand dollars for a
Speaker 1: thirty Anyway, when you win this show with Jimmy Fallon,
Speaker 1: you'll receive one hundred grand minus taxes, a feature and adweek,
Speaker 1: a VIP trip to the can Line's International Festival of Creativity,
Speaker 1: and the title Innovator of the Year. I've got a
Speaker 1: must read for you, Gary Krueger. If you're of a
Speaker 1: certain age, remember Gary Krueger from Saturday Night Live. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if a lot of you were like, who, well,
Speaker 1: he's got a substack, so do I. My link is
Speaker 1: in the show. No, it's Gary Krueger and have tipped
Speaker 1: a late nighter for putting this on my radar. Gary
Speaker 1: Krueger was reacting to the Devin Walker departure notice, and
Speaker 1: Krueger said, when I was at SNL from eighty two
Speaker 1: to eighty five, women struggled unfairly to get material in
Speaker 1: the show. The show, by nature is competitive and egos
Speaker 1: are equal parts fragile and inflated. Every week and feel
Speaker 1: like your career was just made or just sank to
Speaker 1: a depth no rescue vehicle can reach that can create
Speaker 1: a toxic ripe environment. Now I'm going to point out
Speaker 1: that was during the Dick Ebersol years, not the Lorne
Speaker 1: Michael's year. So apparently it's been a toxic environment at
Speaker 1: least more than once, according to people on the show.
Speaker 1: Gary Krueger writes, I have few regrets, but I'd be
Speaker 1: lying if I say I'm okay with the fact that
Speaker 1: producer creator Lorn Mikel treats the Dick Eversoll years when
Speaker 1: I was with the show as if they didn't exist.
Speaker 1: I agree with Gary there, they do act like those
Speaker 1: years mostly didn't exist, and he makes some great points
Speaker 1: here coming up. I believe that Cold Shoulder is rooted
Speaker 1: in the same toxicity Walker refers to. It's an imbalance
Speaker 1: of perception that starts at the top, not because of
Speaker 1: any public or industry reverence for the Eversol years, but
Speaker 1: because of a shortcoming in Lorne Michaels, who ignores the
Speaker 1: fact that others have contributed to a show. I have
Speaker 1: no relationship with Lorne Michaels, and I've never met him.
Speaker 1: I've passed him in the hall at SNL reunions, and
Speaker 1: then Gary drops the bomb and he goes, No one,
Speaker 1: not even Michaels, can overlook the fact that Eddie Murphy
Speaker 1: emerged from a show called Saturday Night Live when Lauren
Speaker 1: was not at the helm. I've never heard that point
Speaker 1: made before that Gary Krueger is a great bleeping point.
Speaker 1: Gary goes on to say who else was on the show? Julia,
Speaker 1: Louis Dreyfus. Gary writes, Lauren doesn't even include five years,
Speaker 1: one hundred shows as part of his SNL package. Very
Speaker 1: rarely does anything from that aeroshow up in a reunion retrospective,
Speaker 1: but the stars are asked participate in the live portions.
Speaker 1: I'm always a little surprised in fact that I get
Speaker 1: a ticket to the gallery unions every five or ten years,
Speaker 1: But I do, I think because other people involved with
Speaker 1: the show and NBC do care. The staff always treats
Speaker 1: me another second or are we third? To your cast members?
Speaker 1: Very well, fans of SNL and podcast revolving around the
Speaker 1: show regard the eversol years is simply that particular era,
Speaker 1: but not a different show. They love and this is
Speaker 1: a good list, and that was the SNL I got
Speaker 1: into I was a little young for the original cast,
Speaker 1: and even that Gene de Mounion what is her name?
Speaker 1: That season, the really awful season, but go I was
Speaker 1: watching the Gary Krueger years and Gary says, people like
Speaker 1: me love Joe Piscopo, who I think has just been
Speaker 1: totally overlooked and deserves better. Joe Piscopo, Tim Kazerinski, Robin Duke,
Speaker 1: Mary Gross, Brad Hall, Christine Ebersoll, and even Gary Krueger.
Speaker 1: And he asks why no respect from Loren Michaels. Just
Speaker 1: In as I'm recording the show, Emil Jakeim has announced
Speaker 1: he's leaving SNL. I don't even have this in my script.
Speaker 1: I'm reading it off my phone. On it Instagram, he
Speaker 1: posted I won't be returning to SNL next year. He
Speaker 1: was a gut punch of a call to get but
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful for my time there. He did one
Speaker 1: season one and none for him, and I feel bad
Speaker 1: for the folks at Late Nighter dot com who thought
Speaker 1: they were taking this week off. No, you're not getting
Speaker 1: a little long here. I wanted to tell you about
Speaker 1: Joe Coy. He's probably really excited about Taylor Swift getting
Speaker 1: engaged he may recall one time Taylor Swift was too
Speaker 1: cool for school and couldn't possibly smile at a Joe
Speaker 1: Cooy joke. I won't play it for you right now
Speaker 1: because we're getting along. You probably know the story if
Speaker 1: you've listened to this podcast before. But I feel bad
Speaker 1: for Joe Coy. He's up in Canada and he said,
Speaker 1: I'm a coffee guy. I love it. I can't function
Speaker 1: without coffee. I love the adventure of finding like a
Speaker 1: real coffee shop. But I don't want to go to
Speaker 1: a chain. I don't want to go to Starbucks. I
Speaker 1: want local. And he's got a story about going to
Speaker 1: see Ozzy Osbourne's last show, but I will bounce that
Speaker 1: to tomorrow because I want to tell you what the
Speaker 1: worst person in the world, Jay Leno, is up to.
Speaker 1: You know that guy, I mean the nerve of that
Speaker 1: guy'd have an opinion about late night comedy. What does
Speaker 1: he know about doing comedy or or hosting a late
Speaker 1: night show? And then he chimes in on the whole subject.
Speaker 1: And that's why everybody he's mad at Jay Leno, who
Speaker 1: is the worst person who ever lived. Apparently, Jay, if
Speaker 1: you're listening, it's not how I feel it's a bit
Speaker 1: On the most recent episode of Jay Leno's Garage, which
Speaker 1: you can find on YouTube, he was at with Jeff Dunham,
Speaker 1: you know, the Puppets guy. They took a tank for
Speaker 1: a test drive on southern California streets. Jeff Dunham, who's
Speaker 1: sixty three now, jumped in the driver's seat of the
Speaker 1: tank to learn how to handle the tank. It's apparently
Speaker 1: steered by using two levers and a foot operated transmission.
Speaker 1: Jay Leno, who's seventy five, highlighted some of the features
Speaker 1: of the tank, including the seventy six millimeter main gun,
Speaker 1: the smoke grenade launchers, and the periscope used for driving
Speaker 1: when the hatch is closed. It is a nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: two Alvis Scorpion, a light duty tank capable of reaching
Speaker 1: fifty one miles an hour. One social media comment or
Speaker 1: said about the worst person in the world. I knew
Speaker 1: Jay just loves about everything with a motor and wheels
Speaker 1: as much as anyone, But this is a dude is
Speaker 1: living his best life in retirement. The President of the
Speaker 1: United States took to social media two in the morning
Speaker 1: and wrote, there's a sick rumor going around that Fake
Speaker 1: News NBC extended the contract of one of the least
Speaker 1: talented late night television hosts out there, Seth Myers. He
Speaker 1: has no ratings, talent, or intelligence, and the personality of
Speaker 1: an insecure child. So why would fake News NBC extend
Speaker 1: this dope's contract. I don't know, but I'll definitely be
Speaker 1: finding out. And is what the president is up to
Speaker 1: these days? Beck Bennett told a story about the President
Speaker 1: to The Last Laugh podcast. He was talking about the
Speaker 1: time the president hosted SNL and said, at the table read,
Speaker 1: Trump was having a little bit of trouble reading. At
Speaker 1: one point, Trump apparently interrupted the table read to take
Speaker 1: a phone call that seemed to be bad news. Trump
Speaker 1: hung up the phone. Leslie Jones said, how much money
Speaker 1: did you make on that phone call? Beck Bennett said,
Speaker 1: everybody laughed, but Trump, who said he just found out
Speaker 1: his book went to number one on the bestseller list.
Speaker 1: Everybody clapsed. But it was like, really, it didn't sound
Speaker 1: like you were dealing with the news that your booked
Speaker 1: went to number one, But okay, Bennett says. Trump didn't
Speaker 1: like getting notes or getting corrected. Quoting back Bennett, he'd
Speaker 1: be like, no, that's what I said, But he's just
Speaker 1: kind of loafing around and was just a lot to
Speaker 1: have him there. But he wasn't particularly awful Beyond that,
Speaker 1: I don't think as far as having billionaire personalities come
Speaker 1: on the show, Elon Musk was a lot more offensive.
Speaker 1: That was harder to deal with. He had very odd
Speaker 1: ideas and he was very rude and less predictable to
Speaker 1: perform with in a way. Trump was a little bit
Speaker 1: more like, you'd tell me where to go and what
Speaker 1: to say, and I'll tell you if I'm okay with it?
Speaker 1: Are you? In Indianapolis, the Let's Fest kicks off tonight.
Speaker 1: The group Let's Comedy is producing the fifth annual comedy
Speaker 1: and music festival. Appearing at Let's Fest, Ron Funches, Robbie Hoffman,
Speaker 1: Carmen Christopher, and Joe Para is there. Nouveau caught up
Speaker 1: with Joe Parra. They asked, Joe, a lot of your
Speaker 1: work seems to come back to the topic of sleep.
Speaker 1: How's your sleeprou teem Joe Parra said, it's fine. It
Speaker 1: wish it was better everybody does. I feel like the
Speaker 1: older I get, the harder it is, especially as your
Speaker 1: life gets busier. Touring is an ideal for sleep. But
Speaker 1: I've also learned that when you're up in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night and can't sleep, it's best to not
Speaker 1: worry about it. Just really go in the kitchen, eat
Speaker 1: a banana with some peanut butter. Don't waste your time
Speaker 1: trying to fall back asleep, and be okay with being
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night. That's what Johnny
Speaker 1: Mack does. I listen to a lot of podcasts around
Speaker 1: two AM until I drift back off. Joe Parraw what
Speaker 1: comes to your mind when you think about Indianapolis as
Speaker 1: a city. Joe said, truly, I was shot by how
Speaker 1: big the pork sandwiches were last time. That is your
Speaker 1: comedy news for today See tomorrow.