Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm Johnnie Mack and this is Daily Comedy News,
Speaker 2: a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians and the
Speaker 2: comedy industry. Which is a sentence you might say if
Speaker 2: you were trying to retrain the Spotify algorithm to ranker
Speaker 2: show higher. Jerry Seinfeld was on We Might be Drunk
Speaker 2: with Mark Norman and Sam Morrel pulled a couple clips.
Speaker 2: I feel like all this is forced, Like Mark Norman
Speaker 2: is trying way too hard to impress Jerry who you
Speaker 2: can impress? I've met the man, you just can't. And
Speaker 2: Sam has nothing to add. Also, looking at the show
Speaker 2: and in today's substack, I will have a clip of
Speaker 2: what the show looks like. And it doesn't look good,
Speaker 2: says the guy in his basement wearing a yellow hoodie
Speaker 2: and his headphones on crooked. But it just doesn't look
Speaker 2: good anyway. Mark shared some of his pet peeves with
Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 3: Well, now they turn the tip tip thing around. You're
Speaker 3: seeing this. I'm sure you got twenty minutes on the
Speaker 3: tip flow. You know that a Starbucks. So they flip
Speaker 3: the screen and it says eighteen five percent.
Speaker 2: I saw in recently.
Speaker 1: That was.
Speaker 2: It was I think twenty five, fifty seventy five.
Speaker 1: Come on, seventy five, seventy, Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: insane where in Dubai.
Speaker 3: Come on, Yeah, everything's tipped now, everything's listener.
Speaker 1: Or anything anything where they get in you cannot get
Speaker 1: them out. Yeah, right, they they got away with it
Speaker 1: and that's it, and they're taking the money. I was
Speaker 1: just reading on the way down. You watch Red Zone
Speaker 1: on Sunday, right sometimes, so they put commercials on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like two hundred and eighty dollars for this channel
Speaker 1: to watch football with no commercials. And they say, well,
Speaker 1: you won't notice it. But now they're all but that's it.
Speaker 1: They're not going back. Nobody goes back.
Speaker 2: They also discussed whether or not comedians should be married.
Speaker 3: It is one of the great marriage savers because you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I gotta go, I gotta do a set, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm out of that.
Speaker 1: Can you believe what this guy's got going on? He
Speaker 1: his wife comes home.
Speaker 3: From work, she works at home. She works at home.
Speaker 1: Oh, she works at home. Yeah, he comes home from
Speaker 1: doing this or whatever he's doing, and then he goes
Speaker 1: out to the clubs during the week and he goes
Speaker 1: out on the weekends. They have a baby. We had
Speaker 1: a canceled flight Gary Veter and I this weekend and
Speaker 1: Mark texts him, oh, man, so extra time away from
Speaker 1: the kids.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, no, no, that we're not happy about it.
Speaker 2: Said so much about you.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's a marriage saver, that road time.
Speaker 1: It is because you're not really designed to be married. No,
Speaker 1: comedian is not. Jim Gaffigan used to say, whenever you
Speaker 1: would hear about a comedian getting married, he would go why.
Speaker 2: Speaking of whether or not comedians should be married, Amy
Speaker 2: Schumer announced that she and husband Chris have ended their marriage.
Speaker 2: As I've said on this show before, I think that's
Speaker 2: truly sad. I don't want to see any marriage end.
Speaker 2: I don't come here to dunk on Amy, but Amy
Speaker 2: continues to make decisions that just bewilder me. Amy wrote
Speaker 2: this on Instagram. I'm going to read it verbatim, and
Speaker 2: the first three words she wrote are blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: It's not me being flippant. That's what she actually wrote
Speaker 2: to announce her divorce. Amy Schumer on Instagram posted a
Speaker 2: picture of herself Chris and their son on the New
Speaker 2: York City Subway. The caption quote, blah blah blah. Chris
Speaker 2: and I have made the difficult decision to end our
Speaker 2: marriage after seven years. We love each other very much
Speaker 2: and will continue to focus on raising our son. We
Speaker 2: would appreciate people respecting our privacy at this time. Once again,
Speaker 2: Amy writes, blah blah blah. Not because misspelled, I dropped
Speaker 2: some pounds and thought I could bag s basket, and
Speaker 2: not because he's a hot James Beard Award winning chef
Speaker 2: who can still pull some hot tail. Amicable and all
Speaker 2: love and respect family forever. I imagine Amy has a publicister,
Speaker 2: access to a publicist, and could have just released a
Speaker 2: statement and said, you know, respect her privacy, and I
Speaker 2: think we all would. It's just weird. A source close
Speaker 2: to the pair tells people there's nothing ugly. It's a split.
Speaker 2: They've just been finalizing a few things. The New York
Speaker 2: Post reported that Amy sold her Brooklyn Heights town host
Speaker 2: for less than she paid. City records show that Amy
Speaker 2: sold the four story residents at nineteen Cranberry Street for
Speaker 2: eleven million dollars, roughly one point twenty five million below
Speaker 2: the price she and her husband paid in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: The five bedroom property, built in eighteen twenty nine and
Speaker 2: appears in the film Moonstruck, spans roughly fifty five hundred
Speaker 2: square feet and includes a private garden and gated parking,
Speaker 2: a restored roof, original fireplace mantles, and a custom kitchen
Speaker 2: outfitted with antique cabinry and a wine cellar. According to
Speaker 2: a prior listing, did you watch Robbie Hoffman special? It's
Speaker 2: pretty fantastic. I still can't decide if it's the number two, three,
Speaker 2: or four special of the year. At worst it's number four.
Speaker 2: You should watch it. John mullaney, producer of the special,
Speaker 2: interviewed Robbie Hoffman for GQ. This interview, as you can imagine,
Speaker 2: with m'lanie and Robbie's all over the place, I'll pick
Speaker 2: away at it over the next couple days. Mlanie's opener,
Speaker 2: if you open a water bottle and you don't hear
Speaker 2: a crack, do you still drink it? Robbie Hoffman said,
Speaker 2: mm MMMM'LINI said I found that if I note that
Speaker 2: it doesn't crack, but I still drink it. M'linie was curious,
Speaker 2: did you ever have a time where you pulled back
Speaker 2: her if you've been full blast your whole life, Robbie said, well,
Speaker 2: here's the thing around you. I'm still full blast because
Speaker 2: I'm nervous. For instance, somebody I really respect, I would
Speaker 2: treat back to talking a lot, to sharing a lot,
Speaker 2: I go full blast. I think I had a big
Speaker 2: period in life of calming down, but then I burst again.
Speaker 2: What happened was it was very embarrassing to be this
Speaker 2: boisterous and loud, especially as a girl, and opinionated and
Speaker 2: kind of you know, if we had a pop quiz,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, this is an injustice, and then I'd
Speaker 2: get embarrassed and I would say to myself, for you,
Speaker 2: shut the f up. But I really tried not to
Speaker 2: do anything for a long time, and then I kind
Speaker 2: of came back to it. Now it pops up when
Speaker 2: I'm really excited. It's not just you, just anyone, but you,
Speaker 2: especially because I love being in your presence. I noticed
Speaker 2: that a lot more, not that I'm dancing for my
Speaker 2: keeper or anything like that. It just comes out naturally.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Carr was on the Louis Thorough podcast, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if I said the man's name right. I
Speaker 2: don't mean disrespect. There's like five thousand articles about how
Speaker 2: to pronounce his name correctly, and I have to keep
Speaker 2: moving here. Jimmy Carr was defending his decision to perform
Speaker 2: at the Riod Comedy Festival. Jimmy Carr said, I played it.
Speaker 2: I loved it. I think we need to give up
Speaker 2: on the idea that the Middle East becomes Western Europe.
Speaker 2: The Middle East is a very different place, and the
Speaker 2: same people that will tell you diversity is our strength
Speaker 2: will tell you don't go there. They're not like us.
Speaker 2: The thing I like about Saudi Arabia is the direction
Speaker 2: of travel. Look at where it was forty years ago,
Speaker 2: look at where it is now. The direction of travel's
Speaker 2: pretty good. How much were you paid, Jimmy Carry said,
Speaker 2: I was paid. I would say a commensurate amount with
Speaker 2: selling out an eight thousand seater room. So it's a
Speaker 2: big room, and I got paid. I earned it. Cars
Speaker 2: spoke about freedom of speech interestingly enough and said you
Speaker 2: have to deal with the consequences. If you're going to
Speaker 2: say that, you got to be willing to say it
Speaker 2: and go, Yeah, I don't regret telling that joke. That's fine.
Speaker 2: Some people were really upset by it. That's okay. I've
Speaker 2: got the people that come and see me and they
Speaker 2: really like that stuff, and I've got to serve them,
Speaker 2: not someone else. Felix Jakins is Amnesty International's UK head
Speaker 2: of Campaigns. Felix said this is entertainment washing in action,
Speaker 2: using big name comedians and glossy festivals to project reform
Speaker 2: while repression continues off stage. No amount of laughter, it
Speaker 2: can disguise the reality of Saudi Arabia's human rights record.
Speaker 2: Last year alone, a record three hundred and forty five
Speaker 2: people were executed, many after deeply flawed trials. Comedians performing
Speaker 2: there should ask whether challenging repressions or helping to legitimize it.
Speaker 2: Performing free speech in a country speaking freely can cost
Speaker 2: you your life isn't brave, It's hypocrisy. Jimmy Carr said,
Speaker 2: I got paid. I earned it. Oh, I think I
Speaker 2: said that already. Sorry, I repeated a quote. I'll remember
Speaker 2: to edit that out later. Anthony has a book club,
Speaker 2: he told Vulture. Yes, I'm going to start a book
Speaker 2: club next year. Jessel nick book club and the goals
Speaker 2: to try to get guys to read literature. I feel
Speaker 2: like people say I do like to read, but I
Speaker 2: read serious books and that drives me crazy. I think
Speaker 2: that literature is serious, if not more serious than nonfiction.
Speaker 2: You learn just as much. I think the world is
Speaker 2: lacking in empathy, and the guys can benefit from literature.
Speaker 2: I've got a list of twelve books of the month,
Speaker 2: but that might change something new comes out. I'd like
Speaker 2: to get into that book influencer space, where on the
Speaker 2: first of the month it's here's what we're reading, and
Speaker 2: then you can ask questions at the end of the
Speaker 2: month and I'll answer your questions, talk about why I
Speaker 2: love this book, and just try to give a reading
Speaker 2: list for guys. And it's okay to put a book
Speaker 2: down and say I don't like this, pick up something else.
Speaker 2: Just keep trying. My first book in January is going
Speaker 2: to be The Getaway by Jim Thompson. It's an action
Speaker 2: book that's been made into a movie several times. The
Speaker 2: end of it is almost supernatural. It almost turns into
Speaker 2: a horror novel. And if you're a fan of mine,
Speaker 2: I think you can get into this book. It's two
Speaker 2: hundred fifty pages. It's easy to read. My second book
Speaker 2: is a Vonnagut that I think says more about podcasting
Speaker 2: today than it does about World War two. TV is
Speaker 2: getting worse, movies are getting worse, and I think books
Speaker 2: become a more viable entertainment option for people as things
Speaker 2: have become more corporate and bland. I don't know if
Speaker 2: the book club will be successful. It might get five
Speaker 2: hundred views and no one cares and they make fun
Speaker 2: of me. But that's okay. I'm picking timeless novels that
Speaker 2: I think a guy can get through without being embarrassed.
Speaker 2: A book that you can read on the subway. No
Speaker 2: one's making fun of you for it. They talked about
Speaker 2: John Mulaney's book Club jes Unix sent my publisher. I
Speaker 2: saw the Milleni post and was like, uh oh, it's fine.
Speaker 2: His first one was the first book I picked up
Speaker 2: in January. Playworld that I've forgotten every single thing. It's
Speaker 2: been on some lists and I couldn't tell you a
Speaker 2: single thing about the book. It's okay to forget everything
Speaker 2: you've just read. It's hard to remember things. I could
Speaker 2: barely give descriptions of a lot of the books in
Speaker 2: my top ten. I don't know how seriously Milanie is
Speaker 2: taking in. It seems like it was just a post
Speaker 2: put up on Instagram and a social media person was like,
Speaker 2: you should try this. Great. I hope there's a million
Speaker 2: comedian book clubs, but I'd like to go a bit
Speaker 2: deeper than just holding a book and saying this month,
Speaker 2: we're reading this and then never mentioning it again. Sarah Sherman,
Speaker 2: doing a lot of press, spoke to Variety and said
Speaker 2: that she bombed when opening for Adam Sandler as You're
Speaker 2: My Best Friend tour, but says the thing about saidlor
Speaker 2: Is is comedy is really surreal and bizarre and dirty, so
Speaker 2: it's actually a good fit with her own style. But
Speaker 2: apparently she said she's stunk. Here's why, because she relies
Speaker 2: on being in smaller venues for interactive comedy. She explained,
Speaker 2: so much of my material is very audience interactive, so
Speaker 2: it's weird to be so far away from people, and
Speaker 2: my voice is very shrill, and when it's ricocheting off
Speaker 2: the walls of aa Gine Arena, it can be painful
Speaker 2: for some people. If you're listening on Spotify, follow daily
Speaker 2: comedy news, so it shows up on your feet every morning.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of sentence. Somebody trying to go the
Speaker 2: Spotify algorithm would say on several podcasts in a row,
Speaker 2: pay attention to that kind of thing out on the
Speaker 2: eight hundred pound Gerrilla today Christopher MacArthur Boyd's Scary Times.
Speaker 2: No shocker here. Howard Stern is not suddenly ending his
Speaker 2: career tomorrow. Nope, what do you know? Howard Stern has renewed.
Speaker 2: After all that press about Howard's being canceled, Howard did
Speaker 2: into many bit bah bah blah blah. I told you
Speaker 2: all along, the whole thing was nonsense, and right before
Speaker 2: the winter break, Howard would announce renewal. Howard announced a
Speaker 2: three year deal. He gets a more flexible schedule. He's
Speaker 2: already only doing three days a week and has July
Speaker 2: and August off. Boy, nice money if you can get it.
Speaker 2: Howard is what I call a once in two generations
Speaker 2: Hall of famer, the best who ever did it, but
Speaker 2: also little past his prime. People are upset with Saturday
Speaker 2: Night Live? Are they using AI images during weekend update jokes?
Speaker 2: The image in question was a woman on Oxygen playing
Speaker 2: the nickel slots. The image did look very AI ish.
Speaker 2: SNL has not commented on this in the past, they've
Speaker 2: used photoshops. Leslie Jones has slammed President Trump. Jones was
Speaker 2: on ms Now with Nicole Wallace ms now, the former
Speaker 2: MSNBC with the new name. Wallace said, the President is
Speaker 2: calling female reporters piggy and stupid and dumb and insubordinate.
Speaker 2: Leslie Jones said, wait a minute, let me explain something
Speaker 2: to you. I don't understand how these people let that in. Then,
Speaker 2: according to The Daily Beast, Leslie Jones hurled expletives a
Speaker 2: president and how she would respond in the scenario of
Speaker 2: Trump calling Leslie Jones piggy, if he would have said
Speaker 2: shut up, piggy to me, I would have been like
Speaker 2: you fat mfer. Jones added, we should be embarrassed. As citizens,
Speaker 2: we should be embarrassed. Wanda Sykes was honored at Variety's
Speaker 2: Power of Women La event. Now. I'm not sure the
Speaker 2: HR Department would be too happy with Wanda Sykes. Pay
Speaker 2: attention to this quote here from Wanda Sykes. Wanda said,
Speaker 2: my joy is when I'm able to hire somebody, and
Speaker 2: you know who I like to hire women. I'll be
Speaker 2: upfront with you when it comes to a position and
Speaker 2: I look on the paper Variety said Psykes was holding
Speaker 2: out her arms with the hand representing the man slightly
Speaker 2: elevated above the woman one. So back to the quote.
Speaker 2: When it comes to a position, I look on the paper.
Speaker 2: She might be right here and he's up there. I'm
Speaker 2: hiring the woman. That's just how I operate. And I'll
Speaker 2: be honest with you. If she's a black woman, girl,
Speaker 2: you got the job. Psykes drew applause from the crowd.
Speaker 2: Ssykes added, when women thrive, the community thrives. We make
Speaker 2: everyone around us better. When we win, everybody wins. When
Speaker 2: men win, sometimes they get a younger wife. Again, I
Speaker 2: get what she's trying to say, but I'm not sure
Speaker 2: that would get past the HR departments that I've worked with.
Speaker 2: And that is your comedy news for today. I'll see tomorrow.