Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack, who with
Speaker 1: another busy daily comedy news. There's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to cover today, but I want to
Speaker 1: call your attention to a pretty feisty Bill Burr interview.
Speaker 1: You'll find that on Vulture dot com and as a
Speaker 1: podcast in the Good One. I'll start picking away that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But just other things I want to get to. The
Speaker 1: cool kids came for Jay Leno last week. They did
Speaker 1: not like the Jay Leno interview about Late Night and
Speaker 1: called out Jay for some hypocrisy. It's really interesting to
Speaker 1: see what Jay's legacy has become as the team Conan
Speaker 1: people just continue to pile on, and now the cool
Speaker 1: kids are coming ford Joe Rogan. There were two things.
Speaker 1: One from The Daily Beast. The headline. A number of
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan's comedy and podcasting buddies are having second thoughts
Speaker 1: about following him to Texas. Some of the comedians they
Speaker 1: single out, Shane Gillis, moved to Austin years after he
Speaker 1: was fired as a cast member of Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: They point out in June on Andrew Schultz's podcast, where
Speaker 1: Andrew was probably shocked to learn that Donald Trump didn't
Speaker 1: do everything he said he was going to do. Shane said,
Speaker 1: Texas effing blows. Gillis criticized Texas, describing how his home
Speaker 1: had a blackout for three days. Gillis said, the second
Speaker 1: we ran out of power, the house was ninety degrees
Speaker 1: and just bugs. Bugs came in immediately. The house filled
Speaker 1: with bugs, and I'm just laying in the dark. In
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Shane Gillis told vi Ivaughn, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to move to a place where you can do
Speaker 1: stand up during the week forever. It was just in
Speaker 1: New York, in LA. Now you can do it in Nashville.
Speaker 1: In Austin, Brendan Schaub said, I miss my community and
Speaker 1: my routine after moving from LA to Austin. Tim Dillon,
Speaker 1: who you can never take that seriously in any sentence
Speaker 1: that Tim Dillon ever speaks. Tim described Austin as a
Speaker 1: great place to raise a family as long as they
Speaker 1: like you, are dull and never want to succeed. In September,
Speaker 1: Tim was on Whitney Cummings podcast and called Austin and
Speaker 1: the soulas city that should be burned to the ground.
Speaker 1: He described the music scene as three heroin addicts busking
Speaker 1: with guitars. Whitney made fun of the Joe Rogan experience
Speaker 1: and said he'd rather have someone that makes knives than you. Right,
Speaker 1: they're just hoping that people he's flying miss their flight
Speaker 1: and they need someone at the last minute. Dylan has
Speaker 1: moved back to LA, we're told, but says of Texas.
Speaker 1: Yeah the taxes are better, and yeah, there are benefits
Speaker 1: to not being in LA, and yes LA has a
Speaker 1: host of problems. But I moved here because first and
Speaker 1: foremost I said something new will be good. I was wrong.
Speaker 1: The cool kids continue to go after Joe Rogan. Last week,
Speaker 1: on Wednesday's The Daily Show, they did seven minutes on
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. They did a mock biopic. The narrator of
Speaker 1: the biopic says, a new thinker has emerged to grapple
Speaker 1: with the mysteries of our universe. He is the world's
Speaker 1: greatest thinker. They then showed clips of Rogan saying things
Speaker 1: like why do black people like menthol so much? And
Speaker 1: if you're drinking water, you're drinking dinosaur pe. The narrator
Speaker 1: continues and talk he did because the most fundamental truth
Speaker 1: about the modern world was finally within his grasp. That
Speaker 1: a man may speak forever without knowing things as long
Speaker 1: as he has a podcast, Rogan began his true life's
Speaker 1: project of absorbing the collected wisdom of the world's greatest
Speaker 1: wise men and every now and then a woman. They
Speaker 1: then show guests Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Alex Jones.
Speaker 1: Then they highlighted the title of a YouTube video alleging
Speaker 1: to show all the times Rogan has used the N word.
Speaker 1: You know what, while I've gone here, let me open
Speaker 1: up one of the Leno pieces. I wasn't gonna do
Speaker 1: it at all, but since we're here from the Nation,
Speaker 1: the headline jay Leno's phony case for balanced comedy, They ask,
Speaker 1: why is it that every time a great late night
Speaker 1: host loses a job, jay Leno appears. That's just stupid.
Speaker 1: I don't know what d Steth Meyers weigh in on
Speaker 1: Colbert the Nation rights, really Jay Leno fair and balance comedian.
Speaker 1: A two thousand and nine George Mason University study found
Speaker 1: that of the thirty three thousand jokes Leno told about
Speaker 1: politicians during his first run as the Tonight Show host,
Speaker 1: he told forty four hundred and sixty eight Bill Clinton jokes,
Speaker 1: and nine and ninety nine about George Bush. They do
Speaker 1: add that, of course, there's no reason Leno shouldn't have
Speaker 1: gone after Clinton more than Bush if he wanted to.
Speaker 1: There's just no reason why Kimmel, Colbert Fallon shouldn't go
Speaker 1: after Trump more than anyone else. You know, part of this, guys,
Speaker 1: is just from a comedy standpoint. Clinton is funnier than
Speaker 1: George Bush. George Bush is funny, but George Bush is
Speaker 1: a lot funnier than Obama or Biden. Again, nobody has
Speaker 1: yet really to nail an Obama impression that's truly funny.
Speaker 1: None of the Biden impressions were funny. There are funny
Speaker 1: Trump impressions. There are funny Clinton's, there are funny Reagan's.
Speaker 1: There was a funny George H. Bush, There were funny Nixons.
Speaker 1: Chevy Chase figured out a way to do Ford. So yeah,
Speaker 1: for us to go back, you know what is its
Speaker 1: twenty five years later? No, it's thirty years later now,
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, it's not funny.
Speaker 1: Leno's right leaning show regularly topped Lettermans in the ratings. Oh,
Speaker 1: I missed that Jay Leno's right leaning show. I missed
Speaker 1: that one. Okay, they did discuss the Winsky of it all.
Speaker 1: The Nation rights take, for instance, Leno's relentless slut shaming
Speaker 1: with the expensive Monica Lewinsky. In his own gauzy remembrance,
Speaker 1: Leno was a voice for fair play and civility. Back
Speaker 1: when Leno first began touting comedic civility in the Trump era,
Speaker 1: John Oliver threw a montage of his own Winsky jokes
Speaker 1: back at him because Leno wasn't any more civil than
Speaker 1: he was bipartisan. Leno certainly wasn't alone and going after Lewinsky,
Speaker 1: Bill mar David Letterman, more N Daoud, among many others,
Speaker 1: beat up on her. The difference is that Leno has
Speaker 1: a particular talent for dressing up his cruel streak and
Speaker 1: a folksy style of do you hear this water cooler banter?
Speaker 1: That's fair? Then the nation is mad that Leno made
Speaker 1: jokes about someone named Stella Libeck. They write that name
Speaker 1: is largely forgotten now, but she was the seventy nine
Speaker 1: year old woman at the center of the McDonald's Hot
Speaker 1: Coffee lawsuit. They end their piece with if Leno's first
Speaker 1: comedic reflex is to side with a multi billion dollar
Speaker 1: fast food chain over a scalded grandma. It's no surprise
Speaker 1: that decides with our babbling dictator president when he feels
Speaker 1: Late Night comics are too mean to him. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: we all feel bad that a woman got burned with coffee,
Speaker 1: But of course the joke is, did you not know
Speaker 1: the coffee's high? I mean, I just don't get it, guys.
Speaker 1: At some point comedy is going to make fun of
Speaker 1: something and someone, Oh my goodness, I'm like, ten minutes in,
Speaker 1: I didn't even mean to do that story. We're going
Speaker 1: to be long today, friends, Let's get to it. John Okay,
Speaker 1: second with Late Night for a second, Late Nighter points out.
Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert had good ratings. He had an average weekly
Speaker 1: share of twelve point sixty three percent among total viewers.
Speaker 1: In his first full week of shows since CBS announced
Speaker 1: the cancelation, he allogged his best ratings in over two years,
Speaker 1: with an average of three point zero five million, more
Speaker 1: than the other two shows combined. Again, to be fair,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel's in guest host mode in the eighteen to
Speaker 1: forty nine demo, Colbert's weekly average jumped sixty four percent. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of that was the curiosity. On
Speaker 1: the Monday, the Letterman Podcast, Great podcast, check out the
Speaker 1: newest episode. They have Letterman's former producer Morty and famous
Speaker 1: radio DJ and former on this program and personal friend
Speaker 1: of mine Alex Bennett are the guests. Mike and I
Speaker 1: are planning on doing something to talk late night and
Speaker 1: late show. South Park had good ratings as well. In
Speaker 1: the three days after the premiere of the episode in
Speaker 1: which we see Donald Trump in bed with Satan, they
Speaker 1: got five point nine million cross platform viewers including on
Speaker 1: air replays. That's a sixty eight percent improvement on the
Speaker 1: season twenty sixth premiere. There was no episode last week.
Speaker 1: This week, the trailer suggests that we'll see Donald Trump
Speaker 1: grabbing Satan's leg under the table. I'm sure that will
Speaker 1: go over well in some parts of the capitol. Sam
Speaker 1: Bee was on Tom popp As podcast and weighed in
Speaker 1: on Colbert Gate. Was it money? Was it politics? Sam said,
Speaker 1: I think both things are true and real. These legacy shows,
Speaker 1: they're hamorrhaging money with no real end in sight. People
Speaker 1: are just not tuning in even remotely comparatively to how
Speaker 1: they used to. People are literally on their phones all
Speaker 1: the time for one thing, they don't need a recap
Speaker 1: of the day's events. We're consuming news media all the time.
Speaker 1: I do it too, but we don't relax in the
Speaker 1: same way by watching everybody get together, lay down in
Speaker 1: your bed, type TV and watch them jokes in some interviews.
Speaker 1: It's also true that when the President of the United
Speaker 1: States has to give a sign off on a corporate merger,
Speaker 1: the thing you can't do is make jokes about him.
Speaker 1: He's a thin skinned idiot, and we know he's like
Speaker 1: a pernicious cancer, and he cares about that stuff. Papa
Speaker 1: asked if TBS asked Sam to tone down her show's
Speaker 1: political stances. She said, one hundred percent. When a huge
Speaker 1: corporate mergers happening, nobody wants to cause trouble. Business trumps everything.
Speaker 1: Everything you think is important is absolutely impotent. It's not
Speaker 1: even a consideration. Sam's insight into ending the Late Show
Speaker 1: is it's so much easier for them to cut the
Speaker 1: Late Show loose with this merger coming down the pike.
Speaker 1: Probably the most agonizing decisions they were having were about
Speaker 1: how do we float this, How do we not get
Speaker 1: a lot of blowback? You know what I was going
Speaker 1: to tell you about the Toronto Comedy Festival. We'll do
Speaker 1: that tomorrow because it's not until September eighteenth. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: nothing but great reviews for the New and Naked Gun movie,
Speaker 1: which first of all, is amazing, and congratulations to them.
Speaker 1: Liam Neeson was asked other movies he enjoys. He said,
Speaker 1: Missus Outfire springs to mind and the outtakes were extraordinary too,
Speaker 1: and they aren't part of the movie too. Actually in
Speaker 1: the credits that I once shared a taxi with Robin
Speaker 1: Williams and a few other actors and he started rapping
Speaker 1: on some politician. I remember thinking, this is maybe what
Speaker 1: Shakespeare would have been like, just this incredible stuff pouring
Speaker 1: out of his brain in his mouth. He was a
Speaker 1: genius comedian Country Wayne with a shocker. On social media,
Speaker 1: he said, I got to come to Facebook because you
Speaker 1: all have been here since day one, all the reason
Speaker 1: I'm really able to sell tickets, and you all have
Speaker 1: been the reason I've been sustaining off stand up for
Speaker 1: the last ten years. So I had to come live
Speaker 1: and tell y'all, Hey, everybody, I love y'all. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to stand up comedy, my last show will
Speaker 1: be October fourth at the cob Energy Center in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: From my Amazon special Wow sad to hear that. I
Speaker 1: also hope this isn't a Craig Robinson situation where he's
Speaker 1: just trying to get attention, because that would be really,
Speaker 1: really lame. Wayne said. Now a lot of people are like, Wayne,
Speaker 1: You're leaving millions of dollars on the table. But the
Speaker 1: reason being, I tell everybody, when God tells you to move,
Speaker 1: you got to move some time. Sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: lose to win. Everything I got going right now, I
Speaker 1: put on the back burner for stand up for years.
Speaker 1: If you all can remember back in the day when
Speaker 1: I went and did stand up, I had to stop
Speaker 1: doing social media content. Everybody was mad I had to
Speaker 1: leave social media. But I had to leave social media
Speaker 1: to become the person I am in stand up today.
Speaker 1: Now I'm leaving stand up because a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: in Hollywood that I got going on, and God got
Speaker 1: a lot in me and creating these ideas to put together,
Speaker 1: which is the ideas you love. Billboard put out their
Speaker 1: report of the biggest tours Beyonce led the way. In June,
Speaker 1: Joe Coy sold forty two thousand tickets across ten shows.
Speaker 1: He grows two point six million dollars. Nicky Glazer grows
Speaker 1: three million, forty three seven hundred tickets across twenty shows.
Speaker 1: Gaba Glaciers three point two million, fifty two thousand, six
Speaker 1: hundred tickets nine shows. Nate Bergatzi three point six million,
Speaker 1: forty four nine hundred tickets six shows. Dude, keep doing comedy,
Speaker 1: Stop with the theme park nonsense. Matt Riiche grows four
Speaker 1: point two million dollars to lead the pack fifty two
Speaker 1: thousand tickets across five shows. Some other shows making some money.
Speaker 1: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler grows two point two million,
Speaker 1: John Stewart, John Millenium, Pete Davidson together one point four million,
Speaker 1: and in Dublin the two Johnnies, Johnny Smacks McMahon and
Speaker 1: Johnny b O'Brien one point three million dollars. Bounce on
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff today, which is always a good
Speaker 1: problem to have. In the summer. Voicemag dot UK has
Speaker 1: been catching up with comedians who were performing at the
Speaker 1: Fringe now underway. One of them is Aiden McQueen, who
Speaker 1: self describes as a stand up comedian from Ireland and
Speaker 1: a woman who's been through just enough therapy to monetize
Speaker 1: her emotional chaos. Waiting for Texto is my one woman
Speaker 1: comedy play about heartbreak, grief and healing in the age
Speaker 1: of WhatsApp, yoga and passive aggressive self help memes. Have
Speaker 1: you done Fringe before? Yes, I've done the stand up trenches,
Speaker 1: Flying in the Rain, performing the Three Men called Dave,
Speaker 1: and coming home with trench Foot in a new juke
Speaker 1: this year with a full length solo show, more Prepared.
Speaker 1: I'm pacing myself. We keep hearing about the pacing. Isn't
Speaker 1: that interesting. I'm pacing myself and bringing a collapsible stool
Speaker 1: for when I want to cry in the street with dignity. Boy,
Speaker 1: do I ever read an article that's like, Hey, the
Speaker 1: Fringe was awesome. Man, I had a great time and
Speaker 1: I stayed at a great hotel. The Fringe just seems
Speaker 1: like a disaster. Everyone just seems like they're just struggling
Speaker 1: to survive to perform at it, she says. I try
Speaker 1: to treat it like a marathon, not a breakdown in
Speaker 1: slow motion. I do yoga badly, avoid the seven pounds
Speaker 1: smoothies currency not weight, and escape to the botanic gardens
Speaker 1: when I need to see something green that is an
Speaker 1: envy or mold. Also naps, naps are resistance. Any advice
Speaker 1: for first time or is it the fringe? Make the
Speaker 1: show you want to see on your worst day. Forget hype,
Speaker 1: connect with the people in the room, and bring waterproof shoes. Always.
Speaker 1: If you could change one thing about the fringe, what
Speaker 1: would it be? And we keep hearing this theme subsidized
Speaker 1: a combination for artists. It's the biggest barrier access and
Speaker 1: it's exhausting to make meaningful, radical art while sharing a
Speaker 1: damp cupboard with a mime troop and a bologne smell
Speaker 1: that won't die. Waiting for texto at the Powder House
Speaker 1: at two twenty pm out in San Francisco, it sounds
Speaker 1: like Luigi the Musical is doing well. Luigi the Musical,
Speaker 1: of course, the dark comedic musical reading for the press
Speaker 1: release quote inspired by the true fact that Luigi Mangioni,
Speaker 1: Diddy and Sam Bankman Fried, three high profile public figures,
Speaker 1: were held simultaneously at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center. The show
Speaker 1: was set in a prison cell shared by the descriped cryptomobul,
Speaker 1: infamous media executive and the viral Italian sensation, an accused
Speaker 1: assassin guarded by one confused sergeant. They've been adding shows.
Speaker 1: The August sixth show is sold out. They've hadded another
Speaker 1: show on Monday, August eleventh. I bet you they wind
Speaker 1: up adding more. That is your comedy news for today
Speaker 1: on a very busy summer Monday. I love it. See
Speaker 1: you tomorrow