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<v Speaker 1>Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily

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<v Speaker 1>comedy news. Yesterday I revealed my top twenty five stand

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<v Speaker 1>up specials of the year so far. Today we'll take

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<v Speaker 1>a look at things that didn't make the list. But

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<v Speaker 1>first I want to list things that were funny but

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<v Speaker 1>not stand up specials, because, point blank, the best comedy

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<v Speaker 1>event of the year on your television was Conan O'Brien

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<v Speaker 1>the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor that

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<v Speaker 1>was on Netflix, far and away the best, even better

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<v Speaker 1>than Mark Maron special, which I have at number one.

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<v Speaker 1>Big names coming out to celebrate Conan O'Brien, including John Mulaney,

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<v Speaker 1>Will Farrow, Bill Burs, Stephen Colbert, David Letterman, even Adam Sailor,

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<v Speaker 1>Yes he was there, Triumph the Masturbating Bear. What could

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<v Speaker 1>you not want? A celebration of why Conan matters? Absolutely fantastic,

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<v Speaker 1>all right. Another thing that was really great Shane Gillis's

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<v Speaker 1>SB monologue on ESPN. Not a special, but it was

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen minutes or so of Shane doing what Shane does best,

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<v Speaker 1>not pulling any punches or really gotta laugh out of

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<v Speaker 1>me that Chuckley you just heard, was me flashing back

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<v Speaker 1>to some of the jokes he told that night fantastic.

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<v Speaker 1>I really liked Tom Sagora's Bad Thoughts on Netflix, specifically

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<v Speaker 1>the stuff that's totally not making fun of Garth Brooks.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not Garth Brooks at all. He's not making fun

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<v Speaker 1>of Garth Brooks. Why would you make fun of Garth Brooks.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not like Garth Brooks is a serial killer, which

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<v Speaker 1>he's not. What a wonderful show Tom Sagora's Bad Thoughts.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you watch Last One Laughing UK? That's on Amazon

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<v Speaker 1>Prime Video. They lock some funny people in a room

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<v Speaker 1>for six hours with one rule. Do not laugh. If

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<v Speaker 1>you laugh, you get a warning. If you laugh a

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<v Speaker 1>second time, you're out. Jimmy Carr is your host. One

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<v Speaker 1>of my favorites, Richard Ayuada was on there. Rob Beckett

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<v Speaker 1>did a great job. Bob Mortoner doing magic is hilarious.

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<v Speaker 1>It's fun to play along at home. You sit on

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<v Speaker 1>the couch and see if you can not laugh yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>I recommend on Last One Laughing. They're actually working on

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<v Speaker 1>a second season which will feature, among other people, Diane

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<v Speaker 1>Moore ran from the Kunk series. She's great and David

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<v Speaker 1>Mitchell from Mitchell and Webb. I'm looking forward to that.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe my favorite thing all year was Jonathan Kite's Anthony

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<v Speaker 1>Bourdain impression on Instagram just injected into my veins. He

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<v Speaker 1>could put out one of these every single day and

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<v Speaker 1>I would watch it. If you haven't seen it, find it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's incredible. Kite as Bordain visits places like in and

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<v Speaker 1>out Burger, can't get enough of it, and Shane Gillis

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<v Speaker 1>twice making less Tires on Netflix. It's like blue collar

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<v Speaker 1>The Office but in an auto repair shop. Fantastic show.

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<v Speaker 1>Can't get enough of Tires on Netflix. Yesterday I did

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<v Speaker 1>the top twenty five. Here are the specials that did

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<v Speaker 1>not make the list. I just want to acknowledge they

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<v Speaker 1>existed in no particular order. Bill Maher, is anyone else

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<v Speaker 1>seeing this? Nominated for a Golden Globe that was on HBO?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? Whatever, I know it's a hack line, but

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<v Speaker 1>the titles. Is anyone else seeing this? And apparently the

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<v Speaker 1>answer is no. I didn't see anybody talking about that,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's nominated for a globe. Okay. Andrew Schultz's Life

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<v Speaker 1>was on Netflix. It just didn't work for me. For me,

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<v Speaker 1>the storytelling felt off. I couldn't get into his journey.

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<v Speaker 1>I know a lot of people really like that one.

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<v Speaker 1>I just didn't connect with it. Rosebud Baker is the

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<v Speaker 1>mother Load. This was the one where she took two shows,

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<v Speaker 1>one in which she's pregnant and one after she had

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<v Speaker 1>the baby, and split them together. It just didn't work.

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<v Speaker 1>It was more distracting. Christa Stefano had one of the

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<v Speaker 1>Hulu specials this year. I was not a fan of

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<v Speaker 1>the Hilarious brand for the most part. His special, It's

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<v Speaker 1>just unfortunate. Here's my entire review hack. While we're being negative.

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<v Speaker 1>George Lopez is special on Amazon. I wrote the word horrific.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe Georgia actually released it. Lisa Trigger had

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<v Speaker 1>a special on Netflix called night Owl. She has tremendous energy.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't love the material, didn't connect with it. On Amazon,

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<v Speaker 1>Eliza Selessenger's a different animal. Now watch this one and

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<v Speaker 1>pay attention to her performance. She is reciting her act

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<v Speaker 1>as if she's in an empty room, no regard whatsoever

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<v Speaker 1>to how the crowd is reacting. She's not surfing the energy.

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<v Speaker 1>She's just got words in her brain, and the brain

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<v Speaker 1>is connected to the mouth and she's going to deliver them.

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<v Speaker 1>It's really, really weird. Another disappointment from Hulu Bill Burr's

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<v Speaker 1>dropped dead years. I know we're supposed to come away

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<v Speaker 1>impressed by how enlightened Bill has become. Those were the

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<v Speaker 1>talking points. The press spit back, Yeah, Bill, you're so

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<v Speaker 1>enlightened now. I think it's the example of how hilarious

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<v Speaker 1>is the brand you go to when you're on your

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<v Speaker 1>way down. I think Bill Burr might be past peak now.

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<v Speaker 1>He did not have a great year in general, his

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<v Speaker 1>late night appearances, everything around birth this year was bad.

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<v Speaker 1>I think Bill Burr might have had the worst year

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<v Speaker 1>in comedy. Let's think about that and we'll come back

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<v Speaker 1>and talk. Some more specials. Some more specials from twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty five that did not make my list. Steph Tolev's

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<v Speaker 1>Filth Queen on Netflix. I know people really like that one.

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<v Speaker 1>Filth Isn't my thing, so I was like, Eh, I

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<v Speaker 1>just don't want to do this. It's probably a very

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<v Speaker 1>funny special, It's not my thing. Devon Walker is loll

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<v Speaker 1>Live special on Hulu has one good Chris Rock joke.

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<v Speaker 1>Also on Hulu, Ralph Barbosa's Planet bos uh. This has

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<v Speaker 1>my typical notes. Civilians will like it, but I'm a

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<v Speaker 1>comedy snob. I never connected with this one, and I

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<v Speaker 1>like Barbosa a lot. I hope I'm wrong when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to my Hulu theory and Barbosa. I hope he's

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<v Speaker 1>still on the way up and hasn't peaked, because I

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<v Speaker 1>do like him. Joe lists small Ball on YouTube, I

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<v Speaker 1>did not believe a single word coming out of Joe's

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<v Speaker 1>mouth was true. I understand comedy. I understand repetition and exaggeration.

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<v Speaker 1>I get it. I know how it works. I also

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<v Speaker 1>understand that anyone up on a stage is doing a performance,

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<v Speaker 1>just like I'm doing a performance right now for this podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>I get it, but I need stuff grounded in reality,

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<v Speaker 1>like I'll break character for a second. Do I like

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<v Speaker 1>Adam Sandler movies? No? Do I walk around kicking my

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<v Speaker 1>dog all day because Adam Sandler put out Happy Gilmore too. No.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think about Adam Sandler at all unless I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sitting here in the studio with a microphone in my

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<v Speaker 1>hand and slipping into the Johnny Mack character. So this

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<v Speaker 1>is a performance, just like Joe lis Smallball as a performance,

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<v Speaker 1>But I didn't believe a word of it is true.

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<v Speaker 1>Opinions on Sailor are true. I'm just repeating them and

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<v Speaker 1>exaggerating them for effect. But the small ball material, Nope.

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<v Speaker 1>David Spade's Dandelion on Amazons started out really slow and

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<v Speaker 1>I lost interest. And maybe the back forty minutes is awesome,

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<v Speaker 1>but you know, dude, you got to get things going here.

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<v Speaker 1>We've heard comedians talk about Netflix specials that they're moving

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<v Speaker 1>their closers up to the first act because of people

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<v Speaker 1>like me. Maybe Spade needed to do that. Maybe his

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<v Speaker 1>closer is amazing. I'll never know. This next special actually

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<v Speaker 1>upset me from Hulu yet again. Sebastian maniscalcos he ain't right.

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<v Speaker 1>The trailer radicalized me. It's the editing and this and

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<v Speaker 1>Sebastian making the stupid faces. Enough with the stupid faces,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I put on the actual special and I

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<v Speaker 1>have come to the conclusion that Sebastian is doing a

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<v Speaker 1>character that I have called old man Dice Clay at

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<v Speaker 1>sixty years old. It's like if the Dice character just

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<v Speaker 1>got gray hair and decided he was going to work

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<v Speaker 1>clean and talk about food. That's what Sebastian doing. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what's going on there. And Jim Gaffigan's Bourbon

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<v Speaker 1>Set on YouTube clearly not his best work, but over

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<v Speaker 1>three and a half million people have watched on YouTube,

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<v Speaker 1>which all suggest I am a loser doing a podcast

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<v Speaker 1>in the basement whose opinions are just terrible. And Jim

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<v Speaker 1>Gaffigan is right. I cannot argue with any of that.

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<v Speaker 1>So those are the other specials that are quote not

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<v Speaker 1>on the list. Before we go, let's take a look

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<v Speaker 1>at the Golden Globes nominations for Best Performance in Stand

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<v Speaker 1>Up Comedy on Television. They are Bill Mahers, Is anyone

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<v Speaker 1>else seeing this? Brett Goldstein's The Second Best Night of

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<v Speaker 1>Your Life? That's in my top twenty five, Kevin Hart's

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<v Speaker 1>Acting My Age that was my number two, Camille nan

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<v Speaker 1>Gianni's Night Thoughts not out yet, Ricky Gervais's Mortality not

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<v Speaker 1>out yet, and Sarah Silverman's post Mortem also in my

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<v Speaker 1>top twenty five. And I don't get to pick the

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<v Speaker 1>Golden Globe. I don't know how I would give the

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<v Speaker 1>award to you here among the ones that I've seen,

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<v Speaker 1>so definitely not mar and I like Goldstein a lot,

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<v Speaker 1>but for me, I keep staring at Kevin Hart and

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<v Speaker 1>Sarah Silverman and where I'm strung buggling is I have

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<v Speaker 1>Kevin Hard as the number two special of the year

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<v Speaker 1>because it's funny but it's not art, and what Sarah

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<v Speaker 1>Silverman did, I would consider it to be art. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>the correct answer here would be Mark Marin special, which

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<v Speaker 1>was both funny and art. So I don't know. Could

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<v Speaker 1>I give a golden globe to Sarah Silverman and be like,

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<v Speaker 1>this is an award winning piece of work, whereas Kevin

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<v Speaker 1>Hard is just a good time in a theater for night.

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<v Speaker 1>Or is that unfair to Kevin Hart because John, you

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<v Speaker 1>got it at number two so it's funny and mission accomplished.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I think if I had to vote,

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<v Speaker 1>I think i'd vote for Sarah Silverman. Does that make

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<v Speaker 1>any sense? Maybe it doesn't. I'm not even sure it

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<v Speaker 1>makes sense to me anyway. That is the look at

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<v Speaker 1>this year's stand up comedy specials. Again, as I mentioned yesterday,

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<v Speaker 1>there are a few that I haven't been able to

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<v Speaker 1>watch yet because I tape this on Tuesdays to who

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<v Speaker 1>accommodate my publicist, and some aren't out yet. Friday Night,

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<v Speaker 1>Sarah Sherman released Live plus in the Flesh Tonight on Netflix,

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<v Speaker 1>Robbie Hoffman's Wake Up. I could see both of those

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<v Speaker 1>making a revised version of this list. December nineteenth, com

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<v Speaker 1>Ounanjianni's Night Thoughts. Vulture has that as their best special

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<v Speaker 1>of the year. I'll believe it when I see it.

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<v Speaker 1>Tom Sigora's Teachers on Netflix Christmas, even Ricky Gervai's Mortality

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<v Speaker 1>on Netflix December thirtieth. So I will do a revised, updated,

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<v Speaker 1>quick flyover version of these lists at the end of

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<v Speaker 1>the year, but for now, because I had a hand

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<v Speaker 1>on the homework, those are my top twenty five stand

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<v Speaker 1>up specials of the year. I listened to yesterday's episode.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll combine with today, and those are my thoughts on

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<v Speaker 1>the year. I would like to hear your thoughts. And

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<v Speaker 1>we have a Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News

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<v Speaker 1>Podcast Group. I'll remind everybody it's just a list. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just a dude in the basement hosting a podcast. Your

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<v Speaker 1>list will be different. Your list is valid. My list

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<v Speaker 1>is valid. Vultures list is valid, Golden Globes list is valid.

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<v Speaker 1>It's all valid. It's comedy, it's art, it's subjective, whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just a list I'll see tomorrow.