Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Yesterday I revealed my top twenty five stand
Speaker 1: up specials of the year so far. Today we'll take
Speaker 1: a look at things that didn't make the list. But
Speaker 1: first I want to list things that were funny but
Speaker 1: not stand up specials, because, point blank, the best comedy
Speaker 1: event of the year on your television was Conan O'Brien
Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor that
Speaker 1: was on Netflix, far and away the best, even better
Speaker 1: than Mark Maron special, which I have at number one.
Speaker 1: Big names coming out to celebrate Conan O'Brien, including John Mulaney,
Speaker 1: Will Farrow, Bill Burs, Stephen Colbert, David Letterman, even Adam Sailor,
Speaker 1: Yes he was there, Triumph the Masturbating Bear. What could
Speaker 1: you not want? A celebration of why Conan matters? Absolutely fantastic,
Speaker 1: all right. Another thing that was really great Shane Gillis's
Speaker 1: SB monologue on ESPN. Not a special, but it was
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes or so of Shane doing what Shane does best,
Speaker 1: not pulling any punches or really gotta laugh out of
Speaker 1: me that Chuckley you just heard, was me flashing back
Speaker 1: to some of the jokes he told that night fantastic.
Speaker 1: I really liked Tom Sagora's Bad Thoughts on Netflix, specifically
Speaker 1: the stuff that's totally not making fun of Garth Brooks.
Speaker 1: It's not Garth Brooks at all. He's not making fun
Speaker 1: of Garth Brooks. Why would you make fun of Garth Brooks.
Speaker 1: It's not like Garth Brooks is a serial killer, which
Speaker 1: he's not. What a wonderful show Tom Sagora's Bad Thoughts.
Speaker 1: Did you watch Last One Laughing UK? That's on Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime Video. They lock some funny people in a room
Speaker 1: for six hours with one rule. Do not laugh. If
Speaker 1: you laugh, you get a warning. If you laugh a
Speaker 1: second time, you're out. Jimmy Carr is your host. One
Speaker 1: of my favorites, Richard Ayuada was on there. Rob Beckett
Speaker 1: did a great job. Bob Mortoner doing magic is hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's fun to play along at home. You sit on
Speaker 1: the couch and see if you can not laugh yourself.
Speaker 1: I recommend on Last One Laughing. They're actually working on
Speaker 1: a second season which will feature, among other people, Diane
Speaker 1: Moore ran from the Kunk series. She's great and David
Speaker 1: Mitchell from Mitchell and Webb. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Maybe my favorite thing all year was Jonathan Kite's Anthony
Speaker 1: Bourdain impression on Instagram just injected into my veins. He
Speaker 1: could put out one of these every single day and
Speaker 1: I would watch it. If you haven't seen it, find it.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. Kite as Bordain visits places like in and
Speaker 1: out Burger, can't get enough of it, and Shane Gillis
Speaker 1: twice making less Tires on Netflix. It's like blue collar
Speaker 1: The Office but in an auto repair shop. Fantastic show.
Speaker 1: Can't get enough of Tires on Netflix. Yesterday I did
Speaker 1: the top twenty five. Here are the specials that did
Speaker 1: not make the list. I just want to acknowledge they
Speaker 1: existed in no particular order. Bill Maher, is anyone else
Speaker 1: seeing this? Nominated for a Golden Globe that was on HBO?
Speaker 1: All right? Whatever, I know it's a hack line, but
Speaker 1: the titles. Is anyone else seeing this? And apparently the
Speaker 1: answer is no. I didn't see anybody talking about that,
Speaker 1: but it's nominated for a globe. Okay. Andrew Schultz's Life
Speaker 1: was on Netflix. It just didn't work for me. For me,
Speaker 1: the storytelling felt off. I couldn't get into his journey.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people really like that one.
Speaker 1: I just didn't connect with it. Rosebud Baker is the
Speaker 1: mother Load. This was the one where she took two shows,
Speaker 1: one in which she's pregnant and one after she had
Speaker 1: the baby, and split them together. It just didn't work.
Speaker 1: It was more distracting. Christa Stefano had one of the
Speaker 1: Hulu specials this year. I was not a fan of
Speaker 1: the Hilarious brand for the most part. His special, It's
Speaker 1: just unfortunate. Here's my entire review hack. While we're being negative.
Speaker 1: George Lopez is special on Amazon. I wrote the word horrific.
Speaker 1: I can't believe Georgia actually released it. Lisa Trigger had
Speaker 1: a special on Netflix called night Owl. She has tremendous energy.
Speaker 1: I didn't love the material, didn't connect with it. On Amazon,
Speaker 1: Eliza Selessenger's a different animal. Now watch this one and
Speaker 1: pay attention to her performance. She is reciting her act
Speaker 1: as if she's in an empty room, no regard whatsoever
Speaker 1: to how the crowd is reacting. She's not surfing the energy.
Speaker 1: She's just got words in her brain, and the brain
Speaker 1: is connected to the mouth and she's going to deliver them.
Speaker 1: It's really, really weird. Another disappointment from Hulu Bill Burr's
Speaker 1: dropped dead years. I know we're supposed to come away
Speaker 1: impressed by how enlightened Bill has become. Those were the
Speaker 1: talking points. The press spit back, Yeah, Bill, you're so
Speaker 1: enlightened now. I think it's the example of how hilarious
Speaker 1: is the brand you go to when you're on your
Speaker 1: way down. I think Bill Burr might be past peak now.
Speaker 1: He did not have a great year in general, his
Speaker 1: late night appearances, everything around birth this year was bad.
Speaker 1: I think Bill Burr might have had the worst year
Speaker 1: in comedy. Let's think about that and we'll come back
Speaker 1: and talk. Some more specials. Some more specials from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five that did not make my list. Steph Tolev's
Speaker 1: Filth Queen on Netflix. I know people really like that one.
Speaker 1: Filth Isn't my thing, so I was like, Eh, I
Speaker 1: just don't want to do this. It's probably a very
Speaker 1: funny special, It's not my thing. Devon Walker is loll
Speaker 1: Live special on Hulu has one good Chris Rock joke.
Speaker 1: Also on Hulu, Ralph Barbosa's Planet bos uh. This has
Speaker 1: my typical notes. Civilians will like it, but I'm a
Speaker 1: comedy snob. I never connected with this one, and I
Speaker 1: like Barbosa a lot. I hope I'm wrong when it
Speaker 1: comes to my Hulu theory and Barbosa. I hope he's
Speaker 1: still on the way up and hasn't peaked, because I
Speaker 1: do like him. Joe lists small Ball on YouTube, I
Speaker 1: did not believe a single word coming out of Joe's
Speaker 1: mouth was true. I understand comedy. I understand repetition and exaggeration.
Speaker 1: I get it. I know how it works. I also
Speaker 1: understand that anyone up on a stage is doing a performance,
Speaker 1: just like I'm doing a performance right now for this podcast.
Speaker 1: I get it, but I need stuff grounded in reality,
Speaker 1: like I'll break character for a second. Do I like
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler movies? No? Do I walk around kicking my
Speaker 1: dog all day because Adam Sandler put out Happy Gilmore too. No.
Speaker 1: I don't think about Adam Sandler at all unless I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here in the studio with a microphone in my
Speaker 1: hand and slipping into the Johnny Mack character. So this
Speaker 1: is a performance, just like Joe lis Smallball as a performance,
Speaker 1: But I didn't believe a word of it is true.
Speaker 1: Opinions on Sailor are true. I'm just repeating them and
Speaker 1: exaggerating them for effect. But the small ball material, Nope.
Speaker 1: David Spade's Dandelion on Amazons started out really slow and
Speaker 1: I lost interest. And maybe the back forty minutes is awesome,
Speaker 1: but you know, dude, you got to get things going here.
Speaker 1: We've heard comedians talk about Netflix specials that they're moving
Speaker 1: their closers up to the first act because of people
Speaker 1: like me. Maybe Spade needed to do that. Maybe his
Speaker 1: closer is amazing. I'll never know. This next special actually
Speaker 1: upset me from Hulu yet again. Sebastian maniscalcos he ain't right.
Speaker 1: The trailer radicalized me. It's the editing and this and
Speaker 1: Sebastian making the stupid faces. Enough with the stupid faces,
Speaker 1: and then I put on the actual special and I
Speaker 1: have come to the conclusion that Sebastian is doing a
Speaker 1: character that I have called old man Dice Clay at
Speaker 1: sixty years old. It's like if the Dice character just
Speaker 1: got gray hair and decided he was going to work
Speaker 1: clean and talk about food. That's what Sebastian doing. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on there. And Jim Gaffigan's Bourbon
Speaker 1: Set on YouTube clearly not his best work, but over
Speaker 1: three and a half million people have watched on YouTube,
Speaker 1: which all suggest I am a loser doing a podcast
Speaker 1: in the basement whose opinions are just terrible. And Jim
Speaker 1: Gaffigan is right. I cannot argue with any of that.
Speaker 1: So those are the other specials that are quote not
Speaker 1: on the list. Before we go, let's take a look
Speaker 1: at the Golden Globes nominations for Best Performance in Stand
Speaker 1: Up Comedy on Television. They are Bill Mahers, Is anyone
Speaker 1: else seeing this? Brett Goldstein's The Second Best Night of
Speaker 1: Your Life? That's in my top twenty five, Kevin Hart's
Speaker 1: Acting My Age that was my number two, Camille nan
Speaker 1: Gianni's Night Thoughts not out yet, Ricky Gervais's Mortality not
Speaker 1: out yet, and Sarah Silverman's post Mortem also in my
Speaker 1: top twenty five. And I don't get to pick the
Speaker 1: Golden Globe. I don't know how I would give the
Speaker 1: award to you here among the ones that I've seen,
Speaker 1: so definitely not mar and I like Goldstein a lot,
Speaker 1: but for me, I keep staring at Kevin Hart and
Speaker 1: Sarah Silverman and where I'm strung buggling is I have
Speaker 1: Kevin Hard as the number two special of the year
Speaker 1: because it's funny but it's not art, and what Sarah
Speaker 1: Silverman did, I would consider it to be art. Now,
Speaker 1: the correct answer here would be Mark Marin special, which
Speaker 1: was both funny and art. So I don't know. Could
Speaker 1: I give a golden globe to Sarah Silverman and be like,
Speaker 1: this is an award winning piece of work, whereas Kevin
Speaker 1: Hard is just a good time in a theater for night.
Speaker 1: Or is that unfair to Kevin Hart because John, you
Speaker 1: got it at number two so it's funny and mission accomplished.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think if I had to vote,
Speaker 1: I think i'd vote for Sarah Silverman. Does that make
Speaker 1: any sense? Maybe it doesn't. I'm not even sure it
Speaker 1: makes sense to me anyway. That is the look at
Speaker 1: this year's stand up comedy specials. Again, as I mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 1: there are a few that I haven't been able to
Speaker 1: watch yet because I tape this on Tuesdays to who
Speaker 1: accommodate my publicist, and some aren't out yet. Friday Night,
Speaker 1: Sarah Sherman released Live plus in the Flesh Tonight on Netflix,
Speaker 1: Robbie Hoffman's Wake Up. I could see both of those
Speaker 1: making a revised version of this list. December nineteenth, com
Speaker 1: Ounanjianni's Night Thoughts. Vulture has that as their best special
Speaker 1: of the year. I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 1: Tom Sigora's Teachers on Netflix Christmas, even Ricky Gervai's Mortality
Speaker 1: on Netflix December thirtieth. So I will do a revised, updated,
Speaker 1: quick flyover version of these lists at the end of
Speaker 1: the year, but for now, because I had a hand
Speaker 1: on the homework, those are my top twenty five stand
Speaker 1: up specials of the year. I listened to yesterday's episode.
Speaker 1: I'll combine with today, and those are my thoughts on
Speaker 1: the year. I would like to hear your thoughts. And
Speaker 1: we have a Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News
Speaker 1: Podcast Group. I'll remind everybody it's just a list. I'm
Speaker 1: just a dude in the basement hosting a podcast. Your
Speaker 1: list will be different. Your list is valid. My list
Speaker 1: is valid. Vultures list is valid, Golden Globes list is valid.
Speaker 1: It's all valid. It's comedy, it's art, it's subjective, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's just a list I'll see tomorrow.