Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily
Speaker 1: Comedy News. Did you watch the Big Joe Rogan Live
Speaker 1: Special on Netflix? What did you think? It was incredibly ordinary?
Speaker 1: I have woken up on Sunday morning and I'm just
Speaker 1: not excited about it. I didn't dislike it. You can
Speaker 1: find my notes in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News
Speaker 1: podcast Group. I found the first ten minutes borderline hacky.
Speaker 1: To be honest. There were a couple of times I
Speaker 1: saw the twists and the punchlines coming, and that's not
Speaker 1: a good thing. Most of the material somebody posted on
Speaker 1: one of the social media groups I've been bouncing between
Speaker 1: Threads and Twitter lately, and somebody wrote it was like
Speaker 1: Joe took the last five years of his podcast and
Speaker 1: distilled it down into an hour and just nothing surprising,
Speaker 1: nothing amazing. I didn't feel like he had anything to say.
Speaker 1: The storytelling was fine. Again, not a miserable hour, but
Speaker 1: it was okay. And I'm wondering if it hurt the
Speaker 1: Netflix brand. And I'm looking at this through a Netflix perspective.
Speaker 1: Maybe they knew that they didn't have something good. I
Speaker 1: talked about during the week how there was no buzz
Speaker 1: on this. It wasn't really being promoted, and maybe Netflix
Speaker 1: knew that it wasn't that good and it wasn't that good. Also,
Speaker 1: of note, somebody pointed out on social media the captions
Speaker 1: were ahead of Joe, so maybe they pre captioned it
Speaker 1: from one of the rehearsal shows, or he was on
Speaker 1: some sort of delay, or there's some aspect to technology.
Speaker 1: I don't understand where the captions are ahead of the video,
Speaker 1: but the captions were definitely ahead of the video. Whatever
Speaker 1: that was about for a live special Cracked Road. Imagine
Speaker 1: if someone gave you a Joe Rogan Bingo card in
Speaker 1: advance of the live special. The card is all the
Speaker 1: usual topics he'd find it, a month's worth of Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan experience podcasts, alien probes, fear Factor, COVID, vaccines, trans people,
Speaker 1: gay people, UFC, Fox News, Alex Jones, China, Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: the n slurr, the F slurr, the r slur and
Speaker 1: whether or not Joe Rogan is canceled. Congratulations, your card
Speaker 1: just won the game horizontally, vertically, and diagonally over the
Speaker 1: course of his special tonight. And I think it was
Speaker 1: about an hour three, hour four. Rogan played every one
Speaker 1: of these greatest hits the person from Cracked Rights. As
Speaker 1: I watched Burn the Boats, I was already predicting headlines
Speaker 1: like varieties, Joe Rogan, slam's COVID vaccines, come a trans people,
Speaker 1: and yep. Brogan provided plenty of individual lines to cherry pick,
Speaker 1: supporting any argument anyone wants to make against him. But
Speaker 1: the special was way more toothless than you might think.
Speaker 1: When Rogan dished out punchlines that were met with awkward silence,
Speaker 1: he had already made retort, They're just jokes, folks, No
Speaker 1: one's getting hurt. The problem wasn't lame material. It was
Speaker 1: people who were too serious. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: that wasn't the problem. The San Antonio crowd was at
Speaker 1: a whoop it up mood, roaring no matter which side
Speaker 1: of the fence Rogan straddled in any given moment. The
Speaker 1: Daily Beast wrote, Joe Rogan is keeping Austin weird, and
Speaker 1: not in a good way. Like Donald Trump and JD. Vance.
Speaker 1: Rogan needed his viewers to know that he's not weird.
Speaker 1: It's the new reality that's weird, arguing you can't just
Speaker 1: put lipstick on Now you can poop in the woman's room.
Speaker 1: When his fans cheered him on, he grabbed a drink
Speaker 1: of water and chuckled all of a sudden. It's an
Speaker 1: eight rally. So while I added to my best of
Speaker 1: twenty four list, I have added it in the currently
Speaker 1: last position, seventeenth best. It's watchable. If it hadn't been live,
Speaker 1: I probably would have bailed around the forty two minute mark.
Speaker 1: I kind of had enough of it. It's a little
Speaker 1: too long again. It's not awful, but it's not really
Speaker 1: interesting at all. So I have it at seventeenth, behind
Speaker 1: Rachel Feinstein at sixteen, Taylor Thomlinson at fifteen, and take
Speaker 1: Nataro at fourteen. We'll see though, as the year goes on,
Speaker 1: I may pull that off list. I'm really wishy washy
Speaker 1: on this. I'm wondering too if it did some damage
Speaker 1: to the Netflix Hey Live special brand? Right, these have
Speaker 1: been all exciting so far and this one was kind
Speaker 1: of eh. And the damage it does there is if
Speaker 1: they announced comedian X live on Netflix, you're now more
Speaker 1: a tempted to be like, eh, all right, those are okay,
Speaker 1: very curious to me that they didn't promote it, and
Speaker 1: I think now we know why. In other news, Molly
Speaker 1: Kearney is not returning to Saturday Night Live for season fifty.
Speaker 1: On Instagram, Molly wrote, that's a wrap on my time
Speaker 1: on SNL, reflecting on the amazing two seasons I got
Speaker 1: in the show was such a dream come true. So
Speaker 1: incredibly grateful for this period of my life. So much
Speaker 1: love to my big hearted buddies behind the scenes who
Speaker 1: make the magic happen every week. So many bald caps,
Speaker 1: so a little time. I'm not really a big loss
Speaker 1: from a viewers standpoint, Late Nighter points out, with the
Speaker 1: exception of the Police Don't Destroy Guys, Kearney had the
Speaker 1: least amount of screen time in season forty nine, with
Speaker 1: less than twenty five minutes over all. Punky Johnson, who's
Speaker 1: also leaving the show, had the next least amount of
Speaker 1: screen time at thirty seven minutes and thirteen seconds. So
Speaker 1: next up on the list of who wasn't really on
Speaker 1: the show much Michael Longfellow thirty nine minutes, seventeen seconds.
Speaker 1: Season fifty premieres September twenty eighth on NBC. I checked
Speaker 1: in with Dan Buobletz Junior and I'm like, hey, did
Speaker 1: anybody throw an ax at you during your set? Nobody did,
Speaker 1: which is a good thing. So congratulations to Dan and
Speaker 1: the folks at laugh Out Loveland. Conan O'Brien had on
Speaker 1: what's her name? You should prep the story? Why don't
Speaker 1: you redo this? John? No, I'm just having a brain
Speaker 1: fart and I'm leaving it in. Nicki Glazer is who
Speaker 1: was on. I could have easily redone that, but that's
Speaker 1: not fun. So there's Conan and his guest. Who is it?
Speaker 1: That's right, Nicki Glazer. They started talking about Conan being
Speaker 1: on hot Ones. She was curious how Conan prepared for
Speaker 1: Hot Ones. His solution be a total a hole. Conan said,
Speaker 1: my first thought was I don't want to just taste
Speaker 1: the wings and talk about the wings. I have to
Speaker 1: go on and be a total a hole. Glaziers said,
Speaker 1: You're not someone who drinks a lot, and you don't
Speaker 1: lose control. You're always in control, even if you're seemingly
Speaker 1: out of control. And I felt like it was the
Speaker 1: first time I'd ever seen you maybe on the brink
Speaker 1: of losing control because you were in so much pain,
Speaker 1: but you were fighting it. You still had it, and
Speaker 1: it was one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Conan says, it sounds crazy, but if I think something's
Speaker 1: funny and it's going well, the performance energy or whatever
Speaker 1: that just takes over. He told a quick anecdote. A
Speaker 1: car filled with big jackey guys backed over my foot
Speaker 1: about ten years ago, and I think broke it. I
Speaker 1: was having a good time, and rather than ruin the evening,
Speaker 1: I just decided, skirt, my foot isn't broken. So I
Speaker 1: went out and had a lot of fun with these people.
Speaker 1: And then I woke up in the morning and my
Speaker 1: wife saw my foot and it didn't look like a
Speaker 1: foot anymore, and she said, we gotta go to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Colin Jost has a new TV gig. He is the
Speaker 1: host of Amazon Prime Videos upcoming Pop Culture Jeopardy. Pop
Speaker 1: Culture Jeopardy in case you don't know what it is
Speaker 1: from the title is a brand new twist on the
Speaker 1: classic quiz shows answer and question format that combines the
Speaker 1: academic rigor of Jeopardy with the excitement and unpredictability of
Speaker 1: pop culture. I'll take who Cares for two hundred The
Speaker 1: answer pop Culture Jeopardy ding what is something Johnny Max
Speaker 1: is not gonna bother watching. Contestants playing in teams of
Speaker 1: three will need to be experts in categories from alternative
Speaker 1: rock to the Avengers, Broadway to MMA and copyrighting, Rule
Speaker 1: of three gen Z to Zendeia as they compete in
Speaker 1: a tournament style event for the grand prize and ultimate
Speaker 1: bragging rights. That's right, ultimate bragging rights. You know who
Speaker 1: I am? I won pop Culture Jeopardy hosted by Colin
Speaker 1: Jost on Amazon Prime Video. That's who I am imagine
Speaker 1: having that bragging rights. Wow. Lauren Anderson is a suit
Speaker 1: over in Amazon and said We're thrilled to welcome the
Speaker 1: multi talented Colin Jost as the host of Pop Culture Jeopardy.
Speaker 1: The New York posted a lengthy interview with Nate Bergiazzi.
Speaker 1: How lengthy was it? So lengthy? I saved some of
Speaker 1: it for an upcoming vacation day that's not for months
Speaker 1: from now. I've got a little folder and I'm like, ah,
Speaker 1: here's some leftover Nate stuff. So months from now, when
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, this sounds kind of generic, I wonder
Speaker 1: if this is the vacation day Johnny Mack was talking
Speaker 1: about back in August you'll be right, Nate says, right now,
Speaker 1: I don't have a new hour, So these final shows
Speaker 1: on my Be Funny Tour, I'm adding a few new things.
Speaker 1: The fun part is when you get done taping and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, what else is there to
Speaker 1: talk about? But then you find stuff and you get
Speaker 1: laughs on the new jokes. I have one about door
Speaker 1: Dash that I came up with right after the special,
Speaker 1: Nate told the Post after S and L I'd go
Speaker 1: to every town and say I met the Foo Fighters.
Speaker 1: They with a musical guest on his episode, and then
Speaker 1: I'd say Dave Girls from here. Truth be told, I
Speaker 1: don't know where Dave Girl's from. You know that famous
Speaker 1: Georgia Washington sketch which is an all timer, and Nate
Speaker 1: said it almost didn't make it to air when we
Speaker 1: did a table read. I wasn't into it. My timing
Speaker 1: is based off crowd, so George Washington didn't look like
Speaker 1: it was going to be a good sketch. And then
Speaker 1: Lauren let me do it during the dress rehearsal. It
Speaker 1: was the last sketch he knew. I liked it, and
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, let's see what it's going to
Speaker 1: be and it destroyed. Streeter Siddell and mikey Day wrote
Speaker 1: the George Washington sketch. I did it just as they
Speaker 1: wrote it. It was written in my voice so well that
Speaker 1: people think I was involved with the process. That's the
Speaker 1: first time I did anything where it was with words
Speaker 1: that I hadn't written, which was new. That's just how
Speaker 1: good they are to be able to do that, especially
Speaker 1: someone like me, who only does words that I write. Yeah,
Speaker 1: million years ago, when Jim Burrer was doing Afternoon Drive
Speaker 1: at Serious raw Dog Comedy, I would write promos in
Speaker 1: Jim's voice, and I had it down pretty well. I
Speaker 1: don't mean a half ass impression. I mean writing words
Speaker 1: that would sound like words Jim Burer would say. Nate says,
Speaker 1: there was one sketch I liked that I wish could
Speaker 1: have gotten on, but didn't even make it to dress rehearsal.
Speaker 1: It was about this assistant coach that keeps bringing up
Speaker 1: that he needs the team to pitch in fifty dollars
Speaker 1: for uniforms. Like, hey, I didn't get all the money
Speaker 1: from everybody. Nate says, A fortunate to get asked back.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll try that one he talked about the sing
Speaker 1: along Lake Beach. That was James Austin Johnson. He's originally
Speaker 1: a stand up comedian from Nashville. Funny Nate said, all
Speaker 1: that wait for the next story, wait for it went
Speaker 1: out there. You had funny enough. Our dads know each
Speaker 1: other from college. I'm older than him, but saw him
Speaker 1: when he first started Nashville. So that was a song
Speaker 1: that I think he was doing on the road. They
Speaker 1: asked me d sing and I was like, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Then when they did the sketch at the table read
Speaker 1: I saw them do the song, I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I can do that. I don't have to be a Dell.
Speaker 1: Speaking of James Austin Johnson and Nashville, James Austin Johnson
Speaker 1: spoke to the Nashville Scene. I didn't even do this
Speaker 1: on purpose, James said, I bought a truck and I'm
Speaker 1: doing the first round of a cycling that I promised
Speaker 1: everyone I would do as soon as I got a truck,
Speaker 1: because not having a truck was the excuse for not
Speaker 1: hauling anything, which was a good excuse to not haul anything.
Speaker 1: He loves Nashville. When I was coming up, it just
Speaker 1: didn't feel like there was a path in comedy. This
Speaker 1: was pre podcasting, and many of the lanes in stand
Speaker 1: up felt just kind of frozen in time. I knew
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna be Killer Bees, that's a famous Southern comedian.
Speaker 1: And I knew I was going to be a guitar
Speaker 1: comic or something like that. So I looked around and
Speaker 1: I just felt like I was a bit impatient with
Speaker 1: what my path could be. His parents started driving him
Speaker 1: to classes and auditions. That path was two decades long.
Speaker 1: On that path, he met local comedy crew corporate Juggernaut,
Speaker 1: who brought in then up and coming comics like Pete
Speaker 1: Holmes and Kyle Kanaane James says, so God bless my parents.
Speaker 1: They always supported me, even though they might not have
Speaker 1: seen what I saw. They might not have had the
Speaker 1: vision I had, But my sweet dad he drove me
Speaker 1: out to LA from my final semester of college. And
Speaker 1: I'll always be fully indebted to them for the support
Speaker 1: that they could give. Tom Popat told Wtop my act
Speaker 1: is kind of the special place where I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time making sure that you're gonna laugh every
Speaker 1: ten seconds for an hour and a half. It's evergreen.
Speaker 1: You want stuff that'll laugh, and people can go and
Speaker 1: tell this joke to their friends for the next five
Speaker 1: or ten years. Something that happens in the news, that's
Speaker 1: for Colbert or Kimmel in those places. Those are daily shows,
Speaker 1: and that's where that stuff belongs. What about the ballot, podcast, ballot,
Speaker 1: wherever you get your shows? Tom says, I talk a
Speaker 1: lot about family. I talk a lot about mental health,
Speaker 1: talk a lot about the pets that are ruining my life.
Speaker 1: I find his comedy extremely relatable, really enjoy it. I
Speaker 1: talk about how my family's always changing and evolving, how
Speaker 1: my parents came and had an insurrection in my house
Speaker 1: for two weeks. Matt Friend will be the celebrity host
Speaker 1: for this year's KC Superstar Finals. When are they John Sunday,
Speaker 1: August twenty fifth, What is it? What will he be doing? Well?
Speaker 1: As host of the event, Matt Friend will be charged
Speaker 1: with interviewing with all ten KC Superstar finalists throughout the evening.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of teen singers from across the region have participated
Speaker 1: in KC Superstar since its inception, and several competitors have
Speaker 1: continued to perform professionally. Case Superstar provides over twenty two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a random number in scholarships to the top
Speaker 1: ten finalists who come from across the metro area. Some
Speaker 1: publicists must have put out this sentence which got written.
Speaker 1: Friend has become a popular comedic figure on social media,
Speaker 1: stages in red carpets worldwide, earning praise from notable names
Speaker 1: such as Howard Stern, Jeff Goldbloom, Paul Giamati, Austen Butler,
Speaker 1: Doctor fauci Leev schreiber, Sebastian Maniscalco, and John Oliver for
Speaker 1: his spot on impressions. I doubt that the local paper
Speaker 1: came up with that on their own, but I could
Speaker 1: be wrong, because here's another sentence. Friend's passion for comedy
Speaker 1: and entertainment has propelled him to great heights, amassing over
Speaker 1: one million followers on TikTok, Instagram and other social platforms,
Speaker 1: and they got his handles in there. Friend is known
Speaker 1: for his impressive repertoire of over two hundred and fifty impressions,
Speaker 1: from Jeff Goldbloom to Timothy Schallamey to Stanley Tucci. Tammy
Speaker 1: is a producer at Casey Superstar and says, we are
Speaker 1: so thrilled to have Matt Friend as our celebrity host
Speaker 1: for our finals. You can read between the lines in
Speaker 1: our last story, I didn't say anything. Read the transcript back,
Speaker 1: I did not say a thing. According to Late Nighter,
Speaker 1: Punky Johnson will not be returning to Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: Apparently Punky announced this at a live comedy show at
Speaker 1: Union Hall and Brooklyn. Someone at the show posted Punky
Speaker 1: is leaving SNL. She said this was fine a share online,
Speaker 1: so I guess Twitter is the first to know. Definitely
Speaker 1: wasn't a joke either, Like she's actually gone and she's
Speaker 1: very happy about it. Other people at the event then
Speaker 1: operated the story. Not sticking around for season fifty is
Speaker 1: a curious move. We'll see whose choice it was. And
Speaker 1: that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy
Speaker 1: the program, tell a friend about it. They might like
Speaker 1: it too. Don't tell Matt friend about it. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna like it tomorrow.