Speaker 1: Hey, John, this is what we call a new top,
Speaker 1: where you take something and you put a new opening
Speaker 1: on it. I had already recorded today's episode to accommodate
Speaker 1: my teaching schedule yesterday, but just there's a few things
Speaker 1: out there that I didn't want to let go another day.
Speaker 1: Krackt wrote a really nice piece about Rob Reiner and
Speaker 1: his influence on comedy. Excerpting from the Cracked piece, they wrote,
Speaker 1: it couldn't have been easy to be the son of
Speaker 1: Carl Reiner, creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, comedy
Speaker 1: partner to Mel Brooks, and frequent director of the early
Speaker 1: movies of Steve Martin. But somehow Rob Reiner not only
Speaker 1: met his father's legacy, but arguably surpassed it. It started
Speaker 1: with young Reiner being cast as Hollywood's resident hippie in
Speaker 1: several nineteen sixty sitcoms like The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman, and
Speaker 1: The Long Haired Peace Lover Who Turns Gomer Pyle onto
Speaker 1: the Counterculture. Those roles led to Reiner beating out Richard
Speaker 1: Dreyfus and Harrison Ford for the part of Archie Bunker's
Speaker 1: meadhead son in law Mike Stivick on all in the family.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize those guys were up for it. Wow.
Speaker 1: Rob won two Emmy Awards for delivering liberal counterpunches to
Speaker 1: Archie's bigoted diet tribes. I'm shocked that that hasn't come
Speaker 1: back in modern times. It just seems kind of perfect
Speaker 1: to have an Archie Bunker like character and somebody in
Speaker 1: the mike'stivic role. Maybe it's too much of a shadow
Speaker 1: to cast, but we've brought everything else back. I was
Speaker 1: really surprised before the Biden administration, I'll put it that way,
Speaker 1: that it didn't come back, and I'm kind of surprised
Speaker 1: it's not back now crack rights. For comedy fans, Reiner's
Speaker 1: lasting contribution will be This Is Spinal Tap, the mockumentary
Speaker 1: that cut so close to the satirical bone that many
Speaker 1: early audiences thought the band was the genuine article. The
Speaker 1: director's underrated, deadpan performance as Marty Devergie made him the
Speaker 1: perfect straight man Foyle. Reiner's movie wasn't the first mock documentary,
Speaker 1: but was the most influential, inspiring the Christopher Guest films
Speaker 1: as well as a generation of street to camera sitcoms
Speaker 1: like The Office. On his website. Ricky Gervay says it
Speaker 1: was a big thing for me. When I first saw
Speaker 1: this as spinal Tap in about nineteen eighty three, I
Speaker 1: immediately watched it again. I can't remember a film I've
Speaker 1: done that with before or since. To get so deep
Speaker 1: into the genre that they were spoofing the details of
Speaker 1: human behavior, and then to do it all and someone
Speaker 1: else's native accent just blew me away. There's just a
Speaker 1: few things that go to comedy Heaven. While I've got
Speaker 1: you a few other things in the news. Amy Schumer
Speaker 1: did announce her divorce over the weekend. Really weird statement.
Speaker 1: I'll dive into that tomorrow. I've got some thoughts about it.
Speaker 1: Watch two comedy specials and Boy if you like the
Speaker 1: comedy stock Market segment on Friday, it was on point.
Speaker 1: I had warned you all that I didn't think America
Speaker 1: was ready for Sarah Sherman's Sarah Squirm persona and Boy.
Speaker 1: According to the conversation in the Facebook group Daily Comedy
Speaker 1: News podcast group, people were not feeling Sarah's Squirm. I
Speaker 1: put it on and I was like, this is pretty good.
Speaker 1: What's the problem with everybody? And twenty minutes in it
Speaker 1: just fatigued me. It's just a lot. It's not bad,
Speaker 1: it's not horrific like George Lopez's Amazon special. It's just
Speaker 1: a lot, like a lot coming at you and your
Speaker 1: brain has to work really hard to watch it. And
Speaker 1: then she went into a routine that just dragged for
Speaker 1: me and I have comedy add and I wound up
Speaker 1: pushing that exit button on the remote and watched two
Speaker 1: episodes of the Diplomat. The new season's pretty good. Then
Speaker 1: on Sunday night it was footballed out and I watched
Speaker 1: Robbie Hoffman Special on Netflix. Okay, that one is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it ranks, but it's in the conversation
Speaker 1: in that top tier. So my top tier if you
Speaker 1: listen to Saturday's episode was Maren and then Kevin Hart
Speaker 1: and Matt Rife. Robbie Special is in the conversation with
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart and Matt Rife. Now those two are probably
Speaker 1: pound funnier, but Robbie, same thing I said about Kevin
Speaker 1: Hart Versarah Silverman. Robbie is doing higher art. It might
Speaker 1: be the second best special year. At worst, it's fourth.
Speaker 1: If you haven't watched Robbie Hoffman on Netflix, do it
Speaker 1: all right, So those are new thoughts, and now let's
Speaker 1: join the originally recorded Tuesday episode Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there,
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Anthony Jill
Speaker 1: spoke with Vulture about his book club that he's starting.
Speaker 1: Now we'll get into that tomorrow because I like when
Speaker 1: comedians mix it up. The question here for jessel Nick
Speaker 1: was what do you think about Bill Burr's year? Now,
Speaker 1: that's interesting, phrazing, because I said on Sunday's podcast, right,
Speaker 1: I think Bill Burr had the worst year in comedy.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting that that's out there beyond just me
Speaker 1: saying it. Vulture said, I think he's taking the biggest
Speaker 1: hit out of the Rion Comedy Festival thing. Jessl Nick said, Oh,
Speaker 1: I've been really surprised by how much he kept talking
Speaker 1: about it. I was shocked to see his name on it.
Speaker 1: I got offered this thing way in the beginning, and
Speaker 1: I just saw the name of the rules and was like, Nope,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. I was not thinking this would be a
Speaker 1: real thing. I was thinking, this isn't gonna happen. Why
Speaker 1: would you say yes to this? And then I saw
Speaker 1: the announcement realized everyone said yes to this. Everyone seems embarrassed.
Speaker 1: But Burr is doubling and tripling down, whereas Pete Davidson
Speaker 1: was just like I said, I'd go and I saw
Speaker 1: the money and then people leave him alone. But with Burr,
Speaker 1: it's insane to me that he would be so dumb.
Speaker 1: It's just shocking that he didn't know what would come
Speaker 1: for him, and then to be fighting with everyone screaming
Speaker 1: at Mark Marrin publicly, it's just wild to me. I
Speaker 1: haven't talked with him at all, but I just been stunned.
Speaker 1: He's the one name that stuns me. No one's like, oh,
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart Wow. And it wasn't just defensive. He came
Speaker 1: out and was like, they're just like us. They've got
Speaker 1: the chimberlaind and the Applebee's. He was doing as much
Speaker 1: pr for them after the fact as he possibly could,
Speaker 1: which was like, what did you think the money was for?
Speaker 1: It wasn't just for the event. Esa Neck revealed how
Speaker 1: much he was offered to do it, and it seems
Speaker 1: like this is a real number because it's the same
Speaker 1: number Tim Dillon gave Justin Nick said it was a
Speaker 1: lot of money. I want to say it was around
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and listen, I bought
Speaker 1: a house. I could have used it. But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: If it was three hundred and fifty million dollars, I
Speaker 1: couldn't have done it. Comedy is so capitalistic, and I
Speaker 1: think the people that have podcast just didn't want to
Speaker 1: miss out on that money on the table, and then
Speaker 1: they didn't realize how big a thing it was going
Speaker 1: to be. And it's a lot of money, but not
Speaker 1: that much money, you know, not enough that you couldn't
Speaker 1: make it up in two shows. For Burr, it seems
Speaker 1: like he's trying to set up going back like an
Speaker 1: annuale once a year. I performed there part of his tour.
Speaker 1: That's repulsive, jess On, I continued. I thought that two
Speaker 1: weeks later no one would care, but when I mentioned
Speaker 1: the Rion Comedy Festival on stage, people go nuts. They
Speaker 1: love it as a punchline. They want your opinion. I
Speaker 1: don't I think that's going away anytime soon. People who
Speaker 1: have no idea about the journalist killed just want to
Speaker 1: hear about this stupid cash grab. I wonder how long
Speaker 1: it lasts, and I'll be surprised if Burr's Neck Special
Speaker 1: isn't addressing most of it awesome. I hope Burr Fire's back.
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack likes when the comedians mix it up. Sketch
Speaker 1: Fast coming up January fifteenth through February first. They've announced
Speaker 1: some new editions. Bob Odenkirk, We'll join the cast of
Speaker 1: Kids in the Hall for the Brain Candy thirtieth Anniversary
Speaker 1: Live Read, a special stage performance featuring live music that
Speaker 1: celebrates the cult classic and the humor fans of love
Speaker 1: for decades. Norah Dunn and Melanie Hutzel will join Ellen Cleghorn,
Speaker 1: Rachel Dratch, Robin Duke and a guest Iyar, Lorraine Newman,
Speaker 1: Cherry O Terry and Julius Sweeney in the Women of
Speaker 1: SNL Tribute, a special program honoring the groundbreaking performers who
Speaker 1: shape the show's comedy legacy. Some of the folks previously
Speaker 1: announced include Joel Kim Booster, Jennine Ruffalo, The Groundlings, John Hodgman,
Speaker 1: Eugene Merman, Adam Pally, Chelsea Peretti, Kristin Shawl, Jenny Slate,
Speaker 1: Robert Smigel, Paul F. Tompkins, the UCB, and many others.
Speaker 1: Michelle Wolf was on The Good One podcast. She talked
Speaker 1: about putting clips on Instagram and said, yeah, I used
Speaker 1: to get paid thousands of dollars to do these shows.
Speaker 1: Now more people watch them and I get zero. But
Speaker 1: I understand I do it in the hopes that I
Speaker 1: gained people who are like I like her comedy. If
Speaker 1: you like this joke, then hopefully you buy a tickety,
Speaker 1: watch a special whatever else I might be doing next.
Speaker 1: And I'd be quite honest how at this point, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to a massive following, and sometimes I put
Speaker 1: up jokes and people like, ugh, unfollow and I'm like, good,
Speaker 1: get out, it's not for you. I want my audience
Speaker 1: to be people that like my comedy. They don't have
Speaker 1: to love every joke I do, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to have to edit myself for my followers. She talked
Speaker 1: about the time she hosted the White House Correspondence Dinner
Speaker 1: and said, I think if I could do it all
Speaker 1: over again, I would have been meaner. I would have
Speaker 1: gone harder. The jokes I said about Sarah Sanders weren't
Speaker 1: actually mean. Everyone said I made fun of her appearance.
Speaker 1: I definitely did not. I complimented her makeup and said
Speaker 1: she told lies, which she does. I knew the points
Speaker 1: I was making, and I was very happy to make
Speaker 1: those points. But I also feel like I was fairly restrained.
Speaker 1: Had I known what the reaction was going to be
Speaker 1: and how strongly people would have reacted, I would have
Speaker 1: gone harder. If you're gonna get mad at me for joke,
Speaker 1: then let them actually be mean jokes. As far as
Speaker 1: roast goes, what I said about Sarah Sanders was very
Speaker 1: team well. If continued in a normal correspondence dinner, the
Speaker 1: community makes fun of the president, and the president gets
Speaker 1: up and makes fun of everybody, including the comedian. But
Speaker 1: that didn't happen, which is me up there making fun
Speaker 1: of Sarah Sanders, who was there in place of the president.
Speaker 1: I'd much rather tell jokes to someone's face than behind
Speaker 1: their back. John Oliver poked fun at President Trump's three
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar ballroom. Oliver was an event that highlights
Speaker 1: the twelve million children in the United States that grew
Speaker 1: up in poverty each year. Oliver said at the Comic
Speaker 1: Relief Live event in New York City, it's wild to
Speaker 1: get a news alert saying that President Donald Trump just
Speaker 1: demolished the East wing of the White House thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: Every element of that sentence would have sounded completely insane.
Speaker 1: Nobody gives a hoot about ballrooms, apart from people who
Speaker 1: like ballrooms, who were all chirke holes. He some alternate
Speaker 1: language there, Sarah Sherman. Boy, she's out there promoting things
Speaker 1: like she's almost like a Kevin Hart levels of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: tap the brakes, your special come out to talk to everybody. Relax.
Speaker 1: She spoke to grub Street and said, I wake up
Speaker 1: at ten am and I forced my boyfriend to make
Speaker 1: coffee at gunpoint, and then she wrote, yeah boyfriend. Sorry, ladies,
Speaker 1: I have two cups before realizing I haven't had any water,
Speaker 1: so I fill up a Stanley cup and drink the
Speaker 1: entire thing in one sitting. I don't love Stanley cups,
Speaker 1: but bow and Yang gave me a wicked one he
Speaker 1: got for being in the movie. And if Bowen gives
Speaker 1: me something, it becomes one of my most prized possessions.
Speaker 1: On this particular day, she was off from Snell and
Speaker 1: not touring, which made her happy. She explains, at work,
Speaker 1: I eat approximately eighty five pounds of chips, and die
Speaker 1: coke every five seconds. By noon, I drink approximately one
Speaker 1: hundred more cups of coffee and only realize I've had
Speaker 1: too much once I start feeling a crazy panic attack
Speaker 1: coming on. Not a capital P capital a panic attack,
Speaker 1: just a small, low gray Jewish one. I usually have
Speaker 1: about three to four small Jewish panic attacks a day.
Speaker 1: I'm starving, so I eat some weird overnight oats thing.
Speaker 1: I found out a fancy supermarket called Mush that ran
Speaker 1: only has fifteen grams of protein in it. Why are
Speaker 1: all the girl he's addicted to protein all of a sudden?
Speaker 1: Did everyone become a bodybuilder overnight? What am I missing here? Her?
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carr revealed that his mother's death left him with
Speaker 1: an unhealthy relationship with food and how the fear of
Speaker 1: dying young drives his obsession with dieting and weight. Jimmy Carr,
Speaker 1: who is fifty three, was very close to his mother, Nora.
Speaker 1: She passed away at age fifty seven after a battle
Speaker 1: with pancreatitis. Jimmy explained, my mother didn't look after herself,
Speaker 1: was maybe a little bit overweight. She was unhealthy, and
Speaker 1: then she got sick and then she died and That's
Speaker 1: not lost on me in terms of I'm very particular
Speaker 1: about trying to keep myself trim. I don't think I
Speaker 1: have an eating disorder, but I certainly have a strange
Speaker 1: relationship with food. Jimmy says he does not exercise as
Speaker 1: much as I could. I'd like to do more, but
Speaker 1: it's finding the time. Jimmy's playing an arena show in
Speaker 1: Manchester tonight. He says he's looking forward to spending Christmas
Speaker 1: with his family. He explains, I've got little kids and stuff,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of joyful. It's a great time of year.
Speaker 1: I'm worry that people are a bit isolated, but Christmas
Speaker 1: brings those little interactions. You go to the carol service,
Speaker 1: you go to the midnight Mass. Doesn't matter whether you
Speaker 1: believe or not, just nice to sing a song. A
Speaker 1: partner on Trilla till the Cut, I'm someone who wants
Speaker 1: to fix my life in five easy steps. But I
Speaker 1: also have a very loud existential voice that says there
Speaker 1: are no five steps. None of us knows what we're doing.
Speaker 1: We're all floundering. Those are two opposing forces for me.
Speaker 1: A partner who's fantastic has a new special ad on dropout.
Speaker 1: It is called Hopeful Potato. Hannibal burs he's just back
Speaker 1: from the Riad Comedy Festival, and the city of Miami
Speaker 1: apparently has agreed to settle a lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged
Speaker 1: that one of the Miami police officers falsely arrested Hannibal
Speaker 1: Burst in twenty seventeen on a bogus disorderly intoxication charge.
Speaker 1: Reports are the Hannibal and the city's attorneys decided to
Speaker 1: settle the case. Back in twenty seventeen, Hannibal was walking
Speaker 1: to his hotel from a bar after a night of
Speaker 1: drinking with some friends. As the story goes, Hannibal asked
Speaker 1: the police officer if he could give the officer twenty
Speaker 1: dollars to call him an uber ride to his hotel
Speaker 1: because his phone battery was dead. The officer declined. Then
Speaker 1: something happens and the police officer orders Hannibal off the street.
Speaker 1: Hannibal went into a bar looking for a charger. The
Speaker 1: officer followed in told him to leave for being quote
Speaker 1: too drunk, as the story goes, outside, the police officer
Speaker 1: activated his body camera, capturing the encounter that led to
Speaker 1: Hannibal's arrest. Hannibal apparently said to the body worn camera, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up. It's me, Hannibal Burris. This cop is stupid
Speaker 1: as f The police officer cautioned Buris to leave. Camera.
Speaker 1: Footage released by the police department as Hannibal saying into
Speaker 1: the camera, hey, what's up. YouTube the police officer says,
Speaker 1: all right, put your hands behind your back. Hannibal arrested
Speaker 1: for misdemeanor disorderly intoxication. That charge was later dropped. Three
Speaker 1: years later, Hannibal filed a federal lawsuit against the city,
Speaker 1: the police department, and two police officers, alleging wrongful arrest.
Speaker 1: Some appeals and stuff, and now it seems that they
Speaker 1: have settled it. That's your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.