Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. Bob's Burgers supposedly returns for season fifteen tonight.
Speaker 1: Now I have two questions for you. Longtime listeners know
Speaker 1: the questions and they've thought about it, and they know
Speaker 1: that I'm right. If you're new, let me ask you
Speaker 1: two questions here. One, have you ever seen Bob's Burgers?
Speaker 1: You haven't. I know you think you have it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna explain why you think you have, but you haven't.
Speaker 1: And more interesting to me, have you ever met anyone
Speaker 1: who has seen Bob's Burgers? You haven't. Isn't that weird?
Speaker 1: So I looked more into this, and it seems a
Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about how Bob's Burgers doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: Some of the theories theory one mass misremembering. Millions of
Speaker 1: people genuinely believe that they've watched Bob's Burgers. Like some
Speaker 1: of you listening to my voice right now, I get it.
Speaker 1: I know you're like Johnny Mack's doing a bit, He's crazy.
Speaker 1: These are false memories. What has happened is people's minds
Speaker 1: are constructing entire episodes from the promotional materials and discussions
Speaker 1: about the fake show. The marketing for Bob's Burgers was
Speaker 1: so effective that it created artificial nostalgia. People remember watching
Speaker 1: it as part of their Sunday night routine, but those
Speaker 1: memories were subtly implanted through clever advertising. Fox was smart.
Speaker 1: They had Joe Buck promote Bob's Burgers, knowing darn well
Speaker 1: after the football game you were going to switch over
Speaker 1: to NBC and watch Sunday night football. Fox doesn't even
Speaker 1: air anything on Sunday nights. They go dark. I know
Speaker 1: you think the Simpsons is still on. When's the last
Speaker 1: time you watched the Simpsons nineteen ninety four. It's a
Speaker 1: big hoax. At least the Simpsons did exist at one point.
Speaker 1: Switch over to Fox tonight around I don't know nine
Speaker 1: see what's on? Nothing. These shows, plotlines and characters have
Speaker 1: seeped in a popular culture through memes, merchandise, and discussions,
Speaker 1: creating the illusion of a source material that doesn't actually exist.
Speaker 1: The idea of Bob's Burgers has spread as a meme,
Speaker 1: with people to dicussing and referencing a show they've never seen,
Speaker 1: but they believe it must exist because everyone else seems
Speaker 1: to know about it. There's also the concept of the
Speaker 1: digital phantom. Proponents of the Bob's Burger's conspiracy theory like
Speaker 1: me will point out to you, in the age of
Speaker 1: streaming in digital media, it's become impossible to distinguish between
Speaker 1: shows we've actually watched and those we've just seen discussed online.
Speaker 1: And then I like this theory. It's the quantum theory.
Speaker 1: Bob's Burgers exists in a state of quantum superposition, simultaneously
Speaker 1: real and non existent until somebody tries to actually watch
Speaker 1: an episode, at which point the show disappears and doesn't exist,
Speaker 1: kind of like Schroedener's Cat, but Bob's Burger's anyway. Feel
Speaker 1: free to discuss this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy
Speaker 1: News podcast group. There's no such show. Have you seen it? No?
Speaker 1: Have you met anyone who's seen it? No. Weird Al
Speaker 1: is coming back. After taking two years off touring, Weird
Speaker 1: Al's embarking on his Bigger and Weirder tour. He's even
Speaker 1: playing Madison Square Garden in New York and the Key
Speaker 1: of Form in La. His last tour was stripped down,
Speaker 1: this time back to normal with all the costumes and
Speaker 1: visuals and fans have come to expect from weird Al. Wow.
Speaker 1: I can't believe he's playing stadiums. I saw him in
Speaker 1: the local theater, which was awesome. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I would go all the way to Madison Square Garden
Speaker 1: to see Weird Al, because going to New York City
Speaker 1: from where I lives a pain in the neck. I
Speaker 1: won't read the whole thing. But some cities you've heard
Speaker 1: of Las Vegas, Boston, Philly, Palmer, Alaska, San Diego, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: LA Nashville. Pretty cool. He remember. John m'laney is joining
Speaker 1: that Simon Rich Broadway production all in comedy about love.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's the new trendy thing. Some people have joined
Speaker 1: Lynn Manuel Miranda. Now he's not a comedian, but you
Speaker 1: know somebody worth mentioning. Lynn will take over for John
Speaker 1: mulaney as the lead once mullaney rotates out. Also, part
Speaker 1: of the second cast will be Jimmy Fallon. Wow. Also
Speaker 1: Adie Bryant, Tim Meadows, and David Cross. Oh. Hankaz Aria
Speaker 1: also rounds out the cast. Wow, that's gonna be a thing.
Speaker 1: Greg Fitzimmons said, Joe Rogan and I started comedy the
Speaker 1: same week we went to Stitches Comedy Club in Boston
Speaker 1: the same week and sign up to do five minutes.
Speaker 1: Then he was dating my roommates, so we basically lived
Speaker 1: in the same apartment. When we first started. The show
Speaker 1: was the Monday night open mic show and it was
Speaker 1: called Comedy Hell. The mc a guy named George McDonald,
Speaker 1: would get up at the beginning of the show and
Speaker 1: his first words were, welcome to comedy Hell, where the
Speaker 1: pipe dreams of a bunch of comedy bozos can sore
Speaker 1: as high as the lights on Broadway, or crash and
Speaker 1: burn in a fiery pit known only as comedy Hell.
Speaker 1: One night we went out and Bill Hicks was in town.
Speaker 1: We'd only be doing comedy year, but he was probably
Speaker 1: the biggest influence on both of us. He was just
Speaker 1: a guy who wasn't gonna budge for the crowd. Boston
Speaker 1: crowds were tough. If they didn't like you, they just
Speaker 1: shut down. And when they started shutting down on him,
Speaker 1: he went, oh, really, well, how about this, and he
Speaker 1: would drag out abortion jokes and they started leaving. Mike
Speaker 1: Cannon's special Traumatized Animal is out today on Christa Stefano's
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. Chris is also the specials producer, taped in
Speaker 1: April at the New York Comedy Club in Stamford, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Traumatized Animal provides an irreverent, honest look at parenting as
Speaker 1: a millennium father looking to break the chain of generational trauma,
Speaker 1: and an hour jam pack with jokes and stories. Mike
Speaker 1: candidly speaks about his own mental health struggles and love
Speaker 1: for his child and one on the way, as well
Speaker 1: as deep dives in his own childhood while breaking down
Speaker 1: how it is impacted his approaches a father. This is
Speaker 1: a relentless and refreshingly authentic hour of comedy from a
Speaker 1: comedian who's ready to launch. Cannon tells the eight hundred
Speaker 1: Pound Guerrilla News this special means a lot to me
Speaker 1: for a multitude of reasons. I put a tremendous amount
Speaker 1: of work into the material over the last two years,
Speaker 1: and I think comedically it's the strongest and most personal
Speaker 1: hour I've ever put out. I've also managed to make
Speaker 1: it a family affair. Who was produced by my best
Speaker 1: friend christ de Stefano. It's directed by my former podcast
Speaker 1: producer and collaborator, Nicole Lyons. My wife designed the floral
Speaker 1: arrangement on stage, and both my sisters performed the original
Speaker 1: song and the credits. The cast of VEEP is hosting
Speaker 1: a virtual table read in a half of the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party of Wisconsin. Today. The cast will reunite for a
Speaker 1: table read of the episode Create, in which Vice President
Speaker 1: Selena Meyer finds out that the president is stepping down
Speaker 1: and Shield take his place. Juliet's all the Hollywood Reporter.
Speaker 1: We try to find an old episode where President Meyer
Speaker 1: accused immigrants of eating dogs and cats. But back when
Speaker 1: we were making VP, that seemed insane and over the top.
Speaker 1: Staying political. Both The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert will
Speaker 1: air live episodes on the East Coast after the VP
Speaker 1: debate on October first. Both shows did the same thing
Speaker 1: after the presidential debate that week. Colbert doubled his audience.
Speaker 1: Michael ian Black as a substack. Actually, so do I
Speaker 1: I should remember from my substack. It's free mcdeepod dot
Speaker 1: substack dot com. Like in the show notes, mondays, I
Speaker 1: write about music Tuesday, I often write about podcasting. Wednesday,
Speaker 1: I give podcasting recommendations, and then the other days I
Speaker 1: write about whatever I want. I really don't write about
Speaker 1: comedy on there because if I want to talk about comedy.
Speaker 1: I have this. It's not like I'm anti comedy, but
Speaker 1: like it's my outlet for other things. Anyway, check it out.
Speaker 1: Michael ian Black has one like his a lot. He
Speaker 1: wrote about going to the dentist and said, if you're
Speaker 1: one of those people who thinks going to the dentist
Speaker 1: isn't so bad, ask yourself this. What other doctor gives
Speaker 1: you presents on the way out? Doctor does this? Sure,
Speaker 1: pediatricians give stickers, but no other medical profession has to
Speaker 1: bribe their clients with actual parting gifts. No other doctor
Speaker 1: of swag bags your eye doctors and like, thanks for
Speaker 1: stopping by, here's a free pair of sunglasses. No, only
Speaker 1: dentists do this because they know you've been traumatized and
Speaker 1: they're trying to shut you up. That little bag of
Speaker 1: mini tooth bases and toothbrushes is their nda. In fact,
Speaker 1: is a good chance they've killed me today for speaking
Speaker 1: out and going to the dentist today. If I don't
Speaker 1: make it back, you know why. Liz Meely is taping
Speaker 1: her six stand up specials called Space Camp at the
Speaker 1: Bellhouse in Brooklyn. Today. Mike Kaplan spoke to Columbus Underground
Speaker 1: about starting out and said, when I was starting out,
Speaker 1: I would say I didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker 1: I just knew write and perform as much as possible,
Speaker 1: and that's why any idea that I had was precious
Speaker 1: to me. I'd come up with a thousand things, and
Speaker 1: maybe only a couple of them would work, but I
Speaker 1: didn't know I'd be able to keep coming up with things.
Speaker 1: I thought any idea was worth something, I throw it
Speaker 1: out the wall to see what's stuck. I was more
Speaker 1: led around by the audience's reaction, and the audience reaction
Speaker 1: is valuable, but in the beginning I was more acting
Speaker 1: jokes than telling jokes, sort of like, hey, audience, what
Speaker 1: about this joke? And they're like, should you be telling us?
Speaker 1: Through the course of time, I became better and more
Speaker 1: confident in what I'm doing. I'm excited now that I
Speaker 1: know that I don't have to just try everything, see
Speaker 1: what the audience responds to and head in that direction.
Speaker 1: I can spend more time delving more deeply into ideas
Speaker 1: that I want to that I care about, that I
Speaker 1: want to share with people, and do my best to
Speaker 1: attract people to those ideas. Rather than throwing ideas to
Speaker 1: where I think the people are, which is often going
Speaker 1: to be a losing proposition. And that is your comedy
Speaker 1: news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a
Speaker 1: friend about it. They might like it too. Follow my substack.
Speaker 1: It's free. Talked about that already. I host another podcast.
Speaker 1: It's called five Good News Stories. Number five Good News
Speaker 1: Stories and tell you five stories. And they're all kind
Speaker 1: of happy, smile stories, Guinness records, lost animals, coming home,
Speaker 1: quirky things in the news. There was one about an
Speaker 1: suv that wound up on top of a dumpster. I'll
Speaker 1: cut to the chase there a construction worker was mad
Speaker 1: at where somebody parked. If you'd like the program without
Speaker 1: commercial interruption, there's a link in the show notes that
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how that works, all right, See tomorrow.