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Cultured magazine put out their Cultured one hundred. One of
the Cultured one hundred is Marcelo Hernandez, who, in my opinion,
does one thing, and does one thing well but culture
It said. In his four seasons of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez
has played, in no particular order, an emo teen, a
soul patch wearing wife stealer named Domingo. Yeah he's done that, one,
a frozen embryo, and himself patron saint of short Kings
for the culture. At one hundred, he was interviewed by
my former coworker Jimmie Fox. Fox said, you're good looking,
he got the swag. Now that the specials in your
review mirror. How are you feeling, Marcelo Hernandez said, looking back,
I can say to myself, I gave it every single
piece of me. When we called you, I was sitting
there going crazy, and after a conversation, I was like, yo,
Jamie Fox is the regulator. You put it in perspective,
like it's already shot. It's too late to be freaking out.
I wasn't enjoying it. I was suffering it. Fox said, Okay,
let me give you this Michael Jackson Billy Jean Motown
twenty five iconic. But he went backstage after and cried
because he thought it was the worst performance of his life.
You can't always see what we see, so I told
you get in the Ferrari pull out and have a
great time. That special had like forty six and a
half million views. I just want to see how that feels.
What's it like to be on top of the mountain? Man?
Did it at forty six and a half? What was
that even on other Remember it was on Netflix. I
will have to take Jamie Fox's word for the forty
six and a half million views. Marcelo said, I'll tell
you what, Jamie. When I first started doing comedy, I
wrote down on my little yellow pad the two people
I wanted to be like. I wrote, I want to
be physical like Eddie Murphy. I want to be meticulous
like Jerry Seinfeld. And that As I got older and
I started to see more, when we started thinking about
how we want to shoot the special I thought, I
want to shoot it like prior. I want to be sweaty,
I want to flowy shirt. You know. Richard Pryor filmed
in Miami, and so did I. I wanted to tef
Greens look old school, look vintage. Yeah, so when you
said you wanted to be like Eddie Murphy, that was
the point. Eddie Murphy's just doing. Richard Pryor watched the
specials back to back. Now, this is interesting aut of
Stephen Colbert. In that New York Times profile, Colbert said
CBS tried to renew him for as long as five years.
During negotiations in twenty twenty three, Colbert went for a
three year extension. Oops, one might say, Colbert told the
Times less than two years before they called to say
it's over. They were very eager for me to be
signed for a long time. So something changed. As for
what's next, the show takes like ninety five percent of
my brain. He won't seriously consider new opportunities until he
has a little more time to breathe. Now, Colbert reportedly
makes fifteen million dollars a year. And here's some advice
from Johnny Mack. If somebody ever offers you fifteen million
dollars a year, Just say yes. That's generational changing money.
And if they're like, hey, we'll give you fifteen million
dollars a year for five years, and now if you
do some math, that's seventy five million dollars, you say yes.
Especially on the talent side. You know what was gonna happen.
NBC is going to go, hey, we'll give you sixteen
million dollars a year. That wasn't going to happen. Just
say yes, What are you doing, dude. Conan O'Brien, who
settled with NBC for reported forty five million dollars. When
The Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno, took the
Tonight Show back, Conan was seen in the Netherlands. He
was taping a new episode of Conan O'Brien Must Go.
Conan was spotted celebrating King's Day in Amsterdam, then went
on Dutch talk show Eva. Conan said, we showed up,
my wife and I got here at six in the
morning and I went out on King's Day, absolute madness day, drinking,
which I'm used to. That's my sport. They seem to
be making an episode involving fashion. Conan explained one of
my fans. It's a high fashion model here in Amsterdam,
and she said she could teach me how to be
a male model. I showed up, I met with her,
and she told me at the end, this isn't gonna work.
She was very disappointed in me. Conan says his show
is less interested in educating viewers about a country than
putting Conan in absurd situations. We've all watched travel shows.
They tried to teach you about the country. I want
you at the end of my program to know nothing
about the country. I want you to maybe even be
dumber than you were at the start of the show.
Conan is impressed by the Netherlands, particularly that people are
tall and have bikes. He said, so many tall people.
I've met, so many women that make me feel short.
And everyone's on a bicycle, which I love. In the
United States, when you get on a bicycle, people dress
up in these crazy outfits. Here you just see people
riding their bikes in normal clothes. Nicki Glazer admits she
wasn't necessarily prepared for the reaction to her, saying that
she's open to her man fulling around. You remember that
old story, Yeah, Hollywood Establishment insider Nicki Glazer was on
Karras Swishers podcast, So it's over. That's it. If we're
gonna line up the comedians and say who's an insider,
who's an outsider? Nicki Glazer's paling around with Kara Swisher,
that's it. She's done. Don't expect her to be a
roast comedian or doing any of that. The agents have
successfully completed the mission. Hollywood insider Nicki Glazer told Kara
Swisher I wasn't even thinking about censoring myself in any
way that this podcast makes headlines, meaning call her daddy.
But Nicky said she woke up to headlines saying that
she likes for her boyfriend asleep with other women. Nikki explained,
it was like five different headlines showing up in my feed,
and I don't even follow myself. I don't look for
news about myself. I avoided at all costs. It was
just really embarrassing. Yes it was. Esquire wrote a piece
the headline, this new comedy special completely shocked me with joy,
they write. Michael Cruz Caine's son Fisher, died from sepsis
in two thousand and nine, just thirty four days after
he was born, Fisher's twin brother lived, and Caine and
his wife Carrie also have a daughter. The family's world
was destroyed. It needed to be rebuilt. Ten years later,
Caine stand up comics started writing on Twitter about his grief.
The comment started coming in by the thousands. The tweets
turned into a one man show that Caine titled Sorry
for Your Loss, which is the kind of phrase that
shows up on cards. Caine told Esquire, Yeah, the show's
about grief, specifically about how I felt, starting from the
moment my son died, which was in two thousand and nine,
untill now, because the grief continues. It's an honest reflection
on those feelings, and a lot a lot of that
is comedy, because I'm a funny person. Even in the
worst possible situation, there are still things that, if you're
a human, will make you laugh. I didn't want to
hide from those things and pretend not to see them.
I just wanted to feel free and be myself as
opposed to trying to be a quote unquote grieving person.
People have an expectation of what someone who's grieving will
be like, but all that stuff made me feel alienated
from people. What made me feel good was talking to
people who talk to me like I was a person.
I know you, you're my friend. Can we just talk
how we normally talk? As for the special, he says,
once you release it into the world, you lose a
lot of control over how people receive it. It's funny.
The New York Times did a piece about like how
grief in comedy a few years ago that I was in.
I read all the comments. A large percentage of them
were like, what kind of sicko experiences some kind of
tragedy then tries to turn it into jokes. I guess
they hadn't seen it, so that's what they think. It
is that one is called sorry for your loss. He
is Michael Cruz, Keane Kay and E Interview magazine caught
up with Ronica Slowakowska. They did a little free association
short form. She said, easier in ways, harder in ways.
SNL's a form of It's not exactly live. It's edited
on the spot about attention, spans, short and screwed up.
But I don't think all is lost. I can totally
binge Sister Wives Delivery. I'm a corporate slot person. Rice
Bowls protein a vegetable, something that's sustaining my energy and
making me think good. I'm obsessed with this place that
is Brussels sprouts. Whatever we order it. Everyone's offices smell
like farts actors. She says, I feel like I was
right in the middle of comedian and actor. But since
getting on SNL, I've chosen a side as being a
comedian cooler. I don't know. Maybe about sleep. SNL gives
us time to sleep, but will you sleep is the question.
I'm just damped up. I'm excited tonight's writing nights. Am
I going to go home at midnight? Or am I
going to go home at four am? It's kind of
up to me. A few weeks ago, Ay Lorne Michael's
documentary came out. The Oler reporter said, Lorne Michaels has
been enigmatic and evasive for long enough that he doesn't
seem more or less uncomfortable having a camera in his vicinity,
knowing dorn Well that he isn't going to let anything
slip by by accident. This same principle lets director Neville
linger in Michael's office, and even in the film's closest
to revelatory moments at Michael's lakeside get away in Maine.
Nothing Michael says is all that revealing or candid, but
Nevill's eyes are still loud to wander, inviting viewers to
latch onto Michael's life ephemera and read meaning into it.
It's his love of Gordoney and extension of his devotion
to cultivating talent. He won't say so, but maybe is
his office filled with fish that he refuses to name
as a mirror of the constant rotation of cast members
of his best known show, Don't Know, not surprisingly that
people with the loosest lips are people who no longer
rely on Michael's for a paycheck. With many of the
highlights coming from John Mulaney, Fred Ormison, Bill Hayter, and
Adam Sandler swapping stories, Mulaney, like Tina fay Conan O'Brien
and a few of the veteran writers, gives the strongest
impressions of knowing where the bodies are and buried when
it comes to revealing details about Michaels, but each other
people who appear to know him best has and I
can never repay Lorne story that makes it clear that
they aren't saying anything Lorn wouldn't once said if Michaels
were to retire after the season, Neville's documentary could be
shown at his retirement party without anybody feeling awkward. The
av Club said that Lauren the documentary fights a losing
battle against all the other Sketch Show history lessons. They write,
SNL has been so celebrated, chronicled, and mythologized that it
seems impossible to imagine anything new to say about the
Sketch Show, but documentarian Morgan Neville gives it a shot.
Narrated by Chris Parnell, Lauren establishes early on that Michaels
isn't particularly interested in the movie being made about him.
Michaels presents himself as we often see him, dressed up,
gray hair, button down, a tad aloof The result does
a likable film that auto appeal to SNL fans and
hardcore comedy nerds. As an SNL history lesson, Lauren will
feel rudimentary to those already be sotted up by the show.
As a portrait of Michael's early years and comedy beginnings.
The documentary passes by key biographical details too quickly for
them to fully register. And the program's memorable sketches have
been played to death by this point. If somehow you're
just now getting an SNL and having a ready ingested,
endless lore about the most aduring of sketch shows, Lorne
might be a meaningful primer for everybody else. You've heard
this joke before. All Right, the Netflix is a joke
of festival is about to kick off. They are highlighting
the short list, a showcase spotlighting nationally touring comment These
are not newcomers, but rising voices on the cusp of
their next chapter. We are told, so kind of new faces,
but different. Here's your list. Comedian CP aka Chris Powell,
writer and performer who's comedy special Sunday After Six debuted
in twenty twenty five. Ethan Simon's Patterson a stand up
comedian who's been featured on Comedy Central and is a
regular at The Seller. Gabby Bryan is a New York
based stand up comedian, actress, podcaster, and Emmy winning producer.
Lucas Zilnik a stand up comedian, born, raised and based
in New York City, featured on Comedy Central. Matty Wiener
stand up comedian who made her fallon debut last year
and his filmed to stand up sets for Comedy Central
and Don't Tell Comedy Opie Alakbaju, La based stand up
comic who's been recognized by Vulture as one of the
comics you should and will know. Peter Ravello, stand up comedian, actor,
and writer based in New York. He debuted on Fallon
and has appeared on Comics Unleashed, Yeah Chappelle. Lacey La
based stand up comedian who performed at the Comedy Store
and hosts a YouTube series called Cooked in the Comments.
Sophie Buttle, She's kind Of No No. Sophie was the
head monologue writer for CBS's After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson
and has appeared on Fallon Cordon and CBC's This Hour
Is Twenty two Minutes. And Zach ned Towers, LA based comedian,
actor and writer who appeared on Netflix's Dear White People.
Those are the short list. The showcase takes place tomorrow,
two shows starting at six o'clock. And that is your
comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow