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Speaker 2: Hey there, Johenni mag with your daily comedy news man.
Speaker 2: I hope Andrew Schultz is okay. The poor guy, he
Speaker 2: just went out to take in some professional wrestling and
Speaker 2: he's there and Logan Paul wanted to hear Andrew say
Speaker 2: some nice things about Logan Paul, but Andrew preferred to
Speaker 2: name Seth Rollins and see him punk and the phenomenal
Speaker 2: one and boy Logan Paul did not like that, pulling
Speaker 2: Andrew Schultz out of the crowd. Luckily, AJ Styles came
Speaker 2: to the rescue. Let's listen.
Speaker 1: I know who I want to see. I want to
Speaker 1: see AJ Styles. That's who I want to see the night.
Speaker 1: Jeez oh no, come on, Logan, he's a guest.
Speaker 2: Come.
Speaker 3: Andrew Schultze is special on Netflix right now called Life.
Speaker 2: He might not have one soon.
Speaker 3: He is absolutely spectacular.
Speaker 2: This is no way to be trading a come.
Speaker 1: Ind Janus so log and he's a cast claudad Tjo
Speaker 1: Come on now, loggany cat.
Speaker 3: Th fire comes Styles.
Speaker 1: Styles.
Speaker 2: You wanna call out Paul and.
Speaker 3: I but now he comes out there to say Schultz
Speaker 3: and out Styles and Paul coming at it.
Speaker 1: Hey take Styles, it's hard to talk.
Speaker 2: The folks over at Hilarious, you know, my my friends
Speaker 2: at Hulu. They put together a really good campaign, this
Speaker 2: one from Adweek. Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, and Sebastian Maniscalco
Speaker 2: are sitting in a diner and in walks the Hulu mascot,
Speaker 2: which is basically the Hulu logo with like, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: mascot arms and legs. It's a big time campaign including
Speaker 2: out of home ads placed near comedy venues in La
Speaker 2: New York and Chicago. Is that where you need to reach?
Speaker 2: People think you need to reach Middle America? I guess
Speaker 2: this is just an imaging piece, a social media placements
Speaker 2: Influencer partnerships, Hi, Hello, Hello, Hello so uh Hulu dudes,
Speaker 2: come on man, I know it's not the biggest show,
Speaker 2: but it's the right show and I have filled out
Speaker 2: the Hulu media relations form and no one got back
Speaker 2: to me. You can get back to me. Go your
Speaker 2: show sucks, it's terrible, your bad mouths all the time.
Speaker 2: The show's too small. That's fine, but come on, someone
Speaker 2: get back to me. Influencer partnerships but not podcasts dedicated
Speaker 2: to fans of stand up comedy. Digital banners bus takeovers
Speaker 2: and dedicated billboards and posters at locations like Walt Disney World,
Speaker 2: at Disneyland Resort and in Times Square. Boy, this is
Speaker 2: a lot of money. Anyway. The forty five second spot
Speaker 2: is called meet Up and it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Let's take a listen, all right, it's just about well,
Speaker 3: I wanted to introduce you guys to something or some way.
Speaker 1: Is this about religion?
Speaker 2: No, No, because you're always doing.
Speaker 3: That here they are, Bill Sebastian. I'd like to introduce
Speaker 3: you to Hulu. Oh wow, Hulu is getting into the
Speaker 3: stand up business and I think you guys would be
Speaker 3: perfect for it. They're calling it hilarious. Jim, Yeah, what
Speaker 3: is that? Well, that's the Hulu mascot. I think it's
Speaker 3: trying to shake your hand.
Speaker 2: Brand you stand up specials every month and now streaming
Speaker 2: on Hulu. Why is it looking at me like that?
Speaker 2: It's not looking at you. It doesn't have a face.
Speaker 2: According to Aaron Goldman, EVP Creative Marketing of Disney Entertainment Television,
Speaker 2: it was Jim Gaffigan, who were told has a history
Speaker 2: in advertising, who came up with the concept for the
Speaker 2: spot and was quote a great partner in bringing Bill
Speaker 2: Burr and Sebastian Maniscalcout together for the campaign. HM possibly
Speaker 2: perhaps may be true. Also possibly perhaps in their contracts
Speaker 2: they have you know usually with these things, Hey, we're
Speaker 2: gonna give you a lot of money, you gotta do
Speaker 2: a couple of promotional hits. Could have been that, or
Speaker 2: Jim was just like, Hey, Bill and Sebastian, can the
Speaker 2: three of us jump on a zoom? I got to
Speaker 2: pitch you an idea? Who knows? Goldman said it was
Speaker 2: a total partnership from the beginning. Jim wrote the script
Speaker 2: and collaborated with Ryan Brasno, the SVP of Creative Marketing
Speaker 2: for Hulu, and Johnny Mazur, who is the executive creative
Speaker 2: director for Brand Marketing, who Gaff again collaborated with those
Speaker 2: guys to bring it to life. I should note that
Speaker 2: the three comedians also improvised in riffed, which added some
Speaker 2: hilarious beats that ended up in the creative Guys, this
Speaker 2: is a forty five second commercial, so Jim sketched out
Speaker 2: I don't know, the three of us are in a
Speaker 2: diner and the Hulu mascot walks in. This is not
Speaker 2: Godfather too. Goldman noted that in addition to the full spot,
Speaker 2: there will be shorter pieces rolling out on social and
Speaker 2: he also talked about the song. We made a custom
Speaker 2: hilarious song which is featured in the spot, based on
Speaker 2: Duran durant'z Notorious. We changed the lyrics to hularious and
Speaker 2: hopefully created a song that you can't get out of
Speaker 2: your head now. On that, I was curious who the
Speaker 2: hell sold out to Hulu? Was it Simon Labaugh who
Speaker 2: did this? And I have learned from the internet. Warner
Speaker 2: Chapel Music as a Chapel as a Chappelle, It's not
Speaker 2: Dave Chappelle. Warner Chapel Music and Sony ATV Music ablishing
Speaker 2: own parts of Duran Durand's catalog. The Warner folks own
Speaker 2: the rights of the catalog from eighty six to the present,
Speaker 2: including many of the band's hits, including Notorious. They also
Speaker 2: own the publishing rights to all the band's current and
Speaker 2: future compositions. Wow Future deal Duran Duran did Wow. I
Speaker 2: am a I won't say I'm the biggest Duran Duran fan,
Speaker 2: but I've been known to drive around listening to Duran
Speaker 2: Duran and you could play both hungry like the Wolf
Speaker 2: and Rio on Endless Repeat and I Will never tell
Speaker 2: you to turn it off. Notorious is also one of
Speaker 2: my favorite Stranduran songs and also a big fan of
Speaker 2: A View to a Kill, which is, as you know,
Speaker 2: the best James Bond theme. Goldman tells us they're looking
Speaker 2: at using the Hulu mascot as a connective thread for
Speaker 2: future hilarious campaigns, and he got the funny in saying,
Speaker 2: in the meantime we take turns wearing it to the office.
Speaker 2: Bill Burr is out tomorrow, then in April we get
Speaker 2: Jessica Curson, august Ralph Barbosa and Sebastian Maniscalco. In November,
Speaker 2: this article didn't mention who else is in the list.
Speaker 2: I'm racking my brain here to remember who else they announced,
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure that they've announced anybody. Maybe I
Speaker 2: forgot one anyway, Hulu, paul A Sis get back to Me.
Speaker 2: Trey Crowder specials out today on the eight hundred pound
Speaker 2: Grilla YouTube channel. In trash Daddy, Trey tackles everything from
Speaker 2: the absurdity of cultural and social stereotypes to his unusual
Speaker 2: and hilarious childhood upbringings as he reflects on the ultimate
Speaker 2: parental role as a trash daddy. And you to see
Speaker 2: who the New York Times profiled. They profiled friend of
Speaker 2: the show, Jason Zenneman of The New York Times. Jason
Speaker 2: and I actually recently connected. He's going to come on
Speaker 2: the show in a few weeks as we get closer
Speaker 2: to the twentieth anniversary of Mitch Hedberg passing away. I'm
Speaker 2: a big fan of Mitch and just wanted to observe
Speaker 2: the moment, and I asked Jason to common So we're
Speaker 2: gonna record that in a week or so. Other people
Speaker 2: at The New York Times ask Jason, which do you
Speaker 2: enjoy more? By the way, this article speaks to me,
Speaker 2: I am aligned with everything Jason says. Here, Jason Zieman,
Speaker 2: which do you enjoy more? Finding a new angle on
Speaker 2: a well known figure or introducing readers to an unfamiliar subject. Now,
Speaker 2: if you listen to me every day, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm going to say. You know what I say about
Speaker 2: the festivals, right, Jason said, I take more satisfaction in
Speaker 2: writing about somebody who nobody knows about. One of the
Speaker 2: great things about this beat is you spend time in
Speaker 2: improv houses and clubs, and get a sense of who's
Speaker 2: gonna break big in the future. I remember seeing Hannah
Speaker 2: Gatsby at this tiny theater. I was like, this is
Speaker 2: going to be a big part of the discourse, and
Speaker 2: it's engaging in some really provocative ideas. Being the first
Speaker 2: critic to see her show in American and introduce her
Speaker 2: to readers was really satisfying a men a million years ago.
Speaker 2: Back at Sirius, I used to really love spotlighting artists.
Speaker 2: I remember we had Hannibal Burris week. I remember we
Speaker 2: did Tim Mention Week. We used to love going out
Speaker 2: of our way and going, hey, audience, check out this
Speaker 2: really cool person who you haven't heard of yet. Jason ads,
Speaker 2: I think one of the jobs of critics is to
Speaker 2: say just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good.
Speaker 2: These people who are not getting a spotlight or often
Speaker 2: some of the most gifted artists times. How has the
Speaker 2: comedy landscape changed and you started covering it fifteen years ago, Jason,
Speaker 2: Increasingly their artists doing work on TikTok and Instagram, that
Speaker 2: we need to do a better job of figuring out
Speaker 2: ways to recognize For a lot of teenagers, their introduction
Speaker 2: to comedies like mine their first experience with comedy isn't
Speaker 2: watching late night talk shows. Their stand up comic is
Speaker 2: probably gonna be on social media, So we have to
Speaker 2: meet people where they are.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: That's interesting to me and I totally respect it. For
Speaker 2: my personal thing doing this podcast, I feel like if
Speaker 2: I started getting on here and chasing after TikTok comedians,
Speaker 2: I would be the Paul Bashimi, Hello fellow kids, meme
Speaker 2: and just at some point it's not my generation, it's
Speaker 2: not my thing. I will stay in my lane. I
Speaker 2: admit to living on old Man Mountain and don't think
Speaker 2: Jason's wrong. I just think if I started doing it,
Speaker 2: it would be like, come on, oh Man. Jason says
Speaker 2: he sees live comedy three or four times a week.
Speaker 2: I still go out a lot, but less. There's two
Speaker 2: reasons for that. One to get a sense of who's
Speaker 2: out there. There's less of a need to go as often.
Speaker 2: I totally get that. But the bigger reason is the
Speaker 2: bounty of comedians online. When I started this job, I
Speaker 2: was covering comedy as a kin to covering theater. Before
Speaker 2: I wrote about someone, I wanted to see them live.
Speaker 2: But increasingly the way that most people are consuming comedies
Speaker 2: through social media and streaming platforms. So now I spend
Speaker 2: more and more time looking at comedians online and listening
Speaker 2: to podcasts. That totally makes sense. And you've heard you
Speaker 2: talk about this. I'm glad Jason said it. The question
Speaker 2: are you someone who laughs out loud at shows? I
Speaker 2: call this emperor of room syndrome. Jason said, I suffer
Speaker 2: from the same thing that most comedians do, which is
Speaker 2: that if you see as much comedy as I do,
Speaker 2: you laugh less. That that doesn't mean I enjoy it less.
Speaker 2: I'm not someone who laughs a lot in the audience.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that makes me self conscious because if I'm in
Speaker 2: a room with very few people, it has a big
Speaker 2: impact if no one's laughing. So I've even found myself
Speaker 2: at times fake laughing just to not distort the room,
Speaker 2: or because I feel it's almost rude not to. But
Speaker 2: I try to be honest with my laughter. Great stuff.
Speaker 2: A big fan of Jason's work. iHeart had their twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five iHeart Podcast Awards. This is one of those
Speaker 2: awards that if you win, you're excited, and if you're
Speaker 2: not part of it, you just kind of eye roll it.
Speaker 2: It's you know, iHeart they make podcasts. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: that they have their thumb on the scale, but you
Speaker 2: know there are basement podcasts like this one, and then
Speaker 2: there are the establishment podcasts. So you know, Best Sports
Speaker 2: Podcast went to the Kelsey Brothers. Sure, but you know,
Speaker 2: I bet if we really dug down, somebody's doing like
Speaker 2: a really great Kansas City Royals podcast, if we really
Speaker 2: took the time to look. But that's not how these
Speaker 2: big shiny awards like. And the winner for Best Podcast
Speaker 2: goes to Tony and Jose from Kansas City. They host
Speaker 2: Royals Talk like that doesn't make for a good award show,
Speaker 2: So understand what this is the podcast of the year,
Speaker 2: Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying it's bad. I'm just saying, you know, somebody's probably
Speaker 2: doing a pretty good Game of Thrones podcast out there too.
Speaker 2: It just doesn't make for a good award show. On
Speaker 2: a same note, Best comedy podcast, Fly on the Wall
Speaker 2: A'sdana Carvey David Spade sure makes a lot of news,
Speaker 2: great stories, SNL, hot topic, talented guys, funny guys, a
Speaker 2: great podcast to listen to. Same thing, and I'm not saying, oh,
Speaker 2: I should have shot I should not have won Best
Speaker 2: Comedy Podcast, No way. But you know, is uh Carvey
Speaker 2: and Spade better than what Tim Dillon's doing? I don't
Speaker 2: think so. Best ad Read got to give it out
Speaker 2: an award for Best ad Read for some reason, that
Speaker 2: went to Conan O'Brien. Speaking of Conan, Late Nighter reports
Speaker 2: that Conan O'Brien Must Go has been for a third season. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: Conan is red hot right now, although Late Nighter points out,
Speaker 2: for those paying close attention, the announcement is less a
Speaker 2: season three pick up as much as they shuffling the
Speaker 2: deck of what we already had. They explained Conan's second
Speaker 2: season was set to run for six episodes that was
Speaker 2: ordered just after a month, but according to the new announcement,
Speaker 2: season two will now consist of just three episodes, and
Speaker 2: HBO did not specify how many episodes have been ordered
Speaker 2: for season three. I'm gonna guess three. Netflix just did
Speaker 2: this with Megan Markle. They said, oh yeah, we renewed
Speaker 2: Megan Marko for season two. The thing is those episodes
Speaker 2: already in the can. That's like me telling you this
Speaker 2: podcast has already been renewed. For next Weekend. Season two
Speaker 2: all three episodes. Dun't do you hate that when like
Speaker 2: you're excited at something, are you watching the Pit? The
Speaker 2: Pit is the medical drama on Max. Fifteen episodes. It's
Speaker 2: almost like old school TV. You remember we used to
Speaker 2: get twenty six episodes of things in the good old days.
Speaker 2: Now we usually get eight. Term in case of Con O'Brian,
Speaker 2: we get three. Fifteen is amazing anyway. Conon O'Brian Season
Speaker 2: two all three episodes coming out in May. Rommi usef
Speaker 2: as a project called Number one Happy Family USA, which
Speaker 2: follows a Muslim American family in post nine to eleven America.
Speaker 2: The premiere it takes place on September tenth, two thousand
Speaker 2: and one. I can tell you exactly where it was
Speaker 2: that day. I was at Jones Beach romy premier these
Speaker 2: series at the south By Southwest TV and Film Festival
Speaker 2: and explained there's a representation warning in the beginning of
Speaker 2: every episode that tells you not to use this show
Speaker 2: as representation. I've had a very torn relationship with representation
Speaker 2: and the idea of what it should do or what
Speaker 2: it is. This is a show about capitalism. I think
Speaker 2: when you watch the first couple episodes. You'll see that,
Speaker 2: but it's certainly not representative of Arabs or Muslims, many
Speaker 2: of which I think will see things that they really appreciate,
Speaker 2: and other things will be like, what the f Rommi,
Speaker 2: why did you do this stuff? You revealed he pitched
Speaker 2: the series during Trump's first term. That's how long it's been.
Speaker 2: Remember the happy Trump be sad Now by the way,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys noticed the audience laughed.
Speaker 2: I don't think he likes this either. I haven't seen
Speaker 2: him smile once the whole the first time. He's always laughing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, shout out to him. This guy's miserable. Send
Speaker 2: your letters to Robbie usef. All eight episodes premiere April
Speaker 2: seventeenth on Prime Video. And that is your comedy news today.
Speaker 2: Back tomorrow we'll talk about Mullenie. I didn't forget about Mullenie.
Speaker 2: But I'd also on stay up til one am to
Speaker 2: record the podcast and Bill Burr as a special. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you heard about that. That's out tomorrow
Speaker 2: as well, So plenty to talk about tomorrow. See then,