Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy news. So I've been trying to get back in
Speaker 1: the habit on Fridays of recapping Late Night. Don't worry
Speaker 1: you didn't download the wrong episode. It's Saturday Calm Down.
Speaker 1: But I didn't do it yesterday because we had so
Speaker 1: much Gene Gillis to get through. I really like yesterday's episode.
Speaker 1: If you missed it, check that one out. So here
Speaker 1: are some of the better Late Night jokes from the week.
Speaker 1: One of the topics the Epstein Files. Jimmy Fallon said,
Speaker 1: Trump said, everybody move on. It's a minor issue. And
Speaker 1: people said, exactly, it's a minor issue. Fallon again. A
Speaker 1: thief in Massachusetts stole more than one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: worth of rare Pokemon cards. Trust me, the last thing
Speaker 1: you want to tell your CELLMATEE is that you're in
Speaker 1: prison for jacking a squirrel. That's pretty edgy for Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 1: But then I thought about it more and I could
Speaker 1: see Johnny Carson back in the day nailing that vaguely
Speaker 1: dirty punchline and mugging for the camera and getting a
Speaker 1: good life seth Meyers. A newdist group in Pittsburgh over
Speaker 1: the weekend held its annual Balls Out Bowling event where
Speaker 1: clothing is not allowed, much to the horror of Jimmy's
Speaker 1: eighth birthday party. I like that twist there at the end,
Speaker 1: more of a straight up tag by Seth. By the way,
Speaker 1: whose idea was this, We need an idea for the
Speaker 1: next nudist event. How about a sport we bend over
Speaker 1: in front of everyone. Fallin. They're burning the mega hats.
Speaker 1: People in China were like, come on, we work so
Speaker 1: hard making them. That's very good. Is Jimmy Fallon quietly
Speaker 1: handing in great monologues because Colbert is not Oh, I
Speaker 1: did the prep and I didn't pull any Colbert jokes.
Speaker 1: Fallin Again. The excuses are getting worse and worse. Today
Speaker 1: Trump was like a dog ate the Epstein files than
Speaker 1: people in Ohio ate the dog. That is fantastic, Seth Myers.
Speaker 1: The dating app Bumble has announced plans to lay off
Speaker 1: about thirty percent of its staff, and it's pretty cool
Speaker 1: how they're doing it. No, no, yes, no Fallon. A
Speaker 1: woman in California said her home is being flooded with
Speaker 1: hundreds of unwanted Amazon packages. By the way, an unwanted
Speaker 1: Amazon package is how Lauren Sanchez described her honeymoon. Also
Speaker 1: great Seth Myers. In honor of National hot Dog Day,
Speaker 1: the convenience store Circle K offered two roller grill hot
Speaker 1: dogs for a dollar because that's what they used to
Speaker 1: cost back when they were first placed on the roller,
Speaker 1: but Jordan Klepper for the win. Lauren Bobert had suggested
Speaker 1: that Trump appoint Matt Gates special counsel for the whole
Speaker 1: Epstein business. Jordan Klepper slammed it with you want Matt
Speaker 1: Gates to investigate underage sex trafficking. I guess it makes
Speaker 1: sense in a game recognized game way, I caunes see
Speaker 1: Matt Gates pulling up to R. Kelly's house saying I'm
Speaker 1: putting together a team fantastic. Randomly, I saw a note
Speaker 1: that Jay Leno, according to NBC, hosted more than forty
Speaker 1: six hundred episodes of The Tonight Show, which was the
Speaker 1: most of any of the six hosts in the show's history,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Leno hosted more than Johnny Carson,
Speaker 1: so I looked it up. Johnny apparently hosted quote unquote
Speaker 1: only thirty six hundred and fifty eight episodes. So I
Speaker 1: thought about it, and I think that's probably lazy math.
Speaker 1: Leno hosted for twenty two years. Let's say he did
Speaker 1: forty eight weeks a year. He might have done fifty
Speaker 1: or more, but let's call it forty eight. I don't
Speaker 1: remember Jay taking a lot of time off. So if
Speaker 1: for twenty two years you did the show five days
Speaker 1: a week as opposed to four, you would make up
Speaker 1: one thousand and fifty six shows on Johnny Carson, who
Speaker 1: for a long while did four days and towards the
Speaker 1: end only did three days. Oh and now that I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about it more, I guess part of that would
Speaker 1: have been Jay Leno was the Monday guest host for
Speaker 1: a couple of years, you know, so that's hosting the
Speaker 1: Tonight Show. So okay, that math does make sense. But
Speaker 1: it was very surprising. GQ is a good interview with
Speaker 1: Mark Maron, and it was nice. Somebody asked Maren something
Speaker 1: different for a change. GQ asked Maren. In the past,
Speaker 1: you've spoken about struggling to pick out a good outfit
Speaker 1: when you're on stage filming a special. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like you dialed it in with this one Mark special's
Speaker 1: on HBO August first. Maren said, yeah, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: been a lifelong journey for me. I committed that shirt
Speaker 1: and those pants and those boots, and it was I'm
Speaker 1: quite a bit. Leading up the special, there was an
Speaker 1: issue with the shirt being a little snug when I
Speaker 1: sat down the gas between and the buttons would pop open,
Speaker 1: but like everything kind of fell into place. I stretched
Speaker 1: it out when I got there. The wardrobe person, who
Speaker 1: was an employee at the theater solved that problem by
Speaker 1: putting snaps in between the buttons that you couldn't see.
Speaker 1: So that was resolved. This part of my brain that
Speaker 1: seeks to be anxious and cost myself minor problems before
Speaker 1: I go in, because that's just the way my brain works.
Speaker 1: That has to work against me in order for me
Speaker 1: to have a certain energy, I guess, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: there that night, and I just didn't have the usual
Speaker 1: habitual anxiety that I usually have heading into something like that.
Speaker 1: I knew the stuff, I knew the work, I felt
Speaker 1: good about the outfit, felt good about the shirt, felt
Speaker 1: good about my hair. There was no weird, dumb stuff
Speaker 1: that happened that would spiral me out. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: about time that that part of my brain stops trying
Speaker 1: to f with me. I've avoided medication for most of
Speaker 1: my life, but I've been taking something specifically for foundational
Speaker 1: anxiety and maybe it was working, I don't know. But
Speaker 1: also that theater is a big part of the special.
Speaker 1: Is whatever I did up there in that theater of
Speaker 1: the Bam Harvey. It's not disrespair, but it's frozen in
Speaker 1: a state of decay in a way. They didn't distore it,
Speaker 1: thought it be what it is, but they maintain it.
Speaker 1: So it's got a very interesting personality. To me. Well
Speaker 1: looked like a rough go painting. And when I first
Speaker 1: saw the space, I'm like, there's no way that wall
Speaker 1: is going to be as big a part of the
Speaker 1: special as I am. I can't explain it exactly why,
Speaker 1: and the DP was like, yeah, I get it. And
Speaker 1: when he was first looking at it, he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking kinsugi. I'm like, I don't know what that is,
Speaker 1: and then he told me and I looked it up.
Speaker 1: That's a Japanese order for storing broken ceramic pieces with gold.
Speaker 1: So he was able to work the lights around that.
Speaker 1: In the audience in the room and on the rug.
Speaker 1: Then it fades up during those last two heavier bits
Speaker 1: under the wall as sort of a reparative poetic implication.
Speaker 1: Mark Maren panicked August first on HBO, Taylor Tumlinson told
Speaker 1: The Times of London the hardest thing about being a
Speaker 1: woman in comedy he's traveling alone on the road, and
Speaker 1: so you get to a certain level just more dangerous.
Speaker 1: When I was twenty into these small towns and doing
Speaker 1: these weird gigs by myself, people would try to break
Speaker 1: into your hotel rooms because they know you're a loon
Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere. It's scary. Yikes. The reporter
Speaker 1: was like, what Taylor said, Yeah, you know, we all
Speaker 1: have those stories. She says traveling for comedy can be isolating.
Speaker 1: She's hired her younger sibling to travel on the road
Speaker 1: with her, which has helped her a lot. Dating has
Speaker 1: fallen down the list of the stuff that she's able
Speaker 1: to get to. Taylor says, the idea of oh it's
Speaker 1: going to happen for you, I don't know. We're all
Speaker 1: on our phones. You might have to try a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm also on the fence about having kids. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to feel about that. First things first, I'd
Speaker 1: like a partner, and I think if I focus the
Speaker 1: same level of caret attention on that, and it probably
Speaker 1: happened a little faster. Now that my career is in
Speaker 1: a place i'm happy with, I have to finish this tour,
Speaker 1: film the special, finish my book. Then next year I
Speaker 1: can focus on finding a partner. I think she's on
Speaker 1: the celebrity dating app Raya. Oh yeah, there's a whole
Speaker 1: other world out there that you and I are not
Speaker 1: part of. She says, it stinks. I mean, my last
Speaker 1: relationship was from Raya, so it does work sometimes, but
Speaker 1: I think dating is just bad across the board. It
Speaker 1: can feel uneven because there's so much information publicly available
Speaker 1: about me. If I meet somebody who I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about, it feels like they have the high ground.
Speaker 1: She talked about having more fame and money now, and
Speaker 1: she said, I'm very conscious of that. You can't go
Speaker 1: out on stage and act like, oh, things are still
Speaker 1: really hard for me, still having a tough time at work. No,
Speaker 1: you're not. You're doing very well. And I think you
Speaker 1: just have to come at it from a place of gratitude.
Speaker 1: It's because of everybody who buys tickets. If you're in Maui,
Speaker 1: you go see Shang Wang tonight. He'll beat the Max
Speaker 1: Castle Theater. He told Maui News. I'm always trying to
Speaker 1: pay attention. I'm almost trying to be present and just
Speaker 1: see what's happening, then collecting little moments, little observations you
Speaker 1: notice that could be obviously hilarious, or it could just
Speaker 1: be something interesting that's not obviously humorous but shared in
Speaker 1: a funny way. I love creating something that wasn't here before,
Speaker 1: that wasn't here yesterday. I love the process of craft.
Speaker 1: I love the idea. It's so open, it's pretty free.
Speaker 1: It's you, a microphone and an audience. It's fine if
Speaker 1: you bomb, that's say you get better. It's always fun
Speaker 1: to do a good show, but having a good set
Speaker 1: isn't that meaningful if you don't try something new. The
Speaker 1: most rewarding thing is coming up with something new or
Speaker 1: making it better, and the process of just basically being
Speaker 1: okay with bombing. I like the idea that people can
Speaker 1: now walk out of this show to their regular lives,
Speaker 1: see these little things and have a moment just a
Speaker 1: moment there to think where maybe they're not an autopilot
Speaker 1: when they're brushing their teeth. I like the idea that
Speaker 1: after this show, if people really enjoyed it, they can
Speaker 1: come across little points into lives where they're not kind
Speaker 1: of glossed over or moving through without thinking. We can
Speaker 1: consider this moment a little bit to be present. Basically,
Speaker 1: Chang Wang Maccastle Theater tonight, seven o'clock MAUI all right,
Speaker 1: from Montclairlocal dot com. We are on gossip corner. Montclair
Speaker 1: Local was wondering what was going on at Montclair High
Speaker 1: School the other day because there was a new sign.
Speaker 1: The school had apparently been renamed Aldrin High School. Now interesting,
Speaker 1: Buzz Aldrin is from Montclair, New Jersey, but he already
Speaker 1: has a school in town named in his honor. Susan
Speaker 1: is a Montclair resident. She was one of the first
Speaker 1: to spot the sign at around five forty five in
Speaker 1: the morning while dropping her son off at soccer practice.
Speaker 1: She told Montclair Local, my first thought was, am I
Speaker 1: seeing things? My second thought was how did I not
Speaker 1: know about this? Have been living under a rock? And
Speaker 1: then I thought we already have a Buzz Aldrin Middle school.
Speaker 1: It turns out the sign was for Adam Sandler's new
Speaker 1: movie Roommates. The film also stars famous actress Sonny Sandler.
Speaker 1: I may have to leave the country. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to take all the Sandler stuff. Speaking of
Speaker 1: leaving the country, it's just for laughs. Montreal taking a
Speaker 1: look at the English language programming tonight, the Cultural Show
Speaker 1: at seven, the JFL Live sessions at seven. Again if
Speaker 1: you heard me ran yesterday. This website is not awesome
Speaker 1: this year. In the past, the live sessions have been
Speaker 1: album taping, so I'm going to assume that that's what
Speaker 1: that is. Eight thirty a show called and just like that,
Speaker 1: this is Me now an hour with Trana Wintur, The
Speaker 1: Nasty Show at nine thirty, and probably a good twenty
Speaker 1: French shows I didn't tell you about, Oh ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: Dino Archie and Chris Robinson at ten, and Midnight Surprise
Speaker 1: at eleven fifty nine. This will really start to pick
Speaker 1: up once we get into the week here. This is
Speaker 1: very typical Week two of the Montreal comedy festivals, always
Speaker 1: the stronger week. Don't read anything into any of this.
Speaker 1: All right in Belleville, Ontario, a comedian today is hoping
Speaker 1: to set the world record for most garage sales in
Speaker 1: one day. Kyle Wolven said, I'd like to go to
Speaker 1: the higher ups in the city, all the well connected
Speaker 1: city council type people, and explain my idea. And then
Speaker 1: it took one person to say that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: We should try and do something like that. Well, today
Speaker 1: the community will aim to set a Guinness World Record
Speaker 1: for greatest number of yard sales. There does not appear
Speaker 1: to be an official record yet, but there's an event
Speaker 1: in the US called the one twenty seven Yard Sale,
Speaker 1: which claims to be the world's longest yard sale, crossing
Speaker 1: six states at six hundred and ninety miles. Well Wolven said,
Speaker 1: people can't help but love yard sales. If they see one,
Speaker 1: they get the surge to go and stop at it,
Speaker 1: even though most of the stuff there they don't want
Speaker 1: or they have already at home. But when you see
Speaker 1: a yard sale, you go, oh, yeah, cool, come on,
Speaker 1: what do they have over there? You can look at
Speaker 1: their stuff and be like, oh my goodness, you bought
Speaker 1: like two of those singing bass fish that hang on
Speaker 1: the wall things. I'll give you three fifty for those well,
Speaker 1: good luck with your record, sir, and that it's your
Speaker 1: comedy news for today see tomorrow.