Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media remembers Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: Let's ease into it. Today, Ray Romano has a new gig.
Speaker 1: He will join Netflix's Running Point for season two. Now,
Speaker 1: you're like, Johnny Mack, What the heck is Running Point?
Speaker 1: I don't remember anything called Running Point? How does it
Speaker 1: have a season two? Oh? Yeah, you'll remember this. This
Speaker 1: is that Mindy Kahling basketball show about a team in LA.
Speaker 1: Remember that one that was the thing that happened. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ray Ramano will play coach Norm Stinson in season two. Now.
Speaker 1: Robert Townsend was originally announced for the part in September,
Speaker 1: but the creative team decided to go in a different direction.
Speaker 1: They've recast the role with Ray Romano. They're doing some reshoots.
Speaker 1: Norm Stinson is described as a basketball savant turned social
Speaker 1: recluse who will team up with the team owner Kan
Speaker 1: Hudson to rediscover his love for the game and life. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with Running Point, the Mindy Kaling
Speaker 1: basketball comedy. When his scandal forces her brother to resign,
Speaker 1: Kate Hudson's character is appointed president of the Los Angeles Waves,
Speaker 1: one of the most storied professional basketball franchises and her
Speaker 1: family business. I feel like Ray Ramano is slumming here.
Speaker 1: He can't need the work, right, He's gotta have crazy
Speaker 1: money from everybody loves Raymond. If he needed a payday,
Speaker 1: he could just call up Brad Garrett and be like, hey, Brad,
Speaker 1: we need a payday. You in And Brad Garrett is
Speaker 1: going to be at Ray Ramono's house before that sentence
Speaker 1: even ends. So it can't be that is this creatively fulfilling? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand why Ray Ramono is doing this at all. Previously,
Speaker 1: Ray Ramono starred in Netflix's No Good Deed, Remember that
Speaker 1: One Me Neither. He was also on Made for Love,
Speaker 1: appeared in Bookie and in Bupkuz, the Pete Davison show
Speaker 1: that went sideways. Maybe Pete should have not walked away
Speaker 1: from that show. He wouldn't have had to play the
Speaker 1: Rion Comedy Festival make some money to pay for his ferry.
Speaker 1: Who knows. I'm just a guy in the basement recording podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything anyway. I'm not sure why Ray
Speaker 1: said yes to that one. Vulcher talk to Stavros Halkias,
Speaker 1: who's being pushed in our direction? This week again. Nothing
Speaker 1: against stop Ros. I'm just noticing the pushing. Vulture asked
Speaker 1: Stavros about the concept of the Joe Rogan of the Left.
Speaker 1: I'll remind everyone the Joe Rogan of the Left used
Speaker 1: to be Joe Rogan. He'd have on people like Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 1: who I think was actually on again recently. I'm really
Speaker 1: backed up on my Rogan listening because, hey, Spotify, are
Speaker 1: you listening. I'm sure you are. They have the commercials
Speaker 1: on Rogan set to automatic, so in the middle of
Speaker 1: a sentence suddenly we go abruptly to a Rogan voiced
Speaker 1: read and it's really annoying. So I don't listen to
Speaker 1: Rogan anymore unless I'm in the car where I can
Speaker 1: actively hit thirty second skip. If I can't hit thirty
Speaker 1: second skip easily by flicking my left thumb, I don't
Speaker 1: listen to Rogan right now. Spotify take my note. I
Speaker 1: know the Joe Rogan podcast is really struggling without me
Speaker 1: listening anyway. Stavros, Joe Rogan the Left, what do you think?
Speaker 1: Stavros said. What it means to me, man, is we're
Speaker 1: eft if they're coming to me, if they're even sniffing
Speaker 1: around over here means we need some more cultural figure
Speaker 1: years on the left, or what it really means is
Speaker 1: journalism is broken down in a way in this country
Speaker 1: that's pathetic. Everything's for profit. There's now more and more
Speaker 1: powerful people buying our newspapers, like Jeff Bezos buying the
Speaker 1: Washington Post. But I also think part of it is
Speaker 1: because comedians have boosted some right wing voices. It's unimaginative
Speaker 1: thinking to be like, well, we need our own comedians
Speaker 1: to do that. Look, do I feel a little pressure
Speaker 1: to be a little more clear about where I stand
Speaker 1: on things I do, But philosophically I just can't lead
Speaker 1: with that. I can't say. And he has a quote
Speaker 1: here that is quite vulgar. Let me see if I
Speaker 1: can clean it up to get the gist here. So
Speaker 1: basically what he's saying is stop doing whatever the ruling
Speaker 1: class says and admit it's not immigrants and trans people
Speaker 1: that are the reason your life's bad. It's because there's
Speaker 1: tax cuts going to the point zero zero one percent.
Speaker 1: It's because of inequality. Starvars said, I did go to
Speaker 1: school for public policy, but when I was twenty, I
Speaker 1: decided I was going to stop learning about that, and
Speaker 1: I was going to learn to talk about my little
Speaker 1: penis for a living. I do think at some point
Speaker 1: in my life I'll sort of return to that. I
Speaker 1: assume he means public policy, maybe not. I want to
Speaker 1: do it on a community level. First. I grew up
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. We didn't have I do want to help
Speaker 1: kids in Baltimore. I was in some art programs that
Speaker 1: really helped me growing up. So I've been thinking about that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think he wants to go back to public policy
Speaker 1: and not showing up and be like, hey, check out
Speaker 1: my stuff here. That would be very That would not
Speaker 1: be appropriate. Stara said, I look at the arc of
Speaker 1: my life. I had some beliefs. I got educated. I
Speaker 1: realized what I want to do had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with my education. But it's still kind of clarified when
Speaker 1: I think about the world, when I want to happen,
Speaker 1: and how I want people to be treated on a
Speaker 1: base level. And now that I'm in the period of
Speaker 1: my life where I have a career and my goals
Speaker 1: are artistic, I've decided I don't care about the world
Speaker 1: as much as I care about having a good time.
Speaker 1: Bultra stayed on the politics thing, and Starvra said, I
Speaker 1: think it'd be really good for my career if I
Speaker 1: brushed up on a little policy, if I got a
Speaker 1: couple of statistics together and went on some new show
Speaker 1: and debated people, I would be nervous on CNN, right.
Speaker 1: I'm more entertaining and funnier than those people, and they're
Speaker 1: not that smart. If I studied for a month, I
Speaker 1: could do this thing and to be really good for
Speaker 1: my career. But I despise that careerist climbing bs from
Speaker 1: DBK News, your home for comedy news. They went to
Speaker 1: see Marcello Hernanez. You know Marcelo. He's the guy on
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live that does that one thing really great,
Speaker 1: and he does one thing K News tells us. Laughter
Speaker 1: filled the Exfinity Center as comedian Marcelo Hernandez took to
Speaker 1: the stage to kick off the University of Maryland's homecoming week.
Speaker 1: Marcelo covered a variety of personal topics, from childhood shenanigans
Speaker 1: to the many differences between white and Latino people. Even
Speaker 1: touched on pressing issues like gender, mental health, and friendship.
Speaker 1: Some of the students recognized Marcelo Hernandez from NBC's Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live. See I actually pronounce at that time. I'm
Speaker 1: aware that I often say Sanite live. I don't even
Speaker 1: sometimes you'll get a Saturday Night Live out of me.
Speaker 1: But sometimes I just go sanite live, and I'm aware
Speaker 1: of it. Queen's accent there. A freshman chemistry major said,
Speaker 1: I just knew he was from SNL and I watched
Speaker 1: the clips online, so I was like, that sounds pretty fun.
Speaker 1: A freshman English major said, I was really excited because
Speaker 1: my household we watch SNL, so we love Marcelo. Many
Speaker 1: recognized Marcelo Hernandez from one sketch in particular. Guess which
Speaker 1: one it is. That's right Domingo, because even if it
Speaker 1: wasn't a Domingo sketch, you probably were like, he's just
Speaker 1: doing Domingo because he does one thing well, and he
Speaker 1: does one thing. The freshman chemistry major said, I always
Speaker 1: see the Domingo clips and it's probably my favorite sketch
Speaker 1: right now. Billy Gardell after a decade or so doing
Speaker 1: sitcoms and probably made some good cash. There's probably still
Speaker 1: money in CBS sitcoms when he did it. He's going
Speaker 1: back to doing stand up comedy. He's going to tour
Speaker 1: theaters to his first tour of any kind in nearly
Speaker 1: a decade. It'll kick off in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, January thirtieth.
Speaker 1: Billy Gardell will discuss his recent weight loss of one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three pounds because I have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: the non elephant in the room well played there, as
Speaker 1: well as his relationship with his father, who he calls
Speaker 1: his hero. He talks about being an empty nester and
Speaker 1: being in a sweet spot in his marriage twenty five
Speaker 1: years in, using a latter subject as a way to
Speaker 1: talk about the delusion of what people think love is
Speaker 1: today and what they're telling our kids love is today,
Speaker 1: and how our relationship should be. You'll also talk about
Speaker 1: younger generations. Billy said, I think it's low hanging fruit
Speaker 1: to rip on that generation and punch down on them,
Speaker 1: meeting people in their twenties and thirties, when that's the
Speaker 1: generation that needs a little wisdom from the older generation
Speaker 1: more than anybody else has before these kids go through
Speaker 1: the same things we all go through. Who am I
Speaker 1: gonna be? Where am I gonna live? Is anyone gonna
Speaker 1: love me? And then you had social media on top
Speaker 1: of that and the stay of the world, I think
Speaker 1: they need an adult they can talk to. As for
Speaker 1: the weight loss, he was on ozempic, underwent bariatric surgery
Speaker 1: and transformed his lifestyle. Billy says, I'm not on any medication.
Speaker 1: I'm healthier than I've ever been. Could do some things
Speaker 1: with my wife and kids I wouldn't been able to
Speaker 1: do before I caught the unicorn that every heavy person
Speaker 1: dreams of. I flew in a middle seat. Really, what
Speaker 1: Billy Guardill was in a middle seat? I hope you
Speaker 1: were with your wife and son and you chose the
Speaker 1: middle seat, because if you don't have sitcom money after
Speaker 1: two CBS sitcoms, your account's up to something. Something's going
Speaker 1: wrong there. The other big one was buying something right
Speaker 1: off the rack that had never happened to me in
Speaker 1: my entire life. So it's those little victories that you
Speaker 1: think about that kind of keep the wind in your sails.
Speaker 1: The Toronto Guardian will sometimes profile comedians, and I like
Speaker 1: to find out about new people they caught up with.
Speaker 1: Everado Ramirez, best known for Late Mic Too, a chaotic
Speaker 1: weekly late night talk show slash open mic hybrid that
Speaker 1: blends sharp, riffing, experimental, risk taking and absurd invention, drawing
Speaker 1: inspiration from icons like David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and others. Hey,
Speaker 1: Mike Chisholm from the Letterman podcast, who's been doing stand
Speaker 1: up lately? Why are you not ripping off this idea
Speaker 1: for Vancouver? Bro? Come on Mike talk show Slash Open
Speaker 1: Mike Hybrid inspired by Letterman, Canada, Vancouver, this thing I
Speaker 1: digress Everado. How would you describe your comedy style? He said,
Speaker 1: laid back with quick in the moment, riffing. I like
Speaker 1: that kind of style, just saying I try to maintain
Speaker 1: a cool presence while everything around me is CHAOTICX. Someone's
Speaker 1: told me my show is the most interesting thing that
Speaker 1: happens at comedy bar. Not necessarily the funniest, but certainly
Speaker 1: the most interesting. It's a little backheaded there for a
Speaker 1: comedian like, Hey, you're pretty interesting, all right? Who are
Speaker 1: some of your influences? Late Night with both David Letterman
Speaker 1: and Conan O'Brien. I love how Letterman would interview weirdos
Speaker 1: like RVPCRR or Crispin Glover. Oh yeah, those are early Letterman.
Speaker 1: Guess word have some yeah, hit I have some quirky
Speaker 1: people on Dave wasn't afraid to sit in the weirdness,
Speaker 1: leaving audience is wondering if it was a stage bit
Speaker 1: or if something was wrong. Conan's absurd bits and segments
Speaker 1: were a perfect amount of stupid and his self deprecation
Speaker 1: and tightly wand control freak persona must have imprinted on
Speaker 1: me early because now I host a late night talk
Speaker 1: shows that I'm quite particular about it. Wear a suit,
Speaker 1: I bring a big inflatable couch, I use a kitchen
Speaker 1: time instead of lighting comedians, not writing my own monologue jokes,
Speaker 1: but instead leaving a stack of cute cards at the
Speaker 1: bar for strangers and other comedians to write jokes, and
Speaker 1: I read it for the first time on stage at
Speaker 1: the top of the show. I don't book my real
Speaker 1: comedian friends because I think it's more interesting to talk
Speaker 1: to the freaks and the scoundrels in the open mic world.
Speaker 1: All that's more work for me and have an element
Speaker 1: of risk to it, But I think that's what makes
Speaker 1: the show more interesting. Favorite comedian growing up, Norm McDonald,
Speaker 1: Louis Anderson, Conan O'Brien, favorite comedian now, he said, Nick Nemerov,
Speaker 1: who's fantastic, but Nick did pass away a few years ago.
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with Nick from playing him on the Weekly
Speaker 1: Comedy Thing, which is the program I host on the
Speaker 1: Live One service. The service is free, the show is free.
Speaker 1: So how it works. It's like this, except I talk
Speaker 1: way less, but I can also play comedian bits like
Speaker 1: Nick Nemerov, who Everado Ramirez is into. Everado suggests everybody
Speaker 1: check out Nick's album The Pursuit of comedy has ruined
Speaker 1: my life. I'm loving this interview. All right, what's your
Speaker 1: pre show ritual? He says. On the way to the venue,
Speaker 1: I listened to the unreleased eighteen admitted version of Short
Speaker 1: and Bread by the Beach Boys. Now I'm a big
Speaker 1: Beach Boys fan. Like for Reels, Everado says, he goes
Speaker 1: into a kind of transcendental meditative state where my brain
Speaker 1: shuts off for a few minutes. My wife does not
Speaker 1: like this song and is worried that listening to it
Speaker 1: is making me go insane. But to that, I say,
Speaker 1: mommy's little baby loves shirt and Bread. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I dig this guy. And did you watch Jeopardy During
Speaker 1: the week? On Monday, there was a person on. Mister
Speaker 1: Levine's first name is Aaron. But when you know, you
Speaker 1: write your name in the box so we can see
Speaker 1: what your name is. He stylized his name aa run,
Speaker 1: a callback to the famous hilarious key and peel sketch
Speaker 1: substitute Tu. You're probably familiar with it. It's one of
Speaker 1: their iconic sketches. Analysis of the sketch says the scene
Speaker 1: is cherished for its hilarious take on a phenomenon that
Speaker 1: ethnic students normally experience in a classroom setting in which
Speaker 1: teachers tend to pronounce more culturally specific names to sound eurocentric.
Speaker 1: Aarn won the episode on Monday Night, twenty thousand, six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Congratulations Airn, and that is your comedy news
Speaker 1: on a Saturday. You have a great day.