Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media. You're not supposed to roadblock the top
of a show. Well, let me set the scene for
you here. Hello, I'm Johnny back with your daily Company news.
I'm in the basement. There's no power. I'm sitting in
the spot where I usually record the show, illuminated by
the lights of my flashlight. Now, the power lines have
been on the ground for like six days, and about
twenty minutes ago a power crew from Alabama came to
reattach the power lines to my house. And I'm in
New Jersey, so I appreciate these guys coming all the
way up. So that's the sitch here. But of course
the power guys are on the lawn, which is making
the dog's bark, and I'm sitting in the dark. So
that's the scene today. But luckily I had prepped almost
all of the show before jomping in here. Let's get
to at Adam Sandler said yes right away when he
was asked would he officiate the wedding of Taylor Swift
and Travis Kelcey. A source tells People Magazine Sandler was
incredibly on it to be part of such a special day.
The source ads that Sandler was the perfect person to
serve as efficient, noting that Sailor has been happily married
for so many years to his wife Jackie. They just
celebrated their twenty third anniversary. I mean, yeah, I've been
happily married for over twenty five years, and I qualified.
Who knows. Sailor wasn't just trying to find the perfect
words or make it this big production. He just wanted
to speak from the heart, pass along a little wisdom
that he's gained from his own happy marriage. People tells
us Sandlor kept it low key before the big wedding.
He was seen stepping out in the New York City
heat wave hours before the wedding to shoot some hoops.
As one does. Sandlor headed out in his signature basketball
shorts and yellow T shirt. You know, Sandlor and I
could be friends. No, I'm not kidding. I went for
a run this morning in a yellow T shirt and shorts. Weird,
told Sandlor. Right after the basketball went out to pick
up coffee for his family. Back in twenty twenty five,
Sandlor told Entertainment Tonight, Travis Kelsey's like the guys I
grew up with when I was with. Travis reminded me
of my buddies, an eye, just being able to laugh
and say the things you want to say. Taylor is incredible.
Taylor so damn nice to my family and has always been.
My kids have met Taylor a bunch of times over
the years, and she's ridiculously nice to them and warm.
Now see, here's our first I could edit this out,
but here's our first victim of the power outage. Here
in the two slot, I had some comments from comedian
Michael Loftus who was saying that the marriage went on
the last three years. But I didn't actually paste to
the script, and now I don't have power to grab
the article. See if I can get it on my phone,
Why don't you edit this out, John, because that's not fun.
I'm sitting in the dark. This is not a bit. Nope,
I don't have enough Internet to find that story. So
now we know what we'll be in tomorrow's show. Moving on,
John Focus USA today asked a bunch of comedians about
that guy Louis c K. You know Louis c K.
He used to be canceled, but now he's got a
big Netflix special. That's not that good, Margaret Chow posted
on threads I'm gonna have to clean this up a
little bit. Louis c K should have just had an
onlyfan so people could pay to watch him do the
kind of thing Louie likes to do in front of people,
instead of subjecting female comment to it. Missed financial opportunity.
W Camal Bell on his sub stack took a break
from taking shots at Mega Comedian Apraghatzy Bell wrote, so
many people at Netflix had a sign off on ck
getting invited to the festival and getting a new special.
What were they all thinking? So many people have to
work the show that he headlines, whether they want it
or not. So many comedians will be at events and
parties with Louis c K whether they want to be
in the room with a known sex pest or not.
So many people who make so much less money than
him will have to pretend like they're okay being in
the same room as him. This is how showbiz works.
I will agree with mister Bell in this is how
showbiz works. If you want to hang around with people
who are cool and not at all a holes, don't
get into showbiz. Comedian Steve Hofstatter said the brief hiatus
never amounted to real accountability. Steve said comics take time
off all the time to work on a screenplay, to
go on vacation. The idea of having to take six
months off the road was somehow sentence for his behavior
is ridiculous. There's nothing America loves more than a redemption story.
If he had come back with Trician, with understanding and
with the desire to help prevent it from happening to
other people instead of a woe is me attitude, would
have been a very different response. I'm gonna point out
here because I'm friends with both Steve and Larry the
Cable Guy. Steve factually put out an album one time
called Cure for the Cable Guy. The cover of that
album is an effigy of someone being hung that is
dressed similar to the way Larry the Cable Guy does
it during his act. I know that Larry was quite
hurt by this and confused by his because he didn't
know or interact with Steve. And you've heard me say
a million times on the show Dan Whitney, Larry the
Cable Guy is an awesome, awesome guy. Not sure why
Steve chose to call his album that, but that was
an awkward time, and if you make me pick, I'm
on team Cable guy in that fight, Rob Shooter has
a pretty gossipy sub stack. He often quotes sources and
doesn't put names to the sources. So take this with
a grain of salt. As they say, but Shooter wrote,
sources tell naughty but nice. Stephen Colbert has largely he
retreated from public view as the reality of his cancelation
sinks in. I don't know, but you know, the show's
only been over for a month. It's summertime. What is
the guy supposed to do? Like? Can't take a break,
but Shooter rates friend saint. Colbert is heartbroken, frustrated, and
struggling to imagine life after spending years at the center
of late night television. One insider says, this wasn't one
insider see what I'm saying. This wasn't just a job.
It was his identity. Stephen poured everything into that show.
Losing it has hit him hard. Shooters column adds the
emotional toll was hard to miss when Colbert attended Taylor
Swift's wedding over the weekend, where guest spot at the
usually upbea comedian looking unusually subdued. And miserable. How do
we know this? I thought nobody was talking about this wedding?
How do we know this? Even longtime colleagues are surprised
by how little they've heard from him. Another source, again
no name, says he's always been the one holding everyone
else together. Now he's the one who needs time. He
stepped away to figure out what comes next. Yeah. An
insider reveals writing is what's saving him now. It's giving
him somewhere to channel everything he's feeling. You may recall
Stephen is working on a new Lord of the Rings
film for some reason. One source says this isn't retirement,
it's recovery. Once he's ready, he'll be back. Yeah, no kidding.
All right, this next segment, I'm gonna call bad ideas
Bad Idea Number one. Leslie Jones is giving property owners
a reality check on HGTV's upcoming series Roast My Rental.
That's right, it's Roast My Rentals, starring Leslie Jones. This
will be out Friday, July twenty fourth, Because you know,
don't you want to sit home on Friday night and
watch Leslie Jones Roast Rentals. There's a trailer. Let's listen.
Speaker 2: Please take me to my vacation villa. Whoa disgusting Millions
of people check into vacation rentals each year and when
that great, they can make a trip unforgettable. This is
blow What in a fresh black plague? Is this?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: No? But sometimes was posted online? That's not reality? Do
we need to call the authority? Snason would love this
because this is definitely a serial Killers. Then I'm Leslie Jones,
and as a comedian, I travel a lot and I've
seen it all the good, the bad, and the what
were they thinking? Sometimes a property just loses his way,
and that's where I come in these.
Speaker 1: Owners now, fortunately for us, and I'm not doing a bit.
That's when the power went out as I was pulling
the clip. I lost the Internet and that was all
the clip I was able to pull. But luckily for us.
I mean, do you want to watch that? We are
told after Leslie Jones scopes out each property and gives
owners an honest roast, She then calls on renovation expert
and help I wreck my house star Jasmine Roth to
help with the major overhaul roast my rental Friday, July
twenty fourth, at ten pm. If you have no life
now you have something to watch. Bad idea Number two,
Chelsea Handler is expanding her podcast network. It's the launch
of the Dear Chelsea Network because Chelsea Handlers at the
peak of her popularity right now after the Kevin Hart roast.
This is great timing the multi year partnership with iHeart.
We'll see the creation of several new shows executive produced
by Chelsea Handler. A suit over there says, Chelsea has
become an incredibly influential voice in the podcasting space with
her unique ability to create community among her listeners. I
will be honest with you, I'm finding out as I
read that sentence that Chelsea even has a podcast. And
I'm in the podcast industry and go to shows and
google the word comedy every day and do this show.
Not sure how popular it is, but I have no Internet,
so I can't tell you. The first podcast launching on
the Deer Chelsea Network will be You're the Problem with Yaminika,
hosted by Yaminika Saunders and longtime friended producer Syree Rush.
That'll be out July fifteenth, that's Wednesday. It focuses on
pop culture in the moment, current events, news and politics.
As a podcasting expert. I could tell you from that
description that means the show's completely on foot focused and
it's we're going to talk about, you know, stuff that
never works. Chelsea Handler says, when I started Dear Chelsea,
I wanted to give people access to me and build
a place where people could come for honest advice, real
conversation and a lot of laughter. And my dog is parking,
so quick pause here into an edit, and I think
they've reconnected the wires because I just heard the power
clickback on. So I'm going to go have to check
on these guys. Were we Chelsea Handler was saying, when
I started Dear Chelsea, I wanted to give people access
to me and build a place where people could come
for honest advice, real conversation and a lot of laughter.
Building that community into a network feels incredibly meaningful, especially
because I get to launch it with someone I know,
love and believe in as much as Yamanika. She's one
of the funniest people I know. I can't wait for
people to make her part of their lives the way
I have. Bad Idea Number three. Fred Armison and Kerry
Brownstein are headed back to Portland. Why a Podcast it's
Podlandia ao Rewatch, produced by Will Ferrell's company. That's out
on the sixteenth, which is Thursday. With new episodes weekly
Podlandia ao Rewatch, we'll see Armison and Brownstein revisiting their
cult classic TV series, which documented the hipster fat of
birds as the core unique bicycles and a tense mustache
care that define the capital of Oregon for an entire generation. Now,
the reason I don't love this idea is port LANDI
around for seventy seven episodes across eight seasons on IFC.
I know people like it, but like it's not exactly
like the Office. I just think the audience is too
small for this to work. Brownstein said, our hope with
the portlandier Rewatch podcast is to continue the conversations we
began when the show first aired, conversations around community, how
a place shapes and defines us, how much of life
is mere performance, and how absurdity is often the best
way to make sense of the world. Revisiting these episodes
also reminded me of the ways Fred is singularly hilarious,
We'd love getting to hang out and Reminisce saying that
praises the cast crew, in the city itself and have
new means of connecting with our audience. I barely made
it through that description, and there's a whole other paragraph.
Fred said, rewatching these Portlandy episodes was so enjoyable. I
really laughed, which is a strange thing to say about something.
I'm in. Carrie made me laugh a lot. Blah blah blah.
I'm so bored. Bobby Flay says one of the highlights
of returning to the American Century Golf Championship every year
is to catch up with Colin Jost, especially if they
end up paired together on the golf course. Prior to
the event, Flay said, I'm looking forward to seeing Colin
Jost at the very least. I know if I play
with Colin, it's gonna be funny on the golf course.
Lay says, the competition is anything but casual. People think
we're having fun. We are, but we're also trying to
make par It's very, very competitive. It's the most nerve
wracking thing we do all year. You can ask any
of these guys out here. We're grinding for pars. Listen,
I'm a chef, I cook for a living. I'm playing
against world class athletes all over the place. So it's
not easy. Hey, good news, we are back. The lights
are on here in the office. Now it's too bright
in here. Stop complaining, John, We got to talk about
Count Binface. The Telegraph asks, could Britain by hurtling towards
its first prime Binister. There's a comedian, John Harvey. He
goes by Count Binface. So this is a guy with
like a garbage can on his head. It looks like
a Monty Python sketch. Longtime prankster and elect role underdog.
Count Binface, formerly known as Lord Buckethead, stands for the
exasperated voter, says the Telegraph. Variety profiled this guy, They
tell us. The wannabe politician who last month stood in
a by election against Andy Burnham, widely considered the UK's
Prime Minister in waiting, is set to run against right
wing MP Nigel Farage in yet another upcoming by election.
Despite Farag's resignation coming only a few days ago, the
ballot has already descended into a circus as the politician
vowed to stand for re election, resulting in all the
other major political parties pulling their candidates over what they're
calling a political stunt. Enter Count Binface, the comedian dressed
as a trash can variety broke this down, Subpetter who
is Count Binface. Count Binface is a fifty nine hundred
year old intergalactic space warrior from the planet Sigmund nine,
whose motto is make Earth grade again, Love It. He
has stood in five elections since twenty nineteen, including the
London mayoral election, the twenty twenty four general election, and
the previously mentioned one against Andy Burnham. Some of his
policies include changing London Bridge's name to Phoebe Wallerbridge, building
at least one affordable house, and selecting himself as the
UK Eurovision candidate for twenty twenty seven. Now I mentioned
he used to be Lord Bucketed, but you see, Lord
Buckethead had first appeared in a nineteen eighty four Star
Wars parody called Hyperspace, so people started arguing about the ip.
The conversations were initially friendly imagine arguing over Lord Buckethheed,
but the conversations broke down. He was forced to hand
over the password to the Lord Buckethead Twitter account, so
he evolved into Count Binface. Oh my so silly, and
I'm gonna go see what the power guys are up to.
That's your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.