Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, it's the worst day of the year.
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack hates today. It is the Tuesday after Labor Day.
Speaker 1: Summer's over, no more beach, no more sunshine. And back
Speaker 1: when I had a real job, this was always the
Speaker 1: day where the bosses were like, Okay, now that summer's over,
Speaker 1: let's do our fall initiatives and get And it was like, dude,
Speaker 1: I just want to think about the beach. Hi. I'm
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Hey. I've been
Speaker 1: telling you all summer long. Adam Sandler a great dramatic actor,
Speaker 1: terrible comedic actor. You guys ignored me and you watched
Speaker 1: Happy Gilmour, and I keep telling you, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: His best films are Uncut Gems and The Spaceman One
Speaker 1: and The Basketball One. We want dramatic actor Adam Sandler,
Speaker 1: and the buzz on his performance in this upcoming George
Speaker 1: Clooney film Jay Kelly is tremendous. In J Kelly, Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler plays against type as a serious, straight shooting manager
Speaker 1: to movie star J Kelly, played by George Clooney, who
Speaker 1: I'm often confused for, Like what if George Clooney wasn't
Speaker 1: as good looking and had a lot of donuts for breakfast.
Speaker 1: That be the comparison there, But uh Anyway, Adam Sandlor
Speaker 1: spoke to Variety and said, being in this movie and
Speaker 1: not just trying to find jokes and laugh moments, that's
Speaker 1: what's amazing. What's amazing to me is that Adam Sandler
Speaker 1: has been trying to find jokes and laugh moments in
Speaker 1: his other movies because he has failed terribly at that.
Speaker 1: Sandlor says, all our characters give you a moment to
Speaker 1: laugh and feel pain. As an actor, when you re
Speaker 1: a script like this, you say, holy s I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm getting this gift. Director Noah Bomback said Adam
Speaker 1: does have such grace and loyalty and generosity and hard
Speaker 1: around the people he works with in his family. He
Speaker 1: really does find a way to involve everyone. It's the
Speaker 1: opposite of Jay Kelly. He's found a way to navigate
Speaker 1: this whole thing and do it successfully. Sandlor said, I've
Speaker 1: always tried to bring the family when we go to
Speaker 1: film a movie, and it can't happen every time. But
Speaker 1: FaceTime is nice too. I've seen the cast list of
Speaker 1: your films, Adam, don't act like the family's not with you.
Speaker 1: They're in the darn things, Sli. I've always appreciated my manager,
Speaker 1: my agent, my publicists. I know how hard they work
Speaker 1: and how difficult it is to hear my ups and
Speaker 1: downs and to back me up. Even when I could
Speaker 1: get loud at times. I was excited to play a
Speaker 1: man who was devoted. I admire everyone who does that. Hey,
Speaker 1: you want to feel old? Matt Rife caught up with
Speaker 1: Billboard and now. Matt Riffe's current tour poster is an
Speaker 1: homage to Billy Idol. That's great. I mean, who doesn't
Speaker 1: like Billy Idol. The Rebel Yell album is fantastic. White
Speaker 1: Wedding is always a banger, as the kids say at weddings. Well,
Speaker 1: how did Matt Riffe get into Billy Idol? His grandfather
Speaker 1: introduced him. So that's not my kids getting into Billy Idol,
Speaker 1: that's Matt Rife's grandfather or I said, yeah, my grandpa
Speaker 1: put me on a classic rock as far back as
Speaker 1: I can remember. It's still my favorite genre of music.
Speaker 1: But my last tours have been inspired by classic musicians.
Speaker 1: I did the doors for my problematic tour poster and
Speaker 1: this one I did Billy Idol and I actually dyed
Speaker 1: my hair blonde for it. I've never done anything like
Speaker 1: that before. Funny how the world works out. I actually
Speaker 1: got to work with Billy Idol on the promo he
Speaker 1: did for his current tour. I had him sign my
Speaker 1: arm and I went straight to the tattoo shop. So
Speaker 1: now I have Billy Idol tattooed on my arm. That's
Speaker 1: a bad decision, matt Riyfe, What are you thinking? Rafe said,
Speaker 1: Billy Idol is the nicest, coolest guy. How he speaks,
Speaker 1: what he speaks about, the stories he had to tell.
Speaker 1: I'd love to play him in a biopic someday, you
Speaker 1: know what, not the worst casting. I would go see that.
Speaker 1: What are we gonna call it? You have to call
Speaker 1: it Rebel Yell, right, and any other title would be dumb.
Speaker 1: I have called up on Google Billy Idol's songs. I
Speaker 1: probably could do this for memory, but it's easier this way,
Speaker 1: all right, I vote we call the movie Rebel Yell.
Speaker 1: Other candidates would be dancing with myself not awful, hot
Speaker 1: in the city, worse but not as good catch my
Speaker 1: fall don't need a gun to be a Lover, Eyes
Speaker 1: without a Face, White Wedding Stand in the Shadows, that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of too clever for school. That's
Speaker 1: a great song on the Rebel Yell album from nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three. If you haven't been paying attention to Billy.
Speaker 1: First of all, there's some full concerts of him on YouTube.
Speaker 1: He did one at the Hoover Dam. He said, sounds great,
Speaker 1: and he put out a few songs in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. I have my phone, let me tell
Speaker 1: you what they're called. From his twenty twenty five album
Speaker 1: Dream Into It. There's a song called Still Dancing that
Speaker 1: I liked a lot. And in twenty two we put
Speaker 1: out an EP called The Cage that was fantastic. The
Speaker 1: song Running from the Ghost is pretty good, and the
Speaker 1: song Rebel Like You peak Billy Idol, I mean fantastic.
Speaker 1: Billy Otto went I Know what you want? Here you
Speaker 1: go love it. We'll stick with bill Board. Four second
Speaker 1: into the holiday weekend, they put out the July box
Speaker 1: Score Report Who's got the biggest tours? We'll focus on
Speaker 1: the comedians here. Who do you think was the biggest
Speaker 1: touring comedian for July twenty twenty five wrong. The answer
Speaker 1: is weird Al Yankovic eight million dollars over one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty thousand tickets sold. Yeah, I remember he played
Speaker 1: the Garden That surpassed the monthly gross and attendance of
Speaker 1: the previous three leaders. All did twenty shows. That's a
Speaker 1: lot in thirty one days. It was the most shows
Speaker 1: that anyone played across all genres that month. People that
Speaker 1: were close were Kesha, who did nineteen fish and Tyler
Speaker 1: the Creator did seventeen each. At the Garden, weird Ow
Speaker 1: brought in more than one million dollars from a sold
Speaker 1: out crowd of twelve four hundred and sixty one. Weird
Speaker 1: Out beat Out Nate Brigetzi Wow Nate did six shows
Speaker 1: in July and grossed only five point one million dollars
Speaker 1: on sixty four thousand, seven hundred tickets. Number three Peter
Speaker 1: Kay did four shows three point four million. Number four
Speaker 1: Future Billy id On Matt Rife two shows two point
Speaker 1: six million, twenty five thousand, four undred tickets. Two point
Speaker 1: six million on two shows is not bad money if
Speaker 1: you can get it. And Number five The Dude Perfect Guys.
Speaker 1: They did four shows gross two point four million, thirty
Speaker 1: seven thousand, seven hundred tickets. Pat Oswald, who appeared in
Speaker 1: possibly perhaps maybe the worst episode of Star Trek Exchange
Speaker 1: New Worlds that ever existed. He played Doug the Vulcan.
Speaker 1: Did you hear me throw a brick through my television? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't actually destroy my television, but I wanted to.
Speaker 1: Patton Oswalt needs to stick to game shows. He was
Speaker 1: the phone a Friend Lifeline on who Wants to Be
Speaker 1: a Millionaire? Jimmy Kimmel, your host, Cal Penn phone to
Speaker 1: friend Patton Oswalt. He described Patton Oswald as both hilarious
Speaker 1: and incredibly intelligent, and also terrible at Star Trek. I
Speaker 1: will point out Cal Penn probably should have mentioned that
Speaker 1: kim Ol called Patton Oswald one of the smartest guys
Speaker 1: I know, but terrible at Star Trek. Patton Oswald shouted
Speaker 1: out the answer Shakespeare, as though that was the answer
Speaker 1: to an unspecified question. Penn fired off the question with
Speaker 1: the remaining answers, and even though there were only two
Speaker 1: options to choose from, Patton Oswald seemed uncertain of his choice.
Speaker 1: The question had to do with the commonly no name
Speaker 1: of Gua Shah a wellness technique practiced in China for centuries.
Speaker 1: The fifty to fifty lifeline was already gone. The two
Speaker 1: remaining answers, do you know the answer? Is it nerve
Speaker 1: numbing or skin scraping? I will tell you after the break.
Speaker 1: When we last left, there were two answers on the
Speaker 1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire board. Your friend Patton
Speaker 1: Oswald is on the phone. He's going to tell you
Speaker 1: if Gwa Shaw is nerve numbing or skin scraping. Patton Oswald,
Speaker 1: terrible at Star Trek, says the answer is nerve numbing.
Speaker 1: Do you want to go with him? Kal Penn did?
Speaker 1: Turns out wrong, The answer is skin scraping. So Patton
Speaker 1: Oswald is terrible at Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Speaker 1: And of course Star Trek a lot of game show news.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon not afraid to work. He's like the Kevin
Speaker 1: Hard of Late Night. He's got yet another gig right
Speaker 1: last week he's doing some sort of ad agency thing.
Speaker 1: He's going to do some Sunday night Tonight shows. Well.
Speaker 1: Password has been renewed for season three on NBC. In
Speaker 1: case you've never seen Password, with a series of one
Speaker 1: clues teams race to guess the secret password for a
Speaker 1: chance to win cash prizes. Here you want to play
Speaker 1: password with me? Here, I'll feed you word ready, unfunny,
Speaker 1: that's right, the password is saidler. See, you would have
Speaker 1: won a lot of money if you and I were
Speaker 1: on password with Jimmy Fallon. The Guardian asked Eric Idol,
Speaker 1: which comedian living or did do you admire the most.
Speaker 1: Eric Idol said Peter Cook, Billy Connolly, Robin Williams, Eddie
Speaker 1: Zard Erica, who's probably a fan of the podcast Palace Intrigue,
Speaker 1: where we talk about the royal family every day. He
Speaker 1: talked about the royal family with The Guardian and he said,
Speaker 1: I feel really sorry for the royals. Sometimes they're very
Speaker 1: nice and human and other times they've become monsters, because
Speaker 1: if you're called sir at five, you're putting trouble into people.
Speaker 1: King Charles was very funny. He was at Cambridge, he
Speaker 1: did comedy and he loves Spike Milligan and would always
Speaker 1: come to Billy Connolly's shows. But it's not a society
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to live in. The thing I like
Speaker 1: about America is it created itself. It's the only place
Speaker 1: that wrote a script for itself, but it needs a
Speaker 1: rewrite to bring it up to date. The Second Amendment
Speaker 1: says at sixteen, you're allowed a major weapon of war.
Speaker 1: I really think they're serious about wanting to get rid
Speaker 1: of liberals and lefties. They're very crazy. Send your letters
Speaker 1: to Eric Idol new topic, looking back on your career
Speaker 1: from Python to spam a lot. Do you think satshire
Speaker 1: can still achieve in today's world the power it had
Speaker 1: during the Python days? Eric Idel said, Python's not satsire,
Speaker 1: it's the opposite SATs Our ends it's dead. You don't
Speaker 1: watch early episodes of Snell and think, oh, gerald Ford
Speaker 1: fell downstairs. Python was always generic comedy and it survives longer.
Speaker 1: Great point. That's your comedy news for today. If you
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