Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Tomorrow at Wrigley Field in Chicago, John
Speaker 1: mulaney will host the very first comedy show at Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1: He caught up with WB e Z. Mlaney said, I
Speaker 1: can't pretend I ever thought sitting there that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do stand up near second base. But it's a full
Speaker 1: circle moment in a lot of ways. I mean to
Speaker 1: sit there as a kid watching Andre Dawson, Ryan Sandberg,
Speaker 1: Mark Grace and to now be standing roughly where Mark
Speaker 1: Grace would be ripping cigarettes during games. John said, last
Speaker 1: summer they asked me to do a show about Wrigley Field.
Speaker 1: Wriggley did no comedian has played Wriggley and they said,
Speaker 1: would you like to play Wrigley Field? I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: In the same breath they said you'd be the first
Speaker 1: to do it, and I said, Okay, definitely. Malady said,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm excited about this week. I
Speaker 1: just informed my son that all of the city burned
Speaker 1: down in eighteen seventy one because it was all made
Speaker 1: of wood. I know there's nuances to the story. It
Speaker 1: was all made of wood, except for the water tower.
Speaker 1: Everything burned down. Nothing's ever intrigued him more about Chicago.
Speaker 1: So now we're going to go to the Chicago History
Speaker 1: Museum to see photos of the city on fire, which
Speaker 1: he's very excited to see. Now, this is pretty funny.
Speaker 1: We're in the weeds here. One of the interviewers is
Speaker 1: named Michelangelo Dagostino. Michelangelo said to Malani, it's a fellow
Speaker 1: Saint Ignacius grat I was disappointed earlier when you talked
Speaker 1: about the Chicago fire and you're like, yeah, the whole
Speaker 1: city bird down except the water tower. But you forgot
Speaker 1: to tell your kid that sant Ignacius also survived the
Speaker 1: Chicago fire. Malaney said, what parts of sant Ignacius? Michelangelo said,
Speaker 1: I guess the oldest part. Melaney said, Were you two
Speaker 1: years ahead of me at sant Ignatius? Michaelangelo said, I
Speaker 1: was in your brother's class. Yeah, m'laney said Michelangelo Dagastino.
Speaker 1: Michelangelo said, yeah, that's mem'laney said, valedictorian of your class.
Speaker 1: And you don't even know which building survived. You call
Speaker 1: me uple to comment. I come in here, try and
Speaker 1: entertain the people of Chicago and you come at me
Speaker 1: like that. Then they got into some saint ignacious minutia.
Speaker 1: You could read the article Melany who talked about Chicago
Speaker 1: and said, it feels like you live in a small
Speaker 1: town in a lot of truly nice ways. I don't
Speaker 1: have many complaints about that at all. You walk by
Speaker 1: people and they go like, good lie suck at Wrigley
Speaker 1: and it's great. So I'd be saying famous in Chicago's
Speaker 1: one of the best situations a human being can ask for.
Speaker 1: It is ninety nine percent friendly, and when it's hostile,
Speaker 1: it's hilarious. They asked John Mulaney what younger stand ups
Speaker 1: or comics should we be keeping an eye on. Mulaney said,
Speaker 1: definitely super establishment comedian profile to The New York Times
Speaker 1: Robbie Hoffman, he named checked Andrea Jinn and Mendal who
Speaker 1: are opening for him. I'd also say Langston Kerman from Chicago.
Speaker 1: You've seen him on Abbot Elementary. Speaking of Chicago, the
Speaker 1: three one two Comedy Festival is returning to Chicago this fall.
Speaker 1: Nicki Glazer, Michelle Wolf, Alisi Diek, and Burke Krascher are
Speaker 1: among some of the comedians who will be in Chicago
Speaker 1: November fifth through the fifteenth, which makes me want to go.
Speaker 1: Venues include the Chicago Theater, Park West, the VIC Theater,
Speaker 1: Zanies Rosemont, All Great Venues eleven day line up. Now,
Speaker 1: I was clicking through the lineup and I saw John
Speaker 1: Pinnett on the schedule, and I was like, isn't John
Speaker 1: Pinnett dead? And I and I checked yes. John Pinnette
Speaker 1: passed away April fifth, twenty fourteen, at the age of
Speaker 1: fifty in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he'd been attending a family wedding.
Speaker 1: So that I was like, huh, oh, it's a screening.
Speaker 1: Apparently there is a John Pinnett documentary. Do you guys
Speaker 1: know John Pinnette? I feel like he's like he never
Speaker 1: comes up. Obviously he's no longer around, but you know,
Speaker 1: one of those great comedians from early this century that
Speaker 1: just doesn't get talked about, like like Richard Jenny who
Speaker 1: you know, crossover from the nineties, Robert Shimmel. These guys
Speaker 1: never their name's never come up anymore. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get it they're dead, but I don't know. They had
Speaker 1: pretty good careers anyway. If you didn't know John, he
Speaker 1: was a heavy set fellow and did a lot of
Speaker 1: jokes related to that, which is why I'm sharing it.
Speaker 1: Very very funny comedian and apparently there was a documentary
Speaker 1: made about him in twenty twenty. I will play the
Speaker 1: trailer for you. It's about two minutes long. Some of
Speaker 1: the voices you will hear are Jim Gaffigan and Kathleen Manigan.
Speaker 1: He's a show. Everybody else is in act.
Speaker 2: He had such a distinct style. He was so self deprecating.
Speaker 1: I'm John, I'm your slim, fast representative for the evening.
Speaker 2: He was like a force of nature.
Speaker 3: When he rocked a room, every person is howling.
Speaker 2: Please welcome John him.
Speaker 3: He had that cherubic face with glenns and he had
Speaker 3: gotten his accounting degree and was working at the bank.
Speaker 3: I was here the night that John first came on stage.
Speaker 3: One of those things that you just you knew it.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the new suit? I think
Speaker 1: it makes me look fast. He had a fanatical fan following.
Speaker 2: It's like the Beatles or something, and.
Speaker 1: We were selling out venues all over the place. He
Speaker 1: was making twenty thousand a weekend. John could become a
Speaker 1: major television start.
Speaker 2: He imploded. Every comedian has a self destructive streak. John
Speaker 2: is a guy who overindulged in everything. Would just like
Speaker 2: hammer pills and then eat them, and I'm like, what
Speaker 2: are those idle though?
Speaker 1: But you'll feel wonderful. He thought that if he lost
Speaker 1: weight he would affect his career because he's known as
Speaker 1: the big guy. I'm actually writing a book around the
Speaker 1: world in eighty buffets. John was always wanting to get better.
Speaker 1: It's prescription drugs, which are pretty much the number one
Speaker 1: probably in America, and John became right in the middle
Speaker 1: of it. One train it took me. There was sixty
Speaker 1: minute workout. He said, once you start, you get addicted.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: We've lost a lot of people in comedy.
Speaker 2: John isn't the first friend that.
Speaker 1: We've lost great minds but tortured souls. Well, I have
Speaker 1: a lot of friends that came out tonight to see
Speaker 1: me be fifty. Well, let's all meet at.
Speaker 2: My hundredth Shall we.
Speaker 1: Love the memories? I don't remember that documentary coming out.
Speaker 1: It came out in twenty twenty. There was a pandemic,
Speaker 1: but I was doing the show during the pandem and
Speaker 1: I would have been desperate to talk about anything during
Speaker 1: the pandemic. So I don't know. Maybe they didn't promote it. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't remember it happening anyway. John Pennett, Fantastic Comedian,
Speaker 1: Hondy Joe Rogan experience. Joe Rogan spoke to Tony Hinchcliff.
Speaker 1: The topic eventually came around to the ri odd To
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival edits here for pacing and language.
Speaker 2: Didn't know obviously, because they laughed. They thought maybe you
Speaker 2: did go, or maybe Shane did go. They didn't know
Speaker 2: that you were the two people that did say no.
Speaker 2: You know, Jessica Curson went and she got criticized so
Speaker 2: much she gave her money away. She murdered over there.
Speaker 2: I heard so a lesbian woman from New York went
Speaker 2: to Saudi Arabia. Thom Segurro went and put a photo
Speaker 2: of a Ferrari and said thanks Saudi Arabia. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: everybody was very upset. But my perspective is the people
Speaker 2: that are in that audience. If you're upset of the
Speaker 2: people that are paying and organizing, Okay, the people that
Speaker 2: are that audience though, that they're performing to. They don't
Speaker 2: get a chance to see American stand up comedy and
Speaker 2: they're getting a chance to see it live and stand
Speaker 2: up comedy like music, like literature, changes people's minds. It
Speaker 2: changes all art where you see someone a different person
Speaker 2: than you, with a totally different perspective that lives on
Speaker 2: another side of the world, that says something that you
Speaker 2: think is hilarious and you love it changes you know,
Speaker 2: it changes people's perspectives. You win hearts and minds. I
Speaker 2: mean that's real. Like you can change the world a
Speaker 2: little bit by getting people to say, hey, we kind
Speaker 2: of are We all have a lot of shared interests.
Speaker 2: We just want to have fun. We just want to
Speaker 2: be with our friends, be with our family and do
Speaker 2: what we want to do. Like everybody wants that, including
Speaker 2: those people in the audience.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Tony Hinchcliff the live comedy podcast Killed Tony,
Speaker 1: We'll go to Las Vegas to do two nights at
Speaker 1: Dobe Live at Park MGM Friday November thirteenth Saturday November fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Organizers say the show is expected to feature a lineup
Speaker 1: of special guests. Here's a weird one coming. Georgia Mayor
Speaker 1: Tony Brumbelow has challenged Brit Kraser to a round of minigolf.
Speaker 1: The mayor did this in a very strange social media video,
Speaker 1: which I have cut down a little. But let's listen
Speaker 1: to this.
Speaker 3: Bert, the city of Coma officially invites you. You can
Speaker 3: run from the Russians, but you can't run from the
Speaker 3: City of Coma. Burt. I challenge your baby. It's called
Speaker 3: you versus Me. One round of the hardest put putt
Speaker 3: course in America. The winner gets bragging rights. The loser
Speaker 3: buys lunch. How about that? Bert, You're in Atlanta all
Speaker 3: the time, We're twenty minutes away. Look at what we
Speaker 3: have to offer here. Have your people call my people?
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 1: I mean, is this a thing? Because I challenge Dve Chappelle,
Speaker 1: John Maliney and Louis c k to a round of
Speaker 1: mini golf, you cowards. Speaking of mini golf, Lebron James
Speaker 1: trolls Kevin Hart, head of a golf competition said to
Speaker 1: take place between Lebron James and Kevin Hart. This September,
Speaker 1: Lebron James dropped a video. I pulled the audio for
Speaker 1: the video, but it doesn't really work. It's not very exciting.
Speaker 1: But in the video we see Lebron James shopping for
Speaker 1: children's golf clubs. He holds them up to the camera
Speaker 1: and says to Kevin Hart, these are perfect. See the
Speaker 1: golf clubs are small, and Kevin Hart's not the tallest
Speaker 1: fellow you've ever met. That's the humor there. Fox News
Speaker 1: stirring it up. They found a Facebook clip posted by
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah or his social media team on July fourth.
Speaker 1: It's a discussion from a previously released episode of Trevor
Speaker 1: Noah's What Now podcast, during which Josh Johnson calls Trump
Speaker 1: white's Obama. Apparently, Josh Johnson said he's Obama for white
Speaker 1: people who hated the idea of Obama. That to me
Speaker 1: is why I think people keep underestimating Trump. Fox News says.
Speaker 1: Josh Johnson said that people are like my great great
Speaker 1: grandparents with these Irish immigrants. They got spit on when
Speaker 1: they came here of drugs and crime. Where I'm from,
Speaker 1: my family is on food stamps, all the stuff like that.
Speaker 1: As a white person, which has never really talked about,
Speaker 1: and so this person had to overcome a lot just
Speaker 1: to be next to this other white person, right. Josh
Speaker 1: goes on to say that Trump speaks to that experience.
Speaker 1: The way that Obama spoke to black people or may
Speaker 1: or may not have been having that stereotypical experience white
Speaker 1: people who were the living embodiment of everything we've been
Speaker 1: sold Black people. Go through Fox News as they reached
Speaker 1: out to Josh Johnson for comment, but he did not
Speaker 1: immediately respond. Pete Holmes, this is like doing a lot
Speaker 1: of press. I noticed a few things on my own,
Speaker 1: and then Paul, one of the listeners, shot me a
Speaker 1: note and told me a couple other things that Pete's on.
Speaker 1: Let me find that email. Paul says, Pete Holmes was
Speaker 1: on the Burt Cast and Harland Highway. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Pete is promoting. He will be in an upcoming movie.
Speaker 1: It is an indie feature drama called Friend a Thing.
Speaker 1: Friend to Thing is set in Seattle during the spring
Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety six. Fourteen year old Ernie, a thoughtful
Speaker 1: scholarship student at an elite Catholic school, finds himself torn
Speaker 1: between lifelong friendships and the allure of a caars Ma
Speaker 1: new girl. Lewis Black plays Father Briggs, these schools exacting headmaster.
Speaker 1: Pete Holmes plays mister Greeley, a homeroom teacher who's quietly
Speaker 1: become the moral compass of a school built on faith.
Speaker 1: He doesn't share.
Speaker 2: Comedy stock markets.
Speaker 1: You know how the stock marker works, right, Well, every
Speaker 1: Friday we try and find value. We try and buy
Speaker 1: low and sell high on various comedians. I don't think
Speaker 1: we have any day Pergetzie left to sell. We've been
Speaker 1: selling a lot of it. I'll just say, don't invest
Speaker 1: in any theme park comedies right now. This UFC thing
Speaker 1: is not going away. Or maybe I just read the
Speaker 1: Daily Beast every day. Even they keep throwing out mega
Speaker 1: comedian Nate Brigetzi. Oh so ridiculous. All right, let's buy
Speaker 1: some Pete Holmes. Pete's making the rounds. I don't know
Speaker 1: what he's up to. He's a good guy every interview.
Speaker 1: I just really like him. And I don't think everybody
Speaker 1: else is walking around going Pete Homesweet Home, Sweet Homes.
Speaker 1: But there's something to Pete Holmes. Let's buy Pete Holmes.
Speaker 1: Let's buy Jeff a curate if you watch his Netflix special.
Speaker 1: I actually did, because what was it? Tuesday night? The
Speaker 1: soccer was over by seven thirty and I got to
Speaker 1: watch quote unquote TV and I put Jeff special on
Speaker 1: let me find uh in the Facebook group here. Dylan
Speaker 1: is one of the regulars in the group, and Dylan
Speaker 1: nailed it. He wrote, He's immensely likable in his popularity
Speaker 1: is easy to understand. I just don't think his comedy
Speaker 1: is anything special. He's good in his great stage presence,
Speaker 1: but it feels more like a mix of CrowdWork and
Speaker 1: anecdotes than actual comedy. That's how I felt it was.
Speaker 1: It was you know, sometimes I'll describe as special, saying
Speaker 1: it's nice company, and that's how I felt with this one.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was particularly funny, but like I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I like this guy. I won't
Speaker 1: turn this off. So I kept that on. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna buy Vittorio Angeloni. And you're like, who's that exactly?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why in a couple of seconds after
Speaker 1: we got a couple of stories coming up. But you
Speaker 1: might not know the name Vittorio Angeloni. There's buzz on him.
Speaker 1: I've seen him live, so that's a you know, one
Speaker 1: of those sneaky ones. Remember I told you to buy
Speaker 1: some Ryan Hamilton, buy some Vittorio Angeloni. That's your comedy
Speaker 1: stock market for this week. The rest of today's show
Speaker 1: is all British comedy. So if that's not your thing,
Speaker 1: I get it. You're dismissed. I'll see tomorrow. We'll do
Speaker 1: a deep dive on the Office UK. Sunday's a normal episode,
Speaker 1: but a British comedy interest. You hang around because the
Speaker 1: BBC has announced that David Mitchell. You know David Mitchell
Speaker 1: from Mitchell and Webb. He's Mitchell in Mitchell and Webb.
Speaker 1: He's got a show called Ludwig. It's been renewed for
Speaker 1: a third series before the second series even airs. David
Speaker 1: Mitchell stars as John Ludwig Taylor, an introverted puzzle designer
Speaker 1: who steps into the shoes of his missing twin brother,
Speaker 1: a detective Chief inspector. Series one was the BBC's biggest
Speaker 1: scripted series since twenty twenty four, and marked the largest
Speaker 1: comedy launch episode since at least twenty eighteen. In series two,
Speaker 1: Mitchell's character John takes on a new role as a
Speaker 1: crime scene consultant for the Cambridge Police Authority. His identical
Speaker 1: twin brother, James, remains missing, but the consultant has been
Speaker 1: banned from using any police resources to look for sibling
Speaker 1: or uncover exactly what he was investigating. But John will
Speaker 1: not stop, Mitchell said, and I'm delighted that Ludwig will
Speaker 1: be returning to solve more of Brotherhood's brilliant mysteries. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get started. I never knew the subscription
Speaker 1: of my Denoment learning app. Vittorio Angeloni will start in
Speaker 1: the new comedy series Rewarding. Yeah he's got an Italian name,
Speaker 1: but he's an Irish guy and I've seen him alive.
Speaker 1: He's fantastic. Rewarding is a six sports series commissioned by
Speaker 1: BBC Northern Ireland and US streamer Wonder Project. What's that
Speaker 1: I Don't know? Rewarding follows support workers Francis and Shanade
Speaker 1: as they look after their clients to the best of
Speaker 1: their abilities, sometimes at the expense of each other. Set
Speaker 1: in care facility Beacon Fold, newcomer Shanade is a sunny personality,
Speaker 1: radiating positivity and idealism in contrast to Francis's reality and pragmatism.
Speaker 1: We had told Francs and Shanaide clash, flirt and over
Speaker 1: shaer while putting out the small flyers all around them.
Speaker 1: Diane Morgan. Some podcasters have a crushed on her. She's
Speaker 1: got a new show called Anne Droid. How did Diane
Speaker 1: Morgan become a comedian in her twenty She had proper jobs,
Speaker 1: working as a dental assistant, peeling potatoes and making sales
Speaker 1: calls as a telemarketer. She said, I felt like I'm
Speaker 1: on the right track any minute now, that phone's going
Speaker 1: to ring for years. Then one day her boss at
Speaker 1: the telesales agency suggested stand up. Diane said, I was like,
Speaker 1: no way, can't think of anything worse. But she was
Speaker 1: about to turn thirty and thought, eh, I'll try it.
Speaker 1: It went all right, and I thought, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I think I might be able to do this, and
Speaker 1: would mean doing twenty minutes being physically sick every night
Speaker 1: rather than eight minutes of sitting in a telesales chair.
Speaker 1: Things change when she auditioned for Philamina Kunk. The character
Speaker 1: appears in Kunk on Shakespeare, Kunk on Earth, Cunk on Life,
Speaker 1: and now they're working on Kunk on Cinema quote because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of very pretentious film people. Her new
Speaker 1: show was Ann Droid, a BBC sitcom about the relationship
Speaker 1: between a widowed pensater and her humanoid robot helper played
Speaker 1: by Diane Morgan. Diane said, I was laughing at my friend, Oh,
Speaker 1: that'll be me, because I don't have kids that'll be
Speaker 1: fed soup by a robot. The robot's carrying you to bed,
Speaker 1: the really embarrassing stuff. We were just laughing our heads off.
Speaker 1: Her droid is named Linda, who's a secondhand model with
Speaker 1: a blunt man and a vacant stare. Preparation involved robots
Speaker 1: school with a guy named Dan that leads to some
Speaker 1: physical comedy with an unblinking gaze, rigid stance, and jerky movements.
Speaker 1: Diane said, yeah, it really hurts. I've got new respect
Speaker 1: for c three po As for the voice, she tried
Speaker 1: a hybrid of Siri and Alexa, but it didn't work.
Speaker 1: Diane said, so I looked at old style robots and
Speaker 1: it weirdly came out as Catherine Hepburn. Meanwhile, Ed Gamble
Speaker 1: is the host of a brand new comedy show Unacceptable,
Speaker 1: where he oversees a gaggle of comedians as they battled
Speaker 1: a sway the audience to side with their most outrageous opinions.
Speaker 1: Gamble said, I think panel shows have gotten a bad
Speaker 1: reputation in the past of being very competitive and comedians
Speaker 1: not giving each other room and only trying to get
Speaker 1: their own stuff in, and I think that's changed a
Speaker 1: little bit now. The comedy scene seems to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more collaborative and this is a special show
Speaker 1: because each comedian has their moment to shine, to do
Speaker 1: their unacceptable opinion. How edgy does this get? Gamble says,
Speaker 1: I think all the opinions that are unacceptable or the
Speaker 1: sort of thing that everybody could get involved in and
Speaker 1: discuss and have an opinion on. There's certainly no one
Speaker 1: saying anything where you're like, well, that's that's get upset
Speaker 1: a lot of people. The Guardian watched the show. They
Speaker 1: gave it two stores out of five and added that
Speaker 1: it feels completely unnecessary. The review says, you know we
Speaker 1: don't see enough of on British TV. Romesh Wagon Nathan said,
Speaker 1: no one ever unacceptable is for reasons that aren't totally clear.
Speaker 1: A panel show and which comedians defend their worst opinions
Speaker 1: in front of a studio audience who are unlikely to
Speaker 1: agree with their horrible views. Richard Ayoada, who is fantastic
Speaker 1: and to be a great doctor, who by the way
Speaker 1: anybody paying attention and Joanne McNally are the team captains.
Speaker 1: Ayoada does his usual deadpan thing and McNally leans in
Speaker 1: her strain of entertaining over sharing, except because this is unacceptable,
Speaker 1: she has to say things like I almost bought a
Speaker 1: mega hat because I like the colors. Perhaps in twenty years,
Speaker 1: unacceptable will be a household name like never mind the
Speaker 1: Buzzcocks or mock the Week. But I don't see it,
Speaker 1: says The Guardian, And that is your comedy news for today.
Speaker 1: All right, we've made it through the week and what
Speaker 1: should have been a slow week. Thank you comedians, this
Speaker 1: was awesome. Tomorrow will take a look at the Office UK.
Speaker 1: Sunday's a norrible episode. See you tomorrow.