Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Here's the meal. If you like Seth Myers,
Speaker 1: you're gonna like today's podcast. If you don't like Seth Myers,
Speaker 1: hit thirty second skip, I don't know ten twelve times.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of Seth today. Hi, I'm Jinny
Speaker 1: Mack with your daily coming. He was Seth Meyers dad
Speaker 1: Man Walking out tonight ten pm on HBO. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: still doing that thing where they think I'm gonna sit
Speaker 1: around till ten o'clock and then watch the thing live.
Speaker 1: That's over HBO. What planet are you on? Just put
Speaker 1: it up. Seth Meyers dad Man Walking dives in a
Speaker 1: Myer's personal life with stories about raising three children, living
Speaker 1: in New York City, and reflections on his family dynamics.
Speaker 1: Seth did like a group press conference rather than individual interviews.
Speaker 1: Walt had a recap of that. He told a story
Speaker 1: about laughing hard at SNL Table Reads. He said, Andy
Speaker 1: Samberg wants that to meet the press sketch where Beetlejuice
Speaker 1: was filling it for David Gregory as the host. It
Speaker 1: was such a ball attempt by Andy to do his
Speaker 1: Beetlejuice impression on SNL. I laughed, very hard, and I
Speaker 1: think Lorn laughed. Not at all toughest hosting gig to
Speaker 1: kill at, he said, Weirdly, the Emmys was the toughest.
Speaker 1: I thought the SPIE's would be really tough. But the
Speaker 1: fun thing about the SPI's I realized that no one
Speaker 1: there actually cares if they win ANESP or not. So
Speaker 1: if you have good jokes about sports, you can crush.
Speaker 1: Where is it the Emmys? I felt a Titanus there.
Speaker 1: Dumbest weekend update joke, Seth, I will tell you the
Speaker 1: dumbest joke that definitely didn't work. A man in Washington
Speaker 1: State was arrested for animal cruelty after he was caught
Speaker 1: having sex with the family dog. Even worse, it was
Speaker 1: makeup sex. Seth says, What I love about that's a
Speaker 1: good joke. What I love about that joke is every
Speaker 1: time I tell it, no one groans until the punchline.
Speaker 1: So even after sex with the family dog, the audience
Speaker 1: is still like, okay, we'll hear the man out. The
Speaker 1: delayed groan is why I will never tire of telling
Speaker 1: that very dumb punchline. Best Lorne Michael's advice, Seth. When
Speaker 1: I started late night, he said, it'll take you eighteen
Speaker 1: months to figure it out. I thought that was too
Speaker 1: much time, but he was one hundred percent right. I
Speaker 1: think it was almost eighteen months to the day that
Speaker 1: I realized I shouldn't be standing for the monologue. He maybe
Speaker 1: has a reputation for being an impatient person, but I
Speaker 1: think he does appreciate the process and that you sometimes
Speaker 1: need to learn by doing worst. Lauren Michael's advice seth
Speaker 1: my first summer on SNL. He told me that I
Speaker 1: should take tap dancing lessons because he thought that would
Speaker 1: give me more confidence as a performer. In fact, it
Speaker 1: was so important he told someone else to tell me.
Speaker 1: I never took those tap lessons, but maybe I should
Speaker 1: now do something special for him. At the fiftieth Ultimate
Speaker 1: Andy Samberg writing Hack, have him say a very dumb
Speaker 1: thing with total confidence. Ultimate Amy Pohla writing Hack. She's
Speaker 1: very funny when she's frustrated and trying to convince people.
Speaker 1: She's right. Most effective trick to make a boring talk
Speaker 1: show guests seem interesting. If you can project to an
Speaker 1: audience that you're listening, they'll also want to listen. You
Speaker 1: can't get caught looking like you're thinking about your next question.
Speaker 1: Most important lesson he learned about running a writer's room.
Speaker 1: If you're rewriting anything, don't pitch lateral moves. If a
Speaker 1: writer's put all his time into writing a piece and
Speaker 1: they have a joke, you can pitch a joke if
Speaker 1: it's twice as good, but if it's as good, they'll
Speaker 1: probably want to use their own joke. Seth was asked
Speaker 1: if he will aboard his bait in the fiftieth aniverse
Speaker 1: of SNL. Let me answer for him. Yeah, like he's
Speaker 1: not gonna go. What kind of question was that? Seth said,
Speaker 1: I just officially received my first reach out from Lorne
Speaker 1: saying would you be available in February should we need
Speaker 1: a hand. Seth was on Andy Cohen Show and was
Speaker 1: asked to rank his top five favorite SNL characters, a
Speaker 1: list with which I really disagree. He sets list number
Speaker 1: five Rachel Dratch's Debbie Downer for Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat that
Speaker 1: is a good choice. Three Kate McKinnon's Colleen Rafferty, two
Speaker 1: Will Fortes mcgruber, and number one Bill Hayter's Stefan, a
Speaker 1: character I never got. Did you listen to Stavro's hockeyist.
Speaker 1: On Neil Brennan's Blocks podcast, Savro said, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you have this, but I definitely had the it's
Speaker 1: going to end tomorrow disease of like for the first
Speaker 1: time I started doing well and started making money, I
Speaker 1: was like, we're gonna lose all our subscribers tomorrow. And
Speaker 1: then I got a little internet heat, but no one's
Speaker 1: gonna watch my special to like, all right, the YouTube
Speaker 1: special did well, but no one's gonna watch the Netflix special.
Speaker 1: I could sell out comedy clubs, but I don't think
Speaker 1: my agents are wrong. I'm not going to sell theaters.
Speaker 1: And it's like I just finally allowed myself to be like,
Speaker 1: you're fine, pretend it's a different guy's career that you're analyzing.
Speaker 1: It's not going to fall apart tomorrow. And so once
Speaker 1: I kind of did that, I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't have to say yes to everything. I'll only do
Speaker 1: stuff that I think is cool from now on, Like,
Speaker 1: I'll do my own stuff and I'll do anything that's cool.
Speaker 1: But I've turned down a couple, like some acting stuff.
Speaker 1: I've turned down some other opportunities because I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just don't want to do it. I just want to
Speaker 1: hang out. I recognize that I kind of won a
Speaker 1: generational lottery of like a guy with my skill set
Speaker 1: born five years earlier, host born five years later. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make man on the street. Tiktoks, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But I was in the sweet spot
Speaker 1: where we might have been the first comedy podcast on Patreon.
Speaker 1: Calm down when we started, and it was like I
Speaker 1: just got in on podcasting. I thought podcasts were dead.
Speaker 1: I had the wrong business. I was like, well, marin
Speaker 1: this American life comedy bang bang, those are the only ones.
Speaker 1: And then like god, we were wrong. Joe Rogan on
Speaker 1: his podcast set, I remember the first check I got
Speaker 1: a real check. I got a development deal from Disney,
Speaker 1: of all people, I guess I was like twenty six,
Speaker 1: and it was the first time I ever had a
Speaker 1: good chunk of money, like six figures in the bank.
Speaker 1: And I felt like the weightlift that off me, like
Speaker 1: a physical feeling because my whole life I was like,
Speaker 1: how am I gonna eat? How am I gonna pay
Speaker 1: my rent? Then all of a sudden, I don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about that anymore. Cristelle Alonso was upset with
Speaker 1: a comedy venue in her hometown of McCallen, Texas. She
Speaker 1: shared a story on Facebook. As Cristella tells it, she
Speaker 1: was backstage at the local theater and then the staff
Speaker 1: kicked her out at midnight. She was in the middle
Speaker 1: of a meet and greet. Her family was there. She
Speaker 1: said that there was no warning that she needed to
Speaker 1: leave by midnight. She had to pack up everything and
Speaker 1: ask her fans to meet her outside the building. That's awkward,
Speaker 1: Alonso posted. The disrespect is something I'll never forget. Then
Speaker 1: once we were outside taking pictures, they came to apologize
Speaker 1: and said we could go back inside. No, thank you.
Speaker 1: I will not go back inside when you forced us
Speaker 1: to leave, I will not go back inside that building again.
Speaker 1: I don't know when I'll come back to McCallan, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to figure out another solution. The fans
Speaker 1: were great. The venue sucked. Sounds to me like a
Speaker 1: junior staffer was enforcing the midnight rule and not knowing
Speaker 1: how to deal with talent. Didn't look the other way.
Speaker 1: That would be my guess. I did see a recap JD.
Speaker 1: Vans with THEO Vaughn. They talked about cocaine THEO said,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'd be sober if this stuff
Speaker 1: weren't killing people. To be honest with you, I know
Speaker 1: that's sad to say, but it keeps me out of
Speaker 1: the risk of it. JD said, makes it a little scarier. THEO. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's also sad that somebody. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: ridiculous to say, but you know, you can't even do
Speaker 1: cocaine in this country anymore. You know that seems like
Speaker 1: a crazy thing to say, And don't say that, but
Speaker 1: I said it. JD left and told THEO he was
Speaker 1: gonna steal that line. But after the election, I've got
Speaker 1: to win first. As I keep mentioning, it's going to
Speaker 1: be hard not to do politics these next ten days
Speaker 1: or so. Are you in Texarcana here, it's a good
Speaker 1: place to drive a truck in a trans am. Bring
Speaker 1: some cores back east? Jay Leno's there tonight. Jay said,
Speaker 1: it's just a comedy show. There's no lecturing, there's no
Speaker 1: Here's what I think, you know. Rodney Dangerfield and I
Speaker 1: were friends for forty years. I have no idea if
Speaker 1: Rodney was a Republican or Democrat. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: We just used to talk about jokes, and that's what
Speaker 1: I'll be doing, no obscenities or anything like that. While
Speaker 1: in town, he's serving as the Grand Marshal for the
Speaker 1: Four Estates Auto Museum's annual Fall Auto Show. Jay said,
Speaker 1: so I'm one above normal marshals. I'm the Grand Marshal, which,
Speaker 1: of course I have the right to arrest or detain
Speaker 1: anyone for any reason at any time. He says he
Speaker 1: enjoys hanging out with fellow car enthusiasts. You know what,
Speaker 1: when you're in California, I meet like one or two
Speaker 1: guys and each have like one hundred cars. And when
Speaker 1: you go to Texas, Oklahoma, you meet one guy who's
Speaker 1: at a car he's been working on since he got married,
Speaker 1: and he put it away when the kids went through school.
Speaker 1: And the kids are in college now, so now he's
Speaker 1: back working on fifty seven Chevy. So it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: I really enjoy it. If you're in Texarcana the auto
Speaker 1: show today from eight to four, Carlos Mencia told Denver's
Speaker 1: six thirty khow if you're easily offended, please leave. It's
Speaker 1: because I care. I care about your time, I care
Speaker 1: about you. I care enough to know that I'm not
Speaker 1: for you, that's who I am. Once you buy into it,
Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful, cathartic thing to watch everybody just
Speaker 1: give into the laughter and see the difference between comedy
Speaker 1: and anger, between racial and racist. All this stuff becomes
Speaker 1: comedic fodder. And I think that's where I'm living right now,
Speaker 1: and I think people need that. People need to be
Speaker 1: told out a bad person because you laugh. It's a
Speaker 1: mechanism that we use. The host brought up Dave Chappelle's
Speaker 1: War against the Woke, and Sea said, think about the
Speaker 1: phrase itself, punching down. It assumes presumes that you either
Speaker 1: place me above those people or I do. And I
Speaker 1: don't understand punching down. I don't get it when I
Speaker 1: do my jokes about me or my family. It's okay.
Speaker 1: Self deprecating humor can be just as hurtful sometimes as
Speaker 1: anything else. I can go up there and talk about
Speaker 1: how I'm overweight, but the midnight I talk about how
Speaker 1: you're overweight. That's where the line gets crossed, and that's
Speaker 1: the hypocrisy. We the truth tellers, are needed. We're also
Speaker 1: the valve for people who are angry, who are taking
Speaker 1: life a little too seriously. And that is your comedy
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