Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. He air, OK, you had a good Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news Shane Gillis
Speaker 1: and a new commercial for bud Light that's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. In the commercial, we see Shane Gillis in
Speaker 1: a dirty, graffiti filled freeway underpass. He's sitting next to
Speaker 1: model and like there's a guitar player and it's all
Speaker 1: kind of cool. Gillis then realizes he's in the wrong commercial.
Speaker 1: Let's listen to part of it. We are all lost. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm lost. I'm one hundred loss here, but we are
Speaker 1: on the end, all right, I just spotting for us,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. Hey, I think I'm in the wrong commercial.
Speaker 1: What h This isn't right. Wait aren't you Andre? No,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm Shane Shane. Huh. Oh, I see what's going on.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be in a bud like commercial. Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be in a bud like me, a
Speaker 1: bud like commercial. Not here. So that's why I'm the
Speaker 1: odd one out down here. Well, if you're here, Andre Is.
Speaker 1: We then cut to the model type guy who's supposed
Speaker 1: to be in the first commercial, and he's in the
Speaker 1: commercial Shane should be in where it looks like they're
Speaker 1: basically a beat ups having some wings and having some beer.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. Ton Allen is the senior
Speaker 1: vice president of Marketing for bud Light and says as
Speaker 1: a passionate college football fan himself, Shane Gillis was the
Speaker 1: perfect partner to connect to our college football audience with
Speaker 1: his distinct style of humor, and it doesn't hurt that
Speaker 1: he loves a bud Light or two. On game day,
Speaker 1: I shared in the Facebook group the lengthy article with
Speaker 1: Anthony J. Justsin Aca. They facebook group is daily Comedy
Speaker 1: News podcast group. Feeling encouraged to join us there, Cracked
Speaker 1: was curious, Hey, Anthony, after twenty years of touring, are
Speaker 1: the people who come to the shows who don't understand
Speaker 1: what you're doing? Anthony said occasionally yes, but at this
Speaker 1: point Lauren Michael's once told me he was talking about
Speaker 1: Conan and his success. The longer you're there, the longer
Speaker 1: you're there. So just by doing it for twenty years,
Speaker 1: everyone knows. Now, that's a great line by Lord Michaels.
Speaker 1: It's very few people who would think I'm a monster.
Speaker 1: And if you are, you've been living under a rock.
Speaker 1: My comedy's more accepted than it's ever been, just through
Speaker 1: the virtue of being around long enough for people to
Speaker 1: understand what's happening, could follow up by crack. They were
Speaker 1: curious if that changes the level of difficulty, because people
Speaker 1: go in expecting an edge and you got to keep
Speaker 1: upping and upping it. Jessla next said, it's certainly a challenge,
Speaker 1: but in every challenge there's an opportunity. It's where do
Speaker 1: they think I'm going? You've seen the special the bit
Speaker 1: about gallus. Humor only works if you've seen Thoughts and
Speaker 1: Prayers and you think you know where I'm going with that.
Speaker 1: There are opportunities in this long career I've had, and
Speaker 1: all the negatives those are champagne problems. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of comics who make it five years and never have
Speaker 1: to deal with this. I'm not going to complain, but
Speaker 1: it's certainly in my mind when I'm writing new material,
Speaker 1: how do I still surprise them? The audience tells me
Speaker 1: what works and what doesn't. There are plenty of jokes
Speaker 1: where I'm like, this is obvious, and I asked a friend,
Speaker 1: is this obvious? And they're like, no, only to you
Speaker 1: would this be obvious. So it's really a conversation with
Speaker 1: the audience because something that's obvious to me is not
Speaker 1: to them, and vice versa, where I think this joke
Speaker 1: is brilliant and they're like, no, no, no, we saw
Speaker 1: that coming a mile away. To keep going darker and darker,
Speaker 1: that would be serving one segment of my fan base
Speaker 1: who was always going to complain of the first album
Speaker 1: was the best, was the most shocking. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be a slave to my audience. Ever. I will
Speaker 1: not do that. The only way to get through it
Speaker 1: instead of going darker is to become more clever and
Speaker 1: to become a little bit more flexible. Things that you
Speaker 1: think are going to go dark, they end up being silly,
Speaker 1: And I think that's where my future lies, and the
Speaker 1: silliness and trying to come up with a longer format
Speaker 1: narrative in order to hide the punchlines just going dark.
Speaker 1: I'm too old for that crap I loved at the time,
Speaker 1: But people rank my specials much differently than I do.
Speaker 1: A lot of the OG fans love the original. I
Speaker 1: love the more subtle I still got you there kind
Speaker 1: of thing. You'll often hear me Soapbox about watching a
Speaker 1: particular comedian and being frustrated that I don't believe any
Speaker 1: of the stories that said. I'm a free thinker and
Speaker 1: I can understand that Jesslinick is doing a character. Larry
Speaker 1: the Cable Guy is doing a character. Jesslinick talks about
Speaker 1: the character and says, the character's so fully formed, and
Speaker 1: you're a good hands where if it's a lie, it's
Speaker 1: a lie throughout the hour. I'm not pulling the rug
Speaker 1: out for you, being like, you're an idiot for believing that.
Speaker 1: I never want to be told what to do by anyone,
Speaker 1: even if it's Chris Rock He's like, yeah, I got
Speaker 1: a bit fore you. I'm like, get out of my face.
Speaker 1: I want to think of it myself. That's the fun part.
Speaker 1: Recently I admitted to you that I was wrong. I
Speaker 1: know we were all shocked. It was absolutely shocking that
Speaker 1: I was wrong about something because it almost never happens.
Speaker 1: I was wrong about how I got news for you
Speaker 1: being canceled after nine weeks if in case you missed it,
Speaker 1: Cee and it is bringing it back for season two.
Speaker 1: Michael Ian Black shared on his substack that he doesn't
Speaker 1: watch the show. Black said, for the record, I do
Speaker 1: not watch the program and probably never will. I tried
Speaker 1: once when it first came on, but I found I
Speaker 1: had to turn the channel within moments of seeing my
Speaker 1: own stupid, grinning mug. Many times I leave the taping
Speaker 1: thinking everybody else was great and I was fine. This
Speaker 1: has been a perennial issue. I very much want to
Speaker 1: be a smart comic who's this smart and funny things,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I am, but most of the time I
Speaker 1: just feel like a fraud. Sam Bee shared why she
Speaker 1: canceled kind of late on the Have I Got News
Speaker 1: for You Folks? This from Late Nighter. Sam told the
Speaker 1: story on her podcast, The Daily Beast Podcast. Sam said,
Speaker 1: I pulled myself out of it, which I do apologize
Speaker 1: to the whole team for leaving them in a bit
Speaker 1: of a spot. I just didn't feel like it was
Speaker 1: the right time for me to be on the show.
Speaker 1: Like for context, I really like the show. I think
Speaker 1: it's actually really good. I like and admire everybody who's
Speaker 1: on it, but my personal boundaries that I really can't
Speaker 1: go on like a fun, loving comedy quiz show with
Speaker 1: someone who just stands so opposite to every value that
Speaker 1: I hold dear. The episode in question was the November
Speaker 1: sixteenth installment of the show. The guest that she had
Speaker 1: a problem with was Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett. I'm
Speaker 1: personally not familiar with Tim, but Late Nighter says b
Speaker 1: sided issues with Burchett's stances on mass deportation, guns, and
Speaker 1: opposition to transgender rights, as well as desire to dismantle
Speaker 1: the Department of Education into fun planned parenthood. Sam said,
Speaker 1: I just think these questions and these issues that we're
Speaker 1: facing are literally existential, and I don't have a good
Speaker 1: sense of humor about it. I just wasn't willing to
Speaker 1: sit on a comedy show with a grim facial expression,
Speaker 1: thinking what am I gonna say? What am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: What is this like? Why am I here? The next
Speaker 1: thing I'm going to be wrong about, and that'll be
Speaker 1: twice in one year, which would be amazing, is that
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey's late night show on ESPN is going to
Speaker 1: be a disaster. Now it's all only gonna run for
Speaker 1: five weeks, so they'll guest him up into the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But I don't know about a one am at Jason
Speaker 1: kelse TV show. I'm sure it'll do great with viral clips,
Speaker 1: but is anyone gonna actually watch it? Who knows? I'm
Speaker 1: willing to be wrong here. Kelsey is working on it.
Speaker 1: He showed up at the UCB Theater in la and
Speaker 1: was on the ASCAT show Late Night. Our tells as
Speaker 1: Kelsey took the stage beer in hand, and he was
Speaker 1: tasked with delivering a series of autobiography stories intended to
Speaker 1: inspire scenes from the improvisers on stage. They call it
Speaker 1: Late Night with Jason Kelsey five weeks starting Friday, January third,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The show will be shot in front
Speaker 1: of a live audience in Philadelphia. Last week, Jason Kelsey
Speaker 1: told Jimmy Kimmel on the ABC owned show and said,
Speaker 1: I love late night shows. I've always loved them. I
Speaker 1: remember it's sleepovers watching Conan O'Brien with my friends. The
Speaker 1: show's even gonna have a live house band, the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: based seven piece Brass Ensemble Snack Time. The show's primary
Speaker 1: focus will be on sports personalities. Jason says, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a bunch of guys up there, legends of the game,
Speaker 1: friends that I played the game with, coaches and celebrities.
Speaker 1: If you would like to see Jason's appearance, UCB does
Speaker 1: a live stream of the recorded shows. It will cost
Speaker 1: you ten bucks and it'll be up there until Sunday.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Jimmy Kimmel, a boy, Google's got a lot
Speaker 1: of money, so much money that they're gonna mind trick
Speaker 1: Johnny mackintom playing a commercial here. A big campaign sees
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel hosting a Google Shopping branded game show called
Speaker 1: Can You Gift It? Some of the other folks in
Speaker 1: this show Ronnie chang Otska at Kotzka, Roy Wood Junior,
Speaker 1: Robin Feed, Matt Rodgers, Joel Kim Booster, somebody's got a
Speaker 1: lot of budget. This campaign runs through December fifth. Let's listen.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Pay You Gift, the Google Shopping game show
Speaker 1: where the deals are endless and everyone wins. I am
Speaker 1: shopping for my biggest hater, my grandma. I'm shopping for
Speaker 1: the phone i'd like to shop for you. Am I
Speaker 1: allowed to do that? Yes you are. The goal is
Speaker 1: to score as many deals as possible to mark them
Speaker 1: off your gift list. Turntable, Come on on, quote, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to play the forty chess for Google. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Fluffy Dat very very wrong. Who who
Speaker 1: is the better gift? It looks like Dana Carvey is
Speaker 1: going to continue to be on SNL. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: You have a cast, let the cast do things. Dana
Speaker 1: is great, Dana had his time. I don't understand this
Speaker 1: thing where now we're coming back to the show. Dana
Speaker 1: on his podcast said, we leave the good nights at SNL.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you do with the host. You going to the
Speaker 1: bleachers and you come out. So I think it was
Speaker 1: John Mulaney. He went out right before me, and I
Speaker 1: think he was going and then he started skipping and
Speaker 1: I started skipping too, And skipping feels really good compared
Speaker 1: to walking and even running. It's kind of gentle. So now,
Speaker 1: if you ever see me on SNL and I'm going
Speaker 1: back in December, if you see me come off the stage,
Speaker 1: just remember within seconds I will be skipping for quite
Speaker 1: a while. That's kind of inside baseball I mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: in the week. I feel like comedy is moving towards edginess.
Speaker 1: Looks like Hulu's gonna grab the Sebastian Gaffigan corner and
Speaker 1: Netflix is getting Edgier. They just announced that Arishafir Deal
Speaker 1: Andrew Schultz is taping his special for Netflix tonight and
Speaker 1: tomorrow at the Beacon Theater. Blond Medicine has a comny
Speaker 1: album out Tonight's I already support your nomination for Best
Speaker 1: Comedy Album for the Grammy, because Best Comedy Album should
Speaker 1: go to albums, not Netflix specials. This one from Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge and Jenny Chilakian. It's called Romantic Comedy Live at
Speaker 1: the Ripped of bo Dice. Eron and Jenny have been
Speaker 1: hosting a monthly comedy showcase at a romance bookstore since
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. For this stand up album, Eron and Jenny
Speaker 1: open up the show together and then each performed long
Speaker 1: sets of their own material. The result is a delightful
Speaker 1: and hilarious glimpse into what these two dynamic co hosts
Speaker 1: experience in their day to day lives as queer women
Speaker 1: in La And if you missed yesterday show, I was
Speaker 1: poking away at the Vulture Comedians you should and will
Speaker 1: know Emil will keem He had so much good material
Speaker 1: that I split it in half, so I did half
Speaker 1: of it yesterday. He was asked the biggest financial hurdle
Speaker 1: he's encountered to his becoming a comedian and said, did
Speaker 1: you guys know you have to pay your taxes? That
Speaker 1: really blindsided me. I couldn't believe we were really doing that.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, clearly, no one's going to check
Speaker 1: up on the little guys. And then I got audited
Speaker 1: the first year I filed taxes as a comedian. The
Speaker 1: irs sent me a letter and they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: so it's like way more money. I called my dad
Speaker 1: and started ranting about how Bernie should have been the
Speaker 1: nominee and something about Jeff Bezos or something. It's so
Speaker 1: annoying you can't use that as a reason, like in
Speaker 1: court for tax evasion. I feel like I should be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're on Eric Capitalism America, and then the jury
Speaker 1: would stand up and applaud me. But I do pay
Speaker 1: all my taxes on time. Now, I think, what comedy
Speaker 1: opinion hill will you die on? I love this one,
Speaker 1: he goes. I mean, obviously CrowdWork should be wiped off
Speaker 1: the face of the planet, but I feel like it's
Speaker 1: hack at this point to say that, almost as hack
Speaker 1: is asking somebody what they do for a living in
Speaker 1: all seriousness. Short form content is melting my brain, and
Speaker 1: I think it should be outlawed unless my clips start
Speaker 1: doing good, and then it's awesome and it's the future.
Speaker 1: I have to admit, though, that I'm bad at crowd work,
Speaker 1: which is probably part of the reason why I and
Speaker 1: so many comics crap on it, because it is a skill.
Speaker 1: It's just a skill that's ruining the world and may
Speaker 1: even lead to the downfall of civilization. And that's your
Speaker 1: comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell
Speaker 1: a friend about it too. If you like this without
Speaker 1: commercial interruption, there's a link in the show note to
Speaker 1: tell you how that works. I'm gonna continue with my
Speaker 1: mission to pretape the entire weekend. Let's see if my
Speaker 1: voice holds up. You'll find out tomorrow. See then,