Speaker 1: Callaroga shark media.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, raise your hand. If you had to
Speaker 2: make your font not one but two sizes bigger to
Speaker 2: even read your notes today. Sheez hi. I'm Johnny mack
Speaker 2: with your daily comedy news. Ricky Gervais is being accused
Speaker 2: of bullying by fellow comedian Robin Ince from when they
Speaker 2: toured together. Robin claims Ricky Gervay's backstage jeers took a
Speaker 2: physical toll on his health when they toured together. Robin says,
Speaker 2: I look back now and I think it's bullying. Really
Speaker 2: it is. I'm very good at tizing to things in
Speaker 2: which you go Actually, this is really weird, but people
Speaker 2: who knew me didn't like the way that relationship worked.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it was a traumatic experience, but after
Speaker 2: two weeks I came out in red lumps that my
Speaker 2: doctor said was a stress rash. The fifty five year
Speaker 2: old was on the Starting Line podcast and said Jervas's
Speaker 2: bullying was so bad that Mackenzie Crook, also from the office,
Speaker 2: stepped in and confronted Ricky about it. I gotta download
Speaker 2: this thing. Hang on, I'm for real, taking out my
Speaker 2: phone and grabbing it face id unlock code. No, I'm
Speaker 2: not telling you my code. Were you crazy done? There
Speaker 2: seemed to be several podcasts with the title the starting line,
Speaker 2: this one the salmon covered cover. Art Ince announced his
Speaker 2: retirement in twenty fifteen, saying that he was starting to
Speaker 2: go mad with self doubt, insomnia, and orgret over not
Speaker 2: spending enough time with his family. He remained friends with
Speaker 2: Ricky Gervais until twenty twenty two, when he wrote a
Speaker 2: blog post criticizing Ricky for making jokes about transgender people
Speaker 2: in his Netflix special. At the time, he wrote, anti
Speaker 2: transpunch a lines seemed to have become highly profitable, and
Speaker 2: it ignores the dehumanizing effect of a swath of already
Speaker 2: martialized people. I think Ricky believes it is him just
Speaker 2: being a naughty boy. I believe it makes him a
Speaker 2: pin up and role model for the alt right. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Amazon has released the first trailer for the Australian version
Speaker 2: of the Office. The Office Australia will be available on
Speaker 2: Prime in two hundred and forty countries starting October eighth,
Speaker 2: except the United States. You might want to get a VPN.
Speaker 2: They released a clip which I'll share with you in
Speaker 2: a second Hannah Howard is the boss, the managing director
Speaker 2: of Sydney based packaging company Finley Cretick, trying to win
Speaker 2: over her employees with her natural charisma, girl boss vibes
Speaker 2: and visionary leadership. Sounds familiar, right, Well, well it's the office.
Speaker 2: What do you want? Also trapped at Finley Cradicktor Hannah
Speaker 2: the receptionist productivity manager Lizzie, which is kind of the
Speaker 2: Dwight Gareth role. Sales rep Nick, he's the guy that
Speaker 2: mugs for the camera and greta eight episode season. You
Speaker 2: want to listen, Let's listen. I had to trim this
Speaker 2: a bit to make it work for the pod, so
Speaker 2: let's listen.
Speaker 1: Big announcement. Can I have a drum roll? Plase drum roll, Lloyd,
Speaker 1: that's our drum roll. People ask me how can I
Speaker 1: become a great boss? And the answer is having a
Speaker 1: happy staff that love you.
Speaker 2: This is a proper hhon night, ma'am.
Speaker 1: As of today, we are all back in the office
Speaker 1: full time. What that's not good news? We lost one
Speaker 1: of our own last week, Ryan died. We were so close.
Speaker 1: He's always in my heart. I was he the tall
Speaker 1: third one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he was the short and Smiley one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I meant, what actual identity is.
Speaker 1: He doesn't feel relevant, does it.
Speaker 2: He kind of reminds me of if David Brent from
Speaker 2: the UK office worked at the Scranton branch and then
Speaker 2: we made it all Australian. I'm definitely gonna watch this
Speaker 2: thing visually. It looks like the US version for sure.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Von for putting this Dean Cook thing as
Speaker 2: I have at my notes in front of me. Deane
Speaker 2: Cook was supposed to perform at the RPM Theater in
Speaker 2: Vancouver last weekend, but the show was canceled based on
Speaker 2: some comments in Deane Cook's most recent Instagram post. Shows
Speaker 2: and several locales have been canceled. People are wondering why.
Speaker 2: Some folks who said they were to attend the Portland
Speaker 2: show said they didn't learn the show would be canceled
Speaker 2: until they were standing in front of the doors. One
Speaker 2: redditor said, I'm sure all four people will be refunded.
Speaker 2: Someone alleging to be a theater worker said they had
Speaker 2: sold under three hundred tickets for a two thousand seat venue.
Speaker 2: I find that hard to believe. I don't I would
Speaker 2: imagine Dane could easily fill two thousand seats like you do.
Speaker 2: Just play the garden. I hope everything's okay with Dane.
Speaker 2: Met him once, he was cool, got him some sunshine hips.
Speaker 2: True story. The ticketmaster page gave no reason for the cancelation,
Speaker 2: neither did Live Nation. All Right. Out today on YouTube
Speaker 2: James Adomian's Path of Most Resistance. I got a screener
Speaker 2: for this thing, oh like two months ago. It's one
Speaker 2: of my favorites of the year. Please watch James Adomian's
Speaker 2: Path of Most Resistance on YouTube. You will like it.
Speaker 2: Also out today, Ben Kushenbaum's Best Picture. That's on YouTube
Speaker 2: starting at six pm Central Time. Ellen has her special
Speaker 2: coming out on Tuesday, and she has released a trailer
Speaker 2: for it. You've heard me tell you many of these jokes.
Speaker 2: Now you will hear Ellen tell them. And I have
Speaker 2: clipped this down for pacing. You'll never guess you jumped
Speaker 2: on stage with Dion Cole on Tuesday night. You can
Speaker 2: guess for ten million years. You're never going to guess
Speaker 2: Paul McCartney what Dion was working on new material at
Speaker 2: the Hollywood Improv. He pulls Paul McCartney up on stage.
Speaker 2: He introduces Paul as his friend to the crowd. He
Speaker 2: tells the crowd that he and Paul smoked a little
Speaker 2: weed before the performance. Those who I've seen the video go, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's probably true. Deon tells the crowd, I had a
Speaker 2: smoke and that's why this is happening, and all you
Speaker 2: mfers didn't give any love to me tonight. Paul said,
Speaker 2: I've just been enjoying you working through this material, and
Speaker 2: you're right, some of it bombed. Deon's new special came
Speaker 2: out on Netflix on Tuesday. It's called Okay, mister, I
Speaker 2: haven't gotten too yet. Oh what did I watch? I
Speaker 2: wanted to tell you, Oh, I watched them. Have I
Speaker 2: got news for you? The Roy Wood Junior thing. It's okay,
Speaker 2: it's watchable. It's not horrible. It's not great. It's not funny,
Speaker 2: but it's not horrible. It's not great, it's not funny,
Speaker 2: it's not horrible. It's not great, it's not funny, it's
Speaker 2: not horrible. That's my review. Jimmy Fallon is putting out
Speaker 2: a holiday album later this year. Justin Timberlake was his
Speaker 2: guest on The Tonight Show, and they revealed the title
Speaker 2: and teaser of their new holiday song called You'll be There.
Speaker 2: Jimmy described it as a silly song, noting it's kind
Speaker 2: of about a bromance. Justin. Timberlake said, I mean it's us.
Speaker 2: Fallon added, Yeah, it's like I was saying, Hey, you'll
Speaker 2: be there. You'll be there for me this Christmas. The
Speaker 2: currently untitled album is released November. First, I got to
Speaker 2: find out who what label this is on. Maybe get
Speaker 2: Chimmy on the show. That'd be awesome, all right. From
Speaker 2: Gossip Corner, Nikki Glazer posted on Instagram. People were saying
Speaker 2: that her dress was a little see through. So you know,
Speaker 2: I like to keep you guys abreast of what's happening
Speaker 2: in the comedy scene. So I had to click on
Speaker 2: this post to do more research. I did see the photo,
Speaker 2: and I will tell you it is a very nice photo.
Speaker 2: CBS hasiled a new comedy campaign, adding a chuckle to
Speaker 2: the I logo and poking some fun and it's Tiffany Heritage.
Speaker 2: Chief Marketing Officer Mike Benson said CBS is ready to
Speaker 2: break some Tiffany glass. People will say that CBS is
Speaker 2: old and stagy, but actually, if you look at our programming,
Speaker 2: it's really not. I just turned fifty five, so it's
Speaker 2: the only TV station that I'm allowed to watch, and
Speaker 2: nobody else cares about anybody under fifty five, so I
Speaker 2: have CBS on all the time. Blue Blood Season thirty nine,
Speaker 2: Bring It, Mike Benson said, I think we've got a
Speaker 2: lot of work to do from a brand perspective, to
Speaker 2: show that we can have a lot of fun, that
Speaker 2: we're willing to poke fun at ourselves as much as
Speaker 2: we want people to come in and laugh at the shows.
Speaker 2: We've got the tagline You're laughing at CBS. We'll focus
Speaker 2: on returning hits, Ghosts in the Neighborhood, as well as
Speaker 2: the new Young Sheldon spinoff of George and Mandy's First Marriage,
Speaker 2: any comedy from Damon Wayne's and Damon Wayns Junior called
Speaker 2: Papa's House. As part of this new brand, CBS is
Speaker 2: introducing a smiling version of its eye logo, which it
Speaker 2: has nicknamed chuckle Boy, And you thought hilarious was hack
Speaker 2: to be fair? Chuckle is a sli nod to Chuckles,
Speaker 2: the clown from the famous episode of The Mary Tyler
Speaker 2: Moore Show that in itself a half century old reference. CBS,
Speaker 2: you're not helping yourself why not call the logo I
Speaker 2: don't know Chester a Arthur. Chester a Arthur was the
Speaker 2: twenty first President of the United States, serving from eighteen
Speaker 2: eighty one two eighteen eighty five. Oh, it gets worse,
Speaker 2: Benson said, CBS will start referring to the term sitcom
Speaker 2: as sit down comedy to differentiate it from stand up comedy.
Speaker 2: She thanks Mike Benson, thank you for clarifying that, And
Speaker 2: Mike Benson said, there's a lot of stand up comedy
Speaker 2: out there, but we're looking at this not from the
Speaker 2: point of view of what comedians do, what value we're
Speaker 2: providing our audience almost every day. Boy, this brand just
Speaker 2: sounds super hip. You know, it's sit down comedy and
Speaker 2: half century old reference. Mike, you get it, You totally
Speaker 2: get it. You're totally gonna make this brand younger. Great job,
Speaker 2: I mean, CBS just trying to get young. They're also
Speaker 2: promoting their new Kathy Bates version of Matt Locke. Yeah
Speaker 2: that screams Generation Alpha, put down your phones, kids, and
Speaker 2: NCIS prequel called NCIS Origins, and something called the Summit. Oh,
Speaker 2: Mike Benson, good luck to you all right, This next
Speaker 2: story sucks. Scottish comedian Genie Godly revealed she'd canceled her
Speaker 2: upcoming tour, which was called why is she Still here?
Speaker 2: I mean ongoing treatment for terminal ovarian cancer. Godly is
Speaker 2: sixty three. She was going to tour this fall. Doctors
Speaker 2: have advised her to stop working quote for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 2: Statement from Jane's team says that it was with huge sadness
Speaker 2: that we must announce the cancelation of Janie Godley's Autumn
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four tour. Janey's been living with stage four
Speaker 2: ovarian cancer for the past few years, and the treatment
Speaker 2: has kept the disease at bay, but sadly, in the
Speaker 2: last few weeks, the cancer's returned and there have been
Speaker 2: a few added complications. Her doctors have now advised her
Speaker 2: that she must stop working for the foreseeable future. Previously,
Speaker 2: Godley had sold ITV's Lorraine that it was Jimmy Carr
Speaker 2: who convinced her to continue her tour despite her diagnosis.
Speaker 2: Janey said, I decided to cancel the tour and then
Speaker 2: Jimmy Carr said, is your mouth not working? And I
Speaker 2: want yeah, my mouth works, and he said we'll get
Speaker 2: back on tour. The high planes a comedy festival kicks
Speaker 2: off tonight. I won't read every performer, but some names
Speaker 2: you may know. Rory Scovell, Chris Estrada, Dina hasham Ian,
Speaker 2: Carmel Caitlin Cook, j McBride is fantastic, Josh Gondleman, Joan Oharray,
Speaker 2: Adam Clayton holland you know, I'm just skimming here. Mandal
Speaker 2: He's one of the comics you should and must know
Speaker 2: or whatever Variety's thing is called. It's the eleventh annual
Speaker 2: High Planes Comedy Festival, running tonight through the twenty first
Speaker 2: at multiple venues on South Broadway. The headlining shows are
Speaker 2: at the Paramount Theater. High Planes Comedy Festivals held each
Speaker 2: fall in Denver, Colorado, and I showed by Autism and Entertainment.
Speaker 2: They partnered with The Miracle Project and The Laugh Factory
Speaker 2: to host Let It Out, a stand up comedy show
Speaker 2: for neurodivergent fans that this happened last week. Let It
Speaker 2: Out featured comedians Will Hunter, Krueger Dunn, Josh Myrowitz, Lori
Speaker 2: kil Martin, Jeremiah Watkins, and Eric Griffin. Producer Mike Rotman
Speaker 2: told Variety he wanted to create a stand up program
Speaker 2: after realizing there were no comedy shows that his neurodivergent
Speaker 2: relatives would feel completely comfortable at. Some of the tweaks
Speaker 2: for Let It Out reduce the volume of music, allowing
Speaker 2: patrons to wear headphones during the performance. They also had
Speaker 2: a private space in the back for guests to take
Speaker 2: a break at any point they wanted. During Walkin's set,
Speaker 2: he took time to dive into trains after a suggestion
Speaker 2: from a fan in attendance, rather than just doing his
Speaker 2: prepared material. Walkin said, I definitely want to try to
Speaker 2: cater the crowd and what they're excited about. I love
Speaker 2: trying to connect with as many people as possible, and
Speaker 2: there shouldn't be an exception for people who are on
Speaker 2: the spectrum. Eric Griffin said, the language of laughter is universal.
Speaker 2: We're all different more ways than race, gender, sexual orientation.
Speaker 2: There's a spectrum and that is your daily comedy news
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