Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media, Idly Home, Johnny Mack with your daily
Speaker 1: comedy News, Big VP debate tonight. That's right, we'll be
Speaker 1: covering that on the Ballot Podcast. By the way, both
Speaker 1: the Daily Show and Colbert will go live after the debate. Now,
Speaker 1: what's interesting about the Daily Show is John Stewart's not
Speaker 1: working No Tuesday night, Buddy, No, Michael Costa will do
Speaker 1: the live postgame show. Usually John shows up for those.
Speaker 1: I wonder if that is a hint as to what
Speaker 1: the future of the Daily Show actually is. Hmm. After
Speaker 1: the Trump Harris debate, Colbert doubled his audience with the
Speaker 1: eighteen to forty nine's John Stewart hosted a Tuesday episode
Speaker 1: of The Daily Show that week and got the show's
Speaker 1: highest rating since twenty seventeen. So again, very interesting that
Speaker 1: Michael Costa is hosting. All right, we got to start
Speaker 1: paying attention to Kat Williams. I know, you know some
Speaker 1: of us. I'll raise my hand. We're like, Cat, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: Time is starting to prove that perhaps Kat Williams not
Speaker 1: so crazy. At a recent show, he went after Sean
Speaker 1: Diddy Combs Cat made fun of Diddy's attorneys claim that
Speaker 1: Diddy had bought some baby oil from Costco. Williams joked,
Speaker 1: they put the drugs in the baby oil. You think
Speaker 1: you're getting a massage, you can't even get up. He said,
Speaker 1: that's the reason God gave me egzema. I can't even
Speaker 1: use baby oil. That got a lot of laughs. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the year on with Chen and Sharp, You remember
Speaker 1: that interview, Kat said all lies would be exposed. P
Speaker 1: Diddy be wanting to party and you got to tell
Speaker 1: him no. Meanwhile, Marlon Williams was on Club Shay Shay
Speaker 1: recently and said, I've never seen or been part of
Speaker 1: nothing but good vibes and energy with clothes on. So
Speaker 1: I'm not rushing to take down old tweets or anything.
Speaker 1: I ain't got stuff to hide, period. I've been to
Speaker 1: plenty of Diddy parties. I left early. I swear to
Speaker 1: you I've never seen it. Those aren't the type of
Speaker 1: parties I go to. I don't frequent those type of parties.
Speaker 1: And even if I go, like I said, I'd never
Speaker 1: seen any of this, want to hear about it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what did that happen? At? What time did this go down?
Speaker 1: Because I was there until two three thirty. You mean
Speaker 1: it too, so they waited for me to leave, like
Speaker 1: all right, good that Wayns is gone. He talks too much.
Speaker 1: Wayins did admit that he has seen drugs at these parties,
Speaker 1: but was unfamiliar with the other reports. He told Chennon Sharp,
Speaker 1: I watch how I conduct myself because I'm not doing
Speaker 1: this for me. I have to answer to God. I
Speaker 1: have to answer to my brothers. I have to answered
Speaker 1: to my legacy. I can't act a certain way. I
Speaker 1: have to answer to black people. I have to answer
Speaker 1: to kids who want to be like me. It's a
Speaker 1: lot for me to answer to. I owe it to
Speaker 1: my fans to walk through this life and be an
Speaker 1: example as best as I can. Meanwhile, new topic. Wayns
Speaker 1: was on the Shaquill O'Neal podcast joking about Magic Johnson
Speaker 1: and said, I said he had the good aids. I said,
Speaker 1: what aids do you want to get where you lived
Speaker 1: fifty years? I want those aids. He became a billionaire
Speaker 1: with aids. Give me those aids. What kind of aids
Speaker 1: is this? Financial aids? Sam Bee has her new podcast.
Speaker 1: She talked about Diddy and said she had a chance
Speaker 1: encounter with Diddy. Ages and Ages ago and was not
Speaker 1: invited to one of the freak offs be recalled. She
Speaker 1: was at the Democratic National Convention, but can't remember which one.
Speaker 1: When Diddy walked in, Sam said, I was grabbing whoever
Speaker 1: I could ask them questions about what was going on.
Speaker 1: So I went up to him and said, do you
Speaker 1: mind off ask a couple questions, and Diddy's voice was
Speaker 1: very soft. She said, it was in an area where
Speaker 1: you'd expected to be interviewed, too, so it wasn't outrageous.
Speaker 1: After the interview, b said, Diddy immediately, like instantly, turned
Speaker 1: to his assistant. He held out his hands helplessly, and
Speaker 1: his attendants squirted copious amounts of purel into his hands,
Speaker 1: and then he softly rubbed his hands together to extinguish
Speaker 1: whatever microbes I'd put on his hands. The way he
Speaker 1: did it was so rude. I do understand you shake
Speaker 1: a lot of people's hands and your hands feel dirty,
Speaker 1: but you don't typically need to sanitize while the person
Speaker 1: is standing before you expressing your disgust. It occurred to
Speaker 1: me in the light of all these freak offs, it's
Speaker 1: always the germophobes who want to go home and recreate Caligula.
Speaker 1: Every Tuesday afternoon, let me catch up on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: Let's say before I go to my notes, just top
Speaker 1: of mind. I thought it was really good. It felt big,
Speaker 1: it felt very show busy. The open was pretty strong.
Speaker 1: But I gotta wonder, if you're on the cast and
Speaker 1: your name's not Bowen Yang and maybe more solo Hernandez
Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. How are you feeling?
Speaker 1: Because yes, Daya Carvey great, and yes it was great
Speaker 1: to see Mac Packer, Andy Samberg, and yes, Maya Rudolph
Speaker 1: is nailing the Kamala voice. But you know, if you're
Speaker 1: on the cast, aren't you like, hey, why has this
Speaker 1: turned into an alumni show? But I guess for the
Speaker 1: fiftieth year it'll be an alumni show, and maybe season
Speaker 1: fifty one it'll be a reset. I could see a
Speaker 1: lot of people departing. Bowen got like nine sketches. Nine
Speaker 1: might be an exaggeration, but I felt like the whole
Speaker 1: night was Bowen Yang and he was great as always.
Speaker 1: And Marcela Hernandez, I'm wondering, does he do one thing
Speaker 1: but he does it really well where he does the
Speaker 1: one thing with an over the top accent that worked
Speaker 1: really well. In the Pyramid sketch. It worked really well
Speaker 1: in the I Love Lucy sketch, will try. I enjoy
Speaker 1: it a lot, so he's fun. I just don't know
Speaker 1: what else he can do. The Daily Beat spoke to
Speaker 1: Dana Carvey, who showed up as Joe Biden and did
Speaker 1: a very good Joe Biden. I mean, he's Dana Carvey
Speaker 1: after all. Carvey said, it's been top secret. I kept
Speaker 1: it under wraps for weeks, but I was asked by
Speaker 1: Lauren to come on SNL to do Biden. He said
Speaker 1: he began developing his take on Biden while producing his
Speaker 1: podcast YouTube clips, and said mimicking Biden is trickier, but
Speaker 1: the rhythm of the impression comes from the President's high
Speaker 1: energy moments. The true North stars to try and make
Speaker 1: it funny and not really get it to be a
Speaker 1: political message per se. Bowe Yang caught some backlash from
Speaker 1: fans of Chapel Rowan. Yang grown on Instagram. Everything she
Speaker 1: has ever asked for has been reasonable. Bowen was dressed
Speaker 1: up as Pigmy Hippopotamus of MoU Dang, and in character,
Speaker 1: he referenced Chapel Rowan's past comments about maintaining boundaries with
Speaker 1: intrusive fans. On Instagram, Bowen wrote, everything she has ever
Speaker 1: asked for has been reasonable. If my personal stance and
Speaker 1: the piece aren't absolutely clear in terms of supporting her,
Speaker 1: then there it is. I guess everything she's asked for
Speaker 1: has been reasonable, and even then we can connect it
Speaker 1: to another story about boundaries or whatever. In character as
Speaker 1: Moo Dan, he spoke with Colin jo just about setting
Speaker 1: some boundaries with Zoo attendees. In character, he said, when
Speaker 1: I'm in my enclosure, tripping over stuff, biting my trainer's knee,
Speaker 1: I'm at work. That's the project. Do not yell my
Speaker 1: name or expect a photo just because I'm your parasocial
Speaker 1: best year, because you appreciate my talent. Last week, Rowan
Speaker 1: canceled her weekend performances at a festival, saying I feel
Speaker 1: pressures to prioritize a lot of things right now, and
Speaker 1: I need a few days to prioritize my mind health.
Speaker 1: Bringing this full circle. Separately from all this, Bowen was
Speaker 1: recently on the Dana Corvey podcast well along with David Spade.
Speaker 1: He shared some behind the scenes details about when Sidney
Speaker 1: Sweeney was on last year that was a great episode,
Speaker 1: Bowen said, I get caught up in the meta narrative.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll get roped in like a headline or some
Speaker 1: pickup every now and then I'm like, oh god, this
Speaker 1: is so unfair, this is so stressful. That's not what
Speaker 1: I meant, or this is not what I was doing.
Speaker 1: Like when Chappelle was standing on stage with me, Yang said,
Speaker 1: Lauren knows this is what the show is now. I
Speaker 1: think Lauren has an awareness of it. I think Lauren
Speaker 1: knows how that it's a reality show. He said. Sidney
Speaker 1: Sweeney was an example of a host who came in
Speaker 1: and understood how she was being consumed and perceived already.
Speaker 1: She came in and was like, please, everyone make jokes
Speaker 1: about my boobs. John Stewart, who's not hosting The Daily
Speaker 1: Show tonight, was on Conan O'Brien's podcast, and he told Conan,
Speaker 1: we've created this incredibly eccentric business where you need an
Speaker 1: agent and a manager and a lawyer and they're going
Speaker 1: to take about sixty percent of what you make. But
Speaker 1: without them, there's nothing you can do. And you join
Speaker 1: the studio and the studio will give you a deal
Speaker 1: and you'll sit in your room it's the most inefficient
Speaker 1: way Silicon Valley walked into entertainment, and the way that
Speaker 1: Elon Musk walked into Twitter and went, how many people
Speaker 1: work here? Ten thousand? Make it two? They go writers' room. Wait,
Speaker 1: you've got fourteen writers and they're with you from start
Speaker 1: to finish on the production. Well, it's important for the
Speaker 1: writers to be invested. And also we're showing them how
Speaker 1: they're on the page, because it's different about the page
Speaker 1: of the screen. They got to understand how that works
Speaker 1: and understand how we interact with the props. Amazon and
Speaker 1: Apple hear those arguments and respond with something like they
Speaker 1: can have three weeks and it's got to be on Zoom,
Speaker 1: and you can have four of them. I can't function
Speaker 1: like that. My writers, like what Conan said, I'm friends
Speaker 1: with so many comedy writers, many comedy writers of my vintage.
Speaker 1: You're younger of trouble getting work now. It's changing radically.
Speaker 1: Stewart said. The large tech companies don't believe in institutional
Speaker 1: knowledge that allows people to grow and get better and
Speaker 1: create more. As for Apple, I couldn't help them in
Speaker 1: the way that maybe I had been able to help
Speaker 1: Comedy Central, But I think in their determination, I could
Speaker 1: hurt them. Themes of comedy names of tech often do
Speaker 1: not align. And that's when I knew we were in trouble. Wow,
Speaker 1: very interesting. I haven't listen to that one. I'll add
Speaker 1: it to Mike Queue. During the SNL premiere, Amazon announced
Speaker 1: that Colin Jos Pop Culture Jeopardy will debut December four.
Speaker 1: You'll get three new episodes a week on Wednesdays. Bill
Speaker 1: Hayter is developing a comedy pilot for HBO. Untitled project
Speaker 1: stars a woman in a small town who has a
Speaker 1: big secret revealed and then massive colossal spoilers for The Simpsons.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know this happened. I'm gonna spoil the
Speaker 1: heck out of Sunday's episode. I'll go slow here, all right,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a minor spoiler
Speaker 1: in a second. Then I'll take a beat, and then
Speaker 1: I'll majorly spoiler it. Medium spoiler. Okay, you've been warned, right,
Speaker 1: medium spoiler for The Simpsons. They hand it in the
Speaker 1: series finale. But the show's not over yet, all right.
Speaker 1: That's that's the headlined spoiler. If you want particular details,
Speaker 1: hang out otherwise, you're dismissed. See you tomorrow, all right,
Speaker 1: more spoilers coming up. You've been warned. Bart's Birthday is
Speaker 1: the Simpsons take on what a finale might look like.
Speaker 1: Inspired by the season seven clip show The Simpsons one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eighth episode Spectacular a great episode, Bart's
Speaker 1: Birthday is formatted like a hosted special, but instead of
Speaker 1: showing clips from the past and making up fake ones,
Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien introduces a brand new, AI written episode designed
Speaker 1: to be the series finale. The episode within the episode
Speaker 1: follows Bart as he watches the show's characters go through
Speaker 1: cliche over sentimental finale type storylines with increasing consternation. Showrunner
Speaker 1: Matt Selman explained why a finale and said, when you're
Speaker 1: write for The Simpsons, you get asked a lot about
Speaker 1: what a finale episode might look like. It's a tricky question.
Speaker 1: He's worked on the show since nineteen ninety eight. He
Speaker 1: says he can go on forever because it doesn't have
Speaker 1: a hard canon or dense continuity. During the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three Strikes, it hit him, what if we did a
Speaker 1: fake finale that makes fun of finales? Wrap itings up?
Speaker 1: But then rejects it in the simpsonsy way. They brainstormed
Speaker 1: what Fox would actually do if there was a Simpson
Speaker 1: finale and landed on the idea of a grand Starfield
Speaker 1: celebration that would serve as a meta takedown of showbiz
Speaker 1: self mythologizing and poke fun at the reverence. Some fans
Speaker 1: have a certain era of the show. You know, if
Speaker 1: you heard Sunday's episode, I pointed out, the show hasn't
Speaker 1: aired in years. Bob's orgiz doesn't exist at all. The Simpsons,
Speaker 1: I think stopped in season nine. When's the last time
Speaker 1: you watched Simpsons? Come on? Is it even on? Did
Speaker 1: this finale even in Bart's birthday? Conan O'Brien serves as
Speaker 1: the host of the finale celebration. Conan, you may know,
Speaker 1: worked as a writer on The Simpsons for two seasons
Speaker 1: and wrote what is one of these series all time episodes,
Speaker 1: the Monorail episode don't start me. I'll start singing the
Speaker 1: song you Never want to be near Me. If the
Speaker 1: word monoail comes up, ask my children monarel. Since that
Speaker 1: represents these shows so called golden age, the writers were
Speaker 1: interested in poking fun at that. They roast Conan Conan
Speaker 1: delivers jokes like it's such an honor to be here
Speaker 1: for the series finale of The Simpsons. They knew I
Speaker 1: was right for the job because I've hosted the last
Speaker 1: episode of three of my own shows and counting. Selman
Speaker 1: says Conan was smart enough and funny enough to know
Speaker 1: he was one hundred percent the best person to tell
Speaker 1: the story. All right, what happens to everybody? More spoilers.
Speaker 1: Principal Skinner announces he's leaving to become the headmaster of
Speaker 1: a school in Sacramento as a delightful mid season replacement,
Speaker 1: adding all no doubt, find a whole new, eclectic cast
Speaker 1: of characters to interact with, and also groundskeeper Willie will
Speaker 1: be my roommate. That's great. Bittersweet music plays as Skinner says,
Speaker 1: I'm going to miss this place while's turnning off the lights.
Speaker 1: That's a Nazi. The Mary Tyler Orphinelle comic book Wife's
Speaker 1: Guy Comigo gives birth. Mister Burns dies first as a prank,
Speaker 1: then for real. His fortune goes to the power plant staff.
Speaker 1: Bart attempts to stop Krusty from taping a final show.
Speaker 1: Selman discusses if they're trolling the audience conan in the
Speaker 1: show jokes. When the very first episode aired in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty nine, viewers agreed on one thing. It wasn't as
Speaker 1: funny as it used to be. That is your comedy
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