Speaker 1: Callaroga Shock Media.
Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news and
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Speaker 2: A sentence the Algorithm loves. Hope you enjoyed the George
Speaker 2: Lopez grill yesterday, because we're back to politics. Very serious
Speaker 2: topic here for real. Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him
Speaker 2: from having on a rising democrat on The Late Show.
Speaker 2: Colbert said he was told, quote in no uncertain terms,
Speaker 2: that he could have Representative James Tallerco on The Late Show.
Speaker 2: Here's a lengthy clip. I will let Stephen Colbert explain.
Speaker 1: You know who is not one of my guests tonight.
Speaker 1: That's Texas State Representative James Talerico. He was supposed to
Speaker 1: be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms
Speaker 1: by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we
Speaker 1: could not have him on the broadcast. Then then I
Speaker 1: was told in some uncertain terms that not only could
Speaker 1: I not have him on, I could not mention me
Speaker 1: not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn't
Speaker 1: want us to talk about this, let's talk about this.
Speaker 2: You've probably heard.
Speaker 1: So you might have heard of this thing called the
Speaker 1: equal time rule. Okay, it's an old FCC rule that
Speaker 1: applies only to radio and broadcast television, not cable or streaming.
Speaker 1: That says, if a show has a candidate on during
Speaker 1: an election, they have to have all that candidate's opponents
Speaker 1: on as well. It's the FCC's most time honored rule,
Speaker 1: right after no nipples at the Super Bowl. There's long
Speaker 1: been an exception for this rule, an exception for news
Speaker 1: interviews and talk show interviews with politicians. Now that's crucial.
Speaker 1: How else were voters supposed to know back in ninety
Speaker 1: two that Bill Clinton sucked at Saxophone? But on January
Speaker 1: twenty first of this year, a letter was released by
Speaker 1: FCC chairman and smug bowling pin Brendan Carr. In this letter,
Speaker 1: Car said he was thinking about dropping the exception for
Speaker 1: talk shows because he said some of them were motivated
Speaker 1: by partisan purposes. Well, sir, you're chairman of the FCC,
Speaker 1: so FCCU.
Speaker 2: Because I think.
Speaker 1: Simple, because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself. Sir,
Speaker 1: I smelt it because he had delt it. You are
Speaker 1: Dutch ovening America's airwaves. Let's just call this what it
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone who says
Speaker 1: anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does
Speaker 1: is watch TV. Okay, He's like a toddler with too
Speaker 1: much screen time that's cranky and then drops a load
Speaker 1: in his diaper.
Speaker 2: Right, so like super interesting there now. In this next section,
Speaker 2: Colbert talks about his alliance with Jimmy Kimmel and how
Speaker 2: he put the interview on his YouTube page. I have
Speaker 2: edited this for pacing.
Speaker 1: It's no surprise that two of the people most affected
Speaker 1: by this threat or me and my friend Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1: When this letter dropped. We both talked about the letter
Speaker 1: on air, and then later car defended it like this,
Speaker 1: if Kimmel.
Speaker 2: Or Colbert want to continue to do their programming and
Speaker 2: they don't want to have to comply with this requirement,
Speaker 2: then they can go to a cable channel or podcast
Speaker 2: or streaming service and that's fine.
Speaker 1: Great idea man whose job is to regulate broadcast TV
Speaker 1: suggest everyone just leave broadcast TV. It's like when Arby's
Speaker 1: changed our slogan to Arby's would it kill you to
Speaker 1: eat a salad? Anyway? I decided to take Brendan Carr's advice.
Speaker 1: I am going to interview James Tallerico tonight, but it's
Speaker 1: not going to be on the Late Show. It's going
Speaker 1: to be on the Late Shows YouTube page. The network says,
Speaker 1: I can't give you URL or a QR code, but
Speaker 1: I promise you if you go to our YouTube page,
Speaker 1: you'll find it.
Speaker 2: And as the SEC Commissioner has pointed out, I'm not
Speaker 2: part of the equal time rules. So at the end
Speaker 2: of this podcast, I will play some of that interview.
Speaker 2: We'll come back to that. Meanwhile, Dave Chappelle did appear
Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. He was at the Grand Casino Arena. Neil
Speaker 2: Justin caught the show for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Neil
Speaker 2: reports near the beginning of the show, Chappelle said, I'm
Speaker 2: sorry I couldn't get here sooner, but you didn't need me.
Speaker 2: Chappelle wondered if the people in Springfield, Ohio, near his
Speaker 2: hometown would be able to show the same nerve if
Speaker 2: and when federal agents conduct similar raids in Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 2: Quoting the account from the newspaper, Chappelle apparently said, I
Speaker 2: don't know as much faith in the whites of Springfield
Speaker 2: as I do in the whites of Minneapolis. The recap
Speaker 2: interestingly says Chappelle largely avoided jokes about transgender people, but
Speaker 2: he was far from timid when it came to joking
Speaker 2: about other groups. We're told Chappelle joked, I'm about to
Speaker 2: say the most racist thing I'll say tonight, but it's
Speaker 2: not the only racist thing I'll say. He then launched
Speaker 2: into a bit about Chinese people being sneaky. Neil Justin writes,
Speaker 2: the truth is most of his material was wrapped in affection.
Speaker 2: The one exception was his frequent use of a derogatory
Speaker 2: term for gay people that was dated and unnecessary. But
Speaker 2: for the most part, Chappelle was on good behavior, or
Speaker 2: what passes for good behavior for a comic who thrives
Speaker 2: on pushing buttons. There was hilarious routine on looking at
Speaker 2: Raiders of the Lost Arc with fresh eyes, and another
Speaker 2: on how we tried to get Will Smith and Chris
Speaker 2: Rock to hug it out. On Saturday Night Live, Chappelle
Speaker 2: announced that all proceeds from the show would stay in
Speaker 2: the community. I shared in the Facebook group, which is
Speaker 2: Daily Comedy News podcast group, a video of Dave Chappelle
Speaker 2: visiting the memorial to Alex Pretty Dave play some flowers there.
Speaker 2: There's no audio for me to really share with you here,
Speaker 2: but it's in the Facebook group if you want to
Speaker 2: check that out. Now. While I was in Chappelle mode,
Speaker 2: I found some reviews of his Super Bowl weekend shows. Now,
Speaker 2: I had been looking for these and they just weren't
Speaker 2: coming up in search. Chappelle's and Ami tend to throw
Speaker 2: into the search engines every single day, especially like yesterday
Speaker 2: when I didn't have much news, But all of a
Speaker 2: sudden these popped up. When from the SF Gates Dan
Speaker 2: Chinilly went to see Dave. Dan has written about Chappelle
Speaker 2: many times in the past. Dan thinks it seems like
Speaker 2: a recording of the set might be heading to Netflix.
Speaker 2: He wasn't sure. Chappelle walked out wearing a shirt and
Speaker 2: blazon with Colin Kaepernick on the back that got a
Speaker 2: lot of applause. Colin Kaepernick played for the San Francisco
Speaker 2: forty nine ers. Dan writes, if you've seen Dave's perform
Speaker 2: in San Francisco before, odds are you've heard much of
Speaker 2: the set. He returned to transgender jokes a few times
Speaker 2: and added some lines about Somalians to keep things topical,
Speaker 2: but this time most of the humor was aimed at
Speaker 2: Chinese and Jewish people. The other main theme was Dave's
Speaker 2: famous friends, with anecdotes about Will Smith and Chris Rock's
Speaker 2: Oscar slap. Dan found those bits dated. The standout bit
Speaker 2: of the Knight saw Chappelle recounting the plot of readers
Speaker 2: of the Lost Arc. All right, so that seems like
Speaker 2: it's part of the new set. Dan Wright says he
Speaker 2: has at almost every San Francisco show of the last
Speaker 2: three years. Chappelle told a story about running into a
Speaker 2: childhood friend at a Lakers game who directed him to
Speaker 2: his favorite Indian restaurant in the Tenderloine. Of course, the
Speaker 2: Cli the story includes an unhoused person pooping on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: Dave closed the night on a somber note. He lowered
Speaker 2: his voice and explained that he performs these days because
Speaker 2: being around audiences makes him feel better, and that was
Speaker 2: in power want to keep us from gathering. The SF
Speaker 2: Chronicle said Dave treated his latest Bay Area appearance not
Speaker 2: as escapism but a reminder to stay vigilant. They recap
Speaker 2: that Dave did some free association weaving together celebrity weekend chatter, politics,
Speaker 2: conspiracy culture, and long winding stories that ended a punchline
Speaker 2: you can see coming but still don't quite expect. A
Speaker 2: chunk of the set was about travel. He described leaving
Speaker 2: the country after his last special and wandering through Paris,
Speaker 2: including a long riff about finally seeing the Mona Lisa
Speaker 2: and imagining how he'd react if he spotted her in
Speaker 2: the club. Oh, he's got a really good punch here,
Speaker 2: but I will get in trouble if I say it's
Speaker 2: so read it in the SF Chronicle. But the punchline
Speaker 2: to the Mona Lisa joke is hilarious. The show's rhythm,
Speaker 2: ramling story, sharp left turn, punchline, then a longer meditation
Speaker 2: also carried the themes that have defined his recent work,
Speaker 2: from the speed of online outrage to the way political
Speaker 2: identities harden into tribes, and how fame turns every breaking
Speaker 2: news update into something uncomfortably close. He then talked about
Speaker 2: Minneapolis again. This show was in San Francisco. Dave said,
Speaker 2: zeffed up what they're doing. Ice were snatching up so
Speaker 2: many Mexicans, they got carried away. They run out of Mexicans,
Speaker 2: so they flew to Venezuela and snatched up the president
Speaker 2: brought him back to America so they could try and
Speaker 2: send him back to Venezuela. That's funny. Something is wrong,
Speaker 2: isn't it. Trump is working on something. And then apparently
Speaker 2: that goes into the readers of the Lost Arc Chunk
Speaker 2: spoilers here for that chunk, Chappelle goes through theories of
Speaker 2: what the arc symbolized. Dave said, you know what the
Speaker 2: box represented to me when I saw it on beet
Speaker 2: the other day. The Epstein Files. They just dumped three
Speaker 2: million pages of the e fing most salacious crap. But
Speaker 2: I'm smart, I'm not going to look. Dave continues, The
Speaker 2: Epstein Files got the whole world ft up, don't they.
Speaker 2: Every time I go out to the party, like all
Speaker 2: Super Bowl weekend, I keep seeing celebrities everywhere, and they'd
Speaker 2: be like, hey, Dave, let's get a picture. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: But in my mind when I'm taking the picture, I'd
Speaker 2: be like, boy, I hope you don't reap. In another section,
Speaker 2: Dave described a futurist split between quote maggot Country, which
Speaker 2: is what we're going through now, a woke land, this
Speaker 2: one where he used the homophobic slur using one of
Speaker 2: the F words, quoting Dave, I'm going to read it
Speaker 2: flat deliberately. If I have to choose, and I can't
Speaker 2: believe I'm saying this, I'm probably going to fight on
Speaker 2: the F word land side. I'm going to be in
Speaker 2: a foxhole, like, what's your pronoun soldier? I need more ammunition.
Speaker 2: Let's lighten things up a little bit. Todd Barry will
Speaker 2: be in Syracuse tonight. He posted on social media asking
Speaker 2: celeb friendly solo dining in Syracuse. Actress Laura and Holly
Speaker 2: wrote back, No, you should probably leave the state immediately.
Speaker 2: Musician Stephen Page from The Bare Naked Lady said try
Speaker 2: Noble Settler or the Wedge. Some other recommendations included postibilities
Speaker 2: Dinosaur Barbecue, the York lemongrass Eten, Copper Top Tavern, Daniella Steakhouse,
Speaker 2: and many others. Boy, people really got into this. Todd
Speaker 2: Barry liked to feel the suggestions, including a tip for
Speaker 2: the Wegman's Food Court, but one social media user for
Speaker 2: the win. That person wrote, if you're the select question,
Speaker 2: I think you'll be okay no matter where you go.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see what's happening at Just for Last
Speaker 2: Vancouver tonight. We have our special correspondent, Mike Chisholm from
Speaker 2: the Letterman Podcast. I sent him to two shows last night.
Speaker 2: He got up super early. He texted me at like
Speaker 2: five in the morning. He lives in the Vancouver suburbs.
Speaker 2: He lives in a place called Moose Antler is a
Speaker 2: British Columbia and apparently after commute to Vancouver like ridiculously early.
Speaker 2: So I was sending him to like seven pm shows,
Speaker 2: but you know, he's Canadian. He didn't want to let
Speaker 2: me down, so headed out at like five in the morning.
Speaker 2: So we'll hear back from Mike. But if we were
Speaker 2: at Just for Last Vancouver tonight, anyone interested in this one? Mike,
Speaker 2: You're listening at seven o'clock at the Queen Elizabeth Theater
Speaker 2: an evening with David Letterman and special guest Zach Galifnakis. Boy,
Speaker 2: I hope Letterman has something to talk about. What would
Speaker 2: he possibly bring up? So we all know where Mike
Speaker 2: is going to be tonight. I considered going out to
Speaker 2: this thing. It's a Wednesday, Like if this were like
Speaker 2: closer to a weekend and I could have stretched out.
Speaker 2: I probably would have showed up at JFL Vancouver one
Speaker 2: of these years, I'm going to go to it. But
Speaker 2: it was a Wednesday. It was like, eh, so Mike
Speaker 2: will be on scene to tell us what happens with
Speaker 2: an Evening with David Letterman and special guest Zach Galifanakis.
Speaker 2: Some other shows tonight at the Rio. Craig Connant, He's
Speaker 2: got a show at seven, good luck. Catherine Blandford, who
Speaker 2: you don't know yet. She's fantastic. I've seen her. She's
Speaker 2: really good. I sent Mike to that show last night.
Speaker 2: She has a show tonight at seven. But again, Letterman's
Speaker 2: gonna win all ties. Matty Kelly has a show at
Speaker 2: the Fox Cabaret at seven. Dylan Adler, I've seen him.
Speaker 2: He's really good. He's got a nine o'clock show. I mean,
Speaker 2: I guess you could run from Letterman over to the
Speaker 2: Review stage and catch Dylan Adler. He's really good. It's
Speaker 2: a very very solid night at Just for Last Vancouver.
Speaker 2: From Radar Online, which tends to be a gossipy sight.
Speaker 2: Amy Schumer in the news again. The headline Amy Schumer's
Speaker 2: divorced strategy exposed, including how she's intent on controlling the
Speaker 2: narrative of split from Chris Fisher. Read article about Amy
Speaker 2: Schumer just always makes you feel good, doesn't it. Radar
Speaker 2: Online writes. When speculation ramped up about the possible divorce,
Speaker 2: Schumer maintained, Chris and I are still married, fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: We make it through. He's the best. A source tells
Speaker 2: Radar Online the divorce was already underway, with money, custody
Speaker 2: and property divided. The source told Radar Amy wanted to
Speaker 2: get everything handled before making the news public. For her
Speaker 2: son's sake and for Chris, She's focused on protecting them both. Okay,
Speaker 2: fair enough. She knows she's going to be picked apart
Speaker 2: and wants to give people as little ammunition as possible.
Speaker 2: She's hoping that she and Fisher can be a quote
Speaker 2: consciously uncouple, similar to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. The
Speaker 2: source says, then it won't all hurt so much. Ray
Speaker 2: Romano made his Broadway debut in Simon Rich's comedy about Ambition.
Speaker 2: Ray told the Today Show, Relax, I'm not singing. You
Speaker 2: don't ever want to hear this voice sing. Ray said,
Speaker 2: over the years, have been offered a couple of Broadway things,
Speaker 2: and I've never really had the courage to do a
Speaker 2: full play that runs for months. This seemed like the
Speaker 2: perfect little introduction of Broadway. And let's circle back to
Speaker 2: where we began. On the Late Show YouTube page, Stephen
Speaker 2: Colbert spoke with Representative James tell Rico. Let's listen to
Speaker 2: the beginning of that interview. I've trimmed it a little
Speaker 2: bit for pacing and cutting down music and applause and
Speaker 2: things like that, but the words are more or less intact.
Speaker 1: Joining me now is a representative in the Texas State House.
Speaker 1: It is currently running for the United States Senate. Please
Speaker 1: welcome to the Late Show YouTube page. Representative James taller Rico.
Speaker 3: I know, thank you.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't usually say this to a guest, but if
Speaker 1: people are watching this right now, it's because they found
Speaker 1: us online on YouTube. I did an act of the
Speaker 1: show that's on tonight, explaining why it's not the first
Speaker 1: time you've caused some trauma. FCC opening probe into the
Speaker 1: view after appearance by taller Rico, do you mean to
Speaker 1: cause Trump?
Speaker 3: I think that Donald Trump is worried that we're about
Speaker 3: to flip Texas and Stephen this. This is the party
Speaker 3: that ran against cancel culture, and now they're trying to
Speaker 3: control what we watch, what we say, what we read.
Speaker 3: And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture,
Speaker 3: the kind that comes from the top. They they went
Speaker 3: after the view because I went on there. They went
Speaker 3: after Jimmy Kimmel for telling a joke they didn't like.
Speaker 3: They went after you for telling the truth about Paramount's
Speaker 3: bribe to Donald Trump. Corporate corporate, corporate media executives are
Speaker 3: selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians.
Speaker 3: And a threat to any of our First Amendment rights
Speaker 3: is a threat to all of our First Amendment rights.
Speaker 2: So I'm just the.
Speaker 1: Fact the fact check you my network's at are canceling.
Speaker 1: This was a purely financial decision, got it, and I
Speaker 1: remain very grateful for the last eleven years.
Speaker 2: And you can find the rest of that interview on
Speaker 2: the YouTube page. I've shared the link in the episode notes.
Speaker 2: And that is your comedy news for today, Oh, Comedy Survivor.
Speaker 2: Looks like last time I checked, it was like a
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart voting block trying to get rid of Kevin
Speaker 2: Hart and the SIGNATARO people. They're talking a little bit
Speaker 2: too now. As a Star Trek fan, there are certain
Speaker 2: people who are just ruining Star Trek. They include Stephen Colbert,
Speaker 2: who's putting me in a tough spot today because obviously
Speaker 2: I believe in free speech. But on the other hand,
Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert aligns himself with Alex Kurtzman and the people
Speaker 2: destroying Star Trek. So I am forced to choose. I'm
Speaker 2: in a no win battle there. Do I choose free speech?
Speaker 2: Do I choose Star Trek. You know, Johnny Mack takes
Speaker 2: his Star Trek very seriously, but I'm not going to
Speaker 2: burn down the Republic to save Star Trek. I've got
Speaker 2: the DVDs up in the closet next to the Scrubs DVDs.
Speaker 2: I can watch Star Trek TuS whenever I want. What
Speaker 2: you do is you go to the Facebook group taly
Speaker 2: Comedy News podcast group. You find a picture of me
Speaker 2: extinguishing the torch of Seth Myers who was voted off
Speaker 2: last week. Write down the name of who like voted
Speaker 2: off Comedy Island. The list of remaining comedians is in
Speaker 2: that post. Voting continues until end of day Thursday. In
Speaker 2: METU Comedy news for today, see tomorrow