Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. Incase you missed it. I dropped another
Speaker 1: Colber Bonus episode yesterday around noon. So much to catch
Speaker 1: up on. It has been busy since Shane Gillis hosted
Speaker 1: the SPS and then Colbert Gate happened. Let's catch up
Speaker 1: on THEO Vaughn, who called out Vice President j D.
Speaker 1: Vance for changing a stance on the release of files
Speaker 1: related to Jeffrey Epstein. THEO Vaughn first reposted a clip
Speaker 1: from his October podcast with Vance, in which Vance told listeners, quote, seriously,
Speaker 1: we need to release the Epstein list this is an
Speaker 1: important thing. In a separate post, Levon asked, yeah, what changed?
Speaker 1: Mark Maron and talked about his beef with John Stewart,
Speaker 1: calling John Stewart his nemesis. Maren said, there was a
Speaker 1: jealousy to it, but it got consuming. But it went
Speaker 1: on a long time and he knew it. We've had
Speaker 1: confrontations about it and we are not friends. Apparently this
Speaker 1: goes back to the nineteen nineties when both Maren and
Speaker 1: John Stuart were trying to be the quote King of Politics,
Speaker 1: satsire or whatever. A battle. Maren said, Stuart has won.
Speaker 1: When I was coming up as a comic, he had
Speaker 1: always thinks just because he had committed to a haircut
Speaker 1: and away presenting, but like he was just everywhere. John
Speaker 1: always represented to me while I was failing. So when
Speaker 1: I see him and act like he was peraxonentally destroying me.
Speaker 1: In a two thousand and nine set, Mark Maron referred
Speaker 1: to John Stewart as quote Jewish pander monkey. Mark Maron
Speaker 1: is also Jewish, Maren said on Conan. Because of that,
Speaker 1: he doesn't particularly like me. I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: daily thing, but I know it him to the point
Speaker 1: where that was a reality. Maren told NPR he invited
Speaker 1: John on WTF a few years ago to apologize on
Speaker 1: the air. John Stewart told him, Hey, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember, you know what a jerk faced d
Speaker 1: word you were to me back in the day. There's
Speaker 1: no love here man. Maren apparently never made a second request.
Speaker 1: Maren told Rollingstone in twenty twelve he said, look, I
Speaker 1: always though you're very creative, and I'm sure whatever you're
Speaker 1: doing is nice, and if you want to have coffee,
Speaker 1: it might be willing to do that Maren said his
Speaker 1: behavior was resentment insecurity, jealousy, and he laughed that even
Speaker 1: Jon Stewart is a podcaster now over the act of it,
Speaker 1: the fact that he, like everybody landing with a podcast.
Speaker 1: That's satisfying because I helped create it all right after
Speaker 1: I recorded like the entire weekend because I just wanted
Speaker 1: to go to the beach. In between me doing that
Speaker 1: and Colbert Gate, Variety on a Thursday afternoon released ten
Speaker 1: Comics to Watch. Now, what's weird about that is normally,
Speaker 1: like I record this podcast, you know, I do this
Speaker 1: seven days a week. Normally, anything you want that makes
Speaker 1: the trades comes out by ten am Eastern. So it
Speaker 1: was really weird that Variety released the ten Comics to
Speaker 1: Watch at twelve thirty or so Eastern time on Thursday.
Speaker 1: As I'm recording on late morning on Monday, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of frustrated that JFL hasn't released the New Faces list
Speaker 1: yet because I want to tell you about that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Variety's ten Comics to Watch. The honorees will be celebrated
Speaker 1: in Montreal a cocktail reception on the twenty fourth. I'm
Speaker 1: counting on my fingers, that's Thursday, and they would do
Speaker 1: a showcase on Friday. The comics to watch include Mary
Speaker 1: Beth Baron. Bridy writes, for as long as Beron could remember,
Speaker 1: comedy's always been a part of her life. Quote, being
Speaker 1: funny was very highly valued in my family. My dad
Speaker 1: had great taste in comedy. Because my dad was older,
Speaker 1: he had vinyls of comedy albums. And he also introduced
Speaker 1: us to Monty Python and Spaceballs and Airplane and all
Speaker 1: those movies that I used to stay up late at
Speaker 1: night and watch I Love Lucy on Nick at Night.
Speaker 1: I was obsessed with I Love Lucy. She started with
Speaker 1: a women's open mic night at the UCB and said
Speaker 1: the jokes were so vulgar because when you first start,
Speaker 1: I think the instinct is just to be as blue
Speaker 1: as possible. Went really well. I was totally hooked. I
Speaker 1: really blew up my entire life to pursue as a job.
Speaker 1: Next up to watch Dion Mojo Brooks. I'm not familiar,
Speaker 1: Brooks says. My first time in front of the full audience,
Speaker 1: it was an audience of four people. Two other people
Speaker 1: were my mom and dad. The other two people were
Speaker 1: my aunt and uncle. This past year he was on
Speaker 1: the We Them Ones comedy Tour hosted by Mike Epps.
Speaker 1: Midway through my set, they started giving me a standing up.
Speaker 1: It was in that moment, in front of ten thousand
Speaker 1: people standing up, clapping and screaming, and it hit me,
Speaker 1: I'm doing this. Joe Dombrowski, he started in third grade.
Speaker 1: He said, I stole all my jokes from a magician
Speaker 1: that my parents hired from my first communion. The jokes
Speaker 1: were cheesy, but it killed and I was hooked. He
Speaker 1: now runs an LA show at the Comedy Store called
Speaker 1: My Straight Friends and says, I'm talking about my marriage,
Speaker 1: building a family. Some my onits is now half teachers,
Speaker 1: half the gaze. I'm living my dream talking about my life.
Speaker 1: Next up, Robbie Hoffman. You know Robbie from Hacks. Hoffman says, yeah,
Speaker 1: lots of people recognizing me now, and for good reason.
Speaker 1: I'm a silver screen sensation. What can I say? Influences
Speaker 1: include Howard Stern, Judge, Judy Simon, Campbell, her mother, brothers
Speaker 1: and sisters, Nate Jackson. I've seen a lot of buzz on.
Speaker 1: Nate Brody says a master of crowd work, points out
Speaker 1: while every comic now does it for social media clips.
Speaker 1: He was doing it before that existed. I was panning
Speaker 1: for gold. I'm putting a bunch of gunk in a
Speaker 1: thing and shaking it around and weaving in what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: When you do it right, it brings everybody in. It
Speaker 1: makes the room smaller. He says. Many comedians use CrowdWork
Speaker 1: as filler. His crowd work has done methodically. I'm information seeking,
Speaker 1: and then from that, I'm developing a punchline, act outs
Speaker 1: and even callbacks to other stories from the night, or
Speaker 1: I'll pair it with a story or joke I already have.
Speaker 1: So it feels like a moment that aligns, like an epiphany.
Speaker 1: Morgan Jay on the list. Morgan started in comedy in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. He had studied piano and guitar
Speaker 1: and had choir experience ahead of studying theater and the
Speaker 1: classics at NYU. Before throwing himself in a comedy, Morgan said,
Speaker 1: I knew it was this or nothing Eradicating the safety
Speaker 1: net is really helpful to push you into those next
Speaker 1: steps of your evolution as a performer. Also on the list,
Speaker 1: friend of the show John marco Ciresi. He's been performing
Speaker 1: overseas and says, not everyone understands all the jokes and
Speaker 1: the laughter is more muted. That can mess up the
Speaker 1: timing along the way. It's a good experience As an artist.
Speaker 1: I've learned to shift the musicality, like if you sing
Speaker 1: a song at a different temple for a remix, makes
Speaker 1: you more flexible, more nimble to live off the audience.
Speaker 1: This fall, he'll be in Rochester, West Des Moines and Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 1: As my comedy's going well, but going from Paris to Richmond,
Speaker 1: two equally cool cultural centers of the world as me
Speaker 1: wondering what of life I want to live and helps
Speaker 1: me create good art. Jay Ying Summers is on the list.
Speaker 1: Summers said, I struggled with trying to be likable, but
Speaker 1: I realized I'm not likable. I just have to be
Speaker 1: honest and specific about what affects me, and that made
Speaker 1: me find my voice. Not to try to please everyone.
Speaker 1: Whenever someone books me in a club, I exhaust every
Speaker 1: resource to make sure it's a sold out show for
Speaker 1: a good performance. I just want to make whoever books
Speaker 1: me money. I have so many tips I could give
Speaker 1: to comedians who want to see how to get their
Speaker 1: numbers up. On social media, promote a show, and have
Speaker 1: good relationship at a club, because those are business skills
Speaker 1: as artists. Influences Joan Rivers, Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, Ricky Gervais,
Speaker 1: Steph tolev on the list, I feel like Steph has
Speaker 1: now broken through thanks to that recent Netflix special. The
Speaker 1: Variety Piece rehashes you know a lot of the recent
Speaker 1: articles the Bill Burr at All and to Kara Williams
Speaker 1: is a parent with kids ranging from age eleven to
Speaker 1: twenty four, and incorporates them into her material. One night,
Speaker 1: Choose booked to do three minutes at a comedy club
Speaker 1: in Harlem. The host stepped away and left her on
Speaker 1: stage for over twice as long. Williams said, I just
Speaker 1: talked about it. Women break up differently than men break up,
Speaker 1: and the dynamic of breaking up. And people came up
Speaker 1: to me after and said, oh my god, girl, me too.
Speaker 1: I'm going through the same thing. And I realized it
Speaker 1: was healing and I've been doing it for over fifteen years.
Speaker 1: All right, we are getting along again. Let's see what
Speaker 1: else I could tell you about. Shane Gillish. Remember he
Speaker 1: hosted the SBS nine news cycles ago. The Ladies of
Speaker 1: the View didn't like it. Whoopy Goldberg, who, to be fair,
Speaker 1: has hosted the Oscars four times so kind of knows
Speaker 1: what she's talking about. But said, you know, hosting an
Speaker 1: award show is a tough gig. So I'll ask you
Speaker 1: you think you read that room correctly. Joy Behar, a comedian,
Speaker 1: said no, no, no, no. Basically, when you do an
Speaker 1: award show, they're there to hear their name called. They're
Speaker 1: not there to laugh. Number One. Beehart said, stand up
Speaker 1: comedy is one of the hardest things people can do.
Speaker 1: I did it for thirty years. It's so hard. It's
Speaker 1: like a high wire act. I always say, it's like
Speaker 1: I'm on stage naked and everybody else has clothes. That's
Speaker 1: how it feels. Bayhart didn't like when Shane did that.
Speaker 1: I didn't write that joke. Maneuver said, never do that.
Speaker 1: Johnny Carson was on the air for I don't know
Speaker 1: one hundred years. Never once did he say the writer
Speaker 1: wrote that bad joke that I just bombed with. That's
Speaker 1: bad form. That's a mistake. You have to know how
Speaker 1: to work the room. I don't know if he knows
Speaker 1: how to do that. Woop Goldberg wrapped it up with,
Speaker 1: I guess you have to know how to do the material.
Speaker 1: You can make a work without being offensive and terrible.
Speaker 1: But what do I know. I'm used to be yeike
Speaker 1: cause I just cut six stories. There's just so much
Speaker 1: going on. Gossip Corner. Rosie O'Donnell went up in Ireland
Speaker 1: and took shots at the president. Rosie was at the
Speaker 1: International Comedy Club in Dublin. She addressed Trump's recent post
Speaker 1: in which Trump suggested he might revoke Rosie's citizenship. Rosie said,
Speaker 1: a really smart guy who works for the Democratic National
Speaker 1: Campaign texted me and said, are you okay? And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of upset that Ireland is losing, but no,
Speaker 1: she said. The person she was talking to then sent
Speaker 1: her Trump's post. Rosie said, so, all I saw is
Speaker 1: a post that said something absurd like Rosie o Donald's
Speaker 1: a threat to humanity. Bye, I'm going to take away
Speaker 1: her American citizenship, which I know no one's allowed to
Speaker 1: do in America. If you're born in America and your
Speaker 1: parents are American citizens, which I was, you have to
Speaker 1: renounce your citizenship in order to get rid of it.
Speaker 1: You can't have it. Taken away from you by the government,
Speaker 1: but the Supreme Court has given him carte blanche to
Speaker 1: do whatever he wants. I read it and I kind
Speaker 1: of laughed, and I said, that's funny, but it's not real.
Speaker 1: Rosie then drafted her response to Trump and it went viral.
Speaker 1: My response and people went crazy. And as my brother
Speaker 1: Eddie I said, when he pulled me up, he said
Speaker 1: that bastard. Does he know he's going to make you
Speaker 1: more famous than you ever were? And when he finds out,
Speaker 1: he's going to be upset. But you know, this is
Speaker 1: kind of the worst guy that I've ever met in
Speaker 1: my life. I'm sixty three years old. He's like one
Speaker 1: hundred and seven or one hundred and twenty years old.
Speaker 1: I knew about him my whole life, So I just
Speaker 1: told the truth of what I knew. And he went
Speaker 1: crazy and threatened to sue me. And it's been twenty
Speaker 1: years that he's been calling me fat, disgusting, gay, pervert,
Speaker 1: everything that he is. That's what happened. Abigail Jackson, spokeswoman
Speaker 1: for the White House, told Fox News Digital it's sad
Speaker 1: to watch TDS, ridd and Rosie crash out like this,
Speaker 1: but at least she's not in America while she's having
Speaker 1: her big meltdown. God bless the Irish. Also on Gossip Corner,
Speaker 1: Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed that Trump inspired her permanent move
Speaker 1: to the UK. The BBC reports English broadcaster Richard Bacon
Speaker 1: asked Ellen whether reports that Trump played a role in
Speaker 1: the correct Ellen said yes. Ellen apparently said they got
Speaker 1: to the UK the day before the election and woke
Speaker 1: up to a lot of texts from our friends with
Speaker 1: crying emojis, and I was like, he got in and
Speaker 1: We're like, we're staying here. It's absolutely beautiful. The villages
Speaker 1: and the towns and the architecture. Everything you see is charming,
Speaker 1: and it's just a simpler way of life. Everything here
Speaker 1: is just better. The way the animals are treated, people
Speaker 1: are polite. I just love it here Out today on
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Speaker 1: Montreal Tonight five pm, Ross Battel, Canada, seven o'clock Danny
Speaker 1: Boy Culture Show at seven brits Ish at seven. That's
Speaker 1: usually one of my favorite things to happen when I
Speaker 1: can make it to that. Jang Summers one of the
Speaker 1: comedians to watch at seven o'clock, Live Sessions at seven.
Speaker 1: Those are the album recordings usually Irene two at seven,
Speaker 1: Ross Battle Canada again at eight, John Dore at a thirty,
Speaker 1: Casey Rocket at nine, Nina Kunti whose face is it anyway?
Speaker 1: At Oh I've seen her on social She's very funny, Okay,
Speaker 1: Nasty Show at nine thirty, Double Threat Matt O'Brien and
Speaker 1: Julia Headquitz at ten, Another roast Battle at ten thirty,
Speaker 1: Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine. All right, if we
Speaker 1: were up there, I would say, boy, I really want
Speaker 1: to see British but we should probably check out Jayan
Speaker 1: Summers if she's on the buzz list. So we do
Speaker 1: that at seven and Nina Conti at nine thirty. All right,
Speaker 1: back in the morning unless there's more Colbert news, you
Speaker 1: never know. Checkday. Actually, there probably will be a one
Speaker 1: now that i'm thinking about it, because I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: want to comment about whatever John Stewart said on Monday night,
Speaker 1: so there probably is going to be a bonus episode
Speaker 1: either way. Keep checking the feed. Appreciate you listening, See
Speaker 1: you as soon