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Speaker 2: Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news
and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the
comedy industry. I said, it's the algorithm loves. I am
excited for Just for Laughs, Montreal, twenty twenty six. As
soon as I got this press release, I was reaching
out to them. They must have thought I was insane.
Like ninety seconds later, they're getting emails from a crazy
person going hey, hey, can we be friends? Can I
get some guests? I can't wait for this. Jerry Seinfeld
and weird Al Yankovic are your headliners for Just for Laughs, Montreal,
twenty twenty six. The subheater interesting phrasing. YouTuber Gabriel Fluffay Iglesias,
I'm not sure I think of him as a YouTuber,
but okay. Train Wreck actor Mike Birbiglia, same note. Otsko
at Kotska and Jerry d. Will mc gotala showcases. The
presser tells us Seinfeld first performed at JFL in nineteen
eighty five. My French not so good, so I will
anglicize everything. Jerry will perform at the play State Arts.
I'm sure that's how it's pronounced. On July twenty third,
weird Al, who first played Montreal JFL in nineteen ninety,
will do a solo show for the weird Al Yankovic
Bigger and Weirder Tour for free. That's right, I said,
for free at the outdoor Place de Festivals. That's amazing.
I don't know how they're gonna handle the crowd there.
That's good. Like it's a reasonably big space, but I
would imagine a free weird Al concert is going to
pack the place. JFL organizers have also announced the first
wave of hosts for twice nightly Galas, including again YouTube
star Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias, Mike Beriglia, ots Goold Katska and
Jerry d star of Animal Control. Some other folks already
announced Jordan Jensen, Ron Funches, Sulton, Kasas, Jack Lenovak, more
to come. I'm excited for that. The La Times caught
up with Ari Shaffir. The season of The End is out,
available for purchase through YMH two. The End has been
called several things over the years. You may know what
it's best known name. This is not happening. The lineup
on the new season, Tom Sigora, Ali Sadik, Nate Berghetzi,
Tony Hinchcliff, Miss Patch, Shane Gillis, Sam Tallant, Steff Tolev,
Jim Brewer, who's a great storyteller, Robert Kelly, christ To Stefano, Big,
Jay Ogress and Jordan Jensen, Joe List, Mark, Norman Duncan, Trussell,
Roywood Junior, Jess Reid, Dan Soder, and a bunch of others.
The only times was impressed by the room or I
Shafer said, this room is called the Box, and it's
a burlesque place where maybe you can call it modern
biless because it's not just feathers. I don't know, but
I feel like burlesque is evolved and that's what this
place is. It's kind of crazy. It's definitely a nightclub.
Dave Chapelle used to have these comedian balls, which were
so cool because they just invite comics, like all the comics.
They'd invite everyone out and pretty much without saying it,
it was like talk to each other in trade ideas
about the industry. It was just so cool in there,
and we scatted a bunch of places, but look at
this place. It was just right. I want to test
the sound because we put the stage in a different place.
It moves around, and I thought it looked better with
all the red. But I want to hear what the
sound was like. And they were not on stage two.
Arishfear said, They're like, oh, the MC will have a
cordless and they move around. I watched it was great,
but I was so effed up on Molly that I
was grinding my tit so hard that I cracked a molar.
So yeah, that place rules, okay, buddy. The Only Times
is curious about being produced by Ymah Studios. How that happened?
Or Shafer said, Tom Sigorey and I have a relationship.
We were openers for Rogan together. We kind of broke together,
so we just talk about things. He's so funny and prolific,
and I like talking about things with him. I had
a chance to start doing this show over there, and
he was like, come talk to us about it because
we're can to help you. Now. They've got a great
infrastructure there and a streaming service too, so it's like
they have everything already built in. Tom was like, dude,
this show meant a lot to me. We should make
it again. It's not gonna be a huge money maker
for Tom. You know, it's like pro bona work for lawyers,
so it's really cool of them. Another cool thing is
the way the staff kicked in too. They're all super
talented and kind of wasting their time on podcasts because
they were more talented than that. But it's cool to
work with a family, and I like the way they
really took ownership of the work they did. The Hollywood
Reporter profiled Max and Miani the subheader with the Roan
and American War Ronnie an American comedy star. Maximini gets serious.
By the time you're hearing this from me recording it.
The war may have ended and restarted seven times, so
don't get mad at me if this is dated material.
The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Max the day after
the President made that ultimatum to Iran. Max said, the
immediate feeling is it's a huge relief the idea that
a whole civilization would die wasn't coming to pass, so
that made him happy. I could understand that. Max was
born in Tucson, Arizona, son of Persian parents who immigrated
to the States after the nineteen seventy nine Iranian Revolution
when he was eight. They returned to Iran until Emani
was seventeen. Then they moved to Sokal. Immediate attended high
school and college at UCLA. He said, I'm very Iranian
and I'm very American, depending on different situations in life.
When it comes to family, I'm very Iranian, dating and
lifestyle very American, he told THCHR. Regardless of the politics,
it would be extremely excruciating to see bombs dropped on
a country that I'm emotionally connected to. We heard the news,
we were like, thank God, there's an opportunity for a different,
more effective way of change than taking Iran off planet Earth.
So if you've been listening, this guy got on my
radar at the end of last year when they were
like this guy's huge, and I'm like, who, And boy,
the numbers are there now that you actually study it.
John he has the ninth most viewed special of all
time on YouTube with seventeen point six million in counting
Instagram and YouTube View's top nine billion, slightly more than
I get. And he has twenty seven point eight million
total social followers, including seven point four million on his
Instagram channel Max Persian, where we performed stand up and fource.
In February, he sold out Madison Square Garden. That used
to be a thing. I feel like comedians and this
is not I'm not shading Max, but it used to
be like, oh, a comedian sold out MSG, and like
I feel like there's like seven of those a year now.
The comedy industry has just gotten so huge getting political,
Max said, the regime's thing. It's very sad. God knows
how many more years it'll take to rebuild all these
military defense systems. The ideology is the issue. In Iran.
You live with a very dark, very extreme mentality. It's
a very religious mentality. Nothing gets religion, but my personal
belief is that it is not a way to governor nation.
The young people of Iran need to discover who the artist,
cover art, discover humanity, and I have the chance to
make mistakes to find what the right path is for them.
When you say freedom here, some Americans reply sarcastically. Freedom
what freedom? We should never take it for granted. For example,
a gay person could never have remotely a life in
the Middle East. I don't take any day of my
life here for granted, not necessarily because of comparisons to Iran.
I travel the world, and I still find America very
very special. No matter what a lot of people think,
the opportunity to work hard and live with your family
in a decent environment is still available and a blessing.
Vanity Fair tells us Pete Davidson is over fame, socks
or his exit strategy. That's right, Pete Davidson getting into socks.
Pete Davidson tells Vanity Fair, no one gives an f
about movies or television or any of that stuff. People
just know I'm famous. They don't know that they do
stand up or I'm an actor. Vanity Fair thinks Pete
is quite dissillusioned with show business. Pete said, I've done
everything I possibly can on my end, which means not
having social media, barely going out. I don't even know
what a cool place is because I haven't been to
any of them. So he got involved with the socks company,
Double Soul. I'll give them a plug, Pete said, I thought,
but they were really cool and comfortable. One of the
socks people said, we were like, wait a second, are
those our socks? We were cheering. We made it as
a brand. We literally bombed him with socks. Then Pete
reached out to them. He's since become an equity partner
and creative director at the SoC company. Socks executive says,
if you look at the socks base and compared to
any other category you think of makeup, clothing, shoes, there's
a brand for everyone in every microdemographic. Socks were like
this really weird category where someone was in a fashion
and style. I was buying like under armour socks, which
I'm probably wearing right now. Then this article from Vanity
Fair turns into like socks propaganda and that's not why
we're here. Where's the Pete Davison stuff. Pete says, I
don't want to be doing this show business forever. It's
exhausting to be in the public eye all the time,
mentally draining, and it occupies a lot of time and travel.
I've done research and most people will make their bank,
have a drink or a soccer team. They always other things.
I'm trying to find my thing. Socks are a necessity.
Congratulations to Sarah Silverman, winner of Combody Survivor. Sarah Silverman
beat runner up Nikki Glazer in a landslide. It was
a lot of fun, thanks for playing along. Coming up
on Thursday, it is the twenty twenty six comedian draft.
What's that? John Well? John needed a pretape an episode
this week, and Thursday is the day of the NFL drafts.
I'm like, all right, let me go with the AI.
And I had the AI form five teams with different
mindsets like Team Industry and Team Alt team Chaos, and
then each team has five comedians on the team. And
I had the AI draft and I'm your host and
I comment on the lineups, and it came out really well.
A lot of production for Johnny Mac, you know, music
beds and crowd sound effects. And I was like, why'd
you do this idea? You could have just read some
articles they wouldn't have known. You could have just pretended
it was Thursday. But Thursday is the twenty twenty six
comedia drafts. That actually came out really fun. Did you
catch this? Last week? The Sesame Street social media accounts
posted a thing with romy Yusef and Elmo. Rommy appears
on Sesame Street part of Arab American Heritage Month, joining
Elmo for short segment celebrating Arabic language and culture. The
clip is forty one seconds long and features Rami Yusef
introducing a few commonly used Arabic words in a child
friendly way to Ilmo.
Speaker 1: Santa monicum everyone, I'm Ramy Yusef.
Speaker 2: Oh it, Elma's here, mister Ramy. What is salama? Melkam?
Speaker 1: Well? Salam means peace and it's a way to say
hello in Arabic.
Speaker 2: Oh come Solama laka every battle.
Speaker 1: Elma and I are here to wish all of you
a happy Arab American Heritage Month. Happy Arab American Heritage Month.
I'm so proud of my Arab heritage and I'm so
happy to share this month with my fellow Arabs and Alma,
so thanks, hibib I will.
Speaker 2: Let you read the comments for yourself. Meanwhile, Brian Video
has announced a Halloween version of Last One Laughing.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Normally these are six episodes. The Halloween special will be
one episode. We lock a bunch of comedians in a room.
Jimmy Carr's the host. If you laugh, you're out. Well,
for the Halloween special, you're out if you laugh, and
you're out of if you scream. Speculation as the producers
have some scares up their sleeves. The teaser Last One
Laughing UK returns well the Halloween Special, but with a
major twist hmmm from my san Antonio's. Some fans of
the Killers of kil Tony were upset. You see, the
fans of the Killers of kil Tony went to the
Majestic Theater to see The Killers of kill Tony on
April eleventh, but apparently some of the fans who purchased
their tickets through stub Hub were turned away or issued refunds.
One Facebook user Eric said, We're supposed to be there drinking,
have a great time, but unfortunately we got screwed by
stub Hub along with a bunch of other people. Eric
suggested do not buy tickets from stub Hub. Others said
they told us to come back from the nine thirty show,
but we weren't doing that. After thirty minutes on the phone,
they switched our tickets luckily and upgraded our tickets to
the Lower Orchestra for free. Killers of kill Tony is
a stand up comedy tour. The Majestics said. This particular
lineup included Ari, Matty Hans Kim, David Lucas, and Martin Phillips.
One person on Facebook said Tony Hinchcliff himself showed up
as surprise guest. My san Antonio said it's unclear what
caused the ticket mishaps with this particular show. My san
Antonio says they reached out to the Majestic and stub Hub,
but did not hear back at the time of their publication,
nor by the time of this recording. Apparently, that is
your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.