Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. My, oh my, we're having some fun now. Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. I know
Speaker 1: I'm feeding your feed every ten minutes with stuff. On
Speaker 1: Monday after noon, just as I was editing this show,
Speaker 1: I got a text from my business partner, Mark Francis.
Speaker 1: He's like, Kimble's back tomorrow, and I'm like, oh good,
Speaker 1: because I have to teach In an hour. ABC announce
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Kimmel Alive is returning two nights after thoughtful
Speaker 1: conversations with parent company Disney. So here's the plan for today.
Speaker 1: You're about to get the normal Tuesday episode as I've
Speaker 1: been doing. I've just been doing the normal stuff as
Speaker 1: their own regular episodes. Around noon today, assuming I actually
Speaker 1: got a chance to do the edit and a new opening,
Speaker 1: I have recorded an hour with Mark Malcoff, you know
Speaker 1: him from the Inside Late Night podcast, which is back
Speaker 1: today with a new episode. And he's got a book
Speaker 1: coming out called Love Johnny Carson. So I asked him
Speaker 1: on to mainly talk about Carson, but we also said
Speaker 1: words like Fallon and Leno and Letterman and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Kimmel and Colbert. We got into that too, so I
Speaker 1: gotta put that out around noon. Now. Luckily, my spidy
Speaker 1: sense must have been tingling, because at some point I
Speaker 1: said something like Mark, I just want the audience to
Speaker 1: know that it's like one pm on Monday as we're
Speaker 1: recording this, because I have a feeling the news cycle
Speaker 1: will change seven times between us recording this and me
Speaker 1: actually publishing it. Johnny Mack was right, it's not dated
Speaker 1: at all because we really were focused on the carson
Speaker 1: of it all. But that's coming up around noon today,
Speaker 1: and then I have to catch my breath and I'm
Speaker 1: going to get out a Kimmel bonus episode later today.
Speaker 1: I'm also scheduled to record with friend of the show,
Speaker 1: Jason Zinneman from The New York Times, so I'll have
Speaker 1: to figure out how that slots into all of this,
Speaker 1: and you know, and then tomorrow on Wednesday, it'll be
Speaker 1: super busy because I'll have to tell you what Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel said and all that. So plenty, plenty of stuff
Speaker 1: coming up in this feed. And let me now just
Speaker 1: abruptly cut what I had said before the Kimble news broke,
Speaker 1: and I was talking about Caleb Heern. Caleb Heron had
Speaker 1: that new special. This was an HBO Max special. We'll
Speaker 1: get back to that. He commented on why President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and other conservative Republicans are some of his favorite
Speaker 1: straight guys. He says, because they hate gay people so
Speaker 1: much and they're such and then he used the F word,
Speaker 1: not that F word, the other F word. Why did
Speaker 1: he go political in a special? Caleb said, because every
Speaker 1: day I feel e fing insane. These people in charge
Speaker 1: are liars, They're evil, and I'm not scared of these mfors.
Speaker 1: These right wing fascist freaks are trying to make a
Speaker 1: Christo fascist government in the United States. Right now. I
Speaker 1: see right through them. They're weakend pathetic. I feel like
Speaker 1: in the national conversation there's a lack of normal people
Speaker 1: just telling the efing truth. So I did watch some
Speaker 1: of the special on Sunday night between the main football
Speaker 1: schedule and Sunday Night football. I was surprised this thing
Speaker 1: made HBO Max. Now. I share this thought in the
Speaker 1: Facebook group Daily Coming his podcast group. It might just
Speaker 1: be that I live on old Man Mountain and I'm
Speaker 1: always protective of brands, and I felt like this thing
Speaker 1: airing on something with an HBO logo anywhere near it
Speaker 1: it felt very below par. This looks like a YouTube special,
Speaker 1: like you know, Caleb at the Chuckle Hut and just
Speaker 1: thrown up on YouTube. It looks like one of those,
Speaker 1: and that to me does not say HBO like if
Speaker 1: I look at the recent Mark Maron special, visually, it
Speaker 1: looks like something on par with a George Carland special
Speaker 1: from thirty years ago. That in my old man brain
Speaker 1: is what HBO comedy is. But I guess we live
Speaker 1: in this era where between this whole HBOHBO Max, HBO
Speaker 1: now Max Max plus, so all that and plus putting
Speaker 1: the HBO shows on the same platform, on the same
Speaker 1: level with Doctor Pimple Popper, They've watered down their brand.
Speaker 1: And I think this is a great example of that
Speaker 1: of this to me is not HBO comedy. Apparently it's
Speaker 1: HBO Max common And I don't think the civilians understand that.
Speaker 1: Surprise they this thing belongs on YouTube or maybe possibly hilarious,
Speaker 1: but this is not an HBO special. The material is
Speaker 1: also sea level. Cristella Alonso has a Netflix special out today.
Speaker 1: She opens her hour with this joke. I'll spoil one
Speaker 1: joke for you. I had to make sure I drank
Speaker 1: some water room temperature because I hate ice, all right,
Speaker 1: So that tells you where this special is coming from.
Speaker 1: Coristella caught up with the La Times. Upper Classy is
Speaker 1: the culmination of a trilogy of specials. Cristella explains it
Speaker 1: started off as this random idea where I thought, what
Speaker 1: if I did a trilogy and showed life as I progressed.
Speaker 1: I got the idea because when I had my sitcom,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest notes from the network, which was ABC, right,
Speaker 1: if I'm remembering quickly, we're mad at them? This week
Speaker 1: from the network in the studio was it has to
Speaker 1: be about a sension. The family has to improve grow.
Speaker 1: And I always thought, well, what does that mean in
Speaker 1: your mind? What do you think making it means? Because
Speaker 1: I can tell you that for my family, what making
Speaker 1: it means was very simple. We have money to pay
Speaker 1: the bills, but they're like no more and more, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know the more. I'm still here. So I
Speaker 1: started thinking, what if in a weird way I document
Speaker 1: the ascension of me coming into my life. Lower Classy
Speaker 1: really was this is my bile, this is how my
Speaker 1: mom was, this is how my family was, this is
Speaker 1: how I'm doing I shot the first special in August
Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen. Then the election happened, and I was
Speaker 1: so depressed because I assume people were better than what
Speaker 1: they turned out to be. I actually didn't know what
Speaker 1: I was going to do, and I decided to take
Speaker 1: a break from stand up and everything because I couldn't
Speaker 1: mentally handle it and I didn't feel like being funny.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like being anything she talks about middle classy.
Speaker 1: I started making a list of things that were different
Speaker 1: from me, and I wrote health insurance, and that's when
Speaker 1: I realized I didn't know health insurance work. That's kind
Speaker 1: of how middle classy started. Upper classy has a play
Speaker 1: to it in two ways. Look at how rich I am.
Speaker 1: You didn't think I was gonna be that rich because
Speaker 1: of the story that I share. But also look at
Speaker 1: the persona my family made me to be. Bert Kreischer
Speaker 1: is going to star in a comedy movie called Homecoming.
Speaker 1: In Homecoming, we follow divorced dad Bert. The character Bert
Speaker 1: attends his college homecoming and an attempt to reconnect with
Speaker 1: his eldest daughter, who attends is Alma matter. This sounds
Speaker 1: like an Adam Saylor movie so far. When Bert arrives
Speaker 1: on campus, he realizes his kids have parent trapped him
Speaker 1: with his ex wife. From there, the weekend's focus turns
Speaker 1: to competition to boscherus Mayhem, and perhaps a chance to
Speaker 1: reunite his family. That actually doesn't sound horrible, but I'm
Speaker 1: kind of surprised that doesn't star Adam Sandler and say
Speaker 1: Sonny Sandler. Speaking of Adam Sandler, he was at the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Sabers game before performing his comedy act. He met
Speaker 1: some members of the Sabers. The team boasted on social
Speaker 1: media do the guys think shampoo is better or conditioner?
Speaker 1: They also posted a Sabers GoAhead jersey with Gilmour on
Speaker 1: the back and a bandaged jersey with Sandman on the back.
Speaker 1: Syracuse dot Com went to see an Adam Sandler comedy show.
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler, as you know, is a fine dramatic actor.
Speaker 1: He made several good movies, including uncut gems in the
Speaker 1: Spaceman movie, in the Basketball One, and a lot of
Speaker 1: terrible movies. Syracuse dot com tells us. On stage, dramatic
Speaker 1: actor Adam Sandler told the audience he loves Syracuse and
Speaker 1: share that he and his crew plan a head to
Speaker 1: Dinosaur barbecue after the show. Earlier in the day, he
Speaker 1: had visited the Carmelo Anthony Bastball Center, where he played
Speaker 1: pick up basketball with the members of the SU men's
Speaker 1: and women's basketball team. Sandler was dressed in his classic
Speaker 1: oversized style, bright red track pants and a baggy pullover. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm actually dressed better than Adam Sandler. I have a
Speaker 1: properly sized gray sweatshirt on that I got in California,
Speaker 1: and my often worn gray sweatpants, and of course my
Speaker 1: neon blue like Miami Dolphins blue. Hocus, those are sneakers.
Speaker 1: I digress. At one point, the great dramatic actor Adam
Speaker 1: Saandlor invited audience members up to the stage so we
Speaker 1: could sing totally unstrue songs about them. Special guests Rob
Speaker 1: Schneider and Kevin Neelan were the openers. Sunny Cortland alumnus
Speaker 1: Kevin James got one of the biggest ovations when walked
Speaker 1: on stage wearing a Syracuse lacrosse shirt. The local Syracusians
Speaker 1: is that what you're called enjoy that, Syracuse dot Com
Speaker 1: tells us. By the end of the night, Syracuse has
Speaker 1: gotten more than a comedy performance. It was an evening
Speaker 1: of laughter, nostalgia, and music, tied together with enough local
Speaker 1: shoutouts to make the crowd feel like part of the act.
Speaker 1: John almost forgot to do the Toronto Comedy Festival again.
Speaker 1: Why don't you put Toronto in the scripts? John, because
Speaker 1: John has been recording a lot of Jimmy Kimmel related stuff.
Speaker 1: I have not had a minute to myself since last Monday.
Speaker 1: Knock a playing. I'm just telling you why I don't
Speaker 1: have this in the script. But I didn't forget. I
Speaker 1: am having a lot of fun doing this. I'm pumping
Speaker 1: out a lot of content for good reason or for
Speaker 1: bad reason actually, but just having a lot of fun. Okay,
Speaker 1: today is September twenty third. As I mentioned yesterday that
Speaker 1: the new owners haven't done a great job with this website. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, eight o'clock tonight. Matthew Brissard. He was
Speaker 1: a guest on this show and I like him a lot.
Speaker 1: He's fantastic. He's at the Bloor Blor Comedy Bar at
Speaker 1: eight Sabrina Wu at eight thirty of the Dan Firth
Speaker 1: Comedy Bar. One of the things I like about the
Speaker 1: Toronto Comedy Festival, it's mostly bar scenes and you can hop.
Speaker 1: I haven't checked, and I should know this. You know,
Speaker 1: I only host the program. In the past they would
Speaker 1: have like a bar hopper pass where you could just
Speaker 1: go to a bunch of shows. Now I had media
Speaker 1: credentials because I'm fancy, but it was a really good
Speaker 1: deal and it's a great way to do the festival.
Speaker 1: It's pretty quiet on a Tuesday that there's a couple
Speaker 1: other things that you haven't heard of. That's what's happening
Speaker 1: there tonight. If he needs something to watch on the
Speaker 1: eight hundred Pound Guerrillas YouTube channel, Chris Gethard's The Father
Speaker 1: and the Son. Got a lot of TV news that
Speaker 1: I didn't get to, none of it having to do
Speaker 1: with late night. Doctor Cox is back. John c McGinley
Speaker 1: is joining the Scrubs revival, so I think they have
Speaker 1: everybody now. I don't know if we have the Todd.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Todd is back, but we've
Speaker 1: got JD and Turk Elliot's back. Haven't heard anything about
Speaker 1: Neil Flynn as the janitor. I don't think. I mean,
Speaker 1: Neil's got that modern family money right, he might not
Speaker 1: need to work anymore. Neil Flynn might have like secret cash,
Speaker 1: but I could see Neil Flynn showing up Carla's back,
Speaker 1: and Doctor Kelso was played by Ken Jenkins Ken eighty
Speaker 1: five years old now, so it wouldn't make any sense
Speaker 1: for him to actually be on the show. But I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if we check in with him at
Speaker 1: one point. And the Todd. The Todd appears in one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six episodes of Scrubs. Wow, we'll see
Speaker 1: if he turns up. The paper is going to Proper NBC. Now.
Speaker 1: I've been watching this thing. People keep asking about it.
Speaker 1: It's not funny, but it's watchable. The main two characters
Speaker 1: are likable. The secondary cast I think is actually subpar,
Speaker 1: but the main two are charismatic enough that they're carrying
Speaker 1: this show and it's something to have on while you're
Speaker 1: playing on your phone, prepping your podcast, killing time until
Speaker 1: Thursday night football starts. It's like, I think I like it.
Speaker 1: I definitely don't love it. If it got canceled, I
Speaker 1: would go on with my day. I guess what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is it's better than I initially thought, but it
Speaker 1: is not funny. But anyway, it's going to air on
Speaker 1: Proper NBC. Lisa Katz, who's the president of Scripted Programming Entertainment,
Speaker 1: said in a statement, knowing how much The Office was
Speaker 1: beloved by a broadcast audience when it aired on NBC,
Speaker 1: we wanted to give the paper a similar opportunity to connect.
Speaker 1: Then you should have put it on NBC in the
Speaker 1: first place. One of the strengths of our company is
Speaker 1: meeting fans where they are by delivering shows across multiple
Speaker 1: platforms to maximize exposure and engagement. Translation, Oh, we saw
Speaker 1: that people didn't hate this, so we're going to give
Speaker 1: it a shot on NBC proper. The Paper will be
Speaker 1: on NBC Monday nights. It'll be paired with Saint Dennis Medical.
Speaker 1: I thought that was over. That's still going huh, all right,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll check that show out too. Rain Wilson was
Speaker 1: on the Last Laugh podcast. Is Dwight going to show
Speaker 1: up on the Paper? Rain said, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I mean the paper set in Toledo and it's a newspaper.
Speaker 1: I don't know why Dwight from Lakwana County would be
Speaker 1: visiting Toledo. The answer would be, Rain Wilson needs a paycheck.
Speaker 1: That would be the answer. So you're telling me, Rain Wilson,
Speaker 1: you don't need a paycheck. Let me ask you a
Speaker 1: really difficult question. Hey, Rain, we want to make you
Speaker 1: the co lead of the paper. Don't worry about why
Speaker 1: Dwight is wearing a newspaper. But we're going to give
Speaker 1: you steady work. Now, what's your answer. I'm just curious.
Speaker 1: The answer might be no. The last leaft set I'm
Speaker 1: sure they could come up with a reason, Rain Wilson said,
Speaker 1: You're right, never say never. That certainly could happen. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it would be fun. I mean, one thing
Speaker 1: I've always said to them is can we do a movie?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be do a two hour movie? We could
Speaker 1: get like a billion people to watch a two hour
Speaker 1: office movie. The producers, Greg Daniels, they don't think of
Speaker 1: it in those terms. They think of it financially, like
Speaker 1: a movie will make X amount of dollars that will
Speaker 1: be on a streamer. It's a lot of work. It's
Speaker 1: much more lucrative to have a show that goes year
Speaker 1: after year after year. But I think it would be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun, and I think you get most
Speaker 1: of the main cast to participate. Eric Rayhill plays Travis
Speaker 1: on the paper, he said. Right after I got signed,
Speaker 1: my agent sent my stuff to Greg Daniels, who would
Speaker 1: come in for an interview in the winter of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three for a writer role. I thought it went well.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I called my parents like, I think
Speaker 1: I have a good vibe from this, but then I
Speaker 1: didn't hear anything for five months. Yeah, welcome to getting
Speaker 1: hired in America. So I took a job at Nordstrom
Speaker 1: Corporate and right after I started, I got this call
Speaker 1: in April and they were like, we want you to
Speaker 1: be a writer and we'll figure out the acting. But
Speaker 1: I hadn't told anyone at Nordstrom I did comedy. The
Speaker 1: writer's room started on a Monday. I found out. I
Speaker 1: got it on a Friday afternoon, up a meeting with
Speaker 1: the north Strom boss at nine am, and Monday it
Speaker 1: was rough. I felt bad. I just started and I
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, this is crazy, but I'm quitting immediately,
Speaker 1: and I can't tell you what I'm working on because
Speaker 1: of an NBA. But I'm out. They were nice. My
Speaker 1: boss was a little blindside and said, we wish we
Speaker 1: would have told us she did comedy. But then later
Speaker 1: was like I'm glad you're doing something you believe in.
Speaker 1: Great company, by the way, and then at eleven am
Speaker 1: I joined the Zoom for the Writer's Room. Natasha Leone
Speaker 1: and Matt Berry are going to co create and star
Speaker 1: in the new retro comedy adventure series Force and Majure
Speaker 1: for UK Sky Network. I Love Matt Barry. The show
Speaker 1: features a British art expert in an American mercenary teaming
Speaker 1: up against international villains. Sky describes the show as a
Speaker 1: retro infuse playfully, I referent take on the classic TV
Speaker 1: action adventure detective genre in Force and Majure. British art
Speaker 1: expert Thomas Force love It, Matt Barry and American mercenary
Speaker 1: Jennifer Majore Natasha Leote. I love this. Back in the
Speaker 1: serious days, we used to play this game. I would
Speaker 1: travel the country with Mark Says, I was our on
Speaker 1: air talent and we would just play. Either we would
Speaker 1: either make up air Bud movies my fair We came
Speaker 1: up with was Paw position, which would have had Airbud
Speaker 1: the Golden Retriever driving in a NASCAR race. How that
Speaker 1: would have worked? Who cares? It's an Airbud movie? And
Speaker 1: I remember we used to have a show called Side Out,
Speaker 1: which would have been about a gay volleyball player and
Speaker 1: his name was something like James side Johnson something like that,
Speaker 1: because that's what NBC would name show. So I love that.
Speaker 1: Force and Majure is about Thomas Force and Jennifer Majure.
Speaker 1: Love it. The pair are recruited by an eccentric, justice
Speaker 1: obsessed billionaire named Amanda Daventry and find themselves tesked with
Speaker 1: defeating the evil plans of international villains operating in locations
Speaker 1: across Europe. But as Force and Majure team up to
Speaker 1: defeat the forces of evil, they must also work together
Speaker 1: to escape the clutches of Amanda, a billionaire woman who
Speaker 1: may not be telling them the whole story. Force and
Speaker 1: Majure will be s to us buyers. You can ingest
Speaker 1: that into my veins. Somewhere on the internet. You should
Speaker 1: watch Toast of London and Toast of la Let me
Speaker 1: just pull up just Watch and see if that's available anywhere.
Speaker 1: Do you know about Just watch? And I do this
Speaker 1: every time I mentioned just watch. It is a website
Speaker 1: that will tell you where these things are. Let's see
Speaker 1: Toast of London, one of my favorites. It's right now
Speaker 1: on britz Box if you have BritBox. Mitchell and Webb's
Speaker 1: return doing well Mitchell and Webb are Not Helping has
Speaker 1: been seen by nearly two million viewers, making it UK's
Speaker 1: Channel four's biggest new comedy launched since twenty eighteen. The
Speaker 1: opening episode, which launched September fifth at ten pm, hold
Speaker 1: in one point eight million viewers across linear and quote
Speaker 1: big screen streaming. In its first seven days got a
Speaker 1: twenty nine share among sixteen to thirty fours. Charlie Perkins
Speaker 1: is the head of Comedy at Channel four, and Charlie
Speaker 1: says they said sketch was dead, but it's great to
Speaker 1: see a resurrection underway with Mitchell and Webb are not
Speaker 1: helping in these increasingly serious time It's no surprise people
Speaker 1: turn to comedy for comfort and the release you can
Speaker 1: only get from watching a dog explode because it's seen
Speaker 1: in expensive suitcase. David Mitchell said, I've never been worried
Speaker 1: about the future of comedy really, whether people make sketch
Speaker 1: shows or not. The future of the sketch show is
Speaker 1: indw forbid and still is, but I think it's general
Speaker 1: people of comedy in this country more than anywhere in
Speaker 1: the world. It's why comedies get so savage by the
Speaker 1: media when they don't work, because people really care and
Speaker 1: they're offended by comedy being bad or not to their taste.
Speaker 1: If a drama doesn't work, they just move on. But
Speaker 1: we're passionate about comedy. And the Golden Globes is getting
Speaker 1: a companion TV special. This called Golden Eve. Well air
Speaker 1: Thursday January eight, three days before the Golden Globes, which
Speaker 1: this year once again hosted by Nicky Glazer. I haven't
Speaker 1: heard from her in a while. She was all over
Speaker 1: the news for the first half of the year. The
Speaker 1: Golden Eve will honor recipients of the Cecil bs Mill
Speaker 1: Award and the Carol Burnett Award. Oh one more, I see.
Speaker 1: This is all the stuff I didn't get to because
Speaker 1: of the kibbl Do you like friends? Well? Central Perk
Speaker 1: is opening a permanent location in New York's Times Square.
Speaker 1: This is so if you are from New York, or
Speaker 1: if you work at New York, you don't go to
Speaker 1: Times Square ever. I used to have to walk through
Speaker 1: Time Square. It was the quickest way to get to work.
Speaker 1: And it's a nightmare. I get. If you're not from
Speaker 1: New York City, I get it. I get it's really
Speaker 1: cool to stand there and look at all the electronic
Speaker 1: billboards and the big space, and you've heard of Times
Speaker 1: Square and you've heard of the New Year's Ball drop.
Speaker 1: I get it. But you're from New York, you don't
Speaker 1: go there. And then you see things like the Bubba
Speaker 1: Gump Shrimp Store and you're like, who goes there? So
Speaker 1: who goes there? Are the tourists, and the tourists are
Speaker 1: going to be excited that Central Perk is opening a
Speaker 1: permanent location in New York's Times Square. The Coffee House
Speaker 1: is a quote modern day version of the place the
Speaker 1: Friends used to hang out at. Central Perk promises artisanal
Speaker 1: coffee drinks meaning nine dollars coffees, and Friends inspired food items.
Speaker 1: Central Perk will include a replica of the Orange Sofa,
Speaker 1: so enjoy standing online for your five second insta merchandise
Speaker 1: and take home coffee blends available for purchase. You'll find
Speaker 1: this on forty seventh and seventh. It is the second
Speaker 1: permanent outpost for Central Perk. There's one in Boston. And
Speaker 1: that's your comedy news for today. Keep checking the feed
Speaker 1: because stuff's gonna pop up. Normally i'd say see it tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but I might see you in five minutes. I have
Speaker 1: no idea what's happening anymore. Just keep checking the feed,
Speaker 1: like once an hour ago, did he put out an episode?
Speaker 1: And maybe I did