Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Man. I love doing this show. Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm Jenny Mack with your daily comedy News. Our leadof
Speaker 1: story today involves a fight, and I enjoy a good fight.
Speaker 1: This from pract dot com. Apparently a former Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live intern caught Michael Chay's attension. The former intern posted
Speaker 1: an Instagram reel exposing the shows behind the scenes culture
Speaker 1: of manipulation. Now, I just want to point out I
Speaker 1: don't want to beat up on this person, who I
Speaker 1: think is younger than I am. But the person does
Speaker 1: share a surname with me. So if you look up
Speaker 1: the story and yourself, I do not know this person.
Speaker 1: I am not related to this person. I have never
Speaker 1: met a person who does share a surname with me
Speaker 1: who has this particular first name. So I have no
Speaker 1: association with this person. But I don't want to say
Speaker 1: their name because I just want to do the story
Speaker 1: and not like really beat up on this person, who
Speaker 1: I disagree with a lot of the opinions here. As
Speaker 1: you're about to hear, the former Saturday Night Live intern
Speaker 1: spilled the tea, repeating damning accusations against the show that
Speaker 1: made by plenty of others. Okay, well, wonder what happens?
Speaker 1: What is the tea? She says, Hey, you want to
Speaker 1: know why SNL has so much turnover? She blames Lorne Michaels.
Speaker 1: No way, the showrunner of Saturday Night Live is responsible
Speaker 1: for cast turnovers. Holy cow wow, she says. Loren Michaels
Speaker 1: loves power, and he loves creating emotional crises. Sees in
Speaker 1: the lives of people who are younger than him. Lauren's eighty.
Speaker 1: Everybody's younger than him. The former intern says, Ooh, it's
Speaker 1: creepy when you think about it. She says that it's
Speaker 1: nuts that accomplished comedian should sit on the floor of
Speaker 1: Lorne Michael's office to pitch ideas, with Lorne deciding which
Speaker 1: sketches make the cut. Really, what's crazy about that? Have
Speaker 1: you never worked in a bullpen? I've worked at radio stations.
Speaker 1: I ran a comedy radio station. We had a bullpen.
Speaker 1: We called it the bullpen. You go in, if there's
Speaker 1: a cherry, you grab one. Maybe you'll lean up against
Speaker 1: a desk, Maybe you sit on a floor. That's what
Speaker 1: you do. You weren't Saturday Night Live? What did you
Speaker 1: want him to have? How are we supposed to pitch sketches.
Speaker 1: Should we stand? Should we bring folding chairs with us? Like?
Speaker 1: What is the proper method to pitch sketches? To the
Speaker 1: showrunner of the show, this is crazy cracked, quotes the
Speaker 1: former in turn and saying, guess what he built the
Speaker 1: process in the seventies. It's an insane workflow that requires
Speaker 1: lots of caffeine at least to survive. Your mind and
Speaker 1: your body are going to break down. People go off
Speaker 1: on the deep end of the place all the time.
Speaker 1: You don't sleep for literally years of your life, which
Speaker 1: is a torture tactic. Now, now that's not true. I'm
Speaker 1: not a medical expert, but I'm pretty sure I'm confident here.
Speaker 1: If you did not sleep for literally years, Like if
Speaker 1: right now you said, Johnny Mackham, calling your bluff, it's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. I'm not going to sleep for years
Speaker 1: as plural, so we'll make that too. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to sleep until November of twenty twenty seven. I would say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're going to die. Please don't do that. I don't
Speaker 1: want you to die. Appreciate listening to the podcast. Please
Speaker 1: at some point in the next two years, literally sleep,
Speaker 1: The former intern says, you can't have sustainable friendships outside
Speaker 1: of that place for years at a time, for the
Speaker 1: duration of your time there. It's kind of like a cult. Crack, says.
Speaker 1: The former intern says she has a degree in comedy
Speaker 1: from NYU's Film School. The intern claims SNL asked her
Speaker 1: to interview after her senior year, but she turned them
Speaker 1: down and said you would know my name by now.
Speaker 1: Cracked editorializes note to former intern, nobody knows the name
Speaker 1: of SNL's writers. All this was noticed by Michael Chay,
Speaker 1: who jumped in on the comments. Michael Ja posted you
Speaker 1: learned all that getting coffee? Oh. The intern responded, it's
Speaker 1: incredible what people reveal in front of you when they
Speaker 1: treat you like you're invisible. Chase shot back, doesn't sound
Speaker 1: bitter at all. The intern, rather than folding, goes back
Speaker 1: in and says, I'm genuinely not. Chay responded yep, yep, yep,
Speaker 1: and apparently they kept going back and forth. Fans on
Speaker 1: Reddit believed that Michael Jay was truly one user. He's
Speaker 1: doing it for fun. His entire Instagram persona is being
Speaker 1: an edge lord. Another editor said, honestly, you learned all
Speaker 1: that by getting coffee is such a great line that
Speaker 1: I don't see how Jay could resist. Speaking of Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live, Eddie Murphy, he's been in the press lately.
Speaker 1: Did you see the documentary in it? Eddie Murphy explained
Speaker 1: it was Lorne Michael's idea to ask Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle,
Speaker 1: and Tracy Morgan to join in Eddie Murphy's monologue. Boy,
Speaker 1: this Lauren Michael's person just sounds horrible. Chris Rock said
Speaker 1: the Eddie Murphy return episode went so well that he
Speaker 1: told Lauren Michaels it was one of the greatest SNLS ever.
Speaker 1: And I walked over to Lauren Michaels when it was
Speaker 1: over and I said, you should quit right now. It's
Speaker 1: not getting any better than this. I think Chris Rock
Speaker 1: has been right. Has there been a better episode since
Speaker 1: that episode? Now? There's been some good ones. Firstly, I
Speaker 1: think the time to get out was SNL fifty and
Speaker 1: eighty years old. I think everybody would have been like,
Speaker 1: good job. Josh Johnson tells Billboard Every Tuesday I post
Speaker 1: a new set. Sometimes it's extremely topical or political, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it's more cultural pop. I really love doing it.
Speaker 1: We premiere live every Tuesday at nine pm and hop
Speaker 1: in the chat, meet other people and have good conversation
Speaker 1: with everybody. Then the sets are available for free and
Speaker 1: YouTube for the rest of time. Billboard was curious, you've
Speaker 1: been to a writer since twenty seventeen. At what point
Speaker 1: did you think I want to be on camera? Josh said,
Speaker 1: it wasn't something I was gunning for years and years.
Speaker 1: It started to set in as I got more comfortable
Speaker 1: with the show. I was having great time writing for
Speaker 1: everyone on the show that's been years past, and I felt,
Speaker 1: all right, this could be a cool move and I
Speaker 1: could write material for myself when I'm hosting. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like you're performing a public service? Josh said, I
Speaker 1: can only speak for myself. I very much appreciate that
Speaker 1: people love and enjoy what I do, but I think
Speaker 1: the people doing public service are doing real public service.
Speaker 1: I don't want to conflate making TV with making change.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it's a comedy show.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of people out there doing their best
Speaker 1: to change things, whether it's in their local community, their state,
Speaker 1: their world. The best I could do is raise awareness
Speaker 1: of who they are and what they're doing. The Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal asked Louis ck, Hey, Louis c K, when
Speaker 1: you got in trouble, some people wrote you off for good.
Speaker 1: That's exactly how the guy at the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: phrased it when they talked to c K, exactly in
Speaker 1: the tone I just did it. That was a perfect impression.
Speaker 1: You should have been in the room for the fans.
Speaker 1: It's stuck around 's Some were disappointed that you didn't
Speaker 1: dig deeper into the roots of your behavior. Did you
Speaker 1: consider doing a special devoted to that, Louis c K.
Speaker 1: Louis said, well, that's suches on some really tender stuff
Speaker 1: for me, and it's hard to talk about. One of
Speaker 1: the fundamental aspects of an experience like that is that
Speaker 1: your life departs other people's ability to understand it. There's
Speaker 1: a gap there, a gap of how much people can
Speaker 1: understand what I'm going through. There's some things that people
Speaker 1: will probably wish I wouldn't have done or said, maybe
Speaker 1: I just wasn't good enough, maybe I just wasn't strong enough.
Speaker 1: Maybe they want to hear more about it, but not
Speaker 1: everybody does. Also, maybe it's none of your effing business
Speaker 1: why I can't. These are the things that go through
Speaker 1: your head. I don't want to displease anybody. It's hard
Speaker 1: to know that there's people who feel disappointed, but you
Speaker 1: know the feeling's mutual. I could see the strain in
Speaker 1: someone's face who wishes for more, and I can understand it.
Speaker 1: There's only so much I can do about it and
Speaker 1: take good care of myself and my family and people
Speaker 1: who love me. By the way, for a special I
Speaker 1: did coming back, had a huge joke about it. C
Speaker 1: K said, I'm not like a guy who breaks down
Speaker 1: on stage. I got to do my job up there.
Speaker 1: When I return to work, it was like, how many
Speaker 1: people are willing to just watch me a crap ton?
Speaker 1: That's more important to me. There may be a day
Speaker 1: when I talk about things more. I did an interview
Speaker 1: with THEO and said a lot more than I expected to,
Speaker 1: and it felt really good. I listened to that episode.
Speaker 1: I actually didn't make it to the end. I just
Speaker 1: the part of the street they were hanging out on.
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to hang out on. But I'm
Speaker 1: glad they enjoyed it. SEEK said, but I don't read
Speaker 1: what people say anymore. I don't read the internet. My
Speaker 1: phone is extremely restricted. I threw the keys Away out
Speaker 1: today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. It
Speaker 1: is the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel. Premiere of
Speaker 1: Josh Wolfe's Four Stories. Kathy Griffin was on The Good
Speaker 1: Guys podcast and said she had her third facelift. Now
Speaker 1: it's really easy to just be like, oh yeah, Kathy
Speaker 1: had her third face lift. Let's just step the break
Speaker 1: for a second. Kathy Griffin had a third facelift. So
Speaker 1: she had a facelift, then had another face lift, and
Speaker 1: then had another facelift. Kathy Griffin told the hosts, I'm
Speaker 1: no beauty, but he did a good job. I went
Speaker 1: to Chris Jenner's Last Guy, but it was not cheap.
Speaker 1: They asked her how much facelift number three was. Do
Speaker 1: you want to guess? I'll give you second here, you
Speaker 1: guess how much was facelift number three. Facelift number three
Speaker 1: was two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. Kathy Griffin described
Speaker 1: getting stitches in my eyelids with a cat eye stitch
Speaker 1: to lift the corners. She also had a stitch in
Speaker 1: her chin. Kathy explained, I actually think when you're a
Speaker 1: chick comedian, they just go for your looks. I think
Speaker 1: that's probably why Joe Nervis did so much, because she
Speaker 1: was really pretty. I'm from a generation where agents thought
Speaker 1: nothing back of the day of saying stuff like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they loved your audition, but they're going to go attractive sorry,
Speaker 1: or with a nose job, you might have a chance.
Speaker 1: So I went and got a nose job. Hey, let
Speaker 1: me in on this one. I've wanted to get to
Speaker 1: this one. I've got a little room today. This from
Speaker 1: AOL dot com Johnny Mack, did you prep the show
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six? No, ap Pearly there's still AOL
Speaker 1: dot com. And this came up in the course of
Speaker 1: my travels. Fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties to two thousands. Okay, let's count that out.
Speaker 1: The sixties, the seventies, the eighties, the nineties, and the zeros,
Speaker 1: so fifty years of comedians. And these are the fifteen comedians.
Speaker 1: Remember I said the word comedians. Here the fifteen comedians
Speaker 1: everyone had a crush on in the nineteen sixties to
Speaker 1: the two thousands. Ready, here we go. Here's what AOL
Speaker 1: dot com says. I'm not sure how these are ordered,
Speaker 1: but they did have a Number one here, Robin Williams.
Speaker 1: I was a boy when Mork and Mindy came out.
Speaker 1: I don't remember people having a crush on Robin Williams.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's not the worst looking person I've
Speaker 1: ever seen, so okay, fine. Number two Lucille Ball. Now
Speaker 1: this is the sixties to the two thousands. Did people
Speaker 1: have a crush on Lucy especially like in the eighties
Speaker 1: old Lucy with the cigarette voice. Now the very young
Speaker 1: Lucille Ball. Nice looking lady, but I love Lucy's from
Speaker 1: the fifties and the aol dot com article are the
Speaker 1: fifteen comedians. Everyone, not just some people. Everyone had a
Speaker 1: crush on in nineteen sixties to the two thousands. I'm
Speaker 1: not slagging on Lucille Ball born in nineteen eleven, so
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty which is part of the aol dot
Speaker 1: com article here, Lucy Ball was post I Love Lucy
Speaker 1: and forty nine years old at a time when people
Speaker 1: aged a little older than they do now. If you
Speaker 1: want proof of that, watch the movie Diamonds Are Forever.
Speaker 1: I say this quite seriously. If you gave me six months,
Speaker 1: I would get myself in shape, get myself a suit,
Speaker 1: and I would look as good as Sean Connery does
Speaker 1: in Diamonds or Forever. Seawan does not look great in
Speaker 1: that movie. He's only thirty nine years old, and at
Speaker 1: fifty six, I can get myself in Diamonds for Forever Shape.
Speaker 1: Can I get myself into Doctor Noe Sean Connery? Shape?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. With Sean Connery the sexiest man alive in
Speaker 1: the eighties, he sure was. That's the thing that happened
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, Sean Connery was fifty nine years old.
Speaker 1: But I'm not talking about fifty nine year old Shan Connery.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about thirty nine year old Diamonds Forever Sean Connery.
Speaker 1: Watch the film or just google it. He looks fifty
Speaker 1: six years old anyway. Number two on the AOL list
Speaker 1: Lucy ol Ball forty nine years old or perhaps older again,
Speaker 1: nuts slagging on her, just saying this is a This
Speaker 1: is a list, and we're not done with the list yet.
Speaker 1: Continuing the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties to the two thousand, so for we
Speaker 1: have Robin Williams and Lucille Ball, Eddie Murphy I was
Speaker 1: around in the eighties. Eddie Murphy hilarious. I don't remember
Speaker 1: people having a crush on Eddie Murphy, but again, maybe
Speaker 1: I just misremember. Number four Bill Murray. I think people
Speaker 1: did have a crush on Bill Murray. So yeah, Tina Fay,
Speaker 1: people did have crushes on Tina Fey, so I think
Speaker 1: that's fair. Number six Steve Martin, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: I remember Steve being like a really big comedy star
Speaker 1: for a while there before he picked up the banjo
Speaker 1: and became an actor. But again, I was young. I
Speaker 1: want to argue with you. Number seven Jim Carrey. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know I'm a straight dude, but I could see it.
Speaker 1: He was in a nice picture of young Jim Carrey. Sure.
Speaker 1: Number eight Goldie Hawn. Absolutely, who didn't love Goldie Hawn?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think of her as a comedian,
Speaker 1: comedic actress, Sure, fantastic. Who doesn't like Goldie Hawn? So
Speaker 1: that's a little out there to me. Chevy Chase, Now,
Speaker 1: I know, as Chevy Chase aged, he got a bit
Speaker 1: of a reputation, But I could see in the seventies
Speaker 1: people being into Chevy Chase. I don't think that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Continuing the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush on in
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties two to the two thousands. Number ten,
Speaker 1: Carol Burnett, they say, a heartwarming icon whose kindness and
Speaker 1: goofiness made everyone feel at home. She didn't just make
Speaker 1: people laugh, she made them feel loved. Carol Burnett, number ten,
Speaker 1: Number eleven on the fifteen comedians everyone had a crush
Speaker 1: on John Candy. Sure, absolutely, who didn't have a crush
Speaker 1: on John Candy? Number twelve, the great dramatic actor Adam
Speaker 1: Sandler thirteen, Gilda Radner fourteen, Ellen DeGeneres. And we've gone
Speaker 1: a long way for a joke here, but number fifteen
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld. I don't remember anyone having a crush on
Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld, except maybe perhaps a seventeen year old girl.
Speaker 1: And that's your comedy news for today by