Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Speaker 1: You spend enough time on Twitter, you see random things.
Speaker 1: Swan Marcus tweeted, it's so weird how the RFK junior
Speaker 1: bear story. I don't know if you heard this one,
Speaker 1: Google it. It's so weird how the RFK junior bear
Speaker 1: story is only the third worst story involving at Kennedy
Speaker 1: having a dead body in their car. Wow, I'm excited
Speaker 1: about this. This just hit the wires as I'm recording
Speaker 1: Mitch Hedburg documentary. Yes, Deadline reporting the life of comedian
Speaker 1: Mitch Hepburg, master of the one liner and a talent
Speaker 1: beloved by fellow comics. That is true will be the
Speaker 1: focus of an upcoming documentary from two two two two
Speaker 1: two two two Films. They announced they have completed principal
Speaker 1: photography on the project, a five year long undertaking that
Speaker 1: features interviews with Margaret Chow, bj Novak, Lewis Black, Jim Gaffick,
Speaker 1: and David Tel, Doug Stanhope, Who's the right Person, Gary Goleman,
Speaker 1: Nick Swartzman, among many others. Bj Novak said, we talked
Speaker 1: about him as if he were too special for this world.
Speaker 1: He had this energy that he was from another planet.
Speaker 1: Director Jeff Siegel says, a lot of people have had
Speaker 1: a lot to say for a very long time, but
Speaker 1: no one said it until now. It's taken many years
Speaker 1: to connect with nearly everyone who is a part of
Speaker 1: Mitch's life and piece together who's largely unknown story. All
Speaker 1: that most people know about him is that he was
Speaker 1: hilarious and died young. But he was so much more
Speaker 1: than that. Among the interviews are close family members, childhood friends,
Speaker 1: comedy colleagues. The press release says the documentary takes viewers
Speaker 1: into comedy club scattered throughout America in the nineties. For
Speaker 1: Hedburg and his peers, the road was life and the
Speaker 1: grind was real, especially in the days of carving out
Speaker 1: a career before the internet, before society learned to better
Speaker 1: address mental health needs. I'm finding it curious that this
Speaker 1: one story that I've seen about this does not mention
Speaker 1: Lynn Shawcroft, Mitch's wife and who I worked with on
Speaker 1: some Mitch related projects. Back in twenty eighteen, Vulture road
Speaker 1: a piece and then they quoted Lynn as saying she's
Speaker 1: been working with an LA based production company to digitize
Speaker 1: everything and her goals that everything Mitch left behind, every
Speaker 1: half written joke, every spontaneous utterance on a MicroTape will
Speaker 1: be accessible within a few clicks on a mouse. I'm
Speaker 1: not seeing anything about Lynn and a documentary. I'll dive
Speaker 1: into it when I have a little more time, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what else pops up. But that is top
Speaker 1: of mind to me. Let me call up a story
Speaker 1: ahead later in the podcast, but it's relevant, let me
Speaker 1: move it here. From a Late Nighter, Kelly Carlin seems
Speaker 1: surprised that George Carlin is appearing in the Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live movie. Apparently Kelly tweeted and now has deleted it,
Speaker 1: but the original tweets that I found it so strange
Speaker 1: that this film is about the first taping OFSNL on
Speaker 1: the host that night isn't in the film. I know
Speaker 1: he was doing a lot of blow that week, but
Speaker 1: I do know he showed up for the taping. Cameil
Speaker 1: n Gianni. Let Kelly Carlin know that her father is
Speaker 1: indeed a character in the film, played by Matthew Reese.
Speaker 1: Kelly then wrote, I guess he is in it. I
Speaker 1: can't find anything on IMDb about it, though, Gunna have
Speaker 1: to make some calls tomorrow. Late Nighter makes clear that
Speaker 1: Kelly isn't necessarily opposing that George is in the film.
Speaker 1: When you heard he was playing George, she said, oh wow,
Speaker 1: he's great. Larry Wilmore than chimed in and said, if
Speaker 1: that's true about Reese, that's great, He's amazing. Kelly wrote back,
Speaker 1: we loved Barry Mason Late Night or rates. However, she added,
Speaker 1: the estate was in the dark about it. We were
Speaker 1: never contacted by anyone about it. I think they'd get
Speaker 1: clearance to use his name and likeness, she told, come
Speaker 1: on on, Gianny, I just find that weird, wouldn't you,
Speaker 1: Late Nighter says. Kelly admitted she's unclear on what legal permissions,
Speaker 1: if any, are called for in the situation. Another user
Speaker 1: speculated George's likeness might be fair game since he's a
Speaker 1: public figure. Kelly wrote, from my experiences my dad died,
Speaker 1: depicting someone's name and likeness as usually something you get
Speaker 1: permissioned for. I've had TV shows. He's a picture of
Speaker 1: him on a wong get clearance for that, but maybe
Speaker 1: this is different. Late Nighter mentions that the Hollywood Reporter
Speaker 1: named that George Carlin's longtime manager Jerry Hamza serves as
Speaker 1: the executor of his estate. I personally have worked with
Speaker 1: Jerry Hamza as executor of the Carlin estate. I assume
Speaker 1: he is still the executor. If it's not Jerry, it
Speaker 1: would probably be Kelly. Well, it's unclear if the Carlin
Speaker 1: estate itself was contacted. Kelly was at least making it
Speaker 1: known that no one had contacted her. All right, that's
Speaker 1: all interesting and goes back to my point about I
Speaker 1: hope somebody talked to Lynn Shawcroft about this. Mitch Hebburg
Speaker 1: a documentary A little bit of Buzz on an event
Speaker 1: that happened Monday night Comedians for kamalaw Nick Offerman was
Speaker 1: trending for a while. He sang an original tune from
Speaker 1: the perspective of reformed Republican voters. He introduced the song,
Speaker 1: telling the audience he was powerfully grateful to Sport Harris,
Speaker 1: who didn't just prosecute rapists but also is not one herself.
Speaker 1: Nick said, I think there are going to be a
Speaker 1: lot of Republicans that, for obvious reasons, are going to
Speaker 1: be Kamala curious. He wrote the song from the perspective
Speaker 1: of a Republican men who might have once been blind
Speaker 1: but now can see a clear way to decency. Offerman
Speaker 1: played the tune of God Bless the USA. You know,
Speaker 1: proud to be an American that song, he sang along
Speaker 1: the lyrics, I won't sing it here, I will read
Speaker 1: it in a flat voice. When he mocked the disabled
Speaker 1: in war heroes, I look the other way, he said,
Speaker 1: to march on the Capitol. If the President says it's okay,
Speaker 1: I don't mind sex with porn stars. I'd do it
Speaker 1: too if I had the guts, But when it comes
Speaker 1: to banging the furniture, that's just effing nuts. I'm proud
Speaker 1: to be a Kamala man who's quit the GOP because
Speaker 1: I just can't abide a man who's tried for thirty
Speaker 1: four fellow knees. It's time to stand up and face
Speaker 1: the facts that the men I once cheered or a
Speaker 1: bunch of wing nut white nationalists. Those guys are effing
Speaker 1: weird to send your letters to Nick Offerman. Meanwhile, Kamala
Speaker 1: has chosen her running mates Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. The
Speaker 1: internet started speculating who might play Tim Walls on SNL.
Speaker 1: Some of the picks Nick Offerman Steve Martin, and I'll
Speaker 1: go with this one Jim Gaffigan, who's a pretty decent actor.
Speaker 1: One Twitter user wrote, rooting for Tim Walls for many reasons,
Speaker 1: but mainly because I'd love to see Danny DeVito play
Speaker 1: him on SNL for the rest of the election season.
Speaker 1: Phil Wang, a comedian that I like a lot, has
Speaker 1: a new Netflix special coming out September third. It is
Speaker 1: called Wang In There Baby, Wang In Their Baby is
Speaker 1: about being British, being Asian, octopuses America, and the trappings
Speaker 1: of minor fame. There is a clip, let's listen.
Speaker 2: I went on really great holiday recently to Paris. Nice
Speaker 2: holiday is a good holiday because I went with people
Speaker 2: who didn't mind being touristy, right, I hate going on
Speaker 2: holiday with people who don't want to be touristy. It's like,
Speaker 2: get over yourself. You're a tourist. You're here to do
Speaker 2: the tauristy stuff. The touristy stuff is actually the fun
Speaker 2: part of the place. Otherwise you're just living there, are you? Oh? Phil?
Speaker 2: Oh the Eiffel Tower. It's a bit touristy, all right.
Speaker 2: Then it's got to the dentist into a big shop.
Speaker 2: Because I won.
Speaker 1: Phil Wang Netflix op Tiber third. Colin Jost is done
Speaker 1: with the Olympics. He's heading home late nighter. Says it's
Speaker 1: not clear if it's because he hurt his foot where
Speaker 1: the finals were delayed or whatever, but he left before
Speaker 1: the finals. Colin Jose had told NBC's Mike Tarico that
Speaker 1: he was under strict doctor's orders to keep both his
Speaker 1: head and his feet out of the water. He'd also
Speaker 1: been told he couldn't fly for two days. Subbing in
Speaker 1: for Colin Jost is Australian meteorologist and radio personality Luke Bradham,
Speaker 1: who was into Heiti covering surfing for Australia's Channel nine.
Speaker 1: Luke says, I got a phone call the surfing came
Speaker 1: back online. It was literally just Colin's not able to
Speaker 1: work it. Could you please fill in for us. It
Speaker 1: is unclear why Colin left. I'm going to speculate because
Speaker 1: the flight home was already booked before the finals got delayed,
Speaker 1: and somebody looked at it and went, you know what,
Speaker 1: this bit isn't working. It's not worth throwing more money
Speaker 1: at it. And Colin's like, yeah, let me come home.
Speaker 1: I got to go to Tahiti for a week. That
Speaker 1: was the plan. John Stewart is not on the Daily
Speaker 1: Show this week. He tested positive for COVID. Hope you're
Speaker 1: doing okay, John. Michael Costa will host every night this
Speaker 1: week and starting today, it's the sixteenth annual Ashville Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival kicking off tonight. Your headliner, Tom Sagora definitely not
Speaker 1: a serial killer. Check out yesterday's episode for that callback
Speaker 1: The pressure Lease tells is Tom Sagora, a comedian celebrated
Speaker 1: for his sharp wit, end distinctive comedic style. Speaking of
Speaker 1: comedy festivals, right before I recorded this, I recorded with
Speaker 1: Walker Evans, who's putting together next week's Columbus Comedy Festival.
Speaker 1: That'll be the Saturday interview this weekend. Impressive dude, impressive festival.
Speaker 1: So that is coming up. And that is your comedy
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