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Speaker 2: Time, Johnny Max, today's my least favorite day of the
Speaker 2: year with your comedy news forgot to say that part.
Speaker 2: So recently my daughter asked me, what's your favorite holiday?
Speaker 2: And I said, Thanksgiving? Why? Dad, Because everybody celebrates Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: and you know, I just like it. Everybody takes the
Speaker 2: day off. We all kind of do the same thing,
Speaker 2: the same basic tradition, turkey football, go to somebody's house.
Speaker 2: Details may differ, but you know, the basic thing. Kind
Speaker 2: of everybody in the country celebrates it. But then I said,
Speaker 2: except me. I'd rather just stay home, play video games
Speaker 2: and get a pizza. So we continue that conversation. I said,
Speaker 2: my favorite moment of the year is Friday afternoon into
Speaker 2: Memorial Day weekend because you have the whole summer in
Speaker 2: front of you. The possibilities are endless. There's long sun,
Speaker 2: so you know, around five oh one on that Friday,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, it's summer. This is so great. Today,
Speaker 2: the day after Labor Day, is my least favorite day
Speaker 2: of the year. We are as far from summer as possible.
Speaker 2: You can't listen to the Beach Boys. Shomy Buffett doesn't
Speaker 2: sound right anymore. You gotta go back and hard rock
Speaker 2: winter music. And if you have a job, job, and
Speaker 2: I don't have a job job right now. Boy, the
Speaker 2: bosses always are like, okay, back to work fall initiatives,
Speaker 2: and it's just like, I don't want to be here, dude. Anyway.
Speaker 2: THEO Vaughn claims he was so paranoid about using the
Speaker 2: bathroom when he interviewed a former President Trump that THEO
Speaker 2: decided to urinate in a cup. Why he thought the
Speaker 2: secret Service agent might think the sound was some kind
Speaker 2: of secret message, THEO said, some super scared there. He
Speaker 2: ended up just being into a cup. They had a
Speaker 2: red solo cup that I brought in there and peed
Speaker 2: in it, and then I just bought it into the toilet. Dude,
Speaker 2: like along the side of the toilet walls. It'd be
Speaker 2: real quiet, you know. I just kind of think I
Speaker 2: was getting super paranoid. I think super paranoid is an understatement.
Speaker 2: Phil Wang's new special is out today. Apparently I source
Speaker 2: this from The Fordian, which is like The Guardian but
Speaker 2: a typo Phil Wang? Are you excited about your new
Speaker 2: stand up special? Wang? In their Baby arriving on Netflix today,
Speaker 2: Phil Wang said, I am I don't know, he said, more.
Speaker 2: Apparently because of my previous one, Philly Philly Wang Wang
Speaker 2: was affected by the pandemic. That was a really good special.
Speaker 2: That last special was covid Wang. This is normal, actual whang.
Speaker 2: And it's nice to have an exclamation point in the title,
Speaker 2: like Oklahoma. It gets you going before we even started.
Speaker 2: It was filmed at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe.
Speaker 2: How's that? Phil said? So cool beautiful, the only completely
Speaker 2: candilit venue in London, if not the country. Right now,
Speaker 2: stand up is being consumed in very intimate ways, often
Speaker 2: on phones, so it plays into that the combination of
Speaker 2: wood naked flames adds an extra frisen. Johnny Mack has
Speaker 2: to look up the word frisen. Anybody out there know
Speaker 2: what frisen means. Frisen, also known as esthetic chills or
Speaker 2: psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli that
Speaker 2: often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively balanced effective state
Speaker 2: and transient paresthesia, sometimes along with pilo erect and my dresses.
Speaker 2: I'm still not sure what that means. I think it
Speaker 2: means like, oh, the environment feels cool. Prison is the
Speaker 2: French word meaning to shiver or to have chills. The
Speaker 2: BBC has an article called Frison why music can give
Speaker 2: you chills or goosebumps, Just say goosebumps. Boston Magazine asked
Speaker 2: Dane Cook the question that anyone would ask Dane Cook. Dane,
Speaker 2: do you believe the old saying time plus tragedy equals comedy.
Speaker 2: That's exactly the first question I would ask Dane Cook.
Speaker 2: Danefield it and said absolutely. I'm doing a documentary right
Speaker 2: now talking about putting my brother in prison during what
Speaker 2: was the most harrowing time of my life and career,
Speaker 2: was at the height of my comedy career, in the
Speaker 2: depth of personal tragedy and betrayal. And in the documentary,
Speaker 2: not only am I laughing at some of the things
Speaker 2: I went through, but I'm enjoying being entertaining telling people
Speaker 2: how I got clobbered, literally eviscerated by that betrayal. Boston
Speaker 2: mag fought up, does comedy come from a place of
Speaker 2: anger or pain? Dane said, no, I've never subscribed to that.
Speaker 2: There's certainly something to be said for overcoming trauma and
Speaker 2: overcoming challenges. You know, a lot of good comedies come
Speaker 2: from being bullied or minimalized. But I gin it's really
Speaker 2: more about understanding people and interpreting those clunky human moments
Speaker 2: that we all experience. Dane, when was the last time
Speaker 2: you snorted from laughing too hard? Yeah, I put a
Speaker 2: comment there. I don't know what you're accusing Dane Cook of,
Speaker 2: and I'm definitely not. I just find the choice of
Speaker 2: the word snorted interesting, Deane Cook said, probably just lying
Speaker 2: in bed with my wife. We were both scrolling TikTok
Speaker 2: showing each other things. That's still the funniest thing in
Speaker 2: the book when the guy comes out on his front
Speaker 2: porch and he doesn't know the whole porch is black ice.
Speaker 2: He just takes a header and ends up halfway down
Speaker 2: the driveway. I'm a sucker for slapstick. I was also
Speaker 2: listening to some old Patriso Neil bits and I laughed
Speaker 2: out loud. On the same day some old Opie and
Speaker 2: Anthony clips of them playing the male Gibson tapes where
Speaker 2: he's yelling at his wife, and it was all just
Speaker 2: so twisted and demented. I had a good long day
Speaker 2: of laughing at all that content. Opie's got a podcast
Speaker 2: by the way, and he's been playing old Opie and
Speaker 2: Anthony clips on that one Vulture caught up with Langston
Speaker 2: Kerman and John Mulaney the question that everybody's asking, will
Speaker 2: there be more episodes of Everybody's in la Mulaney said,
Speaker 2: I think we'd like to figure out how to do more.
Speaker 2: It was a very interesting experiment in this confined amount
Speaker 2: of time. Definitely open to it. We had lots of
Speaker 2: bits that we didn't get to. Langston said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: into it, but I'm not in charge of that. By
Speaker 2: the way, speaking of John Mullany, and I shared this
Speaker 2: over the weekend, I'm play it again here. It was
Speaker 2: a really good conversation with John Marco Sarasi, and in
Speaker 2: it he slipped into a Mulani the discussion you'll hear
Speaker 2: the extended discussion. I said that I hadn't realized that
Speaker 2: his vocal range was in the same range as mulaney,
Speaker 2: and then here listen to this.
Speaker 1: Milani's is just in a certain kind of range and
Speaker 1: register that I think is just feels right when I'm
Speaker 1: joking with my friends, if I'm trying to have riff
Speaker 1: off with them, It's just the place that I do
Speaker 1: it's a little bit presentational, it's really clear. It helps
Speaker 1: you make a clear setup, and you different to the
Speaker 1: setup for the punchline because he changed the often.
Speaker 2: So that's Saturday with John Marco Langston. Do you happen
Speaker 2: to know any friends in comedy who are the subject
Speaker 2: of rumors that one day they'll host the Oscars? Length
Speaker 2: had said, what do you want me to do? You
Speaker 2: want me to nudge him? Listen? I didn't get a
Speaker 2: single joke on in twenty sixteen. Langston was a writer
Speaker 2: that year. Chris rocketed everything I offered, and I respect
Speaker 2: that choice. He was doing the right thing for him,
Speaker 2: and John hosts a lot of cool stuff. I'm sure
Speaker 2: he'll figure it out if that's what he wants to do.
Speaker 2: Melandy said, I think I'm not hosting. I said, no,
Speaker 2: people are telling me I'm not. Yeah, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2: Vulture asked Josh Johnson how the Daily Show has felt
Speaker 2: since John Stewart came back. Josh said, I think we're
Speaker 2: in a beautiful place. I think we're doing one of
Speaker 2: the most historic election seasons the country's ever had, and
Speaker 2: I think we're doing with a team that's been tested,
Speaker 2: having to go through so many different guest hosts, a
Speaker 2: testament to the agility of everybody to work with different
Speaker 2: voices and have a real sense of what the show
Speaker 2: wants to do and what the show has to do
Speaker 2: outside of just one person. So now we have John Back,
Speaker 2: I don't have this amazing news team of people rotating
Speaker 2: that all have very distinctive voices, and they all have
Speaker 2: very different comedic takes on sometimes the same topic. One
Speaker 2: of the ways to keep people engages to mix up
Speaker 2: both the delivery of takes and the takes themselves, and
Speaker 2: it helps keeps the show fresh and the people excited.
Speaker 2: Let me jump in here. We have on here on
Speaker 2: the Callaaruga Shark Network Ballot. That's our ten minute daily
Speaker 2: show ish kind of program, and I contribute to the writing.
Speaker 2: It's been a lot of fun fun lately that show
Speaker 2: has found its voice. So Ballot's ba at Doublelot wherever
Speaker 2: you get your shows. There's some shows with similar titles.
Speaker 2: It's the one with a cartoon drawing of an elephant
Speaker 2: with Trump like hair and a donkey with Kamala like hair.
Speaker 2: Josh says, I think the daily show feels more exciting
Speaker 2: because I'm coming from the Trump years where we'd have
Speaker 2: a show ready and then Trump would do something at
Speaker 2: three and would be like, we should probably include this.
Speaker 2: So things don't rattle to me at all. I think
Speaker 2: it's more sort of the unprecedented events where're like, what's
Speaker 2: the best way to talk about this, where we'll look
Speaker 2: back and be really excited that we took the opportunity.
Speaker 2: Do you want to host? I'd be open to it,
Speaker 2: but right now I'm happy to be learning. I'm excited
Speaker 2: to be doing my chats and going out in the field.
Speaker 2: I'm just learning the differences between writing and being a correspondent,
Speaker 2: and the differences between performing for the studio audience and
Speaker 2: performing for people at home, and how to get more
Speaker 2: and more comfortable out in the field. Mike Cannon will
Speaker 2: have a new special add on September fifteenth. It is
Speaker 2: called A Traumatized Animal, a little premiere on Chris de
Speaker 2: Stefano's YouTube channel. Chris also served as the specials producer
Speaker 2: tape last April at the New York Comedy Club in Stamford.
Speaker 2: Traumatized Animal irreverent and honest look at parenting as a
Speaker 2: millennial father looking to break the chain of generational trauma
Speaker 2: and an hour jam pack with jokes and stories. Mike
Speaker 2: candidly speaks about his own mental health struggles and love
Speaker 2: for his child one on the Way, as well as
Speaker 2: deep dives into his own childhood while breaking down how
Speaker 2: it's impacted his approach as a father. There's a relentless
Speaker 2: and refreshing, authentic hour of comedy from a comedian that's
Speaker 2: ready to launch. And I love this article from Slate.
Speaker 2: It's about Adam Sandler, they write, it needs to be
Speaker 2: said that despite his current rehabilitation on the pop culture
Speaker 2: for Mint, Adam Sandler has mostly starred in slop. I,
Speaker 2: like almost every other thirty three year old white guy
Speaker 2: on the planet, retained some fawnas for the schlocky eighty
Speaker 2: eight minute comedies who produced in the late nineties and
Speaker 2: early odds, Billy Madison, The water Boy, Big Daddy. But
Speaker 2: my affection for those films has more to do with
Speaker 2: my wistfulness for a bygone, outrageously y two K form
Speaker 2: of cable TV osmosis that's impossible to replicate in the
Speaker 2: streaming age. It's ten PM on a summer night, you
Speaker 2: and your friends are a six pack deep and crushed
Speaker 2: into an unventilated basement den, someone flips on Spike TV,
Speaker 2: Happy go on, Life's never been better. This is the
Speaker 2: world which Adam Sandler became a superstar. And I think
Speaker 2: I speak for a lot of people when I say
Speaker 2: I haven't revisited much of his work since I left
Speaker 2: for college. The jokes weren't great then, and they've only
Speaker 2: gotten worse since. People are coming around. Have you noticed
Speaker 2: now where what five years into this podcast? You can
Speaker 2: go back? There are tons of episodes with me putting
Speaker 2: in the title Adam Sandler's not funny or something like that,
Speaker 2: Like I'm on the record on this. People are coming
Speaker 2: around to Johnny Max's corner of Hey, maybe Adam Sandler
Speaker 2: is not funny at all. Seems like a nice guy.
Speaker 2: He's a good dramatic actor, uncut gems, the Basketball one,
Speaker 2: the Space one. He can do it. But some of
Speaker 2: these things awful, Jack and Jill, come on, he'd be
Speaker 2: Halloween seriously s late right. Sandler put us all through
Speaker 2: a truly grotesque late prime. I think even in his
Speaker 2: most ardent, defenders would struggle to go to bat for
Speaker 2: click or pixels. We're grown ups and grown ups two
Speaker 2: those have ten eight percent of rotten tomatoes, the Sandlor
Speaker 2: Cinematic four Mammeeler war thin Quickly. There were a lot
Speaker 2: of fart jokes, a lot of poof jokes, had a
Speaker 2: potentially lethal dose of Rob Schneider, and Yeah. As Sandler
Speaker 2: enters his late fifties, all of his crimes have been
Speaker 2: miraculously washed away. Last year he won the Mark Twain Prize.
Speaker 2: His recent special bolstered by strong endorsements from needle movers
Speaker 2: like The New York Times. The Comedy Specials being framed
Speaker 2: as the next chapter in Sandler's ongoing cultural coronation. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: halfway through it, Sandler concludes a story about a genie
Speaker 2: who only grant him three wishes if he does a
Speaker 2: favor for a man who just suffered explosive diarrhea at
Speaker 2: an airport bathroom. Has he changed? Have we skipping ahead?
Speaker 2: Nearly all his peers, particularly his nineties era SNL compatriots,
Speaker 2: are heavily invested in what they perceive as a war
Speaker 2: for the soul of comedy. It's led to some exhausting,
Speaker 2: redundant seminars posting as stand up specials. I never needed
Speaker 2: to hear Chris Roxay, the word woke. Sandler should fit
Speaker 2: the same mold. He's a man in his late fifties
Speaker 2: who can credit much of his success to the low
Speaker 2: browed territory in which his filmography treads. Instead of fighting
Speaker 2: in culture war, he's dedicated as craftmanship to becoming astonishingly
Speaker 2: effective telling the same penis poop and Ford jokes he's
Speaker 2: been telling for decades, trimming the fat, reforging their elements.
Speaker 2: Tell the land with something you could call grace, and
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