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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news, a
daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry.
So much to get to today and tomorrow and tomorrow
is going to be very political. Consider yourself quite warned.
Let's start with Nicky Glazer. Now, last night she hosted
that Time one hundred most influential people. Think we'll get
to that over the weekend, but she was also on
Good Morning America, and I want to start here and
all let's listen together as we hear all the cool
get totally sucked out of Nicki Glazer. You can just
feel it rushing out of here as she talks to
the folks on Good Morning America. Let's listen. She has
a new standard special called Good Girl.
Speaker 3: Some people think I'm bath. I just want to be like, well,
there's like, you know, this material in the special is
like it shows you both sides of it of like,
you know, growing up as a woman, you're just told
like you need to be a good girl and behave
and fall in line. And then there's this part of
me that's always just loved speaking freely and openly and
saying my truth. But then you know, sometimes that just
makes people think like, oh, she's naughty, she's bad, you know,
like even coming on here, they're like, you know, this
is a PG show, and I'm like, like, you know,
like they don't know what I'm gonna do because I've
been bad before, but I can.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just.
Speaker 3: Star somewhere's the Sweating bowet.
Speaker 2: Can we take a look at a PG version clip?
Speaker 3: Yes, I think we found one.
Speaker 5: Okay, it was hard, But.
Speaker 4: What I don't want when I get a facelift is
anyone being like, that's so sad she did that? Why
does she do that? And the answer is is because
it's gonna lead to a better life for me. I'm
on TV a lot, I'm gonna look amazing, I'm gonna
get better roles. I'm gonna get paid more for those roles.
I'm gonna get fire emojis from Kristin Cavaleri, Like it's
do you know how good it feels to have Boen
Yang write DIVA with nineteen a's underneath the picture of
you looks like he just fell asleep on the keyboard
because I was so slay.
Speaker 2: I get that once again, so relatable. Oh my god,
so relatable. Right, I've got more from that whole interview,
But boy, that does not sit well with me. It
just it's so forced. Nicki's new special, Good Girl is
out on Hulu today. Now you know my take on
the Hulu specials. The Hulu specials, the one you get
when you're slightly past peak. Prove me wrong down the list,
tell me the one that doesn't count. Nicki said, I
couldn't be proud or of my fifth hour special, Good Girl.
I put everything I had into this hour of material. Luckily,
for me, so did everyone who worked on it with me.
I truly saved the best for fifth Good Girl was
developed and honed over two years on the road. It
over two hundred and fifty shows, and it was one
of the best nights of my life to get to
perform this show for the very last time in my
hometown of Saint Louis in front of family friends. And
I already missed these jokes, so I can't wait for
them to have a second life again. Eddie Murphy was
honored at the fifty first AFI Life Achievement Awards at
the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. A lot of people
showed up for him. Kevin Hart opened up the tribute
to Eddie Murphy, saying he's our power, he's our friend,
and even you white people think he's your friend. And
he's done a lot to show you he's different. He's
given us the gift of laughter across generations. Stevie Wonder
got a standing ovation and said Eddie finds our common
funny bone and allows us to show how much we're alike.
We found each other because he would imitate me. On
Saturday Night Live, he made fun of a blind man
and he made the world laugh. Stevie then did an
impression of Eddie's impression of him, which got big laughs
from the crowd. Chris Rock said that without Eddie, many
of the people in the audience might not exist. He said,
like Brendo, you're the first black man, and just be cool,
to just be yourself. It was just you. Mike Myers
came out in Shrek makeup and said, I never got
to work with Charlie Chaplin, I never got to work
with Alec Guinness, I never got to work with Peter Sellers.
But is my absolute honor to say and be but
to tell my kids that I got to work with
Eddie Murphy. Eddie himself said, I just turned sixty five.
Sometimes I'll let you wait until you're really old to
get this award. Mel Brooks was eighty six when he
got it. Francis Ford Coppolo was eighty six as well.
The oldest person ever get up here was Lillian Gish.
She was ninety two. She was very gracious when she
came out and got the ward. If you made me
wait until I was ninety two, I would have come
out here and said, if everybody Dave Chappelle gave a
nice speech, this is a little long. I've made a
couple of minor edits for language, a little.
Speaker 1: Cultural inside baseball.
Speaker 6: I know this is true for me.
Speaker 1: I think this is true for many Black people. Often
have fear for their heroes. You worry about them because
so many of our heroes a persecuted or or shot down.
When I was fourteen years old, Role came out and
I would go in and would watch it every day
after school like I was taking a class, like I
knew somehow this this was something really important in my life.
Throughout my wife Eddie Man, I kept my hole on you.
You would the ball I was washing, You would the
hero that I worried about.
Speaker 7: Man, when you came up, it looked lonely.
Speaker 1: It was just by yourself.
Speaker 7: It was you, It was Michael Jackson, it was Rick James,
and it was Prince all of whom all home on deceased,
and somehow, somehow.
Speaker 1: You survived Tonight. When I came into the theater to
do this thing, man, I saw a bunch of my
hero for Saul Martin and our sit here with Robert
Towns and all these people and for my life, and
saw you, Chris, and I'm like, man, this is crazy.
Speaker 4: All the.
Speaker 2: Sole survivor. As I'll circle back to Dave in a second.
Bill Burr also got up there also along also edited
for language.
Speaker 6: Reverse diversity, higher for the evening staying at backstage, I'm
going on after Stevie. Wonderful. This is what I get
for going over to Hulu. I'll never forget this. Right
here is my entire comedy Smithsonian Library. I've been watching
him since day one.
Speaker 3: Eddie.
Speaker 6: When I first I want your first album, I didn't
even know who you were yet the rose behind your
ear and I had been listening to Richard Pryor and
I was just like, well, here's another black guy, he
must be funny too, So I bought it and I
became a fan. And a lot of people don't know this,
but I actually saw Eddie on the Raw tour.
Speaker 8: I was only eighteen years old and I was really
getting into stand up, but I never thought it could
be a comedian.
Speaker 6: It was the day's before the.
Speaker 8: Internet seemed a million miles away, and I went to
go see like the Weather Girls opened up, I remember that,
and I went with my boss from the warehouse and
he did a bunch of.
Speaker 6: Blows and he thought he was gonna have a heart attack,
and he's like, I gotta get out of here, and
I'm like, well, we're not missing Eddie's you gotta ride
this shopping. So so, like two weeks before I went
to see Eddie, I saw Rodney Dangerfield the same place,
a break Woods Universally Antitheater, and it was an all
white crowd, which didn't strike me as weird because I'm
white as hell. And I just sat and I watched him.
It was all good. And I remember when Eddie did
his show, I immediately noticed that he was making everybody laugh.
And I hadn't even thought about being a comedian. But
then it would get stuck with me, and I was thinking, like,
you know, this guy's he's doing it, he's making everybody laugh.
If I haven't become a comedian, that's what I'm gonna do.
So a few years later I become a comedian and
I'm like, I'm gonna be like I'm gonna go out
before of a black crow.
Speaker 9: And I went.
Speaker 6: Up when I did my thing, and I got off
stage and I was like, I am.
Speaker 7: Never gonna do that again.
Speaker 6: Black people are me. They don't let you get to
the stage. They already heckle. They are going to have
a good time with or without you.
Speaker 2: That is what I learned well.
Speaker 6: In that education that you gave me, and for me
as a comedian that I wanted to make everybody laugh.
You've been such an amazing, amazing inspiration. I totally think
you're ardably the most talented guy who's ever been in
this business. I don't think there's anything you can't do,
and I'm looking forward to more of your work. I
love you to death. Thank you so much. And who's
an honor to work me? The brother Charlie Bressing piece,
good night, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Enan Thompson said for me personally as someone who grew
up dreaming about making people laugh. Eddie wasn't just an
influencious proof, proof that you could come in young, take
big swings, streuss your voice, and leave a mark the
last decades. Tracy Morgan said, one of the greatest performers
ever is going to be playing in a sketch with me.
My god, what if he's funnier than me? And as
we all know, Eddie Murphy does an incredible Tracy Morgan,
Eddie Murphy did more for red leather outfits and cowboy
boots than any black man in history. Now, I said,
I'd circle back to Chappelle. Dave talked about bringing back
Chappelle's Show recently.
Speaker 1: I did an interview that made head last because I
said I was considering doing Chappelle's Show again. And I
told him, I said, if you'd asked me that a
year ago, out and say, you.
Speaker 5: Know, Chappelle's Show was a very difficult.
Speaker 1: Show to do, but it was one of the greatest
experiences in my life.
Speaker 6: And one of the reasons that it was great was
your brother Charlie.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and I don't do this bit, but.
Speaker 1: Charlie used to tell us stories all day about your.
Speaker 10: Ascension fame, and I.
Speaker 5: Just want you to know, man, every time he mentioned you,
he always said how cold he was A he man,
he said, I done, you know, And and Charli met
the world to everybody on the said A couple of
weeks ago on when I reached out to Eddie and
asked him if I could come by and businessman and
I went.
Speaker 6: Through his house.
Speaker 5: I didn't know it was the day after his sixty
fifth birthday.
Speaker 1: What was beautiful His grandkids were outside of playing in
the pools, laying and laughing like like you know children.
Speaker 5: Was pure joy.
Speaker 1: And me and Eddie for the first time talked about
Charlie since he passed. I hadn't seen him or really
had an occasional to speak about it.
Speaker 2: And in the midst of the conversation Eddie, Eddie was.
Speaker 10: The one that said, thing you should do like a
Chappelle show movie.
Speaker 8: Or something like that.
Speaker 1: And I said, and I said, man, that would be
tough that your brother, so let it. If I do it, Man,
do Charlie Parks.
Speaker 6: And that job away.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine if Chappelle's show comes back and Eddie
Murphy is on it, that will be amazing. In other news,
Netflix and Stavros Alkiis they announced a deal. Stavros will
do a comedy special titled Uncle Stove. He'll tape it
in Baltimore tonight and tomorrow. That was quick. John Mulaney's
wrapping up a week in London. The folks at the
Times went to go see him. They compared this show
to the previous show Baby Jay, which detailed how mulaney
had been leading a double life of drug addiction. The
Times writes, this new show, mister whatever is the sword
had settled in, I hate to say it lesser what
came next spoilers. John gives a quick topical overview of
his homeland that suggests great things ahoy and amusingly mean
takedown if Jeff Bezos celebrates how billionaires are now at
least blatantly bad on the surface. But after that electric opening,
the show proper rarely finds topics as fertile, The Times writes,
even comic greats can lack perspective. That happens here a
few times. He segues Niffley from a story about a
son's birthday party at a trampoline park to a routine
about RFK junior, but even with moments of insider gossip,
but all goes on too long. He over commits to
a neat but niche rumination on the way demonic possession
is handled it in horror films. Likewise, this big finale,
comparing his terrible but terribly expensive new washer dryer to
the old machine he grew up with, feels like a
Reddit post run a mock Yikes. The domestic stuff drags
after awhile, no matter how powerhouse his performance. Meanwhile, Mullaney
races too fast over his bigger, less domestic ideas about
baby boomer entitlement. The crowd, whatever their accents, gave it
a huge response at the end, but mulaney is a
wildly gifted comic and this is far from his best show.
Three stars out of five. John is at the London
Palladium through tomorrow night.
Speaker 6: Comedy stock Market.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Burt Reynolds. Now every week on the Comedy
stock Market, we try and find value, we buy low,
we sell high, and boy, I really wish I could
be positive and have some by recommendations for you, but
nothing is exciting me this week. I actually have some
cells and we're gonna get political here. Our first sell
Joe Rogan, and I'll pare them up with THEO Von.
I'm gonna put them together, especially with THEO I have
here in my notes. I'll just read you what I
wrote my notes. And this is the thing about me
in real life. I have no patience for stupid people.
And that Theovaughn is out there now, like and we'll
get into this tomorrow and tomorrow's very political episode. That
Theovann's out there now, like, gee whiz, I can't believe
this is all happening. Dude, do you remember who the
president was before Biden? Come on, man, you can't act
like you didn't know. And same note on Joe Rogan.
So I want to sell THEO sell Rogan, and I
also want to sell Nicki Glazer. I just the coolness
is just oozing out of her. With all the press
he's doing right now, she'll have a little bomb. People
will be like, oh, Nikki's special, It's so funny, but
the cool is just leaving. So a pretty negative comedy
stock market will sell Joe Roban, can sell the Ivonn
and sell Nicki Glazer. I'm behind on a couple of stories.
I had a pre tape a few episodes during the
week to accommodate my colin oscoby. The results were good,
by the way, no issues at all. I encourage you
to get one. Stay healthy. The preps sucks understatement, the
klonoscopy itself. The anasthesiolost comes in, you're out one second later.
Suddenly it's half an hour later, and then you go
to McDonald's and get a two cheeseburger mule. Oh, there
is nothing better than McDonald's after colonoscopy. Joe Rogan is
one of the stories have to catch up on. Last weekend,
he was in the Oval Office with President Trump. Rogan
stood directly behind the President, who was seated at the desk.
The President signed an executive order to ease restrictions on
medical research and treatments using psychedelic drugs. I'll let Joe
Rogan take it from here.
Speaker 10: I want to tell everybody how this happened. I sent
President Trump some information. We have a giganta gopia proplem
in this country. Obviously, in twenty twenty four, more than
eighty thousand people died of overdoses, horrible number. And there's
more than five million people that are addicted to opiates.
Right now in this country, with one dose survivor gain
more than eighty percent of people are free of that addiction.
With two doses, it's more than ninety percent. I sent
him that information. The text message that came back sounds great.
Do you want FDA approval, Let's do it, And it
was literally that quick. These drugs are illegal not because
they're harmful. They're illegal because of the nineteen seventy Controlled
Substances Act that was passed by the Richard Dixon administration.
They did it to target the civil rights movement and
the anti war movement. It's not because these drugs harm people.
And for fifty six years we've lived under those terrible conditions.
We're free of that now. We're free of that now
thanks to all these people that you see next to me,
and thanks to President Trump.
Speaker 2: Now THEO vonn who just sold some of his stock,
he said this thing I'm about to play. You can
ask him what he's talking about.
Speaker 10: Here.
Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna comment. Here is THEO von talking about.
I'm not really sure. Here here's THEO.
Speaker 9: I think that that's what I think.
Speaker 1: Some people like it.
Speaker 9: You get so like some people get so powerful or
like there's a lot of gay folks out there. I
think that they're they only veer into that or change
get in a different sexual like things that are outside
of what would be normal for them. Maybe that because
they get so much power, you know, like the Romans
did it, like you know, they say that they did it.
Or there's people like financial gaze power gays.
Speaker 6: There's like I've heard that before.
Speaker 2: Oh really, no financial gays and power.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they get so rich they can afford to just speak, yeah,
or like blind gays.
Speaker 2: Tonight on CNN, it's America Laughs with Matt Friend. Matt Friend,
known for his impressions of Donald Trump and other political figures,
headlines a comedy special from Washington, d C. On the
eve of the White House Corresponds Association Dinner. Those folks
do not have a comedian hosting this weekend, so normally
that's a big event on the comedy calendar. No longer.
Matt Friend said, we are an increasingly divided country and world.
From my show with CNN, I aim to poke fun
at everyone and allow room for all to laugh in
a Johnny Carson spirit. For decades, from Sid Caesar and
Carson to Norm MacDonald and Bill Maher comedians have helped
us reflect on public life in America. This is going
to be a truly fun, unpredictable night of impressions, satsire,
and surprises, and I can't wait for people to see it.
Being somewhat familiar with Matt Friend's work, I will be
shocked if it's unpredictable. Last weekend, during Kill Tony WrestleMania
in Las Vegas, the Undertaker showed up and dropped Tony
Hinchcliff with a thunderous choke slam. The wrestling news source
Your Home for Wrestling News said it didn't stop there.
As soon as Tony Hinchcliff hit the table, the Undertaker's
music blasted through the venue and the crowd erupted. Moments later,
Triple H rushed out, trying to revive Tony Hinchcliff as
the sea inspiraled into full WWE madness. The wrestling news
source tells us Kill Tony WrestleMania promised surprises, but no
one expected it to turn into a dead man ambush,
complete with a choke slam, interest music, and total chaos
that left Tony Hinchcliff wiped out. Yeah, that was completely unpredictable.
Who would have seen that happening at a wrestling event?
Out on YouTube today Zach Newey Tower's debut special, Twink Death.
Twin Death delves into towers religious Midwestern upbringing, the slippery
slope of sobriety and medication, why gay is always a compliment,
and his deep skepticism of marriage, especially when it comes
to the questionable return on investment of straight weddings. Twink
Death on YouTube and that is your comedy news for today.
Tomorrow very political. I've got some audio from the likes
of Dave Chappelle, Theo Vaughn, George Lopez. I've got some
comments from Jimmy Kimmel. I've also got some comments from
Fox News. So if you don't like the political stuff,
I will see you Sunday. I just consider yourself warned.
Everybody else see you tomorrow.