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A sentence, the algorithm loves America can't get enough of
Nicki Glazer, although I'm starting to think America is like, yeah,
enough with Nicki Glazer. Tonight, American Idol, Nicki Glazer will
host Taylor Swift Night. Of course she will. The top
seven contestants will perform Taylor Swift Hits on the live
episode of American Idol. Meanwhile, Nicki was on Good Morning America,
and pay attention to this. This is some politicking here.
They ask her if she wants to host the Oscars.
But listen to her phrasing. She says, I'll have to
adapt if she's offered it. You haven't been offered it.
I know you're campaigning for it. I know you're trying
to resteal your career. I know your agents and your
PR people are getting it done and we're trying to
reposition you. But no one has asked you to host
the Oscars. Would you is it a dream?
Speaker 3: Would you want to do the Oscars?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 3: I mean I think that there's always just this like, oh,
what's what's the next thing. I really have to say.
I enjoyed the Globes though, because it is it is
set up so perfectly for comedy. It's a looser night,
there's drinking, everyone's like kind of casual. Everyone's sitting at
these tables. They're not all in these just like stuffy rows.
They and it's set up like a comedy club. It's
the lower ceiling. The Oscars is a harder gig, so
I'll have to adapt in a different way.
Speaker 2: All the cool is sucking out of the Nicky Glazer room.
That is all I hear. The more press she does,
the more I'm like, es, I'm to high out for
a while, and she's not going to She's knocking on
Hollywood's door, and I don't know, the media seems to
want to let her in. I'm not sure Hollywood wants
to let her in. We will find out. Bobby Lee
and Andrews Santino have wrapped production on a ten episode
season of something called The Bad Game Show. The Bad
Game Show is an unscripted comedy series inspired by their
podcast Bad Friends, created by Andrews Santino and Nick Krice.
The Bad Game Show drops celebrities into a chaotic mix
of trivia and absurd challenges, with surprise guests crashed the
game and nothing goes as planned, all unfolding inside Bobby
Lee's mom's basement. The show is being made for digital
distribution across Talent owned channels and platforms, revenue being driven
by brand partnerships through custom integrations, sponsored sketches, and host
red ads. People are mad at Jimmy Fallon. I think
that's true almost every day of the week. Why are
they mad at Jimmy Fallon? Now? Are you watching Survivor?
Now that comedy Survivor's over, you might as well watch
traditional Survivor. Spoilers for last week's episode. There was this guy, Christian,
and he was on the island and he took part
in a challenge and he lost in the challenge. This
particular challenge in the Survivor fifty which has celebrity stunts.
This challenge was designed by Jimmy Fallon, who if you
didn't complete a puzzle in time, you had to vote
yourself off. You had to cast a vote for yourself. Well,
Christian went to tribal council and guess who was voted
off Christian while voting for himself. Christian looked on the
camera and told Jimmy Fallon, this idea you had it's terrible.
No more ideas from you. I look forward to your apology.
Jimmy Fallon did apologize on the tonight show. He even
had Christian as a guest. Fallon said, now that we're
all in the same place, so all I have to
say is Christian, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry about this.
It wasn't supposed to be like this. It wasn't supposed
to be you. I feel so bad because I love you.
That's an interesting thing for Jimmy Fallon to say.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Apparently in the confessional scene with the vote, some stuff
was cut out. Christian said. He said something like Jimmy, Jimmy,
I'm not sure I like this idea. What other ideas
have been yours? We're looking at the Titanic and you're like,
you know what, too many life votes were you on
the Hindenberg? And he said, you know what, this needs
a smoking section? What other ideas, Jimmy, I don't think
you need any more ideas. I think you could have
a seat and let us play Shane Gillis got the
crowd going at Game three of the Eastern Conference first
round NHL Playoffs. It was the Philadelphia Flyers taking on
the Pittsburgh Penguins. Flyers super fan Shane Gillis was joined
by team mascot Gritty to ignite the orange before the game.
Puck dropped a stupid controversy last week involving Patton Oswalt.
It was April twenty first, and Patton Oswalt marked ten
years since the death of his wife. Patton Oswald posted
on Instagram ten years gone by miss you baby. People
thought that was rude to Patton Oswalt's current wife, Meredith Salinger.
Salinger posted, what a beauty. She was smart and cool
and brave, clearly smart enough to love you and wonderful
enough to be adored by you. And she made the
greatest kid on the planet. Wish I had known her.
I'm so sorry for the heartbreak you and Alice will
always hold. I love you both with all my heart,
hugs forever. Tim Heidecker getting a lot of press. He's
the new face of Info Wars, the former Alex Jones
website now being run by The Onion, and they're having
a good time running it. Hideker's mission. He's asking, can
you change the way people think about a word like
info wars? That felt like an interesting question to explore.
This even got a profile of Tim Hideker in the
Wall Street Journal, of all places, Hidecker and the team
are making content for the new Info Wars, including a
parody of Tucker Carlson's show, Tucker Carlson one of those
people that is all of a sudden surprised at the
President of the United States, as if I'm not going there,
Tucker Cross the surprise. Listen to Tucker Cross's podcast. One
early episode of the Carlson parody says, the American people
don't know this, but JFK didn't kill himself. Alex Jones
is not happy with the parodies. He said, the whole
thing's about defaming me. Just because you're wearing my shirt
doesn't mean you're me. Well, Tim Hideker shaved his head
to look a little more like Alex Jones and walked
into the new offices. He shared a video on Instagram.
Let's listen to some of it as we head into
the break. I've made some edits here for pacing and
for language.
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Tim Heidecker checking in here. I'm in
the Onion headquarters. Here Jamie Brew eating a sandwich, a
bunch of guys trying to come up with funny ideas.
How that goes? You know, they got all the posters
of all their dumb ideas, women's bath room, gender identity whatever. Uh.
Just you don't have to stop because I'm walking around.
Go back to business. Are you doing this or what
we taking over in for wars? Mister Collins? Is that
that what's gonna happen? What are we gonna donna disrupt? Right?
Speaker 2: That's correct, that's exactly.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do. Well, you're my leader. I'm gonna follow
you into battle. We're gonna we're gonna storm the gates,
trial by combat, whatever it takes. Matt Carlin thinks he
knows what's going on. He doesn't know anything. Whoever you are.
And then they got cambucha. Now they're making everybody here
drink cambucha and it's making everybody turn into little lizards,
turn into little lizards running around Anyhow, it's been a
great launch. We're excited. Onion his own fire. I couldn't
be happier.
Speaker 2: The folks at the Cavalier went to see Josh Johnson.
It was a free performance at a college, We're told.
Before Johnson took the stage too, other commie is performed
Clay Dickerson, the outgoing student council president and a fourth
year student. Dickerson did some local material about local elections.
Then the second opener was Rammind Mustafity. We're told he's
known for his writing ability and acting chops and did
some gen Z related comedy. Okay, and that makes sense.
Probably wondering how could Josh Johnson possibly follow those openers
Josh had set and included judging people based on how
to eat fruit, to broader commentary on politics, technology, and
social behavior. A college student went to see the show
and said, I really liked the main act. You think
I could tell everything He was joking about all of
his stories. He put a lot of thought into it.
A different student, a freshman, said, I feel like his
bits in comparison to the openers. He had a softer
delivery and a lot more commentary on the world in
a way that wasn't always trying to be edgy. He
wasn't trying to use shock humor the whole time. Now
I don't want to shade the up and coming comedians,
although I may have accidentally done that already. We're comparing
a guy that does like a fresh hour every week
to two college students opening for him. Yeah, I'm pretty
sure Josh Johnson's going to be better at it. All Right,
I got a couple of awful things to talk about
from TMZ. Jelly Roll is facing accusations from comedian Nicole Arber.
A rep for the Nashville PD tells TMZ, as you're
probably where, there appears to be an ongoing online back
and forth between the two. No charge has been filed.
There's no current investigation underway. TMZ reports that Arbor has
escalated her feud, accusing his team of sending her alleged
hush money. Nicole Orber has been blasting jelly Roll on
social media. Now, I'm unfamiliar with Nicole Arber, so I
went to the internet and I'm told Nicole Arber is
a Canadian multi hyphenate who works as a comedian, speaker, choreographer, singer, actress,
and YouTuber. She's released several albums and singles. Then as
I was doing that, the autocomplete came up and people
have searched the phrase why is Nicole Arbor famous? I'll
push back on the word famous, but let's accept the
premise why is Nicole Arber famous? Here is the description
from the interwebs. Nicole Arber, the five to nine comedic
blonde bombshell who began her time in the public guy
working as a choreographer and a cheerleader for the Toronto
Raptors before becoming known worldwide for her viral comedy and music,
has officially solidified herself as a commanding voice in modern entertainment.
That update was of February twenty seventh, twenty twenty five.
So again, one of the commanding voices in modern entertainment.
Nicole Arber in some sort of whistling match with Jelly Roll.
I'll keep you posted. Meanwhile, really really horrible here. I
at first I didn't have the story in this in
the you hear me stumbling. I'm not gonna make that
edit there. I didn't have it in the script at all.
And then I'm like, let me at least mention it.
Let me read it verbatim and flat. From the Guardian,
Russell Brand said he had exploitative consensual sex with a
sixteen year old girl. At the height of his fame.
Speaking about his past actions and appearance on the YouTube
show of the US journalist Megan Kelly, Brand described himself
selfish and a quote exploiter of women. He said, quote
I did sleep with a sixteen year old when I
was thirty. I was a very different person. I was
a lot younger and I was an immature thirty year old.
He added, consensual sex with a lot of people when
there was a strong power differential, as there is when
your famous man was the ability to attract women than
I had at the time. I think that involves exploitation.
I think it's exploitative. I recognized that my sexual conduct
in the past was selfish and I did not apply
enough consideration barely any I suppose, really to how that
sex was affecting other people. The Guardian mentions the age
of consent in the UK is sixteen, unless it's with
an adult in a quote position of trust unquote, such
as a teacher, social worker, sports coach or doctor, in
which case the age of consent is eighteen. Guardian reminds
us a court has previously heard that Brand is accused
of raping a woman in a hotel room while she
attended a Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, grabbing a TV
worker's breast and orally raping her after dragging her into
a male toilet, and kissing and groping a radio worker
after pushing her against a wall. I've met Russell brand
once in my life. We were at a studio. We
did a recording session. In that one session, he was
super cool and personable. But as I've shared on the
show before, I've also worked with Bill Cosby, and when
I worked with Bill Cosby, he was the very professional
public Bill Cosby. And as I've said on the show before,
someday Bill Cosby will pass away and I will tell
you a story. Let's not go out on that. Ben
Affleck and Matt Damon will receive an award in honor
of Robin Williams. Affleck and Damon starred along with Robin
Williams and Goodwill Hunting. Today they will be in San
Francisco to receive the ninth Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award,
presented to them by Glenn Closes nonprofit Bring Change to Mind,
as a fundraiser today at the Fort Mason Center. Aaron
sent this over from the New Zealand Herald. Aaron noticed
that I was on a Flight of the Concords kick
and she wanted to know about New Zealand Spy, a
six part comedy series. This follows Michael Brown, a spy
who struggles with his real name his cover identity. That's
not important. What's important is that he and his colleagues
at the New Zealand Intelligence Agency or all that's protecting
New Zealand from the Great Enemy of Australia. Now you
know who's in this Brett Mackenzie. He from the six
hundred and ten dollars Flight of the Concords tickets. Mackenzie
plays Michael's boss. New Zealand Spy begins on TV n
Z two on Wednesday eight thirty in a lossol stream
on TV and Z Plus and on Johnny Max's Pirate Chip.
If you know what I mean. Chris O'Dowd you know
him from the IT crowd. He will join Bill Burr
in Bender. Bender is the coming of age comedy that's
shooting in Ireland this summer. Chris O'Dowd will play a
self made family man trying to put on a brave
face while his business is marriage and his faith begin
to crumble amid a brutal economic recession. Bill Burr plays
a gruff American record store owner who convinces the RegTech
gain of teenage misfits that they're best and possibly only
chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school. Is
at a massive open air mass for the visiting Pope.
That is your comedy news for today. I'll see you tomorrow.