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Speaker 2: Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news,
a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the
comedy industry. I'm gonna indulge myself here at the top,
So if your first time listener, maybe skip five minutes
in because you don't know my backstory. For everybody else,
I'm not doing a bit here. I'm really bothered. I
know this is going to sound like a bit, but
I am truly bothered. I'll give you the news story first.
Sebastian Maniscalco is getting a channel on Serious XM. It
is Sebastian Maniscalco's comedy radio. And why I'm bothered is
it's taking over Channel ninety nine, which was the home
of Raw Dog Comedy, which I used to program many
moons ago. And let me tell you, for a radio guy,
this is painful. Raw Dog Comedy was one of the
great radio stations of all time. Now, obviously I'm attached
to it, I'm biased. I programmed it. But my radio
hero growing up was Howard Stern. And when I met
Howard Stern, Howard Stern told me row Dog sounded great,
which was the radio complement of my life. Sebastian Man
of Skalko said, joining Serious XM and launching my own
channel is a huge moment for me. Honestly, the real
comedy may come from trying to teach my father how
to find Serious XM and his car hilarious. That alone
could be its own weekly series. Now, I will tell
you back in the day, Raw dogg Comedy was right
at the top of the most popular stations, and it
was cool. The other stations might be branded the blue
collar guys. They were great to work with. Jamie Fox
great to work with, but rowd Dog was its own thing.
It was comedy uncensored, and when we came on the scene,
that was a new thing, and like all great things,
it was great because the bosses weren't paying attention to it,
and we did things to make ourselves laugh. We would
just throw shows on the air and have fun, play
uncensored comedy. And then nine years into my ten year career,
the organizational structure changed and I found myself in a
room with a guy now running programming for some reason
and says to me that his wife doesn't know the
comedians we're playing on the Raw Dog channel, to which
I said but that's the whole value proposition of the
channel is we're on the forefront of comedy. We're going
to all these comedy festivals because that's how we stay sharp,
and then we come back and we play people before
they become famous. While playing the hits, I programmed this thing.
I did what's called an ABC rotation. I'll teach you
music programming real quickly. Okay, thre three categories, A, B,
and C. And the A category you play things really tightly.
B you have more than you have in the A.
And then the C is a big giant bucket of comedy.
So new stuff goes in the A, or stuff that
you want to push goes in the A. So like
right now, Robbie Hoffman would be an A right now
because Robbie Hoffman's hot. You want to play Robbie Hoffman
and Nikki Glazer and John m'alaney and Jim Gaffigan and
Sebastian Manaskalko, those would be your a's. And then over
time that material gets, you know, a little tired because
you've heard it, and you drop it down into B.
And then overtime the b's fall out of B and
fall into SE and that's how we program this thing.
And then, for I don't know his last I wasn't
there very long, we dumped it down and we turned
it into raw Dog Comedy hits, and I was forced
to run the Ron and Fez program. So now the
Raw Dog channel has gone away. It's been called raw
Comedy for I don't know when. At some point they
stopped calling it raw dog and started calling it raw comedy,
which is lame and vanilla in itself. So I am
sad to see this go Now. The big guy in
the corner office, he loves names, he loves putting faces
on the brochure, and I'm sure the marketing people will
be really excited to see Sebastian making a dumb face
on the thing next to Conan O'Brien and Kevin Hart
and whatever else is on there now. But boy, this
one personally pains me. Raw Dog Comedy uncensored, rest in Peace,
one of the all time great radio stations. Sebastian might
look good on the brochure, but is it cool in
any way? Absolutely not. Back in those days, I got
to know Ralphie May reasonably well, good guy who was
very fond of him. The documentary Come What May, is
out on matche eighth. It includes archival footage of Ralphie
May chronicling how the loving husband and father fell victim
to enabler's addiction and abuse, causing his brake light to
burn out far too quickly. There is a trailer. Let's
take a listen, he telling my story.
Speaker 3: Be good, m I'm a very flawed in him perfect man.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Problem in Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1: Ralphie May, Ralphie May can't see this about that person
and that about this person.
Speaker 2: The last group left is fat people.
Speaker 3: We're we're the last ones left.
Speaker 2: He was a common man with uncommon abilities and insights.
Speaker 1: I want to go back in time, find a guy
who's been a carrot cake and plunge him in his face.
Speaker 4: He knew how to tap your soul to make you
be like, Okay, it's gonna be all right.
Speaker 3: I'm going to Tennessee. Raised an Arkansas and moved to
Texas when I was eighteen. I'm Southern. I'm my own cousin, okay.
Speaker 1: Who It was just detonation.
Speaker 3: It was really just like pulling the pin on a grenade.
Every night.
Speaker 2: I've lost like.
Speaker 3: Two hundred seventy pounds the last two year. Don't clap.
It's not a real accomplishment. You lose a whole fat man,
You're still fat as hell. I had gasher bypass surgery.
I asked her again and marry me.
Speaker 4: He looked up. He said, I got gutted like a catfish.
I want to be here with you. I don't know
what else I can say.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of trauma when I was growing up,
and then I started masking that with a weed and food.
His pain was directed towards himself.
Speaker 3: Tell myself the truth, all food at it.
Speaker 4: He said he was off of pills and he did
a great job of hiding them from me. Daddy, please
pick up some break called back.
Speaker 3: Gadgie made conversation and he just went, I love stand up.
It's fantastic. It's the greatest job, but I don't have
it all my life.
Speaker 4: He was very kind, he was very generous. He's a
great person, and he loved to make people laugh.
Speaker 3: A lot of comedians want to me these guys.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to be a great comedian.
Speaker 3: How many people in this world can legit make you
lose yourself in laughter.
Speaker 4: Rouffie was larger than life. He never did anything with subtlety.
Everything was big. He spread a lot of laughter and
a lot of joy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been great, Thank you so much. David Letterman
has weighed in on his whole Byron Allen CBS eleven thirty.
Thing here is David Letterman.
Speaker 3: It's comics on leash. Yeh, yeah, that's what's going to
be here instead of the Byron the Barber game, the
Billionaire oh Man. And as we always mentioned, when he
was a kid, like fourteen, he and I were together
with a group of people who wrote for Jimmy Walker.
Did you know back then that you were looking at
a young No, he was a kid, and I always thought,
this is great. Here's a kid who is interested in
show business. Jimmy Walker, big, big, big star. And then
you had Stooges. There was a guy named Wayne Klein
who was a joke machine. Elaine Boosler was also a
very funny young comedian Jay Leno and myself and I
think Marty Nadler who had something to do with Lavernon
Shirley and Byron Allen who was literally fourteen and his
mother would drive him to these writers meetings. Why would
they replace.
Speaker 4: The talk show with that money.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, they don't want to spend any money, so
they're going to make money. They charge Byron Allen some
reasonable price. He sells all the advertising for his comics Unleash,
and it'll be I think ninety minutes or two hours
of comics talking about funny stuff. It's the show is
a pretty good idea. It's all panel. Nobody's doing any
stand up, except they're seated doing stand.
Speaker 2: Up while I'm depressed about rod Dog Comedy Uncensored and
meeting an unstimely death. Philamina. Kunk is back, so at
least there's some good in this universe. The character created
by Diane Morgan, who plays Kunk, known for her dead
pant style and ill informed questions as host of several documentaries,
is returning for another mockumentary series, this time about movies.
It's called Kunk on Cinema, which follows Kunk on Britain,
Kunk on Earth, and Kunk on Life. It is build
as her most glamorous series to date. It'll be a
three parter. It's nown production. It will air on the
BBC and Netflix. The log line Kunk will attempt to
demystify it all while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn,
asking herself where did cinema come from? And why? And
what does it want? And why can't it tell us?
Kunk said, cinema has given the world some of the
most profound, memorable and moving visual moments, and it's unswerving
depiction of the human condition. The shower scene in Psycho
Death playing chess, and that Swedish thing and Tom Selex
glistening mustache and three men in a Little Lady, to
name it all three of the only examples I can
think of at the moment. There will unfortunately be some
bits in black and white, but we'll keep that to
the barest minimum. Looking forward to that one, The Flight
of the Concords. Boy, They're hot. I mentioned last week.
I thought about going out there and I saw the
six hundred dollars ticket price and I'm like, Eh, maybe not.
My new kick is concert DVD slash blu rays. Then
I talk about this, I know, I wrote about it
on the substack. I was like, I'm not going to
see Springsteen. He's charging too much. But I was in
a Springsteen mood, so I just threw in the DVD
of his London show and hit play, and I was like,
this is great because this is the two thousand and
nine E Street Band, which was a lot closer to
the traditional E Street Band. No Danny, but Clarence was
still there. And then at one point Bruce went into
one of his speeches and I was like, at a concert,
I'd go get a beer and go to the bathroom
right now. So I got up and got a drink
and went to the bathroom and came back and Bruce
was still in the middle of the story. And then
I watched the rest of the show and then I
was home in zero seconds. So that's kind of my move.
Maybe I'll just watch the Flight of the Concords on HBO.
I digressed. Brett mackenzie discussed how the reunion came to be, said,
they were always offers simmering around. We haven't done anything
for a while. We've been jamming a little bit last year,
just trying to write some new ideas with no intention
of booking a tour or anything, but just for fun.
We've got a great booking agent, Nick, and Nick said,
oh guys, here's this offer. It's in LA What do
you think and it was just sort of the right
type of gig for us. It's not too big. We're
not going on the road for six months. I think
it was just one gig and then they had a
a second show. We were committed to one gig, so
we're like, we can manage one gig. Brett says, We've
got a song called Jenny, which is about two people.
The song's about a guy and a woman Jenny. Anyway,
we're like, let's have it go, see how much we
can remember. And the song's about him struggling and remember,
and both of us are struggling and remember. And we
got halfway through the song and like, I don't know
what happens. I mean, I know there's a baby, but
I know how we get to the bit about the baby,
and then we have to pull up the recording and
you can actually just google our own lyrics. So we
were laughing at jokes that we'd forgotten. There are no
plans for the Concords after the festival, although based on
the demand, I'm saying I won't be shocked if that changes.
Brett McKenzie said it'd be fun to do some more,
but we're just gonna take it and see it as
we go. Playing live is pretty fun for us. Jamaine
has a really busy schedule, a lot of filmwork, acting
and stuff. The live shows are quite good because you go, oh,
we can get a week, so maybe we could do
something there within those few weeks. It seems more realistic
than blocking out a year or two. The audience is
just psych man, it's cool. I mean this one benefit
of not playing for eight years. It builds up a
little bit of interest. A lot of our audience has
never seen us play. Last time we played all Australia
was twenty twelve. It's a logo. A lot of people
have never had a chance to see the live show.
Don't forget to vote for Comedy Survivor. We're down to
the finale, Nicki Glazer versus Sarah Silverman, who will win
Comedy Island or whatever we're doing. Here's what you do.
You go to the Facebook group, you vote one of
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News Podcast group and you write down the name of
the person you want to lose. Speaking of Sarah Silverman,
she's got a new gig. The team behind Netflix is
nobody wants this. Have cast Sarah Silverman to play Rabbi
Eden in the upcoming third season, described in Variety as
the warm, quirky teacher of an intro to Judaism class
and a supportive presence for Joanne and Noah. Fun fact,
Sarah's sister, Rabbi Susan Silverman, is a rabbi. I could
have phrased that better, but I'm depressed over raw dog comedy.
But you probably figured out when I said Rabbi Susan
Silverman that Susan Silverman is a rabbi. I need a
laugh to cheer myself up. Tim Dillon made fun of
Megan Markle, which is one of the things I do
as the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast. We're having
a big week because Megan and Harry are down in
Australia and everybody's just hating on them, and it makes
writing the show really easy. Tim Dillon was on that
podcast with David Spade and Dana Carvey. Tim Dillon said,
I think Megan will eventually find her way into some
type of talk show because she's failed at the Martha
Stewart route, which she wanted. She was slinging Jam and Target.
She wanted to have a lifestyle brand. Spade said Jim
was an interesting choice. It's probably an uncrowded market o
than Welch's. I can't think of too many. Tim Dillon
said she definitely needs to adjust her strategy. I could
also see her going back to the UK and saying
let's give it another go. Dana Carvey said, I think
they do have to go back and stir the brand again.
Dylan said, I think we're all a little tired of
her stick here. I don't think it worked as well
she thought it would. I think her idea was to
come back to America and say, listen, the British are
really racist, but they do know a lot about dinner
parties and I've learned that. So I'm here to tell
you how to live like a human being and what
fork to use you pig, American pig. And I think
that felt a little condescending. She had that show on
Netflix where she was basically like, now, well this is
what they call a saucer. You put your coffee cup
at it so it doesn't spill. Over your illegitimate children,
you animals. I think people got huttle turned off by that.
Thank you Tim Dillon for cheering me up. The Moon
Tower Comedy Festival gets a little more serious in Austin today.
Let's take a look at the schedule. Brad Williams at
the Paramount at seven o'clock. That's pretty cool. Matthew Bissard
and Jackie Kashin doing a doubleheader at the Cap City
Comedy Main Room at seven Beth Stelling at the Greek
of the Cave at seven p fifteen, maybe for a
late show. The texs Ins at the Velveta Room looks
like a bunch of comedians from Texas. At nine point thirty,
the Melbourne Comedy Festival continues. The folks at Sceinester went
to see lou Wall, they write. Last year, a clip
of Lou Wall performing a musical number about selling a
bed on Facebook marketplace went ridiculously viral online. Three separate
people sent it to me, so you can imagine. I
had high expectations when heading to check out Lou Wall's
twenty twenty six show. Where are all the tall Grandma's
scenester wrights? The show left me wondering is there a
prize for best opening to a show? Because if there is,
Lou Wall my ticket. In twenty twenty five, Wall was
nominated for Most Outstanding Show, and it was easy to
see why. All right, we should probably play a clip
from Lou Wall. John, all right, here's a clip from
Lou Wall.
Speaker 1: What is U? Hello? My name is Lou, and recently
I've started going to therapy. But I'm not like normal therapy,
like completely online virtual therapy, which is a risk. But
I thought, what's the worst that could happen? Like if
it doesn't work out, I'll turn it into a comedy bit.
And here we are. This is how it began. Hi, Lou,
my name's Jessica. I'll be your new internet therapist. Shall
we start with some personal details so I can get
to know you better? Stop, Jessica, I'm Lou really excited
to be working with you. What would you like to know? Name, age, address,
credit card? In fire, I was like, oh, my name
is still Lou. That hasn't changed since my last message
to you. My address and credit card to private. I'm
twenty nine, but honestly I've looked forty since I was twelve.
Ha ha ha said the cook. Sorry, I'm just like
jocking around plase I type that as a reflection of
my mental health.
Speaker 2: Good stuff there, Seinsters says Wall was an affable presence
on stage and dearing themselves to the crowd from the
get go. Their impressive singing voice was a surprise, but
their goofy humor combined with smart quips was as brilliant
as I anticipated. That is your comedy news for today,
all right, Go vote for Comedy Survivor Facebook group Daily
Comedy News and raw Dog Comedy Uncensored. I miss you,
old friend. Rest in peace.