Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Speaker 1: daily comedy news. I've got my Suspicion hat on today.
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah hosts the Grammys tonight. Now. I am recording
Speaker 1: this on Friday. It is eleven fifty Eastern Time as
Speaker 1: I record this podcast, and as of eleven fifty, Trevor
Speaker 1: Noah hasn't done any press that I've seen about the
Speaker 1: Grammy Awards. Normally, you would expect the host of such
Speaker 1: a big award show that'd be like a splash article
Speaker 1: in the Hollywood Reporter or Variety or one of those,
Speaker 1: and there's been nothing. Now it's possible that you know,
Speaker 1: he had the cover of the Sunday Times this morning
Speaker 1: when you got up, but really strange to me that
Speaker 1: he's not out promoting this thing. The announcement that Trevor
Speaker 1: was hosting came pretty late in the game, only like
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. He is an executive producer now, but
Speaker 1: it's just it's just weird. And I don't know why
Speaker 1: I did see that Trevor was overseas touring, but it's
Speaker 1: just weird to me, especially if he's a producer, that
Speaker 1: he's not out promoting this thing. But they're going to
Speaker 1: get a good number. I will tell you why. One
Speaker 1: of the presenters Taylor Swift. Yeah, Taylor Swift's gonna get
Speaker 1: up and present. Maybe she can make a joke about
Speaker 1: Joe Coy. Wouldn't that be awesome? I doubt it because
Speaker 1: nobody knows who Jokoy is, but boy, that would be amazing.
Speaker 1: So normally I would have an article here where I
Speaker 1: would tell you what Trevor Noah said about the Grammy Awards,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't exist. I will tell you that Trevor
Speaker 1: himself is one of the five comedians nominated for Grammy
Speaker 1: for Best Comedy Album. Now, since we have time, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get on my soapbox because I'm from the twentieth century.
Speaker 1: When you say to me, comedy album, I picture an
Speaker 1: audio presentation. Right. At one point there was vinyl and
Speaker 1: then cassettes and CDs. You know how technology works. Somewhere
Speaker 1: along the way, the Grammy for Best Comedy Album started
Speaker 1: going to Netflix specials or HBO specials, and it became
Speaker 1: a video thing, and that bothers me. The nominees are
Speaker 1: Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffig and Nikki Glaze and
Speaker 1: Trevor Noah. Jervas is up for Armageddon, Chappelle's up for
Speaker 1: The Dreamer. For both those guys, it's nowhere near the
Speaker 1: top of their game, so I will pass on those.
Speaker 1: Nicki Glazer is up for HBO's Someday You'll Die, which
Speaker 1: I didn't think was all that good. Trevor Noah's special
Speaker 1: I would pick, except Jim Gaffigan is nominated for The Prisoner,
Speaker 1: which is only out on album form. There's no video
Speaker 1: special for the Prisoner. Therefore, I am all in for
Speaker 1: Jim Gaffigan The Prisoner. I hope an album wins Best
Speaker 1: Comedy Album. If we're just going in terms of material,
Speaker 1: I would pick Trevor Noah, but I want an album
Speaker 1: to win. Ricky Gervas Armageddon won the Golden Globe for
Speaker 1: Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy. Someday You'll Die got
Speaker 1: two Emmy nominations. Chappelle's The Dreamer was nominated for two Emmys.
Speaker 1: Chappelle has won five Grammys out of six nominations, including
Speaker 1: last year for Dave Chappelle What's in a Name. Trevor
Speaker 1: Noah has won twice. Jim Gaffigan's been nominated seven times,
Speaker 1: never won a Grammy. Rooting for you, Jim. Speaking of awards,
Speaker 1: the Writers Guild announced that Joelkim Booster will host the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Writers Guild Awards in Los Angeles Saturday,
Speaker 1: February fifteenth. Joel said, being a member of the WGA
Speaker 1: is one of my proudest accomplishments. Barn None. After a
Speaker 1: tough couple of years, our union has faced. I'm honitor
Speaker 1: to get to host a celebration of all the incredible
Speaker 1: work our memories have produced. I have bad news for
Speaker 1: Joelkim Booster and the Writers Guild. Here's the you guys
Speaker 1: picked a stupid date. Here's why. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this. Saturday Night Live is turning fifty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've known this for a while. The big SNL thing
Speaker 1: is that weekend, on the Sunday and on the Friday,
Speaker 1: they're doing the big music concert. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: for press for the Writers Guild on that weekend, you're
Speaker 1: not going to get any. SNL is going to be
Speaker 1: all that people are talking about. Amy Schumer wants us
Speaker 1: to talk about her, So okay, Amy, we'll talk about you.
Speaker 1: Every single day. Amy's got a movie out on Netflix
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and Amy wants us to know she's no
Speaker 1: longer on ozimpic. She said she had a horrible experience
Speaker 1: on ozempic, despite losing thirty pounds. She told Howard Stern,
Speaker 1: I have this gene GDF fifteen, which makes you extremely
Speaker 1: prone to nausea, which is why I was so sick
Speaker 1: during my pregnancy. I tried ozempic almost three years ago,
Speaker 1: and I was like vomiting and then you have no energy.
Speaker 1: But other people take it and they're all good. God
Speaker 1: bless them. She said. She lost thirty pounds so quick
Speaker 1: and look great, but she couldn't lift her head off
Speaker 1: the pillow from how nauseous she was. Forbes asked Gary Goleman,
Speaker 1: what was Gary Goleman's first drink. Gary said it was
Speaker 1: either a Budweiser Miller lte at a bar in Bosston
Speaker 1: in my freshman year of college. I remember it because
Speaker 1: I had brought eight dollars to the bar. My friend said,
Speaker 1: who brings eight dollars to a bar? I was like this.
Speaker 1: All I have was the guys from my football team.
Speaker 1: They were generous and wound up buying me drinks. My
Speaker 1: big hang up was I was an athlete, and I
Speaker 1: was concerned it was going to make me less powerful
Speaker 1: on the basketball court and football field. Gary, what do
Speaker 1: you drink these days? He says, I'm not a big drinker. Occasionally,
Speaker 1: I'll have a glass of champagne at a wedding, and
Speaker 1: I bought a bottle of McKellen after Neil Pert, the
Speaker 1: drummer from Rush, died, I'll have a shot in honor
Speaker 1: of him on his birthday or the day he passed away.
Speaker 1: Forbes was curious how that tradition started. Gary Goleman said,
Speaker 1: I was listening to Getty Lee's biography. He reads it
Speaker 1: and he does such great voices and accents. He said.
Speaker 1: Out a memorial for Neil. He and Alex Liifsen had
Speaker 1: a glass of McKellen, and they also put one out
Speaker 1: for him. The band used to drink it together on
Speaker 1: important occasions. So I thought that was very lovely and
Speaker 1: wanted to add that tradition to my life. They also
Speaker 1: to ask Gary about his current one man show Grand Delinquent.
Speaker 1: Gary explained, with stand up, the basic formulas try to
Speaker 1: get as many laughs as close together as possible. A
Speaker 1: one man's show is definitely more challenging format. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to put it in an arithmetic but it's
Speaker 1: about twenty percent more challenging. You need a narrative arc
Speaker 1: and a stronger ending than thank you and good night.
Speaker 1: I welcome a reasonable challenge. A musical would be way
Speaker 1: over my head. That's something that's close to my stand
Speaker 1: up but draws more in my acting training and writing skills.
Speaker 1: I think I've conditioned my audience that I'm willing to
Speaker 1: share things that aren't necessarily funny but are meaningful to me.
Speaker 1: I'm lucky that I have this patient, encouraging, reassuring audience there,
Speaker 1: and they don't bristle at this. I hear loud laughs
Speaker 1: and to faws, and then I hear people who are
Speaker 1: openly weeping. It's not what I intended. I didn't think
Speaker 1: it would go to that level, but it's a heartwarming surprise,
Speaker 1: he told an anecdote involving Chris Elliott. You feel listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast regularly. You know I'm quite the eighties
Speaker 1: letterman fan Gary explained when the Great Depression came out,
Speaker 1: a friend of mine reached out to Chris Elliott and
Speaker 1: asked him to watch it one time Chris invited me
Speaker 1: up to his house in Maine and cooked barbecue at
Speaker 1: night and stayed up late and told stories and then
Speaker 1: made breakfast in the morning. I was giddy. I wasn't
Speaker 1: able to tell him how crazy it was about his work,
Speaker 1: because I knew would make him uncomfortable, But it was
Speaker 1: a dream come true. Favorite Rush song Subdivisions. Pete Davidson
Speaker 1: gave an update on the ferry he's trying to turn
Speaker 1: into a comedy club. He said, the John F. Kennedy
Speaker 1: sanctioned ferry. It's the biggest one. It's like a five
Speaker 1: thousand seater. Believe it or not. Not many people bid
Speaker 1: on it. A lot of people joke about it. But
Speaker 1: we have a very extensive plan and we're a lot
Speaker 1: closer than people seem to think. The plans include a
Speaker 1: hotel on the top floor, a movie theater, an entertainment theater,
Speaker 1: and a shopping center. Pete explained it's only been two
Speaker 1: years and people are like, I guess it's dead, and
Speaker 1: it's like, we need like one hundred million dollars. Give
Speaker 1: us a second and a story caught my eye from
Speaker 1: the Phoenix New Times. The New Times wrote, after a
Speaker 1: racist comedy act did hosted drew pamphleteering neo Nazis to
Speaker 1: its front door. A particular brewery has a few regrets.
Speaker 1: Since I don't know what's really going on here, I'm
Speaker 1: going to pull my punches on the specific nouns, but
Speaker 1: I'll give you the gist of the story. The brewery
Speaker 1: went on Facebook and posted that they didn't do their
Speaker 1: due diligence to verify concerns about one of the comedians.
Speaker 1: According to the brewery statements via The New Times, the
Speaker 1: comedian was brought along by the headliner. The statement reads
Speaker 1: headliner informed us he was providing his opening acts, as
Speaker 1: is very common in the industry. A few days before
Speaker 1: the event, we received concerns about one of the performers,
Speaker 1: who we weren't aware of being on the show. We
Speaker 1: were assured by headliner that this wouldn't be an issue.
Speaker 1: A mistakenly didn't do our due diligence to verify these concerns. Apparently,
Speaker 1: the New Times dms with the comedian in question, not
Speaker 1: the headliner, the other one who wrote I did two
Speaker 1: shows that went off with no issues. I went back
Speaker 1: to the venue of the following night. No one mentioned
Speaker 1: anything about neo Nazis handing out flyers or them having
Speaker 1: a locked the gates. I had a diverse audience, including
Speaker 1: Mexicans and Jewish people. If this was a neo Nazi event,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure those people wouldn't have been there, nor
Speaker 1: would they have hung around after the show to talk
Speaker 1: to me by my merch and tell me how much
Speaker 1: they enjoyed the show. So seeing this post seems like
Speaker 1: a load of horse hockey, and honestly, I'm disappointed in
Speaker 1: the venue. The New Time sources an employee of the
Speaker 1: brewery who worked the event, who said, as for the
Speaker 1: questionable material, there were more shouts of agreement and cheering
Speaker 1: than it was laughter. It felt more like a rally
Speaker 1: than a comedy show. The staffer had trouble recalling specifics
Speaker 1: of the controversial act, but they remembered a bit about
Speaker 1: the comedian being highly attracted to old school Nazis because
Speaker 1: they actually have testosterone and will smack you around every
Speaker 1: once in a while. The staffer said management was complaining
Speaker 1: right along with us. We all shot each other painful
Speaker 1: looks from across the bar, specifically nasty lines. There's been
Speaker 1: a nightmare for them and they're even arguably more frustrated
Speaker 1: and upset than the hourly staff, simply because of the
Speaker 1: intense damage control they're expected to do. Oh there is more.
Speaker 1: According to this, On Friday, members of some neo Nazi
Speaker 1: groups I'm not going to promote the particular groups posted
Speaker 1: photos and videos of themselves on a social media platform,
Speaker 1: masked and handing out flyers outside the show. The flyers
Speaker 1: promoted some of their ideas which I choose not to promote.
Speaker 1: The brewery said, the views of the performers do not
Speaker 1: reflect the views of the Brewery, and in no way
Speaker 1: do we support the presence of any sort of neo
Speaker 1: Nazi groups around our business. We absolutely do not support
Speaker 1: neo Nazis, hate speech, white supremacy, misogyny, anti LGBTQ plus
Speaker 1: or racism of any kind. That's it. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how to wrap up here. Awkward, But like, I
Speaker 1: just found that whole thing interesting, Like how did the
Speaker 1: show get booked? What was said? Why did the guys
Speaker 1: come by with pamphlets? Seems like there's a lot more
Speaker 1: to unpack here. We'll keep an eye on that one. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's your comedy news for today. Awkward, all right, see
Speaker 1: to worrow,