Speaker 1: Callaroga Shock Media.
Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
Found this one on the internet. This guy said that
the other night after the knixt game, he went by
the comedy seller user vodka. Mike three said, well, I
must have hit the lottery. He caught the eleven to
thirty comedy seller show. Honestly not even sold out. Place
was kind of dead due that in the Knicks game, well,
about four comedians in the host calls up Chris Rock
the place goes wild in all out of state. Chris said,
the place electrified with just his presence. He then proceeded
to bomb recovered the last five. Then Dave Chappelle emerged
from the stairwell. Place goes wild, the lights of Smoke,
grabs a drink, hits us with just shy of two
hours of comedy, just kind of riffing and talking crap.
He brings up a drunk but funny Shane Gillis for
the last twenty they totally slayd together. Basically, the three
were at the next game and just swung in and
dropped an impromptu set. I still can't believe this happened.
That is the only mention I have seen of that,
but if that did happen, that's pretty cool. In the
Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, Dylan
shared a thread some dude who's not Dylan made a
video the top twenty five standups of the two thousands.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Luckily Dylan summarized the list for me, so I don't
have to watch the video. I'm going to react before
I even look at the list. I would say here
in June of twenty twenty six, off the top of
my head on research, just reacting, I'd have to say
number one Dave Chappelle, number two Louis c K despite
all the controversy, and three Dane Cook, who has become
underrated and everybody forgets what Dane Cook did during the aughts.
Then there's another tier with like Mulaney and Gaffigan's probably
in there. But let's see what this list is and
I will react to it cold. Dylan's recap in the
Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group tells us twenty
five Dane cooker right, seems low. Twenty four Jim Jeffries,
I'd have to see who else is on the list
before I react. Twenty three Gary Goldman twenty two, Jim
Norton twenty one, Rory Skolvell twenty, Jesselnick nineteen, Kat Williams eighteen,
Shane seventeen, Tosh sixteen, Bamford fifteen to eight fourteen Mitch Hedberg.
If you listen to the show, you know how much
I love Mitch. The problem is there's just not the
body of work. Thirteen gaffagain twelve Bo Burnham, that's crazy talk.
Eleven Doug Stanhope. Love Doug, but that seems too high.
I'm gonna have to go back and react. Ten Greg
Giraldo nine Patrese O'Neill. As I've said before, I never
enjoyed the man's company. I'm biased. I get that people
like he's funny. Never liked being in a room with
that dude. Eight John Mulaney seven Brian Reagan. That seems high.
Six It Tel, Oh yeah, a Tel, yeah, a good call.
Five Colin Quinn that is absurd. For Bill Burr, Oh yeah,
you know. I'll be thinking about Bill Burr lately. Boy,
he out of everybody who did Riodd, I think Bill
Burr totally goofed up his brand. Like you don't hear
about burn now, and when you do everybody kind of
eye rolls him. I really think he screwed up. Three.
Chappelle two, Norm MacDonald no number one, Louis c K.
So what did I say? I said, Chappelle c K
and Dane. All right, let me look at this. Let's
go in the other direction.
Speaker 1: C K.
Speaker 2: You know you could argue it, but I'll put Chappelle there.
Norm that's way too high. Colin Quinn is insanity at five.
Brian Reagan is too high at seven. Laney's probably about right.
Greg Giraldo at ten is crazy talk. Twelve, Bo Burnham
is crazy talk. Nate bergatsy at fifteen. You know, if
we're gonna put Nate on the list, are we gonna
put Sebastian Manascalco on the list? Because they're kind of
like doing the same thing tour wise, and I don't
think either one of them is particularly groundbreaking anyway, if
my memory suits me, I did some version of this
list around the end of the year, so you can
go back in the feed and look at that. Jenny Mack,
are you serving us leftovers today? No? Why do you ask? Yeah,
if you've been listening, it's been slow lately. Here's some
fun facts from David Cross. David Cross fun Facts US Weekly.
David Cross says, I used to be a night owl
up until about nine years ago. Now I'm a morning person.
My nine year old daughter is happy to explain why. Yes,
I in my friend group, I had children a little
bit earlier than the others, and you know you have
a baby. If you've raised children, you understand you need
to sleep. And my friends would be like, why can't
you come out on Friday night? Are you whipped? And
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, you don't understand. I
can go out. What I can't do is go out
and then the next morning be like, oh, sorry, I
know you had the baby all night because I went out,
and you still have the baby because I'm hungover. You
can't do that, So I understand David Cross. We also
learned that his go to dish that is universally recognized
as superior in every way is his chili. His family
requested at least once every couple weeks, and he has
to make extra for all the neighbors. Interesting, his secret,
completely useless talent is that David Cross can tell you
the temperature within one degree. Like if we were outside
and you said how hot do you think it is?
I'd go, I'm about seventy one degrees, and I'd be right.
There are a lot of famous people in my phone list,
but the most famous is probably Bill Odenkirk, It says,
I assume he's kidding or the transcription messed up. I
would have to guess in my phone it's Jimmy Fallon
would probably be it. Stephen van Zant. Fallon's more well
known than Van's Ant, right, humble brag. I'd have to
go through every now and then I'll like, so my
business partner's name is Mark, and I'll be scrolling down
and I'll type in Mark, and I almost accidentally text
Mark Maren things like that. David Cross says, I don't
get starstruck a whole lot, but I do get sports
stars struck. I got to hang out with for like
an hour and a half and drink with Chipper Jones.
That's the old Breeves player that US Mets fans don't like.
And I was unforgettable, an absolute legend. We were just
chilling and shooting the stuff, and I will never forget
it for me. Now this goes back way way. I
may have told the story It's one of my favorite
stories tell so I'm gonna tell it again. It's like
seven point thirty in the morning. I'm working at wr Radio.
It's the early nineties. I'm walking down the hallway on
my way to produce the show at eight o'clock and
I look up and there's a man and the man
can see the look on my face that I'm like what,
And the man sticks out his hand. He goes, Hi,
Charlton Heston. I will never forget that moment, just because
I was like, oh wait, that's Tarlton. Doesn't hi Charlton Heston.
That was my time I met Trelton Heston. I enjoy
his movies, enjoy his work, and I enjoyed the one
time I met him. I thought you, I've been keeping
this list of celebrities have met over the years. At
some point I'll read it to you. I did not
to flexious to I don't know filler one day, but
not today. Cross says his celebrity crush growing up was
an Aastasia Kinsky that poster have heard with the snake.
I mean, come on, what's left on David Cross's bucket list?
He says, Let's see I hike the Inca Trail and
dove to the blue Hole and Belieze a couple years ago.
So I'm gonna say space. Maybe I've been struggling with
that since I went to Antarctica a year and a
half ago. Like I don't know what to do now
because I've I've been very, very fortunate. Please understand as
I go to this rap, I'm very thankful for all
the things I've had, and I'm aware that I've been
able to do something. But I've been to Iceland in
Alaska and Australia, and like, I don't know, Maybe I
kind of want to go to Japan. Seems to be
my new kick. We'll see. I also, and I'm not
doing a bit. Was thinking about there's a way you
can climb Kilimanjaro, but it's not like a mountain climb.
It's like the long way up you walk, and like
it's not just like a stroll. You got to put
some effort into it and train. But I kind of
have that on my list too. I feel like some
fifty six, I feel like I need another big thing,
Like I was driving Tantarctica for years and I don't
know I need a thing. If you're new This isn't
now the show normally goes. I don't normally do all
these sidebars, but you know, it's a quiet Monday. Leftover
is from Variety. Mark Maron talked about his pilot for
Mark Maren Project back at nineteen ninety five. It was
a talk show pilot for Comedy Central. That space eventually
was taken by The Daily Show. Maren said, at that time,
HBO at a piece on Comedy Central and HBO Downtown
produced a show that used to do for them short
attention span theater. They want to do a talk show
pilot because I was sort of there and I want
to try. We did a pilot. I felt like we
did two episodes of The Mark Project. My guess was
Dave Chappelle on one of them. It must have been
a kid. Then what does Maren think about the current
talk show format? I assume they're hinting at Colbert here.
He says, I'm sad that the format can't live in
this world we live in, But I don't think they're
at fault. I think ultimately, as individuals, you better hold
onto that party of brain that can take in long
form content, or else you're just gonna have a complete
mind mode with the tech forces that are guiding your
brain in life, and you won't really have much of
an identity or method of choice anymore. I don't feel
bad that the business is changing, but I don't know
what you do about it. Maren On was also on
Kara Swisher's podcast, and he got a little political. Maren said,
when comics get duped into this idea that because they
can't say tranny or worse words, and somehow or another,
that's the Left infringing on their freedom of speech, it's
so shalt and stupid. Because they fought for it, they
just become part of the party line of dismantling liberal democracy.
It was never a freedom of speech issue. It was
it never constitutional issue. You could say whatever you want,
You're just gonna have to should in the burden of
the consequences. Ultimately, what happened because they were used to
dismantle the entire infrastructure of DEI and everything else, and
now they don't have to shoulder anything because now they
can say those words with impunity, and the Left is
no traction to counter it. Because we're living in two
separate worlds. Karon said, I hold them responsible for being
the front line to usher in Trump's second era. Send
your letters to Mark mare And via Karra Switcher. Taylor
Toomlinson has an announcement. Would listen to this.
Speaker 1: Hi, guys, I have something really exciting to share with you.
Speaker 2: I wrote a book.
Speaker 1: I wrote a whole book. Can you believe it? I can't.
It's called Actually never Mind. It comes out September twenty second.
It's a collection of essays about everything I've changed my
mind about over the years, which is literally everything, marriage, sex,
mental health coming out. God, it's my thoughts and feelings
on all of it. I definitely overshared. Uh, try not
to think about that too hard or I'll panic. I
read the audiobook if you're into that, and yeah, you
can pre order it now at the link in my bio,
So please go do that.
Speaker 2: Boy, are you excited? I can't wait. Actually never Mind
will come out September twenty s second of this year,
the Taylor Tomlinson book. Yeah. You know what else I'm
really excited about? Listen to this. I had a check
to make sure this is real. Here's the twenty twenty
six Emmy ballot for Best Original Music and Lyrics. I
said Best Original music and Lyrics. I didn't say anything
about comedy, did I know? I said best Original Music
and Lyrics. One of the people on the ballot for
best Original Music and Lyrics is Nicky Glazer. Yeah, it's
Nicki Glazer's song good Girl from her Hulu Stan Up special.
And boy, we know she likes Taylor Swift, but boy
she did a bad tailor Swift impression. Here. I'm going
to torture you and make you listen to it. Did
you share the show? You didn't share the show? Richard?
Share the show? Richard? Thank you for sharing the show.
I saw you share the show. Richard hit thirty second
skip like four times. Okay, because I don't want to
subject to you to this, but everybody else you didn't
share the show, and I'm gonna punish you. You now
have to listen to Nicki Glazer sing good Girl, comment.
Speaker 3: A little strange man poison my day. It's not a
common it's garn old look in my age. They'll praise
you for your youthful clue and tiny aways line. She's
such a natural role, but he was a filter, and
they'll call you a lie. Oh be a.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, we're gonna play some commercials, souse, I
have to go beat my head against a brick wall
to give myself brain damage, so I don't remember that
the song even exists. Here's a shocker. The guy that
hosts daily Comedy News actually watched some comedy specials the
other night between Nick's games. It was Thursday night, and
I was like, oh, yeah, I should probably watch some
of these. This was not the order I watched them in,
but I put on Josh Johnson's Symphony on HBO, and
I know I'm supposed to like it, and I like
Josh Johnson. He comes out and the first couple jokes
are great, and he looks great, and the whole thing
is great, and then a couple I don't know, fifteen
minutes in, I'm like, not really enjoying this. I'm just
kind of bored, so I bailed on it. That was
actually the third special I watched. The second special I
watched was Patton Oswalt, And aside from the Star Trek thing,
which is not a bit I really feel that way,
but generally I like Patton Oswalt's comedy a lot like
that George Lucas bit that I played the other day.
That's a great bit. I love it. Patten's comedy just
really is in my wheelhouse. But this one, I don't know.
I was sitting there and I'm like, this isn't registering
at all, and I bailed the other thing I didn't like.
It's one of those specials. This is the new thing
that I talked to Pete Holmes about a while back,
where we're just suddenly in the middle of a set.
There's no more like, hey, welcome to the stage. Patten als, well, hey, hey,
how's everybody in Cleveland doing? Yeah, yeah, and then you
go into it. This was one of those new fangled things.
We're just boom pattens on stage mid joke. I don't
like that. I live on old Man Mountain, my neighbor's
Pete Holmes Apparently the best of the three best with
a lowercase B was Tony Hinchcliff on Netflix, which is
nothing but empty calories. There's barely any jokes. The crowd
looks like they want to murder him. If you've seen
this special, there's this one guy that he's trying to
engage with. The guy looks like he might just suddenly.
I didn't want to say. The guy does not look
like a happy person. Now a couple days later, I'm wondering,
is the guy a plant to set up the whole thing? Maybe,
because the guy just doesn't look like he's having a
good time at Tony Hinchcliffe's show. Tony's just doing like,
okay crowd work, and the crowd work's not scoring and
there's not too many jokes. And I've got to comment
from another comedian that'll share with you in a minute.
So it's weird. I don't even know why it exists,
I guess other than they really wanted to kill Tony
and as part of that package, they were like, yeah,
we'll do a Tony Hinchcliff comedy special, and Tony doesn't
have any material. Is that what's happening here? The people
on Threads are I rate at this special lowercasees And
it's not an hour either. What should we call it? Show?
Hinchcliff recording? This Tony Hinchcliff recording. The people in Threads
are I rate that it even exists? And I get it.
That said, of the things I watched, this was the
one that kept my attention. And you know, I was
playing on my phone, wasn't studying it, but I enjoyed it.
Is it okay that I enjoyed it? Apparently not? According
to comedian Ryan Davis, who posted on social media, Tony
Hinchcliff is so important to comedy in America. Twenty years
from now, people will swear that our country wasn't the
way it is today and will try to change history.
They're going to try to burn the evidence, but Tony's
recorded sets and sold out arena shows will stand as
proof of things that millions of Americans were cheering for
the type of bigotry disguised as comedy that had people
cheering and clapping instead of laughing. If you need a
special to watch today, Brian Simpson Live from the Mothership
out on the eight hundred pound Gorilla late Nighter. Looked
at the late night ratings. Now Stephen Colbert is gone
and Jimmy Kimmel's lead in was the New York Knicks
twice last week. Wednesday's postgame broadcast got three point nine
to eight million total viewers for Kimmel, making it the
show second high rated episode of the season. Friday's post
game two, after that big comeback, drew three point three
eight million viewers. The eighteen to forty nine numbers are
just shocking for all these things. Friday got eight hundred
and forty six thousand in that demo Wednesday seven or
fifty one thousand in the demo. Meanwhile, Jimmy Fallon, who
had no basketball, lead and fell back to one point
three seven million total viewers, and in the eighteen of
forty nine's one hundred and sixty four thousand adults, which
in the scheme of things, is not that much more
than this podcast. That's terrifying. How about Byron Allen? John,
is everybody watching Byron Allen? Look, everybody needs to calm
down with the Byron Allen. Byron knows the deal, CBS
knows the deal. Nobody thinks anyone's going to watch this.
All anyone is saying is that Byron Allen has figured
out a way to buy the time from CBS and
sell enough commercials that Byron Allen makes money on it.
CBS gets a guaranteed dollar amount they don't have to stress,
and Byron's making money on it. Whether or not you watch,
nobody cares. Five half hour averaged seven hundred and eighty
six thousand total viewers and eighty thousand adults. Eighteen to
forty nine. Twelve O five got five hundred twenty thousand
viewers and fifty seven thousand adults. Did John, did you
just say the number fifty seven thousand? I did, which
is why I tripped over it. Fifty seven thousand. Yikes,
that is a small number. But again, as I just said,
nobody cares, because let's think about it. Whatever Jimmy Fallon's
being paid is getting one point three seven million total viewers,
and then CBS not spending any money getting paid to
air Byron Allen's thing is getting seven hundred and eighty
six thousand total little viewers, which is what about half
little more than half. Now Fallon brings other things to
the network and it's the Tonight Show, and you know,
I think there's value to having something like the Tonight
Show and a Jimmy Fallon hosting it. But at some
point the accountants are going to look at these things
to be like, yes, EBS, isn't that crazy? That's twelve
thirty five CBS is funny, you should ask. That's Byron
Allen's other other show that average four hundred and forty
thousand total viewers and fifty three thousand adults eighteen to
forty nine. That compares to Seth Myers, who has eight
hundred and ninety seven thousand total viewers and one hundred
and three adults. So again, you can we can have
Seth Myers and try really hard, or we cannot try
at all and do half the number. You gotta look
at that at some point. Speaking of Late Night, the
folks at Late Nighter stayed up to watch James Cordon.
He's hosting whatever that's called, uh show on After Soccer
with James Cordon. I think that's what it's called. Yeah,
that's you got it, John. They watched episode one. Late
Nighter said for a first effort, the new Cordon effort
had good energy and shaggy charm, which is a fair
characterization of its host. The show made its strongest case
as a loose live hang. It was laid back enough
that the beers consumed by the show's roundtable during the
hour looked more natural than affected. Cordon did no monologue.
The show was not joke centric, but some jokes seeped in.
Cordon played a clip from the opening game that showed
the Mexican goalkeeper caressing and kissing a soccer ball Cordon
joke to my wife. Hasn't helped me like that in
twelve years. FIFA World Cup on Fox After Hours with
James Cordon. That's the title, not what I said. What
did I say? It was a show on after Soccer
with James Corden, which might actually be a better title. Well,
I have to look back at this Friday night. The
guest was Sebastian Maniscalco after the Team USA game. Do
you think Sebastian came on and made a stupid face?
Of course he did. And that's your comedy news for today.
You know, for having nothing, this was pretty good and
way longer than it had any business being anyway. So
you're gonna share the show or I'm gonna keep playing
Nicki Glazer singing. You don't want that, right, Okay, you
understand we're at the point where I'm threatening you. Now
you're gonna share the show, Richard, You're excused. U saw
you did it?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Richard? Everybody else share the show or I'm gonna play
Nicki Glazer singing. Don't think I won't. You know I
played the Joe Koi bit for like three years, right,
you know I will play Nicki Glazer singing, So share
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we came on after a football doubleheader.
Speaker 3: The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.
Speaker 2: On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of
Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go
to here