Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. I I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
comedy news from Latenighter dot com. We have our first
ratings snapshot post Cobert Ooh do you think finished? First?
Of course, Jimmy Kimmel did. Now, this data is from
last Monday, the first time that everybody was live and
things were kind of fair late night or sales US.
According to Nielsen Live plus same day data, Jimmy Kimmel
dominated the hour with an average two point one eighty
five million total viewers and two hundred and ninety five
thousand in the eighteen to forty nine's Boy Boy Is
only old people like me are watching these things? I
mean two ninety five in the eighteen of forty nine's Wow. So,
comparing Monday June first, twenty twenty six to Monday June second,
twenty twenty five, Kimmel was up fifty three percent in
total viewers and up one hundred and seventy eight percent
among adults eighteen to forty nine. So at eleven thirty five,
Kimmel had an eight point three share average two point
oney eighty five million viewers. Fellon in second place with
a little over five share and one point three million viewers.
Comics unleashed six hundred and twenty eight thousand viewers. Now,
before you're like, that's not a lot of people, The
Big Fancy Daily Show with Jon Stewart had six hundred
and twelve thousand viewers at eleven o'clock and then at
twelve thirty seven a m. Late Night with Seth Myers
seven hundred and ninety thousand people, and the new twelve
thirty Byron Allen. Thing funny you should ask, that's now
the twelve thirty show four hundred and nineteen thousand people.
Nightline is winning that time slot with eight hundred and
nineteen thousand more. From that Hollywood Reporter Comedian roundtable that
we were picking at yesterday, Nikki Glazer, the Hollyood Reporter writes,
this is the hollered reporter speaking recently defined her aspirational
self as follows. I want to be someone who's smart
and effable and adorable and likable and seems nice, but
it's saying awful things. They asked Nikki, did they miss anything?
Glazier said, wow, I didn't practice that before I said it.
I do want to be liked by everyone because it's
a sickness, but I also want to say things that
make people feel less alone. I always felt like it
was weird. No one was really an example of that
on TV, the people that were my role models. And yeah,
I want to be effable because it makes people treat
you better and give you more money for things. I
don't actually want to be ft. I want to be
clear about that. I don't want to be She's getting
a little coarse here. I just want the stuff that
comes with people wanting to feels weird to say that.
But who doesn't want to be liked. I've read the room,
and when you look prettier, people are nicer to you.
Maren wade in and said, effable is good. I think
I want people to like me, but I see you
don't want them to work for it for a bid.
I'm also very clear that not everyone's going to this.
Part of me thinks I'm from everybody, but I know
that's not true. The Hollered reporter, we're asking the comedians,
who are your people? How do you define your people?
Maren said, it's multi generations of handringers, sensitive, creative, angry
people that feel like they don't have a voice in
the world. A lot of them politically active or at
least engaged and want to feel a little better. Holly Reporter,
Where won't your audiences go with you? Maren, I push
a la leak because I get labeled as this progressive.
I'm a progressive person, but I'm also an old, dirty man.
I mean, I've been in this business a long time
and half of it was drunk. There's a part of
me now that I have this following of sensitive, socially
concerned people that wants to be like, yeah, but I'm
kind of dirty. You still like me now. Leanne Morgan said,
I don't think I'm qualified to weigh in on politics.
Nobody wants to know what I think, and I don't know.
Half the time. I'm just sitting here thinking about how
to get through menopause. Harlan Williams having a bit of
a moment. He's been around forever, but he was on
Rogan recently and the spokesman caught up with Harlan Williams.
He said, you tell a joke, can you get your
result instantly in the moment versus waiting for years to
see a finished animated film. I wanted that immediacly. I
wanted that instant feedback, so I knew that's stand up
was the right fit for me, so I could get
that really quick turnaround on my product. I don't like
to get too serious because to me, comedy is silly
and fun. I don't want to talk about politics or
abortion all that stuff. I'd rather talk about a frog
jumping around on a beg of doritos, or something stepping
outside of a predetermined routine. It's like I'm almost entertaining
myself when I don't know where it's going. I think
the audience picks up on that energy that I'm amusing myself,
and so they're amused. It's infectious and it's fun. Tim
Hawkins told The Christian Post there's guys who were entrenched
in the industry and in the world's entertainment business. It's
a dirty place. We're finding that out with certain files
in a certain way the world works. Comedy's a lot
of fun, but you'd be surprised it did a little
bit of club work. Starting out was a very depressing place.
It was filled with drug addicts. It was filled with
depress people. A lot of comedians just have issues. We're
not the most positive people in the world. All the time.
These entertainers are realizing there's more to it and that
they've been down these roads and it doesn't end in
a fun place. It doesn't end in a good place.
It's like, well, what are the answers. I think it's
encouraging and the more clean performance succeed that helps guys
like me. It's really kind of a team thing. There's
more opportunities if you're clean. He named check Nate Brighetzi
and Leanne Morgan. There are a lot of people out
there that can connect and relate to what I'm talking about.
We're not out clubbing, We're home doing family stuff. People
laugh harder when they can relate to what you're talking about.
Be the same person you are in your living room
making your friends and family laugh. Jeff Foxworthy works clean.
He said he was shocked when Fox Nation agreed to
bring his act back to smaller clubs. Jeff said, there's
just something about that beer smell. I spent so many
years in them, and when it's working on new stuff,
I never do it in a big place. It's always
a little place. Because stand up is intimate. I want
the audience actively involved in it. I'm talking to them,
is this funny? Is it not funny? And I've had
a lot of people that were there for those nights
in the small club saying that was probably my favorite
night of stand up because I got to be part
of it. Jeff explained, I wasn't just receiving. I'm watching
you thinking, how do we make this better? If you
do it well, it looks like you just walked on
stage and thought of it that day, which works in
the break room when you shared experience in history with
each other, But when you're on stage or in front
of strangers, you have to work it. You have to
be a fishing at it. An example of that the
Redneck jokes, he said, the redneck jokes help me to
be efficient as a writer because I had to create
an entire joke in one sentence because they were one lighters.
All right, here's a leftover from Cole Bear week. This
guy is Brian Stack. He was a writer on The
Late Show and for Conan. He caught up with Chicago Magazine.
He talked about his influences Good List here Letterman hit
me really hard in college at a younger age was
things like SETV, Early SNL, Steve Borton, Richard pryor Peter
Seller's Monty Python Great List. The conversation moved to Conan
being silly for silly's sake, and some of the characters
Conan would do Chicago mag liked already. Kendle the ghost crooner.
Brian Stack explains that just popped into my head one day.
Rockefeller Center had been around since nineteen thirty, and these
old singers like Bing Crosby were there, and I thought
a lot of the views from back then wouldn't be
acceptable today. What if there was a guy whose views
weren't even acceptable in his own time. I was trying
to make it clear that Artie Kendall was a monster
who had been murdered because he was awful. I love
doing all the silly characters at Conan, but I'm grateful
for some of the newer challenges that I had at
Stephen's show, and learning from people who were so brilliant
political satsire. It was never my strong suit, so it
was interesting and fun to try and develop that voice
war but it was an adjustment, especially when Trump came along,
because that caught us all so off guard by how
much we had to think about one particular guy They
then talked about Conan's nine month run on The Tonight Show.
Stack said, as happy as I was for Conan, they
got the opportunity to do the show they'd always wanted
to do. I always felt like we were all better
suited to something that was on a little bit later,
had a little bit less of a high profile. I'll
chime in, and I think in retrospect that's crystal clear.
Conan once said that the Tonight Show's like a big,
beautiful ship that's a little hard to maneuver. It moves
very slowly, and it's very large and bulky. When we
got to the TBS show, it was more like being
on a little cigarette both that can flip around and
do whatever you want. I think that's where we felt
more comfortable. I don't remember anyone imposing anywhere strictions on
us at the Tonight Show, but there's something about it
as an institution that made us so little self conscious
about some of the stuff we were trying. So while
I wish Conan had gotten a shot at the Tonight
Show that we all know he deserved, and the time
to develop it the way the other host did, I
always loved the freedom to mess around like we're up
in an attic and no one's paying attention, and the
Toronto Guardian does this serious tragedy plus time where they
talk it to local Toronto comedians. One local Toronto comedian
is Olena Fox, known for bold, sex positive storytelling and
sharp Eastern European honesty. Her influence is Matt Rife for
his fearless crowd work, Louis c k for turning personal
life and relationships into sharp comedy, and of course the
Ukrainian women who survived everything and still make jokes. Favorite
comedian right now. I'm really inspired by Matt Rife for
his stage presence in crowd interactions, and Chay Durina for
his disgusting but delicious humor pre show ritual lipstick, Deep Breath,
and an internal pep talk, which is, Elena, you survived
immigration and divorce. You can survive people looking at you
for ten minutes. And that is your comedy news for today. Right.
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