Johnny Mac discusses the recent WWE Raw after-show featuring cameos by comedians and wrestlers. He reviews the Netflix debut of 'Kill Tony,' critiquing its start but praising performances by Shane Gillis and others. Sam Harris's comments about Joe Rogan spark a debate, and Mac shares a personal anecdote involving Rogan's podcast. The episode also covers Amber Ruffin’s new hosting gig, Elie King’s remarks about her father Rob Schneider, various comedy festivals, and upcoming specials by Mike Birbiglia and Dave Chappelle.
00:00 Bert Kresicher and WWE
01:30 Tony Hinchcliffe on WWE Raw
02:09 Review of Kill Tony's Netflix Debut
04:17 Sam Harris Criticizes Joe Rogan
06:50 Mike Birbiglia's New Netflix Special
07:50 Dave Chappelle Celebrates Haitian Community
08:50 Amber Ruffin's New Gig
09:23 Ellie King on Her Relationship with Rob Schneider
09:51 John Mulaney's Netflix Show Review
10:54 Comedy Festival Highlights
12:46 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Reviews
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00:00 Bert Kresicher and WWE
01:30 Tony Hinchcliffe on WWE Raw
02:09 Review of Kill Tony's Netflix Debut
04:17 Sam Harris Criticizes Joe Rogan
06:50 Mike Birbiglia's New Netflix Special
07:50 Dave Chappelle Celebrates Haitian Community
08:50 Amber Ruffin's New Gig
09:23 Ellie King on Her Relationship with Rob Schneider
09:51 John Mulaney's Netflix Show Review
10:54 Comedy Festival Highlights
12:46 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Reviews
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, we've got some Netflix synergy
going on over there. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. Let's start with WWE RAW. Apparently there
was some sort of after show. I've seen the video
clips of it, but the announcers weren't sticking around. Bert
(00:24):
Kreischer jumped in the ring. There's a fun clip if
you want to go search it out. During the main show,
Bert was seen in the audience drinking and chugging beer.
He did a backstage interview that was interrupted by the
faction American Maid, which as you know are Julius Creed,
Brutus Creed, Chad Gable, and Ivy Nile. But then a
different faction showed up, the Alpha Academy, who as you know,
(00:47):
are Otis, Maxine Dupree, and Akira Tozawa. They showed up.
Luckily everyone got along. Kreischer and Otis both tore off
their shirts. But then after sign off, CM Punk was
in the ring. As I understand things, Grace and Waller
and Austin Theory you know them as atown down Under.
Of course, they targeted CM Punk and try to take
(01:07):
him out. Krazier jumped the ringside barrier to confront Grace
and Waller. Luckily, Cempunk recovered, Punk invited Krasier into the ring.
Then Bert Krescher executes a choke slamb on Waller. The
crowd loved it. Not sure why that didn't make the
live show. I don't know how wrestling works, but a
lot of fun and I love the crossover. It's just
(01:28):
such an environment to have the comedians on. For example,
say you were promoting a fellow show on Netflix, you
could have Tony Hinchcliff on ww RAW. What would that
sound like? Hmm, let's wonder Tony Hitchcliff.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I am happy to be here. This is so exciting.
I've been watching since the Attitude era. Michael Hole has
been watching since the Jurassic era.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So West, congratulations on your show, Kill Tony debuting on
Netflix today.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Couldn't be happier. Happy to be here on Rock. This
is a childhood dreams come true. This is absolutely unbelievable.
Mcfee's the man, Michael Coole. I've been watching you forever.
The first match you called was David versus Goliath.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I did watch Kill Tony's Netflix debut, and I think
they blew it. There's no way a casual is going
to make it through those first ten minutes. Maybe the
Hinchcliff crew doesn't care, but somebody should being on scene going, hey,
it's episode one, to a lot of new people, don't
introduce the band, nobody cares, get right to it, and
(02:31):
the first comedian out of the box was horrific. There's
no way a casual watch those first ten minutes when oh,
I really like this show. This is good, which sucks
because if they had made it to minute eleven out
comes Shane Gillis as Trump and I will tell you
as I watched and skimmed the two hours, Shane tried
really hard to carry the show. Luck of the draw.
(02:52):
The names coming out of the hat weren't that good.
The set pieces that were planned Shane of course, Adam
Ray coming out, Ron White as your clothes, those were
all good as expected. But the civilians, it was a
particularly poor group of civilians. Ai Johnny mack here Hume
and John forgot to record his observation that Joe Rogan
is there, and did Joe Rogan speak at all? He
(03:15):
was silent. Tom Sagora also joined the panel at one
point and didn't add all that much except suggesting a
landscape or get a website. I'm not sure how much
the casuals are going to like episode one of Netflix
Kill Tony. The show looked good, but I'll tell you
I was trying, and at some point after an hour
in Now, I did watch the first hour entirely, but
then I just started skimming ahead to is Shane gillis
(03:38):
doing Trump right now or not? I think for me
the show works better as an audio podcast, where I
can listen at two x and if a comedian isn't
working for me, I can go SA sape, safe, Sape, sape, sape, sape,
say Scape, which is a little easier to do on
a podcast app than my Roku. Anyway, I do like
the show a lot. I am a fan, as I
(03:59):
just I think it works better for me as an
audio podcast. And I feel bad here because I think
people would like the show if exposed to it, but
they're not going to get through that first ten minutes.
Shame production. Somebody produced it wrong. Sorry, guys. Let's stay
down in Austin for Now podcaster Sam Harris is getting
(04:20):
into it with Joe Rogan on his own podcast, Sam
Harris recently discussed Joe and said Joe is a genuinely
good guy who wants good things for people, but he
is honestly in over his head on so many topics
of great consequence. Harris says society is politically shattered in
part because of how Rogan has interacted with information. Quote
A lot of this is inadvertent, but it's also voyable.
(04:42):
Rogan could actually take the responsibility that really is his
to take at this point to get his facts straight.
He could have two brilliant journalists who's full time job.
He could pay them each a million dollars a year
to just sit there and make sure he doesn't put
his foot in his mouth in a colossally irresponsible way.
Harris criticized comedian Dave Smith, who was recently on the show.
I have not listened to that episode yet, but I
(05:02):
did listen to last night they had on the Guy
that is bringing Back the Dire Wolves. That was a
really good listen. I do like Rogan's podcast, especially as
a late night listen. Among other reasons that the volume
doesn't go up and down so as I drift off
to sleep. And this is actually a compliment, not a dig.
I find Rogan very calming. Last night, I was having
a lot of trouble falling asleep, so I enjoyed the company.
(05:25):
And did I tell the story of when I was
in Antarctica? If not, I'll tell it again really quickly.
So we went out camping overnight on the ice in Antarctica.
I've never been so cold, and I'm not doing a
bit here. I was so cold at one point that
I was starting to blink out, wink out, and I contemplated,
is this what dying feels like. I'm not doing a bit.
I'm not being melodramatic. I've never been so cold in
(05:47):
my life. Now. I had brought my headphones and my phone,
but to operate such a thing was an ordeal because
I just wanted to keep I was wrapped up on
the sleeping bag, so so cold. So I hit play
on a four hour Joe Rogan episode because I knew
it would get me until four am when the boat
would come back and get us off this iceberg. Actually
(06:08):
it was an island, it wasn't an iceberg. So I
got my hand out of the glove and I hit
play on Rogan and Tulca Gabbard and I listened to
the whole thing as I sat there miserable, shivering. But
it was four hours long, So thank you Joe Rogan
for that particular night. But back to Sam Harris versus
Joe Rogan, Harris criticized Dave Smith, who was recently on
(06:28):
the show. Smith wrote back on Twitter, Sam's correct. The
only reason that anybody even knows who I am is
because of Joe Rogan. I should have earned it the
old fashioned way by having my mother create the Golden Girls.
That reference is that Harris's mother is Susan Harris, a
TV writer and producer who created The Golden Girls. It
is a busy news day on a lot of other days,
this would be the lead. Mike Birbiglia will have another
(06:51):
at Netflix special. This one is called The Good Life.
It'll be out May twenty sixth on Netflix. Interesting to me,
May twenty sixth is Memorial Day, a Monday. Normally Netflix
specials come out on Tuesday, but I guess they wanted
to pull it into the holiday weekend. In the Good Life,
Verbiggs combines jokes and storytelling as Mike talks about his
father suffering a stroke and how that led to Mike
reevaluating his own ideas about fatherhood. Berbiglia said in a statement,
(07:14):
over the years, I've done a lot of personal shows,
but somehow this one is the most personal because it's
not in my past. It's my life right now, so
there's really no filter. At certain points during the hour,
I literally thought, on stage, WHOA am I really going
to tell the story? But that's sort of the idea
behind these shows. I try to probe in it what's
most painful in order to figure out what's most funny. Personally,
the Verbiglia storytelling shows don't grab me. I understand. I'm
(07:35):
in the minority there. I really liked his early stand
up comedy when it was stand up stand up, but
I try and watch these specials and I'm just like, eh,
it's just not my thing. It's fine. He's very popular
and he'll do fun without me going, hey, I'm excited,
but you know, not my thing. Dave Chappelle did a
show Saturday night. On a lot of other days, this
would be the lead Dave and musician y Clef Jean.
(07:56):
We're celebrating the Haitian community. This happened in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
You may recall there were some false rumors about eating
cats and dogs, you know, about a year ago. Chapelle said,
the negativity has been so loud, and this celebration was
to amplify positive voices. Dave said, I think they hear
so many negative voices that it's good to hear some
positive voices. And let's see a hero from Haiti meaning
(08:18):
white Cloff Sean saying we love y'all. All these people
were brought here legally, all the unrest in Haiti, and
they put this extra burden of xenophobia on them. Chapelle
said he called Jean as soon as those rumors spread.
Sean was on tour at the time, but Dave says
he stayed on me. I stayed on him, and finally
this thing happened, and I think it needs to happen.
I think it's an important lesson, not just for the
Haitian community, but for all communities, like look, there are
(08:40):
people trying to assimilate in America. It's a very difficult
thing to do. I think would all be better by
embracing our new neighbors than marginalizing them. And I think
that why Cleff was the perfect combassador. Amber Ruffin, who
was disinvited from the White House Correspondents Dinner, has a
new gig. Pen America I announced that Ruffin will host
the Free Expression Organization's gala fundraiser May fifteenth. Penn's co
(09:04):
interim CEO praised Amber Ruffin for her brilliant social commentary, satire,
and exceptional talent. She is truly emblematic of the talented
creators who we need on stages and in writers rooms
during a time of unprecedented censorship in this country. We're
both delighted and honored to have her here with us.
Ellie King was on the Dumb Blonde podcast. She talked
about her father, Rob Schneider. King said, I go like
(09:27):
four or five years without talking to my dad. If
I would ever spend a summer with my dad growing up,
it would be on a movie set. I would just
get lost in the shuffle. She described herself as quote
a really, really heavy child and said Rob sent her
to a fat camp. She also said her dad forgot
about every single birthday, including when she turned eighteen, and
called Rob Schneider very toxic and very silly. Tonight, on
(09:52):
the John Mullaney Netflix show Bill hater Chelsea Peretti Johnny
Knoxville human Resources executive employee coach Katie and music from
Bortize Strange. After I watched kil Tony the other night,
I put Melanie on to give it another shot, and
it's not good and people are on threads. You're very
upset at me for voicing that opinion, anyone who's listening
(10:13):
to the show four years. No, I like John Mlanie's comedy,
but this show is not good. The Atlantic wrote a
funny article about it, and I'll just push back that, sure,
we should all applaud John mulani for trying and trying
to do something different, but at some point shouldn't the
show actually be funny? Don't we actually need results at
some point? Let me give you a straw man argument.
(10:35):
What if the show was called Everybody's Live with Spike Ferristed.
Would people be like, boy, Spike's really trying hard, He's
trying to do something different with his late night show
on Netflix. No, the show would be panned Mlanie's coasting
on the Goodwill. I'm just calling a straight shot here.
The show's not good and I like John mullaney. Both
things can be true. The Mountawer Comedy Festival kicks off
(10:56):
tonight and goes until April nineteenth. Over one hundred media
spanning stand up, sketch and musical comedy will be there.
Some of the comedians include Disease I'm Sorry, Tiffany Hattish,
Alex Moffett, and Michael Yo. Tonight, Alex Edelman at seven
o'clock a Porner and I'm sure allowed get to see
her back on stage it's seven. AZA's I'm Sorry not
So canceled at nine thirty, and Kay Trevor Wilson at
(11:18):
nine thirty. If we were in Austin, I would make
you go see Aparna and Kay Trevor Wilson, who deserves
more theme. Plus, I thought we canceled Disease. Didn't we
cancel Disease? Disease is back. Meanwhile, down in Nashville, if
you listen to yesterday's podcast, you know that Nicky Glazer's
at the Ryman tonight. Yeah, she wasn't there last night.
She's there tonight Wednesday, April ninth, at seven pm at
(11:41):
the Ryman. Nicki Glazer over at the Lab at Zanies
at the same time. Jared Freed also at seven. Robert
Kelly is the headliner at Zani's nine point fifteen at
the Lab Story Wars with Big Jay Ogerson and Louis J. Gomez.
If we were in Nashville tonight, I would say, let's
go see Nicki Glazer at seven and let's skip the
late show and go take in some country music and
(12:02):
a couple beverages and maybe some hot chicken. Nashville runs
all the way through Sunday, which is cool, planned to
talk about. This week, The lgbt l L Queer Comedy
Festival announced their lineup. Co founder Ryan Rodgers said, while
extremists try to erase us, we're making it impossible to
ignore us. Comedy has always been a form of resistance,
and right now, queer joy is revolutionary. This year's festival
(12:24):
is more than a celebration. It's a rally cry against censorship, discrimination,
and the silencing of lgbtqia plus stories. This festival runs
May twenty ninth through June first in New Orleans, kicking
off Pride Month. Your headliner is Corey O'Brien, Paris Sachet,
and Gabby Watts. More than one hundred comedians from across
America apply to perform to do a couple of reviews
(12:47):
of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Still haven't heard from Booblitz.
I don't know if the Melbourne, Florida National Comedy Festival
twenty twenty six is happening or not. Dan's probably one
of those guys that catches up and listens to like
seven episodes in a row, and all of a sudden
hear himself called out every day for a week. Aye, Dan,
all right, The Age has been hitting all the shows
(13:07):
in Melbourne. I haven't figured out a way to get
down there. You know, I could probably go down there
and write it off, but I'd have to, you know,
work it out with the family here, Like, Hey, I'm
going to Melbourne for a comedy festival for months. See
you who's watching the dogs exactly. Tom McCusker's show is
b Gay Do Crime, Gay Spell Gae. The Age gave
(13:28):
it four and a half stars out of five and
tell us about dom from being born and raised in
Hong Kong and living in the UK or Filipino Scottish
upbringing and unique adoptive family to coming out as bisexual
and even keeping the youth entertainment on a tall ship
without the Internet. Tom McCusker really has lots of detales
to tell. Dressed in a pirate themed outfit, Dom opens
to the show with a lovely solo shanty to the
(13:50):
tune of Last Saskatchewan Pirate. See this all sounds like
a lot of fun richeld. Each shanty has two sets
of lyrics to form the chorus. At the start of
each shanty, Dom sings through the first two lines with
some call and response called toosies twosies. How it works
is Dom sings the first two lines, you and the
audience sing back, and then finish the chorus off for
the last two lines. That's fun. Sarah Pesco's show is
(14:12):
called I Am a Strange Goop. As for Sarah, she's
gotten married and had two kids. She's a family woman
now and she wants to talk about it. The age says,
in most cases, yawn. Is that some commentary on like
what's going on with a lot of American women comics
around age forty right now? I don't know that's the
age in most cases? Yeah, and the audience really doesn't
(14:33):
care about them. Of your domestic life with the nocturnal
bubbs and a man who feigns ignorance to escape chers.
We've heard that one a thousand times, but not in
Pasco's adroit hands. She waves mirth out of monotony. Be
it the allure of polygamy simply to divide housework, or
the juxtaposition of sexual inclinations of both men and women
once they hit their forties. Four stars. They gave that
one and let's do one more. Lil Winker's show is
(14:56):
called Bang That Tale. Lil Winker's name Real bank Tail,
jumps into character as Alan, aka the Baddest man in Texas.
Strets on the stage in leather chaps, face a dorn
with drawn eyebrows and a mustache. This show as well,
has audience participation. You could find yourself portraying a heifer,
a cactus, the saloon doors, or the nemesis This one
(15:20):
woman clown at Western Blinds. Physical comedy and silliness and
a tightly constructive narrative. They gave it four stars. That's
a lot of fun too, And that is your comedy
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(15:42):
can work all that out meet you back here tomorrow,
Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, we've got some Netflix synergy
going on over there. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. Let's start with WWE RAW. Apparently there
was some sort of after show. I've seen the video
clips of it, but the announcers weren't sticking around. Bert
(00:24):
Kreischer jumped in the ring. There's a fun clip if
you want to go search it out. During the main show,
Bert was seen in the audience drinking and chugging beer.
He did a backstage interview that was interrupted by the
faction American Maid, which as you know are Julius Creed,
Brutus Creed, Chad Gable, and Ivy Nile. But then a
different faction showed up, the Alpha Academy, who as you know,
(00:47):
are Otis, Maxine Dupree, and Akira Tozawa. They showed up.
Luckily everyone got along. Kreischer and Otis both tore off
their shirts. But then after sign off, CM Punk was
in the ring. As I understand things, Grace and Waller
and Austin Theory you know them as atown down Under.
Of course, they targeted CM Punk and try to take
(01:07):
him out. Krazier jumped the ringside barrier to confront Grace
and Waller. Luckily, Cempunk recovered, Punk invited Krasier into the ring.
Then Bert Krescher executes a choke slamb on Waller. The
crowd loved it. Not sure why that didn't make the
live show. I don't know how wrestling works, but a
lot of fun and I love the crossover. It's just
(01:28):
such an environment to have the comedians on. For example,
say you were promoting a fellow show on Netflix, you
could have Tony Hinchcliff on ww RAW. What would that
sound like? Hmm, let's wonder Tony Hitchcliff.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I am happy to be here. This is so exciting.
I've been watching since the Attitude era. Michael Hole has
been watching since the Jurassic era.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So West, congratulations on your show, Kill Tony debuting on
Netflix today.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Couldn't be happier. Happy to be here on Rock. This
is a childhood dreams come true. This is absolutely unbelievable.
Mcfee's the man, Michael Coole. I've been watching you forever.
The first match you called was David versus Goliath.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I did watch Kill Tony's Netflix debut, and I think
they blew it. There's no way a casual is going
to make it through those first ten minutes. Maybe the
Hinchcliff crew doesn't care, but somebody should being on scene going, hey,
it's episode one, to a lot of new people, don't
introduce the band, nobody cares, get right to it, and
(02:31):
the first comedian out of the box was horrific. There's
no way a casual watch those first ten minutes when oh,
I really like this show. This is good, which sucks
because if they had made it to minute eleven out
comes Shane Gillis as Trump and I will tell you
as I watched and skimmed the two hours, Shane tried
really hard to carry the show. Luck of the draw.
(02:52):
The names coming out of the hat weren't that good.
The set pieces that were planned Shane of course, Adam
Ray coming out, Ron White as your clothes, those were
all good as expected. But the civilians, it was a
particularly poor group of civilians. Ai Johnny mack here Hume
and John forgot to record his observation that Joe Rogan
is there, and did Joe Rogan speak at all? He
(03:15):
was silent. Tom Sagora also joined the panel at one
point and didn't add all that much except suggesting a
landscape or get a website. I'm not sure how much
the casuals are going to like episode one of Netflix
Kill Tony. The show looked good, but I'll tell you
I was trying, and at some point after an hour
in Now, I did watch the first hour entirely, but
then I just started skimming ahead to is Shane gillis
(03:38):
doing Trump right now or not? I think for me
the show works better as an audio podcast, where I
can listen at two x and if a comedian isn't
working for me, I can go SA sape, safe, Sape, sape, sape, sape,
say Scape, which is a little easier to do on
a podcast app than my Roku. Anyway, I do like
the show a lot. I am a fan, as I
(03:59):
just I think it works better for me as an
audio podcast. And I feel bad here because I think
people would like the show if exposed to it, but
they're not going to get through that first ten minutes.
Shame production. Somebody produced it wrong. Sorry, guys. Let's stay
down in Austin for Now podcaster Sam Harris is getting
(04:20):
into it with Joe Rogan on his own podcast, Sam
Harris recently discussed Joe and said Joe is a genuinely
good guy who wants good things for people, but he
is honestly in over his head on so many topics
of great consequence. Harris says society is politically shattered in
part because of how Rogan has interacted with information. Quote
A lot of this is inadvertent, but it's also voyable.
(04:42):
Rogan could actually take the responsibility that really is his
to take at this point to get his facts straight.
He could have two brilliant journalists who's full time job.
He could pay them each a million dollars a year
to just sit there and make sure he doesn't put
his foot in his mouth in a colossally irresponsible way.
Harris criticized comedian Dave Smith, who was recently on the show.
I have not listened to that episode yet, but I
(05:02):
did listen to last night they had on the Guy
that is bringing Back the Dire Wolves. That was a
really good listen. I do like Rogan's podcast, especially as
a late night listen. Among other reasons that the volume
doesn't go up and down so as I drift off
to sleep. And this is actually a compliment, not a dig.
I find Rogan very calming. Last night, I was having
a lot of trouble falling asleep, so I enjoyed the company.
(05:25):
And did I tell the story of when I was
in Antarctica? If not, I'll tell it again really quickly.
So we went out camping overnight on the ice in Antarctica.
I've never been so cold, and I'm not doing a
bit here. I was so cold at one point that
I was starting to blink out, wink out, and I contemplated,
is this what dying feels like. I'm not doing a bit.
I'm not being melodramatic. I've never been so cold in
(05:47):
my life. Now. I had brought my headphones and my phone,
but to operate such a thing was an ordeal because
I just wanted to keep I was wrapped up on
the sleeping bag, so so cold. So I hit play
on a four hour Joe Rogan episode because I knew
it would get me until four am when the boat
would come back and get us off this iceberg. Actually
(06:08):
it was an island, it wasn't an iceberg. So I
got my hand out of the glove and I hit
play on Rogan and Tulca Gabbard and I listened to
the whole thing as I sat there miserable, shivering. But
it was four hours long, So thank you Joe Rogan
for that particular night. But back to Sam Harris versus
Joe Rogan, Harris criticized Dave Smith, who was recently on
(06:28):
the show. Smith wrote back on Twitter, Sam's correct. The
only reason that anybody even knows who I am is
because of Joe Rogan. I should have earned it the
old fashioned way by having my mother create the Golden Girls.
That reference is that Harris's mother is Susan Harris, a
TV writer and producer who created The Golden Girls. It
is a busy news day on a lot of other days,
this would be the lead. Mike Birbiglia will have another
(06:51):
at Netflix special. This one is called The Good Life.
It'll be out May twenty sixth on Netflix. Interesting to me,
May twenty sixth is Memorial Day, a Monday. Normally Netflix
specials come out on Tuesday, but I guess they wanted
to pull it into the holiday weekend. In the Good Life,
Verbiggs combines jokes and storytelling as Mike talks about his
father suffering a stroke and how that led to Mike
reevaluating his own ideas about fatherhood. Berbiglia said in a statement,
(07:14):
over the years, I've done a lot of personal shows,
but somehow this one is the most personal because it's
not in my past. It's my life right now, so
there's really no filter. At certain points during the hour,
I literally thought, on stage, WHOA am I really going
to tell the story? But that's sort of the idea
behind these shows. I try to probe in it what's
most painful in order to figure out what's most funny. Personally,
the Verbiglia storytelling shows don't grab me. I understand. I'm
(07:35):
in the minority there. I really liked his early stand
up comedy when it was stand up stand up, but
I try and watch these specials and I'm just like, eh,
it's just not my thing. It's fine. He's very popular
and he'll do fun without me going, hey, I'm excited,
but you know, not my thing. Dave Chappelle did a
show Saturday night. On a lot of other days, this
would be the lead Dave and musician y Clef Jean.
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We're celebrating the Haitian community. This happened in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
You may recall there were some false rumors about eating
cats and dogs, you know, about a year ago. Chapelle said,
the negativity has been so loud, and this celebration was
to amplify positive voices. Dave said, I think they hear
so many negative voices that it's good to hear some
positive voices. And let's see a hero from Haiti meaning
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white Cloff Sean saying we love y'all. All these people
were brought here legally, all the unrest in Haiti, and
they put this extra burden of xenophobia on them. Chapelle
said he called Jean as soon as those rumors spread.
Sean was on tour at the time, but Dave says
he stayed on me. I stayed on him, and finally
this thing happened, and I think it needs to happen.
I think it's an important lesson, not just for the
Haitian community, but for all communities, like look, there are
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people trying to assimilate in America. It's a very difficult
thing to do. I think would all be better by
embracing our new neighbors than marginalizing them. And I think
that why Cleff was the perfect combassador. Amber Ruffin, who
was disinvited from the White House Correspondents Dinner, has a
new gig. Pen America I announced that Ruffin will host
the Free Expression Organization's gala fundraiser May fifteenth. Penn's co
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interim CEO praised Amber Ruffin for her brilliant social commentary, satire,
and exceptional talent. She is truly emblematic of the talented
creators who we need on stages and in writers rooms
during a time of unprecedented censorship in this country. We're
both delighted and honored to have her here with us.
Ellie King was on the Dumb Blonde podcast. She talked
about her father, Rob Schneider. King said, I go like
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four or five years without talking to my dad. If
I would ever spend a summer with my dad growing up,
it would be on a movie set. I would just
get lost in the shuffle. She described herself as quote
a really, really heavy child and said Rob sent her
to a fat camp. She also said her dad forgot
about every single birthday, including when she turned eighteen, and
called Rob Schneider very toxic and very silly. Tonight, on
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the John Mullaney Netflix show Bill hater Chelsea Peretti Johnny
Knoxville human Resources executive employee coach Katie and music from
Bortize Strange. After I watched kil Tony the other night,
I put Melanie on to give it another shot, and
it's not good and people are on threads. You're very
upset at me for voicing that opinion, anyone who's listening
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to the show four years. No, I like John Mlanie's comedy,
but this show is not good. The Atlantic wrote a
funny article about it, and I'll just push back that, sure,
we should all applaud John mulani for trying and trying
to do something different, but at some point shouldn't the
show actually be funny? Don't we actually need results at
some point? Let me give you a straw man argument.
(10:35):
What if the show was called Everybody's Live with Spike Ferristed.
Would people be like, boy, Spike's really trying hard, He's
trying to do something different with his late night show
on Netflix. No, the show would be panned Mlanie's coasting
on the Goodwill. I'm just calling a straight shot here.
The show's not good and I like John mullaney. Both
things can be true. The Mountawer Comedy Festival kicks off
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tonight and goes until April nineteenth. Over one hundred media
spanning stand up, sketch and musical comedy will be there.
Some of the comedians include Disease I'm Sorry, Tiffany Hattish,
Alex Moffett, and Michael Yo. Tonight, Alex Edelman at seven
o'clock a Porner and I'm sure allowed get to see
her back on stage it's seven. AZA's I'm Sorry not
So canceled at nine thirty, and Kay Trevor Wilson at
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nine thirty. If we were in Austin, I would make
you go see Aparna and Kay Trevor Wilson, who deserves
more theme. Plus, I thought we canceled Disease. Didn't we
cancel Disease? Disease is back. Meanwhile, down in Nashville, if
you listen to yesterday's podcast, you know that Nicky Glazer's
at the Ryman tonight. Yeah, she wasn't there last night.
She's there tonight Wednesday, April ninth, at seven pm at
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the Ryman. Nicki Glazer over at the Lab at Zanies
at the same time. Jared Freed also at seven. Robert
Kelly is the headliner at Zani's nine point fifteen at
the Lab Story Wars with Big Jay Ogerson and Louis J. Gomez.
If we were in Nashville tonight, I would say, let's
go see Nicki Glazer at seven and let's skip the
late show and go take in some country music and
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a couple beverages and maybe some hot chicken. Nashville runs
all the way through Sunday, which is cool, planned to
talk about. This week, The lgbt l L Queer Comedy
Festival announced their lineup. Co founder Ryan Rodgers said, while
extremists try to erase us, we're making it impossible to
ignore us. Comedy has always been a form of resistance,
and right now, queer joy is revolutionary. This year's festival
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is more than a celebration. It's a rally cry against censorship, discrimination,
and the silencing of lgbtqia plus stories. This festival runs
May twenty ninth through June first in New Orleans, kicking
off Pride Month. Your headliner is Corey O'Brien, Paris Sachet,
and Gabby Watts. More than one hundred comedians from across
America apply to perform to do a couple of reviews
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of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Still haven't heard from Booblitz.
I don't know if the Melbourne, Florida National Comedy Festival
twenty twenty six is happening or not. Dan's probably one
of those guys that catches up and listens to like
seven episodes in a row, and all of a sudden
hear himself called out every day for a week. Aye, Dan,
all right, The Age has been hitting all the shows
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in Melbourne. I haven't figured out a way to get
down there. You know, I could probably go down there
and write it off, but I'd have to, you know,
work it out with the family here, Like, Hey, I'm
going to Melbourne for a comedy festival for months. See
you who's watching the dogs exactly. Tom McCusker's show is
b Gay Do Crime, Gay Spell Gae. The Age gave
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it four and a half stars out of five and
tell us about dom from being born and raised in
Hong Kong and living in the UK or Filipino Scottish
upbringing and unique adoptive family to coming out as bisexual
and even keeping the youth entertainment on a tall ship
without the Internet. Tom McCusker really has lots of detales
to tell. Dressed in a pirate themed outfit, Dom opens
to the show with a lovely solo shanty to the
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tune of Last Saskatchewan Pirate. See this all sounds like
a lot of fun richeld. Each shanty has two sets
of lyrics to form the chorus. At the start of
each shanty, Dom sings through the first two lines with
some call and response called toosies twosies. How it works
is Dom sings the first two lines, you and the
audience sing back, and then finish the chorus off for
the last two lines. That's fun. Sarah Pesco's show is
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called I Am a Strange Goop. As for Sarah, she's
gotten married and had two kids. She's a family woman
now and she wants to talk about it. The age says,
in most cases, yawn. Is that some commentary on like
what's going on with a lot of American women comics
around age forty right now? I don't know that's the
age in most cases? Yeah, and the audience really doesn't
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care about them. Of your domestic life with the nocturnal
bubbs and a man who feigns ignorance to escape chers.
We've heard that one a thousand times, but not in
Pasco's adroit hands. She waves mirth out of monotony. Be
it the allure of polygamy simply to divide housework, or
the juxtaposition of sexual inclinations of both men and women
once they hit their forties. Four stars. They gave that
one and let's do one more. Lil Winker's show is
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called Bang That Tale. Lil Winker's name Real bank Tail,
jumps into character as Alan, aka the Baddest man in Texas.
Strets on the stage in leather chaps, face a dorn
with drawn eyebrows and a mustache. This show as well,
has audience participation. You could find yourself portraying a heifer,
a cactus, the saloon doors, or the nemesis This one
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woman clown at Western Blinds. Physical comedy and silliness and
a tightly constructive narrative. They gave it four stars. That's
a lot of fun too, And that is your comedy
news for today. If you like the program without commercials
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can work all that out meet you back here tomorrow,
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