Johnny Mac reports on Jon Stewart's invitation to Elon Musk for an unedited interview on The Daily Show after Musk expressed interest on social media. The segment includes Stewart's humorous monologue addressing Musk's critique and subsequent tweets. Additionally, Rob Mills from Disney comments on Conan’s successful hosting of the Oscars and the controversial cut-off of the Oscars on Hulu. The show wraps up with information about the upcoming LaughFest 2025 and Jim Gaffigan's surprise visit in Kentucky.
00:00 Introduction and Jon Stewart's Invitation to Elon Musk
00:31 Jon Stewart's Response and Critique of Elon Musk
02:04 Conan O'Brien's Potential Return to the Oscars
03:13 Hulu's Oscars Mishap and Viewer Reactions
05:13 Analyzing the Oscars Ratings Drop
08:29 Veer Das and Indian Award Shows
10:44 Gilda's Laugh Fest and Upcoming Comedy Events
12:07 Gossip Corner: Jim Gaffigan's Surprise Visit
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00:00 Introduction and Jon Stewart's Invitation to Elon Musk
00:31 Jon Stewart's Response and Critique of Elon Musk
02:04 Conan O'Brien's Potential Return to the Oscars
03:13 Hulu's Oscars Mishap and Viewer Reactions
05:13 Analyzing the Oscars Ratings Drop
08:29 Veer Das and Indian Award Shows
10:44 Gilda's Laugh Fest and Upcoming Comedy Events
12:07 Gossip Corner: Jim Gaffigan's Surprise Visit
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
comedy news. John Stewart has officially invited Elon Musk on
The Daily Show. Last week, Elon posted on x that
he would talk to John Stewart on air if his
interview would premiere unedited. Now interesting that he chose premiere
(00:27):
great because we could premiere it at three am and
then mix some minutes. But that's not what they're going
to do. John Stewart began his monologue by reminding his
audience that he made a bit of a critique of
Elon Musk's Department of Government efficiency. John said, after thinking
about Elon's offer, I thought, you know, hey, that's actually
how the in studio interviews normally air unedited. So sure
(00:47):
would be delighted. As a matter of fact, let me
sweeten or unsweeten the pot. The interview could be fifteen minutes,
an hour, two hours, whatever. I'll be honest, I don't
think this network makes any other programming, so we could
do whatever the f we want. That's really funny, like
really really funny. I've paused and jumped back in here.
Oh it's so true, John Stuart. Stuart then addressed Elon's
(01:10):
follow up tweets. In one post, he called the Daily
Show host a propagandist, and another heclaimed John Stewart used
to be more bipartisan. Stuart said, you give me too
little credit. Again. The guy who custom made his own
dark maga hat that he wears to opine in the
Oval office with the president we spent two hundred and
seventy million dollars to elect, thinks I'm just too partisan.
I'm not really sure what he thinks bipartisan means. Elon.
If you want to do the show, great, I support
(01:31):
in general the idea of efficiency, delivering better services to
the American people in cheaper and more efficient ways. And
if you want to come in and talk about it
on the show, great. If you don't want to, sure,
But can we just drop the pretense that you won't
do it because I don't measure up to the standards
of neutral discourse that you demand and display at all times. Oh,
I know I had such a good reaction to the
first time or edit. I don't want to make the
edit here a longer version of the Stewart quote. So
(01:53):
we can do whatever there if we want, as long
as we want as long as we wrap before the
new season of South Park, which comes out in like
May or June of twenty twenty six. So I'm game.
I think it'll be a very interesting conversation. Rob Mills
is the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment
at Disney. He told Variety the Conan is welcome back
to host the Oscars. Conan absolutely nailed it. It was
(02:16):
this sense memory of thirty years of not only him
in late night, but when he would host the Emmys
and all the stuff he's done. This was almost like
Conan's greatest hits. He had a little bit of everything,
an incredibly funny monologue that had the hallmarks of what
Conan does, silliness, self deprecation, jokes that are funny and
then twenty minutes later you realize that they're really funny. Well, Conan,
come back. That's really up to Conan, but I know
we'd love to have him back. I don't know if
(02:36):
this counts as an official offer, but I really hope
he wants to come back. It was a joint of
privilege and probably the only sort of methodone I could
have for not being able to do the show with
Jimmy Kimmel. You know, I come away, I feel like
the Oscars is Jimmy Kimmel's show to host. Like, when
Jimmy doesn't host it, I feel like someone else is
just filling in and they're just going to go back
to another eight years of Jimmy Kimmel. That's high praise
(02:58):
for Jimmy. I think he does a fine job. How
the Conan was fantastic. You know, if you Tomy Conan
was hosting next year, great, But I kind of in
the back of my mind feel like Jimmy Kimble should
be hosting the Oscars. A great job, Jimmy, You've made
a connection in my brain between you and the Oscars.
You've done a fine job. Rob Mills, Disney's executive vice
president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, discussed how Hulu cut
(03:19):
off the Oscars during Best Actress and didn't show Best Picture.
He went all suit and said, that's not my area
of expertise, and obviously you feel bad for the people
who we're trying to watch the show. It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate,
it's unforgivable. Dude. Well, Chris Rock says we should forgive people.
I forgive you, mister Mills, but come on, get your
act together. I think the best thing to do is
look at it as a way to figure out and
(03:40):
make sure it doesn't happen again. In the show notes
is a link to my substack. It's mcdepod dot substack
dot com. I wrote about this on Monday. At the
place I used to work, stuff like this would happen,
and then we would have the big meeting to make
sure it doesn't happen again. Like say Carrie Underwood's trying
to perform at the inauguration at her microphone doesn't work.
You have to make sure this doesn't happen again, and
you have a big meetings. I'm glad the Hulu people
(04:01):
are having a big meeting to make sure it doesn't
happen again. I'll give you a solution. Anytime you have
a shiny live event, hire a board op for twenty
dollars an hour to sit there and actually monitor feed.
It's twenty dollars. It's not a lot of money. Disney,
You've got the coin. You could do this. Rob Mills,
the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, said
It's not the first time this has happened in streaming
(04:21):
and probably won't be the last. We were at least
moving into this world. We're meeting viewers where they are,
you know, except for the ending of the Oscars. Like
when I watch the Oscars, I usually watch like ninety
three percent of it, and then I'm like, Eh, best actress,
best picture. I don't care. I was just here to
see what puts short film? Come on, dude. Rob Mills,
executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, told Variety
(04:45):
at the Walt Disney Company as a whole, our superpower
is we have a broadcaster. We have a premium streamer.
Well except for the ending of the Academy Awards, So
anywhere you want to watch the show, not necessarily the ending,
but the rest of the show. We want to make
sure you can watch this. And for the most part
that works great. Dude, there's the leaping money quote. Yeah,
(05:06):
and for the most part it works great, except for
the ending. He added, it works spectacularly well with Dancing
with the Stars, Oh too funny? All right, how did
it do in the ratings? Sunday's telecast averaged eighteen point
zero seven million viewers on ABC and Hulu. That's down
from the previous year. Now, maybe they could have had
more people had they shown the ending on Hulu. Who knows.
(05:27):
I'm not an expert in this. That total audience number
was down by about seven percent compared to last year's show.
Can somebody do the math? If we missed the last
thirteen minutes of a three and a half hour telecast?
Is that around seven percent? Is it? It might actually
be somebody do the math? Why don't I do the math?
Chat GPT help me out? All Right'm asking chat EPT
(05:48):
what percentage is thirteen minutes out of a three and
a half hour telecast? Chat is telling us to calculate
what percentage thirteen minutes is out of a three and
a half hour telecast. One Convert three and a half
hours to minutes. Three and a half times sixty equals
two hundred and ten minutes. Thank you, uh. Step two,
everybody got your pen out? Divide thirteen minutes by two
hundred and ten minutes. Thirteen divided by two ten equals
(06:10):
point zero six one nine. Convert two percentage by multiplying
by one hundred equals six point one nine percent. So
thirteen minutes is approximately six point one nine percent of
a three and a half hour telecast, and the numbers
were down around seven percent. Coincidence. I don't know. Why
don't you show Best Picture next year? Last year's show
(06:30):
was a four year high of nineteen point four nine
million viewers on ABC with no live stream. I watched it.
You know what, one best picture? Oppenheimer, You know how
I know that they showed it. Let's look at the
money demo, which I've aged out. If no one cares
about me old man renting in your basement, we don't care.
In adults eighteen to forty nine, the five point two
five million people watch that up from three point eight
(06:52):
two a year ago. That's interesting. Eighteen to thirty four's
two point two seven million viewers. That was the highest
for the show since twenty twenty. Jimmy Kimmel says Conan
did such a good job. Next year, they're giving it
to Jay Leno. About halfway through the Oscars, Conan did
a Kendrick Lamar Drake joke. Writer Skyler Higgley tweeted wrote
(07:14):
the Kendrick Lamar joke, and bet our executive producer fifty
dollars that it would kill just made fifty dollars. A
few hours after the Oscars, Higgley posted good morning to
Drake fans and also to people who like good music.
People commented back at him, why don't you try and
call out the white bet of files? Higgley wrote, well,
I also wrote the Conclave joke about the Catholic Church.
Try again that joke. Conan obviously told it better than I. Well,
(07:36):
the movie Conclave is up for Best Picture tonight. If
you haven't seen Conclave, its log line is a movie
about the Catholic Church. But don't worry. You know who's
quoted in this article is Rob Mills. Remember Rob Mills.
He's the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment
for Disney. He said he approved of the joke and
explained when he did it in rehearsal. I was with
Jeff Rossi's producer, and we were like, that joke's gonna kill,
(07:57):
and it was great. It was sort of unexpected from Conan,
but that's what made kind of fun. Thanks Rob Mills,
how about you show the best picture next year? Conan
tweeted thank you to the Academy. The incredible production, cast
and crew, and my amazing team for night I'll never forget.
Now I'm off to fulfill my lifelong dream to run
a bed and breakfast down Orlando hashtag oscars two to
zero two five, Variety tells us. A few minutes before
(08:18):
taking his spot behind the microphone as the announcer, Nick
Offerman went on stage and greeted the audience and told
them they were getting a brief and wondrous opportunity to
feature glamorous eyes upon my sturdy form. Verdaz tweeted, while
watching a major entertainment award show, I'm pretty sure a
few fellow Indian comedians play a game in our head.
We wonder why Indian award shows don't use modern stand
up comedians at major awards. Then we think of some
(08:41):
of the jokes we would do, the other crapstorm that
would follow, and we think it's probably for the best. Also,
we remember the opening monologues at the top of the show,
which logically requires showing up on time and staying for
the whole show, which again reaffirms probably for the best. Also,
just rhythm wise, it's hard to do an etchy joke
after saying and then he posted a phrase that I
(09:01):
don't know how to pronounce, and I'm not sure what
language it's in, and I'm not being jerky here. I
threw the phrase into Google Translate and Google didn't recognize it.
So I went to chat ChiPT to have the AI
explained the joke, and Chat says the phrase is primarily
in English, but includes words from Hindian brand names that
are popular in India. It's a mix of Hinglish, a
blend of Hindi in English, which is commonly used in
(09:23):
Indian advertising, pop culture, and social media. Some words like
paravar and Zandu are directly from Hindi. The overall phrase
seems like a playful or memelike jungle of recognizable Indian
brand names and terms. Here's what Vierdas was joking about,
and I didn't get the joke, Chatchipt says. Menic Chand
is a well known brand in India, primarily associated with Gutka,
(09:45):
which is a chewing tobacco. As you know, pan Pasand
is a popular flavored candy known for its battail like taste.
Fun Flips a snack brand often associated with flavored cornpuffs Zoro,
possibly referring to the fictional masked vigilante or a brand name.
Plus could be a generic addition a reference to a
product variant. Zandu Bandu might be referencing Zandu Baum, a
(10:07):
famous pain relief ointment in India. MDH is a famous
Indian spice brand, MCD might be referencing me Chat Thanks,
likely referring to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Motorola is
a well known electronics brand, and Paravar is Hindi for family,
possibly referencing a political or advertising slogan. So let me
(10:29):
go back to the phrase that now that I've been educated.
So Verer tweeted it's hard to do an edge joke.
After saying Manik chand Pon, Pissan, fun Flip, Zoro plus,
Xandu Bandu, MDHMCD, Motorola, Paravar, he probably tells it funnier. Hey,
very busy Wednesday today. I gotta tell you because it
starts today. Gilda's LaughFest, presented by the gun Lake Casino
(10:51):
and Resort, is bringing big name comics and local stars together.
Wendy Wigger is the President CEO of Gilda's Club, Grand
Rapids and Wendy Wiggers We're excited for our fifteenth year
of bringing seriously funny events. The show's funny today. You
know why? You know I am laughing right now. I'm
silly to say you know I am laughing right now.
Wendy Wigger. We are excited for our fifteenth year of
(11:15):
bringing seriously funny events to West Michigan, while at the
same time raising awareness and funds for the free support
programs at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids. This year's LaughFest feature
and nationally acclaimed comedic artists who are guaranteed to make
audience of all ages smile and laugh, laugh ass twenty
twenty five will include over forty free and ticketed shows.
Some good people at this one, Adam Ray, remember he's
(11:36):
doing that Doctor Phil thing. Gabby Bryan, who were told
brought her a fringe hit Billion the Situation to Union
Hall and garnered praise in The New York Times after
a successful Edinburgh Fringe Festival run. She'll be there, Dan Soder,
you know Dan from Billions on Showtime. Sure he's going
to be there. Corey b has been working in radio
for over ten years, shifting his focus to long form
content during the pandemic. Corey be is going to be there.
(11:59):
The Clean Comedy Showcase offers dinner and brunch options featuring
adult content without profanity or vulgarity. Let's hit gossip Corner.
Jim Gaffigan stop buying the Krueger Wine and Spirits on
Dolphin Drive in Elizabethtown. He was there Monday afternoon. It
was a surprise. He signed a bottle of his Kentucky
bourbon whiskey, Father Time for Jeff. Jim Gaffigan asked, Jeff, Now,
(12:21):
if I sign this bottle, you're gonna buy it. Jeff
said he would and he'd never open it. Jim Gaffigan
said it was the first bottle that he ever autographed.
And luckily this made it to the press, and we're
reminded that Father Time can be found in a majority
of the Krueger Wine and Spirit stores in central Kentucky.
I don't know why I have the giggles today. The
show is a lot of fun. Today. I'm gonna get
out there. That's your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.
Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
comedy news. John Stewart has officially invited Elon Musk on
The Daily Show. Last week, Elon posted on x that
he would talk to John Stewart on air if his
interview would premiere unedited. Now interesting that he chose premiere
(00:27):
great because we could premiere it at three am and
then mix some minutes. But that's not what they're going
to do. John Stewart began his monologue by reminding his
audience that he made a bit of a critique of
Elon Musk's Department of Government efficiency. John said, after thinking
about Elon's offer, I thought, you know, hey, that's actually
how the in studio interviews normally air unedited. So sure
(00:47):
would be delighted. As a matter of fact, let me
sweeten or unsweeten the pot. The interview could be fifteen minutes,
an hour, two hours, whatever. I'll be honest, I don't
think this network makes any other programming, so we could
do whatever the f we want. That's really funny, like
really really funny. I've paused and jumped back in here.
Oh it's so true, John Stuart. Stuart then addressed Elon's
(01:10):
follow up tweets. In one post, he called the Daily
Show host a propagandist, and another heclaimed John Stewart used
to be more bipartisan. Stuart said, you give me too
little credit. Again. The guy who custom made his own
dark maga hat that he wears to opine in the
Oval office with the president we spent two hundred and
seventy million dollars to elect, thinks I'm just too partisan.
I'm not really sure what he thinks bipartisan means. Elon.
If you want to do the show, great, I support
(01:31):
in general the idea of efficiency, delivering better services to
the American people in cheaper and more efficient ways. And
if you want to come in and talk about it
on the show, great. If you don't want to, sure,
But can we just drop the pretense that you won't
do it because I don't measure up to the standards
of neutral discourse that you demand and display at all times. Oh,
I know I had such a good reaction to the
first time or edit. I don't want to make the
edit here a longer version of the Stewart quote. So
(01:53):
we can do whatever there if we want, as long
as we want as long as we wrap before the
new season of South Park, which comes out in like
May or June of twenty twenty six. So I'm game.
I think it'll be a very interesting conversation. Rob Mills
is the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment
at Disney. He told Variety the Conan is welcome back
to host the Oscars. Conan absolutely nailed it. It was
(02:16):
this sense memory of thirty years of not only him
in late night, but when he would host the Emmys
and all the stuff he's done. This was almost like
Conan's greatest hits. He had a little bit of everything,
an incredibly funny monologue that had the hallmarks of what
Conan does, silliness, self deprecation, jokes that are funny and
then twenty minutes later you realize that they're really funny. Well, Conan,
come back. That's really up to Conan, but I know
we'd love to have him back. I don't know if
(02:36):
this counts as an official offer, but I really hope
he wants to come back. It was a joint of
privilege and probably the only sort of methodone I could
have for not being able to do the show with
Jimmy Kimmel. You know, I come away, I feel like
the Oscars is Jimmy Kimmel's show to host. Like, when
Jimmy doesn't host it, I feel like someone else is
just filling in and they're just going to go back
to another eight years of Jimmy Kimmel. That's high praise
(02:58):
for Jimmy. I think he does a fine job. How
the Conan was fantastic. You know, if you Tomy Conan
was hosting next year, great, But I kind of in
the back of my mind feel like Jimmy Kimble should
be hosting the Oscars. A great job, Jimmy, You've made
a connection in my brain between you and the Oscars.
You've done a fine job. Rob Mills, Disney's executive vice
president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, discussed how Hulu cut
(03:19):
off the Oscars during Best Actress and didn't show Best Picture.
He went all suit and said, that's not my area
of expertise, and obviously you feel bad for the people
who we're trying to watch the show. It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate,
it's unforgivable. Dude. Well, Chris Rock says we should forgive people.
I forgive you, mister Mills, but come on, get your
act together. I think the best thing to do is
look at it as a way to figure out and
(03:40):
make sure it doesn't happen again. In the show notes
is a link to my substack. It's mcdepod dot substack
dot com. I wrote about this on Monday. At the
place I used to work, stuff like this would happen,
and then we would have the big meeting to make
sure it doesn't happen again. Like say Carrie Underwood's trying
to perform at the inauguration at her microphone doesn't work.
You have to make sure this doesn't happen again, and
you have a big meetings. I'm glad the Hulu people
(04:01):
are having a big meeting to make sure it doesn't
happen again. I'll give you a solution. Anytime you have
a shiny live event, hire a board op for twenty
dollars an hour to sit there and actually monitor feed.
It's twenty dollars. It's not a lot of money. Disney,
You've got the coin. You could do this. Rob Mills,
the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, said
It's not the first time this has happened in streaming
(04:21):
and probably won't be the last. We were at least
moving into this world. We're meeting viewers where they are,
you know, except for the ending of the Oscars. Like
when I watch the Oscars, I usually watch like ninety
three percent of it, and then I'm like, Eh, best actress,
best picture. I don't care. I was just here to
see what puts short film? Come on, dude. Rob Mills,
executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, told Variety
(04:45):
at the Walt Disney Company as a whole, our superpower
is we have a broadcaster. We have a premium streamer.
Well except for the ending of the Academy Awards, So
anywhere you want to watch the show, not necessarily the ending,
but the rest of the show. We want to make
sure you can watch this. And for the most part
that works great. Dude, there's the leaping money quote. Yeah,
(05:06):
and for the most part it works great, except for
the ending. He added, it works spectacularly well with Dancing
with the Stars, Oh too funny? All right, how did
it do in the ratings? Sunday's telecast averaged eighteen point
zero seven million viewers on ABC and Hulu. That's down
from the previous year. Now, maybe they could have had
more people had they shown the ending on Hulu. Who knows.
(05:27):
I'm not an expert in this. That total audience number
was down by about seven percent compared to last year's show.
Can somebody do the math? If we missed the last
thirteen minutes of a three and a half hour telecast?
Is that around seven percent? Is it? It might actually
be somebody do the math? Why don't I do the math?
Chat GPT help me out? All Right'm asking chat EPT
(05:48):
what percentage is thirteen minutes out of a three and
a half hour telecast? Chat is telling us to calculate
what percentage thirteen minutes is out of a three and
a half hour telecast. One Convert three and a half
hours to minutes. Three and a half times sixty equals
two hundred and ten minutes. Thank you, uh. Step two,
everybody got your pen out? Divide thirteen minutes by two
hundred and ten minutes. Thirteen divided by two ten equals
(06:10):
point zero six one nine. Convert two percentage by multiplying
by one hundred equals six point one nine percent. So
thirteen minutes is approximately six point one nine percent of
a three and a half hour telecast, and the numbers
were down around seven percent. Coincidence. I don't know. Why
don't you show Best Picture next year? Last year's show
(06:30):
was a four year high of nineteen point four nine
million viewers on ABC with no live stream. I watched it.
You know what, one best picture? Oppenheimer, You know how
I know that they showed it. Let's look at the
money demo, which I've aged out. If no one cares
about me old man renting in your basement, we don't care.
In adults eighteen to forty nine, the five point two
five million people watch that up from three point eight
(06:52):
two a year ago. That's interesting. Eighteen to thirty four's
two point two seven million viewers. That was the highest
for the show since twenty twenty. Jimmy Kimmel says Conan
did such a good job. Next year, they're giving it
to Jay Leno. About halfway through the Oscars, Conan did
a Kendrick Lamar Drake joke. Writer Skyler Higgley tweeted wrote
(07:14):
the Kendrick Lamar joke, and bet our executive producer fifty
dollars that it would kill just made fifty dollars. A
few hours after the Oscars, Higgley posted good morning to
Drake fans and also to people who like good music.
People commented back at him, why don't you try and
call out the white bet of files? Higgley wrote, well,
I also wrote the Conclave joke about the Catholic Church.
Try again that joke. Conan obviously told it better than I. Well,
(07:36):
the movie Conclave is up for Best Picture tonight. If
you haven't seen Conclave, its log line is a movie
about the Catholic Church. But don't worry. You know who's
quoted in this article is Rob Mills. Remember Rob Mills.
He's the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment
for Disney. He said he approved of the joke and
explained when he did it in rehearsal. I was with
Jeff Rossi's producer, and we were like, that joke's gonna kill,
(07:57):
and it was great. It was sort of unexpected from Conan,
but that's what made kind of fun. Thanks Rob Mills,
how about you show the best picture next year? Conan
tweeted thank you to the Academy. The incredible production, cast
and crew, and my amazing team for night I'll never forget.
Now I'm off to fulfill my lifelong dream to run
a bed and breakfast down Orlando hashtag oscars two to
zero two five, Variety tells us. A few minutes before
(08:18):
taking his spot behind the microphone as the announcer, Nick
Offerman went on stage and greeted the audience and told
them they were getting a brief and wondrous opportunity to
feature glamorous eyes upon my sturdy form. Verdaz tweeted, while
watching a major entertainment award show, I'm pretty sure a
few fellow Indian comedians play a game in our head.
We wonder why Indian award shows don't use modern stand
up comedians at major awards. Then we think of some
(08:41):
of the jokes we would do, the other crapstorm that
would follow, and we think it's probably for the best. Also,
we remember the opening monologues at the top of the show,
which logically requires showing up on time and staying for
the whole show, which again reaffirms probably for the best. Also,
just rhythm wise, it's hard to do an etchy joke
after saying and then he posted a phrase that I
(09:01):
don't know how to pronounce, and I'm not sure what
language it's in, and I'm not being jerky here. I
threw the phrase into Google Translate and Google didn't recognize it.
So I went to chat ChiPT to have the AI
explained the joke, and Chat says the phrase is primarily
in English, but includes words from Hindian brand names that
are popular in India. It's a mix of Hinglish, a
blend of Hindi in English, which is commonly used in
(09:23):
Indian advertising, pop culture, and social media. Some words like
paravar and Zandu are directly from Hindi. The overall phrase
seems like a playful or memelike jungle of recognizable Indian
brand names and terms. Here's what Vierdas was joking about,
and I didn't get the joke, Chatchipt says. Menic Chand
is a well known brand in India, primarily associated with Gutka,
(09:45):
which is a chewing tobacco. As you know, pan Pasand
is a popular flavored candy known for its battail like taste.
Fun Flips a snack brand often associated with flavored cornpuffs Zoro,
possibly referring to the fictional masked vigilante or a brand name.
Plus could be a generic addition a reference to a
product variant. Zandu Bandu might be referencing Zandu Baum, a
(10:07):
famous pain relief ointment in India. MDH is a famous
Indian spice brand, MCD might be referencing me Chat Thanks,
likely referring to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Motorola is
a well known electronics brand, and Paravar is Hindi for family,
possibly referencing a political or advertising slogan. So let me
(10:29):
go back to the phrase that now that I've been educated.
So Verer tweeted it's hard to do an edge joke.
After saying Manik chand Pon, Pissan, fun Flip, Zoro plus,
Xandu Bandu, MDHMCD, Motorola, Paravar, he probably tells it funnier. Hey,
very busy Wednesday today. I gotta tell you because it
starts today. Gilda's LaughFest, presented by the gun Lake Casino
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and Resort, is bringing big name comics and local stars together.
Wendy Wigger is the President CEO of Gilda's Club, Grand
Rapids and Wendy Wiggers We're excited for our fifteenth year
of bringing seriously funny events. The show's funny today. You
know why? You know I am laughing right now. I'm
silly to say you know I am laughing right now.
Wendy Wigger. We are excited for our fifteenth year of
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bringing seriously funny events to West Michigan, while at the
same time raising awareness and funds for the free support
programs at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids. This year's LaughFest feature
and nationally acclaimed comedic artists who are guaranteed to make
audience of all ages smile and laugh, laugh ass twenty
twenty five will include over forty free and ticketed shows.
Some good people at this one, Adam Ray, remember he's
(11:36):
doing that Doctor Phil thing. Gabby Bryan, who were told
brought her a fringe hit Billion the Situation to Union
Hall and garnered praise in The New York Times after
a successful Edinburgh Fringe Festival run. She'll be there, Dan Soder,
you know Dan from Billions on Showtime. Sure he's going
to be there. Corey b has been working in radio
for over ten years, shifting his focus to long form
content during the pandemic. Corey be is going to be there.
(11:59):
The Clean Comedy Showcase offers dinner and brunch options featuring
adult content without profanity or vulgarity. Let's hit gossip Corner.
Jim Gaffigan stop buying the Krueger Wine and Spirits on
Dolphin Drive in Elizabethtown. He was there Monday afternoon. It
was a surprise. He signed a bottle of his Kentucky
bourbon whiskey, Father Time for Jeff. Jim Gaffigan asked, Jeff, Now,
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if I sign this bottle, you're gonna buy it. Jeff
said he would and he'd never open it. Jim Gaffigan
said it was the first bottle that he ever autographed.
And luckily this made it to the press, and we're
reminded that Father Time can be found in a majority
of the Krueger Wine and Spirit stores in central Kentucky.
I don't know why I have the giggles today. The
show is a lot of fun. Today. I'm gonna get
out there. That's your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.
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