April 25, 2025 • 13 mins
In this poolside edition of Daily Comedy News, Johnny Mac covers various topics from the comedy world. Nikki Glaser shares her worries about a Golden Globes joke and comments on the mental struggles she faces and her border concern. John Mulaney sparks "controversy" with a joke about Gene Hackman. The episode also touches on Fortune Feimster's recent split, Katherine Ryan's allegations of sexual misconduct in comedy, and Paul Reiser's standup show in Boston. Additionally, Memphis comedian Benny Elbows attempts to break the world record for the longest solo comedy performance.
00:36 Nikki Glaser
03:02 John Mulaney's "Controversial" Joke
04:01 Mulaney Show Recap
06:05 Jessica Kirson's New Special
09:18 Katherine Ryan on Misconduct in Comedy
11:14 Paul Reiser's Love for Standup
12:18 Benny Elbows' World Record Attempt
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00:36 Nikki Glaser
03:02 John Mulaney's "Controversial" Joke
04:01 Mulaney Show Recap
06:05 Jessica Kirson's New Special
09:18 Katherine Ryan on Misconduct in Comedy
11:14 Paul Reiser's Love for Standup
12:18 Benny Elbows' World Record Attempt
Get the show without ads. Five bucks. For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app which says UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus.
Contact John at john@thesharkdeck dot com
John’s free substack about the media: Media Thoughts is mcdpod.substack.com
DCN on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@dailycomedynews
https://linktr.ee/dailycomedynews
You can also support the show at www.buymeacoffee.com/dailycomedynews
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Daily Comedy News. We're about to find out if Nicki
Glazer can take a punch. We'll talk about that in
a second, but let me set the scene here. It's
seventy five degrees and the humidity's thirty four percent, and
it's Sonny out for the first time of month. So
(00:23):
if you're like Johnny Mack, do I hear birds? You do?
Do I hear planes? I do? Do I hear dogs?
You might? Because this, to my friends, is our first
pool side edition of Daily Comedy News this year. It
is too nice to sit in the basement, all right,
let's get to it. Nicki Glazer was at the time
one hundred Summit on Wednesday. She said there was a
joke she told during the Golden Globes that she worried
(00:44):
went too far. Niki explains, I didn't say anything that
was like calling anyone ugly or fat at roast you
say really cruel things, that's the job. She conceded. She
was initially concerned about a joke aimed at Emilia Paris
star Selena Gomez and her fiance Benny Blanco that she
ended up texting Blanco to get his permission to go
ahead with the joke. Quoting Nicki, I said that Selena
Gomez is here because of Emilia Perez and Benny Blanco
(01:06):
is here because of the genie who granted him that wish,
and looking back, I'm like, that could seem mean, but
everybody's like he's not attractive enough for her. For me,
I've never looked at them and thought that. I feel
like she won too. I think he's really cool. So
because that joke didn't actually come from a mean place,
I felt like it was okay for me to say.
If you pay a lot of attention to these Nicki
Glazer interviews, there is definitely signs of mental struggles here.
(01:27):
She's pretty open about it, and you do worry about her.
Nicki said, I'm happier than I've ever been, but I'm
not happy by any means. I'm so grateful, but i
still have a lot of self loathing that's almost getting
boring to talk about. At this point, she spoke about
her current hot streak. I know it. I'll get taken
away at some point because it has to. That's just
the way things work. And when that part of my
career happens. I don't want to be sad about that,
so I just don't put too much worth in it.
(01:49):
But I'm enjoying it now. None of that is the
controversy that I alluded to at the beginning. Nicki said
she was more critical of Trump than usual at a
recent show in Canada because she usually holds back in
the US to not alienate fans who might disagree with
her politics. But she told the audience at the time
thing she got worried that she could get backlash. Oh
my gosh, what if I said gets recorded and sent out.
(02:11):
Maybe I couldn't be let back into the country. There's
just no scenario where the headline is US government bans
Nicki Glazer from re entering country. I mean, that would
just be such a massive scandal story. There's no chance
of that happening, Nikki said, I'm not trying to be
an alarmist, but I definitely don't think that I'm immune
to having some kind of backlash. Look at the other
places that have dictators. I have a friend Jennif Friedman,
(02:34):
who posted on Instagram that she was performing in Vancouver
and when she came back, customs asked her what she did.
She said she was a comedian, and they asked her
if she talked about politics had made fun of the president.
They let her go, but they asked, or I could
be put on some kind of list because of some
story I reposted. Look at other places that have dictators.
You're not allowed to say things about them. She then
joked about being sexually attracted to Trump to get on
(02:54):
his good side. I don't know where you're laughing about.
I'm one hundred percent real about this and it'll save
me when I'm on the gallows. Send your letters to
Nikki Glazer. John mulaney has come under fire for a
quote very controversial joke. This from the British tabloids. The
very controversial joke was about the deaths of Gene Hackman
and Hackman's wife. The joke in question and told much
(03:16):
better by John mulaney. Scientists are now like, we believe
dinosaurs were killed sixty six million years ago by an asteroid.
Stop you don't know that. We don't even know how
Gene Hackman and his wife died and we found their
whole bodies with full clothes on one week after the event.
How about that? Santa Fe police Hello, Press conference number
four hundred seventy. We now believe that a rat bit
Missus Hackman turning her hands into mummy hands. Slow down.
(03:36):
You don't know what happened that again, told much better
by John mulaney. Is the very controversial joke? Really okay?
Very controversial? One Reddit user called the comments sickening and
posted just me thinking that Gene Hackman bit was just
a tad sickening. Another redditur wrote only John could get
away with a Gene Hackman joke this soon really okay, guys.
(04:01):
Late nighter watched the millenniy show. I didn't. I Wednesday
night is volleyball night, and I made the mistake of
I went for a run. Johnny Mack is out of shape,
and I will cop to being out of shape when
I'm out of shape. And I'm out of shape. So
I went for a run Wednesday afternoon because the weather's nice,
and then I played volleyball and I was so gassed,
so there was no chance of me watching a show
from ten to eleven PM. I went to bed. But
(04:22):
Late Nighter they watch Mullenie's show. They are very positive
about the show, and it sounds like maybe, perhaps possibly
Millenia has taken my notes. Late nighter, says Mullani waited
until halfway through the show to explain that guest Rita
Marino wasn't there. Apparently Rita wasn't feeling well, but he
never addressed the other missing panelist, which was to be
(04:42):
dinosaur expert doctor Luis Chiappe, who had been announced earlier
this week. Maybe John took my note that having seventy
five people on it once doesn't work. Who knows. Mllenie
opened the show announcing the time and temperature sixty two
degrees in LA while snow went past his studio windows.
Mulaney explained this is his Christmas show since the show
(05:03):
won't be on in December, and he felt like it.
See that's funny, that's like an old style Letterman inspired bit.
So was the Christmas Show, complete with twinking lights, tinsel,
and a disheveled white beard. Hobo, one of the guests
he did have on io at a Berry. She liked
the craziness. She compared the show to Crack, but in
a good way. Okay, we all know crack is bad. Yes,
we can all agree that crack is something bad, But
(05:24):
consider this Crack gave us funk music. Crack gave us
Tyren Bighams Crackavius Whitney Houston saying, first of all, let's
get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. The spirit of crack,
one could argue, has also given us this show. John
Mulaney Sober and a Father is basically spiritually on crack.
To be clear, I think this is a good thing.
This man shows up dressed like a pentecostal deacon son
headed to the twenty eighteen NBA draft all he'd end
(05:47):
up a fifth round reject, and yet he puts out
some of the sharpest comedy happening right now. She described
Mlaney as a gift to comedy. He's also maybe probably insane.
But I think this is good and I think crack
is bad. Now what's interesting is I did several googles
of the term Malinie Conan. Not much came up. Jessica
Kerson has a new special out on Hulu today. It
(06:09):
is called I'm the Man. Now. The Hulu publicist didn't
send me anything, but I will not be stopped. Hulu publicists,
you keep your comedy special secret, and I'll keep outing them,
Jessica told The Daily beast. I've been doing stand up
for over twenty years, and this special is truly special.
My stand up has always stood out to the audience
as I've performed for my fans, had especially in other comics.
I'm the Man is me embracing everything I am, the
(06:29):
crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I'm fearless
on stage. Michelle Wolf had a surprise release, not really
a special, a fifteen minute clip where she talked about
her controversial twenty eighteen set at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
The clip is called Dinner Time. It has premiered on
punch Up Live, a digital platform for live comedy. You
(06:51):
can watch it for free. Wolf explains there might not
be a comedian at the Correspondent's Dinner this year, but
the good news is I have some leftovers. I've been
holding onto the set since twenty twenty two, and with
everything going on, I felt like it was the right
moment to share it exclusively on punch Up, a platform
where comedians can release their own uncensored material without the
constraints of any network or streamer. Drud Carmichael will have
(07:12):
another stand up special for HBO. This one is called
Don't Be Gay. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president
for HBO Programming. She says in a press release, this
new special continues to build on the raw, intimate, and
emotionally honest impact that his last special, Roathaniel and his
recent series on the network at drud Carmichael Reality Show
had no quote from Carmichael though. Anyway. Don't Be Gay
(07:34):
on HBO Saturday, May twenty fourth, at ten pm. At
Tomorrow's Brett Goldstein Special. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Good
job by the birds giving me. I hope you can
hear the birds giving me some atmosphere as we do
the show poolside today. Now it's so weird putting the
show together because when I put together Thursday Show, there
was nothing. Now behind the scenes, I teach a college
(07:56):
class on Thursday morning, so I often like to pretape Fridays,
and as the week goes, Friday tends to be one
of the lesser listen two days. I guess people get
into weekend mode. So I often, when I'm teaching, will
pre tape Friday show and I'll you know, I'll squirrel
stuff away all week. And there was just really nothing
to fill Thursday show. So I had to pull. Boy,
(08:19):
these birds are getting done. Thank you birds. I had
to pull most of what was going to be today's
show into yesterday's show just to get a show out,
and it was a short show as it was now today. Conversely,
it took me two hours to put this together. There's
enough for three shows, and I'm probably gonna sit here
at poolside recording the entire weekend because there's so much.
(08:39):
Let's head on over to Gossip Corner. This is sad
TMZ reporting Fortune Femster and her wife Jacqueline Smith recently
separated and Fortune is planning a file for divorce. According
to TMZ, it's unclear what caused the split or when
they separated. TMZ thinks it's pretty fresh. This is sad
to me because wasn't one of fortune special all about
(09:00):
getting married to Jack's. Wasn't that like the whole cornerstone
of it. So that's kind of sad. They were married
in October of twenty twenty. Also on Gossip Corner, now,
kids are listening to this with you. For some reason,
it stopped. We don't want the kids to listen to
this next section. They're just gonna have questions. So I'll
give you a second hero bebble. Okay, kids are gone.
Catherine Ryan has spoken out about more sexual misconduct in
(09:23):
the comedy industry. She claimed one male comedian showed other
cast mates intimate videos of himself having sex with women.
Catherine explained the incident happened while backstage in the green
room of a big show. She did not identify the comedian,
but did say that he isn't British. She explained, I've
been in green rooms were very famous male comedians. One
(09:44):
male comedian in particular, I will say it's not British.
He was very famous, very rich, very powerful, and he
was in a room on a big show. I was
one of the few women on that bill, maybe three women,
and there was a young female comedian who was starting out.
It was next to him, and he was with all
the lads showing pictures and videos on his phone that
he had taken of himself having sex with women, so
like really intimate photos, intimate videos, and he was showing them.
(10:06):
His junk was in a lot of these videos. She
felt very uncomfortable about that, and she came to my
dressing room to be like, oh, I didn't like him
showing me that, and she's about to go on stage.
She's very new. I was even quite new at the time,
but yeah, stuff like that, and being a minority in
that situation which female comedians, especially when I was starting out,
we're always minorities in every green room, every dressing room.
There are things we can't do that the boys can do.
(10:27):
We can't take a night bus, we can't sleep on
the floor with four other comedians starting out. A lot
of times we have children that we have to look after,
and then we get fans who could like kill us.
She then talked about Nicki Glazer. Nicki Glazer, who's doing
amazing and American hosting the Golden Globes for the second
year in a row. She'd make a joke of it
on Instagram. Should write, come kill me in Cincinnati at
seven pm, Come kill me in San Diego at eight pm.
(10:47):
We'd have to publish where we are at night, and
we're always alone. It's a bit different. When I started
doing television, male audience members could be weird with me.
I had this following of very strange lone wolf men.
Before I had a tour manager that'd follow me onto
the train and keep talking to me. I was trying
to be polite and boundary, but some of those interactions
were scary. I've been locking in part, I think because
of the guys I came up with. Joe lystt, Rob
Beckett and Ramesher Rag and Aathan are just really really
(11:09):
good guys. Boy, this is all just terrible switching gears.
If you're in Boston, Paul Reiser is at the Cabot
in Beverly tonight. Paul says he doesn't have to do
stand up. I just love performing. I don't love airports.
I don't love connecting flights. I just tell my agent's
got to be direct flight, not too late, because I
like to be in pajamas at nine to forty five
if possible. Paul's my kind of guy. I've been on
(11:30):
Stranger Things, which is big and great to be in,
but has nothing to do with me being on stage
for an hour and a half. That's the fun, that's
the joy. I love the order of stand up. I
love how ephemeral it is now. The goalposts are always
moving and you never quite get it, and if you
do get it, it's gone the next day. It's like, wow,
what was that? Paul says it has a hard time
watching his old stuff, but when I do see a
glimpse of it, there are themes of things I'm still questioning.
What's also great is the audience now comes to see me.
(11:52):
It's not nineteen seventy eight years greedy Number eleven Bull Riser.
If people are coming and they bought a ticket and
they came to see me, it's because they know me
from something probably man about you. It really does feel
like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks, I
know this guy who grew up together, and we got
married around the same time, we had kids around the
same time, and the same warmth that I think they
bring I feel towards them. And maybe younger people come too,
and they're confused. Wait, why is the doctor from Stranger
(12:14):
Things trying to be funny? Save some more of that
for the weekend. A Memphis comedian is going for a
world record this weekend. Benny Elbows is working on a
solo stand up show that could last forty plus hours
to break the record for longest continuous solo comedy stand
up routine in history. I think Bob Marley had that.
(12:35):
The comedian Bob Marlin had that record for a while
we actually broadcast it live on serious if my memory holds,
Benny Elbows says, for a while, it's a tour guide.
It did tours in Memphis. It was a ghost tour guide,
like a haunted tour, not like a signed up for
the tour. Never saw me again, that's funny. The plan
was for him to take the stage at six o'clock
this morning at the High Tone Cafe on Cleveland Avenue.
(12:57):
He's aiming to break the current record of forty hours
eight minutes. His game plan. I think the most important
thing is going to be caffeine. There are rules according
to the Guinness World Record. I can repeat jokes, but
only every four hours. So right now I have a
word document with like sixteen seventeen thousand words. It's twenty
six pages. Another big one is that we need ten
people in the audience at all times. That's hard. How
(13:17):
will we make sure there are ten people in the audience.
He's hoping that this press helps. Well, if you're in Memphis,
go help this guy out. Hopefully you download the podcast
at three or five am when I dropped it, and
you ran right over there to hook up that six
am hour. All right, I know you're curious, what about
the bathroom, He explains, I can eat and drink on
stage as long as it doesn't disrupt the flow of
the show. You get five minutes every hour you can
(13:40):
use for whatever you want, say a bathroom break. So
I'm going to try to go as far as i
can to the show before trying to take a nap
and then finish strong. If everything goes well, he'll break
the record around ten thirty on Saturday night. And that
is your comedy news for today, Poolside Edition. Have an
awesome day.
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
Daily Comedy News. We're about to find out if Nicki
Glazer can take a punch. We'll talk about that in
a second, but let me set the scene here. It's
seventy five degrees and the humidity's thirty four percent, and
it's Sonny out for the first time of month. So
(00:23):
if you're like Johnny Mack, do I hear birds? You do?
Do I hear planes? I do? Do I hear dogs?
You might? Because this, to my friends, is our first
pool side edition of Daily Comedy News this year. It
is too nice to sit in the basement, all right,
let's get to it. Nicki Glazer was at the time
one hundred Summit on Wednesday. She said there was a
joke she told during the Golden Globes that she worried
(00:44):
went too far. Niki explains, I didn't say anything that
was like calling anyone ugly or fat at roast you
say really cruel things, that's the job. She conceded. She
was initially concerned about a joke aimed at Emilia Paris
star Selena Gomez and her fiance Benny Blanco that she
ended up texting Blanco to get his permission to go
ahead with the joke. Quoting Nicki, I said that Selena
Gomez is here because of Emilia Perez and Benny Blanco
(01:06):
is here because of the genie who granted him that wish,
and looking back, I'm like, that could seem mean, but
everybody's like he's not attractive enough for her. For me,
I've never looked at them and thought that. I feel
like she won too. I think he's really cool. So
because that joke didn't actually come from a mean place,
I felt like it was okay for me to say.
If you pay a lot of attention to these Nicki
Glazer interviews, there is definitely signs of mental struggles here.
(01:27):
She's pretty open about it, and you do worry about her.
Nicki said, I'm happier than I've ever been, but I'm
not happy by any means. I'm so grateful, but i
still have a lot of self loathing that's almost getting
boring to talk about. At this point, she spoke about
her current hot streak. I know it. I'll get taken
away at some point because it has to. That's just
the way things work. And when that part of my
career happens. I don't want to be sad about that,
so I just don't put too much worth in it.
(01:49):
But I'm enjoying it now. None of that is the
controversy that I alluded to at the beginning. Nicki said
she was more critical of Trump than usual at a
recent show in Canada because she usually holds back in
the US to not alienate fans who might disagree with
her politics. But she told the audience at the time
thing she got worried that she could get backlash. Oh
my gosh, what if I said gets recorded and sent out.
(02:11):
Maybe I couldn't be let back into the country. There's
just no scenario where the headline is US government bans
Nicki Glazer from re entering country. I mean, that would
just be such a massive scandal story. There's no chance
of that happening, Nikki said, I'm not trying to be
an alarmist, but I definitely don't think that I'm immune
to having some kind of backlash. Look at the other
places that have dictators. I have a friend Jennif Friedman,
(02:34):
who posted on Instagram that she was performing in Vancouver
and when she came back, customs asked her what she did.
She said she was a comedian, and they asked her
if she talked about politics had made fun of the president.
They let her go, but they asked, or I could
be put on some kind of list because of some
story I reposted. Look at other places that have dictators.
You're not allowed to say things about them. She then
joked about being sexually attracted to Trump to get on
(02:54):
his good side. I don't know where you're laughing about.
I'm one hundred percent real about this and it'll save
me when I'm on the gallows. Send your letters to
Nikki Glazer. John mulaney has come under fire for a
quote very controversial joke. This from the British tabloids. The
very controversial joke was about the deaths of Gene Hackman
and Hackman's wife. The joke in question and told much
(03:16):
better by John mulaney. Scientists are now like, we believe
dinosaurs were killed sixty six million years ago by an asteroid.
Stop you don't know that. We don't even know how
Gene Hackman and his wife died and we found their
whole bodies with full clothes on one week after the event.
How about that? Santa Fe police Hello, Press conference number
four hundred seventy. We now believe that a rat bit
Missus Hackman turning her hands into mummy hands. Slow down.
(03:36):
You don't know what happened that again, told much better
by John mulaney. Is the very controversial joke? Really okay?
Very controversial? One Reddit user called the comments sickening and
posted just me thinking that Gene Hackman bit was just
a tad sickening. Another redditur wrote only John could get
away with a Gene Hackman joke this soon really okay, guys.
(04:01):
Late nighter watched the millenniy show. I didn't. I Wednesday
night is volleyball night, and I made the mistake of
I went for a run. Johnny Mack is out of shape,
and I will cop to being out of shape when
I'm out of shape. And I'm out of shape. So
I went for a run Wednesday afternoon because the weather's nice,
and then I played volleyball and I was so gassed,
so there was no chance of me watching a show
from ten to eleven PM. I went to bed. But
(04:22):
Late Nighter they watch Mullenie's show. They are very positive
about the show, and it sounds like maybe, perhaps possibly
Millenia has taken my notes. Late nighter, says Mullani waited
until halfway through the show to explain that guest Rita
Marino wasn't there. Apparently Rita wasn't feeling well, but he
never addressed the other missing panelist, which was to be
(04:42):
dinosaur expert doctor Luis Chiappe, who had been announced earlier
this week. Maybe John took my note that having seventy
five people on it once doesn't work. Who knows. Mllenie
opened the show announcing the time and temperature sixty two
degrees in LA while snow went past his studio windows.
Mulaney explained this is his Christmas show since the show
(05:03):
won't be on in December, and he felt like it.
See that's funny, that's like an old style Letterman inspired bit.
So was the Christmas Show, complete with twinking lights, tinsel,
and a disheveled white beard. Hobo, one of the guests
he did have on io at a Berry. She liked
the craziness. She compared the show to Crack, but in
a good way. Okay, we all know crack is bad. Yes,
we can all agree that crack is something bad, But
(05:24):
consider this Crack gave us funk music. Crack gave us
Tyren Bighams Crackavius Whitney Houston saying, first of all, let's
get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. The spirit of crack,
one could argue, has also given us this show. John
Mulaney Sober and a Father is basically spiritually on crack.
To be clear, I think this is a good thing.
This man shows up dressed like a pentecostal deacon son
headed to the twenty eighteen NBA draft all he'd end
(05:47):
up a fifth round reject, and yet he puts out
some of the sharpest comedy happening right now. She described
Mlaney as a gift to comedy. He's also maybe probably insane.
But I think this is good and I think crack
is bad. Now what's interesting is I did several googles
of the term Malinie Conan. Not much came up. Jessica
Kerson has a new special out on Hulu today. It
(06:09):
is called I'm the Man. Now. The Hulu publicist didn't
send me anything, but I will not be stopped. Hulu publicists,
you keep your comedy special secret, and I'll keep outing them,
Jessica told The Daily beast. I've been doing stand up
for over twenty years, and this special is truly special.
My stand up has always stood out to the audience
as I've performed for my fans, had especially in other comics.
I'm the Man is me embracing everything I am, the
(06:29):
crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I'm fearless
on stage. Michelle Wolf had a surprise release, not really
a special, a fifteen minute clip where she talked about
her controversial twenty eighteen set at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
The clip is called Dinner Time. It has premiered on
punch Up Live, a digital platform for live comedy. You
(06:51):
can watch it for free. Wolf explains there might not
be a comedian at the Correspondent's Dinner this year, but
the good news is I have some leftovers. I've been
holding onto the set since twenty twenty two, and with
everything going on, I felt like it was the right
moment to share it exclusively on punch Up, a platform
where comedians can release their own uncensored material without the
constraints of any network or streamer. Drud Carmichael will have
(07:12):
another stand up special for HBO. This one is called
Don't Be Gay. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president
for HBO Programming. She says in a press release, this
new special continues to build on the raw, intimate, and
emotionally honest impact that his last special, Roathaniel and his
recent series on the network at drud Carmichael Reality Show
had no quote from Carmichael though. Anyway. Don't Be Gay
(07:34):
on HBO Saturday, May twenty fourth, at ten pm. At
Tomorrow's Brett Goldstein Special. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Good
job by the birds giving me. I hope you can
hear the birds giving me some atmosphere as we do
the show poolside today. Now it's so weird putting the
show together because when I put together Thursday Show, there
was nothing. Now behind the scenes, I teach a college
(07:56):
class on Thursday morning, so I often like to pretape Fridays,
and as the week goes, Friday tends to be one
of the lesser listen two days. I guess people get
into weekend mode. So I often, when I'm teaching, will
pre tape Friday show and I'll you know, I'll squirrel
stuff away all week. And there was just really nothing
to fill Thursday show. So I had to pull. Boy,
(08:19):
these birds are getting done. Thank you birds. I had
to pull most of what was going to be today's
show into yesterday's show just to get a show out,
and it was a short show as it was now today. Conversely,
it took me two hours to put this together. There's
enough for three shows, and I'm probably gonna sit here
at poolside recording the entire weekend because there's so much.
(08:39):
Let's head on over to Gossip Corner. This is sad
TMZ reporting Fortune Femster and her wife Jacqueline Smith recently
separated and Fortune is planning a file for divorce. According
to TMZ, it's unclear what caused the split or when
they separated. TMZ thinks it's pretty fresh. This is sad
to me because wasn't one of fortune special all about
(09:00):
getting married to Jack's. Wasn't that like the whole cornerstone
of it. So that's kind of sad. They were married
in October of twenty twenty. Also on Gossip Corner, now,
kids are listening to this with you. For some reason,
it stopped. We don't want the kids to listen to
this next section. They're just gonna have questions. So I'll
give you a second hero bebble. Okay, kids are gone.
Catherine Ryan has spoken out about more sexual misconduct in
(09:23):
the comedy industry. She claimed one male comedian showed other
cast mates intimate videos of himself having sex with women.
Catherine explained the incident happened while backstage in the green
room of a big show. She did not identify the comedian,
but did say that he isn't British. She explained, I've
been in green rooms were very famous male comedians. One
(09:44):
male comedian in particular, I will say it's not British.
He was very famous, very rich, very powerful, and he
was in a room on a big show. I was
one of the few women on that bill, maybe three women,
and there was a young female comedian who was starting out.
It was next to him, and he was with all
the lads showing pictures and videos on his phone that
he had taken of himself having sex with women, so
like really intimate photos, intimate videos, and he was showing them.
(10:06):
His junk was in a lot of these videos. She
felt very uncomfortable about that, and she came to my
dressing room to be like, oh, I didn't like him
showing me that, and she's about to go on stage.
She's very new. I was even quite new at the time,
but yeah, stuff like that, and being a minority in
that situation which female comedians, especially when I was starting out,
we're always minorities in every green room, every dressing room.
There are things we can't do that the boys can do.
(10:27):
We can't take a night bus, we can't sleep on
the floor with four other comedians starting out. A lot
of times we have children that we have to look after,
and then we get fans who could like kill us.
She then talked about Nicki Glazer. Nicki Glazer, who's doing
amazing and American hosting the Golden Globes for the second
year in a row. She'd make a joke of it
on Instagram. Should write, come kill me in Cincinnati at
seven pm, Come kill me in San Diego at eight pm.
(10:47):
We'd have to publish where we are at night, and
we're always alone. It's a bit different. When I started
doing television, male audience members could be weird with me.
I had this following of very strange lone wolf men.
Before I had a tour manager that'd follow me onto
the train and keep talking to me. I was trying
to be polite and boundary, but some of those interactions
were scary. I've been locking in part, I think because
of the guys I came up with. Joe lystt, Rob
Beckett and Ramesher Rag and Aathan are just really really
(11:09):
good guys. Boy, this is all just terrible switching gears.
If you're in Boston, Paul Reiser is at the Cabot
in Beverly tonight. Paul says he doesn't have to do
stand up. I just love performing. I don't love airports.
I don't love connecting flights. I just tell my agent's
got to be direct flight, not too late, because I
like to be in pajamas at nine to forty five
if possible. Paul's my kind of guy. I've been on
(11:30):
Stranger Things, which is big and great to be in,
but has nothing to do with me being on stage
for an hour and a half. That's the fun, that's
the joy. I love the order of stand up. I
love how ephemeral it is now. The goalposts are always
moving and you never quite get it, and if you
do get it, it's gone the next day. It's like, wow,
what was that? Paul says it has a hard time
watching his old stuff, but when I do see a
glimpse of it, there are themes of things I'm still questioning.
What's also great is the audience now comes to see me.
(11:52):
It's not nineteen seventy eight years greedy Number eleven Bull Riser.
If people are coming and they bought a ticket and
they came to see me, it's because they know me
from something probably man about you. It really does feel
like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks, I
know this guy who grew up together, and we got
married around the same time, we had kids around the
same time, and the same warmth that I think they
bring I feel towards them. And maybe younger people come too,
and they're confused. Wait, why is the doctor from Stranger
(12:14):
Things trying to be funny? Save some more of that
for the weekend. A Memphis comedian is going for a
world record this weekend. Benny Elbows is working on a
solo stand up show that could last forty plus hours
to break the record for longest continuous solo comedy stand
up routine in history. I think Bob Marley had that.
(12:35):
The comedian Bob Marlin had that record for a while
we actually broadcast it live on serious if my memory holds,
Benny Elbows says, for a while, it's a tour guide.
It did tours in Memphis. It was a ghost tour guide,
like a haunted tour, not like a signed up for
the tour. Never saw me again, that's funny. The plan
was for him to take the stage at six o'clock
this morning at the High Tone Cafe on Cleveland Avenue.
(12:57):
He's aiming to break the current record of forty hours
eight minutes. His game plan. I think the most important
thing is going to be caffeine. There are rules according
to the Guinness World Record. I can repeat jokes, but
only every four hours. So right now I have a
word document with like sixteen seventeen thousand words. It's twenty
six pages. Another big one is that we need ten
people in the audience at all times. That's hard. How
(13:17):
will we make sure there are ten people in the audience.
He's hoping that this press helps. Well, if you're in Memphis,
go help this guy out. Hopefully you download the podcast
at three or five am when I dropped it, and
you ran right over there to hook up that six
am hour. All right, I know you're curious, what about
the bathroom, He explains, I can eat and drink on
stage as long as it doesn't disrupt the flow of
the show. You get five minutes every hour you can
(13:40):
use for whatever you want, say a bathroom break. So
I'm going to try to go as far as i
can to the show before trying to take a nap
and then finish strong. If everything goes well, he'll break
the record around ten thirty on Saturday night. And that
is your comedy news for today, Poolside Edition. Have an
awesome day.
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