Shane Gillis at the Masters

Johnny Mac delves into Shane Gillis' experience at the Masters, the comedic dynamics between John Mulaney and David Letterman on Mulaney’s talk show, and Jimmy Kimmel's thoughts on the late-night TV landscape. He critiques the chaotic nature of Mulaney’s production and the awkward placement of guests, suggesting a simpler format. Highlights also include Jimmy Fallon’s new show ‘On Brand’ and Katt Williams getting a street named after him. Additionally, there's coverage of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, ian nsightful quotes from an Icelandic comedian Ari Ljn.
 
00:11 Shane Gillis at the Masters
01:06 Personal NASCAR Experience
01:59 John Mulaney's Talk Show Critique
05:36 Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Journey
07:33 Jimmy Fallon's New Show
09:36 Katt Williams Gets a Street
10:44 Melbourne Comedy Festival Highlights
11:40 Interview with Icelandic Comedian Ari Ljn

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. People are not upset with Shane Gillis,
but they're kind of like, come on, dude. He went
to the Masters last Sunday. Rory McElroy had his run there.
A lot of people were tuning in on the fly,
a lot of casuals, myself included, put the golf on

(00:26):
and on his podcast, Shane said, I don't give enough
about golf. I really wanted to. You couldn't see a thing.
Shane was there with his tires Co star Steve Gerbin.
Steve had pleaded with Shane to use his celebrity power
to gain entry into the exclusive Masters tournament, tagging along
as their friend Chris O'Connor. Shane says O'Connor was planning

(00:48):
on not going, so he had already started drinking a little.
He was prepared to lock down by himself at Hooters
for the entire day, which I could have been more
jealous of. Gillis admitted that the fairways of Augusta were
like paradise and that everybody was friendly except for the bathrooms,
which he compared to prison. People on social media are
both jealous and kind of like, can you not appreciate it?
I had an experienced once back when we did Blue

(01:09):
Collar Radio. I used to get hot passes for NASCAR events.
So what a hot pass is is you can be
in Pitt Road while the race is going on, while
cars are coming in and they're doing the tire changes
and all that, and I'd be three feet from the
car during a race. And every time I did it
at the Daytona five hundred, I would be appreciative, but

(01:32):
I was like, deep down, I know I don't appreciate this.
It would be like somebody else who doesn't care sitting
in the Mets dugout during a Mets World Series. That
would be like my equivalent there for me. And I'm like,
this is amazing, but I'm not a NASCAR fan, and
I know there's somebody up there in the stands who
would kill for this experience. Loved it, did it several times.
Thought it was cool. NASCAR's great, especially in person, really

(01:54):
good time, but I knew, like, deep down, I don't
deserve to be here, or someone else does. I watched
on Millenie Show with David Letterman and Hannibal burrus NICKI
Glazer and John Mulaney's He's not good at hosting a
talk show. David Letterman tried to save the night, but
the show it's misproduced. Here's some notes from somebody who's
produced a thing or two in thirty years. John's fifteen

(02:16):
minute story at the beginning too long. I started hitting
fast forward. Part of the problem is I know that
they're going for this is different, and this is chaotic,
and the zaniness and the weirdness is what makes it cool.
But it doesn't work. You've got David Letterman there, but
instead of just having Millennie and Letterman talk, you've got
Leanne Morgan there. So then Milanie starts talking over Dave

(02:38):
towards Leanne Morgan, who's further down the couch. Dave makes
a joke about how awkward it is, which was funny. Again,
Dave tried to save it, but the format doesn't work
because Letterman or any guest Nicki Glazer, Hannibal Buris, they
can't get into groove because you've got too many people
sitting there at once. Richard Kind apparently has carte blanche
to interrupt and throw the whole thing off. This show
doesn't work. I can't understand how you have John Mullaney,

(03:01):
David Letterman, Nikki Glazer, Hannibal Burs and Fine Leanne Morgan.
And you can't hand in something that's entertaining. I didn't
make it to the end. This show is not good.
Conan O'Brien will be the guest on John mullaney next week.
Here's a pro tip for the producers. Okay, you're ready,
here's what you're gonna do. It's seven oh one in
Los Angeles and fifty four degrees. My first guest is

(03:23):
Conan O'Brien. Conan, how you doing? And then stop talking?
And then fifty nine minutes later ago, and that's our
show this week. See you guys next week. All right,
write that down mlany or more importantly, write that down
malleaney's producers, says the guy hosting a podcast in his basement.
The Sydney Morning Harold asked the question ken John Mulaney's
absurdist Netflix masterpiece save late night TV masterpiece. They use

(03:48):
the word masterpiece. The Sydney Morning Harold writes. When it works,
it's very good. However, there are some more awkward episodes.
Cruise Ships, for example, didn't end as a particularly interesting
topic where everybody had good stories but getting fired. It's
alls about finding the right people. Yeah, like so you had,
I don't know, David Letterman, hanniballe person, nickki Glazer. You
could probably make a show out of that. It all
has a frantic, somewhat cobbled together feeling that's incongruous to

(04:10):
the amount of money that's clearly being spent on the show.
And nobody seems more joyful about the chaos than Mlany.
He told Bill Hayter, this is what it's going to
be like the entire time. I have a whole new vibe.
It's very different. It might be a winning strategy, a
way to save the format, but it feels less deliberate
than that. Maybe it's just a way generally a fun
and beloved style of show for as long as they're
allowed to get away with it. Latenighter dot Com orroat

(04:31):
Episode six of Everybody's Live treats Letterman's appearance with format
breaking comic reverence, an unprecedented cold open with a mic
toting Mullaney fainting towards a similarly unprecedented topical bit about
the current constitutional crisis, give way to the frenzied backstage
prep for the measure in they lined up people in
size order. It was a lettermanesque bit. Even Letterman said,

(04:51):
that's the kind of thing we used to do late night.
A writs are running theme the season has been that
even Mlanie doesn't know what he's actually doing here. His
pronouncement here that his sort of late night show looks
and sounds like it's real, but it's just kind of
off is a more sucinct definition than any I've come
up with. Letterman's presence makes the call in segments even
more of an afterthought than usual. M'laney introduces Hannibal Verse

(05:11):
and Nicky Glazers, two of his best stan up pals,
while LeAnn Morgan's ultra Southern stick gets tiresome, but none
can compete with the legend nestled beside them on Malanie's couch.
That's in line with my notes, ladies and gentlemen, my
first guest is David Letterman. Hi, Dave, what's going on?
And stop talking? Good stuff from late night? Or here
they write for Dave himself. This sort of coded tribute
is barely acknowledged even as the entire episode plays out.

(05:33):
In one extended thank you. Rolling Stone interviewed Jimmy Kimmel.
I shared that in the Facebook group, which is Daily
Comedy News podcast group, they were curious of Jimmy's earliest
comedy memories. Kimmel said, I had an audio cassette recorder,
and before Letterman came on, I would watch Carson. Same note.
I was there for Dave and you just you watched
Carson to get to twelve thirty with something to do.

(05:53):
Kim Will says specifically, when Bill Cosby was hosting for Johnny,
I tape the monolog and I transcribed it because I
wanted to see what it looked like. But I didn't
have any intention of being comedian. That never occurred to me.
I had a late night license plate and had a
late night birthday cake because I love Letterman so much,
not that I thought I could do it someday. Rolling
Stone was curious about the late night landscape, especially in

(06:14):
light of After Midnight being canceled. Kimmel says, ABC pays
me so ideally, in an ideal world, everybody would watch
our show on ABC, but it's not how it works.
It's very easy to watch it on YouTube. People watch
anything at a moment's notice now and in late night,
I find most of the people are watching me the
next day. That's the next day in the morning. But
if you look at YouTube, you look at all the shows.
More people are watching our late night television than ever were.

(06:35):
And that's what any comedian wants. I don't know, I
might have to fact check that. Let me see what
Carson was at his peak. Okay. AI overview on Google
says Carson Show averaged nine million viewers nightly. A Facebook
post says it averaged sixteen million people. Here's the LA
time saying nine million. So let's go with nine million.

(06:56):
I guess if you added up two million here million
there a millionaire in the social media. Maybe if we
add everything together, it might get to nine million. Jimmy Kimmel. Maybe,
perhaps possibly, I'm too lazy to do the math. Jimmy retirement. Yes, no,
Jimmy said, I realize there's no point in talking about it.
Obsess the people I work with. There are a lot
of people who want of jobs when I retire. That
definitely weighs on me. But the reality is, I'm not

(07:18):
gonna do this forever. At a certain point, it's gonna
have to end. I also know that there's not one
person who works here who would resent me for retiring.
I think they know that when I'm done, I'll feel
like I've done this as long as it possibly can.
But you always feel like the band leader that when
you step aside, everyone's gonna have to find new jobs.
Jimmy Fallon, whose Tonight Show is in third place? And
I've been thinking about that since I said it on

(07:38):
the podcast. I can't imagine a universe in which the
Tonight Show is the third most popular thing at eleven thirty?
How is that possible? And yeah, I get demos and
the younger people like them and all that, but like,
if you're at NBC and the Tonight Show is in
third are you like, hmm, what are we even doing? So?
I don't know, but like, if not Jimmy Fallon, who

(07:59):
and what and why? Right? So fine? Let Jimmy Fallon
sit there for twenty years. Maybe it's the marketing. Uh
you know, maybe they should hire Milanie's producer, just have
Jimmy Fallon host a mess of a show. Who knows. Anyway,
Jimmy's got another show on NBC, so I guess they
like him a lot He's going to host the marketing
competition series On Brand, which will also feature marketing exec Bezoma,

(08:21):
Saint John and a number of big companies. On Brand
with Jimmy Fallon. We follow what happens when Jimmy Fallon
starts a premier marketing agency and fills it with the
most creative, clever and competitive go getters he can find. Boy,
somebody in the NBC sales department is creaming their coffee
over this one, because a host of national brands, including

(08:42):
Captain Morgan, Duncan, KitchenAid, Marshall's, Pillsbury, Samsung, Sonic Southwest and
thorough Body, will be part of the show, serving as
the agency's clients and of course getting a good deal
of screen time. All right, so there's a show and
it's going to be all advertising. Oh boy, NBC se executives.
So just gotta love this. Jimmy Fallon said, I love branding,

(09:03):
I love marketing. I love the world of advertising, and
I think there are a lot of people out there
who do as well. This show, let's the audience that
our contestants get a peek behind the curtain of how
campaigns where some of the biggest brands come together and
what goes into making them. Each episode will see the
on brand agency, which reinforces the show's title, working with
one of the aforementioned brands on a major campaign that

(09:24):
may involve commercials, jiggles in Pearson Experiences, or merchandise. The
judges will pick the best ideas, which then go on
to become real world campaigns. What are we even doing
in Cincinnati? Yesterday? Cant Williams got a street named after him.
You may know it as Reading Road at the corner
of Maple Avenue in Avondale. Nope, it is now Cant

(09:45):
Williams Way. Happy for twenty and Easter, but happy four
twenty to those of you who observe. People who do
observe today's holiday are Cheach and Shong, and I believe
from my original notes when I stashed this here months ago,
Cheach and Shoong's Last Movie I Think is out today.
Euchen Chong's Last Movie is a documentary offering a wildly
imaginative take on genre convention, a true life tale till

(10:09):
through a mix of animation and archival madness, all underscored
by a classic cinematic road trip comedy. My Voice is
already given out. And while I'll con see that often
happens on the Sunday episodes. That's usually because I usually
record Friday, Saturday Sunday to give myself the week and off.
But you know, I had the interview yesterday, so this
is actually the first one in the sequence that I'm recording.

(10:29):
And I don't know why my voice is gone, because
I want to do Monday too, because it was supposed
to be nice out today and Johnny Mack wants to
be doing something else. I love you guys, but you know,
it's Sunday, it's Easter, it's four twenty. I'm not a
four to twenty guy, but you know, if you are,
that's fine. But it's Easter and it's nice out and
I want to go out anyway. The Mailburn Comedy Festival
wraps up today. The Guardian gave Lou Wall's show five stars.

(10:50):
They write comedians frequently lie, but if the story is funny,
doesn't matter. If the truth of a hit TV show
is contested, do you enjoy it less? Lou Wall's new
show Breaking the Fifth One, was nominated for Best Show
at Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The story is about Wall
listing a bed for free on Facebook Marketplace and the
unhinged interaction that follows with a woman named Eileen. It's

(11:11):
a fantastic bit, not least because it's very believable. Anyone
who's listened something on Facebook Marketplace is familiar with the
absolute gauntlet of humanities weirdness that you open yourself up to.
It starts with a straightforward story and it becomes something
much more meta and much more complicated. Sounds like a
fun show. I think I figured out how to. I've
dropped my energy a little bit. I've stopped shouting, and

(11:32):
I think if I talk at this level, I'll be
able to record today and tomorrow. Let's do one more.
From expats dot cz, your home for comedy news, they
caught up with Icelandic comedy star Ari l Jarn. You
know him from Pardon My Icelandic Well. Ari is visiting Prague.
Ari is known for his razor sharp impressions and deadpan

(11:53):
takes on Nordic oddities. Expats dot Cz was curious, have
you been to Prague before? Ari said, yeah, once, about
eight years ago. It's beautiful. Raykovic has almost no old
buildings left. We basically demolished everything ourselves after World War Two.
The oldest house where I live is from seventeen ninety
in Prague. The pizzeria I went to was from fourteen ninety.
It wasn't even listed as a historical landmark. Who shaped

(12:13):
your comedic style? Eddie Murphy was the biggest comic in
the Nordic countries. His specials Delirious and Raw were huge here.
They were the first stand up specials most people saw. Later,
I discovered Eddie Zard. Now my manager is Eddie's tour manager.
It's been awesome learning from him. Good question here. Your
material is very eurocentric. Do you think it works outside Europe?
Any jokes that didn't land or? He says, by far.

(12:34):
I've heard the biggest reactions from the Nordic countries, especially
Denmark and Finland, and also really works on Australia. Australians
really get it. The US not so much. I've performed
there much, but I think American audience is harder to crack.
Mostly the Americans who make it to my shows are
very Eurocentric. They're often the type of say, yeah, we're
from the stats, We're sorry, We're sorry. Good question here.
You once said translating a material from English felt like

(12:56):
a rebirth of the jokes. It's exciting when you realize
the joke, which he thought was completely local, can be
made international. It's a fun challenge because most of my
material is so intertwined with Icelandic phrasing. When I speak English,
I tend to be less precise, more of an impression
of an English speaker, which can lead to strange errors.
Sometimes you don't notice them, but doing it on the
fly is a mind bending challenge. It's almost like being

(13:18):
an AI translator. And he shares that he's fluent in English,
semi fluent in Danish, and can also make himself understood
in French, German, and Spanish and of course Icelandic. I
assume he says, that's five, but I'm counting six, assuming
the Icelandic one. That's your comedy news for today. Oh boy,
I gotta find a voice for Monday's episode. Come back

(13:38):
tomorrow you'll see what happens.