April 17, 2025 • 15 mins
Johnny Mac discusses Kevin Spacey's revival of his House of Cards character, Frank Underwood, to promote Tim Dillon's new Netflix comedy special, 'I'm Your Mother.' Johnny places it in the top tier of 2025 comedy specials so far, and highlights other comedy news including the Just for Laughs festival, a roast at WrestleMania featuring Gabriel Iglesias, and various comedian sightings and upcoming shows. He also covers recent controversies involving comedian Bill Maher and Kunal Kamra, and gives a brief review of Rami Youssef's new Amazon Prime animated series, 'Happy Family USA.'
00:18 Kevin Spacey's Frank Underwood Revival
03:22 Tim Dillon's Comedy Special Review
04:58 Comedy News and Festival Updates
05:52 Celebrity Gossip and Show Announcements
09:12 Rami Yusef's New Animated Series
13:18 Bill Maher and Donald Trump Controversy
14:31 Kunal Kamra's Legal Troubles
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00:18 Kevin Spacey's Frank Underwood Revival
03:22 Tim Dillon's Comedy Special Review
04:58 Comedy News and Festival Updates
05:52 Celebrity Gossip and Show Announcements
09:12 Rami Yusef's New Animated Series
13:18 Bill Maher and Donald Trump Controversy
14:31 Kunal Kamra's Legal Troubles
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Calaroga Shark Media.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
I'm gonna start with a long clip. I usually don't
play a clip this long, but it is far and
away the best thing out there today. Kevin Spacey has
revived his House of Cards character Frank Underwood. Why would
he do that to promote Tim Dillon's new comedy special
makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Let's listen, you podcasters think you've inherited the kingdom. Hold on,
I'm gonna have to call you back. Whispering in ears,
swaying elections, spinning the truth like it was cotton candy,
when in fact you owe nothing but a bunch of clowns,
juggling Bonu pills and hair tonic. Frank Underwood, I thought
(00:52):
you were dead. I'm as dead as John McCain. He
is dead. Excuse my ignorance. I meant Hermann k He's
also dead, Dean Kane. To be honest, I don't know. Well,
it doesn't matter anyway, because I'm back. And that's why
I need you to go on your little podcast and
say this. I don't do political endorsements. I think you're
(01:14):
going to do exactly as I ask, mister Dylan door
dash orders made from inside a five stars steakhouse while
at a hotel in Milwaukee in twenty twenty three. You
called a taco bell just to talk. And you once
paid six thousand dollars to have a Carville ice cream
(01:37):
cake overnighted to a theater in Norway and then returned
it for a refund because it wasn't cookie puss.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Jesus Christ, Frank, I'll read it, but first you gotta
plug my comedy special.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh Jesus, it's good. I filmed it in Austin. I
don't care if you filmed it on Mars with Elon Musk.
I'm not here to help you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
These photos you gave me, I've posted them all.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm on the Internet. We don't have blackmail, we have
content world demons from hell, you son of a bitch.
There is no limit to your duplicity, to your panderin,
to your shameless and desperate desire to cling to relevance.
You are you are, I'm what my kind of bestard?
(02:25):
You have my endorsement, mister Dylan, Well, I appreciate that, Franken.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I read ads for Morgan and Morgan Law firm. I'm
sure I can endorse the Daily Wires new musical.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's really good. Oh, by the way, which network is
your comedy special? On Netflix? You found Lonesome, Evil Little Cockroach?
But I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I made a few minor edits there for language. I'm
mad that I could have had this in yesterday's show.
I had seen Tim Dillon's tweet, but the text of
it was, hey, watch my new special, so I just
assumed he shared the trailer. I didn't click on it,
and then I was like, oh, I missed out on this.
What a fantastic job. Why Kevin Spacey did that? I
(03:07):
don't know how Netflix is going to feel about it.
I don't know. And I say that because if you
put on Netflix and they promote House of Cards, they
never ever, ever, ever, never, never ever never show Kevin Spacey.
They act like he wasn't even on the show. I
enjoyed Tim's special. It's a perfectly nice, forty one minutes
(03:28):
constant entertainment. At no point am I like, oh my god,
this is a great special. Ever, But at no point
was I bored either. It moves along for forty one minutes.
It's like Tim strung together a bunch of material he
had sort of worked out on his podcast, which is great.
I like his podcast a lot, and it therefore makes
my top tier of comedy specials of twenty twenty five.
It's already April seventeenth, and boy, it has not been
(03:51):
a good year for comedy specials. Right now. The top
tier is number one. Burt Kreischer is Lucky, and if
Lucky is the best special of the year, that's not
gonna be a good year. And then Tim Dillon's I'm
Your Mother is the number two special of the year
so far. According to one idiot in his basement recording
a podcast, I have in my middle tier Roy Wood,
Ri Severe and Gabe Iglesias, and I have nothing else
(04:12):
on the list yet. Fourth quarter tends to be when
many of the bigger specials come out, so we'll see.
But a really slow start to twenty twenty five anyway.
A recommendation from me on Tim dillon I'm Your Mother
on Netflix, you should watch it. OutKick went with this
review headline comedian releases must watch offensive comedy special woke
losers will hate. That's a great headline, they point out,
(04:36):
Tim Dillon will make fun of absolutely anything, and he's
a great example of what comedy's supposed to be. Nothing
should be off limits. Let's say offensive jokes and don't
give Wokes a single inch. That's the mindset that has
made him a star. And then tap the brakes on
this next part. And his new special is a masterclass.
His new special is fine. His new special is pretty good.
It is not a masterclass. Tap that breaks OutKick he
(04:58):
resurrected just for laugh. SI is starting to announce some things.
They announced Roast Battle Canada and the Galas have been
renewed and will return to the twenty twenty five Just
for Last Montreal Comedy Festival this year July sixteenth through
the twenty seventh. I think I'm gonna go up there
see if I get hassled at the border a little
more than I have in the past. Usually they're like,
(05:19):
come on in, we'll see Rose Battle Canada judges Russell Peters,
Sabrina Jayley's and Kay Trivor Wilson. That's a great lineup.
The series brings together Canada's edgiest comics for a showdown.
The Galas will return. No names announced yet. We got
a little information about the Roast of wrestle Mania, which
is taking place Sunday. Tony Hinchcliff part of that. Not
(05:42):
many details known and it is not going to be
televised supposedly, but they did announce Gabriel Iglesias is now
part of the roast of WrestleMania. Let's stop off at
gossip Corner. THEO Vaughn was in Tuscaloosa. He was spotted
at the Waysider restaurant. The restaurant post that on Facebook
Theovann at the Waysider. Y'all can check them out at
(06:03):
the Amphitheater this weekend. Now this weekend is last weekend.
THEO posted a photo of himself and several University of
Alabama football players on Theo's Instagram with a caption, thank you, Tuscaloosa.
Jimmy Carr, one of my faves, is going to host
Am I the a Hole, the game show based on
that famous subreddit. This will air on Comedy Central UK.
(06:23):
But you know, some of us have our ways. I
have a really really fast plane that allows me to
watch British television and then I'm home two minutes later.
Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean. Jimmy Carr's
AM I the a Hole invite members of the public
to come before the host and a panel of two
other comedians to ask controversial questions. The series will be
filmed late this spring will air later this year on
(06:45):
Comedy Central UK. Jimmy Carr said, there's an impressive number
of a holes in our country and they're finally getting
the recognition they deserve on national television. Amy Lee Would
has continued to speak about the SNL sketch that she
didn't enjoy. Hey, Amy, stop talk talking about and it'll
go away. We would have forgotten about this by Sunday
afternoon if he didn't keep talking about it. You may
(07:07):
recall she thought that the White Potests sketch was mean
and unfunny because of Sarah Sherman's interpretation of her character.
According to Wood, Sarah Sherman has sent her flowers. Wood
wrote on Instagram, thank you for the beautiful flowers and
tagged Sarah Sherman and added the holding back tears emoji. However,
TMZ is reporting SNL did not reach out to Amy
(07:30):
with a formal apology. TMZ writes we're told Amy may
have spoken to someone she knows on the show, Perhaps
Sarah Sherman, and they may have apologized, but no such
apology came down from SNL in any official or formal capacity.
Sources tell TMZ that SNL wouldn't feel compelled to apologize
to Amy because the show makes fun of everyone's appearance,
for example, Donald Trump's waste in the same sketch. Variety
(07:53):
reporting that Seth Rogan had made a crack about Donald
Trump during the Science Honoring break Through Prizes back on
April fifth, but if you didn't watch the live stream,
they've now clipped out some of the material. The organization's
full upload of the ceremony and other official clips of
Rogan's appearance alongside Edward Norton have been edited to exclude
(08:13):
a quip about attendees. Rogan had reportedly said in the
since cut remark, it's amazing that others in the room
under electing a man who in the last week single
handedly destroyed all of American science. It's amazing how much
good science you can destroy with three hundred and twenty
million dollars and Orfka Junior very fast. The Breakthrough Prizes
have confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that Rogan's joke was
(08:35):
one of several edits to the show. They're reasoning I
was made in order to meet the originally planned runtime. Yeah,
because you know, this is the Internet. You know how
long today's podcast is. It's however long it is. That's
how the Internet works. Variety comments and on the originally
planned runtime excuse and says this seems unlikely as the
(08:55):
ceremony would not have had to conform to any broadcasting
scheduling requirements as it was not aired on TV networks. Additionally,
the standalone clip of Rogan and Norton's on stage presentation
seems unlikely to have had an originally planned run time.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Rommy Yusef has a new
television show out today, Happy Family, USA, and an animated series.
(09:19):
You'll find it on Amazon Prime. It takes place around
nine to eleven. Rommie says to bring in the events
of the early two thousands felt important in the sense
that it's something we talk about all the time. It's
part of what we're currently experiencing. It's never gone away.
And when I think about how long those themes have
been directly part of my life and the lots of
people that I know. To get to step into a
period of time that I don't think has escaped us
in any way, unfortunately, And to do it in a
(09:39):
style that's familiar in terms of trotting on political things
that can feel a little difficult and undercuts them and
doesn't make them feel so viatile. To give this kind
of family that treatment is exciting, and to go at
this through an unexpected and very silly lens. Maybe that's
where the hope feeling comes from. The Times pointed out
there's a title card at the top of every episode
that warns that the character should not be taken as representation.
(10:00):
They asked Rami, yusef, why are you so uncomfortable with representation?
Rommy said, when we put out Rami on Hulu, I
remember seeing a headline that was like Muslims, here's the
show for you, and my heart sinking going no, no, no.
We're two billion people and a lot of them are
not gonna like what I'm doing, and they shouldn't because
I'm a guy from New Jersey who thinks this type
of thing is funny. Putting the representation warning was a
cathartic thing of being like, listen, this is not speaking
(10:22):
en mass at all. I know you guys didn't elect me,
and also to be like, hey, I agree with you.
This is not a slice of what it's like for everybody.
Good couplet of questions here from the time so they
asked Rommi, does it feel like tinder comedy is harder
to get made than caustic comedy? Good answer here. Bad
news spreads faster than good news. No one's like, hey,
we recycled a lot. It's not really headline. Talk to
(10:42):
any Netflix executive. Any Netflix execs secretly will be like, hey,
can you throw a murder into your show? Can you
throw some sexual assault in? But also people used to
get together, watch public hangings. We're sick times caught up?
Is that really a thing someone said to you? Can
you throw a murder in there? Rommi said they're not
explicitly asking, but they would never moump. The Guardian also
spoke with Rommy, who has a theory, the more effed
(11:04):
up the climate, the stupid or television must be. You
need something dumb to cut through the tension for relief.
The Guardian piece points out that Happy Family USA is
a prime video production. Amazon donated a million dollars to
the Trump Inauguration Fund. Does Robbie believe this show would
be greenlit today. He says, this feels like a glitch. Honestly,
if I walked in pitch this today, they'd say, no,
(11:24):
what are you talking about? They'd literally say, what the
hell are you thinking? Would be told it's too polarizing
for now. Happy Family USA Prime Video. It is a
big day at the moonte Er Comedy Festival, so I
better get to it. There are thirty one different shows
listen on the website. I'm not going to go through
all of them. At five o'clock The Goblin Happy Hour
(11:44):
with John goblecan I recently mentioned I had never heard
of this until I don't know whenever I mentioned it
on the show three four days ago last week. John
GOBLECN is a beloved Internet sensation metal band frontman, insurance salesman,
published author, and podcast host. As the lead singer of
the band Necro goble Con, John has starred in several
viral music videos, leading to sold out tours across North America,
(12:06):
Europe and Australia. Is philosophy be less mean, be more green,
don't be a troll, be a Goblin? All right? This
seems like fun. Maybe I'm just late to this, and
the rest of you were like, how do you not
know what? John goble con is, I didn't know, sorry,
Friend of the show, John Marco SIRESI is doing his podcast.
At six o'clock. Let's go on. Cotska at the Paramount
(12:26):
at seven. She is fantastic, one of my faves. Maria
Bamford at the Thompson Theater at seven. A show at
seven thirty called the Texans. I'm gonna guess what this
is about, and I like the premise. If I'm correct,
there's no description. I'm going to guess it's several comedians
from Texas. Somebody could have written a paragraph. Eight o'clock
(12:48):
at Sunset strip Redband's Secret Show with Brian Redband stars
in Bars at an Tunes at nine Almetrical Data, Gould,
Todd Berry among the line up there. That's a good show.
Nine forty five, what's your effing deal? At the Vulcan
Gas Company? Big Jay, Ian Bag, Chris Porter, Orny Adams,
Josh Adam Myers. Ten o'clock, tag It at Sunset Strips,
(13:10):
Clark Brothers, Al Madrigal, Jackie Kation, li'sa Trigger, Dana Goule.
That's a nice lineup, and this thing stays strong through Saturday.
Bill Maher got into it with a reporter who questioned
Bill Moore meeting with Donald Trump. Bill Maher had said,
you can ate me for it, but I'm not a liar.
Trump was gracious and measured. I don't know, and I
can't answer, and it's not my place to answer. Just
telling you what I saw, and I wasn't high. Washington
(13:31):
Post columnist Josh Rogan said, I think you've fallen into
the trap. And I think I represent ninety nine percent
of the internet when I say this, You've played the
game of proximity is principle. I'm not questioning your motivation.
I'm questioning Trump's. Okay. Mar responded, you don't have to
patronize me, dude, I don't know, you've never met you.
Not everyone has to like it, That's what we said.
There are people who didn't want it to happen. You
sound like one of them. It's okay. Rogan tried to
(13:54):
talk over more in response, and mar said, you what
I just said. What's the alternative to not talking? Just
sit at your lunch table, don't talk to anybody. Rogan
didn't let up and said, I agree with the principle
of engagement. I'm just saying from Trump's perspective, all Americans
know that for him, this was a PR stunt and
in his view, you were a prop in that PR stunt.
Piers Morgan jumped into this conversation, he was a guest
(14:14):
on the same panel, and said, I don't agree with that.
If you go on social media for five minutes now
and you just have this treble fury raging all day long,
everyone's got to be implacably there, implacably here. And actually
most Americans and most Brits they're not like this. And
then the idea that Bill Maher is now going to
stop criticizing Donald Trump is preposterous. And let me do
you an update on Kunal Camera. Remember he was accused
(14:36):
of being a trader and got into some trouble over
there in India. Well, the Bombay High Court has granted
Canal Camra interim relief in the trader joke case. Doesn't
mean that he won't be in future trouble, but for
now they're looking into it. The comedian was under charges
of public mischief and defamation and was later transferred to
(14:59):
a Police Reports suggests that he didn't actually name the politician,
but some people in a different political party, if I
understand this correctly, said that he referred to the politician
as a trader. In response, a group of party workers
vandalized habitat studio where the comedian had performed. Twelve individuals
were arrested for that incident and granted bail. Comra said
(15:22):
he also received death threats following the controversy. And that
is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program,
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
I'm gonna start with a long clip. I usually don't
play a clip this long, but it is far and
away the best thing out there today. Kevin Spacey has
revived his House of Cards character Frank Underwood. Why would
he do that to promote Tim Dillon's new comedy special
makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Let's listen, you podcasters think you've inherited the kingdom. Hold on,
I'm gonna have to call you back. Whispering in ears,
swaying elections, spinning the truth like it was cotton candy,
when in fact you owe nothing but a bunch of clowns,
juggling Bonu pills and hair tonic. Frank Underwood, I thought
(00:52):
you were dead. I'm as dead as John McCain. He
is dead. Excuse my ignorance. I meant Hermann k He's
also dead, Dean Kane. To be honest, I don't know. Well,
it doesn't matter anyway, because I'm back. And that's why
I need you to go on your little podcast and
say this. I don't do political endorsements. I think you're
(01:14):
going to do exactly as I ask, mister Dylan door
dash orders made from inside a five stars steakhouse while
at a hotel in Milwaukee in twenty twenty three. You
called a taco bell just to talk. And you once
paid six thousand dollars to have a Carville ice cream
(01:37):
cake overnighted to a theater in Norway and then returned
it for a refund because it wasn't cookie puss.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Jesus Christ, Frank, I'll read it, but first you gotta
plug my comedy special.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh Jesus, it's good. I filmed it in Austin. I
don't care if you filmed it on Mars with Elon Musk.
I'm not here to help you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
These photos you gave me, I've posted them all.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm on the Internet. We don't have blackmail, we have
content world demons from hell, you son of a bitch.
There is no limit to your duplicity, to your panderin,
to your shameless and desperate desire to cling to relevance.
You are you are, I'm what my kind of bestard?
(02:25):
You have my endorsement, mister Dylan, Well, I appreciate that, Franken.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I read ads for Morgan and Morgan Law firm. I'm
sure I can endorse the Daily Wires new musical.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's really good. Oh, by the way, which network is
your comedy special? On Netflix? You found Lonesome, Evil Little Cockroach?
But I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I made a few minor edits there for language. I'm
mad that I could have had this in yesterday's show.
I had seen Tim Dillon's tweet, but the text of
it was, hey, watch my new special, so I just
assumed he shared the trailer. I didn't click on it,
and then I was like, oh, I missed out on this.
What a fantastic job. Why Kevin Spacey did that? I
(03:07):
don't know how Netflix is going to feel about it.
I don't know. And I say that because if you
put on Netflix and they promote House of Cards, they
never ever, ever, ever, never, never ever never show Kevin Spacey.
They act like he wasn't even on the show. I
enjoyed Tim's special. It's a perfectly nice, forty one minutes
(03:28):
constant entertainment. At no point am I like, oh my god,
this is a great special. Ever, But at no point
was I bored either. It moves along for forty one minutes.
It's like Tim strung together a bunch of material he
had sort of worked out on his podcast, which is great.
I like his podcast a lot, and it therefore makes
my top tier of comedy specials of twenty twenty five.
It's already April seventeenth, and boy, it has not been
(03:51):
a good year for comedy specials. Right now. The top
tier is number one. Burt Kreischer is Lucky, and if
Lucky is the best special of the year, that's not
gonna be a good year. And then Tim Dillon's I'm
Your Mother is the number two special of the year
so far. According to one idiot in his basement recording
a podcast, I have in my middle tier Roy Wood,
Ri Severe and Gabe Iglesias, and I have nothing else
(04:12):
on the list yet. Fourth quarter tends to be when
many of the bigger specials come out, so we'll see.
But a really slow start to twenty twenty five anyway.
A recommendation from me on Tim dillon I'm Your Mother
on Netflix, you should watch it. OutKick went with this
review headline comedian releases must watch offensive comedy special woke
losers will hate. That's a great headline, they point out,
(04:36):
Tim Dillon will make fun of absolutely anything, and he's
a great example of what comedy's supposed to be. Nothing
should be off limits. Let's say offensive jokes and don't
give Wokes a single inch. That's the mindset that has
made him a star. And then tap the brakes on
this next part. And his new special is a masterclass.
His new special is fine. His new special is pretty good.
It is not a masterclass. Tap that breaks OutKick he
(04:58):
resurrected just for laugh. SI is starting to announce some things.
They announced Roast Battle Canada and the Galas have been
renewed and will return to the twenty twenty five Just
for Last Montreal Comedy Festival this year July sixteenth through
the twenty seventh. I think I'm gonna go up there
see if I get hassled at the border a little
more than I have in the past. Usually they're like,
(05:19):
come on in, we'll see Rose Battle Canada judges Russell Peters,
Sabrina Jayley's and Kay Trivor Wilson. That's a great lineup.
The series brings together Canada's edgiest comics for a showdown.
The Galas will return. No names announced yet. We got
a little information about the Roast of wrestle Mania, which
is taking place Sunday. Tony Hinchcliff part of that. Not
(05:42):
many details known and it is not going to be
televised supposedly, but they did announce Gabriel Iglesias is now
part of the roast of WrestleMania. Let's stop off at
gossip Corner. THEO Vaughn was in Tuscaloosa. He was spotted
at the Waysider restaurant. The restaurant post that on Facebook
Theovann at the Waysider. Y'all can check them out at
(06:03):
the Amphitheater this weekend. Now this weekend is last weekend.
THEO posted a photo of himself and several University of
Alabama football players on Theo's Instagram with a caption, thank you, Tuscaloosa.
Jimmy Carr, one of my faves, is going to host
Am I the a Hole, the game show based on
that famous subreddit. This will air on Comedy Central UK.
(06:23):
But you know, some of us have our ways. I
have a really really fast plane that allows me to
watch British television and then I'm home two minutes later.
Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean. Jimmy Carr's
AM I the a Hole invite members of the public
to come before the host and a panel of two
other comedians to ask controversial questions. The series will be
filmed late this spring will air later this year on
(06:45):
Comedy Central UK. Jimmy Carr said, there's an impressive number
of a holes in our country and they're finally getting
the recognition they deserve on national television. Amy Lee Would
has continued to speak about the SNL sketch that she
didn't enjoy. Hey, Amy, stop talk talking about and it'll
go away. We would have forgotten about this by Sunday
afternoon if he didn't keep talking about it. You may
(07:07):
recall she thought that the White Potests sketch was mean
and unfunny because of Sarah Sherman's interpretation of her character.
According to Wood, Sarah Sherman has sent her flowers. Wood
wrote on Instagram, thank you for the beautiful flowers and
tagged Sarah Sherman and added the holding back tears emoji. However,
TMZ is reporting SNL did not reach out to Amy
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with a formal apology. TMZ writes we're told Amy may
have spoken to someone she knows on the show, Perhaps
Sarah Sherman, and they may have apologized, but no such
apology came down from SNL in any official or formal capacity.
Sources tell TMZ that SNL wouldn't feel compelled to apologize
to Amy because the show makes fun of everyone's appearance,
for example, Donald Trump's waste in the same sketch. Variety
(07:53):
reporting that Seth Rogan had made a crack about Donald
Trump during the Science Honoring break Through Prizes back on
April fifth, but if you didn't watch the live stream,
they've now clipped out some of the material. The organization's
full upload of the ceremony and other official clips of
Rogan's appearance alongside Edward Norton have been edited to exclude
(08:13):
a quip about attendees. Rogan had reportedly said in the
since cut remark, it's amazing that others in the room
under electing a man who in the last week single
handedly destroyed all of American science. It's amazing how much
good science you can destroy with three hundred and twenty
million dollars and Orfka Junior very fast. The Breakthrough Prizes
have confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that Rogan's joke was
(08:35):
one of several edits to the show. They're reasoning I
was made in order to meet the originally planned runtime. Yeah,
because you know, this is the Internet. You know how
long today's podcast is. It's however long it is. That's
how the Internet works. Variety comments and on the originally
planned runtime excuse and says this seems unlikely as the
(08:55):
ceremony would not have had to conform to any broadcasting
scheduling requirements as it was not aired on TV networks. Additionally,
the standalone clip of Rogan and Norton's on stage presentation
seems unlikely to have had an originally planned run time.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Rommy Yusef has a new
television show out today, Happy Family, USA, and an animated series.
(09:19):
You'll find it on Amazon Prime. It takes place around
nine to eleven. Rommie says to bring in the events
of the early two thousands felt important in the sense
that it's something we talk about all the time. It's
part of what we're currently experiencing. It's never gone away.
And when I think about how long those themes have
been directly part of my life and the lots of
people that I know. To get to step into a
period of time that I don't think has escaped us
in any way, unfortunately, And to do it in a
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style that's familiar in terms of trotting on political things
that can feel a little difficult and undercuts them and
doesn't make them feel so viatile. To give this kind
of family that treatment is exciting, and to go at
this through an unexpected and very silly lens. Maybe that's
where the hope feeling comes from. The Times pointed out
there's a title card at the top of every episode
that warns that the character should not be taken as representation.
(10:00):
They asked Rami, yusef, why are you so uncomfortable with representation?
Rommy said, when we put out Rami on Hulu, I
remember seeing a headline that was like Muslims, here's the
show for you, and my heart sinking going no, no, no.
We're two billion people and a lot of them are
not gonna like what I'm doing, and they shouldn't because
I'm a guy from New Jersey who thinks this type
of thing is funny. Putting the representation warning was a
cathartic thing of being like, listen, this is not speaking
(10:22):
en mass at all. I know you guys didn't elect me,
and also to be like, hey, I agree with you.
This is not a slice of what it's like for everybody.
Good couplet of questions here from the time so they
asked Rommi, does it feel like tinder comedy is harder
to get made than caustic comedy? Good answer here. Bad
news spreads faster than good news. No one's like, hey,
we recycled a lot. It's not really headline. Talk to
(10:42):
any Netflix executive. Any Netflix execs secretly will be like, hey,
can you throw a murder into your show? Can you
throw some sexual assault in? But also people used to
get together, watch public hangings. We're sick times caught up?
Is that really a thing someone said to you? Can
you throw a murder in there? Rommi said they're not
explicitly asking, but they would never moump. The Guardian also
spoke with Rommy, who has a theory, the more effed
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up the climate, the stupid or television must be. You
need something dumb to cut through the tension for relief.
The Guardian piece points out that Happy Family USA is
a prime video production. Amazon donated a million dollars to
the Trump Inauguration Fund. Does Robbie believe this show would
be greenlit today. He says, this feels like a glitch. Honestly,
if I walked in pitch this today, they'd say, no,
(11:24):
what are you talking about? They'd literally say, what the
hell are you thinking? Would be told it's too polarizing
for now. Happy Family USA Prime Video. It is a
big day at the moonte Er Comedy Festival, so I
better get to it. There are thirty one different shows
listen on the website. I'm not going to go through
all of them. At five o'clock The Goblin Happy Hour
(11:44):
with John goblecan I recently mentioned I had never heard
of this until I don't know whenever I mentioned it
on the show three four days ago last week. John
GOBLECN is a beloved Internet sensation metal band frontman, insurance salesman,
published author, and podcast host. As the lead singer of
the band Necro goble Con, John has starred in several
viral music videos, leading to sold out tours across North America,
(12:06):
Europe and Australia. Is philosophy be less mean, be more green,
don't be a troll, be a Goblin? All right? This
seems like fun. Maybe I'm just late to this, and
the rest of you were like, how do you not
know what? John goble con is, I didn't know, sorry,
Friend of the show, John Marco SIRESI is doing his podcast.
At six o'clock. Let's go on. Cotska at the Paramount
(12:26):
at seven. She is fantastic, one of my faves. Maria
Bamford at the Thompson Theater at seven. A show at
seven thirty called the Texans. I'm gonna guess what this
is about, and I like the premise. If I'm correct,
there's no description. I'm going to guess it's several comedians
from Texas. Somebody could have written a paragraph. Eight o'clock
(12:48):
at Sunset strip Redband's Secret Show with Brian Redband stars
in Bars at an Tunes at nine Almetrical Data, Gould,
Todd Berry among the line up there. That's a good show.
Nine forty five, what's your effing deal? At the Vulcan
Gas Company? Big Jay, Ian Bag, Chris Porter, Orny Adams,
Josh Adam Myers. Ten o'clock, tag It at Sunset Strips,
(13:10):
Clark Brothers, Al Madrigal, Jackie Kation, li'sa Trigger, Dana Goule.
That's a nice lineup, and this thing stays strong through Saturday.
Bill Maher got into it with a reporter who questioned
Bill Moore meeting with Donald Trump. Bill Maher had said,
you can ate me for it, but I'm not a liar.
Trump was gracious and measured. I don't know, and I
can't answer, and it's not my place to answer. Just
telling you what I saw, and I wasn't high. Washington
(13:31):
Post columnist Josh Rogan said, I think you've fallen into
the trap. And I think I represent ninety nine percent
of the internet when I say this, You've played the
game of proximity is principle. I'm not questioning your motivation.
I'm questioning Trump's. Okay. Mar responded, you don't have to
patronize me, dude, I don't know, you've never met you.
Not everyone has to like it, That's what we said.
There are people who didn't want it to happen. You
sound like one of them. It's okay. Rogan tried to
(13:54):
talk over more in response, and mar said, you what
I just said. What's the alternative to not talking? Just
sit at your lunch table, don't talk to anybody. Rogan
didn't let up and said, I agree with the principle
of engagement. I'm just saying from Trump's perspective, all Americans
know that for him, this was a PR stunt and
in his view, you were a prop in that PR stunt.
Piers Morgan jumped into this conversation, he was a guest
(14:14):
on the same panel, and said, I don't agree with that.
If you go on social media for five minutes now
and you just have this treble fury raging all day long,
everyone's got to be implacably there, implacably here. And actually
most Americans and most Brits they're not like this. And
then the idea that Bill Maher is now going to
stop criticizing Donald Trump is preposterous. And let me do
you an update on Kunal Camera. Remember he was accused
(14:36):
of being a trader and got into some trouble over
there in India. Well, the Bombay High Court has granted
Canal Camra interim relief in the trader joke case. Doesn't
mean that he won't be in future trouble, but for
now they're looking into it. The comedian was under charges
of public mischief and defamation and was later transferred to
(14:59):
a Police Reports suggests that he didn't actually name the politician,
but some people in a different political party, if I
understand this correctly, said that he referred to the politician
as a trader. In response, a group of party workers
vandalized habitat studio where the comedian had performed. Twelve individuals
were arrested for that incident and granted bail. Comra said
(15:22):
he also received death threats following the controversy. And that
is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program,
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