April 22, 2025 • 15 mins
Notes from the Roast of WrestleMania hosted by Tony Hinchcliffe where Paul Heyman and Triple H made notable appearances. Nate Bargatze's growing prominence in the comedy world is discussed, particularly his feature in the New York Times and his thoughts on authenticity in comedy. Tim Dillon shares his views on political shifts in comedy with Fox News Digital, and Johnny mentions Michael Costa's insights from The Last Laugh podcast about celebrity guest hosts on The Daily Show. Other topics include Canadian comedian James Mullenger's decision to avoid performing in the U.S. and Big Jay Oakerson's new crowd work special on YouTube. The episode also covers John Oliver's excitement about the Mets, Tina Fey's possible succession of Lorne Michaels on SNL, Brett Goldstein’s anecdotes about Ted Lasso, and updates on comedy festivals and shows worldwide.
00:12 Roast of WrestleMania Highlights
00:50 Nate Brize's Rise to Fame
03:12 Tim Dillon's Political Comedy
04:57 Celebrity Guest Hosting on The Daily Show
05:22 Canadian Comedians and US Tours
06:33 Big J Oakerson's New Special
07:35 John Oliver at the Mets Game
08:34 Upcoming Comedy Specials and Festivals
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00:12 Roast of WrestleMania Highlights
00:50 Nate Brize's Rise to Fame
03:12 Tim Dillon's Political Comedy
04:57 Celebrity Guest Hosting on The Daily Show
05:22 Canadian Comedians and US Tours
06:33 Big J Oakerson's New Special
07:35 John Oliver at the Mets Game
08:34 Upcoming Comedy Specials and Festivals
Unlock an ad-free podcast experience with Caloroga Shark Media! Get all our shows on any player you love, hassle free! For Apple users, hit the banner on your Apple podcasts app which says UNITERRUPTED LISTENING. For Spotify or other players, visit caloroga.com/plus. No plug-ins needed! You also get 20+ other shows on the network ad-free!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media, Hey Aaron, Johnny Mack with your daily
comedy news Wrestle Votes dot com it has some intel
on what went down at the roast of WrestleMania, hosted
by Tony Hinchcliff. They wrote two hours of jokes that
included some sexual puns and f bombs. Paul Hayman stole
(00:24):
the show triple h end of the night with a
surprise appearance. Lenna McMahon was in attendance. Don't hold your
breath for this to ever make air. Wrestlingnews dot Co said.
Paul Hayman was incredible. Tony Hinchcliff had everybody rolling. This
was so much fun. Cell phones were put in pouches
for good reason. Lol. I doubt this makes it to TV.
Stuff was wild. The show took place after WrestleMania at
(00:47):
Night two. Wrestle Votes says the show was two hours long.
The New York Times had a cover piece about Naperghetzi.
Now I'm seeing here with Nate exactly what happened with
Nicki Glazer last year. The really good support team, the
prs out there. You know, we heard that Nate was
gonna host the Emmys in parallel with that there's this
(01:07):
big thing with the New York Times. Now that didn't
just happen overnight, So the press machine is out for Nate.
I share the article in the Facebook group, which is
Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There's also a podcast version
of the interview if you'd like to listen to yourself.
The New York Times asked Nate how he got so big.
Nate said, talking about relatable things and authenticity. Not that
I'm going out for authenticity, but you're in a world
(01:29):
where you have the Wickeds and Avengers movies, and that's great,
but there's not a regular person on a screen anymore.
Movies used to be like planes, trains and automobiles and
home alone. That's a regular guy in the movie that
you enjoy watching. It's easy to take in and you
don't always want to be thought provoked. That's something I've
tried to stay clear of. I need you to be
able to come and trust that you're going to get
the entertainment that I'm showing you. That I'm selling you,
(01:49):
and I'm talking about myself, and I'm making fun of
myself with the materials written for you. I'm not doing
it to make myself look good. I'm doing it to
make you laugh. You can either laugh with me or
at me. You relate to it or you think I'm
an Either way, I'm here to entertain you. As for
his style, Nate said, most of the comics I was
around were the complete opposite of everything I did. I
had to learn how to do what I was doing
in those rooms. But I didn't want you to notice
(02:10):
that I was clean, right. I talked about that on
Saturday with Andy woodholl It's one in the morning and
these people are drunk, and how can I do this
material that's not sexual or whatever everybody else was doing.
You learn how to hide it, because if he walked
up and said I'm clean, it's gonna be like, yeah,
this guy's not cool, exactly what Andy said. The Times
was curious about Nate's evolving look in the last six
(02:31):
or seven years. You've changed your look. You got a
different haircut, you grew the beard, mustache, started dressing a
little cooler, lost some weight. Nate said, yeah, kids, show
business showed up and goes, hey Fatso if you want
to make it, you better get your life together. No,
no one asked me to do anything as a comic.
You're you. You're talking about yourself, so you're going to
be you. But I wanted to do it. I'm going
through it right now. I do not have great eating habits.
I eat a lot of fast food and chain food
(02:52):
didn't get in the way. I stopped drinking in twenty
eighteen because I knew if I wanted to get where I
wanted as a comic, this was going to be the way.
I've realized that with food too. So if I wanted
to do stand up at this high level, possibly make movies,
I have to put in the effort to handle all
this touring and the mentality it takes to stay focused.
I always say, I'm looking forward to the day you
can't see my nipples through my shirt. That's we're all
working towards amen. Brother Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News Digital.
(03:16):
The premise from Fox News Digital that was comedy was
moving to the right. Dylan said, you know, when people
call it a right word shift. My pushback to that is,
were these statements right word in twenty fifteen or two
thousand and five? When did they become right wing statements?
When did it become a right wing statement to say
I should have the bodily autonomy to not take an
experimental vaccine. When did it become a right wing statement
to say I don't think the US should be in wars?
(03:37):
I remember those were left wing statements. When did it
become a right wing statement to say that the United
States should look after the middle class and workers instead
of importing cheap labor so that the profits on Wall
Street could go up? Those are right wing points. This
is the craziest thing ever heard in my life. I
think the parties flip, but I think they might flip again.
You know, this could happen again, where the Republican Party
becomes anti free speech and the Democratic Party becomes pro
free speech. It could happen again, certainly flip. During the
(03:59):
last election cycle we're in, the Democratic Party was the
pro war, kind of anti speech, seemingly pro corporate party.
But if we go to war with Iran start boarding
people that wrote op ed's critical of Israel, then you'll
see the Republican parties now the pro war, anti free
speech party. So you actually have to just believe in principles,
and you have to hold the people that you've elected
to account. You can't follow the people who've elected Otherwise
you're just in a personality cult. You're not a free
(04:20):
thinking person. You have to say, I have a belief.
The belief is we shouldn't do this, and if we
do that, whoever it is, Kamala Trump, Bernie whoever, you
have to hold him to account and say, you know,
I don't think this is good for America. A lot
of Tim Dillon press get some more stuff coming up
from later in the week, but he is out there
making the rounds, and apparently the cable news networks have
discovered he's a really good guest because he's got that
(04:41):
great mix of doing the talk show thing combined with
great jokes. As I've said before, I loved Tim's podcast,
and then someday he is going to step on a
land mine. I could see it coming, and then I'm
going to deny that I ever told you that I
liked this podcast. I'm such a coward. I could be
like Tim Dillon. Never heard of him. Michael Costa's Toll
The Last Laugh podcast that when we did the guest
hosting thing on The Daily Show where every celebrity came
(05:03):
in and hosted, we really learned that many celebrities can't
read a teleprompter. I mean, some were not treating it
as we felt was a very important, funny, coveted position.
And by the way, nobody was like met or terrible.
But you're just going man. I grew up on the show,
the show's foundation of who I am. Don't half ask
this please. Thankfully the network finally said, you know, these
correspondents really give ahoot about the show. Canadian comedian James
(05:24):
Mullinger has joined the list of comedians who won't come
to the United States. James has canceled a planned show
in Maine next month. He told the CBC, I love
my job, but not so much that to want to
be locked up for two weeks, Although would probably make
for good material, but my wife needs me at home.
If I didn't have people dependent on me, I'd possibly
take the risk. Mullinger had the venue and date booked
his paperwork in order, but says it seemed risky to
(05:46):
make the trip to Maine. It just felt like not
the right time. I didn't want to get swept up
in either misinformation or propaganda or necessarily believing everything you hear.
But it just seemed risky. Hearing the performers being locked
up even though they're there with the correct paperwork. Have
I missed a story of their performers being locked up?
I've missed that. I kind of feel if a comedian
(06:07):
were locked up, I probably would have mentioned it on
the show. Maybe I'm forgetful. Wellinger said, Canadians need to
support homegrown comedians. By the way, he's a brit who
moved to Canada. Canadians can do their part this summer
when they're deciding what comedy shows to go to choose
Canadian performers. There are Canadian comedy festivals booking solely American comedians.
(06:28):
Let's treat Canadian comedians the same way we treat Canadian food.
Embrace them and support them. Big Jay Ogerson dropped a
special on YouTube over the weekend. It's called Them They Decider.
Caught up with Big Jay Decide or asked for somebody
who has seen your work, what should they expect? Big
Jay said, for me, as a comedian, I'd say it's
always going to be dirty. You can always expect it's
going to be dirty in some capacity. That was a
(06:49):
comedy I was drawn to when I was younger. So much.
What I try to say is it's palatable. Dirty when
I first started being dirty when I was younger, it
was definitely for shock, because you get a reaction out
of people when you do dirty stuff, whether they like
it or not. But over the years, because it was
kind of the comedy that Ozo was drawn to myself,
I was like, how could I do it? So there's
a strong chance that if you bring your six year
old mother with you, she still likes it somehow. This
(07:09):
is a CrowdWork special, Jay said. I knew it was
going to be no material in all crowd work, which
if you tell the crowd that, the crowd knows what
they were there for, so the crowds are much more forgiving.
That was the easiest prep. There was nothing to do
besides get the stage the way we wanted, the lighting
and everything. But that was the beauty of it. It
doesn't spend any of my material. I don't have to
write a new hour of stuff. I've learned that if
you ask people enough questions, you find that everyone's weird,
(07:31):
and the people who are purposely weird to be noticed
tend not to be the most interesting people. John Oliver
hit the Mets game. Snytv's field reporter Steve Gelbs started
interviewing Sean Oliver. Oliver's excited about the Mets hot start
telling Steve Gelbs, this is amazing. I can't quite believe
it's happening. It doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like
we're allowed to have this many nice things in one place.
(07:52):
I hope everything's going to stay like this forever, ideally.
Steve Gelbs asked John Oliver about the production cycle of
the show. Oliver said, it's change a little bit because
in slower news times we can do that, slower cooking.
We're still trying to do that. But when things hypothetically
speaking are happening like a president suggesting sending American citizens
overseas to foreign gulags, yeah, that probably feels like something
you need to address as soon as possible. So, yes,
(08:13):
we're working at two speeds right now, our regular speed
and then crash shows. Unfortunately, when Twitter user posted John
Oliver a typical leftist AC with severe TDS who randomly
has to bring up more lies on a Sunday afternoon
on the Mets broadcast, two stories that I lightly mentioned
yesterday and my voice was giving out, and I promised
you i'd talk about them. Otsco at Cotska. We'll have
(08:36):
a special on Hulu on June thirteenth. The Specialist part
of their super secretive Hilarious Comedy initiative that the publicists
don't want to tell comedy podcasts about, but we find
out anyway. You cannot keep the truth from daily comedy
News at Cotska will explore themes of adulthood, marriage, and
the absurdity of everyday life in Father. In Father, she
(08:57):
deals with the reality is being an adult who's still
struggles with life's basics, from skipping laundry for seven years
to discovering that weddings require marriage licenses. I also had
mentioned Tina Fay commented on the possibility of Tina Fey
replacing Lauren Michaels as the head of SNL in twenty
twenty four. Lauren said Tina could easily do the job herself.
Tina Fey till the Hollywood Reporter. I was very nice
(09:19):
of him to say, and I love him very much.
He's irreplaceable. His set of gifts and skills are entirely unique.
His eye for talent, He's one of the last three
people in show business who actually understand everything. I'll leave
it at that. Bo and Yang jumped in on the
whole Amy lou Wood SNL controversy. Remember Amy didn't like
Sarah Sherman's portrayal of her. Yang told Extra, however, she
(09:40):
reacted to the sketch is completely valid. With parody, you
kind of forget the sort of human emotional cost that
it sort of extols on someone. You need these reminders
every now and then that parody can go too far
sometimes and that we as comedians can take accountability for
that instead of banging our foot and saying we should
be allowed to say whatever we want. Everyone at SNL
is just a fan of the show, obviously a fan
of her. We just think that she should be so
(10:01):
proud of the work she put into this season. Brett
Goldstein is comparing ted Lasso's season four renewal to a
dead cat. He told a story to NPR. I have
a friend that I went to university with, and I
think about this a lot. He had a cat that died.
He loved his cat. The cat was run over and
they buried the cat. He was a child. They buried
the cat in the garden and he lay in the
bed so sad, upset and crying, and he prayed and prayed,
and he wished that the cat would come back. And
(10:22):
then the cat did come back. It turned out the
cat they buried wasn't their cat, And I think about
that all the time. Brett added, and so I'm like, no,
wonder this guy' left in the head because he thinks
death isn't real. So of course he's insane. He's such
a weird guy because he thinks he could bring things
back from the dead. Aaron posted in the Facebook group,
which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to
join us and participate. I particularly welcomed this comment, as
(10:46):
I wrote in the group, I woke up at one
thirty in the morning. I had a nightmare, and like
you know, when you have a nightmare, your system's like
racing and I needed to just play on my phone
to calm the heck down. Aaron wrote more on the
Abu Dhabi comedy season, it's not a festival because it's
spread across several months and they're all arena shows. Good point,
she pointed out. You can also go see Toto the Band,
(11:07):
not the Dog. Aaron right, Chappelle isn't on sale yet,
but his best tickets are going for twelve hundred and
fifty dirhams I think, and for reference, one hundred durhams
is about twenty seven US dollars, so I'd have to
multiply there. I'm too lazy to do that. I have Google.
Let's see. Right now, as I record this, Google is
telling me that's about three hundred and forty dollars to
(11:27):
go see Dave Chappelle. Wow. Aaron Wright's I also know
Joe Coy is using gadget free pouches, probably so no
one can record any of his lame jokes and then
beat them to death for two years. I particularly like
that comment, but Aaron points out that, yeah, yonder pouches
are annoying, But having intended a couple shows at the
arena without pouches, I can confirm that audiences here are
rude and shameless with their devices to the point of
(11:48):
almost ruining shows. Aaron's planning on grabbing our last minute
tickets for Trevor Noah very cool. Thank you for checking
in with that. It is festival season. The Sydney Comedy
Fest is underway. I'll dive in on that a little
bit more tomorrow. Being honest, here, I'm wiped out. I
woke up on Monday and I saw the Pope had
(12:09):
passed away. And here at the company, we have a
podcast series called White Smoke about the papal succession. So
my morning I got up, it was about six twenty
in the morning. Check my PHONEO saw that happen. But
I was half out of it, and I'm like, let
me make sure that actually happened. It wasn't just a tweet.
You know, that's not a mistake you want to make.
So went on the New York Times website and they
had it in like thirty six point font. Read the
(12:31):
story when on Washington Post you want to confirm things
in two sources, and they also had it in thirty
six point font. So I'm like, okay, this is real.
So I spent the morning. We had some episodes scheduled.
For example, they were going to canonize the Millennial Saint
on this upcoming weekend, so I had to park that
episode to make sure that doesn't automatically run. Write a
script for a new episode I scheduled. We already had
(12:53):
in the can the Pope oh bit, So I turned
that loose, wrote a new episode, wrote some promos, and
trying to build a company, so I got to hit
the trades tell him we're up to all this. So
that's been an exhausting morning. So Sydney Comedy Festival can wait.
I'm trying to get back to Ireland. Maybe I can
hit up the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival. It is Ireland's
longest running and best loved comedy festival. May twenty third
(13:16):
to the twenty fifth Cat Laughs is coming to Belfast
for the first time. The Guardian calls it the best
little comedy festival in the world. Your lineup Friday, May
twenty third, Colin Murphy, Patty Raft, Mark McCarney, deetro Ocane,
David o'derty. Some good solid Irish names there. Oh, then
there's an interval and then Gerald Faarley, Emma Duran, Alison
(13:37):
Spidtele and Neil Delamere. On Saturday, Carl Spain, William Thompson,
Susie McKay, Mike Rice, Colin Gettis, Sean Walsh, Deonna Doherty,
flat Illitch. That doesn't sound like an Irish name at all,
Vittorio Angeloni. What's going on here? Sunday Andrew Ryan, Chris Kent,
Kyla Cobbler, Ray Broadshaw and Scott Bennett. Not Scott Beckett,
(13:59):
the guy that doesn't like to Joe Cooy joke. This
is a totally different person. This is comedian Scott Bennett,
who probably appreciates the humor behind the Joe Coy joke.
Christopher MacArthur, Boyd, Shane Todd, Rich Hall and Patty MacDonell.
John why did you do that story? Because I want
to go back to Ireland. I felt like reading a
bunch of Irish names. I also would love to hit
the Arctic Comedy Festival. This one is coming to Yellowknife
(14:22):
on May seventeenth, Dawson City on May twenty first, and
Whitehorse on May twenty third. You can go see Mary Walsh,
one of Canada's most memorable comedians. The festival tells us
Walsh delivers in a unique and memori way that will
leave you in tears. And one more story. This is
not a commercial. I just saw a press release on
the newswires and I appreciate Pretzelized. I just like the
(14:45):
copy they wrote. Pretzelize, the innovative snack brand known for
combining pretzels with classic snacks like crackers and peda chips,
launching a social first, fully produced sketch comedy series. It
stars New York City comedians Eric Newman and Mark Gerber.
The series features two friends on opposite sides of the
chip debate across four scripted, increasingly dramatic episodes. It's not
(15:07):
just a series, it's your new favorite Internet debate, one
that invites consumers to pick aside, take it way too seriously,
and make their snack options known. That's right, it's pretzilized.
Good job a copywriter. They invite us to join the
pre solution. That's your comedy news for today. If you're
on YouTube, whatever you YouTube guys do. Look, I'm an
(15:28):
old man in the basement. I'm trying to figure this out,
so you know, like subscribe, bring to bell. I know
it's a slideshow. What do you want to see a
fifty five year old guy in his basement talking to
a microphone. That's boring. Enjoy my slide show. Appreciate it
takes me a couple of minutes to make. See tomorrow.
Callaroga Shark Media, Hey Aaron, Johnny Mack with your daily
comedy news Wrestle Votes dot com it has some intel
on what went down at the roast of WrestleMania, hosted
by Tony Hinchcliff. They wrote two hours of jokes that
included some sexual puns and f bombs. Paul Hayman stole
(00:24):
the show triple h end of the night with a
surprise appearance. Lenna McMahon was in attendance. Don't hold your
breath for this to ever make air. Wrestlingnews dot Co said.
Paul Hayman was incredible. Tony Hinchcliff had everybody rolling. This
was so much fun. Cell phones were put in pouches
for good reason. Lol. I doubt this makes it to TV.
Stuff was wild. The show took place after WrestleMania at
(00:47):
Night two. Wrestle Votes says the show was two hours long.
The New York Times had a cover piece about Naperghetzi.
Now I'm seeing here with Nate exactly what happened with
Nicki Glazer last year. The really good support team, the
prs out there. You know, we heard that Nate was
gonna host the Emmys in parallel with that there's this
(01:07):
big thing with the New York Times. Now that didn't
just happen overnight, So the press machine is out for Nate.
I share the article in the Facebook group, which is
Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There's also a podcast version
of the interview if you'd like to listen to yourself.
The New York Times asked Nate how he got so big.
Nate said, talking about relatable things and authenticity. Not that
I'm going out for authenticity, but you're in a world
(01:29):
where you have the Wickeds and Avengers movies, and that's great,
but there's not a regular person on a screen anymore.
Movies used to be like planes, trains and automobiles and
home alone. That's a regular guy in the movie that
you enjoy watching. It's easy to take in and you
don't always want to be thought provoked. That's something I've
tried to stay clear of. I need you to be
able to come and trust that you're going to get
the entertainment that I'm showing you. That I'm selling you,
(01:49):
and I'm talking about myself, and I'm making fun of
myself with the materials written for you. I'm not doing
it to make myself look good. I'm doing it to
make you laugh. You can either laugh with me or
at me. You relate to it or you think I'm
an Either way, I'm here to entertain you. As for
his style, Nate said, most of the comics I was
around were the complete opposite of everything I did. I
had to learn how to do what I was doing
in those rooms. But I didn't want you to notice
(02:10):
that I was clean, right. I talked about that on
Saturday with Andy woodholl It's one in the morning and
these people are drunk, and how can I do this
material that's not sexual or whatever everybody else was doing.
You learn how to hide it, because if he walked
up and said I'm clean, it's gonna be like, yeah,
this guy's not cool, exactly what Andy said. The Times
was curious about Nate's evolving look in the last six
(02:31):
or seven years. You've changed your look. You got a
different haircut, you grew the beard, mustache, started dressing a
little cooler, lost some weight. Nate said, yeah, kids, show
business showed up and goes, hey Fatso if you want
to make it, you better get your life together. No,
no one asked me to do anything as a comic.
You're you. You're talking about yourself, so you're going to
be you. But I wanted to do it. I'm going
through it right now. I do not have great eating habits.
I eat a lot of fast food and chain food
(02:52):
didn't get in the way. I stopped drinking in twenty
eighteen because I knew if I wanted to get where I
wanted as a comic, this was going to be the way.
I've realized that with food too. So if I wanted
to do stand up at this high level, possibly make movies,
I have to put in the effort to handle all
this touring and the mentality it takes to stay focused.
I always say, I'm looking forward to the day you
can't see my nipples through my shirt. That's we're all
working towards amen. Brother Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News Digital.
(03:16):
The premise from Fox News Digital that was comedy was
moving to the right. Dylan said, you know, when people
call it a right word shift. My pushback to that is,
were these statements right word in twenty fifteen or two
thousand and five? When did they become right wing statements?
When did it become a right wing statement to say
I should have the bodily autonomy to not take an
experimental vaccine. When did it become a right wing statement
to say I don't think the US should be in wars?
(03:37):
I remember those were left wing statements. When did it
become a right wing statement to say that the United
States should look after the middle class and workers instead
of importing cheap labor so that the profits on Wall
Street could go up? Those are right wing points. This
is the craziest thing ever heard in my life. I
think the parties flip, but I think they might flip again.
You know, this could happen again, where the Republican Party
becomes anti free speech and the Democratic Party becomes pro
free speech. It could happen again, certainly flip. During the
(03:59):
last election cycle we're in, the Democratic Party was the
pro war, kind of anti speech, seemingly pro corporate party.
But if we go to war with Iran start boarding
people that wrote op ed's critical of Israel, then you'll
see the Republican parties now the pro war, anti free
speech party. So you actually have to just believe in principles,
and you have to hold the people that you've elected
to account. You can't follow the people who've elected Otherwise
you're just in a personality cult. You're not a free
(04:20):
thinking person. You have to say, I have a belief.
The belief is we shouldn't do this, and if we
do that, whoever it is, Kamala Trump, Bernie whoever, you
have to hold him to account and say, you know,
I don't think this is good for America. A lot
of Tim Dillon press get some more stuff coming up
from later in the week, but he is out there
making the rounds, and apparently the cable news networks have
discovered he's a really good guest because he's got that
(04:41):
great mix of doing the talk show thing combined with
great jokes. As I've said before, I loved Tim's podcast,
and then someday he is going to step on a
land mine. I could see it coming, and then I'm
going to deny that I ever told you that I
liked this podcast. I'm such a coward. I could be
like Tim Dillon. Never heard of him. Michael Costa's Toll
The Last Laugh podcast that when we did the guest
hosting thing on The Daily Show where every celebrity came
(05:03):
in and hosted, we really learned that many celebrities can't
read a teleprompter. I mean, some were not treating it
as we felt was a very important, funny, coveted position.
And by the way, nobody was like met or terrible.
But you're just going man. I grew up on the show,
the show's foundation of who I am. Don't half ask
this please. Thankfully the network finally said, you know, these
correspondents really give ahoot about the show. Canadian comedian James
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Mullinger has joined the list of comedians who won't come
to the United States. James has canceled a planned show
in Maine next month. He told the CBC, I love
my job, but not so much that to want to
be locked up for two weeks, Although would probably make
for good material, but my wife needs me at home.
If I didn't have people dependent on me, I'd possibly
take the risk. Mullinger had the venue and date booked
his paperwork in order, but says it seemed risky to
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make the trip to Maine. It just felt like not
the right time. I didn't want to get swept up
in either misinformation or propaganda or necessarily believing everything you hear.
But it just seemed risky. Hearing the performers being locked
up even though they're there with the correct paperwork. Have
I missed a story of their performers being locked up?
I've missed that. I kind of feel if a comedian
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were locked up, I probably would have mentioned it on
the show. Maybe I'm forgetful. Wellinger said, Canadians need to
support homegrown comedians. By the way, he's a brit who
moved to Canada. Canadians can do their part this summer
when they're deciding what comedy shows to go to choose
Canadian performers. There are Canadian comedy festivals booking solely American comedians.
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Let's treat Canadian comedians the same way we treat Canadian food.
Embrace them and support them. Big Jay Ogerson dropped a
special on YouTube over the weekend. It's called Them They Decider.
Caught up with Big Jay Decide or asked for somebody
who has seen your work, what should they expect? Big
Jay said, for me, as a comedian, I'd say it's
always going to be dirty. You can always expect it's
going to be dirty in some capacity. That was a
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comedy I was drawn to when I was younger. So much.
What I try to say is it's palatable. Dirty when
I first started being dirty when I was younger, it
was definitely for shock, because you get a reaction out
of people when you do dirty stuff, whether they like
it or not. But over the years, because it was
kind of the comedy that Ozo was drawn to myself,
I was like, how could I do it? So there's
a strong chance that if you bring your six year
old mother with you, she still likes it somehow. This
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is a CrowdWork special, Jay said. I knew it was
going to be no material in all crowd work, which
if you tell the crowd that, the crowd knows what
they were there for, so the crowds are much more forgiving.
That was the easiest prep. There was nothing to do
besides get the stage the way we wanted, the lighting
and everything. But that was the beauty of it. It
doesn't spend any of my material. I don't have to
write a new hour of stuff. I've learned that if
you ask people enough questions, you find that everyone's weird,
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and the people who are purposely weird to be noticed
tend not to be the most interesting people. John Oliver
hit the Mets game. Snytv's field reporter Steve Gelbs started
interviewing Sean Oliver. Oliver's excited about the Mets hot start
telling Steve Gelbs, this is amazing. I can't quite believe
it's happening. It doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like
we're allowed to have this many nice things in one place.
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I hope everything's going to stay like this forever, ideally.
Steve Gelbs asked John Oliver about the production cycle of
the show. Oliver said, it's change a little bit because
in slower news times we can do that, slower cooking.
We're still trying to do that. But when things hypothetically
speaking are happening like a president suggesting sending American citizens
overseas to foreign gulags, yeah, that probably feels like something
you need to address as soon as possible. So, yes,
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we're working at two speeds right now, our regular speed
and then crash shows. Unfortunately, when Twitter user posted John
Oliver a typical leftist AC with severe TDS who randomly
has to bring up more lies on a Sunday afternoon
on the Mets broadcast, two stories that I lightly mentioned
yesterday and my voice was giving out, and I promised
you i'd talk about them. Otsco at Cotska. We'll have
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a special on Hulu on June thirteenth. The Specialist part
of their super secretive Hilarious Comedy initiative that the publicists
don't want to tell comedy podcasts about, but we find
out anyway. You cannot keep the truth from daily comedy
News at Cotska will explore themes of adulthood, marriage, and
the absurdity of everyday life in Father. In Father, she
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deals with the reality is being an adult who's still
struggles with life's basics, from skipping laundry for seven years
to discovering that weddings require marriage licenses. I also had
mentioned Tina Fay commented on the possibility of Tina Fey
replacing Lauren Michaels as the head of SNL in twenty
twenty four. Lauren said Tina could easily do the job herself.
Tina Fey till the Hollywood Reporter. I was very nice
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of him to say, and I love him very much.
He's irreplaceable. His set of gifts and skills are entirely unique.
His eye for talent, He's one of the last three
people in show business who actually understand everything. I'll leave
it at that. Bo and Yang jumped in on the
whole Amy lou Wood SNL controversy. Remember Amy didn't like
Sarah Sherman's portrayal of her. Yang told Extra, however, she
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reacted to the sketch is completely valid. With parody, you
kind of forget the sort of human emotional cost that
it sort of extols on someone. You need these reminders
every now and then that parody can go too far
sometimes and that we as comedians can take accountability for
that instead of banging our foot and saying we should
be allowed to say whatever we want. Everyone at SNL
is just a fan of the show, obviously a fan
of her. We just think that she should be so
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proud of the work she put into this season. Brett
Goldstein is comparing ted Lasso's season four renewal to a
dead cat. He told a story to NPR. I have
a friend that I went to university with, and I
think about this a lot. He had a cat that died.
He loved his cat. The cat was run over and
they buried the cat. He was a child. They buried
the cat in the garden and he lay in the
bed so sad, upset and crying, and he prayed and prayed,
and he wished that the cat would come back. And
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then the cat did come back. It turned out the
cat they buried wasn't their cat, And I think about
that all the time. Brett added, and so I'm like, no,
wonder this guy' left in the head because he thinks
death isn't real. So of course he's insane. He's such
a weird guy because he thinks he could bring things
back from the dead. Aaron posted in the Facebook group,
which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to
join us and participate. I particularly welcomed this comment, as
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I wrote in the group, I woke up at one
thirty in the morning. I had a nightmare, and like
you know, when you have a nightmare, your system's like
racing and I needed to just play on my phone
to calm the heck down. Aaron wrote more on the
Abu Dhabi comedy season, it's not a festival because it's
spread across several months and they're all arena shows. Good point,
she pointed out. You can also go see Toto the Band,
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not the Dog. Aaron right, Chappelle isn't on sale yet,
but his best tickets are going for twelve hundred and
fifty dirhams I think, and for reference, one hundred durhams
is about twenty seven US dollars, so I'd have to
multiply there. I'm too lazy to do that. I have Google.
Let's see. Right now, as I record this, Google is
telling me that's about three hundred and forty dollars to
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go see Dave Chappelle. Wow. Aaron Wright's I also know
Joe Coy is using gadget free pouches, probably so no
one can record any of his lame jokes and then
beat them to death for two years. I particularly like
that comment, but Aaron points out that, yeah, yonder pouches
are annoying, But having intended a couple shows at the
arena without pouches, I can confirm that audiences here are
rude and shameless with their devices to the point of
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almost ruining shows. Aaron's planning on grabbing our last minute
tickets for Trevor Noah very cool. Thank you for checking
in with that. It is festival season. The Sydney Comedy
Fest is underway. I'll dive in on that a little
bit more tomorrow. Being honest, here, I'm wiped out. I
woke up on Monday and I saw the Pope had
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passed away. And here at the company, we have a
podcast series called White Smoke about the papal succession. So
my morning I got up, it was about six twenty
in the morning. Check my PHONEO saw that happen. But
I was half out of it, and I'm like, let
me make sure that actually happened. It wasn't just a tweet.
You know, that's not a mistake you want to make.
So went on the New York Times website and they
had it in like thirty six point font. Read the
(12:31):
story when on Washington Post you want to confirm things
in two sources, and they also had it in thirty
six point font. So I'm like, okay, this is real.
So I spent the morning. We had some episodes scheduled.
For example, they were going to canonize the Millennial Saint
on this upcoming weekend, so I had to park that
episode to make sure that doesn't automatically run. Write a
script for a new episode I scheduled. We already had
(12:53):
in the can the Pope oh bit, So I turned
that loose, wrote a new episode, wrote some promos, and
trying to build a company, so I got to hit
the trades tell him we're up to all this. So
that's been an exhausting morning. So Sydney Comedy Festival can wait.
I'm trying to get back to Ireland. Maybe I can
hit up the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival. It is Ireland's
longest running and best loved comedy festival. May twenty third
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to the twenty fifth Cat Laughs is coming to Belfast
for the first time. The Guardian calls it the best
little comedy festival in the world. Your lineup Friday, May
twenty third, Colin Murphy, Patty Raft, Mark McCarney, deetro Ocane,
David o'derty. Some good solid Irish names there. Oh, then
there's an interval and then Gerald Faarley, Emma Duran, Alison
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Spidtele and Neil Delamere. On Saturday, Carl Spain, William Thompson,
Susie McKay, Mike Rice, Colin Gettis, Sean Walsh, Deonna Doherty,
flat Illitch. That doesn't sound like an Irish name at all,
Vittorio Angeloni. What's going on here? Sunday Andrew Ryan, Chris Kent,
Kyla Cobbler, Ray Broadshaw and Scott Bennett. Not Scott Beckett,
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the guy that doesn't like to Joe Cooy joke. This
is a totally different person. This is comedian Scott Bennett,
who probably appreciates the humor behind the Joe Coy joke.
Christopher MacArthur, Boyd, Shane Todd, Rich Hall and Patty MacDonell.
John why did you do that story? Because I want
to go back to Ireland. I felt like reading a
bunch of Irish names. I also would love to hit
the Arctic Comedy Festival. This one is coming to Yellowknife
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on May seventeenth, Dawson City on May twenty first, and
Whitehorse on May twenty third. You can go see Mary Walsh,
one of Canada's most memorable comedians. The festival tells us
Walsh delivers in a unique and memori way that will
leave you in tears. And one more story. This is
not a commercial. I just saw a press release on
the newswires and I appreciate Pretzelized. I just like the
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copy they wrote. Pretzelize, the innovative snack brand known for
combining pretzels with classic snacks like crackers and peda chips,
launching a social first, fully produced sketch comedy series. It
stars New York City comedians Eric Newman and Mark Gerber.
The series features two friends on opposite sides of the
chip debate across four scripted, increasingly dramatic episodes. It's not
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just a series, it's your new favorite Internet debate, one
that invites consumers to pick aside, take it way too seriously,
and make their snack options known. That's right, it's pretzilized.
Good job a copywriter. They invite us to join the
pre solution. That's your comedy news for today. If you're
on YouTube, whatever you YouTube guys do. Look, I'm an
(15:28):
old man in the basement. I'm trying to figure this out,
so you know, like subscribe, bring to bell. I know
it's a slideshow. What do you want to see a
fifty five year old guy in his basement talking to
a microphone. That's boring. Enjoy my slide show. Appreciate it
takes me a couple of minutes to make. See tomorrow.
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