Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2 is terrible and the sky is blue

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, real quick, I just wanted to share. I
recorded the first half here on a street corner. My
energy's a little low, and I took the break a
little early. But stick around because the second half is
very robust. Here we go Callaroga Shark Media from Montreal

(00:21):
on the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. I'm Johnny Mack
with your daily comedy news. I will do the late
night stuff today. Jimmy Falluander in the Week said the
Justice Apartment said that they planned me with Epstein associate
Julane Maxwell. When asked about it, Trump said it sounds
like an appropriate thing to do. He was like, hell,
I met her hundreds of times. Seth Myers said, that's right.
President Trump reportedly sent Jeffrey Epstein a letter to celebrate

(00:43):
his fiftieth birthday that ends with a happy birthday, and
may every day be another wonderful secret. And then somebody
else signed the letter exhibit A. That's great. May every
day be a wonderful secret to me. That sounds kind
of like he asked, remind me to venmo you for
the sex by the way, tomorrow night at the Beak
in Theaters Sunday night. I keep an eye on John
Oliver and Seth Meyers doing a show. I'm sure they'll

(01:04):
talk about Colbert. Jennif Friedman waded in on Colbert at Gate.
She was on the Last Laugh podcast and said, like
a lot of things right now, there's no definitive proof,
but we don't know exactly why the show was canceled.
Was it for ratings? Was it because political reasons? I
think the larger issues for me is that I personally
look to comedians I admire, particularly outspoken political comedian in
times of uncertainty, and just the fact that Colbert's show

(01:26):
was canceled so swiftly in such a scary moment really
made me sad. She talked about her appearance on the
show in twenty sixteen and said she took comfort in
knowing that things are going to be okay for us
as long as people like Steven Colbert are on the
air able to say what they're saying. That at least
is one sign of a democracy that is not totally
in pallidi of care. So this news is just another
notch and I'm not sure what the right analogy is

(01:48):
the two belt towards fascism. Freedman talked about trying to
re enter the US from Canada. Oh, I better pay
attention here. She told the border guard. She was performing
comedy and quote for some dumb reason side a flirt
with him, and I was like, I joke about everything
other than airport security. The border guard asked he do
you make fun of politicians? She said no, and says

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the guy wasn't trying to troll me or tease me.
He literally was just following orders. It was such a
benign but insidious question. It felt shocking. Matt Riife was
very excited that he saw out Madison Square Garden two
shows last weekend. He posted on Insta, Wow, we really
did it. I hope I get to do it for
the rest of my life. Jesse McCartney posted epic night, brother,
so happy for you. I skimmed down here and I

(02:30):
said the word McCartney. I was like, Paul McCartney likes
Matt Rife, but no, it's Jesse McCartney that makes more sense.
Variety's Comedy Impact Honory Nicky Glazer on how stand up
saved her life. She said, we all thought I was
going to die. Her friend Lisa Lampinelli, who was also
my friend, says Nicky is a kind person. She didn't
want to use the word nice because I think nice
as wishy washy. You look at comics who'd get away

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with the stuff they say, Howard Stern, Don Rickles, Jeff Ross.
It's because they have an underlying kindness and a good goal.
She leads with her heart and her vulnerability. Laser admits,
I want to be liked desperately, but not for any
reason that isn't really me. Nicki doesn't stick around for
standing ovation. In fact, I'm always kind of sprinting off
the stage because I feel bad that I'm wasting any
more of people's time. One time, she even refunded the

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price of someone's ticket. Nicki says, if someone messages me
about how I made them feel bad, where they felt
like I ruined their night, I'll venmo them back their
money because I want people out of a good time
my show. I'm in awe that people pay so much
to see me. They get a babysitter, they get all
dressed up, they get dinner. The worst thing I could
do is make them feel bad for themselves. You'd be
late to the show, disrespect them in some way. That's
my deepest fear She then talked about growing up. I

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could never ask my parents about what sex was about,
because they would have given me euphemisms about literally birds
and bees. I didn't appreciate being lied to as I
grew up. I really suffered being lied to for too long.
I believed in Santa Claus way too late. Nicki says
she grew up clamoring for the truth. I think that's
why I gravitated towards stand up, because she gets to
tell the truth. The things I say in a microphone
feel like the ultimate rebellion for having been shamed for

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the things I said as a kid. Plenty more there.
You'll find that variety. I'll pick at that in the
next couple days. Right now, I gotta go catch another
show here at the Montreal Comedy Festival, so we'll take
the break and then we'll come right back. From the
Hollywood Reporter Happy Gilmore to review Adam Sandler's Netflix sequel
is terrible and fans will love it. The reporter rights,

(04:16):
there are so many clips from its predecessor that even
those who never saw the original film, and they are
lucky people, we'll have no trouble catching up. Add that
to the many original performers reprising their roles, the constant callbacks,
and the NonStop nostalgia, and the result is less a
continuation than an exercise in fans service. If you're watching
Happy Gilmore two at home, don't be surprised if some

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of the cast members show up at your door offering
autograph pictures for a fee. Every minute of the film
features a reference to the original in one form or another.
It all feels extremely lazy and self indulgent, especially Sandler's
tendency to cast nearly everyone who's ever worked with or
ever met. The cameos here are so voluminous that you
need to cheat, cheat to keep up, although most of
them barely make an impression Sandler, it easily walks through

(05:01):
the film looking, as one character describes him, like someone
who got divorced four seconds ago. I mean, I am
just shocked. I mean the thought that an Adam Sandler
comedy movie is not hilarious. I mean, who knew? Why
didn't anyone ever bring this up? I like this one
star review TJ Moto posted, it was horrible. The movie
was so bad. I actually like Jack and Jill better. Wow.

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I mean that just speaks volumes. I've shared this before
in my household. When that movie came out on pay perview,
my kids wanted to rent it, and I said I
would rather set the five dollars on fire and would
not let them rent. Jack and Jill DJ motorwrites, there
was way too many cameos and Happy Gilmore was not
the Happy Gilmore character we all love. Well speak for

(05:45):
yourself slash Film's review Happy Gilmore Too, the comedy sequel,
takes a big swing but completely whiffs it. Happy Gilmore
two is an absolute slog of a comedy that takes
everything that made the original movie great and regurgitates it
into something resembling a Dodgeball sequel crashed into professional golf outing.
When there are jokes that aren't callbacks, they're either so

(06:06):
dumb or it makes such a little sense that you're
wondering how they ever made it onto the page. I'm
not surprised they made out of the page at all.
Have you guys not been paying attention for thirty years.
While there may be a stray chuckle here and there
thanks to a genuinely clever line or surprising cameo, those
moments are a few and far between. Happy Gilmour two
is a poor excuse for nostalgia comedy, and you'd have

(06:28):
more fun getting a colonoscopy with a rake. They gave
it a two out of ten. Got a bunch of
movie news. I'll do it all back to back to
back to back a Spinal Tap two. The trailer is
out and I watched it this morning, and I was
all excited for it, and uh worried about this one
not looking too good in this trailer trailer not looking
too funny. I went to buwl the audio and it

(06:49):
just wouldn't make sense for this audio podcast. In the trailer,
we see filmmaker Marty de Bergie catching up with the
Spinal Tap crew. They all look quite old. I think
they have been made up to look even older than
they do in real life. The trailer then shows us
efforts by the band to reunite for one last hurrah,
including their efforts to recruit a drummer suicidal enough to

(07:11):
play the gig, their merchandising efforts. There is a pretty
decent joke about that and whether one or two of
them dying on stave would help boost publicity for the
gig and cement their legacy. Ryan Gosling and Will Ferrell
are attached to Tough Guys. Now, I'll point out it's
been a minute for Will here I recently walked you
through as IMDb It's been a minute. Tough Guys follows

(07:33):
two henchmen who are tired of being disposable and break
free from the criminal underworld, rewriting the rules as they
build a new life on their own terms. In Better
Comedy movie News, supposedly the upcoming Naked Gun reboot is good.
I've seen nothing but good reviews of it. Now you
noticed they didn't release anything about Happy Gilmour too until
Friday morning. That's always a tell with Naked Gun. They're

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going the other way and they're getting the word out.
Leslie Nielsen plays Frank Drebe Green Rant says first reactions
are praising the reboot as hilariously nostalgic, smartly silly and
laugh out loud funny. Eric Davis writes, I can finally
talk about how obsessed I am with the Naked Gun
reboot director Akiva Schaeffer. You know him from Lonely Island
and his work is usually quite strong, so I'll believe

(08:17):
it a Kiva Schaffer delivers a hilarious film stuff with
hundreds of gags that very much honors the original series.
Haven't laughed that much in a while, walked out feeling amazing.
Highly recommend. Wow. Joe Blow dot com wrote my thoughts,
Holy Hell, the Naked Gun is the funniest flick I've
seen for a while. Liam Neeson is so freaking perfect
as Frank Drepen Junior in the comedy chemistry he shares

(08:38):
with Pamela Anderson is absolutely wonderful. One sequence had me
in tears laughing so hard. It's eighty five minutes. It's
an enjoyable watch from start to finish. August First, did
you see the South Park episode about Donald Trump that
made quite the news on Thursday and Friday. The White
House reacted to the episode, Trey Parker said, We're terribly

(09:00):
sorry in case you missed it. Unlike other characters on
South Park, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of
Trump on an animated body. The body has a rather
small penis. There's also a very realistic looking at deep
fake video of Trump completely naked walking in a desert,
also with a very small penis. The White House did
not find this funny. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said

(09:22):
a statement, this show hasn't been relevant for over twenty
years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired
ideas and a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has
delivered on more promises in just six months than any
other president in our country's history, and no fourth rate
show can derail President Trump's hot streak. At Comic Con,
Parker said they did get a note from the producers.

(09:43):
The note apparently said, okay, but we're going to blur
the penis, and I said, no, you're not going to
blur these penis. Matt Stone said the team decided to
put eyes on the penis, which would make it a character, explaining,
if we put eyes on the penis, we won't blur it.
There was a whole conversation with grown up people for
four effing days. What will happen next week? Parker said,
I don't know what next week's episode is going to be.

(10:04):
Even just three days ago, we were like, I don't
know if people are gonna like this. Sone explained how
he and Trey Mehdi said we met ouver Monty Python
in this day when PBS is getting their funding cut.
That's how I found Monty Python. Also from Comic Con.
Comedy Central announced Beavis and butt Heead is coming back
September third. Beavis and butt Head look a little older
than they used to and everything that's old is new again.

(10:27):
All right, Let's see what's happening here in Montreal at
the Festival one BM Just for Laughs Pilots, three thirty
Just for Laughs Shorts, six point thirty, The Fortune Feamster Gala,
Danny Boy at seven, British at seven, Malik Ela Sal
at seven, Jack Turner at seven, Christ Stefano at seven,
Mary Beth Baron at seven, Matthew Bursard at seven, Who

(10:49):
Faces Character Encore at seven, Dean Smith Cannon Fodder eight thirty,
Leslie Lau at nine, Drop Out Improv nine thirty, Nick
Muhammed We'll talk about him in a second at nine thirty,
mikey Da Gala nine thirty, Shay Drina nine thirty, JFLGBTQ
Plus hosted by Alan Cumming, nine thirty, New Faces Stand

(11:09):
Up Encore nine thirty, Denmarcos Serresi at ten o'clock. Business
Casuals Presents Cowboys at ten thirty. Business Casuals, a sketch
comedy trio from Los Angeles. The show Spoilers tells the
story of a gun slinging cowboys seeking revenge on three
men who killed his family. He must assemble a posse
and sat out on the journey of a lifetime. Along
the way, the group encounter gold miners, snake oil salesman,

(11:32):
and just about every Western trope you could think of.
It sounds fun tough slot, though on Saturday. I feel
like that might have played better on, you know, Wednesday night,
Thursday night. It's a lot going on tonight, Midnight Surprise
eleven fifty nine, Roywood Junior eleven fifty nine, Comedy Confidential
eleven fifty nine. Nick Muhammet's Show Again nine thirty He

(11:54):
did one day other night, got a really good review.
This from the Montreal Gazette, which unrelated says Montreal reports
rise in monkey pock's cases. Oh good, that's great news
if you've been in theaters in Montreal all week. If
the show disappears for a couple of days, that might
be why the Gazette when not reporting about monkey pox,
says Nick. Attired in a glittering gold lemet jacket, he

(12:17):
speaks phonetically in a high pitched tone, and displays the
sort of high end energy that sounds like way too
much helium intake. His act is mentalism, magic, music, drama,
oh and yes, a comedy. He explains, mister Swallow is
a character truly based on a teacher of mine that
I've been doing since I was fifteen in my school
playground and professionally for the last twenty years. It's been
with me so so long. I've always loved magic and mentalism,

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but that sort of crept out of my career once
other comedy took over. I used to gig as a
working magician, table hopping at weddings and hotels, and I've
tried to refine it a little. He talked about playing
Nate on ted Lasso, and so the role actually got
quite challenging towards the end. But I've always loved the
idea of being quite malleable in terms of the way
you inhabit a different character. For me, that's the real
joy of being an actor. It's weird because for the
first season we were all quite shelter from the success

(13:01):
of it. We weren't traveling because of COVID. But now
we can't get away from it, and we're all so
grateful for it doesn't sound like Nate is part of
season four. He said, who knows. We'll have to see,
and then gave out a big laugh. I know they're
in Kansas. They're filming in Kansas City. I know they're
in Kansas at the moment, so we'll see what happens.
I'm being very coy, but he says it with no
trace of bitterness. So the Montreal Gazette thinks Nate will

(13:24):
be back. He says those are all good theories, and
don't forget they filmed those shows over a long time.
Michelle Bottill says, once you get the Gallas spot at JFL,
it feels like you've won Formula one. They're a handful
of things. Especially in New York. Comedians always talk about
getting an SNL audition, a late night spot, and JFL
was right up there. So this is very exciting. I mean,
it's been a long time, very happy to be doing it.

(13:44):
She likes connecting with people around the world. She said,
there's a non binary teenager in Kenya that's reaching out
to me, a sixty two year old lesbian in Bulgaria.
Then there's cities in Brazil using my cashphrase you know,
if there's gonna be monkey pocks up here, I may
have to return back to New Jersey. And there is
a comedy festival in Montclair, New Jersey. Instead of moving

(14:04):
to Canada, I could have just driven twenty five minutes
to the Montclair Comedy Festival. Colin Armstrong was one of
the performers there this weekend. Colin likes the energy from
doing comedy in Jersey that you can't get anywhere else.
He says people are more open to laughing about darker
stuff than we're willing to admit. And you know, as
long as you know where the morsels of funny are,
people are going to be receptive to it. He praised

(14:25):
Chris Gethard as a great guy and the godfather of
Jersey comedy. I got to do a few shows with him,
which was really special. In ice, it's just good fun times.
Jersey is more open to darker subject matter than if
I were doing shows and say San Francisco, San Francisco legendary,
uptight city. Question mark, question mark, question mark. If it's funny,
it's funny. But it's a very interesting dynamic of what

(14:46):
out of state audiences will and won't laugh at. For
some reason, He says Jersey audiences tend to have more hecklers.
Being from New Jersey is a uniquely brutal experience. I
grew up with everybody making fun of everyone, and nobody's
not a target. If you got picked on, you learn
how to take that stank off you by making fun
of someone else. And that is your comedy news for today.
I'm gonna go get my monkey pox vaccine and hope

(15:08):
for the best. See you tomorrow, I guess.

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