Bert Kreischer didn't love Fiji, John Mulaney sells alcohol-free beer, Marc Maron on other podcasters

 Bert Kreischer humorously compared Fiji to Arizona, expressing his surprise at how dry he found it.

John Mulaney discussed his partnership with an alcohol-free beer brand and his experiences with sobriety, including a potential humorous showdown with Tom Holland over non-alcoholic beers.

Ricky Gervais humorously pondered why he's still overweight despite regular exercise, with advice from Dr. Syriac Abby Phillips pointing to alcohol as the culprit.

Marc Maron critiqued the influence of certain podcasters and reflected on the timing of his success.

Other highlights include Ricky Gervais guest-starring on a new sitcom tour, Gary Gulman's literary approach to comedy, and the retirement of radio legend Dr. Demento after 55 years. The script also covers the upcoming auction of Richard Lewis's memorabilia and a benefit honoring Adam Duritz.

Finally, David Letterman shared his thoughts on his relationship with Jay Leno and the camaraderie among current late-night hosts.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Hey man, I'm Johnny Mack with your
daily comedy news. Bert Kreiser compared Fiji to Arizona. He
said Fiji was drier than he expected. I guess I
wouldn't expect Fiji to be dry. Bert told the Drop
a Pin podcast that although he enjoyed being on a boat,

(00:25):
scuba diving, surfing and catching fish, it felt dry. It
didn't live up to expectations. He said, when you hear Fiji,
you think of jungles, forests and a more lush place. No,
I actually think of being on a boat, scuba diving,
surfing and catching fish. Speaking of being dry, Variety tells
us if you see John Malani having a beer, don't worry,
he has not relapsed. They were talking about his new

(00:48):
partnership with Years. That's the alcohol free beer I told
you about a week ago, maybe two weeks ago. At
this point, there's a commercial we see John m'laney lounging
pool side while recalling a time when his wife, Livia
Munn thought he may have been drinking again when she
spotted him downing several cans of non alcoholic years. However,
ma'laney said that never actually happened. She's well aware of

(01:09):
my enjoyment of years non alcoholic beer. But I have
best friends who've been like I didn't want to say anything,
but Ma'lanie tells us it's sold a Wrigley Field. It's
that exact Midwestern pilsner that I like. Other people make
a light non alcoholic, but most of them taste like
a drink trying to taste like one versus just being
a pilsner or a pale ale that just isn't fermented.
Now he's joking. He wants to take on Tom Holland

(01:30):
to see who is the king of non alcoholic beers.
You see the Spider Man star has his own non
alcoholic beer brand. Biro Molaney says, it's a cage fight,
like a physical fight like UFC, because you know, I
fought three fourteen year olds on Everybody's Live? Will he
fight Tom Holland? I'd fight three fourteen year old friends
of his. What does John mulaney love most about being sober?

(01:51):
He says, when I go to the doctor and I
have problems, we don't have to kind of tiptoe around
the minefield. It's like I say, I'm urinating a lot
at night. I have some numbness in my left hand.
We then don't have to discuss whether it's all the cocaine,
adderall opioids or alcohol. They'll take you much more seriously
at the doctor. Blainey says he would like to see
Anthony Hopkins in a commercial. I know Anthony Hopkins is
something like sixty five years of sobriety. I think it'd

(02:12):
be a natural. He could play an acting student mine.
He goes, you're such a good actor. You were on
the Bear, not many other things. And I go, that's true.
And then I say to him, you're getting better, sir,
and then I hand him one from The Indian Times,
your home for comedy news. Ricky Turvay's shared on social media.
I'm working out every day now, tennis waits running, et cetera.
My resting heart rate is really good, and I train
at quite a high rate too. So my question is

(02:33):
why am I still effing fat and exhausted? All the
sea word time, Well, I've never heard the sea word
used in that way. He used it the way someone
like me might use a e fing time. He said,
seaword time. Interesting. Well, luckily, The Indian Times caught up
with doctor Syriac Abby Phillips, who, as you know, is
popularly known as the Liver Doc. The Liver Doc said,

(02:56):
it's the alcohol, Ricky, It's the alcohol, not the food.
Like people blaming the responses, enjoy your food. Good advice
from the liver Doc. The New York Times asked Mark
Maron about white guy comics with podcasts becoming influential, name
checking Joe Rogan, Theo Vaughn, and Andrew Schultz, who was
just at the re Odd Comedy Festival. Maren said, these
guys have proven that their fan bases can be tribalized

(03:18):
in something that I think is fundamentally dangerous. Still in
their parameters free speech, you can do whatever you want.
And if you want to be used by the dominating
propaganda arm of a fascistic momentum against democracy, well, I
hope you're happy with your show. Some Times asked Maren
if he thought his success came too late in life.
He started his podcast in his late forties. Been there
done that? Maren said, Now, if you're honest with yourself,

(03:40):
I think a lot of time success didn't come because
you weren't ready for it. When I auditioned for a
Saturday Night Live. I wasn't ready for that. By the
time the podcast started, I'd let go of the other dreams.
When they started it happen, I felt like, Okay, I'm
ready for it. Now I could show up and do
the work in a way that I wouldn't have been
able to do previously. I'm not mad that my success
came when it did. I'm just glad that it came,
because it would have been a much sadder life if
it hadn't. Current Affairs dot Org guest John Marcos arasi,

(04:03):
what's it like out there in America now? John Marco
said it could be really tough, because my shows have
a joy that I don't think is in America right now.
Especially when I'm in the South. I find that's one
of the audiences. How would I say it even more
visibly queerer than in the city. I just did a
show in Hattiesburg, and I think in Hanniesburg I was
probably the gay hang of the night. Sometimes people say
they come alone of the show, and I hope they
come alone and leave with someone. It's meet and greet.

(04:24):
When I go to my shows, I always tell them,
if only the people in this room voted Jill Stein
would have had a shot. That's a great joke. There's
a joy there. America itself just feel as bleak as
f and I'm starting to accept and understand my role.
That's even if I talk about current affairs. There's a
degree of escapism. I'm saying, hey, let's go in here
for an hour and a half and just laugh at
how fed up it is. It is so nice to

(04:45):
see people discovering him. He's having a moment right now.
He's kind of the it comic right now, which is
really great. Jamarco, how do you take the political temperature
of your audience? He said, Honestly, one of the benefits,
and I think one of the detriments of modern day comedies.
Our fan bases are so curated via social media, so
in a way, I probably feel a safety at my
own shows that will someday bite me in the ass

(05:05):
when I forget I'm at someone else's show or just
a comedy club, and I'll have to be ready. I
just feel like the harder shows were the early years.
That's when i'd be in Florida and I'd look at
the men in the audience and esthetically they had copied Trump.
They had orange faked tans. They looked like they were
on the waitlist for Mara a Lago. That was more
nervous racking than it is now. But that'll be the challenge.
I think as you get comfortable in your own space,
you expand, you push yourself to be sharper and follow

(05:25):
your views to even more biting punchlines. And then do
you have the hood spot to do it when it's
on a TV show? Or I guess if you're gonna
do the re On Comedy Festival which I wasn't invited to.
Phoebe Robinson was on The Last Laugh podcast and took
a shot at Rogan Theo and others who she says
helped humanize a monster for millions of young male listeners.
Phoebe said, the same guys who build platforms on mocking

(05:46):
women and minorities are suddenly shocked Trump is doing what
he always said he would. You have to live with
what you did. You know who you voted for, own it.
Third Coast Review asked Gary Golman, ay, you have so
many bits that you spice up with strategically placed antiquated
freezes like ne'er do well? Where do you pull those from?
Gary said, it's from reading so much. I read more
than just about every other comedian. I think I've read

(06:07):
sixty books already this year, and I'll probably finish close
to one hundred. And that's been every year that I
haven't been sick. I also listened to a lot of books.
I had a friend who sadly passed away, but he
was very literate. He was an English teacher and a comedian,
a high school English teacher, which is really hard. He
was so well read. He said something to put words
to what I knew. Intuitively, people love to hear words
that they forgot they knew. That's when I realized I
had been doing and I try to continue to do it.

(06:28):
But there's a sweet spot. It comes from trial and error.
Try this word, to try that word. Sometimes you get
to the stage you're about to say a word and
you think, oh, they're going to groan because this because
it's way too written. See dial it back, smart smart smart.
But if you spend as much time as any writing
out the sentences and switching the words so many times,
you remember which word was the second least obnoxious, you
go to that it's a trial and error, but after
thirty years he build up instincts as to what will

(06:49):
land and what won't, what will sound too written. I
don't want to be the comedian who the audience is
silent for. That's painful, but I don't mind if every
once in a while a word doesn't land with the audience,
because when I do it on TV, it finds people
who think I got to see this live because he
gets me. I forget who said it. I think it
was a British comedian who said, if you could find
a thousand people who go to every show when you're
near them and buy every album you put out, you
can have a nice career. So if you were one

(07:10):
of the newer listeners who jumped on board during Kimmel
Gate and Riod Gate, again, thank you welcome on board.
I think today is pretty representative of like a normal episode.
You know, there's not always a major controversy, and believe me,
I love a major controversy. I welcome the next one.
But you know, this is kind of like, this is
how the show goes on a normal day. So hopefully

(07:31):
you're enjoying today. You must be if you're still here
ten plus minutes. But this is a normal episode. Doctor
Demento has wrapped up his radio career. Real name Barrett Hanson. See,
I didn't know that would be good Trivia. The Trivia
guys listening now, no one will get that one. You'd
have to phrase it like Barrett Hanson, known for his
wacky radio show parody songs, is better known by this name.

(07:52):
You'd have to go at it that way. I'm telling
the Trivia guys how to do their show. Hi, Trivia guys.
Johnny Mack hasn't been at Trivia a very very busy October,
hoping to get there soon. Anyway, I digress. Doctor Demento
wrapped up fifty five years on the air. Eighty four
years old. He started on KPPC Pasadena in nineteen seventy.
The Doctor Demento Show was nationally syndicated from seventy four

(08:15):
to twenty ten. I have a vague memory of stumbling
across that, probably around the same time Weird Al caught on.
Couldn't tell you what radio station, couldn't tell you when
it was actually on, or how you'd find it, but
I feel like I heard it every now and then.
Doctor Demento's final show aired for three and a half
hours was a countdown of the most requested show during
the fifty five year run. Countdown included longtime favorites like

(08:37):
fish Heads, the famous They're coming to take Me away haha.
Shaving Cream a nineteen forty six recording credited to Benny
Bill with Paul Wynn on vocals. I'm familiar with Uncle
Floyd used to do that one. That's a fun song.
If you don't know that one, let me put the
lyrics of that one. It's a wonderful example of a
naughty song that's not naughty at all. I won't say

(09:00):
for you. I know you're disappointed, but I'll read it
in Cadence lyrics to Shaving Cream, I have a sad
story to tell you. It may hurt your feelings a bit.
Last night, when I walked into my bathroom, I stepped
on a big pile of shaving cream. Be nice and clean,
shave every day. You'll always look keen. You see. You
get how it gets. So you basically you set up
the rhyme of a word that ends an it, and
you get to the shaving cream and you go into

(09:21):
the coorse. It's a fun, naughty song. Comedians Joe Wilkinson
and David Earl are reuniting for a new show called
Joe and David's Magical Sitcom Tour. The aforementioned Ricky Gervais
has been confirmed as a guest star. It's a three
part series airing on You and Gold, blending travelog, buddy
comedy and retrospective elements. Each excursion is themed around a

(09:42):
beloved British sitcom. Expect episodes dedicated to shows like The Office,
Porridge and Faulty Towers. Ricky Gervais will reflect on the Office.
The personal treasures of comedy icon Richard Lewis being auctioned
today the Abball Auction Company. They will present from the
personal collection of Richard Lewis. Some of the things you

(10:04):
can bid on include a twenty eleven photograph of Richard
Lewis taken on the set of the Snickers Super Bowl
logging commercial. We're told that's a rare treasure. The VP
over there at the Apple Auction Company said, Richard Lewis
not only changed the face of comedy, but also curated
a deeply personal collection that reflected his passions and influences.
Bidding starts at ten am Pacific time, Live online bidding

(10:26):
if you want to jump on there. Adam Sandler, a
great dramatic actor, does he have any advice to the
star of Happy Gilmore to Travis Kelcey. Travis Kelcey recently
got engaged to a famous singer. Sandler said, he's all good.
He loves her more than anything, just like I love
my wife more than anything. That's where they're at, and
that's where me and my girl are at. Adam recently
told Travis Kelcey that anytime Taylor Swift is laughing with you,

(10:48):
my whole family is high fiving different Adam Adam Durretz
from Counting Crows is going to receive the Bob Saggett
Legacy Award at this year's Cool Comedy Hot Cuisine Benefit
and Wednesday, Novem twelfth in New York City. Jeff Ross
He's just back from the Riod Comedy Festival. He's gonna
host the event, which will also feature Reod Comedy Festival
performer Hannibal Burris and some comedians who were not in Riodd,

(11:12):
including Kelsey Cook, Jim Gaffigan He'll probably try and sell
you a bourbon, and Nikki Glazer also appearing. Broadcaster Katie Couric,
I don't know why either, And David Letterman talked about
that guy, Jay Leno. You know, Jay Leno is always
popping off about late night comedy like he knows anything
about it. Vulture asked David Letterman, do you speak to
Jay Leno? In all these days? A lot of time
has passed into competing against each others for the ratings.

(11:34):
Dave said, the last time I spoke to Jay, or
maybe we just texted, he said his face had caught
fire or something, and it sounded hideous. I mean, of
all things that might catch fire, perhaps the last thing
he'd want to be is your face. So it was alarming.
I think we've changed sentiments about good luck and be
careful something like that, but I haven't spoken to him
in a long time. We rubbed each other the wrong way.
I don't know. I don't know any regrets about our relationship,
and I don't think he has any regrets about me either.
But God, just really, even at this point in his career,

(11:55):
probably still the best. Just tremendous, just hilarious, just NonStop,
as funny as you ever gonna get. So that's a
good thing about Jay. We rubbed each other the wrong way.
I don't know. I don't have any regrets about our relationship,
and I don't think he has any regrets about me either,
But God, he just really, even at this point in
his career, probably still the best. Dave also commented on
how the current late night guys get along. How did
that happen? Because when it was me and Jay was

(12:17):
the Late Night Wars, there was bloodshed, we hated each other.
But now every day they have lunch together. I don't
get it. Love David Letterman, and that is your comedy
news for today. I'll see you tomorrow.